Chapter Three

Two Weeks Later:

Anko Mitaraishi sighs as she watches over the little blonde Gaki. She had no problem watching over him and Ibiki was loving all the new victims that he got to play with for screwing with the gaki. Though he was starting to master trap seals easily enough and Kushika had just recently left the intermediate scroll with him as her shadow had informed her that he had mastered the beginners scroll, soon he would be able to set up security seals like a pro.

Uzumaki Naruto didn't know whom his mysterious benefactor was but this person was teaching him. Anko had taken to teaching him how to read and write when he was younger and now gave him vocabulary quizzes. Age appropriate or Kushika would kill her. She wanted her little brother to have some innocence. He especially loved the fuuinjutsu scrolls and supplies he was left. Though Anko would buy him more along with making sure he could buy decent clothes and food. The Ichirakus were capable of feeding him every day and a proper diet too. Kushika kept them informed of what he would need as well. Her shadow clone had undone every seal except the one containing the Kyuubi on him.

When she had gotten those memories she had been infuriated and informed the Hokage if she ever got definitive proof on whom had done that to her little brother then she would kill said person or people. Naruto was also grateful that Anko had taught him several chakra control exercises, leaf sticking, leaf spinning, kunai and shuriken balancing, tree climbing, and water walking. For now she used rubber balls to help him learn to dodge and keep his concentration. Naruto knew he had a lot of chakra which is why he had asked Anko if there were other clone jutsus he could learn. The regular clone just used to little chakra for him to use it effectively.

Anko had taught him water clones after testing his affinities; strong affinities for wind and water with a lesser affinity for earth. This clone Naruto could actually do as it took more chakra. Anko had seen where he was going and couldn't blame the kid, he just had to make clones not a normal clone. Sneaky, then again this was the kid that could sneak into ANBU headquarters in kill me orange, dye their uniforms the same color and leave before ever being noticed.

The Hokage was seriously considering making all of ANBU train their stealth by wearing the color if a six year old could infiltrate and get back out with- out anyone being the wiser for it until after they saw their uniforms. Kushika had trained her stealth like that as well and had her teammates train their stealth like that too. The little blonde lights up when he finds the next scroll for fuuinjutsu waiting for him. He was almost ready for the next set of katas for the Whirling Tides Fist as well. Once he had that mastered he didn't know what he would do. Anko was teaching him how to throw kunai, shuriken, and senbon. She was also teaching him pressures points and brought out a dummy and helped him incorporate hitting them into the Whirling Tides Fist.

The council couldn't do jack shit to her either after Mikoto had laid down the law with them Habanero style. Any civilian that she caught screwing with Naruto was handed over to the Konoha Military Police Force and any Uchiha that abused him was killed immediately by the head of the clan. She would stamp out that arrogance and that meant marrying outside the damn clan, inbreeding was never a good thing. That was why she would allow Itachi to marry into his wife's family and she was hoping to hell that Kushika would snag him.

Itachi, had he known what his mother was thinking about would have been mortified. Still, he would have liked that she approved of Kushika while his father most certainly did not. Itachi was not a typical Uchiha, he hated fighting unless it was to protect his village, Naruto, Kushika, his mother, little brother, or Shisui. He had passed on Kushika's warning to his cousin as well. Shisui had understood the warning and had upped his training, asking Kushika for resistance seals. Shisui was the only one whom had upgraded his Sharingan through hard work and not killing his best friend like everyone else did. Koji had started training with them as well.

All three knew that they needed to be ready for the damn war hawk. Itachi had warned his kaa-san cryptically as well. The three male Uchiha complemented each other's styles very well. Itachi was currently helping Koji with his Kenjutsu while Shisui was working through his katas having recently gotten the level of his resistance seals upped by Kushika. Itachi had been stunned at the speed she had when she fully released her seals after she made genin when they sparred and had asked her to teach him how to make them and use them.

She had done so only after he promised that he would show no one. He understood as sealing was to the Uzumakis like the Sharingan to the Uchiha. Koji was also starting on poisons as a Shinobi could never be too careful. He was working on his immunity to the most common ones first and then he would work his way up. Plus, he could use poison's in his traps. Koji starts to smirk eerily similar to either Uzumaki sibling when they start planning pranks. Itachi pales, he'd seen that look before and knew it spelled doom for someone. " Koji, what are you thinking about? "

Koji smirks even more, " The kind of havoc I can cause with my traps once I become a poison master. "

Itachi blanches, " Whom will you test these out on? "

" Have Kushika give some Root idiots when I'm ready. " Koji says.

Itachi starts smirking as well, Kushika would actually be all for that, " How are you not an Uzumaki? "

" Well, little known fact, my six times great grandmother was an Uzumaki. The clan thinks it died out in my father's line as he didn't show a penchant for pranks or seals. Kushika realized I had Uzumaki blood and started training me in secret. " Koji says, he always used eavesdropping prevention seals, which included lip reading and Yamanaka clan jutsus as well the Hokage's Crystal Ball, " Why do you think I have so much damn chakra, not to mention heal so damn fast? I have to have a shadow clone working on chakra control for me all the time. "

Koji was saying all this while running through the kata forms of the kenjutsu style that he and Itachi though suited him best. They had also managed to discover that he worked best with a Nodatchi though he was also training on how to use a ninjato and katana. He knew he needed to be able to wield two blades at the same time, first he had to master them separately. Itachi and Kushika had promised to help him come up with his own unique kenjutsu style.

Kushika grabs up a certain demon cat with her chakra chains, " Tora, let me put it to you this way, if I have to catch you one more time I will put a seal on you that will make it impossible for you to go more than five feet away from the Daimyo's wife. "

Tora's eyes widen in horror, she wouldn't would she? Tora takes a closer look and gulps, she would. " I'm going to put a seal on you that will let you know when my team has gotten the mission and you can go back to your mistress peacefully, otherwise I will follow through, got it? "

Tora nods vigorously and Kushika puts the seal on the inside of the hell spawn feline's collar before she rejoins her teammates and sensei. Kushika had just made catching Tora an easy assignment for her team as Tora did not want to be stuck that close to her mistress. Once the Daimyo's wife has collected her pet in the Hokage's office Kushika glares at him, " I know damn well we've done the prerequisite amount of D ranks for a C rank so why the hell haven't we gotten that damn C rank yet? "

Yuri gulps as does the Sandaime, they had been hoping to keep Kushika in the village for a good long while, " Look, I damn well know I won't be going to the chunin exams this year as they're in Iwa, I'm not stupid, but if you two think you'll be keeping me in this village guess again. "

Hiruzen sighs, just like Kushina and she was right, they had done the proper amount of D ranks to get a C rank mission. " All right, it's time for Team Five to get their first C rank. You'll be guarding a medical supply shipment, but first you have to pick it up in Nami no Kuni. "

Kushika smirks at this and disappears in a water shunshin. She had sealing supplies to get ready. Something told her that there were some people in Nami no Kuni that would be important to her little brother so she needed to set the ground work now. Kushika had everything she needed in on sealing scroll. She had her sword, a jitte, diagonally across her back for a quick draw with her right hand, kunai pouch on her left thing, with a senbon pouch ritght beside that, and then a shuriken pouch on her right thigh. She had her sealing supplies in a seal on her left wrist. Her hitai-ate was across her forehead and she stops off to see Anko, " I'm going on a C rank. Keep him safe, Anko. "

" Got it, Kushika. Be safe. "

" I'll be fine. Let the weasel know. "

With that Kushika took her leave, her teammates were similarly prepared, as they all believed in being over prepared. Yuri-sensei and her ninken Burumara were waiting for them at the gate. Kushika was glad she was finally going to get out of the village, though she did leave instructions behind for a few people. If Danzo thought he was going to get close to her little brother he had better think again. Mikoto would keep the damn fool in line and if necessary assign one of her trusted Uchiha to guard him.

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