Chapter 29: M-Mom?

Yumi was stunned. No. This can't be… it can't be… no… no way… Yumi thought. It can't be mom! But it looks SO MUCH like her… I guess it can't hurt to try.

"M-m-m-mom?" Yumi stammered, just like when she tried to make the point to Odd that she and Ulrich were just good friends. But really, were they? (A/N: Me: Come on, it's obvious, you two!)

"Yes, it's me, my darling Yumi." Her mother said. Yumi ran over and held her in a tight embrace. There were a few minutes of silence between the two.

Yumi's mother was the one to break the peaceful moment. "You humans. Such imbeciles. Emotion always traps you without fail. Good NIGHT." Yumi's mother said as her voice merged into X.A.N.A. 2.0's. Yumi felt a Raikiri surge through her neck. She also felt the exhaustion of a clone dissipating. Yes, Yumi had clone hugging her "mother". The real Yumi had found a tunnel to the cells under the very same desk she had found the batteries near. She had crawled under the desk and created her clone simultaneously, so X.A.N.A. 2.0 would think that the real Yumi was just crawling out of the desk, and that he could… eliminate her with her late mother's figure.

"You okay?" Yumi asked as she approached Hinata.

"Yes, I think I'm fine… I just feel a bit dazed." Hinata said.

"Why?"

"It's just the fact that I've been in the dark or too long."

"Okay then, don't worry, you'll be exposed to light soon. Now give me your foot." Yumi said. She took Hinata's foot, and shined the flashlight on her ankle. There was a red blotch on one of her joints. "Sure enough, X.A.N.A. managed to twist it somehow." Yumi said. "I'll have to carry you back."

"Um… okay then…" Hinata climbed up on Yumi's back, and Yumi carried her to the "arena" where Naruto, Sakura, and the X.A.N.A. 2.0- possessed guards were fighting. There was a reception area, which ended up being where Hinata hid. Yumi spotted Sakura hiding there as well.

"Sakura, what are you doing here?" Yumi asked.

"Naruto told me to stay here in case anyone got injured." Sakura said.

"Well, that's good, because Hinata got her ankle twisted from X.A.N.A.'s attack." Yumi said.

"Let me look. I might be able to heal it a little, but I can't fix it up completely without my full set of medic tools." Sakura took the ankle that X.A.N.A. had twisted, and worked her chakra. (A/N: Get it? Like "Worked her magic"? No? Okay…) The red throb on Hinata's ankle had gone, but her bone was still twisted.

"That's about all I can do for now." Sakura said. "Like I said, we'll have to get my medic tools at the hospital before I can completely mend it."

"Arigato, Sakura and Yumi-chan." Hinata said.

"You're welcome." Both Yumi said Sakura said.

A/N:

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