The next day…

Kichigai, Kuraku, and Atsuiaru sat together underneath a large tree with a swing. Kichigai was sitting on the swing, with Atsuiaru hanging upside down off of a tree branch, and Kuraku leaning against the tree. Without anyone noticing, Sakura came up behind Kichigai and said, "um, hello."

Kichigai turned around and said, "Do I look like a freakin' people person?"

"No, but Sensei Kakashi said that you really didn't have any friends, and I decided to try to be your friend."

"Is this another assassination attempt, because I'm in the mood to kill something?"

"You've had people try to kill you?"
"People, family, 'friends.' Yeah, pretty much, Pinkie."

"You do have a troubled past."

"Oh my God, will you go away?!"

"I just wanted to be-"

"I don't need any more friends then I have! These two, and nobody else, you got it?! I'd be suspicious of them too if Kuraku wasn't so similar to me, and Atsuiaru didn't have her blonde moments where she's completely stupid. I don't get a good vibe from you, so I suggest you leave," Kichigai said, patting the gourd filled with sand next to her that she usually wore on her back.

"But I just-"

"Kuraku, in the tree."

"Sure Kichigai," Kuraku jumped up into the tree on the same branch as Atsuiaru. c0076 Kichigai stared directly at Sakura and lifted her hand. The gourd began to tremble madly, and the lid began to be lifted by sand. Sakura stared at the quaking gourd, and fell backwards when the sand covered the grass and shot up in a giant arm, with the hand made of the sand in the same position that Kichigai's arm was in. Kichigai's eyes shot in Sakura's direction and stared her down.

"Leave. Now."

Sakura got up and ran as fast as she could. Kuraku and Atsuiaru began laughing from up in the tree. Kichigai lowered her arm and the sand returned to the gourd. Kuraku jumped down from the branch and put her arm on Kichigai's shoulder.

"That was funny."

"I know."

"I wish I could have filmed that. I'd sell it!" Atsuiaru smiled and pretended to make a video camera with her fingers.
"I would buy that movie!" Kuraku laughed.

"Me too," Kichigai smiled slightly.

Across the field, about ten yards away, Gaara was walking. Kuraku spotted him and said, "There's that Gaara kid. Everyone says that'll he'll kill you for no reason."

"I heard that he's a bloodthirsty monster that has the one-tailed Shukaku sealed within him," Atsuiaru said to Kuraku.

"Sealed within him…" Kichigai's voice faded away. She put her hand to her chest and clutched it, as if trying to stop or contain something.

"Um, Kichigai," Atsuiaru saw Kichigai looking at the ground, holding her chest, "what's wrong?"

"No. No, no, no. No!" Kichigai muttered.

SEALED WITHIN HIM! SEALED WITHIN YOU! THE DEADLIEST OF THE DEMON, IN YOU! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A MONSTER. A MURDEROUS MONSTER THAT NOONE WILL CARE FOR!! NOONE, NOTHING, HATE THEM. HATE THEM ALL. BECAUSE THEY HATE YOU!

"Shut up," she hissed under her breath.

"Kichigai, I just asked what was wrong, don't tell me to-"Atsuiaru growled angrily.

"Not you, her," she mumbled. "She won't, she won't leave me alone."

"Who won't leave you alone?" Kuraku asked.

"The Toshiosurukemono. It won't. She won't."

Atsuiaru and Kuraku's eyes bolted open in shock and fear.

"Do not say that accursed name!" Kuraku yelled putting her arms in front of her as if trying to avoid the name.

"The Toshiosurukemono, it is a myth. They say it does not exist, for it would kill us all! My mother and father would use it to scare me when I was young, saying if I did not come inside before dark, I would be killed by it! They said that it was a girl with one tail for each year the host or hostess was that turned them into a demon out of hate, and had an unquenchable bloodlust! Don't even joke!"

"I-I-I am not joking!" Kichigai shouted and hit the ground on her knees, holding her head. This unearthed a horrid memory that she'd buried a long time ago.