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Chapter 10

NejiPoV

"Byakugan." I saw that someone had captured my new teammates. Tenten was hung above a pit with spears and swords, Lee above a pit where he would break his bones and Yuri above a pit filled with crocodiles,lions and other flesh eating each of the ropes were being cut by chakra. I had to think. If I freed Lee first I had a strong one, Tenten was accurate and Yuri was fast. Lee it was. He could help me by freeing Tenten and they could help me by freeing Yuri. I detected the enemy and attacked him. It was a mere clone. It was a chuunin but he only used taijutsu.

A kunai through his head made him poof away. I forgot I had Yuri's bird with me. "Swift can you lift Lee? That way I can cut the rope without Lee falling down." I asked quietly. Swift bobbed it's head and did as I asked. I cut the rope and we pulled Lee slowly to the ground. "One."

The next one was a hidden target. I had to use my Byakugan to find it after killing a few bats. I pushed a kunai in the bulls eye and Tenten was dropped.

"Lee Catch her!" Lee was right on time. "Two."

We went back to where they were captured. "Tenten are you okay?"

"Yes thanks Neji, Lee."She gasped

"You're welcome Tenten." Lee said.

"Now to get to our final teammate." I used my Byakugan. "Tenten, Lee you guys have to do exactly as I say to free Yuri all right?" We arrived and the fog was gone. Yuri was caught in a net and her legs and arms were tied together. She couldn't do anything.

"Neji You have to make a choice. We need the key to free Guy-sensei. He was chained to a tree somehow. But if you choose to get the key I'll be dropped into the pit. If you choose to free me first then the key will be dropped into a small pool of lava causing it to melt."

"Tenten you will have to try and take the key before it falls into the lava. You get only one chance."

"Lee you will fight the guy cutting Yuri's rope. I'll free Yuri." No sooner said than done.

Everything worked out but in the end a lion jumped which caused Tenten to drop the key. I had Yuri almost but she fell of the edge. "Yuri!" we yelled. Tenten, Lee and I were pulling her back up but Yuri was reaching for the key. She almost had it. "Just… a little… closer."

"Yuri, leave the key. There are other ways to free our sensei. Trust me." Yuri looked at me and seemed to believe me. Then she grabbed both my hands. Yuri's foot slipped and she started to get scared.

We pulled her up and plopped down. Tenten and Lee hugged Yuri to comfort her. "Why were you scared, Yuri?"

"I've had dreams of slipping in a dark pit and falling. when I would look up I would see you guys and all my other friends reaching for me but I couldn't reach any of you."

"I see. Well no sense in staying here we have to get to Guy sensei." Lee. We all got up and went through a small forest.

YuPoV

At the other end of the small forest we saw Guy sensei being guarded by four shinobi. "Oh, hell no. Screw this. Everyone hold your breath." I did some hand-seals. "water release: Exploding water colliding wave." I punched the ground making a huge wave of water causing the four shinobi flow away. Guy's chains were rusting. Lee kicked it and the chains fell off.

"Well done everyone. It seems that you were on time and you brought everyone here at the same time. That means you all trust the others to watch your back." I called Swift back. "Yuri how did you know that Jutsu? It was simply flawless, but B-ranked."

"When I was taken I was trained because they want me for my clan's ability. One of my captors said I had reached jounin skills except for strategy and I need to take random naps too."

"I see." Then all our stomachs growled. Mine was the loudest. It hurt. I hadn't eaten since last night at the festival. I fell on my knees clutching my stomach.

"Let's go to Yakiniku Q." Tenten helped me up and we went back taking a short-cut. Apparently we had walked a full circle. At the restaurant, I ate my fill. I ate more than my entire team together. Of course we made Guy sensei pay. Then we all could go home. I was supposed to meet my mother at the roof where Shikamaru always watches clouds.

She sat on the bench. "Yuri! My child I'm so relieved that you are back."

She hugged me to death. "Mom… can't breath…" Mom let me go.

"Did you see him?" I nodded."He wanted me to greet you for him."

"thank you." she whispered happily.

"He trained me in poisons and Chakra control." We went to Kakashi's house to pick up my stuff and walk to my mom's house.

I would live with her from now on. "I heard about what happened at the festival."

"what part." I was worried she knew about Deidara.

"The part where you sent three boys on a wild chase for a flower. I heard it were the heirs of the Inuzuka and Aburame clans. And the Uchiha." I blushed.

"I approve if you choose either of them." she said

"I don't care if you approve or not. It would have been my own choice anyway." I argued

"I see that you still have a lot to learn, about our clans traditions."

"I do and I want to, but still." We walked to an deserted part of the village.

"Here we are." Mom said.

"Where are we?" I asked in complete awe

"At our clans compound." She replied proudly.

"Wow." Mom walked to a big house.

"This was my family's house before I met your father. We were the head family. Our skills were the finest. A long time ago the Aburame clan and the Inuzuka clan lived here too. Our clan's lived together known as the Doubutsu clan. I'm not sure what happened that the insect and dog clan separated."

Talking about boys I still have to write one. Speak of the devil and his falcon shall appear. I saw a Suna bird going to the aviary. I went to see if it was a letter from Gaara, leaving mother talking. I took a ride on Tora to go quicker. At the aviary the bird had just landed when I was let in.

Genma took the letter. "Ugh another one from that Gaara kid."

"I'll take it." Genma jumped.

"Ah, Yuri. Here you go. I understand Gaara is a friend of yours?" "Yes." I took the letter and gave another one to Genma "You can send this one back. It's to tell him I'm safely back home. and that he doesn't have to worry anymore." "Great maybe that will lessen the amount of letters we got from him."

When I went back home I saw Naruto with Sakura and Sasuke. and Kakashi sensei. They have graduated too? Oh... but then... my dream! I ran home. "Mom!"

"Yuri? what's wrong dear?"

"I have to tell you something. Is it possible that our clan has a Jutsu to see the future?"

"Have you been having dreams? with extreme headache?"

"Yes."

"Is one of your animals an owl?"

"Yes."

"There is one jutsu. It has to do with the owl. It's a forbidden jutsu which causes blindness when you use it too many times."

"Do the dreams always come true?"

"Yes they do." I went to the Hokage. Guards tried to stop me but when I yelled that the well-being of Konoha depended on it they let me go. When I explained to the Hokage what I dreamed about, he asked me the same thing mother explained to me. I told him everything she said and I even showed my owl.

"Don't speak with anyone else about this." was his reply. I nodded and went home to get some sleep.

The next morning I was called to the mission office. We had to help some retired ninja couple move to a smaller house. It was fun because they thought Neji was a girl. They did seem a little scared. Though once they saw how sweet he was they couldn't stop giving him treatments for cats. Guy sensei got some spanking with the walking stick of the man. Because he kept giving us a pep-talk about being youthful. Which annoyed the man. The woman kept trying to convince Tenten to be more girly and that a girl shouldn't handle weapons. Only Lee didn't get into trouble. They even offered him some cookies!

It took the whole day to do that. Damn it. The woman had kept stopping to talk with someone or to watch some storefront. The man kept telling us about his days as a ninja. One time we had to go into a clothes shop for a new dress for their grand-daughter. Then I got some blackmail on Neji because they asked him to try it. He couldn't say no so I made some pictures. I gave Swift the camera so he wouldn't get it.

When the mission was finally over, I was tired like hell but, we all got some dinner from the couple. Something they insisted on. After dinner we went to the mission office to get our paycheck. Guy-sensei had written a report about the mission during dinner. We got our new mission for tomorrow right away. It was helping someone on the fields. At my new home, which would take a while getting used to, I fell on my bed and slept when my head hit my pillow.

The next day…

The following morning, I was woken up by barking I would recognize everywhere. Akamaru? What is Kiba doing here? and so early? a few seconds later… where is Tora? I got dressed really quick and went outside. There I saw Kiba and Akamaru together with a girl with two dogs, probably his sister, fighting Tora. Tora was quite wounded because he wasn't that great in fighting when outnumbered. I was foolish enough to jump with three clones in front of him. My clones caught the humans and two dogs and I caught Akamaru and another dog one bit in my arm and one bit in my left shoulder. Once the dusk from the attack was gone Kiba and his sister were shocked to see me in this state. Kiba called Akamaru back and he ordered his sister to do the same. She did once she was out of her shock. Then she came closer to check my wounds but I growled at her to stay back.

"Why are you attacking him?" I wanted to know.

"We had gotten a mission stating that we had to kill a tiger which resided at this place." Kiba told me "Oh and this is Hana my sister." Hana tried to silence him.

"Who was the client?" I asked them.

"We don't know. we were told of this mission yesterday." Hana said firmly.

"Have you any Idea what would happen if you killed Tora?"

"No, care to explain?" She asked.

"I would have died. Because that tiger you just tried to kill was my first Animal. He is connected to me as if he is part of me, and I am part of him." I said feeling upset that a friend of mine would do such things.

"We seriously didn't have any idea!" Kiba tried to talk it right. "Yuri, I really didn't know. or I wouldn't have accepted. I really wouldn't have. I understand your bond. Mine with Akamaru isn't that strong. But I do understand that you would feel unimaginable pain just like I would, if something happened to him."

I felt for him. He really was sorry. "I can forgive you if you tell me all you know."

They did as I asked. When they were finished I was SO angry. I went looking for Iruka-sensei he gave them the mission scroll. he was still in the mission office. "Iruka sensei. Do you know who the client was of the mission Kiba had with his sister?"

He looked confused for some reason. "Don't you know? it was your mother."

"WHAT! WHY?" I felt more anger. and hatred. I wanted to hurt my mother as much as Tora was hurt. I slammed my fist on the table and It cracked into dust. All the papers went flying around the room. Someone wanted to bring me back to reality by putting a hand on my shoulder. I shrugged it off. Then my head was aching.

The ache got so bad, I clutched my head and started roaring. It made me SO mad.. I started to destroy the room. Soon enough I was fighting the teachers, Asuma, Kurenai and Kakashi. One ANBU joined the fight too. That ANBU was the only one that got killed.

At some point in the fight, Hokage appeared. I had given up to crawl on all fours in a corner a lick my wounds. He stopped Kurenai before she would kill me. Then he peered into my eyes.

HokagePoV…

I was doing annoying paperwork as always when I heard some loud bangs. Genma rushed into my office without knocking. "Lord Hokage, The Azura girl has gone mad! She has destroyed the mission office and is now fighting Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai! She has killed an ANBU!" I was gone when He finished his speech. I entered the room and all I saw was chaos. Kakashi was defending Iruka who got some severe wounds and a medical nin who was healing him. Asuma and Kurenai were still fighting Yuri. I stopped them before Kurenai could kill her.

I looked into her eyes and noticed the lack of life. She was controlled somehow. And she was in grave pain. "Kurenai get Hiashi and Inoichi." I ordered. Then I released her form the Genjutsu she was under. "Kakashi see if you can find out who put her under this Genjutsu. It might be of great importance."