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Well, I'm back hides from angry people

Its just I DO Have A life outside this and a family member of mine has just died recently so please forgive me! I will try to update more! Oh, And I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes!


As Gai's team left the building, Team 7 walked by to find out more about their mission. As Kakashi smiled at the other team, Neji gave a small cough and gestured at Kakashi to come over. Kakashi raised an eyebrow, but went over to him. As Neji whispered words in Kakashi's ear, his eye grew wide and he nodded. Everyone else looked around as if someone knew what they were talking about, but to no avail. Kakashi signaled for his team to follow him inside the Hokage Tower, while Team Gai continued walking.

Idly Neji touched his forehead, knowing without Yondaime's help he would be bearing the mark of a the branch house and maybe even his father would be dead. The entire Hyuuga incident was the reason sparking intense hostilities between the Leaf and Cloud.
Arashi's reform of the clan to remove all such seals condemning it as cruel and saying a child should never bear such a seal or any other seal that causes such pain.

Neji still remembered that night. The entire Hyuuga clan was assembled before the gates of the Hyuuga clan compound by order of the Hokage himself.

-Flash Back-

Neji was wrapped in a blanket and was carried by mother to the assembling area, he was woken up and quickly wrapped up and carried out into the night with the rest of the clan. He saw with Hiashi sama his daughter Hinata he was still cradled within her mother's arms.

Though surprising most of the clan, it was not Sarutobi who stepped through the gates with lit torches throwing flickering light amongst the Hyuuga within the courtyard with a guard of ANBU captains into the torch light, but the hero and defeater of the demon Kyuubi Uzukami Arashi.

The Yondaime Hokage wasted no time, he called forth the elders of the clan and ordered them to cease the tradition of marking and sealing the children of the branch house.

This brought gales of shouts from many of the leaders of the clan stating it was clan business not village and that he had no right bringing for such an "Outrageous" demand.

Arashi stood passively like a granite rock not budging an inch against the waves of shouts. Neji frightened by the commotion clung to his mother and pressed his face into her chest. Arashi held up a hand quieting the clamoring bringing a hush to the crowd, he started off softly but slowly grew impassioned orating his thoughts of about how he was shocked that such a thing even existed and even then was not stopped by previous Hokages.

Arashi grew more and more intense throwing out words of demanding cajoling and pleading to stop such a thing.

Finally at the end he again grew subdued, "Now you have all listened to me about how I see it as a leader." Arashi took off his headband of Konoha and clutched it fiercely in his hands until his hands shook at the effort "Then I take of this sign of a shinobi and come before you not as a hero or a man who was once Hokage but a man who is a father, it is not the branch house or the clans members the greatest victims here. It is the children, what will you do it they grow up with such pain and hatred. The anger and sadness flitting through there could skewing their view of such a great house bringing only bitterness. So please support me in this cause."

He walked over to Neji patting him on the head giving a feeling of assurance.

Neji even at such a young age could remember being the closest to the Yondaime heard him the clearest the muttering "And don't make the same awful mistake I did." with tears coming out of his eyes, he nearly broke down.

But to the surprise of all the man who helped Arashi up and saying the words "I support you." was none other than Hiashi-sama himself. Arashi nodded his thanks.

And of course Arashi never forgot that favor that Hiashi granted him, and so it was in fact not Hizashi who hunted down the cloud nin but Arashi himself who ripped out the man's throat for kidnapping Hyuuga Hinata and saved Hiashi's daughter.

Of course the Cloud demanded Arashi to be punished but Sarutobi's diplomatic letters had plainly read for them "Shove it" and so it was the Cloud and Leaf never reconciled but the Hyuuga become even stronger because of it.

-End Flash Back-

"Neji, Neji, NEJI!" Tenten screamed into his ear. Jolting awake he realized he had been lost in his memories. "What?" he asked irritably.

She shook her head and replied, "The mission is about to start! What were you thinking about anyway?I mean you were grinning and everything, mm must've been a happy dream." Neji only yawned nodded and stretched at the same time "Was is about...a giiiiiiiiiiirl?" Tenten asked mischievously.

Neji snorted pushing her away, the sun streamed down on his face he tossed his hair over his shoulder throwing shimmers off the hairs with most of it getting caught in a breeze. Tenten stared wide eyed "Kawaii" she muttered.

"What?" Neji asked in suprise, Tenten blushed then punched him in the shoulder "Oh come on Neji with hair like that you're practically a girl." Neji sniffed and jumped into the nearest tree, ready to start their mission. Tenten joined him, and they raced of to go catch up to Gai and Lee.


Nanashi couldn't help but notice the long, black haired boys eye bulging while looking at him. That couldn't have been good. Team 7 made their way the mission room and walked up to the desk."Oi Oi, Ojisan, what's our mission!" Hikari cried out upon look at Sarutobi.

He chuckled and pointed his hands in Tazuna's and Nanashi's direction. The group turned and look at the two while the Yondaime continued.

"These two have hired you to protect them on the way back to the Mist Country and also to protect them on the bridge that Tazuna, the tall one, will be constructing." Sasuke and Sakura merely nodded their heads, but Hikari jumped up and down in ecstasy.

"Yatta! Our first C rank mission!" Hikari said jovially.

Sasuke merely turned his head while Sakura couldn't help but nod her head.

"Cha, our first C rank! We can impress Sasuke with some amazing feats!" shouted Inner Sakura.

Tazuna nearly gave them a glance and snorted in distain, catching the attention of everyone in the room.

"Feh, these kids are supposed to protect me? I felt safer the the Gejimayu pair, even if they were creepier. And they white eyes boy looked alot stronger then the black hair boy with an attitude."

Sasuke sharply turned his head at this statement and scoffed. "I'm ten times stronger then Neji. The Hyuuga Clan is nothing compared the Uchiha clan." Ok, a little white lie never hurt anyone.

The Yondaime couldn't help but snicker at Sasuke's comment. Though he disliked saying it, the Hyuuga's were indeed the stronger clan, though not by much. Sasuke sent him a dirty look, so he quickly stopped.

Tazuna rolled his eyes. "What about that hyper active short one. She most likely get me killed out their with that kind of attitude. People could hear her a mile away."

At this the Yondaime burst out laughing. Hikari loathed when people called her short, and she always took what people said and made it a bigger deal then it was.

Hikari jumped up and shouted, "Hey, who you calling shorter then a pea! I will get taller, just you wait. I'll be as tall as a pole and squish Sasuke-teme under my foot."

Sasuke looked appalled at this comment and smirked, "Just try beating me in fight, and then well see."

Sakura jumped in between two, "Just stop already, no one wants to hear you two argue, and besides, your embarrassing us!" Sasuke merely smirked and turned around, while Hikari flipped and cursed him. Sakura shook her head and Hikari's actions. Kakashi sighed and while reading his book, said,

"Anyway, putting that aside, we best be going now. We have to get ready for the mission. Well see you tomorrow Tazuna-san." His eye crinkled and he smiled. "Don't worry, if they cant protect you, I'm always here." He cast one final glance at Nanashi and left.

Tazuna sweat-dropped. "What a lively bunch."


Team 7 stood waiting at the bench near the exit to the village. Hikari was sitting on the bench, while Kakashi, who was surprisingly early, sat next to her reading his perverted book. Sasuke was just standing, while Sakura kept shooting glances at him.

"Sasuke-kun, are you okay? You look a little pale today?" asked Sakura, walking over to him.

Sasuke merely said "Hn" and ignored her. However, Sakura didn't give up.

"Ano, Sasuke-kun, do you want to go on a date when we get back?" Sakura crossed her fingers while Hikari smothered a laugh. Sasuke didn't do dates with fan girls. Or with any girls for that matter. Tazuna was just arriving and heard what Sakura said to an clearly uninterested Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at her and said flat out, "No." Sasuke looked away, not wanting to see her face. He knew he was hurting her, but he had a goal, and that was to become greater then his brother, so he didn't have time for girls.

"Hahahaha!" a Tazuna burst out laughing at the scene.

"What is it?" Sakura asked in a dangerous tone, he wasn't making this rejection any easier by laughing at her. His companion, a small girl maybe, seemed just to be tired of the whole thing. With the cap she wasn't able to tell if it was a girl or boy. Sakura didn't notice him or her last time.

"Tazuna san wants to say, but can't at the moment, that you shouldn't say that to the boy you've fallen head over heels for. Especially because he seems uninterested." Nanashi was obviously addressing Sakura.

Sakura spluttered going red in the face she grabbed Nanashi vest and spun him around. "Look here little miss, I know everything, you maybe the baddest girl were you come from but things are different here get it?" Sakura held a kunai to the his face, but remaining dispassionate he only replied.

"I'm a boy," He replied as Sakura, blushing out of embarrassment, lowered her kunai.

Urumaki looked them over quickly, "And can dark boy there really do anything besides be an emo freak?" Sasuke bristled at the insult, "Be careful girl, something might happen on the trip." "Right whatever, oh and get it right, I'm not a girl."

"Then cut the damn bangs" muttered Sasuke.

Urumaki just pulled his wool cap down farther.


A gentle breeze stirred the branches waving them gently from side to side. The bright sun throwing the shadows to the ground.

"Ah, Fire nation really is a warm place. Though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised it being called Fire country and all."

The group ignored Tazuna's rambling opting to chat with their friends or keeping on the look out for troubling signs. Sasuke and Hikari were in the front, Sakura on the side, and Kakashi in the back, to looked over them.

The path itself was hard packed dirt with pits here and there but mostly untouched from weather. Tazuna wiped his forehead sweating profusely using a sodden cloth, he looked down beside him at Nanashi, and saw even under the vest and wool cap was perfectly normal without a drop of sweat.

Now this was strange he thought, even the jounin had a slight shine of sweat on them. 'Weird' he thought 'He must be used to all kinds of weather or something.' Whatever he was going to think of next his thoughts were interrupted by Sakura shouting, "Kakashi sensei, its a genjustu!"and two dark shapes fly up from the ground and taking off for the woods.

Two shinobi dressed in black rags and heavy metal gauntlets rushed to get away, but in the end proved to be a futile gesture. With a loud splash two mist chuunin threw themselves out of a puddle in their urgency to get away. The wind whipped their cloaks around them as they moved towards the trees hoping to lose them.

"Damn!" one of them said, "A jounin, and he had already spotted us along with the pink haired girl." (1)

Kakashi suddenly appeared in front of them as he took a crouching stance, and the rouge shinobi skidded to a halt and prepared to fight throwing their chains in hopes to slow him down, but it was to little to late. Kakashi appeared beneath their chains slamming his fist at the sometime into their bellies knocking the air clean out of them leaving them gasping.

Uchiha Sasuke had already braced himself for a fight, while searching for more enemies, but saw nothing. Kakashi handed the rouge shinobi to Sakura and Hikari, and they tied up the two shinobi as they struggled madly in an effort to get away. Kakashi knocked them out with a boot to the head.

"Kakashi sensei!" Hikari burst indignantly, "That was uncalled for, we needed information!"

Sakura nodded in agreement. Kakashi stood still then looked over his shoulder at Hikari, "What are you talking about, I doubt they would've talked. Hell, they probably would have killed themselves."

"Besides I want a talk with someone else," he looked over at Tazuna who was sweating profusely, and it wasn't from the weather either.

Kakashi waved at Tazuna to join him, and the genin backed away respectively, this was jounin business.

With that slight nod Kakashi moved suddenly. His body rushed forward not at Tazuna but Nanashi. The kid couldn't even move, the Jounin moved so fast he wasn't even able to be seen by the eye.

WUMP! Kakashi's knee slammed into Urumaki's stomach. He grabbed the two arms twisted them forcing him down to his knees. Nanashi was hit so fast he threw up after Kakashi pushed him to his knees. "Sensei!" cried his students, but Kakashi gave them a warning look telling them to be quiet. Kakashi walked over to Tazuna pushing him against a tree.

"What?" Tazuna wondered if Gatou got to the leaf before he did. "Explain why you have a missing nin in with you!" Kakashi looked extremely pissed while asking the question.

It was when they overheard Kakashi did they look at the victim. Nanashi swore with the sudden revelation that his concentration was broken and the genjutsu was revealed. The cloud headband glittered in the light, the slash gleamed showing itself clearly.

"Sasuke tie him up and make sure he doesn't try anything stupid. Now onto the original question, why is he here?" Tazuna looked at Kakashi wild eyed. "Look he's not your enemy, I just picked him up! I thought he was just some shinobi kid OK?"Kakashi sighed and let go of Tazuna.

"Your lucky I know when people are lying, however I don't like taking chances, so from here on out Nanashi is a prisoner and will be watched and will return with us to Konoha. Is that understood?" pointing the question at both Nanashi and Tazuna.

Tazuna nodded, clearly relieved his head was no longer on the line.

"Like hell you're making me go back!" shouted Nanashi.

"Shut up," whispered Kakashi harshly, "I'm not killing you because you're really not much of a threat, but make one wrong move and you are dead. Oh and Tazuna san, when we get to your home we'll talk about alternate means of paying us the extra money, since this is now a B-rank mission. Those were not bandits, but missing nin also, which means someone hired them to kill you."

Tazuna winced but nodded.

"We should take care of those demon brothers first, they're dangerous." said Kakashi.

"Don't bother," Nanashi replied staying well away from Kakashi, "Those guys aren't the real demon brothers. Those guys weren't even real shinobi."

"Tch, like you would know,", Sasuke glared at Nanashi clearly not trusting him one bit. Nanashi looked away avoiding the stares, seeing the same hate all children of his kind received.

"No, he's right Sasuke, those guys were way to easy to take down. They didn't even try to surprise us." said Kakashi. He looked down the road.

"Lets get going guys."


And, Finished!

(1) Sakura is good at seeing genjutsus, so I decided to give her a break and have her do something good. Don't worry, I like Sakura!

Preview,

"Oji-san, why is he tied up!"