The Goddess of Hunter

Naruko waited in silence with her eyes closed whilst Haruka continued to read as if nothing happened in the first place. Naruto seemed to be trying to copy the two of them in their silence, but the fact that he was tapping the floor with his foot repeatedly was a sign that he was starting to get bored from the lack of action.

As time passed, people began to leave one by one following the jounins that had begun to arrive until it was only them and team 7 remaining. The only noise present in the class were Naruto's occasional foot-tapping and Haruno's squeals whilst ogling Sasuke.

Around half an hour later, the door opened to show a red-haired beauty that seemingly hadn't aged a day since Naruko had last seen her. Wearing a green jonin vest and red gloves covering both her hands. She could make out rough seals that went across the surface of the two gloves, and seeing that she was specialised in bare-handed taijutsu, it seemed fitting that she wore custom gloves that most likely had gravity seals to bring down her fists with less effort and more power.

"O-K! Team 12, meet me at training ground 12 in the next 5 minutes or I will fail you immediately, bye bye." Naruko sweatdropped at the sudden tone change the moment she threatened to fail them. Naruto immediately took off with a motivating shout whilst Haruka silently closed her book and began to calmly walk towards the window before leaping off, leaving her alone with team 7.

She stood up and left the building after bidding farewell to Sasuke, who returned the farewell with a nod. She could hear the Haruno girl fuming as she left, most likely because Sasuke answered everyone except Naruko with only typical Uchiha grunts as a response.

She leapt onto the top of the academy building before looking around to locate her destination, which was west from her current position. Releasing her inner Kyuubi side whilst maintaining her henge, her pupils turned into slits as her eyes began to glow a dangerous blue, giving off a beastly glint.

A growl escaped her lips as she bent her legs and took off towards the training ground. She leapt as high as she could into the sky with the use of her chakra, before diving like a meteorite towards the center of the field by creating a physical platform of chakra in midair for her to kick off from.

Despite the speed she was going it, it was still not enough to cover a whole 3 kilometers with a single leap. Landing on the edge of Konoha's walls, she kicked off again whilst keeping her momentum.

It hadn't even taken a minute to reach the field through the method, but the main problem was that due to her speed, her landing was quite… unique. Despite her training to control her landings, it was still not at a level where she could safely land without causing any destruction, and as such the training ground shook slightly as she landed in the middle of training ground 12.

Crap, got a cramp. Naruko mentally thought as she held her left leg in her arm, ignoring the pain coming from the cramp.

"That is kind of your fault you know, you could have just come over with a shunshin, would have taken you three minutes at max." Kurama chided within her mind.

"But where's the fun in that? You can't even feel the breeze as you go by it using that method!" She retorted back.

"… Showoff." 

Naruko huffed as she turned and looked around. Her mother was silently watching her as she recovered with an amused grin playing at her lips with a hint of surprise, most likely not expecting anyone to reach the place with such a method, more so that a simple graduate was the one who used it.

"That… technique… is convenient and all, but you really should learn to control your landing a bit more, at this rate the training ground won't last if you do it every day." Kushina joked, though by the tone of her voice, the chances of it actually happening was quite high.

Naruko pouted slightly as Kurama let out a laugh, mentally high-fiving the mother.

As another minute passed, Haruka and Naruto appeared from the clearing, the latter celebrating his victory over his 'race' with Haruka, who ignored her brother and took out her book from her back pocket, beginning to read as if nothing had happened.

"Alright, now that we're all here, why don't we introduce ourselves, I'll go first then. My name is Kushina, but you all can just call me Sensei, I specialise in hand-to-hand combat and my hobbies are cooking and gardening. As for dreams, already fulfilled." She said with a smile.

"Alright! My name is Naruto, and you better remember it because I'm going to be the strongest, believe it! My dream is to be the strongest and my hobby is to fight!" Her brother yelled from the side.

"… He even speaks like you…" Kurama deadpanned, though ignored by Naruko.

"…Name is Haruka… I like reading…" her younger sister said softly, head still down reading the book in her hands. Naruko could feel the eyes of her mother and brother on her, waiting for her to do her own introduction.

She sighed. "My name is Naruko, I've lived in the forest for most of my life, and as such my hobbies are hunting and sparring. The only weapons I can use are my bow and my sword, and as you already know I am currently living in the Uchiha manor. My dream… I don't really have one except to live a satisfying life… I guess."

"Wait! So you ARE skilled in kenjutsu!" Naruto exclaimed. She had never confirmed the rumors of her using kenjutsu, so most had dismissed it as simple rumors since she was never seen with a sword—at least in the academy.

She nodded in confirmation before Kushina coughed into her hands to get everyone's attention.

"Alright, I already know Haruka and Naruto's capabilities, but if you attack like you landed earlier, then I'm sure we can work together just fine." The light in her mother's eyes was almost frightening and Naruto shrunk back slightly, now slightly afraid that Naruko could have his mother's temper.

"Anyways, it's time for the REAL genin exam! You have half an hour to try and stop me from moving for a full second, your time starts now!" Before the three even had time to respond, she swiftly jumped onto a nearby tree and dashed into the forest.

The three graduates stared at where their mother was a moment earlier, slightly confused as to what had just happened before Naruto let out a panicked yell and followed Kushina into the forest. Haruka looked towards her, and the two siblings stared at each other for a moment, as if communicating simply through eye contact, before the former nodded and rushed into the forest, leaving Naruko in the forest clearing by herself.

Seeing that no one was watching her, she climbed a nearby pole that reached far above the trees in the area, giving her an aerial view of the forest within the training ground. She could see Naruto attacking Kushina with… clones? No, they were all attacking at the same time, so shadow clones?

"Though your chakra reserve is quite large, even for jounins and possibly kages, those two have my chakra sealed within them, they probably beat you in terms of chakra reserves by at least four times, EACH. They most likely can't use normal clones as they would overload it with chakra." 

It made sense, though the prospects of fighting an army of Naruto's and Haruka's was quite frightening.

She watched for another ten minutes as Naruto slowly exhausted himself, eventually falling to the ground panting. She saw Kushina talking to the defeated Naruto, possibly giving him feedback on his performance and reprimanding him for running off on his own without his team, though she was on the move the entire time she spoke as not to lose to her own rules.

She hadn't expected her brother to be able to hold his own against her mother for such a long time even without using any of Kyuubi's Chakra. Though Kushina was holding back slightly, it did go to show that Naruto did have some skill and wasn't all brawn.

Seeing that Kushina was a safe distance away from Naruto, she silently took out five arrows from her quiver and began to nock them all at the same time. She aimed upwards towards the sky, arced slightly towards where her brother and mother were.

"Help me out here Kurama." 

"Already on it" The aim slightly adjusted itself from Kurama's influence as she released the arrows. Once they reached their peak height and began to descend, she flashed through a series of handseals.

"[Shinobi Arts: Arrow Shadow Clone Technique]" She said as the five arrows each multiplied in number as they rained down upon Kushina, who had only just realised what was happening from the sound of piercing air above her. The jutsu was of her own creation, modeled after the [Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique], an advanced form of the Shadow Clone that allowed for shurikens to multiply after being thrown. Since the base idea was the same, it only took a few weeks to master. As the arrows flew, she dashed towards where they were to meet up with Naruto and Haruka.

She had also blunted the ends of the arrows slightly so that it wouldn't injure Kushina heavily on the off-chance that the arrows did manage to hit her.

Kushina picked up her pace and dodged around the hundreds of arrows that were raining down upon her, but by doing so she lost track of her surroundings and found herself in a small opening in the forest. Her eyes widened as the ground suddenly lit up and a strange markings suddenly covered the area.

" [Four-Corner Gravity Barrier]" Said Haruka as she appeared from behind a nearby boulder, her hands still held in a hand-seal to maintain fuinjutsu.

Kushina's legs buckled slightly as she gritted her teeth. The seal's main purpose was to increase the effects of gravity by several fold in a certain area. Though it was an unpopular seal due to how easy it was to escape it, it was the perfect seal to use in a situation like this where Kushina had nowhere to go due to the arrow bombardment provided by Naruko.

Two hands erupted from the ground and held onto Kushina's legs, surprising her. A moment later, Naruto's face also emerged from the ground, bleeding slightly but still grinning. their mother couldn't do anything as her shoulders dropped from resignation.

"Alright, alright, you win, you can stop the seal now Haruka-chan." Haruka nodded and released the seal, one hand reaching for the book in her back pocket after confirming the end of the test.

"That was awesome Naruko-chan! How'd you do that!" Naruto asked whilst jumping around energetically, clothes slightly torn after emerging from the ground. She didn't even have a chance to speak before he had jumped in front of her with star-filled eyes.

"I-I just used a variation of the shadow clone that I made for the bow." She stuttered, pushing Naruto away slightly as he had gotten uncomfortably close.

Kushina spoke up before Naruto could say any more. "Despite the lack of talking between you three, you managed to corner me through a crude yet effective strategy. I must say that I'm impressed that fresh graduates managed to pull that off.

"We have a ranged support, a front-line combatant and a fuinjutsu specialist, so the team is reasonably balanced, not to mention that Naruko can switch to a melee combatant when necessary which is also a plus.

"Naruto-kun, though you do specialise in close range combat, you can't win against other melee specialists who are superior to you like me by just swarming them with shadow clones. It might work on a ranged support since they have no way to take you all out, but to someone like me, all I need is just one hit to take out a clone. You jumped in first after me without confirming your role and plans with the team unlike Haruka-chan and Naruko-chan. It's good that you found a role in the plan the two devised and held me down, but in situations where the plan is more intricate, you would have been the odd one out and possibly killed.

"Haruka-chan, though you did well, revealing yourself after activating the seal was a mistake. If I were someone who had mastered knowledge in ranged techniques, I could have easily fired some at you to stop you from providing chakra into the seal and escaped. Be careful of that in the future.

"Naruko-chan, though this is the first time I have seen you in action, I must say that I am impressed that you can use a variation of the shadow clone to such a level. The accuracy was also on point, and you managed to lead me to where Haruka-chan was waiting. I hope that your kenjutsu is just as sharp in the future, though I have to say that you will do well even if you were exclusively a ranged support for the team." Kushina said as she ended her small lecture. "No one on this team is normal by any standards." She muttered to herself with a sigh.

Naruko's features brightened considerably as she had been praised by her mother for possibly the first time. She hung her head to hide the tears that were forming in her eyes, though Kushina had already moved onto lecturing Naruto on his recklessness to notice.

Haruka, sensing her discomfort, walked up to her and put a hand on her shoulder. Even with her blank expression, her eyes held a comforting gaze as if telling Naruko that it was alright.

Kushina, however, was still oblivious to what was happening behind her. "Alright, you are dismissed for today, I want each and every one of you in front of the Hokage's office by 7 tomorrow morning to begin your first D-rank mission!"