"Where did you find this... this child!"
"Like we said father, we were outside the walls. We saw some robbers run by so we took 'em out to practice our new jutsuus. We heard something crying and found the girl in one of the sacks..."
"One of them? How many were there?"
"Kankuro, about three right?"
"Yes, sister."
"Bring them to me, son."
"Right away, father," and the little boy dashed out of the room, thrilled not to have left the study ashamed of himself, as he was accustomed to be whenever he left that room.

The Kazekage returned back to his desk and rested his face in his hand, thoroughly thinking through the consequences of this event. What would happen if they got rid of the child? Would it be easier for them? Or would it just raise more chaos from the Leaf? Will they even send a search party? If so, did they actually care? Hiashi Hyuga, as far as he had heard, rarely took confidence and pride in his whole family it seemed. Even his wife he was ashamed of because she could not run the house as he thought it ought to be, plus she was too shy to be a very great leader of any sort.

This was definitely not a problem seen everyday. Maybe he should consult the council? Should he ask his brother? Especially concerning government? If only he could ask his wife... but thanks to one child, he couldn't. That child should pay for his crime. She was innocent! He had a demon. Why let a murderer live when he could easily be killed in infancy? It had gotten out of hand at one point and should not have ended in that. He knew in the back of his mind that it was not the child's fault at all, but his, but he ignored that party of his mind altogether long ago. He decided no, he would wait until he could for sure see whether or not this demon would somehow prove useful or useless. Then he could possibly have his revenge then.

Kankuro returned rather quickly for his age, probably only because his puppets were carrying the bodies this time. He had dropped the corpses outside the office door and began bringing in the loot the criminals had collected. The boy had the puppets place the bags on his father's desk and he went though the items.

The people were surely thieves as they not only took priceless perfume and jewelry, but also clothes of the most elegance and pins and brushes of the richest of people. They had indeed robbed the Hyuga compound, as one of the outfits had the Hyuga seal on it.

The Sand Village leader began to write a letter saying:

Greetings, great Fourth Hokage,

I have disturbing news to inform you of. As you probably surely know, the Hyuga compound has been robbed. My ninja were fortunately able to catch them outside the Hidden Sand Village's borders and we have acquired all they have stolen as well as identified the thieves, three of them in counting.
We were able to identify the belongings be the style and emblems on them and so we shall be sending them back as soon as possible, hopefully arriving in three or four days time. In addition, I am sending special ninja to bring and guard the Hyuga's possessions. And know for sure: as your allies, we shall help indeed. Allies help allies and we know we shall keep our villages' bond. Have a good evening.

Sincerely,
The fourth Kazekage

With this signed and sealed, he sent his brother to deliver the letter to an owl to take it to the Hidden Leaf Village.

Everything is done, he thought to himself. No use in keeping the kids up any longer, and so had the housekeeper lead them away. But Temari turned around and ran back to her father, still a little short of breath, she just had to ask, "Father, what are going to do about the girl. She's so fragile and I would indeed like a sister..."

"We are not keeping her. I am going to find a family in the village who will take care of her and she can be of some help every so often. Hopefully we won't have gone through so much trouble for no reason."

Temari opened her mouth once more to argue back, but knew better than to back-talk her father. She slowly walked back to join Kankuro. Together, they climbed up the stairs to their own rooms to prepare for a night's rest after an exciting night. Before going into their separate rooms directly across from each other, Kankuro had one more thing to say, "Hey Temari, we're going to have to figure out where Dad puts her so we can play with her sometimes!"

"That's a great idea! We will ask tomorrow though. If we went down now, he would just get mad now." And after that, the doors opened, and then they closed. Downstairs, the lights were still on, and this time, the Kazekage was at peace holding the little girl in his arms. He could only feel like this with her compared to his son because she did not have a monster inside him.