Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Ultimate Adventure ❯ Recovery ( Chapter 9 )

To all of you who were upset in the last chapter about Naruto not getting his chance to shine, that time will come, I promise! But in the meantime, here's the next chapter.

 

Recap

“Thank you,” he said. “I have been looking for this one for a long while.” The nin jumped down from the tree and grabbed Zabuza's dead body. He performed one handed seals and disappeared after a quick nod in the group's direction.

 

“Let's go,” Kakashi ordered. As they walked a couple of steps, Rebecca and Leonie's vision turned blurry then black as they passed out.

 

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Rebecca moaned at the pain in her head as she slowly drifted back into consciousness. She started panicking when she found that she couldn't move. But then she relaxed when she realized that she had practically no chakra left and couldn't move because of that.

 

“So you're finally awake,” said a soft voice from Rebecca's side. Rebecca tried desperately to move her head so she could see who was talking, but her efforts were useless.

 

The person next to her obviously realized that Rebecca couldn't move to see her because a second later a pretty woman with long, black hair came into Rebecca's line of vision. “How're you feeling?” “I'm fine. How's Leonie?” Rebecca asked anxiously. “Your friend is fine. She woke up a little bit before you. I'll go get Kakashi and let him know that you're awake.”

 

The lady walked through a door and disappeared. Then Rebecca realized that she forgot to ask her what her name was. `No matter,' Rebecca thought. `I'll just ask Kakashi.' A moment later the silver-haired jounin walked through the door the woman had departed from.

 

“Good so you're awake. You scared us all when you and Leonie just passed out.” Rebecca smiled sheepishly. “Sorry.” “No worries. The only problem is that you and Leonie are really low on chakra, so you'll probably have to stay in bed for the rest of today and part of tomorrow. You won't be able to start the training until day after tomorrow at the least.” “But…” “No buts,” Kakashi interrupted. “You need to rest and heal. Now sleep!” Rebecca slowly slid back into the world of unconsciousness as sleep claimed her.

 

It was the next day when Rebecca finally woke up. Rebecca groggily rubbed the sleep from her eyes as she sat up. She was instantly tackled down by Leonie who was delirious with happiness. “You're not dead; you're not in a coma you won't ever come out of…” Those were the last words that Rebecca could make any sense of.

 

“Leonie,” Rebecca said calmly, “SHUT UP!” Leonie jumped off of me and muttered, “Sorry.” “It's alright. You know I would have been worse if it was you in my position.” Rebecca tried to stand up, but her muscles were still too weak to hold her up. She started to fall but Leonie grabbed her before she could hit the floor.

 

“See what a great friend I am,” Leonie smirked. “Shut up,” Rebecca said as she sent Leonie a death glare. Rebecca leaned heavily on Leonie as she walked slowly to the kitchen. The lady who had talked to Rebecca when she first woke up was in there, cooking. “Oh, so you're awake. And I forgot to tell you that my name is Tsunami.”

 

Rebecca collapsed into a chair and Tsunami brought her something to eat. “Where are the others?” Rebecca asked Leonie. “They're off training with Kakashi. He let me stay here and watch you.” Rebecca ate with a single minded ferocity that disturbed Leonie. “I didn't know you hated the food so much,” Leonie remarked. “Shut it,” Rebecca said, glaring at Leonie some more with a piece of noodle hanging out of her mouth.

 

Leonie noticed this and instantly collapsed into laughter. By the time she had finished, her face was purple and Rebecca was burning holed through her with her eyes. “Sorry,” Leonie laughed. “But it's so hard to take you seriously when you have noodle hanging out of your mouth.”

 

Leonie collapsed into a fit of laughter again at the look on Rebecca's face. The eventful breakfast was finished when Rebecca slammed her bowl of rice into Leonie's face for laughing at her.

 

As they walked down the forest path that led to the clearing where the other members of Team 7 were training, Leonie grumbled to Rebecca, “You didn't have to be so violent.” “Yes I did. You kept laughing at me.” “Humph,” Leonie snorted and turned away from Rebecca. They finished the walk in silence.

 

“So the two girls decided to join us. How nice,” Kakashi commented. Rebecca and Leonie both glared at him, making him shiver. `Those two sure know how to glare,' he thought. “What Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto are doing right now is climbing trees without using their hands.” Leonie and Rebecca watched in fascination as Naruto ran up the tree, slipped off, and hit his head on the ground.

 

“Oww!” he cried, clutching the lumps that formed on his head. Rebecca was trying really hard not to laugh. Leonie was smirking, thinking one thought the entire time, `Idiot.' Kakashi noticed how both girls responded to Naruto's attempt.

 

“Since you two obviously think you can do better, let's see you try this.” Both girls stared at Kakashi. “I'll do it,” Rebecca stated, taking the kunai that Kakashi held up to her. She started running at the tree. She was ten feet off the ground before she felt herself slipping. She hurriedly slashed a mark on the tree before performing a neat back flip and landed on her feet on the ground.

 

Leonie was sniggering at how Rebecca had done. “And I suppose you could do better miss-I'm-so-much-better-than-everyone-else?” Rebecca snapped. That shut Leonie up real quick. Rebecca noticed this as well and smirked. “I'll do it!” Leonie stalked over to where Kakashi was and snatched the kunai from him. She ran up the tree, and when she felt her self slipping, she made a slash in the tree and landed on her feet. Leonie's mark and Rebecca's mark were exactly even.

 

`It appears their skills are evenly matched.' Kakashi regarded the two girls thoughtfully as they argued over whose was higher. “Why don't you two just keep going? You're wasting precious training time arguing,” Kakashi said impatiently. Rebecca and Leonie instantly started running up the tree again.

 

They kept going and going the entire day. At the end of the day, the highest mark for each of them was exactly the same. `That's just creepy,' Kakashi thought. “Good job today! Let's head back for dinner and sleep,” Kakashi stated and started walking away. That night Rebecca collapsed into bed and fell instantly asleep.

 

Over the next few days, all Rebecca and Leonie did was train. Until one day both girls made it to the top. “Hell yes!” Rebecca yelled to the world from the top of the tree. “Let's go back,” Leonie suggested.

 

Rebecca burst through the door of Tazuna's house and yelled, “Leonie and I made it to the top!” `Yet she still has the energy to yell random nonsense. Amazing,' Leonie thought exasperatedly. “Well then, since you two and Sakura seem to be the farthest along, I'll send you to help protect Tazuna tomorrow,” Kakashi said, not even glancing up from the push ups he was doing with his finger.

 

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I wanted to make this chapter longer, but I decided to save what was in store for next chapter. Plz review!