Cowardice Is Just a Love of Life 「discontinued」

Chapter 9

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"Train you?"

"Mhm! I can travel to Konoha looking to get a hotel before the Chunin exams are hosted and interfere with Orochimaru's plan before he gets to Sasuke"

"Are you sure?" Itachi asked.

"Of course! I have to..." Kusoka hesitated.

"You do not sound so sure" Itachi raised an eyebrow.

"I feel bad that I took Naruto's spot, perhaps she would have been able to stop the Third Hokage from dying and if so then I stopped her from doing that"

"Hn"

"Geez, what the heck is up with that Uchiha language?"Kusoka rolled her eyes and laughed.

"Hn" Itachi looked away from the girl.

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They started with taijutsu. Kusoka did well in it. It was a style that required flexibility and endurance which were the two things that Kusoka, or Naruto's body, had.

Kusoka's back hit the ground. Hard. She lost her breath and choked on whatever was left.

"Ha-ah" Kusoka laughed. She winced but got up, "Ouch. That hurt... Let's go again" Itachi nodded and got back into his taijutsu position.

(I'm gonna avoid a lot and do a really long time skip)

Brought to you by my guilt for leaving the people who like this hanging on the last chapter.

It had been 60 days since that day. Itachi managed to find the Sannin within that time, at which Kusoka gave a relieved sigh. Kusoka wrote a letter to them, only explaining that she was the Fourth Hokage's kin, Konoha was in trouble, and the trouble would happen in 27 days. Kusoka sent the letter by Itachi's rather nice summons. She bonded with one that was unnamed. She named him Meng Bao, which meant cute treasure in Chinese, but she just called him Bao. Bao was so touched and always hung around Kusoka. She let Bao leech off of her chakra so she can keep him out without draining Itachi's chakra.

Kusoka improved in taijutsu and began to make progress in her jutsu, Itachi was skilled in the wind nature along with water and a bit of a yin-yang release because of his Sharingan.

Kusoka, though she had a shit ton of chakra, could not do many jutsus. Itachi was a great teacher, patient, yet tough, but they just didn't click with her.

She was average in genjutsu as well. Kusoka did best in taijutsu, medical jutsu, and her chains. She now had three chains and could use the Kyuubi's chakra, she had fought long and hard for it and eventually won over the bratty fox.

Tsunade responded back with a letter. Well, more like Shizune responded, saying that she would try to convince Tsunade to go back to Konoha. A new letter came in, Shizune succeeded and they were heading back to Konoha.

Jiraiya, on the other hand, was not responsive. Odd for his character. By 60 days came around a letter came from him agreeing if he knew who it was he was receiving letters from. Kusoka responded with "Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, believe it ero-sannin!" in false happiness. Another letter from the man confirmed his journey to Konoha beginning.