Was updating the story and I finally cracked, hated the first chapter for a while now and I couldn't take it anymore, decided to fix it. Still not perfect, but in my opinion better.

It's been a week since the ozanu mission and Mika finds herself in a hospital room ...

I wake up in great pain in a hospital room. Groaning aloud I look to my left and see Maslow asleep in a chair, my grumbling stirs him and in a few seconds, he's jumped up, pulled a gun out of nowhere, and pointed it in all directions around the room before he notices that I'm awake.

Still confused, I take a second to notice my sorroundings, clear my scorching throat and ask "Where am I? What happened? What's going on?" Marslow calms me down before reminding me of the mission that put me here and telling me that because of my injuries I have been in surgery and recovering in a small coma for the past week.

I sigh, ask for a glass of water, for my dry throat, and lay back down taking everything in and thanking my birth defect that caused my heart to be misplaced.

I realize that something doesn't feel right, as though I'm forgetting something, I take a few seconds to go everything that happened within the last few days. Finally I remember what's been bothering me in the back of my head. "Where's Raizo? How is he? Is he okay? Oh my goodness, what about his injuries?" I ask panicking at the possibilities running through my head.

"Raizo's fine, he's the one who carried you out of that burning building. He even stayed for a few seconds to make sure you were going to be alright. After that, he said he had some issues to resolve before he left... we haven't seen or heard of him since" Maslow responded while looking strangely at me because of the concerned tone in my voice , "you know Mika, it would not be in your best interest to develop-"

"Well I'm tired, would you mind? I'm just exhausted from all that's happened and would love some sleep." I said, purposely cutting him off, not wanting him to continue with that train that could only lead to awkwardness. Especially considering those feelings he apparently still has for me, which I felt as though I couldn't return now, despite the fact that I considered greatly the idea of dating him not too long ago.

"Of course, rest up and I'll be back tomorrow. Goodnight." He said with a knowing look in his eye, but he still dropped it and left, for which I was grateful.

I waved before he left, then turned to my side, wondering what Raizo is doing at this moment, eventually I tire out and manage to fall asleep some time later.

I wake up again in the middle of the night, hours later, it's pitch black, yet feeling a presence in the room I call out "Hello? Is someone there?" Fear grips me as the heart monitor next to me starts to race. The lights turn on suddenly, I close my eyes, protecting them from the brightness. Once my eyes are adjusted, I open them to find Raizo over the bed looking at me with possibly a little concern.

"Careful on that heart, it just went through major surgery."

I sit up, grab his arm, pull him towards me and hug him, he's stiff at first before slowly hugging me back while slyly leaning over to place me back on the bed. I'm excited at first that he's hugging me but lose hope as I realize his emotions are still under careful control.

I grab his hand, not letting him get far away from me, look in his eyes and smile "I can't believe you're alive."

He smirks a little, "I should be saying the same thing considering the way I saw you last," after saying this, his face turns serious and he looks at me as though I could die any second.

Wanting to get that look off his face I change the subject, "So did you resolve your issues?" He looks at me again and nods, not telling me more of the topic. I take that as the cue to switch the way conversation is headed again. "So what is the world's best ninja gonna do now?"

"Take an over glorified librarian and get her far away from here" he says while looking at me with a plead in his eye not to refuse.

"Why?"

"The remaining 8 clans aren't so happy that one of their own was taken down, they are in chaos. The remaining ninjas from the Ozanu clan have either joined the other clans or are free lancing now." He sighed and took a good look at me and my heart monitor, "But all of them want to kill us both."

"So what are you or we planning on doing?" I don't know if he wants to handle this on his own but if he does I am going to beg him to include me. They want us both and as such, we are going to handle this situation together.

"First you're going to heal some more, then I'm taking you with me for your own safety." Half of me jumps at the fact that he does, indeed, plan on taking me with him, however my smarter half argues that this will most likely be extremely dangerous.

I think about the pros and cons for a while before nodding and looking at him "Fine. Just tell me when." He nods and starts walking to the open window, before he jumps I say "It's great seeing that you're okay Raizo." The corner of his lip twitches before he turns and leaves.