Chapter 7

"Uh...Britt?" Gaara asked tentatively after a minute of scielence. "Britt, are you ok? Britt, are-" His eyes opened just as wide as he touched her and he gasped.

"Hey, what's the matter you guys?" Kakashi asked, reaching out to Burrou. Burrou whipped around and thwacked Kakashi's hand away, his eyes still

glowing an unearthly green.

"DO NOT TOUCH US!!!!" He bellowed in a very deep voice. With the roar he gave off Serena woke up form her daze and laid frozen to her spot on the ground still breathing hard and shivering as she tilted her head to look at what was happening.

Hmmm whats wrong with them. Oh no I hear a-a oh no he isn't around not now!!! Why now of all places,. . . oh shoot it's nearing the 5th June,

I need to leave as fast as possible. Ungh if only I could move, thought Serena as she stuggled to move.

Suddenly, Britt broke contact and screamed, collapsing to the ground, clutching her head. Burrou reeled back, shook his head, reached over and caught

the now-unconscious Gaara as he fell, gently set him down on the ground, and woke him with some smelling salts he keeps in his pockets as his eyes

returned to normal. Burrou then kneeled down next to Britt, who had stopped screaming and was now whimpering, rocking back and forth with her hand still clamped around her ears and her pupil-less eyes still glowing bright blue.

"Hey, Britt? Britt...um Britty? You O-Q?" [and just so you know, that's exactly like he says it. it's a sort of childhood thing:Brit calls Burrou "Burrby", and Burrou calls Britt "Britty". No one else is allowed to call them by those names. Or, at least, not if they wish to keep their lives they don't...

"It hurts...it hurts so bad..." Britt whimpered quietly, more to herself than an answer to him. Burrou moved his hands like he was going to move hers off

her ears-then froze, horrified, staring at her hands. Kankuro came up behind him.

"Hey what's wro- WHAT THE-?!?!?!" Everyone crowded around and collectively gasped. Britt was still whimpering and rocking on the ground, clutching

her hands to her ears, glowing eyes open wide. It was her hands that they stared at:

Blood was dripping down from between her fingers onto the ground, making a small pool of blood. Gaara's hand was shaking as he reached out to Britt

and gently laid it on her shoulder.

"Britt?" Gaara asked in a gentle whisper. "Britt, what's wrong?"

Britt raised her head and looked at Gaara through eyes that, while still glowed, were filled with pained tears. "It hurts, Gaara," she said in a chocked voice.

"It hurts so much..."

"It'll be ok, Britt, it's ok," he said, gently stroking her cheek.

Huh, wonder why Britt lets him touch her when she's like this? Usually, no one, not even me, can touch her, she would just cry out and pull back

like it hurt. Especially her face, which she normally lets NO one touch what-so-ever. Hmmm...interesting, Burrou thought.

Britt rested her face on Gaara's shoulder, still crying in pain, but with her ears uncovered, so that you could see just how bad they were bleeding. Gaara

put one arm around her in a gentle, reassuring hug, and with the other hand beckoned Serena over to him. "Do you think you can heal her?" He asked quietly.

She tried to get up but failed so Jakob came over and helped her up. They made there way over with some diffuculties but got over that quickly. "Maybe...but let's get somewhere a bit more private or something, I don't feel right around here and there's too many people..." She replied.

In the background, Kankuro and Shikamaru was amussingly and very camly watching all the other guys as they panicked, ran around paniccally, ran into

each other and fell down, got back up, and ran around some more, all the while yelling and screaming. Kankuro was laughing and said, "This is

HILARIOUS!! But...it might be funnier with land mines..." He pulled some out of his pocket and tossed them out onto the feild. Immediately, guys ran on

them and got blown sky high, then got up and ran even more crazily. Kankuro just laughed harder, eating popcorn.

"This is such a drag, not to mention troublesome." Shika sighed as he laid down to take a nap.

"Ok, let's go," Gaara replied, picking Britt up by hooking one arm under her knees and the other under her shoulders/back. He staggered under her weight

for a bit, then regained his balance and led Serena off to Britt's room in the Leaf, which is where they were.

"How did you know where her room was?" Jakob asked as he stummbled a bit. He and Burrou had followed them to Britt's room.

Gaara shrugged and put Britt down on the bed. "I've been here before," was his reply. Jakob walked Serena over to Britt's bed and backed away.

Serena cleaned her up and then tried healing her. She tried again, focusing on Britt's ears. Nothing happened. Burrou tried to say something, but Serena ushered him and the others out and tried meditating for three hours before trying again. Still nothing.

Outside, Kankuro had thrown some tennis balls with little trackers inside amongst the panicking guys and was watching them bounce off them, still

laughing.

"Gah!!! Why won't it heal, darn it?!?!" as she sat at the end of the bed lieing down rubbing her temples in exhaughtion.

Burrou knocked and entered, "Um...yeah I was trying to explain: when she gets like this, no one, not even me, can heal her. That's just the way she is."

"And you didn't tell me this before WHY?!?!"

"You gave me no chance."

"GAH!!!!! YOU COULD OF INTERUPTED MY MEDITATION TO TELL ME THAT!!!!!!" she sceemmed.

"Well I did try but this little rainbow orb-thingy surronded you and . . .well I couldn't get though to you."

"Oh boy Serena is mad I hope this goes well" thought Jakob sweatdroping.

"...And it looks like she's panicking. Hm, that's interesting. Never seen her panic like this while in this state; she usually just drops into a deep, healing

sleep. Huh, she was calm when Gaara was here..." Burrou was musing to himself but Serena heard.

"THEN GET GAARA IN HERE, YOU DUFUS!!!!"

"Alright, alright...you do it."

"GAARA!!! GET YOUR BUTT IN HERE, OR SO HELP ME...!!!!!!"

"I'm coming, I'm COMING!!! Yeeesh." His reply was slightly muffled because he had half a piece of chocolate cake in his mouth.

"WHY ARE YOU EATING CAKE AT A TIME LIKE THIS?!?!?!!!"

"Uh, cause I'm hungry and there was some in the fridge?"

Serena just stared at him, annoyed, and started to twich angerly, "Just make Britt stop panicking before she tears this room apart! I'm going to sleep I

used up to much of my powers for something that was totally not worth it I'm still stressed over the whole flashback thing and on top of alllllll of that I

haven't gottin to sleep in about awhile and KANKURO QUIT THROWING LAND MINES OUT THERE!!" Serena shouted out the window. By now,

Britt's powers had sensed her panic and were making things fly around the room. Gaara went and sat next to her on the bed, putting her head on his lap and

stroking her hair like she was a little kid. Jakob helped Serena into one of Britt's many beanbag chairs in the room.

There was an explosion outside, followed by Kankuro's "Whooo-hooo!!!!!! Yeah, now THAT'S what I'm talking about!!!! Yeah!!!!" BOOM!!!!!

Serena got a huge anime anger mark and laid her head down on the big beanbag chair that was fluffy and intaintly calmed down and used her thin cape as a blanket.

Jakob looked outside, "Kankuro! Where did you get that bazooka?"

"I think it's Britt's...!!"

Serena woke up enough to say, "But Britt keeps her big guns and explosives in her back pockets. How did he get it then...?" and then went right back to sleep.

"Maybe it fell out?" Jakob suggested.

Burrou shook his head. "Nah. There's buttons on the back pockets to keep anything from falling out, so someone must have opened them...they're very touch-sensitive, so just running your hand across them in a certain way can make them open..."

"But who could have opened it? It's her back pocket..."

They all look at Gaara.

"What?" he asks, genuinely confused (he hadn't been paying attention to the conversation). The guys all look at him sorta knowingly and bemused. Serena

has fallen asleep not knowing what was going on scince she hadn't been in a relationship more than just being a friend and dropped dead tired in Britt's big,

fluffy, bean-bag chair she has in one corner that changes color depending on what mood the person in it has or what mood they want wich was changing a dark silivery grey, (mood setting)next to that was a big table filled with jars of salts and buring incense.

A few hours later, everyone except Burrou was asleep, including Gaara and Kankuro. Burrou looked over at Gaara and Britt, and sort of half-smiled sadly. He silently walked over and slipped a note into a tiny pocket-slit on the back of Britt's right glove. He them gently pressed his lips to her hair and gave

her a mind message. He then looked around the room once more to make sure everyone was asleep.

"Mmghug" mummbled Serena in her sleep as Burrou foze. After a few minutes of scilence he smirked and hopped out the window and disappeared into

the cloudless starry night.

Hope ya like R&R Ja Nee!!!! Stay tuned!!

Thanks Britt-chan!!!

Yin Cardinal