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"M'lady, Jiraiya is here, you were expecting him. Also there is a chunin with him, Yuki Okami. There are here regarding the Akasuki."  Arashi bowed to the woman that sat behind the desk.

She nodded still not looking at us, rather her attention was on the papers scattered on her desk. "Okay, you may leave Arashi." Once he was gone she turned to us, gasping slightly as she saw me.

"Oh my, you look so much like Mai." After composing herself she turned serious. "Anyway I'm the leader of this village, my name is Keiko. I called you here Jirayia to know about the two Akasuki members that have somehow broken though the strong genjutsu placed on this village."

She paused pulling a piece of black cloth out of her desk. "We were only able to get this before we lost track of them. If we get anything else I will tell you." I took the piece of cloth.

A smile grew on my face. "This should be good enough. I can track them." I said as I bit my thumb and started the hand signs. "Summoning jutsu."

In front of me appeared Ace, my black and red wolf. "Yuki-sama, what do you need me for?"

"I need you to help me track this scent." I held out the black piece of cloth, which Ace leaned towards.

He sniffed then growled. "That's Itachi Uchiha's scent, and he's not far."

I clenched my fist, "let's go." Itachi may have been nice to me when I was younger, but he's now the reason Sasuke left. My hand gripped my stomach for a moment, where a large scar had formed when my stomach healed.

"Wait Yuki-" I ignored Jiraiya's call as I rushed out the building with Ace leading the way.

"Hey Mai!"

"Long time no see!"

"Did she shrink or something?"

I ignored everyone's shouts to me as if I was my mother and ran faster.

Ace took off for the wooded part, but I was knocked aside by a large bandaged sword.

"Yuki-sama!" Ace shouted as I hit the ground with a thud. I glanced at him, silently ordering him to leave, reluctantly he listened.

Standing up I saw Kisame causing me to glare. I glanced around, realizing how far we were from the main part of the village. Yet, there were still plenty of homes around here, which meant I would need to at least try to defend these homes. I pulled a kunai, getting into a defensive stance.

"Kisame." I spat.

"Oh, hello Yuki." He grinned with sharp teeth.

"Why are you here?" I asked as I dodged an attack from his sword.

"Now, why would I tell you that?" He asked slashing at me again.

Just as I dodged I was grabbed from behind.  Looking behind me I saw who held me, non other than Itachi. I clenched my teeth, anger bubbling in my stomach.

"Hello Yuki." He mumbled as he dug his black fingernailes into my skin.

"Itachi-" I was cut off by a blow to my stomach.

"Yuki!" I looked over to see Jirayia running towards me.

I stopped moving when a kunai was placed at my neck, the cool metel dug into my skin. If there was still any hope of the old Itachi, I knew it was vanishing.

"She's coming with us, Jiraiya." Itatchi stated.

'Like hell I will.' I thought forming the Rasengan in my hand.

Just as I was about to slam the chakra ball into him I was released, but not before the kunai was slashed into my arm.

I winced slightly but jumped to Jiraiya's side. "Don't look into his eyes, it would not be a good-"

"I know did you forget I had- have Sasuke and Kakashi sensei in my team?" I rolled my eyes as I prepared to fight, he chuckled slightly.

"Yuki, you should go get some back up-" I shook my head, turning on my Tensai then switching it to the Sharingan.

"No, they'll find us eventually, believe me. I'm sure this fight won't be quiet." I assured him as I looked Itachi in the eyes.

"I'll take the Uchiha, you get the sword fish over there." I pointed to Kisame.

"Since when do you take charge?-" Jiraiya grunted as he dodged a attack from Kisame.

"Since I became Chunin." I kicked swiftly as Itatchi dodged it.

As he skided back I saw him perform a jutsu. Thinking fast I performed another jutsu. "Crystal wall!"

The wall of crystal surrounded us, blocking any houses in range of him jutsu. "Fire style- fireball jutsu!" Just as the crystal finished covering the houses fire shot out of his mouth.

"Yuki!" Jirayia yelled as I flew back from the inpact of the fire.

My back hit the crystal wall causing me to grunt. Ignoring the pain I could sense the other ninja's coming, forming another Rasengan I charged at the Uchiha.

Although due to the burns I was slower than usual, along with his Sharingan he was able to dodge. Although when he dodged a kunai found itself into my back.

"You may be skilled, Yuki, but you still need training-" As Itachi picked me up a crystal kunai was thrown at him.

"Put her down." Arashi growled as he carried a crystal sword, more ninja's behind him.

Both Akasuki members looked at the ninja's and easily saw they were outnumbered. Using what bit of chakra I had I focused it to my fist. Sending it towards Itachi's face he let go before I could hit him.

With a thud I landed as the two men disappeared. Feet hit the ground as Jiraiya ran towards me. Kneeling down he picked me up.

I looked at the crystal wall before I released it. "Hey Pervy Sage, do me a favor and take out the kunai. It hurts more if it's in the skin." I winced. With Itachi's skills, I'm wondering how he managed to not only miss a more vital part of my back, but how shallow the stab was. At this point, it was better to take the kunai out rather than have it in, since I wouldn't need to worry about bleeding profoundly.

"Yuki, you okay?" Arashi asked looking concerned as he approuched.

"I'm fine, this is nothing, believe me." I grinned as Jirayia slowly put his hand on the kunai. When he yanked it out I cursed.

"Thank you Arashi for protecting our homes." A group of families said.

"Huh? I did what?" Arashi asked.

"The crystal wall, it was protecting us, you're the only crystal user in this group so it had to be you."

"No, that wasn't me. Yuki here is a crystal user. She was the one who used the jutsu." He corrected the shocked faces of the families.

"Pervy Sage, I can walk. I have had worse burns than this. Remember the chunin exams? Wait- you weren't there." I rubbed my head thinking. "Just put me down, I'll heal myself then we have to go after them." I jumped out of his hold wincing slightly.

My hands glowed as I placed them over my arm first. After healing most of it I twisted my arm painfully to try to heal my back, once that was good enough I started on the burns.

"Are you Yuki?" I looked over to see a boy my age. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, much like everyone else in this village. A headband around his forehead as he was dressed like the other ninja's.

"Yeah, why?" I cocked my head to the side.

"I wanted to thank you for protecting our homes." He offered a small smile.

I smiled brightly back at him. "It was no problem protecting everyone's homes. It's something us shinobi do everyday, expect Sundays. I don't have missions on Sundays. Although I'm not sure when I'll be leaving."

His face turned slightly red. "Hey, you're turning red! Are you sick?" I placed my hand softly on his forehead, only for him to turn more red.

I waved my hands around, "Pervy Sage, Arashi! I think he's sick, someone should bring him home!" I shouted as my hands still waved around in the air.

"I-I'm not sick." He mumbled quietly.

"What?" I cupped my hand over my ear.

"I said I'm not sick! It's just- hot outside." He stammered.

Both Arashi and Jirayia chuckled, I frowned at the boy. "It's not hot outside, you just don't want to admit you're sick. You know, Naruto does that sometimes. I think it has something to do with your man pride." I paused to shake my head. "Just admit it, you're sick." I poked his red cheek as I finished.

I was too focused on the boy that I didn't hear Jirayia and Arashi sigh. "She's so clueless."

"Hey Pervy Sage! Are we going after the two or not?" I asked turning back to Jirayia.

"No, not today. You used up quite a bit of chakra today, and you're still a little-"

"Can we train then?" I interupted.

His eye twitched, maybe from me not letting him finish. "No, I just said you used up a lot of chakra and-"

"Awe! Come on! I still have lot's of chakra to spare!" I argued.

"No, is no Yuki-"

"Please? Since we can't go after them we can at least train."

"As your sensei I am telling you no." He crossed his arms over his chest looking smug, I narrowed his eyes.

"Well then, as your student I'm telling you, you can't go to the bars or peep on girls!" I crossed my arms then and looked smug at his face.

"H-hey it dosen't go that way!" He shouted back.

"Yes it does, it's only fair." I resorted.

"Wait, did she just say Jiraiya can't go peep on girls?" Arashi asked.

"No, Yuki. I'm the sensei, you listen to me, I don't listen to you, understand?" Jirayia said this slowly as if I were a five-year-old.

"Yeah I think she did, who knew the Sanin was a pervert?" The boy from earlier resorted.

"W-well if you don't let me train then I'll tell Tsunade that you stole her sake and were peeping on her."

"Wait, Tsunade? Isn't she the other Sanin?" The boy asked again.

"You wouldn't!" Jiraiya gaped.

"Yeah, she's the medical expert and slug princess. Monster strength too, from how Yuki says stole her sake I'm assuming she's an alcoholic?" Arashi stated.

"I would! Naruto would help me steal all her sake, then we would tell her how you stold it and got drunk drinking it and peeped on her. I'm sure she would believe it too since you already got caught peeping on her once." I smirked crossing my arms.

"I think she won this argument." Arashi whispered.

"I-I, fine, we will train." Jirayia grumbled causing me to smile. "I'm going to have a hard time with you, aren't I?" I grinned and shrugged.

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End of Chapter 39!