Akane walks down to the center of the arena.

She stands face to face with the silver haired teen, who she had met during the written exam. Kabuto was one of the only genins who seemed too friendly during the written exam. He walks forward with a smirk across his face, he pushes his round glassed up his nose bridge.

Akane takes a deep breath, preparing herself. Her body aches from the events from the forest of death. Her body tell her to give up. It pleads for rest, but she knows she cannot. Akane quickly closes her eyes to use her eye's mind to check Kabuto's chakra. He's currently low on chakra.

The sickly looking jonin procter gives a dry cough "Are you both ready?" Both genins nod, the proctor lifted his arm upward "Then let the fight begin" his arm strikes down.

Akane swiftly draws her kunais out, in time to block the shurikens Kabuto threw. He charges forward, his hands glow a light green color, Akane dodges his attacks. She jumps backwards to gain distance, but was too slow. Kabuto's right palm slaps her on her left outer thigh. She stumbles and rolls back to where she tries get up on her feet. Her thigh aches in pain. She pushes herself up but does not notice Kabuto standing in front of her, she jumps to her left, but he smacks her on her left shoulder. She falls back and rolls herself far from him.

"Akane, get up!" Naruto shouts, gripping the metal rail.

"Kakashi sensei, What was that jutsu?" Sakura asks her sensei

"Its medical ninjutsu, though its meant to heal, it also can be used to cause damage to muscle, bone or even ones chakra network" Both genin stare at their sensei in shock.

Naruto turns back look at the arena. Akane lays on the ground trying to push herself up, Kabout seems to be entertained by her attempts "Come Akane! Don't give up!" He shouts.

Akane hears Naruto's shout. She wobbly pushes herself up. Kabuto slowly walks up to her with a smirk across his. "Your a tough one aren't you? Why don't we finish this?"

Kabuto pulla a kunai out and charges at her. Akane tries to dodge his attacks, she feels the sharp sting from the areas he managed to slash her.

Akane again uses her eye's mind to check his chakra level. His chakra lowering along with his stamina, but he was still able to move faster than her. Caught off guard slams his fist into her her rib cage. Akane falls back, a few feet from Kabuto. She grits her teeth, she moves her right hand to get her first aid kit, but she instead she get a hold of something else.

'These... these are the smoke bombs Naruto gave me. That's it.' Akane pushes herself up. She takes a slow deep breath before throwing the smoke bombs. A massive cloud of dark smoke fills the arena.

"Huh, so she's trying to sneak attack. Clever" Kabuto chuckles.

Akane uses her eye's-mind she sees the whole rooms chakra and right in the center is Kabuto 'found you' she pulls out a scroll as she charges forward.

Shikamaru leans against the metal railing and smirking at the scene "looks like Akane has been hanging out with Naruto a little too much" his comment on the red head causes Asuma to chuckle.

Kakashi leans on the wall 'Uzumakis, they're all the same whether they like it'

The smoke clears through. Akane breathes heavily, tightly holding onto a scroll. Kabuto was tied up with wired shuriken. The wire was wrapped tightly against his skin, drawing out blood.

"The winner is Uzumaki Akane!" The proctor proclaims

Akane falls onto her knees

Naruto jumps over the rail and meets with her in the middle. "I knew you wouldn't lose!'' Naruto helps her limp back to their team.

Upon arrival, Kakashi studies the girl up and down "Go to the medics" Akane protests, but Kakashi was prepared. He had two medics escort her to get treatment. arriving to the medical area, Akane was immediately hugged by Lady Kazumi.

"Lady Kazumi, please let go of me" Akane huffs as the woman crushes her with affection.

"I can't believe how strong you've grown to be" Lady Kazumi chuckles. She lets go of the girl and escorts her to an examination room. She immediately begins to heal her. Akane lays on her back, crying out in pain. "I know it hurts but please keep still" Lady Kazumi continues to heal Akane until she sees the bite marks on her wrist. "Akane, these look recent? How did you even get these?"

Akane grits her teeth "I got them during the Forest of Death. I got them when we fought against some sound shinobi. They started to heal in different times" Akane knew her lie was obvious, but hoped she Lady Kazumi wouldn't press the topic on. She couldn't help, but to hold her breath.

"Alright, just be careful. Bites from other humans can cause major infections to the point of amputation of a limb"

Akane nodded.

As Lady Kazumi finished healing, she notices Akane fell asleep. She smiles.


Two and a half days later Akane wakes up in the konoha's hospital with Kakashi in her room. Once she was discharged, Kakashi updates her on the chunin exams. Her opponent is a kunoichi from suna who, posses the kekkei genkai of scotch release. Kakashi also informs her on the instructor he assigned her, but wouldn't say who they were which is typical manner of his.

Both shinobi arrive at the training ground, which was the training area where they took the the bell test, Akane notices a a silver hair man standing alongside the three post, facing the hokage face mountain.

"Master Kaito" Kakashi cheerfully greets the man.

The man turns to face them "Kakashi" he walks forward to greet them "So, this little redhead I take is Lady Akane" he smirks

'Little redhead' Akane eyebrow twitches with annoyance.

Kakashi nods " Akane this is Master Kaito, he is specialist in kinjutsu and water release, he is going to be your instructor for the month you have to train"

Akane studies him. Master Kaito was rather tall and muscular compared to Kakashi, he had short messy silver hair with a strand of hair coming down to the right side of his face to his shoulder, tied together with three blue beads. He wore a simple navy blue short sleeve kimono shirt with mesh underneath along with matching pants, and a light blue obi holding his katana. The man seems familiar to Akane but she cannot recall ever meeting him.

She steps forward and bows "It will be a pleasure to be under your tutelage Master Kaito"

"My my Akamari sure has drilled manners in to your head"

Akane eyes widen, head snaps up.

He knew her mother.

"Well then, I guess I'll leave you both to train. Good luck" Kakashi poofed aways he always did

"Alright let's start training" Master Kaito said, smirking once again.


Akane knew training with Master Kaito would be difficult.

Hell the man himself teaches the ANBU kinjutsu, not just ordinary shinobi but the elite.

On the first day, after meeting him. Master Kaito, out of the blue, kicked her into the pond nearby and started to attack her with taijutsu. He had done this to force herself to learn how to walk on water while keeping up with him. Once balanced on the water's surface Master Kaito stopped attacking and moved on to teach her chakra nature.

He hands her a small square sheet of paper. He tells her to infuse her chakra into the paper to see her chakra nature. The paper began to become soggy. Her chakra nature was water, which wasn't a surprise to Master Kaito. And this was when the training became more difficult.

Akane stood in the middle of the pond, her task was to create waves in the water. The water's surface ripples as she infuses her water chakra. Sweat drenched her clothing, she makes more progress.

The following days Akane made a wave big enough to knock an opponent down. Master Kaito watches from afar. He knew she was a fast learner and with the large chakra reserves, she will be able to use multiple water jutsus.

Akane floats on the water's surface. Her muscles ache from the large amounts of chakra use.

the exams would be in one weeks.

She watches the clouds drift away from the blue sky. Master Kaito walks over to her, he gazes down at her.

"You should take a break, lady Akane"

Akane frowns.

"I don't need a break and stop calling me 'lady'." Akane grunts . "I'm not a lady".

Master Kaito snorts.

Akane pushes herself up onto the water surface and stands up straight.

"Well, you are from a noble clan. And if I remember correctly, the term 'lady' is used for women of a noble clan. You're already a genin and soon to be chunin. It's time for you to take responsibility for your clan."

Akane looks up at the sky. There are birds flying above them. Singing, soaring through the sky.

"I understand that you're young, but you have a duty to fulfil."

'A duty'. Akane hadn't put much thought in becoming the head of her clan, a clan almost extinct. She barely knows anything about the clan except for its downfall. She just wants to be a kunoichi just like her mother. Did her mother go through similar thoughts as her?

"Lady Akane, you know your sulking"

Akane stares at him with annoyance.

Master Kaito chuckles "On the topic of Uzumakis, you should visit your teammate. The weird blond one. He's in the hospital. From what I can tell it's from chakra exhaustion"

Akane frowns 'Of course he did'.

"Let's call it a day. Tomorrow we can train on your sensory technique"


Akane heads home to change out of her wet clothing. She showers and changes into a purple hoodie along with white shorts and fishnet stockings underneath.

She walks down the crowded road. The chunin exams have brought many vendors from outside the village. Looking around the surrounding, Akane finds Sakura standing in front of the Yamanaka Flower shop. Akane narrows her eyes, she hopes that Sakura doesn't notice her. Sakura was and still is a fangirl, but she knows that Sakura has changed since the Land of Waves mission and the Forest of Death. She has grown stronger and has become more didn't see herself becoming friends with the pink haired girl.

"Akane!"

Akane eyes widen. "Good afternoon, Sakura" she bows.

"Akane, where are you heading to?" Sakura smiles

"I'm heading to the hospital. I'm going to visit Naruto"

"Really, Ino and I were about to head there. We should go together" Sakura smiles again

Akane nods

"Hey, Sakura, I'm ready" Ino runs out of the flower shop with a bouquet of flowers. She sees Sakura and the redhead. " Akane?"

"Good afternoon, Ino" Akane bows

"She's coming with us to visit Naruto and the others" Sakura answer

"Oh, okay" Ino smiles "Sorry, it's that you don't really hang with anyone. Well except for Naruto"

"It's understandable"

"Alright then let's get going!"


Naruto lays flat in a deep sleep on top the white hospital bed. Warm rays of the sun shines onto his face from the nearby window.

The window clicks open, the pale blue curtains dance to the sudden breeze.

A figure in a dark cloak with red pattern quietly creeps over the unconscious blond as to not wake him.

"Naruto, you've grown so much." Slender hands caress over the boys wisker cheeks "Hopefully Jiraiya will help you get stronger" The figure leans over and gently places a kiss on Naruto's forehead

"There is a group of shino-"

"Naruto?" Akane walks in the room. She finds Naruto lying asleep on the bed. She sees the curtains whipping through the air. 'Damn wind' Akane closes the windows. She hears footsteps coming from a distance.

"Akane?"

Akane turns around to find Shikamaru standing in the doorway.

"Shikamaru, you came to visit Naruto?"

"Well, more like told. Asuma-sensei told me to visit." Shikamaru sighs "What a drag." Shikamaru takes a seat on the chair right next to Naruto's bed " Man, I don't know what this idiot was thinking. We have one weeks until the final exams, but I could care less."

Akane eyebrow twitches. If Shikamaru wasn't so lazy, he would have ranked top of their class. He also was one of the very few who didn't ignore or treat Naruto poorly during the academy.

Shikamaru leans back into the chair making himself comfortable "So, I heard you're training with Master Kaito"

"Yes, I am. How do you know?" Akane looks at the lazy Nara wondering how he will respond

"Well, I heard my dad talk about it" He shrugs "So, how wasit"

'Of course, both Master Kaito and Shikamaru's father work directly for the Hokage' Akane open her mouth say something, but instead sneezes. 'I better not have catch a cold' Shikamaru pass her the box of tissue from the small table next to him."At first it was intense, but it is much harder than the training I do with Kakashi."

"Yeah I bet, I heard your against the kunoichi from suna, the one who has the scorch release, had any thoughts of how to fight her-"

"Shikamaru?" the two genins turn to the bed. Naruto has finally woke up. The blond snaps back up. "How long have I been in here for!? He shouts, pushing the covers of of his body.

"Hey, relax. You've only been in here for a week and a half" Shikamaru grunts

"Yeah, but when are the final exams start!?"

"The final exam start one week from now" Akane sighs, does he always have to over react?

The blond pauses for a moment "Oh, okay" he chirps

Akane and Shikamaru heavy sigh.

The genins stay and talk in Naruto's room until the nurse came to check up on him, which didn't take long. The nurse left the room to start the discharge paper. Akane dismissed herself from the boys. While the walking down the hall she met up with Ino and Sakura.

"Hey, Akane" Sakura smiles "Lee and Hinata are still hospitalised. We were thinking about bring them food, but Ino and I suck at cooking. I was wondering, since I heard Naruto said you are good at cooking… could you help us?" both Sakura and Ino gave the redhead a pleading look.

Lee and Hinata, both genin badly injured. Hinata Hyuga is very shy, she wasn't the strongest of their class, but she had potential. She was While she barely knew lee, he fought against the sand

Akane agrees, both girls cheer.


Akane wakes to the warm rays of sunlight beaming onto her face. It's today, The Chunin exam finals. She pulls her blanket over her head giving herself five more minutes of rest. in the bed sits up, stretching her arms upward. She gets out of bed and quickly makes it. She then walks to the kitchen and prepares her breakfast.

"Itadakimasu" Akane eats her fish and rice. After eating, she continues her usual routine.

Akane opens her closet, pulling out her clothing. It was a new outfit similar to the one she wore before. It was a lilac sleeved kimono blouse with violet trim. She wears it similar to the one she wore before, fishnet shirt and stocking, navy blue obi and spandex. Akane then ties bandages on her left wrist, hiding the bite marks.

Before she leaves she knees now in front of her parents photo. 'Wish me luck' with that Akane leaves her home


Author's Note:

If you want to see our little redhead then head to my tumblr. I drew a drawing of her and I will also upload the drawings of other Original Characters as well.