Iruka and I reached the Hokage tower a few minutes after we departed from the training ground. He took me straight up the ladders and we came in front of a woman sitting on a desk, writing something. Iruka took a step forwards and said, “Hello, Hanako-san. We want an audience with Hokage-sama.”

Hanako looked up from the papers she was reading and answered, “Ah, Iruka-san wait a minute I will ask right away.” She then stood up and walked towards the door but before she can knock, a gruff voice came from the other side of the door.

“Let them in.” Hanako nodded and motioned us to get inside. We passed the door and came inside a spacious room with a desk in the middle, on it piles of paper. Hokage took a deep breath and said, “Iruka, what is it?”

Iruka bowed to Hokage and I followed. He then said, “There is something that needs your attention.”

Hokage frowned. “I already know what this young man- Arata does after academy hours. I don’t think it’s something that needs my attention.”

“No, Hokage-sama,” Chunin said shaking his head. Hokage motioned him to go on then Iruka continued, “Arata here managed to duplicate a rare fuin.”

“And what fuin that is?”

He gave me a look that was piercing like he could see everything about me just by looking. I cleared my throat, “I call it Special Explosion Fuin Hokage-sama. It creates a fire chakra explosion and contains the said explosion in a way to create a smaller fireball.”

Hokage nodded thoughtfully then turned to Iruka. “How strong was it?”

“Explosion itself was as strong as a standard-issue explosion fuin but Arata’s version requires significantly less chakra to activate and as he said, creates a powerful fireball, like Fireball Jutsu.” Iruka then took a deep breath and added, “And Arata here said he could make it even more powerful in a week. So I thought you should know.”

“Well, you thought correctly.” Hokage turned to me. “So, Arata. Where did you find a rare fuin?”

“Itachi-san gave it to me.”

At the mention of Itachi’s name, Hokage's focus zeroed on me. “Why did he do something like that? And when I ask that, I know he wanted you to duplicate it. What I want to know is why he thought you could do it.”

I sighed. “You should know Itachi’s brother –Sasuke- enrolls ninja academy. We are in the same class in fact. About a week ago Itachi came to the academy with Sasuke and we got the chance to talk. We talked about Uchiha’s eyes and their enemies. Then I… might have told him that I can seal their eyes like Hyuuga’s but without the kill switch so it doesn’t turn to something to be used for enslaving others in the clan.”

Hokage frowned, seemingly thinking something. After a while of silence, he asked, “So, you will try to come up with a seal to protect Uchiha from bloodline theft and they will sponsor your fuinjutsu training.” I nodded then he asked, “Did Itachi told you anything when he gave you the fuin?”

I nodded. “He told me that if I can’t duplicate the fuin in two months, Uchiha would stop being my sponsor. He didn’t say much anything else, so I don’t know the one to sponsor me Uchiha Clan or only Itachi-san.”

Hokage sighed. “So you managed to duplicate the fuin in a week is that it?” I nodded. “Even if they didn’t sponsor you before, I am pretty sure Uchiha will now. Now I need to see the fuin before letting you go. Do you have one with you?”

I shook my head. “I only got two. We tried one and the other is on its way to Itachi.”

“Then make one here.” I looked at him quizzically. I opened my mouth to say I needed a desk but Hokage just pointed at the side for me to see there was in fact a desk there.

I closed my mouth and nodded. Then took out my supplies and started working.

I put every fuin part in a way to make the fuin more efficient than before and finished it in a few minutes.

Special Explosion Fuin Leveled by 1

After making sure that I did it right I took the fuin and stood up. I moved to Hokage and gave it to him.

Hokage looked at the Fuin and grunted. After a few minutes, he looked at me and said, “I will give you the pass to sell these to Ninja Supply Stores. But you should first ask Itachi if it’s okay with him. It wouldn’t be good not to give face to your sponsor after all.” I nodded. “Now before you go, the fuin you intend to make for Uchiha. How will that work?”

I shrugged. “I don’t quite know just yet but since we want to protect bloodline, there needs to be a kill switch only usable by the person themselves. There should be protection against genjutsu, so their enemies don’t just make them kill themselves. Since we don’t want Uchiha’s eyes to be stolen, it should either make the eye useless upon forceful removal or destroy it outright. That should be all.”

“If you can do that much, it will be enough for Uchiha to feel themselves safe which would be best for us all.” He said while sighing. “I just hope you can do it in time before…” Hokage shook his head. “Never mind. Arata, this is an A-Rank mission. Create a fuin to secure Sharingan.” I nodded. “You can go now.” He said but made no move to give back the Special Explosion Fuin. So I shrugged and made my way out of the office.

Outside Iruka held my shoulder and said, “Do you think you can do it?”

“I only know I will try. As Hokage-sama said, protecting the Sharingan good for us all.” I said while shrugging.

“That’s a good mindset. Make no mistake, you are really talented but don’t let your talent cloud your judgment and make you prone to mistakes. Do your best and you will find lots of people to help you.”

What he said made increase my confidence greatly. I nodded at him, “Thanks Iruka-sensei. I will do my best.”