Naruto was there and back in just a week or two. Tsunade was the person that they coronated as the fifth hokage. I was actually happy with this, I had met her before she left, she was a real down to earth person. We had gotten called down to the Hokage's office once more for a mission. We got there we were of course assigned a mission, about a tournament and how we needed to protect one of the racers. The mission started the next day, the racer person we were protecting was a boy, and his name was Idate. Some rain ninja or something were hired as body guards for the other competitor so we had to protect him from them, the catch was we had to be there by about 10 minutes from now. Of course they all looked at me.

"Ugh fine I'll just shimmer us there"

So I shimmered us over to the house we were supposed to meet him at. Then I saw who the guy that hired us was, it was one of our old mission guys.

"Hey Tatsaro, what's up?"

All of the genin looked at me like I couldn't talk to someone of such high authority like that.

"Oh no its fine I've known Mariah for a while"

"We used to have missions with him all the time"

He told us where we were staying and that the race was tomorrow and the rules of the race and stuff. We went to the house we were staying at and we all went to sleep.

The next day was the race and we were all ready for it when, right when the race started Idate ran an odd way when the boat for the first part was right in front of him. He kept running and we just stood behind and watched to see what his plans were, well most of us, except for Naruto who went up to him and yelled at him for not going the right way.

"Duh the winds are all wrong and if you go to the tip of the island the winds will blow the SAILBOAT right to the other island".

"You idiot, I could have used a wind jutsu to move the sailboat at dangerously high speeds! Wind is like my element"

Then he remembered and I slapped my forehead and we just kept running.

"So where are we going anyway?"

"My friend has a boat for us to use on the tip of the island".

When we got there it was a bigger boat than the other one but it was still a sailboat. We got in it and started cruising over to the other island. But about ½ way there we were attacked by some rain genin The only problem was that they threw oil on the boat and Sasuke and Naoki being the geniuses they are used a fireball jutsu and caught the boat on fire.

While we took out the rain genin, our genin evacuated the runner and took off towards the island. After the boat capsized, we ran into a bit of a problem, a rain Anbu, Aoi. We had met before, but back then he was a chunin of the leaf. After he stole the 2nd hokage's sword of thunder spirit, he left the village and went to become a jounin of the rain and was apparently promoted.

"I see you haven't changed in all of these years"

I just glared at him, everyone else just looked at me with a puzzled look like, 'you know him?'. With that I ran at him with full doujutsu flaring. Then he did something I really hoped he wouldn't, he pulled out the sword of the thunder spirit. That's when the chakra came spilling out, the thunder spirit sword was the sword that helped defeat the 3-tailed dragon before. I couldn't control it, I was going after that accursed sword. Aoi looked really surprised at my reaction to him pulling out the sword, but he just stood there laughing at me.

"Well well, it seems your more intuned to your bijuu than I remember"

I just lunged at him with a full power rasengan to the sword but it wouldn't budge, it wouldn't even crack. He used the force of the sword to electrocuted me with the sword and I fell to the ground, not unconscious, just in pain and the chakra went away. Naoki went at him and used a fireball jutsu to distract him enough so that she could get me out of there.

We stepped back and elaborated on the situation. We finally agreed that Naruto would take Idate to the race site while we fought here. I got the chakra out again and this time I was going sword on sword. We lunged at each other and stopped in the middle while our swords clashed in the silence. When he broke away, he pulled out an umbrella, threw it up, and thousands of poison needles flew right towards me, and most hit. This time when I fell to the ground I wasn't going to get up for a while. The poison was circulating throughout my body at a high rate. Most of them just stood there but Naoki came and picked me up and with a genjutsu, Sasuke got Aoi distracted enough for us to escape for the moment.

We ran to a nearby cave and waited for him to leave. When I woke up, I saw her standing over me with a wet cloth.

"Ugh…what happened?"

"You got hit by the poison needles but it's ok now. It's also probably the last time we rely on you to get the job done for a while"

"We need to catch up to Naruto before Aoi finds him"

Then we took off toward the Todoroki Shrine. We found Naruto but Aoi was with him and we needed to find a way to let Naruto by but not let Aoi notice.

This time I was going to get rid of that guy. I felt a gut wrenching pain and the chakra took over again, but this time, I decided to use one of my more special jutsu's, the Rasenyaiba. I had used it during a few fights earlier. I started to charge it but before I could finish, he stabbed me…right in the stomach. I coughed up blood and fell to the ground, but this time I wasn't going to faint, I couldn't, if I did then who knows what would happen. I slowly tried to stand up, when I did Aoi was fighting Naoki and Sasuke, and it looked like they was winning because they were more of mid-ranged fighters while Aoi was a long-ranged fighter.

I charged it again and this time I got enough time to do it. I motioned for them to get away and they did. Then I hit Aoi with the Rasenyaiba, you could tell it was working, he screamed in pain while his cells were slowly being sliced through. While this was happening I blacked out from the blood loss from his sword through my stomach. I woke up, they were attempting to carry me back to the house we were staying at.

"Oh so you're awake, Naoki healed your stomach but you shouldn't move around much, it's still healing".

After he said that, I fell asleep.

When we got into the village, they took me straight to Tsunade's office.

"C'mon in, what the hell happened to her?

"She got stabbed by the sword of thunder spirit"

"Oh that sort of explains it…well put her on the table and I will have a look"

I felt them take me over to the table and Tsunade healed the rest of my wounds.

"Now don't go overboard on the training and stuff or it won't heal fast"

I rolled my eyes at her and she gave me the same look back. I was able to walk myself home and sat in front of the couch for the rest of the night, staring at the fireplace.