Ch. 39
3.pov
After long day Mito and Genma finally left Minato's house. It was late so Genma being gentlemen insisted on taking Mito to her apartment. Mito didn't see anything wrong with it and let him follow her. Genma obviously wanted to say something but Mito could see he still didn't have enough courage to do it. She debate if she would push him to say it or not. She decided not to because she didn't want to seen like forceful girl. The walk home was quiet. Mito would glance at Genma to check if he was okay. The closer they come to her apartment, Genma looked more red. She was concerned because she didn't know what was wrong, this never happened in anime so she doesn't want to get involved too quickly.
Mito finally was in front of her apartment, she said her goodbyes to Genma, who still looked like he wanted to say something, he said goodbye too. And Mito entered her apartment. Genma kicked a close by rock on the ground and signed. Genma knew he didn't have courage to say it, but he soon will. He will confess to her, when he becomes a chunin.
Mito had spent next few days following her schedule. She trained the hardest in her life. She actually trained during the day this time her training grounds were the closest one to Sarutobi clan. Because she needed to show who her teacher was. She could feel Asuma spying on her almost every day for few minutes. Asuma and she didn't get along well, but that was mostly on Asuma, she never did him any wrong. While she was once with Hokage doing his paperwork she noticed that chunin exam were only 3 weeks from now, so she wondered if genin knew that information. She obviously won't participate in them but she surely will watch them, to teacher the most amazing feeling is seeing her students grow up.
She wondered if any of sensei had told his genin about chunin exams. She also wondered who would be third member of team 7, Kakashi was obviously a chunin so he can't participate. Well they will probably end up with same teammate as last time. She still wondered if Obito will make it to Chunin this time. In anime he did it on the next chunin exam 6 months later. If he does make it, that would mean her training was good and that probably is closer to jonin level at this time. So she decided to watch for information on the Iwa battlefield. She needed to know if Konoha had informations about Iwas supplie routes. If she remembered correctly that was Jiraya task to find. So maybe they will still need to wait for them.
Mito was glad that Kakashi bought that fuinjustu book because she learned a lot of it. And she still hasn't finished it but everything made a lot more sense. Mito did try to avoid every one of genin who still didn't connect her two identities. Well there were a few of them who knew her immediately like of course team 7 and Genma, Asuma followed quickly with realization. While the rest did not know. But she knew some of them were suspecting something like Ibiki and Hayate. She had to confort Asuma who was just in her renge of her new sensor ability she trained with Isobu.
Mito said so suddenly that Asuma had fallen from the tree he was hiding on. :"Asuma-San, what are you doing here, shouldn't you be training."
Asuma was embarrassed but still answered :" I am looking at my rivals for chunin exam."
Mito nodded her head:" At least you know they are coming, but I am not participating in them."
Asuma was shocked he had to ask:" Why not,, you are obviously almost a jonin."
Mito answered :" Well that is probably the truth, but ranks don't matter as much when you are on battlefield, you can be stronger then some jonin and kill them and you could allways create a chaos when they think you are weak. But that isn't the only reason you see if I wanted to be chunin, Hokage and Nara Shikaru would promote me, but I still don't think that village would accept that, and besides like this I am still under enemies radar. "
Asuma said :" I see, then I must go watch some of my real rivals. "
Mito said:" I would like if you don't tell anyone about me being their teacher of possible, I want them to recognize me themselves, and do not speak to anyone about me not participating in chunin exam. "
Asuma was gone. He did made that excuse because he did though she would participate but now it seems he wasted time on spying her, but he also wanted to see how she trained. He did learn that she trained so fierce that theirs spar looked like warm ups for her. He also noticed that Mito was playing some kind of political game and he hated those. He decided to train harder so he could show how he was right and both Mito and his father wrong.
Mito went home after training where she trained some more but in different fields like meditation and seals and she also trained with Isobu. They think Mito could handle one tail transformation but they also thought she still shouldn't use it.
On Saturday, that day was saved for dealing with paperwork, she would do some research like who was going to participate in chunin exam and to see if she changed too many things already. She also needed to see if she could see any information about Iwa frontline.
Mito wondered if she could use a henge when she would watch her teams fight in chunin. But her idea was crushed when Hokage asked her if she would be sitting with him in lodge during chunin exam finals. She couldn't refuse him really and that would be a great chance to show how close her relationship with Hokage and village was. That would probably ease some of problems with her not being born here.