I forcibly held Itachi's right hand- since his left was occupied by Sasuke- and linked my free hand with Naruto.

Itachi gave no acknowledgment of this fact, but just walked on to the training field.

I tried not to fidget as realisation of oh shit this is a bad idea crept in. Itachi was closely associated with Hokage, intelligence and he'll soon be a ANBU captain. If I showed all my abilities, I wasn't sure how it'll go down.

But I had a funny little feeling that that'll separate me from Naruto and make me a good little human weapon. What the fuck do I do now?

"What do you want to learn?" Itachi asked, when we arrived at the training field. The trees were neatly lined to give a clearing in the middle. The few tattered wooden dummies were scattered all around the field.

Naruto bounced in the fields, adding chakra in his feet to whizz and bend between the trees. "Can you teach us how to shoot fire? Like whoooosh. " he said while making exaggerated gestures with his hand

The young chunnin chuckled, a low comforting voice. "I think that'll be a little bit too advanced for you. How about I teach you simple exercises?"

Sasuke moved as a blur and gave a crushing hug. "You're the best!" He declared.

I saw Itachi with a happy smile petting his younger brothers head.

So that's why Sasuke felt so betrayed when he found out Itachi killed their parents. They were on really good terms.

I swallowed. This was terrible for my health. Watching Itachi be this carefree and interact with Sasuke made me feel like I should at least attempt to stop the Uchiha massacre.

"How about you Rei? Whaddya wanna learn?" Naruto asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.

I shrugged. "Im happy with simple exercises. What ever Itachi-San wants to teach us."

Itachi merely offered an easy smile at me. "You can call me Itachi-nii. My brother's friends are my friends."

Oh my god I'm officially his fan girl.

The future-massacrer-of-his-clan (which I have to keep reminding myself about because Itachi is way too charming) was a natural gentlemen who every girl can't help but to like a little. He did cute little smiles and warmed his way into your heart. Purely platonic of course.

"Thank you, Itachi-nii." I said with a short nod of respect. From my peripheral vision, I could see that Naruto was smiling like he just won the world. I guess making friends for Naruto is like winning the world.

I suppresed a smile as I saw Sasuke grunt in impatience and shoot a glare of almost jealously. Cute.

"The first exercise I'll teach you is the leaf control exercise." He said. I tried not to show any familiarity with the term, pretending to tend to Naruto, ruffling his hair.

Itachi plucked several leaves from the tree. "You need to expel your chakra outwards and control its movements to make the leaves float." He explained while giving us a demonstration. In his hand, the green leaf gently floated around, supported by feint blue chakra.

"And when you become accustomed to this, try to move it along your body" he said, showing us the leaf moving to his arm, shoulder them on top of his head.

Naruto made a rude snort. "How is this going to help me?"

Immediately, Sasuke jumped on the blond. "Don't use that tone with my brother!" He viciously lashed out.

I sighed. Manners are hard to teach. "Well Naruto, all the cool jutus involves chakra and if you have better control, it means you are more powerful." I stated in kind tone.

Itachi nodded in agreement. "Also, you guys are young and I don't want to be responsible for teaching you dangerous things."

Fair enough.

Grabbing a handful of leaves, I promptly sat down on the training fields with my palm half open.

I concentrated my chakra slowly come out of my palms. The bluish hue rose like smoke.

But it didn't do anything to the leaf.

Frowning, I concentrated more, making the hue into almost solid colour.

This ain't working.

"Itachi-nii." I called out whining. He turned his attention from Sasuke and looked at me.

Quickly analysing the situation, he told me increase the quality of my chakra flow.

"You have to expel dense chakra. You know how ice floats on water? It's because ice is less dense. So, if your chakra is denser than a leaf, the leaf will float. This isn't a exercise in the amount of brutal force you can exert, but a exercise in the control."

I blinked. Oh wow that makes lots of sense. I thought it was power = good.

Poking Naruto to inform the new revolution, I got back to work.

Staring at the leaf intently, I tried to will it to gently float up. How do you make your chakra dense?

"Look!" Sasuke shouted, breaking my concentration. I turned to see a green blob floating barest centimetres above his hand. Try-hard.

Itachi gave a brief squeeze on Sasuke's shoulder. "I knew you could do it. Good job"

My split second jealously- Sasuke was vastly younger than me if you counted my previous life- disappeared as I saw the look of pure joy in the boy's face.

I couldn't help but to mirror the smile. "Good job!" I said with my thumbs up. Sasuke held up the victory-V.

Naruto, now being motivated stronger than ever, was turning almost red trying to focus on his leaf.

"Rei, my leaf just keeps shredding." He complained, pointing to the little green bits that was now gathering in his lap.

"I think that's impressive by itself, right Itachi-nii?" I remarked jokingly and Itachi just huddled to Naruto.

Pointing at the leaves on the floor, he asked, "Did you use your chakra to shred this?"

When Naruto nodded, Itachi gave a bemused smile. "That's elemental manipulation. It's very very advanced. Judging by the fact that you demolished these leaves, I'll say you're a wind user."

Elemental manipulation? Holy moly that's way way out of league for an academy student.

"Really? So I'm not doing something wrong?"

"Well, technically, this isn't what I asked you to do, but this is something in its own merits."

Understanding the explanation Naruto smiled then clenched his fist in victory. "I did it!" He shouted then almost flew to me to give a bone crushing hug. "Rei Rei Rei! I did it!" He chanted.

I saw Sasuke's eyes twitch in almost annoyance at the hyperactive blond. Raising my hand to pat the blond softly, I raised my eyebrow at Sasuke, as he hastily looked away.

Goddamnit. Naruto and Sasuke did it but I can't do it?

While Naruto leaned on my chest and wiggled into my lap, I brought up my hand with the leaf sticking to my palm.

Thick dense chakra. I told myself.

It was amazing to see almost a magical feat happen in front of my eyes.

The leaf shakily rose from my hand, spinning and shaking. But it was floating.

Naruto bounced while on my lap, and I grimaced at his bones poking to my thigh. "You did it too!" He excitedly announced.

I grinned at Sasuke and Naurto.

"Itachi-nii's nice!" Naruto said while he lazily rolled on the sofa.

I copied out the seal written in the book, trying to match the thickness and boldness of the strokes. "He is. He's also incredibly powerful."

"I wanna be like him."

Hopefully not. "He is very cool."

The blond shot out of the sofa and peered to see my work. "His eyes are cool. Can Sasuke do that too? Can I do that?"

"Well, it's a Kekkai Genkai, so only Uchiha Clan members can do it. It's not something that can be learned. Sasuke has the possibility to unlock his Sharingan but some people don't unlock it."

Why can't I have neater handwriting. I despaired inwardly as I tried to not bleed the ink.

"He told me I was a wind user. Does that mean I can fly? Float?"

I shrugged. "I think wind is more for cutting and shredding."

"Yeah but I can use wind to fly right?"

"I'm not too sure. You'll have to look it up." I said, pointing to the wind affinity books that we picked up on the way home.

Naruto groaned loudly. "Books are boring. I wanna smash and go whoom"

"Your loss."

At my apathetic responses, Naruto shoved his head between my brush and my face so i was forced to look at him.

"I'm so so bored. Please please let's do something fun!" He pleaded with his eyes wide.

Motherfucking puppy eyes.

I shut my eyes, trying to resist his cuteness.

"Pleeeease" he begged, fluttering his eyes once more.

Goddamnit.

Angrily sighing, I shoved my scroll stuff to the side and faced the blond, who was now sitting next to me. "What do you want to do?"

He grinned almost smugly he pulled out bundles of paper from the shelf. "Ninja Tactics!"

I let him dump the contents on the table and I helped him set up.

Ninja tactics was a game that I made in absolute boredom. It was something akin to dungeons and dragons.

Naruto was the player while I acted as the narrator. I gave him hypothetical situations which he had to figure his way out from.

We wrote the story down on the paper to keep track.

And God hopefully it would make Naruto more intelligent.

"Once upon a time, there was a genin named Naruto."

Rest of the game went me narrating a story that I basically copied from the original Naruto. With a little change in the names.

Adventures of him travelling with a pet cat and meeting Jiraiyhi, the frog sage, all unfolded n the paper.

After about two hours of playing, it finally came to an end.

"Naruto stood in front of Tsunado, the Hokage. She asks, "I give you the honour of being the next Hokage of Konoha. Do you accept?" I said, then added the explanation. "Roll your dice to see if you can accept this proposition."

Naruto almost hurled the dice in excitement. "Hell yeah! 5!" He shouted.

Jotting it down, I did the quick calculations. "Your initial charisma is 24 and plus 5 is 29. This means you pass the 25 charisma mark. Congratulations. you are the Hokage of Konoha."

"Whoo!" He bellowed while pumping his fists. "Bow down to me! The Hokage!" He said while jabbing his finger towards me.

I merely raised my eyebrow in unamusement.

However, this action didn't discourage Naruto whatsoever as the blond boisterously jabbed his chest and smiled. "I will protect everyone with my ultimate power!"

Rolling my eyes, I stuffed the game things back into the box. "Hai hai, Naruto-Sama." I said with thick sarcasm.

Naruto pouted at me, but didn't look disheartened. He just grinned sheepishly and hopped to the couch, turning the tv on.

That kid is like the embodiment of red bull. "Naruto, shouldn't you go to sleep?" I said with my best disapproving-mother voice.

He just flopped on the couch in a rebellious manner. "I don't wanna." He drawled.

I shrugged. "Don't complain tomorrow if you're tired. And don't forget to brush your teeth before you go to sleep." I told him while yawning.

I walked to the bathroom, and brushed my teeth with the almost used toothpaste. I stared at myself in the mirror.

Looking at myself in the mirror was something that was always jarring. A part of me expected to see a teenager- skinny and grim. But the face that stared back was a white blond lively girl.

Washing my face, I traced the chubby outline of my cheeks. It was almost gone, the baby fat. But still a portion of it remained, giving me an innocent and vulnerable look.

I crashed into bed, snuggling to the covers. A soon later, I felt a weight sink the mattress. And I let out a smug smile.

"Decided to listen your wise older sister and sleep?"

Naruto just grunted back. "You're the smart one."

I smiled, letting Naruto snuggle into me. I patted the smooth golden locks, trying to calm his wild young hair.

Soon, when his breathing evened and the blue eyes shut, I looked small boy.

He was definitely better than the canon Naruto. He was far more intelligent and he was less flamboyant. He didn't desperately try to prove himself to other people, probably because I was here to support him.

Closing my eyes, I let let the warm feeling of Naruto lull me to sleep.

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