Chapter 9: the mission

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Chapter 9: the mission

Lily woke up to the alarm going off near her head. When she sat up she heard some commotion from out side her door.

"Dragon, we're all up so don't worry about us ok?" Lily heard Tara say from the other side of the door. She got out of bed and grabbed her towel and her brush. When she looked over to her bed she saw Tori opening her eyes and stretching. With that she opened her bedroom door and walked to the bathroom door. When she got there, Venna opened the door and stepped out in a towel heading to her room. Lily took her normal short shower and put her hair up in to the normal high pony tail.

When she got in her room she saw that Tori had already dragged the bag out that had her outfit in it. She took out her dark green wrappings and tightly bound her chest. Then she put on her underwear and her dark green, spandex shorts. She bound her feet and legs up to her knees. Then she put on her one piece outfit and boots.

(Picture of outfit without the shorts) i98./albums/l271/AngelofHappiness/4 stories/blackdress.jpg

She strapped her weapon pouch around her waste and her kunai pouch around her leg. She then grabbed her pack that had all the things that she would need sealed in scrolls in it. She walked out of her room, shutting the door behind her. When she entered the kitchen she saw that there was already food on the table and the other three were eating.

"Dare I ask who made this food? Or should I be afraid to?" Lily joked as she sat down and put some eggs and toast on her plate. The girls sat in silence as they ate. When every one was finished Lily looked over at the clock to see that it was 5:45.

"We should be leaving if we want to make it to the gates in time to meet Hinata and the Hokage," Lily said as she walked to the front door. Tori, Hitaru, Kitaru, and the girls walked right behind her, on her way out the door.

All of the girls were wearing their outfits Lily had got them. Loekie's was black, Venna's was dark red, and Tara's was dark blue. Tori had on her vest and her forehead protector was tied around her neck. As the girls neared the gates they saw five figures standing there.

(Hinata's POV)

Hinata's morning was going as good as she could have hoped. As she walked down the stairs in her new dark lavender outfit she noticed that there was noise coming from in the dining room. When she walked in she saw that not only was her father up, but so was Hinabi and Neji. When she walked in they all turned to look at her. None of them said a word as she walked over to her place at the table and started to dish up her own food. She sat there in the uncomfortable silence that was broke by Hinabi.

"Wow, Hinata why the sudden change in outfits?" Hinabi asked her older sister.

"w-well, Dragon got them b-because she said that they would be n-needed for the mission th-that we are going on," Hinata started to explain as she finished up her food. "So she got three sets for each of us and told us to wear them."

"Well I think you look nice in it, Hinata," Hinabi said, as she looked at her older sister.

"Well I h-have to go meet Dragon and the girls at the g-gate, Father, Hinabi, Neji, I w-will see you three in a week." With that she left to grab her pack from her room, and left out the front door. When she got to the gate she saw that the Hokage was already waiting for them and they didn't have to wait long for the girls to come into view.

(Normal POV)

When Lily and the girls got to the gate, Lily noticed that Genma and Izumo where on guard duty today. She walked up to the Hokage and bowed down.

"Good morning, Lord Hokage," Lily said out of respect.

"Well it certainly is, isn't it?" He started. Then he reached into his cloak and pulled out a scroll. "This is the information that I need you to give the Kage in Suna, and then he will give you the files of the participants that he is sending from his village," he explained.

"Yes, I got that the first time you told us what our mission was," Lily said, as she put the scroll in her bag. While she was putting it in her bag she took out a cloak, the cloak was all black but the rims of the sleeves where dark green. It was the same with the edge of the hood and the bottom of the cloak. When she put it on you could see that in the middle of its back there was a silhouette of a green dragon. (The cloak is like the one Itachi wears but the collar is not there, and there is a hood, the silhouette is shaded in green.)

When the girls saw that Lily had put on her cloak, they too pulled out there cloaks. Their cloaks looked just the same as Lily's they where all black, but their's were different colors and different animals(color is referring to the green part on lilys). Tara's was dark blue, with a dark blue doe. Venna's was white, with a white rabbit, and Loekie's was dark red, with a dark red fox. But as soon as all of them put the packs back on, the animals where covered up. Hinata looked at them and then looked down at herself.

"I didn't k-know that I would need one, I o-only brought my jacket" Hinata said to Lily.

"That's ok, I brought you one of my plain ones," Venna said, as she reached into her bag and pulled out a plain black cloak and handed it to Hinata, who put it on right away.

"Ok Lord Hokage, I guess I will be seeing you in a week or so," Lily said, as she turned to the old man standing next to her.

"Yes, I guess so. But do be careful and come back in one piece," he said with a joking smile. With that the girls put there hoods up and walked out of the gates of Konaha.

"Ok, so this is how it is going to go, at a steady pace we should get there in two days, but we are going to speed things up so that we get there in only one and a half," Lily said as they quickened their pace. About three hours out, they noticed a group of Nin coming in to view ahead of them. Lily recognized one of the chakra signatures out of the four of them.

"Its ok girls, you can put you weapons away they are no threat to us," Lily told them and they did as she said. As their paths intersected Hinata noticed who the Nin where and waved.

"Who are you?" a kinouchi with pink hair asked Hinata. Hinata turned and looked at Lily silently asking permission, getting a nod in response. The whole time the Nin where looking at the big cat sitting behind the girls. They totally were ignoring the dogs all together.

"Hello Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi, a-and Naruto," Hinata said as she pulled down her hood.

"Hinata I thought that you where on a team with Kiba and Shino?" the boy she called Naruto asked.

"She is but she is on a mission with us at the moment," Loekie said rudely.

"Well who are you, and do you know it is rude not to let the person you're talking to see you face?" Sakura said with a know-it-all tone. Again Loekie looked over at Lily, who again nodded and Loekie lowered her hood.

"Well now aren't we a little miss know-it-all," Tara said, not liking the girl at all. (Neither did the others) "And before you say it," with that Tara too lowered her hood. Then Venna lowered her hood with out a word, they all turned their eyes on Lily, but it didn't seem like she was going to lower hers any time soon.

"So, Hinata, who are your new cool mission mates," Naruto asked in a cheerful voice.

"Shut up, Beka" Sakura said, as she hit him over the head.

"Now what did you have to go and do that for Bubblegum?" Lily said in her small but powerful voice, which Kakashi who had been reading his book looked up to. She had begun to like the cheerful blond all ready. "And before you say it, no, I will not lower my hood, because you are not worth the jester."

"So who are you four?" Sasuke asked them. He was kind of getting interested in knowing who the mysterious one was.

'So this is Sasuke Uchiha,' the three girls thought at the same time. Then they looked over at Lily to see if they should tell there names. Lily thought for a second, and nodded her head.

"Well if you must know Teme, I'm Fox and that's my dog Kitaru," Loekie spat at him.

"I'm Rabbit and that's my dog Hitaru," Venna said politely to Naruto and Kakashi. Not liking Sakura, and not knowing what to think of Sasuke at the moment.

Tara sighs and looks up at them sending a dirty look at Sakura. "I'm Doe."

Lily watched as the group looked at her. She hadn't planed on telling them her name at all, but it looked like Hinata had other ideas.

"And t-that is Dragon she doesn't talk too much" Hinata said smiling. Lily saw no point in keeping her hood up at that point, so she lowered it. "And that's her friend Tori," she said.

"Well I guess all the important people know each other's names," Lily said, as she put her hood back up started to turn away and head in the direction of Suna. The other girls doing the same.

"Well you don't know our names," the annoying pink bitch said.

"Well we know his name is Sasuke Uchiha, his name is Kakashi Hatake, ok yeah, we did forget someone important," after Loekie said that Sakura smiled and went to say something but was cut off. "Blondie what is your name?"

"I'm Naruto Uzamaki, believe it," he said with a thumbs up.

"Ok, ok I believe you. Well, we have to be on our way; hope to see you three again some time." With that the five girls speed off trying to get back in schedule. They all grinned when they saw the look on Sakura's face as they left. As they where running Loekie turned to look at Hinata.

"So what is the story with those guys? We already know about the Uchiha but what about that Blonde?"

"Well Naruto has always been alone every time I have seen him, but even though he is alone, he still pushes himself to get better, so that he can get respect. But for some reason everyone in the village seems to hate him," Hinata told them all she knew about Naruto and his situation.

"So they have been doing that to him since he was a little kid?" Lily asked Hinata. (We can now assume that every time Lily talks it is in her quiet, but powerful voice, where she commands respect. That is unless I say other wise)

"Yes, they where always beating on him. I told my father once but he told me not to worry about the demon brat and I just stopped telling him."

The girls traveled the rest of the day in silence. Once it got too dark to travel, Lily and the girls set up camp. While the girls where preparing dinner, Lily went to scout the surrounding area. She set traps and put up a few Gin jutsu so that if any thing where to happen, they would know. When she got back to camp she saw that the girls had cooked a rabbit and some rice.

"Ok, I will take first watch, who wants second?" Lily asked, as she finished her meal.

"I'll take second," Tara said from her spot around the fire.

"I'll take third," Hinata said.

"Forth," was Venna's reply, as she crawled into her tent, with their dogs.

"I guess I have the last watch," Loekie said as she went to bed. Not too long after, Tara and Hinata followed.

Lily activated her Byakugon and checked the area for about two miles around, to see if there was any one near them. When she confirmed that it was a negative she deactivated it.

When her shift was up Lily went to Tara's tent and called to her. A few minuets later, Tara came out with a kunai in hand and went to sit in a tree.

"Nothing much has happened, a few hours ago a group of Nin passed by about three miles to the east but other then that, nothing." With that Lily went into her tent, where Tori was sleeping. She put a kunai under her pillow and went to bed. Everything must have gone all right because she wasn't woken up by any of the girls until the sun started to rise.

(With Kakashi's team the day before)

"I have a feeling they don't like you Sakura" Naruto said, as he scratched the back of his neck nervously.

"Shut up, Naruto," Sakura said, as the team started to head for Konaha.

"For once I'm going to have to agree with the dobe," Sasuke said, as he looked at Sakura. "They really seemed to hate you, I wonder why?" With that, his voice was dripping with sarcasm.

If Sakura heard what he said, she didn't seem to listen as she turned to her sensei. "Kikashi sensei, if they where on a mission, how come they didn't have there sensei with them?"

"That is a good question Sakura, I was actually thinking the same thing." At that point in time, the four had reached the gates of Konaha and Kakashi turned to his students. "I will see you at the regular spot tomorrow at seven, Ja." And with that, there sensei

disappeared in a puff of smoke.

(Kakashi's POV)

Kikashi didn't want to say anything to his students about his thoughts, so he decided that he would go ask the Hokage about it. But when he got there, the receptionist said that he had to wait out side the door because he was in a meeting with a Hyuga, so he did just that.

(With Neji)

That morning, when Lady Hinata had walked into the dinning room, I thought that I would lose my jaw. I had never thought, in all my years, that shy, little Hinata would where anything feminine. I quickly schooled my features, and went back to eating my breakfast. I acted like I didn't hear the conversation going on between Lady Hinata and Lady Hinabi, but I wasn't surprised to find out that the outfit was this Dragon's doing. After lady Hinata left to go to her mission, discussion broke out at the table.

"I think this Dragon girl has had a positive affect on sister, she is doing a lot better and she isn't stuttering as much. Don't get me wrong, she still does it a lot, but it is getting better," Hinabi said with a smile.

"I am going to have to agree with you Hinabi, I like the turn that Hinata is taking," Hiashi Hyuga stated. If Neji had anything to say, it looked like he would never get to say it. Because at that moment an ANBU member walked into the dinning room with one of the maids of the house.

"I have an order to escort Neji Hyuga to see the Hokage at once," the man behind the mask said. As soon as he heard this, Neji got up and followed the man out of the house. As they took to the roofs, Neji couldn't help but wonder what the Hokage wanted to speak to him about.

When he got to the Hokage's office, they led him straight in. The Hokage was sitting in a chair behind his desk. The 3rd Hokage looked up from his paper work as Neji sat in the chair in front of his desk.

"Neji, what I say here today will come as a shock to you, but you have to promise me that none of it will leave this room," the Sandaime Hokage asked as he looked at the opal eyed boy in front of him. It was a wonder the boy hadn't figured it out already, they both looked almost exactly like their father. The only difference was that Lily had some of her mother's features and Neji had some of his mother's.

"Yes I understand, Lord Hokage," was his response.

"Like I said, this will come as a big shock to you," Sarutobi started, but paused because he didn't know how to say what he wanted to. "I am just going to come out and say it, because there is no point on beating around the bush, you have a younger half sister. You have known her for some time, her name is Lily, but you know her by a different name. Please trust me when I say don't go looking for her, because she will come to you when she thinks the time is right."

To say Neji was shocked was a under statement, his mind had suddenly gone blank and his vision blurry. He just barely registered the Hokage handing him a cold glass of water. Then all at once everything seemed have hit him in the face. He had a sister, a little sister, he never got the chance to protect. He had a family member left. Sure he had Hinata and them, but they where his cousins and uncle. He still couldn't grasp that he had a sister.

"How?" he barely rasped out.

"Your father and her mother had a one night stand that ended up in her mother getting pregnant." the Hokage explained to him so that he understood.

"So I know her?"

"Yes you know her, and have for a while now," the Hokage hoped that Lily had held up her end of the deal, because he truly hated lying.

"And her name is Lily?"

"Yes, her name is Lily, but you know her as something else."

"And you actually think that I am not going to try to find out who she is?"

"I would highly advise that you wait till she is ready to tell you, she has been through a lot lately and you don't want to put any more stress on her right now," Sarutobi said in a very firm voice, trying to get his point across.

Neji sat there for the longest time, trying to make sense of all the information that was just thrown at him. He had always wanted to be a big brother, to be able to teach his younger sibling some of the tricks that he had learned. Maybe now he had a chance. (Fat chance at that)

"How old is she?"

"All I can say is that she is between the ages of 8-13," he told Neji.

'Ok that was a lot of help' Neji thought sarcastically. "Thank you, Lord Hokage. And don't worry, I won't tell any one what you have just told me," with that Neji walked out of the Hokage's office in a trance, he barely registered heading to his teams training grounds.

(Kakashi's POV)

Kikashi picked his head up from his book as he watched the Hyuga boy walk out of the Hokage's Office. It looked like the boy had seen a ghosted. Kikashi got up from the chair he was sitting on and walked into Sarutobi's office. The elderly man was sitting behind his desk with his head in his hands.

"Had a long day?" the Jonine asked Sarutobi.

Said man looked up. "I have a feeling that this is just the beginning," Sarutobi gestured for Kikashi to sit down. "Now what can I help you with?"

"On my way back into the village, with my team from our last D-Ranked mission, we bumped into Hinata and four girls who go by the names of Doe, Rabbit, Fox, and Dragon," that's all Kikashi needed to say. Kikashi watched as Sarutobi unsealed one of his desk drawers and pulled out four files. (The new ones that he made so that they could hide there real names, and important info)

"You are the only one at this point in time that I am going to tell, and show this to. You can't tell any one else about this and you can't confront them about it either," Sarutobi told him. Kakashi nodded his head as the Hokage slid the files over to him. He opened up the first file and saw the picture of the silver eyed, red head that he knew was Doe. But what he saw made his visible eye widen.

(File)

Name- Doe

Age- 12

D.O.B- February 17, 1990

Mother- Deceased

Father- Deceased

Aunt- Deceased

Uncle- Deceased

Cousins Fox and Rabbit- Konaha Genin

Village- Konaha

Rank- Genin

--

Tai jutsu- has mastered up to an upper Jounin level.

Gin jutsu- has mastered an upper Jounin level.

Nin jutsu- has mastered a lower Jounin level.

Has a Kekkei Genkai. But has not fully mastered it yet.

MISSIONS

A-5

B-10

C-24

D-50

S-3 (I know that this is different from last time but remember that he was going to label, the tracking and killing of the people that killed there Sensei's as an S ranked mission)

(S is hardest, then a, b, c, d you know how it is in naruto, it's basically the same but for me S is for assassination missions)

Most were done with her group of four girls, but she has been on one solo mission. C ranked.

(End file)

The next file that he looked at had a picture of the girl with black hair and red eyes that he new as Fox.

(File)

Name- Fox

Age- 12

D.O.B- April 1, 1990

Mother- Deceased

Father- Deceased

Sister Rabbit- Konaha Genin

Aunt- Deceased

Uncle- Deceased

Cousin Doe- Konaha Genin

Village- Konaha

Rank- Genin

--

Tai justsu- has mastered up to an upper Jounin level.

Gin justsu- has mastered an upper Jounin level.

Nin justsu- has mastered a lower Jounin level.

Fox is a prankster. But that for her, is a good thing, she can set a trap even upper Jounin could not detect. She is very good at going unnoticed by an enemy. She is good at collecting information her sense of smell, hearing, and her eye site surpasses that of a dog, so she is hard to sneak up on. She has no problem killing to save her friends and comrades. But will not kill unless the situation is life threatening, or if she deems the person a monster. This is mostly people who kill innocent people.

MISSION

A-5

B-10

C-24

D-50

S-3

Most where done with her group of four girls but she has been on one solo mission. C ranked.

(End file)

The next file he opened up was her sister the white haired girl.

(File)

Name- Rabbit

Age- 12

D.O.B- - April 1, 1990

Mother- Deceased

Father- Deceased

Sister Fox- Konaha genin

Aunt- deceased

Uncle- Deceased

Cousin Doe- Konaha Genin

Village- Konaha

Rank- Genin

--

Tai justsu- has mastered up an upper Jounin level.

Gin justsu- has mastered an upper Jounin level.

Nin justsu- has mastered an upper Jounin level.

Rabbit is a born strategist and is vary smart. She seems shy but when it comes to battle she is ruthless in her will to finish the job with out her teem getting hurt. Her sense of smell, hearing, and her eye site surpasses that of a dog so she is hard to sneak up on. But some times can get distracted and not pay attention when her friends are in danger. She has no problem killing to protect her friends and comrades.

MISSION

A- 5

B-10

C-24

D-50

S-3

Most where done with her group of four girls but she has been on one solo mission. C ranked

(End file)

When he opened the next file it showed a picture of the multicolored haired girl he new as Dragon. He expected to see all the same information as the last three. But he nearly choked on the air in his lungs at what he saw in Dragons File.

(File)

Name- Dragon

Age- 12

D.O.B- January 14, 1990

Mother- Deceased

Father- Deceased

Brother- Konaha genin

Aunt – Deceased

Uncle- Konaha Shinobi

Cousins- 2 females- eldest genin, youngest academy student

Village- Konaha

Rank- Genin

--

Tai jutsu- has mastered up to a lower ANBU level.

Gin jutsu- has mastered a lower ANBU level.

Nin jutsu- has mastered a Lower ANBU level.

Dojutsu- has progresses be on exception in the two she possesses

Medical Nin jutsu (apprentice of Mikaa) - has mastered to highest level, can heal any wounds or injury.

Knows how to make poisons and make antidotes for poisons.

She specializes in eyes, and eye healing techniques.

Dragon knows how to kill people using her medical jutsus to her advantage. She can perform most surgery.

Dragon has succeeded at every thing she has attempted because her Kekkei Genkais. She has also reached a forbidden level of her Kekkei Genkais. Because of her level in her Kekkei Genkais she has mastered a healing jutsu to prevent the effect it has on her. Her sense of smell, hearing, and eye sight surpass that of a dog. But her Chakra senses are far greater than even mine, her Sensei. She can remember a Chakra signature, no matter what.

MISSIONS

A-9

B-17

C-32

D-50

S-8

Most where done with her group of four girls, but she has been on a few solo missions: 4 A ranked, 7 B ranked, 8 C ranked, and has done 5 assassination missions by herself. Also has been trained in Karate, Kung fu, Boxing, Marshal Arts and other fields of fighting arts.

(End file)

When he saw that she had two Kekkei Genkais, he was very curious about what they where. The more he read about this girl the more he was impressed. She had not only studied the regular Tie Jutsu, she had studied Karate, Kung fu, Boxing, and Marshal Arts.

"Now you can see that these girls are very capable of going on a mission with out a Sensei," Sarutobi said as he watched Kakashi finish the files. "These four girls will be taking part in the Chunin exams this year, now don't you agree with me that it will be a nice show?"

"That it will be in deed" Kakashi answered him. "Now that I have that cleared up, I must go. I still have to make up an excuse for my Genin team, about them not having a Sensei with them."

"Just tell them that their Sensei was going to catch up with them," Sarutobi suggested.

"Yeah, that is what I might say," with that Kakashi exited out of the door to go to his apartment.

(Lily POV)

As soon as the girls had the camp cleaned up and there was no evidence that they had been there, the girls where on the move. Within three hours they had reached the sand and were on there way to Suna.

As soon as they stepped into the sand Lily could feel a strong, demonic killer instinct. It was like it was soaked into the sand. She didn't know where it was coming from, so she was immediately on guard. She didn't say anything to the girls, but she knew that Tori could feel it too.

'Be on guard Flower, you could be in danger' Lily hadn't herd that feminine voice in years. When she was younger she herd it all the time and Mikaa had told her it was her imaginary friend. But when she turned nine and the voice was talking more often, she had yelled at it to go away. She hadn't herd it again until now.

'Why are you back?' Lily asked in her mind.

'I was never gone, I just kept quiet,' the voice replied.

'Well why now, of all the times, did you choose to resurface?' Lily was looking at the girls to make sure they where still there and that they had not noticed her far off look.

'That demonic power, it's familiar. I can't remember from where, but I know it from some where,' the voice stated. As much as she doesn't want to admit it Lily missed this voice. It was the only other person she could talk to growing up, other then Sukan and Mikaa. Of course that was before the girls showed up, and then she had them.

'I missed you Reidou,' Lily stated as though it was the one thing to mend the time they hadn't spoken.

"And I you, Flower," the voice purred to her.

'So are you going to tell me who or what you are yet?' when she was little she had asked. But the only answer was that she would know when she was older. The only thing she knows about Reidou is her name.

'No, but you will know soon, Flower,' by this time Lily could see the walls of Suna in the distance.

"Ok we should reach Suna with in the hour, when we get there we are all going to the Kage tower. Then we will be going to the hotel room, they provided for us and taking a rest, you guys look like you could use one," Lily said with a smile. The sun was high above their heads by the time they made it to the gates.

Lily stepped forward and approached the guard. "I am Dragon from the Leaf and we are here to deliver a message from the Sandaime Hokage, to the Yondaime Kazekage" Lily stated.

"How do we know you are who you say you are," the guard asked her.

Lily reached into her weapons pouch around her waste and with drew her ID card. "Is this enough for you," she asked as she handed the card to him. He looked at it and then looked at her. He turned to one of the men standing behind him.

"Get Baki, tell him to come to the entrance gates," with that the man took off into the city. Lily walked back to the girls, Tori, Hitaru, and Kitaru.

"They aren't very trusting, they're going to get another man to come down here," after Lily was finished she felt a Chakra signature heading there way. A few minuets later, a man with his head bandaged up and the left side of his face had a vale covering it, came out of the gates. Lily walked forward to talk to the man.

"Like I told the guard, I am Dragon from the Leaf. We are here to deliver a message from the Sandaime Hokage to the Yondaime Kazekage," Lily stated. Her voice was the same as always. The man seemed to hear the power, and authority in it.

"Let me see your ID," the man named Baki asked. Again Lily pulled out her ID and handed it to the man. "What is you real name?" the man asked.

"That is something that I don't have to tell you, if you want me to leave I will do so, but my Hokage will not be happy," Lily stated. Her voice was dripping with venom.

"There is no need for that. Come this way, I will take you to the Kazekage, we were not expecting you until tomorrow morning," the man said and Lily waved the girls over so that they would follow.

"Well we wanted to get here as soon as possible, time is something we all do not have enough of," Lily said. The man looked over at her and raised an eyebrow at her.

"Pretty smart for a kid your age," the man commented.

"Baki I am not a kid, and I would appreciate it if you didn't call me one," Lily said. She didn't like this man one bit. She didn't know why but something about him just got to her.

"Please except my apologies, I did not mean to offend you," he said as they reached what she believed was the Kazekage building. He looked back at the other girls and then he turned back to Lily. "Its not every day you see a lady walking around with a black panther,"

"Her name is Tori and she is part of the family, and a dear friend and comrade," Lily explained to him.

"Aren't you hot with the dark cloaks on?" the secretary asked them as they walked by her.

"No, these are splashily made for weather like this," Lily said. The five girls and three animals where led to a big door. When they got there it opened to revile a man with spiky red-brown hair sitting behind a desk. The girls all walked into the office and stud in a line in front of the Yondaime Kazekage's desk. (Left to right Hinata, Hitaru, Venna, Tori, Lily, Kitaru, Fox, Tara, and then Baki)

"Do you have the scroll" the man asked in a gruff voice.

"Yes I do Yondaime Kazekage" lily reached into her pack and drew the scroll out and set it on the desk in front of the Kage. "And can I see all of your ID's"

Lily walked back to the girls and held out her hand. The girls all put there ID cards in her hand and she walked back to the desk. She put all of the ID card in the Kage's open hand.

"Hinata Hyuga, Fox, Rabbit, Doe, and Dragon" the man looked up at them. "Is this some kind of joke what are you real name's?"

"That Lord Kazekage is something that I or my team mates do not have to revile, those are the names the people of our village know us by and those are the names you will know us by" lily said. She didn't like this man ether he was a jack ass for a Yondaime Kazekage.

"We have been traveling for a long time and would like to rest if you don't mind" Tori spoke up from behind lily. The Yondaime Kazekage looked back at the panther.

"I just have a few more questions for you and then Baki will escort you to your hotel room" he told them. "What rank are you?"

"That to is classified information" from the look on the Yondaime Kazekage's face he was not happy with Lily answer.

"Ok, I will have your reply to your Hokage by tomorrow morning, and I will have the files of the genin participants. My three children will be arriving in Konaha about a day or two after you, because they are on a mission and will be heading there right after that. So there Sensei Baki will be traveling back with you to Konaha Tomorrow" he stated. With that Baki escorted the girls to a Hotel not to far away from the Kazekage building.

The girls ate and then all of them but Lily and Tori want strait to bed, they did have a long day tomorrow. Lily was looking out the window of there hotel room. She couldn't get to sleep, not with not trusting them not to get attacked.

'Flower you should get some sleep. I will wake you if any one approaches' Reidou said in her mind. Lily walked over to the bed that Hinata was sleeping in and went to bed, Tori curled up at her feet.

The next morning Lily woke up at sunrise. She went into the bathroom and took a quick shower, and then she dressed in the same way as yesterday. At about five o'clock Lily woke up the other girls, and they all took their turns in the bathroom. By six o'clock all the girls had everything packed and were heading out the door. When they got to the Kazekage tower the receptionist told them that they could head right up to the office. Lily knocked on the door and waited for it to be opened. They headed into the office and saw that Baki was already there and had his pack on his back.

"Here are the files, and there is the reply to your Hokage" the Kazekage set the items down in front of her on his desk. Lily drew an empty scroll out of her bag and opened it on his desk. Then she bit her pointer finger on her left hand and started to draw a seal on it. When she was done she waited a little bit for the blood to dry. Then she placed all the files and the scroll on top of the seal and did a few quick hand signs and sealed the items. She closed the scroll and put it back in her bag.

"Shall we be on our way" she asked as she turned to look at Baki. He gave her a nod and they left the office. Lily didn't say anything until she got outside Suna. "we plan on traveling at an increased pace, if you don't keep up we will leave you behind. But, since you are a Jonine I don't think that we have to worry about that, now do we?"

With that said, the group of nine traveled until it was too dark to do so anymore. Lily left the girls to set up while she again scouted their surroundings. She set the traps up again and place some gin jutsus up around their camp. When she got back she saw that they had prepared simple soup from the food that we had brought.

"I have first watch tonight" Lily said as she finished her dinner.

"I will take second" Lily was surprised when Baki spook up.

"Third" Venna said then she walked over to her tent but waited to hear who came after her, before she went in.

"Fourth" Fox said and then she joined her sister and entered the tent. Their dogs following close behind.

"I'll take fifth" Hinata said and then she stood up.

"Hinata wait here just a minute. Tara you have last watch" with that Tara went into her tent and Tori went into Lily's tent. That left Lily, Hinata, and Baki around the fire. "We have to have another healing session on your throat" Hinata walked over and sat right in front of Lily. Lily did a few hand signs and her left hand started to glow green. She put her hand up to Hinata's throat for a few minutes and then she took it away as her hand stopped glowing green.

"Ok, now say she sells seashells by the seashore" lily directed.

"She sells seashells by the seashore" Hinata didn't stutter once as she said this. Lily smiled and Hinata gave her a hug.

"Ok its all done but you still have to come see me on Saturday for the last session so it doesn't come back" Hinata nodded and then left for her tent. Lily sat there for some time just staring at the fire, thinking about how much Hinata had changed since she had met her. The silence was broken by the man sitting across the fire from her.

"What was wrong with her, did her throat get injured?" he asked me.

"No she was born with a stuttering problem and I have been fixing it. It is gone now but she still has to come to the last session, because that one prevents it from coming back" she informed him. "I would suggest that you head to bed, you have second watch, we wouldn't want you falling asleep on the job, now would we?"

"I am fine" was all he said. When Lily's watch was done she stayed by the fire not going to sleep.

'Flower I don't like this man' Reidou hissed out.

'Nether do I, there is something about him that I just can't figure out' lily said frustrated. Reidou and her kept talking until Baki's shift was over. "I will go wake Rabbit up, you can head off to bed" when he was all the way in his tent lily activated her byakugan so that she could check the surrounding area. When she didn't see anything she walked over to the twin's tent and crawled in. She shook Venna awake.

"It's your watch, I want you to have Hitaru with you and make sure you tell Fox that too" Lily stated. "And tell fox to tell Hinata that when it's her turn, to come get Tori so that she can watch with Hinata and then Tara" Venna nodded to her. Then she, Lily, and Hitaru left the tent. Lily went into her tent and went to bed. She was shaken awake by Hinata. Who was trying to be as quiet as she could.

"What is it?" Lily asked.

"There are three people heading right at us" she whispered in a rush. Lily flew out of the tent like her life depended on it. She put her two pointer fingers in her mouth and blew. All the occupants of the tents shot up at the loud whistle. Venna, Fox, Doe were out of their tent kunai in hand within seconds. Baki was out with in a minute.

"Hinata activate your byakugan and see how far off they are" lily commanded. She didn't want to activate her byakugan because Baki was there.

"They are about four to five minutes east from here"

"You five stay here, I am going to go and see who they are" with that Lily concealed her chakra entirely and took to the trees. As she got closer she noticed that one of their chakra signatures was the same as what she felt in the desert. She got behind the three as they headed for her camp. There was a red headed male with rings around his eyes and he was carrying a gourd on his back. Another male that was wearing a weird suit with something wrapped up on his back. The last one was a girl with four pony tails and a huge fan on her back. Lily watched as they all landed in front of Baki, and Baki seemed to know them.

"Its ok girls you can put your weapons down, this is just my genin team" he informed them. But Lily stayed hidden in the trees. Something about the red head gave her a bad feeling so she activated both her Kekkei Genkais and watched and listened to what was going on below.

"I think we will decide if we want to for ourselves, you are not in control over us Baki" Fox hissed out as the hair on the back of Kitaru's had stood up straight. Tori put herself in between the group of girls and the sand shinobi.

"There was nothing mentioned about this group joining us along the way Baki" Tori growled out. "What the fuck is going on"

"We were heading to Konaha and we felt his chakra signature so we came to see him, not that it is any of your business" the boy in the weird suit growled out.

"It is our business because Baki is an add-on to our group, on our way back to the village, Dragon is the leader of this mission so she had a right to know" Tara said in a matter of fact voice.

"Well Dragon isn't here now is she? So there is no need for them to tell you four" Baki stated. Lily decided that she had enough with what was going on so she jumped out of her hiding spot right in front of Tori, in between her group and the other sand Shinobi. Purposely surprising all the sand shinobi but she couldn't tell with the red head because his features hadn't changed.

"Actually, I am right here, now would you please inform me why these three are invading my camp?" Lily's voice was as hard as ever. She purposely sent a wave of killer instinct that would send any regular ANBU running the other way.

"Like Kankuro said they were…"he never got to finish what he said before Lily interrupted him.

"yes I heard that part, I followed them here from about 50 feet out and hid in the tree, what I want to know is that if these are your students, then why didn't you tell me before I left, a Shinobi at your level should be able to sense there signatures from a good distance away?"

Baki looked at her like he was a fish out of water. He didn't seem to have anything to say. He was looking from me and my group to his students.

"Childish Baki, you were trying to get back at me for what I said earlier just after we left Suna, I would have expected that much from an academy student, not a Jonine Sensei" Lily stated. (Like I said before, if I don't say anything about the way she talked its her quiet scary voice that holds power and demands respect)

"You can't talk to him that way you little brat" the blond with four pony tails said.

"Let me get this straight, Dragon was able to get behind you and hid without you knowing that she was there, what if she had attacked and killed you, she had killed for lesser mistakes" Tori said as she bared her teeth to the kinouchi.

"I am done with this argument, girls go back to bed I will take watch for the rest of the night with Doe and Tori, Baki you will stay up too, your students can set up their tents and they can join us on our way to Konaha" after Lily said this, all of the girls obeyed what she said immediately. Tara walked over and put some more wood on the dying fire.

"Wow, they listen to you with out a second guess" the boy Baki had called Kankuro said as he sat down by the fire with the kinouchi. The red head just leaned up against a tree at the edge of the clearing.

"That's because she is our leader. Not to mention one scary bitch when you piss her off" Tara said as she sat down on the opposite side of the fire.

"And because she is the strongest by far out of all of you girls" Tori said as she flopped down on the ground. Lily sat a little ways off watching but not talking to the genin of the sand. 'And probably among the strongest in the shinobi nations' thought Tori.

"Baki I can guess that these are the Kazekage's children, what are their names?" Lily calmly asked. Lily for the moment had silenced Reidou who had begun to go crazy in her head.

"You know you could have asked us" Kankuro gritted out at her.

"Well she could have, but she is kind of mad, so she thought it easier to just ask one person" Tori stated. Knowing what Lily was doing.

"Well I'm Temari of the Wind" the kinouchi informed her.

"I'm Kankuro of the Deasert"

"And I am Gaara of the Sand" a cold voice rasped out, which seemed to have surprised, and scared the other two siblings.

'Flower be careful, there is no doubting it, he's a Jinchuuriki, and from the marks around his eyes and the gourd on his back he is the container for Shukaku the Ichibi, I know I knew that chakra from somewhere' Lily listened to what Reidou had to say and then looked over at Gaara, who she found staring at her.

Lily's face stayed as impassive as always but on the inside she was lost in thought. 'Reidou if Gaara is a Jinchuuriki wouldn't Naruto be one as well?'

'Why do you ask that?'

'Well when we where by Naruto I sensed demonic chakra and he had those whisker marks on his cheeks' Lily told her. Lily waited while Reidou thought.

'Yes Flower he is one, but I do not know who he contains' Lily told her that she was not going to be talking for a while.

'Flower one more thing, from what I can sense when they sealed Shukaku in Gaara they messed up the seal, leaving him a little unstable, regularly when Shukaku is sealed in a person they get those rings around there eyes, but it seems that Gaara is not able to sleep'

'How do you know this'

'Well I can sense his desire to get some sleep; his seal needs to be fixed'

'But who can I get to fix it?' Lily asked Reidou.

'I only know of one person that can fix Garra's seal and that's the Legendary Gama Sannin Jiraiya and I also know that he is not easy to get a hold of or find, you are going to have to wait till he returns to Konaha'

'Ok nothing we can do about it now then, ok I'll talk to you later'

"As you know I am Dragon, the red head is Doe, the twin with the black hair is Fox the mostly white dog is hers, her name is Kitaru, the other with the white is Rabbit her dog is the mostly black one, her name is Hitaru, the opal eyed one is Hinata Hyuga, and the vested panther is mine, her name is Tori, she has anger issues so don't piss her off" Lily calmly explained to them. "You three should set up your tents you're going to need the sleep."

"Kankuro, Temari you should do as she says, you do need the sleep" Baki said to them and they followed his orders.

"Gaara you can come sit down now, there is no one for 4 feet from the other side of the fire, don't worry we don't bite……much" lily said with in a mischievous voice.

Gaara didn't move an inch from where he was standing. But he did narrow his eyes at Lily for a second.

"Don't worry I didn't expect you to take my offer anyway"

(Gaara POV)

I watched as she jumped in front of us. But I was mad, how did she get behind us without me knowing. Gaara was lost in thought until he saw Kankuro sit by the fire. Then I looked over at the female leader. I hadn't caught her name, so when she asked their names I was not going to answer her but Shukaku had another plan.

'She is powerful, and there is something about her that seems familiar. Tell her your name boy' so I did and then she sat there for some time like she was lost in thought.

'Now I know why she is familiar she is….

(Lily's POV)

The rest of the night was quiet. Only the occasional cracks of the fire or the distant calling of a wild animal was heard. When the sun started to rise I had all my girls up getting ready to leave.

"Baki, if you are traveling with me then get a move on, otherwise I will leave you" Lily said to him.

"I think we're going to stay here for a little longer, then we will move on" He answered her.

"Lets go girls, oh, and Gaara, Kankuro, Temari we will be seeing each other in the chunin exams" Lily almost broke out laughing when she saw the shocked faces of Kankuro, Temari, and Baki.

When the girls were within three hours of Konaha Lily saw something out of the corner of her eye so she stopped. She walked back over to the tree that they had just passed.

"Dragon what is it?" Venna asked as she walked up behind lily to see what she was looking at. "Why are you looking at bugs?"

"Well this is a rare species, the weird thing is that it's only found in the desert and they only come out like three times a year and only for a limited amount of time" Lily told them. She thought that maybe while they were flying they got caught up in a wind current and that could have carried them all the way here.

"So, what's so special about them?" Loekie asked from behind Venna.

"Well with this species, they inject a liquid into a body. The liquid then deteriorates the flesh and meat around where it was injected, then they eat the rotting flesh and meat" lily told them. "Doe, give me the jar that has the green beans in it please"

"You're not telling me that you're going to keep those things" Tori asked as Hinata was petting her.

"No, I am not going to keep them, I plan on giving them to someone" Tara handed her the big jar that had green beans in it. Lily dumped all of the green beans out. Then she pulled a senbon out enhancing it with chakra and poking little air holes in the lid. She couldn't make them too big because the bugs were small and she didn't want them to get out.

"You see these bugs all travel in swarms like this, because they all attack the same animal and devouring everything but its bones" with that lily put a piece of meat at the bottom of the jar. Then she put the jar next to the swarm of bugs. "A swarm this size could take care of one of us within twenty minutes after they inject there serum" they all watched as the bugs all flew into the jar. "But they wouldn't say no to a free meal" when the last bug flew in lily closed the lid tight.

"Well let's just hope that they don't get out of there" Hinata said as they all started to move again.

"Hay Hinata, you didn't stutter" Tara said when she noticed. All the other girls looked over at her as they took to the trees.

"Yea, Lily fixed it" Hinata told them with a smile.

"You have to remember to fake stutter for now though" lily called to her.

"O-ok I will r-remember that D-dragon" Hinata fake stuttered and all of the girls laughed.

After some time the gate came into view. When they got to the gate, they saw that Genma and Izumo were on guard duty again. When the girls got to the gate they looked at them weirdly.

"You girls are back early" Izumo said.

"Time is something that we all don't have enough of" Lily stated. "Ok girls you can either head home or to the training grounds, I am going to take the files and stuff to the Hokage and then I'm going to the training grounds" Lily said as they walked down the street. Then Lily took to the roofs and went to the mission room where she knew that the Hokage would be.

When she got to the mission room she saw that she was not the only person there. She walked through the crowd of people and up to the Hokage.

"Dragon I was not expecting you back for another day and a half" he said to her as she approached him. "I take it the mission went ok?"

"Other than the fact that Yondaime Kazekage is a total jackass, yes it went ok" Lily said earning a frown from the Hokage. Lily pulled the scroll out of her bag and opened it on the table that the Hokage, Iruka and some other people were sitting behind, previously handing out missions. She did a few quick hand signs and unsealed the files and the scrolls. "The Yondaime Kazekage's children who are going to participate are about three to four hours out, they were traveling with us until this morning when we left to come back, they said that they where going to stay behind to rest longer and then they were going to head in"

"Do I dare ask why you of all people would show so much disrespect towards an authority figure?" the Hokage asked.

"Well you see they had us waiting outside the village for about a half an hour, then when we got to the Yondaime Kazekage office we received nothing but dirty looks, and the Yondaime Kazekage was as rude as rude could be" Lily told him. The four teams that were in the room waiting for missions listened in. "if he wasn't the Yondaime Kazekage I would have slit his throat, I have done so for lesser things Lord Hokage"

"Well then, I guess it is good that you are so good at controlling your anger, now isn't it?" He joked. "If that is all…" Lily interrupted him.

"I do have more to talk to you about, but I can't say in mixed company so I will come talk to you tomorrow about it" Lily said.

"You can just tell me on Monday after the meeting" he said to her.

"Ok I will see you then" with that Lily started to walk out of the room.

"Dragon what is in that jar?" he asked, curiosity getting the better of him.

"Oh just a swarm of flesh eating bugs" and with that she headed out and to the training grounds.

AN: hi all I can't believe that this chapter was 25 pages long. Well R&R every one