Akashi Uzumaki

Two days later

Akashi was walking around with his cousin with their escort consisting of their clan members in disguise. 

"What do you want to do? We are free to do what we want today, that doesn't happen often," Said Arima leaving the choice to his little cousin. 

"Hum," after a few seconds of contemplation, Akashi responded 

"I don't really know, we can't do ninja training because of the surveillance around us," he said referring to the fact that they were followed by ninjas hired by the town 

"Well, let's do noble things, explore the town, eat fancy food and all that!" 

"Ok, let's do that," in front of him he saw a fancy-looking restaurant from which a delicious fragrance was coming,"

"I see our first destination, how about we explore all the restaurants of the city!" He said walking inside 

Hearing that one of the maids quickly interjected,

"If you do that you will expose your abnormality with how much we Uzumaki eat," 

"That's unfortunate," 

"We can just eat a little here and have the rest delivered to the hotel this way," said Akashi, and that quickly got approved

Arima was ecstatic as he went inside the restaurant and started to order everything on the menu, 

"So what you who is always thinking about training, how is it going," said Arima while munching on his food 

"You are always training but you don't seem to improve, I mean you can't even use the body flicker, right," 

Hearing him Akashi frowned a little "Should you be talking about that like that someone could hear you,"

"Don't worry," he said turning toward the servant not far from them 

"Look they don't seem worried, they must have used something to prevent anything from going wrong," 

When Akashi turned his head toward them one of them smiled at him, 

"I see," he said understanding that Arima was right

"Hm, I can use the body flicker it wasn't that complicated," he said responding to Arima while eating

"What! When did you learn it, I never saw you use it, you are always using that weird thing where you put chakra on your feet to move fast," Arima looked at Akashi with surprise and disbelief, 

"You must be lying, no need to be ashamed you know, everyone learns to his own rythme," 

"Well, I will show you once we are back home, that wasn't that hard, using chakra to vitalize the body and move at extreme speed, it wasn't hard once I memorized the pattern and everything it me about thirty minutes to do,"

"Cof, cof..." they turned their head to see one of their servant violently coughing 

 "That's impressive, it took me two hours to learn it," 

"Cof, cof..." Seeing another of their servant coughing Akashi started to wonder if he was alright 

"Well, I can move about fifty meters away," 

"If you can use the body flicker why do you still use that technique of putting chakra on your legs to move?!" he asked really curious now 

"Well," 

'I'm trying to create shumpo,' he thought 

"Just a form of chakra training," he replied calmly 

"You are really obsessed with chakra control huh, there is that, the training that you do in the morning where you have to move it around your body, and fuinjutsu who demand a lot of chakra control too, are you sure you don't want to be a samurai instead of ninja," 

With Arima mentioning that Akashi noticed that he was indeed right nearly all he was doing was chakra control training 

"Chakra control is the basis of everything right, contrary to you I only started to train a few months ago," he remarked 

"That's true!" he said after a little pause of reflection 

"You are so good that I tend to forget that, but you should work on other things too," 

After those words, he put his chopstick on the table 

"You are already done," Akashi noticed that all the places on Arima's side of the table were empty 

"You are too slow," he said trying to take a few things on Akashi's plate but

"Stab," Akashi stabbed one of the chopsticks on the table making a mark 

"Don't touch my food you glutton," 

"Be careful you are going to get us into trouble," he said cheekily 

"Eat a little faster so that we can try the other restaurants in town," 

Akashi then returned to his meal while talking 

"I'm not only working on chakra, but I also train in different forms of combat fighting styles other than the ones we learn in class, let's go another class," 

"Slam," he put his last plate down and got up "I'm done let's go,"

The servants quickly settled the bill ordered more food to be delivered to their hotel and followed the two young Uzumaki 

While walking out of the restaurant they continued their conversations, but a part of Akashi's mind lingered on one thing,

'I'm starting to feel it more clearly now," he thought remembering the sensation that he felt each morning when he had to train in that seal created by his mother 

'This is natural energy,' he finally deduced, 

'I don't think that I would have noticed if I didn't have the knowledge of the other life,' 

'I'm sure that subtly boost of energy that flows threw me during my training comes from the outside world, it is also slowly boosting my sensory abilities. I just hope that this isn't too dangerous and that Mother knows what she is doing,' 

"Ohh," 

"Yes," Akashi turned his head toward Arima who was looking at him with a frown 

"What has gotten into you? You just went into your own world and left me to speak with myself," 

"Ah, sorry what were you saying," he asked 

"Which of that two restaurant shouldn't we go to first?" he asked and Akashi could see the two places beside them facing each other, 

"They seem to be competitors lobsters and crab,"

"I think lobster are better,"

"Crab for me,"

"Well how about you go try the lobster i try the calmar, then we switch to see which one is better," 

"Okay let's do that," he said before walking in the opposite direction

*****

Hotel 

Ashina Kana was reviewing the information that had been provided to them by their ninjas 

"So this is all the information available on the black market," 

"Yes sir," 

"I see," 

"Konoha seems to have the advantage right now," 

"Yes, they have many talents, Sakumo Hatake is often in confrontation with the Shiyo and Anzo the salamander, in the country of rain"

"Anzo is doing well he can bring the fight to the land of wind and fire respectively," 

"There is also the student of Sarutobi on that battlefield," 

"They are using all the clans adequately, Uchiha, Hyuga, and all the other clans are well-distributed 

"That is interesting," Kana said attracting the attention of her brother 

"What," 

"There is a ki named Namikaze Minato who seems to be making a name for himself on the battlefield, eight or nine years old, and he can already use the flying Raijin," 

"Another genius I see, that technique is hard to master," 

while they were reviewing the news another of their ninja entered the room

"Sir you need to look at this," he said presenting him with a new rapport 

"The latest news of the war," 

Taking that Ashina looked at it for a moment before letting out a sigh and passing it to his sister KAna

"I, 'm not sure if I should be happy or sad at the news;" 

 While he said that KAna read the report

"A group of flying ninjas of the land of sky attacked Konoha, so they finally made their move huh and they chose to attack the best fish in the pond, very bold of them," 

"It would have been better for them to attack their neighbor Suna, instead of Konoha," 

"This is understandable that they choose Konoha as their target after all they are alone in that fight, and there isn't a lot to gain from attacking Suna," 

"Land, that's what they can gain, the biggest of all the five great nations, they are idiot, small fish attacking bigger than they can chew" replied Ashina

"Why are you so conflicted this is better for us that they made that choice, don't you remember what our goal is, their downfall will help us this is what we are waiting for," Kana said coldly 

"I know I'm not complaining believe me, this is cold but this is how it is, I'm just graving that in my memories, choose your enemy carefully," 

"We have what we needed, we will leave soon," 

"Huh," while they were looking at that KAna turned her head abruptly with a frown 

"What's happening!" Ashina asked 

"We have company, ninjas I would say about twenty, two jonin a four chunins, and the rest genin, they seem to be ready for battle," 

"Get the kids," 

"Yes," A ninja disappear after Ashina's order

"Should we help!"