A/N: I was hesitating between carriage and palanquin but I think that in the Naruto universe, the noble uses Palanquin
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"The seaaa..."
"Look! That's the sea,"
"Yeahh..."
After a long travel, the clan Uzumaki had finally arrived at the edge of the land of fire in front of them was the vast and beautiful sea.
That sea is called the Kawa Pass, once engaged they will find themself between the land of fire, the land of river, the land of tea, and the land of wind.
Ashina, Kana, and a few other elders were observing their surroundings with attention and prudence analyzing everything as usual
The ninjas of the clan had already set a perimeter of security and were now patrolling, the adults were setting camp in the forest not far away, and in the meantime, the kids were running around playing in the sand and the water.
"You would think that long journey they will be searching for a place to rest... instead they are playing, where do they find so much energy," Ashina looked at the children with attention before sighing
"Are you really surprised?!" asked his sister looking at him incredulously
"They are children, they always have enough energy to play, if you tried to spend a little more time with them instead of working in your office you would have realized that,"
"Children always have too much energy," shimmed one of the elders beside them
"It was the case for you too," said another
"I remember how trouble you caused us running around in your father's office all the time,"
"You cause so much more trouble than your children are causing you,"
After a light-hearted discussion, someone change the subject
"So, what did you think of them Kuroko!"
"Hm, not bad," he said before starting to cite their strength and weaknesses once again
"Arima is as we expected enjoys fighting and is good at that, like most Uzumaki he is a hothead, I was more surprised by Akashi I expect that a Half Uzumaki and Uchiha will be unstable, particularly with his Sharingan already active, but he is different," he said seriously
"This is true he is calm collected, very thoughtful, not at all what we would expect from the combination of two of the most hot-headed clans in the ninja world,"
"He is more like a Hyuga!"
"Yes!!"
"Ok that's enough, leave my son alone, let's talk about the others,"
"Well they all fought really well, that's unfortunate that not all of the children could experience a real life and death fight! But nearly half of them is not bad,"
"With the actual situation, it isn't stunning that there are already so many bandits infesting the fire country, this is probably the same in the others, you don't have to worry about not having enough bandits for the kids to fight,"
"So, how long are we staying here,"
"Not long, a few days, enough time for them to rest body and mind,"
On the beach Akashi, Arima, Garik, Akane, Karin, and a few other members of their classroom were discussing everything and anything, after a while the conversation became a little heated
"What!!" screamed one of the kids
"So you are the reason why we were thrown to the wolf-like that!"
"You mean thrown to the bandits," Arima corrected
"You shut up!"
"Don't take your anger on me, I'm not the one who made the ancient throw you to...the bandits," he said completely unbothered by their irritated expressions, and just smiled
"he is right,"
turning again to Akashi they looked at him with anger,
Akashi couldn't help sweating a little
Akashi looked at the little red-haired Uzumaki whose hair was flying with some curiosity
'It is a women's thing, and it starts from a young age, huh,' he thought noticing that this strange phenomenon was happening only the girls
Even though they didn't seem as threatening he could see that the boy too was very angry
"Why are you attacking me like that,"
"Because this is your fault,"
"My fault, hm maybe, but all I really did was answer a question, how was I supposed to know that they would react like that,"
"Well, you should have,"
"Now that's just unreasonable,"
"Not really they train you too, they are the kind of people who make us fight nearly until exhaustion what do you think they were going to do for the field training,"
"I still find it unreasonable to blame me, plus this isn't as bad as you make it sound, we were going to face something like that anyways, now we are done with that,"
After a few minutes of dispute where the situation didn't seem to get resolved, Akashi ended up snapping
"You know what I'm gonna beat all of your asses, that's it,"
"Come,"
"Good a fight, I'm in," said Arima before starting
"Wind style: wind gust"
"Wind style: wind bullet"
"Water style: Water wall"
And just like that a big brawled started on the beach.
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The next days
"woosh, woosh," The group of Uzumaki could be seen jumping from one tree to another
"We are close enough," said Ashina after that they jumped from one tree to the road
"Nothing in the surroundings," he noticed before a ninja appeared beside him bit his finger and after a few hands he slammed his hand on the ground
"pouf," from the void a beautiful palanquin and a few crudes appeared
"So, You five will be the servants," he said pointing at five of their clansmen three women and two men
"Yes," they answered before proceeding to disguise themself, seconds later with makeup the five ninjas had changed into high clan servants,
"You ten have the corpulence, you will be the samurai!"
"Yes," soon the ten ninjas had changed into samurai armor
"The others, you are the ninja's mercenaries that we paid to protect us during the travel," said Kana
"Yes!" with that they disappeared into the trees
"Now,"
After a few hand signs, everyone had new clothes
"Well let's go." like everyone else before them Ashina and the boys started to move toward the trees to use the cover nature to change themself when they heard
"invocation: dressing room"
They turned around to see, on the side of the road big box had appeared
"What's that?!" asked Ashina as he looked at his sister incredulously
"A dressing room," she answered without missing a beat
"..." Everyone from kids to the other ninjas just stood there unable to say anything for a few seconds
"How nice, this is so practical," the voice of one of the kunoichi was kunoichi disguised as a servants broke the silence
"Right, with that you can ready yourself no matter the place, wanna try,"
"Oh, I'm already done," she protested
"Kids come here, you need to be changed, and that must be made by professionals,"
"Ok!" they responded before getting inside the dressing room
"Can I..."
Before he could end his sentence the door was closed leaving Ashina outside
"Do you need help, sir, we are your servants after all,"
He turned his head to see the two ninjas that had been selected standing beside him
"Fuck off!" he growled before getting into the forest
When Akashi, Arima, and Kana left the dressing room you could see that their makeup and clothing had been selected and done with care and attention, their plain clothes had been replaced by beautiful Kimono nearly as flamboyant as the ones that Kana was wearing, part of their haired dyed in black hand been braided to make more style.
Even Arima who usually didn't like to dress up loved his new style
Ashina in comparison seemed plain and could easily be forgotten
"Well, if you're finally done let's go,"
After a few minutes, they were at the gates of a town of the fire country
After the check-up which lasted for about thirty minutes, they were allowed to enter the city
Inside the massive palanquin
"Why didn't we just sneak inside, instead of doing all that," Arima asked curiously, he never liked formal clothes or behavior, contrary to Akashi
"That's true until now we tried to avoid other people, so why go to the trouble now," he asked
"Well in times of war, everyone is always on guard, there are a lot more ninjas and samurais recruited to protect the towns and even some villages,"
"Sometimes that is useless and a waste of money, and sometimes it is very useful,"
"In case of attacks!"
"In case of attacks, yes," confirmed Kana
"We need a few things here, supplies of information and a few other things that we will not be able to get in sneaking in,"
"And more importantly five ninjas and ten samurai will have never been allowed to enter the city otherwise, we will be under surveillance,"
"I get it," responded Arima
'Wait we have more than ten ninjas, Ohh," he said before remembering that they didn't count the servants
In one of the most upscale hotels in the town the Royal Uzumaki, the family were carefully been guided to their rooms, the place was big enough to accommodate