Okay, don't ream me out for not updating, but I have two chapters to make up for it. The first is on the shorter side, but the other one is the better of the two. I hope this clears things up!

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The next couple days went without any problems, but Kabuto and his group's absence made both Ayame and Naruto very nervous. It wasn't until Friday, four days after Kiba's visit, that they all ran into each other again. It was just after school and the two were just about to walk off campus when they heard a voice call their names. They turned around to find Kiba, Ino, and Kabuto.

"What do you want?" Ayame asked in her usual detached voice. Walking up to them Kabuto grabbed them by the wrists and started to drag them.

"What's going on?" Naruto asked worried.

"Shut up and follow me!" Kabuto scolded. Naruto looked over at Ayame who mouthed the word "Wait." The three man group led them to a small forested area outside the town and after about half a mile in one teen nodded to the other and escaped the older boys grasp and bolted off a few feet ahead.

"What do you want?!" The normally quiet blond growled almost demonic. The silver haired senior smirked while his two associates watched confused.

"Why whatever do you mean?" Kabuto asked smirking. "I was just taking you to see your mothers new grave site."

"WHAT!!!" Ayame yelled in a blind fury. She was about to hit him and Naruto tried to hold her back but she was stronger. Breaking through his grasp, she ran up to the silver haired senior but was stopped. Looking behind her she was surprised to see Kiba holding onto her arm. "Let go off me!" she said tears welling in her eyes, she fell to the ground. "That grave is the only thing I have left."

Kabuto chuckled while everyone else watched her sob. Naruto made his way over, knelt down and hugged her and Kiba put a hand on her shoulder.

"What is WRONG with you?!" Kiba roared.

"Excuse me?" Kabuto said wide eyed. "Have you forgotten who I am?"

"I know damn well who you are you asshole!" he yelled. "And I am done taking orders from you! These two go throw shit day in and day out and I'm GONE making their lives miserable!"

Kabuto glared at him then walked away, Ino following him after a second of thought.

Kiba took off the jacket he had been wearing and drabed it over Ayame's shaking body. Naruto picked her up bridle style and she hid her face in his shirt. When he started walking deeper into the woods Kida followed curiously. Slowly they made their way into a clering not far from where the incident had been and in the center was a large stone with the words:

"Forever in my heart

Forever my best friend

Forever unreachable.

Kyra Naiomi"

Naruto set Ayame down in front of her mother's grave, it was untouched meaning the who scene Kabuto had made had been just a bluff luckily.

"I'll go tend to Nala, are you going to be okay?" Naruto asked.

"Ya I'll be fine." She said snuggling into Kiba's jacket. "And thank you both."

They walked off and Ayame spent the rest of the day and into the night sitting there. It wasn't often she could go to the grave and she relished every second she was there. Finally deciding it was time to go she got up and walked back to the city. The outskirts were abandoned had been for many years, with the population living in the heart of the town. The whole reason she had built her mother's grave out here is because she knew it wouldn't be disturbed. Although it still puzzled her how Kabuto had found out about the site in the first place, she brushed it off and continued walking the fog covered eerie streets. Hearing a noise she stopped, but figuring it was just an animal she continued, but when she hear a small voice she ran into the direction it come from. Every so often while she searched for the source the voice would call out a soft plea for help. Finally coming upon a very old wooden house she entered into the corridor. She made her way to the small living area that had two doors off of it. She opened the first to an empty bed room with a small twin bed. The next she opened to find a wretched sight. Lying cuffed to the ground was an emaciated boy with long blonde hair. She didn't recognize her until she flipped him over, after busting through the cuffs, to reveal two lifeless gray-blue orbs. She picked the kid up and although he didn't resist he trembled in her hands. She ran off with the boy in her arms hurrying as fast as she could to her barn-home. She but through the door and nearly made Nala and Raiden, who had waited for her to return, off of the beat up old sofa. Not paying attention to them, she jumped up to the loft and laid the boy onto the hay. She took his shirt off and his whole torso was lacerated and she reached over to the body wrap that she had used on her best friend just days before. After taking care of the boy she looked up to find he was asleep and her two companions were standing over her with questioning looks.

"Uh sorry about that." She said rubbing the back of her neck.

"Its cool." Naruto said quietly as they retreated back to the first floor. "But who's the kid? Do you know him?"

"Ya. It's a long story." She said with a sigh.

"Well I've got a while, my dad's out on business tonight." He grinned. And just as he was about to start there was a knock at the door, Ayame went to answer it and found Kiba on the other sided. The brown haired boy looked quite nervous, but she just smiled and let him in.

"What do you need?" Naruto asked monotone. Even after all that had happened today he still didn't trust the teen.

"I just came for my jacket." He said.

"Its up in the loft." Ayame said sitting back down. "Go ahead and get it."

Kiba made his way up and when he returned, Ayame had him sit also. She rubbed her hands together nervously and looked from one boy to the other.

" What I am going to tell you guys is something that is not to leave this room and something that I've tried really hard to forget." She said with a sigh.

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