Hello and welcome back been an exciting week? Hope so anyways this chapter will be about mostly Naruto next will be about mostly Hideka then Yakumo and unless it's a ninja mission with them working together or with other ninja it is about mostly them. Besides the villain I guess then it is setting the storyline.

Part 3 Naruto Uzumaki

He wasn't expecting old Gengetsu to offer to buy his lunch or join him today for it. But would he complain? No way Genjetsu is the best Hokage or so naruto believed. As he finished the broth of the ramen he placed the bowl down and thanked both Teuchi as much as he did Gengetsu.

"So old clam are you going anywhere?"

"No I was going to walk her to her home and then return to work, can only waste time so long before it bites you in the ass besides I need to figure out who is gonna train dear Yakumo, hey my boy will you walk her home unless you pair wish to spend more time together."

Naruto shrugged his shoulders and rested his head on his crossed arms behind him waiting for Yakumo to exit once she did Gengetsu followed and reminded him not to get the girl into trouble, before heading off toward the Hokage tower as naruto knew it was.

"Of course not, you know me did I ever get into trouble with Hideka?"

Gengetsu only said often. Yakumo giggles over naruto's confident statement only for the Hokage to lighten the subject the soon-to-be ninja was bragging over. Unknown to the blonde even though Iruka went over how to study the behaviour of even comrades, he couldn't tell she was taking notes more furiously than Sakura after she caught daydreaming about her precious Sasuke. "So," Yakumo said pausing to debate the questions on her tongue, after a moment she continues

"Why does Hideka have that name when most other Hozuki have names around water, her name means to fly high"

"Haven't she told you? Not all Her great-grandfather was named Naru Hozuki her grandfather's name Gengetsu means illusionary moon and suigetsu means well I think something along the line of moon reflection which has to do with water I guess but Mangetsu means full moon so flying high is a good name for her I can't think of another one" Naruto said just as he yawned, pranking in the night causing him to lose sleep.

"And yours means fish cakes" she teased with her tone

"And yours is a thick cloud and your as Pale one them too" naruto counters but Yakumo smiled at him which annoyed him a little more than people reminding him of his silly name. "Well naruto you said I am very pretty so you are attracted to thick clouds"

Naruto looked over to the opposite side of her himself and sighed then remarked that he just called her pale and pretty not very pretty. "Oh well some men use to and still do find pale women attractive I thought you were one of those weirdos"

"I think your style is pleasant..." naruto now had pink cheeks he gave another look at the purple Chinese dress and the green shirt that poked out from underneath the dress.

"Style? Oh, naruto..." she blushed something that almost reminds him of meeting the Hyuga clan heiress besides the fact at Yakumo could talk. "My clothing you mean? I didn't take an eight-year-old academy student known for his orange clothes for being a fashionista" she teased which made naruto redden deeper.

"I like purple... it's a nice colour and I'm seven" He told her and Yakumo agreed then smile at him but correct herself from taking a step a little closer to him

'Why doesn't feel my body wants to get closer to him? Must be my imagination' She thought taking a step to distance herself from the blonde.

They made small talk as they made their way through the massive village if they haven't lived in it their whole lives easily they could have gotten lost.

"So need a training partner?" Naruto asked

'She probably says no' he was thinking while she thought up her answer.

"I can't keep up with you physically but I bet I'm better at this than shuriken jutsu than you are" Yakumo bet him. Pulling a shuriken out of a pouch on her backs right side

Hiruzen sat in his office inside a undisclosed location, overlooking the children conversation his chin resting on the knuckles of his hand's elbows on top of the desk. 'I see gengetsu so is this your plan? The jinchurki and the Kurama Id prodigy... strange plan my old friend' the Sarutobi ponder.

"so you been watching them? Remember times with biwako when we were all young juvenile ninjas with the world to take on"

Hiruzen looked up to gengetsu then smiled and nodded "thought you get here sooner" he said

"Black cats were everywhere" the kage joked

"Taking after Kakashi? Or Obito?" Hiruzen asked

The Hokage shook his head as he pulled up a chair to the desk. " that's not the direction of the Kurama clan compound? What are they up to now Saru?"

"Weapon training to test their skills against each other"

"So do you know? About the girl and her father audience with myself?"

Hiruzen shook his head "but I can guess... I'll bet her father asked for her to be let back to the ninja academy?"

Gengetsu took out a fairly wide sack for how small it was took out a little bit of weed and put it on the table then return his sack to his left robe sleeve. "Well kinda but not completely true, a private jonin instructor, who I don't know for sure, can only name one person who could do the job. "

"Asuma girlfriend, Kurenai Yuhi?" Hiruzen guessed in the form of a question.

Gengetsu pointed to the pipe as he broke the flower with the other hand. Sarutobi nodded, "well yeah who else could teach a genjutsu prodigy than a prodigy herself... she invented her seventh illusionary technique"

"Hm... wasn't it something about snow? And is Yakumo a prodigy?"

Gengetsu nodded as he placed the wood pipe tip in his mouth and lit it with a match

"Will he allow her to help Yakumo successfully reach her potential? He's one to have a slippery-sliver tongue when it suits his goal he owns the tree leaf honoured opinion watch... If I knew Minato's plans I would have the offer to take his stead that way he could deal with Danzo's consistent power plays, no doubt he had a hand in Lady Ida's disappearance the Ostuka clan was growing too close to the next in line of shinobi council when the next seat is freed. I bet another girl is in the ROOTS reprogramming training. Why have two Anbu-level forces yet not been allowed to monitor each other? I'm sure Danzo hasn't been following those rules like the Anbu has lord Hokage"

"What do you mean to tell me?"

"We have reason to believe Danzo has been stoking the unrest among the Uchiha clan along with other clans who he, dealt with to protect his clan position in Konoha children given less attention from the teachers we suspect are compromised by Danzo roots agents to follow orders from the elder. Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki Poemu Namba the list goes on."

Gengetsu Purposively coughed and blew out some smoke and empty the ash from the pipe before it returned.

"Can you prove it? Bring me a root member for questioning one of Danzo's top agents and most trusted"

Hiruzen had picked up the pipe and was packing tobacco into the blow end. "No from my understanding, they have seals for such an occasion. Why he wants the Uchiha to feel so oppressed I don't know, perhaps use the chaos it could cause to lunch his coup."

Genjetsu watch the kids practice their Basic shuriken jutsu and noticed which training ground they were in from his spar long ago with Kagami Uchiha. More importantly than children training in somewhat abandoned training grounds.

"I meet with Fugaku, he's worried they'll demand action for the perceived slights like the creation of the modern Uchiha district on the outskirts of the village... I feel for the man just..."

"Those eyes were sharingans not the eyes of a fox" Hiruzen finished the sentence.

Genjetsu nodded "we still have no idea why"

"Only a few Uchiha are missing in action or rouge the Anbu makes sure of that, Obito is such a ninja through if we believe in the story reported by Kakashi Hakate and Rin Nohara we can believe he's dead," sarutobi said

Gengetsu looked out the window and asked "then why hasn't anyone from iwa come forth with a Sharingan?"

Hiruzen offered the idea that when the rest of the cave came down that his eye was crushed and useless. "But why was nobody left behind?" asked gengetsu, hiruzen asked if he should start searching again but the Hokage dismissed it as a waste of manpower.

Then both men looked quickly at the Crystal ball seeing another person has entered the training grounds.

Naruto couldn't believe it Yakumo's tip wasn't just improving his aim it made it near perfect. He wanted to meet her father to gather new tips to help him be a better academy student than his adoptive mother mito would get off his back about the pranks.

He watched Yakumo aim three shurikens in her hand holding them just as Murakumo instructed her not long after being kicked out of the academy. Then just as she instructed him arm at a 90-degree angle and then she threw it horizontally once then vertically once throwing one then two shurikens. Each of them hit a target near the centre.

"No bad for a pair of academy no students the girl must practice a lot or have lots of talent," said a friendly-sounding secondary girl's voice.

A five foot four inches kunoichi who wore a purple long sleeve high collar. She has a pretty symmetrical face beside the mole under her right eye. The genin walked over to them with a friendly face, "allow me to show you how to hit each target" She said

On the ground and nails to tree trunks were ten targets she then jumped up into the air spinning in the air as kunai knives flew from the spinning airborne genin hitting eight of the ten targets dead, each target had a kunai inside the circles around the bullseye. The genin landed on her feet and right hand in a crouching position.

"No way she was so close" naruto said a look at the impressive results showed how he felt about the genin's performance.

Yakumo's face showed less emotion but her slight grin said she was also impressed.

The genin counted her marks and sighed in disbelief then acceptance

"Oh, crap... well when Itachi show me that trick two months ago and I come out here to practice it since so few Uchiha walk this far to use this place... so I guess introductions are in order since I showed my ninja prowess. I'm Izumi Uchiha and you two are?"

"Yakumo Kurama, Naruto Uzumaki," they said mere fractions of a second apart. Izumi looked between the young kids and then asked how close they were to graduation from the ninja academy. Yakumo was miles behind naruto in cockiness when she said "only a few years" the blond said the next's exam. Izumi chuckled guessing that he was probably lying few students had graduated so young and even she graduated early, But when she saw the look on his face she apologized to him that she laughed "hey I'm off around four so meet me here at five and I'll help you graduate early" naruto eyes widen big with excitement then Izumi turned to Yakumo "how about you? How is your academy career going Yakumo?"

The Kurama clan heiress explains how she got kicked out and how she was given a jonin sensei by the Hokage to oversee her training. "Then how about I help you with taijutsu I'm gifted in physical fighting and Strength is built not something born with as Aoi sensei said, and he said I could have been chunnin this year if we made it past the first test... but hey I'm sure ibiki is tough as he's scary."

The idea that this genin who was supposedly so good she could be chunin now was impressive to them and they felt lucky that she was willing to help them.

The three of them trained into the start night, Yakumo had spent every day pushing past every barrier her body put up in her way and Izumi showed her how far she needed to go to even be a Capable genin.

Izumi sat down next to her and watch Naruto practice throwing four shurikens at once he, of course, missed one and collects them to attempt it again.

"Your tough for someone who describes herself as weak, thought you would take more breaks than you did"

Yakumo smiled brightly for a second then said she had a long way to go before she was at Izumi level. The Uchiha giggled "you sound like me when I speak about Itachi, he's who I base my skill on to compare with you know"

She complimented Izumi's skills and the Uchiha thanked her and then asked "so how long have you known naruto?"

"Of him or know him... He's living with the sarutobi clan and they live not too far from the Kurama clan... But I only met him in person today"

"So your not into him? Good romance only distract a Kunoichi" yakumo blushed and looked off to the entrance of the training ground, "yeah I know the twenty fourth rule of conduct for shinobi's, ever think it's sexist singling out kunoichi like a male ninja won't fall in love"

Izumi giggled "it's the way of life but we're lucky, we live in a meritocracy so we can over come our disadvantage through our actions... but we have great risk to calculate or your hero status will disappear over night like Sakumo Hakate"

"How close are you to your benchmark of strength?"

Izumi pouted her lips and closed her eyes. "Well I wouldn't call itachi a benchmark but I say I got a way to go yet to be caught up with him, he's an elite jonin now and we're only 13... but one day i will stand side by side with him as his equal."

Naruto managed to hit each target with his three shuriken "yes one step closer to being hokage" then three more shuriken hit the unused targets and Izumi said three more should be easy now, "hey naruto why do you want to be hokage?" Yakumo asked

Naruto said walking over to the targets "so everyone can respect me and accept me"

Yakumo felt a strong connection there and then 'just like myself, beside the desire for a certain political office'

Izumi stood up and said she was going to head home she had missions to do tomorrow. "Don't stay out too late you two" she said walking down the pathway to and from the training ground.

When naruto turned around to find the Kurama heiress standing where he was a few moments ago.

"I want to try you hit four I'll hit five, and stop just for you" she said, when he got next to her he handed her the weapons.

She took aim under the silent moonlight. A bats flew underneath the celestial body light casting moving shadows across the ground, she focuses her mind on her task. Jump five feet into the air and threw them at the targets. One, two, three, four, five. The six one was still in her left hand.

"Think I can make it six bullseyes in a row?"

Naruto looked down to the target while yakumo grinned proudly over her skillful showing of abilities. "You miss a bullseye there" yakumo looked down to where he was pointing and then threw the shuriken hitting the target clearly missing the bullseye still.

He walked her home an hour later losing by twenty more hits to his twenty seven hits with shuriken at the same distance.

It's obvious to Naruto, physically he could over power her easily but if they were a fight at a distance she'll eat him alive. Setting in motion the plans to improve his accuracy to pass her. With practice.

'I decided I'm going to make her my rival til I'm at her level with the shuriken training then my main rival will be sasuke and I swear I'm going to be the best hokage' the blond was in so much thought that he didn't even notice the tension in the air around the Sarutobi compound, once he did it was cause he saw the look on Mito Sarutobi face, sweet gods above why did he stay out so long?

"So, naruto where have you been? Do you know what time it is? Didn't you think at all about how I feel you being gone since lunch no word?" Mito asked, taking two steps for every step the uzumaki took backwards. He knew it was scary when she was so mad she became claim and calculating like an experienced Anbu agent would be.

Yakumo turn the water on then Proceeded to get ready for a shower, something about bathing in her own home was special in her heart. As much as a lack of friends hurt her she imagined she'd feel worse without alone time like a hot shower of relaxation.

As the water washed over her hair and down her skin she thought how this day has gone far better than she expected. As She reposed Izumi words came into her mind, it was true they live in a meritocracy but because of that she been bullied, looked down on insulted all before she was eight, and still even after all that struggle no one outside her clan before today acknowledges her hard work and determination.

It boiled her blood like a kettle in her arteries. It upset her so much she did the one thing she couldn't do outside the shower curtain, cry. The water blended her tears of frustration and self loathing of her weak body into the hot water that soothed the aching mussels that told her she pushed to hard today. After a few minutes of letting out her tears she stopped and sat down in the tub. She wasn't in tears anymore all of it was released from her system she meditated for ten minutes regaining full composure before turning the water nobs both to the left.

She walked to her room wrapped in a towel around her body another drying her hair. She entered her room and went about the business that comes after a shower. Then she brushed her hair and felt a little sad again that she couldn't Paint today it's was to late that upset her but it was liveable. As she put all of her hair into braids to sleep in she kept thinking about naruto, his kindness his rudeness and lack of care about what clan heads think yet still wanted to be a respected Hokage. When she looked into the mirror she saw she was grinning was it cause she found it funny? No she not cruel so did she believe in him?

It was so much simpler to sneak out and in the Sarutobi compound than it was to just walk inside. Now he had to watch konohamaru tommorow and that means he'll have to bring him to train with yakumo if Mito doesn't let him go off, they made plans to meet again competing with her filled his arms and legs with fresh blood. The reason why was unclear to the boy, 'probably cause she so skilled even though she calls herself weak, or maybe cause she was nice and didn't think of me as a monster, or just cause gengetsu introduced her to me and the trust I put in him carried itself over to her? No why would that make me feel that way this night?' Naruto had an hard time sleeping as it kept rattling his brain.

The alarm been sounding off it's was morning when naruto just got his fifth hour of sleep. He rolled over and hit the snooze button, yet it seemed not to work cause before he knows it been twenty minutes and the alarm been ringing for five minutes. "Dammit" he mumbles as he presses the off button resettling the alarm for 8am the next day.

He came into the dining room just as Asuma was making his way out of it. "Hey naruto" the chain smoker said walking past him who greeted the elite jonin.

Konohamaru looked as though he was very excited about today. 'That's probably cause mother told him about my punishment, I wonder if she got a punishment from her father? Probably if she said she was training with me' the uzumaki was thinking as he sat down and Mito brought over some rice and fish, he enjoyed her cooking as much as her tips to be a better Shinobi even if she didn't mean prank everyone who is anyone in the village that dislikes him.

"Remember naruto I'm trusting you with konohamaru basic training for today til ebisu is back from his mission"

Naruto nodded as he had food in his mouth and she taught him well enough to not talk with a full mouth.

"Yakumo... Today's the next day of our plans... But be careful plots involve around you like you are the eye of a political Hurricane"

Yakumo realized she was dreaming long ago, she had that unique skill of lucid dreams. "Tell me more"

"The time isn't right for such knowledge but trust no one til you have the full picture... no one yakumo, only yourselves"

The clan heiress stood firm and demand to be told all.

"I can feel the plotting at all I know yakumo, hmm you surprised me a little today, I thought you were scared of me but now your standing ground, your growing up yakumo be proud of yourself"

Her eyes began to creaking in light, she knew it was early still the sun was at her ceiling. So she rolls into her covers she didn't need to get up early today, she yet to even be notified about her sensei. Pressing her face into the blanket she tried to sleep but the Id wanted her awake.

After fifteen minutes she got out of bed and started her morning routine eating dressed in yesterday's clothes to train lightly with basic exercise. Then she showers and dresses in a fresh clean clothes.

After that it chakra exercise, the only proven way to increase one's owns chakra reserves. After an hour or two of sticking and moving leaf's over her body with chakra she felt exhausted physically and in her energy. Grabbing a glass of water she wondered where her parents where til she found a note detailing her mother's mission and her father... a knock came from the door. Well she figure her father had his Shinobi council today as she opened the door.

"Wow she way to pretty for you big brother naruto" konohamaru said before a gentle reminder slap to the back of his head came from the blonde standing next to him causing the little brother to come to an silent understanding of what's wanted of him. "Hey yakumo I know I was going to come over and help you train but mom made me take care of konohamaru so I guess we'll all be training together if your welcoming to it" The blonde said with a wide foxy grin which in turn made her smile slightly wider.

"Of course naruto your brother is very much welcome, shall I get the help to get you tea or food my family chef is preparing curry rice for lunch if you plan to train here long"

7 am

Kurenai Yuhi kneeled before her near life long Kage. She waited for him to speak on what brings her before him, which took little time to come into fruition.

"Thank you for meeting me, Kurenai," Gengetsu said as the kunoichi raised her head and remained as silent as the dead shinobi she killed during the Third War. Gengetsu horizontally threw a file before her feet.

"I'm tasking you with an A-rank mission. Mold Yakumo Kurama into a kunoichi to rival even yourself... Everything you need to understand her is within that file: birth records and up-to-date medical history; her monthly academy reports; and notes taken by ANBU Black Ops about her leaving the academy and her private training with her clan. She can no longer sustain her growth with them and I entrust her growth to you. Understand this mission isn't like others. Making an elite jonin out of young Yakumo is the goal, but should you make the judgement call that her bloodline trait is too dangerous for herself and/or the village, you can seal her genjutsu away."

Kurenai nodded "I accept the mission lord Hokage, if that is all I'll take my leave lord hokage." With her left hand she swiped the file off the floor. Turned around and began her leave when Gengetsu spoke once more.

"I'll leave this with you, she cried on the floor when she thought I wasn't going to allow her to be trained by a jonin. Which means of course this ninja life is important to her... taking that away will not be easy best not to attach yourself to her too quickly."

10 am

Naruto fist was caught but the wrist, then yakumo landed a kick that made the uzumaki question how weak she was to the back of his knee. The right knee buckles and he goes down for a second but the girl takes advantage of this. Yakumo lifted her left lag over and deliver a kick to the back of naruto head. He feels dizzy til he realizes he's on the ground and there a sharp pain in his arm which was grappled by his opponent.

" wow boss she's right she can get way uglier than she looks" konohamaru said not helping his adoptive elder brother in the slightest.

She set in an arm bar lock causing pain for his Shoulder as she place pressure with leverage.

"Give yet? Or are you not willing to pass up that 200 ryo?" She asked her tone meant to taunt the boy who was losing his own bet. Then he earned respect in her eyes forever he allowed her to dislocated his arm. The grunt he made was left inside her head from now on rent free. She let go and rolled backwards to her feet in a matter of a few seconds. Naruto wasted no time popping the shoulder back into place only to get a kick to the guts as a drop kick came in.

Now naruto has taken beating as training with his jiji wasn't easy as fighting a sixty plus year old man sounds but this?

This was being beaten by a girl who yesterday told him was bullied for her weakness, well training with her clan must have wash some of that way.

Naruto got up just a bit quicker than her and clocked her her guts the into the face and sweeps the legs out from her. Yakumo had a visibly scary side, she smiled taking a punch to the face even more so after a combo. Not that she lose her composure but the excitement of the fight brought a grin out of her. As if naruto had done something sweet for her.

He stayed out of every lock and hold she tried but barely her Cheek was bruised and blood was leaking out her mouth but still that girl grin, so much konohamaru started to feel frighten by her thinking something was wrong with her. Or that naruto had been lied to about her abilities. Though he could tell that she was slowing down if he could keep out of anything she threw at him he'll ware her down

Kurenai read through the file in her apartment after making cup of tencha.

For being eight she was well trained her father mad even sure take she had taijutsu to fall back on and Enshin Kaikan could be good she walked next door and knock on the entrance. Still reading the file til Guy answer the door.

She asked about the style of taijutsu and after guy explained she need to that she wasn't looking to add on to her own taijutsu and who the file belongs to. Guy and kurenai been long time friends so she let him in on the mission to which guy said she should bring the Kurama clan heiress to meet lee which kurenai was vaguely turning down as she used the excuse that she should drink her tea

A taijutsu art meant for joint locks pressure point attacks and redirecting the strength of one's opponent back upon themselves. Prefect for a ninja who lacks the body strength of her peers. She also had slowed down on how often she injured herself training, occasionally sprains torn muscles but it all seemed to encourage her to push past each barriers her body put up for her.

Kurenai felt confident that if she was pushed into a taijutsu battle she wasn't going to wither away under the pressure. The academy writing process shows she is exceptionally intelligent for a seven year old about to come up with plans even if her school teacher would tell her impossible to execute with at genin level.

Kurenai remember thinking beating the fourth hokage was something impossible but now in retrospect it was a white lie to make her feel good, that after the bloodiest war in shinobi history the leaf came out on top in every way.

Kurenai watched from a roof top as yakumo and naruto Where sparring the file Documented her newest friend ship along with the fact that they stayed out til midnight training together. The girl had her sparring partner in a textbook Guillotine lock, not an enshin kaiken lock but affective none the less. she brought him down to the ground and seemed to locked it in fully.

For being to weak for the academy naruto seemed to lack a ability to fight back effectively mostly cause he never seen a fighting style such as this before in academy taijutsu classes as enshin kaiken is beyond the basic taijutsu arts. She let go of him go after he got out by moving to her left (weaker) side and like check in shogi she release and moves her king.

Kurenai lack the hearing of kakashi but she knew they joked about the little one getting into the sparring ring with her as he yelled out he'll never fight her as long as he lives.

When they were called for lunch kurenai they went to the front door and knocked. It was answered by an old lady and the jonin explained what brought her there.

"Oh wonderful Yakumo was just training so go easy on her or she sleep before dinner all night long as she did as a younger child" Satomi said

Okay, that's where I'll leave you til next time thanks for reading leave a review and if you want to hurt my feelings hit me with your best shot. At least put as much time into this as it took to make you please other wise I might get bored... I kinda kid around if you enjoyed leave a review or what not I appreciate it deeply

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