A memory;....I remember....

How did all of this start...

The day....Paul and Hiro turned Missing-nin...no one would tell me anything..
that was the day me and Kenkora had guard duty...we were so bad at it...

and then...I saw a glimse...of Paul...in a black and red robe before he disapeared....only a few minutes after Shikasama came over with a saddening expression and said he was sorry before rushing past me through the gate...

I kept on my duties until Haruko dismissed us...afterwards...Kenkora told me while he was spying on a conversation; he overheard...that Paul and Hiro left the village...

Later on that night...they came back for me...no...not me...the gem...
everyone tried to protect me...and yet there was failure...Paul and Hiro...held me up in a abandoned house.....and the rest...is just a horrible dream...

when I awoke....I could only feel my heart beat with pain; and that is how I have lived every moment, in such pain....

in the shadow of Akatsuki....Koichi-sama always told me to fight it back, that I was stronger then that....he is wrong, I am not stronger then that....I wanted to be...but in the end I could never amount to his expectations....

the days are getting shorter....and the nights are getting longer...

I haven't seen Hiro stalking my shadow for the past few nights...that only means he has gone to get Paul, it is not going to be a pretty sight when they gets back...

Time is not on my side. so I will make the best of it training....the least I can do before my death is put on a good show.