This chapter is for Lebellefille for the amazing review and the drive to pumped out this chapter

I took a different twist on this part of the story

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Opening my eyes my heart raced into my throat. I looked around, dust and rubble surrounding me. My eyes were red and looking over and all around. Taking a count of all my comrade and friends making sure they were alright. In my moment of uncertainty I was taken down by Kakashi-sensei, shuriken passing over where I was standing only a moment ago. "Suiren I need you to concentrate right now. Help the others get out of the genjustu. Are you listening to me?" I gulped trying to relax my heart but nodded quickly, "Hai." I mumbled leaning down to Naruto and releasing the genjustu.

"Wake up Naruto, are you okay?" I shook him lightly. My eyes glancing over to the stadium in rushed motions and then up to the Hokage's tower. I could see him, a kunai to his neck and my blood started to run cold.

I blinked and a large barrier appeared, one of the Anbu jumping toward and dying in a instance. "Why are you here? Lord Hokage is in danger." Gai-sensei asked the lone Anbu but my hair stood on end. The Anbu was suddenly joined by four sound ninja. "What a nuisance." Kakashi mumbled. "An enemy masquerading as Anbu black ops." I was quick to fall between my two Senseis. Pulling on Kakashi's arm he leaned down. "I know his chakra." I choked out trying to control my bubbling emotions. I wanted to hurt these people.

I could tell the masked Nin was looking at me. "Kabuto." I mumbled and he laughed, the bastard laughed. My eyes focused behind them, Saskue was being protected by Genma and my breathing became ragged, I wanted to help him.

"Sasuke." I mumbled as he took off after the sand ninja. My feet twitched and l leaned forward ready to take off after him but Kakashi grabbed my collar. "Let go! He needs me." I yelled which only made him grip my collar harder, "You're village needs you." He said sternly back. He was right, my village, I had to follow my orders. He was right, he was always right.

There was a spike in chakra, putrid chakra my heart stopped. Yellow eyes flashed on my lids when I shut my orbs tight. I shuffled behind my Senseis my body shaking. His laugh echoing in my very skull. "Look Kakashi inside the barrier." Gai pointed out. "Orochimaru."

No. It couldn't be, he couldn't be here. I barely registered Sakura calling out for Sasuke and noticing he was gone. I heard a shift in feet and my red eyes darted open noticing the movement of the enemy. Jumping up I deflected a few Kunai that were meant for Sakura. She looked up at me and we looked over at Kakashi when he spoke, "Sakura, Suiren. Why don't you stay right there while I trim these enemies down to size?" With those words he jumped off and they started fighting with the sound ninja.

I pulled Sakura up toward Naruto who was mumbling something in his sleep. I released the genjustu and he was still sleeping. "Im worried about Sasuke." I said and she nodded her head. I could see it in her eyes, she was worried too. I took a second to look up at the barrier and instantly regretted seeing that snake. I gasped when I thought he was going to deliver the final blow but he ended up cutting his hand with a kunai.

"Im worried about the Hokage." I mumbled. "Wake them up." Kakashi sensei said stopping near us. "Naruto will be delighted to get a mission after all this time."

"What kind of mission?" Sakura asked hesitation in her voice. "You'll have to be careful on this one. It's the first A-rank assignment since the land of the waves." I gulped. That was the mission we all met, I almost died during that mission. "But sensei what are you doing with this battle going on? Why send us off on some A rank mission?" She was right but wrong. Sasuke was out there all alone and if I had to I bet I could guess what the mission was going to be.

"Sasuke is chasing Gaara and the other sand ninja. Sakura, wake up Naruto and Shikamaru and follow Sasuke." Before I could ask about myself Kakashi did a summoning jutsu. "Pakkun." I said looking over at the pup. "Shouldn't we wake Ino and Choji and go in a group?" that was a pretty smart idea. "No time I suspect that many sound and sand shinobi have already infiltrated our village. Besides if you have more than four ninja essential to a squad it takes longer to get anything done and it becomes more difficult to hide from the enemy. You did learn that in academy parole training didn't you?" He was right again. "Kakashi-sensei?" I mumbled but he seemed to be overlooking me.

"Pakkun here will track Sasuke by sent." Sakura looked over at me and back at Pakkun., "No way we are going to have this puppy as part of our team?" He got right up in her face, "Listen little girl. Don't you dare go around saying im some cute puppy."

"Okay its time." She kicked Naruto in the side and he grunted. "Hey what's going on Sakura." I flinched and lunged at the two, "Get down!" A kunai hit the wall behind us. "We will fill you in later just stay down." I muttered as Sakura crawled over to Shika and her eyes bugged out. "Seriously." Pakkun walked over and bit him right on the calf.

He jumped up and screamed, "You little faker, why were you pretending to sleep this whole time!?" He sighed getting the pooch off him. "I didn't want to get involved. Just give me a break. I couldn't care less about Sasuke." I huffed out a heavy sigh. "Hey he is your comrade." I snapped. Pakkun giving him another love bite on the hand.

"Behind you!" Sakura yelled but we couldn't react fast enough. Gai-sensei smashed the nin into a wall. "So fast." The Nin was able to say. "Not just fast. Powerful." Gai replied and shoved him even harder through the wall. Kakashi jumped back in front of us again. "Now I'll explain the mission and as soon as I do go through the opening. First track down Sasuke and stop him then find a safe location and wait for further orders."

"Did something happen to Sasuke." Naruto asked my heart lurched. Hopefully not yet. "I'll tell you what happened on the way." Sakura said tugging on his sleeve. "Now let's go." She said dragging them through the hole. "Why me? What a drag."

"Listen whiner, if this mission is a success I'll let you touch my paw and my pads so there is no reason to sulk." I cracked a small smile at Shikamaru's confusion. "Come on. They are really soft." Pakkun said holding his paw up. I crawled over to Shikamaru and put a hand over his, "Be safe. Look after my team." I said voice strained. "Let's go." Pakkun mumbled before biting his hand and taking off. Not giving him a second to ask me why I wasn't going. It took everything in me not to follow after them.

"Kakashi-sensei?" I tried to ask again. "Please." I asked and he looked down at me, placing a hand on my head. "I need you here." He said and I let my heart dropped but kept my face as calm as I could. I was a ninja I kept reminding myself that my village needed me. I crouched down and launched myself at an oncoming sound ninja. I blocked his kunai with my own. He tried to kick me in the solar plexus and I blocked punching him right in the throat. When he stumbled back I hit him with two shuriken. The larynx and the heart, simple and affective. He fell to the floor.

Another came forward and I bent over to miss his punch, hammer gabbing my kunai I stick it deep in his chest before pushing him away and onto the floor. "Suiren!" Kakashi yelled knocking out a Nin that was sneaking up behind me. "Thanks sensei." I glanced up to see Lord Hokage and Orochimaru fighting. My eyes wide as I watched the Hokage's hands and a giant flaming dragon appeared and moved to his will. "Can't we help him?" I said and Kakashi looked up and then over at me. "He is strong. He is the Hokage of the Village Hidden in the leaves. Don't underestimate him." I nodded hesitantly. My eyes glancing back over, Orochimaru was a dirty cheater.

My orbs shook as I jumped up to the rail; Lord Hokage was fighting not just one but two other shinobi who weren't Orochimaru. See a cheater. A growl started in my chest my red eyes watching a torrent of water appear out of nowhere from one of the attackers. I cringed but was brought back went a kunai whizzed by cheek. Turning I brought my hands together and flickered behind the Nin hitting him so hard on the back of the head he knocked out.

I wanted to use my jutsus so badly but all the villagers were still under genjustu and I didn't want to hurt them. I puffed out some air and started to run along the rail toward the Hokage. Dodging and flickering through sound and sand ninja. Placing paper bombs on respected body parts and kicking them into the arena. With a quick flicker I rammed my elbow into a Nin's gut who was blocking my way, my hand with a steady movement upward snapped his neck. I tossed him a side too. Burying my feelings deep down, I kept reminding myself that my village needed me. This was no time for weakness.

I was finally running up the side of the building I landed near Anbu looking around. "Why aren't you trying to get inside?" I yelled and they glanced over at me. If they answered I didn't hear them. My eyes looked out at the scene before me. It was Orochimaru but it wasn't. "So you have master that forbidden jutsu as well." Lord Hokage said and Orochimaru laughed that same laugh that was always did in my head. I felt the spot on my neck twitch. "Eternal youth and immortality justu, a technique for eternally recycling ones spirit on earth in a way it's a kind of revival jutsu. You find a body, a young body, pour your spirit into it and make it your own." My heart stopped, mouth open. "You'll die here old man. While I move on to another stronger body. Of course I really must thank you and the entire leaf village for preparing my next body so well."

No. Sasuke. "Now I know its Sasuke Uchiha." Lord Hokage answered and a shiver went up my spin. My hands came together, a ringing resonated inside me and I blocked out whatever was being said inside the barrier. "Fire style: Phoenix flames!" Inhaling as much as I could I was blasted back by the size of the flames that escaped my body, hitting the barrier, pushing into it trying to get through.

I growled when nothing happened and in an instant a forest grew inside the barrier. I closed my eyes and gathered my chakra pushing it fast and hard to the middle of my head, this time there was no wall. A spike of chakra, power. I looked to see Lord Hokage's hands moving in signs I didn't recognize. "You forget that the leaf village is my home. I have been entrusted with my homes protection. He who wishes to destroy my home must first destroy me and I warn you it will not be easy."

All of a sudden everything inside the barrier was dark. "This is our village! "I screamed my hands faster than before they came together making signs I had never tried but only watched. None of my jutsus were strong enough. I had to try anything even at the cost of my own life. My comrades are precious to me and even though we don't share blood they are my family. Ram- Horse- Snake- Dragon-Rat- Ox- Tiger. "Fire Style: Dragon flame bomb!" Chakra came rushing out in front, to the left and right, dragons racing toward the barrier barreling into it with a force that shook the very tower we were standing on.

When the flames were gone small fissures, barely noticeable at first grew on the wall. I fell to my knees breathing heavily. Looking up the darkness was gone and I saw Lord Hokage ending two of the ninja, their faces shifting, falling to the ground in dust leaving two faces that I recognized. "You were meant to guild them and instead you toyed with them as if they were dolls. Those people put their faith in you."

I leaned over on my hands and knees and started to stead my breathing. One of the Anbu keeping me grounded and the others assessing the barrier. There was a low hum in my ear. I could feel my heart in my throat again. I looked up and screamed, the sword piercing through the Hokage, almost in slow motion. I wasn't sure if I was still screaming. I knew nothing. I just stared at the Hokage, hands trembling.

The sword pierced even deeper and I let the power from my neck spread just a little. I was still in control; I would use Orochimaru's putrid chakra against him. If only just a little. I had to keep going. "Please we need to help him. Hit the barrier again. It's ready to crack." Anbu looked at me hesitating for a moment. "It's your job to save him. Even if it cost you your life, which is what Shinobi do is it not!" I stared into those deep dark holes and then he finally moved. The three lined up, hands together. I looked down catching Kakashi-sensei's eye before turning back to the barrier.

They seemed to be in a standoff. I wasn't sure what was happening but that sword must be taking its toll. "Don't give up Lord Hokage! Never give up!" I tried to keep my voice from cracking. "Hit the barrier. Go Go!" The Anbu hit the barrier. A water justu, earth, and fire pounded against the barrier. When it cleared the cracks spread like wild fire, my eyes instantly find the Hokage, "The jutsu is set!" He yelled before screaming out in pain, a seal appearing on his exposed stomach. "You're arms are useless now and without them you will never form another hand sign. Ninjustu is forever out of your reach." He said wincing in pain.

Panic hit me, "Fair well disciple may we meet again in the next world." Orochimaru's yelling went silent to me as I watched the Hokage's eyes close and he fell to the floor, the same moment the barrier fell. My feet acted on their own and I ran out to the Hokage. "Lord Hokage-sama." I whispered falling in front of him. My eyes scanning for even a breath that wasn't there. I just wanted to see those warm reassuring eyes again. He was like a father to me, like a father to us all. I glanced over at Orochimaru, "I'll kill you." I whispered, hands balling into fists. "I'll kill you!" The power swarmed around me, his chakra but I didn't care my eyes burned and my vision blurred for a moment before my vision became sharper than before. Orochimaru's yellow slits locked on to my red ones, the confusion in his eyes readable but all I could think about was ending his life for what he had done.

I blinked and the sound ninja lifted him up, Anbu filing in to take him on but it was too late. I lunged forward but a hand stopped me. "Let me go! I'll kill the bastard." I ripped out of their hold only to have two hands grab my wrists and yank me back. My eyes landing on Kakashi-sensei's as he looked all over my face to gather my state. I was pretty much out of chakra running on fumes at this point, my eyes sore and throbbing.

Other Jounin were huddled around the fallen Hokage. "I tried." I whispered, eyes looking down at the floor. The mantra in my head repeating what my team said they learned at the academy, a ninja must never show emotion but my heart was breaking.

So yes she wasn't with her team when the fight with Gaara happened.

I wanted to do something different and Suiren needed to see the Hokage, a father figure in her life die.

Hope I did this scene justice. the Third Hokage's death always made me sad.

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