"Cynthia, what are you doing?"

"All this running and walking and junk is making me sweat." Cynthia tied back her hair with a pink headband. "My hair is getting in the way…"

"It doesn't look good like that." Naruto said.

And that was his mistake.

"EEK!" Envy pulled out the kunai and looked at it. The insignia said it all. He slowly looked up. "Oh… God…"

Lalaurana glared down at him from a tree. She was breathed heavily, as if she had just got there… And she did. Her fiery hair fell down her back messily, and there was medical tape around her chest, like Cynthia's the morning before. She held her red karate jacket over her shoulder, her eyes blazing even stronger than Cynthia's.

"Envy! Do you know how long I've been tracking you?"

"I'm sorry, Lalaurana Sensei!"

"Lust! Get Wrath. We're going back to the island. Tell your creepy friends to go away!" She winced slightly.

"Yes, Lalaurana Sensei…" Lust muttered. "Lalaurana Sensei? Did you take your medicine?"

"What's it to you, dammit? Get Wrath! Don't make me say it again!"

She glared down at Gaara and their homunculi. "What are you all gawking at? Get moving or else!"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever, 'Lalaurana Sensei!'" The original Envy replied angrily.

"Don't get sarcastic with me, dammit!" She screamed. She jumped down from the tree and grabbed her student Envy by the collar. "God damn you, Envy! We're hundreds of miles away from the island, and now we have to go all the way back! How did you get here, anyway?"

"We followed Cynthia…"

"And WE followed you!"

"We? Lalaurana Sensei, who else is with you?"

"We are."

Inuyasha walked from the forest. "I had to get all the way here with Kagome and Sango on my back!"

"EEK!" Envy looked around. "Sango Sensei is back from vacation? WHEREWHEREWHERE?"

"YOU ARE SO GIRLY!" Lalaurana shouted at him.

"Calm down, La." Sango chuckled. She hefted her boomerang onto her shoulder. "We found him, didn't we? Now we just have to get him home."

"It's harder than that!" Lalaurana replied. "Envy will do anything to get what he wants, I should know. He's been blackmailing Edward for years!"

Envy shuddered. "When did you find out?"

"A long time age, but I kept getting loony on my medicine that I forgot to punish you!"

"Come on, we're just getting held up." Gaara said to his homunculi. "Lust, please go get OUR Wrath. I want to win this, no matter how stupid it is."

"Yes, Gaara. Wrath!" Lust called.

Two heads poked from the underbrush. "Yes?" They said simultaneously.

"OUR Wrath, come on. It's time to go."

"But Lust…"

"Come!"

"Yes, Lust…"

Gaara began to walk on the path again. The homunculi snickered at their doubles and followed. Their doubles were mere shadows of themselves, relying on a Sensei…

"YOU THINK I'M DONE WITH YOU GUYS EITHER?" Lalaurana shouted at them.

"WE'RE not your students, THEY are." Envy replied. "We don't have to listen to you."

"Just tell me where the Hell Edward is!"

"Edward, Edward, Edward…" Envy turned into Edward. "You like him WAY too much. COME ON, he's your STUDENT!"

Such is the power of a homunculus… She thought. She blushed. "I don't like him! He has a girlfriend!"

"HAHA! You mean that Winry chick?" Envy laughed.

"No! Cynthia!"

Envy and Envy started at her. "WHAT!" The student Envy screamed. "NO! That's not FAIR!"

Gaara was getting impatient. "COME ON!" He shouted. "I'm not waiting any longer!"

He stopped. The shriek drowned out Envy's cries and Lalaurana's shouts…

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT PRETTY?"

"I DIDN'T MEAN IT THAT WAY! I DIDN'T EVEN SAY THAT!"

"NARUTO!"

"AAHH!"

Naruto came into view. Cynthia was chasing him from the woods, and was therefore, invisible.

"Eek! Cynthia!"

Cynthia roared from the trees. Naruto jumped over Gaara. "HI GAARA NO TIME TO FIGHT BYE!"

Gaara reached up and caught his ankle, pulling him down to Earth. "There's never 'no time to fight.'"

"I MEAN REALLY! You're gonna get killed! You all will! Cynthia is REALLY pissed!"

"Really. Then calm her down."

"AAHH! GAARA, YOU DON'T GET IT!

"Ah!" Edward ran from the woods too, his jacket torn at his left arm. "WHY ARE YOU CHASING ME? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"

Lalaurana froze. There was a long, howling growl from the woods. "The call of the Lalaurana demon… It sounds content…"

Cynthia slowly stepped from the forest, her eyes angry but her face calm. Her fur bristled, as two heels gently kicked into her back. Sasuke stood on her back, his hands firmly clutched into the unruly fur.

"Cynthia, dammit, calm down!" he growled.

Cynthia roared and tried to buck him off, but she yowled as his fingers dug deeper into her fur. "Turn human and I'll let go!"

Cynthia roared and refused. So Sasuke angrily turned her head and made her run towards a small lake. Cynthia's eyes widened and she tried to turn, but Sasuke held her fur firmly.

Naruto blinked. "Why are you taking her to the water?"

"If you weren't such an idiot, you would know that Lalauranas are one third cat, one third wolf and one third fox."

"Grr…"

"Of course."

"Huh?" Naruto looked at Edward.

"Cats hate water, dimwit."

"I'M NOT STUPID, SHRIMP!"

"I'M NOT SHORT, STUPID!"

SPLASH.

They stopped. Large bubbles came from the water, but they changed to smaller ones. Cynthia and Sasuke surfaces, Cynthia human once again. Sasuke smirked, but Cynthia's eyes turned to slits again. "YOU MAY HAVE MADE ME HUMAN AGAIN BUT I'M STILL GOING TO KILL NARUTO!"

"Don't kill your teammates, Cynthia."

"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO LAW AGAINST THAT!" She paused, and a look of fear and pain crossed her face. "OOW!"

"Exactly." Sasuke reached into the water and pulled out a roll of medical tape. "You're still injured. You would have easily thrown me off otherwise."

The smell of wet fur reached Cynthia nostrils.

She turned red. "Sasuke?"

"Yes Cynthia."

"Did you bring any spare clothes?"

"Yes Cynthia."

"Gimme."

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!" Sakura yelled at Cynthia as she bandaged her chest. "How can you still be hurt? You're a Lalaurana!"

"So? I don't heal as fast as any nine-tailed fox."

Cynthia was dressed in a spare outfit of Sasuke's. "Come on, I fell of a freaking rock."

"You OBVIOUSLY haven't checked it lately." Sakura pointed at it. "See? Look! It's at least four inches long and two centimeters deep. Someone of lesser strength would be unable to move!"

"I fell on a rock. Come on! It was WAY smaller yesterday."

"You didn't even look at it!"

"Shut up…"

Sakura finished bandaging her, then called in the others. Edward yawned. "I'm so bored…"

"Shut up!" Naruto growled at him. "We only have two days to find the tower. And Cynthia has held us up BIG TIME!"

He blinked, then looked at Cynthia. "Hey, Cynth… How fast can you go when you're a Lalaurana?"

"No."

"AW COME ON! I want to win!"

"So does Gaara. And he's very dangerous. We cross paths with him again and he'll destroy us." Sasuke said.

"So we'll avoid him!"

"No. I'm not carrying you."

"Hey Sensei!"

"What?"

Pop.

"You need your medicine!"

Gaara looked up. The student Envy and his friends emerged from the trees.

"Where's your sensei?"

"She needed her medicine." Envy winked. "Now. A murderous kid like you must want to kill off the competition. First I'll send Wrath…"

"We have to keep moving through the night." Sasuke said. "I can use my Sharigan, and Cynthia can use her Lalaurana eyes."

"No." Cynthia said simply. "We have to sleep. We sleep tonight, and we'll have energy to fight and run tomorrow."

"Cynthia, think that through…"

"No." Cynthia propped herself up against a tree. She smiled slightly. "If we don't sleep, then you'll have to go on and forget me."

"You are way too stubborn." Naruto sighed. "But whatever…"

"WWWWAAAAHHHH! CYNTHIA!"

The student Wrath ran from the bushes, crying. "CYNTHIA!"

Cynthia held out her arms for a hug, "What is it, Wrath? Why are you so sad?"

Naruto pulled out a kunai. "Cynthia, he's an enemy…"

Wrath hugged her and cried into her shoulder. "Envy told me to go get firewood, so I did, and I came back with it, and Envy said that it was bad wood, and Lust told him to shut up, then Envy told her to shut up, then Envy told me to get lost before he breaks my neck, and…"

"Shh. There, there, Wrath. I'm sure Envy didn't mean it…"

"NO HE DID! He even took out his katana!"

"Envy doesn't have a katana…" Edward muttered.

"The Envy from Lalaurana's." Cynthia said to him. "Wrath, come on, I'll take you back to Envy."

"What can you do?"

"Sweet talk him into happiness."

"YAY! Thank you, Aunt Cynthia!"

Cynthia smiled wryly. Aunt Cynthia…

"Yo! Wait! Shouldn't I come with you?" Edward asked. "It's dangerous…"

"Edward, I'M usually the one protecting YOU."

"ENVY!"

Envy winced. He didn't know Wrath would bring her so fast. Oh well, who cares? Lust was probably ready by NOW.

Envy turned in fake surprise. "Cynthia! Wrath, you… You went into enemy camp!"

"Eek! Hide me!" Wrath hid behind Cynthia's legs. Envy looked Cynthia up and down. Even in Sasuke's clothes, Cynthia was hot…

Cynthia laid a gentle hand on Wrath's head. "Calm down, Envy's not going to hurt you."

"Who says I won't?"

"I do, that's who." She dug her halberd blade into the ground. "If Wrath comes crying to me again I'll kill you, you got that?"

"Of course. Only a girl of your skill would be ABLE to kill me, anyway."

Cynthia regarded him with a curious eye. "That doesn't make sense, you're just as human as everyone else."

"Au contraire." Envy morphed into Edward, then Sasuke, then Naruto, then Envy again. "You got the wrong Envy, babe."

In a blink, long homunculi nails pricked her skin, while feminine hands folded over Cynthia's mouth.

"You move, you die. You got that?"