Neji Hyuga stood in the middle of the dismantled training field, his breathing a little ragged. Out the corner of his eye he saw Rock Lee back flip from their target to join him, a satisfied smirk on his face.

"Alright, I think you finally got the hang of it." Neji got into his legendary fighting position. "Now, do it again."

"I- I don't think I can."

Long snow white hair enveloped a curve-some frame, full breast heaving with each breath she took. Long tender legs, defined with just the right amount of muscle. Enduring arms, out stretched in a gentle fist pose. White eyes, hardly strained, with the pupils barely visible

"Kareta Hatake, you will do it again."

"At least make a clone, Neji-san…"

'Neji-kun sounded better to me…' Neji gave a frustrated sigh before doing a simple hand sign. In a poof of smoke a clone of himself stood in the same gentle fist battle stance. "I still don't see why you only fight clones…"

"Neji, just let it go." Lee placed a hand on his shoulder and jumped to the trees. The Hyuga gave the girl one last glance before following after him, leaving Kareta and his clone to battle.

"Neji, you never told me what her Kekkei Genkai was."

"Her-"

"Frozen Fist: Ice Touch!"

"Gentle Fist: 8 Trigrams, 64 Palms!"

Neji kept his eyes glued on Kareta as she moved with speed she gained from her training with Lee, and agility she gained from his.

"Her clan and mine are somewhat similar. The stance, the kekkei genkai name, and even though she does not possess the Byakugan, her pupils dilate so small it looks like she does. You should take note that her frozen fist effects more than my Gentle fist. Her Ica Touch freezes the chakra system and points, and the internal organs. Not to mention any places she touches on the outside of the body. I honestly think this kekkei genkai is on top of the charts because is freezes everything, but your nervous system. In which means you feel everything that freezes on you and in you."

Rock Lee remained silent as he watched Neji's clone get tossed around like a rag doll.

"Heh, she's not even using her swords…"

"She's being too generous toward my clone."

"I think it's because you and her still have a-"

Neji slapped Lee in the forehead and glares at him. "Don't say it, besides it's over no need to dig it back up."

Lee puffed up his cheeks before disturbing Neji's concentration once more.

"You know she might still have feelings for Sa-"

Neji barely got him and Lee out of the way as 4 Ice Senbon pierced the tree branch they previously sat on.

"Don't talk about him Baka!" Neji hissed to his green suited teammate.

"I quite agree. It would be hard to tell Gai-sensei about your rather "Unyouthful" deaths."

"Now's not the time for your sarcasm Tenten." Neji bit without looking at her.

Tenten readjusted her bun as she watched Neji's clone plummet to the ground in a heap of ice and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"Anyway," Tenten threw a scroll to Lee." We have a mission with Gai-sensei to attend to." The weapon mistress jumped from the trees and landed next to Kareta, who just finished putting her twin swords on her back.

"The Hokage summoned you." Tenten's smirk went unnoticed as Kareta made her way from the training field.

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Tsunade twirled around in her office chair like a child on sugar rush.

"Tsunade-sama please try and act your age."

"Come on Shizune, lighten up! Hey! Today's a good day how about we head to the hot springs?" Tsunade rubbed her rosy cheeks as she dodged Shizune's evil eye.

"Tsunade-sama you're on duty! Oh…uh come in!" Shizune answered the soft knock at the door.

"You summoned me Hokage-sama?" Kareta's white, high pony tailed long hair spilled over her shoulder as she peered into the office.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Kareta come on in, he should be here in a matter of time."

"Err, who Tsunade-sama?" Kareta asked stepping fully into the room and up to the desk.

"Why just wait and see!"

"Lady Tsunade, Lady Tsun-! Kareta-chan! You won't believe who's' back!" Sakura Haruno burst through the door, her short pink hair flying around. She quickly stepped beside Kareta and pointed to the door. In came a tall man with long, white hair, his face automatically lit up when he saw the young Hatake.

"It's just Jiraiya; nothing's too interesting about that old pervert." The lavender hinted white eyed girl huffed, stretching out her arm so the nose bleeding man didn't invade her space.

"No, no not him! Him!" Sakura gave Jiraiya a glare before motioning to a boy in the door way. Towering over Kareta was Naruto, in a black and orange jumpsuit, blonde spiky hair, and his trade mark wide grin.

"Hana-chan! Heh, doesn't look like you've grown an inch!" Naruto enveloped his petite teammate in a bear hug.

"Whadoya' mean she hasn't grown! Her chest has gotten way bigger than the last time we saw her, I mean Come. On! Her curves have totally filled out! I mean her breasts are the size of- Owww! What was that for Tsunade? Well their not as big as yours yet if that's what your worr- Yawoo! Okay. Fine! I'll stop!" Jiraiya nursed his bruised face as a steaming Tsunade stalked back to her desk.

"Anyway, back to business." She looked at the mixed matched team and gave a soft smile. "Now that the team's reunited excluding a certain person that I shall not name…" Tsunade trailed off when the trio started to mope on the floor.

'What am I going to do with these 3?' Tsunade squeezed her temples.

"Look!" she barked. "Now I take it that all of your training was successful over the years?"

"Hai!"

"Great, because I'd like you 3 to fight against someone."

Before they could ask who, there was three sharp knocks at the door.

"Come right on in!"

"Oi-huh? Whadoya' know its Naruto!" Shikamaru Nara stepped through the door allowing a woman with dirty blonde hair in four scruffy ponytails to step around him.

"Hey Shikamaru, and…uh… your girlfriend?" Naruto asked pointing at the fuming blonde.

"You mean you really don't remember my name?"

"It's Temari you baka…" Kareta moved to stand next to the fan mistress as well as Sakura.

"Oh don't gang up on me too Hana-chan…" Naruto murmured and hung his head. "Wait so we're fighting Shikamaru and Fan-lady?"

Tsunade forced a sigh back as she jabbed her thumb at one of the many windows to her right. "He's out there." She groaned before taking a swing of Sake before Shizune could stop her.

"Hey Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto jumped out the now open window. "I got you a present! Pervy Sage's boring book-o-porn!"

"It's not boring, it's pure art!" Jiraiya huffed as he started to eye Tsunade's, Kareta's, and Temari's chest. "You know you 3 could be the stars of my next book-Ow!" Jiraiya turned to the corner of the room as he nursed his black eye.

"Kareta, Sakura, and Naruto, I am your opponent!" Kakashi announced from the window pane. "But maybe it would be best for Naruto if he rested a bit. Yah know, for health concerns. Till then, 'Cya." In a poof of smoke Kakashi Hatake was gone.

….

'The lousy perverted old man!' I huff in my head as I searched through Oto-san's weapon chest under his bed.

"He took all the extra kunai and shuriken in the house!" I jog out of Kakashi's room to Naruto and Sakura who were inspecting the living room.

'The disadvantages of living with your sensei… heh I should write a book!'

I slipped into my ninja shoes and made sure my leg weights were on tight before slipping out the apartment doors behind my two teammates and down 4 flights of stairs.

"Don't worry Kareta-chan, I'm sure we have enough weapons of our own." Sakura cracked her knuckles.

"Hai…" I said absently and started to play with the rim of my mask.

"Hana-chan, what's wrong?" Naruto looked down at me, his blue orbs full of concern.

"It's nothing…" I turn my head, even though they couldn't see my blush under my mask.

"Oh, there's definitely something you're not telling me."

"No there isn't."

"Is too."

"Is not"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is-"

"She had a fling with Neji while you were gone!"

"Sakura-Chan!"

"Sorry I didn't mean to!"

"What? You had a fling with the ice cube and didn't even bother to send me a letter?"

"Gomen-sai Naruto-kun, but it was completely unexpected…"

"Mhmm…" Sakura added in her two cents.

"No, no you see it all started with my first training session with him. Lee was recovering from his second half of surgery, and he asked Neji if he could train me. Neji said he would and after that first training session we got closer and closer and we started hanging out more and more until… uh yeah, that." I muffled finding my shinobi sandals very interesting. "But just don't tell Kakashi-sensei, okay Naruto?"

"My lips are sealed." Naruto flashed me a foxy grin before falling back with Sakura.

"So does this mean she's over him?"

I felt my body stiffen when I heard the whisper from Naruto's mouth.

"No, but Naruto," Sakura paused and I could feel her eyes on my back. "not here…" she breathed.

"Alright guys are you ready?" the words rushed out my mouth as I looked up at the training field gate.

"You bet!" Naruto pumped his fist in the air.

"Yeah!" Sakura pulled her gloves on tighter.

"Then let's begin." Kakashi removed his headband to reveal his Sharingan and threw kunai at the spot I was in less than a second ago.

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"I now pronounce you: Team Kakashi!" Tsunade half slurred as Shizune struggled to conceal her cleavage in her bathrobe. "Now let's head to the springs 'Une!" Tsunade slightly sprinted away.

"And I'm going to accompany them." A drop of blood dripped from the perverted Sannin's nose as he tip toed after them.

"We should totally go out and celebrate, right Hana-Chan?" Naruto bent down to look me straight in the eye.

'I need to find a jutsu for my height issue; it's not fair that all the guys are way taller than me.'

I shook my head and turned to look at Kakashi who was already headed for home.

"Sorry Naruto-kun, Sakura-Chan. Catch you tomorrow for our first mission." I grinned, even though they couldn't see it behind my mask, (not to mention that was dark outside) they both knew it was there and returned grins of their own.

In a flash Naruto grabbed me from the waist, crushing me in his bear hug, before sending me on my way.

"So how do you feel?" "Kakashi asked as I jogged up next to him as we entered the village gates.

"Fine…"I looked at the dirt road as Kakashi stared at me.

"You're shaken…"

'Damn, this guy can read me like a book!'

"Just a little bit…"

His stare didn't waver.

"Okay fine you win!" I huffed and crossed my arms under my breast. "I'm just worried about the future to come."

There was a long pause as we started to climb the flights of stairs.

"Do explain." Kakashi fished through his pockets.

"Now that Naruto's back there's no telling where the whole Sasuke issue will go."

"Hmmm." He slipped out of his shoes as we stepped inside and headed straight for the kitchen. "Sounds like a personal issue." Kakashi bent over to peer into the fridge.

"Oto-san!" I growled, kicking him straight in the ass, sending him crashing into the fridge. "Good. Night!"

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A splash of cold water awoke me from my Sasuke infested dreams.

"Good morning my beloved daughter!" Kakashi placed the empty bucket on the ground. "Now that you're awake I want you at the mansion in 20 minutes or less. C'ya."

"I'm going to kill him someday…" I grumbled to the clearing smoke. I quickly got my morning duties out of the way before teleporting to the Hokage's office.

Tsunade flipped through the mission scroll carefully, make sure not to skip one. "I think-"

"Tsunade-sama! The Kazekage has been kidnapped!"

No one realized that as soon as Shizune said "kidnapped" Naruto had disappeared.

[A/N]: Ah yes, the beginning of yet ANOTHER story that popped into my head. I really hope you like it and you know what would make the BEST Christmas present for me? A Nice review! No flames, I'm tender :( Happy Holidays everyone! :D P.s: I'm sorry If you don't like Kareta's Character so I guess if you don't like it... don't read? .-.? (Her Bio is on my Quizilla page! Just look up the title of this story on Quizilla and you'll find me :Gaarasbride! click my page and BAM! you got her bio under My Journal!