In the following days, after Kakashi-sensei accepted them as his first genin team in history, marked the beginning of their ninja career. D-rank missions.
"Well, team. Let's go on our first mission!" Kakashi-sensei said on the first day with a smile. "It's sure to be exciting!"
"Sure..." Naruto muttered, knowing well what kind of missions awaited them for quite some time.
"Team 7 reporting for our first mission," the jonin informed the Hokage and the chunin accompanying him.
"Oh? Are you sure you're ready for your first mission?" the Hokage asked jokingly, clearly pleased to see them. "Say no more. Daikoku."
The chunin nodded and began to flip through his records. He pulled out a sheet and handed it to Kakashi-sensei.
"Here you go. A D-rank mission to clean up the river of garbage. The pay is 50,000 ryo per person."
Naruto groaned upon hearing it, but said nothing. Kakashi-sensei accepted the mission, and they left the Hokage's tower.
"When are we going to start training with you?" Seina asked, knowing that D-rank missions wouldn't help them improve in anything except coordinating as a team.
Kakashi-sensei glanced at her. "Maa... We could go to the training field later if you want."
They nodded, relieved to hear it.
"I assume they've taught you how to write a report in the academy, right?" They nodded again. "Great. From now on, you three will write the reports for all the missions."
Seina sighed. She should have seen that coming. Still, it wasn't a big deal to write a report for a D-rank mission, and as long as they did one per team, it would be more than enough for the time being. She looked at the village somewhat lazily and walked with her team to the area nearest to the river's source.
"All right. We're here. We'll clean up following the direction of the water. You can organize yourselves however you want, but before moving on to the next stretch of the river, it must be clean, understood?"
"What you mean is that we'll clean and you'll sit there reading your porn book, right?" she asked, exasperated.
"Seina!" Kakashi-sensei blushed, unable to suppress a groan of embarrassment. "We don't talk about those things."
"But you're the one reading an erotic novel in public!" her brother defended her, while also criticizing Kakashi-sensei's bad habits.
"See you later! Do your best!" Kakashi-sensei completely ignored them.
They groaned in frustration at seeing him disappear. Seina heard how he actually sat on a branch of the nearest tree instead of leaving them alone. She was pleasantly surprised to realize that, for an elite jonin, he was embarrassed to be talked about his erotic novels.
"How do we do this?" Sasuke sighed, looking distrustfully at the river.
"I propose a deal," she said. "Naruto and I will use shadow clones to clean the river from top to bottom. With a dozen each, we'll finish it in no time. In exchange, you'll do all the reports for the next 10 missions."
"Make it the next 5 missions," Sasuke bargained without thinking.
"8 missions."
"6 missions."
"7 missions."
"Deal," Sasuke accepted, and Naruto nodded.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
From a white cloud, about thirty clones, hers and Naruto's, appeared and began cleaning as they had ordered. Seina, Sasuke, and Naruto lay on the grass, but only 15 minutes later that stretch of the river was cleaned, and they had to get up. They checked the river before walking downstream, watching as the clones cleaned up as they moved along. In the end, the mission consisted of slowly walking along the riverbank while their clones cleaned it up and took the bags to the disposal point. In less than 3 hours, they were done.
As soon as she regained the memories of her clones, she shuddered, remembering the amount of garbage in some areas of the river, especially in the most isolated ones where people felt bolder to throw trash without being seen. Sasuke wrote the report as agreed, sitting on the ramen shelf, and handed it to Kakashi-sensei.
"Are you finished already?" Daikoku asked, checking the time. "I'm impressed."
"Affirmative. Here's the report," Kakashi-sensei handed over the scroll.
The chunin reviewed it and accepted it as correct. He signed a check with their pay for each one, and they left without further ado.
"How does your first mission feel?"
Naruto complained, "Wet," remembering the hours he had spent submerged in the water, just like her.
She saw Kakashi-sensei's lips curl into a smile, sighing. She couldn't believe that their first mission had turned out to be one of the highest-paying ones and possibly the worst of all. Well, at least they had recovered a good portion of their savings.
"As it's still 4 in the afternoon, we can train for a couple of hours. My idea is to alternate a day of mission with a day of training. So, on average, you'll do about 15 missions per month, at a minimum."
"And what are you going to teach us?" Sasuke asked.
"I think we'll start by assessing your individual levels. As I imagine you've noticed, Team 7 is intended to be a combat team. Other teams, like Team 8, for example, will specialize in tracking."
"And Shikamaru's team and the others?" Naruto asked.
"Capture and interrogation?" she asked, thinking about her friends' abilities.
"That's right."
When they reached their predetermined training field, number 33, they sat on the grass to continue talking about the team's expectations.
"As I was saying. This team is a combat team. That means good taijutsu, good ninjutsu, good genjutsu. Improving your taijutsu will be the easiest. From what I know about you, all three of you are pretty good in that aspect. I'll teach you different fighting styles that you don't see in school and improve your physical qualities," Kakashi-sensei assured them. "As for ninjutsu... I'd like you to tell me what jutsus you know to date. Tomorrow I'll bring a special paper that will allow me to know your main chakra natures, if you have more than one, and I'll look for ninjutsu for you to practice. As for genjutsu, I'll measure your resistance, and then we'll talk."
"Really?" Naruto smiled excitedly, and Kakashi-sensei nodded. "Okay. Well... what jutsus do I know? The ones from the academy, obviously, the Shadow Clone, and the Kanashibari. I'm also about to learn the Body Flicker."
Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke looked at Naruto with surprise. The jonin quickly recovered, but Sasuke seemed to be wondering how Naruto had learned all that if he sometimes acted like a clown in class. Kakashi-sensei looked at her with a nod.
"I've managed to use the Body Flicker, unlike Naruto. Besides the techniques Naruto mentioned, I also know a couple of genjutsu, like Demonic Illusion: False Surroundings and Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing."
"Sasuke?"
"I can use the academy jutsus and fire jutsus."
"Great. Out of curiosity, do any of you know how to walk on walls using chakra on your feet?"
Naruto and she nodded, to Sasuke's amazement. Kakashi-sensei didn't seem surprised after all he had heard.
"And walk on water?"
"We haven't reached that yet."
"All right. Now I'll put you under a genjutsu. I'll time how long it takes for you to dispel it."
Seina waited and waited, and waited, but nothing happened. She felt the presence of alien chakra clashing against her mental barriers, and, avoiding showing surprise, she realized that she wasn't trapped in an illusion because Kakashi-sensei's chakra couldn't penetrate her mind. She glanced at her brother out of the corner of her eye, and he seemed to have quickly shaken off the genjutsu, just like Sasuke.
"What was that?" Naruto asked mentally. "I fell into his genjutsu, but I knew I was in an illusion from the beginning."
"Mental barriers prevent chakra from reaching the brain. He couldn't put me under the genjutsu because of that," she replied mentally. "You don't have active magic to repel his attack, but your barriers allow you to perceive it."
"Curious," Kakashi-sensei interrupted their conversation, alternating glances between Naruto and her. "Naruto, you broke out of the genjutsu almost instantly, just like Sasuke. And Seina... I was unable to put you under my genjutsu. I expected it from Sasuke, being an Uchiha, but how did you two manage it?"
Naruto and she exchanged glances.
"What do we tell him?" her brother asked, somewhat nervously.
"Nothing," she said. "I don't know. I knew Naruto has some immunity since I practiced illusions with him, but since Naruto doesn't know how to use genjutsu against me yet, I had no idea that I..."
"What, that you seem to be immune to genjutsu?" Kakashi-sensei finished her sentence. "Do you mind if I use a more powerful genjutsu, Seina?"
She nodded. She wasn't the only one curious about what she had just discovered. She watched as Kakashi-sensei attempted to put her under his genjutsu once again. This time, she felt a greater pressure against her barriers, but it wasn't enough to penetrate her mind or to require active defense. Kakashi-sensei ceased his attempt and then tried with another even more powerful genjutsu. The same thing happened. As the complexity and power of the genjutsu increased, she felt more pressure against her mental barriers, but the chakra couldn't breach her magical protections.
In fact, now that she thought about it, it made a lot of sense. From what she knew about genjutsu, the enemy's chakra tried to attack the central nervous system, which happened to be in the brain, where her mind was located and where she had built her mental barriers. Therefore, her brain was overflowing with magic, just like, to a lesser extent, her body. If the foreign chakra couldn't reach her brain, there was no illusion. She hadn't realized this until now.
"You're immune," confirmed Kakashi-sensei. "I used A and S-rank genjutsu, and you didn't even blink."
"I could feel you trying to get into my head," she informed him, and Kakashi-sensei frowned.
"So, besides being immune, you can perceive the genjutsu. That will be very useful for you and your comrades," the jonin smiled, then turned to Naruto. "And you? How did you do it?"
"I think I have some of the protection against genjutsu that Seina has. I could feel your chakra in my head, but it wasn't enough to prevent me from falling into the illusion," Naruto replied.
"I see. Sensing that strange chakra in your brain was enough for you to realize that you were in a genjutsu and to break out of it quickly," the jonin nodded. "All right. Sasuke and you will train to improve your response time against genjutsu. When you least expect it, I'll put you under genjutsu, and you'll have to get out of it."
To conclude, he ordered them to use their weapons to hit several targets and made them fight only with taijutsu against him. When they finished, Seina was looking forward to taking a bath in the tiny tub in their apartment, which they would soon say goodbye to.
"When will you put the house under the Fidelius Charm?" Naruto asked as they had dinner in their pajamas.
"Tomorrow after training. Officially, the house is ours, so we can do whatever we want with it."
"There's nothing left here anyway," Naruto muttered as he looked at the few things they had in the apartment. "We could move in tomorrow."
"If that's what you want," she agreed. There was no harm in leaving 10 days earlier than their lease ended. "Usually, we'd just have to talk to the landlord, but considering how we got the apartment, it's better to go straight to the Hokage. After that, I'll put the house under the Fidelius Charm."
Since all the furniture in the apartment belonged to the landlord, all they had to move were clothes, some kitchen utensils they had bought, the chest of materials for building, and the chest with their savings and copied scrolls. Everything had fit into her hip bag, so the apartment was just as they had found it when they moved in over 5 years ago.
"As soon as we leave here, remind me to remove all the protections."
"We could leave a gift for the old man," Naruto grinned mischievously. "How about a charm to attract bugs to this apartment?"
"Nah," she said. "The apartment isn't to blame, and neither are the next tenants, but I have an idea."
The next day, they headed back to the training field. They spent the morning training taijutsu, and then Kakashi-sensei gave them some special papers to determine their chakra nature.
"Lightning," said Sasuke, looking at his paper as if it had betrayed him.
"Wind," Naruto smiled, recalling what they had read about his father.
"And water," she finished, seeing her paper was damp.
"Interesting," their teacher muttered aloud. "Although wind and lightning don't usually combine, both elements can be combined with water. For example, if you combine water and lightning, not only will the lightning have greater range, but the water will become paralyzing depending on the power of the lightning. Something similar happens with wind and water; when combined, it's possible to create a typhoon."
"Awesome!" Naruto exclaimed, and then they exchanged glances among the three of them.
That same afternoon, after spending the whole day at the training ground, Seina and Naruto went to speak with the Hokage. Fortunately, they were able to see him without having to make an appointment.
"Ah, Seina, Naruto. How's it going with your new team?"
"Great! Kakashi-sensei is going to teach us new jutsu and how to walk on water."
"I thought, given his reputation, it would be harder to convince him to teach us, but in the end, it wasn't so bad," she said, knowing well what some people thought of Kakashi-sensei.
"I'm glad. Kakashi is a great ninja. You'll learn a lot from him."
"Yes, sir!"
"So, how can I help you?"
"We want to end the lease for our apartment," she informed him. She saw that the Hokage didn't seem surprised at all.
"I already suspected as much. I saw that you bought a house on the outskirts. Not bad at all. It must have been tough saving up all that money," the Hokage smiled with a hint of pride. "Will you wait for the lease to end or do you want to hand over the key now?"
"We just have to pick up a few more things, but we can leave the apartment tomorrow."
"All right. I'll notify your landlord of the change. You just have to leave the key in his office, and that's it."
"Thank you so much, jiji!" Naruto said, and Seina stifled a laugh at the nickname.
"Goodbye, jiji," she said with a mischievous smile as she saw the Hokage's exasperated expression when the door closed.
As soon as the door closed, she heard silence and knew there was some kind of fuinjutsu barrier. She knew, since it wasn't the first barrier she had encountered while eavesdropping, that if she wanted, she could pierce the protections with her magic without them noticing. However, she preferred not to do so with the Hokage.
"Why did you tell him we have something to pick up?" Naruto asked as they walked through the village to the apartment.
"Don't you remember our little plan?" she reminded him mentally. "When I'm done with him, our dear landlord won't have a decent shower ever again. Every time he wants water at a temperature, it'll come out at the opposite temperature. The funny thing is, the idiot will think it's the heater and not the shower itself."
Naruto burst into laughter. Some people looked at him with a smile, something unusual, and others with indifference. That night, while everyone slept, she entered the landlord's apartment on the first floor. It was so unprotected that anyone could have killed him.
"Civilians..." she thought as she saw him sleeping and snoring loudly.
She enchanted the shower as she had promised Naruto and then, upon second thought, charmed the apartment to get dirtier than usual. Additionally, she cursed the landlord to be bald for life.
"Did you do it?" Naruto asked, who was waiting for her in bed.
She nodded. She explained what she had added, and Naruto had to bite his fist to keep from howling with laughter. They went to sleep with a smile on their faces.
The week passed quickly with the novelty of doing missions, training with a jonin, and moving to their own house.
"You seem more tired than usual," Kakashi-sensei said to Naruto and her.
"We're moving," Naruto replied, "and doing renovations in the new house."
Kakashi-sensei raised an eyebrow but didn't ask further.
"Well, maybe it will cheer you up to know that today we have a very special mission," the jonin smiled, and they all groaned upon hearing him. Kakashi-sensei seemed to suppress a laugh. "It's a tradition in the village."
The special mission turned out to be capturing a hysterical noble's pet. Honestly, Seina wasn't surprised that the cat had fled with its tail between its legs. Fortunately, it was an easy task to accomplish, and they would be paid 20,000 ryo for it.
"So, how do we do it?" Naruto said, and they watched as Kakashi-sensei took out his porn book and proceeded to pretend he was ignoring them.
"Leave it to me."
She used a modified locating spell, which only worked when you knew what or who you were looking for, and saw a golden thread appear before her eyes. She began to walk, and Sasuke and Naruto followed her, confused but willing to go along with it. It took only 10 minutes to find Tora perched on a tree.
"There it is," she said, pointing at it. "Any plan?"
Sasuke and Naruto exchanged glances.
"We can surround it with your clones and use some food to lure it wherever we want."
"Can genjutsu be used on animals?" she suddenly asked.
Sasuke and Naruto stared at her. She glanced at Kakashi-sensei, but he was leaning against a wall, reading his book without even looking at her. She knew he was doing it on purpose.
"Why do you ask?" Sasuke inquired.
"We could use genjutsu to make it believe there's food and then just grab it," she shrugged. "That way, it won't know we're about to capture it."
"Give it a try," Naruto nodded, and she performed the necessary hand seals.
She focused on the cat, making it believe that the most delicious food in the world was at the base of the tree and that there was no one else around. They watched as Tora stood still, staring at nothing, and Sasuke elbowed Naruto.
"Grab it, dobe."
"You grab it, teme."
"Do you want to catch the cat already!" she cut in, exasperated.
In the end, Naruto caught it. She kept the cat under the illusion until they reached the meeting point, at the Hokage Tower. Kakashi-sensei, who hadn't spoken a word until then, gave them a contemplative look. Seina deactivated the genjutsu. She watched as Tora seemed confused, docile in her brother's arms, until he realized he wasn't in his tree. He tried to flee, hissing and yowling, but to no avail. As soon as she heard him, his owner came running like lightning.
"My dear Tora-chan! Where have you been!? Why did you run away, darling!?"
"Good job, team," Kakashi-sensei whispered as they received thanks from the client, and she left with the cat in her arms.
"Are you already here?" another chunin asked, checking the time. "And you don't even look injured! Not bad!"
Seina questioned the effectiveness of the other teams if they couldn't capture a domestic animal in less than an hour. She wondered if she was really making things too easy for her team, but why wouldn't she use her powers if they were useful and she could use them without anyone noticing? She knew that sooner or later, someone would realize that, in addition to chakra, she had some kind of kekkei genkai like Sasuke. It was very likely that some mission would go wrong, perhaps putting their lives in danger. In that case, would she choose to keep her secret at the cost of a life? She knew it was impossible.
The only thing she could do, as Kurama had advised her, was to keep the secret of her reincarnation, as well as the fact that she still had magic, and gradually release bits of information. She could pass off the runes as a type of fuinjutsu invented by her, as well as the potions and ointments. After all, ninjas were constantly inventing new techniques and medicines. The problem was some of her spells, curses, and incantations. It was clear that she should choose very carefully which abilities to keep secret, and which ones not to.
Furthermore, for someone as experienced as Kakashi-sensei, noticing some inconsistencies was normal. It was clear that if he hadn't already, he would soon realize that her fanny packs and pockets were not normal. How her clothes seemed indestructible, how her weapons reappeared in her hands when she hasn't gone to pick them up, how she seemed to have a supernatural hearing, how they spoke to each other mentally...
"That was a good idea, using genjutsu on Tora," Kakashi-sensei praised them. "No team before has thought of that, as far as I know."
"Why not?" Naruto asked. "It was really the most effective option."
"Few genin think rationally with their heads on their first missions," Kakashi-sensei smiled, "and even fewer have enough knowledge of genjutsu to do something like that. Well, team, since we finished that mission very quickly, we have time to train."
They walked to a distant area by the river. Kakashi-sensei explained how to climb trees with chakra and how to walk on water. Seina furrowed her brow and tried it without much success. Her brother seemed even more lost.
"Imagine you're standing on stilts submerged in the water," Kakashi-sensei said, approaching her, "but instead of wood, they're made of chakra. Gradually, this stilt should diminish until there comes a point where it's no longer necessary to use it. Do you understand?"
Seina looked at him, surprised, and then nodded. It made more sense than what she had been trying. Visualizing transparent chakra sandals precisely, she was able to do it on her first try.
"Yatta!" she laughed, and Naruto fell into the river again. "Look at this, Naru."
She sent him a mental image of what had worked for her, and saw Naruto accomplish it shortly after. She heard the thoughtful, husky sound of a throat beside her, and when she turned around, she saw Kakashi-sensei looking at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Curious," he shook his head. "Try it again without using so much chakra."
It took her only half an hour to learn the trick to easily walk on water. Her brother, able to see her memories, took barely 5 minutes more. In that time, Sasuke had managed to climb the trunk of a tree running before jumping back to the ground. From what she could see, she was sure he would succeed in a couple of hours. Moreover, she was sure he would continue practicing alone when no one could see him.
Suddenly, Kakashi-sensei used a genjutsu, and Naruto fell into the water for the umpteenth time, and Sasuke stumbled against the tree, falling face-first into the grass. A few seconds later, her brother reappeared, shouting expletives.
"You could have waited, Kaka-sensei! I could have drowned!" her brother yelled, totally irritated.
"But you didn't," he smiled with his eye. "I see Sasuke has managed to learn the trick to walking on trees with chakra. While he practices and then starts learning the basics for walking on water, you two will do something different."
He took out a couple of small scrolls and threw one to each of them. Seina opened it and saw that they were water jutsu instructions.
"Where did you get this? I searched the library and didn't find a single one!" she exclaimed with surprise and excitement.
"They're from personal collection," he replied. Seina looked at him impressed. "They're the easiest ones. As you learn, I'll teach you more difficult ones."
Seina smiled from ear to ear and then looked at her brother. "Clones?"
"Clones, dattebayo!"
"Clones?" Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei asked at the same time. "Are you using clones to learn?"
Kakashi-sensei seemed astonished. In the few days she had known him, she had never seen him so visibly surprised as in that moment. Meanwhile, Sasuke seemed confused about why they would use clones to learn a jutsu.
"The clones they use aren't the typical ones from the academy," Kakashi-sensei informed him. "They can fight and withstand certain hits, and when they disperse, the memories return to the original self."
"Which means they can use it to shorten the time learning anything," Sasuke concluded, amazed. "Seina. Could you teach me this technique?"
"Wait a moment, cowboy! If it's not taught in the academy, that is because there's a reason for it," interjected the jonin. "The chakra consumption of this technique is extremely high. Even I can only create about 20 at a time, and I have a fair amount of chakra reserve. Unlike the two of them who seem to have summoned 50 each as if it were nothing."
"What?" exclaimed Sasuke, then turned to look at them with wide eyes. "How is that possible?"
"It's possible for 2 reasons: we are Uzumaki and the jinchuriki of the Kyubi," replied Seina, when she saw that Kakashi-sensei didn't seem inclined to answer.
There was silence as Sasuke absorbed her words. He watched them with his black eyes, but finally seemed to conclude that it wasn't relevant except for the fact that he couldn't use that technique like Naruto and her until he had increased his chakra reserves through training.
"How is it possible that both of you have the Kyubi?" he asked, furrowing his brow.
Naruto and she exchanged glances. If they explained how it was possible, they would also have to explain how they knew. Seina would have to admit that she remembered everything, even that it was her own father who sealed the demon inside her.
"Sooner or later, you'll have to start trusting some of your secrets to your teammates. Otherwise, what kind of team will you be?" Kurama spoke, trying to help her. "Besides, if you tell them what happened, that you can remember what you saw, you can inform them about the unknown man. That false Madara."
"Naruto has the yang half of the Kyubi and I have the yin half," she finally said.
"How do you know?" Kakashi-sensei asked completely serious. "That information is confidential."
"I remember everything."
Kakashi-sensei paled at her words. He seemed more affected than usual, and she wondered why. Naruto and Sasuke watched their jonin sensei, who sat on the grass almost defeated.
"You remember... that day?" he asked, almost fearful. She nodded. "Then, do you know?"
"Do I know what? That our mother was Kushina Uzumaki, the wife of the Fourth Hokage? That Minato Namikaze was our father?" she shot back. "I heard them die, how could I not know?"
Sasuke seemed completely out of place, somewhat uncomfortable with the conversation but unable to leave. Naruto, on the other hand, was more serious than ever as he listened to her words. He had heard, and seen, it all before, so it was nothing new to him. That didn't mean it wasn't tough to relive. Interestingly, Kakashi-sensei seemed the most affected of all. He hadn't even regained his skin color.
"Why are you so affected?" Naruto asked, sensing her thoughts.
"Your father... was my sensei," he confessed. "I was only 14 years old when the last member of my team died."
For a few seconds, no one moved a muscle. Then, seeing his sorrow, Seina ended up embracing him slowly, as if he were a wounded wild animal. She felt him freeze between her arms and then relax, hugging her tightly. He buried his face in her shoulder, who now turned out to be her father's protégé, abandoned to his fate. She knew, since she had researched about the jonin, that her own father committed suicide and that her mother died even before her father. She hadn't even thought that Kakashi-sensei's genin team could be all dead. She couldn't imagine what he must have gone through, all those years without anyone trustworthy by his side. Without family.
She snapped out of it when she felt one of his hands stroking her hair while she continued to hold him tightly. She sensed Naruto's presence beside her, his hand on Kakashi-sensei's other shoulder, supporting them both. The jonin cleared his throat, and Seina moved away, sitting beside him on the grass.
"Kakashi-sensei..." she whispered, realizing that she could uncover the whole story if she made a mistake trusting him, "That night… there was someone else there".
Her teacher lifted her chin to look her in the eyes, and she wiped away the tears that had escaped her control. He had regained his usual skin color and seemed serious.
"What do you mean? Someone else besides your parents and the ninjas who helped your mother with her childbirth?" he asked.
"Sasuke is here, nee-chan. Maybe it's better not to mention Madara Uchiha in his presence."
Damn! She hadn't even thought about that. She looked at Naruto and then at Kakashi-sensei, and surprisingly, even though she hadn't said anything, the jonin understood her gaze.
"Come. Let's find something to eat and drink," he offered his hand and she stood up. "You two, keep practicing walking on water. We'll be back in a few minutes."
"That was a poor excuse," she said when they were out of earshot. "I think Sasuke knows I always carry food with me."
"Maa! But I didn't have to know," Kakashi-sensei smiled and winked at her before becoming serious. "What is it that you didn't want to tell me in front of him?"
"That night, someone claiming to be Madara Uchiha attacked my parents and extracted the bijuu from my mother."
Kakashi-sensei came to a halt and turned to look at her. "Are you sure about that?"
"If you say yes, he'll ask how you know. Even worse if you say it wasn't the real Madara Uchiha."
"Then what do I do? I've already uncovered the whole story now!" she frowned, feeling nervous for not having thought it through better.
"Seina?" Kakashi-sensei asked, and she saw him watching her closely, as if decoding a bomb code.
She groaned in frustration and sighed. "I'm going to end up in a cell for this... Fine! I can talk to my Kyubi half."
"...What?" her sensei asked, astonished, and then shook his head. "Of course. Why not. And from what I've seen, you can also speak mentally with your twin brother, right?"
Seina sighed again, and that was enough for him to accept it as true.
"I think we're going to have a long talk, Seina," Kakashi said, calmer than expected, "but not here. In a safer place."