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Tsunade began. "Azura Yuri, age sixteen, has been held in prison for five weeks for the following crimes. Defecting from the village Hidden in the Leaves, joining several enemies of the village, attacking the Kazekage and several teams from the village hidden in the leaves. Her punishment was two moths in prison. However, Yuri has given us some sensitive intel about the enemy without a fight."

"Attacking a Kage is a serious issue. lowering the punishment would show that we can't be taken serious. That's not what we want." Homura said.

"We have seen the video of her behaviour. I have no reason to not let her go. She has been behaving very well. Even when her friends visited her when you thought she would be attacking them." Tsunade said.

"I have not seen such evidence. Show me right now." Danzou said. A screen appeared and on it was Shino's first visit. Everything we said and did was shown. Next were the others and finally it was Naruto's visit. "Are you crazy? letting the Kyuubi go to a member of the organisation that is after it?"

"Naruto is not a demon! He is a person with as much right to see a friend as the others." I said along with Tsunade.

"let's move on. "We have reports of fight with the suspect and they all say that the suspect did not do serious attacks. In fact she left most of our ninja unscathed." Koharu explained the maps that were laying on the evidence table.

"I want to see witnesses. Someone who can declare that those reports are filled in honesty." Homura complained. He was so annoying.

"Then I call forth Nara Shikamaru." Danzou called. Shikamaru came forward. I hadn't noticed the crowd before he did. I looked behind me and was pleasantly surprised to see all of Konoha Eleven and even Gaara was here, each sensei I had was here too. Naruto was here too. He smiled at me reassuringly when he saw me looking.

I had missed Shikamaru's oath of truth and he sat in the questioning chair.

"Nara Shikamaru, how long have you known the criminal known as Azura Yuri?" Homura asked.

"I have known her since I was four. She always played along with the boys because she was bullied by girld from our age except Hyuuga Hinata."

"Do you have any idea when Yuri's hatred for the village began?"

"I suspect that it never was true hatred but more feeling anger at certain people in the village. Yuri isn't really capable of truly hating anyone." He said

"That is not exactly true. she has tried to severely wound Haruno Sakura and the Kazekage after the latter returned to life." Danzou said.

"That wasn't because of hatred. It was out of grief for the loss of her entire family and anger at herself for not being able to protect the Kazekage and her father. and out of love for her father she wished for revenge though her heart was never in it. Yuri merely chose to ignore the fact that it was because of Akatsuki's goal that got her loved once killed." Shikamaru yawned after he said all that.

"I want to call forth Lord Kazekage." Tsunade called.

Gaara traded places with Shikamaru. He did the oath thing and Tsunade began.

"Lord Kazekage, how and when have you met Azura Yuri?" She asked. I remembered that day.

"Yuri was brought in by an ANBU guard when she was seven. She was found near my Village after she was bullied by classmates. My late father introduced Temari, my sister to her as she was to stay with us until someone came to pick her up. Yuri met me stopping me from severely damaging a few children for I was losing control of my emotions. She has taught me a few things that helped me make me the young man I am now."

"Thank you, How strong is the relationship you have with Yuri after all the recent events happening?" She asked him.

"It hurt me that she felt the need to join the enemy that got me killed, though I can understand why she thinks it necessary to get stronger. We are still friends though. I just wish that she knew she could've asked me for help." He answered.

"We have read a report you sent us of Yuri attacking a landlord along with three other Akatsuki members. Can you tell us what happened?" Koharu asked.

"The lord in question had been foolish and declared he had sensitive intel about Akatsuki. He has been boasting around that he would be the one to wipe out the organization. I had come along with my siblings to find out how important that intel truly was when we were alarmed that Akatsuki had come to teach him a lesson. The members who attacked were Hoshigaki Kisame and his partner Uchiha Itachi, Deidara and Azura Yuri who had become known as Silent Tigress. Yuri had played with my brother killing all the ninja that were at her part while Uchiha went for the intel. My sister and I assisted Kankuro. At first I couldn't believe that it was Yuri but soon I believed it. We actually stood no chance with the speed Yuri used. She knew our weaknesses too. She could've killed us easily but she merely knocked us out after telling me to tell Konoha to declare her a missing nin. Then her parting words were thank you and I was out cold."

I regretted that fight but only because I had to hurt them. I tuned out the rest of the questioning. "I call forth Azura Yuri." Tsunade said suddenly.

When I walked forward, I saw a clay spin falling near Tsunade. I dived for it and threw it as high as possible. Then we saw Deidara flying on his bird. I jumped on the roof and then on the bird using Tora.

"Deidara why are you here?"

"Orders from leader and I didn't want you to get executed." He answered. I saw he wasn't wearing the cloak.

"I wasn't going to get executed. I was in trial to see if I needed to be held prison longer or not." I said. He seemed annoyed with this.

"That damn Ryutaro. He sent wrong information."

"Deidara why are you with Akatsuki anyway?"

"They want peace and they let me blow things up. Why?"

"They want to create peace by using the bijuu instilling fear in people's hearts. That is not true peace. What would you think of it, if we defected from Akatsuki and just be loyal to ourselves. Just you and me against the world. You would still be able to blow things up, and you wouldn't have to put up with Tobi or Ryutaro."

"I don't know. I have to think about it."

"Well I'll hear from you later then. Goodbye." I hugged him sticking an exploding tag, I stole from Kakashi's weapon-pouch, on his back. Jumping off of the bird, I did one hand-sign. "Boom." and the clone exploded.

"Well I believe we have seen enough. Congratulations Yuri, You are a free young woman again. We do want to keep an eye on you though so you will be kept in the village for a few months you will be helping out at the academy, and you will be guarded by ANBU 24/7." Tsunade had decided. I had the feeling that that would be the conclusion of the trial anyway. I couldn't answer because the handcuffs burned my wrists when I used some chakra. Which hurt like hell. Kakashi took the handcuffs off and healed my wrists while I sniffed just a little because it hurt so much and I was happy I didn't have to be in jail anymore. When Kakashi was done he wrapped his arms around me.

"I am proud of you." He said. I looked up shocked that he would say that. All I ever wanted was to make someone proud of me. First it was my adoptive family and Kakashi, then it changed to my father. When he died I was lost for a while. I had no idea on what to do so I decided to use Sasuke as an example.
I was surrounded by my friends who said they were happy for me or congratulated me with getting out sooner. The girls hugged me except for Sakura. which I didn't mind at all.

"I object! Did we all forget that she tried to kill me several times and she helped with the death of Lady Chiyo!" Sakura yelled. I did regret Chiyo's death because she was still family. I didn't regret Sakura's injuries that I caused.

"Sakura, I don't know why you hate Yuri, but I know that I do understand why she hates you. From when you two met at school, you have bullied and beaten her up a lot. Then you killed her father so really I understand why she did what she did." Naruto said annoyed with his team-mate. Hinata looked at him with pride in her eyes.

"Yuri, I want to see you in my office tomorrow morning eight o'clock sharp. Sakura. Office. Now." Tsunade commanded. Pinky smirked arrogantly probably thinking that she would get away with everything because she was Tsunade's apprentice. I smirked back using Deidara's smirk knowing that she would be in for a surprise.

Gaara and his escort had to leave again so I walked with him to the gates. "How are you feeling about all this?" He asked

"I feel emotionally drained. I just want to sleep for a while. All the worry about the village feels like a mountain on my shoulders." I answered him softly. At the gates we shook hands. "Thank you Gaara. For being there." I said.

"No need to thank me. We are friends. That's what friends do." He said to that. Then they disappeared. I stared after them before going home.

Ugh, I didn't want to stay at my compound. It was so empty and sad looking. Tomorrow I had to meet Tsunade, Iruka and was invited for lunch by team eight. I skipped dinner and went straight to bed. As soon as my head hit the pillow, I slept.

The next morning...

I woke up at six am and did my morning routine. At seven I worked out for a bit nothing too heavy because I didn't want to smell too bad when I got to Tsunade. Soon it was time for the meeting. I walked to the Kage tower when I bumped into Ryutaro. Crap.

"I heard you have been talking about me. I will kill you for that." He said preparing a jutsu. I ran to him and did transportation so we would fight outside the village. The ANBU that was supposed to guard me left. probably to warn Tsunade. Stupid guard.

Ryutaro began with 'summoning' the dragons on his back. The four of them appeared as threatening as the last time. I had to rely on my jutsu and my animals because I didn't have enough weapons.

I began with "exploding water colliding wave."

He countered with a lightning jutsu I didn't know. I had to let my jutsu go otherwise I would've been burned and electrocuted. I let Shadow lead the lightning into the ground. Ryuataro's dragons all prepared an attack on me. "Great fireball jutsu!" Shit. My water jutsu weren't fast enough. earth jutsu was even slower. Jaws was my savior as he swam into the fireball dissolving it. Soon after a water attack. which hit us both. "Waterbullet technique." I countered with lightning hound. Then I charged with each of my animals to use taijutsu. Before I could hit Ryutaro, he tackled me and soon his dragons had another attack ready. I tried to get away but he was just too strong. He was squeezing my throat. I gave up ready to die when...

"Rasengan!" Naruto attacked. The dragons lost control of their attacks because they were surprised, and they set Ryutaro's hair on fire. He jumped off of me smacking his head trying to put the fire out. The shock of almost dying sunk in and I couldn't move for a while. Ryutaro left using transportation jutsu. I still lied on the ground gasping for air. Kakashi helped me up. I stood but my knees where still weak. Once I could stand by myself, Kakashi let go and I told him what happened. Then I saw I was a little late for my appointment with Tsunade so I transported into her office.

"I apologize for being late, I was interrupted on my way here." She nodded knowingly.

"Yuri, tell me about what is going on between you and Sakura." She said

"From the day we met in school twelve years ago, she thought I was a freak because I didn't have a family, I didn't become a Sasuke fangirl and because I preferred to wrestle with the boys instead of playing with dolls with the girls. I think it's just a little jealousy that I did get acknowledged by the guys she likes. I never liked her that much either but I never went out of my way to make that clear. I did kind of beat someone up because he called her names though she never knew that. When I left with Sasuke she was even more jealous. Ever since she killed my father she doesn't really exist anymore for me. I do admit I tried to kill her a few times but after a while I just didn't find her worth the trouble I would have to go through. I'm just feeling tired of everything that's happening to me and because of me." I explained

"Then what do you want? We do still need you as a kunoichi of the village."

"I know, it's just that I want some peace for a while. My clan's ability of making extracting the bijuu non-lethal is pretty useless now since I don't have anyone to train me in that stuff. I have searched my compound and found nothing about that ability either."

"So you want to take a holiday. Is that it?" I nodded.

"Of course when my abilities are needed I am still available but only when it's truly necessary." I said.

"Then what will you be doing for the rest of the time?"

"For the first few days nothing important. Reading, studying my clan's traditions and history. Later I think of becoming a teacher at the Academy." I said.

"I see. Let me take a look at the possibilities and I call for you when I found a solution. Dismissed." I left through the door.