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Chap. 4

Kaida was returning from a pond close by to her cave with cold wet strips of thick cloth. The sun was beginning to set in the west as the sky was glowing gold, while the clouds illuminated pink and lavender. She set the wet strips of cloth on a flat stone piece. She took one placed it on her 'prisoner's' unconscious forehead.

This prisoner was a young man around her age. He was tall, thin, and had lean muscles. He had ebony hair that was bobbed cut and thick eyebrows to match. He once wore a green jumpsuit and but Kaida cut the top part of it to heal the critical wounds he received which was now bandaged up.

The rest of his clothing in which consisted of a green vest and orange legwarmers was hung up. The weights that were around his legs (In which Kaida had some difficulty taking off) were in a neat pile at the mouth of the cave.

Much to Kaida's fortune the bleeding finally stopped and he was still breathing but it was raspy. So all now Kaida had to do was wait and see if he would survive. Her thoughts wandered back to earlier events that took place that day.

FLASHBACK

Kaida followed the smoke until she neared where the explosion took place. Then she cloaked herself with a jutsu so no one would sense her chakra to give away her presence. She saw three ninjas bearing the sound symbol. She rolled her eyes, "Geez they don't know when to quit do they?" She thought to herself. She saw two of them take out her prisoner while the other one was attacking another man who looked incredibly like her prisoner. The look alike knocked the one sound ninja away and went after her prisoner who was bleeding and unconscious. "Lee!" He cried out but he was block by another man who had dark eyes and shoulder length black hair. "Your target is me!" He said coldly, "And if I was the Ryuji from the cloud village what's it to you?"

Kaida froze. "How dare he!" She felt rage bubbling up inside of her. "How dare he! He must die!"

"Our orders were to take you into custody." The green clad man responded. Kaida couldn't stand it she was going to kill them all right then and there. But suddenly she saw a dark cloud of throwing weapons fall from the sky. Hitting the three sound ninjas dead on but they turned into logs.

Then two figures jumped into the scene. One was a female with her hair tied up in two buns and the other was male who had white eyes. At first Kaida thought he was blind but he seemed to know where everything was. "Neji! Tenten! You're late!" The green clad man growled.

A while later the sound nin and the imposter were talking while their opponents lay unconscious. They were talking about taking them into custody. One of boasted, "And since you're the master of genjutsus Ryuji-sama, they're gonna go through hell!"

Kaida bubbled over with rage. She quickly did a set of hand seals and whispered. "Bringer of Eternal darkness." And everything around her except for her victims and the ones unconscious corpses. She put on her hunting mask and thought in her anger. "How dare you use his name. You shall die imposter."

After killing the Ryuji imposter she dispelled the field. She took a breather for a moment until she heard a light cough. She turned to see the young green clad boy slipping back into unconsciousness. She noticed that he was the only one bleeding out of the rest. She looked him over and noticed the symbol on his forehead protector. "What symbol is that? I've never seen such a strange symbol before."

She took off her mask and tucked it away. She considered killing these people too. But she was curious and wanted answers on why they were here to capture that imposter. She decided to take him prisoner and heal him for answers. She picked him up but something fell out.

She saw a little notebook on the ground. She put the boy back down to pick up the little notebook and flipped through the pages. The notebook was filled with notes, most mentioning a man named Gai-Sensei and the spring time of youth. She decided to leave something in there to pique his comrade's curiosity and wrote something down with the pen that was inside the notebook.

When she was done she dropped it and picked up her prisoner and left the murder scene.

END OF FLASHBACK

She began to prepare a medicinal tea for her prisoner so that his wounds would heal faster. "Gai-Sensei…" He moaned. Kaida stopped to listen. "He's dreaming." She thought but she shook it away and continued to make the tea.

The remainder of team Gai scattered through out the forest searching for their teammate Lee. Gai used his speed and youthful senses, Tenten used her keen eyes and chakra senses, and Neji used his Byakugan. So far there was nothing, no trace of chakra anywhere. "Kuso! Where is he!" Neji thought.

"Where have you gone my prized pupil?" Gai wondered.

"Lee you couldn't have just disappeared. Where did you go?" Tenten mused.

When the horizon swallowed the sphere of light they made camp. They had very little to say except for their reports. Even Gai could not even bring himself to be enthusiastic. Only one thing was on their minds and that was Lee and wondering if he's even still alive.

Kaida hand gave him the medicinal tea in his unconsciousness. Which he took without choking and drowning himself. But now he was shivering from his sweat. Kaida felt his face and chest; he was boiling hot to the touch. He had a fever. She needed him to live for interrogation purposes.

She left his side to grab her handmade blanket of rabbit fur and handmade rabbit fur pillow stuffed with down feathers. But she felt a tug on her pant leg when got up. She turned to see that her prisoner had a grip on her clothing but he was still unconscious. She pried his fingers off her pants and went to go get her pillow and blanket. "Geez is he really unconscious or what?"

"Don't leave me." He mumbled. She froze as she was holding the blanket and pillow. She stared at him wondering who the hell he was. "He's acting like he was still awake by muscle memory. Amazing."

But she also began to think about what he said. She said them once five years ago when she was twelve as her sensei died. She shook the thoughts away. "Damn humans."

She lifted his head to put the pillow underneath and covered him with the blanket. But his shivering did not lessen. "Warmth…" He murmured. She then realized that he needed body warmth. "Kuso! You're gonna get smacked around when you wake up human!" She thought. She took off her shoes and kimono so that she only wore a shirt and her drawstring pants and crawled in under the under the blanket to warm up her ill prisoner.

It was nightfall. All was silent, not even a breath of wind or a chirp of a cricket disturbed the still night. Lee was walking through an unknown forest. A full waxed moon was his only guiding light. He kept walking in one direction until he came into clearing of a massive wide open field.

He saw a large building that looked like a school and an orphanage. A thing of playground equipment stood close by to it. He scanned the area until his eyes laid upon a tiny little figure sitting at the highest point of the playground equipment. He moved closer to get a better look. He then saw that the tiny little figure was a little girl.

The little girl was around the age of five or six. Her tresses grazed passed her cheek bones. She wore only a gray night shirt and little boy boxers. She was staring at the night sky, not aware of Lee's presence.

Lee was about to go right up to her and ask her what she was doing out so late. But before he could move an inch he heard the sound of children screaming. The little girl snapped out of her stargazing and stared back at the building. Soon the sound of glass shattering was heard. Then the building was up in flames. Lee stood in terror at the sight. Children were being slaughtered in that building and he couldn't do anything. The little girl was frozen at the sight of the burning orphanage.

Suddenly everything turned black around Lee and the little girl. The little girl began to change. Lee couldn't move from his spot he could not turn away. The little girl was growing older from a tiny little girl to a young woman. Her hair grew long in length. Her body grew taller, her legs longer and her waist thinner. He could not see her face the entire time during the transformation.

Finally everything stopped. The girl was now a young woman. Her long chocolate tresses flowed past her buttocks. She now wore what looked like a men's kimono and drawstring pants. Her back was facing him, seemingly unaware of his presence. "Who are you?" He called out. The woman turned around to face him. But her face was covered by a hunter nin mask. He gasped out. "That women…"

Lee sat straight up gasping for air. He winced from the pain at his sides. "A dream…" He thought. Then he was aware of his surroundings. He was in a cave, an inhabited one at that. There were clothes, weapons, scrolls and other stuff inside the cave. He was lying on a straw mat and was covered in a blanket made of rabbit fur. He then finally realized that he wasn't wearing his clothes. Well the top part of it anyway. Someone cut the top part of his jumpsuit just so they could bandage him up. "Where am I? How did I get here?" He wondered. Then he remembered the four people that were slaughtered by the mysterious woman. His comrades that lay unconscious or dead. He cringed at the thought as he saw no sign of them. "Where are they?" His thoughts were interrupted by footsteps coming towards him. He looked up to see who it was.

A young woman was coming his way. She appeared to be the same age as him. Her chocolate locks was up and bound by a piece of cloth. Her garb were of a cream colored shirt, back drawstring pants and simple sandals. She was short but slim, well toned, and filled out. Her skin was tanned but smooth. But what was most remarkable of her appearance was her eyes. Her eyes were green like freshly sprung new grass. They were deep with wisdom but they held no emotion. If there was any if searched hard enough then there was the hint of deep hatred.

She was holding a teapot and mug full of tea. "Well you're awake looks like you'll be okay since you made it through the night." She said in a dead dull voice. She placed the teapot down and gave him the mug while she checked his forehead. "Well your fever's down. Drink that it's a medicinal tea."

Lee didn't move he was hesitant and wary. "It's not poisonous." She said. He took a sip to be sure. "Mmm mint." He thought but his attention was averted back to the young woman.

"Who are you? Where am I? Where are my comrades?" He asked. He wanted to ask more questions but was cut off by the young woman. "One question at a time and I have my own I want answers to." She replied in a dull tone still.

"I am Kaida. But it seems that humans know me as 'The mysterious being of Moriko forest.'"

Lee just stared at her. "She couldn't be. Someone that young?" He thought. She must have read his mind somehow because she went over to where her clothes were and pulled out a hunter's nin mask. It was the same mask of the mysterious being. "You are in the heart of the ancient forest. And as for your comrades, I left them where they lay. They should live…unless something ate them." She explained.

Lee was shocked that it was only him here while his team mates and teacher were still out there. "So then why did you take me? And left my comrades to die?" He asked getting upset.

"I did not leave them to die they were knocked unconscious by those pitiful excuses of a ninja and that imposter." When she said 'that imposter' she said it with venom. "Besides they didn't receive serious injuries. You did."

"But why did you take me?"

"I'm only healing you for answers human. Not out of kindness."

Lee shut up after that. He wasn't sure if he'll live after she got what she needed from him. He needed to stay alive as long as he could until he made a full recovery or his comrades came. And he might as well do some interrogating of his own while he was at it. He looked right back at her while she bore into his eyes with her own stare. "So why were you trying to capture that imposter who called himself Ryuji? I know that you were going try to take him into custody but why?"

"I do not have to answer you." Lee stated simply. Kaida still continued to stare back at him. One of hereyebrows twitched. "Gonna be stubborn huh? I have all the time in the world. I don't need to worry. I'll get what I need eventually."

"But I'm curious, why were they after you?"

Kaida was taken aback little bit by surprise. "So he was conscious during my talk with that imposter. Guess he's gonna do some interrogating of his own. I have nothing to hide. Besides he'll die when I'm done with him." She breathed. "Probably because I kept killing all of their ninja for entering my home. Other than that I do not know. I have no desire for power from this Orochimaru."

"So then why did you kill our target?"

Kaida's expression turned from emotionless to deep venom hatred. If an expression like could literally kill a person then that look would've done it. Kaida clenched her fists so hard that they began to bleed. Lee was a little surprised by this sudden change of emotion. "Why is she getting so worked up for?" He wondered. Kaida finally spoke. "Because he was an insult to the real Ryuji. I could not let him live for doing that." She said with an anger strained voice. Lee wasn't very convinced but was also confused. "That was him wasn't it? And if he wasn't then how does she know?"

"But how do you know that wasn't him?"

Kaida glared at him clenching her fists even tighter that they bled more until little droplets of blood hit the ground. "Because the real Ryuji is right over there." She answered finally pointing her now bloody hand at the far back end of the cave.

End of chapter four.

Hehehe….sometimes I just love driving people nuts with a cliff hanger. Sorry for this one being shorter but it couldn't be helped.

I loved to thank KamayaNekoi, Neji-the-caged-bird, and Loveme731. My loyal reviewers they also help some with this too. And my best friend Cait who helped me in the very beginning with parts that were driving me nuts like why did Kaida kidnap Lee. And my sweetheart Jason who supports me when I feel crappy and lack of motivation.

Now I hope I can now leave you all in the dark from now on of what will happen next.

So what will happen now? Is Lee going to meet the real Ryuji? Will team Gai find Lee? Was there a connection between Kaida and Ryuji? Find out in chappy five! The more reviews, the faster I update!