Missing Leaf-nin

Robin watched the stars above her. She had been laying there for hours, not truly caring what happened. She had let her mind go, the pain of being all alone too much for her mind. Every time she tried to think, she would remember her. Her mother. The first person to abandon her. Definitely not the last. She sighed heavily. She couldn't take it any more. Being abandoned . . . . it hurt too much.

"Why . . . why does everyone grow beyond my grasp." She closed her eyes and balled her hand into a fist. "Why am I left behind?"

"Perhaps it is time to leave everyone else behind." Robin sat up and spun around, backing away from Uchiha Itachi. The Akatsuki robe swayed in the breeze as Robin stared down the man. She moved for her naginata only to realize she had dropped it. Cursing her clumsiness she barely managed do react to Itachi when he hurled an object at her. Robin jumped up in the air and pulled out two blades from her boots. With ease she threw them towards, Itachi, causing the older man to jump away as she landed on her feet with a light thud. Itachi pointed towards the object he threw, causing her to look and see her naginata. "I was granted the honor of extending an invitation to you." Robin's eyes narrowed as she held a small dagger from her coat. Luckily she had hid daggers all over her body. Blades were one of her specialties. All the pain and sorrow she had been feeling left her as she donned the mask of the Emotionless Executioner.

"I do not have the chakra required to summon a demon." His eyes did not waver as they stared into her own.

"We know." Her glare pierced into his eyes. "Robin, someone with your talents shouldn't be wasted on Konoha." Robin threw her blade towards Itachi's head and charged forward, grabbing her naginata as she passed it. Itachi dodged the blade and blocked Robin's naginata with a kunai. With ease he pushed her back and swept her feet out from under her and charged forward. Robin flipped backwards and landed on her feet, pointing her naginata at Itachi's throat, stopping him in his tracks. "Finish it." Robin stared at him, emotion void.

"Answer my questions."

"Take this opportunity and move up in the world." Itachi's voice came from behind her, causing her to look back and see him holding a kunai to her throat. "You are good, Robin. Very good. But you have one flaw, you aren't fast enough." Robin jumped away before Itachi could do anything and she twirled her naginata before pointing it towards Itachi once more.

"It's true that I don't have speed like Tenshi, but I do have something better." Strange markings appeared onto her skin. After a moment they slowly burned themselves off. She slammed one of her hands onto the ground. The ground shook as hundreds of different weapons emerged from the ground, each one connected to the ground by a chain. The sea of weapons rose up into the air and came towards Itachi. "Forbidden jutsu from the Uzumaki scrolls." Itachi disappeared, causing Robin to narrow her eyes and glance towards a tree. Weapons dashed towards the tree, making Itachi jump from the tree and dodge the weapons coming at him from all angles. After a minute of dodging the weapons Itachi began to use his kunai to block the weapons and knock them back. An eye had appeared on Robin's forehead, the black ink it was made from stood out against her pale skin. Itachi dodged a sword only to be stabbed by a scythe. He looked up, surprised. Robin stood, a smirk on her face. Her green eyes were frosted over and the eye made from ink glowed.

"That jutsu . . ."

"Allows me to react five times faster than normal." Itachi felt his body being bound, his hands covered and useless to use any jutsu. The eye faded and Robin's eyes returned to normal. "Now, answer my questions! What is the Akatsuki planning!"

"You'll have to find that out by yourself." The Itachi bound disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "You're faster with that jutsu, but it only lasts for a short time." Robin spun around to face Itachi, her naginata pointed at his throat. He may have found the weakness of the jutsu but that didn't stop her. She had to be better. Everyone else was moving beyond her but she would prove that she was still a force to be reckoned with.

Gaara stared at Tsunade, not believing what she was saying.

"Tsunade-san, I do not believe this is the wisest choice." The 5th Hokage gave out a tired sigh.

"Gaara, Uzumaki Robin has been missing for a week. Yoko told me that Robin's soul has not departed with her body so we only have a few ideas on what happened to her."

"Akatsuki is a threat. Perhaps they took her." Tsunade shook her head.

"Unlikely. Even they know she does not have the chakra capacity required to summon a demon." Gaara pounded his fist onto her desk.

"But she can summon other things, just as deadly! She can even summon a person! They won't have to look for Naruto or myself if she just summons us." Tsunade narrowed her eyes in anger.

"True. But Robin can't be summon people over a large distance. A hundred meters tops. I doubt that Akatsuki doesn't know that."

"But-" Tsunade cut off any argument Gaara had.

"Gaara. Robin is a responsibility of the Leaf. Though you may have a relationship, that cannot interfere with your duties of Kazekage. Robin is Uzumaki. No person in their right mind would try to take her. She's not dead so she must be declared a missing-nin."

Yoko sighed and turned to Tenshi.

"What news on Robin?" Tenshi looked away, slightly ashamed. "Well?"

"Yoko . . . Robin-kun has been declared a missing-nin." Yoko felt her heart stop.

"I-impossible!"

"What is?" Yoko looked over to see Naruto enter the room.

"Naruto . . ." Tenshi didn't know how to break the news to her little cousin.

"Have they found Robin yet?" Yoko sighed, deciding to break the news to the fox vessel.

"Robin has been declared a missing-nin." Naruto froze, looking as if the world was turned upside down just then. And his opinion it had been.

"That's a lie." He whispered harshly.

"Naruto-" Naruto cut Tenshi off.

"That's a lie! She a jounin! She's got responsibilities! Do they think that she would just throw all that away!" Naruto narrowed his eyes. "I'm gonna go talk some sense into that old hag!"

"No! Naruto . . . . Robin has to do this on her own." Yoko's voice stopped Naruto from running out the door. "For whatever reason, Robin is missing. She's not dead, I know that for sure. And whatever she is doing she has to do on her own. Otherwise, Robin will . . ." Naruto glared at the meiko.

"What will happen to Robin?" His demand was answered after a moment of silence.

"Robin needs to move forward in life. If she is helped . . . . I fear that she will never move forward."