Hey everyone, happy Friday and time for a new update. Last week was something exciting and suspenseful to. . . what happened with Nya. But let's see what is new with her.

Chapter 6: Renew

Morning sunlight poured onto the face of a sleeping girl to tiredly stir in her slumber and open her eyes. She had to wince to the bright light as she was staring at it directly to groan and turn away from it to yawn to try and wake up more. Even a small purr escaped from her throat as she slowly woke up to greet the morning. Her eyes finally adjusted to the bright light to see that she was outside on the Bounty to raise a brow to wonder how she gotten to the Bounty when she remembered being out in a walk to the city . . . and something else. But what?

But that pulled her aside to realize she was on the roof of the bridge while on a layer of pillows to squeak in surprise and felt herself roll off. But she quickly responded to land softly on her feet. Her heart raced a bit to look back at the roof to ponder. "How did I get up and sleep without falling off?" she wondered to herself.

Her ears pricked to the muffled sound of movement to turn her head to see who was coming. But no one came after a couple minutes to make her confused as she thought they were just coming up. Had she ever been able to hear them from a far? The girl had to shrug as that didn't seem to matter at the moment and waited to see who was coming. And who she saw, smiles formed on everyone's face to leave her a bit worried as if she done something wrong or what.

"Nya," Jay chirped to rush ahead from the group to pull the samurai into a tight embrace. "You don't know how worried I was about you yesterday. I thought you were lost or something happened and I wouldn't be to find you. Oh Kai is going to be happy to see that you're all right now."

Nya stood rigid and surprise to this sudden embrace to slowly wrap her arms around him to return the hug. She had no idea what the blue ninja was talking about to comply with this and pulled away a bit to look into his hazel eyes. "Jay, what are you talking about?" she asked and turned to see what he meant about her brother to realize he wasn't present. "And Kai? Where's Kai?!"

Jay had to look at her worriedly and turned to the others to see them shrug. He had to wonder if she remembered going out on a walk and the fire last night. "Uh. . . Do you remember going out on a walk after that incident with the cat?" he asked to see her nodding. "Okay, do you remember about a fire and with Kai looking for you?" She had to nod on that and the lightning ninja could see the worried look in her eyes. "As for Kai. . ." He stuttered on how to explain this to her now. Nya watched his stuttering to feel her eyes become wide in fear about her older brother.

Nya felt her anxiety quickening as she followed her friends down the halls of the hospital to feel worried on her brother. To her, she felt thankful to know he was in a hospital and not somewhere else to have her worried. Like a morgue. She quickly shook that thought out of her head to see Jay slowing down his pace at a room. And before he knocked on the door, he turned to her. "You ready to meet big brother?" he said softly to try and comfort her. And the girl, not liking his tone at that for the moment, nodded. Jay turned back and knocked softly and pushed the door open.

The samurai followed after the blue ninja while the others stayed outside to feel her heart racing. The room smelled sterile to her nose for being sensitive than she thought it was before. Almost close to it on perfume. But in front of her was a curtain separating them from the bed and utility side of the room they were in. And she knew on the other side of the curtain was her brother that she needed to see if he was all right or what. Inhaling a deep breath, she slowly pulled the curtain aside to meet with a familiar face. "Kai," she breathed, happily.

The fire ninja's eyes went wide with hope and joy as he stared at the happy face of his little sister to sigh happily. "Nya," he gasped to have a large smile form.

The girl stared at her brother to gaze around on what he was in the hospital for. But the only thing she can detect was the large plaster cast adorning his right leg; from ankle to his mid-thigh. IV tubes attached themselves to his arms and wires from the heart monitor disappeared under his red tee shirt to sigh a little to know he was all right. But her eyes also caught the sight of an oxygen tank and respirator mask to raise a brow. Shrugging, she carefully walked over to her brother to gently wrap her arms around him and she felt her brother hug her back. "What's hurts then?" she wondered.

Kai gazed into her brown eyes to give her a small smile as he pulled himself to sit up more on his bed. "Nothing really," he replied. "Other than my leg, fractured at the mid-thigh. And I saw your eyes trained on my tank. It's in case of breathing issues from the fire I was in, but I'll be fine. I've dealt with smoke before back at Four Weapons." He saw her childish smile on his stubbornness to laugh a little with her. But his smile left to stare at her worriedly. "But what happened to you last night? You were lying still, looking like you were dead. And when I brought everyone back to you, you were gone. I was so worried for you and wanted to find you, but yet they wouldn't let me."

"Hey, it was so you wouldn't break that leg of yours more." Jay stated to stand next to his friend. "Plus Nya found her way back home last night, according to Laurie. Saying she broke the window of their room open and suddenly ran out of the room. So we found her this morning on the deck." Nya had to look at Jay confused, she didn't remember anything about breaking the window and running out of the room. Jay had to shrug on it. "But hey, you don't need to worry about it now. Nya is back and you'll be back on your feet in a couple to a few weeks." He smiled while patting Kai's cast to make the red ninja wince and growl to the blue ninja. The auburn realized what was doing to give him a sheepish smile while scratching the back of his head. "Hehe. . . Sorry."

Nya watched her brother's face slowly relax after the small dose of pain and maybe adrenaline he just received to smile to him softly. But what did he mean by looking like she was dead though? It worried her for a bit. "So. . .what happened exactly to think I was dead?" she pried. "I'm alive after all here."

The Ninja of Fire had to sigh and reflect on the events last night. "Where do I begin?"

Small trails of smoke arise from the rubble of an abandon burnt building. Most of the structure from the inside was gone and only the brick outer walls remained tall with ash and soot covering the walls. And even the burnt support structure that were wood remained up with flecks of ember burning on the wood to keep the fires burning. But with not much of anything to catch on to, it remained in the spots it can catch fire to. All seemed quiet and the city won't be able to do anything this property until the fire was completely cleared. But yet, there was something still alive in the rubble.

In the lower levels of the ruined building, something stirred within the rubble piles. A single green sprout grew from the pile and soon a large green pod grew underneath the pile with vines following out. The pod stirred from the inside until it finally split and bloomed a large flower. And on top of the large flower laid a girl with bright red scarlet hair and even . . . green skin.

The girl stirred on the flower to tiredly open her eyes to reveal bright green orbs to groan and move her hair out of her face. But her eyes went wide to the sight of a green arm to realize it was hers to carefully sit up as she felt sore to move. She felt scared to the sight of her arms and legs to see leaf and vine patterns trace along her hands, arms, and legs. And most of her clothes, except for her red flannel shirt, were ruined from the fire to have a bunch of leafs cover the upper half of her chest and below her waist. And when finding a broken mirror on the floor near her, she felt afraid to see her face was the same with the vines and leaf pattern tracing along her neck and to her cheeks. She felt new, but yet alive as well. "What have I become?" she gasped quietly.

A sudden rush of pain ran through her heart to cry out to hold her chest tightly. She could hear something cry in her ears to see that there was nothing around her. But her eyes finally caught sight of a plant pinned by a support beam with a charred piece of wood piercing through it. Is it calling out for me? she wondered to carefully crawl off her flower bed and over to it. But she stopped to realize it was the Venomous Poison Barb her old partner and had to panic. With it killed, it wouldn't be used for anything. But yet, to her, she couldn't let it die. It's calling for me. She realized it now to carefully remove the burnt stake out of the bulb root and carefully cradled it in her arms. The poisonous plant didn't even react to kill her.

She smiled to this softly to gaze up at the ceiling to see the sky through the burnt ruins of the conservatory. She had to wonder what happen after the fight she done with her old partner to become this now. But she became angry at the thought of her partner was still around, maybe even with the toxin he created to kill people behind her back. But to what she felt from the poisonous barb, she could understand plant's feelings now. Something felt new to her, but she couldn't decipher yet. "It'll be all right," she said to the bulb to stroke it softly. The plant reacted to seal its wound and wrapped a vine around her arm to move onto her shoulder; almost like a pet snake would do. She smiled to it softly to realize it. "It's going to be all right now."