Itachi walked up the pathway charismatically as the eyes of the female (some male) parents, workers and older siblings eyed him curiously and whispering.

"Who's this guy?" said on of the jealous boys.

"I don't know but I've seen him before."

"My god he's so hot!" whispered one worker to another.

"I hope he's single!" Itachi was completely oblivious because he was looking for a little angel that was Rin. He got a tap on the shoulder.

"Excuse me sir," said a short blond golden eyed boy with an annoyed face, he was ticked off because Itachi interrupted him when he was explaining something to one of his co-workers when Itachi walked in and she completely shut off her brain and started ogling Itachi. "You can only be here if you're picking up a child." Itachi looked down at the smaller adult.

"But I am," he eyed his name tag, "… Ed."

"Whom may I ask?"

"Uzamaki Rin."

"…..Yep you are a pedophile."

"What?! What did you say!?" he growled looking down irately at the man.

" Ross call Uzumaki-san ask if he sent anyone." Itachi was scowling at the man….Well for starters you're wearing a leather trench coat 'clothing of choice for most kidnappers/pedophiles…and Uzamaki Rin is blonde and blue eyed you Mr. Trench coat have black hair and are black eyed." He said poking Itachi in the chest.

"I'll show you black eyed." He snarled clenching his fists.

" 'Tachi!" Rin squealed in delight as she ran over. "Yay you're picking me up now?"

"When I can." He smiled patting her on the head.

"Yay! I'll get my backpack!" Rin skipped off to the other room.

"Now what were you saying chibi?"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLIN'-" Ed began to yell but a girl called him from the other room popping her head in the doorway.

"What Ross!" she froze in the doorway turning red when she saw Itachi who was nicely (forcing) a smile. "WHAT IS IT ROSS!" she snapped back to life.

"Umm first stop yelling there's no need, and…oh yeah I called Uzumaki-san he said that this fine gentleman here is Uchiha Itachi and is always allowed to pick up Rin."

"Oh." Ed said awkwardly. Itachi gave him a devious grin.

"Well I hate to be short with you but I've got to leave in a little bit." Rin skipped into the room.

"'Kay 'Tachi I'm ready!!"

"Good now lets go." He turned to leave.

"Oh, oh wait, wait 'Tachi do you have a girlfriend?"

"Um no Rin, but you can't be my girlfriend." Itachi swore he heard every single girl yell 'YES!'

"No s'not for me…here." She reached into her pocket and took out a handful of little pieces of paper. Itachi sweat dropped and shook his head putting the numbers in his pocket.

"Tsk Manipulating children…"he sighed taking Rin's hand and walking out.

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"Lee I don't know…I mean what's the counselor gonna do?"

"I'll go with you but you have to tell him what happened on Halloween I wasn't there."

"But I told you about it."

"You need to say it." When 3rd period came the two walked to the counselors' office and knocked on the door.

"Come in," said the friendly voice of Iruka. "Why Gaara I didn't expect to see you here again."

"Tch neither did I…" he said with a sigh to Iruka.

"Stoppit Gaara…erm may I stay Iruka sensei! He will not talk unless I am here." He asked respectfully.

"Of course…now Gaara what brings you here?"

"Lee…" Lee elbowed him in the air and he sighed tiredly sick of talking about the bastard. "Well on Halloween my…attacker confronted me again, but he didn't do any lasting damage."

"What did he do…If I may?"

"Well I'm very sure he came to kill me or at least hurt me more than just a small cut on my face."

"Did you come at the last instant Lee?"

"No."

"…then Gaara do you know…or have any idea why he didn't complete his original umm task."

"Actually I think he's mental."

"Why?"

"He started screaming something about a 'secret'…and he was talking to someone that wasn't there."

"…so…he's insane."

"Yes."

"Have you told the police?"

"Yeah."

"Do you know who it was?" Gaara's eyes narrowed.

"No."

"Does Lee-"

"No!" Iruka wrote something down and looked at the two boys having a sort of staring contest with Gaara.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"What!?" snapped Gaara.

"…nothing. If there is nothing else you both may go." Iruka wrote them Passes and sent them off. After they were out the door Iruka glanced at his notes.

-99 sure he knows who assailant is

- Has most likely spoken to Rock Lee.

Iruka began to pack up and go to his office to grade some papers, he only taught 1st, 2nd, and 8th periods, when Kakashi walked in with a smile. Iruka rolled his eyes at the man.

"Kakashi I'm working."

"Well I'm not." He hummed locking the door, and strutting over to Iruka's desk. Kakashi walked around Iruka's desk and took his hands.

"Kakashi we're in school!"

"So…you're the counselor and your windows are tinted you can only see outside not inside." He pulled Iruka close to his body.

"Kakashi this is completely-" Kakashi placed a supple kiss on Iruka's apprehensive lips. "….Inapro'iate." he finished blushing as Kakashi playfully groped him and leaving a trail of kisses up his neck to his lips causing Iruka to utter a soft moan as his heart raced.

The doorknob rattled and Iruka felt a frown form on Kakashi's lips. He pulled away from Iruka and sat down in the chair. Iruka walked over and opened the door it was Tsunade. She raised a curious eyebrow at the two men but decided it best not to ask.

"Iruka did he tell you who it was yet?"

"No but like I said before he knows who it was."

"Do you have any idea who it might be?"

"Well based upon assumption all I can get is that he may have had some sort of glasses in during the attack nothing yet…except that he may have told another student."

"Who?"

"Rock Lee 3rd year sophomore…but Tsunade-sama why do we need to go into all of this why not just let the police handle it?"

"The police believe that we have a better chance of finding out who it is than they do…you should know that Gaara isn't exactly an open book, especially on this subject."

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That afternoon they were all in the park playing tackle soccer. Ino had the ball. "What do I do now?" she asked for the tenth time.

"Oh for the love of…someone tackle her." Moaned Temari

"B-but I'm on your team!" (AN/ the teams are with captains first as follows, Temari, Ten Ten, Ino, Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, and Sasuke(T2) Shikamaru, Neji, Lee, Gaara, Chouji, Shino and Naruto)

"Just gimme the ball." Temari took the ball and dribbled down the field. Shikamaru was the other teams forward.

"Temari your team can't win you have the most girls, our physical differences will favor us in this match."

"I'm making a point." She faked past Shikamaru and went for the goal.

'Goal Temari 6-5'

She walked back to slowly to her half of the field line. "Now don't forget our bet whomever loses has to help the losing teams captain for a whole week." She sang confidently.

/hour later/

'Game point! Winner Team Shikamaru.

"What we lost!"

"Told you."

"It was barely fair we had a handicap!"

"Just because Ino was doing her hair doesn't make it count as a handicap." Shikamaru said looking at the clouds smirking.

"Well I want you to do what women are supposed to do…I want you to bring me lunch and feed it to me everyday. After school you have to come to my house or vise versa and give me a back massage or what ever else I can think of."

"I'm gonna kill you."

"Yeah before or after you kill Ino."

"Depends who's closer." She stuck her tongue out.

"Well anyway let's start with that backrub shall we?"

"I wouldn't let me close to your neck right now." She mumbled under her breath.

"…who's that?"

"Who's what?"

"Him over there." Shikamaru pointed over to the park, there was some high schooler

terrorizing the younger children.

"Hey!" Shouted Naruto, "He's bothering Rin!" They ran over to the now crying child.

"Hey who are you!?" Naruto growled handing his crying sister to Sasuke who tried to calm her down.

"Shh shh Rin what did he do?"

"H-he hurt my arm." She cried, "I want 'Tachi!"

"What the hell is wrong with you, picking on a 3 year old girl!?" Naruto threw a punch at the stranger who quickly grabbed his arm and twisted it around. Naruto winced in pain when the outsider used him as a shield when Kiba had kicked him.

"Sorry Naruto."

The person smiled defiantly, "No use any of you," he threatened , "You'll all depart this life by his hand, anyway try as you might all you bitter crimson tears shall flow from your lifeless eyes and fuse within the endless macabre resonance bestowing an ever greater supremacy upon the demon divinity." Rin started to cry.

"What the hell is your problem!" yelled Kiba.

"Like I said before," he tightened his grip around Naruto's wrist holding it firmly behind his back, "It matters not I shall have an exultant smile as he drains you of your precious lifeblood." The man let go of Naruto and walked off disappearing into the thin woods behind the park.

"Who the hell was that?" growled Naruto taking his now sniffling sister back into his arms.

"Whomever it was they're obviously inane." Answered Neji taking a seat on the bench.

"Well I have to go home so I can take Rin to the hospital…I think her arms broken."

"…well we better go home then…where's Gaara? Lee too?"

"They left a while after that guy was talking." Said Ino.

"Well since he's with Lee."

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"Lee was running down the road looking for Gaara. "Gaara…Gaara! He panted running as fast as he could.

"L-Lee h-help me…please!" he yelled pleading for Lee to find him.

"Gaara…where are you?!"

"Lee!" Lee took a turn around another block.

"Where are you!?...Gaara!" he heard footsteps and saw someone running away swiftly. "Hey…Wait! Stop!"

"Lee…" Gaara called from the alley next to him.

"Shit, Gaara." Lee bent down over the bleeding teen.

"Lee I…I'm sorry." He raised a hand slowly to take Lee's within his own. Gaara's eyes slowly turned blank.

"Don't say that you're gonna make it…I'll, I'll call an ambulance now."

"No it's useless." Blood spurted from Gaara's mouth. "I won't make it." He closed his eyes.

"Gaara stop it." He screamed shaking him. "Stop it. Stop it!"

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(AN/ god I hated this part Tres soap opera so sad but I fear it's too cliché( I don't know but im actually requesting a certain review for this chapter I want to know what you guys think of Rin and the whole Itachi going soft for her I mean Itachi is usually mean but I thought it would be cute if he just had a total soft spot for this little girl and I wanna know what you guys think about Rin she's not a sue just a oc but I think she's a cute Oc ne? well anyway R&R s'il vous plait))