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Chapter 48 - Orochimaru

"So you guys teamed up aren't you? big brother Obito, big sister Rin and big brother Kakashi long time no see" after Minato put her down the girl and black haired boy hugged her while Kakashi awkwardly pat her head.

"It is nice to meet you again Tsuki" Rin pinched her cheeks softly. "I received every letter you wrote. It was really frustrating that I can't reply it." She said while ruffling her hair. 

"Yup it is really frustrating" the black haired boy agreed. "I have to say you have grown quite a lot Tsuki. You almost reaching to my waist." Obito grinned.

"Hehe, actually if you want to send me a reply you can give it to aunt Kushina. She could send it to me." Tsukiho scratched back of his neck. 

"How are you doing big brother Kakashi?"

"I'm fine Tsuki." He said indifferently. 

"He is just a hide my mouth behind the mask type idiot Tsuki. Still talking about rule numbers." Obito snorted. 

"Ninja's top priority is to follow the rules. No matter what happened they must complete the mission." Kakashi rolled his eyes. "Though sometimes there might have some exceptions but you must complete the mission no matter what happens" 

"See he is still a jerk" Obito snorted. Tsukiho looked at Minato as the latter shook his head.

She sighed inwardly as her effort didn't work. But she felt the current Kakashi wasn't stubborn as the cannon. 'Seems like Obito still need to knock some sense to him.'

"Ok never mind" Rin interrupted. "How is your days Tsuki?"

"It was same routine. Studying, fighting, eating and sleeping. Though sometimes I travelled with grandma like today." She smiled. 

"Tsuki?" Minato furrowed his brows. 

"Something wrong uncle Minato?" 

"Is your lacking of chakra is relate to the seal in your forehead?" He asked.

"Oh you mean Yin seal?" She pushed her bangs on her forehead to aside and showed the purple colour diamond shaped mark.

"Incredible! But aren't you too young to have yin seal?" Minato surprised. 

"Mom said it's will be okay. So here it is?" She shrugged. 

"It is a good thing that seal will be stabilise in few days. You seriously have gut to do something like this" he caressed his head.

"I just want to have a good chakra control. Uncle Minato do you know any chakra control exercises?"

"Did you try out manipulating chakra threads?" Minato asked.

"No, is it also difficult?" She asked curiously. 

"Wait a minute! chakra control mean are you already done with tree climbing and water walking" Obito interrupted. 

"Otherwise what?" Kakashi rolled his eyes.

"Haha I have done it long time ago Bito" she scratched back of her head awkwardly. 

"No wonder you can beat idiot Kakashi. You know I also learned a cool jutsu after completing the water walking." He ruffled her hair. "Want to know?"

Seeing that Tsukiho nod her head as he grinned. Then he took her hand and looked at Minato. 

Minato touched his nose before sighing. "Well then let's talk about chakra threads later. I will report the scroll to Lord Orochimaru and you three can go to the training ground. It should be there" he showed the direction before entering the tent Tsukiho came out.

As soon as Minato left them, a pair of arms suddenly assaulted her while pinching her cheeks. "Big sister Rin!" She sighed helplessly. "Let me go alright?"

"No way you cute little bun. There is no way I letting go of you! Hehe" Rin showed a very sweet smile that made Obito and Kakashi shudder. 

'Seems like Aunt Kushina's temper rubbed on her' Tsukiho sweat dropped. 'Another change since she get to know aunt earlier unlike the cannon.' A small smile appeared for a second as she hold the brown haired girl's hand and walked away. 

Unknown to them a pale face man looked at their interactions with interest filled eyes. If Tsukiho was there she would immediately recognise the person is Orochimaru himself. "So that's the new member of the main family of Uchiha. I wonder if she is going to survive in this war. As a descendant of that person will that man let her to be alive?" he muttered before disappearing with a puff sound indicating it is a shadow clone. 

Sensing the disappearing chakra signature into nothingness Tsukiho frowned but she didn't let others to notice as she looked at the sky for a moment. In the past month she practiced the mind eye of Kagura to extreme limit since she wasn't able to use much chakra to perform ninjutsu. 

With yin seal her chakra control became way more smoother as she was able to sense many white Zetsu way more clearer than before. In previously she only had a rough guess of the places where they hiding. But now she was able to pinpoint the exact location of them easily.

Then she understood how terrifying was the Uzumaki clan really was. But it also left a puzzle to solve. As she questioned herself why didn't they notice about the white Zetsu around them. 

But then after a little bit of thinking she was able to get the answer. It was very simple to the point she was also bewildered. It is because their chakra signatures and chakra flow is very similar to trees. Actually it should be more like the vitality signs of trees as it was way more similar to chakra. Put it simply they are more like trees. 

If she didn't meet or know the white Zetsu personally she would also ignore them like others. It also gave her the answer why Hashirama Senju was able to sense black zetsu in the Valley of the end. As a wood style user he could identify the trees very easily. Since it also had the same attribute, the first hokage sense it easily. It also explained why it was able to deceived her great grandfather so easily who used white Zetsu as his own spies.