(Mai POV)

I couldn't believe what this woman was like. For the past week, she had dragged me around, yelled all the time, treated me like I was ether six or seventy, whatever age she wanted to treat me. We had yet to do anything worth my time. I was ready to kill her, but couldn't since the Hokage had found her just to train me, specifically. I regretted not going with the rest of my team to guard some bridge builder. I'm was sure it was way more fun than almost having your arm ripped out of its socket every few minutes. I sighed. I decided to go and take a shower to try and calm down from the agonizing pain she caused me, even though I already had enough to deal with, but she didn't even know that, and she probably wouldn't even care. Even Sakura and Sasuke put together didn't annoy me this much!

I need to calm down. I know if I keep getting this mad I will kill Ayame, and I don't want to have a kill record until I'm at least a Chunin back home…home…where Gaara is…NO, NO, focus, Mai, focus! Keep your mind off of him for now! Now, I don't want a killing record until I'm at least Chunin like I was thinking…then I won't care as much. I do hope that I can go on a mission soon though. I'm so bored. I'm repeating the same thing over and over! Oh, I hate her so much! I just want to rip her black haired head off of her body and then burn it sometimes.

I turned off the shower and started to dry myself off, hoping that she would be late today, or maybe even not show up. I did have little things I had to do, like clean my house. I was starting to think she wasn't going to show up, until I heard a knock at the door, and saw her standing there, smiling. I was worried for a moment when I realized she hadn't started to annoy the crap out of me yet. Today was already looking pretty good so far! "Ok, you're in a good mood then! I have a mission for you. Let's go!" I looked at her, trying to figure out what she had just said. It was so fast, I couldn't understand. She just sighed, and grabbed my arm. "Well, come on! Let's go! You've wanted to go on a mission forever, and now you don't want to come? Oh, and why not? Have you begun to love me so much you don't want to go? Are you starting to get attached to me because I'm such a good trainer? That's probably it. But you have to grow up!

Just because I may die, doesn't mean that we can back out of this now!" When I finally heard she might die, I started walking with her instead of being dragged around.

"Ok, so we have a mission. What level is it, and what are we doing?" I said to her, wondering how she thought she would die. She looked at me, serious for the first time in the week I had known her. "Well, one of us will have to sacrifice our lives on this mission, and I'm not going to let it be you. It's an S-Rank mission, if you want to rank it. It will take about a week, and you will be at least twice as strong as when you left. Most of it will be travel from here to where we need to go." she told me. I looked at her wondering what we were doing but she never told me. "Okay then! Are you ready to go? We won't be stopping till we get there, so about three days." I looked at her, and sighed, wishing she would go back to being serious. It helped me relax a little when she was serious. She started running, and told me to follow her, which I did right away. I mean, if she was going to die for me, I might as well listen to her for once.

We ran longer than I ever had before, and we ended up in a cave after three days of travel. I looked around, wondering if this was really where we were supposed to be, when I looked at Ayame. She just nodded and gave me her weapons. "Now kill me." she said. I looked through her emotions, and saw that she wasn't kidding around with me. "W-what? Why? I don't want to kill anybody!" she looked at me and sighed. "Mai, that was the whole point of this week. So you wouldn't be afraid to kill anymore. That's why I was being so annoying. I was trying to see if you would kill me at anytime. After a while, I could tell that you were not going to do anything to me in public, so I got you to come all the way out here. It was just to make you stronger. I had to make sure you could even kill, or maybe when you lived in another village they, told you not to kill. Maybe your little boyfriend didn't think you could do it, and told you not to! Maybe you're just afraid to protect the ones you love! Or are you too weak?"

I snapped when she started taunting me about Gaara. I threw several Kunai at her, and then went up behind her, slitting her throat, so her head was barely on attached. I stopped for a minute, and realized that I had just killed someone. I ran as fast as I could back to the Leaf Village, and made it in less than two days. When I got there, I went straight to my house, and collapsed on my bed, falling asleep.

Ok im sorry i like just noticed that the chapter are slowly getting shorter so I'm gonna try and work on that... but to the ten people who read this story thatnk you and I'm giving you guys a Christmas present of all of the pre-written chapters i have! Yay for you guys! Oh and also as always review please I would like it... and I keep review in mind when I'm uploading and writting the next chapt...so what I'm trying to say just review because i have alot of free time over winter break to write...