Akemi's POV
I wake up with a start. Something had gone bump in the night. I didn't move from my position on the bed; using all of my other sense to feel around for anything in the room. I left my eyes closed. I heard nothing more than the initial bump. I slowly rolled over, like I was tossing and turning in my sleep. I moved my hand under my pillow slowly, my fingers curled around the kunai hidden there. The cold steel made goosebumps pop up on my skin. I hear a soft creak from my floor. I peek my eyes open the slightest bit taking in my surroundings. The curtains from my window blow in the breeze. Funny, I don't remember opening my window last night.
I smell the air getting a mix of the smells of Konoha and my bedroom. And something else. It smelled familiar but I wasn't exactly sure where to place it. There's another creak, this time closer to me.
In a matter of seconds I'm on top of my attacker kunai pressed up against their throat. A soft squeal comes from the being underneath me. "Akemi!"
That voice. I sigh and stand up taking my kunai away from the neck. I move to my light switch and turn the lights on. On the floor my eight year old brother is laying flat on his back a relieved look on his face. I give him a stern look, "What are you doing Naruto?"
He takes a deep breath then sits up. "I was practicing my sneaking." He says.
"You were at the Uchiha's past curfew again weren't you?" I ask.
His cheeks flush and he starts to stammer with his next sentence, "I-I have no idea w-what you're talking about. Heh." When he sees my face he hangs his head in defeat. "Yeah I was. I'm kinda hoping that I won't get in trouble this time."
"Mom is going to kill you." I sit back on my bed cross-legged sliding my kunai back into place. "And dad is going to let her."
"I doubt they even heard me." He waved his hand in my direction.
"Oh they heard you." My door opens and there are my parents. My mom with her bright red hair a little tousled from sleep her purple jewel eyes while sleepy are stern and angry. My father looked wide awake, his yellow spiky hair stood up perkily and his blue eyes were bright with enthusiasm. He, like myself, is a morning person. My mother not so much. In fact my mother was the one who had spoken.
"What the heck do you think you're doing young man? Do you know how worried I was when I didn't hear you come home on time?" My mother stomped into the room and grabbed my younger brother by the ear pulling him up. "You are in deep trouble for this I hope you know. You're grounded." She pulls him out of the room, his whining having absolutely no affect on her.
I laugh at the scene. I'm glad I was a good child. I never really caused much trouble. Being the oldest I think that was a wise decision. My father leans in the doorjamb looking towards me, "Would you like to start training early today?" He asks me with a smile.
My eyes light up at that comment. "Definitely! Just let me get ready!"
He leaves the room closing the door behind him. I immediately jump to my feet and go into the bathroom connected to my room.
I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Akemi Namikaze. The eldest child of the fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and his wife Akane. I'm eighteen years old. Five years older than my sister Tora, and ten years older than my brother Naruto. I share with my sister bright orange hair that stands out in our village. Everyone knows who we are the instant they see our hair. My eyes match my mother's, the purple eyes of her Uzumaki blood line. I'm an average sized girl, which is good for any kunoichi. I enjoy reading a good scroll, training and practicing my father's fuinjutsu, helping in the children's wing in the hospital, and spending time with my best friend Maemi. I was a pretty simple girl for being the daughter of the Hokage.
I finish up in the bathroom quickly throwing on my clothes even faster. Before leaving my room I grab my tool bag and strap it around my waist along with my kunai pouch around my thigh. I grab my scrolls last and shove them into my pouch. I run out of the room yelling goodbye to the rest of the house. It's dawn. I run out of the Hokage's living quarters into the streets of Konoha. I knew my father would already be in the training field waiting for me to arrive. I stopped in the middle of the street. With no one in sight I could close my eyes. I brought my hands together in a seal and concentrated. I felt a rush of air. When I reopened my eyes I was in the training fields.
I heard a whir and brought my hand up to catch the kunai whizzing towards me, then I spun around and blocked the kick my father was aiming for my head with my arm. I grabbed his arm and threw him towards the ground with a yell throwing my body on top of his and pressing the kunai against his throat. I kneeled on his back pinning his arm backwards.
"You're getting better." My father says beneath me.
"hm." I hum happily. But then I let him go and spin to throw the kunai at the real person standing behind me.
My father catches it before it hits him in the face. He smiles widely at me. "Much better." He says dismissing his clone. "You're going to be better than me soon." He wipes a fake tear from his eye. "You're gonna need someone to replace me."
I laugh and walk up to him grabbing him around the waist in a hug. "No one could ever replace you dad." He hugged my back giving me a kiss on the top of the head. "You don't have to worry about that." I step away from him smiling.
He gives me the same wide smile back After that we train. Going through my scrolls. My summons of a graceful fox (A new addition to the family seeing that my mother passed to my sister the tiger summon, and my father will pass Naruto the toad summon). We began to practice new taijustsu techniques, weapon techniques, and more. Finally toward the end of the session we come to my favorite part. The flying thunder god technique. I had really been waiting for this all morning.
He was looking up at the sky for a moment. "It's almost ten, Akemi. I'll need to leave for the office soon. Since they need me and I am the Hokage." I pout a little but nod anyways.
He gives me one of his precious kunai with the seal on it. I stare at it in wonder and amazement. Then I throw it at a target in the distance. Right before it hits the post of wood I teleport to it landing directly in front of the post. Then the kunai hits the wood with a thunk. I yank it out of the wood and look back to my father with a smile. He smile back. "Now I want you to try something. I want you to throw the kunai at me and try to get a flying attack."
I nod. Then I concentrate. I throw the kunai and feel the rush of the transport. Then when I can see again I'm above my father. I stretch my right leg out aiming to kick him. He pushes my leg away and throws me away from him. I land in a bush a few feet away.
He chuckles at my forlorn expression, "You'll get better. You're already great at everything else."
I smirk a little. Just then an ANBU op shows up beside me. "Hokage-sama. There are two young jounin that are… causing an issue near the Inuzuka compound."
"Don't tell me it's them." My father shakes his head at the masked person. A man by the sound of his voice.
The ANBU gives an almost imperceptible nod. My father sighs. "Thank you, return to your duties." The ANBU disappears. My father rubs a hand over his face.
"I've got to go now. Stop by the office later on and we'll discuss getting you your own seal weapons. I'll see you later Akemi." He waves and with that he's gone.
I stand only for a moment and then I disappear from the training ground as well. I reappear in my bedroom. The seal on the floor glows slightly and then fades away. I go and repeat my morning routine. Cleaning the sweat and grime off of my body. Then I leave my room.
"Good morning." I say as I walk into the kitchen. My mother is there cooking lunch already. I had missed breakfast, as I usually did because of training.
"More like good afternoon, young lady." My mother says with a slight laugh. "You and your father always off training."
"I'm sorry mom. At least I come home to you for lunch." I sit at the table and look around for my siblings. "Where are the others?" I notice that the two hellions aren't around.
"Well, Naruto has school today so I brought him around there and your sister is going on a mission with her team today. Some C-Rank escort to the Land of Iron. She'll be gone for a while." My mother says.
I nod and with a slight smile I say, "I wonder if Tora and Itachi will finally confess to each other this time. It's tiring watching their constant banter." Both women laugh at this comment. Her younger sister and her best friend/rival were always at each others necks, but it was obvious that they had taken a serious liking to each other. Her father wasn't completely fond of their relation since the boy was an Uchiha, and our family has a long rivalry with the Uchihas, the same with her younger brother but there was nothing that they could really do about it.
Her lunch finally done she scoops a portion of the ramen into a bowl for me and then some for herself. We sit together and slurp away at our preferred dish. I hear the door open and close, so I look up noodles still hanging from my mouth. "Ohayou!" I hear a woman's voice yell into the home.
My best friend walks into the kitchen comfortably, since she was here almost all the time it made sense. When she sees me paused with the noodles in my mouth she shakes her head at me. "Hi, Maemi." I mumble around the noodles.
She takes the seat beside mine and shakes her head more. "Eighteen years old and still eating like her little brother. Akane-san what have you been teaching this girl?" My best friend laughs.
"Obviously nothing, she spends too much time with her father." They both laugh at this comment. I slurp down my noodles with forced dignity.
"Yet you guys still love me." I smile at them and continue to eat.
They both nod. Then my best friend speaks to me, "I was thinking we could go do some walking around town today. And Rin wanted to meet up for some shopping. I do need some new tools. Gai is still off on his personal mission and won't be back for another few days so our team is out of commission until he gets back. OF course that is just our team. Any other team we may be involved in there's no saying,"
I nod. I pick up my bowl and sip away at the remnants of the lunch. Then I put my bowl down. I look to my mother, "Thanks for lunch. Do you mind if I go?"
My mother nods her head, "I have some things to do today anyways." She finishes her lunch and then takes my bowl with hers. "Have fun ladies."
I stand from the table. "Good-bye!"
I leave with Maemi. "I have to meet up with my dad at some point, we're discussing getting some seal weapons for me."
"That's exciting." Maemi says with a smile. "I believe Rin is at the Hokage tower anyways. I saw her on the way over and she said her teammates were there getting a lashing from the Hokage. She said they had done something stupid. I'm still amazed that you've never met the other parts of that team since your dad is their sensei and all."
I shrug my shoulders, "I guess I was always gone when he had them over. I'm sure I'll meet them eventually for a mission or something."
"That is true. But aren't you curious about the guys, since Rin talks about them so much, it makes you wonder, doesn't it?" Maemi had this idea that Rin's teammates were these mysterious and amazing shinobi. She made a fantasy that they were the most attractive people in the village and that one day she would meet them and they would sweep her off her feet. I think she's just silly for thinking that.
"It doesn't really. My father has told me that they're excellent shinobi and that's all I'm worried about. So if I am ever working with them I won't have to worry about burdensome people." I kick a rock that's in the road and look up to Hokage tower which is only a little ways away.
"You ruin my fun." Maemi says with a pout. I laugh a little.
Finally we reach the tower and walk in. There are people rushing around, papers flying everywhere. Soon teams would be in high demand, there seemed to be a lot of missions flying into the village. We walk past all of the bustling people to the hallway. We begin to walk to the top where the Hokage's office is located.
Once we are closer to the top we begin to hear some shouting. "But sensei! We didn't do anything that bad!"
"You set off several bombs in the Inuzuka's backyard causing their dogs to become panicked. They ransacked part of the village!" I hear my father shout in return. I laugh at the poor soul being reprimanded by my father. He didn't get angry often, but when he did, his rage was enough to scare the pants off anyone.
"Did you really have to chase us down and tie us up!" The same first voice exclaims.
"You were running away." My father states calmly.
Suddenly there's a small bang and some scuffling sounds. "Run!"
At this point we are almost at the door. "BOYS!" I hear my father yell.
The office door slams open and before I know what's happening I'm on the floor with a body on top of mine and cloth covered lips pressed against my own.