Chapter shout out!!! Sassymaster21 and shuurai_uchia!

Also, shuurai_uchia has written this amazing story (in my opinion) called Without Naruto. I can't give too much away but I can say that it is a unique fanfic, a little on the depressing side, and I think it deserves more credit than what she has been getting with it. This might be a little daring, but a lot of people should check it out and any of her other stories!

I must really have a thing with 10 chapters, because in every arc I have ten or more, and this one is exactly ten since Itachi came in.... o/.\o

Also, I'm not a huge fan of this chapter, I like the beginning an little, but when I got a page or two into it I realized I didn't know what I wanted from the rest of the chapter. I knew the end result I wanted, but I had no clue how I was going to write it to get to the end, so I ended up stretching it out, giving myself some breaks to think (half the time I didn't -_-' Most of the time I either read Detective Conan or was doing homework) and ended up making it really late...

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Chapter 45 -

The Aftermath.

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Suteki POV ...... o.O Shit.... crazy lady point of view.... Yup, pretty sure the world going to end now.

"Harmony?" Kotori asked dumbfounded as he looked at mine, I mean, Harmony's body. It no longer looked like a body of a thirteen year old. Not with its shoulder length hair, slightly curved body and longer legs. 'I would say that she looks about fifteen-sixteen.' I thought as I looked down at her right arm, which was glowing like an ember. The kanji for thirteen had been replaced with the number fifteen. 'That must be why it hurt her so much. She skipped a whole year. I wonder why...'

I looked back at him and to laugh as I shook my head at his expression, it was full of confidently, wonder, and if I wasn't wrong, there was a hint lust as well. "No you dumb asshole. This may be her body, but her mind was pushed to the brink, so she's having a little nap, and because she is having such nap, I'm now in control. My name is Suteki. And believe me when I say I will make you wish you had never met me."

"Nice to meet you, Lovely. not that I'm calling you a liar or anything, but I'm finding it hard to believe you, do you have any proof?" he asked with his trade mark smirk that Harmony hated so much, and. Seeing it face-to-face, I don't blame her. I lazily moved my right hand, making it look like I was examining my nails.

“First of all, don't call my Lovely. Secondly, not that I really feel proud about this, but out of everyone from my brother's and mine clan, Harmony seemed to fight the most similar to me, so it makes sense that the flute's seal choose her, even at a young age. And if I must say, if her brother was still alive, I would have to say that he was a splitting image of Tsuki, in fighting style and looks. Pity he was killed. He would have grown up to be such a looker."

"Your brother and your clan?"

"Yes. My brother Tsuki Kakureta Merodi and I, his younger twin sister, the one driven to insanity by her own jutsu and ended up cursing her clan, Hoshi Kakureta Merodi, but after being killed and sealed was later called Suteki Kyoki. Came up with it myself." I looked up at him and glared, throwing the thing that I was holding at him, making sure that it embedded itself in a boulder that he was standing by. Kotori looked a little shocked that I threw a feather made out of ice like a senbon needle. "And even though I no longer go by that name, I do not take you insulting a member of my clan, especially one from my side of the clan, so lightly." I held out my left hand when I was done talking and letting chakra swirl around my hand, making the air around heavy and cold.

"Unfortunately, as much as Harmony's style is similar to mine, there are still many things that differs her from my brother and I." The air around my hand slowly formed, making a katana out of pure ice, but only the blade was see though, even though it was stronger than steel. The hilt was a deep blue with a white crescent moon and a single star to its top right, it was my Safaira noto* “She still has yet to learn the art of the sword, as you saw. Her form really is horrible."

-10 minutes later-

Sensei note: Sorry, you were probably hoping that I would have written a fighting scene for two chapters in a row. I just don't have enough brain power to do it... Again, sorry. Plus, I gave a way enough of what Suteki might do. I plan to save her fighting for Shippuden :D

"Of course." I muttered as I dropped the bloody mess, the alive bloody mess, to the ground and looked at the three giant summoning’s. "Snakes. Toads. And Slugs. All three animals that score very high on my most hated animal's list. Why do people even use summoning’s? They seem so stupid sometimes..." I shook my head as I wiped my scalded hands in my newly torn capris shorts before walking over to Shizune, who was trying to heal her one ankle. I was maybe twenty feet away from her, but she hadn’t seen or sensed me yet, so she rapidly stood up and was about to go into battle, but something falling just as rapidly to the ground stopped her, and out of reflex, making me duck behind a nearby boulder. Blame it on the years of being hunted because you are one of the 'best'. 'Why the hell are there so many boulders?' I thought to myself as i tried to calm down my hyper active nerves. I took a step or two after from it and crossed my arms as I watched Shizune check over Naruto, who was passed out on top of a mini version of the giant white-and-blue slug.

"You know, pour salt on that could really help your slug problem. But don't expect me to do it. There's no way in hell am I even coming close to that thing!" I said as I pulled a face, looking at the slug. Shizune jerked away from Naruto when she heard me, surprised because she didn't know I was there, and then confusion crossed her face.

"Harmony?" She asked, echoing Kotori, making me smirk and tilt my head to the side a little.

"Nope." I said popping the 'p' before pointing to my temple. "She was unable to handle my seal, so she is having a little nap right now. I'm sure she will come to in maybe an hour or more."

"S-Suteki Kyko?" She asked unsteadily. I nodded and turned my attention to the slug *shiver*

"I can tell you have something to say, so spill it before I am forced to end your slimy life. Summoning animal or not." I told her. I am pretty sure that if a slug would glare, this one would be right now. She looked at me for a few seconds before looking to Shizune.

"Shizune-sama, please take care of this kid. This will be a gruesome battle... Please go far away and hide some-place safe. This is Tsunde-sama's wish."

"Wait. Where Rin?" I asked, looking left and right, then seeing the small girl lying on her side a ways away like she had been throw. I rushed over to her and knelt down, picking up her head so it rested on my leg. There was a fresh small trail of blood that ran down the side of her face on her goggles, which she had put on fully, making it smug a but when I tried to wipe it away, tinting the orange. I tried to looked past her face and notice that both her neck and left side of her face, left shoulder blade and left arm blade where badly bruised. So, most likely Kabuto had picked her up by the neck, probably from protecting the old hag like Harmony told her, and then thrown her to the side like garage, not caring that she had landing painfully on her left side, and then falling unconscious. The rest of her was fairly good, no broken bones, a few scratches and the wounds that she had gotten when bloody crow (also known as Kotori.) kidnapped her.

I gently moved the goggles away from her face so the rested on the top of her head before wrapping her forehead with a cloth to stop some of the bleeding that had yet to crease and then picking her up and cradling her in my arm. I may be insane, but like Harmony said that day when I pointed Rin out in the crowd needing to be saved, I had a soft spot for kids, and an even softer spot of this kid. It didn't really make much sense to me why I cared for this child, I just did. I blame it on Harmony and her rubbing off on me and also having to watch her for over a week adore her and treat her as if she was her real little sister. 'Let's hope that the old hag cleans this child up good before Harmony fully awakes or else there will be hell on earth. Anent no wrath like a woman's wrath, especially if that woman is a skilled kunoichi from the leaf with an angry management problem and a big sister complex.'

"Shizune-san." I called out as I walked back to her with Rin in my arms. "Let's get moving. I'll carry Rin while you take Naruto so Katsuyu can go back to her other form." Shizune looked a little tooken back that I both called her by name with san at the end and knew the name of Tsunade's summoning... That and my obvious change in tone. She nodded and grabbed Naruto before we both took off running, trying to set a safe distance between us and the three Sannins as their giant fight began to take way.

After we had reached a safe distance we stopped running and placed Naruto and Rin on the ground. Shizune knelt down to heal Naruto as I stayed standing, watching the battle. There was too much going on to really explain it, so what I'll say is that it was utter chaos, and I felt a little sorry that Orochimaru was the one receiving it.

"Heh. Slimy snake deserves that." I scoffed under my breath when Tsunade took Gambunta's katana and stabbed Manda in the mouth with it, imbedded into the ground so he could no longer move. "Shizune-san." I called out again.

"Hai!..." She was tooken by surprise again and jerked away from Naruto by accident, but he was almost healed so it was okay.

"What you are done with Harmony's little brother, make sure to tend to Rin's wounds as well." I told her as I crossed my arms as watched as Kabuto cancelled out the summoning and made Manda disappeared, leaving Orochimaru and him without a summoning. But there was something at Kabuto's feet though. A bloody mess that faintly resembled a person. I clenched my hands into fist. "Damn it... So they've already grabbed him... I knew I shouldn't have just left him..." I muttered under my breath as Kabuto and Orochimaru said their farewells and disappeared as well.

"Suteki...sama..." Shizune said quietly to me, making me realize how tense I was. I looked over to her and saw that she was now tending to Rin, but wasn't looking at me. I looked back away from her.

"Just Suteki... Sama should only be at the end of the name of some respectable and reliable. Not someone like me who tried to kill their own brother." I told her as Tsunade and Jiraiya began their way over here. It would take them a while because they too were injured.

"...Suteki... How did you know the name of Tsuande-sama's summoning?" She asked me, to which I merely shrugged.

"I've been with Harmony ever since she had been in the possession of my flute, so at a very young age. Why would I not know the same of her aunt's summoning. As much as I hate them and all. I also know that name of the giant toad, Gamabunta, and Orochimaru's anaconda, Manda.” There was a tense pause after that, but I knew it was not because of what I just said. “Is there anything else you would like to ask me Shizune? Harmony will have no recollection of this, so if it's about her I strongly suggest that you ask now before I lose my hold on her consciousness. Which will be soon."

"You don't sound insane at all... You manner of talking is almost exactly to Harmony's when she is very serious..." She as under her breath, making me smile.

"Of course she talks like me; I have been a heavy influence on her since before she even knew me. And you better take Harmony’s word on my insanity. Just because I'm not talking like I usually do doesn't mean I'm not insane. Now I doubt that was what you wanted to say or ask me."

"... Well... It's just that Harmony-chan is so different... I know a little bit about her because we left the Leaf when the war was still going on, so before her disappearance, so Tsuande-sama would talk about her often. But when we heard that the Akai Hana of the Leaf was dead she stopped. But I do remember what she used to say about she, and well... She's changed, hasn't she?"

“Yes, she's changed, but it's only been recently. A betrayed, depressed, and broken heart can do that to a person. Not the she will admit that she is depressed and heart broken. But she does say that she was betrayed quite often."

"Betrayed?!"

"Yeah. Yeah, by the person she loved, and still loves, not that she really knows. But it wasn't as exponential as you think Shizune, he mearly broke the promise that they made, one that she believed with her own heart, that's also why she was heartbroken. Because he couldn't see her feelings until she told him and it was too late."

"And is that why she is also depressed?" She asked as she pulled away from Rin, all her wounds gone. I shook my head.

"No, she's depressed because for the second time, a grandfather of hers, the Third Hokage, was killed." I told her. "That and- Whoa..." I grabbed my head as I suddenly became light-headed and swayed a little.

"Suteki-san?"

"It's just Suteki. Don't worry, I'm just got light-headed. Hehe... Damn girl, making me lose my grip." I muttered the last part as I took a seat on a flat waist-high boulder. It didn't take too long for Jiraiya and Tsunade to walk up to where they were. When they first got to us they looked down at both Naruto and Rin, and then Shizune, thanking her for healing, and then when they saw me sitting a ways away they looked confused. I held up a hand before they could say anything.

"Don't even bother asking if I'm Harmony. She'll regain consciousness in a little bit, so don't worry." I told them.

"So you’re Suteki Kyko." Tsuande simply said. I nodded with a wide grin.

"Yup. And you the old hag that Harmony calls 'Obasan'." I did some air quotes around the last word. A few of Tsuande's veins on her forehead throbbed when I called her an old hag.

"What right do you have to call me that!? Harmony told Shizune and I that you where at least over 150 years old!" She countered, trying to rile me up, but I simply just shrugged.

"I know, I know. Harmony has been telling me the same thing. But I like to think of myself as a good bottle of red wine, the older the better." I said with a sly smile. "But I do have to say, from what I know, you really do still suck a gambling, Hokage-sama."

"Hmm... I'm not sure if I like that coming from the ex-founder of the Leaf strongest clan who went insane, Hoshi-sama.'

"Touché." I said with a slight chuckle as Tsunade suddenly went stiff and the after-effects took place, her youthful skin rapidly ageing, making her look a lot old then 50.

"Tsunade..." Jiriaya said, his tone asking if she was okay.

"Heh... If I rest for a bit, I'll soon revert to my young self. Let's rest in the village until Naruto and Harmony waked up.” Jiriaya looked over at me funny when she mentioned Harmony. "Then we'll head back to the Hidden Leaf Village."

"Tsuande, what do you-"

"Don't refer to me with that name, from now on, call me the Fifth Hokage." She said with an aged smile, before excusing herself and going over to Shizune, leaving me besides Harmony's uncle, he's face full of confusion. I placed a hand back to my head as the light headedness returned, signally that I would lose control soon, so I quickly looked over at him.

"Like Tsunade said when you two walked up, I'm not Harmony, my name is Suteki. I can't tell you much right now, seeing as I am about to lose my control on this body so I will tell you this. Yes, it will be Harmony when she wakes up, no I am not trying to harm her, I'm trying to help her, and don't worry, I was the one to convince her to not tell anyone about me, but she will explain everything to you. Just don't tell Naruto, Rin, or any of her teammates.... Except Kakashi." I said and placed a finger to my chin. "Yeah, I guess you should tell him, she needs a friend who knows what is going on, even if she is full on against it. He knows everything else about her, why not about me.... Oh, but don't tell Harmony I told you to tell him, she will kick your ass if you do." Only a little bit of confusion left his face when I told him all that.

"Okay.... But can I ask you one more thing?" He asked, I nodded my head slowly.

"Make it quick, it's getting harder by the second to stay conscious." I told him, and true to my words, my vision stared to blur and my balance was getting worse, so I sat down on the ground again.

"There are time when Harmony looks like she is talking to someone, but there is no one there. Are you the one that she's talks too?"

"Yes, even though she claims she hate talking to an insane blood lusting freak like me..." I said, my voice getting quieter and quieter till it I was barley whispering at the end. I smiled softly and l layed down on the ground, letting my eyes close as if i was going to sleep. "Make sure to grill everything out of her...."

----------------One and half days later (so in the afternoon)-------------

"So the old-hag Tsunade's going to become the fifth Hokage starting today eh?" Naruto grumbled when he heard the news about Obasan becoming the fifth Hokage in the same bar that we found her in. I sighed a little at his child-like behaviour and slowly rested against the back of the bench, wincing when my body came in contact with it. I had just woken up a few hours ago after the fight and my body was in a lot of pain, even after Shuzine lessend it a little. At least now I could move a little, not a whole lot, but enough. Not that it helped that I was now trying out a long lasting transformation jutsu right now to make sure I still looked thirteen.

'Oh suck it up butter cup. At least your sorry ass is still alive.'

'No thanks to you I might add.' I counted and slowly rested my arm on Rin's side as Ojisan asked Naruto why he was so irritated. Rin was still seeping and hadn't woken up yet, but all of her wounds where healed, or so Shizune says. 'And why won't you tell me what happened after I blacked out. All I remember was waking up the next morning with my back and arm freezing cold.'

"Because if you compare her with the third, she's rough, selfish, loose with money, easily pissed off, and stupid... Are you sure she can do it? I’m worried..."

'Kinda sounds like you Suteki.'

'Ha ha, very funny.' I could also image Suteki having the exact some vein/tick marks on her forehead as Tsuande-Obasan did right now.

"Tsuande-sama.... Do you want to order something?" Shizune asked her, but in the corner of her eye glanced over at me before looked back at Tsuande... That's another thing, ever since I had woken up both Shizune and Jiraiya-Ojisan would steal glances t me for no reason.... It was kind of creepy....

"Besides, isn't she a 50-year old hag? She's faking her youth... Someone like the Hokage shouldn't deceive everyone like that..." Naruto continued one, not aware of Tsuande decreasing patience and increasing annoyance.