Chapter 11

The next day, Karma and Ailane arrived at Training Ground 12. Surprisingly considering they had left early, Kushina was already there, visibly lacking sleep.

"Kushina, are you gonna be okay?" Karma asked.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." She replied, a little dazed.

"Alright then, as long as you're able to keep up." Karma sighed.

Eventually the time of meeting rolled around, and with it Himari appeared in front of the three at exactly 7 am using shunpo. "You're all here. Good." She said. "From now on until the end of the day, you three will be undergoing another test. If any of you can take my sword sheath from me, you all pass. If you can't, you fail, and have to back to the Academy."

"Eh?" Ailane said. "But we graduated!"

"And I have the authority to send you back if I deem you unfit to be ninja." Himari replied matter-of-factly.

"Fine, but-" Karma started, but Kushina simply ran in, beginning to recklessly attack. She was quickly sent flying back into Karma by Himari. Karma didn't even try to catch her since he was disappointed in her. He expected that she would at least talk to him and his sister to come up with a strategy.

Ailane was going to ask if Kushina was okay, but she was silenced by the frown Karma had on his face while looking at Kushina.

"What's wrong with you, Kushina?" He asked. "Are you joking? How are you suppose to be the first female Hokage like this? We're suppose to be teammates, right? So why are you running recklessly into a fight you have no hope to win?" Byakuya was genuinely confused. How could Kushina claim to be a future Hokage if she couldn't even keep a calm mind. Even if he had asked her to be his girlfriend, she shouldn't be reacting like this.

"That's true, Kushina." Ailane agreed. Then, she crouched near Kushina, who was in shock after being berated by her crush. "Karma is only saying that because he cares about you. He wants you to be a strong kunoichi because he likes you. If you keep acting like this, though, he'll eventually give up on you." She whispered in Kushina's ear, like the devil. Karma's ears twitches, since he heard it, but he opted to pretend he didn't. That could be dealt with later.

Ailane suspected her brother would end up with a harem. She spent more time by his side than anyone, so she knew how many girls liked him, herself included. She didn't care about their relationship since incest wasn't unheard of.

At least, Ailane knew she wouldn't give up, so she suspected there might be several others who simply wouldn't give up. She was resolved to at least bring together all the others who liked him under her. Like this, she could assert her dominance as the queen of his harem. Even if she couldn't be his queen, she was satisfied just being a part of the harem.

Kushina felt like she had been struck by lightning. 'All night. I spent all night wondering why they would ask us to move in. Now I know... Karma likes me! He likes me! Wait. Don't get ahead of yourself, Kushina Uzumaki! How embarrassing would it be if I was wrong and told the others? Ino, Sakura and Hinata would never stop laughing! But his sister said it!! Ailane knows him the best, so she can't be wrong, right? Maybe... I'll test the waters, first...' she thought. Resolved, she stood up and looked up at Karma. "What do you like about me?" She asked.

Even Himari, who had heard everything payed attention. This was extremely important information for her. With luck, he would mention something she could easily improve about herself. With more luck, he wouldn't say anything.

"I like your hair." He said replied. It was true. It was different from most other people he knew, other than himself, so he found it interesting. Kushina thought. 'My hair is the Red String of Fate!'

This time it was Himari's turn to be shocked. She couldn't change her hair color. Thus, she began to run through how she could improve herself more to attract Karma in the future.

Ailane saw this opportunity while Himari was thinking and moved to take her sword. Just like Kushina, she was flung back. Unlike Kushina though, Karma caught her.

"You need to calm down. There's no way we're beating her like that. Though, there's a really easy solution to our problem." Karma said.

""What??"" The two genin said.

"Easy, watch this." He confidently said as he waked forward. "Himari, give me your sword." He commanded.

"No." She replied.

"Well, that didn't work. What do we do?" Karma asked.

"Karma, did you really think that would work?" Ailane asked.

"Well, it was worth a try. We could also try just all running at her together." He replied.

"Well, how about you both just use our strongest technique on her, and maybe I can find an opportunity to take the sword?" Kushina asked.

"Yeah, that's what I meant, good job, Kushina!" Karma affirmed.

"Alright, then, let's go!" Ailane exclaimed.

Having agreed on their plan, they all ran at Himari.

"Fire Release: Fire Claw Jutsu!" Karma yelled as he jumped into the air, forming 3 claws between his knuckles. He swung his claws towards Himari, sending three claws formed of flame towards her. Naturally, he could do this with every element, though some didn't work as well.

"Wind Release: Sonic Roar Jutsu: Tornado!" She yelled, releasing a roar immediately afterwards of quickly spinning wind chakra, like a tornado flipped sideways.

Himari simply held her sword up to block.

Kushina, as the techniques were about to hit ran in, using the smoke produced by the clash between the techniques and the sword. She managed to get her hands on the katana, but she was unable to pull it free of Himari's grasp. Himari was about to shake Kushina off, when Karma showed up. He rushed in between Kushina and Himari and blew up. Of course, it wasn't the real Karma, instead it was one of his fire clones, which sent another blast of fire directly at Himari's face.

She hurried to block the blast, since she definitely did not want to risk damaging her face. During this opportunity, Ailane, using Sage Mode, utilized shunpo to appear in front of Himari almost instantaneously, and punched her abdomen, managing to knock her off balance.

Kushina, still holding on to the katana, used this to kick off of Himari, finally wrenching the sword free. "Got it!" She yelled as she flipped in the air, landing perfectly. "I got it."

""Yes!!!"" The twins yelled. Even Karma felt excited at the success. He knew Himari was holding back a lot, but this was still a great accomplishment for the trio. It was a great start for Team 12, he thought.

"Very well done," Himari praised. "Your teamwork after so little time being a team is very good. You all pass."

Authors Note: I changed Yin+Lightning to be shadow nature transformation, since yang+lightning is light and I also changed yang+water to life. Yin and yang nature transformations should naturally be the strongest imo since yin and yang are so strong individually. Btw the Nara clan won't have their shadow paralysis and stuff as a kekkei genjai of shadow nature transformation, they are just using their chakra to manipulate their own shadows shadows a bit, not capable of manipulating any and all shadows with chakra as long they're strong enough. As for life, it'll be strictly a healing type nature transformation.