"...and Kakashi will be your mentor. If you have any questions, need anything or want help with something, go to him."

Maho stared at the Hokage, standing with her two team mates who were obscenely taller than her. Neji and Sai, stoic and strong. They would work perfectly together.

"Thank you Tsunade-sama." Neji said. The three of them bowed and left her office.

"You are from Iwa, right?" Neji asked Maho. She nodded. The three of them stood awkwardly around the front of the building with "FIRE" written on it, visible from miles away. "Then how come I remember you? You were friends with my cousin when we were younger."

"I was here, until I was eight, then I left." Maho said. She didn't like answering questions, and Neji seemed to be full of them. His white eyes bored into her, searching for his answers for his questions. She sighed and turned to walk away.

"What time should we meet tomorrow?" Maho called back. Sai was watching her, but not really looking at her. He seemed to only want to pay attention to things he had to know, like where to train and he had no interest about Neji and Maho blabbing about the past.

"Hyuuga Compound, 6." Neji called. Maho nodded and kept walking. She had somewhere to go.

"Don't we get a sensei?" Tenten asked. She was scared enough of not being with either of her former team mates and the prospect of the three of them being alone was frightening.

"No. You do have a mentor though, who you can go to at any time if you need help. Let's see, you can have Gai if you like."

"Gai has no ninjutsu skills." Sasuke stated. He was happy, as far as he could tell, because he had a new team, he wouldn't be stuck with Naruto or Sakura anymore.

"Okay, how about Shizune?"

"She sounds fine. Thank you, Hokage-sama." Tenten said.

"Okay, I'll have a mission for you by next week, be ready!"

The three of them left the office and were standing around, sizing each other up. 'So this is Sasuke.' Mori thought. He knew he wouldn't be able to beat him, but Sasuke would be the one bringing the group down.

"So you guys seem to have offensive skills down, what about defensive or gen-jutsu stuff?" Mori asked his new partners.

"I'm not good at gen-jutstu, I only know weapon jutsus."

"I know a few things." Sasuke said, his statement completely worthless to Mori.

"Great," Mori said quietly. "I've got to be somewhere now, where should we meet to train tomorrow?" He asked.

"Let's meet at the academy, we can go to the forest after."

"When?" Sasuke asked.

"Six?" Mori offered. They seemed fine with this proposal and all went their separate ways.

'Wow.' Maho thought to herself. Kankuro had come over to her house, sweaty and dirty so she made him take a shower. He stood in front of her, naked as she pointed to a pile of towels on the dresser next to him. She left her room and went downstairs to make dinner, her brother should be home soon anyway.

"Do you like fish?" She asked Kankuro as he came down the stairs.

"Yeah, but we never eat it in Suna."

"That's true." Maho said.

"Are you making fish stew?"

"Kind of, I don't know what I call it, but it's thick and salty and fattening. It's the shit." Maho said, dumping 3 cups of fat milk into the bubbling pot.

"Sounds good to me. So where's Gaara?"

"How should I know, he's your brother."

"He's your boyfriend."

"No he's not. You're a complete idiot."

"Were you checking me out upstairs?"

"No. Don't flatter yourself." Maho turned around now, to appear busy with the stew thingy but she only wanted to hide her face from Kankuro. Her blush crept up her face and she cursed it for all it was worth. Yes, she was checking Kankuro out. How creepy is that?

"You're totally lying."

"Whatever. Where's your sister?" Maho said, changing topics.

"Her and Gaara are in Suna for two weeks."

"Then why did you ask me where Gaara was?"

"I wanted to know if he told you or not."

"I see. There he is. Mori, get your ass seated, I made you food." Mori closed the door behind him. He was panting from running as he slid off his shoes and sat next to Kankuro at their table.

"Why do you smell like my sister?" Mori asked.

"He took a shower in my bathroom."

"He could've used mine."

"She wanted to see me naked."

"Yes I did. That's exactly right. Kankuro, use a spoon."

"I can't help it. I don't know what it is about this stuff."

"It was made by an angel, that's why it's so good."

"You guys suck."

"Not as much as you."

"Keep talking like that, see where you'll end up." She threatened Mori. He shrugged his shoulders. "So who's on your team?"

"I've got Tenten and Sasuke. They seriously lack any skill other than offensive stuff, nothing whatsoever. It'll be a lot of work for me."

"I've got Neji. Do you remember him? He's a Hyuuga, he's got those eyes that see through stuff and what not. He'll be awesome to have around. And I've got this other guy, his name is Sai, who is really weird and he's a pervert but he's crazy good and can do any range attacks."

"Do you like them?"

"Yeah, they'll be great."

"I mean do you want to,"

"You're sick. I'm going to bed. I have to wake up at six and I haven't done that for a while." She dumped her empty bowl into the sink and shimmied up the stairs. "You got to bed soon too, Mori." She said, finally up the stairs and out of sight.

"One of them must be really good looking." Mori said to Kankuro. "Did my sister actually see you naked?"

"Yeah." Mori laughed.

"What was her face like?! She must have been really embarrassed."

"I honestly don't think she cares. I was just joking. She has the hots for my brother, you know."

"Of course I know, how could I not know. Have you seen them hold hands?"

"Have you seen them kiss?"

"No. They've kissed?" Mori asked, he suddenly looked alarmed. Kankuro nodded and polished off his meal.

"Yep. They're probably fucking by now."

"Gaara likes her back?"

"Yeah. It's weird but I think he does. I should go now, I'm tired. I'll see you later."

"Okay, see ya." Mori said. "Maho has a boy, that's so weird." He said to no one. He put his dish in the sink to and made his way up the stairs to Maho's room. He was greeted by a muffled groan from under her covers when he walked in and sat on her bed.

"Go away." She said.

"If he ever hurts you, you'll tell me, right?" Mori confirmed with his sister. She tore the covers off her face and looked at her brother. He was being brotherly. She loved it.

"Yes." She answered. She still had to make it seem like his protectiveness annoyed her, but it always made her feel loved.

"See you tomorrow." Mori said. He left her room and went into his own.