Author's Note: I own nothing except Reyna; even Kayha and Katara are creations of a friend. Everything you recognize is property of Masashi Kishimoto. Characters may continue to be slightly OOC

I also have to give credit to my friend, her alter ego is Kayha just like mine is Reyna, for the great ideas and the fun caffeine driven writing!

Alright, on to… *checks to make sure no one has objections* Chapter 11!

KAKASHI'S DECISION

Just before the Sand Village came into view, Reyna paused to catch some of her breath and shift back to her human form. The only thought in her mind was reaching Kakashi. Within a few seconds she was once again flying across the sand towards the village and the safety of Kakashi. She drew a lot of looks as she ran hard towards the village. Sand ninja sprang up but she was gone again before they could do more than give a startled gasp at her appearance. The village passed in a blur as she ran towards Gaara's house, slamming through the door in a panic.

"Kakashi!" she hollered, startling Temari and Kankuro. "Kakashi!"

Kakashi appeared from the kitchen, book in hand, not realizing that Reyna was still pretty much at a full run, "What is it, Rey…." He trailed off as she slammed bodily into him, knocking them both to the ground.

"Kakashi, Kakashi, Kakashi," his name was a mantra and he could feel her entire body shaking like a leaf in the wind.

"Reyna, calm down; I'm right here," he muttered, conscious of Kankuro and Temari's curious stares.

"We need to talk…NOW," she growled, pushing herself away from him.

"I would say that we do," he replied trying to keep himself calm in order to try to calm her down.

Her frantic gaze landed on Temari and Kankuro, "Not here," was all the warning he got before she grabbed his arm and drug him upstairs, "And no damn book!"

Temari glanced at her brother as Kakashi's book came flying down the stairs, "If the next thing I see is clothing, I'm outta here."

Once upstairs, Reyna drug Kakashi into his room and slammed the door closed, pacing the small room restlessly. Kakashi was starting to worry as he watched her, the slight annoyance he'd felt when she'd thrown his book was vanishing to be taken over by it. The more he watched her, the more worried about her he became. He'd never seen her act in this manner before, it was as if she was trying to find someplace to hide, or someone to reassure her. Now he could even see her body trembling and he was beginning to wonder how she was managing to keep her legs supporting her.

"Reyna, you have to calm down and tell me what's wrong," he finally spoke when it became clear that she wasn't going to start.

She turned terrified eyes to his and launched herself across the room at him but this time he was ready and half caught her, his hands resting on her waist as she grabbed his shoulders to help keep herself up. She was practically panting as she clung to his shoulders, as though he was the only thing grounding her at the moment.

"Red eyes," she muttered, trying to force her breathing to come under her control, "Wings…Kayha…"

"Reyna, you have to breathe. You aren't making any sense. What happened?"

Reyna closed her eyes and leaned in against him, her head on his chest as she breathed his scent in deeply, and although she was still shaking, she seemed to calm down while he waited, "Kayha…changed. Even her scent, Kakashi and that's not normal. Then again neither is growing wings."

She spoke slowly, forcing the words out and Kakashi immediately muttered, "We have to get to the hospital."

She pulled her head back, even though she was still clinging to him like her life depended on it, "I am not crazy, Kakashi."

"That's funny that it was you that thought that but I meant we need to talk to Gaara. He may know more about what's happening."

Reyna nodded, "Right."

"Reyna I need to know everything that happened," Kakashi started but she shook her head.

"I will tell you both together."

Still trembling, she walked with Kakashi back to the hospital and slipped into Gaara's room where he was sitting up. He gave them a curious look, but when they said it was about Kayha it turned to concern.

"What happened? Is she alright?" Gaara asked.

"Yes and no," Reyna seemed to be the exact opposite of what she had been the entire walk over. She had gone from being frantic and panicked to being completely deadly calm. Kakashi quirked a brow at that, a little worried about the change in her mood so quickly. She outlined what had happened and Kakashi found worry and annoyance battling in his mind as she explained what she had done.

"I went after Griffin alone for my own stupid reasons. Kayha must have figured it out after I asked her what had happened to him during the battle in the village and came after me. She tried to stop me, but me being me, wouldn't let her. For some reason she still came to help me out which was good because I was seriously having my ass handed to me. Kayha took Griffin's sword to her back for me, but no worries because she survived. The problem is that she started to…change," still she was absolutely calm as she spoke, worrying Kakashi even more, "I think it had something to do with where the sword hit. It broke what looked like a curse mark on her back and then her eyes were red and glowing and she grew wings…of all things. She fought Griffin above me, I don't know what happened during that fight, and I was a little too worried about just surviving to pay much attention. She let me finish him off, and I did one hell of a job of it. So I ran back here when she vanished and tackled Kakashi in the kitchen doorway. I told him part of this, we came here and now we are here and I'm telling you."

The end of her explanation worried Kakashi even more; there was something seriously not right about the way she was talking. He had a feeling she was barely holding herself together, but now wasn't really the time for it. Gaara called for Katara and while they waited for her, Kakashi kept one hand firmly on Reyna's shoulder assuming that if his presence had grounded her before it would now.

"Lord Kazekage, I may be able to reseal that mark if we can get her back here and if I can't Jiraiya is far more talented in that than I. We will find a way, but for now I think I need to get Reyna out of here."

"I just have one more question: Where did you last see Kayha, Reyna?" Gaara asked.

"In the Land of Rivers. There's a large cave and that's where I found Griffin and the last place I saw Kayha."

"Kakashi, I may need one of your team to go with Katara to find Kayha," Gaara gaze shifted to Kakashi.

"Right, she can take Naruto. I know he'll jump at the chance to help."

Gaara nodded and as Katara entered the room, Kakashi steered Reyna back out. By the time they had reached the house again, Reyna seemed to have recovered acting more like herself and yet still off enough that Kakashi was still a little worried. Now though, his annoyance that she had left alone to track down someone that she knew was extremely dangerous was starting to win out. Once inside, he collected his book from the foot of the stairs and pulled her back up to his room.

"Reyna, what the hell were you thinking?" he asked as he closed the door with a snap behind them.

"What are you talking about, Kashi?" she asked, dropping down onto the side of his bed.

"You know damn well what I'm talking about! You went after an extremely dangerous enemy that you knew was extremely dangerous ALONE! I thought that Master Jiraiya had beaten that recklessness out of you!"

Reyna glared at him, letting anger overtake her fear as she looked up at him, "He took out every one of my teammates; including you! That and the fact that he was one of the people who ordered my entire pack destroyed! And if it wasn't for Jiraiya-Sensei's teaching I would have gone after him the instant I awoke after the fight with Seiko; injuries or no! I wouldn't have worried about any of you!

"So you let your own need for revenge overrule the fact that you are a shinobi? That's it I'm ordering an escort for you until such a time as I deem you no longer need it!"

"What? Kakashi you can't be serious! You can't do that to me!"

"I'm pretty damn sure I can!"

"No, you can't. You know damn well there is next to no one who can actually keep up with me!"

A knock at the door interrupted them, "What?" they both snapped.

Kankuro's voice floated through the door, "Hey, um… do you guys know where Katara went?"

"No!" again they both answered together and Kankuro paused, leaning against the wall and listening to them fight.

"I don't need a damn freaking escort!" Reyna snarled.

"Yeah, well, I don't want you taking off on me again! Therefore you can't be left alone. I don't want you dying on me!"

"I was doing fine!"

"You're only alive because Kayha rescued your ass!"

"I would have figured something out!"

"That's not what you said when you tackled me, freaking out and so damned scared you couldn't string three words together!"

Their voices were starting to float through the house, everyone around confused since Kakashi never raised his voice. Kankuro debated on whether or not he really wanted to interrupt again and figured he'd just wait until one of them stormed out of the room and he could catch them.

"Shut up, Kakashi! I don't need one!"

"You are getting one, even if I have to do it myself because I can keep up with you," his voice had dropped down to an almost dangerous growl.

"Really now? I get to have you following me around, by my side day and night?" she asked with an evil grin.

"Reyna, what are you planning? I know that look," but Reyna just gave him the look that said she was far too intrigued with that idea.

"In that case…maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing," she muttered and Kakashi looked a little worried about what he had just got himself into.

When it seemed as though they were no longer fighting, Kankuro knocked again and this time Kakashi opened the door.

"Reyna, I need to talk to you alone," Kankuro said quietly but the look he got from Kakashi said it wasn't going to happen.

"Sure, Kankuro, I'm sure Kakashi will wait outside the door since he won't let me do anything by myself at the moment."

Kakashi slipped out the door, closing it behind him and leaning against the wall where Kankuro had been leaning up until that point. Sighing, he pulled out his book and started reading while the other two spoke.

"Reyna, I want you to come with me to find Katara and Naruto. I don't know why she didn't ask me to go with her," Kankuro said quietly, aware that Kakashi was standing outside.

"What?" Reyna shrieked at him, frantically shaking her head and backing away towards the door, "Never, ever, ever again will I go the Land of Rivers! No way, no how!"

Kakashi blinked as the door opened and Reyna bolted out and down the stairs, Kankuro stood in the door way watching her, "What did I say?" he asked Kakashi.

Kakashi shrugged, "I don't know, but don't do it again. Damn it, now I have to go after her. Do you have any idea how fast that girl can run? Hmm, maybe I can get a chance to tackle her for a change of pace."

Kakashi didn't even glance back at Kankuro as he replaced his book in his pouch and darted after the panicked Jounin. Kakashi chased Reyna through the village for ten minutes before he got the upper hand on her and launched from an alleyway and into her side. She hit the ground with a grunt, though Kakashi cradled her from a hard fall as much as he could even as he landed on top of her.

"What did I tell you about running off alone?" he asked as she looked up at him trying to get her breath back.

"Right, lost my head coach. Although if you wanted to get me on my back all you really had to do was ask," she grinned at him.

"Um… okay then. I'll keep that in mind," he muttered as he regained his feet and offered a hand to pull her back onto her own feet.

What he didn't expect was for her to start shaking again, just slightly, as she closed her eyes and let him pull her up. She didn't immediately release his hand and she slowly opened her eyes and that was when he realized she was barely holding it together. He shook his head, deciding he really needed to get her back to the house and out of the middle of the village before she lost her control.

Kakashi left no time in getting them back to the house, finding that the more she was around him the stronger her control seemed to grow. He had a very bad feeling that it was going to be at night when she was asleep that shit was going to hit the fan. Sighing he pulled her down onto the couch beside him.

"Reyna, are you alright?" he finally asked.

She shrugged, "I told you there was something strange about her."

Kakashi sighed, "You did and I ignored it. I am sorry about that, but at the same time, she still isn't a threat to the village. She let you kill Griffin and left you alive and didn't come back to the village despite the fact that she could have."

Reyna sighed, "Yeah, I guess. It's just how can I possibly trust her when she kept something like that from everyone except Katara?"

Kakashi sighed and shrugged, "You don't have to, but you have to at least have some respect for that kind of control."

Reyna nodded, "Yeah, I guess your right about that. It's just that every time I close my eyes all I can see are those eyes…" she shuddered.

Kakashi remained silent but shifted closer to her and draped an arm around her shoulders, giving her what support he could with his presence and she leaned against him slightly. They remained like that for a while until they heard the front door open and they guiltily jumped apart. Temari paused in the doorway, wondering if she had actually seen what she thought she saw. She shook her head and headed for the stairs.

It was starting to get late by then and Reyna turned to Kakashi, "Are you hungry? I can cook something up for supper."

Kakashi nodded and from the top of the stairs Temari spoke as well, "I'm starving!"

Reyna shook her head and slowly pushed herself up, getting stiff now that she had been sitting for a while. The run to and from the Land of Rivers combined with two massive fights pretty much back to back was finally starting to catch up with her. Kakashi watched her a little worried at the way she was moving, but soon she it was less evident.

It didn't take Reyna long to throw together a simple, yet filling supper. The three of them ate in silence before Temari headed back up the stairs and the two of them found themselves alone yet again. Kakashi glanced over at Reyna who was staring at her empty plate. He made a choice right there and laid a hand on her shoulder. He knew she was really out of it when that made her jump and she turned startled amber eyes up at him.

"Hey, I think you need to get some sleep," he hadn't even finished talking when she was shaking her head, making him wonder if she had gotten any sleep since she had been discharged from the hospital.

"No, I was just…thinking," Reyna attempted a reassuring smile but it didn't work.

"When was the last time you slept, Reyna?"

"Oh I don't know, but I'm fine. Really."

"No, you're not and you know it. I need you alert and not sleep deprived, Reyna. Look, why don't you just stay with me until you can deal with this?"

"I'm not sure that's such a good idea," she muttered remembering what she had done to her other room, and that had only been a nightmare about the pack; this was so much worse.

"Look, I know that being around me calms you down or something so there is no argument. You are sleeping with me."

A strangled choke sounded from the doorway and they both looked up to see Temari staring at them, slightly horrified. Temari bolted into the kitchen and grabbed a handful of cookies before launching back out the kitchen and falling over her feet in her scramble to get away. Kakashi scratched the back of his head, confused.

"I wonder what her issue is," he muttered.

Reyna gave him an incredulous look and shook her head, "Maybe the fact that she walked in on the wrong part of that conversation and took it in a completely wrong way."

Kakashi chuckled and Reyna found herself joining him, "Well, you did say all I had to do is ask…."

Reyna felt heat flush her face and she dropped her head, "I was kidding…mostly," she muttered.

Kakashi continue to laugh to himself as he pulled her to her feet by her elbow and headed up the stairs following the path that Temari had taken earlier though they weren't moving at quite the same pace. He let Reyna slip into her own room and change into something a bit more conducive to sleeping. She stepped out of her room a few moments later dressed in a black tank top and a pair of ripped up pants and bare feet.

Reyna followed Kakashi down to his own room and waited outside his room while he changed as well. He opened the door and she slipped inside, Temari had started back out of her own room but when she witnessed that she ran down the stairs, out of the house and to the nearest hotel room she could find.

A/N: Poor Temari…Well we're slowly making our way to Gaara's party and the return to the Leaf Village! As always please review! Chapter 12 is in the works (and nearly done) I am on a roll tonight!