Hinata and Rin had already eaten out and were no practicing sensing chakra in the woods. They didn't go anywhere unparticular, but they did go pretty far out so they wouldn't be disturbed by people who were walking by or were looking for a place to train. Hinata and Rin were both standing up making slow arm movements so they could concentrate better. Neither of them were talking at the moment so they could concentrate even better. Their eyes were both closed so they could only hear things around them and not actually see them.

Rin felt pretty good about this training so far. She hadn't trained with anyone in such a long time, not that it matter or anything. No one was willing to train her at her old village. It wasn't until she left did she meet someone who furthered her training without her consent.

"Rin?" Hinata asked her.

"Yes?" Rin responded without opening her eyes.

"Good, keep your eyes closed and now try to find me. I'm going to walk away a little and I want you to find me with your ears."

"Alright." Rin nodded as she stood still.

Hinata moved six feet back and eight feet to Rin's left. Rin never moved or wavered when Hinata had moved, she stayed as still as a ninja in hiding would have.

"Where am I?" Hinata asked her.

Rin turned like a solder and pointed directly at Hinata without opening her eyes.

"Come and touch my hand." Hinata told her.

So Rin walked forward towards Hinata who now had her arm extended out. As she grew closer Hinata then began to move away to her left, Rin's right, and stepped on some twigs that mad a crack noise. Rin followed her as if her eyes were opened the whole time. She finally walked a little quicker and got Hinata's hand.

"Got cha'!" Rin laughed as she opened her eyes.

"Good. Now close your eyes again. I want you to find me again. Use your ears and try to feel things too with the ground. Got it?"

"Got it." Rin smiled as she closed her eyes again.

Hinata then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"FIND ME!" She yelled from a distance.

'Some how I knew she'd do something tricky like this.' Rin thought to herself as she turned in the direction she heard Hinata. As she walked straight forward. As soon as she took a few steps forward she heard the leaves in the tree rustle from ahead of her going towards her and then behind her. 'HUH! She moved through the trees. But I heard her so now she is directly behind me just like she was when she was in front of me.'

Rin turned on a dime and was looking, with her eyes still shut, at Hinata who was on the ground in front of her ten yards away.

"You're hearing is pretty good!" Hinata yelled to her. "But it's one thing to know where your enemy is, you have to know where they are at all times."

Hinata then jumped into the trees and landed in one. She took out of her pocket a rock and threw it overtop of Rin so it landed to Rin's right. Hinata figured Rin would turn towards the rock but to her surprise she turned in the direction where Hinata was hiding in the tree. Hinata figured Rin knew she was up in the tree but Rin was pointing dead ahead of her no where near where Hinata was hiding.

"I know that noise I heard wasn't you. You must have thrown something because I felt the wind it through off as you through it over my head. You're over there…somewhere." Rin said as she pointed towards the area she thought Hinata would be standing. Hinata was there, but she was up in the tree watching Rin walk straight ahead with her arm straight out hoping that she would get Hinata's arm again like she did the first time.

FLASHBACK

"So do you know the first part of sensing chakra?" Hinata had asked Rin when they got to where they would practice.

"Not a clue!" Rin spoke honestly.

"You need to use your chakra to sense your chakra when you first learn to sense chakra."

"Really?" Rin laughed. "Use chakra to find chakra. That sure is cool."

"You need to send out your chakra out like radar to find someone." Hinata continued to tell her. "But this radar just can't go straight, it has to go everywhere. You need to be able to sense your enemy everywhere! Now the more chakra you put in the better your chances are at finding, er sensing, the person or thing you're after."

"But what about sensing things with your guard down?" Rin asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Like, taking a walk and then all of a sudden feeling another presence out there watching you."

"It takes practice you see? It's not like you always use this method that I'm going to teach you. Soon you just find your own way of sensing people or objects that are coming at you. Soon you won't really have to use your chakra at all. But you always need to keep calm as you try, or don't try, to sense things and chakra. Eventually after doing it and feeling it you won't really need to….well…all I'm saying is soon you can just feel it. You can feel things coming at you, and you'll be able to sense another person's chakra level. You know when you get the chills? Well it almost feels like that. When a chakra lever is super high sometimes you don't need to try to sense it to feel it. When you do feel it, let's say it's really big, you can feel it all over you it feels like. Don't worry; soon you'll be able to feel it too. So now let's start just breathing and feeling the air. Close your eyes and move your arms like this in a slow….and a calm motion."

END FLASHBACK

Rin stopped walking as she remembered that Hinata told her to sense someone not just in front of you but everywhere. Rin tried her best to use her chakra. She sent some of it to everywhere in her body and sent it out. Her eyes almost widened at what she was feeling.

"I have goosebumps." Rin said. Hinata smiled.

'I think she's getting it.'

"You're up in that tree." Rin said as she opened her eyes to confirm it. "YOU'RE UP IN THE TREE! YOU'RE UP IN THE TREE! I FOUND YOU! WOOOHOOOO!!!"

Hinata jumped down in front of her. "Congratulations. I knew you could do it. But now I taught you one of three things you must learn. You can sense people when you're looking for them, now you need to learn how to dodge things coming at you that have no chakra at all."


Up in Sunagakure not much was happening out of the ordinary. People were given assignments and were finishing them on time, a pile of papers was being piled up non stop, and your older brother was bugging you about training with him. So it was a normal day, if you were the Kazekage that is.

Gaara was so frustrated with all his new paper work and his brother wasn't making it any easier for him. He kept declining Kankuro's requests to train since they hadn't done any together in a while and by the way things were going he might just never go training again.

Kankuro was leaning over Gaara's desk and stared at him as he continued to his paperwork calmly.

"Come one Gaara!" Kankuro pleaded. "It'll be a big stress reliever from all this paperwork you're doing."

"The paperwork isn't stressing me, but my older brother sure is." Gaara said without looking up.

"Kankuro!" The stern voice of Temari, their older sister, yelled as she threw open the door. "Leave Gaara alone, he's the Kazekage for Christ-sake!"

"Exactly why we should train together." Kankuro told her. "He hasn't done so in such a long time that soon he won't be good to anyone in Suna! We need to get him out there for a while, little air and exercise never killed anyone before."

"You truly are getting on my last nerve." Gaara said again as he continued paperwork.

"See Kankuro, you're bugging the Kazekage! Now GET OUT!" Temari yelled.

"Not until Gaara trains for a while." Kankuro told her. "We need to see if he can fight now that the Shukaku is no longer in him. He'll have to learn how to fend for himself and not always rely on the sand coming up and protecting him anymore."

"…You do bring up a good point Kankuro but….Gaara what are you looking for?" Temari asked as she noticed her brother looking threw a bunch of papers frantically.

"I'm trying to find a suicide mission for Kankuro." He told her as she shuffled through his papers some more.

"Aw come on Gaara!" Kankuro yelled.

"..huh….however you do bring up at good point." Gaara told him making both his sister and his brother go wide eyed. "I will have to start learning some new and different techniques now that the Shukaku's power is no longer in me." Gaara let out a sigh and then began to smirk. "Alright, where will we train?"


The sunset was now coming down fast as Rin and Hinata were out of breath collapsed on the ground. Rin had a huge smile on her face and four kunai in her hands. Scratches were clearly on both of them but not so much serious ones. Hinata began to sit up and as she did she chucked a kunai she had in her left hand at Rin. Without much effort Rin hit the kunai away with one swing from her hand that was holding all her own kunai.

"Nice work." Hinata panted. "You sure do….learn fast!"

"…thank…..s." Rin panted as she sat up. "I just….can't believe…it was all that easy!"

"I told ya' so!" Hinata smiled. "So….I helped you….when will you help me?" Hinata asked her.

"As soon…..as you want." Rin told her. "But listen….you're not even stuttering!"

"I'm…almost out of breath….so it's…pretty rare that I would." Hinata told her. "I guess you…could say I….really only…stutter around people who…..intimidate me or….people I don't know."

"And Naruto!" Rin laughed.

Hinata began to blush and she fell on her back exhausted. Rin only laughed at her.

"Sorry Hinata." She laughed. Hinata threw one of her arms up in the air and gave Rin the thumbs up sign which made Rin laugh some more.

'hmmmmmm.' Rin sat up no in Indian style and began to focus. She was trying to sense Hinata's chakra.

"Wow!" Rin almost yelled.

"What?" Hinata asked alert as she quickly sat up.

"Hinata…you have soooooo much chakra. You really don't show it, I don't even think you used all of it when we were fighting."

"No…I guess not." Hinata then began to focus just like Rin and tired to feel Rin's chakra level. Hinata made a very confused face. "That's odd."

"What's odd?" Rin asked.

"Your chakra….it goes up and down along with your breathing. Are you suppressing your chakra?" Hinata asked her.

Rin's face was a mixture of sadness and unsure-ness. "I am." She put simply.

"But why?" Hinata asked.

"I…..I don't want to be found." She said as she looked down at the ground to avoid Hinata's eyes.

"By who?" Hinata asked as she crawled her way over closer to Rin. She kneeled in front of Rin who was now sitting on her knees like Hinata.

"By village." Rin said in a shaky voice. "I don't want them to find me." This time she had tears going down her face yet her eyes were still wide opened. Her body was shaking and she grew insecure.

"Rin, why are you hiding from your village?" Hinata asked. "Is that why you're in Konoha? Are you really hiding?"

"No!" Rin explained as she looked up at Hinata. "I am looking for someone, but lately I just don't care to find them anymore."

"Why not?" Hinata asked surprised that she was getting so much information out of Rin like this.

"Well….now I have friends and really don't feel so alone." She said as she began to smile.

"Rin, we're friends you know." Hinata told her. "I trust you. If you don't want to tell me about your village or why you're here I understand."

Rin smiled bigly at Hinata. No one was pushing her to spill the beans. Hinata was just letting her keep to herself. Rin quickly wrapped her arms around Hinata.

"Thank You!" she cried.

Hinata smiled and returned the hug.

"You're welcome."


Kankuro was giving his brother a real good workout. He was throwing tons of moves at Gaara and was surprised that he was dodging them with such ease.

'Looks like I was wrong.' Kankuro thought. 'He not only doesn't need his sand to protect him but he can protect himself and return a blow a ten fold!'

"I can see how surprised you are…..Kankuro!" Gaara told him as he began to get short of breath.

"It's like you can read minds!" Kankuro laughed as he got Karasu to attack Gaar more directly again. As soon as it did a huge gust of wind blew it away from Gaara.

"Hey! Temari…what gives?" Kankuro asked.

Up high on a near by building stood Temari with her huge fan out as if she was about to use it.

"You're training the Kazekage right? Well it isn't much of a workout if only one person is attacking him, so why not two?" she asked as she smirked.

"Sure why not!" Kankuro yelled to her. "I'm getting my butt kicked anyhow."

Temari jumped down and as soon as her feet touched the floor she swung her fan at Gaara throwing off guard and fifty yards away.

"Hey!" Gaara yelled ticked off as he stood up to brush himself off.

"Keep your guard up Kazekage!" she yelled as she swung her fan again causing an explosion where Gaara was standing.


Hinata and Rin were now at the Hotel Rin was staying at. It was almost dark out and Hinata would be late for dinner with her family.

"Have a good night Hinata." Rin told her as she waved goodbye to Hinata.

"You too!" Hinata smiled as she waved goodbye to Rin.

Hinata continued to walk away towards The Hyuuga compound. She walked all the way there with a smile on her face.

'It's still a surprise that Rin was able to learn everything I had to teach her in one day. I wish I could learn things that fast. She sure is a good ninja….even though she keeps saying she isn't. I still wonder though…..why is she so afraid of her village finding her? If I had to guess with all the information I was just giving I would think she was a missing Nin. Why I don't understand is her suppressing her chakra, I mean I know she's trying not to be found by her village but even when she suppresses it it looks like the normal amount. So how much chakra does she really have? Also, if she no longer suppressed her chakra how would her village find her? That must be it, she really must have a lot of chakra. But then….she would have to have so much chakra or else it would have to have a strange sort of ora around it….almost….hmmm?'

Hinata stopped walking and turned around to face the way she had just come.

"Byakugan!" she said as she looked towards the hotel Rin was at.

'There it is…now where is Rin?' Hinata looked around and then she saw Rin's body walking up the stairs. 'Why doesn't she just take the elevator? Those are a lot of stairs to…focus Hinata!' she ordered herself. She then took a better look at Rin so that she could see her chakra system. 'Okay, I see her suppressed chakra…now let's see how much she has.' Hinata put more chakra to her eyes so she could better her vision and would be able to see Rin's suppressed chakra. 'no way!' Hinata thought as a shiver went through her body. 'I've never seen this kind of chakra before….it's so….demonic!'

As soon as Hinata thought that Rin stopped walking up the stairs. She stopped dead in mid step which made Hinata very confused. Hinata watched as Rin looked to her right, which was in the opposite direction of Hinata, then Rin slowly turned her head to the left and was now looking dead center at Hinata.

"HUH!" Hinata gasped. Hinata quickly turned her Byakugan off and turned around, although her feet would not let her go anywhere. She felt as frozen as a statue but her left leg began to twitch and then she could feel herself walking again.

"That was…..Rin?" Hinata asked herself. 'Her eyes….they looked right at me. It was as if she could see me too! Wait a second.' Hinata began to think about what she saw exactly!

'Rin's eyes weren't just looking at me, but…..her eyes…now that I think of it I could have sworn they looked like she was also using….'

"Byakugan." Hinata whispered out loud.


"Kazekage!" yelled a medical ninja as five of them rushed the body of Gaara on a stretcher to the emergency room. "Please Stay with US!" the medical ninja yelled loudly as the others moved their feet with quickness.

"I don't understand!" Temari yelled as she ran along side them. "What happened?"

"Temari, PLEASE get out of our way!" another medical ninja yelled. Kankuro grabbed Temari's arm and she stopped running after Gaara as he was rushed behind a pair of double doors.

"We need to wait over here." Kankuro told Temari as he pulled her over to a bench.


An hour later Temari and Kankuro were greeted with a medical nin who had been looking after Gaara.

"His body is facing exhaustion and chakra depletion." The nin told them.

"But his chakra was just fine right before he passed out!" Kankuro yelled.

"Yes, but it seems his body isn't used to only surviving to just normal chakra. His body was always used to the demonic chakra he always got from the demon inside him."

"Huh!" Temari and Kankuro both gasped.

"We're not sure how long he's going to last." He told them grimly making them both realize how serious the entire situation really was.

"But…what can we do? How can he be saved?" Kankuro asked him.

"He'll need demonic chakra, and I don't see how we can get that without encountering a demon. And the whole idea of that just seems to be out of the question. There's nowhere where we can find such chakra!"

"Then…Gaara.." Kankuro said sadly.

"No!" Temari said with authority. "There is a place where we can get the chakra from a demon."

"What?!" The doctor exclaimed.

"Temari…how? Where?" Kankuro asked.

"In Konohagakure." She told them as her bangs hid her eyes. Then her eyes popped right back into focus as she spoke the words, "From Naruto!"