A/N : Y i kes, I'm waaaay behind. I blame life (no really, I had too much to do and so little time to write /insert sad face here/) But I'm back! Just before the New Year like always! Or exactly on the New Years…or way after lmao. Let's all say a hefty fuck you to 2016 and hope that 2017 brings more chapters! (but with starting my master's program in the Spring… I'm not sure…)

Enough of my garbage talk! Come one, come all! If you're not sure where we stopped (like me lol) Akane thought of a 'brilliant' way to get herself out of the hospital.

Happy Reading!

I don't own Naruto. If I did, I would have an episode on Neji's hair regimen. How does he keep it so smooth and silky I wonder?

Warning: Well, language obviously. This is not for the weak-hearted! Also name-calling since Akane is a potty-mouth supreme. Foreshadowing? I'm also calling the switch on point of views. You were warned!

Chapter 8: God, those Beasts Though (Part Two)

What's the worst that could happen?

If I had been a little smarter, I would have known that the worst always happen when someone thinks that. So I found myself ripping the sheets off and hopping off the bed. Well, more so stumbled out of the bed.

"Weak impudent body…" I grumbled under my breath as I made my way towards the window. I stopped halfway when I heard footsteps near my door. I turned to catapult back into my bed before the footsteps disappeared, probably down the hallway.

"…" Wow wow wee wow. That was close.

I shifted my body towards my destination once more and started tip-toeing towards it. "Badum…Badum… Badum Badum Badum Badum…. Baduuuuuuummmmm dum."

Gotta have my own sneaking around music, you know.

I reached the edge and peered out the glass panes to see how far I had to go. "One…two…" I stopped counting when my eyes noticed the ground. Alright. "It's not as bad as Naruto being super high up… two floors? I can do this! If not, I'll just you know – die." The squeak came out suddenly before I sniggered. "I got this."

I do not have this.

Sweat rolled down my back like a sweet caress as I backed up a bit to look at the window. "The clasps are there, and it doesn't look like there's any wind around. If I'm lucky, it'll be a smooth transition." I grasped the clips holding the windows shut and moved them, wary about any potential sirens that might go off. One time when I volunteered at a hospital, I had the pleasure of witnessing the hospital go on lock-down because one patient's visitor decided it would be a great idea to open the patient's window. What the visitor forgot was that this patient had a tendency to leave through his window so the hospital rigged it with alarms.

Great times! /end sarcasm

With a satisfying click, the latches removed themselves and I tugged the window up a little. So far so good.

I scooched it up a bit more until I was able to fit half of my body outside to grab the drain pipe running up the wall. "Ok yeah this…" I immediately pull back and grip onto the window edges, "yeah I'm gonna have to have chakra to scale this or I'm done for." I pull my body back into the hospital room, wincing a bit at the stinging sensation in my arms. I had to do this right or else I would be stuck here counting down the days as shit hit the fan.

My eyes shut in a form of concentration and I grumbled. "Stupid chakra...work properly…" Just a little bit...just a smidge…

I look down at my hands and could feel something warm in my hands. I got it!

"Huzzaa- ah! Ah! Fuck!"

I crumpled into the floor in pain, pulling my hands close to my chest as they stung like a bitch. If I could properly paint a picture for you …

Imagine shaking a box of bees and sticking your hand in it afterwards - JUST after your hand fell asleep. Yeah. Not a nice feeling.

I moved my hands to my thighs and placed them in between as I rolled slowly from left to right. It was a really good thing no one came in right now or else I'd have to explain as to why my window was open, and why I was currently whimpering like a bitch who was crumpled into the ground like someone just decided to kick me in my nuts with cleats.

Then I'd proceed to explain why I would even have nuts….and what cleats were.

I rolled for a little longer before pulling my hands out and looking at the potential damage. The bandages were scorched slightly and the exposed skin was a bright pink. My eyes involuntarily watered while I mentally cursed everything and everyone. I should just fucking sit in the hospital and not do shit. Just let everyone die. Why do I have to do everything I didn't ask to be here - I planned for a party in hell!

A guttural growl left me before I spoke quietly.

"Wooosah…girl...woosah. You need to get out of here."

No you don't.

I'm not going to abandon them to seven hundred chapters of garbage.

"Yes…I do."

No… you really don't.

"Yes, I unfortunately have to."

I grimace and force myself up from the ground, wiping the excess drool from my cheek. What, you thought I'd be on the floor not drooling as my mouth was wide open trying to scream in pain?

Yeah, me too. Too bad I'm not that graceful.

"No chakra then…" I decided.

I make my way over to the bed and plop down into it, groaning.

"Here's some more blankets, sweetheart."

I batted my lids and bowed my head. "Thank you." I kept my hands hidden in the original blanket I had to attempt to stop the twitching. The last thing I needed was this hospital worker to see my hands with the scorch marks and open skin.

"No no, thank you." The woman responded, opening the blankets up and laying them one by one on my bed. My lips pulled thin as my fingers fidgeted with the bandages as she piled the rest of the blankets on me.

"There we go. You'll be nice and toasty." I try not to deadpan at the irony. She rubs my head and walks off, probably to give more children heat strokes with all these damn blankets. You know, if a kid asked for them like I had. I waited a little to make sure she left before I scrambled out of my bed once more.

I glared at my hands (or as I currently call them, useless fucking nubs) before grabbing the sheets off the bed and getting to work.

I tied one end to the edge of the bed and pulled it a few times to see if it'd budge. "Ok...cool." I grimaced at the pain that shot through my hands. This might actually take a while. I pulled another blanket towards me and tied it at the end of the first blanket - pausing only for a moment to brace myself of the pain and then pulling the knot taut. Normally, I'd start screaming bloody murder but i settled for a long whine.

"Mother of Satan-" I snarled out, pulling my hands into my inner thigh as if squishing my hands between them like a sandwich would help ease the agony. I pushed the blankets under the bed with my foot and crawled back into my bed. I didn't even bother to fix myself into the sheets properly.

So when my mother came in to check on me along with an iryo-nin, they were surprised to see my ass up in the air and my face buried into the sheets with my hands squished in between my thighs.

Gorgeous, I know.

"Why didn't you press the call button if you were in pain?!"

My mouth opened up to respond but her glare told me to think twice about it. My lips pulled into a thin line and I brought my newly bandaged hands close. "Akane, sweetie...I know you're a big girl but you need to be careful! We have to make sure your hand heals so you don't have any scarring." My mother placed a hand on her own head as a sigh left her. She was seated at the edge of the bed with her own form of bandages. Her facial expressions suddenly grew more exhausted. "If these idiots don't take care of you there will be hell to pay." She grumbled and I could only tilt my head slightly. What?

Her expression shifted again and she smiled, "Nevermind that...Kushina came to visit me...remember her?" I couldn't help as my face blanched at the name and a low 'bleh' left me.

"Oh come on, she's nice." My mother supplied, and the same noise left me. Her blue eyes narrow and mine turn white with exhaustion. "She's...okay." My mother's eyes shut as she continued,

"It'll be some time to warm up to her. But it was nice to see her again." I rose an eyebrow and straightened my back slightly to ask her how the hell she knew the jinchuriki of the kyuubi.. My mother beat me to it, "Your mom doesn't look like it, but I was a kunoichi once. A good one."

No, really? My infamous deadpan came back and she mistook it for disbelief. "No, really!" She laughed,"If I wasn't so good then Kushina would have never even -" she stopped when my head snapped away from focusing on her to look at the door, nearly the same time she did.

The handle twisted and Yume frowned. "I was having quality time with my child." She nearly berated, causing the intruder to walk in with a smile. It was that same guy that was so pleased about me waking up before schedule.

"Sorry about that." He obviously wasn't. "But Saito-san insisted that you get some bed rest." He walked over to my mother who looked like she tasted something sour. "Oh did he." She stood from her position at the edge of my bed and walked over to me. The brunette kissed my forehead and rubbed my hair affectionately. I huffed and she chuckled, "I'll tell you more later. You can blame your father for this one." She straightened herself up and made her way to the door...actively ignoring the iryo-nin.

The male seemed unaffected as his shit-eating smile was still on his face, even after my mom left. I twiddled my fingers, a little annoyed but also curious. Why the hell was he still standing there?

"Might I suggest double-wrapping them?" He spoke finally after a century passed (it was really a few minutes) and my brows furrowed in confusion. What the hell was he -

"They'll hold better and the chance of it being undone is less likely. Cotton is such a devious thing." I immediately look at my hands and then nod. "Right."

"Do well, Akane - chan."

oh no.

He bowed slightly before taking his leave from my room and I don't move for a few seconds. Instead, I'm focusing all my hearing and attention to his footsteps that were moving down the hallway, away from my room so I could panic in peace.

That didn't happen.

A cold sweat broke from me and I started to blink rapidly. I knew I was an idiot, but I hid those blankets in a way that even my mother couldn't tell. How..how-

Was that Orochimaru? No I would have seen his fucking snake face a mile away. Was it a villain? Who-...

"I'm probably underestimating how smart the ninja are in this world." I finalized, shuddering a few times to get the fear to roll off. Some people were just fucking social morons. I chalked the iryo-nin as one and hopped off my bed to continue my oh so wonderful plan.

It didn't take me long to finish. These useless nubs were finally useful again! "Oh wow, he was right… this is much sturdier."

Not that I'd mention to the weirdo. I'm not going to ruin my chances of high-tailing it out of this hospital.

Fuck you thought it was.

I tugged at the knots a few more times before gathering the multitude of blankets. I glanced over at the window and noted how the sun was going down. I dropped the bundle and made my way to the window. I pushed it up fully and sighed. You know, maybe I should wait for morning, less people are up and the likelihood of getting caught is slim and -

Nah.

"Alli-oop!"

I went back and grabbed the bundle tightly and threw it over, watching it fall with the wind before hitting the building. I maneuvered my little legs over and sat on the window sill and glared at the floor. I wasn't going to die the same way like before.

"Thankfully I'm not inebriated as hell this time around…" I made grabbing motions with my hands while the fear decided to settle in. Maybe this was a bad idea.

It's too late now people probably see this and are wondering.

I should have waited.

"You stupid girl...Pull that up." I mumble, making a motion to get back in and pull the blankets up when I felt it.

My whole body felt fuzzy for a second before a sinking feeling appeared.

Someone was coming to my room. Unfortunately it shocked me so much that I fell backwards instead of inside. A shriek left my lips as the distance between me and the room I was in increased and it increased quickly. I grabbed the fabric and didn't mind my body slamming into the building as I continued my descent down.

When I managed to stop sliding down, I could only keep my gaze at the open window. My fingers were holding tightly against the fabric for dear life as I tried to force my body to move.

Stupid, freaking… This is not the time to act like a toddler! Move!

I blinked finally and let go of the fabric.

"oof. "

"Oh my...the little one actually managed to run off." He watched the young girl hobble for a little bit away from the hospital before making a run. He would be impressed if he didn't know better.

"Only because you had given her the idea to." A more feminine voice spoke and the previous rolled their eyes. He only pushed the thoughts she already had in her head. The female grabbed the fabric and scoffed, "if she were more skilled, chakra would have been easier."

"Stop putting clan children on a pedestal." The male responded, his eyes moving away from the spot he had last seen the pinkette run off to. I had hoped she would have been a tad slower...oh well.

Yo girl free! I'm free!

I couldn't help the big grin as I slowed down. I reached one of the busier parts of the village and it'd be questionable for a small child to be running around like the boogeyman was coming. I rubbed my stomach while whining. "I should've grabbed some pudding before high-tailing it out of there." What's a girl to do?

I have no money.

You didn't think this through at all… My eye twitched as I made my way through the crowd. Do I even know how to get home from here? Was this a terrible idea? Am I going to starve-

"...oi." Did I just see some spandex in my peripheral…?

I blinked owlishly. I just saw something green pass by. I looked around for a moment before seeing the green again. "O-Oi!" I called out, suddenly finding myself running towards that green. He disappeared again and I frowned as I pivoted to see where he went. "Where…."

I finally spotted him again and rushed over to get him before he managed to disappear in the crowd again. "Gai!"

"Huh?" the young boy turned his head to look around. "Did someone call me?" I stop a few feet from him, trying to catch my breath. "Y-yes...me…" He finally looks in my direction and blinks curiously. Suddenly a big grin crossed his face and he started laughing. "Hoh! I see you know of the Mighty Might Gai! Well little one, you're in luck! You caught me while I was training!"

I kept my face from deadpanning.

Mighty...might…?

"Shouldn't it just be...Might Gai?" Pushing the envelope here, but all for the better good am I right? He rubbed his chin before laughing haughtily. "That sounds better! Might Gai! Might Gai! Might Gai!-"

"Shut the entire hell up." I spoke in English, effectively causing him to stop and watch me with a confused expression. "Your face is turning pink…" I could see the gears turn in his head as he made that astute observation. "No. No no." I shake my head and grabbed his arm. "No." Maybe this was a mistake getting his attention…

As I get ready to tell him nevermind and go find someone else to get me food, my stomach grumbles. Loudly.

We both look at each other and I could feel my cheeks getting warm. I could feel my face twitch as his smile grew ten sizes that day.

Ok, not literally but it was annoyingly big. "You need food!"

"Yes, I do thanks for the observation, Sherlo-" He cut my snide comment off by grabbing my wrist. Woah there bucko why are you grabbing me -

"We'll get you some meat!"

Any attempts I cooked up of making him release me disappeared when I heard that word. Meat. Sweet delicious meat.

It's not as good as pudding...but it'll do. I watched him warily as he pulled me towards one of the sit-down restaurants and I would have gone in...had there not been an issue.

You're probably wondering what that issue was.

WELL. It's cute. It's adorable... it's going to bring about the destruction of the Uchiha clan, AND it's right near the entrance of the sit-down restaurants. My feet immediately slam into the floor, trying to stop Gai from moving forward. Listen, I tolerated Itachi but that doesn't mean I was ready for a lecture and a bruised cheek.

I tried to pry Gai's hand off my wrist like a trapped rabbit. "L-Let go…." I whine my eyes widening as I see who's next to the young boy. I knew that fucking pink hair anywhere. He'll rip me a new one. I won't be allowed to go outside! Even Fugaku was there? Shit… if they see me -

…. I'll be labeled as a prodigy.

Or the hospital will be labeled as inept but we're not trying to find out which one they're going to pick, ok?!

If you don't get your sorry butt out of here! I worriedly looked around before grabbing Gai's hand and tugging backwards. He finally felt a budge and turned around. "Oh? What's wrong?" He asked and I kept my gaze on the trio before yanking my hand from his grip (he more so let it go and I pulled my arm close to my body). "Let's train." I quickly say, my voice high pitched and squeaky as I started to back up.

"It's called...Hide and Seek…"

Gai's brows furrowed as he repeated the words. "Hiedeuh an Sikeeh? That's weird!" He makes a fist and I could literally see the fire form in his eyes. "That sounds foreign! It must be a new training tactic! I'm here for it! What do we do! How do we train with this regimen?"

I would feel bad if not for the fact that I needed to leave pronto. Thankfully my dad was pre-occupied talking with the Uchiha chief and Itachi was quietly looking around -

Fuck he's looking around.

I immediately pull Gai in front of me, blocking the boy's view as he looked in our direction. "You stay here...and count to 3000. then you ninja search to find me." I told him, and Gai's eyes widened before he nodded feverently. "Oh yes, yes! That sounds glorious!" He shut his eyes with an arm and started counting - loudly.

All the hairs on my neck stood and I immediately crouched as some passerbys looked over. Fuck, Itachi's looking over here again.

I backed up slowly before turning to sprint, just as my father looked over in Gai's direction.

"Was that…" Itachi mumbled to himself. He could have sworn he saw someone familiar bolting away… "Itachi, don't mind the child." Fugaku ordered and the boy immediately turned to look up at his father. "Uhn." He responded and the pink-haired jonin chuckled as he too turned to look at his company.

"You're quite strict with the boy...but that's to be expected from an Uchiha." he spoke and Fugaku's grimace only grew worse. "There's nothing wrong with wanting only the best out of my son."

"You could say that." the jonin spoke, affectionately rubbing Itachi's head before opening the flap. "Should we go in? I did owe you a meal."

Fugaku watched the male for a few seconds before his grimace disappeared and a thin line took its place. "You're lucky, old friend." He shut his eyes and led his son in first, following afterwards. "You owe me a lot more than that."

"What are old teammates for, hm?" Hideo responded, walking after the Uchiha into the restaurant.

"That was close…" Too close.

I slowed down and placed a hand to my chest to catch my breath again. I should feel bad for abandoning Gai, but it's Gai.

Plus, imminent death is something I don't want to deal with. I gulp in some air before rubbing my tummy. "So hungry…"

I looked around the area I was in and frowned. Where the fuck was this? I peered at one of the signs and grimaced.

Of course.

Japanese.

Why am I not surprised.

You'd think my sorry self would get used to reading kanji by now. But it's hard! This is why I use elementary terms with everyone. I noted it wasn't near the market place anymore as the smell of food wasn't as potent. I rubbed my tummy while walking forward. "If I'm lucky, I'll find my way back to Ichiraku…" I never did get to taste the deliciousness that was their ramen.

"Arf Arf."

I froze immediately, whipping my head to look at the source of the noise. It was a dog.

When the hell did it pop up near me?

"...Shoo shoo go away." I waved at it, trying to send it off before continuing to walk. I was suddenly made aware of the patters of its feet before quickening my pace. It took this as a challenge and started to speed up more.

Wait, was that the sound of another dog coming up?

I peer behind me and my eyes widened as I noticed the small dog with a dog following it - and another dog was following that one and - … you catch my drift. I stopped and the few dogs stopped as well.

"Arf Arf!"

"I don't speak dog." I snap, watching the dog for a moment before the last dog in the little group opened its mouth. My face dropped and it was reflex for me to start sprinting when I heard the deep bark come out of its mouth.

Nah, you got me all kinds of fucked up-!

Dogs were okay.

I didn't hate them, but I wasn't a huge fan of them either. In most situations, I would try to avoid dogs because the whole interaction would be awkward.

I tried to avoid dog people too. The last thing I needed to hear was, "OH MAN WHY DON'T YOU LIKE DOGS. THEY'RE LIKE A MAN'S BEST FRIEND, DUDE."

I've heard that one too many times in my past life and I didn't need that shit to happen again in this life because I will literally blow their head off. Well, I guess not their head – I haven't really excelled in that yet. I could like- make paper blow up. Like one sheet at a time.

Why buy confetti when you can make your own blown-up confetti paper?

But- back to the dog situation. I bring this up because my ass is currently clinging onto a branch with a pack of dogs barking up at me.

"Oh my god I'm going to be puppy chow." I whined before hearing someone call out to me.

"Why'd you run?! Dogs smell fear, you know!" The prominent red marks on her cheeks made me want to send a kunai through each of them.

"How the hell was I supposed to react when a horde of dogs off their leash run at me?! You're crazy!"

"The name's Hana!"

I fucking knew that.

"I DON'T CARE. GET THESE DOGS AWAY FROM THIS TREE." Fucking Inuzukas, I swear. If there is a God, please don't let me be teamed up with an Inuzuka. That'd be troublesome.

"They won't bite ya! They just wanted you to pet them!" She called up again and I glared harder. "Remove them from me or I will send Satan's dog to feast on your flesh!" I called and the girl started laughing. "You're funny!" She brought her fingers to her lips and blew, calling the demons - I mean dogs back to her. I watched them for a few seconds before slowly inching myself towards the bark of of the tree.

"Just hop down!" Hana called, and I sourly watched her. Everyone and everything is somehow trying to kill me, of this I'm sure.

"and then belly flop into death? No thank you." I grumble and she cupped her ear. "What?" I send her a strained smile and called out, "I don't know how to get down!"

"Omo, really?!" Why the hell are you sounding so surprised you annoying little...

My teeth grinded against each other.

"Yes….really."

I wish I told her otherwise because suddenly I found the girl running to the bark and climbing it like a fucking monkey what on satan-

She finally reached my branch and poked my rear. "Scoot over!" I immediately moved forward, glaring at her with wide white eyes. "That was my butt!"

"Be lucky I didn't shove you!" Hana retorted and sat on the branch. "Ok. Let's jump." She spoke excitedly and I could hear crickets on the tree chirp as I watched her with mute horror.

"Nani?"

"Come on!" She spoke, and I scooched further away from her. Nu-uh, you got me all kinds of fucked up. "You're joking."

"Joking would be like - THERE'S A SNAKE ON THIS TREE." She screeched the last part and I whipped my head behind me and I heard the damn Inuzuka start giggling. I flinch at the crack I heard from my body and let out a low growl. I slowly turn to focus my attention on her, my cheeks an unhealthy shade of pink.

"You're blushing! Haha, that's not usually the reaction I'd expect!" I didn't say anything as I stared at her, imagining how easy it would be to push her off and watch her innards splatter across the damn ground-

"Yoo-hoo! Hey, are you in there?" She mused and I moved my face back instinctively as her hand was annoyingly close. I'm pretty sure I'd bite it out of reflex if she touched my face. She only laughed some more and I narrowed my eyes.

Blue eyes stared at brown eyes before the brown eyes shut happily and blue eyes narrowed even more. "I came all the way to help you down! Let's jump!" She spoke, and I nearly bared my teeth at her. "Your dogs are the reason why I'm up here in the first place."

Her brows furrow.

"Oh...right...they're not my dogs….but you're right."

Maybe flinging myself off the branch wouldn't be a terrible idea. I grimaced as she stood up on the branch, holding the bark as leverage before holding out a hand to me. "Come, come! My mommy taught me this last month! It'll be fine!"

I rose an eyebrow and sighed.

If I died, at least I can finally go to Hell. "Fine." I mumbled, grabbing her hand. Her fangish smile grew a little and suddenly I found myself falling.

My eyes shut and when I reopened it, I was in my mindspace.

"..."

"..."

"...She killed me. I just got killed by a baby Inuzuka." I started in disbelief before laughing. I fell to the floor and started slapping the ground as wheezes left me. "She killed me! and I let her!" I wanted to cry.

I slowly got up from the ground and started rubbing my eyes. Tears trickled down my face as my laughs got high-pitched. I was going to kill her. I would find a way and kill her. I would make a pact with Satan and end her miserable existence-

"...ne…"

I stop laughing and look up. Ne?

"Ak...a...ne…"

That was the name of the life I had before it was cut abruptly off by a fucking-

"I think the brat died." a familiar voice spoke, and I blinked quickly. "Bakashi?" I asked out loud, before suddenly I could see not the plush walls of my mindspace, but instead the worried brown eyes of - Rin. I watched her for a few seconds, trying to process what happened before hearing a voice behind me laugh.

I was soon shifted down so my feet touched the ground and their hands held under my pits as if they knew I'd crumple like a broken marionette doll.

"You shouldn't be so scared of heights, Akane! You can't be a good ninja if you're afraid of things." I moved my head up to see those obnoxious goggles and I just -

"Hah, like you're one to talk, Obito." Kakashi spoke, causing the Uchiha to glare. "Listen Bakashi-"

He flinched suddenly when I sniffled. He glanced down at me as my eyes watered and I scrunched my face up. "W-What...I was joking! You'll be a good ninja…"

Obi-wan, you're my only hoe…

"Obi-wan….." I sob, and I immediately allowed all the rage and frustration I had about killing Hana come out in loud sobs. Suddenly I was picked up and Obito's face was in my watery vision as he tried calming me down.

"Great you made her cry."

"I-I didn't! Hey Akane, relax! I was joking! Uh…Satan wouldn't like to hear you cry."

When I started crying harder he panicked (I couldn't help it, I thought about how terrible I was and the thought of letting him get crushed was just tragic).

Plus, he mentioned my name without the -chan. That was insulting to me.

I was soon handed over to Rin who started shushing at me softly to get me to calm down but that didn't work. I started thinking about her hair and the lack of pink in her hair.

It's not fair, she has such normal hair!

Finally, I was handed over to Kakashi who held me at arm's length. Immediately I stopped sobbing once my blurry gaze caught sight of his surprised face shifting to one of mild disgust. Obito and Rin sighed in relief while I stared at the male.

Treating Team 7 like garbage.

Becoming Hokage.

Reading Icha Icha...

"Bakashi, unhand me this instant." I suddenly grew disgusted with him. His eye twitched slightly before they shut into a shit-eating smile.

"With pleasure, brat." and like that he dropped me on my ass.

I hopped right back up, ignoring the pain in my rear before looking at the trio. It took me a second before I glanced at Hana, who was preoccupied with her dogs. Well, I guess not her dogs but it was Inuzuka dogs.

"..."

"Oh no you don't!" Kakashi spoke as I pivoted to sprint off but failed as he grabbed the back of my shirt and kept me from moving. "Unhand me! For that Bakashi I curse you with the unsatiable need to read porn!" I screeched, causing the boy to grip my shirt tighter and pull me up so my feet weren't touching the ground.

"Akane, your mother is worried sick about you! How could you leave the hospital?" Rin asked, trying to change the subject as her teammate looked ready to end my life. I stopped fidgeting and pouted slightly at her question.

Because I grow weary of the white walls and garbage food.

I look over to Rin then at the group overall. Should I tell them the truth?

A low huff left me before I opened my mouth to speak.

"Found you!"

My mouth clamped shut as the trio turned to the source of the noise. In the far distance, Gai was running towards the group, grinning. When he got to us, I could only deadpan as he asked the three, "Were you guys training with her too?"

Fuck.

"You were training with a three year old." Obito repeated, while Kakashi rolled his eyes and placed his head in his hand. Why am I stuck with morons.

"It's called Hiedeuh an Sikeeh and it's supposed to help with endurance!" Kakashi's charcoal gaze snapped towards me and I found the floor to be very interesting.

"helps you...with endurance." Obito repeated, disbelief on his features before he turned to look at me. "Is this the Angruish that Shisui was talking about?" He bent down a little closer to me and whispered, "Does that really work?"

Boy if you don't get - …

My eyes turned white with anger and I hissed as a response. The elder Uchiha 'eep'ed and straightened himself out as Gai started explaining this… Hiedeuh an Sikeeh. I think he created that shit himself. I just told him to count while I bailed.

"I can't believe I'm hearing this...can we please go find Minato-sensei now? We've wasted enough time here!" Kakashi snapped, before grabbing my hand. Which was bandaged.

I could only internally laugh as a high pitched scream left me. He immediately let go and I brought my hands to my chest. "That hurt." The glare he gave me probably would have terrified me had I not known how to grind his gears later on.

Instead I took to whimpering and hiding behind Obito. "Obi-wan...I'm scared." I told him and Rin frowned at Kakashi, "don't scare Akane…"

"Geez Kakashi, don't be in such a pissy mood." Obito retaliated all the while patting my head. I immediately bit his hand and he yelped. "Don't do that."

"You kind of looked like a dog then, Aka-chan."

"..."

I almost forgot about the damn Inuzuka. I looked over at Hana and she was holding one of the pups in her arms. "I have to go home now, but it was nice meeting you Aka-chan."

Aka.

Aka-chan.

My cheeks grew pink and I made a move to jump the girl but Obito grabbed the back of my shirt and held me back. Hana laughed before waving and running off with those animals.

"Hoooh no you don't. You're not mauling anyone today." I growled before the trio bid Gai an adieu and started walking off to meet with their sensei.

"Bye Aka-san!"

"MY NAME IS AKANE." I screeched, trying once more to maul someone but Obito pulled me up like a sack of potatoes and the three hurried off.

I quickly shook off my rage to focus on the important task at hand.

How was I going to explain myself and how was I going to get food.

A/N: And I'm done! with this chapter lol. After a year, I have found magic to finish this chapter off! As usual, here's a sneak peek of the next chapter! Please review! I always manage to come back with them!

Chapter 9: God, these Questions though

Something felt...off.

As I was whisked away to the hospital, I couldn't help but notice the amount of chakra that seemed to give me an itch.

This one felt like a slow burn.

What was going on in the village? Why was everyone's chakra making me so tired - …

Oh.

Right.

The Third Shinobi War. I grimaced as we landed in front of the hospital. This place was going to be busy for a while.

"Did you use that to climb out of your window?" Rin asked, and it broke me out of my annoyed stupor. "Huh?" Obito looked over and soon enough, the blankets were just billowing in the breeze out the window, still intact from when I left it.

"..."

If I had any chance of proving I wasn't prodigious, it went out the window with the blankets.

Fuck.