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Disclaimer: I only own Tanar that is it no Naruto no Kakashi no ninja no world or anything related to Naruto. So there (shifts eyes nervously) They will never catch me MWAHHHHH!

Ok kids; Here is an answer to some questions that were asked/ Q: What was Tanar's mission/ A: The mission was partially explained in earlier chapters she was to steal a forbidden scroll from mist village and kill anyone who had any remote connection to the scroll. Guards, owners, etc… But she didn't go to mist village under some emotional complications she managed to summon Nature energy itself and command it to do the mission for her. Now all she has to do is return it to her client that is paying her to steal the scroll/

Author's comment" faithful readers; this is my thanks another day another chapter another chance for me to poison your minds with my own insanity. Thanks and R&R

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Last Time: Kakashi learns that Tanar is a girl (opps she forgot to tell him)/ She meets the perverted Frog hermit and gives him a little more then he can handle/ Line and Kakashi battle it out. Note: remember it was dark so Kakashi still has not seen her face in the sunshine. Tanar has dyed her hair black and for their disguise she is posing as Kakashi's brother.

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This is the second night out in the wilderness and Line is sleeping next to Tanar. Kakashi is asleep a little farther off.

The trees blocked some of the sky. It was alright though. The stars were bright and the moon was a shining thumbnail. She wanted to see a certain star formation. The trees were in the way. She shifted her head and craned her neck. There it was. She breathed a sigh of relief. The star was strong but a line of twinkling stars made it look like a broken comet. Her family had called it the Broken Arm. It was what she was known for as a child. She thought of her own scared arms that were hidden by only a sheet of cloth. She recalled her family with a slight sigh. She wondered if they would stop and wonder in awe of her power or destroy her because of what she became. Line head moved against her shoulder. She stroked his head to quiet him. He had been through a lot with her. She nearly killed him earlier and yet he seemed to except it without regret. He did not pine for her attention anymore, but he was still wary of Kakashi. She heard a rustle of leaves.

She did not move. She did stiffen in surprise. Someone had managed to find them. She heard the sound of feet, four feet. No not even that four hooves came to her head. She opened her eyes to see a small deer with green eyes right over her. She sat up and the deer scampered away. She looked into the direction of the deer. She nearly choked. Lined in a circle was a multitude of fur and scales. Feathers and fur covered the trees. She was in profound connection with them. The forest was alive with them. She could sense, hear, see, them all. An owl screeched in the dark. She jumped in shock. She looked over to see if Kakashi heard it. He was snoring, snoring at a time like this. She called his name quietly. The forest was as silent as death. The same deer walked out again. "Ninja?" it asked uncertain. She answered with out thinking "I am no ninja." Again he said one word "Why" she was not surprised by that question. The innocence of the deer was too much she had to give him an answer. She patted Line's back; he needed to hear as well. He woke up silently and blinked his eyes. He gave a curt nod to the deer and the little fawn sat down next to him. Line gave her a slight nudge of his great head. "Go on female" She smiled. She had to tell now, it was a hard secret to keep.

She let the smile fall form her mouth and she told her story, slowly. "My family was the set of Ninjas called the Blue Wood Ninjas. We were the last village. We had no country, no people to protect or honor. I was like all of you when you were born or hatched. I was ignorant. I did not know, but I was fashioned after you. My mother was a ninja so was my father. I was too young too weak. Even your parents might not know me, but your grandparents I called and played with. That was my gift that all of you are here for. I have the thoughts that can release you from your own minds. I have the power to give you a memory and a conscious. Do you know what that is?" Many of the animals shook their heads. Line explained in his voice majestic but gentle "Because of the female's ability I have now the skill to be more advanced then you, like a human. I have the ability to interpret what the humans around me are doing and sometimes even thinking" She stroked Line's head for the hundredth time and he rumbled low in his throat. She continued "I was to become the next ninja but I was an animal to my own family. The rejected me like the wolf family will reject a dog or a raccoon." She noticed that all the animals she mentioned were present and shifted uncomfortably. "Then they came" she pointed too the sleeping body of Kakashi. The animals seemed to have just noticed him. They hissed and balked in fear. She crawled over to him and laid a protective arm over his figure. She noticed that at this some of them showed signs of rage. "No listen to me first" she said quietly they stilled for the moment.

"This man is a descendent of those monsters yes, but let me tell you what happened. You see we are also the cause for a crime among your laws I am the cause for generations of pain. A mutation to horrible and undeserved. My family is responsible for releasing and creating the Fox demon Kyuubi. I am truly sorry fox clan for what my tribe did to you, but as I said I was only a cub. My problem arouse when every ninja like the one beside me tried to kill Kyuubi. I still thought I was welcome among you so I tried the only thing I thought was right. I tried to stop the ninjas from killing Kyuubi." She paused here was the big secret.

"One night after the playing with all of you for the last time I was called into the village by my family for something important. I jumped at the chance in being included in my clan's activities. My own family has marked me. The way of the ninja as a whole is that if you can not control it the source and it needs to be destroyed. The rest of my clan of Blue Wood ninja's thought of me as a traitor. They wanted to destroy Kyuubi as well, but I resisted them tooth and nail. So they beat me into submission. They bound and gagged me in the darkness of the woods and then they mutilated me. The bruises healed but they performed a secret art of fighting called forbidden jitsu. They branded my arms in the ultimate humiliation to them. Because vines can choke a tree to death they decided to use vines of Chakra against my very flesh. My own father was the one to take rope and then make them come alive. I was powerless and I yelled in pain as the ropes wrapped themselves in their burning embrace. For some reason you all heard me that night and you came to my rescue. They defended themselves against you. They had their right to torture me as they did so they killed you all. I can still the smell of burning feather and fur."

"But then Kyuubi appeared and he grabbed me in his jaws and whisked me away into the heart of the village. Then the other ninjas attacked. A huge miscommunication the foreign human ninjas thought that I controlled Kyuubi and when he destroyed the village My tribes lives were forfeit as well as those of the foreign ninjas." She looked down at Kakashi again. "All of his friends and mentors were destroyed in the massacre of the Blue Wood Ninjas along with my family. I forced Kyuubi away at what he had down that is what made him so angry. My gift had seeped into him and he was given enough power to think of anger and rage at the human race especially ninjas. He went on a rampage and thankfully he was sealed away from what I heard. So my family branded me and then my own feelings caused so much pain in both animal and human lives. I have forsaken my power as a ninja and now my power is beginning to rear it's ugly head again"

She stopped talking. Finally her long tale was over. Her own extent of her gift was still a mystery. She could sense how much animal was in someone and somehow she could control that. She could make someone feel the fear of survival or the lust of mating. She never liked using it. She only used it when she needed it to survive. That was her motto, Survival of the fittest. Kakashi stirred underneath her hand. He muttered some unintelligent words bet she kept her hand on him. She soothed him. He quieted and slept on. "I remember" said a feral voice. She looked up almost in tears. The animals parted for one hulking figure it went so slow she new it to be a tortoise. The huge old reptile walked slowly to her. It stopped in front of the two humans. "You used to do that for any of us in the woods that slept near you. I still believe you are welcome. You are scared more then any of us because of your gift and because you are a human." She couldn't help it. Somehow returning to the world of Humans was helping her return in the animal's world as well. Because of ninjas like Her family she had hated them with a seething loathing that had made her a monster, worse then an animal. Now because of men like Iruka and Kakashi she had begun to heal. "I have cried silently every night before I fall into slumber. The tears that squeezed out of my eyes when the sun set were a sign of my weakness. I can't be a ninja if I am this weak."

Then Line said "You can't be an animal if you are weak either" He padded toward her. "You need to become a ninja female before you master your power; I am like this because your power has leaked into me. I am not even sure I wanted that change to occur but your own power overcame my will" She cried and let drops of her regret spill onto her cheeks and then lost into the ground below or into Line's fur. "Line I am sorry I will try, but I don't know how after…" She felt something clutch her arm. She stopped startled. Kakashi shifted facing her. He was awake. They were both silent. His dark eyes looked into her face, but she didn't think he was looking into her eyes. "How much did you hear?" quietly she questioned. He let go of her arm and sat up. The animals had disappeared so silently even she did not know they left. It was only her, Kakashi, and Line.

He continued to stare at her. His gaze was so piercing. She looked down in shame. He had heard enough to know she was a monster among humans. He tapped her shoulder and she looked up. He felt her face. His fingers lightly brushed the wet cloth of her mask. The tears she had shed had not yet dried. He took his thumb and brushed them away. He left his hand on her face. She moved her hand and lifted his headband away from his face. "Let your eyes see my truth" He nodded and used the Sharingan Eye no red fog blocked his view but he did respect her when she guided him through her mind. "I can see your hate for us Tanar" the man replied. She retorted gently "I can not change my views when that was all I learned." Kakashi laid back onto the ground and beckoned for Line to come. Line did as he was asked and also laid down next to Kakashi in between the two humans. Kakashi said sleepily "Enough for tonight" She laid down next to Line "I agree" She said as she drifted off to sleep and her face was dry for the first time since Kyubbi was created