"I can't believe Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled angrily. "All those missions sucked." I sighed and leaned against a tree with my arms crossed. "Why can't we have something a little better?"

"Because Kakashi-sensei thinks we're not ready." Sakura said, arguing with him.

Missions, D-ranked missions. That's all we had been getting for the past two weeks I'd been on this team, and I guessed that Naruto thought if he complained, we'd get better missions; it wasn't happening. Harder missions were reserved for more advanced shinobi, such as Chunin, Jounin and such. D-ranked missions were for the Genin that had just graduated the Academy and were beginning to develop their skills. Naruto just didn't understand that, he thought he was all tough and could do anything. But most Genin were that way, too full of pride.

"Well maybe he's holding us back." Naruto said, not meaning it in the least.

"Yeah right." Sakura said, rolling her eyes "He knows what's best for us. That's why he's a sensei Naruto."

"Demo-."

I glanced over at Sasuke not hearing him say anything and found him looking at me. I stared at him for a second and looked down. Sasuke had been staring at me lately, since the day after the meadow incident. We didn't have anytime alone, and that made me a little more comfortable than I usually was when I was with my team. I didn't want time alone with him, I didn't want to know what he was thinking behind his dark eyes. I knew that he was a kind of person that would understand me, but I didn't feel like I could trust someone just yet. I'd need a little more time. Sakura didn't really talk to me that much, well she didn't talk to me alot in the beginning but ever since the dinner incident she'd avoided me. I guessed she was upset about the Sasuke buying me dinner thing, but her not talking to me just gave me more time to my own thoughts.

"Sada, are you ok? You seem distracted."

Naruto, he was out there. He tried talking to me everyday since we went out to dinner, it was like his goal to be Hokage, he never dropped it. He was very nice to me, but he wasn't very knowledgeable about the things I said. Every time he asked me something about my home and he didn't understand it, Sasuke would explain it and call him loser afterwards; this team was extremely insane. I nodded, and he sighed.

"Are you sure?" he asked, not seeming like he wanted to drop it. I nodded again, and he sighed again. Two sighs meant he'd give up for now.

"Alright team." Kakashi said, appearing out of no where.

"Aghhh!" Sakura yelled, jumping backwards.

"Woah, why'd you do that for Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Well-"

"You just had to pop out of no where and scare us like that." Naruto said, rolling his eyes.

"Ha ha, he didn't scare me." Sakura lied, putting her hands on her hips.

'He did too.'

"Losers." Sasuke muttered.

I glanced over towards the river and stared down into the cool blue water. It was so clear, I could see some of the fish swimming around in it. I was also kind of daydreaming about the water. How awesome would it be to actually walk on water? Do cartwheels, back flips, all kinds of awesome moves on water. Maybe even dancing. That would just be so much fun.

"So what are we doing now sensei?" Sakura asked, breaking the awkward silence. I looked away from the river and towards Kakashi, wondering the same thing.

"We have another mission." Kakashi replied.

"Is it a good one?" Naruto asked excitedly. He jumped up and down a bit in excitement but also in impatience.

"You'll see, now let's go." Kakashi said leading us off.

Naruto looked at him disappointed for him keeping secrets but followed without complaining. We head towards the missions assignment building, and I looked around the room for a few seconds, not listening to anything going on. I never really did a bunch of paying attention at the beginning of these things, too much unnecessary information. I finally looked at the Hokage sitting behind a desk, he apparently already had a mission in mind for us.

"You'll be escorting Tazuna to his home in the Land of Waves." the Hokage told. Naruto started muttering something about how he wanted to escort a princess, and Tazuna said with an unimpressed tone

"You've got to be kidding me. These brats are supposed to be protecting me?"

"Tazuna a Jounin will be accompanying you so you need not worry." said the Hokage.

Tazuna gave a short nod, most likely disappointed at the so called "lack" of protection, and his eyes wandered over our squad. He really didn't look all that impressed with us. He let a sigh escape his lips and turned his eyes away from us.

"When are we leaving?" asked Tazuna, looking at Kakashi.

"In one hour." Kakashi replied. "Everyone, go home and pack supplies. We don't know how long we'll be gone."

"Hai sensei." Sakura said respectfully.

"Gotcha Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said in his carefree tone.

"Hn." Sasuke muttered.

I just stared at Kakashi with a blank expression on my face and walked home. I walked into my apartment and looked around thoughtfully. 'I'd really like to have a bigger apartment…or maybe even a house. That'd be really nice…an actual house.' I sighed and headed to my bedroom to pack some clothes, my ninja gear, and some food. Once I had finished there I walked to the gates of the village to wait for my team. I looked around for a few minutes and finally leaned against a tree. I closed my eyes for a few minutes and heard footsteps. I opened my eyes and saw Sasuke walking towards me. 'What does he want?'

"Sada." he said.

"Sasuke." I acknowledged.

"Why do you do this to yourself?" he asked. I looked at him curiously, wondering what he was going to say, and he stared at me. "Isolate yourself, you're always alone."

"So are you." I pointed out. He looked angry with me for a second but finally looked away from my eyes.

"Caring about people is weak." he said, sounding emotionless. "If you care about someone, there's always that chance they're going to get hurt. Then it will hurt you."

"That's what happened to you." I stated quietly, remembering how he'd told me about him losing everyone he cared about.

I felt bad for him, I knew he lived alone with no family. Naruto was the same way, but it didn't seem like it was really hurting him the way it hurt Sasuke. By the way he'd sounded when he told me about losing everyone, it sounded like he felt betrayed. I guessed that it might've been someone he knew that had killed his family, it really was awful. Sasuke nodded and looked at me again.

"Is that what happened to you?" he asked, wondering why I was hurting. I shook my head and looked away, not feeling like I was ready to talk about it. "Then what is?"

"I can't talk about it." I whispered, rubbing my arm self-consciously.

"Like I said before, you can but you choose not to." I looked up at him seeing him put his hand above my head and lean in closer. "You can tell me you know." he whispered in my ear. I flinched slightly, not understanding his closeness, but he continued. "Most people probably wouldn't understand, but I will. I won't judge you."

I looked up at him through my lashes, I was scared. Scared about how I believed that he would understand me, I didn't understand how someone I'd known for only two weeks could have an effect like this on me. I wanted to be able to trust him, I wanted someone I could call a friend. I'd lost Haku, and it seemed like Sasuke was someone that could make up for that vacant place in my heart.

"Sasuke-kun!" yelled Sakura.

Sasuke moved away from me and leaned against another tree with closed eyes, ignoring Sakura. I looked down again, wishing that I could make myself talk to him, and heard Kakashi say

"Alright team, ready to leave?"

"Oh yeah! Let's go! Village Hidden in the Mist here we come!" Naruto yelled with enthusiasm. Tazuna rolled his eyes, not amused in the least, and Kakashi sighed.

"Come on team." he said, getting out his book.

Sakura sighed and followed Kakashi without looking at Sasuke. She seemed rather sad, I felt bad for her. Sasuke finally opened his eyes from thinking, or whatever he was doing, and followed Kakashi as well. I walked behind them, very slowly, as usual. We walked for a good few hours, we didn't come upon any threats. But my guard went up when I saw a puddle appear in the middle of the dry season, that made no sense. 'Meizu and Gouzu the demon brothers, they work for Zabuza. I remember meeting them when I was with Zabuza...it was only for a few minutes, but I bet they remember me.' I looked around and saw that nobody, besides Kakashi, had noticed anything suspicious. 'What should I do?' Suddenly chains wrapped around Kakashi, and Sakura screamed in terror. Naruto had just noticed what happened and stood there in shock. I glanced over at Sasuke, and he was reaching for his weapons pouch, too slowly. I looked up from my feet, and Meizu smirked.

"Well if it isn't Sada." he said in an amused tone.

"We didn't think we'd see you again." Gouzu said, sounding just as amused.

"I'll go ahead and say this is the last time you'll ever see me as well." I said with a cold tone.

"Well go for it little girl." they said in unison. I glared at them and did some complicated handsigns. 'Childhood fears jutsu.'

It was a genjutsu, darkness related of course, it made anyone trapped in the jutsu see their childhood fears. Everything they used to fear up to the age of ten as a child, came back to haunt them in the genjutsu. No one could break free of it, at least I didn't think so. No one had managed to, so I guessed there was no way anyone could break free of it. Screaming, tons of screaming from them. I stared at them for a moment and finally looked back at my team.

'They're...afraid of me.' Sakura had a look of horror on her face, Naruto looked like he didn't understand how I even did that, Kakashi was looking at me with some complicated looked that I couldn't decipher, Tazuna wasn't really looking at me, Sasuke though his face stood out the most. He had a look of interest on his face, along with confusion as if he didn't understand my technique, and there was slight...worry? 'He was...worried about me?'

"Well...job well done Sada." Kakashi said after a few moments of silence, besides the screaming of the brothers. "If you wouldn't mind, could you release the genjutsu so I could question them on why they were trying to kill Tazuna?"

I nodded and released the jutsu. I backed up slowly and ran into the trees. I didn't go far, just far enough to where they couldn't see me from where they were standing. I leaned against a tree and looked down, closing my eyes. 'Why is everyone afraid of me? I only wanted to protect them? Why are people so judgmental? They don't understand how my village is, or how my techniques work. Why did I have to be stupid enough to use a darkness technique? I could've just used-'

"How did you do that?"

I looked up, snapping out of my thoughts, and saw Sasuke. He was staring at me, but not like he normally did; he was staring straight into my eyes. He was close as well, close enough to where I couldn't move away from him.

"Well?" he asked.

"It's one of my villages techniques." I whispered.

"It was advanced though, I could tell. How'd you...you're so..." He stopped, he seemed frustrated. More with himself than me. "You've acted so innocent and fragile the whole time you've been here, quiet, avoiding eye contact with everyone." he said, right when I looked down. He grabbed my chin and made me make eye contact with him. "Avoiding people, only talking about yourself when asked, and sad. You're always so sad, now this happens. You're so scared about what people think about your techniques. What's happened to you?"

"I-"

"Sasuke, Sada come on!" Kakashi yelled.

Sasuke sighed annoyed and walked out of the trees. I slowly followed him and looked at my other companions. Sakura was looking ahead as she walked, trying her hardest to ignore me, and Naruto was looking back at me. Sasuke was a few feet ahead of me so when Naruto walked back to me, I saw Sasuke glare at him.

"Hey Sada." Naruto greeted. I nodded and continued staring at the ground. "Are you ok?" I nodded again. "That technique was so awesome."

'Woah, that's a shocker.' I looked up at him curiously, and he grinned. It felt like he was trying to make friends with me.

"Arigato." I whispered, playing with a strand of my hair.

"So I was wondering, how did you learn it?" he asked curiously.

"It was a technique from my home village." I whispered, wondering why he'd asked such an obvious question. He nodded and said

"Well…I just wanted you to know that if you ever need someone to train with I'm here, okay?" I nodded to him, and he grinned again. "I'm going to make sure we're not being followed." I nodded for what felt like the tenth time, and he started throwing kunai in random directions.

"Loser." Sasuke muttered. I stared at the ground for a few minutes before I heard Naruto apologizing.

"I'm sorry Mr. Rabbit." he was saying.

'I know that rabbit, it's-'

All of a sudden mist blanketed the area. 'Oh no.' I swallowed nervously, this wasn't good. 'Zabuza.' There he was, my old master, Zabuza standing before us. This wasn't good at all, he would recognize me as soon as he saw me. I made my way to the very back of the group and stood behind them but kept my guard up. I wasn't going to let him see me...at least not yet.

"Well if it isn't Zabuza, the rouge ninja from the Village Hidden in the Mist." Kakashi said.

I looked at the ground not listening to Kakashi talk about Zabuza's past, since I already knew it, and tried my best to think of a strategy. I knew for one that Sakura wasn't going to be of any help, Sasuke would, and most likely Naruto. Of course Kakashi would attack him first, and if he wasn't careful he would get caught in Zabuza's jutsu. Hopefully that didn't happen, and I wouldn't have to show myself to him.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yelled.

I looked up and saw Kakashi fighting Zabuza. I watched for mistakes, he was starting to get sloppy. 'No.' He was caught, Zabuza had imprisoned him in water. 'I can't go against Zabuza, he knows my techniques.' My eyes wandered to my team, and I shook my head. 'Out of all of them I have the best chance of winning since I know his techniques, but I have a chance of losing since he knows mine. I have to do this on my own.' I sighed and made my way through them to the front. He had made a clone and Naruto, being the idiot he was, had tried attacking him. I finally was infront of the group, and I moved my hair out of my face; something I hadn't done in years.

"Sada." Zabuza acknowledged. I looked at him and nodded. "I didn't think I'd ever see you again."

"That means that both of us thought that." I said quietly.

"So you still talk in that innocent voice of yours eh?" he asked smirking. "Trying to convince everyone that you're as innocent as you look?"

"You don't know anything, nothing at all." I snapped.

"Of course not, I haven't seen you since-" he started.

"You betrayed me." I finished.

"It was business." he said amused. "You can join me again since you finally escaped." I heard Sakura gasp behind me, and I took a few steps forward.

"She wouldn't." Naruto whispered.

"You think that, but I have new loyalties." I stated. "A new village to serve, and I like it there. My loyalties don't waver, only when my trust in someone is broken do I change."

"Of course." he mused. "You're angry with me and seeking revenge." I nodded and glared at him. "Well, if you believe you can defeat me then try."

Mist, thicker than before, I could barely see anything. I listened. 'Now.' I dodged the sword and did a few back flips for distance. I quickly did some handsigns and watched the mist be replaced by darkness. 'Engulfing the world in darkness jutsu.' A chuckle.

"So you've made a new technique? Interesting, but it won't help you."

I focused my thoughts and finally opened my eyes. I could see in the dark, perfect. I ran at him, did a front flip over him, and stabbed him with a kunai. 'Waterclone, where's the other?' I dodged again, the sword inches from my face. I made handsigns, tons of handsigns. 'Dark Death-'

BAM

I rolled across the ground, my darkness fading from the world since I wasn't focusing. I hadn't had enough time to perfect this jutsu, I was screwed. I held my hands over my eyes, my eyes stinging.

"Did you think I had forgotten how to stop your dark jutsus?" he asked amused.

'Crap, this isn't good.' He knew, I'd thought he'd forgotten but he hadn't. My people could not create darkness, we could only manipulate it. That's why we had to close our eyes to make our dark jutsu's; it was the only darkness available in the day time. I held my eyes, listening for him. I was in trouble, blinded for now; this wasn't good. 'There.' I dodged and did backhand spring with one hand. 'Crap.' I felt someone grab me, and Naruto said

"Stay right here, you can't see. We'll take this jerk down, believe it!"

I plopped on the ground and held my eyes, they stung big time. 'Did he actually punch my eyes, or did he throw something and pretend to punch?' I didn't know anything but they hurt. A few minutes passed, I had no clue what was going on. Then all the noise stopped. 'Did they actually manage to defeat Zabuza?' I heard a boy say a few things, but they were all running together. I was so dizzy, I couldn't understand anything; it was mainly because of my eyes. If I'd been more careful this wouldn't have happened.

"Kakashi-sensei are you alright?" Sakura asked worried. Not hearing an answer from Kakashi, Sasuke said

"He's passed out, we have to make the rest of the journey on our own." I nodded still holding my eyes and carefully stood up.

"Are you alright Sada-chan?" Naruto asked.

"Just blinded for now, it should wear off soon enough." I whispered.

"Sakura, help Sada walk." Sasuke ordered. "Naruto and I will help Kakashi."

"Ok Sasuke." Sakura said. She grabbed my arm and said "Follow us Tazuna-san, we'll get you there safely."

"Alright." Tazuna said. We walked, and nothing was said for the longest time. I had no clue where we were, but Sakura continued to lead me like Sasuke had told her. "We're here." Tazuna said. 'Great, we made it through. Now we just have to make sure the bridge is built, and we can leave.' "This is my house, get some rest kids." We nodded, and a woman said

"I'll show you all to your rooms. This is the boy's room, your sensei's room is next door, and the girls are right across the hall."

"Arigato." Sakura said. She led me into a room and said "Sit down here." I nodded and sat as instructed. "It's a bed, get some sleep. You really need it." I nodded and laid back on the bed. I finally lost consciousness.

Author's Note: So...yeah. There you go, I didn't have to do too much rewriting on this story so I was pretty happy about that. A little more description, nothing big. Oh, and I'm gonna rename the story...I don't know to what, but something...I need a little more time to think on it.

PREVIEW:CHAPTER EIGHT

I nodded and walked through the forest thinking. 'I wonder if that Onin was really what he said he was. Zabuza has tons of supporters, one of them could have been pretending to be an Onin to save his life.' I sighed quietly and looked up from the ground. 'Why do I have to feel so alone all the time?' I leaned against a tree and closed my eyes. 'Nande?'

"It's been a long time Sada-chan." I heard a voice say. I opened my eyes and stared at the boy standing infront of me.

"I haven't seen you in years." I said in a soft tone. He smiled, and without thinking, I hugged him.

"I've missed you." Haku whispered, holding me close to him.