Night 52: Main Hallway, 1-West

[lookitmemama]

[To here]"Made it..." She whispered triumphantly as she walked quietly into the dark and quiet hallway first. It was hard to decide where the best place would be to stand since once others began to flood in, Asuka could easily be overshadowed by the taller adults. "Hmmm..." The best she could guess was to hug the opposite wall by the doorway and

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[tsunagari]

[from here]

Sai wasn't Sakura, but Naruto would be meeting up with one of his teammates all the same. At catching the familiar head of blond hair, the pale ninja broke all rules regarding personal boundaries and ran straight up to the boy, grabbing him in a hug. He considered it appropriate in that he'd definitely been worried for his friend, and when you were worried for someone it wasn't out of the question to give them a hug upon finding out they were safe.

He did release him quickly, however. "Naruto! I'm glad to see you're all right." Perhaps he shouldn't say he was glad to see him in the Institute, despite the fact that this was true.

"My roommate is gone," he quickly clarified, "and Haku and his roommate have been released as well."

[tsunagari]

"Haku had been here for some time. Longer than me. I'm sorry, I wasn't aware you were uninformed of this." This particular Naruto had been around long enough to have been told, after all. From now on perhaps he should just take it upon himself to tell the blond everything he thought should otherwise be left to their team leader. After all, Kakashi wasn't around as they were used to him anymore. "It seems he's been released now."

That left Sasuke as the only one from their world who'd been around longer than he had, not counting the incidents that current patients didn't remember. He hadn't even seen the Uchiha around much as it was. That was another ninja he'd have to check up with soon, whether he appreciated it or not.

"Were you waiting on someone?"

[tsunagari]

"I really do apologize." Next time he would tell him first thing for certain. He deserved to know who all was there just as much as anyone else. (Of course, if he had told him already and the boy had simply forgotten, well... there was nothing he could do about that.

He glanced around the hall then, as if he might catch a glimpse of familiar pink hair headed their way. Now that he thought about it, he hadn't met up with Sakura in a while either. "I had originally planned on helping out Haku's roommate with a dilemma he was having, but..." he shook his head. Those two weren't around anymore, meaning he truly didn't have anything planned. "I would be willing to do anything you had in mind."

[tsunagari]

Yes, he'd heard Naruto mention how they'd been stopped before. There was no doubt in his mind that scaling the wall was possible. Others had done it long before them. The question was whether or not circumstances would allow them to do it. "If the night doesn't end before we make it over, then we can do that, certainly." They could at least try.

For the past several nights now, he and Artemis had been trying to do that exact thing, but every time they were stopped by something. At one point they'd been transported to a completely different location from where they'd intended to go, and other times they'd never even made it out onto the field. He didn't know why it had suddenly become so difficult, but he highly suspected the Head Doctor had been messing with them specifically.