Chapter 15
A week past and Misa had not been feeling well. It was just yesterday when they found out that Misa had a fever.
Nozomi was alone in the hotel room with Misa in bed, sleeping. Nozomi turned around to leave, but she heard something. She turned around and saw nothing. She jut shrugged and started to walk towards the door when she heard something-sand. She stopped dead in her tracts and focused her chakra with her eyes closed. In a matter of milliseconds, Nozomi was behind Gaara, holding a kunai to his neck. "Your not possibly planning to kill my friend are you?" "Maybe" "Dude do you eve sleep?" "No." "Why?" "None of your business!" He yelled, flinging back his right hand at her, thus surprising Nozomi as the sand hit her across the room.
–Kit, don't provoke the guy, he has a demon inside him too.- Nozomi wiped away blood from her mouth, and unable to react fast when Gaara began using Sand Coffin. Before he squeezed his face, she asked, "The demon inside you…won't let you sleep right?" His face tensed, his faced showed that he's threatening her to kill her. She continued, "Mine got me banned from my village… and she's sometimes a pain in the butt." Nozomi noticed Gaara had a painful, lonely look. "This demon…" He started, "…were you born with it?" That surprised Nozomi. 'I guess his demon told him about you Nibi' "I'm not particularly sure, but at one point of age, it was constantly nagging painfully here." Gaara could tell she had placed her hand over her heart, making Gaara remember something.
-Flashback-
"But there is one kind of pain that could never heal." Gaara looked at his caretaker, surprised. "The heart. It could be hurt both physically and emotionally. Not even ointments can heal it." "Then what can?" The 5-year-old asked eagerly. His caretaker looked at the picture of his sister, then Gaara. "Only love can." He brought Gaara's little hand up to where his heart was.
-End of Flashback-
He asked, "Did the pain ever stop?" "It didn't go away until…one unforgettable event where after I pledged to train to protect the ones I cherish." There was again silence. Gaara then slowly, and reluctantly, placed Nozomi down and released her from his Sand Coffin. Gaara started heading the door. "Does that mean we're friends?" Nozomi asked, when Gaara was in front of the door. 'Shoot…' Nozomi said to herself, realizing Misa had really rubbed off of her. "No"-Gaara finally answered-"we're still enemies." He opened the door and left.
Few hours later w/ Misa…
Misa woke up, finding…a butterfly on her nose. It fluttered out the open window when she sat up. She was wearing her body armor, fish-net look alike and her shorts. For some reason, the butterfly had put her in a trance of curiosity: How could a butterfly be on the 5th floor? She got up and went through Ai's stuff. After throwing a few pieces of clothes here and there, she selected a black long sleeved shirt. It was the same has her regular shirt, but had a rose on it. She put it on then headed after the butterfly.
Misa had followed the sapphire-colored butterfly to a large field of flowers that rolled through what seemed thousands of hills. She tried to grab the butterfly with her bare hands over and over again but kept on missing. Then something happened at the speed of light, the butterfly had turned into a needle, which lunged towards her, but she spinned sideways and dodged it. She panicked, "Who would try and hurt me?!" She then remembered something else. "Nozomi!"
Misa arrived at the hotel room, hearing Ai scream, "My clothes!" Misa said cheerfully as she walked in, "Whoopsie! Sorry about that!" An intriguing voice asked, "And where have you been? Your friends here came and fetched me to heal you from your fever." Misa looked up to see Kabuto. She turned to Nozomi, who just shrugged. She (Misa) said, "I don't trust him." That startled everyone.
'Does she know?'
"Why?" Ai asked. "I just don't…it's just a feeling." She retorted, "That's just stupid!" That slight remark made Misa cry. Ai groaned as Kabuto said, "I think I should go now." He dispersed. Ai stomped into the kitchen as Nozomi sat down in front of Misa, and said, "Hey kiddo, don't cry, Ai is jut a baka sometimes!" She sniffed. "That's not it Nono…" She said that in what's barley a whisper. "Then what is it?" Misa paused before saying, "I…I…Oh I want to, but I don't want to hurt you in anyway!" Misa had literally thrown herself upon Nozomi, hugging Nozomi tightly. She said something in a light whisper, but Nozomi could still hear: "I'm moving in with my family."
Tears trickled down Nozomi's cheeks. She knew this day would come, after learning Misa was an Inuzuka. She just wished it had not come at all.