I AM SO, SO SORRY! I know I haven't posted for like a million years but I have been busy with thirty million different projects for thirty million different teachers. This is a result for having a class on Saturday. Oh well… And oh yes: I DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT OWN NARUTO. Or the candy mountain thingy.

P.S. This is a filler and it's not as humorous. This is why the genre is 'General' I wasn't sure.

Here to Stay

Chapter Twelve: Loyalties

Now that Cynara has satisfied her temper and has sent two more patients to the hospital she is momentarily hacking down trees with the battle-ax that she had retrieved from quite some distance.

"Wow…" Tenten echoed Neji's thoughts. "She must really like that ax…"

"So why did you become a hobo again?" Neji asked now directing his attention to Tenten.

"Uh…"

"Pardon me?"

"Uh…"

"'Uh' is not an answer. Not a proper one that is…"

"WELL SORRY!"

"WOO HOO! THIS TOTALLY ROCKS! YO TENTEN LET'S GO TO CANDY MOUNTAIN!" Cynara has literally crashed into their conversation.

"You do know that there's no such thing as Candy Mountain right?" Neji informed the now super, super hyper Cynara.

"SHU-U-UN! … Neji's a non-believer… A NON-BELIEVER!"

"…"

They both watched as Cynara bounded away singing "Candy Mountain… We're going to Candy MOOOOUUUUUNN-AIN!"

"That settles it. My cousin is officially crazy."

"What do you mean officially?"

"I meant as in crazier than usual."

"True… wait… Is Cynara a kunoichi?" Neji suddenly asked this as he realized something.

"Yes… why do you ask?"

"What is her village?"

Tenten suddenly looked intrigued at this. "OY! CYNARA!"

"Hmm?" The ax was gone and the effects of the aspirin were actually wearing off this time. Cynara looked at them as she approached reluctantly. "What is it?"

"Are you a ninja?" Neji decided to keep this strait forward.

"Yes…" Cynara looked as if she was going to run.

"Where's your headband?" Sure enough the headband was nowhere to be found.

"I…I…I… why?"

"Where do your loyalties lie?"

"…uh… er…"

She fled.

Neji and Tenten gave the chase. Of course they did you fools! I mean if there's someone completely unidentified in the village they were supposed to chase them. Right? But what if it were almost humanely impossible?

Because if Cynara was a criminal she most certainly wasn't going in custody. Yes you'd think that her hair would make her quite noticeable but… it didn't. Plants love her and she was using them to her advantage by throwing almost everything she could at her two pursuers.

And then she jumped.

It was really quite simple. There was a cliff and Cynara jumped over. Neji and Tenten peered over the side of the cliff only to find red river water and a carcass that the crows were already pecking at.

"She had something to hide most likely…" Tenten told Neji uneasily as they walked away from the scene of crime. Neji just nodded his head in agreement.

They didn't look long enough to see thin vines choking the crows.

That was almost too easy.

XxXxX

A dark shadowed figure walked along the embankment of the river and came to a stop at the supposedly dead person.

"Get up Shenvy. You're not fooling anyone…" Remarked the person as a lock of red tipped grey hair fell down.

"Shut up Shanger… it sure fooled those two…"

"Well then they're either idiots who expect the best in life or else they're just idiots. Any fool could have seen that your vines were dangling those crows around like puppets. You wouldn't have gotten this far if it weren't for my brother!"

"I guess they're fools…" Cynara, or should we say Shenvy, rolled over. "I still can't believe that girl actually thought I was her cousin! She must be desperate… Though it was fun while it was lasted…"

"Ha! Is it just me or is the great Shenvy growing soft?" The person Cynara had named as Shanger emitted a bark of laughter, which was suddenly cut off at her next remark.

"Not soft enough to stop killing…"

This is where the REAL plot comes and haunts us… Who are they, Shenvy and Shanger? Who else is with them? What is Cynara hiding? This and more in chapter 13. Don't worry the normal chaos will resume in their adventures. –Shadoom

Shenvy is pronounced as SHA-envy though if you say it really fast it sounds like 'Shen-vee'

Shanger is pronounced as SHA-anger though if you say that at talking speed then it sounds like 'Shain-ger'