Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 18

Naruto, Sasuke: 13

Shisui: 22

Kakashi: 27

"I don't like it, I don't like it Itachi. Kunoichi can be tortured in more ways than us and...what if they rape...Oh God." Shisui sat down in front of his cousin, his head in his hands. He was nervously tapping his right foot against the floor. "Oh God it can't happen to her, I need to..."

"You can't go Shisui."

"So what, we just wait until we make our move hoping she'll get out of here on her own!? It's pure Bloody Mist shinobi in Kiri now, and she's alone against them!"

"I know, but if we move we'll mess everything up, including Kiri and Konoha potential alliance." Shisui gritted his teeth together, under Itachi's preoccupied gaze.

"Then what, we wait?"

"We wait," Itachi confirmed. Shisui sighed in defeat and the youngest of the two got up. "I'll go and stretch my legs a little." His cousin waved him off.

He did not go very far. Itachi found himself in a dead-end and punched the wall, hard enough for his knuckles to break the stone.

He wasn't sure what was the worst: that Akane had been compromised and was now being most likely tortured, or that she tried to save her friend's life and failed, just becoming a witness of his death. He could only hope she would not do anything too reckless on her own.

He could only hope he would have the opportunity to apologize.

"Are you serious?" He heard a female voice said in the hallway. He would have left her and the person she was speaking to alone if it wasn't for his brother's voice responding.

"Yeah, it's not Utakata guarding, I put them in a genjutsu, we put the chakra concealing seals on and follow Suigetsu."

"But..."

"Come on Karin, you're the only one who can guide us and fix us up in case!" Suigetsu cut her off. Itachi heard like a splash of water.

"It's not the problem moron, but Sasuke coming too could mess up the relationship between Kiri and Konoha!"

"I'm still considered as having defected," Sasuke countered coldly and Itachi pinched the bridge of his nose. He was right, and being in a different country made his actions in no way Konoha's.

"Yes but...your family..."

"I don't care, I have a debt to pay to Akane." He seemed to clip something and Itachi leaned a little bit to have a look. He still was not used to his brother wearing Kiri-nin clothes, but now he had a sword firmly tied to his back, clipped around his abdomen. The redhead sighed in defeat.

"I guess it would be safer for me to go with you…"

"Yo Sasuke!" Naruto ran to them, Sakura behind him. His brother opened his eyes wider by a millimeter and spun around to glare at his teammates. "So we were wondering..."

"Get out of here loser." Naruto's smile twitched and his face morphed into anger. He pointed an accusing finger at Sasuke.

"You! I've been trying for days to talk to you and you keep pushing me away! Stop being such an arrogant asshole for once in your life!"

"Hn."

"Why you..." Sakura hold Naruto back, his hands trying desperately to strangle Sasuke, who had closed his eyes and wasn't even facing them anymore.

"Sasuke, if you're still coming we have to go now," Suigetsu pipped up, his arms crossed over his chest. Sasuke gazed at him from the corner of his eyes and nodded.

"Nobody's allowed out of here until we're deployed!" Sakura reminded them with concern, probably over his brother. "You're not..."

"Disobeying orders? Yeah," the young swordsman replied. Naruto seemed to calm down and pursed his lips.

"Something happened, right?" he guessed quietly. Sasuke set his eyes on him. "My feeling was right after all, something went wrong."

"You don't know?" Karin asked them.

"Konoha genin aren't told anything, orders from Konoha higher-ups. They're more protected than us," Suigetsu explained plainly. "Mei-san's kinda uncomfortable about that actually, they're still risking their lives after all." Sasuke frowned deeply.

"That's why you two have been so clingy recently? You thought I knew more?"

"Shikamaru seems to think so, and you've been here for longer than us too," Sakura told him.

"I know more, but what makes you think I would have told you?"

"Because the Mizukage took nee-chan," Naruto answered straight away. He stared at Sasuke for a couple of seconds and the latter sighed.

"Konoha is helping because otherwise they would be the bad guys."

"What?" Sakura muttered and Sasuke glared at the floor.

"The Mizukage has been controlled for the past ten years or something like that."

"And that Shisui guys confirmed what was thought, it's an Uchiha, or at least the Sharingan," Suigetsu finished, shocking the two genin.

"If Konoha had not taken position, then they would have been accused of trying to overthrow a country," Sakura whispered with horror.

"So...bad?"

"War Naruto, it would have been war, and not just with Kiri, other nations could have used the opportunity to..."

"Accuse Konoha of manipulation, maybe falsifying some pacts made after the last war," Sasuke continued after his medic teammate. Itachi smiled a little to himself, even with the seriousness of the situation. His brother understood politics quickly.

"But if it's not a shinobi from the Leaf, then who Sasuke-kun?"

"Good question, nee-san thinks it's someone who supposedly died during the Third War because all of the bodies couldn't be retrieved." True, Shisui's brother was written on the Memorial Stone, but no body was found. "Maybe Konoha's actions was against what they fought for and they used Kiri geographical location to control it as they wished to put the blame on Konoha after." Sasuke congratulated himself in his mind. Sakura was the one with the quick thinking when it came to excuses, but the words flew out of his mouth smoothly and it was believable.

"Where are you three going then?" Naruto asked them. "What happened?"

"The mission that would be a signal for us to attack half failed, they don't know if they should keep going with the plan or find a new one." Sakura and Naruto blinked confusingly at Suigetsu. "My brother died, Uzu has been compromised." In Naruto's mind, his sister's face associated itself to the nickname she had in Kiri faster than usual and he opened his eyes as wide as he could.

"Where...where is she?"

"Apparently in the ANBU headquarters, they have cells underground and diverse torture devices, Uzu-nee is most likely being tortured for information about the..."

"Uzu-nee?" Naruto repeated hollowly. Karin blushed a little.

"I'm...hum, I'm also an Uzumaki Naruto-san." The blond stared at her in a new light.

"Oh, really?" he whispered softly.

"She's the sensor to find her, I'm the guide in Kiri and Sasuke's getting us in with his genjutsu." Itachi had been right to teach him at least some low-level genjutsu with the Sharingan.

"I'm coming too," Naruto decided, determination burning in his eyes.

"What? Naruto, we can't, we don't..."

"I don't care! Kakashi-sensei said that a shinobi who abandons their mission is trash, but that a shinobi who abandons their friends is worse than trash! I'm not standing there while my sister is being tortured!" Sasuke smirked, and all eyes were on Sakura.

"Don't come if you don't want to and if you come don't screw everything up, but in any case nobody can know," Suigetsu warned her in a low voice. Sakura gulped and looked at Naruto, and then at Sasuke.

"You're crazy, you know that?"

"Hn."

"So you're coming!?"

"We're going to get killed for that," she whined under her breath, shaking her head at the others' victorious smirks. "I can't believe we're just going to go in Kiri like that."

From his spot, Itachi heard them leaving toward the exit. His arms were crossed over his torso and the back of his head was leaning against the wall behind him. His eyes were half closed and staring at the dark and humid ceiling.

"Worse than trash..." he repeated for himself.

It stung him deep in his guilt. Akane knew about that phrase, he was sure of it. Did it mean she thought he was worse than trash? Nothing else than a shinobi who placed the mission above the life of one of his friend?

He didn't want her to die.

But he would place Konoha before her. He already had actually. He had hated it and despised himself for doing so, but he still did.

Did she know he hated doing it?

She would not care though, his acts would speak louder than his thoughts.

One thing was sure, she could not die here. Not there, not now, not like that.

Just like that, even if he knew what the kids were about to do, fully aware of all the possible consequences possible, he let them go.

He needed to make sure they would attack very soon.

"Excuse-me," Haku started, standing next to Chōjūrō, at the door of what was used as the Konoha Eleven room. "Have you seen Suigetsu and Sasuke-kun? We have been looking everywhere for them but it seems like they vanished."

"Sorry but no, actually have you seen Sakura and Naruto?" Shikamaru retorted and he took his chin between his forefinger and his thumb at the two chuunin shaking their head 'no'. "Strange, they were supposed to be here ten minutes ago already."

"I see," Haku whispered to himself. Then he turned to his teammate. "I would have asked Karin to sense them but she's nowhere to be found either."

"Do you think they're doing something together?"

"It's...oh no." Haku found himself with too many pair of eyes on him. "They wouldn't...Suigetsu wouldn't have dragged them out, right?" Chōjūrō opened his eyes wide.

"I...I mean he knows the situation is..."

"Yes, but it's his brother nonetheless. Sasuke-kun would have followed him if he could get in Kiri, and..."

"And Karin would lead them," the blue-haired boy finished for his friend. They shared a worried glance and looked at the Nara when he cleared his throat.

"Why would they go in Kiri? It's against the orders." They kept their mouth shut. "Look, we're going in your fight blindly without even knowing why Konoha is interested in helping you out. If something happened and if it made our friends do something, then you need to tell us."

Haku pursed his lips. If Naruto knew about Uzu, then he would have gone in Kiri willingly. However, it was dangerous, too dangerous and Suigetsu knew it, he was guided by anger and sadness right now and he would be dragging too many people down with him. He must have had gotten Karin as their sensor, and Sasuke just went along to help Uzu. Sakura and Naruto…

"Sasuke-kun has been avoiding them like the plague and he succeeded in that, it just doesn't make sense for him to tell them."

"But he said they were more clingy than usual, didn't he?" Chōjūrō suggested. "Maybe he was tired of it and told them?"

"Maybe...it's weird too." Haku's eyes found Shikamaru's and went as cold as ice. "An information for an information Nara-san. You must know why they were so clingy."

"I do."

"Shikamaru!" Ino tried to reason him, but he raised his hand to stop her.

"No Ino, Sakura and Naruto are nowhere to be found and most likely out of the base. We're on the same boat." He took a deep breath. "We have been trying to know why we were here, why we were helping you. Sasuke knows more than us, I asked Sakura and Naruto to make him talk."

"Right, you're not told anything..." Chōjūrō whispered with a frown.

"Sasuke must have told them then," Haku stated with a blank face, "but he also must have told them that the last mission that happened cost Mangetsu-san's life and that Uzu-nee was compromised and now imprisoned."

There was not a sound in the room. The information slowly sank in.

"Hinata, Neji, scan the base with your Byakugan," Shikamaru ordered them.

"Understood," they answered together. Soon, veins appeared on their faces. "Byakugan!" Everybody stared at them for long seconds and Neji stopped, shaking his head. Hinata, however, gasped in surprise.

"I see them, the guard at the entrance in under a genjutsu and they're already in the swamps, running toward the village," she announced loudly. A blush crept up her neck and onto her cheeks at her friends' surprised faces. "I...I mean..."

"Hinata, Ino and Chouji, let's go. Please, guys cover us."

"We will!" Lee almost yelled and Tenten put her hands on his mouth. "Oh, sorry!"

"We'll go too." Shikamaru nodded at Haku and they left the room.

Making sure nobody would see them, they tip-toed to the entrance. As Hinata had told them, the guard was sleeping, slumped against the wall.

"Suigetsu knew it wasn't Utakata-san or Kimou-san, otherwise it wouldn't have worked," Chōjūrō noted. "But...Suigetsu knows the stakes."

"Should we wake him up?" Chouji asked, staring at the sleeping man.

"No."

"No?" Ino repeated at Shikamaru.

"Haku-san, if I were to tell you we're going to go after them to stop them, would you come with us?" Haku blinked at him for a second and frowned, nodding severely. "Good, then it's settled."

"What? No! Shikamaru, it's insane!" the blonde Yamanake told her friend, Chouji having let his chips fall on the floor. "It's Kiri, we're going to die!"

"Someone has to stop them Ino. I know it sounds crazy and it's dangerous, but as the only chuunin it's my responsibility to get Naruto and Sakura back. Plus, Team Gai are fighters and Team Eight are trackers. We're the best if it's infiltration, with your Mind Body Switch and my Shadow Imitation Technique."

"But what kind of shinobi are left in Kiri?" the Akimichi asked shyly.

"Mainly anbu and jounin, some chuunin. But most of Kiri is part of the Resistance, even if they're in the vilage."

"They'll most likely die if they're found," Shikamaru reminded them. "I mean, not that I'm close to Sakura, and Naruto is loud, obnoxious and annoying, but they're Konoha nonetheless and I won't give up on them. Plus, there's Sasuke too. The guy's not officially back, but I'm not going to fail a second time." Chouji made a step forward, determination written all over his face.

"I'm in."

"What!? But..." Ino looked at her teammates and sighed. "Now I understand Sakura when she says her team is insane. This is insane."

"What is the plan for the genin Haku-san?"

"You're supposed to protect the last civilians in the village to go in the Land of Wave. The evacuation is supposed to happen as the distraction by Rahyō is happening. The genin from Kiri are also supposed to go, and the attack is carried out by chuunin, jounin and anbu."

"Then, they will most likely summon all of the genin at once," Shikamaru stated. "Fine, Hinata, Chōjūrō-san, please tell of the situation to the rest of the genin. They shouldn't be long to summon them, they'll see for themselves we're not there, explain the situation at that moment."

"Shikamaru, aren't you risking your rank?" Shikamaru shrugged at his best friend's worry.

"Yeah, like all of us. I'd rather lose my rank than my life though."

"Let's go," Haku announced and they left as one man.

Chōjūrō and Hinata stared at their retreating back, then at each other, and finally at the sleeping shinobi.

"Should...should we wake...wake him up now?"

"Shikamaru-san said to wait until you're summoned...so I guess not?"

"Alright, then we can sta..." Mei started, only to stop at the missing orange shinobi that was Akane's relative. His pink-haired teammate was missing too, like Sasuke. "Hatake-san, where is your team?"

"Huh?" Kakashi raised his eye from his book and scanned the room. None of his minions were here. Not even Sakura, the most rational one. "Oh God, what did they do now?"

"They left actually," Chōjūrō told them quietly. He straightened immediately at Zabuza's presence in his back. "We think Suigetsu wanted to go in Kiri immediately and Sasuke followed him, then Naruto-kun, Sakura-san and Karin." The jounin stared at the Swordsman, who looked at his feet.

"Geez Kakashi, your genin don't like taking orders," Asuma told his fellow jounin sensei. Kurenai shot him a glance from the corner of her eyes.

"I don't see your team either." Asuma's smirk fell and he scanned the room.

"Where's Haku?" Zabuza asked.

"After Suigetsu, with Nara-san's team." Asuma face-palmed.

"Looks like my team isn't the only troublesome one after all," Kakashi told him idly, to which the Sarutobi responded with a glare.

"Seriously, these brats will never give us a break," Jiraya whined.

Shisui glanced at Itachi, who was strangely silent. He grabbed his arm and dragged him away from the group.

"You're taking that better than you should Itachi, why?"

"You've noticed then?"

"Of course I have, I know you all too well!" Itachi sighed deeply.

"I may have overheard them before they left." Shisui opened his eyes wide.

"You didn't stop them?"

"They're not here, are they?"

"I swear, it's a struggle to follow you recently."

"I'm aware."

"Why did you let Sasuke go then?" Itachi shrugged.

"I don't have the authority to tell him otherwise until he's back in Konoha." Shisui blinked at him.

"Wait, are you saying you let him go because his actions won't reflect on Konoha because he defected recently? And Sakura and Naruto? Team Asuma?"

"They're with a chuunin from Kiri, Team Seven as well. Once Akane is out, she'll know what to do. She's a lot smarter than what she lets on."

"You're counting on them to do what we can't do then."

"Precisely."

"When did you become so scheming?"

The youngest shrugged once again and Shisui pinched the bridge of his nose. There were times where he would forget Itachi was four years younger than him. He had the tedious habit to remind him of that in the worst moments possible.

"I trust you to keep it for yourself?" Itachi inquired more seriously. Shisui waved him off.

"Yeah yeah...I swear than anyone under the age of twenty is going to give me a heart attack one day."

"Stop!" Karin ordered them. "Hide!" Suigetsu liquefied himself, making himself look like a puddle caused by the pouring rain. Sasuke jumped in a tree with Sakura as Karin and Naruto jumped behind a boulder nearby. From their spot, they could see the top of the cliff they were climbing, and the faint lights of what was Kiri further down.

"Wha..." Karin pressed her hand against Naruto's mouth.

"Can you believe it?" A male voice said as two shinobi walked between them. "It's a shame Mangetsu betrayed us. Uzumaki though? It was to be expected, I don't get why the Mizukage just doesn't end her once and for all." The redhead hold the blond Uzumaki back.

"Can you shut up for a second? We're supposed to scoot the area for their hideout, so keep your mouth shut," the other said coldly.

"Geez, no need to be a jerk man." Once their voices were faint noises, they left their hiding spots.

"We have the confirmation Akane-sensei is alive," Sakura stated, her voice shaking.

"We have to move," Sasuke reminded them coldly.

They climbed the last meters and once at the top of the cliff, four out of the five shinobi stopped to stare at the Hidden Mist for a second.

"So...so that's Kiri?" Naruto wondered out loud. "It's...hum..."

"Scarred," Karin finished for him. "This part over there is completely in the dark and almost outside the rest of the village."

"It's the old clans' compounds," Suigetsu explained briefly. "After the civil wars where Kiri slaughtered most people with kekkai genkai, the survivors fled and what used to be their homes turned into the ghost part of the village, to remind people to shut up and follow orders. The one still mainly standing you see there is the Yuki clan, Uzu's and Haku's clan. It's where we're going."

"It's on the opposite side of us!" Sakura protested.

"I know, but the north entrance, where we are, is the most guarded. It's where the higher class lives. The old compounds are deserted, it's the safest way to enter Kiri.

"Karin, Suigetsu, lead the way."

They started running after Sasuke's order. They ran up the rocky walls of the mountains surrounding Kiri, high enough to be hidden in the mist. Even if the rain was pouring on them, freezing them to the bone, they did not stop.

"It should be safe to go down," Karin told them after a dozen of minutes of running as fast as they could.

They did, ever so slightly but stopped quickly.

"I didn't feel them," Karin whispered with horror. "I..."

"They're oinin," Suigetsu told her. "Fuck!"

"How fast would they spot you?" Sasuke asked him. The shinobi under them, maybe a dozen, were talking and seemingly on guard. Their seals were protecting them for now.

"I have no idea, they're anbu trained in hunting down missing-nin like me. They can spot us by spotting something else than our chakra."

"We can't stay here!" Naruto hissed at them under his breath, his fists clenched tightly at his sides. "We need a plan!"

"A diversion," Sakura added thoughtfully. "That's what we need, a flashy diversion to buy us time."

"A flashy diversion?" Naruto repeated with a puzzled expression. However, he gulped at all eyes staring at him up and down. "Wh...what?"

"We need a flashy diversion and you're wearing bright orange," Suigetsu deadpanned at him, his straw between his lips.

"It's a great color!"

"Shut up moron, make enough clones to occupy them and use a henge to hide the fact you're from Konoha."

"Oh! Oh I can do that." Naruto ran above them, deep in the mist.

They heard a 'Shadow Clones Jutsu!', then a 'Henge' and many shinobi, all wearing black from head to toe, fell in front of them.

"That...that's a lot!" Suigetsu noticed with wide eyes.

"What are you waiting for dattebayo!? Let's go!"

They started running again, the undignified yelling of the oinin ringing less and less in their ears. Against all odds, they landed in the ghost district without being spotted.

"Damn, hid..." Karin was stopped short when a kunai was on her throat. She looked to her right, where Sakura was in the same predicament.

"Nice diversion, even if you youngsters are troublesome."

"What now? I thought the seals were supposed to hide our chakra!" Ino cursed at the three shinobi with her.

"They do, they were scooting the area but not for us." Haku made sure they wouldn't wake up and the two shinobi were tied up to two different trees.

"I hate to say this, but if we ended up facing two of them, there might be more in front of us. Do you have any idea on where they're going?" Shikamaru asked him.

"ANBU HQ, but from the direction they're going, they might try to infiltrate the village via the old clans' compounds, it's been desert for years. They're taking the most dangerous way these idiots." No, Haku did not denigrate people often, but Suigetsu's behavior was getting on his nerves.

"Is there another one then?"

"The sewers, it's the way the others will be taking shortly to infiltrate too. Please follow me."

Unlike the first group, they turned before the cliff overlooking the village. The slippery soil of the swamps turned dirtier and the water went from a greenish blue to grayish. The entrance to the sewer were higher than them and circular, in gray stones with some metal bars on the right side, two intacts but the three others broken at the middle.

"That smell!" the only kunoichi complained, pinching her nose.

"It's the sewers, what did you expect Ino?" Chouji asked her. She blushed in shame.

"It's...it's just that..."

"Hey, will you two shut up for a moment?" Shikamaru cut them off with a frown. "Haku-san, how long do you think it will take?"

"The safest is to take the same path they'll take, so we'll exit the sewers in the lower-class district. We just need to be fast."

There was not a lot of visibility. They walked on the side of the canal of sewer water, garbage floating on the surface. Except for the darkness and the smell of rot, they were the only one. However, Haku stopped them at the sight of black symbols in the crack of the wall.

"I hate you all," Suigetsu muttered, covered in dirt.

They ignored him.

"Chōjūrō, show me what Harusame-san gave you please," Uzu asked her old student, a brush stuck behind her ear and the cap of her ink bottle between her teeth. She nodded and carefully, recreated the seal from the paper inside the crack.

"What is it senpai?

"A seal aiming at blocking the sewers until the fighting is done."

However, the ink smudged and other symbols were there. He didn't know fuinjutsu, but he knew a small part of the seal was not Uzu's making, and that her seals simply just did not smudge.

Someone had altered it.

"It's a latent one, it needs to be activated," Shikamaru told him.

"I know, but someone altered it." Haku formed a hand seal and some water from the canal rose and covered the seal. It became an invisible shield of ice. "Harusame-san will know what to do."

They started moving again. Running at shinobi speed, Haku outrunning them in spite of himself, they found themselves smelling the sea air once outside. Haku made a turn and the south entrance, with not even one guard, was in sight. It was a gate within the rocks of the mountain, not decorated but just in clumsily cut stones.

And then, they were in Kiri, struck by the poverty, the stone houses were not taken care of. Ino widened her eyes at the sight of dry blood on the wall of a house, but before she could say anything they were behind barrels between two houses.

"Remove your forehead protectors, people can't know you're from Konoha." They did. "We will need to make a quick detour."

"We don't have the time!" The Nara replied hastily.

"But trying to find them without precautions will get us killed. Especially..."

"It's not time yet, so what is it?" A kunoichi asked the girl next to her.

"I don't know, apparently something like a hundred unknown shinobi attacked the north entrance. Anyway, let's go!" They both left.

"A hundred shinobi?"

"Naruto's clones," Shikamaru told Chouji. "They must have needed a diversion. How far are we from the ANBU HQ?"

"Fifteen minutes if we're not caught, like them but they're on the other side of the village. I won't be long." Shikamaru pursed his lips in reflection. He ended up closing his eyes and breathed out heavily.

"Fine, it's a drag but we don't have any other choice."

Funny enough, they went to a small apartment. There were still dirty dishes in the kitchen sink.

"If you want to eat something quickly, it's now or never." Chouji went to the kitchen immediately.

"It's your place I presume?" Haku nodded at Shikamaru, removing the coffee table and carpet in front of the couch.

"And Uzu-nee's." Shikamaru and Ino moved closer to him at the sight of four seals in the floorboard. Haku flattened his hand against one and gave a rectangular white paper to the Nara. "It's to communicate with people who have the same seal. No, not really communicate but if you activate it, the others will glow red."

"It's for asking for help?" the blonde asked him.

"Exactly. We all had one in Konoha. It also give the directions to reach you to others. Make sure to keep it and don't let an enemy take it."

"Understood, thank you." Haku used another seal, which released various scrolls.

"Medical kits, for emergencies." Another seal, other scrolls. "Empty storage scrolls." As Haku sealed the medical kits in a single scroll, Ino leaned toward Shikamaru.

"Tenten would be in Heaven."

"Oh, empty already," Haku muttered when he tried to use the fourth seal. "Uzu-nee took what was necessary to her. Are you okay with your weapons?" Nods. Haku got up and placed the carpet back, going to the room next.

He took his first forehead protector back and changed it, but he also grabbed Uzu's first and damaged forehead protector. Something caught his attention though. In the back of the drawer was a red and blue scroll, with the word 'Hiraishin' written on it. Under it was various paper tags. Haku widened his eyes.

It was markers. Markers free from any anchor points. In other words, she had movable markers instead of the still one she was using.

Maybe they're were not ready yet, maybe it was why she left them. He knew she hated spending so much money on kunai.

There was a letter too. Haku grasped it gently in his hand, a picture sliding from inside. The Yuki blinked.

There was a blond man with blue eyes smiling kindly to the camera, next to a woman with vibrant red hair and purple eyes. She had Naruto's smile. Another woman was sporting the same vibrant red hair next to her, only with gray eyes.

It was Uzu's mother. Next to her was a man with brown eyes and spiky brown hair. Uzu's father, Ushio. However, he was smirking maliciously at the camera, an arm around his wife's waist.

Haku blinked in confusion at the silver-haired young teenager clearly annoyed at the picture being taken. It was Kakashi-san, he was sure of it. His arms crossed over his chest, the girl with purple marks on her cheeks next to him was smiling brightly. Her posture wasn't straight as her arms were around a redhead boy's neck, her chin on the top of his head.

It was Fubuki, Uzu's older brother. The one Ushio killed. Yet, he was grinning at the camera, the same grin Naruto had. His hair was as spiky as his father but his gray eyes were filled with joy.

He looked a lot like Naruto. More than Uzu looked like him.

Next to them was a boy, an Uchiha apparently, as he had the distinctive black hair and onyx eye. He was holding a toddler against his hips, wearing an over-sized blue jacket with an orange collar and trimmings. The Uchiha fan was proudly displayed on her back. The orange goggles around her neck were obviously too big for her, but she was grinning at the camera, like the Uchiha holding her. Haku turned the picture, the same hand writing than on the scroll present. Only it was even older.

'Kushina, Akane, Akiko, Rin, Kakashi, Obito, Fubuki, Ushio and I, Land of Hot Waters'

"Haku-san, is everything alright?"

"Oh, yes, I'm fine Nara-san. Let's go," he said after he jumped at the unexpected question. Sliding the picture, letter, tags and scroll in his pouch, they left the apartment.

Haku could only hope they would go home later.

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