(Ten Years Old)

Chakra was amazing, no way around that.

To Midori, the transformation technique was way undervalued.

She had remembered that Naruto actually created a solid transformation technique to turn into a woman, with real breasts. So, Midori knew she probably had the same amount of chakra that Naruto had in his pinky finger so her chakra siphoning, mixing and storage seal was her way around that. She suspected that Naruto had overloaded his transformation technique just like he overloaded the bunshin, but instead of the technique flopping it became solid. Exactly like the shadow clone technique.

Now being an Uzumaki, Midori knew she probably had a quarter of the chakra of Kakashi Hatake before shippuden who in turn only had a fraction of a fraction of chakra that Naruto had as a preteen.

To get around Naruto's blatant overuse of chakra, Midori used her chakra with nature chakra to overload her own transformation technique which was one of the seals attached to her chakra storage seal.

It seemed like there were five levels of chakra usage in a technique: too little, just right, too much so the technique is overpowering or useless, overload the technique so the technique is useless, or overload the overload rate to make the technique just so much more awesome.

Naruto's transformation technique was at that fifth stage of overloading the overload rate and so a regular henge which could pop when hit or the user was distracted was now impossible to get rid of save by the caster and it was a solid transformation.

Kestrels were Midori's preferred mode of disguise, a small bird of prey that was fast enough to get out of the way if she was accidentally discovered.

She had already practiced flying before, having always wanted to fly with actual wings in her previous life, and it was practically instinctual at this point since she had flown so often after having completed her seal. It made her head ache though, trying to understand how exactly it was possible but she just ended up shrugging and using the excuse of "chakra is magical."

Midori chirped lightly before setting herself on a corner of a roof and looking over the Mizuke clan. She eyed a small bird flying above her and flew after it quickly, only to nab it with her sharp little claws and land safely on another rooftop.

Raw meat would have grossed her out once, but the solid transformation was completely solid. This meant that she had the organs and digestive system of an actual bird. So if a bird could eat raw meat, why could a transformed bird with bird organs eat raw meat?

She clawed into the dead bird to get at the meat itself because no matter the transformation, she was still human and was in no way going to eat the organs. She munched and nibbled at her meal, scaring off an alley cat with a little show of aggression and a swipe of her claws, while taking in all the movements of her 'prey.'

The Mizuke clan went about their business like normal folks, just with some ninja added in. Truthfully, Midori noticed that the clan wasn't all that different from her own. They had the clan head and main family, the ninja, and trainees, and the civilians. Everyone went about their day to day life exactly like the Uzumaki save for the training was a tad bit different and they focused on their kekkei genkei much more than fuinjutsu.

She finished her meal and flew off towards the clan head's house. She nestled there easily enough, fluffing her feathers a bit since it had gotten a tad chilly, and watched some more.

Midori had set the timer for five-hours, the perfect time for a true stake out when transformed as she was. It helped that ninety-nine percent of the ninja would never be able to suspect she wasn't an actual bird. She wasn't a chakra empty space like someone hiding their chakra, but she didn't have the regular amount of chakra a bird would actually have. A really, really good sensor would only be able to sense the natural chakra in the air which the seal made it seem like she was just natural chakra floating in the air, though they might be able to physically see her. She was much like a ghost in that aspect, seen but not sensed or felt.

Pretending she was napping Midori overheard the plans for an attack on a recently deployed Uzumaki shinobi team. Apparently, there was a traitorous spy among the civilians, many of whom were not true Uzumaki's but were welcomed as such since they provided essential jobs while the full-blooded Uzumaki's protected the village and did outside jobs to bring in extra money.

Midori waited for a while longer until the meeting ended, and carefully flew through an open window, having sensed that no one was inside the building any longer. It was pure luck that she landed on the window sill before actually entering or she would have been trapped by ninja wire that had been set for the window, probably there were probably booby traps all around the rest of the building as well.

With a click of her beak from annoyance, Midori unset the trap and flew through into what appeared to be a large office. Midori hid carefully in a small space and waited for two more hours before the transformation ended.

Quick as a whip, Midori snatched up every single scroll and piece of paper she could get her hands on. She ransacked the desk for hidden compartments, the tatami mats for hidden doors or safes, the paintings on the walls were carefully taken down as she wasn't one to destroy art to see if there was anything hidden, and the shelves and bookcases were completely destroyed for any sort of secret space.

She found a hidden safe which she just sealed the whole thing away instead of trying to take the time to unlock it, a hidden compartment in the desk full of documents, and a small hidden shelf behind a fake backing in the bookcase filled with scrolls.

Midori sealed everything away right as the shoji doors to the office were pulled open. Midori was thankful that she was wearing a disguise to hide the fact that she was of Uzumaki heritage. She wore a black wig over her red hair and a full black and grey hakama kimono though the pants were tighter fitting then traditional. She had zori sandles compared to the traditional rubber shinobi sandles with black tabi socks.

Over her outfit was a traditional sleeveless haori. It was loose and flowing, going all the way to her calves with a hood that shadowed the upper half of her face. To hide the rest of her face was a black face mask much like one Hatake Kakashi along with a scarf that was pulled up to hide the protective mask. The two tails of the scarf flowed down her back a bright red, the only real color on her since her outfit consisted of black and grey.

The tanto was tied firmly at the small of her back, horizontal to the ground. Her kunai pouch was tied firmly around her right thigh, since she was right handed, and her storage pouch contained plenty of easy access ninja wire and smoke bombs.

She reached back in her pouch and grabbed the smoke bomb right as the person entering the office gave a shout, "Intruder!"

Midori threw the smoke bomb down, causing it to explode before she used her tanto to cut down the other person who had tried tackling her with a kunai. She swiped her thumb on the kashira of her tanto to draw blood and circled her chakra seal with a quick line directly up to transform into her kestrel form.

She flew out of the building as quick as she could, evading the startled forms of angry ninja, and left as quick as her wings could beat.