Part 7 Ghosts From the Past
As I opened my eyes gingerly I felt like my head had been made a quarry, carved in two then exploded, I felt really bad, I suppose that's what you get from getting laid and smacking into objects in your drunken state whilst saying you will marry the bottle of sake in your hand. I turned over and pulled the covers over my head I was so not waking up if I had to, especially when I had the hangover sent from hell. Someone knocked on my door and called my name, I just grunted and buried myself further under the covers, I was sure whoever it was, they could manage a day without me. I heard the door swing open and the covers where wrenched off me, I let out a dazed moan. I opened one eye drearily to see who the intruder on my very much needed sleep was, I vaguely registered the blonde hair in the four bunches and the blue eyes,
"Temari-chan," I muttered,
"Yeah, are you okay you look a bit ill?"
"Hung-over," I muttered into my pillow because the light made my head throb even worse, if that was possible,
"Oh dear, well I came to see if you wanted any breakfast,"
"Er yeah sure,"
"I know a perfect hangover remedy by the way, so come down when you're ready," she closed the door behind her, I laid there just wanting to lay down all tucked up in bed forever but unluckily I had to drag my sorry arse out of bed to get ready and go downstairs. I flung on a long black kimono with a tiger on and put some flat boots on, then gave my hair a brush, there wasn't much point trying to do anything with it.
As I trudged downstairs I heard raised voices from the kitchen,
"Temari you can't cook!" shouted Kankuro.
"Can too Kankuro baka!" then I heard yelping and the sound of a pan being hit on something, I pushed the door open tentatively and put my head around the door to see Temari pinning Kankuro down and whacking him over the head with a frying pan, I raised one eyebrow,
"Er, is everything okay?"
"Tell this idiot I can cook," she said still sat on top of Kankuro, with him smiling weakly,
"Well I have never tried any of your food Temari-chan but I agree with you that he is an idiot,"
"Hey!" said Kankuro defensively,
"Please don't shout I have a splitting headache and you don't want to get on the wrong side of me cos I wouldn't want to," Temari jumped off of Kankuro and reached into a cupboard and pulled out a purple packet,
"The Hokage in Konoha was trained as a medical-nin and also likes to drink, she gave me one and it worked so I got some more," she thrust it into my hands. I opened the packet and smelt it, god it stank, Temari added some water to it and I drank it, after a few minutes my head was totally clear,
"Wow, thanks Temari-chan it really does work,"
"I told you didn't I? Now what would you like for breakfast?" they probably had anything in the Kazekage manor,
"Erm, what about pancakes?" I said with a big grin
"Yep, pancakes it is then!"
"Temari, weren't you meant to meet those ninja from Konoha?"
"Oh damn I forgot!" she said and ran out of the room,
"She is meant to meet them at noon; I just said that because she's a terrible cook," I sat down on a cushion and looked out the window it was beautiful day, it always seemed to be in Suna, maybe that's why Sachiyo- no mustn't think about that. When Kankuro had done he sat down beside me, he wasn't wearing that stupid cat suit or the purple kanji on his face, I found it strange that none of the sand siblings looked remotely a like. I felt like I had a new family almost, they all seemed nice in their own way; Temari-chan came back in looking disgruntled,
"I wasn't meant to meet them now was I Kankuro baka?" she said with her teeth gritted,
"Er, no but I could hardly let Keitii-chan get food poisoning from your vile cooking you call food," he said sniggering,
"Oh shut up Kankurou," Temari gave him an evil glare, Kankuro shook his head smiling.
"What are your plans then Keitii-chan?"
"Erm, maybe see more of Suna I don't really know because I didn't really plan on being in Suna this early," I hadn't made plans to come to Suna at all really,
"I'm sure my brother will show you around the village," Temari said brandishing a knife at Kankuro; I smiled and exited wondering what I could possibly do today? I ran up the stairs three at a time and cart wheeled to my door, so sue I like being spontaneous! I did an army roll into my room Kotaro tried to copy me, it was kind of cute actually I shook my head and put him on my shoulder as I gathered my purse and as I got to the stairs I felt something behind me, I turned and saw a but ugly huge puppet, Kotaro let out a squawk as I screamed and fell down the stairs backwards as the puppet lunged for me, I also heard a yell as I tumbled down the stairs. The three of us landed in a heap outside Temari's room, I realised Kankuro was laid sprawled on top of me, the only thing that could make this situation worse is what I have a tendency to do when caught by surprise and trapped by something,
"RAPE!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. CRASH! CRASH! As two doors were flung open,
"Keitii!" Temari yelled as she grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the wreckage, I was breathing as though I had just run a marathon, "Are you okay?" she said as she hugged me,
"I think so Temari-chan," I looked to my right to see Gaara stood there,
"What happened and what was all the racket about?"
"Kankuro baka was trying to rape Keitii-chan,"
"I wasn't!" yelled Kankuro exasperatedly from under his puppet,
"Kankuro, please can you keep your sexual urges and fantasies to yourself," I heard Gaara walk back into his room as Temari led me into another room. I saw three people as I entered the room, one was a girls with pink hair with green eyes, a boy sat on her left, he had blond hair that was spiky and wore a strange assortment of clothing, clearly no fashion expert and next to him there was a man with white/ greyish hair, he had half of his face covered up I wondered vaguely why he had it covered up. Also a boy with very thick eyebrows and a basin haircut was there in a ridiculous green all in one suit. They all looked familiar, from their headbands I could tell that they were ninja from Konoha which my old village was friendly with,
"Keitii-chan, this is Haruno Sakura," the girl with pink hair smiled, "Uzamaki Naruto," the boy smiled and waved, god he was weird, "Hatake Kakashi," the man nodded his head, "And Rock Lee," he smiled and gave a thumbs up, he must be gay! My father had hired them to do work for our village before, "Keitii-chan I think it would be best if you sat down and heard what they have to say," I looked at Kakashi seen as he was obviously their leader, I knew it they'd been hired by my father.
I crossed my arms and sat down,
"We have been sent by the Hoshikage to bring you back," I snorted,
"I thought as much, well I am not going back there ever again, why has he sent four people to come after a sixteen year old girl, I am sure one would have been sufficient?" I wanted to know how much they new about me before I gave any information to them,
"The Hoshikage thought that given what you did to the man Daichi he sent after you, anyone could have seen that even one ninja alone couldn't bring you down,"
"Too right, I suppose he told you what erm techniques I use then?"
"Yes, he also said that he will bring you back eventually," I knew quite a bit about all the surrounding villages and the people with in them, especially the ones who had been to Hoshigakure,
"Well, I doubt he will be able to contain me for long if he does," I said smirking,
"You're going to come back with us to Hoshigakure because that's our mission!" Uzamaki Naruto yelled at me, I raised one eyebrow,
"I know you all by reputation, things I have heard and because you visited my village, I am more aware of your techniques than you think," I looked at Kakashi, "You're the son of the White Fang of Konoha and are also known as the copy ninja," I didn't know why he was called that but he looked amazed at how much I knew, "Haruno Sakura, you were trained to be a combat medical-nin were you not?" she nodded, "Rock Lee, very fast speed and can unlock five gates," he smiled, "And you Uzamaki Naruto, why you must be the Kyuubi kid who I have heard much about, I heard the Akatsuki are after you seeing as you are the only one of the few tailed beasts they do not have," even Temari looked surprised at my knowledge. I glared at Naruto who was glaring at me; Kotaro did the same, Temari shook her head,
"Look the matter has been complicated slightly through no real fault of Keitii-chan's and I agree with Keitii-chan that she shouldn't leave," Gaara came in, "Gaara, erm I was just about to explain the complication with Keitii-chan," he looked at me, I felt really hot all of a sudden and looked at Naruto who had smiled at Gaara who had glared in return.
"Hmm, yes, well the fact is that Keitii cannot be permitted to leave Suna,"
"Why not?" Naruto looked confused, stupid git,
"This bird," Gaara indicated Kotaro,
"Kotaro," I interjected,
"Yes, Kotaro well he is a sacred bird to Sunagakure and in the wrong hands it could be a catastrophe we simply cannot permit Keitii to leave the village," wuhoo go Gaara! Go Gaara! "Naruto I am not endangering this village!" he looked a tiny bit scary, the Naruto boy drew back, they all seemed not to mess with him, well that tailed beast was inside him.
I looked up at Gaara, "I also know that you are accompanied by some high ranking jounin from Hoshigakure, I know this may take sometime to agree over so you can stay in a Sunagakure free of charge," they all nodded and left one by one shaking Gaara's hand and after a while he looked at Temari, nodded his head an exited.
"Temari-chan, everyone seems to be really scared of Ga- Kazekage-sama, I know about that tailed beast thing but-"
"It was no wonder they were a bit nervous especially them he has attempted to kill all of them except Kakashi," he really was no ordinary guy after all,
"Oh, he really is quite an amazing guy," crap, I so did not mean anything by that, Temari snorted thank god I got away with saying that so openly.
I walked down the street all around me children played, I had never been allowed to play like that and had few other friends apart from my brother. I suppose Gaara had a worse childhood, I heard someone call my name I wondered who else knew my name because it wasn't any of the people from the Kazekage manor I looked over my right shoulder to see who this supposedly familiar person was. Oh my god they could not be here of all places and on this mission of all, I gasped as I saw my two team mates striding towards me accompanied by our sensei. Amaterasu, Katsou and Raiden-sensei,
"Keitii-chan!" Amaterasu leapt on to me, Amaterasu had short black hair tied up scruffily and bright blue eyes and Katsou-kun had dark purple hair with green eyes,
"What are you guys doing here?"
"We were ordered here you know to bring you back," said Katsou coolly,
"We were so worried we thought you'd been killed when Iwagakure attacked but no-one could find your body," that night came flooding back to me, I gulped fighting tears down, Raiden-sensei walked over to me and gave me a hug,
"I am sorry about your Sachiyo and your mother," why do I have to have emotions I mean what friggin use are they to anyone? As I turned back to my team mates I dried my eyes on my sleeve,
"Come back with us Keitii-chan," pleaded Amaterasu,
"No,"
"What?" Katsou looked at me,
"But Keitii-chan-"
"I said no, I am never going back to that hellish village!"
"You're 16 years old and the Hoshikage's daughter," Raiden-sensei said trying to reason with me, and let me tell you once I make up my mind there is no changing it,
"I can look after myself I maybe 16 but I took on Daichi and won don't you forget that," I snarled, I gave a burning glare, Amaterasu winced I turned and walked away, I heard running footsteps,
"I am not letting you leave Hoshigakure, this team needs you,"
"Oh, piss off and leave me alone Katsou-kun," I shoved his hand off my shoulder and stormed off.