Two Months Later-Yuri's POV

It's been two months since I lost and regained my memory. I guess Naruto's created this awesome and powerful jutsu. But things have been a little rough for Team 8, but I guess Team 10 has it worse. Asuma-sensei was killed in a fight with Akatsuki. Luckily everyone else escaped. His funeral was about a month ago. We haven't seen much of Kurenai-sensei sense then. I think she's at home. After we heard Kiba didn't let me put of his sight for a month, except when I went to sleep and showered of course. Team 10 headed out to get revenge for him. Kakashi lead them. Team 7, under the command of Yamato, went out to back them up. They won; both members of Akatsuki were killed. Team 8 has sort of been off duty for a while. We've done a few D rank missions, but nothing special. Oh yeah, Mariah became Hokage a little while ago to. The Hokages are sort of in a transition stage now.

Shino, Hinata, Kiba and I were walking down the hall near the Hokage's office when we heard the faint sound of voices coming from the Hokage's office. I used Byakugan to see through the wall.

"Yuri!" Kiba protested.

"Yuri-kun!" protested Hinata.

"What?"

"You can't do that, it's private! Plus it won't do any good unless you have ears that can hear through walls." Kiba complained.

"I could care less if it's private, how else do think I know things most people don't?" Anyway, I have the means to spy and I intend to use them. Plus, I can read lips. Now hush!"

In the room there was the Fifth Hokage, Shizune, and Jiraiya.

"So, what did you find out?" The Fifth Hokage was saying.

"I discovered nothing terribly interesting other then something that concerns the girl, Hyuuga Yuri." Jiraiya answered.

"What did you discover about her?" asked the Fifth Hokage.

"It appears the Akatsuki member Zetsu is then one assigned to hunt her down. He may make a move soon. Unfortunately I was unable to discover much about him. Apparently he is formerly of the Hidden Grass Village. He also has great mobility; he can appear where he wishes. I'm not sure how he does it. There are also reports that he eats bodies and that he is bi-polar. Whether this is true or not is unknown. Not much is seen of him." Jiraiya reported.

"This is troubling. What should we do?" The Fifth Hokage said.

"Keep her in the village. Don't assign her any missions." Shizune suggested.

The Fifth Hokage sighed.

"It's an idea, but it won't work. She's too smart. She'll figure out something's not right, soon enough. Especially if I send the rest of the team out and don't send her. If we take Kurenai out of action then Yuri would take over as team leader, since she's a jounin."

"Since she's a jounin now, you can do what ever you want with her. Shino's a Chunin now, he can take the team. You said you're self that you were going to make him a jounin soon anyway. She's allowed to act on her own now! The team doesn't really matter now! Even if it did, we could just take the whole team off active duty! We were going to take Kurenai off really soon anyway!" Shizune said.

"Assuming we found a reasonable excuse to keep her in the village, what about Shino, Kiba, and Hinata?" Tsunade asked.

"We can send them on D or C rank missions." Shizune responded.

"Here's what I think." Jiraiya said. "Take Kurenai off active duty when you think the time is right. Probably the sooner the better, considering what she's going through and that she hasn't been on a real mission in a bit anyway. Keep Yuri in the village as much as possible, maybe sending her on the occasional D rank mission, and let the rest of Team 8 act on its own. They'll be fine. I even have an idea for what to do with Yuri. You two can teach her medical jutsu and make her stronger. She can also train with Mariah and Itachi some more, and she can keep an eye on Kurenai. I, on the other hand, can continue to gather information. Problem solved! Am I great or what?!"

The Fifth sighed.

"Very well. Don't let too many people know. Yuri'll probably figure it on her own anyway. She has a knack for that. I don't think we have to worry too much about her. She's strong."

I disengaged Byakugan and slid to the floor.

"Yuri? What's wrong? Are you ok? What were they talking about?" Kiba asked in concern.

"Yuri-kun?" Hinata knelt down next to me.

I shook my head. Obviously no one was supposed to hear that. Plus, Kiba would probably overreact and worry about me. So would everyone else. I looked up and smiled brightly.

"It's nothing. I'm fine. I was just surprised by the stupidity of the conversation. Come on, we should go."

Shino was watching me. I think he knew I wasn't telling the truth, but he didn't press me. I was glad. We continued our stroll down the hall.

Two Months Later

It's been a two months since I overheard the conversation that I wasn't supposed to overhear. I was called into the Hokage's office about a week after I overheard. Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shizune were there.

"Yuri?" She said looking at me.

"Yes, Hokage-sama?" I answered.

I had a feeling what was coming.

"As of today you are temporarily taken off of Team 8 and active duty. The only missions you will do are several basic D rank missions. Do you understand?" She said.

"Yes Hokage-sama." I said, bowing.

"You aren't asking me why I'm doing this, why?"

She looked a bit suspicious.

I raised my eyes to hers.

"Because I already know."

And with that I poofed away.

I've been on a two D rank missions since then. Kurenai-sensei was taken off active duty a little before me. Team 8 has been struggling a bit, what with two of the team gone, but they're doing fine in my opinion. Shino, Hinata, and Kiba were annoyed when they learned I had been taken off active duty. I didn't tell them why, I just said that the Hokage did it. I think they went and pestered the Hokage after that, but it didn't change anything. In the mean time I've still been training with them though. I've also been training with the Hokage, Mariah, and Itachi. I've never been bored and I've learned a lot. Team 8 just got assigned a B rank mission. I get to go with them! We just have to go out side the village about eight miles to collect some various medicinal items, not very exciting. But at least I get to leave the village! We had just finished gathering said medicinal items when our luck ran out, or mine did anyway. Zetsu appeared in front of us. Oh crap. I'm screwed. And most likely so is my team.

"Who are you?" Shino asked

"I'm Zetsu, of Akatsuki. I'm here for the girl Yuri. More to the point I'm here for the six-tailed Griffin. Now hand them over." He said.

"I'm here for the six-tailed brat. Now hand her over before I kill the rest of you. Of course, I'll probably end up killing the rest of you anyway." The other half of him said.

Yes Jiraiya, Zetsu is bi-polar.

"That's not how you ask for something. You have to be polite." Zetsu 1 told Zetsu 2.

"Would you mind handing yourself over?" He asked me.

"Guys, get out of here. Get back to the village." I said stepping forward.

I wasn't going to give my self up with out a fight, but I also didn't want the rest of my squad slaughtered.

"What! We aren't leaving you!"

I sighed. I figured this would be a problem. I just had to trick them into thinking I would be ok so they would go back to the village.

"Yuri-kun."

Even Hinata wasn't going to go, great.

"Guys, you have to get back to the village to report the success of our mission. You can also get back up, if you want. I'll be fine."

"Yuri, we aren't leaving you. You can't lie. You just want us to get out of here alive." Shino said.

What's wrong with that? If you stay you will die. If you go you will live. You also would have a chance to save my life."

"Yuri, what's wrong with you? We can take this guy." Kiba said, as confident as ever.

"Kiba, remember what you promised after your fight with Sakon and Ukon? How you promised you wouldn't make Akamaru suffer like that again? If you stay Akamaru will suffer and die. Hinata, you're my friend, my cousin, and my teammate. Your also heir to the Main Branch, no matter what uncle thinks. It's my duty to protect you and die for you if necessary. Shino, you're just as important as the others. Shino, you're in charge from here on out, after you get back to the village. We can't take this guy. All it took was one Akatsuki member to kill Asuma-sensei. Another one almost took out two Chunin with ease. On the other hand Sakura and an extremely experienced jounin took out another one, barely. We don't stand a chance. I know any one of you would die for any of the others, but I'm not worth dieing for. Get out of here! Go back to the village! Get reinforcements! That's an order! Akari, get them out of here! I'll by you time! GO!"

I had a lot more stuff I could've said, but some of it was personal.

"That's one order we have to disobey, leader."

They took a step toward me.

"Akari, take them and go!"

Akari hesitated, but then turned to go. The others refused, but after Akari began to drag them out of there, they started to go willingly, if not reluctantly. I turned to Zetsu.

"As for you, you bi-polar, body eating, aloe Vera, I'm not going down without a fight."

"I figured you would say that, girl." Zetsu 1 said.

"It's a pity we can't kill you. That would've been fun. Oh well, I suppose just playing with you will have to do." Zetsu 2 said.