As the confusion was settling in, a boy steps out beside the girl just as the portal snaps shut with another loud crack and vanishes. The boy had black hair much like her own that flows down just before his icy blue eyes beneath the hood of his own black jacket. His expression matched the girl's as his eyes were half-closed, though his lips parted a bit lazily as he looks at her. His jacket much like his counterpart's was unzipped though not nearly as far giving view to his own red shirt. Though instead of her cargo pants he was wearing a pair of loose-fitting torn black jeans and a pair of black sneakers. His own pair of red earbuds peeking out around his face from beneath his jacket. As if he had zipped his jacket up over his wires. "Krista, who is she?" He asks just as boredly as he looks. It was then in a flash Sasuke and Itachi comes to Kira's side. Sasuke's hand already curled around the hilt of his sword. "I dunno." She answers him matching his tone. Kira found herself unable to stop herself from tilting her head curiously at the two in front of her.

"Are we supposed to fight?" He asks his shoulders slouching even further with his words. "Kira, what are they saying?" Itachi's voice reaches me causing me to glance in his direction. "That's too much work. Damen was supposed to be here." She all but yawns as I narrow my eyes on her. "Hey, you." He speaks as his eyes land on me again. "You understand us right." He more states than asks. As if I would answer him anyway. "They are asking who we are. The boy questioned if they were supposed to fight and the girl told him that would be too much work." I inform Itachi just as I hear the language of my family speak again. "Where's Damen?" The girl questions. "Can you take us to him." The boy speaks up and I find myself shaking my head. "My god how old are these two?" I mutter only causing Sasuke and Itachi to look at me.

"You two." I finally speak to them drawing their bored expressions back to me away from Itachi and Sasuke. "Who are you?" I ask and watch as they practically sigh at the same time. "She doesn't know." The boy nearly complains though his tone never changes. "No." The girl answers him. "Are you Aphrodite?" The girl asks only to be followed by the boy. "Or Kira." The feeling I am getting is nothing but sheer boredom. There's no malice or murderous intent. As they also didn't care enough to realize Itachi had said my name. In any language, it would sound the same so they had deliberately ignored him. "Are you friend or foe?" I ask them as I continue studying their reactions. "Foe." and with the boy's words, I move my energy through my arm and into my hand. Allowing it to stretch and compressing it into a sharp point. Their bored expressions finally move down to my hand as they see my energy blade. "Kira." The boy mutters before they turn their backs to us and start walking away. "Wait!" I found myself hollering and moving forward to get around them. Something fuzzy suddenly smacks me in the face. The shock though brief was long enough for the boy to grab onto my arm with my energy blade. His other hand having claws digging into my opposite shoulder. For a split second his gaze was no longer bored. It felt like he was peering right into my very soul.

The girl grunts the very moment Sasuke's grass blade slides over the boy's throat. Drawing a small amount of blood from the cut. Unflinching from the weapon now threatening to take his life, the boy just stares into my eyes. "How did you... open a portal to this dimension?" I ask him calmly even as my eyes haze over from the pain. "We have the key." His voice rings in my ear moments before his hold suddenly vanishes and Sasuke's sword was against nothing but air. Once more there was no sign of movement of any kind showing which way they had gone within my energy blanket. It was as if they had actually disappeared. "What was that about?" Sasuke asks as he slides his sword into its sheath. "Apparently, Damen was supposed to meet them here." I answer quietly still stunned by the ordeal that had just taken place. "Their heading?" Itachi asks and I just shake my head. Why am I so unnerved? They said they were my enemy but yet there was nothing about them that screamed dangerous. They were even going to leave without wanting to fight. The look in that boy's eyes... That's what bothers me.

"And people say I have an icy glare... That boy.. chills soul deep." I try to exhale a steadying breath. It was then an image of the boy's eyes as he stared at me crosses my mind and I find my legs disappear from under me. Dropping me to the forest floor. Showing his gaze had lingering effects. Reaching a shaking hand up I curl my fingers into the halter top over my chest. My energy feels as if his gaze had affected it. As if by that look he had stilled the hum in my veins. Stamped out my inner flames. it is only now the realization that my energy blade had been disengaged crosses my thoughts as a hand on my shoulder brings my gaze up to find Itachi had taken Sasuke's place and was now kneeling next to me. Looking away from him I try to focus on my breathing as I close my eyes. I hear rustling next to me opposite of Itachi as Sasuke crouches down. Silence rang between us.

"Whoever those guys were, we couldn't stop them." Sasuke mutters causing goosebumps to break out over my skin. He's right. They made no move to attack but they had more than shown the difference in power. And all I could do... was stand there. Dammit! With my thoughts, my hand finally leaves my shirt as I shove my fist into the earth in front of me. Burying my hand halfway up my forearm. "What language were they speaking?" Sasuke asks after I pull my hand from the ground and shift my position so I was more on my rear. "Kin." I answer them honestly. "Not just any dialect either. They were speaking the ancient tongue of my family that we are taught the closer to maturity we get."

"More cousins?" He asks more than states and all I could do is shake my head. I don't know. I thought to myself. "I could blame it on my parents for keeping me in solitude. But I have a suspicion, they've barely reached maturity. They would have been born only a few years before I returned home."

"What gives you that suspicion?" Itachi finally speaks and I find myself laying down right there on the grass between them. Only now realizing the energies in the area has completely dissipated leaving us in the shadows of night. "Just the way they were talking. A big giveaway is, they asked if I know Damen and if I would take them to him. It didn't faze them that they didn't know who I am or the fact that Damen was supposed to meet them here. Their questions were... innocent, like children." Though they didn't almost scream like I had when I first ended up in the Deathnote world. Probably due to them purposefully coming to this dimension. "The key huh.." I speak to myself as I raise my right arm and cover my eyes with it.

The sun was rising by the time I felt anything enter my blanket. The silence had reigned over us for hours as I was sure we were all thinking about those two kids. "Someone's coming from the direction of the Leaf." I speak quietly as I look at my hands, having sat up at some point in the night. "And I can still barely feel my energy." I speak more to myself causing Sasuke to grunt in surprise and Itachi to look in my direction. "Why didn't you say anything?" Sasuke questions and I shrug. "They left without a trace and I am still able to use my energy blanket to keep watch. The problem is.." I close my eyes trying to focus on my energy to bring my blue to the surface. "I can't use the physical aspect." I mutter as I drop my hand when I couldn't even do that much. "Jutsu is probably out of the question too." I inform them as I stand, turning to face the ones closing in on us. "The scope of our mission was to locate the disturbance and find out what was causing it. We succeeded." Itachi mutters and I shake my head. I know we did what we were supposed to do. But can we really say it was a success? They got away.

The others no sooner came into view when a pair of arms were suddenly around me, crushing me against her squishy form. Her scent encases me reminding me again of the night on the roof of my home though it was slightly different somehow. As if she had changed soaps. Her scent mixed with another subtly. "Kira." Her voice flowed empty of all emotion as I realize the ones who had followed her were wearing the signature Anbu attire. "You're energy.." She breathes as she pulls away from me, just with slight movements of her mask I could tell what she was doing even though I could feel her eyes with my energy. She was looking me over. "I don't know what he did." I speak again only now wishing I had spoken louder. These words caused her breath to catch and I just shake my head. "Not Damen, the disturbance was a portal... to our world."

I could feel her frown just before her hand lights up in her pink energy. She goes to cover my eyes and I found myself trying to step back out of her reach before she could touch me. "Let me help." She speaks this time gently. Frowning at the sudden sadness in her voice I close my eyes and let her place her hand over them. Moments pass before I can feel my energy a little more than I had. The sigh coming from her was almost inaudible. "The rest will take time so don't push yourself." Feeling her hand leave my face I open my eyes and look towards her Anbu mask. "Were you able to figure anything out about him?"

"Not much. Most are assumptions if you would like to hear my thoughts?" I ask her as she reaches up and pulls her mask revealing her bright blue eyes. It's only now I find my own widening as I take a step back. The boy's pale blue hues flashing back into my mind. This makes her openly frown. "What did he look like?" She asks as my heart races painfully in my chest, my lungs not wishing to take in the oxygen I was breathing. Raising my hand I grab onto my halter over my pounding heart. "The feeling will pass." She speaks gently before Itachi steps forward to speak. "The boy had black hair and blue eyes, a black jacket, and strange black pants." Itachi answers her question, her blue eyes move from me to him with a frown. "The girl however had dark hair that almost seemed green and brown eyes." He described the girl. "The boy... called her... Krista." I manage as I try to control my breathing. "What?" With that one single word, Aphrodite had the eyes of everyone in the vicinity including her teammates behind her.

"Who is she, Aphro?" I ask her as my breathing finally evens out. Dropping my hand to my side I ignore my thundering heart as I watch her look at me then divert her gaze away from me. "Aphrodite?" I say her full name as my tone loses all emotion it had just been holding causing her to flinch. She still hesitates and by the twitch of her leg, it looked almost like she thought about running away before visibly resigning herself to the situation. As if she knew I was going to be mad about something. -Could be an act.- I heard my own voice in my head as I watch her. "Damphire. This can wait until we meet with the Hokage." A familiar deep voice speaks up from behind her drawing my gaze away from my cousin. Only now seeing the red hair of the very one who had escorted me back to the Third Hokage's office, even the one who had claimed my torture was his fault. "I see you're still with the same team as before." I mutter then look from Sasuke to Itachi. "You will tell me who she is, cousin." I speak lowly causing her frown to deepen as I walk past her. "Itachi, Sasuke." I utter out their names just before leaping up into the trees.

This action however made my world spin. A strong hand catches mine forcing me to stop on the branch I had jumped onto. Before I could even look back, to see which one. I was pulled back towards him, and his arms slip around me. "I told you she's getting creepy." His smirk filled his voice and I very nearly smile. "Get on, Ice Queen." He speaks again just before he turns around giving me a direct route to his back. "Thanks, Emo boy." I comment as I leap on, wrapping my arms over his shoulders and slipping my legs around his torso. His hands brush over my legs a moment before I feel him grip onto them. Feeling the Anbu jump into the trees Sasuke turns and begins making our way back to the village with a none too happy Itachi moving next to us.

"What's with you and her? You two used to be close." Sasuke questions once the silence that had fallen over the six of us finally gets to him. Leaning forward I close my eyes as I rest my cheek against his shoulder. I found myself taking in his scent, allowing it to relax my tense nerves. I could feel Itachi's gaze move to me causing me to open my eyes and meet his gaze. "Betrayal." That is all I uttered feeling Sasuke's muscles stiffen beneath me from my one word and I close my eyes again. If Sasuke ever found out... his temper would take over and once again he would be filled with hate. I don't want to be the cause of more pain for him. Even though I think this I also know, if I choose Sasuke he will eventually find out anyway. No matter how much I don't want him to I still have physical evidence of it that will bring rise to these types of questions again.

"Never thought I'd hang on you like the girls in the academy used to, Emo boy." I mutter against his back causing him to chuckle and his tense muscles to finally relax. "I don't mind you hanging on me." He admits and I found myself smiling against his shirt. "Of course, you don't. I'm not annoying." I retort back only to feel his hands grip my legs slightly tighter in a brief squeeze. "Far from it." He utters quietly enough that if my ear wasn't against his back I probably wouldn't have heard him. "I love you." He speaks in the same tone as if he knew I could hear him. His words had my eyes widening and looking up towards Itachi who was watching the trees in front of him as if he hadn't noticed Sasuke had said anything at all. With those words, I close my eyes again against his back and smile. -I love you too.- A thought I kept to myself. If I would answer openly it left no room to add Itachi into my answer. To top it off there were three pairs of extra ears that would hear me. Would I really choose Sasuke over the others? Could I?