A.N-Alright, here's the next chap for Parents. It's ten years later and all of the cousins are Genin. I'm going to put, like, maybe 5-7 chapters in the same day if I have time. Then I'm going to finish my other stories until they're done, then I'm going to update Parents. Okay, here we go.


Kira huffed as she dodged and attacked her cousins. The Suna sun was sweltering and the few trees scattered about offered little relief, nor did it offer many shadows for her kekkei genkei. She was now training with her cousins on one of the rare visits she and her parents paid to Suna. Since she had entered the academy and became a Genin, the Naras had little time to visit their Suna relatives. Shikamaru also still had missions. Even Temari had weaseled some from Naruto.

But when they did find time, Kira and her cousins spent as much time together as possible. When they had been younger, the three had been seen on numerous occasions sleeping together in one of their beds or on the couch. Temari declared that they were the family she and her brothers never were. The rest had agreed.

Now, most of Kira's Jutsus were her kekkei genkeis, but she had one wind technique. It was similar to Baki's wind drill, but also like a combination of that and his blades of wind. It looked like a drill, but she could throw it. And that's what she did to Hitomi. Well, first she made a clone and the real her went over to a tree behind Hitomi. Then her clone did the Jutsu.

"Roaring Wind Blade Jutsu!" her clone yelled. She threw it and it landed on her target perfectly. Sure, Hitomi tried to dodge it, but Kira had put extra chakra to put in heat censers. And even though Hitomi's sand protected her, it was just to a certain degree, and that Jutsu was pretty powerful. The Jutsu nailed Hitomi backwards, into Kira's Shadow Possession Jutsu. Hitomi tried to move, but she couldn't. Since Kira herself was out of weapons, she used Hitomi's and began throwing them at Daiki. Daiki dodged them easily, but Kira was fast and Hitomi had a lot of weapons.

But Daiki had a few tricks up his sleeves. He made a hand sign, one all to familiar, and shouted,

"GenJutsu: Future Death Scene!" Kira (and Hitomi) tried to do the release sign, but she wasn't fast enough. She was trapped.

Daiki was pretty good at NinJutsu, but his real strengths were TaiJutsu and GenJutsu, particularly the latter. This Jutsu showed the victim their own death, at the age they were at now. It was usually correct in death, but not in age. That part was just to strike more fear in the victims. Kira saw herself behind a boy (she didn't know who it was), who fell down, dead, probably from the numerous shriken wounds in his front. Kira could see that the boy had died to protect her, and then she saw herself being killed from behind, with a shriken, while she held the boy in her arms, weeping.

Hitomi saw herself being blown to pieces in a mighty force of chakra, dead on contact with the tree she landed on. There was poison dripping from the many kunai in her body.

The girls screamed, but were able to do the release signs (well, Kira did that, which made Hitomi do so also). They were out of their cousin's GenJutsu. For now.

Kira glared at him. He was smirking. In fact, he was so wrapped up in his little trick that he didn't notice the shadow above his head. Not until Kira's Shadow Possession Jutsu caught him. The Nara girl had used the shadow of a passing cloud to catch him. His eyes widened as he realized his capture. Now it was him who was glaring, and it was Kira and Hitomi who were smirking. Even though Hitomi herself was a captive, she, too, relished in her male cousin's capture.

Kira made Hitomi and Daiki take a shrikenout and threw them at each other. The Subaku cousins were amazed and frightened that their cousin would harm them and herself (A.N-Remember, what happens to the caught, happens to the catcher) in such a serious way.

Then, at the last second, Kira had the three of them duck, the shriken narrowly missing their throats. Then Kira made them take out a kunai and put them to their throats. Daiki glanced warily at the weapon, then he spoked to his cousin,

"You wouldn't. Whatever happens to us happens to you, so you'd just hurt yourself, too." Kira smiled. She had planned for this. She told Daiki,

"Which is why-" she suddenly appeared in the tree she and Hitomi were near-"the me who has you is a clone. So I won't hurt myself. You, on the other hand, though..." she trailed off, knowing the next words out of her cousins' mouths,

"We give. You win." Hitomi said, then sighed. She hated losing to Kira, either of her cousins for that matter. She feared if she didn't win, Gaara would love her less. That was not true, of course, but no matter what her cousins said, she still tried harder, challenging the other Genin constantly, and the desire to please her father grew stronger every day.

Daiki sighed, too. No matter what, he just couldn't beat his cousin. He tried different things each time, but could never figure his cousin out. Due to an I.Q test he and Hitomi had pressed her to take, she had an I.Q of 155. She was as smart as her father, and as strong and willing to fight as her mother. Those two combinations made a great shinobi, and plus there was her own desire to please, to be a great shinobi, both as an official kunochi of Konoha, and a kunochi of Suna origins. She felt that she should be stronger than both Suna and Konoha shinobi because she was both.

Daiki himself had his own reason for wanting to beat his cousin. He wanted to be able to protect his cousins at all costs. If he couldn't beat Kira, what would happen if some rogue ninja beat her, then how would he be able to beat the rogue, or a ninja from an enemy village, for that matter? He also wanted to be looked up to by the next generation, like many people in Suna looked up to their parents, Shikamaru included, as Konoha was considered a strong village. There were many discussions on who was a stronger village, Suna or Konoha. Even though many were loyal to their village (poor Kira was torn between loyalties) and they would pick Suna, it was agreed upon that, if they fought Konoha, they may not win. Konoha was a strong village, the best in the Fire Country, it was said, and they were a force to be reckoned with.

And so it all went back to the parents. Even Kira wanted to be considered a great ninja on her own, to be known by her skills and not the mixed village daughter of Shikamaru and Temari. All of them wanted to be seen as themselves, not their parents' children, but they wanted to their parents' praise to come because they deserved it, not because they were their kids. Hitomi didn't have to worry about that with Gaara, but she had seen more smiles than what they had been told he used to do. The kids were the apple of Gaara's eye, even though his way of showing was a little strange. If they did something he thought was impressive, it would smile a little and tell them "Good job." When they had something to say, he would listen intently, and then smile at the end. In his own way, Gaara spoiled his daughter, niece and nephew. In his own way.

The kids were cutting through an alley to get home earlier when Hitomi stopped when she came to the point where you'd come out of the alley, Daiki smacking into her.

"Hitomi, what are you doing? What'd ya stop for?"

"Shh! Look. See that ANBU? He's not from Suna. Do you think he could be from Konoha?" Daiki looked and saw a person in black with a crow mask on. It was definitely an ANBU. Hitomi was right, he wasn't from Suna.

"Hey, Kira, is that ANBU from Konoha?" Whenever someone wasn't from Suna, Hitomi and Daiki would, if she was there, aske Kira if they were from Konoha. Kira looked past the wall and nodded. Then she began to walk toward him. She called over her shoulder,

"Come on, guys. Yeah, he's from Konoha. Wonder what he's doing here. probably came with Naruto-san." Naruto was having a meeting with Gaara that day. Also, since Naruto wasn't one for formal stuff, he said the kids could call him Naruto-san. Everyone in Konoha did, except his childhood friends, they still just called him Naruto.

Kira looked up at the ANBU and said hello, then proceeded to indroduce herself and her cousins.

"Hello. I'm Nara Kira, Nara Shikamaru and Temari's daughter. These are my cousins, Subaku no Hitomi, Subaku no Gaara and Matsuri's daughter and Subaku no Daiki, Subaku no Kankuro and Ai's son. Have you come with the Hokage?" The ANBU smiled at her and was suddenly behind her and reaching for her.

"No, I came for you." The three of them whipped around and Hitomi caught him in her sand. He couldn't move. Daiki moved in front of the girls and snarled,

"Who are you and what do you want from us? We can have you arrested in the name of the Kazekage for saying such things and put an almost assualt in there, too. "

"And I can arrest you as the Hokage for impersonating a Konoha ANBU." A voice behind them said. The kids didn't bother turning around, they knew it was just Naruto-san and Gaara. Their captive smirked.

"Have it your way. But I'll be back." Then he was gone in a puff of smoke, but not before dropping a headband. Daiki picked it up and turned to the two Kages.

"Gaara-oji-san, Naruto-san! He's from the Sound! Here's his headband." The Kazekage took it and looked it over. Then he nodded and said,

"I'll have this traced later. First, let's get home." The five of them began walking in the direction of the Kazekage Tower, their original destination.