A/N: Jesus Christ... I just realized how horribly bad my previous attempts at a Naruto fanfic were. Hopefully this one will be better. This is basically the same as former version of Life of a Jinjuriki only better... way better. Hopefully this will be better.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

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Introductions

Wakashi Rioko's crackled with electricity as he swung his arm towards the practice dummy.

"Chidori!" He yelled and then his fist connected with the dummy causing lightning to fly in every direction but instead of slicing clean through the dummy like it was supposed to, the jutsu bounced off like a normal punch and only left a little burn mark.

"No, no, no you've got the movement wrong. You're swinging your arm and at your level that can disrupt your chakra." Said a jonin with white hair and a mask that covered the bottom half of his face.

"This is a waste of time..."

Kakashi just eye smiled and said "Oh...is it? Seen your precious Taka lately?"

Rioko's eyes widened and he stammered "You better not do anything to any of my puppets or else!"

"Or else what? You'll cover you hands with glitter and punch me until I lose consciousness from laughing to hard?" Kakashi laughed as he eye smiled then he thought of something and the eye smile vanished. "Well that's not good. It seems you're late for your genin exams."

Rioko checked his watch and sure enough he was a half hour late. He took off running down the street and when he was gone, Mitarashi Anko appeared next to Kakashi.

"I think you're rubbing off way to much on him way to much." She said.

"You say that like it's a bad thing." Kakashi said in a hurt tone "And besides, you seem to be taking an awfully big interest could it be perhaps that you..." Kakashi began to giggle in a perverted way and Anko punched him in the stomach.

Rioko looked ran into the exam room right as his name was called. He ran past his friend Hyaku who said "Cutting it a bit close aren't we?"

Rioko smirked and replied "Just being fashionably late."

The exam was extremely easy and as Rioko thought about it while he was walking home he decided that he could have done it in his sleep. After the exams team assignments had been given out and he'd been put on a team with Anko and Uchiha Kakora and Uchiha Itachi was their sensei.

'God I'm hungry.' Rioko thought and decided to get some Dango. When he got to the restaurant he usually bought Dango at he was surprised to find Anko sitting at a table by herself. "He bought a couple sticks of Dango and then went to sit with her. "Hi Anko"

She looked up at him and replied "Oh. Hi Rioko."

"So we're on the same team."

Anko nodded and said "I guess so."

"What do you think of Itachi sama?" Rioko asked.

Anko shrugged and Rioko continued "This may sound weird but he kind of strikes me as the kind of guy who would kill his family on a special mission then turn into a double agent in a group that hunts down demons."

Anko sniggered and said "Yeah I thought that to, only thing that I have to add is that he would probably spare his brother because he wasn't corrupt."

Rioko laughed too and said "Yeah but like that would ever happen. You want some Dango?"

He held out a stick of Dango and she took it saying "Thanks. So, since we're on a team we should get to know each other better. What kind of fighting style do you use?"

"Well I like to use my puppets for the most part but I'm pretty good at ninjutsu and genjutsu and I have lightning type chakra. What about you?"

Anko sat there eating Dango then said "I like to use snakes and I'm pretty even on ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu but I never us kenjutsu." Then she stood up and said "Well I gotta go. Thanks for the Dango." Then she walked off leaving Rioko alone.

Then a few seconds later her place was filled by Kakora. "Hi Rioko! How's it goin'? I haven't seen Anko yet and I don't really know her but I'm sure we're gonna make a great team! Two puppet users and uh...she use's snakes right? Yeah that's right. Well anyway, Itachi's my cousin and he's gonna be great."

As if he was summoned by the sound of his name, Itachi appeared. "Kakora you need to come home. Oh you must be Rioko." He added seeing Rioko. Rioko nodded and Itachi grinned and said "I hear you're a puppet user like Kakora. Come prepared to training field 16 tomorrow morning at nine. If I were you I wouldn't eat breakfast. Not many people can stomach what we'll be doing."

Before Rioko could ask why, Itachi lifted Kakora up and they vanished in a puff of smoke. 'Damn that's cool. I wish I could just vanish. This is gonna be a really cool team.'

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The next morning, the members of team Itachi gathered at training field 16. Rioko sat on a log holding the scroll that contained his puppet. Itachi surveyed them all and then said "Ok. In this test, you have to take these two bells from me by noon." He held up two bells and was about to continue when it struck Rioko.

"But theirs three of us. How can three people split two bells?"

"I'm glad you can count but that's the thing, only two of you can pass. You only have until noon so get a move on." And with that he vanished.

Three hours later...

They had found Itachi who was sitting in a clearing and paying them no attention. Every time they got close he would just flick their headbands and they'd go flying back. With only a few minutes left they were getting desperate. 'That's it.' Rioko thought 'I've just got to try and see if a Chidori will distract him.'

Rioko went through the hand signs and yelled "Chidori!" Then he charged at Itachi. Itachi did nothing but raise his eyebrows and flick him away again.

But now he spoke "That was impressive but I doubt you will be able to ever master the Chidori. You should try something else. Have you ever read about any other lightning jutsus?"

This result confuse Rioko 'Is he trying to get me to attack him?' he thought as he searched his memory for another jutsu he knew. Then he thought of one he'd only read about. 'What have I got to lose?' and then he started doing to hand signs.

When Rioko finished, Itachi's smile faded and he yelled "Oh shit!" And jumped to the side right as Rioko yelled "Raikosuru!" Then everything started to slow down and Rioko's eyes began to burn and he squinted them shut but then he could see pulses of blue energy passing over things and even though his eye's were shut he could still see. Then he shot towards Itachi so fast that one second he was fifty feet away and the next he had run a sphere of crackling electricity that had formed around his hand through Itachi.

Then he opened his eyes and they began to burn again so he dropped to the ground but everything was still going in slow motion. Then the burning stopped and everything returned to normal and then the bodies of Itachi was replaced by a log. A second later the real Itachi came running up and he lifted Rioko to his feet. "Where did you learn that Jutsu?" He asked forcefully.

Rioko looked up into Itachi's eyes and felt sick "In a scroll in my house."

Itachi turned to Anko and Kakora and said "Go home." Then he looked back at Rioko who was puking on the ground. "Come on, we need to go see the Hokage." He grabbed Rioko and they vanished in a puff of smoke.

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"Lord Hokage!" Itachi said the moment they arrived in his office.

"What is it Itachi? What happened to Rioko" The Hokage asked inquisitively.

"He just performed a perfect lightning strike while training!"

The Hokage was taken aback by this news "But how's that possible? The only ones capable of using that jutsu are those with the..."

"I know." said Itachi, cutting the Hokage off. "I believe he may have the Naitekime no kokugen."

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A/N: Hope that this first chapter of the new version was better. Review.

Translations:

Taka: Hawk

Raikosuru: Lightning strike

Naitekime no kokugen: Inner eye of time