(Five Years Old)
Midori was exhausted, she felt lucky that she already knew a good portion of any theoretical work that her parents gave her but it seemed that she could never meet their expectations when it came to physical standards.
She would be the first to admit that in her last life, she wasn't the most physically fit person out there. She detested working out, seeing it as a waste of time when she could be practicing her art work or practicing on her cello. She hadn't been over weight or anything since she didn't pig out on food, but she wouldn't be running any sort of marathon.
Now, Midori was having to exercise every single day, and while it was interesting to learn new kata, she hated having to run or other types of activities because she found it boring beyond all belief. Therefore, she resolved to cheat.
Having been studying fuinjutsu under her mother for a year now, Midori was well on her way to understanding the basics and even intermediate fuinjutsu. It just seemed to make sense. Fuinjutsu was described as many different things in the different pages she had read on narutopedia or even in the stories on fanfiction. But to her, it was like symbolism and math made into art.
Each symbol was part of an equation and every equation had to equal what she wanted as an output. Her best example would be x-number + n-number had to equal y-number. However y could be something as simple as meaning storage, or it could mean something as complicated as transportation from one place to another. The real kicker was that the chakra had to agree with how the x+n equaled y or the seal would blow up in your face. Chakra was like a really strict math teacher, you had what you wanted, though sometimes what you wanted had to be changed anyways because it had too complicated of an equation, and if all your work to create the equation didn't match up exactly to what you wanted as the outcome, it failed.
If that wasn't bad enough, because nothing was too simple, seals were also based a lot on symbolism. You could have twenty different symbols meaning nearly the exact same thing however each symbol could also have another meaning that would unbalance the whole equation. It didn't help that you could even create your own symbolism. Creating your own fuinjutsu language helped to compact large scale fuinjutsu works, and since only the creator knows exactly what the made up symbol meant, then it was nearly impossible to plagiarize seals that were compact unless you knew what that compact seal was actually supposed to be when enlarged.
Luckily, Midori was able to have help when first learning seals since Kikyou helped to show exactly how everything could and couldn't be linked together. It just didn't help that one symbol could be linked with a hundred other symbols but when two symbols were linked together they could only be linked to category A symbols not category B even though when separate, they could link together with category B symbols.
It was all very confusing and often left Midori to glare darkly at her fuinjutsu work which forever liked to befuddle her.
However, with all this practice, Midori was finally starting to get the gist of everything. So to cheat at the one thing she hated above all else, and saw as a waste of time that she could be doing something else, Midori started her own fuinjutsu project.
Her equation would eventually equal out to 10 pounds added onto her entire body every time she added chakra with the addition to showing exactly how many levels she added as well as an easy to use activation/deactivation sequence that only she could use.
It took weeks and weeks of finagling to finally get the seal correct. When she finally did activate it, the fuinjutsu work that took up an entire five foot scroll, compacted to a few pretty squiggles surrounding her ankle with a small little number acting like the clasp holding together the anklet. Midori used chakra to increase the level four more times and it felt like she was walking through super heavy water with how much resistance she was fighting against. She released the seal and activated it with only increasing the level twice.
By the end of the day, she was truly exhausted and had almost fallen asleep at dinner. Her parents had been amused, both of them having already figured out exactly what their daughter had done since it was actually a secret coming of age ritual in the clan. They thought it was hilarious that Midori was starting to cheat so early in her life by using the gravity seal, while they personally had only begun figuring one out when they were preteens.
Being in a society of seal-masters meant that every single Uzumaki began at least proficient in the making of seals, and using a weight or gravity seal was one that all children would eventually think up to speed up their training.
They sent Midori off to bed and sent each other sly little smirks thinking of their fellow clansmen's faces when they learned exactly how old it was when their daughter created the seal that marked her as an adult in the eyes of the clan. Though they had both secretly agreed not to tell anyone until Midori was at least eight so that she wouldn't be shipped off with a team to fight or do jobs that the clan was hired for so early in life.
It didn't help that Ukitake had almost been killed during a fight against the Uchiha when he and the clan head had gone to a meeting with their allies, the Senju. They didn't want their only child out fighting just yet.