"I don't think I'm obligated to tell you that," She replies in a sarcastic manner.

"The hell you aren't!"

I pushed my weapon against hers and she jumped back. I still couldn't get a good look at her since the fog was so thick.

"Tell me, Uzumaki, do you think you can dodge this one?" She taunted.

Did she know me? Who the hell is she?

I felt another rush of wind on my face and my bangs got knocked in my face. I knew she was trying to attack me again, so I tried to stop her weapon with my kunai. It was knocked out of my hand and I got kicked to the ground after that.

Where the hell were my teammates? I need backup.

"You better tell me who you are and what you want, bitch," I spat.

"Fiesty," She taunted. "Just what I'd expect from an Uzumaki girl,"

She was treating this like a game and it was starting to piss me off. I tried to get back up and attack, but was pushed back onto the ground. I saw a glimpse of silver coming down, so I decided to try and grab whatever this weapon was.

I wrapped my hands around it and pushed it back toward her.

I must've hit her because a mask fell to the ground next to my head. I quickly looked over at the mask and it looked like it belonged to a Blood Mist ANBU. I looked back over, still holding onto the weapon. I pulled it down so I could get a closer look at her face.

I couldn't make out any distinct facial features since the fog was so thick. I could only see a glimpse of dark hair.

She tried to pull back, but I used my strength to keep hold and pulled her back hard. She lost grip and fell to the ground, so I quickly stood back up, grabbing a kunai out of my pouch again. Since she was closer now, I was able to see her vaguely through the fog. She was using a silver staff with a sharp end as a weapon.

I kicked the staff away, quickly weaving a sign for a water jutsu.

"Water style, water whip!"

A whip of water wrapped around her and just as I was about to weave another sign, her body melted into mud. There was pressure against my throat all of the sudden and I knew she had the staff against my neck.

She stood close behind me.

"Now I can easily snap your neck,"

My body then turned into water and pooled to the ground. I stood behind her with a kunai pointed to her neck.

"Now I can easily stab you," I retorted. "I'm not that stupid,"

"Try again,"

She used her staff to push me away, cutting my arm in the process. I stumbled back and she was now facing me. Our eyes locked again. I had no idea who this girl was, so how the hell did she know who I was?

I pressed my palm against the cut on my arm to try and slow the bleeding down. She came lunging for me and I braced myself for the next attack.

"Sorry, to step in, but you're going to have to go through me to get to her,"

I let out a breath of relief when I recognized Kakashi's voice. He now stood in front of me.

"Kakashi, it's you!" I said with both relief and surprise.

He didn't turn around to face me and she weaved a sign for an earth release, still running toward us.

"Get out of my way! My business has nothing to do with you!" She shouted at him, now expelling bullet-sized rocks out of her mouth at him.

He countered them all with his kunai with speed, not responding to her. She tried to aim a punch at him, but he grabbed the arm she used to punch him with and flipped her to the ground. The fog started to lose density since she was injured now.

She winced trying to get back up.

"Good job, Kakashi!" Uncle Minato's voice said.

In a flash, he was right next to me, along with Obito and Rin.

"Are you okay, Hana? Are you hurt?" Uncle asked. "Sorry we couldn't find you sooner, I think she had someone else manipulating our sense of direction to purposely separate us,"

"Yeah, someone else tried to attack us too," Obito added. "You're not hurt, right? I was worried sick when we lost you,"

He immediately cleared his throat after saying that. "I mean, we were worried sick!"

I rose an eyebrow at how quickly he corrected himself.

"No, nothing too severe. Just a few stab wounds on my arm and shoulder," I replied. "Glad you guys got here when you did because I don't know how long I'd be able to hold her off for,"

Uncle Minato handed the scroll to Rin. She put the scroll inside her backpack and then dug out a medkit, handing it to me.

"Here, Hana, for that cut on your arm," She looked at me with concern as she held it out to me.

I took it from her, avoiding eye contact. "Thanks, Rin,"

I started patching the wound on my arm quickly as I could so we could prepare for another attack.

The girl who attacked me was now nowhere to be seen and I was looking around. The fog started lifting.

"She doesn't appear to be in the area anymore," Uncle said. "But we need to stick closely together and continue the mission. She might try to come back to target Hana again,"

We continued our way to the Blood Mist Village.

That girl was still on my mind. I didn't understand why she was even targeting me in the first place. What did she want from me exactly?

"Hana, do you know that girl?" Uncle asked as we walked further into the Land of Water.

"No," I shook my head. "She knew who I was though. I don't understand what she even wants from me,"

"So she was targeting you only?" He asks. "I don't like the sound of that..."

The way he trailed off made me wonder if he had any idea what this was about.

"Do you know why, Minato-Sensei?" I rose an eyebrow and looked over at him.

"No, I don't," He replied. "But we'll have to be extra careful when we're out on missions because of this now,"

Something told me otherwise, but this probably wasn't the time or the place to be talking about it. We need to get this mission done first before discussing that. I'll have to ask him when it's just the two of us, maybe he didn't want to discuss it in front of the other three.

Obito was looking over at me. I looked back at him and he just looked away. He looked like he was lost in his thoughts.

"How much further to the Blood Mist?" He asked out loud.

"Not too far now," Uncle replied. "We have about two more days, but we're going to have to camp out soon. It's starting to get dark."

So we continued our path to the village and it was dark. He found a spot where we could camp out that was hidden by some bushes and trees so we wouldn't be out in the open. Kakashi helped Uncle Minato set up the two tents, Rin was making soup over the fire, and Obito was sitting near Rin.

I was cleaning up the wound I had from earlier and patched it back up again. I was sitting further away from Rin and Obito.

I was still annoyed by the fact that he was giving her his full attention. I thought he was going to start showing that he cared again, but I guess I was wrong. Glad to know that my childhood best friend was totally ignoring me for some girl.

Whatever now I have other things to worry about besides him anyway.

I don't care, he can replace me all he wants with her.

I sat on the ground, picking at the grass. It still hurts regardless.

"Hana, the soup is ready!" Rin called out.

She confuses me. I couldn't tell if she knew what she was doing and was just taunting me or something.

I stood up and walked over to the fire, sitting next to Kakashi. He handed me a bowl of soup and a spoon.

"Thanks...Rin," I muttered quietly, looking away from her.

I didn't want to sound totally ungrateful. She did give me a medkit and made the soup for everyone. Kakashi looked at me with a questioning look and she gave me a small smile in response.

"Make sure you guys get a full night's rest tonight," Uncle said to us. "We have two more days until we're at the village and we don't know if that girl will try to attack again, or if she'll have her group attack us again,"

"Wait, you said she had a group?" I asked, looking over at him. "What happened to you guys when we got separated?"

"The fog was so thick and it seemed like someone had placed us under a genjutsu, so it seemed like we were just going in circles trying to find our way around," He answered. "So I released it and we had two rogue ninjas trying to attack us. Obito realized you weren't with us after the genjutsu was released,"

At least Obito realized I was missing. I'd be even angrier if he didn't.

"Rogue ninjas?" I asked. "But she was wearing a Blood Mist ANBU mask! Are you sure we're not walking into some sort of trap with this mission? She knew my name!"

"A mask?" He asked thoughtfully. "No, I don't think this mission was a setup for a trap, but it seems that the Blood Mist may have a double agent in their village. I'll bring this up to the Mizukage when we get there."

I helped Rin clean up the dishes since I didn't want to be a total jerk. The whole time, I couldn't help but think that Uncle was wrong about the double agent part. That girl's mannerisms seemed like this was a personal grudge she had against me for whatever reason. I wasn't involved with any sort of shady activity, so I don't know what the issue is.

Plus the fact that she knew my name specifically.

Why do I feel like he was leaving something out in that conversation earlier? What is he not telling me?

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In case you're wondering why I have that clip up above, I decided on using Marceline from Adventure Time as a voice for Hana. If you haven't watched it, then just watch that clip and you'll get an idea of how her voice sounds. Also, just a reminder that this story is being rewritten so that's why everything seems a little out of place right now.