This is the second chapter, I hope you enjoy.
"I don't want to go." She stated venomously, glaring at him.
Ibiki sighed; they had been going at this for over an hour. "I don't have any other choice Aria, I have a mission to do, and you need a place to stay while I'm away."
"I can take care of myself here just fine dad. I don't need to stay at someone's place." She stated, glare never leaving her face.
"Yes you do, what will you do for food here, I won't have you trying to live on ramen, or take out, plus the last time you tried to cook you almost burnt the house down."
"Don't bring that up again, it was one time and I put the fire out, it's not like anything got damaged. If you won't let me stay here then why don't I stay with Naruto? He lives by himself, and he has no problem with letting me stay with him."
"I will be died before I leave you alone with a boy for a night, let alone a whole month, you're only 7 years old, and you need to stay with a responsible adult who can keep any eye on things." Ibiki yelled. Like hell he was leaving her alone with a boy. Even at seven boys weren't all innocent and shit. He was a boy once he knew what they were always thinking of. "You are staying with Inoichi at his clan's compound and that's it." He yelled, fist clenching in anger.
"Why does it have to be the Yamanaka's, his daughter is a complete birdbrain and extremely annoying. Why can't I stay at the Nara's compound? At least their son will leave me alone; Ino always talks and doesn't shut up. She could drive an enemy to suicide with her blabbering jaw." She yelled at him, her own fist clenching, and teeth grinding.
"Think of it as evasion training Aria, see how long you can hide from her." A small smile tugging at his face as he looked at her. Barely coming up to his waist, eye's burning, and her hair whirling around her body from the chakra she was giving off from being pissed, she was an adorable sight.
She started to stomp down the hallway, hands still clenched and mumbling under her breathe when he called out. "I'm leaving Saturday so have yourself packed; I will bring you over in the morning." All he got in response was a door slamming and what sounded like another crack coming from the abused door frame.
Bright and early on Saturday morning came a knock on the door belonging to the head of the Yamanaka clan's house. When Inoichi opened the door, the sight that greeted him, stunned him.
Seeing Ibiki Morino wasn't an unusual site, dressed head to toe in black from the color of his bandana to his intimidating trench coat, and large steal tipped boots. What was shocking was the red headed demon glaring at him with such fire Inoichi was surprised Ibiki didn't burnt to a crisp right where he stood.
After inviting them in for some tea, Inoichi continued to study Aria Morino. She sat in a chair at the table Titian colored bangs covering her face, while violet shined from behind them. While he studied her, he knew she was studying him as well. His body language didn't give anything away but his survival instinct was on red alert.
As his wife Norika passed out tea, Inoichi turned his attention to Ibiki who was giving him some instructions. After visiting with him for a while Ibiki stood and went to kneel in front of Aria. Their conversation was to quiet for Inoichi to pick up, but whatever he said seemed to calm the child down. As he moved to leave, Aria threw herself at him, holding on tightly with her arms.
Ibiki hugged her back equally as fierce before giving Inoichi a pointed look that spoke volumes. After showing him to the door, Inoichi went back to Aria who hadn't moved from where she was before ibiki left.
"If you will follow me, I can show you around." When he went to pick up the bag she brought with her, her hand shot out and ripped it from its spot beside the chair and into her arms.
As he walked through one of the halls in his home away from the guest bedroom he had just left Aria in, he pondered a few things. While he had been showing her the training ground, laundry room, and the library Aria didn't say a word. She simply followed behind him quiet as the wind. He couldn't even hear her footsteps. Which in a seven year that was quiet astonishing.
No one in the village knew where Aria Morino came from. Many didn't even know that Ibiki had a daughter until they saw him with her. In his office in Anbu Torture and Interrogation there was a picture of her on his desk. Glaring at the camera as if she didn't want the picture to be taken at all. There were other small things around his office that had shown up in the past three years. A kunai with the tip snapped off, a bell often used in practice and tiny wooden phoenix that someone had carved.
Shaking his head Inoichi left to work, over the next week Norika tried to get Aria join her at the Konoha Woman's club where she takes Ino, but Aria wouldn't be budged. At one point Aria approached Inoichi with a couple questions about one of the books she had been reading in his study. When he looked at what she was reading he froze, expecting one of the children books Ino was reading he was shocked and bewildered when he read the title Mind transfer Jutsu. Even Ino who was seven wasn't at the level to even begin to understand what was written in one of the Yamanaka's most treasured books.
He just stared for a minute before collecting himself and inquiring what she wanted to ask.
"I understand from the text that this book allows you to push your spiritual energy into another being, to be used for spying or manipulation, but what I don't understand is why I can't get it to work. I have been performing the hand signs it shows and am trying to use it on one of the koi's in your pond but I can't seem to get it to work." She said while showing the graphics to him.
The level of jutsu she was trying to perform was chunin and it was very difficult. Most children entered the ninja academy at 11 years old, becoming genin at the age of 12, but what she was trying to master was way ahead of a seven year old but Inoichi found himself doing something no one in his clan had ever done. He taught her how to execute the mind transfer jutsu. Correcting her stance for showing her how to project her spiritual energy.
By the time Ibiki returned from his mission Aria had grasped the jutsu and use it with no difficulty. Watching her leave Inoichi felt somewhat sad. She had the potential to become an astounding ninja, and he couldn't wait to see just how great she became.
6 months later
Ibiki stood in front of the Hokage with his daughter waiting for him to sign the form sitting in front of him. It was the form used to test out of the academy.
The night before she had asked him to test out of the ninja academy which she hadn't even attended yet. Naturally the conversation didn't go well. The academy's final test was two parts. The first was a written exam, and the second was a skill evaluation. Now he knew she could blaze through the skill evaluation and most of the written exam but one part of it made him pissed.
Part 5 of the written exam was on seduction technique. Where you are given a hypothetical situation where you are on a mission and an enemy shinobi corners you and you have to put your seduction training to use, to get out of the situation.
Now even though Aria was very mature for her age and she is as sharp as a tack, the thought of her knowing how to seduce a man fills him with unbounded rage. "How could you possibly know how to seduce someone?" He snarled, killing intent rolling off him in waves.
She simply stood there unaffected by the killing intent coming off of him, having become used to it over the last few years. "I learned it from the book I took from kakashi's locker. The one with the orange cover." He was seething now clearly getting ready to kill the young Anbu captain in extremely painful ways. "What made you break into his locker and steal his possession?"
"You taught me to investigate everything; he is always walking around town with that book out, reading it. I was curious about it so I took it." She stated slightly confused at why he was so pissed.
Reeling in his anger he observed the situation, even though she just admitted to reading porn in front of him she appeared to be more confused at his reaction then at what she had just said. He steeled himself for the question he had to know the answer to.
"What did you learn from the book?" He stood there his breathe abated, internally fearing the fact that he might have to have the birds and the bee conversation with his seven year old daughter, but what she said made him laugh and relax.
"It was a pretty stupid book I just don't think woman really act like that, I mean clutching a guy and crying because he might leave it pretty silly. You leave for work and missions all the time and I don't burst into tears because of it. It just seems ridicules to write something like that."
Still laughing he gave her a quick hug. "We will go see the hokage tomorrow, now head to bed kiddo."
Standing before him with Ibiki was a completely different girl then the one he saw three years ago in the hospital. She had put on some much needed weight, her hair was cut shorter to her head, but it was her eyes that captured his attention. Last time he had seen them, they were dead. Now her eyes shined like twin jewel. She was still pale, but even so young he could see the muscles that she had developed. She seemed to be happy and she glowed.
He never thought that after just a short amount of time that she would be testing out of the academy, but prodigies often tested out of the academy very early. "Are you sure you don't want to go to the academy and take the finals test afterwords Aria." Hiruzen asked softly, but all she did was shake her head no.
After signing the form and setting up a time and date for the exam, they left.
In the hallway walking back and forth in front of the exam room was Ibiki. Anyone who happened to see him would naturally assume he was pacing, but Ibiki Morino did not pace. Being a man who was used to being very patience and waiting to draw out the anxiety from enemies who he was interrogating he felt like he had none. Aria was taking her exam and he felt like a genin waiting for his first mission.
A few minutes later the door opened. Aria came out with a huge smile on her face that was contagious and a Konoha forehead protector. Giving a whoop Ibiki picked her up in a hug. Later that night after celebrating the reality of what just happen hit Ibiki like a katana to the gut. At seven years old his little girl was a genin, in a few years she might even be taking the chunin exams.
She was so young but was growing up so fast. She was going to be going on her first mission soon, killing her first person, and growing up to fast. He sat in his study with a drink in hand, contemplating what was to come.
Not even a week later Aria was placed on a team with two other genin. At 13 years old Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki were stunned to see the little girl on their team. Thinking it was a joke they turned to Kazuko-sensei but the look he gave them said it all. In 2 months they successfully completes 11 missions; 7 D-rank, 3 C-rank, and 1 B-rank.
With the missions tucked under their belt Kazuko Utimashi nominated all three of his students for the Chunin exam that was being held in the village hidden in the mist.
Standing next to the Hokage as one of the anbu guarding him during the chunin exams ibiki watched intently. In front of him down in the arena Aria faced off with the other finalist. Kotetsu took a blow to his face early on and was still knocked out with a busted nose and fractured cheek bones. Izumo was stabbed with a poison kunai from his opponent that acted fast, but right before he passed out he managed to crack his opponent in the head with his conch shell mace. His match was considered a tie and both of them were disqualified.
Aria's matches leading up had been fairly easy but the kid she was going against was a brute to say the least. He used his massive strength to force his opponents into submission, which ended up working against him in this match.
Standing across from Moko Kitito, Aria sent her spiritual energy out, with the training she received from Inoichi she was able to gain perfect control of her spiritual energy and her ability to enter someone's mind without having to perform hand signs or come in contact with them.
She perfected this by experimenting on animals she came across in the forest surrounding konoha. No one knew she could do this Inoichi knew she could send her spiritual energy into someone's mind to read there memories, but he had no idea to what extend she had managed to achieve.
After countless hours of experimenting she got to the point where she could manipulate the person without them even knowing it, also while she could move her own body to react in case of a surprise attack.
Taking over Moko's subconscious she gained control of his fine motor skills, making him charge at her, she jerked her body to the side just as he plowed into a stone column of the stadium and went down hard. Returning her spiritual energy to her body Aria watched as the massive stone column came falling down onto the truck of a ninja. As the dust cleared the whole crowd watched in silence brought on by shock as Aria Morino was called the winner of the Chunin exam.
At nine years old Aria Morino stood in front of the Hokage waiting for his decision. Aria had an unquenchable need for knowledge. Having read her way through many book on hundreds of subjects she wanted more and wanted to train with someone on a higher level than her father.
Over the last four years he taught her everything he knew and she wanted to get stronger. She wanted to go train with someone but the decision wasn't for him to make. Even though she took on his last name and was a daughter to him, Ibiki couldn't formally adopt her because she was the heir to a clan. So the decision had to be made by the Hokage of the village that her clan was from.
When Ibiki discovered what had happened to her with the runes that lined her bones and have all five chakra natures in her, he brought the knowledge to the hokage. Now looking at her Hiruzen Sarutobi knew that the best way for her to gain control and use of each nature was to have the best from each nature to teach her.
"Aria I am going to send you to start training your lightening nature with my own pupil, the legendary sannin Tsunade Senju."
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~~~ShayChis~~~
