Glaciero's POV

I awoke in a hospital. I didn't know which one or where I was, but I could tell by the faint scent of blood that's where I had to be. I slowly opened my eyes, then recoiled them when due to the
overly powered lights shining down on my face. When they adjusted I realized the sound of a heart monitor, most likely mine. I flexed my hand, noticing the 2 tubes in my left arm and one in
my nose. A young nurse came in holding a tray with needles on it.
"Oh good! You're up!" she exclaimed happily setting the tray on a table near my bed.
'Unfortunately.'
"Yes," was all I said. As she prepared the first shot, obviously for me, I surveyed my surroundings. The walls were a bright white. My belongings from my bag were spilled out on the table on my right. I couldn't blame them for snooping, though. I must've been wearing my sand village headband when the found me. I could've been a spy or something.
(Poke)
'Grrrrrrrrr... I hate needles. Serves me right, though. I failed. I...I failed ... everything.'

Kiba's POV

Shino, Hinata, and I were just coming back from a mission in a nearby village. We had been
hauling firewood all day.
"Uuuuugh... I can't wait to just get home and sleep!" I yawned as we walked down the dirt road
leading to the village. Suddenly Akamaru peeked out from my jacket and started sniffing the air.
"What's wrong with him?" Shino asked as I heightened my senses. I noticed it to.
"I smell blood... nearby," I answered. I then nodded to Hinata, who activated her Byakugan. As
she surveyed the forest, her face suddenly became shocked.
"What? What is it?" Shino asked as she just stared out.
"Th-there's someone in the bushes... 10 yards from us!" she said pointing forward. We began
running towards the smell, it getting stronger as we went further.
"There!" she said pointing to a bush in front of a tree. I rushed over and parted it with my hands,
revealing a black-haired girl in tattered clothing.
"I-is she..." I trailed off.
"No, she's still breathing," Hinata answered as I went to pick her up. As I touched her back, I felt something wet on my hands. I flipped her over gently on my knee, exposing a deep wound in her
lower back. It almost went completely through her!
"Stabbed?"
"I'm not sure, but she's been here at least 5 hours! We need to get her to Konaha immediately,"
I said studying the backpack leaned against the tree.
"Kiba," Shino said looking to me, "you're the fastest here. You take her to the hospital we'll report to the new hokage." I nodded, throwing her over my back. Being careful not to be to bumpy, I ran towards the village with Akamaru not far behind.
"So," I said quietly to myself, "I wonder who you are."

(A couple days later)

I can finally visit that girl in the hospital. Not that I was anxious or anything! I was just... curious. I had been ordered to visit her room everyday until she woke up so that I could ask her some questions. Basic stuff: name, age, native village, business in the village. Hinata was stuck training with Neji, so Shino and I walked up to room 127 by ourselves. I opened the door to see the girl receiving a shot. The nurse looked up to us, ignoring the fact that she was stabbing her
in the wrong place.
"AAAAAURGH!" she yelped in pain.
"Oh! Sorry!" the nurse apologized pulling it out quickly. She looked to us. "Oh you two must be here interrogate her!" The girls eyes narrowed, obviously intimidated by the word "interrogate." Shino nodded as the nurse handed him her chart and left. The girl sank into her bed.
"Hello, I'm Kiba Inuzuka and this is Shino Aburamay," I politely introduced, "We're here to ask you a couple of..."
"Wait a second," the girl piped up, "Where am I?"
"Oh, you're in Konaha, the leaf village. It's a village along the edge of..." I began before getting cut off, yet again.
"I know where it is!" she said crossing her arms. "What, you don't think I own a map or something?" I raised an eyebrow, then skipped to the next question.
"So, you gonna tell us your name?" I asked looking at the contents of her bag on the table. There was a black wool hat, a purple and white tiger mask, $1.25, and a sword with a purple handle in its sheath.
"Humph, why should I tell you anything, Konaha trash?" she said crossing her arms weakly. You could tell she was in pain, but she hid it well.
"Hey, we saved your life! You could be a little more appreciative!" I said, now pissed off.
"Pfft, please. You should have let me die there!" My expression relaxed by her words, anger replaced by shock.
"We... what?" She looked up at us.
"I've failed my only mission in life numerous times. I finally got a chance to get close to it and... now it's gone." She looked down at her covers. "I should be dead right now." There was silence as I tried to decide what to do. Shino looked over her chart.
"You had a serious wound in your back which barely missed your spine and your arm was fractured in three places," he said as she looked out the window. "Judging by the fact that we couldn't wake you from unconsciousness for such a long period of time and you twisting and grunting in your sleep, Tsunade-sama has concluded that you were exposed to the Mangekyo sharingun. We compared your injuries to another patient who has recently been attacked by it and you match, so don't try and hide the fact that you were attacked by Itachi Uchiha. What did he want with you?" She looked back to us.
"Humph, I don't owe you 'Kona-homos' any information! I should've died there!" I began reaching for the wool hat, curious of if it might hold a name tag in it, but before I could reach it she snatched it back.
"Don't touch that!" she yelled hugging it against her chest. I felt a low growl escape from my throat as she continued to shoot me a death glare.
"You were brought here a week and 2 days ago, I 'm sure you've realized by now," Shino said. She suddenly sat up, her eyes lit up and her expression dropping.
"I've... I've been... that long?" she asked quietly. It was like she was a completely different person.
"Yeah. Our new Hokage was able to heal you. We're not sure what happened to you, but we intend to find out," I said. "With your cooperation, of course." She just sat there, staring at her sheets.
"Kiba, come," Shino commanded as he walked out the room. I shot the mysterious girl a last glance and followed him.
"What's wrong, dude?" I asked as I shut the door.
"We should give her a minute to get used to this," he explained sitting down in a chair against the wall. "She'll be more cooperative in a while." I leaned against the door. "If things get more drastic, we'll have to do as the Hokage instructed." I looked up towards him.
"You mean..." I asked. He nodded his head. I knew what he meant. If she didn't cooperate after awhile, we were ordered to threaten her with jail-time. It seemed cruel and we wouldn't really be able to do anything, but it had to be done, right? We waited about 5 or 6 minutes before I spoke up.
"I think that's long enough." Shino nodded as he stood up. I knocked lightly on the door. No answer. I knocked a bit harder. Silence.
'Oh crap!' I opened the door to find an empty table and an open window. She was gone.

Glaciero's POV

It's a good thing I woke up when I did. I didn't know how much more of that nightmare I could stand! It was a bad thing, however, that the two boys in front of me were wearing leaf village headbands.
"Humph, I don't owe you 'Kona-homos' any information! I should've died there!" I saw the brown haired one try to reach for Johan's hat, so I quickly snatched it back. He could bring me here, make a nurse stab me with a needle, he could even be from the leaf village! But no one touches his hat! It meant more than life to me. Then he growled at me, the nerve. I would've hissed back, but the one with the sunglasses and poofy hair then told me how long I was out. 1 week, 2 days. A week and two days? That meant that... any sign of Kabuto...
"I've... I've been... that long?" I murmured. I listened to the first one talk to me, but I wasn't really listening. I looked back up. They had left the room and were talking outside my door. "If things get more drastic, we'll have to do as the Hokage instructed." I heard the sunglass one say.
"You mean..." the other one answered. There was silence. I knew what he meant. They were gonna use truth syrum on me when I refused to cooperate. So this was it. They find out who I am, report me to the ANBU, and I go to jail or be sent to be executed for my "unspeakable crime." I couldn't believe I had gone this far... all for nothing. Was it all for nothing? I looked at the hat in my hands as Johan's face flashed through my memory. I gripped it tightly.
'No.' Kabuto wouldn't lose me that easily! I ripped the tubes out of my body and jumped out of bed. I instantly felt the consequence for my actions as gravity was competing against me to stand up. I steadied myself on the bed and looked at the room spinning around me. I closed my eyes, then slowly opened them as the room began to focus. My stomach stung as I clutched my throbbing side.
I traced the stitches stretching across the right side of my upper waist.
"I-I have to fight through this!" I whispered weakly to myself, gaining balance and standing up completely. I put my clothes on carefully, gathered my stuff back in my bag, put the hat on that had protected me all those years, and opened the window.
'Hope it protects me now!' I gathered chakra into my feet and stumbled down the side of the building. Apparently, luck was running out because half way down, I lost balance and landed on my neck on the dusty street. A sting of pain shot through my side as I restrained myself from screaming. I looked to the side to see a small red spot forming in the side of my shirt.
'Damn, I ripped the seam!' I thought angrily slowly sitting up and feeling the full effect. I cringed as I ripped a strip out of my hospital gown in my bag and rapped it around my stomach.
"Nice try, Konaha," I said to myself standing up and walking towards the gate, "but it'll take more than that to slow me down!"

Me: Uuuuuhhhh... I'm pretty sure those tubes should've stayed in you. Glaciero: Shut up! I'm making a run for... OOOWWW! Me: What was that? Glaciero: Nothing, I'm fine! Me: Ok, ok, geez!

Kiba's POV

"Damn it! We were only gone a few minutes!" I said looking around the empty room.
"She just left?"
"She was hooked up to an IV drop; does she want to die?!?" Shino asked as the "ever-so-bubbly" nurse came in with a tray of food. "I'm sorry, Ma'am, but she's escaped. I looked out the window and down to see a small puddle of blood at the foot of the building.
"Oh no! She can't leave yet! We just patched her up; she hasn't even gotten pain killers yet!" she said, a worried expression on her face.
'I was wondering when she would change emotions!' I thought, then realized what she had said.
"Please, you must go get her!" she begged looking at the empty bed.
"She's critically injured and couldn't have gotten far," Shino pointed out looking back to me. "Kiba, you'll be enough to catch her." I sighed.
"Awwwwwwww do I have to? That little pest has caused me enough trouble!" I whined.
"It's a mission now," he stated with that piercing stare of his that said "disobey me and you die." I sighed again as I jumped through the window and landed lightly with a thud. Akamaru was waiting outside do to the "no dogs policy," but ran over to me as I landed. I sniffed the bloody puddle at the bottom to pick up her scent and headed towards the gates.
"You won't get away from my nose!" I said as we ran down the road.

Glaciero's POV

I panted as I cut through the forest with my katana. I shouldn't have pushed it so hard. I clutched my now bleeding side as I rested against a tree. I concentrated chakra into my nose, sensing a man and an animal tracking me.
'N-not surprising: I'm being followed.' It smelled like 2 dogs coming, but one of them was bigger; much bigger. 'Well, can't stop now,' I thought as I pushed off the tree.

Kiba's POV

"Where does she think she's going in her condition? What do you think she's trying to pull, Akamaru?" Akamaru barked happily as he ran besides me. There were signs of her, alright, but they were all obvious... a little to obvious. Broken twigs, trampled grass. Plus her scent was all over the place! Was she just stupid? Or was she mocking us? I found my answer; there was a fresh smear of blood on a tree trunk beside me.
'She isn't being careless. She's running for her life and managing all she can.' I ran down the road.
"We gotta stop her before she hurts herself!"
"Arf!"

Glaciero's POV

"No more... this is it..." I had lost a lot of blood, my side was drenched in most of it, and I could see the colors getting fuzzier. I would've collapsed right there in the road, until...
"Hey! Do you know how stupid you are?" Dog-boy. I collected myself and stood up straight.
"I've been told numerous times," I answered, still looking down the opposite end of the road.
"Everyone's worried. You need to go back and get some fluids in you." I turned to face him.
"Pfft, like I care." His eyes narrowed as a little, white dog ran up beside him and sat down.
"Look, you're coming back with me. I don't even see how you're still standing!" I smirked and smiled slyly.
"Get outta here, dog-boy, you'll only get hurt. Even in my current state," I said turning my back to him, "you don't have a shot. " I could tell I had hit a nerve. I felt him charging at me; I was dead if I showed any weakness. My back was still to him as his punch aimed for my head. I leaned to the right and, gathering all my strength, grabbed his descending wrist and threw him over my shoulder. He flipped over on all fours and skidded to a halt, his expression shocked.
'My only chance of tracking down Kabuto is to leave immediately, but obviously I wouldn't get very far SRGT. McGruff over there to drag me back. I have to get rid of him... no matter what that means.'
"Look, I tried to get away nicely, and I don't want to," I said untying the headband around my neck and redoing on my forehead, "but if you don't get out of the way..." I bared my teeth, knowing there was no going back now. "I'm going to have to kill you."

Kiba's POV
'You've gotta be kidding!' I thought as she charged at me. She did some hand signs I didn't recognize and yelled, "Claw Cyclone Jutsu!" She instantly began spinning, slow at first then slowly becoming quicker. Soon she was a swirling mini-tornado that was heading for me. 'Can't get hit by that!' I thought, getting into a defensive state as she got closer. Suddenly, a claw came out from the vortex and slashed at my shoulder. I had just ducked slightly to avoid it when another claw came out and ripped my shirt collar.
'I have to be faster than her! Which seems rather impossible at this point. What have I gotten myself into?' Suddenly both claws came out at the same time, each scratching one of my cheeks in a jagged line. I grunted and was probably gonna get seriously hurt if Glaciero hadn't stopped right then and there.

Glaciero's POV

I was ready to put that mutt down when suddenly...
"Where's the kyuubi?" I stopped dead and looked around. No one was there but me and 2 dogs. Was I hearing things? I started to start up again.
"You think I'd tell a geek like you, Four-eyes?" I stopped again.
'No, I-I haven't heard that voice in...,' Kiba was just staring at me, obviously not hearing voices.
"Don't test my patience, Nowack! Tell me where it is and we may spare your sister."
"I have no sister." A pain shot up my spine. I whimpered and grabbed my side. Another pain surged through my body, this one more intense.
"Aaaaaurgh!" I yelled clutching my side.
"Lord Orochimaru will get what he wants, no matter what you do. Why sacrifice yourself to such a hopeless cause?" I covered my ears. The sound still came through louder than ever.
"Because, unlike you, I make my own choices. I choose this. (laughs) You, on the other hand, did not choose to be a scrawny, silver haired wimp who takes directions from someone else. It just comes naturally, I suppose!"
"Shut up!"
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!"
'No, make it stop; I don't want to hear this again!' I wouldn't have to. The world around me soon began to grow fuzzy as I lost my balance. The world still spun as pain stung through my body. I was unconscious before I hit the ground.

Me: I warned you didn't I? Glaciero: ... Me: Hello? Are you okay?... Uh-oh. KIBA!
Hey, I don't blame you, Kiba. Shino scares the crap outta me, so I'd do whatever he said, too. He could be like, "Hit your head against the wall." (Bam!) "Now do it again!" lol