Storm's POV

I make it to a separate clearing and I turn to face Kisame.

Kisame smirks. "You separated yourself from your comrades, was that really a smart idea?" Kisame asks picking up Samahada.

"I'm sorry, did you say something? I was busy doing nothing." I say to him and he swings Samahada at me.

I dodge effortlessly and I pull out some kunai.

I block Samahada in a split second and a small crater appears under the two of us.

"You've gotten faster." Kisame says to me with a smirk.

I sense someone behind me and I jump up and into a tree, I look to see Itachi there as well.

I sigh. "Of course, because why not, this is a damn pain, I get sent on this mission by force, I get attacked by two Akatsuki, and I just don't want to be here." I say and Kisame smirks.

"What happened to all your pent up emotions? Can't take us both?" Kisame asks.

Think damn it, Kakashi-Sensei went over this. If I suddenly don't care in the middle of a fight, what did he say I had to do?

"Kisame, lets just hurry this up." Itachi says to him.

"Alright girly, we need you for something." Kisame says to me.

"What?" I ask him.

"You have expert medical Nin-Jutsu now, so heal his eyes." Kisame says pointing to Itachi.

I look at them unamused. "And what happens when I do?" I ask.

"We leave you guys alone, but of course if you don't we can just kill you right here." Kisame says to me.

"I don't understand." I say to him.

"What?" Kisame asks.

"If you wanted expert medical Nin-Jutsu, why didn't you go to the Hidden Cloud or any of the other hidden villages. They all have medical Nin-Jutsu with great abilities, yet you chose me, I don't understand." I say to them.

"But annoying you with this is what us bad guys do." Kisame says to me.

I think it over and I pull out a small bottle and I toss it to them. Itachi catches it.

"What's this?" Itachi asks skeptically.

"Stabilizer, take one every 8 hours until you can see professional help, then you can do what you want with the rest of the pills, just don't bother coming after me again like this." I say standing up and looking down at them.

"This isn't healing his eyes." Kisame says to me.

"I don't have enough confidence in my healing Nin-Jutsu to heal someone's eyes. Ask someone who does, besides, I just don't care right now." I say to him.

I hear a mini gasp and I throw a kunai in a bush, Ino walks out. "Ino?" I ask.

"Storm, what the hell are you doing?" Ino asks me.

"What I can do, compromise. I can't fight two of these guys, I'd die before I even have a chance." I say to her.

"But you didn't have to do that." Ino says to me.

I sigh. "Ino, sometimes, you have to make a deal so your comrades and client survive, I don't give a damn about myself on these missions, but I have people to protect, I'm not aloud to die until this mission is over and none of my comrades are aloud to die either. I'd rather do this, than see my comrades be slaughtered." I say to her and Ino's eyes widen.

I feel shock emanation from the two Akatsuki members.

"Your a good person." Ino says to me.

"Ino, go back to the others, I'll explain what I did after I finish up this." I say to her.

Ino runs back to the others immediately.

I sigh. "I'm gonna look like the bad guy because of you guys, damn my kindness." I mutter and Kisame smirks.

"What, don't like looking bad?" Kisame asks.

"I've looked bad my entire life. I don't care about my image." I say to him.

"Oh so your like Itachi here. Killed his entire clan and doesn't care about how people look at him." Kisame says with a smirk.

I look at the night sky to see the moon at its highest peak. "I could careless right now. I really could, but now I'm gonna have a hard time explaining this, I know Shikamaru gets it, but the others are really gonna not like me." I say and scratch the back of my neck.

I hear yelling at the camp sight.

"I knew that's how Kiba and Naruto would react." I say and Kisame and Itachi look at me confused.

"What are you talking about? I don't hear anything." Kisame says to me.

I roll my eyes and jump down. "Go home." I say to them.

"What?" Kisame asks.

"Let me rephrase that. Go to hell and leave me the hell alone." I say to them and I dread going back and I walk into the camp sight.

"Storm." Shikamaru says to me with a frown.

"I have a reason by what I did." I say to them and Kiba and Naruto get tied to a tree, just to be safe.

"Then explain why you would do that then?" Sakura says to me.

I sigh. "Its a basic reason, I was looking out for your safety. If I lost to them in a fight, they'd come after you guys and since there was two of them, its not like I had any chance of winning so I thought over their proposal, and it was better than letting you guys get hurt." I say to them and Kiba and Naruto stop struggling against their ropes and look at me.

"We could have handled ourselves." Naruto says to me.

I shake my head. "Not against them. Naruto, if you couldn't beat me in a simple sparring match, could you really have won against the both of them? Itachi took out Sasuke with out even trying, I took both you and Sakura on and neither of you could beat me when you were using teamwork. You wouldn't even have a prayer against the both of them let alone one of them." I say to the two.

"Your the Jonin, your supposed to be able to handle them." Sakura says to me.

"Kakashi-Sensei took on Itachi and couldn't win, think about that Sakura, and think about how strong Kurenai-Sensei is and how strong Asuma-Sensei is. All three of them took on Itachi and Kisame and couldn't win, even with Guy-Sensei's help." I say to her and everyone looks at me shocked.

"How do you know all this?" Shikamaru asks.

"Its not like the adults in the village are quiet, besides I asked Kakashi-Sensei upfront about it." I say to him.

The frosts feudal lord grabs me by the front of my flack jacket and pulls me up to look him in the eye. "Shinobi go down fighting, if you died, then these guys would have protected me, your just a coward for not fighting." He says to me.

My eyes glow like lightning. "Don't call me a coward, let me go or I could say this is sexual harassment, I think about my comrades before I think of myself, that's why I did what I did, because unlike you feudal lords, I have a heart. You feudal lords just send us Shinobi out to war to protect you like our lives are nothing, so don't go saying that I'm a coward when you feudal lords can't fight for yourselves." 

"Should you really be talking like that?" Shikamaru asks me.

The feudal lord lets me go.

I sigh and run a hand through my hair. "Look, I'm not sorry for what I did, but I am sorry that I act the way I do, if you guys would rather me fight and die against two Akatsuki members and let you guys get slaughtered next time, then fine, I'll do that, but just remember that talking things like that out is better than shedding blood, now if you'll excuse me, I'm going for a walk alone to let you guys think about what I just said." I say and jump up into a tree and jump from tree to tree until I find a pond.

I jump down and sit on the ground, staring at the water while blocking everything else out.

Kiba's POV

Storm leaves and we watch her with shock in our eyes.

"Shikamaru, why is Storm sorry for her being herself?" I ask him.

"I don't know, not even I understand what's going on now." Shikamaru says to me.

"I think we messed up." Ino says and everyone nods in agreement.

Storm's POV

I feel something cold on my neck and I glance to see its just Itachi. I turn my eyes back to the water.

"What is it?" I ask him.

"Your not gonna fight?" Itachi asks.

"If your just gonna kill me right here and now, then I have 1 to no chance of being able to fight back." I say to him.

Itachi puts his kunai away. "I didn't come to kill you, I came to see why you decided against fighting both me and Kisame when you could have had a small chance of winning." Itachi says to me.

"Guess I can't just be left alone anymore, everyone has to know why I do everything, don't they. Think about it, I can't just fight freely as a Genin anymore, I'm a Jonin, I have comrades to think about more than anything. Ninja who break the rules are scrum right? Well ninja who abandon their friends are worse than scum. I believe that as truth, more than anything. There is my reason." I say as I stand up and I put up an uncaring façade on.

Itachi nods and leaves.

I sit back down on my knee's and I sit there just staring at the water. I hear people running up behind me.

"Storm, there you are." Shikamaru says and bends down next to me.

"Well? Your answer?" I ask and everyone but the feudal lord look at me slightly angered.

"You didn't even try sticking around to listen to us." Sakura says and hits me on the head. "You aren't a very good captain." She says to me.

"I know." I say to her and everyone looks at me strangely.

"Something is wrong here, your not being a smartass, sarcastic or rude person." Sakura says and hits me on the head. "Your not even dodging my fist." Sakura says to me.

Everyone looks at me.

I stand up and look at them. "Let's just finish this mission. I'd rather not stay here too long." I say changing the subject. "Also Sakura if you hit me on the head again, I'll tell everyone your secret." I say to her with a smirk.

"Like you would." Sakura says to me.

5 days later

We walk into the Leafs gates and we walk to Tsunade's office.

I knock.

"Come in." 

We walk in and Tsunade looks at us.

"Mission is complete, no one died." I say to her Tsunade nods approvingly.

"Alright, Storm I have another mission for you." Tsunade says to me.

"I'm sorry Tsunade, but I'm gonna have to decline, this mission was a little to hard for me." I say to her and Tsunade looks at me mildly shocked by my words.

"Fine." Tsunade says to me.

I finish giving her the report and I go home to my apartment. I pull out my key and unlock the door and walk in, I close and lock the door behind me and I set my stuff down next to the door. I take my ninja gear off and set on the couch. I let my hair down and walk to my bathroom and get ready for a lazy day, meaning I change into a black long sleeve hoodie and gray sweatpants with black socks.

I walk to my kitchen and I pull out a frozen dinner. I cook it in the microwave and I sit at the counter eating it. Someone knocks on my door as I throw away the empty frozen dinner box.

"I'm coming." I say and walk over to the door, I unlock it to see the landlady. "Yes?" I ask her.

"Your rent money?" The landlady asks.

I bang my head against the door scolding myself. "I'll get it, wait right here." I say to her and I walk over to my bag, I pull out my rent money that I aside from my previous missions. I walk back to the door and hand the landlady her money. "There." I say to her.

The landlady hands me a paper. "I thought you might like to try this from all the holsters you wear." She says and leaves. 

I close and lock my door and I look at the paper to see its a weapon throwing contest. I leave it on the side table next to my door.

"I don't feel like trying anything right now, sorry." I say and walk to my bedroom to see Kakashi waiting patiently on my balcony.

I roll my eyes and open the screen door. "Yes Kakashi-Sensei?" I ask him.

"How was your first mission as team captain?" Kakashi asks as he walks in.

"Oh you know, I got the Frosts feudal lord back to his home, but I totally sucked at being team captain, we first got attacked by bandits, me, Shikamaru and Kiba took care of them. Then Kisame and Itachi attacked. Since I couldn't beat them we made a deal, Kisame wanted Itachi's eye's healed and in return they'd leave us alone, since I don't have enough medical experience I only gave them stabilizer pills and they kept to their word and left us alone. But then I got blamed for not taking them out and what not and I felt too pressured that it annoyed me because everyone thinks I'm just this strong Kunoichi who can basically do anything. Well after that we got attacked by more bandits but I took care of them and we got the feudal lord back to his home. We got back and I gave the report and came home. Simply a bad week for me." I say to him and Kakashi nods.

"Well you could have taken out the two Akatsuki members but there is a reason you didn't, what was that reason?" Kakashi asks me.

I sit on my bed, against the wall. "That reason is that the others were there, I didn't want to scare them and have them think I'm mentally unstable. I'm not blaming them for my mistake, I should have been able to win but I didn't want to take the chance of getting everyone killed. I put my comrades before myself, that's just what I have to do now." I say to Kakashi.

"Yet, you seem like your broken inside." Kakashi says to me.

"That's because I feel broken inside. I messed up on my first captain mission as a Jonin and that's all I'm gonna hear from Ino and Sakura, that's all I've been hearing. I've just been given a hard time, the way to calm down is just to relax, oh and I'm pretty sure that Mom or Dad will be by and I'm gonna get an earful, so I'd rather be asleep before they get here so I don't have to deal with that." I say to Kakashi.

"Your avoiding your problems." Kakashi says to me.

"What else is new?" I ask him and Kakashi gives me a closed eyed smile.

"No one likes to see you like this, Naruto and Kiba told me to come talk to you. You'll be fine, just face your problems." Kakashi says and walk out on my balcony and leaves.

I sigh and fall asleep.

Shikaku's POV

Shikamaru told me what happened and I'm on my way over to Storm's apartment.

I knock but get no answer, I knock again and still no answer.

"Storm, get out here!" I yell.

Storm's POV

Someone knocks on my door and I grumble and get up, I walk over to the door and unlock it and open it. I look Dad in the eyes.

"You'd think after having the worst week of your life, you'd finally be able to get some sleep. Nope, not me, instead I'm about to get a lecture, aren't I?" I ask.

Dad grabs my arm and takes me to his and Mom's place.

My bed, that's all I want, that's all I freaking want right now.

"Well?" Dad asks as he makes me sit down in a chair in the kitchen.

"Well what? I messed up." I say to him.

"Yet your taking it." Dad says to me.

I'd much rather be sleeping ya know.

"So what? I have better things to do, than mope around over a messed up mission." I say to him.

"Like what? Lady Tsunade told us you rejected a mission upfront." Dad says to me.

"Like sleep, I'm dead tired, the human brain can only go for five days and nights with out sleep, I'm keeping myself awake." I say to Dad. "I can't lead Dad, I'm not cut out for it, sure Kakashi-Sensei trained that part of me, but I can only make split second decisions." I say to him.

"Go home, and don't come back until you've figured out what you did wrong with the mission." Dad says to me.

"Yeah, whatever. I can replay exactly what I did, over and over and I'd figure it out, but it wouldn't change a thing about that mission. You can't change the past, you can only live in the present." I say and walk out the door. I walk back home and I lay on my bed. I fall into the black, letting sleep over take me. Soon enough I'm sleeping.
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