The Next Morning - Anna's POV

I slowly stir and I sense an arm on my shoulder and I sense Gaara's chakra next to me and a bed under us.

Heat slowly rises to my cheeks as I sense Sakura and Naruto looking at us.

"Good morning." Gaara says to me and I fall off the bed surprised.

"Morning." I say quietly as I hide my flustered face and Naruto and Sakura laugh.

"Are you ok?" Gaara asks me and I nod.

"I'm fine." I say to him.

"She's finally grown up." Sakura says at last.

"S-Shut up!" I say to her and she laughs as I sense Gaara is confused by all of this.

I get up and I shake my head a few times and I hit her on the head and I hit Naruto on the head.

"Idiots." I say and after a while, all of us are at the gates.

"My youthful rival looks refreshed." Lee says to me and I sweat drop.

"No." I say and Neji hums amused while Tenten laughs.

Naruto and Gaara say goodbye and then I sense the Sand Siblings look at me.

I give them a closed eyed smile. "Until we meet again." I say to them and they hum and we all get going.

"Why does everyone hum after Anna talks?" Lee asks and I ignore the question.

"We don't know." Naruto and Sakura say simultaneously and I send them an unnoticeable glare at them that those two can see but the others can't.

"They seem nervous." Tenten comments and I place my hands on Naruto and Sakura's shoulders with a closed eyed smile and the two tense.

"They're fine, they just talk simultaneously every once in a while, it really shows that they're connected on a deep level." I say and Sakura growls.

"NO WE'RE NOT!" Sakura and Naruto yell at me and I laugh as the two yell at me.

"She's covered something up." Tenten says to Lee.

"No she hasn't, she changed the subject." Lee says to her, then realizes I covered something up. "She covered something up." Lee says shocked.

I just laugh as Naruto and Sakura continue yelling at me and I put my hands behind my back as we walk, until, Guy runs past us and I can tell Kakashi is on his back.

"SO YOUTHFUL!" Lee yells excitedly. "Anna?" Lee asks me and I shrug.

"Your not." Neji says to me and I just smile.

"Come on Neji, have some fun." I say and he sighs in annoyance and I ride Lee piggyback, back to the village and I get down.

"So youthful!" Lee and Guy say simultaneously and I sense Kakashi half dead on Guy's back.

"Guy, my Sensei is dying on your back." I say to him and he freezes.

"Anna, you go report to the Hokage about the mission, I'll take Kakashi to the Hospital, Lee, go with her." Guy says to us and I hum in acknowledgment.

I head to the Hokage office with a pumped up Lee beside me and I just walk in.

"Anna, have you ever, heard of knocking?" Tsunade asks me irritated.

"Yes, but you know I don't knock, just for you." I say to her with closed eyed smile and she sighs irritated. "Anyways, the mission was successful, we saved Gaara, Kankuro is alive, the Sand are fine and two Akatsuki members were killed." I say to her with a bright smile and I sense shock from her.

"Which ones?" Tsunade asks me.

"Sasori of the Red Sand and Deidara." I say to her and she hums.

"Good, now, what about the rest of your squad?" Tsunade asks me and I sweat drop.

"Kakashi is being checked into the hospital right now because he over used his Sharigan, and everyone else is ok, they should be back soon." I say to her and she hums.

"Alright, dismissed." Tsunade says to me and I nod and leave.

Two Days Later

I yawn as I walk to the meet up spot and I sense a kid I have never met before and I tense as I hear Naruto yelling at him.

"This isn't gonna be good is it?" I ask showing up.

"Anna, oh no, this is gonna get bad." Sakura says nervously.

I blink and I separate the boys. "Alright, Naruto, kid, stop fighting, now, before I get a headache, it already took all my effort to come here today after what the hell just happened." I say to them and Naruto grumbles, but he stands down anyways because I'm his sister and the kid, I don't know, there are no emotions, its kind of scary to sense someone so emotionless.

"Who are you?" The kid asks me.

"Its only polite to give your name when asking for another." I say to him with a smile.

"My name, its Sai." The kid says to me and I sense a fake warmness from him.

"My name is Anna Ward, its a pleasure to meet you Sai." I say to him as I hold out my hand with a closed eyed smile.

"Anna, he's dangerous." Naruto says to me and I shrug.

Sai warily takes my hand and I shake it with a smile.

"At least there is one sane person here." Another guy says coming out.

"Sane, Ward, that doesn't make any sense." Sai says confused.

I frown and I step back next to Naruto.

"She's being nice." Naruto says to him, standoffishly.

"Naruto, calm down, k? The kid will learn soon that he doesn't know the meaning on insane." I say to Naruto with a closed eyed smile.

"But, he just insulted you." Naruto says to me and my smile doesn't leave.

"I know, just leave him be." I say to Naruto and he sighs and leaves it be.

"Lets all start with introductions." The guy says to us.

"What?" I ask confused.

"Just say your names"

"Likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams, yeah we know the gist." I say to him.

"Anna Ward, age 16, she's smart, friendly, has a hot temper and she's blind." The guy says to me and my smile falters to a frown.

"Oh no." Naruto says nervously.

"Alright, what makes you think you can go around saying things that I like keeping secret? Hmm? Yeah, none, my team and a select few others and my teacher, only know about this, I swear to the love of Kami, if you say anything else, I'm gonna kick the crap out of you." I say to the guy.

"Lady Hokage told me because she said I needed to know what to do about you." He says to me and I twitch slightly.

"What to do, about me? Your dead." I say and Naruto and Sakura struggle to hold me back and I break out and kick the dude back up to the Hokage office and I jump after him and I punch him repeatedly in there.

"Anna." Tsunade says to me and I growl.

"I should punch you too for telling him." I say to Tsunade in annoyance.

"Kakashi told him in our small meeting." Tsunade says to me and I let out a low growl a deadly growl and I head straight to Kakashi's hospital room and I punch Jiraiya out the window while I sense nervousness from Kakashi.

"ARE YOU INSANE?" I yell at Kakashi and he chuckles nervously.

"Now, now Anna, you know I had to tell him because he's your new squad leader." Kakashi says to me and I growl in annoyance.

"Well now he's gonna put me off to the sidelines, I almost bet it Sensei, you doomed him to death." I hiss at him.

"He won't, I told him not to." Kakashi says to me and I raise an eyebrow.

"And that didn't stop you when Gramps told you not to sit me on the sidelines." I say to Kakashi and he chuckles nervously.

"He won't." Kakashi says to me.

"I'm gonna kill him, he flat out said it after he told us to introduce ourselves." I say to Kakashi annoyed.

"Your not gonna kill him." Kakashi says to me, trying to calm me down.

I mutter incoherent words about this while Kakashi just sits there watching me trying not to break anything out of frustration and anger and then I deflate.

"I give up." I say and Kakashi hums.

"Your not gonna kill him?" Kakashi asks me.

"I'm not gonna kill him." I say to him in defeat.

"Good, now go on back and apologize for whatever you did do to him." Kakashi says to me and I pout, but I listen.

I head back and I sense a very nervous Naruto, Sakura and the dude.

"Talk about Zero to a hundred in 0.4 seconds." Sai says and I shoot him a small glare before I close my eyes and release a small sigh before I open them in the dude's direction.

"What is your name? You seem to know mine, so you should say yours." I ask him with a calm stance and a calm look.

"Yamato, you can call me Captain Yamato." The dude says to me nervously and I nod.

"Alright, Yamato, Kakashi-Sensei convinced me not to kill you, so don't piss me off and we're right as rain, got that?" I ask him and I hear him gulp.

"Yes Ma'am." Yamato says to me and I nod.

"But you Sai, Kakashi-Sensei said nothing about killing you, if you piss me off, expect a long torturous, agonizing, painful death." I say to him with a smile.

"I'll look forward to it." Sai says to me with a fake warmness.

I grumble. "Buzz kill." I say and we all head to the gates and Naruto tells me what is going on and I nod. "We're getting closer to Sasuke then." I say to Naruto who hums.

"Yeah, we'll bring him back." Naruto says to me and I nod in agreement.

We head out and somewhere down the line, Naruto and Sai get into a fight, Sakura joins them and I break them apart.

"That's enough, I'm not in the mood, shut up, move along or get along." I say to them.

"Yes ma'am." Sakura and Naruto say to me.

"Why are you scared of her? She's blind." Sai asks them.

"A very deadly blind person, she took two Akatsuki members on herself and came out alive." Sakura says to him.

"You know I'm blind, not deaf right?" I ask them and Sakura freezes and I sigh. "Whatever, can we all just get along? I'm tired of arguing today and if I expel anymore anger, I'm gonna kill someone." I say to them and we get moving.

"You seem to be able to keep them in check." Yamato says to me and I just hum in acknowledgment.

"Come on Anna." Naruto says to me as he grabs my wrist and starts running.

"Why? What's happening?" I ask him.

"We're gonna race to the next town." Naruto says to me with a bright warmness.

"Huh?" I ask him.

"Last one there is rotten ramen!" Naruto calls and starts running for real.

"Naruto! You jerk!" I cry as I run after him and he laughs as I pout and the others sigh and follow us.

"Such children." Sai says to himself and I flip him off.

"Come on Anna, your lagging!" Naruto says to me and I speed up to his speed and he grins, until I pass him. "HEY!" He cries and I smirk back.

"What? I don't want to be rotten ramen." I say to him and he cries as he runs after me and we end up at a hot spring hotel where we stop for the night. "I win Naruto." I say to him with a grin.

"You only got lucky that I tripped." Naruto says to me in a pouting mood and I just smile as we head up to the shared room with the others behind us.

"Come on Anna, lets go down to the hot springs." Sakura says to me excitedly.

"Alright." I say and we head down stairs and change into towels that wrap around our chests, well, my towel barely fits around my chest.

"Why are yours so big?" Sakura asks me as we head into the hot springs area and I shrug.

"I don't know." I say to her and I put my towel near the spring and I get in the hot spring slowly as to not burn myself.

"Anna, what do you think the boys are doing?" Sakura asks me as we sit chin deep in the water.

"I don't know, I don't want to know, I want to relax and not kill them." I say and Sakura giggles at that.

"Well, then how about we talk about you and Gaara?" Sakura asks me and heat rises to my cheeks as I sink down to only my eyes and above, above the steaming water.

"I have no idea what your talking about." My words come out muffled by the water.

"Yes you do, Kakashi-Sensei said he brought you in from the roof and you slept on him all night and then you woke up blushing." Sakura says to me and I blow out bubbles as I sit there, crouching in the water. "Get up." She says to me, rolling her eyes.

I go farther down and nothing of me remains above water as I sit on my ass.

"Ok, I get it, you don't like girl talk." Sakura says after a few minutes and I peer above the water and I jump over her like a dolphin, and I spin in the air before I dive back in and I swim to the top. "That, was stupid." Sakura says to me and I just grin.

"That's what happens when your part of the dumbest team in all of the Shinobi World." I say to her and she just huffs and I climb out, my hair sticking to my body and I grumble as it sticks to my forehead. I grab my towel and I wrap it around my body and I head into the showers and I get the stuff out of my hair and off my body and I then put on the hotel robe that I'm supposed to wear I guess.

I head up to the room and I sense Yamato in there and I ignore him as I head over to my bag and I sit down.

"Anna, can I speak to you?" Yamato asks me and I just hum as I rummage my bag for my hair brush. "Team Kakashi, what, exactly is there to expect?" Yamato asks me.

"What do you mean?" I ask him as I start brushing out my hair, hitting a few knots.

"Skills and personality. What is there to expect?" Yamato asks me and I hum.

"Well, Sakura is determined, she wants to get stronger, she's a great Medical Ninja, taught by Tsunade herself, she was part of the original Team 7 with Me, Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi-Sensei, she's smart, a Gen-Jutsu type, she's also incredibly strong, she's loyal and kind, she can also have a temper as hot as mine, if your Naruto." I say to him as I close my eyes, brushing through my hair. "Naruto is determined, he wants to become the Hokage, he's not all that smart, but he's incredibly kind and loyal to the Hidden Leaf after how they treated him as a kid, he doesn't want to be disrespected, he wants people to look up to him and recognize him as a hero and someone they can look to for help, he's a Nin-Jutsu type, he sucks at Gen-Jutsu, he's alright with Tai-Jutsu though, he's an Uzumaki, so if he focused, he could learn sealing techniques like the Uzumaki Clan, he's the Jinchuriki of the Nine Tailed Fox, Naruto is a strong person in spirit and in body, he's like a brother to me." I say to him with a soft smile dancing on my lips at the thought of having Team 7 as a family again.

"And you?" Yamato asks me.

"Like Naruto, I specialize in Nin-Jutsu, but I'm more effective with Ken-Jutsu and Tai-Jutsu, I can't use Gen-Jutsu, unlike the rest of the Ward Clan, which makes me very happy that I'm not lumped in with those lumbering fools who outcasted my parents and exiled them. I'm smart, but I have a very hot temper, as you've witnessed first hand, but that's not the true extent to my temper either, I trained under Kakashi-Sensei for three years, minus weekends and the Chunin Exams, My summonings are Foxes, Naruto's are Toad's and Sakura's are Slugs. My type is Tai-Jutsu, since I work better in close combat ranges, I can be nice, when I feel like it, and I try making friends even though people just think of my friendship as diplomatic and business and that's bullshit." I say with a small snort and I finish brushing through my hair and put my damn bangs off to the side of my face and I braid my hair.

"And what do you know about Sasuke?" Yamato asks me.

"Sasuke is an Uchiha, he's a Gen-Jutsu Type and uses Gen-Jutsu with hsi Sharigan, everything else changed since he left to train with Orochimaru, so I don't know more than that, but he can use the FireBall Jutsu of his clan and he is out for revenge, he wants to kill his older brother, Itachi Uchiha, for killing off the Uchiha. He is apart of Team 7, always has, always will, he is my brother as well, Sakura is my sister, we're all siblings, a family, and me and Naruto and Sakura are gonna bring him back to the Leaf Village." I say to him and Yamato hums in small frustration at that.

I sit back against the wall with my legs folded next to me as me and Yamato wait for the others.
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