Will You be There?

"Gaara-sama," Gaara looked up to see a jounin enter his office.

"What is it?"

"We have heard rumors of Akatsuki members heading to Konoha. A young woman and an older man." A the word 'Akatsuki' Gaara became alert.

"The woman?" The Kazekage demanded, striking fear into his subordinate.

"Bags under her eyes, just like Uzumaki Robin." Gaara stood, determination written across his face.

"When should they reach Konoha!"

". . . in a day and a half." Gaara glared into space as he remembered his last encounter with Robin.

Flashback

"You have lost." Sand shot forward at her, making the young woman jump back and spin the naginata to block the sand. Gaara stood up with a fierce glare in his eyes.

"I will not let anything happen to the Hidden Sand!" Her eyes narrowed before she let her hands fly through familiar seals. Lightening showered down upon the village.

"For a Kage . . . you're pretty weak." She turned around and spun the naginata again, blocking the sand that was coming up from behind her.

". . . you traitor!" Gaara snapped, rage filling his eyes.

End Flashback

"Then I can intercept them as they leave."

Robin walked in a steady pace through the gates of Konoha. The guards laid unconscious, burns covering their bodies. Kyo threw a smirk over his shoulder at the near dead chuunins. After a moment he turned and scowled at Robin.

"Yo brat, you could have let me killed 'em." He hissed, annoyed. Robin glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. Several minutes of silence passed and she still had not answered. "Listen, if you don't have it in you to kill Leaf ninjas then quit right now because we don't have room for brats." Robin stopped and turned to him. Her eyes portrayed no emotion what so ever.

"I knocked them unconscious because a murdered ninja in a ninja village is a dangerous thing. An assassination is measurable not by the death count but by the death of one person. It is useless to bother with others. Why waste chakra on them?" Robin continued to walk, heading in the direction of the forest.

"Where are we going?" Kyo demanded. When Robin did not respond, Kyo raised an eyebrow as Robin ducked under a tree branch but said nothing more.

Setsuko sat and meditated on top of a log. She had been like this for three hours. Setsuko reached out with her mind, calling to the wind. It was something Kakashi was used to after several months of marriage. So it did not surprise him when she did not react while Kakashi appeared and said nothing when he called her name. Nor when he patiently waited for ten minutes, hoping she would come out of her meditation, did she awaken from this state.

"Setsuko." Kakashi sighed, annoyed at her meditative state. While he had become used to them, it still annoyed him. He wanted to spend time with his wife but she had to mediate. He understood that it was like training for her. Her wind powers had a long ways to go before she could completely master then, and mediation helped her. Suddenly her eyes snapped open as Kakashi spun around while she jumped up into the air and flipped to land on her feet. Two kunai embedded themselves into the log she had been sitting on.

"Robin." Setsuko hissed, anger flashing in her eyes. Robin tossed her Akatsuki hat to the side and pulled her black leather hat from the cloak she wore. With a smirk Robin pulled it down over her right eye in the familiar fashion Setsuko was used to seeing. Robin slipped out of her cloak and glanced at Kyo who removed his hat and cloak.

"Hatake Setsuko, former vessel of the demon Aka Yuki, former head of the Uzumaki, former Demon God, carrier of a hybrid soul, and Uindo Bensha." Robin tilted her head to the side with a wicked smirk. "That's a lot of things you gave up." Kyo laughed as he stepped forward.

"Hey brat, I'll take this lazy weakling Setsuko calls a husband and you take your cousin." Kakashi watched Kyo carefully, a smirk playing at the Copy Cat's lips.

"Oi, I may be bored a lot of the time, but I'm not a weakling." Kyo grunted with a sadistic smile and charged forward. Kakashi moved his hand through a series of seals and sent a pillar of water form nearby pond at Kyo. Meanwhile, Robin and Setsuko stood, staring each other down.

"Robin-kun . . . this will be the last time I will give you a chance to come back." Robin smiled slightly at Setsuko's words.

"Setsuko, you are naive for a mass murderer." Robin let her hands move through several hand seals as Setsuko did the same. Black fire surrounded Setsuko's hands and electricity crackled around Robin's. Robin shoved her hands forward, sending a stream of electricity at Setsuko while the older woman sent black fire towards her younger cousin. The two powers collided and fought for control. Both ninjas sent more chakra into their attacks, causing the jutsus to intensify. After a moment the two jumped further away from each other and both glared.

"Traitor."

"That seems to be the only insult people use now." Setsuko raced forward, forcing Robin to match her speed as she backed away. "I'm not stupid enough to fight hand to hand with you Setsuko. I know that you can cut off my blood flow with a tiny little tap." Robin snapped. Setsuko smirked at her younger cousin.

"So that takes out hand to hand. Too bad its one of the things you're best at." Robin and Setsuko both began to perform a jutsu, finally calling it out. Once more the lightening and fire clashed, fighting for control.

"That might have been true a few months ago, but now it is much different." Robin disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"Kage bunshin!" Setsuko jumped up into the air, avoiding another kunai. She sent a blast of fire towards a tree.

"Suiton Suijinheki no Jutsu!" Water appeared and collided with the fire, canceling it. Setsuko glared at her before she heard the next attack. "Suiton Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" The puddles from the Suiton Suijinheki rose up and formed a dragon. The dragon flew towards Setsuko, making the woman take the blunt of the attack. "You're weak, Setsuko." Setsuko coughed as she stood up and glared at her cousin.

"I don't want to hurt you Robin."

"Funny, I want to hurt you!" The ground shook as hundreds of different weapons emerged from the ground, each one connected to the ground by a chain. The dark sea of weapons rose up into the air and came towards Setsuko. Setsuko saw something dripping off of all the weapons.

"Poison!" The poisoned weapons shot pass Setsuko, intent on another target. Setsuko moved quickly, realizing who they were after. Kakashi pulled his blooded hand from Kyo's body. The sound of a thousand birds died down as the chakra surrounding his hand faded. He turned just as Setsuko shoved him onto the ground, taking the hit from the poisoned weapons. Blood trickled out the side of her mouth as she fell to her knees. Kakashi quickly stopped her from falling and looked back at the weapons. Three weapons managed to hit her in the back, a dagger, an ax, and a short scythe. Kakashi glared at Robin as she landed on the ground with a light thud.

"Predictable. Her love for you makes her easy to target. At the slightest threat towards you she drops everything and takes the blow." Robin smirked. "Love is a weakling's idea. If she was truly strong, she would never have been so easily beaten nor could I predict her choice." Robin took a step forward before jumping up into the air and landing on a tree branch. She glared at the ground as sand slowly shifted around in the dirt. Robin turned her eyes to see Gaara, Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Tsunade, and Jiraiya. Robin watched as the sand returned to Gaara. With ease she jumped from the tree and landed next to her cloak and hat.

"Funny, I recall you taking the blow not to long ago." Gaara hissed while Robin stared at the six new comers. After a moment she clutched her cloak and hat while sinking into the ground.

"STOP HER!" Tsunade yelled as the others raced forward. Not even the sand reached her before disappeared into the ground.

Kakashi stood next to his wife's bed, watching her closely.

"Don't worry Kakashi." Tsunade placed a tired hand on his shoulder, causing him to look back at the Hokage. "I've removed almost all of the poison."

"Then why does she have a fever? Why isn't she awake?" He whispered, almost desperate sounding. Tsunade sighed, sorrow etched into her features.

"Kakashi . . . due to her fast healing the poison spread through her fast enough to due damage." Kakashi shook his head in confusion.

"Then why didn't she remove the poison herself?" He demanded. "She's removed poison before, why not now?" Tsunade bit her lip, trying to find the words to tell him the news.

"There's more, Kakashi. Probably the reason she was so reluctant to use any of her Ninjou Shuujuku skills." Tsunade took Kakashi's hand and led him closer to Setsuko's prone body, putting his hand over her stomach. "Not even Setsuko knew how this would effect her body at the moment so I don't think she wanted to take that risk."

"What risk?" Kakashi asked quietly.

"Setsuko is pregnant."