Iruka's View:

"Sensei please!" Aurora was keeping her voice down so the class across the way didn't hear her.

"I'm sorry, but if you don't I'll have to fail you." I told her, which made her shrink back, the hurt visible in her eyes. Looking away from me, she stepped up to the rope that was strung across the river. She did as she was told, wobbling, but able to get halfway.

"Come on, you can do it!" I hear Yuri cheer, but I saw Midori move forward and kick the other post that held the rope.

"Midori!" I yelled, but it was too late. Aurora lost her balance and fell in. I sighed, expecting her to come up, but she didn't. That's when it had dawned on me...I wondered how it was possible we had let it slip, how we had never taught Aurora such a basic skill like swimming. I regretted not teaching her, sick with myself that I hadn't remembered that when I forced her walk over the rope over a deep part of the river. The entire class had done it, some had fallen in, but Aurora wouldn't. I thought she was being defiant, but the truth was, we failed her.

"Iruka-sensei!" I heard Yuri cry, but I already had my flak jacket off and dove into the water. I grabbed her around her waist and pulled her back to the surface.

"Are you alright?" I asked her, pulling her mask down so she could breathe easier. She coughed up a lot of water before we got to shore, but she seemed alright. The rest of the class had crossed again and were coming over the help. "Everyone, step back." I kept them from circling.

"What kind of water user can't swim?" I heard someone whisper, which I knew was my fault, but it hurt Aurora more.

"Class dismissed…" I decided that was enough for today. I had to get Aurora to the hospital anyway, to make sure she hadn't swallowed too much water. There was gonna be paperwork and many apologies from me for this, but mostly guilt.

Aurora wasn't happy to have to change into the only extra outfit that still fit her. We needed to go clothes shopping, but the orange kimono Ino had given her actually fit her better now than it did two years ago. I now came to her knees and I didn't have to fold it up and wrap in around her waist once for it to fit her. She had paired it with white, knee high stockings and a newer pair of dark green shinobi sandals. She looked so cute, but she hated the color. The only other outfit she had was a pink kimono top with a deep blue and green obi, white shorts and purple knee high socks that matched the flowers on the kimono, but it was soaking wet. She also didn't have an extra mask, which make her feel exposed.

Sakura was on staff today and was the one to check her out. She cleared her, but wanted me to keep an eye on her if she started having any trouble breathing. She did however make the mistake of calling her a cute little pumpkin, due to her being in almost all orange. Aurora pouted, reminding me of a certain silver hair man, telling Sakura she hated being called that.

"Oh...sorry." The pinkette wasn't sure what to say.

"Maa...Aurora. Don't be rude."

"Kakashi?"

"Yo." He gave us an eye smile.

"You're…?" I was trying to get him to tell me if he was being released or not.

"Fit as a fiddle." He was being this way because Sakura was nearby. He still had yet to tell anyone about us. Konohamaru caught on, but no one really believed him. Aurora had said nothing, she just assumed everyone knew at this point and it was normal for her. "I'm off to train with Naruto."

"You just got out…" Sakura glared.

"Maa...I'll be fine. Aurora, you can join us on this one." He said, which earned a gleeful shout from her. "If she's ok?"

"She's fine…" I said, wondering what they could be doing that she could do. "Oh hey…" But it was too late to tell him about why we were here, they were long gone.

Kakashi's View:

"Alright, time to train." I told the two orange clan ninja infront of me. Naruto started laughing.

"What now?" I thought they might be joking around, but Aurora was just as confused.

"Nothing, it's just, training with you again. It makes me all happy." Naruto smiled, scratching the back of his neck.

"Well...laugh while you still can." I laughed, but they both gave me a sullen look. "Time isn't waiting for us after all. Like I said a few days ago, we're going to be training to make an ultimate jutsu of your own." Aurora had the power to do it as well, she just needed a push. "To do this, you'll need to acquire two techniques, change in chakra nature and in chakra form ."

Naruto tried to repeat me, only for Aurora to tease him for not being able to keep up.

"Exactly…" I stopped their spat. "For example...take Chidori. First, I change my chakra nature, like an electrical current."

"Like when I turn to water?" Aurora asked, at least she raised her hand first.

"Hm...similar, yes." I gave her an eye smile. She was getting it at least, Naruto just looked grumpily at her. Seems he was jealous of how smart she was. "Rasengan is different because it's a change in chakra form. The jutsu compresses chakra by spinning at violently high speeds." He was acting like he was getting this. "You'll need a chakra change to achieve a jutsu more powerful."

Aurora looked perplexed at how that was possible. Thing was, she was already doing it without knowing. Those ice spears and water bubbles she made were results of chakra element change and change of chakra form.

"But we don't have the time it takes to make a jutsu like that. That's why I said only you would be able to do this in such a short amount of time…"

"What!? What's going to speed it up!" Naruto was eager.

"Well, I guess there's no reason to beat around the bush, the method is...your shadow clones." Aurora glared, but Naruto of course was confused.

"Huh?

"You're massive shadow clone jutsu."

"What about it?"

"That's the method..." I tried again but he wasn't getting it. "Alright, I'll explain it to you from now on...listen up." Aurora was, but he wasn't. "You know how shadow clones work? You're making a copy of a real body, not just a clone of yourself. I can't make as many as you can, but I know the effects of the clones. I'm sure you've noticed."

Aurora looked down, I knew she had yet to perfect it but I knew seeing Naruto's would push her to do it.

"Noticed what?" Naruto asked. He really was dense…

"When the jutsu is undone, the things the clones experiences are transferred to the user."

"You can remember what your clone saw?" Aurora asked.

"Bingo." I was glad that she was keeping up.

"I said make it simple…" Naruto complained to me, but understanding now that Aurora spelled it out. "How is that possible?"

"Alright, make a shadow clone." He did as I made one as well. "And have yours follow mine into the forest over there. Aurora, try your best to make one too." She did, the air getting colder but the clone was weak. She kept trying anyway.

"What are the clones doing?" Naruto asked, not paying any mind to Aurora and her cartoon clones.

"You'll find out." After a moment, the clones went away. "Now do you know?" By the look on his face he did.

"What?" Aurora asked. The clone she made was close, but the face was still very cartoon like.

"I won at rock, paper, scissors!" Naruto grinned, Aurora tilting her head in question. "So...what does that have to do with cutting time on training?"

After choosing to explain it slowly to the blonde, just to see him get all riled up, I revealed that if he used one thousand clones, he'd cut his time down by one one thousandth of the real time needed. Each clone would gain experience, then that experience would be gained by the user. Aurora was excited too, wanting to learn the shadow clone jutsu even more.

"Now I see why you're so strong!" Naruto grinned. "You train with this jutsu!"

"Nope." This shocked him. "I don't have as much chakra as you and can't hold it as long."

"Wait..I have more chakra than you, Kakashi-sensei?"

"You have at least four times as much." This excited the boy, but irritated Aurora. I know it must have been frustrating to know your power was cut down by a seal, but so far I have found nothing on it. "If Yamato doesn't suppress the nine tails chakra, it might be one hundred times more…"

"That's why you're the only one who can do this, kid." Yamato came from the forest then, getting Aurora to question what was going on. She knew him as Tenzōu.

"Yamato-taichou?!" Naruto had no idea about his real...er...old name.

"Kakashi asked me to help. You may need me to control the nail tails chakra after all."

Next step was explaining the different types of chakra. Aurora knew these, but Naruto somehow did not retain anything from the academy. How on earth he passed, I'll never really know.

"Five natures? That's it?" Naruto was surprised by this. I looked to Aurora to answer.

"Water, fire, earth, wind and lightning." She said, shying under the pressure. She was odd that way, loving to answer but shying when asked to do it.

"Right, those give use the basics."

"Normally everyone fits into one of those categories. For example, the Uchiha's had fire nature chakra." Yamato filled in to help Naruto get it.

"That means...Sasuke had fire and lightning." Naruto pieced together.

"Correct. Now, we need to know what yours is." I said pulling out pieces of chakra paper. I would give one to Aurora to, I wanted to know if hers was primarily water or wind. "If you are lightning, like me..." I said, crinkling the paper I held up using a bit of chakra. "Fire, it burns, water of course is wet, earth makes it crumble and wind cuts it in half. This is chakra paper, it'll react to your chakra nature." I gave one to Aurora, which instantly became wet. Naruto's split down the middle, signifying he was a wind user.

"Well, let's begin your wind manipulation training." Handy, they both used wind and could both benefit from this training. The reason Aurora was here in the first place wasn't just for her protection, it was to show her her ice powers were not the only powers she had. She'd need them even more, now that Danzō was after her again. We just got lucky with Sai, but our luck would run out sooner than later.

I told Naruto how useful his chakra nature was, making sure Aurora knew she could do it too.

"Wait...if her's is water, why can she do ice? And..what kind of chakra allows Yamato-taichou to use wood style?" I turned and whispered to Yamato.

"Show him the two other natures you have." I told him, which he gladly showed off. He made the ground under him and near us rise up, high enough so he could then use his water nature to make a waterfall.

"A...a waterfall? Yamato-taichou had two chakra natures too?!" This seemed to shock him.

"Those in the Joinin class usually have at least two. I can also control elements other than lightning."

"So...Aurora has water and...?"

"Wind."

"So that means she and Yamato-taichou have three then, with ice and wood."

"Well, that isn't it."

Aurora laughed, she got it. "It's because of a Kekkei Genkai, right?"

"Huh?!"

"Since there isn't an element for wood, or ice, you must use the other two together." Yamato explained. "Earth in the right hand and water in the left…it's not easy to use both at the same time."

"The ability to use both and combine them into a new element, is a kekkei genkai, like Aurora said. Just like the boy, Haku, as well." He pieced this all together, finally getting it.

"That's why even my eye can't copy it, anyway, we should get to the training."

"Wait, what about the sharingan? Medical jutsu? Or even genjutsu?!"

"Hm...that might take a while to explain and confuse you…"

"Let's talk about Yin and Yang another time, Kakashi-senpai?"

Naruto made as many clones as there were leaves on one tree, each clone taking one leaf. Aurora was impressed, never having seen him do it before. She was eager to try again and actually managed a pretty good clone after the tenth try. The one thing that was good about the seal is that, even if it cut three fourths out, it still used it as a reserve. She wouldn't run out of chakra for a while, but none of her jutsus were very powerful.

Aurora sat by me after a while, trying to figure out why I was reading my book again. I blocked her for reading it, but she did manage to get out of being pinned by my legs.

"Father…" She struggled free, upset I wouldn't let her read too. "Fine...how come we have to call Tenzōu-san Yamato?"

"Ah...you see, in ANBU you have a different name than you do elsewhere. So, from now on, he'll be called Yamato" I explained, she finally stopped trying to read and sat by me. "Did you make a perfect clone yet?" She shrugged, but the noise above me in the tree notified me that yes, she had and it was dive bombing me. I quickly switched with a log, making her clone dispel when she hit it instead of me.

"Ow!" She pouted at being duped and feeling what her clone had felt.

"Nice try…" I said from behind her. "But you're not reading these until you're much older." She stuck her tongue out at me playfully, accepting the challenge of getting the book.

"Father?" She got serious again, gaining my full attention. "Can you teach me to swim?"

"Hm?" Did I neglect that training? Wait.. "What prompted this?"

"I fell in the river during class...dad had to save me."

"That's why you were at the hospital…" I should have asked Iruka, but I still wasn't sure how people would react to our relationship...it wasn't hidden, sure, but there were some who looked down on two men together.

"Yeah...I'm ok, but I need to learn to swim…" She was right about that. And Yamato gave us the perfect area to do that, the small lake under the falls was perfect for swimming lessons.

"Well...alright." I snapped the book shut. "Let's go."

She could swim in her underwear for today, seeing as we didn't have swimsuits. She was quick to skip to the edge of the water, getting undressed.

"Gonna leave me here, huh?" Yamato joked.

"I won't be too far…" He was set up near the water anyway.

Aurora was a quick learner, taking to the water like a fish. After an hour, she could swim without me being there to help her float. I stayed near, knowing she could go under at any time, but she didn't. The water only came to my waist, but it was deep enough for her to swim...or drowned.

"Maa, good job, caterpillar." I was able to keep my masked tank top on without getting it to wet to breathe though. "See, you hardly needed me." But I was glad she did still need me for some things. She quickly swam back to me, grabbing my arms as she started to get tired. "Maa, my little fishy." I teased her, pressing her nose to mine.

"Kakashi-sensei!" I heard Naruto call. I looked up to see him watching us. "W...what are you doing?!" I realised from his angle, Aurora looked like she wasn't wearing anything. She still had a white tank top on and her bunny underwear on. I held her up for him to see it wasn't what he thought.

"Swimming." I smiled, seeing the grossed out look on his face. Honestly, what was he thinking?

I had Aurora dry off by laying in the grass in the sun. She stayed there while I went to talk to Tenzōu.

"How is it, Tenzōu? Having any problems with the Kyuubi?"

"Everything is fine. But, please, for now, call me Yamato…" I only wanted to tease him, not piss him off. I heard Naruto's clones getting excited that one had made a deeper cut in a leaf.

"There's something I want to ask, Kakashi-sensei." The real one, I think, came up to me after the rest of the clones were getting angry. "Is there anyone else in the village that uses wind?"

"You want tips?" Of course he did. "Hmm...there is someone, but he's playing Shogi around this time.."

"Asuma?! Alright!" He ran off to join the clones, sending one off towards the village.

Ah, finally using it to your advantage. After a few minutes, the clones all cheered that they got it. Guess he's done talking already.

"Alright, this is a good time to gather all of your shadow clones experiences. Let them disappear and reflect on the training." He did, allowing Yamato to relax.

"I can do it, just a little...further…" I leapt up and caught Naruto before he fell over from exhaustion.

"And this is the draw back…" I told the unconscious boy.

Only a few hours ago, Naruto was focusing on leaves, but now he had moved on to cutting a waterfall. Of course he complained that it was too small, forcing poor Yamato to make is bigger and the platform longer for more clones.

"That was tough on you, huh?" I asked him, knowing it was.

"No...I-I'm fine, it was nothing." He was panting so hard I could hardly make out what he said. The better be enough for him, I don't think Yamato could do it again. Aurora was concerned for him, she sat next to him to make sure he was okay. "T-Thanks kiddo."

After convincing Naruto he could continue in the morning, Aurora and I laid on the blanket we were using as a mattress. It was her first time camping out like this, so she didn't have her own blanket to lay on. She did have a blanket to cover with though, but she wasn't tired just yet. I figured it had to do with her not using all of her chakra this time. Yamato was out, having used a lot of chakra and I think Naruto was finally out too.

"Father, what makes stars?" She asked softly.

"Maa...well, a long, long time again the universe started with a Big Bang. The stars and planets were formed then. Each star is sort of like the sun..." Science wasn't really my thing, but I had listened Iruka's lecture to his class about it before. She was quiet, still looking up at the stars. I thought she fell asleep for a second, but she was awake. "Something wrong?"

"I was thinking about the seal again…" she admitted , not really having been curious at what made stars. "Do you think without it I could make that many clones?"

"I'm afraid not." I chose to just be honest with her. "You have more chakra than most people, that's true, but Naruto is different. It's because of the Kyuubi inside of him that he is able to have this much chakra. Not all of it is his, but a small bleed through of the Kyuubi's."

"Oh." I don't think she had made that connection till just now. "So...are there more people like Naruto?"

"Yes, Gaara was one once." I heard movement, looking over the where Naruto was. The blonde was back up and getting undressed again. He just won't settle will he…