I'll Show You Insanity

Chapter 29

We enter a room to see most of team 7- Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke- gathered around a a cot where their final teammate slumbered.

Yuma had been out cold for a week, and showed no signs of waking any time soon. Her team was worried that her little episode had put her into a coma.

"I wonder what she's dreaming about..." Sakura muttered, gazing sadly as the writhing girl.

"Can't be anything good," Naruto muttered, replacing the cold towelette on the grey haired girl's forehead.

"Hn."

"Can't you say anything else?!" Sakura snapped, only to slap a shocked hand over her mouth. Everyone paused and stared at her in surprise.

Sakura, on of Sasuke's biggest fangirls, had just..... Woah.

"S-Sorry, Sasuke-kun," she whispered, looking down.

"Now, now, team. Why don't you three go out for some fresh air?" Kakashi suggested. "It would do you all some good."

"I can't leave Yuma-chan!" Naruto protested.

"Me either!" Sakura agreed.

"......... Or me......." Sasuke grumbled.

Kakashi sighed. "Go on, would she want you all acting like this? So stressed out you're turning on eachother?"

The three genin looked down, then nodded and left the room, leaving Kakashi to stare at his little cousin as she twisted and turned.

Reaching over, he took one small hand in both of his. At once, the small girl calmed and lay flat. This surprised Kakashi slightly, but he was not about to complain.

"I wish you'd wake up," he muttered, brushing some hair from her face. "It's boring here without you. Please, wake up, Yuma..."

Suddenly, rusty eyes snapped open and stared at the ceiling as the grey haired girl's mouth opened wide and she screamed, bolting upright a moment later and breathing hard.

"Yuma!" Kakashi cried, holding her still. She fought against him until her wild gaze locked with his, then.......

"K-Kakashi!" She yelled, jumping at him and hugging him tightly.

"Yuma, calm down," Kakashi said gently, rocking back and forth as he held her.

"Don't let them kill me!"

"Never, I'll protect you," the silver haired nin vowed just before the door flew open.

"Yuma!" Naruto and Sakura yelled, rushing forward with Sasuke on their heels.

Yuma buried her face in Kakashi's vest as he rubbed circles on her back, muttering, "It's alright, it's just the the others."

Sakura paused, Sasuke stopping beside her, yet Naruto took no notice of his teammate's strange new behavior. He continued on until he fell to his knees beside Kakashi and Yuma, who looked up.

"Are you okay, Yuma-chan?!" The blonde boy gasped. "Are you hurt!? Do you need any medicine?! Do-"

"Hey!" Yuma laughed, grinning just like her old self. "Breathe, Kid. Just breathe."

Naruto laughed sheepishly and the other two, seeing as Yuma was acting more like herself, approached and sat in the group.

"So..." Yuma said, releasing Kakashi as she sat, cross legged, with her team. "Who won?"

"Us," Sakura smiled.

"Obviously," Sasuke grumbled.

Yuma grinned. "Good. I'm glad you're all safe. And Sasuke," she looked at the boy with a slightly crazed grin, causing him to back up a bit. "Make me think you've died again, and I'll kill you. Kay?"

Sasuke blinked at all too obvious threat, but ultimately just smirked, nodding.

"Yeah."

Kakashi sat silently, watching as Yuma returned to her own, hyperactive and strange self. He smiled at how far his little team has come along.

He couldn't be more proud.

Later that day, the boys of team 7 were training out in the yard, while Sakura was watching a Soap Opera with Tsuname.

"Yuma-chan!" Sakura called the wandering girl over. "Come watch with us!"

"What are we watching?" Yuma asked curiously, seating herself beside her pink haired teammate.

"I can't really remember," Tsuname hummed.

"Me either," Sakura said, frowning in thought.

Yuma set her attention on the show playing.

A woman and a man were sitting under a tree together as the wind blew.

"You're my best friend," the woman whispered before stretching up and planting a kiss on the man's lips.

Best friends do that? Yuma wondered, looking at the females beside her, who were watching the two on the screen intently.

Getting up, Yuma went back to the back yard.

"OI, Bakashi!" She called.

"Hm?" Kakashi asked looking over at the girl as the boys paused as well.

"Why do people kiss?" Yuma demanded, frowning thoughtfully.

"What brought that question up?" Kakashi asked, surprised as he crouched before his little cousin.

"Some weird show that Tsuname and Sakura are watching. I think they called it a Soap Hopera..."

"Ah, you mean Soap Opera. Well... Yuma... When people reaaaaaally like eachother, they kiss and stuff." Kakashi said awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck.

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other, nodded, and decided to continue training with out their sensei.

"Like best friends?" Yuma asked.

Kakashi sighed. "Kinda like that, I guess."

Yuma nodded. "Kay, thanks."

"No problem, I suppose..."

Yuma, her question answered, turned to her blonde and raven haired teammates, who sensed her eyes on them and turned to see a creepy grin decorating the girl's face.

"You guys need a sparing partner?"