AN1: This starts out with a very serious Rock Lee. I am not taking him out of character so much as I am taking him out of experience. I can see a Rock Lee that has gone through what I have put him through acting this way in that situation.

AN2: This chapter introduces my two OC's for team placements. Akahana Yamanaka, Ino's cousin, and Fumiyo Nara, Shikamaru's twin sister. I really didn't feel like coming up with family's for these two, and since they will be important to the story later on, I wanted well defined families and abilities for these two OC's.

AN3: I swear, before this is all over, I'm getting a T-Shirt made that says "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!" I swear, I hate being so sick!

AN4: My sister is now an English teacher in Japan! YAY! She just got the job and just went over there. I'm so happy and proud of her right now!

AN5: Happy birthday to me! October seventh is my birthday, and here's my present to you!

THE REINCARNATION OF KYUBI

CHAPTER FOUR

ACCEPTANCE OF THE TRUTH

Chitose was sitting in a chair besides Lee's hospital bed, seeing as he had just gotten out of his surgery. Hinata however, was still in surgery, for the shurikens had managed to hit her near some very vital places. Unfortunately for Hinata, the best Medic Nins in the village had been called out of it a little while earlier because a few groups of ANBU had gotten ambushed just outside Konohagakure, and they had gone out to treat those groups.

While Chitose was thinking on just how uncaring Hinata's father was acting, it seemed all he thought was that this was an embarrassment to his clan, she heard a doctor's voice saying "I want that monster out of my patient's room!"

She then heard a male voice that could only be Gai's scream "SO UNYOUTHFUL!" and then a meaty smacking sound followed that.

She then heard her father say "Was that really necessary Gai?" Followed by her mother saying

"Yes it was." And then there was another meaty crunching sound.

Then her parents and Gai came in and over to her, with her mother saying "Hinata's going to be just fine dear. They just finished the surgery a few moments ago."

"That's good to hear." Chitose said through her tears. Then she said while crying "Mom, they know. They know."

Anko then took her adopted daughter into her arms and said "Yes, yes they do. Everything will be all right Chitose, you'll see."

"But, but, won't they hate me now?" Chitose asked through her tears.

Rock Lee had been awake since he had heard his Gai Sensei shouting about someone's Unyouthfulness. But he had been groggy and out of it until a moment ago when he had heard Chitose cry 'They know.' Then he suddenly remembered the events that had lead to now, and just why his stomach hurt like it did. As he looked over and saw his beautiful Chitose lean into her mother for emotional support, it hurt him that she thought he could ever hate her. So he said "I could never hate you Chitose." Causing all present to look at him. After his Gai Sensei shouted something about 'Youth conquering all' and Chitose's parents looking at him with a smile, he asked "Could I have a moment or two alone with Chitose?"

After the adults nodded and left, Lee said while looking over at Chitose, "I could never hate you, why did you think that?"

"Be, because now you know I'm Kyubi, and almost everyone who knows hates me for it." Chitose said through her tears.

"Well, I'm not everyone, I'm me." Lee said seriously. Then Lee said "I'm tired Chitose. I think I'll go back to sleep now, but we can discuss this later with Hinata. I just know she'll be fine with all this." And then he fell back asleep.

Chitose then left the room and smiled at her parents and Gai and said "He fell back asleep."

And then her parents took Chitose home.

Konohagakure: the Ninja Academy: in the classroom: a few days later

The reading of team assignments had been pushed back a few days, seeing as two of the prospective Genin were in the hospital for helping to stop a traitor. Chitose had yet to see her friends Hinata or Lee again, for the hospital, afterwards, had only let family see the patients, and was ecstatic to see both Hinata and Lee wander in and give her a smile. But Hinata's smile was tinged with a hint of sadness.

As they sat next to her as usual, Chitose smiled with relief, and then she noticed that Hinata was depressed. Asking "What's wrong Hinata?" She saw Hinata look left, then right and then she whispered

"I, I had a falling out with my clan. After I, I found out about you, they asked me that 'Now that I know the truth about the Demoness' that I turn my back on our friendship. When I refused, they, they…" Hinata broke down in tears at that point and then Lee took up the story.

"I heard the discussion from my room, as it was next to hers and the argument was quite loud. She is at this moment being formally cast out of her clan by her father and the clan's elders." Lee said with a stony look in his eyes.

"What!?!" Chitose yelled.

"It's true." Hinata tearfully said. "I knew," She choked and then said "I knew I was on thin ice with my clan, and I knew that they didn't want me, but it hurts! It hurts to know that they would cast me out. I knew they were looking for any excuse to get rid of me, and, and now I finally gave them one." She said through her tears.

"Um, do you need a place to stay? I'm sure you could stay with me for now." Chitose asked, no longer worried about herself or her secret being out, now she was just enraged for her friends sake, a friend that was being hurt for just being her friend.

"No, no I don't. If I can, I'd love too." Hinata said through her tears.

Iruka had noticed the three talking, and had put them out of his mind monetarily, but when he saw Hinata crying profusely, and both Chitose and Lee comforting her, he got up and went over to see his students, to see what was wrong and if he could help. He thought he knew what might be wrong, and he was very close, and yet at the same time so far away from the truth of the matter.

Looking around the class, and seeing that this early there was only Sakura and Sasuke in the class with them, and they were to, busy, to pay attention to what was going on here, Iruka asked "What's the matter?"

Chitose looked up and asked "Can you get my mom down here as soon as possible? Something's come up that I need to speak with her about."

"What's wrong?" Iruka asked in a worried tone of voice.

Lee looked at the two other students in the classroom and after noticing that they were too, busy, to pay attention to them he said "Now that Hinata knows certain, truths, and has failed to act on them as her clan wishes, she is being removed from her clan." Lee said in tightly controlled anger.

Iruka just looked at Lee for a moment, thinking on how, different, he sounded then usual, when just what he said sunk in.

"I'm going to see if she can stay with us for a little while." Chitose said softly.

"I see. I'll go phone your mother now." Iruka said with cold fury. "She probably will not be able to get here until after the teams are assigned, so please, be patient." Iruka said, and then he marched over to his office and went in it.

Konohagakure: the Ninja Academy: in the classroom: an hour later

Iruka was currently calling out the teams for all three classrooms. His classroom was filled with potential Genin, more full then ever before, and then he called out the last few teams "Team Seven, Sasuke Uchiha, Akahana Yamanaka, and Fumiyo Nara. Your instructor will be Kakashi Hatake." Sakura and Ino sputtered in outrage at this. Iruka, and everyone else, ignored them, as Iruka continued to call out team placements "Team Eight, Sakura Haruno, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame. Your instructor will be Kurenai Yuhi. Team Nine, Hinata, Rock Lee and Chitose Mitarashi. Your instructor will be Maito Gai." Hinata seemed to perk up a bit at this statement, as did Chitose and Lee. "Team Ten, Choji Akimichi, Ino Yamanaka, and Shikamaru Nara. Your instructor will be Asuma Sarutobi. Please leave for your break and be back in two hours to meet your team leaders." Iruka called out and all the present Genin hopefuls, not that they knew that last part, left, with the exception of Team Nine.

Iruka then, after all the others had left, said "Your mother will be here shortly Chitose." And then he went into his office.

Konohagakure: the Ninja Academy: in the classroom: fifteen minuets later

To say Anko was pissed was like saying that Gai was slightly off kilter. In other words, it was a massive understatement.

"Let me see if I understand this correctly Hinata. Your clan asked you to give up your friendship with my daughter, and when you said no, they decided to cast you out?" Anko asked with tightly griped fury evident in her voice.

"Yes." Hinata said calmly, as she was now all cried out about this. "They have been looking for any reason to disown me, and I finally gave them one."

Anko breathed deeply, and then with a savage yell, whipped around and through two handfuls of Kunai into the wall behind her. Then turning around with a sweet and gentle smile on her face, she said "You are welcome to stay at our home for as long as you need." Then Anko seemed to pause and she asked "Are they even letting you keep any of you belongings?"

"No. All I have is what I have on me. These are the clothes I had on that night. I just sewed them up." Hinata said while looking down. Anko then saw the truth of that, and she said

"Well we'll have to take you shopping then. We'll have to get you some real clothes, not those stupid robes that all the Hyuga's wear." Anko said with a kind smile.

"Thank you." Hinata said while looking down. "Sorry to be such trouble." She then said.

"You are no trouble, your ex-clan however, is in big trouble." Anko said calmly.

"Now then, be sure to tell this to your new Jonin instructor, and I'll see the two of you at home tonight." Then Anko paused and said "When you become official Genins, we'll all have a party, so Lee, you're invited to a party soon."

"Ok. Wait, what do you mean by 'When you become official Genins'? Aren't we that already?" Lee asked with a frown.

Anko just laughed and said "You'll see." And then she left.

An hour or so later, the first of their classmates came back to meet their Jonin instructors.

Konohagakure: At Gai's favorite training ground

Gai was frowning, an expression that was really not suited to his face, as his students told him just what had happened to Hinata. He then sighed and said "I guess that they do have the right, no matter how stupid it is, to make such a decision." Gai said in a normal and calm tone of voice, utterly shocking his students, seeing as they were used to his, less then sane personality.

Then he seemed to gather himself up, and was almost back to normal, saying "Well your youthfulness has caused me to decide that the final Genin test shall not be needed!"

"Final Genin test?" Hinata asked with a frown. "What do you mean by that?"

"Yeah, didn't we already have that?" Chitose also asked with a frown.

"No, no." Gai said with a shake of his head. "The test you took a few weeks ago was to only see if you had the raw skills. The final test was to be administered by me, to see if you had the correct mentality to become a Genin." Gai said in a serious tone of voice. "I can see that you do, so we can skip it."

"The mentality of a Genin?" Lee then asked with a scrunched up facial expression.

Gai sighed and said in a serious tone of voice again, shocking his new students yet again "You see my little Genin, out of the twenty seven graduates of this year's class, most of them will be sent back to the academy for failing a very simple test. The test of team work." Seeing the confusion evident on his now official students' faces he said "You see, every Jonin instructor is to test his or her Genins ability to work as a team. Most use a form of divide and conquer. I shall use your father's test as an example Chitose, for it is so hard none have passed it to his approval." Gai said to everyone's surprise "He first gets them hungry and upset by not letting them eat breakfast and then having them wait on him for a few hours, and then he shows them two bells, and he tells them that one must get one from him to pass, and the one who doesn't, gets sent back to the academy. This forces them to think that they all must come at him one on one, for it is every Genin for themselves." He was then interrupted by Chitose who said

"But that's stupid! He's an Elite Jonin! I couldn't even touch him if he was truly serious in a fight with me!"

"Yes, he is an Elite Jonin, and an Ex-ANBU Captain. He is far beyond any Genin in terms of power and skill." Gai said in a wise tone of voice. "But that is not what Kakashi wants them to do. No, he wants them to team up to attack him and at least try to get the bells from him as a team. If they do that, it does not matter if they do get the bells, he will pass them. Sadly, no team that has been assigned to him has seen beyond his deception, so he has passed none so far."

"Wow." Chitose said.

Then Hinata asked in a puzzled tone of voice "Why are you not testing us for our teamwork then?"

"Because you are already acting like true teammates. None of you have abandoned Chitose for her past, and all of you stood by Hinata after she was disowned for her standing by Chitose. Chitose even opened the doors of her home to Hinata for that. And I saw your attempts at teamwork when Mizuki attacked you. Lee bought time for Chitose to care for Hinata. You all already have the basics of your teamwork started on, I will just need to expand on it. So I pass all of you. Be here tomorrow at seven thirty in the morning for your first TRUE training exercises. When I feel you are ready, we'll start doing a few missions. Dismissed."

The newly acknowledged Genin whooped in joy and then Chitose said "Gai, My mom said we would have a party after we were made official Genin, and I would like to invite you to be there as well."

Gai smiled and said while slipping into his more, standard, personality "Yes! I will be there! And I will taunt my eternal rival Kakashi on the higher level of Genin I got! What time should I be there?" He then asked.

"I don't know. Why don't you just come back home with me, all of you?" Chitose then said in response.

And so, the newly minted Team Nine went to Chitose's to party.

Konohagakure: the shopping district: later that day

Well, as it turned out, the party would be the next day at around six in the evening. So after Gai and Lee left, Anko and Kakashi took Chitose and Hinata out shopping for new clothes, and other, personal, belongings.

Hinata was shocked to find how most people treated her best friends' parents. Oh, she knew how Chitose herself was treated, but it seemed the same courtesy was extended to her parents as well. Her mother much more then her father though.

Though the stores they shopped at they were treated with the utmost respect, though that was probably because they were run by Ex-Shonbi and they supposedly knew better. After getting Hinata everything bet her mission gear, Hinata asked on the way to get said gear "Um, why does every one treat you like this Anko? I mean Kakashi here seems to be treated like he his do to, um, association to you and Chitose, but you seem to be targeted for something, um more."

Anko stopped walking and looked at Hinata and then blinked in surprise as Hinata looked down in embarrassment. "That's, very astute of you to notice such a thing Hinata." Anko said softly. She then continued to walk and started to explain. "I am guilty in the villagers' eyes." Anko started.

"Guilty of what?" Hinata asked as she noticed Kakashi doing a Jutsu of some kind.

"Just a privacy Jutsu." Kakashi said "No need for eve's droppers." He said with a chuckle.

Then Anko continued with "Association." Anko said simply. "I was the apprentice to the greatest traitor this village had ever had, Orochimaru. When I found out about his crazed experiments, I tried to free the subjects, and was made one of them. I was the only survivor of those so called experiments. I then reported them to the Hokage, and I have been hated and feared by the villagers ever since." Anko said with a sigh.

"That, that can't be true!" Hinata gasped out.

"Why?" Anko asked curiously.

"Because you would have only been around six or so when Orochimaru escaped the village." Hinata said with certainty.

"You do know your history Hinata. That would be true, if I was as old as I looked. Can you guess what he was trying to do when he was experimenting on me?" Anko asked. Hinata shook her head. "Immortality. He want's immortality. In truth I am, oh, thirty four years old." Hinata gasped and Anko said "Think about it Hinata, you've known me for about two years. Have I changed in the slightest physically?"

"No." Hinata said with a shake of her head. "So you are?"

"Nope. Just ageless. He thankfully did not get that far, and he had to escape without his notes on his research. And besides, I was the only one out of thirty or so to survive it." Anko said mournfully.

"The more I see and hear, the more I question this village's sanity. You obviously had nothing to with what Orochimaru did, other then as a victim, and Chitose here is obviously no longer Kyubi, or this village would no long be standing. The amount of hate and ignorance almost everyone in this village excludes is staggering." Hinata said with a shake of her head.

"Yes, yes it is." Kakashi said softly. "But then fear is a powerful thing." He whispered. Then he noticed that they were at their destination, so he said "Well, we're here." And he then dispelled the privacy Jutsu.

They then walked into the store, where to Hinata's surprise her friend Tenten was manning the counter.

As she turned to them, she said "Hello, welcome to… Hinata!" Tenten cried out "How are you? Are you ok? Neji told me you were cast out of your clan and he didn't even know why! I know the two of you never really got along, but, Neji's furious about this!" Tenten shouted out.

"Neji's, upset on my behalf?" Hinata asked in a stunned voice.

"Yeah. He is. He came to practice today looking like hell. Hell, he couldn't practice today because of the shape he was in. When I asked him what really happened after he told Hayate some bullshit about 'Special Training from the Clan head' he said he found out you had been disowned and kicked out of his Clan. He said he got furious, because even he could see you've been slowly improving, even if wasn't as a typical Hyuga. So he confronted your father about it, and your father beat the shit out of him for it, and threatened him that if he ever questioned him about it again, he'd activate his Caged Seal." Hinata gasped at this. "That got Neji ready to blow his all his gaskets. I swear, if I thought Neji hated the main branch before, it's like a candle comparing it's self to all the flames of Hell now." Tenten said with a shake of her head.

Hinata went white, and then quickly turned red with fury. "I am staying with Chitose for now. Please tell Neji this for me. If he ever wants to see me again, I can be found there." Hinata said while trying to compose herself.

"I'll see that he gets the message." Tenten said.

"On to more pleasant business," Anko then said "Seeing as Hinata's family left her without any of her belongings, we came her to get her outfitted for her new Genin career."

Tenten smiled wide and said "I'll go get my dad, and see if I can't get you a discount as well."

Konohagakure: Chitose's home: later that night

The four people in the house had almost finished their dinner, when there was a heavy banging sound coming from their door. Kakashi grunted and stood up to go see just who had the death wish.

He jerked open the door and was surprised to find an angry looking Hyuga teenager and Tenten. "I am looking for Hinata." The Hyuga said in a furious tone of voice.

"Sorry, I tried to tell him that tomorrow would be a better day to do this." Tenten said with an apologetic shrug.

"Yes, she is here. Why do you wish to see her?" Kakashi asked carefully.

The Hyuga that Kakashi took to be Neji calmed down at that statement and said "I wish to see how she is, and learn just what happened. No one will tell me anything other then 'She disgraced the Clan.'"

"Well, come in then. Just stay calm, or I'll throw you out." Kakashi said seriously.

Neji nodded and then came into the small house.

After gaining entrance to the house, he saw Hinata and went slowly over to her. "Hinata," Neji said in a forced calm voice "Just what did you do? They say you disgraced the clan, and I can see they do not think they are lying, but I know you. You would never do such a thing. So what did you do?" Neji asked sounding supremely puzzled. "This has to be in connection to your being there when the traitor was caught, but, that was no disgrace." Neji said with a shake of his head.

"No, what the disgrace to them was, was that I learned something that night, and I failed to act on it as the clan wished." Hinata said.

"What? What did you learn?" Neji asked sounding even more confused.

"I can not say." Hinata said softly.

"What!?!" Neji half shouted in frustration.

Chitose looked at her mother, who nodded in response. Chitose then sighed and said "She can't tell you, but I can."

"Chitose!" Hinata screeched.

"It's ok Hinata. Tenten is my friend, and she deserves to know, as do my other friends. And Neji, he should know because he was beaten for defending you. Even if he does not agree with your decision, he should know the truth as to what exiled you from your clan." Chitose said softly.

"So, what is this, truth?" Neji asked in a smoldering voice.

"First off, you may never tell anyone from your generation this. It is a village SS-Rank secret." Chitose said, causing both Neji and Tenten to stiffen. "My name may be Chitose now, but until I was adopted by Anko and Kakashi here four years ago, I never had a name. But I did have name before that, in my previous life."

"Previous life?" Neji asked confused. "Are you saying that you are the reincarnation of someone? And the villagers above our generation know this and hold you in contempt for being such? I find that highly doubtful. Even if you are the reincarnation of someone, and even if you knew that, the whole village would not believe it to be so."

"Not unless the entire village witnessed her death and rebirth." Kakashi said sagely.

"Yah, she didn't know who she was in her last life, not until Kakashi spilled the beans to her." Anko then said with a smirk.

"Then what exactly, was your previous name?" Neji asked curiously.

"Kyubi no Yoko." Chitose said softly while looking down.

Tenten collapsed into an empty chair, while Neji straitened himself with shock. "I find that, highly doubtful." He said in a stuttering voice. "I mean I have known you for two years, as merely an acquaintance I'll admit, but you do not act anything like a Demon, and further more, you do not seem to have to raw power that was attributed to Kyubi."

"Oh, I assure you, she is, or really was, Kyubi." Kakashi said as he looked at the two teens. "The forth did several Jutsus on her before he died. One of which was so that when she reincarnated, it be in her human form, and another was to wipe her memory of her past self until she has full access to all her power."

"Why'd he do that? Why didn't he…" Tenten started when Chitose interrupted with

"Didn't he just kill me?" Chitose finished for Tenten with a dark laugh that scared her senseless. "He couldn't. As a Demon, I am a true immortal. If he did kill me, I'd just reincarnate myself shortly there after. So the forth killed me, made me reincarnate in my human form, and wiped my memory of ever being Kyubi." Chitose said sadly. "So, I don't think of my self as her, but rather who I am now, Chitose. Though I do wonder what will happen when I finally do get all my power back, and thus all my memories. Will I stay Chitose as I hope? Become Kyubi again as I fear, or will I just become an amalgam of the two?" Chitose asked with a haunted look.

Neji, after getting over his shock, asked Hinata "So, you found this, truth, out, and I'm assuming that they asked you to forsake Chitose here as a friend. And when you did not do so, they kicked you out." Neji stated.

"Yes." Hinata said.

"I see." Neji said seriously. He then turned to Tenten and said "Tenten, I am suddenly finding myself needing a new domicile. Would it be to much to ask if I could stay with you for a while?"

"Wha, huh?" Tenten asked, seeing as she was still getting used to the things that she had been told just now. Neji sighed and said

"I am not going back to the den of fools that call themselves the Hyuga clan. I have had it with them. I will not go back, not even under the threat of having my seal activated. They are nothing but pitiful fools. Hinata was my only hope for the clan, as I knew she detested the Caged Seal almost as much as I did. She made no secret of that, and over that last few years, I finally saw some hope with the way she had been trying to improve herself. Yet a lot of good that did." Neji said sourly.

"Um, I'll ask my parents." Tenten said with a slight blush.

"I thank you." Neji said to her. Then he turned back to Hinata and said "You did the right thing Hinata. And you, Chitose, I can truly see that you are now, Chitose, and only Chitose. The fools of my clan however, need to have their 'All seeing eyes' checked in my opinion. I do hope that you always stay Chitose though. Good night to you all." Neji said as he turned to leave.

Tenten then stood up and said "I'm still your friend Chitose, don't worry about that, but you better tell your other friends about this soon. And do I have to talk to you later. Sorry, but I gotta go now!" Tenten said as she rushed out after Neji.

"Well, that…, went well." Chitose said in a small shocked voice.

"Yes it did." Anko said. "So when are you telling your other friends." She then asked.

"As soon as I see them again I guess." Chitose said, still sounding a little out of it.

ENA: Not the greatest of chapters I've ever written, but after spending so damn long on it, I declare it done. So, what did you think of this mess I called a chapter? See you next time. Thanks for reading this, bye for now.