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A/N: A few edits have been done as of 4-6-15

C-Rank Surprise

Two months after she became Naruto's official caretaker she and her team which had been dubbed Squad 11, not a very original name, had been assigned there first C-Rank. There mission was to escort a caravan of merchants that had visited the village, to a halfway meeting point with there sister caravan. It wasn't a terribly exciting mission, but it would certainly pay more than the D-ranks they took. It would also be good seeing as taking Naruto out to eat at Ichiraku's Ramen, seemed to eat her money faster than she expected.

The kid had wormed his way into her heart, despite how much she had tried to not let him, and now she hung around the kid more. She had found to her surprise, that the child didn't even know how to read or write, so it had been up to her to begin teaching him. Unfortunately, the child was very hyperactive and refused to stay still most of the time during the times she tried to teach him. She knew he tried not to fidget and move around too much but it didn't work. However, she did at least manage to teach him to how to write his name, Konoha, and Hokage. Ironically, those were the only words he had even stayed still for.

The kid was also a nice, cheerful kid who seemed to love mischief. His eyes had begun to show a certain determination while his anger had begun to fade. She didn't know what prompted that change but didn't ask. If he had decided to change, and have a resolve, who was she to question him.

Naruto hadn't been the only kid she got closer to. Sasuke had also been worming himself into her heart more. His cheerful, and spoiled personality brought great amusement whenever she visited the Uchiha household. He was greatly attached to Itachi and had a great admiration toward him but she couldn't help but feel that the admiration could turn into jealousy. He was the brother of Itachi, who was a prodigy and he would be compared to his brother more and more. That wasn't a good thing at all, because it wasn't fair to compare one person to another, even if they were siblings. No one is the same, everyone will have their own strengths and weaknesses.

She had already said bye to Naruto, after making sure his home was clean, had washed his laundry, and he had enough bentos to last him a few days. It wouldn't last him the whole time she was gone but it would be enough so he wouldn't have to eat out all the time.

'That kid eats a lot. I hope the food lasts as it should..' She thought to herself as she walked towards the gate entrance where she was meeting her squad. As she neared she saw that Itachi, Shisui, and their sensei were already there. She was the last one to arrive but she knew she wasn't late. Simply, they had been there much earlier than meeting time their sensei had stated and she was at least a good fifteen minutes earlier than that.

Shisui greeted her cheerfully, as she approached them from behind. Lately, despite the fact that she had been trying very hard to push away her sadness it had begun to show. Although not by much, and she smiled at Shisui, a little less cheerful than she intended.

"Good morning Yume-chan."

"Good morning." She nodded in greeting to both him, Itachi, Daitaro-sensei and head of the caravan who had requested an escort. The head was a cheerful man, with a round figure, light brown hair, a beard and mustache and was somewhat short. He had greeted her back with a cheeriness, as he had finished discussing the mission details with their sensei.

Their sensei had merely greeted her lazily, but not too much seeing as he didn't want their mission requester to believe they were incapable of doing their mission due to his personality. Itachi had also greeted her but more with a nod than actual words.

"Alright, now that we are all here. It is time to debrief you of the mission objectives. Our prime objective is to escort Masaomi Arata-san towards the halfway point to their sister caravan group safely. That is to say we will protect the caravan as we go. However, it is unlikely we shall meet any enemy ninja. It is possible we shall meet some bandits but that too is unlikely. Regardless of that, it is expected that you are all alert and ready in case of an attack."

"Hai, sensei." They responded and stared at him seriously. All of them were excited to finally take a mission, they were getting tired of D-ranks with all the weeding, and babysitting.

"Good, it shall take a few days to get to the meeting spot so don't expect this mission to be over quickly. We are expected to help with any repairs if need be. This will both test your patience and knowledge when out in the field."

"Hai sensei."

Masaomi, had been watching the children through his cheerful brown eyes. "They certainly are well mannered and obedient children you have there. " He said as he rode on his black horse, towards the Jonin next to him,

"Yes, they certainly are but they can be a bit a handful to take care of at other times. Despite that, they work well with each other , and grasp the concepts given to them with ease. It's not too difficult to train them, but they certainly cause a ruckus over strange things at times."

"Oh?"

"Yes. Particularly, in the case of sweets."

"Ah." Amusement sparked in the man's eyes. "Yes, children are always particularly fond of sweets at their age. Despite being ninja, they are children after all."

"Yes. They are still children."

"Hm...however, the young boy and girl seem a bit too young to be ninja."

"Indeed they are, but they are prodigies, and have shown exceptional skill, and talent in the shinobi arts." Daitaro said answering all of the questions Masaomi asked. He answered these questions because despite the man's cheerful demeanor he would still have doubts about young children being their escorts. In this way, he ensure the man felt comfortable with having them as escorts, and as a result most of the other caravan members would be so as well.

During the time Daitaro had been talking with Masaomi Itachi who was in front had been observing their surroundings, and wasn't letting his guard down. He hated the notion of having to fight, but he was content with the fact that the mission was an escort one, and that it was unlikely they would have to engage in one. As he was doing this he saw that both Yume and Shisui were doing the same, with Yume in the middle and Shisui at the back.

When discussing they had agreed upon the line up, seeing as Shisui and Itachi were better at close range combat than Yume and that she specialised in that field. Even though, Itachi and Shisui were also good in that field, Yume so far, was better than them. As a result, that line up of who was where was decided.

During the days that it took to travel to the meeting point no incidents of bandits attacking occurred. Instead only a two broken wheels had the misfortune of happening, and they had helped fix them, there was also the incident when a bit of the merchandise would fall from some of the carts. They were picked up immediately and put back into a more confined and secure spot.

Overall, there wasn't much delay in their time to arrive at the meeting spot and when they had reached there they saw that the sister caravan was already set up there. At that point there mission ended, but Daitaro-sensei had told them that he had asked Masaomi-san if they would be able to stay the night and he had agreed.

They would be staying close to the camp and would be helping them set up the material necessary to make lunch. Itachi and Shisui were tasked with gathering the materials necessary to create a fire, while she was tasked with helping make dinner, which was some kind of stew.

She had been peeling some of the potatoes that were going to be used when she heard a piece of information that caught her attention.

'...boy found a few days ago. Such a small child and cute child but he aggravates the other children so much." A woman said as she talked with her companion.

"How did you find this child?"

"He was found by the side of the road wearing very tattered and ripped clothes with a very big hat in the same conditions of his clothes. He thankfully wasn't injure but we honestly don't know what to do with him now."

"Oh? Why not? I'm sure it wouldn't be such a bad thing to adopt him into the caravan."

"Well, yes but like I said he aggravates the other children too much. He also has aggravated some of the grown ups too. But the odd thing is he does it with such an emotionless and toneless face."

"Oh dear."

"Yes. I'm afraid that while we could fix that, it wouldn't be quick enough and he'll have angered the whole group by then. That is why we don't believe he can stay with us much longer. Some of us have been thinking of putting him in an orphanage in the next village we visit. Hopefully then, he can find a home. Poor child told us that he didn't have any parent's and he didn't know what happened to him."

"Poor thing.."

"Indeed.." She then went on continuing to say something but Yume had stopped listening at that point. In her mind there was only one child that fit that description the woman had talked about but even then there was a chance she was wrong. Right now she couldn't do anything since she had to finish. Quickly she peeled faster, not even bothering to be as careful as she was before. If this was who she thought it was, she didn't care of the consequences. There was someone from her world here.

Once done she bolted out of the tent where the food was being prepared and looked around desperately for teal colored hair. Shisui and Itachi had arrived back by this time and had seen Yume look around frantically, as if searching for something.

"Hey Yume-chan, lose something?" Shisui asked curiously as they approached her. She however, didn't respond to him and went off without even bothering to glance at them. This prompted for both Itachi and Shisui to glance at each other confused. Despite Yume's somewhat distant and detached attitude at times she never fully ignored them. The fact that Yume didn't even seem to recognize that Shisui was speaking to her surprised.

'Something must be wrong.' Both thought as they both nodded and went to put the materials they had collected where they were supposed to be before searching for Yume.

Yume had been searching for at least ten minutes before she found the person she was looking for. The person in question was a kid that looked around three with green colored hair and markings under his eyes, and was sitting by himself in the shade of the tree while the other children had been playing.

'Flan...Could it really be you Fran?' She thought as she looked at the boy disbelievingly. She took out her rings and boxes and held them tightly in her hand as she slowly approached the boy sensing her approach had looked at her with seemingly lack of emotion, but if one had looked closely they would have seen a slight widening of the eyes.

Nervously, she opened her mouth and asked. "Fran?...Is that you?"

"...Hai..Yume-nee…" He said as he looked at the objects in her hand as if for confirmation before taking out his Varia ring.

"Flan...oh god...Fran…" Her eyes teared up as she then went and hugged Fran tightly, She began to cry as she held him as if he were her lifeline.

Fran during this time hadn't bothered to do anything but was happy to have found the missing member of the Vongola. He had been very confused when he had found himself awake in a strange place. All he remembered before awaking was that he had made Sousuke-sempai and Bel- sempai very angry before his memory went blank. He had then noted that his hands seemed smaller than usual and that he was in very plain, ugly clothes. Not to mention the people he was around with were weird too, as if they had come out of some feudal era.

However, he had taken great joys out of annoying the kids that bothered him with questions and in his opinion given honest answers to the adults that didn't seem to like them. He didn't care though, as he saw it, he was only being honest.

Looking up at the face, even though it was much younger than he remembered, way too young like she was around his age group young, he saw that it was Yume-nee. She had taken care of him at times and hadn't been bother often by his rude remarks to her.

"Fran?...Is that you?" He had heard the disbelief in her voice.

"...Hai..Yume-nee…" He had said as he had also glanced at the objects in her hands to confirm his assumptions and then took out his own Varia ring, one that was designed to suit him, even if he wasn't officially the Varia Mist Guardian yet. He had then felt Yume hug him tightly, tightly enough that he could hardly breath.

"Fran...oh god...Fran…" He then felt her start crying as she continued to hug him tightly. Without emotion he said. "Yume-nee...I can't breath.." At that Yume didn't let him go but had loosened her hold on him. He then didn't bother to do anything to stop Yume from holding him. After all, she was one of the few people back home that had been able to tolerate him, and had been like an older sister figure to him.

This was the scene Itachi and Shisui had come upon when they found Yume. She who they had never seen cry, was crying as she held onto a child they were sure they had never seen before. They were confused as to what they should do. As they continued to look at them unsure, they felt as if they were intruding on something private.

They were about to turn back when they saw their sensei approach. "Itachi-kun, Shisui-kun why were you guys going over here? You should know better and stay close in a group."

"We know sensei." Both responded as Daitaro then looked at Yume who was seemingly holding onto a random, unknown child and was crying. He raised his eyebrow at that, and frowned. "...Was she like that when you saw her?" He asked them as they looked at him hesitantly.

"Well...yes.. and no."Shisui answered.

At that Daitaro gave Shisui a look. Itachi then took over what Shisui left out. "What he meant sensei was that when we had seen her she appeared frantic. When we found her here we saw her like that."

"I see…." He said as he looked at the scene again. "...Go back to the camp. I'll be there soon." Both genin looked at each other unsure but nodded. They then headed back towards camp and as Daitaro saw not without hesitancy. He then turned and approached Yume and the kid.

M: And that's the end of the chapter! :) Yay! I got to bring in Flan without too much of a hassle. This way there won't be too many questions if she is asked about him. Which she will be as you could see. Anyways hoped you like this chapter!

Funfact:originally, Flan wasn't supposed to appear yet but things turned out this way so I just stuck with it.

animagirl: I see who you're talking about now and you're right his personality would fit in with the Varia. Also, I do plan on having her confide in Itachi and Shisui, I'm just not sure how or when exactly.