My Savior

chapter twenty five

Katon- shuriken no jutsu." The set of shurikenstraining I thrown are now on fire and heading fast towards Tobi's direction. It hit my target and my excitement was short live, as I see Tobi dissolve into water.
"Suiton- taihoudan" I turn myself around to see that Tobi launch his attack and a stream of water was heading towards me very quickly. The attack hit me directly and was sent flying back. My body hits a nearby tree and the back of my head bangs on the trunk. I whence in pain and reach to rub the back of my head, Feeling a wet liquid quickly cover my finger tips, I look at my hand to see I was bleeding.
"Dammit." I curse under my breath and quickly pull out my medical bag. Keeping my head down I begin to part my hair when I see Tobi's feet come into my view.
"You've been slacking your training." He says in a bored tone.
"Yes, Tobi I am alright. Thanks for asking." I say sarcastic, as my eyebrow twitches in annoyance. He could at least act a little worried. I take a cotton ball a place it on my wound to soak up the blood. I see Tobi kneel in front of me and reaches for my medical kit. His hand reaches for a cotton ball and removes my hand from my head, and he gently begins to clean up the blood.
"Is it bad?" I ask.
"No. Nothing you can't heal up." He says in a more caring voice than before. Not knowing what to do with my hands, I begin to pluck the grass in front of me. We have been together for we time and I still get sheepish when he was close. This warm feeling, I always feel that way when Tobi takes care of me or worries.
"Umm...I haven't been able to train as much as I use too. It's not for the lack of motivation. It's just. Sakimi has been very very clingy lately. She just wants to be my side almost all the time, nowadays." She has even gone far as to letting me sleep in her bed.
"You are not a bodyguard. You have your own job to take care of." He was back to using the non- emotion tone.
"I know, I know it's just. She is terrified and anxious that her abusive ex boyfriend will come back." I explain her situation more and Tobi lets out an irritated sigh.
"We can just kill the ex." He states.
"TOBI!" I jolt my head up and scold him.
"Don't lift your head so fast." He scolds me in return and grabs the side of my head to brings it back down.
"I can care less about this drama, but if it's effecting your training then there is a problem."
"Well I can't just tell her to just go away." I pout under my hair.
"There. I finished cleaning the blood up as much as I can, you can take care of the rest from here." Tobi says and starts putting all used cotton balls in a small plastic bag.
"Thank you."
Focusing my Chakra I began to heal my injury, while I slowly lift my head up to look into his one dark eye.
"Please, Obi. There has to to be another way I can help her." I continue on the subject and show him a pleading look. We stared at each other for awhile, our eyes never blinking. Until he finally closed his eye and shakes his head in defeat.
"You sure we can't just kill him and make it look like an accident? It is the fastest and easiest solution." Tobi suggest his idea again. I finish healing myself up and lean myself against the tree trunk.
"No, he has a son. No killing." I say to him. Even if I did like the sound of that idea, not that I would ever let Tobi know, for what that man has done to Sakimi. I would be more than happy to let Tobi do the dirty work, but he had a son. I knew far to well what it feels like to lose a parent at a young age.
"Then just tell her to move back home." Tobi says. I lift my eyebrows at this. It was simple, Sakimi can go back to her family in kohonagakure. She will be far away from so and so, and she will easily find a job. I can even stay in touch with her, and kohonagakure has a very populated shinobi there, she will be perfectly safe.
"That is not a bad idea, but what if she doesn't want to?" Tobi just shrugs.
"Then you convince her or you leave her alone." My face frowns, I'm confused on what he means.
"It won't be long untill you have to go to the next town." He answers my unasked question. My eyes widen slightly in realisation that I'll be leaving soon.
"Right." I say quietly. My heart felt heavy knowing that I would have to leave. I can say I grew comfortable with this town, more with Sakimi. I was worried, if there was a chance I couldn't convince her to go home. What will happen to her? Most importantly what will her shitty ex boyfriend do to her once I'm gone. Knowing that me being here is something that could prevent her from suffering, doesn't want me to leave anytime soon. I will feel a guilt knowing I'll let someone else down just because I wasn't there. Just like Manami, Haru and my father.
"I don't want you to slack anymore on your training, I suggest to do it in the evening." Tobi speaks up. Causing me to break from my thoughts.
"Anything about your elderly friend?" He continues.
"No, but I am going back to his apartment tonight. With him at the hospital and Sakimi working all night tonight I should have no problems." Zetsu told Tobi about everything and he insisted that he could infiltrate the old man's home. I told him that is my job and how could I get better if I let him do everything I thought was difficult. If anyone is going to find out about my mysterious neighbour, it was going to be me. I did not spend so many hours just for Tobi to gloat on how easy he got the information.
"You don't have that much time left, gather anything useful as you can and your off to the next town." Tobi stands up after this and I fallow his lead.
"I will." I see him turn around and start to fade into the Forrest. I look at the space where he once was, feeling disappointed.
"What no good bye kiss or anything." I say to myself.
We haven't seen each other in over a month and a half. I would think he would be all over me. Is he mad at me. Of course he's mad, I slacked on my training. I ran my hand through my hair and let out a loud sigh, before I could head over to pick up my medical kit. I felt a pair of arms wrapped behind me in a hug and lips peck on my neck. A smile made its way to my lips and I close my eyes to Tobi's touch. I tilt my head to expose my neck more. Getting the signal Tobi leans down and kisses my neck, this time more longing than before. I lick my bottom lip at the feel of him and move my hand to gently tug on his hair. This made Tobi squeeze me closer to his body than before. His lips trails up towards my jaw and stop.
"See you tonight for training." He whispers, putting emphasis on the word training. He gave my jaw a peck before letting go. I gave myself a few moments to even out my heavy breathing and turn to look to see he was gone. My smile still remain and I knew that tonight was going to be more than just shurikens and ninjutsu.