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Love Of Sound Nin. Part 2. By Petit-Hana. In Memory Of Kin, Zaku, and Dosu.

"If only I could tell her...I love her back."

Zaku stared at her for a minute. He stood up wearilly, and started to walk back to his little spot on the ground.

"Y-you do?"

The words, themselves, seemed to shock him. such small words, and such large meaning. He stood there frozen for a few minutes.

She walked up to him.

They stared at each other, and blushed at the same time.

They wanted to hug each other, hold each other. Zaku looked down at his bandaged arms.

Kin stared at his blushing face. It started to fade away. He looks like he's thinking.

"so. if that wasn't a dream...where's Dosu?" Zaku turned around and stared at the tree branch where Dosu was before, in his "Dream".

Dosu's eyes shot open. he felt a sharp pain in his neck and shoulder.

"where am I!"

He looked around for a minute, and looked up at the tree.

"Did I fall off!"

Kin remembered how she knocked Dosu off the tree, with a senbon needle, to hide him from Dosu.

"Dosu? Who's Dosu again?" Kin asked sarcastically.

Zaku grinned.

Zaku wanted to move his arms, so much, he would do anything. Well, anything he could do without them. He stared down at them for a very long time. His eyes seemed to flicker and glow, in the dim light of the stars.

Kin looked at his face. it was dissapointed, and hurt. It was one of the only times that Kin ever saw him so...unhappy.

How..do I make his expression, faint away?

Kin thought for a moment. She decided on what to do. She walked up behind Zaku, and gentlly wrapped her arms around him, pushing herself agains his back. This way, I can hug him, and be careful of his arms.

Zaku's checks and nose, seemed to be dusted in thatpowder pink blush

"K-Kin..." Zaku's bewildered expression showed from his voice. He lost balance, and they both fell back into the tall grass.

Zaku had landed on his back, and Kin's head was at his chest. She listened to the fast beating of his heart slowly slow back to normal. She wanted it to last forever. She wanted to melt away into his arms, of course, she couldn't for many reasons. she snapped back to reality. She remembered, that this time, Zaku was not asleep.

"Ah! I-I'm so sorry Zaku." She quickly tried to get up.

"Wait." Zaku pleaded, hesitantlly.

Kin froze. What? What is it? That was when, Kin realized, Zaku's hand was twitching. He slowly picked up his arm. He was lossing to the pain and weakness, and the arm started to fall back to the floor. Zaku closed his eyes, and stopped his arm, before it landed on the hard ground below him. He had to try. He wasn't going to give up. He quickly rested his arm on Kin's back, holding her tight against his chest. Frezzing her, in that possition, as the rest of her body rested on the floor besides him.

"Don't go." Zaku whispered.

This time, Zaku's arm was definatlly in pain, and weak. Even more than when Kin visciously gripped onto it. Even more, than when he hurt it in the first place. But for some reason, as it layed there, holding onto his true love, holding onto Kin, the pain seemed to fade away, in the warmthness of her back. Is it you heart Kin? Your so warm all the time, because the heat of your heart seeps through your body, to melt people away? Is it that heart of yours that everybody longs for? Zaku thought.

Dosu wearilly got up. He pulled out the senbon needle from his neck. Agh! So it wasn't me that tipped over.A certain someone, was trying to hide me.

Dosu walked up to where Kin was before.

Impossible! She's gone!

He looked around, and saw Zaku. Dosu walked toward him, noticing that Kin's head rested on his chest. Dosu sighed. He longed for Kin like that, and thought about what it would feel like. He stared at Zaku, taking his place. He felt his heart ache, and felt as if his heart wanted to jump outto Kin.

Impossible. What kind of feelings are these! Why do I feel so empty, and... backstabbed.

"Im sorry. I must have stabbed your back with my senbon needle."

Dosu turned around. It seemed to be a boy in a mask. Yes, it was that Haku, Zabuza's pet. (Yes, this is before their deathes too.)

"I meant to stab your shoulder." He took of the mask, and behind it, was the face, of a beautiful girl.

"Are you trying to hurt me!" Dosu tried to hide his blush, as he knew Haku as a male.

"No. Not at all. I was walking in the woods, and I noticed you fall out ofa tree. The area in which that teammate of yours stabbed you with that senbon, the angle you fell at, what you fell on, the sound you made as you fell, and you grippping onto your shoulder, I noticed you hurt it."

I-I did! How can he figure out i'm hurt...before I figure out myself!

"I practiced senbon throwing myself, for sometime, and figured out a muscle, that you can hit to ease the pain, and possibly heal it. It's a type of chinese accupuncture." The boy smilled.

Haku threw a needle at him again. This time, it went deep into his shoulder, into his muscle. Dosu stood there for a while, frozen.

Haku pulled out the senbon, and quickly added a few more into diffrent joints,and other muscles, so fast, Dosu had'nt even seen him do it. After a few minutes, Haku took the needles out. He grabbed Dosu's shoulder.

"What are you--"

Haku slide the shoulder back into place with a loud crack.

"Aghhhh!" Dosu couldn't withstand the pain.

"There. Done." Haku smilled, and stepped back.

Dosu stood there. It DID feel better. Better than ever.

"Hey, thank--"

The boy was gone.

After along time,Kin felt something staring at her.Directlly at her. Not so far away...

"I belive this belongs to you." Haku held out the senbon. The bells tinked.

The needle I threw at Dosu...but how..!

Zaku stared up. He couldn't move after all, so he decided to leave Kin, a bit of privacy talking to the other boy. Zaku closed his eyes, and dozed off.

"But how!" Kin demanded. She looked around. He was gone.

Hakustared at Zabuza innocently.

"So Haku, what did you do today?" Zabuza asked.

"I fixed a dislocated shoulder. I also picked some herbs." Haku held out the herbs, as if they were an offering to a god.

"You're to kind Haku."

"Yes. I-i'm sorry. I know this is not the way, of a true shinobi, to act this way. I'm sorry to disapoint you Zabuza." Haku answered in his calm, sweet voice.

Zabuza at the young boy's gaze.

"You know, Zabuza, your kind as well." Haku said softlly.

Zabuza stared at Haku.

"your eyes, are so warm. So, caring sometimes...like now."

Zabuza flinched.

"Even with those bandages. To me, your not just the demon of the hidden mist. Your Zabuza Momochi. My life."

Zabuza's eyes, seemed to twinkle for a moment.

I live for you Zabuza.

Kin was falling asleep. By now she deffinatly noticed Zaku was asleep. She lifted his arm for a minute, squirmed out, and gentlly rested it on his side. She walked to over to a river. She dipped a small rage into it, wetting it with the cool water. She found to more rags in her pocket, slightlly larger than the first, and dipped those in as well. She walked back, and sat on her knees, by his side. She rested the small rage on his burning forehead.

"Hush little baby don't say a word, mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird..." Kin started to sing to him softlly.

She gentlly wrapped his arms with the other cloths.

"and if that mocking bird don't sing, mama's gonna buy you a daimond ring..."

She sang for a while. Zaku could hear her gentle words, even through his sleep. He felt so peaceful.

By now, Kin had started to repeat the sweetsong.

Zaku fell into a dream. He still heard the singing, as if it were part of the dream. He grabbed Kin's hand, and they walked along together, hand in hand.

"And if that mocking bird don't sing, mama's gonna buy you a daimond ring..."

So this was the start, to true happiness. Zaku loved Kin. Kin loved him back. What would the future hold for them?

To be continued in chapter 3

(A/N) I thought it would be cute, to have Kin sing to Zaku.I only know up to 'diamond ring' of that song, so I didn't write out the entire song. I feel, that when I really try to favor a couple, I become a fanatic. At first, it was to pas time, and I like all the sound nin, so I decided to write this. I guess, I got more into them than I thought I would, as I did woth Zabuza and Haku. By the way, their deaths made me cry. as for why Zabuza and Haku are in it, is beyond me. I guess I sort of wanted them to be alive in one of my fics, since my story on them, is a happy afterlife ending. I also needed to fill in space. Anyways, tell me what you think. Was it too sappy for them? I guess it's pure ZakuxKin fluff huh? Oh well. Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you liked it!