Neji looked at Lee, "Ah, it's been awhile Lee. How are you and more importantly what have you been doing?" He smiled, in a sense of know the answer. "Training like hell, right?"

Yuki joined Reka and Yuri on the mission. "So, Yuri, what does it say on where this incident occurs?" Reka asked. "Sometimes it's hard to read Tsunade's Kanji..." She sweatdropped.

Tsunade smiled, "Good idea, Yuri. I think Reka would want that."

Reka nodded, "As always you can read my mind before I can say it. You are welcome to come along. I like to see what style you use." She smiled. "Let's get packing." When she passed Lee, she whispered to him, "that's not what I meant. try using your head again." She giggled out loud as she left the room.

She stretched out her arms in the sunlight, having a yawn followed by it. "Let's get going, Yuri!" She gave Yuri a kind smile. I think Yuki might want to come along. She's headstrong and foward with what she says and does, even if it's unintentional harshness."

Tsunade looked at the girls, "Well?"

Reka nodded, "Let's see what's up with this Ghost Problem. See if it's really a low mission like a B. Though we maybe girls, and guys have been taken 'hostage', seems fishy to me, anyway. I'm game."

Reka looked at Lee, whispering something, knowing he couldn't really understand what she said.

'....rash....so...dense...' (I didn't put the whole thing up cuz she says it really low.)

(Choose one right?)

Reka placed her hands on her hips as Tsunade told them the missions. "None of them seems like a cakewalk, which is a good thing. I think the girls and I can check out that little ghost problem. Seems a little fishy and I like to check it out, but I also like to check out the other two as well."

Tsunade smiled, "It's a good idea that stay on your guard while you do these missions. You never know who will be after your life. Any of your lives for that matter." She looked at the ninjas who stood in front of her.

Reka smiled, "I'll be back, I'm going to pay for a night here. Does that sound good to you girls?"

Lynna and Hinata smiled saying it was a good idea to get out of their normal lives and relax more.

Reka smiled at Yuri, "I have to admit that Lee has become a young man and I can tell he's opened up more than what he was when I met him on the brink of death at the age of 8. He covered up his true feelings while Kai was the open one in the early days."

Reka told about what happened with Hajima, now known as Tsukia and the scar she had given him. She didn't stay on the negative subject as she showed a shy side, "Lee knows, but I think he's a little dense to acutally really know on how I still feel. Kai knows...as he's keeping his distance. No matter what, I still love Lee...but I don't think he knows how much." She closed her eyes, smiling.

Hinata looked at the girls and blushed, "c-come on I'm doing better with my shyness toward Naruto-kun. At least he enjoys the time and food I cook for him. I volunteer."

Lynna giggled, "Any guy likes a girl when they cook, that's one thing for sure."

Reka nodded, "So true. You have a talent Hina-chan, don't let Naruto slip away." She taunted Hinata and she sunk into the water.

All of the girls entered the Springs and began to talk about the three years. Hinata looked at Reka's hair as she still couldn't get used to it so short. "It seems like you were serious about changing. I still can't get over that you cut your long hair...last I saw you was at the hospital with Gaara-sama and you had your long hair."

Reka smiled telling her that she wanted to live in the present and not regretting her past. Reka smiled and looked at Yuri asked about her travels with Lee and their Mentor, named Twin Dragon.

Reka nodded at Ino and Ten-Ten, "Yes, it's all right. My treat to the Springs"

Reka then looked at Yuri and extended her hand out, "You are welcome here, and you are girl, as well as you are friend to all of us." She smiled, "Of course you can come. I would really like to get to know you, and this is good for all of us to catch up on things that were left in the air."

"Let's go, Lynna Herroki and Hinata-chan is waiting at the Springs." Reka smiled cheerfully.

Reka smiled and took his words in. "Good idea. And thank you. Shall we get everyone Lynna?" Lynna sighed and smiled, "All right. I'll get Hinata. You go get Yuri and we can relax in the hot springs. Sound good?" Reka nodded, "That sound good. All right, we'll meet there." Lynna nodded and ran to get Hinata.

Reka looked at Lee and smiled, "Have fun you guys." She waved at them and jumped up into the sky to find Yuri. A few moments later, she spotted Yuri. "Yuri?" Reka approached her with kindness.

Lynna talked to Hinata, "Come on. You deserve it." Hinata sighed, "I don't know...Neji-san isn't the type to stay in one place for long. I'll ask him if he could stay for tonight so I can see Reka again." Lynna smiled and nodded, "All right." Hinata left to find Neji in the dojo area. "I knew you would be here. Reka is treating me to a night out and I would--"

"--like me to watch over. Right?" Neji smiled and stood up. "All right. I think you deserve it." Neji patted his cousin head, "Have a good time. I watch over Uncle." Hinata smiled and hugged him, "Thank you so much." She returned to Lynna and walked to the Hot Springs.

Yuki looked at Lee, "What do you mean, you need me?"

Reka smiled, "Let's go then. Yuki's back as well." They went toward the front gate and Reka stopped, glaring at the large lump on the ground, "Juun...."

Yuki looked over her shoulder, seeing Reka and Kai. Yuki's eyes went wide, "My lady!? Wh-what happened...?" She went into a shocking stance, seeing Reka's hair.

Lynna looked at Naruto, "Think about your life as well and those that are in the living. You'll keep that promise, as your name is known." She hit him on the head, "Go to Hinata, she's probably worried about you."

Lynna looked up, not so shocked as Yuki was, but still shocked, "I see a change in you Miss Reka."

Reka looked at Lynna and smiled serenely, "It was time for me to stop holding onto something in the past and thinking of losing in the future. I now live today and act accordingly to my choices." She looked at Lee, "I have no regrets." She kept her head high, then allowed her eyes look at Juun. She kept calm as he came to. "I see you found Juun." Her eyes trailed back up to Yuki, "Could you head back?" Yuki smiled, "Of course, I'll notify them." Yuki looked at Lee, "When I get back, I like to know on what you mean by 'needing' me." She then left the village, going back to the Chiyo Village.

Reka then looked at Kai, "Well, seems like that boy's night out can happen." She smiled.

Reka looked at Kai, a little clueless, "Did you say something?" She looked up in the sky, the sun lighting the blue sky. "I guess it's time to perhaps...maybe train together?" She smiled at him, her now shorten hair swaying in the wind. She let go the loose hair in her hand and the wind took the hair toward the Sun, where the Chiyo Clan was positioned. 'Time has passed, and now, it's my turn to shine...not looking back and not regretting my choices. I'm part Hyuuga and Chiyo...and that's my strength. I will defeat Jin...and become myself again. Though my life won't ever be peaceful, but it's a life that I was born in. Well, living in this time...that's what is important now...my friends here and now.'

Reka smiled brightly, "Let's get going. I think it's best to just talk about what's happened over the three years that we all weren't together. I like to know what went on while I was gone, and you stayed here." Her eyes became lighter in the sun's shadowing.

~~

Yuki glared at Lee, "Though that maybe, I know that Reka wants a piece of Juun, before the women in the Chiyo Village wants to see him. They'll painfully kill him. Slowly..." She closed her eyes, taking something out of her obi, which held her robe in place. "Place Juun down and I'll give him a sedation. He'll be knocked out until sunset, and I'm an expert in poisons, so I won't kill him, intentionally. Reka wouldn't like that." She smiled.

Lynna placed Naruto on the ground, feeling him stir on her shoulders. "Sorry about that, Naruto, but Jin was returning and you'd be dead...or worse, became the Fox. Hinata-sama wouldn't like to hear that you died."

Lynna ran to the Herroki Village, hidden in the forest and surrounded by water. Lynna held Naruto over her shoulder and entered the village. "We should be safe..." Lynna's father waited for them at the gate and sighed, "Well?"

Lynna looked behind her, at Lee, who had Juun. "I think we need to head back to Konoha. This is the Fox, Naruto Uzumaki...and Juun Hyuuga. Also Gaara is safe, as thanks to Lee causing a distraction. It's only a matter of time when they find out that Gaara in the cave isn't but a substitute."

~~

Reka sighed, "Maybe both?" She smiled. She took out a Kunai and just held it, looking up in the sky. "I think it's time to move on...and accept the lives we are in now, and to make our future our own...like we did...3 years ago...but maybe I've been trapped in the past all this time...not wanting to let go emotions and feelings that I've missed..." She closed her eyes, taking her long lavander hair into her hand, and the Kunai in the other, allowing the sharp blade to cut through her hair.

As it was cut, it flowed in front of her face, looking at Kai with stern eyes, shining with kindness and a sense of calmness. Her aura radiated with determination.

(just the hair. Her hair was really long, but she's cut it to this short length)