Jumping from the rock Zitsu draws his sword. As he takes a stance his blade fills with chakra. In the next second, the chakra turns into water as it spirals around the blade. As the water spins faster and faster it begins to release a slight hum as it forms a mini typhoon around the blade.

By controlling his chakra not even a droplet of water falls from the blade. It takes a few seconds for the water to spins as fast as he can, the sound of rushing rapids fill the area.

His arms twist to the right, pointing the sword behind him as he looks at the rock. Focusing on the spinning chakra a sinister grin appears on his face.

"First original skill!" He slashes his sword horizontally leaving behind a blue arc as the sword travels.

[Chakra 1113/2500]

"Kenjutsu: Enuma Elish!" As the sword reaches the end of its slash, pointing towards the rock, the spiraling water shoots from the sword in a spiraling twister the size of a baseball.

As it hits the rock the twister drills inside causing large cracks to splinter from the impact site. As the water fades it reveals a fist size hole drilled into the rock.

Seeing this Zitsu shakes his head as he sheaths his sword.

"Not even close to the original. I need to be able to layer the rotations." Releasing a long breath he walks back home for the night.

The next few days continued as normal, he couldn't see the other kids much because of their training. Once he can get ahold of samehada he will begin accepting missions, he hasn't been forced into missions because of Mei's protection, but If he wants to grow stronger he will have to go.

As the sun rises on January 1st Zitsu opens his eyes as the spinning water in his hands fades. The principle of Enuma Elish is almost like the Rasengan, except the water only spins in one direction. To add multiple rotations of water onto his blade would be accomplishing what Minato couldn't, and what Naruto needed the help of two clones to accomplish. If he just used chakra for the rotations without adding nature transformation, the twister can't keep its shape and will break apart. Only a sphere is stable enough for that much rotation of pure chakra with no nature.

Walking outside his room his mother instantly scoops him into her arms and begins planting kisses.

"Happy birthday baby!" Yura's eyes shine as she places him on the ground. "To think my little ninja is five years old."

"Thanks, mom" Zitsu grins from ear to ear as he sees his mother's beaming face. This is the first birthday he's got to celebrate with his mom in three years.

Zitsu's nose begins to twitch as he finally notices the aromatic smell filling the room. Looking around he notices all the food on the table.

Yura's eyes turn into crescent moons as she sees his little nose moving about. "I got up early today to cook all your favorite foods, I even made you a cake. I know it's early to eat all this, but I don't want to disrupt your training."

As they were getting ready to sit down a knock was heard at the door.

Yura looks at Zitsu but only saw his smiling face as he sat in his seat. "I wonder who that can be." Putting a finger on her mouth she walks towards the door.

Opening the door she sees a young girl with long auburn hair in a blue dress. Looking at her beautiful emerald green eyes, straight nose, and full lips leave her in a daze. Seeing the Kiri symbol on her belt pulls her back to reality as she realizes this young woman is a ninja.

"You are?" Yura looks at the young woman, not sure how to address her.

"Your daughter-in-law!" Zitsu's voice sounds from behind her "No need to be polite!"

A vein bulges on Mei's forehead as her lips begin to twitch. All the dreams she had about her husband and future wedding have been dashed by a four, no, five year old.

"Daughter in law?!" Yura looks Mei up and down before turning to look at her son.

Seeing his mother's inquisitive looks he just shrugs.

Her brows furrow a bit before she looks back towards Mei.

"Nice to meet you." Mei bows slightly as her left eye begins to twitch as well.

Taking a breath Yura steps aside "Please come in."

As Mei walks in she stares daggers at Zitsu's smiling face.

Seeing this Yura smiles "Your name is?"

"Please excuse my rudeness, I'm Mei Terumi"

"You and my son are." She pauses for a moment "Together?"

Mei takes a deep breath "It would seem that way." A strange smile appears on her face.

Hearing her words Yura's mouth hangs open "And, and how old are you?"

Mei's lips struggle to part "I'll be seventeen this year."

Yura begins counting on her fingers as her eyes go wide. "By the time Zitsu is thirteen, you will be twenty-four going on twenty-five."

"I" Just as Mei was about to say something Yura cuts her off.

"That's perfect! Just the right age to have me some grandbabies! That's how old I was when I had Zitsu and he was such a cute baby, just looking at you I just know my grandkids will be adorable!" Yura becomes visibly excited, even though she's a bit older, what mother doesn't want a beautiful wife for their son?

Hearing about having children Mei's face goes flush. "Kids." As the words leave her mouth, the more pleasant it sounds.

She was born and raised in Kiri, her parents died during the time of the second world war and she was raised in Kiri alone. The idea of getting married and having a family is always on her mind, but due to her strength men stay away from her, afraid of someone stronger than them who might melt them by accident.

Looking at Zitsu and his mother the smile on her face turns sweet, so what If he's five now? He'll be thirteen in eight years, then they can have kids! The more she thinks about it the happier she gets. Was he right? Were they really destined to be together? Why she never found anyone till now?

Yura grabs Mei's hands and pulls her towards the table. "Come, come, come, you need to eat something, you're too skinny!"

Hearing those last words, visions of Mei fifteen years after the fourth war flash through his head, waking him from the shock of his mother planning his future. "Wait! No need to stuff ourselves, let's take it slow."

"Silly child listen to your mother, come eat." Yura completely ignores Zitsu as she continues to fond over Mei.

Looking at the smiles on his mother and Mei's face he clenches his fist in victory.

Sitting at the table he eats while watching the ladies chat happily. After the meal, Zitsu and Mei sit on the couch while Yura begins to wash the dishes.

Without saying a word Mei pulls out a scroll and hands it to Zitsu. "I got as many as I could, do you know how many favors I had to pull to get these?"

Zitsu eyes light up as he takes the scroll "Is this a storage scroll? The books and scrolls on medicine are inside? Fascinating."

Looking at him twist the scrolls in his hand Mei wrinkles her brows. Obviously, this Kid has no intention of keeping their 'relationship' secret, what If people learn that she's robbing the cradle? Won't her reputation be ruined?

Thinking about it for a moment she just shakes her head, just let it happen. Is her reputation worth her future happiness?

Taking a deep breath she opens her mouth. "I have news, for some reason the Mizukage wants the seven swordsmen to go to the land of fire and cause as much destruction as possible. It makes no sense, during a time of strife he's sending out our strongest fighting force."

Zitsu tucks the scroll into his sleeve and stashes it in his inventory. The scroll is stored in the [Scrolls] department, the contents are not extracted as they were when putting a bag into his inventory. Discovering this brings a smile to his face along with Mei's words.

"When are we leaving?" Looking into her eyes he smiles playfully.

"Ao, You, and I will be leaving on the 7th to follow them, so six days." Looking at Zitsu she looks for some sort of reaction or surprise, to see if he knew the date, but saw nothing.

"Good, to thank you I'll tell you something to benefit Kiri that you love so much" he pauses for a moment when he sees her eyes light up "Do you know Harusame?"

"Harusame" Mei's brows furrow when she hears the name "The Fuinjutsu master? That old man? Don't tell me he's a traitor too."

Mei's eyes begin to darken as the thought appears in her head.

"No, relax, breathe." Zitsu shakes his head at her quick reaction. "Tell him that you learned information about the Konoha attack. That it's impossible to survive a tailed beast from being extracted from the body, even an Uzumaki clansman died with their powerful lifeforce."

"It that true?!" Mei's eyes go wide. No one has tried to extract a tailed beast before. If the host can't control it like Killer B or Yagura the beast will eventually go wild and kill its host, forcing the beast to be resealed in another.

"Just tell him, if he listens then Kiri won't lose its jinchuriki" Zitsu nods with his eyes closed.

Standing up Mei turns to leave, after taking a few steps she pauses "Happy fifth birthday." speaking with her back turned she heads towards the door and leaves.

As she leaves Zitsu rises to his feet "Mom I'm going out to train!"

"Be safe!" His mom yells back from the kitchen.

"Six more days." Zitsu mumbles to himself as he walks towards the door.