A/N Well... Hello.

Um... I have something to confess...

I got a new computer (yay!), but while I was moving the files, I forgot to... add... some things. So... the chapter that was supposed to be the dance... is gone. So this chapter is basically something I just quickly typed up to reassure you that I'm not abandoning this; just a little filler-sort-of-thing. Also, this takes place after the dance. The dance will be typed and made into the next chapter. Just look at this as a... foreshadowing sort of thing. Yeah... I'm a bit confused too. I hope you're okay with it.

On the bright side, say hello to my new beta, who wanted to be called Kawaki00 for the purposes of this story. Many thanks to her for volunteering to beta this story! (This chapter was not beta-ed.)

Thank you to all who reviewed, and more thanks to your patience!

Disclaimer: Naruto and its characters are not mine.

She think she's going crazy sometimes, you know?

Well, she's been crazy (motherdead, how could she not?) but not like crazycrazy when the whole world just suddenly turns on you for no reason at all.

But she figures that she's just turned her back on the world because, hell, why not (not the little girl with the fans, ain't 'ya?) but the world apparently includes her one unpredictable and another sleep-induced (I'm telling you, he's just sleeping, damnit!) brothers, both whom actually need her help because their violent (really? That's it?) father doesn't give a damn.

And then she goes and dumps all her problems on the pinky-pie, and just runs off with her social life (you were always a daddy's girl) and then that boy (what was his name again?) blames her and tells her to fix everything.

But everything can't be fixed.

Oh, she knows now. She knows that the world has turned her back on her. Oh, yes. Ha. And then on some nights he stares into the mirror and laughs at the girl who stares back, sneering down with pity. Too bad for her, being stuck behind that pane of glass.

Too bad for me, stuck behind that pain of life.

She likes to pretend it wasn't her. Like how she pretends it's her brother's fault sometimes, sometimes cowering behind that boy, sometimes turning away, sometimes ignoring, and sometimes just going full-on. Like how she told the police that night. (I told you, he's sleeping! Why are you taking him away?)

And this is the one chance she could've had fun.

Then her brother messes it up by assaulting another boy! She thought he was better! Normal! (because being different is bad, remember) Now they'll have to pay charges and fees and theydon'thavethatkindofmoneydamnit.

Her brother is still stuck in that stupid illusion that they do have the green.

Unless it's her that's being ignorant, stuck in her own world that they don't have money and it's her brother's fault, as usual?

(The monsters aren't real, Gaara.)

But it still doesn't stop her from screaming her lungs out when she sees allthatblood and suddenly she forgets (refuses to believe) when she got there, when her brother had blood on his hands, when her life was such a mess.

Then, oh then, that blond-haired bitch that suddenly started whispering that he was going out with that pinky. Really? Ha! And pigs fly. And it's just worst for her, because he's not coming out, not eating, just punching and punching and laughing like a maniac.

Perhaps he's just copying her. She does it often enough.

Then he'll die and she'll be so alone (getting ahead of yourself, no?) and she'll put on that fake mask and that prince daddy's always been telling her about will sweep her off her feet and take her to his beautiful palace guarded by dragons that keep away pinkies and blond bitches.

Lalalala happy~ No?

What? It's not an illusion, no. It isn't, I'm telling you! Perfectly reasonable!

Yes, she'll go far far away. Far away from everything that ever got into her life, ever. She'll be in a happy (fake) world.

Her family's had their share of craziness. From their ancestors who believed in those Japanese myths about the tailed beasts, to the ones that went crazy. To her (MINE!) father, who lost his mind and sanity, to their mother who actually loved. That's crazy. A fantasy. Myths for children, kind of like the tailed-beasts, but more impossible.

There is no perfect love in the world, except in her dreams of that one prince charming.

Fun fun fun fun fun. We'll all have such fun.

Lalalala happy~

No more responsibilities, no more rules! Just free free free!

Yes, she really is crazy, isn't she?

Oh, wait! The sun's rising.

Time to put on the mask again. What fun.

Monsters... aren't real...

But... that doesn't mean they can't kill you.

Did anyone get the hidden reference? See you next chapter!