Hanara had calmed down by the time Pho had flown to the Hidden Leaf Village and had apologized to her. Hanara knew that she didn't deserve to have Hanara's anger taken out on her.

"Please land over here, Pho," Hanara said once they were over the crumbled wall. The village was in chaos, but it seemed like the fighting was over.

Pho complied and Hanara jumped off her, "You may go now."

"Right!" Pho nodded and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

'I need to find my team,' Hanara thought, 'They were all in the stadium, I think.'

Hanara ran in the direction of the stadium, Byakugan on, and found that every ninja and civilian she passed were in varying states of mourning. 'The Sound and Sand aren't strong enough to kill or injure a family member of everyone in the village! What happened?' she sped up, 'Ino should know. She's the first to know all the gossip.'

When Hanara ran past the Academy, she saw Ino and Choji, who were crying.

'Ino! Choji! What happened?" she asked, running up towards them.

"I-It's Lord Hokage!" Ino sobbed, "H-He's DEAD!"

Hanara's eyes widened, "No... he can't be!"

And boy was she shocked because she forgot such an important thing. Or did she even know that at all? 'It's like I've got freaky bits and pieces of the future that just make me feel anxious about everything I do. I kind of wish I didn't remember anymore, remembering pieces is worse than not remembering at all.'

"Orochimaru used the invasion to kill him," Choji mumbled, "And we don't know where Shikamaru is."

"I- I'm sure he's okay..." Hanara said weakly.

"Y-Yeah, he's Shikamaru. The s-smartest person we know," Ino added, "He p-probably left with Asuma-Sensei or something."

"Y-Yeah," Choji nodded.

Later on, they found out that Shikamaru and the rest of the Rookie 9 were perfectly fine (after a few hospital visits, of course). It was a huge relief to Team 10 but they didn't let each other out of their sight for a few days. The Hidden Leaf Village was in shambles after the death of their Hokage and the destruction of the majority of said village, but that didn't stop them from holding an organized memorial to honour the sacrifices made in what became known as The Invasion.

The memorial was held on top of the Hokage Tower for all those that had died that day, but the only one that Hanara knew at all was Lord Hokage. It was raining quite heavily too as if even the heavens were weeping for the loss of all those gone. Although it was clear that everyone at the service was sad, only the civilians were openly sobbing. Ninja were expected to seem strong even at funerals because an enemy would use any moment of weakness to attack, any shinobi worth their salt would know that.

Civilians and many Academy students were blissfully ignorant of that fact, however, and were expressing their sadness openly. Hanara closed her eyes and sighed. This was the first memorial service she had been to since Hizashi's and it had been raining then as well. She knew first-hand that being the family of the one that had passed was a horrid experience. Konohamaru had her condolences.

While the memorial brought sadness to everyone there, it also gave them a sense of happiness. It brought all the good memories that people had made with the ones that they were remembering. All in all, the memorial ceremony left Hanara with a bittersweet feeling.

For the next few weeks, Hanara was alternating between continuing to learn a new Water Style jutsu (Water Wall) during team training on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and helping rebuild the village on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Today was a Wednesday, so Hanara was at Training Ground Number 4 at 10 am sharp and found that Ino was already there, as usual. A few minutes later, Choji and Shikamaru showed up, but Asuma-Sensei still hadn't come.

"Seriously!" Ino whined, "Where is he? He promised to help us come up with a few more team formations with Hanara's new chakra thread stuff!"

"He probably had some stuff to do," Hanara sighed, "The Jonin and Chunin are being overworked because they need to help run the village and Asuma-Sensei being the son of Lord Third was the only reason he wasn't so busy before."

"I guess we could get started ourselves," Choji suggested after swallowing his last handful of chips.

"Hmm," Hanara hummed thoughtfully, "Yeah, that works. Now, who wants to be my taijutsu training partner?"

"Sure!" Ino smiled, "I need to work on mine anyway."

Two hours later and Asuma-Sensei still wasn't there. Hanara had done taijutsu with Ino for a while, mastered Water Style: Water Wall, and was at a loss with what to do. It was meant to be team training, not individual training.

"What a drag..." Shikamaru complained, "We've been waiting for hours."

"I'm sick of this," Hanara declared, "I'm going to go track down Asuma-Sensei and drag him here."

"Sure," Choji agreed, "Just don't get distracted by what he's doing and forget about us."

Hanara nodded, "See ya!"

Hanara turned on her Byakugan and jumped onto the first rooftop she saw. That way, she didn't have to worry about crashing into a villager and causing more problems. After a few minutes, she finally caught sight of Asuma-Sensei.

'He's in someone's house? Is he visiting Kurenai-Sensei or something? Cuz if he is, imma be pissed.' she thought, determinedly running towards the house, switching off her Byakugan.

Finally reaching the house after 6 minutes of sprinting non-stop, Hanara threw the door open, finding Kakashi-Sensei lying on his bed with Asuma-Sensei, Kurenai-Sensei, and Guy-Sensei, speaking in hushed whispers.

Kurenai-Sensei, who had heard the bang from the door first, turned and stared at Hanara curiously, "Hanara? What are you doing here?"

"Shit. I missed team training, didn't I?" Asuma-Sensei groaned.

"Gee, I wonder, did you? I mean, it totally isn't noon on a Wednesday." Hanara drawled sarcastically.

"Damn it," Asuma-Sensei swore.

"Ino and I did some taijutsu, Shikamaru and Choji worked on strategies, and then I mastered that Water Style jutsu we were working on." Hanara informed him before scanning the room for the first time, "Geez, what happened to you guys? Kakashi-Sensei is passed out and a-"

"Is it true that Itachi Uchiha was in the village and is looking for Naruto Uzumaki?" a Chunin asked, slamming the door open.

Hanara turned to look at the Chunin and paled. Because right behind the Chunin was Sasuke. Sasuke's eyes widened and immediately took off.

"Maybe check your surroundings next time so that you don't reveal important information to a couple of Genin," Kurenai-Sensei told the Chunin dryly.

"Judging by your reaction, that was true," Hanara sighed, "Well, I'm going after Sasuke."

"What a lovely display of youth!" Guy-Sensei cheered, "You wish to help a comrade!"

'Wait, he was standing there silently the whole time? Damn.'

"No Hanara-" Kurenai-Sensei started.

"She's right," Asuma-Sensei interrupted, holding up a hand to stop Kurenai from speaking, "Just hear me out. Sasuke is going to try and warn Naruto, but if he runs into Itachi, all sense of rationality is going to leave him. He'll need someone with a clear head to help him, and Hanara is perfect for that. Besides, while Hanara does specialize in frontal assaults, she can also be sly in her attacks or even a tracker if need be, and both those qualities will help Sasuke. None of us Jonin can go, because we're needed here more than ever."

Kurenai-Sensei sighed and waved her hand in a shooing motion, letting Hanara run after Sasuke.

Hanara caught up to Sasuke when he stopped at Ichiraku Ramen.

"Don't try and stop me," Sasuke snarled, "I need to warn Naruto. I won't let Itachi take another thing away from me."

Hanara snorted, "You honestly think I'm here to stop you? Nope! I'm not about to let Naruto get himself killed. I'm here to help. My Byakugan will help you track Naruto down and I can fly faster than you run."

Sasuke stared at Hanara for a moment and then nodded, "Fine. You can come. But first, I'm going to ask Teuchi where Naruto went."

And Sasuke did just that.

"Ah, Naruto? He and another man left to Otafuku Town a few hours ago." Teuchi responded, sounding confused.

"What does he look like?" Sasuke demanded.

"The man? He has white spiky hair..." Teuchi trailed off.

"Does he wear a lot of red?" Hanara asked.

Teuchi nodded.

"Jiraiya," Hanara muttered.

"You know him?" Sasuke questioned.

She nodded, "He's one of Lord Hokage's students, same as Orochimaru and Tsunade. Naruto should be safe, but we should go and warn him in any case." she bit her thumb and performed the hand-signs for the summoning jutsu, "Summoning Jutsu!"

Pho appeared in front of Hanara and Sasuke, "M'lady, is there anything you need?"

"Yes," Hanara nodded, "Can you fly us to Otafuku Town as fast as you can?"

"Of course," Pho replied, bending down so that Sasuke and Hanara could climb onto her back.

Once both children were on Pho, she flapped her wings and took off into the skies.