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

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 18

Naruto, Sasuke: 12/13

Shisui: 21

Kakashi: 27

"I don't know. We went out for a drink and Dai decided to be the sober one. He dropped us both at my place around two in the morning as we were drunk and drugged," I said to the anbu in front of me, my cold eyes staring straight into his. It was normal that nobody was aware of absolutely everything going within the Resistance, of every little moves, but Mangetsu and I were usually told about most of them, at least the most important ones.

"Are you sure you did not see anything strange coming from any of the Terumis?"

"No, for the hundredth time I don't know anything." It was true, and I knew the same could be said about Mangetsu. We were two of the most 'trusted' shinobi of the village, directly under the Mizukage as we were Swordsmen, it must have been the reason but...but it hurt to know Dai drugged us to have us out of the picture.

Needless to say when I finally left the ANBU's underground interrogation -torture- room, I stared for a long time at the rubble of concrete around me. There were injured persons, but no deaths. It was clearly intimidation and Yagura knew it as he was fuming. The lowest class' joy was cut short when shinobi were sent to 'calm them down', so intimidate them and beat the most tenacious one up. I wasn't there for that, or Mangetsu, as our stomachs were being flushed from the alcohol and drug. Suigetsu clearly had no idea of what was happening, like Haku and Chōjūrō.

To sum up, Kiri was one big mess right now, as sensei and Dai were both powerful and symbols of how the lower class could reach the top. Needless to say, there was hope lingering in the civilians' silence, and Yagura knew and hated it.

My eyes met Mangetsu's as he was waiting outside, probably thinking about last night. The mist seemed to be denser today, and we walked silently in the deserted streets of the village, the night slowly settling in. We really did spend the whole day being interrogated and I couldn't help the worry in the pit of my stomach. I knew it was coming, yet having been kept in the dark was making me insane. No matter how you looked at it, Dai and sensei defecting was huge, but that Naoto, Yagura's son, defected too was even more huge. It was a big middle finger to the way the Mizukage was ruling Kiri.

I knew it was coming but everything was going so fast that it was unsettling.

"Something's not right," Mangetsu muttered next to me as we entered the rest of the Hozuki compound. I'd always known it silent, but it was a different kind of silence. I saw the muscles of Mangetsu's arm twitched and my whole body tensed, ready to move and strike. We walked prudently to his house, the closest to the river going through the village, and I frowned at the lack of light. In Suigetsu's room. "Something's not right," he repeated and when he shot me a look, I nodded and summoned Nuibari.

"Suigetsu's not on a mission with the state of the village and...yeah, I'm pretty sure I can sense different chakra in there," I added. In the blink of an eye, I saw him thinking about the best way to handle the situation and showing me the roof, silently telling me to check the second floor first. Hopefully, I left marked kunai here too and I teleported to the backyard and jumped to Mangetsu's window. His window was rarely locked as we often came directly to his window in our genin days, so there was just an old seal of mine as a lock that Dai, Mangetsu and I knew how to deactivate.

I scanned the seal with my eyes and scoffed to myself. I was an amateur back then, better than Sasuke and Naruto, but nothing next to what I do now. In any case, I got in and silently left his room, messier than usual. I checked the floor and tried to sense other chakra in the manor, which made me stop in my steps when I distinctly felt Suigetsu, Haku and Chōjūrō downstairs. Not Mangetsu, because he was hiding himself, but it was strange. The atmosphere was too calm and tense to be normal, and what was the point of having no lights on if the three of them were here?

I cursed under my breath and took big steps when I noticed Fune, the housekeeper, motionless on the floor, a bucket of water spilled on the wooden floor next to her. I turned her over and raised a brow at her opened eyes and the senbon in her neck.

Wait a min…

My thoughts were stopped by the sound of fighting downstairs. If it was who I thought it was then…

"Uzu!" Suigetsu cried out when I appeared in the living-room. I sighed at Mangetsu wrestling Dai on the floor, three newly made chuunin watching them. I rolled my eyes and gestured to the chuunin to help me, which they did and I found myself between my teammates.

"I should punch you till your teeth fall off for keeping us in the dark and drugging us!" Mangetsu hissed, glaring daggers at the medic who smiled apologetically at him.

"I'm sorry, but it was Aneki's orders! We can't lose any of you two being so close to Yagura!" Dai's eyes found mine. "You get it, right Uzu?"

"I do." I pushed him hard enough for him to fall on his ass. "It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt a little to know you drugged us behind our back."

"But by not knowing you couldn't spill anything and you wouldn't be suspected!" He didn't get it, did he?

"We get that, it's just that we're a team and you went behind our back. We understand the reason, but it hurts because we trust you moron." I wasn't going to lie, the flash of regret and shame in his eyes felt good.

"Sorry?" he mumbled weakly and I nodded, pulling him up to his feet.

"That's better. So, what's next?" Suigetsu and Haku released Mangetsu from their hold and we all sat on the floor.

"Well, Aneki is going to go with Zabuza-san to the Waves, from what I understood someone from Konoha will be sent too, someone who knows about what's going on here." I widened my eyes. Kakashi? "Also, I don't know what he did, but Zabuza-san may have done something making Tenzen Daikoku guilty of crimes toward Kiri so hopefully one of you will be sent to kill him as he is also in Waves." Heh, from the look on Haku's face, it was better not to wonder what Zabuza-san did exactly. "Just, from now on, try not to get too injured on missions, okay? It will be better if you come less to the hideout too, Aneki will send you more information later on. Stay alive, 'kay? We're too close to fuck everything up right now."

I nodded, and just as Dai said, two days later, I was in Yagura's office with five other jounin as he was sending us on different missions. I was ordered to kill that Tenzen guy and just like that, I was out of the village for the first time since I got back from Konoha almost a month ago.

"You're putting me in charge of Team Seven instead of Kakashi-san?" Itachi repeated with obvious surprise. His senpai nodded next to Tsunade.

"Indeed, I need Kakashi on another important mission and with Sasuke's particular condition and Naruto, I want someone who can handle them. I know that having siblings in the same team can be challenging, especially if one is the superior of the other, but I trust you to make them work together just fine."

"Understood Tsunade-sama."

"Fine. Your mission is a B-rank, you have to escort the actress Yuki Fujikaze and the film crew to the Land of Snow. Kakashi has had a mission over there in the past during his ANBU days, here is information you might need. Keep them to yourself Itachi." The Uchiha nodded and took the folder his Hokage gave him, a single eyebrow quirking at the sight of three cinema tickets for the newest Princess Gale's story.

"A little gift from me, they need to be put in a certain condition sometimes for their teamwork to be truly efficient," Kakashi explained with his eye-smile.

"Go meet with your temporary team now, you'll leave tomorrow at six in the morning." Itachi nodded and left the office silently. Tsunade sighed deeply as Kakashi went in front of her. "Terumi officially defected her village by attacking it, apparently it's a real mess at the moment. She'll go to the Land of Waves with someone to negotiate the shelter given to Kiri civilians, go there and help them get it. We were primarily asked to protect the civilians, they want to deal with the fighting on their own. I can't say I blame them, having a Kage manipulated is the biggest sign of weakness you can have."

"Do we have information about who is behind the Mizukage then?" Tsunade frowned at that and crossed her hands in front of her face.

"I do, and I'll act in consequences once the time will be right. If what they told me, what they told Sarutobi-sensei is true, then it will have consequences in Konoha too and could create new tensions with Kiri and in Konoha."

If they could prove Akane's words about Uchiha Obito, someone who had officially been dead for the last fifteen years, controlling the Fourth Mizukage who also happened to be the Sanbi jinchuriki and being the real mastermind behind the still hidden Akatsuki, then it would throw Konoha itself in chaos if it was badly handled. Not that Obito's identity would be revealed right away, but that an Uchiha with a powerful sharingan was roaming free outside of Konoha and could control a jinchuriki and Kage? It would be bad for them.

Especially knowing that if he could control a jinchuriki, he could control a bijuu too. Like the Kyuubi during that night where Minato and Kushina died.

It could create strong bonds between Kiri and Konoha for the first time in History if the Resistance won, just like it could create war.

As Kakashi left her office, Tsunade poured herself a cup of sake. They avoided a coup from the Uchiha clan five years ago, but it did not mean they were all happy. Tensions were less present, but still there, and she was perfectly aware some Uchihas would agree with Obito's behavior. It could be a great opportunity to really put the Uchiha clan to the test. Once she had the certainty the Sharingan was behind the situation in Kiri and the attack of the Kyuubi, she would tell Fugaku and tell him clearly that where he would position himself and his clan would be a new start for them.

Tsunade did not know if it would be good or bad, for them or for Konoha, but one way or another, what was happening in the Land of Water would have repercussions way further than their borders.

Itachi stared at his brother's team training, and mostly bickering, from his spot in the tree. He knew Sasuke's level and was explained by his father and Jiraya-san how Orochimaru's mark worked. He knew Naruto's level, so close and sometimes even a little bit higher than Sasuke's. But Sakura? She knew the theory of medical jutsu and because she did not have a teacher, she learned how to make and use poison. Shisui could not bring himself to stop mocking Sasuke when he accidentally drop a bomb Sakura gave him containing paralyzing gas and they had to bring him to the hospital.

However, Itachi briefly heard Akiko say she mentioned Sakura's great chakra control and interest in medicine to Tsunade. It could create a frightening combination.

"Hey," Itachi greeted, making his presence known when he jumped and landed next to them. The three genin stopped and stared at him with surprise.

"Itachi-nii?" Naruto called him, and to make sure he was not dreaming he rubbed his eyes.

"I'm replacing Kakashi-san for your mission tomorrow. We'll leave in the morning."

"What happened to Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked and blinked confusingly at him.

"He's being sent on another mission." Sasuke did not looked pleased though. Itachi knew Sasuke admired him when he was younger, but ever since the Chuunin Exams, he seemed irritated, and it only grew since Orochimaru marked him.

Itachi knew what was happening though. As Sasuke was now officially a shinobi, he was suffering from his older brother's reputation.

I firmly planted a marked kunai in a tree near Tenzen's little castle and infiltrated the place. It was easy. There was no shinobi in his ranks, so I used some micro explosion seals to destroy some locks, killed some of them with Nuibari in sometimes some pretty gory ways.

Those strings were way too sharp, the poor guy didn't see it coming and next thing he knew he was crying of pain because his ankles were bleeding where his feet used to be, said feet resting in front of him.

You should always be careful of where you're walking, so it definitely wasn't my fault.

In any case, I reached the basement quickly. Huh, in my past life I would have been more tired. I did improve a lot I guess. I stopped in the middle of it and crouched, placing my hands flat on the floor. I let my chakra flows outside of it and two explosion seals grew. I let them grew until they were up the walls and I smirked when I heard people coming toward me. I waved at the first two and teleported to my marker outside to make the seals explode.

Let me tell you, it was a lot of dirty money that burned into ashes, and my personal body count just went up by a lot right now. Oh well, I did feel a little bad but it was for my people so...I would be fine.

However, I might have made the seals too powerful, because the flames were starting to spread to the forest around. It would be a good occasion to test something though.

I was working on too many things in fuinjutsu at the same time.

I sprinted all around the fire, leaving many marked kunai around it and went in the circle I made. If there was something I had not done in a long time was barrier. I worked on it in my past life, the Sixth Hokage even asked me if I could potentially create artificial Adamantine chains with old Naruto as the guinea pig. It was more or less okay if he was inside without Kurama's help to begin with, and I could keep like a tenth of their strength inside the barrier.

I wonder how it went after my death.

In any case, I went through familiar hand seals and I noticed that, as a wave of chakra left my markers to form a dome, it was easier than before. Having my markers, basically portions of my chakra, dispersed around was making the barrier more stable.

How did I not think about that when old Kakashi asked me to come up with that!?

But it worked, the fire was contained. Now...I didn't have a lot of water left in my storage seal, I forgot to fill it. I'd need to waste more chakra.

"Suiton: Wild Water Wave Technique," I whispered to myself, spitting water above me. It wasn't compressed and it fell in a rain form on the ground, slowly extinguishing the fire. I dispelled the barrier right when there were no more risk of a forest fire.

"Tenzen-sama!" I heard someone yelled. I smiled at that, my two shark teeth grazing my bottom lip painfully. I walked silently toward the sound and my grip on Nuibari tightened when I spotted a man with a bloody and deformed arm.

I made sound on purpose and he turned his head to me, wide terrified eyes on me and my forehead protector. He got up and started running but I threw my sword, I was developing some kind of attachment to it by the way, and watched it piercing his skull as if it was butter, even though I heard the faint sound of bone cracking. I pulled my sword back to me, my finger less gloves tainted in red and other human rest and it made me realize, at the sort of paste they made, that I was covered in ashes. Of the building and probably of humans too.

I reached Tenzen, who had the bottom half of his body crushed under rubles. From what I heard, he was far from being a saint and in those cases, I felt little to no guilt at killing them. He was already dead though, so I cut off his head clean and sealed it away.

Now, I needed to reach the town to meet with sensei and Zabuza-san. But first, I needed a change of clothes and fast.

It was to be expected. It was to be expected since he saw Haku at the Chuunin Exams.

"Hatake," Zabuza snorted, his arms crossed on his chest and his famous sword carefully strapped to his back.

"Zabuza."

"Great, you already know each other!" Terumi Mei piped in with a smile on her face. "Kakashi-san, thank you for being here and helping us. From what Zabuza told me, Tazuna-san has gained a lot of respect since you've been here, so convincing him would be the fastest way to be sure of having a shelter for civilians."

It made a lot of sense, Kakashi could see everything was meticulously thought and revised. They had a lot of stakes in their fights. Plus, he knew that woman had been Akane's sensei, and she still called her that so she had the Uzumaki's respect and even admiration.

Terumi Mei was not just anybody and somehow, Kakashi was relieved they met in those circumstances where they were on the verge of being allied.

Tazuna was happy and surprised to see him, especially with Zabuza and someone who still had Kiri's symbol around her waist. As the three of them were slowly convincing Tazuna of having the Waves sheltering Kiri's civilians through political, economical and social arguments, they stopped when they heard Inari's screaming at someone. The door was opened brutally and slammed in the wall.

"Oh shit," Akane said as she blinked at the door in shame. "Sorry, your kid has been hitting on my nerves since I kept him from being eaten by a bear." She dropped Inari on the floor and the child winced in pain, before getting up and trying to punch her. She caught his wrist without even glancing at him. "Oh, hey sensei, Zabuza-san, and Kakashi I knew it would be you!"

"I'm guessing she's with you?" Tazuna rhetorically asked and they all nodded.

"You keep getting in troubles with random brats Uzumaki," Zabuza mocked her and she glared at him.

"Uzumaki? Like Naruto-nii-chan?"

"Yep," she replied. "Anyway, it looks like you have everything under control here, I'll take my leave sensei." Kakashi raised his hidden brow. Was it bitterness in her voice? "I can't stay here for too long, Yagura is on edge and even more on my back than usual." She turned around and left without a word.

"We will take Kiri's civilians in during your coup if Konoha gives us her word about sending shinobi here to protect them," Tazuna finally decided.

"Tsunade-sama will send a written promise about that. Thank you Tazuna-san," Kakashi said and as they left the house, the Leaf ninja tightening his traveling cloak around him, Zabuza took his sword and blocked a man's fist.

Kakashi and Mei jumped back, Kakashi quickly creating a clone to protect Tazuna and his family as Zabuza was pushed back.

"You fucking pieces of shit are gonna die," the man said. He was of a large build and had a beard. His clothing was a deep blue and he had a chain mail.

"Oh my...your name is Rahyō, you defected Kiri years ago with your sister Kahyō and her husband," Mei stated, the surprise in her eyes dying to be replaced by seriousness. "Why are you attacking us?"

"Because I won't let Kiri be here as long as I'm still breathing, Terumi brat. Your little friend won't get out of here alive either."

"Kakashi-san, please go find Akane. We'll take care of him and make sure he doesn't hurt anyone." Kakashi nodded and left, leaving the two missing-nin taking care of the third missing-nin.

When I saved the brat, I didn't get close enough to the bear to put an Immobility Seal on them, so instead I used the moisture in the air to block them in ice up to their mid-section. I was expecting to find them at the exact same spot I left.

I looked around me. I was at the spot, I was sure of that, but no bear. What…

I frowned, grabbed a kunai and blocked a sword between the big and small blade of my weapon. The words got stuck in my throat at the sight of an ice sword. I raised my leg, put it on the ice blade, placed an explosive seal of it and jumped back, the explosion giving me more speed. I barely landed in the grass on all four, as my balance wasn't fully there because of the impact, my eyes fixed on the smoke in front of me. I knew she wasn't dead, and from the warm liquid trickling down my thigh, she made another blade I didn't see and managed to get me by surprise.

Who was she?

"What's Kiri doing there? How did you freeze that bear?" she asked me sharply and I could make out curly long hair in the smoke.

"You'll have to forgive me, usually I don't really answer the questions of someone who attacked me," I replied with sarcasm. She frowned and pointed her remaining sword at me.

"You, the way you talk reminds me of someone I used to know." Oh for fuck's sake! "You're Uzumaki's daughter, aren't you?"

"Every person that compares me to my father ends up on my blacklist. Just so you know. How do you even know I'm from Kiri?"

"You may not be wearing your forehead protector right now, but the way you walk and your entire being screams 'shinobi'. Your teeth merely told me your affiliation." I knew it would happen dang it!

She charged at me, fast, so fast actually I managed to block her with Nuibari and gave her a blow back a second before her blade sliced my neck. She was strong, as in real strong because I could feel coldness at my joints to slow me down. She was using the very same tactic I had used on Shisui and that Hyuuga Root member years ago. She had an Ice Release and knew how to use it.

"So, what was it?" I body flickered on a tree branch and silently gulped at the ice swords forming in the air. "The purges? The social cast system?" She twitched. Huh, a lower class member then.

"I'm not going to talk about it to someone like you." I raised a brow. "Kekkai genkai users should be against Kiri if they have the chance to still be alive, yet you're one of those scums directly under the Mizukage!" Well, she wasn't completely wrong. "Hiding in the Mist Technique!" As mist appeared, I created a shadow clone, gave her Nuibari and went into hiding.

I put my chakra concealing seal on me and took three marked kunai. Getting more water would give her too much of an advantage, and she's as good as me in kenjutsu. I had Fuuton left, that she probably had too, and Fuinjutsu. Plus, the way she was trying to freeze me earlier was...off, almost as if it was trying to freeze me to death unless I was using something to keep me warm. Probably my chakra. But because I was also a Yuki, my body temperature could go lower than the average human being.

Just as my clone popped after circling the area with Nuibari's string, I used the Passing Typhoon Technique to blow the mist away and threw my kunai at her. Her three ice swords deflected them and flew toward me and I calmed myself down before catching one of them between my palms. I put a foot on each of the other two and put explosive seals of them, before teleporting to the kunai the furthest away from her. The swords exploded and I clenched my fists when a wave of cold went through my body and I had to use my chakra to keep my body to its minimal warmth.

"Hyōton: Earthen Consecutive Chains of Ice," I heard her say with a satisfied smirk dancing on her lips. I glared at her. "I have to say that I was expecting a random Ice user, but I had to drop your temperature considerably more than usual. You're not just anyone, you're one of the last Yuki clan member after all, like your father."

"Geez, couldn't you find a name even longer?" I snorted back and she frowned. However, I had bigger chakra reserves than average, so I still could fight. Not as much though, because I could feel myself getting tired faster.

Other ice swords came to me. It wasn't that the Hiraishin used a lot more chakra than the High Wind Technique, but with my attention split between the fight and keeping my body warm, I couldn't focus enough on my markers to be sure to land safely. So I used my Fuuton to destroy them, but the woman appeared in front of me and kicked me in the stomach, hard enough to make me spit blood, and then punched me in the left eye. She kept me in a choke hold for a few second but when I tried to grab her, her eyes went wide and she dropped me to jump away to safety.

She was right to do that, do not get within grabbing range of someone who fights with seals, it's like having a death wish. I couldn't put my Immobility Seal on the ground either because it wouldn't be stable on the earth.

I was in deep shit.

"Need a hand?" Kakashi asked me when he landed in front of me and I could feel his sharingan spinning, even if his back was facing me.

"I could use a hand," I admitted in a whisper. "I need to focus way too much to use Hiraishin, more than usual because of her technique..."

"I know, I was watching."

"Asshole." I blinked at the kunai he was showing me behind his back. The kunai I used on the bridge to save Haku that disappeared. Did...Kakashi have it all this time?

But I knew his plan.

He would keep her busy while I focus on properly using the Hiraishin. And he did, engaging her in taijutsu and ninjutsu. Kakashi ended up trying to stab her in her ribs but she caught his wrist. It was enough for me, even if I had to use hand seals, to teleport to it. I grabbed her shoulder and used Kakashi's arm as a support to throw my knee in her stomach. She coughed up blood and I put my hand on her abdomen.

"Fuinjutsu: Chakra Suppressing Seal." Immediately, the chain-like ice on my body melted away and I felt a heavy weight being lifted off of my shoulders. I didn't stop though. I placed an Immobility Seal on her and she dropped on the ground, her face against the wet grass. I knelt next to her and grab my ink and brush to draw a proper Chakra Suppressing Seal on the back of her neck, before canceling the one I made with my chakra.

The thing was, when you made a seal with your hands or feet directly, like I would do in fights, it kept draining your chakra the longer it stayed, whereas when it was with ink, it would run by itself until the chakra in it was no more, or would feed on the chakra source it was applied on, like now.

"That's Kushina-san's seal."

"It is," I confirmed and drew an Immobility Seal in the palm of her hand. "Thanks for the help Kakashi."

"You were in a bad situation," he reminded me dryly.

"I wasn't on the winning side yet, but I would have figured somehow. She wouldn't be alive though. Do you know who she is?"

"I believe her name is Kahyō, her brother attacked Terumi-san and Zabuza, they're currently dealing with it." I nodded and my head turned sharply to a bush to my left. A boy, not older than the brat of earlier, was standing there, Nuibari in his hands. In his shaking hands.

"Let my mother go!" he screamed at us.

"Your mother attacked me with the intention to kill yet I haven't killed her, so drop that weapon before hurting yourself."

"I know but let her go!"

"Kakashi, they defected Kiri a long time ago?" He shrugged and I sighed. "Look, Kahyō-san, there is a misunderstanding here. I might be a kunoichi from the Mist and a Swordsman, but it doesn't mean anything. Don't you wonder why a shinobi from Konoha help me?" I knew I had her attention from the way her muscles faintly twitched. "Kiri's about to change and I'll make sure of it." I turned her over and her blue eyes stared straight into mine. "You're a powerful opponent and I'd rather have you on my side than on the opposite team. Please help us change things."

Just before we all parted ways, Kahyō staying in the Land of Waves with her son Hakuhyō whereas her brother, who gave a very hard time to sensei and Zabuza-san, would go with these two to the Resistance hideout, Kakashi took me apart.

"What?" I blinked at him with a puzzled expression on my face when he patted my hair with a soft smile on his face.

"You grew up well Akane." I blushed at that and looked down at my toes. "I would have preferred to have you in Konoha, but you're really invested in Kiri's well being now."

"I wouldn't have my place in Konoha, as a kunoichi," I told him with blank eyes.

"It's not as if you could change anyway, right?" he asked me with a frown.

"Technically, the Sandaime asked me to join Konoha after Yagura was kicked out Kiri during the Chuuning Exams." Kakashi raised a brow, his hands now in his pockets. "I have a shiny forehead protector in the Hokage's office, because sensei would erase the law that made me a kunoichi of Kiri in the first place."

"You turned him down though," Kakashi continued with understanding in his eye, "because Konoha and Kiri are way too different for you to change and handle it." I nodded and raised my brows at his stretched hand. "Then, I can't wait for the day where I'll officially call you an ally of Konoha, Uzumaki Akane from the Hidden Mist." My bottom lip started shaking in disbelief. Kiri was responsible for Rin's death as far as he knew. "I've seen from my own eyes how Kiri will change in the future, I can't...let the past be in the way of people who want to change their village and know the wrong said village did before."

"Thank you Kakashi, thank you so much for getting it," I mumbled with tears at the corner of my eyes. I snorted to keep the snot in my nose and rubbed my eyes.

On this note, we all left in different directions.

Getting a place to transfer the civilians? Check.

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