Scroll 21: Girl Power

When Kakashi re-appeared, there would be a figure standing next to him. It was a small child, this one dressed all in black with a hood, looking over at him. When he appeared, the figure would flick its own forehead, and in its place was a similar boy – except for a hood, he wore a normal ninja mask with sunglasses.

"Hello again." The boy would smile grimly.

Kakashi stopped in his tracks and smiled softly. "Hello there, what are you doing?"

The child shrugged. "I guess you don't remember me do you Kakashi…well, it was dark, but that was kind of my fault. Anyway, all day long I'd been trying to get a hold of Kensuke Uzaruki, that red-eyed girl's older brother. The purpose being, I need to talk to him so he can give her a message for me, because she trusts him and I can't talk to her directly because Sheena's always near her and well…Sheena hates me. But she'll listen to you."

This time the belt around his waist that had the darkness symbol was a bit more noticeable. The boy took in a deep breath as though what he was about to say either had great importance or was very awkward.

Kakashi nodded slowly, since he was in the thick of the village; he knew that this Darkness nin-child was not going to be pulling any outrageous stunts. However, the copycat nin was still wary.

"A message for Yukari-san? What would that message be, hhm?" The Hatake ninja kept his lazy, aloof face in place; not wanting to scare or tip off this kid that he was being analyzed. "I'm willing to listen, however, I don't know where Kensuke is. He is ANBU, and ANBU keep on the move."

"Oh, we know where most of them are we just don't know which one her brother is. It's kind of hard to get that close to somebody of your ANBU's skill without them noticing, believe me we've tried." The only thing Kakashi's analyzing might reveal is that the kid had a genjutsu going; constantly. The continuous genjutsu didn't seem to have any negative side effects and was centered mostly on the child himself. "Anyway, this message isn't about her, it's about Sheena the girl she's traveling w- " he looked up for a moment, having heard a small woof.

Jake looked down from his rooftop perch at passing Yukari and the trio of mini-nin. At first, he would just be still; then, few seconds later, he would start shaking before he broke out into laughter. Even after kneeling, his mirth grew to such heights that he would lose his balance and fall off the building, landing in front of Yukari and the other three as he rolled around on the ground laughing his head off.

The only things decipherable between laughs were: 'all girls', 'those poor bastards' and 'all at once?' As he laughed, he waved to Kakashi, indicating the situation was non-threatening and the copycat nin could come down as well. Kakashi, however, chose to remain on high ground, crouching down to watch the scene below unfold.

Yukari, having been snapped out of her train of thought as the boy landed in front of her, hissed and drew out a kunai knife. She hesitated to launch an attack when she located Kakashi-sensei staring down at her from the rooftop.

The puppy could feel Sheena's body get extremely tense, and would whimper in uncertainty as the chains constricted against it for a moment until Sheena remembered it was there. The only reason the chain-clad girl didn't jump and attack the boy on sight was because she was now afraid of endangering the puppy.

Gilligan retained his ever happy face until something the ninja said seemed to set him off, then anybody around could feel a large amount of chakra being built up, although slowly as though he was trying to escape notice. Wydra was confused, but on guard.

"What the piss is going on here?" Yukari would recognize the Darkness nin-band and frowned. "Aren't you the ugly kid I defeated the other day?" Her frown deepened as she looked at the trio of kids. "Kakashi, please explain what is going on here."

Jake would take a deep breath and talk before Kakashi could. "Well, it depends on how comfortable you are talking about extremely awkward situations, and possibly gross according to most people's standards." He would smile sheepishly. His father had given Jake, the boy that was now talking to Yukari and the rest, a very thorough education on the human body.

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Elsewhere, Jack, having been talking to Meiko, would suddenly burst out laughing, kneeling on the ground to stabilize himself so he wouldn't fall over. After a moment he would take a deep breath and say:

"I'm sorry, I normally don't lose control like that but my brother just found out something horrible…"

"Oh? What would that something horrible be?" Meiko would ask; her brow up in confusion. When he didn't answer, the Uzaruki child would just continue to stare onto the dirt wall as the candle made those shadows that always, always entranced her.

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Tsunade nodded to the med-nin and grasped the chart in her hand; as her other hand was being occupied by thumb-nail chewing.

"Abisu Udynou, Yuro Maso and Crystania Hyuuga Jokou are all in good health? This is going to be sticky to handle; since the Hyuuga girl must obviously be kept hidden from her clan, at her request. However, I suggest that Yuro be released to his clan. I know next to nothing about this 'Abisu' boy. What was his story?"

"Abisu? Well, he's not much talked about but he's the younger brother of Ebisu-sensei, Konohamaru's tutor. He was in an accident when he was younger and has been in a coma for a few years now. We've sent a message to Ebisu and he should be here shortly. Also, both Yuro Maso and Crystania Hyuuga Jokou are in good health. In fact, they seem to have not only recovered, but Crystallia has had many of her – deformities…" Curitsu said the word awkwardly. "…fixed. Like somebody could see what was wrong with her and performed the necessary surgery. I want to find out who could do something on that caliber…"

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Crystania Hyuuga would wake up to find herself feeling…improved although extremely sore. Some of her limbs seemed to have been re-adjusted, on the inside if not the outside, to work better. It was like somebody had gone in internally and medically healed her muscular disfigurement that had kept her tied to the hospital. She may not have been completely fixed, now but her body now, was certainly in a condition to start moving outside her med-room.

However, since the abused Hyuuga had escaped from her clan, she felt all but terrified of leaving the medical compound. She instead, sat up and listened to the odd, foreign voices in the room next door. The boy in the bed next to her would turn to speak.

"It feels good to be healthy again. Heck, feels good to just be awake again doesn't it? I'm Abisu."

The brown-haired genin was still in the med-bed, but was now sitting up and talking. The boy, aged-13, had been in a coma three years since he had suffered physical trauma. Abisu's health had been low after a ninja-training accident; and had degraded until his body put itself into a coma to avoid death.

"It does feel great to feel alive." Crystania nodded somberly and smiled. Her unconscious habit of covering her ugly, ugly crystalline eye brought her right hand to cover it. Whatever happened to the rest of her to heal her deformities, it didn't bring back her missing Byakugan ocular. She could care less, though, as she grew attached to the accursed thing. "I'm Crystania Hyuuga Jokou. I'm not really a Hyuuga though; I had my Byakugan sealed since birth. I haven't been trained to use it."

"Do you want my brother to help you learn how to use them? He's noted to be really strong and clever. If not, he could try and get the Hokage to help, he's supposed to be pretty close since he's Konohamaru's sensei." He smiled at her. "I'm not from a major clan, but we are decently skilled." Abisu stopped himself, about to keep talking. "I apologize; I have a tendency to ramble a bit. Why are you doing that?" he asked, nodding his head towards her right hand.

"Oh, my eye isn't there at all, it's just a crystal orb of chakra." Crystania slowly lowered her hand to show Abisu the white-purple tinted orb of crystal. Her face, however, was a pretty as Hinata's and her black hair, of which was tipped in white – complimented the colors of her eyes: both the silvery-white of the Byakugan and the white-purple of the crystal.

"Well, both of your orbs are pretty then." Abisu said, groaning a bit as he sat up. "It's gonna take some getting used to, being mobile again. I just hope I'll be in good enough shape to get out of here soon. What about you, Crystania?"

A familiar, closet-pervert's voice could be heard; growing in volume as it approached the room.

"I don't think I'll be going back home, since my family might want to dissect me further, given that my injuries have healed. The Hyuuga clan is a mess to start with and Hyuuga-sama, the Matriarch, is a mean bitch." Crystania sighed with resignation. "I'll find something to do though." She smiled politely as she took out a roll of bandage gauze and began to wrap it around her crystallized eye. "In the mean time, I'm too embarrassed by this to show it off just now." The short-statured Hyuuga turned her back to Abisu and modestly began wrapping to hide her eye.

Abisu would calmly reach out a hand and place it however far up Crystania's arm he could reach.

"I don't mean to be rude, but you shouldn't be embarrassed. If you can't get used to having it seen, how can other people, ya know?"

He'd smile warmly at the distraught Hyuuga as his older brother, Ebisu-sensei, opened the door to enter the room. The 5-foot 7" man noticed Abisu's hand on Crystania's arm and the smile on his face, then turned around and meant to close the door before the medical kunoichi, Curitsu, spoke up from Ebisu's left side.

"I thought you really wanted to see your brother though." The red-haired med-nin queried.

"He's uhm…busy…" Ebisu responded as his other hand went up to habitually push his dark-shaded glasses up his normal-sized nose.

Crystania blushed fiercely as Ebisu had entered the doorframe, catching what was to be the start of a long, and…intriguing…romance. Her Hyuuga's face slipped into place she had been drilled into her by her betters; the Main Branch family – it was the one she used when the Hyuuga medical ninja had performed their tests on her. Those tests, best left forgotten in her book, were what made her disfigured and weak. She had felt blessed when the Sand-Sound war provided enough distraction for her to slip the chains that held her captive and escape from the horrible Hyuuga medical building.

"Pardon me, Shinobi-san, I didn't mean to interrupt your reunion with your brother." She spoke evenly, letting her arm drop from Abisu's. "I'll just step out for a moment so you two can talk." She hadn't managed to ravel the gauze to hide her eyes before she bowed to Konohamaru's sensei before stepping past Ebisu to vacate the room.

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Sheena, after getting over the shock and anger of immediately seeing her brother, would realize he was laughing.

"Why…what's so funny?" she asked with confusion filling her voice. Jake had NEVER laughed before, not that she remembered. She reached a hand into her chains to pet the puppy, to comfort herself from the situation and to comfort the puppy because she didn't want it to be afraid of where it was. Jake would slow his laughing to a stop as he got to his feet and turned to answer Yukari.

"Oh, me? No, that was my weakling older brother." For a few seconds his voice would sound very slurred and rough, until he put his hands together, concentrated, and kept talking in a normal nine-year-old voice.

"We haven't bothered getting him out yet because he was stupid enough to get caught. Of all the ninja we have here, one of our own gets caught, is pathetic really. Anyway, I've been trying to get a message to you because I have some very important...medical information about my sister there that you'll need to know if you're going to travel with her. Unfortunately I was trying to do this without her knowing but either way, I'll still need to talk you in private." By now Jake had assumed a serious pose, his hands at his sides in a non-threatening gesture as he spoke to Yukari.

"So you wanted to tell me something about Sheena…why?" Yukari allowed her hands to drop in confusion as she stepped in front of the three kids. With a look to Kakashi, she canted her head sideways before spinning it halfway to look at Sheena pet something inside of her. "Uh…oh great. Sheena, what is that? Is that what think it is?"

The chains covering Sheena would move until they covered that part of her body from Yukari's sight.

"What do you think it is?" She blinked, looking up at Yukari with a blank poker-face. Wydra sighed, hoping this wouldn't get blown out of proportion. Gilligan continued to gather up chakra, and from Kakashi's vantage point he could see Gilligan start to slowly do hand signs behind his back, all the while maintaining his gaze on Jake.

"It's a puppy she's hiding in there, though I have no idea why. After everything we've been through I thought she'd given up on most animals. Can we get back to the subject at hand here?" Jake would say with impatience. "Actually, right now would be a bad time. When will you next be alone, or without those three at your side?" He looked down at his wrist, as though checking the time, before looking back up at Yukari.

Yukari would exhaled and nod as Kakashi made himself scarce, going to give this mild report of a meeting between a Darkness Nin and Yukari. Yukari, however, would spin the kunai on her finger as she twisted her body to glance back at Sheena.

"Ok, it would seem that we have a thieving event here, and a puppy was stolen. Sheena you can't do that, for real." Those red eyes crinkle in concern as she quickly pondered her options. Yukari had no time to return the puppy back to the Inuzuka clan, nor had time to explain just how this kid managed to steal an Inuzuka puppy – even if that puppy was bred for being a house-pet. Since her mission's start was less than thirty minutes away, and she still had yet to pack and return the kids to the Wheel-Camp; this dilemma had to be solved quickly, or it could drag to a stand-still.

"Geez, this'll be tight, but I guess I have to do it." The Uzaruki girl tapped into her newly replenished chakra and created a single Kage Bushin. Then, slicing her thumb; summoned a normal-sized carrier hawk and quickly wrote a writ of explanation and an IOU to Hana Inuzuka and sent the hawk to deliver the letter.

"Ok, kiddies, I've got to drop you off in front of Shozaku-chan, otherwise something might decide to happen – Fate knows how to laugh at me." Clone-Yukari motioned Sheena, Wydra and Gilligan to follow her towards the Wheel-Nin Camp. "I'll deliver these kids safe and sound, Yukari-sama, so don't you worry!"

"You saying that to me only makes me MORE worried, baka-clone." The real-Yukari sighed to herself; as her clone led the trio of children away. The red-eyed heiress turned to face Jake as they were alone.

"Ah. Well, since some attention seems to have been attracted to this street and I'm not gonna say anything in front of him." he pointed to the numerous civilians meandering about; hoping to get a glimpse of ninja action. "We can go to a place more private for the moment." Jake finished speaking and began to turn as if to go, his glasses hidden gaze passing over everyone as he turned.

He froze when he stopped on Gilligan though, who had done the final hand sign when their eyes crossed. Both of them were completely frozen: Gilligan in normal pose, Jake with one foot off the ground but his body seemingly locked in place. Wydra and Sheena hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary just yet, and Wydra had a hand on Sheena's shoulder to make her growling self go along with clone-Yukari. Now that the puppy discovered and allowed; Sheena would let it roam all over her, using the chains to let it go where it so pleased.

The puppy, now paid in full, had its tail wagging even more as it was released from the chainy prison of the stomach. Not that it minded, as it was using its young nose to sniff the tantalizing scent of Sheena's be-chained body. Metallic blood and odd odors were scented and categorized.

Clone-Yukari laughed as she paused and watched Gilligan and Jake. This clone was a bit daft in the head and it showed as she laughed. The shadow clone wondered if she would sacrifice herself to keep the peace – after all, she was a Kage Bunshin.

"Hey now, what's the hold up?" clone-Yukari would stare back at herself across the distance she had gained in those long, short seconds as she had begun to lead the trio of kids away from real-Yukari and towards the Wheel-nin camp.

Real-Yukari rolled her eyes and nodded at Jake's statement and pointed to an empty courtyard twelve yards away. With his agreement they left.

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"I apologize for once more breaking it off early Meiko-chan, but it appears that my brother needs me." Meiko would tear her gaze away from the candle-lit dirt way to face the quiet boy.

"Uhm, ok." Was her reply.

With that, Jack would sink into the ground, between the roots and out of sight. He could be seen, seconds later on the other side of Konoha, walking out from around a building, walking up to Jake, and flicking him on the forehead. In turn, in Jake's place was their third brother, Jank, the one with the hood.

"Jack, you know she won't understand how important it was to leave the village in the care of another and bring the trio home." Jake muttered.

"I know. I will defy our father to the last, Jake, to the last. Anyway, Yukari-senpai, since time appears to be off the essence while our brother holds the little deceiver in a Genjutsu. I'll just assume neither of the other two have good hearing."

At this point Jack walked up to Yukari who would be in the empty courtyard and would motion for her to kneel down so he could talk into her ear.

Real-Yukari, being confused by the actions of triplets, kneeled down and looked the kid in the eye.

"What is this now, three of you? How curious. You have my…real…attention…" She smirked as she glanced over to her distant clone, which was caught in the same genjutsu. "This is about Sheena, right? What can be important to tell your enemy something such as medical records? Are you three just looking out for your family?"

"Suffice to say, possessor of the bird demon; that no secret is beyond us. We know the extent to which many of you have suffered, and some of the things our father has done would make your interrogation captain cringe and walk away. I will do what I can to keep my sister in good health, and in good comfort. I will defy that demonic man until the gods themselves come down to kill the two that cannot die. But that is neither here nor there, what I need to tell you is this. My brother Jake is a medical genius. What your genius are known for in power; what your Uchiha and your Hyuuga can do with might, he can do with healing another's body and mind. To such an extent he can even predict, to a degree, certain bodily processes. In a few days, when you start your moon's cycle, so will Sheena, as though you were a trigger. This is because when a member of our family gets attached to something, we get…" he'd emphasize his next word heavily. "…attached. She's never had a good female role model, so she became quickly attached to you. I guess the women in our family are early bloomers. She's a little older than she looks. And, I should continue to mention, that she has become so attached to her two team-mates that she has extended an influence onto them that none of them are aware of, so when she starts they will too. Now, this might sound gross and largely un-necessary if it weren't for this next bit. We recently discovered a connection – I won't go into detail about our family's past or genetics. When the women in our family…start, they go a bit…crazy, and powerful. For a short amount of time as though boosted by the rites of life. Because of this particular thing, they…" The boy paused for a moment. "I'm sorry, I'm only nine-years old, so I don't think of this often...so to put it bluntly: all three of those girls are going to go boy-crazy; Wydra and Gilligan might be less so. They still will not hesitate to sate their hormonal desires. If you have any further questions, open your eyes while you slumber and we will be summoned…" And just like that, the three of them disappeared.

The real-Yukari blinked in stunned silence; her brain turning the words over and over again. '…three of those girls…', '…three of those girls…', 'sate their hormonal desires.'

"WHAT THE HE–" she screeched and bolted upright in utter confusion. "TEDDY-SAN IS A GIRL!" The red-eyed kunoichi was frozen to the spot for a few seconds before her body allowed itself to calm down.

"I think…I think I'm going to be dizzy now…" she slowly made her way to her apartment, in a daze.

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Kakashi felt a tap on his foot, where a note was left. It had writing on it stating:

'Good luck dude. I hear one's bad enough…but now you'll have three more.'

The silver-haired jounin looked at the paper in utter confusion. He took a look around to see who might have pinned such a note on his person, yet saw nothing. Kakashi lowered the note and shrugged, walking on to the Hokage's office.