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Ch. 12 Kunoichi Picnic and Exams?

"Kunoichi Meetings?" TenTen asked. It's been a week since the teams started training together and Kyoko had brought up Ino's idea.

"Yeah, there are plenty of kunoichi all over the village and we can invite some girls from the Academy that are not fangirls, we can even trade techniques or something like that," Yuma replied and TenTen looked thoughtful.

"Sounds kind of interesting, hey when do you think Neji will get over that genjutsu you put him under?" TenTen asked, she was only a little concerned because the Hyuuga prodigy had bags under his eyes from lack of sleep.

"Not sure, but I think it's something different that he's thinking about," shrugged Kyoko while putting her hair back into a ponytail.

"By the way Kyoko, how'd you do that with your hair last week, subduing Neji and all?" TenTen asked her curious just as Lee and Hoshi went past them, both sparring with the other.

"Oh that, well it's just an idea I came up with, it got stuck in my head and I wanted to see if I could do it," she said with a shrug. Her clone at the Desert kidnapping incident had found out the trick while she was in the safe, thinking about chakra strings but needed a solid substance and remembered how she had hardened her hair and manipulated it to pick the lock. If she hadn't been studying the human body she wouldn't have been able to do it, but with having a desire to become a great medical-nin and having an aunt who specialized in all sorts of skills besides swords and dancing, strangely one of them was an in-depth knowledge of the hair and its anatomy. She had made sure that Kyoko knew all she could and Kyoko wouldn't be surprised if Ino was getting taught that as well.

"Anyways," Yuma brought their attention back to her, "The first meeting is on Friday after the Academy lets out, bring a dish and possibly a favorite weapon of sorts, one weapon," Yuma said dryly and TenTen pouted, it wasn't her fault she liked sharp, shiny, weapons.

"There's also a guy's group you could say so your two teammates could meet others at least a little close to their ages. By the way, how's that jutsu coming along?" Kyoko asked her.

"Alright, I still need to work on my chakra control after focusing mainly on weapons, but Gai-sensei is having all 3 of us do both the tree walking and water walking exercise, it's a bit late but it shouldn't be too hard to catch up. By the way, thanks again for convincing him to let us take a break now and then, my body really needed a rest," the Two days before Kyoko had gone up to Gai to discuss a training regimen since she noticed that all of Team Gai's bodies were too tense and overworked. Her aunt had been adamant on one part of their training that they rest their muscles and chakra or they would burn out.

"So Friday?" Kyoko asked as she grabbed Hoshi while TenTen grabbed Lee nodding in confirmation before the two teams departed.

Friday

Ino sighed as she ignored her parents fighting again over something and took out the strawberry vanilla cake she had made the day before,

'I wonder who else is going?' she thought before entering her family's flower shop and out the front door only to run into Sakura.

"Watch it Ino-pig," the pink haired fangirl sneered at her.

"You watch it Forehead," she snapped back irritated that today the obsessed Sasuke fangirl would appear in front of the shop at the wrong time. Haruno then noticed the cake and tried to take it but Ino dodged and appeared on top of the shop's sign to get away.

"That's for Sasuke-kun isn't it? He doesn't like sweets remember," Haruno said with a smug grin.

"This isn't for him," Ino said before Sakura felt a weight on her forehead making her head bend back as Ino landed and ran ahead calling back, "Good to know that your forehead actually serves as a good use," 'That you actually have a good use' Ino added to herself disappearing around the corner before Sakura could react. The blonde took a turn and headed towards a forest where she hopped onto one of the branches and sent a bit of her chakra outwards, before what looked like a forest of trees disappeared to reveal a clearing with a small waterfall going into a river (a result of Yamato training his students) A table was there with all sorts of foods and she saw that the clearing seemed divided, one for the girls (with a light blue ribbon around a stake on one side of the waterfall) with the boy's side having a dark blue.

"Hey Ino, had a run in with Haruno huh?" Keiyu asked her as she took the cake from her and placed it with some of the other desserts.

"How did you? Never mind," Ino shook her head, she must've had an irritated look on her face. She looked around and saw Naruto playing Go with Shikamaru while Chouji was eyeing the table hungrily along with his dad. Shino was inspecting some of the insects in the clearing with his dad Shikaku was watching his son's game with bored interest. She also noticed a white haired boy with green eyes she was sure she saw around the apartment a couple of times. 'He's kind of cute' she thought to herself before shaking out of her stupor and noticed with surprise that her dad was here.

'But how?' she distinctly remembered him arguing with her mom a few minutes ago before remembering that he could be using the Shadow clone technique. She recognized her chuunin instructor Iruka talking to a man with gravity defying gray/silver hair with one eye showing while his headband covered the second one. There was also a boy with brown hair and blue/brown eyes (I forgot Hoshi's eye color hehe) playing with two small boys that looked to be 7 or 8 years old. She was also surprised to see the Hokage there and wondered how he got away without doing his paperwork before seeing that her sensei was her as well.

"Vivia-sensei, aren't you supposed to be at the Hokage Tower?" she asked her.

"Eh, but shadow clones are very useful, even for samurai such as myself, too bad the old man just figured it out," Vivia said with a laugh ignoring the Hokage who looked like he had been hitting himself on the head which he had.

Flashback

"Oi Old Hokage-sama, are you coming or what?" the writing appeared on a scroll. The Hokage sighed and wrote back, "I can't, I have to do my paperwork today," he replied while thanking Naruto for the gift, this message scroll was very useful. More writing appeared, this time irritated, "Use Shadow clones, that's what I'm doing, jeez haven't you ever wondered how Mina-chan did his paperwork?" he stared blankly at the piece of paper before slamming his head onto the desk repeatedly before getting a headache and did the sign for shadow clones before clearing the message scroll and disappeared in a shushin.

'Why didn't Jiraiya tell me?' he thought to himself, no wonder his student had that smug grin every time he asked how Minato did his work so quickly.

End Flashback

Ino sweatdropped just as Team Gai came in and she had to cover her eyes at the sensei's monstrosity of a jumpsuit.

"Sorry about Gai-sensei, he's a little," a female voice made her remove her hands to see a girl with brown hair up in two buns and a pink shirt.

"It's fine, at least there's only one of him," Ino muttered the last part and the girl laughed.

"I'm TenTen, I think I've seen you around the Academy, weren't you an Uchiha fangirl?" she asked and Ino shook her hand looking a little embarrassed.

"I was, but I took a survey and decided to drop the fangirl thing, though I still have to keep my gossip line in, so I at least pretend otherwise," she shrugged and TenTen saw the marks on her hands.

"Oh, your training with swords huh? I'm doing that too, though I'm also working with all kinds of weapons. My family actually owns a weapons store and I'm planning on being a weapons mistress," she said with a grin and Ino returned the grin before noticing that her sensei was talking to a woman with red eyes and black hair while another woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes in a trenchcoat chatted with Keiyu about something, though she couldn't hear it.

"Oi TenTen, you coming," another boy walked up, he had black hair spread out almost shoulder length and black eyes that were filled with energy.

"Lee, this outing is for kunoichi to meet other female ninja, same for male ninja, go over with Neji I'll see you guys later alright? And don't do anything weird, that means no alcohol," TenTen told him and he nodded before running over to the others.

"Alcohol?" Ino asked bemused.

"Don't ask," TenTen deadpanned with a shudder before Vivia called them over where the other kunoichi and kunoichi-in-training were sitting.

"Alright, as you all are aware this is a meeting for both kunoichi and those in training, and me," she added, "Let's start with introductions, okay, I'm Mumichi Vivia, I'm a hair stylist and I'm very good with clothes design, oh I'm also Keiyu's aunt and Naru-chan," she waved at Naruto who was on the other side and he waved back, "Oh, and I'm also a former swords woman, or samurai whatever you want to call it," she said before sitting down and poking the red eyed woman.

"You forgot to add that you were the Hell Butterfly," Keiyu said dryly and TenTen looked at Vivia with stars in her eyes.

"Anyways, I'm Yuuhi Kuranei, I've recently been promoted to Jounin and I specialize in Genjutsu, I'm friends with these two here," she said pointing at the trenchcoat woman and another purple haired woman.

"Oooh, I'm next!" said the former jumping up and down, and Ino glared at the men across who seemed to notice and turned her attention back to the woman.

"I'm Mitarashi Anko, I like Nei-chan and Yuu-chan, and DANGO!" she yelled that out making the girls cover their ears, "I specialize in poisons and I work for the T&I Department, I'm also a special jounin," she said winking at one of the men watching them and Ino realized with a start that it was Iruka who had blushed a little bit and quickly turned back to where Naruto was doing his introduction excitedly.

"I guess it's my turn then," the purple haired woman next to Kuranei said, "I'm Uzuki Yuugao, I specialize in swords and water ninjutsu, I'm also a jounin," she said. Ino listened as then Hana Inuzuka, Tsume Inuzuka, Shikamaru and Chouji's moms, TenTen, Moegi the little girl, the two girls from Team 3, Keiyu, and finally Hinata introduced themselves (the two girls made their introductions different but I won't bore you with the details much).

"Your turn," Keiyu told her with a smile and she nodded standing up, aware of the fact that her father was listening in even if he was on the other side of the clearing,

"Hi, I'm Yamanaka Ino, I'm an Academy student and a swords woman in training, I'm also training in medical ninjutsu and fashion from Vivia-sensei," she said and sat down.

"Medical Ninjutsu huh, that's becoming pretty common nowadays among this generation," commented Tsume looking at Keiyu and Hinata as well as her own daughter.

"Actually I think it's a great idea for a kunoichi to specialize in medical ninjutsu, it gives us an edge and we'll be able to rise up the reputation of Leaf kunoichi," said Kuranei.

"I'm not late am I?" a voice interrupted them and they turned to see a girl with blonde hair in four pigtails with a large fan on her back and Ino realized that it was one of the Suna ninjas that had come back with the three friends.

"No, we just finished introductions but since you were listening in the whole time I think your caught up," Keiyu said dryly and the girl smirked as she sat down while Ino saw two other boys join Naruto's group.

"I'm Temari of the Sand, I specialize in Wind Ninjutsu, I'm also the co-founder of Wind Butterfly thanks to Keiyu here," she said nodding to Keiyu who nodded back.

"So back to Medical Ninjutsu, whose interested and who isn't?" asked Vivia. Tsume kept her hand down but her daughter raised her hand, having learnt some medical jutsu for animals.

"It would make Torture more interesting," Anko mused causing Moegi to hide behind Keiyu in fright.

"Anko, there's a 7 year old," Kuranei scolded her friend with a sigh as Anko didn't seem to regret her words.

"Anyways, Temari what about you?" Keiyu asked her.

"Medical Ninjutsu huh? I think my brother will be more suited to that being a puppeteer and all, but knowing a few jutsu couldn't hurt," she shrugged.

"Hm, well your visit is to trade techniques between villages, so what do you like about Konoha so far?" asked Yuugao.

"Hot Springs," was the quick reply causing Hinata and Keiyu to smile, the fan wielding girl had been excited about the hot springs before they had left Suna and had enjoyed them immensely after they arrived.

"Yeah, that's what I missed while I was traveling, though be careful, the Leaf has perverts like you can't imagine," Vivia warned her and she blinked nodding.

"So Kuranei-san, what's your affinity?" asked Ino politely and the genjutsu mistress looked surprised before looking sheepish.

"I don't know actually, I was mainly focusing on genjutsu and my taijutsu is only mid-chuunin level," she said embarrassed.

"Don't worry Nai-chan, I'll get your taijutsu up to par soon enough," Anko said with an evil smirk and Kuranei shuddered. Anko then looked thoughtful before jumping up with an excited look on her face,

"I know, we can also check out what kind of summon you have while we're at it," she said and Kuranei looked confused, what did she mean by that. Vivia whispered inside her ear and her eyes widened before she nodded and made a mental note to try it at home later. Kyoko meanwhile was rummaging through her bag and brought out some small paper which she handed over to Kuranei and TenTen, (Moegi was too young to test for that).

"Push your chakra into it, and whatever results come out well you'll see," she shrugged. The results were instant, Kuranei's turned damp on one side and into ashes on the other. TenTen's turned into crumble which wasn't a surprise considering her affinity with weapons.

"Two affinities on the first try, good job Nai-chan!" Anko slapped the surprised jounin on the back making her fall to the ground still in shock.

Meanwhile over at the male group Naruto was pestering Sarutobi Asuma about wind jutsu since he also had an affinity towards it to the cigarette jounin's surprise.

"Naruto's always full of surprises Asuma," his father chuckled enjoying the show.

"Troublesome," Shikamaru muttered with his father nodding in agreement.

"I wonder what my affinity is," Chouji wondered as he munched on some snacks his mother had made for him and his dad.

"Most likely earth considering your clan jutsu, I wouldn't be surprised if Ino forces us to find out our affinities after this, how troublesome," Shikamaru rubbed the back of his head, remembering where he had been hit with blunt kunai or smacked with a wooden sword.

"So what has Ino been doing with you guys anyways?" asked Inouchi curious, he had noticed her behavior had changed and had even glimpsed her reading medical scrolls once.

"She made me my favorite meal after I was able to carry a certain amount of pounds on my limbs, she's also having me read books on herbs and spices and such." Chouji replied. Shikamaru said nothing only looked disgruntled while Shikaku explained it to Inouchi.

"Oh, well Vivia also told me that she had taken Ino on as an apprentice, though just for fashion I don't know why?" Inouchi said completely clueless so Naruto decided to help him out by telling him Vivia was a former swords woman, his reaction was really funny to see when he realized exactly who was training his daughter.

"Vivia will be a good influence on your daughter if not already," Kakashi said, interested in hearing what kind of training Naruto was going through.

"Wait, how do you know Aunt Vivia," Naruto asked him suspiciously and Kakashi immediately put his hands up in a defensive gesture.

"Oh, it's just I kind of knew her years ago before she left to apprentice under swordmasters," he replied.

"Oh now I remember, wasn't there a rumor about where you and her saw-," Choji's dad was cut off by Kakashi's hand on his mouth.

"It was just a rumor," he stated any laziness gone as he glared at Chouza (Choji's dad) though Naruto was sure he saw what looked like a blush under the mask.

'I wonder if Nee-san knows about this' he asked himself before the whole group was called over for lunch with the kunoichi and kunoichi in training. Naruto immediately got one of the packed bento lunches that had been packed by Mrs. Akamichi and Mrs. Nara for their family's share.

That night Keiyu packed away some leftovers (surprisingly considering the Akamichi) for lunch at the Academy next day while Naruto was showing Shino and his dad his bug room finally (Keiyu and Hinata had opted to stay out after a particular incident with a bug that Keiyu thought was mutated by Naruto's ramen, it was really strange) and Hinata was doing some flower pressing to catch up on her hobby.

'All is well so far' she thought looking down on her fist, remembering when she had beat Neji into the ground literally and wondered if he was doing well at the Hyuuga house.

'Hinata would've been worried otherwise, well, I have to start my own fire manipulation studies tomorrow, but Kyoko has to further work on her earth manipulation and strength, it's not finished yet' she also mentally made a note to check on Lee sometime again. He was tested by Yamato and it seems he couldn't fully wield the Wood Release Bloodline, but he seemed alright with just using a few jutsu in that category anyways so everything was alright there.

Author's Note:

Sorry that I haven't been publishing, I guess you could call it writer's block or laziness, hey I'm just wondering if any of you could message me about stories where Characters from ANIME read stories, not just Book Characters like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, though besides the Naruto reads Naruto by Sage of Seals or the story where they read Naruto Shippuden: Kazekage Rescue I think it was called it was about the first part of Shippuden anyways. If your wondering if I'll ever branch out into other stories for other anime, books, movies etc. I will soon. I just need to get into the mood.

I'm going to do Ch. 13 in this document as well so yeah.

Naruto: Ninja Design

Ch. 13 Exams

Several Months Later

"Congratulations on making Chuunin Team 3, you've made Konoha proud," the Hokage smiled as Hoshi cheered and hugged his two teammates who laughed a bit.

"Anyways, the Raikage has told me that your performance was excellent and your teamwork was like none other that he has seen considering some teams usually fight with one another about whose captain. He also has expressed his interest in Yumi's lightning techniques and as a gift has sent a scroll for you to study from," he took in Yumi's stunned face as the other two congratulated her. He had had some doubts about sounding them to Cloud considering the past between the Hyuuga and them but the Raikage was a kind yet stern man instead of the one that tried to steal the Byukugan from them resulting in the death of the Hyuuga head's twin. The Exam had lasted a month and he had received reports of the 2nd task which included finding the swords of the Raikage's brother Killer Bee. Yamato was extremely proud of his team's performance in the last 8 months that he had signed them up for the Exams and the Hokage had agreed after a talk with him.

"Also Hoshi-kun, Yugito Nii thanks you for saving her life when her teammates attack her and she also wants to start 'Lightning Butterfly' magazine?" he looked at Kyoko when he said this and she blinked innocently. His face then turned serious as he activated the security seals (both from Jiraiya and from Naruto) for the office and felt the slight chakra destroy some listening seals and inwardly smirked.

'Nice try Danzo' he thought with satisfaction before turning back to the three who had dropped their henge and were standing at attention.

"Now that you three are chuunin you will have to partake in a lot of responsibilities, for some reason no one else has found out your cover except for your aunt but she's the exception and I have a feeling Kuranei and Anko may know (she thanks you for the information on Summoning Contracts by the way.) Naruto as I promised I'm going to tell you your parentage now. I'm guessing you want your teammates to know?" he asked and he nodded. Getting up from his chair the Hokage went over to the Hokage paintings and uncovered the 4th one (he had covered it so that no one would notice really that haven't seen the 4th before) hearing some gasps he concluded that they drew the missing pieces together.

"Naruto, your real name is Naruto Namikaze, Uzumaki Kushina is your mother and your father is Minato Namikaze, the 4th Hokage," he told them and Naruto's mouth dropped open before Keiyu closed it just as the Sandaime opened a vault behind the picture and took out some scrolls.

"These are your family scrolls Naruto, I know you've been studying seals and possibly know about your Uzumaki lineage," his tone was curious at this and the three shared a glance before Keiyu stepped forward.

"We can explain about that Lord Hokage, after this of course," she said with a bow before stepping back. With a raised eyebrow he gave the scrolls to Naruto who sealed them into a seal on his arm and they transformed briefly into Team 3 and exited the office while the Hokage found a note in his pocket that said to meet them in the library.

"Hm, I have to return some books to the local library, I'll be right back Vivia," he told the purple haired secretary who nodded and waved him out distracted as she organized the paper before throwing it into the trash bin.

"Done," he heard her announce and chuckled, she was a great secretary, able to see the trash from the real paperwork, though made it obvious as she burned the paperwork and whistled while she filed her nails, feet propped onto her desk.

Arriving at the library he was told by Narumi to go to the storage room across the room behind some bookcases and with a raised eyebrow as he returned the books he borrowed he walked over and opened the door to find them waiting for him.

"Lord Hokage," Keiyu greeted him before nodding at Naruto who bit his thumb and let the blood fall on a spot on the floor and the Hokage was astonished when the floor opened and he saw a library down there, doing a quick Shushin to the library so that he wouldn't have to jump down, his eyes widened when he saw what kind of scrolls were down there.

"How'd you find this?" he asked them.

"Naruto accidentally cut himself and the blood fell onto this seal, we've been studying from these scrolls ever since," she said as he gazed at scrolls from the 1st and 2nd Hokage(s).

"I've heard of this room but thought of it as just a rumor, guess I was mistaken," he chuckled before leaving the library and the three to themselves.

With the trio

Naruto opened one of the scrolls and saw that it was instructions for a jutsu called Rasengan and showed it to them.

"It says here that its never been completed, it requires Nature Chakra of some kind for that," Keiyu pointed out to them.

"Then I will finish it, surpass my dad as I become Hokage, hey I know, you two can learn this as well," he said and they looked at him in surprise.

"Naruto this is a family jutsu, we can't," Hinata protested and he pouted up at them, eyes wide.

"Please?" he said eyes growing bigger and the two caved in.

"Alright, but you'll finish it, we'll just learn the regular one alright," she said and he nodded eagerly before they memorized the 1st and 2nd steps and hid the scroll among the1st Hokage scrolls and going home to rest.

The rest of that year passed by rather quickly for the three as they went to school as shadow clones and took classes for chuunin before they had to lead several missions on their own with other genin or chuunin like Team Gai who were doing well in their training so far. Naruto mastered the Rasengan in two weeks while Keiyu and Hinata with their chakra control mastered it in a week and a half. Their training with their 2nd summons were going well also, Hinata's training with the sea dragons allowed her control over water somewhat and her new weapons were two metal fans that she used to help her with her control in water and they shot out senbon from mini slots in the fans. Naruto's balance since training with the cranes had skyrocketed and his training with the staff went very well and was giddy when he found out that with his wind training he can fly in the air using the staff which turned into (think of the staff that Aang uses in Avatar) some sort of glider and was told that by the end of his training year with the cranes he would be able to fly without the staff. Keiyu's training with the snakes helped her be more flexible despite the earth training she endured with the wolves and her weapons of choice were similar to Naruto's claws except they looked like snake fangs and protruded from her wrists longer than a snake's fang usually was and was dipped in a poison that paralyzes the body for a good amount of time. She had heard from Anko that her summons were tigers and that she had taught Kuranei how to summon and had cackled when she found out that Kuranei had the mongoose contract.

"That would explain the eyes, maybe it's a family contract?" Keiyu had mused when she heard. Team Gai tested themselves on their contracts and Lee got cheetah as his first contract to no one's surprise while TenTen found herself with a contract similar to the 3rd's monkey contract except she had access to all kinds of monkeys except for his ones. Neji got an Eagle contract and was training in the wind element with them and a little bit of earth since that is what the Gentle Fist was like. Ino finally signed the phoenix contract when she felt like she was ready but Choji and Shikamaru would get their own contracts when they became genin.

"Everyone in the Leaf Village is getting a contract, almost everyone but still," Naruto had said when they were eating dinner.

"But that's good, there's a lot of unknown summons and it would come in handy when something happens," Keiyu had explained.

The time for the Genin Exams came again and the three aced them though Naruto made sure that he barely passed it so that he could be still be on a team with them. The Hokage wanted them to announce their real rank at the next Chuunin Exams and they had agreed.

Keiyu was walking towards the Hokage Mountains when she was surrounded by Anbu with blank masks.

'Root' the word passed threw her mind as she remembered reading about them in a scroll in the secret library as a warning.

"Lord Danzo wants to see you," one of them said, his voice emotionless and blank.

"Sorry I'm kind of busy," Keiyu said and shushined out of there on top of the mountain and ran as they chased her, she sent out a chakra signal to the Hokage and her friends and felt them coming towards where she was. A kunai came close to where she was and she dodged it before slipping down an opening she didn't notice and was surprised when she heard the Root Anbu passing that spot as she quickly hid her chakra. She then noticed two openings in the place she was and realized that she was in one of the heads of the Hokage Monument. A scroll caught her eye as she walked along the strange room and she read the name on it.

"Namikaze Hina?" She asked herself before the scroll glowed and she blacked out.

She woke up with a headache and tried to sit up but hands pushed her down,

"Oi Hashi she's awake," someone shouted and she winced.

"Idiot don't shout, are you alright?" someone asked her and she slowly opened her eyes to see two guys older than her, one had long brown hair that fell down his back and golden brown eyes while the other had light blue hair and the same eyes as his brother.

"What's your name?" he asked her and she struggled to remember. A name flew into her conscious and she spoke it before she could think,

"Namikaze Hina," she said before blacking out once again.