Hisa's training was not going well at all. Naruto had told her gently that it was best if she didn't try and summon anymore toads. He didn't want her almost killing the Great Toad Sage again. That left Hisa practising her push and pull. But there was only so much she could do before she had it mastered. The next step was to try and do a Planetary Devistation, but Naruto had banned her from trying that. To keep her occupied, he had hired a bunch of his friends to train her. None of them succeeded.

Sai tried to teach her how to draw ink birds. They both went home soaked in ink, and after that Sai always had an excuse for Naruto.

Shikamaru played shogi with her. After three games, she drew with him, and he declared their training over. He spent the rest of the time sleeping until Temari found him.

Choji tried to teach her the value of food, but she ate too much and threw up. Besides, her mother's home cooking was the only food she truly enjoyed. Choji had nothing else to teach her.

Hinata was helping Obito, and Kiba was training Kawa. Hisa did have a training session with him, but Akamaru peed on her leg. She was convinced that Kawa had bribed him to do that.

Shino had agreed to train her. They spent the whole time in a staring contest, until Shino declared that he had nothing that would be useful to her.

Tenten had trained her for a week, but one day she came to the training ground in a bad mood. When Tenten got upset, she got more precise with her weapons, and less caring about fatalities. Hisa almost died five times before she convinced Tenten to give up training her.

Hisa and Naruto had both agreed that Lee was a definite no. Besides, he was busy training Lu.

Temari had given her some good training, but her job as Suna's ambassador kept her too busy.

Sasuke was busy running the police station, although he had helped her improve her speed. Kakashi was mysteriously absent, and Konahamaru claimed to be too busy training Nawaki. The strange thing was that every time he claimed to be busy, Hisa saw him at the hot springs an hour later.

So, with just two weeks left, Hisa and Naruto were once again standing in Training Ground Three. Hisa was staring at Naruto, and Naruto was staring at Hisa. After a few minutes, he sighed.

"Are you sure Hanabi can't teach you? You are her favourite."

"She tried to kill me last time. She pinned me with kunai, then flung one at my head."

"But she missed."

"It was an accidental miss. She actually looked disappointed when I survived."

"She wasn't disappointed that you were alive! She was just sad that you couldn't dodge well enough."

"She promised me that she wouldn't miss the next time!"

"That's just her way of psyching you out."

"Her words were. 'Next time I'll kill you.' I'm not training with her!"

Naruto sighed and put his hand on his forehead. He stood there for a few minutes, deep in thought.

"It's no good, I can't think of anything to teach you. We already tried the Rasengan and agreed that it wasn't suited to you. Maybe we can unlock another of your Paths?"

Hisa shook her head.

"I don't want to unlock anymore Paths until I become a chunin. Are you sure there's nothing you can teach me?"

"All the jutsu I specialize in are based around the Rasengan, or need the Kyubi. Or you need to be a Sage, or it's a frog summoning. You can't use any of the jutsu I use except for the Kage Bunshin and the basic ones like that."

Hisa thought about this.

"Are there any Uzumaki clan techniques you can teach me?"

Naruto's eyes widened.

"Not exactly. But I think I know a really powerful technique that I could try and teach you."

"Really? What is it?"

Naruto grinned and pulled out an oddly shaped kunai.

"The Fourth Hokage's Flying Raijin technique! Or, as I like to call it, Grandad Minato's Teleportation jutsu!"

Hisa gasped.

"Isn't that an S-Rank technique? Do you really think I can learn it?"

Naruto shrugged.

"In theory, it's possible for anyone to learn it. In reality, it's a lot harder."

He noticed Hisa's confused expression and explained.

"For starters, not many people know it because Mom and Dad kept her family's jutsu well hidden. They were masters at sealing jutsu, but Dad was the one who invented the technique. He kept it in a secret scroll in the Hokage's office. That's why very few people can do it. The other reason is a lot simpler: it's very hard and very dangerous."

"How?" Hisa asked.

"To do this technique, you write the special seal on these kunai. Then, you throw them. That's the easy part. To teleport, you have to fill up the seal with your chakra. The tricky part is not to use too much or too little chakra. You have to have brilliant chakra control to manage that. So, if your control is good enough, you can fill up the seal. The minute the seal is filled, you begin to teleport. The most difficult and important part is getting your chakra back into your body before you teleport. Once you fill the seal, you have to tug all your chakra out of the seal and into your body. If you don't do this before you teleport, it gets very messy."

Hisa tried to follow.

"So, if chakra was water and the seal was a glass, you have to fill the glass up to the brim with water, without spilling a drop. Then, you have to drink the water all in one gulp?"

"It's one lightning fast gulp but you seem to get the idea."

Hisa looked at him critically.

"Do you really think I have the chakra control and the reflexes to master this jutsu?"

"Well… no. But it's not impossible! Think of how amazing it would be if you mastered it for the exam, Naruko wouldn't stand a chance! I'd be able to laugh in Gaara's face and tell him 'my little girl is better than yours!'"

"No pressure then Father."

"What? No, none at all. I mean, it would be nice, but the chances of it happening are a thousand to one. So don't worry!"

"You're really not helping my confidence here."

"Just believe in yourself and never give up. Besides, you have an advantage, you're small. The smaller you are the easier it is to teleport!"

He ran away as fast as he could, before his daughter could murder him for the height jab.

Hisa sighed and fingered the special kunai. She supposed it was worth as shot. The one thing that worried her was the danger part that Naruto hadn't said much about. He had said that the jutsu was dangerous, and that if you didn't get everything right, it would get messy. But Hisa didn't know just how messy he meant.

She looked at the kunai. There was a piece of paper wrapped around them, but it was blank. Hisa growled when she realised Naruto had forgotten to teach her the formula. How was she supposed to teleport without the seal? She ran off to find her father.

Ten minutes later, and she still hadn't found him. She had checked her house, his office, the police station, Oki's house and the hot springs. Naruto was nowhere to be found. She sighed in frustration and sat down on the ground. She had been skipping dinner to train, and she missed Hinata's cooking. She decided to go to Ichiraku's as it was the next best thing.

She could have kicked herself when she walked in and there was her father, slurping down his tenth bowl of ramen. How had she ignored his favourite place? She sat down next to him and ordered some miso ramen. He noticed her, and glanced quizzically at her.

"Hey Hisa, I thought you'd be training. What's up?"

She shrugged.

"I would be training, if someone had taught me the seal!"

She showed him the blank kunai. He examined it for a minute, before grinning sheepishly at her.

"Eh, sorry about that. I thought they came with the seals on them. Come on, pay for our ramen and I'll teach you!"

She stared at him.

"You want me to pay for your ramen?"

"I'll take that as a yes?"

"You can take that as a no, daddy. You're the Hokage, surely you can treat your daughter to some ramen."

He snorted.

"Yes, because Tsunade and Jiriaya always paid for me. I'll pay for myself but I'm not paying for you."

"I love you too." Hisa muttered.

!

It took Hisa two hours to learn the seal. It was incredibly complex, and Naruto refused to let her use any that weren't drawn perfectly. Each kunai took her ten minutes to draw on average. In the end, she had a dozen kunai ready to use, and the seal mostly memorized.

"Are you sure about this?" Naruto asked. "If it goes wrong you could be split in two at worst."

She glared at him.

"Thank you for telling me about this earlier. I've come too far now to give up."

Naruto had an expression between a proud grin and a tearful sob. He pulled Hisa into a hug.

"Even if it doesn't work, I am very proud of you." he whispered.

Hisa was stunned.

"Thanks." she whispered back.

She made her way down to the training ground. Naruto had reluctantly left her to go back to his office. He had a ton of paperwork waiting on his desk.

She threw a kunai out in front of her. It landed in the grass a few metres away. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She focused on her chakra. Most of her pathways were flowing in their usual pattern. But she could feel some of her chakra flowing along a foreign route. She reached out, and her chakra made contact with the kunai. She slowly began pouring her chakra into the seal, filling it up like Naruto had instructed her.

Seals were usually a lot easier. Exploding tags required a tiny amount of chakra, and didn't need any controlling. But this was a complex and advanced seal, and it was Hisa's first time. She needed to do it slowly.

Her chakra finished filling the seal and the seal activated. Hisa felt herself slowly begin to disappear. But she remembered what Naruto had said, and quickly pulled her chakra out of the seal.

Everything was a blur after that. She felt her feet lift from the ground, then they dropped back on the ground with a thump. Some of her chakra pathways weren't responding, and some felt like they were on fire. Once she realised that she wasn't dying, she looked around.

She had managed to make it halfway. The kunai was closer now, but she hadn't managed to teleport. Still, she felt proud of managing something. It wasn't bad for her first attempt, now she just had to figure out where she had gone wrong.

She gently reached out, and tried to feel her chakra. The pathways that weren't responding had closed up completely; Hisa wasn't able to feel anything. But unfortunately, she could feel the ones that hurt very, very well. She eased her chakra along the paths that hurt, until she found the one that hurt the most. It was the one that had had the biggest connection with the kunai.

She followed the route until she felt her chakra go into the kunai. Instantly, she understood what had gone wrong. She hadn't managed to get all of her chakra out of the kunai before she teleported, and the strain had ripped some of her chakra pathways. She winced as she tried to move her right hand, it hurt almost as much as a broken bone.

Still, even in her pain, she couldn't stop the grin that spread across her face.

She had two weeks to master the technique. The Chunin Exams wouldn't know what hit them.

!

Naruto was in his office when Konahamaru walked in. He handed Naruto some more paperwork with a sympathetic smile.

"You look exhausted, do you want to come to the hot springs with me?"

Naruto shook his head blearily.

"No thanks. Wait, I thought you were training Nawaki?"

Konahamaru grinned.

"I convinced Kakashi to do it for me. He's been training Nawaki since last Tuesday"

Naruto gasped. He stood up and glared at Konahamaru.

"I was going to ask Kakashi to train Hisa! You stole Kakashi from me!"

"I didn't steal Kakashi, I borrowed him."

"You didn't ask me if you could take him! That means you STOLE him!"

"Did not!"

"Did to!"

"BOYS!"

Both men turned to look at Hinata, who was standing in the doorway glaring at them.

"You're both so loud I can hear you from the police station. Sasuke's threatened to kill both of you if you don't shut up and let him focus on his work."

"Huh!" Naruto turned his back on his wife. "He has no right to demand our silence! I'm simply staking my claim on Kakashi before Konahamaru starts thinking Kakashi belongs to him!"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Hinata warned. "If Anko or Iruka hear you 'claiming' Kakashi, you know the results won't be pretty. Don't you remember what happened last time? That ANBU had to stay in the hospital for three months."

Both men turned pale as they remembered the female ANBU who had made the mistake of flirting with Kakashi. Naruto always knew Anko was insane, but Iruka had surprised him! He shuddered and turned back to Konahamaru.

"I'll let it slide this time." he said "But get out of my office!"

Konahamaru disappeared in a puff. Naruto smirked and turned to Hinata. The smirk slid off his face when he saw Hinata's glare.

"Eh… sorry about making so much noise?"

Hinata smirked.

"I'll let it slide this time." she said. "But get out of my office!"

Naruto was halfway out the building before it hit him.

"HEY HINATA. THAT'S MY OFFICE, NOT YOURS!"