Bleached

Chapter 7

(sorry if the fight stuff sounds kinda forced lol)

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It was the last day of Aoji's week long wait to go to the academy. She had trained with Hayate all those days and successfully got what she assumed were the worst cramps known to man. Her muscle's muscle's had cramps.

She felt much stronger though.

She had brought up the Thor's hammer thing to Hayate, who seemed pretty impressed with her imagination. He got her an elemental-chakra-checker-paper thing and she found out that she had not 1, not 2, but 3 natures. Hayate seemed surprised at that, he had only expected her to have earth and water, since Mokuton is the combination of the two.

She had water, earth, and fire natures.

No lightning though, so no cool hammer moves. She had come up with a fire version of it that she had yet to try, though. 

Yesterday she tried to do the tree climbing chakra exercise and boy she felt sorry for that tree. Hagoromo was not lying when he said her chakra control was going to be absolute dog shit. She took two steps up the tree and then blew a hole straight through the center. 

It was better than what Hagoromo had said would have happened if she didn't do his chakra exercises. 

Goodbye forest

Aoji did her morning stretches that Hayate had reccomended. It feels like she's breaking her spleen while she does them, but it's better than feeling dead everyday. 

Now she only feels slightly dead.

A great improvement.

Aoji decided to try and enjoy her last day of peace by going to the hot springs. She wasn't looking forward to going to school again. She graduated with a bachelors in computer science, thank you very much. 

Hearth was almost done healing her chakra pathways completely. She only let Aoji do the tree climbing since she was also curious. She then laughed for about an hour with Hagoromo after Aoji's truly fantastic failure. 

Aoji entered the hot springs, getting a towel from the staff after she paid. The hotsprings were actually free for shinobi, since they let them relax. Aoji wholeheartedly agreed with the decision. 

She dipped into the steaming water, letting her thoughts wander for a while.

It was rather crazy that she knew the future of everything that happens in this village. She was definitely going to try and prevent some bad things from happening, like the sand-sound invasion, Pein's attack, and definitely Kaguya's revival.  

But she also felt uncertain. What if what she did caused a huge butterfly effect and ended the world faster? She preferred not thinking about things like this since they gave her such anxiety. Though, she might change things for the better, like saving Jiraiya, Neji, Obito, Itachi and many others. 

It suddenly hit her that Hayate would die really soon. She had actually gotten rather attatched to him, and him to her. The idea of him dying so soon made her sad. Maybe, she could get stronger. She could get stronger to protect all of them. She knew a lot of the characters better than she knew herself, much less other people in the real world. She knew their beliefs, and what drove them forward. 

She followed them through their journeys, and watched them achieve their goals. 

She would try her best to protect them, all of them.

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Aoji groaned as she woke up thanks to Hearth. Hayate had been especially rough on her training today since she wasn't going to be able to train as much because of the academy. He practically beat the forms into her.