AN

Hey, Mr."Please update now to make me truly happy",

...Surprise!

2/3 promised updates.

WARNGING: There might be some edit errors since, as I said, all of these are prewritten from about last year. I just edit them since wow was I terrible. I'm converting this fanfic from 1st person to 3rd person so that the plot wouldn't be so obvious without making Tokina not think about her plans

When, as her character is written, is all she thinks about so forgive me if there is a stray "our" "my" or "I".

Especially "I"s sine the find tool can't just single out lone "I"s,

This applies for future chapters!

"Oh wouldn't these look cute on you, Tokina-chan?" Rin smiled at Tokina, holding up a pair of dangly earrings. She gave Rin a wary smile and slowly brought the medic-nin's hand down.

"Eh, you know how I feel about anything that pierces my skin." Tokina gave her an apologetic look.

The two girls finally managed to squeeze in some time for themselves, Tokina with practicing and tutoring Obto and Tokuma while Rin was still adjusting to her new job in the medic-corps and not interning them. The light haired brunette really is a talented medic-nin, much to Akane's pleasure. Maybe one day, she'll attract Tsunade's attention but that day was not today.

Today was girl's day out.

As far as the two brunettes were concerned, there was no war, no boys, no nothing, just two girls enjoying each other's company.

"Oh right," she pursed her lips and dropped the piece of jewlery back into its display. Rin picked up a decorative hair stick for Tokina while the Hyūga picked up a headband for her. They tried it on in front of a large body mirror and did a few silly poses, never intending to buy any of it unless it was really good looking.

Window-shoppers,

They were the worst kind of customers.

"So, did you read today's headline?" Tokina started, practicing some exercises her therapist wanted her to try out, trying out a necklace that went great with the blue kimono with floral patterns and black hakama she was wearing. "I can't believe someone got raped by a toothbrush of all things. Weird what people do to others these days, even at the times of war." Tokina dropped the necklace that neither girls could afford with their current salary. She turned to Rin who was staring longingly out the window. More precisely, she was staring at Asuma and Kurenai hanging out in an intimate sort of way.

"Jesus Christ, they're just nine years old." Tokina whispered to herself, melding English and Japanese together. Tokina admitted that maybe later down the line, she would find someone to hold her hand and not judge her for eating too much chocolate and filling up the bathroom with beauty products. She knew that life was either a dream that would interfere with her "plans" or already dead because of the choices she made. That little setback, however, didn't stop her from enjoying some teenage romance novels.

She was, however, still surprised that Rin kept harboring feelings over Kakashi despite them having second to no physical contact at all.

Tokina snapped her fingers, fully loaded with sass, in front of the civilian-born. "Last time I checked, the mirror was that way." Tokina teased in good nature with a smirk. Rin blinked and whirled at the amused Hyūga.

"Sorry! Just got…a little distracted there." Rin apologized before falling back to that smile she was so known for.

Tokina frowned,

Maybe it wasn't the fact that she was single.

"Is something wrong?" Tokina asked with a tilt of her head.

Rin gave her a tired look, a look that Tokina was all too used.

Its either she let someone die or she blamed herself for that said someone dying.

"It's just that, I healed my first patient in the field. A deep cut, entry point from the pelvic region up to the upper torso. He was bleeding all over." She confessed, looking away. Tokina pursed her lips and held herself.

"He died,"

Tokina nodded, never experiencing "doctor-guilt" but she could still somewhat sympathize.

"I was just thinking..." She faced her with a pensive smile. "What if I didn't accept that internship?"

Tokina's eyes widened a bit, surprised and not at all expecting those words. She thought that Rin was mad at herself for her not-so-ineptitude as a medical-ninja, not regretting the choices made for her. Tokina quickly bit her tongue, hiding the guilt that was creeping from her chest to her throat. She drowned it out with six words that justified everything that she has done so far.

"She is not going to die."

Rin avoided Tokina's gaze, "Maybe if I hadn't accepted the internship, I wouldn't be feeling this way…"

"I think a healthy empathy is great." Tokina spouted out all too quickly, successfully stopping Rin's train of thought. "If your patient died and you didn't feel bad, I'd call you a monster." Tokina gave Rin a heavy smile.

"A monster, huh," Rin muttered, staring out the window.

"If it were up to me," Tokina began slowly, "I'd rather be in your shoes right now. I'd rather save by saving rather save by killing." Tokina gave her an embarrassed smile "If that made any sense."

Rin nodded, "It did." She assured me, "Thanks for that, Tokina-chan." Rin gave her a starry smile before picking up a set of earings that she's been eyeing the moment the two girls got there. "Now let's buy something before the shop keeper throws us out."

"Hey, Fatty!" Anko called over the two tailed bun girl who was walking home in the crowd. She didn't respond.

Wait, that wasn't her name.

Uh...butterfly bitch?

Snake sucker?

Khaki kinky?

No, it was a legit name, Anko. It wasn't the ones she called her from the academy. Orochimaru-sensei told her, dammit!

She followed the girl, thinking long and hard about it with her hand still bleeding from biting her fingers for Hidden Shadow Snake Hands a bit too much. She knew her name was above that her's.

It had a K in it right?

...Wait! There you go!

"Hey, Tokina!" The black haired kunoichi with breasts too big for a nine year old shouted. The girl in question turned around, a little bit surprised before walking to her with a slight head tilt while muttering something; butterflies following her in her wake. "Mitarashi-san?" She questioned. "Did you call?"

"I did." The newly made snake summoner nodded. "Orochimaru-sensei wants to meet with you at TG-6; Training Ground 6, now." Anko informed the girl that always seemed to be wearing a kimono and hakama. "I don't know why, seeing you're stuck with that hunk of a boy-toy, Minato-senpai but whatever. None of my business, amirite?" Anko gave Tokina a lecherous smile, Tokina giving her an innocent smile, completely crushing the meaning of the smile by taking one large step back.

Dayum, that jonin, though. Despite her young age she was already sneaking lewd shit into her bed behind her parents back. She wondered faintly if Namikaze Minato was still the fastest in...important places.

It would be a shame though.

Or if he just fast...in the best way.

Oooh, good thoughts, Anko. Good thoughts.

The Hyūga girl blinked up at her, repressed a sigh and followed her soundlessly, all the while Anko daydreaming about older men and rope. Oh, lots and lots of rope. The rope would mark on her fair skin though but it would be totally worth it. If only there were more boy-toys in Konoha. She sighed, breaking the genjutsu on TG-6 as usual, the girl doing the same, the beautiful man known as Orochimaru (give me your hair secrets, sensei) nodded at them looking absolutely bored, holding a familiar and giant scroll.

Tokina dipped her head. "Shishou," She greeted her former mentor respectfully, much to the older snake nin's amusement "Tokina-chan, it's been a while, hasn't it?"

Tokina nodded, "It has, shishou. About four months, if I recall correctly."

Orochimaru smirked mischievously, "Now, onto business. I want you two to have a little…competition."

"Competition?" Anko blurted out.

Tokina immediately narrowed her eyes,

Orochimaru nodded. "A better term for it would be...a preparation for what's to come." Anko's sensei smiled ominously.

"It's just a harmless spar. The first one to draw blood wins."

"And what's the prize?" Anko's gleaming eyes smiled to her sensei while Tokina stood, frozen. What was long-sleeves so nervous about? It's only just a spar. Besides, a prize from the Sannin?! How cool was that! She is so going to brag to her teammates, not caring for the future "favouritism" jokes that they were probably going to inflict on her. He just saw her potential when nobody did! She was damn well proud of that.

"It's a surprise."

Anko pouted. That was lame.

"Orochimaru-shishou, I have a dinner to go to—"

"Pussy," Anko coughed.

A twitch from Tokina's lip,

Tokina figured that Orochimaru would have made the first seals of the Cursed Seal of Heaven. It was obvious, since she did help the man in question to make the seal. In the months of what was officially known as "Tokina's recovery from her kidnapping" was actually the development of the Animal Seal, the foundation for the Cursed Seal of Heaven and maybe even Earth.

But it made no sense for Orochimaru to hide this from Anko, a willing participant of any of his experiments.

Maybe he really did of his little demon-tattoo as a prize.

A prize Tokina wasn't keen on winning.

Which meant she had to bleed in order to lose,

She did not like bleeding.

Nor losing, for that matter,

The master chef of danger noodles probably thought that this little scuffle between her and Anko would pass as afternoon tea.

Tokina debated whether to decline the offer, even if Anko called her a pussy. It would likely arouse suspicion, since she was already an active participant to his little journey as a seal master, going so far as to letting him test the animal seal on her.

Tokina narrowed her eyes to Anko, who smirked back,

At least she'll savor the fight while it lasts.

I'll show you pussy, you two faced, rock throwing, floozy.

"Begin."

"Byakugan." Tokina muttered,

Anko bit her hand, channelling chakra in her left.

Small but clear chakra signatures that were all too familiar to Tokina appeared inside the sleeves of Anko's trench coat.

Tokina was a bit happy for Anko, finally getting snakes to do her bidding. Misery loves company, after all.

With a smile, Anko whipped out the volatile reptiles.

"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!"

Tokina dodged to the right, avoiding the heads of the snakes. She grabbed the extended body and pulled, making Anko gasp in surprise.

She always hated when Kakashi did this to her.

It felt so good to be the asshole, sometimes.

She cut the jutsu off, pulling away the snakes from her with a sneer. Tokina smiled cheekily at her, whipping Anko's snakes at her, giving her enough time to ready a defensive Jyūken stance.

Tokina tried to repress the urge to use genjutsu when she did handseals. It would have been so easy to interrupt. Anko's chakra formed in her stomach as it turned hotter and brighter.

She was all too used to this jutsu thanks to two Uchiha teammates.

She blew a fireball bigger than Obito's but way smaller than Soma's.

"Vacuum Palm!"

The vacuum shell made a perfect hole at the center of the flame, immediately dissipating it and throwing Anko off balance. She rebounded, drawing a three kunai in each finger with a glare directed to the Hyūga girl.

Tokina, disobeying all of her instincts, let the kunai whirl next to her, feeling it graze her cheek.

Now that she "lost" the petty Hyūga girl can finally enjoy the fight while Anko didn't realize that she already won.

Mitarashi threw more kunai with a Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, not noticing the red line on Tokina's cheek. Tokina dodged the badly aimed snakes, summoned her butterflies and immediately catching Anko off-guard with a sudden genjutsu.

Tokina showed a vision of one of her snakes summoning itself from its sleeves, and with how Obito described the experience, filled Anko's vision with nothing but red and black. Tokina remembered the feeling of the snake's digestive enzymes and replicated it.

It was safe to say, with Anko's unattractive screaming, she thought the physically harmless illusion was real. After a few more minutes of letting her suffer and her knees quivering, the Hyūga walked up to her and mercifully delivered a single jab to the heart, immediately incapacitating her.

Tokina wiped out some of the blood from her cheek ignoring the sting, turned around and walked to Orochimaru, and held out her red pinky for the snake-sannin to see.

"It seems that Anko gets the gift after all." He shook his head disappointedly. "Shame, I wanted to see your reaction but oh well."

"This cocky dickhead", Tokina thought with a disbelieving eyebrow.

"Nonetheless, I'll give it the Cursed Seal of Heaven to Anko tomorrow, as you may have suspected. However, you, Tokina; I have something to discuss to you and a few "improvements" I want made to your Animal Seal. Follow me to my lab." Orochimaru went up to Anko's body and picked it up like she weighed nothing.

Tokina sighed, a bit disappointed at being late for dinner before shadowing the Sannin without another word.

"Obito, are you even listening?" Minato scolded a little bit too crossly at the boy who was nodding off at one of his lectures. Honestly, Minato was trying to be a good teacher but with students like these, it was harder to teach than fight. The Uchiha snapped to attention and gave him an apologetic smile in this cold September day in Training Ground 3.

Poor Obito,

He was just tired since Kakashi absolutely demolished his ass in practice yesterday in all contexes.

Tokina was disappointed. Four months of peace and quiet and now they had to go back into the fray with a C-rank that should be at least an A-rank.

It was nice while it lasted.

At least Obito was happy.

He was this close to ravaging Hokage tower for a mission that did not involve cat chasing (which was relatively easy thanks to Tokina as she was used to cats) fence painting (Sensei's shadow clones helped when he was getting impatient.) dog walking (Obito always knew Kakashi was a bitch. He damn well knew.) and weeding.

Nobody liked weeding.

"Yeah! C-Rank!" He said suddenly in attention. Tokina shook her head in fond amusement at her friend's one-tracked mind.

Kakashi isn't earning any brownie points with that mask though.

Obito really wanted to see what was underneath for some reason.

Tokina refused to give Obito a definite answer since, with the Byakugan, she must have seen it. Whenever he inquired, she would always say "It's just a face, what do you expect?" or "Go see it for yourself." It grated on his nerves and bothered him to no end.

Tokina, however, was bothered by something else entirely.

That little puff of hair popping out of his forehead protect annoyed her to no end. She wanted nothing more than to cut it. Whenever she tried, Kakashi would back away, slowly, his hand ghosting on his kunai pouch if he tried.

But despite these fashion atrocities, the team was finally starting to feel like a team. They didn't take teasing too seriously anymore; Kakashi sometimes participated in Tokina and Obito's banters, but only if their objective was to tease Minato-sensei, who seemed to always, be the butt of their jokes.

It seemed tying their bodies together and making them run around Konoha proved a more useful bonding experience than she realized.

Obito and Kakashi was still constantly in each other's throats but at least they don't try to kill each other now.

Minato sighed exasperatedly before continuing.

"Anyway, this is going to be your first C-Rank mission, so I expect you guys to try your hardest. It might just be an escort mission—"

There was a guilty shift from Obito who voiced out his irritation just a few hours ago after briefing. At least he didn't voice out his thoughts in front of the Hokage. That would have been a nightmare. He probably would have if it wasn't for Akane teaching him the concept of "tact" and "humility".

Imagine if he did, though. That would be humiliating.

"—but it's your first mission as a team. Now I know some of you think you're better than others-"

There was a low key eye roll from Kakashi. It seems Minato was in an especially shady mood today.

"-but team work is the most valuable thing here in this war. When you're all alone in the middle of enemy territory, there are no other people you want behind your back other than your team."

Tokina's eyes glazed over, remembering just what she did to protect her team.

They refocused immediately. Unnoticed by the other three, a butterfly struggled in its flying, as if lifting something heavy, before resuming its day-to-day tasks.

Hey! Therapy actually worked!

"So I expect you all to work together with no qualms or arguments whatsoever." There was a shared dark look from the two boys. They glared at each other before Obito huffed and looked away, crossing his arms.

It looked like Minato-hime wanted to pull his hair out. There was always a flinch or a cringe when he utters "team" in front of Kakashi and Obito. He was trying to finally use the word "team" in a sentence with Kakashi and Obito without "is not a" in between.

Tokina kind of pitied Kakashi's Minato-hime. The only thing comforting her is that he wouldn't get a wrinkly face in his lifetime.

"We will escort three Kumo-nin to the border to Konoha. They have agreed to give us information about Iwa and its general infrastructure."

It was pretty intense for a first C-Rank. Tokina theorized that it might have been the fact that they were in war. Maybe if they were at peace, it would be qualified as a B-Rank.

War really changes standards.

"Sensei, what's the possibility of this mission being trap? We always had a rocky alliance with Kumo, stemming from their friendship with Iwa." Kakashi diligently asked.

"Pfft," Obito covered his mouth, "Rocky alliance,"

Kakashi deadpanned at the Uchiha who straightened and cleared his throat.

"A-Anyway, why would enemy-nin spend money on the nation they're trying to destroy?" Obito rolled his eyes. "I mean, even if it was a trap, we'd kick their assess and get lunch money to boot." He finished simply.

"The possibility is high but we can't take any chances. We need all the information we can get. If they double-cross us, we capture and force it out of them. If they don't, we escort them to the pre-determined location." Minato answered.

With no more questions, Minato dismissed his team, ordering them—specifically Obito—to not be late and sleep early.

Minato, Kushina, Kakashi and Tokina waited for Obito in front of the village gate in the first signs of daybreak. Obito wasn't late or anything, the four just got up really early.

Sometimes they forget that he's still a genin.

Not Kakashi, though.

He likes to flaunt that little fact when he has the chance.

"And remember to toothbrush, kill anyone who doesn't respect woman and red heads—Kakashi are you even listening?" Kushina scolded the silver haired boy as she continued her nagging.

"Kushina-san, this isn't our first C-Rank. Both of us are chunin, remember?" Tokina reminded the red head who remained adamant about bringing a whole department store with them, shifting her too-large-for-her-short-stature of a bag that was filled to the brim with miscellaneous items.

"Still!" She glomped us, unfazed by the giant bags that we were carrying. "My babies are growing up so fast."

"Kushina, they're right. Stop babying them." Minato tried to calm the unstoppable force that is Uzumaki Kushina.

Kushina was supposed to make a witty retort—as she always does—before a familiar voice shot through the peace.

Tokina blinked at the Uchiha running towards them on time for once. Minato raised an eyebrow as Kakashi did a low and impressed sound in the back of his throat.

"Well look who's early." Kushina drawled out sarcastically. Minato grinned at the black haired boy who was walking casually. He smugly walked to us near the gate, holding out a chocolate lollipop to Tokina.

Who treated it like he was supposed to give it to her. She still instinctively muttered a "thank you" before removing the packaging and the litter in her sleeve, summoning a snake to gobble it up. The said snake slithered out of her sleeve and began trying to find a nearby trashcan.

Because no to littering.

"The granny I helped the other day gave me a bunch of snacks for the trip!" He announced, proudly holding the jar of the savory treats.

"Good job," Tokina responded with obvious pleasure, enjoying the chocolate loli. Minato got a lemon drop and popped it to his mouth with no shame, groaning a little bit inappropriately thanks to his sweet tooth. Kushina got a blueberry one and smiled. Obito gave a wink to Tokina before handing a strawberry one to Kakashi. He eyed it like there was poison in it.

Tokina chuckled at Obito's little plan.

She gave a nudged to Minato who was reviewing the map as they waited for his go signal to leave. He gave her a questioning look before she silently directed her eyes to Obito and Kakashi. Kushina looked at what we were staring at and grinned expectantly.

He looked confused before his eye quirked in amusement.

He'd want to watch this.

"Well? She said give it to my teammates? Even if one of them is a total dick." Obito moved the lollipop around Kakashi's eyes,

"Obito! Manners!" Kushina couldn't resist scolding the Uchiha. He ignored it, though.

Kakashi took the lollipop hesitantly. Obito gave him an expectant stare. The silver haired chunin unwrapped the lollipop's packaging slowly.

And in a quick motion that would require a Sharingan to see, he ripped the candy out the stick, pulled down his mask and shoved the strawberry ball that used to be a lollipop in his mouth.

But to the audience? It just looked like the lollipop disappeared from his hand. Obito blinked at the plastic stick Kakashi held on to, trying to find where the lollipop had gone.

"What the—" Obito stared at Kakashi's blank eyes staring back at him as he chewed his candy.

"Thank you for your generosity," Kakashi nodded to him.

"NO! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SUCK ON IT!"

"Obito, I didn't know you went that way." Kakashi flicked the plastic stick to the Uchiha's forehead, which was deflected by his forehead protector.

Kushina, Minato and Tokina snickered.

"W-What?!" Obito's face turned red. "No! Give it back! You just wasted a perfectly good lollipop!"

"Disgusting," Kakashi sneered.

Obito screamed in frustration.

After farewells from Kushina and promises to become Hokage by Obito, Team Sandwich plus Minato marched on to meet the Kumo-nin in the meeting place marked in the map. It was suspicious that it was in the middle of the forest, far away from the village. They probably didn't want to be seen with dealings for other nations. It would hurt their credibility. The "team" ran through the woods of Konoha in quick time, the exercises Minato has been punishing them with paying off.

"We're here," Minato announced, "Now all we need to do is wait."

That ushered a groan from Obito.

Which made Kakashi elbow him harshly,

"Hey!"

"Be quiet." Kakashi growled. "Ninjas are supposed to keep a professional mind set. This isn't a game."

Aside from the venomous tone, Kakashi was giving good advice. Tokina remained silent and kept that thought to herself.

"He's right, Obito." Minato agreed. "There are many things we are going to be required to do and most of them, we would probably disagree with." He lectured in a fair tone. "What's important is that we bring the village credibility and honor through our success and actions."

Obito looked unfazed, though. "I know, I know." He waved off. "But I wanna see what I can do! I want to help with the war efforts and waiting around and doing nothing won't help!" He declared too loud for Kakashi's liking.

Kakashi was probably going to say how stupid that was before Minato raised a hand to silence them.

"Someone's coming." Minato announced.

"The clients?" Obito said hopefully.

"I don't know." Minato admitted. He gave Tokina an expectant look. She nodded and activated her Byakugan.

She felt the veins around her eyes bulge as her field of vision and perception increased and sharpened. Obito hopped around, excited for any form of conflict, which was kinda messed up but what can you do? Kakashi just rolled his eyes and prepared his weapons just in case.

"I have a visual." Tokina reported, focusing on the three nin coming their way. "Three ninjas. High chunin to jonin levels, judging by the texture of their chakra. They have Kumo-nin sigils."

Minato nodded "Which one has the missive."

Obito, even though excited, was completely out of his element. He watched as ninjas, experienced ninjas, worked. This wasn't the blundering Minato-sensei who was almost always smiles and giggles while being perpetually tired and probably done with life. The girl in front of him wasn't his best friend Kina-chan, who often cared a bit too much about her face and hair.

These were trained killers.

Tokina narrowed her eyes, literally stripping the ninjas with her eyes, layer by layer. "There are two of them. One in the blonde's pocket and another one with dark skinned, red head. The others have various weapons in their own pockets." She faced Minato "Sensei, this may be a trap."

"I know," Minato nodded, "One must be a decoy then, can you tell which one is it?"

"I'm sorry, I can't." She apologized out of formality. "It's a scroll. Even if I did, I couldn't make out the words. It would look like a bunch of jumbled kanji strewn together."

Minato nodded, "Good work. You can deactivate your Byakugan now."

Tokina nodded, relaxing her eyes now. Kakashi sheathed his half drawn tantō and favored stuffing his hands into his jacket's pocket, holding a kunai just in case.

There was a rustle in the leaves before the clients landed on the branches in front of the wary team. The blonde lady with a big bust—which Tokina doubted was real—gave them a rude, assessing look.

Obito instantly disliked her,

"These are our...escorts?" Blondie McBreastalot questioned. "Konoha must be in a real rut, huh?" She elbowed the dark skinned one who looked exasperated.

Obito immediately took offense,

"Waddaya mean Konoha is in a rut?!"

Tokina face-palmed, second hand embarrassment creeping up on her,

"Konoha is the best village ever, you-mphmph!"

With famed reflexes, Minato covered the Uchiha's mouth his arm. Obito tried to bite it to regain control over his own muscle and to continue the rant that would otherwise destroy Konoha's reputation for serious shinobi forever.

"My apologies," Minato glared at the Uchiha before looking a bit sheepish. "He's very...patriotic."

The sole male Kumo-nin nodded to him with a kind smile. "It's fine. We all need a little bit of patriotism in times of war. Otherwise, nobody would defend our homes, am I right?" He chuckled, forcing Minato to awkwardly chuckle in compliance. Obito was deemed worthy for free speech so he was unclasped. Before he got to string two words together, Kakashi kicked him in the shin and whispered something to him that made him stay quiet.

Resentfully,

"Shall we get going, then? We're burning daylight." Minato offered. Their clients nodded and off we went.

With their clients in the middle of the formation, Team Minato ran through the Land of Fire. Minato was up front, Kakashi and Obito flanking them while Tokina was positioned in the rear as their support-nin. Most people wouldn't like rear since it was the most boring and the testament to the lack of skill the ninja has but Tokina didn't like being in the rear for different reasons.

A kunai whirled behind the Hyūga girl, almost hitting her.

…That is why she didn't like the rear.

She deftly activated her Byakugan.

Thirteen,

Low to high chunin level.

"Enemy attack!" She fended off more kunai and oddly shaped shurikens. "Requesting to switch positions!"

Minato body flickered next to me, throwing his famed three pronged kunai.

"I'll deal with them, switch with Obito." He uttered quickly.

"I'll deal with them, no problem!" Obito leapt to the enemy nin with a large fireball jutsu.

Tokina didn't get to finish her warning "Wait, Obito, stop—"

"Obito!" Minato ran to him.

"That idiot!" Tokina cursed,

Tokina couldn't decide. Abandon the mission and proceed to hauling Obito's ass back or continue the mission and let a high level jonin take the wheel?

She had trust issues.

That meant that, even though Minato could easily haul Obito's ass back, then she would still be uneasy.

She just loves her luck sometimes.

"Tokina!" Kakashi called out to her while she was in a daze, her legs on auto-pilot. "Minato-sensei can take care of that moron! You're the sensible one, lets finish the mission!"

Tokina tutted her lips and narrowed her eyes on Kakashi, using this…this…preschool manipulation tactic on her which sadly worked.

She body flickered next to Kakashi who looked like he wanted to murder the Uchiha. It was nice they finally got along on something. The Kumo-nin remained silent but tense as the two continued to escort them. The Byakugan told her that three ninjas managed to slip by Obito and Minato. They didn't have any a village sigil on them so she couldn't tell who they were fighting for but every bell in Tokina's head rang "defects!"

Tokina groaned, promising to show Obito hell after.

"Three enemy nins are preparing to intercept us." She informed Kakashi,

"Do you have any jutsu that can slow them down?" Silver-locks questioned, preparing a kunai.

Tokina nodded, bit her finger and did a clap hand seal. She summoned a large kaleidoscope of butterflies, making them swarm on the offending enemy nins and encasing them with their wings and genjutsu.

Maybe she would put Obito in genjutsu torture when he comes back? Is that too extreme?

"Successfully encased in genjutsu." She repeated the words Akinosuke whispered in her ear through his butterfly mouthpiece. Tokina mentally slapped herself, forgetting to plant butterfly spies to Minato and Obito. The two continued running to the bridge in full speed. They continued for what seemed like hours before they reached clear plains and grasslands. The Kumo-nin looked undisturbed but the younger nins needed a break.

Which they didn't get,

Kakashi dodged a kunai, suddenly thrown at him by the blonde.

Tokina cursed,

"This just keeps getting better and better,"

"Tsk," the blonde McFaketits clicked her tongue. "I thought you'd be too exhausted to dodge."

…A shallow, gradeschool plan which probably would have worked if it wasn't for the fact that the two were already weary as is.

"Whatever," she smiled sinisterly. "We'll amend it." The Kumo-nin whom the two have been protecting drew their weapons on them. The older man readied a jutsu that covered both of his arms with lightning, the blondie had her kunais ready and the dark skinned woman drew a katana from her back. Kakashi narrowed his eyes and drew his tantō while Tokina readied a defensive Jyūken stance.

Tokina took the time to analyze their opponents all the while cursing the Uchiha's stupidity.

"The blonde one," Tokina whispered since she didn't bother learning their names. "No hidden weapon I could see. Low chunin chakra reserves but the quality says jonin. Water nature." She fed whatever information she could in a hushed whisper, their backs towards each other.

Kakashi nodded, which she could see thanks to her eyes "How about the one with the katana?"

"Wind natured, low chakra reserves for a jonin."

Kakashi clicked his tongue "Figures,"

"Other than kunai and shuriken, nothing. The last guy has low jonin reserves and his muscles are very well defined." She focused her Byakugan. "Probably has high endurance but I that should be a given."

"I'll take the kenjutsu specialist. Trap the big guy and you can have the blonde." He ordered.

"Okay, I'll make the first move." Tokina whispered,

She quickly bit her thumb and slammed it on the ground,

"Summoning: Sudden Snake Glare Spell!"

The three tensed before snapping into attention at the big guy with large boas and anacondas wrapping him in lightning speed, tightening their grip on him. The snakes seemed unbothered by the fact that they were being electrocuted by him. The kenjutsu specialist had the bright idea to try and slash the snakes, earning a kunai directed to her courtesy of Kakashi. Steel met steel as Tokina readied a Snake Stance while the no-tits raised an eyebrow and put one hand on her hip.

"I'm not impressed."

Tokina shrugged.

"You aren't supposed to be." She muttered to herself as a large boa crept inside her sleve. Tokina readied her left palm and, with a quick thrust, blew the woman away with the sheer force of the vacuum shell. She did the common mistake in defending with her arms crossed in front of her face, making it an easy target for the large boa that was using the air to quickly glide to her.

Much to her credit, she regained her footing and deflected the incoming volley of snakes. She cut them with her kunai.

Tokina, surprisingly, felt the world shift and turn.

Oh, no wonder her chakra was oddly stable.

She broke through the amateurish genjutsu with ease.

Tokina raised an eyebrow at the smug looking blonde.

"Oh? Too rich for your blood?" She smiled at me.

Tokina rolled her eyes,

She literally puts herself in genjutsu in her free time. This is some novice-class-shit.

She did a few handseals before the sunlight seemingly invaded her vision.

Tokina narrowed her eyes and dispelled the genjutsu, dodging the kunai that was supposed to be disguised by the light. The annoyed Hyūga did a clap handseal, her Byakugan telling her that the big guy was limp while her snakes continued to entrap him. Kakashi was doing a pretty good job keeping her distracted. Tokina prompted to focus on her fight, then. She slammed her palm to the ground; the chick had the brilliant idea to throw that kunai she was twirling around her finger at me.

Her eyes widened when the Hyūga girl dissolved into butterflies. The insects swirled her. Becky McBitchface rolled her eyes, undisturbed by the butterflies.

"Pretty, but it's obvious. Gejutsu is all about being subtle, kiddo." She said cockily. "Not pretty effects." She attempted to break through the genjutsu, causing chaos in the kaleidoscope. There were a million screams heard as Tokina tugged on Caren McCocksucker's memories via butterflies. The usual wave of emotions flooded the Hyūga girl.

"What the hell." The blonde muttered before releasing her chakra again. The screams became louder as the swirling butterflies became faster. She released her chakra again and again but the effect was deafening screaming and voices that she should have never heard to begin with. They were familiar to her. Oh so painfully familiar, but even though her heart was telling her "yes" her mind said "no".

They were dead, after all.

It shook her to the core.

"Ayano-chan." A ghastly male voice called out from the kaleidoscope. "I love you, Ayano-chan."

"S-Shinji?" Her voice quaked. Her lips tremble before hardening. Her face contorted into an ugly sneer. "You think this is funny, kid?! Mess with my memories, huh?! I'll kill you!"

Using the Byakugan, Tokina saw how the dark skinned one managed to push Kakashi away before shouting "Ayano! It's just a genjutsu!" She called out to her comrade; Kakashi shut her mouth by giving her a few slashes from his blade.

"Y-yeah! I know that!" She snapped. She released her chakra again.

"Ayano-chan..." The voice manifested a hand from the very butterflies that were surrounding her. "Stay with me." His voice said hypnotically.

"Tsk," she released her chakra again.

A lean, dark skinned young man stepped into the tornado of butterflies. He gave the blonde the charismatic smirk she was so used to when they went out to missions together. The girl visibly paled, pinching herself and biting her lip enough to draw blood. She grunted and brought a kunai out and made a shallow cut to her arm.

The butterflies shook. The man made advances on the blonde.

"Ayano-chan...come on. We can go eat teriyaki like we did in the old days." He begged the girl. "We can go get wasted without thinking of the war. We can be together again. Just come with me."

The blonde looked torn.

"Please..:" she said in a low, defeated voice. Her sneer broke as her body slumped visibly, her hands shook and dropped the kunai she used to cut herself. "Please stop..."

"Ayano!" Her dark skinned friend called out before screaming in agony, the sound of metal cutting flesh was heard before the body hit the grass.

Tokina immediately dropped the genjutsu, summoning a salvo of snakes, ravaging her throat. If the snakes didn't kill her, the poison did.

"Took you long enough," Kakashi body flickered next to Tokina. In one swift motion, he sprayed the blood from his tantō to the ground. She blinked and deactivated her Byakugan, a bit annoyed that World of Butterflies was such a headache to use.

Literally,

"Sorry," she rubbed her temples. "That was my first genjutsu battle."

He let out an acknowledging sound.

"Are you going to be alright?" He asked with a twinge of concern. Probably only asked because of common formalities but whatever.

"Yeah, just a slight headache." She nodded, resuming her job in the team as support. "Are you hurt?"

He scoffed. "She was formidable but nothing I can't handle."

Tokina smiled at him. "As expected."

He looked slightly taken aback at her praise, which Tokina took in mild offense.

"I still want a check, though." She fell back to her responsibilities. "Cooperate unless you want me to use my Byakugan to see through your clothes."

"I'm clean. I'm not like that idiot that would hide my injuries." He rolled his eyes.

Kakashi's ears twitched. He reached for his tantō. "Stand back, I think someone's coming."

She heeded his words and took one step back and readied a Jyūken stance. She activated her Byakugan before easing.

"It's just Obito and Minato-sensei." She assured the tense chunin. He eased up and sheathed of his tantō while Tokina masked her seeping bloodlust, trying not to run to Obito and giving him a piece of her mind. Tokina smiled with indifferent eyes while Kakashi slouched.

"YOU GUYS! YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN US!" Obito yelled with an exasperated Minato, rubbing the back of his neck.

Tokina smiled at the two boys.

Minato casually waved at the two prodigies.

Before giving the gruesome scene a once over.

His face turned to ice. The aura around him did a complete flip over. Obito stopped his fanfare abruptly, and gulping while he took in the scene as well. A blonde, bleeding from her open neck, drooling, on one side, A dark skinned woman with cuts around her body, bleeding out on the other and a man between Tokina and Kakashi unconscious and coiled by snakes.

"Report," Mission-sensei ordered, making the two chunin straighten their posture. "Now,"

Kakashi took the lead and reported for Tokina while she tended to Obito's many shallow cuts that he hid with a lot of effort. "Jesus, the Uchiha pride is plain silly! Oh, I'm bleeding enough that I could faint and die? Well hey, I need to maintain the reputation of being such a chick magnet and alpha-male!" Tokina thought with a straight face.

She healed a nasty cut on his chest while Obito spouted excuses and his story which Tokina did not listen to. When he was done, she tightened the bandage around his chest just a little bit too tight.

"Ow! What was that for?!"

"What you did was stupid." Tokina did her Hyūga deadpan that she was working on. His angry glare turned annoyed.

"Yeah, yeah, don't waste your breath. Minato-sensei promised me to put me through the ringer when we get back." He waved off like it was all okay.

Obito paled, immediately regretting his words by how Tokina's face morphed into anger, her Byakugan activating by its own.

"Well I'm not Minato-sensei, am I?" She sneered at the Uchiha who gulped. "What were you thinking?! You could have been killed or worse, captured! Thirteen against a genin in his first C-rank! What were you expecting?!" The angry Hyūga jabbed her finger against the wound she just healed "This isn't a game of tag-with-knives, Obito!"

"I just wanted to prove to you guys that I wasn't dead weight around the team." He muttered, looking sorry for himself.

"Obito if you died…" Tokina started, tears forming around her eyes. Obito immediately wanted to spout apologies but found that his throat had this huge lump lodged there.

The lump was called "guilt".

Tokina shook away the tears, her eyes relaxing.

"Obito, don't you ever think that your dead weight." She scolded. "Dead weight is a dead ninja, and a dead ninja is a stupid ninja. A Hokage's job is to not be stupid."

He bit his lip while she bandaged the cuts he had in his arms. He let out an awkward chuckle. "If I knew you were this scary in the field, Veggie-chan, maybe you should be the one that should have stopped me from charging in..."

Tokina gave him a stern, unamused look.

"I'm sorry," he said softly and quickly. "It won't happen again."

She tightened the bandages around his arm enough to make him wince. "Make sure it doesn't," She walked away from the defeated looking Uchiha in favor of helping Kakashi with the report.

Obito lied on the grass tiredly.

Why was everyone on his case? He handled the situation pretty well! All his shurikens hit, his taijutsu was solid and he gave some other nins third degree burns with minor injuries! If anything, his team should be proud of him! Sure, he was...overwhelmed for a small amount of time and knew that he would be in deep trouble if it wasn't for Minato-sensei but he was doing fine nonetheless!

Even though he froze up when he realized he killed someone; sensei needing to slap him. However, he was fighting for the village! That made it all justifiable!

…right?

He shook his head and refused to debate the morality of killing someone in a war.

He couldn't decide which one was scarier, being surrounded by enemy nin, Rin's face of disappointment that was directed to him or Tokina's "angry" face which, he was surprised to realize, he never saw on her before. She only got irritated, never mad.

He groaned and lifted his goggles, wiping his tired eyes with the bandages around his arms.

"I messed up," he sighed.

"It's a good thing you know, idiot." A familiar voice that always irritated him appeared beside him. He lifted his arm and glared at the Hatake with the Uchiha sneer that he's been working on.

Great,

Just his luck,

"What the hell are you doing here, bastard. I don't need your sermons."

Bakashi snorted. "As if I would waste my breath; goes into one ear exits on the other. I don't even know why snake-breath puts up with you." He began walking to the direction of his tent.

Obito growled.

He didn't need this.

"Tokina-chan, can I talk to you for a second?" Minato called when the boys were sleeping. She blinked at him, got up from her sleeping bag that Kushina stored in a storage scroll and went up to the teacher. Minato decided to rest up for the night since Team Sandwich was all out of energy, even if Konoha was just a few kilometres away.

They had nothing to report since the "missives" where just blank pieces of paper. They were tired, disappointed and irritated.

She walked over a snoring Obito and a peaceful looking Kakashi to a nearby tree which Minato perched himself on for his first watch.

"Yes, sensei?" She said in a hushed whisper, so she wouldn't disturb the boys. He jumped down and gave me a serious look. "You should really be easier on Obito."

You have got to be kidding me.

Minato raised his hands up in defense, Tokina's thoughts mirroring her face.

"He should be more careful and understanding, I agree but don't you think that showing incentive to protect the clients and his team deserves some praise?" He argued.

Tokina did not want to talk about this.

Obito was damn well lucky that she had no plans on mentioning this to Rin.

Maybe she will on how this conversation with Minato goes.

"It would if he had the ability to defend himself from thirteen medium-ranked chunin which he does not possess." She retorted coldly which Minato winced. "Obito doesn't even have the Sharingan yet and this is our first mission. He has no experience to base on his fights aside from sparring that he knows he won't die from."

"Sparring could amount to some gruesome scars but that was it. Scars, burns and cuts. Despite what you say, you would stop the fight in a heartbeat if we aimed to kill each other. I, of all people, should know that."

She interrupted him before he even opened his mouth. It might have come out rude but she did not want to talk about Obito. Her head hurt from the genjutsu and worrying about Obito. "No, sensei, before you ask, I don't think that charging in to thirteen or more nins is good battle experience." She deadpanned which he slumped.

"But he survived, didn't he?" He offered weakly.

She raised an eyebrow.

"Look, I don't agree to his actions but what I'm saying is that you need to give him a break. It is his first mission, after all."

She gave him a tight lipped smile, repressing the urge to say how contradictory he was. He dismissed the sleepy girl after that, but not before waking Kakashi up to probably give him a real talk session as well. She buried herself in the covers, staring at the stars and the full-moon, immediately lost in thought.

If I was the old me, I probably wouldn't have been so worried over him and maybe a bit glad, knowing that the possibility of conflict would be over in his early death. Look at me, now. Not caring if the world survived or what, just making sure Obito, Rin and my blood family stayed alive.

How times change.

They came back to the village by lunch time; the guy Minato and Tokina interrogated in tow and shipped off to the magical world that is T&I.

Poor guy,

At least he isn't in Kiri's T&I.

Minato promised to report in for his students, much to their pleasure and Kakashi's indifference. They went their separate ways after that.

Tokina knocked on the door to their "house" to let them know she wasn't some stranger since a lot of Hyūgas wander in without knocking.

"Mom, Kuma-kun, I'm back." She called out. There was shuffling and footsteps before the door slid open.

"Welcome back, Tokina-chan. That was a fast mission." Akane greeted her with a smile, which she returned. It was literally two days and one night, so calling it fast was an understatement. Maybe the three who tried to kill her and Kakashi should have lured them away from Konoha to make us travel weary as well but whatever, blessings come in all sorts of shapes, like bumbling enemies with a tragic past, for one. She let Tokina in after leaving her dirty shoes near the front door.

"There was a complication in the mission, resulting in an early dismissal." She recited, knowing that the "C" is going to get a rank boost. She looked around the room and silenced herself. Tokina activated her Byakugan and did a detailed sweep of the house.

"Where's—"

"Tokuma-kun? He is out in the playgrounds with his friends." Akane called out from the kitchen.

She was just a tiny bit jealous that he had friends that age. Her parents were busy fattening her up to activate her Byakugan early as a first born of a new Hyūga Branch family. It was so stupid, that tradition. At least it gave the prodigy leverage in her studies and training, resulting in an early graduation.

"Also, are you going to come to Hamuru's inauguration ceremony?" Tokina's mom called out, "It seems the Hokage trusts the Yuki Clan enough to give them their own leader, now. I am happy for them."

Tokina smirked, always happy to go to the Yuki Clan compound. They were so nice, and the children weren't at all rambunctious brats but really formal yet funny people she could easily relate to. "Sure, mom, I'll be there. Does that mean you're going to come home more often?"

If she could guess—and she was probably right—Tokina suspected that her mother was frowning by the tone of her voice. "No, I am to immediately return to the hospital and resume my active role there."

Tokina sighed and changed her clothes to prepare for her therapy session with Taizo.

Back to normal life.

AN.

DON'T GET USED TO ME DOUBLE POSTING EXTRA LONG CHAPTERS!

It seems, like the other characters from Boruto, he's giving me some sort of inspiration to go by. Also, I haven't reread my fanfic yet since I can't get past chapter 1 without the urge to:

1.) Throw my phone

2.) Scream

3.) Cringe

4.) Throw my phone and scream while cringing

So yes! Humorous reviews like Mr."Please update now" is appreciated because, holy shit, that made me giggle and probably made me edit this chapter out of sheer pettiness.

Editing doesn't seem like a chore anymore so that's something :D Now if I can only get back into actually writing this fic instead of my many unposted ones.

Anyway, enjoy life :)

PS. I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU GET USED TO THIS THEN YOUR ONLY SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR DISAPPOINTMENT