Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. But, I probably could if I um, bought it. All I need now is a couple hundred thousand dollars, maybe a couple million, and um… does anyone know what else I'll need? Or a couple hundred thousand dollars to start me off?

The New Annoyance

The group of Chuunin (and Gai and Kakashi) awoke with a start to a harsh gasp.

It came from… outside. But there was no one outside! The three prisoners were secured. What could it possibly be?

They ran outside, and found nothing but… Keitorin.

Her eyes fluttered open. She turned her head towards her friends and smiled. "Why… are you all… l-looking at me… like you've seen a ghost?"

TenTen fainted. This was reasonable, because she watched Keitorin die.

Sakura ran over to Keitorin. "Keitorin, you're alright!"

Keitorin was so very confused, and the fact that Sakura was hugging her so hard that Keitorin felt like she would snap in two. She gasped for more air; she literally couldn't breathe. "S-Sakura – That- hurts! I…I need (gasp) AIR!"

Sakura let go of her, and stayed on her knees allowing tears to flow down her cheeks.

Temari walked up and fell to her knees when she got over to Keitorin. She was also crying. "Keitorin… I thought you were gone…" Fresh tears swelled in her eyes. She blinked and they flowed down her cheeks.

Kakashi stepped up. "All right you guys, Keitorin is in critical condition. Sakura, you have been studying medical, right?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes, Sensei," Sakura said.

"Keitorin's bag, you know where it is?" Kakashi asked.

Sakura nodded.

"Get the Ishokubutsu; I believe Tsunade's training will allow to treat her further," Kakashi told her.

Keitorin felt tired, as if she had been awake all night. She knew she couldn't fall asleep. She was very thirsty. All this put together meant very bad things for Keitorin. And she was sweating.

She faintly heard Kakashi say something to Temari, Ino, Shikamaru, and Kiba, then something to Sasuke and Naruto. They all left, except Sasuke and Naruto.

Naruto kneeled in front of Keitorin. "Don't worry, Keitorin-san. Sakura-chan's gonna right back, and Temari-san with water. Me and Sasuke-teme won't let anything happen to you," Naruto said. He tried to mask it, but Keitorin could clearly tell that he was a nervous wreck, and the blob that was Sasuke kept looking around, so she could guess that he was nervous as well.

Keitorin tried to get in a more comfortable position against the tree. She found this to be quite impossible and rested her head on the sweet smelling grass and closed her eyes.

Sasuke came up to her. "Keitorin, no, you can't go to sleep." Sasuke told her loudly.

"I know, I won't…" Keitorin grumbled.

"Sit up!"

"Leave me alone Sasuke…"

"No!" Sasuke yelled.

She didn't answer. She saw something dark in her future… She told herself it was sleep, not death. Consciousness was slipping through her fingers like water in cupped hands.

She felt something wet land on her cheek. She didn't move. She registered it as rain, but she realized it wasn't when it rolled down her cheek into her mouth (she's tired and not moving for anything) and tasted salt. It was a teardrop. From… Sasuke? She smiled slightly. She made Sasuke cry… If it wasn't because she was about to die, she would start laughing at him.

Keitorin was about to fall asleep when she felt a sharp pain in her ears. She bolted upright and clapped her hands over her ears.

"K-Keitorin! What's wrong?" Keitorin saw the girl with the flute walking towards her with her flute up to her lips.

Sasuke wheeled around. "You! Who let you go?"

"Your orange clad friend," Fumiko answered, never taking her beautiful violet eyes off of Keitorin.

"Friend!" Sasuke cried.

"I won't let her die," Fumiko said to him.

"What?" Sasuke cried. "Naruto! Teme, you just released a murderer!"

"Sasuke, she just saved your girlfriend's life!" Naruto smirked.

"Shut up, you worthless heap of-"

"Sasuke!" Temari cried harshly.

She was running towards them with a wet cloth, which she placed on Keitorin's forehead.

Fumiko stepped back.

Sakura came running towards them with the bottle of Ishokubutsu.

"Finally!" Sasuke cried.

"Keitorin! She's- alright, right?"

"Yeah, now hurry up, Sakura?"

Sakura cleaned out Keitorin's cut, mostly the deep ones on her thighs and stomach. She did a couple of complicated looking procedures and allowed Keitorin to sit against a tree. Within three minutes, she was asleep.

"Where are the others?" Temari asked.

"Well, you see, we had to let the stuff boil over wood that I did this thing that Tsunade taught me to make it work really well, and they had to help me make a fire," Sakura explained vaguely so that it didn't get to complicated.

"What is your problem?" Sasuke asked Naruto.

"I'm sorry, if you'll let me explain…" Fumiko said quietly.

"I was struggling and the gag fell off my mouth. I almost killed this girl; I didn't want to have accomplished it. I told him I could help save her. I just didn't want to be guilty of murder. I have never killed anyone before. Orochimaru told us to capture the one named Naruto, and hurt him very severely. If we didn't come back with Naruto almost dead but alive, I would be our lives that would get taken away. We were discussing finding the group we were supposed to be tracking, and asking them if they could take us to Konoha. From yesterday forward, we were missing-nin from Hidden Sound. I don't know what, but something came over me and I aimed to be the one to almost kill the boy and bring him to Orochimaru. I was never that good at anything, and because of my Kekki Genkai I was forced to become an actual ninja. I wanted to be a medical-nin, as I am quite good at it naturally, but I must become a great ninja. I wanted to be recognized as a somebody, and I had this feeling that the only way for me to do that was to… kill. I guess we all felt that." Fumiko finished her long speech.

Okay, normally this marks the end of a chapter, but I am going to give you sort of an afterward to this part of the story. I would put this whole thing in writing, but that would take a bit. Just hang on.

Team Seven and Co take the girls back to Konoha and the Hokage lets them stay. Eventually, they all become really good friends and have missions and various couples spring. Basically, they have a normal childhood. Boring so I didn't make a bunch of chapters on it.

There. That was easy. Read & review!

You know I don't get why people put this at the bottom.

Wouldn't you have Read at the top before the story, and Review at the bottom?

O.o