A/N: Thanks you for reviewing, I'd like to see more reviews for this story but, it's but to the readers to tell me what they think.

Anyways this is the chapter where things start to pick up. I can't say much but I will warn you there is some randomness in this chapter, it is intended. I know for a fact things in life are never perfect and random occurances happen a lot. Akane just seems to be the one who starts them.

Oh and if I wasn't clear enough before I had mentioned I was thinking of making a prequil to this story, mostly about Akane's time in Konohoa. It would be more about Iruka, Genma and her. I'm not sure on the details though since it was just an idea. So if your for it and think its a great idea feel free to tell me.

Well one last thing. The last part is my favorite, where yet again Iruka and Kakashi talk, but it's the reaction we get from the academy teacher that I find hilarious.

Anyways please enjoy this chapter and review please!

Chapter 14: More Questions and Not Enough Answers.

When Kakashi woke next he was alone. It felt weird being alone in a house filled with people, people who seemed to care for him so much. He almost wished for Akane to come talk to him, she was able to cheer him up during his messed up mission.

Over the past few days she had returned to see him every morning and evening. What she did other wise he had no clue. She wasn't a morning person that much he could tel, but she still talked to him as though she were happy to see him. He was sure this was because she was actually happy to see him that she held her temper back.

She had been so kind to him he really wasn't too sure what to say or do. She talked to him as an equal and gave him his space when he needed it. A few times she even relaxed so much that she would crack jokes and tell him stories of the day's events. Most of which usually had to do with something foolish Iruka had done. He found those most ammusing and useful. Apperently Akane found it fun to drive the chuunin up the wall as well.

Kakashi wondered if the woman actually still had feelings for the man but something told him to forget the thought. She made it clear in his mind that they were just close friends, a kind of brother-sister relationship but nothing more. Sure there was definitely a time when they were more, he saw that now but it was over. For some reason he felt good about it.

Getting up slowly he noticed all the pain was gone.

Okay…so far so good. Now for walking.

Flexing his leg muscles he found he had almost all of his strength back. Standing he stretched tired muscles and looked around him.

The room wasn't big but it belonged to someone else. They either gave it up for him or weren't there.

The bed which he had been in was beneath a somwhat large window. It was placed here to allow the light to filter in and wake the sleeper. He had done much the same at home. Other wise the room was quite empty, except for a dresser, the nightstand and the closet. Glancing to his left though he saw a table covered in scrolls. This was interesting, why would someone have so many scrolls splayed out like that?

From the scrolls and books he saw this person had a talent for literature and especially old legends. Moving to an old one in particular he opened it and began to read.

It was an old story many people knew. It was one his father especially liked to tell him.

(Flashback).

"Kakashi!" A man's voice boomed as he came into the house. "Where a did he go off to?" He said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Father?" Kakashi had come around the corner, curious why his father had insited on yelling for him.

"Ahh there you are. I was wondering if your sensei decided to keep you in the training fields longer today.

Kakashi was only seven at the time and was already a genin.

"No, he wanted to leave early."

"Oh?"

"He got hungry and went to eat ramen at Ichikaru's."

"Ha ha ha that man can't ignore his stomach." His father laughed. It seemed he knew everyone in the village and it continued to amaze Kakashi. "Well how about some dinner."

"Eh.." He wasn't hungry at the moment but he didn't mind eating dinner with his father since he was usually away on missions.

As they ate he watched his father as he mulled something over in his mind. His father was the only parent he knew, his mother had died giving birth and he knew little of her. His father never seemed to want to talk about her. He had the distinct feeling his father loved her so much talking about her still hurt.

Looking up his father smiled "I heard an interesting legend on my last mission."

Kakashi scrunched up his face. "Who told you?"

"Well it was Umino-san actually. You've heard of them I'm sure, you're sensei is very fond of that family."

"Yeah, he think's they're geniuses like me or something." Kakashi snorted. He felt they were like most people. They didn't seem so special to him.

"He may not be to far from the truth you know."

"I don't know I saw the boy…he wasn't to good at throwing kunai."

"Well throwing kunai has little to do with being a genius."

"Why not?"

"It's all up here Kakashi." His father said this as he tapped his forehead. Kakashi looked up as though wondering just what the action meant. "But it's also here." Next he pointed to his chest.

"Give him time, before you know it he'll be a genin."

Kakashi shrugged. He had to grow up quickly and he never really understood all the other children his age. They were so odd, they never really saw what was really happening around them. They ignored the war and kept playing their silly games and he found all that really annoying.

"What's the story about?"

"Well it's about something that happened to a very old family."

"Like our's?"

"No much older. They're like the Uchiha in a way."

"The Uchiha?"

"Yes they both came from different areas but both have dojutsu runnig in their bloodlines. The Uchiha's bloodline runs primarily in the male line though. However the other clan has their doujutsu running in both lines. It's an odd combination, I'm suspecting that they're older but not related. The Dojutsu do different things."

"What was their name."

"Oh we shouldn't worry about that. It's not important." Okay Kakashi was confused why were they so unimportant if the legend was about them?

"What happened to them."

"Well one member angered a very powerful spirit."

"A spirit? Not demon?"

"No not a demon." His father laughed. "Not every legend has to do with angry demons." Well Kakashi still begged to differ…almost every legend he was told had a demon in it. But still he was curious.

"What happened?"

"Well the spirit had decided to wage war on them."

"Why, what did they do?"

"Well they had defaced a sacred moutain."

"Why?"

"I'm not to sure actually; they never said," He shrugged. Kakashi was really riveted now. He seemed to be interested in the details.

"So what happened." Kakashi asked as he tried to swallow a mouthful.

"Well the spirit got hurt by one of the clan members, I think he was a branch member."

"What's the difference, he still hurt it. I think that was really mean of him, I mean aren't spirits supposed to be nice to us?"

"Well yes they are, but not all like humans on their land."

"Was that why he was mad?"

"No he was mad because they did something bad on his land."

"Oh." He could tell his father was getting impatient with the questions so he sat quietly waiting.

"Anyways A woman from the main family came and saw the spirit dying."

"Was she going to finish it?" He couldn't help interruping again, he just wanted to know more.

"No quiet the opposite." Kakashi stared at his father but then made a face. This was going to be another one of those really sappy stories where the spirit likes the woman, it always happened like that. "She came to the spirit and tried to heal it."

"She's a nice lady." Kakashi said around a mouthful. Trying to hide his disappointment.

"Yes she was." His father smiled again. "The spirit asked her why she was trying to help it when if she continued she would lose her life."

"She's really brave."

"Yes to some hearing and seeing pain makes them want to help those in need. She had seen a lot of this pain and suffering and wanted the war to end."

"What happened?"

"Well the woman continued to heal the spirit and as she did this he noticed she was with child."

"But she's not thinking…she could kill them both." Kakashi was now wrapped up in the story so much that he stood up and stared at his father.

"Well I guess…But she had to do what she felt was right. As she continued the spirit told her to stop."

"Why?"

"He wanted her to live."

"Oh"

"Just listen. Once she stopped he saw that she was dying from exhaustion. There was nothing more she could do for herself."

"Then what, did she die?"

"Well no, the spirit told her to stand and so she did. As soon as she did he to stood. To her surprise he wasn't as big as she thought he was. As she stood looking at him he told her to relax and that he would heal her and that she would live as long as if she would allow him to do so."

"So she let him?"

"Yes but she was scared since he entered her body."

"But then what?" That was weird, spirts normally didn't do that

"Well she lived."

"That's it? This is Umino-san's story?" He was shocked. It was good in the beginign but what a sucky ending.

"I'm not done yet Kakashi-kun relax." His father laughed. His son was energetic when it came to stories. "She continued to live and her child was born, but it was born with a twin."

"A twin? Is that a good thing?"

"Oh yes."

"Like how."

"Well twins make the perfect team. They learn to work together. But what's important it that inside one of the twins was the spirit. This child was a gifted child with the ability to protect all those who deserved it."

"So what would happen if the child died?"

"Well here's the neat thing, every one hundred years the clan's main family would have a set of twins. One twin will have a special marking on their face, A bit like a birthmark only permamnent."

"Weird, so is it true."

"Apperently it is and that's how Umino-san found it."

"Really?" Kakashi liked the story but he wanted to hear it from Umino-san himself, he'd have to come up with some way to ask him.

"Did you like it?"

"Yes, I liked what the woman did."

"Yes she was very brave wasn't she?"

"I wonder what the spirit was like, or what it looked like. I bet he was wise and kind."

"I think he was." His father smiled. It took him a lot of convincing for Umino to tell him that story, rarely would a legend that old keep Kakashi captivated like that.

Holding the scroll Kakashi traced the calligraphy, he had no clue what it said, it was in a language he had never seen before. Just reading the story again brought back a few painful memories. Why did he have to remember that? He didn't want to.

Tracing the symbols he had a feeling he'd seen them somewhere. Turning the scroll over something caught his eye. A flowing drawing was made on the front. It depicted a woman and standing next to a spirit. It didn't surprise him at all. But it was what the spirit was that caught his attention.

"Why did I not see that before? It makes sense now. That spirit was no other than a phoenix. Of course, it has the abiltity to heal and some say bring back the dead if it so decided they deserved it."

Fingering the drawing he heard an outburst down the hall.

"STOP IT!

A pause.

"AKANE!"

This was yet followed by another pause.

"I DON"T NEED HELP…AHH LOOK WHAT YOU DID!"

It was Iruka and he sounded flustered again. Outbursts like this one weren't uncommon. The young woman seemed to be forever cursed to cause the chuunin to go off the handle. Somehow though she seemed immune to his anger.

"GO AWAY!"

"I can't" Kakashi moved to the door. "We need to talk."

"Can't it wait?" He was annoyed that much Kakashi could make out.

"Well no it can't so shut the door, sit down and shut up."

So she can be demanding just as much as he can, interesting.

Listening closely he heard the door to the room down the hall shut. He would have to get closer to hear what was so important that the woman had to piss off his comrade so much.

What ever it was he only could catch bits and pieces since the conversation was rather hushed.

"How many more days do we have?" It was Iruka.

What does he mean by that?

"I'd give him a week and he'll be back to normal."

They must mean me…why is that important I can probably hold my own in two days.

"Are you going to stay that long?" Iruka asked. That last scentence was dripping with concern.

"Well I need two more days for my own recovery but after that I should probably disappear for a bit. Nariko told me to stay but it's to dangerous for me. I need to work with my teams anyways."

Teams? Odd. Unless jounin use teams here then I think she's ANBU some how. I'm almost positive by that assumption…she's too confident to be otherwise. So she was hiding something…he had an idea she was but he thought it had something to do with Iruka.

There was a long pause before Kakashi could pick up more of their conversation.

"You sure you don't want me to come?" He was lowering his voice again.

"No he'll suspect me if you do that, I'll take Genma with me, he needs to do something anyways."

Again they must mean me. Why would I be suspiscous of her?

"Oh?"

"Yes yesterday he was sharpening his weapons for three hours, I swear he went over the same kunai for fifteen minutes. He's restless too. I can't blame him, I'm starting to feel it too."

"Sure you restless, ha. You found something else to keep you busy…OW!"

"Shhh…"

Then the conversation got to quiet for him to hear. Still clutching the scroll Kakashi risked looking back at it. The symbols on it bothered him. Where had he seen them before?

"Well what about Kaji?"

"I can't seem to sense him nearby so my guess is he's out side the country somewhere."

Sense? What does she mean by that?

"Okay but do you know what he's up to?"

"Not the slightest, he was really secretive about this."

So it looks like the missing shinobi either left of his own free will of wandered off on a mission without a contact back home.

"He's not usually that secretive. What about Katon can he find him?"

HUH! Katon? That's an odd name to give someone.

"No I tried everything. He's out of even his reach. I almost died trying to help Katon."

"He drained you that much…just to help?"

"Well yeah he's not stupid, I can be very persuasive."

"Yes I bet you can."

I don't want to know! Why would she give up her chakra to this Katon character? That's dangerous.

Looking down at the scroll he deicided it best if he were to put it where he found it before anyone saw him with it. There was nothing he could get that made sense at this point he'd have to snoop more as soon as he got something into his stomach, once done with that he'd have to rest a bit, his body wasn't quite able to work the way it usually does.

Akane was having a relatively good day. When she woke up Iruka was busy training. She didn't have to deal with his over happy personality. Over happy? She smiled.

I should use that one day. He'll be so pissed off at that.

Laughing at the random thought Akane stopped at her destination. Her brother's room.

She knew it well, actually every inch and just about everything in it. She was sure there were a few things he had squirreled away from her but not for long. She knew snooping was bad, but he was her twin. Either way if he had something hidden then she would find it, meaning to or not.

Stepping into the room she froze. What she saw made her laugh.

Hatake Kakashi was awake…ruffled but awake. Angry and yet happy to see her.

"A bit of help?"

"What were you doing?" She cocked her head as she choked back a laugh.

How the hell did he manage that?

Sitting on the bed or at lest trying to Kakashi had obviously woken up tangled severely in his sheets.

"Having fits are we?" She laughed.

"Um no, help!" He sighed after he said the last word.

"I saw that you found food earlier…Iruka was not pleased." She grinned as she came further into the room.

"Well it's not his home it's yours. I just decided to try your tactic, it was a shame I had to miss it." He laughed.

So he came back to rest…shows he has the mind to take care of himself. Good. But I want to know how he did this to himself in his sleep. It must have been that nightmare.

"Be happy you did. I was blamed." She snorted.

"Eh heh, sorry." His head lowered in defeat. "I want out can you help me?"

"Ha! Are you sure?"

"Why yes I do think I am." He couldn't help but smile. She was in a good mood that was nice to see.

"Alright."

Walking over Akane continued to laugh.

He looks so funny I can't stop laughing. I wish I had a camera for this. It's almost cute…whoa what? NO! not cute, funny. Stick with funny.

Reaching him she looked at the mess he had gotten himself into.

"I have to give you credit. You managed to completely immobilze yourself."

"Well thank you." He smiled curving his eye.

Ha how sweet…eh shut up Akane!

Carefully moving the blanket she managed to untangle the jounin. He still looked dishevled though. His hair seemed to be even more gravity defying and so messy it just about out did the way she looked in the morning.

"You look like crap."

He still seemed rather stiff as he sat there staring at her.

"What?" She was curious as to why he kept doing that.

"Huh? Oh nothing, I didn't mean to stare. I...just...never mind." He muttered.

Althright I will it sounds like something I should leave alone. Technically I should be gone tomorrow but I amlsot don't want to go.

"Well anyways…"

"AKANE!"

Kakashi glanced up. "Does he always yell your name?" Kakashi seemed to be annoyed by how loud it got at times, she couldn't blame him.

"No not always, only when I did something."

Iruka suddenly burst into the room. Then he froze.

Kakashi had grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him unconsciously, as though he were trying to protect her

"Eh? HEY! What the hell?" Iruka was annoyed.

"Kakashi-san?" Akane glanced down.

Okay that was odd, why did he do that?

"Sorry he startled me." Kakashi quickly let her go and looked to the floor. "I was startled nothing more, there's no need to freak out Umino-san."

"I am not…"Iruka stopped and shut his mouth.

They must have had some agreement earlier. Akane thought as she moved to keep distsnce between herself and the two men. She had a vauge idea that was going on but wasn't quite sure yet.

"Well anyways, since you ate this morning and didn't for lunch we should think of finding something for you to get you through the night." Trying hard not to over do it Akane smiled at the jounin. She didn't want to give him any ideas.

He's mobile that's good…but still jumpy. Or is he always like that?

Kakashi just nodded and stood up.

"Good Iruka can you..." Akane started but was cut off.

"Yes fine." He snapped.

Geez so sorry to trample your parade.

"Good I have things to do so I'll be around later..." Once that sad she made a hasty retreat.

Wlaking into the kitchen Iruka couldn't help but feel annoyed with him. Of course Kakashi was trying hard to hide his intrest for the girl from him. However as much as Kakashi may think he is good at hiding his emotions this seemed to be one he didn't seem to have much experience with.

"Sit!" He muttered as he pointed to a stool in the kitchen.

Kakashi sat. What else could he do if the man was that mad at him.

"Now I need you to listen to me. I don't want you to do anything unless I say so."

Kakashi nodded. So far so good.

"Right now as it stands Kaji is missing."

"What?" Kakashi's eyes went wide. He obviously wasn't told yet.

"Yes that was my reaction too. He was a teammate of mine when I was a genin."

"So that's why you were chosen to lead."

"Eh yes."

I though they all knew this?

"Anyways. Akane is his twin sister; she has an ability to pin-point his location at any time, give or take a few miles."

"Okay so where's the problem?" Kakashi now had his arms crossed. Iruka was nervous he felt as though the jounin was testing his ability to lead the mission.

"She can't find him." Iruka looked down, he felt stupid for not actually coming up with a plan but at the moment there were no clues. Akane had shown him their last location and there was no sign of a struggle or where they went from there. It was as if they had vanished.

"That's not good."

"No it's not. As it stands we have no clues to go by. At this rate we may as well call the mission a failure. However we have one last chance."

As though sensing the context he was referring Kakashi asked what he wanted to hear. After all the jounin was one of the best trackers. "So what can I do?"

"Well we have a few things of his here so it shouldn't be to hard."

"So what are you getting at?" His one eye narrowed. He knew exactly what Iruka was getting at and it annoyed the chuunin that he wouldn't just spit it out himself.

Isn't he suspicious all of the sudden.

"Genma told me about your summons."

"Oh them, you want me to sniff him and his team out."

"That's right. I can't do much here at this point but it if they can find him then I can get them back here with little effort."

"And how would you do that?" Kakashi's eyes narrowed yet again.

"You're not the only one here with summons." Iruka crossed him arms. It amazed him at just how large the jounin's ego truely was.

"Alright so if we find them then what?"

"Chances are they'll be needing help and most likely injured."

"Okay I'll give you that."

He acts as if I were a genin, get over yourself Hatake, I was a chuunin for a long time, I know what I'm doing.

"An ANBU and I will fly them out." Now Iruka had to laugh. The look on Kakashi's face was priceless. Wide eyed and jaw hanging the jounin took a few moments to regain his composure.

"As much as I believe you have a great imagination Umino, I don't think you can fly." Kakashi bluntly stated.

"LOOK OUT!" Akane's voice called in through a window. Just as she did so a large bird flopped onto the floor from out the window.

"He's a little rusty." She laughed as she walked to the bird still sprawled out on the floor and lifted him up with both arms. "Geezz get a diet. No wonder you can't fly well yet. All your brothers and sisters are able to fly why can't you?"

Iruka was laughing now even more. Kakashi's face even if it were covered by cloth was something to be seen.

Akane seemed to notice what Iruka found so funny and joined in.

"Oh man look at his face!" Akane sputtered. "Kakashi-san they're summons. This is just a young one."

Kakashi still stared at her speech-less and even more so when the bird in her arms started to fight back clawing her deeply.

"OW! Hey cut it out!" Akane snapped as she put the bird down on the floor and gave it a sharp bop on the beak. "Keep that up and I'll throw you off the cliff." She was upset from the way she spoke to the bird and it wasn't without reason. Blood was now running freely down her arm.

Iruka paled for a moment and ran to grab a dish towel and wrapped it around her arm. "Start paying attention Akane!" He muttered as he did so.

The sigt before him was shocking. Not only did Iruka just say he could summon birds but they were huge!

Akane seemed unphased by the scratches which seemed to tell him she was used to this. How long had she been doing this? Was this summon also her's or was she helping Iruka…no they had to be hers.

"Eh? Iruka-san is that all we'll be doing?" He wasn't used to being the subrdinate, He wanted to know more.

Iruka looked up from trying to stop Akane's arm from bleeding and nodded. At this moment we can't do too much, we need to wait for an ANBU team to come back from a mission before we can head out."

"How long?" He wanted this mission over, and over with now.

"About a week."

"Great." Kakashi muttered.

"Ah! It won't be to bad." Akane smiled. There it was again that feeling.

Must not look! Must not look! Kakashi thought as he looked to the floor.

"Well if it's the soonest time we can move then I guess I have no choice but to wait."

Akane seemed to be now paying attention to him and not the bird as it hopped out the door. Kakashi hated it when she looked at him like that. She seemed to have this odd ability to make his stomach upset, or something like it. He fidgeted under her gaze and then decided to say something.

"Uh you're bird just ran away." He pointed out the door.

"Oh shit!"

"AKANE!" Iruka yelled but she was gone before she heard him. "Don't curse like…that…Who am I kidding she never listens to me."

"That my just be because you treat her like a child."

"What?" Iruka looked mad. Kakashi wasn't meaning any harm but it seemed Iruka did.

"I just meant that you should give her more credit."

"I do!"

"Well she seems to ignore you."

"Only for now, you'll see." Iruka was not hapy that was clear but what was bugging him. He seemed to go off every time he mentioned her.

"Well I think I like her."

"WHAT!"

Got you! I knew it!

"Oh I do, She's very smart."

"I know that!" Iruka snapped. Kakashi was going to have fun now! All he had to do was talk about her to get the chuunin fuming.

"She has very nice eyes"

Nice description, you suck!

"I know that too!"

"And her figure…"

"ENOUGH! I DON"T WANT TO HEAR IT!" He was mad now and Kakashi found it funny. Actually it was hilarious. The second he mentioned anything about her the chuunin's face would turn redder and redder.

"Well it is nice! What I can see…" He waited with baited breath, he could always say more.

"Eh…you! I can't believe you, you set me up…Why do you do this to me?"

"Well it's funny."

"Funny? You think pissing me off is funny?"

"Well no it's more the reaction that I find funny."

"Ugghhhh….." With that Iruka stalked outside after Akane, or at least that was Kakashi's guess.

What he had said did hold true though she really did have nice eyes and he liked her wit. Somewhere he also admitted she was good looking, but there was still something off with her face, he couldn't place.

Getting up Kakashi decided to do some research. He might as well try to find out more about this Kaji character, and what better way than to go through his stuff. He might as well just skip the meal they had insisted he eat…no one was paying attention to him anyways.

A/N: well how did everyone like it?

I don't have much to say for this chapter actually, it pretty much explains itself.

Here Akane doesn't actaully do much, it's more between Iruka and Kakashi. But we can see Kakashi's nosey nature coming out. I'm sure he'll find something eventualy of intrest.

Oh and that legend...I made it up...there is no such legend that I know of as of yet.

Please reiew. I know a lot of you like it and I'm very greatful for the people who do so lease keep it up and as I keep saying if you don't want to review here and feel better email me. I don't mind criticism and comments are great for me to keep making the plot, so please remember to review.