Chapter 5: The Peculiar Poisoned Person
I stand next to the pair of incapacitated people. One a student I have had for few years. The other is a girl I have never seen before, but looks eerily familiar.
Rin was resting. She had had a very exhausting day, and then had done everything she could to help heal the wounded.
Kakashi had dark circles under his eyes, and was much paler than normal. Grey hair stood up at very angle. The rough scar ran across his left eye, crossing the boy's recently acquired sharingan eye. His breathing was slow, even, and deep. He looked peaceful in his sleep. The hard, unhappy look gone from his face.
The girl, Aimisouma, wasn't in such good shape. She had bruises all over her body, and a nasty cut in her neck. If it had gone any deeper, the outcome would not have been good. Her breathing was irregular and shallow. Her brow was sweaty, and face pinched with pain, despite being unconscious.
I had already opened the scroll and examined it. Along the scroll were rows of small boxes. Five boxes going across the width of the scroll, and approximately a hundred long. It has a large quantity of random words and doodles in some of the boxes. The word 'BEAR' was written in thick bold. Uchiha Obito was written in another. Shirt, Tea Set, and Book were all written in others. The scroll was much heavier than it should have been.
I really just want to jutsu back to the village right now, and drop these two off at the hospital. Then, find out what happened to Obito, eat something, and see Kushina again. I smiled at the thought of Kushina. We'd been married for a few months now. The honeymoon phase cut short by our duties in the war.
Snapping back to reality, I see Aimisouma start to jerk around. Quickly kneeling beside her, I place my hands on her shoulders. Her eyes open. The bright blue stare up at me in a unfocused, glazed over fashion.
"Little one, can you tell me your name?" I question. While I already know, I need to ascertain how aware she is of the situation.
"Mi..sou." She stutters out, voice hoarse.
"Misou. Can you tell me your-"
"I like ...ramen." Her voice slurs the words together. She blinks at me bleary eyed, bleary eyed."Daddy?" She asks.
"I... no... I'm not... I... Uh..." Words escape me. I'm glad Kushina isn't watching this, she would never let me live it down. I take a deep breath and begin again. "No, little one. I'm not your father. Does he look like me?"
Crack! My head snaps up. I extend my senses, and detect the reinforcements approaching from the south. It's about time. I look back down at the girl. Her eyes are rolling back into her head, and she begins to convulse.
"Rin." I say loudly. I don't shout, to alarm the reinforcements, but it's enough to wake up the light sleeper that is Rin.
She looks at Misou, and snaps awake. Her hands almost instantly glow with a green aura.
"We need to get her to the hospital. Now." Rin says.
"Stay here with Kakashi. The reinforcements are about ten minutes out." I hand her a Flying Kunai. I scoop the small girl into my arms, and Hiraishin to the Konoha hospital.
My arrival causes a flurry of activity, Medical-in swarm around me and spasming child. A gurney is rolled over, and I deposit Misou. Speaking quickly, I get out a few words such as poisoned, seizures started a 67 seconds ago, and was a captive. I can only watch as many people swarm around her as she is wheeled down the hall.
A nurse asks me a few questions, but I only know the girls first name, and that she was poisoned after being a prisoner. I know next to nothing about this innocent girl who got caught up in the war.
"Poor thing." The nurse mutters, as she fills out a piece of paperwork.
After five minutes of pacing in the waiting room, I can't be still any longer. I inform a nurse that I will be back shortly.
I return to two of my students.
Aimisouma
The first thing that returns to me is my strange dream. Stars and my dad. But my dad didn't even know my name.
The second thing that my mind registers is the pain. Everywhere. My body feels as if it has been filled with a heavy metal. The room is spinning from the moment I open my eyes. I stare at a bright white blur above me.
I can feel a needle enter my right arm. I try to turn my head, but it lays limply on a mattress. I try to move any part of my body, but nothing responds my instructions. At last, I think I make my fingers twitch. Someone notices, because next thing I see is a face above mine. The face is too foggy for me to make out any details. I think its a woman talking to me. I feel a hand grab mine, and I try to squeeze it.
The woman's face is going out of focus again. I can't tell if she is moving away, or if I am loosing consciousness again.
The next time I wake up, I am alone. The pain is gone, but so is the face. A steady low beeping fills the room from a machine next to me.
I try to turn my head. It hurts, but I can look down at my body. A blanket is draped across most of my body, and one of my arms. The exposed arm is completely wrapped in bandages, except for a small section that has a needle in it. Its connected to a bag of clear liquid, and a machine sitting next to it. A large bump surrounds my left leg under the blankets. I can't bend that ankle. I can't get most of my body to respond to me.
"Hello?" I ask the empty room, but my voice doesn't come out louder that a whisper.
Where am I and why am I alone? My eyes start to water, and the beeping on the monitor speeds up.
After a minute, the door slides open, and I am greeted by a smiling red-head. She leaves the door open, as she comes and inspects the screens. She grabs a clipboard off of the foot of the bed, and writes some stuff down.
She walks over to the window, and opens up a pair of long curtains. Bright sunlight streams in the wide windows.
My head tries to follow her, but I feel a tugging on my nose. As I think about it, I feel a small puff of air blown into my nostrils. It feels quite odd.
"Where-" I try to speak, but my voice is so dry, it hurts to talk.
"Would you like some water, dear?" The nurse asks me.
I nod slightly. She disappears behind a curtain dividing the room and returns with a small cup. She sets the cup on the side table, and gently helps me sit up. With one arm behind me, she lifts the cup to my lips, and slowly pours some water into my mouth.
It is the best water I have ever had.
After downing the entire cup, I ask for more. The nurse smiles, but says that I should wait a few minutes before having anymore.
She fluffs up my pillow, and promises she will be right back. There are several people who have been wanting to see me. She exits the room, and pulls the door shut behind her.
Minato
I've never been one for politics. But it seems that my students have the ability to get everyone upset. I'm currently sitting in an empty office at the hospital. Obito's grandmother and the Uchiha's clan head, Fugaku, and I had been discussing Aimisouma's scroll. I had been attempting to occupy the pair of Uchiha because he didn't trust Fugaku not to go upstairs and attempt to shake the girl awake.
Fugaku had also been quite upset about Kakashi having one of Obito's eyes, but until they got Obito's body back from the girl, Fugaku had promised he would withhold his judgement.
They trio currently had the scroll unrolled, and were examining all aspects. Obito's grandmother kept running her fingers over his neatly written name.
A knock sounded on the door, and a petite ginger slid the door open just enough. "Minato-san, the girl is awake."
