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Chapter 91

Note: Sooner or later you'll have to fight in a war.

~Kahlan's POV

I stare at nothing in particular. My heart feels like it's been shattered. It moves throughout my body like rippling water causing me to tremble from the emotional ache. My eyes burn like fire and I'm trying so hard to hold back the dam that wants to break. Timothy was just a child; there was no reason to kill him. He wasn't harming anyone.

Not wanting to make a sound I bring my hands up to my mouth. A tear slides down, then another one and another one then the dam just breaks. I bite down on my hand trying to force everything down, because the Akatsuki won't be giving me any time to get my emotions under control. Oh gosh, that child will never get to experience the ups and downs of life. We were the cause of a child dying.

My vision is completely blurry as my lungs start protesting for air but I still refuse to breath. I stumble a few times wishing the ground would open and swallow me. I bring one of my other hands up over my heart and clench my shirt as if that will help lessen some of the pain, but it doesn't.

"Kahlan," I hear Laura say.

I make some weird noise with the back of my throat unable to form any words. I stop biting my hand and just cover my mouth instead so not to gasp for air. My sniffling fills the air around us and my body shakes uncontrollably with sobs.

I feel Laura's arms wrap around me. Automatically my arms wrap around her as I sob louder. Laura's shoulders start shaking and I hear her sniffling a little bit informing me she is crying as well. I bite down on my tongue to keep from screaming.

"My student," I hear Kisame say and it feels like he places a hand on Laura. "Crying won't solve anything nor will it bring that boy back."

"Go away," she replies between sniffling.

I would make a remark, but I'm too consume with pain and crying. Plus any words that try to come out just get stuck in my throat causing me to make some weird whimpering noises. Kisame sighs before taking a deep breath.

"You'll have to get used to it there will be more deaths coming," Kisame says.

Timothy's face flashes through my mind and I just start sobbing more. I make loud gasping sounds as if it's hard for me to breath, and I guess it is hard to breathe just a little bit. There's another small sigh but I ignore it. Someone then grabs hold of my arm and pulls me away while someone else pulls Laura.

"We'll take them some place to hide for a moment," I hear Itachi say; his voice sounding like it is in the distance.

"And where would that be," Kisame asks back.

"Just follow," Itachi orders.

I feel myself being dragged and I barely even move my feet just letting them drag me. I don't know how long it is but soon I feel cool air hitting my skin and the sound of a bell ringing over a door. I'm being pushed down into a seat but I don't complain just bury my face in my hands.

"This will be the only time you two can cry," Itachi says. "We'll give you five minutes, after that you will not be allowed to grieve anymore."

"Eh, Itachi why…okay never mind," Kisame says.

"We'll watch the building outside," Itachi says.

There's silence after that with the exception of my loud sobs. I feel Laura near me once again. We hug each other and cry giving one another comfort. My sobbing last for a few minutes then ends with no more tears to cry. I still gasp for air and sniffle every couple of minutes.

Laura still cries though, and I mindlessly let my hands rub her back soothingly. I stare off in the distance feeling worn out, tired and a bit dead on the inside. All thoughts of Timothy get shoved into a chest. If I start thinking about it again I'll go back to being a crying mess. So instead I think of a song I could sing to help Laura feel better while there is still a couple of minutes left.

Taking a deep breath I softly start singing, "You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep. Cause they fill the open air, and leave teardrops everywhere; you'd think me rude but I would just stand and...stare. I'd like to make myself believe, that planet Earth turns slowly. It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep, cause everything is never as it seems."

Laura pulls away and starts wiping away her tears. I give a small fake-ish smile but continue to sing. "Cause I get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightning bugs as they try to teach me how to dance…." I trail off not really remembering the rest of the words.

"Thank you," Laura mumbles.

"You're welcome," I say.

"Time is up you two," Kisame says. I look over to see him standing at a door with it wide open. "Time to move out on the road."

Standing up I hold my hand out for Laura. She takes it standing up and together we head over to Kisame. The three of us walk out to be met with Itachi. Nothing is said as the four of us take off walking again.

After walking for about fifteen minutes we come across a group of cops. There is one female and three males, each of them looking a bit battered. When they notice our group they quickly draw out weapons. I stop causing Laura to stop and just stare.

"Don't make another move," the woman commands.

"Hehe," Kisame chuckles then gives them a sharky grin. "Your guns are useless on us."

"Do not mock us you demons," one of the men yell.

If this was happening during another time I think I would laugh. I remember the time when I used to think they were demons as well. Maybe they are…I don't know anymore.

"Don't move or I will shoot," one of the other men say as Kisame takes a step.

"Oh, so will this become a game of dodge," Kisame ask chuckling once more.

"Kisame, we don't have time for games," Itachi states.

"I got a better idea," Kisame says glancing at Itachi. "We let our students fight them."

I feel Laura stiffen beside and I squeeze her hand. Itachi says nothing and one of the cops decide they've had enough waiting and shoot. Kisame grabs Laura as Itachi grabs me and they both moves us out of the way from the bullet. Someone from behind makes a strangling sound and I turn to see and old man with a bullet hole in his throat. I slightly frown as the man falls to the ground but look away feeling nothing since I've locked away a majority of my emotions. Maybe when this is all over I'll let the chest open, but until then it will have to stay shut.

"Smith," the woman barks glaring at the man who made the shot. "Don't make them get under your skin."

"Go on my student," Kisame says going to push Laura towards the cops. "Fight them."

"But…." She starts to speak but Kisame interrupts her.

"You're going to have to fight sooner or later," he says.

"Disgusting, making a child fight," one of the men say.

I ignore the rest of the conversation as I let my backpack fall to the ground. Quickly I move through it pulling out one of the guns. I load it quickly as Laura covers the area with mist. With the gun loaded I take the safety off and pull the pack back on.

Grabbing onto Itachi's sleeve shirt, I start pulling him in the direction I remember Kisame and Laura standing in as I carefully place the gun in my waistband. When I think I'm close enough I reach my hand out until it comes into contact with a body part.

"Kisame or Laura," I whisper.

"It's Kisame kiddo," replies the blue man.

"Laura," I call out softly.

"Kahlan," Laura replies. I follow the sound of her voice still pulling Itachi but this time pulling Kisame as well.

"Laura," I whisper again once reaching the area I heard her.

"Right here," Laura says and soon some of the mist moves away from her and I see her waving her hand around.

"Well now we can do some sneak attack," Kisame says. Laura slightly pouts and I let go of both males.

"I'll take care of it," I reply pulling the gun out of my waistband.

Laura sees it and looks at me questionably. Pulling back the hammer, I point in the direction of the cops. I remember the position they were in but could have moved since the mist has shown up, but at the same time there's a chance that they haven't risked moving.

Taking a deep breath, I pull the trigger once…twice…three…and then four times. I hear one person scream in pain and I bite on the inside of my cheek. I wasn't planning on actually hitting any of them, just near them to fool both the members and to get the cops to hide.

"Fuck," one of the men shout.

"Smith stop whining like a pansy," I hear the woman say. "It's a damn shoulder wound." Well that's three people alive, I wonder if the other person in the group is alive.

"Fucking tell that to McCain," says the man that shouted.

"Shut it Dorsey," the woman snaps. "Put pressure on his wound."

"Well Snow Cone," Kisame says and I glare at him. I hate that nickname. "Looks like you didn't kill them." No shit I wasn't aiming to kill them.

"Call me that again," I say turning the gun to him. "And I will have no problem shooting you, and I won't miss either."

"You could try," he says with a grin, but doesn't repeat the stupid nickname. I place the gun back onto safety then place it back in the pack.

"Let's move." Itachi says.

"Ah come on…." Kisame says but Itachi glares at him with his eye thing (I still have no idea what it's called). "Fine," Kisame says.

I grab Laura's hand then grab onto Itachi's sleeve as he starts leading the way. Kisame follows taking the rear of our group. Once out of the mist, Laura inhales it in and I let go of Itachi's sleeve. With the mist gone we are met with Jiraiya, Gaara, some unknown dude with face paint and a cat ears hoody, and there is also Kakashi.

"More people to fight," Kisame says grinning. "Hopefully you guys can be more challenging then the last group."

Somehow gathering sand under his feet Gaara is able to float into the air. Jiraiya bites his thumb hits the ground and then there's a poof of smoke. After it clears there is a giant toad with a sword under Jiraiya. Kakashi, lift up his headband showing his left eye with a scar. He opens it to reveal the same type of eyes as Itachi's. The other dude pulls out some puppets and they all get into a fighting stance.

Kisame pulls out his wrapped sword grinning. Itachi doesn't move and I take a small step back with Laura. The eyes of the good guys fall on to us. Laura gives them a small smile and a wave. The guy with the puppets seems to find this as some sort of insult because he has the audacity to glare at her. Moving in front of Laura I give him a deadly glare.

"So the two of you are fighting with the Akatsuki," Jiraiya says in a statement type of voice. I glance behind to Laura. Moving to the side I look back at Jiraiya.

With a shrug I reply, "Depends on how you look at things."

"There is no other way to look at it," puppet boy says with a slight growl.

"Stop talking, so we can fight," Kisame says and then like that charges after towards the group, going after Jiraiya.

Kakashi moves as well heading towards Itachi. Tightening my grip on Laura's hand I pull us a few feet away. But are we safe? No because the weird puppet guy decides to go after us. His puppets come forward and I let go of Laura's hand. Quickly, I take my Sais out to block the puppets. Oh look what we have here wooden puppets.

I jump back as some needlelike weapon comes out of the puppet mouth dripping purple liquid. Dispelling all clones that remain, I ignore the rushing memories and make one shadow clone. I feel the drain of the chakra but ignore it. The clone rushes towards the puppet to fight as I go through hand signs and gather my chakra inside my lungs imagining it turning to flames while Laura is fighting the other puppet.

I hold in the fire turning chakra for as long as possible. In my thoughts I say fire release, great fireball jutsu. Instead of blowing the fire towards the puppets like I plan to, I blow them over to the puppet master. He moves back out of range and I let the fire stop and dispel the clone.

I watch as Jiraiya is busy fighting Kisame. Gaara and Kakashi are fighting Itachi. I move to stand next to Laura. If this guy wants to fight us then fine he'll get his fight with an ass-kicking on the side. As I get into a fighting stance I hear the sounds of a helicopter. Oh…it looks like the military might be joining the war…or I could be over reacting.

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