Standard Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or Naruto. So… you're probably used to them by now but there's another time skip from last chapter to this chapter. Also there's a bit of exposition as I talk about how I imagine 'jutsu' working in this world as well as how techniques are mastered and perfected which are actually two different things in this story. Don't know how close it actually is to canon, but, I don't think it's too far out there. Also, once again, please forgive any spelling and grammar errors, I try to catch them but I know I'm not always successful. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy and thank you for reading.

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Megumi stared in admiration and amazement at her daughters and their friends. They had all really stepped up their efforts to train and become strong and it had really brought her two daughters closer together. When they had started up at the academy Ino and Rin had sort of drifted apart, but then one night they came home and it was as if nothing had changed and they were as close as ever. At ten years old now, they were the best of friends and it was everything that Megumi had hoped for when Rin was brought into their lives.

Ino had picked up more of Rin's work ethic and over the past two and half years had improved by leaps and bounds. Like her sister she could already tree climb, water walk, and apparently they had all learned chakra strings as well. They worked out together, practiced together, sparred against each other often and were continually pushing each other to improve.

And Rin was learning how to enjoy life from Ino. She didn't have a lot of friends but she was close to her sister again and had grown closer to Sakura by extension and had even made a best friend of her own. Naruto was an interesting character to say the least. Though she worried what that friendship might mean, jinchūriki were dangerous, if they ever lost control of the beasts inside of them it never distinguished between friend and foe. However, Naruto himself was a very sweet, if not boisterous, little boy and despite her concerns about the monster he contained inside of him thought that he was a good friend for her daughter.

It was nice to watch her daughters push and elevate and encourage one another. The two of them were developing into fine kunoichi with their own unique styles. Ino was all about the more subtle shinobi arts. Like her father she loved Intelligence and Counter Intelligence. She loved to figure out puzzles and to find hidden information and to figure out how people worked. And the reports that they received from the Academy said that she was quite talented in this area too. But where Ino really shined was in her understanding of poisons and toxins. She had taken to that particular area like a bee to honey, able to not only tell you what toxin or poison came from what plant or animal, but how to safely extract it, store it, and counter it. If it had to do with Dokujutsu, poison techniques, then her oldest child was turning out to be quite the prodigy.

As for Rin… Rin was a prodigy in every sense of the word, though her focus was combat. Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Taijutsu, she wanted to learn it all. She didn't underestimate the more subtle arts, she saw the use and power that they held, but it wasn't where her interests were. Rin had already learned her elemental affinity, fire, and was going through great lengths to master her new found ability.

She had already learned the Grand Fire Ball Jutsu, Phoenix Flower Jutsu and the Dragon Fire Jutsu which normally required the use of ninja wires to give the fire a path to run along, but Rin had cleverly figured out how to use the Chakra String technique to use it instead which normally wasn't possible. It had been tried before but the power of the fire technique always overwhelmed and destroyed the string as soon as it was released. She had found a way around that. Her Rin never did anything halfway, if she was going to learn something she was going to master it.

It worried her though, Ino looked to be following in Inoichi's footsteps and with a little effort she could ultimately find a job in the village and be relatively safe for a ninja, Rin however was turning into a real front line fighter. The kind that either became a legend or died in obscurity, and neither one of those options had a very long life span. She could very well end up being the next Hatake Kakashi or Uzuki Yugao, but Megumi had also been a special jōnin and had seen more than enough to know that the alternative was much more likely.

Still it did no good worry and fret about the future. All she could do was watch her daughters and provide whatever support that she could give them. Actually she was having quite a bit of fun watching them right now. They were outside just insight of the house and had obviously learned the Substitution Jutsu today and were practicing it by trying to pelt each other with paint pellets, courtesy of Naruto if she had to guess, and then using Substitution Jutsu to get out of the way.

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Substitution Jutsu was a freaking God send as far as Quinn was concerned. A ninja technique that cost almost zero chakra and teleported you out of harm's way… yeah if there was one technique that she was going to master to its fullest potential and force Ino, Naruto, and Sakura to do the same it was this one.

She could already do it without shouting out the name of the technique, so that was a good first step. Basically a fully performed technique worked like this. You visualized the jutsu in your head while simultaneously gathering the necessary chakra and performing the necessary hand seals. When you felt the technique reach its completion point you released your chakra, then to help you maintain your focus you called out the technique's name as you released it. The more difficult a technique the more necessary each of these steps were.

Mastering a technique was basically removing steps from the equation until you could just make your chakra do it. Usually you started by removing the need to call out the name of the jutsu, and then you moved on from there by slowly removing the various hand seals until you could do the jutsu silently with either only one seal or even none.

Perfecting a technique was a little different. When you perfected a jutsu you had long since mastered it and had instead taken it to that next level where you basically break it. A famous example of perfecting a jutsu was Shisui of the Body Flicker. Someone she had read about in one of her father's old Bingo Books. He was a member of the Uchiha clan who had taken the Body Flicker Jutsu and made it usable in combat. Normally the Body Flicker wasn't a technique you could just use in combat. It was a great way to travel over short distances quickly but it took a lot of concentration and despite making you move faster than the eye could follow, it was hard to control in a combat situation. Shisui had figured a way around that, thus perfecting the technique.

Quinn sees Sakura jump out at her out of the corner of her eyes, throwing one of her pink pellets. Quinn acts quickly putting her hands together for the correct hand seals, Tiger-Boar-Ox-Dog-Snake, she feels the what is becoming a familiar pull on her stomach as her chakra zooms out to find a similarly massed object and then almost as if she's being squeezed through a tube she finds herself hidden in the bushes as Sakura's pellet explodes off of a log.

As you got better at this technique the size of the object needed would get smaller and smaller and you could learn to control what object you switched places with. And if you were fast enough there was a split second that occurred where you and your target were right next to each other and you could place traps on it. Quinn was determined to learn how to abuse the absolute shit out of this technique, she wanted to be able to switch places with practically nothing, a leaf, a stray kunai, whatever. It might take a while but it would be totally worth it if it meant she was safe. Quinn always mastered any technique she learned, but this may very well be the one she perfected. But until she reached that point she was stuck going wherever the technique sent her and replacing herself with whatever was available.

She looks up from her new position and sees Naruto hiding on the branch above her, oblivious to her presence. She grabs one of her red pellets and quickly runs up the tree and instead of throwing the pellet she goes into to slam it against him, but she forgot about what a sneaky little bastard Naruto could be and when she hits that orange coat of his she realizes a second too late that it's empty and she can feel a pellet explode against her back, covering her with orange. If she had been using her ability it would never have happened, but apparently it was "cheating" so she agreed to keep her sensor abilities suppressed for their game. Cheating, she scoffs internally, they were freaking ninja, but it really wasn't a big deal.

"Yahoo! I'm awesome, I'm awesome! Naruto one, Rin zero! Who's the man, who is the- damn it…" Naruto pouts as one of Sakura's pink pellets explodes across his face turning his head pink.

"You shouldn't have gotten cocky Naruto, now you're out." Sakura giggles, sticking her tongue out at him.

"You should take your own advice!" Ino shouts as she jumps from out of nowhere and throws a pellet of her own, but when it hits Sakura she poofs away and a now purple log is in her place.

*Poof*

Ino's shoulders sag when she realizes she's been beaten. Her left side covered in pink.

"And you shouldn't have shouted out your position." Sakura teases as she steps out from behind a tree, completely clean. "You might have won that way. Looks like I'm the winner here, you may all commence with bowing before my greatness." She smirks.

Ino, Rin, and Naruto all exchange looks. "Get her!" Naruto calls out laughing.

Sakura shrieks as she's suddenly peppered with Red, Purple, and Orange pellets.

"Oh you guys suck." She huffs petulantly, before breaking out into laughter with the rest of them.

Quinn is happier right now than she can ever remember being. This is exactly what she wanted for Ino, and now for Naruto and Sakura too. Moments like this, where they could all just be kids.

"Well it looks like Sakura is our winner." Quinn says smiling at the young girl.

"Yeah, good job Sakura, you got the best of me this time but watch out because it won't happen again." Ino says good-naturedly.

"Yeah Sakura you rock!" Naruto says while giving her a thumbs up.

"Thanks guys… but if I'm the winner then why am I covered in the most paint?" She asks wryly.

"Well at least you get to pick what we're going to do tomorrow so… it's not all bad." Ino says, stifling a giggle.

"Yeah Sakura, so what do you want to do tomorrow?" Naruto asks eagerly. Rin, Ino, and Sakura were all his best friends. Even though some of the other guys teased him about it because they were all girls, Kiba especially found it hilarious for some dumb reason or another, but he didn't care he loved spending time with them no matter what it was they did.

"Hmmm… well- Hey I know, isn't that Princess Gale movie coming out, we can all go see that!" Sakura says excitedly.

Sakura usually chose the most normal activities that they did, which even Quinn had to admit were a nice break from all of the training. She and Naruto almost always chose to do some kind of training activity, while Ino tended to be fifty-fifty on the issue. Half the time wanting to work on some kind of ninja training and half the time wanting to do something a little more normal like visit different shops or go to a movie.

"Sure, sounds good. I've wanted to see it for a while now." Ino says.

"Yeah, sounds like fun." Quinn agrees.

Naruto however remains silent.

"What's the matter Naruto, don't you want to see it?" Sakura asks.

"Um… I do but um… I kind of used up all of my play money on the materials for the paint pellets. Poor Gama-chan is starving!" Naruto pouts, pulling out his frog wallet and shaking it out onto his hand, a single one ryo coin falling out.

"Don't worry about it, I've got you covered." Sakura says with a smile. "Fair is fair, you paid for the paint pellets, the rest of us can cover your movie expenses." They were all aware that Naruto was living off the orphan's fund and so he had to budget his money carefully.

"Thanks... I just… I feel bad, you guys are always helping me out like that…"

"That's what friends are for, we know you'd do the same for us." Quinn says ruffling his hair playfully.

Naruto ducks out from under her. "Thanks. Well it's getting a little late, I'd probably better go, I'll see you guys tomorrow."

"Do you want to stay for dinner, Naruto?" Quinn asks.

"Nah, I'm good tonight, thanks though." He says with a wave as he takes off.

Ino sighs, "Well I know Rin's going to be all boring and spend the rest of the night practicing her fire manipulation," Quinn just shrugs, not disagreeing, "so how about it Sakura, do you want to stay for dinner and hang out for a little longer?" Ino asks.

"I can't." Sakura says regretfully. "I have a couple of relatives coming over for dinner tonight and my parents expect me to be there. I'm really very excited, really, you can tell by the smile on my face." She says with a painfully fake smile.

"Alright then we'll see you tomorrow."

"Well you two are a mess." Their mother says with a laugh after Sakura leaves. "Did you two have fun?"

"Definitely." Ino says while Quinn nods her agreement.

"Hey mom, we were wanting to go see the Princess Gale movie tomorrow with Naruto and Sakura is that okay?" Quinn asks.

"Of course, now why don't you two use the hose over there to wash up and then come inside, your father should be home soon and dinner is almost ready."

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There was blood and shattered glass all around her. She was stuck, paralyzed from the neck down and no matter how hard she tried she couldn't move. Her body was stuck in the wreckage of a twisted and mutilated car that was slowly burning all around her. She couldn't feel anything but she could see her skin melt and peel off of her body from the intensity of the flames. Then a black flame appears before her and begins to twist and morph itself into a form she recognized.

Rachel.

"How could you possibly think I would ever even care about you, let alone love you? This crash is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I never have to worry about you coming into my life ever again." Rachel sneers before her form disappears back into the black flame, which twists and splits before transforming into Brittany and Santana.

"Look San, she's dying, does this mean we can stop pretending to care about her?"

"Yes, thank fucking God. Do you have any idea how hard it was to be near you? You're poison Quinn, you destroy everything you touch. Good riddance."

Quinn is desperate to say something, anything, to plead with them. Beg them to forgive her and save her. But she can't even make a sound, her mouth isn't working.

Brittany and Santana morph and recombine into her mother Judy.

"I'm free, I'm finally free. You are no longer here to drag me down. I can't believe it, after all this time, I'm done with you. I hope your new family knows about the kind of pain and misery you brought into your last one?" Judy shrugs, "Well I'm sure they'll figure it out eventually."

Judy morphs into her father Russell. "You are a disgrace."

Her father morphs into Mercedes. "You deserve this."

Mercedes morphs into Finn. "After everything you did… finally, finally you get what's coming to you."

On and on this goes, the black fire shifting and transforming into the people that she knew and loved right before her eyes. Each of them telling her how much she deserves to die, each of them telling her how much better off they are without her and how worthless she is. Quinn is crying by this point but it comes out silent as she still can't make a sound. The surrounding flames have completely engulfed her. She wants to beg and plead for their forgiveness, for their help, but she can't and then suddenly they're gone.

And standing in their place is a three year old Ino, only it's not Ino, it's Beth. Beth smiles at her and then walks away, and Quinn can feel her heart shatter. Please, please come back, don't go! She wants to call out but she can't.

Then her family, the Yamanaka's, are standing in front of her watching her burn and die. Her father looks at her, a sickening rage in his eyes. "You've been lying to us from the very beginning. How dare you do this, how dare you come into my family and take advantage of us!"

Somehow Quinn finds her voice. "Daddy… please…help me." She chokes out.

"Don't you dare call me that, I am not your father!" He snarls, turning away from her.

"I feel so violated. My skin is crawling and I don't know how I'll ever get over this. You came into my home, you dared to call me mother knowing what you know, knowing you weren't really my daughter. What kind of sick and twisted person does that?" Her mother sneers as she turns away.

"Mommy… mommy please…" Quinn sobs, but her cries fall on deaf ears.

"Did you ever really care about me? Or was that all part of your twisted game?" Ino says softly "I loved you, you were my sister, my twin!" Ino screams.

"I do, I love you… I love you so much…" Is Quinn's broken reply, "I'm sorry… I'm so sorry…"

"It's too late, I don't care. I hope you die so that I never have to see you ever again." Ino says her voice laced with venom.

"No!" Quinn screams "Please, please, don't leave me!" She wails.

Suddenly everything is black. There is no car, no wreckage, just her floating along in an abyss of black nothingness. Her skin is blackened and charcoaled, the flames having burned her entirely beyond recognition and the scent of burning flesh and flames fills her nostrils, it's then that she realizes that the blackness isn't empty, it's made wholly of that black fire. Quinn screams in agony as she begins to feel the worst pain she has ever experienced. A searing, unnatural heat that was scorching her to the very core of her being.

She can hear footsteps walking towards her, she looks over, her eyelids long since burned and melted away and she sees a figure cloaked in darkness, untouched by the flames, and with a single red eye that seemed to stare right into her soul as he walks towards her. His vile chakra twisting and weaving through the air around him as it makes its way towards her. They lock eyes with each other and for a moment time stands still and then his vile chakra comes racing towards her. Her screams of terror and agony fill the air as the figure begins to call out her name.

Quinn.

"Quinn!"

"Rin!"

"Rin, wake up!"

Quinn's eyes shoot open as she screams at the top of her lungs, her voice hoarse. Her body feeling as if it were on fire. She looks around wildly as she feels a pair of strong arms wrapped around her, restraining her.

"No, no, let me go! Please, no, don't hurt me! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She sobs and pleads as the arms continue to hold her tightly.

"Sweetheart calm down, it's me. It's your father, you're okay, you're okay."

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Inoichi and Megumi had immediately come rushing into their daughters' room when they had heard Rin screaming in terror. When they got there they saw Ino standing over her sister desperately trying to shake her awake. Megumi pulls a scared Ino back and to her, holding her close as they watch Inoichi pick Rin up and cradle her to him.

"Rin. Sweetheart, wake up." He says gently shaking her, noting that she's unnaturally hot to the touch, but it's no use. Rin continues to thrash and cry in terror, trapped in her nightmare, her chakra starting to flare up and swirl around her uncontrollably.

"Rin, Rin, wake up, you're okay, you're safe." Inoichi says as he begins to gently rock her, he tries pulsing his chakra like he used to when she was a baby, hoping that might reach her and calm her down. "Rin, wake up. Please Rin." Suddenly her screams go from ones belonging to someone who is frightened to someone who is in incredible pain.

"Rin, wake up!" He shouts.

Rin's eyes shoot open as she screams at the top of her lungs, her voice hoarse. Her eyes dart around wildly, not actually seeing what's around her, as she struggles to get free. But he's afraid to let her go, she's thrashing about so bad that she could hurt herself. His baby girl is in pain and he has to help her.

"No, no, let me go! Please, no, don't hurt me! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She sobs and pleads as he continues to hold her gently and firmly in his arms. She sounds so broken and lost right now that it makes him feel sick to his stomach.

"Sweetheart calm down, it's me. It's your father, you're okay, you're okay." He whispers to her gently, slowly rocking them both back and forth as she begins to settle down.

"Daddy…?" She whimpers, her voice broken and confused.

"Yeah it's me sweetheart, I'm right here."

She clings to him and begins to cry even harder, but at the very least there's none of the madness anymore.

Megumi and Ino slowly make their way over as well and when Megumi places her hand gently on Rin's head, her head snaps away from Inoichi to look at her and for a moment it's like she doesn't even recognize her.

"Mommy…?" she whimpers.

"I'm right here baby." She coos, softly placing a kiss to Rin's forehead, masking a frown when she notices how unnaturally hot Rin's skin feels. It was a dry heat though, not clammy enough to be a fever.

"I'm here too." Ino whispers as she reaches over and carefully holds one Rin's hands in her own and then does something she hadn't done since they were both babies. She pulses her chakra, trying to send good and comforting emotions to her little sister.

"Please don't leave me?" Rin sobs, "Please… please don't go, please…"

"We're not going anywhere." Megumi whispers as she begins to gently stroke Rin's hair. They stay close by, not moving away until after Rin has fallen back asleep in Inoichi's arms.

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The first thing that Quinn noticed as she regained consciousness was that she was warm. Incredibly, comfortably, warm. The next thing she noticed was just how tired she still was. Then the memories of her dream come rushing back and she can't help the whimper that escapes, she's able to recall it all in perfect detail.

"Hey, it's okay. Your big sister is here." She can hear Ino whisper softly to her.

Quinn's eyes flutter open and she realizes that she is still in bed. Ino is sitting there next to her giving her a gentle smile, worry etched on her face. "Hey, you're finally awake." She says as she reaches down and pushes Quinn's bangs out of her eyes. "I'm so glad, you've slept almost all day. Let me go get mom." Ino says but as she moves to stand up the vision of Ino turning away from her comes searing through Quinn's mind.

Quinn reaches out and grabs Ino's hand and winces, her body aches, her muscles and bones burning, but she pushes through and ignores it. "Please don't leave me." She begs, her voice barely above a whisper.

"I'm not going anywhere." Ino is quick to reassure her as she sits back down and Quinn visibly relaxes.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Ino asks as she continues to pet Quinn's hair.

Quinn shakes her head, she doesn't want to even think about the dream let alone talk about it.

"Are you sure, it might make you feel better." Ino encourages.

Quinn is silent for a long time, not saying a word or making a sound. But Ino doesn't move from her spot, continuing to pet her sister's head, not knowing what else to do or say but determined to be there for her.

"I was dying." Quinn finally speaks up. "I couldn't move or speak… nothing, I… I was just lying there broken…burning alive…"

"Oh Rin…"

"And suddenly everyone I've ever met… ever cared for was there… but nobody cared, no one, they were all happy… happy that I was dying. They were all so much better off without me and happy, finally happy because I wasn't going to be there anymore."

"Now you know for sure that it was just some stupid dream because you have so many people who love you, me most of all." Ino says as she leans down and places a kiss on her sister's forehead.

"You were happy too, you deserve so… so much better-"

"That's enough of that." Ino interrupts, "You are my sister, my twin, I could never ever be happy again if something were to happen to you. We're two halves of the same whole, I love you and don't you ever doubt that."

"You don't know…"

"It doesn't matter. There is nothing you could ever say or do to change how I feel about you, nothing. Now I'm going to get mom, so she can check on you and then I'll be right back, okay?"

Quinn nods her head and watches as her sister leaves, yet despite Ino's words Quinn still felt sick inside. Ino didn't know, she didn't know the truth about her, how she was this parasite that had somehow snuck into their life and was feeding off of them. She tried her best to be good enough for them, to maybe even it out but there was no changing the fact that she was lying to her family.

It was more than that too though, not since she had arrived here in this world had she dreamed of the car wreck before and never in such vivid detail, so why now? Ten years, ten years without giving it serious thought, but that was where her nightmare had decided to manifest her. And she hadn't imagined the pain that those black flames had caused her either. She could still feel the ache and the heat echoing through her body. And finally, the figure, the shadowy figure with the red eye and that chakra so vile that it seemed to corrupt and destroy everything around it. She had felt that chakra before, back right before the demon fox had attacked the village.

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"What happened?" Megumi whispers quietly as she gets up to greet Inoichi. She was in the girls' room watching over them when Inoichi had finally come home. He had been summoned directly to the Hokage's early that morning, a team of ANBU arriving to escort him, and it was now almost two in the morning. "Are you okay, what's going on, where were you all day?"

Inoichi motions for her to follow him out of the room. "We're going to start informing the public tomorrow but there was an incident last night." His voice low and urgent.

"What was it?"

"Itachi Uchiha turned rogue and slaughtered his entire clan."

Megumi gasps and covers her mouth, the Uchiha were arguably the most powerful clan in the village, for one person to be able to kill them all was unimaginable. The power they would have to have to be able to do that was almost overwhelming to think about. "He killed them all?"

"No, not everyone, he left his brother alive, Sasuke. He's in the girls' class at the academy I believe. We're not sure exactly what happened, we only know that the entire Uchiha clan was found dead this morning except for him. He was mostly comatose so I spent all day carefully going through the boy's mind trying to gather information without hurting him. He only came out of it about an hour ago. I'll be spending the next while assessing him as well to see if he's stable enough to even continue in the shinobi program."

"It's that bad?"

"He saw his entire family murdered and he was placed under the effects of a powerful genjutsu, there's no telling what kind of long term effects this might have on him. The Sandaime wants me to handle it personally."

"That poor boy, what's going to happen to him?"

"That's not for me to say, technically he's now the head of an all but extinct clan, the Hokage and his advisors are handling it personally, and a lot of things are being made classified, even above me. I…" Inoichi hesitates. "You won't be happy but I brought up Rin's nightmare with the Hokage when we had a moment alone."

"What! Why?" Megumi asks.

"The last time Rin acted like this was the night of the Kyuubi attack, and I think the same thing happened last night."

"Yes but… but that was, she was just a baby back then. She didn't know how to control her sensor abilities."

"Exactly, and now she does and her abilities have only grown. The only thing I can think of that might have caused her to react like that is she must have picked up on all of the death and fear that was going on last night. Her chakra was reacting to it, when I was holding her… she felt like she was burning up… I just… I was so scared for her and I just don't know what to do for her? I was hoping maybe he could help."

"Well we've always known she was a bit… different, especially considering how little we know of her origins or her abilities… I don't know maybe we should talk to her, tell her the truth? Maybe get her insight into it? I mean I know we were worried about how she might react if she ever found out but… is it right to keep something like this from her? That she wasn't conceived but that she was instead created by chakra?" It was something that they had both struggled with doing, keeping this secret from Rin. But if strange things kept happening to her, some kind of explanation might be a comfort.

Inoichi shakes his head. "Can you imagine how damaging that might be to her as well, how horrifying? She could very well take it that she isn't real or that she isn't ours. We can't tell her, we can't place that kind of burden on her. She's our daughter, it doesn't matter, it's irrelevant and all telling her would do is place an unnecessary burden on her. No, she's better off not knowing."

"And what about the Third, what's he going to be able to do for her that we can't?" Megumi asks.

"I don't know… but she needs help, and I don't know if we can give it to her."