Disclaimer: Everything, except our OCs and the Earth, belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. Itachi is officially hidden away in the basement while I torture him by eating Milanos in front of his face.
Author's Note: Ello!! My name is Iris!! And this is my first a/n! And I'm bored eating milano cookies and watching meet the robinsons! w00t! Oh right, we made this chapter! Tis amazing! Yatta!!
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#Chapter 3: Do You Remember?#
' #Heather's POV# '
I opened my eyes groggily my vision blurry from what seemed to be a deep sleep I reached up to rub them, in hopes that they would focus. I sighed, man do I hate my eyesight. My attention turned to the plastic around my mouth. An oxygen mask. I pulled it off and tossed it aside, probably on the floor. Score.
"Molly." The name came out as soft as a whisper across my lips and I felt panic rising inside of me.
I sat up quickly and heard the heart monitor speed up drastically attracting the attention of someone outside of the room, or where ever I was (which was more than likely a hospital).
A woman with very short brown hair who looked somewhere in her mid-twenties or early thirties push the sliding door open all the way because it had been half closed. Her deep brown eyes filled with concern. She asked me to calm down repeatedly and after decided that, despite her strange wardrobe, she must work at this hospital, type, place, I did manage to calm down (somewhat).
"Where's my friend?!" I blurted out, then spotted the bed next to mine where Molly lay, sleeping, looking in better shape than me. "Oh."
The woman chuckled softly. "Are you feeling any better? You and your friend were in terrible condition when you were found."
"Found? Whaddya mean found? We were in my house...and I couldn't breathe, then I died or something...what happened?" I asked.
' #Shizune's POV# '
I looked at the young girl who was going into another fit of hysterics after I told her that we'd 'found' her and her friend.
"Calm down," I murmured soothingly, moving slowly towards the bed. "Where's your oxygen mask, you may still need it."
"I don't need any damn oxygen mask!" the girl shouted, her eyes panicked. "Where the hell are we?"
"Okay, fine," I said calmly, "you don't need your oxygen mask and you are in Konoha hospital."
Instantly, the girl in the bed froze; I took this as a good sign and moved closer.
"W-what?" the girl croaked out, but I ignored her.
"I'm Shizune," I volunteered, I was now standing at the end of her bed and I picked up the clipboard and pen that were resting on the table at the end (for doctor's use only). "We found you and your friend outside the gates of the Hyuuga compound early this morning. Hyuuga Hiashi sent his nephew and daughters to bring you here and they will be coming back later to visit."
"You mean Neji, Hinata, and...that other kid?" the girl choked out.
I looked at her strangely and nodded; neither of the girls looked like they were from Konoha and yet they knew the three Hyuuga children...interesting, though, it may just be that their reputations as shinobi preceded them, but for some reason I doubted it.
"Do you know them?" I asked, curiously. "Because I was under the impression that they had no idea who you were."
The girl started laughing and my gaze became even more confused; her friend in the other bed began to stir restlessly and I tried to quiet her.
"Shhhhhhhhhhh," I murmured, trying to make her quiet. "Your friend still needs sleep!"
"You're kidding right?" the girl said, still laughing madly. "This isn't Konoha; I'm dreaming. You don't exist. I'll wake up in a few minutes and Molly'll call me and I'll tell her about my weird dream and that she was passed out in the hospital with me."
"What the hell are you talking about Heather? I'm right here," an annoyed voice said as the girl in the other bed sat up; at lest she hadn't ripped her oxygen mask off.
The girl that she had called He-ther pointed a finger at here and said, "You're not real! You're a figment of my imagination!"
"I am not kidding or joking," I said calmly, interrupting their argument. "I am Shizune, the Hokage's assistant, and this is Konohagakure no Sato's hospital."
The girl that had darker eyes and that He-ther had called Mol-ie froze and I shook my head impatiently.
"Not this again..." I groaned.
He-ther looked at Mol-ie and gasped.
"So you are real!" she exclaimed, eyes wide with something between wonder and panic.
"No shit Sherlock," Mol-ie replied. "Which means that I can't say: 'THIS IS ALL A DREAM!' since you already reached the conclusion that it isn't a dream."
I shook my head and started checking both girl's vital stats while they continued to babble. Well, at least, Mol-ie still hadn't taken off her oxygen mask off...yet.
' #Neji's POV# '
What the hell is that? I thought as I glanced into the noisy hospital room with Hinata and Hanabi at my side. Why did Hiashi-sama make me come here to visit people I didn't even know?
Shizune was walking around with her clipboard, checking each girl while they were babbling incoherent things back and forth to one another. They both seemed utterly confused.
I sighed and leaned against the doorframe, watching them argue about some nonsense with amusement. Hanabi was the first to speak.
"Excuse me Shinzune-san, but we were told to check on these two girls," she said, bowing politely.
The two unnamed girls froze and whipped their heads around to face my cousins and me. One narrowed her eyes before frantically searching around the room. The other one mutter a simple, "Oh God."
"U-um," Hinata stuttered as she approached the first girl shakily. "Are y-you looking f-for these?"
She held out a pair of orange-rimmed glasses to the girl; she took them hesitantly.
"Arigatou," she muttered as she put them on. Her eyes widened behind the frames. "Look Molly! It's Hinata, whasser name, and Neji!"
"Nani?" I questioned. "How did you know our names?"
"Uh," the second one pointed to Shizune who ignored her, and then she shot a glare at the first girl. I'd better take note of that.
Shizune finally set the clipboard down and turned to me.
"Neji-san, Hinata-sama, Hanabi-san, this is," she struggled with the names for a moment, "Mol-ie and He-ther."
"Molly and Heather," the first girl, Heather, corrected.
"You're not from around here, ne?" said Hanabi.
"Not exactly," Molly answered.
"Well, Molly, Heather," Shizune said and then paused to see if she'd said the names right, "Tsunade-sama, the Hokage, will be here any minute to ask you a few questions. Then, as I'm aware, these three will take you to live at the Hyuuga compound. Temporarily, of course."
My eyes widened considerably, but still maintained my poise. That meant they'd be staying with us. Joy.
' #Molly's POV# '
"Staying at the Hyuuga compound?" I asked uneasily, shooting a glance at Heather; we'd have to talk about this later...all of it.
"Y-yes, o-tou-san would be h-honored if you would remain with us, f-for a little while," Hinata got out.
My gaze slid to Hanabi, who was looking at us eagerly and then to Neji and my eyes narrowed; from what I remembered of Neji, he was an ass.
"Can't we go home?" I asked, my voice unsure...maybe I didn't want to go home.
"We don't know how to go home; we don't even know how we got here!" Heather reminded me quietly, but forcefully and I sighed; she was right.
"Anyway, you won't be able to leave until tomorrow," Shizune said, looking between Heather and me.
"Nani?!" I protested, trying to stand up. "I feel fine!"
I got up and tried to walk away, but stumbled because I was attached to all the equipment. One thing about me: hospitals are okay and crap, but when you're hooked up to all the medical stuff; it's scary. Quickly, I ripped off the sensors for the heart monitor, which made the nurses at the station outside the door go ballistic because they thought I was going into cardiac arrest, so then they called Tsunade to get her ass over to the hospital faster. My hands found the IV needle and that came out of my arm and I started to reach for my oxygen mask when Shizune tried grabbing my arm.
"Molly, please stop," she was begging, but I backed away and slid the oxygen mask over my face, dropping it.
I glanced over at Heather to see her watching me with silent amusement.
"I want to get out of here now," I growled, walking towards the door.
The last time I'd been in the hospital, I'd been heavily sedated because they had to reposition my broken wrist back into alignment, but the time before that I had almost died from RSV. Hospitals held bad memories for me and I didn't want to stay in this one another moment.
' #Neji's POV# '
I watched as Molly walked in my direction.
"No you don't," I muttered as I blocked her exit. I wrapped my arms around her waist and I slung her over my shoulder.
"Hey! Stop it, lemme down! Damn it!" she cried, her fists pounding my back. "Baka-teme!"
"Hn," I mumbled. I flipped her over and onto the bed. I glanced at Heather who was laughing so hard she was having trouble breathing. "You stay here until Tsunade-sama arrives."
I stood next to the bed, leaning against the wall, waiting patiently for Tsunade to arrive.
Where is she anyway? If this was a real patient, they'd already be dead? I thought as Molly started to get restless again and Heather sighed.
"Where's the patient?" Tsundae asked worriedly as she rushed into the room.
Speak of the devil... I thought darkly, nodding towards Molly as she let out a loud, gusty breath.
"Finally..." I heard her say quietly.
"Well," Tsunade said, looking at the annoyed girl, "it looks like someone just got annoyed to hell and ripped off all their sensors. So, may I say, welcome to Konohagakure no Sato."
I snorted, Heather sighed, and Molly buried her face in her pillow and started laughing.