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Konoha's gates

Neji was the first to arrive at the gates of the city. He had ordered at his team to pack as fast as possible and to meet him at the gates to leave as soon as possible. He rubbed his temples. This was bad… I mean very bad. Someone had blown up the compound of the 2 most powerful clans in his kingdom. Someone was stupid enough to attack the Uzumaki clan. Finally, someone had a map of Konoha that allowed him to enter gently the city to whatever he wanted and then exited the village, hands in the pockets like nothing had even happened. He gritted his teeth. Lady Hana Inuzuka was dead and her little brother was pissed. Kiba was surely going to kill someone. His only parent still alive was dead in an explosion for a reason still unknown. Now he was the leader of his clan and he wanted the head of the man who blow up his compound. He heard a yap behind him. The King turned around. Kiba had his hands on his pockets. He did a move of his head to acknowledge Neji and passed a hand through the fur of his dog, Akamaru. Through the years, his dog had grown up. When they used to go to the Ninja academy, Kiba was always hiding his dog in his jacket. The teachers were always yelling at him because Akamaru was always yapping in the middle of a lecture to tell his master how boring it was. He smirked as he remembered the little white dog Akamaru used to be. Now, he was a true monster of a meter of height. Shikamaru yawned lazily as he approached the King and Lord Inuzuka. He scratched the back of his head saying a 'so troublesome' about the 2 females being late. Tenten showed up jumping from a tree soon followed by Ino who was just behind her. The Weapons Mistress bowed her head at the sign of Kiba who raised a brow.

"Who is she? But she reminds me of someone…"

He sated the last part quietly rubbing his chin in a thinking position. 'This woman… Hum… Where did I see her? Damn, I don't remember…'

"She's my fiancée."

Neji gave him the look of 'ask anything and you are so dead'. The dog user widened eyes almost passing out while Tenten laughed nervously. He looked up and down at her. The Kind clenched his fists and gave him THE glare. Kiba stopped and murmured a 'so protective, man'.

"Can we go?!" Ino yelled scaring almost all the birds near by.

They all flinched at the loud sound.

"Damn troublesome woman! Do you have to be so loud? I don't want to be deaf."

She glared at him huffing. He sweat dropped. 'I think it means I won't have a kiss good-night… It's so troublesome to deal with her… Man…' Neji rolled his eyes even if he was accustomed to their behaviour and this relationship. Tenten rubbed her temples. She hoped sincerely that she will be able to sleep without any interruption like Ino yelling her head off and Shikamaru trying to calm her down. Kiba's brows twitched in annoyance.

"Okay… so… What's the plan, lazy-bum?"

Everybody turned their attention towards the genius who cursed lightly. Damn he hated that nickname but he had to admit that he was lazy. He was just damn to lazy to try not to be lazy so he guessed it was the result of cloud watching and maybe Ino's yells. He smirked at the last thought.

"Neji is at the head to scan the environs. If the clan is really from the Cloud country then, they have probably set traps. It's possible they didn't to increase their speed and to win some times but the opposite is possible too. So, your work is to check some anything suspicious. I'm right behind Neji to stop anyone from going into the trap with my Shadow Imitation no jutsu. After, there is Tenten. If anyone attacks us she will be the one to attack him with her weapons. Behind her, this trouble-… I mean Ino will protect her back if anyone attacks. Finally, Kiba will make sure nobody is behind us with his smell and with his dog he can assure our back. Any question?"

Tenten raised her hand timidly.

"Hum… How to say it simply?"

Lord Huuyga growled in impatience.

"Spill it already, Tenten. We don't have all day!"

"Okay, baka. So, what when we arrive in the Cloud Country? We knock gently at the door and we say something like 'Hello! Are you the ones who attacked the Hidden Village of the Leaf? If yes, can we kill you?'"

Shikamaru rubbed the back of his head, Neji sweat dropped and Kiba signed something like 'smartass'. They didn't think about this part in their plan but they could surely come out with a simple plan at the last minute, hun? Ino just nodded frowning a little. She was right. What the hell were they supposed to do when they get there? Shikamaru laced his fingers together in his thinking position. After a few minutes, he opened his eyes.

"Tenten what happen when someone penetrates the territory of another country?"

She cocked her brows.

"The Army is on his heels, Why?"

"Are they allowed to penetrate the territory of another clan?"

She shook her head. She didn't understand at all what his point was.

"The Army can't unless the clan requests their assistance which will be a real joke. I have never seen that."

He nodded smirking.

"The moment we step in the Cloud Country the Army will take 5 minutes to be on our back. The only way is to penetrate the Huuis' territory. If we take chakra pills we could be there in less than a minute."

He pulled out a map from his jounin vest. He showed them the area with his finger.

"It's the nearest compound from the border. The Bijhou clan is too near from the castle. There. It won't be a good idea at all to go see them in the first place."

He closed the map putting it back in his vest.

"The Torture users will surround us in no time and it will be the perfect moment to ask them some questions…"

Tenten nodded satisfied by his plan. Neji activated his Byukugan by doing some quick hands signs. He looked behind him at everybody.

"We leave now. The Cloud is about 2 days away. We will sleep only 6 hours this night. We don't have any time to waist."

"Hai!"

They ran off behind him in the position already determined by the lazy genius.

The Hyuuga castle's gates

Lee was an hour early. He said it will be more youthful to be early. Kankuro laughed his ass off when he saw the Green Beast of Konoha doing push-ups in his thumbs. He was just too much. The puppet master threw his bag on the ground and sat down under a tree to laugh about the 'youthful' exercises of the shinobi. Shino walked quietly to the ground not saying a word as always. Temari was the last to arrive at the gates of the castle. She appeared in a pouf of smoke her hands on her hips.

"So… Listen carefully, bodies! Our mission is simple. We go to the Sand, we bring help back here and we do a little research on the Gushij's ground. If we find anything suspicious we have the order to neutralize them no matter what."

"You got it, sis!"

"…"

"Yosh! Roger, ma'am!"

Temari looked at Shino eyebrows twitching slightly. 'Is he even able to talk? This guy is just creepy!' She shook her head turning her attention towards the decent people. Her eyebrows twitched even more. Lee was still doing his push-ups on his thumbs and Kankuro was playing with a little puppet. She felt little screaming her head off and jumping in lake to commit suicide. Her team was weird. She was the only sane person here. She signed heavily. Neji and God must really hate her.

"Anyway, we will cut the travel from here to Suna in 2 days. Understand?"

"Hai!" They chorused except Shino but she was starting to be used to it.

She smiled brightly clapping her hands together.

"Good! We can go now!"

They ran off in the forest with Temari at the head of the group.

"So, sis? How many men do we have to bring back with us?"

She shook her shoulders turning her head to look at her younger brother.

"That's Gaara's and maybe Sakura's decision." She said still thinking about the way his fiancée ordered him around.

She smirked. 'Maybe I can get more blackmail material!' Kankuro rolled his eyes knowing exactly what was going on in her head. Lee stepped in the conversation in the nice guy pose.

"I'm glad my beautiful cherry blossom finally finds love! Even if it's not with me…"

He turned around with a river of tears coming from his eyes. The Sand siblings sweat dropped.

"But I still believe! I hope you are proud Gai-sensei!"

Kankuro rolled his eyes.

"I still have the powers of youth!"

"Can you shut up already with the power of youth?!"

"You don't have any power of youth! What about some youthful exercises to revive your fire of youth??"

The puppet master's brows began to twitch uncontrollably but Lee stared at him horrified as Kankuro began to curse.

"You freak. / You unyouthful man!"

Temari touched her fan on her back.

"I don't know where you take all that crap about youth/ I don't know where you put your youth!"

She took it out from her cloth around her waist.

"Tell me about your traumatize childhood/ Tell me about your youthful past, comrade!"

The wind user hit them directly on the head sending them directly on the nearest trunk of a tree.

BAAM!

They fell flat on the ground with a few stars on the top of their heads. She grabbed their collar shaking them merciless.

"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP! IF I HEAR ANOTHER TIMES THE WORDS 'YOUTH' OR 'YOUTHFUL' I SWEAR YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR TEETH!!!! UNDERSTAND?!"

Too much dizzy to answer they just nodded slightly before being dropped to the ground in a very painful way. Shino looked at the leader of his team through his sunglasses.

"Was that very necessary?"

Temari looked at him shock.

"You can talk?!?!"

"…"

She sweat dropped.

"It must have been the sound of the wind then."

She turned around to face the two men who were probably in their Lala-land. Her brows twitched.

"GET UP!"

She kicked them and they jumped on their feet in a military stance.

"Now we can GO!"

They nodded still in their military stance.

"HAI MA'AM!"

They ran off while Temari smirked satisfied. Shino looked at her weirdly but she didn't catch his stare because of his sunglasses. It was probably better for his sanity anyway.

45 kilometres the Gushij castle, in the Desert

Running under the burning sun, Lord Gushij smirked. This mission had been a success. The 2 compounds had been destroyed and the Hidden village of the leaf was under alert. It was exactly what he wanted.

Fear…

He wanted the King to fear for his people, to fear the worse, simply to fear him. He ran his tongue on his dry lips. He will send a nice little message in a couple of days to the King. He will probably agree to every single request he would have made. He smirked once more.

An eagle from above his head drew a shadow on the sand and cried slightly. He raised his head stopping everyone for going any further. He nodded towards one of his subordinates and the man raised his arms to invite the eagle to come on his left arm. The royal bird flew in a circle a few moments above the officer's head before alighting gracefully on his arm. He checked his paw. A piece of paper was neatly folded in 2 with the Gushij's seal on it.

"It's a message from the spy in the Hyuuga council, My Lord."

The officer gave him the piece of paper backing off a little. It was just the usual precaution if the message was a bad news.

Lord Gushij read the message twice before burning it with a fire jutsu.

"The 2 siblings of the Kazekage will show up. We had better get moving! The King is searching the Cloud Country for us. Apparently, he found the guy I killed with my forbidden jutsu and someone told him that there are only 3 clans of Torture users. Two in the Cloud Country and one here… So, in maximum 3 days they will know that we are the ones he's searching for. We need to stop them from finding out."

He pointed his finger towards the team A.

"You. You are going to ambush his squad in the way home. If there's a woman only using weapons, DO NOT kill her. Just knock her out and bring her to me. I will buy time this way to find a way to stop them from alerting the Kazekage of our position."

He turned his head towards the other team.

"You. You come with me. Go now! I don't have all day!"

"Hai, sir!"

They ran off going back in their footstep. The leader of the Torture users ran towards his castle gritting his teeth. They were supposed to have more time ahead.

"When we will arrive at the castle, call the scribe. I need him to write the letter of requests as soon as possible." He shouted at his Captain who just nodded.

Nightfall, 200 kilometres from the Cloud Country

The tired ninjas dropped their bag on the ground yawning. They kindled a fire before deciding who will stay awake to be sure everything will be alright. Tenten volunteered since she didn't sleep much anyway. The other one turned out to be Kiba since his dog could sense anybody who approached the camp. The other just fell asleep as soon as their cheeks touched their pillows.

Tenten sat in an Indian position looking absently at the fire. Kiba leaned against his white dog looking at the woman in front of him. He knew her. He was certain of it but he couldn't remember where they had met. He just couldn't remember her name and who she was. He tensed a little as she reached her pocket and pulled out a kunai. She began to twist it on her hand. Then, it hit him.

FLASHBACK

Kiba and his older sister Hana followed their mother. Teasing each other and yelling loudly. A vein popped on their mother's forehead. She was becoming tired of their games that always turned out with Hana crying because Kiba would make his dog drooled in her hair or worse. They arrived in front of a compound and a slender figure appeared waving at them. Lady Tsume and Lady Tayuga were very good friends since she was the only one in the whole village who was a woman and the leader of her clan. They hugged each other smiling and laughing. Kiba pouted. In this compound there were only women. His sister always disappeared with a girl named Rikku to talk about 'girls' stuff'. Him? He was always dragged around by his mother hearing for hours 'women's stuff'. It was even worse! He unzipped his jacket to take out his dog from there. Akamaru yapped happily making his young master smiled. At least, he wasn't alone.

"Kiba, why don't you go play in the Gardens with the girls?"

He raised his head looking in Tayuga's hazel eyes. She smiled down at him and he shook his head.

"I will play with my dog instead if you don't mind, My Lady."

She grinned passing a hand through his hair.

"You think the Girls are not match for you? Well, you should meet my daughter. Talking about her… Where the hell is she?!"

She looked around for a maid.

"Did you see my daughter, Kiko?"

She snorted and disappeared. He cocked his brows at the hostile behaviour of the maid. Tayuga just rubbed her neck laughing sheepishly. Suddenly, a little girl entered the room twisting a kunai in her hand. He widened eyes and jumped on her. She was going to attack he was certain of it. Tayuga and Tsume screamed. The girl looked at him wide eyes before knocking his face against the floor a foot on the back of his head.

"Don't attack someone by the front! Who teach you how to fight, idiot?!"

Tayuga rubbed her forehead closing her eyes and gesticulating towards the little girl with her other hand.

"Please Tenten remove your foot from his head and don't attack Tsume's son!"

The nine years old girl let him go.

"Kiba meet my daughter, Tenten, and Tenten, APOLOGIZE AND NOW!"

She bowed her head.

"I'm sorry, Lord Inuzuka and Lady Inuzuka but…"

She pointed accusingly Kiba who stepped back a little.

"WHO THE HELL TEACH HIM HOW TO FIGHT?!"

The two women sweat dropped and Kiba grabbed her hand grinning. She stared at him wide eyes.

"Come on, you are going to show me how you fight if you are so good!"

She grinned leading him towards the Gardens. A few months later, the whole clan disappeared leaving not even a trace what so ever.

END OF FLASHBACK

He laughed a little remembering the way this girl was different. She had been his best-friend until she disappeared. It was time for some answer… He stood up and walked to her. He just needed to be sure it was really her. She snapped back to reality when kick was thrown to her head. Again, Kiba's cheek met the ground. She showed him her fists her eyes flashing of anger.

"Baka! Attacking someone by the front! Who the hell teach you how to fight?!?!"

Kiba grinned there was only one girl to make him kissed the ground, twice…