"Do you surrender?" I looked at Sasuke with distaste.

"Not a chance," he replied, still wrapped in the chains and struggling to free himself, I sighed and walked away.

The sun was rising and it was bright out now. Sakura was chatting with the twins about our chakra elements, trying to get some intel on us. Sasuke was the only one still mad, even though he wasn't the only one tied up.

"Moeru, Taiyo! Get Naruto and Sakura. Rakurai you get Sasuke," Kuro-hi gave us all orders.

I gave him my famous (err… infamous?) death glare, "Don't forget where you stand. You don't control me," I replied in a calm, yet still threatening voice that held a promise of pain if he didn't abide.

I saw him gulp as he nodded his head. I love him, really, I do; he's my brother alter all. It's just that he and I are like two alphas in a pack. Which, granted, isn't always a bad thing; but it doesn't always work out well. However, it gives us advantages that outweigh the troubles, so I try to cope with it.

Nevertheless, I walked over to a struggling Sasuke, picked him up, and slung him over my shoulder with slight difficulty. He had to be around the same age as me, so it was kind of awkward. Moeru hoshi helped a blabbering Sakura to her feet and pushed her forward slightly to keep her walking (Only her arms were tied up, unlike Sasuke. The bindings on all of them prevented chakra use). Taiyo got stuck lifting up a snoring and drooling Naruto onto both of his shoulders.

"Why didn't you just wake him up?" I asked Taiyo with a hint of a smile in my tone, the picture was something strange to look at; a towheaded kid carrying an equally blonde teenager on his shoulders with ease.

"You think I didn't try that? He probably sleeps as heavy as our Uncle Suimin…" Taiyo jerked his thumb back to point at Naruto, speaking in an irritated tone.

"Speaking of our uncle, do you think we might see them here?" Moeru hoshi asked; the question not really directed at anyone in particular.

"Who knows?" Kuro-hi answered her with a bored tone.

I decided to elaborate a bit further, "Yeah, you never know, they do hang out here a lot. But they have other things to do besides wait for us to finally come around."

"You could at least tell us where we're going you know!" Sakura interrupted our nonchalant conversation and spoke in an indignant tone after being shoved forward again and being told to shut up by Moeru.

"We're reporting you to the Hokage," Kuro-hi retorted.

Naruto suddenly woke up; maybe something about the word 'Hokage' struck alertness into him, "What..?" he asked groggily, then more urgently as he realized he was not in his room "Where am I?! What's going on here!?"

Taiyo dropped Naruto on the ground; now that he was awake there was no need to carry him, "Hey! What was that for!" the orange clad ninja rubbed his head where a bump would eventually swell.

I was getting impatient with him, "We're taking you to Tsunade," it came out sounding more exasperated than I meant it to.

"Why? We didn't do anything wrong! You tried to sneak into our village and we were just doing our job as night watch, since Kotetsu and Izumo were busy! It's entirely your fault, not ours!" Naruto practically shouted.

"Because you guys, and girl" I tacked on as an afterthought, "Broke our treaty," I finished with a cool voice.

"We don't have any treaties with rogue ninja scum!" he shot back.

"Actually, they're active ninja from Lightning, Naruto…" Sakura said with a small voice, "But we don't have a treaty with them either, so I don't quite get it either."

Sasuke decided to speak up this time, "I swear, you guys are really dumb sometimes. They're from a Village Hidden Within group that lives in Lightning," I dropped him in the same way that Taiyo dropped Naruto.

"When did you finally figure it out?" Moeru grinned and bent down to undo the bindings around Sasuke before moving on to do the same with Naruto and Sakura.

"You're all wearing things that are designed specifically to tell the villages that you have treaties with who you really are," He stopped talking.

Sakura went off of his statement, "All of the females from Villages Hidden Within Lightning wear some sort of spike. Your headbands all have cloud ninja symbols on them, so you're from lightning. Add that to the fact that the collar around Rakurai's neck and the bracelet on Moeru hoshi's wrist are both spiked, and the outcome is that you're from a Village Hidden Within Lightning. The males are harder to distinguish because the only trait that they have to have is four piercings on their left ear. Taiyo and Kuro-hi both have that. Put two and two together, and I suppose that we probably should have known sooner."

"Wait, so you guys are like Sokudo, Suimin, Gankona, and Shinpai?" Naruto had been silent for a little while, probably trying to process what was happening.

Kuro-hi answered his question, "Yeah, we're from the same village as them."

"Did you know them by any chance?" Sakura's curiosity was getting the better of her.

Taiyo spoke up this time, "Sure we do! They're Rakurai's aunt and uncles. Of course, they aren't related to the rest of us in any way, but when my dad stopped caring for us they're the ones who took us in. I mean, that's how we all got put into the Village Hidden Within society. They weren't always around though, so mainly Rakurai and Kuro-hi took care of Moeru Hoshi and I."

He was about to start another sentence when Kuro-hi covered his mouth to get him to stop, "You talk too much."

Naruto had his fists clenched and his mouth clamped shut with a slight glare in his eyes.

Moeru Hoshi looked at his rigid state and decided to prod him, "What's wrong Naruto?"

"It's nothing," the Knucklehead's usual care-free attitude had changed serious.

I saw that Moeru was about to question him further, but pulled her back and she closed her mouth, "Naruto was pretty much parentless as a child. Then there was also the matter of the nine tailed fox. With those two traits, nobody really cared about him, and if they did… It was in a negative way."

"Then he's part of the Village Hidden Within society too?" she looked confused.

"He wasn't aloud to be taken in by anyone due to the fact that he's the son of the fourth Hokage. If he just suddenly disappeared for a while like we did, then the people who knew about his heritage would have been very upset. We even sent in people from our society to officially adopt him and act as a normal couple who just wanted a baby. However, the hokage at that time refused to let them take custody of Naruto. Leaving him to be shunned by everyone instead. I think that the hokage believed he was doing the right thing. We never stopped trying to get him though, even when he was older. Up until he became a genin that is, because at that point there wasn't even a reason to take him in," I watched as Naruto started to untense bit by bit, growing up like that must have been hard on him.

The person in question suddenly stopped and turned to face me, "What about Gaara then? Nobody ever took him in, and he probably would have been easier to get," something in his demeanor was off, his eyes had a red tint to them.

I remembered meeting Gaara once when I was about ten years old, at that point the murderous intent had already got to him, I was curious so I asked around and got some answers eventually, "Gaara… His story is more complicated than that. You of course know that he was the Kazekage's son. His father is the reason that the one tail took place in Gaara's body. He wanted a weapon of mass murder for the Sand Village . Believe me, we were outraged with him when we learned what he did. Also, Gaara wasn't orphaned, he had siblings and a parent. Taking him wouldn't have had a good outcome."

I looked to Naruto to see his figure loosen and slightly slump. We walked the rest of the way in an awkward silence.