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Author's note

So here we are chapter four and the story already has over 10k words. Anyway as usual if you don't like the story go write your own or don't read at all. Constructive criticism and reviews are always appreciated. Also if anyone has a better translator than Google's base one that would help me a lot please send a link in a pm if you do.

Chapter 4: The week in between and Team Placements

Mito, Kiba, and Hinata had just walked out of the academy planning to go somewhere to eat.

"How about we go to Ichiraku's." Mito suggested since it was one of the few places where she could eat without people trying to overcharge her. Her two friends nodded in acceptance knowing about her situation with other food stores. The trio headed over to the ramen bar stand afterward, once arriving they entered through the flaps and sat down at the counter with Mito being in her usual spot between the two.

"Hey Teuchi-jiji can I get one of my regulars." Mito said to the old man behind the counter.

"sure Mito-chan coming right up!" He shouted back happy that one of his favorite customers was here.

"so did you graduate Mito-chan?" A new arrival said appearing from behind the kitchen door. The arrival was Ayame the daughter of Teuchi and considered herself to be Mito's pseudo-sister. Mito only smiled and tapped her protector on top of her forehead. Ayame squealed and grabbed Mito into a crushing hug. Kiba and Hinata could only smile at the affection of their friend and her pseudo-family. Soon the meal was finished cooking and the trio dug in.

Kiba taking several glances at Mito while she was eating not that Mito noticed, saw that she was able to eat the food without spilling anything on her not even one drop of broth, though he himself had spilled a few drops while eating. "she looks so at peace and regal here." Kiba thought to himself while a blush made its way onto his face with the regal looking part. After the three finished eating and were about to leave an anbu appeared wearing an owl porcelain mask.

"Uzumaki-sama Sandaime-sama has requested you in his office." The owl anbu said with no emotion what so ever, waiting for Mito's reply.

Mito, whose public mask snapped back on as soon as the anbu appeared, began to speak,"Very well anbu-san I will go to him as soon as possible." She finished with a voice as cold as the name most called her.

"Guess we'll see you later hime." Kiba said using his personal nickname for Mito. Mito blushed before berating him, "Don't call me that! How many times do I have to tell you that." Mito said not at all sounding annoyed by it.

She composed herself letting the mask back down as soon as the anbu disappeared using a shunshin before speaking again, "Kiba, Hinata we most likely won't see each other again till next week during the team announcements I know both of you will be training with your clans and I'll be working on the next step of a certain style I've been working on along with fuinjutsu application." She said in a warmer voice to her close friends.

"so I won't be able to see her for an entire week." Kiba thought sadly to himself.

"well we be much stronger after this week then." Kiba said trying to lighten the mood with a million watt grin on his face. His attempt helped the two females in his prescense to become happier in their mood.

"Alright," Mito began with a small smile, "anyway I have to go see jiji so I'll see you three in a week then okay, and Akamaru as always be a good boy and keep Kiba out of trouble." She said petting the small white puppy before leaving and jumping onto a building's roof.

Mito arrived at the Hokage tower a short while later and headed up to the Sandaime's office.

"You asked for me jiji?" Mito asked.

"Yes I did Mito-chan, I wanted to congratulate you on your graduation and for keeping your promise not to start seal application until you graduation." Hiruzen said with his grandfatherly smile on his face.

Mito let out a small smile in appreciation for her grandfather figure's praise, "Thanks Jiji but it was very hard not to start, with all the theory I've read it was very tempting." She said.

Hiruzen let out a small chuckle at that, "I bet it was considering your heritage. Anyway I have a gift for you." The village leader said picking up an oak wooden chest with an iron latch. He then motioned Mito to come over and open it. She did so with a tiny bit of excitement showing on her face. Once she opened the chest it revealed to be a set of four journals each labeled with fuinjutsu seals beginner through master. "These were your mother and father's journals concerning seals they told me to give them to you once you finished the academy even if you found their wills in the original scroll since they only put theory into that scroll." The elder Sarutobi said chuckling at her face which was currently in a state of awe, due to receiving another item of her parent's.

"Anyway," Hiruzen began,"you know tomorrow that you'll need to be here to have your photo taken for a ninja id right?" The village leader finished breaking Mito out of stupor.

Mito nodded before speaking, "yes jiji I remember see you tomorrow then." She said before hugging him and leaving with the chest.

"That girl will be one of my greatest ninja, I only hope she doesn't have to put up with the villager's idiocy for much longer." The Sarutobi clan head said to no one and sighed,"If only you could have been here to help her Minato." Hiruzen stated sitting back into his chair and lighting his pipe.

The next day

It had taken three hours for Mito to get her ninja identification picture taken all because the camera man said that he was having technical difficulties, though four others had gone through right after the photographer told her about the difficulties. This annoyed her to no end as the villager's still thought they were clever about trying to short cut her in everything. By the time she got to the Hokage's office she was quite annoyed even more so than before because of the secretary making her wait for a long period of time when there was no need to. She was brought out of her musings when Hiruzen started to speak after examining the photo."This is acceptable Mito-chan welcome to the ninja ranks." He said with a smile, Mito only smiled back despite her annoyed mood. Just as she was leaving and walking towards the doorway it was busted open by an eight year old boy with a long scarf and an odd helmet with a smiley face and a frowning face sticker on it. The boy was Konohamaru Sarutobi, Hiruzen's grandson. The boy ran through wielding a wooden shurriken and shouting, "Today's the day I defeat you and become Hokage old man!"

Konohamaru crashed into something very soft blocking his vision, he gave it an experimental squeeze and muttered, "so soft." leaning further into what ever it was. Mito was very angry when he did this and became even angrier when he squeezed her chest. She picked up the child and threw him into the wall hard enough to leave an imprint on the wall. The Sandaime watching this could only pray for his grandson, "oh no. Konohamaru I wish you luck as you have just picked the worst person to run into you. I will visit you in the hospital."

"You little brat! How dare you do that!" Mito shouted in rage with her eyebrow twitching, "ne jiji who is he?" She asked the village leader trying to calm herself down.

"he's my grandson Konohamaru, sorry about that Mito-chan." while Hiruzen was telling this to Mito Konohamaru was thinking,"ha! Now she won't do anything to me!" ,unfortunately he didn't keep that in his head as he shouted, "You won't hit me now huh! Now that you know who my grandfather is!"

Konohamaru however couldn't have picked the worst person to shout this to as Mito made her way over to the child and took him out of the wall and threw him lightly down onto the floor, "I don't care if he was your grandmother, if you want to play the heritage card then let's play." Mito began while Konohamaru was in amazement that someone would do what she did once they found who he was related to, "I'm the heiress of the Uzumaki clan who were cousins to the Senju clan meaning that I'm distantly related to two of the Hokage's and heir to a nation that took three villages to bring it down." The Uzumaki heiress finished while Konohamaru realized that she was right. Mito promptly proceeded to try and leave but a man wearing black sunglasses, a bandanna, and the village forehead proctor walked in,"honorable grandson where are you!" the man shouted.

"Ebisu, Konohamaru is right there." The Sandaime said catching the jounin's attention.

Then Ebisu noticed Konohamaru on the ground watching were Mito was only realized that he was directly in front of the Uzumaki heiress, he quickly moved off to the side and over to Konohamaru.

"Honorable grandson you can't be associating with village filth like that girl!" Ebisu started as he began to lecture the boy only for the Sandaime to cough to gain his attention.

"Um Ebisu, Konohamaru left a bit ago after Mito saying something about getting her to train him." Hiruzen said with embarrassment that one of his jounin couldn't notice that. Ebisu noticed that the Sandaime was correct and promptly left in embarrassment shouting for Konohamaru or as he shouted Honorable grandson

Meanwhile

Mito had just walked out of the tower once Ebisu had passed her and started down the street noticing that Konohamaru was trying and failing to spy on her."so he wants to spy on me huh. Well he's doing a pretty bad job of it." She thought to herself and continued walking and turning down the street. The boy was very bad at stealth as Mito noticed, Konohamaru used a square cardboard rock, and a wrong way facing sheet painted to match the wooden fence behind it. After a half an hour of the "Stealth" Mito grew frustrated and shouted, "Oh come on! The sheet isn't facing the right way and rocks are not square!"

Konohamaru let down the sheet and only grinned stupidly," that's oyabun for you, you're definitely a great ninja to notice that!." The young boy shouted.

"Oyabun?" Mito said questioningly.

"Yeah! You're oyabun, cause you're going to be my boss and trainer!" The boy shouted in excitement.

Mito sighed and pinched her nose in frustration, this was Hiruzen's grandson she didn't want to hurt the boy and make him go get medical attention as he was her grandfather figure's family.

"kid are you in the academy yet?" She asked still holding her nose.

"Yeah! But they only do boring things."Konohamaru said still with his excitement.

"alright Konohamaru, follow me but know I won't slow down." Mito said as she knew she wouldn't get rid of him easily. The two walked or ran in Konohamaru's case to a training ground far from the village. Mito made a cross hand sign and make fifty clones and began telling them what to do, "Ten of you will work on elemental manipulation, Ten on chakra control, Ten on beginning seals, ten on Taijutsu, and finally ten reading on cooking." Mito finished with a firm tone to her clones while Konohamaru was amazed at the sight.

"So cool! Will you teach me how to do that oyabun!" the young Sarutobi shouted.

"absolutely not," Mito began, "you have no where enough chakra for even one of these, no we'll be working on one of the academy three as I know that they begin teaching you those at your age." the heiress finished.

"Now which of the three have they begun teaching you?" Mito asked the young boy.

"Ebisu and Iruka sensei have been having us work on the henge and I still don't have it down." The boy said looking down dejectedly.

"Then we'll work on that." Mito said with a voice that left no room for argument.

"Henge!" Konohamaru shouted transforming in a deformed version of Mito with shorter off color hair and larger assets. The sight made Mito's eye twitch in annoyance before correcting him.

"No that was to much chakra try again." she said, the boy nodded and tried again, "how about now?" he asked. Mito shook her head, "no, now its too little." she stated. The two would be at it for a few hours before making a decent henge.

Mito had just came back from grabbing two beverages from a vending machine that was in the training field despite how far it was from the village and handed one to Konohamaru who was on the ground on his back panting.

"so why do you want to be Hokage?" Mito asked.

The boy got a sad look once the question was asked, "My grandfather named me Konohamaru in honor of the village since my mom died giving birth to me," The young Heir began," but no one sees me as Konohamaru they only see me as honorable grandson and only refer to me as that. I want to be Hokage so that everyone will recognize me as Konohamaru not honorable grandson."

Mito nodded as it was similar to her own situation, "You know," she began gaining his attention," we're not that different, the village sees me as a constant memory of a bad event to them and I won't tell you why, but it was bad for me. I didn't even know who my parents were for the longest time. I eventually found out but before it I was always running around shouting Hokage! And that I would be the Hokage only for the reason that the village would see me as well me." Mito started her lecture while Konohamaru looked on in awe, "But once I found out why they hated me and who my parent's were I didn't want to be Hokage for a very long time."

"And what about now?" Konohamaru asked.

"Now I do but not for recognition, I want to be hokage to protect the village, not for the villager's but for my closest friends. You have some friends that call you by your name right?" Mito said and Konohamaru nodded, she smiled before continuing to speak,"Then don't worry about anyone else focus on your friends and hold them close along with your loved ones as long as they see you for you then you don't need anyone else. Being Hokage isn't recognition or being the strongest ,its about protecting the village, the whole village despite whoever is inside it, it's about protecting the one's closest to you and your home with everything you are." Mito finished with a small smile towards the boy who was now in deep thought.

Just then a voice shouted, "Honorable grandson stay away from her, she'll only taint your mind." and Ebisu appeared on top of a tree branch.

"No!" Konohamaru shouted, "Mito-neechan has taught me more than you have and is a better teacher than you! Henge!" Konohamaru finished transforming into a replica of Ebisu but anyone could tell it wasn't Ebisu as Konohamaru didn't hold himself with the experience that Ebisu had. "huh how? I know that we've been working on that for weeks and he couldn't do it. He couldn't have learned it from that girl could he?" Ebisu thought to himself

"while I admit that you've improved you must go back with me if you want to become Hokage in the fastest way." Ebisu stated.

"Hokage doesn't come from short-cuts It comes from being as strong as you can get and protecting the village and your closest ones with everything you have! Right Nee-Chan!?" Konohamaru shouted. Mito nodded with a smile, "well said Konohamaru."

"but how he knows the will of fire could that girl have taught him even that?" Ebisu thought.

Ebisu was brought out of his thoughts once Mito began speaking again, "But Konohamaru you should go with him, he'll be able to teach you more than me."

"Bu-But why Nee-Chan?" Konohamaru asked.

She knelt down to his level before speaking,"He's an actual teacher, I've only just graduated from the academy and will be working more than the amount of time I could teach you." Mito began and Konohamaru looked down to the ground in sadness, she placed a hand on top his helmet making him look up at her face with her smile, "Just because I won't be there to teach you everything doesn't mean I won't be around the village to show you a trick or two." She finished with a kind voice. Konohamaru grabbed her waist in a tight hug before going over to Ebisu.

"I may have been wrong about you Uzumaki-san, you are not quite what the village describes you as and have given me much to think about." Ebisu said before leaving with Konohamaru.

After they left Mito headed home to start the last part of her new training. Once she was at her house she went to the master bedroom grabbing the scroll for Kaminari no Megami odoru and the chakra conducting training blade. She finally made a breakthrough a few hours later and grinned at her success.

Time skip one week

Mito woke up and promptly got ready for the academy strapping her mother's chakra saber as her own to her back before leaving the house,"this is it my first day as a genin wish me luck kaa-san, tou-san."Mito let a sad smile onto her face before snapping her public ice princess mask on and running towards the academy. Once she was there she made her way over to her normal seat beside Hinata who was already there. The two chatted quietly telling each other of their week. Kiba walked in the back entrance and tried to sneak up on the two. Mito noticed however just like always in their little game, "Nice try Kiba but I already know you're there." She said.

Kiba snapped his sharpened fingers together, "Dang it! How is it that you can always know where i'm coming from hime?" He asked heading over to the two heiresses and putting his arm around Mito's shoulder. She playfully knocked him off balance as her face held a blush that she furiously tried to fight down, "If I told you it wouldn't be much of a game now would it. And stop calling me that how many times do I have to tell you that!" She said with no real annoyance behind it. Kiba only grinned in response. Iruka came in just after that and had everyone take their seats. Mizuki was no where to be found and Sakura decided to ask, "Iruka-sensei where is Mizuki-sensei?"

"Mizuki will no longer be joining us due to a certain incident." Iruka stated giving the students no real explanation, "Anyway I'll be announcing the teams now."

Mito bit the inside of her lip in anticipation but also with sadness thinking that she wouldn't be placed on a team with either one of her friends knowing her luck.

Teams one through six were all civilians, Iruka took a breath before continuing," Team seven will be Shino Aburame, Sakura Haruno," Said girl shivered with disgust being placed on the same team as who she called bug boy, "And Sasuke Uchiha your sensei will Kakashi Hatake" Sakura than shouted out with glee," HA! Take that Ino I'm on the same team as Sasuke!" Ino only shouted back, "So what! You're also with Bug boy."

"Girls shut up!" Iruka shouted at the two fan girls, who only yelped and apologized.

"Continuing on Team eight will be composed of Mito Uzumaki," "here it is. Mito thought with sadness, "Hinata Hyuga and Kiba Inuzuka, the leader will Kurenai Yuhi." Mito couldn't believe her hearing she was on a team with not one but both of her friends for once she didn't have horrible luck! Kiba was just as excited but expressed his vocally and picked up Mito and twirled her around while she was shocked, said heiress regained her sense after Kiba began twirling her, "Put me down Kiba!" She yelled at the boy and he obeyed but still whooped with excitement when another Student decided to input his two cents, "Why are you happy Kiba you're on a team with all girls." The student finished.

"so what. They're all very strong and hot." Kiba said before Mito decided to speak, "Kiba sit down and be quiet." The Inuzuka heir obeyed immediately and one teen coughed and said whipped in between coughs. The rest of the class laughed not noticing the heirs blush.

"Anyway," Iruka said getting everyone's attention again, "Team nine is still in circulation from last year, so Team ten will be Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Chouji Akimichi, and your sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi. I wish you all luck in the field." Iruka finished and left the classroom Everyone had one thought going through their minds and that this was the their beginning.

Chapter 4 End

Author's note

So this chapter has shown a lot and it is my longest chapter to date with over 3600 words. And as it is getting close to Christmas I will be slowing down the next few days. So I will say this right now to all my readers I wish you a merry Christmas from Amxal.