CH6- The Beginning of a Rivalry

"Namaki! Enemies incoming!"

Namaki or Kurai (Nozomi), hearing Minato instantly put up her guard while watching him command his team.

100 enemy shinobi had arrived, some from Kumo and others from Iwa. However, they couldn't care less as Minato and Rin took charge of the Iwa side while Obito, Kakashi, and Namaki charged at Kumos forces.

10 minutes later, as they had taken care of the enemies, all 5 of them sat in a circle while Rin was healing their injuries.

"You're quite good Namaki!"

"Thanks, Obito. You're not that bad yourself."

"Now, now, let's get going."

"Yes, sensei!"

***

"Minato, how are you doing?"

"Good, how are you Namaki?"

"My injuries are all healed up, thanks to your team."

Lying down on the grass next to Minato, Kurai released her Jutsu, which she had inherited from the Muma clan. They were a small clan from the Land of Silk and all of them were gorgeous looking. However, their natural odor acted like an aphrodisiac on other people which resulted in their clan members often being caught and sold for sexual pleasure. Luckily, if they attained enough control over their chakra, they were able to control it, or else Nozomi's life would have been a lot worse than it already was.

But for some reason, Minato seemed to be immune to it, as he showed no reactions even while she was showing her breast through her fishnet shirt after she took off her hoodie once.

Unbeknownst to her, however, Minato was indeed affected but would never act upon it. For one was he loyal to his wife. On the other hand, he wasn't tired of living yet and had no interest in dying because of his sometimes VERY demonic wife that had risen straight from hell.

***

It has already been more than a week since Kurai started following Minato and his students.

While she had helped them complete a few missions, she had also observed all of them during that time, figuring out any possible complications they might bring during an assassination on Minato.

Today was the day when she would act on her plans.

Closing up to Minato, she casually greeted him before suddenly striking forwards, stabbing a sword in Minato's heart.

However before she could finish him off, a tanto and a kunai suddenly interrupted her blade as she marveled in shock at the two people before her.

She knew Kakashi was talented, but the action of Obito was even more surprising.

Instead of continuing to attack Minato, she threw out three kunai at the kids in the hope of disrupting Minato's mental state by injuring them.

It did however seem to be too easy, as her kunai hit the mark, injuring the two boys and killing Rin.

'Genjutsu', Kurai realizing this, quickly broke out of it, as she noticed herself staring at the single tomoe in Obitos eyes.

At that time, her Dojutsu kicked in, as she stretched her neck to the left, barely dodging the incoming blade.

The first stage of her clan's Dojutsu, the Hanegan, allowed her the ability to see the future actions of her enemies in a full 360° range while enhancing a few Kinjutsu.

She was one of the few possessing this Dojutsu, as the third Tsuchikage ordered the massacre of the clan, leaving only some for breeding. And even then the awakening was very rare with only around 10% even getting the chance to awaken it.

If one looked closely, one would notice Kurai's eyes sparkling while she used this ability.

However, something like this was not that useful against Minato, who was able to teleport anywhere around her at any time.

After ordering his students to stand down, Minato himself attacked Nozomi mercilessly, leaving her on the defensive.

Noticing this, Kurai started making preparations for her retreat, trapping Minato in a mediocre Earth wall and running away.

Since he had none of his shuriken near her, Minato would be unable to teleport to her location.

Unfortunately for her, Minato had put a seal on her the day they 'rescued' her, leaving her confused as to why she was suddenly standing before Minato again.

She couldn't think long, however, as a tanto and multiple kunai impaled her.

Before Team Minato could celebrate, however, the body around Nozomi's wound turned into water, letting her escape from death.

She had two combat-related Kekkei Genkai's, her Dojutsu, and her ability to turn her body into water, which originated from the Hozuki clan of the mist.

However as she had inherited too many bloodline limits, her Hydrification technique was barely usable, making her have to hydrate herself for every two usages of her technique, making it only useful in situations where she would be about to be assassinated.

A few years ago, doctor Hibi had told her, that she had been bred to obtain the genetics from the Senju/Uzumaki, Yūkitochi, Hozuki, and Muma clan.

However, she appeared to be one of the few, who had inherited a part of the abilities of each clan and survived till adulthood. This didn't mean that she was the strongest at all, she was like a Jack of all trades but master of none. She was neither specialized in seduction, spying, assassination or close combat, but she was able to do all of them.

The Hydrification Technique of the Hozuki clan, the Dojutsu of the Yūkitochi clan, the strong life-force and immense chakra of the Uzumaki and Senju as well as the looks and body odor of the Muma clan.

***

Using the moment of shock at that time, I quickly left Minato's area of attack.

"[Earth Release: Earth Spike]"

I had a huge problem. Although I would be able to battle Minato and his team for a while, winning was out of question and neither was I able to completely get out of this situation without a good plan.

I had already tried multiple of my hidden cards against him, but it seemed like I could only distract Obito with my odor, with all of the other ones being unaffected. On another note, my usage of the Hydrification Technique had tired me out quite a bit as I was unable to drink a bit of water to get the abilities back on track.

According to my teachings, I was supposed to sacrifice my life for the mission, but it seemed just incredibly stupid to me. I would have to die and burn my own body after killing the target, which was highly unlikely to even happen.

This distractive thinking, however, caused me to be a split second too late to dodge Minato's attack.

'FUCK', it seemed that Minato had noticed my earlier reluctance to fight and used it as a chance to slash open the side of my stomach.

"Give up already, there's no way you can complete your mission. I'm still stronger and we outnumber you."

Narrowing my eyes to regain focus, I took a deep breath, Inhaling the fresh scent of blood as a crazed smile appeared on my face without anyone noticing as I was wearing a mask.

Although I knew I had no chance and was supposed to run, something told me to continue, clash against him, defeat him!

The distinct sound of ribs cracking could be heard as I calmly tasted the blood in my mouth.

I looked like a wreck and it was honestly surprising, that I was still standing.

"Rin, continue healing both of them, I'll finish this."

Grinning at his arrogance, I decided to let him have this moment. I was too injured to continue fighting and doing so would only result in my death, something I was not eager to see yet.

"..*cough*...*cough*, It seems like I have underestimated you, Minato. I'll beat you the next time, until then."

Although I was close to collapsing, Minato knew that it was too dangerous for his team to continue pursuing me at their current location.

This fight had alerted shinobi from both sides for sure and he was not very eager to find out which ones would arrive first.

It was already surprising enough, that none had come yet, as their fight had lasted quite a long time.

Minato's [Flying Thunder God] was a good counter against my [Earth Release], while I was able to know what he planned to do with my Dojutsu, countering each other's advantages.

Coupled with my high defense, I held out for quite a while.

***

During the next year, Nozomi clashed hundreds of times against Minato, as both continued to improve each time.

Sometimes they wouldn't fight, as Minato battled against A (the fourth one) or one of them being on another mission.

Sometimes they would just talk because they were tired of fighting and no one was there to witness them.

Despite being from different villages, they always seemed to be sent to counter one another. Many times A (again the fourth) would be battling against Sasori of the red sand, while Nozomi would be battling against Minato nearby. However, they would often trade opponents, not allowing anyone adapt to their enemy's fighting style.

While none of them like each other, all of them were fighting for their village until at some point the third Raikage died of exhaustion after fighting 10.000 shinobi for 3 days, killing almost all of them in the process as they were unable to pierce through his defense.

This resulted in A becoming the fourth Raikage, leaving Minato and Nozomi battling alone again, as Sasori had left for an unknown reason and disappeared.

***

"Oy, Nozomi! How the fuck are you here again stopping me from doing my missions?"

"Orders."

"Oh come on, stop being so stoic."

"Shut up and stop dodging my attacks."

"Oh, finally showing some emotions, how rare."

"You do know, I'm not supposed to have any, so stop talking."

"Yes, Yes. I'll shut up."

They had long stopped fighting for their deaths, as both of them saw no reason to. They couldn't kill the other without having to either lay down their lives or be heavily injured. It was more likely to kill each other than to win. They would usually just fight, preventing the other from attacking their allies.

Minato had even asked her if she wanted to meet his wife, once the war was over, to which she asked him if he was stupid, as she could use her as a hostage. Well after that Minato couldn't stop laughing as he imagined Nozomi being beaten up by his wife.

During that time, Nozomi had continued following the orders of the Tsuchikage, while trying her best to regain the ability to feel emotions.

***

Returning to her home on the frontline, Nozomi was greeted by her maid, Yui.

After saving her from the clutches of the bandits all those years ago, Yui had egoistically decided not to leave and be Nozomi's maid instead.

And since she didn't leave on her own, Nozomi had to kick her out.

Multiple times actually as she would always come back.

At some point, she just accepted her, as she didn't want to kill her and her superiors had cleared her background so she couldn't say much after it was approved.

Yui had unexpectedly helped Nozomi out a lot, giving her more training time and always having meals ready when she returned after a day of killing.

"Hello."

"Oh, you're back already? How nice, we can chat a little then."

"Sure."

"So anything you want to ask about today?"

"Eh, yes? That emotion flared up again, while I was fighting against Minato. It felt like telling me to beat him up."

"Hm, I suppose since you rarely get angry and had no reason to be jealous it will be more likely to be you being combative. You want to be stronger than him. But you don't have to worry, since it's nothing bad."

"Alright, thanks."

"Well anyway, I finished food. Come over here and get some."

Nodding Nozomi made her way over to the table, doing her best to enjoy the food which had been made for her.

Since she had been cooking every day, Yui had made huge progress. She told Kurai that cooking was her hobby and she might open a restaurant in the future. Naturally, Kurai would have to work as a waitress for her.

Although it was a joke, Kurai didn't notice and seriously thought about it for a week, making Yui worry that something bad had happened, while Minato just laughed at her antics.

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Ah finally, I found somewhere to put her abilities.

Kekkei Genkais are rare and I thus nerfed her Hydrification Technique heavily. It is already rare to have two of them, can't have her three now.

I also just noticed, that the Dojutsu is similar to the Sharingan which was not supposed to happen. I just used the abilities of observation Haki from one piece to create it, just nerved a lot.

But in the end it will still be weaken than the Sharingan, cause the Sharingan in it's evolved forms is OP and I didn't want to write an OP character from the start.