The Hidden Countries;

Chapter Fourteen,

Invasions,

Rose yawned and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, she was distantly aware that Sasuke was trying to sneak up on her again. It was the last day that she was going to waste with Kakashi and Sasuke – and Sasuke was determined to get past her shield.

It was actually quite amusing.

Rose waved her hand and her shield went up, just seconds before Sasuke hit the boundaries. Sasuke got thrown back, but he quickly managed to right himself. Sasuke also cursed loudly.

"How do you do that?" Sasuke grumbled loudly.

"Magic," Rose replied dryly. Nobody ever actually believed that she used magic, so it was amusing to use the phrase. When they all thought it was a phrase and it really wasn't.

It made her smile.

Sasuke huffed loudly and punched a nearby tree. Kakashi swung down from said tree. "Hm, it's been a week Sasuke."

Sasuke scowled. "It's impossible, a perfect defence!"

Rose blinked, and figured that she should take that as a compliment from the black-haired boy. "It's far from it actually," Rose added. "It's quite weak."

Sasuke scowled and glared at her. Rose smiled. Kakashi laughed. "A hundred laps for not beating the shield Sasuke."

"But-"

Kakashi just wagged his finger at the boy like he was a dog doing the wrong thing. Sasuke grumbled again, and glared darkly at the man with a dark eye.

Kakashi seemed to find some sort of amusement in that. Sasuke ran off, muttering ways he could kill them all. Rose was quite concerned for his state of mind. If Kakashi made him do anymore laps…

"I think this is called child abuse," Rose mused out loud.

Kakashi just smiled and seated himself next to her. "He's technically an adult."

Rose paused for a moment. "Then it's student abuse."

Kakashi nodded his head. "I won't deny it."

Rose snorted and rolled her eyes. Kakashi settled on his tree branch again, opening his small green book. Rose smiled, this was the first time that he had brought that book out since the first day she decided that she was bored enough to come here.

Rose paused for a second, wondering what his reaction would be if he knew that she knew what was in the book. He had been pretty insistent that she not know what the book contained. It could be very amusing. Rose's grin widened.

"Oi Kakashi, guess what?" Rose called; up in his tree Rose could see his eye dart to her.

"Mm?"

"I know what that book is about," Rose said, her smile widening.

Kakashi's eye widened. "Really? What then?"

"It's porn, isn't it?" Rose asked airily.

Kakashi literally fell out of the tree. Rose burst out laughing, hell, she was practically wheezing. Kakashi eyed her warily. "How did you find out?"

In between her wheezing laughter, Rose managed to choke out the name. "Sas-uke."

Kakashi's eye narrowed and Rose realised that Sasuke was most likely going to be put to a few hundred push up for that… Whoops? Kakashi than rubbed the back of his head, as he watched Rose. Rose was still dying of laughter.

She just couldn't get over that fact that Kakashi, fell out of a tree. He fell. Out of a tree. "You're not… Annoyed? Disturbed?"

Rose coughed, and took a few deep breaths to calm herself. "No, should I be?"

"Most normal women are," Kakashi muttered under his breath but Rose heard it perfectly.

Rose raised an eyebrow. "Are you saying that I'm not normal?"

Kakashi chuckled nervously. "Um, that's a good thing?"

Rose nodded her head in mock dismay. She wasn't actually very annoyed – or annoyed at all. She knew that everyone had their strange quirks. She most likely did as well.

Rose then got an idea. "I'm very offended by this."

Kakashi's only visible eye widened. "Sorry?"

Rose had to fight to keep the smile off her face. "I will forgive you if… You let me see your face!"

Kakashi rolled his eye, and Rose could see the faint lines of a smile on his face, under his mask. "No."

"Please?"

"No."

Rose shrugged her shoulders, and gave his a mischievous smile. Kakashi shifted slightly. "What are you-?"

Rose pounced again. She really did enjoy doing that too much. Kakashi tried to do a tuck roll away from her but Rose had grabbed his shirt to pull him back, Rose then reached for his mask before he turned into a log of wood.

"Unfair! That's cheating!"

Rose heard mysterious laughing coming from nowhere. "There's no such thing as cheating in this world."

Rose pouted. "Yes there is! Play fair!"

"No."

Rose huffed and looked around the surroundings. Rose's eyebrows farrowed. "Where are you?"

"Not telling."

Rose blinked. "If that's not cheating, then I don't know what is!"

"You obviously don't know what cheating is then."

Rose glared at a tree.

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"Rose-San, I think we need to have a conversation."

Rose nodded her head at the Hokage. "That's why I'm here."

The Hokage leaned back in his massive chair, it succeeded in making Rose feel uncomfortable. "Do you remember, by any chance... The blood test I had you do two weeks ago?"

Rose nodded her head, rubbing her arm where she had gotten all of those needles. Bloody Kakashi… "Yeah?"

The Hokage leaned forward and opened a draw; he pulled out a manila folder and placed it on the desk. The Hokage also drew out a tobacco pipe, and lit it. "I have gotten the results back."

Rose nodded her head, without a care really. "Oh, did you get the results that you wanted back?"

The Hokage took a puff on his pipe and gestured to the folder, Rose was unsure about what he wanted her to do. "Take it, I got… My expected results."

Hesitantly, Rose approached the table and grabbed the folder. She held it in her hand for a few minutes, unsure if she really wanted to read it. "Read it Rose-San, we need to talk about the results."

Rose opened the folder slightly; her eyes scanned the first page, her eyebrow raised with every word she read.

Patient; Potter Rosemary

Age; Seventeen

Blood Type; O

Heath Status; No chakra system detected, immediate hospital recall.

DNA family search; Clan Uzumaki

Next of Kin – In Konoha database; Uzumaki Naruto

Rose gaped, looking at the small picture of her and the one of Naruto tacked to the side of his name. What the hell? "I think someone has made a mistake here."

"How so?" The Hokage pressed.

"Well," Rose began slowly. "I can't possibly be related to the 'Uzumaki Clan' or Naruto. It's just not feasible."

The Hokage raised one of his aged eyebrows. "The results speak for themselves, Rose-San."

Rose shook his head, her short black hair flickering into her eyes. "No you see, it's actually – not possible. Your test is wrong."

"Are you questioning Konoha's medical unit?" The Hokage asked his voice sharp. Rose went silent. "Why are you in Konoha, Rose-San?"

Rose sighed. "I told you Hokage-Sama. To eliminate a threat."

"I do believe you Rose-San, but, for Naruto's interest, I must make sure you don't have any plans for him."

Rose looked at the Hokage incredulously. "I'm sorry Hokage-Sama, but, I didn't come here for Naruto."

The Hokage tilted his head to the side. "You are willing to have no contact with him, and ignore the blood tie?"

Rose blinked, and looked slightly flustered. "I don't think we are actually related. I mean if I am then… I don't even know who these 'Uzumaki' are."

The Hokage stared at her for a few moments. "Rose-San, where are you from?"

Rose blinked. "A place called London; it's very far away from here. So, I don't think you would have heard of it before."

The Hokage sighed, as he rubbed her forehead. "This is very confusing, I must tell you."

Rose paused not sure how she was mean to take something like this. "Hokage-Sama, what is going to happen, sir?"

The Hokage stilled his movements. "I want Naruto to have the benefit of family within Konoha's walls."

Rose nodded her head. "Fair enough, I swear that I won't take Naruto from Konoha's walls."

Now, all that Rose had to figure out was how in the name of Merlin was she related to Naruto of all people. They weren't even from the same universe.

Was that even possible?

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Rose and her other English speaking friends were all sitting side by side, ready to watch the final exam. It would most likely be the last day the majority of them would be in Konoha, and it was a sobering thought for the Golden Three of Gryffindor.

"The first match will be, Uzumaki Naruto Vs. Hyūga Neji!" The examiner – Rose assumed, yelled from the middle of the stage.

Almost in an instant, a blur of yellow mass made its way to the middle of the field. Rose felt herself smile than frown. How in Merlin's name were they related? Rose watched as a boy who could be about a year or two older than Naruto slowly, calmly made his way into the field.

The match began with a single shout and Naruto charged at the older boy without much thought. Rose realised that Neji was a hell of a lot more skilled than Naruto was. Whatever Naruto threw at Neji, got destroyed in a few seconds.

Naruto then summoned around twenty clones, and Rose heard a ninja sitting behind her whistle and mutter, "impressive."

Naruto hid himself in with his clones, but Neji was making swift work with all of them. They stopped to talk about something, but Rose couldn't hear what. Then quite suddenly, the red aura came back.

It wasn't as strong or as deadly as it was last time Rose saw it but it was still that aura. Rose hadn't imagined it. Using the red energy, Naruto managed to knock the older boy out, and create a massive hole in the ground.

"What was that?" Hermione asked Rose, muttering.

"…I am not sure; he's used it before though…"

Hermione and Rose shared a worried look. "Winner Uzumaki Naruto! Next match, Nara Shikamaru Vs. Sabaku-No-Tamari!"

The next match went on with little to no hassle. The blonde haired girl used very strong gusts of wind to fight, and it made it very hard to see half of said fighting but Rose was understanding the gist of it.

The boy could control your shadow, and when he finally had the girl cornered – he forfeited.

Ron was frowning near the end. "He had her in a perfect position, every move - like a master chess player and he what!?"

To say the least Ron was pretty annoyed with the match.

"Sabaku-No-Kankuro Vs. Abureme Shino!"

There was a few words exchanged between the people on the stage and Rose watched at the examiner became more agitated. "Fine! Winner by forfeit is Abureme Shino! Next match is Uchiha Sasuke Vs. Sabaku-No-Gaara."

Rose paused seeing a small red-haired, green-eyed kid on the felid but... There was no Sasuke. Rose kind of hoped that his Sensei's permanent lateness hadn't rubbed off on him... Not that Kakashi was usually that much late – at least, not with her.

The Examiner was starting to get angry again when Kakashi and Sasuke appeared in a swirl of wind and leaves. Rose sighed in relief, he was there now.

Kakashi left the field and then the match started, with Sasuke's response time almost doubled… Was that her fault? Rose felt her lips twitch into a smile. That was when he noticed that Kakashi had managed to appear in the seat in front of her, which she was certain held a person a few minutes before that.

"Yo."

Rose's eyebrows farrowed. 'Wasn't someone else there a minute ago?"

"Nope," Kakashi replied cheerfully.

Rose eyed him strangely. "Are you sure?"

"Yep," Kakashi replied smiling. "How have the matches been?"

"Good, Naruto won his and the blonde girl – Tamari beat Shikamaru?" Rose wondered if he would even care about the second match. "But, why were you late?"

"Well, I had to keep up my student abuse didn't I?" Kakashi asked rhetorically.

When Rose opened her mouth to reply, something made her close it again. There were white feathers falling out of the sky and for some reason – the entire stadium was falling asleep around them. Rose's eyes widened, as Kakashi's narrowed, and dragged her out of the way of a Kunai.

The other magicals were out of their seats in the next ten seconds, intent on getting out of the way of all the flying weapons. The stadium exploded in a sea of noise – which was odd considering half of the stadium was still asleep.

"What's going on?" Hermione yelled.

"Someone is invading," Kakashi answered quietly. "You six need to find cover. Let us handle this."

Rose eyed Kakashi worriedly. She watched as he pulled his forehead protector up to show off his red eye, his body straightening up.

"Where?" Remus demanded.

"No, I'm going to fight," Rose said at the same time.

Kakashi gripped Rose's shoulders and sighed, pushing her towards a group of asleep people. "Get them to safety, Rose. They can't protect themselves; there will be camps and houses opening up soon."

"You knew they would attack didn't you?" Ron demanded.

Kakashi just shook his head. "We're always ready for an invasion, I have to go… Rose… Stay safe."

Rose just nodded her head, and turned her focus to all of the slumbering people in the stands. They needed protecting as well. Rose did not leave anyone behind.

"Ron, Hermione, we use our teamwork skills for this one?" Rose asked.

"Rose," Remus started against. "You need to stay out of this."

Rose shook her head, but Hermione was the one who answered. "We can't."

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Rose huffed as she sipped some more of her tea. Hermione was fidgeting, nervously paying with the hem of her shirt and Ron just sat there staring off into space. Rose took another sip of her drink.

The Hokage had been murdered, killed in the invasion. It had made them all nervous and kind of upset. Rose was starting to finally realise how intense it was in this place. Rose sighed, they had to leave soon.

Actually, they said they were all going to leave the day after the final task of the exam, but Rose didn't think she wanted to. She wanted to stay.

…For Naruto – he was family, and he was hurting. It couldn't hurt to stay until the funereal could it? Besides, it was the polite thing to do…

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and all three heads snapped up to the door, each of them wondering who it could possibly be.

As Rose made to stand up and put her tea down, Hermione stopped her. "I'll do it, Rosie."

Rose nodded her head, and sat back down. Hermione walked over to the door and she opened it. Rose could still see and hear her from her seat.

"Oh, Iruka! You're alright! Thank Merlin!" Hermione said with a cheerful smile, her shoulders slumping – showing how relieved she was.

"Hermione…"

"Y-Yes?"

What Rose saw next caused her to spit out her drink, his eyes widening. Ron on the other hand burst out laughing, whilst muttering. "Ayame owes me free Ramen for a month!"

Iruka had leaned over the threshold of the door, grabbed Hermione – ignored her wide eyed look – and kissed her. Hermione being the bight girl that she was, gabbed his face in her hands, and deepened the kiss.

Rose could make out both of their red faces, before she looked away; wrinkling her nose and the tea she spilt on the floor before she looked up at Ron who was still laughing.

"Ron?" Rose asked.

"Yeah?" He responded between chuckles. Was this all they needed to get them out of their shock?

Rose smirked. "Who's Ayame?"

Ron chocked on thin air.

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A/N – PLEASE READ?

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Alright, I know I haven't been the best with updating. I got my mid-year exams soon, sue me. But I've finally managed to get a solid plan out for this. So, I felt like letting you know that there will be about 20 chapters all together, so 6 left, and an Epilogue – because I love those. … That technically makes it 7 more chapters but … eh, whatever.

I'll try to update more.

Tell me what you want to see happen!

Thanks!

~Akari-Chan