Chapter 8

Naruto walked along with his new sister Karin. They were currently returning from Ichiraku Ramen store.

"Nii-chan's cooking, I miss it." Karin said.

Naruto deadpanned, "It's only for one night Karin-neechan. You should let him have fun with that lady."

Karin grinned, "Naru-chan, you think they kissed already yet?"

"Of course! Akira-niichan should have definitely kissed her by now. He is too awesome." Naruto grinned as well.

As they kept going on about how awesome and cool Akira was five figures appeared from the shadows.

"Karin Uzumaki, you are to come with us." The figure said in a monotone.

All of them were wearing a blank white mask and black ninja outfit.

"Hey! Who are you guys? And what do you want with my Neechan?" Naruto stepped forward protectively as he glared at them.

"Who we are of no concern but Karin Uzumaki is of use to our organisation." The person said as he rushed towards Karin.

Naruto sucked at Taijutsu but it was in the past. He had been secretly been training with Karin since he had no one to train him and he did not want to bother Akira.

Karin being personally experiencing first hand of Akira's hellish training was now quite strong. But same could be said for the five ninjas attacking them since they had trained in similar exercises given by Akira in academy and had more experience.

Karin got into the Cat stance of Shaolin Kung Fu taught by Akira. Akira was a martial arts enthusiast in the past so he had learned every bit of martial arts but with Instant Mastery he had mastered them all now and was capable of fully utilising them.

Cat stance was mainly used for transitional movements and mobility. It was perfect for this situation since they were outnumbered and had to escape.

"Naruto! I am leading them away! Go and call for help!" Karin ordered.

"But neechan you..." Naruto didn't get to complete his sentence as he was yelled at, "We can't defeat them! Our only hope is to call for help!"

Naruto didn't want to leave her alone but knew that she was right. He hated this feeling of helplessness.

'I will get strong so this never happens again!' Naruto looked at Karin one last time and went to get for help.

SWISH!

Like a nimble cat, Karin hopped from one rooftop to another as the ninjas pursued her.

SHING!

Karin spun in air as she dodged the poison darts that was meant to subdue her.

"You are quite skilled! Is this the result of Akira Kurogane's training?" One of the ninjas asked impressed at the display.

"Why don't you find out?" Karin taunted them knowing that Naruto had already escaped.

"Let us test how formidable you are then Karin Uzumaki..."

Without any noise the ninja had already gotten behind Karin ready to strike at her but her instincts were honed because of the training Akira had given her.

She crouched forward balancing herself with her right leg as her left leg whipped at the enemy in a vicious manner.

WHAM!

The blow was dealt but Karin quickly back flipped dodging the punch aimed at her.

Karin grimly looked at her enemy had used Substitution Jutsu to avoid her attack.

"Not a bad attack. Quick reflexes with flexibile movement. Extremely similar to that of a cat. It seems you will prove to be even more useful to us than we thought." The ninja praised her but Karin glared at the ninja.

Karin closed her eyes as she used the trump card Akira had given her in case of an emergency.

Akira knew that this world was extremely dangerous so he had passed down a extreme breathing technique to Karin for her self-defense.

The technique was directly opposite to what the exercises meant. Instead of breathing, you would stop all manner of activity in the body, hyperactivating the blood vessel in your body to give you extreme stress that will give explosive increase in perception. It was called Bullet time.

Karin looked at the enemies silently as she used the Bullet time. Everything felt like it was going in slow motion, even the leaves fluttering by felt like it was just stuck in the air.

Karin couldn't hold onto this technique for long. She had the time limit of only 2 minutes but as Akira had always said to her 'a single instance could mean victory or defeat'.

Karin gestured her hand towards her taunting the ninjas.

One of the ninja rushed at her with incredible speed but Karin saw it in incrediblely slow motion as she watched the ninjas movement.

She gave a straight punch as a feint as the ninja dodged it jumping in the air, seeing the ninja jump she instantly finished the ninja off with a round horse kick on the spinal cord with her heel as the ninja had no way to dodge attacks in mid air.

The ninja collapsed and didn't move at all as he was instantly killed by having his spinal cord broken down. It was an extremely precise kick as it striked down the primary nerves of the spinal cord that controlled the vital function of the body.

Karin was a bit phased by it but kept her eyes on the ninjas. She had already witnessed many horrible things before so this didn't phase her much.

The four remaining ninjas looked astonishined, "It seems we need to stop looking down on you."

All the four ninjas rushed as they planned on subduing the formidable little girl. Karin got into a low crouching stance as she gave a feint of moving forward and moved back somersaulting back delivering a kick to the chin at one of them.

Another ninja was brought down albeit not dead but was instantly knocked out due to the kick. The kick had managed to shake the brain of the ninja resulting in the knockdown.

Each and every attack of Karin was aimed precisely at weak spots. Her heightened perception enabled her to do such feats.

The three ninjas couldn't believe what was happening as they avoided the attacks with extreme care. Even a single hit could be fatal to them!

They didn't dare use Ninjutsu as they were ordered to bring her alive. And the Genjutsu didn't work at all. How could the Genjutsu work when her perception was so high?

Karin's face was getting blue as she was lacking air. She didn't have much time left!

The ninjas seem to have realised it and backed out, "You technique... it requires you to hold your breath... it looks like your running on borrowed time."

Karin breathed out air as she gave a sadistic smile at them, "Nii-chan, you think I am running on borrowed time?"

The ninjas all turned back only to see a demon behind them. Two of them were instantly killed by a vicious blow to the chest while the last one was knocked out.

"Kurenai-chan... I want all the information on who ordered this, alright?" Akira said in a grim tone to Kurenai who appeared in Kimono.

"Akira-kun, just be careful." Kurenai said as she nodded and took the two knocked out ninjas to the TI department for interrogation.

Akira already had an inkling to who had ordered this.

'Danzo... how could I forget about him?'

Akira thought as he hugged Karin.

"Are you alright?" He asked worriedly.

"Of course I am! I am your imouto after all." Karin cheekily said. "By the how is Naruto?"

Akira sighed, "He's pretty depressed about being weak and not being able to protect his precious people."

"Nii-chan... why don't you train him together with that Hinata? You know I have been watching Naruto a bit and everyone seems to hate him for some reason but that Hinata girl, she likes him. You know she really really like him." Karin said smiling.

'Huh!? How come I never thought of that? But there's Sasuke as well...' Akira thought as Sasuke had been pestering him to train him personally.

'Perhaps I can train them all together? And with two more if they are able to satisfy me with their training stances.'

"Ok Karin-chan, I will train him with Hinata." Akira said.

"And... what about me? You wouldn't be forgetting about your own cute little imouto, right?" Karin said glaring at him.

"Eh!? But what about your medical studies?"

"They are too easy since it's only beginner stuff, they are teaching. And I need to get strong as well. You saw what happened today, right?" Karin said as she looked at Akira with determination.

Akira patted her head, "Alright, you will be joining in as well."

"Danzo-sama, the mission was a failure. Karin Uzumaki is more than what she seems to be." A Root ninja reported to Danzo.

"What happened?"

"Karin Uzumaki is extremely versed in Taijutsu and seems to have used a trump card of some sort as she killed one of our ninja. Her Taijutsu is a similar to how cats function and is extremely depended on mobility."

Danzo rubbed his chin in thought.

'Who could have thought that a 7 years old child would be able to kill a experienced ninja. Akira Kurogane... it seems he's not someone to be taken lightly if he was able to train a child at this magnitude.'

"Keep a close eye on Akira Kurogane and leave Karin Uzumaki for now. Akira Kurogane is our top priority. It will not be good if he manages to link this to us but knowing that fool Hokage, he will likely tell him about the Root." Danzo ordered as the ninja disappeared taking the order.

In the TI department Anko was furious. Why wouldn't she be? The damn captives Kurenai brought killed themselves with poison somehow and she had no way to find out who tried to get her Akira's little sister.

'Damn it!!! I wanted to impress Akira but it all went to drain now.'

Anko thought angrily as she paced around stomping her legs in anger. And the worst thing was she knew who it was but didn't have conclusive evidence.

'Danzo you old bag of shit!!! If I ever get my hands on you, I am going feed your balls to the rats!'

All the males in the TI got shivers looking at Anko's expression.