Thankx for everyone for all the reviews! Here's the next chp:

"Alright guys, we're staying here for the night" Kakashi announced. They had walked all day and it was around dusk. They had made good time, even with the addition to their party, and everyone was tired.

"Sasuke and Naruto, you gather the firewood. Sakura help me make camp." He said, giving orders. The two boys went off into the forest, already trying to outdo the other and Naomie gave him a look.

"What am I to do?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow.

"You won't be doing anything for now. Or have you forgotten you're injured?" She frowned.

"I have not forgotten; I feel uncomfortable doing nothing, that's all" she said. She plopped down by the ring of circles that would hold the fire once they lit it and reached into her smaller ankle pouch. She took out another draw-string pouch from inside it. She opened it and started mumbling to herself.

"Lavender? No, wouldn't work well…I could use ginseng and eucalyptus, but I would need stimulant and I'm out of hibiscus…" Sakura came over, curious.

"What are you talking about?" Naomie looked up, snapping out of her trance.

"Oh…these are just plants and herbs I'm thinking of using…I'm out of hibiscus though, do you know if it grows around this area?" Sakura looked confused.

"Well, no not really…why?" Now it was Naomie's turn to look confused.

"For healing of course!"

"We could just heal it for you using a healing jutsu. I'm sure Kakashi-sensei knows some…" Naomie just shook her head.

"I believe that herbal medicine is better than using your chakra to heal. First, it wastes chakra and second, jutsus like that only heal a specific injury while one herbal medicine can heal a number of ailments. True, using jutsus is extremely fast but if you use herbs, sure it will take longer but you will get the same results, sometimes even better" Sakura only looked at her in awe.

"How do you know so much?" Naomie smiled.

"…a friend taught me" was all she said. Sakura gave her a look, then shrugged.

"Ok…" If she was going to say more they would never know because at that moment they heard an ear-piercing crack and a loud crash. Naomie's face paled. 'They've already come? It's too soon…I'm not ready to fight them again!' Kakashi noticed her reaction.

"I assume you know what this is about?" Naomie bit her lip.

"I hope not…Ona sniff the other boys out. They better not have hurt them…"

"Whose 'they'?" Naomie sighed.

"You will find out soon enough…"

"Stupid bastard stop moving!" Naruto cried out as once again their assailant disposed of his clones yet again.

"Stop doing that idiot! You're wasting chakra!" Sasuke shouted at him. Naruto clenched a fist.

"Well then what the hell am I supposed to do? You could jump in any time now!" Sasuke expression darkened. That was just it; he didn't know what to do. He had been trying to use his sharingan to detect a weakness but so far he hadn't found any and his bloodline was using too much chakra. Then he felt a familiar chakra presence behind him. A ghost of a smile appeared on his face. 'Now they show up…' The man in front of them frowned.

"Why the hell are you smiling? Your little friends can't help you now" and he threw shurikan at him. There was a blur of blue, and standing in front of him was Naomie, the shurikan on the ground and a kunai in her hand.

"Ice Release: Swallow Snow Storm jutsu!" she shouted, making four quick hand signs. Thousands of ice needles shaped like small swallows sped at him. He managed to dodge most of them but was unable to dodge about a dozen, which embedded themselves into his right arm. Instead of becoming angry, he laughed.

"Why, you actually hit me that time brat. I do believe you are getting better" She smirked.

"I guess so. I assume you are here for me?" He shrugged.

"Who else would I be after? Besides, I said you were getting better, not that you really improved…" She smirked again.

"Oh really? Then you may want to re-evaluate…" She shot off towards him, then jumped over his head, shouting "ICE PRISON JUTSU!" Ice crystals shot out of her hand and trapped him in an ice prison. She filled her fist with extra chakra and then let gravity take hold and she punched the prison, making it shatter into millions of ice shards. When the smoke cleared, she was crouching in a decent sized crater, eyes searching her surroundings frantically.

"Temporary Paralysis jutsu!" Naomie suddenly froze, unable to move. The attacker then appeared next to her and smirked.

"You've improved, I'll give you that…but not enough it seems. All that running away and hiding like a coward for noth-" he was cut off as Agrona seemingly appeared out of no where and tackled him, teeth bared. Kakashi then ran to her and picked her up, carrying her towards Naruto and Sasuke. The affects of the jutsu seemed to be wearing off by then and Naomie wiggled out of Kakashi's grasp and fell onto the floor gasping.

"Ona…come here girl…" she called out weakly. Agrona quickly obeyed and ran to her side. The man stood up, with about a dozen extra bite marks. His eyes were murderous.

"Just give me the brat and the mutt and I'll leave you alone. For now" Kakashi took a defensive position in front of his students and Naomie.

"I'm sorry to say that your offer isn't really valid. For some strange reason I don't trust anyone from the sound" Team 7 looked around their sensei to see that he had a sound headband around his leg. The man made a guttural sound in his throat.

"hn…guess I won't be taking you today brat, you got off lucky. But don't get used to it" He made a hand sign, then said:

"Body flicker jutsu" and vanished in a cloud of smoke. Kakashi looked over to Naomie, who had fainted sometime while the man was talking. He shook his head.

"You have a lot of explaining to do…"

-Hours later-

Naomie shot up, her face covered with cold sweat and her hands trembling. She looked around and saw she was at the campsite with the genins and that copy ninja. Kakashi's head perked up as she regained her breath.

"So you are finally awake?" She nodded, realizing it was only him. Silence hung in the air as she tried to think of something to say. Kakashi was the one who spoke first though.

"Do you want to tell me what that was all about?" she bit her lip and clutched at the blanket that had been laid over her.

"That man…you mean him right?"

"Well that's one topic I think we should go over"

"…his name is Kyojin. He's an assassin from the sound"

"I sort of gathered that. What I want to know is why he was after you."

"…"

"Not talking huh? Well I guess you would have to tell the ANBU when we get back to the village" she shook her head.

"It's not that…I just don't want to say it twice"

"…why are they after you?" She brought her knees to her chin.

"…they want something inside of me…something powerful"

"A demon?"

"…"

"I'll take that as a yes. Do you have a home?"

"…I did once…with my grandmother" The tears had started to fall as she recalled the small family she had lost.

"What happened to her?"

"she…s-she, s-she was k-killed by him" The gates that had held back the tears for so long broke and flooded a dry desert that hadn't seen rain in six years. Kakashi was silent as she continued.

"t-they were looking f-for me…I w-was living with h-her and she t-tried to protect m-me…they k-killed her…he killed her" She wiped away the tears with the palm of her hand and took deep calming breaths.

"I hate him" she spat out, her face filled with hate and anguish. "I will kill him if it's the last thing I do" Kakashi had a curious look in his eye.

"…an avenger huh? That's a hard path to follow…"

"But one I intend to walk" He saw the hard glint in her eye, the look of someone who had seen too much in her young years. It reminded him of so many people back home, including two of his own pupils.

"So it seems…"

So that's it! Sorry it took so long but I was really lazy over the vaca. He he he…remember to press the blue button!