As Team Kakashi was entering through the Konohagakure gates team Kurenai was leaving for a mission, when Team Kakashi went to greet Team Kurenai Kiba, seeing a red headed beauty that he had never seen before along with Team Kakashi, moving close to her in a manner that he thought made him seem like an alpha male, he asked, "hey, what's your name hot stuff?"

Hinata tried to apologise for her teammates actions before Naruto responded by taking a step forward and, drawing her short sword from where it was on her hip, rested it against Kiba's crown jewels and, in a calmly threatening manner, said "if you try something like this again, dog-boy, I'll make you into even less of a man than you already are!"

Kiba started sweating and squeaked out "okay" before backing away from the redhead on his
tip-toes.

Yamato Taichō said "I'm sorry to be leaving so soon, but we really need to report in to the Hokage."

"Of course" Kurenai replied, "we need to get going ourselves." Team Kurenai and Team Kakashi moved off in opposite directions.

When Team Kakashi arrived in the Hokage's office Tsunade asked, "so, how did the mission go?"

"I'm afraid that the mission was a failure. As the message that I sent to you said, we did everything correctly and then, due to various unavoidable circumstances, it all went to hell and Naruto ended up getting stabbed by Sasuke."

Tsunade frowned before asking "so, that's Naruto then is it?"

"Yeah, sure is baa-chan!" Naruto exclaimed with a shit-eating grin on her face before Tsunade threw an eraser at her.

"Well, Sakura has also sent me a message telling me about what happened and I've consulted with medics from the Hyūga clan and they agree with Sakura's diagnosis."

"Alright, so if you know what the problem is, then surely you can..."

"I'm afraid that there's nothing that I can do for you."

"Wha...?"

Tsunade said "unfortunately, Konoha's #1 unpredictable ninja has struck again, this situation has never once arisen before. The only reason that it did is because the Kyūbi sealed inside you, otherwise you would have died, I'm sorry but the only way that I can think of to return you to the way that you were before, would be to run you through again, and even then, there's no way of knowing if it would actually work as the frequency of the Raiton chakra would need to be very precise. I'm sorry, but even if you did want to take the chance I can't let you. You're just too valuable from a logistical point of view."

"Well, alright then, if there really is nothing that you can do I'll just have to learn to fight in this form."

Tsunade smiled in a weird way and said "I suppose I could have expected nothing else really. Alright then, Team Kakashi, you are dismissed." As the members of Team Kakashi turned around to leave Tsunade's office Tsunade said "Naruto, I'd like you to stay behind if that's alright."

"Sure thing" Naruto replied, not having any pressing matters to attend to. The other members of Team Kakashi left, leaving the two women in the room. "So, what did you want to talk about?"

"Nothing much really, it's just that the message that I received from Yamato also mentioned that you managed to recover Uzumaki Mito's blades?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Can I see them?"

"Sure, I guess, but Yamato-Taichō said that only an Uzumaki can hold them."

"You fool" Tsunade said in a laughing tone, "my grandmother was the original owner of those blades that you are wearing."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Oh, then I guess that these rightfully belong to you then" Naruto said, removing the blades from her belt and placing them on Tsunade's desk.

"Oh, get that look off of your face" Tsunade said as she picked them up and withdrew them, looking them over as Naruto had done previously. "You are welcome to them. It's just that my grandmother used to let me play with them when I was a child. Holding them like this is nostalgic, that's all."

"Really?" Naruto asked excitedly.

"Yeah, you can have that bow too."

"What are you saying?"

"That bow on your back, it belonged to my grandmother as well. You see Naruto, before Uzushiogakure was wiped out there were three things that the ninja that came from there were extremely well known for. The first and foremost was their sealing abilities. The second was their lack of chakra based jutsu. The third was their exceedingly long life-spans. That last one was why Uzushiogakure was also known as The Village of Longevity. They were also known to incorporate their skill with seals into their weapons. That led to the invention of the Uzumaki blades. The thing about the Uzumaki blades is that they drain a users chakra forcefully, which means that, when they are being used, they use the same amount of chakra continuously. That's why the Uzumaki ninja also took along two other types of weapon, a bow, which also incorporated their sealing arts into it along with an ordinary tantō; for use when they needed to fight without the use of their chakra. When you were arming yourself you had a feeling that something was missing before you had all three, didn't you?"

"Yeah, how'd you know that?"

"Those clothes that you're wearing, whether they are the real thing or not, I don't know, but at the very least, they are based on the design of the Uzumaki clans ninja clothes. That's part of the reason why you felt something amiss, I would say that you felt it more keenly, because you are the offspring of an Uzumaki rather than the grandchild of one."

"What do you mean?"

"When I was growing up my mother gave me a set like that, except I felt nothing from it. That's why I didn't focus on that part of my heritage and more on the ninjutsu of my grandfathers' clan." Tsunade then handed the blades back to Naruto and said, "Alright, that's all I wanted."

"Thanks" Naruto replied as she exited the room.

Once she was alone, Tsunade thought 'Naruto is going to need someone to teach him...uh...her, how to use those blades and I can't do it, neither can anyone else in Konoha. Well, I suppose that 'she' will probably be able to teach Naruto how to use them.' Tsunade then called out "Shizune" and her assistant came running in from her office a few doors down. When Shizune was in her office Tsunade ordered "Shizune, I need you to get me Hyūga Neji, Inuzuka Hana, Rock Lee and Uzuki Yūgao."

"Hai, Tsunade-sama" Shizune said, scurrying off.

Soon enough all of the shinobi that Tsunade had requested arrived in her office and she said "for this mission Yūgao, you will be in charge. The mission is to find and locate one, Uzumaki Naoko."

"Uzumaki? As in Uzumaki Naruto?"

"Yes" Tsunade replied.

"Is there any relation?" Neji asked.

"Yes. I'm afraid so" Tsunade replied. "She's his Aunt."

"Wait, Naruto has family!" Neji exclaimed. "Why wasn't he..."

Tsunade sighed and said "neither the elders nor the Sandaime knew that she was still alive; and even if they did, the elders wouldn't have told Naruto as it would, in their minds, give him something to live for other than 'protect the village at all costs'."

"Well, we all know how that turned out now then, don't we?" Neji asked, derisively.

"Yes, well, regardless. I want you to seek out and find Uzumaki Naoko. This is an A-Rank mission. Hana she should smell similar to Naruto, Neji, here's a photo of her. That will be all."

"Uh, Tsunade sama..." Neji trailed off.

"Yes Neji?"

"Where would be a good place to start our search at?"

"Hmm...well, last I heard of her she was in the Port on the far side of Tea Country."

"Alright, we shall move out right away then" Yūgao said as she and the rest of her team left Tsunade's office.

Three days later Yūgao and her team arrived in the port city about four hours before the sun set for the night. Yūgao said "alright, let's go and get a hotel room for tonight first and then we can start looking around for Uzumaki Naoko" the four Konoha-nin then proceeded to search for a hotel to spend the night in before they started their search. They found one that they deemed suitable and then, after paying for two days' stay in advance they went to their room and left their bags in there before leaving to search for their target. As they exited the hotel lobby Yūgao outlined their plan; "Alright, Lee, you will go with Neji and I'll be with Hana. Okay, you two search the park and the docks and we'll take the market."

There was a chorus of "Hai" and they left in the direction of their respective destinations.

Yūgao and Hana quickly reached their destination and wandered around while looking for their target. After strolling around the marketplace for half an hour or so they sighted their target and, not so discretely, followed her, Naoko, who was carrying a basket full of groceries sensed that she was being followed and thought 'hmm...that's odd. Ah well, probably just my imagination...even so...' she then stopped and looked into a stall for a while and sensed the presences stop as well. 'Hmm,' Naoko thought 'that almost proves it, hn, rookies, letting their guard down around an Uzumaki.'

Meanwhile with Yūgao and Hana, Yūgao, being stopped by Hana placing an arm on her chest, asked "what is it?"

"She's stopped" Hana replied quietly.

"Stopped? You don't think that she..."

"No, she can't know that we're following her, we've been too careful for that."

"Then why..."

"Probably so she can get more groceries, now shut up will you?"

"Very well."

Naoko, after buying something from the stall to keep up the ruse of her not knowing that there was anyone following her, continued on her way home. But, before she could get too far, she stopped and looked into the window of a cake store and, using the window to look behind her, saw Yūgao and Hana hiding on the roof on the opposite side of the street that she was on. She frowned as she saw the signature animal of the Inuzuka clan as well as Hana's facial markings. Naoko thought 'so, it's Konoha this time is it? And with an Inuzuka no less,' Naoko smiled at what she was about to do and then, waving through the reflection of the window at the Konoha shinobi as she released a smoke bomb, obscuring her tails' sight, as she activated four of the seals that she had sewn into the cloak that she was wearing, these ones completely erased the scent of the one wearing it. She then activated another seal array that allowed her to instantaneously teleport to where the corresponding array was, in this case, at her house. Once she was there she set about unpacking her shopping.

Yūgao looked at Hana slightly irritated "so, 'she hasn't spotted us' huh?"

"Hey, how was I to know that she was that skilled, she must be a sensor type too."

"Alright, alright, I know, it's not your fault. Let's head back to the hotel, I've a feeling that lee and Neji will be similarly unsuccessful in their attempts as well."

Lee and Neji had searched the docks thoroughly and turned up little to no results. So now they were headed to the park where a kindly bartender had informed them that they could find a redheaded female that could almost always be found. So that's what they were doing. Neji, his Byakugan activated, could see the entirety of the park and saw an image of a woman around their age that could only be the one that the bartender had told them about. "Lee, I've found her."

"Yosh!" Lee exclaimed, "there's no doubt in my mind that the power of youth has allowed us to complete our mission this early!"

"Yes, well, she's near the pond in the centre of the park."

"Yosh!" Lee yelled as he got ready to speed towards where Neji had informed him that their target was.

"Lee. It might be better if we go slowly for this" Neji suggested.

"Hmm. Very well" Lee said, agreeing with Neji looking very serious.

Neji sighed at his teammate's antics and started to walk towards the person that he had identified. As Neji walked he thought 'although, if she's anything like Naruto then I don't think that we will have anything to worry about, we can just trick her.'

When they got to the redheads location they walked up to her and Neji stood in front of her and her easel. She looked up and said, "move it or lose it, buster." Neji, stunned at the reaction that he got from the redhead, took a step back in shock. The redhead then went back to what she was doing before Neji and Lee had approached her, thinking 'a Hyūga eh?'

Lee moved around to look at what she was doing and he was mightily impressed. She had been painting, in amazing detail, the ducks in the pond in front of her. "Neji, come and look at this!" lee exclaimed.

Neji came around to look at what Lee had seen and he was also impressed at the quality of work that was being done. He thought 'she's so good...it's almost a pity that I'm going to...!' just then the redhead made a sign with her hands that caused everything around her to be caught in an insanely bright light, due to her cloak glowing. She was alright however, as she had donned a pair of sunglasses specifically designed for countering the seal array that she had just activated. As Neji and Lee were trying to regain their sight, the redhead packed up her gear and, before picking it up and leaving, she went through a set of handseals and the cloak turned black. The cloak was now completely eliminating any trace of her chakra. The redhead then proceeded to leave the park and head for home.