A/N: Alright the three longest chapters and this one got slightly longer. But the changes are important. If you pay attention to the changes I was screaming for something to go right. But enjoy this chapter, because things get messier from here on out!
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Chapter 21: Feelings Become Warm
July 2nd:
The next morning I wake up in Shikamaru's arms. I look around and I know that we are in my room. I move out of Shikamaru's arms and go to get food. I move out of the room and into the kitchen. I sigh, there are so many things that are happening.
"Good day Tooru," Tenzo greets me.
"Hey, what are you making?" I ask.
"Some rice paddies. Would you like one?" He replies holding one out. I nod and Tenzo continues talking, "You know Tooru; that was scary, even for you. The leader isn't supposed to know who you are at all. Just the fact that he was able to find you must mean they are more of a threat than we all thought at first."
Weird, Tenzo usually is leaving when I am home. Something about it is off putting. But, what do I know? I am looking at a whole new world.
I take a bite, "I know, I think I know how he found out who I am though," Tenzo gestures for me to talk, "When he held on to my shoulder I was too startled to think about it but he tracked me; whenever I talked about him after an amount of time he could find me. That is why he never came after me in the first place, or even followed me to the Village. He knew I had to report and that if I had been spying for a while then I would need help. Finding out I was in the Leaf was a bonus since they had the least information on me out of all the specialized ANBU members that they are looking at. I felt him before he appeared and that only happens when there has been a transfer of chakra into the system."
"In simpler terms Tooru," Tenzo looks confused.
I sigh, "You know how I take peoples chakra whenever I touch them and copy their jutsu?"
You learn their powers, not copy them.
"Yes," Tenzo says as he sits down.
"Well, he has a very specific chakra build up and it's a small one…" I see the look of confusion, "You have a very earthy chakra, such as Saskue has a darker one. Thinking back to him putting his hand on my shoulder he inserted chakra into me. Which normally works with tracking. He has a special tracking jutsu that is almost perfection since the caster only has to focus on his chakra. It is almost invisible to the person, unless you are someone that takes others chakra. Which is why I was put in pain before, he was trying to find me. If you had that happen, you would have never noticed it and might have felt a little weird and thought it was a bug. Only, you would have noticed too late. He didn't plan to kill me but make it to where I could not move so he could take me. Little did he know was that there was training going on. Once he got within a fixed amount of distance from me I could feel that unwanted chakra inside. All the others could feel it as well and prepared how they should have."
There is a silence. I know it is a lot of information to take in, but it's the best way I can explain it. I mean, it works well, but now I know about the way he tracks people and I can use it to my advantage. Besides, I could use this in the future.
Tenzo ponders this for a moment, "So kind of like Shino's bug trick?"
"Yes, on a very basic level," I reply.
"Is the chakra still there?" Tenzo questions.
"I can feel it," I say, closing my eyes.
"How do we get it out?" Tenzo places a hand on the table.
"You don't," I state, "Look, I can take it into the chakra pool I have, that will cause the bond to stop and he can no longer track me. So long as he did not touch anyone else."
"Not that I am aware of," Tenzo give me a look of concern, "Will you taking in this chakra cause you pain?"
"It could, he will be aware that I am breaking the bond and that he will want to take me more than before," I look Tenzo in the eye and hold the eye contact.
Tenzo sits back and thinks about this for a moment, he looks everywhere and avoids looking at me. If I do decide to do this it will weaken my body a lot, allowing the jutsu to overtake me. Causing me to have the violent fits even when I am awake and it could last between seconds and days for it to finally stop, either way would be bad.
Another thing to worry about is him still being in the village. He knows specifically where I live and the training grounds that we use to train. Right now he isn't infusing chakra and now would be the best time to break the connection. Only, that puts me in a position where I could no longer put them in troubles way anymore. All the special ANBU are going to get taken out unless I can figure out what they want with us.
Which is something that needs to be figured out. They have information about all of us. Something that no one else should have. I am sure that Gaara is worried now about his person.
But I know that I need to take in this in. This chakra should not be in my system.
"You are thinking about breaking it, aren't you Tooru?" Tenzo gives me a father look I nod, "You know what that means? Staying low and trying to make sure that none of this copy group finds you. And that you would need to leave gathering the special ANBU members from their homes to try to fight these guys. And you know Naruto and Shikumaru would follow you."
"I know," I hear the crack in my voice, "But, what else am I supposed to try to do? Wait for them to attack and cause a full blow war again? I cannot let that happen Tenzo."
"Tooru, you are not thinking right…" Tenzo begins, "Look, we should take a day or two to maybe figure everything out and come up with a plan."
Tenzo gets up when the doorbell rings. I curl up into a ball. I don't know what to do anymore. I can't let the safety of the whole world be put on hold just because I made a few new friends. I don't think I should even think about what to do. I need to break the connection and work quickly before they make any more moves that are big like the Akatsuki. Once they become bigger there is no way that I could even think about to stop them, just like how Lady Fifth should have stopped them before so should Lord Sixth. This group, I can feel it in my bones that they are bad news. If only I knew what they could do than maybe, just maybe I could put a team together and stop them. But that would cause everyone to worry. I shake my head, why should I care about that? There is no way that I should even worry about just a small group but the village and the world as a whole.
Stop playing around and fix this.
"Tooru, Naruto is here," Tenzo pops his head around the corner and Naruto dismisses Tenzo.
"What do you want?" I ask, a little cold.
"I wanted to see if you were alright and that you kicked butt a few days ago," Naruto smiles.
"What is the real reason Naruto, I am not in the mood for this," I snap.
The smile fades and Naruto sits in front of me, "I think I understand what you were talking about. Lord Third was a jerk. I never noticed you watching us ever Kato Tooru, but Saskue vaguely remembers you along with a few others. And I also don't think any one of us can fully know how lonely you were until a few weeks ago with talking to Shikumaru. Kiba and I are so close to finding out what happened with the jutsu, and we know why he did it. I believe it was since you were younger than anyone else and he didn't want you to say anything. Sai went through the same thing in the foundation."
I guess that's true. But I have no idea about anything at the moment.
I look at him, "I… I don't know how you learned all of that."
"Don't ask why or how. We want to know you and you should be able to tell your story," Naruto explains.
I look away, not ready for whatever is about to happen. I need to break the jutsu and get started. Tell Lord Sixth and send word to the other villages so we can make sure everything is good to go. Maybe with others in ANBU we can finally figure out what is going on. I do not have time to think but I have to act. I have done enough planning am I have a great idea of what is going on. No one will miss me and they will all be forced to forget that they ever met me in the first place.
Gosh, I guess I want to be alone again, but do I really want to leave this?
"Don't try it Tooru," I heard Shikamaru from behind me.
"Why not?" I mumble.
"It won't work under the situation, maybe breaking will help but finding the others will not fix anything. You are upset and normally only think of the village and not people you care about. I understand that but we all need to think this through and how to get rid of this threat before it grows," Shikamaru reasons through.
"How would I do that," I retort.
"First off, stop over thinking it," Shikamaru holds up his hand, "Second, don't do anything rash. Third, let us help you. We wanted to have a planning session with or without you. Only now you are going to join since you have the most information on this group than the rest of us."
I glare at Shikamaru, unable to respond since I am still really tired. Naruto gives out a nerves laugh. Right than more people enter my house and I get up and change. I sigh, no one in their right mind should know this much about one person. I am annoyed by Shikamaru. What does he even think he is doing?
This is happening too much, it's too…
Shut up. I'm tired of listening to the voice. They are here to help me. Not to hurt me.
I walk out see Shikamaru finishing up some food while talking, "That has to be what is going on, Tooru come and sit down."
I walk over and sit where I normally sit and Shikamaru brings me a glass of water. I cross my arms in front of my chest and try very hard to not look like I am sulking.
"As I was saying, those are what we have so far for what we can do. If anyone can think of anything else that could help feel free to chime in," Shikamaru takes a seat next to me and I finally see that everyone is here including the sand siblings.
"Tooru, what ANBU do they know of?" Gaara asks.
I pause for a moment, trying to remember, "The one who disappears from life."
I see Gaara's eyes widen ever so slightly. I know that Gaara was not ready to know that the highest ninja in his village had been discovered. I look and see Temari looking between Shikamaru and I. She has a small smile playing across her face. I look away and meet Gaara's eyes.
"Kakashi was right, the one ninja no one should know about," Gaara sits back and thinks.
"That's the problem Lord Gaara, it is still unclear what they want with everyone. Why would they go through all the trouble of finding out about these special ANBU members that only the leaders of each of the villages knows about? Not only that, but what they want with the most high level jonin and ANBU member out in the ninja world," I say, unamused.
"Which is why everyone is here Tooru," Shikamaru directs at me.
"Well, maybe they want the chakra?" Lee asks.
"That is possible, like with the tailed beast," Neij states.
"You two know that will never work. If they want chakra than they need the tailed beast. They have the most chakra in the world. Only no one wants a repeat of the Fourth Great Ninja War since that lady almost took everyone out," Naruto chimes in.
They debate about it some more.
I know that they won't find the answer. I go over the information in my head again.
There are two sensory type ninja and one that can transfer chakra into a person's body and track them. Not to mention the leader can also cast genjutsu, my guess on that one is that it is more chakra control.
Long distance and messing with people's heads is what he does best. What is the most logical explanation for the other eleven members? The one from the sand must control wind or sand. They each have to have a purpose for forming. Would they have a master of puppets in the group?
No the only master is sitting in the room with me. But I also need to know how old they are. Age could affect the dynamic of the group and what they want out of life. Older would want us to maybe go back to the old ways, yet an older group would think there is no way that ages will ever change.
Why is this so hard? They have to want something, no matter how small it is, they want something out of this.
Maybe they have a common goal, only what is it? None of it makes sense. Even the larger details and information do not have any correlation what so ever. It could be to gain great power. Or even to start a new village to rival the five great Nations. Only what would that have to do with the smaller villages that they have members from? Would they really be planning for that?
A plan to create a new village.
Only the majority of the land is already divided up and no one wants to budge on making new boundaries. Could it be to gather more information? Only why would they? They have the members and they seem to be getting info on their own very well.
Wait, specialized ANBU members know everything about their kages and the village they live in. Along with being able to retain the information learned on missions even greater. Meaning that the specialized ninja could be used as puppets, calling for a puppet master. Or even a master at getting intel. Which explains one aspect of the part. These ninja could be used as puppets, But what kind of puppets.
But that does not explain their goals or what they even want with everyone. There are too many places to assume and assuming can cause deaths. Maybe I could try to connect with the chakra and get into the leaders head and pull information out of him. Only, I know he would feel it and be put in pain like I was when he was tracking me. That would raise red flags all over the place for both sides. But how else are we going to get information out of them? I don't even know who the spy is in our village.
That's our key. Getting the spy in the village.
Why don't we trap him? We could pull the information out of him. But how can we get him is the next question. At any moment they could have taken me away and gotten me on their side. But they haven't they are wanted to make sure we are fully isolated from the public. Maybe build up a bad picture of the village once we are far enough away?
Getting the spy is the best option.
A trap would be perfect to get him out of the shadows.
"Wait," I say stopping Tenten's argument for why it's some way, "Why don't we set up a trap?"
Shikamaru looks at me, "Were you even listening to anything we were saying?"
All of them look at me. I didn't know I should have been listening. Everything they have probably said I already came up with and discarded.
I shake my head and Naruto burst, "We are trying to help you Tooru!"
"Look, everything you guys have said I have already come up with a million times. Tenten was talking about how they could be wanting to summon us and sacrifice us to gain power with something," I look at Tenten who nods, "What we can do is try to find the rat in the village."
That's when everyone pauses. They didn't think of a rat or that they were important enough. They were looking at the group as a whole.
"What do you mean Tooru?" Neji asks.
"We use my file as bait to get this ninja to come out," I reply.
That's when Shikamaru gets is, "And that means we can get whoever it is into intel and Ino can get information out of him."
"Yes, meaning we could know their motive," I nod at Shikamaru.
Shikamaru and I only look at each other and we can see that a plan is starting to form between the two of us. We need no words but only the smallest change in the face and we know that the plan is being formed. I can see the plan is forming and it is quick to become elaborate. It goes through the moment by moment and how each person could help.
We both stand up, "That's it!"
We look around and see the confusion on every ones faces. We look back at each other and smile. We know exactly what the other is thinking, and we can see we are on the same page.
I don't think I can ever be one the same page as someone so well. But here I am, making a plan with Shikamaru and it being perfect.
"Explain please," Shino asks.
Shikamaru opens his mouth to explain but I cut in, "We shouldn't say anything so we do not raise any red flags with the rat don't you think?" I look over at Shikamaru.
"You're right Tooru, Tell them what they need to do one on one and let everything happen from there," Shikamaru finishes.
I give Shikamaru a look and we both know that it is the best plan by far and we know the three most likely moves of the rat. We also understand that each friend will be willing to follow Shikamaru and maybe even me. But for this plan to work we need everyone to listen to Shikamaru and I.
Shikamaru looks around at everyone and I follow his gaze. I can tell that their faces are trying to figure out if they should follow us or not. I can only hope that they follow us and help us with this kind of crazy plan.
"I'm in," Naruto says as he stands up.
"So am I, good chance to show off," Kiba follows.
One by one each person stands up, willing to help. The last two people to stand up and are actually still sitting down are Temari and Neji. Both are looking around at everyone standing up. Temari's expression lands on Shikamaru and Neji's lands on me.
I look at Shikamaru and he looks at me. I look at Neji and nod my head for him to follow me. We walk outside and sit on the porch.
"You have doubts?" I ask.
"Not really, I trust Shikamaru and now that I know a little more about you I can trust you more. I only want to know is if you and Shikumaru end up making something about-" Neji starts.
"What do you mean…" I shift a little.
"There was a change in him wasn't there?" Neji questions and I nod my head, "And how he looks at you is how he looked at Temari for years until everything turned sour. But lately he has almost the same look for you Tooru."
Why is this being brought up? This has nothing to do with the mission.
Right, Neji is being a friend to Shikamaru. Neji is looking out for Shikamaru.
This…. Right…
"Why would he feel that way about me? I'm someone who came into his life and he was roped into helping me. We might not even talk after this…" I trail off.
Neji chuckles, I snap my attention to him, "I'm sorry but you really don't know how to read people do you?"
I do too. I know when someone is lying and how to catch someone hiding important information about an important mission. I can read people.
"Yes I do," I say, confused.
"No, you can't even see that Shikumaru likes you Tooru…" Neji starts
"SHIKAMARU!" we hear everyone yell.
I pause. I don't like the sound of that. If Shikamaru just told them about plans, plans that could go wrong if one person is out of place than everything can go sour.
But I am also scared that… well I don't know what I am scared about.
"Maybe we should go back in there…"I say as I get up, but Neji grabs my hand to stop me, "Why? We need to make sure that…" I stop with what I was saying.
Neji only looks at me, knowing I was mostly trying to make sure that Shikumaru is okay, "My point is being made. Tooru, what do you feel for Shikamaru?"
"I…I don't know…." I stammer.
"Yes you do. I know that you know Tooru, maybe you are only scared to admit it," Neji pauses, "But it is been shown most the last few days while he has been taking care of you."
I ponder this for a moment while there are screams and claps coming from inside, "You and Temari planned this didn't you?"
Neji simply nods, "Yes, we both had our suspicions and Temari wanted to make sure that Shikamaru could move on."
"So this whole time… you guys were…" I try to process this thing.
"No, it's only been recent since we have seen how happy he has been when you are calm in him arms. Every time he had to do something there was a pain in his eyes along with worry. When he came back after reporting to Kakashi he ran in and saw you freaking out; he cleared the way and only held you. Within a matter of minutes you calmed down and Sakura and Ino were able to finish healing your wounds. He worries more about you than anyone else I have ever seen, but we all just stayed to talk to him. If you moved in a way he would stop mid-sentence and look at you. Just a bunch of little things he would do that we have never seen him do and Temari saw all of it," Neji stops, "You know Tooru, at first I did question you but now I see a great person who has always been alone. Much like Naruto and Saskue and Lee. Lee hates talking about it, but when he meet Tenten and I he was happier than he had ever been. He did become a great jutsu user, and that was the best thing for him."
Odd… no…. isn't… run….
They watched all of that happen? They all saw what was going on when I was asleep. Shikamaru made it sound like he was forced into doing it. I don't understand what is happening. I don't get friends.
But I do get that Neji is trying to help out.
I slowly nod, "yes, I understand. Only, I cannot understand how Shikamaru feels."
"Why is that Tooru? Don't you feel the same way for him?" Neji asks.
"Well," I ponder this for a moment, "I sometimes don't know how I feel about him. I mean sometimes when I see him I get flustered and I can feel myself blush. And when he's gone at times I want to see him. But other times he frustrates me to no end."
"That sounds like Tenten and I," Neji begins to laugh, "She and I get into fights but other times we miss each other a lot when one or the other was on a mission."
"You must love her a lot," I say.
"I do, honestly I wat to ask her to marry me, only I feel like it's too soon. But one day, I will marry her," Neji's face brightens up when he talks about Tenten.
We sit there in silence for a few moments, knowing that everything was said.
Do I have strong feelings for Shikamaru? Yes I do. I always have and spending the last few weeks with him have been better and the feeling have only grown for him. But then there was the whole thing with Temari and him missing her, now that he doesn't love her… what does that mean for us? Do I even have a chance or did another girl steal his heart. There are many girls that he talks to that have a thing for him. And he talks to them as well and even went on a date or two with some of them.
I shake my head.
Relationships are unimportant in a situation like this. But I can't help but wonder what is going on. I feel safe around Shikamaru, but I am starting to feel safe around the others as well. But Shikamaru is different. And the dream… I was jealous of myself.
"You know he has a crush on you right?" Neji asks, breaking the silence.
I look at Neji shocked, I shake my head. Neji looks away and up at the clouds, becoming lost in thought. Maybe I should really start to mind when he and I flirt. I over looked it and thought he only saw me as a friend. I sigh, this is a drag, I wish I never can in contact with any of them.
"I never noticed before… I knew how much he wanted Temari and I only wanted to be his friend," I say, bringing Neji out of thoughts to look at me.
Neji sighs, "Maybe you two didn't even notice how close you two were getting until you already felt it. For sure it creeps up on you. With Naruto, he never knew he loved Hinata until a mission. And Saskue never knew with Sakura until he saw her again in the war. It just hits people sometimes. Like it hit Shikamaru when you kissed him, he wasn't expecting you to do that."
"I don't know if I'm in love with the kid…" I mumble, causing Neji to chuckle.
"Maybe he loves you," Neji states simply.
"Maybe. We should go back in though Neji; we do have things to talk about," I say.
"No, they will come and…" Neji starts.
The door opens to Shikamaru and Tenten standing there waiting, "Hey Neji," Shikumaru greets, "Tooru."
"Hi," I reply shyly.
"Neji you and I need to go in, we have a few plans and we want to see how much on the same page Tooru and Shikamaru are on," Tenten explains.
"Alright," Neji stands up and follows Tenten inside.
Shikamaru takes the seat that Neji had been in and we sit there for a few moments. We don't even look at each other, we look at the clouds forming. Maybe we should only discuss strategy and nothing else. Feelings aside, we need this mission to go well.
A mission that was assigned first by Lord Sixth. A mission that I cannot fail him in. I need to know what is the full plan. And double check to make sure Shikamaru and I know about what everyone's role is going to me.
"The plan," I say, breaking the silence.
"Have it on the Hokage's desk and it be a fake with information about you," Shikamaru starts.
"And have the group talk about it with people who match the profile of the rat from what I saw on my mission," I continue.
"Lead him or her to the file," Shikamaru says.
"Take them down, already charged with treason and get information out of him," I finish.
We look at each other, both knowing that is not why they put us out here, everyone already knew that we were on the same page about the plan. It was the best on by far for everything else that we had thought of in that moment. We know the basics and we understand how the group will react to everything going on and trust the plan. I raise and eye brow, knowing that the others are listening in as I move my head to the door. Shikamaru gets it and understands my plan to mess with them.
"So, what did they tell you in the house," I ask.
"Well, what the plan was, and I wouldn't tell them," Shikamaru replies.
"Why did you do that?" I question, trying to sound angry.
"You told me not to!" Shikamaru exclaims with a grin on his face.
"I didn't tell Neji anything!" I say back, also smiling.
"There were some other thing," Shikamaru silds in. "Such as anyone that I might want to be with."
I raise an eyebrow. This is taking an interesting turn of events. But messing with friends is okay right?
"Oh, and who would that be?" I question.
"I don't know, they kind of beat around the bush," Shikamaru slides over a little bit.
"Really, Neji was talking about relationships too. It was cute to watch he talk about Tenten," I retort, I hear some awes from the other side of the door.
Shikamaru and I pause for some laughter, we both need it and it was a good moment. I know that Neji doesn't seem to show a lot towards Tenten but he told me how much he loves her. Besides I needed to pay him back in some way.
After we start to chuckle Shikamaru continues, "Well, I think I have an idea of who it is though." Shikumaru slide over again.
"Really? I can only assume who Neji was talking about but-" I start.
"We know how I feel about assuming things," Shikamaru and I say in unison.
We smile at each other and I see that Shikamaru's arm is brushing up against mine. Smooth, he has been getting closer to me by each sentence and laughter. I don't mind him being close to me at all though. In fact, I welcome it from Shikamaru. I love waking up in his arms and watching him laugh. I enjoy our deep conversations and our ability to discuss strategy with each other. I love that there is someone who can finally beat me at shogi and yet I can still beat him. Someone who can help me through my past and I can hopefully help his. I know that I can be human and that I no longer have to be alone. I look into Shikumaru's eyes and become lost in them.
All I can think about is kissing him. I feel my eyes go wide at that thought. I feel embarrassed for thinking something like that. I look at him and focus on him.
He feels the same way, I can see it in his eyes. As though we have a mutual understanding we lean in and actually kiss. I feel my senses explode, I know that the feelings are for me. We both know what the other person talked about when we were separated and our friends finally pushed us together.
After a few moments we break the kiss and only smile at each other. I hear whispering at the door, mostly a 'what is going on?' thing.
"You're such a drag," we both say. After that we break out laughing and get up to go inside.
We open the door the Naruto and Lee being hit in the nose. Shikamaru and I walk hand in hand knowing that everyone would already know. Both smiling and looking at each other as our friend cheer.
Stop… run
"Anyway, back to business," I say walking away from Shikamaru, "This plan needs everyone to focus and follow everything that we say." I wait for everyone to nod before I continue, "Alright, there are going to be groups as followed; Gaara, Sakura, and Choji group 1. Group 2; Shino, Temari and Lee. Group 3; Saskue, Hinata and Kankuro. Group 4; Sai, Tenten, and Naruto. Group 5; Neji, Ino and Kiba. Group 6; Shikamaru and myself. This groups are going to be trailing different suspects which hopefully I can get to 5," I walk around handing paper to Gaara, Shino, Saskue, Sai and Gaara, " These are times you will come back here today so I can explain your part. You ae all dismissed," I say as I hold the door open.
After everyone exits I turn and run into Shikamaru's chest, "Why do I have a bad feeling about this?"
I cuddle into his chest, "I don't know, I feel like my shoulder might put me in pain though." I say wrapping my arms around him.
"Do you feel that way?" he asks.
"Yes, the chakra is building up inside me, I know it is and he is trying to track me," I bury my face in his chest.
"What do we do?" Shikamaru pushes.
"Wait, see if he tries to track me," I mumble.
We stand there, only holding each other. The worry begins to set in, what if I don't come back? What if the rat is the leader? We have more work to do and finding out what the rat is. I know that Lord Sixth is trying as hard as he can to let people know about me, not that I am ANBU. Only, it's kind of working. This feeling is so weird to me and I have no idea how to handle it.
I feel the pain in my shoulder, and I lean into Shikamaru. Knowing that he will understand that I am in pain.
"He's coming, isn't he?" Shikumaru asks right away.
I simply nod and Shikamaru picks me up and sets me in a chair. There is a knock on the door. Hopefully it is Ino or Sakura's group.
"Hey Ino, hey Choji," Shikamaru greets. He leads them into the living where I am holding my shoulder.
"Tooru, are you okay?" Ino asks as she walks over to me.
"No, the leader is tracking her. We need to get everyone together so in case he comes out we can all be there and guard Tooru just in case," Shikamaru explains.
I feel Ino healing my shoulder, yet I do not speak.
"That's a good idea Shikamaru, and you pull aside each group," Choji inquires.
"Yes, good idea Choji," Ino chimes in.
"And this gives Tooru a chance to see everyone in action since she wants to fight everyone knowing what they struggle against the most and that evenly matches them," Shikamaru yawns as he says this.
"Alright, Shikamaru you take her and Choji and I will get everyone ready to go," Ino states.
The pain in my shoulder stops, and I know I am no longer being tracked, "We should move training locations though. This way he does not know where we are," I say.
"Where will we go?" Choji asks, confused.
"Outside the boarders of the village in a clearing that we could watch and you guys can understand how she fights," Shikamaru explains for me.
Choji and Ino nod, understanding.
"Let me put some chakra in you so you and only follow any trail Shikamaru and I take," I put my hand to Ino's head and give her a map along with a little chakra that creates a trail.
Ino only looks at me in amazement, "I can see your chakra perfectly."
"Yes, this allows for me to leave a visible trail of my chakra so you can follow it. I also put a map in case I have to cut off my chakra because of the leader following me. But I can also know where you guys are in relation to me," I explain.
"Alright, sounds like a plan," Choji grabs Ino and they leave out the door.
Shikamaru stands in the middle of the room, looking at the door. He sighs and moves over to me and sits on the floor, thinking about training. Maybe about how this could end badly, how each one of the one on one battles could case something to happen. Or even for the leader to find me out. I put a hand on Shikamaru's shoulder. He grabs my hand and gives it a squeeze; he looks at me. I know that he is worried but he and I know what to do if something happens. We get up and go to the clearing for training.