A/N: I realized while I was editing this chapter that I wrote something so freaking funny. Like I laughed out loud with it. I hope others laugh out loud with it too!

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Chapter 15: The Hokage's Dog

June 23rd:

I wake up early to go to the Hokage's office to discuss the mission. I sent a message to Kakashi about the basic outlines of my plan. As ordered by Lord Third. Any time anything is made I have to report to the Hokage as soon as I am physically able to. Which normally means right away. Those are unavoidable. But no one else has complained about the updates to missions or the thought process behind it.

As I get ready another memory overtakes me. It is summer time, they are all in a group getting ready to play ninja, and they are about 10 years old. I am watching from the roof top and I cannot hear what they are saying. I think they are trying to figure out who is going to be it. Kids at that age don't have the sensing abilities, they are untrained. A ninja who has been trained could spot me from a mile away. I have a small energy but there is still a chance someone can find me.

I see a boy with a spiky pony tail.

The person who is it happens to be Shikamaru. He yawns after everyone scatters and only walks around. After a while he gets everyone. Most people are surprised but Shikamaru was smart, even then. Shikamaru knows how to find people.

I feel someone behind me. I turn around to see Saskue behind me, glaring at me. Backing away I know that Saskue is watching me. His eyes, they are strong even for how old he is. I can feel the anger and the hatred he felt. I quickly leave the area and never try it again.

Saskue is a scary person. Even more after Itachi left and Saskue was left alone. He was too hung up on power for anything to happen. I was scared. I didn't know how to talk to people. Saskue had friends and knew people. Saskue could have anything he wanted since he was known through the village. I was nothing in the village.

I still am next to nothing in the village. Well, now is less. People have been getting to know who I am as a person. It became less when people began to get to know me, since Kakashi ordered me to get to know people.

I shake my head.

I am right outside of Kakashi's office. I need to focus. That memory is old. I shouldn't be worrying about it. Memories don't matter anymore. Why are they being brought up now?

I walk in to see Tenzo, Saskue, Lee, Sakura and Shikamaru already in his office. All of them turn to see who just walked into the room. Tenzo and Shikamaru already know. Sakura narrows her eyes at me and turns back around. Lee keeps facing forward. He is holding onto a crutch. He must have gotten hurt while they were on the mission.

Saskue, he looks at me. At first his eyes are the same as all those years ago. I shutter at the eyes. But they soften, a look of confusion? Yes, I have seen that look on Shikamaru before. Why would Saskue be confused about me?

Right he hasn't really seen me before.

Why is Saskue here? He should be on a mission.

I hear a cough and I look. I see Kakashi looking at me. I go into my stance. I need to focus.

"I am sorry Lord Sixth. I can come back in a few moments," I bow and begin to leave.

"No, stay, you also need to hear this Tooru," Lord Sixth waves me over to him.

I bow and walk over to him. I look at the others and I see Shikamaru is looking over at me. I almost forgot that Shikamaru went with Sakura to go help Tenzo with his mission. Shikamaru keeps his focus on me. Which makes me a little… flustered? Is that what I feel right now?

I also see Saskue, his facial expression is confused. He is trying to figure out what I am doing here. I wanted to talk with Kakashi but I didn't know that Tenzo would be back today.

Shikamaru gives me a small smile. I nod at him.

I stand next to Kakashi, looking at the group, "Now, go over it again Yamato."

"Yes Kakashi," Tenzo turns to me, "We spotted a few things out of the ordinary that may help you with your mission. We spotted a clearing that looked like the one you drew for both Shikamaru and myself. Only something seemed off, but we had to stop since Lee got hurt. Time seemed to speed up and not obeying anything that is going on. We forgot what day it was, we thought we had been there for days not knowing when back up would come. So, when Shikamaru and Sakura came it felt like Lee had been in pain for almost six months and not only a day or two."

"So Shikamaru and I got there and felt this odd chakra. We could not understand how it was like that. We know how to break these things but could not break it," Sakura interjects.

Right, I should have thought this could happen. I never thought that someone would have to deal with this. Though Sakura interjecting like that felt… like she was trying to make herself bigger than me. I shake it off.

I should not be trying to read them. I should be focused on what they are saying.

Kakashi looks at me, "Can you explain what is happening."

I nod and look at them, "Well, the chakra you feel is a preservation jutsu. It makes the body think that time is speeding up and it cannot be just one day that has been spent in the area. Beyond that I do not know much about it since I know how to counter it. I wish I had known you would be close to the clearing or else I would has taught you how to make special pills to take to keep from having this weird since of time. That feeling is so people don't spend so much time in there. That time though weights you down and steals your chakra each day you are in there."

Kakashi just looks at them. The whole group is shocked by what I just said. There is a very heavy moment of silence as I see Shikamaru and Tenzo understand what that might mean. I stand in my normal attention position but now something feels off about it. I feel awkward about how I am standing, normally I would not care too much about it.

I just don't know what I should be saying.

No I know what I should be saying. I don't know why I am acting like this. I need to just calm down.

They aren't the ones you need to be explaining this too.

"What are you saying Tooru?" Saskue asks.

I mentally shake off what I am feeling. I need to answer questions. This information is important to me and the mission.

"That place, it is suppose too be a secret and now that your guys chakra is around the area they will know that you where there. Since you didn't move your chakra will remain there until the meeting and they will know who you are. This will allow them the information that they need since certain chakras mix together very easily," I state.

There is a pause. I can see all of them thinking over the information I just gave them. I know I gave them the basics. But even then, Shikamaru knows about the clearing, I never thought that he would ever go there. I never told him since it was unimportant.

I never thought that something like this would happen. Shikamaru usually stays in the village. So I never thought of him leaving. I know how to get ride of everything. Chakra leaves a trace, which is why people can track us. Or small things to keep everything in place.

Pay attention to your own body!

"So, how have you not been discovered?" Shikamaru inquires.

"Food pills that neutralize chakra. That's why I can do this mission since I know how to get rid of any chakra that I give when I am not infusing chakra. These food pills help to get that trail to a minimum to where even special trackers and all that cannot track the chakra. Along with a low chakra output makes it easy to hide up in a tree or in the ground. That is the only reason why," I reply.

I know this could be bad though. The group will know and could target these people. I don't even know who the people are yet. I want to know. No one knows who I am, but they could be very well-known ninja.

Sakura chimes in, "They will know who we are?"

"Each one of you have a specific chakra set up that allows you to have each jutsu's. This is why Naruto could not properly infuse chakra until he was older. Since he also has the nine tails he is very easy to know. Saskue has this certain darkness to him, and so on," I respond. Kakashi looks at me, as though telling me something, "I will go and clean it with special herbs that will mix them together making them one."

Kakashi nods. I look back at Shikamaru. He gives me a blink? No that was only one eye. What is that called?

My eyes go to Sakura, she doesn't look too pleased. I move my eyes away from her.

I see Saskue is still going through his mind. I don't know what he is thinking though. I don't know if I want to know.

"You all are dismissed," Kakashi waves his hand and they all file out.

Shikamaru hangs around for a second longer but Kakashi waves him out too. Normally there is only Kakashi and myself in the room when I am asking for things. That is a rule from Lord Third, this was to keep everything safe. But the orders have never changed.

Kakashi turns to me after the door is closed and I nod at him saying they are all gone, "Well, you want to leave the day after tomorrow correct?" I nod my head, "Very well, you gave me your plans yesterday through messages."

I nod, "So everything is good?"

Kakashi nods and dismisses me. I walk out and head into the market to grab the herbs. I quickly grab them and head home.

Kakashi is very quick with letting me do things. I wonder if it has to do with Sakura and Naruto. I mean Saskue too. They were a wild team. Usually there is a long meeting. But today there wasn't.