What Forces Us Apart Brings Us Together

By: TwinkleUzuki CodeName NekoKit

Beta'd By: EzzBomb2010

Twinkle: Okay, so a lot of people have questions. If you have one, leave it in a review and I'll get to them in the next chapter. This story needs a LOT of work so I'm trying to clear it up.

Three days later, Team 7, Kyuubi, though nobody knew it was him, Aki, Zabuza, and Haku along with the Suna Siblings all stood at the complete unnamed bridge, packed up and ready to go. The sun was shining high in the air, not a cloud in sight. Tazuna grumbled and rubbed his chin.

"What should we name the bridge?" he mused aloud. Inari, whose attitude towards Natsumi had changed for the better, or the worst in Natsumi's case, spoke up.

"How about the Great GaaNatsu Bridge?" he offered. Both Natsumi's and Gaara's faces light up while Kyuubi burst out laughing. The blond demon's head whipped around to her brother's form so fast, everyone swore she had whiplash… well everybody but Kyuubi who was still laughing, oblivious to his sister stalking over to him. She kneed hard in crouch and watched with satisfaction as he crumpled to the ground in pain. The men all wisely stepped away from her. Natsumi turned back to Inari and shook her head.

"Brat, that's not a good idea." she said. He cocked his head to the side.

"Why?" Sai stepped in.

"Well, it suggests that the two are a couple." he said. Inari blushed in embarrassment and recognition before nodding.

"How about the Great Jinchuuriki Bridge?" Gaara said. Natsumi looked at the bridge for a moment before nodding.

"It has a nice ring to it. I like it." Sakura snorted.

"How come we don't get to name the bridge? I mean Sasuke-kun did most of the work."

"WE, as in Gaara and I, are naming the bridge because we did most of the work. If I remember correctly, you didn't do anything. And we finished off the rest of them so therefore we get to name the bridge. In your face." Natsumi said snobbishly. Sakura recoiled in anger. Inari smiled.

"Okay then, the Great Jin- um… how do you pronounce it again?" he asked sheepishly.

"Jinchuuriki kid."

"Right, what she said." He blinked a couple times. "What is a Jinchuuriki anyway?" Natsumi looked thoughtful for a minute before grinning sinisterly.

"It means I have a big bad demon seal inside me that burst out and kill everyone at any given minute. That's why everyone in the village along with pinky hates me." She closed her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, smug. What she wasn't expecting was for Inari to run over to her and give her a hug, crying.

"That must be so hard on you Nii-chan!" he cried. "Having to protect everyone in your village even though they hate you!" Natsumi's eye twitched.

And here I was thinking that this would make him leave me alone. she thought. Then she smirked. "You're pretty smart brat." He looked up at her in confusion. "Did you know that you're only most the only one with like ten others that realize that?"

"Really? Is that good?"

"Yup, that means you're smarter than the average ningen." She received to some weird looks referring to her supposed race as humans, like they were beneath her. "One day I'll bring the others here to meet you."

"You mean there are more of you?" Sakura asked with disgust. Natsumi's eye twitched as she whirled around to face the pinkette.

"Yes there is. Got a problem with it?" she asked hotly. Before Sakura could retort, the blond cut in. "See how stupid ningen are? If Konoha says that she was the top Kunoichi in book smarts of the most recent class of graduate in the Academy, then the standard's in that village must have really dropped." She turned back to Inari. "Anymore questions?"

"How many are there of you?" he asked.

"Well, there are eight of us in total even though there are nine demons. You already meet two of us." She swung her arm around Gaara's neck. His eyes widened.

"Oh, well okay then." Natsumi turned around and let Gaara go. "We let hit the road ningen. We got a long annoying trip ahead of us back to Konoha." she said as she started to walk down the trail. Kakashi turned to Zabuza and Haku who were looking around, confused.

"Natsumi, I don't think we can bring a missing-nin back home with us." he stated. Natsumi shrugged.

"Well I still have to rebuild my ningen clan don't I? And I'm not going to mate with and ningen anyway so I'm going to mooch them into my clan. Don't worry your head about it. You're already grey." she said. Kakashi's eyebrow twitched. She continued walking like there wasn't a care in the world. "Well some on, we don't all year." The other ninja and two demons' started the last Namikaze home, the citizens of Nami no Kuni waving at them until they couldn't be seen.

Aki ran up Natsumi and held her hand tightly as Sakura taking glances at her. Natsumi looked down.

"What's wrong Aki?" she asked as the young demon grabbed on to her leg also. Aki looked behind Natsumi's cloak.

"The mean lady keeps looking at me." she whispered. Natsumi looked behind her and sure enough Sakura was looking at Aki strangely. Aki squeaked and hid again.

"Oh. Well don't worry. She has no way to hurt with your dad and me here." she said as she detached Aki from her leg and held her in her arms. Kyuubi looked at them, cocking an eyebrow.

"What happened?"

"I'll only tell you if you promise not to hurt the ningen in no way or form." Natsumi stated, glancing back at the demon king. The nine-tails eyes narrowed at her.

"Fine, I promise."

"When we were on our way here to Nami, we had to take a boat. I had told pinky not to pick Aki up but she did anyway. Long story short, Sakura threw Aki in the lake after Aki bit her. Aki nearly drowned so she's been avoiding Sakura ever since." Kyuubi looked livid but closed his eyes and took deep breathes, though he did fail to stop furious growl that came from him. Sakura took a couple steps back and hide behind her two male teammates. Sai smirked.

"I don't see why you have to use us as a shield. Unless you're scared flat chest." he said. Sakura glared at him.

"I'm not flat chested!" she yelled. Kankuro started to poke fun at the girl.

"Then what are you?" he asked. She growled at him.

"I just haven't hit puberty yet!" Temari snorted.

"Yes you have. You're thirteen already. You're just flat chested. Face it."

"I AM NOT FLAT CHESTED!" Natsumi's eye started twitching.

"Will you shut up?" she asked as she turned to face them. "Nobody cares whether or not you're flat chested because it doesn't matter right now. All that matter now is getting back to Konoha so I can get away from you Genin. All you guys ever do is yell and it's really starting to piss me off. Grow up and you better do it fast or I'll do for you. You're stuck with me, whether you like it or not." Kakashi's eyes narrowed at her and she glared back. "What?"

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't threaten my students."

"Newsflash scarecrow, I'm your student too now." With that she turned make around and continued to walk with Aki in her arms.