All throughout Konoha wail's of despair could be heard for the rest of the day.
Mei sighed in both frustration and relief, relief at having finally finished the paperwork, which sometimes never seemed to end. And frustration at the sheer amount of paperwork she had to finish, something that made her begin to regret taking the Kage position. It was even worse since her Naruto was not here to give her those absolutely Kami like messages. Thinking of the blond haired man who had come into her life brought a smile to her face; because of the Chunin exams they had not been able to see each other for a while. However she had sent a team to participate, a team that she was sure would make it to the final rounds. Especially since they were trained by herself, Ao and Chojuro in the shinobi arts. If they pass that means I'll be able to visit Konoha in order to watch the Chunin Exams, maybe I can even get there a bit early… her thoughts were derailed when a knock sounded at the door.
"Come in!" she called out.
The door opened to reveal Ao who walked in and gave her a bow, "Mizukage-sama we have just received word, that all three of our genin who are participating in the Chunin exam passed the second test."
Mei felt a grin spread across her face, standing up she walked towards the door. "Thank you for informing me, I would like you to inform the council of this and tell them I will be going to see how our genin fare." she had just made it to the door when Ao mumbled behind her.
"I think you're really just going to visit Naruto-san, I swear back in my day when two people liked each other they would just get married and be done with it…"
Mei's hand halted on the door knob as she turned with one of her chillingly pleasant smiles, the ones she used when about to inflict great pain on someone. "Ao… shut up… or I'll kill you!"
Ao eyes widened at the threat and he realized he had said that out loud, he soon began trying to talk his way out of it, which as always only made the situation worse.
The second week was nearing its end, and Naruto had once again upped the training of the three genin. Increasing their weights, physical routine, and the difficulty of the chakra control exercises and had started to actually teach them jutsu for their elements. While they had not gotten close to even managing to do more than base manipulation of their element, he felt that they should have a few that could be used for the Chunin Exams. They were only in the C rank, but even a C rank jutsu in the right hands could have devastating effects.
Naruto smiled as he sat on his father's head, a place he had often come to when he wanted to be alone. Today was the day he had given his students to relax, since he knew full well that without resting their muscles would never repair themselves and grow stronger. He looked back down at what was in his hand, his smile growing ever so slightly. He had been searching through the desk his parents had used when creating their seals, he had been looking for the seal that his father had come up with as a replacement for the Bird Caged Seal. While searching he had come across a small leather bound book, at first he had thought it would be some kind of book with notes on sealing techniques. Opening it he had found out that it was not a book on sealing, or anything even remotely shinobi related.
Instead what he had found was a journal, his father's journal to be precise. It seemed to date back from the time his father had first learned to write, which was obvious by the messy scrawl at the beginning of the journal. And went into the third great shinobi war that his old man had been a part of, telling of his experience as a sensei and his desire to create a jutsu to end the war. Unfortunately for Naruto it seemed to stop after that, mainly because it was completely full. Also unfortunately there was not much about his mother in this journal, only a little where his father talked about her beauty and a few experiences he had with her; like when she had been kidnapped by Kumo ninja and left her hair as a trail that her father followed. The blond Clan Head assumed that his father had another journal somewhere, however despite searching had not found it. This also brought up something he had hoped to find.
Naturally he assumed that sense his father had a journal, then his mother would have one as well. Naruto had searched the entire jutsu library for any trace of something like that; however his search had been in vain. He had not been able to find any trace of a journal or diary from his mother; he had not even managed to find the letter Jiraiya said she had left. This led to the assumption that it had most likely been in the actual house during the Kyuubi attack and had probably been destroyed.
Naruto was snapped out of his reverie when he fault a spike in chakra, signaling the use of a sushin near his location. Naruto turned his head just as an male Anbu in a Neko mask appeared.
"Namikaze-san, Tsunade-Sama has requested your presence," he said in the typical monotone voice of an Anbu.
Naruto sighed as he stood up and stretched, "very well, I'll head their right now."
The Anbu nodded before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.
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