Disclaimer: I own any OCs in this, the rest is Masashi Kishimoto. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Characters age:

Akane, Itachi: 15

Naruto, Sasuke: 9

Shisui: 18

Kakashi: 23

Pakkun was traumatized when he came back. But the point was, we could not make the Kazekage wait for us and we needed to keep a close eye on Naruto because he would tag along.

"It's so hot!" Naruto whined when we reached the border between the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers. I could make out a vast stretch of yellow in the distance.

"We'll reach the desert soon, of course it's hot Naruto. You really should pay attention in class." I told him, a kinda worn out. The heat was already getting to me. Anyway, he puffed his cheeks as we followed Kakashi-san and senpai in silence. I was mad at him for coming, he was mad at me for being mad at him.

Unsurprisingly, a Suna-nin was expecting us to be our guide in the desert. He even had goggles and cloaks for us. Still, he frowned when he spotted Naruto next to me.

"Forgive us for the unexpected member," Yamato started in a professional tone, "but when we realized he was there we were too far of the village. The Hokage sends his apologies."

"I see."

For once, Naruto's goggles were useful. Kakashi-san gave him his cloak and once we were all ready, we went in the desert. It was hot, it was windy, and after five minutes I was already sick of it. Hopefully, Naruto was complaining enough for the two of us, so that I would not look like a whining child. We crossed the desert for what must had been five freaking hours until the shape of Suna came to view.

"Nee-chan, that's Suna?" Naruto asked with eyes full of curiosity. "We are allied right?"

"Yes, and yeah. Suna and Konoha managed to make a truce at some point in the past. I'm not really sure of the details though." I replied with a nod.

"The Kazekage has requested your presence as soon as you arrived." The Suna-nin announced and gave a wary look at my cousin. "However, this is no place for a child."

"That's okay, I will take care of him." Yamato assured him. The Sand Shinobi nodded curtly and we reached the gates of Sunagakure.

It was big, with many ninja watching the desert. The village itself was within a valley, and once in front of the big cliffs that were used as the entrance, you could only be impressed. Even if there was a lack of color unlike Konoha. Here, everything was in yellow and brown tones. But well, Kiri...no, there was mist almost all the time but there was quite a lot of greenery actually.

As we reached the tower of the Kazekage, Yamato took Naruto with him. I went here once, old Kakashi-san had sent me here with Naruto for something. It would not really change in the future, except for the more wealthy look there would be. We stopped in front of a door and the ninja knocked.

"Come in." A deep voice said on the other side. Once inside, we met the stern face of the Yondaime Kazekage. He wore the standard robe of Suna and I could see the resemblance with old Kankuro. The spiky brown hair and harsh eyes. At least, that was the feeling his small irises were giving me. And the scowl. "Welcome to Sunagakure."

"Thanks for your hospitality, Kazekage-sama." Kakashi-san told him and we bowed in sync. "There has been a..."

"I am aware of the unexpected guest. The Hokage sent a message and one of my man came to tell me earlier. Arrangements have been made." He told us with authority. "You must be tired, I will explain to you what I'm expecting tomorrow. Until then, enjoy the village."

We both nodded and followed one of his men, to found ourselves in a hotel with Naruto and Yamato. To be fair, I did not want to know the reason why my cousin was glaring at my senpai.

And he talked about it once we were in our room anyway.

"We don't need any Konoha shinobi Kazekage."

I raised an eyebrow at the grandma in front of me, looking down on me. From what the Kazekage, Rasa if I had his name right, said earlier, that was Chiyo, one of the Suna elder and the one who helped seal Shukaku inside Gaara. Or more like inside of him when he was still in his mother's womb.

It was no surprise she was dead. When a woman was pregnant, her chakra would mainly go to the unborn child and thus, a seal could not work properly and would be unstable. So inside an unborn child, the chances he would be alive and healthy were almost non-existent. Gaara was a premature baby and it was a real miracle he was alive today. I could not say the same for his mother but...that was an atrocious thing to do. To seal a biju inside a pregnant woman.

But, once again, my mentality doesn't do well with that time. It didn't before either but...anyway.

"If we can prevent Gaara from killing more people then I will ask Konoha to send someone." The Kazekage replied with a glare for the old woman. She didn't care, obviously, as her attitude remained haughty. Guess I knew from where Sasori got it huh... "This girl is an Uzumaki, her fuinjutsu and knowledge is potentially bigger than ours."

"An Uzumaki you say..." She barely gave me side glance. "She could start a fight for no reason too."

Keep it down, keep it down, don't attack a woman with a foot already in the grave.

"Let me examine the seal or at least let me know which one it is and then tell me what you want me to do about it please." I interrupted them, the feeling of a coming headache getting stronger and stronger. Not just because of the situation, but because memories from this time would sometimes come back at me at random times. Now I knew I saw Rin, Obito and Kakashi-san more than once when I was a child, and it was a bit clearer than before. However, the old memories from my previous life were disappearing.

"Those youngsters these days do not know how to properly treat their elders anymore."

I twitched. That was kinda true. I mean, I would not stand a full hour with Genji-sama and his history lessons about the village. An elder of Kiri who had too much troubles walking, even with his demon staff if you didn't know.

But the Kazekage ignored her and started his explanation. I didn't know what to think of that guy. From what I was told, he was a shitty father to Gaara, maybe even more than my own, but he did that to protect his village. Once again, that's what I was told.

But the thing I got at a hundred percent was that I needed to approach an unstable Gaara.

Fuck my life.

"I understand that it is for my security, but I would rather do that my own way." I told the shinobi following me around.

"You don't get it, Gaara-sama could kill you in the blink of an eye."

"I didn't come alone, did I? We can deal with him." Senpai nodded next to me. "Show us the way please."

He gulped in front of my glare and lead us through Suna busy streets. I couldn't keep myself from looking around. There were, I wouldn't say plenty, but more than enough food in the stands, but it was a kinda on the pricey side. Which was strange, because I didn't remember it being that pricey when I came with old Naruto.

Anyway, we arrived in the park. I could see many children on one side, whispering between themselves.

"That kid is reckless!" The Sand-nin murmured in horror. I raised an eyebrow and turned my eyes to the other side of the park. I spotted Gaara on the swing, a teddy bear in his arms. But unlike my first thoughts, he did not look as sad or mad. Maybe the reason was the bubbly blond kid on the swing next to him. But the ninja did not move at all.

"Senpai is watching them." Yamato told me and I nodded. Just as you could expect from Kakashi-san.

"Well then, you can let us work from here." After I said that, I moved toward the two kids. Gaara spotted me first, squeezing his toy against him and glaring at me. Probably to hide the fear I might try to hurt him. Then Naruto saw me. He was not mad at me anymore because he shot me a beaming smile and waved.

"Nee-chan! I have a new friend." He yelled enthusiastically when I reached them. If Naruto managed to crack Gaara's shell at that age, it must mean it was not extremely thick yet. That could be good for me.

"Is that your sister Naruto?" A wary Gaara asked him. He was a cutie too when he was young.

"Yupe!"

"You don't look alike."

"We're distant cousin, but we see each other as siblings." I spoke out and ruffled Naruto's hair. I tilted my head on my shoulder with a smirk. "I hope Naruto didn't bother you too much Gaara. He can be..."

"I'm fine! Right Gaara!?"

He nodded shyly. I crossed my arms on my chest and looked up at the sky. It was the middle of the morning. And the best way to restrain Shukaku's power over Gaara's mind was to gain the latter's trust.

"Mind if I join you? Adults suck."

"Yeah! You can push us nee-chan!"

"Fine." I rolled my eyes and created a water clone. The clone went behind Naruto as I went behind Gaara, who seemed uncomfortable. "Are you okay with me pushing you Gaara?"

"Yeah..." But his sand didn't agree and tried to attack me. It grazed my arm and senpai appeared next to me, whereas Gaara was frightened and Naruto shocked.

"Well, that was a close one." I said as I eyed the bleeding wound on my arm.

"I...I..."

"That's okay Gaara, I saw you were not really comfortable with me. My bad." I chuckled when Yamato looked at my arm. I noticed the other children left the park in a hurry. Naruto seemed to have noticed too and frowned.

"Gaara, apologize to nee-chan and we can go back at playing. She's okay."

Gaara looked at him with wide eyes, then at me and murmured an apology. I grinned at him and waved Yamato off, telling him to join Kakashi-san. He did, and I went back to them, stretching my hand to Gaara. He looked at it weirdly.

"I want to be your friend like Naruto is. Can I?"

"Mother doesn't like you." I raised my eyebrows and Naruto laughed.

"You said the same thing to me when we met yesterday and I came back!" 'Mother' huh...did Shukaku feel Kurama inside of my cousin? And if so...did he manage to feel his other half in my own seal or is it just the deadliness of my chakra because of the Shinigami?

"I know, but Mother said..." He stopped himself and looked down. "He said rude things about your sister."

"Just spill it already. It won't do anything to me."

"Oh...then Mother said you were one of the assholes who think they're God." He told me, blinking rapidly at me. My eye twitched and I made some sort of forced laugh, that sounded more like a pig being killed. The two kids stared at me with worry and I crouched in front of him.

"My, Mother is a funny character! I wonder what does she look like. A turtle? A cat? Oh, a fox!"

"Don't insult Mother like that, she...hates it..." He mumbled and put his hands on his head with a pained expression. Oh, maybe I went a little too far.

"Sorry sorry, we probably don't find any fox around anyway. Hum...a tanuki maybe?" His sand attacked again and my clone stepped in and blocked it, turning into water in the process. "Okay, okay, I apologize."

"Nee-chan, you're impossible." Naruto stated with a deadpan.

"Hey, I'm not the one we need to keep from eating ramen at every single meal!"

After that event, I went back playing with them the two following days. Gaara warmed up a little, especially when I brought food with me. Of course, I was also studying the seal they put on the kid, but now I needed to see it in real life. He was staring at me as if I betrayed him. Being with his father must be the cause, because he was looking at him with pure fear in his eyes.

"Gaara, sorry for not telling you but I am not here to hurt you." But who knew, it could happen. Shukaku seemed to talk to him pretty often. Too often. "Do you mind if I examine you a little while you speak about Mother?" Hopefully, the Kazekage had just left.

"Why? Are you a doctor?"

"Not really but..."

"Then no. Leave Akane-san." His eyes turned cold and he raised his hand. I didn't know how, but even though we were inside, sand gathered at my feet.

"Your my cousin's friend. If I were to hurt you that would hurt him too. If you were to hurt me it would be the same."

"I don't care."

"Don't you? Really? Naruto is hated in Konoha too you know. People call him 'demon'. It hurt him, but here he is, making friend with you. You are alike you know. And he will be one of your best friend in the future, just like you, you will be a great man."

The sand stopped moving, but was still dangerously close to my feet.

"You have no idea Gaara, how important you will be in the future. How important your power will be and will help people."

"You're lying. It only hurts people." He said and shook his head.

"People will always hate. It is up to you to give them a reason to. That power you have, you can control it you know. I want to help you with it."

He stared at my face for long, long minutes. The sand started his retreat, but Gaara grasped his head tightly, moaning in pain.

"Gaara!" I rushed to him but he didn't let me do it. He raised his head and I froze. It was not the eyes of a child, it was the eyes of the biju inside of him. Fuck, did I make his instability worse?

"DIE!"

I was thrown against the wall and was sure I went through it to crash under the window in the hallway. I winced in pain when my head met the wall harshly and I felt blood dripping on my forehead. I saw sand approaching me fast and tried to dodge but it hit my left arm and snapped it with a loud noise. I barely heard Yamato said 'Mokuton' that I was fainting.

Oh shit.

"Gaara, that's okay. And the ointment you brought helped for my head." I told the child in front of me. I tried to move my cast to prove him I was okay but winced at the pain. "Okay, it hurts but I had much worse, so don't worry about it." Oh yeah, Yagura-sama in jinchuriki mode was worst.

He didn't look up. To sum up, I spent a night in the hospital, and spent the day after recovering. Gaara came with Naruto to give an ointment and ran away when I took it, Naruto going after him. Hopefully, Kakashi-san was always keeping an eye on these two. My arm was broken and I opened my head in the impact but I was fine, and went back to work. Actually, this had a positive outcome. Gaara seemed to have realized I did not want to harm him because I pretended nothing happened. My task moved on pretty well and now I knew that...I would need to reinforce his seal to keep Shukaku from impinging on Gaara's sanity. With luck, he would get a hold on how to work with Shukaku.

"We're done for today by the way, I'm sure Naruto won't mind playing with you at the swing." I informed him. He nodded, opened his mouth to say something and decided to leave instead. When I said there was a chance the crack his shell before a fight, I wasn't wrong. Naruto always had that kind of power on people I guess. Hey, maybe they wouldn't attack Konoha during the Chuunin Exam!

I stretched out and decided to walk in the village. We had been here for a week and a half, without counting the three day-trip. It was not my fault, dealing with a jinchuriki demanded a lot of prudence, even more if the biju had too much influence.

I stopped in the middle of the street and peeked behind me. Someone was following me, and with how they were not discreet, they were genins. I sighed and started walking again, making turn at every streets corners. Until I jumped onto a roof, ran and turned to face my follower. I blinked slowly when I recognized the sandy blond hair tied in four pigtails.

Fuck, I had a thirteen year-old Temari in front of me and she looked half pissed, half envious.

"You were following me, why?"

"How did you manage to get close to Gaara?" She asked at the same time. We both blinked at each other and I chuckled, which earned me a glare. She always had been the caring big sister after all. "Don't laugh or I..."

"Or what? You'll kick my ass? You're a genin." She just frowned at me and I took a step back. She was scary, even at that age! "Sorry sorry, I didn't want to hurt your feeling!"

"Answer my question!" Oh dang it. I sighed and ran my valid hand through my hair. It was dirty and I could feel grain of sand in it.

"Pay me something to eat and drink."

She must have really wanted to know because I found myself sitting in front of her, munching on a sand dango. That was okay, I guess, dango were not really my thing to begin with. I'd rather have takoyaki.

"How...hum..." I mused over her question, not paying attention to her twitching finger on the table. Or her stare. Or her whole behavior toward me. "My cousin became friend with him, so I tried to approach him as I would approach any shy kid." Ouch, that sounded wrong.

"He broke your arm."

"So what? He does not control what is inside of him. It is okay to be scared of him, but avoiding him will just make him even more unstable. That's what being alone with a lot of power do." I explained coolly and closed my eyes. "But well, unless you're crazy strong, it would be stupid to make a move now. Just look at my arm. I was reckless and that's what I got."

I needed to cut the relation between Gaara and Shukaku until the former was mentally strong enough to resist the tanuki's influence.

"Be patient, the day will come where he'll accept you, you know. Thanks for the treat, I gotta go. Bye." I left her and decided to go back at the hotel. I didn't want to say anything that could get her killed at the moment.

After two weeks, I temporary blocked Shukaku's ability to speak with Gaara and restrained him more. I didn't like it, but it was for Gaara's well-being. And it made me think really, really hard on bijuu-related fuinjutsu.

But I spent my second fifteenth birthday, aka my thirty-eighth birthday, sleeping to get my spent chakra back. Naruto finally managed to cut his paper with his chakra. So now we were ready to leave the village.

"Hey, next time come to Konoha Gaara, we'll go to Ichiraku!" My cousin exclaimed, placing his hands on Gaara's shoulders. His sand did not move. "I'll get Sasuke-teme too, and you'll help me beat him!"

"Do you think I could...?"

"Of course, you're my friend! I'll talk to Jiji! He can't say 'no' to the future Hokage!" He laughed loudly, his hands on his hips and I rolled my eyes. As a matter of fact, the Hokage could tell him 'no'. Yeah, hard to believe huh?

"Naruto...you want to be Hokage so that people will recognize you?" Gaara asked him. He seemed to be thinking of something.

"Yeah!"

"So...do you think I could be...Kazekage?" He said so quietly that only Naruto, and I who was behind him, could hear him.

"Of course! We'll show them one day!" Naruto proclaimed with determination. He stretched out his hand to Gaara, who stared at it for a while. Slowly, he raised his hand and shook my cousin's, who was giving him a toothy grin. Gaara smiled shyly at him in return.

With this, we left Suna. The first two days were relatively calm. But once the border crossed and my eyes getting accustomed to all the green around with absolutely no sand around, I felt something. Something weird, and Kakashi-san and Yamato-senpai felt the same too, because they were constantly on guard.

"What's happening?" I whispered at Kakashi-san. Even with his mask on, I could tell his eyes were scanning the area.

"I don't know, but there are more shinobi at the borders. Something must have happened."

"But what..."

"Stop!"

Gai-san landed in front of us, green spandex and everything. But his face was grave.

"Gai-san?" I called him and he looked up to see Kakashi-san.

"There was a conflict between Iwagakure and Kirigakure in the Land of Fire. An entire team from Kiri was killed but one. And it...it was one of the Seven Swordsmen."

My heart missed a beat. Could it be...could it have been the mission in which Mangetsu was killed? But now...he wasn't...I gulped but the lump in my throat did not disappear.

"Uchiha Shisui and his team had a mission at the same area and stopped it. The Kiri shinobi was rescued by his teammates later but...the relation between the three are tense. Especially between Kiri and Konoha as Iwa was the attacked one."

I widened my eyes.

That...that did not happen before. Because Shisui was dead, Mangetsu died too and end of the story. Fuck...what...I didn't provoke a war, right?

But even though, I couldn't help but be glad. Mangetsu...was alive. He...was alive.

A war might be coming, but he was alive.

We made it back to Konoha in silence, and I was confined in the village. It was because we couldn't give Kiri a chance to really wage a war on Konoha.

I knew something bad was coming. And I had another feeling. The one that was telling me I wouldn't stay Konoha much longer.

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