A/N: Wow. So I didn't think the second chapter was going to get a whole 19 reviews. Thank you so much. I had meant to post two chapters this week, but since I am in University (the bane of my existence) I have a lot of projects to finish so I couldn't. Instead I tried to write this chapter to be a little longer for you guys. Thank you for all the support and enjoy.

Chapter Three: The Most Annoying Mission

This is going to be one long night.

Sarutobi Hiruzen took a long drag from his pipe, letting the smoke fill up inside him before blowing out in a long sigh.

Before him stood one of the few people in Konohagakure that constantly caused him trouble and destruction… And she was half his size and only eight years old.

"Kagome-chan…" Sarutobi sighed and stared at her. Kagome had her arms crossed across her chest, staring back at him. Her blue eyes looked at him blankly, which Sarutobi knew by now was her look of defiance.

"This time it was an accident." Kagome said and looked away from his eyes, staring towards the floor boards.

Sarutobi groaned mentally to himself and took another puff of his pip before responding. "Are you saying the other times weren't?"

Kagome didn't answer, just shrugging nonchalantly, eyes still trained on the floor.

What was he supposed to do with this girl!?

Kagome had took it upon herself to go and save another boy around her age, one Sarutobi knew very well; Naruto Uzumaki. While Sarutobi did understand that what she had done was meant to do more good than bad, she had walked away from the fight having caused two men with broken bones, and the other with third degree burns and left comatose. Not to mention the fact that the whole neighbourhood had woken up after the blast and were sent into a frenzy, thinking someone was attacking. It was causing him endless amounts of trouble.

This wasn't the first time an incident like this had happen. Back when Kagome had first become a Genin, graduating from the academy at the age of six, she had gotten herself in a fight. A few older boys who had graduated at the same time as her had thought less of her for being so young, and had carelessly picked on her and teased her, asking her where her parents were and why she was all alone. Parents were a rather… sensitive topic for Kagome. Needless to say that had been her first outburst, leaving the two boys with deep cuts on a third of their body. They would have bled out if someone hadn't found them soon after.

That was when Sarutobi had found his interest in the girl and her unique abilities.

After a long pregnant pause, Kagome broke the silence.

"He antagonized me." She said. That was Kagome speak for 'He asked for it'.

"That is no excuse." Sarutobi retorted and tapped his fingers on the desk, thinking.

"What are you going to do?" Kagome asked, looking up at him finally. "Send me back to Anko and Ibiki?"

After Kagome had first shown her powers, Sarutobi had been intrigued. He had never seen something like that happen in all of his years as a ninja, and thus he wanted to learn more. He had brought Kagome in and told her that he would allow her to move out of the orphanage, live on her own and he would set her up with enough money to study well and take care of herself… As long as she agreed to do some tests. Of course she agreed.

Kagome was young and hadn't known what she had been getting into.

A week later she had moved into her new apartment, and Sarutobi had come to pick her up. He took her to the Konohagakure Torture and Interrogation Force. No, he wasn't going to torture her of course, but the Force had far better analyzing equipment then any other institution. Ibiki Morino and his protege (more like annoying tag-along) of the time, Anko Mitarashi, had taken in her case.

They analyzed everything from her blood, to skin tissue, hair samples and saliva samples. Everything came out perfectly normal; Kagome was your average, healthy human being. It wasn't until they had one of the Force's Hyuuga analyzers look over her with their Byakugan that they realized how special Kagome was.

What Kagome had was a very special and unique Kekei Genkai.

"This is incredible!" The Hyuuga man had gasped as he looked down at Kagome's body with his activated Byakugan.

"What is it?" Anko had asked, leaning in closer, as if that would somehow grant her the power to see too.

Kagome laid below them with a blank expression, staring off into the distance at nothing in particular. She had always felt uncomfortable with these visits. It made her feel like a lab rat.

"Her chakra… It's different." He said in amazement. He had never seen something so unique.

"What do you mean?" Ibiki huffed in his deep, gruff voice. "Are her chakra coils larger than normal?"

The Hyuuga shook his head. "Iie, It isn't that. Her chakra coils aren't any bigger than usual, rather they are quite average size for someone with such a small body."

"Then what is it?" Sarutobi asked.

"Well for starters, her chakra isn't blue like the rest of ours… Hers is purple." He said as he scanned over her body.

"Thats amazing!" Anko grinned. "But uh… what does that mean?"

The Hyuuga male rolled his eyes and turned to the rest of the group. "From what I can see, Kagome's chakra is much more different than ours in means other than just colour. For instance, its density is far more concentrated than ours is."

"What does that mean?" Anko repeated in confusion.

"It means her chakra is more potent and much more powerful than ours is." The Hyuuga said, turning off his Byakugan. "I think we will need to do further studies of her while she is in action to better see the extent of what her chakra can do."

"So you are saying this chakra is like her Kekei Genkai?" Ibiki asked.

"Exactly… Though there is one thing that is odd about all of this." The Hyuuga man sighed.

Sarutobi's eyebrows furrowed. "What ever do you mean?"

"The chakra… It doesn't flow through her heart like it would in any one of our bodies… Its as if her heart is locked off."

After that discovery they had run more tests, intent on finding out what extent Kagome's Kekei Genkai had. It was far more special than they had thought.

As time went on they learned that Kagome's chakra was much more powerful than normal, and while regular people used their chakra to create jutsus, Kagome's chakra itself could be weaponized. For most, chakra was intangible and unable to truly exist outside of the body, but for Kagome, she was able to form her dense, potent chakra into weapons that were solid and powerful enough to hurt. The more they trained her the more they found out she could do. Chakra kunai's and swords and claws were all possible.

Kagome was able to form her chakra into anything she desired.

The problem lay within her heart…

If pushed too hard, or if her emotions went unstable, Kagome would lose control of her chakra. That was when the explosions happened. As soon as Kagome lost control, her heart would open its gates, allowing the chakra to swim inside and cause a typhoon of power. Each time it happened, Kagome would wind up drained completely, and would often pass out for days afterwards. No one could understand why her chakra reacted that way when touching her heart… But Sarutobi realized it must have been because her heart was far too unstable, thus causing the chakra to act the same way.

Chakra control was Kagome's weakness. And even more than that, the control of her own emotions.

"No." Sarutobi sighed, finally. "I wont send you back to the Force. I have something else planned for you."

Before Kagome could ask what was going on, there was a knock on the door behind her. She looked back as it creaked open, and a man lazily poked his head in.

"Ah, Kakashi, good timing." Sarutobi said in relief. "Come in."

Sarutobi watched as Kagome looked the man up and down, taking in his appearance. White, gravity defying hair, pale skin, and one black eye were the only features visible on his body. The rest of him was covered in ninja gear; black pants and long sleeve shirt, green utility vest and a mask that crawled up from his neck to cover his mouth, cheeks and nose. His hitai-ate sloped lazily across his forehead to cover one eye.

"Let me introduce you two to one another." Sarutobi started. "Kakashi, this is Kagome-chan, a brilliant young girl who reached Chunin rank just this year at the age of eight."

Kakashi raised his brow. So she was a prodigy then.

"Kagome-chan, this is Hatake Kakashi-san, a very skilled ninja who graduated from the academy when he was five and later reached ANBU at age thirteen."

Sarutobi watched as the two nodded to each other, though visibly seizing one another up. Kagome was wondering how he had achieved so much before her, and Kakashi was wondering what a little girl, despite being a prodigy, was doing up so early in the morning.

"Kagome-chan, my wish is that you get along well with Kakashi-san." Sarutobi said softly.

"Why?" She asked bluntly. She had no use for him, nor did she want to get along with someone who could be seen as competition.

"Because… he is going to be your new guardian."

The room was silent for a moment before Kagome's outburst.

"What!?"

Kakashi looked at the Third Hokage with confusion as well. "May I repeat… What!?"

Kakashi looked behind him and sighed for the zillionth time in an hour.

Kagome stood there, arms crossed, looking equally unamused.

As fate would have it, Kakashi had been heading to the Hokage's office as he had been summoned to take on a new mission. Who would have thought this new mission was going to be babysitting some little eight year old girl? Prodigy or not, she was still a kid.

"You can sigh all you want, but no amount of air is going to blow this situation away from us." Kagome puffed behind him. "I dont like it either."

Kakashi looked back in front of him and took out the key to his apartment, unlocking it and pushing the door open. Welcome home. He thought sarcastically to himself. It wasn't much of a homely place, if anything it had a minimalistic feel. By that I mean, there was next to nothing in the place; a dining table, a small kitchen, a couch and a dusty radio that had never been touched. Branching off the main room was two bedrooms with a bathroom in between.

"You call this an apartment?" Kagome sighed as she pushed passed him, walking inside and looking around. Then again, her own place had little more than what he had… She had been able to pack up all her possessions into one bag.

Kakashi followed her in and leaned lazily against a wall. "Had I known you were expecting five star accommodations, I might have spiffied the place up for you." He smiled at her, though Kagome could tell it was fake and filled with sarcasm. Man she hated this…

"Which one is my room." She looked at the three doors and walked forward, going to grab the handle of the one on the far right.

Just as her finger came in contact with the knob, Kakashi's hands suddenly appeared and wrapped around her wrist.

"Ah, ah, ah. Not this one. You may not be fully prepared to witness the glory that is my room." He turned her and pushed her towards the door on the far right. If she opened it… She would see something that no child her age should witness… Which may or may not be his giant wall of Make Out Paradise Novels.

Kagome looked back at him with a glare, but wondered over to the door. She opened it to see a rather empty bedroom with just a bed and a desk. It wasn't bad… its not like she needed much.

"I'm going to bed." She mumbled and headed inside, shutting the door behind her.

Kakashi heard the girls bag drop, the shuffling of clothing, the creak of the bed and a sigh from the little girl as she settled in for the night. Kagome would sleep for the next two days.

Kakashi on the other hand, was left to ponder his thoughts.

He wandered over to the couch and plopped down with a sigh. He knew the girl wouldn't be coming out any time soon so he removed his mask and hitai-ate. Settling into the couch, Kakashi leaned back and stared at the ceiling.

Why him?

"What are the details of this mission?" Kakashi had asked.

Kagome had just left with the company of a guard to go pack her things up, leaving Kakashi and the Third Hokage to further discuss the mission.

Sarutobi sighed and grabbed a manila folder from off his desk and offered it to Kakashi. The words 'S-Rank' and 'Confidential' were stamped onto it. Kakashi reached over to take it.

"This is her file. You will find everything you need to know about her in detail within that folder." Sarutobi said and blew smoke from his pipe. "A brief overview though… Kagome was found eight years ago, barely a week old. She was found at the bottom of a dried up well in a destroyed town no one had ever known existed. Thus, she was brought back and sent to the orphanage here. No one could have guessed how special she would be though." Sarutobi looked at Kakashi carefully. "She graduated early and was named a prodigy. She may seem weak, but her mind is brilliant, and her capabilities were impressive… But I soon found out that Kagome had many more surprises within her. She posses a unique Kekei Genkai; purple chakra that is far more potent and powerful than we have seen in a long time. She is able to form it into whatever she wants; weapons, traps, tracers. Its a very powerful Kekei Genkai to have but… She has yet to be able to control it. This is where you come in."

"Her chakra control is weaker than most, and she is easily swayed by her emotions. She is a strong, intelligent girl, but she is still young and has much to learn." Sarutobi said, his mouth forming into a grim line. "I am not asking you to raise the girl, but I think she would be better off in an environment with a mentor like yourself… Someone who can help her control her emotions and become stronger."

Kakashi nodded and looked down at the file in his hands. He would have to read this more later.

"May I ask a question, Hokage-sama?" Kakashi said slowly. Sarutobi nodded, motioning for him to continue. "Why are you assigning me to do this? I'm sure there is many other ninja who would be better suited for the job." Kakashi could even name a few; Kurenai for sure would be more of a mothering type to a little girl, and even Asuma seemed a bit more caring and outgoing… Maybe even Gai? No, scratch that, he wouldn't wish Gai against his worst enemies.

There was many possibilities, so why him?

Sarutobi's grim expression morphed into that of a small smile. "Because she reminds me much of how you used to be."

Kakashi sighed for the zillionth and first time that night. The old man must have become crazy in his old age. There was no way the two of them were similar. He pulled out Kagome's folder and looked at it with scrutinizing eyes.

Kakashi pressed his fingers to the seal, ready to pop it open and examine every aspect of that girls life, and then looked over at the room where the young girl was sleeping. His fingers paused and he shook his head, throwing the file on the coffee table. He would read it later…

Her and I… Kindred spirits? Not possible.

Kagome covered her mouth with her forearm as a silent yawned took over her.

"What are we doing out here?" She asked.

"Training of course." Came the annoyingly chipper, with a dash of sarcasm, voiced person she was following. None other than Kakashi Hatake.

Once Kagome had woken from her two day hibernation, she had just made herself food when Kakashi came into the room and told her to go get dressed in her ninja gear. Apparently in the two days she had been asleep some important mission had arrived and they needed to head out immediately. She had barely been able to eat half of her rice and egg.

"How is training a mission?" Kagome asked in annoyance as she rubbed sleep from her eyes.

Kakashi shrugged as he lead them along a dirt path. They were outside of the village, but still close enough that it wouldn't take long to get back. "Well, the Hokage told me that as one of my roles as you guardian I would be helping you train in chakra control."

"Thats your mission, not mine."

"I never said who's mission it was." Kakashi looked back at her cheerfully with that ever present eye smile.

Kagome rolled her eyes and followed along, pulling at her black ninja kimono that had long billowy sleeves, filled with hidden weapons, and stopped above her knees. Kagome always had shorts underneath of course. She also wore black ninja sandals, black fishnet stalkings over her bare legs and her black hitai-ate underneath her puffy bangs.

"Do you always wear all black?" Kakashi asked after a brief silence. Kagome would have been more comfortable not talking.

"Do you always wear that mask?" She asked back.

"Answering a question with another question. How very ninja of you." Kakashi commented.

Kagome snorted and rolled her eyes again, an act she would get sed to doing when being around Kakashi. "They don't call me a prodigy for nothing." She said.

They soon came upon a training field that was filled with lush grass and had wide open spaces. Trees enclosed the area like a fence surrounding the training fields inside of Konohagakure. The wind was nice here, and there was the soft chirping of birds on the inside, but Kagome didn't understand why the hell they had to go all the way outside the village to train… Unless…

"Did we come all the way out here just incase I…?" Kagome asked but trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence. She had come to terms with the fact that she was different from everyone else a long time ago, but that didn't make it any easier for her to face the fact that she had the capability to literally self destruct and kill people if she couldn't control herself.

"Explode?" Kakashi finished for her. Kagome sighed and nodded. "Yeah that." She mumbled.

Kakashi crossed his arms and nodded. "The Hokage thought it would be in the best interest of the village if we took this outside. Precautionary measures of course."

Kagome sighed and nodded. "Alright." She sighed and looked around at the field. "So what is it we are working on today?"

Kakashi hummed. "I read your file, talking about your Kekei Genkai. It's interesting, and could prove very powerful, but I also understand you cant control it. I need to know what I'm dealing with first before I can help and teach."

"So?" Kagome sighed. She was beginning to realize this man had a funny way of skirting around the main point of things some times.

"Sparring." Kakashi said plainly.

Kagome's eyebrows furrowed. "Just sparring? As in, me and you fighting?"

"That is the definition, is it not?" Kakashi smiled at her with his one visible eye.

"How is that going to prove anything? I don't usually get worked up with just sparring. How are you going to observe my 'explosions' that way?" She asked.

"I have a few tricks up my sleeve." Kakashi said smugly, and Kagome could practically feel the smirk on the mans stupid face.

"Fine." Kagome huffed and rolled her shoulders. "Lets fight then."

Kakashi almost found it comical to watch such a small girl loosening up to fight someone almost twice her size. She cracked her knuckles and rolled her neck slowly. Kagome was definitely the youngest person he would have ever fought at his age. He wondered if she would live up to his expectations.

"Your move first." Kakashi smirked.

Kagome laughed softly. He would regret that. She was gone in and instant, getting behind Kakashi and swinging her leg at the back of his head. But Kakashi wasn't ANBU for nothing. He ducked easily, letting her arm swing overtop of him before he swiftly reached up and with both hands, knocked her away from him. Her body tumbled over the grass before poofing into nonexistence.

Kakashi raised a brow. A clone? Look's like she isn't a fresh genin after all.

He turned just in time to block a series of Kunai and Shuriken that had ben thrown at his face. They made a dull thud in the ground as they landed beside him. Kagome was beside him now, standing in a nearby tree.

"You are going to have to be smarter than that to fool me." Kakashi sighed.

"Oh I am." Kagome gave him a smirk, and then her body poofed away for a second time.

What? He thought as he felt something behind him.

He turned, looking at Kagome standing behind him, aiming a fist at him. She was smart enough to disguise herself as one of the shrunken with a transformation jutsu, placing herself behind him while he turned to see another one of her clones standing in the tree to turn him away from her. Quick thinking, but Kakashi was faster.

Kagome aimed a punch for his head, but Kakashi leaned back. He swore he was safe for a moment, before Kagome's face turned into a wicked smirk. Kakashi watched as three cuts suddenly tore open on Kagome's knuckles. Purple chakra in the form of three bladed claws suddenly pushed its was from her body, closing the gap between her and his face. Swiftly, Kagome stabbed her chakra claws into his body, but he disappeared and instead she was stabbing her weaponized chakra through a log. Redirection Jutsu like she had just done.

Kagome huffed and looked around. Where the hell was he? He couldn't be above, he wasn't in the trees. Was he below?

She jumped just in time as his hand came out of the ground beneath her. She narrowly dodged being shoved into the ground with the head hunter jutsu.

"You're quick." Kakashi said as he emerged from the ground.

"Fastest of my grade." She said back with extra snark.

"Yes, well I was also the fastest in my year." Kakashi smirked, and in an instant he was on her.

Kagome dodged as best she could, the two of them in a battle of dodging and weaving as Kagome tried to strike him with her chakra, and Kakashi fought her off with his Kunai and his fists.

Of course, Kagome was a prodigy, and she was smart and strong for her age… But she was no ANBU captain. It was only a matter of time before Kakashi's superior skills got the best of her.

"Wind Jutsu: Air Tunnel Strike!" He yelled as he pressed a palm into her shoulder. A jet of air exploded from his palm, sending her flying backwards, tumbling over her own body before she stopped.

Kagome spat out dirt as she tried to catch her breath and raise herself from the ground. She dusted herself off and sent a glare over to him.

"So what?" She mumbled unhappily.

"If you dont mind, I think it will be my turn now." Kakashi smiled at her, hands coming up to his hitai-ate that sat overtop of his eye and moved it. The scarred eye underneath opened and all Kagome saw was red.

The sky turned red, looming overhead like a sea of drifting blood. The sun had turned black, like everything else in the field; the trees, the grass, the flowers, all black. The world became nothing but blood and darkness.

Kagome looked around, confused. What the hell had just happened? And where the fuck was Kakashi? He was nowhere to be seen.

Kagome would have thought she was all alone, if the voices didn't start.

"Kagome… No last name, huh?"

She recognized that voice from when she was younger. She had just graduated as a Genin at such a young age with kids almost twice as old as her. Kagome had been standing by, watching all the kids get congratulated by their parents, hugging their family and taking photos. Kagome didn't have that. Instead, she sat quietly on the sidelines alone. Until two boys came over to pester her that was. It was her first time exploding.

"You graduated so young, you must think you are so smart. It's really too bad that your parents couldn't be here to celebrate with you."

"Stop." Kagome hissed and covered her ears.

The voice whispered through the wind, and even as she tried to black the sound, it penetrated her head until the words were all around her, but she was all alone.

"I heard that she killed her own family!"

"Really? Because I heard that her family must have thrown her away because she's so ugly and small!"

Kagome fell to her knees as the memories swam back to her. She was just a little kid. Why did the older boys bully her so much? She could feel their hands pulling at her hair and tugging her behind the academy away from the parents roaming eyes. Kagome winced as she relived the impact of her being shoved to the ground all over again.

"Maybe her family didn't like her being such a show off. Isn't that right Kagome? No body likes a show off."

"Stop it!" Kagome screamed, feeling the panic she had felt that day.

"We need to teach her a lesson."

Kagome choked as she felt the foot of the boy come down on her stomach again and again… And then she had stopped it. At that time, she had given up, too afraid and upset to fight back. Her heart had took over for her and she went into auto-pilot. Her chakra had exploded out from within her and when she came to, the boys were both lying on the ground bleeding. Not knowing what to do, Kagome ran off as best she could. She was confused and scared and alone.

She grabbed onto her chest at the pounding heartbeat from within her. "Calm down, calm down. It cant be real… Its not real. Must be a genjutsu…" She mumbled to herself and looked around. But how did she stop it? Kagome had never been that skilled in genjutsu. She could do basic illusions and traps, but nothing as high level as this. Instead, Kagome's focus had been utilizing her Chakra into weaponized forms to fight with taijutsu, and secondhand use of ninjutsu. That wasn't going to help her now.

"Why don't you tell me who your mommy and daddy are so I can have a chat with them about how their daughter is misbehaving!"

Now it was the man she had fought off in the alleyway, him and his two goons who had decided to attack an innocent boy… But when she stopped them, they turned their anger on her.

"Oh… Unless that is… You don't have any parents either?"

"Shut up! Shut up!" Kagome yelled at the voices. She wanted to make them stop, but how could she when they weren't real, nor did they have any tangible form.

"So you don't have parents huh? What happened, were they killed too? Or did they abandon you? I bet they did because you are just an ugly little witch."

Kagome's nails dug into the sides of her ears, desperate to try and keep the memories from her head. The feeling of the old man's glare, the stench of his hot breath that reeked of alcohol.

"Calm down, calm down, calm down." She repeated to herself like a mantra. "Its not real, its not real. No one is really here, no one can hurt you."

She was alone. As always. Despite the voices in her head, she knew they weren't there. She was utterly, irrevocably, alone.

"Alone? Oh sweet Kagome, you have never been alone." A voice said behind her, chuckling darkly. "I have always been with you."

Kagome fumbled to turn around, falling onto her bottom in a sitting position as she looked at the new voice. This one wasn't just in her head… There was a person there; a man. He had dark black hair was wavy and long, falling to his legs. To Kagome, he looked like glass. He was all sharp edges; sharp jaw, sharp eyes lined with a purple shadow. He looked like he could cut someone far worse than a Kunai could just with a glance.

"Who are you?" Kagome whispered, her body still shaking. For some reason, Kagome felt like she knew this man… And she knew he was trouble.

The man chuckled and walked closer. Kagome was too scared to move as he stood in front of her and slowly lowered down into a squat before her.

"If I told you that now, it would surely ruin the fun for later." He chuckled, a sound that sent shivers down her spine.

"What are you doing here?" Kagome asked.

"I come with a warning." He said.

Kagome squirmed back a bit. "What warning?"

The man smirked and leaned in so their cheeks were pressed to one another. His skin was cold and felt like the touch of death. He whispered lowly in her ear. "I will find you. I will find you and I will kill you. In this lifetime or the next… Revenge is a dish best served dead."

Before Kagome could ask what he meant, she was screaming in pain. The mans hand, glowing black with evil chakra, slammed into her chest and went inside to grab onto her heart.

"It will be my turn to destroy your heart."

And then suddenly he was gone and she was lying in a bed of green grass on her back. She panted as she stared at that blue sky above her, her heart pounding terribly.

"You almost lost control again." Kakashi commented, but his voice sounded weary. He too didn't understand what had just happened.

"Who's fault is that!?" Kagome hissed, anger bubbling up inside of her. She clutched at her chest where her heart was beating furiously, begging for her to give in and just explode. She looked over at him and paused when she saw the red wheel of the Sharingan spinning slowly in his left eye. It had all been a genjutsu weaved by him. How dare he!?

Kagome stood up on wobbly legs and looked at him with dark eyes.

"How dare you do that to me! It may be your mission to coddle me, but I didn't ask for this and I certainly dont want your help!" Kagome hissed at him and growled like a feral animal. How dare he show her those things!? Not only was she angry though, she was left more confused than ever. Whatever he had shown her, it was fears from parts of her mind coming to terrorize herself… So who was that man? Why was her mind saying those things to her and showing him to her?

Kakashi looked like he was about to say something, but she didn't want to hear it. With the last of her strength and chakra she bounded away, headed to go back to the village where she could sort out her thoughts.

A/N: There ya go, chapter three! There is going to be a second part to this chapter that furthers the bond between Kakashi and Kagome, and then after that I will be introducing the Team.

As for those of you who are concerned about the pairing for this fanfiction, don't worry. That wont come until later, but I have been debating on making it somewhat Harem-like? Still a thought in my mind, so let me know what you think. I will tell you that I don't plan on having her with Kakashi though, but for those Kakashi-lovers, he will play a big part of the story.

Anyways, thank you again and dont forget to review, follow and favourite!

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