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Chapter 51
After wrapping up her chat with the Hokage, Akari left through the door, like a sane person.
She understood why a lot of people liked leaving through the window, it facilitated getting away from the building faster. Of course, if she wanted to leave in a hurry she would just use the Hiraishin, but she didn't mind taking a few minutes to slowly walk down the tower, saying hello to the passing Genin, Chunin and Jonin who would come up and down at varying speeds. Only a few brushed past without really reacting to her saying hello, most of them reached much like the civilians she'd walked by on the way there.
There was concealed hatred in a few gazes, some were fearful, others were happy to see her, it was just a myriad of reactions. Before long she reached the bottom, leaving the building without much hassle. The Hokage had made clear that she was technically not assigned a mission directly, but instead she was just to remain in Konoha and respond to any threats that cropped up during his absence. Unfortunately, Akari didn't get a quest pop-up for this unlisted mission of sorts, which was a bit of a shame, but since she felt strong enough right now as it was, she wasn't too upset about things.
As she walked, Akari opened her menu, humming quietly to herself as she tried to pick a place for her thirty points to be placed within. Eventually, she decided she would simply split them in half, placing 15 into Intelligence, then fifteen into Wisdom, bumping her total Chakra up to practically six-hundred-thousand, her regeneration to 440 points per second. That meant that, if she wanted, she could become a permanent flamethrower using the Gokakyu no Jutsu. Not what she ever would need to do that, but it was a nice framing device.
Wandering down the street towards the centre of Konoha, Akari tried to think of things she needed to do. First up, show Sei what she had planned. Secondly, bring Minato and Kushina back in time for Naruto's birthday, since it was approaching the end of September now and his birthday was in October. She needed to get a few of her knives worked on, the blades were wearing down a bit despite her trying to keep them together and unbroken, so she could visit Terumasa, see if he could maybe work on them a bit. If they were just too worn-down then that was fine, Akari only used them occasionally now, since her repertoire of attacks had drastically widened, plus she had the Kusanagi, which was unbreakable anyway.
After only a little while walking Akari arrived in front of her house, unlocking the door and walking inside, closing the door behind herself as she made for the kitchen. Since she'd told Sei to meet her here half an hour after meeting him, she had maybe ten minutes before he was due to show up, meaning she had some spare time to-. Never mind, someone was knocking on the door.
She spun around and stepped back to the door, pulling it open. "Oh, uh, hey there Dei, nice to see ya." She smiled at the blonde as he raised his hand in greeting, the mouth on his palm not making her nearly as uncomfortable as the first time she'd seen it. "You want to come in?" He accepted, wiping his sandals on the mat then putting them in the rack. "...I always forget to do that." She mumbled, looking down at her own boots.
"Much like how you forget suffixes, huh Akari-chan?" She rubbed her neck sheepishly. "I thought you were out on the border with Iwa, so what's this about you being back in the village?" Deidara spoke as he walked over to the living room, Akari following him then leaping onto the other sofa. She idly noted Kurama appear from the seal then hop up onto her back, from there leaping to the nearest pathway up on the walls, draping himself lazily down with one leg and his tail dangling off the edge.
Rolling her head, she turned to look at Deidara, letting her left eye switch to the Rinnegan. "Well, this probably had something to do with it, huh? I kinda went wild and tore three Iwa-nin war parties into shreds letting maybe twelve survivors flee out of at least a few hundred. I think Iwa collectively are agreeing that I'm now worse than Minato in their eyes, by far." While he didn't seem all too happy that his home village was being, to put it bluntly, beaten down by Akari's sole actions, Dei still gave her a smirk.
"So, business as usual then, un?" As he spoke, Deidara made a few small clay sculptures to wander around the room, a flying dragon which immediately flew over to Akari and perched on her outstretched arm then walked along it onto her back, leaning over a hundred and eighty degrees to peer into her eyes while its head was upside-down, making Akari snort.
As she carefully got up from her prone position on the sofa with the little dragon carefully walking to sit on her shoulder, she snapped her fingers. "I just realized something awesome." She closed her left eye then re-opened it with the Rinnegan activated, mentally picturing exactly what she wanted. "Animal Path." With a puff of smoke, a small blue and green dragon appeared on the floor, about the same size as the one Deidara produced, only this one was fully coloured, whereas his was just the muddy red of his clay.
She vaguely recalled that animals she summoned were supposed to let her see through their eyes and act much like the 'puppets' she could use with the Black Receivers, but maybe because she pictured this one with blue eyes rather than Rinnegan eyes, it didn't have that same effect. She could still command it, as evidenced by it hopping onto her hand then hopping off into her lap, curling up into a ball of scales. "I think mine are cooler now. I mean, they can't explode, but..." She gestured a hand at the scaly little dragon.
"As much as it pains me to admit, your art is more beautiful than mine...in looks only, un!" As she brushed a hand down her new dragon's back, the door was knocked on a second time. "Are you expecting someone, un?" Grinning, Akari was about to move, then thought better of it, making a Shadow Clone who went over and opened the door, accepting that she had to stay still and keep petting her awesome new dragon.
Stood outside, as expected, was Sei, who the clone quickly let in, shut the door behind, then dispersed into nothingness. She knew despite being unable to see the door, her clone's memories had of course been delivered right to her head. "In here, Aniki!" She called loudly enough for him to hear, smirking as he rounded the corner and his head tilted several directions to look at all of Deidara's creations flying around. "Oh, those are all just Dei's clay." She then hefted the dragon on her lap a little. "This critter, on the other hand, is all mine."
"And, what exactly is that, Imouto?" Her brother asked, giving a wave to Deidara then settling down on the couch beside Akari. Waiting a few moments for dramatic effect, Akari them plopped the dragon on Sei's lap, snickering at his slightly panicked shifting.
"That, my dear brother, is a dragon...a real one that is." Her brother stared at her a few moments, looking down hastily as the dragon lifted its head and stood up, pawing around for a few moments before turning its head to look at him, yawning as it tipped its head to the side. "Don't worry, it's harmless...well, harmless to you. This little one wouldn't hurt a fly...unless I wanted it to." With a single thought, the dragon's head snapped towards her arm, nearly smacking Sei in the face as it unfurled its wings and in a single powerful sweep and a hop, flew right onto Akari's arm. "See?"
Her brother just shook his head, a smile on his face as he leaned over and ruffled her hair. "Only you would manage to make a real dragon Imouto." Grinning, she leaned into his hand, eventually slumping so far she just gave up and leaned against his side. "So, what was it you wanted to show me?" Humming for a moment, Akari shifted so she could whisper in his ear, deciding that Deidara could see as well, if he was patient enough to-
"Well, I suppose you two don't need me, and I do have business, so I'll see you around, okay Akari-chan?" Well, that made that far simpler. Sure, people were going to probably put two and two together about things, but if he wanted to disappear, he was more than welcome to. Akari waved him goodbye, getting up from the sofa as he left the building.
Pulling her brother up by his hands, Akari lowered her voice, her seriousness on full display. "Aniki, you trust me right?" He stared at her for a few moments, as if asking what kind of dumb question that was, before nodding. "Okay...I, uhh...well, that is to...oh fuck it." Spawning the 'King of Hell' behind her brother, Akari shoved him into it, giving hin a wave as he disappeared.
Sure, the thing looked creepy and had a disturbing name, but her Game had never, not once, lied to her about an ability. As such, she wasn't afraid for her brother, nor surprised when the mouth of the King opened again, revealing her brother stood there in pure shock, even a little anger. He was probably pissed at the surprise, but all of that was washed away when, for the first time in almost seven years, he opened his eyes.
He stood there, stunned for a moment and blinking before his onyx eyes settled on Akari. "Surprise, I kinda...I can fix people now." Sei turned slightly to look at the King of Hell as it disappeared, then looked back at Akari, a massive grin appearing on his face as he stepped forwards and wrapped his arms around Akari, lifting her up with ease as he hugged her.
Stifling the urge to tear up, Akari returned his hug, burying her face in his neck and closing her eyes. After six, nearly seven years of blindness, she'd finally gotten a way for her brother to see again. Sure, the Golan Seal let him see as well, but being able to actually see was a far cry from how the seal worked. As her brother broke the hug and held her out at arms length, she tried her best not to frown at his expression. "Imouto, you can't let anybody know you have this."
She rolled her eyes, breaking out of his grip casually though making sure not to hurt him, subtly telling him that she'd gotten even stronger than before. "Well, I'm not exactly going to go shouting at the rooftops about being able to regenerate people but...there's a few people I can't just ignore. I promise I won't just use it stupidly to heal everybody in the world, that's just asking for trouble, but...well, don't be surprised when two people presumed dead suddenly re-emerge." She then snickered as she realized the clusterfuck this was going to cause Hiruzen.
Meh, he'd be away from Konoha anyway, a nice coming-home present to give him when he got back.
Getting ahold of Minato and Kushina's bodies was, surprisingly, a piece of cake.
With her Kiri-Woka no Jutsu, sneaking into the Hokage's burial ground was easy, though she had to manually dig up his body to avoid tipping any of the sensors off that something was amiss, making her slightly regret losing Megami no Te when she got her eye replaced. Not too much regret though, since if she didn't, she wouldn't be doing what she was right now, digging away at Minato's grave and feeling a bit bad about it.
She'd already brought him forth in her home using Megami no Mon and asked him if he wanted to be brought back to life, the same as Kushina. They both expressed worry about the whole thing, but after some convincing both accepted, with Minato informing her of where he was probably buried. Kushina was in the regular cemetery, since in the eyes of Konoha she was not worth the same level of respect as Minato, even though she was arguably more important than he was for holding Kurama for such a long time.
As she scraped away another patch of dirt, she saw the lining of Minato's coffin, whacking a storage seal onto it to save time, pulling the paper into her inventory, then using the Hiraishin to vanish from the graveyard, leaving the dirt piled up, she could come back later if she had to, but she cared more about just getting this done with, since today was Naruto's birthday, meaning it had to be today, not one day later. Brushing a little dirt away from her eye, she took out the two storage seals holding Kushina and Minato, placing them on the floor and unsealing their coffins, immediately throwing them into the King of Hell's mouth.
She didn't quite know how the Shinigami was going to react when she stole Minato from him, as for all intents and purposes the Shinigami was allowed to gnaw on his soul for all eternity. Since she'd already been stealing him on a temporary basis, she reckoned the being was going to be rather pissed off at her, not that it mattered. As long as she didn't die, he'd have no opening to attack her.
As the now-pristine bodies of Minato and Kushina were rolled out of the mouth, she gave the large...thing, a quick pat to say thank you as it disappeared, then focused on the two corpses. They both looked as if they were merely sleeping, despite six years having passed since their deaths. The King of Hell really was great at healing. "Welp, this is gonna hurt."
Closing her eyes, Akari focused for a moment, forming the two hand seals necessary for the technique, but stopped before she could actually use it. It was...probably not a good idea to revive them inside of her home, not if she wanted plausible deniability for the whole thing, at least in the eyes of the masses. Placing the two pristine bodies into storage seals, Akari snatched them both up then Hiraishin'd to a marker she'd left in the middle of the forest on the way to the border with Iwa.
This time, as she placed the bodies down and performed the hand seals, she didn't hesitate. "Gedo: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu." As a quarter of her health was drained, she dropped to one knee with a gasp. That was more health than she'd lost in a very long time. The King of Hell appeared again, looking at her for half a second as if to ask why he was being summoned so much when the price was so high, but then opened his mouth and released two green lines, both of which darted for the two corpses, their eyes blinking open slowly.
Akari released the breath she was holding as she watched Minato slowly and unsteadily sit up. It seemed that the Rinne Tensei was able to pull souls even out of the Shinigami's influence. She had no doubt that the Shinigami would not be kind to her if she died for stealing his...meal? Ornament? Well, for stealing whatever Minato was to him.
As Kushina also sat up, she grinned at them both. "Yo. I realised bringing you two back in the middle of Konoha might not have been the best idea so here we are. Uhh, I have no idea how any of this is going to be explained so I'll leave it up to you two to comeup with an explanation. If you want to involve me in it then cool, whatever, but whenever you're ready, Naruto will be at my place, so you can surprise him whenever you want, as long as you do it today."
Minato gave her a smile, standing up then nearly falling over, which made her and Kushina laugh. "It's...we'll figure it out Akari-chan. I'll see you back in Konoha, hmm?" Nodding, Akari made to disappear, but found herself grabbed in a strangehold by Kushina, who furiously rubbed at her hair, despite her squirming. She knew she could break Kushina's hold if she wanted to, but she felt the woman deserved whatever she was going to say.
"And if you try to escape me one more time I'm trapping you with my chains and forcing you into a dress!" Balking, Akari quickly nodded, being released from the hold and immediately vanishing into her signature crimson flash. Maybe she didn't quite deserve that much, the only way Akari was wearing a dress was if she had to do it for some inane reason to save Naruto.
Dresses sucked after all.
As she pulled a pan of Dango off the hob, Akari heard the door open then close, smiling to herself.
She heard Naruto walk upstairs, then came back down after a minute or two, walking into the kitchen, freezing up at he laid eyes on her. "Kaa-san!" Resisting the urge to roll her eyes at him, Akari opened her arms, the little blonde sporting and jumping to wrap his arms around her neck. She carefully avoided nudging the handle of her pan of Dango, propping Naruto up on one arm while she hugged him with the other.
"Hey there Cub, surprise! You want some?" She turned so he could see the Dango she was making, one of his hands already questing for it. "Ah ah ah, not yet, it's only just come off the hob." She pulled a stick from her inventory, giving it to him and getting another hug as payment. "So, how's the Academy been?" Naruto made a whining noise in his throat. "What? It can't be that bad."
Naruto shook his head, mumbling as he buried his face in her neck. "Your clan sucks." She snorted, jostling Naruto a little as she moved to one-handedly remove the Dango from the pan, placing them each on a plate then throwing more unboiled Dango balls into the water, replacing it on the hob. "Sasuke thinks he's better than me at everything! But he's not, I can beat him in Fuinjutsu! Oh, and-and I got the Henge before he did as well!" Smiling, Akari ruffled his hair.
"Well don't let him get you down, they'll make a Shinobi out of you yet!" She plopped Naruto down on the ground, then returned her attention to her Dango-making. That stick she'd given Naruto was her second-to-last one thanks to Kurama's constant nibbling, not that she could turn him down his favourite treat. It just meant she'd mass-produce another ton of Dango sticks, throw them all into her inventory, then have Dango whenever she wanted. "You've been keeping up with your practice then?"
She heard Naruto run out of the room, raising an eyebrow when she turned just to see him vanish round the corner then run up the stairs, presumable to go fetch a seal so she could look at it. As he came back down, she smirked to herself. She didn't know exactly which seal he'd decided to bring her, but, hopefully it was an interesting one. He came around the corner hiding whatever seal he wanted to show her behind his back, suddenly whipping his arms around and chirping. "Ta-da!"
Looking over the seal for a moment, Akari took a second or two to actually figure out what it was, smiling and kneeling down. "And you wrote this on your own?" She asked,d extending a hand so he could put the seal-paper on his hand, nodding all the while. "Well, I mean...I guess that what they say about Uzumaki really isn't just a placebo effect. I know I would never have been able to make a chakra-storage seal when I was your age."
It wasn't an incredibly hard seal to make, but for Naruto, an eight-year-old, to be writing his own seals? That was pretty ridiculous. "Good job Cub." She wrapped an arm around him, planting a soft kiss on his forehead, letting her other hand sneak up to muss his hair up again. "So, you want some ramen to celebrate?" His eyes lit up at the mention of his favourite meal, immediately begging her to start making it now and how he wanted at least three, no four bowls of the stuff please, and a myriad of other things.
Well, if nothing else, Kushina would certainly have that in common with her son.
With Naruto up in his room, Akari let Minato and Kushina into the house through the back door.
The pair had come around to the back window so Naruto wouldn't know someone had arrived, meaning he had no idea who was waiting in the living room. "So, you sure about this?" Minato asked. Of course, Naruto had already met Kushina so she seeing him wouldn't be as major, but letting your adoptive son know that both his parents were now alive, as well as the fact that one of them was known as the Yondaime Hokage...that would certainly put an interesting twist on the encounter.
"Ehh, why not?" Clearing her throat, Akari yelled up to Naruto from the base of the stairs. "Hey Cub, can you come down here? I've got a surprise for you~!" She waited a few moments, hearing him open his door and walk along the hallway, leaning around the corner to look downstairs. His eyes saw Kushina and widened.
"K-Kaa-san?" Then he hurried down the stairs and saw Minato. "Y-Yondaime-sama?!" Akari looked to him for an explanation, one she was happy to provide.
"Well cub, I uhh...got a new ability, one that let me bring Kushina back for you. So then...I decided to just bring them both back...happy birthday!" Naruto just stared at her for a few moments before launching himself at her, his arm wrapping around her neck for the second time that day. Smiling, She hugged him, waving Kushina and Minato forwards.
The red-headed Uzumaki needed no more coaxing, wrapping her arms around the both of them. Minato just looked a bit sheepish, rubbing his neck, until Kushina reached one arm back, snatched his Haori by the collar and dragged him into the hug as well, the man adopting a content smile as he hugged them all. Akari was the first to break the hug, lifting Naruto up, turning him around, and promptly planting him into Kushina's waiting arms, grinning when she practically smothered the life out of her son. "So, what do you want to wager that he still refuses to call me anything but Kaa-san?" She whispered at Minato.
The man shook his head. "That's a fools bet, you'd be better off asking Tsunade. Speaking of whom, I believe I have an appointment with a certain Sannin about what the duties of a Godfather entail." Akari winced, not wanting to know exactly how hard Minato was going to kick Jiraiya's ass for not helping Akari to look after Naruto. Sure, he grew up just fine with plenty of love, but he trusted the man to at least make a damn effort, Akari not hiding how Jiraiya acted when she and Minato chatted during her training to use the Hiraishin.
"Hey, as long as you give me a front-row seat to Hiruzen's reaction when you appear in front of him, you could do whatever you wanted."
I've decided that in my AN's I'm going to do recommendations for Fanfictions I enjoy, since people seemed to appreciate the recommendation I gave for The Clockwork Empress.
This isn't a guaranteed 'Every chapter will have a recommendation', since after all, there are only so many fanfictions I've read.
This Chapter's recommendation is Moratorium, a Harry Potter Fanfiction about a Female Harry Potter who embraces the morally-grey side of Wizardkind, makes frie-'Alliances!' along the way, and it all around is an amazing read. Plus every time I read it I tear up knowing what happens. But my favourite Chapter is Number 4, what Harry and her date get up to during the Yule Ball just...it's so perfect for what I'd expect her to do!
Hope you enjoyed!
Name: Akari Uchiha
Level: 149
Age: 17?
Experience: 83,888/149,000
To Next Level: 65,112
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: 303,000 - ((100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 10) x 3
Regeneration Rate - 20,000/m - 333.33/s - (Vit x End) x 2
Chakra Points: 599,625 - (((100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 10) x 1.5) x 3
Regeneration Rate - 26,450/m - 440.83/s - (Int x Wis) x 2
Strength - 100
Vitality - 100
Endurance - 100
Intelligence - 115
Agility - 400
Wisdom - 115
Luck - 100