A/N-Thanks to my reviewers of the last chapter Kyiri Makrono, Duckichan87, Kaori Uchiha192, efay, Elemental Dragon2.0 and a special glomp to Yargy the Pirate Queen who was my 80th reviewer. READ AND REVIEW! I'm not sure about this chapter...

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Chapter 24

The ninja squatted on the skyscraper rooftop in the moonlight, a smirk on his face. So many easy prey. His tongue slipped out of his mouth unconsciously and he licked his lips. Suddenly he straightened up and looked behind him. "Who is it?" he said sharply. A shadow moved and stepped forward.

The last thing that the rouge ninja saw was a flashing katana blade and a pair of red eyes.

She stepped into the house, kicking off her sneakers as she went. Pulling her sword out of her belt, she unsheathed it and meticulously polished the blade until it sparkled. After putting it back it in place, hanging above her fireplace, she went downstairs to the basement to train. She did all this emotionlessly-it was just another day at work…as Konoha's hired assassin.

Her gloved fist slammed into the bag that hung from the ceiling, causing it to swing erratically on its thick chain. Just after she had gotten home from the hospital, Tsunade had asked her which room would be the most convenient for her to turn into a training room. She had picked a room at random and had watched as ANBU ninja had walked through the gilt mirror and had gone to work on her basement. By the time her ankle had healed and she was able to walk around, they were finished…and her basement was a trainer's haven.

Boxes full of more kunai and shuriken than she could've ever used lined one wall. Three punching bags hung from the ceiling in various locations as well as weight sets and a supply of chakra restorers in various forms to be used on missions. An entire mirror had been lined with walls, the exception being a spot where the glass from Mika's mirror would go. A cupboard hung on the far wall that she kept her shuriken and kunai holder in as well as the fingerless gloves she used to train and on missions.

Once the punching bag had stopped swinging, she turned around and rammed it with a roundhouse kick. While she was doing this she had happened to catch a glimpse of her reflection in an actual mirror.

When she compared it to the picture of herself, Seyann and Mika that had been taken just after they had found out they were Kunoichi; Uchiha Michelle realized just how much she had changed. Her hair was definitely longer –about mid-back- and she wore it up in a high ponytail. It was no longer simply brown-black but had darkened into a shade that rivaled Mika's with the passage of time. Her body had become lean and muscular from training and fighting rouge ninja and her Sharingan had become so honed to the point she could almost predict where a ninja was going to strike and her skin was a pale shade from always working at night.

The first time she had seen Mika and Michelle after she had gotten home was about 24 hours after the fact. The reunion they had gone through almost made it seem as if they had been separated for a week instead of a day. They had chit-chatted and Michelle had told Mika that she was grateful to her parents for coming over to help her around the house while she recovered.

She did another punching combo on the bag before flipping backward and slamming her fist into one nearest the mirror. Her friends had told her all that had been going on in Konoha about how Mika was rooming with Seyann in a dorm and a funny story about what had happened when Mika had taken Seyann to Suna to meet her cousins. Seyann had been getting acquainted with Temari and Kankuro and, while this was going on, Gaara was talking with some Suna citizens, leaving Mika to do what she did best…get into mischief. Somehow, without him noticing, she had stolen the cork off of his gourd and had ran away and hid.

Gaara hadn't noticed anything amiss until the pile of sand leaking out over took him in height.

Letting out a growl, he had gone over and blamed Kankuro until Temari, who had seen the whole thing, told him exactly what had happened. Stalking off to where he sensed his girlfriend was hiding, he vanished only to reappear a few moments later, replacing the cork…with his hair tousled and Mika following behind him, a smirk on her face.

The sand siblings and the Haruno hadn't asked-they weren't exactly sure they wanted to know.

Anger she thought she had managed to control ages ago began to bubble in her gut as she recalled the mirror conversations she had had with her friends. She punched the bag twice in succession before stopping to once again stare at the picture as she remembered…

Their conversations had happened once daily…but as her friends became more involved in the world they now lived in once daily gradually became once weekly… then once every two weeks and then once every three weeks until she only saw her friends once a month.

She didn't mind. She knew after a while they would become…less of the people she knew. The once a month system worked for 2 years. Their 19th and 20th birthdays respectively were celebrated via mirror…her orders from the Hokage came via mirror, she never actually saw the woman. But as Tsunade had assured her, she was well paid and she didn't require a day job to keep up with bills.

And then…two years after her friends had gone into the mirror world, the announcement she had been waiting for had finally come. Sey and Mika had both shown up to the mirror, bearing light tinges of pink, Seyann's eyes showing pink as well. They each held up their left hand and showed Michelle their respective engagement rings.

They were engaged…to Gaara and Kakashi respectively.

Seyann's ring was white diamond cut in a circle with a smaller pink topaz on either side set into gold. Michelle raised an eyebrow at Kakashi's color choice-she'd have thought by now that he would've figured out his now fiancée's color preference. Seyann had just rolled her own eyes and had said, "Yeah well…I'm going to have something done about that…eventually."

Mika's ring was a white gold bad with an amethyst set, amethyst being her favorite gem. "The way he proposed was so cute." She had squealed to Michelle. "I was training in Konoha, working a punching bag when the sand beside me rose up to form a hand holding a box. I opened the box and when I saw the ring, he appeared behind me and asked me." Michelle had nodded absently. Not her idea of cute…but whatever worked for her friend was fine by her.

Mika and Seyann had happily told their friend also that Tsunade was going to lift the Jutsu so that their friend could come through and go to their wedding…which would take place the next day. Seyann put it the most delicately when she said "The boys don't want to wait anymore."

Michelle, at the fact she was going to the wedding, got excited and had gone out and gotten a lovely dress to wear as a bridesmaid…She was to be both Seyann and Mika's Maid of Honor. She had gotten up particularly early on the day of the wedding because Mika was going to pick her up so they could get dressed together…

But they had never shown up…

And that had been three long, lonely years ago.

Michelle attacked the bag again, this time with Kunai and Shuriken, very close to tearing it apart. She had been technically alone for five years-since they left and since her parents were killed. But she had been without human interaction except for those she killed for the three years that they hadn't communicated with her and it had taken a heavy toll on her formerly so cheery disposition…she was now more like her cousin that she had been before…perhaps even as Gaara had been for years after Yashamaru betrayed him…

Cold almost to the point of being completely emotionless.

Oh she wasn't a lost cause…yet. But unless something happened soon…she would be.

And the fact that she regularly killed as a job…that only caused her to lose herself even more.

The only thing that she was totally knowledgeable about from that world was that the title Hokage had changed hands…and that the one who now held it was probably a man…

And she merely knew that from analyzing the handwriting.

Officially tired out, she slumped into a folding chair she had down here for just that purpose. Resting her head in her hands, she asked herself, as she had every day for the past three years, why she even had that photo still up there…

And then she would remember that at one time, they were her friends…

She was, however, caught off guard when a brilliant flash from the mirror lit up the room. She was up in an instant, kunai out and pointed at whoever dared to come through… and saw, once the light had faded…a small child, probably no more than three.

The young girl was long and straight as a pin, and silver. Her eyes were round and innocent looking and her skin was tanned, indicating she was out in the sun a lot-she had a sort of tomboyish air about her. Something curious, though, was the fact that she had birthmarks on her face-something similar to whiskers, like Naruto had. Also, when she saw the kunai pointed at her…

Her eyes turned yellow from fright.

Michelle knew precisely whose child this was.

She dropped the kunai and, kneeling in front of the girl, said in a soft voice "It's ok…I'm not going to hurt you. What's…what's your name?"

"S-Sienna…" said the young girl in a soft voice.

"WHAT?" shouted the Hokage. "You've lost my daughter?" He stood up, his eyes burning with rage at the Jounin who had been assigned to protect her. "Forgive us Hokage-Sama…you know how your daughter is…she's…" The jounin said, trying to invent excuses. "Yeah…Sienna's a handful I know…" He ran a hand through his wild silver hair. "Just…Sey's gonna kill me."

A/N-Soo…has everyone followed the time slip? About how this chapter is 5 years after the last one? Hope so…if not say so in your review and I will try to clarify for you. Oh and I have posted a one-shot in "Pieces of an Altered Reality." Check it out!

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