'This can't be….She's gone. She's really gone!,' Hanae shouted in her head as she ran through her village. 'Where is she!?' She stopped in the middle of the street and clenched her fist, tears edging out of the corner of her eyes. "Seira…,"

The tall tan man rose from his seat and slammed his massive hands onto his desk. "She's disappeared? What do you mean she's disappeared?!,"

A ninja dressed in all black and his head bowed, shook under the gaze of his Lord.

"Her cousin, Hanae is currently searching the village for her but, Lady Kuro hasn't been seen in the past, 192 hours,"

"Did they search her castle, her shrine?!," The entire Kuro Temple was running around with people reporting and searching for their missing Lady.

"Yes sir! We did find only her cousin looking for her,"

He grinded his teeth, his pale skin turned red and a few veins poking out on the top of his bald forehead.

"BRING ME HANAE!," His loud voice echoed through the Temple as the ninja turned and hurried out of his Lords site.

Hanae bent down over a small pond. She stared at herself, her blue eyes reflected on the water and her long pink hair covered her face. Her eyes were swollen and red. "Seira….Where did you go? You've been gone for eight days,"

The wind blew softly and gently as if it were caressing her skin.

"My Lady! My lady Hanae!," She stood up and wiped her eyes with her dress sleeve. She turned to the ninja on one knee in front of her.

"Lady Hanae! Lord Norio, h-he's calling for you," Hanae clenched her fist again while swallowing the lump in her throat and nodded. "…Understood,"

Norio stared out the window of the temple. The village, unaware of the situation , was peaceful and quiet as usual. The wind blew and his long white beard blew. 'Seira, have you done something foolish again?,'

"My Lord, Lady Hanae has arrived," He turned around immediately and meet eyes with the small pink haired girl.

"You…Requested I see you?,"

"Hanae, did you know Seira has disappeared,"

"I did, but I went looking for her first before I said anything,"

"How long has she been gone,"

"…I noticed that she disappeared 5days ago but my lord it's normal for Seira to disappear for 5 days! She's done it before…,"

He snarled but Hanae continued. "But this time, it feels different…Like…As if she was planning something or investigating something….,"

"You think she went to investigate something?," Hanae nodded. "Something had caught Seira's attention for the past few months and it was all she could talk about,"

"What was it?," Hanae pressed her lips together tightly. "She told me not to tell the anyone due to the danger-,"

"Hanae! If you haven't realized, this village's protector, it's guardian, is missing, these people's very lives are in danger! If you have any clues to where Seira is! Tell me!," Norio's voice was stern and very well angry. The air in the room grew tenser and tenser. The pink haired girl clenched the hem of her dress tightly and bravely met the gaze of her lord. "She said it had something to do with the mysterious rumors of a group gathering strong ninja's,"

Norio raised an eyebrow. "What? Why would that attract her attention it has nothing to do with our village,"

"My Lord, the way Seira explained, I think they do, I think they have something to do with the village,"

"This doesn't tell me anything, just a bunch of pointless rambling!,"

"I don't understand well either but I know Seira…She wouldn't do anything to harm or risk the village,"

"Fine, We'll just extend our help,"

"Help?," Hanae looked up in concern. "I only trust them with such a important task," Norio stated. "I'm going to the Hidden Leaf, and your going too Hanae,"

"But My Lord!," He looked into Hanae's blue eyes with a bone chilling gaze. "If you wish to keep your head, then I suggest you get prepared to leave," Hanae bowed respectfully. "Yes, My Lord,"

"An A Rank mission?," Naruto asked, obviously surprised. "Yeah, a village guardian, her name is Seira Kuro, She went missing a while ago,"

"Kuro? Isn't that the Kuro clan?," Sakura asked as the three looked up at their sensei. "Yeah, their a strange clan but don't let their looks fool you they are rather strong, most of their members are stronger than the Hokage himself,"

The three grew silent, but Kakashi laughed. "Now let's go meet her,"

"Her?,"

"Yeah, the young cousin of the missing guardian, Princess Hanae Kuro, herself,"

"We're getting to meet a princess! What are we waiting for," Naruto shouted as he began to walk. "Hold it right their Naruto!," Sakura stopped the excited boy quickly. "You'd better be on your best behavior!," She threatened.

"Right, Got it, now let's go!," Naruto shouted. Sakura quickly punched him. "What did I just say!?," She shouted. Kakashi sighed as he watched the two.

"So this is the famed, Seira Kuro, an incredibly stunning woman, wouldn't you agree?," A raspy voice said in the darkness.

"Keke, indeed,"

There she was, Seira Kuro. A tall, pale toned woman, pink lips and she had sharp blue eyes and extremely long black silky hair with short bangs on her forehead. She was dressed in an all black attire. A black jacket with a big collar and black boot and pants. Even her nails were painted black.

Eight different shadows stood around her in a large circle. All of their eyes were on her. She put both of her hands on his waist and sighed loudly. "….So, what did you bring me here for?,"

"Seira, The Akatsuki needs your power,"

"The Akatsuki? Oh, I know all about you," She stated. "Sorry, You've caught me at a bad time, I'm in a bad mood, so I have no interest in helping anyone at the moment," She shrugged.

A laughed echoed throughout the cave. "You've got to be joking, you want to have her join the Akatsuki?,"

"Join? This freak show? I'd rather eat dirt from the lowest part of hell," She said back bitterly.

"….You aren't going to make this easy on yourself, joining the Akatsuki isn't an option for you," He said. "Perhaps this will change your mind,"

The room grew silent, a voice spoke up from the darkness. "Seira…Seira? Are you here? Come home already!,"

'Hanae? No it's just someone mimicking her voice' closed her eyes and breathed out.

"You see, if you refuse to join, Hanae Kuro will be killed," He stated. "You want me to join, but you're only ticking me off," Seira growled. A chuckled was heard. "What do you want from me anyway?,"

"The Akatsuki needs your power, someone with your talents could serve very useful to the Akatsuki," Seira felt her blood turn cold. "If I do this and you go back on your word, I'll kill the lot of you,"

"Oh don't worry, Hanae will not be touch. Not a single hair on her head,"

The cave's lit candles slowly started to fade, in the darkness the only thing that could be seen was Seira's blue eyes.

Hanae fiddled with her long pink hair. She wrapped it around her index finger over and over again. She stood in front of the Hokage nervously as he red through a bunch of letters from Norio, about the assistants and how the village would be rewarded. He sighed and put down the final letter. "Lady Hanae, I've called a team to help us with the search for Lady Seira but, you'll have to explain everything about this incident to them," Hanae nodded.

The door was suddenly opened and they both turned to a panting boy, he had spiky blonde hair and was wearing an orange jump suit.

"Fear not my lady! I, Uzumaki Naruto, will save the day!,"

"Narutooo," A girl with pink hair came in and ran to him. Punching him in the back of his head. "We're so sorry, Lord Hokage and Princess, Naruto! Bow lower and apologize," Sakura shouted. "I'm sorry,"

Hanae smiled, the Hokage grabbed the area between his eyes and squeezed. Another boy wearing a blue shirt and a taller white haired man walked in.

"Your such a loser," The blue haired boy stated. He white haired man walked in front of them. "Don't mind them Lady Hanae,"

"Ah! Master Kakashi,"

"Yeah, it's been a while, You've grown Lady Hanae," She blushed and smiled. "If I had know you'd be going to look for Seira, I would have come sooner,"

"Yes, Kakashi knows this clan well, so I thought it would be better to have him on this mission,"

"Well let me introduce everyone then," He stood to the side and pointed out each of them.

"Our girl her is named Sakura Haruno, next is Naruto Uzumaki and, here is Sasuke Uchiha,"

Naruto looked up at the girl. She had long pink hair that touched her calves' and beautiful blue eyes she was wearing a short frilly strapped red dress. He blushed a bit. She bowed, "Nice to meet you all, my name is Hanae Kuro,"

"Excuse me Lady Hanae but, we need to discuss the mission," The Hokage interrupted. "Oh that's right," Hanae's face fell a bit.

"This mission, it's very important to me, But my cousin, Seira Kuro has gone missing and she's been gone for some time now, we haven't heard from her so we're getting worried,"

"Seira is incredibly strong and ruthless, the chances of her being kidnapped is very, very slim," Kakashi said touching his chin. "That's what I said! But Lord Norio doesn't think so, he's extremely angry and won't listen to reason,"

"The way it sounds, it seems like she went somewhere on her own," Sasuke said. Hanae nodded, "That's what I've been thinking but, I can't think of any place she'd go,"

"Can't we just go back to the last place she went?," Sakura suggested. Hanae smiled a bit. "That could work, I know where she was last, she goes to this place when she's training,"

"Where's that?," Naruto asked still rubbing the back of his head where Sakura had punched him.

Annoyed and fuming Seira was floating in the dark cave. She was in a sitting position, her arms folded under her breast and she watched as a boulder suddenly move and made an entrance. Four men walked in.

A man with long blonde hair with a bang covering his left blue eye. And next to him was small hunched over man with a long tail. Next to them was a tall blue faced man, with a large sword on his back and a ordinary man. He had Sharigan and long black hair pulled into a ponytail. The boulder moved back to it's original position.

It grew dark again. "You know you could light a few candles," The blonde said.

"I preferred the dark," She hissed. "Hmp, your even more beautiful in person," He said walking in front of her. She stayed in her sitting position in mid air and glared at the blonde man.

"So, I'm curious about the Kuro clan," A few candles were being lit by the blue man. "I got you your clothes," He tossed at her.

"I refuse to were this," She said.

He sighed. "Your very difficult aren't you,"

"I can be,"

"…,"

"…," They just stared at each other.

"Is it true you can bring back the dead," She didn't answer but stopped floating and stood on her feet. They were all staring at her. "Your annoying, you know that," The blue man laughed. "What's your name?," She asked him. "Deidara,"

Naruto excitedly looked out the window of the large carriage. "Lady Hanae, what does Seira look like," Sakura asked. Happily Hanae dug in the pocket of her dress and pulled out a small photo.

Seira was standing in the center she was walking past a wall and smiling at the camera. "I caught her off guard with this,"

"Wow she's beautiful," The three gawked at the photo. Hanae nodded, "She's amazing, Seira is the only family I have back home, that's why I have to find her no matter what,"

"Um…You said she's incredibly strong, but why does that rule out her being kidnapped couldn't someone could have caught her off guard and took her somewhere," Sakura said.

"Well, Seira has a very bad temper, so if she were to be kidnapped she would get out of that situation before anyone could ever realize what happened," Kakashi said. Hanae nodded . "She is strong, very, Seira has done over 78 s-ranked missions all over, She knows every technique our clan knows but, Seira doesn't use all of powers unless it's absolutely necessary,"

"The Kuro is a very powerful clan, they know many dark techniques involving death," Kakashi said. "Death?," Sasuke asked, "Yes, you see Seira has the power to go to hell or heaven itself and bring back the dead,"

The three widened their eyes. "Bring back the dead?!,"

"Yes, many people have come to her asking to bring back their loved ones and of course Seira refuses to do this," Kakashi said. Hanae looked down at her lap and squeezed her dress. "Why?!," Naruto asked quickly.

"She says this to people who request her to bring back the dead, 'Why bring back the dead, They should go where they deserve depending how they spent their time on earth and it would only cause more chaos to this world, everyone dies for a reason and nothing more,' Seira's words always angered people and out of that hate for Seira our clan has always been attacked, others' actually tried to kill her themselves, but like I said Seira is incredibly strong, She's immortal,"

"That's unbelievable," Sakura whispered. "Everyone thought so but, Seira looks don't age past 22 and she can't die no matter what you do to her, when I first met her she was being attack by a village, she was only 10 then, and she was so scared, she begged me to take her life but she can't die," Kakashi said with his arms folded across his chest, he gripped his forearm a little, recalling the painful memory. Tears rolling down her face and her parents dead next to her.

"A few years later, Seira started to embrace her powers, she wanted to help people, so she took the position to be a guardian over our village instead of a position like Hokage,"

"How many years has Seira been alive?," Sasuke asked. "About 50 years now," Hanae said.

"The proof is all there just by looking at her,"

"Lady Hanae, we're about an 1 hour away from Lady Seira's Hideout," The driver shouted. The horses spend up a bit.

"Alright!,"

"So let me get this straight, you people want me, to go to the Hidden Leaf Village?," The man with long black hair was known as Itachi Uchiha and his partner was Kisame. "Heh, you people are really crazy aren't you?,"

"Heh, only some of us," Kisame said.

"You orders are to go to the Hidden Leaf Village and stay there, act normal until your given further order," Itachi.

"I see, so that's it?," She asked crossing her arms again and looked into Itachi's red eyes. "I thought you knew everything about us," Itachi said. Seira glared at him and he narrowed his eyes. "You here to do your part, and that's it," He said.

Seira lifted her hand slowly and gently cupped Itachi's cheek. "That's a pretty face…So it'd be a real shame if something were to happen to it," She threatened. The air in the room grew tense as he looked into her blue eyes and she looked into his red ones.

"That's enough you two," A voice appeared from the darkness. "Seira, you are not to harm your partner or I'll consider your attack a betrayal,"

"Tch!, He's my partner?!," She glared at the rainbow form of Pein. She took her hand away gently and walked away. "It's fine, I got what I needed,"

"Say Lady Hanae," Sakura called. Hanae looked from the window. "Yes?,"

"What other abilities does Lady Seira have?," Sakura asked. "Hm," Hanae pointed to her face. "If she kisses or touches your face, she can read your mind and look into you past,"

"Really?,"

"Yeah, but it's weird because she'll sometimes kiss a stranger," Hanae giggled. They looked at her and gave her a weird look.

"What about you Hanae? What can you do?,"

"Ah, nothing really, I usually am a healer and a nurse back home, Seira is supposed to be training me actually,"

"A healer? That's sounds tough," Sakura said.

"It is, but I enjoy the smiles my patients have when they are all healthy and healed up," Naruto smiled at her. "Can you read other minds?,"

"Yep, but I need to be close to them or touching them, mine and Seira's abilities' are different but we can do most of the same thing,"

The carriage started to slow down a bit. "lady Hanae! We're here," The driver shouted. They all looked out the window as they were approaching a very large tree with a river going past it and a waterfall close by.

Hanae prayed they would find some clue to Seira's where abouts here.