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The days went fast for next few weeks. Mito was busy training and doing her duties. She luckily wasn't involved in councils work so she didn't have to lose much time. The Root program was in deep need of more missions, the members would rather go to missions than to train with Mito every day. Mito was getting stronger day by day and she could handle them easily. Well if they all fought her they could manage to defeate her. However she always managed to show the tricks they didn't expect. Mito over time got comfortable using the artifacts, she was in good terms with them.
Since it was March, Mito was relaxed, she had dealt with most stuff. She could finally stop doing things for village. Everything was under Minato's control. The council members for civilian part were found by root, and thier history throughly checked, it was safe to say that Konoha was safe from inside. She now focused on root. They needed to be trained and then they needed to have more members. She sighed as she remembered that she should head home. It was time for lesson with team 7. She thought them a lot in these few weeks. However it seemed like they didn't get it too much. They needed time to realize what actually happened. So she was still at very beginning with them.
While she teached root too, and she was progressing more smoothly. The root members luckily had some previous knowledge and she could lean on it. The only problem that Uzumaki clan was facing was, they needed to make sure to make enough seals every day but they had a lot less time to do it. And Minato couldn't help, Kushina could sometimes, Jiraiya also couldn't, Mito would help when she had free time. Which wasn't much. Mito sighed, they really needed someone who could learn it quickly.
Of only there was someone like that.
Mito was surprised by the seal Kakashi had activated. It almost blowed the whole house. She had enough time to prevent it. It was kinda her fault because she was lost in her thoughts while the trio were making their first full seals. Mito apologized for not paying attention. She then explained what was wrong with seal Kakashi used, and gave it to him back, he had to fix it on his own. Mito was satisfied with the Rin most. The girl never made too big of problem, she was the best of out the trio. Obito was good when he would copy her seal with his sharingan, however he struggled when it was time fpr him to make his own seal. It was still better than Kakashi.
Mito sighed, if only there was someone that could do same thing as Obito and help them with copying the seals.
Then a idea hit her. The Uchiha clan had a tons of woman that were busy doing housework but they also had free time, she could ask them for gathering. And Suzume and Mikoto knowing each other and being pregnant at same time was enough reason for them to meet. And it would be great opportunity for two clans to develop trusting relationships. She just had to ask Suzume, Tamura and Fugaku. She nodded to herself. Seeing that she found solution she focused on the trio in front of her. She explained them basics again and they seemed to catch it this time.
Mito went to talk with Suzume and Tamura in the morning. She spoke about her idea. Saying it would seem like a hobby for women and if they wanted to be compensated for the work she could pay them.
Suzume was in, she was getting a bit bored trapped in the house. Tamura had nodded hesitantly. He was bit stressed about the issue himself and agreed to solution, but he had a plan be if it wasn't going to work.
Mito nodded and gathered her courage to go visit Fugaku. She didn't see the man for a month, she went to Uchiha military police headquarters and slowly walked inside. Luckily her appearance wasn't to weird, because since Fugaku became a clan head the number of non Uchiha in police had increased and people had started to enter it more freely. And besides she was officially a member of government. She walked confidently in the hall of headquarters and she was greated by Uchiha women working as secretary. The woman bowed and spoke :" Uzumaki - sama, we didn't expect you here. Please wait here while I inform Fugaku - sama of your visit. Do you want a drink."
Mito nodded :" a tea will be fine."
Mito then leaned on the wall as she waited for the woman to exit from the doors of Fugaku's office.
The door opened and Mito entered. Fugaku was sitting in his seat and his table cleaned from paperwork, which was now on the ground neatly placed. Mito bowed :" Uchiha - sama, i apologize for not announcing my visit. And i am also grateful for your hospitality. I hope you can hear me out."
Fugaku nodded as he gestured her to sit down. He spoke once he did :" i must say that i was bit surprised by your visit, since i did not see you for long time, it must be thought on you. "
Mito nodded :" indeed i was busy these few weeks and i still am. However i need to ask for a favor of Uchiha clan. The favor isn't just for me but for whole Uzumaki clan. "
Fugaku seemed interested :" is something troubling the Uzumaki clan that needs Uchiha help."
Mito nodded :" it seems that Uzumaki clan has biten much more that we can actually chew. You must know that we are the ones responsible for making seals for treaty. However we jad offered our time to teach other shinobi to learn fuinjutsu from us and now we do2have enough time to finish the orders. Whell we always managed to make them but it was close to deadline. "
Fugaku nodded :" i heard that Obito is one of your students. But i do not understand what Uchiha clan can help you with. "
Mito nodded :" just like Obito, the rest of Uchiha have ability to copy seals. I was hoping that you would allow Uchiha women to have gatherings with Suzume and Kushina, where they would show them seals and make them, they would socialize and make our clans closer."
Fugaku nodded :" i see, if you think that would actually work. However i must ask, what benefits will Uchiha clan have. "
Mito frowned for a second :" other than making us more friendly towards you, there isn't much we can give you back, we can pay you if you want. We can also allow you to use those seals that Uchiha clan learns to copy. "
Fugaku nodded :" i accept, but we don't need money, but rather we would accept using those seals and one request of Uzumaki clan, one that would be revealed later. "
Mito wondered for bit what that could be, but the Uchiha seemed to calm for her to guess. Mito nodded and asked :" so, sonce we are bit in hurry could the meeting be in next few days.,"
Fugaku nodded :" i will inform Mikoto today and she would spread the message through the clan, the meting should be heald in 2 days in 4 p.m."
Mito nodded.
When Mito was done with everything she went to headquarters of root. She smirked seeing how everyone was ready for missions. She smirked because she didn't have any for them and from the looks on their faces they seemed to know that too. The training was next in line of things to do. She absolutely went the hardest on them. She was huffing and puffing when she was done her clothes were destroyed, the match was equal however 50 root members were defeated and still laying on the ground.. Mito smiled as she swept the sweat from her forehead. Mito had a nice time, she then saw a hawk land on her desk. Which meant Hokage needed her, but it wasn't urgent, or that he had someone he was meeting right now. Mito decided to change her clothes before heading out.
She walked slowly towards the Hokage's office, she could feel that good news were about to come. She almost skipped while she walked. She knocked on the doors, she didn't know if anyone was in the office since the new seals Minato had put. Mito hated that the most important parts of village all had those and she no longer could feel the whole village, some areas wer just gray for her and it bothered her a bit, however she understood while he was carefull.
Minato had called her in. Apperently he was busy doing the paperwork. Mito sat down however she had enough of her own paperwork so she didn't even try to help him
She spoke :" you called."
Mito nodded :" i did, there is a progress on the thing that you asked."
Mito nodded :" and what kind of progress"
Minato chuckled :" a good one."
Mito nodded waiting.
Minato finally spoke :" there are few chuninw that want to try to become a jonin and they are willing to do probation in root, but that isn't all, since next academic year begins first of August, the orphan children that are of age and wish to join it can also come to train with you. Well even thise that are already in academy want to come
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Mito smirked and nodded :" finally, after you said that 6 months were to long i thought that you would refuse. So i have these chunins on 3 months and bunch of children. Well now only thing that i am lacking is missions. "
Minato chuckled :" that is because you do almost all of them. But thanks to that village is doing just fine. Also i prepared for this. I have been gathering the most hated missions that nobody wanted to take for last week. And i gathered a lrge number. Enough for Root to be busy for few days. "
Mito nodded :" oh, thank you. "
Minato nodded and he asked :" so how are the preparations going for the birth place . "
Mito answered :" they are almost finished, i just need to do few details which i am waiting from smith. "
Minato nodded :" i see. That 8s good."
Mito nodded as she stood up :" i know you are busy so I won't disturb you more. "
She left the room as she had a stack of papers in her hand. She went to home and then she checked the missions and carefully would pick teams that would take them. There were few A rank and B rank missions that could potentially be s rank. Bjt there were also some d and c rank missions. She would send two teams on fishy ones.
So tommorow was the day when she would meet the chunin wannabe jonin and the chulder would come for first time in 3 days. Seh immediately sent a message to Nono. She knew hpw to deal with children but she really didn't have time for it.
Mito sighed softly as she saw the clock tick 12 p.m. She knew she got to go to sleep and she was tired too. She would have a important day tomorrow. Suzume was excited that the request she would leave her house was allowed and even Kushina would go along with her.
The next morning just before the chunin would get into the headquarters they found weird. Mito assigned teams with missions. She had given them half of the stack today and some missions would take more than day to finish. Some were a week long. The feq members that were left in headquarters were the weakest ones. She made a system where only the strongest could go on missions while weaker ones would train with Mito. Their progress could be seen as they were coming closer to others.
Mito wasn't surprised to see shocked faced if chunin they obviously didn't expect her to be in charge of here and to see such young on top of that with jonin uniform. They all knew who she was but they didn't really think that she deserved tje promotion. They didn't heard the story od jonin tests because it was prohibited to be spoken aboyt since it could lead to missjudgment and possible death of shinobi whi would be promoted from cheating, Mito spoke as she sized them up :" it is nice to meet you, 10. I am in charge here as you can see. The most of root members are out on missions right now."
A chunin that didn't belong to any clan asked :" and what kinds of missions are those. I don't know what kind of organization are you. "
Mito nodded :" good question, well the missions come from Hokage's office. They are the ones that were refused from every team or those that Hokage didn't knew who to give them. Any more questions "
Yamanaka girl spoke :" what are we supposed to do here."
Mito nodded :" You are going to train here and help us do missions. Soon you won't be the only ones we will teach. "
Yamanaka girl nodded as she then looked to the left. A man was standing there bringing Mito a coup of tea. Mito smirked :" why don't we have a first training now and then you wilk be done for today and tomorrow you wilk have to come earlier than today.
Mito gestured to follow her. She entered the room and spoke :" so since i want to see how strong you really are. I will fight you with full power while you guys use teamwork." a root member sighed the start of the match. The 10 people all rushed in. However Mito wasn't touched by single one of them she dodged with her spead. The chunin were bit surprised when they noticed that Mito stood on the same spot she did previously and they didn't manage to land a hit. Mito smirked as she went to jump up and made a water jutsu. Filling the room with water. Or at least she tried. The chunin had managed to counter the attack and the result was mist from the fire and water fighting each other. Mito took this chance to test their sensory abilities. She would appear behind a chunin then wait a few seconds, tgwn pushed him in direction of others chunin and then do the that over and over. The confusion was high, however Yamanaka was ready for her, Mito smirked seeing that. The mist was gone and Mito then started to fight them seriously. After a hour of the fight half of the chunins were down. Mito clearly overpowered them, however they would manage to save themselves with good teamwork.
Mito decided to finally go all out with ninjutsu. Until now she was using only water jutsu, so now she used earth one. The already exhausted chunins had a lot of problems dodging and blocking those attacks. But Mito never stop. She waited until the last of them were down. The chunins had lost and Mito could really tell how strong each one of them were. She let them gather themselves, as she took their files and written stuff down. Manly the things they need to work on. When she was finished, it tok her half of hour, the chunins have gathered and bowed to her. Mito smirked and spoke :" don't bow, I am not doing this for you, but rather for village and for root."
The chunins still were bowing down. Mito shake her head and gave each member their files :" this is what you need to work on, the root program will help you on your training. Come here tommorow in the morning. And i will show you the whole place and you will find yourself new teachers for this short time."
Mito then went to her table and sat on her chair watching the chunins slowly exiting the headquarters. They weren't to injured but rather they were exhausted. She wondered if they would be able to train tomorrow. Well she stopped thinking about it knowing that the training would be easier that the spar they had just now.
She then sipped her tea and then gathered courage to deal with the paperwork. She did not think it would so mich of it, but luckily it was easy to deal with. Mito went home early for first time in almost a month. She went to see how Orochimaru was doing in his studies and wasn't surprised to see him in library surrounded by books. Mito didn't want to disturb him so she left. Orochimaru had already read 10 percent of whole library, he would have read more but he had to train Anko and go on few missions.
Mito then went to home she wasn't surprised to see a lecture in front of her. Tamura seemed to be exhausted. So Mito went closer to see how far they were in studies. Only to slightly surprised when there were on intermediate seals. Mito decided to help Tamura by showing the two out of three students what they did good and what they messed up. Mito then went to see the schedule of Tamura lectures. She frowned it was too booked. She sighed maybe they needed to take a break from teaching others, she knew that Tamura had other things to do and so he was working the whole day. Mito wondered how she could help Tamura, she nodded to herself as a solution came to her mind. She would use clones to teach others while Tamura took few days of.
Mito said that to Tamura once the classes were done. Tamura insisted that he keeps doing it, however after being reasoned with he agreed. Mito the said :" take a week of rest and take care of Suzume, she really needs your attention."
Tamura nodded as he hugged Mito. It was something what he did when he was about to go sleep, and Mito didn't mind it.