The blonde woman smiled, "Good. But you'll have to start up your training from where you left off back home."
"That's just it Tsunade. I don't have anymore training," she grinned.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked eyeing her suspiciously.
"Think about how old I am and where I lived Naruto. Do you honestly think I'm still in any kind of basic training?" Akari ruffled his hair and stood up straight with a determined look on her face, "Is there somewhere I can go change?"
Tsunade just pointed out the door to the one next to her room. Akari nodded and walked out, shutting the door behind her. Sasuke was still in shock as Kakashi looked at the two blondes, "Who is she? When I found her, she was glaring at a map with Konoha circled and the word 'Baka' wrote beside it." Naruto huffed and crossed his arms, making the others realize that he was the 'Baka' she was looking for.
"Akari is the daughter of one of my friends. I've been like a second mother to her," Tsunade smiled then sighed sadly, "She's very smart but has her dumb moments."
Naruto nodded, "I met her when me and Ero-sannin were training. And she is older than us Teme."
The raven just looked away and glared out the window as Tsunade remembered something, "How old is she Naruto? I can't remember." He snickered and was about to say something when there was a knock at the door. "Enter." An ANBU wearing a cat mask with purple swirls walked in and stood in front of Tsunade, her ANBU tattoo visible on her left arm. "I didn't call for you," the woman said confused. Everyone watched the ANBU as the place where the eyes were on the mask began to glow an evil fiery orange colour.
"A-Akari?" Naruto gaped as she slid the mask to reveal only the right side of her face as the other was still hidden. A cold and calculated look showed as she studied them quietly. Any humor was gone and the look of years of killing was in its place as she stood quietly.
Kakashi and Tsunade knew that look and blinked as the woman looked sad, "Akari, you have grown up haven't you? When did you reach ANBU?"
"When I was 12," she said with an emotionless voice that chilled the room. Naruto looked at the others surprised. To reach ANBU at 12 was unheard of in Konoha.
The blonde woman sighed, "And when did you get like this."
Said girl didn't give away anything in her features, "Three months after."
"Was it because of a mission?" Naruto looked down sadly as she briefly glanced at him then nodded slightly.
"And how old are you now," Tsunade asked as the girl never moved from her spot.
Akari glanced over to the raven as he began to move, "Don't come near me Uchiha." He stopped in his tracks as a kunai whizzed by his head, cutting a few strands of hair. "Even if you're not like your brother, you get too close and the next one won't miss." No one had seen her move. "I'm 25," her voice was even, her face void of all emotion. The perfect image of an elite ranked ANBU.
"Akari," Naruto grinned and held out a small present, "Happy birthday."
She watched him and carefully took her mask off, her cold calculated personality leaving with it. "Thanks Naruto," she smiled and opened the box to find a small teardrop shaped trinket. She hugged him and pulled a bracelet out of her bag and attached it with all the other different shaped charms on it.
Tsunade smiled and shook her head, "Akari, while you're here I don't want you to put that mask back on." Said girl blinked in confusion as the older woman looked serious, "I understand how everything works, but I don't want you to have that look. So unless we desperately need you, you are not to assume your ANBU title."
Naruto nodded as he hugged Akari quickly, catching her off guard, "That wasn't you Akari, this is."
Tsunade smiled then looked to Kakashi, "She's going to be with Team 7 for a while. Just don't forget Kakashi," the woman grinned as Naruto and Akari smiled at the news, "She could most likely out class you." She looked to Akari, "If you spar with them, go easy."
Akari blinked then nodded. "Oh," she thought quickly, "is there any place I could stay?"
Tsunade thought for a few minutes, dismissing Naruto's offer saying his place wasn't big enough for two people. She pulled out a book and went through a few pages then grinned that made them all uneasy, "Kakashi," said man began to pale slightly, his favourite book long forgotten in his pocket, "There seems to be an empty apartment next to yours. Why don't you show her where it is? Then I want Akari to get to know the rest of your team."
They nodded and began to leave when Tsunade called after them, "I need the scrolls of all your missions Akari."
She pulled out a small scroll and walked back to Tsunade's desk, unrolled it and bit her thumb, placing it in the center of the paper. There was a large poof of smoke and on her desk stood three stacks of folders, each one four feet high. "Last I counted there should be 649 missions accounted for."
Tsunade groaned, "Why is there always large amounts of paperwork?"
"Just be glad I prepared for all of this. The only thing you have to do is stamp them Tsunade," Akari grinned as the blonde woman sighed gratefully and followed Naruto and Kakashi, Sasuke had left without a word or glance back as he took off in one direction.
After a few minutes of keeping Akari and Naruto in check, Kakashi sighed as they stood in front of the door that would lead to Akari's new home, "Meet at the training grounds in three hours." With that he walked to his door and disappeared inside.
"So," Akari began as they looked around her empty home, "Wanna help me buy some things?"
The blonde grinned, "Only if I can get some ramen later."
She shook her head and smiled, "Yeah, yeah. Come show me around so I don't get lost again." Naruto laughed at that and got a quick smack in the back of the head in the process.