I'm bored of telling you the news of every day, seriously, my life was so routine. Let's skip right to the climaxing points. Far more interesting. Let's get to the drama. I like drama, have I told you that already? I hate being in fights, and all, but I love drama. And I love saying the word drama really sexy. Hehe.

What should we skip to? How 'bout, Sasuke's big leaving party.

"Ehhhhharrrrrrrrggggggggh," I yawned sleepily, thinking nuu, must sleep more… waaaah.

"Morning, love." One chirpy Chirou called from the doorway.

What had he just said? Was he being nice to me? Was he not making fun of me? Oh God, what was wrong? I stared at him, frightened, scuttling into the corner of my bed in fear.

"M-morn-morning Chirou. What's wrong?" I stammered.

"Nothing, dear." I narrowed my eyes and sent out my chakra, looking for something out of the ordinary-- nothing. He was just being strange. Goodness, what was wrong with this boy?

"Chirou, why are you being so sweet to me today?" I asked, cutting straight to the point.

"Nothing, Lynx, how did you sleep last night?" He asked, his voice was gentle. He wasn't joking around, something must be actually wrong.

His eyes were soft and when he looked at me he actually looked. Not his usual glance over, joke-around eyes, but full out scanning, staring eyes. Their black depths did not seem dead today, but more like softly burning coals. The effect made his face all the more handsome, and fatherly. I worried that something must be very wrong. I was, at this point, far past joking. I felt the tears whelling up because I could feel a heartbreak coming on, how: I'll never know.

"I slept fine Chirou, please tell me, what's wrong?" My voice was soft and my breathing was shallow.

"It's Sasuke," he began, "last night, he left. For good. He knocked Sakura out as he was leaving. We're sending out a team for his rescue; we believe that he's been kidnapped by Sound ninja."

Of course, he'd softened the blow a bit by making it sound as if Sasuke hadn't chosen to leave, but nonetheless I felt my chest being ripped apart from the inside. I was being torn apart, piece by piece. The tears fell, and Chirou flashed over to hold me. There were no clouds in the sky that day when Naruto and the others set out. It was sunny. But I couldn't feel the sun, all I could feel was the vast emptiness of that wide, gaping, cloudless sky. A shock-induced trance. No matter how I cried, no matter how I sobbed, no matter how my heart yearned for a thunder storm; the sun stayed bright, and the skies stayed blue, and all seemed right. Everything but me.

Chirou understood my need for isolation from the rest of the world and turned away any of my friends that came to visit and held me without word for hours and hours. When Naruto came home I let him know how great he'd been for going out there to try and save Sasuke. Sakura did the same, but she couldn't hide her disappointment. She had wanted Sasuke back and, regardless of how she acted towards him, had believed that Naruto could bring him back because he's the strongest ninja that we know.

Then Naruto left. For too long. I stayed with Chirou. I barely saw Sakura. Then Naruto came back, and we completed missions. Too many. Still there was an emptiness in me that seemed to be him. It was like a black hole that I was being sucked into as all the light around me flared and spun wildly. But I held up no resistance. I was ready to fall away. Until the day Chirou came to me with a proposition.

"Hey, Lynx. I need to talk to you," Chirou led me into our sitting room where he sat me down on one of the cushions. "Tsunade-sama (the new hokage that Naruto had convinced into coming to konoha) has come to me and has given me a new team. The team will be made up of you, Lexi, Nick and I - as team leader. We will be Team 14."

"Woah, that's great Chirou." I smiled a wispy smile, but it was more like me than I had been in weeks. Chirou noticed.

"I knew it would make you feel better. Now, let's get our new team members!" He exclaimed, sending me a toothy grin.

"LYNX! HAVE YOU HEARD THE GREAT NEWS? WE'RE GONNA BE ON A TEAM TOGETHER!" Shouted one very happy Nick.

I felt my heart quicken and lighten at his voice and his and Lexi's happy faces. I grinned genuinely. I was gonna be on a team with the people that mattered most in this world to me! Nothing could stop us now. And when Sasuke comes back, we would whup his ass so bad that he'd forget ever leaving this village and his clan's entire annhilation! Hehe! Yay! We could do it! We would do it! Oh yeah, bitches!

We were gonna be a force to reckon with, we were gonna be something special. We were something special.

That was the end of the First Tale. I'll be posting the Second Tale up soon enough, I already have the first couple of chapters finished!