I sat down on a rock and sighed.

Why do I care if they live? I asked myself. Death isn't that bad.

I think I mentioned it had some perks...

Why do I care about naruto or any of the others?

Uggh. This is so frustrating.

Sometimes I wish I could just forget about common sense and all logic just so something could answer my millions of questions.

Well, I am a ghost Ketei.

That pretty much defies logic right there. I sighed.

I keep wishing and wishing but will it really do anything to help?

I looked at naruto doing his clones and smiled.

Why am I proud?

Why am I anything?

Why am I here?

I stood up.

"Go stupid! " I shouted at the top of my dead lungs.

Be patient, Ketei.

And cheer your best friend on.

I saw duck but throw a shuriken at Zabuza and he caught it perfectly.

Damn.

Then saskue, yes I'm using his actual name, threw a second one.

Zabuza couldn't catch it in time and it turned into naruto.

"Get him, stupid! You can do it! " I cheered.

Zabuza lost all his concertration on his water bubble and Kakashi was freed.

I ran over to Kakashi and tried helping him up.

Guess what, ghosts aren't strong.

I think I hurt him more than I helped him...

Then chaos happened.

I love chaos.

Everyone was fighting and for the first time today, I felt like crying tears of joy.

But then I started to feel dizzy...

Really! Every time something good happens, this happens!

Well, portal into memory world, you can just go straight to h-

-memory-

"Ketei? " he asks.

"What! " I said.

"You can leave anytime you know. "

"What if I don't wanna leave? "

"Then you must truly be insane. " he said.

"I'm not crazy. I'd just rather stay here. It's kinda homey. "

"Is that a joke?"

"No. I never joke. I'm always dead serious. "

"Why does it always seem the opposite? "

"Because you're the funny one. " I said.

Then the memory changed into a different one.

"Ketei! " she shouted cheerily.

"Yoari! " I shouted back.

She hugged me.

"Ketei, we'll be best friends forever right? " she said with a smile.

"Of course. " I said.

Then it changed again...

I'm chained to a wall and nobody is going to save me.

Yoari is trapped here with me.

I need to protect her.

I feel the gash in my stomach pour blood on the floor as I move closer to her.

"Ketei, does it hurt? " she asks.

"Nothing can hurt me. I'm fucking invincible. I can't die. I won't let myself. " I said.

"Ketei, you're much too full of yourself. " she said, tears streaming down her face mixing with the grime plastered across her cheeks.

"I know. But would you have me any other way? " I said coughing up blood.

She smiles.

"Nope. I like Ketei just the way she is. "

Then the strange man comes in again and takes me away.

I close my eyes.

Nothing can stop me.

I glanced down at my stomach again.

Except for stab wounds.

-back to reality-

What the fuck did I just watch?

I stood up and saw Zabuza on the ground with all the others standing over him.

"Did you guys get him! " I asked naruto.

He nodded his head yes.

"Wo who! The milkshake has gone sour! " I shouted while doing jumping jacks.

"Ketei, can you not rescept the dead! " naruto whispered.

"I am dead. So I do respect myself. But I didn't rescept him in life, so why should I when he's dead? " I asked.

"Because it's polite. " he whispered.

"I'm not polite. I know that. Don't force me to pretend to have sympathy for someone when I clearly don't. " I said.

"Ketei, how would you feel if I died? " naruto whispered quietly.

I froze.

What's this feeling?

It's strange.

I've felt it a few times but never this strong before.

"I think I would feel guilty because I wasn't able to stop death. See, dying is stupid. It's absolutely stupid and I hate it. You're already stupid, stupid. I'm not that good at math but wouldn't two stupids cancel out each other? That's why you can't die. You have to stay here with me and do stuff and go on adventures. You have to be stupid boy and I've gotta be dead girl. So, until the time comes, I won't let anyone hurt you if I can help it because if you died.... What would I do? " I said.

Naruto's mouth hung open.

"Did your jaw stop working? " I asked.

He closed his mouth.

"You're the strangest person I've ever met Ketei. And the scariest. And probably the most sadistic. But you are also the kindest. " he whispered.

Kind?

I don't think I've been called kind?

How am I kind?

What did I do?

Am I really so clueless, as to where I don't know?

I am.

That girl from my memories....

Yoari, she said I was her friend. I wonder where she is now.

Wait, a second.

Maybe this is what naruto was talking about.

I'm thinking of others!

I looked down at Zabuza.

Well, some others....

This is strange.

But really the more I think about it, isn't everything I think is normal just really werid to everyone else?

I sighed.

"Kindness is subject to opinion. " I said.

Then a person popped out of nowhere beside Zabuza's corpse and picked him up.

"Hey what's he, wait she, I think he doing with our sour milkshake? " I asked.

"I think he's like a body collecter. " naruto whispered.

I shuddered.

"I hope I didn't get.... Collected. " I muttered.

That word puts a bad taste in my mouth. It's like he's collecting stamps, except he's collecting bodies.

Dead bodies.

Once again, shudder.

"So what do we do now? " I asked.

"Deliver the bridge builder. " naruto mouthed.

Everyone started to walk off when I grabbed naruto's hand.

"Stupid. Can you walk a little behind this time? I need to tell you something. " I said.

"Ok. "

He walked a little slower.

"So, what's up? " he asked.

"Alright, you know how I have those memories every once in a while about from when I was alive? "

"Yeah. "

"Well, I've been getting more and more of them lately. Nearly five today. That's more than in the past month. "

"You think something's wrong, Ketei-chan? "

"No, I know something's wrong. I'm getting memories I've never seen before and I think it's because I'm finally out of the village. "

"What type of memories? "

"They're fucked up. I'm chained to wall dying in one and in another I'm hugging some girl who's supposed to be my best friend. Then I'm talking to some dude who I can never see his face who likes to accuse me of being crazy! "

"Well, he's not lying... "

"Oh, you too! I'm not crazy! " I shouted.

"Isn't that what all the crazies say? " he deadpanned.

"I'm special. "

"Yep, you are special Ketei. "

"I think my personality is rubbing off on you way too much. "

"Sorry, Ketei. "

"Stupid, it's just... I'm so used to the same people in the same village doing the same things every day. Everything was so consistent. Now, I have no idea what's going to happen next. I mean what if the bunnies suddenly decide to start the apocalypse today! "

"Ketei, bunnies aren't that smart -"

"And they'll use their little mind control machines and brainwash everyone into only eating carrots. They'll ban ramen, stupid! I can't have you confined to a life of eating only nasty orange veggies that supposedly help your eyesight! "

"Actually I really like carrots Ketei. "

I gasped.

"It's already begun! "

I started shaking naruto.

"Stupid, if you're in there just call out these three words! Flying pink elephants! Say it or I'll have no choice but to kill you! " I said.

"F-Flying p-p-pink e-e-elephants! " he stuttered out.

"Oh stupid! I saved you! " I said and hugged him.

"Ketei, I was never in any danger... "

"I saved the world in one minute with three words! Take that Chuck Norris! " I shouted.

"Who's Chuck Norris? " naruto whispered.

"A very awesome person. That is all you need to know for now... " I said.

"Ketei, you need a good therapist. "

"I don't think ghosts can have therapists... "

"They can have friends. " naruto said with a smile.

I hugged him.

"They can have best friends. " I said.

---

Little did Ketei know, that naruto had always thought of her as more than a friend, but he was just a little too stupid at the time, that he probably did not realize this himself.