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here is chapter 5!!!
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Sakura's POV
The clock read 2:58. I sighed, stretching myself out, I was sooooo ready for the school day to be over…but then again…I looked to my right to look at the stoic scarlet haired boy sitting next to me. I frowned a little, today was over, what if tomorrow he decided to take me up on my offer and have nothing to do with me? It was so hard to tell with him whether or not he actually enjoyed being with me.
Will you stop worrying? He likes us, I can tell
How can you tell?
Because, he's obviously not a touchy feely person or very 'enthusiastic' like we are but every time today that he could have easily lost us he stayed and waited so that we could catch up, so clearly he's not trying to ditch us. PLUS you saw him when we were playing football, he was so sweet and protective and strong and o my GOD he's just so hot and his muscles and his eyes and….
Ok ok I got it. That sort of made sense before you started babbling, but I guess we'll have to see tomorrow…
"It's time to go."
I looked around at Gaara and then back at the clock.
"Oh, you're right. I guess we should go then huh?" I gathered my stuff and headed for the door, smiling when he followed me down the hall.
"So Gaara, where do you live?" I had been wondering that all day, hoping in the back of my mind that he lived close to my house.
"I live in the foothills on the north side of town."
"Oh that so cool!", I exclaimed gleefully, "I live on the far north side of town right up against the foothills! And no one ever lives anywhere close to me so this is just so cool!"
"You said that twice." He said looking over at me.
"Oh I did didn't I?" I said, a blush creeping up my cheeks, why does he make me do that so often! Urg!
We walked down the stairs together and then I stopped at a computer to clock myself in. You see I work at my school as an after school janitor. Sure it's not glamorous work but I personally prefer it to working in a fast food joint or something. Plus all my guys, Itachi, Sasuke, Naruto, Deidara, and Kiba work with me so they make it fun.
When I stopped Gaara kept walking until a few seconds later he stopped too, whipping his head side to side. It was pretty funny to watch. He spun around, his gaze landed on me and the panicked look in his eye faded instantaneously. He walked back and looked at the computer I was entering my password into.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm clocking in," I answered. "I work here after school so I clock in before I start so they know how much to pay me."
I walked away from the computer and headed down the hallway. When I looked back I noticed with surprise that Gaara was following me
"Aren't you going home Gaara?"
He shrugged his shoulders, silent.
I shrugged mine back and continued on my way to the closet under the stairs.
When I reached it I headed straight in to get my vacuum. I was the first one here today so I got the lighter vacuum and the better hose. Yeah!
You're such a dork
Well excuse me for being happy I got the better tools and therefore my job is easier. I personally think that deserves a yeah
Janitor dork
Hey at least I get a paycheck, how else am I supposed to take care of my beauty needs?
So true...we should get a haircut soon, our ends are splitting
good idea...
When I came out of the closet (haha!-came out of the closet! Oh shut up you) I saw Gaara standing to the side of a group of boys who were cheerfully beating on each other.
"GUYS! KNOCK IT OFF!"
They turned to me.
"Hey Sakura!" They chorused. Naruto beamed at me and casually swung his fist into Deidara's gut. Deidara in turn thumped Naruto over the head which caused Naruto to shove Sasuke into Itachi who then bumped Kiba to the ground, I watched cynically as they began once again to beat one another senseless.
I sighed, I would have to break it up again.
I took my vacuum hose(which, for those of you who don't know is a long metal pole with a vacuum head at the end of it) and began to swing it amongst the tumbling boys. Gaara watched from the wall with a bored look on his face as I thrust the pole into the boys, forcing them to back, one by one, out of the group.
When it was finally down to Naruto and Sasuke I whapped them both soundly over the head.
They both turned to me with sullen looks on their faces.
"So, are you done?"
Naruto rubbed his head, "Why'd you have to hit so hard Sakura?"
"Because," I said, picking up my stuff and heading towards my section of the building, "Your head is hard. Get to work you guys, no more fighting on the job or Jiraiya will catch you again and you'll get your pay deducted."
When I turned down my hallway out of the corner of my eye I saw Gaara walk past me and continue on towards the front doors.
"By Gaara!"
He gave a lethargic wave and walked away.
I turned around and went back to work.
Wonder what tomorrow's gonna be like...
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I waited on the roof of the building for her to go home. I watched with my eyes closed as she danced around the classrooms she was vacuuming.
Eventually her ride pulled up in front of the building. I focused once again on the point of chakra in my abdomen. The light was expanded outward and now I focused on pulling the light inside of myself and sucking the color of my chakra in with it.
I looked down a moment later and was satisfied to see that I was completely invisible, no chakra outline showed against the roof of the building.
I opened my eyes and leapt lightly from the roof of the building to the car. Once I was there I got to work setting up an invisibility tent on the roof of the vehicle. You see, while I can become invisible I can only maintain it so long. It's like lifting weights with your chakra, eventually you have to stop. That's why our scientists have come up with portable shielding devices that you can take with you wherever you need them. Once they're set up you can't move them again but they'll create a stable invisibility shield that will last for years unless you detonate the device.
I settled underneath the shield and released my chakra back out into my body; a moment later Sakura got into the car and we were driving away.
As we drove though the streets my thoughts drifted over the day, remembering this morning, the football game and watching her dance while she worked.
What a strange girl
She's unique. I'm very impressed with her.
Why?
Because of how well she communicates with you. From personal experience I can tell you that it is not the easiest thing to do. And there's another thing; have you ever been this responsive to anyone else?
I sat there in silence, refusing to answer the obnoxious voice.
The answer is no
I stubbornly ignored him.
So what do you think of her?
I decided this question was unoffensive enough to answer
She's...different. Her fierce independence surprised me. And how her mood shifts from second to second is bizarre But there's this innocence in her that's almost childlike and something about is just so...fragile.
That almost sounded as if you were fond of her.
Of course not. I'm just analyzing my charge. It will help me better look after her.
Sure.
Why do you think she was in so much pain?
I don't know. Maybe you should ask her
humf
The car pulled up to a green house. I watched as Sakura helped a small boy gather up his bear and shoes and ushered him into the house.
I became invisible once again and once they were safely inside I leapt onto the roof of the house. There I busied myself setting up a permanent outpost. (You may ask how I could set up anything seeing as I didn't have anything with me. This is where the scientists from my dimension come in once again. They've developed a type of container that can forms a vacuum of space into which about a ton of nonliving stuff can fit. The container is flat and rectangular and can be stretched out to potentially a mile wide to remove something and shrunk down to about two inches in length. You can remove something from it at anytime making it very useful in the field) The invisibility tent I activated was much larger and underneath it I set up a platform about 9ft wide and 18ft long. On this I set up a thermal tent that took up about half of the platform. Inside there was a sleeping bag (not that I would be using it much, having been an insomniac all my life) and my bear Ai.
Everything was set up so I turned into my tent to look over Sakura's files. I pulled out the holograms and began to read.
Sakura Haruno
Dimension # 7
Gender: female
Birth date: 9/20/1991
Our investigation of Sakura Haruno first began in October of 1997. Intelligence seers(1) had been gathering information from the air elementals(2) when they heard a small group of the elementals conversing about a girl. The seers gathered enough information from the conversation to make multiple visuals which are attached.(some are from the first instance, others from later research)
I moved the written hologram aside and pulled forward the file of visuals. When I opened the folder there were dozens of holographic sketches of a little pink headed girl. In one she was swinging at a playground, air elementals pushing her on her swing and talking with her. In another she was running around a small pine tree, playing with the flying elementals. In a third she was sitting behind a house, crying, elementals swirling around her in concern. I pulled the written hologram back to me and kept reading
It was at this point that the seers who had made this discovery came to us in the research labs. We were very interested in this phenomenon; there had never been a recorded instance of anyone under the age of twenty-three being able to hear the air elementals. There have, however, been two other similar instances. In one case a young man of sixteen was able to talk with and direct water elementals. In the other case a young boy has been protected by very specific sand elementals since birth and has the ability to direct all earth elementals at will.
Reminded that my sand was probably anxiously waiting for me to let it out I reached into my pocket and pulled out a tiny gourd. Our scientists had made it for me to carry my sand in while I was under cover. It had the same ability as the container I had used earlier and was fashioned after the gourd I usually carried on my back.
I opened the gourd and sand poured out until the tent was half filled. It swirled around my, inspecting me for any injury and petting me affectionately.
After it had calmed down I bent back over the holograms; I was curious who the other mentioned case was and hoped the might mention something else about it.
When the first young man was able to interact with the elementals we in the research labs thought it was a miracle or a fluke. But since the discovery of the other two there has been a concentrated effort on the study of the gifted three and on research involving them. In the search some of our researchers found records from about 2,000 years ago that spoke of people like our three subjects. The records tell of four people, each with the ability to see and interact with one specific elemental group. These people are referred to as the four flames. Each flame was unique in their abilities and all of them excelled in different areas. However, there was one way in which they were the same and that was in the breadth of their incredible power. It is our theory that Sakura Haruno is one of the four flames and that the other two are also flames. Unfortunately our theory cannot be proven until the fire flame is discovered.
Therefore Sakura Haruno's case is still under investigation.
Though it has not yet been proven whether Sakura is a flame or not there has been some concern about her safety. The air elementals had discovered that Sakura had had dream visitors from the Danakya Dimension. They were so concerned that they deliberately came to our seers. They informed them that there were Danakian agents interested in Sakura and demanded that we put her under some sort of protection. We took this threat very seriously and therefore sent one of our most experienced fighters (and the potential earth flame), Gaara no Subaku to dimension 7 where he is currently guarding Sakura Haruno while continuing to support our research of her.
((1)Seers-Seers are people with ability to hear elementals, advanced seers can see them but no seer has ever been able to actually speak with an elemental. Seers begin to show their ability to hear elementals in their early twenties. From this point on it takes at least ten years of intensive training in order to gain a full grasp of the elementals methods of communication. This time period is also important to the formation of trust between a seer and the elemental community. Seers are often employed as Intelligence Seers who work in the Intelligence Unit of the Defenders Dimension gathering information from other dimensions through the interdimensional elementals.
(2)Elementals- Sentient beings of a base elemental form. Though their communication methods are different than that of the homo sapien they can think and communicate on a level as high as humans. Some seers argue that they can even communicate on an even higher level than humans because of their ability to convey thoughts, pictures, and emotions at the same time. There are four families of elementals; fire, water, earth, and air. Of these families there are branches, such as the branches of sand and clay off of the family of earth. Elementals are very secretive creatures and cannot be seen or heard by most other creatures. Some people have the inborn ability to hear elementals and with training they can become seers. Even seers, however, must overcome the extreme secretive behavior of the elemental; it takes years for a seer to develop a level of trust with a select group of elementals. There are also a few seers who can, to some extent, see elementals. These seers have tried to document what elementals look like. There are many different types of elementals and therefore there are no consistent forms among them but all elementals have one physical similarity. This is the fluidity of their bodies. Despite that some of them are composed of substances such as rock they do not appear to have a stable skeleton to which their bodies must adhere to.)
I stared at the hologram long after I'd finished reading. My mind flickered from one thought to another
I'm a flame?
There are others?
Who's the water flame?
Sakura's the air flame?
Sakura needs protecting from Danakian agents?
The Danakians are interested in her?
The flickering stopped and my mind honed in on one thought.
Sakura's in danger
And that is why we are here
Right
I turned off the hologram and lay out on my sleeping bag, my head resting next to Ai and my sand curling contentedly around me.
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