AN: Greetings everyone, time for the fourth chapter of the series. I am looking forward to where this story is headed. The poll results are great, I am going to count them up and have them listed at the bottom of this chapter, but remember the poll won't close for a while so there is still plenty of time to vote. As you probably know I am writing the blood hound again and I have a bad track record of writing two stories at a time, but I hope to break that habit with this story.

Anyway ill head to the comments

C-ThunPhosphorus – Your commend made my day, I am glad that the old gods approve ^_^

Drowning Iceburg – One of the largest tilters I have when reading fanfiction is when some writer gives the mc 100 abilities an epic and limitless potential summon such as dragons or pheonixs or some other shit then every battle is just 'Oh naruto or so and so beat them with his mere presence or one draw from his sword, no one not even Kaguya herself can beat him at six years old!' its bullshit. It ruins a story if not done extremely carefully and I can name maybe 4 who did it well. I give my characters a few abilities that they make many interpretations of, at the end of the day giving it the same power as the other guy, but with a plot of how he or she got there.

Edelhart – there most likely will not be a pairing in this fic. I like to give the readers something that they can vote on to allow them some influence on the story, which is why I usually pick a pairing to do so, but I feel it would just be too off focus from the plot of the story.

Anyway no doubt you ignored this section so I will get on with the important part, the story!

Chapter 4:

Who are You?

Mito followed the silver haired boy with a wide grin on her face, eyes boring into his back, as if trying to figure everything about him from her gaze alone.

Coincidentally if a child saw her grin and immediately starting crying for his mother was not her problem…not at all.

The reason she was so excited was that she knew she killed the guy. She hit him with a saronite Warhammer at full force to the chest. At the very least she had broken every rib in his body, if not destroying his heart entirely.

There was no genjutsu, or substitution.

He had been dead.

'Self-resurrection? No, that is impossible without an accomplice. Mind controlling parasite? Unlikely. Alien invaders? Again not likely. Instant regeneration? Possibly.' She thought to herself as she bored holes into the back of his head, mad grin on the whole way.

Kabuto glanced behind him before instantly snapping his eyes forward again. The girl was creepy. Not the same level as Lord Orochimaru creepy, but there was something about a young girl with such a creepy grin on her face that was just another level of scary. He almost felt as if she was going to pull a knife and shank him at any time.

Thinking back, he remembered when he contacted Orochimaru with the news of his assailant and what he should do.

(Flashback)

Kabuto kneeled behind the clone of Orochimaru, who was posing as their sensei. It amazed him how his master could hide so easily within his former home. Even his name was a taunt at the village, Romaru Ochi, an obvious twist on Orochimaru. But if one were to research the man's background everything up to his great grandparents would be perfectly recorded.

No connection to the snake sannin whatsoever.

Many said that the toad sage was the best spy amongst the sannin trio, but Kabuto knew that was a lie.

The fact that no one knew how easily Orochimaru could enter a village and create a whole new life for himself was proof of that.

Jiraiya may be the most well-known spy master, but the best spy is the unknown spy.

"Kabuto, you requested to speak to me. I sense you are disturbed, what is the matter?" Orochimaru finally spoke, breaking the medic-nin out of his contemplations as the clone spoke.

"Master, yesterday Yoroi was killed. I had to sacrifice him to keep my cover." Kabuto spoke, waiting for the inevitable follow up question.

Orochimaru turned to regard the grey haired youth with serpentine eyes, "I see…no matter he was useless. But tell me, what happened?"

"Last night I was training and was attacked by a female assailant. I did not know her motives but as the fight went on she revealed too much and allowed me to identify her identity and her goals." Kabuto explained, "The girl was Mito Namikaze, the second child of Minato Namikaze, and her goal was to open a slot in an already existing team to, if I assume correctly, make it to chunin as fast as possible."

The snake sannin raised an eyebrow in interest "So the second born child, the supposed useless daughter of the beloved Hokage turns out to be quite ambitious and ruthless? Fascinating. But this does not tell me why Yoroi is dead, or why more than half your chakra reserves are depleted."

"…" Kabuto remained silent, not wanting to admit the truth.

"Oh?" Orochimaru remarked with a grin "She defeated you then? So the supposedly average child has been hiding skills has she?"

Kabuto nodded grudgingly "I did not go all out at the start, having underestimated my assailant, but when I wanted to get serious I was not able too. Her fighting style is like fighting a mad man. She wields a massive Warhammer as if it was a stick and leaves no quarter for jutsu or counter attack without serious injury."

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes at that information. Even with chakra no normal child of twelve should be able to wield such a weapon. Usually kunoichi went for faster and less heavy weapons due to their physique and the time required to actually use a heavy weapon, the same could be said for shinobi. In fact, only ninja of Iwa and Kiri even used heavy weapons.

Kabuto continued "In the midst of battle I knew I could not win without using my most powerful abilities, potentially killing the girl or crippling her, which would attract unwanted attention. Unnoticed or not, she is still the Hokage's only daughter. She let slip mid battle that my death would open opportunities for her, I doubt she knows about me being a spy meaning the only thing she could gain from my death would be an opening in team 30, arguably the most experienced genin team to not make it to chunin."

Orochimaru nodded, his mind going through possible scenarios and how this information could be used to his advantage. The girl did not interest him, not only was she not even a Jinchuuriki but had no kikkei genkai unless she unlocked her mother's chakra chains ability. He already had an Uzumaki under his employ and the Namikaze weren't even a clan.

In all honesty he did not even have any plans for team 30 other than a front to cover for Kabuto. But with Mito Namikaze joining there was certainly potential. Kabuto, while having no bloodline or any technique that could be useful when switching bodies, was still one of his most highly ranked underlings. Perhaps he could bring Mito to his side? Perhaps like his sensei before him he could actually train a team of his own. Kabuto and Mito would certainly be members but who could be the third?

"Kabuto."

"Yes master?"

"…Bring me a list of this year's genin. I believe this means there will have to be a change of plans. And the removal of some loose ends." Orochimaru said, eyes narrowed as he was handed the shinobi cards of each graduate.

Shifting through them he was uninterested in the vast majority, most were clan kids, who would never be persuaded to abandon Konoha while the rest were useless civilians.

Except for one.

"Kabuto, tell me. What do you think of having actual teammates?"

Kabuto looked uncertain "Sir?"

"Team Kabuto, comprised of you, Mito, and this boy. Hojin is his name. He could be useful."

The silver haired youth looked uncertain "The dead last sir?"

Orochimaru chuckled "you and I both know why he is last in the standings. His summons alone makes him stronger than the others, but you also know of his rather interesting hobby."

Kabuto adjusted his glasses before nodding "His abilities with illusions are truly exemplary."

Orochimaru smirked "Exactly, his summons combined with his illusions make quite the combination."

"As you command Lord Orochimaru" Kabuto said before disappearing into the night, displaced leaves the only sign he was there at all.

Orochimaru returned to looking out over the village, smiling cruelly as he imagined the true irony of what he was about to do.

"I have surpassed you in everything sensei. Now then shall I surpass you as a teacher as well?"

(End Flashback)

After that night Mitsuragi was found dead, having committed suicide due to the grief of losing one of his teammates.

In addition, due to a logistic error team seven, who originally was supposed to have Hojin as a member, was replaced with Sakura Haruno.

Finally arriving at the training ground they were assigned Mito tore her eyes away from the mysterious ash haired genin to the training grounds.

It was an average ground with forest surrounding each side. Training posts were dug into the ground in the middle of the clearing but there was not much else to look at.

Turning her attention away from the rather boring training ground she focused on the two people standing in the clearing.

One could easily be mistaken for a Hyuga with his long silky hair, seriously what products did this guy use? But the Hyuga theory was immediately dashed when she saw his yellowish eyes and pale skin. This must be her sensei.

Looking at the next of the two males, who was much shorter and wore a black turtleneck with a black coat with a fur collar. She could see a sword handle sheathed into his belt. His hair was in a weird style where it was spiky, but with one spiky bang covered one eye.

Seriously, what products did those two use because there was no way this shit was natural.

"Ah, we are all finally here then. I hope you do not mind that I collected Hojin before he entered the school, I had to complete some paper work with him at the orphanage." The Jounin spoke, moving to lean against one of the training posts.

"But enough about that, I am your new sensei, Ochi Romaru. To tell you a bit about myself I have been a Jounin for five years and starting today I have replaced the previous sensei for team 30, due to his retirement. I have no specialization, choosing to branch out into all aspects of shinobi life. But be warned. I am not an easy going teacher. I will break you all down and build you back up as a strong fighting force." Their sensei's eyes narrowed, "Do not disappoint me."

He stared into the eyes of each of the genin before continuing "Now. I do not believe in the a real genin test since that simply wastes time. I would not have selected you if you did not have potential. However, I do wish to test your abilities. I already know Kabuto's strengths since I have been his sensei for the past few weeks, but you two will face me in spars for today."

Mito grinned while Hojin frowned, both shifting into their respective stances.

Kabuto backed away to the edge of the clearing, watching the three with interest. Despite only being a clone of their master, therefore not having any access to his signature abilities, the clone was still easily a match for a jonin. So how could two powerful genin compare?

Mito hovered a hand over her right wrist, calling out her mace from its seal, gripping it tightly. She felt herself trembling with excitement. This was a jonin, someone must stronger than any other of her victims in the past.

Hojin stared steadily at his opponent before drawing his sword. The design was peculiar to Mito. The edge was double sided and had no curve unlike a katana.

Romaru grinned in an almost mocking manner as he beckoned them forward "Begin!"

Mito dashed forward, jumping high into the air before returning quickly to the earth with a resounding crash as her mace slammed into the ground, creating a large plume of dirt and dust.

Out of the natural smoke Ochi jumped out the smoke, chuckling lightly at the power such a small girl could had within her body. "Hm?" The clone of Orochimaru thought as he noticed a glint within the cloud, which quickly revealed itself to be Hojin as he traveled at high chunin speeds, thrusting his sword forward, enhanced by his speed.

Drawing a kunai with blistering speeds the jonin deflected the cut, then continued to block continuous thrusts, before having to jump back as the boy twirled and slashed at him with a hidden dagger. Smiling as he blasted the boy back with a weak wind jutsu "I see. So you have incredible piercing potential with your sword while relying on your dagger for quick cuts. An impressive style, and only enhanced with your teammates…" The jonin spoke before channeling earth chakra into his arm to catch the Warhammer that was about to slam into him from behind.

"What!?" Mito exclaimed with wide eyes as her attack was stopped with one hand.

"Your great strength will compliment your teammate's speed well. But it is foolish to think that those two things alone would be enough to beat me…"

Using his earth increased strength he wrenched the hammer out of Mito's hands before using it to knock away Hojin who had attempted to use Ochi's distraction to attack.

Mito landed several feet away, her hair obscuring her eyes.

The familiar feeling of something buzzing inside her head returned.

'My hammer'

Slowly getting up the buzzing increased in intensity as she saw her sensei with her precious weapon.

"Give me my hammer back…" She growled.

Romaru looked amused at seeing her distressed state before mockingly gesturing with it "Come and get it then."

The buzzing cut out. Leaving her mind blank, before a darkness creeped across her vision.

"Give. It. BACK!" Mito screamed out, her body radiating a dark aura.

Romaru dropped the mocking smile and stared analytically at the darkness that was enveloping the girl.

Hojin was also staring wide eyed at the development, stepping back a bit 'What type of jutsu is that?"

He never got an answer however as Mito seemed to form a dagger out of the aura and dashed at speeds much faster than she had demonstrated previously.

The wickedly curved dagger arced down onto the sensei of team 30.

Romaru quickly began batting the dagger away with the girl's Warhammer, curious about her transformation. Was this the result of being the offspring of a jinnchuriki? He knew for a fact that the boy was the container for the Kyuubi, so where was this power coming from?

However, he noticed something interesting, every time he blocked the dagger with the black Warhammer, it was slowly shrinking as the dagger grew longer.

Soon he was only holding what had once been the impressive hammer while his student wielded a much larger dagger, which now could be classified as a sword.

Now that the dagger was larger he could now see the design of it. The pommel had a guard with several spikes going through it while a large eye rested on top of the guard. The blade itself was curved almost to resemble a sickle.

"Give. It. Back!" Mito shouted, the nihilistic aura around her growing darker.

Hojin, deciding that he was safe from Mito's wrath decided to reengage the jonin, he did not know what type of jutsu or bloodline Mito was displaying, but it could be towards their advantage.

"Time to get serious sensei" He stated coldly, before flashing through handseals "Summoning jutsu!"

A plume of drifted away to reveal a flock of bats, each with large fangs and each as large as his torso. "This is just training guys, but this guy is strong enough for us to go all out!" He commanded, earning nods from the intelligent summoning bats.

Readying his sword again he dashed forward, using the sword style the bat clan had taught him.

Orochimaru growled lowly as he deflected the strange sword and dodging out of the way of Hojin's sword.

As he dodged out of the way six bats formed a ring around him and began screeching loudly.

'This is similar to one of Jiraiya's techniques. The sonic waves they are emitting create a strong genjutsu, I cannot allow them to complete it!' he thought, impressed despite himself at the strength of these two genin.

Flashing through handsigns Ochi breathed out a ball of fire at the flock of bats, breaking up their formation.

However, the distraction gave Mito ample time to dash forward, much faster now that she was not encumbered by the heavy hammer, slashing at Orochimaru, with Hojin soon following with a piercing strike of his own.

As the two closed in with their pincer attack, Orochimaru grinned "Well done you two, but you are a hundred years early to defeat me.

Time seemed to slow as the pale jonin seemed to twist and distort to dodge their attacks and grab each of their wrists to throw them both away.

Hojin growled flashing through handsigns as he was thrown away "Bat formation, Kamikaze!"

Many of the bats in the clearing started turning red as they dive bombed the clone of the sannin.

Ochi quickly jumped out of the way as the bats slammed into the ground, creating explosions wherever they landed.

"Oh? How cold to sacrifice your bats like that?" Inwardly he was quite impressed, he wished his snakes followed orders that well.

Hojin smirked "Don't worry, there perfectly fine. Those bats are special. They can survive any environment, being in an explosion won't even scratch them."

Orochimaru raised an eyebrow in interest "I see." However, his interest in his student's summons could wait as he had to duck a swing from a still berserk Mito, the curved sickle sword flying above his head by centimeters.

"Well, this has been very educational for all of us I bet." The jonin remarked as he blocked the last hit by Mito with the remains of the mace he had taken from her, the last of it being absorbed into the sword, causing the girl to visibly calm down.

Romaru smiled at the girl, "I am going to look forward to learning more about you two. But I suppose you have impressed me enough."

Hojin relaxed and there were several plumes of smoke around the field as he dismissed the bats.

Kabuto walked back into the clearing, impressed after watching the battle. The two kids could probably match him going all out if they worked together. For genin, they certainly were the unofficial top of their class.

Blinking Mito looked at the three teenagers and her sensei and rubbed the back of her head sheepishly "Sorry, I just really dislike anyone using my weapon."

Three deadpan faces met her words.

(Later that day)

Minato sat behind his desk as the jonin senseis who have already congregated into the room. The senseis from teams one through six had already entered, stating that their teams had failed and the students would either be returned to the academy, integrated back into civilian life, or join more specialized organizations, such as the cypher corp.

However, the four senseis that entered the room were each the ones most likely to pass their students. Kakashi Hatake, Kurenai Yuhi, Asuna Sarutobi, and finally Ochi Romaru.

"Report." Minato commanded, picking up the profiles of each of the teams as they began speaking.

"Team 8 passed with flying colors." Yuhi stated proudly. Thanks to each of her teammates tracking skills they were easily able to pass her test as well as accomplish the objective of the assignment she gave them.

"Team 9 passed, their abilities mesh well together but I will have to work on their personalities more." Asuna stated tiredly. He had picked the team because he had hoped they would already be a cohesive unit and he would not have to work as hard. But each child was not as similar to their parents as he hoped. Shikamaru was lazier than Shikaku and Ino was a fangirl. Honestly the only one similar to their parents was Choji.

Everyone looked at Kakashi who was deeply staring at his book, ignoring all of them.

Minato coughed, embarrassed that his student would read smut right in front of the village leader.

Looking up lazily Kakashi spoke "Hm? Oh. Team 7 passed, barely. But they passed."

Kurenai snorted "You actually passed a team for once Kakashi?"

Kakashi nodded "Yes, they were able to grasp the meaning of the test in the end. Despite being sensei's son and a Uchiha I would have failed them if they had not grasped the meaning of teamwork. However, I will have to definitely work on each of them. Individually they are all skilled in their own way but have no way to mesh their abilities cohesively yet."

Minato nodded, proud of his son for passing before turning to Romaru, who had been mostly quiet so far "And your team Romaru? How did they do."

Romaru nodded before responding "While my team is not technically a rookie team so I did not assign them any special task. I would not have accepted either of them if they did not already have potential to work with. However, both of them exceeded my expectations. Especially your daughter Hokage-sama."

Minato's heart clenched at the mention of his daughter. He really wished he could fix the mistakes of his past, but even with space time ninjutsu that was impossible. So he simply sighed deeply and nodded "I am glad they lived up to your expectations. I expect the team will flourish under your leadership. Your record as a jonin has been impeccable so far so I have full faith in you."

Romaru nodded, eyes glinting in what the others assumed to be pride. "There is one more thing I must discuss with you Hokage-sama, regarding your daughter. I am afraid it is rather delicate so I would rather tell you in private."

Minato's eyes hardened at those words "I see." He turned to the other three and they nodded before leaving the room.

"Speak." Minato commanded the pale jonin.

"Well, Mito-san displayed some abilities that I was unaware that she had in the academy. I judged her skill level based on her performance in the genin exams, but it proved to be much higher than what I was expecting. She showed great mastery with her unconventional weapon, signifying that it was not a recent acquisition that I had come to believe, but one she has trained for years in. I do not know if she self-taught herself those techniques or someone taught her but she used moves no amateur could pull off."

Minato frowned, he had assumed from the reports that Mito had only recently acquired her weapon, which would explain why no one had seen it before, but it seemed there was a much deeper story to this.

"In addition Hokage, I am afraid I must be honest with you."

Minato nodded, curious about what the jonin would say.

"Is it possible that a child of a Jinchuuriki could inherit some abilities from the bijuu itself?"

Minato started at the question and stared hard at the jonin "Explain." He commanded, fully serious now, giving the man his full attention.

The disguised sannin hid a smirk as he spoke "Mito displayed an interesting power when I was having her and Hojin spar with me. I had removed her of the Warhammer I talked to you previously about and she flew into a rage, summoning a dark aura around herself, completely black in color. It looked disturbingly similar to a tailed chakra cloak."

Minato frowned, clasping his fingers he thought about the chance that lingering bijuu chakra could have transferred from Kushina to Mito. It was not impossible, cases similar to this had been reported. The Gold and Silver brothers were able to acquire bijuu chakra by just eating some of the lining of the Kyuubi's stomach. It would make sense that his daughter would inherit some by simply being in his wife's womb.

"Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will be sure to look into it." Minato informed the jonin "Dismissed."

Minato frowned as he stared across the village. If Mito did indeed have a piece of the Kyuubi inside of her, did it have sentience? Was that how she had gotten so skilled? Perhaps the chakra had been training her…

No, that was impossible. The mind of the Kyuubi was sealed safely inside his son, there was no way the chakra could be affecting the mind of his daughter.

But…there were many questions that need answering.

It pained him at his core to have them, but he could not answer it.

"Who are you Mito Namikaze…" He whispered, despairing that he knew so little about his only daughter.

AN: Hello! Sorry for the long wait, I have been very busy lately with essays and was too written out to type my stories. But I finished (most) of my essays and ready to keep writing. Here is also the results from the poll so far. I am probably going to give Mito her summoning contract in the midst of the chunin exams so you still have until then to vote.

Twilight Dragons 8

Faceless Ones 6

Sithilids 11

Currently Sithilids have the lead but its pretty even so far. I can see any of the three taking it. Anyway, if you have any questions or simply want to point something out feel free to pm me or leave a review.