After a year of searching for her clan and two years of living with the Mitsu village she found, she leaves after making a difficult choice between the two places she called home. On returning to the leaf village, she finds out that Gaara is kazekage now. She is over joyed once hearing this news, but its short lived. Gaara has been taken by the akatsuki. She takes off to catch up with team Kakashi. Her panic and fear of loosing another she cared for was overwhelming....Will he remember her? Will her feelings of friendship morph into something different. Read and you shall see.