Oh yeah, I did know that women could get their period. It was my friend who did think so, that's why she put that in there. We were in an argument see, and I wanted her to get preg w/ oro. Anyway, I got what I wanted and she got what she wanted. You'll see that later.
Kosuke's POV
God I'm bored, I thought, as I stood outside the Hokage's office once again. So much has changed since the last time, though, I thought thinking back to yesterday when I was waiting with Amaya in the same place. Then I had had no idea that I was pregnant, and everything was looking fine for me. I didn't have to worry about raising a kid, or making enough money to take care of any one but myself, and I hadn't even really had to worry about that either, since I still live with my father and stepmother.
Now, however, I had to worry about each of those things and more. Technically I do still live with my father and stepmother, but I wasn't really looking forward to that either. See, last night I had chickened out, and not told either of them that they were going to be grandparents. I told myself that it was just because I wanted to get the wording down before I had to tell them, but I knew it was mainly because I was too scared to.
I had been pacing back in forth in my room this morning, trying to work up the nerve to tell my parent, when a ninja came to tell me that the Hokage wanted to see me.
So, there I was, waiting to see her. I assumed that she wanted to talk to me about pregnancy stuff, since I hadn't come back yesterday to talk to her. Which is why I was really surprised when Naruto, Sasuke, Lee, and even Gaara showed up. I guess Gaara had decided to wait an extra day or two, though I know that Kankuro at least had headed out all ready. I think Temari was waiting with Gaara. Probably so that she could spend more time with Shikamaru.
"What are you guys doing here?" I asked them.
"Dunno," Sasuke answered, "We were just told that the Hokage wants to talk to us."
I shrugged, then went back to waiting in silence. Surprisingly, the others all waited in silence as well. Then the door opened and we were all ushered into the room at once.
Waiting inside the room was Tsunade, Kakashi, and Gai. The two men's appearance was yet another unpleasant surprise. But not the last one of the day. Not by a long shot.
Tsunade looked at the five of us sadly, then ushered to some seats that had been set up in front of her desk. I took the one that was farthest away from where Kakashi and Gai were sitting.
"You're probably wondering why I called you in here, especially so early in the morning," Tsunade said, looking at each of us.
"Do you have a mission for us, Granny Tsunade?" Naruto asked.
We all expected her to yell at him for calling her 'Granny,' but she didn't. That was a bad sign.
"No, Naruto, I didn't call you in here for a mission," she answered him. She picked up a letter that was sitting on her desk. "I have some bad news for you, I'm afraid."
I frowned when she said this, then my eyes grew wide. I had noticed who was missing from the room, and was terrified that I was right in my assumption of why she was missing.
"Kakashi found this letter this morning. It was laying on Amaya's bed," Tsunade said, and then read the letter to us all.
The more she read, the wider my eyes grew, and I could see the surprise in the faces of the other teenagers/young adults in the room. When she was finished reading, I had my eyes closed, trying to hold in my sadness. I knew that something like this was going on in her head, so why didn't I at least try to stop her? I asked myself.
Tsunade put the letter down slowly, then looked at each of us. "Amaya has left Konoha for the Akatsuki…she is now an enemy of the Village Hidden in the Leaves," she said slowly.
My eyes flew open at this. "Amaya? An enemy of the Leaf? You can't seriously think she'd do anything to hurt the Leaf, do you?" I asked, disbelieving.
Tsunade looked at me, and her sadness was written plainly on her face. She shook her head slowly, "I have to consider her a threat now, Kosuke. She deserted us. She is a missing-nin. I can't do anything to change that. I would if I could, but I can't," she told me quietly.
Lee jumped out of his seat. "I need to go after her! I need to bring her back!" he exclaimed.
Gai's eyes went wide at this, the only sign he'd shown the entire time of being worried. "You can't," he cried, "You've got your duty to the village, and a lot of training to do!"
"But I need to go find her, Gai-sensei! She's my sister!" Lee replied, taken aback that his hero didn't want him to go help his sister.
Gai was going to say something in response, but I cut him off. "Lee he's right. Well, sorta(oh, I was going to have to wash my mouth out with a lot of soap). You are needed here in the Leaf. There are…people who need you right now," I said to him, trying to remind him about Gaara and the baby.
"But she's my sister! She needs help!" he yelled.
I nodded. "Yes, she does need help. And I plan on giving her plenty of help when I find her. The first 'help' I'll give her is by knocking some sense back into that thick skull of hers," I told him.
They all looked at me. "What?" I asked them, "Did you expect me to just sit here in Konoha like a good little girl and wait for her to come back? Because I know Amaya, and she is never going to admit that leaving here was a mistake, which means that she'll never come crawling back. It's just not something she does. She's going to need my help."
"But you can't go alone," Tsunade said to me. She was obviously thinking about my current "condition."
I shrugged my shoulders. "Then I wont go alone. I'll go with Cooro and Anko-sensei. The four of us are a team, anyway."
Tsunade shook her head, then told me, "The Chunin exams start next week. Both Anko and Cooro are participating in running them. If you want to go with them, then you'll have to wait a few weeks, maybe even months."
I frowned. I didn't like the idea of waiting that long. "Fine. Then I'll go with some one else."
Tsunade rubbed her forehead, then sighed. "Well," she said, "That means I'll have to look through a pile of papers to find out who doesn't have any missions to go on in the next few months, and then see if they are willing to go on this mission. I'm not going to make any one take this mission if they don't want to."
I nodded my head. It looked to me like any of the four boys sitting next to me would be willing to go find Amaya with me, but they all had other missions that they needed to do.
Tsunade turned to her desk and said, "I'll look right away, Kosuke. Come back in a couple hours and I might have someone for ya. Until then, you five are dismissed."
We got up and left the room. In the hallway, I turned to Naruto. "Come on," I said to him, "I'll show you where Amaya's secret stash of pixie sticks is, since she left them to you."
Naruto nodded sadly. He obviously wasn't any happier about Amaya's leaving, even if it did mean that he would be able to eat his weight in pure sugar. And by his weight, I mean the weight of both his body and the Kyuubi's.
Great, I thought as we walked down the street towards Amaya and Kakashi's house. Yesterday, I found out that I was pregnant. Today I find out that my best friend has abandoned our village, and is very possibly our enemy, now. What's tomorrow's surprise going to be?
But I shouldn't have been worrying about tomorrow, because today wasn't done throwing me surprises that I hated. Not done in the least.
Amaya's POV
After I had met everyone things went smoothly, the only thing I was worried about was the question they had asked me. "If you we ordered to destroy the Leaf village, could you?" that was the question, but it wasn't that, that bothered me. It was my answer, I had spoken with out thinking, I just kinda blurted it out. It surprised them, it surprised me. Because I had immediately answered, "Yes." I think the only reason I was able to do that was because I was thinking about Kakashi, Gai, and everyone else I hated there. But Kosuke...
I had thought of something yesterday, when I was leaving, a way to still let Kosuke know I'm alive. I told myself I would leave a note on my bed every night or every other night. Just to tell her what is going on. I wouldn't leave enough info to let her know where I was hiding out exactly, but enough just to keep in contact. I'm sure Kakashi would find it and give it to her. I asked Deidara if he could take me there on his bird when needed. He agreed.
"Hey, noob." I turned away from what I was currently doing (drawing) to look into the smiling face of the fish stick man (Kisame).
"You do realize that just because I'm a 'noob' as you so kindly put it, I can still kill you." I said with a scowl. It was ironic how much of a dark side one can have once they cast away friendship and walk into a whole other world.
"Yeah,"
"Then why have you come?" I asked beginning to draw again.
"I don't know, I'm bored."
"Then jump on a grill, we'll have you for supper."
"Harsh."
"See?" I turned to face him again, "You're getting to know me already."
That was how my day went, a crazy little talk with everyone. Then, finally, Deidara, Sasori, and I were assigned a mission. (I was just paired with them because Deidara brought me there and I was more comfortable with him). The mission scared me, but I knew I could do it. We only had to go to the Leaf Village and steal one out of the seven scrolls on demons. They asked me to do it because I knew where they were.
Once again I was back in Konoha, this time in an Akatsuki cloak with a straw hat covering me face. The headband I wore like a collar now bore a scratch along the insignia. With Deidara, we just flew over the walls, it was much easier. We headed to the Hokage tower; using our chakra we climbed up it. That was when the alarm rang. ANBU were after us. I jumped into the tower, using demon speed. I told Deidara to get a bird ready at the walls, Sasori went with him. I wanted to do this alone.
The scrolls were where I remembered them, I grabbed the one they wanted and threw it over my back. That was when I ran into someone. Well two someones. Tsunade and Kakashi. I smiled waved, and then in a movement that was only a blur, I pulled down my mask and screamed. One of my secret weapons. It was based on piercing sound waves that brought people to their knees. People like Kakashi and Tsunade.
I pulled down my hat, hiding my face and jumped back out the window and landed on the ground. I was surrounded by ANBU, and there off to the sidelines, was Kosuke. She couldn't recognize me with the hat in my eyes. I smirked then looked at her, tilting my face up so she could see me. I know it was mean, but hey, I wanted to see her face. Boy, it was priceless. She looked shocked; she even took a step back. Probably just realizing that, yes, I was now a danger to the Leaf village. Just then Lee, Naruto, Gaara, and Sasuke came running up behind her. Only Lee and Sasuke saw me before I got a chance to pull the hat down.
With only some of my guard up I was attacked by the Jonin, jumped on and tackled to the ground. I let out my demon chakra. Raw chakra. They all bounced back off me, some hitting walls, some hitting the street. I ran off, Deidara had a bird set up waiting. We headed back to the HQ, I handed Sasori the scroll and lay out on the bird. I used way too much chakra throwing off those guards. Kosuke probably hates me now, oh well I still left a note on my bed for her. What? You think I'd leave with out doing so? No. On my way back I dropped it on my bed through the window. Duh.
Kosuke,
Yeah I realize you probably hate me now, but I hate a lot of people in that village. I wouldn't have left if I knew I couldn't help in some way destroy the village. There is just the small problem of you. With you still in the village I couldn't destroy it. Let's just say you're the only thing that is keeping your village safe. So it looks like you have a tough choice on your hands:
Let me stay here while you stay in the village making it safe and not in danger of demolition,
Or
Come find me and leave your village under attack.
Your choice.
Amaya Hitomi
P.S
Oh and it was nice seeing you all today! Hope it happens again real soon!
I only put my first and middle name because I had taken off Hatake and was now using Hitomi as my last name. I knew I was being a total bitch in that letter, but I was going to give Kosuke the truth. I knew that would be the way she wanted it. She hated it when people lied to her. I wasn't going to lie to Kosuke anymore; she needed to know that this was what I had chosen. Now, it was her turn.
