Chapter 9
After breakfast Gaara insisted I train. But we found there was a major problem, without Angin I had no chakra, with no chakra I could not be a ninja. I sighed at my luck.
I cried and Gaara comforted me as well as he could, but the only thing that I could think of to make me feel better, I concluded, was finding Angin and be put back together with him, for I had a giant hole of emptiness, and if I was bored, I could feel it intensify. I needed Angin back.
One week later
I tossed and turned in Gaara's arms that night, and woke up breathing heavily. I sighed in relief and willed my body to calm down when I realized where I was before relaxing and then using Gaara as my pillow once more.
'Great, another night with no sleep' I thought as I turned as much as I could while being restrained by Gaara's strong arms so I could halfway see the ceiling, and still see Gaara's sleeping face. He looked content and peaceful when he slept. Which was the exact opposite of I have been sleeping lately. I have woken up from slumber in a panic, and had to deal with the newfound emptiness I have felt since Angin was taken from me. Tears flooded my eyes as I quickly wiped them away.
'I need to get Angin back' I thought as I kissed Gaara's cheek
"Hn"
"I need to go to the bathroom" I whispered. He loosened his hold on me and I kissed his cheek once more "Thank you"
"Hn" I walked down the hallway to use the facilities as I thought of a plan to get Angin back. Most, if not all, concluded I would probably die. I sighed. I walked back into Gaara's room and looked at his desk
'If I should not act then just finding the Akatsuki until I come up with a plan would be wise' I thought as I quietly sat at his desk and rifled through his paperwork scanning for any information. I sighed. It wasn't working.
I resorted by taking out a blank piece of paper and began drawing a map of this world. 'The last place Akatsuki was known to be was where I knocked out one of them which was near Iwagakure. But that cave did not look like anyone actually lived there so they must live somewhere else. From what Gaara told me about Akatsuki they are most likely to be found living in a cave, so if they did not want to be found in this area' I thought as I circled and lightly colored in the area 'Since they were found there before then the next place with a bunch of cliffs would be here' I circled the mountainous area of Kumogakure 'Now I have a theory, I just need something to verify.' I thought as I sighed as I racked my brain 'The kidnappers from the Chuunin exams' I thought 'If the kidnappers were really the Akatsuki' I thought as I retraced where I was in Konoha and where I escaped and drew out a rough map 'Then they were headed to this area' I thought as I circled a smaller part of area of the mountains of Kumogakure. I heard Gaara move and I stiffened and look behind me 'Gaara would never allow me to find the Akatsuki' I thought 'So I will have to do this without his permission' I folded up the map and put it behind the desk with a bit of tape. I walked over to Gaara and went to lay on him once more, and I stayed awake, mulling over what to do, as I waited for a time when I could wake Gaara up so I could make breakfast.
Hours later
"Please train with me" Kankuro said "I promise you can beat me up"
"No" I said stubbornly. "I will not fight you"
"Why?"
"Because, you have chakra and have a way to get away, I do not, I will just become the happy little housemaid" I said through gritted teeth
"I do not want you as a housemaid" Gaara said
"What else can I do? I could get severely hurt because of not having chakra to dodge an attack, all I have is what I had in the other world, and here it just doesn't seem like it is enough" I said as I once again grabbed the duster just to have Gaara use his sand to knock it out of my hand again. "Stop it Gaara"
"You stop and go train with Kankuro"
"If you want me to train then give me someone to train with who will not use chakra" I said, my voice raising
"Fine" He said, controlling his breathing "I will contact the Hokage and have you train with Rock Lee and his sensei Gai"
"Fine" I said as I sat down on the couch and patted the seat next to me Gaara reluctantly sat down "I am sorry I got you angry" I said
"I am sorry I raised my voice at you"
"I just want to fight someone who is at my own level" I said kissing his cheek. He grabbed my hand and stopped my face for going too far
"I just don't want you to get hurt; I want to make sure you can defend yourself"
"I know, but without chakra it is so hard"
"I am sure it is, but it will be even harder for me to let you go to Konoha without me"
"What?" I asked surprised
"I can't leave, I have a mountain of paperwork to do" He said and I looked down
"I don't want to leave you though"
"I know you don't but I need to make sure you train, so if I take your demands this is the way it will have to be." He said before getting up, "I will write the letter to the Hokage now" And with that he went up the stairs, and I followed.
Gaara allowed me to use his backpack to pack in and two shinobi were ordered to follow me wherever I went. We made it safely to Konoha in a four day travel, since I could not run and keep up with the other shinobi we were forced to walk. Gai and Rock Lee were at the gate waiting for the little group I was in to arrive and they greeted me with a giant hug in their weird green outfits.
"We will show you the power of youth!" Gai said. I stepped back
'This was a bad idea' I thought
By the end of the week I knew it was a bad idea, but I was getting stronger, I learned how to push my body far past what I thought my boundaries were. A month later the two shinobi I was with had dinner with me at the ramen shop. I ate 40 bowls that night, and I reluctantly paid when the two shinobi refused to pick up the bill. They were walking me home via the shortcut when I knocked them both unconscious and using the speed through weight training I acquired I projected myself over the wall.
It took a month but I felt like I was ready for my plan. I mentally pat myself on the back.
My plan was to get Gaara to believe that I needed training
To refuse to be trained by people who used chakra, making it so I had to be trained by the only two shinobi we both knew: Gai and Rock Lee
To grow underneath their weird training and get to the point where my abilities we honed to find the Akatsuki and to reunite with Angin
Other than that my plan was nonexistent.
Taking out the map I made over a month ago I followed it, using what bits I remembered from coming the opposite way to get back to Konoha to the area of which I believed the Akatsuki hideout was… near the mountains of Kumogakure.
Once in the mountainous area of where I needed to be I searched and waited, and to my luck I heard a noise of rock separating and moving and I ran as quietly as I could to the noise. I saw someone emerge, the same person I knocked out and I ducked and hid until I was sure he did not see me and slipped through the opening.
'He probably did not notice me because I have no chakra' I thought, as I tiptoed through the cave, attempting to be as quiet as possible when I came upon a living room, where three people in the same black cloak with red clouds and white lining where reading, one had his back to me, his meridian exposed, I crawled, holding my breath as I did so until I was directly behind the couch. I took the moment to strike the man in front of me in the meridian. He slumped and fell onto the floor, causing his two teammates to jump up, and I too stood. They both looked at me and studied me.
One had blond hair; a girl most likely with a very flat chest. Her bangs whooshed to the side, and the other a blue man that looked oddly like a fish.
"Wait, she is the girl Hidan said that attacked him and survived the extraction" The blue man said
"I thought you look oddly familiar" The blond said, his voice far too deep to be a woman's
"Woah… you're a dude?" I said in disbelief. The blue man chuckled and the blond got angry, so angy his face began to turn red as he clenched his fist
"Why you…" He said as he charged. He lunged at me and I dodged before he got near me and kicked him in the face. He landed with his back to me and I quickly tapped his meridian to have him go unconscious.
"I want you to take me to my demon" I said to the blue man who looked at me with shock
"Why would I?"
"Because I am sure you heard I can't die, and if you don't your friend's deaths will be for nothing" I said, lying through my teeth. He glared at me before walking away,
"Follow me" He said I reluctantly followed him down a hallway to a door, which he took a key from around his neck and used it to unlock the door, "There you are" He said before pushing me in and slamming the door. I stared in shock as the demons in the room looked at me, some of their mouths began to water, and some did not care; one did not do anything and my fears diminished when I realized it was Angin, I ran to him and clutched his silver fur as I heard the conversation outside the door
"She wanted to see her demon Pain-sama"
"And you let her?"
"She killed Deidara and Kakuzu, Pain sama"
"Did you actually check to see if they were dead?"
"… no"
"Angin, I missed you" I said as I hugged the giant fox, he brought down his head and nuzzled my head against his
"I missed you too"
"I didn't see the harm in it Pain-sama if anything she would be ripped to pieces"
"May I" Angin asked
"Please do" I said as I stood back and Angin jumped inside of me once more. I screamed in agony and unbeknownst to me I began to flicker and disappear when the door finally opened and the fish and the man known as Pain looked at me in shock.