Naruto: Legacy Undone

Naruto's teeth clamped down where the offending digit had been with an audible clack

"Ohh I bet she likes that..."

"Can we get to the training grounds soon?" He ventured, a gleam in his eye. "Suddenly I'm looking forward to our friendly match more than I was before."

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It was a while later that the three did infact, find themselves in the training grounds, only, unexpectedly there was someone waiting for them.

Naruto blinked in curiosity. "Itachi?"

The raven haired Uchiha turned, looking over her shoulder, near waist length hair allowed to hang down like a curtain behind her as she turned. "Naruto."

She paused, as though waiting for something before Naruto caught himself at Kyofu's pointed "Ahem"

"Oh, uhhh...Ryoko-chan, Kyofu-chan, this is An-cha- I mean Itachi." He hastily corrected. He really did have to grow out of that nickname he'd given her when he was a kid.

He could feel his silver haired teammates wolf like smile behind him. "Oh that's so sweet you have pet names already."

"I am going to murder you." Naruto deadpanned. "Slowly...I'll enjoy it."

Itachi raised an eyebrow.

Ignoring his snickering teammate he decided to try and avert the subject again. "So what's up?"

"Word got around as to your little bout and I thought I'd drop by." She drawled. You'd either need a fourth member or an extraordinary strong opponent. I figured I could fill either role." She shrugged.

That and she'd wanted to leave the house for a few hours. Without Sasuke beside her, the place felt less like a home and more like a residence she had to keep returning too. And her brother still had school for another four hours.

Naruto grinned. "You wanna try and take us three on one?"

"Or two on two." Kyofu supplied.

"You're not trying to weasel out of our rematch right?" Ryoko chuckled.

Naruto scratched at his cheek. "Well we could go two on two but whoever has Itachi on their side is most likely gonna win in that case."

That piqued the wind users interest? "You think your girlfriend's that strong?"

If she expected some kind of reaction, she was to be disappointed. The placid, almost bored features of the Uchiha princess didn't even twitch in anything remotely resembling surprise.

Naruto though, started to nod. "Yeah she-Hey she's not my girlfriend!"

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There was nothing for it really.

She was bored

Bored out of her goddamn mind!

After six years of living with four instructors, a little ball of hyperactivity that wouldn't shut up and the best damn training partner a girl could ask for, along with Koutou and lady Inoue to keep her occupied, she had never really taken stock of just how much actual time she shared with them.

With each one suddenly recalled back to Konoha, it was like the carpet had been ripped out from under her and she didn't like it. She didn't like it at all.

Worse was the fact that while there were certainly people at the palace, none of them, not a single one, really had time for anything, least of all with her, the quote/unquote "most dangerous" person there. What with her being the only "hostile" ninja on the grounds.

The only one who seemed to really have desire to speak was Takechio, and Takechio, in lieu of his fathers leave, was understandably busy. So he didn't have the time.

And she had nothing to do.

She'd already done her morning exercises, she'd already rifled through the library yesterday for a book she hadn't read, (and read said book) she'd even slept early and woken up late. All just to try and bleed the hours away.

So she just wandered.

Literally marching through the entire palace, down the corridors, into empty rooms, across the rooftops. She had no doubt at least one of the Anbu were following her around, but she really didn't care. If he or she decided to make themselves known and say she was cut off from X or Y wing (which had never happened in the years she'd been here) it'd break the dreadful monotony.

It wasn't until she heard a faint crying that she found something to do.

Channeling chakra to her feet she swiveled under the overhang of the tiled roof, following the sound towards one of the many palace windows.

She peeked in and wasn't surprised to find Sasame wailing at the top of her powerful little lungs as the nursemaid rocked her, trying to calm the grouchy baby to take its midday nap.

When the baby's eyes opened and found her hanging upside down outside her window, she paused in her screams, blinking in confusion.

Kurotsuchi sidestepped, hiding behind the wall.

Sasami screamed again...

Until the brunette peeked her head back out.

The Tsuchikage's granddaughter wasn't sure if it was more of a novelty, or just plain old sad that the most entertaining part of her day so far was playing the ninja version of peek-a-boo with the Daimyo's infant daughter.

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Naruto is excited, despite himself, all but bouncing on the balls of his feet. "This is gonna be fun!" He chuckles.

"Better not have gotten sloppy on me Naru-chan." Ryoko smirks, pulling her weapon free from where it had been resting on her back, beginning to spin it lazily in one hand.

"'Course not. Be careful though. Itachi's sneaky...real sneaky...likes her genjutsu more than anything.

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