A/N-Hey! Gomen Nasai…I didn't update yesterday cuz I spent the night at a friends and I was too lazy to type out the chapter before I left…thanks to ShadowPrincess-Shekailaia, Seyann, Dog of the Dead, duckichan87 and Yargy the Pirate Queen for reviewing the last chapter…please read the bottom A/N. Read and Review.

Disclaimer-I don't own Naruto or Inuyasha which is mentioned in this chapter.

Chapter 45

It was a couple days after the person who called himself Kenji had attacked the three girls. Said three girls were currently in the backyard of the house basking in the warm sun-Seyann and Michelle stretched out on lounge chairs taking in the sun and Mika dutifully tending the garden-not that she minded, gardening was a kind of passion for her.

Her nimble fingers were pressing the soil of a freshly potted plant when Michelle spoke up. "Mika…there's something that happened that I think you should know about." Mika looked up and brushed her black hair out of her face, leaving some traces of dirt on her face. "What is it 'Chelle?" She asked. Seyann lazily sat up and peered at her friend from under her raised sunglasses.

Their friend took a deep breath. "The dinner…guys, the dinner was amazing and I loved that I got to see my husband…" she looked down. "But…before that happened…Itachi…" Mika quickly cut her friend off. "Wait, 'Chelle. Before you say another word…"

She began forming rapid handseals. Michelle furrowed her brows as Seyann went "Oh is that what he was doing with the sand yesterday? He hasn't used that jutsu in…how long?"

"Sey what's going on?" Asked Michelle, confused as Mika's body began to glow with released chakra. "It was about 4 years ago." Replied Seyann. "This ANBU from the Sand village decided that he was in love with Mika and that the two of them were soulmates." "You mean like Kouga from Inuyasha?" said Michelle in a curious voice. "Yeah, something like that. Anyways Gaara found out and he was furious. This was just after they had gotten in to and over the whole 'we're too different' breakup that Mika had initiated because of Gaara's jealousy. Because of that, Gaara could be jealous but he couldn't do anything."

Seyann took a deep breath before continuing. "Until the ANBU got more persistent…he wouldn't take 'No thanks, I'm Sabaku no Gaara's girl' for an answer. Gaara walked in on the ANBU attempting to force himself on Mika. My cousin lost it and killed the ANBU and then invented this particular jutsu to keep an eye on Mika so nothing like that would ever happen again."

"The only problem." Said Mika dryly as the glow faded. "Was that it allowed him to keep too close of an eye on me. The basic concept of the jutsu is that the sand engrains itself into my very skin and act as sort of…sensors. At any given time he can check on what I'm saying, what I'm doing. It took me all of two days to invent a counter jutsu, one that inhibits the sand. I just couldn't deal with that invasion of my privacy." The wife of the Kazekage laughed. "Remember how he reacted when I said to you…when he wasn't around mind you…that 'Tory is hot'…and I was talking about someone from a television show from this world?"

Seyann laughed. "Yeah…'Chelle, we had to explain the concept of television to him."

"But when I invented the counter jutsu, he gradually stopped using it." Mika scowled. "Until now. But I digress…go ahead Michelle."

Michelle suddenly remembered what exactly she was going to tell her friends. She looked back down at the floor before continuing. "Before Neji came…Itachi…. he approached me." She heard her friend's gasps. "He said that if I conceded to help him…to be his right hand assassin…" she lowered her voice to a whisper. "He said he'd give Kenji back…as a baby. You'd get your child back…but you'd have to fight me…"

"Mika I'm sorry, but I turned him down."

Mika was frozen. She didn't know what to feel-anger at her friend for not doing all she could or relief that she wouldn't have to fight someone who remembered her. Finally she found her voice. "You had a chance to get my son back…at the expense of your own life however…and you didn't?" Michelle flinched at the choking sound in Mika's voice and nodded. "Good." Breathed Mika. "It's hard to fight against my son but…he doesn't remember me." Mika went over to the lounge and sat down beside her friend. "He fights because right now, he doesn't know better. I'd rather fight that than a friend who remembers me and fights me nonetheless."

"So you're not mad?" Mika burst out laughing. "'Chelle how could I be mad at you for making a decision like that?" Michelle sighed with relief and smiled. "I'm glad."

"How sentimental." Drawled a now familiar voice. Mika looked up, startled at first and then tensed. Her son who called himself Luka stood there, shoulder length shaggy still moving, indicating he had just gotten there. This time, however, he didn't waste time with small talk he merely pulled out a kunai and lunged towards the girls.

This time, however Mika didn't hesitate. Michelle and Seyann leapt to either side to avoid the weapon, while Mika leapt straight up. Quickly, she landed behind her son and kicked him in the back, sending him flying into the lounge chair. "I thought…" he said, standing up and wincing, holding his side all the while, "That you wouldn't be able to fight me." Mika sighed. "Kenji…" "LUKA!" "You are still my son, but I will not lie down and let you kill me, nice as can be. You and your sister, Keiko need me."

He glared at her. "I. Don't. Have. A. Sister!" he threw a relentless hail of shuriken and kunai at her. She dodged most of them, which resulted in the kunai and shuriken landing in her beloved garden. She couldn't, however, dodge all of them and wound up with a kunai in her shoulder.

She fell to the paved patio-hard. Kenji/Luka landed a kick in her ribs so hard that it sent her flying over the bushes and onto the grass. Here, the assassin pinned her with four kunai and himself-he sat on her stomach. She winced as she attempted to twist the kunai out of her shoulder but the shinobi pinning her stopped her. "No no no, I want to see you in pain."

She had no choice left…she had to reverse the counter-jutsu. She started the seals with one hand, in a place so that he wouldn't notice-behind his back.

Luka smirked at the woman beneath him, fear written in her eyes. He twisted one of the kunai out of her shoulders, causing her to yell in pain. "I'd rather not waste an extra kunai on you." Blood was coming out of her shoulder but not at such a great rate that it would cause concern. He raised the hand clenching the holster of the kunai high…ready to plunge down and end the life of the Kunoichi beneath him.

'At the hands of my own son…how ironic.' Thought Mika as she squeezed her hazel eyes shut and prepared for the killing blow. She finished the reversal, feeling chakra slowly cover her arm and spread, uninhibiting the sand-but it would take about a minute to be completely effective.

She waited for the blow…her friends were screaming…

But it never came.

She cautiously opened one eye and then the other and looked at Kenji/Luka. He appeared to almost be frozen; he was clearly trying to bring the kunai down but some invisible force was preventing it from happening. Anger was visible in his eyes.

"What the hell did you do to me?" he got out through his struggling. "I can't…kill you…" He tried for another thirty seconds or so before finally deciding that it wasn't worth the effort and leapt off her, gone in a flash of red hair.

A second later, Mika yelped in pain as the reversal competed itself which was only compounded by the pain in her shoulders.

The sand that had been embedded in her skin seeped out-there was enough there for form a clone of her husband. The sand fell away to reveal the man himself. More sand came and wrapped around Mika angrily.

The other two looked on in amazement. They never thought they'd see the day when protective Gaara would use the sand on his beloved wife.

That could only mean one thing.

Gaara was furious. To say the least.

A/N-Well. Tell me what you think, Read and Review.

The reason that I wanted people to read the Author's Note at the bottom is because this story is drawing to a close…only about 5 more chapters…and I'm starting to look ahead at my next story. This time I am going to do two at the same time. I know that one is going to be a plot that MyNameIsKelsie13 gave to me (glomps for giving me the idea) but on to top of that I've got 3 more plots that I could write…one is a Naruto fanfiction, one is a Howl's Moving Castle fanfiction and one is a Cardcaptor Sakura fanfiction.

You, my readers get to vote.

The Naruto Fanfiction

To Save A Life

Summary- Haruno Sakura is a quiet 18-year-old girl who knows everything there is to know about the Titanic, the crew of the Titanic, and the night the Titanic sank. She lives in our time. One night, in a dream, she is visited by Destiny and she learns that her soulmate lived almost 100 years ago…and died that fateful night, on the Titanic. Now, if she wants to ever find true love she has to abandon everything she's ever known and step into the past, onto a ship that only she knows is going to sink. (I'm going to have to shorten this summary)

Paring (vote on this too) – either Gaara/Sakura or Sakura/Sasuke.

The Howl's Moving Castle Fanfiction

Dreaming

Summary- I'm standing in a field of flowers, someone is holding my hand and calling me beautiful…but before I see his face, I wake up. My name is Sophie Hatter and I've had that dream every day for as long as I can remember.

Paring- Sophie/Howl

The Cardcaptor Sakura Fanfiction

The Assassin and the Politician's Daughter. (title is subject to change when I think of something better)

Summary- Kinomoto Sakura is the daughter of a well-respected politician- as such she is often the target of kidnapping and assassinations attempts. When her father attempts to pass a new piece of legislation, this is no different…but what happens when you fall in love with the one who is supposed…to kill you?

Paring- Sakura/Syaoran, Tomoyo/Eriol.

So, my lovely readers who are in the springtime of youth…(I cannot believe I just said that) VOTE!

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