It was brought to my attention recently that the "Kiri-Woka no Jutsu" is misnamed.

For Mist-Walker Technique, it should be the "Moya-Oshiguruma no Jutsu", so now there's a decision to make. Do you think I should change it all around, convert all the Kiri-Woka no Jutsu to the new one, or should I just let it slide and keep on as it is? I'll be honest, I'm biased towards keeping it as the Kiri-Woka no Jutsu, just based off the fact it sounds better, despite the fact it's not actually correct, but it's up to you all!

On with the chapter!

Chapter 46

When Akari arrived home in the relative privacy her room, she immediately felt the presence of other people in her home.

She could feel Naruto, her Shadow Clone, but she could also make out the signatures of her Genin team. Sighing, Akari quickly whipped off her vest, replacing it with a clean one, dumping the blood-stained one into her inventory, then slinging her door open and heading to the stairs, leaning around the corner to peer down into the living room from above.

Her Shadow Clone was idly patting Naruto's head, who was still resoundingly unconscious. Since her clone was about as smart as she was, she knew the clone would have already made sure he wasn't actually under a Genjutsu or something else making him stay unconscious, meaning he was just asleep, and would wake up in his own time. Her team were all sat on the other side currently interrogating her on where exactly she'd been, since they'd come in only to find an empty house, then for her clone to suddenly appear in the living room and make them all freak out.

"Kits, you know you're talking to a clone, right?" She chirped, grinning down at them all from her place upstairs when their heads all shot towards her. She stepped down the stairs casually, coming to an abrupt stop by flopping onto the sofa with a groan. "Gimme!" She took Naruto from her clone, who dispersed after a second, leaving her to adjust him on her lap.

Sure, she knew her clone had already checked him thanks to the memories she received as her clone dispersed, but it still felt wrong to not know for sure herself that he was alright. "Akari-sensei, what's going on?" She waved a hand at Tachiko, focusing on Naruto for the time being. After making absolutely sure he was without a shadow of a doubt alright, she finally looked at her Genin.

"Well, you know I told you three to keep doing what you already were, to take D-ranks under my name, stay out of trouble, yadda-yadda? Well, I was busy working at the hospital, but Naruto had also been, well, kidnapped is the easiest way to put it." She ran a hand softly through Naruto's hair as she spoke. I'm not saying anything about how, who, why, because all of that is probably gonna end up being an S-rank secret, but I can tell you that I got the bastard, Naruto is back, and we're now probably going to be re-assigned to the Yu no Kuni border on account of Kumo's second Jinchuriki heading towards us."

Akari didn't know which part of it surprised her Genin most, to be honest. Everything seemed pretty drastic after all. Brushing Naruto's hair around, Akari waited for her team to ask a question, eventually raising her gaze from the blonde tresses she was toying with the look at her Genin, prompting Aiko to ask her a question. "So Sensei, you'll be working with us again?"

Rolling her eyes, Akari looked back down at Naruto. "Well duh, you're not getting rid of me that easily. Unless...you wanted to be rid of me?" Her Genin each gave their open varying levels of reaction to that, all very much so adamant about not getting a different Jonin-sensei. Then again, she was probably their best choice, since she was a damn good cook, great at Fuinjutsu, she could play music during long journeys, and a bunch of other stuff she didn't bother thinking about.

Feeling Naruto shift, she grinned, her hand still brushing at his hair as his eyes blinked open. "Kaa-san?" She shifted her grin to a smile, nodding at him. "W...what happened?" He tried to sit up, slumping back down and burrowing into his face into her midriff. "I'm tired..." Her smile faded a little.

"Cub, you've been gone for a week..." His body twitched, unburying his head to stare at her in disbelief. "I'm guessing you've been asleep the whole time then huh boo?" He nodded slowly, his hands fisting on her vest. Sighing, Akari nudged him into a sitting position on her lap, supporting his back with one arm. "Well you're back now. And...I've got good and bad news for you Kit."

She gave his hair a final tousle, looking towards her Genin. "Who here has heard of the ability I showed off during the attack?" Her three Genin shook their heads. "Well, just be warned, this might surprise ya a little." Akari then summoned Kushina, giving the woman free will, the arrival of whom stunned the three Genin. As the redhead looked around in curiosity, she cleared her throat. "Kushina, good to see ya." Akari attracted the woman's attention, getting her neck suddenly wrapped up in a crushing hug at a speed she couldn't follow, since her Sharingan was currently off.

"You aren't escaping this time Akari-chan, you're staying right here and telling me everything that's happened." Kushina finally seemed to notice the three Genin in the room, her words forgotten as she let go of Akari and approached the three baffled kids, a finger poking Aiko's Hitai-ate. "Awh, Akari-chan, are these your very own adorable little Genin? They're so cute!"

While Kushina was distracted, Akari felt Kurama slip out of the seal into his Familiar form, staring at his previous Jinchuriki a moment while she looked away, then hopped up onto Akari's shoulder, settling across her neck and lazily looking at Akari. "You know, I thought I'd be angrier to meet her." Kurama's distinctive voice made Kushina tense up, turning around briskly, chains sprouting from her back.

"Peace, Kushina! He won't hurt you if you don't hurt him. Besides, he's the only reason me and Naruto aren't in Danzo's tender custody. Without him, I'd be stuck in a Genjutsu and Naruto, well, I don't want to know honestly." The Uzumaki woman stared at Akari in disbelief for a few moments, her gaze flicking between her and Kurama, before she huffed, her half-formed Adamantine Sealing Chains dispersing into the air.

"Do I even want to know what you've been up to?"

When in the safety of her room, Akari finally opened her notifications, releasing a long sigh as she looked through the list.

Firstly, she completed the quest for getting Naruto back, flicking her eyes down at the hidden objectives with a groan.

Quest Completed.

Shadow of the Past.

Objectives:

Recover Naruto from his abductor - Completed.

Kill the man who took him - Completed.

Reward: 350,000 Experience, 4 Skill Points

Hidden Objectives:

Uncover who exactly the man behind the mask is - Completed.

Use a Jutsu of each nature during your battle - Incomplete.

Reward earned - 150,000 Experience each, 150,000 experience earned

Those Hidden Objectives were seriously bullshit sometimes. How the fuck was she supposed to know to use one of each Jutsu? She knew one of each, she just didn't need to use each Nature during the fight. Muttering under her breath, she swept the reward notification away, bringing up her stats screen. She placed the bonus four points into her Agility, rounding it off at a neat 300. She pushed ten to her strength, five to Vitality, Endurance and Luck, bringing each to eighty, keeping fifteen points in reserve for whatever she wanted to play with next, since 300 Agility seemed fast enough.

There was a notification she missed, one she now remembered receiving when she spoke to the Entity. She brought her notifications back up, opening the one she'd ignored. Then, she froze. "Did...I'm going to fucking kill him." Apparently he thought it would be funny to...Akari just exhaled, reading the notification again, then cursing quietly to herself.

Boon Granted - Ageless

You have been locked as your current age.

That sounded like absolute and utter bullshit. "So what, I'm just stuck at 17 now?" Unfortunately, the Entity was not forthcoming with that information. Growling to herself, Akari dismissed the notification, bringing up her status and noticing the question mark beside her age. She focused on it, hoping it would give her more information, but apparently not.

Folding her legs, Akari sat down on the floor, holding her head in her hands. "Ageless...some fucking Boon you bastard." Sure, on the surface it sounded nice, being able to experience everything the world had to offer. But on the other hand, it meant she was forced to watch Naruto, her family and all her friends grow up, grow old then die around her.

As she gnawed on her lip trying to figure out what to do, she was ambushed by a mass of fur leaping onto her shoulders from above. "Akari, what's wrong?" Tipping her head to look at Kurama, she managed a small smile. At least he was around. Reaching over, she rubbed at his head a little, snorting when he batted at her hand in irritation.

"Oh nothing...just, you remember that Entity that dragged you and Hiruzen into helping me?" The fox rolled his eyes, as though he'd forget. "Well, he spoke to me again, and from something I fucking off-handedly mentioned, he...he made me ageless..." Kurama stared at her for a few moments, hopping off her shoulder and sitting in front of her. "I'm not kidding, he..."

Slumping backwards, Akari stared up at the ceiling, feeling Kurama hop up and sit on her midriff. "...I'm sorry." She rolled her head upwards to look at Kurama, a thin smile on her lips. "I know how agelessness can...destroy what you once loved." Shifting carefully, Akari sat back up, Kurama moving to sit on one of her thighs. "I guess this means we're stuck together forever then?"That at least brought a grin to Akari's face, lowering her forehead to butt against his.

"I guess so."

"So, Yu no Kuni, right?"

The Hokage nodded, his pipe between his lips even as he read the paper on his desk. "Correct. I understand you have resolved your problem now, which means I can send you out freely?" Akari gave an affirmative to that. "Good. You will have to make haste, the hostile Jinchuriki is nearing Kumo's border with Yu no Kuni. If Yugito Nii is allowed to enter Konoha's borders, she could wreak an incredible amount of damage before being stopped."

"Wait, did I never...no, I never did, oops. I know the Hiraishin now, Minato taught me." The old man looked directly at her, then slumped a moment, holding his head in his hands and muttering. "I mean, I couldn't exactly tell you outright, that would then beg the question of how I learned it since you knew I didn't have it when he died or I would have used it far more brazenly. I mean, now that the cats out of the bag about Megami no Mon I have the perfect excuse for any of my Jutsu, I just summoned someone who knew and convinced them to teach me, or fought them when they refused then stole the Jutsu with my Sharingan."

"I suppose so. Still, it would have been good to have been informed of these developments." His voice was chiding, but Akari knew that he understood why she'd tried to hard to keep it a secret. Now that she was strong enough to fend off anyone who would attack her to try and force her to do what they wanted, having Megami no Mon be out in the open wasn't a huge deal. But before, if she'd revealed it when she was about level 60, she wouldn't have even been able to fend off a single high-tier Jonin, let alone several. "Are you going to take your Genin team with you? This could be a valuable learning experience for them, but also carries the chance they will get into a situation they can't handle."

Akari responded to this by making a Shadow Clone. "It could, which is why I'm going to make a few Shadow Clones to tail each of them, then if they ever get into trouble, the clones can just run to them using my Agility, then grab them and Hiraishin them to wherever they need to go. Or maybe I can just plant a Hiraishin on each of them, that'd make it even faster..." Akari trailed off with a thoughtful hum. "By the way, totally forgot, I...uhh, I kinda sealed Gyuki and Kokuo before Han and Killer B died, so...yeah."

The Hokage hid his face behind his hat, muttering about crazy Uchiha.

Dipping under a wild swing, Akari kicked upwards against the shaft of the Sodegarami her enemy was wielding, wrenching the Kunoichi's arms painfully upwards.

With a single step, she slipped to the side beneath the polearm and snatched the hair of her enemy, the Kumo-nin letting out a brief yell of pain before Akari's Kunai found purchase in her throat, quickly parting the vertebrae in her neck. With casual ease, Akari swept the blade from one side then the other, decapitating the woman. She flicked the blade then dropped it into her inventory casually, looking around the battlefield for her team.

They'd reached the border to Yu no Kuni a day before the Kumo Jinchuriki's group did, her presence warding away the enemy Jinchuriki from attacking, presumably for fear of her Bijuu being forcibly extracted, which would put Kumo at a serious disadvantage. That didn't stop Kumo from assaulting the Konoha border, being intercepted by Akari and her team.

The attacking force numbered in hundreds, which without Akari's presence would have forced Konoha to dedicate more troops to the attack. However, even before becoming a Jinchuriki, Akari killed hundreds in a single battle. This time though, she didn't replicate the same attack. No, instead, she allowed the two forces to clash, giving her Genin valuable combat experience against hostile-nin, though always under the wary eyes of her Shadow Clones.

To give the entire thing the visual idea of being a true battle, she'd moved into position whilst creating Shadow Clones, each of them immediately Hengeing into random Konoha-nin she vaguely remembered, thus giving the illusion that Konoha were dedicating a number of troops to this engagement, when in fact it was just Akari, three Genin, and a hundred or so Shadow Clones.

In doing this, she also freed up the actual Konoha-nin on the border to assault a distance away, pressing through Yu no Kuni while she tied up a considerable portion of Kumo's army. Ducking another sword-strike, Akari didn't even stab her enemy with a blade. No, her hand merely plunged through his chest, shattered his rib-cage, then her fist burst his heart.

Gripping tightly, she threw his body in the way of a brace of Senbon, ignoring the fact her face had become slightly blood-splattered as she focusing on the Shinobi who threw the Senbon, her gaze travelling up his blade before she snorted. He wasn't even holding the damn thing correctly the poor Chunin. Before he could even react, Akari had already moved, not even using her Sharingan as she gave herself enough speed to be too fast to track, but still a controllable amount, coming to a stop beside the man.

She kicked out at his hand, then spun, using her foot to hook against his shoulder, finally bringing her other leg around and striking the side of his jaw. The force of the kick snapped his head around more than a hundred and eighty degrees, the crackling and popping sound of vertebrae shredding audible to those nearby. She finished her combo by slapping a seal onto his dead torso, then flipped off of him whilst brutally striking a boot against the seal on him, sending him flying whilst at the same time lighting the fuse.

His corpse sailed through the Kumo-nin ranks, coming to a bloody stop after carving a shallow furrow in the ground. A cry of alarm as the seal was stopped gave the Kumo-nin a fraction of a window to react before he detonated in a bloody mess, bone fragments buzzing outwards to lacerate and maim. All in all, the explosive tag itself only killed two Nin, but the fragments made by his shattered skeleton injured far more.

With a flick of her arm, Akari got rid of a little blood which was drying, then using that hand to smear the blood on her face, making sure it didn't interfere with her vision. After a few seconds of relative peace, Akari spotted her next target, a group of three Genin. For a brief moment, she felt bad about having to kill what looked like thirteen or fourteen-year-olds, but they signed up for this, they knew what they were getting into, just as her team understood that doing this job, they could die at any moment.

With a shallow breath, Akari lunged.

"Uhh, Sensei, can we talk?"

Looking up from her place cleaning the Kusanagi, Akari gestured at the floor beside her. "Be my guest. What's on your mind then Hikaru?" She swept her rag down the edge of the blade again, each time removing some of the blood marring the weapon. "Let me guess, still having issues coping?" The boy nodded. It wasn't surprising, even after more than a year he still wasn't keen on killing. Today saw his first battle against enemy Genin, which seemed to have rattled him.

Setting aside the Kusanagi, Akari sighed, resting her chin on the palm of one hand as she faced him properly. "Hikaru, you know I won't always be there to protect you, right?" Though his face was confused, he nodded slowly. "That one day, you're going to have to fight someone you aren't comfortable fighting? Because...I remember my first time having to kill an enemy Genin."

Hikaru shifted in place, the better to listen to her speak. "It was during the Third Shinobi War, obviously. Now, by this point I'd already lost my team and Sensei, I was just free-floating, but spent practically all my time healing. So, I get dragged into the front-line medic squad, then immediately end up making my own way of being a medic, a combat-medic, since I hated staying stationary and letting the Nin who could move come to me, I wanted to save those unable to move, so I did. Now, I come across the Genin, hovering over a wounded Kunoichi with a Kunai in his hand, obviously conflicted." At this point, Hikaru was pretty enraptured.

After all, Akari didn't really go into depth about her past often. "So...I moved. Where he hesitated, I know I couldn't. If I did, it might have galvanized him, and that Kunai would have found its way into her throat. She'd be dead, and it would have been my fault for not acting, her blood on my hands. So...where he did, I didn't hesitate...I cut his hand off, then embedded my own Kunai into his throat. I couldn't look away, not when he was still la vague danger, so I had to stare at point-blank range as he died." Rubbing her face, Akari pulled a smile back on, though it was fainter than usual. "And ever since then, I just picture that scene. If I don't make sure to eliminate or maim my enemies, they'll just hurt someone else. Never forget that, especially in a war, every enemy that you let flee is another enemy who will kill your friends, family, your fellow Shinobi."

Leaning back, Akari gestured around them. "That's why nobody here wants to hesitate, to let an enemy run from the battlefield. Because two days later, that same enemy could be the one responsible for killing three of our own Nin. It's a classic tale of them vs us." Leaning to the side slightly, she poked Hikaru's chest. "It's up to you to decide if you want to risk that. If you want to let that one Genin flee, you have to bear the knowledge that perhaps one day later, perhaps three, or maybe a week or more, that Genin might kill two Konoha-nin, or three, five, however many, all because you let them go.

Sitting up again, Akari sighed. "Now, that's not to say never let anyone flee." She picked up the Kusanagi again, spinning a rag around her fingers. "But don't forget this Hikaru,-" Akari's eyes darkened, focusing on her blade as she continued cleaning it of the blood marring the surface.

"-...we're at war."

Boos, I don't often...or ever really, do this.

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This is probably going to be the last chapter until Friday, I'm going to take a little break. This isn't guaranteed, I might still upload on Thursday, or I might not write anything until Saturday, who knows. Just a heads up.

Also...her ageless thing...I'm like 75% sure I'm going to be removing it. I don't like having my characters grow up, probably says a fucking lot about me, but I don't. It just feels a bit forced though, so it's probably going to go away. I was trying to set it up for the future.

In case you don't know, I plan to do a split for this story. War Dog itself will end, but I'm going to then make a sequel spin-off, where Akari doesn't stop, instead she goes to another Universe like Starcraft or Warhammer, I think it'd be fun. I wanted her to be ageless for that, but I don't know how to incorporate it, maybe she gets an upgrade or something from Hagoromo. I dunno!

Don't forget that the reason Akari's exp jumped is because she got a bunch of kills fighting that Kumo attack off, since all those Shadow Clones were her.

Name: Akari Uchiha

Level: 123

Age: 17?

Experience: 65,452/123,000

To Next Level: 57,548

Title: Sannin-slayer - Defeating one of the three legendary sannin is no easy feat, but you managed it. Future opportunities unlocked.

Secondary Title: Jonin - +25% Experience gained working with Genin

Health Points: 32,500 - (100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 6400/m - 106.6*/s - Vit x End - Halted when afflicted with bleed status.

Chakra Points: 41,000 - (100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 8100/m - 135/s - Int x Wis - Halted when continuous chakra drain Jutsu in use.

Strength - 80

Vitality - 80

Endurance - 80

Intelligence - 90

Agility - 300

Wisdom - 90

Luck - 80

15 Skill Points Available