They all stood there quietly, exchanging glances. The boys felt jealousy raging up inside them. That was . . . until Melody started laughing.

" Oh my god you guys were priceless! I-I didn't think that would work!" She laughed.

" W-wait what?" Kiba asked.

" My partner didn't call me. I haven't seen him in years! I doubt he even remembers me." She continued as she wiped tears away. They were about to kill her, then Naruto and Sasuke noticed that she was smiling for the many few times since discovering her sister being murdered. Instead, they smiled.

The next morning she met up with her team and stood there as they took instructions from Kakashi.

" Today we are going to walk on water." He smiled.

" But we have already learnt that!" Naruto exclaimed.

" You didn't let me finish. We are going to walk on water on our hands."
" Not to be rude Kakashi-sensei, but what's the use of doing that?" Sakura asked.
" It helps us balance our chakra through our bodies." Melody answered without looking at her. Kakashi smiled.

" Exactly. Now as you can tell, at the end of the water is a waterfall. You are to climb up and back down only using your feet twice. Sakura, Melody, since you two are naturally weaker in the arms, you may travel half way."
" Ok!" Sakura smiled, happy she didn't have to do as much.

" Count me as one of the boys, I'm going all the way." Melody demanded. Everyone besides Kakashi gave her a look like she was crazy. Melody knew that she may have seemed like it, but she hated being underestimated. She would prove herself that she could be just as strong as anyone else. Instead of looking at her like she was crazy, Kakashi smiled once again and agreed.

The four stood on the water and waited for Kakashi's signal.
" Oh! Also! The last one down or if you are to fall or use your feet more than once, you are to do 20 push ups for each time!" He called.

" Wait what!" Naruto and Sakura cried.

" Go!"
Melody didn't dare to look at anyone and gracefully switched to her hands. Focusing and feeling the blood rush to her head, she made her way. Shortly afterwards, she heard Naruto fall in and Sakura afterwards. Melody steadied herself and caught herself from falling from the major increase of waves, then continued on. She had to keep a steady pace. Not to slow, not to fast.

Sasuke came up behind her and so did Naruto while Sakura had fallen again. Melody heard Naruto wobbling back and forth before crashing Sasuke down. Melody almost felt herself fall, but luckily she was able to save herself and block out Sasuke's and Naruto's yelling.

With her pace not being as fast as the boys, they quickly passed her up. But once again, they fell as they came to the wall. They stood still too long, trying to figure out how to start climbing and fell in. Melody's head began to burn as she came close to the wall. She counted off to herself how many steps left in her head. On the last one, she bend down then pushed herself up into the air at an angle. As soon as her feet came in touch to the wall, she ran up to steps then dove for it.

Barely, just barely, her hand managed to grip a rock and keep her from falling back down to earth. Although, she felt like her arm was going to rip out of its socket. Regaining her breath and energy, she swung her other arm up and started climbing.

Since the boys and Sakura had seen what she had done, they easily got up and started climbing. Naruto and Sasuke quickly by passed and were soaked into their own competition meanwhile Sakura lagged behind greatly. Melody continued to climb at a good pace, making her progress slowly. When she looked down to see how Sakura was doing, she felt her heart leap into her mouth. Closing her eyes and turning her head to look in front of her, she tried to calm herself down. She wouldn't fall and die, she wouldn't fall and die.

Composing herself and her fear, she continued on. Sakura finished before them all since she only had to go half way, but Melody refused to give up. Blood dripped and ran down her hands from all the cuts she had continued to get, but she ignored the pain and stinging as well as she could. The top came into view and she reached for the top. But suddenly the rock crumbled under her hand and she watched in fear as the pebbles tumbled and sunk in the water. With a gulp, she turned and pulled herself up. Quickly, she pulled herself and crawled on her hands and knees, plopping down for a quick rest. When she looked at the boys, they were doing the same. Taking this as an advantage, Melody crawled and started her descend.

Melody couldn't decide of this was harder or easier than going up. Her arms ached greatly and she felt her heart pound and hands shake. Soon, soon this would be over. Her feet would reach the ground and she could swallow her fear away for a long time. When Melody looked to her left, she found a tree branch that was sturdy enough to sit on. Deciding to use it, she swung herself and sat on it. Her eyes grazed up a vine and a smile appeared on her face. Finding a loop whole, she took it and wrapped one end of the vine around the sturdier part of the branch and made sure it would hold her weight. When she saw Naruto speeding past her, she looked up and saw Sasuke angry and mad as he too descended. Quickly, Melody threw the vine down and watched it fall. With a firm grip, she lowered herself and began to calmly slide down.

When she looked up she noticed that Sasuke was going too fast. His hands were shaking yet he had a ways to go. Naruto just simply fell the rest of the way when he came to a safe distance and crawled into the shade.
" Sasuke! Don't grab that rock!" Melody shouted. Sasuke didn't seem to hear him and the rock crumbled beneath him. Quickly he began to fall. He tried to think of a way to save himself but it was impossible. He was to far away from the wall to do anything and everything was happening to fast.

Naruto and Sakura started to scream at him to do something and he tried doing a jutsu but his chakra was far too weak. He had used more on the way up and the way down. Melody swung towards the cliff and pushed off with her feet, knowing the consequences and her fear, before jumping out and catching Sasuke in her arms.
With her heart pounding, Melody reached out and managed to catch the vine and latched onto it. Melody slowed their speed down greatly and landed gently on her feet then dropped to her knees with Sasuke laying beside her.

" Melody that was amazing!" Sakura cried. Melody ignored her and tried to catch her breath. It was all done now, she wasn't in the air falling to her death. She was ok. Still scarred and weak, she collapsed and laid as she breathed quickly. Her asthma was getting to her again.

" Sasuke! Are you ok?" Sakura asked as she knelt down next to him. Sasuke sat up and composed himself.
" I'm fine."
Naruto felt his blood boil and went over to Melody. Her face was pale and her breathing was croaky.
" Melody, are you ok?" He asked her. Melody coughed and rolled on her side.
" I'm fine. " She lied.
" I'm not that stupid to notice that there is something wrong!"

" I said I was fine!" She shouted back. He was taken back by her response. Melody coughed again and her chest heaved up and down.
" Don't . . . don't underestimate me." She breathed harshly.

" Alright! You all have push ups to make up. I suggest you get started." Kakashi said, not noticing how Melody was. Naruto gave her a weary look as she took her push up position and began. He felt his blood boil again.

" Shouldn't Sasuke be the one doing the 20 push ups instead of Melody? After all it was to save his dumb ass." Naruto growled.

" I did it by choice, now I will take my punishment." She breathed. That's when it hit the three kids. Melody didn't have to save Sasuke. She could have let him fall and figure out how to get out of the situation himself instead of taking the punishment. But instead she saved him knowing what would happen.
Naruto frowned and took his position before starting his. Out of his eye, he watched Melody's arm shake as she went down and have her chest touch the ground before coming back up with a straight body. Where as Sakura's weren't even push ups. Naruto and Sasuke finished quickly and Melody did a few moments afterwards. When Melody turned her head, she saw Sakura fall and collapse to the ground.

" Come on Sakura, you can do it." Kakashi said. " You have to, other wise you won't leave. "
Melody saw tears building up in her eyes. She still had to do another 40 pushups and she had only done the time Sakura were to leave, she'd be crying a river.

Melody raised her hand and caught the boy's and Kakashi's attention.

" Yes Melody?"
" I would like to finish Sakura's pushups for her. " She said bravely.
" Melody you don't have to." Sakura said with a weak smile.

" Yea, you really don't have to." Naruto mumbled under her breath.
" You need rest and sleep tonight. By the time you finish it will be late. You have already over worked yourself. Take a break and I'll finish."

Everyone stood there and looked at her in shock as she started. They all could see her arms shaking so badly and her hands and arms were covered in blood. Surely she felt like she was dying.

At 20, she stopped for a moment and caught her breath before starting again. Slowly a tear slipped and fell to the ground as she continued on. The other kid's eyes widened in surprise. It hurt so bad that it was making her cry, yet she didn't stop.

Melody finally counted 40 and collapsed to the ground.

" Alright, 5 laps." Kakashi listed.

" Kakashi-sensei! Don't you think that we've done enough! It's almost sundown!" Sakura complained.

" Alright, 10 laps it is! Go!"
With a groan, they all stood up. They all looked at Melody and saw how shaky she was. Obviously something was wrong with her.

" Melody, you may go-"
" No! I will run! Don't ever give me slack or underestimate me! How else will I become better?" She heaved. Kakashi looked at her than nodded.

" Alright, just take it easy." He said. Melody smirked.

" When do I?" And with that she took off.

With her long legs, Melody was able to take less strides and cover more ground. Even in the state she was in, she was still ahead of the pack. Eventually she finished with the others behind her. Melody bent over, holding her chest. Her heaving had gotten much worse and she began to feel light headed.
" Melody you need to go home." Naruto demanded.

" Yea, you don't look so good." Sakura stated. That was it. Naruto's top blew.
" She hasn't been looking good this whole time! She saved your god damn ass and you don't take the responsibility, not to mention you have yet to thank her! And you Sakura, if you stop going crazy of Sasuke of one minute you might realize that she is hurting herself to stop you from going past your limits! If you both would take the freaking time to stop worrying about yourselves you would have realized that something was wrong with her a long time ago!" He shouted. Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura stood there dumbfounded. Melody's coughing brought them all back to the real world. Naruto turned and watched her drop to her knees, gasping for air.

" Melody!" He gasped as he got next to her." Melody what's wrong!"
Melody couldn't find herself to talk and instead found her heart racing. She tried to stay calm, but she couldn't help but panic. She dropped to the ground and continued her gasping and coughing.
" No time to stare and look, we need to get her to the hospital." Kakashi said as he grabbed her and took off with his other students behind her.