Tale of Two Kids: Haku

Karin was surprised to have hit something invisible in front of her, so she was startled into a fighting stance. Apparently, this was enough for the limiter to recognize her as an opponent, and Chojusen was immediately restricted to her level of power. Right now, Karin could at most be considered a Genin level ninja, so with Genin level stats, Chojusen's stats couldn't support the insane control and energy needed to use the Void Cloak. He could at most become completely transparent and hide a bit of his aura.

Karin quickly processed what was happening and couldn't help but say "You!" but then she supressed her voice and grabbed onto Chojusen's body, trying to hide him from the other girls. Even though he was currently transparent, now that his aura wasn't completely contained, Karin could see him as if he was not in his Void Cloak.

Karin's muffled scream got the attention of some of the other girls in the hot springs. Hinata said "Are you alright?"

Karin tried to play it cool, but her acting wasn't too convincing. She said "Me! I-I'm fine..."

Ino said "Strange… Where did Chojusen's butterfly come from?"

"Uh, he… he summoned her before we entered the hot springs. Yeah, she has been here the whole time, you just didn't notice."

Ino turned to Chokogo and said "Whatever, now that you're here we can talk about Chojusen." she paused for a second before saying "Say Chokogo, do you know why he's been acting so strangely these past few days?"

Chokogo said "I don't know either. I also noticed that he's been a bit distant, but he has yet to tell me why that is the case."

With that said, Chokogo, Ino, Hinata, and Sakura went back to the center of the hot springs to talk about girl things. With their presence gone, Karin relaxed and turned back to Chojusen. She whispered "What are you doing here!"

"I'm studying the female form. One of the guys bathing in the hotsprings on the men's side got me interested in the topic, so I came here to see what was so special. Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed. I guess his descriptions of how amazing girls are was so exaggerated they were outside the realm of reality. I mean seriously, what is so impressive about those girls over there." He pointed to where a couple of twenty to thirty year old women were sitting and said "Is the extra meat on their body really so amazing?"

Karin had no idea what he was talking about, but she felt a bit better after knowing that Chojusen wasn't in the girls side for malicious reasons. She released him from her grasp and the two didn't know where to go from there. Chojusen was waiting for her to say something, but after several minutes of just staring at each other, he said "Well, I'm going to go back to the men's side."

Karin said "Why don't you just stay here?" She wanted to relax in the hot springs by Chojusen's side.

Chojusen didn't really care too much which side of the hot springs he was in, hearing her request, he agreed to stay a bit longer. Now that he spent the day with his friends his sour mood was quickly returning to normal.

Chojusen stayed over with Karin for an hour before it was time to leave the hot springs. He teleported back to the men's side, dispelled his clone, and put on his clothes. Then, with the rest of the guys, he checked out of the hot springs.

There was still plenty of time left in the day, so Chojusen and his group of friends continued to talk and play until their parents picked them up from the lobby of the hot springs.

...

Chojusen resumed his life and kept training with Ino, Sakura, and Karin every day. As more and more time passed, more of his friends were allowed time out of their training at home to train with Chojusen's clique in Training Grounds No. 3. By the time Chojusen turned five, all of his friends trained together.

Of course the term training is used loosely, as they spent most of the time playing ta… practicing capture drills. Chojusen and Karin kept going on their dates until one day, they had a strange encounter in the Land of Water. While they were exploring random villages within the Hidden Mist Village, Chojusen found not one, but two kids around his age in very bad conditions.

The first kid he met nearly put Chojusen and Karin to tears. As they were exploring the Hidden Mist Village, they had known that the people in the village were struggling with a civil war. It wasn't odd to see homeless people living on the sides of the road. However, the kid Chojusen and Karin saw was in the worst condition they had seen.

Chojusen looked at the kid and couldn't believe to that people would actually let a girl with such a frail body wander around the village. Chojusen walked up to the girl and said "Would you like to eat with us in some place?"

"Wh-What?" the girl thought she was hallucinating. For months she had struggled to survive in the village by eating from trash cans and sleeping on the street. Most of the villagers knew about her and she had grown used to being treated coldly.

"Do you want to eat with us?"

The girl was kind to a fault. Even when she was almost starving to death, she said "You should stop talking to me. If the villagers see that you are talking to me, you might also be outcasted."

"Why are you outcasted?"

"Don't you known? In the village there is a civil war to eradicate clans with bloodline limits. I have a bloodline limit for Ice Release."

"Oh? I don't care if I'm outcasted in this village, after all I'm only a tourist."

"Really?" The girl paused for a second. When she looked like she made her mind up, she said "If you really are from outside the village, can you take me out when you leave?"

Chojusen didn't expect for her to make this request. But after thinking about it for a bit, he said "I might be able to do that. You said that your bloodline limit lets you control ice?"

"Right."

"Ok then, after we eat I'll ask permission to integrate you into the Hidden Leaf Village."

Chojusen then helped the girl up to her feet and used Yang Awakening to heal her vitality. Even with her vitality returned to her she needed help moving around, so Chojusen walked her to the restaurant they would be eating at. There, Chojusen, Karin, and the girl talked amongst themselves as they ate.

"So, what's your name?"

"I'm Haku… I don't have a surname."

"I'm Chojusen Akimichi" then he pointed at Karin and said "She is Karin."

Karin said "I still can't believe that the villagers would treat you like this for having a bloodline limit. You're just a little girl like me. Actually, you might even be worse off than me since I have ninja training!"

"Um, actually… I'm a guy."

Both Chojusen and Karin couldn't believe their ears. They both said "What?!"

Chojusen said "Well, you could have fooled me."

Then the group finished their food. Chojusen created a clone to stay by Karin and Haku's side and then teleported to Minato's office. He was used to just teleporting there whenever he needed to see Minato, but it seems like this time… this time he really should have used his teleportation sensing to check out the scene before intruding at the wrong time.

Chojusen appeared in the center of the Hokage's office, but he didn't use his Void Cloak; he had no reason to do so any longer when he was around Minato. Unfortunately, Minato was not alone in the room. He was currently looking at Chojusen with a face Chojusen could only describe as "priceless."

At this very moment, Minato, someone Chojusen deeply respected and trusted, was doing something he thought was unbelievable. In his own office, Chojusen actually caught Minato and Kushina playing a rather odd game. Minato and Kushina didn't have their pants on and Minato was currently shoving himself into Kushina.

Chojusen said "Is this a bad time?"

Minato and Kushina were so stunned they didn't react for a couple seconds. Then suddenly, Kushina kicked Minato off of her back and put on her pants. She looked at Minato and Chojusen with the eyes of a demon and waited for them to explain themselves. She still didn't know that Chojusen was actually the one to help her during Obito's Invasion.

Minato did his best to explain Chojusen's situation without being killed accidentally by his wife's bursts of rage. When he finally explained the truth about Chojusen, Kushina's anger dropped considerably. Minato then turned to Chojusen and asked him "Why… did you come here?"

"I want to add someone to the village. She's a citizen of the Village Hidden in the Mist and also has a bloodline limit for Ice Release. Oh and since I just saw that, do you mind explaining what it was you were doing?"

"What I was doing? Let's just say I was trying to give Naruto a sibling ok? If you still don't know what I'm talking about, you should go ask your dad about the birds and the bees. Now for your friend, I'll see what I can do when you bring her here. Next time you come to my office… please either become invisible until I am alone or make sure the people in the room are not doing something important..."