Who needs teamwork?

Setsuko watched her team run through a small D-rank mission. With a shake of her head she turned away. All they had to do was weed some old ladies yard and even then, teamwork was beyond them. Janghoon took his time in doing everything. He never liked it when she told him to do something. Every chance he got, he would isolate himself from the team. It drove her crazy. The only thing he wasn't lazy at was protecting his sister! Who would have thought those two were even related! They were the complete opposite. Seung was hasty in her work, often having to go back and do it over three times, was quick to anger, proof being the broken bones some boys got because they were stupid enough to whistle at her, and extremely friendly. She blew a fuse every time Setsuko even sounded like she was going to leave Seung behind. Riki . . . well . . . he was a scrappy little snort nosed brat who thought that he was better than every person on the planet and that Setsuko was lucky that she was breathing the same air. Setsuko plopped down on the ground and rested her chin on her fist.

"Killed on the mission my foot! He either ran as fast as he could or committed suicide." Setsuko grumbled as Riki and Seung got in yet another fight over some stupid reason. Janghoon was still moving at a snail's pace. Setsuko could feel her hair turning gray. "How does Kakashi do this?" She was tempted to use the Shinigami that lay next to her. But, Tsunade would have her head if she did. Why did she do this again? Oh yeah, her past caught up with her. Well, she could have married, but noooo! Had to try to not be girlie and go ask the guy she liked. Her face was tainted red from that thought as she mentally scrubbed it from her mind. There was no way he would look at her like that. Oh well, back to the hell she called team 28. Setsuko looked over at the wall next to her. Oh! Escape had come to her! Someone had recently painted the wall and the paint was drying! Something to do other than watch her so called team.

"Setsuko, have you seen Naruto?" Kakashi asked from behind Setsuko. In an instant she had turned, stood up, and hurled herself into Kakashi's arms, who was bright red from her sudden action.

"Kakashi-kun!!!!!!!!!!!! Kakashi-kun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kakashi-kun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She stared up at him with huge stars in her eyes. Sakura and Sasuke stared the spectacle in front of them with shock written all over their faces. They had a feeling but . . . this? Kakashi stared at Setsuko with a wide eye.

"S-s-setsuko!" Was all he could manage to get out.

"You have no idea how happy you being here makes me!" If possible, Kakashi turned a darker shade of red as Setsuko looked over her shoulder. "Team 28! Continue without me! If I hear one word that you three messed up!" She left the threat hanging in the air as she turned back to Kakashi smiled. "Thank you! You have no idea how hard it is to not kill those kids!" Setsuko beamed as she released Kakashi from a bear hug and turned towards the direction of her home. "Hmmm . . . Naruto's not there? Odd, he left before I did." Setsuko looked back at team 7. "Well, I suppose that we should go look-wha?!" Setsuko nearly fell over as team 28 stood behind her with all their work done. "How-when-didn't you-but-you were-just now-you-how did you-how could you-but-" Setsuko couldn't finish her sentence as she pointed at them and the work. Seung smiled.

"You don't think we would let you leave us behind, do you?" Janghoon stood next to her with an indifferent look on his face.

"I just used my favorite Jutsu to move things along." He mumbled as Riki smirked.

"Speed is one of my best qualities." Setsuko took a moment before turning back towards her home with a dazed look on her face.

". . . . . let's . . . . go . . . ." Was all she could say.

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Setsuko poked the door to her cousin's room open. She was afraid to go in there. After having to deal with his apartment, she was scared of how messy he could be. The green mold that had tried to eat her broom still haunted her dreams. Quickly she stuck her head in and pulled it out.

"Not there." She mumbled as she moved on to the next hallway. Her team had been threaten into cooperation. There was no way she'd let those three into her family's estate if they were going to fight. They'd probably destroy most of her home. She turned to Kakashi. ". . . I don't think you need to go in there . . . ." He was right about to enter her room.

"Why not?"

"That's my room." Kakashi grinned at her.

"We should still check."

". . . ."

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"PERVERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Seung's head snapped up as she heard her sensei's scream throughout the estate. She shook her head and turned back to her brother.

"Janghoon-san, what do you think of Uzumaki-sensei?" Janghoon glanced at his sister.

". . . kinda bossy . . . she's okay though, after all, she did beat up Riki." He smirked slight at that while Riki sent him a glare.

"She got lucky, that's all." He grumbled.

"Whatever Riki-kun. Setsuko is in a different league than the other Jounin." Seung spoke with a proud aura about her of her knowledge. "I wanna learn everything she has to teach." Riki rolled his eyes.

"Whatever, she won't last long." Seung smirked at him.

"Please! With her monstrous strength alone she could beat up anything! Imagine the kind of damage her Jutsus can do!" Janghoon nodded in agreement.

"I have to admit, whatever it is that's under that white cloth has to be something amazing. Rumor has it that she was able to kill twelve armies with that weapon alone." Seung smiled at her brother.

"I heard it was twelve nations. And that she came here to seek refuge from the billions of bounties on her head!"

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Kakashi absentmindedly rubbed his swollen check once more.

"So . . . how are things with Naruto going?" He didn't want to stay on her bad side for too long. She sported a mean right hook. Setsuko glanced at him after looking in the last room of that hallway.

"Great. I'd never been so happy in my life. He's like a brother." Setsuko smiled at the thought. "Whenever I'm down he does his best to make me laugh, which he always does, when I am tired he tries to do more chores." Setsuko chuckled softly. "He's so worried that I might abandon him." She shook her head in amazement. "But in reality, I worry that he might leave me."

". . . but something's wrong . . ." Setsuko looked at him surprised. After a moment she smiled.

"You know me too well." She nodded. "Yes, something is wrong. Now, it's not that he isn't everything I wanted . . . well, maybe he isn't . . ." Kakashi smiled at her.

"Your impossible dream?" Setsuko nodded as she moved on to the next hallway. "What is it anyway? Maybe I can help." Setsuko smiled at him with a gentle warmth.

"Kakashi . . . my impossible dream is . . ." Kakashi waited for her finish. "My impossible dream is . . . is . . ." Before she could continue shouting could be heard.

"Pervert-sensei! You cost me training with my team for that!" Kakashi turned in the direction that Naruto's voice was heard. Setsuko felt any confidence in her melt away. Kakashi smiled.

"Ah, it seems like Naruto met up with Jiraiya." Kakashi turned back to Setsuko. "Now, what were you going to say." Setsuko smiled quietly at Kakashi.

". . . nothing. It doesn't matter. Well, I'd better dismiss my team." Setsuko hurried away form Kakashi. Kakashi stared after her for a moment before shaking his head.

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Naruto glared at Jiraiya.

"You made me miss training so you could peep!"

"Now, I think that's a bit harsh! I was gathering mat-my! Naruto! When did this lovely lady came to Konoha?" Jiraiya had seen Setsuko come into the room and had lost any interest in talking to Naruto about 'gathering material' for his books. Setsuko blinked a few times before looking behind her to see if anyone was there.

". . . who?" Naruto glared at Jiraiya.

"That's my cousin, Setsuko. She's not interested in perverted old farts like you."

"Naruto! I wish you would have told me that you were with Jiraiya. We spent most of the day looking for you." Kakashi intervened before Jiraiya could comment and grabbed Naruto behind his collar and dragged him off.

"Hey, pervert-sensei said that he would teach me something new! All he did was have me stand on the water!" Naruto shouted as he was dragged off. Setsuko blinked a few times before turning towards Jiraiya.

". . . you can . . . walk on water?" Jiraiya smiled at Setsuko as a plot began to hatch in his mind.

"Of course! Have you not learned that already?" Setsuko felt her checks go red as she stared at the ground.

". . . only recently have I become a leaf-nin. I . . . I was mere a wanderer that happened upon Konoha and I have only just started to use chakra." Jiraiya nodded silently as he absorbed the information.

"Well, I can't say that I will train you, but! I will help you with using your chakra. I'm sorry but I don't think I can do more." Setsuko smiled.

"Thank you. What should we do?"

"Is there a hot spring close by that we won't get interrupted at?" Setsuko blinked a few times.

". . . yes, the Uzumaki Estate has one on the grounds. Why?"

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Setsuko felt the sweat gather on her forehead as she glared at the water. Her feet had sunk slightly into it. It had nearly been an hour but she had made improvement. Instead of sinking like a rock she . . . well . . . she sorta floated. Her had long ago taken off her top part of her gi and lost the black slippers. Her back pants and white tank top were dry and there was no way she would take them off in front of that old guy. He kept on staring at her . . . it was . . . creepy. But she needed to learn! She could walk up trees now, no problem. But water was by far harder. Setsuko pushed more chakra to her feet and forced them out of the water. She felt her muscles relax as her body adjusted to standing on the water. After a few minutes of adjusting and having her body naturally memorize the amount of chakra needed Setsuko looked up at the Senin.

"Jiraiya-san! I've got it." She slowly made her way over to Jiraiya, who sat on the ground scribbling away as something. As she stepped onto the ground her ears picked up a noise. She looked up to try and find the source. A kunai landed in front of her with an explosive seal wrapped around it.

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Naruto and Kakashi entered the Uzumaki household.

"Kakashi-sensei, why are you here anyway?" Kakashi glanced at Naruto before looking around the house.

"I needed to talk with Setsuko about something that happened earlier."

"And what was th-"

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Naruto and Kakashi took off towards the sound of the explosion. They arrived at the small bathhouse on the Uzumaki grounds to see an interesting sight. Jiraiya was above Setsuko holding himself above, both lying on the ground in an . . . suggestive . . . position. Naruto felt his eyes bug out as his jaw hit the ground while he pointed a finger at his cousin and the Senin. Kakashi felt his face go red before he glared at Jiraiya. Naruto was in too much shock to say anything, so Kakashi did the only sensible thing.

"Way to go Jiraiya. Looks like all his talk wasn't for nothing." Naruto spun around towards Kakashi.

"He-she-you-they-but-NO!" He sputtered as Jiraiya pushed himself off of Setsuko.

"Relax kid, nothing you think happened." He grumbled as he picked up the unconscious Setsuko.

"What did happen?" Kakashi asked in all seriousness. Jiraiya glared at the sky.

"Someone threw a kunai at her with an explosive seal. Looks like your cousin has some enemies out for her blood." Kakashi stepped over to Jiraiya and took Setsuko out of his arms.

"I'll take care of her, you should get some treatment." Jiraiya nodded.

"Fine. She shouldn't be out too long. The shock wave from the explosion is what got to her. She had been exhausting her chakra beforehand."

"How?" Kakashi asked as Naruto moved to his cousin's side.

"She didn't know how to climb trees with her chakra or walk on water. She asked me to teach her and I did. She's like Naruto, ain't she?" Kakashi blinked in surprise before nodding as the four headed towards the house.

"How did you know?" Jiraiya shrugged as he favored his left leg and held his left arm.

"Her chakra itself screams demonic. She ain't a demon but her chakra is not human. Her body would adjust to the amount of chakra and after a few minutes she wouldn't have to concentrate at all. She said that she never used it before until she came here. In only few hours she did something that many can't do for days unless they have near perfect control." Jiraiya shook his head as they entered the Uzumaki household. "Anyway, I've gotta go check in with Tsunade and get healed. She'll wanna know about this." With that Jiraiya was gone. Kakashi turned to Naruto who hadn't said a word.

"Naruto, she'll be okay. All she needs is some rest and a new set of clothes." Naruto nodded and hurried to his cousin's room.