Zaki was sitting at the bar in the Zoo, sipping some coffee one morning. She was helping Allie clean up the mess. The Zoo had got raided last night, for what even Allie didn't know. "Fuck that government of our Zaki! Fuck it to hell, I pay my taxes and all that, I even pay Din to make sure the Zoo DOESN'T get raided! But NOOOOOOO can't even rely on those stupid Dins any more!" Allie said. Picking up a table. Din's was slang for dirty shinobi.

"Well think about it this way, you can get raided every now and then by the actual government, or you can go back to the Uchiha days. You know the days where they would eat you out of house and home and then refused to pay. And what about that little protection tax? You know the one where you had to pay rent every month for you bar even though you own the land rights to it. Oh plus you had to pay property tax to the actual government. I think you can handle a couple raids." Zaki told her putting out her cigarette.

"Hn, Well since your getting into this Shinobi thing, can't you just I don't know make the government go away?" Allie suggested, she then received a glare from Zaki.

"I aint becoming no Din. If I'm going to be a shinobi I'll be a faithful straight lace kind, you know. Like Yamato" the grey haired girls voice was serious. "And plus I don't think I'm ever going to get that far up there." Allie lifted her eye brows. "I mean those ranks are like…Chunnin at the least. And I have no want or desire to be a Chunnin; I'm perfectly happy where I am right now. Getting cats out of trees and helping old lady's clean house. Nothing challenging or time constricting."

"Well then your pay check is going to suck." Allie.

"Hn"

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"You think your kids going to be ready for the Chunnin Exams?" Kakashi asked Yamato one day.

"Well we have gone on 20 D rank mission and only one C rank and the C rank was only because the dogs we had to feed were as big as akamaru and as mean as Sakura on a bad day." Yamato explained to his Senpai "And we have to go on at least one B rank mission to even be considered."

"Well you can have the B rank mission Team 7 just got assigned it. And personally I want to train Naruto. Its just escorting a couple of Daimyo's kids to the summer palace." Kakashi said at last, Yamato gave a small sigh. That is so Kakashi only wants to talk to him to see if Yamato would do something for him. What a bitch.

"Sure that sounds great, but you'll have to run it by The Hokage yourself."

"Well you see…" Kakashi started, Yamato just rolled his eyes.

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Kin was going crazy. "What do you mean you wont be back until Thursday?" She nearly yelled at her daughter. Kaida rolled her eyes at her mother.

"Mom, I'm a shinobi now, I HAVE responsibilities," Kaida informed, though she meant to sound like an adult. She sounded extremely childish.

"But I thought they…they didn't give missions that went out of the country to Gennin's. I would have never let you take that test if I new this was going to happen" Her mother worried ringing her hands.

"Mommie its no big deal gosh, you act as though I'll die or something, Sensei says the most dangerous thing on the mission will be trying to keep the client from complaining."

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Adara was walking with Keiji in the park. She looked up at her tall crush. He had always been taller then her. She looked up at his purple hair and sighed, how could he be so beautiful?

"What?" He asked her. Adara hid the blush that wanted to show up on her face.

"Oh nothing, I was just thinking about how long you were going to be away for." LAME she yelled at herself in her head.

Keiji bent down so their eyes were looking straight at each others. Adara really had to work hard not to blush. Puberty hit this girl hard and it just made her feel more towards her child hood crush. In the movies the lead actress would throw her arms around him and start kissing him. But this wasn't the movies and Adara just turned 14. How could his eyes be so yellow, they are so intoxicating? That was a good word for them right? Well she would look it up later. "You know I'm only going to be gone for a week"

"Yeah I know, its just It's a B ranked mission those are like, big time. I mean Neji sensei has talked about getting one for our team. So we could enter the Chunnin exams. And I know if I enter the chunnin exams, my dad will expect me to become a chunnin."

"You should stop comparing yourself to Shikimaru, you two are different, I bet there a hundreds of things you are good at that he sucks at." Keiji offered, he started climbing the biggest tree in the park. It's where the two usually did there cloud watching. Adara loved watching clouds, but UN like Shikimaru she wanted to be up there with the clouds. Not just down below watching.

"Easy for you to say you don't have siblings." Adara countered back walking up the tree just using chakra. Keiji gave a big humph and landed on their branch shaking it slightly. Adara joined him, "now tell me what's been up with you?"

Keiji looked down, "making your present." He muttered. Adara smiled.

"So what is it?" She asked, thinking of the beautiful things she had gotten and treasured from Keiji. She still had the crown of daisies he made her when they first met at the academy. That had to be her favorite things he had gotten her just because it was the first thing. Keiji slipped her a box. That the Nara girl took.

Adara was speechless at the necklace, it was so beautiful, and the earth tones of the little beads made the big blue heart stand out more. "I-I" She didn't know what to say, She looked up at her best friend. His beautiful yellow eyes that contrasted with his purple hair, how could she go on like this? Just pretending to be friends when she wanted so much more out of the relationship could she tell him? Adara gave Keiji one good look and stopped something was wrong. "What's wrong?" She asked coming out more hard then wanting it to sound.

"I-I well its nothing, this is your birth day time, kind of. It should be about you." Keiji dodged, Adara pulled on his sleeve. "It's my parents; I finally got grandma to tell me a little bit about my father before granda interrupted."

"And?" Adara asked hurriedly, Keiji's paternity had always been a great discussion between the two.

"She didn't know who he was. She just knew that my mother left on a mission not pregnant and came back pregnant."

Adara fell a little; a mission pregnancy could have so many implications, none of them good. "Would it be on the mission report?" She asked more to herself then to Keiji.

"I don't know, I guess it would be, but she was on a top secret mission, probably Anbu. Those records aren't accessible to the public." Keiji conceded. Adara fell a little, how could they get those records? How the hell?

An idea hit Adara, "ZAKI!" She said aloud.

"Zaki?"

"Yes, yes Zaki, ok so when we were spray painting on the Hokage tower, and we were talking about how not to get caught. Apparently Zaki new the exact schedule for the guards and how to distract them and such she knew a lot, I would bet that she knows how to get into the record room." Adara said violently pulling on Keiji and making the limb shake.

"You were spray painting?! You were the ones to do that?" Keiji asked.

Adara shushed him with her hands, "NOT the point at the moment Keiji! Come on don't you want to learn about your dad?" She was all ready down the tree before Keiji could reply.

"We don't even know if she will help us!" Keiji screamed after his best friend.

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"Sure I'll help you guys break into a government building!" Zaki agreed they were all waiting for Yamato and Kaida who were out doing laps together. "Sounds fun, idiotic and dangerous but fun!"

"So do we wait until tonight?" Keiji asked.

"No. we do it as soon as possible, because if we do get caught it looks more innocent. Think about it, if we were under a gen jutsu the person would have us do it in the middle of the night. But they wouldn't know that the securities at top secret buildings are double during the night. If we do it during the day, it makes us look like incompetent Gennin and we get a little slap on the wrist. Plus we can easily move into big crowds if they are running for us. Both of you know how to do a transformation Jutsu right? Use it if we have to go into a crowd, but if they are chasing you into an ally or something just give up." Zaki explained, Keiji wondered how she knew all this.

"What about the seal's on the cabinets?" Asked Adara, Keiji was looking around hoping nobody was listening.

"Well that will be a problem, I don't know those seals I know how to get around the guards just fine, but seals are going to be a bitch? If we can't get the seal by the 3rd try we skedaddle and forget about it for at least a year." Zaki said. "Don't look so worried Keiji, this will be fun."

Keiji bent his head down low, "You two do realize if we get caught we could be thrown in jail."

"That's what makes this fun!" Zaki told him slapping the boy's back. Adara gave a nervous chuckle.

"If we have to do this as soon as possible, then how are we going to ditch the teacher and the kid?" Adara asked. A silence fell on the group.

Zaki gave a wolfish smile, "I have an idea, but we are going to have to bring Kaida into this."

"No problem, she is our team mate, and probably more competent then either of us." Keiji said.

Zaki started laughing then stopped. "Oh my god, it's true."

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"Hey you guys!" Kaida said outside the ice cream shop. She and yamato were sweating.

"Hey, how was your run?" Zaki asked. Kaida beamed and Yamato huffed. He had started running with the little one. Originally he wanted to run as a whole team, but Keiji was fast enough. And Well Zaki glared at him and stuck a cigarette in her mouth. So he ended up running just with Kaida, which was a treat in it self. She viewed everything like it was new and fresh; she never cast a judge mental eye, just looked and laughed. Her spirit was so up lifting. Between Zaki's overbearing pessimism, Kaida's overwhelming optimism and Keiji's stiffening silence, Yamato got a pretty good dose of reality a day.

"Fun we got to see the new flowers come out of the ground!" Kaida told them. "Urgh can we stop chit chatting I have to go pee." She said her little face turning as red as her hair.

"Come on kid lets go together." Zaki said leaning her head toward the bathroom.

"Ok" She said taking Zaki's head as they both went to bathroom.

"So Keiji, Adara how are you?" yamato asked.

"I'm fine Mr. Yamato Keiji just gave me my birthday gift. He made it himself." Adara said getting out a small box.

"Oh don't show him that Adara." Keiji said, his cheeks getting a little flushed.

"Why not?" Adara asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"Just don't ok?" Keiji told her. Adara starred at him for a couple of seconds, she was perfecting her mothers glare.

"Hey Um you don't mind if we boys go to bathroom do you Adara?" Yamato asked, taking Keiji by the arm and pulling him away. When they were out of ear shot yamato gave Keiji what he hoped was a fatherly look. "We should talk about…girls," Keiji looked terrified, he slapped his hands to his head.

"I KNOW about that all ready Sensei!!" Keiji said.

"Oh, well then, how far have you gotten, with a girl I mean?" Yamato asked.

"I haven't ever; um I haven't ever kissed a girl. I know about that kind of stuff cause" Keiji's deep voice was getting higher. "Adara and I found shikimaru's pent house magazine when we were ten, we read a couple article and yeah I'm uh never going to yeah forget that." Keiji was bright red. "Please don't continue sensei."

Yamato was just as bright red at his student. It figures Shikimaru would have a pent house magazine, "Oh ok, so uh I don't have to warn you and Adara about safe, stuff."

Keiji looked confused, "Adara and I? What are you talking about?"

"Aren't you two a couple?" Yamato asked. Keiji looked like a deer caught in head lights.

"I see Adara as a little sister, nothing else. Just like I view Kaida or Zaki. I would never think inappropriate thoughts about her." Keiji said his face now grave.

"Oh…" Yamato had to think for a second "let's uh just go back to the table."

"OK…"

When they got back, the girls were all there. And so were their Sunday's. Yamato sat down and smiled, this is good he thought to himself. Keiji doesn't need the talk, Zaki could probably give the talk better then he could.

"Yamato sensei? Can I ask you something?" Kaida asked.

"Yeah sure," Yamato picked up his glass of water, Kaida was years away from having to give her the talk.

"Well," the little girl looked down, then in a really loud voice said. "WHAT'S SEX?"