Secret Eden Chapter 7: Confusion, a naruto fanfic

Blackeclipse: Oh yes, and I also give my special thanks to 100ratseminA-san! :D :D Your long review had given smiles to my face :) however I do hope I can continue to keep them all I character D: So please forgive me when it seems like things are getting out of hand!

I appreciate that fact that you are fascinated with Mieihi :) She's one of my favorite OCs who aren't that tomboyish in personality, she's the childish :)

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Other readers! I appreciate it so much! :D

On a roll~ again! :D And yes, I think I gave myself a headache with Tsunade, Gaara losing his temper, Mieihi having a split personality and all the weirdness this story has =_=; Even though it's just for 2 days…I say Mieihi DOESN'T LIKE GAARA GOING AWAY for just 2 days T A T Whoever agrees with me, say "Aye!"

People: AYE!

MIEIHI: WHY YOU-

Disclaimer: IDONOTOWNNARUTO—RUNNNN! *MIEIHI CHASING ALL OF US*

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Chapter Seven: Confusion.

+++Hours later…+++

Yes, hours later of eating, scolding by Neji and Hinata, after reviving her of the enormous blush explosion of Gaara's, ahem, feeding and habit of using his own chopsticks to feed Mieihi, had said a million apologies to her cousin who was frozen in the spot, before she smiled back at her new friend and waved a goodbye before the cousins walked away to the Hokage Tower.

Gaara and Mieihi was infront of the Yakiniku Q after their meal, Gaara turned his eyes back to her without turning. "..Do not go without informing me, is this understood?"

She sweat dropped, "O-ok." Feeling the tension growing from her right side, which happens to be where he was standing right now at this very moment, it wasn't long before they both began to walk aimlessly through the busy streets of the village, the night growing darker.

She can't help but to feel the weird tension or heavy dark atmosphere at her right side. [Which is actually because of Gaara glaring at the people who were eyeing her around.] "..Are you….angry?"

He seemed to pause but not on his steps, but on his glaring and blinked, Angry…? He knew that feeling too well, since he mostly had felt it when he was his younger teen years or even earlier than that. But this, doesn't feel like it. Why should she even ask that? "…No." he simply replied.

"…Ok." She seems to be contented with that answer.

Somewhere he wanted to ask why she asked.

But he decided not to, or that his mouth just wouldn't move resulting to the curses coursing through his brain.

It wasn't long before they reached back to the Hokage Tower after more hours of walking around in dead silence, somehow, Mieihi was surprised they didn't get lost this time.

When they came in, they haven't realized how long were they out and Temari had began another lecture before dodging an irritation of sand from Gaara, who, by mistake, accidentally knocked Kankuro from where he was standing.

The three sand siblings seemed to be arguing, although Gaara didn't say anything but just a few "Hn." As an answer, Kankuro and Temari were the ones who were mostly yelling.

Gaara sighed as he muttered about how mature were his siblings, walking away as Mieihi tried to make them stop fighting, before Temari suddenly threw kunais to her brother and accidentally some of them that were deflected by Kankuro's kunai headed to Mieihi.

She grabbed her own kunai and deflected them as well, but before she knew it, Kankuro yelled out to how a troublesome fan it was and showing Mieihi's almost-hit as an example.

There was a huge BAM and THUD after that.

"Kankuro….are you alive…?" Mieihi was poking him with a kunai, which he happens to cry out in pain and woke up, accidentally hitting his head on the nearby table's edge. [They had to drag him to his room since he wasn't moving.]

Temari bent down to kick him. "…Yup…he's dead…"

He seemed to snap back awake when he noticed candles around him and incense before him. "OY! WHAT THE HELL!"

"Areh…He went back to life." Temari propped up her head on her palm, while leaning her elbow on the table, with a cup of tea before her, having a disappointed face.

"DAMN YOU TEMARI…" He said while wearing the shining I-will-so-kill-you-kabuki paint he just applied about a few minutes before they arrived.

"Heh….what?—did you honestly expect…ANYONE…to want you ALIVE?"

"…YOU..!"

There you guys go again….and here I go as well. Mieihi talked to herself in her mind, moving away to the up coming battle between the two sand siblings, AGAIN.

+++Hallways of the Hokage Residence+++

…I've seen this door before… Mieihi thought, glaring at the door in dark green hue. Her hand gripped into a fist. …I knew it…I am….!

LOST—DAMMIT!

From the normal sized body she had turned into a chibi version of herself and sweat dropped while looking around.

She had passed numerous of floors, and had lost her count to which one had Temari and Kankuro's in it, perhaps when the floor is entirely destroyed, but they could have resorted into fighting out side. "…Ah." she blinked, Perhaps I should find Gaara. She nodded to her head.

By none of these doors, she had heard Gaara, perhaps she should use her skills.

…

My actions might probably be felt by the Hokage and any officers who nearby, and mistaken it as an act of an attack instead of navigation… Gaara would surely be involved and everyone else as well. She sighed, it seems like instead or setting aside of the reasons.

"…" her eye gazed upon her hand, opening it and closing it. Her eye had softened, No…it's not because I'm afraid about that reason…it's because. She closed it as she began to walk forward, cutting her thoughts of it before she finished it.

It was just a few minutes when she suddenly found herself leaning onto the wall, "Uhh?" she held her head, and eyes widening to the images that suddenly flashed at her mind.

There was blood, and bodies.

The first images was making her shuddering at an instant, her breathing hinted her voice in a gasping breath, the bodies, they were pinned down to the trees, it was too dark to see what was pinning them, so she presumed it was night.

These trees…this place….! She recognized it immediately.

It was the forest.

And the dead people, where Konoha ninja, their eyes were white, their mouths were opened from a scream that perhaps echoed through the woods before their demise. Blood splatters, inners, and every disgusting gore was made visible in her mind.

For reasons she did not know why….

Then…

Then she saw a huge fan at one tree, with no owner.

Dolls all shattered…

….and a broken sand gourd.

"NO!" she gasped grabbing onto her head, and with that, the images had faded away, listening to her plea as her eyes stares at the floor as if she had seen a ghost emerging from that place. What was that?—it's not a memory….no…..it is no memory. She shook her head, as she forced herself to walk on ahead.

It was….

A vision….!

+++Meanwhile, a floor below where Mieihi was+++

"Sorry about making you help me with this, Gaara." The pink haired shinobi quirked an eye brow and a worry smile at the Kazekage who was holding two stacks of reports that had passed his head level by 4 inches.

"Its fine….." Gaara muttered, showing no signs of difficulty in his part of carrying the medical reports for her, Sakura on the other hand only has one stack but at the same height of reams as the ones he held at his palms. "I was just on my way to the Hokage Office anyway…." He silently said.

"Heeh…so you basically report about everything to Tsunade-sama regarding about Mieihi, huh?" Sakura said as she turned her head to watch where she was going. "So that's why you always hang around with her…to observe her…" she nodded while walking.

Something inside of him twisted, that didn't sound right, although he knew that's the perfect way to describe it.

Was there something else that prevented him from parting with her? "…It's not only that." He felt himself sigh, I said it unknowingly again. He cursed when the kunoichi her him and turned her head to him from his words. Although his face showed no answer, he hoped she w-

"…What do you mean?"

"…" now he was entirely regretting the idea of not declining a comrades call for help… perhaps being mean, or going back to a bit of his old self, wouldn't be so bad after all. He remained emotionless, regardless about the things going on his head. And honestly, he just though the best way was to leave it in silence.

Sakura looked at him in a scanning look, but knew nothing will come from it as she looked back, seeing the stairs slowly coming into view.

Then she grinned, "…Perhaps it's….because you want to go with her…"

Gaara blinked, that seemed reasonable. "…Of course….I want to go with her because I had to….I have no interest to d-"

"I didn't mean it in your interests of dealing with your political business." Sakura said it straight out but in a calm care free voice, to not demean him in some way unknowingly. Gaara though blinked twice, a sign that he his paying attention as she continued, the stairs now a few steps before them. "…It's not because you had to but—In your own words…" she took a step on it. "You just want to be with her don't you?—Even if Tsunade-sama doesn't order you…or if she were to be a normal kunoichi or person….you would still have hang around with her….right?"

There was silence as she took a few more steps, noticing there wasn't a following sound of her footsteps, she turned cautiously and saw Gaara at the bottom of the stares, he seems to be blank.

"Gaara?—You ok?" she tilted her head, seeing him blink for the third time.

He frowned, "…I do not understand that…however I will try to understand it…."

"Huh?" Sakura asked, but before she received another answer, Gaara had taken his steps and another one.

"We should not waste time in idle chattery…you too wish to go home." Gaara muttered, although something in his tone, she could sense.

Something was a bit.

Off.

…I guess, Gaara could be an idiot as well. A random thought came into Sakura loudly, and held her breath and breathed again making sure she was still alive, fearing that Gaara may have heard it.

"…" Gaara paused, his voice box making a sound that he had noticed something silently.

It was enough for Sakura to hear and pause to look back at him again, "Something wrong?"

"….Mieihi." he muttered, moving his head to the right and to the left.

"Mieihi? Why? What's wrong?" Sakura asked again as Gaara turned to face a green door, staring at it and then looking back at the pink haired kunoichi with him.

"…She was here." He finally said, looking deeply at the door and then transferring his eyes on the floor then around.

"Eh?—At this floor?—isn't your room a few floors below this one?" Sakura asked in confusion, "Perhaps she's lost…" a sweat drop came and a rush in a worry.

"Well, don't worry…the last floor is where Tsunade-sama is." Sakura grinned, changing the subject, sensing Gaara to suddenly do a running sprint out of where he was making the papers he perfectly balanced without the aid of chakra in his two palms.

"…." There was a pause in him before he agreed, nodding as they continued on.

Sakura's eye brows scrunched in thought. …Which reminds me….. for some reason, the memory of her skin suddenly healing was replaying with along the shinobi who had lost a leg due to an accident in training back in the hospital, she tried all she could to heal it. Even if the person with the highest control of chakra…can't heal that fast unless you're a Jinchuuriki….however, you must be in that stage to heal that fast… she found herself gripping at the papers below. …Why am I feeling so scared?—She's a friend…she's a bit younger than me by a year, almost the same height as Gaara or Hinata… she isn't that small nor is she too tall…she seems to be shy, calm, smiling yet sad and a mysterious person like anyone else…

…Why am I getting scared over a small wound healing? She shook her head when in the corner of her eye was Gaara walking ahead infront of her at the stairs. "…." She stared at him from behind, his pace had quickened. A small knowingly smile reached her face. …..So he is worried about her. Huh?... she thought as she climbed up the stairs as well.

…A mission…to become friends with a dangerous being, huh…?

+++Moments before Gaara and Sakura entering the next floor+++

She looked around, seeing there was no more stairs, she had sighed, she was hesitating to look over into the doors, she had decided to walk back down stairs.

She shook her head when worry came back to her, perhaps it was just her imagination… "It has to be…" she told to herself.

Turning at her blind spot, she had bumped into someone's chest. "Woah!" she heard a voice before being caught at her hand and pulled up before she fell to the ground.

She looked to see the silver haired Jonin before her, wearing his hitai-ate and his Jonin green vest, a black turtle neck rolled a bit to a cuff at his sleeves and gloves, his mask covering the lower half, including his nose. "Huh?—Aah…" his brow lifted when she soon regained her standing position, him letting go of her hand as he pulled his hands back to his pockets. "…If I'm not mistaken…hearing from Tsunade-san you're…." rolling his eyes, till he finally gave a carefree grin to her. "Mieihi-chan' tte…deshou?-Ii na….sono namae… (Mieihi-chan….am I right?... That's a nice name..)"

She stared at him almost coldly without any response with her emotionless poker face.

Kakashi felt himself paled and sweating from this look. She's giving me the killer and 'I-do-not-trust-you' together with the 'Who-the-hell-are-you'…look…

"…Are you a friend of Gaara?" she suddenly said, making the Jonin blink, almost jumping from his thoughts of terror.

He gave a grin, "Well yes…I am…my name is-"

"Hatake, Kakashi…"

"Ah…so you do know my name…" he blinked again and smiled, "Well then, Mieihi-chan…what are you doing here?"

She looked away, a small blush appearing as Kakashi guessed. "…You're lost, aren't you?"

"…." She couldn't say it, but had nodded.

"Aah…well…if you're looking for your room…it's just 4 floors below this one-" he paused, because she saw her eye widened. "Eh? What's wrong?"

"Window…" she silently said.

"Eh?" Kakashi blinked comically as he turned his head, seeing a bird on the window sill at the end of this hall. "Ah…it's a Cactus-"

"A CACTUS WREN!" she began to dash off, passing Kakashi in the dust, when she had jumped off the window sill, the bird flew away. "AH!"

"OY!" Kakashi gasped as he ran out of the window, finally noticing it was a looong way down, the both of them both panicked.

+++Hokage Office+++

"I see…it seems to be that she is meeting every shinobi you, Sakura and Naruto had befriended." Tsunade nodded, her fingers netted together as she leaned her chin on it, Shizune grinning, standing beside her superior.

"Well, isn't that nice?—It seems like she's making a lot of friends, just in two days….!" Shizune said in the supporting and cheerful voice she had always given.

Sakura smiled while nodding, Gaara had no response as always.

"So who's turn is it next?" the blonde elderly asked.

"Naruto, Tsunade-sama." Sakura had politely said with a smile.

"Aah…Naruto huh?" Tsunade muttered, sitting back in her chair, "…I just hope things won't grow in a big trouble…he had already influenced Sai and LOOKED what happened to their day….I just HOPED Naruto's influence won't give off that certain influence on her…."

"Maa, maa..(Now, now..)" Shizune gave an uneasy smile to that, turning her head slightly to the Hokage before her. "I'm sure Mieihi-chan will just dispel those bad influences…but take in the good ones…besides, she needs to smile much more frequently." She turned to Sakura, "Am I right, Sakura-chan?"

"Ah..." she blinked while nodding, "A-aah….(yeah…)"

"…" Gaara didn't say anything, but had agreed in his mind, not knowing why he didn't want to voice out his support in that subject.

"Anyhow…Mieihi doesn't look like she's in the point of turning to the worst…we can let it be then." Tsunade nodded as she looked at Gaara. "Gaara…I want you to go with Temari and Kankuro, along with the investigation teams to the Forest ahead…This will only take two days to achie-"

"Eh?" Sakura blinked as blonde Hokage continued. "Tsuna-!"

"—We can't afford to have a the leisure rest when we haven't done anything to assure the reasons to…." Tsunade turned to Sakura in a strict eye. "Why Sakura?—Is it a bad idea?"

"But…well." she felt her presence, backing up a bit.

"…" Gaara though knew it can't be helped. She'll probably be disappointed however… he closed his eyes. "...Very well then."

"Gaara…!" Sakura turned to him in surprise.

"It is my duty as the Kazekage to ensure safety of my people….since the Forest is very close in range of Sunagakure….I-"

"But wouldn't Mieihi be sad?" Sakura raised her voice in slight volume, the two older females to be startled at her words.

Even Gaara's eyes had a slow retract to their normal size when they widened. "…" he didn't know what to say. I can't think of anything to reply, why? He was asking himself, but at that very moment he didn't know how to respond. But he had to say something, "…As the Kazekage…..I-"

"—Isn't it also your duty to be with her?" Sakura argued in him.

"…" He made a small growl as he glared back at her, his temper from before was beginning to come back, making Sakura to back away in fear.

No matter how dramatic is she saying in this topic… Tsunade said, still having her strict façade on, watching the two as Shizune tried to calm down Gaara's growing temper, bits of sand particles rising from where he was. As like Naruto or anyone made to be as strong as the Jinchuurikis…they are still an unstable psyche, snapping at any moment… her eyes hardened as she thought about the situation again and again. However…we need Gaara to go and lead the Investigation team through it with Hino… She had her sigh.

Making the 3 before turn their heads, wondering if she was going to say anything.

She had held her head, her eyes closed. No, it's too risky to send her with them when it could be the Akatsuki…..but it is also risky if she would suddenly be distressed at her founder not being with her.. "Perhaps I should cancel this….."

Gaara had spoken, his duties before him. "…I decline to that cancelation." He opposed, almost startling the women in the room. "I would go and participate over this….even if you do cancel this mission I will go back to Sunagakure to commence one of my own instead. Indeed we cannot afford to waste time in walking around the Village carefreely…." His face was emotionless, his words were cold.

Sakura was unsure but she felt like punching him, but something was holding her back.

"And I do not believe it would be just 2 days to take over the mission….from the size of the Forest, it might take 3 days, the 3rd day being the day we return for a few more added hours to return from where we are…it would also help if we manage to find a path way…..However, if we rethink it….it's not exactly 3 days but perhaps even a week." Gaara muttered, his arms crossing over his chest. "…It is my duty to be with Mieihi…But my duty of protecting Sunagakure is still much more at large...If you are in worry of the reports, you may ask someone else to accompany her or even Naruto himself…" he held so tightly, something that seems to be breaking. He didn't know why he had suddenly said it, somehow it sounds wrong. However it was a fact, it was true. I should be clear of my decision….this isn't something to be overly thought about with reactions of Mieihi….A mission is a mission. If I do not do this—

"Besides…" Gaara muttered as he eyes unknowingly casted down. "….Protecting Sunagakure, is like protecting Mieihi as well…"

"Please don't make it sound like I am a child who will cry over trivial things."

"EH!" Sakura had voiced everyone's thoughts as they turned to see who was on the window behind Tsunade, the voice was somehow more lower, almost making it sound like a boy's serious voice, Gaara's eyes widened at it as Tsunade turned around, Shizune having the same startled expression.

There, her black jacket had flapped from the wind as she sat there on the window sill side ways, in a very boyish manner with one knee up and one lying together inline of it, her right, huge black wing was blending in the dark of the night, her other was small and folded to not make it use the room to where Shizune used to be posted at.

Kakashi was there on the opposite end sitting there with a hand up and a sweat dropped.

"Mieihi!—Kakashi did y-"

"Before you make that conclusion…let's just say I was about to report about the preparations for the mission tomorrow was but a twist of events had made it come to this position I am in now with her." He smiled unsurely behind his mask as Tsunade had the angry icon she was crowned for.

"…" Gaara suddenly felt comfortable, had she overheard them speaking? He was looking at her, there was a hint of sadness, but she had a frown as always, her eyes were half open as always as if she was gazing at something softly and sadly, it was almost an expression of sadness if it weren't for the fact that he could still not read or predict what she was thinking. What is she thinking now? He felt anxiety.

"M-Mieihi-chan…" Sakura had suddenly felt the discomfort as well, while Shizune became quiet.

"I'll be fine on my own." Mieihi began to say she looked at them, something, something was off with her tone.

Everyone seem to freeze when they saw her face.

Her whole right eye was covered by her long bangs that curls and curves at the end, against her porcelain face, but her face was so straight, so serious, so dead that it was hard to look away, if you don't look at her clothes you will be deceived of her gender. "…I'm not a child that cries….Please do not treat me like I am some kind of 5 year old who can't stray away from their parents…" her voice was deeper as well.

Gaara felt himself flinch as well as Tsunade who was cursing in her mind about this being a bad time for her to hear things.

What is this? She felt her fist tighten, as the pink haired shinobi looked at the girl she was with only a few hours ago. The air around her, is entirely different…it feels as if she's another person….

Mieihi looked at all of them, and sighed. "What is with all those faces?-This is a duty isn't it?" she looked at Gaara at the word, making him freeze in the spot. "…Gaara is right….Tsunade-sama though is wrong." She turned to the blonde. "Do not underestimate my suppression….infact, the reason why they call me unstable isn't because I can't control it…it is because I can…" she muttered.

Kakashi seemed to raise a brow, Sakura voicing his question. "What do y-"

"There's no need for explanation on such things when there are no needs of it." Mieihi silenced her, stepping down as the black wings slowly coming into a small size, black feathers surrounding her. She bent down, looking down the table, Tsunade had suddenly felt a force urging her to move and she did.

She knew it because somehow, the feathers were pointing at her when she went nearer to Mieihi, Kakashi moved to stand inside.

Mieihi turned her eye to Gaara, well, Gaara's foot from her view as she looked for something under the table. "…So everything was just only because you were told to?—or you had to?—Well then,…I don't want to be a bothersome tool that has to be observed for EVERY reactions I do infront of people."

"!" Gaara's eyes widened. No…

Mieihi stood up, her back facing them as she turned her bandaged side face to them, making it even harder to read her emotions since her eye was covered by it. "….It makes me feel like a lab rat told to run through a labyrinth of tests…."

Her voice.

Was so venomous that made Gaara grip his hands into tighter fists, some sparks of stand coming out instead of blood gushing. No…that's not what I…!

Sakura stepping infront of him, her hands gestured for her to notice her. "Mieihi!—It's not what you think!—Gaara's just-" while she was talking, Mieihi turned to Kakashi, giving the green book that had owned.

Kakashi was even surprised that she knew that he was just making an excuse to come in here to find it.

She was going back to the window, her knee on it.

"MIEIHI!" Sakura yelled out to her as she walked to the office table, "Mieihi wait!—Gaara's words aren't what it-"

She turned her head, enough for them to see the deadly venom that was striking them from her eye. "…Either way…it's the truth….am I right?" she turned her eye from Sakura to Gaara again, who was gritting at his teeth.

Then suddenly her eyes widened, it was suddenly blinking like a broken flash light, she instantly looked away holding her head. Dammit—I told you to wait till I'm finished!—I'm still in control…Mieihi…!

'No….!' somewhere within the raven haired girl's body, within her soul, something was crying out. '…I don't…want to say those things…!'

"Gh!" it was too late when she made the sound of struggle that everyone turned their heads to her, a hand gripped onto the window frame, the other was at her head, the side of her right eye. 'No….stop it…!" her voice seemed to echo, to blend, to change. 'Gaa…ra…!'

He froze at the sound of his name as he looked back at her, unsure to what to do.

"Dammit…" the other persona of Mieihi cursed beneath her breath, glaring at all of them as she turned away, jumping out of the window and disappearing to the window.

Sakura cried out as she stopped at the window, "MIEIHI!"

"DOKE…(MOVE.)" a voice just as deadly as before was heard, and before she knew it, Kakashi grabbed her to move aside, her eyes seeing a flash of red.

Time had to be stopped to see the angry expression on the Kazekage's face, he had jumped from where he was, landing on the window sill for more power to push his legs, lunging him forward to the night.

"GAARA…!" Sakura called out even though he was no longer there.

The three adults behind her sighed as the kunoichi gripped her fist. "W-what was that…just now?"

Tsunade was also in shock, Shizune barely uttering any words.

Kakashi on the other hand remained calm. "…I wonder…if that's what the unstableness of her psyche is about."

"What?" Tsunade turned to see the Jonin's Sharingan revealed, his arms were crossed as he looked at the 3 kunoichis. "What do you mean?"

He sighed, looking hardly at the window. "…That….may be Mieihi-chan and at the same time not be here."

Sakura stayed shock at this, but at the same time confused. Her mind trying to bring out words, "…You mean…like that's not her…but her?"

Shizune blinked. "…..Another persona." Looking down as everyone looked at her. "…Another 'Mieihi' within her mind….another split personality." She seemed somehow, scared as she looked up. "…Am I right?"

He nodded, "…Her chakra was over flowing, but it seems to be extremely disturbed….and what disturbed me more, was the color of it."

Tsunade asked, wanting to know why was he suddenly making a pained face. "That color is?"

He looked back at all of them. "…Black…"

All of their eyes widened in surprise, as Sakura's fists clenched. "…Black…?"

"And white." He added as he lift a hand for a gesture, "…the 'white'…was within her….in other words….she's fighting something inside of her." He shook his head at this, "…She is not to be blamed….when I came here with her by the window….she was showing signs of struggle…at first I didn't understand however." His crimson red eye looked passed the Hokage, and to the window sill that she once sat on. "Somehow…it's making sense to me."

"And…she reacted to Gaara-kun's words…" Shizune shivered, "If….we part them even further."

Tsunade sat back down in a tiresome manner, "God….." she held her head, "…It seems like we have no other choice…" turning her eye to Sakura who she commanded next, "Sakura….have papers ready for the changes of this mission—STAT."

Sakura snapped out of it as she nodded to her, "W—wakarimashita! (U-understood)"

The Blonde Kage turned to her assistant who almost jumped out of her skin, the Hokage was glaring fiercely again. "…Shizune!"

"H—hai!" she responded.

"Write down all the names and orders I shall announce this instant!"

"H—hai!" she nodded as she hurried to the cabinets of files to get an empty scroll and a calligraphy brush.

Kakashi sighed while putting his head protector back to hide his Sharingan. Aah, aah….. he talked in his mind as his charcoal eye looked back at the two females without saying another word. How will this end up like?

+++Training Grounds(?)/Woods Behind Konohagakure+++

Gaara landed at a branch, almost breaking it when he did, he held his head, something was wrong. It's hurting… he told to himself, it's as if the Shukaku had never left my body—that I suddenly felt the urge…

He looked up ahead, then looked back down to see the small stream above the tree branch he landed. ….the urge to… he shook his head, looking forward as he lunged forward. Searching for her, her chakra signature, any signs that she had crossed here.

But it was as if he was chasing a phantom, he doesn't even know if he was going the right way, she could have gone the opposite way, but somehow, he was just going this direction.

Could it be instincts then?

*Crack*

"!" Gaara's eyes widened, turning his head 2 o'clock forward from where the sound was heard, he instantly stopped when he saw a larger shade of black moving in such grace under the moonlight. "Mieihi?" it was moving away even faster, it had reacted. "MIEIHI!" in an instant he was now chasing after the black figure.

Till he was at its tail, and now he had confirmed it was her, the black jacket's white stripes could be seen from her sleeves, her two long hair tail was swaying, the black wings were just making her faster.

"!" his eyes widened when he saw black feathers darting towards him, making jump back in a flip and bringing out a hand to block the other feathers before they came for him.

"…" she's off aim. He noticed, she had missed in purpose as he only caught small amounts of feathers in his sand. He looked forward, and noticed that she was gone. He cursed slightly, but before he moved, he had noticed the small shadow below. He moved his head just in time to make the kunais miss him as he landed down on the ground.

He suddenly paused when he heard muffling sobs, turning his head, to see a figure sitting down under a tree, her knees were folded and against her chest as her hand was on her face, like a child.

Mieihi was…

Crying.

He slowly go towards her, until he saw her head flinch and threw her hand before him, kunais soon came into a figure but he didn't do anything but walk forward, the kunais barely hitting him as they missed, only managed to scratch his cheek, which gave a dust of sand from his sand armor. "Mieihi…?" he called out to her as she glared.

Something, was wrong.

Her eyes were turning on and off, the glowing effect was like a broken light.

"No…!" she shook her head. "It might….say something bad again!"

It'? he wondered in his mind as he continued to walk towards her, stopping a few steps before her.

She held her head, "Why did I…say all those things…?" her voice was shaking, "….I don't remember anything but….those words….it's not like me….it's not me….I'm not saying those things!." Shaking her head as she clutch onto her head, she didn't like it memory.

She wanted to bite her tongue out. The tears was slowly coming out from her eye, "…Don't…go near me…!"

"…" he felt himself sigh at this as he knelt down to her, her eye widened as she desperately moved back, only to stop as her back hit the bark behind her, she shook her head as her wings spiked. And yet the Kazekage did not flinch.

Her eye widened as she looked at his expression, it was deeper than his usual expression, when his expressions are usually nothing in them, his spindrift eyes were endless and looked at her with…

…care.

He cared, he was looking at her worriedly.

His face seemed to soften as she looked at him in horror of this, she didn't want to see it, she didn't deserve it, it made her feel so weak.

"Don't…" she shook her head, her wings growing bigger and getting even sharper, in an attempt to scare him of but he didn't move, he didn't flinch, he didn't blink.

He was just, looking at her, and when he did, all the anger seemed to be gone, it had melted away.

Don't look at me… she cried in her mind as she stared at him, with those eyes that are gazing upon a monster… she shook her head as she closed her eye, wanting to shut the world before her as everything turned black, her head was hurting, everything was hurting. "Don't….!" she muttered. "Don't go near me…!"

"…" he didn't say anything as he reached out for her.

By her sensors she had opened her left eye and slapped his hand away, "Don't touch me…!—I might….!" Pain.

Pain… was what he could hear in her words.

It was confusing, it was confusing to him, but.

He can't…

He can't leave her like this.

He can't leave her alone to calm down.

Closing his eyes, he gave a sigh and began to grab hold of her to his chest, "DON'T TO-" ignoring her scream that was cut by his action as he held her tightly to his embrace, he could hear her uneven breathing and shivers from her lips by his ear, her chin resting on his right shoulder, he could imagine the look on her face.

She was scared.

But it wasn't because of him. "…It's….alright…."

"!" her eye widened at his soft voice.

"…I do not care…about what you said back there…." He said, his voice somehow full of monotone. Staring at her wings that were slowly turning into their softer version of feathers, "….Whether or not it was you or someone else….." he felt her flinch when he did, but he continued. "….I'm sorry…."

Her eye widened even more he knew…? She asked herself, as she slowly felt herself being welcomed by his warmth.

"…You felt like…we were going to…abandon you….am I right…?" he began to mutter, softly as he looked down. "…when you heard what I said…" he sighed.

Alone… her mind showed her an image was when she was a child, looking up at the blue sky above her, the only vent that led to the outside world, the only air way and light that was given to her in that huge metallic cell.

She remembered sitting there, her head up as she stared at it for ages, not caring if her neck was going to snap.

"I'm…alone…"

The words of her child self had echoed within her.

Reaching into herself for her realization.

She wasn't angry…nor sad because she thought she was a burden and a duty.

No… it was something even more selfish, and she was guilty of.

The child self of her being, was still the real part within her, as she slowly lifted her hands to clutch onto his back, crying. "…I don't….want you to go without me!" she began to cry, like the child she was within her body. Holding onto something that was feared to disappear before her.

Those visions, these memories, and his words had made the illusion that she was going back to that place.

Her instincts had told her to fight this and she was overwhelmed by her own being.

She didn't like it.

She hated it.

She hated it all.

"I hate myself…" she mumbled on his shoulder. Holding onto him tightly, "….why am I always like this?—It's so…" she knew it, she knew it was a disgrace.

She was about fifteen, at least, that was her body, but her mind, her soul, everything.

She wanted so much.

To be like him, who seems to be indifferent by his inner emotions that even she cannot read.

He could maintain them so well for no one to notice the pain he had held for years, that was slowly being revealed when she looks deeper within those sea foamed eyes.

She was so jealous of it.

Her child self was still herself, it was in her, and she has not matured, everything within her shows potential of becoming like someone who can just shrug things off.

But she can't… no matter how hard she tried, her emotions got the better of her, and turning her selfish desires to be voiced out, if not by her, but by the other Mieihi.

"..It's alright."

She suddenly froze in her thoughts.

"It's alright…to be like this." He began to say softly to her, sighing again, "….it's alright…to be scared….to be childish…as long as it is you…There are no crimes to being yourself…." He closed his eyes, searching desperately words of comfort that he knew he wasn't good at, but hoping she would get his message. "I'm sure no one will blame you for being concerned for everyone else…and to being selfish."

"….Gaa…" her voice was merely whisper that he didn't hear it, "..ra…" her eye softened as the tears slowly dried up. As she buried half of her face to his shoulder, smelling his scent, and feeling his warmth, it was something she thought she would never feel so close to her.

All those times in the cold.

Where she was isolated by everyone and by everything.

"…You're so…" she mumbled, feeling her whole body calming down. "…warm…Gaara…"

"…." His eyes open slightly at her words, and he knew it. Her body when he had held her, was freezing cold, as if she had been frozen in an ice berg. Her eyes were showing the fear that he could imagine her wearing when she was a child. I've been uttering words that have hurt her… he told to himself. …I'm ashamed of myself…

"Do not…be angry…"

"I'm not angry at you." He said with another sigh, that was until he felt her pull back and looked back at him which seems to be some kind of pout.

"…I didn't mean at me….but you!" she pointed to his forehead, "…I should have never said so those things…." She looked down, not seeing the startled expression at his face as she leaned her head on his chest. "….I promise to…understand your words….a bit more."

"…?" he blinked, still a bit shaken by this.

Her eye softened at the shadow she made above his lap. "….If I…am like Suna….then that means…you're just trying to protect me…" she said softly, sighing as she closed her eye. "….I misunderstood everything…I'm the one…who should be saying…" she looked back at him, "…Sorry."

His eyes widened at her face, She was able to pull herself back up… he thought, as his mouth remained shut. Not knowing what to say next.

"…Gaara…"

"?"

"….Can we…go back to the Office of Tsunade-sama..?"

+++Hokage's Office+++

"I'm sorry for my actions….I let my feelings get the better of me…" she began to bow, much to the 3 adult's surprise as they stared at her shocked, Gaara was just beside her.

And thing is.

WHY DON'T THEY BOTHER USING THE DOOR BEFORE SUDDENLY COMING IN TO GIVE US A HEART ATTACK! Tsunade yelled out in her head as they all tried to calm down. "….It's fine!" she said almost in a ignorant sound, but she was smiling at the end, making Mieihi sigh from relief as the other two adults had sighed of relief as well.

It wasn't even an hour and Gaara had brought her back…and even he, himself, seemed to have calmed down. He began to wonder why, "…." Ah-perhaps he—

*ssshaaaaaa*

Sand was suddenly surrounding the silver haired shinobi as he held his hands up and laughed uneasily. "Ahahaha…my bad, my bad!"

"….." Gaara was just staring at him leaving the females wondering what the hell was wrong with them today.

"Anyhow, Gaara…" Tsunade's voice had snapped them back to their situation as the Kazekage and Mieihi walked infront of her table. "…You are going to participate…are you?"

He gave a nod. "I am." Mieihi though still felt a small discomfort, though it wasn't noticeable, he knew that well.

"…We are going to put you together with the Command, Yamato, Kakashi, will be in charge of the Support Teams."

Now Gaara, didn't hear this before. "….?" His blink was his means of question as Kakashi stepped forward to explain.

"What she means is….There would be an extra Shinobi team together with the Investigation Team just in case they get attacked or need any back up or medical conditions." Kakashi said, his hand returning to his pockets, his face indifferent as Gaara's own expression. "…And I am captain of the team, while we will be assigning another captain to the other team."

"And those members…?" Gaara suddenly had a feeling he didn't need to ask that when Shizune had shown signs of her continuing the explanation.

"The other team, would be the first 1st team up front: Neji-san, Kiba-san, Shino-san and perhaps I will be of assistance." She looked over to Tsunade, who doesn't show signs of opposing to that idea.

"That's good, we have a medical and a captain in the 1st team." Kakashi nodded as Shizune continued, Tonton making her whines at her heel.

"Team Kakashi would consist of: Sakura-san, Sai-san, Naruto-kun and Kakashi-san himself."

…? He didn't hear what he expected to hear, was he wrong to expect them for that to happen?

"And so….that consists of the Support team. Gaara, Temari and Kankuro will be allowed to lead the Investigation Teams to the Land of Wind into the Forest….while their Guides, would be the female kunoichi from Glacier Village, Hino, Mizuumi-san." Shizune continued, rolling the scroll down for her to read, and for the rest to only notice now that she had it with her, they were perhaps to busy thinking about her words that their eyes went blank.

"And…"

Gaara's eyes widened, Don't tell me…!

Shizune closed the scroll as she looked at all of them seriously. "…Mieihi-san!" announcing the girl's name for everyone to hear in the room.

She blinked at this news, Tsunade talked up for the explanation before any sudden reactions, again. "Even though Mieihi was in her capsule then during her Coffin Rest….I presume it gave y-"

"-Enough time to memorize the map of the whole forest floor." Mieihi had continued as she lift her head slightly to look at the Hokage, almost making Kakashi raise a brow and Gaara's grip tightening at his arm from his cross armed position, Shizune scrunching a worried brow as her expression. "…Thank you for letting me take part of this….I will do my best."

The Hokage sighed as she leaned on her chair, "…We all know how you feel, Mieihi…so I'm sure you will do your best."

She blinked at her words, for somehow, it felt softer than before, she looked back at the lady infront of her, making sure she was the same strict, cold and hard Hokage than before, but now, her brows showed softness like she had an apology within her that she can't speak out. She simply smiled at this and nodded her head without any other words.

"You will also be helping anyone out…but you are forbidden to stray off on your own….you are not allowed to be separated under any circumstances, nor are you allowed to lose yourself. The mission are only finding clues, show signs, but when you engage in battle, use it as a defense….you are only with the Investigation Team and not a capture or an ANBU team….when faced with an Akatsuki, if they have not noticed you, then escape…..we can't risk any efforts you all have done during this mission, if you have accomplished it yet." Tsunade's voice came back to a more demanding and commanding tone, "You, by Gaara's words, will all be given 5 days to accomplish this starting from tomorrow morning at exactly 12 noon. By then, all would have exited the Konoha gates and on their way…..you aren't that many, 8 members in the supporting teams, 8 more shinobis in the Investigation Team….3 shinobis who will head them. And 2 kunoichis to guide them through…..all in all, just 22 shinobis assigned to this mission…I want you all back, still being 21 members….Is this completely understood?"

The three of them before the Hokage nodded in affirmation.

"…" then suddenly she had a change of mind, and she shook her head. No, Kakashi and Shizune's team together with Gaara and his siblings, Mizuumi and Mieihi will be enough…at this rate. I am risking too much.

"Tsunade-sama?" Shizune noticed this, while the three of them turned their heads to her.

"…No…" she shook her head turning her head to Kakashi. "Cancel the Seiki Butai….we are just going to send the Support team out with Gaara."

Kakashi blinked, thinking though it was reasonable. "….Understood." and with a puff of smoke, the Jonin had disappeared.

Indeed…having too many of us are highly risky of being noticed…. He sighed though, she had only changed her mind right after giving him a trust of keeping 21 ninjas alive through the team. Although he wouldn't mind that responsibility, he was also, secretly relieved. He did not like too many soldiers to command of.

Yes, he was still a bit anti-social.

A bit' being the understatement of the year

"…" although there was a heavy atmosphere at the seat of the Hokage, she didn't mind it. "…DISMISSED!"

…

It wasn't long before they walked out, to get ready for the mission tomorrow, Shizune was sent out to tell her fellow members, while Gaara had left Mieihi, making sure she was brought to her room, he left to tell the news to his siblings—

+++Mieihi & Gaara's Room+++

-returning with….a huge basket of…..

"Gaara…."

"?"

"….These….have too many….."

"…?"

"…Too many…uh." She began to show him the huge black, ball, pill, thing. "…..What exactly is this thing?"

He blinked, turning from his small sachet to look back at her. "…If I recall correctly….Sakura had called them her 'Homemade Soldier Pills filled with nutrient and grace of a fair maiden.'…." …Why does she give her recipes such long names…?

When she looked at it, she had made a comparison that they look a lot like mud balls. But…if Gaara eats this too…then…she shrugged her head, including it in her small stringed shoulder bag, packing more bandages, a small first aid kit, a flash light just in case, and everything else Gaara was putting (because she had never ever been to a mission before, and so decided to just copy whatever Gaara's putting in his own bag) in his own bag.

She turned to take her long coat out of the hanger, inserting hidden kunais within the sleeves, (which she had asked the tailor to put when Temari and Kankuro were busy arguing =_=;, explaining their surprise.), making sure everything was read for tomorrow.

When she turned around, she paled to see he was already done, he even dressed up to sleeping clothes when she had her back turned. He's fast. She sweat dropped at this, she was still in the clothes she was wearing hours ago during their tour with Sakura. She sighed at the thought after she finishes up her preparation and sat at her bed, the bed made a slight creak, making Gaara move his head in way for him to look over his shoulder.

And his eyes widened when he saw her hands reaching to her bandage, slowly untying it, he turned his whole body unknowingly to see, her right eye though, was closed, preventing whatever was hidden there by the bandage still remaining a mystery. Her left eye blinked in feeling his gaze, she turned her head to look at him before he had the chance to look away.

"Ah…suman. (sorry.)" He muttered as she shook her head.

"It's fine….anyhow it's not like its bad for you to see me redoing my bandage, is there?" she grinned while fixing her hair again, now making a proper bandaging, she had bandaged her forehead, wrapping it a few times before doing the same to her other eye, then finally, to Gaara's surprise, had extended down to wrap around her neck, she flattened the end of the bandage to its own fabric, and it had blend in, making him even more surprised at the particular bandage she had.

A Sealing Band? He wondered in his head, he had read them before, but they weren't used in a long time.

This was, it made her bandage around her forehead almost unnoticeable, and her messy hair was almost neat.

He thought back, there were times when she had changed her bandaging from time to time, although he had no idea way she does so. And also, he just wonders, what was her other eye like?—did it have the same unearthly color as her left? Or something like Kakashi? With a different eye?

"…You must be wondering…." She finally said, making his eyes widened slightly, she looked back at him in a slight smile. "…about my other eye."

"…" he didn't answer as she faced herself to him.

She pointed at her right eye, "….This is where my 'Seal' lies….although there was no need of it anymore….I didn't remove it…I'm trying to make it active again…."

"?" He blinked as he asked. "Why?"

She blinked, her eye softening as her voice melancholy. "….It's because even I….am afraid of myself…."

Gaara was speechless after that, her smiling didn't look like she had said those words. "Although I can control my powers.…..I had never experienced myself in my limit…and also to what happened only hours ago…" she looked at her own hand, closing and opening it as she stared at it. "But…there's nothing wrong but being scared…" she grinned, almost jokingly as she turned her head back to him, making him a bit relaxed. "Right?"

He found himself nodding. A part of him, just wanting to say something to her.

The night had ended for them, him going to bed earlier than her. The confusing fast events from before was still replaying in his own head.

+++Meanwhile/Kakashi's Apartment+++

He scratched his head, looking at the book Mieihi had handed to him at the office during the heaviest atmospheric event then, he still didn't get on how she was able to figure out, since the book was really, below the table, not even he and Tsunade knew about it, not even Shizune who usually cleans the place as well.

He sighed, laying down his bed, red and black eyes stared at the ceiling. More importantly…I can't really categorize her as a kunoichi… it was confusing on what to call her, but he knew she was still a human being, regardless of what the scientists have done to her.

+++Flash back++++

"!" Kakashi was supposedly, catch her and grabbed the edges of the window with his free hand, but resulting into slipping and putting too much body weight at his front, causing him to fall along with her who was now falling with him. This isn't good-we're falling from a 10 story building!

Indeed, that would really…HURT.

He tried to regain his posture, but somehow the pressure was hard on him, before he managed himself, he felt something grab onto his wrist before he grabbed hers.

"What the?" his eyes widened when she saw her, the one who had grabbed his wrist, turn in a twirl like he was pulling her into him as he saw black wings bursting out the moment she appeared facing his chest, grabbing now his vest to pull him up as she flew up, just before they were about to crash into the hard concrete ground.

Black feathers began to form below him as she let go of him, for him to balance on his own, standing on a platform made of feathers, it reminded him of Gaara's Desert Suspension when he uses the sand to make the sand platform. "Um…thanks…" he muttered, only discovering she was merely staring at the flying Cactus Wrens at the sky. He looked up at it, and back at her, "Do you like birds?"

"…Like?" she asked him while looking back at him in question. "….I do not know if I 'like' birds…but…they are interesting." She grinned, making the Jonin almost jumped from his balance, heat raising from him when she just did. "Are you alright?—Hatake-san?"

"A-aah, yeah I am." He nodded, quickly regaining his composure. "…and Kakashi-san is fine over here, no need to be so formal Mieihi-chan."

"…..But isn't it also formal in the way you address people in suffixes?"

"…Eh?"

"I've read from books tha-"

"I'll be sure to scold Sai for teaching you." FOR SURE.

"!" then suddenly, he noticed the quick change in the air when the girl's eye had widened and spun in her feet to look up at the open window.

"Aah, I guess there are people having a meeting now." Kakashi scratched the back of his head, "What's wrong Mieihi-chan?" noticing that she was staring at it.

"Gaara is in there…." She muttered, but it was too soft for him to hear, before he asked he was suddenly lifted by the platform, and by her command as she landed at the small top of the roof on the window.

She began to peek first, a smile urging to emerge from the girl's face, "Ga-"

"…I decline to that cancelation."

"…?" she blinked from the voice, Kakashi adjusting himself at where he was, not saying anything but looking at her as she froze.

"I would go and participate over this….even if you do cancel this mission I will go back to Sunagakure to commence one of my own instead. Indeed we cannot afford to waste time in walking around the Village carefreely…."

Her eye widens at this as she lay on the small line that would reveal her image to the ones inside. "…This voice…" she mutters.

"And I do not believe it would be just 2 days to take over the mission….from the size of the Forest, it might take 3 days, the 3rd day being the day we return for a few more added hours to return from where we are…it would also help if we manage to find a path way…..However, if we rethink it….it's not exactly 3 days but perhaps even a week."

She flinched, A mission…in that…place?—no…No Gaara…!

"…It is my duty to be with Mieihi…But my duty of protecting Sunagakure is still much more at large...If you are in worry of the reports, you may ask someone else to accompany her or even Naruto himself…"

What…? She paused, …I'm just….a 'duty'…? She felt something shatter within her façade, it was something she wasn't sure but she felt like crying. …I'm a child….I'm just being a burden to everyone here….Gaara…Gaara only wants to…no…he does these things because he has to…I'm just… a…a 'duty'…

'That's right….'

"!" her eyes widened as her hands suddenly covered her ears. This…voice…

'You're nothing more but a burden…A child trapped in a 15 year old body…acting so blissful and ignorant to reality….'

"T-that's not…!" she shivered.

Kakashi raised a brow at this, and then his eyes widened when he saw something in her expression changes. "Mieihi…-chan…?"

'…Let me take over….'

…You…?

'…Knowing you…I don't think your stuttering cry baby self won't say anything….don't let them do what they want to you!'

But—but…!—w-who are you!—who are you!

'Aah…me?...I'm you…'

Mieihi froze, she felt herself shaking, her legs threatening to give up as her wings twitched slightly, she felt her right eye burning.

'You're worried….about him right?—crying won't help!'

..You're….me…?

'…I'm you the you who's being kept in chains in your heart!—Don't be such a wimp!'

She shook her head, what was going on?—she never recalled anything like this…. She never knew that there are voices within her except her. But this wasn't her. The voice sounded more deeper, more, more boyish. It sounded like a boy.

'…Stop crying Mieihi!...Or you want them to do things with out your consent?'

Mieihi clutched onto her head. It was hurting…

"Oy…Oy Mieihi-chan?...!" Kakashi was just about to place his hands on her shoulders till a spark of electricity came from her body, a warning for him not to come any closer.

'…For once-Let me take over….'

"Nnghh!" Mieihi muffled, as she felt her very image, her psyche, splitting. Not minding the worried Jonin before her, as a small smirk suddenly came from her expression.

Sending shivers down to his spine. "…Mieihi…-chan…?"

The look from the girl, the shy child was suddenly gone from her face, she looked more serious, more devilish.

She had a frown and a different aura. She looked down at him, and the deep feeling of her eyes were deeper and endless, and painful.

It was as if, to his description, flames bursting inside as she moved to the window sill in silence. Sitting there and finally saying in a voice.

That didn't sound like her own.

"Please don't make it sound like I am a child who will cry over trivial things."

+++End of Flash back+++

Kakashi sighed at the memory, holding his head slightly, she was a handful, yet she was so familiar to him by personality, a part of him was thankful that she wasn't under his team.

…

A part of him….didn't.

But somehow, the sudden change of her character, he didn't know what to make of it.

The depth of the girl's eye seemed to have gone deeper…and the feeling of her presence made it even worst for me to stand…it was if darkness was going to engulf me when I looked further into her eye….

What the heck was that…?

He held his head, feeling a headache slowly crashing into his brain. "Ugh…I guess no midnight reading tonight…"

+++Uzumaki Naruto Apartment+++

"No~~!" Naruto on the other hand was still utterly disappointed.

+++Flashback+++

"Yess!" Naruto grinned as he began to plan out that, he, Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage, would give a tour to his new friend. "I don't care if it is a mission!-I'm going to be her friend anyway!" he grinned to himself, and looking at the plan he had made with poorly drawn chibi characters with sticks for a body. "I'm going to give her and Gaara a blast!-"

"Although that would really sound fun—That'll have to wait after 5 days Naruto-kun!" a happy Kakashi had said at the open window Naruto had forgotten to close.

Naruto screamed like a girl at the top of his lungs before his shinobi mind registered it was his sensei. "DAMMIT KAKASHI-SENSEI! YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTA-WHAAT!" he snapped before he finished his sentence. "WADDYA MEAN 5 DAYS!"

And so Kakashi gave an explanation with a pleasant background music, a smile still on his masked face while Naruto's eyes formed circles and his mouth a standing rectangle, don't ask me about his face.

"Well! that's all so please prepare for the mission tomorrow! See you at Konoha's Gate!" and with that he had jumped back into the darkness.

"G—g-g-a-a-a—k-k-k-k-gg-g-g-aaka-a-aa-k" he sounded like he was being choked as he finally let out a wail.

"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS![*INSERT NUMEROUS OR HUNDREDS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS INDICATING ECHOES OF NARUTO'S DESPAIR*]"

+++End of Flashback+++

"Ku~so~!" he slumped on his seat in just the memory of it, and he was really looking forward to it too. He ruffled his golden hair as he stood up away from his desk. "Maa…ii ka! (Oh well!)—I'll just have to wait after this mission's over and back to Ichiraku Ramen~!"

Then he blinked, "Waai~t—Kakashi-sensei did say it would be 12:00!—Hehehe! That's plenty of time to bring her to Ichiraku Ramen!" now he was back to his perky self, then suddenly a thought gave him blue streaks, an image of a frowning Gaara was above his head as he imagined his words.

"I would rather for you not to get in the way of our preparation of this mission…..Uzumaki, Naruto."

"Cih!—That-workaholic-Kazekage Gaara!-Hmph!" he crossed his arms in an attempt to imitate him saying those very words. "Bleh!—Mieihi-chan needs to take it easy!" he then gives off his excited grin, and makes his hand into a fist. "I got an idea!"

And the night ends with the worries of tomorrow.

XD XD XD I've shown the overly worried and slightly(over)protective side of Mieihi! XD XD XD XD

Explanation is that, Mieihi had this weird 'vision' of her friends being massacred at the forest she used to be held by, and when she heard this, she was worried and also irritated that they are making a huge fuss about her being lonely LOL XD. Well, that's because Mieihi is highly unpredictable and seems to be unstable in her own personality(?) and not her powers (?) :D that though is still in question :). You've seen the smiling Mieihi. The pissed Mieihi, the emotionless Mieihi, and now the dramatic Mieihi!

Mieihi: WHAT THE HELL IS WITH MY PERSONALITY! IS IT SPLIT!

Blackeclipse: Maybe? XD

IF you guys have any questions, feel free to ask me :) ok~? Any kind of reviews are accepted! Anonymous reviewers as well~

Gaara: ….

Everyone in the cast: DON'T—EVEN—THINK ABOUT IT!