The Akira Files

Sasuke's an Eavesdropper

Kakashi’s POV

Akira still hasn’t come back yet. Sakura’s completed her training and Sasuke and Naruto are nearly done. He’ll fall behind the team at this rate.’ I sighed and stared into the forest willing Akira to appear… He never did…

Akira’s POV

It’s been 4 days since I was kidnapped. Kakashi’s going to kill me when and if I get back. I wandered around my room for the 17th time that day.

‘I have to leave, as much as I like Haku and even Zabuza has been nicer to me but I have to leave. Okay, Haku just left to get herbs. Zabuza’s stuck in bed. If I’m going to leave I should leave now, but Zabuza said Haku was happier now then he has been in a long time…Argh I don’t know what to do.’

I dropped in the center of the room and stared at the blank ceiling.

‘I want to go outside again.’ I used to hate being locked up back home, even now I crave sunlight and seeing the sky. I raised my hands almost wishing I could paint a sky onto the white ceiling.  My two hands both bandaged still from training with Ibiki all those days ago.

‘I guess they’re healed now…I should probably take the bandages off.’ I sat up and started to unwind them. I stared at my now bare hands clenching and unclenching my fists.

‘It feels weird not being constricted as much.’ I turned my hands so the palms faced up.

 Small scars and soft new skin weaved across my hands. I remembered training with Ibiki it had been hard and he didn’t go easy on me but I stayed and tried. I remembered Kakashi and Sasuke bandaging them. I wanted to catch up to the others and Naruto. I met Kakashi and was taken into a village that doesn’t know who I am they asked almost no questions and trusted me. I want to go back. That village is more of a home than my country ever was.

I got up walked to the desk in the room and wrote a note before walking through Haku’s door and out through the front one.

‘Time to go. I don’t know where I am but if I head south I should reach the village or at least that’s the direction we were heading before I got taken.’

I jumped down from the crazy cone like house and started to run off into the forest hoping that I wouldn’t run into Haku.

I ran for a few hours before finally reaching a clearing. The trees had lines cut into them going up to a little more than halfway. I walked over and saw footprints running towards the base of the tree. They were kids footprints, 3 pairs of them by the looks of it meaning…The others were here and keep coming here. I’m close!

I got back up and followed the prints as best as I could back to the house getting lost only a few times probably Naruto running around.

I broke out of the forest and ended up stumbling before falling forward on my knees tired from running and happy that I had finally reached people.