'Tryin' to Get to Heaven,' Part 14

[midnightdiddle]

I'm back! Sorta. For a moment, to type in some stuff I wrote, and then I'm gone again.



When night fell on the camp, it fell fast. The camp fell as well, into an uneasy quiet. Ninja moved about in small groups, speaking in infrequent, breathy whispers, twitching hands never straying far from kunai or shuriken. It was a pale beyond tense, pulling agitation to the point of snapping. Ibiki was standing near the edge of the camp, shoulders pulled tight togeether beneath the heavy dark.

"I went swimming with Anko once, when it was dark." 'Before the war' was silently tacked on, and a shadow next to Ibiki moved.

"She's still not back?" Kakashi moved again, the metal on his gloves glinting against the sliver of a moon.

"Not tonight. She won't move on a night like this. Dark makes her uncomfortable."

Kakashi looked up at Ibiki before he turned away, pulling at his mask almost uncomfortably. "Maybe she'll come in the morning."

!-!-!

Anko covered her mouth with a hand, trying to quiet her breathing. Her heart sounded too loud, the blood pulsing in her head too wildly. She was sprawled over a tree limb, arms and legs pulled up into uncomfortable angles, to stay in the shadows. If she looked around her, pairs of eyes stared back at her from other trees, but there were fewer eyes than there should've been. Her team had been caught, nearly destroyed, and more than half were scattered over the last two miles, dead.

There was a movement to her right and she turned her head, pressing her cheek against the rough bark. Tsuzumi was staring back at her, mouth open, and he was slipping from a tree branch, limp. He fell, head snapping to an unnatural angle when he hit a lower branch, and then another, and another. Anko scrambled to her feet as he fell, pushing chakra to her feet to leap to another tree, and when she ran, the rest of her team followed.

!-!-!

"You think she will?" Ibiki asked, sinking to the ground. His shoulders loosened, slumped, and Kakashi nodded somewhere to his right.

"Anko's not stupid, she'll be fine."

!-!-!

Anko threw out her right hand, grabbing a tree branch and using her weight to flip her around. Shadows darted past her and she counted them, her hands digging against the branch. (Kotetsu, Izumo, Hana. Oh, god, oh god, where's Shimon?' her mind shrieked.) She waited a moment, and when no shadow came darting past, she turned, and kept on running.






Hmm... I don't know. I kinda like it, I kinda don't. And...this is pathetic, I know it is... I went through all the character biographies on leafninja.com, and I wrote down all the chuunin and their ages, and I'm using it as a system for who I'll kill, and when. Because I needed names, and then, out of all of them, I picked the prettiest. *sigh* Shimon was just too pretty. All longish hair and pretty eyes. *cackle*


My back snapped in the weirdest way today. It hurt, and I could feel that it was kinda out of place (due to previous back injuries), and then it snapped back into where it was supposed to be, but I blacked out, and woke up about half an hour later, on the floor. Was interesting, very interesting.

And choir tonight! Yay!

Edit: *shriek* My back up discs no longer work! As in, everything I've written, is now gone! As in, this is the second time I've lost everything in just three months. Three!

So, dragon_bite, sorry, but I can't show you my horror that I found. It's now gone. *dies*

Comments

[luv-wiz.livejournal.com]

Are you ok ? O__o

You seem to get hurt a lot ... And , you fainted ?!?!?!?! ARE YOU OK ?!?!?! O___o

You must see a doctor , again ! D: No matter how creepy and freaky docs are , they're here for your good !

And good drabble ! ^^

From TTGTH , I see ... >___>

And , what is that ( I wrote down all the chuunin and their ages, and I'm using it as a system for who I'll kill, and when ) supposed to mean ?!?!?! O________________________o You're gonna kill off all the Chuunin ?!?!?! * panics over Ruka *

[jello-mix.livejournal.com]

I am going to ignore the glory that is the Tryin' teaser and say this instead:

Please, please please take care of yourself! T_T

fair warning: i'm a mother hen when it comes to my flist

[midnightdiddle.livejournal.com]

I'm fine, I'm fine, no worries. Physically, I tend to be clumsy, get hurt a lot, and am always sick, but I'm fine. *sings* Ain't nothing gonna bring me down, no-oh, I've got to keep on moving!

What is that supposed to mean? Exactly what it says. I've written down chuunin, their ages, and am systematically killing them. Well, kinda systematically. And am I going to kill all the chuunin? No, but I'm gonna kill me some jounin.

I just sounded like a hick. Gonna kill me. *snort*

[midnightdiddle.livejournal.com]

No worries, no worries. I usually take care of myself. Just old age is kicking in? *is 19* I'm like an old person with a walker, only not. ^__^

[telosphilos.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, do be careful. Check your blood pressure and go find the heating pad. Even though you put it back where it belongs it is most likely sore and the heating pad will help some with that. If you can get ahold of tiger balm and a good friend. Back massages with tigerbalm feel wonderful. I use it fairly often.

The look at Anko and Ibiki is pretty nice too. It looks like it is coming along slowly but surely. I'll have to look up leafninja.com since you mentioned it. :D

[jello-mix.livejournal.com]

Do you belong to AARP? I have since I was a year younger than you! XD

God bless paperwork mistakes.

[midnightdiddle.livejournal.com]

My blood pressure? Hmm, I could, if I was at a store with one of those blood pressure things. But, why blood pressure, out of curiousity?

Slowly but surely is right. I hope to have at least two chapters done when my computer gets back, though.

And leafninja.com is wonderful. It has biographies for all the characters, and it's so nice. Just a lovely sight, wonderful to use.

[midnightdiddle.livejournal.com]

Nope, can't say I do.

[telosphilos.livejournal.com]

Low blood pressure can lead to fainting spells. I get to deal with it on occasion since my blood pressure is typically along the lines of 110 over 60 which I'm told is surprisingly low. Basically what happens is you stand up too quickly and not enough blood gets to your brain so you keel over or have to sit very quickly.
I have to get up slowly if I've been in a deep sleep or I won't make it anywhere. I also have to watch it if I've been laying down for a while or sitting still for a long stretch. It isn't something ever really think about, its just there. Worst I've ever had documented was when I was hospitalized while pregnant with Alex and one of the nurses doing the early morning round found my blood pressure to be 80 over 40. They made a point of waking me up after that. *shrug*

[alana2x1.livejournal.com]

Part 14 of Tryin' was great! Anko's anxiety over her team and who was still alive and who was dead was well written. I should imagine she's a fiercely protective team leader. Ibiki's worry about her long absence and Kakashi's reassurance was nicely wirtten too.

I hope you're feeling better now. Blacking out is no fun, esp. if you're on your own and wake up later on your own too. *hugs* Take care!

Tis extremely annoying when you lose everything just once let alone twice in such quick succession. Not much I can say but I hope you can make up on some of the stuff you lost soon *hugs*

[midnightdiddle.livejournal.com]

No, no, it's ok. I'll live! I'm good at that!

And I'm glad the snippet was okay. It's just so hard to write any scenes without Iruka in him. I just wanna get back to Iruka.

*hug*

[midnightdiddle.livejournal.com]

Very protective team leader, indeed.

I'm feeling much better. A bit tired, slightly dizzy, but nothing sleep can't help. :)

And for losing the stuff...I'm annoyed. Very annoyed. But I'll deal, I guess. I'll just start everything over from scratch, maybe. Or scrap all the old ideas, and start entirely from new.