***

"Haruko is upstairs in her room?" Kaito asked, stirring his cup of tea. The team was relaxing in the louge of the hotel. "Is she okay?"

Ichiro nodded, "yeah, she's just . . . upset."

Kaito frowned, stopping his spoon. "Upset? You do know what happens when she gets upset, right?"

The twins remained quiet. They awkwardly stood there, fumbling with their hands. Kaito sipped his tea before cringing.

"We've narrowed it down to a few stages," Ichiro stated, sweat dripping down his face. "First one, doubt."

Haruko paced around her room, muttering inaudible nonsense. Her hair was in a messy bun and she was dressed in her pajamas. Her head wasn't in the right place. In fact, it never was.

She checked her phone for the hundredth time, waiting for a reply from Boruto or Sarada, maybe even Inojin. She kept her sound on just in case she got a call from Mitsuki.

Nothing.

"He couldn't, he wouldn't..." she whispered to herself, chewing her nonexistent nails nervously. "He's too Mitsuki. He wouldn't run away unless Boruto or I tell him but he's too smart to do whatever we tell him. What happened?"

harukool: mITSUKI
MITSUKI
ANSWRR MEEE
PLEASEE
boruto and sarada said u ran away
tell me that isn't true
you whore you always answer
ugh did ur phone die
please let ur phone be dead
ur phone doesn't say its disconnected so that means you didn't disable it :)
pleasd answer
tsukiiiii
moooooon
snakemoon

tsuki's phone has been disconnected

"Stage two: rage," Eiji whispered. "One time, I visit her after she and Inojin had a fight and it went really bad."

Haruko slammed her face onto her pillow. "How the fu–"

Ichiro shuddered, "I rather not talk about my experience."

Eiji stood up straight, a huge grin on her face. "Oh, I'd love to!" Ichiro gave him a look before his face was pushed away. "Ichiro managed to get a photo of Haruko and Mitsuki kissing and he accidentally had flash on so when the light off, Haruko ran straight towards him with a kunai knife!"

Kaito scoffed, "and?"

"Why did you think I wasn't training for a week?" Ichiro questioned. "I have scars to prove to you–"

"Okay! Nevermind!" Kaito squealed, placing his tea cup down immediately. "I never knew Haruko was this violent. She's so small yet so furious."

"Stage 3 is the worst of all though," Ichiro whispered, leaning in closer to their sensei. "We call it 'the Eye of the Hurricane'"

Haruko smiled, lying down on her extremely messy bed. "I've taught Mitsuki how to survive on his own socially and mentally without killing someone. I'm sure he wouldn't be in deep trouble."

Every drip of venom spatted out of her mouth when she said those words.

Kaito adjusted his position on the chair nervously. "You think it's safe for you guys to leave her alone in our hotel room?"

"It's the only thing we can do without risking our lives," Eiji sighed. He placed his tea cup down. "We haven't thought of another way to calm her down."

"Well, this is unhealthy and she shouldn't have to suffer through all that by herself." The sensei put his cup down. "I'm going up there."

"Didn't you just hear us?" Ichiro shouted, attracting the eyes of many passbyers. "You go in there, you die!"

"Go where?"

The three shinobi froze. None were brave enough to turn their heads around. Chills ran down their spine as the seconds pass by.

"Guys, I'm really not upset," Haruko laughed, jumping over the couch. "I mean, yeah, I'm depressed over Mitsuki's sudden disappearance, but come on! We're on a mission. I gotta have a clear head."

"Are you sure?" Eiji asked softly. "You two are like soulmates. Ying and Yang. Sun and Moon."

Haruko nodded, a huge smile on her face. "I'm fine, yo! I mean, I can't do anything about this and that pains me, but hey! I'm sure that dumbass Hokage we got is going to send some shinobi to find him."

Kaito hummed. He then nodded and got up. "Well, I think you got this whole thing situation settled. I'm going to go check up on Mori and his team. They should be back with a mission report."

"Alright, have fun," Eiji waved goodbye.

Ichiro turned his head to Haruko. She smiled at him. "I'm fine! I'm good! Honestly!" She turned to Eiji, who was also looking at her worried. "Please don't pity me. I'm fine! My top priority right now is the mission and it should be yours too. I'll worry about Mitsuki afterwards when we get back."

"We don't know how long this mission will take though. Could be weeks before we get back," Ichiro stated.

"This mission will go by smoothly. I feel it in my bones." Haruko slowly slumped down with a relaxed expression on her face. "I just wanna handle things one at a time right now. We got my childhood bullies on one end and Mitsuki disappearing on the other. How about we focus on not murdering the latter?"

Haruko's behavior wasn't making any sense to her teammates. A few moments ago, she was screaming into her pillow and throwing blankets everywhere and now, she was acting as if none of that ever happened.  It was scary how fast she bounced back and stayed focus in her lane.

And hell, Haruko was confused on it too.

***

[ author's note:

omgomgomg dont bully me im sorry i've been so inactive.

as many of you know, school has started for me and now i've finally entered winter break inna few days. yippie. but i've been trying to maintain a social life, keep my mentality sane, maintain good grades, and keep my physical health in shape.

well, i've literally failed majority of these.

i haven't been updating cause i've been sick for like the past month and it hasn't been an easy journey for me and with my low self-esteem, i've been paranoid on my health for the past month. i would love to say that i'm finally feeling better, but that would be lying.

i've also ran into writer block. when that happens, i usually either give you writing entirely or make shitty chapters that i'll regret writing. plus, i haven't been able to keep up with boruto.

last time i checked, mitsuki fucking lightning snaked boruto? yo what the fuck i needa catch up.

but anyways, those are the reason why i haven't been writing and why i haven't been able to get on wattpad for a good like what 2 months? i forgot.

hopefully, i'll be able to write sum chapters during my 2-3 week break.

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