Chapter 11: from team selections through wave.

First, lets all observe a moment of perverted giggling in memory of Jiraya.

I'm going to make this from the team selections to the beginning of wave.

The first fight won't be that different (Zabuza thinks himself equal to the Mizukage, who is younger than Sarutobi and is (according to Zabuza) therefore, stronger than Sarutobi.)

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Disclaimer: In Soviet Russia Naruto owns Masashi Kishimoto, sadly everywhere else Kishimoto owns Naruto.

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Location: Hyuuga Manor

Date: June 5 12 A.K. evening

After the "exam" Kushina and the gang went to the Hyuuga manor to talk to Hiashi and relax.

When they walked in the door Hiashi was dressed in his formal robes, and looked ready to head out the door. When he saw them he said, "Good you're back, I thought you'd still be a few miles out, oh well, you need to come with me, Minato is about to reveal himself to the rest of the village. Kushina you need to change into the kimono that's in your closet. Everyone else, you don't need to worry about changing, only Kushina and I will be with Minato on up at the top of the Hokage tower, so only we need to be dressed-up." Hiashi then swept Kushina into her room and got some of the servants in there to help her put on the kimono.

After a few minutes Kushina came out in a navy blue kimono with an orange sash, Hiashi thought that it would be a treat, since she wasn't allowed to wear anything else that had orange in it, much to her dismay, and she had her hair out of her almost constant, since she found out she was a she, pigtails. The over all effect was that she looked a lot more regal, and less like the tomboy she is.

Once she was ready they all headed out to the Hokage tower, John, Cortana, and Hinata staying at the bottom with the anxious crowd, all they knew was that Sarutobi had chosen a successor, again. Hiashi and Kushina went up and headed for the Hokage's office, where Minato was waiting for them.

Minato said, "It's good that you're here Kushina, this should be very interesting, and I have a feeling that the crowd could get a little rowdy, seeing as how I'm supposed to be dead. Well it's almost time to start so let's head to the top of the tower; Sarutobi-san is waiting for us up there.

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the three people walked up to the top where Sarutobi was already making a speech about the will of fire and how his replacement has enough for the entire village, he was leaving out the name so it would be a huge surprise to everyone. He finished his speech shortly after Minato, Hiashi, and Kushina arrived.

Walking up to the edge Minato shocked everyone; all of the ninjas performed a kai thinking it was a genjutsu. Minato said, "Yes, it is actually me, Namikaze Minato, and I am going to be taking my old position as Hokage, and now that I'm back and able to protect her I would like to reveal to you my daughter, Uzumaki Kushina."When he said this Kushina walked up, bowed, and just stood there quietly.

The crowd suddenly became very quiet; then there were shouts, "The demon has tricked us," and "Kill the demon for trying to fool the Hokage!"

To say that Minato was pissed would be like saying Orochimaru was only a little weird, a vast understatement. Minato threw a Hirashin kunai into the middle of the crowd and knocked out the first person who had spoken out picked him up and disappeared. When he reappeared he said, "Does anyone else want to have a tour of our interrogation department?" That, in combination of his use of Hirashin, shut up most everyone, there were still a few that thought he was an imposter, but weren't going to take there chances.

Because of the Hirashin use most of the people believed that he was the Yondaime Hokage, because it was said that only he could use it, well him and that strange blue girl. There were now cheers, and people asking for forgiveness for how they treated his daughter, and being the kind man that he was he forgave them, mostly because he understood how stupid people can be when very stressed and sad, luckily for them his daughter did as well.

Minato then said, "Well now that that's out of the way I am happy to say that I can now become the fourth Hokage again and give Sarutobi a well deserved break from paperwork."

After Minato said that the crowd went wild, because they would have their Yondaime Hokage back. A lot of people started to run back to their houses or businesses as the case may be and in no less than an hour there was a full blown festival going on.

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Location: main street Konoha

Date: unchanged

After running back to the house Hinata and Cortana changed into their kimonos to go out into the festival, John had refused to take off his armor so he waited with Kushina for the other girls to get ready to go. Once they had left they all left to go see play the games and eat the treats. John was busy trying his luck with the gold fish game whilst Cortana and Hinata were munching on some dango while Kushina was stuffing her face with food.
Cortana looked at Kushina and said, "I can't believe that they gave you all that, those merchants must have felt remorse for what they had done to you before."

Kushina replied, "No, they just feel bad because I'm the Yondaime's daughter, it has nothing to do with how they felt in the past, if I had a different dad they wouldn't do any of this. I don't really care, though it does make attaining my dream a lot easier, I'm just taking advantage of everyone's guilt. I am wondering why I still have whisker marks I thought they were because of the Kyuubi, but now that she's gone and she wasn't actually the Kyuubi it makes me wonder why I ever had them. Maybe I'll ask Dad when we get back."

Hinata added, "I don't really care I think they make you look cute, I can just imagine a pair of cat ears and a tail." She giggled and obtained a blush after saying that.

Cortana chuckled, but for a different reason, she had been watching John. She haggled him, "What a Spartan super soldier can't catch a little fish," Eliciting a string of curses from John.

John replied, "Why don't you try little miss know-it-all."

Cortana took him up on that offer and went to try it. After a dozen or so tries and just as many curses Cortana gave up as well while stating loudly, "This game is rigged." Huffing and walking back to the other girls.

John walked over to them as well and grabbed an Onigiri from Kushina then grabbing a smoke bomb from a side pouch and throwing on the ground to envelop him in smoke, after the smoke dispersed the Onigiri was gone and John said, "That was good Onigiri."

Kushina growled in frustration saying, "Why won't you let me see your face, it's driving me crazy, you're as bad as Kakashi always hiding your …" she didn't get any further because a person ran by grabbing her in the process.

The other three shouted, "Kushina!" and started chasing after her with John pulling out a 9mm gun, he yelled out, "Halt, or I'll shoot" not really knowing what that meant the man just continued on, unfortunately he was running through a crowded area so John couldn't get a good shot, Kushina wasn't really helping with her thrashing around.

The man was able to make it to training ground seven before John Hinata and Cortana were able to catch up, and they were able to surround him, but unfortunately he had been able to knock out Kushina seeing this pissed off Hinata and she activated her Byakugan without thinking, quite unnerving the nameless kidnapper.

The kidnapper yelled out, "Why do you care what happens to the demon she's just trying to fool us with the fake Yondaime!"

Now with a clear shot John leveled his gun and fired the bullet traveling through the kidnappers arm causing him to drop Kushina and fall to the ground clutching at the wound. Hinata then used a jyuuken strike at his neck which caused him to drop paralyzed to the ground. Hinata spat, "Dumbass," and tied him up.

Cortana asked, "So what are we going to do with him, he doesn't really deserve to go to the hospital but if we don't he'll probably die from blood loss."

Hinata replied, "No we should bring him to the hospital, all that jyuuken did was paralyze him, he is still very much aware and awake, so he's in a lot of pain, then after he's treated he can go have some quality time with the interrogation department head, Ibiki I think his name was. I should probably wake Kushina up." Hinata then had her hands covered in a green healing chakra and placed them on Kushina's head.

Her eyes fluttering open Kushina looked at Hinata and flushed hoping she hadn't talked in her sleep.

After dragging the kidnapper to the hospital and telling the nurses what happened they went to inform Minato of what happened.

Minato yelled, "What!" once the story was relayed to him by John, and he rushed of to take the man to the interrogators for some "re-education."

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location: hokage warehouse

date: unchanged

After Minato checking and rechecking Kushina for any harm he finely let he go with John, Cortana, and Hinata.

John said, "well that event just made it all the more apparent to me that you three need to get a Mjolinr armor like Yoko and I have, Cortana you know the process better than I do so why don't you explain what to do.

Cortana answered, "Yes, well what we are going to do is step into the scanner on the ship and it will make a perfect 3D model of each of us then make the armor onto us using nanobots, don't worry about what those are it doesn't matter to you, anyway after that process is done it will be about time to be back home so tomorrow, barring missions, we will begin your training with projectile weapons. Now let us begin.

The process for each of them wasn't that long, each of the girls stepped into the chamber and got the body scan and then the armor seemingly built itself onto their bodies. Cortana had a blue armor with a black zero suit, Hinata went for a lavender armor with a light blue zero suit, and after talking Kushina out of "kill-me-orange" for the armor she went with a black armor with dark orange zero suit.

Once they were all done John got out a sealing scroll and put a multitude of weapons in it after he said, "I don't want to have to come back here for a while so I'm getting enough to last about a month of training." And with that he closed the ware house door and locked it.

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Location: Namikaze estates (next to the Hyuuga estates)

Date: June 5 12 AK late night

"Well, how do you like it guys your new home?" Minato said beaming a bright smile that was very close to what Kushina always did.

Yoko, John, Cortana, and Kushina yelled out, "It looks great!" while looking at the large three story manor.

Moving in was relatively painless, just moving a few items such as clothes and a few scrolls and other small items. They were able to get everything, using Kage Bunshin, moved in about an hour. Minato said you guys can go pick you rooms, you can choose any room but the master bedroom."

Kushina stayed after the other three had left to find a room and asked her father, "Hey dad, why do I have whisker marks?"

He replied, "It's a mark that shows that you are from the Uzumaki bloodline, you see the Uzumaki's have a Kekkai Genkai which gives the characteristics of an animal to the person who has it. Those whisker marks denote that you have mammalian characteristics that will manifest when you are in a life threatening situation this is different from when you are very angry, that transformation is only temporary and much more malicious, like a cornered animal; the most likely changes that will happen to you is that you grow a tail and your ears change into something more akin to the animal, like your mother had fox ears and a fox tail. Man, she was cute. Now while we are on the subject of Kekkai Genkai I will tell you about the one that I have, it is the main reason why I'm able to perform the Hirashin, I call it Kami no Mimi or 'Ear of God' because it allows me to hear everything in about a three mile radius, so that I knew exactly where everything was when I teleported, now you can control this so you don't have to worry about hearing anything you want I'm not quite sure how your bloodlines will mesh though it should be interesting to say the least. The way you activate the Kami no Mimi is by focusing chakra into your ears, though it won't activate immediately it will cause your hearing to increase some at first, and every time you do it the more you can put into your ears, until eventually you'll hit a point were you can't put anymore in, then you must force more into them this will cause them to activate this will require a lot of hard work for you to do, but once it is done you'll be able to detect anything around you no amount of stealth will be able to evade you. You will be the best tracker Konoha has ever seen, with animal like sense of smell along with Kami no Mimi.

Kushina was bursting with joy, Not only did she find out shy she had whisker marks, but also she had not one but two Kekkai Genkai. She yelled out "Yatta!!!"

After pulling his fingers from his ears Minato said, "All right now it's late and you need to get to sleep if you want to be able to do anything tomorrow so off to bed."

To her credit Kushina did as she was told and went off to find a bedroom that hadn't been taken yet, though there was no shortage of them. She immediately started working on triggering her fathers Kekkai Genkai and when ever she would run into anyone she would relate her father's story to them. She had difficulty but was able to sleep that night.

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Location: training ground 7

Date: June 6, 12 A.K. morning

Walking up to the training ground Kushina and gang, Hinata was picked up at her house, saw Sasuke leaning against a tree near the entrance. Kushina decided not to put up with him and said, "Hey bastard, why are you here?"

Sasuke replied, "Kakashi-sensei told me to meet him here at 8 for a test. Why are you here dobe?"

Cortana spoke up, "Sarutobi-sensei, said to meet up here before we go get our first mission."

Walking up to the field Sarutobi said, "Right, I asked you here because since we are team seven this is our unit's training ground, I suppose Kakashi said to meet him here because he was in the previous team seven. Anyway Sasuke you can train with us while you wait for Kakashi, you said he said to meet here at 8 right?" a quick confirmation nod from Sasuke and Sarutobi continued, "Right, well you have about 2 and a half hours until he gets here so you might as well work out." Turning to team seven he said, "alright I asked you guy's here to do some light training and to assess your current skill level."

Sarutobi set up some targets and got them to use ranged weapons. Hinata and Kushina got close to perfect scores with throwing knives and shuriken, but because John and Cortana hadn't really ever practiced with throwing knives they used two 9mm that John had brought, luckily Cortana was able to do well with it, for john it was a no-brainer he got perfect scores. Seeing the guns got Sarutobi and Sasuke's interests. Sarutobi asked, "What was that weapon you used, I've never seen one before?"

Yoko replied for John, "It is a 9mm handgun; it causes a slug of metal to travel faster than the speed of sound. It doesn't matter that it isn't sharp, in fact the most effective rounds are hollow nose." While pulling out an extra clip she had nicked from John to show Sarutobi.

Sarutobi let out an appreciative and said, "That's a powerful weapon, any chance you could manufacture any more than you've got, if every Jounin or above had one of these we wouldn't have to worry about Many enemies."

Sasuke butted in, "Dobe make me one."

John replied, "Yes, Sarutobi, I can make a lot more and I have many other weapons you may be interested in, I have most of them with me in a sealing scroll. Sasuke you shouldn't insult some one when you want a favor."

Sasuke said, "Che, whatever, fight me and if I win make me a gun."

John snorted and said, "I don't fight, fighting implies the chance that I might lose," and punched Sasuke in the face, knocking him out.

Sarutobi said, "That was a little excessive, don't you think?"

Kushina said, "No, he's had that coming for a long time, maybe now he won't be quite so demanding or so damn smug."

Cortana added, "No, I think he's going to be more broody than ever.

After the rest of the assessment and some light training a man with silver hair and three fourths of his face hidden entered the training field. The man said, "Yo, where's Sasuke, he should have been here a while ago?"

Yoko replied, "He's under that tree," she pointed where Sasuke was then continued; "He got knocked out in a 'spar' with John."

Kakashi said, "Man, I hate that I have to train that brat, his attitude is almost as legendary as Kushina's pranks." Sarutobi, Yoko, and Kakashi heard a, "Hey!" coming from where everyone was training.

Sarutobi sighed and went back to paying his team attention; Yoko just flirted with Kakashi until training was done.

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Location: Hokage tower

Date: July 9, 12 A.K. morning

Team seven returned from their latest mission with Kushina complaining loudly, "I don't care how much trouble I get into. If I have to chase that damn cat one more time I'm killing it."

Sarutobi replied, "Kushina I don't think it can be killed, I remember chasing it when I was a genin, so don't waste your energy."

Kushina said, "Fine, but only if we get a C rank mission next, these missions are boring, how can I prove myself if I don't get any missions to show how strong I am."

Yoko added, "I hate to agree with the brat but I think we need something that'll give us something more to do, I mean thanks to the Kage Bunshin that three of the four of them can use they get them done in minutes."

Sarutobi sighed in defeat and said, "I'll see what I can do."

They walked into the mission briefing room and returned the cat and Minato said, "Alright now that you're back the next missions available are: Walk the Inuzuka dogs, clean up the park, or baby sit Homura's grandchildren."

Sarutobi said, "I would like to formally request a C rank, I believe that my team is ready for it."

Minato said, "Well if you believe that they are ready then I suppose they can take one. You'll be doing an escort mission that will last about two weeks. Send in Tazuna."

The Man identified as Tazuna said, "I thought I was getting an escort, they look like they couldn't protect anyone, especially that short blond one."

Yoko was holding Kushina back and said, "No killing the man we were hired to protect."

Sarutobi said, "I assure you they are more than adequate, and even if something goes wrong, I was the Hokage, so everything will be fine. Now team, meet me at the village gates in one hour."

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Well there's the next chapter, hope you liked it. I wanted to make Kushina's looks because of her mother, and the Kami no Mimi is my response to all of the Doujutsu that people make up. Hope you like it. Kushina's bloodline from her mother will awaken on the wave trip, and she will gain a greater control of the Kami no Mimi after wave. Anyway thank you for reading sorry for the wait, and Ja ne.