I'd like to note that there will be a branch-off of this for Mist and Gaara, for it will be in cross-overs between this and Teen-Titans ( Mist's past also tends to have Inuyasha in it, but that only comes up in reference or memory. Those of you who don't know the show, I will give brief back-ground stories and other such things for it. Mist and Gaara will still be in this FanFic, but the Titan's won't really be shown, and will only be vaguely referred to. I do not feel that I need to put this into Cross-over for these mere references. The Mist and Gaara break-off will be posted soon, and will be under the name, " Titan Mist, Ninja of the Mist," Pardon the pun, according to my friend, the hidden Mist village is where America is.

Chapter 21

Hinata was giving a light jog, the fastest she could give. Again she thanked the ninja who had healed her ankle, allowing her to be officially out of the hospital. She needed to get to Naruto, needed to tell him of the grand news her sister gave her only moments before. It wasn't long before she spied him sitting on the bench in the village square. She slowed a little, still keeping a brisk pace. He was sitting next to Kushina, which wasn't surprising. He seemed to be spending most of his time between her and Kushina.

" Hey Naruto!" She cried, gasping from running to meet him. He shot up from his seat, pulling her into a hug, ignoring his mother's amused smirk from behind him.

" Why are you breathing so hard is something wrong?" he asked nervously, not releasing her from his grasp, but Hinata didn't care.

" We, huh, Found a, huh Loop-hole!" Hinata breathed, noticing Kushina's confused stare, knowing there was an explanation in order.

" R-really!" Naruto exclaimed, refraining from jumping up and down with her. She wasn't supposed to be doing much physical activities, and that jog had pushed it.

Naruto turned to see his mother stand up, appearing really formal. " Ahem, what loophole?" Hinata turned to her, to explain it briefly.

" The Hyuuga Elder had ordered me to abort our child since I'm not married. Our law states that we must follow any order, even assassination, unless it will have death upon the ordered," she said. " But Lady Tsunade said that I was dangerously close to the stage where abortion could be risky, and also for some, especially with my own feelings, would cause the mother to commit suicide. Questionable yes, but it helped the Elder to pull back my orders."

" Oi! You haven't married the poor girl you knocked up boy?!" Kushina yelled after a few seconds. Naruto looked at her sheepishly, and turned to whisper something in her ear. Her expression changed, and Hinata knew Naruto had said something right.

Hinata turned when she noticed there was someone standing behind her, and saw that it was the ninja that had saved her from the imposter a week of so back. He was a sand ninja, the Kazekage in fact, and Hinata was wondering why he was still here.

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" Gaara, who's that?" Mist asked as they approached a group of three. The one she was pointing to was the blonde haired boy laughing with two girls that were standing beside him.

" That's my old friend Naruto, you know, the one I told you saved me from the Akatsuki and was kinda my first friend," Gaara whispered quickly.

" And, who are they?" Mist asked, trying to stall him from joining the fray.

" That indigo haired girl is the one I saved from that imposter ninja that night I'd met you. She's Naruto's girlfriend. And that person I don't know," Gaara said, closing off their conversation when Naruto's girl turned and saw them.

" H-hi Gaara!" She greeted him. She had a warm smile on her face, and she seemed to have finished a decent run.

" Huh? You, know, Gaara?" Naruto asked. Gaara took his chance to make himself seem cooler.

" She has, while you were away on a mission. But who I don't know is this young miss right here," he said, standing in front of her.

The orange haired ninja smirked a playful light in her eyes. " I'm Naruto's mom."

" Oh," Gaara said, hot with embarrassment, for he knew he must've sounded as though he was hitting on her. Suddenly he heard Mist whisper in his ear, " Y' know, I've seen that girl around town while I was wandering, before I met you. I believe her name is Hinata," she pointed to the indigo haired girl, " And she's a lot chubby-er since I'd first seen her." He knew she had sounded rude, but it was just because she cared about people's well-being. He knew because there was a soft tone, as if she thought this girl was depressed in some way.

" She used to kinda walk around all hunched over, like, I think there's something up," she said confirming his thoughts. She had more to say, but quieted down, for Naruto was starting to speak.

" Oh, Gaara guess what?" Naruto asked, a smug look on his face.

" What?" Gaara said, trying to sound enthusiastic. He knew that the blonde ninja was going to say there was an all new ramen size out and that he'd tried to eat three bowls, beating someone by the name Chouji, who only ate two.

Naruto looked down at the girl named Hinata. " Hinata and I are gonna be having a little one possibly in June!" he said, throwing Gaara off his guard.

Mist then replied guiltily in his ear, " That might be why..."

" Wha? Oh, that's wonderful! Do you know what you're having?" He asked.

" Nah, not yet. But y' know, I don't really care what it is, I'll be happy either way," Naruto smirked, hugging Hinata closer. She looked up at him, almost relieved as though a huge weight had been taken off her shoulder. Gaara guessed all new mother's were worried they couldn't give the father what they wanted.

" Well, we're gonna go celebrate, would you like to come?" Naruto's mom said, pushing between the couple, resting her arms around the both of their necks. She was a good foot or so shorter than Naruto, so he had to bend down for her.

" No, thank you. I have some business to take care of. I'll come by later if that's okay." Gaara apologized.

" Sure no problem ol' pal. That'll be just fine," Naruto said, removing his mothers arm so he could move over to have her on his right, arm over her shoulder, and Hinata on his left, their hands intertwined.

" Thank you. Now, I must be off," Gaara said, leaving the three there, Mist following closely behind.

" What's you important business that you need to get done making you unable to celebrate this occasion?" she asked.

Gaara muttered out of the corner of him mouth, heading into the guest home he was staying in for the time being, " Talking to you."

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" Who do you insist on talking about me?" Mist asked as they both sat on his bed, the place they tended to talk to one another each night. It was Gaara's only private place in the house.

" Because, you're kinda like a real friend to me. The kind I can confide my deepest secrets to," Gaara said, looking at his feet.

" Fine. But, I don't see what difference it makes. There's no point," she stated.

" I want to know you, I want to help you," he leaned towards her. She was sitting opposite him, towards the foot of the bed.

" Why would you want to help me?" Mist asked cooly.

" Because, Like I just said, you're one of my only true friends. You need to trust me," he said, wishing he could grab her hand to comfort her, to let her know, she wasn't alone in anything.

Mist sat there, recalling her past. She finally began. " I was born a thousand years ago, in a hut far from my village. I was given my name by my parents, for the gray misty-like eyes I used to have. I grew up learning Mage-craft and Wizardry. I knew much, and could heal almost everything.

" But there came a day, on my fourteenth birthday, the townspeople grew angry with me, calling me a witch. But I was a mage, the good form of a witch, a kind of healer. They took large rocks while I was sleeping, and smashed them onto me. At least I had lived to the age most people lived in that time. I roamed around a little, until I met a priestess named Kikyo. She was my guardian before you.( Inuyasha coming in here) Her and I got along well, so I was really angry when some weirdo guy in a baboon suit killed her.

" Again I roamed around until five hundred years later, I was reborn into a new body. I was somehow renamed Mist, which doesn't happen all that often to spirits. Getting the same name I mean. I again learned the magic arts, since my new mother was a prodigy at it. I believe her name was Raven. ( the Teen Titan part begins) My father was apparently Named 'Beast boy', since he could shift into animals after being bitten by a strange monkey in the wilderness. I don't know how that happened, but it did. I guess his original name was Garfield Logan. He liked his new name better.

" I remember my family pretty well. There was my mother, and father. They loved me very much. Then there was my aunt. According to my father, she was from another planet. I thought he was just joking, since he tended to be such a clown. But then I learned otherwise when we were attacked by a rouge party from her world. Her name in our language was Starfire.

" There was also my uncle. His name used to be Victor, but because of some accident, his father had to rebuild most of his body in robotic parts, thus giving him the name there was my uncle, Robin. No one knew his real name, but we didn't need to. None of us were really related, besides my parents and my older brother Jamie.

" Robin was the leader of us all. We were a part of a team of what people called, " Super-Heroes", because of our gifted powers. We all saved our town, when there was trouble. We all lived in a tower my family helped build,. It was in the shape of a T, because of the group name. The front was made of pure glass, with iron bars separating each room and balancing out the structure. The group of five, Robin, Cyborg, Mom, Dad, and Starfire all fought crime and evil in our world, before me and my brother were born. Which, of course, we happened a few years after the group had formed. I'm just going to say, we weren't exactly planned, and my parent's weren't exactly that far in a relationship, and they still aren't, I don't think. I haven't seen them since I died.

" Anyway, after using a spell I learned about my past life, and such. I told my mother, and she told me it was common when using that spell. I remember looking out the big window of my room, and looking at my home-town. It was named Jump City. It was in a place called America,. I used some kind of spell to get into this world, I don't know why, I was just angry and wanted to escape. I had an urge to come here, and I guess I came. I just don't know the reason why.

" When I had died a second time, I was helping to fight our biggest enemy, a vicious man named Slade. My mother told me to stay back, since I wasn't exactly prepared to fight him. I didn't listen though. I came up from behind him, angry that he had struck down my father. I thought I had him, but he just grabbed me by the arm, dangling me above the city -since we were on the roof of a tall skyscraper- by my wrist. He said, ' It's useless, I knew always where you were.' I struggled, crying for my mother and father, who were only a few feet away. But they couldn't move because Slade had pulled out a switchblade, ready to strike me if they tried to save me.

" Then he boasted, loud enough for my parents to hear, ' You and your brother were measly mistakes, things that have no use to the world, a nuisance to your parents. I think I'll do them a favor by, Getting Rid Of YOU!!!' He stabbed me in the gut five times," Mist paused, to open her cloak to reveal a tattered mini skirt and blouse. The pulled up the blouse a little ways to show him five clearly visible stab marks in her stomach. " and then he dropped me from the building, laughing as I fell. I heard my mother cry my name, and then saw my body as it fell towards the ground. I knew that I had died.

" I watched my mother rush down to catch me, and watched as she realized I was dead. I didn't know what to do, and didn't know what was going on in the fight. All I was paying attention to was my mother, and the pain I felt, not only in my stomach, but in m heart. I knew I screwed up, and I knew my mother was hurting. I decided, that before I would leave for good, to this place, I would tell her goodbye. I-I just don't know if she heard me," Mist finished.

Gaara felt overwhelming sympathy for her. She had a worse life than him, and had no one left that was close to her. She had that feeling that she should shut everyone away, keep herself away from everyone to make sure she didn't hurt anyone, hurt herself. He felt hot tears forming in his eyes. He suddenly, without thinking, rushed forward to pull her into a hug. But he fell through her. He was still upright, his arms wrapped around nothing, knowing she probably wanted to be alone.

Yet suddenly, he felt his arms pull apart from each other slightly, feeling something more solid between them. Then he felt Mist's arms wrap around him, resting her head on his shoulder, and his on hers. He felt cold tears fall on his shoulder, which were never wet, and never stayed, just disappearing, as if they didn't exist. He suddenly heard silent sobs near his ear, sobs of pain, as memory, of sorrow, and also, of relief. Something told him to comfort her, and he followed it.

" I'm sorry, I wish I could have helped you," he whispered, choking on his own tears, listening as he heard the chain clinking softly, as it slowly grew longer.