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Chapter 67

Note: When injured there will be bed rest; find something to kill the time.

~Kahlan's POV

I can feel my body slipping away from the wonderful sleep into awareness. There isn't a single inch on my body that is aching in pain. The smell of food is lingering in the air. It seems my stomach isn't sure if it should reject or accept the smells of the food. Then there is the feel of something soft, comfy and warm covering me all the way to my neck. Feathers seem to be under my head.

Turning my head into the pillows I groan, wanting to go back to sleep. The events that led up to this point start playing through my mind. A small whimper escapes from me, as I realize I'm in a bed and clench onto the sheets tightly. The back of my throat clenches, but I push back all the oncoming tears. For now I've cried enough, and feel just a tad bit better. What I'm really glad for is that I'm alive.

"Kahlan are you awake," I hear Laura ask. Turning my head to the sound of Laura's voice, I force my eyes open. In her hands is a plate of food.

"Yeah," I say as I try to sit up only to fall back down with a hiss of pain. Okay, movement is going to be very painful.

"Hold on," I hear…Itachi say.

I turn to look at him and then next thing I know, he is right beside me helping me to sit up. He places a bunch of pillows behind me and I'm grinding my teeth from the pain. Then he helps lean me back against the pillows and the pain slightly subsides. When did he even get here?

"Thanks," I softly say a little unsure. Itachi nods then moves away, I turn my attention back to Laura

"Are you okay," Laura asks walks over pouting.

"I'm…I don't know," I say with a sigh. I feel too much like a mess, inside and out. Ninjas need to come with a warning label.

This only makes Laura pout more. So I pat the empty spot of my bed that's next to me. She walks over and sits down. With a small smile I ruffle her hair. Her pout turns into a small scowl of annoyance and I chuckle.

"Give me some time," I say. "I'll be fine. So what's with the food?"

Laura face brightens into a smile as she says, "It's dinner, I brought it up for you. Konan cooked and I was able to help her. I almost burned myself but Konan was able to stop me."

"Well I give both of you my thanks, it looks really good," I reply as she hands me the plate of food.

"You're welcome," she replies. "I'll tell Konan when I see her again."

"Good you're awake," Sasori-Danna says causing me to look and see him walking in. "When you're done you'll be taking these."

Walking over he places two white pills in my hands. I look at them with caution then back to Sasori-Danna. It looks like he wants to roll his eyes but he doesn't.

"What is it," I ask.

"Medicine," Sasori-Danna says like it's the most obvious thing in the world. I narrow my eyes at him in annoyance.

"I know that, but what kind? None of the medicine cabinets here have any medicine."

"It's to help with the pain and speed up the healing process," he says in a way that says the conversation is over.

"I better hurry up and go eat," Laura says with a pout. "I have one more hour of training.

With a small frown I say, "That's a bit unfair. I wish you could stay but I don't want you getting in trouble. Good luck with training and don't get hurt."

"I promise to try very hard," Laura replies with a grin. I smile in return and give her a small one arm hug. She returns the hugs then gets up and leaves.

Cutting up the eggroll with the fork, I mix it into the rice. I do the same thing with the chicken, except I leave two pieces of the chicken untouched so I can eat it last. It takes me a while to eat the rice, because the whole time my stomach seems unsure if it really wants it or not. Then the last two pieces of chicken I end up nibbling them from being full but I've always had a rule for myself that everything on my first plate must be eaten, the second plate doesn't matter. Well that rule is a really hard one for me to break because it's also become a habit.

Finally finishing, I place the plate down. Itachi walks over taking the plate then leaves with it. I stare down at the pills hoping Sasori-Danna isn't going to make me take those without something to wash them down. Then I look away towards the purple walls as I try to think how I can get out of the bed with minimum pain. Asking for help will wound my pride, but I think my pride shouldn't matter that much anymore since I just balled my eyes out in front of all of them. If anyone of them comments about it, I will find some way to make them pay…somehow.

Before I know it Itachi is back. I look at him then to Sasori then down to my lap. With a small sigh, I remove the blankets and carefully move my legs over the side of the bed.

"What are you doing," Sasori-Danna asks.

"Getting up," I reply as I go to stand up, my face scrunching up in pain. A pair of arms wrap around me.

"You need to lie back down," Itachi says as I look up at him.

"Moving around too much isn't going to help you," Sasori-Danna says.

"I need to go to the bathroom," I reply just a tad annoyed.

Itachi helps me back up into a standing position. Removing myself from him, I walk over to my dresser and go to pull out clean clothes as well as underwear. Closing the drawer, I head for the door.

"I'll be quick," I say turning to face them both. "Can I…please have some tea or juice to drink so I can take the medicine?"

"I'll be back," Sasori-Danna says with a sigh. Together we walk out of the room, but both of us head different ways.

Inside the bathroom, I immediately strip myself. First I check my underwear to see blood. Damn I really did start my period. Turning the sink faucet on to cold water I place my underwear under the water. I then squeeze some soap onto it and then scrub the blood out so there won't be a stain. Finishing with that, I wring out the water and place it into the hamper.

Glancing over to the tub I slightly frown wanting to take a shower, but there is no way I'm bending over to turn on the water. So, I open the drawer next to the sink and pull out a rag. I then turn on the hot water in the sink and wait for it to get warm. Quickly, I wash myself as best as I can then turn the water off.

Not wanting to waste any more time, I pull out a pad, place it on then quickly get dressed. I kick my dirty clothes towards the hamper. Hopefully someone will pick it up when they do laundry.

I walk out turning the light off and head back to my room. Right by the door Sasori is standing holding a cup in one hand and is other hand is open to show the pills. With a sigh, I take the pills and the cup. First I look at the drink to see orange juice. Nodding in approval, I place the pills in my mouth and chug it down with the juice.

"Thanks," I mumble handing the cup back to him.

Walking over to my bed I just stand there glaring down at it. Argh, I hate this, stupid ribs and Kisame. Gosh, I hope Leader doesn't expect me to train tomorrow. I really need a vacation.

"Do you need help," Itachi asks.

"No," I immediately reply. Time continues to pass like it always does, and my whole glaring at my bed has yet to fix my predicament of getting back in. With a sigh I look back at Itachi. "Could you…please…help...me?"

Itachi nods walking over. Carefully he picks me up and gently places me down on the bed, not once do I feel an ounce of pain, either because he did that very well or the meds Sasori gave me are kicking in. For me the whole thing is weird. Itachi is part of the Akatsuki and they're…I don't know…supposed to be mean or something, with the exception of Konan. Not once has he been…evil. He's never been mean nor hurt me and Laura, even after I smashed the glass cup against his head. Sure he has done his eye thingy but he was taking orders from Leader. I don't know I guess it just putting me a little on edge how he seems different from the others and how he was just being gentle.

"You are a confusing individual," I mumble as he is starting to pull away.

He looks at me slightly raising his brow but doesn't say a word. I just slightly frown, not liking the fact that I haven't figured him out yet. Becoming too tired to really think through things, I yawn reaching for Rellik. I hold him tightly as I close my eyes. Within moments I fall back to sleep.

The next day I wake up feeling sore. Already there is a plate of breakfast waiting for me in the hands of Konan. Rubbing my eyes I give her a small smile.

"Morning," I yawn out.

"Good morning," she says as she places the plate down. She helps me into a sitting position then hands me the food. "Did you sleep okay?"

"I slept okay," I reply. "Thank you for breakfast. Where are Sasori and Itachi," I ask realizing the two men were gone. Then yet again they were probably gone since the moment I went to sleep.

"I sent Itachi down to eat and Sasori has gone out to get some medical supplies," Konan replies as she takes a seat at the foot of the bed.

"Is Laura hurt," I ask worried.

"She's fine," Konan says with a small smile that turns into a slight frown. "How are you feeling?"

"Physically I feel sore," I reply then take a bite of the butter toast. Swallowing I continue, "Emotionally…well I don't know." I gave her the same answer I gave Laura last night because one it's the truth and two I really don't want to talk about how I'm feeling.

"Is there anything I can get you?"

"A fun relaxing day at the beach," I reply jokingly with a chuckle.

For a moment she's silent then replies, "I'll have a talk with Leader about that. I think it would be good for everyone."

"Oh…okay," I reply slightly shock. "I was just kidding though."

"That's fine," she replies with a smile. "It would be good if everyone got time to relax, they're all too tense."

"What about the Konoha ninjas?"

"I'll discuss that problem with Leader," she replies with a small smile and pats my leg.

"When does training start," I ask finishing the toast and start on the waffles.

"You don't worry about that. You're going to be staying in bed until you recover."

"Oh thank goodness," I say happily. I'm so glad not to train; hopefully Leader doesn't push Laura to hard through her training though. The two of us fall silent as I continue eating breakfast.

"I'll take that," Konan says when I finish.

"Thanks," I reply with a small smile.

"No problem," she says in return.

Konan leaves and I lean back in my bed. She comes back a few moments later with a cup and hands it to me. With a smile of thanks I look at it to see milk. Well milk is good for the bones, so I drink it without a problem.

During the rest of the week I'm stuck in bed. At first I really didn't mind because it meant no training, but then it started to get on my nerves because I was getting bored. I could never leave my bed and Sasori threaten to tie me to it if I ever tried leaving for reasons besides going to the bathroom. Not having much to do I went to write some music then play a little on my guitar, but that soon got me bored because I really wanted to play on the piano downstairs.

So I tried having a conversation with Sasori (I've learned his real name is Sasori not Danna) and Itachi, but it soon led to how my parents called my cell (that I thought I lost) and wanted to pay a visit. That has to mean my parents are up to something and no amount of pleading or persuasion will change their minds, so it's only a matter of time before they actually come over. After hearing about them wanting to come, I shut the conversation down. I had to make plans on keeping the Akatsuki from killing them when they showed up.

At every meal time Konan or Laura would come up and bring my meals. We talked while we could. Laura would talk about how her training was going. It really seems like she improving and fast, which reminded me that I was behind but that didn't bother me. Konan brought the news that she convinced Leader that we will be taking a trip to the beach in a week after I catch up in my training. That was fine with me.

Most of my days ended up with me sleeping them away. Sasori gave me those pills after every meal and they made me sleep. In a way I'm a bit thankful because I would have gone out of my mind with boredom.

I look up from the book I'm reading hearing the doorbell ring. My eyes go to Sasori then Itachi then look over to the door. The two of them have been watching over me this entire week instead of training.

"I'll answer it," I say quickly throwing the book down and make my way out of the bed.

"No," Sasori says making me frown.

"Come on I want out of the room," I reply irritated as the bell rings again. "You can both come with me."

"It would be good if she got to walk around a little bit," Itachi says after a few seconds.

"Fine," Sasori says. "Then we both go with her."

Shrugging, I walk out and head downstairs with the two of them following. The bell rings again, and I slightly jog to the foyer and answer the door. I stand frozen as my hand falls limply to my side.

"Hi mom…dad," I say very slowly. I haven't come up with any plans to keep them alive.

"About time you came and open the door," mother replies and waltz in with my father in tow. Oh this won't be good.

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