Chapter 14: An Apology, a Sweetheart, a Scale.

~No homework today! That means it's time for another update! Two updates in one day is not easy folks! Okay so as a recap, Lori is being tailed by the ninja after Tobirama drenched her in icy water and it is WINTER. He also said some things that made Lori want to get away. Now not only are the ninja Tracking her, but she is not alone...

I personally think Tobirama went over the top with his last comment and drenching her in water with it being cold as cold can be outside. And letting her walk off was just icing on the cake (note the sarcasm). Now we follow the Ninja!

I have found out that is a great place to go to for definitions, synonyms and antonyms of different words and am going to be using those words more now! I will paste the words with their definitions at the bottom with the Author's Note and the Questions!

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Chapter 14

Jeri was fuming. "Tobirama! I can't believe you said something like that to Lori...! ...You... If anything happens to her you can kiss your dick goodbye! I will fuckin' kick you in the balls and casterate your dumbass!" She continued to cuss up a storm and curse his name to Hell and if she could she would probably sell his soul. Itachi eyes the heavily angered maroon-headed girl who was currently being given a piggy back ride by Kagami. Hahsirama glanced back and thanked his lucky stars that it wasn't him she was yelling at. Honestly when Jeri was angered it reminded him of Mito and his own mother. Not a pretty site. Izuna smirked snidely at the white haired Senju who looked annoyed but knew he must have gone too far.

Jumping from another tree branch Itachi decided to speak. "What did she mean by 'she should have'?" He only spoke loud enough for the others to hear but his baritone, velvety voice was easily heard through the wind rushing everyone's ears. Shisui stole a glance at his best friend before jumping from another branch.

"I'm not sure Itachi... But I have a pretty good guess." Shisui's voice portrayed the unpleasant feelings that bubbled in his gut with his mind already putting pieces together as he called over the wind.

Izuna looked to the usually happy and childlike Uchiha with slight confusion. "And?" He calls.

Shisui stayed silent for a moment, thinking over all the evidence before speaking. "Remember when she told us about her mother being in prison?"

Kagami nodded. "She said she didn't want to talk about it." Kagami reminded his so. To which Shisui nodded.

Hahsirama lowered his head slightly, looking forward as he jumped to another tree. "Do you... Do you think that her mother?" Hashirama couldn't finish his question. He could t bear the thought of a mother trying to kill her own daughter. No mother would ever do such a thing!

Shisui's eyes clouded with sorrow for the possibility of what his blonde friend might have had to go through. He hoped to God he was wrong. "I can only hope that isn't the case..." Answered Shisui, little hope in his voice as Jeri looked ahead with stern eyes.

"That would explain... A lot. Why she pushed us away. Why she's so rude and gemerald a bitch. But that also explains the tears she cried after that attack with coyotes, and the pieces fit together... Shisui I hope your wrong!" Jeri says over the wind as they continue onward.


Lori walked through the woods shivering and rubbing her hands against her covered arms to create friction to warm her until she found herself at the cliff that the coyotes had attacked her at. The memories of the attack replaying in her mind making her distressed as she did not realize her blood pumping vigorously through her veins and arteries, her adrenaline now joining it. Her body told her to run, run and never look back but her brain was frozen in time as the attack played like a movie in a theater in her head. The coyotes ganging up on her, mauling her, ripping her right eye out. The only reason she even looked normal was because of a genjutsu that one of the Uchiha's kept casting on her, though she had yet to find out which Uchiha. Or even which Senju.

Lori vaugely remembered being cradled to someone's strong and muscular chest. She remmebered a dark colored shirt and a whisper but that was it. She couldn't place either the voice or the exact color. All the ninja had generally been wearing lose fitting clothing mainly sweat pants and t-shirts that Juliet had supplied since they found jeans constricting, however in public they wore the jeans as they were not ones to be ignorant of fashion in America. Not only that but they would stand out like black sheep.

Something terrified Lori even more than pissing off Tobirama or any of the other ninja... A twig snapped behind her...

Slowly Lori turned as she was met with the sight of a large... Fucking rabbit.

Lori sighed in relief at it only being a white hare. It's furehat white because it was winter. Now that Lori began to think about it... Why the fuck hadn't she just went inside the house? She could have gotten dry clothes and a warm shower. Sighing Lori knew why, she had been pissed off and if she saw anyone or if anyone tried to talk to her, she would have lashed out at the person. Truth be told she didn't want to lash out at anyone, she knew what it felt like to be lashed at and she decided long ago that unless they truly deserved it or lashed out first, she would not lash out at people. Unless it was a fight or a street fight, then she was all for it.

The rabbit looked at Lori in alarm with its big pink eyes. Lori knew it was because the rabbit was generally weak and scared, quick to flee. Strange thing was that Lori could relate. For the longest time she felt vulnerable, weak and was timid. Always getting bullied by older, bigger and stronger kids. Though she had gotten stronger to protect those smaller than her.

All this time she had pushed away the Sanders', Uchiha and Senju each time they had tried to come near and connect with her. She had yelled, acted moody even though she was taken away from her home country without her say, lashed out at Hahsirama in class and been rude to Jeri and most the other ninja. Punching the teacher was an accident though.

She had deserved every bit of Tobirama's insults and deserved to be out in the cold, drenched in water from the waist up. Her teeth were chattering from the cold and she was sure her lips were blue because her hands which tended to look dead most the time because of her really small veins in her hand limiting blood flow sure as hell were. The blood didn't travel as fast in her hands and so they usually stayed icy cold but this was different.

It seemed the rabbit heard something that Lori couldn't because it's ears perked up and its pink orbs darted around as if in a search for something and held a look a fear, before darting away.


The ninja were traveling Tracking Lori down by using the scratch marks of arrows in the trees which she had markedly last time as hey were sure she wouldn't veere of the path.

Tobirama felt a change in Lori's chakra... It went from angry to sad and now It wasn't a cold chakra like usual, but warm and projected a feeling similar to that of feeling sunlight on his skin. As a sensor type he could tell the different emotions of people based on their chakra as it changes with emotions much similar to a mood ring. Just what had caused the change in her chakra? He looked to see that the other ninja's had noticed the considerable change in the blonde's chakra.

"What's wrong?" Jeri asked with worry coating her bell like voice. Kagami looked over his shoulder at Jeri. Since the young Uchiha was not in tune with her own chakra she was not able to sense the chakra of others.

"Lori's chakra went from cold to warm. Her emotions changed as well, angry to sad." Kagami answered.

Jeri frowned, a feeling of protectiveness pulsing through her. When Kagami looked back again he was shocked to see that her eyes were that of the sharingan. Kagami knew the sharinagn could be activated at will once the user is aware of it, but it was mainly activated by intense hate or the feeling to protect, specifically when going against your worst enemy or saving your best friends' life.


Lori swiftly turned around and started to run to warm her body up and hopeful not run into what the rabbit from before had heard. She heard the leaves crunch beneath her heavy footsteps, she wasn't really heavy, she has a rectangle body shape and is between 82 to 90 lbs. so she is underweight by a lot. Since she had a small chest it didn't hurt when she was running, plus she usually wore a sports bra. So Lori was generally a fast person.

Lori felt her heart pounding a bit more than usual from running so much as it had been a good 30 minutes now. The feeling of increasing blood pumping through her veins warmed her body with the exercise as she followed the marks she had left on the trees. Sharp turn here, easy curve there.

Then she heard an ear percing shriek.

Lori stopped and looked up to where the scream came from to regard a mess of bright, red maroon colored hair that was obviously dyed, as that was in no way a natural hair color, falling from a tree with limbs flailing in the air. Blue, glossy gems broadened in panic as Lori's eyes registered the falling mess as Jeri. Lori's body moved as if being pulled by strings as her feet barely touched the ground as she was racing towards the maroonette (yes I mean maroon and ette, as in brunette).

Lori's feet were light on the ground as she sped towards a falling Jeri as fast as her body could go. Lori didn't even know she could run this fast. Her body seemed to rush with newfound power and speed. Taking a flying leap to catch the older girl Lori had not realized what was really going on. With her body or her surroundings as the only thing that coursed through her mind was that she had to catch Jeri. No. She didn't have to. She wanted to. She needed to.

"Jeri!" Hollered Lori in alarm as her hand grabbed Jeri's wrist. Her hand pulled Lori into an embrace and instinctively turned to where Lori would impact the ground and Jeri would be safe. Unfortunately Lori had not anticipated the direction she was running and let out a gasp of pain as her back slammed against a solid tree trunk. The bark grazing her skin through the wet fabric of her jacket and skirt.

Jeri heard footsteps and saw before her Kagami who knelt down to her level as she was still being held by Lori. "Jeri, Lori, are you two alright? I'm sorry for dropping you!" Apologized Kagami who Jeri nodded before getting off of Lori.

"Thank you Lori! You really saved my butt back there."

Lori got off the ground and with help from Jeri managed to stand up. "Damn... I'm either really brave or really stupid. I'm gonna go with really stupid." Lori said mostly to herself as Jeri grinned before punching her lightly in the shoulder earning a flash of a playful smirk from the blonde, which Jeri hadn't seen before.

"Your not stupid! I thought it was really kind, how you saved me even when you act like you hate me."

Lori looked off to the side to hide the small blush of her cheeks, though she was already flushed from number one: the weather is freezing and she is still soaked and number two: she has been running.

Jeri looks to Shisui who grins. " I know somewhere, deep inside, there's a part of you that cares about us. Otherwise you would have let Jeri fall." Shisui offered with a wink. Lori just crosses her arms over her chest in response as the ninja asses that she is soaked and a few glares were directed at the second Hokage. Most notably Tajima, Butsuma and Jeri as well as Hahsirama and Itama just shook his head.

"You'll catch a cold if you stay like that! Come on!" Shisui grabbed Lori gently by the wrist as he preformed a single handed hand seal and faded out of sight. The others followed not a moment later and took Jeri with them.

As Shisui and Lori appeared in the living room of the house he looked at her with worried raven eyes. "You know, you really shouldn't had run off like that, especially when you're in soaked clothes and when it's winter." Chides Shisui, his deep voice not warning at all but instead with a slight understanding tone to it. Did he maybe understand more than he lets on? Lori didn't have time to think as her mouth opened and took a life of its own.

"Yeah... But in my defense It was either I walk in nature, or I punch Tobirama in his smug face." Shisui laughed.

"Actually, that was the plan, wait here and I'll explain." Shisui waited for Lori to signal that she was going to stay and when she gave a short nod he ran off to the bathroom and Lori heard running water from the bathtub. Shisui jogged back with a towel in hand and dropped it over Lori's frame handing her some clean clothes of hers.

Lori looked at the clothes and back to him suspiciously. "Hehehe... Body Flickered to your room..." Shisui admitted rubbing the back of his head with a light rosy blush staining his cheeks as he began to direct Lori to the bathroom. "I'll explain everything when you get out, but take your time. You want to soak in the warm water to get the chill away and so you won't catch cold." Shisui notified kindly as Lori blushes a pale pink, almost untoticable next to her ghostly, pale skin from how she was being treated and worried over.

Once she was in Shisui closed the door behind her to leave her to her own devices.

Lori was in awe. Why was she feeling so... Warm. As she peeled off her wet, now skin tight shirt she felt icky and cold. She continued with the rest of her upper clothing and slipped her bottom half clothes off with one fell swoop before stepping into the warm, slightly hot water and letting out a sigh. She felt warm, her heart did. And her face even before getting into the tub Shisui had prepared for her. It wa since what he did for her.

She closed her eyes in relaxation. "Thank you, Shisui..." Lori mumbled thankful that the raven haired teen was no where near being able to hear her.


Shisui Walked over to Juliet who had stayed home as the ninjas went off to find Lori. "Um, Could you help me make beef miso soup? It's for Lori..." Asked the dark-haired teen with a hand on the back of his neck. Juliet smiled a motherly smile as she nodded.

"Awww! That's so sweet of you, of course. I'll search the recipe!" Juliet whipped out her iPhone and went to the google search engine typing the words down and hitting search. A tradition Japanese recipe popped up and as she read off the ingredients aloud, Shisui gathered the ingredients.

ONce he finished gathering the bedf flavored ramen, vegetables and slices of beef from their hiding spots and set them on the kitchen counter and turns one of the burners on to place a pot of water on it. He would wait until it came to a boil to add the uncooked noodles.

Hearing the sounds of the Body Flicker in the living room he turns to see everyone as there was onot the counter and wood flooring of the kitchen separating the two rooms. Jeri looked to Shisui with her sharinagn eyes filled with worry. "Where's Lori?!"

Shisui smiled lightly as he placed the cutting board on the counter near the veggies he planned on chopping up. "The bathroom."

Juliet smiled. "It's good to see you all came back safely! Shisui brought Lori home and prepared her a nice bath and got her dry clothes for her for when she got out. It was really sweet of him!" Shisui blushed lightly at the compliment.

Itachi looked at his best friend and took in all the ingredients."Your making beef miso soup for her." It wasn't a question it was more of an answer and Shisui nodded with a bright smile. Shisui turned his attention toon back to the vegetables and decided to do something better than cutting the usual way. Picking up a few carrots, and other veggies he tossed them in the air and sliced them with perfectly with perscision with the h sharp blade of the kitchen knife. Easily catching them and placing them in the pot of boiling water he placed the noodles in as well. While he waited for them to simmer he placed a pan on the other burner beside the pot and turned that on waiting for it to heat up to cook the beef. The pan heated up quickly and he placed the beef slices on the pan and turned them over after a few minutes and soon he had made a beautiful masterpiece of beef miso soup.


Lori was resting in the bathroom, the hot water heating her body up back to normal temperature. Unfortunately Lori knew she would have to leave the nice water of the bath sometime and decided to shampoo an end condo on her hair. Grabbing a bottle of black raspberry and green tea shampoo she squeezed out a quarter sized amount of the white silvery liquid and massaged it into her scalp. The action invigorating her scalp as the blood flow went to her hair folicles and dead skin cells with oil were dissolved and scraped away. The smell of black raspberry and green tea invaded her nostrils, a sugary sweet smell. Lori loved that smell. She dunked the back of her head underwater and massaged her scalp further, feeling all the oil and gunk out of her hair.

Next was about three quarter sized portions of its matching conditioner, which she spread from halfway all the way to the tips making sure to coat them especially. She also put small amounts of conditioner in her bangs and kept them away from her face. Letting that sett for a while Lori then rinsed that out before washing her face with soap lathered on the sponge Shisui had provided her with earlier. She washed her face gently and rinsed before moving towards her arms and scrubbing until she saw slight irritation of red and moved on to the rest of her body.

Lori couldn't help herself, she began to sing unfamiliar words. Words that rolled off her tounge but she had never heard the lyrics before. It was as if something compelled her to sing them. The lyrics were on her lips, and she sang them out loudly. "As the sun goes down, the moon comes up. Pulling the tides to its swaying tune, luminous glow cast from above."

A sensation like the warmth that had filled her chest various times these past two weeks spread over her, but this time it was on her skin. The feeling traveled through your her body, from her shoulders to the tips of her toes. She brushed a hand over her hand over her chest, her hand absent mindedly following the path of the strange warmth and tingling, her skin rippled underneath her small fingers. She let out a yelp of fear and looked over her body, half expecting for something to be clinging to her chest, like a tick from the woods or maybe a leaf. There was nothing. Just her milky skin.

After finally scrubbing the rest of her body she decided to get out of the bath. Putting the sponge on the corner of the bathtub she was about to step out when she saw something shiny sticking out of the used sponge. She picked it out and held it up to the light, her curious blue eyes inspecting it.

It was a large iridescent coral-red scale, too big to belong to the usual fishes in lake Dardnale or in the pond, if there even were any, or a snakes scale, unless maybe one of those huge ones that she heard about managed to crawl into the bathroom. A shiver went down Lori's spine as she hated snakes with a passion. Maybe one of her hosts had went to the the Gulf of Mexico and brought back a scale from a northern red snapper?

She would have to ask Juliet later.


Shisui had just got done preparing Lori's ramen when he heard a beautiful voice that seemed to stop all movement. His ears tuned in more to the voice than his surroundings. The voice was mesmerizing and it appeared that it enchanted the other guys in the room too, including Juliet and Jeri. When the song ended shortly after it began everyone seemed to snap out of their hypnotic like state.

"Was Lori singing...?" Izuna asked himself. Itama grinned.

"She's an amazing singer!" Itama exclaimed in childish happiness as he started giggling. Juliet laughed at his cuteness.

"Yes she is Itama!"

Jeri nodded in agreement. Shisui smiled softly thinking that he wouldn't mind hearing that singing voice of Lori's around the house more often. A few minutes later they heard yelp coming from the bathroom. Shisui looke to Itachi and everyone eyed each other for a second. They were all here, but why did a yelp come from the bathroom? Taking purposeful strides from the kitchen to the part of the bathroom that was not closed off as it had only a toilet and a sink. His heavy footsteps sounded on the wooden floor of the kitchen and the bathroom. Shisui knocked on the door lightly and some of the ninja and hosts were gathered behind him in curiosity.

"Lori? Are you okay?" He called hoping she just saw a spider instead of accidentally cutting herself with the razor as he knew most girls shaved. Lori's voice was muffled from the door but the bathroom echoed so it wasn't much of a problem.

"Yeah! ...Yeah, I'm fine!"

Shisui smiled happy knowing that Lori was fine. "Alright." With that he walked out of the part of the bathroom that was not closed off and back to cooking with others following.


Lori was now dressed in pink flannel pajamas with leapord print and gently stuffed the large coral-red scale that seemed to change with the lighting and angles of the light. She would keep that a secret for a while.

Once once she walked out of the bathroom she was greeted with a smiling Jeri who hugged her tightly and, Lori not exactly knowing how to feel about this except very vexed.

Jeri let the blonde go after a minute or two and moved to let her mother hug the younger girl. "Please tell me you weren't thinking about killing your self!" Juliet exclaimed with worry as she was responsible for the foster child even though she wasn't a legal gardian or adoptive mother of the child. Lori broke free of the older woman's embrace and looked at her hosts' ocean blue orbs.

"No! I may be a dumbass but not hat much of a dumbass." Lori said with light sarcasm making Jeri grin and a few barks of laughter sound throughout the room. Juliet decided to let it slide just this once.

"Are you sure about that? I mean you did run off in the cold soaking wet." Tobirama pointed out getting glares from several pairs of eyes because he had caused her to run off in the first place.

Madara hit Tobirama on the back of the head sending him to the other side of the room. "I'm not one to take sides, but you caused her to get soaked and run off. Plus I've been wanting for a chance to do that for so long ever since you killed Izuna that one day."

Tobirama glared at the older man and opened his mouth to tell Madara off when he felt a sharp glare from the woman of the household. Juliet. A shiver went down his spine as he felt the killer intent dorected at him from the brunette. He chanced it and saw that she had both hands on her hips and was leaning most of her weight to one foot. He was so screwed if he didn't abide by her unspoken warning. Lori didn't need any of this right now and he needed to apologize in front of Juliet.

Standing up he made his way swallowing his pride every step with all his strength. "Lori..." Tobirama began and sighed. He hated this. "I'm sorry. I was childish and shouldn't have said what I did."

Lori was shocked by Tobirama's apology and nodded slightly. This meant that she would have to apologize too.

"I'm not going to apologize to you." Lori said an dentials before anyone could jump her ass she added something no one saw coming, not even Itachi with his amazing foresight.

"I'm going to apologize to all of you. I shouldn't have acted so..."

Shisui interrupted Lori so seriously that it would have made a hilarious moment otherwise. "Cold?"

"Hateful?" Advised Itachi.

"Prideful?" Kagami asked.

Tajima snorted. "Execrate."

"Quick to swear." Butsuma proposed.

"Depressed." Tobirama added even though he wasn't one to talk.

"Sad?" Itama suggested happily.

"Like you were PMSing like Mito?" Hahsirama recommended not noticing the blank stares he was getting nor the thoughts of everyone wondering how he became Hokage and hat he was a blithering moron. "What?" Asked Hahsirama innocently.

Lori sighed. "Yes. I am sorry." She apologized with a light blush on her cheeks. Shisui smiled warmly at Lori and led her over to the bowl of ramen that he had prepared for her and she looked at it not recognizing it as something she had ever ate before. The smell was of beef and it obviously had beef in the soup. There were noodles and veggies. It looked delicious.

Taking the fork laid beside the bowl Lori pulled some noodles ans veggie soup out of the hot liquid of the soups flavoring and blew lightly before taking a bite and feeling her taste buds light up with excitement. She dug into the ramen and within five minutes she had finished the large bowl of beef miso soup ramen.

Shisui chuckled at Lori. "Wow! Heh... you really like it huh? It's beef miso soup, a type of ramen."

"Damn." Jeri said seeing Lori's appetite.

"das war köstlich, danke." Lori replied to Shisui. (That was delicious, thank you.) Shisui looked confused but brushed it off and took it as Lori was saying something nice and merely grinned at her childishly.


So this took me three days to typ up for you guys and I put a lot of work and thought into it! I thought it was sweet how Shisui took care of Lori like she was his responsibility, he even cooked her homemade beef miso soup and got her some clothes from her room! I thought it was adorable! Lori's reactions to the feelings of being worried over and taken care of were just icing on the cake! Writing that song was hard because I wanted it to be perfect and I personally like the night more than the daytime so that's why I wrote a song about the moon and had Lori sing it. Interesting fact, Northern Red Snapper fish ARE found in the Gulf of Mexico! They can have large scales!

If you are very observant, you should be able to pick up things that come into play later on in the story. I will post the words that are not comply used at the bottom with their definitions!

Q1: What went through your mind with Lori's skin rippling under her touch? What were those sensations?

Q2: What was up with the people in the Ouse falling into a mesmerized, hypnotic state from Lori's singing? And what did you think of Shisui's thought about not minding hearing Lori's singing around the house more often?

Q3: Do you think that Lori found a large coral-red scale from a Northern Red Snapper fish that one of the Sanders must have misplaced? SHold she show the ninja, Jeri and Juliet and talk to them about everything that happened when she was in the bathtub?

Q4: What did you think about nearly everyone saying one thing negative about Lori when she was trying to apologize when she was searching for the word to describe how she had acted towards them?

Q5: why do you think Lori acted this way and spoke in German when she thanked and complimebted Shiusi for cooking for her?

Q6: Shisui thinks it might have been Lori's mother that tried to kill her based on the signals of Lori not wanting to talk about her mother, do you think it was Lori's unknown mother? Or was it maybe another female family member?

Q7: So Jeri cussed Tobirama to Hell and back... what was your reactions and thoughts about it? Please give me detail as I really want to know!

Q8: what did you think it would be that snapped a twig behind Lori in the woods? Did I catch you off gaurd?

Q9: Why do you think Jeri is very protective of Lori and what's did you think of Juliet making Tobirama go after Lori and stopping him from fighting in her house and instead, making him apologize to Lori in front of her?

Q10: what went through your mind when Lori said "I'm not going to apologize to you." To Tobirama? And what did you think when she apologized to all of them?

Q11: Finally, why do you think Lori saved Jeri? What happened with Lori gaining more speed that she ever had before even when running in the past at her top speed? What do you think happened? It was not adrenaline! There is a huge hint right there!

Add your own two cents please! Thank you! More surprisees and excitement next time and definitions below!

Coral-Red: Coral is a reddish or pinkish shade of orange. The color is named after the sea animal also called corals. (In this case the scale is more of a reddish shade of coral.) look up "coral color - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia" then once you're in, click the "Tones of Coral Color Comparison Chart" and look at the Coral-Red, to see the color that the scale is. (Highly recommended! As it is very important in the story!)

Regard(s, ed): observe.

Iridescent: showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles.

Broaden(s, ed): widen.

Chide(s, ed): scold or rebuke.

Execrate: feel or express great loathing.

Vex(s, ed): make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters.