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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: FREEDOM

As soon as the wedding was completely over, we started our plans and I transformed myself. I looked like a 10 year old with light blond hair that went mid-back and exquisite turquoise eyes. The bump of my stomach was nonexistent but I still felt him when he was agitated. The mark on my neck from Okami was invisible. I wore a plain red kimono and black sandals as my hair cascaded down my back. With my appearances, I was just going to act like the other children, but stay close to Temari in case the baby started to act up.

The Shinigami were due to arrive any day now, Tsunade had told them to come here next since the Leaf and Sand were allies and she knew we had a plan so she didn't worry. She sent a message a day ago, saying that they left the village.

The villagers were still celebrating and didn't even question the three new faces in the crowds. Temari kept a hold of my hand everywhere we went outside of the house and I had to smile. She was a very protective sister, especially since I was five months along.

"Lord Gaara, there are four men and a woman headed towards the village, should we raise alarms?" an ANBU Black Ops appeared in front of Temari, Kankuro, Gaara and me.

"No let them come in. We are celebrating my wedding so no alarms. If they are a threat then we'll send up alarms," Gaara spoke as he nodded to Kankuro who disappeared. Then the ANBU left. "Kankuro says he has a surprise puppet along with the one we had him create. I'm kind of excited to see what he has planned."

"So am I, let's just hope this plan works. I don't want to lose my sister," Temari spoke, squeezing my hand.

"We won't lose her, I won't allow it," Gaara growled and looked down at me and smiled.

"I'll go do some surveillance on them," I whispered then jumped up onto a roof with Temari and we ran to the cliffs. "What is this surprise that Kankuro has up his sleeve?"

"I don't know but I do know that if this plan goes through then you'll be free from them and we all can relax," Temari whispered and wrapped an arm around my shoulder.

"There they are. Sui-Feng is the woman, the black haired one in front with the scarf is Byakuya Kuchiki, his lieutenant, Renji Abarai, is the red head, the one wearing pink and the brown curly hair is Shunsui Kyoraku, and the one with the grey hair is Jushiro Ukitake. Kami help us all," I whispered. "They all have their zanpaktos, so this may be ugly if the original plan fails. Zaraki and Yachiru will leave as soon as the plan is finished so it looks like he came back with the others."

"Stop being so negative, it will work," Temari growled to reassure me.

I nodded and we ran back to the Kazekage building and waited in the office for the Shinigami to be led here. They would ask their questions then Gaara would signal Kankuro with his sand to initiate the plan and we'd go from there. I twitched on the couch, wishing I could be with Gaara but we had to keep up appearances. The village thought that I had gotten sick and that was the reason that I hadn't shown appearances when I was just in front of them under a transformation jutsu.

"Lord Gaara, they have arrived and wish to see you," the secretary came in and her eyes held some fear.

"Have them come in," Gaara spoke.

She nodded and left then soon they came in. Temari kept an arm around my shoulder to keep me from trembling visibly and running out of there. Gaara looked at me out of the corner of his eye and then turned his attention to them.

"How may I help you?" Gaara spoke professionally.

"You…!" Renji snapped and glared at him.

"It's a pleasure to meet you again even though you've tried to kill myself once before," Gaara spoke smirking, holding his composure easily. "What is your objective of being here?"

"Where is Karin?"

"I have honestly no idea," Gaara lied smoothly. "I haven't seen her in a while."

"Why you..?"

"Renji stop," Byakuya snapped. "When was the last time you saw her?"

"A few days maybe," Gaara shrugged.

"LADY KARIN HAS HEALED!" a few villagers cried as the plan went into motion.

The five ran out of the office and we followed quickly. They ran out into the streets and I saw two puppets that looked exactly like humans and I would have never guessed that they were fake, if i hadn't known that Kankuro was a puppet master. I saw my own self walking down the street and I saw a puppet of Zaraki following, his dented blade in his hand.

Karin stopped walking down the street, wearing a plain black kimono and I saw a ring on her left hand. I saw Zaraki coming down the street and I blinked in surprise. He said he had decided to go home. Karin spun around right as Zaraki ran his blade through her. A scream came from her mouth and I saw blood pour from the wound. The villagers gasped and started drew their kunai and started running to Zaraki but Yachiru appeared and activated her Zanpakto, scaring them off. Then Zaraki and Yachiru jumped up onto a roof and ran off.

"Lady Karin," many of the females in the village fell to their knees and sobbed.

"Those five are with that man! They planned this!" the blond from the leader's office cried.

I looked around and saw all the men with drawn weapons as they glared at us.

"You have killed Lady Karin! You will die for destroying our village's light and the wife of Lord Gaara!" they ran at us and we backed up.

"Break up and get outside the village!" I snapped. "Activate the crystals, our work here is finished. Dealing with miserable people is not on our to do list!"

"Yes Byakuya," Sui-Feng spoke and she disappeared.

"She was pregnant!" the blond cried, holding Karin's body to her chest as tears fell down her cheeks. "How could you…?"

I narrowed my eyes and looked at the leader, Gaara. His eyes were narrowed with hatred and I saw sand floating around him. He moved his hands quickly and the sand flew towards me and Renji as we retreated towards the huge cliffs that protected this village. I sensed the Reiryoku of my team disappear as they left to soul society and I activated my crystal and grabbed Renji's arm and we disappeared.

"So… how was it? Did you finish the mission?" Mayuri spoke as we came out of the gate. Zaraki appeared right behind us and Yachiru was smiling. "Ah, looks like someone's enjoying themselves."

"Zaraki, why were you there? You said you were going to come back," Sui-Feng snapped.

"I was planning on it then I saw her leaving the village so I followed. I found myself in that sand village and I kept low and looked for her. I found her coming out of a house and followed til I was close enough then finished it. I knew that we'd have to kill her by surprise because otherwise she would have changed into her demon form and we wouldn't have won in bringing her back," Zaraki spoke. "I didn't even know that you had arrived that day."

"Well, for what it's worth, we don't have to worry about her anymore. She's dead and now we can continue on with our lives. Mayuri destroy the gate so no other Shinigami gets the idea that they can get through the gate to get away from the city," I ordered. "I'll go report the mission to General Yamatoto and then I'm going to go and eat a decent meal."

"Yes Captain Kuchiki," everyone nodded and I left.

The villagers were in shock as I stood in front of them. I had released the transformation jutsu and Kankuro came down from the roofs with his two new puppets. Now they looked like puppets. Kakashi appeared next to us, Naruto and Sasuke was supporting him and he looked worn out. He had used genjutsu to make it look more believable. The plan had worked perfectly.

"Lady Karin, are you truly pregnant?" someone asked and I nodded, making the whole village explode into cheers.

I winced but the child was more aware that they were not being threatened and only kicked my stomach gently. Gaara wrapped an arm around my waist and drew me in close to him. I smiled and closed my eyes and rested my head on his shoulder. No longer would I have to look over my shoulder for a Shinigami to be sneaking around, getting ready to kill me.

"Temari, your acting skills don't do you any justice," I smiled and she laughed as she finished drying her face. "I'm surprised that you broke down so fast."

"Pure acting," she smiled. "It's a specialty besides my fan."

"Well then I guess I'll have to be careful with how you act," I laughed and kissed Gaara's cheek. "We don't have to worry anymore about threats. They would have destroyed the gate they came in from and Zaraki said that he'd make sure that it's properly destroyed."

'Good, now you can stay by my side for all eternity,' he thought to me and led me back home.

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Alright everyone, this is the last chapter. I may do an epilogue so that Karin can have her baby but that would only be about one more chapter. Thanks for reading and those of you who reviewed!

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