AN.

First off, I just want to say THANK YOU FOR THE FAVES, FOLLOWS AND REVIEWS.

Like, I know it ain't much compared to some but it means a lot to me. I feel very honored that there are some people out there that take time to type in theories about this fic, typed in what they thought about it and typed in what they felt in a chapter. It's very humbling and always makes me feel very giddy.

WARNING: Same things as last time, dark humor, violence etc. etc. OH AND MAJOR TIME SKIP! I glazed through her life with Soma and Taizo so we can finally experience more plot.

Tokina: 8 (Because her birthday is at December)

Obito's Batch (Kakashi, Rin, Gai etc.): 9

Tokuma: 2

Those are the important ages. Anyway, enjoy.

"Hey, baby!"

"Blay Bvwayvve!"

"Say, Tokina!"

"Rokwinba!"

"To-ki-na!"

"Ro-kwin-ba!"

I pouted at the rebellious little shit in front of me. two year old and already not following orders from his big sister! They grow up so fast! Sometimes, I wish he didn't. That would mean that he had to undergo the whole "activate your Byakugan" thing which I now learned that there was some kind of genjutsu when you take the test to draw out all your negative energy. I didn't know the details but looking back at it, it did seem a tad bit strange that I took my dad's pain too personal. I would now but before? The best I could do is beg Mr. Clan Leader to ease up on the cluster-headache. Tokuma, the little angel he is who is unaware of his big sister's dark reminiscing, poked my nose and giggled, which made me giggle and that enticed my mom, who was teaching Rin something, to giggle as well. It brightened up the room considerably. Rin smiled at our antics but remained silent, absorbing the information like a sponge. He crawled up to my lap and stared wide eyed at Obito.

"How 'bout me, Tokuma? Say, Obito!"

"Obwibwi!"

"Oh-bi-to!"

"Obwibwi!"

The Uchiha sighed and scratched his head irritably while the little bundle of sunshine on my lap tugged my home Yukata like it was the best thing in the world. I squealed at his cuteness, ushering a weird look from Obito while I glomped my baby brother who was enjoying my affection. "Akane-san, you might want to get a refund. Your baby is broken."

"Nonsense, Obito. He just does not like you, isn't that right, little Tokuma-chan?" My mom raised her head while healing the fish, paying it no mind like the show-off professional medic-nin she was. Rin widened her eyes, noticing this was no small feat but continued to remain silent.

"I was actually talking about Veggie-chan." Obito smirked at me. Seriously, he's eight and I'm seven now. The least he could do is mature. Call me insensitive but I personally believe that it doesn't take ten-ton boulders and a life or death situation to at least give yourself a better sense of humor. Nick names? Honey, when you were my age, you'd be insulting someone's mother, grandmother and the umbilical cord that her mother's grandmother was connected to.

I mocked gasped and covered Tokuma's ears even though my planned response wasn't so PG-13 either. "Obito, I think you should leave. You're being a bad influence to Kuma-kun."

He rolled his eyes and kidnapped the baby from me with speed I didn't know he had. "Bad influence? Me?! I'm the best-est most kind-est older brother ever! At least I use his name instead of some lame pet name. A man needs his dignity!" Obito puffed up his none-existent chest and raised his nose haughtily. "Isn't that right, Tokuma-kun?"

"Obutto! Obutto!"

I snickered, earning an unjustified glare from the 'Obutto.' "Very good, Kuma-kun!"

Our fist missions as Team Soma? It was success and a tiny bit easy. Retrieve that, steal that, and assassinate this. It was like they were treating us like back up ANBU. We got pretty familiar with our techniques and fighting styles, as well as making strategies and formations using Mind Body Possession, Sharingan genjutsu and Snakes and Butterflies (since taijutsu was noisy). It's been a full year since we were thrown into the blender known as "team selection" and out came this mess.

We were a very successful team, three clan members that didn't seem to have synergy with each other somehow made it work. Sure, there were close calls and some situations we could have avoided but we were humans, we made mistakes. I didn't have the strength to do most stuff a ninja should be capable of, Taizo didn't have the sharp wits to make a plan and Soma didn't have the creativity to make an operation that didn't involve explosives, silent or otherwise. Yes, that's right; the Sharingan can make silent explosions. Add that to the top ten reasons why Orochimaru is justified in being an Uchiha pedophile.

But when a team with a genin didn't seem to make as many mistakes compared to others, the Hokage just said fuck it and promoted me to Chunin.

Chunin at age eight,

Very, very underwhelming,

Apparently, it wasn't an uncommon practice to promote capable genin to become chunin. The anime portrayed the whole thing like a job opportunity. It wasn't mandatory, you could decline or accept. But in the anime, there wasn't a goddamn war. Most of the genins I fought in the chunin exams were chunin now, by the way. Men (and women, I have to represent somehow) are a dwindling resource that we cannot afford to expend these days. With the new addition of Kiri joining the fray, the Hokage needs all the little soldiers he can get.

I had experience under my belt, I was mentored under one of the Sanin and has his summon to prove it, I belong to a prestigious clan and I know basic medical-ninjutsu. Call me a narcissist but I was the textbook example of when to promote someone to chunin at a young age. What they didn't know is that I had a lot of baggage that would put S-Rank ANBU to shame, I'm probably a little bit crazy and I really don't like this village.

But hey, this is mandatory. What are you going to do about it? Become Hokage and change the system?

Yeah right! I'm not a boy. The genre is called "shounen" for a reason.

So why the fuck am I not in the kitchen making a sandwich for the superior gender?

Hell, if I knew.

My promotion ushered a new clusterfuck of problems, though. Like this suicidal mission he shoved down our throats.

A fucking A-Rank into the depths of Kiri.

You know, the rank were failure was not an option and refusing was a great dishonor?

Why?

Konoha needed to confirm if "hey were actually going to join Iwa just because we took the majority of their clan members they DIDN'T EVEN WANT! Oh, and maybe some top-secret plans and files here and there if we're feeling frisky. Oh, no biggie, we'll just invite ourselves in. Thank you for your consideration. Love, Konoha."

Konoha is getting desperate, relying on us to get results.

The war is taking its obvious toll on us. On Konoha, rather. I wasn't sure if this was canon or not because I sure as hell knew that there were no Ice Release users in the anime in Konoha's side. The streets weren't as happy and energetic as they used to be. Rin and Obito told me that the academy is putting them in a lot of pressure, that when they graduate, they'll either be high genin or low chunin when they get out. I didn't know what kind of training they were getting into but it probably broke the "Right to relax" right we had going on. Pfff, like we ever use that right to defend ourselves.

We ran back to the familiar Land of Mud. When we got there, we hid and schemed for a way to get into Kiri unnoticed which was hard because they were on an island.

Which required a lot of chakra just to walk there,

Which we needed if we wanted to stay there and live,

We laid low in one of the local inns, the war making the poverty ridden town look even more of a sorry excuse of a village. It was tense, windows shut, doors locked and it reeked "Go away or I will stab you."

It was generally uninviting to guests and tourists.

We began navigating through the village, finding schedules for fishing boats, maybe a few ferries for supplies here and there but no, Kiri was inaccessible unless you had Hirashin, Kamui or some other hax Time-Space Ninjutsu like reverse summoning.

Which Soma did not approve of because we were literally volunteering to go inside enemy lines. It was understandable. I only suggested it to save face if he was going to tease us about it after the mission. So we were stumped into getting into Kiri that day.

So we did what Soma trained is for.

Patience, stealth and information gathering. We needed a way and we can't just bail on this mission despite my wanting to pass it to someone more responsible. I didn't know what would happen if we deny a S-rank mission but I know its along the lines of "dishonor, black-listed, public shame despite it being a private mission and a pay-cut." We might stumble upon secret documents or plans or any other missive. We just needed a confirmation that Kiri does not want to be friends and we can wage war with them however we see fit. If they wanted to try and kill us then...

Please don't.

I've got so much to live for, even with all this war and bullshit. I have two best friends who I want to protect, a baby brother who I want to see grow up and charm women and a mother who I thought I lost once which I deeply love to go back home to. So I had to kill a few people? I'll kill anyone if they want to mess with them.

I know, what a drastic change from the girl that didn't want to stab anybody. Well, this was war and even if Orochimaru was the worst person in this universe he did teach me one thing. "Dead weight is a dead person. Be useless for an entire lifetime but know that you have the potential of power if you live." It was one of the things that stuck to me. I imprinted myself on my family which was selfish of me. I didn't know if I saw them as people anymore but as objects I wanted to keep and come home to so I had an excuse to live. If I thought about it too hard, it makes me feel bad and scummy which I probably am but in this line of work, you can't afford to not have the will to live.

Just a few reservations and guilt trips and maybe some prescription Anti-Depressants sprinkled here and there and I'll make this world a world I can live on.

I curled up next in the dark corner of the boat, the gentle rocking and the waves crashing down the giant tanker making my ears hurt. The general cold and metal atmosphere wasn't doing so well for me, a summoner of reptiles and insects that thrived on the heat and summer. That was the whole reason why I continued to wear this ninja hakama that the Hyūga insits on making me wear. If it was my choice, I'd be a basic bitch and go shorts and thigh high ninja boots. Imagine me, the owner of Tadashi—the most fashionable snake ever—slutting it up and wearing opened toed boots. How repulsive and sickening.

That didn't stop me from my general hate for cold which was a slight shame because I remembered rolling in the bed in absolute bliss when it was raining or when my parents decided to use the Air Conditioner because we were the poor asian family that relied on twenty or more electric fans daily.

Using Soma's handsomeness, charms and of course his Sharingan, we managed to smuggle ourselves in a metal boat that delivered all kinds of shit like supplies to the otherwise stranded Kiri. I remember loving the ocean once upon a time. The gentle breeze and the waves crashing down one another on the sand was one of the memories I hold dear to me since I don't see the tropical life anymore.

I also remembered how I drowned myself to death and my hate of boats.

The gentle rocking…was too gentle.

Road trips are relaxing with its rough ups and downs but boats? The salt and the rocking is just…no.

That did a toll on my enthusiasm which Soma did not approve off. Now he had two students who didn't like water. Taizo inherited his fear of water thanks to the cat contract while I also "inherited" my fear of water because some girlie killed herself all because of some stupid job. Me and Taizo huddled together for warmth and comfort while Soma, being the exasperated but daddy bear he was, protected his exposed and weak children until the sad, sad ordeal was over.

Not the mission, the rocking. He can't protect us from ourselves when we're out in the field. He learned that lesson the hard way in the Land of Hot Springs

"Are we there yet?" Taizo muttered against to me, suffering sea sickness as well. Soma shook his head in displeasure but said nothing. A quick flash from my Byakugan and the distance was revealed to me in a flash.

"Not yet. A few more hours, maybe." I reported with dejection, sick of the swaying of the boat.

Taizo groaned and rest his head on mine. I did the same with his shoulder and closed my eyes. Besides, with my Byakugan, I didn't even need my eyes open to see. I can see through my eye lids anyway. It just require a bunch more chakra than usual. A single butterfly landed on top of my head and numbed the pain, making me drowsy.

Taking the risk, I fell asleep.

Me and Taizo managed to get in through Kiri's border security with Reverse Summoning, much to the Uchiha's displeasure.

I have no idea how Soma, the six foot giant he is, managed to sneak in.

He just smirked at our designated hiding spot with his red eyes before blinking back to his usual black.

Sharingan defies logic, man.

Its borderline unfair,

Kiri was crowded, damp with perpetual mist, tense and very unwelcoming. Not to mention the bleak colors and how all the people in here are either pale, has too much make-up on or looks like they want to kill you. That or an unholy combination of the three. I didn't know what to expect from the sparse screen-time Naruto gave Kiri. It looked like an eastern version of London with the mist and maze-like roads.

Kind of like The Land of Mud,

Poor Land of Mud, never asked to be with such douchebag neighbors.

We did a quick Transformation jutsu, quickly bought disguises, changed in them in one of the darker corners of Kiri and undid our Transformation.

Now there was a problem. Soma, with his black hair and black eyes looked absolutely normal, all he needed to do was wear traditional Kiri shit and that would do. The same goes for Taizo with his brunette and blue eyes looking ass.

I would have looked normal if it wasn't for my distinct really light lavender eyes.

That wasn't the problem; it could easily be solved with contacts.

The problem was, Kiri did not have contacts.

We huddled together near a bush disguised as children just in case we were discovered. Children plotting in a bush weren't as dangerous as a man in his twenties, a teen and a legitimate child was.

"Maybe wrap bandages around Snake-chan's eyes and feign blindness?" Taizo suggested.

"That would attract too much attention." Soma rebuked. "I didn't see any sun glasses in any shop around here."

"It's already too dark in this place. Why would the market demand sunglasses, anyway?" I reasoned. "I doubt they even see the sun through this fog." I snorted. And they wonder why their economy is on an all time low! Misty environment and tense atmosphere is not good for tourism as well as being stranded on a deserted island I might add. It's such a hassle to get here as well. Maybe add some sort of center at the Land of Mud or something; an embassy of some sorts.

Why am I worrying about their economy when I should be worrying about my life? Mei will take care of it, for now I need to mask my eyes and get through this.

"I don't like the idea of you shadowing us when there are more able sensors here. We are in war after all." Soma whispered thoughtfully. I nodded in agreement, not wanting to risk my life when a few dress changes here and there could make all the difference.

"I've seen people with hot pink eyes around here. I'm sure lavender will be okay." Taizo shrugged.

"Not when it's almost white. Hyūga white."

Taizo pursed his lips in annoyance.

I threw my hands up in the air, sick of hiding for two goddamn days. A stakeout usually didn't last this long. It usually lasted about one to two weeks but we were so deep in enemy territory that we just couldn't risk overstaying our visit. "You know what? Get me the bandages. The faster we do this the faster we can go home and I can eat Cat-kun's chocolate cake in my fridge."

Said Whiskers raised an eyebrow and smiled. "You still haven't finished it?" He questioned while Soma sighed, giving me the gauze and bandages. I prepared the items, smirking at the Yamanaka.

I raised an eyebrow and said. "Are you kidding? You could feed the whole Academy with the serving you gave me. It took a whole section of the fridge by itself."

"Uh...sir? May we see your daughter's..."

"No, you may not." Soma glared at the inn keeper while he carried my bandaged self. We had a lot of cover identities, one of them was me being a sickly little girl, blind and motherless with Soma being a rich noble trying to find a cure for his daughter's disease with Taizo being a dependable son. The act prompted me to be as annoyingly cute as possible. I whimpered loudly next to him and tugged on his nose. "Look here, I didn't travel all the way to Kiri so some poor sap can make fun of my daughter!" I head Soma-Daddy sneer.

"Sir, I wasn't-"

"She almost died out there!" Soma raged. "Not only is this place bleak and barren, but the weather isn't doing anything for my daughter! The least you could do as an Inn keeper was to offer us nobles that give you the money to live is to give us a room to stay in!"

I didn't know what was going on because I didn't want to risk people seeing my veins under the gauze and bandages and a potential chakra signature in my eyes. What I do know is that Soma was being scary with all the killing intent he was giving to the inn keeper we were harassing. I knew there were some Kiri-nin lounging in here by how they were whispering profanities to the inn keeper, voiding their village of much needed resources.

I could practically feel the air of the inn keeper waving his hands like it was fanning out the killing intent from Soma. "Sir, no-"

"Well, maybe I should take my business elsewhere. Konoha looks like it's hospitable to us nobles and mission-givers." Soma snarked haughtily. That one statement earned glares from the Kiri-nin who was lounging at the desk. I knew they were glares because I'm pretty sure that people don't smile when you release that much killing intent. The poor old man shuddered at the killing intent while us three remained blissfully ignorant.

"Come on, Taki-kun, let's go. Maybe some other Hidden Village will help us find the herb to help your sister." Daddy-Soma began stomping slowly to the door of the inn.

You could literally see, even without the Byakugan, the dark aura of the Kiri-nin inside the Inn, all ganging up on the Inn keeper. Taizo, who disguised a snicker with a cough, began to count down next to me to himself as we walked to the door in a painfully and unrealistically slow pace.

"Three..."

"Two..."

"One..."

And, as if Taizo actually planned for this, the old man screeched on top of his lungs with a forced smile and a sweaty forehead. "Wait!"

I felt Soma smirk.

"I still can't believe you actually got us a free stay at a five star Inn with FREE dinner!" Taizo exclaimed once I slammed the last silencing seal on the room which Taizo provided for the mission because I had no talent in fūinjutsu whatsoever. It had three real and comfy looking beds, a mini fridge with food (free of charge, of course) and a really nice looking bathroom. For a poor village, they really know how to treat their guests with Five-Star hospitality. I unwrapped the bandages and blinked at the unhindered vision. I hoped that those bandages and gauzes won't mark my face. My eyes felt dry and needed water ASAP.

Soma smirked humbly but remained silent as we made ourselves home (and checked for traps and poisons from the fridge.) I activated my Byakugan, he activated his Sharingan and I knew Taizo was using his sensor powers to spot for any traps that the two great dōjutsu couldn't see.

"Clean." I said once I did a Byakugan sweep on the room.

"Clean." Soma announced even though I had better eyes than him.

"I don't sense anything out of the ordinary." Taizo shrugged.

Soma motioned us forward, unrolling one of the updated map of Kiri the helpful man gave us. "Then let's begin." He said, leader mode on. We began planning our subterfuge, with butterflies, snake and cats all doing reconnaissance as we do so.

It was the third week in Kiri and thanks to the three summons, we knew exactly where to strike. The intelligence division was heavily guarded, and as per usual, some floors and rooms more than others. It was obviously designed to confuse people and make hiding harder for us with all the doorways and narrow hallways but the whole "five people guarding a single room" was counterintuitive to that scheme they were trying to pull off.

That didn't stop my Byakugan from knowing where to go and Taizo's Mind Body Possession to stop any Kiri-nin that went our way. A quick Mind Body Possession to the unsuspecting victim, wrap in venomous vipers, let Taizo go back to his body, Soma covering the man's mouth and let the venom do its work.

We were at the hallway of the Fifth and final floor when I activated my Byakugan to see the infrastructure "Third hallway from the left is heavily guarded." I reported, my back facing the two men while I leaned on the wall. "There are a bunch of cabinets in there with another guard. The two are water natured and the third one is lightning. High Leveled Chunin or Jonin leveled, I can't really-"

One of them had blue hair, an eyepatch and strange talisman earrings. Using my Byakugan, I could tell he had the Byakugan, too.

My mind went blank.

There weren't a lot of Hyūgas outside the village and I knew my mom said that there was one man that got my dad's eye before his seal was alive.

"Tokina?" Soma put his hand on my shoulder which made me flinch.

I wanted to get the eye from that man and return it to my mother for some form of closure. I've seen how late she works for us and how many tears she shed while holding Tokuma in her arms. I couldn't help but think that I really did inherit some of my mom's habits like tilting our heads to the side and shoving our will to live to specific people. Sadly, I knew that I couldn't get personal with this kind of mission since it was too risky.

It didn't stop my chest from feeling heavy, though.

"The man guarding that room needs to be apprehended immediately. He has the Byakugan." I reported after a while, trying to keep my cool. I clasped my hands together as butterflies poured out of my sleeves. "I can't risk a genjutsu since he might be able to see through it."

The two other boys looked shocked at the revelation. They knew better not to spout a loud "WHAT, WHY DOES HE HAVE THE BYAKUGAN?" Instead, they tensed and Soma's mind began to form a plan. "Taizo, use your Mind-Body Switch technique to possess the man and lead him to us. Since the man as the Byakugan, I'll deal with him this time. I'll use my Sharingan to put him into a quick genjutsu. Tokina, use your vipers to quickly kill him and maybe take his eye back for the leaf. After that, we'll engage on the two other guards." Soma ordered us.

We nodded and the plan proceeded.

"Mind Body Switch," Taizo muttered at the edge of the corner. I readied my vipers as Soma caught the stumbling Yamanaka. Using my Byakugan, I could see how the man with my dad's eye stumbled and muttered something to the man apologetically and began walking to our direction. The guard smiled at him and called the third one from the room, substituting the blue haired man's position. Soma quickly prepared his Sharingan and when Kiri-Taizo was fully hidden on our corner, Taizo went back to his original body as the strong Anacondas began wrapping themselves around his body. Soma steadied the man and placed him under a quick genjutsu before he could so much scream.

"Tokina, can you handle him?" Soma said as I stared at the sleeping man strewn across me. I nodded and gave him a tight-lipped smile. "I can, Soma-taichou. Let's do this quickly."

Soma returned the smile and nodded. He motioned to Taizo who readied his chakra-claws. His nails glowed an opaque blue and extended to reach his calves. He readied into a low position as Soma prepared his silent explosion seals and reactivated his Sharingan. I planted two butterflies in them as a make-shift walkie-talkie before they charged in. I heard a clash of metal and a muffled explosion before I faced the man with blue hair, or as the anime called him, Ao. It really should have guessed. My dad was the man with the best Byakugan in all of Hyūga which could see every little detail and memorize the chakra color of a person. Ao had that ability in the anime and manga. A few quick guesses here and there and I could easily arrive to the conclusion that Naruto Ao canonically stole my dad's eye in the war.

That saddened me.

But I have a sick duty to fulfill.

I didn't want to risk killing him and sealing the Byakugan in my dad's eye. He could very well make a budget-Caged Bird Seal for all I knew. With my knowledge, I knew that he had great skills in fūinjutsu (like my dad) and if he made this talisman earrings then he must be in the level of sealing the Byakugan from the inside. I prepared a kunai and, with much hesitation, I plunged for the eyepatch. It made a loud clang noise as the metal talisman-earrings blocked my own steel. I pursed my lips in thought.

"You know, Ao-san." I whispered, trying to make drown my nervousness with speech. I finally figured out why most villains monologue before battle. Even the most arrogant ones are nervous; trying to babble their inner anxiety out was a common practice and a bad habit that I'm forming. You wouldn't see me babble to a live opponent but with what I'm about to do? You could give me a break. I activated my Byakugan to check for Kiri-nin and the progress of the fight Soma and Taizo were in. They were doing fine and there were no Kiri-nin in this floor.

"Your skills in fūinjutsu really are something if you managed to make earrings that protect dad's eye. Talisman earrings. Wow." I praised, continuing to talk to myself. My snakes tightened their grip on him, sensing my nervousness. The problem was that he had Talisma-Earings to protect him. If those were connected to his ears then the solution would be to just cut off his ears. A gruesome idea, and an idea Orochimaru would approve of but I really didn't have a choice in the matter. I summoned two snakes to do the dirty work for me. When they positioned, I closed my eyes to prepare the gore that was about to happen.

I wasn't a gory person, unlike my two other teammates that preferred eviscerating and explosions. I used poison, suffocation and internal organ damage. Those had minimal bleeding. Call me a pussy for being a tad bit squeamish despite me killing people since it was my job to do. It took a whole year and Soma's tutoring to finally get over that hurdle. When I did, there was a steady increase of jobs and progress. I just had to identify them as objects instead of living, breathing people. You know, like a goddamn sociopath. With this situation, however, you couldn't help but take this a little bit personally. He stole my dad's goddamn eye for God's sake. Before I could tug his ear (much to my irritation since I finally got the courage to do it), by the corner of my enhanced eyesight, I could see Kiri-nin coming into the floor.

I clicked my tongue and pocketed my kunai. "We have company." I whispered to the butterfly-mouth piece. There was silence on their part before Soma piped up.

"Take care of them, we found a lot of things to sort out. Give us five minutes."

I sighed and rolled my shoulders as I prepared another HSSH before doing a Camouflage Jutsu on my right hand. The giant anacondas slithered by to my sleeves, leaving an unconscious Ao. I tensed and readied a stance as I hear their foot-steps getting louder, letting Akinosuke mask Ao with a genjutsu. I took in a deep breath and tried my best to calm myself. I was invisible; they couldn't see me unless they were sensors. I felt the cold muscles of the snakes I summoned to prepare a Hidden Shadow Snake Hands tense and coil around my arm almost reassuringly.

They were idly chatting before they noticed the Hunter-nin unconscious on the floor when they turned to our little corner.

"Ao-san!" The younger one ran to him before being restrained by older one. My Byakugan quickly locked on to their chakra. I could tell the younger man was a ninjutsu specialist by the quality of his chakra, he had an aptitude with Water-Release like the rest of his brethren. I could tell the older one was a kenjutsu specialist, judging by the sword on the older man's back and the two daggers on his belt. "Hold on, something's wrong." Kenjutsu-san glared at the spot Ao was, which I masked with a quick genjutsu.

Possible sensor type?

He needs to be apprehended first.

The snakes streaked through with incredible speed. The older man pushed the younger man out of the way and, if you blinked, you would have missed the streaks of light coming from his katana as he sliced through my snakes like spaghetti. Not an eloquent comparison, I know, but the one thing they did share was the shape and how they made the room red when you slash at them.

"Who's there?! Yosuke, code red!" The older and more experienced one of the two ushered the younger one. He looked overwhelmed before giving him a nod.

"We've been compromised." I whispered urgently to the butterfly-mouthpiece for Soma and Taizo to hear before biting both of my fingers. I dropped the Camouflage Jutsu and slammed my hands down the metal floor as two black seals erupted from the ground.

"Summoning: Sudden Snake Glare Spell!"

The boas crawled inside the thick metal like it was dirt, making the man tense but nothing happened. As long as I can see the target, they can see it to which was made even more versatile with my Byakugan. The boy who was running to wherever he was going to tripped when a snake out of nowhere wrapped its coils around his ankle. He tried to scream before another hissed and wrapped itself in his mouth like a gag. Another chose to constrict him by the neck.

Three more nins saw him, two tried helping while the other one ran.

Shit.

I couldn't risk not giving the kenjutsu specialist my undivided attention if he managed to slash my snakes like that instead of trapping the witnesses.

The older man came to the conclusion that he wasn't the target and glared at me by the way I slowly readied a Jyūken stance.

"This isn't over." The man snarled as he readied an unfamiliar kenjutsu stance.

"I believe it is." Soma said behind me, his Sharingan whirring. He tensed and made the fatal mistake of looking at his eyes. He stumbled and slumped to the ground unconscious. Taizo ran up to him and finished the job by slitting his throat with his chakra claws.

"Done?" I rushed to them.

"Yes, let's go." Soma said tensely before eyeing Ao. He looked at me but I shook my head.

"We don't have time for this! We need to go!" I insisted, leaving the man with my dad's eye to live.

"If you say so," He nodded and we ran. That was my outward reasoning while I thought of all the things I would do to him if I ever met him in the battle field. Taizo gave me a concerned look but said nothing as we ran with full speed.

Kiri—the normally dead village—was now active at the blares of alarms that told they have been successfully infiltrated by uknown-nin

We planted a few Iwa-shaped shurien but the amount of snake bodies spoke louder. We made sure to hide our forehead protectors and our disguises were still in place before we began this mission but the Sharingan and snakes were pretty much a trademark skills of Konoha since Orochimaru was still part of the village (for now) .

It was understandable that they were under lock down to prevent the infiltrators from escaping. That didn't make out lives easier, though.

We walked casually through the damp and wet streets of Kiri. Well they walked, I was being carried by Daddy-Soma with bandages around my eyes. He held me tightly, a little bit too tight for my liking. It was probably due to the fact that I didn't do my job properly and I failed to make sure we weren't caught. It was ironic how the girl with the Byakugan had some form of tunnel vision going on. I am so going to be in trouble the moment we step out of this God-forsaken island. If we step out of this God-forsaken island, that is. Why was it even called Land of Water when it was 10% Land and 90% Water? It should just be called water period.

"Hey, you three!"

The boys stepped it up a bit. Just play it cool you guys.

"Stop!"

Ah shit.

Soma clicked his tongue and ran faster. I unwrapped the bandages around my eyes, Byakugan already active. Now being carried like a potato sack, I had a clear view of the pursuers. "Two Kiri-nin, about chunin level in terms of chakra levels, both water natured."

"I got this." Taizo told us. Soma pursed his lips while I clasped my hands and summoned an array of butterflies and snakes that fluttered and streaked through the air from the holes of my hakama. The nin panicked at this, slashed through the snakes and quickly broke through the genjutsu that they were immediately placed on. I clicked my tongue at the failed interception of my summons, Soma taking notice of this and nodded to Taizo, his blue, slit eyes gleaming in sadistic anticipation as his claws formed.

"Go to the docks after. We'll be waiting." Is what Soma told the slightly sadistic Yamanaka before throwing me forward. I positioned myself mid-air and landed on my feet and continued to run with Soma. More Kiri-nin intercepted our front, throwing shuriken and kunai at us. I rolled away an incoming volley of shuriken and kunai and Soma did the same.

"Everyone get out of the way! Water Release: Water Trumpet!" warned the Kiri-nin to the civilians.

With cupped hands, he blew out gushing water, as the civilians moved out of the way in fright and panic.

"Eight Triagrams: Vacuum Wall!" With both hands thrusting forward, the water pushed at the opposite direction forcefully. The man choked on his own water before being hit by his own jutsu. Soma smirked at me before quickly doing hand seals for a Fire Release jutsu as we continued running. He breathed in and released fiery death on those who were behind us. They did another Water Trumpet jutsu which caused the fire to turn into harmless steam. Soma threw three kunai with paper bombs tied to their end to maybe blow them to smithereens. The pursuers deflected those with ease with their own swords.

Fuck.

"Follow me," Soma commanded, jumping to the roof of a house. I pursued him and ran for it. I bit my hand, mid jump from the roof while dodging shuriken and kunai. With a clap, I summoned butterflies that immediately intercepted the prusuers in genjutsu. The four men that were chasing me immediately were replaced with five. When Soma threw one of his more destructive bombs at them, the five chunks that were the Kiri were now replaced with a full battalion, consisting of ten Kiri-nin. We ran faster, throwing senbon and kunai whenever I can as I did the seals for Camouflage while Soma continued trying to make makeshift smokescreens with his explosive kunai.

We hopped through border security, snakes hissing through the air as they ravaged the sensor nins that were guarding the gate and using them as a makeshift grappling hook. My snake bit firmly on a boat and dragged me to it. Soma, instead, hopped on top of my giant anaconda that I used as a grappling hook and ran faster than it can retract. We both made it to the escape vehicle on time.

"Where's Taizo?!" Soma growled, throwing explosive kunai at Kiri, hoping to kill at least one. I summoned the largest snakes from Ryuchi Cave, the ones as big as the boat we were in to ravage the nin. Using the three large snakes as a distraction, I used my Byakugan to try and get a visual on Taizo while I lamented on forgetting to plant a butterfly so we could talk to him. It was pretty easy to find the brunette covered in blood with his blue arms slashing and hacking his way through Kiri.

"There!" I pointed, a lengthy snake immediately coming out of my arm to Taizo's direction while I held the railing of the boat. "Taizo, grab on!" I shouted, the Yamanaka throwing me a grateful look and grabbing on to the snake with its scales. The snake immediately retracted with Taizo on hand. I threw him up in the air as he fell to the boat.

"STEP ON IT!" Taizo screeched while he threw kunai and shuriken at our pursuers who were now water walking. Soma ran to the steering wheel and literally stepped on it. The boat whirled to life.

That was when I felt a wet hand clasp around my ankle.

I gasped and my head immediately shot to the white haired kid with hot pink eyes and sharp teeth.

"Hōzuki!" I screamed, throwing a multitude of snakes at him. It didn't deter him from pulling me from the railing and down to the water.

"No!" Was what I muttered when my body met the sea. It was so cold. I couldn't breathe.

There were so many bubbles.

Strawberry scented bath accessories that masked the salty tears.

I didn't regret it at that moment. I didn't know if I was thinking straight or if my alcoholic tendencies finally got the better of me. Who knew what was in my mind back then when I sunk down that strawberry scented bath with bubbles that could irritate your eyes. I closed my eyes, of course. I needed to get used to the darkness since that is where I was going to.

But I knew, at that very moment, all I could think of back then was...

"Finally,"

AN.

I swear it is pure coincidence that a ceirtain theory (omfg someone left a theory for my fic, I'm so shook) will be addressed next chapter. Not saying if your right and wrong. I'm deciding if I should double post (AKA post tomorrow) since my computer decided to work again. I don't know, I have shit ton of things to study for but who knows. Constructive critisicm will be MUCH APPRECIATED because next chapter is angsty and y'all know how I write my angst.

bad.

Enjoy life! :)