Kyten nodded and summoned Yubuki back to help her with Kisame. Akari flew out of sight
. A shadow clone of Sooner's sneaked around the area setting up paper bombs.
Sooner slumped his shoulders. 'This is taking too long.' He froze when he saw Haru a mile away from him sniffing the air for his scent. A few feet behind the wolf Akari carried his straw hat for a scent sample.
Irritated Sooner disappeared and reappeared behind Akari. Now that he was close he noticed that Haru was shrunk to the size of a normal grown male wolf.
Sooner stole a kunai from Akari's kunai holster and held it to her neck, he pulled her back against him. Akari tensed slightly, but enough for Sooner to feel the tightness of muscles. Haru growled at the hatless Akatsuki member.
"Down boy." Sooner said using his free hand to gently slide down Akari's arm and to her hand, she shivered a the gentle touch, he easily took the hat from her hand and placed it on his head.
Haru jumped and latched his teeth into Sooner's arm that held the kunai to Akari's neck.
Sooner dropped the kunai, but pulled his arm up against her neck. She disappeared, left in her place a log fell onto Sooner's foot.
Haru began to grow, his teeth grew as well causing the punctures where his teeth still sunk into to get stretched wider. Sooner grunted in pain. He couldn't move his feet or his free hand, glass encased them and held them in place.
Akari appeared beside him, she kicked him 'leaf hurricane' style in the back of the head. Causing his head to slam down and hit Haru's, Haru deepened his bite.
"Good boy, Haru." Akari pulled out her sword that she had recovered. "Just keep him there for one more minute." The sword was completed with glass. She held the sword up in a position to stab Sooner in the chest. She started to push it toward his chest.
Sooner disappeared. He appeared in a tree a mile away, he tried balancing on the branch he appeared on but fell to the ground. Clenching his arm he tried not to scream in pain, he failed and screamed.
During their fights Kisame and Itachi froze, Kakashi and Kyten did the same. They all looked in the direction the scream came from. Kisame and Itachi looked at each other and nodded. Kisame started to leave, about to follow him Itachi looked at Kyten. "Good-bye kitten." He left.
Kyten's mouth dropped and eyes widened. "Did he just…." She trailed off.
Haru skidded to a stop behind Kakashi, Akari on his back. "I lost him."
"It's ok." Kakashi said picking Hoshi up. "We have what we need."
Itachi and Kisame found Sooner laying on his side clenching his arm and moaning, his hat hanging on a branch above him. His gray hair sprinkled with dirt and blood pouring from his arm.
Itachi knelt beside Sooner's head and held a small pill in front of Sooner's mouth. "It's a blood pill, it will help you recover lost blood."
"I know what it is." Sooner snapped not taking the pill.
Itachi shrugged and put it back into it's container. Kisame grabbed Sooner's hat and handed it to Itachi, he then picked Sooner up.
Akari and Kyten released their summons. "What now?" Kyten asked.
Kakashi sighed. "We finish the mission then go home and relax."
"When we get home can we move in with you?"
"We'll save that for another day."
"Ok."
"Let's just get Hoshi to her village." Akari walked over to the girl in her father's arms. "Kai." She released the genjutsu that had knocked her out.
Hoshi's eyes slowly opened, she yawned.
"I'm going to carry you for a while." Kakashi said. "Until you're more awake."
Hoshi nodded.
A single explosive went off, followed by another. Suddenly around them the tress lit on fire, the fire stretched toward them.
Akari lifted her hands, palms facing up. As her hands raised glass came with creating a wall the fire hit and began climbing the glass wall. She pulled her hands together and a roof formed.
Kyten grinned. "Good job sis."
Akari raised her eyebrows with a smile. "Thanks."
"Is that a jutsu?" Kakashi asked.
"No." Akari said. "It's just some strange element I can control. Kyten controls plants."
"Oh."
"Yep." Akari let the glass disappear. "Let's go."
They left, stepping around the small areas of fire.
Outside the waterfall village. Kakashi set Hoshi down. "Why is the Akatsuki after you?"
Hoshi bowed her head. "They had captured me a few months ago, but I escaped and made my way to the Leaf village because I knew I could get help there."
"So you know the location of their base?"
"I did, but on my way to the Leaf village I stopped at Sand and got some escorts to your village. But when I was about to enter the village I was attacked by the that member that wouldn't reveal himself. He erased my memory of the location. Before he could take me back the gate gaurds saved me."
"Did you see what he looked like?" Kyten asked.
"Kinda."
"What do you remember."
"He has gray hair similar to Kakashi-san's and crimson red eyes similar to Akari-san's although his don't glow."
"Ok." Kyten looked at Akari. "Did you see his face?"
Akari scowled and shook her head. "He sneaked up on me and took the hat."
"Oh."
Kakashi reached into his back pocket and pulled out his book. Kyten and Akari glared at him. Paying no heed to the glares he pulled out his book mark, leaving one of his fingers to hold his place.
"Did he look lik-"
"HOSHI!" A young girl ran up and hugged her.
The copy cat sighed and placed his book mark back in it's place and put the book away.
"Rina please let go." Hoshi asked the young girl.
She let go and grinned up at her. "Welcome back Onee-chan."
"Thank you."
Rina grabbed Hoshi's hand and pulled her to the water that led to the village.
"How well can you hold your breath?" Hoshi looked at her escorts.
"Pretty well." Akari answered for them.
"Please follow me then." She jumped into the water with Rina.
The three Leaf Hatakes dived in after. Kyten crated a vine that wrapped around her waist and went to Akari and wrapped around her waist, what was left grew and wrapped around Kakashi's. Satisfied Kyten continued swimming and caught up with Kakashi. 'Itachi called me kitten, that's the closest he's gotten to my name in along time.
They all surfaced and swam for shore. "Kyten please take the vines off you're cutting off my breathing." Akari climbed onto shore.
"Isn't that the point." Kyten joked releasing the vines, they fell around the three Hatake's ankles.
Hoshi and Rina escorted them to the village leader. The leader thanked and paid them, he held his granddaughters closely.
Kakashi and his daughters began their way home, a few minutes away from the village gates. Kyten clung to Kakashi's arm. "I'm glad we're home daddy."
Kakashi smiled. "Me too hon, me too." He wrapped his free arm around Akari's shoulders.
Akari blinked, she was brought back to reality by the warmth of her father's arm.
"Dad what was that picture you were going to show Hoshi?" Kyten asked only to look up and see Kakashi's visible eye closed and hear his even breaths. He had fallen asleep and was still walking.
Akari silently laughed as they entered through the gates. Izumo nodded at them and signed their names on a sheet of paper, Kotetsu winked at Akari and Kyten. Kyten rolled her eyes. Akari did nothing in response.
The three Hatakes went to the Hokage tower and reported. He smiled at the sleeping Kakashi that was leaning against Akari.
"He seems to be happy you're back." Sarutobi chimed.
"Yeah he is." Kyten handed him the money they received.
"Thank you."
"Where is his house or more of our house, at the moment Akari and I live in an apartment."
"It's-" Someone knocked on the door. "Come in."
Sheik entered sheepishly. "Uh hello."
"Good afternoon Sheik, can I help you?"
"I uh…don't remember." He came in a little more.
Kyten gave him a confused look. "You forgot why you came?"
"Um yeah."
"How?" Akari asked, still holding Kakashi up.
"Don't know."
Sarutobi sighed. "Are you looking for Yuri?"
"I think so."
"She's home, she doesn't feel well."
"Oh…oh yeah thank you." He quickly left.
"What's wrong with his memory?" Akari asked.
"Ask your dad at home, his house is ten minutes past the hospital, it's a white and brown house."
"Ok, thank you."
"You're welcome."
Akari and Kyten practically carried Kakashi to their soon to be house.
"We need the key." Kyten stated the obvious.
"You get them, I'll hold him up."
"Fine." Kyten created vines that reached into his pockets, one vine pulled out the keys. Kyten unlocked the door. "Let's find his room."
"Don't step on anything." Akari looked around at the mess inside.
"Right."
They took Kakashi to a room they guessed was his and set him on the bed. Akari removed his vest and weapon holsters, she removed his hitai-ate and looked at his closed left eye. "That must be his sharingan."
Kyten looked over her shoulder. "Yeah probably." Kyten yawned. "You can take off his shoes."
"Gee thanks." Akari removed the sandals then tossed them to Kyten. "You can put them by the door."
"I'm older, you do it." She tossed them back. "And they smell."
"By ten minutes, and plug your nose, I did everything else." She almost chucked them at Kyten's head.
Kyten glared and took the shoes to the front door.
Akari covered her father with the blanket on the bed. "Sleep tight dad." She said leaving the room.
Kyten was curled up on the couch all her necessities, hitai-ate, weapons, etc. were laying in front of the couch.
The red eye Hatake yawned and found a spot nest to the fireplace on the hard cold stone that surrounded it. She stretched out and fell asleep.
Sooner had long sense passed out from blood loss. Kisame still carried him, while Itachi silently walked nest to them every now and then checking Sooner's pulse.
"Why did Sooner-san worry so much about revealing his identity?" Kisame asked stopping while Itachi checked Sooner's pulse.
Itachi shrugged. "He probably has a descent reason." He sighed. "We should hurry, he's lost a lot of blood and it's still bleeding through the bandage."
"Right."
They took off. When they reached the base they quietly entered trying to avoid Leader. They took Sooner to his apartment styled room and set him on his couch. They quickly left to their apartment. "We'll report when Sooner-san wakes up." Itachi said.
Konan entered Sooner's room, she was allowed to enter his apartment at anytime due to the fact that's she cleaned the base, she was practically Pein's sister and no one would hurt her and get away with it, and Sooner's her boyfriend.
Konan flipped on the light and say a trail of blood on the carpet that led to the couch, she looked over the back and saw the pale Sooner. Quickly she sat him up and removed his cloak, then she removed the bandage. Looking at the large punctures, Konan gaped. "What did you do?" She asked knowing he wouldn't answer. Carefully she set it across his lap and got some clean supplies, she also retrieved Kakuzu to sow up the punctures when she finished cleaning.
Kakuzu sowed each side up and did some repairs to the tissue on the inside. "Thank you." Konan said wrapping Sooner's arm in a clean bandage.
"Yep you might want to give him a blood recovery pill."
"I will."
Kakuzu left, Konan sighed and covered Sooner with a blanked, she sat next to him, barely on the couch Konan got up and picked a book off of one of the many book cases, there were five full book cases in the living room, six full in his bed room, and about seven and a half in the room across from the small kitchen. She set the book onto the table next to the couch, she removed Sooner's weapon holsters and hitai-ate from around his neck. Then she sat him up and sat behind him and laid him down allowing his head to rest on her lap, she began reading.
After a few hours, Sooner woke up, he moaned in pain. Konan set the book down and looked at him.
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The battle finally ends......finally. I did not create the blood pills they are actually used in Naruto, I know they are mentioned during the Sanin fight that Naruto and Kabuto asist in, Kabuto mentions it after Naruto does Rasengan to him.
Please Review and ask any questions and I mean any I will answer them with probably as much detail that I can give out without letting the big secret out