Several weeks later-

Seven. She was now expecting seven young, and she could'nt help but feel a little over whelmed as she ran across the rooftops decked out in her Anbu gear, her sage eyes staring out of the eye holes in her half mask as her dyed red hair fell in her eyes. It ad almost been a month since she had gotten pregnat, and she had yet to stop going on missions which was why Tiger and Beetle had rejoined the ranks to help support her in her fragile condition.

When they were out on missions, at least two of her subordinates stayed with her a all times just in case. Each on of them had laid down some ground rules about her health.

Rule 1) She was not to go on any Anbu issions without the full support of all of her team. And if she did go on an Anbu missin, she was not to engage the enemy under any circumstances, even if one or more of the team was wounded or killed. The childen had to come first. Always.

Rule 2) She was going to start and keep to a steady diet of whatever Choji put in front of her. She was expected to eat everything, and then some.

The only real problem with ths is tha if she ate eveything like they wanted her too, she would get sick due to the fact that she was used to going hungry.

Rule 3) If she had to use her Sharigan, Mangekyou, Ameterasu, or her Sage eyes, she could only do it for a few minutes. Or sh could suffer from sever chaka depletion.

The only problem she had with this rule was that her Sage eyes took time to change back to normal. Like now for instance, she had been using them for only a second during the mission and now she was stuck with them for the next thirty minutes, not only that but she and the others were late reportingto Sarutobi.

Rule 4) She had to go to the doctor regularly, follow every instruction that she was given, and get plenty of rest.

Shadow came up on one side of her as they saw the tower coming into sight, Tiger took rank at her left, and Minx followed close at her back. A habit tha they had fallen into since three of them were her children's sires. Now if only she could go train with her genin tea and speak with Wolf about his role as a soon to be father, but noooo. Again Shika had to be an ass and refusd to let her tell the man that he was going to be a father too.

He planned to keep Wolf as far away from her and their children as he could, something that niether Wolf nor she appieciated all that much. Wolf was nothing but a family oriented male, he would want to know if he was a father so that he could help protect his female, that was just the way things were.

"There are a aweful lot of forigners in the village today." Panther commented as he closed in on her, Kitsune looked at the street below and frowned as she leapt to the next roof. Was Sarutobi holding some kind of conferance? A peace treaty nagotiation with some unknown country? How strange. She thought as she ran a little bit faster, part of her trying to hurry and meet with Sarutobi, the other part of her trying to outrun the glare that Shadow was throwing her way.

"I am so pissed at you right now." Shadow growled as she glanced at him out of the corner of her gold and scarlet ringed eyes. So she had used her eye jutsu, big deal. If she had'nt she might be buried in a shallow grave right now, and that would be the end of well, everything since that last guy had gotten just a little too close for comfort.

"Ge over it Shadow. It was either use the damn jutsu or be killed." She snapped irritably as they all leapt the last remaining distance into the room where the Hokage sat in his red velvet throne like chair. Sarutobi opened his mouth to say something but stopped as soon as he saw them, ignoreing the croud of jounin standing a few feet away.

The elder smiled as he locked eyes withthe red headed female in the fox half mask. "Welcome back, Anbu team zero."

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Kakashi had just nominated his genin team for the chunin exam whe a group of Anbu several of whom he recognised as the two who had paid him a visit the day of the bell test seveal weeks ago. He was about to ask what they were doing crashing the meeting that the Hokage had called them too when the elder had smiled and looked at the small red haired female in th half fox mask and said, "Welcome back, Anbu team zero."

Kakashi watched the female walk over to the steps and instead of droppig to one knee to pay her respects to the elder; she stood there and slipped a large brown leather duffle bag from her shoulders and he caught the almost hidden sight of fresh blood soaking through the bottom of the leather bag and hand it to the elder. He studied the girl and got the nagging feeling that he knew her from somewhere.

"I trust that you had no trouble in terminating the target, Kitsune." Sarutobi said as he took the bag from her and peeked inside to see the severed head of Orochimaru staring sightlessly back at him.

"Hai, no trouble at all." Especially since she had'nt really fought until it was time to go in for the kill. She had struck hard, and fast. Killing the snake sanin instantly then had backed off to let Shadow sever his head.

Kitsune? As in fox, was that a clever way to call Uzu by the demon she carried?

Kakashi cocked his head and decided to try and figure out who the girl was by, walking-no stomping up to her and grabbed her, completely ignoring the sudden sound of katana blades and kunai being drawn by her subordintes as he forced her to turn around, her mask coming undone as he threaded his fingers through her hair and let her mask fall and from her face as he stared down into th wide startled eyes of his favorite blonde.

"Well, well Kitsune. Would you mind telling me why you've been ditching your training for the past two in a half weeks?" He asked in a menacing purr as he smirked down at her. He didn't remember seeing her look so lovely, so soft, and her scent... He inhaled deeply, drawing ito his lungs and froze, his smirk faltering as he caught the subtle hint of his musk clinging to her skin. There was only two reasons for a female to carry his musk on her skin weeks after he had touched her.

One, he had mated her and was'nt aware of it. A rare accurance, but it did happen.

And two she was carring his young. Perhaps even both.

"You smell like-"

A katana blade was sudenly pressed against his throat and he looked at the offender holding it as he loosened his grip on his student in suprise as the Anbu in the solid black mask growled in his ear, "Let. Her. Go."

"Get this blade away from my neck, kid."

"I'll slit it if you try anything funny, Wolf." The teen said in a low feral tone as on of the other Anbu stepped forward and wrapped his arms around Kakashi's female and vanshed before either the girl or Kakashi could react. Kakashi stood perfectly still as his heart hammered against his ribs and looked at the dark Anbu again, his animal instinct kicking in, and demanding the blood of the one who had stopped him from embracing his female.

His instinct demanded that he rend and tear the son of a bitch apart and find his female again.