Ch13- New Genin team

'Kurai, your mission will be to kidnap Konoha's Jinchuuriki without being noticed. Meeting at ***** at 1100.

As she looked at the message from her village, which she had received, Nozomi didn't know how to respond.

She needed Naruto for her original mission, but now they wanted her to bring him to Iwagakure.

***

"Good morning sir, can I recommend our special breakfast for you today?"

"Sure, go ahead. I would also like some extra water with a hint of Iwanaba."

As Nozomi brought over the meal, she sat down next to the customer who was completely clueless about the current situation.

"Here is your extra water, with a hint of Iwanaba.

Now, about business. Giving you the Jinchuuriki is impossible as I need him for another mission, which I can't give you the details about since it is an S-ranked one. Give those words to the Lord and he will understand, now go."

Nozomi, having said enough, got up and continued serving the customers.

***

"Team 22, Namaki Uzumaki, Namiko Uzumaki and Semaru Hyuga. We'll meet right outside."

All three of them got up and made their way towards the exit, where their sensei was waiting near the swing.

"Alright, nice to meet you. We will start with the introduction. I'm your sensei, Kaguro Uchiha.

I like my wife and children and a few other things, and I dislike weak and arrogant brats. Now you continue."

"My name is Namiko Uzumaki. I enjoy hanging around my family and learning from them. I hate overly arrogant and spoiled children."

"I'm Nazami's sister, Namaki Uzumaki. While I also enjoy hanging around with my family, I also like to cook and help out in our restaurant. I hate customers who harass my family or stop me from doing my work."

"Semaru Hyuga, I like training and I dislike weak people."

After observing them and having gotten a rough overline of what their personalities were, Kaguro finished the day, telling them to meet at training ground 43 in the morning for the last test to check if they had what it takes to become Genin.

***

"Namaki, Namiko, you barely made it in time. I hope there will be no next time. Anyway, let's start our test."

Their team was focused on attack, with Semaru being a frontline and scout mix, Namaki supporting him from behind and Namiko, who was being protected by Namaki and could as such prepare seals in combat.

As such teamwork and reactions were the main focus of the team, with each of them having to develop their specialties to become better shinobi.

Kaguro didn't tell them much about the trial, only that they were supposed to survive in the forest of beasts for a week while he began to observe their interactions.

Namaki was anti-social and would keep to herself most of the time, except with her sister. Coupled with her rarely showing only a few emotions, it was hard to get closer to her.

Semaru was similar. He was like many Uchiha and Hyuga were, arrogant. Unfortunately, he had neither the status nor the talent to act like this and think that he is better than them. This character of his was something both of the twins didn't like, which resulted in them barely working as a team.

Namiko was completely different from the other two. Although she was mature, she was still friendly and tried to get closer to Semaru, even though she didn't like him very much.

She was the one who was making this team barely functional as both her teammates would usually go solo.

As the week went by, all of them endured their dislike of each other as they worked in a team, with Namiko as the leader, to survive.

Despite having counted countless points, which should have had them eliminated from the test to become Genins, they barely achieved his threshold to pass.

After finally coming out of the forest after a weak, all of them were eager to finally get into a bath and they couldn't wait for their sensei to finish speaking.

"I'll keep it short. I have my reserves to let you pass, but I'll give you a chance. You are now officially Genin, but we will focus on your abilities before doing any missions outside of Konoha. You have the day off tomorrow and we will talk about everything remaining the day after. Dismissed."

As he flickered away, Namaki wordlessly left Semaru behind. Although Namiko did follow her, she bid him farewell first before running after her.

Meanwhile, Kaguro had been finishing his training plan for them.

Namiko was a natural leader, which he would use by making her the captain of the three. Additionally, he would design training to give her more experience in leading people.

Coupled with her high talent in Fuinjutsu, she could easily oversee the battlefield and give orders accordingly.

Namaki on the other hand was a solo runner. She would often not listen to anybody, not even her sister. However, her place in the academy had shadowed her talent a lot. She was a natural fighter as if she was born to do so. Her expertise lay in Earth Release, making her a good tank. But she also showed signs of using wind to boost her speed, which made her better suited to protect Namiko and support Semaru.

Semaru on the other hand was the typical Hyuga. A frontline fighter, who specializes in the gentle fist and being a decent scout too due to his Byakugan.

***

Meanwhile, Naruto had just been accepted into the ninja academy. With Namiko's help, he had learned a lot about how to control his immense amount of chakra, as well as a few Ninjutsu.

Even Nozomi helped him with his Taijutsu training sometimes.

***

Although her chakra was still sealed, the remaining one was enough to easily infiltrate the Uchiha compound.

Nozomi had been tasked to obtain a few Sharingans and bodies, belonging to the most powerful clan of Konoha. It appeared, that her village had hired the rouge-nin, Orochimaru for an important task.

In exchange, he had asked for the acquisition of a few bodies of Uchiha clansmen. This duty had fallen to Nozomi since she was the best possible choice to do so as she could finish the task without leaving any traces.

Since she had been observing the Uchiha for quite some time now, to figure out whom to kidnap without many problems, she had quickly noticed the strange tension in the air.

It seemed like something big was going to happen soon, with the Uchiha being in the center of it.

She had decided on a few orphans and old veterans, who had lost everything in their lives. No one would miss them for a while, giving her enough time to clean up any evidence she might leave behind.

She killed most of the older ones for their eyes, storing the bodies in a scroll while keeping the few adults and children in her basement until it was safe to get them out of the village.

Orochimaru's request was simple, he wanted a few Sharingan, bodies as well as a few Uchiha's of breedable age and children below the age of seven.

After having finished her job without alerting anyone, Nozomi made her way back once again. It was important to have as much information and she made sure to have that by sneaking in and trying to gain a bit of Information.

She was unable to find much, but it seemed like the Uchiha were preparing for a battle. Maybe a war with a nearby nation? No, she would have gotten informed of that by the Tsuchikage. Either it was for defensive purposes, or they prepared to overthrow the Hokage.

She wasn't surprised. In her last 8 years, she had noticed how the civilians thought about the Uchiha and how they were purposefully orchestrated. Additionally, she had also overheard that many Uchiha had been found dead after a mission, with their eyes missing. Additionally, there were too many deaths to mark it as a coincidence or the doing of another village.

The only ones who could do so would be the other 4 great nations, but they didn't have a reason to kill them. Yes maybe to kidnap and use them to get their own Uchiha clan, but killing and taking their eyes from them was something none of them would do.

It was widely known that using a Sharingan without being an Uchiha was highly impractical. Not only would it always take some of one's chakra, but one would also offend the Uchiha clan.

To her, it seemed like a rebellion was highly possible, but she was unsure and thus decided not to inform the Tsuchikage yet.

After only a few weeks, she was able to quietly escort the hostages out of the village. There she soon met a silver-haired man, who went by the name of Kabuto. He took the Uchiha while having a sinister smile on his face.

"Thank you, we will hold outside of the deal soon."

*** Few months time skip***

The restaurant was currently closed, as it was the weekend. Nozomi and Pakura had left the village to spar to not let themselves get rusty. However, after only a few hours, a seal lit up on Nozomi's arm, which signaled for her to come home because something important was up.

"Kaguro, Minami, what brings you here? You even brought Agusa and Ashika."

"Sorry to ask this so suddenly, but can you take care of the kids for a while? I can't tell you why, but I'll let you know in a while."

Due to Kaguro being the teacher of both Namiko and her separate identity Namaki, Nozomi and Kaguro had become friends after meeting a few times. They would often come over to eat and ask them to look after the kids if both had to go on a mission. As such their relationship was quite good and Nozomi, Pakura, and Yui were the first they could think of to ask to keep their children safe.

The Uchiha would soon rebel, even if neither Fugaku nor they wanted to do so. Their only choice was to keep the children out of this mess, giving them a place to stay, even if they wouldn't survive the upcoming battle.

"Sure, but make sure to come back, I don't want to lose another friend."

Although he always wondered who that friend was whom she was talking about, Nozomi would never answer him and just divert the topic until he finally gave up.

He knew that there was a low chance of him and Minami returning, but he still had hopes of at least one of them making it back. He could only sight heavily, as he gave Nozomi a scroll. "Take this, if we aren't back in a week, open it. The things inside will be important then. Thank you."