"Thank you all so much for helping me!" Eri cheerfully squealed as she shook our hands. "I am so sorry for all the trouble that I caused." Her eyes went to me and I saw a guilty look on my face. I sheepishly sweated and waved my hand.

"Oh getting injured is just part of the job. It was my fault for being injured." I replied and tried to wave off her guilt.

"I just feel so awful." She gushed to me. "I have an idea!" Her pointer finger was pointed in the air and she grinned. "You guys could all stay here for a day to rest. You can stay for some nice meals. Not to seem uppity, but I cook some great meals."

Both Kiba and Akamaru had their faces light up in excitement. Akamaru let ouf a happy bark while Kiba whooped. He grinned as he walked over to Shino then put his arm around his teammate. "Come on Shino. We could stay here to relax."

The Aubrame seemed to be in thought before he spoke. "Chika, how are your wounds?"

"They are doing fine at the moment. I think it would be a good idea to get them checked out though." I answered him and gently touched the sides of my stomach.

"We have some doctors here!" Eri pipped up in a hopeful and eager tone mixture. "I am sure they would be willing to check out your wounds."

Shino's attention went from Eri back to me. I could sense that the descision relied on my input. Kiba gave me a pleading look with his hands closed together as if he was praying. What a lazy sack of bones. I thought to myself and mentally shook my head. Oh why not. My wounds do need some medical attention and a day to rest would be the perfect opportunity.

"I think it would be best for us to stay."

Kiba, Akamaru, and Eri all celebrated. Kiba fist pumped the air while Akamaru barked and Eri squealed as she clapped her hands. Shino showed no signs of whether he was happy with my descision or not.

"Alright." Shino said and then pointed at Kiba and I. "You will both need to tell Lady Tsunade that it was your idea to push the mission back another day instead of arriving at the village right away for another mission."

Kiba had slowly stopped pumping the air as Shino talked. When Shino had finished, Kiba had a dark and sad aura around him. He then remembered Tsunade's wrath and shuddered. "Chika, you and I will need to stick together through this. Because obviously somebody is willing to let his comrades suffer."

"Oh hush Kiba. We kind have brought it upon ourselves." I said and waved my hand lightly. "Maybe if we bring her back some sake she will be somewhat okay with it."

Kiba looked a bit surprised at my reaction for standing up for Shino, but shrugged it off and a mischevious grin appeared on his face. "Bribery will be the best way to deal with Tsunade."

"Our minds are too similar at times." I said with a smile on my face and playfully slapped his arm. I knew that Kiba, Akamaru, and I were going to make the most out of our stay for a day.

"My my, your wounds are just so..." The nurse said and wandered off near the end of her sentence. I could tell that she was a bit shocked at my torso.

For some reason or another, my torso had the most scars out of any place on my body. It was just much easier to damage that than a knee or leg, to me. My torso was not a war zone full of scars but it had more than people would have expected. Ninjas did not have perfect skin. We had skin that got blisters, burns, wrinkly from water, and scars from wounds.

"I know." I said and chuckled a bit. "It is a bit shocking to see. I am a ninja so I have a feeling that has something to do with it."

"Are all ninjas scarred like this?" She asked me in a shocked voice.

It took me a few moments to think of an answer. After a while, I was finally able to think of one. "Well, it depends on the ninja I think. If you ask a medical ninja who stays on the sidelines most of the time, they won't have many scars. If you ask a medical ninja who is always on the battle field and risking their life, they will have more scars. Tai jutsu users have the most scars out of any ninja. They use their body while fighting. Ninjutsu users tend to have a bit less than tai jutsu users. Genjutsu users do not have too many since they do not interact with their enemy much. However, it all depends on the person." Carefully, I explained to her and she wrapped some wrap around my torso.

"You ninjas sound very brave." The lady said in a dreamy tone of voice. "Enough of me drooling over how brave you are. Your wounds are all bandaged up and will be perfectly fine. Just take it easy for the next few days."

"Thank you." I said to her as I stood up and walked towards the door. "Have a wonderful day." When I opened the door, I saw Kiba there with Akamaru next to him. A vein formed on my forehead. "Kiba, were you trying to peek at me?"

"What?" He asked me in confusion. His eyes then widened and he began to stumble over his words. "No way! Wait, I don't mean that in a mean way. I just would never peek at you. Stop shoving words into my mouth! It is just that you are like a sister to me and there is no way I would peek at my sister. You know..."

I rolled my eyes at the scene in front of me. Kiba continued to ramble on in an attempt to explain himself. However, he had lost my attention a long while ago in his speech. My mind went somewhere else as he continued to keep talking. Shino appeared in my mind. He was definitely going to make sure we paid for slowing down our arrival to the village. I realized that I had made the wrong choice by deciding that we should stay for another day.

"Kiba shut up. I just realized I made the wrong choice by us staying here." I said suddenly and disrupted Kiba in his ramble. His eyes widened in amazement.

"You just read my mind! I was about to get there. Shino has been bugging me this whole time about us staying another day. Well, not talking to me about it but he keeps giving me this glare of disappointment. I have a feeling he really wants to get back to the village for some reason." He explained to me and I nodded my head. "I don't know why he wants to go back so much, but it seems really important to him."

"You just can't sleep when there is the possibility of Shino glaring at you the whole time." Smugly, I teased Kiba and then grinned. Kiba sheepishly sweat dropped a bit at being caught for his true motives.

"There is that, but he is my teammate and I figured I should try to do something nice for him when I can. Besides, I don't want to give him another reason for thinking I'm a shitty teammate. We have been annoyed by each other for such a long while, I figured since we have been less annoyed with each other lately, I shoudl take advantage of it." He explained to me and Akamaru barked in agreement.

A joyful smile was placed on my face when I heard that. Kiba had ranted to me many times in the past about Shino. It was nice to see that he was trying to befriend his teammate whom he had troubles with in the past.

"Okay, you tell Eri that we have to leave and I will tell Shino the good news. I have a feeling you want to be able to tell Eri goodbye by yourself." I commanded and then winked at Kiba. He wrinkled his face and stuck his tongue out at me as he headed towards a different side of the house.

"Shino! I have some news I think you might like." Cheerfully, I yelled as I ran over to him. He was seated in front of a pond and seemed to be looking at the bugs around it. His head rose up from the bugs and turned towards my direction. When I reached him, I panted a bit from exhaustion.

I was stupid enough to forget about my wounds. Mentally, I cringed at my stupidity.

"You are not supposed to run." He said to me and I sweat dropped a bit.

"I forgot about my wounds." Sheepishly, I replied. "I have good news though. We are heading back to the village now. My wounds have been checked out and wrapped pretty well. Kiba said that there was something back home that you really wanted to see." When Shino did not say anything, I was a bit worried. "Isn't this what you wanted?"

"Thank you."

For some reason, my stomach felt something when I heard those words.

I apologize so much for the lateness of this chapter and if it does not flow too well. I started the chapter a while ago but stopped because of school. I am realizing that it good to continue writing or else you get a bit rusty. School ate up a tit load of my time and I would have been more stressed if I updated during those times. However, school is out now. (: I have been in a poopie mood lately, but I going to perservere and continue to update. Hopefully that brings a smile to my face. c:

How is school for you? Are you out of school yet? How is the path of life going for you? My last question is, why do you think Shino wants to get back to the village so badly? c:

I hope you have a wonderful day and smile. (: Bless you if you are still in school. P.s. The video on the side is Attack on Titan related. It just makes me smile. xD