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I'd better go." Said Saya, going out of the door of Li's house, "Other wise I'm going to get moaned at, again."

"Okay then." Li smiled at her, "Mei and I will be along a bit later. But Kazuo's going to come as soon as he gets home, which'll be in about ten minutes." He kissed her on the lips, "Good luck!"

Saya dashed off down the street, Li called after her. "I love you!"

She waved her right hand above her head without turning round, to signal that she heard him.

She looked at her watch, and realised she was already really late to her own ceremony. This had consequently been made later when people had stopped her in the street to wish her good luck. The Ichiro adulthood ceremony was not known to be easy to pass. But the power received at the end was worth all the training. She could just imagine her uncle's reaction when she turned up half an hour late. "How can you be late to your own ceremony, especially after how much I sacrificed for you. After letting you into my own home." Or something of the sort but frankly Saya didn't care and never had done. But she knew her mother would be disappointed and she didn't want to be any later for her.

Saya sprinted down the street towards her house, ignoring anyone else that called her. Her house was way out in the outskirts, as apposed to Li's which was in the center. When she got to within ten meters of her house she slowed to a walk and calmed her heart rate before entering the house.

"Mum I'm home! Sorry I'm late, I got sidetracked…." She said as she entered the house. She trailed off when she saw the house was dark and silent. "Mum" She called a little uncertainly. "Uncle Kaemon? Aunt Kimiko? Anybody"

She felt a squelch underfoot and looked down. The was a trail of blood leading into the next room. She started to get a little anxious. She put her back against the wall and flattened her self against it as much as she could. She side stepped slowly and inched her head to where the open door was. Saya took a look around the door and screamed inwardly at what she saw. She had learnt not to open her mouth in situations like this, vomit tended to come out.

She sighed trying not to cry. No amount of training or missions could have prepared her for this. She looked again.

There were three people she didn't recognise in the room. The rest were her family, presumably there for her birthday. That was the first time in her life she regretted being late. She could hear her little cousin Kimi crying. She had to do something about it. Problem was that she couldn't totally control her jutsu yet, and at the moment she was totally afraid, but it was worth a shot. Ankoku no jutsu.

She walked into the room. Sangan Nothing happened. She tried again, nothing happened. She couldn't see anything. Someone tugged on her trouser leg

"Saya! Help, please. I don't wanna die. Please he-" The grip loosened and she heard something hit the floor with a bump.

"Leave them along. Please, I'm begging you." She heard her mother cry out.

Saya heard an unfamiliar voice, a deep male one. "Mangeko Sharingan."

She felt a kick in her side which sent her flying across the room and into the back wall. Her inexperienced Jutsu disappeared. The scene that greeted her, was one of death and destruction. Her entire family, including all her distant relatives were slumped dead on the floor in one way or another. The only people that weren't dead was her mother, who was barely conscious at this point and her uncle Kaemon who was standing in front of her. Next to two others. One looked like he was human shark hybrid and the other was a youth that was about 3 or 4 years older than Saya. He had red eyes and black hair. Both of the people that Saya didn't know were wearing black/blue coats with red clouds on them.

She looked at her uncle questioningly but disgusted at the same time, "What's going on?"

"Well, I don't know if there's any point in telling you considering you're going to die anyway. But I suppose there's no harm. You see, all I want is the power of the family to myself. Since your father died, I'm now the head of the family, but I still haven't got the potential to be the strongest. With everyone dead, I will be. I have agreed to join akatsuki in return for them helping me."

''what's your reason for all this? For all the killing?" She said to the black haired youth.


"To test my strength" He answered


"who are you?"


"Uchiha."

"Saya! I'm here!" Shouted a familiar voice. It was Kazuo, who came running into the room from the back entrance. It was just like him to make a big entrance. As he came in he bumped into the Uchiha boy. He took Kazuo by the scruff of the neck and without too much effort slit his throat with a Kunai.

Kazuo was dead before he had time to process what happened. His blood spilled everywhere as he sank to the claret covered floor. Saya gasped, but didn't have time to do much else, as the same kunai that killed Kazuo hit her in the chest. She looked down at the knife sticking out of her chest and collapsed to the floor. Her mother was lying in front of her. Maeko reached out her hand and grasped her daughter's.

"Saya," she whispered, "I couldn't help anyone else. But I can help you."

Maeko did a long sequence of hand seals, totalling over 20. She then laid her right hand on Saya "unpan sayou no jutsu." Transportation technique

Through her fading vision she saw her uncle stab her mother through the heart. They disappeared before her eyes, and were replaced by a white light. Is this what it's like to die? She thought.

She was contemplating this when she came back to earth with a bump. The surroundings looked familiar to her. A familiar face came into view.

"Saya!" Said Tsunade wide eyed. She bent down to her. "what happened."

Saya was about to answer but she passed out with the pain.


Oh, God. All my family are dead. She thought as she looked at Li. She remembered it all in a second, but it seemed like a life time she was reliving the moment.

Li saw the change in her eyes, and thought it was best if he left her.

"It wasn't me who killed him, if that's what Mei was thinking." Saya said to Li as he left the room.

Li shut the door behind him and walked down the corridor to Hinata's room. He opened the door slowly. Hinata faced the door and stared at him coldly. She had a bloody patch on the right side of her head where Mei had accidentally hit Hinata's head against the door while she was still unconscious.

"Is you're head okay?" He asked her

"Yes, fine." She said this coldly. A lot more so than she had ever done in her life. Hinata had decided she wasn't going to get anywhere by being nice to these people. "Where's Saya-san?"

"That's a little bit of information you don't need to know." Said Li shutting the door and locking it.

"Do you have to be so compassionate towards them?" Said Mei raising an eyebrow at her brother

"Courtesy costs nothing." He said setting off down the corridor.

Mei rolled her eyes, "Saya-"

"Didn't kill Kazuo." He said interrupting Mei

She stopped and stared at Li, "Then why did she disappear and never come back."

He continued to walk, leaving Mei behind him, "I don't know. But if your entire family was killed wouldn't you want to get away?"

"It was probably her that did it. She deserves to die. I hope that Konoha don't listen and leave them here, so I can kill her myself." She said with as much malice as she could conger up.

Li stopped and looked at his sister. He had thought along the same lines as Mei. But thinking back on it now, he wasn't sure how he could have suspected Saya. It was probably the death of his brother and Mei saying that it was her putting it into his head. The circumstances certainly seemed suspicious; he didn't know what to think anymore. "Mei, we don't know what happened."

Mei snorted, "So now you don't believe me...You've gone soft just because you've seen her again." She stalked off in the other direction.

"Mei, come back." He called half heartedly, but he knew it was no use, once she had made up her mind, nothing on earth could change it.

Li had forgotten all about Saya until Mei had pointed out there was a bounty on her. Not quite forgotten, she was at the back of his mind. He knew he still loved her deep down in his heart, and at some subconscious point in his mind he refused to believe that Saya could have killed his brother, even if it did look suspicious. He didn't want to divide his family, because they all believed Mei when she told them what she thought had happened, he went along with it too. He had even been starting to believe it, until he had seen her again.


Saya had started to feel ill. The sudden rush of memories and the horrifying images that came with it had triggered the nausea. After the massacre had happened she had trained with Tsunade-sensei and hadn't seen Li up until this point. Yet he betrayed her, and so did Mei. She had no idea how Mei could have suspected that she had killed Kazuo. He was like a little brother. Tears rolled down her face and onto her lap. She didn't want to remember, she wanted to go back to the ignorant bliss of the past few days, and be with her new team mates. Now she had the weight of everything on her shoulders. I have to get out of here! She thought

She dug her thumb nail into her right palm, drawing blood. It blood from the deep cut oozed down her hand and onto the floor while she did five hand seals. She pressed down on the floor hard with her toes and pushed the chair backwards onto two legs. It went past it's point of balance and fell backwards. Saya put her right hand onto the floor to stop the chair falling fully. A shock went up her arm but she held her self there. Kuchiyose no jutsu!

She felt the coarse fur underneath her hand as her chair was pushed back upright. Her chakra drained away from her slowly.

"Tsuchi?" She said

"I'm here." Said a growling male voice. A wolf walked round to Saya's eye line and sat in front of her. He was quite largely built, with silver coloured fur flecked with white. His eyes were a grey/blue that shone brightly.

"Can you get back to Konoha somehow, and let them know where me and Hinata-san are? Thanks Tsu…." Saya Trailed off as her Chakra had finally been drained. He head nodded forward onto her head.

Tsuchi nodded his head. He ran towards the door and head butted it. The hinges broke and it fell forwards. He galloped down the hall before the guard even knew what was going on.


"Naruto!" Sakura shouted, "Stop pacing back and forth! You're giving me a headache."

Sasuke sat quietly next to her reading a copy of the letter that Tsunade had received from the kidnappers.

"Our demands are thus:

1.Tsunade steps down as Hokage.

2.You allow hidden sound shinobi into your village without hindrance

If these demands are met, Saya and Hinata will be returned safely to you. If not they will both be killed slowly and painfully. The same thing goes if you try to rescue them. They will die along with the rescuer's.

You have two days to decide."

The council were now holding an emergency session. They had decided that Tsunade was not fit to make the decision of what to do on her own, as she was personally involved.

There were 10 people in all outside the Hokage's office; Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Kurenai, Hanabi, Kiba, Shino, Hinata's father, and the man that had helped out Sasuke and Saya the other night.

Kiba looked at his watch for the tenth time in five minutes, "They've been in there for two hours! When are they going to come out?"

As if answering Kiba's question, The door opened and the council members filed out. There were four of them; three males and one female. All were greying and over 60. Tsunade followed them out and shut the door behind her. The female council member whispered something in Tsunade's ear, who nodded. The council members all went down the stairs leaving the fifth on her own in front of everyone.

"Well," She started, surveying the people in front of her. All of whom were hanging on her every word. "The council have decided that we are not going to agree to any of the requests."

"So we're going to rescue them then?" Naruto butted in, "Because if we are then-"

"Naruto." Tsunade tried to cut in but he carried on

"I want to be on the rescue team."

"Naruto" Tsunade's voice got a little louder.

"Because-"

"Naruto!" She shouted, and finally he stopped, She carried on in a much softer tone of voice. "I'm sorry, but the council have decided that we are not going to rescue them."

"what…?" Said Sakura wide eyed

"They said that there's no reason to think that they are still alive. Even if they are, it wouldn't be worth risking the lives of a rescue squad to save two people, who aren't worth anything to the village."

There was silence around the room, as the realisation of what Tsunade said sank in.

"No fucking way!" Said Sasuke angrily, "How can the council say that? If it was their loved ones surely they would think different. Hokage-sama can't you do anything? Saya's practically your family."

"I tried all I could, Sasuke-kun. They were all unanimously against me. What they decide is in the best interests of the village. I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do." Sasuke opened his mouth about to say something, "We don't even know where they are. So you going to rescue them is out of the question. Sorry."

She left them sitting in silence.


Thats the end of the chapter, hopefull it wont be long before the next one...