A/N-Thanks to those who reviewed Chapter 25 (I'm sure more people will but these people have reviewed it thus far) Emily-The-Elemental, Kyiri Makrono, Duckichan87 and efay. READ AND REVIEW!

Disclaimer-I don't own

Chapter 26

"Where is the daughter of Lord Hokage?" Snarled Neji quietly, his lavender eyes narrowed, a dangerous spark in them. Michelle tensed and positioned a kunai in front of her pale face ready for battling. "She's sleeping in a locked room…you aren't going go go near her." Her mistrust of the ninja was obvious…being alone for so long had made her think that everyone was her enemy.

Neji let out a dry chuckle with this remark. "Tell me something then. Why would her captor…be trying to protect her?" He yelled, leaping forward, Byakkugan activating, loose strands of hair whirling around his face. Michelle was caught off guard but only for a moment and she sidestepped the Hyuuga's attempts to punch her in the stomach, causing his fist to land in her wall instead.

Neji spun his head, surprised. Not many people could dodge his attacks. Narrowing his eyes, he powered his hand up for the Jyuken. As he plunged his hand towards her chest Michelle's obsidian eyes narrowed and she spun out of the way. As she spun, she grabbed his wrist and wrenched it behind his back, slamming him into the wall he had just punched, face first.

"So…you're not that bad as a ninja." Said Neji, his talking somewhat stunted because of the pressure on his chest. "I've been training…5 years…it's all I've had to do. And I spar with foreign ninja all the time…and if I don't win, I die." She twisted his arm until he grunted with pain. "And I also don't take lightly to people to people coming into my home and just point blank attacking me without me having provoked them in any way." She leaned in closer so that she was close to Neji's ear. In a whisper, she continued "And I didn't capture her…she came through the mirror. And I'm not…." She spun him around so that he was facing the open room and gave him a sharp, hard kick in his back, sending him flying forward. "Handing her over to you!" she said, her voice rising with each syllable. He crashed against the far wall but was up again faster than lightning, poised to fight.

"How do I know that you aren't some enemy of Konoha? Someone who would use the daughter of my friend…and you're using a transformation jutsu to throw me off?" Asked Michelle. "The daughter of your friend? What do you mean?"

Michelle looked him in the eye. "Perhaps you have heard the stories. About the three Kunoichi who lived in this world…" He looked at her warily. "Yes…Lady Seyann and Lady Mika, wives of the Hokage and Kazekage respectively. What about them." "…Do the stories ever tell about what happened to the third girl?" She said, looking him straight in the eyes.

"Yes…Uchiha Michelle chose to stay here…" his eyes widened in sudden realization. "You…." Even as he said this, her Sharingan snapped to life. "Well there goes your theory about me being an enemy nin…you'd see right through my jutsu."

Michelle had to admit that he was right. But this didn't throw her off. Before she spoke, however, Neji continued…with a smirk on her face. "Some friend you turned out to be…holding her daughter hostage." Michelle almost growled in frustration. "You just don't get it do you?" Faster than Neji could blink, he was pinned to the wall by two kunai. Before he could get out of their hold, Michelle was in front of him, her red eyes boring into his own violet ones. She grabbed a fistful of his collar and glared at him.

"It's not hostage holding…call it three years of overdue babysitting. Because, you know, the stories are true. I've been alone for three years. Three damn years. And then I meet their daughter? Something tells me I've missed a big part of my friends lives."

She twisted his shirt further to the point that he was almost choking. "That girl is probably one of the reasons I haven't seen them. Three years on my own turned me into a cold shell of what I was." She reflected on her words. "In that case…I guess you could say that she's a kind of hostage…but all I want is to see my friends again." She yanked the kunai that were driven deep into the wall out and dragged him down the stairs to the basement.

She paused in front of the mirror to pick up a scroll from the small pile beside some training equipment. "When you go back…tell them this. Tell the Hokage that I will only give Sienna back to her mother."

With that being said, she threw him head first through the portal. She could see him recovering on the other side and before he could fully recover, she opened the scroll and put a seal on the portal so that no one could pass through until she removed it. Turning her back on the Hyuuga she walked back up the stairs, as though the fight hadn't happened…. except her living room was trashed.

The first thing she did was go to the spare room where Sienna was. Sweeping her hair back into a ponytail as she went, she opened the unlocked door only to see the young girl kneeling on the bed, comforter wrapped around her shoulders. Seeing this, Michelle abandoned her pursuit with her hair and put the scrunchie back on her wrist. "Sienna are you ok?" The young girl nodded. "I just got scared…I heard fighting…" Michelle sat down on the bed and reached out to stroke the young girl's hair comfortingly. "I won't let anyone hurt you kay?" The three-year-old nodded and snuggled into Michelle's body going back to sleep.

Neji stood in front of the worried Hokage and his Wife. The Lady Mika was there as well, more subdued than she usually was, her daughter sitting quietly on her knee. Kakashi had taken his hat off and was twisting it in his hands; such was his worry for his daughter. Seyann was slumped in his chair, exhausted from her anxiousness. Her blank eyes stared at the Jounin in front of her. "You…found her…you found our daughter…Sienna?" she said in a relieved voice. Neji nodded. "Where…is she?" "She was taken a hostage…of sorts. Firstly she found the mirror…the girl on the other side…Uchiha Michelle…she has your daughter."

Mika leapt up with a startled cry and Seyann's eyes widened to an impossible diameter. Kakashi looked down and away from the girls, ashamed at the way they had found out. Seyann looked at her husband, a mixture of fury and hurt in her eyes. "Three years ago the mirror that Mika and myself used to communicate with Michelle went missing…no explanation, no clues…no traces. You became Hokage a year and a half ago. THE MIRROR WAS IN HOKAGE TOWER THE WHOLE TIME AND YOU NEVER TOLD ME?" Seyann raged, her temper coming to a boil.

Neji flinched-Lady Seyann's explosions were legendary. "What…about your daughter milady?" He asked cautiously. She seemed to calm down almost instantly-like she had turned the temper off like a tap. "Oh…as long as she's with Michelle she's safe. If she knows she's my daughter, she won't let anything happen to her." Her face once again contorted with rage as she faced her husband again.

It took about an hour but eventually she heard voices in the basement. Going into the other room where the young girl was fast asleep, she gently shook her into wakefulness. "Sienna." She said in a soft voice. "I think your mommy and daddy are here to get you." The young girl rubbed her blurry eyes and said in a soft voice "M…mommy?" Michelle nodded, causing the girl to roll out of bed and make a run for the basement. Michelle followed at a slower pace, her black hair blowing slightly behind her.

"MOMMY!" The shriek was so lout it almost hurt Michelle's ears. "Oh baby I'm so glad to see you…"

She knew that voice. She'd heard it every single day for most of her life. She started to shake almost uncontrollably.

"Michelle-San! Come meet my mommy!" said Sienna from where she had ran back to the base of the stairs. Michelle took one trembling step down the stairs, followed by another one and another one…

She could barely stand straight. Then…she was at the bottom.

Her long black hair was tied up-she had done that after Sienna had fallen back asleep, to cool herself down from her fight with Neji. Therefore, her peripheral vision was perfect and she saw…

She saw two people she hadn't seen in a year and a half looking as they had when she had last seen them.

Seyann was still tall and thin and her hair was still pin straight and dirty blonde. Her eyes were an indeterminate color, indicating apprehension. Mika had cut her hair shorter than it had been, to just below her shoulders, but it was still black which contrasted her hazel eyes. A small girl huddled behind her knees…. her daughter…. was it Keiko?

The tears that were welling up in their respective eyes were evident as she made complete eye contact with her friends for the first time in three years.

Michelle slowly stepped forward and placed a hand on the mirror merely staring at her friends. Finally, after what seemed like eons, she raised two fingers in front of her face and, muttering a jutsu, unsealed the portal. As soon as she was done it took all of two seconds for her friends to charge through the mirror and engulf her in a bone-crushing hug. "We…we've missed you so much…" said Mika in a hoarse voice. "You have no idea."

Even though it was reflex for her to wrap her arms around her friends, she forced herself to stay rigid in their hold. "How can you expect me to just welcome you back with open arms after…you left me alone for three years?" She asked, trying to extract herself from their grasp, twisting this way and that-to no avail.

"It wasn't our fault 'Chelle." Hearing their old nickname for her almost made her break down and sob. "Tsunade…for whatever reason, decided to hide the mirror…we believe that she wanted us to start to forget you and draw closer to life in Konoha and Suna. I'm in the process of chewing out my husband for not telling me when he became Hokage. Kakashi claimed that Tsunade made him swear not to tell me before she died. He's going to be sleeping on the couch tonight." At this Michelle couldn't help it. She giggled slightly.

"You guys haven't changed a bit." She said softly. Finally, she succumbed to what she had wanted to do since she saw them. A tear leaked out of first one eye and then the other and she lifted her arms and wrapped them around her friends for the first time in three years. Tears started to fall rapidly and she buried her face in Mika's shoulder and began to sob. "I…I have you back…" She uttered between her sobs.

Seyann rubbed Michelle's back comfortingly. She and Mika could only imagine how lonely their friend must've been.

Once the crying let up and Michelle had been introduced to Keiki, the girls sat on the steps and began to talk. "Now, Kakashi wants to see Sienna so we can't stay that long…not near long enough to tell you everything that's happened…But I can tell you this." Said Seyann. She paused to take a slow breath. "Tsunade was the one who said you could never have another chance to make the choice. Kakashi has revoked that decision…and even if he hadn't I would've made him. You have another chance…"

Mika interrupted "What Seyann is trying to say is…Kakashi's offering you the chance to change your mind. You have the choice again…to stay with us."

The breath left her lungs. She never thought she'd be offered this choice again…

"I'll think it over and let you know my decision by tomorrow. Believe it or not, I'm still not sure… what I want to do." Seyann nodded and said "Ok…well we need to go back for now…believe me, I will not let my husband do what Tsunade did. I guarantee we will speak to each other again."

Sienna ran over to Michelle from her place by the mirror and wrapped her arms around the Uchiha's legs. "I'll see you soon…Michelle-san." Michelle disentangled herself from the little girl and knelt down. "Call me Aunt Michelle…you too Keiko." The little black and red haired girl nodded timidly.

Michelle gave her friends one last fierce hug before they returned to their home, leaving the black haired, pale skinned girl to her thoughts.

She hadn't made this decision easy five years ago because of her family. Then, when Tsunade offered it to her again she had turned it down because of memories. Those memories remained.

And it was because of these memories that…she still felt she couldn't leave.

A/N-There you go. Hope y'all enjoyed…There will be a one-shotin 'Pieces' about the reasons for Tsunade's insane move and Mika and Seyann's reaction to it. Enjoy!

Review!