I refuse to put a disclaimer here cause everyone should be bright enough to know that I don't own Naruto. I'm pretty sure that's why this is called FANfiction.

├Part Twenty┤

When I had woken up in the hospital, nobody was there. It was a good thing because I noticed I was in a simple white nightgown that had short sleeves and went a little past my knees.

The curtains were closed shut but were white so they would let some light in. The door was closed as well.

But just as I was leaning back and letting out a deep breath, the door burst open. In panic, I pulled up the blankets so they would cover my face and any bit of skin that was showing.

"Young man! You aren't allowed in here!" I heard the alarmed voice of a nurse say as she hurried after him.

"I don't care! She's my friend and I want to see if she's ok!" I heard Naruto say and saw him march in. He stopped and looked around until he spotted my bed, "There you are!"

"Uh hey Naruto," I said behind the sheet, "I thought you were pretty beat up, why aren't you in bed?"

He grinned and the lady behind him gave me an apologetic look, "Well you were out for like three weeks and I heal quickly," he said as he sat by my bed.

"Three weeks?!" I exclaimed, almost throwing the covers off, "What happened?!"

He shrugged, "Not much by the look of it but you were in a sort of coma as Kakashi-sensei said. He didn't give any details, as usual," he sighed while rolling his eyes, "But yeah nothing really happened while you were out. We weren't allowed to visit you for some reason and so I came by today and got fed up with the nurses and doctors telling me I can't visit one of my friends who I haven't seen in the longest time," he said with a stubborn look in his eyes.

I smiled softly and looked down at the sheets instead of facing him. He could sure talk when he was on a roll.

"Well I'll see you when I get out, alright?" I asked, "Either that or when I'm allowed to get visitors. Then you can tell me about everything."

He smiled happily, "Ok then!" he exclaimed and the lady put a hand on his shoulder and led him out of the room.

I sighed and put the covers down as the door closed shut. That had been too close. But I'd find out that it wouldn't matter much anyways.

I smiled softly to myself. Friend…

A Couple Days Later…

"We're going on a mission! We're going on a mission!" Naruto was saying in a sing-song voice, "And you're coming too Miya!"

I was suddenly interested, "I am?" I asked.

"Yep!" he said and grinned, "Granny Tsunade said so!"

The old Hokage had died against the Orochimaru guy. So Naruto had gone out with, what he called, the Perverted Hermit to find the new one and convince her to become the Hokage.

He also never really called her 'Hokage' unless he felt like it. Hmm well maybe I'd like this Hokage…

"So what's the mission?" I asked.

He only smiled more.

It was, like, one in the morning and we stopped to sleep. I was supposed to be sleeping, yes I was actually supposed to sleep, but I couldn't. It was sad, really. I actually said I would go to sleep and here I couldn't sleep.

So I got up and looked around. Everyone else was sleeping peacefully. I crept away to take a little walk.

My mind started traveling and soon I forgot why I had got up to take a walk. I eventually found a waterfall.

I was at the top, standing on a rock looking down. Yes, here I was deathly afraid of the water and I was staring down a waterfall.

As I was staring, memories came flooding back to me. Tears formed in my eyes and one by one, they fell into the water.

I shook my head and made my way off the top. I was walking at the side and so I didn't realize how close I was to the actual edge. Until my foot slipped on a rock and I fell backwards and hit my head.

Before I blacked out, I felt myself roll sideways and saw the water below getting closer.

But then the darkness came.

No One's POV

He had watched it all happen. He had been wondering if he should have called out to her, asking why the hell she was up at a time like this.

But then he saw her slip and fall into the water. His charcoal eyes widened as he dashed out of his hiding place in the bushes nearby.

He had a hard time finding where she was and started to panic. But then he found her at the bottom of the small pool. It was quite deep despite how it looked on the outside.

Wrapping his arms around her waist, he pushed himself upward from the sandy bottom. Finally he broke to the surface and gasped for air.

He swam to the shore and got her on dry land and made sure she wasn't going to slip in again. Then he got out of the water himself and sat next to her.

After a few moments coughing, he checked her pulse. She was still alive, that was good. He then put his ear up to where her mouth would be under the mask and faced her chest. He didn't hear her breathing and her chest wasn't rising and falling like it should be.

This wasn't good.

His heart started racing as he put his hand on her mask. After a couple moments of debating with himself, he finally pulled the mask down from her face.

His eyes widened as he saw her entire face. It wasn't much at first but then he noticed something else. It covered her entire body. She was wearing white so her clothes hung to her body, showing everything.

There were strange markings all over her body, like some sort of tattoo.

He had to advert his gaze from the strange tattoo like markings and back to her face. He opened her mouth and put his ear up to it.

Still he didn't hear or feel her breathing and neither did he see her chest move up or down. Then he took a deep breath and sat up.

He pinched her nose shut and bent down.

Then ever so carefully, he put his lips to hers.

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-Jen-