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Saturday, September 1, 2007


part four
gawd, i am dead tired.... i've been working hard with school and volleyball that i never have time to get on any more... well anywho, here's part four for you..

“Sazaki, stop! I wanted to pass so badly. I was ready to finally get out of here and make people start respecting me, and I failed! You passed, you’re finally a ninja!”
“Naruto, I’m still your friend! I respect you more than you’ll ever know!” she cried.
“Sazaki, that’s only because you’re my friend! I don’t even have a family to help cheer me on!”
“Naruto, I—!”
He turned on her suddenly, his eyes flashing.
“Who’s going to congratulate you?” he snapped, ignoring her protests, “Who’s going to take you home and give you a gift because you passed? You may have Karin and Raiuku, but they aren’t your family! Face it; you’re an orphan just like me! You have no one to go home to either!”
Sazaki froze with her eyes wide. Pain stabbed at her heart as tears began to form. Sazaki hated being called an orphan. It made her feel less of a person, and it reminded her that she had grown up alone without the love of a mother or a father. It hurt her so bad because, growing up, those were the things she craved more than anything in the world. Her heart ached anytime she saw kids with their parents. She had heard stories from her classmates about how much they hated it for their parents to ground them, and found herself wishing that she could be grounded, just once. Just to know if someone loved her.
“Sazaki...” Naruto whispered, realizing his mistake.
She slapped him across the face, then turned and ran through the crowd of students and parents who had gathered while they were talking.
“Way to go son! We’ll have your mother cook a special dinner for you when we get home!”
“Wow, look at you! Now you’re ready to help defend the village!”
These comments followed her everywhere as she ran, adding to the pain in her heart.
“Sazaki?”
Sazaki felt an arm stop her flight. She looked up into the blue eyes of Takito, her new sensei.
“What’s wrong?” he asked, worried.
Sazaki blinked at him for a minute, the quickly brushed away her tears. She forced a grin on her face and said, “Nothing! I’m fine! I just had to go get something that I left behind in the class room.”
Takito raised an eyebrow.
“Are you sure?”
She nodded enthusiastically, and then broke away from him before he could ask more questions. Sazaki quickly ducked into the girls’ bathroom and shut herself in one of the stalls, leaning on it.
Darn it... I’m not going to be able to get out of here with all these people here... she thought in annoyance.
She rubbed her temples with the pads of her fingers, trying to remember the escape routes that she knew out of the school from when she was little.
I think that there might be one in this bathroom.... or was it on the other side... she thought, raising her head and looking around.
She unlocked the stall and looked around, stooping to peer underneath the sinks.
“Ah... THERE you are...” she muttered, finding what she was looking for.
She quickly pressed her hands against a section of wall under the left side sink, and focused her chakra, letting it flow through her hands. The section shimmered blue under her hands, then disappeared, leaving an opening large enough for her to crawl through. She carefully kept her hands on the sides so that it stayed open, and scooted through. She let go when she was through, and the section of wall shimmered back into place. Sazaki had discovered the entrance when she was little after hearing some older girls talking about a supposed magic wall that let you out. The only catch was that it had to accept you. Curious, she looked for it. When she found it, she had pushed her chakra into it experimentally. It turns out that it had some kind of chemical in it that only reacted to her chakra. Sazaki quickly walked away from the Academy, following a path that she knew well. Not many people knew where her special place was, and it’s where she always disappeared to when she didn’t want to be bothered. Sazaki soon reached a clearing in the woods behind her cottage. There in the sun were the beginnings of the stream that stretched to under the bridge in front of her house. A large waterfall growled as it hurled itself down over the cliff, and slowly turned into a low mummer of the stream that flowed near her house. Sazaki sat down on a rock under a tree near to the falls. She pulled her knees to her chest and rested her chin on them, staring glumly into the water.
I don’t know why I’m letting this affect me so much... I mean, it’s nothing I haven’t heard before... she thought, taking one of her shoes off and dipping it into the water. She gently swirled the water around with her foot. Unconsciously, she started to make the water rise around her foot. The water made three figures, two taller than the other. One was a woman, a man, and the other between them a small child. She watched as the man and woman water figure took the child’s hands and began to swing her back and forth. Tears crept into her eyes as the man took the child and began to dance with her in his arms, while the woman stood back and watched, laughing. Angrily, Sazaki slashed at the air with her hand. A small hurricane ravaged the surface of the water, scattering the figures.
“... How many more things are you going to take your anger out on?”
Sazaki jumped in surprise at the soft, almost musical voice and spun around. A boy stood there, with tousled chocolate brow hair, and an amused glint in his indigo colored eyes.
“Kai! What are you doing here?”

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