A/N: Hey I'm back! Read on darlings!

Thank you to my Beta Sasuita95!! Hope things get better!

"Um...Arai-chan?" Sakura asked as the group was walking into the village where Tazuna lived. Tazuna was carrying Kakashi.

"Yeah?" Arai asked, distracted.

"What were you and Kakashi-sensei talking about before? You know, right before you two fought Zabuza?" Sasuke glanced at Arai as the girl looked at Sakura.

Arai wasn't sure what to say. She got up in the moment and completely forgot to pretend around the two team members who had no clue about her being from the future. She looked at Kakashi, but the man watched her, waiting to see what she would do.

"It doesn't matter, Sakura. Don't worry about it." Arai said to avoid the subject. Sakura, however wasn't pleased with this answer.

"But you're only twelve and out of the academy like us, so how did you already go on an A-rank mission?" The girl asked. Naruto nodded for emphasis.

Arai scowled. "I told you that I'm advanced. I've done a lot of things-"

"But that's not right! We haven't heard..." Sakura cut off as Arai turned to glare the imfamous Uchiha glare.

"No more Twenty Questions." The girl said. "Until Kakashi is better, I will be your teacher. Stop the talking." The group's eyes widened at her sudden mood change.

"Arai?" Naruto asked. "Is everything alright?" Arai merely nodded.

At Tazuna's house Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter, came into the room where Team 7 was relaxing next to the bed-ridden Kakashi.

"Are you alright, teacher?!" The woman asked, hands on her hips.

"No, but I will be...in about a week..." Kakashi said, feeling nervous under the woman's glare.

"The sharingan is an incredible power but doesn't the strain it puts on your body make you wonder if it's worth it?" Sakura asked.

"This time you took down your strongest foe yet so we can probably relax for a while." Tazuna said, wiping his head after carrying the teacher the way home.

Sasuke glanced looked at Arai as she grimaced lightly from where she was laying, her head on his lap. He frowned, not liking the motion. He didn't pay attention to the others and murmured, "What's wrong with you?"

She closed her eyes and sighed, "It's hard trying to keep up this secret...especially now."

"Why?" Sasuke asked, confused.

Arai stared up at him. "This is a big event in your life is all. If you think about it, it's your first high-rank mission." Sasuke nodded, understanding and returned to paying attention to the conversation.

Team 7 sat around in Kakashi's room just resting from the stressful day yesterday. Arai hummed to herself as she read a scoll, Sasuke sat quietly by himself, Sakura watched the birds outside, and Naruto lay on his back as he stared at the ceiling while Kakashi did the same.

Sasuke looked at Arai. "I have a question, Arai." The group glanced at him.

"What about?" Arai continued to read the scoll. It was a tale about how the monarch butterfly came to be.

"Your sharingan..." He murmured. "You're my age and yet you have a fully developed sharingan."

"What difference does that make?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke looked at him. "Sharingan is usually unique to only a certain number of Uchiha. I haven't even developed mine yet." The three looked back at Arai, who'd stiffened.

She closed the scroll slowly. "I told you...I'm special."

"Why? How come you have it and Sasuke-kun doesn't?" Sakura asked.

Arai sat up and faced them, sadness etched in her features. "Sharingan usually appears in an Uchiha's eyes after training especially hard. Sometimes it is activated because of a tramatic event. Both of these reasons are called for in mine, but unfortunately it's mostly the latter..." She whispered.

"Wha-what happened?" Naruto asked, worried at his friend's pain.

Her bangs covered her eyes. "When I was about eight my parents took me on a picnic to celebrate my getting into the ninja academy. While we were there, we were ambushed by a group of strong ninja. My parents fought the enemies, but while their backs were turned...I was kidnapped." Sakura and Naruto gasped while Sasuke's eyes widened. "The man wanted me because I was an Uchiha. I was forced to train for the next year, developing my sharingan and my skills. The training would've killed a grown man...it's a miracle I'm even alive."

"During that year the man didn't just train me...he also brainwashed me. He made me hate everyone close to me, even my parents." Arai growled. "I was still young and at an impressionable age, so he took advantage of that." Sasuke scowled. "When my parents and close allies finally found me, I hated them. I attacked." She looked away, ashamed. "They had to incapacitate me and take me back home. It took nearly half a year for me to trust them again. That's how I developed my sharingan." She whispered.

They were silent for the longest time. Then Sakura spoke up. "I'm so sorry, Arai."

Arai just smiled, somewhat forcefully. "No worries. What's done is done." She looked at Sasuke, but he didn't make eye contact.

Arai watched in amusement as Naruto and Sakura crept over Kakashi's sleeping form to remove his mask. They murmured lowly to each other so as to not disturb the man while he slept. Naruto reached for Kakashi's mask when suddenly the man's eyes snapped open, causing the two genin to scream and fall back, catching Sasuke and Tazuna's attentions.

Tsunami walked in as Kakashi sat up. "Oh, Kakashi-sensei, you're awake." She said as Sakura whispered harshly to Naruto. Kakashi's hand was over his face, deep in thought.

Naruto seemed to finally notice something was up. "What's wrong, sensei?"

"Huh?" Kakashi pulled out of his thoughts. "Well body erasing teams ususally dispose of the body of the person they killed right there. "

"So what?" Sakura asked.

"Don't you see? How did that masked boy dispose of the body?"

"Ha? How would we know? He took the body with him." Sakura shrugged.

"Yeah...If he needed proof of his work, he could have just taken the head." Kakashi murmured, thinking. "And the weapon that he used to kill Zabuza...Simple needles..."

Suddenly Sasuke's eyes widened as he got it. "No way." Sakura and Naruto looked back and forth between the two shinobi, confused.

"Yeah...exactly." Kakashi scratched the back of his head.

"What are you guys talking about?" Tazuna asked.

"Most likely...Zabuza is alive!" Kakashi said darkly. Sakura, Naruto, and Tazuna gaped in shock as Tsunami frowned, not knowing who Zabuza was.

"What the hell do you mean?!" Naruto screamed.

"Kakashi-sensei, you checked to see if he was dead!" Sakura yelled in agreement. "He was dead, right Arai?" Sakura asked suddenly, turning to the girl.

Arai flinched, causing Sasuke to glare at her. "Um...If what Kakashi said is true, it was most likely a momentary death."

"How is that possible?!" Naruto yelled. "We saw him die!"

Arai avoided Sasuke's gaze. "The needle that the hunter-nin used is used for medical purposes. Unless he actually hit a vital organ, Zabuza had a low chance at dying."

"And did he hit a vital organ?" Sasuke questioned, suspicious of the girl. When Arai didn't answer he said, "Well? You're a medical ninja."

"Yeah!" Sakura said. "Did the ninja hit a vital organ?" Arai's lips tightened. She didn't have an excuse.

Kakashi's sigh saved her though. "It doesn't matter. There's a possibility that Zabuza's alive. The hunter-nin probably did it to SAVE Zabuza. This means that we'll have to prepare before it's too late. Plus whether Zabuza is dead or alive, there's no assurances that Gatou hasn't hired even stronger shinobi."

"Sensei, what do you mean by preparing before it's too late?" Sakura asked. "you can barely move."

Kakashi chuckled. "You guys will recieve training."

"Huh? Training?" Sakura murmured. "What's a little training going to do?! Our enemy is a ninja you struggled with even with sharingan!!" She yelled.

"And who saved me while I was struggling? You guys are growing rapidly." Kakashi smiled. "Especally Naruto! You've grown the most." Naruto smiled at the praise. "But obviously this is just training until I get better. You won't be able to defeat him without me." Here he glanced at Arai knowingly. She smiled back, releaved that the man understood her postion.

"Sounds like a lot of fun!" Naruto yelled, excited.

"That's not fun." A voice called from the dorrway. The group turned to see a little boy in a hat.

"Who the hell are you?!" Naruto demanded.

"Ohh! Inari where were you?" Tazuna cried happily, holding his arms out.

"Welcome back, grandpa." The boy murmured and walked over to him.

"Inari, say hello to these people. They are the ninjas that protected grandpa." Tsunami said. Inari glared.

"Mom...they're going to die."

"What did you say, you little brat?!!" Naruto screamed. Arai sighed as Naruto continued to yell at the little boy. Inari fought back calmly as Naruto became more and more riled up.

She glanced at Sasuke, who wasn't paying attention. She knew she had some explaining to do.

"Okay, now we start training." Kakashi said as the group of genin stood in the forest with him. He was supported by crutches.

"Hell yeah!" Naruto yelled.

"But first I would like to talk about chakra..." Arai ignored him. She tried to think back to her father's stories. What was this part? '....' she closed her eyes in concentration.

*FLASHBACK (oooooohhhh!)*

Arai, now 6, sat at her father's feet, waiting. The man was reading a scroll, completely ignoring his daughter's previous question. Her cheeks puffed in annoyance.

"Daaaaaddd!!" She complained obnoxiously, knowing it would get his attention.

Sasuke put down his scroll and gazed at the little girl, a small smile fighting its way onto his lips. his black eyes were filled with merriment. "Yes?"

"Tell me a story!" She asked, pulling his pants leg. "Tell me about when you were in Team seven!"

Sasuke sighed and placed his scroll to the side, knowing that he'd never get rid of the pest until she got her way. He lifted her onto his lap and thought for a moment. "Did I tell you the one where I learned how to climb trees?" He asked.

Arai crossed her arms. "That's stupid, dad! Something exciting!"

Sasuke smirked. "Did I tell you how I learned to climb trees...with no hands?" He asked, his smirk widening as his daughter's eyes shone.

"No! Tell me! Tell me!" She hopped up and down in his lap.

"Okay, okay." Her father hushed her. "You see..." Arai listened as her father began telling her the story. She commented when possible.

"Sasuke!" They heard a voice call from the kitchen. "Is the chicken supposed to turn black?!" Arai instantly recognized her mother's voice.

Her dad cursed and quickly put her on the couch to run to the kitchen as the fire alarm went off and her mother's yells mixed with it.

*END*

"TREE CLIMBING?!" The yell startled Arai out of her thoughts. She sighed. 'At least there'll be no trouble with this...' She thought.

"...How?" Sakura asked as Arai began paying attention again.

Kakashi turned to Arai. "Will you demonstrate?" He asked. Arai nodded and made a hand sign, concentrating her chakra into her feet. "Now watch." Kakashi said to the rest of the genin.

When Arai finished gathering chakra, she turned to the tree behind and and walked forward. She put her foot on the tree and step by step began walking up it.
"Do you understand now?" she asked, hanging upside down and watching the group. They stared in amazement.

"Gather chakra into the bottom of your feet and climb up a tree." Kakashi smiled. "This is something you can do once you can use chakra well, As Arai will teach you."

A/N: Sorry I ended it there, but I got bored. You know what happens at this point. Who liked Arai's little flash back? Sorry if Sasuke's OOC but he's supposed to be. He changes in the future. Hahah! Arai's mom set the kitchen on fire!

I have a question.

Should I have Naruto and Sakura find out that Arai's from the future within the next chapter or so or should they wait until around the Chuunin exams? It won't change much, I'm just curious.

R&R PLEASE!!!