with a sigh i sealed the last body into the second scroll on my hip the other one was full. there were exactly 102 lives taken today by " tenso sparrow and me.

i turned back to the rest of the group the three new anbu were walking over to my team and before i could bring them back my foxes lept into action eyes red rama whom i had neglected to allow them to know about leapt from resting her tails over my squad leapt straight at inu teeth bared for his throat.

i shushined infront of inu and grabbed her by the scruff of her neck body slamming her onto the ground my mind whirring

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i nodded and dispelled the foxes. with a sigh i turned around looking over the shook up inu he was still confused but seemed ok i walked around him in a circle critically searching him for any injury i could tell he was trying to stand tall and not show any weakness to me. i could see however how he favoured his left leg and could smell a faint trace of blood now that rama was back in her "seal".

i gently placed my hand on his leg and saw that there was a cut around the length of my hand i frowned.

i stood up and gently guided him to sit down walking to my genjutsued team i grabbed sora and pushed a small amount of mine and kuramas chakra into him and he woke eyes confused.

i looked him in the eyes trying to determine if he had any bad effects of the genjutsu but i saw only confusion and worry.

taking him by the hand i led him to inu, he was a former monk so after the chakra web was learned he had adequate stores of chakra and chakra control to learn medical jutsu. i knew with sora there since he was young he for certain learned said medical ninjutusu.

i gently pushed him down next to inu and assessed his chakra levels, they were fine, i shook my head, of course they were he had trace amounts of ramas chakra he would be fine chakra wise.

i knelt next to them whilst the others watched and took my kunai neatly slicing a window to the wound on inus leg allowing sora to see the wound.

sora nodded annoyed and began healing inu.

i gently smiled at them and made my way to tenzo who from the fight i learned could control wood which was epic.i looked him over and i wouldn't have noticed anything if it wasn't for the fact that the chakra strain he had right now was so dangerous.

i tossed him a few soldier pills he would need them to fix that chakra strain.

sparrow was tired and a little chakra strained but he was fine otherwise and one soldier pill would fix him straight up.

i walked then over to zabuza and haku who were still sleeping in the genjutsu. i grabbed both and gently pushed my chakra into them releasing the genjutsu and waking them up.

out of all three i could tell only zabuza realised what had happened as he eyed me concerned i think and gruffly pushed me towards sora who had just finished dealing with inu.

i frowned and sat down allowing rama to fix the kunai knife wounds i had on my back from protecting the anbu who for some reason couldn't watch their own backs.

i smiled at zabuza and we all packed up taking a walk so that inu and the other two could rest enough. now that we could see the mountain we wouldn't have to go so fast.

i ignored the chakra i could feel coming from a few hidden samurai who were definitely assessing me and my abilities throughout that massacre i shuddered.

i was tiring and if i was tiring my team was far past tired and as i looked back i realised that they actually seemed to be fairing better than me.

i missed zabuza shoot haku and sora a look and turned back around to continue on i won't stop if they don't need to stop I can continue until they need to rest.

my tired body was probably from a combination of no sleep for three days, lack of proper food and major chakra exhaustion. fighting whilst holding a complicated genjutsu was not the best move.

my head is beginning to hurt it feels almost like that time i kept the clones out for a month or something i need to brush up on my chakra levels again clearly i'm getting weak.

we continued on and it began to get cold my hands were cold enough that i wrapped bandages around them whilst running and it didn't help that anbu clothes were made to breathe so we could move easier.

it was soon freezing and we were soon running atop the snow. i could see only i was walking on it, the others were hurridly slushing through it creating long trenches across the snow top.

"wait up everyone, coyote, swordsman, rabbit, we'll start a new training exersise now whilst we have the chance. what you want to do is a lot like water walking and tree walking, its very similar but snow walking is like combining the two so you have to have enough to stick to the ground like a tree but it has to harden the surface area of the snow as well like water., go on we can practice on the go."

i smiled a small smile when i saw sora got it instantly haku also got it after a few tries and zabuza was having trouble, i could also see out the corner of my eyes leader of the three extra anbu sparrow was signalling his team to do the same.

soon we were running across the snow like we had been doing it for years.

the entrance to the samurai headquarters were ahead and when we reached them i was so tired i thought i might have to use rama just to keep standing.

the samurai ushered us in and we were taken to see the leader who i handed the mission details to. he nodded and sent us to bed as it was after all 2 am.

i collapsed onto the floor with a pillow zabuza had offered after i refused to share a bed much to the raised eye brow of zabuza and the annoyance from haku and sora.

there were three beds in the one room, zabuza and sparrow, inu and tenzo, haku and sora all shared i was expected to share with haku and sora.

i wouldn't keep them up with the nightmares that were sure to come. with one last jutsu i summoned a clone to keep watch and drifted off to sleep where once again the images of kiyoshi taking a sword the clan massacre and more recently the massacre that i played a part in drifting through my mind and whenever i got too loud or shifted too much my clone would wake me.