(Mai POV)
I opened my eyes to see that the moon was starting set, and the sun was rising. I got up quickly and jumped back home as fast as I could. I felt bad, since I knew I should have talked to Naruto last night, and I knew I shouldn't have fallen asleep in that field. I took a shower to warm me up, and clean off the sweat and dirt I had gotten onto me while I was training. I looked at my new clothes and pulled out a black skirt and black long sleeve shirt again. I put on some blood red leggings and then put my pouches on. When I looked at the clock, I saw I still I had about a half hour till I needed to be there. I looked in my mirror and put my hair up in a ponytail with my fringe hanging out. When I was done with that, I heard a knock on my door.
When I opened it up, I didn't expect to see the blonde knuckle head himself standing there. I was shocked and moved out of the way so he could walk into my house. "Hmm...it's pretty clean in here you know that?" he said when he walked in. I had to disagree, I had clothes on the floor and my wet towel was on top of my messy bed. I just shook my head but then I saw he had a headband. "Naruto! You got a headband!" I screamed in shock and happiness. He just grinned and then said something that almost made me smack him. "Whoa! I think I just saw you act like a normal girl for once!" Ok, I did smack him upside the head, then looked at the clock. "Hey, we only have fifteen minutes left before class starts, and I want you to show off your new headband." he laughed and then walked out.
We jumped from rooftop to rooftop till we got there. We walked into the room to hear a boy with upside down red triangles on his face yell at Naruto. "Hey this is only for ninjas!" I sighed, knowing Naruto would react to that. Sure enough I could feel anger coming from inside of him "I am a ninja! See the headband, jerk?" he shouted back. "Naruto, chill out." he looked at me, nodded, and tried to calm down even though I could still feel anger coming from him. We talked for a bit, and I found out he had a crush on the pink-haired girl. I finally learned that her name was Sakura. I just looked at him as disbelieving as I could. "Well you can like whoever I guess. It's not like you have much of a choice around here." I commented. He looked at me funny. "What do you mean?" I sighed, trying to find a way to explain.
"Ok, as a girl, there is no one here I would have a crush on. Either the guys are jerks, look ugly, or are just not my type. I could be friends with most of them. I can tell." Naruto looked at me thoughtfully, and then said something I thought I would never hear from him. "So the guy you kind of remember, you really love him don't you?" I looked at him, shocked by his words. Not really able to say anything, so I blushed a deep red and nodded. He smiled at me. "Good. That means you have someone waiting for you! That way when you do go back home, you won't be alone." I looked at him, grateful he didn't push the subject further. It hurt me to think about who I left behind.
Iruka Sensei came into the room and started to listen for my name, and the names of my fellow squad members. "Squad seven is Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto, and Mai. You guys are a four man squad, since we have an uneven amount of Genin here." To say the least, I was pissed, but happy at the same time. I had to deal with Sakura and Sasuke, but I got to have Naruto on my squad. I could feel Naruto getting mad. "What? Why do I have to have Sasuke on my team?" he said standing up and pointing at Sasuke, who just sat there looking at him with a glare. Iruka Sensei tried to stay calm, but failed. "Naruto sit down! I had to put you-the worst score-in the class on the same team with the two best scores!" I looked at him and spoke up "The two best scores? And who might they be?" I said emotionlessly. I wanted to know but I also wanted to scare anyone who forgot yesterday.
"Well Mai, Sasuke got the second best score…" Naruto interrupted him. "Second? Who got the best? Sakura?" Iruka Sensei glared at him. "Naruto, shut up! No the best score was not Sakura! It was Mai! She got a much higher score then the rest of you! Even Sasuke." I wasn't shocked, really. I just wanted to know if I was right thinking that Sasuke was the best out of these guys and I was. I saw Sensei had a thoughtful look on his face. I wanted to know what he was thinking about, so I tried to search his mind, and soon was listening to what he was thinking.
She pasted so high on the exams that most Jounin couldn't beat her...she's at almost ANBU black ops level and she's never even had a mission before! Because of her, the team is going to get harder missions then the others...
I pulled out of his mind and smirked. I had to keep that in mind, but until I needed it, I would wait with the rest of my team for our late Sensei. I didn't know why I was always being put with difficult people. "So, you're the top of our class, huh?" I heard Sasuke say next to me. I nodded smirking since I could tell he was scared of me, and still wanted to fight me nonetheless. "Yeah, I am, I guess it isn't a surprise really though. I'm now a Genin in two different villages. I'm not really sure what the other is though." he looked at me, mild surprise coming off of him. Then Naruto looked at me remembering what I said at the ramen shop and earlier today. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Is he, you know, the reason that you became a ninja here? To see if you can find him?" I nodded, glad that Naruto had a little tact for once.
Too bad Sakura didn't catch on in time. "He? Who is that? The guy that you 'love' that isn't Sasuke, is it? Don't tell me she fooled you too Naruto!" I looked at her, not able to control the anger that rose up with every snotty word she said. Naruto figured out what was happening before anyone else did, when I got up. Too bad he was so slow it could have saved me from almost killing someone, and saved me a lot of pain. I disappeared and reappeared behind Sakura with a Kunai at her neck, making a drop of blood run down from where the blade was. "One more word, and I will kill you, and nobody could stop me. I could become a monster right…" my words stopped. I had dropped the Kunai, and my head felt like it was going to explode. The last thing I heard before the memories started was two voices screaming my name.
I was sitting on a wall…the same wall from a different memory, but at a different spot. Gaara was there. He looked down, and he saw me sitting on the ground. "You ran away before I could finish." I could feel hurt coming off of him. I looked down at the ground, ashamed that I would run away from him. He looked at me with my head hanging down, and he lightly lifted my chin with one of his hands and told me, "Don't look so sad. I like it much more when you laugh and smile. It makes me happy to be alive."
The memory faded, and I could see Naruto was looking at me, worried. Sasuke didn't know what to think of me, and Sakura was trembling with fear. Her neck still slightly bleeding. Naruto looked at me silently, asking me if I had gotten another memory back, and I nodded. He held his hand out to me but I was too tired to really move, and we knew that Naruto couldn't carry me to the hospital. We already found out he was too weak yesterday, and I was going to pass out soon. "Wait till the Sensei gets here, then take me home or to the hospital…something. I can't seem to move right now…oh, and Naruto, I think I found out who he is..." but my voice trailed off and I passed out.
(Sasuke POV)
I looked down at the girl who was screaming like someone was killing her a minute ago, and before that, was willing to kill her own teammate. She was different for sure. I didn't know what to think about Mai now. Naruto looked at her as if, asking her a question, and she nodded. He offered his hand to help her up, but it looked like she couldn't move. How does something like fainting, make her so weak, yet the strongest person I knew. I focused back on her when she started to speak "Wait till the Sensei gets here, then take me home or to the hospital…something. I can't seem to move right now…oh, and Naruto, I think I found out who he is..." but her voice trailed off as passed out.
She thinks she knows who he is? Did she remember who her lost love was? Why am I feeling the same thing I was yesterday when Naruto was trying to pick her up, and when she defended him and yelled at me? And why do I care so much about who she is? I know I care more about her then Sakura and Naruto…it must be because she's stronger than me...
I looked at Naruto, who looked shocked, and didn't know what to do. Sakura was being the deadweight, trembling in the corner as far from Mai as she could, but still be in the same room. It looked like I was going to have to do the work here. "Naruto, come with me. We're going to take her to the hospital, and Sakura, when the sensei finally shows up, tell him where we went." I picked up Mai. Her body was light, and easy to hold. I didn't know how Naruto couldn't hold her. I jumped out the window and stop hopping from rooftop to rooftop, with Naruto a little ways behind me. I wasn't sure what I was going say when we got there. That's why I told Naruto to come too. I would have liked to do this by myself, but even if I did, Naruto would have followed me anyway. For some reason she was friends with him, and he knows almost everything about her, it seemed.
Then came another one of those feelings. I was almost mad at him for knowing her so well. I wanted to punch him for it. I didn't know why I would feel like that. I really only knew Mai's name, and I liked the way it felt to hold her close to me. I tried to push the feeling away and focused on what I was doing. We were almost to the hospital, and I could tell Naruto was starting to fall behind more and more. When I finally got there, I waited for him to catch up with me. When he finally did, he looked at me, nodded, and we walked in. The nurses at the front desk rushed over to us. They were worried about what happened. They were asking things like if she used too much Chakra and stuff like that. I sighed, and stood there holding her, as Naruto explained and said the Hokage would know what had happened and would want to talk to her when she woke up.
This girl is important enough that the Hokage needs to know when she passes out? Had I known that I might have tried to help her sooner than I did…well nothing can change what happened now, but I do want an explanation from Naruto pretty soon.
"Ok, then. You! The boy who's holding her. Follow me and we can lay her down." I followed the nurse like she told me to, and after she pulled back the covers, I laid Mai down as gentle as I could. She looked so fragile while she slept. Her face looked gentle, caring, and innocent. It looked so unlike her. She usually would look emotionless. It made her look like a child instead of a ninja.
I didn't know what to do since Naruto disappeared and I knew that I wouldn't be able to focus on training without being told what was going on with my teammate, so I pulled up a chair over in a corner, so she didn't try and kill me when she woke up.
I should have taken her weapon pouch from her when I could have...now if I tried to do it, it would be just plain weird…usually she has no emotion on her face, perhaps to hide her true feelings about everything around her…just like me…
I looked up when I heard her mumbling in her sleep. I didn't want to seem like a creeper. I should have left then, and I was about to, but then I heard her say something that made me stop. "Are you the one I love...? Gaara?" I felt angrier than I ever had before. Even when my brother betrayed me. I hated him, and was scared of him, then mad at him. But one phrase seemed to make me madder than I ever had been before in my life. I had no reason, and no idea why her remembering who she was in love with would make me mad. It seemed to make me feel unworthy of love. Like I was being crushed. I knew it didn't make sense, but I didn't care, I wanted to kill this Gaara guy, just so I would be the one that she whispered about in her sleep.
"Huh? Ugh. My head. Sasuke, what are you doing here? And what am I doing here? I don't remember anything after Sakura pissing me off." A look flashed across her face. I think it was worry, but I didn't know why she would worry about someone she hated. "I-I didn't kill her did I? I wasn't that mad, I just wanted to scare her enough to make sure she never said anything like that again." I didn't know what to say. She just wanted to scare her, but didn't remember that she loved the guy she called Gaara. Maybe if I killed the guy before she could see him again I might have a chance...at what? Her falling for me? That wouldn't happen, but I could still try I guess.
"Sasuke? Please tell me I didn't hurt her! Sometimes I black out when I get mad and don't remember anything! I need to know if I've killed someone!" I looked at her. She was so worried that she just told me something about her. "No. You didn't kill her, but she might not be able to be around you for awhile, since you almost did, but started screaming and dropped the Kunai. That's why you're here." She looked at me, wide-eyed with worry. In the end, she couldn't speak, so she just nodded my way.
I walked out of her room without another word, wondering how I was going to find that guy named Gaara, without knowing where he's from, and what he looks like. I had knew I had to find him. I belonged with Mai…
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