Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. I've re-written this chapter about a million times, all different, some completely the same. I'm trying really hard to not make this a crappy story. I just hate everything I've written, and I decided that this was the most decent chapter I had come up with. I hope you can bear with me while I'm getting myself out of this writers block. I'm trying my best here. I'll be posting a new chapter of 'The Bubble' very soon. Probably within the next 7 days/week or so.
-Desirefreak.
Steam covered all areas of the bathroom. It reminded Chi of Kiri, her favorite place to go on short vacations. It was the only place you could go and people expected nothing from you, unless you where a shinobi serving for Kiri, which Chi wasn't.
When she got out of the shower, she had a small smile on her lips. She had good times when visiting Kiri. Also because it was extremely easy to ditch people there, the alcohol they sold wasn't always what the law accepted.
Wiping steam off the mirror her smile faltered at the sight of herself. Funny how she only smiled now when she got what she wanted. Smiling for other people seemed so pointless, why do something for someone else other than you? She wasn't always like this, oh no. But people change, and so do their goals and wants.
Her hair has always been a big trouble. It was semi flat and always tangled. She had the hardest time getting the tangles out of her hair, and no matter how much she brushed or tried to take care of it, it always gets re-tangled and makes her look like two crows got into a fight on the top of her head. Flat, stringy, tangled mess of a hair she had. Maybe she should just cut it? Start all over again. She'd most likely regret it; it had taken 17 years of ignorant bliss of beauty to not think about haircuts.
A loud knock interrupted her rather pointless trail of thought.
"I'm coming." Chi yelled at whoever was knocking.
"Oh, I bet you are." Chi ripped open the door and gave Masaru a frown.
"Not funny." She muttered walking past him. She opened her bag and started looking for something to wear.
"You look so sexy right now; I could just take you on the floor." Masaru muttered while watching her.
She dropped the towel and put on her panties before replying. "You know you won't do that, not until I've gotten some alcohol into my system."
"Yeah, but you know what I always say. Fewer limbs, less arteries for the alcohol to pass through to take effect."
"True, but seeing as how the women are in this town, you'll find someone better to suit your needs." Even standing in only her panties, she had the aura of authority over her. Okada might treat them all equally, but Chi was without a doubt the most prized person in the group. She was the only one he ever spent much time on.
"You're right! Now let's get a move on, I have a empty hotel room that needs filling up." Masaru said while walking towards the door.
"I'll meet you and Kishimi in the lobby in 5." She watched Masaru walk through the door, shutting it rather loudly. He was always loud, everything he did craved attention.
"So, where we going?" Kishimi asked as the trio walked the streets of Konoha.
"To a non-conspicuous bar." Chi muttered. She kept her head down, her hair covering her face. "Where is the old man? He usually joins when there is alcohol involved."
"He's meeting my father at Ichiraku ramen, I'm meeting with them later."
"I might just join you." Chi gave the tall boy a small smile while looking up at him, which he gradually returned.
Spotting a bar, Masaru walked right into it, the other two had no choice but follow him.
It was nothing what Chi had in mind, this bar was packed and popular it seemed. His actions kind of pissed her off.
"What the hell did I say?" Chi asked while grabbing onto his arm.
"They have fine babes here, the only babes at the bars you go to are hoe's and I am too fine of a man to hang out with trash like that." Masaru said while ripping his arm out of her grasp and walking towards the bar. "Go find a table, I'll bring the first round."
Chi didn't have to find a table; Kishimi had already arranged that and seemed to stand with Masaru on the choice of bars. If this could even count as a bar, it was more of a night club or something. She didn't go to night clubs, too crowded and idiots hang out there. This explains the choice of places Masaru goes to. Not that he was an idiot, just that the chicks that go here are utterly clueless.
'I take that back, Masaru is a complete utter idiot.' She thought to herself, he just gave their rounds to a group of girls.
"I know what you're thinking. And yes, he is a idiot." Kishimi said while frowning at the dark haired boy.
"Indeed. I'm going to get something to drink, what do you want?"
"Anything."
Pushing her way through people she reached her destination. "Three bottles of sake, please." She watched as Masaru flirted with the group of girls, there was something familiar about them. She just couldn't put her finger on it. Black blue hair, blonde, brown, pink…
"Oh for the love of." She knew this would happen. It was unavoidable. She just hoped no one would notice her or recognize her.
Grabbing the sake bottles she walked over to Kishimi. "Drink up, we're leaving earlier than expected."
"He's taking a swim in the forbidden fountain?"
"Oh, you have no idea."
She took a big gulp from the bottle. The warm tingly feeling made her relax a bit. Really, what where the chances of them even noticing her? They wouldn't be looking for similarities. She was supposed to be dead.
"Fuck them." She muttered.
"Fuck who?" She heard a voice behind her. Looking behind her, she saw Masaru and the brown haired girl from the chuunin exams. He had his arm around her waist and she was giggling like a complete fool.
"No one, Masaru. No one." Chi muttered.
"Okay then! Guys, this is mega babe. Mega babe, these are my followers." Masaru said pointing at us. Kishimi glared at the dark haired boy, probably wanting to slap him into oblivion. His gaze softened when he looked at the girl.
"Ehime Kishimi, at your service." He stood up, offering his hand to shake. The brown haired girl giggled while accepting his hand-shake.
"Ten-Ten. It's nice to meet you." She smiled at him.
"That's Chi." Kishimi introduced while pointing Chi's way. She just offered a slight wave, not even looking up from her sake bottle. She couldn't take the risk of Ten-Ten recognizing her. "Do you want to take a seat and join us?" And there we go, Kishimi stealing Masaru's prey. It was just unfortunate it had to be this girl. At least she hadn't known her at all, just seen each other at the chuunin exams. But even so, no risks can be taken.
"Sure, that would be lovely." Ten-Ten said, about to sit down.
"Here, take my seat." Chi muttered standing up.
"Are you sure?" The brown haired girl asked.
"Pretty fucking sure. I'm leaving anyways, nice to meet you."
"Yeah, same here. Thank you!" Ten-Ten called after her. Chi didn't care, she had to get out of there.
The place had gotten more crowded and people where just begging to be punched in the face if they didn't get out of her way. She was so close to the door when her instincts kicked in. In 2 seconds she looked back, and saw her former team-mate looking her way. Locking eyes with each other, Chi knew she had to get out of there now, even if the possibilities of the pink haired kunoichi recognizing her were slim, it was a chance she could not take.
"Going to kill that old man when I find him." She told herself.
The walk to the ramen stand wasn't far. At least it wasn't far when you are a ninja, and she didn't exactly walk towards the ramen stand. More like ran like her life depended on it. It kind of did when you where in her situation. She had no idea what people would do if they knew she was alive.
Closing in on Ichiraku ramen, the street was a mess. "Man, not this crap again."
The bad things about being a missing nin was you where listed in the bingo book. So Usagi's husband, and Kishimi's father had to be careful. Of course he wasn't. Neither was Okada, who had an unusual large bounty on his head. Not put out by the government. But missing nin or other criminals.
Walking towards the wreckage she saw the old man and stupid husband outnumbered. Four against two. Didn't seem very fair, if they got caught. Okada could be put in jail for aiding a missing nin.
'I so don't want to do this.' She had a sullen look on her face when she saw one of the four ninjas. Blonde hair, orange suit. Without a doubt was it the dobe.
She was about to sneak of when the old man spotted her.
"Chi-Chi! How wonderful of you to come to rescue us. We're in a bit of a pickle here."
"Damn, foiled again!" She muttered and reluctantly turned towards the old man. "I'm going to murder you in your sleep, old man."
"You know I don't sleep." He gave her a big grin while waving. "Now how about you get us out of this and I'll treat you to some sake at the hotel bar?"
"The hotel has a bar?"
"Yes…"
"Why the hell wasn't I informed?"
"I told Masaru to let you know."
"Mother of all asses." She was really annoyed right now. The hotel had a bar all along? Why didn't she notice it? Why the hell didn't Masaru tell her? She was going to choke him.
She walked closer towards the group, all of them had been watching her this time. Most likely waiting for her to do something.
"Ne, old man. What have you gotten yourself into?" She stood in front of the old geezer.
"Well, it really wasn't our fault. We where ju-"
"Hey!" A voice said from behind her.
"So, you followed me." Chi turned towards the pink haired girl.
"Not really, I was supposed to meet the team here."
"Inconvenience then."
"You can kind of say that."
"this the girl you told me about, Sakura was it?" Okada asked.
"Yeah, this is her." Chi muttered. "You two go. I'll take care of them."
"You can't you ar-" Atsushi started to object.
"She can handle it. She's my student after all." Okada cut him off. "Let's go."
"Wait, you can't just leave!" The blonde dobe yelled after them.
"Actually, they can. You have no legal right to detain them, Atsushi isn't a missing nin from Konoha, and I highly doubt you're going to take him in for mere treason. He's Iwa's former property, not yours."
"She's right." The copy nin said.
"Who the hell are you anyway? You can't just waltz in here and tell people what to do. We have an agreement with the other shinobi villages!" The blonde yelled at Chi.
"The important question is, who the fuck do you think you are changing into that form? Is this some kind of gruel joke? Change back immediately!" Sakura demanded.
"I can't do that." Chi said. She also wondered why Sasuke hadn't said anything. Oh how she was waiting until he said something so she could just lash out. Degrade that silly boy like he was filth.
She didn't know who the other boy was. But he had some motherfucking great abs. 'Oh yeah, wonderful abs.' She thought to herself.
"She's not under the transformation jutsu, Sakura." Kakashi said. Of course he watched with his sharingan. Kakashi always went for that stupid eye when he couldn't figure out things.
"No, I'm not. And seeing as I have no business here, I'll be going."
"I can't allow that." Kakashi said, blocking her path.
"Get out of my way, and forget all about this. This has nothing to do with you or anyone else in this pathetic village." She whispered to her former sensei.
"So you're just going to leave? You owe everyone an explanation."
"No I don't. I don't even know you people. Now move or I'll make you." She said harshly.
"You're going to lie to us?" A rather masculine voice asked.
"I have no idea what you two are talking about." Chi muttered as she started to walk away.
She didn't get far when she heard sounds of running footsteps behind her. Using her right arm, she grabbed the fist aimed at her. She looked at the surprise face of Sakura, Chi gave her a disappointed look. "Stop poking around in places you shouldn't be poking in or else I'll be forced to eliminate you." She crushed Sakura's hand and listened to the pink haired girl wail in pain.
"SAKURA!" Naruto yelled as he rushed towards his pink haired team mate. "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?"
"Just gave her hand a light squeeze."
"A LIGHT SQUEEZE! ARE YOU INSANE?"
"Quit yelling. You're making a complete fool out of yourself. The energy you're wasting should be spent on training." She was about to start walking again when a voice caught her attention.
"Stop." She turned towards the hot guy with the amazing abs. "You just attacked a Konoha ninja, you should be detained."
"No, I just defended myself against a Konoha ninja, that had no reason to attack me in the first place." Chi said while giving him a smile. "Say… Want to go back to my hotel room?"
It was given that everyone there sweat-dropped.
"You are going to be detained. You are a missing nin of Konoha, and I'm placing you under arrest." Kakashi said walking towards her.
"There is no way that crazy bitch is a Konoha nin." Sasuke muttered, most likely to himself.
"I'm not crazy!" Chi yelled at him. "And you can't take me in, legally I'm not even supposed to exist anymore, plus you have no proof of who I am!"
"Chi, anyone who can't recognize you is blind."
"It can't be." Sakura whispered to herself.
Chi looked angrily at the copy nin. He was supposed to mind his own business and stay out of her way. But no, he always had to be the 'voice of good' in all situations. Fuck him and his fucking morals.
"You know Kakashi-sensei, a person who leaves their comrade in battle is lower than trash." She stated angrily. "I guess that makes you even lower than that, huh? How is the feeling of losing a student to a s-ranked criminal, and then killing another?"
"I didn't kill you…"
"No, but you left me to die."
"It was your choice to go."
"I was a stupid kid!" Chi yelled at the silver haired ninja.
"Talentless also. Saitou Chi, overweight, lazy, failed on the physical exam, barely able to pass the transformation and clone technique test. Above average on the written exam. Over all a talentless ninja."
"Amazing what 4 years can do to a person, right?" Chi gave him a lazy grin. "Guess there isn't any point in misleading anymore."
"Lying is more like it." Sasuke said.
"Misleading. But yes, I am here, healthy and happy. I highly suggest you forget about this, whatever this is. Reunion or whatever, and make me stay dead. I really have no desire to be resurrected or-" She felt arms wrap around her and a body pressed up against her back. "This is just awkward, let go of me."
"Chi-chan." Naruto whispered into her hair. She felt her hair dampen, and she was sure it hadn't started raining.
"Are you crying? Wow, that's pretty fucking pathetic. But I bet you cry all the time, right? It's what you do best, that and being an idiot most of the time."
She received a good punch in the jaw for that comment, not from Naruto though. But Sasuke. 'He punched me?'
Naruto had stopped hugging her, and his tear stained face now only showed anger.
"What, you going to go emo on the world too?" She asked him.
"You're not Chi, she would never say things like that." Sasuke said while glaring.
"You never really knew me Sasuke, none of you did. You never really bothered to get to know me. But that's okay, I forgive you. After all, you had a really though childhood." She smirked at the Uchiha. Oh yeah, she was going to provoke him, he owed her so much than he could ever repay.
"He's right, Chi-chan would never say anything mean." Naruto said. He was still staring angrily at her, like she was some sort of plague.
"No Naruto, like I said. You guys never really knew me. Plus I grew up, amazing that you didn't."
"Stop trying to provoke them, Chi. We're not going to fight a team mate." Kakashi said.
"I'm not your team mate anymore, Kakashi-sensei."
"You're always going to be our team mate." Sakura shakily said. She had taken the time to fix her broken hand.
"Maybe to you, but I have a new team. People who actually know me."
"Oh you can say that right. I know you juuuuust fine." A loud voice shouted.
"Where were you guys? I'm suffocating here."
"Masaru took his time getting out of the club. But don't worry; I snagged you some booze on the way out." Kishimi answered while holding up a bottle of sake.
They stood next to her, making her feel small. God she hated that. Especially when she really wanted an aura of authority around her like she was indestructible.
"We should get going, I want to meet father."
"And I want some alone time with my Chi-Chi." Masaru said while wiggling his eyebrows suggestively at the petite girl.
"If you can get me drunk enough." Chi muttered.
"What the hell is up with all these random people showing up?" Naruto yelled.
"He's even louder than you, Masaru-dobe."
"Shut the hell up Kishimi-baka!" Masaru flared at his tall team mate. Quickly noticing Sakura, he went for his move. "Hello there pretty lady." He purred, making her blush.
"H-hey." She stammered.
Naruto had at this point, an annoyed look on his face. "Get away from Sakura-chan!"
"I don't see your name tattooed on her. Maybe it's on a more private place that I can explore." Sakura blushed even more at the suggestive tone in his voice.
Naruto was about to attack him when Kakashi held him back.
"We'll settle this later."
"Okada-san said there was a bar at the hotel. And you guys didn't tell me why?" Chi asked Kishimi.
"We kind of forgot." He sweat-dropped.
"Well, I'm going back and I'm getting trashed. Anyone want to join?"
"I'll come with you, I want to get something to drink before walking in on my parents intimate time anyways." Kishimi muttered.
"Damn right you're coming with me, you owe so many drinks." She scolded him.
They walked the way to the hotel, not noticing everyone but Kakashi following them.
"I could have been getting drunk in the same place as I sleep, but you drag me out to a fucking club instead? Do you have any idea what kind of shit I've been through? Also, remind me to murder the old man."
"Chi-Chi, you're rambling again." Kishimi said while patting her on the head.
"Thanks for warning me, I might have started rambling about things I might regret." She muttered to herself.
"Where are we going?" The dark haired boy that had the wonderful abs asked.
"Konoha Grand Hotel!" Masaru said while holding Sakura. "You totally should see the inside of my hotel room." He added towards Sakura.
It was going to be an awful night. Questions had yet to be asked, and they all demanded answers.
Chi was just hoping to get them all drunk and hope they'd forget and mistake this for a dream of some sort. She didn't know what to do. Kill them? Yell at them? Ignore them? She had no idea, she'd have to ask Okada. He was old and wise and has to have some answers for her. Because right now, her head was spinning and she had a feeling this wasn't going to be a 'going according to plan' visit. What freaked her out the most was the fact Okada hadn't mentioned the reason for why he was here in the first place and why he didn't tell her? She wanted answers, and she wanted to get the hell out of there.