Adara kicked at a tree stump in the training ground, the only thing keeping her going was pretending that stump was her brother. Kick him in the face, the leg, the nads, stupid ass!! Who was the guy? He always thought he was above everything! Above her, every body thought he was above her. You always heard about the great Shikimaru, but nobody even knew he had a sister! Wasn't that her whole generation's problem? She thought thinking on Hinabi, Neji, Shikimaru, Chouji, Naruto, they were all born to a generations of Hero's, and a generation practically destined to be known through out history. Everybody would forget the people who came after them; nobody gave a dam about the people who built the brick road, just the people who cut down the obstacles in its path.

She bet the second Hokage really had to deal with that crap, everyone credits the first for founding Konoha, but if you actually looked in the history books the second was the one who actually made and passed the laws that made the fire country a stable government. But nooooo it was all about the first, always the first. FUCK THE FIRST! First fuck em their arrogant fucking bastards.

Everything in her body ached; it was like the whole of Konoha was pressing down on her. She hoped Keiji was having fun on his week away from this fucking place, he probably was.

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Keiji couldn't do anything as he saw Kaida take a fall into the gorge; lucky for him Zaki acted quicker flinging herself towards the falling child.

Yamato couldn't think about Kaida right now, it was the only opening he would ever get with Itachi. As the Uchiha watched slightly the eight year old he just killed go falling of a gorge, Yamato stuck his kunai in his gut. Itachi looked at him surprised, but Yamato didn't look him in the eye, he concentrated on the bastard's stomach, twisting the knife and digging it deeper. Itachi choked a little. His shark partner looked at them.

"Itachi!" He cried in surprised as Itachi inspected the blood on his stomach, Yamato pulled out and kicked his chest. Kisame also took advantage of the distraction though, slashing grandly at Keiji and nailing him right in the chest, making a slash up to his right shoulder sending the boy flying into a tree. Yamato had to check on Keiji he looked hurt, nothing he could do with Kaida now. He let Kisame get his partner in his arms. The Jounin looked at the shark man who was helping Itachi off the ground. He caught some of the conversation "Itachi, are you insane, to use such a strong technique on a Gennin, then letting yourself be fatally wounded. What has gotten into you, we have enough money anyway, and let's get you back to head ops." Kisame muttered to his raven haired team mate. The shark man and the raven haired man then disappeared. Keiji didn't have time to think. He had to see where his team mates were. Staggering up, Pain shot through his body. He had never experienced this before, usually he was berserk he couldn't feel a thing, and then he would pass out before the pain began. Why wasn't it coming now? Why when he needed it did his animal protector not show it self? His grandfather always told him it would come in due time, but if it wasn't showing up now, could he ever really on him self! Finally staggering to the gorge side he saw Zaki clutching the side of the canyon one hand had caught the limp body of their other team mate. Zaki was groaning.

"Help me," she huffed her body was being stretched by the limp eight year old she was holding with her right hand. The grey haired girl looked down at the little one she was holding onto desperately. "Come on Kaida, I can't hold onto you by myself. You got to wake up come on babe." Zaki pleaded with the girl. Keiji grabbed her arm. Trying to pull them up, "DON'T! if you do I'll lose Kaida." Zaki told him.

"Yamato Sensei!!!" Keiji yelled, he could help he had too!

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Itachi was fading out as Kisame put him on the ground. He didn't know what came over him; he had just gotten so angry and irrational at the thought that after all Konoha put him through as a child, they would do it to another. His jutsu wouldn't kill the girl if they got her to a good hospital in time. But it really wouldn't matter; she had fallen into the gorge. To his surprise Kisame didn't start dressing his wounds, "What are you doing Kisame?" He asked.

"I'm making sure that we finish the job," His shark partner replied. He lifted up his huge sword and smacked it into the ground. Itachi felt the chakra rushing past them, "I'm doing what we should have done in the first place, throwing them all off the gorge.

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Yamato started running towards his Gennin before a he heard cracking, the gorge started cracking. He had to stop and make the roots of the tree's bigger fast, or the whole gorge would fall in. "Takashi, take the twins and get to the forest!" He yelled. Yamato assessed the situation. The crack was about 40 feet away from him and HIS Gennin were about 20 feet away, the skill it was taking to make the roots to move he would have to be perfectly still. "Keiji pull the other two up, as fast as possible, I don't think I can hold this cliff any longer!" Yamato screamed at them, Faster, the roots have to grow faster, But these were hundred year old trees, there roots wouldn't move as fast as younger trees would, He was limited in his wood growing abilities in the tree he wanted to grow. He wasn't as good as the first he couldn't just summon wood out of no where.

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Adara smacked the wood once more, after you got past the exhaustion you could really get down to work, she was working on empty, but Adara would not stop something because it was troublesome. She wasn't so talented, Neji said she needed work with hand to hand combat; she would keep working on her hand to hand combat. She needed to do something better then Shikimaru. And the only thing the 14 year old could think of that she could possibly surpass his genius was her work ethic. So right now as she kicked the log Adara worked on her work ethic. She hated her brother for being so talented.

Somebody who wasn't Neji had been watching her in the trees for about the past 7 minuets, at first she thought they were just some person walking there way to a different part of the ground and decided to watch, but they hadn't left yet. The presence was familure, she didn't want to call them out just yet, and she wanted them to come out of the clearing. Adara had to stop and catch her breath; this was getting too much for her. Suddenly out of the corner of her eye she saw two kunai aimed at her back.

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Keiji tried to grip Zaki's hands and pull her up but she was too heavy, his shoulder was bleeding too much, he could barely feel his hands. Zaki eyes were wild wondering why she felt herself tipping. "What's happening?" She asked frantically.

"The cliff is going to tumble down into the gorge any time soon, come on Zaki can't you lift yourself up with your chakra?" Keiji begged.

"I need two hands or feet, I've never done anything with just one hand, not with earth anyway!"

"Well Try!" Keiji was almost in tears, he tried to bring her up, where was his strength going?!

"I have an idea Keiji, but you got to back up, and catch Kaida ok?" Zaki's voice had suddenly gotten very calm.

"Ok," Keiji waited her to explain.

The cliff took another lurch towards the direction gravity wanted, "I CAN'T HOLD OUT MUCH LONGER GUYS, COME ON!" roared Yamato.

"Don't ask question just do!" Zaki said, so Keiji backed up and waited for what ever was going to come next.

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Yamato couldn't hold out much longer, he had to make the roots bigger and fatter at a more accelerated rate then he ever had to before. When he saw Kaida's lifeless body spring up and Keiji catch her, he let go. Sprinting over to the two and grabbing them to pull them away from the edge. He let the rest of the cliff tumble towards the abyss. Yamato checked Kaida, her pulse was distressingly slow, if they didn't get her to a trained medic professional in the next 5 hours she would be dead, they could reach there destination by then, if they ran all the way there, but the question was could Keiji and Zaki keep up. Yamato looked around a thought came to him "Where's Zaki?"

Keiji was frantically trying to move toward the falling edge. "SHE FELL; WE GOT TO GO GET HER SHE FELL!" He cried almost throwing himself after the crumbled pieces of earth. Yamato grabbed his collar and slammed him into the ground.

"We can't help her, Kaida's in critical condition, and you lost a lot of blood. If we don't get Kaida to a hospital she'll die too!" Yamato felt heartless saying those words; he didn't know why as a Anbu captain he wasn't nearly so stressed if a team mate died. But these weren't just team mates these were HIS GENNINS. He had to do what he could.

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Adara dodged the Kunia's and rolled behind the training log. WHAT THE HELL! She thought to herself, she didn't have enough chakra to do this. She couldn't see the person who was attacking her; she defiantly didn't have enough chakra to do this. She sensed the chakra again to see if she could place it, god dam it, it was so familure. She couldn't place it. Taking out the smoke bomb and lighting it, she needed distraction. Going out the smoke at a North West angle, the attacker attacked from the north, if they had been studying her for the past 7 minuets they would probably assume that she would come at them directly. Throwing 3 smoke bombs to the south making it look like she was trying to escape rather then fight would hopefully confuse who ever was attacking her.

Adara was slammed into a tree and hands were on her neck. She looked up on the attacker, he wasn't familure. "Your brother thinks he's so smart doesn't he!" The man demanded, once the man talked Adara Recognized him, he was the man who had almost caught them at the file room. She started trying to struggle against him in retaliation he started to crush her windpipe.

"I don't know what you're talking about." She lied; the pressure increased.

"Of course you don't, you are just a Gennin, but I don't care if you understand what I'm saying," The man's slick voice pored over her like malaises, to sweet for its own good. "I want you to tell your brother about this, tell him I know what he's doing and I'll stop him at any cost, and if he so much as mentions what he stole to that pathetic excuse of a person called jinchurrikun, I'll kill you. He's not afraid for his own life; he knows how to handle himself." Adara could barely breathe any more; her thoughts started getting blurry too. "But when his poor little sister might be at stake he loses it. Why do you think he punched your sensei?"

No, No Shikimaru shouldn't be subjected to what ever mistake she had made. But this man wouldn't believe her if she told him the truth. She couldn't get his hands off of her neck by force; he was too strong for her. Collecting up her saliva Adara looked the man right into his ugly eyes, "You make one mistake," She then hawked a luggie right in his face, "I'm not that easily intimidated." The roots member was taken by surprise, he let her go. Taking this advantage Adara crouched down and pulled out a kunai of her own she cut through the tendons in his knee, making him fall over. She knew in a real fight she wouldn't be able to win in a fight, her only choice is to flee. Adara started running towards home as quick as possible. But she wasn't running quick enough; one kunai nailed her right in the shoulder.

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Keiji was getting angry; he could feel it coming on, finally. It might have just been loss of blood but his berserker was coming on, and it was aimed right towards Yamato sensei. How could he just leave Zaki here? Yamato sensei was still hurriedly patching up Keiji. It had only been 2 minuets since he decided to not look for Zaki, but he did decide that he was going to patch up Keiji before hand, it was a crude patch even Keiji could tell. But every 2 stitches or so he went to go check on Kaida, "I'm finished, it's really bad and it wont last longer then a day, but if we start moving now, we can get both you two to the hospital. I'll carry the twins and Takashi, you carry Kaida." Yamato ordered. Keiji growled, the rushed Jounin stopped in his track that wasn't a good sign.

"We have to go find Zaki!" Growled Keiji he pushed Yamato. Yamato slammed him into the grown.

"Listen here Keiji, I know what happening, but you have to stop it and help me with Kaida. Zaki made her choice; she wouldn't want you to risk Kaida's life for hers." Yamato told him. And just like that the pain returned and Keiji knew what he had to do. He was ashamed of himself for loosing control.

"Give me Kaida." He told his Jounin. Yamato looked at the male nanny who had remained quit and had been watching for anything that might attack the basket the twins where in. Yamato strapped the baskets onto his back and carried Takashi in a firefighters pose. Keiji did the same with Kaida.

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Sylvia sat in wait in her bedroom thinking everything over. Charles was nice, he wasn't, and well he didn't exceptionally love. But he tried, he always made sure she was well provided for and she got what ever she wanted. He seemed too really to care for her. He was handsome too; his dark hair wavy hair and ice blue eyes would have any girl melt. He was distinguished and very graceful. There was so much to love about Charles, but Sylvia just couldn't. She went through all the things that made Charles a perfect man, but he was just so, well he wasn't who she wanted. The daimyo's daughter felt dismayed that she had fallen for a poor commoner, not just the fact that he was poor, but the fact he was help. A nanny for goodness sake! A very unmanly profession, And he wore that stupid cowboy hat every where. He didn't know even know how to ride a horse! How ridiculous is that. He was average looking and nothing special. That was a lie, Takashi was very special to her, and if he were here right now she would be flinging herself into his arms begging him to elope with her. But he had been sent away by father; Sylvia didn't understand why her father felt the need to have the twins go to Konoha on such short notice. The door opened behind her it was one of her maids. "Time to get ready miss." The words hung on Sylvia's heart like irons.

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Adara got the first aid kit out of the kitchen cabinet. She had seen her mother do this enough to know how, it just was a lot harder doing it yourself. Adara got the needle out and started to try to thread it. Her brother came stomping in, his eyes widened in alarm as he saw her; in response Adara rolled her eyes, "training accident dumb ass!' She said.

"Why didn't you get somebody else to patch it up?" He asked his voice high with anxiety.

"You've seemed to have had a rough day," Adara noted, purposely avoiding the question, the urgency to rub her nose was absolutely horrible.

"Well I was having a fine day until I came in and saw my little sister, with a kunai in her arm! And that's a deep cut do you need to go to the hospital?!" Shikimaru asked.

Adara made sure not to rub her nose, "it was a training accident, sensei said it wasn't that bad of a wound, plus its good training for when we are out on missions and no medic is near by to cure us, we need to know how to do simple stuff like taking kunia's out of our arm." That sounded like Neji, and sure as punch Shikimaru believed her. "And don't go punching him again, seriously, I saw the bruise and it makes him act weird around me. So just act as though nothing happening." Finally taking one deep breath Adara took out the kunai and the blood started to rush out. Shikimaru went to stop it, but didn't cause of Adara's glare. "I can handle this, thanks for the thought though." She could see that Shikimaru was chilled from her voice.

"Fine god, I won't get into trouble for getting the kitchen bloody then." Shikimaru left the kitchen. Another body entered the front door, judging by the plop of the shoes it was dad.

"Hey dad," Shikimaru said from the living room.

"We still have cake from the other day?" Her father responded.

"In the kitchen." Was the response. Adara started stitching the wound together, before her father could even ask what had happen, she finished his sentence. "Training accident, everything is ok." She snapped. She hadn't looked her dad in the face yet.

"Why are you doing it by yourself?" He asked. "When your BROTHER! Is in the next room," That was meant to be a hint to Shikimaru to help me.

"Because my sensei wants us to learn how to do it ourselves." Adara clenched her teeth, her agitation with the two men in her family could only grow to so much before she snapped.

"How'd it happen?" Her father asked.

"I told you training accident."

"How did the accident happen?" Her father clarified.

"I was sparing with a friend and didn't dodge it in time."

"Was it Keiji? He's the one who did this to you wasn't he?" Her father accused. Adara looked like she had just been slapped.

After a long pause of Adara glaring at her father in disbelief she swallowed what she actually wanted to say and said something else. "First of all Keiji's off on a mission, he's not even in Konoha. But you wouldn't know that cause you never listen to me." Adara stated, she was so sick of her dad always putting Keiji down. "And second of all, I resent the fact that you automatically assume its Keiji that screws up. You're more likely to stab me with a kunai then Keiji is. And just because he's not the brightest and doesn't get things as fast as you doesn't mean you can look down on him. Keiji works to be as good as he is, UN like some people in this family, some people have to actually work to get things, and it doesn't make them worse of a person." Adara seethed, her father looked confused and was probably going to give an ignorant reply that would just piss her off more. "You know what I'm going up stairs to my room; I don't want to be disturbed."

As Adara marched up the stairs one thought crossed her mind, she was in way over her head.

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They had arrived at their destination in 3 hours which was amazing, but after Keiji had given Kaida to a nurse to be helped he collapsed of exestuation, Yamato put Takashi down and let the twins out of the box.

"What just happened Takashi?" Screamed the girl, she was crying as she rushed into the male nanny's arms. The little boy Sasuke came out and did the same thing as his sister. Takashi hung on to the twins like they were oxygen.

"Oh little ones," He murmured softly as he kissed their cheeks. Takashi then looked at Yamato "thank you, I'm so sorry, but thank you. I should have never, I shouldn't have asked to go the gorge rout I had no idea Charles wanted us dead." Takashi was about to go on, but Yamato stopped him and sat down.

"Wake me up when the doctors come to tell news of the two." Yamato said as he sank into an uncomfortable waiting chair and closed his eyes.

"But Takashi weren't there supposed to be 3 Gennin?" Suike asked. Takashi shushed her quickly. The last thing Yamato thought was that he was in way over his head.

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Hey everyone, I'm sorry it took so long, its jut I wanted to get this one just right. I know I downplayed Yamato's ability a little, but it was for story purposes I apologies. I would like a lot of feed back on this chapter because it's a turning point in the series. I hope you have enjoyed this chapter as much as I had fun writing it. :D