Mercenary's Life

Chapter Three: On the Road

"She's been sleeping all day now! Why can't we wake her up?"

"Hn,"

Voices? What's going on? I shifted myself a little and opened my eyes. At first I couldn't see anything, but then I saw shadows. Little fuzzy silhouettes came into view, and then finally the shapes focused. At first I stared at the black and blue eyes that looked at me and then, I screamed.

"AHHH!"

And like a chain reaction, the blue eyed boy screamed.

"AHH!"

The black eyed boy glared at the blued boy and said, "Shut up dobe. You're going to wake everyone up."

The blonde haired and blued eyes boy stopped abruptly and glared at the black eyed boy. "Shut up Sasuke bastard!"

"Make me Naruto."

Naruto launched himself at Sasuke and they started fighting on the floor. I sat up from the bed, which I figured out I was laying on when they were fighting, and stared at them. Naruto threw a right straight towards Sasuke's stomach, Sasuke blocked, Naruto tried to trip him, Sasuke blocked, Naruto tried to head butt him, Sasuke dodged, Naruto tried an upper cut, Sasuke dodged, dude, are you seeing the pattern yet?

This continued for about a few more minutes till the door to the room opened and collided with Naruto's face. At the door, Sai stood there looking down at Naruto.

"Sorry didn't see you there dick head."

Naruto instantly, like magic I tell ya, jumped up and started fighting with Sai. Hmm, if only I had food, this would make the comedy movie of the year because the door reopened and slammed into Sai's back and pushed him towards Naruto where they…kissed.

This time Gaara, Itachi, Neji, and Shino stood at the door with those weird anger marks on their heads.

Neji glared and then hissed out, "Don't you know there are other people trying to sleep here!"

Then he looked at Naruto and gagged.

"Fuck, I knew you were gay Sai."

Sai and Naruto jumped apart and started gagging and spitting on the ground glaring at each other. Sasuke was smirking, Gaara and Itachi looked emotionless, Shino looked a little green in the face, Neji was gagging, and Sai and Naruto were practically vomiting on the floor.

I couldn't help but let myself laugh. My laughter made them all look at me. I laughed until I couldn't breathe and wiped the tears from my eyes when I was done.

I looked at them and smiled, "Sorry, couldn't help it."

After a few moments, Naruto jumped up and scrambled over to me and said really fast, "Hi, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, I'm 19, and I have blonde hair, blue eyes, and think you're really pretty!"

I blinked a few times and then laughed again, "Hikari, Hikari Takiko, I'm seventeen, I have black hair, gold eyes, and thank you."

Naruto grinned and declared loudly, "I can tell that this is the beginning of a very beautiful relationship!"

Everyone sweat dropped at his antics, but I laughed again. When was the last time I laughed this many times in a day? Oh yea, never.

Sasuke walked over and shoved Naruto out of the way and looked me in the eyes.

"You are that girl from last time."

I stared back and cocked my head to the side and asked, "Huh?"

"From the forest."

"Oh, umm, yeah."

I ended up blushing because I remembered exactly what I did before I left. He stood up and said, "Go back to sleep, we're leaving in the morning." Then with that, everyone shuffled out and left me in the room by myself.

I stared at the door for a while and then got out of the bed. I found my bag on the floor by the corner. I stood there on the floor and finally thought,

'I did it, I'm free. I won't ever have to go home again. I'll never be beat again. I'm free.' A smile found itself to my face and for once in my life, I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.

I turned around and then hissed in pain. My shoulder was throbbing in pain and it burned. I walked back over to my bag and found some bandages and ointment for the pain. I redid the bandaging, except more carefully this time, and went back to bed.

I fell into a wonderful and dreamless sleep.

Morning

I woke up to the brightness of the sunlight seeping through the window. I sat up and got out of the bed. I searched around my bag for some clothes. I found a simple shirt and pants. I changed out of my old clothes and noticed there was a blood stain on the sleeve. I would have to wash that. I changed my bandages and walked out of the room with my bag and everything. I went down the stairs that were to my right and found myself in a lobby. This was a hotel? Weird.

I went outside and thought about leaving the men, but then the thought was diminished when I realized I would be killed if I left on my own.

'These guys are my ticket out of here.'

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Ish, sorry for the short chapter! I'm so busy with school and all this other stuff, I can't stand it. Anyways, I'm finally putting up that other fan fiction I said I would do. It's called "Hymns of Heaven." It has to do with vampires, demons, hunters, killers, etc.

Please read and review! C: