Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 17

Naruto, Sasuke: 12

Shisui: 21

Kakashi: 26

My chakra concealing seal on, I was hiding myself in the trees, full anbu outfit on, my hurt hand finally useful again. My katana was on my back though for once, and the weight was making me uncomfortable. I did my best to ignore it as I was staring at the big structure supported by the trees around for the sixth consecutive hour. The happiness of being a shinobi and having to wait.

Yesterday there was nothing.

The day before either.

Actually it was only today I saw two silhouettes going inside really. That structure was too strange to be left alone.

I spotted a group of people going inside and I decided to get closer. I jumped and glued myself to the big column next to it with my chakra. I moved a little to get a look inside. Even with the setting sun outside, I spotted my target with two thugs with him.

He really was a sheatfish.

My mouth formed an 'o' when the teenager with Zabuza made them run away. He body flickered pretty fast to stop the swords of the thugs.

He was good that kid. He was dressed like an oinin too. It seemed like he was taking care of Zabuza-san, who was in bed. I bet he had an encounter with Kakashi already.

I could kill Gatō now but decided otherwise. I knew Zabuza-san would be a good person to have by our side, but I did not know about the kid.

I was going to stay hidden and stalk him to see if he was good. If Zabuza-san took an interest in him he must be good but I wanted to be sure.

I was sure of one thing though. He was pretty.

Too much actually.

Now I was jealous.

I stopped breathing and went on the ground to hide behind a tree. Did Zabuza-san really sense me!? We call him a demon but still!

I spotted the teen leaving the place, not dressed as an oinin but in a pink sleeveless yukata. I felt blood rushing to my face. I mean, I said Itachi was a prettier girl than me when we were five but the teen is something else and without Uchiha genes!

I think.

I body flickered in a splash of water closer to follow him. Still from a good distance because I was sure he would be able to sense me if I was letting my guard down. It was early morning, the sun shining bright in the sky. It made me groan internally. Shinobi are better in the shadows. How do you want to hide with the sun above you in a green and colorful clearing when you're dressed in gray and black!

I frowned behind my mask when I felt him get on his guards out of sudden. I followed his gaze and kept myself from facepalming. Now, why was Naruto sleeping with not a care in the world in the middle of the forest during his mission alone was beyond me. From the mark on the trees though, I guessed Kakashi had been teaching them to climb trees, but why was Naruto alone? I thought I told him many times resting properly was the first step to an efficient training. Or was it to Sasuke because of all the burns he had?

Who knew, the point was I was ready to intervene if needed. The teen was associated with Zabuza-san, it was enough for Kiri to attack him. At my own surprise, he woke Naruto up and they picked up some herbs. For Zabuza-san I supposed.

"Yeah, I know that well too 'ttebayo." I heard Naruto's voice say beneath my branch and it got me out of my thoughts. What were they talking about?

The teen picked up his basket. "You'll get strong." Naruto approved. "I hope we meet again somewhere." He started leaving and stopped. "Oh...and...I'm a boy." Bingo! From Naruto's astonished expression, he thought the opposite.

I went back to following him and watched him pass by Sasuke and not turn around unlike the little Uchiha. Hum...from their clothes, they should pretty much be the same than in that picture there was at old Sakura's house.

"Naruto, Sakura asked me to give you this," Sasuke droned at my cousin. He threw what looked to be bandages at the center of his hitai-ate, strong enough to make Naruto fall backward.

Said Naruto got up fast, eyes filled with anger and an accusing finger pointed to him. "TEME!"

Ma, they should be alright.

Later that day, I went back at the clearing, to witness Naruto bragging to Kakashi and Sakura. But he was upside down a branch and lost focus. Sasuke caught him just in time. As Sakura was screeching Sasuke awesome, I felt a change in Kakashi's posture, who was using a crutch. Yep, he tensed and peeked behind him.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled, wanting his sensei's attention on him.

"Yeah?"

I sighed and went on a higher branch, still keeping an eyes on the kids whereas Sakura and Kakashi started leaving. Or more like I thought so but I found myself with a kunai on the throat.

Kakashi sent a shadow clone huh...

"Why is a Kiri anbu here when there is one of their missing-nin not far from here?" he asked me with the death threat in his voice perceptible. His killing intent was enough on its own.

"I'll talk to the real you Kakashi," I replied nonchalantly, not bothering to change my voice. Our missions didn't clash with each other from what I gathered in town. "Come at the inn."

I stabbed the clone and he quickly dispersed in a puff of smoke.

I would go back spying on the two mercenaries after my meeting with Kakashi. Meanwhile, I should take a break. Using pills to stay awake for spying was good but my body was reaching its limit.

I was dressed as a civilian once more and was relaxing in my room. That mission would end soon, I could feel it in my bones. Once I had a talk with Kakashi, I would go back to my spying.

"Girly, it's been a while," a gruff voice said and I noticed Pakkun at my window, "I thought you were dead."

"People in Konoha still think that?" I asked in a surprise voice.

"After my fight with Zabuza and that oinin I realized it was a possibility for you to be alive though." I turned around to see Kakashi. He was tense and his eye had this menacing glint in them. "Now the question is why are you here and why were you spying on my team?"

"I was merely taking a look at their training, you're not the one I'm after Kakashi."

"From the drop of the honorific, I guess the Mizukage strangely forgave you for being in Konoha," he said and glanced at my anbu mask next to me.

"I'm his dirty little secret and secret weapon, he wouldn't have killed me after spending so much time training me personally," I replied with a wry smirk at the corner of my lips. "Don't worry, I want nothing to the bridge builder. Yagura asked me to kill Gatō, that guy made fun of him and he didn't like it."

"Then I guess as an anbu from the Mist you know about a certain missing-nin from your village."

"Who do you think I was spying on? I've been keeping a close eye on Zabuza-san and his little apprentice. You do your mission and I do mine. We're almost on the same side."

"I've heard about how the missing Swordsmen were being killed easily for the past two years, should I be scared of being on your blacklist?"

"Don't get in my way and we will part ways without bad blood between our two villages," I told him in a bored voice. I noticed his staring and glanced at him. Oh, he wasn't staring at me but at what I was reading. "The author gave it to me and signed it. He really wanted a feminine opinion on it."

"Sensei would kill him for giving you this," Kakashi muttered under his breath. I smirked at him with humor.

"And he would be so proud of his student who reads Icha Icha in public and in front of his son," I chuckled at his inner turmoil. "You should leave now, who knows who might see a Konoha shinobi and a Mist kunoichi together."

Later that day, I went back to my spying. I stayed until it was dark and I was pretty sure the teen was sleeping, because I had just avoided a big butcher knife and he was nowhere in sight.

"Care to tell me why you've been spying but didn't try anything yet brat?" Zabuza-san asked me in his gruffly voice.

"I missed you too Zabuza-san. Mangetsu and Suigetsu are very mean when they play with their swords~," I informed him with a sigh, as if it was his fault. I took off my mask and left it on my head to put a hand on my cheek. "If Mei-sensei was here she would be very disappointed..."

"She's not here, is she?" He squinted at me and I burst into laughter. Mei-sensei had a gift to stay in people's mind because of how uncomfortable she could make them feel.

"I'm the only one here, Chief Dwarf asked me to kill your client."

"Weird, I'm pretty sure I went to your funeral with that moron who was crying next to me, and yet there you are," he hissed at me, his whole demeanor screaming at me to convince him I was not his enemy or I would not get out of here unscratched.

"Raiga cries at every funerals he goes and he goes at every funerals," I reminded him with a shrug of my shoulders.

"Yagura actually went through all the troubles to get his forced apprentice back. Do you feel flattered?" Now he was trying to know my objective here.

"I've been hunting some of your buddies with Mangetsu. Jinpachi still gave me the creep even without his body," I explained with a bored face. "It's such a joy to be at his service once again."

"You seem to be over the moon," He remarked sarcastically and I gave him a thumbs up.

"I'm not planning to hunt you down," I ended up saying in a more serious voice. "I was spying on you because of the kid, to see if he would be able to take it."

"Take what?" he inquired, seemingly interested. I threw him the scroll and he caught it with ease.

"You lighted sparks Zabuza-san. Mei-sensei thought you'd be interested in the fire," I informed him and put my mask back on. "If I know you like I think I do, you won't let Gatō live. Let me get his head please."

I body flickered away. Now it was between Zabuza-san's hands.

I caught three senbons between my fingers. That was rude.

"Leave it Haku," Zabuza-san told his student as he was knocking out the last worker on the bridge, "Uzumaki won't interfere in our fight."

"Uzumaki?" he repeated, head still raised to me as I waved at him.

"I'll enjoy the show, that's all!"

Zabuza-san grumbled something like 'fucking brat', I could feel Haku's confusion behind his mask and mist surrounded us. As for me, I made myself comfortable on one of the scaffolding. Should I try to get yogurt from here? Suigetsu loves his yogurt, and keeps saying I should bring him things from my mission because he had always been the unofficial member of our team.

More like the clingy little brother who wants to do what his brother does.

It barely reminds me of someone else.

I didn't even bother to look down when I heard voices, one unfamiliar though. I focused and arched a brow. No Naruto?

"Sorry to have kept you waiting, Kakashi," Zabuza-san started, hidden from them. We really do love drama in Kiri huh... "I see you've got those brats with you as always. He's still trembling, poor thing."

"I'm trembling with...excitement." I heard Sasuke's voice replied with confidence and, as he said, excitement.

It was starting huh...To be honest, I was more interested in Haku's techniques. I went behind the scaffolding and let myself fall. I used my chakra to glue myself on the wall and walked under it placing a detection seal in case my target was to show up, to go on the other side. With the mist and my seal, they could not spot me.

Well, Konoha and mission-san couldn't.

I poked my head over the bridge, the rest of my body glued to the wall as Sasuke and Haku started going at it. At least, from what I heard. Kakashi would take care of Zabuza-san, Sasuke of Haku and Sakura of mission-san. I kept myself from sighing. Old Sakura told me how...useless she was until the chuunin exam, and then Sasuke leaving. Anyway, I frowned when Haku made hand seals with only one hand, and after a tap of his foot, water raised around him and formed needles. I shivered at the coldnness I felt. Now, were these needles made of water or ice?

Sasuke jumped in the air and kicked Haku, who was sent flying at his master's feet. Not that I could see perfectly, I wanted to blow the mist away with the technique Yagura taught me when I got back, but it was enough to follow.

"You can't make fun of our team because we have children," Kakashi started, almost in scolding voice I'd say, "Sasuke is Konoha's number one rookie and one of the heir to the Uchiha clan. Sakura is the village's shrewdest child. And the other one likes to show off and is number one in surprising people. He's the noisy ninja Naruto." I sweat dropped. Ma, he got that right.

However, that Haku was testing the water. Good move against an unknown opponent you fight one-on-one. Haku got up and I kept myself from whistling in admiration in front of him using a technique I vaguely knew. A Hyōton technique.

"Hyoton: Crystal Ice Mirror." I heard him say as ice mirror surrounded and trapped Sasuke. That technique was a secret technique of the Yuki clan if I remember well. Not that I would know, I focused more on freezing absolutely everything and mixing Suiton and Hyoton techniques. Haku went into a mirror and Zabuza-san decided it was time to really fight Kakashi.

"Sasuke-kun, take it!"

I raised my head but from where I was I couldn't see. Sakura must have tried to help and failed.

I sweat dropped at Naruto's flashy appearance, and at Sasuke's outburst when the same Naruto sneaked up on him.

Still, I never thought I would end up meeting another member of the Yuki clan. Last time I checked, they were more extinct than the Uzumakis. I should know, I have played a minor part in it when I was made chuunin and then jounin. I shivered at the memories of blood and screams and terrified children in my mind. No matter what, what I had to do would always be on my mind. Maybe that was why old Itachi kept coming back. I didn't know anything apart from what people said about him, I never told him I was from the Bloody Mist. I bet Hoshigaki-san told him though, and that he made his own conclusions.

Fuck, I missed him so much. At least he would be able to help me in this mess that is Kiri, or just calm me down when I was starting doubting myself.

I frowned when I heard Sasuke's scream of pain, and then Naruto's. They were genin, they could deal with it, I wasn't supposed to be here anyway and they survived it so now...

They would be fine, even in this ice dome of Hell.

I yawned under my mask and froze out of nowhere. There was...a deadly chakra in the air. It was from the dome, and I could see red inside of it. Red...the chakra was familiar to Sanbi's and Rokubi's, even if I had more experience with the former.

Yep, that was Kurama.

"The seal weakened," came oji-chan's voice in my head. "It's not broken, but something has triggered Naruto."

The dome exploded and the chakra disappeared. I didn't know what, why, how, but now they were talking about Haku's past and how sad it was. The purges in the Land of Water he suffered from. So while they were talking, I got on the bridge and went to Sasuke. I checked his pulse and, even though there was basically none, I knew better than trusting those needles. There were more chances he was in a death-like state than actually dead.

Or, I hoped so.

I craned my neck to glance at the end of the bridge. There were people coming. Lots of people.

"I got this Uzu."

I jumped and realized that Mangetsu was right in front of me, red and white Anbu mask on his face. The fuck? Did Yagura think I was taking too long or something like that?

"Sensei's orders," he informed me as he started to get the needles out of Sasuke. I nodded and got up, not even bothering to look at Sakura or mission-san when they ran to us. "Shut up kid, I'm saving your boyfriend's life right now."

I turned my head when I heard thunder. Shit, Kakashi was about to kill Zabuza-san! I grabbed a kunai and threw it at them. As he flew, I started my water shield and was ready to freeze it between the two jounin. At the same time Haku decided to be a hero.

The kunai arrived, Haku appeared in an ice mirror. My shield was behind said mirror and I froze it.

Then, I teleported to them and jumped on Haku as Kakashi's Chidori cried.

Hey! Thanks for reading! Please review so that I know you liked it :)

Tonegawa Rie: Thanks for the review :) and Shisui will take some time to appear, sorry ;) but he will play a big part before the Shippuden part of the fic!

nevvy: Thanks for the review :) There should be some ItaxAka moments soon for you! Thank you for liking her development too, I don't want to write a fic with a female OC just for the OC to be someone's girlfriend, bu someone with a goal. I find that very important for OCs to have something to achieve :)

Oh, and concerning the ships ItachixAkane and ShisuixAkane, I'd need names if some of you would like to propose something :)! I think I'll need at some point in the fic!

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