"That's it sweetheart…just a little bit further. Come on, you can do it." Toki looked up, grinning into a face with matching eyes and a wide grin to complement her own. Cautiously one foot in front of the other Toki slowly made her way to her father, not caring if anything happened or not. The only thing that matter was the spiky blonde hair man that she was too scared to be apart from for more than a minute."Come on sunshine…you know that you can do it. Come to daddy, come on."

With a few more hesitant steps Toki closed the gap between her and her father. Hands raised high waiting to be lifted up high by her father who would then place a big kiss on her cheek. However, this time, instead of being lifted up she was falling down. Falling away from her father. Toki looked up to see her father looking down still smiling but with the hint of sadness in his eyes.

"Toki? Hey…Toki…?"

Everything was starting to turn different colors. Deep red and black. Until...

White.

Toki blinked. The white was changing to grey and it kept moving. Toki didn't really have anything special on her ceiling, except for the shadows, the ones that the moon so graciously gave to her.

Her father passed away when she was three years old. But yet, he really never left, somehow he always visited her dreams. There were never really words of wisdom, but more old memories, ones that she was starting to forget.

Toki threw the covers off and slipped out of bed. Finding her light robe she silently put it on. She slipped out of her little apartment and made her way to the roof. Every time she woke up she could never go back to sleep. Or, rather not right away. Her mind had to slow down and calm again.

Toki reached the top of the stairs and slowly opened the door that led to the roof. Her apartment complex was right next to the Hokage tower so Toki had a good view of the village. To her the only time Konoha was peaceful was when it slept. It took Toki awhile to notice where exactly all the guards were, but when she eventually found them every time she came up, she could spot them immediately. They seemed not to mind that she was there, they would continue on with what they were doing, occasionally looking back to make sure that she was okay.

"I hope that this habit of waking up in the middle of the night is something that you didn't get from me. Cause that would just be another thing Kakashi could throw back in my face."
A smile was etching across her face when she turned around to look at her senbon chewing sensei.

"Of course I got this from you. Where else would I pick this up from?"

Genma let out a small laugh, but came out from the shadows he was hiding in.

"Dreams keeping you up again?"

Toki turned back around and started gazing at the sleeping city. This time all humor gone from her voice. "My dreams have always kept me up...since I was three. It wasn't until Itachi left did my dreams turn to nightmares."

Genma was glad that Toki's back was turned or she would have seen him flinch at the mention of Itachi's name.

"You know, warm tea always helps one go back to sleep…"

"….with a little shot of sake" finished Toki. " You've taught me well Sensei."

Genma gave a little smile, bid her goodnight and disappeared back into the darkness.

Toki knew that Genma cared for her. He tried to make her into one of the best Kunoichi that he could, but she wonder if he thought that he failed somewhere. It was true that she was an amazing Kunoichi, and everyone in the town thought that she was a nice and cheerful person, just like her father. However, the ones that truly knew her, could see behind the fake smile and see that she wasn't exactly whole. And yet there was nothing they could do about it.

After a few more minutes of staring out at the calm city, Toki quietly went back to her room for another restless night of dreams.