ExtraCrazy14-sensei doesn't on Naruto, only Kishimoto Masashi, who must be very close to god because we all bow our heads to him for such an amazing manga!

Question: (I actually say that in real life before I ask something...) What do you all think about giving Harmony a haircut, like bangs in the cover page or shorter hair, because I have been playing with the idea, but I want to know what you guys think.

Or if you guys just want to tell me anything about my story, just tell me, like, how do you like her new tattoo? I couldn't get a picture for it because I don’t know how people but up their own drawing up, so you have to use some imagination. But tell me what you guys think!! PLEASE!!!

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Chapter 29 -

The magic of a secret creek.

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Right after my little talk with Jiraiya-Ojisan I went to the Hokage’s office, but not before beating him to a pulp for perving on his 'niece' a when I was in the pond and when I was putting my clothes on top of my swim suit. He said that because of my 'form' now, he can guarantee that I would have an amazing body when I get older, and asked if I could be a model for his books then, which I found out are super pervy and disgusting, and that they are the same ones that I see Kakashi read all the time. I made a mental note that if Kakashi and I ever make up from last night, I am going to kill him and burn his entire collection of books written by Ojisan. When I was walking through the village I didn't really want anyone to see me so I made sure to stick to the shadows and travelled fast. I did see Kakashi on the way there, but I didn't give him a second glace as I ran to Gramps office. I was lucky that not many people where around when I reached it. I silently walked up to his door, knocked and open the door, letting myself in. I saw gramps was sitting in his chair looking out the window. I walked up to him and sat on his desk.

"So how's life for you gramps?" I said in a casual voice. He turned around and gave me a warm smile and took a puff from his pipe.

"Ah Harmony, it's good to see that you are all right? I was worried when I was told that you were in the hospital, but I didn't know that they released you already..." He said with a mischievous look, making me scratch the back of my head.

"Well... I kinda ran away last night.... so they didn't really know that I left at all... And then I ran into Ojisan, so I stayed at chat for a little bit.... And then I thought that I should come and talk to you since we haven't talked in a little bit." I said to him. Gramps stood up and touched my ice made tiger lily that was in my hair, holding my long bangs away from my face.

"I am guess that you wanting to talk to me has something about this?" He asked as he sat back down. I nodded and jumped off his desk, walking to the windows.

"Yeah. I boringly made you give me the rank genin to hide my past until I thought I was safe to let everyone know, but now that everyone now knows, I see no reason to hide anything else." I turned and face the Hokage. "Hokage-sama, I wish to return to my rank as chuunin." I knelt down in front of him. "Please, that is all I wish for Hokage-sama." I kept my head down, staring down at the ground. 'Please!' I felt something rest on my shoulder.

"Harmony, you do not need to kneel before me for something I already agreed to. And to be honest, I would have it no other way." I looked up at the Hokage and smiled, before I jumped up and talked him into a hug.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!" I squealed as I hugged him, but then a remembered who I might be suffocating with my hug. I quickly let go and took a step back, coughing. "I-I mean. Thank you lord Hokage-sama, thank you very much." I bowed my head to him, trying to control the huge smile on my face. I don’t know why, but getting my old rank back is making me so... Free! 'Before, I begged him to take it away, but now, I feel like I can do nothing else but ask for it back, no it's not a feeling, I know I can do nothing else!' I lifted my head to look at Gramps. He had tooken off his Hokage hat and was smiling.

"Enough with calling me Hokage-sama Harmony, I think we both know how you would rather address me." He said with a smile, making me smile and laugh.

"I think you know me to well gramps! It's kinda scary! Hey, I was wondering, would you mind if I get one of those chuunin vests?" I asked him. Gramps pulled a surprised face.

"I thought you hated those, if I remember correctly, when I first made you chuunin you said 'You would rather die than were something that is so bulky and get in the way of my fighting.' Am I wrong?" I laughed at that. Most people wouldn’t peg the third Hokage as a joking type, but get him in the right mood and the right ammo, and he could get anyone to laugh.

"Yeah, but I kinda need something to tell everyone, and I don’t think anyone would believe me if I went up to them and was like 'HEYYY! Look! I'm a chuunin, but I don’t have a vest or anything!!!' Not to believing don't you think?" Gramps stroked his bread.

"No, I guess you are right... Is there anything else you would wish to do Harmony?" I nodded my head.

"Yeas, I would like to examine all the patricians in the third exam." I said with a serious face. Gramps nodded.

"You want to know who they really are before the fights; very well, I will send all the files to your home later today." He said before walking back to his desk. I stood where I was, uncomfortable about what he just said.

"Uh... Gramps that might be a problem...." I said.

"And why is that?" He said to me, completely unaware. I stared to sweat.

"Well you see... Reading all those files might be a little hard to read in a tree...." Gramps never did like it when I was young to know that I didn't have a place to stay, that's why after a few years of jumping from teammates houses, he let me live with my sensei, but now I have nowhere.

"You mean, you once again, are living outside?!" I nodded. The Hokage sighed. "Fine I will make arrangements for you to start living with Kakashi, seeing as he is your old friend and teammate." My eyes widen and I shook my hand out in front of me.

"NO!! I uh... mean... No, you don't have to do that! I ... uh... can find a place on my own!!! You’re the Hokage; you don't need to waste your time finding me a place to stay!!!!"Gramps walked over and placed a hand on my head.

"Nonsense, why wouldn’t I try and find a home for the girl that I have all ways considered my granddaughter." He said with a smile, making me deflate.

"Fine... But please gramps, don't house me with Kakashi..." I said in a quite tone. Gramps took his hand of my head.

"What Harmony?" I looked down at the ground, gathering courage to say what I am about to say.

"Please don't house me with Kakashi... The reason I left the hospital in the first place was because I was talking to him, but then I said a few things, and they are not things a 13-year-old girl says to a 26-year-old man, maybe if I wasn't stuck like this and if I to was older, maybe then those words would be all right to say, but I am not older, so I wasn't right to say them. Please Gramps, please don't make me have to see him after that..." I must have looked so very weak... and crazy... In his office alone I went from happy to formal too happy to scared to weak... TOO MANY EMOTIONS!!!!! I didn't look up from the ground, and I was thinking how I shouldn’t have let Nala outside in the hall. She would have been able to keep me sane right now.

"Very well Harmony, I will arrange you to stay in a hotel for a little bit, and the files will be sent there instead, along with your chuunin vest. I will send someone to you when it is all ready, okay Harmony." I looked up at him and gave him a weak smile, nodding.

"Thank you Hokage-sama, gramps. I will go now." I said before turning towards the door.

"Harmony, before you leave, I want to tell you something. After the second exam, Hayate went missing during the night... We found his body the next morning. I am sorry Harmony, but Hayate was murdered, but we don't know who killed him." I whirled around.

"WHAT!!!!" I know it's not the most intelligent, but it was the only thing I could say. "What do you mean Murdered?! No! Hayate wouldn't..." I fell silent, and leaned against the door.

"We are trying to figure out who did this, so don't worry. If you wish to pay your respects, we engraved his name on the K.A.I. stone." I could tell that the fact that Hayate was killed made Gramps sad to. I blink away some tears that where threating to come out, and bowed my head.

"Thank you for telling me this, I will now be off." That was the last thing I said before I hurried out of the room and scoped up Nala, before briskly walking out of the building. Nala must have heard what happened, because she didn't say anything, she just crawled onto my shoulder, gentily rubbing her head against my neck as I walked to the K.I.A. stone. We got lucky, no one stopped us on the way there, and no one was around when we got to the training ground. Nala jumped off my shoulder as I fell to my knees and placed my hands in a pray for him. 'Hayate... You never did get over that bloody cold did you...'

I stayed at the K.I.A. stone for a little bit until I heard someone coming. I slowly stood up and brushed the dust off my knees.

"Are you Harmony Kakureta Merodi?" An un-named ninja wearing a chuunin vest appeared before me, bowing his head. 'By the looks of it, he must be a chuunin, about age 17... ‘I nodded my head.

"Yeah that's me. Did the Hokage get everything sorted out?" I asked him. This time he nodded his head.

"Yes, and I am to escort you to the hotel. All the files are there... and a chuunin vest..." He barley said the last part.

'Wow... He must not like it that a girl younger than him is the same rank as him. I kinda feel bad for him... not much though...'

"Oh, good! I was wondering when Gramps would get everything, and I don't need an escort, just tell me the hotel and room and you can be off, okay?" I said the last part purposely cutely, just to piss him off. Hey, I don’t like people that judge people by their looks. "Or is there a problem." I changed my mood from cute, to dangerous, but kept the cute face just to scare him, which it did. I might have release some of my chakra as an added affect.

"H-Hoteru H-Hotel! R-Room 9!" He stammered. I smiled and picked up Nala, of course placing her on one of my shoulders. I walked up to him.

"Thanks! That wasn't so hard was it? And word of advice, people aren't at all what they look like. Bye!" with that I jumped into the trees and leaped from branch to branch. 'Hotel hotel, seriously, did they run out of names to name a hotel or something?' When I cleared the trees I jumped down and walked through the village until I found Hotel Hotel. It wasn't the fanciest place in town, so I liked it. My room was located on the second floor on the far right side. I opened the door and found the files on the bed along with my new chuunin vest. I grimaced at the site of the olive green vest.

"Yuck, THOSE defiantly never changed, never did like them.' I said as I picked it up to exam it, but then put it on. I then picked up a file and flopped down on my bed, reading what they said.

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'So he is going to fight Neji Hyuga. From what I read in the report, he is strong, and cocky. I kinda fell sorry for him having to go up against Naruto...' I was crouched on a tree branch watching how Naruto's training was going.

"SUMMONING JUTSU!!!" 'OH! Jiraiya Ojisan is teaching him summoning, this should be good.' When the smoked cleared I saw that there was a tiny tadpole there, not a giant toad, making me sweat drop. 'On second thought, I don't feel sorry for Neji, I feel sorry for Ojisan...'

"NO!! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU, YOU MORON!!! RELEASE ALL THE CHAKRA IN YOUR BODY AS IF YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE!!!!'

"SHUT UP, GEEZ!!! I'M TRYING MY BEST!!!!" Naruto and Ojisan where having a yelling fit, and looked like they were going to strangle each other.

"ONCE MORE!!!!"

"I KNOW!!!!" Again and again I watched as Naruto tried to summon a toad like Jiraiya, but every time all e got was the same sad little tadpole. I couldn't take the pain anymore, I had to intervene.

"Geez Naruto, don’t you think you should give the tadpole a break. It must be exhausted from being summoned so many times." I jumped down from my branch and landed and the river beside them, channelling my chakra to kept me from sinking. Both Naruto and Jiraiya stared at me, okay, Naruto glared and Jiraiya stared/smiled. I guess they have a good reason. Naruto hates me right now, and Ojisan is probable happy that I changes my hair style from a 'boring' (his words) pony tail with long bangs to a side bun with my ice flower holding it in place and my bangs pushed back so you could see both of my eye, and I was finally wearing a chuunin vest. I gave them both a small wave. "Yo." Naruto’s glare deepened.

"What are you doing here Harmony? I am training." He said in an icy tone, making me sigh and walk towards him, of course making him walk away from him. I held up my hands.

"Okay, okay. I get it. But is that really a way to treat a teammate?" I asked him in a joking matter, which he didn’t find to funny.

"Teammate? Where? All I see is a lying bitc-" Next thing he knew, he was on the ground with a kunia to his neck.

"Are you sure you want to finish that sentence? It could be the last thing you ever say. Think about it wisely." I got off my and twirled the kunia around on my finger a bit before butting it away. "I know that I have been lying to you, but now I am stopping that. What you see is what you get. No lies, 100% the truth, oh and no more hiding my strength. That's why I have the hideous vest on." I gestured to my chuunin vest. Naruto stood up.

"Huh. So you mean you didn't just steal that. I wouldn't put it past you." Naruto crossed his arms. I looked over in Jiraiya direction and say that he had his face in a bush, so he was no help here. I sighed and sat down.

"Nope sorry buddy. This vest was 100% earned, about... uh... how many years... I got it when I was nine, so... 17 years ago." Naruto looked at me with disbelief.

"17 years ago! Yeah right, that's just another lie. You’re only-"

"13 right? That's half right. I am 13 now, but I was also this age 13 years ago. During the last war. You read my card, so you should know that all ready." Naruto just satred at me, so I sighed and stood back up again, looking at the river. "Haven't you wondered why Kakashi and I seem so close, or why I don’t call him 'sensei' like the rest of team 7? Or when I was fighting against Zabuza back in the land of waves? Didn't it seem odd that he knew a 13 year old kunoichi form the leaf that was only at the rank of genin? I mean come one. You must have found that a little weird."

"Sorta..." I heard Naruto mumble. I turned around and looked straight at him, holding up my info card that I had in my vest and threw it down to the ground.

"It's because all of this is true, Naruto. I use to have a different team, and different sensei, a different family, and different life. I was a chuunin, I fought against people that you would only dream about today, and most of them are twice your age or more, I was in a war! You remember when Kabuto was talking about my brother, and how my family was killed. That was true to, and the fact that I came from one of the Leaf's strongest clan, stronger then the Uchiha's ever were. But there was a reason that you never heard of it. My family’s murder, and the rest of my clans, happened all most 21 years ago! And I was five years old when that happened Naruto! Think about it!! I am supposed to be a 26 year old woman, but I am stuck in this 13 year old girl’s life! Do you see now why I had to lie to everyone all this time?! And why I had to lie to you?! And do you know how many times I wanted tell you, Sakura and Sasuke, but only thought that you would hate me?! It is tearing me apart!!" I all most yelled the last part, but I kept myself in check, almost. I didn't notice I was crying until I felt them run down my check, making me hasitly wiping them away. I looked at his eyes. I could tell that they were confused.

"I am not saying I believe you Harmony, but why are you telling me all this?" Naruto said after a little bit.

"Because... To me, you are my little brother; the last shards of a family have, besides Nala, the Hokage, Ojisan here, and the rest of team seven, though I am not sure a couple people will return the feeling." I pulled out my flute and my neglected journal. "This is the last thing I have to remind me of my two families, I am swore not to lose my third. I swore to protect them, even with my life. I am not going to break that oath anytime soon, even if it means telling everyone all my deep, dark, and dirty secrets." I slowly but my journal and flute away. I looked at Naruto. He looking down at the ground and his fist were clutched. I could tell that me telling him that he was part of my family was hitting him hard, because he had never really had anyone to call his family. I walked over and grabbed one of his hands in my. He instantly looked up at me.

"I know it is a lot to take in, and you probably have a lot more questions for me before you can believe me, but I know I better spot to answer them, so please, just follow me, and I will answer every question you got." Naruto slowly nodded his head, making me smile. "Great." I whispered before I dragged him off into a different direction.

We ran through the trees for a little bit, the whole way in silence. I was worried that he might have turned around, but every time I looked over my shoulder, there he was, looking down at the ground. After about another five minutes, we reached the spot. Minato-sensei's and my special creek, the one I never showed anyone.

(A/n: I am too lazy to explain it, so the picture of it is on the right -------------------------->)

I slowly walked over to a lone tree by the creek, placing my hand on the trunk. Sensei's and Kushina's names where on it, and mine was on it too, but it also had Namikaze at the end. The bark had grown over a little, but I could still fell the engravement. I slowly took my hand off the trunk and took out my flute and brought it to my lips, and played a simple song. One filled with happiness, the misery and heart ache, then full of love and happiness once again. It was pretty much my life story in a small tune. When the some was done I slowly put my flute back away, and turned to face Naruto. He was looking around at the whole scenery, with a look of complete awe on his face.

"I take you like it here?" I said to him, snapping his attention back to me. He slowly nodded his head, his eyes guarded a little still.

"Yeah, what is this place? I have never seen anything like this place." He said to me before he waked down near the creek. I walked over to a nearby rock (not the tine type.) and sat down on it.

"It was my sensei and my special spot. He told me he also was wanted a daughter, one he could show this place, and let her see all the magic it holds. I have never showed this place to any one, not even my best friend, even to this day." Naruto looked at me confused.