(Konoha, Training ground 7)
"Sooo how come you're our jounin sensei?" Naruto asked.
Team 7 was now on the training ground. While they mostly trained in the Uchiha District or in the Forest of Death. From time to time, Mikoto would bring them here to train.
"Because years ago I forced the hokage to make me your instructor. He owed me and still does after all the fuck ups he's had that caused trouble for us. This is why I didn't have to worry about the civilian council when it came to adopting you and Sakura. Well more so you since I doubt they would have cared much about Sakura since they don't know of her bloodline. Still to this day the only one who knows of it is the hokage. He doesn't know much about it though." Mikoto answered.
"So is this how you were so sure we would be on the same team?" Sakura questioned.
"Yep."
"What made you come out of retirement?" Sasuke asked her."
"I don't trust anyone to protect you guys other than myself. Don't get me wrong, you three are way stronger than I originally anticipated on you being. And I know you can protect yourselves. But if shit goes wrong I know for a fact nobody but Kakashi is strong enough to face off S-ranked level threats. Asuma is strong but not S-class material. While Kakashi is ranked as a A-rank. He's actually borderline S-ranked. His problem is that he runs out of chakra quickly if he has to use his sharingan. It makes sense since he doesn't have any Uchiha blood in his veins. But it's still an inconvenience. Plus I knew from our first training sessions that if there was anybody who was going to help guide you through this world. Definitely was going to be me. Now if Jiraiya or Tsunade were around and wanted to be sensei's. I would have had no problem leaving you three with them. Even if Jiraiya is a major pervert." Mikoto replied.
Her answers satisfied her team. "Alright so are you going to make us do that test jounins give out that you told us about?" Naruto said.
Mikoto snorted. "Heavens no, you three understand the concept of teamwork just fine. I know your teamwork is impeccable. That's why I'm not going to waste our time with d-ranks. Starting tomorrow I'll take you guys on your first C-rank mission."
Her kids looked at her with shocked expressions. "Seriously?!" They all said at the same time.
"Yes my dear children seriously." Mikoto smiled. "It would be disrespectful of me to make you go through d-ranks when I already made you go to the academy all 4 years. But all the training was worth it in the end right?"
She received three nods of confirmation.
"Alright team for now I guess we'll go over team formations. If you guys want we could spar. Then I'll treat you guys for becoming genin." Mikoto informed them.
So that's what they did for the next few hours. Later on Mikoto went to inform the hokage that her team passed. When she arrived, some of the other instructors were in the room. After hearing about who passed and failed. Mikoto stayed behind and told the hokage of her plan of going skipping straight to C-rank missions. Hiruzen didn't have much of a problem with it since he knew Mikoto had trained her kids well. And if anything was to go wrong. Mikoto would be able to handle anything that's thrown her way.
The next day, team 7 was in the hokage's office.
"Ah Team 7, I have been expecting you." Hiruzen gave them a grandfatherly smile.
Over the years, Mikoto had convinced her kids to not be angry with Hiruzen. All he was doing was his job. She told them to direct their anger for what happened towards Danzo.
"Team 7 reporting for duty. I would like to request a C-rank for my team." Mikoto said.
Iruka nearly fell out of his seat. "C-C-C-rank?! But they just graduated yesterday!"
Mikoto rolled her eyes. "While I'm glad you are concerned about my team. It is unneeded Iruka. My kids were genin level before they entered the academy years ago. Trust me they are more than ready. I know my kids skills."
Iruka wanted to say more but the look he was receiving from every member of team 7 told him to shut up.
"Don't worry Iruka, they will be fine. Especially if Mikoto is with them." Hiruzen looked through the mission files. He picked up a form out of the C-rank section. "Here is a simple mission, in a nearby town. There are bandits who are causing trouble. The mayor is requesting for a team to clear them out of the area by any means necessary. This shouldn't take no more than a day or two at most."
Mikoto picked up the file. "Understood Hokage-sama we will head out immediately." She turned to her team and nodded.
Mikoto disappeared in a blue fire shunshin, Naruto used a wind shunshin, Sasuke did his with regular fire and Sakura had cherry blossoms mixed with her shunshin.
Iruka was stunned. "They could do elemental shunshins?"
"It's many things those kids can do that I'm not even sure of yet." Hiruzen said.
(Outside of Konoha)
Team 7 were tree hopping through the forest. Thankfully they didn't have a client that needed to be escorted. Otherwise they would have had to walk alongside the client. Which meant the trip would take much longer than it had to.
"Hey mom how far is this town?" Sakura asked as she hopped off a branch back into the air.
"Not too far, we've been traveling for two hours so far. I would say we have another 3 hours until we arrive. And remember you three, unless we are alone you have to call me sensei. It's so enemy shinobi don't try to use our relationship to their advantage." Mikoto replied.
"Hai sensei." All three of her students chorused.
"So sensei how far is the chunin exams from now?" Naruto asked. He's been looking forward to the exam for years so he can show off to the village.
"Well this year is different. Because your graduation class graduated at a later date. Instead of 6 months, the exam will take place in 4. Thankfully it's in Konoha this time around." Mikoto answered.
"Seriously? That's awesome! I can't wait to kick the competitions ass." Naruto smirked as he hopped back into the air.
"Heh don't get too ahead of yourself idiot. Just because we are the best out of our class in Konoha. Doesn't mean the other villages will have weak competition. Remember what sensei told us about that Gaara kid in Suna?" Sasuke said to his younger brother.
"You mean that guy who has never been injured on a mission? Wasn't he the jinchuuriki of Kurama's crazy sand brother? The one who Kurama likes the least?" Sakura voiced.
"The very same, he's someone we shouldn't take lightly. Especially if he's as bloodthirsty as the rumors say." Sasuke answered her.
Naruto shrugged. "So what? That just means we'll give him his first ass kicking. He's strong that for sure. But I'm sure either of us can put him down."
"Yeah until he unleashes Shukaku." Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Even then you guys know we can handle it. Kurama just told me Shukaku shouldn't be difficult as long as he doesn't use a tailed beast bomb. That and don't let him reach his full power." Naruto responded.
"Easier said than done Naruto. But I wouldn't mind taking on the challenge." Sakura smirked.
"Hey you three better not be getting any ideas. The crazy shit you three like to do already gives me a heart attack. Like staying in the forest of death for a week when you only said two days! I was about to rush in there myself to drag your asses out." Mikoto told her kids.
"Aw come on sensei that wasn't so-" Naruto stopped his sentence when he saw the look his mother was giving him. That look meant to shut up. All he did was look at her sheepishly.
Team 7 arrived to their destination a couple hours later. The town was pretty small compared to Konoha. Even some of the other minor villages Mikoto took them to visit was bigger than this town.
According to the mayor, the bandits hideout was outside of the village. They have been causing trouble for the last two months. He didn't care how they did it, he just wanted the bandits gone.
So here was Team 7. They were scouting the bandit's camp.
"Hey do you guys feel those other chakra signatures not too far from here?" Sakura spoke up.
Mikoto's eyes widened. She picked up on the signatures that Sakura was talking about. "It's 4 of them. All of them jounin level." She grit her teeth.
"Jounin level? Do you think they are enemy shinobi?" Naruto asked.
"Who knows just be ready for anything. We're moving out now. I don't want a single one left alive." Mikoto ordered.
"Hai sensei!" Her team answered at the same time.
Team 7 infiltrated the camp and caused major havoc. From an outside perspective, it was pretty hilarious.
The camp had about 200 bandits. Sasuke was tearing through them like mince meat with his gauntlet blades. Some of his slashes took off ligaments of whoever he was attacking. Sakura decided to let loose and use her warrior mode. The pinkette is taking out her opponents so brutally. Every one of her hits were aimed at a vital area. Not to mention all of her punches or kicks were enhanced with chakra. Shattering any bone she hits. All of her opponents basically died off the fist but they received.
Naruto and Mikoto had their katana's out. Slicing through whoever came their way. It was pretty much a whole slaughterfest. Naruto had just finished decapitating a guy. He turned his head around when he heard the noise of a camera. What he saw was a shadow clone of his mother taking pictures.
The blond looked at her original body with a deadpan expression. "Really?"
Mikoto brought her sword straight down a bandits chest. She looked at her youngest son. "What? It's our first official mission together as a family. Of course I'm going to want a picture of it to look back on. Perfect material for the photo album." The legendary Uchiha mistress spun her body around to deliver a roundhouse kick to another bandits temple.
Naruto shook his head. "Only you sensei only you." He turned around and killed another bandit.
It didn't take much longer for team 7 to finish the job. When they were done, the team searched the camp to see if it was anything useful they could take with them. Unfortunately it was nothing worth taking so they left the area to go report back to the mayor.
The mayor was very thankful of their work. Once everything was taken care of with him. Team 7 made their way back to Konoha.
As they were traveling through the trees. Sasuke spoke up. "We're being followed." He grunted.
"Tsk it's those same people Sakura pointed out earlier." Naruto said.
"Seems like we were their target after all. Sensei what do you want to do?" Sakura asked her mother.
Mikoto sighed. She really didn't want to deal with any extra activities outside of their mission objective. Nor did she want her kids to be facing jounin already. She didn't doubt their strength in the slightest. Hell she didn't spend all that time training them for nothing. But as a mother she didn't want to see her children in this type of situation so soon. "We will engage them, but be on your guard. If they aren't Konoha shinobi then I won't be surprised if they are hostile." She told her team.
"Right." She received 3 confirmations.
They stopped moving and waited for whoever was chasing them to appear. A minute later 4 Iwa shinobi landed on branches across from them.
"Well seems we caught up to you Konoha-scum finally." One of them said.
"Iwa? What are you doing in Hi no Kuni?" Mikoto voiced in a serious tone.
"Well a little birdy told our Tsuchikage that it was rumored Konoha has a jinchuuriki who looks like the Yondaime Hokage. We were sent out to see if that rumor was true. For awhile now we have been scouting around to see if we would run into the jinchuuriki by chance. Looks like we struck gold." The leader of the Iwa squad spoke. He was glaring hatefully at Naruto. Who returned the glare in full.
'Shit is Iwa making a move against Naruto? This is not good at all. Who the fuck told the Tsuchikage about him?' Mikoto rambled inside of her head.
"So you guys are after me for what exactly?" Naruto asked. He was pretty sure he already knew the answer.
"You look too much like Minato Namikaze. It's no way it's just a coincidence. You're related to him in some way. Add on the fact that you're a jinchuuriki of the strongest tailed beast. Unfortunately with the potential you may have, it's likely you'll become a threat to us someday. You're too dangerous to be left alive kid. You should've never been born. Even if we can't defeat the Honō no hakai no megami (Flame Goddess of Destruction) we'll be sure to put you down for having that man's blood in your veins." The leader voiced the last bit with hatred in his tone.
Sakura, Sasuke and Mikoto felt anger surge through them. How dare he say Naruto shouldn't have been born? Who the hell did Iwa think they are?
"How...fucking dare you say such a thing." Mikoto's chakra started to surround her body. She was so angry that her mangekyo sharingan activated. Faster than the leader could see. Mikoto appeared directly in front of him and punched him dead in his mouth. Sending his crashing through a tree.
Sasuke and Sakura were already on the move as well. When Sasuke confronted one of the Iwa shinobi. The young Uchiha casted a genjutsu on the man with his sharingan. What the genjutsu did was make his opponent think he landed a blow on Sasuke. When in reality Sasuke chose that moment to get behind the man. Before the genjutsu could be broken. Sasuke formed a chidori around his left hand and struck his opponent right through the chest. "You guys have a lot of nerve saying my little brother is too dangerous to be left alive." Sasuke muttered as he decapitated the head of the corpse. He was pretty sure these guys have some sort of bounty of them.
Sakura's opponent assumed he got a clean cut right across her chest with his kunai. Sadly for him it was a substitution. He looked around his surroundings to see if he could spot her. The poor fool never suspected Sakura to have a clone come out of the ground to deliver an uppercut to him. That uppercut sent him into the air. Where the real Sakura was waiting for him. She soared down and landed a heavy chakra enhance blow directly to his chest. The force of the punch was so strong that the man died on impact from having his heart destroyed by her fist. A huge crater was created. She looked at the corpse with narrowed eyes. "My baby brother shouldn't have to deal with trash like you." She growled.
"Seriously I wasn't even born when the damn war was going on. It's been over 15 years you guys need to move on." Naruto said as he was engaging in back to back blows against his opponent. Surprisingly the jounin he was facing was proficient in kenjutsu. Unfortunately for him, he was being toyed with. When he tried to slash his sword against Naruto's. The young blond easily avoided the blow and stabbed the man right through his gut.
"D-Damn Namikaze…" Those we're his opponent's last words before collapsing on his back and dying.
"Tsk I'm more than just a Namikaze. My full name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze-Uchiha." Naruto grumbled before decapitating the head of the corpse.
Mikoto was staring down the leader. She had pretty much beaten him to a bloody pulp. Now the man was shaking while trying to stand.
"S-Shit she's really lives up to her name." He coughed up blood.
Mikoto held her katana out. She casted the flames of Amaterasu around her sword. Normally the black flames will burn through anything. However with Mikoto's mastery over her flames. On top of her sword having special properties to it cuteousy of her deceased sister/ former partner. The sword could withstand the intense flames. With her eyes still showing her mangekyo. She slowly walked up to the leader.
"You fools seem unable to just let go of a grudge. To say that my son is too dangerous to be left alive? He shouldn't have been born? That earned you the death sentence. Don't think I don't know have a fifth member. They did pretty well with hiding their chakra signature. Sadly not good enough. So here's a little message to send back to the old fool Oonoki. If you want keep coming after my Naruto's life. Then tell him Mikoto Uchiha said we will give him hell." Mikoto spoke so coldly to her opponent.
Being frozen in fear, the leader didn't even blink realize he had been cut. Mikoto moved so fast that he missed it. She cut him down right through the chest. Letting her Amaterasu flames burn her opponent to ashes.
Once she saw nothing left of the body. Mikoto used her sharingan to put out her black flames. When they were out, she deactivated her sharingan and sighed. She turned around to see that her team was walking up to her.
"You guys have any trouble with your fights?" Mikoto asked them.
"No but kami remind me to not piss you off." Sasuke replied with a smirk.
"Damn mom your chakra felt so powerful and dark. You looked so badass!" Naruto looked at Mikoto in awe.
"No wonder Kurama calls you the second coming of Madara Uchiha. You know mom if the opportunity comes up, you should become the hokage. It would be groundbreaking. The first female hokage and the first Uchiha to be hokage." Sakura said with a thoughtful expression.
Mikoto chuckled at them. "Well I did tell you guys stories of how me, Kushina and Minato did a lot of damage during the war. That guy knew he was facing death going up against me. And you know what Sakura-chan, I just might consider it. Naruto-kun your chakra can get pretty scary too when your using Kurama's."
"Yeah but that's not really my own chakra though. Yours is all you." Naruto shrugged.
"That may be true, however since yours and Kurama's chakra is merging as we speak. You could call it yours as well. Anyways I take it you guys got their heads for bounties?" Mikoto asked.
"Yeah we have 3 Iwa heads ready to be cashed in." Sasuke answered.
"So the mission rank doesn't raise since they appeared after we completed our mission right?" Sakura asked her mother.
"Usually no, but in some cases it does. It all depends on the hokage really. He may do it since it's your first mission as genin. I just wonder how long will it take for word to get around about this incident. Let's not forget about the possibility of Oonoki putting you three in the bingo book." Mikoto sighed.
"Well it's not like we can avoid it. Someone is eventually going to put us in if he doesn't. But seriously were they really jounin?" Naruto said.
"Yes they were, maybe not elite jounin but jounin nonetheless. Come on you three let's hurry back home to report. I'm in need of a nice long bath." Mikoto replied.
"Um sensei about that fifth person that was hidden. Shouldn't we go after him?" Sasuke wondered.
"No, I know we could catch up to him before he crosses the border. But I let him get away for a reason. He'll be our messenger to let that old fool Oonoki to not fuck with us if he knows what's good for him." Mikoto answered.
"Hell yeah! Alright last one back has to pay for dinner!" Naruto shouted as he took off into the trees.
"Shannaroo! No fair Naruto!" Sakura chased after him.
Sasuke sighed. "That idiot, he's only going to want ramen like usual."
Mikoto laughed. "Yes but it never gets old seeing how he lights up at the mention of it. Come on Sasuke-chan, even if he gets there first doesn't mean he gets to choose where we get to eat. I'm sure he won't mind going to the Akimichi steakhouse."
She took off into the trees with Sasuke right at her side.
(Konohagakure, Hokage's Office)
"Why am I not surprised that it's your team's mission that turns into something more." Hiruzen took a puff out of his wooden pipe.
"Don't blame us, blame Iwa for not getting over a war that happened almost 2 decades ago." Mikoto said as her and her team were giving their report to Hiruzen.
Hiruzen sighed, he glanced at Naruto. "I take it you told him of his heritage?" He asked Mikoto.
"I told him about them. The fox was the one who broke the news to him. I told you this years ago Lord Hokage." Mikoto replied.
"Forgive me but a lot has been going on as of late. Seems like I'm going to have to call back Jiraiya." Hiruzen said.
"Yeah that might be a good idea. That way I can kick his ass for not stopping by to check on Naruto. I'm sure you told that pervert I adopted Naruto by now." Mikoto rolled her eyes.
"I feel sorry for him." Hiruzen chuckled.
"While you're at it, give my team a mission to go look for Tsunade-hime. It's about time she's met her god kids." Mikoto said.
"God kids?" Her team echoed.
She looked back at them. "Yes, Naruto you already knew she was your godmother besides me. But I never mentioned that she is also Sasuke's godmother as well. In the early stages of my pregnancy, I ended up meeting her in a small town in the land of fire. She gave me a quick checkup and we talked for a bit. She agreed to be his godmother. I planned on asking her to be Sakura's godmother the next time we meet up. As for Jiraiya, he can settle with just being a teacher to you guys."
Mikoto turned her attention back to Hiruzen. "So can you do it?"
"Think you can get her to come back to Konoha?"
The jounin shrugged. "I don't know, you know how Tsu-hime feels about the village. Maybe if I guilt trip her saying that she needs to be here to support her god kids she might. No promises though. Hell I may have to pay off her debts too if Jiraiya hasn't already done so."
"Well I don't see the harm in it. You'll have to be careful since Iwa will be trying to give us some problems now. You do know our forces aren't war ready yet right? We really can't afford to have another war with them." Hiruzen said.
"I know that, which is why I said we as in team 7 will give Iwa hell if they keep coming after Naruto. If I really wanted to, I could go take out their entire village by myself right now. Having these three with me will be just straight up overkill. They didn't even break a sweat against their jounin." Mikoto bragged about her kids.
"That's very impressive, then again with you training them. It really shouldn't be a surprise. Looks like we will have another legendary team 7 in the near future. Good job on accomplishing your mission Team 7. Since this is your first mission as genin and you had to deal with some troubling issues on your way back. I'm going to make this an A-rank mission is your files. You'll also be receiving A-rank pay. Come back in a few days for your next mission. You're dismissed." Hiruzen told them.
"Yes Lord Hokage." The entire team bowed politely before disappearing. Each using their own variation of shunshin.
Hiruzen sighed. He rubbed his temples. "I'm too old for this shit. But at least having Mikoto back into our ranks will greatly boost our military force. That's not even including her children. Looks like Konoha has a bright future ahead with the next generation." He said to himself.