Okay- just a quick word, in this chap Minato is trying to gauge Mizuki's skill level. And I sort of suck at fight scenes. So I will try doing this as a flashback. if it sucks- it's not totally my fault.

So enjoy.

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Mizuki didn't so much as say a word when they left the house. Nor did she open her mouth to complain once they reached training ground ten. Hell the girl didn't even say anything when Kakashi threw a kunai at her back when she seemingly wasn't paying attention.

However she surprised the two men by catching the kunai before it could make contact with her back, without even turning around and then spinning it around the tip of her index finger, sent it right back at Kakashi- clipping his vest with the blade before it embedded itself in the tree trunk behind the fourteen year old.

Causing them both to just stare at her and blink in- well one felt a little bit of curiosity/fascination and the other felt nothing but pure shock.

"Just for the record, I protest being here." Mizuki finally said as she slowly turned around to look at the two. Minato mentally shook himself from his stupor and then muttered.

"Noted," With a slight nod of his head before then saying, "Now lets move on. The rules of this spar are simple. It's two against one. You can use any jutsu that you deem necessary, but maiming, severely injuring, and killing your opponent is against the rules. Anyone who does any of those things can consider themselves on my shit list for life- Kakashi. Mizuki...you don't have any shinobi tools or weapons- I'll lend you a few of my kunai, some smoke bombs and a few explosive tags. Think you can make due with just those to work with?"

"I don't need them."

"Come on now, don't be that way. I want you to be able to adequately defend yourself." Minato said in a coaxing tone as he started to pull the items out when Mizuki said more firmly.

"I. Don't. Need. Them. And you should really worry more about yourselves instead of me."

"I'm not worried about you." Kakashi growled in a snotty tone that caused Minato to smack him in the back of the head before turning his attention back to Mizuki and opening his mouth to argue with her a little more when she gave him an icy look that shut him up.

Sighing, Minato placed his weapons back in their holsters and pouches and then said in warning, "Have it your way. But don't come complaining to me when you get injured."

"Ditto." Mizuki said as Minato then told the two kids to start and then vanished at the same moment that Kakashi did. He found a nice nifty place high up in the trees in which to watch the spar for a little while so that he could get some idea of what skills Mizuki possessed.

However upon attempting to search the girl out, he was puzzled to find her still standing in the clearing below with her arms crossed over her chest, her violet eyes were somewhat narrowed, and she had puffed out her cheeks as she looked around for a moment, making him wonder if she was trying to concentrate or something else.

Finally after a few moments, several kunai with explosive tags attached to them were thrown in her direction from where Kakashi was hidden.

Still she didn't move. No- she waited until the last possible second and then she disappeared as the clearing where she had been standing erupted in flames and spewed dirt. Leaving a few craters on the ground, below.

Turning his head, he took a moment to scan the area before he heard a loud, earth shaking Boom followed by Kakashi screaming obscenities as he came tearing out of the woods and out into the open just as fast as he could.

Curious to know what had his number one former student on the run like the hounds of hell were nipping at his heels, Minato leaned forward a little bit as Mizuki came running out of the woods and quickly caught up to Kakashi and reared back a hand and brought it down on the ground around his feet causing another ear splitting Boom as Kakashi was tossed up into the air somewhat haphazardly only to hit the ground again several feet away with a dull thud, where he lay in a daze.

Mizuki walked over to him and bent down to check him for a pulse, and once she seemed assured that he had one- she wasted no time whatsoever in pulling his dog tags off of him and using the chain to tie his wrists together before walking away and leaving him alone.

Returning to where she had been before the spar had started, she turned her back to him and then seemed to be attempting to search for him when he suddenly felt the air around him stir- barely giving him any warning at all before he was grabbed from behind and then thrown from his cozy little perch.

Causing him to land in a rather undignified heap on the ground at the base of the tree...

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From what little bit Minato had seen during the spar, Mizuki possessed more than a little monsterous physical strength that was akin to the sanin Tsunade- without having to use chakra to physically enhance anything. And her fighting ability once he had managed to get to his feet and really test her, had been more than a little bit shocking.

Not to mention nerve wrecking.

His little fake 'fiancé' fought at a level that was more than just a little bit difficult to pin down.

Her ability tended to go from chunin, genin, special joinin, kage level- that right that had damn near caused him to collapse and simply stare at her in abject horror- to sanin level.

And though she tended to switch back and forth to adjust to the spar, he got the somewhat vague notion that she was still holding back. However once he had had enough, he had called off the spar- mainly because he was beginning to fear for his life, much like Kakashi currently was.

Which was probably why he had escaped the training grounds and gone into the office uncaring for the moment that his body covered in various injures.

Sporting a broken nose and black eye and a split lip, some badly bruised ribs, a fractured wrist and leg- and was currently attempting to do something about his black eye while he stared down at Mizuki's small file and next to her skill level- he put a great big question mark along with a small note never to get on her bad side.

She'd probably, definitely murder him if he did.

His office door opened and a chunin walked in carrying an arm full of files only to pause as he finally took in Minato's appearance. "L-Lord Fourth? What happened?!"

Minato could only look at the chunin and say, "I had a bad experience with a tazmanian devil while on my way to work."