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I didn't remember falling asleep. The last thing I remembered was the nurse bandaging me, and then changing the sheets on my bed after cleaning me up.

But, I guess I did.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the unfamiliar room in front of me. It was strange how I had become so accustomed to my new room at this school.

I rubbed my eyes, and started to sit up. My head felt heavy, so I laid back down.

I felt a lot of pain, but nowhere near as much as I had yesterday.

It was hard to remember all of what had happened, it almost felt like a forgotten dream.

But the wounds on me told me that it wasn't.

I traced my finger along the bandage on the side of my head.

I could feel some dried blood on it. Gross.

Just then, the nurse entered the small room.

"Oh, you're awake?" the nurse asked.

"Yeah."

She came over to me, and started to take my bandages off, to replace them with cleaner ones. "How are you today?"

"Better," I replied.

"Good."

"Um. . ." I thought of what had been bothering me for most of the night. That tall guy with black hair and coal eyes. He wasn't anyone I knew, but he looked so familiar.

"Hm?" The nurse said.

"Who brought me here?" I decided to play stupid.

The nurse thought for a moment, and then realized what I meant. "It was a young man. Very nice boy, it seems."

"I know," I paused, searching for the right words. "Do you know who he is?"

She must've thought I was some sort of stalker or something. "No."

"Oh." Then I shut up.

When she was finished, the nurse said, "Just rest now. Don't move around too much."

I nodded my head. Usually, I would argue. But it hurt too much to disagree.

It only felt like minutes, but soon I. . . saw something.

The whole world was almost like a maze. I was lost. I couldn't find anyone -- couldn't see anything.

"Tenten!" Someone shouted. That voice! Who was it!? It sounded so familiar.

I walked along the maze, bumping into the sides of it.

That's when I realized it wasn't a maze, but a forest instead.

I kept bumping into the trees.

"Where are you?" I responded.

"Over here!" The voice said.

I tried making my way through the maze, but I couldn't.

I was. . . blind! How did I get blind?

"Where?"

"Oh, Tenten. Please don't leave!"

"Huh? Who are you?"

"O-Over . . . h-here!" The person's voice was shaking.

"Hey!" I felt the Earth beneath me shaking.

"What are you doing? Stop it!" A voice said -- not the one that was calling my name, though.

"Tenten! Wake up! We have important business to take care of!"

"Leave her alone! She's trying to sleep!"

"What?" I mumbled. "This isn't making sense."

"C'mon!"

I groaned, and I soon opened my eyes.

"Ha! She's not sleeping!" Ino yelled.

The nurse looked at Ino angrily, but walked away. "You have visitors," she said.

I looked up and saw most of the people I had met recently.

Ino, Sakura, Hinata, Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, and Lee.

"You don't look like you're in a very youthful state!" Lee announced.

I smiled. "Not really."

Ino leaned towards me. "What happened! Tell us everything!"

The nurse wasn't around, so I breathed deeply.

"I left my journal at the. . ." My eyes widened. My journal! Had I dropped it again? "Where's my journal?"

I didn't write in it too often, but I did a lot when I was younger. It had all my secrets.

Hinata looked around. "This?" She held up a small notebook.

I breathed out a sigh of relief, and continued my story. ". . . at the park, so I was about to leave late last night when Neji stopped me. He said it was dangerous, so I. . ."

I looked around to make sure the nurse wasn't nearby. ". . . took my knife along with me." Ino and Sakura gasped. "Well, I found the notebook, obviously. But when I was about to leave this guy stopped me.

"He wanted me to go with him, but I refused. Then, he called about four other guys to help him. They were starting to hold me down. But I fought back! And then I ran, with my knife in my hand.

"That's when I tripped over a bench, and the knife sliced part of my head, and I crashed into the tree." I touched the fresh bandage with my fingers. "And then, I was about to give up. The guy lifted me up, and threw me into the tree. That's when he left. He said something about a job. I saw some people joining him, but then they started beating him up."

I paused, trying to remember what had happened next. Ino's mouth was wide open, along with Sakura's; Shikamaru looked like he didn't care, but Naruto. . . he was listening to every word with fascination; so was Kiba.

"One of the guys; with black hair, coal eyes, and he was pretty tall. . ." Ino must have been imagining him, or something. She was looking at the ceiling. ". . . carried me here. That's it."

"Oh! I want to meet that guy! He sounds so. . ." Ino stopped her sentence, thinking of the right word.

"Dreamy?" Sakura finished.

Ino sighed. "Yeah," she said, almost in a daze.

Naruto's eyes were really wide. "Did you beat them up?"

"Did ya?" Kiba said.

"Well. . . sort of. I cracked like two of the guys arms. They won't be able to use it for a while."

"Whoa!" Naruto shouted. "You're amazing, Tenten!"

Shikamaru groaned. "I'm going to go now."

He stood up, and was about to walk out of the room, but before he did, he said, "Tenten? Neji wanted me to give you this." He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket.

"He trusted me with it." He shrugged his shoulders. "I would never bother to read it. Too boring."

I grabbed the note from his hand. Ino was standing over me, trying to read. "Hey!" I said. "Get away!"

She crossed her arms. "Hmph."

I opened it up. There were only four words on the paper -- not even his name was on the note; or mine.

It read:

Get rid of it.

I knew exactly what he meant. He was reminding me about it -- the knife.

I wonder how he's going to react when I say I "lost" it. Oops.

"Anyone have a pen?"

Immediately, Lee pulled out a pen. "Here you go!"

I wrote only three words on the other side of the torn paper.

I lost it.

Heh. He's probably going to be really ticked off.

"Here, Shikamaru. Give this to Neji."

Shikamaru took it out of my hand, and left the room.

"What was that all about?" Sakura asked.

"Nothing," I replied.

Sakura and Ino both glanced at each other. "Sure. . ."

"Anyone have any food?" Choji said, saying his first sentence during this conversation. He had been eating a bag of chips the whole time.

Everyone shook their heads.

He sighed. "I'm going to go see if someone has any. Bye!"

He's weird. So now, it was only Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Kiba, Naruto, Lee, and me left.

"You like Neji, don't you?" Ino grinned.

Ew! "No."

Sakura smiled. "Stop denying! You're starting to like him!"

Naruto, Kiba, and Lee didn't want to get involved in this, so they just started to talk amongst themselves.

Ino grabbed my shoulder. "It's okay. We don't mind. We're after Sasuke anyway," she said, winking.

"I don't like that stoic bastard!" I yelled.

Lee turned around. "That's a very unyouthful word, Tenten."

"Stoic?"

"No," Lee said. "The 'B' one."

"Bastard?" I said, while Lee cringed, and nodded his head. "Sorry, Lee. Next time I'll try to be youthful." That was sarcasm, but obviously Lee didn't understand it that way.

"Good!" He yelled.

I rolled my eyes. I tried to sit up, but the pain in my head seemed to go through my entire body.

I groaned, and laid back down.

Hinata obviously realized my pain, and said, "L-Let's go. I t-think Tenten should r-rest."

I looked up gratefully at Hinata. I didn't want to continue Ino and Sakura's conversation.

They would probably spread a rumor -- and I definitely didn't need that.

After they had left, I just continued to stare up at the ceiling for awhile.

I wanted to get out of here, but I would get in trouble, probably, and I didn't need that, either.

So I just waited. I didn't know what I was waiting for, but I didn't know what else to do.

It seemed like hours, but in reality, it was only about ten minutes.

The time was 4:30pm. What day was today?

I couldn't remember. If yesterday was. . .

I struggled to remember. Yesterday was. . . Wednesday! So, today was Thursday.

I had missed a day of school, but I'm sure much worse could've happened if those guys hadn't been there.

That reminded me. That guy. . . ugh. . . so familiar! But now he was turning into a blur in my mind.

Black hair, coal eyes, older than me, taller than me, popular with girls. . . It was on the tip of my tongue!

I hate when this happens!

That's when the door slammed open, and in came Naruto.

"Naruto. . .? What are you doing here?"

"I was bored," he grumbled. "And Sasuke's being a chicken butt."

I laughed. "How's Sasuke being a chicken butt?"

And, as soon as I said those words, it came to me. My eyes widened.

The answer I had been looking for. It was right in front of me, kinda.

Sasuke has black hair, coal eyes, girls chasing him. . . but this other guy was taller. And older.

A relative? Possibly.

"Naruto!" I yelled out.

Naruto stopped mid-sentence; I hadn't even realized he had responded to my question.

"Does Sasuke have a relative that goes to this school!?"

"Why do you wanna know?" Naruto asked.

"Just. . . wondering. Well, does he?"

"Yeah, I think. He has an older brother; he might go to this school." Naruto frowned. "Do you have any ramen?"

Yes! I figured it out! "Huh? No, I don't."

"Crap," Naruto mumbled.

"Do you know the guy's name?" I asked.

Naruto scratched his head. "Eh. . . it was. . ." He closed his eyes, trying to concentrate.

I waited.

"Name? . . . Name?" Naruto whispered.

"Do you know?"

"I can't remember!"

"Try to think: Chicken butt's older brother. Black hair, black eyes, tall . . ."

Naruto closed his eyes even tighter.

The door slammed open. . . again. Poor door. It must've been opened about thirty times today. It was Lee this time.

"Hey. . . Lee?" I murmured.

"Tenten! That unyouthful Shikamaru told me to give this to you! He was too lazy to bring it back. I didn't read it; that would be terrible if I did!" He announced proudly.

He handed me a new crumpled-up sheet of paper, and I read it:

Where is it?

This was fun. I like writing notes, especially with Neji because he doesn't get angry if you only write a few words on the paper.

Park; last time I had it.

Ha! "Here. Give this to Neji. Tell him to come here next time -- it'll be quicker."

"Yes! Tenten-san!"

Before Lee left, I said, "Wait!"

He stopped in mid-run, and turned around.

I gulped. I wanted to tell him. . . to ask Sasuke the name, but it would be so awkward! I don't know why I was so interested in this guy. Maybe I just wanted to be able to believe that this was true:

That not all guys are idiots.

. . . And I wanted to know who this person was; maybe I could find and thank them.

"Um. . ." I murmured. "Could you ask Sasuke what the name of his older brother is?"

Lee paused for a moment. "Itachi."

I almost gasped. How did Lee know? "He goes to this school?"

"Yeah," Lee confirmed. "He's a senior."

And we're only freshmen!

"Oh, never mind, then." That answered my question. I was almost relieved to know that the person was real.

In my strange little world, sometimes I wonder if things are fake or reality.

Without a word, Lee left the room. Naruto was still trying to think of the name of that guy.

"What was his name?" He must not have been paying attention to Lee.

"Itachi?" I said, playing along with Naruto's stupidity.

"No, that's not it," Naruto replied. "I thought it started with an 'R.'"

I sighed. Naruto was unbelievable.

I was so bored I was counting the little specks on the ceiling.

The nurse came into the room. "How are you feeling?"

I stopped counting. "Fine. I think I can go now."

She smiled. "Tomorrow. Just to be sure."

I was about to go back to counting when she said, "You have a visitor."

I immediately sat up, expecting to see Lee with a dozen flowers with a "Get Well Soon!" card attached.

Instead, my roommate walked in.

Not Chicken-Butt; Stoic-Bastard.

He walked quietly in, and sat down on a chair in the corner of the room.

His eyes were closed, and he looked peaceful.

A few moments passed before I said quietly, "Not to be rude. . . but why are you here?"

"Why else? To take it away from you." He didn't even open his eyes.

"Well, you could be here to visit someone who was just injured . . . and I told you, I lost it."

He 'Hn'-ed. "Like I would believe that."

"Well," I said, standing up. "Believe what you want; I know what happened."

He folded his arms across his chest.

"And. . . why are you so interested in me getting rid of the knife? Don't you have something better to do?"

He completely ignored me.

"Fine. Do whatever," I mumbled under my breath. "Stupid ass."

I think I'm using a little more language than usual.

His eyes fluttered open. "Huh?"

"You heard me!" I yelled. "I know something's wrong! Tell me what it is!"

He looked down. "I don't have to tell you anything. Nothing's wrong."

"If you don't tell me," I began. "Then I won't know why you're acting like more of a jerk than usual."

"I'm not," he argued. "Where is it? Using weapons are against school policy."

I shrugged my shoulders. "I dropped it by a bench. It could be anywhere now."

"Hn." And he walked outside.

What's up with him?

I looked at the clock.

9:55pm.

This was torture! I wasn't tired, and I hated this. I stood up, and walked over to the small bathroom near the room.

The window was open. I snatched my journal; the only thing of mine that was here.

I peeked outside the bathroom door; the nurse wasn't around. I looked outside the window; it was only about a ten foot drop.

I could do this.

Easily.

I stuck my foot out of the window, and held onto the wall for support. When I had finally got all of my body outside, I held onto the window. I looked down, and felt a little dizzy.

I let go of the window, and crashed onto the ground.

I stood up, dusted off my pants, and made a run for it.

I know I was stupid. This was around the same time I was attacked yesterday.

But I hate hospitals! . . . or nurse's offices!

I heard the nurse enter the room I had previously been in. "Tenten!" I heard her shout.

I leaned against the brick building, waiting for her to eventually leave. After a few seconds of rummaging through the room, the lady closed the door behind her.

I just hoped she didn't think I was kidnapped or something. It's not her fault that I hate needles. It's the needle's fault. Yeah. I laughed.

Then I began running again.

THE END

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