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YuPoV

"Yuri, report." was Pein's greeting.

"The mission was a failure. Kakuzu and Hidan are dead. I myself am captured by the Konoha ninja we ran into. Apparently it was the team Kakuzu and Hidan encountered before lead by Hatake Kakashi."

"Get out of there as soon as you get the chance. I got a mission for you and Deidara." He ordered me.

"I am afraid that I won't be able to. They offered me a job which might make me happy for once in my life." I told him.

"Then I will hunt you down for no one leaves the Akatsuki alive." He said. He seemed angry with me. Shit if he finds me while I am in Konoha, then Shino will be in grave danger. the others I used to care about might too but I could care less unless it was Naruto.

"Wait, what if I became your personal spy. Not Akatsuki's, not that person you seem to follow orders from, but yours." I said successfully hiding my emotions for once.

"That could work. I will send someone with details." He said and the burning feeling left my thumb. Phew. At least that will keep Shino safe, though I would have to keep it a secret of course and if he ever forgives me.

RyutaroPoV

That girl. I despise her so much. Now she goes and leaves Akatsuki, only to get a mission from Pein. She seems to be wanting to keep the leaf village safe for some reason. Not for just the Jinchuuriki but something different. When I deliver the mission, I will find out about it. I don't care much for the Akatsuki, I just know it will be a useful organisation to me. Now, to deliver the mission.

It took me three days to get to the land of Fire. I killed the annoying guards without a sweat and moved on. I couldn't move too quick otherwise I might catch up to the girl. Suddenly I almost stumbled upon a team of Yuri's age. One was clearly Hyuuga. They were talking about something mindless when I heard Yuri's name.

"Did you hear the news? Yuri has returned. Apparently she has delivered some more intel about Akatsuki and Orochimaru. and now she has the same job as Jiraiya. It never was hatred that caused her to leave all the time, but just the nature of a tiger to travel." the Hyuuga said. So she has been spying on us all along. Now I definitely have a reason to kill her.

"How do you think Shino will react when he sees her? I mean she left him almost like Sasuke left Sakura and she sent just a clone to break up." The girl asked.

"I don't know. Kiba had said that she seemed to be hurting before the clone disappeared. I think that she did it to protect him and that she didn't want people to associate the Aburame clan's heir with a criminal, making them look bad." He answered.

"We are in luck that Gaara wasn't offended by Yuri's words and note." a weird boy with a bowl-cut said.

"He forgave her when she visited him and she gave him some intel too. That is what Naruto said at least." The Jounin that was with them said. He looked the same as the weird boy. They led me straight to the village. The Hyuuga and the jounin were going to report. the other two left for dinner. At least I know more about the girl and who she is protecting. I disguised myself and walked right into the village as the gatekeepers were sleeping. I paid for a room in the inn and went to look for the girl. After overhearing a few conversations, I got that she was taken in for interrogation. That was something I couldn't prevent. I could make sure she didn't tell too much. Quickly I infiltrated the headquarters of the Hokage and went down to the interrogation office.

There the girl was she was surrounded by three ninja. a bald guy was doing the talking, one with long hair was doing some sort of jutsu on the girl and the woman was using some sort of poison on the girl. the girl was talking about all the ability's she knew each of us had. She seemed quite tired. Soon the bald man said they had enough for the day. The woman put the antidote in the girl and Yuri was taken to her cell. I followed them and found the cell.

"Yuri." She looked up. Her eyes widened in fear but not fear for herself.

"W-what are you doing here?" She asked.

"I have come to deliver your mission from Leader. Though if he hears that you were spilling all the secrets of the organization, I think he won't mind it if I kill you." I said. I kept an 'eye' out to make sure no one was listening.

"Don't tell him. He doesn't need to know. I am working for him too." She said.

"Fine, I won't tell him but I will kill someone dear to you if you don't stop spilling the secrets of Akatsuki. Maybe Hatake or even what was his name.. Oh yes, Shino." Her eyes started to water in fear. She shook her head. "You know what to do so I won't kill him. I will be watching you." I warned her one last time and teleported to my room. This would be interesting. I would need to seek a possibility to stay here to be able to keep an eye on her. I would also need to find that Shino guy.

"Who are you?" someone said. I turned around. It was Hatake with the bowl-cut haired guy I saw earlier. Crap.

I flung my arms in the air and ran. "AAAAAHHHH!" They followed me. I would have to fight them then.

YuPoV

Damn it. Ryutaro is ruining my plans. He never said what would happen if I said anything to the interrogators about him though. I slept after the heavy interrogation. I had managed to tell only about Itachi, Kisame and Deidara's abilities. I had seen Konan fight once with Kakuzu and Pein with Kisame but I didn't know the names of their abilities. I laid on my cot thinking, remembering everything and planning things ahead. They would probably execute me.

"What do you want?" I demanded to know. The ANBU appeared.

"You have a visitor. Move to the middle of your cell with your hands in front of you where I can see them." He said

I turned around on my side my back facing him. "Tell them to leave. I don't want to see anyone." I said. The ANBU disappeared. Another signature appeared. It was the last person I wanted to see right now.

"I thought I said I didn't want to see anyone. That includes you. Especially you." I said not turning to face him.

"Why not? Are you feeling humiliated about your situation?" He asked.

"No. Why are you here?" I asked him.

"Because I want to know something." His answer was calm and quiet.

"What is it? I already told Ibiki all Konoha needs to know." I said getting annoyed.

"I want to know why. Why did you feel it necessary to leave, why did you want to be a missing nin. I don't believe what you said back then. I still hoped that it was just a nightmare. That I would wake up, finding you somewhere training with your team-mates. That you would be still a Konoha ninja, who went on a mission." He said. The tone in his voice changing as he let his emotions show.

"I was getting tired of picking sides all the time. When I lost my whole family, I just exploded with anger at myself for not protecting them better and hatred at those that killed them in the first place. I don't want to fight so many people I care for anymore. I even considered quitting as a ninja. Kakashi has the answers you are looking for. Once I am punished as much as they deem necessary, I am going on a life long mission. I will be travelling with Jiraiya for a while until I have taken his contacts over and then I will become the intel gatherer for Konoha and her allies." I said turning so my back was facing him.

"Then if you get tired of that, why did you break up with me? I would've waited for your return. I could've slept calmer knowing you would come back to me. Now I had nightmares of you killing our friends and then you killed me." How could he have the same nightmares I had? I would need to read all the information about my clan.

I turned to face him again letting one tear escape. "I never meant to hurt you so much. I had to leave you in order to protect you. I have made many horrible enemies during the times I was gone. Orochimaru, Kabuto and Akatsuki are only a few. I also didn't want you to be associated with a missing nin. I didn't want you to be known as the Aburame that is in a relationship with a missing ninja. It would make your clan upset with you. I didn't want that for you." I answered my voice shaking with sadness. He didn't say anything but just stared at me. Then he left with a soft "thank you." It made me relieved that he wasn't as angry with me as I thought he would be.

The next week I have had visits from Shino everyday. He asked me what I did and he got me updated on the happenings in the village. Slowly we became friends again. The second week I started to get visits from his team. The first one was Kiba. He didn't forgive me for what I did to Shino even with my explanation though he said he just needed time. Hinata said that she understood my reasoning for why I had to break up with Shino she would have done the same for Naruto. I noted that she had lost a little of her stutter. The interrogation had stopped after the first week was over. Tsunade had come twice. Once to inform me about my punishment and once to question me about my loyalty.

"Who has your loyalty, Yuri?" She asked.

"Konoha. Otherwise I would've escaped already or harmed any of the Konoha eleven enough to kill them. I found within the first day fifty ways to escape undetected." She left mumbling about "prodigies and generation with too many geniuses."

The third week I was put in a less heavier guarded cell. I also had more visits from my own team, Shino and later I had a visit from Naruto. He asked me the same things I told Shino.

Flashback

I was sitting against the bars of my cell humming a song while practising my puppetry skills. I had made small puppets from wood at the crafting room. I made the puppets dance on the song when a shadow appeared. I ignored it and kept humming. "Yuri, why did you do the same thing Sasuke did? Why did you leave to get stronger for revenge? You know that that doesn't get you your family back."

"I know." I answered calmly not stopping my dancing puppets.

"Then why did you leave too? Why does everyone I care for as a brother/sister leave me?" He asked.

"I did it to protect you and all my other loved ones I had left. When my father and Deidara caught Gaara, I realised I would never be able to win a fight because I didn't have enough control over my cursed seal and because I just wasn't strong enough. When Sasori died, That fact was made crystal clear. I loved my father very much and that I wasn't strong enough to win a fight from Sakura and Chiyo protecting him, was like a kick in the balls as you guys say." I said.

"What about Shino? You should have seen how he was the first few days after you left him. He worked very hard taking mission after mission and training non-stop. Only Kiba and Hinata were able to get him to rest for a while and only when they acted like you were just on a mission and that you would be sad if he got hospitalised." Naruto said. Shino never told me this much. It made me sad that he was acting like we never broke up. like nothing happened

"I never meant to hurt him so much. I had to leave you all in order to protect you. I have made many horrible enemies during the times I was gone. Orochimaru, Kabuto and Akatsuki are only a few. I also didn't want him to be associated with a missing nin. I didn't want Shino to be known as the Aburame that is in a relationship with a missing ninja. It would make his clan upset with him. I didn't want that." I explained while a few tears escaped my eyes. Naruto sighed after saying nothing just watching as my puppets fell because I stopped controlling him. He wrapped his arms around me through the bars. I put my head against the bars and he let his head rest on top of mine.

"Oh, Yuri. All you need is help from us to fight. We can help you and Shino can fight very well by himself too. You just have to realize that you don't need to do all the fighting and protecting on your own. That is what friends are for. To look after each other." His words were soft.

"Can you help me learn to be friends again? I do miss it a lot but I just never wanted to hurt anyone by my actions. I also lost trust in people." I asked.

"I promise I'll help you"

End Flashback

That was also two weeks ago and today I would be a free girl again. My teachers had come and I hadn't heard from Ryutaro again. I did tell Tsunade about him though I didn't tell her about his abilities. She promised that she would make sure that Ryutaro wouldn't be able to harm anyone.

"stand in in the middle of the cell." an ANBU said. I did as told and put my hands in front of me. They put chakra absorbing handcuffs on me and I was taken out of prison. Then we transported to the courtroom where I had to stand before the council for my final trial. The village elders seemed to be unhappy Shizune smiled encouragingly and Tsunade looked emotionless.

Danzou spoke "Let's begin shall we?"