Chapter 8

SORRY THIS IS LATE BOOS! I left my phone in another room and missed my 5PM alarm, SORRY!

For those curious, I'm NEVER EVER EVER DOING A GROUP INVITE! I fucking HATE when stories have the character just invite a dozen people and let them gain power in the same way. I like having my characters basically wielding this power that makes them better than their fellows. Weird, I know.

Just a thought...Monty is cute enough to be a lethal weapon as well. Hmm, imagine a Snake Dojutsu...LAUNCHING SNAKES FROM YOUR EYES AUGH! Yeah, no, I didn't need that mental image...But since I have it, you all are cursed to see that as well.

Chapter 8

Flipping a piece of sausage into the air, Akari watched Monty rapidly coil up before launching forwards and capturing the errant piece of meat in her mouth.

With a chuckle and a quick head-rub, Akari popped a bit of bacon onto her hand, still holding her torpedo in her other hand as Monty slithered up and wrapped her tongue around the meat. Biting on her own meal, Akari cast her gaze out across the buildings of Konoha, the rising sun just peeking above the tree-tops of the massive forests surrounding the village.

With keen red eyes Akari looked across the village, watching a Yamanaka stood outside the clan's flower shop setting out signs, several Akimichi opening food-stalls, a patrol of Uchiha Military Police hopping from roof-top to roof-top, and the village steadily came alive. It was like watching a flower blooming, as more and more people filled the street, all the while Akari observed from up high, a snake around one arm and a delicious breakfast in the other.

Taking a final bite, the girl quickly dusted her hands together to clear the crumbs stuck to her gloves, then lifted her arm to let Monty slip up and around her neck, where she was most comfortable during travel. Planted firmly against the edge of the building, Akari let her weight pull her down sthe side of the building slightly, before kicking off the lip of the building and jumping the street, immediately settling into a quick run across the rooftops.

More than once she passed other Shinobi, sparing them a wave or two on her way across the village. Kushina had been quite understanding and supportive of Akari actually visiting the Academy during the day. Apparently the woman was all for having medics who could actually fight, especially female medics. In her own words, she said 'Men like to imagine us as damsels in distress. Make sure you give a few a nice Kunai in the balls from me, okay Akari-chan?'

Kushina-hime was scary when she spoke like that.

Cricking his neck, Sei listened to the low-level murmuring of his students as they chatted away.

Akari said she'd be around sometime during the morning, but the fact she didn't actually tell him when she'd arrive kind of threw a wrench into trying to plan anything for the day. It'd suck if he planned out something great for his students, only for Akari to burst in suddenly and distract everyone. The door suddenly flying open lent a lot of credence to that idea.

With all gazes focused on the door, including her brothers, Akari had a triflingly easy time slipping in through the window. Ninja wire was truly the most useful thing ever. It could be controlled and manipulated with Chakra, so Akari just bound the door handle with som, made the wire pull the handle down to then shove the door open, before receding. All from outside of the building, dangling above the window.

Walking on the ceiling, Akari sat down with her legs crossed directly above Sei, watching as a few students glanced about. FInally, one of the ones further back leaned slightly and noticed her, gawking and covering his mouth as he tried to stifle his laughter. The one sat next to him followed his gaze, and that Kunoichi also burst out laughing but with no attempt to cover it.

Within moments, the entire class had noticed where Akari was, and it was apparently extremely amusing. Looking down, her brother didn't look too amused to be the only one who didn't know what was going on. Silently, Akari detached from the roof and fell behind her brothers chair, muffling her landing completely with Chakra before she glomped him with her arms, getting a startled yelp.

"Guess who Aniki!" She chirped, much to the raucous laughter of the students and the exasperated sigh of her brother as he worked to untangle himself from her grasp. "Awh, and I was gonna give you this seal. Oh well, no cha-" Before she oculd say another word, her brother immediately froze and 'looked' at her with the best puppy-dog face he could make.

It didn't work very well, but Akari still stuck the paper seal onto the back of his head, channelling a little of her own Chakra into the thread she bound to it. "I'll keep this going for ya Aniki, so don't worry about it." The minute drain on her reserves was pretty much completely ignorable, she could keep that seal going for days if she really wanted.

Smiling, Sei stood up from his chair and patted her shoulder. "Thanks Imouto." Turning back to face his class, he stuck his arm out to gesture at Akari's face. "Well class, you asked, and I have delivered. Not quite the introduction I had hoped for, but still a good one. May I gladly present to you Uchiha Akari, the Crimson Medic, and my younger sister."

It was obvious that despite the fact the class were expecting her, many still were quite in awe of the girl stood before them. Sei's class were actually in their third year at the Academy, and since pretty much all of the Academy students entered at 8, they were all the same age as her. Yet while they were kicking around in class and not doing anything noteworthy, Akari was already a Tokubetsu Jonin and had a Bingo-book page.

"Wait, fucking what?!" Akari whipped her head around to stare at her surprised brother. She knew she had a damn title, but the fact that she was in a Bingo-book somehow slipped past their notice. "You mean to tell me I've even got a damn bounty now?" Her brother just nodded at her. "Fucking great." Her crass words were heard clearly by the assorted students, but aside from a few winces and mutters about etiquette from some of the more snobbish clan kids, nobody really cared. "Show me." She fisted a hand on her brother shoulder, watching him quickly pull a book out from within his Chunin vest and hand it to her.

Flicking through the booklet, Akari watched face after face go by until she saw her own, and balked at the sight of her. Evidently some lucky, or perhaps unlucky, shmuck managed to get a picture of her during the Crimson Spear event. She was stood atop a mound of dirt with her arms folded, her left eye bleeding down her face. Evidently she'd tried to wipe the blood away at some point and succeeded in nothing but smearing it across her face, lending to a rather bloody visage.

Basic Information:

Name: Uchiha Akari.

Age: 11.

Recognizable Traits: Black pony-tail, Red Scarf/hood, Red Sash on waist.

Village: Konohagakure.

Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin.

Perso-

Akari glazed her eyes over as she scanned the entry, focusing on two particular little points.

Bounty: 250,000 Ryo

Orders: Will pay triple, 750,000 Ryo total, for live retrieval.

So, they put her head at a value of 250,000 Ryo, and if captured alive they'd triple the bounty. Evidently they thought her 'blood was strong' or some shit. "Well, that's definitely interesting. Wonder why...oh for fuck sake. Okay kiddos, listen up. And if any of you fucks say I'm younger than you I'll rip your spine out your throat and shove it back up your ass." The mental imagery was definitely enough to silence the room of any murmuring.

"Akari...please don't traumatize my students." She turned to give him a smirk over her shoulder.

"I'd never do that." The look on her face definitely did nothing to offset his worries, but she'd already turned back to the class by that point. "Okay then, I've heard that you gakis wanted me to come in and show off some medical stuff, yeah?" The class mumbled a bit, and Akari smacked her hand into the desk, making the closest students visibly jump in their seats. "I said, you gakis WANTED me to come in and show off some medical Jutsu, RIGHT?" The room was a lot louder as the class yelled their agreement. "Good. Well, I don't particularly feel cruel today, so I won't make any of you volunteer for this auspicious task. Instead, I'll introduce you to a dear, sweet friend of mine."

Lifting an arm to her side, several students yelped when a white mass suddenly slithered out from her scarf, revealing itself to be a snake as it wrapped slowly around Akari's arm. "This,-" Akari rubbed the top of the snakes head. "-is Monty. She's an Albino Ball Python. She's also, after my brother, the next most valuable thing in my life, and she's going to help me out with this demonstration. Monty, if you would?"

Without warning the snake suddenly had her mouth latched onto Akari's arm before yanking back and hooking her teeth into Akari's skin, scoring a long jagged rent down her arm, getting numerous startled yells and exclamations in doing so. Her brother looked distinctly uncomfortable at the sight and sound but knew that Akari trusted Monty quite whole-heartedly. Besides, Monty had no venom to speak of, as all Pythons were constrictors by nature, they didn't bite to kill.

With a slightly-pained smirk, Akari waved her bleeding arm about. "Right, so this is a prime example of just one type of wound a medic has to deal with." Raising her arm to let Monty climb back onto her shoulder out of the way, Akari gestured at the wound. "It's jagged, bleeding heavily enough that I can't clearly make out how deep it is, and since I have to work on myself, the pain is disorienting. Now then, in this situation, the most important thing is to remain level-headed. If I started panicking and flailing about, even if another medic was nearby to help, I would be costing myself valuable time which could be better spent healing myself."

Flicking her free hand into a seal, Akari let the flickering green light of the Mystical Palm form around her hand, waving it before her face. "When using this technique, which some of you will no doubt recognize as the Mystical Palm Technique, the most important two things are control and intent. I must retain a near-perfect control over my Chakra or else the Jutsu will falter, potentially killing me with errant healing Chakra. But, I must also have it firmly sealed within my mind just what I want my Jutsu to do." Akari placed her hand against her wound, lifting one side so the students could watch the rents closing up.

"The reason all Iryo-nin know the human body is intimately is we HAVE to know exactly what we are doing when we fix something. If one of you made this seal and tried to 'heal' this wound, you'd likely screw up the entire inner workings of my arm." As some mutters picked up, Akari growled, a low thing but plenty loud enough to startle all the students. "And before any of you fucking idiots get the idea to use it in combat, remember that to heal someone, they have to make sure they don't use their Chakra at all, the risk of interference is extremely high. If I tried to force healing Chakra into my brother for example, all he'd have to do to clear that out is to just circulate his Chakra within his own body, and my foreign chakra would be attacked and destroyed easily, like an antibody."

Waving a hand at Sei, Akari kept her eyes locked onto the class. "Unconscious patients can't do that, and for absurdly-skilled Iryo-nin like Tsunade-hime, they can manipulate their own Chakra to imitate the patients, thus subverting the bodies defences, which can be used offensively. However, if you are that skilled with medical Jutsu, you will probably have learnt the second most common Iryo-nin technique, the Chakra Scalpel."

Forming the necessary seals and poking a finger out, the class watched as a blue-tinted haze settled over the outstretched digit. "Now, this is the Chakra Scalpel Jutsu. As I mentioned, it can be used offensively, but its primary use is to sever the internals of a Shinobi without having to open their skin and risk infection setting in." A few hands raised when Akari paused, and she smirked. "The reason for this is that sometimes we have to re-heal internal parts that have been 'fixed' by idiots. It was either this, or just slicing their bodies apart and fixing the damage with a new wound to seal up." Those hands went down again.

"In a battlefield, the aim of the game is to stabilize, not to fix completely. Tsunade-hime and myself differ in how this should be accomplished. Her medical doctrine expressly states that Medics should stay together within a designated point and allow Shinobi to come to them for healing, relying on others to guard them. Personally, I think it's a crock of shite made up by a medic too scared to face combat, screw what the stories say about her power. I got my moniker by ignoring that little rule and becoming a combat-medic. I spent that battle running around fighting and healing, not sitting back twiddling my thumbs as I wait for another Shinobi to triage."

Leaning back with her hands on the desk, Akari gazed over each and every student present. "Think about it. If I stayed nice and coddled up with that little boundary, how many of our Shinobi would have died during that battle because they couldn't reach help, and no help came to them? But anyways, you lot didn't ask me here to rant about silly things like that."

Akari spent the rest of the allotted hour showing the Jutsu off, asking questions, seeing if any students had an aptitude for it (Which only one did, and that was because they had a Water Affinity and high control over their Chakra), and then bidding them and her brother goodbye. With a Shunshin, she darted up the tower, and was about to knock on the door when...

*Ding!*

A rather loud ding, enough to make her ears ring slightly, chimed out randomly. With a sigh, Akari lowered her hand and sat down on a nearby sofa, opening her status menu and humming.

Update Log v173

Health and Chakra regeneration speed have been modified from X/second to X/minute, and Health/Chakra amount of been reduced from 10 times to 5 times. To make up for this, please accept a complimentary lottery item. In addition, Chakra costs for techniques have been reverted to their base prices. We apologize for the inconvenience.

"Fuck your game balance bullshit." Akari hissed. It wasn't that bad, since she still regenerated 8 Health and 5 Chakra every second, but it was still pretty damn major. With a groan, Akari opened her inventory to see what item the game gave her, and froze.

The Rolling Table!

This item can be used once a month to dispense a single random item from any of the Universes NoxCorp operate within. This excludes not-useful items like vases, mugs, biological waste, empty bottles, wet wipes, wrappers, broken electronics, bricks, paint, door handles, rib-cages, and many many more.

"Wow, okay, so they meant it when they said it was a lottery item, not just one random item. Cool." Tapping it, Akari saw an icon like a pachinko machine lever, and was about to select it when the Hokage's office opened and Minato walked out with Kushina beside him. "Oh, hey you two, sorry, I didn't want to intrude." Akari easily merged into a half-truth. She knew they were discussing something, and it was the perfect excuse for her not immediately entering. Minato waved her off.

"It's fine, we weren't discussing anything you won't hear about today anyway." This perked Akari's interest, and she followed the pair directly rather than simply flitting about with her Shunshin.

Walking backwards, Akari eyed Minato, who had a smug look on his face. "Kushina-sama, if you tell me why Minato looks so smug, I'll surrender myself to your tender mercies for an hour." Minato never looked more betrayed and afraid than in that moment when Kushina grinned.

"Kushina-hime, I've never been able to hold something over Akari-chan! I'll...take you to Ichiraku's?" Kushina opened her mouth, and he panicked. "I'll convince Kakashi-kun to let you play with his hair!" Kushina turned her hard gaze onto him, and he gulped. "I mean...I'll try?" He squeaked out.

Sitting happily in the peanut gallery, Akari pulled out a bag of popcorn from her inventory and munched on it, watching the pair with amusement as they gazed at each other. "...And dye it!" Kushina proclaimed, and Minato nodded, smirking when he looked at Akari. Akari just shrugged, the man really did that, just so she wouldn't hear about something until later that day? That was a pretty bad deal in her opinion.

"You're really that desperate to know something that I don't?" Minato completely and unabashedly nodded. "Whatever, you said I'd know about it today, so I don't really care." Minato pouted, actually pouted at her.

"Akari-chan, you're meant to be unhappy that I finally know something you don't!" She just waved a hand about.

"You know a lot that I don't...I mean, take Fuinjutsu!"

Kushina quickly cut in. "Not for much longer. I'm gonna be cooped up in an apartment for months soon, so you can bet your butt I'm dragging someone down with me, and what better to practice for months at a time than Fuinjutsu?...As long as you don't blow yourself up that is." Akari shrugged.

"Well, I do kinda want to learn Fuinjutsu, I've always had a knack for it but never really got the time to focus on it between by Knife-fight practising and Iryo-nin studies." Yawning, Akari turned back around and kept walking, falling into step beside Kushina. "Long as I don't have to be the one you test the seals on." Kushina looked pretty affronted at that.

"It was one time!"

Bit of a word-vomit there in regards to Iryo-nin and how I perceive them.

I know I'm not accurately following the Naruto timeline with those events, but it's close enough, within the 1YbNb (1 Year before Naruto's birth) stretch, so I don't care if the events are slightly out of order.

Now then, I've decided to do a re-cap every 4 chapters of all Akari's Techniques and Proficiencies, just to make it easier to keep track of. Every chapter will end with her status, but to avoid bloating the word-count too much, the listed two will only be every 4 chapters.

If there's anything obvious I've missed that every Academy Student should know, please tell me so I can add it.

Also, if any of you have suggestions for items the Rolling Table dispenses, shout 'em out in the reviews and I'll see about adding them. Don't expect each one to be awesome, you could have Benny's pistol Maria if you wanted, or a Star Trek Phaser, maybe even a re-programmed Droideka!

If you have a cool suggestion and want to throw it into the pot, just say so! Maybe even make multiple if you'd like, just...try not to make them ridiculous like Mjolnir, a Vortex Manipulator, Syndromes Gauntlet or the Noisy Cricket, those are all just a 'little' too powerful for my liking.

*Edit* - Guys, thanks for the suggestions, but I did kinda hope they'd be just a little weaker. I mean, stuff like DXD Chess Pieces, Devil's Fruit and whatnot is a bit much. I meant more like obscure and interesting kit, maybe a suit of Mandalorian Scout Armor, or a Flask of Re-filling, weird yet useful kit that isn't really that powerful but is still useful.

(I mean, Mandalorian Scout Armor is fucking powerful sure, but it looks so cooooool!

Name: Akari Uchiha

Level: 30

Age: 11

Experience: 17521/30000

To Next Level: 12479

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.

Health Points: 3000 - (100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 500/m - 8.3*/s - Vit x End - Halted when afflicted with bleed status.

Chakra Points: 2000 - (100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 300/m - 5/s - Int x Wis - Halted when continuous chakra drain Jutsu in use.

Strength - 30

Vitality - 25

Endurance - 20

Intelligence - 20

Agility - 40

Wisdom - 15

Luck - 25

Techniques

Mystical Palm technique/Beginner - The catch-all medical ability. Able to regenerate wounds of varying degrees. Usage - 25CP/s. Heal-rate - 25HP/s. Can be levelled. Levelling will increase Chakra cost and Heal Rate. Can still use inferior versions after unlocking improved variant.

Mystical Palm technique/Novice - You have become proficient enough with your healing Jutsu to be regarded as a Novice. Usage: 50CP/s. Heal-rate - 50HP/s. Can be levelled. Levelling will increase Chakra cost and Heal Rate. Can still use inferior versions after unlocking improved variant.

Mystical Palm technique/Graduate - You have become proficient enough with your healing Jutsu to be regarded as a Graduate. Usage: 75CP/s. Heal-rate - 75HP/s. Can be levelled. Levelling will increase Chakra cost and Heal Rate. Can still use inferior versions after unlocking improved variant.

Fire Release: Great Fireball - A well-known Jutsu within the Uchiha Clan. Moulding Chakra within your lungs, you can expel flames as either a colossal ball of fire, or as a continuous stream of flame. Ball Usage - 150 CP/each. Stream Usage - 25CP/s.

Fire Release: Phoenix Flower - This technique coats Shuriken, Kunai or Senbon in Fire Chakra, slightly hiding their exact location within the flames and causing extra damage. Usage - 15CP/weapon.

Substitution Jutsu - An Academy standard, the art of swapping your position with an inanimate object up to the same size as yourself when in imminent danger. Usage - 75CP/each.

Transformation Jutsu - Take another form and hide in plain sight. This ability puts an illusion over the user, but is easily disrupted. Target must be within 2 feet of height to caster, and within 50lbs of weight. Usage - 75CP/cast, 2CP/s to maintain.

Clone Jutsu - An illusionary non-corporeal clone. Great for distractions, but not much else. Upgrades into Shadow Clones, which are corporeal. Usage - 15CP/each.

Poison Extraction Jutsu - This ability drains poisons and foreign bodies from wounds. Length of time for extraction varies depending on strength and amount of poison. Usage - 100CP/s.

Shunshin - The pretty-much teleportation ability. This Jutsu acts by hyper-enhancing a Shinobi's abilities, essentially enabling them to run at absurd speed for a fraction of a second. Cost is calculated by distance. Usage 15CP/meter.

Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan - The eyes of a close relative. When in use, will no longer degrade visual acuity. Mangekyo Techniques will now also no longer damage eye-sight. Same abilities as regular Mangekyo Sharingan. Usage: 25CP/s.

Left Eye: Kami No Te (The Hand of God) - This technique grants the user the ability to completely manipulate the ground around them within a fifty-meter radius. This requires great concentration but can be devastating if used correctly. Usage - 500CP/Cast, 50CP/s to maintain.

Right Eye: Kami No Shinpan (The Judgment of God) - This technique is a direct-contact Jutsu. If Akari lays a hand upon her target, they are 'judged'. If they have hostile intent towards Akari or those she cares about, they are judged negatively, and a Chakra pulse will stop their heart, as well as demolishing their entire Chakra network. Even if their heart is restarted somehow, their Chakra will be forever destroyed. If they do not have any hostile intent, they will be judged positively, and nothing will happen. Usage - 1000CP/Cast.

Susanoo: As the user has both Mangekyo, the Susanoo has been unlocked, a large Chakra construct capable of being formed around the user for protection and offence. This construct can be summoned in multiple forms, each one being larger, more protective and with more abilities.

Level 1 - A rib-cage surrounds the user, protecting them from harm but lacking offence. The form will slowly grow until it is formed into a large skeletal structure, where musculature and skin will grow, finally forming into a giant humanoid: 500CP/Cast, 25CP/s to maintain.

Level 2 - Armour forms around the Susanoo for added protection, though it is not a complete protection: 1250CP/Cast from nothing, 500CP/Cast from Level 1, 50CP/s to maintain.

Level 3 - The Susanoo will now form the final pieces of armour, becoming fully-enshrouded. The Susanoo will gain wings for flight, with Ornate robes over heavy armour granting the construct hefty defences. The Complete-body Susanoo is capable of summoning weaponry to assist it during battle: 2500CP/Cast from nothing, 1500CP/Cast from level 1, 1000CP/Cast from level 2, 100CP/s to maintain.

Proficiencies

Uchiha Interceptor Fist - A Taijutsu form used by the Uchiha which makes the best possible usage of the Sharingan Dojutsu's predictive abilities to counter enemy attacks and bring victory. - Level 15 - 74.7%

Shurikenjutsu - The art of throwing pointy things. Pretty self-explanatory. - Level 13 - 33.1%

Bukijutsu - The way of the weapon. Covers all weaponry. - Level 19 - 85.8%

Knife-fighter - Using short-blades, daggers and Kunai in close-quarters combat. - Level 27- 1.7%

Fuinjutsu - Sealing arts. The practice of using ink to achieve your goals. - Level 9 - 5.21%

Mystical Palm - Ability to detect and heal wounds using linked Jutsu. - Level 43 - 11.7%

Polearm-user - The act of swinging a long thing with a pointy bit at the end. - Level 1 - 7.6% - Degrading -

Tree-running - Leaf Shinobi are trained to flit through trees, which increases their speed and concealment. - Level 27 - 45.1%

One-handed Seal usage - Using only one hand to make seals? You showoff. - Level 7 - 12.0%

Cooking - Really? This is a proficiency? Whatever. Your cooking skills have been noted. Now get out there and make more food! - Level 13 - 22.8%