Not planned
3.pov
4 months later.
The journey to the border was more difficult than originally expected, because as soon as the girl approached the sea she could feel uneasiness in the air, wind started to pick up and the sky started to darken. It became clear that the storm was coming. The storms around Land of Whirepools were unavoidable, they were quite a lot of them. While she couldn't crops the sea at this time, she decided to train. She did not know how long the storm will last, so she firstly went to find a shelter.
The storm lasted for whole 2 weeks. But the redhead did not waste any time, she trained extra hard, she gathered food and water worth of a whole month. She felt more ready to go now. She knew now that 3. Great Ninja War was ongoing, because she felt more and more chakra signals coming from southwest.
The girl started her journey once again when the storm calmed down, she needed to cross the sea as quickly as possible. Luckily there were few of smaller islands on her way, she decided to have few of them as her pit stops. She started moving around 5 in the morning.
She was exhausted when she landed on her first pit stop, she didn't expect the sea to be so restless after the storm, she arrived 5 hours later than she expected. She expected to come around noon to first pit stop but she obviously failed at that. Now she can't make it to the second pit stop before the early morning if she continued. So she decided to train and sleep at this island and than continue at early morning.
The sea traveling lasted for 5 days longer than expected, things weren't going as planned, and with current luck she know it would only be worse from now. Indeed it was, she had to supress her chakra signals whole way, which made her move more slowly, she still used her sensor ability to find how close are shinobi forces. She didn't want to be in close aproximity. She decided that close proximity was 3 kilometers. Thankfully she was only once at the risk, she could feel 4 chakra signals, around 3 kilometers to the West, she was moving to South, while they were moving to East. She suspected that they were some of Konoha forces, because she could feel one larger and 3 smaller chakra signals. She had to stop to analize her situation, but she didn't feel threatened by their presence.
So she continued. She felt that it was easier to hide in this forest but she still wasn't confident in her abilities, she was she could outrun a genin, but anything higher than that not likely. While she was getting closer to the border she felt more of that uneasiness. She had around 1 month of walk to there. But she could already feel how packed chakra signals there were. If her luck was good, only half of the shinobi there would be from Konoha, so around 20, she HAD to avoid what it seemed as 6 jonin and 2 chun in and rest were capable genin, "that was so planned" she sighed sarcastically.
While she traveled closer and closer she knew her expectations were wrong again, it seemed of the forces on the border 65% were Konoha's and that they back up was arriving in few days, so if she wanted to successfully cross the border now was the time, however she observed Kiri force and it came clear they were planning something deadly, and if she crossed now she would become a casualty. So she really was in a pickle. She had to hide but all around her were caves which were occupied by Konoha shinobi.
She had to go back 3 kilometers to the empty cave she saw last night. She decided to stay there until things calm down. She hoped they would calm down in few days.
Oh silly girl how was she wrong, she was copped up in that cave for half a year, there were constant incomigs of new Konoha and Kiri shinobi on the border, fighting never stopped, but neither side had pushed much. She started to fear that her mission would fail. She had lots of time to train. In fear of coming across shinobi she closed her cave with Earth Style : Mud Wall. She by the end of six months was confident in her chakra control and she thought of herself as chunin in that aspect, she knew some ninjutsu so she was chunin there too, but she was extremely self conscious when it came to taijustu and all the other stuff. She had finished 2 beginners books about the seals and just started to read the intermidiate book.
Finnaly both Konoha and Kiri shinobi stooped attacking, probably for regruping process, she decided to make her move now, she strayed running as quickly as she could while suppressing her chakra, she now could run while doing so, she know when she would see a Kiri shinobi she should fight back a little.
Only thing she didn't expect to came across Swordsmen of Seven Swords and his sword, by which she recognized him as one, she quietly said : "Samehada"
The swordsman smirked :" So you know it's name, should I kill you for knowing it"
She sqiked :". SHIT"
The Swordsman :" Are you not going to call for a back up."
Girl answered :" I have no allies."
The Swordsman asked :" Are you not from Konoha."
Girl answered :" No. My village was destroyed."
The Swordsman mocked : " An Uzumaki that isn't faithful to the Konoha scum."
Girl answered :" I hate everything in this world equally. But mostly I hate my luck." as she said that she took out her kunai she had found in Uzushino, and took the Uzumaki stance.
The Swordsman asked :" So you will fight me. Don't make me laugh. "
Girl yelled : "I don't have a choice, either Kiri shinobi or Konoha shinobi will catch me. I will be leashed of freedom either way. So I will fight for the death, my only solution."
The Swordsman : " It seems you have found your resolve, a meaningless one."
The fight began