A Painful Life

Yumi’s POV

I was worried about Kimura… She’d never been so.. serious about someone like that. Surely there had to be some sort of feelings between her and Len but if he kissed Shii then, he’s really not worthy of Kimura.

As every team walked away with his sensei, I elbowed Naruto.

“Ouch, what was that for?” He yelled.

“That is for still having energy despite what we’ve been through”, I said.

Sakura giggled as we walked. “I will visit Sasuke tomorrow, wanna come with me? But I need to go home today and sleep for a very long time”.

“Sure, why not”, I smiled.

“I need to get to Kakashi sensei today”, said Naruto.

“Why?” I asked.

“I need him to help me with my training”, he explained.

“Oh, well I’m coming with you. I heard he’s with Sasuke in the hospital”, I said.

We both left Sakura and headed to the hospital where Kakashi would be.

Meanwhile

Kimura’s POV

What sucked the most about it was that I want to forget Len but I couldn’t… I want to get him off my mind. He’s just a friend, JUST A FRIEND!!

“Well, well, someone’s OCD today”, an annoying voice said. Of course, Shii.

I turned around and walked ignoring her. “You’re really into him, aren’t you? I don’t think he would want to date a sore loser”, she said.

Now she really pushed my buttons. I ran at her to punch her where it would hurt but something stopped me… it was someone.

“Len!” I cried.

“What were you thinking Shii?” He looked at her. “So you were just using me to make Kimura jealous?”

“No, of course not. She attacked me. She’s jealous of us." She used her innocent, sad falsetto. Oh come on!

“Us?? There is no us, Shii”, he said as he took my hand and walked away; leaving Shii dumbfounded.

“I can’t believe she was just using me”, he said in a manipulated tone.

“It happens…” I looked around.

“Kimura… You know I really like you, don’t you?” He looked at me right in my eyes.

“I uh…”

“There you are Len”, a voice said from afar. It was Lukashi.

“I was looking for you after you ran off, we gotta go plan our training rounds with Sensei Ayuka”, he said pulling him away. I could see Len motioning ‘we will talk later, sorry about that’ with his lips.
Wow… our faces were inches apart. I giggled as I ran off to Yumi’s place.

Back to Yumi’s POV

“Hello, we’re here to see Uchiha Sasuke”, said Naruto to the infirmiere* of the hospital.

“Sorry, no visitors allowed”, she said in her annoying voice.

“What! No visitors?!” Naruto cried.

“It’s alright, we’re actually not here to see the patient. We’re here to see our sensei, Kakashi Hatake”, I told her.

“Oh. Well, have a seat. I think he will be out in just a few moments”.

We both sat down as we waited for Kakashi. We waited and waited until a vision occurred. It was Kimura and Shii fighting and Kimura almost hit her.

“What’s the matter? You stiffened all of a sudden”, said Naruto.

“Nah, I had a vision”, I said.

“Vision? You’re psychic?”

“Well, sort of”.

“Whoa, awesome. Tell me, am I gonna be hokage someday?” He got excited.

“It’s not like that, I just see in the near future. Kimura-chan has it too, you know”.

“Wow”, he sat back.

Kakashi had finally come out. Naruto ran to him.

“Kakashi sensei! I really need your help in training”, he begged.

“Well, me too”, I said. “Sara-san will be sort of busy sometime with her team but if you can’t, I can ask her sometime later”.

“I’m sorry Naruto. But, Sasuke needs me more than you. I already got you another sensei to help you”, he said.

“Another sensei?” We both said in unison.

“Me”, a voice said.

We looked back to see a tall man in navy blue, wearing the leaf headscarf and dorky shades.

“Umm, is he blind or something?” I asked.

“This is Sensei Ebisu, Yumi”, said Kakashi ignoring my question.

“That guy again!” Naruto yelled.

“How about we forget that last incident we’ve been through”, Ebisu said.

“Oh yeah when you were out cold and lied flat on your back for three days?” Said Naruto.

The guy shrieked.

“What incident?”, I asked.

“Well, he was supposed to be helping Konohamaru but he didn’t so I did this Harem Jutsu and…”
Ebisu stopped him. “It was nothing really.. Shouldn’t we go now and start our training?”, he said.

“Harem Jutsu? Don’t you mean the Sexy Jutsu?” I said. “Well anyways, I changed my mind… I think I will go home and come back later, okay?”

“We’ll be at the hotsprings”, said Ebisu.

At Yumi’s place

I looked around but nobody was home. I called for Sara. She left a note saying she went to treat her team for lunch. I called for Kimura but I think she was in her room and she didn’t hear me. I knocked and heard “Open”.
Kimura was packing her bags.

“What are you doing”, I widened my eyes.

“Well I think I’ve been a real burden so I think it’s time for me to go live with my brother”, she said.

“Kimura… did we upset you?” I said.

“No no, it’s just that I’m worried about Sasuke living alone. I think he needs someone to be with him”, she said.

“Oh… I’m really gonna miss living with you”, my eyes were clouded with tears.
We both hugged.

“How about you stay until tonight then you can go? I want you to come with me to the hotsprings”, I said.

“Hotsprings?”

“Yeah, there’s this dude Ebisu, substituting Kakashi for our training because Kakashi needs Sasuke so why don’t we like go train a bit and then treat ourselves for a dip in the hotsprings?” I said.

“Sure that sounds so fun”, she said.

We both wore simple clothes; tshirts and shorts and had these swimming bags with us.

At the hotsprings

“What on earth are you two wearing?” Said the Ebisu dude moving his shades downwards to see us clearly.

“Well, we’re gonna take a dip in the hotsprings after training. By the way, this is Uchiha Kimura and she’ll also be with us training today”.

“Well nobody said anything about her so I guess that’s fine”, he said. Suddenly, he spotted something. There was a big dude peaking at the ladies’ hotsprings.
“Oh My F-ing God”, I gasped.

“Are you peaking at the ladies’ hotsprings? I won’t allow that”. He ran at the dude with this heroic hair. The pervy dude knocked him far, far away.

“I guess no training or hotsprings for us today”, said Kimura.

I got really mad so I walked straight to the guy. “Hey! Who the hell do you think you are?” I yelled.

“Well, I’m the great author of the Makeout Paradise novels; my name is Master Jiraiya”, he said in a heroic pose.

“No.Way, You’re the author of that dirty book Kakashi always reads?” I asked.

“HEY, it’s not dirty okay? It’s just not suitable for your age… Unless you can handle adult themes”, he said.

My mouth opened with disgust. Suddenly, he looked at me closely and smirked. “Perhaps you would be interested in being my new research?”

“Research?” Kimura said thoughtfully of what that ‘research’ would mean.

“Yes research. How do you think I write my novels, huh?”

Me and Kimura gasped in unison. “YOU PERVERT”, I said and walked over to Kimura.

“Whoa, red heads have a great physique . Red heads have all the curves in place. Red heads are a little moody…”, he started writing down.

Kimura’s POV

Yumi started screaming after hearing what that perv was writing.

“Why you little…” I ran at him to punch him in the face. Again, someone stopped me.

“Naruto? What do you think you’re doing? Let me at him!!” I argued.

“That guy blew Ebisu away, he has to train me”, Naruto said as if he was dozing off in a daydream.

“To be a 50-year-old perv?” Yumi said.

“No, to become the strongest ninja”, his eyes gleamed.

“Naruto! You can’t let him train you, he’s completely out of your league; literally and theoratically”, I said.

“Besides I’m busy, kid, so beat it”, said the perv. He looked at me and studied me for a while. “Wow, you’re just what I need. Look at the hair, look at the body, look at these legs! Perhaps you would like to be part of my research as well, sweetheart”, he gave me a dirty look.

“Ugh”, I slapped him. Wow, that felt good.

“Note to self: girls with black hair can be really angry if you don’t go smooth with them”, he wrote in his notebook.

I narrowed my eyes and walked to Yumi. “Then again, you should go train with Naruto. And maybe it would be the only good thing you’ve ever done”, I said.

After a long persuasion, he agreed to train Naruto away from the hotsprings. Before we went inside, Yumi checked every peak around so nobody would be looking.

Inside the hotsprings

Author’s POV

“So guess what”, Kimura said. “It turns out Shii was toying with Len after all”.

“She was?” Asked Yumi.

“Yeah, we almost got into a fight and…” Yumi stopped her.

“I saw it”, said Yumi.

“You did?”

“Yeah, Len shouldn’t have stopped you though. I wanted you to beat the crap outta her, then you would leave me some”, I chuckled.

“Hehe. I think Len-sama still have feelings for me”, Kimura smiled.

“And you still do”, said Yumi smiling as well.

Kimura blushed. “When are you gonna make your move, Yumi-chan?”

“Make my move?” Yumi looked confused.

“Yeah, you like Gaara-kun don’t you?”

“Well…” Yumi sighed. “Fine, you win. I do. But I just… don’t know if he likes me back or.. if I can get him the right way”.

“Don’t worry Yumi-chan, I’m here for the rescue”, Kimura winked.

"You'll hook us up?" Asked Yumi.

"No even better!" Kimura said excitedly.