Settling in
Robin looked back to Tsunade as everyone else stared at Jiraiya or Tenshi.
"Hokage-sama, perhaps I should explain things. We are the Uzumaki Branch Family. Toshiko-sama, a power meiko, had the power to see the future. She used this power to help plan for this event. I am Uzumaki Robin. My duty is to guard the Setsuko you see right now." Robin glanced at Setsuko to make sure that the clay doll did not seem bothered. "Perhaps it is best if I give you this. Toshiko-sama wrote this for you before she died." Robin held out a scroll. Yoko stared at her in surprise in confusion.
"Robin?" Robin didn't glance at her as she explained.
"Toshiko-sama knew that I would be the one to carry it. I would guard it with everything I had. It was the best choice." Robin moved over to Setsuko. "We will be walking around this village. It is best I know it before I go home." She led the clay doll away. At the door, Robin turned back to the others. ". . . I would . . . like to become a genin once things have settled." Robin left with Setsuko. Yoko turned back to Tsunade as the Hokage read the scroll. Tenshi glared at Jiraiya.
"What, you're the one dressed like a woman." Tenshi turned away with her nose in the air.
"I may have the body of a man, but I have the soul of a woman!!!" Yoko sighed and nodded.
"Hai, it's true." Ino turned to her with wide eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm a meiko, it's my job to know these things."
"Robin." The girl turned to Setsuko.
"Hai?"
"Why do you want to be a genin?" Robin smiled gently at her.
"Because I am a ninja. I was taught to be one. It is true that I might not have the same teachings as others, but I fight as a ninja. Now, I wish to fight under the leaf. As other Uzumaki shinobi have in the past. I want to stand with them."
"Is . . . . is that your goal?" Robin shook her head.
"Iie, I . . . my goal in life . . . is to find a way to protect all those precious to me. I don't want them to be hurt or sad ever."
"Why?"
"Because that would make me sad." Robin beamed.
"I see." Before anymore words could be spoken, a ball flew towards Setsuko. Robin slashed the ball in half with a blade and moved into a fighting stance. The children, who had accidentally kicked it in their direction, were in shock from what just happened. A boy with a blue scarf and goggles on his head had a huge grin.
"WOW!!! Cool move! Can you show me it?!" Robin, sensing no danger, returned her blades back into her boots.
"Who are you?" She asked in a distant tone. She wasn't looking at the boy, she was looking at the man behind him.
"You are a ninja? What are you doing in-Setsuko?!" Iruka yelled in shock. Setsuko shook her head.
"Iie. I contain her soul but I am not her." Robin stood in front of Setsuko and glare.
"Tell me, you let these children play so wildly?"
"Listen, I'm their teacher and they had recess! Now, show me your passports and why you are here." Robin looked at Iruka for a moment before sighing and shaking her head.
"I have no passport. I have lived away from the world too long to know that it was required. Perhaps I should speak to Naruto-sama about this." She muttered the last part to herself but Iruka caught it.
"You know Naruto? How?" Robin looked up at him surprised and blinked.
"Eh? Oh, Naruto? He is a member of the Uzumaki Head Family. I am of the Branch. I don't know exactly how we are related, but I think we're cousins twice removed." Robin turned her attention to the three children staring up at her with stars.
"You know boss?! Wow!!! And you're fast and cool ninja! You've got to teach us something!!!!" The little girl yelled. Robin blinked and then realized that other kids were drifting towards them.
"Eh . . . I . . . I must attend to my-" She didn't get a chance to finish. The kids all piled onto in excitement. Robin yelled out for help as she was buried under the kids.
". . . I believe this is the first encounter with young children Robin has ever truly had." Setsuko remained distant as she voiced her thoughts.
Kakashi waited silently as Tsunade finished reading the scroll.
"Kakashi," Her voice startled a few and drew attention away from Tenshi. "Uzumaki Toshiko has written that you would know about Bensha. She told you?" Kakashi nodded. Everyone wanted to know.
"From what I was told, Bensha has been around for a long time. Toshiko-san told me about everything we will need to know."
"Please, tell us." Tsunade asked quietly and Kakashi nodded.
"Hai. I should start with Bensha and her connection with the wind. Apparently, in the beginning of time, the wind developed its own mind. Toshiko-san didn't say how though. From what she said, the wind wanted to experience the world more than it could already. So it broke off a piece of its mind and slowly pushed energy into it, causing a creature to be born. That was Bensha. Bensha was a name given to it because it could hear the wind. It was believed that the wind knew everything and when Bensha used its connection to the wind to its fullest, Bensha could even see into the future. Since Bensha was from the wind itself, it knew many powerful secrets and learned and harnessed many different powers. It was considered to be one of the most powerful demons around. But then, for some strange reason, Bensha disappeared. Even Toshiko-san didn't know what happened. Toshiko-san also told me about why Aka Yuki attacked Setsuko's birthplace and what has happened. Apparently, Aka Yuki was the Uindo Bensha for many reasons. It seems that over the centuries the Uindo Bensha had slowly started to become smaller and more human like. They bowed down to the wind no matter what the wind asked. In this sense, the Uindo Bensha became a insult. They were weak willed and never seemed to live long. Aka Yuki was abandoned in the forest and found by the Wolf God. She was raised by the wolf and taught some of its techniques, such as Setsuko's ability to use her blood as a weapon. The wind then told Aka Yuki to go to where Setsuko would be born. It seemed that the wind wanted someone who wouldn't bow down to it. Who would not follow it blindly. It chose Setsuko because she was about to born and she was Uzumaki. The highest form of the Uzumaki blood-limit allows them to have the ability to absorb and adjust to any chakra inside of them. Demons . . . don't really have the kind of souls humans do. Their morals and wills are completely different. Demons seem to be power hungry and violent. The wind wanted someone who wouldn't bow down to it. Who wouldn't even know about it till a later time. So it chose to have the Uindo Bensha become human. It wanted someone with the human resentfulness of giving up. When Setsuko was given the cursed seal, her body was, in a sense, killing itself. It was a chain reaction of her demonic healing abilities. The only way the seal would leave was if she was dead. But, it seems like the wind could not get another suitable human host for awhile and brought out Bensha. Bensha took over her body as a way to preserve Setsuko's body."
"But . . . I thought Bensha was dead . . ." Sakura trailed off, slightly confused. Kakashi shook his head.
"That's the weird part. Toshiko-san said that Bensha never really died. Only sealed itself inside of its powers to wait until it would return. It seems that this resurrection was premature."
Bensha pressed her hand against her shoulder as she thought things over. The wind had said yes to the old woman. The wind said no to the masked man. The wind said no to the people with the masked man. It made not sense. Why did it plan for things this way? Shouldn't she, Bensha, know such things? Was she not the demon who once ruled the world with an iron clad fist? Was she not a demon who was once feared by every demon and human alike? Yet she was not allowed to know her parent's reasons? She was not allowed to know her own reasons? This made no sense. She was standing on top of a huge tree in a vast forest that went as far as the eye could see. A grim look passed over her face as she knew the words Kakashi was speaking. She knew what he would say next. She opened her mouth and began to recite most of the words with him over the long distance.
"Three hundred and twenty thousand years ago, I sank into the darkness. My spirit burst forth into the wind. My power resides within the depths of my successors. I wait for the moment I can wake with new life. I wait for the wind to whisper my time. My rest has been disturbed too soon. Now I hunt the one who thought they could summon Bensha."