A/N: Hello, My little Snowflakes. I know, it's been a couple of months, but that's okay! I've been planning long and hard to try bringing some real adventure and quality into this Sequel!

However, chances are (Even though this is gonna have a LOT of Kiyowa) this story will also focus around the little people that have made this fanfic possible. AKA. All those characters you thought were just pointless side characters. :|

Huehuehue. LOL. Anywho. Read on, my dear Snowflakes!

"That's one more thing we've found..."

Oh, how there had been so many of those.

Two years had passed since the 'death' of Kiyowa Shinzo, and though she never mingled amongst the village as herself anymore, she was astonished at the amazing bounty of information she had gotten.

In training with Shiji, she had been taught that 'knowing things' was just simply the job of the ANBU Root Cell. Their jobs were along the line of Top Secret operators. They worked along the shadows, fulfilling their missions and keeping the secrets of the village. As important as it was; it wasn't the information that stuck with her the most.

That information was more so of her old life; and the fate of that she knew. Her home... THEIR home. Was safe. All of the funds that had been supporting it, as well as the allowance she received was all direct from Shiji's donations from mission funds. As long as he continued or -as she had insisted- they split the donated funds, their house would remain standing and vacant via the source of an 'anonymous donation that wants to let the house be'. It was comforting.

As a grief-stricken kunoichi that was bathed in a bit of frustration, Kiyowa was quite rash in her decision to join the ANBU,and without a lie to be told, she sort of regretted it afterwards. Now, however, the feeling of regret and anguish had begun to quiet itself. She couldn't live for everyone else her whole life, and while they furthered themselves, she had to do the same.

Of all this heavy information that had been brought to light; it was the least of her concern at this very moment. The information she had received... Well...

"You're definitely not a healer."

Kiyowa's expression grew dull, lip poking out as she looked across the small table to her brother. He seemed to be laughing at just how terribly she had done.

Slowly lowering her head, she took to gazing at the lifeless fish on the tabletop. The poor thing had just stopped flopping... She picked it up, lip quivering, "I'm sorry!"

"You just have some really unstable chakra," The brown haired boy rested his head upon his hand, huffing in observation, "Your chakra control isn't... terrible persay... but it's like you've barely trained it."

That was true. Of all her other skills and teachings, Kiyowa's chakra control was the least of her worries. She had always relied on her ability to get just the right amount when performing tasks like walking on water, up trees, etc. To know just how much chakra to flow through a person or animal -a fish, in this case- was really difficult.

"It's a work in progress, but it's a little disappointing..."

OW? Disappointment was a rough word to play around with in Kiyowa's presence.

"Because girls usually make really good healers."

Kiyowa's mouth fell agape at her brother's blatant prejudice, ready to scold him, but someone else seemed to beat him to that.

"IDIOT!" This came from that boar woman, the one that Kiyowa found was practically a high ranking officer around there. She hammered down her fist into his head, forcing his face to smack against the table top. After such an assault, she merely pat her bicep and rolled her purple eyes in discontent, "Don't be sexist, you swine!"

"A fitting comeback from a boar," He urfed, rubbing his face with the palm of his hand, though without lifting his head high enough to offer himself to her next potential beating.

"Sorry about him," Kiyowa quickly bowed her head in respect and apology, though received only a quick nod of acknowledgement from Boar.

"Don't worry about it too much," She casually replied, standing high and mighty, "Long as you don't go picking up too much from this lazy fleabag, you'll be fine, Kiyowa."

She offered a slightly awkward smile to her higher up, "Oh, I know how he can be. Don't worry..."

"Traitorous, I swear it," The brunette boy scoffed, finally raising up from the tapletop to settle in sitting -albeit slouching- up.

"That's actually what I've come to talk to you about."

Catching the attention of the two siblings, the woman sat down at their side, arms tucking into a fold after sliding a file onto the table.

As Shiji reached towards it, she promptly bat his hand away, placing her own hand on it to slide it over to Kiyowa, "It's something I think you should see."

It was a heart-racing feeling through the chest, one that she had never felt since joining the ANBU. A file had never come expressly to her before, mainly because as an early recruit, she had spent the last three years training under supervision. Although she was allowed to go on mission, she was most-often shadowed by an older member,and the mission itself was never one so challenging. Sometimes, it wasn't a mission at all, but a ploy that was to be treated like the real thing, thus to get her mind going on how she would handle the real thing.

To have something given to her... A file that didn't run through her brother first? It was exciting; exhilarating; pride inducing.

Then all that pride shattered into the biggest washover of shame she had ever felt, all because of one glimpse to the information paperclipped to the right of a picture.

"Name: Sasuke Uchiha."

The top layer of the file slipped from her fingers, closing down over the enclosed information like a cover. So he had really done it. Although aware that he had left the village, she had never expected him to go for so long. He was off, traveling and roaming and... What grounds did he have? What purpose was he given? As far as she was concerned, and from all that she recalled, he merely left the village as to attain power that could be granted to him by Orochimaru.

What goal had he to sought that much power?

Her head tipped down, fingers running in through her tied back hair with a look of pure exasperation across her face.

"What the Hell did you show her?" Not irritation, but rather concern. Shiji had suddenly witnessed the expression of his sister drop from a simple day-to-day content that she always had, to a stress-induced pain.

"I ju-"

"Don't worry," Kiyowa spoke up, looking forward with a feigned smile twitching up at the corners of her lips, "I just got a little headache for a sec."

The concerned expression on the blue eyed male's face never changed. After all of this time, they had spent over the course of her admission into the ANBU, and it had done wonders to their relationship... And yet... All of their problems hadn't just mended and melted away like a sugardrop. It was something he expected, and he was willing to offer time.

Sucking up the will to stomach the information that lied beneath, she rose the file open once more. He looked so cold in the given image. Certainly, he had always been standoffish, and never one to wear his heart out on his sleeve, but this seemed far different than before. His eyes were dark and unfeeling. Time had passed, and that, she was aware of, but it was almost as though she had expected everything outside the walls of the hideout to remain unchanged. The falsehood of that finally came to reality, and it sent a pang through her chest. Everyone had grown and she had missed it.

"He was a member of your team," Boar began, drawing forward in her seat and beginning to raise the serious aspect of her tone and expression. Surprisingly enough, even a top-secret team had the capability of behaving like any casual family, but there was an instant switch that flicked when serious matters arose.

"That being said, we would find you the most knowledgeable of his goals, affairs, connections, and so on. You'd be the best one to handle this."

So what did this mean?

Kiyowa was stuck. Would she be studying the case from afar? Feeding them information on a former teammate and friend from the sidelines? Would that be...fine? Or is that a more personal form of treachery? Maybe she would have to be present n the team that apprehended him.

"Hello?" Shiji verbalized, waving his hand affront her face in a beckoning call back to Earth, "Ki?"

"Ahh.. I'm fine," She nodded her head once, then shook it free of all offending thoughts. Her thought was her mind getting in her way. Ridiculous, that is. Her loyalty was to her village now, and she gave everything for it. Her friendships, her future, and even her life, "I'll help however I can."

"Good. Now... The main problem here, is that the Leaf refuses to have him out and about doing what he pleases as he is. See, while he's causing his trouble, he's still labeled under the Leaf Village, making him a rogue from our village. That being said, all responsibility for his actions lie on us. I'm sure you understand how that could be a problem."

Well-understood. The actions of a rogue acting on behalf of the Leaf could very well cause a national incident if not halted.

"What are... your intentions for him?" Kiyowa's eyes were now focused up, repressing any sense of feeling that longed for his safety over the needs of the Leaf.

"We-"

Quickly, Shiji interjected, pushing Boar to the side, much to her displeasure, "He'll have to be imprisoned for his actions, of course. So the sooner we get to him, the less he's gotten the chance to do, and the better he makes out on this."

That answer made her feel a bit lighter in the chest. It wasn't as though he would be punished without reformation, that is. Certainly the way Shiji had jet into the conversation never raised any red flags; he did it all the time, and his given of chakra seemed to allocate just fine with the words he spoke. She couldn't sense a lie.

"Right. I understand," Well-affirmed to the mission, she lifted the file and tucked it under her arm. She would be studying that hard, and it also gave her a good excuse to get away from her brother and his attempts at making her heal by killing fish. It wasn't exactly something that set well with her conscience.

"You put whatever you can together out of that. You have time," Boar insisted, waving her off, "For a little while, we'll be monitoring his actions, waiting for our chance. We're relying on you."

The pressure of reliance never set on her shoulders quite as heavily as it had today. It was like a whole new feeling. Such important, and high caliber people... They were looking to her to solve their problems; and the feeling of significance was also one of anxiety. Still, years of practice had eliminated the feeling of suffocated pressure. Certainly there were nerves, but a twinge of confidence boiling over within was self-proof enough that she could accomplish this with enough hard work.

"I understand! I'll do my best!" She left the small room, heading towards her own small bunker with assurance. Why did she feel so... Happy and sure of herself? It was like a long lost covenant had been resurfaced within her. To save Sasuke. That's what she had wanted back then. To help her Team and to stop being so much of a liability. That had been her goal. Finally... she was getting that chance.

Or... so she thought.

"What was that?!" Spat Boar, settling her chin in her hands with a dagger-sharp glare directed at the brown haired male.

"You were just going to tell her... that we plan to off her teammate that way..?" The tone in which he spoke was serious, yet solemn, lagging through airily as though with ongoing regret.

"Well, you thought it better to lie about our objective? This is a group whose loyalty lies solely with the Leaf. What we do and our basis of operation revolves around our professionalism, not our Feelings." Her palm slammed down onto the tabletop, eyes narrowing, "Your priorities are seriously shifting, and you need to fix it."

It was true. Ever since Kiyowa had arrived, his brotherly senses had been intertwining with the way her operated in his work. It was an overjoyed feeling to have Kiyowa reunited with him, but it was beginning to get in the way. That... he couldn't allow. Now, because of sparing her feelings, he had her chasing after an impossible cause with the truthful believe that she would be saving him. Protecting and rehabilitating him. When in reality... She was only helping to kill him.

"I know. I understand."

A/N: There we have the FIRST CHAPTER!

Now I know what you guys are thinking.

"Dat wus teh chapi twus so shurt."

Yes. It was short. IK. LOL. But don't worry about it, mkay? CAUSE ONCE THINGS GO FITTING TOGETHER AND FLOWING LIKE A MIGHTY TIDE, WE'LL HAVE LONGER CHAPTERS THAT ROLL ON LIKE THE OCEAN. Endlessly.

Just kidding. BUT I HOPE YOU LIKED IT!

Cya next time, my little Snowflakes.