Disclaimer: I own any OCs in this, the rest is Masashi Kishimoto. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Characters age:

Akane, Itachi: 13

Naruto, Sasuke: 8

Shisui: 17

Kakashi: 22

"Why do you wanna take an exam when you're not in school anymore dattebayo!?" My cousin asked me with his mouth full of ramen. "Exams suck! You don't think that much when you're on a mission!"

"You're wrong Naruto-kun," Shisui denied, his second bowl in front of him, "no matter how much you can hate classes, you learn the basis to survive in mission. It's important."

"But I bet you didn't have troubles in school Shisui-nii-chan, so you can't say anything! And nee-chan, if you pass, you'll be busy!"

"I heard rumors saying Fugaku-sama talked to you about working a lot with our clan too, right?" The Uchiha asked. He leaned to look at me and I nodded.

"With what he asked me he's wasting my talent but..." I sighed, moving the noodles in my bowl with my chopsticks. He asked me to look after his sons, especially Sasuke. A kinda like a guardian angel. But I would have done it anyway, that kid, traumatized or not, is too easily influenced.

"Nee-chan?" Naruto's voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I glanced at him and Shisui and gave them a forced smile in front of their worried faces.

"I'm fine, but I think I need a walk." I stood up and left the shop. Walking through the crowd, I let my mind wandering. The more time passes, the more I feel like my previous life was just a dream. It's hard to see Naruto and Sasuke so young and to know a possible future. It's so hard to think that I could have shortened their life span. Fuck, they both were kidnapped by the Foundation because of my presence here!

I turned in a back alley and jumped onto the roof of a building. I jumped from roof to roof, the wind was lashing my face but it was making me feel something. It was making me feel something else than dread for what was coming.

Once I was close enough of the cliff, I jumped with lots of chakra in legs and landed smoothly on my godfather's head. I faced the village and sat promptly on the rock. How many time did oji-chan bring me here? How many time did Aunty scream at us because we were late for dinner? A nostalgic smirk found his way to my lips. It's scary to know what's to come. It's scary to think that I won't be able to play around this time. By deciding to follow Shisui, to go to Konoha, I sealed my fate in a way. Somehow, maybe that's why I accepted to work with the Hyuuga. Because even though I'm the one who decided it, I won't get away of the shinobi world anymore like the first.

No, I decided to fix my past mistakes and stop being the coward and selfish person I used to be. Fill with hatred for that world which had taken so many of my loved ones. It's such a scary thought to know someone you care about could be gone the next day. It's scary to see kids who wants to be a ninja when they're basically asking to be used as weapons. Old Naruto had changed that, he had lived and see the pain of this world and grew up. But my Naruto is still young, and so happy since we came in his life. The only pain he knew so far was the unfair treatment of the people of Konoha.

I frowned. Ignorant people will hate, will talk but will change sides when they'll see an interest for it. Right now, I hated most of that village, mainly the civilians. They were talking when they didn't know shit. Saying the Uchihas didn't budge for the Nine-Tails when they were just following orders.

That was disgusting.

Ne, oji-chan, I guess that moment hadn't come yet. The one where I would understand why you loved that village so much.

Because for now, it is not the Konoha I loved in the past with you, or the one I loved living in with the twins.

I wanted to make it happen. My dream happened when old Naruto became the Nanadaime. But I knew that until this happen, I would not like Konoha.

I wouldn't even be surprised if I ended up in jail for a night. I have patience, but it can become very thin.

I wonder how long Naruto's bullies will take to break it.

"What if I fail? Or...or what if I succeed but they tell me otherwise huh?"

"Calm down a little Aka-chan, weren't you a Seal Master before?" Shisui rationalized next to me when we were walking to the Intelligence Division. Hands in his pockets, he did not seem panicked at all, unlike me who was thinking about any reason I would fail.

"Yeah, but that was a different test and..." He shut me up by putting his forefinger on my lips.

"Relax. You're excellent at what you do, you had a recommendation from the Hyuuga clan, not everybody can have one from them. Just relax and forget it's a test. Listen to your official moral support."

"Since when is it official?" I asked.

"Since I decided it. And, we're here!" He announced, looking at the building in front of him. "If you pass, I'll forget you left me with Naruto-kun the other day at Ichiraku and that you didn't pay."

I shot him a sheepish grin and ran in the building. I quickly introduced myself at the front desk and repeated myself that Shisui was right and I had no reason to stress. I was a Seal Master before, I don't see why I would fail when I created a seal that blocks a dojutsu! The immobility seal I use is one my mom created though, so I just adapted it to my chakra, but I created a god damn seal that blocks a kekkai genkai! I'll pass that test!

I'll pass it!

But my legs kept shaking until I was in front of three shinobi, all wearing green jacket and hitai-ate with the Konoha emblem engraved in it. Of course, the one in the middle seems to be the 'chief' if I could put it like that. Must be mom's boss. He looked kinda strict and his face, at least his eyes, seemed like they had seen a lot already. Oh, there were Hiashi-san and Fugaku-san too! I better not embarrass them.

"How old are you?" He asked bluntly, his arms firmly crossed on his chest. Nope, not thirty-six Akane, thirteen. So once my answer was given, I was told to go in front of a scroll. "Release the item in it and seal in the other scroll.

I pressed my hand on the scroll without any hand signs, chakra flowing under my palm. A puff of smoke appeared loudly and under my hand stood a dozen of books. Don't tell me books were the only things they could think about...why not weapons, or food, or just stuff actually useful for ninjas!

I put the first scroll aside and took the blank one. I didn't waste time and my ink-coated brush ran smoothly on the paper. I executed the tiger sign and let my chakra flew towards the books. Not too much not to destroy the objects, but enough to cover each and all of them. They were gone in another puff of white smoke, and I raised a bored gaze to the three shinobi, who were writing quickly on their notebook. Except the Boss, because he was too cool for that.

Anyway, that was, like, the fundamental to every Seal Master, to seal an object to use it anytime. I was more relaxed now, so I followed the three shinobi to another room, where they made me recognize and name seals in a time-limit of thirty minutes. A paper test, eurk. Naruto would have cried at that point. I was finished after fifteen minutes, but that wasn't because of my previous life. Just because I was into sealing since forever. Because, once I was at the next task, I realized this was harder than the test in my time. Probably because we were at peace and the most difficult thing was working on that sealing technique thing when here a new war could broke out anytime.

That was the only thing I could think of as I was asked to use offensive and defensive seals on someone. On someone I knew. On someone with a mask.

"I'm sorry but..." I started and pointed an accusing finger to the person in front of me, and his creased eye smile. "...there's no way I'm seriously fighting him, right? I'm gonna die."

"Ma, Akane, I will go easy on you, don't worry." Kakashi-san reassured me. Well, reassured me, with a fawning voice. Too much fake sweetness in it that it made me cringe and I made a face.

"Hatake-san agreed to put you in a fighting situation to evaluate your reactivity and speed with which you make seals." My examiner told me. I sighed and rubbed my forehead. That was troublesome, but I guess that makes sense? I never said what rank I was in Kirigakure, and if I was to be a Seal Master to the Uchiha and Hyuuga clans, I should know how to fight. "Only taijutsu and seals are allowed."

"Ladies first," Kakashi-san said in a mock tone, but raised his forehead protector to show me his sharingan. Humph, at least he recognized I wasn't weak.

I ran to him and threw a punch, that he stopped easily. He clenched my fist in a death grip and turned me around so that my back faced him and he got me in an arm lock. Not letting that faze me at all, I slammed my foot in his thigh and felt him tensing with the strength I used. I transferred all of my weight on that leg to drag myself up and kicked him in the stomach. Of course, he was not in ANBU for nothing, so he let go of me and jumped back before I actually touched him. I did not let myself fall and put my hands on the floor, while still in the air, to get up. While doing so, I discreetly made two immobility seals on the floor.

I ran around him, letting immobility and explosive seals around. But he wouldn't let me have that way, so he took a kunai and charged. Not having any weapon and Kakashi-san getting closer, I ran on the wall and made an invocation seal with my foot. I activated right away and took my katana when the handle was barely visible. I deflected the shuriken he threw at me and jumped right on him. Our weapon clashed in a screeching noise and he repelled me by throwing me above him. I was caught by surprise by the strength he put in it and failed to stay up, my knees giving up under my weight.

I turned onto my back and moved back a little when I spotted Kakashi-san approaching me, a cold glint in his eyes. He was playing until now, his sharingan saw every little moves I made. But once he was close enough, I made the tiger seal. Symbols glowed a bright red under his right foot and he widened his eyes when it exploded. I got up and sped up to him. He didn't have the time to look behind him that I used the black smoke to cover my move and jumped on his back. I pressed my hand against his face and, even if he grabbed it, I placed my seal.

"Fuinjutsu: Pupil Seal!" I said and the whirl appeared on his face. Not giving him a moment to rest, I let him throw me away. Or tried, because I circled his arm with my owns and took him down with me, wrestling him as much as my female teenage body could against his male adult one. But I lasted long enough anyway. "Fuinjutsu: Immobility Seal!" Black lines appeared on the skin that was visible and Kakashi-san went limp, leaving me the joy to get out of his grasp easily. I got up and dusted myself, and I did not bother to keep myself from sticking my tongue at the silver-haired nin on the floor, who was glaring at me. "Ladies first to strike, last one standing." I glanced at the spectators, who, for the three shinobi, are gaping at us. The clans heads though seemed satisfied, but it was hard to tell because they were both as expressive as an ice block. "That's enough?"

"Yes, you can undo you seals." The Boss told me, which I did and Kakashi-san got up, looking grumpy as hell. "We will communicate you the results soon enough."

I nodded and started to make my way to the exit but a dull pain in my ankle stopped me. I must have sprained it with my bad landing. Haaa, it hurt like hell!

"You're limping." Kakashi-san noted when he reached me. "You sprained your ankle with your bad landing, didn't you?"

"How..."

"I saw how you landed. Your ankle is not supposed to reach that angle." He explained to me and kneeled, his back to me. "Hurry up."

"Piggyback ride!" I beamed and accepted the offer, wrapping my arms around his neck when he got up. I leaned my chin on his shoulder and closed my eyes.

"Don't fall asleep on me." He warned me, already exasperated with me. I smirked at that and opened my eyes.

"I won't, I just really want to go home. I can fix my ankle, I think I have what I need."

"Akiko-san will kill me when she knows you hurt yourself." He sighed deeply.

"Don't worry about it, she knows I keep bugging you for sparring session so..." I told him when we were exiting the building. I raised an eyebrow when I spotted the curly black hair of a certain Uchiha. "Shisui? What are you still doing here?"

"I have a mission after so I thought I would ask you how it went before I lea..." He started, turning around to see me. But he stopped and gave a puzzled look at Kakashi-san. "Kakashi-senpai?"

"Shisui-kun, how thoughtful of you to care for Akane's exam." The Copy-Cat told my friend, eying him suspiciously. "I hope she's not too much of a brat.

"Hey!" I cried with fake hurt in my voice. He ignored me, so I decided to answer Shisui. "You were right, that was easy. The only surprise was when they asked me to fight Kakashi-san to see my speed in seal making during battle. I sprained my ankle." To prove my point, I lifted my injury and winced slightly. The dumbest wound could be the most painful one.

"That explains why he's carrying you. Well, I'm off then." He said and raised two fingers in front of him.

"Come back in one piece." I waved as he grinned at me and body flickered away. I heard Kakashi-san faintly hummed under his breath and picked up his pace. "What?"

"Aren't you and Shisui-kun good friends?"

"Yeah, why?"

"He's a boy and you're a girl."

I frowned. "You're a pervert if you immediately think about that. Plus, he's my brother's age! Four years older than I am! He turned seventeen last month!"

"In a world where we die young th..."

"Shut up. Just...shut up. I'm not interested in him like that. Or in anyone." I glared at him when I heard his muffled laugh. Pff, smut reader.

"Naruto, ice." My mother commanded and my cousin stood to attention before running to the freezer. But I was too busy to look at my relatives tending at my ankle. No, I was focusing all of my attention on Kakashi-san and the cup of tea in front of him. My mom almost forced him to stay a little, and Naruto almost attacked him because he thought he was the cause of my injury. Which he was, but that was funny to see Kakashi-san ignoring him, even when Naruto was losing his temper and yelling he should respect his future Hokage.

If he only knew...Kakashi-san would be Hokage before him. Anyway, that jerk is staring dead into my eyes, silently telling 'I know what you're waiting for and you won't get it'. It wasn't my fault if what was under that mask was like...the biggest mystery in the whole while world! Rikudo Sennin's family drama? Pfff please, Kakashi-san's face is way more interesting!

"How was it by the way? Except for the unexpected fight." Mom asked me, carefully bandaging my ankle. I shrugged and Naruto was next to me in a second as if I was his new hero.

"Well, as you said, except for the fight it was easy. They checked my knowledge and how I seal things away. Nothing really complicated with my back story you know." The thing was, it could be interpreted in two different ways. Mom understood about my previous life, Kakashi-san understood how I began learning fuinjutsu ever since I knew how to think. Well, the two go together anyway by now.

"When are you gonna have the results nee-chan?" A beaming Naruto asked me with a toothy grin. I smiled back at him and ruffled his hair.

"Soon enough they said. I thought you were against me taking that test?"

"Yeah but if you pass at thirteen then I can brag about it to Sasuke-teme!" I gave an embarrassed chuckle at that and glared daggers at the mocking face of Kakashi-san. I don't think I would beat Itachi's genius with that, but let's not break Naruto's hope.

"Talking about Sasuke, how was school today?" I stood up as I said that and climbed up the stairs with my baby cousin, leaving mom and Kakashi-san between adults. Once we reached his room, I took the frog cuddly toy and sat on the floor. Naruto did the same, minus the squeezed frog against his body.

"Like every other day. But because you couldn't come to pick us up, Itachi-nii came and showed us some shuriken moves! He's much better than you are nee-chan!"

"Hey! I thought we agreed on never commenting my bad aim when I bought you with ramen!"

"When did that happen?" He replied with big puppy eyes and a huge toothy grin. I sweat dropped. Was that what Kakashi-san used to see when I was the brat? Gosh, that was scary.

"You're a cheeky brat, aren't you couz'?"

He puffed his cheeks and snuggled against my side. How many time, since we moved, have I found him in my bed in the morning, or just outside my bedroom door in the middle of the night. At the beginning it was that, he would get up because of nightmares or things civilians would have told him during the day, and because of my not yet rusted ninja senses, I would open my door to find him, in pajama, froggy nightcap and that soft toy in his arms. He would looked unsure of whether I would kicked him back in his room, but once I dragged into be with me once, he stopped asking and just did it.

Not that I minded anyway. Kids need love, and even if I knew mom and him were close too, Naruto wasn't stupid enough to not see she needed to sleep at night more than I did. As a silent rule between us, when she wasn't on a break, I was the one Naruto would bug in the middle of the night.

"Nee-chan, from where do you know that guy who's with Aunty right now?"

"Hum? Oh, I met a long time ago. Don't mind him for now."

"Okay..." he mumbled.

Don't mind your future sensei for now Naruto, you'll have plenty of time to annoy him later. Like him when he'll creep the hell out of you because he will be saying weird shit like 'I like you'.

But...reading porn in public doesn't really help him at not being creepy when he says that.

"Oh, that's a lot Hokage-sama." I noticed, looking at the full storage room. "Mito-sama sure didn't come empty handed, did she?" I glanced at the room. The bookcases against the walls were full with books and scrolls and there were boxes around the table at the center of the room full of personal belongings. "What am I allowed to look at already?"

"From what Tsunade told me in her message, she said that any Uzumaki crested books and scrolls could be consulted as it would be more useful to you than to her." He explained calmly, his pipe between his lips. "Some of my ANBU will stay by the door and you are not to take anything out of here. However, you can take notes."

"Thank you for this opportunity, Hokage-sama." I thanked him and bowed. He nodded and left me at my business.

Okay Akane, let's do this. Because I realized something. Although I had all of my memories from my past life, the memories of the me at that age are still really fresh. So basically, my theory was that my 'souls' were mixed together and the oldest won the right to be prominent. But sometimes I would have headaches. Like bad headaches because my memories would clash between themselves, some of the blurry one becoming much more clearer. Hence why I remembered so much of my time in Kirigakure when I passed so much time trying to forget it. Hence why I would felt some mental wounds that had taken a lot of time healing still wide open.

Add the therapy in which I had to talk about why Minato-oji-chan and Aunty Kushina brought me in the village years ago and you get a fucked up teenager.

But back to business, I was looking through the bookcases. Or more like what was in them. Even if I needed one about forbidden techniques of the clan, I also could gather every little piece of information about my origins. Not that my mother couldn't tell me anything, she told me a lot and told Naruto things here and then, but she didn't have the whole Uzushio library in her mind.

That was how I ended up with like three books and two scrolls on the table, a notebook and pencil in my hand. Time to get serious.

Time to consider stopping my younger cousin from becoming a shinobi so that he could be a masseur and soothe my sore muscles after researching so much. I could convincing him by paying Ichiraku forever, right? Becoming the Hokage wasn't that big of a deal, right?

Screw that, I'll pass the night in the bathtub.

But still, I managed to pick up things, here and there. I started to write normally, but then the paranoid side of me took over, and I wrote in fuin. I didn't want unwanted eyes to know stuff they shouldn't.

With that in my pocket, I left for the day and started to walk home. The sun was already leaving the sky, an orange gleam illuminating it. If you forget the fools living in it, Konoha is a pretty village. But when I was nearing the Yamanaka flowers shop, I saw a familiar Uchiha leaving it. Another thing that was weird since Fugaku-san came was that I felt like I was seeing Itachi everywhere. Like, I was going to the library, he was there. With Shisui? He would appear from nowhere to get him to train with him. Grocery shopping? He would buy tomatoes for Sasuke in the exact same shop than me. His excuse 'Sasuke loved the tomatoes they sell here'? I didn't believe it. That was stalking!

Or my paranoid side popping up again. Anyway, we had made eye contact. I stopped thinking about Itachi secretly stalking because that was just plain stupid and he probably just had a therapy session, and I took a deep breath. I was getting used at seeing him alive and differentiate him from my dead lover, so I decided to act civil.

I waved at him, and from the puzzled look on his face, he wasn't expecting it. But should I be hurt I saw him glancing around to check if I was in fact waving at him?

"Good evening Akane-san," he told me right in front of me. I jumped and put a hand on my pumping heart. For fuck sake!

"Don't do that again!" I scowled at him, trying to stop gasping. He scared me badly.

"Sorry." He didn't sound sorry at all though. He just blinked and I swear I saw a spark of satisfaction in his dark eyes. I knew I was ignoring him but still! It wasn't a reason to give me a heart attack! But, when I was thinking about it, old Itachi would casually tease me quite a lot. Like, he wouldn't show it, but he would always have something to say to contradict me to make me contradict myself, that douche. "I need to pick up Sasuke at your place."

I raised an eyebrow and I mumbled an 'okay' under my breath. He was walking slightly in front of me, enough so that people would not think we were together. And all the way, I stared at his back with narrowed eyes. Yeah, suspicious, I know, but that was weird. Sasuke had nothing to do at my place at that hour today, especially if I wasn't there. He would not come just for Naruto's beautiful blue eyes.

When my house appeared in our sight, I relaxed a little. No matter how old he was, Itachi had this weird aura that said he was hard to approach. He was giving the feeling he had the weight of the world on his shoulders, which made it quite hard to talk to him. Plus, he had the natural Uchiha look, so...basically the 'I'm-better-than-you-don't-piss-me-off' look. He also had a deadpan look that I never managed to master.

"Congratulations," I heard him say. I raised an eyebrow at him. "I heard from my father you passed your exam so..."

"I passed?" I cut him and stopped in the middle of the empty street.

He stopped too and slowly turned his face so that he could look at me properly. He stared blankly at my face for a couple of second, and when he realized my surprise expression wasn't faked, he widened his eyes a little.

"You didn't know?" He asked me so low that I almost didn't hear him.

"Nope. Now I do. Is that why your brother is at my place?" I replied and enjoyed a little bit too much the clear 'oh shit' in his eyes. He mechanically nodded, probably cursing himself in his head. I smirked at that. "Yeah, I'm the best! Let's go!"

Itachi's footsteps followed me once I was leading and I was tackle hugged by the second coming of the Yellow Flash at the door. Sasuke looked a little bit more reserved behind, Kakashi-san sitting at the dinner table and mom busy in the kitchen.

"Nee-chan!" Naruto enthusiastically called, raising his head to look at me with awe and waved a sheet of paper under my nose. "Look what you got in the mail!"

I blinked and really did try to read it, but Naruto was moving it so fast I couldn't. Sasuke seemed to notice as he came and snatched it away from Naruto.

"She can't read it if you keep moving it around dobe!" He said and gave me the paper. I thanked him and whereas another verbal clash was starting between the two, I smiled at the official diploma in my hand.

"You should thank me, if I hadn't been going easy on you you would have failed." Kakashi-san taunted me as I broke free of Naruto's grasp.

"Oh please, you wish it was thanks to you." I replied with a smug smirk on my lips. I didn't wait for his reply and glanced at Itachi over my shoulder, who was awkwardly standing outside. "Come in, you'll have the joy to brag about it to Shisui once he's back from his mission."

The prospect of annoying Shisui must have had its effect, because he came in and closed the door behind him, Sasuke stopping his fight to talk to him. Uchiha or not, best friends would never miss an opportunity to annoy each other. And knowing Shisui, I knew who was winning that battle and by far.

"Mom, your daughter is awesome!" I yelled, waving my diploma in the air.

"I wouldn't go that far!"

"Mom!"

Thanks for reading ! And feel free to leave reviews ! Thanks for the reviews.

nevvy: He, Shisui's misplaced concerns? Could you be more explicite please ? ^^ And Akane could possibly be wed to Sasuke, but to Shisui too. Only Jashin knows.

sarana154: Why wouldn't they be together? In my head the pairings are still wavering :D