(Recap)

"Oh well they don't really. Kiri doesn't actually live here. No one knows where she lives except her and Hitori. And she wasn't born here. She let us see her headband once! It looked just like that!" Suki said pointing to the hitai-ate around Hinata's neck. Before the girl had a chance to respond Sakura called out.

"She's up!" Hitori perked up immediately and jumped on Kiri.

"Okaa-san!" she yelled. The 12 ninjas stood there, mouths agape (excluding Neji, Sasuke, and Shino). They were all thinking the same thing.

She's a mother

(End recap)

"You-you're a mother?!?" Ino sputtered out. Kiri just looked at her like she had grown another head.

"Of course not!!! Hitori's adopted! Her parents were killed shortly after I moved here! She reminded me of m---- a friend." Kiri said, thinking all the while that her old friends had gone insane, thinking a 16 year old girl had a daughter who was 4 and ½. She would have had to have her when she was 12!

"Oh." Ino stated. Hitori had not let go of her "mother's" neck. She was crying silently. Kiri ran her hands through the girl's hair, whispering comforting words in to the girls ears.

"Why is she so upset?" Sakura asked curiously.

"She lost her parents, her grandparents, and her sister. She lost just about everything. She was just scared she'd lost me too." Kiri said quietly. She was rocking the girl softly. Soon Hitori had fallen asleep.

"Excuse me please. I have to take Hitori home." Kiri bounding off in that really fast way that only ninja's can do.

"Guys, I think that Kiri really is Tenten." Hinata said quietly. "She's a ninja from the Kohona, and she almost said that a girl with no parents reminded her of herself. I'm almost positive that's Tenten."

oo0oo

Kiri walked through her home. She lived in a small place up in the hills. She got to a small safe she kept in her closet. Opening it with the key she kept around her neck, she pulled out a picture of all her friends. It was right after everyone had recovered enough from the chunnin exams to be released from the hospital. Well everyone except herself. The bun haired girl was missing from the picture, because she had yet to recover from her near fatal injuries caused by Temari of the sand. Crying silently she hugged the photo to her chest. They had forgotten about me! They held this supposedly wonderful "No one died in the chunnin exams" party. It was postponed numerous times in till everyone was out of the hospital, except me. She set the picture down and pulled out her old hitai-ate. Smiling through her tears she remembered her graduation.

Flashback

"Congratulations, Tenten! You have the highest score for a kunochi!"

End Flashback

That was the closest thing she could remember to anyone caring about her. She cried harder, but silently. She didn't want to wake Hitori. She had made a stupid mistake earlier. She had been training with her weapons and she tripped and hit her head. The girls got scared and remembered that in my stories the lady in waiting Sakura was an extremely good nurse, so they went to get her.

Sighing she put her hitai-ate down too.

It's been a year. I was gone for so long and they never even tried to look for me. I guess the only ones who care about me are the people here. They can't call me a weak ninja at least. But then again, they just have no one to compare me too.

She sighed again. It had been hard to leave in the first place, she had been thinking about going back, but then they showed up. Oh well, at least I met my replacement. She's part of the Keiki, clan, renowned for their wonderful medical skills and their ability to think quickly in the heat of battle. Heck all I can do is hit a target! Kiri thought sadly. Then she reached back in to the safe and pulled out her team picture. Oh I remember this day! It was one of the very few days I didn't have to fake a smile. Well that didn't last long, pretty soon I had to fake a smile again.

Stupid Neji! Has to ruin everything.

She set down her picture and pulled out one. It was a picture of Kiri. It was about a month after she arrived. Yasue was peeking out from behind her leg. There was Suki. Smiling brightly, perched on Kiri's back, while Kiri was hunched over slightly so Suki wouldn't fall and so she could fit in to the picture. Hitori stood in front of Kiri a bright smile, her hands in a peace sign. Kana stood next to her, a new born Maori held proudly in her arms.

I remember that! We were celebrating Maori's birth! I think that was about a week before Hitori's parent's were killed…

Kiri trailed off in her own thought. She didn't hear someone walk silently in to her room, until it was too late. The person shoved a cloth over her nose, Kiri struggled a minute before falling in to a deep sleep.

oo0oo

Hitori woke up with a yawn.

"Okaa-san?" She called out sleepily. There was no response.

"Okaa-san?" Hitori called out a little nervously. This was all too familiar. The same thing had happened to her when her real parents and the rest of her family were killed. She jumped out of bed and ran towards her adoptive mother's room. She opened the door, half expecting to see a dead Kiri. Luckily there was no dead body, in fact no body at all.

"Okaa-san?!" She called out. No response. She then went in to a panic, she scrambled her way down the mountain to where the village was. The first people to see her were the 12 ninja's from Kohona. Sakura immediately noticed something was wrong.

"Hitori, where's Kiri?" They had never seen the little girl out here alone.

"I don't know!" she cried "She's not at home! What if something happened to her?!?" Hitori started sobbing and Sakura ran over to comfort her.

"Hitori, why don't you take us to your house and we can help you find your….err…Okaa-san" Hitori weakly nodded.

"Follow me." She stated.

oo0oo

When they got to the house they split up and looked for any sign of Kiri.

Hinata walked in to Kiri's room and immediately noticed the unmistakable smell of chloroform. This is bad! Hinata noticed the smell was strongest from the closet. Walking in she saw an open safe and a few things strewn across the floor. First she picked up a picture of Kiri and all the little girls they'd met here in Misuti. Next she noticed a leaf hitai-ate.

"Strange" Hinata muttered to herself. Next she came across the picture of the rookie 9 and team Gai after the chunnin exams.

"Guys," Hinata called out "You should see this!"

Within minutes all of the ninjas were there. Hinata handed them the picture and all eyes (Excluding white ones, ones that have sharingan and ones that you can't actually see) went wide.)

"While everyone else was still in sock, Hinata spoke up, "Guys, I remember this day. We kept postponing it till everyone was out of the hospital. But did we postpone it for Tenten?"

"No…" Ino said sadly. Sakura walked in cheerfully, she had been watching over Hitori.

"Hitori fell asleep, she'll be out fro a while……………Why is everyone so gloomy, what's that??"

oo0oo

Kiri jumped through the window in to Hitori's bedroom. Setting her down in bed, she didn't venture in to the other rooms. Hitori had fallen asleep and Kiri was allowed to just go through the bedroom window and put her in bed.

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Hitori woke up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"Okaa-san!" Hitori called out, there was no response.

"Okaa-san, are you up? Otou-san! No response.

Hitori walked out of her room and to her kitchen. There were her parents and her sister on the floor in 3 bloody heaps.

Hitori let out a ear piercing shriek and shot straight up. Sakura and the others were brought out of there trance and they all ran to the room that Hitori was in. The found her curled up in the fetal position, her face buried in her knees, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Hitori, what wrong?" Sakura asked sweetly, sitting next to the girl.

"I want Okaa-san!" she sobbed.

"Don't worry we'll get Kiri back." Ino said comforting the girl.

"Not that Okaa-san, my real Okaa-san!" Hitori sobbed harder.

"Oh, well, I'm really sorry, but we can't do anything about that," Hinata said sympathetically. After a minute or two Hitori calmed down, and said "Okay, let's go find Okaa-san!"

"Umm, Hitori, you're mothers dead." Ino said as Hitori glared at her.

"I meant Kiri-Chan" Hitori explained as if Ino as the 4 year old and she was the 15 year old."

oo0oo

Kiri groaned and opened her eyes.

"Where am I?"

"Why hello dear, you're back in Kohona."
"Who are you" Kiri asked, it was pitch black and it was times like this she wished she had the byakugan.

"Oh, you can't say you've never met me." The voice defiantly belonged to a girl.

Kiri's eyes went wide. "Tory?!"

A/N: This story is dedicated to all of those who were killed in the twin towers incident and there families. May God bless them all! R&R! I don't mind flames!

Sayonara,

Kat

P.s. I bet you can't remember who Tory is without backtracking to the chapter where's she's mentioned.