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: 13

Shisui: 22

Kakashi: 27

"Sage Mode indeed," Jiraya-san confirmed as I was visiting him in his hospital room. "I understand why Minato got hurt, it was more than just caring. Ushio was legitimate in being considered for the job of Mizukage." He looked down at my left arm, bare for once. "So, that's how you reached Yagura then. And it works with jinchuriki in general?" I nodded and started to put my bandages back on. "Interesting, Uzushio destruction really made us lose a lot of knowledge we could use today." I wrote 'Orochimaru' on my notebook. Jiraya-san blinked. "Orochimaru? Oh, I see, you think he could go in Uzushio and try to find information about the Shinigami and his arms?" I patted my stomach. "Right, it would be bad if the Akatsuki knew about you, but Orochimaru too." I sighed deeply. Hiding me being a Yurei was easier before, the more time goes by, the more dangerous people will realize there's something off about me. Sensors knew my chakra was weird anyway. I wrote down if Jiraya-san had a trip planned with Naruto. "Yes, Kiri delayed it but I'll take him with me for at least two years. It should be safe, I don't think the Akatsuki will show themselves for a while, I'll use that time to train him so that he can defend himself properly." I nodded and grabbed my crutch to get up. My legs were fine, but even after nine days I still needed rest so I had a crutch since three days prior.

With a wave, I left his room to go back to mine. It was still raining outside, less but it was constant. Ever since I woke up, I was waiting for Mei-sensei to tell me it was time to seal Isobu. To this day, nothing, Dai ignored my questions and I was left in the dark to rest and grieve.

It had been a very long while since I mourned someone. The last one had been...old Itachi? Old Mangetsu too, but it was six years after his death, whereas old Itachi…

I sighed as I got closer to my room. I used to be so used to mourn people…

"Akane, please open the door!" I raised a brow and leaned my head around the corner. Shisui was pounding on my door, Itachi silent next to him, hands in his pockets. "Itachi's sorry and I'm innocent, stop ignoring us!"

"Shisui!" Itachi hissed, finally looking at his cousin. I deadpanned at them.

I was behind them. A few meters away, but behind them. Normally, I would have find that hilarious to see Shisui losing his calm in front of a door, calling for me whereas I was somewhere else. However, the room wasn't empty.

Haku was in it. He hadn't said anything since I woke up, but he didn't want to leave my room. In consequences, Naruto was also squatting my room, and Sasuke sneaked in once, pissed nobody but family and Dai was allowed. Kakashi too, but he fell in the family category, and Sasuke reminded me he should be put in that category too.

So far, he was the only Uchiha I dealt with and it was heaven.

I couldn't and didn't want to deal with them right now, be it the awkwardness with Itachi or Shisui's protectiveness and how he'd try to fix things up with Itachi.

Haku was in my room though, and I didn't want anyone to bother him right now. I looked down at my attire. My light blue robe was tied around my waist, my pajamas were not visible and my gray slippers didn't make a lot of noise.

Apparently, my apartment was half destroyed and it was some of the things left.

"Come on Akane, answer I know you're in there!" Right, I was in there you moron. "I'll punch Itachi for you if you want!" Said Itachi narrowed his eyes at his cousin.

I took the pen from my notebook and it was enough for Itachi to turn his head to me. I blinked at him, he blinked at me and pinched the bridge of his nose, probably cussing Shisui in his head. I gestured him to move on the side, which he did.

"It..." Shisui started when he noticed Itachi inching away. He barely spun around to see me that my pen landed in his forehead. "AOUCH!" Huh, and people made fun of my aim. "What the...Akane?" I rolled my eyes at him, walking up to them. I picked up my pen. "But...but who's in your room then?" I wrote down 'Haku' and showed him. "You're not talking now?"

"Shisui, look at her throat," Itachi sighed, with us once again. Shisui widened his eyes at the sight of the purple finger prints on my neck. "It must have been the Mizukage, right?" I nodded, looking at Itachi from the corner of my eyes. His face was completely blank, like mine.

I quickly wrote down Dai ordered me to shut up until he told me otherwise. Shisui frowned and crossed his arms over his chest.

"He's supposed to be a medic, he should be nicer." I smiled a little. Shisui knew Dai was right to tell me this but he was still cursing him just for the act. Seriously, boys. Kimou was right. "Ha, made you smile! So, can we come in?" I shook my head 'no'. "Wh...do you have any idea how annoying it is to have Sasuke bragging on how he got in your room whereas it's supposed to be family only? And why is Haku even here? He…oh, you're related?...No, if you told me I don't remember it." He raised his hands in surrender as I threatened him with my notebook. "Sorry, sorry!" I lowered my notebook, narrowed eyes still on him. He stared at me for a second and chuckled. I frowned, but my frown disappeared when he took me in his arms. "Sorry, it's just...it's kinda like before and I missed it." I sighed softly and patted his back.

Then, without warning, he stepped back and pushed me on the side. I stumbled and my notebook and crutch fell on the floor as my face ended up in Itachi's torso. His arms moved on their own and were secured around my waist.

"Shisui!" Itachi scolded him. "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, just hug it out and be friends again!"

Itachi tensed. Crap, he felt it. He felt how tensed I was, being so close to him. Without a word, he made sure I was stable and let go of me. He even gave me my stuff back and then put some distance between us. I dared looking at him for a second and he was staring at the floor.

I hit Shisui on the head and, with one last glare, got into my room and slammed the door behind. Haku turned glassy eyes to me.

"Stop it Shisui." I heard Itachi say. "Just...stop it."

"But you've struggled just to get her to talk to you, it's..."

"She's terrified of me," he interrupted him sharply. It was true, he didn't break a sweat when he almost broke my wrist. But more than that, I didn't want...it was useless to try to be friends. Why give him potential guilt if he were to kill if I did something bad?

Only God knew how Obito's words had been tempting for a second, and it kept haunting me at night.

"Itachi..." I almost couldn't hear them anymore.

"She's terrified of me," he repeated more quietly, probably to himself.

Yet, I felt awful knowing I was hurting another friend.

I wasn't mad at him, he was a shinobi, it was his job, and fuck I despised how good he was at his job. But I fucked up on a personal level and that…

I went back in bed. I wondered how it was going with sensei. Apparently, she went to the Daimyo with Ao-san to settle some...official things on how there had been a successful coup d'état in Kiri?

"When will the sealing occur?" Haku asked me suddenly, voice void of any emotion. I shrugged, not knowing the answer. "I see." I opened my arms to him. He stared, not saying anything, and after the longest minute of my life where I felt like a huge moron, he inched closer and let me hug him.

He didn't return my hug either. Zabuza-san had mentioned how Haku could be suicidal, heck Naruto had told me he was worried just yesterday because that day on the bridge, we all knew what would have happened without my intervention that caused Kakashi to be pissed at me.

I hugged him tighter.

I wanted him to see us like a family, I wanted him to know we cared about him.

I wished to be sure the last months, almost a year, spent with us made him see that.

"What will it be today?"

"Oh dear, just a green tea. I'm not in the mood for sweets, unfortunately." I nodded at the elderly customer I had and went to get her some tea. She thanked me with a sad sigh when I placed the fuming cup in front of her. "My...you're a young one, aren't you?"

"I just turned twenty-one, so I guess," I replied with a polite smile, my tray against my stomach.

"Then tell me, would you be in a serious relationship with a shinobi?" I was taken back. It had been what, three months since Itachi finally decided I was his and his only? He was home right now, was it a sign for some deep conversations tonight?

"I...I mean...if they're in love…?"

"See, my daughter has met that shinobi from Iwa and she doesn't want to see the truth. She keeps saying they're going to get married and have a family but she knows his job will make her unhappy. There is no future ahead, why doesn't she get it?" I smiled sadly.

"Maybe she knows but just wants to enjoy the time they have together?" She scoffed.

"A good waste of time it is."

I tried to keep that conversation out of my mind for the rest of the day, but it didn't work. As I walked home in the streets of the town I worked, the red beam of the sun illuminating the sky and buildings, I couldn't keep my mind from thinking about that grandma's point of view.

I stopped to buy some dango. The weird thing was, the more I was getting closer to my place, the slowest I was. Once I was in front of the door, I put a hand on my heart. Why was I stressing so much? It was Itachi, just good old Itachi. Good old no possible future deadly sick I want to die Itachi.

Falling in love with a random sweet guy, have two kids with a house and one or two pets and then die of old age was out of the table huh…

"I'm home," I said quietly when I entered. I stared, dumbfounded, at Itachi staring at me as if I had witnessed him doing something he didn't want me to see.

He was cooking. It was an odd contrast between him, an internationally wanted criminal, and the mess in my kitchen.

"You were supposed to come back at seven," he stated flatly, almost accusing me of coming home early.

"We closed earlier, personal issues with the boss. What are you doing? Wait, where did you get salmon?"

"Where I got it," he replied, watching me going next to him.

"Ochazuke with salmon and miso soup?" I inquired and he nodded. "Did you put the salmon directly in the miso soup to marinate it?" He frowned at his dish.

"No." He looked angry at himself and I swore he was cursing himself in his head. I smiled softly and leaned my head on his shoulder.

"You're killing me slowly after all," I whispered to myself.

"What did you say?" he asked me quietly, tearing his eyes away from the bland salmon. I tip-toed and kissed his cheek.

"Nothing, nothing. I bought dangos if you want some later." His eyes found the plastic bag I had in my hand. He was such a sweet tooth.

We ate in silence. He wasn't such a talker and I was in no mood to talk right now. In the end, the meal was still good. Would he ever fail at something one day?

"You're strangely quiet tonight," he noticed as he placed a cup of Oolong tea in front of me on my coffee table, a cup of green tea in his other hand. I stayed quiet as he sat down next to me on the couch. He was about to grab a book Minato-oji had gifted me before I left Konoha. Jiraya-san wrote it, it was called The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi.

"Is it good?" Itachi blinked and looked at the book. "It's different from these porn books, right? Oji-chan wouldn't have offered it to me otherwise."

"I like it," he answered blandly. Then, he raised a brow at me. "What happened today? You're weird."

"Just because I'm not in the mood for talking I'm weird?" He took my chin between his fingers and made me look in his eyes. He didn't want to joke around.

"Your eyes, they're distant. You're concerned about something, enough for you not to kiss me when you came back from work," he explained quietly.

"Do I kiss you every time?" I asked with surprise. Did I? He nodded without an ounce of hesitation. I sighed. "It's...nothing, really. It's just something a customer said today."

"Hn." He kept my chin between his fingers though. "It's not nothing Akane, what was it?"

"It just...scared me, that's all." Itachi fully turned me toward him and inched closer to me. "You won't like it Itachi, can we drop it? It will be better tomorrow." He didn't budge, his hands now on my arms. "She...she just told me she didn't understand why her daughter would try to have a relationship with a shinobi when it wouldn't have any future." He perfectly understood what I was implying and why I was spacing out, because the small spark or warmth, always so well hidden in his eyes, went out.

"I see." I bit my bottom lip and lowered my head.

"I'm sorry, it's just...I'm tired of losing people I love and today, you're the only person I love and...I know one day you'll walk out that door and it will be the last time and...I...it makes me wanna cry..." I snorted loudly. "It just...hurts. I'm happy when we're together, but one day the bubble will pop and it will hurt too." As I talked, he slipped his arms around my waist and pulled me against his chest. My ear was pressed against it, and all I could hear was his beating heart. How long before it stopped completely?

"Do you want me to leave then? Do you...want to stop?" I sighed softly against him and hugged him back, as tightly as I possibly could.

"Did you forget the part where I said I loved you? I don't want you to go, it's just me being depressed by reality. If you leave for good now...it will hurt too, I don't want that, I want you for as long as you'll allow me." He buried his face in the crook of my neck, one of his hand going to the back of my head and in my hair.

"Akane..." he whispered against my skin, making me shiver.

I knew Itachi wasn't talkative, I knew he didn't show his emotions. Yet, I also knew that when he pronounced my name, he was trying to tell me everything he couldn't say out loud.

I looked at my kitchen, where dinner was still on the counter. He knew we didn't have any future together too.

But he was trying to...trying to make sure the time we had together was perfect. Maybe he wanted me to have good memories of him.

He was trying though, and that alone was worth everything to me.

I straightened up and pressed my lips against his softly. I could feel him ease up a little as he kissed me back slowly.

"Here, better now?" I asked him with a small smile. He opened his eyes slowly and I couldn't help but be proud of myself at the spark of warmth coming back.

"Hn." I wrapped my arms around his neck.

Sometimes, I wondered how Itachi turned out how he turned out. Shisui trusted him with his life and I trusted Shisui's judgment with my life. There was no way Itachi had always been this withdrawn. Shisui wouldn't have let him, I just knew it.

What then?

I opened my eyes, Haku's sleeping face in front of mine. Strange. Was the situation with Itachi so bothering that it brought back that kind of memories now? The beginning of the end?

At least, now, I knew he really was trying to make me happy and give me what I secretly wanted in the short time we had together.

I smirked.

Yeah, I still had these memories. But the spark of warmth I was always so proud to see...this Itachi wasn't, didn't need to hide it from everybody. I wished I had old Itachi to tell me why he bothered coming back the first time, because it would help me know.

It would help me know if the decision forming in my mind, no matter how painful it would be, was the good one.

"Ahhhhhhhh…I'm a super doper kunoichi."

"You took drugs?" I winked at him, my hand rubbing my throat.

"I still have some in my body, don't I?" He sighed.

"Goodbye peace and quiet." I smirked and got up, opening the closet of my hospital room. I saw Karin earlier and she told me Sakura came back with them to be with her team, but that apart from that, the other teams had started to leave for Konoha after two intensive months.

"Where will it be?" Dai looked at Haku with pursed lips.

"There's a lake in the forest, to the north of Kiribukai. Aneki got the Daimyo's permission to set up a perimeter."

"That's why she's been there then."

"Other than saying 'Yo, we don't have a Kage anymore and half the village is destroyed if you don't help us you'll look like a fool for not having a functional Hidden Village?'? Yeah. Ah, and officially getting that hat too."

"Girl power." Right.

It was official.

Mei-sensei had been appointed as the Fifth Mizukage by an overwhelming majority. Everybody was glad Yagura was…

I swallowed the lump in my throat. No, not that, not yet, I couldn't break down just yet. After the sealing.

After the sealing I would be free to mourn all of them.

I went to the bathroom to get dressed. Dai got me new clothes, but surprisingly enough, my haori was fine. Huh, Uzumakis. They put seals on it to keep it intact in battles.

"But Uzu..." Dai trailed off when I was out of the bathroom, fully dressed and tying my holster to my thigh. "Is it really okay to have used your last two chakra seals like that?"

"Yeah, now my chakra is almost full. It's enough. The one thing that is worrying me is Isobu's state when he'll be ba...What?"

"Nothing, it's just weird to know they have names like us." I snorted.

"Well, people don't call you 'that medic from the Mist' right?"

"True."

"Back to what I was saying, after being controlled for ten years, I'm going to force his resurrection instead of letting it happen naturally. He'll most likely be disoriented, confused and will feel like everybody's is his enemy. Subtlety is the key."

"That's why you're the captain of the sealing team and only the best in chakra control in the village are a part of the team, I know." I eyed him sharply.

"Will it be okay if you're not at the hospital? It might take a few days."

"It's fine, and I'm not letting you sealing a bijuu on your own. No...no separation anymore, got it?" I looked down at the floor and Dai knocked me on the head. "Don't give the floor that look, he wouldn't like that at all."

"I know."

"Be at the north entrance in an hour, Haku you as well. I'll gather the others." He left on that note and I turned around to look at Haku. Still...emotionless.

"Are...are you ready?"

"Yes." He was talking, it was good but...still emotionless.

Unlike what people thought, he wasn't stupid.

Naruto watched his clone leaving to go with the group from Konoha about to leave the village. He wanted to see his sister before leaving and ask her when she would come to Konoha. He was fully aware she wouldn't move back with them, that she would stay here. The state Kiri was in was worst than Konoha after Orochimaru, and his sister was more important than anyone anticipated.

Her sensei just became the Mizukage! If Kakashi-sensei ever became the Hokage, he would be important too.

Naruto snorted, trying to hold his laughter back. Kakashi-sensei with the Hokage hat...hilarious.

Anyway, he went to his sister's room but stopped next to the door when he heard voices. Akane was talking again and it was comforting to hear her voice again, but there was also Haku's, and Naruto had smiled to himself. Akane was his sister, Haku was related to her so Haku was his brother too.

However, he froze when he heard what they were talking about.

His sister was going to seal the Sanbi in his brother.

He stood still behind the door for long minutes and hid when they left it. Akane looked around her and nodded to Haku, the two leaving without noticing him. In his head, Naruto was relieved she had been stuck in the hospital for days, because otherwise she would have noticed him. Haku too.

They must have been too concerned to notice him, and it was in his favor. He trailed them through the destroyed streets of Kiri, where people were already re-building the most important buildings in the misty rain.

They stopped at the north entrance, where Naruto and his group had infiltrated the village before. There was a big group.

"Alright guys, we're heading to the lake to the north of Kiribukai! From now on, you're listening to me, if I tell you to keep quiet and stay put, you do as a say with no questions asked!" his sister stated with authority. "If I'm down, you respond to Ao-san and Dai, got it?" The group nodded. He was right, his sister was too important to leave Kiri, no matter how sad it made him. "If nobody has questions, then let's go."

"Yes!" On this note, they all left the village. Naruto briefly looked back. He was supposed to go back to Konoha.

But his family was about to get into another dangerous situation, and maybe he could convince Akane not to turn Haku into…

Naruto clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth.

He loved his comrades and his village, he knew he would be yelled at when would be back in Konoha.

Yet, as he kept following the group from Kiri, his only thought was to stay by his family's side.

He wouldn't be left behind again.

"Here, this is a message for the Hokage," Mei told Jiraya as she gave him a scroll. Her hat was still on her head.

"I can't believe she didn't come," Shisui sighed deeply. "You bet that stupid Dai just kept her all to himself. I can't stand that guy."

"Sure," Itachi replied idly. "What a monster he is for being her medic." Shisui weakly glared at him.

"Instead of digging my own grave even deeper, go talk to Izumi. Did something happen with her too?" Itachi raised a brow at him.

"I didn't tell you," he whispered to himself. "I broke up with her before leaving for Kiri." Shisui gaped at him comically, shot her a look, and took his cousin apart.

"What? Why?"

"I'm not in love with her?" Itachi replied dryly, fidgeting his arm to get rid of Shisui's hand. "It's really not a subject I want to talk about right now."

"I get it, but you break up with Izumi and have a fall out with Akane? Did the female community do something to you?" Itachi rolled his eyes. "I mean, I'm not different because I broke up with Erisa barely a day after Akane left Konoha but still..." Shisui raised his brows when Itachi stared curiously at him. "What?"

"You've had a lot of girlfriends but none of them made you forget her." The oldest blushed at that.

"Well...well..." He cleared his voice and looked down, a fond smile on his lips. "She's one of a kind."

Itachi couldn't agree more.

"Naruto!" Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs, punching her teammate. However, Naruto popped in a puff of smoke. Everybody stared at it and Jiraya face-palmed.

"That stupid brat ran off again," the Sannin muttered.

"Where could he be?" Kakashi wondered out loud. Mei shared a knowing look with Naoto, who left in a body flicker. "Mizukage-sama, do you have an idea?"

"I hope I'm wrong." It wasn't long before Naoto came back, a frown on his face.

"He's definitely following them."

"Please tell me he's following a group of people going to hot springs and not Akane's sealing group," Jiraya muttered, pinching the bridge of his nose. The apologetic smile Mei sent him made him growl.

"Sealing?" Sasuke repeated quietly.

"Jiraya-sama, we are not supposed to take part in the sealing of the Sanbi," Fugaku told him with a strict frown.

There was a long silent and Kakashi grabbed Sasuke's collar before he could go too far.

"Hey there, you've been doing your own stuff for a while Sasuke, you're staying there."

"I apologize, but the only thing I can let you do is staying in the village a little bit longer. You can't intrude on the sealing process."

"Why not?" Sakura asked with a puzzled look on her face. Kakashi looked down at her.

"A bijuu is considered as a weapon for a Hidden Village. Its sealing and the identity of the jinchuriki is usually a secret, and even if Konoha helped in taking Kiri back, we are not officially allied yet."

"Jinchuriki?" she repeated.

"The host of the bijuu, like Naruto with the Kyuubi," Sasuke hissed at her, irritated at her lack of knowledge. He glared at the others staring at him. "What?"

"How do you know that?" his father inquired codly.

"I figured it out, he lost control last time," Sasuke replied, as cold as his father.

"Naoto, please follow them, try to bring Naruto-kun back if possible."

"Understood Mizukage-sama."

"Mizu...he left already," Mei sighed.

"I'm sorry for my student Mizukage-sama," Kakashi apologized, bowing to her. She raised her hands in front of her with an embarrassed smile on her lips.

"Don't worry, I understand how...an Uzumaki is hard to...teach...I've had my fill when Akane was younger," she added more quietly. "However...how convincing is Naruto-kun exactly?"

"He can be very convincing when he wants to," Shisui pipped up, his lips set in a firm line. "And I've seen for myself that if he finds the good arguments, Akane won't send him back." He shrugged when Itachi sent him a look. "What? And even if she managed to send him back, she wouldn't let him go back to Kiri on his own and I really don't think they have the time for that."

"True. I'm going to kill these brats," Jiraya stated with exasperation.

In the forest, Akane and Haku had separated themselves from the sealing group. Dai had a marked kunai in case, but for now, they were opposed to another problem.

"Care to explain?" Akane asked coldly, pulling Naruto's ear.

"I heard you in the hospital, I'm not letting you turning Haku in a jinchuriki!" Naruto protested, fidgeting to break free. She raised a brow and let go of his ear, that he cradled carefully.

"You came to stop us?" she summed up, her hands on her hips. "Weren't you supposed to go back to Konoha today?"

"I sent a clone and don't change the subject the subject! Haku will be hated by everyone if you do it nee-chan!"

"I'm aware how jinchuriki are treated, I ended up in custody back in Konoha if you remember well."

"Then..."

"Naruto," Haku cut him off flatly, "Uzu-nee is doing it against her will." Naruto blinked sheepishly at him.

"Heh?" Akane sighed.

"Really Naruto? You think I would enjoy turning my cousin into a jinchuriki? I would have done it to myself but sensei refused. She's right in thinking I'm not the right person for the job and Haku is more than compatible with Isobu's chakra. If it were just me, I would let him come back naturally and roam around freely. I don't fancy what I'm about to do at all, I don't want to condemn Haku to that situation and I don't want to take away Isobu's freedom."

"Who's Isobu?"

"The Sanbi. Yeah, they have name," she said quickly when he barely had opened his mouth. "I mean, calling them 'Sanbi' or 'Kyuubi' is like you being called 'the Konoha jinchuriki'." She stopped and face-palmed. "Now I'm saying too much."

"Why do you know so much about that nee-chan?" Naruto asked her in a more serious tone.

"I just do. Look, the Akatsuki is after the bijuu, you know that, you've witnessed that. I don't want that to happen to Isobu, I promised him I would protect him and no matter how annoying it is, a jinchuriki bijuu combo is more powerful that a bijuu alone. They have the power, but a shinobi has the training."

"...I don't get it."

"If I work with Isobu-kun, it will be harder for him to be taken. It's to protect him, and I agree and accept the consequences of becoming a jinchuriki." Naruto stared at him, dumbfounded. Then, he clenched his jaw.

"But...aren't they just monsters?" His sister frowned.

"Do you say that because of the Kyuubi?"

"Well yeah, he's always angry and saying he'll break free! Gaara too..."

"Still, they show emotions, don't they?" she asked more softly, crouching in front of him. He came to keep them from sealing the Sanbi, not get a lecture on the Kyuubi. "If you were used as a weapon and then locked somewhere, forced to witness how human beings and shinobi are destroying themselves, wouldn't you be pissed too?" He blinked. He hadn't think about it that way.

Actually, nobody ever told him anything about the Kyuubi before he attacked the village.

He couldn't help but find something weird though. Even if Akane believed in what she was saying, Naruto couldn't help but think it wasn't really her words, but more like something someone told her once.

"Will you let us go now?" She got up and looked at him expectantly. He nodded slowly. "Good, Haku let's...crap, there's no way you'll find your way back and who knew in what kind of shitty situations you could get into."

"Hey!"

"It's dangerous to let him come though."

"I know but..." She didn't finish her sentence, opting instead for showing him with her arms. "Heee...what do you suggest then?" Haku shot him a glance, eyes still as hollow as before. "We go and I'll let Dai handle it. We're already late enough as it is." She spun around to give him a harsh look. "And you, follow orders."

On this note, she cut her thumb open and slammed her hand on the grass, summoning Seihitsu.

"Yo Seihitsu, please get us to Dai as fast as you can," Akane asked her summon, Naruto and Haku climbing behind her. Haku had just enough space for him. "Alright kids, let's go now."

Hey! Thanks for reading and leave a review to tell me what you thought about this chapter! Thanks to Ederisu, machiaveIIian and NguyetMieu for the Harusame, Utakata's master, Zabuza and Mangetsu died. The seal Ushio is referring to is the one that kept him trapped in Uzushio for years, and when I re-read the chapter I also wondered what I meant by 'fat' x).

And yes, Obito got owned and how good it felt to write it!

Bye!