.:Chapter 7:Dead-Weight:.

I woke up early to get ready for the mission only to find a letter and white rose from Kakashi on my door step. At first I didn't want to read it seeing as I was mad at him, but my curious got the better of me so I opened it.

Dear Kamikaze,

I am very sorry about the other day I didn't mean to make you mad.

The Hokage told me to take you to Ibiki for questioning.

I had to lie to you.

Would you have gone if I had said you were going to be interrogated?

Please don't blame the Hokage either he just wanted what was best for the village.

Please forgive me and I hope you like the white rose.

-Kakashi

"He apologized?"

'Wow never saw that coming,' whispered Shiroi.

I shook my head not wanting to think about it now. "Whatever I got to get going it almost 8:00" I ran out the door heading for the village gates where I would meet my team.

When I got there found Akira and Kiyoko already there waiting for me. "Morning"

"Morning," Akira replied.

"Whatever lets just get going we have a long trip ahead of us." grumbled Kiyoko.

As we jumped though the trees that day I learned a lot about the other two people in the group. They were both chunin and were on the same team as genin. Akira was a healer ninja and great at Genjustu; she was also so very kind and humble. Kiyoko was smart and used earth style justu even though he didn't look it. He was also very rude and bossy.

"Hey dead-weight, hurry up, you're falling behind!" I glared at Kiyoko for the nickname he had gave me and jumped harder to catch up to them. I was tired very, very tired. I had never used my chakra this much before so at this point I wanted to stop and rest. Unfortunately I knew as soon as I opened my mouth and voiced my option Kiyoko would insult me and say no to stopping. Finally after 2 more hours of jumping from tree to tree we stopped for the night.

"Ok I think this looks like a good place!" yelled Kiyoko jumping down from the trees. "I'll start a fire. Hey dead-weight," I looked up as he called me by the same stupid nickname, "can you cook?"

"No"

Sigh, "Useless like always."

"It's ok Kamikaze I'll cook." I looked over at Akira for a second before nodding.

"Ok," I replied. In truth I could cook very well I had always made food for Uncle when he was alive, but I wasn't about the cook for that son of a... I glared at Kiyoko. I took a deep breath, 'No don't get mad at him.' I didn't get mad when he called me dead-weight or snap at him when he insulted me, because I knew everything he said was true… I'm a monster, a witch, useless, dead-weight, and…and… a freak… I don't hate him for saying the truth. It's just like Uncle said. He doesn't understand so I shouldn't hate him for it.

'Hey Kiki kick that guys ass he is really starting to bug me.'

'No Shiroi he is a chunin and has been a ninja for a long time plus he is the leader of this group and I follow his lead. I have only been a ninja for a few weeks I can't hurt him.'

'This stinks I wish we were training with Kakashi he is nicer.'

'Nicer? You think that pile of perverted trash is nice?'

'Yes'

'You're insane…'

"HEY DEAD-WEIGHT stop sit there like a space cadet!"

"Wh…what?" I murmured looking up at the team.

"Y…you spaced out Kamikaze. Are you alright?" asked Akira with a kind smile on her face. "Oh the food is ready."

"Awesome!" Kiyoko yelled snatching his bowl of soup and almost inhaling it.

"Here Kamikaze-san take yours."

"Thanks…"

The next morning we started traveling again at the break of dawn, so we would get there in time to search around a little. My legs were so sore but I didn't mind it just meant I was going to get better after the soreness went away. After running for half the day we made it to the town we would be staying at.

"Akira I want you to check in with the hotel and get some food. Me and dead-weight here will go snooping around a bit ok?" Kiyoko said to Akira who simply nodded and walked off. "Dead-weight we are going to check out the people who own and run everything in this town and see if they know anything so let's go."

"Ok…" I whispered following Kiyoko. We came to a stop in front of an enormous building.

"You search the upper floors and I'll check the lower since I don't really like heights. Met back here in 20 minutes if you are more than 5 minutes late then I'll will think that you are being dead-weight and got caught. I will go looking for you at that point."

"I'll remember that," and like that I was off. I loved heights and climbing, so being on the roof and hanging off the side of the building didn't scare me. I guess it was because Shiroi is a bird, but who knows. I climbed into a vent on the roof of the building making sure to put the top back on the same way it was. I then started crawling in the vent though the huge building. The building turned out to be a huge company building with offices and work rooms. The place was fancy. I went by many rooms but there wasn't anything not of the ordinary it seemed as I took a right and found myself at a dead end.

"Can you trust him?" I froze looking though the vent at the end of the shaft. There were five men in the room all seated at a round table.

"At this time that is the only thing we can do. After all he is like a god he controls the rain and the country." I listened intensely,

'A god?'

"What about the weapon? Can there really be something out there that can destroy the five great nations in seconds?"

'A weapon? Bingo!'

"Yes he said he would explain it all tomorrow at the meeting."

'A meeting, I wonder what time.'

"Ok this meeting is over I have very important details I need to take care of before tomorrow. Remember 12:00 and don't be late or I'll have you kicked out of this company so fast your head will spin!" and with that the man left.

'12:00 tomorrow got it! I got to go tell Kiyoko.' I hurried and crawled though the venting shaft and out on to the roof. I jumped down to meet Kiyoko at the side of the building.

"You're 2 minutes late! What took you so long dead-weight, got lost or something?"

"I found out about the weapon! They're having a meeting tomorrow at 12:00 to talk about it."

"WHAT??!!! Really? That's great we can go check it out tomorrow. Wow I guess you are not dead-weight after all. Come on let's go tell Akira!"