First things first, time is a fucking bitch. There you are thinking you can update the next chapter this week …... baaaam two more weeks have passed with you having to tend to little and annoying as hell things.

I am going to stop my rambling.

Well here it is the Fourth chapter.

Thank you to all the nice reviewers and now with out further delay

"speaking"

'thoughts'

-inner voice-

I do not own anthing, except my OC. everthing belongs to Kishimoto and whoeverelse is involved.

TRIP TO CRAZY RIVENDELL

I opened my eyes only to find that I was under water once again.

'You´ve gotta be kidding me. I´m not bloody Aquaman. I don´t belong into the sea.'

I looked around but there was no hint of the giant cat that ate me the first time, only a path.

'Yeah I path under water as if it´s not freaky enough that I have those dreams. Well I hope that they´re dreams if not I would be fucked. On the other hand I can clearly breath under water and I´m resistance to the pressure, which is awesome. I´m a fishman …... well fishwoman …... whatever it´s still awesome.'

I followed the path. It looked like someone just dumped a whole land area into the sea as there were nothing which resembled a marine ecosystem. Only trees and bushes, weed and whatever else grew alongside a land path were represented here. No corals, fish and other sea things were anywhere near it. I couldn´t even see anything like that in my visual field, it looked like the whole area was void of any sea creatures and plants as if the lands things had taken over the place. I kept on following the path, which led to the heart of the forest or so it seemed because my surrounding became more darker, bigger and overgrown. With a finally twist the path ended on a cliff and I had a full view on the valley under me.

'Is that Rivendell? Are you kidding me first DC and now Tolkien. I am not in a crossover. Well I hope not or it going to be a pain in the arse to explain that... I should go down there …... You can´t visit Rivendell everyday. I mean what could happen? I´m dreaming. The last time I was eaten and just woke up, can´t get any worse than that.'

With that in mind I jumped of the cliff and swam down to Rivendell.

'Good thing I´m under water or that wouldn´t have gone this smooth.'

I reached the bottom a while later. It was farther away than expected.

'Damn optical illusion.'

Curiosity and as there were no other people around had me wander around in the place. It was deserted. No living thing had been here for the years. The structure was as magnificent as in the movies even as cracks and vines crept along the walls, pillars and banister.

'Maybe that´s why the elves left. Not because of Sauron but because they knew they would become the new Atlantis.'

In my musing I managed to somehow land in the counsel thing where the fellowship was formed. I was now completely lost. Just as I turned around and was heading back because I knew I would be more likely to find a way by trying rather than by remembering, a cough let me stop in my tracks. I slowly turned around, there on Elrond´s seat sat a little girl.

"Yo. Why do you look like me?" I said.

Well she might not looked like my clone but she could have been definitely my sibling. Our facial features were the same her just a touch more softer and her hair leaned more to be black than blue. The only real difference were the eyes as her were a rich forest green and not two coloured either.

"Maybe you look like me and not the other way around."

"You gonna say that whole good morning thing, too?"

"No. I´m hear to enlight you." I scoffed at that.

"How old are you? Six?"

"Don´t you understand? I´m you."

' Batshit crazy that girl.'

I slowly started to inch backwards, me being freaky was okay but her. Big no.

"The moment your soul possessed this body the soul still in there started to mingle with yours. Creating a new unique personality and living being out of the two souls."

"I am a fucking demon?" I asked, still trying to make sense of what she said .

"In a way yes. I am the second soul, your the first. That´s the reason why you act more immature than 24, but let me tell you that before you go. There can only be one consciousness at a time. It doesn´t matter how many souls a body harboured, only one of them can rule."

With that said everything around me lost its focus. It slowly dissolved around me, leaving me only in blackness.

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I woke up with a start nearly crushing the hand that had tried to put a blanket over me. I quickly released it the second I realised what I was doing exactly.

"Sorry Tsunami-san." I mumbled. She smiled at me but kept rubbing her wrist, where I had gripped it.

"We´re going to eat lunch soon. You might want to speak to your teammates before, they were worried about you." She told me as she left the room, hurrying out of the room.

'Fuck. I should really stop …. well I don´t do anything, really. Still I have some fucked up dreams. Hey other me, any ideas?'

-There is a little temple not far from here, which belonged to your clan. You might find answers there.-

'How do you know that?'

-I know a great deal more than you can ever imagine.-

'Wow that´s so helpful. Do you like to be so cryptic?'

-I can only tell you that much, you have to figure out the rest yourself.-

'I´ll never going to ask you something again. You´re worse than an elf.'

I huffed in annoyance but stood up and headed towards the room in which my teammates were. I could hear them arguing before I even entered the room.

"What´s all the fuss about?" I asked and leaned against the doorway.

They jumped at my voice and scattered away from each other.

"It´s only you Mizu-chan." Naruto said. I raised a brow in question.

"We´ll want to look under Sensei´s mask." Sakura explained. I grinned at them.

"You know he´ll probably kill you if you succeed …...but it´s going to be fun to watch you try. Don´t let me stop you. I´m quiet sure you´ll not manage to unmask him."

They looked quiet shocked but never the less Naruto started to grin from ear to ear.

"Are you going to bet on that, Mizu-chaan?" he asked me in a sing song voice.

"If you manage to knowingly unmask him in a year, I´m going to buy you a month worth of ramen and the other two something as equally as expensive. BUT if I win you three have to buy me a weapon of my choice. Deal?" I said and stretched out my hand.

"Deal." Naruto exclaimed happily and shook my hand, the other two murmured their agreement.

The second they all had agreed, all three of them creeped towards the sleeping form of our Sensei, who laid only a couple of feet away. Naruto had began to reach out to Kakashi´s mask as the latter one suddenly opened his eyes, sending the three Genins scurrying backwards and away from him.

Tazuna-san and Tsunami-san entered the room having heard the screaming of the others.

"Oh Kakashi-sensei, you´re awake." Tsunami greeted him, but he didn´t answer her, being deep in thoughts.

"What´s wrong sensei?" Naruto asked after a few painful silent moments.

"Well, body erasing team usually dispose of the person they killed right there." he began to explain.

"So what?" a still clueless Sakura asked. I let out a sight beside her.

"The hunter-nin took Zabuza´s body with him. That´s unusual as even if he needed proof he could just take his head. Furthermore is Zabuza´s body way heavier than that of the boys, which makes it more of a burden than necessary." I explained instead of Kakashi.

"And the weapon he used to kill Zabuza." Kakashi went on. I could see that Sasuke finally got it.

"No way." he whispered.

"Yeah. Exactly." our Sensei confirmed Sasuke´s thought, sheepishly rubbing his head.

"What are you guys talking about?" Tazuna wanted to know.

"That Zabuza is still alive and that the hunter-nin was an ally of his." I deadpanned.

"WHAAT!" Naruto, Sakura and Tazuna lost it there.

"What the hell do you mean?! Kakashi-sensei, you checked and said that he was dead!" Naruto yelled at him.

"Yeah I did … but that most likely just a momentary death. The needle the hunter-nin used, unless it hits a vital organ, it has a low probability of killing your opponent. It´s even an item used in acupuncture therapy. Hunter-nins know about the body´s structure thoroughly. Putting a person in a momentarily state of death is probably easy for them. First, he carried away the body of the much heavier Zabuza. Second, he used a weapon that has a low probability of killing. These two pints indicate that his motive was not to kill Zabuza but to save him. We can´t ignore that possibility." Kakashi-sensei finally finished his way too long explanation.

"Aren´t you thinking too much? Hunter-nins are supposed to kill missing-nins." Tazuna tried to deny the possibility completely.

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." I told the still baffled Tazuna.

"With all that suspicion we will prepare before it´s too late. That´s a shinobi rule. Plus, whether Zabuza is dead or alive there is no assurance that Gato hasn´t hired an even stronger shinobi." Kakashi-sensei added and silenced Tazuna´s protest.

"Sensei. What do you mean prepare before it´s too late? You can barely move." pinky asked, not catching up on what he was implying.

'And the creepy laugh again. He really should stop that.'

-And you should pay attention.-

'Like I have ever done that before.'

-Kids these days. No respect.-

'Like you would know.'

"... but obviously this is just training until I´m better, you won´t be able to defeat him without me." I heard Sensei explain, having tuned out again.

"But Sensei if Zabuza still alive he could attack at anytime, so shouldn´t we be training?" pinky asked once again.

"About that, a person put into a momentarily death situation, it should take a while before their body returns to normal." Kakashi told her.

I looked towards the door as I heard Inari coming nearer, completely ignoring Naruto´s answer that way.

"That´s not fun." Inari told them dead on as he entered the room.

"Who the hell are you!" Naruto yelled at him but he completely ignore him as he ran to his grandfather.

"Inari say hello to these people. They are the ninjas who protected grandpa." Tsunami told her son sternly.

"Mom they are going to die."

I couldn´t help but start laughing at that, my teammates confused faces and the little guys gut to tell them straight on that they´re going to die.

"What´s wrong with her?" Inari asked the rest of my teammates.

"She´s a weirdo, just ignore her." Sakura answered.

The rest I didn´t hear as I was to focus on getting air in my lungs and not suffocating due to my laugh attack.

I started to calm down after he and Naruto had left the room.

"Well I´m going out too." I told them, as I lifted myself up from the floor, "It´s getting quiet uncomfortable in here."

"And where are you going to be exactly?" Kakashi-sensei´s question let me stop dead in my tracks. I had no idea where the temple would be, but I didn´t want to explain it to the them.

"Wherever the road will take me. Who knows. All I know is that I´m going on an adventure. Maybe I find my own Arkenstone." I tried to get out without telling too much.

He frowned at that but before I could get out of the room and leave the awkwardness behind he said something which was way worse than just denying me to go,

"You´re not going alone out there as your training will only start in a couple of hours, Sasuke and Sakura will accompany you."

My jaw hit the floor.

"Why in the seven hells would you do something like that to me? That is as if you would give me the ring and tell Gollum I have it." I was out raged.

'They can´t follow me. I don´t even know what´s going to be there and they´ll start to ask question.'

-You have to. It´ll let them understand you more and let them begin to trust you.-

'Fine but I´m just doing that because you were a help up until now.'

"What about Naruto? Should we leave him or is he going on our little adventure too?" I asked rather sarcastically, still pissed off.

Before either of us could react a blond bold stormed into the room yelling adventure.

"Seems like it´s decided. You three will accompany Gomizu to where ever she want´s to and keep her out of trouble. As it´s still nearly noon you´ll be back in 4 hours and we are going to train until dinner. That´s all you´re dismissed."

We left the house and I´m still wasn´t sure if my inner me was right and I was in no mood to deal with the three musketeer. Not even to mention my new inner Hollow, yeah, that´s so original.

"So where are we going? Ne-ne Mizu-chaaaaan. I want an adventure." Naruto bugged me the second we were outside.

"Not quiet sure." I answered him honestly.

"How can you not be sure? You were the one, who wanted to go outside." Sakura started nagging.

'So much for getting better along.'

-Head inside the forest and head west, there going to be a really old tree on a hill.-

'Like the swamp tree in Avatar?'

-Like that one.-

"Let us go into the woods." I exclaimed and immediately started to head into a randomly direction.

The other three followed me, surprisingly without a fuss. After a few steps I stopped and turned around.

"Have anyone of you have any idea, where the forest is exactly?" I asked as I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly.

"HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHERE YOU´RE GOING?" Sakura yelled and hit me over the head.

"Oww... Well I thought you could see the forest from here but I was wrong." I explained, rubbing my aching head.

"It´s that way." Sasuke said and pointed in the opposite direction I had wanted to go.

-Seems like Sakura is more comfortable around you or else she wouldn´t have dared to hit you.-

'I think I liked it better when we didn´t get along that well.'

-Don´t be such a fuss. Now move.-

"Allonsy." I shouted before heading of in the direction Sasuke had pointed out. As I wanted to have as much time as possible at the temple I started to run after a few meters. It didn´t take long for me to reach the edge of the forest as it wasn´t that far away because Tazuna´s house was at the border of the village. I stopped and waited. I was surprised at how far behind the others were, I hadn´t realised that I had run that fast. The first to arrive was Sasuke and then Naruto a short time after, the last one was Sakura with a lot of space between herself and Naruto. I grinned at them before taking of once again, but this time in the right direction. The small and young tree from the edge were soon replaced by bigger and older ones, covered in vines and moss. I switched to jumping from branch to branch due to the underbrush getting thicker and thicker. I finally spotted the tree, not that it was hard to overlook, being Smaug in between the dwarves. I stopped once again to wait, this time it took the at least three times as long to catch up with me as before. As they finally arrived this time as a group, which had to be the reason why it was three times as long and not twice as long.

"Welcome Grandma and Granddads."

"How are you so fast?" a nearly collapsing Sakura asked.

"I trained the last couple of weeks as I need more stamina or else incidents like the one on the training ground will repeat themselves." I told her truthfully.

"We did all the training at the academy. Why should you train now that you´re a Genin?" All three of us looked at her as if she just said the sun rotates around the earth.

"That is precisely the reason why I train. We are no longer safe behind the walls of our academy. We can be killed in action. We need to be able to defend ourselves and as there are way more stronger opponents out there than us we need to get stronger or else we are getting killed. I mean Valhalla is going to be awesome but I do not want to enter it just yet." I tried to enlighten her. I could see that it finally make click in her head.

"Now enough time wasted we only have two hours left to search if we want to get back in time for training and I´m quiet sure you do want to head back slowly and not being exhausted before training even started." I said ending the conversation and finally heading up towards the roots of the tree.

The tree was huge, the roots alone were at least double my size. I could fucking walk underneath them. The root caves, that what I called the space under the roots, were not only huge but deep too. They wound underground and built a net of tunnels, which I found out as I followed one only to emerge on the other side of the tree. After an hour of looking around and getting lost a couple of times I stopped.

'This is not working. Where the fuck is that temple? If we want to continue this search we have to go deeper, but the risk of getting lost is too high, we have to form teams.'

-You finally understood.-

'Thanks Inner me. Couldn´t have helped a little bit sooner, could you?'

-Everything has its time.-

'You too.'

"Avenger assemble!" I yelled into the air, once I was out of the tunnel.

I only had to wait a couple of seconds and all of them had appeared before me.

"I feel so like Fury right now or Captain Penguin... Well whatever. I wanted to say this search is pointless. Don´t interrupt Sakura and we are not giving up, just because we failed once." I told pinky as I saw her opening her mouth," We are going to split up in teams of two to explore the tunnels that lead further down. The risk to high that we are getting lost in there and we don´t know what´s down there so we are playing safe. One of the team has to memorise the way and the other will keep an eye on anything unusual. Sakura you and Naruto will form a team." I hold up a hand to stop her protest.

"Listen to my explanation. You are by far off the smartest from us four you can memorize the way in an instance. Furthermore he listen to you the best. If Sasuke would go with Naruto the two would only argue and not pay attention to the way or their surrounding. If Naruto would go with me there would be no one to remember our way as Naruto can´t remember anything which he has only heard or seen once and I´m far too often not paying attention to where I go. It´s for our safety." The on slaughter of arguing I had expected didn´t come.

"Aren´t you going to argue and tell me how I´m not the boss of you and so on?" I asked them, rather confused.

"Your explanation make sense and even Kakashi-sensei said that you your the best of us about thinking something through without being too influenced by your emotion. Like when you attacked Zabuza to give Naruto time to think of a plan, even though you know you were no match for him." Sakura explained.

"When in the name of Rassilon did he say that?" I asked now completely lost.

"When you had your laugh attack." Sasuke stated matter of factly.

"Ok, I think he finally lost his mind but that is only me. What I wanted to say was that Naruto and I will have a shadow clone of ourselves accompany the other group. If the group find the something or is in trouble the clone will vanish and I or Naruto will know where to find you. But please tell them the path before they vanish or else everything is just useless." I came to an end with my little rant.

"Whaaaat. That is possible?" Naruto asked rather loudly.

"Yes." I stated, wanting to end this as fast as possible.

I formed a cross with my index and middle finger of both my hands and created a shadow clone, which waved at the three.

"Now before we go the clones have to remain silent to not distract the team. Especially you Naruto. Sakura you´ll be the leader of your team and you´ll start on the opposite side." with those last words I went into the tunnel that I had emerged from a few minutes before.

I didn´t stop as I could feel the chakra of Sasuke and Naruto´s clone following me. I lead them as far down as I had gone last time.

"You want to take the lead, Show off?" he sort of hummed in a denying way.

'Is that even possible? …... Well the Uchiha certainly make it possible.'

I started to follow the path which went slightly downhill. There was a complete silence, even though Naruto travelled with us, no idea how he managed to be so quiet once in his life. After a good half an hour of following winding paths, dead ends and surprisingly no traps, Sasuke had to break the silence.

"How are you?" I nearly ran into the wall in front of me as yet another path was a dead end.

"Excuse me?" I asked baffled.

"Zabuza kicked you away, that should have injured you. So how are you?" he explained in his `I´m an oh so cool Uchiha` voice, but could not look at me saying that.

"Who are you and what the fuck did you do with the `Oh I´m better than all of you and I don´t want to have anything to do with you because I´m too cool for you` Sasuke?" I retorted not answering him.

Before he could give some witty comeback I clutched my head as the clone I had with Sakura and Naruto vanished and I got the information.

'That´s a really strange feeling.'

"They found something. Lead the way back show-off."

Oppositionless he turned around and lead the way up, which only took as 10 minutes or so as we didn´t have to double back all the time and find a new way.

"Freeeeedooooooom!" I called out happily, finally being able to breath fresh air again, once we were outside.

"You didn´t answer my question." the raven haired said.

"Can´t you leave it alone. It didn´t bother you before so don´t start now. You´re the one who isolated himself from the team and doesn´t care about teamwork." I snapped at him not in mood for his suddenly interest in teamwork.

"No."

"Gaaah, by Merlin´s beard. Do you have to have your enlightening that teamwork is better now?"

"Yes."

"Fine. I´m okay. My ribs slightly hurt, where he kicked me but I´m fine. Happy?" I answered him more or less truthfully, not having the nerve to continue our little game.

"Yes."

'I fucking hate his one word answers.'

-You should be happy that he has finally opened up enough so that the idea of teamwork is not repelling to him anymore.-

'Oh yeah that is so helpful.'

-You can´t be satisfied, can you?-

'Well the timing is a little bit annoying.'

-Go to the others.-

'Aye,aye Captain.'

"Finished, staring into nothing?" the show-off greeted, once I was back in the land of the sane.

"Haven´t even started yet." I said with a grin, trying to see the good in his sudden change to be more communicative.

"Now let join Naruto and Sakura. Hey clone Naru you can vanish and tell them we´re on our way." I told the still silent clone of Naruto, who just nodded and vanished.

"Isn´t it strange that he hasn´t said one word in all that time?" I asked show-off as we ran to the opposite side of the tree to get in the other tunnel.

"Hm." was all he replied.

"And back to the old Sasuke." I muttered under my breath.

We didn´t start a conversation again as I followed the instruction my clone had sent me, leading us to the other two. Deeper ans deeper we went, without a trace of the others ever having been here, only the walls were getting drenched with water more and more. After good ten minutes we had to drag ourselves through calve high mud. I was really considering pulling a Legolas and just walking on the mud, even if it was a waist of chakra, but luckily we finally stumbled into a big cave. Sakura and Naruto were immediately at our sides.

"What took you so long?" Naruto asked being his usual impatient self.

"Try to get through calve high mud any faster." Sakura frowned at that, I raised an eyebrow at her questioningly.

"There wasn´t any mud when we came down here."

That was not good. Either it´s a stupid coincident or, which is more likely, a trap was activated.

"Well we should hurry up then or else we´ll be late for our training."

No need to worry them right now, if everything goes as planned we should be out of here before the tunnel is fully sealed shut. Considering the time we spent here and how high the mud was we have ten maximum twenty minutes or else we´ll be trapped in here. If the mud is too high to go through I´ll just form 2 clones and carry them out by pulling a Legolas. Waist of chakra or not they are still my teammates and they come first, regardless of my liking. As I tried to step further into the cave Sakura put out an arm and stopped me. I looked down at the hand on my chest.

"What, pinky?"

"There is some kind of seal down here. It will not let you pass." she explained.

'That´s why she called us back. Wow that is helpful.'

-She was right to call you. You have to go forward. It´ll only let one of your bloodline pass and hurry up, time is running out.-

'Now you´re helpful again?'

I shook off her hand and continued forward. I clenched my eyes shut waiting for the impact of walking into something but nothing happened. After a few steps a opened my eyes and turned around. Sakura´s and Naruto´s mouth were hanging open and show-off was on the ground, who I supposed had tried to follow me.

'Wish I had a camera. The oh so genius Sasuke was outsmarted by a simple seal. Hehehe.'

"If I don´t come back in ten minutes you are going to leave. Tell Sensei about it and try to figure out something." I told them as didn´t want them to be stuck here, if something should happen to me.

"Whaaaaaat. Noooooooo. Mizuuu-chan, we are not going to do that. You are our comrade." Naruto yelled at me.

"I´m not asking you to abandon me. I´m asking you to retreat and regroup, so you might have a better chance in helping me get out. Now it´s only eight minutes."

I ignored Naruto´s and Sakura´s shouts of trying to stop me and kept moving forward. Surprisingly the cave wasn´t as dark as expect, which meant there had to be an opening.

'If we really got stuck here, we could try to find that opening and make it wider so we all fit through.'

I continued, being painful aware of how loud my steps were in the silent room. It would be easy for enemies to pinpoint my location and eliminate me, but as they had not made a move yet I was fairly certain that there were at least no human enemies. It turned out that the cave wasn´t as big as expected as I could already see the end of it. Well it might be still a bit farer away as I could see pretty good in the dark but it still wasn´t as big as you would have thought. I froze as I made out movements on the table sort of thing I could make out in the dark. Two sapphire eyes were looking directly at me.

"Fuck."

I slowly crept forward,the eyes didn´t move an inch.

"Hey, whatever or whoever you are. I just want to take a quick look at that temple thing you are sitting on. I don´t mean you any harm, I promise. See it´s sort of my family stuff. You know I´m a Mueko or else I couldn´t have passed that barrier back there."

I hoped that that thing was friendly to me and only a protector to the temple and wouldn´t hurt one of the clan. Suddenly the eyes shifted and came jumping towards me. I only had time to raise my arm and stop the thing from getting directly to my throat. There was no pain or anything else that would have indicated that I had been attacked, only a slight weight on my chest and... a purring?

"What the fuck?"

I lowered my arms only to come face to face with a little black kitten. Well little was an understatement as the thing was at least double the size of an ordinary cat. It still looked quiet young.

"Hello little one. Might letting me up?"

It crooked his head to a side as if it thought about my words and after a short while got up and let me get up,too.

"Thank you." I said and scratched it behind the ears, which made it purr again.

I finally stood before the little shrine or whatever it should resemble. On it was only a package with a strange sign on it. I shrugged and took it to place it in one of my poaches, only to realise that I had left them at Tazuna´s.

"That could have gone better." I spoke more to myself than the cat.

"Well we should leave this place. What do you think?" as an answer the cat jumped on my shoulders and made itself comfortable there. I chuckled and headed towards my teammates. I made it there a lot quicker as I did not had to fear an enemy attack anymore, if they didn´t attack me beforehand they would most certainly not do it now and my new companion would sense them way earlier than me. Naruto called out as he saw me and waved enthusiastically, seemed like he was happy not to leave me behind.

"Heiyo." I greeted them and stopped Naruto before he could ran into the barrier.

"We should get out of here as soon as possible." I said while scratching the head of the cat.

"Who´s that?" a curious Sakura wanted to know as she slowly stepped forwards to examine my new attachment closer.

"Just found it, but I didn´t want to leave it here." I told her shrugging, heading towards the exit/entrance of the cave. The others hurried after me. True to my speculation the mud was now waist high.

"Kage-bunshin-no-jutsu." Three clones appeared. They took all three piggy-back and began to walk on the mud. Their faces were priceless. I followed them and after only a couple of meters I could set the down as the mud wasn´t there anymore.

'Yep,definitely a trap.'

"How did you do that? Can you teach me?" Naruto was right in my face, bombarding me with question.

"It´s just a form of chakra control and no I can´t. It´s not my job but Sensei´s. Go ask him." I told him and shoved him away.

"We should hurry or we are going to be late. We only have an hour left." with that I started to head back and leave this creepy place forever.

"Say what did you find in there?" Sakura wanted to know as she caught up with me.

I only hold up the package as an answer.

"Aren´t you going to open it?" she continued.

"Not right now."

With that she fell back to talk with Naruto and Sasuke in hushed whispered. She and Naruto had learnt to leave me alone due to the time we had spent together. If I didn´t want to talk about a subject I wouldn´t, maybe later, but if you would persist on having an answer it would only accomplish the opposite and I would not talk to the person for a certain time. I hummed a song to myself to pass the time.

"Ne, Mizu-chan, what are you humming?" Asking me what I was humming or singing was the safest question ever as I liked to enlight people or freak them out with my choice of music. It only depended on my mood but never failed to cheer me up.

"Misty Mountains."

"Are you going to sing it?" Naruto had taken a likening to my singing, no idea why, I wouldn´t say I was a really good singer. Average, maybe.

"Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold; where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale
And men they looked up with faces pale;
The dragon's ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
The dwarves they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old."

We finally emerged from underneath the earth.

"That was beautiful."

"Just imagine it when a chorus of bass singer sings it, Sakura. That is way more awesome." I told her with a smile, my mood greatly improved. I yawned, frowning I checked my chakra reserves.

'Fuck I´m low on chakra again, and here I was thinking my training had improved it.'

…...

'Hey inner voice are you still there?'

…...

'Apparently not. Fine by me you were annoying anyway.'

If I could have stuck my tongue out in my mind I would have, but to my sorrow it wasn´t possible or I was to stupid to manage it. Naw whatever, I couldn´t do it, that was for sure.

I trotted after my teammates, who had were now in front of me due to my musing. I kept to my self the rest of the way not wanting to become a part of one of Sakura´s and Naruto´s bickering matches.

"How can you manage to remember those lyrics but not something of importance like our academical lectures?" Sakura tried to include me in the conversation. I sighed, so much for my plan.

"It´s a matter of priorities. I don´t really care about marks as they do not represent the potential someone has truthfully or how good of a ninja they are going to be." Sakura looked sceptically towards me, pink brows furrowed.

"Look at it this way. You were one of the top students, but suck at anything that has to do with physically work.. Now look at Naruto and I, we were average to catastrophically, but we are more suited to win a fight than you. Sasuke is both good at fighting and intelligence stuff, but is not really a team player, but it is getting better numbers on a paper do not say anything about the person itself and his capability to be an ninja. Furthermore you can never be sure that the person didn´t hold back on purpose to gain an advantage over their enemies. Look underneath the underneath. That´s a shinobi rule, sin´t it?" I finished my little rant.

'Since when had I become the mature one, who sees the logical explanation in everything? Well more or less logically.'

Sakura closed her mouth with an audible snap. I grinned at her, it was always fun to see shocked face. Didn´t happened that often but still. I was left alone once again and we began to walk in a comfortable silence, seemed like this adventure had brought as together. Hopefully it would stay that way. It took as nearly an hour to get back and by the time we made it all I wanted was to curl up on my futon and sleep. But I know that it wasn´t possible. As I tried to excuse myself from the group and get to my things to safely pack away my found treasure, I was stopped by our Sensei, emerging from his room.

'My precioooooooouuuuuus. I would be a good Smeragol.'

"I don´t even want to know." he said as he took in our rather muddy appearance. His eyes landed on the package I still had in my hand and on the cat over my shoulders. He let out a sigh and closed his visible eye, shaking his head slightly as if I had already done something stupid.

"Put them to your other things."

I nodded and ran to the room I had previously been sleeping in, only to find it empty. I looked around puzzled and tried to figure out where they had put my stuff. The only other rooms where upstairs so I rushed upstairs, ripping every door open until I finally found my stuff. It was neatly sat aside in one of the rooms at the back of the house, together with Sakura´s and the boys´ bags. Only Sensei´s were missing but I figured it was in the room downstairs. I gently laid the package behind my bag, hiding it from any prying eyes and tried to remove the cat, which proved fruitless. The little devil had a death grip on me. I sighed in defeat and not wanting to waist anymore time headed downstairs once again, but not without gripping my pouches on the way out. As I ran down the stairs, I realized what mess I had made. The once clean wooden floor was covered in my muddy footsteps even though I had left my shoes at the entrance. I cringed, I really had to apologize to Tsunami-san at making such a mess. I banished that thought as I had better things to think about now and skipped to a hold in front of the entrance. I slipped into my sandals and hurried out of the door, only to nearly collide with my Sensei´s back. He turned around, gaze fixing sternly at the cat still on my shoulders. I shrugged.

"It didn´t let go."

He sighed once again, but said nothing, probably too much waste of time for him. He motioned for us to follow him as he kept on walking with his crutches towards the edge of the forest. After what felt like a lifetime we had finally arrived in the little clearing, where our training is suppose to be happening.

Kakashi-sensei stopped and turned around.

"Ok we will now start the training." he announced, face being painfully blank.

Well that´s all for now but I´ll continue this story. It´s only a filler but I didn´t want to put the training in it as it would get too long for one chapter. I recently decided I ´ll publish chapters which around 3,000 words. Well looked like it worked out pretty well …... not.

Well whatever, I hope you enjoyed the chapter.

Comments and constructive criticism is always welcomed.

And however long my next update will take I´ll not abandon this story, whatever happens.

PS: the cat name is still out for debate, so if you have an idea just write it in the comments. It doesn´t matter if it´s female or male as I haven´t decided on a gender yet.

I am still searching for a beta-reader, so if someone is interested just write.

tbc