Author's Note: I own nothing except Reyna; even Kayha and Katara are creations of a friend. Everything you recognize is property of Masashi Kishimoto. Characters are slightly OOC but that was the point of this; a friend and I decided that they needed to have some fun in their lives! Chaos ensued and this was the result.

Character Notes: Reyna has the ability to shift to a wolf as well as all the perks of being one (heightened senses); Kayha and Katara were two of Orochimaru's experiments. If there is interest I will post Reyna's story eventually as well. That's all I have to tell you now...ENJOY!

KAYHA DISAPPEARS

Three days later, Team Kakashi was back in the training grounds and finally back onto full training while Gaara was, once again, in his office doing paperwork. He glanced up at the frantic knocking at his door.

"Enter."

Katara burst into the office, trembling and frantic with tears in her eyes, "Lord Kazekage, something is horribly wrong. Kayha should have returned by now and I haven't heard anything from her. Something is wrong. Someone needs to go and search for her. Team Kakashi should be the ones to go out, they'll be able to find her."

Gaara nodded, "I'll send word out and they'll be gone within the hour."

"I'll tell them, I already know where to find them," she didn't even give Gaara time to answer before she bolted back out the door and ran towards the training grounds.

Reyna dodged a kicked from Kakashi and blocked his subsequent punch dropping and sweeping her leg out at his. He easily jumped over her attempt while she used her momentum to continue to spin as she stood and faced off against him again. Naruto and Sakura had paused in their own sparring in order to watch the two Jonin fight. Halfway through a hand sign, Reyna lifted her head into the wind and raised her hand to stop Kakashi who stopped mid-stride and lifted a brow at her.

"Katara's coming and she's worried. Actually, scratch that, she's panicked and terrified," Reyna spoke even as she turned to face the young woman who was running towards them.

"Kakashi, Kayha's gone. She took off for…a mission but she should have been back by now. She was heading towards the ocean. I asked Gaara to send you four. You must leave immediately!"

"Why didn't you go yourself?" Sakura asked as the four of them gathered around her.

"Because I can't heal her and I'm needed here. Now go, please."

Kakashi nodded, "Alright, we meet back here in ten minutes. Grab your weapons and let's go."

The four of them disappeared heading for the main house to acquire the rest of their weapons and get ready to head out. Ten minutes later all four were back at the training grounds and they headed out at a dead run in the direction that Katara had indicated. They reached the area long before sunset and set to work trying to track down the missing Kayha. While Naruto and Sakura headed in one direction, Kakashi and Reyna headed in the opposite.

"There's no sign of her yet," Naruto's voice came over the earpiece.

"Nothing here either," Kakashi replied, beginning to think the worst, that maybe they were too late and she was either captured or killed. "We'll search until sundown and then meet up where we started."

"Right," both Naruto and Sakura answered.

Reyna glanced over at Kakashi, "I have her scent but it's faint and fairly old. I just can't seem to find the trail for it like this though."

Kakashi sighed, his gaze turned away from his teammate until she tapped him on the shoulder, "Here, hold this. I really don't want it in my ear while I do this."

He was about to reply when she shoved the equipment in his hand, took half a step away and literally shimmered in front of him. Her entire body shimmered much like a mirage and a second later a large caramel coloured wolf stood in her place. The armbands that encircled both her upper arms appeared as markings in her fur. Golden eyes looked up at him and she lolled her tongue out at him before she shifted her attention back to following Kayha's scent trail.

Kakashi followed behind her. He had never actually seen her wolf form before, though he had heard stories about it from Naruto. He hadn't been exaggerating; there was definitely honey coloured streaks in her fur that the sun really liked to make shine within the rest of her markings. He was a little caught up in following the patterns of honey in her coat when she jerked her head up and gave a short, triumphant howl before she bolted forward, her body once again shimmering. Even at a dead run, she could shift, something that he made a quick mental note of.

"Naruto, Sakura, we found something."

"On our way, Sensei," Sakura's voice met his ear.

Reyna paused at a pile of rocks, "She's under this, I'm sure of it."

Naruto, who was approaching from another angle, shouted in shock and horror, "I see her arm. We've gotta get her out!"

Frantically Naruto started to dig through the pile, the others quickly joined him and within seconds Kayha's bloody body was revealed. Almost immediately Sakura began to heal her as much as she could in the area. Once she had done what she could, Kakashi gathered the young woman in his arms and they all bolted back towards the Sand Village. Despite the fact that Reyna was the fastest of the four, she brought up the rear, leaving at least a hundred feet between her and Sakura.

While Kakashi took Kayha into the emergency area of the medical wing, Naruto bolted to inform Gaara and Katara that they had her back in the village and that she was in bad shape. Reyna stopped in the doorway. As soon as he had Kayha placed on the bed, Kakashi joined Reyna and they headed for the waiting room where they dropped onto a bench, side by side. Kankuro, Gaara, Temari, Katara and Naruto appeared a few minutes later and joined them.

Gaara started to pace before he announced that he couldn't stand it anymore as Kayha screamed and he started to leave. Kankuro stopped him and instead Gaara headed into the emergency room only to be kicked back out into the waiting room by a frustrated Sakura.

Reyna sat stiffly beside Kakashi and without a word launched to her feet and stormed out of the room. The group stared after her for a few seconds before a concerned Kakashi followed her out of the building. He caught up to as she headed for her room and laid a hand on her shoulder to stop her, turning her to face him at the same time.

"What?" she snapped as she turned toward him.

He caught himself before he took a step away from her and instead tightened his grip on her shoulder, "What's with you?"

"Nothing, I just don't like being surrounded by people I don't know."

"It's more than that. You're never the last one back into a village and yet you were at least two hundred feet behind us when we reached the gate."

"It doesn't matter…I just can't…" she trailed off as the sound of another of Kayha's screams reached her ears and she closed her eyes.

Finally it dawned on him; she couldn't deal with the screaming. It made sense considering what he had learned about her in the past few days. He couldn't blame her either.

"Alright, then we'll get some training in," he didn't give her a chance to say anything as he gripped her forearm and pulled her out into dusk in the desert.

A/N: So since I had interest in continuing on, I have done so. Again, my muse needs reviews in order to function and tonight we are on a roll. My friend and I have other parties planned for them to attend in the future, so stay tuned! As always, keep the reviews coming to keep my muse happy and healthy! Until we meet again (probably only another hour or so…maybe…lol) :D