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Kin was meditating. Something in her guts was telling her that this day was special. She was thinking about Naruto and his plans.

'it's about time for him to start his actions. I hope everything goes smooth. What will happen when everything starts? What should I do? What is my role in all of this? Come to think of it. I love Naruto but there are others that feel the same. Can he love all of us? Can he make balance in his house with all different type of girls? Look at Okyou and Koyuki for example. They are completely opposite in everything. How can he satisfy these two in the same time? How many more will be in her house? Oh kami save me.'

Her train of thoughts were cut by a raven sitting on her shoulder.

"Are you Kin?"

"hai."

"I'm a summon from Yamanaka Ino. She asked me to tell you to be prepared. They leaved the village and there are lots of people coming and you and your friends will leave here soon. Anything to reply?"

"Tell her that I'm ready and will inform everyone right now."

"Hai"

And with that the raven flied to the sky.

'Weird. Why didn't he reverse summon himself? It would be easier. Anyway, I think girls will have a party when they receive the news.'

It was about lunch time. Itachi and Kisame were cooking a rabbit that was Itachi's effort for lunch.

"Itachi, what will you do in future?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know, about Naruto. Would you leave Akatsuki and start a new life?"

"why do you ask?"

"because if you will, I want to ask for a favor."

"and what is that?"

"help me to convince Naruto. I want a new chance in life man, I'm sick of this life."

"even if I don't leave Akatsuki, I'll speak for you."

"man, it's a long time that I had done everything with you. It's hard to think about separation now."

"same for me, but no one knows what will happen in future. Hmm, interesting."

"what?"

But Kisame got his answer very soon when a raven came down from sky and sit on Itachi's shoulder.

"Itachi kun I have a message from Ino san. They left the village and are heading toward Naruto's village. All Aburame, Nara, Yamanaka, Inuzuka, and all branch members of Hyuuga are with her."

"wow, that is incredible" said Kisame.

"oy, sushi man, don't speak when no one speaks with you"

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?"

"ENOUGH. Anymore?"

"nothing special."

"where is Naruto?"

"she didn't tell anything about him."

"I see. Thanks. Tell her that I want to speak with Naruto as soon as possible. And thank her for trusting me. And never call my friend sushi again!"

Anko was running as fast as she could. They had no time. Soon there would be hunter nin tracking them and she didn't want to encounter with them. She wasn't afraid. None of them could harm her but it would slow them and she wanted to be with others as soon as possible. She should cross the lightening country as soon as she could. She knew that Yugao, Tenzo, and Kurenai had no problem with speed (what the hell, even Kurenai was running faster than her and would stop every now and then to let them reach.) but Hayate was another story. With his condition she was not sure if he could manage this speed or not. She didn't want to harm him. No matter how much sadistic she was outside, inside she was still a little cute girl caring for her friends.

"Hayate how are you? If it's hard for you we can slow down."

"don't underestimate me Anko chan"

"but…"

"and don't worry. Still I have some healthy lung parts and that should be fine for this trip. I'll inform you if I have problem."

"you know, I want to cross the border as fast as I can. I don't want to deal with hunters, they would make us slow and others would wait more than they should."

"I agree. So, is there any short cut?"

"there is one, but we should cross a lake."

"then why don't we go in that direction?" asked Tenzo.

"I'm not sure but there are rumors that say some weird things about this lake"

"like what Anko chan?" asked Kurenai, speaking for the first time from when they leaved village.

"they say that most of the time there is a weird fog on top of the lake. People who tried the same direction say that when they entered the fog they had some illusion, something like powerful genjutsu."

"genjutsu?" asked Kurenai.

"hai. And they say the illusion was so hard to break from. I don't want to risk our lives."

"what can cause this type of thing?" asked Hayate.

"hmm, I know a creature that can be the reason but it's a surprise to see it in fire country. Deciding that in past people were looking for bijuu, it's hard to believe that no one understood that this place is where they can find sanbi."

"sanbi?" asked Tenzo.

"hai. Sanbi has ability to cast genjutsu. It seems that this fog is his natural defense. So if we don't harm him or don't catch his attention we should be all right crossing this lake."

"does he have any other power?" asked Anko

"sanbi can shoot water from his mouth like jet water and trust me, no one will be alive after being hit by that." Answered Tenzo

"I see. Tenzo, you have ability to control wood and I heard that you can control jinchuriki when they are using bijuu's power is that right?" asked Hayate.

"hai."

"do you think you can control bijuu outside of a jinchuriki?"

"what is in your mind Hayate?"

"well, if you can do that then we can catch it and seal it. It will help us in several directions. First; we all know that Akatsuki is after the bijuus so catching one will halt them for some time. Second; if we need to have another jinchuriki in future we can use him"

"but it needs time, something that we don't have much" answered Anko

"Anko, this lake is a short cut so, we have more time than before."

"and I'm a genjutsu specialist. If we encounter him, the possibility for his natural defense to be successful will be near zero."

"I see. Well, I'm not sure about my abilities to control a bijuu outside a jinchuriki but at least we can give it a try, yet we have a problem."

"and what is that?" asked Hayate

"the seal that we need to capture the bijuu. Does anyone of you know things about sealing?"

"I know a little, not much to help you" (Kurenai)

"same here" (Anko)

"if all of you are serious about capturing him, I have a scroll with myself that describes a seal that was used before for capturing Shukaku and was successful." Spoke Yugao for the first time.

"god damn you. You were silent all this time and now you say that you have the only thing we need. What are you ? an angle?"

"hehe, thanks Hayate chan but I think we need to move fast, for this seal we need people who have well chakra control, and there should be four of them, well, I have the ability. Who else has ability to control chakra near medical level?"

"I can" (Kurenai)

"same here" (Tenzo)

"I'm not sure but I think I can handle it too" (Anko)

"good. When we are capturing him, Hayate will be our defense for any possible outside attack."

"well planed Yugao chan. Now how longer we will reach?" asked Hayate

"about half an hour." Replied Anko deep in thought.

A/N : Hi everyone. I didn't ask Heavy Bob for betaing this chapter because I wanted to publish it sooner, so if you found any problem excuse me. I will try to upload as fast as I can but the next chapter will be around two to four days later because I will not have access to internet.

water Blade : I never liked civilian council part and I agree with you, but they will be in hell when they are alone and try to manage things with bare hands, this is better than killing them because killing them will harm them just for seconds!

Lightening Blade49 : more smell of actions ha? ;)

Aero : this story will be a very long, long one. there are lots of things in my plot and every now and then there will be some things happening and when you finish the story, I hope you consider it's worthy.

thanks everyone, have fun and keep reviews