Pranking

The day in the Academy passed by in the blink of an eye. Only Minato introduced himself to Araki and Kushina. Nobody else even came up to them to talk.

Araki didn't care as long as these people wouldn't bully Kushina. He had been living alone for nearly 1 year. He was already satisfied to have Kushina as his friend. Meanwhile, he sensed that Minato didn't hold any contemptuous feeling for Kushina. Minato's power, his accuracy with throwing kunai and shuriken, and his control over chakra were beyond anything Araki had seen before.

Araki felt that other than surpassing Minato in terms of chakra and his chakra control, he wasn't better than Minato in another else. There was a high chance he would lose against Minato if they fought currently. Well, that was if they fought fairly.

Anyway, now that the day had ended. Araki planned to inform about this discrimination that Kushina faced from the Konoha people to Mito.

Kushina had no idea that Araki was planning to discuss it with Mito. If she knew, she would have stopped him from informing Mito. After all, she didn't want to trouble Mito-sama.

Araki entered his grandma's room silently. Mito gently raises her brow and asks him, "What do you want to talk about?"

Informing of everything that transpired in the day, Mito let out a sigh. She muttered her under breath 'That Moneky… So, this is his plan, huh?'

She then kneeled down to Araki's level and said, "Don't let her be alone. Protect her from now on, Araki. You are strong enough to rival a low-chunin if you use your full power."

"Don't worry grandma. If not for the fact that Kushina-chan stopped me, I would have thrown them all out of Konoha with the rights as the next Senju Clan Head." He said decisively.

Mito had a faint smirk on her face as she said, "Really? When did you become the Senju Clan Head? I still have another granddaughter who is much older than you. If anything, she is more qualified to lead the Senju Clan."

"Elder Sister hasn't returned to the Mansion even once in the last year. Until she returns, I will be the one managing the clan. Naturally, I will be the Clan Head." He said in a natural tone.

"You have really learnt how to talk, huh? Guess it was worth spending so much time teaching you." Mito said with a mischievous glint in her eyes.

In response, Araki groaned out but didn't say anything. He slowly returned to his room, where Kushina was waiting for him.

She had a worried look on her face, it seemed that what happened earlier was still on her mind. It was natural for her to be worried, after all, she was just a child who was suddenly a target of such discrimination.

"What happened, Kushina-chan? Why do you look so worried? Is it because you have no ideas on how to prank the instructors?" Araki tried to lighten up her mood.

And it worked, a smile bloomed on her face like it was a flower and she turned towards him, "Y-yes. That's what I was thinking. Do you have any ideas?��

"Kekeke… Instead of instructors, I have another group of targets in my mind." He said with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

~~

The next day, many of the houses of the civilians who were speaking bad things about Kushina were painted with Red Colour. At some of the houses, with the Red pain, some words were written.

Those were "Get out! You aren't welcome here anymore! Pack up and leave!"

As the residents of the house noticed this. They couldn't help but grow so angry that their whole face was filled with red colour. Steam was released from their ears due to anger, and they shouted, "WHO WAS IT?!"

At a certain distance, on top of a building, Araki and Kushina heard this civilian's shout and started laughing loudly, "Hahahahaha…"

They continued to move around and see the various reactions of the people whose house they had painted red. Some were outright angry and were shouting out and calling for them.

Some were crying as they had to spend the next hour or two to clean this paint. Poor guys still didn't know that the paint used by Araki wasn't so easily removed. They would need to scrub everything 10 or so times before it would finally be cleared.

Meanwhile, the paint of the building or the design on their house would be cleared off as well. They would need to repaint the entire house to make it look good.

Though Araki wasn't satisfied with letting them live in Konoha anymore, he decided to let them go after this. The reason behind was Kushina's urging, she didn't want to spread any more hate. This revenge was already enough for her.

Another day passed at the Academy where nothing much happened other than the boring theory and the kunai and shuriken throwing practices. Araki was mostly anticipating the time when he would have to fight against Minato.

He had even started training on his own violation this time. He didn't want to lose against Minato in a fair fight. That would be disheartening…

Other than that, he didn't have much interaction with him.

~~

Nearly a month passed by without them realising.

Until now, Araki and Minato had never sparred against each other. Both felt a challenging feeling from the other and wanted to prepare before fighting.

They had a feeling that it would be a long fight.

As this month came to an end, another major thing occurred. Mito's lifespan had nearly come to an end.

Her seal was slowly weakening as the Kyuubi's chakra slowly flooded her chakra coils. Due to her unique chakra, she could still retrain the Kyuubi's chakra and prevent it from running wild right now.

Well, with what she knew about how Kushina was being treated by the Konoha and the schemes of Hiruzen, Mito had half the mind of letting the Kyuubi run wild in Konoha. Have a day of vacation from the chains maybe.

Fortunately, her rational mind won, and she decided to spare these ignorant civilians from the destruction.

The time for sealing the Kyuubi into Kushina had come. Mito let out a sigh knowing that Araki was sure to raise a ruckus once he knows of what was going to happen.