Well...here's chapter three! I'm sorry about the wait, but I accidentally deleted everything from my computer, and there was no way to get it back, according to the computer company.

I cried about it for four nights in a row until I finally got around to rebuilding it. I looked in the C drive on a wild hope.

Guess what?

Computer companies are idiots.

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Azami wandered the forests of her country for several hours before coming to the desert that marked the Wind Country's borders. She traveled across the desert for two days, not stopping to rest even at night, the time of bandits and predators, or during the noon to four hours, the hottest ones of the day, the hours that had made even completely healthy ninja stop to regain their strength. Her weakened condition impeded her pace, and it would've been more beneficial for her to stop to rest, but the emotionally ruined kunoichi didn't see it that way and luckily didn't run into bandits or predators. She had to get to Suna to get help, and then she could die.

'Did I just think that I can die after I get revenge?' Thought Azami in surprise. Then, she began to think about it. 'Dying...leaving behind a world with no one in it, to be reunited with my family and my friends? Well...that actually...that sounds good. I've got nothing and no one to live for, and there's nothing and no one to hurt if I should die, so...why not? The last I heard, the Kazekage was a murderer and his people fear him. He was fourteen then, and that was two years ago, so he's sixteen now, but...he can't have changed that much. He can kill me after I get revenge, or at least after I have it arranged. That'll be perfect. That way, I won't go to hell, but I still get to die.'

Finally, in the afternoon of the second day (which was a Wednesday, although Azami didn't know it), she approached the gates of Suna. As she knocked on the closed gate, a guard called down to her from atop the watchtowers.

"Who are you, from what village do you hail, and what business have you in Sunagakure?"

"My name is Kikuchi Azami. I am from Kawagakure of the River Country, and I seek to speak with the Kazekage-sama regarding important matters dealing with Oto no Kuni."

The guards made sounds of surprise. "O-of course, Kikuchi-san. One moment." He turned to his companion. "She says she hails from Kawagakure of the River Country."

"I wasn't aware there was a shinobi village in Kawa no Kuni." He answered, surprised.

"To my knowledge, there isn't."

"So...is she mentally unstable?"

"I'm not certain. But she also says that she has information regarding the Sound Country, and not even the mentally disturbed would make that up."

"We can't afford to take the chance and turn her away. Let her in."

The gates opened, and Azami walked in. As the guards got a closer look at her, they gasped. "If you come this way, we can take you to a medical ninja for healing-"

"No. I refuse to go anywhere except directly to the Kazekage-sama."

"Gaara-sama is extremely busy right now, Kikuchi-san, and it may be a while until-"

"Well, if he doesn't make time for me, it may be the end of the shinobi world as we know it, along with Konoha, Suna, and their alliance!" She exploded.

The guards exchanged shocked glances, and the first one backed away. "I will alert him at once. Please wait here, Kikuchi-san."

"No. I'm coming with you."

He sighed. "Very well. I expected as much. I'll take you to him."

"Arigatou." She replied without expression.

As the guard led her towards the Kazekage's office, he frowned. 'She isn't mentally disturbed, but perhaps it would have been better if she was. This does not bode well. Something terrible has happened...this kunoichi has a friendly aura, but she's cold and broken. She's got that feeling to her...that feeling of those who have lost all hope and simply await death. The feeling like our own Kazekage used to have. This meeting between them...this will be interesting."

Just then, three small children dashed past them, laughing and carrying on. The guard watched as Azami turned her head away to hide the motion of wiping away tears.

'Very interesting indeed.'

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Kind of short...should I put up another chapter after this? You guys decide in your reviews. Oh! And who's my next name-analysis? Mitsuo or Yoshihiro? VOTE!!! lol

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