It has been a year since Okami first came to Konoha, a year since the death of the demon and her comrades. It had been a long year, but Okami was fitting in well, she was now a full fledged ninja of Konoha but was still with Team 7, and Kakashi was still watching over her.

It was a bright autumn morning as Okami looked down at the water she was standing on, chakra was still a new thing to her, but she had been training hard under Kakashi and was doing well. Her thoughts tracked back over the year as her fingers played with the wrappings on her arms; she kept her metal arms covered at all times now, against the will of her friends.

"HAY OKAMI!" Naruto yelled as he waved to her.

"Good morning Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura." she replayed as she made her may on to the solid ground of the training area.

"Where is Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura sighed.

"It's funny," Okami grinned, "I have been living with Kakashi and I always get here before him, we left his place together."

"Good morning all." Kakashi appeared on one of the posts.

"YOU'RE LATE!!" Naruto pointed and yelled at him.

"Sorry," he scratched the back of his head and smiled, "you see I lost Okami so I went looking for her and..."

"THAT'S A LIE!" Naruto yelled again, arm still pointed at Kakashi.

"Okami has been here with us for an hour now." Sakura crossed her arms over her chest.

"Anyway sensei, you used that excuse last week," Okami said as a sly grin crossed her lips, "you should give it more time before using it again."

Sasuke stayed quite only wanting to get today's training started. Kakashi reached into his pocket and pulled out 3 small bells.

Naruto slumped his shoulders. "Not this one again, we all ready did it" he groaned.

"True you have, but we have one more team member now, and I want to see how your teamwork is."

With the sound of the bells ringing in their ears the team retreated back into the woods. Sakura and Okami jumped up into the tress, whilst the boys stayed in the underbrush and separated themselves. When they where out of sight Kakashi attached the small bells to his belt and pulled out his book.

It was not long before the teamwork training had turned into the normal competition between Naruto and Sasuke. Okami told Sakura to stay with her, over the past year the two had become like sisters and worked well together, they sat up in a tree with a good view of Naruto's and Sasuke's attempts on Kakashi.

"Naruto that idiot." Sakura grumbled.

"Idiots, don't forget. Sasuke is going on his own as well." Okami added.

"Don't talk about Sasuke like that!!" Sakura had to stop her self from yelling

"why does she always get like that?" but that was not important at the moment, so she pushed it to the back of her mind. "You know as well as me that the only way to get him is by going as a team."

Sakura dropped her chin into her hand. "There's no way we can talk to them from here."

"No, there is a way." Okami made a seal with her hands as she gathered chakra. "Something Kakashi-sensei showed me, I can speak into their minds for a short time." she explained.

"Naruto, Sasuke will you two stop for a bit we need to…"

But she was cut off as she had to avoid a kunai.

"Shit." Okami grabbed Sakura's arm as she moved them around to another tree.

"What happened?" She gasped as they came to rest on another tree.

"I'm still learning how to use the technique right, it allows me to talk into the minds of any who know me or I can listen into the thoughts of any in a small area to me, if used right, but", Okami sighed quietly.

"But?"

"As I said I'm still learning it. A side effect from it is anyone I'm talking to knows where I am, I was not able to shield myself from Kakashi-sensei, he picked it up and found out my location." Okami's eyes narrowed as she watched Sasuke go in for another try.

"Then," Sakura smiled, "how about we do the teamwork?"

Okami raised an eyebrow as a sly grin found its way on to her pink haired friends lips. "What other techniques have you picked up from Kakashi-sensei?"

Okami suddenly felt very worried.

"Damn you!" Naruto growled as he pulled himself out of the water.

"Leave him to us Naruto!" Sakura yelled as Okami charged in.

Keeping her body low and arms back Okami rushed in. She did not flinch as she heard Sakura's shuriken fly past her ear. Kakashi caught them with ease. Okami grappled Kakashi's arm swinging on him, but she could do no more then turn him around. Kakashi twisted his arm about and grabbed her belt and brutally slammed her into the ground, with a puff of white jutsu smoke a log laid where Okami was thrown. He looked around thinking where she would attack from next.

Sakura threw another barrage of shrunkens, and again Kakashi easily caught them. He went to turn but found he could not move his left leg. Looking down he saw a hand coming out of the earth and grappled his ankle.

"I see, very good" he said to himself.

Okami pulled him under, but he stopped when he sank as far as the top of his legs. Coming out of the ground behind him Okami grabbed his wrists and held his arms behind his back, her metal hands where a great advantage to her like this. Her grip was almost impossible to break, and she has used head-hunter jutsu to sink him so he could not easily use a replacement to get out.

Sakura quietly grabbed the small bells off him. She handed one to Naruto and Sasuke. With a sigh Okami let go of Kakashi and pulled herself out.

"Very good you two," Kakashi laughed as he pulled himself free, "but Okami, as you have no bell its your turn on the post."

He looked at the group, Sakura and Naruto were helping Okami to her feet. He knew he would have to tie her to one of the posts as she had failed to get a bell, but something told him deep inside that he could not do that to her. He tried to hide the smile that was trying to spread across his face.

Kakashi stood up and brushed himself down. "Well I think that will be it for the day, we have mission tomorrow so I want all of you to rest up."

Naruto skipped off happily, excited about tomorrow's mission. Sasuke wondered off with Sakura following trying to get him to go somewhere with her. Okami sat back down and sighed, relieved that she would forgo being tied up. Kakashi ran his finger through her hair getting out the small clumps of dirt. Her hair was white and dark grey and seemed to have an odd marking to it that always reminded him of a wolf's fur. "Must be why she was named Okami."

"You know Naruto or Sasuke should have been with out a bell, but well done with that technique, you are really getting the hang of it." He put his hands in his pockets and started to walk away.

"Thank you, Kakashi-sensei."

Early next morning Okami was ready to go but was just hanging around in Kakashi's apartment. Ever since she had come to Konoha she had lived with her sensei, as he was tasked with looking after her. And ever since then, when it was time for training or a mission with Team 7, she had shown up on time but he would be up to an hour late, but not today.

"Is something wrong Okami?" Kakashi asked, notarising that she would of normally left by now.

"You could say that." She grinned.

"Oh?"

"You have always turned up late," she said as she wandered over to where he was sitting on the couch, "but today I'm determined to get you to there on time, or at least show up with you."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow, but never looked up from the book in his hands. She leaned over placing a hand on the back of the seat and with the over blocked the page he was reading. She found herself struggling to keep her body from shaking, she did not know why she felt this nervous so close to him, she just pinned it to the fact she had never been so brazen with his personal space before.

His lone eye looked up at her. "Ok, but on one condition."

"Name it."

He tapped the back of her hand. "You have to show your arms for the day."

She frowned at him, he knew she did not like her steel arms showing, but... "Ok. Deal."

She folded up her sleeves and slipped off her gloves, slowly she took off the wrappings underneath, when she was done she nodded towards the door.

"Shall we?"

Kakashi stood up and slipped his book into his pocket. "Let's go."

To her surprise he did not try to slip away from her as they where making their way to the meeting point, nor did he try and delay in anyway, and even more shocking was that they were the first ones there. Kakashi leaned against one of the railings on the bridge and began reading his book. Okami leaned up against the one opposite him.

Kakashi briefly looked up from his book at her, he could not help but smile, he hated when she covered up her dark steel arms. She said it was because they made people uneasy, and he would always tell her it was because she was uneasy about them.

His train of thought was interrupted when he heard a male scream followed by a small thud, he looked to see Naruto, who had fallen on his ass from shock, he was pail and wide eyed.

"Y-Y-YOU'RE! YOU'RE!"

"On time." Sasuke finished him off.

"It happens from time to time" Kakashi said as he closed his book. "Today's mission is D-Rank, our task is to find a bracelet that was lost just somewhere beyond the towns walls."

When they were at Konoha's gates Kakashi showed them a small map that had some areas marked out. "This is the route the client took on the day they lost them item, we are to thoroughly search this route and the surrounding area until we find it."

With a nod from his students they set out taking their time. Okami looked out from the tree she was standing in trying to find any sense of where it could be. They knew it could be anywhere by now if an animal happened to pick it up. She noted that Kakashi was sitting in a tree not to far from her reading his book, he was moving along with the team but was not really helping in looking. It was not long before she realized that she was staring at him. She tore her gaze away from him but found it wanting to wander back.

"what the hell is going on?" she shook her head "is this some sort of jutsu?"

Jumping out of the tree, she landed in the middle of the road. She looked around thinking where she had looked and where her friends were looking, then something walking down the road caught her eye.

"Ahhhrg this is going to take forever… eh… Okami?" Naruto said, walking out of the brush towards his team-mate.

Okami was wide eyed and looking very pale, her body was trembling.

"What's wrong Okami?" Naruto looking down the road he could see three men walking towards them but he could not make much out.

"I-It just cant be!" Okami stuttered.

"Hay! HAY! Snap out of it!" He waved a hand in front of her but she still remained frozen.

"What's wrong Naruto?" The others had come over to see what he was making a racket about.

"Sensei! Something is wrong with Okami!" He yelled as he waved his arms about, hoping that somehow it would help.

Kakashi looked up the road "Who is it Okami?"

"I-it's" her voice was almost a whisper, "Sprinter!"

"Eh? Who is Sprinter?"

"Naruto you idiot!" Sakura wisperd to him. "Remember when we first meet Okami? Sprinter was the blackened husk we ran into just before we meet her team."

The three men where in full view now, one was clad in camo gear and had short brown hair, one to his right was a short old man wearing a white suit and carrying a cane, and the last was a tall man in a dark grey suit. They stopped only a few feat away from them.

"Yo, Okami" the brown haired man smiled.

"Sprinter!" She pulled out a kunai. "You bastard!"

"Now now," a disappointed look crossed his face, "calling me names just for being alive? That's not a nice thing to do." Their was a mocking tone in his voice.

"That's enough Sprinter!" the old man barked.

"What's going on? Okami? Who are these men?" Naruto asked.

"Be quiet!" Okami growled.

"Oh, I'm sorry I should explain everything for your friends here," the old man smiled as he put both hands on top of his cane, "you see, Boy, I am here for Okami."

"Sprinter! You bastard! How? And why?" Okami growled again.

"My, my where have all your manners gone Okami?" The mocking tone still thick in his voice. "But despite that I'll answer," he smiled like this was all a game to him.

"I saw your corpse!"

"No, that was some poor fellow who happened to be wandering around at the time, you see my dear Okami, I had been planning on getting away from you merry band of fools when our true leader died, I burnt the corpse and put my name tag on it." He this a bit to frankly.

"Like a good boy he came back, even after a code black mission," the old man added, "it is true we normally would of killed him for such a thing, but when he said one of my..." he paused thinking of the right word, "failed experiments had lived I just had to come and see for myself."

Kakashi's eye narrowed "Failed experiment?"

The old man nodded. "Yes you see, a long time ago Okami was mortally wounded. She had lost a lot of blood, so on a whim I decided to run an experiment, instead of giving her a transfusion with just human blood, we used animal blood. The only thing that we had that was remotely compatible with he blood type was that from a grey wolf."

"You bastard!" This time it was Naruto that growled those words.

The old man laughed, "she was lucky her body did not reject the blood and we had high hopes for her, but it seems that only change that came out of it was her hair and her name."

"Is this true Okami?" Kakashi asked, his voice bland.

She hung her head as she tried to fight back the tears and the painful memories, her arms hung limply at her sides her kunai long fallen to the ground.

"But it's ok Okami," Sprinter said with a grin on his face, "you can come back if you want we can forget all about this and go back to the compound."

"Like she would ever go back with you!!" Naruto yelled.

"Naruto," her voice was soft, "shut up."

Sprinter walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder, Okami flinched under his touch. "We can kill these brats and the babysitter and you can come back with us."

A shudder ran throw her body. "Kill... Them?"

"Listen, Okami my dear," the old man smiled, "the drugs that we normally gave you would have all ran out of your body by now, you are probably feeling things that you don't understand, am I right?"

She did not reply.

"It's ok, I understand that this must be confusing for you right now, even maybe a bit frightening."

"Kill them?" Suddenly something snapped inside of her, her chakra flared up wildly as she grabbed Sprinter's wrist.

"If you even disturb the air around them!" She raised her head to meet Sprinter's gaze.

He was fear stricken with what he saw her eyes, that where normally blue, had turned gold and black, they where wolf eyes!

"I will gut you where you stand!"

She squeezed Sprinter's arms until she heard the snap of bone. In one swift move she pulled him towards her, let go of his arm and landed a punch square on his jaw, he went flying back and skidded into the legs of the tall man in the grey suit who promptly kicked him away.

"Oh my, now this is interesting," the old man chuckled, "but it's too little to late Okami, and we seem to have your answer, it's a pity, but I guess it can't be helped."

Okami turned to look at Kakashi who was now standing beside her, he gasped when he saw her new eyes.

"I'm sorry sensei, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura" her voice was harsh.

The man in grey stepped over Sprinter making his way towards them, pushing up his sleeves they could see that he has metal arms similar to Okami's.

"Let me fight this one" Okami said calmly as she caught his fist with her left hand like it was nothing.

She brought back her fight hand but did not ball it into a fist, she curled her fingers slightly channelling chakra into the tips. Blue wisps appeared and like moonlight dancing through trees started to form into something more solid. With one swift swipe she sliced open a gash from his left thigh to his right collar bone.

He staggered back clutching at his wound. "Do you like them?" Okami lifted her hand up so all could see her chakra had formed into claws at the end of her fingers, they had lost their blue tint and looked more like crystallized moonlight.

Sprinter had got up and made his way over to the old man. "Sir", he whispered, "we must leave." With a nod they turned to make their escape, but they ran into Kakashi. "Leaving so soon?" he asked, this single eye pining them down.

Sprinter went to make a move but was stopped by a kick to the face by Sasuke. Dazed he staggered about two more punches in his chest drove him towards a tree. He heard a kunai fly past his head, about to shout an insult about missing him, he felt something pull against his body as the wire tightened and held him against the tree.

Naruto had manage to pin down the old man using his shadow replications, Kakashi looked up to see Okami still fighting with the man in grey. She had open up many cuts on him with her new technique but he was still standing strong.

Okami ducked another blow and dug her claws into his stomach. She had been aiming for the same spot over and over again. Like her, he had internal amour but it was thicker than what she had known. Now that this new thing had come over her, her eyes where sharper and her movements faster, she knew he would die from blood loss now.

Something stirred inside her again, "we are not letting them get off that easy", a voice in the back of her mind growled. She diverted her attack from the stomach to the neck, a wet thunk and a whizzing gasp alerted her to her success, a wet snapping sound seemed to dominate the ears of all as Okami ripped his throat out.

His body fell lifeless to the dirt road, Okami dropped the hunk of meat, her face was plain, she looked back and fourth from Sprinter and the old man as if deciding on who was next. There was no feeling of murderess blood-lust coming from her, she was angry yes, but nothing more then that, but Kakashi knew this has to stop now.

Okami's wolven eyes locked onto the old man. She went to make a move, but here she stopped when her vision was blocked by the chest of a certain Jounin ninja. He gently placed his hands on her shoulders the mussels relaxed as the frenzied haze started to clear from her mind.

"Look at me Okami" his voice was clam yet commanding.

All most against her will she found her eyes moving up his body, it was not long before one of her eyes was locked with his stormy dark eye, and her other locked with his blood-red sharingan. She froze her body, no longer listening to her minds pleas to run, to turn her head away, or even to close her eyes, he flinched like something nipped him.

"K-Kakashi" her voice was barely higher then a whisper.

He smiled unworldly to himself as her eyes faded from the gold to the ice blue he had come to know, her fear was clear to him now, and he knew why the last time she had seen his eye, it was not a pretty sight when they ran into an A rank ninja who's name happened to be in the bingo book. The sharigan started to spin slowly, Okami found her legs go weak as they collapsed from under her but he did not let her fall. With the sleeping ninja in his arms he turned back to the rest of his team, the old man and Sprinter had been tied up.

With a nod from their sensei they headed back to the village.

Okami's eyes fluttered open, she was laying on the couch back in Kakashi's apartment her head was still spinning. She turned her head to look up at the ceiling.

"Yo."

Okami looked down her body at the brown pug sitting on her legs

"Pakkun" she smiled weakly at him

"How are you feeling?"

"I'll live" she said hesitantly as she pulled her self to sit upright. Her head was still spinning like she was in a whirlpool, "Where's Kakashi-sensei?"

"He is at the Hokage office" the pug replied as he jumped off her lap.

Before another word could be said between the two the door clicked and opened, the silver haired sensei walked in closing the door behind him and leaning up against it, his dark eye fixed on Okami.

"See ya." The pug disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

This must be bad, she had never known Pakkun to disappear like that, he would normally stay around to see what's going on. Kakashi walked over to her and kneeled down in front of her, taking her hands in his a smile broke on his face.

"The two from today are being interrogated as we talk, we are going to find out what they did to you and help you."

She had moved before she realised it putting her arms around him and holding him tightly in a hug, he could not help but giggle to himself as he returned her hug, this was a bit out of character for her but he could guess why.

"Tomorrow we will go and see them, ok?"

He felt her nod she still had her hold on him, but Kakashi did not mind, he was enjoying it though you would of never got him to admit it. Okami was still a mystery to him and one that was only deepening.

It was a cold and damp morning in Konoha as Okami and Kakashi made their way to where two shadows from the wolf haired ninjas past was being held. Following her sensei's lead she pushed back the whirl of emotions threatening to drown her.

"We have been interrogating the two with mixed results," the ninja dressed in white informed them "we barely had to touch the younger man before he told us all he knew, but not a lot of it was helpful."

"The older man," he continued, "is far more resistant, but it's only a matter of time." He went through some papers he had in his hands. "I'm afraid you only have time to talk to one or the other, who will it be?"

"Take me to that old bastard!"

With a nod from the white ninja he lead them to one of the interrogation rooms, the sight inside brought an uneasy feeling of joy to Okami's melting heart, there he was, the man who had twisted her body and tried to command her very soul, clearly feeling his own mortality. He was chained to a chair in the middle of the room, two ANBU stood behind him, she knew she was free to say and ask anything she wanted, but she could not physically harm him.

"My my, isn't this a heart warming sight?" She said in a wicked manner.

"Okami!" the man scowled at her. "Kill them and set me free, I will over look this."

She could not help but laugh out loud. "Who are you to make demands here!"

"You know as well as I do, you are not even human anymore! There is no way that you can happily live with these people!"

"Oh but I was, and I will be again, you see they don't limit humanity down to the body you are put in, but let us cut out this useless chatter shall we?"

The old man remanded quite and gritted his teeth.

"You labeled me as a failed experiment, cast me aside and sent me out to die."

The man scowled. "But you did not die, you went and did what you will."

"Yes," she snarled, "we executed OUR will instead of listening to written word, commanders, generals or want-to-be gods all singing the same tiresome refrain!" She waved her arm in a jester indicating him to look around, "and now here you are at odds with the world around you, and paying for your crimes."

Relishing how fast her heart was beating, how hard it was becoming to keep control, she turned and headed towards the door.

"I will not become what you want me to be." They where the last words to him as she left the room.

She found calming herself was easer when she heard the door close behind her. Concentrating on her breathing her heart started to slow down to it's normal rhythm. Kakashi lead her outside, she had not realised how suffocated she had felt util the fresh breeze awakened her to it. She could hear the hustle and bustle of the town in full swing, it drowned out the sound of her own heart pounding in her head. She tightened her headband to the point that the metal plate of the front was digging into her skin but its presence there was reassuring as was the jounin ninja standing next to her.

"You did well in there" he said not looking up from the book he was reading.

"Thank you, sensei" her voice was a low tone which told him that...

"Something is wrong" he said no longer reading the book.

"Kakashi-sensei?"

He shook his head, closing the book he turned to her, "Okami, I am your sensei, you know you can come and talk to me about anything." He smiled.

She nodded and returned his smile "I wonder if Nightshade would have been like him if things had been different" her thoughts drifting back to her old leader. "Thank you Kakashi, I would not have been able to come this far if it was not for you."

With a sheepish smile he put his hand up. "Nay Okami, I only showed you the path, it was up to you to walk it."

With out another word the two wandered off into the town, the day had started off cold and damp but it was slowly started to warm, and so too was Okami's mood, walking along the roads of Konoha she found her eyes once again fixed on her sensei, and herself wishing that she had feeling in her hands. She frowned at herself, what the hell was going on with her? She had enough to worry about with those two coming back, and now this.

"you can talk to me about anything" Kakashi's words echoed in her mind, she did not know why but there was something more to those words. No, he said it out of obligation from being her sensei, the ninja charged with keeping an eye on her, right? Okami had never been so unsure out of anything in here life till this point.

Today was a day of rest, with no missions or group training planned, but Okami found herself wound up unable to relax or even stay still for long periods of time. She had tried to slip away from Kakashi knowing that she needed some time to sort her thoughts out but it was in vain. He would not let her go off on her own even after a year had passed it was still like this. She had been welcomed into Konoha but at first only a handful would talk to her. It changed when she became a ninja, but she could understand why they where keeping an eye on her, especially at a time like this, but one feeling clawed at the back of her mind like a ravenous beast driving to escape.

"It's just his orders to do so, nothing more" she said trying to convince herself.

"Hmmm?"

"Oh, it's nothing, just trying to think some things through" she said sheepishly to Kakashi, who was sitting next to her on top of the roof they had some to rest on.

But she knew there was something, she knew it from just two days ago when her past tried to throw its shadow over her, she has an alter ego, an inner beast, digging hungrily at the back of her mind making its presence know to her. It had awakened with a primal scream trigged by the threat of death to her friends, her new family, this wolf's new pack, she had to tell him, but how? She had no idea what would happen, but she knew it was not going to go away and just prolonging it would make it worse.

"K-Kakashi-sensei" she found it hard forcing herself to talk.

"Hmm?"

"I-if lets say, someone had like, another person inside there mind, not like possession or anything in that manner, what would happen if someone wanted to help that person?" She tried to keep it hypothetical.

Kakashi dropped his chin into his hand taping his fingers on his cheek. "Hmmmm, well that normally happens when something has been suppressed for a long time in the person's mind. It manifests itself into another mind separate from the person's own." He stopped, drifting off into thought, Okami hoped that she had not made it sound like the person in question was her.

"Are you saying that you…"

"M-m-me? N-no I'm" she stopped and looked away from him, why was it so damn hard to her to lie to him?

"Okami," she turned back to him, he was so close to her now, close enough that she really had no choice but to look him in that dark eye, "tell me, do you have another mind dwelling in yours?"

She could feel his breath on her face as he asked her, her voice had long abandoned her. She found it hard that someone who took down a demon, was frozen in fear by this man. Once again, her only reply was a slow nod.

Kakashi sighed and turned his head away from her, so she could only see the covered side of his face.

"I'm sorry sensei" it was barely a whisper, he would not of heard it if they where not sitting so close now.

"Nay, Okami, you have nothing to be sorry for, it's that bastard that did this to you who should be screaming those words!" He had an angry tone in his voice that she had never heard before.

"Lets go somewhere a bit more privet that we can talk" he said standing up and pulling Okami to her feet.

Taking her by the wrist, he pulled her along from roof top to roof top, stopping when they came to the balcony of his apartment, with his free hand he slid open the door, she followed him in. He still had a hold on her wrist, but he was not pulling her along. She remained calm even when he pulled her past the couch into his room. He closed the door behind them before sitting on the bed, pulling Okami down to sit next to him. The silence in the small room was heavy.

"What's going to happen to me?" She finally worded the question gnawing her with the sharpest fangs.

"Nothing." he answered with the kindest voice he could muster.

She looked back at him, he was laying on his side probed up on his elbow his legs hanging carelessly over the side of the bed. They way he lounged there made him look like a cat, his visible eye fixed on her.

"All my life I have been carrying out orders, I have always known what was going on and what I needed to do and how to go about doing it," she sighed letting herself fall back onto the bed "now I just don't know."

Her wolf blood was fully awakened now, she did not understand why it had to be now, or even at all but in the end it did not matter, it was here and as much a part of her as the metal arms, she closed her eyes tight and gritted her teeth, why damn it why? Just when things where going so well, feelings started inside her, not all solely her own, her eyes opened in a flash, but it was not her who was looking out of them.

"Okami?"

"I'm sorry Okami, is not here right now," the voice was hers but the tone was odd, "but ill be happy to give her a message for you."

The golden wolven eyes looked at Kakashi, he never sensed the shift from Okami to this new mind. Slowly he sat up and raised a hand to his headband, ready if she made any sudden movements, but she remained still, quiet, only watching his movements. He hesitated a bit before revealing his sharingan, but he wanted to know the truth about what was happing to his student. Slowly opening the eye Okami as he knew her was no longer sitting on his bed, in her place was a large silver-grey and white wolf.

"Who, no, what are you?"

"I am Okami, a part of Okami even she did not know was around," the wolf ran its tong over her large fangs, "but to make things easer for you, you can call me Chu."

"Tell me then Chu, what made you manifest like this?"

"Suppression, some of it self inflicted, some of it inflected upon Okami."

"Suppression of what?" he raised an eyebrow.

The wolf let out a growling giggle. "Everything, the wolf blood in her, her chakra, even her emotions, the only way to get rid of me is for her to accept and understand it all."

Kakashi's eyes narrowed on the wolf, was this really Okami? This wolf was not from any type of jutsu, even more it was telling him how to get rid of it, something was not right.

The silver wolf seemed to shrug at him. "Think what you want, I live as long as Okami lives, separated as we are, it weakens us both."

He frowned. "You can use the jutsu that Okami knows?"

The wolf nodded. "Our minds are not totally separated we are learning from one another though she is not always accepting of me."

Kakashi sat there and said nothing. Why was this wolf giving so much information that Okami said she had no clue about? Was it that the key to it was suppressed along with everything else? He did not even know that he could trust a word it said. He could always hand her over to the ANBU but he knew what would happen then, two minds made their hypnosis jutsu risky for her. If Okami went under and Chu took control and attacked them she could be killed. He closed his eye and recovered it, not wanting to look at the silver furred animal in front of him anymore.

"Kakashi-sensei" the now human Okami sat in front on him her ice blue eyes looked at him.

"Okami?" he was not sure if this was the real Okami or a trick by Chu to lure him into striking range.

The young woman had her normal eyes of ice. It seems the presence of Chu made her eyes wolf like but he could not stay back when it was clear Okami was in pain. To Okami it felt like her chakra was trying to set her body alight, it subsided when she felt the arms of her sensei wrap around her shoulders. She realised that she had let Chu take over her body and in return for her small hint of acceptant it seems the silver wolf had given her a small gift.

Kakashi felt her go limp as she slipped into a deep slumber, her chakra had burnt its self out, he laid her down on the bed, a small glimmer of sadness on his dark eye. There was no way around this he had to report to The Third about what had just happened, he wondered whether to summon any nindogs to keep an eye on her if she was to awaken, but he decided against it, he knew Okami would not run, but Chu? If she was anything like Okami she would know better then to run as well.

The Third listened to Kakashi's report carefully thinking over each possible solution thoroughly. He had to protect Konoha at all costs but he wanted to do right by Okami. Even though she had been here for such a short time, she was quickly becoming a valued member of the village, she was a ninja genius.

"What do you think Kakashi?" he said at length.

"I don't think that she is a threat to the village, I sensed no murderous intent from Chu when she showed herself."

The old Hokage closed his eyes in thought before speaking. "Very well then, I will make arrangements for her to train with the Inuzuka clan."