Ever since we got regular access to the training ground zero, I've started kidnapping young birds before they take their first flight. I've made a custom roost on the orphanage's terrace for them. I feed these birds myself, creating a bond.
I've tried quite a few birds , but my favourite to train are magpie. They are quite intellegent. 2 months into trying to train my own birds, i switched to exclusively kidnapping magpies younglings. I would train them like a dog, getting tips from kiba and his sister hanna.
They can fetch, play dead, wag their tail ( twerk) and nod their head ( both yes and no).
While magpie can speak human words, I haven't trained any of them for speach yet . I haven't even let any of them fly. They will remain flightless until I encourage one of them to fly.
My goal is to have atleast 4 birds ready by the end of academic year. It is a gift for the my seniors in orphanage that will become gennin this year.
Out of 20 seniors( 12 year olds) that are expected to pass this year, 2 have already learnt survival style - Balmburn jutsu to level 2. If any of them reach to level of mystic palm jutsu, i will gift them one of the birds.
Since I've already learnt it to level of mystic palm jutsu, i bypass going to training ground zero, and instead go to my friend kiba's clan. His sister hana has a veterinary clinic there. I've started interning there since I know the mystic palm jutsu. I even take 4 of my most obedient birds with me to get Hana's help in training them.
My 4 birds are under direct tutelage of Hana's 3 dogs. They train them as if they were training common service dog. They teach them hunting, spotting , fetching and tracking.
Whenever they come back tired , I try to teach them to be able to tell different medecines apart and to fetch them. Imagine being incapacitated, and your bird companion fetching some medecin or soldier pill from your pouch and feed you.
When end of academic year finally arrives, only 1 orphan named Baki had learnt mystic palm jutsu by then. I invited him to work at the vet clinic for a week, until his team assignment. I tell him about the magpies and that he has 1 week to win one of their trust.
I've been top bully and top scholar in the orphanage for years now. I am a leader, even among my elders here.
That week Baki got familiar with clinical duties of a medic and bonded with all the magpies a bit. He understood their capabilities as service animals. He even got to practice his mystical palm justu in clinical setting.
When the time for his team assignment came, he had already convinced one of the magpies to join him in his journey. Rest three magpies will remain with Hana's dogs, acting as their assistants, eating their ticks.
I still kidnap magpies from wild to raise in the orphanage terrace. Many orphans take them as pets, but they are nowhere near as trained as the one I gave to baki and Hana's dogs.
I have already asked Hana about training more magpies to assist her dogs. Once she is 100% sure that current batch is self sufficient , she will allow me to bring in more magpies.
2 years go by...
I wake up in the same bed as bella. I wake her up and we do our morning ritual. I pull her on to me, locking our lips.
We are doing a variant of her Water style: Life Drinker Jutsu . The normal jutsu is converting - chakra ->water chakra -> drinkable water.
The variant we are doing is different though. Here while our lips are locked, bella converts chakra to water chakra, I drink in that water chakra instead of water.
Our bodies are 70% water. The excess water chakra won't hurt me. I channel the water chakra to add to my own reserves and compress my chakra.
Once I start feeling the stretch on my chakra pathways, I stop drinking water chakra, but instead start generating it for bella to drink and expand her reserves.
While one cycle of this technique might not do much, we've spent most nights in last 2 years with locked lips, practicing this technique.
Bella is now the matron of the orphanage. She had complete say in what goes around here. Even all the sisters now are root members embedded here for counter espionage. This means that my authority here is uncontested.
I carry bella in my arms and we bath together. Later on, i wheel her to the breakfast area, where the morning shift sister has already prepared the food with help from the orphans.
Today is my final exam for graduation. I'm taking the exam one year earlier than my peers of same age. I've been qualified to take it for 2 years now, but I've delayed early graduation.
I've already learnt all I'm allowed to while still staying an academy student. For any more Jutsu's I'll have to official become a leaf ninja.
The graduation test is also a formality at this point. I can do all 3 academy jutsu without handseals and with highest chakra efficiency. I'm well read and phisicaly stronger than almost all of my class.
Even though I'm skipping one year, i still expect to be the rookie of the year. After giving my exam, I greet my freinds goodbye. Naruto of course complains about my graduating early, but I just tell him to get good and stop complaining.
I spend my next week at Hana's clinic, choosing my bird. It's really hard to choose one, I've raised all of them.
By now all 3 of Hana's dogs have 2 bird each as assistant. Even Her Mother's intellegent dog has 3 of my orignal batch of birds acting as apprentice to the Top Dog.
I Pick the 3 from my orignal batch. They have been trained by inuzuka topdog and can even talk now. They are intellegent creatures, almost sentient now . They are almost 2.5 years old, that's almost 40 in comparable human age. The topdog will get another batch to train, while I take in these oldies to help guide my journey.
I've named them chi, ki and twi. Then comes the team assignment. I'm assigned to team 10 - lead by Might Guy, with Me, Tenten and rock lee as his students. Our sensie is a cheerful person, but very hardcore about training.
He even turns D-Rank missions into training exercises. Me and Rock lee have started wearing weights, so even walking and breathing has become training. I've always been competitive, used to compete with Naruto, now I compete with lee.
I've asked Tenten's help in training my birds to handle scalpels as weapon. They can already twirl it with their feet while flying, but I want them to atleast be able to cut fruit.
While it is standard for orphans to leave orphanage after becoming a ninja, i still stay there. I even draw salary from orphanage as it's newest groundskeeper, since I basically run the terrace roost.
My companion birds are the original batch, the oldest among any here. They are quick to take a parental and mentorship role for the younglings. Under their teachings, the whole roost will develop various skills of a service animals.
My companion birds can speak, so the new batch that develops under them mighy develope speach . My companions have trained under a ninja dog for skills like hunting, tracking, spotting and even nursing.
The best among these young ones will still go to Hana's clinic for better training. Those best ones will be offered as graduation gift to any academy student that can perform the mystic palm jutsu.
One Sunday morning, Hinata showed up for breakfast, blushing like crazy. I sneak behind her ask "What's up". She says " Yami kun, i was looking for you, i think I've learned the balmburn jutsu to level 3, instant marination, but I need your help getting it to mystic palm jutsu".
" Alright, let's go to the kitchen and you show me what you know.". I say.
The kitchen is empty since breakfast was just finished. I took asked hinata to make marinate some fishes we are preparing for jerkey. She showed me that she can now perform the balmburn without the overheating.
She was still blushing hard. I asked her " how long were you looking for me". Hinata hesitates and says "Since an hour before breakfast".
I cringe as I ask " Hinata chan, what did you see". Hinata stops her jutsu and almost starts crying as she explains " I'm sorry, i didn't mean to peak , i was just looking for you".
I rush to make her stop crying. " Focus on the jutsu for now. Ignore anything else."
Seeing her busy i say " I hope you can keep my secret hinata chan. Me and bella could get in real trouble, even though I'm gennin now. " .I really need to put byakugan protection on my walls.
Hinata nods and asks " Isn't it wrong?, she is my mother's age. "
I say, " I'm an adult now. As they say, old enough to kill, old enough to..." .
I look into her eyes and say " And you know bella, you know how kind and lovely she is. She is dedicating all her life to orphans. You know how smart she is, you attended some of her history classes. What we have is beautiful " .
Hinata asks " Are you going to hide this relationship forever? How could you live like that".
I say " No, Bella can't have kids due to her injuries . I want to have my own kids one day and bella wants that for me. I don't know the future of this, but I know I love her and she loves me. I'm an orphan, where else would i go to find love" .
" I love you!" Says hinata. Instantly regretting as she goes red.
I hug her tight as I say " Thank you hinata chan. I love you too. I love being your friend, being around you, learning with you and even sparing with you. "
" But I'll give you the same condition bella gave me when I confessed. You need to outrank me ,or atleast be on the same rank so that it doesn't feel like I'm taking advantage of you"
" We may be of same age, but I'm already a gennin. I will store your confession in my heart, and give you my confession when you outrank me. I hope you understand that my love for bella won't go, now or then. If you want to talk about this with her, you can talk to her".