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Author's Note:
The side story that dealing with what Ryo is dealing while this story arc is going is called Hanabi's Missing Month. I already posted the first chapter and have been working on the second one.

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Haruna sat within her main chamber busy looking over the documents and other things that she normally dealt with as the damiyo for the Land of Vegetables. However this was not something she exactly loved about the position but it was part of it none the less thus she gave it her all to make sure that it was being done right.

"Your majesty" a guard spoke out as they entered the chamber.

"What is it?" she asked looking up for her the things around her at the moment.

"There are ninjas from the Konoha requesting an audience with you" the guard replied.

"Ask them why. There is something I want to do after I finished with this" she informed him

"Would that be going to wherever Naruto currently is?" she heard a unfamiliar voice inquiry.

Jumping her back almost cause her to fall out her chair if her guard had not caught the chair instant then immediately appear in front of her to guard her.

"Do not you know how treat a damiyo with the proper respect" the guard asked to the two that had entered without permission.

"Did not she lie and endanger not only a group of peddlers but even our own ninja by mixes herself into their group. Thus making what should have been a D-rank mission into something much more" the first Konoha ninja that spoke said.

"I have paid back my debt to not only Konoha but to those that I have endanger personally and in full" Haruna shot back at them "that does not mean I merely pay you all off with money either" adding the last part interrupted them for speaking again.

"Yamato we are not here to criticize her but to request where Naruto is at the moment" the white hair person standing next to him said.

Eying him and having looked over all the public information available on Naruto, she knew exactly who the white hair ninja was.

"Kakashi I take it, Naruto's original genin instructor. If you are here then what information have you obtained behind my back that would still requiring you seeing me like this" the damiyo inquired.

From there he explained their mission and how they were merely here to take back Naruto and the others to prevent them from missing ninja. While it made sense that the if Tsunade wanted them back then why not sent those that would be the least threatening. Although this could also be a trap as by sending them she could be hoping they hesitate in attacking(not likely but it was a possibility that Haruna kept in mind).

"The proof that we have come into your capital at least unarmed as you must understand we had to leave properly prepared. Anything can happen on the road as we are both clearly aware of. Thus that why Yamato and myself have come here to hand these over to you personally" Kakashi told her.

Laid it out a few scroll which from there she saw that it was all their gear, weapon, and whatever else that had brought with them being summon up. Claiming that they were completely unarmed now and merely want to speak with those with Naruto.

"Surely more then just you two have come as I see why Kakashi is here and even Yamato as insurance for the nine tails which you will quickly find unnecessary, as long you claims are truthful. So who else is here but not with you at the moment" the leader of the Land of Vegetable wanted to know.

Meanwhile in the back of the castle….

'This a great spot' Sakura thought as she sat up in a tree.

It had been awhile since they had all realized that Ryo had gone missing and Haruna for some reason was not allow them to go out and look for him. A fact that left Rin royally pissed yet Naruto explained that with her new ability neither under control or even properly understood. That going out would not be the best of options for her. He was currently trying his best to help her student at least deal with the problem until they could go look for the green hair kid. Of course this did not stop Naruto from looking himself as he did not need to leave the castle to examine the general area. Enhanced senses after all from his merger with Kyubi

As for why she was up in this tree well it had to do with her iron sand mostly. The stuff was still laced with poison and so ever since she had become fully conscious and aware of this fact she spent time flittering it out. She had discover this while she was first getting used to having this ability in the first place.

This was also something she wanted to do away from Naruto and the others. She already had him worrying enough that she did not want this on his mind as well.

Looking around to make sure that no one was around as who would think to look for her up in this tree. She had alibi that should give her at least enough time to make some more progress. Holding out her hand she summoned some of the poisonous iron sand she still had within her from the area she contained it in. Doing something like this was not that hard as merely took a bit of her focus to keep a lit on this still poisoned sand from that she had cleaned out. She was already doing it with something else which Sasori seem to be oblivious or just did not have an interest in to thankfully.

Her hands then began to glow with that dim green light as held (what she considered) the contaminated sand in a orb above them. Focusing a bit more the same glow appeared along her tail which she used to slowly squash the sand orb through her hands. The sand itself falling through it and onto a mat she had laid out before her. Once her tail had met some resistance she let up to see within her glow around her hands was the poison she sought to get rid of. Set it off to the side in container she had brought with her.

The Haruno girl then repeated this process a couple of time. With the same sand as means to ensure that she had fully and completely removed all the poison from the sand. Not even one drop of it was to remain as this sand was already deadly enough. It did not need poison on top of that.

Once she was satisfied with the result She then split out a sheet of paper she kept within one of her joints. This paper having a seal on it where she stored all the poison that she had taken out of her iron sand. She might not want anything to do with it but Shizune might have an interest in it(she would think of how to get to her later). Also she was perfecting the anti-poison she had created once to make it last longer then just a few minutes.

"Interesting so this what you spend some of your free time doing now" a voice said to her.

Standing up but interesting enough using her now de-contaminated sand to prop up and away the posion that was being sealed away. Sakura turned in the direction of the voice to see who had spotted her.

"Hey, Forehead" Ino called out as she greeted her best friend/rival from another branch.

"Ino-pig, Of all the people to send after me they send you. I know this must not have been Tsunade-sensei's idea" she said in defensive stance.

"Actually it was part of her idea but I am not here on a mission about a missing ninja" her friend replied.

"Wait you are not? Then why are you even here then?" she wanted to know as she was not taking everything Ino said at face value.

"Nope as my mission is bring back two MIA ninjas that Naruto managed to find on his official mission to recover you along with the kid calling himself Ryo" said Tsunade's third student

"When did you cut your hair" Sakura asked still on guard but noticing that it as short as when they first met almost.

"Family member was using me to leak out information with own our family justu. Had to a seal place on my scalp, after all my hair was cut off, to prevent that but it also prevent me use any of them too. Good thing Jiraiya was there and used a justu to grow some my hair back to this length at least" Ino said still pissed that she loss her hair and her trust in whatever family member did that to her.

"I still do not trust you fully yet" Sakura informed her.

Naruto might not have told her everything that she had done while Sasori controlled her but she was not getting caught off guard like before again. That was something she knew was not good by merely looking at herself. For at the moment at least she only had two of her sense thus did not know how effective genjustu could be on her now.

"Understandable. Just hope that Hanabi does not get weird with Rin" Ino said with a sigh.

"Why is Hinata's younger sister here and meeting with Rin?" Sakura asked

"Long story which only the Ryo kid seem to know the answers to" she said with a sigh.

With Rin…

'I am going to look for Ryo on my own. What if he need help as that guy can sure act tough but clearly is not at least to the degree he would like to think' she thought as she walking towards where she last knew him to be.

Siding in front of her path came Hanabi Hyuga. With a determined look on her face as she stared down the chunin before her.

"Found you Rin Nohara and now tell your relationship with Ryo" she demand.

"What you want with him and what does a Hyuga want with me?" she asked

"I am asking the question here. Who is Ryo?" she demand.

"Idiot that not what we came here to do. Seriously it like we have three Narutos at time now" Iruka yelled whacking the younger Hyuga Heiress in the head.

"I…ru…ka" Rin said shocked as she looked at him.

Looking at him and how much taller he was now even though technically suppose to be around the same age. Yet there he was a full grown adult while she was still a kid in both body and mind.

"Ryo is *muffled speech*…. fine I will be quite but I want answer later" the Hyuga said as Iruka covered her mouth for a moment.

'I am really younger then everyone I knew even though that younger then me at the time are now older then me. While other are not even here anymore' Rin thought

The reality of her situation finally hitting home completely. Before it had but that was just what she heard as she did not see the result with her own eyes. Hearing that she was twenty years in the future (from her POV), seeing that Kakashi had students of his own, even heard about things that had happened while she was a statue. They were all one thing but see literally see the results like this as Iruka and her might not have been all that close to each other. They were not complete stranger either.

Seeing Kakashi in the distance, Iruka quickly managed to get him from Rin's line of sight. Giving Hanabi a glare not to mention his presence to her either. If she reacted to seeing him like she was then seeing Kakashi one the people she was closest with probably Obito being only one have equal or possibly closer spot. Could be too much for her to take.

"Great what happen to Rin this time" Sakura sighed as Ino was walking right beside her.

"Sakura-sensei" the Nohara said as she looked like she had just seen a ghost.

Noticing Iruka and piece of Kakashi-sensei's white hair out the corner of her vision. She could kind of guess what had happened. Could somewhat sympathize with what Rin was going through as she was having to deal with things she never thought possible until they actually happened. Being a kunoichi it was true they had be ready for a lot of things but some were just far beyond their understanding and sometime their ability to fully do so.

Just then Sakura grabbed Hanabi with her tail and Rin into her arms pulling them both close to her as she summon a dome of iron sand to cover them (Ino already beside just moved closer in). What followed was large crash sound bashed into the groun then up against her dome of black sand.

"Okay that was not the best way of dealing with THAT problem" Naruto said brushing himself off as that was him crashing into the ground.

"What going on here and why are you all here?" he asked carefully eying those around when he noticed everyone else from Konoha around even those within Sakura's dome (other then just heself and Rin) .