A/N-Thanks to those who reviewed chapter 17 -Kyiri Makrono and Duckichan87. U guys rock! I know, today I updated kinda quickly but...i will not be updating tomorrow...today was kinda compensation for that. Unless popular demand asks that I update tomorrow...WHAT DOES POPULAR DEMAND SAY? Review.

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Chapter 18

Kakashi moved like lighting, his Jounin senses once again on high alert. Scooping up the necklaces that he had given to Seyann, he shoved them, and the card into her hands. Once he had done this, he took her into a tight hug. "Forgive me…" behind her back, he formed several hand seals…"To Mika's…" he said softly, pulling back and releasing her. He could see the word 'No…' was clearly on her mouth but a poof of smoke took her away from him before she could say it. "…Forgive me Seyann…" he said quietly to the empty room. "I had to make sure you were safe…"

That being said he whipped out a Kunai and left the room to begin searching for the cause behind the explosion.

Mika was lounging on her bed, math textbook open in front of her while she attempted some homework assigned before Game's Week; Gaara was at the end of the bed meditating. He was thrown out of it though when Mika yelled out in surprise when Seyann appeared in the middle of her bedroom, out of a poof of silver smoke, clutching two necklaces and a card in her hands. Gaara's sand attempted to react but Mika's voice saying "Seyann! What's wrong?" Her friend was frozen in a position of reaching out to grab something, all the while mouthing a word.

Pulling her hand back into her chest, she said, "He's such an idiot…"

"Gaara, go get Sakura…" Said Mika in an uncertain, anxious voice. Her boyfriend got up and complied. Soon, the pink-haired medic nin was in the room and she was making her cousin sit down on Mika's bed. "Seyann what's wrong?" Seyann just mutely shook her head and drew the card and necklaces closer. "She's in shock. Something traumatic happened." Sakura placed a hand on each of her cousin's shoulders and closed her eyes. A light green chakra flowed out of her hands and into her cousin. "It's a calming Jutsu. She was starting to go into a bit of shock…this should stop it."

As the chakra flowed into Seyann's body, her breathing evened out and she unclenched her fists, allowing the necklaces to fall so that they were just dangling off of her fingers. "Now Seyann…what happened?" Seyann looked up, her eyes a yellowish-fear. "Kakashi had come to my house to apologize to me for what he had done. I had forgiven him and…we had kissed…" she blushed slightly here before continuing "We were kissing…. and then there was an explosion. A very violent explosion. He handed me the jewelry and…hugged me like he didn't want to let me go…"

"And then he did hand seals behind my back and he sent me here…" Then she seemed to come to her senses and a splash of brown was added to her yellow eyes. "I have to go back…I need to help him, he can't stay there and fight by himself…and my mom…" her voice was getting panicky. The necklaces slid out of her hands and she sprang to her feet. "I have to get back to him…" Mika, however reached out a hand to stop her, taking her firmly by the wrist.

"You aren't going anywhere Sey. He sent you here to be away from the danger, so you'd be safe. Do you know how much chakra he probably used sending you here? And you will flaunt that by going right back there?" Queried Sakura of her cousin-she alone knew how much chakra a transport took.

Back at Seyann's house, Kakashi had proceeded down to the kitchen. He had yet to see any enemy nin; however he had found Seyann's mother-she was lying unconscious on the kitchen floor. Checking for anything that could indicate a trap, he raced over to Mrs. Lenzi and transported her to Mika's bedroom. The strain that doing two transport Jutsu had put on his chakra had caused him to lean against the counter, panting. It was at this moment, when he was so exhausted and still recovering that a kunai flew past and thunked into the cupboard….

And he hadn't even sensed it.

He whirled around and faced his opponent. The nin he faced had a forehead protector wrapped around his thigh-with a slash through it. Akatsuki. The ninja had blonde hair spiked like his as well as a shirt that covered his face to his nose. He twirled another kunai between his fingers all the while laughing at Kakashi. "Why do you think I attacked you here?" said the enemy in an amused voice. Kakashi only shrugged as he twisted the kunai out of the cupboard and tensed for attack.

"Mom!" Seyann leapt off of the bed and wrapped her arms around her mother who had just woken up. "Where…Am I?" asked her mother in a dace. "At Mika's house." Seyann sat down beside her mom and glared at the closed doors, which were sealed with chakra. On the other side, she knew, sat Sasuke and Gaara to make sure she didn't try to run back to Kakashi…

Again…

She had already tried-the urge to get back to him too strong. It was then it hit her…

They didn't seal the window.

"Because Kakashi…" sneered the ninja, saying Kakashi's name with a deal of sarcasm. "I've been waiting for you to be alone. You constantly protecting the people we're trying to get at…well the Akatsuki see that as a nuisance. So we decided to off you. And we decided to attack you here because we know that you would drain your chakra to get her and her mother out of here. I mean come on…" The Akatsuki nin laughed. "It's fairly obvious you'll kill before allowing her in harms way. And it's obvious why. She has no chakra control, she can't do any Jutsu's…she's pathetic."

Kakashi could only process one thought at this time-"You've been watching her?" he asked in a dark voice. Faster than anyone could blink the kunai had left Kakashi's hands and was sailing towards the enemy's throat. The Akatsuki leapt out of the way, kunai slicing his arm as he went. "Not bad." He commented before throwing three shuriken at Kakashi as a distraction before he preformed a quick jutsu. Before Kakashi could blink he was surrounded by three copies of the enemy nin. All three had a kunai out ready to stab at him. To avert this, he put chakra into his feet and leapt into the air, over the heads of the clones-not fast enough.

The depletion of his Chakra supply was obviously getting to him-a kunai caught his right leg, causing him to fall on the clone making it disappear. The pain, however, in his leg didn't go away.

Seyann had, as quietly as she could, stripped all of the sheets off of Mika's bed and had made a sheet rope as seen in old movies. After kissing her mother (who was silently crying) good-bye and assuring her that leaving was necessary, she opened the window softly and, after securing the rope to the bedpost, had dropped soundlessly to the ground.

Upon hitting the ground, she put chakra into her feet as best she could, and took off, intent on getting to her house before anyone knew she was gone.

Sakura sat on the couch in the living room, her forehead wrinkled as she puzzled over something.

'Why didn't one of us just write down what that stupid demon said before she was sealed? Then I wouldn't have to be remembering it now.' Inner Sakura complained in a loud voice. 'Shut up I'm trying to remember…'

She gently placed her pen tip on the paper and began to write

I will release myself…when the 4 seals are gone…

'Ok…what's next?'

Mika walked upstairs, a tray bearing food for Seyann and her mother in her hands. She nodded to Sasuke and Gaara who sat sentry on either side of the door. Sand snaked up and opened the door for her, causing her to smile gratefully at her boyfriend.

However what she saw-or didn't see-in the room made her gasp in shock and drop the tray.

The two guys were up and flanking her instantly. The sight that met them was one of Mrs. Lenzi leaning against the bed, sobbing silent sobs. Mika's bed was stripped and the end of one of the sheets tied to the frame leading out the window.

Mika ran over to the window and looked out, hoping to still see Seyann…but was only greeted by the bedsheets flapping in the wind…

Seyann was gone…

Feet pounded the cement as she ran back to her house. Within her mind-although out of her range of consiousness, a sly, feminine voice said

"When the four seals are gone…"

A/N-Yes, there will be a one-shot, called Prophecy, that accompanies this chapter. I reccomend reading this chapter, then reading the one-shot before proceeding onto the next chapter.

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