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People speaking – "Mina"
People thinking – 'Mina'
Bijuu/Summon/gods speaking – "Kurama"
Bijuu/Summon/gods thinking – 'Kurama'
CHAPTER THREE
Arena, next day, evening
The team was resting in one of the tents set up just inside of the arena by the examiners. Mina was left to ponder on what happened during the exams just outside her tent in one of the dead trunks placed just at the side of the tent. She was a little confused by the fact that getting to the arena was no more difficult than before. They had no interruption from any chunins or any genins. Izumo and Kotetsu were happy with that fact but not Mina. She wasn't the kind of person to believe in luck but she didn't think any further into the matter because she had other things on her mind.
They had been the second to arrive, the first being a Kumo team personally trained by Darui. Amongst the team was a girl named Nii Yugito, the same age as her teammates. The blond girl was staring at her, and it was kind of ticking her off. She did observe the girl also. Noticing she had a much higher chakra level than her but not by much, she felt it was a little bit denser and primal than her own.
She suddenly realized that the girl felt a like her brother just a lot less malicious. 'She's a jinchuriki', she thought as she stood up going back into the tent. She informed her team of the Kumo jinchuriki, being careful of informing them using codes to prevent anyone from eavesdropping on them. Her teammates were scared since they knew how much of a powerhouse jinchuriki tend to be.
Meanwhile, said Kumo-nin was having a silent conversation with her bijuu, the two-tailed cat, in her mind. 'She is interesting as you said she is, but I don't get why you demand I observe her carefully. We really should focus more on the task at hand, Matatabi." "I know but her chakra feels familiar. For some reason I can't remember and it's frustrating." Yugito sighed at that as she spoke, "I'm pretty sure that she already noticed that I'm watching her. Let us just continue observing her when you finally remember but for now, just let it go." Matatabi sulked a little but let it go… for now anyways.
Night had reached the arena and the teams left out of the 17, were 4. They were expecting more from the next morning but Darui had informed them that the others will not be able to make it at all for either they were dead, trapped or disqualified. The other teams were from the five major villages except for Suna. Kumo team consisted of Nii Yugito, a blond boy named Atsui and a white haired girl called Mabui; Iwa team consisted of the lava tomboy and granddaughter of the current Tsuchikage, Kurotsuchi, Kamizuru Suzumebachi of the Kamizuru Clan and Akatsuchi (he is much younger in this fic); and a Kiri team consisting of the demon brothers named Meizu and Gozu, and current wielder of the Hiramekarei, Chojuro.
Since they were few, there was no need for preliminary matches and were informed to pick a numbered plate in an open box just infront of Darui and his team of chunins. The match-ups were:
1. Izumo vs. 2. Kurotsuchi
3. Mina vs. 4. Suzumebachi
5. Akatsuchi vs. 6. Gozu
7. Yugito vs. 8. Atsui
9. Mabui vs. 10. Chojuro
11. Kotetsu vs.
There was going to be a tournament where people from different villages were going to come watch their fights. They were given a maximum of 60 days from now to undergo any training. If they wanted to sign themselves up to hire out any of Kumo's training ground, they were free to do so. Most didn't cause there was a high chance of being spied on by other contenders and decided to find their own place to train.
They rested for the night and left in the morning. Mina informed her sensei of her own private training just within the borders of the land of fire but away from the village. Yugao chose to train Izumo and she gave Kotetsu to Hayate Gekkou, her boyfriend, to train for her. It was best to gain different teachers for each of them though Mina didn't need it at her request. Yugao wasn't worried about her.
As she managed to get to the border getting passage from the border patrol unit and getting to minor communities where she paid for a hotel and finally spent a night on a bed.
Night time, Mina's Mindscape
Mina felt she was floating on a pool of water. She opened her eyes, seeing a clear blue sky with birds and butterflies flying above her. She got up, water-walking to the shore of the small lake, as she observed her surroundings. The place to her opinion could be considered to a small paradise. The floor was litter with grass from the shore and flowers of many varieties grew towards the forest. Deer's poking there head out of the forest to observe her and foxes roaming around the clearing playing.
There were very odd butterflies that had a black with red at the edges of their wings that seemed intent to fly around her continuously. She wondered what species they were but tossed it to the back of her mind since she thought that this was a dream. She lifted her hand just as one of the butterflies landed on her index. She was assaulted with memories of her time with Yugao-sensei. It took a while before the butterfly left bring her back to reality. She assumed that the butterflies were a physical representation of her memories and this clearing was her mindscape.
"You would be right in your assumption, young child", stated the voice coming from behind her. She was suddenly alert as she quickly jumped away from the voice facing it only to see three beings that held extreme power that stumped her. "W-who are you?"' she stuttered a little as she was a bit put off that she didn't sense them before and how they knew what she was thinking.
The male in the middle had sleeked-back white hair and an aristocrat face, narrow lips, nose and eyes that had a black sclera and unusual white pupils. He was 6 and half feet tall and wore a plain white shinkashio with a pair of getas on his feet and had a scythe blade attached to his back.
The female at his right side had straight black long hair and a heart-shaped face with wide orange eyes that shined like the sun, a small button nose and slim lips. She was 5 and a half feet tall and wore a white kimono that had multitude of moving suns all over held by an orange obi and a pair of zori and an orange tabi.
The other female at his left side had blond tied in a neat elegant bun, an oval-shaped face with narrow blood red eyes, a small button nose and slim lips. She had on a green kimono that littered with red rose petals, held by and a red obi and a pair of zori and a red tabi.
The female in the sun kimono answered Mina's question, "I am known as many things in the multi-millennia I have lived. I was once known as Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami or Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, but when my father, Izanagi moved on to the underworld to be with Izanami, his wife, he passed on his title to me. During a dark time a millennia ago, my second ascension was felt in the heavens and the earth that mortals knew it was a god. Unfortunately, during that period many forgot my name and gave me another, Kami, the goddess of creation and life."
The male then said his own, "I was once known as Susanoo-no-Mikoto or Susano-o for short. I was the god of storms and seas. My title modified when my father moved on. Izanagi informed me that if there has to be a balance between life and death so with that I also gained my second ascension. Like Kami, mortals knew I also ascended by my powers felt like the opposite of my sister's. I, too, was given the name Shinigami, the god of death."
The red-eyed goddess finally spoke in a dull tone, "I am Ame-no-Uzume, also known as Uzume, whichever you prefer. I am the goddess of dawn and revelry. I am also known as Yami, the Great Persuader."
All this had shocked Mina. It was completely unbelievable that two goddesses and a god were currently. She got out of her stumped stupor and bowed fully to the divine beings welcoming them.
"Do not bow to us our dear child. It is unneeded", said Kami. "We are her because of you, Mina. You are a special child that will change the world for the better. For that we see no need to be formal to each other."
Mina was shocked by what she said as she was straight up. She was going to voice her confusion but Shinigami decided on explaining it to her. "Mina, you have been chosen as the child of prophecy that was long ago foretold to Great Toad Sage by Kami and me, years ago".
That….didn't explain anything to her as Mina's gained a slight tick mark as she thought, 'Like I know anything about a darn prophecy.' Yami slapped the back of the God of Death who looked like he had explained it all, "She doesn't know about the prophecy, death-breath." Shinigami look sheepishly as he spoke, "My bad. I forgot that those idiots of the Namikaze Clan kept the prophecy tightlipped."
That caught Mina's interest as she already figured out that it had to do with the Toad contract. She listened as Shinigami explained in full, "Centuries ago, Kami showed a future and a prophecy to Gamamaru that pertained to a 'mischievous blue-eyed boy would unite the tailed beast and change the world'. That prophecy at first had referred to your younger brother, Naruto, but it change significantly 11 years ago during the Third Shinobi war."
Shinigami paused, "What you should know right now is that Uchiha Madara is not dead. He never died during his fight with the first Hokage. He died 11 years ago." That shocked Mina. "How?" she responded. Yami continued from where he stopped.
"On the day of the Kannabi Bridge incident leading to the supposed death of Kakashi's teammate, Obito, Madara, who knew what happened, had managed to acquire Obito just before he was about to die and managed to heal and fix his half destroyed body using the cultivated cells of first Hokage. With the help of Madara's created beings, white Zetsu and another spiral faced Zetsu, Obito was gaining full use of his newly repaired body to its maximum ability and had every intention of going back to his village.
"With the intention of manipulating Obito to do his bidding, he secretly ordered white Zetsu to kill the crush of Obito, Nohara Rin, as the first stage of his plan. The next stage was to disguise many of his other Zetsus as random Kiri-nins and one other white zetsu as Rin to stage a scene. Information on the kidnap of Rin by kiri-nins was given to Minato and Kakashi who dashed off to save his only remaining teammate. His next plan was to have one of the zetsus to inform Obito about the kidnapping just after Kakashi managed to find 'her'. He knew Obito would go help his teammates so he left it to the Zetsus to act their role convincingly that Kiri-nins had sealed the three-tailed turtle in Rin and that she died jumping in front of Kakashi's chidori to save Konoha while Obito watched it happening before his eyes believing his love was killed by the boy he saved."
She was surprised that Obito was alive but didn't inquire for she knew they'll explain it. What she didn't understand was how the fuck did Obito fall for the act. She could understand that Madara could not use Iwa or Kumo nins since they already had their bijuus sealed in host and Suna being recent allies during the war. Kiri had sealed the six tails already and the three-tails was swimming about in the oceans of the land of water, they unfortunately were the unofficial blame takers.
What she could not understand was how the act was obviously a fake since no ninjas of any village would easily send a jinchuriki no matter how badly sealed it was as a 'bomb' to another village that had three seal masters at their beck and call. And the fact that the bijuu did not escape immediately after 'Rin' died killing everyone by chakra expulsion near its premises was another point to tell it was a fake act.
Before Mina could continue with her thoughts Yami interrupted by continuing on, "Rin was to die that day and everything would have gone in place for Naruto to be the child of prophecy but things changed. Zetsu blew up the cave where Nohara Rin and a Konoha-nin in critical condition had used as shelter during the war but didn't confirm to see if she was really dead. Rin, before she was to die, had received visions from an unknown god telling her of her impending doom. She had no choice that just before she was to die she had used the summoning technique and manage to reverse summon herself to Shikkotsu Forest of the Slug Clan.
"Zetsu thinking he had succeeded continued on with Madara's plan. When Kakashi was recovered from the scene with Rin's body, a slug had informed Tsunade of Rin's appearance who had relayed it to Minato. Minato had assumed that someone wanted to cause a conflict with Kiri and Konoha, begged Tsunade to take a newly disguised Rin as an apprentice. Tsunade had agreed at the same time Obito had pledged himself to Madara's cause."
!To be Continued!
