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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did a few things would have changed. But I do own my OC and the plot.


20 year old Hyuuga Umiko, mostly called Umi was on her way home from the Hokages office after a mission. She and her genin team, consisting of Razec, Saki and Touya had a simple escorting mission to the river country, they accompanied a merchant to his home and only met two bandit gangs along the way.

Since Raiga was killed the people in Katabami Kinzan had an easier life, trading had become more and more frequent, but many merchants was still afraid of bandits so they requested ninja guards.

Umi thought over her team as she walked along the streets heading towards the Hyuuga compound, she didn't have to concentrate on where she was going, her body would find it even if she was blind.

Her team was very balanced, Razec was an outgoing and kind person who was smarter than he appeared to be. He was a close ranged fighter who preferred taijutsu and only used ninjutsu as a last resort. He was a bit hot headed sometimes but could calm down if the situation demanded it, he would make a good chuunin if he learned to handle every situation more calmly.

Saki was the only girl on the team, she was outgoing and smart and was kind to everyone. She was a taijutsu and a genjutsu user and her ability to trace chakra was very useful. Saki wasn't the type of girl who swooned over the most skilled and popular guy, but Umi had noticed that she liked to spend time with Touya when they had free time, though they was each others opposites. She like Razec would make a good chuunin if she learned how to judge difficult situations better.

Touya was a very kind and a skilled ninjutsu user and he also had a talent for healing techniques, he was more shy and calmer than his teammates. He always studied hard and trained his chakra control to be able to master medical jutsus. Touya would handle the chuunin exam easily, he always thought about his comrades and the mission equally and could make the decision when it was necessary to give up and when it was better to continue.

As Umi went through her team in her head she realized how much Razec reminded her of Naruto, Konoha's number one knuckleheaded ninja, though Naruto had been even more hyper than Razec and also more childish. But of course seeing as he along with Konohamaru spent much time with the ramen loving ninja it wasn't that strange after all.

"Oi Umi-nee chan, matte-teebayo!" A load voice called out behind her. "When you speak of the devil." Umi thought as she turned around smiling towards the blonde ninja who was running at her.

"Hi Naruto. Did you come back today?" Umi asked, Naruto had really grown, he was as tall as her now. "Hai. It's been awhile Umi-nee chan." He said with a big grin like usual though without his typical annoying behaviour he had even changed his orange and blue jump suit to a black and orange instead, not a big change but it was better than blue.

But it was almost sad, the keyword being almost, that he had matured under these two years. When Umi first met Naruto she thought he was a very hyper and semi annoying child, but after getting to know him she began to love and treat him as a little brother.

"Have you met Sakura or Konohamaru yet?" "No. I was looking for them when I saw you, dattebayo." "Razec asked for you today too. I think he wants' to brag about finally becoming a genin. You know even though my team used to hang out with you I must say that Razec is almost a copy of you." Umi said smiling.

"I better find them then. I have a new jutsu to teach them, dattebayo. See you nee-chan!" Naruto said, he was already on his way when he finished his sentence. Umi smiled to herself as she continued on her way home, wondering if that jutsu was another perverted technique. Considering he had spent two years with Jiraya, a sannin and the biggest perv in the fire country, it probably was.

Next morning Umi dressed in her civil clothes, a simple sleeveless black shirt which showed her ANBU tattoo, and a pair of dark blue knee length pants and pulled her waist long black hair up in a high ponytail. She put her leaf headband and a kunai in her pocket before sliding open the shoji and walked out of her room and headed towards the kitchen.

The Hyuuga compound was built in traditional style so Umi walked past the training ground on her way to the kitchen. Her younger brother Neji and their uncle Hiashi was training while Hanabi, her youngest cousin was watching them.

At the chuunin exam two years ago Umi and Neji was told the truth about their father's death, that he didn't get killed to protect the main family, but that he took his brothers place freely. Hizashi wanted to have the freedom of choosing something of his own free will, not being bound by the Hyuuga curse.

After that both Umi and Neji got along much better with the main family, Hiashi had even started to train them, despite them being branch members. But Umi trained less with her uncle than Neji did, instead she studied medical jutsus and the Godaime Tsunade trained her sometimes too since Umi had a natural sense for chakra control due to her fighting style, in which she needed to be capable to manipulate chakra.

When she reached the kitchen Umi filled a bowl with cereals and poured on some milk before sitting down at the low table in the dining room. Hinata was on a mission with her team this weak so Umi had to eat her breakfast alone. She quickly finished and washed her bowl and spoon in the sink and put them back in the cabinet.

Outside the compound Umi walked towards Konoha's gates and walked through the big forest towards a clearing she had found that contained many medical herbs. She had spotted it on a mission earlier and now was the first time she had enough free time to go there and collect some of the them.

The clearing was pretty big with knee high grass mixed with all sorts of herbs and flowers of all colours and shapes. A small stream ran through one corner of the field, it was connected with a small lake a few yards away. Umi drew her kunai and walked over to the nearest herbs and started to collect those she needed.

After an hour Umi heard voices and felt a vague presence nearby. She rose up and put the herbs she had in her hand in her bag around her waist and spun the kunai a few times before holding it ready to attack as she compressed her chakra and activated her Byakugan and searched the area.

Two people walked along a path, wearing black cloaks with a pattern of red clouds outlined with white. Umi recognized them as Akatsuki members, they were after the nine bijuus, tailed beasts, and the people who had them sealed inside their bodies, called Jinchuuriki. Naruto had the kyuubi inside him and naturally so was Akatsuki after him too.

Umi had no weapons except her one kunai and her chakra despite that she decided to follow them, she had her byakugan a perfect tool for long distance spying and if she could find out what they planned that would be great help to catch them. Who could have predicted that to be a decision that would change her life forever?

For about ten minutes Umi carefully followed the Akatsuki members so far behind them that she needed byakugan to see them. Under that time they didn't say one word. Suddenly they stopped and the tallest turned around, and Umi could feel the enormous amount of chakra he had.

Even though she knew he stopped concealing his chakra on purpose she took a step backwards and stepped on a dry twig, she tensed as it snapped. For seconds there was silence, not one movement even the wind stopped blowing. Then one of the persons before her disappeared with a puff of smoke, a kage bunshin.

Umi was barely able to dodge the giant sword coming at her. "How fortunate. We didn't even have to search." A strange blue skinned man said as he pulled his sword from the ground, where it had made a big hole. "What do you mean?" Umi asked keeping her distance, she knew this man from the bingo book, Hoshigake Kisame from the mist village.

"Give up and you'll find out." Umi had no desire to engage in close combat with that chakra sucking sword so she let her kage bunshin fight fish boy, she had created it earlier when the sword hit the ground creating a dust cloud.

Umi reached a small lake, panting she stopped at the shore catching her breath she reached into her pocket and picked up her headband and tied it around her forehead. "It seems that I managed to get away from that shark guy at least. I wonder where the other one went." Umi said quietly to herself rising up letting her pearl white eyes scan the surroundings. She could see the high walls that surrounded Konoha but now that Akatsuki were after her she had a very small chance to call for backup.

When she felt a vaguely familiar chakra behind her Umi quickly whipped around ready to face him, she cursed herself for not turning around more frequently so he wouldn't have approached in her blind spot.

Umi hadn't seen her old friend in seven years but she could still recognize him. "Uchiha Itachi." She said in a low tone, almost a growl, her eyes narrowing, though she avoided eye contact not wanting to get caught in a genjutsu. "What the hell do you want? What is your purpose for treading so close to Konoha?" She asked, she was a jounin but she had once been in the ANBU, though she went back to be a jounin pretty quick since that fitted her better.

Though her courage faltered quite a bit when knew she was up against the Uchiha genius. Umi knew she wouldn't be able to win against Itachi, even if she had help she doubted he would have any problems. "And to make it even worse he isn't alone." She thought bitterly as the blue skinned man appeared beside Itachi.

They just had to appear on the one day she didn't have her weapons with her she sighed inwardly, she only had a kunai that she used to cut the herbs she collected. Of course she could use Jyuuken but against two highly skilled criminals, one who could suck her chakra away and one who used genjutsu that wouldn't be of much use.

"Akatsuki needs a medic." Itachi said coolly. "So will you come freely or do we have to use force?" The very tall figure beside the Uchiha asked. Umi's answer to this was to sink down into the fighting position used by the Hyuugas, glaring at them, were they stupid, she would never abandon her village freely.

"I'll take care of her Itachi-san. After all she's only a little girl." Ok that pissed her off, what a sexist, not that Umi was an overly crazy feminist but she didn't like to be underestimated just because she was a girl.

Fast as lightning, metaphorically speaking, she ran at him, easily ducking under his outstretched hand and grabbing his arm and pressed two fingers into his shoulder, before quickly jumping away, successfully cutting of the chakra flow, leaving his right arm without chakra.

"Don't underestimate me just because I'm a girl. Your big chakra reserves won't do you any good if you can't use them." She snapped angrily, pulling her right arm to her waist, lifting the left, both palms forward against fish boy, and lowered herself a bit as she focused chakra into her hands. The famous open fisted taijutsu style of the Hyuugas, Jyuuken.

Unfortunately Umi was a close range fighter and if she got to close to Kisame's big sword then it would either shave her skin of or suck her chakra away. But she couldn't afford to be too careful either since she had Itachi behind her, though he didn't seem like he wanted to step in to the fight right now.

Under the following fifteen minutes Umi battled hard to get close enough to hit Kisame but at the same time avoid his sword. She managed to hit the chakra points in his left arm too so he was now unable to use ninjutsu. But her enemy had a great stamina too and she could feel herself getting weaker, her chakra was running low, she had avoided being hit by the sword but her chakra got drained by only being near it.

She tiredly prepared another Hakke Rokujuuyonshou (Eight Divination Signs, Sixty-Four Palms of the Hand), Umi cast forward, though a bit slower than in the beginning, since Jyuuken not only drained chakra but her physical strength too.

But now her bad luck decided to kick in. After Umi finished her attack, Kisame slashed his sword down at her, she managed to sidestep and avoid getting hit but it sucked away the rest of her chakra. Exhausted and out of chakra Umi's byakugan disappeared and she fell to the ground unconscious.

The young Hyuuga was awoken by the sounds of an open fire, Umi slowly opened her eyes and glanced around. A tree-trunk were placed on in front of a camp fire, she lay on the ground a few feet away from the fire while Itachi sat on the tree trunk and fish boy was no where to be seen.

She had a very standard plan formulated almost as soon as she woke up, the easy part: find a good opportunity and then run for your life, the hard part: Don't get caught. "Don't even try to run." Itachi said without even looking at her before Umi could put her very simple plan in action.

"So, why did you want just me to join? I'm not the strongest in Konoha." Umi asked after sitting quiet for awhile, sulking over her bad luck. "Because you are a medic-nin and a Hyuuga." He answered coolly, looking into the fire, its light reflected his red eyes making it look like there was a fire in his eyes too.

"But there are stronger persons in my clan than me. Neji is stronger than me and so is Hiashi and Hinata is also a good medic. Not that I wanted them to be kidnapped instead, well maybe uncle Hiashi, but anyway. Why me?" Umi kept asking, she knew the young Uchiha wasn't very talkative, in case he hadn't changed since before he left but she doubted that, anyway she wanted something to do, and the only thing she could do was talk, maybe succeeding in annoying him a bit.

"Because you were the first one we could capture without fighting the whole village, besides it was you who followed us." This time his tone was sharper indicating that chat-time was over, and that he was getting irritated. "So it's not because you remembered your old friend and decided to make her life a living hell?" Umi asked innocently, a smirk creasing her lips. "No." He replied icily, glaring at her, sharingan still activated.

Right then fish boy arrived and sat down on the tree trunk beside Itachi. "There is no one nearby and the traps are all done, Itachi-san." Kisame said. "Hn." Umi decided upon hearing about the traps that there was nothing she could do right now so she lay back down on the ground and fell asleep.


This was a bit short too, not one of my chapters are any longer than 3400 words, I really need to work on that.