Ch15- Another friend lost

The sensational news spread everywhere. The Uchiha clan had been massacred, except for one single child and a few adults who had previously chosen to live outside of the Uchiha Compound.

This left around 20 Uchiha and half Uchiha in the village. The perpetrator, non-other than the genius child, Itachi Uchiha. He had killed his entire clan by the age of 12, making him a missing-nin with a bounty of 90.000.000 Ryo.

After Nozomi had heard about the massacre, she opened the scroll that was left behind. It was a message left by Kaguro and Minami. In the message, they apologized to her for burdening her with their children but asked for her to take care of them from now on.

They had predicted that something would happen to them and had thus packed all the knowledge about the Uchiha and a crap ton of secret techniques into the scroll.

'Dear Nozomi, we have to apologize for burdening you, but we hope you can adopt our children. We know they will be safe with you. If there is a problem with costs, don't worry. We put our entire fortune into this scroll and you can freely use it.

This scroll contains not only a few messages to our children but also a few detailed training plans for whatever kind of shinobi they want to become. We will love them even if they wish to live a normal life as civilians.

This is something no one other than the leader of the Uchiha knows of. If we were to see someone close to us die or experience similar emotional changes like thinking they are dead while they are not, our Sharingan will evolve into the Mangekyou Sharingan.

The prize for using this enhanced power is our eyesight, which we can only recover by transplanting the fully developed Mangekyou of an Uchiha with close blood ties. In our children's case, both can just swap their eyes, giving both of them an Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

I hope you will get our children to at least see our corpse for them to evolve it without anyone close to them having to die. Please take care of the kids.

Thank you,

Your friends Kaguro and Minami.'

Although Nozomi was shocked due to finding out such top-secret information, she felt the grief hit her, knowing that she had once again lost her friends.

It was as if she was cursed, that every friend she made would die. Yui and Pakura were her only friends, but even for both of them, she was more of a savior than a friend.

***

"Team 22, since your sensei has died in the Uchiha massacre you will be assigned another, temporary sensei.

This is Kakashi Hatake, he will be temporarily leading your team until you at least participate in the Chunin exams."

„Yo."

Walking over to the training grounds, Namaki was visibly disturbed. Though she was able to hide it rather quickly. Who would have thought, that the silver-haired brat who first lost his team and then his sensei would pose as her sensei at one point? She wasn't even able to be surprised when she noticed that he seemed rather detached and suicidal.

It appeared that he had suffered quite a bit.

***

„Since I will be your sensei for at least a year, introduce yourselves. I'll start, I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate... I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future... never really thought about it. As for my hobbies... I have lots of hobbies. Your next Tomato Nr.1"

Rolling her eyes, Namiko started talking, „My name is Namiko Uzumaki, I enjoy hanging around my family and learning from them. I hate overly arrogant and spoiled children."

"I'm Namiko's sister, Namaki Uzumaki. My likes and dislikes, ...don't wanna tell you. My dreams for the future... none of your business. My hobbies are not important." Letting out a small smirk, she looked Kakashi directly in his eye.

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

Having finished the introduction, Kakashi decided to test their fighting progress. However every time he went against Namaki he had an odd sense of familiarity which confused him immensely since he just couldn't put his finger on why.

***

When Kakashi got told that he would have to take care of a team he expected the worst. His expectations were, well not like THAT.

His team was very quiet and had barely acceptable teamwork between all three of them. Though the two twins were working seamlessly with one another, only the additional Hyuuga being the problem.

It appeared that their previous sensei had indeed done a very good job to get them this far, something he was still questioning how it was possible and how they were even allowed to pass.

He had just been told to leave the ANBU one day and take care of a bunch of children who couldn't even throw kunai properly. Despite that, he reluctantly did his job and was mildly surprised by the similarities between his students and his ANBU squad.

They were like miniature ANBU with a lot less skill and experience but the same bearing. If he could, he would recommend two of them to ANBU. The Hyuuga and the quiet older sister, Namaki. A name he hadn't heard in quite a while and would always remind him of the war and the things he lost because of it.

The little sister of the twins would also fit in ANBU, but only barely. She was too spirited for that type of work and didn't seem to have any interest in it, which automatically meant, that the older one wouldn't join either as they did everything together.

"Sensei, can you start training us instead of reading your porn?" Flustered by his student's answer, he quickly replied, "it's not porn! It's a romance story with only a bit of smut!"

Rolling her eyes, Kakashi sweat dropped at his student who just couldn't understand those masterpieces. "No, it's not."

***

The feeling of familiarity Kakashi felt had only intensified over the last few weeks. As such he had decided to observe Namaki and Namiko for a while.

He knew they were adopted by a civilian family, but he was surprised to find out that they lived at the Asuka restaurant, one of the most famous restaurants in Konoha. He had some good memories in that place as he would always go there with his team after a mission, celebrating with Kushina and Minato.

As he had given his team the day off, Kakashi was free to observe what Namaki did in her free time. Naturally, he would still give her any needed privacy for example in the bathroom or her bedroom.

***

It was morning. Kakashi was never a morning person but still forced himself to get up very early.

He had expected to have to wait a few hours until his spying got to work, however, the most shocking thing he found was that when he arrived at 7 am, Namaki was already training in the private training grounds that their family had built next to the restaurant.

To be exact, there were two. One for the customers of their establishment and one for private use.

Kakashi observed her training, which consisted of battling against her clones and further mastering her chakra control, which was already abnormally good. Even he couldn't compare to that level of chakra control.

But, he didn't fail to notice that she was missing high-level Ninjutsu, which wasn't very surprising as she was from a civilian family that couldn't give her those.

Her Taijutsu however was outstanding, coupled with her high chakra control made it hard to believe, that he was looking at a twelve-year-old.

After she trained for two more hours, Namaki finally stopped as she was close to collapsing because of exhaustion and went inside. She took a shower and got herself some food. She knew Kakashi was watching from the start and had as such only practiced her Jutsus further to not give away her real experience.

Despite that, she would never waste time making it look like she trained on a lower level. The worst she could do was to train low-level techniques, which could come in handy at some point at least. This included the Transformation Jutsu and even Jutsus like the Sexy Jutsu, Harem Jutsu, and Two-for-One: Mirror Image Jutsu.

While she was practicing the Techniques, she noticed Kakashi's chakra spike at an all-time high. Smiling at this, she purposefully used her modified Jutsu, which was the Sexy Jutsu just with a 'real' clone and the smoke gone. This was possible due to her immense practical knowledge, chakra control, and intelligence.

As she undid the Jutsu, she noticed how Kakashi had fainted from the sight.

***

After having her breakfast, Namaki started training with Namiko. This consisted mainly of her giving pointers to her sister. Though Kakashi would see both of them pointing at the other's mistakes thanks to her Genjutsu, which fortunately worked because Kakashi's Sharingan was covered by his headband.

Noticing his stomach grumbling, Kakashi decided to transform into a random civilian and entered the restaurant where he continued spying on his students, as they were helping their family during lunch hours before quickly returning to their joint training.

No wonder their teamwork was so flawless, they knew everything about each other and were able to know what the other had planned without asking.

This again continued for a few hours, till they took a short break and went to sleep before going at it once again. In the evening they helped out once again, seeing as things were getting busy.

Even Naruto was there, someone whom Kakashi could only observe with confusion and guilt. Confusion because he knew that the kid had an apartment on the other side of the district, guilt because of not being able to protect his sensei's child.

Since he was an ex-ANBU, he was used to pulling out an all-nighter. What surprised him the most was, however, how much the siblings trained. Their day consisted mainly of training, helping out in the restaurant, and sleeping.

Unlike other children their age, they would rarely use their time for entertainment purposes.