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A/N: Gomen for updating so late! Thanks to all the reviewers for the great reviews. I'm letting you know that I'm not that great at writing battle scenes. Don't expect too much.

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Italicized sentences - Thoughts


The guy with purple mask on kicked the wall and it broke down into pieces. They escaped there. They started dash up to get away from the silver haired man.

"What a kick! That guy isn't normal. He's pretty strong. What do they want from Misumi? Damn them, I won't let them escape!" Kakashi chased after them.


Chapter 12 -Everything is okay?

They were on the run in the middle of a place containing a bunch of rocks everywhere. The guy with black mask on looked behind and saw that Kakashi was still chasing after them.

"Looks like he won't give up."

"Seem like it." The guy with the purple mask on replied.

They stopped suddenly and saw that Kakashi was in front of them. They turned their head around to look at the backs. There was another Kakashi behind them. At that point, they finally figured out that one of them was a clone.

"Now release her." Kakashi said coldly.

They smiled. The guy with black mask threw a smoke ball. The white smoke was everywhere, making the air gusty. They escaped once again.

They thought they had lost the scarecrow, but they were wrong. Kakashi caught up right behind them. The male with purple mask had enough of Kakashi chasing after them. So, he jumped onto a rock and flew backward to go straight at Kakashi. He was about to punch him. Kakashi had his arms ready for a block, but the enemy disappeared.

"Nani?" Kakashi's eyes widened in shock.

The guy appeared behind him and threw a blow right towards Kakashi's face. Kakashi was knocked backwards immediately and he landed against the rocks painfully.

"Ahhh…" Kakashi groaned, feeling his side throb with pain.

The enemy grinned and walked closer to him.

Kakashi stood up rapidly and tried to knock him out. However, the guy moved away. The silver haired man heard him coming towards him and he swung around to kick the enemy, but the enemy was gone. The guy appeared behind him and threw two kunai at Kakashi. It missed Kakashi when he dodged them.

Kakashi saw the man was grinning at him and Kakashi heard him said, "Boom."

The kunai blew up sending Kakashi flying backwards into a rock. The enemy remained there, smirking.

Kakashi was shaken that the guy had caught him off guard. He stood up slowly and quickly used his hand seals. His right hand started to glow.

"Chidori! (Lightning Edge!)" He ran towards the enemy.

The man frowned. Kakashi was getting nearer him. At that time, there was a loud explosion. The smoke cleared out.

Kakashi had damaged rock, it was now demolished. He had missed him, "Kuso! That guy dodged it!"

Kakashi glanced around to look for the guy. He sensed that the guy was above and looked up. The guy was coming down, ready to attack Kakashi.

Suddenly…

"Katon: Goukakyuu No Jutsu!" The guy saw that flame was aimed at him.

"Sasuke? Then that means Naruto and Sakura are here as well."

The enemy did a back flip quickly. Then he saw the pink haired girl take five shuriken out from her bag and threw at him. He wasn't stupid enough to get hit, so he blocked them by throwing his kunai against them. Without noticing, the raven haired boy suddenly appeared in front of him. The enemy's eyes widened in shock when he saw the raven haired boy had his eyes changed into different color. It was red.

"Sharingan…" He mumbled.

Sasuke decided to play a little fair by pulling out a kunai from his pouch. He sprung around as he stabbed for the enemy's gut, and planted the kunai on the enemy's head.

Sasuke grinned.

And then... POOF!

A smoke clear out and Sasuke saw that it was a log. The enemy had used a replacement jutsu.

"Kuso, I got fooled by that guy." Sasuke thought angrily.

The guy with black mask on sensed that someone was behind him and his eyes moved left and back. He saw that the blonde boy was about to attack him.

"Eat this, bastard!" Naruto shouted.

In his arms, he was carrying Aya, so he used his right hand to block the attack, "Idiot."

The guy with the black mask on saw something was flying in his direction. He stared. It looked like a weapon. It was Throwing Star! The male couldn't think any other way to defend himself. He had no choice but to do this. He threw Aya towards Naruto. Naruto flew backwards and the light green haired girl landed by him.

The male ducked down. He used his speed jutsu to go try to kill the blonde boy. However, a silver haired man appeared in front of him with Chidori flashing.

Kakashi hit him. Once again ...POOF! A log appeared.

"Replacement…" Kakashi mumbled.

"Sensei! Look!" Sakura pointed.

Everyone turned around and saw two males that stood on a high cliff.

"We'll meet again, Copy Ninja!" The guy with purple laughed evilly and they both slowly disappeared.

The Windmill Shuriken was sent back to Sasuke. Sasuke caught it, "It seems that they have escape."

"Yeah, they did."

"Hey you guys, can you help get Misumi-chan off of me! She's pretty heavy!" Naruto tried to push Aya off of him.

Kakashi lifted Aya up and put her down softly on dirt floor. Naruto grunted in dismay and lifted himself off of the ground.

Kakashi took a look at Aya to see if she was hurt.

"Kakashi-sensei, is she all right?" Sakura asked worriedly.

Kakashi sighed, "She's all right. She was only asleep. Seems like those guys were using a sleep jutsu to make her fall asleep."

"Sensei, what do those guys want from her?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know, but whatever it is, we have to be more careful so that Misumi isn't captured again."

"Those cowards left without a fight, what a losers… Next time we meet, I'll be sure to kill you off!" Sasuke thought furiously.

The two guys on the run…

"Forgive me for leaving that girl behind." The guy with the black mask looked at his leader.

"It doesn't matter. We'll get that girl later." He replied coldly.

"Are you sure it's okay to retreat?"

"It'll be fine."

"Why are you so interested in that girl?"

"That girl is someone I know… She wasn't supposed to be a-" He stopped.

"Wasn't supposed to be what?"

"Never mind... But all I can tell you that she has something I need to take."

"Something to take? What could it be?"

"You'll find out later. Right now, I have someone who has me interested. That girl can wait. We should head back and think of a plan." He smiled evilly.

Back to Team 7…

Kakashi was rubbing his cheek where he had received a punch from the guy with purple clothes, "Damn, it still hurts. That guy sure got me good… He's really strong. But one thing I don't understand is what do they want from her? They said they'll meet us again. This is really serious problem now."

"Kakashi-sensei, are you okay? Did that punch really hurt?" Naruto looked at his sensei.

"Hm? Oh, I'm fine. It wasn't that serious." Kakashi lied.

"He's lying." Sasuke could tell by the look on his sensei's face.

"We should head back to the Kuromai Mansion since there's no point of staying here." Sakura suggested.

"Yeah, we should. Let's go back." Kakashi picked up Aya. He carried her piggy back style.

Kakashi could hear Aya was sleep talking in her dream, "Father…"

"She must be having a dream about her father. This girl never stops thinking of him. I wonder what she is dreaming now."


-Flashback-

At five years old, I was in kindergarten. I was standing there, looking at the kids playing sandbox. I walked towards them and said, "Hi everyone…"

All the kids turned around and gave me unpleasant looks, "…Can I play with you guys?" I looked down shyly.

A girl stood up and said, "Sorry, but you can't play with us."

"…Why not?" I stared at her.

The girl placed her hands on her hips, "Because my mom told me not to play with a kid who doesn't have a dad. So, you don't have a dad."

I bit my lip softly, "…That's not true! I have a daddy!"

"Really? Where is he? I don't see him." She pretend to look around as she glancing left and right, hand shading the sun.

"…" I didn't reply back.

The kids laughed at me and whispered with each other, saying that I was a fool who didn't know where my father was.

"See, you don't have a dad!" She crossed her arms.

Then another boy stood up, "I can see why your dad left you in the first place."

"My daddy left me?"

"Yeah, that's right! Your dad left you because of your hair." The girl pointed at my hair.

I touched my hair, "What's wrong with my hair?"

She rolled her eyes, "Boy, are you stupid? In case you don't know, your dad left you because of that nasty hair color!"

"Nasty hair color?"

"Yeah, that's why he left you and he thinks that he's never seen such an ugly girl with green hair!"

"But… It's not green… My hair color is light green. So, it can't be the same."

"It is the same, you baka! Don't you know that the color of green is the most grossest thing that you ever seen? It looks like someone barfed on it. That's why he hates you and everyone else hates you too!"

The other kids laughed really hard and agreed with her.

I stood there, looking down sadly. Sure it hurt a lot, but what's that got to do with them not being my friends?

"…How come you guys don't want to be my friends?"

"You, be our friends?" She laughed, "Don't be a baka; no one wants to be your friend because of your haircut."

"My haircut? What's wrong with my haircut?"

"Yes, your haircut! When I looked at your hair, you looked like a boy! That's why no one wants to be your friend because you looked like a boy! Boys' only like girls with long hair and you don't have it. No one is going to like you because of that hair."

I was hurt. I felt like my heart had been broken into a thousand pieces.

"Come on you guys; let's go back and play!" They nodded and turned back.

They left me alone. No one wants to play with me. I went to sit on a bench, sitting alone. They didn't care how I felt or what I did. I didn't talk anyone that day.

After school, all of the parents came to pick their children. I was still in school, waiting for my mother to pick me up. My mother always comes a little late since she was working so hard at her job.

Later on, a long blue haired woman came, "Hey sweetie, sorry to keep you waiting. Let's go home." My mother stuck her hand out.

I held my mother's hand tightly. We walked together slowly. My mother stared at me when she saw my expression and knew that there was something wrong.

She stopped, bent down and glanced at my face, "Honey, what's wrong? You seem awfully quiet."

My mother saw tears dropped on the ground, "Mommy… Did my daddy left me because of my hair?"

"Because of your hair? What do you mean?"

"…All of the kids told me that my daddy left me because he thinks that I'm an ugly girl with my light green hair. Is it true?"

My mother put her hands on my shoulder and said in sweet tone, "Oh angel, that's not true. Your father didn't leave you because of that."

"…Then why he left us…? I want to see my daddy now!" I cried even harder.

My mother wiped the tears off from my cheeks with her handkerchief, "I know you want to see your father, but he's on a business trip."

"You always tell me that, mommy… He's been gone too long. I feel that daddy doesn't love us." I looked down.

She lifted my chin to make me look at her, "Oh Aya, what's make you think of that? Your father loves us very much! When you were born, your father was very happy to have you. You might not know that, but your father always wanted to have a daughter."

"Really? My daddy said that?" I stared at her surprisingly.

She touched my nose with her finger, "You silly, of course he said that. You think that I would lie? He was very proud to have you. So, don't think that your father doesn't love you. He loves you with all his heart. I'm sure right now; he must be thinking about you and wishing that he was there with you all the time."

I suddenly began to smile, "Mommy, will I meet my daddy?"

My mother smiled, "I'm sure you will. I'm not sure when, but it might be a long time."

"I don't care if it's a long time! I can wait!"

"Well honey, if you say so. Then all you need to do is be good girl."

"Okay, I will be a good girl!" I jumped happily.

"That's my girl. Your father will be happy to hear that." She stood up and held my hand, "Well then, let's go home. But before we go, are you hungry?"

"Hai!"

"Then what do you want to eat?"

"Strawberry dumpling!"

She laughed softly, "I should have known, since it's your favorite food."

"Hehehe!" I giggled.

"All right, strawberry dumplings it is! Let's go!"

"Hai!" We continue to walk and I paused when I realized I forgot to ask my mother a question, "Mommy?"

"Yes, sweetie?" She looked at me.

I opened my mouth, but I closed it, "No, nothing!"

I was going to ask my mother if it was true that guys were interested in girls with long hair, but I decided not to ask. I had already made my decision. I decided to let my hair grow and have long hair just like my mother. I hope that someday that I'll meet my father.


-End of flashback-

Why do I have to remember that? More importantly, why did I dream that? It was such a bad memory too… But then again, of course you can't forget. It'll always stay in your mind forever. Sigh. It always sucks to remember it.

"Man, how long is she going to sleep?"

I heard someone talking.

"Shhh! Quiet, don't talk so loud baka!"

"But, but… She slept too long! You don't know how long we've been waiting for her to wake up! I wish that she would wake up already!"

"Shut up, dobe. You're starting to get annoying."

"Teme, don't call me annoying! You're the one who pisses me off most of the time!"

"You two, be quiet now! You should know that teammates should get along each other, not become enemies."

"Hai, hai…"

"A dobe like him was never my teammate."

I can't take this anymore… With all the people talking, I couldn't sleep anymore.

My eyes opened and I saw that someone was staring at me. I knew who it was; it was Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. I saw that Sakura was sitting in the chair and Naruto was behind her, standing there and watching me. Sasuke was leaning against a wall with his arms crossed. I spotted Kakashi, who was sitting near the window and also staring at me.

"She's awake now! Finally!" Naruto shouted loudly.

I sat up and looked around, "Misumi-san, thank god, you're okay! I thought that you might never wake up." Sakura sighed in relief.

"What's going on?" I asked in confusion.

Sasuke snorted, "You sure got us into lots of trouble."

I was still confused; having no idea what Sasuke meant. I wonder what they're doing in my room. Don't tell me they were watching me sleeping the whole time, because that's embarrassing. I saw Kakashi walk closer and sit on the bed, still staring at me.

I blinked several times, and at that moment… "Itai!"

Kakashi was pulling my cheek, "You are one little troublemaker! Don't you know that you were kidnapped by those guys?" He let go my cheek.

I was rubbing my cheek, "I was kidnapped?"

"Yes, you were! You don't know how much we were fighting those guys! In case you don't know, they could have done something to do while you were asleep. But the good thing, nothing happened to you." He chastised me.

"How was I kidnapped? I don't remember."

"Of course you don't remember! Those guys used a sleep jutsu to make you fall asleep. It is called Feather Sleep Jutsu."

"A Feather sleep jutsu?" I tried to remember and an image popped up, "Oh! I remember! That was a feather sleep jutsu?"

Kakashi shook his head, "It seems that Iruka hasn't taught you or told you about it, has he?"

I didn't reply back. He was right. Iruka hasn't taught me that jutsu or told me about it either. I was a slow learner, what do you expect? It's not like I was fast learner like Kakashi.

"Misumi, why did you go out by yourself and not ask any of my students to go with you?"

"…Because I don't want to wake them. I thought that I should go out by myself without any trouble. I never knew it cause a lot of trouble…"

"It doesn't matter! You should know better than that! You weren't supposed to go out by yourself! Misumi, you must know that every mission we take isn't safe! What do you think this world was like since you came here? You think it's the same as your world? This is not a game; you could have gotten yourself killed by those guys."

I deadpanned.

"I have nothing else to say now. You should think over what you did today. We're leaving tomorrow morning. Right now, we have to eat dinner." Kakashi stood up and walked out from the room.

I kind of feel bad. I never knew that I would cause this mess. I guess Kakashi was right what he said to me last night that I was troublemaker… I was a troublemaker, and even though I didn't want to believe it, but it was true.

Sakura patted my shoulder, "Don't worry Misumi-san, Kakashi-sensei was only saying that because he was worried about your safety. I'm sure you learned your mistakes."

"Um…Hai…" I replied sadly.

After that, we went down to eat dinner. Sakura was talking to Miki happily. Naruto and Sasuke… Well, you know same old things. Arguing and calling each other names. Hiro was asking Kakashi about ninjas. Of course, Kakashi would then answer his question. I didn't talk at all because I still felt bad after what had happened.

We left the mansion early in the morning. Kakashi didn't talk to me at all. I stayed quiet the whole time. I was still thinking about everything. Everything I did had messed up this mission badly. I guess Kakashi really thought that I was very troublesome.

After we arrived in Konoha, Kakashi dismissed his students. His students left. I left without a word. I decided that I should go back to the apartment and be alone for a while.


- (Third Person Point of View)-

Ichiraku Ramen stand…

Naruto and Iruka were sitting on the stool, eating ramen. Naruto was telling his story about the mission.

Iruka coughed from his ramen, "AYA-CHAN DID WHAT?"

"You heard me; Misumi-chan defeated the women by using Sexy No Jutsu! Isn't that great! I was the one who taught her that jutsu and she did a great job! Wait till I teach her one of my next jutsus, it's called Harem no Jutsu!" Naruto pounded his chest proudly.

"STOP TEACHING AYA-CHAN THAT STUPD JUTSU!" Iruka yelled as he slammed the counter.

Naruto jumped in surprised as he looked at Iruka, frightened.

"Oh my god! Aya-chan learned that terrible jutsu from Naruto! I can't believe this! She's going to become dumber like him! God, this really explains why she improved in that transforming jutsu. Oh Kami-sama, why did you make this happened!" Iruka's head hit the counter and he sighed softly.

Kakashi meeting his friends…

"So my rival, it's about time you came back! I was waiting for our next match! But that can wait. So, how was the mission with Aya-san?" Gai placed his hand on his rival's shoulder.

"Yeah, tell us your story! We want to know everything!" Asuma puffed his cigarette.

"I have nothing to say of this mission. All I can say it was the most awful mission that I have ever had." Kakashi looked away.

"It is? How bad?" Hayate asked, coughing.

Kakashi didn't say anything.

"Come on, we're your friends. I'm sure it isn't that bad. Please tell us, Kakashi-san," Genma shook Kakashi's shoulder.

Kakashi found it annoying when his friends wouldn't leave him alone. He had no choice but to tell his friends.

An hour later…

Some of his friends spit drinks out from their mouths that they had been drinking, and began to laugh, "Hahaha, Aya did that? I can't believe what I'm hearing!" Asuma slapped his forehead.

"Aya-hime sure is interesting girl, but who would of thought that she would do that!" Genma placed his hands on his stomach, laughing really hard.

Hayate laughed and coughed at same time. Gai just laughed crazily as he banged the table several times.

Kakashi was blushing when he told them the story about Aya using Sexy No Jutsu that was based on his body, but he hadn't told them whose body it was. There was no way that he was going to tell them that she had used his body.

"That doesn't sound so bad, Kakashi." Hayate coughed.

"It is bad to me."

"Are you sure?" Genma gave him a look.

Kakashi thought it over when he remembered that Aya got scared from the bug and he had teased her. He had saved her from the river, gave her CPR, and then he had seen her naked at the hot springs.

His face began to flush, which his friends didn't know because he had his mask on, "Okay, maybe it wasn't that bad."

"Well at least she won't do missions with you again! Hey, maybe I should take her on a mission with my team next time! This will be great! We're going to have lots of conversations and she'll be impressed by how I fought all the bad guys when I show her my strength. Then she'll fall in love with me!" Gai cried he raised his hand up in the air.

Everyone sweat dropped, "R-right." They ignored his stupid comments and imagination.

"Like you think she would go with you…Yeah right, in your dream. I guess the mission wasn't that bad at all, but then again, I kind of made her sad because we didn't talk at all for a whole day. And also because I yelled her for being a troublemaker. I was little harsh on her. Maybe I should talk to her tonight." Kakashi thought.


-Evening-

"Misumi?" Kakashi knocked on my door.

No reply.

Kakashi sighed and opened the door. He walked in and the light was off. Kakashi turned on the light, he saw me lying on the bed. I was facing at the wall, but not looking at him.

Kakashi walked towards me and sat on the bed, "Misumi, I know you're awake. I need to talk to you."

I sat up and looked down, "About the mission that we did … I…" Kakashi paused as he was thinking of what to say.

"It's okay… You don't need to say it."

"Huh?"

"I understand. I really messed up the mission these past couple of days and it was my fault that I caused you and your students so much trouble. You were right that I was troublemaker… I never really admitted that I was. Now I know why everyone hates me. And… I'm really sorry, Hatake-san! I'm really am! I… I ….I guess you won't forgive me for what I did…" I began to cry, covering my face with my hands.

Kakashi watched me cry and was shocked to hear what I had said, "Misumi, please don't cry."

I sniffed and my tears continued to flow, "I didn't mean to yell at you or hurt you. It just that… well, I was worried about you. It really scared me when I saw those guys had kidnapped you and it made me… made me…"

"Made you what?" I asked.

"…No, never mind. All I want to tell you is that I don't hate you at all. It isn't your fault since it was your first mission. I'm sure everyone deserves a second chance. I forgive you." Kakashi looked away nervously.

"Hatake-san…" I wiped the tears off with the back of my hands.

"Well anyway, I'm going to bed now." Kakashi stood up, "So, I'll see you in the morning."

"Hai!" I nodded, happily.

Kakashi marched to the door, he stopped, "Oh yeah, I heard this story."

"Huh? What story?"

"I heard there was a girl who got eaten by a creature."

"What kind of creature?" I asked curiously.

Kakashi was rubbing his silver hair, "Well, they said that it was green and had big yellow eyes like an alien. It had long stringy ears and a mouth that was moving around like a crab."

"What a weird creature…"

"It's not a weird creature though. They said that the creature looked like a human bug."

My face turned blue, "A human bug?"

"Yup, that's right. You heard me, a human bug! The head was a grasshopper and the body was human like ours. They said they'll only eat girls because they're tasty."

Now, I'm starting to freak out! I don't want get eaten by a bug!

"It only eats you when you're asleep." Kakashi said in scary tone.

"NANI?"

"Oh well, I'm off to bed." He was about to walk out, but I grabbed his arm.

"Hatake-san, can I sleep with you tonight?" I gave him puppy eyes.

"Don't tell me you're afraid, are you?"

I shook my head, "No, of course not!"

"Then, there's no problem." He smiled, "Oyasuminasai! Don't let the bed bugs bite!" He closed the door.

"Bed bugs bite?" I stared at my bed, "Ahhh! I'M SCARED NOW!"

Kakashi placed his ear on the door and began to chuckle, "Kakashi, what did you do to Aya?" Pakkun asked.

"Oh nothing, just wanted to tell her some story, that's all. I'm sure she's going to have a good nights sleep tonight." He snickered.

Pakkun was confused by what Kakashi meant by that.

TBC


In the next chapter will have Christmas, but it's going to be a little late right after. I know that the battle scene was bad and I couldn't think any better way, but I hope you like this chapter. Anyway, please RR!

-Saki-Kun