Chapter 5
A boy with a large gourd on his back, staring at them. His eyes were surrounded by black, like a raccoon's, flaming red hair, and a red symbol on
his left temple. Serena suddenly knew that it meant love, though she didn't know how she knew this. He was dressed in a long, deep crimson trenchcoat,
black pants, and a grayish vest thing that only had one arm. He took a step foreward.
"G-Gaara? Gaara!" Britt cried, amazed. She ran to him and hugged him, to his surprise.
"Britt, where the heck have you been?!" he practically yelled at her when she let him go. "Everyone's
been looking for you! Why didn't you at least write or something to tell us -me- where you were?" He said more gently.
"Um...we're still here you know. And how the heck do you know the Sand so well, Britt?!" Sasuke commented scornfully.
"Sorry, I'll explain later..."
"Britt! Get in here NOW!!" A yell came from the Hokage's office.
She winced. "Darn it."
Gaara looked confused. "What did you do?"he asked skeptically
"Oh, nothing. Except become a missing Nin..."
"WHAT?!" He shrieked at her.
"OW!! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" She yelled back.
"How the heck did you do that?!"
"Um...long story..." she said sweatdroping
"BRITT! IF YOU'RE NOT IN HERE IN 10 SECONDS, I'M GOING TO -- !!!"
"Aww, come on, Granny Tsunade. Give her some time..."
"NOW!!!"
Britt sighed, "I'm coming already!! Sheesh..."
Gaara glared at the door, "I'm coming with you." He glanced over at Sasuke and Serena, who were just staring at them, Sasuke with a slightly amused expression on his face, and Serena with an shocked look. "You two stay here."
"Why should I stay here, Gaara?" Sasuke asked, insulted. "I'm not woun-"
Gaara looked at Sasuke's arm, which was bandaged up, but you could see blood soaking through. "You need that wound to be healed and I'm not the
one wounded," Garra corrected.
"GGGGgggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!" replied Sasuke.
"I'll heal it for ya!!" said a now hyper Serena. (still wearing the mask and bandages over her eyes)
Britt and Gaara walked into the Hokage's office and...oh boy did Britt regret it. Inside was a fuming Tusunde and Kakashi, Asuma, Kinchi, Gui, and Sakura Sensei trying to restrain her.
"There you are. Oh my gosh, you are sooooo in for it ,Britt," said Kakashi teasingly. Tusunde finally got control of herself after a few minutes of fighting
and calmly sat down.
"Okay ,Britt, all we want to know is WHY IN THE SANE WORLD WOULD YOU RUN AWAY
LIKE THAT!?!?!?!?!?!?" exclaimed an angry Tusunde. Britt looked down and sighed. "Well??" she said impatiently drumming her fingers on the desk.
"Well, you know that then I wasn't very strong and, well, everyone was looking down on me like I was expected
to do something great and the only friends I had were my team and few others," Britt started with a dazed look in her eyes. "I know I was pretty smart and
had no skills in jutus even though I practiced every day. . . . . . I-I honestly don't know what came over me but I...I..." she sighed "... it went like
this:"
Flashback
Britt was twelve and watching some younger kids playing soccer. Her head was resting on her knees, which were drawn up to her chest. She sighed, more daydreaming than paying attention to anything around her. Suddenly, she felt through her half-asleep state that someone had sat down beside her, but she
relaxed when she realized who it was. She stretched.
"Hi, Neji. What 'cha doing?"
He looked at the kids also, not really watching them either. After a few moments, he spoke.
"Naruto's gone." At her confused expression, he explained. "He went off for more training with Juriha."
They were silent then, out of the blue Neji said, "You know, Britt..." he chose his words carefully. "It might be a ...good idea if you also did some...training..."
"What?!" she practically screamed at him. He winced. "WHY?!"
"Well... " He sighed. "Ok, I'll just be blunt: I know that you're trying as hard as you can, but quite frankly, you're not very strong. I know that you have
the potential to be probably stronger than any of us, but for some reason it seems to me like you're not letting yourself get any stronger, though I'm not sure
why... and...I think if you just tried a bit harder, than you'd be able to do justus and - "
Britt was standing by now and furiously interrupted him. "Oh, yeah. I know I'm the weakest OK?! Why do you keep bothering me?! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...sigh ok, I'm done." She sat down again. "I know
I'mnot as strong as some...which is why I'm leaving too. Please don't tell anyone. I know, you're probably shocked, but...hey, like you said: I need training.
Just please don't tell anyone, Neji. I don't want them trying to talk me out of it. But...can you give Kakashi this?"
She handed him a letter, handwritten on a deep burgundy parchment with silver ink, rolled up, scroll style. Neji gingerly took it.
Britt stood up again. "Thank you, Neji. Really...Thank you. Now that that's taken care of, I can go finish packing...See you later, and don't forget to get
that to Kakashi." With that, she disappeared. Neji looked at where she had been standing, at the scroll, then stuck the scroll into his belt and continued
watching the little kids.
End Flashback
"And that is what happened," said Britt. Everyone of them in the room fell silent and looked at Britt, amazed and surprised. Then after a few moments, Kakashi spoke.
"That's what happened?! I never got any scroll or anything!"
"Really? Huh, I wonder why Neji didn't give it to you? Weird..."
"Yeah, and when you left we all went looking for you. It was like I had lost my little sister again..." Kakashi said and then immediately smacked himself mentally. Britt looked at him funny.
"What do you mean, little sister?? You had one and never told us??" Britt asked trying to get the subject
off of her. He just nodded. "Oh I am so sorry if I made you worry like that I didn't know or mean to I-I
just got caught in the heat of the moment and REALLY needed to train, that's all, and-oh never mind you wouldn't understand," she said trying to soothe everyone's tension. Then a ping went off in her head. "Wait a minute!!!!" she shouted. "Is your sister the one that went missing after the weird deamon
looking for her sisters attacked and when those creepy people came to find the Cardinal ninja like 6-7 1/2 years ago??" she asked a bit excited. Sakura
shifted uneasily in her spot as the other held there breaths.
"Y-yes she w-was the one June 5 her 7th birthday the day she went missing. (aka its about March 3ed in the story)" he said sadly. Britt gasped. Then a
chunin came in and whispered something in Tusunde's ear.
Right then and there she got a huge anime anger mark on her forehead.
"NARUTO YOU ARE SO DEAD!!!!!! ALRIGHT, ENOUGH OF THIS!! I HAVE TO GO FIND NARUTO AND PUNISH HIM!!! WE'RE DONE HERE!!" she said in full rage, then she just poofed, along
with the sweatdroping sensies.
"What do we do now?" asked Gaara.
"Hm, oh um lets go get Se-Yin and Cockatoo boy and find Naruto. I got a feeling he did this to help me out," giggled Britt. He looked at Britt suspiciously when she corrected the name about Yin.
"Hn se.. se..SERENA!! I wonder if that's what Britt was gonna say? That name comes from somewhere but where. . . Grrr, why can't I remember. .
oh no I'm starting to sound like Britt" he thought. They walked back to the hospital room to find Yin was standing on top of the ceiling hanging upsidedown
and immediately dodged a flying chair.
"Grrrr let me heal you, ya' BAKA!!'' shouted Serena crouched down like a cat on the ceiling.
"No !!!! I can handle it!!!!" shouted Sasuke as he grabbed another chair.
"I'm leaving this all to you, Britt," Gaara said poofing away in a blow of sand. Britt sighed. Britt watched the fight to see what was going on for a few
minutes until she got agitated.
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"SASUKE AND SERENA SHUT THE HECK UP AND STOP FIGHTING, YOU BAKAS!!!!!!" shouted a quite angry Britt. Sasuke just huffed and Serena still had an anime anger mark on her forehead. "OY! CAN'T I LEAVE YOU TWO ALONE FOR A MINUTE WITHOUT A WAR BREAKING LOOSE!!?? Now Sasuke let either me, Serena, or the doctors heal that wound choose one or by gosh I'll do it, whether you like it or not!!!" she huffed.
Serena thought with admiration, You GO, girl! as she smirked.
"I can handle its fine," he said.
Britt crossed her arms and said, "Then why did you come to the hospital??"
"Kakashi sent me here to check up on her..." nodded in Serena's direction, " and to get this healed but I didn't need that. Besides, any friend of yours
has to be weird in some way," he said. This got Serena even madder and she hit him square in the jaw with her fist and sent him crashing into the wall leaving
an indent where he had hit. He fell down with a thud. Britt just raised her eyebrows at what just happened. Yin stormed to where her cloak was hanging, put
it on, stumbled a bit, and went over to the window.
Britt swore she heard Serena whisper."This is how it always is no one around me, respects me! Why can't I remember this world?!"
Sasuke rubbed his jaw and said "The doctors said you're not to leave in your condition: it might be fatal." Serena tuned around and faced him for a
moment.
"Why would you care about a stranger who just hit you and is seriously mad at you?" Serena asked.
"Because we all had a really close friend who we all agree you remind us of her she was always quiet and nobody even knew her name but that her
nickname was Sin because the jonin found her one day out nearly dead when she was five. They brought her here and she was distant from everyone
except for a few people and all of the teams here were her close friends but something happened on her birthday and she was gone like that and most
people don't even remember her at all. We think .."
"I don't give a care of what you or anyone else says or thinks for that matter except for maybe Britt and Jakob and maybe they don't even care!!!!. I don't trust you people here they give me this weird feeling that I know them from somewhere but I can't remember and ITS CREEPING ME OUT!!!!" Then
Serena jumped out of the window and disappeared.
"What were you gonna say Sasuke?" Britt asked sadly as she watched the sky from the window Serena jumped out of.
"That we all think that she could be Sin or related to her she looks so much like and she covers her eyes like her with the silver ribbon but we really
can't tell with that mask on her so we aren't sure. Maybe if we took that off, we'd find out or something," he said. Britt took her eyes off the sky and stared
at him with her mouth open.
"WHAT?!?!?" she shouted.
"Hello, I hope I'm not disturbing anything," said Kakashi as he walked in with the other jounin. Britt slapped her forehead and Sasuke shook his head.
"Hey where is the mysterious girl?" asked Sakura Sensei teasingly. They looked around the room when Naruto burst though the hospital room window.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!" he laughed. "Hey why is everyone in this empty hospital room an- HAHAHAHAHAHA what happened
to your face Sasuke?" He said roaring with laughter. The other jounin snickered. Britt sigh, chuckled a bit, and shook her head.
"Yin punched me in the face and then when I was in the middle of saying something she left though the window, hopping away. Quite frankly, I think she
gonna kill herself in her condition," Sasuke stated.
"Well, NE!" Britt said, then, suddenly, she stiffened and glared straight ahead so it looked like she was glaring at the wall. "Oh, not YOU again..." she
growled.
"Britt?" Kakashi asked cautiously. "Who or what are you talking to?"she has finally lost it completely
"Grrrrrrrrrrr! I. Am. Gonna. Murder. YOU!! Bakka, idiot, IMBECILE!! HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR STINKIN' FACE AROUND HERE! You know what, we're taking this outside, 3rd training ring!! NOW!!"
There was a deep chuckle from the direction of the wall. "Nice, Britty. Nice. Fine, Meet cha' there..." There was a slight poof and Britt stormed out the door.
A few seconds later, Gai asked, "What just happened? Did the wall just TALK?! Why did it call her BRITTY?!?!"
Kakashi blinked. "I ...think...so...wow, that was weird..."
"I think were all losing it..." Gai and Kakashi sweatdropped.
Lol funny ending to me
thankies britt-chan!!!
Yin Cardinal