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Blood Bonds

Chapter 5

It was still dark out when Megumi woke up six hours after she had fallen asleep; she sat up and regarded her surrounding drowsily while she rubbed her eyes.

She had the feeling that something else had woken her but was too drowsy from just waking up to pay close attention to her surroundings.

Though either way they were both caught this time…

Team seven snuck up on the pair as they slept not wanting them to slip away a second time, just as they were going to enter the clearing and apprehend the two girls, the brown haired girl awoke and drowsily sat up and began to observe her surroundings.

They were relieved to see that she didn't sense them in her drowsy state and before she could come to her senses they quickly jumped in and knocked her out and tied both of them up.

After Naruto and Sakura tied the two up Sai picked up the brown haired girl and Sasuke picked up the red haired one, they began to travel through the forest towards the leaf village.

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Megumi once again woke up just about exactly six hours later, she happened to wake up when the group had stopped for a break and had set her and Minako on the ground in the shade of some trees.

It didn't seem like any of team seven noticed her waking up, their attention was on Minako who still hadn't woken up despite having had about 12 hours of sleep by now.

Team seven also seemed worried over her prolonged sleeping state and Naruto was shaking her crazily in an effort to wake her from her practically unconscious state. Sakura stood nearby, chewing her nails in worry. Sasuke knelt beside the unconscious girl being just a bit closer to her than the frantic Naruto, who held her at arm's length. The rope had been untied from around her, instead attaching her ankle to the tree trunk.

Noticing that not all of team seven's attention was on Minako, Megumi turned her head to see Sai watching her intently while the rest of his team mates where busy trying to rouse Minako.

Megumi quickly turned away, her cheeks flushing bright red.

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Minako felt herself jostle. She flung her arms out to grab a hold of someone and didn't bother to open her eyes, not yet realizing where she was or the restraints that held her. She figured that her shaking was simply her animals or Megumi trying to rouse her from sleep just like every other time she spent the night and woken up hours before her. "Just a few more hours" Minako said out loud her voice ringing clear as a bell as if she had been awake for hours and recently drunken water. She quickly rolled over onto the ground from her position leaning on the tree, grabbing the nearest thing to her in the process and rolling on top of it. She snuggled up to the heat source and proceeded to fall asleep and continue to doze.

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Naruto and the others looked at the sleepy girl as her freakishly musical voice rang out, as if she WASN'T half-asleep. Naruto backed away a few inches when the girl suddenly grabbed Sasuke and rolled onto him, knocking him onto the ground in a flat position and then snuggling into him and falling back asleep without missing a beat.

Naruto tried not to burst into giggles as Sasuke opened his mouth in shock, not quite registering how the small girl had just pinned him. Sakura stood behind them, practically hissing.

"Try not to throw a hissy fit princess" The mumbled words came from the quiet girl who was now awake by the other tree, the brown-head obviously used to the red-heads antics. The words were unheard thankfully by the entire team 7, though Sai continued to stare at the girl intently, as though assessing her.

The girl quickly turned away from the piercing eyes as a blush graced her skin, a fact that she would never admit. The man sitting across from her arched a thin eyebrow as though amused…yet as if he wasn't quite sure he was correctly expressing himself, and he didn't quite care.

Sasuke quickly tried to lift the fairly light girl off him, emitting a small "oomph" when he was once again pinned to the ground with what looked to be no conscious effort from the small sleeping body atop him.

Getting over his amusement Naruto attempted to pry the girl off of Sasuke who was having trouble at doing so himself.

Megumi burst into laughter at the sight of Sasuke still on the ground pushing Minako off him and both Naruto and Sakura standing above them attempting to pull her off Sasuke surprisingly they were failing miserably at doing so despite her fairly light weight.

Sakura who had crouched particularly low to the ground while trying to pull Minako off was caught off guard when Minako attempted to shove her face away while tiredly muttering, "Stupid cat."

Sensing Sakura's murderous intent directed towards Minako, Megumi decided it was time to wake her up and end the scene, as amusing as it was, before Minako got hurt.

Megumi stated louder than her previous comment, "The vegetables are ready!"

Immediately sitting up Minako responded totally awake her voice painfully high pitched, "Meat! I want MEAT!"

The three ninjas in her immediate area flinched, each with a look of bewilderment or shock upon their face.

Minako looked around for a few moments, not really processing her surroundings. She slowly reached down her shirt to remove a second pocket knife, this one worn and plain as though used only for bare necessities.

Minako looked almost disgustingly at the dull unattractive knife that had been her first gift from one of her ex-boyfriends, a deft idiot who she had let know of her love for CEREMONIAL knifes.

She sneered once more at the knife in front of her before fluidly throwing it towards Megumi, knowing she wouldn't hit her while discreetly cutting the rope that bound her.

It was then that she registered that she was being watched by more than one pair of eyes as Naruto quickly caught her thrown knife to keep it from reaching its destination. She sighed at the blonde saying out loud without thinking,

"Will you gladly point me to some damn meat, bastard?" she asked, clarifying to the team mates that this girl was NOT a morning person, despite it being past noontime.

"Minako, you shouldn't call people that kind of name to their face! It's rude! You say that kind of thing behind their backs." The taller one obviously said without thinking, as she quickly turned her head to the side regretting her words.

Minako rubbed her temples; completely oblivious to the man she was now straddling.

"Megumi, you would be grumpy too to wake up to find yourself roped, and no food whatsoever in sight." Minako then turned to see the sight of the other girl completely bound to a tree.

A feral snarl quickly ripped its way out of her now open mouth as Minako's eyes widened in fury. Everything sharpened to the slightest detail in her haze of anger.

Now taking notice of her position over Sasuke Minako harshly gripped his throat her eyes shining with killing intent.

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Ninja instincts instantly awoken by the girl's violent reaction to seeing her companion tied to a tree, Sasuke immediately reacted by harshly pinning the girl to the ground and knocking her out before she could try to rescue her friend or attack his team.

Now subdued Naruto and Sai severed the rope that kept Minako attached to the tree and went to work restricting any movement with ropes while Sasuke and Sakura knocked Megumi out, who struggled weakly, lightly baring her teeth at them in a feral gesture before she was knocked out also.

After retying the ropes on Megumi so that they matched Minako's the team set out with their two captives to Konoha

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Minako slowly opened her eyes to the blinding light of a light bulb. She felt Megumi tied to her back. "Megum-"She abruptly cut off as fifteen eyes turned to look at her, "Oh, goddess."

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Oh and the reason there was an odd number of eyes is because Kakashi is there too. Though that's not very important to the story at the moment.

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