Chapter 9

I WANT TO KICK CHROME IN THE NADS!

So, I made a bunch of edits, changing out a lot of the chapter, then opened a second tab to copy over the Fuinjutsu stat and edit it from Chapter 8. But I misclicked after copy-pasting it and closed the whole, fucking, chapter.

Without saving. Ctrl+Shift+T didn't matter, because it doesn't save data like that, so that writing went poof. Yay. Oh well.

Because this chapter is being re-uploaded, I've made sure it's almost double the length of my normal chapters to make up the difference, since I'm not uploading Chapter 10 today, and instead I've deleted and re-uploaded Chapter 9. That way people actually know that it's changed.

The first section of this chapter is mostly the same, but everything after that is different, so for those of you who already read Chapter 9, this chapter is VASTLY different to the original chapter 9, so the only part that remains the same is the first section.

Hope you enjoy this revised version, and make sure to give Azaira a round of applause for their excellent review pointing out all the mistakes I made with my hasty decision-making!

Chapter 9

"Wait, what?"

Tweaking a finger in his ear, Minato leaned his head to one side, ignoring the noise Akari made. "You heard just fine Akari-chan. I'm being formally instated as the Yondaime Hokage tomorrow afternoon." With a raised eyebrow, Akari just looked at him. "What?"

"What yourself? I don't really see why I should care too much. I mean, aside from the obligatory congratulations I feel like I should be feeling sorry for you." Kushina guffawed loudly from the kitchen, wrapped up in cooking something, while Minato just looked confused. "Look, Minato, have you ever seen the Hokage's desk without any paperwork on it?" He took a few moments to think before shaking his head. "Okay, and you're still willing to put up with literally having a pen in your hand the entire time you are the Hokage? Doing all that paperwork?"

A look of dawning realization came across Minato's face. With a giggle, Akari watched him bury his head in his hands and mumble something incoherent. "Hey, look at the bright side, at least this means...hmm...you know, aside from the whole 'being in command of the entire village' thing, there isn't an upside to this."

Akari distinctly ignored the mumbled curses sprouting from Minato's lips as she patted his shoulder, instead wandered towards the kitchen where Kushina was stifling her laughter and trying to avoid burning the food. "Ha! You remind me of myself a little Akari. When I was younger, I wanted to be the Hokage. Then I saw how much paperwork was involved and settled for a family instead." The red-haired woman said with a smile.

"Well, with how often you and Minato send me out on 'training exercises' during nights, I'm sure you'll have a family of your own soon enough." The woman spluttered in surprise as Akari casually flipped a knife over in her hand and began dicing some peppers. Closing her mouth again, Kushina just sighed.

"So, since when did you know how to dice peppers like that?" Akari just shrugged.

"Well, since forever I guess. I mean, a kitchen knife isn't too different to my Bowie knives, it's just how you use them that changes. Because I can handle my knives just fine..." Akari spun the sharp blade around her fingers and over her hand before sliding it around to a reverse-grip to impale an unfortunate piece of pepper, quickly chomping down on it as she returned the knife to a standard grip. "-handling a kitchen knife is just as easy."

What Akari failed to mention was that her proficiencies were what even allowed her to do such a thing, since Bukijutsu covered all weapons, and her knife-fighter specifically made her knife abilities stronger. In terms of the food itself, well, making breakfast-style Torpedo baps like they were going out of fashion meant her cooking proficiency went through the roof.

It was...really weird, knowing that while she had never looked at the recipe for Sukiyaki, she knew exactly how to make it, what would go well with it, and who among her admittedly abysmally small circle of people she liked would actually enjoy eating it. The answer was Sei, and that was it. Ramen was obviously Kushina's domain, though after introducing her to the wonders of a Breakfast-style Torpedo, she seemingly converted away from such a meal. Minato was partial to burgers of all things, and her mother...well, her mother didn't like to admit it, but she adored Dango, often surreptitiously nibbling a piece while she did paperwork.

Smiling, Kushina gestured towards the rest of the peppers. "Well, chop-chop!" She said with a chuckle.

"Kushina-hime?"

The redhead leaned back from her place on a sofa to look at Akari, a smile on her lips. "Yes Akari-chan?" Akari stubbed her toe against the floor a few times before settling her resolve.

"I want...can I..." She floundered for a moment, and Kushina rolled her eyes. "Can you please teach me Fuinjutsu?" She quickly blurted out, bring Kushina up short. "I know you're probably like really busy or don't want to give away clan secrets or anything but I heard Minato-sama learned his Fuinjutsu from you and so I wanted to ask since y'know I've always liked Fuinjutsu and I know you're an Uzumaki with awesome sealing skills an-mph!" Kushina quieted Akari down by sticking her hand over the girls mouth.

"Akari-chan, you only had to ask. I don't care about all that stuffy clan-secrets business. Besides-" She swung her arm over Akari's shoulders, drawing her into a side-hug. "-you're a friend, so of course I'd help you out." Akari gave the woman a smile. "So, what kinda seals are you interested in?"

"Thanks Kushina. And I don't know to be honest. I mean, I can make my own combat seals, explosive tags and stuff like that just fine. Of course, making them smaller and hit harder is always useful, but whatever. Barrier seals are pretty cool, and maybe containment seals?" She quirked her lips. "I mean, what's your seal? I don't actually know." Kushina smirked and channelled a bit of Chakra to make her seal appear.

Akari already knew that Kushina was a Jinchuriki, after spending so much time guarding her it was going to come out soon enough, so Kushina just out and told her one day. "Well, this seal is a little special as you know." She ran a finger along the swirling line slowly. "The Eight Trigrams Sealing Style, possibly the only seal strong enough to hold the Kyuubi in. The funny part is that it isn't actually too complicated, because the seal is formed by just using two Four Symbols seals back to back then binding them with an Uzumaki spiral." She looked up at Akari with a smirk. "So, want to try and learn it?"

"Sure!"

Fuinjutsu - Sealing arts. The practice of using ink to achieve your goals. - Level 57 - 77.3%

"Fucking seals..." Akari muttered, clenching and unclenching her cramped, thoroughly ink-stained hand. Ever since she told Kushina about what she wanted to do, the redhead used every single day they spent together as a time for more lessons. Akari was thankful for being able to learn so damn much, but...it was still mind-bendingly repetitive inscribing seal after seal to Kushina's exacting demands.

The hilarious part was that she even unlocked a calligraphy proficiency. Apparently despite her own research into Fuinjutsu, she wasn't scribing nearly enough seals to count, but now that she spent every day writing hundreds if not thousands of seals, she had a trackable proficiency for it. Akari was just grateful that it meant the Game automatically helped her to draw the seals out near-perfectly since that means Kushina was more willing to show her more advanced seals.

Akari had already made her own storage and explosive seals, and the experimental seal she made for her brother definitely caught Kushina's interest, not that she could examine it without the seal key which was safely stored within a seal hidden on Akari's covered bicep. Of course, if Kushina simply asked for it, Akari would be more than willing to give it as payment for Kushina teaching her, but the woman was just a little too headstrong to do that.

That was something worth noting. Ever since it came out that her brother could still 'see', so many people practically demanded to know exactly how it was done, who did it, and how to copy the seal. Fortunately enough, as she had a line to the Hokage through Minato, Akari managed to keep her identity secret and get the seal put under special observation, which basically meant that the creator could choose what to do with it. At least, until the Hokage requested it, at which point anything could happen.

For the moment, the Golan seal was being used in the hospital for any Shinobi who were permanently blinded and still wanted to continue their work. Because they didn't have her seal key they couldn't copy the seal, which was another reason why Akari was writing out so many inscriptions, as the hospital was inundated by requests for the seal from Shinobi who were blinded during the Third Great Ninja War.

She could have gotten around that by giving up the key, but Akari really didn't want to do that. It was strange, almost like something nagging at her, warning her to not do something like that. That bad things would happen if she gave the hospital her seal key. Besides, she had to practice her Calligraphy anyway, might as well spend her time doing something useful instead of making a bunch of probably-never-to-be-used seals.

Cracking her back, Akari gently placed the finished seal off to the side to dry and unfolded another, ready to start yet another Golan seal.

Minato's inauguration was definitely awe-inspiring.

For the morning before it happened, several signs were placed around the town, Akari being asked to plant a few herself by Kushina, stating that Hiruzen was resigning as Hokage and appointing Minato as the Yondaime Hokage. The general reaction was honestly really positive, considering that Minato was renowned as 'Konoha's Yellow Flash', so that helped. It was also great that the man was naturally charismatic, so when it came time for his speech, Akari made sure to grab a front-building seat (The area in front of the Hokage was for civilians, the Shinobi were all on buildings.) and watched with rapt interest as he espoused his vows to uphold the Will of Fire, to guard Konoha and its interests, and to just generally be awesome.

Akari didn't really pay attention to the individual words, she just let herself be wrapped up in the positively infectious jubilation flowing through Konoha. Minato was the very first Hokage to be inaugurated during peace-time, turning over a new leaf for the Hidden Leaf village so to speak, and you could tell that the inhabitants of Konoha were positively bouncing about it. "Hey, you're the Crimson Medic aren't you?"

The random people noticing her, however, that was definitely not what she expected. "Uhh, yeah?" She turned to look at the random young Shinobi who asked her, startled slightly when two empty eye-sockets were looking back at her.

"I...wanted to thank you. You were...you saved me out there..." Akari winced when she couldn't recall the person, but it seemed that they had gotten one of her seals since they quickly waved their hands about. "Oh I don't blame you, I'm sorry!" They quickly yelled out. "I know you saved so many Shinobi and remembering a single one out of them all wouldn't be likely...I just wanted to say thank you!"

The person then bowed lowly, and Akari quickly settled a hand on their shoulder. "Please, um...thank you, but please don't do that, I hate people bowing to me, it makes me feel really awkward." She felt them try to instinctively bow again and smiled softly. "Just knowing you're alright is good enough. Guess you got one of those hospital seals then huh?" The blind Shinobi nodded quickly.

"Yeah. I just wish I could thank them as well!" They gestured with a hand at their surroundings, at the buildings dotted with Shinobi. "I mean, any one of them could be responsible, and I'd never be able to say thank you for letting me keep being a Shinobi, y'know?" Akari smirked knowingly.

"Oh, I don't know, they might be closer than you think."

"Kunoichi classes? Yeah, not happening."

Kushina pouted from her place on the couch. She announced rather abruptly that she was pregnant about a month ago, and since Fuinjutsu didn't need any real physical activity, a lot of time was spent in the living room of her apartment writing seals. "But Akari-chaaan!" Kushina argued rather eloquently, getting a dead-pan look in response.

"No." Akari replied without blinking, curling her current ink line around and rejoining it into the main portion of the seal. "I got lucky, I got out early enough that I didn't have to take part in them, there's no way in hell I'm going to willingly subject myself to that crap." Akari shuddered slightly.

Kunoichi classes were seriously one of the dumbest things Akari had heard of. Flower Arrangement, Tea Ceremonies, Ikebana lessons, goddamn fucking Seduction Classes. If the plan was the make the Kunoichi in question feel like she was literally being degraded, they did a grade-A job of it. All but telling them that while the boys got no extra classes of the sort, they were expected to sit there and be taught how and when to be demure and shy, or sultry and seducing, or any other mix of acts.

In Akari's honest point of view, those classes were complete shit, and the fact that all Kunoichi had mandatory classes in it during the Academy made Akari thank her lucky stars she got out a few years early, and avoided those classes. She knew the risks, a Kunoichi had a far greater risk of being captured and raped than a male Shinobi, but that didn't mean she had to learn twelve different ways to pour a cup of fucking tea.

That might actually give her a good excuse for her problem with etiquette, rarely addressing people properly. It was just a hold-over of her old life not having honorifics, but maybe she could rely on the excuse that she never went to Kunoichi class...but then it'd make people wonder why she was so reluctant to learn. "So yeah, I'm not going to those damned classes, and nothing, I mean nothing, will convince me otherwise." She gave Kushina a firm look, and the woman huffed at her.

"Whatever."

Quest Completed

Protection Duties.

Objective:

Protect Kushina Uzumaki for undisclosed length of time - Completed.

Reward: Extra title slot. Experience calculated on completion. Total experience earned - 25000.

Bonus Objective:

Avoid being treated like a doll by Kushina on first meeting - Completed.

Reward: Chakra-conduction Jutsu scroll, 1000 experience.

Quest Received

Survive.

Objective:

Survive the night.

Reward: . . .

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Danger.

Every finely-tuned instinct for danger Akari had felt practically burned through her body when she read the quest her Game had given her seemingly at random. The day had gone just fine, she was settling in at home to inscribe some seals before going to bed, and at random her quest icon started flashing. She saw that a quest had finished, and thought little of it.

Sometimes the Game gave her odd little quests like inscribing a hundred explosive seals, or levelling a certain proficiency, so she didn't think much of the quest finishing. When she saw Protection Duties was finished and a new quest was beneath it, she thought it a little odd but figured that she'd be taken off of guarding Kushina the following morning. But then she read the next objective, or more notably the title.

Survive.

That one word made a chill dance up her spine. Reading the short quest quickly, Akari almost fell off her chair when she saw the broken text for the reward. Never before had a quest given such a weird and broken reward, and it was...pretty terrifying.

Shaking her head, Akari quickly opened her inventory and equipped all of her standard equipment. As her things appeared on her body, Akari took a step forwards the door and jolted when Minato of all people randomly appeared in her room, knocking her over when she stepped straight into him and nearly sending the pair to the ground. Thankfully they both had fast enough reactions that they fumbled for merely a second before straightening out. "Yondai-"

Akari began speaking, but before she could say anything he looked straight into her eyes for half a second before handing her a tiny bundle. "Look after him." Was all he said before he disappeared again, hearing Akari blinking at the space he once occupied. Looking down at the swaddled lump in her arms, she unfolded a flap of fabric and gasped at the baby within her arms.

The child had blonde hair and sapphire blue eyes, with whisker-like marks on his cheeks which was definitely pretty unique. Considering just who gave the little bundle to Akari, she presumed that this was Kushina and Minato's child. Folding her legs beneath herself, Akari settled in, hearing a massive explosion outside and flinching unconsciously.

Her movements jarred the baby slightly and it began to cry, leading Akari to panic slightly as she fumbled and tried to rock the child gently, massively out of her depth at randomly just being handed a child. Thankfully only a few minutes passed before Minato appeared with Kushina in tow. "Kushina-hime." She murmured when she saw the state the red-head was in, quickly darting over to her and, after making sure it was actually her, handing her the child. "Yondaime-sama, what's going on?" She turned to the blonde-haired man.

"Someone found us. Kushina's water broke and we followed the procedure set aside, but just after Naruto was born...someone came. They killed the ANBU guards, then Miwako and took Naruto hostage. I got him out and came here, where I knew he'd be safe." He said this all as he took Akari's arm and, after a loaded glance at Kushina, Hiraishin'd the pair of them into one of his safe-houses. "By that time, they got the Kyuubi no Kitsune out of Kushina and managed to get it to rampage. I had to use a Hiraishin barrier to divert the beast's Bijuudama and now...the fox is charging towards Konoha. We have to stop it. I already dealt with the one who murdered Miwako and attacked my wife, we just need to figure out how..."

Akari quirked her lips and shrugged. "Then...seal it in me." Minato gave her a piercing look, and she closed her eyes. "I can take it. Trust me. But we both know that trying to kill the Kyuubi is going to end up with far too many casualties. Iwa, Kumo and Kiri would jump at the chance to reignite the war and finish us off, and with the amount of strength we'd lose fighting off the strongest tailed beast...?" She shook her head, opening her eyes and glaring at Minato. "I can take it." She reiterated, before smirking. "And don't worry about giving the Uchiha too much power, not like I was ever someone they could control anyway."

Minato gave her a look for a few more moments before shaking his head, a small smile on his lips. "I suppose not." Snatching a flame-emblazoned haori up, he regarded one of his Kunai before muttering to himself. "Akari." Said girl snapped to attention, her eyes widening when he pressed a very special Kunai into her hands. "I want you to promise me that...no matter what, you'll look after Naruto." It was Akari's turn to give Minato a searching gaze.

"Minato-sama...I-" He cut her off by grabbing a few more Kunai and taking ahold of her arm again, appearing in a forest and using a summoning technique to bring forth an altar. Without a word Akari hopped up onto it, simultaneously unsealing several Fuinjutsu tools before laying down and baring her body, biting her lip to focus on as she ignored the caustic Chakra infesting the area.

Taking up a brush, Minato looked directly at Akari, his eyes softening for a moment. "For what it's worth...I'm sorry." Akari just shrugged, a grin on her lips.

"Hey, it was either this, or you'd have to reseal it in Kushina or, even worse, into your son. Fuck if I'm letting that happen." With a sigh, Minato dipped his brush into the ink and got to work, quickly inscribing a large portion of the seal onto Akari as she worked to fill in the extra parts, the pair working in silence. When the seal was completed, Minato pressed his Chakra into the centre of it to compress it into the Eight-Trigrams Seal form, binding the two Four Symbols seals together with a swirl before stepping back and wiping his brow.

"Minato-sama." Akari's voice called out to him, and he stopped himself from forming a seal as Akari gave him a smile. "It was an honour to have served under you. I just...wish it could have been for longer." Minato gave a sad smile back, clasping his hands together into the Snake seal and flipping through the rest of the hand seals, before clapping loudly and finishing the Seal.

"Shiki Fujin!" He called out, bidding the Shinigami to appear. Just in time as well, as the Kyuubi no Kitsune had come across their clearing, roaring its fury out at the pair. Before it could do anything, it shrunk before Akari's eyes, leading her to recall exactly what Minato was doing. Without a warning, the beast lunged a claw forwards, momentarily startling it when his claw had no effect on Minato, who was already in the Shinigami's grasp.

As the beast reared back to instead target Akari, the seal on her body activated, rendering the beast down into nothing but formless Chakra and taking it within itself. Clenching her jaw, Akari tried to keep herself from screaming, watching at the Chakra flowed into her seal like a river. A few moments into the sealing, Akari's resolve wavered, and she let her screams run out as the pain began to overwhelm her, writhing on the altar as the pervasive Chakra flooded through her Chakra coils and into the seal.

After what felt like years but was actually only moments, the stream of Chakra ebbed off, leaving Akari panting and sorer than the one time Might Guy managed to get her to do an exercise routine with him. Sure, he was only 14 or 15ish, but the kid was still a damn fitness nut. With a groan, Akari rolled over slightly to see the surprised visage of none other than Hiruzen Sarutobi. "H-hiruzen-sama...he did it." She murmured, her eyes catching the prone and unmoving form of Minato.

"He stopped the Kitsune."

The aftermath of the attack was...pretty ruthless.

Numerous Shinobi lost their lives when the Bijuudama that the Kyuubi spat across Konoha chewed through the village. It could have been far, far worse, but many still lost their lives in that single attack. Among the casualties was Kushina Uzumaki, leaving behind a just-born child with her chosen protector, the Crimson Medic. Officially, she died during child-birth as a result of the stress from the Kyuubi's malicious Chakra.

After being re-instated following the death of the Yondaime Hokage, Hiruzen was about to reveal his heritage, but Akari quickly put a stop to that. "Hiruzen-sama, let me make one thing clear. The Yondaime had enemies. I don't want those enemies coming after me or Naruto because you want him acknowledged him as the Yondaime's son. At least wait until he's strong enough to fend for himself."

To even the scales, Akari told him that he could reveal Akari's Jinchuriki status, not that it'd remain secret anyway. Outside of Hiruzen and the ANBU he was with, three Uchiha and seven Hyuuga saw the seal on Akari's body, as well as several dozen regular Shinobi. Not even a day later and that information was presumably spread to at least a few hundred villagers, so it really didn't matter.

Besides, Akari was known throughout the village for having saved many Shinobi during the final pitched battle of the Third War, single-handedly ending that fight with her unique Jutsu. Certainly, some would come to resent her for carrying the creature which took their friends and family away, but far more remembered just what she had done.

It helped, even if it absolutely fucking infuriated her, that the Konoha Hospital had accidentally leaked information that she was the one to develop the Golan seal responsible for giving vision back to so many Shinobi. Many of those sat on the fence about Akari found themselves unable to remain that way after finding out that not only did she fight for them and heal them on the battlefield, she even aided those who were once believed to never be capable of being Shinobi ever again.

But, it must be said, she could REALLY do without all the fucking betrothal proposals. Two from the Hyuuga (Both branch and main house), one from the Nara, Inuzuka, and there was even one from the Kurama clan, who were renowned Genjutsu users. It seemed that ever since her sudden Jinchuriki status and the fact she has now done three overwhelmingly positive actions in aiding Konoha, everybody wanted a piece of the pie.

All except her. She didn't want to even consider marriage and promptly ignored all the bullshit being spewed. It ranged from 'You have a duty to your clan to continue your lineage.' all the way to 'Shinobi don't live long enough to spend so long undecided over such a thing.'

The worst part was that her own mother seemed on-board with the whole damn thing, even going so far as to encourage Akari to meet with a few of the proposed bachelors. Fortunately, Sei was entirely supportive of Akari ignoring those proposals for as long as she wished, and with their combined stance they managed to stop their mother from making any more 'requests' of Akari. She still gave her pointed looks and murmurs about how she wanted grandchildren, but that was easy to ignore.

Still, within that vein, Sei managed to pick himself up a girl, to which Akari teased with no end, which he took in stride. A certain redhead called Kina. She didn't have a family name, as she was a nameless orphan from the war, but Sei was absolutely smitten with her, which was sweet. The pair were practically made for each other, since they both loved teaching, they were both soft at home but could be real menaces if someone threatened them, and they were both just adorable together.

Kina wasn't a Kunoichi, and it was clear that she was slightly uncomfortable with all the knives and equipment in the house, but the fact she was open-minded about the whole thing earned her a thousand points in Akari's book. It helped that she was an absolute gem. Even though she had no idea how exactly to handle Ninja equipment she was still determined to help out around the house whenever she could.

Not that Akari lived there any more. It was decided that as she was taking guardianship over Naruto, which was a whole other barrel of bullshit to look at, she should get her own apartment. Her past missions and the support of the Sandaime meant she could choose wherever she wanted. The biggest issue was finding somewhere she was actually comfortable.

Not that the apartments she visited didn't look comfortable, they did, but it was the other occupants that threw Akari off. The Shinobi were pretty open-minded about her, but since the civilians had to rely on second-hand gossip, well...negative gossip travels far easier than positive, so many heard of her as some kind of monster, refusing to give her the time of day and even openly glaring at her in the streets.

While out in public Akari could brush it off, she didn't want to live in an apartment block where a lot of the other occupants saw her as the embodiment of evil. This led her to a small apartment above a shop in between the Nara and Akimichi compounds, a short walk from the Mission office and hospital. It had two bedrooms, a small kitchen and sitting room, and a bathroom. For all intents and purposes, it was a small apartment, but Akari really didn't need bigger.

The rent wasn't too high, the location was rock-solid, the place was big enough for her and Naruto to live comfortably, and the neighbours either didn't care about her or actively thought positively about her. Being above a shop, which itself was on a market street, also made getting groceries an absolute snap. The only problem was that because the Uchiha compound was on the other side of Konoha, whenever she had to go out for missions, she'd have to drag her mother or brother across half of Konoha so they could look after him.

Quest Completed

Survive.

Objective:

Survive the night - Completed.

Reward: . . . Jinchuriki Status, guardianship of Uzumaki Naruto.

Then there was that. The error was concealing the fact she was due to become a Jinchuriki, which was weird. Presumably, that event could have gone several ways. Though, as Akari thought about it, she kinda resented the Game for calling becoming a goddamn human sacrifice a 'reward'. If anything it was a fucking consolation prize. The same for the guardianship of Naruto, it was really weird considering she had to expressly demand of Hiruzen that she be his guardian, it wasn't something just handed to her by the game.

Hiruzen wanted him to go to an orphanage, and only the fact that Kushina had made Akari Naruto's godmother, something which managed to make the man almost, ALMOST, drop his pipe, stopped that from happening. Not that Akari was particularly enthused about becoming a guardian at fucking twelve. Then again, ever since she got a Genin headband she was legally considered an adult, and she did have a bit of an advantage with the whole being far older than she appeared, so she supposed she was the best person for it to happen to.

Didn't make it any less awkward having to look after a baby. She spent quite a few nights frantically trying to look after the brat, and many nights then spent reading up on pretty much everything from how to feed him, which her past knowledge helped with a little, to bathing him and changing him.

Of course, as a Tokubetsu Jonin she still had a job to do, and so she had to feel her heart break every time she had to leave Naruto with her brother or mother. Watching him make grabby hands at her, then start bawling when she left his sight was almost too much for Akari, but she still did her job, even if she hated having to leave him so often. After the first few times she disappeared it seemed he realized that she was going to come back and stopped crying his eyes out, but he definitely wasn't happy with her.

Every time she came back and held him, he wouldn't let go of her for hours, which was sweet, and would often fall asleep with his hands still clenched on her scarf-hood. One of his favourite things to see was Akari's 'magic tricks' where she used the Game to make things disappear and re-appear before his eyes. He was the only one she ever let see those things, mostly because he was so young he wouldn't remember it, but seeing the look in his eyes as he watched those objects vanish and re-appear was worth the moon to Akari.

And, before she knew it, a year had passed. Then two. And Konoha healed from the damage.

...I'm going to hate myself so much next chapter.

There's gonna be timeskips and whatnot, so be ready for that. Anyways, here's Akari's status, and what exactly you can expect from her new...tenant:

Name: Akari Uchiha

Level: 31

Age: 12

Experience: 17743/31000

To Next Level: 12257

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.

Secondary Title: Tokubetsu Jonin - +25% experience gained during solo missions.

Health Points: 3200 - (100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 540/m - 9/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 - 33

Vitality - 27

Endurance - 20

Intelligence - 20

Agility - 40

Wisdom - 15

Luck - 25

Perks:

Jinchuriki of the Nine-tailed Fox - You now contain the Kyuubi no Kitsune. Can call upon Bijuu Chakra when needed to fight. Will turn your body more animalistic (when in use); Claws, Tails, Ears, Eyes will become similar to the Kyuubi. Potential to be ostracized by your village. Will become hunted by certain elements in future for your tenant. Mindspace Technique granted.

Techniques:

Mindspace - The presence of the Kyuubi within your seal has granted you the ability to enter your own mind. Experience earned within the Mindspace is reduced by 100%. Time is dilated by a factor of 100 within Mindspace. You may converse with the Kyuubi no Kitsune within your Mindspace. This action is recommended. No Chakra cost.

Proficiencies:

Fuinjutsu - Sealing arts. The practice of using ink to achieve your goals. - Level 61 - 82.4%

Calligraphy - Brush-stroke writing, typically used in conjunction with Fuinjutsu. - Level 21 - 11.7%