The three were on top of the Hokage Mountain; they had climbed out of Tsunda's eyes. Once they were all at the top they stopped. Adara could barely move. She had never done a proper shadow binned like that. She had been practicing but it had never worked before, her body now didn't want to work. Keiji let her put her wait on him. "We can go to my house, my grama won't ask questions and Adara needs food." Keiji offered helping Adara up so she was riding piggy back on him. Zaki agreed with a nod and Adara grunted. The three silently went to Keiji's house. Keiji's grandfather was lovingly attending to his daffodils and didn't notice them. His grandmother just smiled and told them cookies would be here soon.

In the Keiji's room, Keiji took out the folder and put it on the bed between the three. They all looked at it like it was going to eat them. "Do you want to read it first Keiji?" Zaki asked looking at her male team mate. His hand shook as he reached it out to open the file. But he violently snatched it away before opening it. "How bout this, once Adara is nice and rested both her and I will go home and you can decide if you want to read the file or not." Keiji shook his head and put the file in his desk. Zaki looked around the room; it was a nice size holding a simple full sized bed. Two medium sized dresser sat on the opposite wall, and in front of the window was a small desk were Keiji still had all his jewelry stones out. He put the file in the bottom left hand cupboard. Right then his grandmother came in carrying a tray of different types of cookies.

"You three look tired, training?" She asked, they all smiled at the sweet lady.

"Adara finally nailed the shadow binned jutsu, that's why she's so tired Grandma." Keiji informed the old lady taking a gingersnap. Grandmother went right over to Adara and gave her a big hug.

"Oh dove, I'm so proud of you; it seems like only yesterday you came here for the first time tutoring Keiji in kunai use. My honey dove you are just spectacular."

Adara gave Keiji's grandmother a tired smile, "Thanks grandma viola it means a lot hug you back but I'm really tired." The old women then turned to Keiji and swatted him on the head.

"You shouldn't have worn your friend out so much Keiji," the old lade then turned to Zaki and smiled, "He didn't do that to you? Did he? I know Keiji can be a little overenthusiastic."

"Oh a good tiring is good for us, um," Zaki had never dealt with a woman so nice before she now understood how Keiji could be so sweet.

"Just call me Grandma Viola like everyone else little sparrow,"

"Oh ok, Grandma Viola?" Zaki asked looking at her. Everyone nodded in agreement.

'I'll go get some more nutritious lunches for you three." Grandma viola said leaving the room.

"Why did she call me little sparrow,"

"She nicknames every one by a bird. Adara's dove, she named Kaida Humming bird and now I think she decided on sparrow for you. Better get used to it." Keiji informed his team mate.

"Oh." Zaki looked over at Adara who had fallen asleep. "Do you remember that day, the day orochimaru attacked?" She asked in casual conversation.

Keiji gave a slight shudder; he did remember that day all to well. It was 4-5 years ago from today he didn't really remember. "Yeah I remember that day. Why do you ask?"

"Well it's just that, if orochimaru wanted to really attack Konoha hard, he would have had at least 2 squadrons of men go through the dregs wrecking some type of havoc, they could have easily snuck in. And I recall there were no men to even go through this area, not the dregs at least. No shinobi whatsoever not even those on our side, it would be odd not to take this strategic point." Keiji pursed his lips he knew what Zaki was getting at, and he understood perfectly he just didn't know if Grandpa wanted him to tell anybody. "They would have to pass very much near here."

"Why do you want to know?" He asked Zaki.

"For 4 years I thought that nobody cared enough about the dregs to actually touch it. And that might be true, but Keiji, Your grandfather was a war hero, you think they would have given him a nicer place then this. They wanted to make him Hokage before the third. Then they gave him this place, outside the dregs away from everything… but a place you have to pass by if you want to get in illegally. Maybe they didn't send protection cause we all ready had it." Zaki mused, Keiji marveled at how she could figure this out.

"I was stuck home that day; Grandmother had me stay in the basement. As Grandpa went outside, I snuck up here and peered through my window." Keiji started.

Keiji was ten again he was leaning over the desk and could here what was going on outside, Grandpa sat on his rocking chair as two sound shinobi approached him.

"We ask you to get back inside old man, we don't want any trouble." One of them said.

"I don't give trouble to those who don't give trouble to me." Was grandpa's usual response.

"We ask you not to do any heroics" The second one said a lot more respect in his voice.

"I don't give trouble to those who don't trouble me, you can bring your men through here just don't trouble me or my folk." Grandpa replied the men seemed startled he knew about the squadrons hiding in the forest. Keiji had counted 3 earlier that week. Keiji started to shake in anger how could grand pa, let these men in, this was a fighting force to take over Konoha. They were shinobi they were supposed to protect Konoha!

The sound shinobi gave a whistle and four men came forward. They mumbled something about scouting, "STOP RIGHT THERE!' Grandpa yelled at the men. "You just violated your contract" Keiji grandfather said taking off his shirt. Keiji gasped there hanging on his neck was his wolf paw. It was Keiji re clan, each man had an animal symbol that was there protector when they went into their berserker mode. They only wore that for battle, it was customary for them to go shirtless and armor less to show there belief in there animal protector. Grandfather was a wolf.

"What do you mean we just were walking away?"

"Those things you just stepped on were my prize winning petunias I consider them my fold. I'm sorry but you die." Then in less then a blink of an eye Keiji's grandfather grabbed one of the men by the throat and ripped out his jugular.

"Keiji I told you to get your ass down in the basement right now!" His grandmother ordered him. And Keiji reluctantly returned to the windowless basement.

Later that night, his grandfather returned covered in blood. His grandmother ran to him and gave him a ferocious hug and kissed him on the mouth. "Mayuri I was so worried about you. I was so worried I was. I thought you were retired!" His grandmother screamed at his grandfather never letting go. She buried her head in his chest trying to hide the tears leaking through.

"Shhh, shhhh viola I'm ok, this isn't my blood. You can stop crying." His grandfather reassured. Grandmother straightened up and wiped the blood away from her face, it had gotten all over her.

"Well then," she was trying to compose herself. "Go in the back and wash off with the hose, I don't want you stepping on our carpet." Grandfather gave a little chuckle. His grandmother turned around.

"What went wrong, you're only this bitter if something went wrong."

"I let one squad run away, I could have gotten them when I was younger but I let one flee in front of me." He admitted ashamedly.

"How many did you get?"

"3 squadron's worth of men, before the fourth fled I also left all the bodies for the anbu to clean up."

"Get washed up now I have dinner waiting for you." Grandmother then turned around looking straight at Keiji, "You young man, go to bed without supper for disobeying me."

"And that's it," Keiji finished; Zaki looked at him wide eyed.

"HOLY crap!" She said after a while. "I mean, wow and I thought the third never cared."

"Yeah so that's why the dregs weren't attacked, my grandfather took the guys out."

"Who's your protector; if your grandfather a wolf does that make you a cub?" Zaki asked, Keiji was staring out the window still remembering that day.

"I haven't found mine yet, my Grandfather tells me I'll be different from him, I could be any animal. My mother apparently was a panther." He told her, his eyes resting where the file was.

"What happens when you do find out, what it is?"

Keiji gave one of his famous sigh's, "My grandfather say's I'll know what to do and how, but I sometimes think I'll never find it. They say a berserker without an animal spirit is just a mass murderer, who's a danger to everyone."

Zaki smiled at her team mate as she ruffled his purple hair. "You'll find out what it is Keiji, and when you do you'll find out that it's not that important."

"Should we take Adara home, she seems really tuckered out." Keiji asked looking at the Nara who was softly asleep on his bed.

"Oh no you don't, young man. Wake her up so she can come down and eat a good healthy meal, then Zaki can walk her home. You have chores to do." Grandmother Viola said from the doorway, Keiji wondered how long she had been standing there. "Wake her up."

Adara was woken up by a soft shake of her shoulder, slowly opening her eyelids she saw Keiji leaning over her. Was this a dream? If it was it was really nice, she felt his warm breath on her skin it left a tingling sensation all over her. She tried to suppress a shudder.

"Adara you're shuddering, are you getting sick." Keiji asked leaning down closer, Adara's breathing was getting rapid as she felt her cheeks blushing. This was a dream, this was a dream, it had to be. Keiji's warm breath was making her skin melt.

"I think you should give her some air Keiji," Zaki's voice said, and unfortunately he obeyed getting off of Adara. Leaving her body aching for more; she slowed her breathing down before saying anything.

"I'm coming; I'm just tired that's all." Adara said sitting up, trying not to look at her best friend in the eye.

"Keiji you go downstairs, I'll help Adara down." Zaki told the purple haired giant; her eyes never leaving Adara's. Keiji left the two girls alone in his room. "So?? How long have you been pinning over Keiji?" Zaki asked.

"I don't PINE for him!" Adara defended.

Zaki threw a pillow at her. "Yeah right the way you were breathing meant there had to be some suppressed feelings. I'm surprised you didn't moan you were breathing so hard."

"Shut up!" Adara was getting angry and she could tell Zaki was enjoying every minuet of it.

"Fine fine, just don't do anything to sudden, Keiji will freak." Zaki said hoisting Adara's arm over her shoulder. "Lets get some food."

Adara limped home Shikimaru was reading on the couch. "Hey" She said as she plopped down by his feet.

"You look tired." He commented flipping through the pages.

"Yeah, I finally got the Shadow binned down." Adara groaning, her whole body hurt.

"That's funny I thought dad was on a mission." Shikimaru mussed.

"He is." Adara said, she didn't want Shikimaru knowing what she had been doing for the past two weeks. She hadn't trained trained at all; Yeah sure Yamato sensei gave her some pushups or chakra control things to do, but she knew that he had his own team to teach so she didn't press him for more. And Shikimaru and Dad had been so weighed down with missions she really didn't want to come with more stuff for them to do. It would be too troublesome to them.

Shikimaru put down his magazine and looked at her. Dam it he always knew it when she wanted to avoid a subject. It was a sibling thing. "I bet Neji was proud though," This was very pointed.

Adara rubbed her nose before sayinig anything. "Yeah he was."

"Liar!" Shikimaru proclaimed.

"No I'm not!" Adara replied rubbing the other side of her nose.

"You always rub your nose when you lie to me," Shikimaru proclaimed, Adara made her hand leave her face.

"What were you doing?" Shikimaru asked.

"Training," Adara declared looking Shikimaru straight in the eye. What she just did could be considered training, breaking into a government facility could come in handy later in life.

"With who?"

"Keiji, and Zakuro."

"Why weren't you training with your own team?"

"Why does it matter!? I was training isn't that the important part?" Adara defended herself.

"Adara?" Shikimaru continued, Dam Adara couldn't lie to Shikimaru ever. She could lie to Dad, even Mom she could lie too. But She never mastered the art of lying to her brother.

"Well, Neji-sensei is always busy training Hinabi, and well Lee Vang is training with his own family and well…Dad's always gone on missions and you would say its troublesome so I guess I didn't want to burden anybody." Adara confessed, it was nice getting this of her chest. She looked at Shikimaru, he looked mad. Adara had never seen him mad like this, his face was blank and he was pursing his lips. He looked like mom did when she was mad, frankly it was scary.

"So you haven't been training?" His voice was low.

"Well I've been training." Adara interjected, she suddenly realized that she still had the files in her shirt. She needed to get rid of them.

"Yes but not with your actual team,"

"What does it matter, training is training."

"It does matter, team work is important for missions and Neji is ignoring that part of training you."

"We haven't failed a mission yet!"

"That doesn't excuses the fact that an untrained Ninja is not only in damaging the mission, but also hurting their team mates and themselves."

"Now that makes me sound helpless, I'm not stupid!" Adara hated this, "And who are you to talk? I mean you're lecturing me about training? You're the person who actively does NOTHING!"

"This isn't about me, you need to train."

"WAIT! Just because you have a genius IQ YOU can get out off all the regular shinobi stuff. But since I'm apparently not as special as you are…"

"I'm not saying that! You're putting words in my mouth. And when have you ever gotten the notions that I don't work?" Shikimaru stated.

"You don't have to work! I mean if I did one of your little hiding sessions, people would call me a delinquent and not even bother looking for me. But you do one of those I'm not going to work things, and people spend hours looking for you. Shikimaru everyone from Dad to your sensei to the hokage thinks the sun shines out of your ass!"

"That's not true!" Shikimaru was getting flustered; he never knew that Adara felt this way. "Dad has no favorites."

"My birthday was a week ago, and he forgot! Mom had to remind him. Your last birthday party, he was the one who made sure the invitations all got out. He was an active part in that."

"That's cause he's old and forgetful."

"Shikimaru, he still thinks I'm ten! I mean yesterday he asked me how my academy grades were! He has a calendar for when ever you have a mission for gods sake!"

"I'm not going to argue favorites with you Adara, Its not that important!" Shikimaru replied getting up. "Now I'm going to go give Neji a piece of my mind about training." Shikimaru then slammed the door to the house. Adara then went to her room. She was still fuming over the argument when she got out her camera.

Adara didn't want to read the file, not yet any more she wanted to sleep, but first she was going to ditch the actual file. Getting her digital camera out then took a picture of each page. She hid the memory file in an old shoe under her bed. Mom was probably out shopping because it was a Wednesday grocery day. She probably had 5 more minuets before anyone came home. She needed to get rid of the actual file, some how. She didn't know how though. Probably fire would be easiest, Shikimaru had his lighter with him. And unlike him Adara actually respected his privacy! The stove top, Mom had been trying to get a new stove, but dad said it was too troublesome. She went into the kitchen and turned on one of the gas burners. Holding the files above it please let this not be flame proof. The pages caught fire after that.

Kaida walked to her house very confused, what Yamato-sensei had just said didn't make sense at all, but she smiled anyway. Daddy promised to play with her tonight. And she just couldn't wait. Stepping through the rickety door Kaida yelled, "Mommy! Daddy I'm home!"

"Hi honey," Her mother replied, she was in the kitchen cooking something.

"COULD YOU TWO BE QUIT PLEASE I'M TRYING TO CONCENTRATE!" Lido yelled from their bedroom. Kaida tried to go quietly to there chair in the living room, but she accidentally tripped and sent a pile of her fathers papper spiraling. Her father burst through the door, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT NOISE!" He then looked at Kaida desperately trying to clean the mess she made. "FUCK! Don't touch those you'll just mess it up!" Her father was livid, Kaida backed away.

"LIDO!" kin yelled at her husband who stopped moving towards Kaida. He looked around and closed his eyes, slowing down his breathing. Kaida was trying not to cry, she hated when daddy was like this.

When his breathing was slower Lido gently knelt down to Kaida's level. "Kaida," He said slowly. She didn't look at him, trying to hide the tears in her eyes. "Little dragon please look at me." He pleaded with her, Kaida was sniffling back tears.

"I didn't mean to knock them over daddy, I really didn't it was an accident. I didn't try I'm sorry I'm sorry." Kaida replied her voice cracking from the tears. Lido gave his daughter a big hug.

"I know my little dragon , I know. Daddy's just a little stressed, so he yelled for no reason. I'm sorry I shouldn't have gotten angry I'm just really over worked right now. You know what? We will pick this mess up, and pretend it never happened." Kaida's father whispered using a small voice. Kaida was wiping away the tears in her eyes. "But afterwards daddy's going to have to go back to work."

"Ok, so were not going to play any board games today?" Kaida croaked.

"We can't little dragon, but I promise that when I'm done with this, we will play Parcheesi till your hearts desire." Lido promised, Kaida gave him a week smile. "Lets get started then."

Zaki headed for Max's house, she didn't have anywhere else to go, so she might as well wait at his house watching his crappy little T.V. The grey haired girl slammed the door open, she hoped she wouldn't have to bail Max out. When she landed on his couch she saw something. It was the photo album her mother handed to her before she left for the Rehab center. Opening it up she didn't find a lot of photo's of people she knew in it. A lot of old friends she guessed when her parents were younger.

Zaki's stopped at one page, it was her mother in a hospital bed smiling up at the camera, a pink bundle held tightly in her arms. Which Zaki noted even then had track marks running up them. Her father must be holding the camera, she mused.

The next photo was of Allie when she was much younger, well he suspected that it was Allie, she didn't see the girls face. For the women was leaning into a man on a brick wall and they were kissing passionately, the man had chin length black hair and a white stripe in the middle. He looked vaguely familiar; it was that Gai man that Allie had yelled at the other day. On the back of that photo, in Sara's hand writing it said, Just married. 4 other photo's after that was that couple kissing in different locations.

Another photo was of all four of them, Sara stood in the middle face downward and a smile from laughing so much on her face. Zaki's father was right behind her whispering something in her ear to make her laugh. Gai Was leaning into the photo on the left side, Long hair swept up in a low pony tail. He was holding up his thumb towards the camera. Leaning on the left side of the camera was Allie she had a wide smile on her face and was holding up a peace sign towards the camera.

The last photo made her stop; it was a photo just of Zak Zaki's father. His hair was flat down, a lot like that Sai guys but it was grey instead of black. His piercing clover green eyes were directed at the camera. The pose made him look really cool; it showed him of the chest up. His cigarette hand propped his chin up. A burning Cigarette held in between two fingers. Zaki took the photo out of the protective wrapping and pocketed it. That was how she wanted to remember her father.

Keiji waited 30 minuets after Zaki and Adara left before going back in his room. Taking a deep breath he opened the file and began to read. Most of it was detailing what she was doing with Orochimaru.

On the 4th month of the mission Orochimaru was getting suspicious, as a punishment for something I apparently did. In punishment he locked me in a cell with one of our test subjects, a crazy man named Juugo. Juugo was the original source of Orochimaru Curse Seal, we do believe that he had the Berserker curse too. To my surprise Juugo kept his composure for the first three nights we shared our cell. The Fourth day, he was taken out of his cell for questioning, when he came back he was close to death, I nursed him back to health. That night we had intercourse, for the first time.

Keiji had to stop right there, is that the way she put it was this man Juugo his father? Intercourse, it was such a detached was of saying making love to a person. Was that how his mother saw it, there was no passion or love behind the act that conceived him. It was Intercourse. Did this Man Juugo feel the same way? Did Juugo see it as intercourse? Keiji was always taught that love, was supposed to be between two people who cared for each other deeply. How could somebody describe the act of conceiving a child intercourse, His grandmother had described it as something only two people who can touch each other souls can do. That love was between two people who without even trying knew each others deepest secrets. Like two best friends but deeper and perfect. With best friends you could get bored of each other. With love you can sit around and do nothing but still have the best time of your life.

But according to this file, Keiji was not a child of Love, or even passion, just a child of Intercourse.