OF BUZZING AND CHIRPING

"Premeditations"

Hatake Kakashi cursed at the defunct skies once again at the broken memories that has sprung up on his psyche; his misery still lurks like a shadow and it was giving him emotional difficulty, save for all those thoughts that lingered upon moments where he crosses the line between reflection and isolation. Perhaps it was his mistake all along that he didn't encourage Sasuke enough, leaving the youngster of mere hinted sorrows he has suffered from the pass. Now, the exit terrains of Konoha where leaves are countless and woods were eternal, Kakashi leaped with the thought of having to be all well when everything strikes normality once again. Side by side she traveled with Shizune, both of them the embodiment of silence.

Shizune couldn't blame it at the white-haired; they were never in sentimental liaison and she despised melancholy, too. Her boisterous ego deep within wages of abilities comparable even with the man beside him but she is weak with drama. Her knees are frail in the battle towards emotional salvation; she is an optimist – and this chemistry striving to mingle at Konoha's forests is going to be as hard as finding needles in grass fields.

"I'm heading north afterwards, Kakashi-san,"

"I'm up east,"

"I hope you find them,"

"I hope so,"

Hyuuga Hinata was unimpeachable as her sight rummaged for security; Tenten and Sakura was behind her, cautious but not afraid, peeking in all directions where they could predict antagonists. The Sound Village was a wreck in terms of centralization, Tenten thought; ragged buildings stood and velvety dusts cropped up the paradigms surrounding them. People walked ceaselessly as if they were everlasting peasants, a religion of human suffering for Orochimaru, the old shinobi of mystery as what the two always think of. Meter and meters away from Orochimaru's fortress, Souke no Chi ni Mesametta Hyuuga Hinata could not infringe further and she had to give up somehow – her chakra is being eaten up by this stealth tactic. "Well? What do we got?"

"The fortress is intricate, I would need some time to restore my chakra."

"What do we do now?"

"Rest?" Tenten has suggested,

"Shino! What about him? Aren't we supposed to help him?"

"Sakura-san, we have to continue on; we could not jeopardize this mission,"

"Tenten..."

"Hinata-san? What now?"

The chuunin was silent, eyes closed as her sanctity aroused more chakra, and carrying out a hand seal, the veins in her forehead grew longer, the shock obvious at the faces of both genin's. "She's grown very tough, eh?" Tenten whispered. Hinata's sight passed by those trivialities that surrounded Orochimaru's mansion; a blockade that obstructs ordinary shinobi's is guarded by a fat gentle-looking shinobi with a six-armed one, and peeking through their bodies, Hinata closed her eyes once again, slightly coiling her head left and right. "What's wrong, Hinata-san?"

"The fortress is being guarded by very strong ninja's... Overwhelming..."

"Uhm, I suggest we hide in another place because I'm seeing shinobi's coming towards us,"

"I can do my genjustu and we can escape,"

"They have sensed my stealth,"

"Don't worry, Hinata-san, I think you did very well. Sakura, do you thing,"

"Okay!"

Shizune has been catching her breath because they haven't been resting for days. Keeping up with the famous copy ninja was toiling, she thought, but her decision to come around the white-haired's sentimentality still remain unchanged. Tsunade's actual directive was to guide Kakashi into normality again; following Shino and Hinata is going to be futile anyway. And now she has to come up with something convincing to stay close to Kakashi. She had her duties, and she was going to fulfill it.

"Kakashi-san, let's rest..."

"Tired?"

"I admit, yeah," Kakashi hesitated, his mouth trying to open at the back of his mask. He nonetheless waited. "Okay,"

Hours and minutes after, moonbeams have shone from the cerulean sky and decorating the magnificence of the forest. With a little more heave they began leaping from one tree into another again, and somehow, Shizune thought, this would be one of the hardest mission ever. Finally deciding on something, she secretly channeled her chakra; being the medic ninja is advantage. Releasing the traps she has previously prepared while they were resting, needles have sprung up in different directions. "Kakashi-san! Enemies!"

Kakashi never knew that it was plain trick. He dodged but in the end, after all needles have been released, one caught him by surprise. "Who are they kidding..." he said, taking it out. "Eh?"

"It's poisoned..."

"Shizune, get down!" A fuumashuriken swooshed in the air and Shizune made a kawarimi, so did Kakashi.

"You're poisoned, we must rest until it wears off,"

"No, we must go,"

"You're stubborn; if you really desire to follow Naruto and the others you make sure you're well enough,"

"My... my vision's blurry,"

"Here," Shizune signaled her to a stout tree and but Kakashi didn't budge.

"What d'ya know,"

"Well I'm a medic shinobi for your information. Even if you are the famous Kakashi I still am worthy of being a jounin,"

Silence.

At the summit of Sound Village's tower, the chuunin and two genin's looked upon the serence wretchedness of the village – wretched from poverty, from wars and toothed survival. "How could this happen to a village? Look at them,"

"And they steal scrolls to survive? That's unfair," Sakura commented, not sure if it's her inner self talking.

"Let's see... Hinata, what do you plan to do?"

Hinata finally opened her eyes.

"I have read on one of Tsunade-sama's books of a technique called false wall,"

"A technique?"

"Yes, it allows one to camouflage with the environment. It's ninjutsu using the skill of genjutsu, I'm sure Sakura-san could do it,"

"Me? I don't even know that that exist..."

"Come on Sakura, you're good at them, remember?"

"I'm not that good..."

"Sakura-san, you underestimate yourself; be as determined as Hinata-san!" Tenten has encouraged, bickering slightly as the three of them smile.

"What?"

"I've never seen you that enthusiastic,"

"I think I'm having that Gai-sensei sickness..."

"A genjutsu and then what?"

"We infiltrate the fortress. I am yet to stealth-see it."

"Okay then."

"I'm sorry..."

"You're perspiring, take off your vest."

Kakashi obliged. Shizune, mounting up her chakra at her palms, began performing seals and released the energy to Kakshi's chest. The white-haired was feeling well, but another surge of emotional enthusiasm is rousing up his psyche. "What's happening?"

"I'm the one who's supposed to apologize, Kakashi-san,"

"Eh?"

"I'm going to be your psychiatrist tonight,"

i've changed the mistake in the fifth chapter. hehe; sorry for that. and oh, reviews ae nicer...