Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.
Character age:
Akane, Itachi: 17
Naruto, Sasuke: 12
Shisui: 21
Kakashi: 26
"Harusame-san, I think having Kimou put a genjutsu in your seals would increase the defenses around the hideout," I told Utakata-senpai's master, who also taught me a little about Kirigakure's sealing methods when I became a kunoichi. And since I kept him from trying to take Saiken out of their jinchuriki, because they would take it as an aggression and attack, he really valued my opinion. Hey, senpai won't leave the village at least!
"Oh, I can do that thanks to your beautiful writing darling," a feminine voice whispered in my ear, and Harusame-san chuckled. I turned around to face the deep purple eyes of our genjutsu specialist in Kiri, which were prominent thanks to her pale complexion and long pale blond hair, almost white. Before I went to Konoha, I was far from being popular. When I left for Konoha, I was fine with my team and some older ninja, like Zabuza-san.
Even though, it was mainly because with Mangetsu and Dai, we would say he was in love with sensei. But he was always coming to train Mangetsu when we were in team training, and Mei-sensei loved to flirt with him to trigger reactions!
I'm sure he actually pitied me from the look he would give me when he was showing me his killing intent. I'm sure he knew how I joined Kiri too. Now I was thinking about it...wasn't it Team Seven who killed him and his apprentice?
"The seals for the barrier will also continuously diffuse a genjutsu for camouflage," Harusame-san detailed, starting to take Kimou away. "We would need a seal for each members of the rebellion too so that they can enter without any trouble."
"Yeah, a pass, I get it," the kunoichi responded with a roll of her eyes as she knew she had work to do.
Harusame-san is good to have around. As he officially defected the village six months ago, around the time he wanted to remove the Rokubi, I can let him in charge of the defense here.
Anyway, from my promotion, we were only four left. My whole team, and Kimou. There were not a lot of students to graduate from the Academy anyway, and with the missions not a lot of them got promotion. Kimou was one of the people who would despise me just because I was Yagura's apprentice. We had a mission together when I was promoted jounin and she was still a genin, She saw my Ice Release and hated me more because I wasn't killed.
Let's just say she had a colorful vocabulary, like many shinobi in Kirigakure. When I got back, sensei instated a second test of her own to see who would join us and who would stay with Yagura.
Because there will always be people who will find benefits for them in the worst system possible. Sensei was excellent at detecting who would help us or not. Kimou passed the test, saw me save her life and ever since she's MIA for the village, had been...
Hitting on me. She was the kind of person who did not care about what people thought and when she wanted something she was...well...clingy.
I teleported to the training ground where Yagura was already waiting for me.
"What took you so long?" he grumbled and opened his eyes to look at me.
"Nuibari. With my aim as legendary as Princess Tsunade's luck, it's tricky," I replied with a deadpan expression because it was an excuse he bought every time. At least I think, because from the number of time he made fun of me for my aim...But I'm good now!
"Let's start then," he decided and got up, to change immediately in his Version 2 form, three tails formed. I tightened the black cloth of my forehead protector and summoned my katana, not needing a flat surface anymore to do so.
"Oji-chan, focus."
"Already on it."
I covered my blade with wind chakra and sharpened it whereas he was charging me already. Fast, Yagura was fast normally, but even more in his jinchuriki form. I sent a wind blade to him and he destroyed it with a flip of one of his tail. I jumped back, close to the edge of the platform.
This training ground, I knew it all too well. Different natural rock platforms of different height in the mountains close to the village, with a huge lake at the bottom. Yagura's perfect playground. Mine too. Hopefully, mist was rarely here.
Hopefully, this place was filled with my special kunai, hidden of course thanks to the rocky surrounding. Having the Yondaime Hokage giving you advice even when you did not want to was useful. I would have forgotten to do that otherwise, and I was paranoid. But oji-chan had a point. There would be a fight during the coup, being able to go anywhere in the village in the blink of an eye would be useful and a lifesaver.
So as he was preparing a modest Tailed Beast Ball, I threw many wind blades to him, with no effect because of his coral protection. The ball was sent, and I disappeared when it was a meter from me, appearing two platforms below, against the mountain. I heard Yagura's thundering laugh above, mixed with a bit of a different voice.
Water was as much my element as his. The air was humid enough to use my Ice Realease. From the sound I just heard, Yagura walked on one of my explosive seals I put when I moved away from him earlier.
I put my hand on the wall for a storage seal and placed back my katana. It wouldn't be useful here. Yagura would only break it in his Tailed Beast form.
I frowned when mist appeared, filled with deadly chakra. He went back to his regular form then. Focus Akane, you know how to deal with Yagura.
I executed a series of hand seals.
"Fuuton: Passing Typhoon!" I blew a huge wind, dispersing the mist and I ducked when Yagura's club was too close for comfort, said club replacing my head. Of course he would come to hand-to-hand combat when I put my katana away, you moron.
"Put a marker for Hiraishin on him when you can," came Minato's voice in my head as I kicked him, my foot meeting his club, and jumped away. I executed some seals and ice senbon formed around him. He destroyed them with his weapon and I teleported way in front of him, the end of the platform meters away from me whereas I was crouched on the wall.
"Suiton:Water Dragon Bullet Technique!" I shouted with the last seal and a water dragon rose from the lake under us. I formed the dog seal then and Yagura widened his eyes, Sanbi's chakra starting to appear. "Hyoton: Freezing Technique!"
The water dragon froze instantly as my chakra was running in it and charged Yagura. I squinted because of the explosion, the ice dragon smashed into pieces by a not fully formed Tailed Beast Ball, and another was coming my way. I raised a water shied and froze it too, said shield falling into pieces after the collision, and Yagura right in my face. He punched me in the stomach and I spat, noticing his beast chakra gone once again, and I grabbed his hand. He pushed me away and threw me in the lake, my back smashing against the water violently.
But I put my marker on his hand. Marker much more subtle than oji-chan.
"Hey!"
"You enjoyed making me nauseous," I accused him and made a familiar hand seal old Naruto loved to make. A shadow clone, I should thanks the Kakashi of that time for that one, appeared next to me and swam to the surface whereas I swam behind the lowest platform. Yagura trained me well, and I knew that when I said to my teammates I could go against Yagura's Beast form they could barely believe it, but it takes a lot on my chakra, even my Uzumaki chakra. I could do Hiraishin, but I was still working on it to reduce its toll on my chakra.
Damn Yagura the perfect jinchuriki. Damn the fact he goes from normal to full jinchuriki mode in the blink of an eye. I had to adjust from distance to close range combat in the blink of an eye too, and changing so fast of style was tiresome. Especially when the Mizukage didn't want to let you have an opening.
This time I didn't have coral blocking me though, so that was good.
I felt my clone disappear, and her failed attempt at immobilizing him made me curse under my breath.
I got out of the water and Yagura was waiting for me on it. I took a seal kunai and threw it. He deflected it, of course, and I teleported to it. Now above Yagura, I froze the water on my fist and smashed it on his head, sinking him in the process. I jumped back on the platform and looked strangely at my fist, out of breath.
Actually, I didn't freeze the water on it. I poked my flesh, burned flesh thanks to Isobu's chakra, and widened my eyes when I noticed it was solid inside.
How the hell did I freeze the inside of my hand!?
"Sanbi's chakra is not infecting yours." I jumped and glanced at Yagura, soaked to the skin and hair stuck to his forehead. He was walking to me with no fighting intent as I had won. Today, it was my win if I could hit him good at least once. "Was it an accident?"
"Yeah..." I mumbled. I tried to unclench my fist and winced when I barely moved a finger. It was completely frozen inside.
"Go get a medic to look at that, you could lose your hand," he ordered me and I nodded, teleporting at my place. I rushed to the hospital, the biggest cylindrical building in the village.
As usual it was not crowded. Only the highest class could afford to go to the hospital. It was a miracle actually Dai managed to get iryo-nin training knowing he was from the lowest of the lowest class.
I admired Mei-sensei so so much. She was my hero from now on, screw you oji-chan.
"Hey!" his voice yelled in my head for the second time today and I smirked at his offended tone.
"We really need to figure out how to cut off the connection sometimes."
"Agree, I can't take your 'Utakata-senpai' anymore."
"He's awesome and handsome! Have you seen his amber eyes!?"
"Not happening. With him, or Shisui-kun. Not with anyone!"
"Adorable, you think you still can tell me what to do. I've forgotten how overprotective you were."
"I have my reasons Aka-chan!" Here goes the pet name. "I'm a man, I know what goes through their head and..."
"Dai I need hel..." Instead of my teammate, Ruka was in front of me. She was a slim woman with fair skin, black eyes, and shoulder-length brown hair. I kept myself from sighing at the intimidated look in her eyes. "Where's that idiot?"
"In surgery, there was an accident at the weapon factory. Someone got his arm torn in half," she explained to me and eyed my bad hand. "Are you..."
"Training with chief dwarf, I think I created a kinjutsu and froze the inside of my hand. I can't move it."
"Follow me Uzumaki-san." I found myself on an examination table and Ruka approached a hand to mine, hers glowing in green chakra. I stopped her though, remembering my weird chakra now.
"No offense, but I don't react well to foreign healing chakra Ruka." She stopped and shot me a curious look. "I react well with Dai's, I'll wait. But I was thrown in the water at high speed though, could you look at my back?" She nodded reluctantly, the iryo-nin in her not buying my excuse. Dai got himself a good kouhai.
When Dai got back, emerald eyes lacking the usual spark of warmth in them, in the room, said room being the one where he always was, he sighed at my goofy grin as I was putting my shirt back on.
"What the fuck did you do this time? Don't tell me, chief dwarf." Ruka squeaked at how we were casually bad mouthing our dear old Mizukage, even if she already heard us and Mangetsu, and Suigetsu too, at the hideout. "You look pretty good for once."
"It was a short training, smashed him on the head and now my hand is frozen." Ruka gasped behind me and Dai raised an eyebrow.
"You...you managed to hit Mizukage-sama?" she asked with disbelief in her voice.
"Yep. It was tough to get close enough, but yeah. Let me go here by myself too, and he told me I could lose my hand as if it was nothing." Dai sat on a chair and rolled in front of me, hand glowing with green chakra to check my hand. "He doesn't beat me to a pulp like before though, so that's good."
"Less practice for me," my teammate muttered under his breath. "How did you freeze the inside of your hand? What's under the epidermis is completely frozen even if I feel it melting but very slowly. I'll fasten the process but it will burn." I bit the inside of my cheeks when the thermal shock inside my hand appeared. It hurt, it was uncomfortable, it was awful. It lasted a dozen of minutes but I could move my hand. "Move." I did and winced in pain. "Yeah, internal chakra burns."
"I thought you knew what to do!"
"Beat me, I never had to unfreeze the inside of the human body before!" he replied sarcastically. "Don't use that shit again! It froze everything, blood circulation, bones, everything but a little bit of your chakra system. You could have lost a limb if it had lasted longer, could have developed hypothermia and I need to make a exam of your hand to see if you had not done any damages to your bones."
"I created a kinjutsu, congratulations to me!" I cheered all alone, the other two staring at me with despair. "Oh come on!"
Training with Kakashi for two years and a half, almost three years. An entire life before this one, where Itachi made me train for a 'solid self-defense'. An entire life where I had to maintain a certain level in my skills when I was raising my kids even though I was retired.
I really see how the Uzumakis got so strong and feared now.
And I screw deeply all of the geniuses in the world who get strong very fast. Yeah, literally with old Itachi.
"More seriously though Uzu, take some rest," Dai advised me. "I know you're sadly used to chakra exhaustion, and being worn off basically, because of Mizukage-sama, but I fear even your Uzumaki genes might not be able to save your ass one day."
"I rest on intel gathering mission."
"One day Mangetsu and you will be the death of me."
"Well, I know which mission to give you now," Yagura droned, eyeing my bandaged hand with boredom, "you can't deal with the Daimyo's daughter with one hand knowing your love for her."
That pest. The Daimyo always asks shinobi to go entertain his daughter. Being the apprentice, it became a punishment for me through the years. Telling me I was ugly, single forever, weak, a woman shouldn't fight...
The little bitch.
"But you can handle an assassination." God blesses Yagura's logic. Must be an easy target. "A-rank, the ant ruling the Land of Waves. He tried to make a fool out of me, kill him, bring me the head or a proof, make it painful, whatever but make him understand he should not have tried to fight me."
"Gatō right? Consider it done."
It did not take a lot of time to reach the Land of Waves. From the Intel Yagura gave me, it didn't surprise me either to find myself having to infiltrate the country, as people could not get in. I stayed in the holds of the ship, placing my chakra concealing seal on me and put my hitai-ate away, one rebel auburn locks falling between my eyes to end its way of the right side of my nose. My hair was still doing what it wanted, because I stopped trying to tame it. Straight, curly, whatever because such proximity with humidity didn't do well with it. I just kept it short, shoulder-length, and that was it.
"By the way, during training..."
"Whether or not the one you fought knows about your seal, Sanbi felt it. I'm pretty sure he tried to link itself..." I felt annoyance at the 'itself' and directed it at Minato. "himself," he corrected as shouts were heard above about us reaching the shore soon, "to me. Almost like a cry for help. It makes sense with that notebook Naoto found. I never had the time to really study the state of the mind of a jinchuriki when I was alive, but bijuus are basically mass of chakra. It would not be surprising if there was a whole plan or dimension within their mind."
"Old Naruto told me in death-like situations, he was in a weird place with water on the ground, and Kurama in a cage. There was a lock, it was the seal you made."
"If a jinchuriki can see the bijuu inside of them like you sometimes do with me, then Yagura, the real one, might be hidden in there."
"Oji-chan, I need you to focus on that please."
"It was my intention. Focus on the rebellion for now."
I blended in the mass with no problem. My collect of information was going as I expected it to go; not a lot of useful things and scared people telling me not to ask about Gatō.
I was not going far, Gatō's place location still a mystery to me. However, the country was not big, I could search by myself if I really did not find anything.
Well, chief dwarf said he was well hidden and to do it all by myself. Not to come back if I fail.
It's so good to feel loved~.
"Hi," I greeted the two people in the shop. They both looked at me with mistrust. C'mon, I was wearing civilian clothes and had my killing intent under control! "could I have...an apple?" I asked after glancing at the choices, said choices being even less than expected. They were really poor. The guy behind the counter almost threw it at me. "Can I ask why there is so little choice?"
"If you came here then you know, you're clearly not from here girl. Go home and run away from that sheatfish." Oh, the same slang than in the Land of Water. Basically, we say that for someone who goes somewhere and starts destroying everything and eating anything weaker than them. Perfect for that man.
"Nobody tried to fight back?"
"A guy did, he was publicly executed," the merchant told me.
"In front of his family too, poor boy," an elderly woman added. "I heard Tazuna left this morning for Konoha, to look for help for the bridge."
"Konoha? I guess it's better than Kiri and their bloodthirsty Mizukage but there's no way Tazuna has the money for strong ninja."
I left the store quietly and gave the apple to a kid on the street. Konoha? Will I run into Konoha? But apparently that Tazuna fellow doesn't have a lot of money so...
I stopped in the middle of the street with a deadpan expression on my face. The logical thing to do would be to hire a genin team for a C-rank mission.
Old Naruto told me they met Zabuza-san in the Land of Waves.
I was in the Land of Waves.
I facepalmed.
Was I going to interfere in their mission?
I went back to my inn quickly and once in my room, took a scroll and my ink bottle along with my brush. If Zabuza-san really was around here, I could try to get him for the rebellion. He tried once already, why not twice?
I sealed the scroll and cut my thumb with a kunai.
"Kuchiyose no jutsu!"
A small wolf appeared in a puff of smoke. He executed a back-flip when he saw me. He was a dark brown with big brown eyes, small for an adult wolf, and had a deep brown leather bag on each side of him.
"What's up Akane? Need me to deliver something?" he asked in a joyful voice.
"Yeah. I need you to deliver this to Mei-sensei as fast as you can Uma. At the hideout of course." He nodded and I pat him on the head. "I'll have to teleport you there though because of the sea, but I'm sure you'll find your way back." I put my marker on him, knowing there was one at the hideout, and slid my pass tag in one of his bag.
"Gotcha!"
I made the tiger seal and closed my eyes to focus. I ordered Uma to cover himself with chakra just in case and let my chakra guide me. I can feel all my markers as they're all connected to me. It just asks time and concentration to get to them.
After thirty minutes I sent Uma to sensei. I promptly fainted after, my face covered in sweat.
"HEEEE!? What are you doing here Aunty!?" Naruto yelled and his teammates plugged their ears.
"If you could stop talking so that I can explain Naruto," Kakashi answered in his indifferent voice, eye glued to the text in his book. "Good. Since fuinjutsu became a class at the academy, Hokage-sama made some changes in the genin programs. However, the class stopped after two years and only the Academy students who have the basics of the basics are affected."
"We are going to learn fuinjutsu?" Sakura inquired.
"Yes and no, Sakura-chan," the Uzumaki woman answered with a polite smile that made Naruto shiver, "at the Academy my daughter taught you the basics for storage seals in scroll. I know Naruto and Sasuke already know some fuinjutsu, but today I will teach you how to deactivate some elementary seals."
In Team 10, the Nara had been the first to catch on how to do it, even though his chakra control was not good enough to deactivate immediate seals. For Team 8, the young Hyuuga had no troubles as Akane spent her time teaching her that, and could help her teammates. The Aburame understood fast thanks to his female friend and used his insects the same way she used her Byakugan.
Now was time for the most problematic team to go through it too.
"The latent ones, right?" Sasuke asked, obviously interested. "We don't have the level for any immediate one."
"Exactly. Unless you have the ability to see the flow of chakra inside the seal or you have an incredible chakra control, or you're an Uzumaki..." Naruto beamed at that and grinned at Sakura, who was still staring at Sasuke in awe. "...you won't be quick enough."
"Come on, the first one to succeed wins."
"What!? What's the prize!?" Naruto inquired, stars around him as he was harassing his sensei.
I snorted in slight disgust as Uma was getting starting on the bones of the poor rabbit I hunted beforehand, Mei-sensei's reply in my hand. I had another sealed scroll for Zabuza-san, apparently he would know how to open it.
Another double mission on my hands. Kill sheatfish, and convince Zabuza-san to join us.
Zabuza-san who got killed before and that I needed to save.
I was so gonna hurt his pride.
Uma disappeared and I made four shadow clones to start searching for sheatfish, and I started to look for Zabuza-san. This was going to be interesting.
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