AN: Hello everyone, time for the third chapter of the story. I have read a few comments and figured out that this really isn't a fem Naruto fic an OC fic. So I am planning on switching that in the summary. As for the poll, it is definitely close. All of you have great ideas to why each one should be chosen and I can't wait to see the results. I am planning on ending it in around 4 chapters so there is still plenty of time to vote
Now, time to respond to three of these excellent comments:
Drowning Iceburg: You have stated one of the worst things about dragons. They are probably the most cliché summon other than foxes or something in fanfiction. However, I believe there is still some methods to use them that have not been seen before. In many fics the "dragon" summoning is used as just one more notch in an already god like character. I want a summon to define the character and enhance the abilities that are already there, similar to Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
Hawkmoon888: Thank you for your opinion on the poll, and I agree that summoning contracts require a massive amount of chakra to use, but remember, these summoning contracts are servants to the old ones, so the same rules do not apply. I will leave it up for you all to speculate but her summoning methods will be unique.
Edelhart: Maces are classified under hammers, as well as war hammers. What you are thinking of is a morningstar or flail. As for bashing, I have always been moderate with my bashing of characters. Of course Naruto would be arrogant, he is the favored child of the hokage who gets special attention over his sister. Any child would grow arrogant. However, that does not mean he will be a permanent arrogant moron like I see in other fanfictions.
Excellent comments and questions as usual, I love reading your responses and sometimes taking inspiration from it. So thank you once again.
Chapter 3:
Die! Or not? Die anyway!
(Konoha Training Field 37)
Mito stared down at the grassy plane that was considered one of the tamer training zones. It was rarely used due to the fact that it was rather out of the way of the village and had no special challenge to make the extra walk there worth it. However, her current target frequented it.
Kabuto Yakushi, genin of team 30, 8 years having spent as a genin. He was an orphan and low on the ladder in the shinobi program.
Someone no one would miss.
If her manipulations and lies were coming into effect, then she should be the one student outside of the selection by editing the candidates for the Jounin senseis to choose from, removing herself from the list.
And now she would "open" up a spot in a more experienced but weaker team who would serve as excellent pawns. After screening several teams, she chose team 30, who had failed the chunin exams seven times already.
She could easily convert her teammates to see the glory of the old one and trap them within the blissful insanity that her master brings.
But first, one of the three must be killed.
Standing at the top of a light post she observed the silver haired genin practicing his taijutsu.
Smiling widely, she began to channel power from her patron, causing two black lines to slowly trace her veins across her face and arms, making them clearly visible across her skin.
Opening her palm, a small cut opened up and black blood burst forth, quickly forming into her Warhammer. She had discovered over the years that her weapon was made out of a special material made by mixing iron with the blood of the Old One. The blood corrupted the metal, allowing its form to become flexible and able to turn into a liquid.
With the knowledge that the god provided her, allowing the weapon to hide within her was simple.
Gripping the hammer near the head she twisted her foot on the lamp post, channeling her corruption into the wiring, causing a massive blackout across the training field.
Dashing down to the field, empowered by the corrupted blood inside of her, she swung her hammer at where the alerted genin was seconds before.
*Clang*
Surprised she stared at the glowing scalpel/kunai combination that the genin was using to block the Warhammer from coming closer.
Looking into the eyes of her adversary she frowned at what she saw. There was none of the fear or uncertainty a low level genin would display, only the eyes of an experienced shinobi. She had seen those eyes every time she looked into the mirror.
The eyes of a killer who had long ago grown to love it.
Kabuto looked down upon his assailant, his mind going a mile a minute. Who was this? Did the Leaf finally realize he was a traitor for Orochimaru? Well, for now to play it safe.
"Who are you, what do you want?"
Mito's frown slowly disappeared and a grin inhumanly wide stretched across her lips.
A challenge!
Finally!
The corruption began to affect her vocal cords as she responded "Oh nothing, I just saw you here AND LOOKED SO VULNERABLE!" Her tone shifting from that of a girl to a growl as she spoke.
Breaking the deadlock, she kicked the genin away and charged forward once again, twirling the massive Warhammer around as if it was a staff, forcing the traitorous medic to quickly dodge and deflect any attack that he could not avoid.
Kabuto glared at his opponent. It was clear that this was no ANBU and that they were not attacking him due to discovering he was a traitor. The power that the girl wielded was much too distinctive for him not to have heard about it.
Deflecting the Warhammer again he noticed the design was very similar to the rumors that the Hokage's less noticed child, Mito Namikaze, said to have wielded in the pre genin tournament.
If this was she, what was the girl doing attacking him in the middle of the night?
Much more was going on behind the scenes here.
But one thing was for certain that he could not reveal his full power yet, and even more so he had to stay undercover without letting the brat catch on to him.
He was broken out of his thoughts when his opponent growled and the Warhammer rippled, before splitting into two identical one handed maces.
But for now to find out her motives and then he would act from there.
Mito growled as she was continuously deflected and avoided as she kept empowering herself further with her pact with the old one. Any further from now she would start to lose control.
'Oh old one, bless me with the knowledge of violence!' She mentally atoned, before the familiar buzzing filled her head and knowledge of a path to victory was forcefully implanted into her head.
Eyes glowing with power the large Warhammer ripples as she tore it in two, forming two identical copies.
"After tonight no one will remember you and the first step to my rise will begin!" She screamed as she dashed forward, both corrupted war hammers already in motion as she began her deadly dance, smashing into her opponent's guard.
'Tsk, this girl may actually make me get serious' Kabuto thought as he had to struggle tenfold to avoid the hail of attacks. It frustrated him but if the girl was who he thought it was if he did any serious harm there would be a village hunt for the assailant, less favored child or not.
But he was beginning to understand why he was being targeted. If his death was the first step to whatever plan she had, the only result of his death, other than Orochimaru being furious, would be a slot opening up at either the hospital or on his undercover genin team.
He had already spied on the entire graduating class and knew there would be one extra.
'I am sorry Lord Orochimaru, but there will have to be a slight change in plans' He thought regretfully as he purposely missed a block, allowing the Warhammer to slam into his chest, blasting him forcefully through a tree on the other side of the clearing.
Mito grinned savagely as her blow finally connected, with her enhanced strength the force alone should have been enough to shatter a boulder.
Reforming her hammer into its original form she made her way to the side of the clearing where the broken body of Kabuto lay, clearly dead.
Smirking in victory she extended her senses, trying to detect anyone who may have witnessed the events that just occurred.
Looking near where the body fell she noticed a manmade pole attached to several power lines that she had previously disabled.
Walking up to it she swung her hammer, causing the line to crash down onto the body.
Taking out a powerful earth jutsu scroll she had stolen from the library she unrolled it several feet away from the body, placing it on the ground.
What an unfortunate accident that a genin died due to a jutsu gone wrong, causing a power line to crash upon him.
Willing her weapon to merge back into her blood stream she walked away, licking the blood of her hands as she did so.
(One hour Later – Training Ground 37)
"I am sorry Yoroi, but rest assured your sacrifice will be put to good use." Kabuto muttered as he switched his dead body with that of his recently diseased teammate.
Faking his death was not that complicated for him, but he now had something quite interesting to research.
Looking into the distance where he felt chakra signatures of several ninjas coming to investigate.
"A dangerous game is starting. I can't wait to see where it leads." He muttered as he disappeared.
(The next day - Konoha, Hokage's Office)
"How is this possible." Minato asked as he stared at the results of the genin exams.
1. Mito Namikaze 100%
2. Naruto Namikaze 97%
3. Sasuke Uchiha 96.5%
Iruka looked uncomfortable, he was also shocked at the results. While Mito Namikaze was never the worst in class, she had never stood out as much as she did in the genin exams "I do not know sir, all I can guess is that she underplayed her abilities."
Minato frowned heavily as he stared at his only daughter's school records. He regretted that he did not spend more time with her, but he could never really connect to his daughter. She only had the chakra capacity of a civilian, so there was not much he could teach her.
He hated to admit it but he much preferred his son, who was so similar to him in his youth. Intelligent, honorable, with boatloads of potential.
While his daughter…well she was more likely to sit in her room reading or go into the village alone. Could she have been training alone? Who helped her?
Sighing deeply, he posed a question to the school teacher "How will this affect team dynamics?"
Iruka shuffled through some papers in his arms before responding "Unfortunately your daughter is still out of the running for kunoichi of the year, despite her impressive last exam performance. Hinata Hyuga still has claim to that title. Which means that your son, Hinata, and the special case, Hojin."
Minato raised an eyebrow at the last name. Hojin was a civilian born who had witnesses a ninja perform a summoning ritual, who then proceeded to try it himself. Shockingly the boy actually managed to impress a summoning clan. Therefore, he was taken out of his tailoring apprenticeship and put into an accelerated shinobi program. Due to not having any grades for previous years he was considered the dead last of the graduating class.
"And my daughter's team?" Minato asked.
At this Iruka looked distinctly awkward "Well you see, we have an extra student out of the normal bunch, and the current jonin senses all chose other students beside your daughter. I think they worried about disappointing the Hokage by not being able to train her, due to her rather mediocre scores from before this exam."
Minato frowned heavily at that statement. Students who weren't chosen by a jonin sensei were often put on a waiting list then shipped off to the genin corps. Or if possible put on a team with an opening already available.
His daughter, despite her earlier grades, had obviously increased her skill in secret. 'And without his help' He could not help but think with a tinge of regret.
The teams were already locked in so he could not change that, but he would be damned if he let such a talent go to waste in the genin corps.
Now that he thought about it Team 30 had requested a new member since one of their genin had an unfortunate accident the other day due to failing a powerful jutsu.
While the team was nothing that special, seeing as they failed the last seven chunin exams, perhaps it would be enough for his daughter to make it to chunin and be placed on a proper squad.
Looking up at Iruka he smiled reassuringly "Do not worry, I believe I have a solution to our extra graduate.
(Mito's Apartment)
Mito grinned to herself as she looked in the mirror, connecting the last button on her button up black silk shirt she chose to wear for today. Often times the people in the simplest outfits were over looked the most. Wearing a simple shirt and jeans may look unassuming but she was able to keep numerous surprises woven into fabric. The material used to create her weapon was so flexible and versatile that she could use it as armor, making shinobi standard regalia unnecessary.
Today was the day they were given their team assignments and made into proper little soldiers for their army.
Her grin widening, she hoisted the Warhammer that she had unfused from her blood and began walking to the academy, ignoring the shocked looks of the civilians at seeing such a petite girl wield such a massive weapon.
Entering the academy, she made her wait to the back, resting her hammer against the wall and sat down, ignoring the shocked looks of her classmates at seeing her without her signature hooded jacked.
Since her brat of a brother had cut off her hood there was really no reason to wear it anymore. It was really just used as a source of amusement for her at seeing everyone attempt to glimpse her face.
At eleven o clock on the dot Iruka entered the room carrying a clipboard that contained the list of teams. "Welcome everyone to the last day of the academy. I am proud of all of you at being able to graduate. I am sure you will all carry with you the will of fire and do everything possible to protect your teammates as they would for you. But remember that even as you separate into teams, you are all shinobi of Konoha and that means you fight as one, with your teammates or even former rivals."
At this he glanced at several students who had known to be antagonistic or disliked each other.
"But now I will announce the teams, firs team 1…" Iruka continued, calling out three students and at time and the unlucky enough jonin senseis to be assigned a team full of civilian kids.
"Team 6 will be Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanka, and Choji Akimichi. Team 7 will be Naruto Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno."
The team nearly made her laugh, they really showed favoritism and bias on this one. Sasuke, Naruto, and a civilian girl named Sakura.
All three of them were in the top ten of the class. Of course the village would pander to the last Uchiha and the Hokage's favored child.
As she mentally insulted the village higher ups with a variety of creative insults she finally refocused as Iruka announced that team 8 would consist of Shino, Hinata, and Kiba Inuzaka. Finally after listing all of the kiddies Iruka finally got to her.
"And finally Mito Namikaze will be placed upon the already existing team 30 led by Romaru Ochi." Iruka stated, finishing the list he was reading from.
Mito grinned widely at that statement. Success! Her plan was progressing beautifully. Now she can work in the safety of the shadows.
"Excuse me professor, but I am here to pick up my new teammate."
Her mental exclamations ended at that voice.
Time seemed to slow as she turned to see the coal black eyes of Kabuto Yakushi, very much alive and staring right at her with an almost mocking expression.
The two stared at each other for nearly a minute before she slowly got up from the table and walked over to the older genin "Yeah…I am looking forward to working with you. My name is Mito Namikaze. I am sure we will be great friends." She almost growled at the last word.
They shook hands, both radiating a cold aura that the rest of the students and staff were oblivious too.
The game, had just become that much more complicated.
'But' She thought in her head as she followed the somehow alive genin, slowly grinning enough to make her look inhuman 'That just makes it so much more fun!'
AN: Hello everyone, I am finally back and ready for action. This chapter may have been a little short but it was necessary to transition from the academy phase into the genin phase. But anyway as always feel free to comment or pm me with any questions you have.