Turning point: Chapter 2

:Remorse:

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Anger and immense pain, those were Tayuya's next feelings as she instinctively rose to lunge at the Suna kunoichi in front of her. A movement she very much regretted soon after as the pain in her lower half caused her to keel over and fall from her bed, the hard floor below causing her to actually cry out in pain as she hit it hard. The redhead grasped at her stomach and writhed in agony, gritting her teeth now and then to try and stop herself from screaming. The Suna girl had already called for a doctor from the door by this point and was trying to straighten Tayuya's body out, efforts which were met with flailing arms as the squirming teen angrily signaled that she didn't want help. A minute later and a pair of nurses rushed into the room and tried to calm their patient down. After a few futile efforts, one of them managed to hold the girl's arm down long enough to sedate her and thirty seconds later she was sound asleep.

Beep... Beep... Beep...

Tayuya's eyes fluttered open, the sound of her heart on the monitor dominating the silence in the room. She looked around, expecting to see the same sights as before. But instead, the bedside table that had been on her left had been moved and the chair from the other side of the room now stood in it's place. Upon that, the Suna girl was sat. She was asleep, her head tilted to the side but her body sitting surprisingly straight in the chair. Tayuya suspected she must sleep like this a lot. She looked down at her own body. Since her little outburst earlier; the nurses seemed to have strapped her arms to the bed, presumably to stop her from further injuring herself. With nothing to do and no way to move, Tayuya simply lay her head back and listened to the sounds around her. The heart monitor was the loudest, being the closest sound in the room just above her head. The faint singing of the birds outside, a few people down the hall who seemed to be talking about towels; she could only hear that much through the open door. But the most calming sound she could hear, much to her surprise, was the gentle breathing of the girl beside her bed. She seemed to notice that sound above all the others, like a slow, smooth melody to her. Tayuya closed her eyes and listened to that sound until she drifted off again.

What seemed like only moments later, Tayuya opened her eyes again and was greeted by a conversation in her room. She turned her head to see the Suna girl with her back turned to the bed, talking with the doctor from before. This time her face was visible. She was a very good looking woman, her long blonde hair framing her face nicely. She looked to be in her late twenties, the dark blue diamond shape on her forehead was an odd choice of tattoo in Tayuya's opinion. But her most defining feature was definitely her almost unnecessarily large chest, being somewhat larger than her head. Tayuya only caught the end of the conversation once she started listening.

"Just make sure she's ready for interrogation, I'll make sure she isn't harmed if you can make her talk before..."

The doctor looked over at the bed and noticed Tayuya watching them, she smiled as she spoke again.

"Well, look who's up. I'll leave you to talk to her, just call me if she tries anything."

With that, the busty doctor turned and left the room, leaving the Suna girl to walk back to her chair and quietly sit down.

Tayuya simply watched the girl as she seemed lost in thought for a good ten minutes until she decided to break the silence herself.

"Why did you bring me here?"

Her voice was weak and cracked, but the attitude applied with it was more than enough to get the girl's attention. She looked up with an expression that made her look like someone just asked her the meaning of life. Not understanding the confusion her question seemed to bring, Tayuya asked again.

"I said... Why the hell did you bring me here?"

This time the girl spoke up. She didn't have the cocky tone she seemed to flaunt before, but she answered quickly.

"Because I wanted to."

Now it was Tayuya's turn to look confused.

"She wanted to? What the fuck made her want to bring me here? Other than to get info outta me".

She thought long and hard about her next question before she asked it.

"What the hell made you want to bring me here? You could've left me to die out there."

Her expression was foul as she waited for the girl's answer, the sandy blonde looked down as if she was thinking about her response. It only took a moment before she turned back to look at the bedridden girl.

"Because, it wasn't part of my mission to kill anyone, only to assist the leaf."

Tayuya frowned again.

"The sand showing mercy? Give me a break. I bet I was the only one you guys didn't actually finish off, so you brought me here to tell you about the sound. Is that it?"

The girl fell silent, her brow furrowing as she tried to find an answer. Tayuya simply watched her, her expression still full of anger. She would strangle this girl if her arms weren't tied down. Eventually the girl looked up, staring her dead in the eye as she answered what would be Tayuya's final question.

"I brought you here... Because I didn't want you to die. Once my mission was over I made sure I got you here before it was too late because... I couldn't bring myself to let you go like that. I saved you because... you didn't deserve to die out there."

Tayuya's eyes were wide, her angry expression had disappeared during the answer and was now one of confusion and awe. She could have sworn she saw tears welling up in the girls eyes before she looked down again, hiding them behind her short bangs. Neither girl said a word for the next few minutes, the silence in the room only broken by the nurse poking her head in to say that visiting times were over. The girl nodded and stood up, lifting her giant fan and strapping it to her back before turning to the door. Once there she looked back and quietly spoke before leaving. With that, she closed the door and her footsteps faded slowly. Tayuya said nothing, she simply stared at the ceiling with eyes that looked like they were in a trance. She lay in her bed in silence, thinking over everything that had happened; everything that was said. After half an hour of silence, the room had darkened and she closed her eyes to sleep for the night. Her lips moving on their own into a faint smile that she couldn't keep herself from making as she quietly repeated the girl's last word to herself.

"Temari..."

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