Behind the Scenes
"Should we follow her? She still has an injury and we've been training for a while, she's probably close to exhaustion." Lee asked as Tenten disappeared from sight using her remaining chakra.
"No. It's her business, not ours. She's our teammate and we have to trust her. She's not a weak little flower, Lee. She'll be fine. Besides we should stop now and use this extra time to get ready to go to the bar again tonight." Neji said and with that he swiftly turned on his heel to leave and get ready.
Lee looked at Gai who just nodded and after looking back at where Tenten had gone with a frown, Gai turned and followed Neji. "I hope that what ever it is, it turns out alright, Tenten-chan." Lee thought as he turned and followed Gai and Neji.
"Chichi! Chichi, are you ok?!"
"Tennie…? What…? Damn it!" Chichi groaned in pain on the floor.
"Don't worry. I'm here. I'm bringing you to the hospital now…"
Chapter 3: Confrontation
Back at the bar in their disguises, the guys of Team Gai were waiting for the main match. It had been 3 days since Tenten left training early and they hadn't seen her since. Even Neji was getting a little uneasy. Tenten had never missed a training session before, and now she has disappeared without word for 3 days.
Back at the fights Dark Panda had finished off another opponent. She then walked out of the cage and over to the gambling table to collect. She got her money and after giving some to the other kids walked out a back door with most of the kids following her.
Neji had followed her once and to his surprise, she walked all the kids home personally, then returned to the bar for the others that were still there. Though she somehow managed to loose him while taking the second group of 6 kids or so home. He didn't think anything of it and returned with the others.
They hadn't gathered much more information, tough they were hoping too soon. Tsunade was getting restless and said that if they couldn't get anymore info in the next two days she would allow them to use force.
The only thing they had really gotten out of Tasuke was another rumor about Dark Panda being more than one person, since she never seemed affected by injuries that she had gotten the night before. That and her stance would change from time to time. They had to agree that her fighting style was harsher now than the first fight, thought they really couldn't compare much since they had only seen Dark Panda fight for about a week.
The guys were going to collect their money, (they always gave it to the kids who didn't go with Panda) when they heard an "Excuse me." from behind them.
The three turned to see Panda standing there behind them with her mask still on, her arms crossed. When none of them said anything she just motioned to one of the tables nearby and walked over to it, waiting for them to follow. The bar was almost completely empty now with the exception of Tasuke and a few of the drunks, one who was unconscious.
The guys looked at each other before sitting down.
"So who are you?" Panda asked casually.
"I'm Naoko, this is Yasu and Ryo." Gai said pointing to Lee and then Neji, "Did we do something wrong to upset you?" Gai/Naoko asked.
"I'll get to the point, 3 guys come into a bar and place bets, looking very confused and lost. They don't get drunk, are very polite and quite, keep to themselves in the darkest corner of the place, and give all the money they win to the kids. Oh, and now they lie about who they are, which is fine by me if you don't want to say, because I'm not going to tell you about me either, but you don't lie to a lady, more specifically me. You're obviously not here to have fun or get rich quick, so I'm asking you what you want." Panda said tipping her chair back in a relaxed manner. Through her mask the guys could feel her eyes watching them intensely.
"Shit. How could we be so obvious? Usually it's Tenten who covers the stealth part of our team." Neji thought as he looked at Gai and Lee, trying to come up with an excuse.
After a moment of silence Panda's chair came back down to the floor with a 'CLANK' and she leaned forward on the table. "Still not talking? Ok well how about this? One of said three follows me after I leave the bar, and watches me bring the kids home. Not only do they follow me, but they do it with the skill that could only be from a ninja of Chuunin or higher. So I'm asking you again, what do you want?!"
They still didn't answer, now she was mad and giving off a bigger aura of death than the first day. "If you're after one of my kids you can forget it! If they are here it's because they ran away from who ever hired you, so you can go tell that pompous ass to go home and shove their money so far up their ass that they are blowing coins out their noses for the rest of their life and afterlife for all I care!" she spat, getting angry and standing, but still leaning her hands on the table. "I expected Konoha Ninja to keep their treaties', no matter how poor the people they are with are." she spat as she walked away knocking her chair over.
The guys got up and quickly left the bar. Once they were back in the middle class part of town, Lee broke the silence, "What do you think she meant by treaty?"
"We'll have to ask Tsunade tomorrow when we give our report." Neji said matter-of-factly.
"We really should ask Tsunade if Tenten can join this mission. To be caught so easily. I didn't realize that little things like that would give us away so easily in a bar. That girl was also very observant. She couldn't have been older than you two." Gai said mussing over what had just happened.
"Weather it's a good thing or not, she thinks we are being hired to take one of the kids that work there, not to study the bar itself. We may be able to work this to our advantage and offer to leave the bar alone if she would give us the information we required to complete our real mission." Neji said.
The others nodded and went their own way home. It was very late, around midnight. The bar had been closing early lately for some reason.
Somewhere off in another part of Konoha a girl entered a hospital room. Tears could be seen reflected off her face in the moon light.
"That you?" a whisper was heard from the bed.
"Yeah, how are you doing?" the figure asked as she closed the door behind her.
"Not so good. Tsunade is coming to treat me tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I'll be able to leave soon after without any problems. You can stop coming here, you know?" The figure in the bed said, her voice was clearly feminine, "What's wrong?" she said noticing the tears for the first time.
"Nothing, the stress is just getting to me. I have something I need to take care of, but I need you to get better first." The figure said as they sat beside the bed in an empty chair.
The girl in the bed reached out and grabbed the figure's hand. "It'll be ok. We'll get through it. We always do. Together, we always pull through."
"Yeah…" the figure trailed off. The figure put her head down on the bed, still grasping the girls hand. The two fell asleep like that.
sorri its a little short but what you think????
am i movin this to quickly or too slowly?????????
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