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A Man: I think you need to do something…

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There! On to the Chapter!

Chapter 3

It had been many missions and many months since that path-forging day, it seemed that the boredom would never end. Harii himself, though he would never admit it, was bored to death. Every day there would be a D-ranked mission, and every day it would be done in several hours if not minutes. However there was one good thing that had benefited from the mundane assignments: their teamwork had excelled to where even their sensei had to concentrate to fight against them. Yet Team 4 would still complain on different levels. Kinji would whine obviously, while Rikou would sigh a lot; Harii on the other hand was simply quiet, only an occasional roll of his eyes would betray his idleness. Finally one day Kinji had enough, and when the Hokage gave them their new assignment, he vocally announced,

"Alright! That's it! I'm sick of all these D-ranked missions! I want to do something harder, something more challenging, something where I can show my skills!" Harii and Rikou snorted, while Kokuei merely shook his head softly. Though Kinji had become more open-minded he was still a bit of a show-off.

The Hokage did not seemed perturbed at the outrage, he tipped his hat and calmly replied; "Fine, personally I am surprised you didn't break down earlier, it was what most genin teams had done at least a week ago," At this statement, Kinji's jaw dropped and retreated back to his fellow companions. "Okay, since you all have been so patient I'll assign a low-level C-ranked mission. Your mission is to deliver this package safely to the Land of the Mist. There one of their nin will come and relieve you of your package." He handed over a tightly wrapped brown package to Kokuei, nodded, and dismissed them.

"Once out of the assignment room, Kokuei turned sharply to his genin and spoke, "Well you heard the Hokage, we're going to go to the Mist country. Pack up and meet up at the gates by tomorrow morning. Dismissed!"

By the next day all four were found at the gates ready to depart from Konoha. Kokuei addressed them all before they left, "Okay, since this is a simple delivery C-mission all we really need to do is keep an eye out for anyone trying to take this package from us. Be careful, I have seen simple C-missions like these ones turn into B-ranked ones. Just take care okay? Alright let's go." The team departed and immediately traversed through the trees.

Though on a mission the atmosphere around them was cheerful and amiable, Kinji and Rikou started to talk to each other, occasionally getting into an argument, in which Harii would swiftly resolve. It seemed that the team had influenced her; back in the academy she was the quiet know-it-all, now she was more talkative but mostly to her team. Harii shook his head, Kokuei could get her to ramble, he could get her to smile, and Kinji could get her mad. What a dysfunctional team we have. The sound of another verbal fight alerted him and Harii increased his speed and appeared between them.

"I think that's enough chat between the two of you." The three genin smiled and continued jumping through the trees. Kinji seemed to change since making amends between them; while he was more tolerant he still had his arrogance. Though it was mostly show, sometimes it actually appeared and it took the entire team's effort to beat him down again. Then again, Harii had changed also. He was more laid back and easy going, and more willing to broadcast his emotions. He had actually started to consider his team as his family. Harii shook his head again, but this time Rikou noticed.

"Harii, have you been sleeping well?" Ever the observant one she had noticed his faint bags under his eyes. "It's okay, it's just nightmares again." Simple and short, Kinji and Rikou knew something was wrong, but they decided not to ponder, Harii had these visions every week. They had first found out when they had to camp out one night on a mission. Rikou was on watch, when she heard whimpering, she turned and saw Harii tossing about. The tossing was violent enough that it had waked Kinji, who was on the opposite side of the fire. Rikou hurried to Harii's side and shook him awake. Kinji and Rikou inquired to why it had happened, but Harii brushed them off. They never asked about it since.

Harii knew he should have told them, but he couldn't bring himself to explain why he was dreaming of green light. Frankly, that green light had terrified him as much as the kyuubi did. He drew himself from his thoughts and focused on the mission at hand. Kinji recognized the change in Harii's stature and attempted to talk/flirt with Rikou once more.

It was nightfall when they had reached their first stop: a small but busy village with multiple hotels lining the center. They had checked into one and found out that only one room was left. Rikou groaned and Kinji smirked as they opened the door. Apparently it was a doubles bedroom: two sizes too small. Kokuei spoke up, "No need to worry I will rest by the door, you guys can sleep in there." Rikou rushed in mumbling something about 'lousy hotels' and 'perverted teammates.' Harii smiled and shook his head as he headed to the opposite side of the room and setting up his bed. Kinji continued to smile toothily as he swaggered to Harii and set up his bed, unnecessarily close to Rikou's.

After they all had unpacked, they headed to the hot springs, which fortunately for Rikou were separated. While the others had every article of clothing off, only adorning a towel, Harii kept his gloves on. They had soaked for a while, relaxing and moaning in pleasure as the springs worked out the kinks in their muscles during the run. Kinji suddenly sprouted a smile and turned to Harii.

"So, Harii…"

"Sorry Kinji, I'm not interested, besides you're not my type."

Kinji spluttered and retorted loudly, "I wasn't going to ask you out!"

Snickers were heard all around, and Kinji blushed a bright red. And just to add salt to his wounds Harii added loudly, "I'm sorry; I didn't quite hear that, did you say you were gay?" Kinji once again blushed turning his head to an outstanding shade of tomato red.

A few awkward minutes passed as the guys once again returned to soak in the spring. Harii took off his gloves discretely and began to massage them. The water rippled as Kokuei got up and walked to the room, saying something about leaving the two boys to their bonding. Both genin flushed, as these words reached their ears. Once the redness died down, Kinji turned to Harii once more.

"Alright, second try, Harii want to go and peek at the girls?"

"Eh, sure, you first." Kinji never saw Harii's smirk as he swam to the wooden separator. Kinji carefully lifted himself above the fence and looked downwards, only to fall back as a stone was thrown at him. Harii laughed hard, swam over to Kinji, and pushed up his glasses, "Is it my turn now?" And was kindly replied with a "Screw you." Harii laughed once more and said, "Again, I'm not your type. I'm going to head in, have fun getting baka-fied."

Kinji stood up and glared at Harii's retreating back and tried once more, lifting himself up. This time no stones were thrown, nor were complaints heard. Yet Kinji's face became paler than usual and fell again to the spring. The only thing running through his head at that moment was: "Naaaa….kkkked…. oolll…. dddd…. ggggrrr…. annnn…. iiessss…."

The sun rose early the next morning, greeting the new day with brilliance as Team 4 stepped outside the village and resumed their trek towards the Mist country. Unfortunately the rest of Team 4 remembered last night.

"So Kinji how was the peeping?" chided Harii, pushing up his glasses.

Kinji blushed bright red and once more his teammates burst into laughter. "It's not funny! I think I'm traumatized for life! I've never saw so many sagging-" His sentence was once again broken by the laughter of Rikou.

"Well now you know not to peep on me mister!" scorned Rikou. But before Kinji could reply, Kokuei suddenly stopped and spoke, "Alright, from now on we will need to be more serious, there have been reports of missing-nin and bandits around this area. Be prepared to be attacked at any moment. Let's go now."

They continued onwards, traversing farther into the woods, towards the port. When the sun reached its highest point, the team stopped for lunch. As Kokuei ate his lunch, he scrutinized Harii's hands for the first time. He had heard of the unfortunate accident that had befallen him, yet he still couldn't believe the boy's luck, he was supposed to be dead. No one could have survived something like that. He saw the hands start to spasm slightly as Harii walked over to the river and massaged them, occasionally soaking them in the water. A breeze lifted Harii's fringe, and for a second there Kokuei saw the scar above Harii's right eye. Definitely the child of lightning, thought Kokuei. Harii pushed his glasses upwards, walked back to his lunch and finished it.

While the rest were cleaning up their remains, Harii walked over to the stream once again and washed his face and hands. He breathed in and splashed his face once more. Through the watery curtain that ran down his face, Harii thought he saw the river move unusually. As Harii put back on his glasses, he saw another movement and reached for his kunai. The water rose and stabbed at Harii as he backflipped away.

At the sight of Harii being attacked, the rest of the team became alert, scanning for any hints of an attack. Harii retreated back to the group and together they formed a defensive position. A raucous laughter rang throughout the clearing.

"Lookie here bro… looks like we found the Konoha carriers. I think we should take it from them, don't you think?"

"Yeah bro, let's go and get them!"

Two forms jumped from the lake and appeared before Team 4. Both wore identical outfits: bandages covering all of the body, white armor on their arms and legs, the ones on the arms hiding their hands, a mouth mask, and the protector clearly marking them as missing-nin. Kokuei clearly knew who they were as he spoke,

"Eh? The Mizu chain twins, what a freaky surprise… how are lives on the run?"

The one on the right spoke up, "Kokuei… Shadow Assassin… I'm going to like killing you… I haven't gotten any good blood in a while…" The two charged at Kokuei their arms flailing behind them. Kokuei pushed his team away and flicked his kunai at them. He rapidly formed seals and spit out, Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu! A gigantic fireball consumed the twin attackers, and continued to burn.

When the flames died, the twins were found unhurt twirling a length of chain. "Heh, your petty fire attacks won't hurt us, these chains will protect us against them." Kokuei's eyes narrowed at this statement and flipped backwards as the twins attacked. They whipped their chains at Kokuei, and smirked as they struck the ground. A second passed and twin explosions came, blasting Kokuei to a tree trunk. Blood seeped from his mouth, as his body impacted against the trunk, groaning at the force of the blast.

One of the twins chuckled, "Our chains… have a special addition… they are loaded with explosives… and the slightest tremor… will set them off. Your attempts to dodge… will fail, excruciatingly…"

Kokuei wiped off the blood dripping down his chin, and smiled at them. He turned to his students, "Sorry about the restraints, I didn't need any distractions. Again sorry for the gruesome sight coming up." He smiled at them before returning his gaze at the twins. He formed a unique seal and spoke, Hitokage houshutsu! Kokuei's body seemed to glow for a second before a shadow flew from his body towards the twins.

The twins withdrew their chains and twirled them, weakly attempting to defend themselves against the shadow; said shadow flew at the chains and punched one before fleeing back into the body of Kokuei. The chain that was punched by Kokuei swung sideways, wrapping itself on its brother and dropped to the ground with a loud clank! The twins looked at each other, then at the chains and swore. A second later the twin's words were reinforced as the chains exploded, blasting them into the river, which swept them away.

Kokuei stood up, walked over to his students and released his restraints. He turned and simply said, "Come on, we still got a mission to complete." The genin looked at each other, and then their sensei's back, and followed him.

The three genin caught up with their sensei in the woods and approached him.

"What the hell was that?" Kinji was the obvious one who voiced the thoughts of all three genin. Kokuei didn't speak at first, but answered, "An original jutsu, what else?"

Harii rolled his eyes and pushed up his glasses, "Let me rephrase Kinji's question, what the hell happened?"

Kokuei sighed and slowed down so he was in line with the genin. "That was my original jutsu that I had used during the Iwa-Konoha War against the Rock nin…" another sigh was heard, "Back in the Iwa-Konoha War I was, along with a few of other young jounin, a crucial helping hand to ending the war. Like my other peers, I received a nickname for my efforts and techniques. I was given the name of Shadow Assassin for my Hitokage Houshutsu that I had used to kill many leaders opposing Konoha. The missing-nin we just fought were, in my time, chuunin level operatives that had slaughtered many using their chains, unfortunately they abandoned their country for their own blood thirst."

Rikou shuddered then, and commented, "Ruthless men; where are the hunter-nins?"

Kokuei shook his head, "The reason why the chain brothers aren't dead already are because they are the specialists of ambush. They were probably here before us and were waiting for one to get close to the river."

Harii shuddered visibly, and the team went onwards eyes twitching around for any signs of the twins.

Another two days and the team found themselves in the city where the pick up would be. Kokuei had insisted they not sleep for there maybe a sneak attack by missing-nin as while the Mist country was at peace, there were rumors of a coup. Four minutes had ticked passed midnight and a ninja was heard arriving at the delivery point.

A watery voice was heard in the night silence, "Do you have the package…"

Kokuei stepped out from the shadows, "Yes, here is the package. Do you have the payment?"

The ninja reached into his pockets and threw an envelope to Kokuei. "Here is your payment… Now the package…"

Kokuei lobbed the package over and said to the carrier, "Oh and you might want to send some hunter-nins the chain twins were found in Konoha."

The Mist ninja inspected the package, nodded to him, and left leaving his words in the air, "Word taken…"

Kinji cheered as they walked back home: they had completed their first C-ranked mission! Rikou smiled at Kinji as he paraded around the team. Harii and Kokuei simply shook their heads, what a loud mouth he still is, thought Harii.

Harii pushed up his glasses again, and yawned. It had been a while since he had slept well, last night had been riddled with nightmares, and the previous ones were sparse with the whole team on alert.

Rikou noticed his yawn, and stepped closer to Harii. "Did you have another nightmare tonight?"

Harii simply nodded and trudged on next to her. Rikou eyes lit up and gently inquired about his nightmares. Harii mumbled something that Rikou didn't quite hear. She repeated her question and was granted with the terrifying reason for his sleepless nights. She cupped her mouth and tears sprang from her eyes. Harii's eyes widen just then and silently grabbed her arm.

"Don't tell anyone else, Rikou. Please, just don't tell anyone. It's my past, I don't need any pity for It." whispered Harii.

Rikou nodded, and the both of them caught up with the team. Unfortunately, Kinji saw Rikou's tears and turned on Harii.

"What did you do to Rikou?"

Harii yawned once more, "I didn't do anything to Rikou, Kinji."

"Right then why is she crying?"

"I don't know, Kinji."

"Yeah right, apologize to her right now!"

Harii sighed and turned to Rikou, "I'm sorry Rikou."

Apparently Kinji didn't think that was enough, "You call that an apology? Why if I were her I would be beating you up by now!"

Harii yawned once more, "Kinji, please, I'm not in the mood for this shit."

Kinji reddened and faced Harii, "That's it! I'm going to show you not to mess with Rikou or me!"

Kokuei paused to look at the commotion and immediately scanned the surrounding area. Meanwhile Rikou stomped and tried to break the fight, but Kinji shoved her away. Harii caught her, muttered an apology and pushed her away from the fight. Kinji fell into the standard Jyuuken taijutsu stance with his Byakugan activated, while Harii jumped backwards and held his arms crossed at the wrists, his right hand fisted and his left open on top. He breathed out ten no yuugou.

Kinji charged, swiping left and right; Harii dodged everyone except for the last which was a palm thrust to his chest. Harii grabbed the wrist with his left hand and punched the captured palm with his right. Kinji howled in pain as his hand started to spasm. Harii calmly stepped backwards and returned to his initial stance, he breathed out slowly. Kinji's hand stopped twitching and Kinji charged once again, this time jabbing at various points on Harii's body. Harii moved in, swiping some jabs away, while punching the wrists of others. Kinji jumped backwards and flicked his hands many times.

Rikou was shocked; she never saw such taijutsu techniques that could counter the Jyuuken. It seemed that ever since Harii's defeat when he was facing the Jyuuken, he was striving to find a way to counter it. It seemed to be a mixture of Goken, an imitation of Jyuuken, and speed. It was ingenious, though, in the simplicity of the techniques: dodge the ones you can, block the others with open hands, and attack with fists in pressure and chakra points. However Rikou noticed that no chakra was used at all in the imitations. Weird, she thought.

Kinji charged once more and Harii dodged them, all the while trying to talk some sense into him. "Damn it Kinji, this isn't you! What's wrong damn it! You aren't like this! Snap out of it!"

Kinji fell into the Hakke stance and prepared himself; Harii jumped backwards and fell into the initial stance once more. "Damn! Kinji if you don't snap out of it, I'll have to take you down!" Harii made half-fists with both hands and positioned one extended and another tucked.

Kinji rushed at Harii attempting the first stage of Hakke. However Harii disappeared and reappeared behind him. Kinji turned, and Harii thrust a half-fist into his chest, incanting kurai tenshi-

"Stop! I canceled the genjutsu!" yelled Kokuei.

Harii released his stance and drew a kunai, all the while observing Kinji for any signs of hostility. Kinji collapsed and fell unconscious, landing on the dirt with a faint thump. Raucous laughter filled the clearing, as the chain twins made their appearance.

"So you found out… about our genjutsu… that we used to manipulate the brat… no wonder you are a jounin… too bad… you've led yourself into a trap…" The one on the left held the tiger seal, then suddenly where Kokuei was standing sealed paper appeared spewing green gas. Kokuei coughed and swore as he jumped out of the cloud. He landed heavily and coughed once more before cursing again.

"Crap… Paralyzing gas…crap… you guys will have to run for it…"

Rikou ran over to Kokuei as Harii pulled Kinji over to the jounin. Kokuei's eyes widened as he saw them disobey his orders.

"What are you guys doing! You guys… aren't strong enough… to beat them!"

Harii turned to face the jounin replied, "Sorry, but we just can't leave you here to die, sensei. It'll be better if we stall until you recover enough so that you can finish them." Harii paused and drew a crescent shaped shuriken. "Rikou, I'm sorry you had to see that. But now… Rikou, do your thing, I'll protect you."

Rikou nodded and flicked out her hands unsheathing two long daggers. With an exhale Rikou rushed at the twins, Harii closely following behind. The twins guffawed at their advance at whipped their chains at them. Rikou flicked her hands again flinging the daggers at the twins; she twisted and threw kunai at the chains. The twins dodged and withdrew the chains, crying out in pain as the kunai embedded in chains sliced their arms. Cursing they charged whipped out their chains, running their fingers over them. Rikou flicked seals at them, only to find the chains maneuvered out of the way. Rikou shook her hands to let gauntlets fall into her hands. She opened her palm and made to grab the chains, when she saw the chains sprout spikes. Cringing she braced for the impalement. She heard a distinctive crackle and saw Harii in front of her, crouched, arms open.

Raiton: Denkou no tan no jutsu, exhaled Harii, "Go Rikou! I've got you covered." Harii stood up, his hands slightly glowing from his jutsu. His pointer finger was bent and lightning sprouted from his wrist.

Rikou snapped out of her shock and continued closing the gap towards the twins. She returned her gauntlets back to their hidden places and formed the seals needed. She incanted, Taka no hikou no jutsu! She disappeared and reappeared randomly inching closer with each disappearance. Every time she appeared she threw a volley of shuriken at them before disappearing. Yet every time one of the twins would block her attack, while the other would concentrate on Harii.

Meanwhile, Harii canceled his jutsu and slipped out four crescent shaped shuriken. He smirked, formed the tiger seal, and threw the shuriken at the second twin. As soon as the twin batted away the shuriken, Harii spoke, San ichi tsukigata shuuki no jutsu! The crescent, instead of falling to the ground, flew back to him. He caught it skillfully and continued his cycle. Harii peeked at Rikou and saw her reappear for the last time, forming new seals. Harii canceled his jutsu, fingered his hooked chain, and crouched in front of Rikou, facing the chain chuunin.

Harii appeared under her crouched once more; she stepped on him and pushed off. Completing the last seal she incanted, Kakusa buki arashi no jutsu! The sky darkened as thousands upon thousands of weapons appeared in the sky. She dropped her arm to the twins and the onslaught began. As if a cyclone landed, the various weapons swirled to the twins, drilling them in one giant funnel. She landed and jumped back as she saw the twins unharmed.

"Ha! Too bad your jutsu couldn't defeat our twin twirling chain defense!"

Rikou kindly replied, "I may not have, but Harii has."

The twins looked down to find Harii crouched down, his fingers fiddling with a small chain. He looked up and smirked, "You've shown me your chain, how about I show you mine?"

Harii arched his chain around restricting both nin, one of the hooks digging into their flesh. Harii took his one end of the chain and held the dragon seal, Kusari no nagare no jutsu! Sparks erupted from his fingers and surged down the chain's length towards the chuunin. As the current reached the end, it surged once more causing stray sparks to fly. Harii smirked and withdrew the chain, ripping out the hooked end. He was however shocked to find the missing-nin smiling.

"Brother… Has it been that long… since we have shed our own blood…"

"Yes… It riles up me… It makes me… It makes me want theirs…"

"Agreed brother… Let's show them… the true reason… we are strong…"

They stretched and the one on the right punched Harii, sending him flying. They cackled and turned on to Rikou. She gulped visibly and incanted, Hayabusa no hikou no jutsu and Aaku tsubasa no jutsu. Multiple copies of her appeared along with an illusion of birds, cooperating to attack them. The twins glanced at each other and dispersed ripping the false clones apart with their chains. The illusion of birds flickered and was ignored. They regrouped again with their hands on Rikou's shoulders.

The one on the left snickered, bent down, and whispered in her ear, "I want… you to scream… I want… you to beg… for mercy… I want… to taste your blood!" He raised his chain and brought it down on Rikou, tearing her into arm, bursting into a bloody mess. She stifled a scream, her bodily functions non-responsive due to their blood thirst.

The left one brought it up again, when the right stopped him. He motioned to the struggling form of Harii as he rose to his knees, his eyes burning eerily.

The left snorted, "Watch me… as I kill… this wench… in front of you…"

Harii's mind flew back to the Incident at those words, mouth silently moving in a mute mantra. He remembered the blood, the face of helplessness, the pain of the experiment. His mind refocused on the present as Rikou failed to smother a whimper of pain. His eyes burned, and his brain seemed to spasm. One moment the chain was striking downwards, the next the chain shattered as he wrapped his fingers around them. Rikou fell unconscious as the pain overtook her, Morpheus shielding her eyes from the unleashing.

The twins backed up and the one on the left held the dog seal. Seishin kusari no jutsu! His body morphed into a wicked chain: a jagged arrowhead end, spinning shears for a body, and the unmistakable secretion of poison from the head. Together they made a horrifyingly deadly image. The chuunin swung at him, the chain maneuvering by itself, coiling and twisting in one general direction: Harii.

Harii checked Rikou's injuries with a glance and once more the brain spasm occurred. Unbeknownst to himself his eyes flickered, before they had ceased and glowed emerald. Instinct took over rationality as his hands flew into an unknown series of seals. His instinct screamed Emerarudo Kaihou: Denkou no Nage Yari no jutsu, as his mind whispered Emerarudo Kaihou: Denkou no Nage Yari, as his mouth spoke Emerarudo Kaihou: Denkou no Nage Yari. A scream of lightning formed as his hands became outstretched. Harii looked at his hands to see two lengths of pure lightning gripped. Glancing back to the twins, he combined them and drew back his arm and catapulted the javelin.

The lightning flew straight through the living chain and the wielder, turning the chain back to his human form. The twins flew back as the javelin's momentum forced them backwards. The javelin started to pulsate as it impaled the twins. The quivering evolved into a roar as the javelin discharged into the bodies. Writhing was the only answer to such a punishment.

Kokuei had observed all of this as he remained paralyzed; he even observed the collapse of Harii as he fell unconscious to the overload of chakra used. To say that he was shocked was an understatement, he had heard of Kekkei Genkai with the ability to enhance jutsus but this was different. It just didn't enhance the jutsu, it created an original attack. And this was after he overcame the shock of seeing the color of the lightning: emerald. He had thought they were all wiped out by the lack of heirs and amount of attacks attempted on them. To think that Harii was one was mind blowing. His hand twitched just then, and soon he was free of the gas. He ran over to Harii and Rikou and checked their condition. They had done well to stall, heck, they did well enough to beat them. The teamwork shown by the two of them was astonishing; most likely even more if Kinji was able to collaborate with them. Certainly their teamwork was chuunin level if not approaching jounin. Taking out a health pack he patched up Rikou to the best of his abilities and carried the two of them over to Kinji. As he reached down to pick up Kinji, he felt intruders. Turning he saw a team of hunter-nin come and dispose of the body. The team leader stepped away from the body and spoke to Kokuei.

"Thank you for taking care of these missing-nin, we hope they were not much trouble."

"Not much trouble at all, my students did all of the work. Now I must be going now, they need medical attention."

"Thank you once again, and may your journey be safe and swift."

Harii woke up with a start, the green flash of light from his dream, blurring his vision. He heard a scuffle of feet and saw Kinji and Rikou beside his bed. Harii smiled,

"Hey."

Rikou hugged him and started to ramble, "Oh! Thank you so much Harii! How are you feeling? You were out for a whole week! They said you were chakra-depleted, and that you almost died!"

Harii blushed and muttered some incoherent words. Kinji smiled weakly and spoke up, "Look Harii, I'm sorry for attacking you like that; I wasn't myself at that moment."

Harii looked up and smiled, "No problem, those chain guys were stupid to use you. I mean seriously you're dumb but not that dumb!" Kinji protested, but ended laughing.

Rikou pulled back, and the three of them smiled. They had survived their first C-mission! They sat down and talked for while, life stabilizing for them as they recovered (or rather Harii recovered) from their adventure. The door opened in the middle of a discussion involving new plans of attacks and new techniques they could create, and Kokuei stepped in. He cleared his throat, "I'm sorry to interrupt this congratulatory event but the Hokage wants to see you Harii as soon as possible," He looked at Harii sternly, "Disobey your commander again, and you might pay with the lives of your teammates. But in that situation I'll excuse it." Kokuei winked.

Harii nodded and moved to get up, but was pushed back down by Rikou and Kinji. He glared at them and Rikou shrugged. "What? The Hokage didn't say now, now did he?"

Harii simply shook his head and relented. Teammates.

It was a full day before his teammates had let him out of the hospital and even then he had to slip past. Rikou had kept confronting Harii about his nightmares, until Harii had enough and exploded at her, which had resulted in many tears and many apologies. Soon it was time for this escape. Discarding evasiveness after he lost sight of them, Harii had rushed out of the hospital as quick as he can for two reasons:

1.In case Rikou (the main problem) changed her mind

2.He despised hospitals with a passion.

Sure hospitals were helpful and lifesavers, but did they have to be so… cold? It could've been thirty degrees outside but he would feel like it was ten in his room. And those staring nurses and doctors, really couldn't they be less discreet? He knew he was different, but he wasn't a freak. He shook his head and focused on his task at hand: meeting with the Hokage.

He climbed up the stairs to the Hokage's office, nodding at the busy secretary by the doors. He breathed in and opened the door. The Hokage seemed to be busy signing forms, his liver spotted face scrunched in frustration. Harii closed the door, and the Hokage looked at him and smiled.

"Ah! Finally, I thought I would have to drag you up here by myself," he grinned, "Unfortunately it had to be on your birthday. Well, now that you're here, sit down; I need to tell you something." The Sandaime motioned for the chair near the desk, which was straining under the sheer amount of paper placed upon it.

The Sandaime sighed and put down his pen. He got up and walked over to another chair near the desk. Dropping into it, he stared into Harii's eyes. "I'm sorry if this creeps you out, but these eyes I am looking at are one of the great Kekkei Genkai's. You Harii are special in that you have the emerarudo no me, the emerald eyes. This eye holds the key to your highest capabilities. Have you heard of the Suigyoku clan?" Harii shook his head, "Yes well that's because few know of them nowadays. They had died out around the time I became Hokage for the first time. In their prime they were master ninjas, able to perform tasks difficult for even the experienced ANBU teams many years their senior. The eye gave them specific powers according to the inheritor. You see it made them elemental specialists: the eye super powered an elemental affinity and gave it an emerald aspect. I believe the last of the Suigyoku was had a fire affinity, so in his case whenever he used his eye and fire jutsus the resulting jutsu was more powerful and spew emerald flames. But now to the real reason: the Yondaime gave me this to give you, when 'something crazily powerful' occurs to you." The Sandaime pulled out a letter from his sleeves and gave it to Harii, "And don't worry, only Kokuei knows about your bloodline limit and he won't disclose it to anyone. I believe this is the end of our meeting for today, Harii. Good day, I really must get back to these request forms." Harii got up thanked the Hokage and silently excused himself.

He didn't stop walking until he reached apartment. He leaned against the wall and opened the letter. It read:

Dear Harii,

I hope you are fine when you get this. I am writing this as I am preparing to go and beat that nasty kyuubi. Anyways let's get to the point now won't we? If you're seeing this letter then you are obviously aware of your power. The emeralhis d eye. A most devastating bloodline skill that is almost extinct. Well don't worry about it, as long as your still that Harii I knew then I know you won't abuse it. And on the scenario that you don't… well let's just say I'll come back as a ghost and haunt you. Digressing again… crap well this is my last piece of help for you: go visit that decrepit house near Training Grounds 4. Before I go, I must ask you to look over Naruto from time to time; he is the hero who saved the village. Look at the time! Bye Harii, I hope you have a happy life.

Yondaime

Tears formed and fell down Harii's cheeks. He clutched the letter tightly to his chest and went in his apartment. A rustling sound could be heard as Harii gingerly placed the letter away. He headed for Training Grounds 4, tears streaming behind him as he ran.

By the time he got there the sun was low in the sky, and the ruins cast a spooky array of shadows. Harii entered and walked into the center courtyard. A flood of memories surged to his mind. Harii walked to the shrine and saw the altar. He fell to his knees and wept, memories locked, emerged from the depths of his mind.

A/N: Heh, told you I'd be quick . Two chapters in one day sweet! This is all thanks to my Beta, go Morier! Well, the thing with this chapter is that I'm not really satisfied with it. -.-
Made up my mind though . Alright, it's time to go back to my finals and Chapter 4!

Translations:
Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu - Fire Release: Grand Fireball Technique
Hitokage houshutsu - Soul Release (It's really Man's Shadow Release but eh)
Ten no Yuugou - Celestial Fusion
Denkou no tan - Edge of Lightning
Taka no hikou - Flight of the Hawk
San ichi tsukigata shuuki no jutsu - Crescent Cycle
Kakusa buki arashi no jutsu - Hidden Weapon Storm
Kusari no nagare no jutsu - Current of the Chains
Hayabusa no hikou no jutsu - Flight of the Falcon
Aaku tsubasa no jutsu - Arch Wings
Seishin kusari no jutsu - Spirit Chain
Emerarudo Kaihou: Denkou no Nage Yari no jutsu - Emerald Release: Javelins of Lightning

Phew that's a lot of translations. Heh, until next time.

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