Unforgettable feelings. || grittygratification
The sun was already set down as Kankuro walked lazily through the forest of Amegakure. Why is no other one doing this mission? Right because it's fucking silly! The puppeteer cursed mentally, kicking a small stone away. Gaara had given him the mission to find some herbs there for the studies of the new medicinal nins of Suna. No one volunteered for this mission and since Kankuro had a little argument with his brother he had been forced to go here, alone. Not that Kankuro mind being lonely. He enjoyed it to be alone, no one stressing around and no one annoying him. It was always like that. As soon as Gaara was mad at him, he would send Kankuro away for a few days to do something really stupid. The puppeteer had to escort people, take letters to different villages because they were 'top secret' and now he had to find those stupid herbs. I swear that I'm going to fucking kill this man someday. He muttered mentally, pushing his hands into his pockets. Everyone was causing him problems lately. His brother, his sister and in the end his own son. While thinking about his son though made him feel even worse than thinking about his siblings.
Kankuro met his son a few weeks ago, catching him off-guard. He didn't know that he had a son nor whatever happened to him. It didn't matter to him though because his son clearly said that he didn't want to be around Kankuro. The puppeteer had hurt his mother and left him alone and stuff. Everything that wasn't true at all. The brunet didn't even know who his mother was nor that she was pregnant and expecting a baby. If he had known that in the past he would have taken care of his son but now it was too late.
I wonder what he's doing right now. Kankuro thought while staring up into the sky. He knew that Jenko was out there somewhere, living his own life which Kankuro wished to be a part of somehow. Kankuro snapped out of his thoughts as he heard someone approaching him. 'Hello there brother of the Kazekage.' An unfamiliar voice said, the puppeteer not able to respond. He felt something sharp meeting his back causing the man to fall to his knees. His vision went blurry and he was madly coughing, blood. Someone pushed him to the ground, pulling the sharp object out of his back. The puppeteer heard another person approaching them, to his surprise the said person didn't attack him. There was only a pain-filled scream filling the silence of the night. Kankuro closed his eyes, his attacker falling onto the ground next to him. Slowly Kankuro's vision went black but before his senses completely left his body he heard a person asking him if he was okay. He knew that voice, he wanted to know who it was as well but his vision went completely black and his senses left his body.
Am I... Am I still alive? The puppeteer asked himself as he felt his senses slowly coming back. Where am I? He was lying down on something pretty comfortable, not the hard floor he was lying on as he fainted. A blanket covered his body, making him assume that he was lying in a bed or something like that. He heard people talking not too far away from him. The puppeteer inhaled deeply before opening his eyes. He cleared his throat while sitting up, a stinging pain filling his body. I've felt this before. But where? Slowly he looked around, a girl standing in the doorway talking to a man. Suddenly Kankuro remember where he had felt this pain before. Back in the past when Sasori had poisoned him and Sakura healed him afterwards. His body was weak and his vision still a little blurry as a man walked up to him. He was tall and wore a blue face-paint causing Kankuro to widen his eyes. "Jenko?" He asked weakly, the man sitting at the side of his bed. Jenko was smiling at him causing Kankuro's heart to almost stop beating. There he was. His son sitting next to him, smiling and also seeming like he cared. "How did I get here? And what are you doing here?" The puppeteer managed to ask him, blinking a few times before reaching out for his son, lightly touching his face. He shocked as he suddenly felt his soft skin, pulling his hand away. He wasn't hallucinating. Jenko, his son, was sitting next to him. Kankuro swallowed hard, smiling at the boy. Did he save me? He asked himself while leaning slowly back, waiting for an answer.