Turning point: Chapter 1
:Awakening:
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Beep... Beep... Beep...
"Unnghh.. Where.. am I?"
Beep... Beep... Beep...
Heavy eyes slowly opened and glanced around, a plain white ceiling directly ahead. To the left, a bedside table with a jug of water and a glass resting on it with a plain, white door just behind that. The right, a wall right next to the bed with a window, though at this angle the only thing that could be seen was the sky.
"I'm... in bed? Where?"
Tayuya managed to lift her head and arms enough to try and sit up, but was quickly stopped by the fierce pain that shot through her stomach. She flinched and dropped back to her laying position, the force of the sudden feeling causing her to breath heavily for a few seconds. She again decided to look around the room, above her head was some kind of apparatus attached to the wall that was monitoring her heart rate and blood pressure.
"Hospital... I'm in a hospital..."
She forced her head up to look down to the foot of her bed, a chair rested against the far wall with what looked like a big piece of varnished, black wood propped up beside it.
"What.. is that?"
Tayuya tried to angle her head to get a better view of the object, but stopped as she heard the sound of footsteps nearing her room. She looked over at the door and quickly lay back down, closing her eyes and simply listening as the footsteps came closer. A few seconds later her door was pushed open and the footsteps entered the room, they moved over to her bed and a warm hand pressed gently to her bandaged forehead. Admittedly she kinda liked this feeling, she hadn't been touched like this since she was a little girl. The hand soon removed itself and the sounds of a pen on a clip board followed, Tayuya slowly and very slightly opened one eye. Looking up at the person beside her bed, it was a woman, this much was very clear from the huge chest that protruded out above her. That alone was enough to cover her face from this angle but the clip board in the woman's hands made it impossible to identify her.
After taking a few notes the woman moved to check Tayuya again. The redhead had already shut her eye again and continued to fake sleep while this person, presumably a doctor, lowered her bed covers and checked her body. Gently touching several spots that caused Tayuya to flinch, but not utter a sound. A few more minutes and the examination was done, the woman covered her back up and wrote down a few more notes before putting her pen away and exiting the room with the sound of her door closing.
Tayuya opened her eyes again, still feeling the sore spots the woman had touched. She had stopped outside the door to talk to someone, Tayuya couldn't make much of it out but listened idly as she looked up at the sky outside the window. Outside the door, the conversation seemed to end as the other person neared the door and grasped the handle, this person finished the conversation as the first woman walked away.
"Thank you lady Hokage."
Had she not been faking sleep Tayuya's eyes would have been wide open, those last few words shot through her mind like a bullet.
"Hokage? HOKAGE?! I'm in the fucking leaf?! What the hell happened? Was I captured?" Before she could think about much more, her door opened and the second person entered.
Tayuya kept still, her only movements being her rising chest as she breathed. The person in her room closed the door behind them self and steadily made their way to the bed. Tayuya could feel the person's eyes looking over her body, the feeling to her was like an animal watches it's prey. As the person drew closer, Tayuya's heart began to speed up. Considering she was a ninja, she wasn't great at hiding her emotions as evidenced by her usual outbursts of anger. The new visitor seemed to notice this, as the beeping on the heart monitor also sped up. After what sounded like a scoff, the person spoke.
"Heh, I guess you can feel me near you. They said you wouldn't wake up for a while, but I think you look a lot calmer when you're sleeping."
This voice, Tayuya recognized this voice, she had heard it before, but where? She didn't get time to think about it as the girl by her bed leaned down.
"I wonder if I kissed you, you'd wake up a princess?"
Tayuya's heart began to race, her face flushed red, she felt the girl's breath over her face and suddenly; her eyes snapped open to meet her visitor's. Chestnut eyes meeting deep blue as the girl above her yelped in surprise and jumped back. Tayuya took one look at the girl, sandy blonde hair tied into quad-tails, a pale blue outfit with a red sash and a Suna headband tied around her neck. Tayuya's expression changed into a glare of fury as she looked over at the girl that had nearly killed her.
"YOU!"