Recap:

"That's alright because we will train and be ready for them next time." Kakashi said lightly, smiling at us. The mood brightened again and then the door was slammed open as Inari ran in, jumping into his grandfather's arms...

"Welcome Back Grandpa!" Inari sent a childish glare to us. "Don't you see, everything's not alright, I won't believe it." Tsunami gasped, grabbing her chest in surprise. She then turned her mom scolding face on, wagging finger and all.

"Inari! That was very rude, these ninja helped your grandpa and brought him home safely. Apologize." Inari shook his head no, his arms crossed.

"Mom, they should just give up, you know they are just going to die when Gato's men come back and find them." Sasuke and Kakashi stiffened, and Naruto sent a harsh and angry glare to bucket hat boy. I just looked on, my heart hurting for the pain a child that age shouldn't have. 

"What did you just say brat?" Naru shouted, doing his infamous accusing point. "Listen up! Do you know what a super ninja is?" He pointed his thumb at himself in pride, his orangeness and bright personality made him stand out and the pose that much more effective. Maybe that's why Gai wears so much green, to make his pose stand out even more. "Thats me, but only better. That Gato or Blato or whatever doesn't stand a chance against a real hero like me." 

He stated with fierce dertmrmation spreading across his features. Naruto is already a hero in my book, and I want to live up to him and be a hero just as great. I feel like that could have been my reason to be sent here, to become a hero alongside Naruto and fix what I think deserves fixing. Inari began to laugh as cynical as a small bean like him can. It was kind of cute, but slightly unnerving that he could be so twisted right now.

"There's no such thing as a hero. You're just full of stupid ideas. If you wan't to stay alive, go back to where you came from." Tsunami and Tazuna paled at Inari's statements, he really is so fucked up right now, he needs some therapy jutsu and fast. Naruto got up to attack Inari, but I pulled him down and let Inari run out of the room as Tazuna apologized for his grandson's behavior. 

I got up and walked out of the room, following Tsunami since she looked a bit crestfallen at how sad her son is, and I wanted to help take her mind off of it. We went into the kitchen and she put an apron on herself and me. She gave me a fake smile, trying to hide her sadness, I smiled back, a real one. Her eyes brightened a bit.

"Hinata-chan, you can help me make dinner for the boys. I never have help and I'd love some." She said, seeming excited at the prospect of getting another female to help her. I smiled and laughed sheepishly.

"I'd love to, but you have to do all of the actual cooking, I can cut up things and stuff, but no cooking for me I am terrible at it." Tsunami giggled at me.

"Oh, Hinata-chan, thats ok sweetie, I will teach you how! Then maybe that cute black haired kid will ask you out!" She exclaimed, excited at the thought of me having a boyfriend. I guess even though we just met, she likes me as much as I like her.

"Sasuke? Ha, Sasuke wouldn't ask out a girl if his life depended on it. I'm pretty sure he's asexual." Tsunami finally let out a full blown laugh, clutching her sides. "And, I know how to cook, it's just that I can't cook. I have a special talent of not being able to cook. I can burn and undercook rice at the same time, I've done it many times. I was banned from using a stove ever again at home." I'd use it again for sure.

I said full of my confidence, doing a bow at my awesome cooking skills. I mean, who needs to know how to cook when there is such things as raw food and restaurants and if I ask nice enough Shisui makes me lunch. Problem solved, as long as I don't have kids to feed, then my husband will have to cook. Tsunami looked at me in slight disbelief and amusement.

"Oh my, that is truly a skill!" She teased, pinching at my cheek. "Thats alright, because you can chop up things for me and make the salad for us." She said ruffling my hair giving me a gentle and slightly teasing smile. I fist pumped and grabbed a knife out of the drawer. We cooked dinner for everyone while the boys did Kami knows what.

(Quick Third person pov)

When Hinata and Tsunami were in the kitchen, in their aprons each of the boys were watching closely. Tazuna was watching the duo with a hidden smile as he drank his sake. That young girl was able to protect him and make his daughter smile in a way he hasn't seen in a while. Inari watched from afar, confused and angry at the girl. She's kinda small, she's definitely weak and is going to die.

He didn't understand how she could smile when so many bad things were happening, or why she thinks a weak girl like her, and her weak friends could defeat somebody strong like Gato, when his Dad, the strongest man ever, couldn't.

Kakashi watched Hinata and his other students with intrigue...their feelings were palpable and  changing and he was intrigued to see how everything would play out. Hinata was a cute kid and he assumed she would probably stay that way as she aged. It was already creating an interesting dynamic between the boys and her, it achingly reminded him of his own past. Hopefully their story ends better than his.  

Sasuke was watching not the duo, but Hinata alone. He knows he loves her, and Sasuke watched as nonchalantly as Hinata cooked in a cute apron. Seeing her cooking and looking like that, reminded him of his mother.

She is perfect to him, a perfect wife. She is strong, beautiful, annoying, protective, and kind. Sasuke knows he wouldn't want it different. He'd take care of all the things she couldn't. He'd cook and clean if it meant marrying her. He kept looking at her face. Brows furrowed as she chopped vegetables, eyes coated in something shiny and soft, cheeks flushed. It was a change from Hinata's usual dark eyeliner,  but Sasuke couldn't help but like the way she looked like this too.

Instead of the fierce beauty she normally looked like, she looked...gentle? She looked ready for him to protect her from evils like Zabuza and Danzo. He would protect her.

Naruto was only half paying attention. His mind was mainly on the training Kakashi would have him do, but every once and awhile, he would watch his best friend. He gave up on their rivalry since Sasuke has that spot, but she has the place as his first and best friend.

Naruto has always seen Hinata as his friend, nothing more. He's only had eyes for Sakura, sure Sakura wasn't the prettiest girl, but she was special to him. At least until Hinata asked him why he liked her. Now, when he's not thinking about how to make himself Hokage, he's thinking about that. Why Sakura?

Now he's a bit more confused on what or who he wants, she's right in that Sakura is not nice to him, but what girl is, how will he find a super pretty girl willing to love someone with a demon inside of them. That's why he hasn't told Hinata, she might leave him too when she finds out, then who will love him like she does. Hinata is the only pretty girl to ever be nice to him, where will he find a girl like Hinata for himself.

Hinata always tells him he deserves the world and to find the girl that makes him feel like he has the world when she's with him. So as his eyes flicker to his best friend, who looks prettier than usual, though he doesn't really acknowledge that, he is trying to figure out what she means by that. 

***

I woke up burning hot, squished between Naruto and Sasuke. For such a cold bastard, Sasuke is so freaking warm, I though he had a fever at one point. Naruto is the same, and having them both hold me like some kind of body pillow is too hot. On top of it, somebody put me under a blanket too! 

I tried to ignore the heat and go back to sleep, its much too early, but alas I was boiling alive. Since they were sleeping, I replaced myself with pillows, gotta love that jutsu, and went to get ready. It's only around 5:30 am, so I can do some of my own training before everyone is awake. Maybe if the boys weren't so fucking hot blooded, I'd be happily asleep so I could train later.

I went to the bathroom to get ready. I brushed my teeth, being lazy I threw my hair up into a pony, and got dressed. Since it's just training today, I put on red ninja joggers and a black fishnet shirt with a black crop shirt over it. Let me just say something though, my life would suck if it weren't for Lady Seiko.

Sports bras are not a thing here, women ninja bandage their chest in a binding thing for a bra. I did it once and almost died, it's like wearing a corset and hurts really bad, as well as restricts my movement.

So instead of that monster, I spent a month with Lady Seiko designing and creating sports bras, she thought it was genius. So after some sewing lessons and stuff, I finally have a selection of sports bras. With going through puberty, again, and my boobs growing more than they did in my past life, I don't know what I'd do without a sports bra.

How females did without them, I'll never know. And the entertainment when Naruto found my bra and asked what it was and I explained it, his horror and awkwardness will forever be engrained in my brain. I slipped on my ninja shoes and headed outside into the nearby forest.

I ran about 15 laps, did my 3 sets of 300 pushups, 200 pull-ups, 300 squats, 1000 jumping jacks, and 500 sit ups hanging from a tree, I lowkey feel like Gai and Lee when I train, minus the green spandex, which I slightly hate but slightly want to try on just to see if they are magical or something. 

I attacked some poor trees, punching with no chakra enhancement to make sure I could keep up even running low. I did my meditation and chakra control exercises, moving my chakra in and out of myself, moving it to each point of my body and expelling it, the works. That should be rejuvenating, which it is kind of, but it is also very exhausting, like I've been taking a hard mental test while doing squats for 5 hours exhausting.

Finally I worked on my water control. I'm no Tobirama, I mean who is, but I am getting the hang of my water control pretty damn well. My training is I have to stand on the water, allow myself to slowly sink to my waist and push myself back up solely with my chakra.

I fall in a lot, but I'm getting better. It's taken me about a month to even begin to raise myself in the water but oh well. Next, I would sit on the water and move it around me, raising me into the air and moving me around as I continuously flow my chakra through a tunnel of water. With controlling water, or standing on top of it, unlike normal justus, instead of just using a burst of chakra to get the justu to work, water control like I'm working on means I have to expel a continuous and steady flow of the exact amount of chakra needed for the water to move the way my chakra tells it.

If I mess up even in the slightest, I fail. Standing on water I can do just as easy as on land, but moving water not as a jutsu, especially a mass large enough for me to be in top of it, takes precision and focus which I have to train over and over.

I've been doing this type of control for months and still can only move myself a little but before falling back flat onto the surface. I did figure out how to ride my water snake head though. I just want to figure out how to control my water and use it as transportation or support or whatever without making it an actual jutsu, or make my own water jutsu. I mean, training like this 2 times a day is normal, it's draining and I end up in the hospital a lot when I train on different things, sometimes hurting myself trying things that are impossible, but I have to. 

I finished my training and hobbled back inside to eat a late breakfast with everyone so I can regain some energy before Kakashi's training. As I ate, I meditated to regain some of my chakra that I lost, and to help my body rest a bit before training again. This time I will do daggers and weaponry since Kami knows I need help with that, unless Kakashi comes up with something for us. We finished breakfast and headed outside to do our training. Kakashi walking on crutches, yet still somehow fast like a mofo. Kakashi stopped and we stood in front of him like the sweet Genin minions we are.

"Alright training starts now, first we will have a review on Chakra." Kakashi said lighthearted and with a smile, but I know that his smile is going to become sadistic soon.

"Hn, we know this already." Sasuke grumbled under his breath, this made Kakashi's smile turn into a smirk. Naruto nodded enthusiastically.

"Teme's right, we already know about Chatora." We all sweat dropped, I face palmed. Even with all of my training he forgets the word Chakra. Kakashi corrected him and made him explain it. Naruto used the ramen explanation I used of the hot water and noodles combining to make ramen, like spiritual and physical chakra. If they are not balanced well, the ramen is bad, just like the chakra is flawed. It was beautiful and I clapped at the end. At least he understands something I said. Then Kakashi finally got down to it after accepting that we know what Chakra is.

"Maa Maa my cute little Genin, you have been training your physical bodies well, I think it's time I help you each learn a justu that will benefit you, especially for the impending fight with Zabuza and the masked boy." We all brightened at the idea of Kakashi teaching us some dope new jutsu, he knows so many of them, so hopefully they will be awesome. "You will train on the jutsu I pick for you until you have it down like second nature, or you pass out." He said with his cheeky smile. And we were thinking for a second this would hurt less than his taijutsu.

"Alright Kakashi-sensei, teach me a super powerful, wicked awesome new jutsu!" Naruto demanded, his body glowing in happy and excited sparkles. Kakashi rolled his eyes to heaven above, but I could see the amusement and fondness in them over Naruto's actions.

"Fine. Naruto, you will be learning the Wind Cutter technique. I can't use wind nature, but I can tell you how and you can figure it out."

"Heck Yeah! Kakashi-Sensei, I'm going to get this down no sweat." He said, that fire burning in his eyes. I kinda wish I could make fire appear in my eyes too, that would be so fun.

"Sasuke, you will be learning the Current Transfer technique."

"Hn." Sasuke looked very pleased, if he wasn't such an edgelord, he would have smiled.

"Hinata. You will be learning the Water Shockwave technique." I looked up at Kakashi with my eyes glowing in childish excitement. 

"Fuck yeah!" Kakashi went on to explain the jutsu's to the boys, each taking a good 45 minutes of explanation before he came over to my area, by the pond I was at earlier, and sat down in front of me.

"I saw you train this morning, good job." He gave me a smile and patted my head. "Just remember not to overwork yourself, you're young. Don't consume yourself with training." He said, more serious than his earlier tone. I'm touched he cares like that.

"Thanks for the concern Kakashi-sensei, I will make sure to keep that in mind. More important," I gave him puppy dog eyes, grabbing his vest. "TEACH MEEEE!" He chuckled a bit then made some handsigns. A stream of water shot out of his mouth, then he infused lightning into his hands and put it into the water making an electrified current of water. Electrocuting the fish in the pond, making them float to the top belly up. I stared in amazement before turning to Kakashi. He's really the coolest.

"That was totally wicked." Kakashi shook his head at my choice of words. Kakashi explained in depth of what I need to do, the water part I already can do, its the addition of the lightning I'm not so sure about. It's my secondary nature so I can do it, its just weather or not I can figure out how to do it. Kakashi got up to leave, but before he could cripple himself away to read his porn, I stopped him.

"Kakashi-sensei, I have a theory and I was wondering if we could test it out. I normally would ask Shika, but he's not here and you're smart, plus you have the Sharingan so I need your help to see if I'm right or not."

"Maa, why not."

"So I've been talking with Shika and the Sharingan can copy a technique by seeing it and keeping it in its memory or whatever. My Byakugan sees the way chakra flows, right, so what if I were to watch only the flow of someone's chakra as they do a jutsu and attempt to mimic my chakra the same way? It's not practical for battle, but to learn new jutsu, it might work."

Kakashi stared at me for a few minutes, thinking through the logistics. I just stared at him back, two can play at this game weirdo. Finally he stopped doing whatever the hell it was, and patted my head again.

"Very innovative. I think you just might be onto something." My eyes watered like a baby from receiving such high praise form one of the people I respect the most.

"This is why you're my favorite sensei." He deadpanned. For the next long while, I watched Kakashi mold basic lightning chakra (his chakra is white which is petty cool) into his hands then expel it. After the first few times of me watching exactly how his chakra molds then becomes electrified and moves around, I began to try to mold my chakra the same.

At first, I could mold my chakra the same movements, but I couldn't get my chakra to electrify and move erratically like lightning does, it was still more fluid like water, ironic for a spaz like myself, but finally, as I moved my chakra while watching Kakashi at the same time, I began to get little sparks. Then we decided to hold hands and Kakashi would transfer his lightning into my hands as I watched closely, then I would mimic it and try to make my chakra match with his as they bonded basically.

That really helped and I finally figured out how to make my chakra become lightning. I basically flipped at my prediction right and Kakashi was very proud of his help in aiding my theory to become plausible. He finally left me to my own devices to aid the boys and read porn. I kept practicing before laying down for a nap before dinner.

I woke up and I was on my futon. It was dark outside and when I went to the kitchen, everyone was sitting down about to eat. Naruto and Sasuke didn't look much more awake than I am. Sasuke looked ready to pass out, his hair was a bit frizzy from static shock, and he also had a slight twitch.

Naruto had dark circles, he had lots of cuts on himself, and he looked slightly frustrated. I could tell neither of them have mastered their techniques yet, but from Sasuke's more pleased face, he's close. We ate dinner, them puking over their eating too much too fast, I helped clean the kitchen, and then we all went to bed and fell asleep quickly.

I woke up annoyingly early in my hot cocoon again. I got dressed in the same thing as yesterday, and went to train. I did my warm up routine and chakra control the same as yesterday, but instead of water control I got out my kunai and demon shuriken. Time for weapon training. I started with throwing kunai and shuriken at targets I carved into trees. I did this until I hit each tree in the center 100 times with both weapons. 

Finally, I finished my throwing practice and went back to my water control practice. I still couldn't get myself to move more than 10 feet up and 2 feet over, and only in straight lines, not curving around like water, until I was tired and wanted food.

Today, Kakashi sent us out for day 2 of training. I went back to my pond and Kakashi allowed me 10 minutes with him to re-watch his lightning chakra. When he left, I worked on transforming my chakra in my hands into lightning. It's definitely a lot harder without Kakashi's chakra urging mine along, but the image of how his chakra moves, changes, and sparked is imbedded in my mind.

By the end of the training day, I could turn my chakra into lightning, not just in my hands but my whole body. I could do it, but it's not a very strong current like Kakashi and Sasuke can control. I'll have to work on making it stronger, enough to actually electrocute like lightning should.

Then I get to add it to a water jutsu at the same time. When I went in for dinner, Sasuke looked so smug. Apparently he finished his jutsu and gets to guard Tazuna now. Naruto looked pissed, but he said he's super close to finishing his too, he just has to make the cutter more narrow like a blade instead of like a brick wall pushing against an enemy.

I'm thoroughly impressed he was able to go off an explanation alone and figure out what he needs to do to finish his jutsu. I explained how I'm figuring out how to strengthen my current and Sasuke volunteered to help me after dinner, I gladly accepted. The more help the better.

At dinner, Inari finally had his meltdown yelling at all of us for being idiots and we should stop training because heroes don't exist, and he got even more pissed when Naruto said he was wrong. Inari yelled at us for not understanding what it's like to lose somebody and we are just blindly happy.

That hurt my soul a bit to hear him say that without understanding how shitty we've all had it. Naruto left to go prove heroes exist, I told Sasuke to meet me by the pond soon, and Kakashi went to do whatever he does. Before I went to the pond, I decided to use my big mouth and talk to Inari. He was sitting out on the docs with his feet hanging off the side. I sat next to him even when he turned his head away.

"Hey Inari what you said back there you were wrong." I said as softly as I could, not wanting to anger the fragile kid. He just scoffed. "You see, Naruto, Sasuke, and I all understand you better than you think. We've all lost people too." Inari's glistening eyes, fresh with tears, looked up into mine.

"R-Really? How?" He asked hesitantly. I pulled him into my lap and started playing with his hair to calm him.

"Naruto never had a family, he was an orphan. Even then, until we met, he never had friends either. He was totally alone. Sasuke had a family, but a bad man came and killed his whole clan, leaving Sasuke and his cousin left. I was best friends with Sasuke and lived with his family for a while so I lost them like they were my family. My mom also died giving birth to my sister and for a while my dad was too unstable to live with. We all understand the pain you go through, the difference is instead of crying about it and letting it make us weak, we use it to become strong to protect those we have left. It's ok to cry, but when you cry, let it be out of happiness not because you are weak." Inari looked at me with shining adoration. He turned his body around and hugged me tightly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know." He whispered before falling asleep. I put him in his bed and left to meet Sasuke. Sasuke was sitting, his pale skin glowing under the moonlight. He heard my approach and stood up to meet me. I explained my issues with making my chakra stronger as well as the technique Kakashi and I used. Sasuke seemed annoyed at it, maybe he's jealous.

We intertwined hands and he began to send lightning chakra into my hands in a non lethal way. We did this for a few hours, Sasuke coaching me on how to strengthen the lightning by making me have to mimic each strength he did. I figured out it's by the frequency of the shock vibrations in the lightning not the size and temperature like I was trying to do. Finally I got it down, ready for the final stage of my jutsu. Exhausted, I fell asleep on Sasuke as we sat at the pond talking about the future.

I woke up the next morning in my futon, being cuddled by only one heat bag, Sasuke. At least, I woke up at a reasonable time today. I turned around in Sasuke's arms to look at him and wake him up, but his eyes were already open. I poked his face and we got up to go eat and find Naruto.

We found Naru talking with Haku. I mean damn, he really is pretty. The true definition of a pretty boy. I waved to Haku with a happy smile, he gave me a small one in return before leaving. Naruto was muttering about beautiful boy and I snickered at him. Sasuke of course punched him in the head and made him walk with us to Tazuna's.

Kakashi came out and found us, it was then Naruto demonstrated his jutsu. He performed the hand signs and channeled chakra, releasing it through his palms. When it hit the tree it sent a bunch of slices into the tree, it was amazing. Everyone looked thoroughly impressed and I fist bumped with Naru. That's gonna hurt like a bitch when it hits somebody. I also finished my training today, but after the sun was going down. It took time to be able to use water and lighting one after another, without my water jutsu dying out.

The key was to separate and use water when it spews out of my mouth while also making my chakra into lightning as it connects out of my hands into the water. Once I got it down though, I felt so proud of myself and then passed out into Kakashi's awaiting arms after demonstrating the justu.