Prologue

*one year later*

The ANBU captain kneeled in front of the Hokage's desk. "Lady Hokage, are you sure about this? If you send her to the Akatsuki to spy on them, won't she regain her memories?"

"There is a chance of that, yes, but it's a risk we have to take. The more time goes by, the bigger threat the Akatsuki and their allies will become. Besides, you yourself said all her memories were wiped clear."

"True." Tsunade looked out the window of her office.

"Hey, pass it to me, quick!" shouted Kiba. Hay-Lin passed the ball to him, and Akamaru caught it in the air and delivered it to his master. Naruto ran to the other side of the field.

"Over here, Kiba!" Sai soared above the field on an ink bird. All of the Konoha 11 were assembled on the field, playing some game involving a ball. They were having such a good time…A year had passed since Hay-Lin had joined as a shinobi. She was now a jonin, and a skilled one at that. She could be ANBU, but Tsunade didn't trust her that much. However, she had gone on ANBU missions before, with Yamato as an escort.

"I've decided. In two months time, we will monitor her progress and memories. If all goes well, we send her out in two months. We will need her abilities," said Tsunade.

"Yes, m'lady," replied the ANBU captain, promptly vanishing in a puff of smoke.

-Shonan's house-

"Umm…Shonan?" asked Mist. Shonan opened one eye. She had been sleeping on a lawn chair just outside the house, taking in the sun, when Mist had decided to interrupt her.

"What is it? Can't you see I'm trying to relax?"

"Well, that's just it. Is now really a good time to be relaxing? Shouldn't you be trying to find your sister?" Shonan sighed.

"Let's face it. She's dead, or at least gone, and I'm not going to spend time trying to find something that's not there. It's pointless. I already wasted three months trying to find her when she left, and now, I'm enjoying my freedom and relaxing. Now leave me to my sub-emo corner and leave, Fish Girl." she said, closing her eye and waving Mist away.
"But that also piles so much responsibility on us! Aneki and I are working overtime to cook for everyone, you've been spending more time getting blackmail, and you, me and Krystalia have had to do work almost nonstop to keep the Mystery village running. Everything Hay-Lin used to do, we have to do now!" Mist protested.
"That's what happens when someone dies. We just have to suck it up and deal with it."
"But isn't it at least worth a shot? If we can find her, everything'll be back to normal!"
"Mist! Be reasonable here! If she really was alive, don't you think she would've teleported back to us? Or even contacted us through telepathy? Think about it! She's DEAD! Gone! Never to return!" Shonan exploded. Lightning crashed, and Shonan stormed over to Deidara's room, while Deidara was experimenting with his clay. Shonan stormed past him and threw herself on his bed, staring at the ceiling. Deidara looked up from his clay.
"Why so tense, un?" he asked, going over to Shonan and sitting in the edge of the bed.
"Mist ruined my relaxation by bringing up my sister." she huffed. Deidara looked at her with pity.
"I'm sorry, un." Shonan sighed and sat up.
"Don't worry about it. It's not your fault." Deidara began massaging her shoulders, and she soon fell asleep. Deidara set her down and smiled, pulling the covers overtop her and going back to his clay.

-the Kitchen-
Aneki and Sasori were eating at the kitchen table. Well, Aneki as eating, Sasori was just sitting there, fixing a puppet. Aneki paused, mid-bite of her sandwich, and asked, "Where's Tobi?"
"TOBI'S A GOOD BOY!" shouted Tobi, appearing seemingly out if nowhere. Aneki screamed in surprise, dropped her sandwich and almost fell out of the chair. Almost, because she clung to Sasori as a support.
"Tobi! Don't scare me like that!" she cried, her voice drastically increasing in pitch.
"Ahem." coughed Sasori, looking annoyed. Aneki seemed to realize what she was holding on to, and promptly let go. She bowed multiple times, apologizing.
"I'm so sorry! So sorry Sasori-senpai! So sorry! Please forgive me!" And then the sandwich fell on Tobi's head. Mask. Oh, whatever.

-Library-
"So, did ya find anything?" asked Dijira.
"Nope. You?" answered Krystalia.
"Nope." The two girls were trying to find a rare book. On the way, they were picking up books on what interests them. Krystalia was looking for books on different portals, and Dijira was searching for books on robots. Both were looking for a book clad in gold about the secret of life. Both were bored.

-Somewhere far, far away-
A black-and-pink haired girl sat, hunched over various potions and notebooks. She had blood-red eyes, and raven black hair. A vial exploded as she added a drop of red liquid into it.
"Argh! This is impossible!" She slammed her head against the table. "I'll never perfect this in time! Not at this rate, anyways." She wrote something in her notebook and sighed. "Back to work then." And she began the potion again from scratch, altering the ingredients a bit.

A/N: rather short, but it works. The other chapters are lots better. Well, here it is! the long awaited sequel to Chaos and How to Survive It! I had a bit of help from one of my friends typing this, since I tend to be really lazy and procastinate a lot when typing...yeah...Well, hopefully I'll overcome my bout of writer's block soon! Almost done with ch. 2 of A Game of Cat and Plant...but i can't get from point A to point B...