The Next Day - Anna's POV

I sit in Naruto's hospital room as he tries getting out. "Naruto, you have to heal up first." I say to him and he gets a pouting mood.

"Anna, your such a meanie." Naruto cries.

"Naruto, I'm looking out for your well being." I say to him in slight annoyance.

"Let me out, I'm starving!" Naruto begs.

"No." I say to him.

Jiraiya gets here and I look in his direction. "So, I heard from the grape vine that you couldn't save Sasuke." Jiraiya says to us.

"Shut up old man." I grumble, still sore about that subject.

Jiraiya then tells Naruto to give up on saving Sasuke, of course he protests and all that happens and then Jiraiya leaves.

"Anna, Naruto." Sakura says coming in and I sense her emotions of sadness and regret.

"Sakura." Naruto says giddy to see her.

I frown. "Sakura, what is it your thinking?" I ask her and I sense shock from her.

"Nothing." She says to me nervously and I look in her direction with a raised eyebrow.

"Sakura, I can read you like a book." I say to her.

"You guys don't have to worry about me, its about time I pulled my weight on this team." Sakura says to us and I get up and I wince slightly since I'm pretty sure I pulled something harshly in that fight. 

"Sakura, we're always gonna worry about each other, alright? And you pulling your weight? What is that about? You've already been doing plenty, supporting us is one of the strongest things in the world, no matter how hard headed, hot tempered and bratty we are, you've been pulling your weight since you joined the team, putting up with us must be a super power." I say to her with a closed eyed smile and I sense a warmness from her and Naruto.

"Anna, you've got your own super power, you can make anyone smile, I even saw Gaara and Shino smile slightly when they were around you." Sakura says to me amused.

"What? Me? Superpower? Nah, I just know how to make people smile." I say to her and she just has a warmness around her as she heads out of the room. "She's planning something, she doesn't just say things like that to me." I say and Naruto hums. "I'll leave you to figure it out, I'm still recovering after yesterday." I say as I cut him loose.

"Thanks Anna." He says in a serious tone and I nod.

I head out of the room with a slight limp since I pulled a muscle there yesterday and my leg is in so much pain.

"Anna." Shikamaru greets as he comes down the hall behind me.

"Shikamaru." I say to him and he walks next to me and I guess he notices my limp.

"What happened to your leg?" Shikamaru asks me.

"Its in pain, I pulled a muscle yesterday and it didn't hurt, all day, and now its being a bitch." I say and he chuckles amused.

"Yeah, I guess that's how it works, doesn't it?" Shikamaru asks me and I hum in agreement. "So where are you headed next?" Shikamaru asks me and I shrug.

"Probably Neji's room, then Choji's, then home possibly, why?" I ask him.

"Why Neji and Choji's room? I thought you weren't friends with either of them." Shikamaru asks confused.

"Ne Ne Shikamaru, Neji offered his friendship to me, though its probably business, damn last name, and Choji tried helping us bring Sasuke back, I want to try to be friends with him." I say with a small shrug.

"So in other words, your trying to be nice." Shikamaru says to me with a sigh.

"Nice? Eh, if I'm nice then that's fine." I say with another small shrug and I trip on something and Shikamaru catches me with his shadow possession. "What the hell, did I just trip on?" I ask and Shikamaru sighs.

"Your own feet, your a klutz, you know that?" Shikamaru asks me and I just roll my eyes as he sets me in a standing position that hurts my leg and I wince slightly and his Shadow possession leaves and I fix my stance so that I'm not in pain.

"You could have just let me fall you know." I say to Shikamaru ask we continue walking.

"And let you get angry at me, not a chance." Shikamaru says to me as if I were crazy. "Besides, it would have put more stress on your leg, that's the one you use to get up with, I've seen it a lot at the academy, you would have been in more pain if you fell." Shikamaru says to me.

"Well, thanks, I didn't expect you to have noticed." I say to him, a little shocked.

"You were attached to Naruto's side, I had to notice because you were always with us." Shikamaru says to me with a small sigh. "You seem less attached to his side now, why were you attached to his side in the first place?" Shikamaru asks me curious.

"I'm not good at making friends, Gramps had told Naruto to show me around the village and we've been friends since." I say to him with a small shrug.

"Not good at making friends, but your friends with Naruto, how are you not good at making friends?" Shikamaru asks me confused.

"I'm just not good at making friends. That or its the curse of my last name." I say with small sigh and he hums.

"You seem like you would be good at making friends, so its probably the fact that your from the Ward Clan." Shikamaru says to me and I nod.

"Most likely." I say to him and I head to Neji's room, I knock and enter.

"Anna." Neji says shocked that I would visit.

"Idiot, if I knew you were there, dying, I would have helped you, but it didn't help that your chakra was so low I couldn't sense it, try not dying next time, alright?" I ask him as I walk over and he sighs.

"You came?" He asks after a moment as he realized what I said.

I smile amused. "Yeah, I was told by a crying Sakura and Ino that Sasuke ran away and after they calmed down, I went straight to Tsunade's office and banged on the door, I irritated her and then asked her if I could go help you guys and she said in these exact words 'Seriously? You come in here for that? For the love of Kami, do as you please, you don't listen to me anyways' I then left and went to stop Sasuke from running away, me and Naruto fought against him, Naruto was rendered unconscious by Sasuke after a huge explosion the three of us made, I was near unconscious, but still tried to talk Sasuke out of it, and then he ran away before I could grab him, right before Kakashi-Sensei got there." I say and he hums as I try finding a seat and he grabs my wrist and has me sit next to him on his bed.

I'm confused.

"Well, then we failed?" Neji asks me.

I sigh with a sad look as I fiddle with my hands. "Yeah, but me and Naruto will bring him back." I say and he hums again. "How about we change the subject?" I ask him after a moment of silence.

"What do you want to talk about?" Neji asks me.

"I don't know, I don't normally start new conversations." I say to him and he hums in agreement.

"Do you talk a lot or is it the others who talk and you follow?" Neji asks me.

Blind questions.

"Normally its the others talking and I just follow their voices or chakra." I say to him with a small shrug.

"Do you mind not being able to see?" Neji asks me hesitantly, not knowing where the boundaries are.

"You can ask questions freely Neji, just not when we're walking around the village, and no, I don't mind, its not like it matters, my other senses see for me anyways." I say to him and I sense him relax since he seems a lot more calmer than before.

"Have you ever tried to get your eyes fixed?" Neji asks me.

"A few times, results were the same, my eyes are unfixable, fun fact, Naruto asked Tsunade to see if she could heal my eyes and she looked but couldn't find anything unless she were to give me an eye transplant." I say and I sense shock from Neji.

"Why don't you do the transplant?" Neji asks me and I smile a closed eyed smile.

"I don't want to see, even if I did get the transplant, I'd still run into stuff and my senses would be diminished to normal senses and I'd have to do all that work again to hike them up again, its really long to do all that work, I've been training my senses since I came to the Hidden Leaf." I say to him and he hums.

"Why, don't you want to see?" Neji asks me confused.

"If I did, then I'd cry, the first colorful memory I wanted as a kid was of my parents, I'm already enough of a crybaby and a child." I say to Neji.

"That's why?" Neji asks me and I nod.

"I remember how my Mother would used to cry with my Father in another room about how I couldn't see their faces, about, how I couldn't see at all, Mother was sad about that I wanted to make her happy, so I did everything I could to make her happy, but each night, I always heard her crying as I laid in my bed, trying to sleep." I say and I sense a sadness from Neji. "You remember you Father, right?" I ask him.

"Yeah." Neji says to me.

"You must have good memories of him, memories that you could see him in." I say to Neji and he hums and I sense a slight warmness from him.

"Yeah." Neji says to me and I smile warmly.

"I'm glad you have good memories of your Father." I say to him and his warmness grows bigger.

"Your glad that I can see, I thought you would have been bitter that your friends with someone with beyond normal sight, since you can't see at all." Neji says to me and I just smile.

"I have never been bitter, well, I mean, there was this one time, Gaara had gotten a teddy bear from his uncle when we 3 and I really wanted a teddy bear, I was so jealous and bitter that I didn't have one, Uncle Yashamaru found it amusing." I say and Neji chuckles amused. "See, even you found it amusing, I haven't found me being sightless, bitter or horrible, I'm just different, different is good in my opinion, because, then, I'm not normal." I say to Neji amused.

"Your amused about the one time you were bitter." Neji says to me and I smile a closed eyed smile.

"Of course, I was a kid, I was stupid." I say to him and he has an amused warmness around him.

"Anna, your really one of a kind, you know that?" Neji asks me and someone knocks on the door and me and Neji get alarmed and he pushes me onto the chair next to the bed as three people walk in.

"Anna?" Tenten asks shocked.

"What?" I ask confused, hiding my alarm easily.

"What are you doing here?" Tenten asks me.

"Scolding Neji for nearly getting himself killed, what else?" I ask her.

"Sitting down?" Tenten asks me.

"I pulled a leg muscle yesterday, it didn't hurt all day yesterday, then when I woke up today and attempted to get out of bed, Pain." I say and she laughs amused.

"MY YOUTHFUL RIVALS POOR STUDENT!" Guy cries as he hugs me.

I just let it happen, with a very unamused face and Tenten laughs while Neji chuckles and Lee joins him and they cry over me. "I'M NOT DEAD!" I yell at them, but they ignore me and I sigh and use the substitution Jutsu and I appear on the other side of Neji's bed.

"Nice thinking." Neji says to me and I sigh.

"Naruto sometimes doesn't let go, so normally as soon as someone starts hugging me while crying, I form an escape plan." I say to him with a shrug.

"You might want to run now." Tenten says to me and I point to my leg.

"I'd be fast walking with a big limp just to keep myself from falling and riving in agony." I say to her and I slip quietly to the door before Guy and Lee notice me gone and I open it and walk out, only to get trampled by a group of Genin. "Oh come on!" I say annoyed as I push myself up, and Shikamaru was right, that was more stress on my leg than what I needed, now it hurts even more.

I head down to Choji's room, but I get a bag of chips from the vending machine first, I walk in to sense Shikamaru there as well.

"Anna." Choji says shocked and I give him a closed eyed smile and I toss him the bag of chips.

"You and Neji are reckless idiots you know that?" I ask and Shikamaru chuckles while Choji seems a bit nervous and I sigh. "But, if it weren't for you and Neji, we would have had a lot more trouble with those enemies in the future." I say to Choji. "A thank you gift for helping." I say pointing to the bag of chips. 

"Thanks Anna, you know, your not all that bad, considering what my father said about the Ward Clan." Choji says to me and I give him a closed eyed smile.

"Of course, after all, I'm technically not apart of the Ward Clan, my parents were exiled from the clan for some odd reason. So I get to be nice." I say and he chuckles along with Shikamaru. I sense two bafoons running down the hall and I can hear them crying my name. "Damn them." I mutter and I sense curiousness from Shikamaru and I walk over and I hide behind his chair as the two idiots run in.

"IS ANNA HERE?" The two cry.

"No, she just left out the window." Shikamaru says to him and I roll my eyes.

"THANK YOU!" They cry and jump out the window.

I get up with a bit of trouble. "Damn leg, damn fighting damn Sasuke." I say and Shikamaru chuckles. "I'm heading home, I saw Neji, Naruto and now Choji, so I think that's everyone." I say to Shikamaru with a small shrug.

"Right, I think your forgetting Kiba." Shikamaru says to me.

"Ehhh, no, dog breath can stay where I leave him, he's smelly, I don't think he showers because he smells like a mud covered mutt." I say and Shikamaru chuckles along with Choji. "Ja ne." I say and I head out of the hospital and I head to my apartment where I collapse on my couch, in pain.
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