She liked it!

I can only hope the other 10 people who read it did. Oi...

At the very least, thank you for not leaving any hate mail about how "sinful" this is.

Warning: Unusual content ahead. Those who dislike yuri/incest should go elsewhere.

Unbreakable Bond?

"Haruki... you have to let go now." Misaki laughed nervously, standing outside their bathroom with Haruki's arms wrapped around her waist, the shorter girl happily pressed up against Misaki. Haruki was a terrible morning person, but her tired, half-open eyes still projected the love she had for her sister.

"Why's that, Misa-nee?" Haruki mumbled and nuzzled her sister's shoulder.

"Well I have to take a shower." Misaki moved to pry her sister's arms off.

"Your point?" Haruki tightened her grip stubbornly. "The shower is big enough for two." A smile spread across her face. Misaki blushed deeply, realizing what her sister wanted.

"But... then we'll be in there forever." Misaki replied and felt her heart begin to race. She bit her lip as her mind raced with thoughts about what Haruki would probably do to her. Not to mention the way Haruki spoke when still sleepy was actually incredibly sexy. Haruki chuckled happily, suddenly feeling more awake,

"I like the way you think." She let go of Misaki's waist and took her shoulder to spin her around and pressed her lips to her sister's. She then pushed Misaki through the bathroom door, shutting the door behind them with her foot. Much giggling could be heard from the room, shortly followed by the sound of clothing being tossed aside. "Hehe, I haven't even turned the water on yet, Misaki..."

. . .

-2 Years Earlier-

"Dammit Kaori, I can't believe you're still a Genin! Step it up already!" One of their friends said to another of their friends.

"Sh-shut up Junko, you failed twice before becoming Chuunin!" Kaori argued with her cheeks puffed up in frustration, but red from embarrassment.

"Aww come on, leave her alone!" A slightly older looking boy wrapped his arms around Kaori. "Just because she's the only non-Chuunin here doesn't mean you can be mean to my girlfriend."

"That... didn't make me feel better... Kou-kun..." Kaori twitched at being reminded that she was behind everyone else.

"Yeah, back off. Not everyone gets it on their first try." Haruki giggled, amused by the scene more than anything.

"What? Like you and your sister?" Junko smirked, knowing Haruki was probably trying to brag without being overt about it.

"What can I say, we're amazing." Haruki grinned and suddenly hugged her sister.

"H-Haruki..." Misaki laughed nervously. Their friends had no idea what kind of relationship the two sister's kept, so Misaki always got nervous when Haruki started getting affectionate.

"Yeah... but I'm way past my first try." Kaori sighed. She'd failed four times at the Chuunin exams. "I don't think I even want to try next month. I wish I was teammates with one of you two." She glanced at the sisters. As it was, Kaori was the only one of the group who was not a teammate of someone else there. Misaki was on Kou's team, and Haruki was on Junko's. Kaori's teammates were horribly obnoxious, and Misaki and Haruki's other teammates were both men, and thus not interested in hanging around in a predominately female group of people. That was probably another reason Kaori's two male teammate's didn't join them.

"Heh, that's how it goes." Haruki patted Kaori on the shoulder, having let go of Misaki at this point. "But even so, Junko was on my team and failed miserably her first few tries!" This earned her a dirty look from her teammate.

"Even I failed my first time around." Kou gave Kaori a kiss on the cheek.

"Umm, at least your teammates are both still Genin too?" Misaki gave a weak smile; she knew nothing they were currently saying was helping much.

Kaori was now blushing due to Kou's kiss, but she was still clearly a little upset, "If only those idiots would agree to train more often! Then this wouldn't be an issue!"

"Hey, Misa-nee, you're good at beating guys up. Why don't you ambush them an-" Haruki grinned mischievously, but Misaki shook her head,

"I don't break kneecaps..." She sighed. She was excellent at taijutsu, but she only used it when she had to.

"But you can." Haruki knew what Misaki meant, but she still kind of wanted to teach Kaori's worthless teammate's a lesson. Kaori was trying to specialize in genjutsu, which meant she had to rely on her teammate's heavily in the earlier rounds, and had difficulty in the one-on-one rounds later on... well she had the two times she'd managed to get that far.

"Look, I'll beat them up all you want if they agree to train with us, but that's it." Misaki shook her head. Even if part of her secretly agreed with what Haruki wanted to do, she had morals. Not that her sister didn't, but Haruki definitely embraced her dark side more willingly at times.

"Fine, I'll do it myself. But I'm not that tough, what if I get hurt?" Haruki pouted. "But maybe Kou will help me, he likes Kaori. I'm sure he's dependable." She went on, guilt tripping the hell out of Misaki.

"Haruki-chan... i-is that necessary?" Kou chuckled nervously, running a hand through his short, brown hair.

"Oh grow a spine, coward." Haruki growled, upset that he wasn't playing along. Kou wasn't really a coward, but Haruki had a short temper.

"Give it a rest, Haruki." Misaki patted her shorter sister on the head.

"Fine, fine, but Kaori needs to yell at them and get them to train with us already! I'm sick of them holding her back! Your genjutsu is perfectly fine, Kaori, but you need to get them to back you up properly!" Haruki ranted and crossed her arms, quite riled up at this point.

"Ummm, I'll try. Thanks Haruki." Kaori's face tinted red. Haruki usually never gave out compliments unless they were aimed at her sister. To be honest, probably every single one of them looked up to Haruki and Misaki. However, since Misaki usually followed Haruki, that left Haruki in the limelight. In short: Kaori felt good after having Haruki compliment her skills.

"Thank me when I give those louts you call teammate's a good ass kicking to whip them into shape!" Haruki grinned maliciously, contemplating what she'd do to the two in question. Of course, that was only of Kaori could convince them to stop being dumbasses and Kaori was not bold... at all.

. . .

-1 Month Later-

In the end, Kaori had somehow managed to convince her teammates to train with Haruki and Misaki's teams. However, by the time they'd started, it had only been two and one half weeks left before the next round of exams. Kaori had decided to back out, meaning her teammates had been forced to sit out the exams as well.

"Did you hear? I heard every one of the new Genin teams are entering the exams." Haruki said to her sister as they sat at he table in their family's extravagant dining room.

"Where do you hear these things?" Misaki asked. Her sister seemed to know a lot of things she maybe wasn't supposed to.

"Well, when you have a body like this..." Haruki grinned. "Let's just say guys forget how to not use their mouths."

"Flirting with people besides me again?" Misaki sighed and shook her head.

"Hey, we're way past flirting. Sometimes I want to have a little harmless fun." Haruki crossed her arms.

"Harmless... except if they're responding, doesn't that make them pedophiles?" Misaki groaned. Haruki just giggled,

"I figure guys secretly want to think that they are attractive to younger women. I don't think they want to have their way with me, but..."

"You scare me sometimes." Misaki turned back to her food.

"Hurry up and finish eating, I want to go see who's taking these exams." Haruki stood up, grinning excitedly. "We can spy as they go into the exams building!" She chuckled mischievously.

"Why?" Misaki mumbled after swallowing a bite of food.

"Because it'll be fun! That's why!" Haruki spun around in place, her long hair whipping around wildly, and yet elegantly. "Ah!" Haruki clutched at her eye as some of her hair struck it. So much for elegance. Misaki couldn't help but chuckle at her poor sister,

"Fine, but only because you made me laugh." Misaki smiled. Haruki just pouted,

"It wasn't on purpose. That hurt..." She muttered, her abused eye watering. Misaki got up and went over to her sister, and lightly touched her lips to her sister's eyelid, and then moved down to give her a peck on the lips.

"Better?" Misaki asked, catching Haruki off guard. Haruki bit her lip for a moment before responding,

"Much, but you're being far too tempting when we supposed to be heading out!" Haruki stuck her tongue out and then grabbed Misaki's hand, "Now let's go!"

"But my plate..." Misaki tried to turn around.

"Someone will get it! We're rich, act like it for once!" Haruki scolded and then dragged her sister off.

. . .

-1 Month Later-

They'd found a good spot to spy from, and Haruki had spent time commented on everyone who walked by. She'd found one particular team very interesting. She'd at first laughed at a ridiculous looking blond kid in an orange jumpsuit, then they'd both marveled over how his female teammate had the same hair color as them. Lastly Haruki had commented on the third member, which they recognized at the Uchiha survivor... mostly about how she hated his hair, but loved his eyes.

When Misaki's jealousy started showing again at that point, Haruki explained it was probably because the Uchiha's dark eyes reminded her slightly of Misaki's gray eyes. This had led to the two finding a deserted alleyway for a few minutes of quality time.

However, that was in the past. Now the Chuunin exam finals were upon the village, and everything was in chaos. Visitors from across the land, a foreign Kage, and their rich parents were getting involved.

"GAH! Mom! Watch it!" Haruki shouted and had to practically dive out of the way as her mom nearly trampled her.

"Sorry, sorry!" Her mother turned to face her, but continued waking backwards. "I have to go make sure your father doesn't do anything stupid!" She called out and then turned around to continue her rush out of their home.

"Note to self, don't marry a-. . ." Haruki paused mid sentence. "What am I saying? I make out with my sister... I'm not getting married."She blinked as the thought rolled through her mind. She then shrugged and forgot about it.

With her mother off to keep her father from gambling all their money away to a foreign noble over the exams, and Gina off to make sure they didn't get assassinated or something, that left her and Misaki home alone. Not for long though, because once the final round of the exams was closer to beginning, they'd head out to watch too. Sure, Kaori wasn't in it, and it seemed the pink haired girl wasn't either, but the crazy blond kid and the Uchiha were. That and it was always fun to watch children pummel each other, regardless of who they were.

Haruki wondered what her sister was up to at the moment, and decided to check her room. She opened it without knocking, not caring if her sister was naked or anything – she'd just take advantage of the moment.

"Haruki! You're more girly than me, right? What should I wear?" Misaki suddenly rushed up to her sister whilst holding a pair of formal outfits in her hands. She seemed rather disheveled and close to tears. "I'm so bad at this!" She whined. Haruki just giggled and patted her sister of the head,

"It's a ninja exam, just wear your ninja attire! Besides, I love what those shorts do to you..." She whispered huskily and gently guided Misaki to let go of the outfits she was holding while her lips found her way to Misaki's neck. Misaki shivered with pleasure and decided to let her sister have a minute. That minute became three and Misaki spent the last minute wrestling Haruki's tongue with her own before she finally found the will to pull away.

"O-OK... but then we should get ready now." Misaki said, body trembling slightly and face bright red. She really didn't want to stop there, but she'd always been the more dutiful of the two.

"What? We can keep going. We need to take out clothes off before we put on new clothes anyway. That'll happen eventually if we have some fun." Haruki licked her lips... and then her sister's... and then her sister's teeth. Misaki giggled and inhaled sharply,

"B-but the problem is... w-we won't want to put clothes back on..." Misaki pulled away again and bit her lip.

"We have time." Haruki said, and Misaki squeaked when she felt her sister's hands upon her read.

"I... I... mmm..." Misaki mumbled. Suddenly though, Haruki felt herself being pushed and Misaki's door closed behind her. "I'm sorry!" Misaki called from insider her room... where Haruki no longer was.

"Dammit Misaki!" Haruki growled and kicked her sister's now locked door. "OW!" She'd forgotten she wasn't wearing anything on her feet... Now she was horny, dissatisfied, and in pain. Kami help anyone who made her mad during the next ten minutes.

. . .

-1 Hour Later-

An hour later, they were at the Arena, both dressed in their ninja attire. For Misaki, it was a pair of tight black shorts that went half way down her thighs, which Haruki loved. They were not spandex though, as Misaki didn't want every single man in existence to see the exact contour of her ass. Using a slightly heavier fabric also let her shorts have small pockets, and also let it have belt loops which let her wear a belt to help carry her gear. Her top consisted of a skintight white one-piece, similar to a swimsuit, that actually went under her shorts. This meant even if her shorts were removed, her rear would still be covered... barely. However, that part of her outfit was basically her underwear, because she wore a black sleeveless shirt over it that was tucked into her belt. Haruki once complained that: "why wear something so sexy if you're gonna hide it?" Misaki responded by letting Haruki see it as much as she wanted - in the privacy of her bedroom.

Haruki's outfit consisted of black, very short skintight shorts that only went two inches below her buttocks, and blue, sleeveless top with a darker blue hem that went down to her mid thigh and was held shut by a cloth belt tied around her waist. She also wore stockings that matched her top that went up to just above her knees, leaving only a few inches of uncovered skin on her legs, though her top usually blocked sight of most of that. Beneath her top was a sleeveless fishnet shirt that left her midriff uncovered except by her top. It was only there so that if her top ever came loose nobody would get a good view of her chest.

Misaki's headband was worn on her forehead as was intended, but Haruki had gotten her's modified so that it could be tied around her leg at the top of her right stocking.

"This place is always so crowded." Misaki looked around as they picked a seat at the arena.

"I remember when a tooth flew all the way up into my hair, and we were sitting a row higher than this time." Haruki laughed.

"Ugh, don't remind me..." Misaki shuddered. She'd been the one to pluck the bloody thing out of Haruki's hair.

After some waiting, the Genin that would be fighting lined up down below.

"Ugh, that guy with the gourd... he's creepy." Haruki shivered just looking at him.

"Yeah... hey, wait, where's the Uchiha?" Misaki rechecked the line up, but didn't see him.

"Heh, daddy's gonna be upset if he doesn't show. He probably bet money on him." Haruki twitched. "Moron..." Haruki wasn't much for gambling. After a few formalities the Genin all cleared away, except for the two that would fight first. "Awww, poor kid. He's up against a Hyuuga." Haruki giggled, looking at the blond boy. She found something about him cute, probably the whisker marks, and kind of wanted him to do well. It was completely irrational, but after he'd stood out so much appearance-wise and made her laugh because of how he dressed she liked him.

"He doesn't seem special... except in the head, maybe." Misaki laughed, "This is probably the end of the line for him."

"Yeah." Haruki agreed. At this point the fight began. Both girls were shocked to learn the crazy little blond, Naruto apparently, knew how to use the Kage Bunshin Jutsu, and could actually field a decent number of clones at once. That said, he was still getting decimated by the Hyuuga, Neji. Neji had his own surprise, because aside from his Jyuken style, he apparently knew how to use a technique known as Kaiten, which seemed to drop Naruto's chance of victory from slim, to none.

It seemed to be over when Naruto lay crumpled on the ground, and without use of his chakra. Haruki's heart jumped when he started to push himself up, actually a little inspired by his amazing endurance,

"No, no, no! Stay down little guy, you're already so beat up!" Haruki whined sympathetically. Even Misaki was secretly cheering him on in her head at this point. They watched as he tried, seemingly in vain, to summon up his chakra. They watched, though couldn't quite hear, Neji tell him it was useless, though it was easy to guess what he would be saying at that point. They were all stunned, Neji included, when chakra burst forth from Naruto anyway, though it was not normal. They could actually see it, and it had a terrifying presence.

Neji whose Byakugan let him see chakra more clearly seemed especially shocked, not to mention he was right in there with Naruto in the arena circle. Naruto was suddenly much faster and stronger, but when he charged at Neji, the Hyuuga used his Kaiten to block. It seemed like Naruto's efforts would be useless as always, but the surprises that the boy had been giving out throughout the match continued when, despite being thrown back, he did manage to break the Kaiten.

"Awww, no way!" Haruki complained when she saw Neji get up first, while Naruto stayed down.

"He put up a good fight though, right?" Misaki patted her sister on the shoulder.

"Yea-" Haruki was cut off, and their eyes went wide when suddenly Naruto burst from the ground and slammed his fist into Neji's chin so hard Misaki wondered if she'd have to pull teeth out of Haruki's hair again. They watched in shocked silence as Naruto was shortly after declared the victor. The crowd erupted into cheers, likely inspired from seeing the underdog triumph. However, the section of the crown containing Haruki was drowned out by said girl's insanely loud cheers.

"YES! YES! HOLY SHIT! YES! YOU GO, KID!" Haruki screamed happily while jumping up and then let off a long sharp whistle that caused people nearby in the crowd to clutch their ears in pain.

"Heh... wow..." Misaki chuckled and uncovered her ears when Haruki finally calmed down.

"That was awesome!" Haruki grinned and sat back down. Sadly, the excitement died down and then turned into boredom when it turned out the Uchiha was still not there. Next, a contestant, one of the Suna-nin, backed out of his match.

"He's trying to get the Uchiha disqualified I bet." Misaki said under her breath. She didn't act like a rich girl, but, having grown up in that lifestyle, she could figure out when something underhanded was going on.

"Hm, probably." Haruki agreed. "I wonder which noble's pocket he's in." She shrugged. It was a good guess that made sense, she couldn't have been expected to know what was really happening. No one could have, unfortunately.

The next match began between the female Suna-nin and a fellow Konoha-nin who had jumped, or perhaps fell, into the ring. He lay there long enough that the sisters wondered if he'd broken something. Eventually though, he got up and the match could actually get under way. It wasn't as spectacular as the violent brawl between Naruto and Neji, but it was still interesting; like watching a game of shogi. The boy, Shikamaru, was clearly a thinker, not a straight up fighter. He seemed to stay just far enough ahead of the much more powerful girl, Temari, to keep her from annihilating him; something she clearly could do if she found the opportunity.

That said, it was surprising when she lost... only to win. Surprising that Shikamaru had actually managed to defeat her, more surprising that he gave up before actually sealing his victory.

"What the? What just happened? I swear, if he was bought off, I'll... do something bad!" Haruki grumbled, upset at seeing someone from their village surrender when victory seemed to be in their grasp.

"Heh, I think he might just be tired..." Misaki laughed nervously at seeing her sister so riled up. This happened every time they watched the exams. Haruki freaked out and cheered loudly, or complained, while Misaki just offered her two cents to keep her sister relatively happy.

"Maybe. Hmph, yeah, he'd probably be dominated if he tried to fight again." Haruki muttered, still not happy. At this point they had to wait yet again as the Uchiha was still missing. "Ugh... did the main attraction get cold feet or something? He'll probably show up and be all dramatic, but then his fight won't even been as cool as the first one and everyone will still cheer because he's the damn Uchiha sole survivor!" Haruki ranted and raved as boredom clawed at her mind.

"I-if you say so." Misaki shifted uncomfortably in her seat. Haruki was being loud and without a fight to distract her, Misaki was noticing how uncomfortable her seat actually was. Not too long after though, as Haruki had predicted, the Uchiha and who must have been his sensei showed up quite dramatically. Misaki's eyes widened when she realized the sensei was Hatake Kakashi, one of the more famous Jounin in their village. If she remembered correctly, the Yondaime had trained him back when he'd still been a Jounin... and was still alive.

"Fiiiinally!" Haruki groaned. After everything settled down the Uchiha's opponent, the creepy gourd kid from Suna, walked into the ring to face off against him. The match began and they learned that the creepy kid, Gaara, used sand of all things as his weapon. It turned out to be fairly effective, though the Uchiha, Sasuke, was so far living up to the hype and was astonishingly fast. Sasuke seemed to be able to almost overwhelm Gaara's sand with that speed.

The fight, while exciting and fast-paced, seemed to be a total stalemate as neither was able to really hurt the other. Sasuke was too fast and Gaara's sand was a near impenetrable defense. To top it off Gaara suddenly encased himself in a sphere of sand that Sasuke couldn't even scratch, but the sphere's defenses nearly impaled Sasuke. The Uchiha boy then turned and ran up the side of the arena and started preparing some kind of technique. Shocked gasps could be heard when Sasuke's hand suddenly became encased in brightly glowing lightning and let off a loud, violent chirping sound; like a flock of angry birds.

With the technique fired up Sasuke charged down the wall and across the arena towards Gaara; tearing up the ground as he went. He then reached the sphere and it stabbed his hand deep into it, his technique completely overpowering the barrier. However, Sasuke seemed to be in distress a few moments later and suddenly struggled to pull away from the sphere. When he finally did, a strange... thing came out with him, clawing at his arm before slithering back into the sphere. It seemed to have been some sort of monstrous arm, but not even remotely human.

"Misa-nee... wh-what was that?" Haruki whimpered, wondering what the hell she'd just seen.

"I... I don't... know..." Misaki stared in shock at the sphere that it had just gone back into. Before they knew what was happening, they both started to feel tired and the world began to grow dark...

. . .

-10 Seconds Later-

"Hey, wake up!" Haruki felt herself being shaken awake.

"Huh? Wh-what happened?" Haruki blinked and looked around. She saw that the entire stadium seemed to be asleep,and sounds of chaos could be heard in the distance, steadily growing louder.

"It was a mass genjutsu." Misaki explained. "I only barely noticed it in time." Out of the two, Misaki was better at genjutsu.

"What? What's going on? Dammit, I should have noticed!" Haruki was angry that she'd let herself get pulled into a genjutsu.

"Don't worry, I took care of you." Misaki smiled, but then her expression grew serious. "But come on, this place is going to hell. There's already fighting going on in other parts of the stadium! We should get out of here so we don't attract attention to the civilians who are still asleep." She told her sister.

"Right, and we should find our teams." Haruki nodded. The two then quickly headed for an exit, hoping that the Jounin senseis left in the stadium could fight off the enemies who'd somehow already gotten that far into the village.

As they exited the stadium, they were shocked to see a massive three-headed snake in the distance. How in the world had such an extensive attack been launched without any warning?

"This is crazy!" Haruki shouted in shock.

"Let's just keep moving! We should try to find a place where they'll think to gather!" Misaki said and started to jog off.

"No, let's go find Kaori, she didn't go to watch. I'm sure Kou will be looking for her." Haruki argued.

"Oh... y-yeah." Misaki agreed. She wasn't sure if Haruki truly thought it was a good idea, or was just looking for a way to take charge to make herself feel more in control of the situation. Regardless, it was as good a plan as any for the moment. Deciding on that, they headed towards Kaori's home. They never noticed they were being watched.

-15 Minutes Later-

"What do you think?" A man asked, kicking the corpse of a young Chuunin off of the roof they were upon.

"They look easy to me. This area isn't very crowded either. Heheh, I say we do it. Your move though, boss." A second said, pulling back his black cloth mask. The thing only had two eye holes, and in Konoha's heat was fairly uncomfortable.

"Hmph. Sure. You grunts need the practice anyway. Think you can handle a pair of girls?" A larger man wearing a similar mask said. In fact his outfit was identical to theirs, and nearly every other invading Oto-nin in Konoha.

After their leader had convinced Suna to help, they'd begun planning an intricate invasion of Konoha. Well, it had been intricate up til' now. Now it was just a test to see if their combined forces could slaughter all of Konoha. Unfortunately, Suna's army wasn't huge and they hadn't sent that big of an invasion force. Couple that with Oto being pathetically small in comparison to most other villages, and taking out a village heralded for birthing dangerous Shinobi was no mean feat.

"What? Six of us plus you, we'll slaughter them!" A third cackled.

"Hmph, on a good day you're barely more terrifying than a little girl's pet hamster!" The man who was obviously their leader growled. "But I suppose you do have surprise and numbers on your side. Go!"

A short distance away the two sisters were still making their way to Kaori's house.

"Dammit, why does she have to live so far away from the arena?" Haruki complained. They'd been avoiding the enemy, not thinking they'd last long in full out combat. They figured they'd find a way to help once they regrouped with their friends and teammates.

"Quiet, it's too empty around here! I don't want to be heard!" Misaki whispered harshly. As if on cue, she suddenly slammed her shoulder into Haruki, having just barely noticed a barrage of kunai and shuriken coming at them.

"Dammit, you were too far forward, she saw you!" They heard a shout, and next thing they knew, they were surrounded by four men.

"Two of us for each of them. Hehe, I'll 'hold' her and you can take your time carving her up!" One said to the man nearest him while looking at Haruki. The other pair thus focused on Misaki. The two girls immediately slipped into fighting positions and Haruki drew a short katana from her side. It was longer and more curved than a tanto, but was shorter than your average sword.

The lecherous one who'd just spoken lunged at Haruki, but pulled away when the girl swung at him. Haruki then went on the offensive, not wanting to give the man another chance to initiate an attack. He backed away, avoiding all her swings. After a moment, he let out a small chuckle. Haruki immediately ducked and spun around, stabbing out with her blade. A pained gasp was heard as the man's partner had been trying to sneak up from behind and now found himself skewered. Even without his idiot partner giving him away, she'd guessed they'd try something like that and had been waiting for the right moment.

"Dammit!" The lecherous one tried to take advantage of his partner's mortal wounding and attacked Haruki from behind. However, the girl pulled her blade free, and hopped out of the way, simultaneously spinning around and drawing a kunai. She threw the knife into the lecherous one's foot, causing him to cry out and stumble. He soon found himself with a gaping new hole in his side as Haruki sliced him open. As he fell to the ground Haruki finished him off with a downward stab to his stomach.

Meanwhile, Misaki had her own pair of goons to face off against. She didn't have a blade to use that would make her opponents wary enough to keep their distance, leading to her having a more intense and up-close battle. They were bigger than her too and she relied on taijutsu, giving her a major disadvantage.

She ducked and rolled as one thew a punch, ending up behind him. She came out of the roll on all four limbs and then kicked behind her, taking out the man's knee and temporarily taking him off his feet. She then hopped back up onto her own two feet and turned to face the second who was already attacking her. He started out with a kick, which Misaki used as an opportunity to show off a kunoichi's flexibility by bending over backward beneath it. She reached up and grabbed the leg as it passed over her and, as she stood up straight, twisted it with all her might. The man didn't resist, wanting to save his knee, and ended up being spun off his feet.

The man lost his knee a moment later anyway as Misaki stomped on his other leg to keep him down and then gave the leg another good twist, resulting in a loud crack. The man screamed in pain and she let go of the limb, figuring he would be down long enough for her to deal with her other opponent.

She'd taken two long with opponent number two however, and took an elbow to the back of her head and fell to the ground. Everything went white for a moment as her mind reeled from the blow. She rolled onto her back and squinted, trying to see her attacker through her blurry vision. Her vision cleared just in time for the man to reach down and grab her shirt, lifting her off the ground. Obviously he wanted to give her a sense of hopelessness before he killed her.

As Misaki's lucidity returned, she reached as fast as she could to pull out a weapon, but the man saw and grabbed her hand. His hands were both occupied now though, so Misaki reached up with her good hand and grabbed his face, jamming her thumb into his eye. She then gave another show of her flexibility and tucked her legs up, placing both against his chest and pushed as hard as she could. Between the pain and the strength of her legs being greater than that of his arms, she was soon free and rolled back to her feet.

The man clutched his abused eye, but as he looked back to Misaki, the last thing he saw was her throwing a pair of shuriken, one of which caught him in the throat. With one more toss of a shuriken, she finished off the one whose leg she'd broken.

"Ha! We got them!" Haruki cheered, and started to run over to Misaki now that they'd both killed their opponents.

"WATCH OUT!" Misaki shouted, as a fifth suddenly dropped down behind Haruki. Haruki didn't miss a beat, hands flying through seals before she spun and and drew her blade once more. Before the man even realized he was actually in range, water raced down the the katana's blade and then extended it. The chakra controlled water extended straight through the man's skull, killing him instantly.

Misaki breathed a sigh of relief, momentarily closing her eyes so she could still her heart. She opened them in time to see Haruki, not yet able to recover from killing her attacked, get stabbed through the stomach by another enemy. The man withdrew his blade and then kicked Haruki, sending her tumbling across the ground.

"HARUKI! NO!" Misaki screamed and rushed to her sister's side, momentarily forgetting about the man who'd just stabbed her sister. She knelt at Haruki's side, tears already streaming down her face. Haruki's eyes were wide and glassy, and her breathing ragged as she clutched weakly at her wound.

"Don't worry. You bitches can see each other again in the afterlife!" Misaki looked up to see the man with his sword raised diagonally across his chest, intending a horizontal sweep; likely to decapitate Misaki. However, her grief turned instantly to rage and as the man swung, Misaki jumped up and caught his sword hand. She then kicked out and hit his knee, bending it in a direction it wasn't meant to go. He stumbled and that was all the time Misaki needed to jump over her sister and swing around behind the man. With his hands full with his sword and his entire body unbalanced by his stressed knee, he couldn't stop Misaki from putting him in a sleeper hold.

Misaki wasn't intending to knock him out though, in fact she wasn't even intending to hold it so long that his blood vessels would burst in his brain. No, she used all the strength in both her arms to apply more and more pressure until she heard the sound she was looking for. First he gasped as he lost the ability to breathe, and then he began to gurgle as the pressure became agonizing... and then finally she heard a crunch as his windpipe finally gave way and was crushed. She pulled his body around so his corpse wouldn't fall on Haruki and then stood there, panting from the effort.

If anyone dared to hurt her sister, they'd be met with nothing less than a swift and painful death. She'd always protect her sister... her sister!

"H-Haruki!" Misaki sobbed as she knelt back down at her side. What was she to do? She knew basic first aid, nothing more. This was beyond anything she knew how to fix.

"Well, well, well." She heard clapping. "I knew that bunch of louts was worthless, but I figured the six of them would kill more than one of you." Misaki looked up to see a much more intimidating figure approaching. She could tell by the way he carried himself that he was more dangerous than the group they'd just dispatched.

"No... no, no, no..." Misaki whimpered to herself. She couldn't fight off another one, not while her heart trembled and her body shook with grief. This man was clearly stronger as well. Misaki had already failed to protect her sister, she had no motivation to fight anymore.

"You know, this is really sad. I pity you, really. I'd leave you to your grief because you're so cute, but you did just kill all my men." The man shook his head and pulled out a kunai. "But... I suppose I can at least make it quick." The weapon flew from his hand, and Misaki just shut her eyes and waited to go join her sister wherever people went upon death.

Her eyes snapped open at the sound of metal striking metal. She glanced up in time to see a young man fly from the rooftops and jump kick her assailant in the face. The Oto-nin stumbled back, but before he could raise his guard, Misaki's rescuer flew forward and slammed his elbow in the Oto-nin's gut. He then grabbed the man's head and held it in place while his knee shot up to crush his nose. He then spun around and round-house kicked the man.

The Oto-nin miraculously stayed standing. The young man rushed forward, but the Oto-nin side-stepped at the last minute, avoiding any form of attack that was about to be attempted. He flew through hand-seals and suddenly a ringing sound was heard. It must have been worse up close because Misaki's savior fell to a knee, clutching his ears. However, he suddenly reached into his weapon pouch and threw a smoke bomb.

The next thing Misaki knew, the Oto-nin was stumbling out of the smoke, having lost sight of his prey long enough for the young man to recover. The fight ended shortly after as the young man jumped out of the smoke and grabbed the back of the Oto-nin's neck to hold him in place while he repeatedly stabbed a kunai into the Oto-nin's gut and then slashed his throat open.

With the Oto-nin dead, he quickly jogged over to Misaki.

"R-Rei? Misaki blinked, realizing it was Haruki's other teammate.

"Is she alive?" Rei asked, his face serious and lacking any overt emotion. Misaki looked down at her sister. She was pale, growing cold, but Misaki could see that she still breathed, if only faintly. Misaki sniffled loudly,

"Yes... b-barely... I-I-" Misaki was cut off as Rei turned away,

"KOU! OVER HERE!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. A few moments later, Kou ran out of an alleyway.

"Did you fin-" Kou stopped mid sentence upon seeing Misaki kneeling over Haruki. "N-no, is sh-"

"She's alive. We don't have much time though." Rei said, and then looked back at Misaki. "Can you carry her?" Misaki quickly nodded, taking Haruki into her arms gingerly and then lifting her up. She now regretted not a moment of her taijutsu and strength training. She was also glad she was the taller of the two. "Good, I'll cover you and we'll head to the hospital." Rei then turned to Kou, "Find help, we can't afford interruptions if we want to get here there in time. The two of us might not be enough..."

. . .

-8 Minutes and 22 Seconds Later-

In the end they'd made it to the hospital. Rei had been forced to abandon them to fight off an attacker and his status was currently unknown. Misaki was hopeful though, as out of her team, Haruki's team, and Kaori's team, Rei was probably the strongest. He'd failed his first Chuunin exam, like Kou, but had then trained relentlessly until he'd surpassed them all.

Speaking of Kou, he'd taken over for Rei; showing up with Kaori and Junko, Junko having gotten separated from Rei earlier.

"Y-you'll be OK, Haruki, we're here! Oh Kami, can she hear me? Is she awake? Is... is..." Junko rambled as a pair of nurses arrived to take Haruki from Misaki. She then buried her face in her hands, crying at the sight of her near death teammate. Misaki had stopped crying at this point, just completely numb with sorrow and worry for her beloved sister.

Misaki looked down at her now empty arms, seeing the blood that was all over her hands and shirt. She was shocked by how much there seemed to be. Could Haruki live with how much blood she'd lost? What if by rushing to the hospital, she'd jostled her wounded sister too much and she died because of that? If Haruki died because of her, she'd die herself. If she died even without it being her fault, she'd die anyway. No, it would be her fault; she'd closed her eyes for the half second it had taken for an enemy to get the jump on Haruki.

"Don't worry. They know what they're doing, she'll be fine." Kou placed a hand on his teammate's shoulder. "They'll save your sister." Misaki just nodded weakly. "Hey uh, why don't we get you cleaned up. Kaori..." Kou turned to look at his girlfriend.

"Oh! Y-yeah!" Kaori quickly walked over. "I'm sure there's a bathroom around here somewhere." She grimaced at the sight of all the blood on Misaki's arms, but grabbed her wrist, "Come on..." She urged gently.

"Take care of her. I... I'm going back out there. I need to find Haruo." Kou sighed, referring to his other teammate. "And your teammates are out there too, I'll try to find them as well." He said to Kaori.

"Wh-what? No... I... OK..." Kaori bit her lip in worry.

"Hey, don't worry. I'll take care of him!" Junko grinned, "I need to look for Rei anyway. Unlike you, we're all Chuunin, we can handle it!"

Kaori nodded as the two left to head back into the fray. She then led Misaki to a bathroom. Once inside, she helped Misaki take her shirt off and was shocked to see that nearly the whole front of Misaki's white under-suit was stained with blood. The black shirt that had just been removed didn't show the blood as clearly.

"H-Haruki..." Misaki sobbed when she saw, cupping her face in her hands and accidentally smearing blood all over her face.

"H-hey, calm down. You're making a mess..." Kaori tried to get Misaki to lift her face up. When she did, Misaki's face had blood all over it, with rivulets where her tears were starting to wash a little of the blood away. "Err..." Kaori sighed, but then pulled Misaki into a hug, trying to ignore that she herself was now going to get covered with blood. She also tried to ignore the fact that, and this was much harder, it was her friend Haruki's blood.

. . .

-1 Day Later-

Misaki finally got permission to see her sister that night and fortunately the invasion had ended as quickly as it had begun, though casualties were still up there. She hadn't heard back from Kou or anyone yet. Kaori had left once it was certain the battle was over, which left her alone with her unconscious sister.

Misaki was currently wearing only her shorts, which had been less stained, and a hospital gown. That was all they'd been able to find for her after she'd had to discard the rest of her bloodied clothing.

The next morning, she woke up with her body aching terribly. Between falling asleep in a chair at the side of Haruki's hospital bed and her exertions during the invasion, she was more than a little sore. She lifted her head off of the edge of Haruki's bed and looked her sister over. She was breathing and the constant beeping of the heart monitor was like music to Misaki's ears.

Misaki took Haruki's hand in hers' and stroked it gently with her thumb,

"I'm sorry... I'm so, so sorry." Misaki started crying softly. "This is all my fault. It's definitely all my fault." She shut her eyes as she felt tears coming again. Seeing her sister like this, having witnessed it happen, and feeling so helpless... it was the worst thing in the world. Misaki had to do something to keep this from happening again. She'd do anything if she knew her sister would be safe.

"Err, excuse me." A knock was heard from the door. Misaki let go of her sister's hand and quickly did her best to wipe her tears away. She turned around to see a nurse standing there. "There are some things we need to do, so can you please exit the room? I'm sorry."

"No... it's fine. J-just take care of her." Misaki mumbled and slowly trudged out of her sister's hospital room. She wandered the halls slowly for a while and then noticed a familiar face down the hall. "H-Haruo? Why are you... wh-who are you here to see?" Misaki felt her heart sink. Haruo wasn't in a hospital gown, meaning he was here as a visitor. Had Kou gotten hurt? Was Haruo's family hurt?

The blond boy looked up and brushed his long bangs out of the way, revealing his pale blue eyes,

"Oh... Misaki. Sorry... I..." He had horrible dark circles under his eyes. He clearly hadn't slept. "I-I should have thought to find you. Kou... he... he's not so good. Me and Rei had to drag him back... and then Rei collapsed the second we put down Kou..." He spoke haltingly, eyes blank from exhaustion. "Junko got separated from us. I've been with Kou though, so for all I know she's with Rei or went home. I checked on my family and then came back. Still didn't see her... could have missed her though..." He blinked, trying to focus. "H-hey, uhh, how is Haruki? I heard she got hurt. She's alive, right?"

Misaki didn't answer right away. This was too much. Kou hurt, Rei, of all people, hurt, and Junko possibly missing. "Oh... uh... she'll live for sure. She hasn't woken up yet, but they took care of her. H=how bad is Kou?" She hoped he could put her mind at ease.

"He got hit by an explosion. Lots of shrapnel. He'd already taken a shuriken to his shoulder and gotten knocked around a bit. Nothing big, but there was so much shrapnel in him they couldn't just seal him up and had to keep putting new blood in him... the surgery took a long time, he seems stable, but who knows." Haruo shrugged, still wearing a blank, tired expression.

"Oh." Misaki mumbled, she looked down at her hands which were suddenly aching. Her knuckles were white and she realized just then that she'd been clenching her fists the whole time. She loosened them and noticed the little depressions her nails had left in her palms before looking back up at Haruo. "Hey, you don't look so good. You should go sleep."

"I can't sleep. I don't feel tired..." Haruo shook his head.

"Go home Haruo, I don't want anything to happen to you as well." Misaki said more forcefully. "Please."

"Yeah... alright, Misaki." Haruo sighed and looked up at the ceiling. "Tell Haruki I said hi when she wakes up." He said and shoved his hands in his pockets before walking off.

. . .

-2 Hours Later-

The hospital was a labyrinth. She couldn't find anything and it was in a total state of chaos. It would probably take days to sort things out. The cafeteria and all of its tables had been re-purposed into a post-op room, so Misaki was sitting in a more quiet hallway eating a meager lunch.

"Dammit, this food sucks." Misaki looked up when she heard someone complaining. It was a girl with medium-length, light brown hair. One eye was covered by a large gauze pad that was taped to her face. Because of that, it didn't hit her right away, but it was Junko.

"J-Junko! You're alive!" Misaki jumped up and quickly grabbed the girl by her shoulders.

"Huh? Misaki! Yeah, of course I am!" She grinned as Misaki let go of her.

"Your eye, what happened to it?" Misaki cocked her head as she looked at Junko's left eye, or at least the pad covering it.

"Oh this?" Junko pointed at it with her thumb. "This is nothing. They say I'll have blurry vision even after I start using it again, but it should eventually be totally normal again. I'm probably gonna have to skip missions for a while though..." She sighed. "It was crazy out there though, I mean, we just walked into this one street where a bunch of our guys were fighting their guys, and all these Suna fuckers suddenly show up on the rooftops and throw explosives down on us!" Junko motioned with her arms dramatically.

"Was Kou there?" Misaki asked.

"Yeah, why? H-he's OK right? I don't know what happened after that!" Junko suddenly looked worried.

"Yeah, but Haruo told me he and Rei had to drag him back. He said it was an explosion that hurt him." Misaki explained.

"Oh good, then they all made it bac-" Junko was about to sigh in relief but Misaki shook her head.

"They did, but apparently Rei collapsed." Misaki muttered, looking down at her food sadly.

"N-no way! Is he OK?" Junko's worried look grew as she learned that now both her teammates were hospitalized and likely worse than her.

"I think he's alive, but I don't know his condition. I was looking for his room, but it's chaos in this place." Misaki told her.

"Yeah... I had to find my way here after half a building fell on me. They just patched me up as fast as they could and threw me into a room with a bunch of other recovering people. Didn't even ask me my name!" Junko grumbled and puffed her cheeks out in frustration. Her worry seemed to have subsided, knowing that at least Kou and Rei weren't dead.

"Wait, a building?" Misaki's eyes went wide.

"Yeah, well, it mostly missed me. I woke up and the fighting around me was over. The rubble wasn't very heavy and didn't end up hurting me much, but there was a spike of wood like this close to my face." Junko held her thumb and pointer finger about a half inch apart. "I was worried 'cause when I dragged myself out I still couldn't really see, but I could tell the sun was still out. Once my vision cleared up a little I made my way here and learned how bad my eye was. The explosions scorched off my eyebrow and all my eyelashes on that side! I swear, my eye better look normal when it heals, these puppies are the only thing I have over your sister!" She opened her good eye as wide as it could go and pointed at it.

Junko's eyes were a brilliant green color that honestly did stand out more than Haruki's or anyone in their group's eyes did. That said, Misaki preferred Haruki's eyes, though she was horribly biased. She wasn't going to hurt Junko's feelings and say that though.

"I'm sure it'll be fine. The skin around it might be scarred though..." Misaki said with a nervous laugh.

"Shit..." Junko muttered. "Grr, I have to go through them sewing my eye shut, while I'm still awake, and then I'm gonna end up with a scar? I swear, I'm gonna burn Oto and Suna to the ground!" The girl ranted angrily. Misaki just smiled weakly and let the girl blow off steam. Though, deep down, Misaki felt a similar anger. They'd hurt her sister and her friends badly. She felt that maybe killing three of them herself wasn't enough. There wasn't much she could do now though. Right now all the mattered was that her sister would recover and they could still be together.

"Hey, Junko. I'm gonna go back to my sister's room. Why don't you find Rei. We can meet up later and you can tell me how he's doing." Misaki suggested. With Haruki on her mind again, she couldn't handle being away from her right now. She needed to see and feel her sister to remind her she was still there and alive.

"Oh... OK." Junko was surprised that Misaki was suddenly leaving her. She'd thought they could hang out and talk for a while. She could have used a friend to talk to. She supposed she'd just have to hope that Rei was awake when she found him, not that he was a great conversationalist.

Misaki made her way back up to Haruki's room and went back to the chair beside the bed. She took her sister's hand again and started stroking it like she had before the nurse interrupted her.

"Just get better Haruki. I'll never let you get hurt like this again, s-so just get better." Misaki bit her lip. She didn't want to cry again, she wanted to be strong for her sister. She was the big sister, so she'd take care of Haruki – no matter what.

Oh dear lord I think I'm going to cry. I hope I managed to make this chapter as emotional as I tried to.

So we got to meet the rest of Haruki and Misaki's teammates, and we learned that Haruki and Misaki kick ass. If you think they're too powerful, remember: Sakura at 15 went head-to-head with Sasori. I figure these two at 14 can handle a group of bottom feeding losers. Besides, Misaki got hurt and Haruki nearly died. They didn't exactly win.

Anyway, my self-conscious justifications aside, next chapter will continue this little flashback portion of the story and we learn more about the aftermath of the invasion, and how it affected Haruki and Misaki!

Now would you pleeeeeaaaase leave me some reviews? Please? I'll love you forever and ever! Don't you want my false internet love? Of course you do, so leave me a review!

Also, for those interested, I realize I didn't give very good descriptions of some of their teammates and friends, so here you go:

Rei:

Age: 14

Height: 5' 4"

Build: Athletic, muscular for his age.

Hair: Black, short and messy.

Eyes: Brown, but appears almost red when the sun shines into them.

Clothing: Has a red headband instead of the normal blue. Wears a black sleeveless vest over long-sleeved fishnet shirt. Wears dark blue pants that stop at his ankles.

Kou:

Age: 14 (looks older due to his height)

Height: 5' 8"

Build: Thinner, not very imposing despite being tall.

Hair: Brown, straight, goes down the middle of his neck in the back, short bangs.

Eyes: Brown

Clothing: Wears a Chuunin vest over a blue t-shirt and wears olive-drab shorts that go down to his knees. Nothing special about his headband, wears it normally.

Kaori:

Age: 14

Height: 4' 10"

Build: Slender but with puberty, her curves are starting to appear.

Hair: A reddish brown in color, but not bright enough to really be called a red-head. It goes down to shoulders.

Eyes: Hazel

Clothing: She wears a white short sleeved top that leaves her midriff exposed and is held shut by a zipper, but has a sleeveless fishnet shirt that keeps any skin from actually showing. She wears white pants that go down to just below her knees. Wears here headband around her right upper arm.

Junko:

Age: 14

Height: 4' 11"

Build: Athletic and not well developed in her chest yet.

Hair: Very light brown, goes down just past her shoulder blades and is a little wavy.

Eyes: Very green

Clothing: Wears a red top with golden stitching and sleeves that go just past her elbows and just a little past her waist and is cinched with a belt. Wears matching red pants, but no gold stitching, that stop halfway down her calves. Wears headband around her right thigh.

Haruo:

Age: 14

Height: 5' 3"

Build: Athletic, but not as thin as Kou, nor as toned as Rei.

Hair: Medium length blond hair with bangs that get in the way of his eyes.

Eyes: Blue

Clothing: Tan long-sleeved shirt that is held shut with frog button closures (It's an Asian thing, look it up. Not literally frog shaped buttons. It's like instead of a button that goes through a hole, it goes through a sort of loop.) Matching pants that go down to his ankles. Wears his headband as it was intended to be worn.