Obito and I returned back to the village. Minato and Kushina were already at the gate and they both looked horrified at my condition.

"Is she going to be okay?!" Kushina exclaimed.

I looked over at her weakly. "Yeah, I just need my wounds patched up and a giant nap,"

Minato took me from Obito so he could get me to the hospital quicker.

"Hana, why did you do this?" Minato asked.

"I had to," I replied. "Our fight was inevitible from the start and I found out the truth about my parents. I know it was rash and dangerous, but this was the only way I could find out why they got killed,"

"So Nozomi won't be a problem anymore?" He asked.

"Yeah..."

I know this is crazy, but I wish she could've came back with us. Nozomi and I could've started over and talked everything out. I looked down at my hand that I entwined with hers and sighed sadly.

"So how did you find out anyway?" I ask.

"Kakashi," Minato replied. "Kushina and I were supposed to talk to you about something important and we saw him fighting one of the genin from the Chunin Exams and I stepped in. I let Obito handle it after Kakashi told me that he was already headed in your direction,"

So even when I messed up, Kakashi and Obito still care about me. I didn't deserve them even as friends.

"Does anyone else know?"

"No," Minato replied. "I don't think it would've been a good idea if I had told anyone else,"

We made it to the hospital literally in a flash. He really does live up to the name The Yellow Flash. He got us here in less than five minutes and I saw that Tsunade was there. She widened her eyes at my condition.

"What happened?" She asked, quickly taking us to one of the rooms.

"We had a mission," Minato told her. "She got in a fight with a rogue ninja who was a lot of trouble,"

I was placed onto the bed and Minato walked out to let Tsunade have space. 

"So what really happened?" Tsunade asked.

"...uh...what?" I ask.

"I can tell he was lying. What did you do?" She started gathering some stuff to clean up the wounds.

"I took on another mission by myself," I replied and she sighed.

"You need to stop doing that. How can you work towards being Hokage when you continue to get really hurt?" Tsunade lectured while cleaning my wounds up. I had to ignore the stinging sensation.

"I think this is going to be the last time I do that," I replied.

Her hands started to glow green and she held them over the stomach. 

It took a while for her to heal it and she healed my burns as well to keep them from scarring.

Tsunade finished and she took my hoodie off so I was wearing my tank top and shorts. 

"How long will I be stuck in here for?" I ask.

"Until that wound heals on the inside and when your body recovers from the strain of overusing your chakra, so about five weeks,"

I groaned. "But that's so far away!" 

"Don't complain. You put yourself in here by making a bad decision." She retorted.

I didn't want to argue and she left the room. Kushina walked in with Minato and Jiraiya.

"I heard what happened," Jiraiya said. "How are you feeling?"

"Better, now that Tsunade healed me. Is something going on?" I ask.

"Well," Minato started. "We need to speak about what Kushina told me when you went on the mission with her,"

Minato sat down on the bed that was next to mine with Kushina while Jiraiya leaned against the window. 

"Do you know what a jinchuriki is?" Kushina asked.

"Yes, but I figured everything out," I replied. "I learned that my father gave me a chemically modified version of the Eight-Tails from a syringe and it was a lot darker and twisted than usual. He sealed it in me when I was a child,"

"You know this for sure?" Minato asked.

"Yes, I learned it after my encounter with Nozomi. It's way too complicated to explain, but that's what happened,"

"Is that all?" I ask.

Jiraiya shook his head. "Nope,"

I looked at him.

"Have you ever heard of sage mode?"

Now I was just confused. I've never heard of that term in my life.

"Well, it's a type of power that I know and can pass onto anyone I want to teach it to. Minato knows it," Jiraiya explains and Minato nodded. "I taught him when he was around your age, but the reason I'm bringing this up is that there is a prophecy behind it,"

So it's that prophecy thing again.

"I can summon toads. One of them, the Great Toad Sage, foretold one of my students would bring a great revolution to the world of ninja. I believe it's you," Jiraiya said.

"Me? How?" I ask, bewildered.

"Think about it, Hana. You have a good heart and you've got some impressive abilities. Even if you think your abilities are not as good, they are. You've even taken down someone who had malicious intentions," Minato said.

"But I know it's not me," I shook my head.

"If you really want to, you can use that chemical version of the Eight-Tails and we all think that you're the Child of Prophecy," Jiraiya said.

I knew it wasn't me and I had this feeling that it wasn't.

"Jiraiya-Sensei, I don't need to learn how to use sage mode," I said. "I know I'm not the Child of Prophecy and you shouldn't waste sage mode on someone who isn't. I think it's meant for someone else and I have this feeling that tells me it is,"

They all looked surprised.

"And I know I can control the Eight-Tails, but I don't want to. I want it out of me," I add.

"Okay, we'll do some research on how to get it out," Jiraiya nodded.

I sighed with relief. I just wanted to get rid of it because I knew it's the source of my feelings of bloodthirstiness and makes my anger even worse. It needs to be gone and there's no telling what the chemicals might be doing to my body.

It started to get dark and visiting hours were about to end, so they got up to leave.

"Get better soon, Squirt," Jiraiya said. "We have work to do."

Kushina and Minato gave me a hug.

"I'll repair your hoodie when you get home," Kushina said and left.

"Uncle Minato?" I ask.

"Yeah?"

"Can I ask you something?"

He sat down on the chair next to my bed. "Yeah, go ahead,"

"Do you think Kakashi and Obito hate me?" I ask.

"No," Minato shook his head. "If they tried to stop you from going over to the Valley of End, then that shows they still care. They just need space and you know how Obito is, he's stubborn,"

I chuckled thinking about how stubborn Obito can get.

"And Kakashi isn't the type of person who's outspoken with his feelings, so keep that in mind," Minato added.

"I think I am starting to sort my feelings out," I said.

"That's good. Hopefully, you can patch things up with them so things don't get awkward,"

The nurse came in to tell Minato that visiting hours were over.

"Goodnight Hana."

"Goodnight Uncle."

I gave the whole Kakashi and Obito thing some more thought and I think I started realizing who I was actually in love with.