It was the next day, when Kakashi came in a bit late for the training session with his team. He knew, that they all were capable to start on their own and keep themselves occupied. What interested him and made him hide his presence for a bit longer, was how exactly his two new recruits would entertain themselves.

Most of Team Ro had broken up into pairs of two, lightly sparring or quizzing each other on ANBU sign language. Tenzō was happily building whole mansions off to the side with his mokuton. Everything as it usually were. Kakashi's eyes behind his mask travelled towards an area of the training field, where he could sense the two chakra signatures, that interested him most. He furrowed his brows. Their signatures were almost identical and in the nick of time, it would probably be difficult to distinguish them properly.
Kakashi jumped a bit closer to them, carefully masking his chakra.
The twins stood opposite to each other with a fair bit of space between them. Both the standard katana in their hand and the other raised to form hand seals.
"Wouldn't you think, learning suiton next would help us get rid of a weakness considering our affinity?", Itachi mused, while he almost lazily formed the signs with one hand. He inhaled and spit a small ball of fire towards his sister.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes, when he saw the blade of Kasumi's katana suddenly coated with the soft humming of chakra. She fluidly formed an arch with the blade and cut right through the fireball jutsu. Slight tension rolled from her shoulders a second later and the chakra vanished from the blade.
"Ah", she said and titled her head from one side to the other, as she started to form hand seals with one hand. "But fūton would make our katon stronger." She spit the same fire ball Itachi just had.
Kakashi's eyes instantly shot to the katana in Itachi's hands. Ah, just as he thought. It lit up with chakra and cut through the attack with a single motion.
"True. It would put a faster end to a fight", Itachi answered, as he now spit a fire ball again.

Kakashi lingered for a while in the tree, watching as the twins quickened their hand seals and strengthened their attacks more and more, while still trying to cut through the attack with nothing but chakra coated steel. All the while discussing chakra manipulation theory about how to master another nature. It was…humbling in a way. And disheartening.
There was a certain nonchalant air around them, as they tossed C-rank jutsu at each other without regard of any injuries. It told Kakashi, that they were used to such exercises and he was a tad bit concerned what real training actually meant to them. He knew the Uchiha to be strict and disciplined in every regard. Well…mostly. His heart clenched painfully at the thought, as he struggled with acidic memories of goggles and wide smiles.
To make training deliberately dangerous in order to become strong…He began to understand, why Danzō had recommended them. This exercise demanded a certain amount of chakra control and a sharp mind. However, from their relaxed body language Kakashi derived, that this was warm up.

Well…time to get them breaking a sweat.

Kakashi shunshined to the centre of the training field.
Immediately all sparring ended and the entire Team Ro shunshined to stand in front of their taichō. Kakashi contemplated his options for a moment. He was curious about seeing, how the twins operated together when faced with a real challenge. But he needed to break them up in order to make them more comfortable with the team. He felt a sigh built in his chest. For that to happen, he needed the apprehension from the older ANBU to stop.
"Listen up", he said, as he had made his decision. "I planted a flag somewhere on the training field with a small chakra marker. Part of you will defend the flag, the other part will try to steal it. All goes, but no lethal jutsu or strikes. Understood?"
"Hai" A chorus of voices answered him.
"Itachi. Kasumi", Kakashi called out. Two small figures appeared in front of him. "You're with me. We'll be defending the flag."
"Hai", Itachi answered for them both.
"Tenzō", Kakashi looked up to his friend. "One minute."
"Hai, senpai", Tenzō answered. Kakashi looked at the rest of the team, then down to Itachi and Kasumi.
"Go", he said and followed the twins, as they shunshined to a safe distance.

As soon as they landed, the siblings shared nothing but a short glance, before Kasumi turned to Kakashi.
"Is assuming, that you observe us more than you will aid us in this, correct, Kakashi-taichō?", she questioned in a low tone.
"Hai", Kakashi answered, a lazy smile dancing around his lips.
"Then follow, please", she said and as soon as she had stopped speaking, Itachi had jumped into the direction of the flag, Kasumi only half a step behind him. Ah. So Kasumi only took the task of speaking, because Itachi was the better sensor. Kakashi couldn't help but to feel like this was going to be interesting.
Tanzō had been right, though, she was painfully polite.

They arrived at the flag in mere seconds. And again, it took not more than one glance between the siblings for them to dart into opposite directions. Kakashi closed his eyes and let his senses roam free, as he felt them plant traps and ninja wire and chakra strings all around.
Kakashi furrowed his brows. They were all a bit off, though. A wire forgotten here and a missing seal on a trap there. He knew, that they were too good to make such mistakes, so it had to be intentional and that was actually, what caught his interest. Faulty traps, after all, did not give away any chakra signatures.

They returned to his side in eerie synchrony.
"You or I?", Itachi asked, looking at his sister. She tilted his head from one side to the other, staring intently at her brother.
"You", Kasumi then said and gracefully sat down on one side of the flag's post, her back against it and her legs comfortably crossed.
Itachi sighed and stood at the other side of the flag, his back to his sister and his arms crossed over his chest. Somehow Kakashi felt, as if he had missed a whole conversation there.
When Kasumi pulled a scroll from one of her pouches and began to read it, Kakashi nearly lost his composure.

"I'll tell Shisui, that you skipped out again", Itachi suddenly said in a flat tone. Kasumi just huffed at that, but didn't respond. From the soft chuckle, that came from Itachi by that reaction, Kakashi again felt as if there had been words spoken he hadn't heard. Was it a twin thing?
Kakashi felt the others approaching and only a heart beat later, Itachi's eyes glowed crimson beneath his mask. He jumped away in order to intercept some of them. Kasumi, still studying the scroll, pulled out a few shuriken from her pouch and let them rotate in her right hand. Her eyes were still dark and focused on the scroll.
Just as Kakashi felt a chakra come at the flag, Kasumi threw two shuriken with a flick of her wrist. One deflected a kunai aimed at her, the other seemed to…do nothing. No, that couldn't be right. He heard a small gasp of pain and turned to see Kō trapped in wires. Kakashi activated his own sharingan. Ah.
Now he saw, that Kasumi had chakra strings attached to her shuriken. And that one of the shuriken she had thrown had actually provided the last string to trap Kō in between the chakra string and all the other wires. Kakashi's eyes widened slightly.

So that was, why the traps had been off. His eyes darted to the kunai she had deflected with the second shuriken. It had activate one of the traps, further keeping Kō confined to his position. Keeping the traps and wires open like that, it kept them flexible and enabled either Kasumi or Itachi to activate them in any way or form needed from any angle the enemy might come.
That level of genius…was actually to be expected.

In the next blink of an eye, Kasumi had jumped up, the scroll now switched with her katana. Her stance was almost relaxed, as she held the tip of it to the throat of another of her new team mates.
Straight, purple hair tumbled from behind the porcelain mask.
"Oh", the elder ANBU said. "Well, if that's so." She jumped away and pulled her own katana.
Kakashi jumped out of the way, careful not to set off any wires or traps, as the two female ANBU engaged in a sword fight. The advantage in hight, range and strength definitely was with Yūgao, but Kasumi held her own easily even without her sharingan activated. She had a style, that reminded Kakashi of dancing in it's fluid, but effective strikes.

Kō had managed to free himself of the wire and was about to make a run for the flag, when Itachi appeared in front of him.
"Sorry about this", he said calmly and only a second later, Kō slumped. Itachi caught his body and placed him gently on the ground.
Suddenly Yōji and Tenzō broke through the trees, joining the little fight. Kasumi still locked in a stance with her katana blocking Yūgao's, turned her head away from her opponent. Itachi's sharingan met Kasumi's still dark eyes. A tiny smile curled around her lips, unseen beneath the mask, as she spun their dark colour into red pandemonium.
The next moment, all hell broke loose.

Kakashi was certain, that he could only observe the following, because he himself had the sharingan.

Itachi and Kasumi increased their speed suddenly. Their strikes coming faster and harder. Their shuriken and kunai even more precise than before.
Wires and traps were spun and activated with the simple flick of a wrist. Their chakra signatures became so identical, that even Kakashi with his sharingan had problems to follow where they went, as they jumped and shunshined and danced around like flames in a fire becoming a firestorm. They were vicious and ridiculously effective.
It took them together less than two minutes to incapacitate their team mates.

All movement stilled.
Yūgao was knocked out cold on the ground. Probably another genjutsu, although Kakashi wasn't able to say who had cast it. He hadn't seen it happening.
Itachi held a kunai to Yōji's throat, a cut on the boy's cheek bleeding slightly.
Kasumi stood in front of Tenzō her back turned towards him, but by the rigid look in Tenzō face, she had the tip of her katana pointed at the tiny, unprotected sliver within the ANBU flak jacket, that ensured movement.
Kō was still slumped and unresponsive.

Kakashi felt his muscles tense at the scene in front of him.
For the first time, he truly understood the fear the Uchiha name elicited in even the most skilled ninja.
He forced his instincts to relax.

Then Kakashi felt a disruption and moved.
He landed right next to the flag, just as Tenzō emerged from the ground. The Tenzō Kasumi held at bay turned into a wooden branch. Her eyes widened slightly.
Tenzō was about to grab the flag, when Kakashi casually held a kunai to his throat.
"Now, now", he said with a lazy drawl. "I'm still also part of this team, ne?"
Tenzō slumped, but let his hand fall to his side, accepting defeat.

"Well", Kakashi said, as he lazily put the kunai back into his pouch. "Now that that's out of the system." He clapped his hands together to dispel the tension. The Uchiha twins immediately jumped away from their respective victims or in Kasumi's case away from the branch. Both made the hand seal to release their genjutsu and their eyes dimmed to their natural colour.
Kō groaned, as he sat up, a hand on his head. Yōji helped Yūgao up, although his face were directed at the two new recruits.

"You should have been able to trust in the strength of your new team mates", Kakashi started chiding his team, as they slowly gathered in front of him. His eyes darted from Yūgao to Yōji to Kō. "And not come to me with concerns. Itachi and Kasumi became ANBU due to their strength and abilities. They are part of Team Ro. Treat them as such." Tenzō smiled slightly, as his older team mates looked down a bit ashamed at their taichō's words.
"And maybe next time we play this game, you won't underestimate them. You were going in too self-assured and that's why you were so easily overpowered. I'm certain next time will be more difficult." His eyes flickered towards Kasumi and Itachi at his last sentence.
"Itachi. Kasumi", Kakashi addressed them directly. "You work flawlessly as a team together, just as expected. But this will mark the last time in a while, that you will work together." Nothing betrayed their emotions about that bit of information. There was only a slight tension in Itachi's shoulder and a minuscule twitch in Kasumi's hand.
"You need to become comfortable with the rest of Team Ro", Kakashi explained nonetheless. "Teamwork can make the difference between failing or succeeding in a mission. Between life or death. You can't work as a team, if you're wary of the others." He took a deep breath, so he could get the next words over his lips. "No one here cares about your clan. No one here cares about whether or not the Uchiha were part of the Kyūbi Attack." Kasumi stiffened at that. Finally, a reaction.
"We know you weren't. This is your team. All we care about is how we treat each other. No name matters. No clan matters. This is ANBU and we have to trust each other blindly. Or we die." Kakashi let his eyes travel over every single member of his team.
"Is that understood?"
"Hai!" They chorused in unison and with conviction. Kakashi nodded satisfied.

With a fluid motion, Kakashi pushed his porcelain mask to the side to reveal his masked face. His bi-coloured eyes shaped in an unseen smile.
"Good", he said. "Then let's have lunch together."
With that he sat down on the ground where he had stood and pulled a package with rice balls from his pouch.

Not one to ever decline food, Kasumi was sitting next to Kakashi in an instant. Her mask pulled to the side, revealing the tiny smile she wore, as she rummaged through her pouch and pulled two scrolls from it. She held one scroll out and Itachi took it, as he sat down next to her.
They shared a cute smile, which made Yūgao almost coo at them, as she sat down on Kakashi's other side. The others joined them in a somewhat round circle, with the masks pushed to the side to reveal their faces and all some sort of small lunch with them.
Kakashi could feel Kasumi take a deep breath next to him and he tilted his head to look at her. Curious about why she prepared herself mentally.
"Ne~ Tenzō-senpai?", she said in a voice, that sounded strangely vulnerable as it lacked all fabricated politeness. Tenzō looked up from his lunch, his slightly widened pupils indicating his surprise. "I think you've bruised one of my ribs."
"I…uh…sorry", Tenzō stuttered out. For a lingering moment everything seemed to still.

Then Kō burst out with laughter, followed by Yōji's low chuckle and Kakashi could even hear Itachi laugh a little under his breath.
Kakashi couldn't help but to feel a tiny bit satisfied with that. Itachi and Kasumi were going to fit in with Team Ro quite right.

Kakashi had dismissed them two hours after lunch. And while Itachi had been ordered to bring their father lunch into the police station, Kasumi was free to roam the streets. Yet again, she wore tight, tactical pants and a short yukata with the Uchiha crest on it's back. Her hair was down and her long pony fell easily over her hitai-ate. She wasn't yet certain, what she wanted to do.
Usually she trained or studied or trained some more. But her mother had ordered her to get some down time and then pick up Sasuke from the Academy. Which was why she now aimlessly walked through the streets of Konohagakure. Her eyes travelled over the display of her favourite book store. Stopping for a moment, she took a book to read the summary on the back. A romance novel set in the feudal era. Not really her cup of tea.
She put it back and walked on.

"Hey! Kasu-chan!"

Kasumi stopped and tilted her head. Her dark eyes travelled towards a dango shop, where Kotetsu waved enthusiastically at her. Izumo sat next to him, smiling softly as he nibbled on a dango.
Without hesitating, Kasumi changed the course of her steps and headed towards her friends.
"Izu-kun, Ko-kun", she greeted and sat down next to them. A gentle smile, reserved for only few, turned the corners of her mouth up a bit.
"So you're a big fish now, eh?", Izumo asked after he had finished chewing.
Kasumi shrugged.
"Of course, she is!", Kotetsu yelled and threw an arm around Kasumi's shoulders. "She's Kasu-chan!" It got more attention form the shop keeper and other patrons, than Kasumi had wanted. Relaxed, smiling faces turned into grim looks and wary, tightly pressed together lips at the sight of her and the crest she displayed proudly. Kasumi felt the muscles in her back stiffen and she lifted her chin in defiance. The faint smile dropped from her lips and was replaced by a stoic, closed-off expression.
"Eh, you look like your father again", Izumo commented, but didn't say anything more. He and Kotetsu had noticed how the Uchiha were treated within the village. Kasumi just shrugged and stood to go get herself a cup of green tea and some dango for Itachi.

"Hello, I'd like some—", she began, but was cut off by the shop keeper.
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid we're out of dango", he said, a provoking look in his eyes. Kasumi's eyes slowly travelled to the display filled with dango in every flavour imaginable.
"I see", she said in a flat tone. "Thanks for your hospitality. Have a good day." She tilted her head in a slight, almost mocking, bow and turned around.
"OI!", Kotetsu sprang from his place, half-eaten dango stick still in his hand.
"That's ridiculous, Hamachi-san", Izumo chimed in, his face contorted in anger.
Kasumi just walked past them, her head held high and her gait confident. "Izu-kun. Ko-kun. Thanks, but that's not necessary", she said, as she passed them.
"Not nece—", Kotetsu repeated, caught in between anger and surprise at Kasumi's reaction. He ran after her, while Izumo hastily threw some money on the table to pay, before he followed his friends out of the shop.
"It's not the first time and it won't be the last", Kasumi said stoically. The pang in her heart was hard to ignore.
"Doesn't make it right", Izumo said lowly. Kasumi swallowed.
"No", she whispered, so only her friends could hear her. "No, it doesn't."
"Well", Kotetsu said with an air of importance around him. "You got us, right? Who needs dango, anyway!" He again threw an arm around Kasumi, their difference in hight making it rather easy for him to lean a bit on her. This time, Izumo joined and crushed Kasumi's other side to him, effectively trapping her between her two former team mates.
It didn't make the animosity of the village any better, but Kasumi could feel a tiny smile play around her lips, as her heart grew a bit lighter. This was, what she wanted to protect. No matter how she was treated.

They got dango and green tea at another shop. The shop keeper not much happier about Kasumi than the other, but at least, he wasn't about to turn down business. They had sat down on a bench outside the Academy gates and just caught up with each other. Kasumi felt at ease, the small smile coming easier with every passing minute she spent with her friends.
But soon enough, they had to leave for their guard duty and that left Kasumi alone with still two hours until the Academy would finish. Ma~
She let her head fall into her neck and looked at the blue sky above her. Not quite sure, what to do with the time she had, but not brave enough to actively go against her mother's instructions and train some jutsu, she compromised on reading. So she pulled a scroll from the pouch she had strapped to her right leg and began studying the basics of Fūton.

Kakashi shook his head from his high perch on the roof opposite to where Kasumi sat.
He had just been out for a stroll to the book shop, when he had sensed the chakra of his youngest rookie and he had been curious. It was a bit unsettling to see her so comfortable with Izumo and Kotetsu, but Kakashi figured, that they had been on a Genin team together, despite the age difference. What rubbed him in just the wrong way was, that she had perfected a mask at such a young age. He had seen the same mask on Itachi's, but not as…firm. Itachi was a bit softer, a bit more forgiving. Kakashi was certain, that Kasumi would remember exactly who had treated her how.
It reminded him a bit too much of Fugaku. And that was not a man to be trifled with.

She had free time, time to meet with friends or read or paint, do whatever she wanted…and she studied.
For a second, he felt like a hypocrite. When Kakashi had been her age, he had been just like that. Nothing but training and honing his skills had mattered. He was all too aware why that had been the case…
So it made him curious, why exactly Itachi and Kasumi were like they were. Why were they so much like him? What motivated them? It couldn't just be a prodigy thing, could it?
Ah. He pulled a little orange book from his hip pouch and started reading, his senses partially locked on the girl a few meters away. He would just have to find out, wouldn't he?

The only thing to be heard was the clanking of chopsticks against porcelain. Dinners at the Uchiha household were, after all, a quiet affair since the Kyūbi Attack.
Their mother sometimes would attempt to make a bit of small talk, but not on a bad day. Kasumi had found her kneeling over a tumbled over stack of boxes, when she had come back home with a beaming Sasuke clinging to her hand. Pictures strewn on the round all around their mother, that held bright smiles and fiery red hair. Kasumi had told Sasuke to start setting the table, before she had knelt down next to her mother and gathered the pictures with gentle fingers. Her mother had given her a watery smile in thanks and had excused herself to the bathroom.
It was always a bad day, when Uchiha Mikoto remembered her best friend and the tragic fate, that had befallen her.

"How are you progressing?", their father asked and without him addressing anyone properly, Itachi and Kasumi knew, that they were meant. They shared a short look.
"We defeated our new team in a game of protect-the-flag today, otō-san", Kasumi answered, her dark eyes turning from her brother to their father. As much as Itachi handled talking to everyone else, Kasumi always was the one to talk to their father. They were similar in so many ways and Fugaku took so much pride in that, that he was a bit less harsh to his daughter, than to his sons.
"How long did it take you?", he wanted to know and Kasumi licked her lips in worry, before she answered.
"About five minutes from the signal to start", she replied. Her father finally looked up, his dark eyes boring into hers. Then he nodded and Kasumi knew, that she saw a hint of pride in the curl of his lips.
Itachi shared another look with Kasumi. "Otō-san?", he then addressed quietly. Their father's hard eyes turned towards his eldest.
"Would you allow Kasumi and me to train with Shisui-san after dinner?", Itachi asked. Fugaku's left eye twitched a bit. As much as Shisui was considered someone to bring pride to the Uchiha clan, their father did decidedly not approve of the elder boy's un-Uchiha-like character.
"It would help to increase our speed", Kasumi chimed in.
"That it would", Fugaku mused, his dark eyes landing again on his daughter. "You may go."
"Thank you, otō-san", Itachi and Kasumi chorused.
Sasuke immediately perked up. "Me, too", he said. "Please, let me train with Ita-nee and Sumi-nee!"
Their father looked at his youngest and for a second, Kasumi saw the wrinkles around his eye smoothing out a bit. "No", he then said and went back to eating.
"You could get hurt, Sasuke-chan", Kasumi followed up to soften the blow for her younger brother. Their father meant well, even if he didn't show it.
"You can help me with the dishes, Sasuke-chan", their mother said with a tiny, shaky smile at the enthusiasm of her children. Her smile became a bit more steady, when Sasuke puffed out his cheeks in a pout.

The rest of the meal was held in silence again and Kasumi was kind of glad, to have Shisui's vibrant personality to look forward to. Just when Itachi and her were about to excuse themselves, their father looked up from the bowls he placed in the sink.
"We are invited to have tea with Hyūga-san tomorrow afternoon", Fugaku said, his dark eyes fixed on his two eldest. "I expect both of you to attend."
"Hai, otō-san", Kasumi said with a light bow of her head and then she ushered Itachi outside of the kitchen.

Her brother gave a tiny sigh, as they made their way through the compound towards the private Uchiha training grounds. They walked so close to each other, that their shoulder brushed every once in a while. Their chakras mingled naturally. It was comforting in such a primal, basic way, that Kasumi couldn't imagine a time not able to do that.
She knew, that being in ANBU had drastically upped the chances of being killed in action. They both knew that. They both also knew, that they were freakishly good at what they did. So as arrogant as it may sound, Kasumi did not expect to ever not be able to have her twin, her other half, with her at any given moment. It was just not a thought, that ever occurred to her.

"You know tomorrow is going to be…formal", Itachi said lowly. They're honing us again.
Kasumi sighed. "Yes", she answered and brushed her shoulder against his. "And we suffer through it as always." We are the heirs, there's no way around it.
Itachi gave her a look. I'm the older one. There's no 'we'.
"Don't pout, Ita-kun", Kasumi smiled a bit slyly. I know, I'm off the hook! "I'll always be with you."
Itachi breathed out a sigh again. I know. His chakra embraced hers in an intimate hug.

"Stop being weird you two."

The smile in Shisui's voice was as obvious as the slight teasing. He had always found the connection Itachi and Kasumi shared amusing. A bit odd, but amusing.
He sat in the middle of the training ground, wide smile on his lips and his legs crossed comfortably.
"You two spar", he then said and shunshinned next to them. "No sharingan. I'll analyse."

TRIVIA:

Kasumi's ease with kenjutsu comes from training with Shisui and his Body Flicker Technique.

She doesn't need her sharingan activated anymore for most of the time she fights with a katana, because Shisui and her trained to get better without using it.

The sharingan is, after all, not only a powerful weapon, but also dangerous if used too much. Shisui knew that and trained Itachi and Kasumi in fighting without the added advantage.

This training later enabled Itachi to fight Sasuke almost completely blind.

Heya,

I'm not actually happy with this chapter. Fight scenes are the bane of my writing existence! And the whole chapter feels a bit...off. But honestly, I have no idea what it is...the next chapters are better, I promise!
It doesn't help, though, that Itachi is freaking OP as fuck and I have to try really hard to make Kasumi equal to him without her being a damn Mary Sue. I sincerely hope, that I achieve that ambitious goal?

Also a lot of Kakashi in this, because I felt like it. He's not yet 'soft' and all dork-y, but team work has a big place in his character already. At least I guess, he'd be at that stage of character development. He is 20 and I think I can give him some common sense at that age...

Lately, I also got inspired to write those little trivia tidbits. Hope you like them?

Last, but certainly not least:
THANK YOU so much for how you took to Chasing Red Camellias. I'm a bit blown away by it actually.
THANKS to everyone, who put this story on favourite!
THANKS to all of you following!
THANKS to Ayrianra, Stellarwitch and rsaenz18 for reviewing, I appreciate that!
You guys rock!

Read ya soon,
Murphy

PS.: I'm really, really sorry for that god-awful Protect-the-flag business in this chapter. It's...not my strong suit. Really not. I'm...working on it. Promise.

Ayrianra: Thank you for your review! And thanks so much for the compliment on my writing. I aim to please. :) I also can understand the scepticism towards the Itachi-twin scenario. The thought sparking this little story was a curiosity about the Uchiha clan in general. I wanted to explore an Uchiha-character within the Naruto story line. The only thing that seemed at least somewhat logical, was another sibling. There wouldn't have been any real, logical motivation for Itachi to leave another Uchiha character alive. Unless, that character was as dear to him as Sasuke. And since I didn't want a problem with age, when Kakashi comes along eventually as a love interest...Kasumi became Itachi's twin.

Stellarwitch: Oh, thank you so much! I was really worried about the twin bond...And I'm absolutely happy to hear, that you like Kasumi. Her character's still developing. She's eleven in the first chapter. so there's yet a lot of growth going to happen. I hope you've enjoyed chapter no. 2 as well?

rsaenz18: Thank you for the review! It makes me so happy to hear, that you're interested in how the story unfolds. Honestly, so am I. I do have a plot line worked out, but what happens at the side lines? Who knows? I'm happy you're along for the ride.