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North Gardens, Hyuuga castle

From the corner of his eyes, Neji saw a man approaching Tenten. With his byukugan he could see the astonishment written all over her face and the joy of the man. What the hell was going on? How could Tenten know someone from his village? Why would he care, anyway? He had already seen too much of her intimacy for today anyway…Though, the weapons mistress wasn't even a friend, mostly a blackmailed girl under his control until he says other wises. He shook his head it wasn't the moment and the place to think about that. Naruto was attacking him with his clones. The King sent them flying through the sky knocking them 'dead' with his juriken.

Tenten continued to stare in shock her mouth slightly opened at the man in front of her. He had girlish features. In fact, it was pretty hard to tell if he was a man or a woman. His traditional robs were reaching the ground and his brown hair was put in a big messy bun at the top of his head not to have them in the way while he was fighting.

"Haku?"

His shock broke down in a bright smile. She returned the smile and jumped in his arms. He wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her closer.

BAAM! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

"OUCH!"

Hinata gaped in horror seeing Naruto being juriken with an extreme force. He passed through 3 trees before falling on the ground beaten up, bloody and knocked out. Neji's byukugan was pulsing dangerously around his eyes. Tenten raised her head from the neck of Haku and stared at the bloody loudmouth. Haku pushed her away from him gently seeing the death glare the King was sending him. Ino along with Hinata ran to the blond haired man to give him medical needs. Before going to Suna, Sakura had shown them how to heal but nobody had her perfection in regard that she was from a clan of medic nin.

"NEJI HYUUGA WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!?" Hinata yelled.

Everybody's eyes were now glued on her. The shy Hyuuga was fuming and they had to admit that she was pretty scary. It was the first time for everybody except for Naruto and her brother to see her angry. The quiet woman was never frustrated, never pissed off. One time, even through she didn't like the tea a maid brought her she drank it too shy to ask the maid to bring her another one. Furthermore, since when does she even know how to scream? Neji looked at her emotionless brushing some dust from his robs.

"He will survive."

HInata's brows went twitching. What the hell was that answer? She opened her mouth to curse, scream and more but Ino laughed nervously pulling her away from Neji. It was never a good idea to annoy the King even if the annoying one was his sister. Though, 2 Hyuuga pissed off would just brought pain and dead bodies.

Haku smiled excited turning back his attention to Tenten.

"Are you here to claim your inheritance?"

Her face darkened and she backed off looking away.

"No."

"But… My Lady…"

"Haku, I said no."

His pale complexion saddened.

"Why are you here then My Lady?"

"I never wanted to come back here, Haku."

He looked at the ground. She had changed or was it just the pain she felt? When she was seven, she was so proud. He never thought she would run away after the slaughter of her clan. She stayed a few days with him before running away without a word. He had not received any news since then. He remembered the days when he had first met her. A true prodigy…

FLASHBACK

A woman in a war's outfit walked in the gardens followed by her only daughter. Zabuza grinned, next to him Haku his son looked curiously at the girl. The child was the copy of her mother from her abilities to her beauty. The little girl had only seven years old, she wasn't supposed to train her bloodline limit and less the Hiruski style until she received the mark. It was the tradition. When a girl in the clan would turn 8 years old she would receive the signature of the Jurinai on her left shoulder blade to mark in her flesh her appurtenance to the clan. With the mark on her back, she would be considered an adult and ready to learn the secrets of her ancestors. After the Ceremony Of The Mark, the elders would train her until eleven years old. Then, she would be sent to the ninja academy. Finally, she would become an ANBU or a Jounin but it was rare. In majority, the Jurinais were all ranked ANBU. They were nicknamed the Deadly Weapons because they were used as assassins by the King, Lord Hiaishi.

Zabuza bowed his head soon followed by Haku. Tayuga smiled brightly as the little girl looked at them fiercely smiling.

"It's an honour, Lady Tayuga. My son, here, will train your daughter."

"Thanks, Zabuza-sensei. My daughter has some troubles with Hiruski style because…"

"Mother!"

She looked down at her child grinning.

"Tenten, your style is scary."

She huffed crossing her arms under her chest.

"Honey, listen to me. You need to control it. Ten maids gave up because you scared them."

She groaned.

"She scared them?"

Tayuga grinned putting her hands on her hips.

"She threw a kid through the wall."

"Mother! He was trying to infiltrate the compound! I had to stop him!"

She laughed caressing her cheek.

"He is the son of one of our Sisters, honey."

"But he had been disgraceful! He even dared to insult me!"

"Tenten you have to learn how to control your anger. You can attack people before they had been disgraceful. Besides, the Hiruski style is only for combat when you don't have any other choice."

She pouted in defeat.

"Fine…"

Her mother laughed running a hand through her smooth hair. Zabuza looked at the child. He was kind of impressed. Tayuga turned herself to face Haku.

"Haku, I leave my daughter at your cares! Swear you will protect her with your life."

He nodded smiling. It was his first mission and had been trained to protect Lady Tenten. Zabuza had protected her mother training her hard to control her chakra too. It seemed that like mother like daughter. Tayuga had been a true rebel in her teenage days until his father began to train her. The elders were supposed to but Tayuga was impossible always breaking walls and sending the elders in the hospital. Zabuza had been the only one to teach her something. When she became the head of the clan, she proclaimed that his family would always train the heiress of the clan. It was a shock for the population of Konoha. The Jurinais never interacted with men for the simple reason that they were all women. It was only to concede children that they would interact with them. Though, it was always an arranged marriage with the other clans. They would give the sons to the fathers and keep the girls. It was as simple as that. A boy could not be a Jurinai. Some of the boys would receive the bloodline limit but it was rare and in this case the mother would train him but he would never receive the signature of the Jurinai because he would never be able to use the Huriski even with a hundred years of training. For some reason only the women were able to use it.

"Hai, My lady!"

Tenten smiled smoothly at him and followed him to the training field.

"Sit down, My lady. I will show you how to control your chakra flows."

END OF FLASHBACK

Who knew she was going to turn out like that… He could tell that she was suffered and that she was scared of her memories. The young man smiled weakly.

"You don't use it anymore, hun?"

She looked up at the sky avoiding his gloomy glance.

"Tell nobody whom I am, Haku. We met in the Lighting country by the family of aristocrats named Mizu. You were a maid there."

He looked at the ground. Neji walked towards them with Shikamaru now fully awake on his heels.

"Ask him. It looks like he knows her. I would spar with her. Tell me what he says after." The Hyuuga whispered not looking away from Tenten.

He could tell she was nervous.

"Tenten."

He wasn't talkative and he didn't feel the need to tell her it was their turn to spar. Anyway, he was certain she would understand. Her sad expression broke down with a smirk. He was so going to get it to have seen her half naked. She approached him and they faced each other. His Byukugan already activated could show him all the signs of revenge in her features.

"What are the rules?"

He smirked.

"Don't die. That's all."

She narrowed slightly her eyes for only a second before wearing a cold unreadable expression. He ran towards her in the Hyuuga style stance without a warning. Tenten threw ten kunais towards him. He dodged them all easily. She took out 2 scrolls doing hands signs.

"Twin Rising Dragons!"

He stopped frowning. The scroll became 2 giant dragons and Tenten was secured between them. She began to summon several weapons sending them towards him. He smirked and spun around.

"Kaiten!"

She cursed. Her weapons were sent back towards her. She let down her scrolls thinking. 'The kaiten can block all my weapons. I need to buy time to think about a strategy to take him down… There's no way I will let him win!' She took out another scroll throwing him more and more weapons in a faster way. He spun again sending them all through the garden.

"It won't work."

'I know that smartass!' She looked around for an idea.

"Gentle fists!"

'Crap this is bad!' She managed to dodge the most of his blow but the chakra had stopped to flow in her left arm. He smirked and went back in the Hyuuga stance. Tenten gritted her teeth. Her left arm was in pain but she simply ignored it. Besides, she had seen worse and felt worse. Suddenly, she smirked. She had found her plan.

"Sorry, Neji, but this is your funerals!"

"Hn. Show me what you've got!"

She joined her hands making fast hands signs. Even though, it had lasted for almost 30 seconds she was still doing some signs. Neji frowned. What kind of jutsu required this many hands signs? It must be powerful but it was too long…

"You won't have time to finish your jutsu."

He blew her in the stomach with his palm. He widened eyes when the supposed woman 'pouf' to become a branch. He looked around with his byukugan when Tenten attacked him at his left with taijutsu. He raised a brow. Was she that stupid to attack him from the front? When he kicked her on the shoulder she disappeared in a pouf of smoke. He frowned. 'A replacement technique and a clone? It must be a distraction…' Another Tenten showed up who turned out to be a shadow clone. A kunai flew dangerously towards him. He dodged. 'The hell is she doing?'

"You can get me with that!"

"Are you sure?" Several voices asked around him.

'Genjutsu!' He cut slightly his thumb. The pain brought him back to reality. He looked around. His byukugan saw Tenten at the top of a tree in front of him smirking down at him.

"I know you are there! Fight!"

"I'm sorry, Neji, but this match is over."

She moved her hands pulling up the stings hidden on the grounds. Soon, a thousand of weapons were pointed towards him so close that if he moved the kunais would cut him. He couldn't spin in his Kaiten without being wounded in the process. She jumped in front of him smirking.

"Gotcha!"

"Are you sure?" A deep voice asked form behind.

Neji pinned her to a tree immobilizing her arms. He smirked.

"Not bad but it was obvious that it was all a simple little distraction. When I fought with your first clone, I realized that your hand signs weren't for one jutsu but for several. After that, you were fighting against one of my clone."

Tenten huffed. 'That was so close… I almost had him! ARGH!' He deactivated his Byukugan still smirking.

"I win."

"Okay… but this position is pretty uncomfortable so BACK OFF!"

He raised a brow apparently amused.

"Oh and what are you going to do about it? You can't move."

"Smart-ass."

He smirked and let her go. She had to admit that he was good and strong but damn it she wanted to teach him at least one of 2 things.

"You are going in town with Ino."

She poked him on the chest.

"Are you a robot or something?"

He looked down at her coldly. She laughed sheepishly he was almost pissed off. It was her revenge and her way to show him he wasn't always the King around here. He might win in spar match but to leave him speechless was her cup of tea. 'The final blow! Drum rolls!'

"Or maybe you are just a little tense… A massage?"

That wasn't fair at all! The buns-head woman was using his own words against him. She smirked as he tried to kill her with his famous glare. It amused her even more. Tenten walked away. The king had been defeat and she had won.

Neji slapped mentally his forehead. Why was she able to corner him that easily? The Weapons Mistress just said a sentence but she can even manage to leave him speechless behind. It was so confusing. He rubbed his temples and turned to see if Shikamaru had finished his interrogation with the girly man.

His Byukugan pulsed around his eyes automatically. When he thought about the way she hugged him, his blood boiled. Why was he enjoying the idea of beating the crap out of him? He cursed under his breath. Damn woman! Since she was here, the ex-general had never stopped to confuse him. He was supposed to be cold not confused by a woman and less jealous of a boy.

He deactivated his Byukugan walking towards the castle. He had a lot to think of. Anyway, there was no one left in the gardens. Tenten and Ino were gone in town to buy some dresses –cough and maybe a pyjama cough-, Shikamaru was probably waiting for him in his office, Hinata was taking care of her poor husband who was just in way when Neji saw his supposed fiancée hugging that boy and Lee was only at his 499 laps around Konoha.

In the forest, 25 kilometres from Konoha

Temari brought her hand to her lips looking away from the body. Not able to bear it anymore, she walked away purging behind a tree. Even Kankuro had paled under his Kaki Paint.

They had arrived ten minutes ago and still hadn't said a word. They had found the body of the thief on the ground tortured, beaten up and dead. Even though, Shukaku, the thing sealed in Gaara, had done a lot of damage once he had never done that much. In fact, Kankuro had never seen a man able to do such a thing. It was too cold-blooded. He summoned silently his puppet to frisk the cadaver. It was no way he would be able to touch the what-seem-to-be-a-boy without fainting, purging and having nightmare for the rest of his life. Still hearing, Temari sobbing and purging, Kankuro controlled his puppet to turn over the corpse having found nothing in the front.

Nothing. The map was gone. He put a plaid on top of the body. He knew the King would want to see the body. Not that Neji was a sadist or anything but he would probably know who would be able to do that. He made hands signs and another puppet appeared opening his wooden belly. The first appeared puppet put carefully the body in the belly on the second puppet and vanished in a pouf of smoke.

"Temari?"

His sister looked over at him wiping her mouth with the sleeve of her sweater. Normally, her brother would have laughed at her for being scared but even him was frightened. Though, it wasn't the time to joke or anything.

"Come on, Temari, we need to go."

She nodded shortly at his gentle tone. They ran off as fast as they can. This was bad. A psychopath had managed to steal a map of Konoha with all the weak spot on it through a now dead body.

Around 2 o'clock, they finally arrived at the gates of the Hyuuga castle. A group of guards stopped them but Temari wasn't a patient woman so she blew them away with her gigantic fan. There was no time to waste. Besides, Neji will probably forgive her… someday.

In Neji's office

Shikamaru had found nothing about the boy who turned out to be named Haku. He said that he met her in the Lighting Country. She was from the Mizu family a family of aristocrats directly under the orders of the Feud. In that time, he was a maid at her service.

His story meant 2 things; one: she wasn't from the Earth Country which means she won't be able to give him proper information. Two: she had forced him to lie. Since when the girls from aristocrats' family were able to fight?

He leaned back on his seat rubbing his temples. He had asked Haku to come over to ask him some questions too because unlike Lord Nara he was able to see the distinction between a lie and the truth. Though his questions were going nowhere the kid was telling over and over the same thing. The King could see he was sad and… lying.

Suddenly, the door opened brutally. He closed his eyes. He didn't need to see the intruder to know that it was Tenten. He was certain of it. She was the only one who dared, along with Naruto, to pin down his door.

"Neji, we have a big problem and Konoha is in trouble."

He cocked his brows opening his eyes. It wasn't Tenten like he thought it was the siblings of the Kazekage. Kankuro had one of his puppets summoning besides him and Temari was a bit too pale for his tastes.

"But first of all can you give a room to Temari? She isn't feeling well…"

Haku was becoming uncomfortable in his chair but Neji glared at him telling him through his eyes to remain silent and to stay on the chair. Turning back his attention towards the Sand Siblings he nodded slightly. He hailed a maid and Temari followed the old woman towards a comfortable guess bedroom.

"What is it, Kankuro?"

The puppet master glanced at Haku.

"You don't need to see that, woman."

Haku turned red and Neji mentally hit his head on an imaginary wall. Why on Earth was Kankuro as stupid as Naruto on some cases?

"I'm a man."

The ninja from the Sand rubbed the back of his head laughing nervously.

"Sorry, man."

"Kankuro, don't make me wait. I have tons of paper works and the stupid treaty of peace from the Earth Country to sign. So, what is it?"

"You know the map of Konoha in my brother's office you gave him in gage of peace."

"He lost it?"

"No, worse. Somebody stole it."

"What?!"

"Yeah Temari and I ran after him but the guy was pretty fast I swear but about 25 kilometres from here we found him…"

Neji relaxed on his seat.

"… killed in the most horrible way I have even seen. I think that even Subaku (1) isn't able to do such a thing."

The King was alarmed. It wasn't good at all. With this map, even the dumb guy on Earth could entered in Konoha infiltrated the castle and do whatever he wants. He jumped from his seat guessing that the corpse was in the puppet next to Kankuro.

"Show it to me."

"I have to warn you that it's not pretty at all. Temari vomited."

Lord Hyuuga was gotten off guard. Temari had vomited? It must be very ugly but he had been trained to be emotionless by Lord Hiaishi so he wasn't going to faint or anything.

He cleared his desk with the help of Haku. Kankuro moved his fingers and the corpse, under the plaid, was placed on his desk. Neji removed the blanket. Haku widened eyes looking away. 'Could it be…?' Kankuro being already used to the body looked at it a little paled. The King stared coldly at it.

"Did you find the map on him?"

"No, so I think that he had been hired by somebody to do it. The man who hired him must have done that to keep him from talking."

Neji nodded slowly examining the body though it disgusted him.

"Do you know who can do that?"

"No I thought you will be able to tell me since it happened in your territory."

"There is no clan able to torture someone like that in my country. I have never seen something like that in my whole life."

"I do…"

Kankuro and Neji turned their heads towards Haku.

"Talk."

Haku gulped. 'My Lady would kill me if I said all the truth but Konoha is in danger so he must know the crux…'

"It happened a while ago… My father had been killed that way. It was when your father, Lord Hiaishi, was ruling this country, My Lord. They never caught the culpable. He vanished right after and my farther wasn't…"

The door opened brutally and Neji was irritated. Why does she have to arrive in the middle of his story? Then, he widened eyes. 'The corpse… She must not see it!' If Temari had purged he didn't want to know how Tenten would react.

"Neji! To shop with Ino is hell! I don't…"

She stopped. Haku took his head between his hands. 'She's going to kill someone…' Kankuro jumped in front of her to block the view but she had already seen it. Neji put the plaid back on the cadaver.

"Tenten…"

Neji didn't know what to say. She wasn't supposed to see that!

Tenten's mind was blank. Slowly, she took out a kunai from her boot. With one hand, she pushed Kankuro aside and walked to the cadaver. She must know if he was really what she thought it was. She rived the shirt of the victim, the plaid thrown away. She closed her eyes. A black circle was on his chest, his symbol…