Author's Note: Hey everyone! Here's Chapter 7! Enjoy!

Bijuu talk/think or Jutsu

"Talking"

' Thinking'

Summons talk

Team 7 and Tazuna had final reached the docks that they were told to meet the Kiri ninja at. Raiura was scanning around the area using her senses and senor abilities. When she smelt Utakata's familiar scent, soap and slugs.

"I found him..." said Raiura.

"Where?" asked Kakashi.

"Down there..." she pointed down the road they were currently on to a small café with the name Souki Café. They walked down to the café and seated in one of the chairs in the outside area was someone she hadn't seen in a long time. '

"Kon'nichiwa Imōto... how have you been?" asked Utakata. Utakata was now 5'6 while Raiura was 5'4, pretty tall for kids her age. He was wearing a light blue battle kimono with his soap jug strapped to his back, the part of his kimono that was supposed to be opened had a dark midnight blue armor piece. He had a orange sash to hold his kimono together.

Raiura was holding herself back from jumping on him and squeezing the living daylights out of him, "I have been fine Oni-chan..." Sasuke narrowed his eyes, he didn't know that Raiura had any other family other than her son, and this man didn't even look like her.

"Are you the Kiri ninja that will be working with us?" asked Sakura.

"Hai! You are?" asked Utakata.

"Haruno Sakura..." said Sakura.

"Uchiha Sasuke..." Sasuke said darkly.

"Nice to meet you... I'm Ashiharaya Utakata..." greeted Utakata, "And you are Hatake Kakashi... Raiura's new sensei..."

"Hai... this is Tazuna... he's the client that we will be guarding..." said Kakashi as he gestured to Tazuna.

"Greetings..." Utakata said as he lowered his head into a bow, "I have already found us a boat... we can leave now..."

"Thank you, Ashiharaya-san..." Kakashi said.

"It's Utakata..." said Utakata as he began to guide them to the boat. It was a small river boat that was big enough to fit all of them. They all climbed in, Raiura in the front for sensing since the other weren't sensors, Sakura, Sasuke and Tazuna on the middle, and Kakashi in the back with Utakata was standing up and the man rowing the boat standing near him.

"Why is this boat not going any fast..." said Sasuke.

"It's because if I turn the motor on... Gato's men will mostly likely hear us and then it's all over..." whispered the captain, "And keep your mouth shut brat..." Sasuke was about to say something but was stopped by Raiura turning around glaring at him.

They arrived at the shore of Nami no Kuni and thanked the captain for risking his life before turning around and continuing their walk towards Tazuna's house.

"In a couple of minutes we will meet one of the Genin. He is scheduled to meet us to talk about what to do," said Utakata.

"What is the Genin's name?" asked Kakashi.

"Taniguchi Keiju," said Utakata. Just after the Rokubi jinchuuriki said those words, they heard a rustling in the bushes, everyone was immediately on guard. Sasuke and Sakura had drawn out a kunai while the rest hand the hand got to their kunai pouch. Then someone step out of the bushes, a boy around Raiura's height. Utakata's guard dropped, the others seem to notice this and their's did to.

"Yo, Utakata-senpai," waved the boy. He had messy parakeet green hair that spiked up slightly. He had these gorgeous golden gate orange eyes that were shaped a little like fishes, his lips were this perfect shade of pastel pink that matched his bege colored skin. He wore a aegean blue shirt, with ANBU arm guards and shin guards and chest plate that had a place to hold giant Fūma shuriken. He wore whiteish grey pants and had his head band on his forehead to hold back some of his hair that came into the front and formed some messy bangs that pushed to the left side of his face. (AN: Look up colors)

"Hey Keiju, don't sneak up on people, especially ninja," said Utakata.

"Sorry senpai," said Keiju with a smile, then he looked over to the ninja from Konoha, "You must be the ninja the Mizukage-sama spoke about, I'm Taniguchi Keiju," he said as he placed his hand on his chest as a gesture to pointing at him.

"Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke said darkly.

'An Uchiha,' thought Keiju, 'Interesting.'

"Haruno Sakura," greeted Sakura with a slight blush.

'She probably a fangirl, to the Uchiha, poor squirt,' thought Keiju with a shiver going up his spine.

"Uzumaki Raiura," greeted Raiura.

Keiju grinned, "so your the kid that has captured Mizukage-sama's heart huh?"

Raiura looked confused, "What?"

"Ah never mind, your his childhood best friend, right?" asked Keiju.

Raiura nodded, "Yes."

"Great nice to meet you," Keiju said before he turned to Utakata, "Senpai, me and U~ōtābōi (Water boy) cleared the bandits that were on this route, I should head back before Gato notices I'm missing."

"Keiju, you should respect you comrades," chastised Utakata.

"You know I just play with them senpai," said Keiju as he walked back into the bushes, "You send a messenger hawk when you all are ready to storm Gato's hideout," and with that, the green haired boy left.

'He completely forgot about me,' Kakashi with a sweat drop.

Sakura was still blushing even after boy left the area. He was hotter than Sasuke, no wait, no one could be hotter than Sasuke and she was going to win his heart, she was going to prove to Ino that she was the one meant for Sasuke. She pondered on wether on this as they made their way to Tazuna's house, and true to Keiju's words, there were no bandits. When they reached the house, they knocked on the door and a beautiful brown haired woman opened the door. (AN: If you don't know what Tsunami looks like then you really need to watch Naruto)

The woman looked up to Tazuna and immediately ran and hugged him, "TOU-SAN!"

"Tsunami, my Musume (daughter), I'm glad you are alright," said Tazuna as he hugged the woman back.

She them remembered that there were some other people here and stopped hugging Tazuna to look at them, "I'm sorry, I completely forgot about you went I saw my father, my name is Tsumani, you must be the ninja's that brought my father back safe and sound."

They introduced themselves to Tsunami then walked inside the house. There was a small boy insde, and as soon as he saw them he immediately left. Tsunami apologized about his behavior and began to cook their dinner. They were taken upstairs to two rooms, Raiura and Sakura in one room and Sasuke, Kakashi and Utakata in the other. Sakura started to blush again as she thought of the Kiri genin that they spoke to. Raiura seem to have caught on and decided to started a conversation with Sakura.

"So, Haruno-san, who are you thinking about, Uchiha-san?" asked the blonde jinchuuriki.

Sakura's blush remained the same, "No."

Raiura looked at her, "We're teammates Haruno-san, you can trust me, I won't tell anyone, I'll keep this between us."

Sakura looked at Raiura then back down at her hands, contemplating wether she should tell the blonde or not, she then looked back at her, "You promise."

"I promise," said Raiura, Unless this has something to do with village security, that's a different story."

"Do you know that love is Raiura, because I have been kind of thinking about my feelings for Sasuke," said Sakura.

"Well, Utakata-nii is gay and he has a boyfriend, I actually asked him a similar question, do you know what the answer was," asked Raiura, then she answered her question, "When you truly love someone, you immediately feel that spark with them. Now let me ask you this: Do you feel that spark with Sasuke, when ever you are around him."

"I-I," Sakura thought long and hard before she realized the answer, "No, I haven't."

"Have you felt this spark with someone?" asked Raiura, who was generally curious.

"I think so," answered Sakura.

"And who is this person? I can help you if you want me to," Raiura questioned.

"I-I think it was th-that boy that we met earlier," Sakura said, unsure.

Raiura smiled kindly, "Keiju-san is one of the best genin currently in Kiri, Yagura-kun praises him often," then Raiura looked at her seriously, "You need to train more and eat more Sakura is you want him to notice you, all you are now is skin and bone. Don't you know that even if you a lot, you will burn most of it off in training, you need to eat more and train more than you do right now."

Sakura looked like she was going to cry, Raiura realized this and decided to say something, "You know Haruno-"

Sakura cut Raiura off, "Sakura."

Raiura looked at her confused, "What?"

"Sakura, call me Sakura,"

Raiura gave a fox-like grin, "Alright Sakura, I can help you if you want. With training and giving you a shinobi diet."

Sakura looked at Raiura with hope in her eyes, "Really, why would you help me after how I have treated you?"

Raiura gave a kind smile that made her eyes close, "That's what teammates are for, helping each other when it is need."

Sakura smiled back, "Thanks."

====Flashback====

Shisui and Raiura were standing in a training field after a day of training, Raiura was panting and Shisui had come back after shunshining to the house and back, he was holding a instrument case. Raiura was giving Shisui a confused look, said raven was smirking at her. He opened the instrument case to reveal a violin.

"Shisui-nii, what is that?" asked Raiura.

"This a violin," answered Shisui.

"And what is the violin for?" question Raiura.

"We're going to a cool down," answered Shisui, "Everytime that we finish or you on your own finish a training session, your going to play the violin, I'll teach you the basics first then some songs."

Raiura looked at the instrument and felt as if she had already knew who to use it once she heard the name, "I think-I think I have seen this before."

Shisui smiled, "Alright, lets teach you how to hold it." Shisui got Raiura to hold the violin and how to play each type of note.

Raiura looked up at her surrogate elder brother, "Nii-chan, how do you know to play the violin."

Shisui gave a sad smile, "My Kaa-chan use to play it and taught me when I was younger before she died," Shisui zoned out for a second before coming back to reality, you extended his hand out, "Here, give me the violin, I'll play a song for you,"(AN: Go to youtube and type 'dandelions (violin)' by Joel Sunny) Shisui swayed his body side to side and closed his eyes as he played the song. Raiura sat on the ground and closed her eyes in peace.

It's been a couple months since Raiura had learned to play the violin, her birthday had passed and she celebrated it with Shisui before he had to leave for a mission, he had finally persuaded the Sandaime to let him give Raiura something from her parents, he had gotten her a locket that belong to her mother that her father had given her and apparently her father had a violin he used to play and the locket had background music for the main violin. She was dressed in a small red shirt and bell bottom pants that were the same color that had frills all the was up the pant until it was 4 inches above the hip. It had some small bells that were sown on to the flower pattern on her shirt, so they jiggled when she moved and spun around. She wore a blue headband, that was the same color as Minato's Konoha hiti-ate, that complemented the blue colored

Then she had met Yagura and Utakata shortly after he left, he still wasn't back, it was a low B-rank so Raiura wasn't worried. She had just finished a training session and was cooling down. She was currently play a song Shisui called "A Thousand Years" (AN: Search up on youtube 'A Thousand Years - Christina Perri - Daniel Jang & AMonay violin cover'). She was standing up and dancing around as she played.

Yamanaka Inoichi and his best friends from childhood, Nara Shikaku and Akimichi Choza, were walking through the streets of Konoha when they heard someone playing music in a training ground that they were passing by. They hid behind some trees and saw it was Raiura, their eyes widened considerably and they felt a pang of guilt for not taking care of said child. Shikaku's eyes widened even more when he saw that she was wearing Kushina's locket. Shikaku tapped then at signed to them and pointed to the locket she was wearing.

She looked to really be enjoying herself, and they smiled slightly, at least she had some happiness in her life. As they looked some other ninja spotted them and looked at what they were listening to. Some jumped on to the near by tree branches were some birds were resting and listening to. There were some wild deer that had come and were listening, some wild foxes with their own kits. A few owls had woken up from the noise were enjoying the music. Sandaime had come walking through this part of the village and looked to were it must be at least half of shinobi looking inside Training Ground 9, he peered behind some of the chunin and saw Raiura happily play the violin just like her father.

Raiura looked up after she was finished with the song to see a lot of people staring at her and she blushed in embarrassment. Then someone in the crowd started clapping and the rest followed, she bowed at them and began to pack her things as people started to leave. Some whispered things like 'At least the Demon is good for one thing' and 'I don't understand why Sandaime-sama taught her such a beautiful violin'. She really didn't care about the whispers as she was use to hearing them her whole life. The Kyuubi was in a trace by the music.

'It's sounds so much like her music, so calm and filled with emotion,' thought Kurama.

This happened almost every time she played in the training, a couple of shinobi, a few civilians ever now and then, and animals would listen, clap (mostly the humans), then leave. When Shisui came back and saw this, he smiled and thought that finally some of the people in the village would finally respect and look at Raiura as if she was human.

End of Chapter 8

Author's Note: This one hit very close to home to me as I had something similar that happened to Shisui happen to me. My grandmother always sang, and, while she did live on another continent, I would always listen to recordings and when ever we face timed. When I went to visit, she taught me how to sing and taught one song that I can still sing to this day, and play the tune on other instruments. She unfortunately passed away when I was 8 and today marks the 14 year since she passed away. I really wished I got to spent more time with her and got to know her better. So I tell this to everyone that reads this story, always treasure your family, especially when they are older than you, because one day, they are not going to be there anymore and your going to wish that spent more time with them or loved them better them you did then. Anyways, hope you enjoyed the chapter! See you in Chapter 9! Please review as it encourages me to write more and read my other stories as well as do the same with them! Bye for now!