Chapter 3

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I'm so stupid. How did everything turn out this way? Naruto I'm so sorry I'm so sorry, I couldn't protect you.

These thoughts ran over and over in my mind. I was horrible, what was I thinking, I'm just a kid now, I can't do anything.

I can't protect Naruto, not from the Hokage, not from the wars, and definitely not from my big mouth.

I'm useless.

"Aiya-Chan you know thats not true." A voice spoke up from behind me.

I turned around, It was Ino's dad, Inoichi, what was he doing here? Oh, thats right, Hokage was having him go through my mind. Thats where we were in this endless void of my mind.

Nothing I could do now, he'll find everything out about me and then tell the Hokage, then have Naruto probably Hana too, taken from me.

I wish I could just die..

"Don't say that! Aiya-chan!" Inoichi yelled and grasped me by my shoulders. "How could you say such a thing?"

Tears fell down my eyes as I stared at him."But, But..you're going to tell Hokage everything, you already know don't you!..hic.. N-naruto...Hana..taken away from me.."

"Aiya-chan..it doesn't work that way.." Inoichi said as he wiped my eyes.

"W-what do you mean?" I asked him, wasn't it all over he already seen my mind hasn't he?

Inoichi smiled sadly, pushing a strand of my hair behind my ear."Your minds very strong Aiya-chan, its blocking 90% of my jutsu, I should have been able to catch all your thoughts by now, but you're as quiet as a mouse, had I not heard you crying to yourself I wouldn't have even found you in your own mind."

What?! But, but how was that possible? I, he didn't know? He couldn't hear me? Is He lying?

I looked at the man he hadn't shown any signs of hearing me, Inoichi!? I screamed, he could be faking it? Inoichi eats pig flakes and had big boobs?! I thought.

...The man didn't so much as twitch.

"You really can't hear me?" I asked astonished, but how? Wasn't I thinking of wanting to die earlier? He heard that right?

"Yes, I've never been in such a complex mind Aiya-chan, All this void is nothing but everything is protecting you from my jutsu, I'm glad."

I looked around, all around us was darkness, this was my mind? I turned back to Inoichi, he and I we were the only light showing, how was all this even possible?

Wait.."Why are you glad? Didn't you hear me earlier, you responded to my thoughts" I asked him.

He chuckled,"Yes, I'm glad because you weren't hurt from the jutsu, and you happen to be speaking allowed earlier." He finished scratching the back of his head.

Oh...

my..

god..

That means..that means..I still, Holy Raman's, that means he didn't know, he didn't know!

Naruto, Hana, we still had a chance!

"Ah..so um..what now?" I asked him.

"That is up to you Aiya-chan, you have the choice of showing me how you knew about Naruto or you can not tell me at all, this is your mind you have free rein over it." Inoichi shrugged his voice going soft,"I can't make you do anything you don't want to do okey."

"O-okey." I had to control, maybe, I did say I saw it, maybe, I can just show him the scene I remember of when Minato sealed the kyuubi in Naruto..

"I-I saw it.." I told him, my voice cracking at the end. How was I still a child in my own mind? I randomly thought.

"Can you show me?" He asked taking a hold of my hands.

"Mmmmhmm." I replied and closed my eyes. I concentrated on bringing the scene to the forefront of my mind. Minato was standing on top of his giant frog, I always forgot his name, Kishuna on the side barely holding down the Kyuubi as he completed the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.

I opened my eyes, the scene was playing in-front of Inoichi. Little wisps of white light had flouted before us. They circled around each other creating a window to my memorie. Inoichi watched stunned.

"Y-you were right there?" He asked completely astonished.

"Y-yea..kinda.."I replied not looking at him, I didn't like lying to him but, I couldn't just straight up and tell him, Oh hay I died in a past life where there was a manga series on your lives. I don't think they would take that very well..

Once the scene was over, my wisps dispersed back into the darkness. Inoichi thought over something before he nodded. "Thank you Aiya-chan, This is all I need to see."

"O-kay..W-will I be punished?" I asked the question leaving my lips before I could stop it.

Inoichi frowned, bending on his knees in front of me."What makes you think that Aiya-chan?"

Because you all where blood thirsty ninja. I blinked, why the hell was I always so teary all the time. Post stress probably..thats what its called when you ignored your own feelings for months. I really was pathetic, cracking at the littlest thing..

"Thats what happens right? I knew Naruto was the jinchūriki, and when I saw the way he was being treated at the orphanage..I..I just couldn't..I don't hate him..like most of the village does..I really care for him, he's just a baby like Hana-chan, and he likes me and Hana-chan also so..so.. I just..I don't want to lose him..too" I told him letting the tears fall.

I really needed to get ahold of myself.

Inoichi, bless his heart, hugged me and let me cry. He didn't make excuses, or promises for me, he just let me release it.

Ino you have the best dad in the world, I thought as I cried.

I can't hardly believe what had transpired in the last hour.

I don't know how long it took for me to calm down but when I did Inoichi ended the jutsu and I found myself staring blankly at the couch in front of me.

Inoichi had already moved over to the hokage talking to him in clip sharp whispers. I didn't pay attention to what they were saying, instead moving over where I had left my two babies beside me.

"Aiya?" Hokage came over to us,"I believe its time we had a talk."

Wolf's Pov.

Wolf was speechless. Aiya, the girl that had taken in his late teachers child as her own. The girl that knew what he was, the monster, the boy that stole his beloved teacher that last person he had dared to care about, but stayed by his side anyway.

She took care of him, loved him, while Wolf himself had been driven by grief so much that he ignored, ran, and drove himself mad with mission after mission.

So when he was called to obtain the girl, he was apprehensive. Wolf didn't want to face the monster that stole his teachers life. He didn't have a choice though, emotionally he was at a stalemate.

The girl was a conundrum. The moment he had made himself known to her she had literally gone in what many of his comrades called barrier mode. He'd only seen a few Anbu have reflexes that fast, in a matter of seconds she had the boy in her grasp, while she shielded the young baby from his view.

It would have been amusing had he not dulled his emotions so much in the last few months.

But to not scare her further into fleeing with the two children, he twitched his shoulders, giving her the false sense he was laughing. True to her human nature she relaxed only slightly, but Wolf was able to convince her to let him take them to the Hokage.

Wolf for the first time in three months felt a genuine emotion slip through his hold. He was shocked, his heart catched him his chest. The girl she was the spitting image of her. The woman he'd been trying hard to forget greatly as much as his teacher.

A single tear escaped his hold, as he watched the little girl become the Red Hot-Blooded Habanero before his eyes. Then just like that, she was gone.

Come back. Come back he wanted to scream. So much at her, because for a brief oh so brief second, one of his loved ones was there, and alive.

When the Hokage called to him to bring Inoichi, he only have heard it, stuttering from the suffocating emotions that seemed to explode over.

Wolf took a little extra time to get the mind reader to compose himself.

It would not be in his benefit for him to break now, not after so much work Wolf had done to suppress them.

One thing was for sure the girl, He needed to stay as far away from her and the boy as possible. The girl because she was dangerous as a whole unit; the boy because he reminded him of oh how much of a failure he was at saving them.

Once he kidnapped Inoichi, dragged, from T&I, he sent his pack leader to Hokage. Then shunshenned with the blonde back to the tower.

The Hokage was relentless as ever, having just gone through an attack three months ago who would blame the guy. Wolf watched as the girl underwent the possible dangerous jutsu, her body sagging as Hokage picked up the children from her hold and set them next to her.

"Now all we have to do is wait." Hokage said.

"How long do you think it will take Hokage-sama?" Wolf asked him. The old man sighed and sat at his desk.

"It could take a matter of minutes or hours either way, you should reverse you henge, Kakashi."

"Hai sir." Kakashi, Wolf, reversed his henge jutsu revealing a fifteen year old boy with shaggy silver hair in his place, wearing the Anbu armer and the wolf mask.

"You've really proven yourself in the last three months." Hokage commented,"I know this has been very hard on you, with ranking up so fast since the incident, you've done well with becoming a Anbu captain."

"Hai sir." Kakashi replied, mildly amusing why he was commenting on it.

The Hokage sighed again."Kakashi, I know what happened devastated all of us, so if you need to take a break from being a ninja for a while, I'll fully understand, I'll even fill out all the paperwork for you right now if you wish."

Kakashi stiffened, if he where to stop with his duties, the one thing that was keeping him grounded to the sane world right now, would kill him.

"No sir, I am perfectly capable of carrying out my duties as a ninja sir." He replied.

"I see, then I have a new mission for you and your team Kakashi." Hokage told him.

"Hai sir. Details of the mission?"

"This is a A-Ranked mission within Kohana."

"A-rank with in Kohana sir? Are we finally addressing the infiltrator that triggered the attack?" Kakashi asked eagerly. Kakashi really wanted to murder, desecrate, and leave him begging for death after what he has done.

The bastard that runned his life.

"No, T&I have yet to gather anymore information from the captives about that," Hokage replied,"This is a high kidnapping risk mission, you and your squad, will be protecting Aiya, and her two charges."

Kakashi's eyes widened behind the mask..

What.

Seeing his surprised expression the Hokage continued. "I believe even with this meeting kept underwraps that the word of Aiya, a young untrained girl, is taking care of Naruto others will come, and try to kidnap him possibly killing her and the child in the process."

Kakashi started to protest, He wanted to be out searching for the masked man, not babysitting a child and two infants that reminded him too much of his past.

"Sir, surely a more experienced ninja can take-"

"Are you refusing a direct mission order from your Hokage?!" Hiruzen cut him off,"Now you will accept this mission Kakashi or I will demote you from your position on the standard you are emotionally unfit to handle, am I understood!"

Kakashi grit his jaw. Damn the man, he should be searching for the infiltrator not forced to babysit children. Fuck.

Kakashi nodded anyway and bowed to his Hokage.

"I understand sir. I shall gather my squad immediately, excuse me." He said then shunshenned out of the room to inform his recently new acquired squad of their mission.

Kakashi didn't have time for this, but if he was to keep his position and information lines open for revenge he had to bide his time.

Now it looked like he would have to pretend to be babysitter till the time was right for him to leave the village and kill the masked man in the most brutal way possible.

A: Sorry for the late update, I got a new job this week and have been rather busy with it. Still haven't found a beta for my story so I'll be doing the best I can for the grammar and spelling mistakes ok. Thanks for all the favorites and follows that helped me a lot to get this chapter out. I'll try to see if I can get the creative juices flowing for the next chapter ok.

Q: Who should be on Kakashi's squad?

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Gai

Tenzo

Genma

Hayate

Asuma

Anko

Kurenai

Inoichi

Muta

Takoma

Fugaku

Itachi

Please let me know out of this list I've decided to only pick five out of the above with your help, let me know in the reviews or private message please.

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