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Naruto: Ninja Design
GuardianSuSeGeBy23 signing in: I do not own Naruto, sorry I haven't updated this in awhile wasn't really sure what to type, but I'll be reviewing some of the trio's training that I missed in the previous chapter.
Ch. 10 2nd Summons and Team Gai
The group arrived at the Hokage tower after being treated with curious stares (towards the Sand Siblings), glares (Naruto and Keiyu) and smiles (Hinata, Kakashi, and Kimmimaro). Keiyu and Naruto prepared to be yelled at by the Hokage's secretary but were surprised when they saw someone else sitting at the desk.
"Aunt Vivia?" Keiyu asked surprised and heard a choking noise behind her but ignored it in favor on looking in astonishment at her aunt who was dressed in what looked like a business kimono with hair up in a bun.
"Hey Kei-chan, the Hokage's secretary before me was seen as unfitted to be a secretary and I was given the spot in her place." Vivia smiled slyly at her niece and her friends before noticing the jounin behind them and turned red, "K-kakashi?" she exclaimed.
"Yo," Kakashi greeted trying to sound calm but Keiyu heard some slight nervousness there. Her aunt took hold of herself and let them in after speaking in an intercom to the Hokage (she explained that they had upgraded the Hokage tower after the previous secretary was let off.) They found the Hokage doing paperwork before he looked up and noticed them,
"Ah, welcome back you 5, and welcome to Konoha Sand Siblings, Kakashi I'll hear a debriefing later on the missions you took on during the last 6 months, Ms. Keiyu, these three will be staying at your aunt's apartment building, Yuuhi Kuranei will meet you there and show them their rooms. Tomorrow you'll resume classes at the Academy (he ignored Naruto's groan before Keiyu silenced him) and we'll have some trusted ninja to lead the Sand Siblings around Konoha." he said and they nodded before Keiyu noticed something off with the paperwork and silently told Naruto she would meet them later. He nodded and the others left and she put up a silencing jutsu.
"Yes Ms. Keiyu?" asked the Hokage when he saw that she wanted to speak to him alone.
"Lord Hokage, is there a reason why a genjutsu is around your paperwork?" she asked curiously and he froze before looking at her curiously.
"Why do you ask?" he asked her back and she turned a little pink.
"Well, I've been training my senses and I just noticed a slight chakra wave over some of the papers almost like a genjutsu, it's small but I can detect it a bit," she said brow furrowed as she remembered training with the wolves to sense stuff like this. The Hokage did a 'Kai' release sign and upon reading the changed paperwork his eyes went cold and he pressed a button.
"Vivia can you come in here please," he asked, his voice hard as Vivia returned a 'yes' and came into the office.
"Who gave you this paperwork?" he asked her and she looked surprised.
"It was one of the council members, Haruno I believe for the civilian part of the paperwork and Homura for the ninja part. Why do you ask?" she replied.
"Because some of this paperwork is for more control to the council and a permission slip to give leisure to the instructors at the Academy to fail Uzumaki Naruto." he said and Keiyu's eyes widened as she clenched her fists.
"I'm sorry, if I had known," Vivia said trying to control her anger and shock.
"It's not your fault, I don't know how I could've missed this," Sarutobi rubbed between his eyes with a tired sigh and Keiyu bit her lip.
"I'm pretty sure Naruto would want a coming home party and for you to come," she said and the other two stared at her for the random sentence and she looked slightly at the ceiling to show what she meant.
"Of course, we'll get right on that," the Hokage almost cursed himself for forgetting to do a silence jutsu but looked at the smaller Mumichi who released a bit of chakra and a small shimmer disappeared.
'She knows a silence jutsu? What have those three been learning other than shadow clones?' he wondered before dismissing them and watched them leave, he had some packages to deliver to Ibiki first.
Keiyu said goodbye to her aunt and went into the girl's bathroom where she henged into someone different and walked out, carefully concealing her presence but not enough to make others suspicious.
"They were doing what!" Naruto exclaimed when Keiyu explained to him and Hinata what had happened the next day. She had dismissed her clone after coming home and had promptly fell asleep after they had supper with the Sand Siblings.
"Yeah, the Hokage is looking into it and will talk to us tomorrow afternoon," replied Keiyu before noticing the time and the three took off (Hinata had spent the night after leaving a shadow clone to pretend to be her at the Hyuuga Compound since she still had no desire to see her clan face to face for right now, afraid that she would lose her confidence again) Hinata went ahead of them to where her clone discretely dispelled and she stood outside the classroom with the other two.
"Let's welcome back our three students who went to Suna, Hyuuga-san, Mumichi-san, Uzumaki-san, come in," said Iruka, from their clone's memories they surmised that he was reporting to the Hokage things that the other instructors were doing and was at the library more than usual talking to Narumi about his students and lessons.
The three walked into the room to whispers and Keiyu noticed that Ino seemed more toned and had gained a bit of tan and was pleased to sense that the blonde was able to hide her chakra to a certain extent. Chouji and Shikamaru also seemed a bit more alert as well (though Shikamaru still had his lazy look about him) as Shino though he always seemed alert to Keiyu's knowledge. Keiyu and Naruto sat in the back with Hinata right in front of them next to Kiba to all three's chagrin as they knew he would go after her more than usual since she had grown a bit in the last 6 months.
Ino looked at the three and noticed the changes that were noticeable and those that weren't. All three had gained a distinct tan on them from the desert, Naruto had at least grown another inch and his hair was longer than usual, Hinata's hair was now as long as Haruno though it seemed to suit the Hyuuga heiress better. But it was Keiyu that stood out the most to Ino, not because of her physical appearance, but from her mental as well which showed that something had happened during the 6 months and she had been forced to do something gruesome. Ino mentally shuddered as she could imagine what had happened to the green haired girl from the look in her eyes.
Ino herself had also changed in the last 6 months, no year ever since she had quit the fangirl attitude, even if she had to keep it up in front of the other girls to keep her gossip network in check. While she would still need to work even more on her physical prowess even if her master had her do all sorts of dances and exercises, she still lacked the speed of a sword mistress, but she was getting there. She had weights on all main parts of her body and even one acting as a scrunchy for her hair to strengthen her neck and head. She had moved from wooden swords to tanto, daggers to katana and various others. Master Vivia wanted her to learn to handle all types of blade like weapons, even the kunai which she learned a whole new way to use them. Apart from doing the axe exercise to strengthen her arms, she kept to her word and learned medical facts from the Nara book and studied all of her clan's books on plants and herbs, occasionally keeping her own plants in the far back of her clan's greenhouse and taught herself on the makings of medicine. Her chakra had almost tripled in size in her training to her delight and she was able to summon a shadow clone (a mysterious scroll had appeared on her pillow once with the jutsu with the chakra seal and such,) to go to the Academy for her. Shikamaru without Naruto as a go/shogi buddy, found himself being forced to train more and more with the threat of being sliced by Ino and his least favorite foods made by his mother. Chouji didn't mind getting free food from Ino as reward and the chubby boy had lost most of his fat which he replaced with muscle though no one noticed except Iruka and those who knew. Ino just hoped that she would be able to summon the phoenixes soon as she had looked them up in the Shinobi library and found that nobody had been able to summon a phoenix or make contact with them in over 75 years. Her father had promised to teach her more about their clan jutsu when she graduated to which she was grateful, she already had enough on her plate with her training.
Shino contemplated the positive impact Mumichi had on students of this class and wondered if she'll be interested in knowing that he had been able to acquire a beetle (not just the chakra ones but all kinds) contract.
'I'll inform her of this matter another time.' he said pushing up his glasses before paying attention as Umino-sensei began the lesson.
The rest of the week passed uneventfully except for the welcome back party where the Hokage assured them that the matter was on its way to be fully resolved and where Ino had asked if they could form a kunoichi group or something for just talking and trading of techniques and Hinata and Keiyu agreed to the idea immediately, wondering if they could convince other kunoichi (even if they were in 'training') to study medical techniques. So far the other ones they had convinced were Ino, Kimmimaro (who had taken up studies of the bone structure) Anko, and Kuranei who seemed eager to specialize in something other than genjutsu. By that time they wondered what their 2nd summons would be and their second element as well.
The answer came when Anko arrived in Keiyu's bedroom looking a bit annoyed though also amused,
"Alright gaki, I want you to explain to me how and why you and the other two are popular in the summoning world, now!" she said and Keiyu looked up from her anatomy book in surprise.
"Why do you ask?" she asked back wondering if Sankai had told any other summons about her.
"Because my snake summon said that they want you to sign the snake summoning contract," replied Anko and Keiyu looked surprised.
"Oh, well that's a long story actually," she said before Naruto came rushing into her room, his eyes bright with excitement.
"Neesan, I was doing the summoning jutsu and this time their cranes," he then noticed Anko and turned a little pink.
"This time?" Anko asked slowly and Keiyu made sure that the anti-listening seals were activated before explaining about their summons to Anko just as Hinata came in telling them that the manta-ray's had given her a task to get her new contract and she had to go to an underwater cave and get a scroll.
"What was the animal?" asked Keiyu and Hinata looked embarrassed.
"The water dragon contract," she said softly and the others looked surprised though Keiyu had been expecting it, though why she didn't know.
"Well I found out that the snakes want me to sign their contract," she told them before turning to Anko, "Sorry about that Anko-san, if you don't want to share your contract that's fine," she told her but Anko looked gleeful.
"Are you kidding me? I've been wanting a reason to get rid of that contract for years, heck I don't even care if I can't summon snakes to just find my real summon animal. So here you go, bye, and tell them to terminate my contract," she said before disappearing with a maniacal cackle. The three shared a look before Keiyu bit her thumb and wrote her name on the scroll, shuddering slightly at Orochimaru's name on there before putting her fingerprints below her name.
"Here goes nothing," she said doing the handseals and slammed her hand to the ground. A poof appeared and a medium sized green python stared right back at her.
"Figures," she sighed before listening to the time of the meeting and that she'll receive her training partner after her first training session with them.
"We have to go meet Team Gai now," Naruto reminded them and they nodded donning their Team 3 look before leaving.
They arrived with Yamato at Training Ground 9 to meet them and Keiyu just hoped that they got along before remembering that Neji was there and groaned, maybe not.