Uchiha's Butterfly

Kaname woke up earlier than normal, the sun was still below the horizon. She had enough time for hers wake up jog around the district, after the jogging she unleashed hell upon her favorite training pole. One hour later she had to go to the meeting with her team.

"Your teamwork is the best in the last batch of the academy students, I have to help you individually. For example Maki-chan, you lack in situational awareness and you would most likely charge into a fight without thinking, we're gonna change it. About you Takeshi-kun, you need additional power excluding your clan's techniques. Now for Kaname-chan, you're the most prepared of them all, but still, I'm one of the best mind manipulators in Konoha, I will try to help you making your genjutsu even deadlier, I think I can help you as well in packing more punch with your taijutsu and kenjutsu." Said their captain.

"Inoichi-san, will we have to wait between you train each of us? Maybe we could spar while waiting?" Asked Kaname.

"Good idea, but it's unnecessary."

His hands aligned in a weird seal looking like a plus sign, from a smoke cloud came out his two other exact copies.

"Those clones are called Shadow Clones, they are one of the few physical clones and got extremely high chakra requirements. Any physical damage done to one will dispel it giving the caster all experiences of the clone." Inoichi saw a small glint in Kaname's eyes.

All six of them went away in pairs for individual training, Kaname went with the original Inoichi.

"So that's how you all do it, sensei can you teach me this, please?" asked Kaname with a sweet smile.

'Haha, that's perfect for my plan!' Kaname thought of her new plan in pranking the Anbu corps.

"It's a B class jutsu and you need very developed chakra reserves to use them, you would lose consciousness with three clones and most likely die trying to get four of them. If you promise me to not use more than you are ready for I can show you how to make them." Inoichi told her.

"I promise! What will you teach me today?"

"First we will discuss how you can make your genjutsu harder to detect. About the taijutsu, we can spar, but if you want more oomph, we will have to wait for my friend Chōza to get out of the hospital. With the kenjutsu, I can show you some techniques my late sensei Sakumo taught me, he was one of the most known Konoha's kenjutsu masters." said her new teacher. (AN: No idea when Sakumo was born, but he was approx. Sannin's age, 10 years older than Inoichi and 20 years older than Kakashi/Asuma/… .)

Four hours later tired Kaname found her teammates lying on the ground.

"Wow Maki-chan, I never took you for the cloud-watching type. Hahaha." laughed out Kaname.

"*Growl* Shut up and lay here Kana-chan." replied Maki.

"Hmm, you know what Take-san? It's not so bad." whispered Kaname after laying on the grass and watching the clouds drift for 5 minutes.

"Heh, I told you so."

'F.u.c.k this war, this team could reach an insane level if they had the time for training.' Their captain thought, watching his team bonding just after the first day of training.

"Now that you caught your breath, let's go to Hokage's tower to get our first mission." Inoichi said, a little mad at himself stopping his team from resting.

Ten minutes later they were inside Sandaime's office. "Why are we getting C-rank mission as the first one Jiji? Umino-sensei told us missions start from D-rank." Kaname asked her foster grandfather.

"I'm sorry Kana-chan, in the times of war all D-rank missions are postponed. I gave you pretty much the easiest one just barely above the threshold of D-ranks. Team 9 must go to one of our outposts half the way towards Valley of the End, receive a report and get it back to Konoha. As far as I know, there won't be any enemy ninjas, but from one year ago there were rumors about highwaymen groups rising there. Please exercise caution and return here in one-piece. Good luck." Hokage sadly explained the mission.

When the teens left the office, Sandaime had something else to say to Inoichi.

"Please keep them safe, I couldn't stop the Council voting on postponing the D-ranks, they had the Daimyo's approval." he whispered.

"I will and I know, but Hokage-sama you remember what letter C stands for in C-ranks?" replied sad Inoichi.

"Yes I do, catastrophe… Good luck."

One hour later the team met at the north gate, this time they wore their combat gear. Kaname, thanks to her foster aunt, got herself a standard black Konoha combat uniform, upon each t.h.i.g.h she wore a kunai pouch, on the back of her hip, there was her tanto blade. Her standard outfit was replaced with dark red plate armor, similar to the ones that Anbu wore, but in a different color, beneath it for double security, she got herself a mesh armor. The additional weight didn't give her any problems, thanks to her brother's advice when she entered the academy she started wearing additional weights on her back, and each of her hands and legs. Every month she added a little more to the weight of her training gear. (AN: Don't ask me why it works, all questions should be delivered to the author of the original story :-) )

"Team 9, I see you are ready, here is the plan. The traveling distance from here to the outpost and back should take 3 hours of non-stop running, we don't have any deadline, we won't charge like bulls I hope we can finish the missions in 6 hours tops. We will move in tandem, I will go first, Maki-chan behind me, try to smell everything around us, behind you is Kaname-chan as our main ninjutsu specialist, and the last one is Takeshi-kun providing support. If we find any opposition, we regroup and think it out. Any questions?"

"Inoichi-san why are you going first? I have a pretty good nose, isn't it better for me to scout out before you?"

"Yes, but in ambush situations, the head ninja in tandem goes down first. As your Jōnin-captain, I have more chances to get out of it alive. Any more questions? Good, let's go." he finished and started to run.