Third person POV____

Shikamaru and Akumi stood before the Hokage.

"Due to the observations made by your superiors in the Chunin Exams you to have been selected to be promoted. Not only for you performance on stage or in the previous parts in the exam but because of your impressive feats in the line of duty." Tsunade glanced at Akumi for a split second before continuing.

" Also due to the recent attacks and the loss of some of our forces you will be annexed to other teams and also continue rotation with your current teams." Tsunade stated as a chunin leveled shinobi handed them both a Green vest.

"Thank you Tsunade-sama for allowing us to serve our village to the best of our abilities." Akumi bowed, at this point with the losses they took there was no way she would be allowed to decline the promotion.

"It's an honor to be recognized and I will do my best to protect our village." Shikamaru murmured seeing a bit disinterested. vi

"Good, You two are now dismissed." Tsunade waved off and both newly appointed Chunin bowed and left the office.

"So you were promoted as well." he stated and she shrugged. "I saw this coming a mile away. Although I am surprised that you were also chosen." Akumi stated and Shikamaru snorted.

"I was fine as I was, I don't even now why I entered those stupid exams." He grumbled. Personally Shikamaru did not know Naruto's twin sister, But lately Ino had started to get along with her and according to Ino, Akumi was not that bad.

Akumi nodded not knowing how to reply to Shikamaru's comment.

"Don't you wonder what your second Team will be?" Shikamaru asked curiously and she shook her head. "I will be assigned to my previous Genin team. They all became Chunin and Jonin, Although the Genin instructor we had died and we will probably have a replacement." Akumo stated with a shrug of indifference.

Shikamaru slightly stiffened at how casually she had said that. " We weren't that close and it happened years ago." She stated noticing his reaction.

He slowly nodded. "Well I guess I will be the only one meeting whole new set of teammates." ______________________

"Alright Sakura, Make sure you help Sasuke. Is that understood." Tsunade stated and Sakura gave her a curt nod.

Her mission was simple and they really weren't pressed for time. Sakura and Sasuke were to go to the Uchiha compound and retrieve files and documents left by the once great Uchiha Police Force. Most of the things that had once been at the station had already been gathered and carefully stored away in the sub basements of the Hokage Tower and were under lock and key.

Now they had to get the files that were stored in the Uchiha compound. Any case they took they always made three copies of them. One for the Hokage tower where they could be used by the any personnel that was cleared to view them.

The second copy was for the Uchiha Police station where it would be used to solve cases and for evidence if it ever needed to be used again. It was mostly so that they wouldn't always have to go back and forth in the tower and so that there were no security breeches because they were always going in and out and so that other files that were stored there from the Anbu weren't in risk of the prying eyes of the Uchiha.

Finally there was the third copy which had yet to be moved. The copy the Head of the clan kept when the entire clan had been there they nobody was concerned with an intruder coming in and taking the files and the Uchiha had been a very close knit community where everyone knew each other and were mostly all trained shinobi so the chances an imposter or intruder would come in were very slim and they would quickly get caught.

But now the Uchiha clan were no more the files were no longer safe. Sasuke could keep them at his estate but being that he was usually out training or on missions and not at home guarding them was a bit of a security breech. The Files would be stored separately from the other files since they legally belonged to the Uchiha clan and Sasuke would have access to them whenever he wanted made some of the older council members want to protest but Tsunade was not about to start taking the things that belonged to a clan.

And so Sakura headed out to the Uchiha compound Sasuke had already spoken with Tsunade about it he would pick out what he wanted to keep locked up in the tower and he would put all clan techniques and scrolls under lock and key at a secret location. The Naka shrine.

Sakura walked slowly through the streets of the Uchiha clan. The empty buildings and eerie silence making her sweat drop. Sasuke was walking towards her his hands in his pockets and a bored expression.

"So Tsunade fill you in on what we are going to be doing?" he asked when he knew he was close enough she could hear. She gave a short curt nod.

"Good, Follow me I will show you where the files are at." He stated as he turned around and she quickly sped up to keep up with his pace.

Her eyes roamed the empty streets taking in every detail of it. "It's very quiet here." she mumbles as she was used to the rowdy streets of the Konoha.

"Yeah, it is." he muttered furrowing his brows. "If it's not to much to ask, what did you do with everything. Being the last means all of this belongs to you and for all you know people will try looting the houses for valuables." She stated crinkling her brow.

"When it first happened I didn't have much to do and I got a month or so off from school. I searched every house and took everything that was valuable in terms of the clan secrets. I also found lots of heirlooms and things that had been passed down, Photo books and things of that sort and I stored them away. A lot of the clothing I donated to the emergency relief reserves of the Village and the Orphanages near by. I didn't need them and I don't really feel comfortable wearing my dead clansmen clothes." He stated glancing at her slightly and sakura cringed slightly at his response.

"Ah, I see." she stated bashfully because she was the one that brought up the subject.

"We are here. Take your shoes off at the entrance." he muttered as he opened the door.

Sakura followed behind him and took her shoes off. She glanced around it was a very traditional home. The place was well kept but there wasn't to anything to personal like pictures or anything like that. She followed quietly behind him as he lead her to his late fathers large study.

"We will start here." Sasuke muttered as he opened the door. He stood at the doorway for a moment, He hadn't been allowed in the study when he was younger and he had avoided entering many rooms of the house that brought back to many memories.

"So I guess we should get started." Sakura stated as she walked forward. She glanced back at Sasuke silently asking for permission to begin searching the room.

He gave her a slight nod and she began opening the cabinets.

They silently worked overviewing the files and pulling out anything that was clan related or issues. Those were kept in a separate stack and everything else was sealed away in a storage scroll.

"There is a lot clan related things here." Sakura stated glancing at the growing pile of scrolls and papers. "Yeah, I will have to read through them when I have time he stated as he opened another cabinet. His brows furrowed for a moment as he pulled out the file and set it down.

"What is it?" Sakura asked as she crawled over to see what he was looking at. "This is... This is Akumis's file." he muttered as he ran his finger over her mug shot.

Sakura frowned as she looked at the picture of her teammate. She was small no older the five or six, She had dark circles under her eyes. Her hair was messy and she had a grime look on her face, you could see the dried blood on her and the torn clothes that hung loosely on her body. "Uzumaki Akumi, Age Six, Height 3.3, Weight 29 pounds. Seven accounts of murder." Sakura whispered to her self as she read the page. She lifted the page up and there were pictures attached to her file.

She sat back as she went through them. They were pictures of her body you could see her rib cage and her arms were thin from the lack of food. She kept looking through them and there were pictures of her injury and long gashes on her body where they had healed incorrectly and dark ugly bruises that covered her skin.

"This is her medical file of all the restoration surgeries she had." Sasuke grumbled as his eyes scanned at the long list. Sakura set the pictures down so that Sasuke could see them and there were pictures of her in the interrogation room, a deep frown on her face, her eyes were puffy and she had deep dark circles underneath her eyes. There was also a picture of her in the corner of her dark cell her head leaning against the wall staring at the wall infront of her.

"This is..."Sasuke mumbled a look of distain on his face as he glanced at Sakura. "Horrible." she finished his sentences when she met his eyes.

They kept looking through the files labeled O.G and they felt sick to their stomachs. pictures of mutilated bodies attached with a file that had the name and an age and the cause of death. There was no birthday written in and no other identifying information. In the background of some of the pictures you could see akumi, at times it was her small body in the corner of a picture or a bit of red hair at the edge of the page. At times it was her pointing at someone or somewhere as she walked beside the Uchiha who seemed to be writing down what she was saying.

"She saw all of them. She was there at some of the excavation sites." Sakura stated as she read some of the files which went into detail of who was there and what was found each time.

It made Sakura sick to her stomach, bodies weren't meant to look like that. It felt wrong and it made her stomach turn. She glanced at Sasuke and he didn't look any better.

The second file wasn't any better being that it was once again someone they knew. There was a picture of Naruto. He looked so small surrounded by all of the machines and with all the tubes and wires he was hooked up to. There was a picture with a chalk outlines and where the evidence had been photographed as well.

There was blood splattered on the walls and on the trash cans and crates that had been nearby, the floor was a pool of blood that seemed to have sunken into the ground. Sakura went through his medical file and was cringing. How he had survived was nothing short of a miracle. The files came to an abrupt stopped between Naruto and Akumi's 7-8 birthday. Sakura assumed it was around that time that the Uchiha massacre happened.

Sasuke was slowly and quietly going through the files. Along with the O.G incident there was also Police reports where Akumi had been arrested. There had been times where she had been arrested for Unruly behavior and destruction of private or public property. Not to mention varies files which were about different times Akumi had assaulted Shinobi and civilians in the middle of the street. Many of them had a hospital fee or collateral damage fee that the Village had to pay on Akumi's behalf and each mugshot she had an angry scowl on her face at times it looked like she lunged at the camera or threw the board she was suppose to holding up at someone or at the camera itself. There was some where someone else was holding the board for her and she was in handcuffs for the mug shot.

"It's hard to believe that this is our Akumi." Sakura stated as she stared at a mug shot where her chains were let loose and the camera seemed to have been hit.

"She does have a bad temper, But probably not as bad as she used to have. " Sasuke stated as he began picking up the files. It was late afternoon by now and they would have to continue some other time. "Put these files in the clan related stuff." He muttered and Sakura blinked and stared at him. It was her friends files and she was not an Uchiha nor was Naruto but she guess she didn't have anything to say as she put Akumi and Naruto's file with the clan ones.

_________________________________________________

"Alright you will all be delivering this scroll to the Suna for the sand shinobi council. Being that this is for politics and this is a high A ranked mission. " Tsunade stated as she placed the scroll infront of her so that the Jonin could take it.

"Kei you are the Squadron leader is that understood. And being that you are were all genin team members I expect that you won't need much time to prepare for departure." Tsunade added as she cocked a brow.

"Of course not Hokage-Sama we will be ready for departure in an hour." Kei stated as he glanced at his teammates.

"Meet me at the gates in an hour, pack enough for at least three weeks and desert supplies as well." He stated and his teammates all nodded and left.

Akumi couldn't help but huff in annoyance she really didn't get along with Kei. He had always hated her for being the youngest in the group and there were times where they actually fought outside of missions because she couldn't stand him. He absolutely hated her because she was a 'prodigy' and claimed that the only reason they let her pass the academy was because they felt pity for her but at the same time she was the one that would save his ass when a mission got tough or his plans didn't go the way they were meant to go.

In a way her new team was like a sigh of relief they hadn't feared her or had Prejudice thoughts about her. Nor did they hate her for being herself.

Then there was Himeko, who had always been terrified of her. The damn brat was a shinobi from a civilian clan.

It was ridiculous, it took effort to work with that dimwitted, blubbering idiot that was her teammate. Back then she would always go out of her way to not be near her which at times nearly cost them the missions and after Akumi had to save the idiot she would get so angry that the dumbass nearly got them killed that she would beat the shit out of her while their sensei tried to get her off without touching her in fear that she'd possess his body to beat Himeko's ass to the ground.

But then again the fear was not without cause she did do it once and the lecture and punishment had been quite severe. She was arrested for attacking a superior rank shinobi and served a few days in jail as punishment and then Inoichi had her in his office everyday for a month. It had been horrible.

Now she was paired with the two annoying idiots once again. They were much older than her, nearly eighteen and Nineteen years old while she was only Twelve.

She was packing her supplies making sure she had enough water because it was the desert. Naruto had made her a canteen with a storage seal engraved at the bottom. She was able to seal a couple of gallons of fresh cold water in there and it was perfect for her mission.

She sighed as she wrote a note for Naruto just in case him and Jiraiya stopped by Konoha at while she was gone. Their training schedule was odd and she didn't want him to wonder where she went. She then went to the fridge and began taking everything out that would go bad in three weeks. She might as well take it to Sasuke as free groceries since she wouldn't be needing it.

She sighed as she geared up. She had a brown short medical skirt with slits in the side and had black spandex short underneath. She wore a loose green shirt that was tucked in her skirt and her green chunin vest on top. Carefully she slipped on some netted gloves that went above her elbow and then slipped on some leather ones that had the finger parts cut off and metal plates on the back of her hand. she made sure she had everything especially her medical kit since she was probably going to have to be the medic if anything went wrong.

She tied her hair in a low pony tail and then her headband as well and locked her apartment behind her making sure it was secure and went to the Uchiha compound to bring the groceries over. She hopped that Sasuke was there if not she would leave it at his kitchen table and a note.

Akumi didn't mind walking through the empty streets of the Uchiha Compound and quickly found herself at Sasuke's home. She knocked on the door and waited. When nobody answered she knocked again. "Oi Sasuke Are you home?!" She yelled out as she waited once more. Sighing she checked to see if the door was open and when she found that it was she made her way inside.

She didn't see Sasuke's shoes at his entrance so figured he wasn't home. She easily slipped her shoes off and carried the groceries to the kitchen, she put the perishable food in the fridge and left the rest on the counter. She made a note and wrote how she was leaving for three weeks and that she brought groceries so that they didn't go bad in her fridge.

She left the note and was walking out when she saw a room with the door open. There were files scattered on the floor along side pictures. Akumi froze in place as she looked at them from afar. "None of my business." She grumbled as she shrugged and continued her way to the door.

She slipped her shoes back on and opened the door when a kunai nearly stabbed her in the face. She reacted quickly taking the wrist of her opponent and making them stab their kunai into the door frame and then taking her own kunai out and holding it to their throat.

"Oh it's you Aku-chan." Sakura sighed as Akumi began lowering her kunai and Sasuke yanked his out of the door frame.

"How come your here?" Sasuke asked confused. "I am leaving for a three week long mission, I brought you food since it would be better than letting it spoil in my fridge." She stated pointing behind her with her thumb.

"Oh, With your higher ranked team?" Sasuke asked and Akumi nodded. "Say hi to Naruto and take care of yourselves while I am gone okay." Akumi gave a small gentle smile and Sakura giggled and nodded.

"I think it us who should be telling you that." She grinned and Akumi chuckled. " I guess you are right." Akumi nodded and she walked around Sasuke and gave him a slight pat on the shoulder. " Also work on the swing, you nearly got me earlier." She grinned and Sasuke smiled slightly.

"Yeah sure, Like you didn't completely redirect it. Good luck on your mission Akumi." He snorted out slightly sarcastically. Akumi didn't look back as she gave one last wave as if dismissing his comment in a playful manner.

Sasuke's smile slightly faltered. "Do you think she saw the files?" he asked glancing at Sakura who slightly bit her lip. "It's not like she hasn't told us before but seeing them feels like they are very personal." She sighed as she looked back into the house.

"Lets just get them sorted and put away." Sasuke sighed as he walked into the house.

________________________________________

I was going to write more and go in depth abut akumi's previous teammates but I figured that they would be a good plot point for the next chapter. I feel like we deserve a lot of flashback with this team and to show their personalities then and then show their personalities in the now.

But first I have to develop these new characters in my head a bit more since I just came up with them while writing this chapter.

Anyway I don't know if this is as good as I wanted it to be since I feel my first time around had more feel and emotion to it.

Next chapter will be up when I get my head on straight and have a day off of work (Hopefully)

Rosymalik