They walked back to Bee and the others together. There was no reason for Misa to hide anymore. Her reputation was at the level that anyone who wasn't from Konoha would know exactly who she was.

The minute they entered the clearing where the others were, there was a shuriken at Misa's throat and one of the Konoha ninja behind her. "Don't move. Who are you and why are you here?" It was the one with the wood style.

Bee started laughing. "Who she is? Man, you guys are dumb. That's the greatest ninja girl under sun. She's been the Human Animal since she was five. She's the toughest, strongest, fastest, kindest girl alive, fool, ya fool."

Naruto looked at her in amazement. "Really?"

She smiled mischievously. "Well, he might be exaggerating a little." The group spent most of the morning catching up. Konoha got a crash course on the legend of the Human Animal and Naruto told Misa all about what had been happening to him and the rest of the village.

Yamato watched the two of them as the caught up with each other. Like all the older shinobi of Konoha, he remembered about the Fourth's strange daughter, but had presumed her dead a long time ago. It was incredible that she'd survived for so long on her own, and become a legendary figure to almost the entire shinobi world. If she came back to the village with them after all this was over, they could learn a lot from her and she could stay with Naruto. It was a pretty good trade-off.

Bee got up. "Okay, talking's done. Time for some training fun!" He gestured for Naruto to follow him.

Misa turned to Yamato. "Where are they going?"

Yamato answered "Bee's going to teach Naruto how to control the Nine-Tailed Fox. We should probably not disturb them for a while."

"Then how close can I be to him without disturbing them?"

Yamato thought for a minute. "Well, the chamber they're going to train in is pretty well sealed off, so you could probably sit right outside the door and not bother them." He walked her to the front of the chamber and left her sitting cross-legged in front of it, humming.

When he was out of earshot of the girl, Iruka came to see him. He'd been keeping tabs on the group since they'd arrived, and was very curious about this newcomer. "Who's she?"

What Yamato said next left him gaping. "She's Naruto's older sister." He proceeded to tell Iruka everything he knew, from the events of sixteen years ago to her explanation of her recent years.

After he got over his surprise, Iruka listened with growing happiness. He'd come to love the boy, and was happy that he had real family now, not just friends and mentors. "She turned up at just the right time. Having her around should keep Naruto distracted from the fight." He was dead wrong.

About three hours later, Naruto almost ran Misa over as he ran out of the room. She grabbed his ankle to slow him down, unintentionally tripping him. "What're you in such a hurry for?"

"I felt the fox's chakra, but not from me. It was coming from outside this island. Something's up."

Misa became serious at once. "What direction did it come from?" He pointed to the left. Misa tuned out the sounds of the island and concentrated her energy on the distant sounds coming from that direction.

Swords clashing. Chants. Yelled commands. A battle was going on. She told Naruto what she was hearing and they started running together. Before they could leave the sealed off area of the island, they ran into some trouble in the form of Iruka and his team.

Naruto roared at them. "What's going on? Why is there a battle on the mainland and you're not letting me fight?" Iruka began to explain. Naruto listened to every word, but Misa was focusing on something else.

The voices in that chaos, one in particular. She was listening for the unique timbre of Gaara's voice. Please don't let me find it. I don't want him mixed up in that. But there's no way he could avoid it, he's Kazekage. I have to find him, protect him. Then that beloved voice pierced all other sounds. She heard him clearly as he shouted orders to his men. She had to get out. She had to go to him.

Naruto was breaking free of their attempts to detain him, but they were half-hearted and easy to break. The other team was certain in the barrier of rock behind them. But they hadn't counted on Misa. She got out her Kunai, leapt behind them, and jammed the weapon into the wall. Then she took several steps back, leapt straight up, and dove down towards the kunai, hitting it with both of her feet, her entire body weight, and all the force of her leap and fall. The solid rock crumbled like pie crust. The other ninja had no time to recover from their awe before Naruto and Misa streaked past them, through the waterfall, and into the open heading for the edge of the island and the source of battle.

Misa wanted to run to Gaara and help him, but she couldn't. There was no way Naruto would be able to keep up with her, and she had a promise to keep. In fact, it was a good thing shekept pace with him. If she hadn't, She wouln't have been able to push the Beast Bomd through the barrier and get out with minimal energy loss.

Once they hit the ground outside of the Barrier, they waited for Bee to catch up and started running, or in Misa's case jogging, in the direction of the battle. After about thirty minutes, Misa stopped them. "Someone's ahead. I don't know either of them. I'm going ahead to surprise them, you just keep running." She finally kicked into high gear and disappeared from their sight in seconds.

Naruto gave an impressive whistle and turned to Bee. "Is my sister awesome or what?" Bee just grinned at him.