A few days later
In the meeting room, Kana Uzumaki her brother Ashina Uzumaki, and the other members of the council were discussing the past event and their plans.
Not far away Akashi was seated not far away reading a few scrolls on seals while occasionally lifting his head to listen to what was said, his cousin was coming less frequently as those meetings bored him.
One of the reasons that Akashi was also spending a lot of his time listening to those meetings was because of the fact that the actual situation was frustrating to him, not only to him but also to the majority of the children.
Not only had they lost their home, and their loved ones,, but they were forced to undertake a long trip and now they had to hide underground all the time.
Those dark walls and ceilings made of earth are the only scenery they could enjoy while playing in those somber rooms.
Luckily understanding the need of their clansmen Ashina had proposed that the children be allowed to roam around a little from time to time in the perimeter of protection established around the refuge.
While thinking about all that attention Akashi was attracted by the voice of his uncle
"So we can't stay here anymore, huh,"
"No, this place is no longer secure!"
"I guess we should end the excursion of the children outside then,"
"Or maybe we can use that opportunity to train then instead of shelter them as we do actually," someone the old Kuroko
"Do you hear what you're saying right now? We can't make any mistake right now,"
"We are spending too much time hiding ourselves right now acting as we are the longer we stay here the more dangerous the situation will become, i get that you don't want to lose any of the young ones, but acting as we are, sheltering them as we do right now will be detrimental to them, that is what i think," said one of the old men
After an intense debate, they were incapable of agree on what to do
When the tone was cooling down Kana turned her head toward her son Akashi that everyone had either completely forget or decided to ignore his presence and asked
"What about you, what do you think of that?!"
"Why do you ask him.. he shouldn't even be here;" someone complained and others were about to de so when Ashino talk
"Go ahead, I too want to know what you think," Everyone who was about to protest finally shut their mouth to listen to him
"I- huh, I think that- that you should take advantage of the instable state of the world to train us in a real situation or more like controled instead if keeping all of us here, after all like you said we can't stay here!"
After a rough beginning due to his nervosity, he was able to convey his thinking clearly to them
"Huh, look at that the kid is braver than all of you," said the old Kuroko hearing that
"Thank you, sweety," said his mother
"We are gonna think about that a little bit more," said Ashina
Two days later
Everyone was on the move they had to adopted a spidernet formation with those who weren't ninja in the center and the ninjas surrounding them, the sensory ninjas constituting the edge of the net.
This time there were a few changes some of the young ones were a little more spread around in the net compared to before when no children were allowed out of the center of the formation.
It didn't take long, only after a few hours of travel they caught a few prew in the net
Ashina and his sister Kana were standing together in the family with their children Arima and Akashi enjoying a rare moment of peace in the family
"Well this is time for you two to go," said Ashina taking the children of guard,
"What!" the two children exclaimed in surprise not understanding what was happening they tried to protest when Kana interjected
"Yep, this is time for you two to go, Kuroko is here to take you both," none sooner had she said that the old man appeared beside them
"Well let's go young men, no time to waste," he said urging them to follow him
"Huh, Okay," they muttered before following him in total confusion as he jumped from tree to tree
The sudden turn of even took the two Uzumaki by surprise one second they were having fun with family and the next they were forced to follow their teacher
"Is it another lesson," Akashi asked his cousin just making an expression that showed that he had no idea what was in store for them
On the way they met a group composed of three more young Uzumaki children waiting there
Akashi and Arima recognized them it was Karin, Garik, and Akane they were in his class and were among the most talented future young ninjas of the clan
"Follow us, move quickly!!" kuroko ordered, and of course, they obeyed and followed them in the trees
"What the fuck is going on," confusion spread in the group as they looked for an answer when they felt something fly toward each of them
When they caught it they found out it was a bag of ninja tools
It's only at that moment that the old Kurokos stop on the road to look at them properly
"A group of thirty bandits is making their way toward us to capture you," the old man finally revealed with a grave tone
"They carried themselves they are well trained, well equipped, and used to kill,"
"Your mission is simple..."
"kill them!!" he revealed coldly and sharply the atmosphere seemed to drop at his word
he didn't even seem fazed as he was telling a group of young people with the oldest being no older than nine years old to kill twenty people
"Wait is this is joke," Karin finally asked with a nervous smile but the response was as cold as ice
"You have ten minutes, to accomplish your mission," after that, the old teacher Kuroko disappeared leaving them there on the road in shock their hearts already beating fast due to the sprint until here started to beat even faster
All five of them stood there in shock, until now they had been used to the warm of nearly everyone in their lives including Kuroko
But everything leading to this clouded their judgment even Akashi who was mentally more mature than them was speechless
But it only took him a few seconds before he started to take a few deep breaths to calm his mind and before his comrade started to imitate him
In an instant, they had regained their calm
Arima opened his mouth when he heard the voice of Akane
"Someone is coming!!" she exclaimed
The words barely left her mouth when they saw something flying toward them
"Clang," Garik deflected it in the nick of time, it was only then that they saw what it was exactly
"An arrow!" they exclaimed,
Looking at the direction where it came from they spotted a group of people, men, and women why a few on horseback
They all jumped into action taking position Akane in the center, Karin behind standing back to back with her to make sure that there was no one there, Akashi and Garik on the sides with the most talented one in the front facing the incoming bandit.
"What did I say, boss, they are Uzumaki right look at their bright red hair, I was right," said an obnoxious voice
"They must be surviving from the attack," followed another
"You nearly managed to escape us, but this is over now,"
"We are gonna be right,"
"Be careful if there is kids here, then maybe there is some adult somewhere,"
From what he heard Akashi was able to piece a little bit of what was going on
'They attracted them on purpose!' Akashi realized before swearing in his heard
'Damn you old man, I know that this is my fault,'
While he was thinking all that one of the men approached them
"Looked at those kids acting like ninjas, you are too young for that, come with him without trouble..."
"Slash," Under their eyes they saw one of their comrades jump back, and they saw blood seeping from a horizontal wound on his stomach
"There are five on each side," said Akane taking advantage of the confusion
"Akashi with me," screamed Arima before using the body flicker technique to appear in front of the bandit kunai in hand
Akashi followed him by coating his leg with chakra and using that to propose himself toward one of the bandits
While Akashi and Arima were fighting in the front,
Behind Garik, Akane, and Karin also sprung into action all three of them used the body flicker technique to disappear and escape the flurry of arrows that appeared where they were previously standing.