Where am I... I can't see anything... nothing at all... why can't I breathe... I can't feel anything... where am I...
What is that... is that... whats that... it has wings... its all white... with a halo... blue hair... is it... an... angel... wha... Argh... my head... why won't it stop hurting... what's going on... No... Noooo!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ikamaru stood right out of his rusty old bed. Bandages everywhere. He was inside an old shack made of bamboo most likely. He felt a rushing pain near his left kidney. The stitches had opened up! Ikamaru was paralyzed with pain for a second. He groaned and rushed back down on his matress. Just then a blue haired girl around Ikamaru's age rushed in.
"You idiot! You shouldn't have moved! Dammit" Ikamaru screamed even louder when the girl pressed onto his side. Then he passed out.
"Oh crap... I shouldn't have done that... now he's dead!"

Dead And Alive

Part 2
A boy around the same age ran into the room to find Ikamaru on the bed, bleeding and making the bed all red and icky. "Cathy? What've you done?!"
"Nothing at all!"
"Then explain the bleeding"
"It's supposed to happen. Bleeding is good for you. It cleanses your body of evil souls!"

"...wha...? You've gotta do something"
"I am! Stop pressuring me!"
"I'm not pressuring you! I'm just saying-"
"Shut up!"
"Okay okay!" He backed away and murmered in his breath "Anger management...!"
"I HEARD THAT!" At the same time pushing onto Ikamaru's side again. Ikamaru felt the pain and awoke instantly.
"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMIT!"
"LOOK WHAT YOU DID NOW!"
"YOU MADE ME!"
"NO I DIDN'T!"
"YES YOU DID!"
"NO I DIDN'T!"

"Children! Be Quiet!" The old lady watching from the door steps hurried in with some more bandages. She wrapped them around the wound and sprayed some kind of liquid medicine in the wound. Obviously it stinged Ikamaru, but he held it together. When the bleeding and stinging had stopped, Ikamaru opened his eyes. The three gasped. His eyes were blood shot red. Especially his pupils.

Later On
Voices. Sounds. They filled up the luminate nightfall sky as Team Four a.k.a. the Support Crew trudged their way through the sand. Every mile they tracked was vital to the operation. The Team was new to the harsh environment. They had only assembled four subordinates since last week. There were five all together including the captain: James and Dash Ivory were the Support Snipers. Alexia Ivory the Support Assault. Wolfgang F. Nicholas the Support Engineer. And the Captain, Taiyou Hana. Most of the ninja country was filled up mostly of ninja who used basic kunais. But during the past 10 years, when Grass and Cloud had been united as brother nations, they were all working on higher technology on weapons. The Gold Scythe was their most famed possesion. They also built kunai guns which shot kunais out of the holes implanted. Then there became Needle Guns a.k.a. snipers. And Fury Kunai Guns a.k.a. Assault.

Wolfgang carried two kunai pouches and a medecine pouch. He also had learned many medical jutsus. He wore a simple ninja assasin black clothing. Well they all did. James and Dash carried simple snipers and a kunai strapped to their boots. Alexia was more of a "I will kill you if you get in my way" sort of person. She carried three Assault weapons and five kunai pouches filled with explosive notes and poison needles. She also had a good ninjutsu called the "Stone Henge". Finally Taiyou Hana, the team Captain, was around Ikamaru's age. She had golden yellow hair that reached all the way down to her knees, wore a Chunnin jacket, black sleeve-less shirt, camoflauge pants and a 14 pound heavy-weight widened broad sword.

The ninja eye contacted the deep rivers that blocked the passage to the suspected location of their bounty. Immediatly Red Scorpion (The codename for Alexia) released her Stone Henge technique. It created a rock formation lift from the soil of the bottom of this river. It made a perfect bridge. "Advance in a A line across the bridge," Taiyou whispered silently. "Then advance in a 0035 Spike Ball. James and Dash in the middle forming up the ball, and the rest as the spikes"

It took a while before they reached the end. They quietly "Spike Ball"ed their way to the suburbs of the town. Everyone was asleep. Everyone but Ikamaru.

A While Before Then

After a half hour's rest, Ikamaru stood up gently from his bed. Amazingly the pain had gone away. The stitches were gone. He lazily stumbled over to get his jacket to find holes everywhere. Did I get shot or something? He wondered to himself, then repeated out loud. "No, child" The peaceful yet suprising voice said beside him. Ikamaru jolted up and then stared. It was the old lady. She walked over to the worn out shirt. "When we found you, you were still covered in holes. But there was snake-like trails surrounding you. I beleive you were poisoned by a Giant Deser Eel"
Ikamaru's eyes widened and his pupils bulged up and down. He knew that those type of poisons were lethal and could mean almost certain death. The only cure to prevent the spread is to...

Replace the Heart