Chapter Two

The next day Inuzuka Yuri looks at her team, " I will spar each one of you individually going over Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, and Genjutsu to see where you all are in terms of skills. A friend of mine will test you in Kenjutsu, Genin Uzumaki. "

" If you mean ANBU Cat then she knows I'll take her down, my mother was her sensei and I use my mother's Kenjutsu style. ANBU Weasel is the only one whom can give me a decent Kenjutsu work out. " Kushika states matter of factly.

Yuri blinks, " You spar with ANBU Weasel? "

" Hell, yeah, he's one of the few that can make me push my limits. " Kushika states.

Shikana and Rei both snort, Kushika spoke the truth and Shisui was the one that helped them all with their shunshin speed, though now Shikana was free to pursue a relationship with Shunshin no Shisui. Rei had her eyes on Uchiha Koji, he was well renowned for his use of the replacement jutsu. How the three friends ended up falling for three decent Uchiha males that had not fallen to the curse of hatred and arrogance they couldn't understand. Rei went first in the spar with their sensei unlike other Aburame she continually worked to enlarge her reserves so she would have chakra left over for some jutsu and she worked on her taijutsu as well. Aburame were traditionally long range fighters so Rei knew she had to somehow overcome this obstacle.

Shikana was not a lazy Nara, she trained her ass off but she was still just as smart and she still played Shogi whenever she could, teaching the game to Rei and Kushika. Playing Kushika was fun because she never knew how she was going to move her pieces, it gave her quite the work out mentally. They also went over old battles to see where they went wrong and then planned out responses and counter-responses while they had been in the academy.

Kushika had been the one to train them in stealth and trap making, once Shikana caught on there had been one more prankster in Konoha. They both took turns in giving Naruto pranks to pull off. The fact that he could pull them off wearing kill me orange should have said that the other ninja in the village needed more training. Weasel was the only one whom even came close to finding him. Snake he just sought shelter with as no one was stupid enough to piss her off. That was tantamount to pissing off Kushina, Mikoto, and Hitomi at the same time and they had been trained by Tsunade of the Sannin.

Needless to say all three of them were capable of the same feats as Naruto, hell, it was Kushika that had gotten Itachi's stealth up to par. Shisui would spar with them whenever he had the time and they generally did so on Nara lands as not even the Uchiha were stupid enough to spy on a clan that could plot their murders and do so without leaving a trace.

Naras may generally be lazy but they were also highly intelligent, which was why no one pissed off a Nara. A Nara that could prank with the best of them was a bad thing, plus Shikana was teaching Shikamaru, the Clan head's son, the fine art of trap making or rather pranks and stealth. As she told Shikamaru, if he could hide in kill me orange then he was good to go if he wore normal ninja colors. Shikamaru could see the reasoning in that and dragged his best friend Akimichi Choji along for the ride when it came to stealth training.

Rei stepped up first to spar against their Inuzuka sensei, at the same time Naruto is getting overcharged for food again, at least until Anko walks in to the store, " Now I know you aren't overcharging the gaki for anything, right? "

Mitaraishi Anko was just not a Tokubetsu Jonin that you screwed with in any way, shape, or form. They had at first after she returned from being Orochimaru's apprentice and some still looked at her with distrust in their eyes. That was why she relished being in the T&I department, that allowed her to take her frustrations out on hapless victims and spies. The workers in the store curse and charge Naruto the right price as they knew Anko would make their lives hell if they didn't. What they didn't know was that every time this happened Anko added to the list she was making for Kushika. When the girl became a jonin things were definitely going to get interesting around here. She would definitely put the council in its place when she claimed the Uzumaki seat and started proxying the Namikaze seat.

Uchiha Fugaku glares at nothing, his wife was the clan head, not him, and every time a clan member pissed her off she would have that Uzumaki bitch seal off their chakra and Sharingan, burning it from their genetics so they couldn't even pass it on if they hadn't already. Mikoto was not standing for any shit from any of their clan members, if they got too arrogant with her they were punished, the next offense was loss of their chakra and Sharingan. If he were to even begin to suspect that three of his decent Uchiha, one being his eldest son, could even dare consider matrilineal marriage he'd have a stroke. Mikoto had no problem with this as she already suspected the relationship between Itachi and Kushika.

Mikoto was doing her damnedest to keep her little Sasuke from falling through the cracks of darkness into the Uchiha clan curse. She made sure he played like a normal child and she refused to allow anyone other than herself, Itachi, Shisui, or Koji to train him. Sure, Itachi and Koji were a bit standoffish but they were not arrogant jackasses that had poles permanently lodged up their asses either. The Hyuuga Clan was just as bad in Mikoto's opinion, well except for Hitomi and Hinata.

" Auntie Mikoto, can you help me with my Taijutsu? " Mikoto smiles as Hinata comes racing up. Mikoto was going to make damn sure that Hinata gained a bitch mode when she needed it. Hitomi had, had one and boy did the Hyuuga Clan ever learn it too. Mikoto had already had Kushika make it so the Caged Bird Seal couldn't be placed upon the kind hearted child as well, not that the Hyuuga Elders knew about any of that.

" Sure, your mom made me watch her forms with my Sharingan and then master them, just in case. I don't know how to do them with chakra, but I'm sure you can figure that out. " Mikoto says.

Under Mikoto's tutelage Hinata would flourish and the girl would develop her own personal bitch mode, " Hinata, don't let them push you around once I get you up to an acceptable level of power and skill. "

" I don't like hurting family though, Auntie Mikoto. " Hinata says.

" Neither did your mother but she didn't let the Hyuuga Clan Elders push her around either. Plus, she made damn sure that the arrogant ones learned their place by beating them in a taijutsu match. " Mikoto tells the six year old. Her mother had just recently died giving birth to her daughter Hinabi, " Then there's the fact that if you don't show the elders that you're a bitch that shouldn't be messed with then they will try and throw you in the branch family. "

Hinata's eyes widen, her mother had fought back when necessary, well, then Hinata would do the same, even if it meant having to gently hurt her little sister when she was old enough. Mikoto had no way of knowing that her words had sparked a decisive change in young Hinata. Hinata would no longer allow herself to be bullied, she would fight back, " Auntie Mikoto, can you teach me how to use pressure points as well. You don't need the Byakugan for those. "

Yuri curses as she gets tricked by yet another bug clone, most Aburame did not have reserves like this but Rei was different. The female Aburame had been working on upping her reserves for years as she knew she would need to make use of bug clones, the replacement jutsu as well as the Henge or transformation jutsu. Sarutobi-sama had warned her about using her ninken when assessing them, as none of them would hold back. Yuri pales and flashes through the hand signs for the replacement jutsu just before Rei manages to get her kunai in a kill position.

" All right, I think we should work on weapons with you, Rei. Who's next in the assessment spars. Rei, you're good with the basics, your control is excellent, and from what I can see you're good with your clan jutsu as well. Weapons and elements training for the next while. "

Shikana walks forward, yawning, she was going use her clan's reputation to her advantage. Kushika smirks, Shikana was also going to be laying the ground work for Kushika to use some seals as well. Shikana had taken quite well to fuuinjutsu as a whole and Kushika was quite happy to be teaching her as she was a sealing master, certified by Jiraiya himself. Kushika had also left the beginning scrolls with Naruto and only one with Uzumaki blood could open them or even touch them. The Hokage was going to kill her once Naruto started implementing fuuinjutsu into his pranks.

Still the sealing arts were his legacy and she was not going to let him be denied it due to the damn council. Then Kushika's chakra chains react on their own, tangling up three Root members. " HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL THAT DAMN INTERFERING WARHAWK TO NOT EFFING SPY ON ME AND MY FRIENDS, DATTEBANE! "

Yuri shivers even as she continues to spar with Shikana, whom had nearly caught her with her shadow possession several times. Kushika was definitely her daughter. Kushika rips the spies apart and then marks the bodies with seals that take them back to Shimura Danzo.

Root HQ:

Danzo shudders when the corpses come back to him, that girl always noticed and her chakra chains had trained themselves to notice any spies she didn't. He already couldn't spy on the Uzumaki Clan Compound and now the Nara Clan Compound couldn't be spied on either as they had commissioned the Uzumaki heiress to make it so outside entities couldn't spy on them. Mikoto was using the girl to deal with the dissenters in her clan by sealing their chakra and Sharingan away. This irritated him because he wanted to implant the eyes into himself but at least Mikoto wasn't a weak head nor had she fallen to the curse of hatred and arrogance.

She was cracking down on her clan, and this included the military police force. If she found any of them to be abusing their power they were removed and killed, their eyes destroyed. She was allowing the Inuzuka's into the police force because they were some of the best trackers around. She was reconnecting the Uchiha to the village and had told the ignorant civilians to shut the hell up, for all she knew one of the Uchiha reported killed in action didn't die and was the one behind everything. There were some bodies that were never recovered after all, including one Uchiha Obito.

Since she had pointed that out the mistrust of the Uchiha Clan had gone down significantly. Not even the banshee Haruno council woman could deny or fault that logic. Danzo hated that he couldn't either, she was right, one of the reported dead Uchiha could have survived and controlled the Kyuubi no Kitsune quite easily.

Team 5 Training Ground:

Yuri was cursing the entirety of the Nara Clan as she tried to find a way to out play the genin she was sparring. This turned out to not be such an easy task, the girl was a Nara, and Naras happened to be, as stated before, quite intelligent. Shikana was actually impressed with the curses that her sensei was levying against her entire clan. Unknown to her Shikaku was actually watching this spar along with the Hokage via the crystal ball.

" Damn, an actual motivated Nara, then again she is friends with Kushika so it should come as no surprise. The fact that she has Yuri cursing out the entire clan quite creatively is something though. " Shikaku states.

" Kushika is teaching her sealing. " Hiruzen states.

Shikaku pales, " Dear Kami-sama, no. A Nara learning fuuinjutsu, why are you allowing this, are you insane‽"

" Kushika is a sealing mistress and took Shikana on as an apprentice and you know sealing masters and mistresses are hard to come by. " Hiruzen points out to the clan head.

Shikaku moans, " Do you realize how damn troublesome my wife is going to be when she hears about this? I already have Itachi, Shisui, and Koji Uchiha training on my clan's lands because they don't trust the other Uchiha or the Hyuuga. Can't really blame them for that either as the Uchiha are generally jutsu thieves. They rarely bother mastering anything. The exceptions being Itachi, Shisui, Koji, and Mikoto. "

" Koji is definitely an interesting one with his focus on traps and tracking. He'll make a good Hunter nin one day. Though he hasn't let other skills fall to the way side. He's a decent all around Shinobi with a focus on trap making. I'd almost swear he had some Uzumaki blood in him somewhere if I didn't know better. " Hiruzen admits.

Back at the training grounds Yuri has finally managed to beat Shikana, but just barely. This told the jonin she needed to up her training regime by a lot. Kushika stretches out and smirks, Shikana had laid all the ground work beautifully and now all she had to do was lead their sensei into the well laid trap. Everyone always discounted fuuinjutsu until it was too late, far too late at that. Kushika slips into the first stance of the Whirling Tides Fist and waits for her sensei to make the first move.

Yuri curses at this, Kushika was not going to make the first move, though unknown to the Inuzuka she already had through Shikana. Rei just keeps the stoic Aburame look on her face though she knew what her teammates had done. They had done this before with the Uchiha boys. Their eyes never caught it and they never realized the sealing arrays had been laid down until it was far too late as Shikana and Kushika had invented an invisible chakra conductive ink, invisible to the targets she should say. It dried invisibly and with the security seals those two used no one would be getting that ink formula for quite some time to come.

Only their apprentices would learn that formula though Kushika was going to make sure that Naruto learned a certain seal that would make it so he couldn't be graded wrong. It was why she had started him on his heritage so early. She knew there would be those that would try and screw with him in the academy so she was trying to become a jonin so she could be clan head and put those effers in their places. She had the allegiance of the Nara Clan already due to the seals she had done and the specialty ones they had commissioned from her.

She also had an alliance with the Aburame clan due to the specialty seals she had created for them as well, free of charge after she had been talking to Rei. As long as Mikoto was head of the Uchiha Clan then she could also count on Uchiha backing as well. Hiashi would back only because not backing an Uzumaki was suicide and his wife would return from the dead to use her Eight Trigrams Arrogance Castration Palm Jutsu on him. She'd used it on plenty of Hyuugas and Uchihas not to mention any pervert whom refused to take no for an answer. The fact that she taught it to her teammates and Mikoto had taught it to Kushika made it an unwise idea to not ally with the Uzumaki heiress.

She'd also chosen Mikoto to proxy for the Uzumaki Clan and Shikaku for the Namikaze, she had said that they wouldn't use that power for wrongful purposes while glaring at Danzo and the elders. Kushika knew how to work politics she just hated it and preferred to use intimidation tactics to get the job done. While Rei was thinking about all this the spar had continued on until Kushika ups the ante and puts more strength into her blows. Yuri pales when she realizes the rumors about the girl recreating Tsunade of the Sannin's legendary strength are true as one kick created a decent sized crater, and somehow she got the feeling that was pure strength without being enhanced by chakra.

" I train with resistance seals and I released them a little bit, I doubt you could keep up if I released them completely. I'll do that with Weasel or maybe I could do so with Might Guy, they could actually keep up with me, you couldn't, and I do need to get used to my new speed and strength. " Kushika says.

Yuri curses the Uzumaki clan and their seals this time. Kushika smirks and had Fugaku or Hiashi seen this they would have screamed like little girls and run for the hills. Whenever a certain Habanero had gotten that look on her face it meant trouble and suffering. Kushika's hands fly through the seals at an alarmingly fast pace, " Fuuin! "

Yuri curses when she is frozen in place, " How…? "

" I laid the array while I was fighting you and then all Kushika had to do was get you into position. It's troublesome to even explain all this to you. " Shikana says.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.