Hello guys =D I am quite excited that this story already has 2 followers. I will try my best to not cliché Lillian and ruin the story. Also I forgot to mention that - I sadly don't own Naruto, if I did I would have altered the storyline just a tad ^^; Make sure to skim the authors note on the bottom for why Kakashi is a bit weird in my story.


Responds to reviews:

Lavendor Queen: Thanks for the suggestion, I adjusted the story and spaced it apart as best as I could. I hope that helps =] Once again sorry about the headache D;


From last time:

A flashback of how Naruto met Lillian, her giving him the crystal, and her leaving for what seemed like forever to Naruto. He went on a mission to find a statue for this guy and it turned out to be Lillian. His team decided to leave it up to him to decide since he already knew Lillian. When he woke up the next day Lillian had prepared him a breakfast and tagged along with him to go meet up with his teammates. Before they got to the bridge though, she asked Naruto to keep quiet about her being there.


As Naruto turned the corner to start walking up the bridge, Sakura huffed out annoyed, "You better not start turning into Kakashi-sensei Naruto." Offended Naruto responded "What!? No way I'm going to do that! Believe it! Besides I had a really good reason I was late."

"Really? What was this 'really good' reason then?" Sakura shot back. Naruto opened his mouth ready mention that he was bonding with Lilly-chan but remembered his promise. "Well you see I was – uh… I was…" Naruto's voice started to quiet down, his mind trying to think of an excuse. "You were what?" Sakura's impatient voice started him, "You see I was… cleaning! Yeah I was cleaning and lost track of time… He he" Naruto sweat dropped as Sakura frowned.

It appears he made a mistake to shout his response earlier then to lie to his crush, a bruise forming at the spot she punched. Deciding to drop what had happened, Sakura brought up yesterday's event.

"What happened with Lillian-san Naruto?"

Naruto found himself struggling with a good lie to present, Sakura's frown deepened with his reply.

"Uh… She disappeared?" Naruto weakly replied, it was painfully obvious he was lying.

Sakura's eyes narrowed as she pointed an accusing finger at Naruto "You're lying Naruto!" Naruto tried to explain himself but her piercing stare made him crumble. Sasuke didn't seem to pay attention to them; he was focusing on something behind Sakura. Naruto noticed this and questioned Sasuke, ready to turn Sakura's attention elsewhere. "Teme what are you looking at?"

Before Sasuke could reply, Sakura suddenly jumped to the side, a squeal leaving her mouth. All three looked at where Sakura was before, and there floating was a giggling Lillian. Naruto grinned and joined Lillian in laughing; now realizing what she wanted to do. Sasuke shook his head and went back to being his usual cool self. Sakura flushed slightly before crossing her arms, an embarrassed huff escaping from her.

Lillian decided to finally speak up, "Sorry Sakura-san, I just wanted to play a friendly joke. I hope that you will forgive me for scaring you." Sakura tried to stay a little mad but found it hard to.

"It's alright Lillian-san, just don't do that again please?" Nodding her head Lillian responded

"I'll scare Sasuke-san next time."

Sakura didn't want Lillian to scare her crush but she doubted that Sasuke would get scared; after all he is the Sasuke Uchiha, not a nobody like Naruto. Sasuke narrowed his eyes at Lillian in a challenging way, "Go ahead and try." Naruto rooted for Lillian to show that teme that he was not all that great; Lillian however just smiled at Sasuke.


A long time later Kakashi finally appeared, the smoke floating around for a moment before disappearing. He opened his mouth to give an unusual excuse as always but was immediately cut off when Naruto and Sakura pointed and yelled that he was late. Sweat dropping, Kakashi took their verbal attack and then noticed Lillian.

His eyes curved to show that he was smiling, and greeted her "Maa, it seems we have a guest. Hello Lillian-san."

Lillian nodded her head back and returned the favor, "Hello Kakashi-san, I hope it is fine if I tag along for a bit? I haven't seen Naruto in quite some time; I feel that I should at least know who he has been with during my absence." Scratching his head, Kakashi agreed and then the team went to go get a mission.

To Naruto's horror, they had to paint another fence. Naruto grumbled about how this was so stupid, his teammates agreed with him. Lillian commented that each mission is still a mission and should be taken seriously. Kakashi seemed happy in a way that someone else that his student looked up to said the same advice. Naruto muttered under his breath that she wouldn't feel the same way if she was in his position.

Half way through the mission, Sakura asked Lillian a question that changed how they viewed Lillian.

"Lillian-san, I hope you don't mind me asking but how come you have green skin? Aren't fairies supposed to look like miniature humans?" Lillian chucked at the question, used to mix-up.

"I don't mind Sakura-san. The reason why I have green skin is because I am a Fairue not a fairy." Barging into the conversation, Naruto asked "What's so different between a fairy and a… Fairue?" The word felt odd on his tongue. Kakashi and Sasuke casually listened in, curious about this species they were not familiar with.

"A fairy is a miniature creature that is known to play tricks on other critters. They have magical powers and are sought for it. I personally believe that fairies do not exist and are a fantasy pass time humans have created. Fairue however are small creatures that have a specific purpose in nature. I for example am a Floral Fairue meaning that I specialize with smaller plants. My job is to make sure that plants grow normally and healthily. I can also help humans by increasing the effect of medicinal herbs or I can grow literal plants. Another thing that is different is that we Fairue have limited powers. We may use our powers as often as we want, but if we continue to use them without rest, we will pass away. Basically it's like chakra exhaustion." Lillian informed, using bare minimum to help Naruto understand.

"Wow that's cool! Can you show us something now?" Naruto asked excitedly, bouncing in his spot slightly.

"I suppose that it is fine; however you must get back to work after I am done, alright Naruto?" Naruto's face fell slightly before continuing his eagerness. The rest of team 7 stopped working as well, curious what Lillian would do to show them her power.

Lillian extended her hands out, curling them before lifting her arms up. The ground in front of her started to crack, a small sprout peeking out to greet the world. Spreading her arms sideways in a downward motion, the sprout suddenly shot up and turned into a fully grown plant, flowers in bloom and everything.

Since Naruto wanted to see it up close, he jumped back startled with it shot from the ground, bumping into Sakura. Sakura being the violent woman she was, smacked Naruto for being clumsy and joined her teammates to stare at this flowering plant that now was on the side of the road.

Kakashi clapped to get his team out of their daze, an eye smile present. "Now as promised, time to work team." Naruto started to complain about how she should show them more, and about how this mission still sucked.

Kakashi looked at the plant and back at Lillian, silently asking about what she was going to do to the plant.

"Don't worry Kakashi-san I will remove it." Reaching forward to touch the plant's stem, Lillian took a deep breath and the plant simply 'poofed' into golden dust, the ground looking as if it was never touched. The dust swirled around her extend arm before merging with her skin, a sign that she was done.

Kakashi was curious about this strange woman named Lillian; she obviously did not mention everything in her explanation. Strange indeed.


Chipping in occasionally on spot the kids would miss, Lillian waited patiently until the mission was complete. Once the team finished the mission, Kakashi suggested that his students should spar to relieve their stress.

Heading to their assigned training field, Lillian made sure to observe her surroundings so she could easily visit Naruto if he was training.

As usual Naruto challenged Sasuke while Sakura was Sasuke's personal cheerleader. Lillian encouraged both to try their best, but secretly hoped Naruto would win. The fight started with Sasuke taking a fighting stance, a kunai in his hand. Naruto placed his hands into position to do his well-known move and shouted out "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Four other Naruto's popped into existence, pulling out kunai as a weapon. Sasuke smirked, curling his hand in a taunting manner at Naruto. Naruto fell for the taunt and charged forward, letting his battle cry out.

Sakura cheered loudly for Sasuke, her words hurting Naruto slightly. "Come on Sasuke you got this!"

Sasuke ignored Sakura and raced forward to meet Naruto in battle, using Taijustu efficiently to get rid of his clones. Returning to their stances again, Naruto made more clones and tried for a second attempt. Sasuke decided that this time he would use a jutsu to counter, "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" The huge ball of fire incinerated the clones, Naruto managed to dodge at the last second, panting slightly.

The fight continued with this pattern until Sasuke vanished from the clearing. Naruto looked rapidly around the clearing to find Sasuke when he then felt something cold pressed to his neck. Kakashi finally cut in and declared Sasuke the winner, Sasuke removing the kunai and placing it back in his pouch. Naruto growled "Let's go again teme! I'll get you this time, believe it!" Sasuke 'hn'ed, a smirk on his face.

"Just get over it Naruto, Sasuke-kun is so much stronger than you" Sakura commented, hearts in her eyes as she stared the Uchiha. Naruto felt saddened that his crush still bashed him so much, but vowed to prove her wrong one day. Remembering that her promised Lillian he would beat up the bastard, he looked to where she was standing to apologize, well at least where she used to be standing.

She was gone.

Confused Naruto looked at Kakashi who happened to be smiling about something. Naruto narrowed his eyes suspiciously and looked back at his teammates, trying to figure out if Lillian was hiding near one of them, or if she was going to do something weird. He saw the bright red hair of Lillian behind Sasuke and tried to pretend that he didn't see her, Sasuke noticed Naruto's weird reaction and verbally jabbed Naruto. Naruto once again fell for the taunt and the two started bickering.

Once Sasuke was absorbed into the argument, Lillian flew a little closer and chose then to keep her promise. She whispered "Hello" into Sasuke's ear, making sure to use a weird pitchy voice to throw him off. Since Sasuke did not expect this, he quickly jumped near his teammates, in a fighting stance ready to beat up whomever it was that whispered creepily in his ear.

Instead he saw Lillian there, waving at him as if she didn't do anything. He scowled at her, annoyed that she was able to scare him when he least expected it. Naruto was full blown laughing, Kakashi was chuckling, and Sakura just looked surprised. "I hope you will keep in mind not to doubt me again Sasuke-san." Lillian spoke, her smile and tone teasing him to no end. Sasuke continued to scowl, his temper flaring.

"Why don't we fight then?" Sasuke called out, ready to gain his pride back.

"Maa Sasuke, that isn't-" Kakashi tried to calm down his student but was interrupted by Lillian

"Are you sure you want to do that?" The smile was dropped and replaced with a look of confidence.

Instead of replying to her, Sasuke threw a kunai at Lillian. Lillian allowed the kunai to hit her small body, the kunai simply passing through her to land in the ground some spots behind. Her body 'exploded' into a large cloud of yellow dust, a full sized Lillian forming from the dust.

She smirked at Sasuke, daring him to try that again.

Growling Sasuke threw a handful of kunai and shuriken at Lillian only for it to hit a huge plant that suddenly appeared. The ground rumbled below Sasuke's feet, a huge vine like plant sprouting and chasing Sasuke as he hopped around to avoid the attacks. Quickly doing the hand signs, Sasuke used a grand fireball to get rid of the vines that were approaching him. As he was doing all of this, he lost track of where Lillian was and was startled when he could not move anymore.

It turns out that Lillian lead Sasuke to a trap where the vines would corner him to another set of vines, those which held Sasuke in place. Lillian morphed out of the huge plant, her arm covered in a plant like matter that was shaped like a blade. She held the arm towards Sasuke and spoke the words that crushed his pride even further.

"I won Sasuke-san."

Giving her a glare, Sasuke waited patiently until she released him from the vines. Naruto cheered loudly for Lillian, saying that she showed that bastard his place. Sakura was shocked that her precious Sasuke-kun lost so quickly to someone that wasn't even a ninja. Kakashi was impressed with the technique she used, she didn't even move her arms to initiate it and yet it was everywhere so quickly, moving as if it had its own mind.

"Lilly-chan can you teach me that?" Naruto begged, ready to use it to embarrass his rival. Lillian shook her head, "Sorry Naruto, only a Floral Fairue can do this. I can't guarantee that there isn't a jutsu like it though, look around."

'What else is she hiding?' Kakashi thought as he watched her return the large vine plants to either the ground or the yellow dust again.


Translations:

Kage Bushin no Justu – Shadow clone technique

Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu – Fire release: Grand fireball technique

This is a little bit shorter to sort of get on with the story. I'll probably put in a few minor details for the fight scene but overall the idea should come across.

I'm having a hard time to get Kakashi's personality now ;o; I know how he acts and all but I'm not sure about his verbal responses, so ahead of time I apologize if he gets out of character.

I promise not to overpower Lillian too much, but since they are still genin and not their OP selves from shippuden it might seem like she's way too strong.

I might have a delay with updates since I still have school but I hope to at least put a chapter out each week =]

Please make sure to leave any tips or suggestions for the story =] Thanks for taking your time to read =D