A/N: Soooooooo, here ya go!

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Chapter 18: New Faces, and Some Old Ones Too

"Thank god that freaking pranking is done!" I sighed as I plopped onto my bed with a grunt, the sense of tired covering my eyes. I rolled onto my side and peered to the other side of the dark room. Today there was a strange feeling in the air, but it's hard to put my finger on the right feeling.

"Hn." Sasuke muttered as he walked into the room, looking surprisingly tiredly at me. He landed on his bed with a grunt, and rubbed his forehead. I looked away from him with tired eyes and let out a sigh. I rolled my eyes and turned back so I was resting on my back, looking at the ceiling.

A few moments later, I let out an annoyed sigh and sprang to my feet. I walked out the door without any other thought and stepped even closer to where my legs were taking me. I stopped in front of a door a hall down and looked down to see that my hand was trembling. Darkness. Darkness, evil, and death was what I was feeling, and now standing in front of this door I finally concluded what it was.

I took a deep breath and walked in to confront Tobi.

"It's already time for you to come out… Madara?" I asked as I looked at the old man in front of me, I couldn't hide my grimace, and he chuckled in reply.

"Why yes it is." He smirked to me. I sighed.

"Well it must be time right?"

"Sadly, yes."

"Don't act sad. You know you couldn't wait until this day."

"They're not going to let you go that easily, you know."

"Yeah, but where I'm going, I'm going to be safe and strong. And none of you will be stopping me."

"Whatever you say Suki. But if I see you on the battlefield, I will kill you."

I smirked in reply. "Goodbye Madara."

And with that, I walked out of the room, and to mine.

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I eyed the youngest Uchiha when I walked in the room, and played on a slight smirk when I saw his head pop up off his pillow.

"My stay is no longer needed or wanted here. I am leaving and you best leave too." I felt eyes glare at me, but I grabbed my stuff. I looked back at him slightly.

"There will be a new leader tomorrow, and I'm not staying under his rule. His and my… views… are different. Go back to Orochimaru, your needed there. It's where your fate lies."

I walked out of the door without another word, and didn't dare to look back.

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Aki's P.O.V.

I rubbed my eyes as I walked into Konoha, I knew I was gone for a long time, but I had a sense that I won't be the only one returning to their home. I looked up at the sky and let out a relaxed sigh.

"Aki-chan! Is that you?" A semi-familiar voice called from behind me, I turned to look at a figure with long hair and swirls on their cheeks reach me.

"Oh, hello Choji. I haven't seen you in a while." I replied calmly, looking at the teen in front of me, but looking all around too in hopes to see if someone came back home yet.

"Naruto just came back too, I was just going to meet up with him." He added groggily, I looked at him and nodded.

"Sorry, but I'm looking for someone right now." I muttered in reply, looking over his shoulder behind him.

"Suki left 2 ½ years ago." He said quietly, I met his gaze.

"Yes. I know." I choked out "But I have a sense that something is different today." I finished.

"Well… yeah. Two of our generations ninja finally came home, this is a different day for all of us." He added, pulling out a bag of barbeque chips and began to munch on them.

"A-Aki?... Is that you?" A voice that I couldn't recognize fully sounded from behind me. I turned around and peered at the figure, and my eyes went wide.

Suki's P.O.V.

I saw her swallow as she looked at me. "Yes. Yes it is." She choked out. I let out a slight smile as I ran up and pulled her into a hug.

"I've missed you so much Aki." I choked back, she looked back at me and let out a soft laugh.

"You've been bad sis. You better not be here to take Naruto." She whispered into my ear, this time I let out a laugh.

"Trust me, I'm done with them. A new leader is attempting to show there and my welcome was not wanted there to I left before they could try to kill me!" I winked at her, her eyebrow twitched in return, and then turned back to where she saw Choji run off to.

"Let go find the others." I stated as I rushed to where Choji left from. "And maybe we can go to Suna and meet up with Kito. But I'm not sure if he will want to see us." I turned and winked to her. She replied with a smile.

"I already contacted him, and he's on his way home."

"So squad 12 is finally reuniting. Never thought that I would see the day." A voice said from behind.

"Yeah Kinoto. Aren't you glad to see me at my original age?"

"If only I didn't know who you left to." The smile fell from my face as I turned to meet his gaze.

"It's not like I killed anyone so you shut your mouth. You might be a jonin, but if I tested I probably will be one or higher." I turned with a sneer. "And I know who they will be after next. I was about to go inform lady Tsunade right now." I added, turning on my heel and heading towards the Hokage's office.

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I sighed deeply when I finally walked out of Tsunade's office. She forgave my betrayal when I told her the little I knew, and gave information on the Akatsuki members that I have met. I was to test tomorrow to see my level as of this year, and my mark was to be sealed.

"What? That really is where she went?" I heard a voice boom from in Tsunade's office; someone must have jumped into the window to discuss with her quickly. The door swung open; luckily I was out of the way in time.

*Smack*

I rubbed my head where I was hit and went to turn around at the figure who hit my head, my eyebrow twitching at the action. Who I saw was Kakashi in the flesh. He looked down at me disappointed, I looked back boredly.

"I'm disappointed in you Suki. Joining the Akatsuki? What were you thinking?" Kakashi scolded, waiting for an answer.

"I was thinking 'Oh. Someone actually taking notice in me! Maybe I can meet some pretty interesting people!'" I said in a semi-annoyed voice. "And I just happened to be right! AND they didn't ditch me EVER! Well except when I was forced to go on that solo mission…" I trailed off in deep thought, black eyes peered at me.

"What solo mission?"

"Oh just the one where I had to infiltrate Orochimaru's base and befriend the idiots. It was actually pretty easy!" I said non-chalantly, turning on my heels casually to walk away.

"You failed to give Lady Tsunade that information. You know the whereabouts of Sasuke then?" He said, taking me by the arm and dragging me back to the office.

"Noooooooo! I don't wanna go back in there! And I did, but not anymore! He stayed for a little bit with me and the Akatsuki after the solo mission I did! I swear I don't know where he is anymore! Nooo!" Too late. I was back in the room with the Hokage, whose eyebrow was raised at me.

"To think you were 21 before." Kakashi said tiredly from beside me.

"Is there something that I need to know?" She pushed away the paperwork she was looking at.

"Well. I did a solo mission where I had to go to Orochimaru's base." I sighed. "And Kakashi thinks that I still know where Sasuke is. But I told him to leave the Akatsuki the day I did, so I have no idea where he is as of now." I looked down and then back at the Hokage, who in return sighed.

"Why didn't you say this before?"

"I forgot. Unimportant things don't cross my mind."

There was a sigh for a response. I looked up at Kakashi.

"Can I go now? I want some freaking Ichiraku Ramen. I was already in here for like 30 minutes explaining what happened and I'm bored."

Cue a second sigh.

"You may leave Suki." Tsunade said from her desk.

"Yay!" I raced out the room before anyone's mind could change. Tsunade looked up at Kakashi.

"Keep an eye on her. The Akatsuki might not be happy with her leaving."

"Yes Hokage." And with that, the masked ninja left.

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"Ahh! Ichiraku I missed you soooooo much!" I sighed happily as I set down my third empty bowl. What? I forgot to pack food for my journey back! I turned my head to the chef. "More please!" The chef chuckled in return.

"You eat as much as that blond fellow. Oh! Speak of the devil! There he is!" The chef eyed someone from behind me; I turned my head to see Naruto.

"Hey Naru-chan! I missed you! How was your trip?" I asked from my seat, he looked at me sorta surprised, and then changed his facial expression to blank.

"Hello Suki. When did you get back?" he asked, I tried to ignore the slight coldness in his voice.

"Today. And I'm guessing you know huh? Ugh I'm never going to be able to live this down." I said as I waited for my fourth bowl. He looked at me with just a little bit of surprise, he opened his mouth to say something, but I cut him off. "You know, I came back so I didn't have to hurt innocent people and so I could attempt to stop them. AND to not betray my village, which I wasn't fully aware I was doing. I didn't know until someone there told me so don't treat me like I'm a horrible person. I'm here to help." I took a deep breath after my rant and then dug into my fourth bowl that was placed in front of me. I looked at Naruto from the corner of my eye; he was slowly munching on the food he just got.

"…why did you leave?" I looked up at him fully now, he had a curious look on his face.

I swallowed. "I couldn't stay here by myself. I felt that it was my fault that my squad broke apart. Since the day I was changed to 20 on that mission from the old man, we never really were the same. And our sensei never liked me, and I wasn't going to have to relive what happened 9 years ago every day because of him." I stated, looking down at my food, clenching my fists, and feeling suddenly full.

"I was here. And you know Kakashi; he probably would have let you into the squad if you asked." Naruto stated from next to me, now fully kicking into his food. I let out a sigh.

"There is not going to be room for me in your squad very soon." I said, leaving the money for the four bowls on the table next to the one that was half finished and got up to leave. I stepped out and looked at the sky; it was cloudless. I sighed and starting heading towards the training grounds.

The perfect place for me to be alone was the training grounds. I would have gone to my hide out, but I felt a bit rusty on my techniques. I decided that I wasn't going to allow my curse mark to be suppressed, I would do it, but the forbidden technique I was about to practice required the use of the curse mark.

I looked at my hands as I remembered the first time I discovered this jutsu. I traced the scars on my palms.

~flashback~

I was about 9-years-old, I finally had the strength to go back to the house after 2 years, and I was going to collect the family scrolls. I strolled up the attic stairs, trying to keep my breath steady as memories flashed into my mind of that night. I shook it off and kept walking.

I reached up to the top of the stairs and looked around to where they said the scrolls where. I saw them in the corner, smirked, and pulled them out. I went down the stairs with a small scroll in hand, and headed towards my secret base.

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I placed the scroll onto the floor of the giant tree fort, and opened it up. I read and opened it more, until I saw the words "Forbidden Jutsu: Chain Wielders' Curse". I scrunched my eyebrows in confusion, but opened it up to look at the hand signs. My eyes widened when I realized that the whole jutsu was 1/3 of the whole scroll. I smiled, assuming this was going to be the jutsu that my parents were going to teach me. So without any other thought, I stood up, and began trying to do the jutsu.

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I breathed heavily, but I knew that I finally got this jutsu set, so I sucked in a deep breath and began the hand signs again. This time I knew that something was going to happen, the last tries nothing happened. When I finally did the last hand sign, I stood there for a while, but then felt something piercing the inside of my palm. I looked down at my hands in shocked pain as I watched the skin slowly poking up to a point. I yelped when it finally tore, and stared in awe when I saw the tip of something spiky in my skin.

Moments later, the spike quickly grew more as it was pushed out of my palms; I screamed in pain and scrunched my eyes close. When the pain stopped, I opened my eyes and looked at my hands. There was a spiky chain coming out of each palm, I gasped, and then nodded, realizing this was the ancient technique that only few members of my family could master. The chains were said to be created by the iron in the blood and by the chakra in the holder. And I was the only one for three generations to be able to possess the amount of iron for this skill.

I smirked, and took in a deep breath as I tried to bring the chains back into my body. It took me a while to finally be able to, but they eventually did. I looked down at my bloody palms, and grimaced at the cut on the lower part of it.

Every other day, I used the jutsu and practiced, until my training was interrupted one day by a girl with black hair and red eyes. I promised her I wouldn't train with that technique until we both understood how I could be able to use the jutsu with such ease.

~End Flashback~

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I breathed heavily as I forced the chakra chains back into my palms, when they were completely gone I stood up straight and looked at the destroyed wooden block in front of me. I smiled proudly and stared deep at the destroyed wood, my face turned to a frown.

I know Aki would not let me use this jutsu, but she should at least let me once in a while.

I turned towards the direction of the village and walked towards my apartment, I will see Aki tomorrow.

A/N: This took me a few days to make, but I hoped you guys liked it! Remember, review!