Prologue
~One and a Half Years Ago~Konoha~
Sayomi stood in front of the Hokage. Tsunade put her face in her hands, then looked up at the Jonin.
"Rejecting the position of Liaison I'll allow, but... leaving the village? I'll need a damn good reason." she said sharply and tiredly, it was the middle of the night.
"My heritage." Sayomi replied simply
"Your heritage? Since when have the Sakamoto needed to leave the village in order to-"
"With all due respect Lady Tsunade, you can't lie to me anymore, I know who my mother was."
Tsunade froze and leaned back in her chair "There's no way"
"You're falling under the assumption that I haven't done my research on the fact that my chakra somehow has an affinity for more than the five basic elements, and after I'd done that, the number of parental possibilities falls to no more than two clans."
Slowly, Tsunade leaned forward again, resting her chin on her hands, eyes closed "I still don't understand why you want to leave."
~Suna~
Gaara looked up at the high wall of Suna just a few hundred miles ahead of them, then back over his shoulder. The rest of the group stopped when they realized he had. "What is it?" asked Temari. He shook his head and carried on walking, indicating that it was nothing.
This wasn't right. Kiba and Shino, were escorting the Liaison, Hinata Hyuga. He'd only found in the morning that Sayomi had left several hours earlier on a mission that no one but the Hokage and Sayomi herself knew even the slightest detail of. No one even knew what the mission had been ranked.