Next chapter. This one is not full of action but I needed to make it. Anyway, enjoy.

I do NOT own Naruto.

Chapter 4: Do I know you?

We sat there enjoying each others company. Unfortunately it was time to get back to the mission so we packed up and started running again. My chakra was really low now. The surprise attack of Akatsuki really left a mark besides my leg wasn't doing that good. We arrived Suna at three o'clock. There we met the Sabaku siblings: Kankuro and Temari.

"Are you alright? You seem a little tired?" Temair asked with a worried tone.

"Akatsuki attacked us." I explained shortly. Their eyes widened in shock.

"What?! How?! When?! Why?! How is th-" Kankuro was interrumped with Temari hitting the back of his head.

"Let them rest idiot!" She said. My students' snickered. It was quite evident that they were brothers.

Temari smirked. "Please follow me to our medical facilities. There you can be treated." We nodded and followed her.

When we arrived my students were the first to be attended. Rei didn't really want the medical nins to touch her, but after some little talk she allowed it. I must admit it felt really good to be healthy and with my chakra levels stabilized. Next thing to do was to talk to the Kazekage.

Ugh. Kasezage was a really intimidating man. He was younger than me but he still was scary even with the bijuu out of his body. I sighed, I guess I really need to meet him. So here I come. Slowly I open the door that lead to his office.

"May I come in?" I asked politely.

"Sure." Clear answer straight ahead.

I walked in only to be meted by all the Sabaku siblings. I sat a little uncomfortably.

"So, please, would you mind telling us why where you attacked?" Sabaku no Gaara fixated his eyes on me. Cold and professional eyes. He truly wanted answers.

After telling them the hole story I sighed because I knew I needed to tell the same freaking story to everyone in Konoha.

"You're telling us that your team handled them? God that was awesome." Kankuro said eyeing me suspiciously.

"Oh, I think it was only because of my kenkai-genkai. They didn't expect it." I answered rather quickly.

"Nevertheless it was exceptional. Well, I think you should had back to Konoha as fast as possible because you have to tell them this news." Gaara said and then he did the most unexpected thing ever. He flashed a tiny smile. "And please tell Naruto that I said hi."

"Hai."

"Yes, and say that lazy but of Shikamaru that I heard that his shadow technique is better so I want a mach." Temari said with her signature smirk plastered on her face. I only nodded this time. Temari and Shikamaru's relationship was kind of weird in my opinion.

So saying my goodbyes I left Suna and went back to Konoha only this time in a different manner. All my students and I were floating on my sword.

(Sasuke's POV)

I was in Akatsuki's hiding spot and I was really pissed. First because some kids just took care of us, second because of their stupid sensei and her stupid smirk and idiot sword, third because Juugo didn't want to fight the children, fourth because of Suigetsu and his hot head, sixth because Madara appeared to rescue us all and seventh because she seemed familiar.

Her hair, her eyes and even her voice, it all made me remember old times, when I was a child. No it wasn't because of Sakura, they were quite different in fact, Sakura is really hot tempered just like Karin and the girl, which name I memorized, Kasumi Mishimoto, was controlled and knew quite well what to do. Other thing that I found rather strange, was the fact that she used a leaf forehead protector but I don't remember seeing her in the academy. And I remembered every single girl in the academy because they were all chasing me.

Sighing I sat on my bed, only to be bothered by a knock on the door.

"Come in." I said. I think I already know who was it.

"Hey there Sasuke-kun." Karin said while entering in my room.

"Hello Karin." No suffix. I didn't really care about her. She was just a acquiescence. Just an accompanier, and nothing more. In fact no one really mean something for me… No one except my team mates from … Getting up I dismissed the stupid thought of my mind. I would destroy Konoha. That was my mission, my promise, my revenge. Nothing more mattered.

"So I was wondering if that girl hurt you when she wrapped you with the metal." She asked. Hope lingering on her eyes.

"Hn." That was my only response. I could always respond with this word and still maintain my integrity. At least that was what I thought.

"I know it hurt. It would be better if you bitted me, just to be sure." She said in a professional way.

I looked at her. She couldn't really hide her interest in me. It was too obvious even with her professional tone. "No thanks."

"But…" She started. "Fine, do as you wish." She said and than sat by me. "That girl had a really weird kenkai-gekai." She stated. Oh not that conversation about the girl again.

"Yes. Now I need to take a shower so if you would excuse me." I said starting to take the ropes that tied my outfit. Karin turned ten times redder.

"I'm leaving." She said while closing the door.

Sigh. That stupid girl couldn't get of my thoughts. Mostly because of her weird eyes, and the freaking déjà vu sensation wouldn't leave.

"I know you…" I stated and then I left to take a shower.

(Kasumi's POV)

Just as I suspected when we arrived Konoha I had to repeat myself twenty times. First I told the Hokage, then I tell it to the conseiliers, than to Naruto, again to Naruto because he wanted to know more about his best friend, then it was team 10 and I delivered the message from Temari to Shikamaru who just smirked lazily and finally here I was on the ramen shop telling the story to the rest of the group.

"WOOW! Your kenkai genkai is quite cool!" Kiba said grinning while Akamaru barfed.

"I guess so." I said a little intimidated with all the attention that I was given. The all of the sudden Kakashi-sensei and Yamato Captain appeared.

"So I heard your story Kasumi-chan. Could you please follow us so we can make you some questions?" Kakashi asked ever so politely. Sai eyed them suspiciously. He was an ANBU after all and knew that something fishy was going on.

"Sure." I said and followed them.

We walked a little until we were on Kakashi's apartment. Surprisingly it was clean. The only thing dirty in there was the full collection of Icha Icha Paradise in a shelf.

"So what do you need to know?" I asked them.

"You told Danzou that Sasuke didn't use Sharingan because he was tired because of the Kage's meeting. But, that's not true isn't it?" Yamato Captain asked me.

I shook my head telling them no. "He used it but I was trained to resist it." I explained shorty. Right after that Yamato and Kakashi's faces became darker.

"There's only a way to resist Sharingan and it's training with a sharingan user. So tell me, is your master in Hemiru, an Uchiha?" Kakashi asked. I should know that they weren't stupid.

"Yes, she is. She left the village really long ago, even before Itachi was born, and so she was spared to the Uchiha massacre." They nodded. "Please don't tell this to anybody else."

"We won't. This can't be known otherwise things might get ugly. Nevertheless thank you for trusting in us." Yamato Captain thanked.

"No prob." I flashed a smile. "Now I must go. There's something I need to work on." I stated and left to the cold air of the night.

Walking without destiny, I found myself on the library. Sighing I made my way in and sat reading the same book as always 'Memories of a recluse'. Hours passed until I finally found something.

"Sometimes everything seems like the movies, and you bleed just to know you're alive. I just don't wanna miss you tonight. I don't want the world to see me because I don't think they would understand, when everything seems to be broken I just want you to know who I am. You can't feel the tears that ain't coming and the moment of truth in your eyes. I jus want you to know who I am." This was a phrase that was underlined so it must mean something. It almost feels like a lover story but in fact is just a random guy that is arrested writing random things. This is a boring book.

Passing through pages I found another thing underlined. Imishi Kumo.

"Imishi Kumo… What you need to found is right in front of you, just look around and see." My eyes widened this was Itachi's letter, could it be a leak?

So I kept reading eager to find something more useful.

"The truth about a story is not in the facts that are written but in the eyes that saw it." My hand flew to my temples rubbing them. This was so confusing, maybe I should ask Shikamaru for help, but then I would need to tell him my mission. Crap, I can't do that.

'Okay just thing, you have a name and you're in a library so… just go to the archive and search!' Calling myself stupid I got into the dusty and creepy archive in the basement. Singing a song inside my head so I could cheer myself on, I started looking for the name Imishi Kumo. 'Let me se… Uchiha massacre was ten years ago so…' No there isn't any computer files about people born before 5 years ago!'

Grunting in annoyance I picked 5 dusty books and started looking for the name. This wont be easy…

(Naruto's POV)

I kept thinking on what Kakashi sensei and Yamato Captain wanted with Kasumi. This girl is really strange, I haven't seen her before but she has a Konoha forehead protector and than there's this strange story about the especially training that she received before. And of course, her even more strange kenkai genkai.

I snapped of my thoughts when Sakura squeezed my shoulder gently.

"What?" I asked looking around.

"It's getting late Naruto, haven't you noticed that just me, you and Sai are here?" She asked me. And it was true indeed, Sai just waved at me smiling slightly.

"You spaced out the all dinner Naruto-kun. What were you thinking the all time?" Sai asked me interested.

"N-Nothing. It's just some things that were invading my mind." I said while rubbing the back of my head.

"Uh, Nartuo I never saw you thinking so much, it might be bad for you." Sakura teased.

"Hey!" I shouted, my pride trembling a little.

"Just kidding silly, now we should get to bed it's getting late." She smiled at me.

"Sakura-chan is right. Besides Ichimaru wants to close." Sai pointed out.

So we left the restaurant and headed home. On my way home, I passed through the library and saw the lights on. 'Strange…' So I decided to enter.

The lights were all on but nobody was there. This was getting scary, I could almost feel ghosts on the library walls and the stupid portraits seemed to be looking at me. And then I heard something move on the basement. I started trembling. 'Don't go there, in the horror movies the ghosts are always in the basement! They're always in the BASEMENT!!' My conscience was now yelling at me. But my body kept moving. So went downstairs. And I saw nothing. The archive was just enormous so I walked through dusty shelves and dark always. And then I started hearing noises again, and they kept getting louder and louder and then someone shocked against me. I turned around and…

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" We both yelled. The figure on the process let some papers fall, and then I saw who it really was.

"Naruto?!" Kasumi said looking at me weirdly.

"Kasumi-chan?!" I asked in the same tone. Then we both started laughing.

"I (laugh) thought that you were a (laugh) zombie!!" She said and started laughing again.

"I thought you were a ghost!" I stated and we both started laughing again. When I finally calmed down I asked her: "So, what are you doing here?"

"Well, I'm trying to find someone that lived here in Konoha ten years ago… But it's rather difficult to find." She stated picking some papers.

"Uh… I would help you but, that's not really my thing. But you should ask Sai, he's always here in the library so he would be a good help." I advised.

"Really? What he does here in the library?" She asked interested.

"Well, he doesn't really have any social skills so he just reads books that tell him how to behave." I explained rubbing the back of my head once again.

"Oh… Okay, then I'll ask him help if I see him, but I think that I'll keep searching the all night." She said sitting in the chair and spinning around a little.

"It must be really important, uh?" I asked; she had more papers in the desk than Tsunade ever had in her entire life!

"You have no idea." I just shrugged my shoulders.

"Good luck then." I grinned.

"Thank you. Good night Naruto." She smiled while getting back to her research.

I waved and took of.

She couldn't be that bad, she was kind of nice after all.

(Kasumi's POV)

This really is going to be a long night. I have already found three Imishis Kumos and I had only seen two of the five books.

"Come on! Give me some light!" I pleaded looking at the sealing only to a spider appear in my nose. Ugh. What a long night…

….

On the next day I woke up feeling literally like I was with a hangover. I must fell asleep on the library's desk, but fortunately I found some interesting data. I found a Imishi Kumo that suddenly moved to the Rain Village one week after the Uchiha's massacre. Fishy uh?

So it was all settled I was going to the Rain Village and have a nice, and long talk with him. The only problem were my students but I guess they could hang on a week without their sensei.

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"Sensei, don't leave us!" Ryuu pleaded making puppy eyes.

"I have to. It only will be a week, so you can hang on perfectly fine." I stated but my heart was aching a little bit.

Something about their pleads made me remember about him, and the way he left me and my master saying that he wouldn't be a mere weapon.

Luca. Where are you?

Shaking my head I said my goodbyes to everyone in Konoha and left to the outside world once more.

Flashback

"A man that has no destiny might found the most intriguing things in his path. The man that has a destiny will not care about what is in his path." Grandpa said this out loud when he was reading one of his books.

"Grandpa you read strange books." A little me said while playing with a paper airplane.

He just chuckled lightly.

"Do you have a destiny?" I asked suddenly.

"We make our one destiny, my love." He smiled warmly.

End of Flashback

'Do I have a destiny?' The question spread on my mind like a fire in the forest.

Poetic? Nahh. I'll try to make a next chapter soon as possible but I have to let the manga advance a little bit further.

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