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3.pov
Mito woke up a slightly lost in time. It was around 4 am. But she was rested enough and went down stairs to make herself breakfast and to make herself ready to go to test. Mito was really quiet to not wake up Tamura and Suzume who were really worried about her and they were asking many questions yesterday. Mito reassured them that she was fine. Mito skipped towards the meting point it was early but she didn't want to waste time. She was rather happy to that she doesn't need to hold back anymore. While she was afraid of what exposere she would get by becoming jonin. She was glad to show her skills and be useful.
Mito was there first. She sat on the tree and watched the village from there she hummed. It was peaceful and pretty. She leaned on the tree and closed her eyes. She dozed of for few minutes and then she started to hum again. She wasn't surprised to sense Shikaku come first. He was here to probably cloud watch. Mito stayed quiet as she watched Nara come closer and closer. And the he leaned on the same tree he was early by few hours. Mito didn't know if she should show herself.
Shikaku seemed a bit sad and troubled. Mito didn't like the face he was making like he was in agony.
Mito sighed softly, and jumped down next to the man. He was surprised, but didn't react. Mito asked him :" what is troubling you so much to make this kinda face."
Shikaku spoke :" the pressure of wanting a child. I don't know what to do. I want this child. But it seems pointless."
Mito nodded :" I don't know what you should do, I don't know what should I do. Should I make things easy for you or make you grow up on your own."
Nara breathed in as he spoke :" do you know something. If you do please tell me. "
Mito shifted slightly in her whole life nobody begged her for anything. Mito nodded :" I will then. Your son, Yoshino 's son, the miracle child shall be born on last day of summer, 22nd of September. So he should be already conceived. So you don't need to worry. I am sure happy news will reach you in few days."
Nara was a bit surprised and few tears of relief had left his eyes. He hugged Mito who returned the hug carefully. She usually wasn't hugged. She left the warm feeling enter her. In her previous life she always wanted this warm feeling but she was also always afraid of it. She didn't want to get hurt or hurt anyone.
Mito then slowly stood up and watched how participants were gathered around. She wondered what kind of test they would be doing. After everyone was here Nara began to explain :" today we are going to test your strategy. We will be giving each of you one mission. You will need to read your scroll and complete everything that is written in it. You must not lose the scroll during the whole mission if you do you must retrieve it. Your obstacles will be different and difficult to fight with just strengths alone. "
Mito nodded as she took a scroll one since she was first on list with most points, her points reached high 500. She was bit surprised herself. Mito waited for everyone to get theirs and she started to read hers as others had started to read theirs. Mito was surprised her mission was to bring this scroll all the way to Hokage but she had to stop everyone else from succeeding without fighting them. She looked at Shikaku who smirked. She had to play a spy and to make everyone lose their scrolls and she should take them.
It was troublesome mission. She had to stratigize her every move. She had to follow every single one of participants and try to sabotage them. Which meant she had to ne so far ahead of them. She wondered when they started to move if she could follow every one.
She nodded to herself and made few clones. She was bit surprised when she noticed that everyone had similar patching. It made her mission a bit easier. The first one she went to get rid of was Uchiha one. He would be troublesome to deal with. She noticed the trap that was already seated for him. Few shinobi had waited for him on a bridge. She smirked. The bridge was wooden and newly made. She knew it wasn't usually here. She shunshined on other side and while Uchiha was fighting his enemy she planned how to help them win against him. They were obviously weaker than he was. So she needed to surprise Uchiha and make sure that it didn't affect the other three. So she waited for Uchiha to step on beginning of the bridge. He was pushed by kick on it. He was barely on it. Mito then moved breaking the bridge. Uchiha was unbalanced just for second but it was enough for three chunin to take advantage. Uchiha was not down but he lost his scroll and the three chunin jumped in different directions. Luckily for Mito the one that took scroll was heading her way. She was hiding in the trees and she jumped down knocked him out and then started to run.
Uchiha behind her cursed, the chunin he was after was defeated by someone and they were long gone. So Uchiha was the first one to start to chase Mito around. He couldn't believe that he failed at first test. He was spreading around his sharingan activated as he searched for this new intruder. He didn't know if this man was possibly his second test, but he still needs to find them and defeat. He also wondered if chunins had rigged the bridge. However that didn't matter now. Shikaku watched everything from Hokage's office through crystal.
Mito cursed she hoped she would hide her tracks bit better. Mito then run in sensor type ninja that was obviously her opponents opponent. The one was jonin rank and was waiting for his target to get into his range. But glance he gave to Mito and how calm he remained she knew that he knew about her mission. She wasn't dangerous to him. Her mission was so impossible that nobody wanted to mess her chances even more.
Mito sighed softly as she watched behind her for few moments. The Uchiha was getting closer. Mito wondered if she could fraim it on this poor fool. She smirked that was a plan. However she needs to grab another scroll here.
So how would she do that. Mito took a seal out of her sleeve and gave it to man in front of her. The man looked at her curiously. Mito didn't speak anything. She gestured that he needs to put in on him. The man did so and could feel his presence dissappear. He jumped down as his opponent stepped into his range. His opponent didn't know what hit him. And Mito smirked she made two clones which henged into scrolls. She jumped down when the other opponent was down. She smirked to man as jumped at him taking scroll he took just few moments prior. She gave him two in return.
Mito then jumped back as her henge appeared she was kinda dirty and her hair was in many different positions. Uchiha appeared next to them in that moment. She didn't check if Mito was henged because he didn't think it would be weird if she was covered by dirt. She was small and he didn't know what kind of mission she had. And the other man just standing there had two scrolls in his hands. Mito sighed as she retreated. Uchiha was confused for a bit. But he understood her movements, she was tactically retreating. Which was one tactic any Uchiha despised. He noticed that man's presence was nowhere to be found but he could see him. Uchiha attacked him. And they fought.
The fight was intense and balanced. Jonin was technically helping Mito however he wasn't doing it by his free will. He was attacked.
Shikaku commeeted :" she is very cunning, I gave her this mission to prove how much of genius she really was. But I didn't expect that she would show such good performance."
Minato nodded :" what do you expect, will she be able to steal all of the scrolls."
Nara smirked :" no, she isn't the only genius in test. There is one Nara in test. He will be the hardest to deal with. Not because I think that Nara are superior but because he already noticed something is off. "
The man the crystal showed was definitely a Nara. Minato remembered his name :" Shikari Nara, he is one of few people that are consider as your successor. "
Minato watch the man take a sudden glance when he accidentally passed Mito. Mito didn't stop, she just moved forward. Nara stood there taking notice how her movements didn't seem as others had. She was heading west first and then to come here she needed to go north and then now she was heading to east. He noticed that other participants were moving firstly to West and then to South, the ones he saw, and felt, the ones he saw go to east like he was now would go to north and then to west. He realized that everyone had same map. They needed to make a full circle around the village. However Mito seemed to go here and there not following the circle. But he was unsure of his theory. Since the he didn't see two shinobi make their way here but maybe they were deafeted.
Mito froze after passing Nara, she didn't know how to deal with him, he seemed always close to others and follow everyones moments maybe that was his mission. Mito then decided to stop for few moments to read what the two scrolls she got said as their missions. The one she took from Uchiha was similar to her own the goal was to give this scroll to Hokage. However they also need to reach every check point like it says. In clock wise direction. The other was similar. Mito cursed she wasn't moving as she was supposed to. She didn't know what would happen of she was found out.
Mito continued to move as she already was moving she would even more suspicious if she suddenly changed direction. Mito found another target a woman who seemed to be trying to get to other side sneaking around enemy and trapping them at same time. Mito smirked she wouldn't let that happen. Mito took out a kunai made of silver and she moved it so that it would reflect the light. She pointed it to chunins that were gourding the checkpoint. She aimed at one's head and he noticed it she then made light move towards where the woman was. The chunins were confused for a bit. But understood when they finally saw her. They managed to surprise the woman. The fight wasn't to long as one chunin took the scroll super fast. It was Genma Mito noticed. She ran after him, she didn't bother to even pretend she done it to help them. She jumped down and attacked Genma who didn't think she would attack so soon. She took him down and tied him like she saw before on her way towards here. It was from one of participants. So she basically covered her trail she also gave him a henged Clone scroll. She headed then to next target. Mito was careful to watch where everyone else was moving. She could feel that Uchiha had ran at Nara. Mito knew she needed to hurry. She jumped down and almost scared the youngest female in the test. Mito smirked as she gestured for girl to follow her. The girl was a bit confused until she stepped into a trap. Mito then henged into a jonin she saw early on and took her scroll. Mito the shushined. When the young girl finally managed to break free of trap. The Nara and Uchiha were next to her. Uchiha asked :" Did you see that red head brat."
The girl nodded :" I think I did, but suddenly she dropped her henge and a jonin appeared in front of me. I think I saw him in survival test."
Nara thought for minute ans he spoke :" that was definitely a Uzumaki, but why she didn't fight you if she had a task to take our scrolls. "
While they were talking Mito was cooperating with other Ninja that had attacked participants. She managed to steal one more. Which meant she had to take last two and one was at the Nara. She knew she would fail, but she wanted to try her luck.
Mito was surprised that all of others chakra signals had been grouped but this one. And they were far away. Mito and few chunins cooperated and defeated the man. Mito ordered them around.
Mito cursed realizing that the 6 others were moving together and defeating anyone who was in their way.
Mito then tried to think of a plan.
The solution to this problem wasn't much. The only thing she could do now was inflation. She couldn't just go looking like only shinobi that was left alone. Mito then thought she needed to be someone that even Nara could think was suspicious. And by the way the last one that joined the group was the one she took the scroll after Uchiha. It would be strange to have come that early if she was knocked down. Luckily she remembered how the girl exactly looked and where her injuries were. She moved in the way she left her body and she slowly walked towards where she knew they were. Mito finally found them. And acted shocked seeing someone looking like her.
Nara was confused only for second, he realized immediately that this was a play. It was play of her best card. However even though it didn't work on him, other jonins were confused. Mito said :" what are you guys doing here, why is there someone trying to pretend like me."
Uchiha who knew the real person before asked :" How did you find us."
Mito answered :" by sensing your chakra."
Uchiha was confused how did she know about that ability of his teammate. Mito continued to limp forward she accidentally triped and caught herself on Nara's pants. However before anyone could help her stood up. Nara grabbed her neck as he said :" Uzumaki, you played well, but I saw through it."
Mito smirked :" Did you really, i am just a clone, and exploding one at that."
Nara noticed a seal light up as she spoke that. It did say fire. However rest of seal wasn't visible. His grip flattered just for moment, enough for Mito to move enough to get away from his grip, she quickly took his scroll and shushined in next moment dodging his hand. The seals she put previously around them activated and flashing of fire was seen all around them. Nara cursed. He had her, if only he hadn't believed in her bluff. He looked at the girl asking her :" can you pinpoint her location."
The girl nodded :" she is heading to Hokage's tower. She is 2 minutes ahead of us."
Mito cursed she could feel that they were only distracted for moment and the dude she fought last was already in her way. The only thing she could do is shushin away. However that costed 2 percent of her chakra. And if she kept it like this she would run out of shushin on halfway to Hokage's office. Mito consider it for few moments. But she decided only to use it when necessary.
That did not work the best for her. She was surrounded just in front of Hokage's office. Mito cursed she didn't know what to do. She wasn't supposed to actually fight them. Nara smirked :" so you actually can't fight us."
Mito looked away at the her only solution. She made 20 clones. She took two seals out. The one she hadn't used for longest time and she the one that blocked everyone from sensing her. And suddenly in the circle were 19 of her clones while Mito walked slowly to the passage only meant for Anbu. She slowly enetered it making sure nobody noticed anything weird. The clones didn't fight back puffing as they were kicked. After seeing only half of them remaining she run upstairs. She made it in. She then took out her seal and surprised Shikaku from behind as she spoke :" do you realize how I felt when suddenly you started to make these seals."
Shikaku jumped and looked at Mito. Mito smirked as she took out her eight scrolls. Smirking she spoke :" it was fun game i must say."
Minato nodded :" Shikaku said you wouldn't be able make it. "
Mito smiled :" I see, well I wouldn't if Nara - San knew my nature a bit more. However like every Nara once they face unknown they don't believe into it until they are certain they found out everything."
Mito then sat down on the chair as she heard footsteps towards Hokage's office. 7 participants were here because Anbu notified them of ending of test. Mito was smirking at them. As they had a thick marks on their faces. Shikari asked :" How did you escape. I was certain that you are out of shushins."
Mito nodded :" I am, but I am an Uzumaki, I have seals, actually I used two seals with similar benifts. One was to hide my presence while the other was to hide my body, making me invisible to naked eye. Even sharingan lower than three tomoe can't see me." Mito explained and spoke :" I am sorry that you guys were hurt, and that I made you all unable to complete your test. However I think that you learned from this experience just as I did. "
Mito then bowed showing her sincerety. Minato felt like Mito had grown in these two years she is here. Usually she wouldn't mind to be seen as a villain and would rather been seen as that, but now if she didn't have to be seen as that she would make people trust her. Especially someone who could potentially become her parents on missions. However both Mito and Minato knew Mito wasn't going to be leaving the Village anytime soon. She had jobs to do here. First was take over root program. Orochimaru had complained how he wished to go to some long term missions himself. The man also asked if he was allowed into the Uzumaki library where he would spend hours researching stuff. Uzumaki clan agreed, but only after Mito took over root program. Orochimaru had done splendid job helping them recover. However Minato stopped looking in future as he spoke :" tomorrow you will fight one on one. Your previous scores will determine who you will get as a opponent. The higher the points the stronger the opponent. However you aren't only tested for jonin rank but also tokubetsu jonin. Be ready and don't disappoint. "
Mito smirked as she licked her lips, she thought who she would fight.