Chapter One : Suigetsu's old friends.

Suigetsu walked down a dirt road, he stared down at his feet wondering where the Kubikiribocho was. He heard Juugo close behind, he was dragging his feet which was quite annoying to him, he turned around. "Can you stop that?" Suigetsu asked suddenly.

"Uh..." Juugo looked to the side and began to walk again, this time without looking at Suigetsu or dragging his feet. As he passed Suigetsu he stopped and looked at him. "When are we going to be there?"

"Soon." Suigetsu began to walk again and take up speed.

"You said that already."

"Well I'm saying it again, we'll be there soon, Auntie's house is right over there anyways."

Juugo's eyes widened. "Auntie? When did you say anything about Auntie?"

Suigetsu didn't say anything and spotted a bit of smoke rise from the trees just ahead of them. Both then stopped as they began to head music, Juugo stopped next to Suigetsu.

"Hey...I've heard of that, the Shamisen, Kimimaru said it was one of the most beautiful instruments."

"Auntie..." Suigetsu began to run up the road as fast as he could.

"Hey, Suigetsu!" Juugo began to chase after him.

Suigetsu slowed down as he heard the music, he stopped as he saw a brown wooden home with a porch in the front. A girl was tuning what Juugo had said was a Shamisen. The girl had light brown hair and blue eyes, she wore a Kimono that was a pale blue with patterns of peach blossoms, her obi was a bright red and the obijime was a nice gold and loosely tied to her. She began to play again and stopped as Juugo ran up to Suigetsu. She blushed, she began to gently set the instrument in it's case and slowly walked towards the door. Instantly a women rushed out wearing a black Yukata, her obi was black as well, but the bow left in the front made him know it was her for sure.

Suigetsu looked up at the woman's face, it was pale and had her lips were painted red, her eyes were a dull brown but elaborated with her thick black eyelashes. Her long brown hair was partly tucked into her Yukata, she glared at Juugo, but when her eyes set on Suigetsu they widened. Her mouth parted as if she were going to say something, but nothing came out, she began to walk down the three steps it took to get to the dirt ground.

"Suigetsu!" She appeared in front of Suigetsu and hugged him as tight as she could.

"Too—tight! Suigetsu managed to say while his face was in between her breast.

'So fast.' Juugo thought.

"Hm?" She let go of Suigetsu as Juugo was staring, he blushed and looked away from the two.

"I'm Juugo." He managed to say.

"Oh, this is Kurage-Senpai, my Auntie." Suigetsu said.

"You're still calling me by that name," Kurage said with a half smile. "Momochi Kurage." Juugo's eyes widened as she said this. Kurage looked behind her and saw her little sister peeking through the door. "Come out Gikun, you're old playmate is here."

"Eh?" Gikun stepped out. "No Shinobi is or was any playmate of mine!" She slammed the door.

"Uh... That's Gigi?" Suigetsu asked.

"She wanted to be a Geisha, but no one want's to accept her, not with our last name." Kurage began to walk towards the door. "I take you need it a place to stay."

"Yeah." Suigetsu answered rubbing the back of his head.

"You can," she then turned around as Suigetsu and Juugo began to walk towards the door. "But we know you're not here for a friendly visit." Suigetsu looked to the side. "Regardless if I can or cannot help you, both of you can stay here as long as you want." She opened the door and they both stepped in.

Suigetsu watched Gigi gently pour him tea and Kurage set the food in front of him. Kurage then sat down on the floor and smiled. "I hope you two enjoy the fish."

"Thank you Kurage-sama." Juugo said and began to eat.

Suigetsu then stared at Gigi, her hair was no longer in a bun but rested on her shoulders. 'We were so close...' he thought as a moment from his passed flashed before him, a time when Gigi and him always trained with each other. But now it seemed she didn't train for anything.

"Suigetsu." Kurage began to sip her tea and set the cup down. "How is everything in The Hidden Mist?"

"I don't know, I haven't been there since the coup, and you know why I haven't been able to visit." Suigetsu said with eyes closed as he took bites of his fish.

Kurage didn't know how to respond. "I have to apologize for that just as your teacher should have."

Suigetsu slammed his cup down, his eyes opened. "Why—why didn't you help them!"

Kurage shook her head, Gigi was looking down. "Suigetsu—"

"No, how come, did you even bother to look for Zabuza's sword when he died?" Suigetsu shouted.

"Suigetsu, Kurage and Gigi are showing us kindness for letting us stay here, don't shout."

"No, no, no, no," Suigetsu kept shaking his head, "you know, Zabuza-senpai wanted your help, he wanted you, every one of them wanted your help because they knew you were strong."

"You don't know half the story Suigetsu."

"The Hidden Mist would have been ours, but you changed the whole plan!"

"Suigetsu!" Juugo said to calm Suigetsu down.

"He died because you left him!" Suigetsu then shouted.

Gigi ran away from the table and into her room, Suigetsu watched her and scowled at himself for upsetting her. Suigetsu then stood up and walked out the door. Juugo was about to get up to follow him.

"He'll be back, he managed to make Gigi run away in less then an hour, that must be a record." Kurage leaned back and laid on the ground, she covered her eyes with an arm.

"I'm sorry Kurage-sama, but I'm not exactly sure what is going on, he called you Auntie, were you Zabuza's wife?"

"No..." Kurage took the arm off her face and rested it on the ground, she stared at her palm. "I wish I were, maybe things would have turned out different, perhaps Zabuza and I would still be together."

"Then...how—"

"Zabuza is my brother." She sat up again. Juugo thought she had such a young face. "He was three years older than me, and Gigi is his half sister, he never really acknowledged her as his family, but he showed affection in other ways I guess." She sighed and stared out the window. "I should be the one apologizing Juugo, Suigetsu brought you here to help you find the swords didn't he?"

"Yeah, I only know of Zabuza's sword, I don't know the others or what they look like?" Juugo asked.

"That was his life long dream, even Gigi would talk about when they would train together, 'We're going to have all the swords one day' Gigi would say, Zabuza hated that."

"Did you have a sword?"

"No, I don't play with those things, but I did train with all of them, every one of them, and I must say I had a love for them all, Zabuza, Kisame, Mangetsu, Raiga, Choujirou, Ringo, Akebino, Kuriarare, he was surprisingly very polite to me, Munashi, he hated me, every since I refused to show him a seal, all he had to do was say please, I ended up showing him, but still, he just used it to kill someone, and then there was Fuguki, I didn't like him, I don't know why, perhaps it was his body shape." Juugo only stared at her. "I trained with them all because of the Mizukage, he said I had great abilities and thought I should help them train."

"You trained Suigtsu and Gigi?"

"No, Zabuza did, but then Gigi was recommended to be a Geisha rather than a Kunichi because her weakness."

"I see."

"All the chakra went to me I guess."

"I don't understand."

Kurage rested her chin on her palm and slowly blinked. "I really liked it back then I will admit, but I felt my pleasure was selfish and could no way last."

Kurage looked around herself for a moment and sighed. She had a kunai at hand and tossed it, nothing happened. Her eyes narrowed in annoyance as she waited for anything to happen, she wouldn't care if a bunny jumped out, she wanted something to happen. She walked towards the Kunai and tucked it back into her sleeve. She froze as she felt something cold against her neck.

"Kurage shouldn't be so impatient, bad things could happen to her." She heard Kuriarare say. "HUH!"

Water began to blast from her arms and he jumped away, she pulled out a kunai at him and as it exploded he saw some of the water burn some of the fur off his large mane.

Kurage smiled and pointed. "Ha! I win, that hat really is a disadvantage to you Kuriarare."

"Idiot!" Zabuza shouted and kicked the real Kurage out of a bush. A Manga book dropped out of her hand as she began to rub her butt.

"Ow, Zabuza that hurt." Kurage said as her water clone disappeared into a thin mist that faded into the air.

"You're suppose to help us train and you're doing nothing." Zabuza said to his sister.

"And this whole time I thought I was spending intimate time with my Kurage." Kuriarare said to himself looking down in sadness.

"Awe, poor Lion Head has an other broken heart?" Magetsu said as he appeared next to his teammate.

Kurage picked her book up and looked trough the pages. "Where was I?"

"You never learn do you?" Zabuza shouted at her.

"I thought today was my day off." Kurage wined looking up and hugged her book.

"What trash are you reading today?" Magetsu asked walking up to her and pulled the book from her grasped.

"Hey!" She tried to reach for it.

"Love Twins?" Mangetsu laughed. "Hentai isn't for girls." He tossed it to Kuriarare who caught it and flipped trough the pages and stopped at a picture of a boy and girl half naked about to kiss. "Kurage really likes this stuff doesn't she?" he said.

"Hey!"

"You should see her bookshelf at home." Suigetsu said with with folded arms behind his head.

"When did you get here?" Kurage said annoyed, her face was bright red and tried to grab the book. Kuriarare tossed it back to Mangetsu.

"Awe c'mon Kurage, we're only playing." He threw it Kuriarare but Zabuza intercepted it.

"You should take training seriously Kurage." Zabuza said and tossed her back the book, she hugged it and hunched over to make sure no one could get it.

"I am training." She said looking up at him. "Didn't you notice my Water Clone?"

"She's right." Magetsu said walking up to her. "She was training her clones so someone would mistake them as a real person."

"Konaha is filled with Byakugan garbage, I manage to fool one a few weeks ago but it wasn't good enough to fool him for long, so I'm trying to perfect it." she said still looking down.

"Wow Zabuza-senpai, you knew it was her from the beginning." the young Suigetsu said.

"Easy when he's taken baths with her since she was born." Mangetsu said.

"Shut up!" Both Kurage and Zabuza said with pink cheeks.

Zabuza sighed. "Fine, besides it's getting late, I'm going to train a bit longer and I expect you to be home before I get there." he said to Kurage as he was walking away. Kurage stuck her tongue out at him as he disappeared.

She smiled as she saw her Manga was still clean. Kuriarare set an arm around her as she opened the page she was on. "Hey, hey, Kurage-chan, how about we pretend we're the twins in the book? What do you say?"

"Pervert!" She said smiling as she pushed him away. Mangetsu began to push Suigetsu so they could leave leaving Kuriarare and Kurage alone. "Kuriarare." Kurage said.

"Hm, what is it Kurage-chan?" He responded.

She turned to him. "How come Zabuza wants to help the Mizukage so much?"

"The Mizukage made us possible, the Mizukage is one of the reasons why Zabuza has not been assassinated by ANBU, but in fact put in charge of ANBU." Kuriarare began to walk away from her so he could train as well. "You know Kurage?"

Kurage stared at his needle sword for a moment. "What?"

"It might not seem like it, but Zabuza has put a lot on the line for you, shinobi aren't allowed to leave the Hidden Mist as they please."

"Uh!" Kurage turned red with worry. She gulped to clear her throat. "I—"

"Just to let you know, every time you leave at least one person is behind watching you, and 99 percent of the time it's Zabuza himself." He turned around to look at her trough his mask. "Where does Kurage-chan go when she laves."

Kurage held the book close to herself and pouted her cheeks. "The Murakami District near Konoha," she then smiled. "I love to read and see the new Manga every season there, so I thought if I go there once every three months it wouldn't be a big deal...I didn't know Zabuza was with me the whole time. Maybe I would have gone more if I would know that."

"You go to read your Hentai?"

"Shut up!" Kurage threw a rock at him but he jumped onto a branch of a tree.

"Bye-bye, Kurage-chan." He disappeared leaving her alone.

Kurage stood up straight and exhaled, she smiled at her book for a moment before she began to walk towards her home. Gigi was alone, so she knew she would have to be there soon.

Juugo was staring out his window in the guest bedroom Kurage had let him use until Suigetsu would really tell him how they would obtain all the swords. He sighed and laid down in his bed and closed his eyes. Surprisingly he felt very calm to trust himself to sleep.

Suigetsu walked down a small patch of grass near a small pond, he was about to let himself turn into water so he wouldn't be so dehydrated for the next day, but stopped as he heard something drop into the water. He looked towards his left and saw Gigi crouched down dropping pieces of bread to the Koi fish that lived in the pond. She noticed him and pouted as she turned away.

"I know, I know, you hate me right?" Suigetsu said with raised hand. "It wasn't my fault that I left you, I was kidnapped."

"Liar." She mumbled to herself.

"Really, I'm telling the truth." Gigi looked behind her.

"Wow, you're fast..." She said with pink cheeks, her eyes narrowed again she turned away from him, this time hugging her knees. "I still don't believe you."

"Fine then." Suigetsu sat next to her and looked at the orange and white fish. "I wouldn't of left you Gigi, I really did want to stay."

"Shinobi, they all lie."

Suigetsu rolled his eyes and leaned back, he folded his hands behind his head. "Did you miss me?"

"Mm..." She closed her eyes as tight as she could. "Why would I miss you?"

Suigetsu laughed. "I knew it, Little Gigi missed her childhood sweetheart."

"Be quiet!" Gigi was really red this time, but Suigetsu's smile faded as he noticed small beads of tears at the corner of her eyes.

He sat up and stared at her. "Orochimaru took me."

Gigi buried her face in her knees. "I know..."

"Huh?"

"Kurage told me, I didn't want to believe her, she said 'an evil man named Orochimaru took Suigetsu' and that I wouldn't see you ever again." She then sniffed. "I didn't want to believe her so I've been telling myself that Suigetsu left because he didn't like me anymore."

Suigetsu set a hand on her shoulder, he felt her tense up. "I still meant what I said before."

"You can't be the leader of the Seven Swordsmen, how are you going to get their swords?" She said trough her sleeves.

"You're doubting me now?"

"It's true." She looked up at him. "Kurage had been looking for some of the swords, she hid them once a while back and couldn't find them when she went to get them when she had suspicions that someone wanted them." Gigi looked ahead of herself. "Kisame-senpai told Kurage it was out of his hand to say where the swords were and that he wouldn't be able to tell her any more information about his whereabouts."

"What?"

Gigi looked down. "I don't know, Kurage doesn't tell me anything that much, she only tells me when she's drunk or something."

"How come she didn't get Zabuza's sword?" Gigi opened her mouth as if she were going to answer him.

"Because." Gigi and Suigetsu looked ahead of themselves and saw Kurage standing in the middle of the pond, the fish began to swim towards her. Kurage stared up with her large brown eyes. "I guess I was afraid of what I was going to see...I heard he had to fight against an army of men, not to mention Hatake Kakashi was there as well."

"Sasuke Uchiha was there too." Suigetsu said.

"I don't care about him, his brother couldn't trap me in his jutsu's so I take it he's no match for me either."

"I forgot how much Chakra you had." Suigetsu said looking at her yukata, he didn't notice the black embroidery of blossoms at the ends of it until she was standing in the moonlight.

"My sister still holds the title of being that fastest." Gigi smiled. "Right?"

"Well, I haven't really used my talent for a few months now." Kurage smiled. "Both of you, please go to bed now." Suigetsu and Gigi looked at each other and smiled, they were told to do this a lot by Kurage in the Hidden Mist. They got up and began to talk to each other as they were walking away. Kurage looked back up the sky to see the dim stars. 'Why I didn't go to get Zabuza's sword...now that's the question of my life.' she thought.

A/N: I just watched an episode of InuYasha and I have no clue what the hell is going on, and the ending has the mysteriously cool guy with the moon on his head, weird, reminds me when I was in the 7th grade and my classmate wanted to be that person. Well I just had to say that haha, anyway this is my new story(inspired by the recent chapters n.n') Hope you enjoy. R/R