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.:Hikari:.

Kakashi, Sasuke, and Hikari POV

Hikari and Sasuke were still eyeing their sensei apprehensively. He was obsessed with porn stuff, but… seeing him actually doing to someone, namely his student, was… odd. Suddenly, a swarm of white crows burst out of nowhere, flocking around in a spiral shape over the ninjas' heads, and Hikari dropped to her knees, moaning.

"Hikari?" Sasuke asked, concerned, and placed a hand on her arm. Hikari whipped her head around, her eyes white.

"S-Sasuke-kun, K-Kakashi-sensei, run!" she cried, stumbling over her words. A gust of wind suddenly started blowing, making Hikari's hair whip over her face. "This place… I know where it is! If you don't get out of here, I might do something I regret. This place… I h-have no control over my powers!"

"Do what she says, Sasuke," Kakashi said. He grabbed Sasuke's wrist, but the Uchiha refused to move.

"I won't leave her."

"Please, Sasuke-kun," Hikari pleaded, her blue commas now appearing in her pale eyes. Tears ran down her cheeks. "I don't want to hurt you…"

"At least get off the platform Sasuke," Kakashi said. "We won't go far." Finally, the raven-haired boy agreed, and stepped off the platform.

He and the Great Copy Ninja flitted into a large, sturdy oak tree overlooking the platform.

"Agh…" Hikari groaned, clutching the sides of her head. Suddenly her body glowed white, and then, her clothes changed, and her hair grew longer and turned white. She now wore a pale, pale blue kimono with a dark gray circle on the back. Inside the circle were three commas, the same blue as the rest of the kimono.

"Hikari…" Sasuke whispered. She was stunningly beautiful, almost ethereal looking. Kakashi studied his student's face attentively.

He's so concerned about her… I've never seen Sasuke like this before. Kakashi thought. I hope she's okay, because I'm sure if Sasuke's this concerned, if something bad happens, he'll be crushed… please, Hikari, pull through this…

Naruto and Sakura POV

"Hellooo!" Naruto yelled. 'Hellooo!" his voice echoed down the tunnel. Sakura shivered and clutched Naruto's arm apprehensively.

"It's so spooky down here…"

"Well, there's nothing we can do except walk, right, Sakura?"

"Or, you could quit yelling so you won't give away my hideout."

"EEEK!" Sakura and Naruto both screeched. A boy stepped out of the shadows. He had dark red hair, piercing dark eyes, and a tattoo on the right side of his forehead.

"My name is Sinohatake Gaara, and I need your help." He stared at the blonde haired boy and the pink haired girl. "My friend, Hikari, is in terrible danger."

"Hikari, ha!" Sakura spat out the words as if they tasted bad. "She's an old meanie. I mean, like, she stole my boyfriend—er, my old boyfriend," she quickly added, seeing the crushed look on Naruto's face.

"I see," Gaara said, studying them. Naruto eyed him suspiciously.

"How do we know we can trust you?" he asked, squinting his eyes. Gaara sighed.

"Well, I'll tell you a little about my past, if that's any help," he offered. Naruto nodded, and Sakura pursed her lips.

"Ok, but if you make any moves, you're dead," she said, drawing out her kunai knife. Gaara nodded.

"Sure. Now, about my past…" he began. "I used to be on a cell with Hikari. We were Team 14. It was Inoyasha Hikari, Atanake Shoji, and our sensei was Kekiko Johori. Shoji was quite a bit older than both Hikari and me; he never really saw eye to eye with us. But one day while we were training, Shoji snapped. He punched Hikari and turned on our team. His chakra aura was incredible! It far succeeded anything any of us had ever felt, except for one thing. Hikari responded with a chakra wave ten times that… but she was able to stand up to him. Shoji tried to… I don't know, hurt her, but this dark cloud swallowed him up and he disappeared, never to be seen again." Here, Gaara paused at the comically blank looks on Naruto and Sakura's faces. "What, I lost you already?" The two of them shook their heads.

"That's just… amazing…" Naruto said in awe. "I would have never guessed…"

"But… she said you were dead," Sakura said. "I'm just so confused. And you said Shoji's last name was Atanake, right?" Gaara nodded. "Umm… Hikari said his last name was Himiko…"

"I'm getting to that," Gaara said coldly. "If you're done interrupting, I'll continue." He glared at Naruto and Sakura, who gulped and silently nodded. "This is all simply what Master Johori told me several years ago. When that dark cloud appeared to take Shoji, Hikari showed a very unusual version of the Sharingan eye. Now, the usual Sharingan is red with black commas, right?" Naruto and Sakura nodded. Gaara closed his eyes and let out a sharp breath.

"Well, Hikari's Sharingan are white with blue commas. It was also one of the two times the Sharingan has even appeared in someone other than the Uchiha bloodline." Gaara eyed Naruto and Sakura critically. "I believe the other case is your sensei, Hatake Kakashi?" Sakura widened her eyes and gripped the kunai tighter. Naruto nodded, but didn't say anything.

"Hikari's Sharingan first appeared when Shoji was… kidnapped by that shadow, and she passed out soon after from the strain. So we thought, 'okay, unusual, but nothing to worry about'. But we decided it was unusual enough to tell the Hokage, and he was very concerned." Gaara sighed and rubbed his temples.

"What did Hokage-sama say?" Sakura whispered.

"Atanake Shoji is an S-Class criminal. The King of Xin Jing was the only one to ever defile him, and that made Shoji furious. So, naturally, for payback for putting him in jail, he came after the king's only daughter, Inoyasha Hikari… The king was worried about this, so he sent Hikari to Konoha for safekeeping. But that made matters even worse. Shoji used a jutsu to transform himself into a boy three years older than Hikari and me. Hikari obviously knew about Atanake Shoji, but no one had ever heard of Himiko Shoji, and so his profile remained safely protected. But Johori and Hokage-sama were suspicious of him; Shoji had seemingly appeared out of nowhere, claiming to be part of a prestigious, ancient clan that had mysteriously disappeared, and that he was the final heir, somewhat like the Uchiha clan's story. The only problem was, that when Master Johori and Hokage-sama looked for files on the clan 'Himiko', there were none."

Naruto blinked. "So… you're saying that the Himiko clan doesn't exist?" Gaara smirked.

"A bit slow, aren't you?" Naruto frowned and his vein twitched.

"Well, maybe, but Himiko isn't an actual clan then, right?"

"No."

"Keep going with the story!" Sakura interrupted, looking distastefully at the fuming blond and the arrogant redhead. "I want to know what happened to Hikari and what's going to happen to her."

"Fine," Gaara said, glaring at Sakura. "Once Hokage-sama realized there wasn't a Himiko clan, he knew something was wrong with Shoji. But without solid proof, he couldn't do anything. So, we just let it be. But the Hokage and Master Johori were always sending Hikari on simple missions that didn't require the rest of us. In fact, there was barely ever a mission that both Shoji and Hikari were assigned to together. Now I realize that was the Hokage's way of separating them, but back then, I didn't know that. But one day, Shoji demanded that we be sent on a mission together, all four of us. It was that mission that led to where I am today…" Gaara stopped.

"So…what happened?" Sakura's eyes were widened and Naruto looked slightly pale. The fox boy almost imperceptibly edged protectively in front of Sakura.

Gaara's face contorted into a blank, emotionless mask. "The Hokage refused, and Shoji decided to go on a killing spree. He was, in fact, so angry, that he released a terrible, demonic beast." Gaara's eyes seemed to bore through Naruto. "Shoji released the Kyuubi, the Nine-Tailed Fox."