A/N: in sing-song voice Oh I wish I owned Naruto 'cuz then I'd be millionaire, but I don't so I'm not! This is still a self-insert and this is kinda a crappy song!!!

Chapter 3

"Thanks for your help," said MoE when they had reached the edge of the village.

Damien nodded, "Follow this path," he said, pointing, "you should be there in three-fourths of an hour."

"Thanks," said Amanda.

"We'll just be on our way then," said Alexis, crying stopped for now. They didn't have the time to cry. With one last look at the village over her shoulder she started walking.

MoE and Damien nodded at each-other, Amanda followed it up with a nod to Damien of her own, and they were on their way.

They were promptly lost. Their eyes were used to the city, and they couldn't see a thing in the forest. There were all of these paths leading off into clearings used for training, and it made things confusing. The paths were clearly marked, but in the dark the girls didn't see the signs. They soon ended up wandering around a clearing quite a ways off the path. Most unfortunately, it was already inhabited by a couple doing some nighttime smooching. They did not like being disturbed. Particularly not by someone tripping over them as they lay in the grass.

"Gahhaawoh!" yelled a familiar voice right before, crash!.

"MoE? Are you okay?!"

"Who is that?" demanded an angry voice.

"Sorry," said another voice, one unrecognizable due to the fact that it was muffled by the ground. It was probably MoE. Of course I would trip…I managed to trip while not moving the other day. Yeah, I pretty much rock.

The sound of a few twigs breaking and couple pats later, a voice said, "I don't think we're on the right path anymore. Could you redirect us to the path towards the city? Sorry for falling on you, by the way. I didn't see you."

"Lost?" said the voice, "That's the best you can come up with?" The man MoE had tripped over, who was apparently a ninja, had shirinkin in his hands. "Do not," he threw one in the direction Amanda might have been standing in, "spy on," one in Alexis's direction, "me!" one in MoE's direction. They all hit targets, but it seemed he had been aiming to graze the girls, as opposed to killing them. That's nice of him, I would rather not die…why is he throwing junk at me anyway? Not so nice…grrr.

Alexis and MoE fell over, and Amanda sat down, so as not be as big a target. MoE ended up landing on the other half of the couple. "OWWWwww!!!!" she complained, "I'm sorry I tripped over you, but jeez…" she finally saw the person she had landed on. "Uhh…sorry about that. Oh Hi-" was as far as she got.

The boy picked her up by the back of her shirt, "You're a stubborn one, aren't you?"

"No! Well…yes. But at the moment, I have no idea what your talking about."

"Nochan! She's not here to spy! She's not even a ninja!" The other half of the couple had finally gotten up out of the tall grass she had been hiding in. It was Miya.

"See?" interrupted MoE, "Now could you put me down?" she was still a bit scared, but she was fairly certain Miya wasn't about to let this Kochan fellow kill them, so she afford to be a little smart-alack-y, "Your stretching my shirt," she said with annoyance. Fear was not the trait MoE wore best. "If you don't stop you're going to owe me a new one."

After MoE had been put down, and Amanda had gotten up, Miya said "I'm sorry about this. I love Kochan, but our families don't want us to be together, so we have to sneak out of our houses to meet. We have to worry about my family, especially, sending spies after me."

"That's all very touching but I'm kind of bleeding," observed Amanda. "Could we speed this up a bit?"

"For people who are dealing with the whole forbidden love thing, you're awfully open about it…" said MoE.

It was dark, and she couldn't see all that well, but MoE was pretty sure she had gotten a glare from just about everyone in the clearing.

"Oh, sure," said Kochan, as if MoE hadn't said anything, "My mom can take care of it." He now looked a bit sheepish, "Sorry about that. Unless one of you moved, they should only of grazed you."

MoE and Amanda checked their cuts. MoE's had gotten her in the hip, ripping the band at the top of her jeans; she would need new ones. Amanda's had hit her arm, just under the end of her sleeve. They compared and turned to see Alexis's, but she wasn't there.

After a bit of scanning, most on the ninja's part, Alexis was found…passed out with a shirinkin in the middle of her thigh. Kochan took one look at her, and picked her up, bridal style. The little piece of metal had lodged itself in what appeared to be several big blood vessels, and was only half sticking out of her leg. Miya led the way as they made their way back to the village, and presumably to Kochan's house. She had to leave them shortly before they met the lights, but she wished them all well, and apologized again before she disappeared.

By the time they reached Kochan's house in the middle of the village, Amanda wasn't doing so well, MoE was about to pass out, and Alexis was still unconscious. MoE and Amanda's injuries weren't that serious, bit they had had a very stressful day, and it was starting to get to them. As they entered the house, Kochan called for his mother. He led them to a white room with two cots and some drawers. Kochan's mother intercepted them nearly the moment they stepped into the room. She was a tall angular women, and she was accompanied by a rather dumply woman who Kochan greeted with a surprised, "Hello Aunt Taki."

At his mother's gesture and questioning noise Kochan said, "There was an…accident…a misunderstanding. They're just travelers."

Kochan still had Alexis in his arms, but Amanda had sat down on the cot opposite the two women. At this point MoE was weaving around like a drunk person, one hand too her temple. "HAHAHAHA!" she exclaimed, "Pirates! AHHH!! Water!" and she fell on her ass.

Kochan's mother nodded and directed him to lay Alexis down on the unoccupied cot. Than with long expertise she removed the shirinkin from Alexis's thigh and-there was no other word for it-healed her. Her hands went over the wound, and they glowed for a moment. When she took her hands away Alexis was healed.

She than turned to Amanda whose wounds she cleaned and bandaged in no less than two minutes. She moved on to MoE with a wave of her hand and a, "You'll have a nice scar to show off."

After which she focused her attention on MoE and said, "You haven't lost enough blood to be dizzy, what's the problem?"

MoE's reply was short and to the point, much like the woman she talking to. It was most likely that way because she wanted to avoid shouting "pirate" again, "Dehydration."

Aunt Taki then left, presumably to get MoE a glass of water. Kochan's mother declared MoE's cut would need stitches due to it's placement. "Do a better job next time," she told her son. "All this will do is refuse to heal. If you want to damage, do damage. If not, choose another spot." While scolding her son, she cleaned, stitched, and bandaged the cut in record time. She was done before Aunt Taki got back with the water. She rounded her son's lecture off with a, "Don't bang that," to Amanda, and a "Drink more, and be easy on that hip for at least three days," to MoE.

She left with call of, "That girl should be awake by tomorrow, stay there for tonight."

After MoE took a place next to Amanda on the cot, Kochan started to question them. "Mika said you were travelers, were are you going?"

"You owe me new pants. And these were new pair too, and expensive! If you don't get me new ones, I'm going to sue you. You owe Alexis new pants too! Getting blood all over them, and putting a hole in them. Do you know how hard it is to get blood out of pants? Very. If Amanda got any on her shirt, you owe her a new one of those too."

"I'll buy you new ones in the morning," he said, "Do we need to send a nessage to anybody, that you won't be coming home tonight?

"We're foreign exchange students," said Amanda after seeing that MoE was fully occupied with drinking her water, finally.

"Lost foreign exchange students," added MoE, "We were traveling alone, there's no one you need to call."

"How did you end up in the clearing?"

"We were heading to the city and got lost," said Amanda. After their interview with Hokage, they thought it best not to mention that were, did, or could do anything out of the ordinary. Seeing the Hokage was definitely out of the ordinary.

"I told you that already," commented MoE, "twice. You said I was a lair." Apparently MoE harbored hard feelings. Amanda glared at MoE. Glaring back at Amanda's glare, MoE added, "We'll be leavening tomorrow."

Damn straight I harbor hard feelings. I like these pants.

"What's their story?" Kochan's mother asked him as he walked out the door.

"Students. Lost. Headed out tomorrow."

"I'm going to ask them to stay. The unconscious one has the chakra of a natural born healer."

"We can't just ask random people of stay with us! Their story is very weak."

"Maybe they didn't feel like talking to the person who randomly hit them with sharp pointy metal things!"
"I'm the man of the house now, and I say they can't stay."

His mother had been in the process of leaving when he said this, but she turned on him so fast she would have left a mongoose behind. "You may be the 'man' of this house, but it is still mine and what I say goes. They stay. Do I make myself clear?"

"Crystal," Kochan replied, but not without a sort of reluctant malice.

Go Kochan's mom! You rock! Don't let Kochan talk to you like that!