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Tanith was looking out at the blue sky with a bored look on her face, swinging back and forth on her bed. She was not used to remain in the same place more than 10 minutes. She had been in her room about half an hour, without nothing else to do.

"I just came back from training" she said, somewhat annoyed "Am I supposed to go back and train again?"

She sighed, and looked up at the sky, now humming. She suddenly stop swinging and came up with an idea. Grinning she stood up, hitting her fist toward thin air.

"Yosh!" she yelled. She pocketed a few yens from her night table, and ran out of her room "Oka-san! I'll be right back!"

"Hai. Itterasshai." said her mother calmly from the kitchen.

He wasn't sure why he kept to such a modest amount of training when he was on the estates. Perhaps he didn't want his family to see how far he had grown. Which could go two ways, either by not growing enough or by supassing what they thought he should be able to do.

If he was honest with himself, he full believed he was one of the best juken fighters in the village. Then again he also believed himself to be one of the most clever. Then again what was the point of comparing himself to others?

Tanith hyuuga was a year younger than he, and had alrady mastered four of the family arts. Granted she may not have all he had up her sleave, but that put her on par with him at the very least, and greater than him at the most.

Virgil was also a year younger than he, and he too, had a bit more up his sleave, including a sword, and a rather large kunai. If anything he was branching off into other arts, allowing himself to become more well rounded, while he seemed to only stick to what was in front of him.

The last thing he needed, was to be deemed useless, inept, or incapable. That kind of stigma damaged Hinata-Sensei back when she was a child. Though he wondered if it was still approate to call he Sensei given how she was no longer a practitioner. (( I am assuming you meant all the older couples were dead.))

He sighed, dwelling on this wouldn't change anything. Only immedate body numbing training could hope to allievate his current dilema.

He calmly moved off to a corner, and began to practice, just how many strikes, and movements he could do in a limited amount of space.

The messenger bag that the Suna nin had left at the Hyuuga estates beeped twice then exploded in a massive explosion, setting fire to the building and destorying a big section of it.
As the fire began to eat away at the manorm, parts began to collapse.

He was calm, mediating, his eyes closed as he came down from the natural high training gave him. As he slowly began to relax he could feel the tension inhimself slowly slip away.

A distnict beeping noise broke through his silence. His eyes snapping up he took a wiff of the air. It smelled slightly like smoke. Had some one been smoking on the grounds?

Oh geeze, who would be du...

A second beep and he was suddenly thrown back away from the wall as an explosion went off. Collapsing on the ground he was vaugly aware of a rapidly growing fire spreading through out the grounds. His ears rang drowning out the sounds of teh crackling flames and his ptful moaning.

Struggling to rise, he go to one knee and then quickly clamped his side. Looking down he had found that wood from a door piece had become improptu sharpnel and had lodged themselvf into his side.

"Ugh'

Was all he managed as he drew himself to a kneeling position. He staggered toward the resthouse, his hand clutching his side to stim the flow of blood spilling from him like a waterfall. His head swam and the ringing his his head simply would go away. Despite teh first few unsucessful attempts he managed to pry the wood out of him with sticky yet slippery fingers. the sharpnel falling to the ground like senbons.

Bandaging himself came next even as he felt the heat of teh fire drawing closer to him.

Got to get out of here..

He slammed through the door with his shoulder and stagger forward off the grounds. The sight that met his eyes snapped him out of his pain induced druggie state. The building itself was on fire and collapsing fast. He pushed away the pain, getting a clear grasp on the situation.

Hatsuhi!

His pain was quickly forgotten ad he forced himself to have a clear head. There were people in the house. People of the main branch were in the house, people of his branch were in that house. THEY HAD TO BE SAVED.

He summoned reserves of unkown strength and charged into the burning building, a wet cloth over his mouth to help with the fumes. Searching room by room, he soon found the places deserted and he had wasted his time for nothing.

Reaching on last room he kicked down the door and a sudden flare up almost threatened to engulf him. there lying prone were two figures. the first he recognized as the main branch mother, teh second had to have been her daughter, who was known for attending her mother's bedside during the times she had been sick. With out though or hesitation he rushed and and pul;ed a collapsed beam of of the mother.

With his remaining strength his hoisted her up, and placed her over his shoulder. With no time to be fancy he lifted up his cousin and placed her on his other shoulder before staggering out of the building, smoke threatening to collapse his lungs, his musucles burning not from fire but from exhaustion, yet overridden by fast pumping adreline.


He stagger outside, smoke obstructing his vision. A beautiful sight met his eyes as villagers quickly came together to help put out the fire before the actual fire department arrived. Staggering into the corwd with thei bucket line, he continued to stagger forth until a voice shouted.

"LOOK THEY MADE IT."

Another one soon followed.

"THAT KID GOT THEM OUT OF THERE!"

soon a whole chourse of voices filled the air, most grunts from the water and lots of shoutings of instructions. The others, amazed at the survivors. Then the shouts got a bit more... helpful to his ears.

"GET HIM TO A DOCTOR"

"SOME ONE HELP HIM!"

Still he continued forth pushing hisway through the crowd until strong hands gripped his shoulders. Soon he felt a weight being lifted off of him, yet in his mind only one though remained.

"Gotta keep going."

Still he was level headed enough to not attack those coming to help him. Soon he collapsed as loss of blood finally caught up to him, inducing in him a fainting spell.

The medin nin sighed and scratched her head. Chiharu was already under so much stress. Should she tell her? Matsui shifted and uncomfortably and tapped the Hokage on the shoulder. "The three fires. One of the fires started here of course. And the other two . . . well, they were at the manor and flower shop . . ." she murmured looking at the ground.

That moment, Chiharu felt her heart sink into her stomach. "W-what . . . ?" she stammered, "Where is Yune?! What about everyone in that manor?! Is everyon--"

The Tsuyomi, placed her hand over the Hokage mouth, much to the shock of everyone, even herself. "Please, please. Chiharu-sama, do not fret. Everyone is perfectly fine. Yune was out of the house before the fires started. And I don't know how but Reira and the maids put out the fire before the medics and Jounin got the scene. And, I'm sorry, but the flower shop is gone . . ." Matsui slowly withdrew her hand, and bowed. "I'm sorry."

"Sorry . . . ?" The Nara placed a hand over her heart and sighed, almost falling to the ground. She took in a breath of air and smiled earnestly. "I'm relieved is what I am. I'm just glad no one got hurt . . . "

Matsui sighed and wiped her forehead for dramatic effect. "That's great! Because last time when I had to break the news about Hanto drawing on the memorial, you almost kill---" Leiko quickly placed her hand over her sister's mouth and pulled her back. "Not everyone got out safely though. A couple Hyuuga are in the hospital. I think we should stop by."

Chiharu nodded and turned back again to Shedo. "This kind of stuff only happens when you come around."

The Hokage sighed and took a final look at the scene. "Let's getting headed to the hospital. Shedo, I think it's safer if you remain in that cat henge. We're heading back to ANBU hq afterwards." From this point on, she had to be more careful. Even so she couldn't help but feel weak. Chiharu frowned, and placed a hand over her stomach. She had a bad feeling about all of this, what ever was happening . . . "Let's go." she murmured as she started walking to the hospital.