The next day, Akako found that she did need to just rest her body and barely got a sentence done in the scroll before she passed out. And now, here she sat up in the tree she would always sit when she was upset. Though this time it made it even worse knowing that this time her father wasn't going to come and talk to her about what was going on. He wasn't going to come and tell her that everything was going to be alright. Closing her eyes as she took a deep breath, she let out a long sad sigh. 'I don't think I can come back here and rebuild. Living here daily, having my routine, and no time to think about memories I guess it was alright. But I don't think I could rebuild my house without having a nervous breakdown.'

"Is everything okay Akako?"

Turning with a start to see Hinata sitting on the branch next to her, Akako sighed as she dropped her head and her eyes half closed. "Yes and no. I can control my chakra when training easy enough now, but when translating the scroll it is like I am starting over in training with no idea what I am doing."

Smiling as she let her head fall to the side, Hinata sighed. "I think I can help you with that one if you would like to give it a try." When her eyes went wide, Hinata laughed as she motioned for her to come with her. Once she was on the ground and they were headed for the edge of the village, Hinata smiled. "Being a miko you know how to do visualization right?"

With a smile, Akako gave her a sharp nod. "I do. That was what started my training in how to use my purification. Once I got to the point where I could use it all day without thinking about it, or using visualization, that is when Mama started to teach me the techniques that I could do with it."

"Well this is the same basic thing that I did to get what I do." Once they were to a spot by the creek, Hinata took her coat off and hung it up on a tree and put her hair up in a ponytail. "Use your Byakugan and watch."

Opening her Byakugan, Akako watched as she gasped and her eyes went wide when Hinata let the same chakra shape come from her hand that she was training with Souji and Neji to get super fine. But then her eyes went even wider when she made it as thin as a hair! As she started to move her hands in a circle, she stepped back as what Neji said slammed full force into her head. She was in fact leaving small traces of chakra in the air around her and it formed a barrier!

Once she let it fade, Akako couldn't move! "How did you do that and can you teach me how to do that?"

Laughing as she gave a nod, Hinata laughed. "Of course I can and it was hard for me to get anything that had to do with the gentle fist. Neji tried to teach me but it still took me a long time to get it. This I developed on my own."

Looking down at her hands, Akako was already thinking about how she could use her purification to do something like that if she had too. "Right. What do I have to do first?"

"First is the visualization that I want you to think of." Crossing her arms, Hinata sighed. "Think of a water tower. It has massive amounts of water, but when you turn on a facet in the building it is connected too, it doesn't come out like a raging river. It caps it because the pipe that leads to that facet is much smaller. That is what I was thinking of when I did this. Picutre your chakra in one water tower, and your purification in another. The pipes coming out of them are super tiny, so only a tiny amount of each can come at once, and they mix perfectly in another that is exactly double the size of the one from the basin. That is what comes out of your body."

Thinking as she listened, Akako blinked as she took a deep breath. That sounded much easier than it really was. It would take some practice to get that done. But the way she explained it might work. "Could you stand here and just keep talking about how to picture it while I try to do it?" When she saw the question in her eyes, Akako sighed. "That is what Mama had to do so that I could get what she was talking about. It was listening to her say what I had to see while I tried to see it."

Smiling as she slipped her jacket on, Hinata laughed. "I would love too."

X

Walking around and looking for Akako, Neji finally used his Byakugan but then gasped as he made his way toward her. She was training with Hinata! When he reached the edge of the village he came to a stop next to a smiling, and clearly proud Gaara. "How long have they been doing that?"

"For a while now. I dare say that they are getting along fantastic." His eyes flicking up to the tree over them, Gaara let out a small laugh. "And it looks like Hanabi wants to learn this too."

Crossing his arms as he kept his Byakugan going, Neji smiled himself. "She seems to be getting it. I can see her chakra and in training with her, and whatever she has her doing has her getting better." He then walked away from Gaara and toward them. Akako was proving more and more how special she was. And each time she did something like that, it drew him to her even more. As he got close and she stopped he sighed as he drew her eyes to him with his Byakugan faded. "Whatever she has told you is doing good for you. You were doing fantastic."

Laughing as she smiled and let her head fall to the side, Akako sighed. "Thank you. The way she explained it was super easy for me. I am going to focus on this for a couple of days until I get the visualization that she is telling me down. Once I can do it without being talked through it, then it becomes more like second nature to me and I can do it with anything."

"That will be a good thing." Neji then turned to Hinata as he smiled. "Though I do think that you may want to have two students for a while Hinata." When all she did was give him an odd look he laughed. "Hanabi was in in a tree near the edge of the village watching with very wide eyes."

With a smile as she gave a nod, Hinata laughed. "I think I can do that. We were just talking about taking a break for a few hours. When we come back to it I will bring Hanabi in with me." She then gave a nod to him and Akako and headed for her husband.

Seeing this as her chance, Akako turned to Neji with a serious face as she sighed. "Neji do you think that I could talk to you about something important?"

Turning to look down at her, Neji nodded as his eyes became serious as well. "What is it?"

Dropping her head some to hide her eyes from his, Akako sighed. "Do you think that Lady Tsunade would let the villagers of the Aizawa village stay in the Leaf?"

Blinking as he gave her an odd look, Neji didn't know where that was coming from. "Of course she would let you all stay there if you would rather not rebuild. I don't think that they would mind either."

Hugging herself, Akako sighed as she dropped her head even more. "I wouldn't be staying there. The villagers. Grandma. But not me."

Seeing how emotional she was at the moment, Neji sighed. "Why would you not want to stay there as well?" Though the fact that she didn't want to rebuild, while it was clearly painful for her, he was elated. He might be able to get the girl after all.

Turning her back to him, she went to the edge of the water and dropped to her knees as she took a deep breath and sighed it out. "I guess it is just that, well…." Letting her head and her shoulders fall even further, she couldn't stop the few drops of tears that fell to land in her lap. "We were attacked by the Akatsuki. Hitoshi wants nothing more than to see myself and grandma dead because we have blood and abilities we didn't exactly ask for. And it was all because of that. Once we take care of Hitoshi I know Grandma would be safe. I just don't see the point in staying there and adding to the targets for the Leaf."

Moving to sit next to her, Neji sighed as he gave her a soft smile. Just as soon as this jutsu was done he would spill his heart to her. He just couldn't do it just yet, just in case something did go wrong. He wouldn't leave her even more heart broken. "I think that you need time to think about what you think is best." Reaching out and making her look up at him as he smiled sweetly at her, Neji sighed. He hated to see tears in her eyes, but couldn't do anything about it right now. "And you have more than enough time to think about it with what is going on."

Feeling him touch her, Akako felt like someone shot lightning through her. She loved him so much that she couldn't stand it. That was part of the reason why she wouldn't want to stay in the Leaf with the rest of the village. She didn't know if she could look at him every day and not die a thousand deaths. Especially when he fell in love with someone else and she would have to see him with her.

But the look in his eyes right now. She didn't know why but she just had to smile as she reached up to clear her eyes. "Right. No need to rush into things right." But then she flinched with a yelp when her stomach growled. "Oh man I hate it when that happens!"

Laughing as he helped her to stand, Neji shook his head. "Let's go get something to eat. After that I am sure that Hinata will be ready to train you some more along with her sister."

"Right." Akako then walked with him toward the camp. In a way she was thrilled when her stomach growled. She was about to just lose all thought looking into his eyes like that. It gave her the reason to change the subject and get off of other thoughts. Though she was serious about leaving them there and leaving on her own. She didn't want to be a target that would get someone hurt again. She didn't want to have her heart break over and over again. She didn't know if she could take it. The memories of her parents and her brother were already proving to hurt her more than she thought that they would.