Chapter 8

-TIME SKIP OF 7 YEARS-

"lets head out men!" Awaii ordered to the three groups of Samurai standing in front of her. "Team one go with Kankuro to Suna, Team two will stay here and protect the village, and the rest of you will come with me to Kohona"

"Hai!" The men all shouted in unison

Kankuro looked at Awaii, "How do you get all these men to do what you say so easily" He asked her

She smiled, "Wouldn't you like to know" Awaii then turned to face the men, "Head out!"

With that, Kankuro and his team all left heading towards Suna, and Awaii was about to leave with her team, when she heard, "Awaii-Lynne! What the HELL do you think your doing?" Gin, the main leader of Alabasta asked, now standing in front of Awaii.

She glared at the male leader, "I'm taking my men to assist Kohona and Suna in there war" She said, then narrowed her gaze, "That's what people do when there friend villages need help"

"Your NOT taking any more men away from MY village"

"Watch me" Awaii then turned and left, her team quickly following after her, leaving Gin standing where there was nothing but dust.

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Red ran threw the forest, watching for any enemy ninja that want to attack her. While running she heard something behind a tree, she quickly stopped and pulled out her Athema. She then walked towards the tree, as quiet as possible, until she heard a gun shot from behind her.

Red quickly turned around, and saw a Sound Ninja falling down, a gun shot wound in his head. Standing behind the Sound Ninja was her blue haired friend, holding out her gun, "You know, you shouldn't fall for traps like that so easily" Hissori said.

Red let out a sigh of relief, then looked back at the tree, "I still heard something behind here" She walked over look behind the tree. Her eyes widened when she saw what it was. "impossible" she said under her breath.

Hissori then rushed over to her friend, "What is it?" she asked, then looked behind the tree, she looked a bit confused, "You feel for that" Hissori asked looking back at her friend.

Red then slapped her hand over her face, "I cant believe I feel for such a basic trap…." She then looked at Hissori, "a rabbit used to distract the prey, long enough to attack and kill them"

Hissori stood back up straight, and looked around, "you know…its too quiet around this area"

Red nodded, "I noticed that also, we should report back to Kohona, since it is closer, tell them what we found"

Hissori shook her head, "What are we gonna say, we found a rabbit and you almost got killed….we should keep looking, until we find something useful"

Red sighed, "I cant, I have to go back, I was only suppose to come out here for herbs….Gaara doesn't want me in the battlefield for very long"

Just then the two girls heard a noise come from behind them, and they both froze, not from a Jutsu, but from the shock that someone got so close to them, without either of them noticing.

Before thinking Hissori turned around and shot a single fire, but could hear the sound of a ricochet. Hissori never missed her target, this person had to of either seen her attack before, or was really lucky.

Hissori got ready to fire again, "Wait!!" A familiar female voice said walking out of the bushes, "Damn Hissori, you trying to kill me" Awaii said holding out her Katanas in front of her.

Hissori and Red both looked a bit relieved that it was there friend, and not the enemy, "don't sneak up on us like that!" They both shouted

"Sorry" Awaii looked around, "Why are you guys out here….my men have already cleared this area earlier"

"that explains why it was so quiet" Red said, She then bent down and picked a few herbs, then stood back up, "Sorry guys, but I have to head back to Suna, there are people who need healing there"

Hissori smiled, "I'll go with you….in case some ninjas try to attack you" She said.

Awaii shook her head, "You just want to go and see your boyfriend" She sighed, "Just be careful both of you….got it"

They both nodded, and headed off towards Suna. Leaving Awaii to defend herself….which didn't really bother her that much, she would rather fight alone, then put the ones she cared for in danger.

Awaii knew that the area she was at was abandon, so she decided to head closer to the Village of Sound. Maybe she could get close enough to hear something that could help with this war. Quickly jumping away from her recent area, she headed towards Sound.

Jumping from tree to tree, Awaii noticed that the branches were becoming more slippery, as though it had rained….but she did not notice it raining, which should of meant that nothing should have been wet, unless…

Awaii quickly grabbed onto a branch and swung on top of it, she began to examine the water on the branches. She placed her bare fingers on the branch, and then sniffed the water, but it didn't smell like normal water, this substance had a sour, acidic smell to it…..

She looked behind her, and noticed that every branch she had jumped off of were now broken, almost like they had disintegrated. Awaii knew that this had to be a trap, to slow her down, but it would only work if she wasn't alone. Her guess was that every time the person in the front of the group would jump off a branch, the next person who came on it would fall onto the ground.

Awaii then quickly jumped down off the branch, and landed on the ground. Once she touched the ground, about 10 or 15 spicks shot up from the ground, causing her to have to jump back up and avoid them. Now Awaii knew that this was DEFFINTLY a trap, and a pretty good one at that.

Awaii nodded to herself then continued to head towards Sound, she knew she was doing something right, if they had to place such a deadly trap out.

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Red and Hissori headed back to Suna, stopping every once in a while to collect more herbs for Reds Medical ointments.

"You think it was okay to leave Awaii alone out there" Red asked as she picked the last of her herbs.

Hissori nodded, "yea she'll be fine, besides…she wasn't alone"

Red looked up at Hissori a bit confused now, "What do you mean? I didn't since anyone"

Hissori laughed a little, "That's because he didn't want you to since him….but trust me, he's not the enemy….and he wont let anything happen to her"

Red began to think…then realized who it was that was following her black haired friend, she laughed a little, then the two of them continued on their way back to Suna.

Once there, they entered the gates, and headed straight for the hospital area. Red looked at Hissori, "I can handle it the rest of the way, you should head back out….wouldn't want you to get into trouble for not doing what your told" Red then looked at her young friend with a very serious face, "Don't get hurt out there…..I don't want to have to heal both you and Awaii anytime soon got that"

Hissori nodded, then began to leave, when her body was suddenly frozen, this time it was from a Jutsu, Hissori smiled, "Well….it would seem that I'm not meant to go anywhere"

Shikamaru sighed, "I thought you weren't suppose to be out here" He then released his Shadow Possession on Hissori, and she turned to look at him

"Oh so NOW your worried about me" She joked, then looked serious, "Shikamaru, this is a war, and everyone has to take part in it, including me"

Shikamaru shook his head, "Troublesome Woman" he walked towards her, "Come on, If your going back out there, I'm gonna have to go with you to make sure you don't get hurt….or that you don't hurt what's inside you"

Red suddenly looked over at Hissori and Shikamaru, "What do you mean--" she then looked at the two of them VERY shocked, "What the HELL are you doing out here in YOUR current health?!" She shouted.

Hissori sighed, then glared at Shikamaru, "I told you not to say anything…" She then looked back at Red, "I'll be fine…just don't worry about me, okay…I don't plan on getting attacked anytime soon, got it"

Shikamaru took Hissoris hand, "your not going to get attacked, because I'm taking you back to Kohona…either that or you can stay here and help with these injured people, either way, your not going back out there."

Hissori knew this was gonna happen….once she told them, they would all treat her like a Glass doll…which she most defiantly wasn't! She looked up at Shikamaru, "I'll stay here….If I go back to Kohona, then I'll be bored out of my mind, might as well stay here and help out somehow"

Red nodded, "Well you can help by helping me mix herbs….that should keep your hands busy"

Hissori hated the idea of having to stay inside the village while one of her friends was out there fighting….she wanted to help…and her idea of helping had NOTHING to do with mixing herbs that's for sure.

-End of Chapter, okay so this chapter was mainly of Hissori, Shikamaru, and Red, which is fine with me, cause that's the way I wanted this chapter to go….kinda…anyways, I hope you guys like it, I know that its defiantly shorter than my other chapters, but when you run out of things to say in a chapter, you gotta stop it or else you are just rambling…anyways yes this is a time skip, meaning everyone is older….Hissori is now 22 years old, Red is 25 and Awaii is 24, I'm guessing everyone else is about the same age as the girls, I don't want to go and say EVERYONES age, cause I don't know them…anyways, what is wrong with Hissoris health, and why doesn't Shikamaru or Red was her out in the battle field….I shall tell you in the next chapter, maybe, and who is following Awaii…you'll have to wait-