Chapter 4: A Different Path

" Wah! Kiri didn't let me say hi to Sasuke-kun!" Amye whined.

" Amye, calm down. You can see him another time," Yuki sensei replied.

Sensei, my question is still in my head. Why is she the only one who can get Amye to shut up? Now I'm really starting to hate Amye. Tadashi wasn't that bad… I've got a bad feeling about this. Eventually, Amye can be even more than twice as bad as Tadashi! She needs to learn how to understand that I hate her complaints. It hurts my ears. What is up with her these days? She is starting to complain more and more about wanting to jump on Sasuke again. Sigh…

Sasuke POV: Ow… my neck hurts… I somehow suddenly have the urge to go to Orochimaru's house… What's happening? How can my body go against my own thoughts? My feet… they're moving by themselves… slowly moving towards the only path out of the village. I can't control myself! Stop! No… it won't work…

"Sasuke! Don't leave! What are you doing here?" Sakura asks.

Oh, so she knows I'm here. My mind! I think the evil thoughts… wanting power… have to go to Orochimaru's house… I think those thoughts are taking over… even my mind… No…

" Sasuke-Kun! Why? Why do you want to leave so bad? Leaving all of us at night… why?" Sakura asked again. She was crying as she yelled at me… what have I done? My mind… I'm getting taken over… NO!

" Sakura, why do you care? What are you doing here?" I smirked at her. I said the "you" like a taunt. I appeared behind her. " Thanks" I muttered. Her eyes widened. I hit her and she fell unconscious. I left, going the direction to Orochimaru's house.

Kiri POV: Sasuke… I heard that he left Konoha. I really want to get him back because Amye keeps annoying me by sobbing and yelling at me saying that it was my fault. Well, guess what? It wasn't. She is so annoying nowadays. I wish she could just get over him.

~ Some time later~

Great. Sasuke retrieval team. Just great. How much do our village care about him anyways? Oh well. First Sasuke retrieval team includes Neji, Shikamaru, Naruto, and Chouji. I hope they can find Sasuke. I really need Amye to stop moping around complaining about Sasuke's disappearance. It would even be better if she could say that he left, not disappeared. My… ears. They hurt dead bad.

" Amye! Could you please stop saying that? We get your point that you miss Sasuke alright. Anyways, he wasn't even gone for that long," I yelled. Amye scrunched herself up. ~Face-palm~ I failed to get her to stop worrying. " Amye, you know what I meant. I just meant stop worrying alright?" I said nicely. She looked up. Amye smiled and got up.

"Your right," she said. I smiled back at her.

Darn it. Two minutes ago, Amye agreed with me and started getting to work. Now, she is just sulking again. What can I do to get her to actually agree with me? I understand Shikamaru now. Many things are so troublesome. No. Not really. More like a few things are so troublesome. Maybe I don't understand him. Not that many things are that troublesome. Now, talking about Shikamaru, I wonder how he and his team are doing… having to beat everyone from the sound that is in their way… Nah. If they are strong, true shinobis, they should be able to beat anybody in their way.