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"Katon- shuriken no jutsu." The set of shurikenstraining I thrown are now on fire and heading fast towards Tobi's direction. It hit my target and my excitement was short live, as I see Tobi dissolve into water.
"Suiton- taihoudan" I turn myself around to see that Tobi launch his attack and a stream of water was heading towards me very quickly. The attack hit me directly and was sent flying back. My body hits a nearby tree and the back of my head bangs on the trunk. I whence in pain and reach to rub the back of my head, Feeling a wet liquid quickly cover my finger tips, I look at my hand to see I was bleeding.
"Dammit." I curse under my breath and quickly pull out my medical bag. Keeping my head down I begin to part my hair when I see Tobi's feet come into my view.
"You've been slacking your training." He says in a bored tone.
"Yes, Tobi I am alright. Thanks for asking." I say sarcastic, as my eyebrow twitches in annoyance. He could at least act a little worried. I take a cotton ball a place it on my wound to soak up the blood. I see Tobi kneel in front of me and reaches for my medical kit. His hand reaches for a cotton ball and removes my hand from my head, and he gently begins to clean up the blood.
"Is it bad?" I ask.
"No. Nothing you can't heal up." He says in a more caring voice than before. Not knowing what to do with my hands, I begin to pluck the grass in front of me. We have been together for we time and I still get sheepish when he was close. This warm feeling, I always feel that way when Tobi takes care of me or worries.
"Umm...I haven't been able to train as much as I use too. It's not for the lack of motivation. It's just. Sakimi has been very very clingy lately. She just wants to be my side almost all the time, nowadays." She has even gone far as to letting me sleep in her bed.
"You are not a bodyguard. You have your own job to take care of." He was back to using the non- emotion tone.
"I know, I know it's just. She is terrified and anxious that her abusive ex boyfriend will come back." I explain her situation more and Tobi lets out an irritated sigh.
"We can just kill the ex." He states.
"TOBI!" I jolt my head up and scold him.
"Don't lift your head so fast." He scolds me in return and grabs the side of my head to brings it back down.
"I can't care less about this drama, but if it's effecting your training then there is a problem."
"Well I can't just tell her to just go away." I pout under my hair.
"There. I finished cleaning the blood up as much as I can, you can take care of the rest from here." Tobi says and starts putting all used cotton balls in a small plastic bag.
"Thank you."
Focusing my Chakra I began to heal my injury, while I slowly lift my head up to look into his one dark eye.
"Please, Obi. There has to to be another way I can help her." I continue on the subject and show him a pleading look. We stared at each other for awhile, our eyes never blinking. Until he finally closed his eye and shakes his head in defeat.
"You sure we can't just kill him and make it look like an accident? It is the fastest and easiest solution." Tobi suggest his idea again. I finish healing myself up and lean myself against the tree trunk.
"No, he has a son. No killing." I say to him. Even if I did like the sound of that idea, not that I would ever let Tobi know, for what that man has done to Sakimi. I would be more than happy to let Tobi do the dirty work, but he had a son. I knew far to well what it feels like to lose a parent at a young age.
"Then just tell her to move back home." Tobi says. I lift my eyebrows at this. It was simple, Sakimi can go back to her family in kohonagakure. She will be far away from so and so, and she will easily find a job. I can even stay in touch with her, and kohonagakure has a very populated shinobi there, she will be perfectly safe.
"That is not a bad idea, but what if she doesn't want to?" Tobi just shrugs.
"Then you convince her or you leave her alone." My face frowns, I'm confused on what he means.
"It won't be long untill you have to go to the next town." He answers my unasked question. My eyes widen slightly in realisation that I'll be leaving soon.
"Right." I say quietly. My heart felt heavy knowing that I would have to leave. I can say I grew comfortable with this town, more with Sakimi. I was worried, if there was a chance I couldn't convince her to go home. What will happen to her? Most importantly what will her shitty ex boyfriend do to her once I'm gone. Knowing that me being here is something that could prevent her from suffering, doesn't want me to leave anytime soon. I will feel a guilt knowing I'll let someone else down just because I wasn't there. Just like Manami, Haru and my father.
"I don't want you to slack anymore on your training, I suggest to do it in the evening." Tobi speaks up. Causing me to break from my thoughts.
"Anything about your elderly friend?" He continues.
"No, but I am going back to his apartment tonight. With him at the hospital and Sakimi working all night tonight I should have no problems." Zetsu told Tobi about everything and he insisted that he could infiltrate the old man's home. I told him that is my job and how could I get better if I let him do everything I thought was difficult. If anyone is going to find out about my mysterious neighbour, it was going to be me. I did not spend so many hours just for Tobi to gloat on how easy he got the information.
"You don't have that much time left, gather anything useful as you can and your off to the next town." Tobi stands up after this and I fallow his lead.
"I will." I see him turn around and start to fade into the Forrest. I look at the space where he once was, feeling disappointed.
"What no good bye kiss or anything." I say to myself.
We haven't seen each other in over a month and a half. I would think he would be all over me. Is he mad at me. Of course he's mad, I slacked on my training. I ran my hand through my hair and let out a loud sigh, before I could head over to pick up my medical kit. I felt a pair of arms wrapped behind me in a hug and lips peck on my neck. A smile made its way to my lips and I close my eyes to Tobi's touch. I tilt my head to expose my neck more. Getting the signal Tobi leans down and kisses my neck, this time more longing than before. I lick my bottom lip at the feel of him and move my hand to gently tug on his hair. This made Tobi squeeze me closer to his body than before. His lips trails up towards my jaw and stop.
"See you tonight for training." He whispers, putting emphasis on the word training. He gave my jaw a peck before letting go. I gave myself a few moments to even out my heavy breathing and turn to look to see he was gone. My smile still remain and I knew that tonight was going to be more than just shurikens and ninjutsu.
I enter the apartment and hear the traps set off, being prepared this time I made sure the sebon and shurikens hit the wood shield that I brought.
"Ha!" I say in victory. I carefully make my way to the disable the other traps.
Once I was done I start in his bedroom first. It was the same as the rest of the apartment. Empty white walls, nothing personal to display, and with just one painting of a basic bird above his bed. I cautiously step into the room making sure there wasn't any traps and start looking through the night stand next to his bed. Opening it all I found were books, brushes and a couple scrolls. I look through the books and scrolls and find nothing, I even checked the drawer to see if I can find a secret compartment. I then moved on the the bed, desk, drawer, closet, bathroom, living room and kitchen. I checked the walls and floors and found nothing. Doing a second search I gently knock on the walls to see if I find a secret compartment, and end up in the bedroom once again
I've been here for three hours I feel exhausted and frustrated, not caring at all I plop onto the bed and rub my tired eyes. Letting out a loud yawn and stretch my arms, my neighbor sure does have a very comfortable bed. I give my legs a stretch and look at celling, out of boredom I begin to follow the patter of the tiles, making imaginary shapes and designs as I go. I noticed that one tile stood out more than all the rest, I squint my eye at it. The outline of it was a little deeper than all the rest, I sit up and take a closer look. I grab a near by chair and stand on it. Gently I push the tile and to my surprise it went in. I slide the tile to the side and carefully reached my hand up.
I am too short to pop my head up, so I felt around until I came contact to a hard cube shape object. I pull it out of it's hiding place and look to see it was a wooden box with designs carved into it. The box is quite small and had a Chestnut color to it, and the designs were of a butterfly on the upper right corner, with two lines bordering it. One thick and the other thin, it was simple but beautiful and judging by the dust it hasn't been touched for some time. I get down from the chair and set the wooden box on the desk. Slowly opening it I look inside of it, it was some sort of metal object with a hand crank, I pick it up and gave it a turn, it played high pitched notes. It was a instrument used for music boxes, giving it a couple of more turns and gave the same notes over again. It sounds like it was playing all the notes at once.
Why would someone want a broken music box. I place it to the side and look back at the items inside of the box. The next item was an old rolled up piece of paper, I rolled it open and see it is just a long strip of paper with holes punched into it. I scrunch my eyebrows at it and turn it over. There was music notes written on top of it and the whole strip was a grid. I place two and two together and assume this was made to played in the hand crank device. The strip of paper looked worn out and old, if I tried to place it in the machine I could risk ripping it. I don't know how this works, it's better to leave it alone for now.
The last item I see is a picture frame facing down, I take it out and face it towards me. The picture was of a young woman and two men standing beside her. The men were dressed in old battle armor while the woman was in a expensive looking kimono. The two men looked alot alike, I took a guess and think they are twins. They all seem to have the same facial appearance, all three had dark hair, and same face shape and nose. The woman had a smile on her face while the men had a serious ones. I face the frame down and and take the back piece off, on the back of the photo was writing. Haruko Mayashi, Hina Mayashi, Haruka Mayashi.
Finally I have some reliable information, making a note with all three names I place the photo back in the frame. I put everything back in the box they way I found it and place it back in it's hiding place. I place everything back to where it belongs and fix the bed I previously layed on. Doing one last sweep of the apartment, I reset up the traps and lock the doors behind me.
Later on that night, after my night training. I'm with Tobi back at Sakami's house. We are on the couch with my head resting on his lap, while his fingers run through my hair.
"You sure you weren't hungry?" I look up at him and ask him for the third time. I've already eaten, but Tobi refuse my offers. I feel bad that he hasn't eaten, for someone who rearly eats he sure can keep his body well fit and his stamina is out of this world.
Tobi's mask leans closer to my face, "No, I think I've eaten enough."
My eyes widen and look away from him, red face. I feel his free hand teasingly yank on my shorts. I feel my face heat up more and close my legs together.
" Please, I don't think I could handle another one." He let's out a chuckle at that. Hearing that made my stomach do a flip, it was rear hearing that sound and when he did my stomach would knot up and my heart would stop. Tobi isn't one to show alot off emotion especially with that mask I can never tell what he is thinking, but when he did let his guard down. It would make me feel like I my world light up just a little brighter and seemed more peaceful.
"So what did you find." Tobi goes back to business.
"Just their names." I tell him.
"What are they?'
"Haruko Mayashi, Hina Mayashi, Haruka Mayashi. Do you know any of them?" I hand him the piece of paper I had in my notebook that was on the floor.
"I'm not familiar with any of these names." His finger on his mask and thumb place on his chin in thought.
"The men in the photo had some samurai style of armor." I show him the best sketch I could draw.
"There's a chance that they can be a samurai or have fought in one of the last shinobi wars." He say the most logical answer.
"I'll try to find out more," and place the papers back in the journal.
"Good. I will leave soon." He says in his soft voice, looking down at me.
"Do you have to leave so early? Can't you spend the whole night?" I focus on his dark eye.
"I would but you said your roommate will be home in a couple hours. You also need your sleep." He continues never breaking eye contact. I let out a yawn when he said that.
"You just proved that I am right."
I shift my position to face his torso." Can you stay with me till I fall asleep." I murmur.
He continues to run his hand through my hair, "I always do." He whispers and place the throw blanket on me. Within seconds I fell asleep.
"He still unconscious." I say out loud rechecking his vitals.
"Yes. Nothing has changed since he was pronounce stable." The nurse tells me. I nod my head and right his progress in his chart.
"Alright you remember my instructions." I look up at the clock and write the time down.
"Yes Rina-sama, I will alert you if he wakes up."
"Thank you." I smile at her and walk out of the room.
"I know" Sakimi giggles to our co-co-worker. She was alot better now and smiled more, but I knew she was still anxious and paranoid. Sakimi would always triple check the locks and window in the apartment when she came home and went to sleep. She never went anywhere alone and has gain the habit of carrying a knife on her at all times. I don't blame her from taking precaution
"Hey Rina!" She waves at me, making me break from my thoughts. I smile in return and reached the desk.
"Any luck in him?" She asks.
I shake my head. "Stable, but no signs on waking up yet."
Her face frowns a little."I feel bad for him. Even if he is grouchy, I would hope someone at least cared. Do you think that's why he was always so mean, because he had no one to show him love?"
I shrug, "There is one guy who comes and ask about him." I tell her.
"Yes, but that's because he works under him. If his boss dies he will be left unemployed, plus how would he get paid?"
"Your right. Here his chart back." I hand back his chart and she hands me another one.
"Here's your next patient. Are we going to the dango shop after?" I took a second to think about it.
"Some sweets does sound perfect right now...count me in." I smile at her and walk towards my next patient.
"Sakimi-san, so do you want to make the trip?" I here them go back to there conversation. With Tobi leaving a couple night's ago, i needed something to keep me busy. I always felt more lonely than usual when he leaves. Plus some alone time with Sakimi, I can casually bring up the idea of her moving back to kohoha. I continue to walk down the hall, I read the chart given to me. Male, 24. Barbeque burns. I flinch at the pain of it, I've dealt with so many burned patients in the past. Half of the time was because the person lacked caution. I knock on the door and slide it open. I walk in the room.
"I was careful! But someone forgot to pack the proper equipment to cook!" The silver hair man shouts.
"And if it was my fault. I wasn't the one who brought up the idea of a poorly planed barbeque." The other man in the room says calmly back.
None of them notice I'm here. I close the door behind me and walk further into the room. I clear my throat to get there attention and they turn to look at me.
"You're the doctor?" The man sitting on the bed asks and raises his eyebrow.
I give him a closed eye smile, "Yes. Hello I'm doctor Hiroshi." I introduce myself.
"You're pretty young to be a doctor and I wanted the best doctor." The same man announce. Great he is one of those people.
I Keep my smile,"Well I'm here and I wouldn't call myself the best. There are more doctors with more experience than me, but I make up for it with skills."
I walk closer to him and held my hand out for him to place his bandage hand. With a smirk he places his hand on mine. I ignore his look and start to unwrap the bandages. Gently pulling them away until I see the burn. Which was mostly on the palm and inner wrist.
I let go of his hand, "May I ask how exactly this happened?"
"Well doc we were by the lake and having a barbeque. Then..." He coughs "I got distracted." My patient let's a giggle, his face turned red and was staring of in to space. He seemed to be in a heavenly daze until I hear the other man chuckle.
"Say something and your dead!" He snaps out of his day dream and glares to his right.
"Is that all?"
He shakes his head, "I took my eyes off for a second and the meat started burning. I didn't have those things to grab the meat and I didn't find any chopsticks, so thinking fast I used my hands. I thought grabbing it fast enough I wouldn't burn myself."
The man next to him laughs again.
"Shut the hell up! If one more laugh come out of you I won't hesitate to kick your ass!" He forms a fist with his good one looking ready to swing.
I let out a mental sigh. " I suggest not do that. This a hospital, not a brawling ring." My patient looks at his burned hand lowers his fist." Let's get you healed up and you can go kick each other asses somewhere else."
He flash me a grin at that.
I look over his chart," It says here you been drinking as well."
"Just a little." He shrugs.
I place the chart down on the counter, "Well because of that we can't give any pain medication. That's another reason why I'm here."
I walk back to stand in front of him and hold my hand again, he place his hand on mine. "Alright." My hand begins to glow green.
"Ninjutsu." The both men say quietly in shock. Already use to people's reactions of amazement, I heal his burned skin cells. Everything is quite as I work.
"There all done. Try moving it around." I tell him.
He forms a fist and opens it, "Look at that." He moves his hand in circular motion, " It's like nothing happen to it."
"I advise you to keep away from fire and don't put to much strain on it for the next couple days."
"No problem" He nods his head.
"Any questions?"
"Yeah. Can you heal his ugly ass." He points to the man next to him.
Before I can answer a loud knock came from the door "Rina-sama! I'm sorry for interrupting, but He is awake." The nurse says, looking out of breath.
My eyes widen and nod my head."Thank you." I walk closer to the exit. " Get the check out paperwork for them."
I turn back my patient."The paperwork will explain everything you have to know." I now my head and rush over to the old man who names himself Takashi.
Finally making it to the room I see Takashi begin help to sit up by a nurse.
"I don't need your help." He snaps and pulls away from the nurses hold. Only for him to lose his strength and fall back on to the bed. I rush over to lend a hand.
"Takashi-san, do you know where you are?" I ask him.
"It's you?" His face scrunches up. I adjust the bed so he wasn't laying flat on his back, he didn't resist and let me do just that.
"Sorry im not a pretty face to look at, but do you know why you are here at the hospital?"
"No." He shows me a sour look.
"Well your co worker says you had a coughing fit, spitting out blood, and fainting from it."
His face went from annoyed to puzzle. I guess he doesn't remember any of it.
"Takashi-san we try to find medical records on you, but nothing came up. Do you know what caused this episode?"
He shakes his head.
"Well we would like to run some tests."
"If it gets me out of here quicker than go ahead "he crossed his arms and looks out the window.
"He has cancer and it spread to his lungs." The X-ray technician and I both look at his lung x-ray.
"I'll tell him." The technician looks relieved when I offer. No one like to give bad news, especially if that bad news was tell someone they have a terminal disease. I take the x Ray and inter Takashi's room. I set at eye level with him.
"You have cancer and it is stage 3 lung cancer." I fell him. His face froze when he heard that. "We can do our best to ease any pain and make sure you live a full life as long as possible. There are treatments." I try to lighten the situation the best I can.
"I don't want to." He whispers.
"What?" I question what he just said.
"Use your skills for someone else not and old man like me." He locks his eyes with mine and I can tell he ment every word of it.
"You have every right to life like everyone else, no matter the age."
"Hmph. Listen here girl. I don't want your treatment and you can't force me. I'm old and dying either way." He states.
I am surprised, how can he be ok with dying. I mean I guess all this investigations on him was all for nothing, he was going to die within a couple months without treatment.
"I hate hospitals when can I leave." He breaks my thoughts.
"I would have to keep you over a 72 hour period."
"What the hell?!" He glares at me.
"Takashi-san, with all do respect you just woke up from a 10 day coma. You can't walk that well or move basic body functions. You will have to be put on physical therapy until your 72 hours are up. Then you may be free to go." I explain to him.
"Can you just use that jutsu to Speed up the process." He points to my hand.
"I thought you said not to waste it on a old man like you."I use his words against him.
His expression went wide eyes in realization that he did say those words.
I try to keep a professional apparence and hold in my giggle at his expression. I calm myself down,
" Even if I wanted to help. I cannot. I can heal and repair cells, but giving them strength. I can't do, if medical ninjutsu did give muscles strength then everyone would have super natural strength. I can give you medicine to speed up the process but you have to put effort into the physical exercises."
Takashi's face went back to his normal frown and let out a sigh. " I hate hospitals."
"I already let the physical therapist know and he will be here soon." I get up from my seat.
"Hmph."
"We are glad to have you back with us Takashi-san." I give him a genuine smile and leave to talk to the therapist.
I let out a yawns and stretch my arms above my head.
"It been a long day hasn't it." Sakimi caught my contagious yawn and let's one out as well.
"Yeah it has." I finish my mini arm stretch and place the to the side.
"Well this is the last patient of your shift." Sakimi hands me the last chart of my day. I brighten at the sight of it. I really needed some food and sleep.
"Then yummy dango." She says happy.
"Mmh-hmm." I Bob my head.
"Great. I'll wait up for you."
"Ok. I'll try to finish as fast as I can."
I walk into my patients room.
"Hello I'm doctor Hiroshi and I'll be treating you today."
"Rina."
I look up at the man with a raised eyebrow. He has blue hair and brown eyes. I see different faces each day but I noticed that he was with that loud man from earlier.
"Yes?"
His face brightens and walks closer to me. I begin to feel uneasy and distance myself. Which made the man stop in his tracks, his looks confuse. His eyes look up and rolls them.
He laughs and removes his blue hair wig, revealing dark black hair tossing the wig to the side. His hand reaches to his eyeballs carefully removing what appears to be contact lenses. Replacing brown to deep sky blue.
"Rina-sama it's me. Do you remember now?" My mouth hangs open, I stay frozen I shock.
"Y-yuuma." I stutter remaining in this frozen state.
He smiled huge at that and comes close to me, he squeezes me in to a tight embrace. My shock subdues and return the hug. We stay like this for minutes. I couldn't believe he was actually here.
"Hey." I break the silence and hug. I let a small smile show. I still felt guilty how I let things go last time.
"What are you doing here?" He asks. His voice sounded deeper, but he looks the same. Same long shaggy hair, same fair clear skin, same gentle smile, same sky blue eyes. Same Yuuma I've always known.
"I've been working, traveling." I give a short answer.
"I see you cut your hair shorter and, " He leans closer to examine my face," You have contacts?" He looks puzzled by me. I completely forgotten but my disguise,
"I wanted to try a new look." I shrug and force a blush to my face. Yuuma looks unsure at my excuse, but pushes it to the side for now, which I'm thankful for.
" Why aren't you with your father, is he here?"
At that question my guilt from before quadruple. I haven't even payed attention that I was starting to remember them less and less, or even prayed to them. I avoid Yuuma gaze and hang my head in shame.
"Rina?" I feel his hand rest ontop of head.
"I-I. My p-papa." I choke quiet. Why am I acting like this, I mean I tell the same sob story in every town I go to If someone asks. I feel sad and empty, but now I feel so guilty and worthless.
"I'm sorry." I feel Yuumas arms wrap around me pulling me tight to him. One arm held my back and the other rub my hair. Now I know why I was feeling more emotional than normal, Yuuma is just one of those people I wasn't afraid to be vulnerable around. I wasn't afraid to let him know what I was truly feeling and it felt so dam good to have him her with me right now. He gave off this home feeling, the same way Tobi does. Unlike Tobi, Yuuma showed more emotions and I love him, as much as a friend can give.
"Do you know how dangerous it is to travel alone?" He keeps his voice soft as he talks.
"I'm fine. Look at me I'm healthy and not as fragile as I look." I tell him, not wanting to let go of his hold just yet.
"You should travel with me." He suggests
"What?" I pull away to look up at him.
"Yeah, you get to see the whole world, go to amazing parties, meet pretty cool people. It would be fun Rina-chan." His eyes sparkle at the adventures we could have and it made me chuckle. Everything he mention did sound fun.
"I don't like to be in the center of attention." I shake my head I him.
Keeping his smile he rolls his eyes, "That's why disguises are for." He points out.
"I'll think about it." I shrug unsure.
"Great! I gotta get going, but if you ever want to stop by I'm at hotel Ishikari." He reaches into his pants and pulls out a silver key, " Use this to get in. It's room 7653." He gives the key.
"Thanks?" I wrap my hand around it.
"Bye Rina-sama." Yuuma is back to wearing the blue wig and was ready to head for the door.
"Where do you think your going." I turn my body to face him and tap my foot.
"Umm...to my room to rest...why?" he asks confused of what's going on.
"You checked into a hospital complaining about a broken wrist, were you lying?" My face hard as stone. He was my last patient and I wanted to leave already. Now I assume he is fine and making me stay at work longer than I suppose to.
"Uhh...yeah I was." He say slowly
"You're kidding right." My tired eyes more into his.
"Well what was I suppose to do. Stalk you through your whole work shift and fallow you home. That just sounds to exhausting to do, so I thought I just make you come to me...and it worked." He gives me a please don't hurt me smile. I remain emotionless for a few more seconds.
"You're lucky my shift ended not to long ago, so you aren't hurt anywhere?' I ask to make sure.
"No...does that mean I can go now?" He asks.
"No. The nurse has to gather your check out paperwork."
"Really?"
"Yes. It's hospital policy, so I am going to leave and eat yummy dango, bye Yuuma." I wave him goodbye. He returns the wave and lays stomach first on the hospital bed. Yuuma looks like a bored child and it was amusing to me. I leave the room and It feels great to see him again. I look in my hand at the silver key, maybe I should see him tomorrow and place the key in the pocket of my uniform.
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