Genin Days

Kakashi agreed to teach her his Chidori and monthly spar, though he didn't look like he wanted this. But Hiruzen's sharp gaze forced him to. Fugaku gave Kei a glare. She didn't tell him anything about her invention. Kei could just shrug her shoulders saying that she didn't think it was much of a big deal as everyone was making.

"What glue did you use Kei?"

"The one which we use for furniture."

"And that's why it IS a big deal! It is working without sticking even after unlimited amount of time. That means it has some sort of preservation mechanism. And if one could find out how to do it, they can preserve ration and many things for as much time as they want. It is useful and dangerous enough to prolong wars."

Kei was shocked at Fugaku's words. Her mouth was wide open and could only utter, "S-so that's why they were hell bent on getting it?"

Kei couldn't contain her anger. So they were trying to trick her! It meant that her invention was resourceful enough that she could get any jutsu or fuinjutsu material in reward. How dare they trick her. She will be the one who will trick them!

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"Let's have a D-rank kids! Today you have to lure Tora such that she will come to you willingly!"

"""No!"""

"Yes my little devils!"

"You are the devil!"

"Sword Devil, eh? I don't think this monkier will satisfy my coolness at all."

Yes. Satoshi-sensei was a pure devil who had Tora as his familiar. Daimyo's wife is staying for about a month in Konoha and her cat runs away atleast three times a day, every single damn day!

And sensei decided that chasing Tora everyday would be fun. On her first mission, Kei simply trapped Tora in wires efficiently, and ruined Satoshi-sensei's fun. Since that day, he would try to make the mission more amusing for him.

On second day, he forbade them to use any kind of weapons and tools, and to catch Tora with bare hands. Kei ruined his fun again when she put Tora to sleep with mild Genjutsu, when it was trying to scratch Yugao's pretty face. Nothing should harm a pretty face!

So, on third day, he forbade them to use chakra at all. Kei wouldn't back down either. She put it to sleep again when it tried to scratch her pretty face that time, by using the cat's pressure points. Uchiha's have literature on Cat's ABC afterall. The smug look she gave to Sensei irritated him to no end.

He had suffered due to that cat, or her predecessor Tora during his Genin days. Apparently, the Daimyo's Lady are expected to raise a cat and name them Tora. It was a tradition First ever Fire Daimyo's wife started, who loved her cat named Tora very much. Since Tora was most probably previous Tora's kid, they looked almost identical. Therefore they are called 'Immortal Demon Cat'.

So, how could he let his cute students pass Tora Mission without acquiring the Immortal Cat's blessing?(He means scratches)

This time he was sure that they will finally receive her blessings.

His students tip toed towards Tora's position. He has noticed that Kei was a sensor. And a good one at that. God can be so partial when distributing talents.

Then Hayate broke away from the team and sat down close to Tora with a harmless smile. Satoshi didn't expect that Tora didn't run away immediately. He concentrated on Hayate and saw him use the ultimate weapon! He has prepared tons of fishes!

Meanwhile, Tora was contemplating whether to run away or go for the bait.

'I have seen so many brats like him. He doesn't look like anything much. Me-ow will definitely be able to steal away the tasty fishes! Meow!'

And Tora jumped into his lap. Hayate's powerful grip of a genius kenjutsu user gripped all her four legs and she was successful caught. She was being fed tasty fish so she didn't mind much.

'Another unsuccessful escape. I swear I will run away from that witch one day!' Tora's eyes showed a great resolve, which obviously no one bothered to notice.

The three kids turned to Satoshi with smug smiles plastered on their faces. Satoshi will make them suffer one day like he did! His eyes showed great resolve, which obviously wasn't missed by his Genins. A shiver ran through their spines knowing more Tora missions were coming.

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"Hmm, there all done. Kakashi Senpai, do not ever try to give it to anyone or study it to know it's working mechanism. If you don't want to have an explosion equalling 100 paper bombs, that is."

Kei gave the gauntlet to Kakashi with one of her brightest smile.

"Ma ma, now I really don't want to use it Kei-chan." Kakashi gave her his kindest eye-smile.

"And it will always need to be under 10m of your chakra, or it will loose it's functionality permanently."

"Can I still back down?"

"If you want to break the contract, which will give me permission to bother you anytime as I want, while I will still get your Signature Jutsu, I am okay with it."

"Thank you very much for your generous gift Kei-sama. I will treasure it for the rest of my life!"

"You are welcome. And on a completely unrelated note, if other than you and me tries to fiddle with it, they will not be able to open their mouth for the rest of their life. Their brain may also get fried due to some safety features on it. It may stick to them and explode as well."

"I will keep that in mind Kei-sama. And I do hope you won't pull me into your argument against Hokage-sama anymore!"

Kakashi's cheerful smile beneath his mask was quite charming indeed.

"Of course Kakashi Senpai!"

With that, Kei was gone. Kakashi stored it into a seal. He will advise Sandaime-sama to not trick kids anymore. They are quite scary these days.

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"Since you got Immortal Cat-sama's blessings, we are ready for our first C-rank mission!"

Satoshi-sensei finally fulfilled one of his dreams since becoming a Jonin-sensei. His students finally got Tora's blessings! And the mission that time didn't even have any restrictions! They just got arrogant after catching Tora without a single scratch for 7 days in a row. And it was Kei, who declared knowing everything about cats.

It seemed in Uchiha genes to become arrogant, as Kei thought. Dumping her fault to genes.

"It is an escort mission to a nearby village outside Konoha."

A shudder went through Kei's spine after hearing that it was an escort mission.

"We wouldn't encounter anything bad, right?"

"No no Kei-chan. It is just nearby. And even if anything happens, I can take care of it. I am a Jonin afterall. And a strong one at that."

Kei sighed in relief with sensei's assurance. It was just unnecessary paranoia.

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She really had to jinx herself. It was the second time this month.

"Howde!"

A tall man with rigged clothes and waist length hair, having chain and sickle weapons. The most disturbing part was, he wore a One-eyed Orange mask!

'OBITO!!!!!'