She's ready to leave! Isn't she? Will Kakashi lose her from sight? Again? Anyway, identity revealed in this chapter! Enjoy!

The morning started beautifully. Kakashi woke up with the birds singing. He looked out of his bedroom window. He seemed surprised the village had already so much life so early in the daybreak. Yet, it wasn't as noisy as it would be in the middle of the day. He sighed and got out of his room, still wearing his night-suit. He knocked at the door as he arrived to her room.

"Hanare?" He called. The door was opened from inside. She was already dressed in order to leave.

"Great." He said as he turned around and started walking to the kitchen. "I was hoping you were still here to take breakfast."

"I don't have time for that."

"Yes, you do. Come on."

She sighed and followed him, but only because she admitted to herself she was a bit hungry.

"Here." Kakashi said as he put some milk and bread on the table. She was able to know what the food was because, being blind, her other senses had become keener.

She made a disillusion face to him. "Do you call this breakfast?!"

His eyes grew wide. He didn't understand what she meant. "What is it about the milk?"

Hanare got up from the table. "Give me some space." As she said this, he moved away and sat at the table, watching her cooking.

In the end, she put two bowls on the table. Kakashi sure was impressed. "Ramen?" He let out. "For breakfast?"

"Don't you want to have the energy for the day? Anyway, if you don't want it, you could drink your dear milk and eat the bread…" She challenged him.

"Ramen it is!" He said with a huge smile and started eating like it was his last meal. She grinned.

"So I finally get to see your face."

He babbled something while eating, so she didn't understand. Hanare sat on the table next to him and started eating as well, but more properly.

They quickly finished their breakfast. She got up. "I'm leaving, now." She said.

"Wait. I've got to talk to you before you go."

"Kakashi, I have to-"

"No. You hear me, now. Where do you pretend to go, exactly?"

"I don't know. Somewhere safe."

"You're not going alone."

Her eyes grew wide. "W-what do you mean?"

"I'm going as well, along with a medical ninja."

She couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Look, this is my problem. I'm going alone."

"You aren't understanding: this isn't arguable."

"If someone's not understanding something here, that person is you. I can take care of myself!"

"No you can't. You're blind, Hanare!"

This last sentence touched her, negatively. She hid her face in the shadow. Kakashi regretted this immediately, he didn't want to say it.

"I'm sorry." He quickly apologised. "I just can't handle letting you go like this. I don't let my comrades die. I won't let you die because of this."

"You're a grown man, Kakashi. You already decide things by yourself. Do as you wish, but consider that I won't collaborate in any type of strategy that involves you or that medical ninja." As she said this, she retired to her room again in order to join her things together.

"Damn it!" He muttered. We also went to his bedroom in order to prepare himself for the coming mission. And get dressed.

Last night, he had sneaked out of the house in order to talk to the Hokage. He found her at Ichiraku's along with Shizune.

He entered the ramen shop and sat next to Tsunade. She faced him.

"I need a favour from you, Lady Hokage." He said. Somehow, she was already used to this type of speech.

"I'm all ears."

"I need you to get me a mission."

"Look, I know I had not been calling you for long, but missions haven't been arriving in much quantity, and most of them are to help people in diary tasks like-"

"No. That's not what I meant." Now, Tsunade was quite confused. "I need a mission out of Konoha. That way, I won't be registered in the Bingo Book when I get out."

Her eyes grew wide, but then she turned back to her calmness. "I can do that, since you plan to come back, of course. I can't maintain a ninja on a mission forever, you know?"

"Of course. I wish to come back. It's temporary, to help a friend."

"And is it dangerous?"

"You could say so, I guess. Some guys want some top secret information. I'll kill them, and then I'll come back. That's it."

"Then you'll take Shizune with you. You'll probably need a medical ninja."

He nodded. Actually, he was thinking about asking for a medical ninja as well. He got up from his seat and faced Shizune.

"Be at my door tomorrow morning, after you take breakfast."

"You know, «after taking breakfast» is not a very specific time. Could you-"

But Kakashi had just puffed away while she was talking. "How rude…" She muttered. Tsunade smiled.

"Are you ready, Kakashi?" Hanare knocked at his bedroom door and he opened it.

"Oh, I thought you wouldn't collaborate with me or the medical ninja…"

"Shut up. Shall we go?"

He smiled. "Yes." He left the house, followed by her, only to find Shizune sat on the floor in the other side of the street. It seemed like she was sleeping.

"I feel another presence. Is somebody else here?" Hanare asked, confused.

"Yes, our medical ninja." Kakashi was looking at the sleeping woman.

They heard a small snore, and that allowed Hanare to understand where the woman was exactly, so she directed her blind eyes to her. "Is she really sleeping?" She asked.

Kakashi laughed. "I'll weak her up." As he said this, he threw a kunai to the wall where Shizune was leaning on, hitting two centimetres away from her head.

The medical ninja immediately stirred up, rose and took a battle stance. Kakashi grinned to her.

"Calm down, hissing cat. It's me." He was in his traditional bored stance, his hand in his pockets.

Shizune instantly made an anger face and released a furious glance at the White Fang's son. It sure scared him, because his eyes grew wide and he took a step back. She started giving him a big lecture.

"Do you have any idea of how long I've been waiting here? You said «after breakfast»!"

"Exactly. We just finished our breakfast, Shizune."

Shizune sighed. It was useless to argue with Kakashi. He would just make up an excuse for every accusation she would attack with. She knew it.

"OK, forget it..." She took out a scroll from her bag as she sighed and handled it to him. "This is our supposed mission, it should give us a three months' time before we have to get back to the village."

Hanare, who had been quiet all this time, approached them. "What are you talking about?"

Kakashi took the task of explaining it to her. "I had to get a mission scroll for us, with another task, for us to be able to leave the village without being registered in the Bingo Book. Supposedly, we have to catch an S-ranked criminal, but we'll do what we need to do in the meantime, and then we'll get back to Konoha and quit the scroll task, like we hadn't been able to find the criminal."

The blind girl nodded. Shizune, who hadn't paid attention to the other girl until now, faced her to analyse her more carefully. Her face seemed familiar to her, but the eyes contrasted, and that wasn't allowing her to release who the girl was. She obviously wasn't a Hyuuga, so she only could be blind. Meanwhile, Kakashi talked.

"Shizune, Hanare, shall we go?"

Shizune's eyes grew wide. So that was it! She was Hanare, from the Lock Village! She wasn't blind, the last time she saw her. It was quite a shock.

"H-Hanare?" She let out. The blind girl answered.

"You recognized me. I was wondering if you were the Shizune I knew since the time Kakashi said your name, a while ago." Hanare started smiling.

Shizune nodded, but then she remembered the girl was now blind, so she said "Yes". She turned her face to Kakashi and realised that he was already in the end of the street.

"Are you coming or not?" He yelled from far.

The two girls rushed in his direction, Shizune guiding Hanare. This made the blind girl feel quite offended. She could orientate by her own!

Oh well, that also meant she could take a quick rest of her senses. After all, she didn't know the Hidden Leaf's plant very much. And with "very much", she meant nothing. The only way she had been able to find Kakashi's house was because his house smelled like him, literally. And it sounded like him, silent. Its walls felt like him, hard. The energy around the house tasted like the energy around Kakashi, somehow dangerous.

Actually, for someone who hadn't been in the Hidden Leaf, it would be much easier to orientate if that person was blind. At least, that's what she thought. Even if she wanted, could she really orientate another way?

They arrived at the village's great gates. As usual, Kotetsu and Izumo were sat at the gatehouse, talking about nothing interesting. They smiled as they saw Kakashi, and then the two girls.

"Hey, Kakashi." Kotetsu started. "Going out on a mission?" Izumo ended.

The white-haired nodded and showed them the scroll. Their eyes grew wide.

"So it's this mission." Izumo was impressed. "You know, most of the ANBU couldn't complete it."

"I know. I'll manage to do it." As he said this, he left, taking the scroll, and the two girls followed him. He didn't really want to tell to the two gate guards the details of his objective...

It took three chapters to put them on a mission, but I did it!

Anyway, here it is, the identity! Hanare! Do you remember her? :D Enjoy!