Chapter 20

In the hours that followed this new makeshift team arrived by lakeside and begun their mission. Using a water style jutsu, Yaku was lifting several portions of water above his head most carrying fish. Then using the control technique of his eyes would send several blades into the fish, pushing them out of the water. Once gathering the fish together he would seal them before repeating the process. At the side, Tarui sat metidating to extend the radius of his sensing technique, while Mito sat alongside him either awaiting his signal or for Yaku to take a break.
"You know guys, maybe, just maybe we will have more food here than the scouts will bring back. Who needs em right?" Yaku joked, while Kabuto laughed Tarui spotted that Mito possessed a small smirk.
'Hmm, so the kid does actually react to things.'

"Tarui, can you sense anything?" Kabuto asked just after sealing the fifth lot of fish.
"I sensed some demons a few moments ago but they passed this area by." He voiced. Mito continued to listen to the jokes and conversation of her comrades as she fell back into her memories.

"Has she said anything yet?" Mirai asked a younger Iona.
"No, other than the fact she hasn't eaten she's physically healthy. Who knows what she seen out there, I could ask Inojin to have a look, the yamanka clan have a better understanding of mental health than I do?"
"No, I think we should just give her some time. I don't think we should have someone else going around in her head." Mirai and Iona left, leaving Mito there crying in her blanket.
"Hey, excuse me, are you ok?"Mito turned, spotting a young girl slightly older than her with short purple hair and blue eyes. Mito didn't answer her.
"I just wanted to drop by and give you something to eat. My brother mentioned we found someone and I wanted to come help but em… my name is Himawari. Just give me a call if you need anything." Himawari got up to leave as she heard the younger girl mummur something weakly.
"Mito…Mito Natsuki." She mummured again, slightly louder. Himawari turned looking for her older friends but couldn't see anyone around.

"Hey, Mito… em… do you think you could tell me what happened?" She sat down next to Mito, massasging the younger girls arm. Mito, looked at Himawari's actions. Himawari pulled her arms away nervously.
"Sorry, I'd just seen people do that to others before and I thought I'd try it.
"I…I spoke up…and they heard…and then…." She began crying, turning into Himawari's shoulder and burying herself into it. Himawari embraced the young girl, not knowing her brother had been watching the entire ordeal.
"Told you Himawari would get her to open up, Sara." Boruto said, deactivating his byakugan and turning to his friend.
"You know I believed you right? I didn't doubt you." She said, giving him a small punch.
"It's weird, Himawari just has this way of getting through to people. I guess that's why Mirai calls her the autumn sunflower."

"Right guys, I think that's us ready to go." Kabuto said, rolling up the last scroll.
"You got lucky Mito, you never even had to anything!" Mito smirked as she stood up but suddenly she was pushed back by an explosion of water. A large demon came out of the lake roaring at the ninja.
"Damnit! Tarui I thought you said you couldn't sense anything!" Kabuto shouted, pulling two demon wind shuriken from a separate scroll.
"I couldn't! My sensing technique doesn't work underwater! But we've never encountered a water demon before!" He pulled two kunai himself, taking a fighting stance. The demon bent over towards Kabuto, who threw his shuriken towards the water demon. The demon bit down on the metal weapons, smashing them. Kabuto jumped out of the way but was knocked down by a tentical which had seemingly grown from the demons side. Tarui threw his two kunai into the demons throat, but the outer skin was too thick for any serious damage.
"Yaku!" Tarui shouted.
"Right! Water style: raiging waves!"
"Lightning style: running current!" The two ninja combined their respective jutsu, causing a lightning filled water attack, electrocuting the larger demon. However due its large size the demon shook off the shock, swiping the two ninja with its ever increasing tentecles. The demon used two of the tentecles to remove the knives from its neck and threw the two of them at a still incapacitated Kabuto.

"Water style: rising water wave wall." Mito said, calmly from across the shore. Creating a wave that rushed from the lake side into the demons body with enough force to cause it to fall over. The same wave deflected the knives flung at Kabuto. Mito made several more handsigns.
"Water style: water kracken." Several liquid tentecles rose from the lakeside, wrapping round the demon restricting its movements completely.
"Tarui." Tarui got back up, and reattivated his jutsu again electructing the demon, but this time it didn't stop. The demon stayed restained as the current continued to pass through it, the life squiring out of it.

"So her name is, Mito Natsuki. She was born in the hidden leaf village but her family decided to move out years ago for a quieter life." Himawari explained.
"Mito… I know that name?" Mirai questioned.
"Mito Uzumaki, the first hokage's wife. I asked why I knew that name, she said was named after her. Small world eh?"
"So what else did you find out?"
"Well, her parents are dead. She said her family were both ninja, one leaf and one mist. And they trained her in their jutsu. She says her parents were proud of her water style skills."
"She can use water style?! At that age!" Mirai gasped, but Boruto was the one who turned to her in shock.
"She might be…"

"She's a genius." Kabuto finshed, watching her manipulate the water as the demon died.
"Well… thanks Mito. You saved my life but, you made me seem pretty useless there."
"Shut up Yaku, its time to go home." Tarui mentioned pulling him along.

"Hey guys, how did you get on?" Sarada asked, as Metal Lee took the scrolls off of Kabuto.
"I think we got enough for a couple of days actually. Assuming no one minds eating fish for a few days." Kabuto answered.
"Any trouble?"
"Nothing we couldn't handle!" Yaku said, confindetly. Much to the annoyance of Kabuto and Tarui, although Mito seemed to be somewhat amused by her friends lie.
"Sarada, Himawari and the others have been spotted on their way back." Jinsho entered the tent, leaving as he finshed.