Chapter 10

Dammit!

Not even a full year and we already have to move again, bleh. People who own this place are selling, so chances are me and mine have to bugger off to some other place in February, hooray!

...I liked this place dammit, it was comfy. Oh well. Expect stories to get a bit hectic around Jan/Feb/May time, and I might sometimes get busy clearing out the place and miss my 5PM alarm, so stories will possibly come out late, sawwy.

This chapter is gonna have a bunch of time-skips, most of the line-breaks will denote a decently-sized skip in time.

ALSO! Akari is getting her Right Eye 'updated', because Kami no Shinpan fucking sucks and it was only meant as a placeholder. Sorry if any of you thought it was a decent idea (*Snorts* Yeah right, it fucking sucked, I know), but the Game is going to update it.

Chapter 10

"So, you finally came."

Akari rolled her eyes at the dramatic voice, squinting up at the narrowed red eyes glaring down at her. "Yeah yeah, whatever. So, enjoying your stay at Hotel la Akari?" She waved a hand at the pretty bland area the Kitsune was contained within. Between looking after Naruto, doing missions as a Tokubetsu Jonin, and generally living, she completely forgot to check out the Mindscape jutsu she received from becoming a Jinchuriki. To be perfectly honest with herself, she entirely forgot she even was a Jinchuriki, because the seal on her body vanished and would only appear when channelling Chakra, and said seal was written so Chakra from the Kyuubi could only be drawn when she wanted it.

"Hmph. You are not the first human to contain me, and if I have any say you most certainly shall be the last. Pitiful. Weak and greedy, all of you." The giant fox turned away from Akari, plodding off to the back of the sewer-like seal and curling up. With a drawn-out sigh, Akari walked up the side of the giant gate holding the fox back and observed the seal with a keen eye, nodding to herself.

"Well, it looks to be in order. Soo~" She slid between the bars of the seal, wandering up onto the ceiling of the cell and looking down at the surprised eyes of the giant fox."-this place is pretty dreary. I'm sorry I didn't pop in earlier to check all this out. I mean, sure, you killed a lot of people, but I guess if I got trapped in a seal like that for however long then released and given a chance for revenge I'd damn well take it. I wish you didn't kill Kushina and Minato during it, but whatever." Akari then sat down, crossing her legs and closing her eyes.

The Kitsune watched her warily, yipping in surprise when the floor started shifting beneath him. "Human, what are you-" He began demanding, only to snap his mouth shut when he saw the sewer he'd grown accustomed to changing, becoming a massive Minka home. Feeling something shift under his feet, he looked down to see a comparatively standard-sized tatami mat beneath his paws, and when he looked back up, the home was complete, a pretty close imitation to a standard home.

Looking up at the ceiling, Kurama narrowed his eyes at Akari, who just rubbed one of her closed eyes and made to stand up but quickly darting over to a wall, sliding down it and landing on the floor where she fell onto her knees and pressed her back against the wall, exhaling loudly. "Remind me to never just do something like that on a whim, eh Kyuubi?" The fox bristled at her words, and Akari winced, quickly raising her hands. "Sorry if that sounded bad, I uh...I don't really know what to call you. I mean, Bijuu sounds so impersonal, so I figured Kyuubi was the next best thing...was I wrong?"

The fox glared at her for a moment before huffing. "It matters not. Know this, human. A trivial thing like-" He snorted as he looked around the Minka. "-like this does not matter to me. This changes nothing between us." He said haughtily, walking away from Akari and approaching one of the massive sliding doors. He pressed it open with his nose and began wandering around the home, leaving Akari in the room with the seal-gate, a smile on her lips.

"It matters to me though."

"Naruto, no!"

Akari quickly lunged forward and caught Naruto before he could tumble off the table and onto the floor. How he got up there was a goddamn mystery, which was joined by how he got out of his playpen without Akari, a goddamn Tokubetsu Jonin, noticing. With a put-upon sigh, Akari placed him back into his pen, patting his head and smirking. "Honestly, what am I going to do with you?" He made vague grabby motions towards Akari, and with a roll of her eyes she obliged the boy, lifting him up and planting him on her hip. "What's up Buster?"

"aa'sa." Akari shifted him in her arms, looking at Naruto's face with a perplexed gaze. Naruto scrunched his face up and burbled again. "aa-san."

"Oh nonono, don't you dare, you're not allowed." Akari quickly shook her head, frowning when Naruto giggled.

"Kaa-san." He chirped, giggling and burbling. Akari, meanwhile, was stood there with her arms almost going limp, just looking at the shifting and giggling infant in her arms. "Kaa-san!" Yelling, Naruto clapped his hands together, giggling up at Akari.

"Naruto~" She whined. "I'm not-...ugh, damn it. Whatever, I'll just hammer that in your head when you're older." How exactly he learned how to say Kaa-san was a mystery, though Akari blamed her mother. She had gone on three B-Rank missions since gaining ownership of the little ball of energy known as Naruto, and each time had to leave the infant with her mother.

Considering she had never spoken those words around him, evidently her own mother had taught him to say it. Not that Akari didn't think Naruto was just the most adorable thing ever, he was, no doubt about it. The problem was that Akari just went...wrong, having Naruto address her as his mother. But she could quite happily just wait until he was old enough to know better, then explain to him that she wasn't his mother.

"Kaa-san!"

"Uhh, okay then?"

Akari took the little postcard-sized piece of paper from the Hokage with a frown. "So uhh, what actually is this?" Hiruzen puffed on his pipe for a few moments before gesturing towards Akari's hand.

"That is a piece of Chakra paper. I was informed you do not know what your chakra nature is, a fault of mine for not realizing that as you have no jonin-sensei to teach you, this kind of thing slips through the cracks, and holds you back from becoming a full Jonin. Now then, if you would please direct your Chakra through the paper, it shall react in a certain way and dictate your Chakra Nature."

Humming, Akari quickly reached within herself for her Chakra, directing the energy to her fingers and then out into the paper. Said paper crinkled up quickly in her fingers, then with a whoosh burnt itself to a cinder, singing Akari's fingers slightly and making her yelp, dropping the paper quickly. "Could have warned me that might happen." She said without much heat, as her natural health regeneration already fixed the damage, leaving her fingers slightly stained in soot but with no actual injury.

"Well, that's certainly interesting." Hiruzen muttered, puffing his pipe again. "Twin Chakra nature of Lightning and Fire. Not unheard of, but not common. Well, congratulations are in order I suppose." Akari gave the Hokage a smile and bowed.

"Thank you, Hokage-sama.

Update Log v174

Popular consensus amongst the development staff has been strongly favouring the changing of your Right Eye Sharingan Ability. This was decided based on the utility of the ability being extremely situational and all but useless to your current play-style. This change is optional, but if accepted, you shall lose the Kami no Shinpan technique, and gain a new ability, one selected by the development team and favoured by the Project Head. Your Kami no Te ability has been decidedly accepted amongst the team, and as such shall be left alone regardless of choice. However, abilities shall be renamed from Kami to Megami (God to Goddess) in lieu of player gender.

BEWARE! You are fortunate to have never used Kami no Shinpan around other Shinobi, but some may be perceptive enough to note your eye pattern has changed. This may draw highly-unfavourable attention!

Accept? Y/N.

Blinking, Akari stopped on the tree branch she just hopped onto and re-read the message a few times. She agreed that her right eye was pretty damn useless, but to be allowed to just change it like that was pretty weird. Annoyingly enough she was not being told exactly what she was going to be getting, but considering they were swapping her eye out because they decided it wasn't even remotely useful to her, which was a sentiment she agreed with, it was probably an ability she would find useful. Mentally clicking the yes option, she felt her right eye leak some kind of liquid, and reached a hand up to find it bleeding slightly.

With a shrug, she dabbed away the blood with the cloth underside of her forearm protector and opened her menu, her eyes widening as she read the ability she received.

Right Eye: Megami no Mon (Goddess's Gate) - This technique will summon forth a corporeal spectre from the Pure Lands to fight or act on your behalf. To use, the name of the Spectre must be invoked, and the face of the summoned one must be in Mind's Eye. Spectre will have 2x Player's Chakra amount, and will drain Chakra at 1% per minute. Can use all original techniques of Spectre, but will use Chakra to fuel them, leading to a faster disappearance. Will follow all orders of Summoner, and cannot be affected by Genjutsu or compulsion techniques. Can be granted free will to act autonomously, but will mean Spectre can attempt to use loopholes in orders to hinder summoner if they so wish. Usage - 25% of total Chakra pool, will immobilize Summoner for 5 second duration whilst Spectre is called forth.

ABILITY CAN ONLY BE USED THREE TIMES IN 24 HOURS, ONCE EVERY 8 HOURS! After dismissal, Spectres will be placed on cooldown before they can be used again. This cooldown will be determined based on certain factors.

"Oh...holy shit." Akari muttered, reading the new technique through and raising a hand to her eye. That was...huge. With a hum, she pictured a C-rank bounty she handed in a few days ago. "Nagusa Bunraken." She muttered after forming the hand-signs for the Jutsu. It was pretty trippy to think about the fact that her mind essentially just learned those signs by magic, but Akari found she could avoid a nasty migraine if she just never thought of it.

With a puff of smoke, a slightly ethereal bandit found himself stood in front of Akari, his eyes glazed over slightly.

Grant Spectre Free Will? Y/N.

Akari selected the No option, pretty confident that if she gave a bandit that only a few days ago she killed free will, he would do everything in his power to screw her over. Above his head was a big blue bar which was slowly draining, a percentage beside it. "Hmm, so that's how much Chakra he has. Ahh, but he's only a C-rank, he won't know any Jutsu..."

The Uchiha girl put her hand under her chin, observing the bandit as he stood perfectly motionless. "Climb that tree." She stated plainly, pointing a thumb at the tree behind her. The bandit wordlessly strode over to the tree and began...stabbing his hands into the tree-trunk to make his own hand-holds, wrenching himself straight up the tree and reaching almost to the very top. Said top then snapped under his weight sending him plummeting down to the ground. "Right." She said when he hit the floor with a loud thump. "Need to be more specific than that with orders I guess."

Watching his body contorting and snapping back into place both confused and intrigued Akari. She knelt down beside him and used her Mystical Palm jutsu to observe his body, watching through her Jutsu as his bones snapped back into place, muscles knitted together and organs were re-arranged. She could practically feel the Chakra within him draining itself to fuel this process, but considering the amount he now contained, it was only a few percentage points.

As he lunged back up and approached the tree, Akari sighed. "Stop." She then froze for a moment before putting a hand to her mouth to stifle her laughter. He was mid-step when she said stop, and was now frozen in place, desperately trying to hold his position. "Oh put your fucking foot down. Uhh, stand at ease." He fell into a relaxed stance, still ready but not rigid like he was before.

Poking his shoulder, Akari frowned. It was weird to know that not three days past she was the one to run the man in front of her through with her knives then cut his head off, yet now an ethereal version of him stood before her, and under her command. "Okay, how about~..." She trailed off, eyes glazing slightly as she pondered what to do. "Hmm, I dunno, jump on one foot, pat your head and rub your belly clock-wise?"

Seeing the man as he hopped about, patting his head and rubbing his belly was rather amusing, but it also answered a good question. As long as it was physically possible to do, he would follow her orders. Not once did it start accidentally start rubbing his head or patting his belly, which meant it was likely that the command stopped his mind from messing with itself and causing confusion.

Akari leaned back and stretched her arms out, muttering quietly. "Okay, you can stop that now." She barely spoke, not even enough for a whisper, yet the Spectre followed the command and stood at attention again. "Hmm." Akari attempted to give the Spectre a command mentally, sounding out the words in her head, but the bandit didn't move an inch. She then mimicked the way the words would be made using her lips, and still no dice.

"So, I have to actually vocalize it, but as long as it generates some amount of noise it counts?" The Game was not particularly forthcoming with the information, but Akari was used to that after the years she'd spent in her new world. "Well, whatever." She glanced up at the bar above his head, noting that about ten percent had gone away. "Kai." She called, putting her hands into a seal and making the man disappear.

She didn't get any memories, nor an influx of Chakra, he just vanished as though he was never there, a swiftly-fading white mist being the only evidence the bandit was ever in existence. Flipping through seals again, Akari called his name again, but an error sound occurred. Looking at her status screen, a new tag had appeared.

Nagusa Bunraken - Cooldown: 5:59:27

"So, after summoning, it's a 6-hour cooldown from dismissal for him. Makes sense I guess." She shrugged, jogging up the side of a tree onto a branch and crouching down, opening her World Map and figuring out which direction she had to head in. At the moment she was on a B-rank hunting mission, trying to track down and eliminate a pair of Missing-nin Bandits who were harassing merchants in the Land of Fire. The two nin were only Chunin-level, so it wasn't a particularly dangerous mission, but she still had to remain on guard, as the pair made their camp somewhere around the border between Fire and Grass country, which still occasionally saw small-scale skirmishing between Konoha-nin and 'unidentifiable Shinobi'.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew it was Iwa, but they hid behind the technicality that nobody actually knew for certain that it wasn't another village harassing Konoha and trying to incite a war between the two recovering villages. Between the Kyuubi attack and the Third War, Konoha wasn't in a position to freely start up yet another war, so they had to just grit their teeth and keep up appearances.

Nodding her head, Akari closed her map down and started hopping through trees, leaping from branch to branch and falling into her own unique form of tree-flitting. Konoha-nin usually just jumped from branch top to branch top, but Akari much preferred a more...flexible way of travel. Swan-diving off a high branch, she extended her arms out and wrapped them onto another branch, swinging herself and using her momentum to fly across the forest. She then tipped back and hooked her knees around another branch, swinging around then releasing to fly upwards and grab another branch, hoisting herself up onto it before leaping off again.

Rather than simply landing on branches then jumping again, she moved far more unpredictably, something which made her practically impossible to ambush, as nobody ever knew which way she was going to go next. At one moment she would simply be flying straight, then she'd loop over and around a branch going upwards, then jumping from that to drop down low, and never really staying on a single level.

That was probably the reason why she never got a team, her way of travelling was far too unorthodox. Well, it made Akari's job easier.

"Shh, I heard something."

One of the two Missing-nin, Jiyara if she remembered correctly, just waited a moment before he rolled his eyes and snorted. "Yeah right. Listen Kanza, the only things out here other than us are the fucking bugs." The other nin, Kanza apparently, glared at his partner a moment before he swept his gaze across the forest again and huffed.

"Just keep your ears peeled dumbass." Silently, Akari pulled out her Opinel knives, silently clicking them into place and reversing them in her hands. Shuffling across the branch she was crouched atop, she waited for just the right moment, before...there!

Flicking her wrists, she sent both knives down towards her targets. The more suspicious Shinobi of the pair heard the near-silent sound of the blades slicing through the air just in time and managed to avoid the lethal attack, instead getting a knife embedded into his shoulder. His partner hadn't reacted to the sound at all, and the knife embedded itself into his Brachiocephalic artery, the arterial spurt being strong enough to actually push the blade back out of his throat and pour his blood out onto the forest floor. He passed out within moments, death from Exsanguination all but assured.

With a nonchalant hum, Akari activated the seals on her armguards, dropping her twin warrior knives into her waiting hands and grinning. "Well good evening there Kanza." The bandit looked between her and the rapidly bleeding-out figure of his partner. "Oh don't bother, he's going to die from blood loss within minutes if not seconds. You know, pissing off Konoha? Not a good idea." The bandit cursed under his breath and formed several hand seals.

With her Sharingan active Akari knew her Game was going to copy it, and thus ignored the flashing little box on the side of her vision, instead lunging forwards right as he yelled out "Doton: Rokkotoreiru!". A column of rocks burst out of the ground in a straight line towards Akari, so she rolled to the left and dropped the warrior knife in her left hand. Her arm-seals detected the falling weapon and re-sealed it into her armguard, leaving her hand free to snatch several Senbon out of her leg-brace, flinging them towards her opponent.

The man proved he was at least somewhat trained when he rolled to his right, putting the Doton rocks between him and Akari, cutting off line of sight as he flew through several more hand seals. Before he could finish Akari emerged from the ground beneath his feet, latching a hand onto both his ankles before she dragged him down into the earth.

Popping up in front of him, she quickly kicked the side of his head harshly to discombobulate him. The way she'd trapped him meant he couldn't form the hand seals required for the Hiding Like a Mole Technique to activate, but if he knew how to do one-handed seals he could easily escape. Fortunately enough the bounty for the two nin was only for dead, no bonus for keeping them alive, so she took her warrior knife to his throat and cleanly severed his head, nipping away from the corpse to avoid the blood as she dumped her evidence into a storage scroll.

Quickly severing the other missing-nin's head and dropping it into the same scroll, Akari stretched her arms above her head and yawned. A twig snapped somewhere nearby, but Akari ignored it as she continued her stretch, cracking her back before rolling up the scroll on the floor and popping it into her satchel. With a final casual glance around, she wandered into the treeline and hopped up onto a branch, flitting a little ways away before circling around and coming around behind the area the twig broke in.

A shock of red hair was visible hiding behind one of the trees, with two more figures beside the red-haired one, leading Akari to stifle her snort of laughter. Bright red hair, in a green forest? Did that person really have no idea of what a bloody stupid idea that was? Akari's own hair was also red, but closer to black than red, so it was acceptable. Rolling her eyes, Akari approached the trio, settling down within hearing range and listening to their conversation. "-ould go and tell sensei, not you."

So, they were a genin-team with a sensei nearby? Resisting the urge to hum nonchalantly, Akari hooked her knees on the branch she was on and swung down, dangling upside-down about thirty meters from the three genin and swinging back and forth, casually listening as they argued about who should go and find their jonin-sensei. "I get that, but at the same time, fuck you." Akari couldn't help it, she snorted. Fortunately enough the three genin were loud enough that they didn't hear her.

They went back and forth a few times, and it seems they decided that the red-head and the one stood to her right were going to stick around, while the one on the left was going to go and find their sensei. As he stood up from his crouch and turned around, he first spotted her dangling faded-red hair. Then he looked up and saw her casual face. "Wah?!" Was his eloquent response. Akari raised...or rather lowered an arm and waved at the flabbergasted Genin.

"Yo." The two other genin had their attentions drawn by his sudden yell and turned to also see Akari. She swung herself around and released her knees from the tree, dropping to the floor and raising a hand. "Peace. So, what brings you guys out into Hi no Kuni?" The three genin looked pretty flabbergasted, but the one who was going to head for their sensei recovered and pointed a finger.

"You mean what are you doing in Kusa no Kuni?" Akari tilted her head and surreptitiously opened her game map. It quite clearly designated them as a dozen or so miles into Hi no Kuni.

"Uhh, don't want to alarm you but you're about...10, maybe 15 miles from the border. Those two missing-nin were set up in Fire Country lands, not Grass Country. So, I'll ask again." Akari let her face darken a little, with a small amount of killing intent in her voice. "What are you three doing in Hi no Kuni?" To his credit, the lead genin only looked a little uncomfortable, but his two companions were significantly worse off.

The genin narrowed his eyes at Akari, before his face morphed into an apologetic one, his eyes looking over her shoulder. Akari sensed another Chakra signature approaching from behind her, and she rolled her head around to look at who was presumably their jonin-sensei. "Yo." She repeated her greeting.

"Hmph. You three." He growled out. "Back to Kusagakure, now." The three genin looked between Akari and their sensei a few times before scampering off into the forest. Akari held the mans firm gaze for a while, watching out of the corner of her eye as one of the three genin, the redhead, looked back briefly before running off. A few more moments passed before his face softened and he bowed to Akari. "My apologies Akari-chan, my team meant no intrusion, and I promise a firm punishment shall befall them for this transgression."

With a shrug, Akari gave the man a smile. "It's fine, I'm guessing they got lost and managed to wander past the border?" The man nodded.

"Yeah, they were meant to be hunting down a single goddamn bandit, but I got caught up dealing with a problem and lost track of them. By the time I'd found them, well...as you can see, they definitely move fast, but thoughtlessly. I hope my genin didn't offend you with his accusation?" Akari waved the Shinobi's concerns off.

"Nah, it's fine. I'll have to report this you know, but considering it was just a team of Genin and they weren't able to see anything important, Kusa can expect no retaliation for this border transgression." Akari gave the man a firm look for a few seconds before the pair chuckled. "It's nice to see ya Barava." Akari stuck her fist out, bumping it against the Kusa-nin's.

"You too Akari. So, how's your little tyke?"

"Argh, you cunt!"

With a yell, Akari ripped the Senbon out of her palm, hurling them back twice as hard at the bastard who stuck them in her, gritting her teeth as she tried to flex her hand. The muscles which would normally clench her fingers around were stabbed through cleanly and refused to close, leaving her with one hand to use. With a growl, she twitched her right hand and dropped a Bowie Knife into it. Apparently her opponent recognized her now-signature weaponry because his eyes widened dramatically as he looked between her dark crimson hair and her knife.

Guarding her wounded hand with her leg, she crooked her fingers as much as she could, dropping Senbon between the gaps using her seals and catching them between her fingers, all whilst keeping eye contact with her enemy. As he flung a brace of Senbon at her, Akari responded in kind, flicking her left hand up and releasing the Senbon in a shotgun pattern.

The sharp instruments smashed together, with Akari's being too few to stop several from slipping past and almost hitting Akari, one even bouncing off her forearm guard. Akari used the moments where the weapons were in midair efficiently, powering forward with her Bowie knife held before herself, deflecting a hastily-tossed Kunai and closing on her opponent, who wielded another Kunai and watched her with wary eyes.

Swinging her blade up towards his hip, she found her knife deflected by the Kunai, with the nin then stepping into her guard and attempting to stab her from close-range. Unfortunately for him, Akari used the short time between parry and step to bring her arm around and deflect his attempted stab with her forearm protector, pushing the Kunai away which opened him up for a side-long elbow strike to the jaw. She then brought her knife across her chest into a reverse raised swipe, catching him on the jaw with the guard which had the added benefit of tilting the blade fiercely, stabbing straight into his chest and sliding across his ribs, before slipping up high enough to go beyond his ribs and straight into his vulnerable trachea.

Akari wasted no time in plunging the large blade straight downwards into his rib-cage, slicing easily through the veins and arteries in the upper areas of his torso. A sharp pain in her side drew her attention to the man's other hand, where a second Kunai was now embedded deeply in her external oblique muscles. With a grunt, Akari yanked her knife from the mans body and sliced easily through his forearm, stopping him from making any other attempts to injure her with the Kunai.

Charging her arm with Chakra to give herself a boost, Akari gave the man a solid shove to the face, forcing him away from her and into a sprawled heap on the floor. She tapped on the Kunai gently, frowning. It was firmly stuck within her muscles, presumably cutting into her descending colon. Akari formed the seal for the Mystical Palm Jutsu, quickly healing the muscle damage on her left hand then switching her hands over so her left hand was the one coated in healing Chakra.

Gritting her teeth, Akari yanked the Kunai out with a single smooth motion, immediately jabbing her fingers into the wound to seal her colon up to stop any biological waste from escaping into her body and causing nasty infections. She could have done it from outside without having the lovely experience of putting her fingers into the wound, but it was safest to ensure that the wound closed up properly. Of course, it was likely the Game would just give her a negative status effect she could fix easily and call it a day, but it was better safe than sorry.

As the Kunai wound sealed up, Akari took a glance at her event log and quirked her lips to the side.

-471 HP. 3829/4300 HP Remaining.

Being stabbed in the side was one point off from being the same damage as having her hand cut off below the wrist. But, whereas before that was a third of her entire health pool, now she could take enough damage to have her hand cut off and sewn back on multiple times without dying. Akari still wasn't quite sure exactly how it was meant to work, since people she met didn't seem to have stats or a health bar, they simply had levels which seemed to serve for nothing more than to give her a vague idea of what they were capable of.

Shrugging to herself, Akari cut off the head of her opponent, a habit more than any knowledge of whether he had a bounty of not, before noticing the bingo book in his pockets and humming. She debated with herself for a moment before throwing her hands up and taking the booklet, stuffing it into a pocket and promptly forgetting about it. She knew she had a bingo book entry, her brother even showed her the one Iwa had for her a few years ago, but she hadn't had the chance to check up on her entry in a long time.

With a smile on her lips, Akari continued her journey home, her pseudo-son and her family on her mind. It had been a few weeks since she'd actually been back in Konoha, so since her mission would be too long she'd had to leave Naruto in the tender mercies of her loving mother. It was always adorable coming back and immediately being latched onto by a limpet-like Naruto, who would mutter grand tales about the demon in disguise which was Uchiha Kana. In a way, Akari agreed with Naruto, Kana was a bit of a mean task-master when she wanted to be.

Retired Kunoichi or not, the woman could throw a mean Kunai.

"Seriously Naruto, I'm not gonna tell you again."

Naruto pouted at Akari from his place on the table, folding his arms up. "But Kaa-san, I wanna!" Akari gave him an arm-cross of her own, frowning at him.

"And I said no. Remember that promise we made?" Naruto scrunched his face up, and Akari took that opportunity to loop her arms under his armpits, lifting him up and holding him to her side, one hand under his knees while the other supported his back. "As soon as you hit 8 years old you can apply for the Academy, but not a day sooner." She left one arm underneath him as she ruffled his hair, resisting the urge to coo when he hugged her neck.

"Promise me again?" He said in a quiet voice, his face buried under her chin. She kissed the top of his head, burying her nose in his hair.

"I promise cub."

That interaction between Akari and Barava just makes me squee, and I have no fucking idea why. I love it. It's really weird. I also love Akari interacting with Naruto. And yes, I skipped his baby years, because fuck trying to write that.

In total, 3 years have passed, Naruto is old enough to talk, Akari has levelled up 16 times thanks to the fact no massively world-changing quests have occurred, and she's how scarily tough. Like, she could get her hand cut off...let me calculate this...13 times and still be alive. On the fourteenth she'd go poof though.

In those three years though, she's only learned a few techniques, because she's not really one for Ninjutsu fighting, it's just far too different from how her old world worked. Knife-fighting was something she could handle, but launching fireballs and wind shurikens? No dice.

She's also now only just found out her Chakra Nature. Props to anyone who figured out why her Chakra was Orange to the Golan-vision that Sei has when he looks upon her. Fire Nature is marked as Red, Lightning as Yellow, so the two natures together mix to become Orange.

But...what does the white binding surrounding her Chakra mean?

Name: Akari Uchiha

Level: 47

Age: 15

Experience: 43277/47000

To Next Level: 3723

Title: Crimson Medic - Your exploits on the battlefield as a combat-medic have been noted, and many wonder if you will become equal to the Slug Princess.

Secondary Title: Tokubetsu Jonin - +25% experience gained during solo missions.

Health Points: 6500 - (100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 1200/m - 20/s - Vit x End - Halted when afflicted with bleed status.

Chakra Points: 5000 - (100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 500/m - 15/s - Int x Wis - Halted when continuous chakra drain Jutsu in use.

Strength - 50

Vitality - 40

Endurance - 30

Intelligence - 30

Agility - 50

Wisdom - 30

Luck - 30

Chakra Nature(s): Fire - Primary, Lightning - Secondary

Techniques:

Fire Release: Flame Bullet - This Jutsu pools oil within the user's mouth, before firing then ignites said liquid in a bullet shape. Usage - 25CP/bullet.

Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder - By moulding Lightning-nature Chakra into your hands, you can release varying powers of electricity to stun or even kill your opponents. Usage - 25CP/s for stun, 75CP/s for lethal.

Earth Release: Rock Trail - This Jutsu spikes out a series of large rocks from the ground in a stream towards your target. Cost is dictated by distance between user and target. Usage - 25CP/meter.