Chapter 8- The Fifth Hokage

One week had passed since the third Hokage's funeral and the village was in disarray searching for someone suited to be the next Hokage. I had been pretty upset but my anger had toned down after a few days and I was filled with worry that the village would be attacked.

I had been sitting with Naruto at Ichiraku's when Jiraiya walked in and proposed Naruto and I join him on the journey to find a woman who was to be the next Hokage. I had declined the offer and decided to stay with Sakura, Kakashi, and Sasuke.

I waved farewell to the knucklehead and Pervy sage and made my way to gather Kakashi and Sakura for a little training session. I had sensed Kakashi heading towards the little stream near the outskirts of the village and changed my direction. I had come upon a pretty frightening scene.

A tall blue man that resembled a fish, and a man who looked startlingly like Sasuke stood in the middle of the stream in front of Kakashi, and two other ninja I recognized as Hinata's Sensei Kurenai and Shikamaru's sensei Asuma.

I moved to hide behind a tree to watch what was going on but I only lasted a few moments before the tall fish like man pointed in my direction stating "Hey Itachi, some idiot thinks they can hide from us behind that tree."

Of course my eyes had widened and I realized that I hadn't even tried to mask my chakra. I slapped my forehead before moving out of my hiding place like an idiot.

The two ninja looked my way and the man named Itachi widened his eyes slightly, almost unnoticeable. He whispered what sounded like my name and turned back to the group of jounin hardening his eyes.

I had been very confused and I walked slowly so I was standing next to Kurenai and Asuma and watched what was happening. Kakashi was standing a little ahead using his Sharingan and suddenly shouted "Close your eyes!" as the man named Itachi looked at us with his own pair of Sharingan.

"No, way! You're an Uchiha" I had blurted out staring dumbly at Itachi who had sighed and looked away slightly before ignoring me and focusing on Kakashi.

I noticed momentarily that Kurenai and Asuma had both trusted Kakashi and closed their eyes. I however was the only moron who had not closed her eyes. I watched as Kakashi remained frozen for quite a while and I wondered what happened when Kakashi suddenly gasped and fell to his knees.

I rushed forward as Kakashi let out a pained groan and questioned "What are you doing here? Why are you here?"

I imagine he didn't expect an answer but Itachi spoke "We're looking for the legacy of the fourth Hokage"

I had been confused as the Hokage that died had been the third, I still did not know of the fourth Hokage and the sacrifices he had made to keep the leaf village safe.

The two came closer as Itachi stated "Kill them Kisame, do not hurt the young one" and suddenly a whirlwind came jumping right in front of us and Gai appeared holding a ferocious look on his face. I had watched Itachi sigh and state "We do not need this fight to slow us down, come Kisame" and with that the two disappeared and Kurenai and Asuma opened their eyes to see Gai standing there.

I had turned to the three as Gai gathered up Kakashi "Who was that, and who are they looking for?" Once again I was left frustrated as they ignored me and started off for the hospital.

I had looked rather irritated but then I realized Kakashi was unconscious. Dashing after the jounin we entered the hospital where they put Kakashi in a room. Gai had stated "We should not tell Sasuke that Itachi has returned."

"Aha! So that ninja was related to Sasuke" before anyone could reply a nurse walked in and told us "Whatever Genjutsu was used was a very strong one. I'm afraid without a strong medical ninja, he may be this way for a while."

I had felt a rush of fear for Kakashi and was about to go after the two ninja when Sasuke burst in "What happened. What's wrong with him?"

Before anyone could answer him a ninja rushed into the room shouting "Is it true! Did Itachi Uchiha return and he's after Naruto!?"

Asuma and Gai glared at the ninja before he realized Sasuke had been in the room and squeaked slightly before disappearing. Sasuke had looked livid and dashed out of the room.

I looked at Gai and said "I'll go after him!" and with Gai looking like he had been about to protest I was out of the room and chasing after Sasuke. I had let my thoughts wander as I ran behind Sasuke 'Wait that man said he's after Naruto. Does that mean Naruto is the fourth Hokage's son?'

I had looked at Sasuke thinking 'Who is this Itachi to you, I thought your whole clan was dead' I had narrowed my eyes slightly when this thought came to mind.

An hour later we had arrived in a town that Naruto and Jiraiya were within and asked around before finding the room they were staying in. I had split off from Sasuke who hadn't noticed me following him and walked up to the room the lady at the hotels front desk had stated was Naruto's.

Upon arrival I found Naruto, having a standoff with Itachi and Kisame, and Jiraiya nowhere to be found. I jumped in front of Naruto creating an earth wall as Kisame, the fish man swung his sword towards Naruto.

The wall I had created took a little bit of damage but it felt like my chakra had been almost completely drained. Dropping the wall I swayed slightly as Kisame explained his sword "It drains Chakra" he grinned swinging again and this time

Sasuke arrived shouting at Itachi "You! How dare you show your face! I'm going to be the one to kill you!"

I watched silently as Sasuke readied his arm to use the lightning attack Chidori that Kakashi had shown him. He lunged quickly at Itachi, but sadly not quick enough as Itachi grabbed his arm and slammed him into the wall of the hallway.

Naruto had come up behind me and yelled at Itachi before the tailed beast chakra wound its way around Naruto's body and he yelled "summoning-" but that was all he could say before Kisame's sword came out of nowhere hitting him in the arm and sapping up his chakra.

As Kisame swung his sword once again I summoned Hanno who charged at Kisame blocking his sword the same time a toad hopped in front of Naruto. I had turned my head slightly to see Jiraiya standing behind Naruto.

"Wow, you really are idiots. It takes very little for women to come flocking to me however, it takes a lot for me to flock to women." But Naruto obviously wasn't buying his incredible timing stating "Come off it Pervy sage that's a horrible excuse for you to leave me alone."

I had been confused at Naruto's exclamation before I realized Jiraiya had stated he didn't stay with the woman. 'Something must have been wrong with her' I had thought.

Jiraiya had spoken once more "Now that's just rude. Putting a Genjutsu on a poor innocent women. You're after Naruto. I'm sorry but you're going to have to die. I will kill you"

But before Jiraiya could take two steps Sasuke stood up and yelled "No one but me is going to kill Itachi!" I could tell Itachi was getting tired of fighting in general, but also fighting someone from the same clan he kicked Sasuke into the wall once more and proceeded to well beat the shit out of Sasuke.

Naruto had shouted and went to run at Itachi but Jiraiya held him back so it was up to me to fight back. I ran at Itachi and despite the lack of chakra I slammed Itachi with a hard block of wood that sent him flying to the side.

Sasuke was still slightly conscious and looked on with wide eyes as I sent Itachi into the wall. I had been furious.

"No, one beats up my team mates!" I rushed at Itachi once more noticing Kisame had decided to sit out of this fight and watch.

The wood I commanded hit Itachi harder into the wall and I watched almost mesmerized as his eyes once again held the Sharingan.

I noticed that it had been a slightly altered type and I wonder if it was going to be the same for Sasuke when he learned how to use it. Jiraiya had yelled at me to look away and close my eyes.

But once again I ignored that request and stared into his eyes. For some reason they looked rather familiar to me and I couldn't look away.

Itachi had stated "Fei, this is not your fight." and I knew that he had said it once before. Sasuke had yelled something and I turned to look at him, shaken out of my trance and he looked relieved.

Kisame yelled "What the hell Itachi, do those eyes not work on her" I had been confused once more as I watched as Sasuke run in front of me and I watched as he was pulled into the same frozen state Kakashi had been.

I backed away and watched as suddenly the walls were full of a weird sticky substance and the stench made me want to vomit. Itachi and Kisame looked around for a moment before dashing off surrendering to whatever this jutsu made by Jiraiya was.

It only took a moment for Jiraiya to release his jutsu when a foot came flying through the window Kisame and Itachi had escaped through and hit Jiraiya in the face. I giggled slightly along with Naruto as we realized the foot belonged to Gai who was apologizing profusely to Jiraiya as he looked over to Sasuke a worried look on his face "Is Kakashi still not better?" I questioned.

Gai had shaken his head and went to pick up Sasuke he stated "I'm afraid none of the medical ninja in the village are strong enough to ward of this Genjutsu affect. Come along Fei, let's get Sasuke back to the village" with a nod in his direction I turned to Naruto and Jiraiya. "Good luck!" I had stated and jumped after Gai who had yelled that the trek to the village would be a race.

Grinning despite what happened I sped up and found myself neck and neck with Gai upon reaching the village. "A tie! After I drop off Sasuke lets have another race" Gai shouted as he panted from running the whole way here.

I was panting heavily as well and looked at Gai incredulously as he stated he had enough energy for another race. I shook my head saying "I should really go look for Sakura, I bet she's worried. Let's hold off on that race!"

Gai nodded and I headed off to Sakura's home. Upon reaching her house I knocked on the door and a nice woman opened the door and asked what I wanted "Hi Mrs. Haruno is Sakura around by chance?"

Mrs. Haruno nodded and yelled "Sakura, one of your teammates is here!" I had never seen Sakura dash down stairs as fast as she did and she landed in front of me slightly winded "Fei, what's going on. Where's Naruto, Kakashi, and Sasuke?" she asked franticly

"Calm down Sakura." I stated as I grabbed hold of her flailing arms "Naruto is out looking for someone with Jiraiya. Now Kakashi and Sasuke are in the hospital" as I had said that Sakura went to run out the door and she didn't get far as I still had hold of her arms

"Sakura hold on! Kakashi was attacked by a man named Itachi Uchiha" Sakura gasped "His brother?" I froze slightly "His brother" I whispered slightly disturbed that Sasuke's brother could do so much damage.

I nodded in agreement "I guess so. Sasuke was also attacked by the same Genjutsu as Kakashi, they're both in the hospital. Come on I'll show you where they are" and with that Sakura bid her mother farewell and we sped off towards the hospital.

Upon arrival Sakura immediately went to Sasuke and I headed of towards Kakashi. I walked into his room and found Asuma sitting quietly looking out the window and when I cleared my throat he turned quickly sighing when he noticed it was me. "Hi Fei."

"Hey Asuma, anything" I nodded towards Kakashi and he shook his head. I had frowned and sunk down into the other chair by the window. I was in and out of Sasuke and Kakashi's hospital rooms for the next two weeks when the news of Tsunade's return hit.

I had been on my way to see Kakashi when I had heard the voice of Naruto from the village entrance. I turned and ran towards his voice, coming upon the sight of a pretty blonde woman accompanying Jiraiya and Naruto.

My heart swelled in happiness as I realized this was out new Hokage, a strong Sannin and medical ninja who had grown up with Jiraiya.

I raced towards them and grabbed Naruto and Jiraiya into a hug "You found her!" I had shouted before turning to Tsunade and bowing "I'm so glad you decided to come and be our next Hokage Miss Tsunade"

I had been afraid that I had offended her when she didn't respond, just stared at me with wide eyes before she grabbed me into a huge "Fei, is that really you?"

I had been fairly shocked and was on the urge of passing out. First Itachi now Tsunade, what was going on. The moment was broken by Naruto who yelled out "What? You know Fei?" She frowned and nodded not saying anything more on the matter and headed towards the hospital to fix Kakashi and Sasuke.

Naruto, Sakura, and I waited outside for about an hour waiting for Tsunade to finish her medical jutsu. Once she was finished she headed off towards Lee, who was still out of commission from his grisly fight with Gaara.

Sakura and Naruto ran towards Sasuke's room while I decided to see Kakashi along with Asuma who had shown up moments later. We had walked into his room to find him sleepily looking around the room when his gaze found us.

I smiled wide and proceeded to hug a lying down Kakashi. "I'm so glad you're okay!" I smiled brightly and heard him chuckle lightly.

We sat there and talked and I explained that Tsunade was to be the next Hokage and she had been the one to fix his mind. Remembering what had happened with Itachi I decided to bring it up "Hey Kakashi, you know how whenever someone looks at Itachi Uchiha's eyes they seem to go into their own horrors? Why does that not happen to me?"

I tilted my head and Kakashi narrowed his eyes "You looked into his eyes? Fei that was not a smart idea" I had irrationally gotten mad at Kakashi when he said that and I had blurted out

"Hey, at least he can't drag me into whatever Genjutsu he uses! Unlike you, who's supposedly an all-powerful jounin?"

I got up and paced the room sighing "Look I'll be more careful okay" I looked away

"I'm gonna check up on Sasuke, Itachi got him pretty bad."

I stalked out of his room and into Sasuke's where Naruto and Sakura were surrounding the brooding Uchiha's bed.

"Hey guys" I had stated and sat next to Sakura "Kakashi's awake too you know" I nodded towards his room.

"Oh yea!" Sakura stated "I almost forgot that Kakashi was here!" she grabbed Naruto and they went off towards Kakashi.

I had zoned out when Sasuke asked "Fei, how did you do it?"

At my questioning glance he asked scowling "How did you manage to get away from him without being pulled into his Genjutsu?"

I shrugged "I'm not sure Sasuke. I just…"

I sighed "I just don't okay. Whatever he did to you and Kakashi had no effect on me." I had walked by his window to gaze out at the leaf village in thought.

Honestly I had no idea why I went without having my mind broken like Sasuke and Kakashi, and it would take me years to eventually learn why. But back to the moment at the time. I had stayed quiet standing next to Sasuke until Sakura and Naruto barged back in after going to see Kakashi stating that Lady Tsunade would be inaugurated into the Hokage seat in just one week. I was feeling pretty excited to see what she had to offer as Hokage. From what I saw she was hot headed and kind of rude at times, by the way she interacted with Naruto and Gai. But really, who didn't get annoyed with them.

Sasuke and Kakashi were released from the hospital after Tsunade looked them over and determined they were healed enough to leave.