In the months following, I spent it doing the same sorts of things. I did take my dad's advice and go research bijuu in the sand village. That took up a lot of time and I learned tons of things. Most of the things though, I learned out of experience. I tried to spend more time talking in the sealing room, and I got a lot of information that way. I had become the expert on the subject, known far and wide for my expertise. A few years later here I am, I am now going to be a sensei to some genin because the hokage thought that I needed someone to care for and someone to trust, because I was having such problems adjusting to being a one-kunoichi team. He, to my surprise, assigned me to team 7 with Kakashi. I figure he did that on purpose to keep an eye on me. One of our first missions was something about protecting a bridge builder or something like always I didn't pay attention until I heard that it was a C ranked mission.

"Well that's better than picking weeds or building fences like usual"

Of course everyone heard me and they all looked right at me and I just looked away, I was so sick of these stupid genin missions. I already did these once why did I have to do them again. Either way I was stuck with it. So we left for the land of waves with the odd drunk guy we were escorting. His name was Tazuna. We encountered minimal resistance on the way over to the Land of Waves. We did run into one of the seven swordsmen of the Mist, but 'defeated' him easily. After we carried Kakashi to Tazuna's house, he got his crutch, and we headed off into the forest. I sat on one of the branches, meditating and resting. The genin were completing the tree climbing exercises. I had nothing interesting to do during this time, so I decided to head back to the house. I sat on the back porch, gazing off at the sea's eternal bliss. I felt a tear fall from my eyes, as just a few more followed. The group came out to see if I was alright. I just got up onto my feet and walked back inside. Everyone in the house treated me different, like they knew what I was going through. I liked the consideration but what I needed now was just to have a good fight to take it all out on.

The next day, I got my wish. One of the seven swordsmen of the mist returned, the one we believed that we had killed. I had, had enough of the tracker ninja, Haku's, needles and did something I hadn't done in a while…I went into the sealing room. It was of course accidental, but I had that same feeling of paralysis. When it started I couldn't help it, I was taking this kid out and his stupid partner too, it was the only way that I could release some rage from before, not like I could control it anyway, it comes out pretty much whenever it wants to. I had been working on controlling it but I was missing something in my studies. When Naruto and Sasuke saw me and looked somewhat concerned, but they got the message and stepped back. I went full jinchuuriki and destroyed all the mirrors in one shot, then went after Haku who was really terrified of me now. I just smirked and gave him the most powerful Rasengan I had done in a while. It felt good, so I went and gave the big sword guy a piece too. I pushed the chakra back with force and fell onto my knees for a few minutes. Kakashi came and helped me up, we headed back to the house.

"How are you feeling, you gave us quite a scare back there", Kakashi said in passing.

"I'm ok I guess…"

"So you're ok to go back to the village now?"

"Yes sure, but I think this time I'm shimmering you guys it's so much easier"

All of them but Kakashi just looked at me and tried to figure out what I was talking about. I just laughed and told them to hold my hand and in the time it took you to read this sentence, we were there. I just headed home after the mission. Kakashi must have told the hokage because he asked me how I was feeling and if everything was ok. I just ignored him, he knew that I wasn't ok.

After the second stage of the Chuunin exams, things were becoming tense around the village, something was up. By this time I was getting quite attached to the new team 7, but of course Orochimaru would go and like ruin everything. He gave Sasuke and Naoki a curse mark and well I knew that would lead to nothing but trouble. Orochimaru had a plan to destroy the leaf village and I wasn't going to stand for it. But before Naoki and Gaara could finish their fight the sand ninja were called to action, they were together with Orochimaru on his plan to take down the leaf village, to this day I still have no idea why. He had his sound ninja set up a barrier. I had to go and help my village, so I took off towards where Orochimaru was fighting. Then it hit me, I could break the barrier.

"Kenpai sutoraiki (heavy chakra strike)"

Then the barrier broke just enough so that I could get in. Then I saw him and something in my body just broke and I started to lose control, like just knowing that he was once in Hiro's gang just made me snap. He had killed the 3rd hokage and this just added to the anger that was building inside my body. He was going down one way or another. Then I lunged at him and barely touched him but still enough to make him bleed pretty badly.

"Kaze ya danmaku (wind arrow barrage)"

I sent a wave of hundreds of chakra arrows straight at him. He dodged some but couldn't dodge them all and the ones that hit were a direct hit and made him fall to the ground. I lost control again and the chakra came out and I lost most consciousness. Then I was ready to finish it, I summoned my sword and got ready for the final blow

"Sutoraiki za kyuu bijuu (strike of the nine tailed beasts)"

Then I plunged my sword into his stomach, turned it and a bunch of summoning symbols appeared. Then the spirits of the bijuu came out of the symbols and flew around and killed all of the sound ninja and any sand ninja that had a real intent to kill, not just told to, then they came back and striked Orochimaru in the chest and he was dead on contact. The barrier broke and I fell unconscious because of all the chakra I used up for that jutsu.

I woke up in the hospital, jumping up out of the bed and out to the Hokage's office. The first thing that came to my mind was, who was going to be the fifth Hokage? I went to the only people who could give me a truthful answer, the village elders. They of course didn't know either but with such short notice they would have to decide quickly and probably have only one hokage for a while until they could formally find another hokage, since the village usually had 2 hokage's at one time for this exact reason. They were sending Jiraiya off to find someone that they were confident would be a good replacement. I opted that he take Naruto with him and he obliged. At least that's one less thing I have to worry about for a while.