Changing the River of Time

Fillers and Scenes

"Thank you for coming out here, Uzumaki-san. We just have a few... concerns about Yuki-chan."

Aki blinked at the Chunin instructor, looking back at Yuki's innocent face before letting a polite smile onto his face. "Yes?"

"Well, we believe she's in a... lower level of education than what she could be in. We'd like to change her classes, move her up a bit."

Aki was prepared for this. Mainly because Yuki told him what would go down earlier.

"They'll say I'm 'gifted' and 'in a lower form of education' or some other crap. In actuality, they want me to be someone else's problem. Don't let them."

If Aki didn't allow his sister's request, what kind of brother would he be? The silly, boring kind that didn't enable pranks and fun?

Oh, begone horrible thought.

Aki grinned slyly, leaning forward and keeping his eyes on the instructor. "I'm afraid I can't allow that," he purred. "She's exactly where she needs to be, with the people she needs to interact with."

For the next month, all of Yuki's pranks were aimed away from Aki, as per their prior agreement. Aki also helped with the pranks, making sure no one in Konoha was safe. Not even the Hokage and his family- especially not Lord Third.

Hiruzen prayed for the day the Uzumakis weren't his problem anymore.

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Aki, with Yuki and Sakura in tow, made his way to Sasuke's house, knocking twice on the door. Sasuke opened it, a blank look on his face as Aki explained their purpose for being at the Uchiha clan's compound.

"Yuki and Sakura here wanna try their hands in poisons. A while ago, I heard your mother was quite the poison specialist."

By the end of the week, the two girls had completed their stripping hallucinogenic and tested it on the unfortunate Jiraiya. The next prank war would be... interesting, to say the least.

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Aki smiled at the three children, letting his body relax as Uzushio's chakra flowed over him. Naruto took the lead of showing Yuki and Karin around the island, determined to show them everything there was to see, including Aki's shadow clones who were hard at work rebuilding the city. (Despite the fact Karin had already taken a tour, she was more than happy to go on the sudden family trip. This time without any time limit.) Aki, meanwhile, stayed near Kakashi, who claimed he wanted to get better at adjusting to areas with high chakra.

Aki guessed the real reason was to make sure the four Uzumaki didn't gang up on anyone prank-wise. Not that they'd do that anyway, they knew no one would have a chance if they did.

But, in order to go along with Kakashi's excuse, Aki took the two of them to the places with the heaviest chakra. A waterfall hidden in a lagoon, a large tree with seals etched all into the trunk, the very center of Uzushio- a fountain with seals and running water forever flowing and standing tall in the village square. They spent about an hour at each place, Aki telling the Hatake about the history and surrounding area and why the places had so much chakra.

That vault Aki opened held much more than sealing techniques. Everything an Uzumaki would pass down to their children verbally was written down and safely sealed in the vault, probably for if the generations forgot over the course of the war. (The other possibility was that they knew they'd get attacked and forced off the island and into hiding, but Aki chose to ignore it.)