Now What Have I Gotten Myself Into? ~Enter Konoha's number one knuckle head

9

Chapter 9

While we were in the Barbeque restaurant, Sakura and Naruto made comments of me meeting Sai. I could only guess it was the boy who gave me the creeps when I seen them last in the Land of Grass. However, to make them think I now thought more of others I packed a togo box before we left. With some rice, beef, pork, and some vegetables. I need them to trust me. I thought as I curl my fingers around the box when we walk through the hospital.

Naruto and Sakura were walking in front of me. Naruto with his hands folded behind his head as he tells her about the training he left off on. Sakura was smiling up at him making me tilt my head curiously. Walking up to them I move to the other side of Naruto and look around him at both of them. "So, you two dating now?" I ask making their eyes widen as they look at me.

"No.n.No. That's not." Naruto rubs the back of his head looking nervous so I look to Sakura. She isn't out right yelling. Or going crazy with anger like she used to.

"Oh, it's just you two seem.. Really close now." I tell them lightly and smile as they stop at a set of hospital doors. "Too bad, I think you guys would be good together."

As they stare at me I go into the room leaving them in the hall. When I see the boy who I expected was the one they were talking about, he was sitting up in bed with a book in his hand. He looks up at me and I smirk down at him. "Long time no see, so you're the one they call Sai." I talk lightly and set the togo box on his lap making him raise his book so I didn't just bury it.

"You are Kira." He says before smiling up at me with his eyes closed. I raise a brow at him. This smile, is a little different then the last one I seen. It isn't much but there is a little more feeling in it. "I see, you are awakening your own emotions." I mutter causing him to look at me "Keep working at it, they'll come."

"I'm sorry but I don't know how I should take that coming from someone as unfeeling as I am." He says lightly though his eyes held more of a stern look to them. Making Naruto and Sakura look at each other. Naruto then shows up next to him and whispers, rather loudly into the boy's ear. "Hey, watch what you say Sai. Kira here is known for a temper like Sakura's!"

I shake my head and give a light laugh drawing the two boys attentions back to me. Sobering almost as quickly as I showed them that light hearted action. "You're right. Real emotions have eluded my grasp for quite some time." Turning to the wilted flowers on his stand I sigh noticing how they were all watching me. My hand begins to glow blue as I move my energy into it. "My emotions are like these flowers I guess. Wilted and withering. But with a little bit of help." I raise my hand over the flowers allowing my energy to flow through them. Feeling the soft petals inside me, the sweet aroma they bring. Their pain from having been severed from their roots as they are fighting for their own lives. Easing my energy through them I smile as they perk up. Their petals brightening to their original hue, the brown from lack of nutrients they would normally receive from the soil fading. "Maybe I can be like these flowers."

Dropping my hand back to my side I pull my energy back within me looking at the fresh flowers in front of me a little while longer before looking over at them. Thoughts hidden within their own silence as Sakura looks down. Moving my gaze back to the boy who seems to be watching me. Desperately trying to understand what I was saying. "Maybe it can be the same for you." I smile slightly at him before moving around to the empty bed in the room and sitting down. Finally retrieving my book from my pouch.

Opening my book I look at the blank page and very nearly let my disappointment slip. Itachi still hasn't said anything. Retrieving my pen I move it to the page just to have Sakura lean over me while Naruto somehow was helping Sai eat the lunch I gave him. It's astounding how much Naruto can fit in his stomach. "A journal?" Sakura questions looking down at my empty page pushing me to abandon what I was doing and close my book. She smiles at me as if that move in itself told her that it was exactly what she thought. Slipping my book and pen back into my pouch I move to get up.