Third POV
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"Hi I'm ryuu!"A small black hair boy smiles.

"And I'm Aki." The girl counter part smiled widely.

"And together we have important news. Author-sama accidentally wrote that our ages are 4 but we are 2 years old." They both smile simultaneously.

"So she came up with a creative way to apologize that doesn't look like authors note so you guys wouldn't skip it." Aki twirls and winks.

"Author-sama reread her book and apologizes for the grammar errors. Then she realized she messed up our ages. She already fixed the previous chapters and also edited our dialogue to fit a 2 year old more but not everything was changed and now back to your SCHEDULED PROGRAM !!!" Ryuu glomps his sister and smiles.
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Naruto POV
"Okay Naruto, it's time to amplify your training." Kakashi stated he had been bed ridden after rescuing Garra, Mangekyo had taken quite a toll on him which was why Yamato had replaced him on the previous mission.

I gave a curt nod as I listened to him. "And how should we do that?" I asked him.

"Well as you know the rasengan isn't complete. The fourth was never able to add nature transformation into the jutsu so it was never complete." He stated and I nodded.

"So I should finish the Rasengan." I stated clutching my hand. "I was thinking about an efficient way to go about it, and I think I found one. But I just want to know if your ready for some brutal training." Kakashi smirked beneath his mask.

I grinned. "Sensei, you best believe I'm ready."
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I zipped up the twins jackets. It's autumn and they were coming with me to train.

I had thought about getting them a baby sitter but to be honest I had been absent alot and I could tell it was starting to affect them.

Even if they were smart, even if they could fight, even if they could speak well and express themselves. They were still toddlers.

They were still at the tender age of 2 years old and even if I explained to them why I left them they couldn't really fully comprehend.

I could tell by the way they kept me in their line of sight and how they never wanted to separate from me. They might understand that I was a shinobi and had missions but that didn't mean they wouldn't miss me and feel neglected. So even in training I'd try to spend time with them.

"Now in your backpacks I placed snacks and you have your toys. " I told them, they were eager. It was the first time I was taking them to one of my training sessions.

"Okay mama." Ryuu nodded as he bounced on the balls of his feet.

"Here your scarf." I say wrapping a dark green scarf around his neck and a similar one around Aki.

"Okay now let's go." I say as we left the apartment. I carried them to the training grounds.

Time to start my training.
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Third POV

Yamato and Kakashi were waiting for Naruto on the training field.

The second she arrived she greeted them and Kakashi began explaining to her what she was to do.

"To Master wind chakra you'll need good chakra control, I know your a medical ninja but just to add to your training you will cut a water fall with your chakra." Kakashi stated.

Naruto looked around and sweat dropped. "There isn't a waterfall." She deadpanned and Kakashi chuckled.

"Yamato if you may so kindly." He smirked and Yamato nodded. The wood style user ran through a variety of seals.

A river was formed and a wood bridge was formed across it. "Amazing." She gasped.

"Wow, mister thats amazing." Ryuu gasped from the background. Captain Yamato smiled and sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. "Its nothing. It's because I can use earth and water simultaneously." He smiled and Aki looked up at him.

"Well that's pretty cool. If I train hard enough do you think I could do it too?" Aki asked him and he patted her head. "Maybe, if those are your chakra natures." He smiled at her fondly making her squeal in excitement.

"Well naruto, that river isn't going to cut itself." Kakashi stated and Naruto nodded. "Multi shadow clone jutsu!" She yelled as she made the appropriate handsigns.

The twins sat and played on the floor near Kakashi and Yamato kept an eye on Kurama's chakra.

Naruto spent the entire day training she was proficient in chakra control and had to get used to how much chakra output she needed.

Throughout the day she would take breaks and check on the twins to see if they were hungry or wanted to use the restroom.

Naruto was exhausted by the time she went back home. She needed help to walk and Kakashi escorted her home. The twins were curious and concerned that Naruto was hurt because they'd never seen her chakra exhausted.

"Mama, are you sure you okay?" Aki asked with a whimper as she held onto Ryuu's hand. "I'm fine, just need something to eat and some rest. " Naruto smiled gently as she patted her daughter's dark messy hair.

Aki nodded. They made it to ichuraku ramen and Naruto was quick to place her order.

"Three miso ramens old man." She smiled cheekily as she sat down and lifted the twins sitting them on both sides of her.

"Well well if it isn't our favorite customers." Ayame smiled.

"Hi Ayame nee-chan." Aki smiled and Ryuu tried to hide behind Naruto's arm and waved at her.

"Kyaaa you two are so adorable. Your ramen will be ready in a second." She smiled as she turned and helped father serve the ramen.

"So how's business?" Naruto asked and Teuchi making the older man chuckle.

"Business is doing great. Earlier we had the lunch rush and the dinner rush is over. Soon it will be the ninja rush. The ninja coming back from missions will be stopping by for take out or dine in dinner." Teuchi smiled as he set down three ramen bowls.

"Itadakamasu!" All three of them cheered and began gulping down the ramen. What can they say other than the Uzumaki-Uchiha love ramen.
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The next day it was back to the training grounds. This time while 1/4 of the shadow clones trained in cutting the water fall, another 1/4 began trying to cut the leaf with wind style chakra, with that the other 2/4 were split into running through taijutsu style training and the other half doing regular excersie to build up muscle.

The twins were also 'training' while kakashi watched them to make sure  that they didn't hurt themselves while practicing what Naruto had taught them.

"Kakashi-jii watch this." Ryuu smiled as he went through the katas nearly perfectly. Kakashi smiled and nodded.

"Hmm, a vast improvement since last time you showed that kata." He stated making Ryuu blush and nod. "I've been practicing alot with my nee-chan." He grinned as he rocked back and forth excitedly.

"I'm sure you have, with how good you are I'll be surprised if you don't become a genin soon." Kakashi ruffled his hair making him smile more.

Aki saw the attention amd praises her brother was getting and quickly went to kakashi to show her what she learned as well.

Aki's style was a bit stiffer, while her brother was more quick and swift, hers packed more strength and a bit slower. It was a easy to tell that when they got older they would have very different fighting styles.

From dusk till dawn the Uzumaki-Uchiha spent their day training only stopping for breaks and meals.

Kakashi had even spared with Naruto a bit to test what she learned.

She had also headed out and asked Asuma sensei for advice which of course ended up costing her a pretty penny in the barbeque buffet. But she got the Intel she needed to better her wind control.

This went on daily. It seemed everything was normal until an anbu appeared infront of Kakashi.

The anbu whispered a few words to him and Kakashi's eyes widened.

"What is it kakashi-senpai?" Yamato asked as the real Naruto approached them.

Kakashi swallowed and looked down "Asuma Sarutobi was murdered by members of akatsuki." He spoke in a soft voice.

Naruto felt her mouth go dry and her breathing hitch. Shikamaru, Ino and Choji' s sensei Asuma had been killed.

She looked down frowning, recently she had found out that Kurenai was pregnant with Asuma's child and now he had passed away.

She couldn't help but feel bad. Being a single mom was hard and damn right she knew it was.

"Did he give you anymore detail?" She asked and kakashi nodded.

"Asuma was leading a small team, Shikamaru, kotestu and izumo. I had known they went to check out a fire temple a bit to the west. It had been attacked and a monk managed to escape and tell the village. Apparently two Akatsuki members killed him in battle. " he stated and she nodded as she balled her hands up.

Akatsuki was a dangerous organization. And to think someone that could kill a talented shinobi like Asuma Sarutobi one of the legendary Tweleve guards frightened her. She glanced at the twins knowing they had heard what kakashi said.

They looked curious it was obvious they didn't understand what killed and murdered meant but they could probably tell that it wasn't a good thing.

"How do you think Kurenai is taking it, or team 10?" She mumbled and Kakashi sighed. "Probably not that well, but they are getting bold. We should -"

"We should increase my training. Against shinobi that caliber." Naruto stated.

"I should start with my wind style. And now then let's get serious." She took in a deep breath and let it out.

"I have to be strong enough to protect." She added and Kakashi sighed and nodded.

"I guess it's time we start trying to mix the rasengan and the wind style huh." He grumbled and she nodded.

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The twins watched in awe as  their mother begin the hard part of her training ground.

Multiple times her petite body was sent flying due to the jutsu not coming out right but that didn't matter to be honest this was a race against time.

The twins watched as Naruto gritted her teeth and tried to perfect the technique.

"Aki, Ryuu let's go." Naruto grumbled. It was getting dark and Naruto was picking up their toys and empty bentos from the ground. "Mama what are you trying to do with your ramengan?" She asked.

Naruto chuckled. "Its called rasengan and I'm trying to add wind in it so that it becomes stronger." She stated as she cleaned up the mess.

"Oh, and why are you trying to do that?" Aki asked. "That simple because there's really strong ninjas outside of the village and to protect you two I have to be strong." She smiled and ruffled her hair.

"Now enough questions and let's go." She stated as Ryuu was falling asleep in her arms.
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The next day Naruto took a day off. She had cooked a delicious meal and was on her way to visit Kurenai.

She had a feeling that Kurenai would need alot of support being that she was pregnant and the father of her child recently passing away.

She knocked on the door. She heard shuffling and the door slowly opened, she was met with a beady eyed red nosed sniffling kurenai. "Hey Kurenai-san. I've brought you lunch." Naruto smiled.

"Naruto." She spoke softly her voice was rasp probably from crying. "Come in, come in." She added as she opened the door and moved to the side to let them in.

"Good morning Kurenai-san." The twins chimed as they bowed deeply and took their shoes off at the door way.

"I thought I'd bring a bit of homemade soup, and check up on you." Naruto smiled sympathetically and Kurenai nodded.

"Thank you." She replied meekly.

Kurenai led them to the kitchen allowing Naruto to set the pot down and took some plates out.

"Anything to drink?" She asked. "Just some water is fine."Naruto stated knowing the twins would get thirsty at some point.

"So how have you been recently?" Naruto asked as she sat down on the table and placed the twins beside her.

"Its been hard, I know that he was a ninja and that he could die at somepoint but I wasn't ready for it to actually happen." She murmured as she placed the cup of water down and Naruto began serving the food.

Naru nodded. "Yeah, it's really eye opening. To think that only a few days ago we were talking and I was asking for training tips and now he's gone." She stated as she took a seat.

Kurenai sniffled and nodded. The twins frowned. They obvious didn't know what was going on but understood it was something that must've been sad.

"Did they manage to recover the body?" I asked and she nodded. 

"Luckily they didn't take it, they were bounty hunters. He died just as reinforcements had arrived, if he had lasted a bit longer Ino would've been able to heal him enough to bring him back and have Tsunade heal him." She teared up.

"But he was struck straight in the heart and there was nothing she could do. He died of blood loss." Kurenai broke into a fit of tears furiously wiping them as she sobbed.

Naruto carefully rubbed her back and hugged her. Naruto didn't say anything. No amount of reassurance could bring back Asuma.

While the twins silently ate, Naruto comforted poor Kurenai.
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As they headed back home. "Why was kurenai-san so sad mama?" Ryuu asked as he held onto Naruto's hand tightly.

Aki looked up at her mama also wanting to know the answer.

"Asuma-san passed away recently. She loved him very much and misses him." Naruto stated in a soft voice. They didn't understand death, they'd never experienced it.

"If she misses him why won't he come back?" Ryuu asked and Naruto sighed. "When someone passes away, they can't come back. It's like falling asleep and not being able to wake up ever again." Naruto explained and they frowned.

"Mama I hope you never pass away, we would miss you." Aki mumbled holding Naruto's hand tighter and Naruto sighed.

"I'll make sure I don't pass away any time soon." She stated not making it a promise. What was the point of doing that if she could die.
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Three days after Asuma' s death and Naruto had nearly perfected what she called the windmill shuriken.

After testing it out on Kakashi sensei and both resulted in ending up in the hospital.
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Naruto POV

I was perfecting my jutsu, I couldn't keep it going for long and I kept getting a few duds but at the final stages I had to get it perfect.

I opted to leave the twins with Hinata since the jutsu was very dangerous and I didn't want to risk harming my little babies and I also had to perfect it because I was to be deployed soon.

Shikamaru had lead what was left of team 10 and Kakashi sensei to battle the akatsuki members that had murdered Asuma-sensei.

The deal Tsunade gave me was to perfect my jutsu and the rest of team seven would then be sent out to aide Team 10.

It took a bit but soon we were hurrying out of the village gates to back up Shikamaru.

They were fighting Kakuzu and Hidan the members of akatsuki that murdered Asuma sensei.

I glanced at sakura, sai, and captain Yamato. I had no doubt that by the time we arrived there they would have nearly everything settled.

From a distance I could see Ino, Choji and Kakashi being held down by some weird grayish tentacles and I gritted my teeth glancing at Yamato-san.

I formed my windstyle rasenshuriken and he formed a water style water vortex. We sent the attack simultaneously making it mix and neutralizing the oncoming attack on team 10.

The man looked at us in amusement.

"These brats? I'll use all of you as a heart replacement and you." He gestured to me.

"Who would've thought the nine tails would bring itself to me." He smirked.

"Kurama get ready to attack." I grumble in annoyance. I jump back creating shadow clones as sakura crushed the ground with her fists.

As we became the main distraction Ino pulled Kakashi back and began treating his injuries.

Choji was quick to guard them as we kept the frontal attack.

"Wind style: rasenshuriken." I yelled out as I made a decoy. Yamato was quick to try and hold him down with his wood style while Sai began sending out attacks to distract him from captain Yamato and I.

Kakuzu was taken back by my technique and was quick to send a stream of attacks our way.

We had to get cover and I was patiently sneaking behind him while my clones acted as the real me.

He managed to dodge a few attacks while not knowing we were simply distracting him.

My clones tried another rasenshuriken but that one didn't turn out right since it disappeared into thin air. 

Kakuzu laughed and mocked me. He didnt notice I had been forming a perfect windstyle rasenshuriken right behind him. I felt my hand burn as I struck him from behind and pulled away to get away from the radius of the jutsu.

Kakuzu screamed in agony. I watched as the technique consumed him and left him disabled on the floor.

I clutched my arm as I felt a burning pain from the inside out. Kakashi used chidori to finish the man off.

"He's dead. We will take him back to the village to study his remains." Sakura stated and I nodded I tried to take out a sealing scroll but tryinig to touch or grab something with my hand made me feel as if thousands of needles were proding it.

Kakashi-sensei took notice and frowned. "Leave the sealing to me Naruto." He grumbled as he took out a scroll and sealed Kakuzu in it.

Sakura stepped up and gestured me to show her my arm. I redunctantly did so and she frowned. "I can't give you a full diagnosis right now but your chakra and nerves seemed to be quite damaged. I want you to stay out of the rest of the battles understood." She stated and I nodded.

"Let's go help shikamaru." Ino stated and we all started running towards the Nara forest.

Just as we arrived at the ledge of the forest Shikamaru was walking out a cigarette loosely hanging on his lips.  "I've dealt with hidan." He stated as he let out a puff of smoke.

"So he's dead?" I asked and Shikamaru looked back and shrugged slightly. "He won't be coming back that's for sure." He stated and we all glanced at each other.

"Well then let's head back then." Sai stated with an emotionless smile. We all nodded and headed back to the village.

The second we were back sakura dragged me to the hospital and was quick to treat me. Hinata brought the twins to see me but they were forced to wait in the waiting room while sakura spent nearly five hours healing me.

My jutsu had caused my cells to be split and had I used the technique one more time I could've lost my ability to wield chakra in that arm.

Tsunade was quick to turn my windstyle rasenshuriken as an S-rank Forbidden technique due to the damage it caused me and the horrid damage it caused Kakuzu's body.

I was forced to take a break from training and any physical activity.

I spent my time with the twins watching them train and showing them all around the village.

"This is your grandfather. Namikaze Minato. He was the fourth Hokage, but he died many years ago." I say as we stood on the head of the fourth.

"What was grandfather Minato like mama?" Ryuu asked and I couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Well I never got to meet him. I didn't know he was my dad until a few years ago. But I've heard he was amazing. He was a war hero and was known across the elemental nations." I say with a soft smile.

"I was told he was a prodigy and Pervy Sage was his Master." I added and they're eyes widened.

"Jiji sage taught our grandfather?!" Aki gasped in shock and curiosity.

"What else do you know about grandpa Minato?" Aki asked and I hummed.

"He married my mother Kushina Uzumaki. She was the Red Habañero of the village. Kurama knows more about her than I do. Maybe you should ask him to tell you stories about them." I pipped in making Kurama groan.

"Wow, what about papas parents?" Ryuu asked and I shrugged. "I never met them, they had passed away years before I was with your dad. And he didn't say much about them. His parents names were Mikoto Uchiha and Fugaku Uchiha and they were the clan heads." I say and they nodded.

"Hmm does anyone else know our grandparents?" Ryuu asked and I nodded. "Kakashi-sensei was your grandfather Minato's student. He probably met all of them. But to be honest other than that I don't know." I stated as I began setting a picnic on my dad's monument.
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  Extremely short chap.

Your homegirl here has writers block and next chap will be better I promise.

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