Chapter 2

Hello guys, Iskander Mandoraekon here with another chapter of the Sage of the Leaves, I don't have much to say besides the usual editing that will be going on in here.

That is all for now, enjoy.

I do not own Naruto or the original concept of this story that honor goes to HistorianoftheKais.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, one of the few members of the shinobi profession to be named Shinobi no Kami, found himself glaring at the much younger, one-eyed shinobi that sat across from him before his desk and began to slowly speak as he stared directly into the man's lone brown eye, "So from what I have gathered so far, do you mean to tell me, Jounin Hatake, that not only did you agree to continue on a mission that had been changed from a C-rank to an A-rank with a team of incredibly green genin that have only been out of the Academy for three months; but you also failed to send a request for the reinforcements that are required for such missions along with forgetting the very idea to establish a proper perimeter and watch in the middle of hostile territory!?"

The old man paused to see what emotions where showing in the lone brown eye of the Yondaime's student as he chewed him out, the older man beyond pissed off about the Jounin's poor example to his fresh out of the Academy students. "And that's not even getting to the bottom of your incompetence! I have been given reports from a reliable source that had been passing through the area that you are just now beginning to introduce tree climbing exercises to your students after an entire three months of active duty, while the other squad leaders have already gotten past that and the water walking phase within the first couple of fucking weeks! What the fucking hell have you been doing these past three months with your team!? Reading your damnable porn!?"

The sixty-two year old Hokage then folded his hands in front of his face as he sat back in his seat and said in a neutral tone that sent shivers of fear down Kakashi's back, "What you did on that mission was inexcusable, Hatake."

The Shinobi God then pulled a half-inch thick folder out of one of his drawers and placed it on his desk. In the same chilling and yet neutral tone, the Sarutobi Hokage continued on. "Do you know what this is Hatake? This is a detailed record of everything your team has done since it encountered the Demon Brothers of Kiri to the time your team left the Land of Waves. There are even word for word records of your students' conversations, particularly your orders and your training methods in this report."

Kakashi somehow gave the impression that he was blushing, even though no one could see it due to the mask that hid most of his face. Oh, the silver haired Jounin knew that he'd get into some trouble considering how the mission had gone. However, he had never expected to be in this much trouble. The old, usually friendly, Sandaime was really cooking Kakashi's goose over this mission… it just made him wonder how his late sensei would have reacted to hearing about such a mission…

… He gave an involuntary shudder at the realization that the blond would have handed the cyclops over to his exotic red haired wife for the endangerment of their only child and Mikoto's second son who just so happened to be Kushina's godson…

He unknowingly let loose an unintentional whimper at the idea of what Kushina was going to do to him when he reached the Pureland…

"I see now that it was a mistake making you the sensei of a genin team. You are obviously incapable of handling the responsibilities that are required of a genin instructor," the old man then pulled out a smaller scroll and started writing on it while continuing. "As of this moment, Jounin Hatake, you are no longer the instructor for genin squad number seven. You are to tell your former genin cadets to report to my office in one hour so that they may meet the instructor that will be taking over your squad, you will not stop to do anything and make me wait for the usual three hours, is that understood?"

Even though the son of the famed White Fang didn't show it, he felt like someone had just taken a mallet and pounded a dull, rusty spike through his chest. He had just been removed from the squad he was training to become shinobi for negligence and endangerment of said squad while on a high-ranked mission…

That was seen as a large dishonor that would stay with him for the rest of his life. It was one thing to be reassigned because you were needed somewhere else, like a mission that needed your expertise or if your lay lied in a specific field like interrogation, or you simply couldn't work well with your teammates, but forced removal was something totally different. It meant that you had screwed up so badly that you weren't ever going to get a second chance.

With only a dumb nod, Kakashi left the Hokage's office and dragged himself through the streets in order to locate his students.

'How had it come to this?' He asked himself as he slowly wandered towards team seven's training ground, looking to the sky the white haired Jounin thought back over everything his squad had been through in their short career and even if the Sharingan bearing Jounin didn't want to admit it, he'd been much happier ever since he had been given control of the new team seven then he had been ever since the deaths of his teammates and sensei.

Sasuke along with Naruto and even Sakura for all of her insecurities as a kunoichi had grown on the Hatake.

They were like the nephews and niece that he had never had…

And now, it was gone…

Kakashi had realized too late that he'd been so wrapped up in his past, that he hadn't paid attention to the present. By mourning the fates of his teammates and surrogate family, he'd been destroying his future with the training of the three talented children he had been tasked with.

If only he'd been training the team instead of mourning Obito and Rin's deaths. What would Obito and Minato think of the fact that he had put their only living relatives in danger because he had failed to train them properly? Especially since he had barely even tried to fix the damage the instructors at the academy had done to Naruto's education because of their misguided hatred due to his background as the Jinchuuriki.

He knew that Minato would have called in for reinforcements the second he knew that the situation had escalated beyond what the team could be expected to handle. As for Obito, he'd probably do his best to beat the crap out of Kakashi before ordering him to get his head out of his ass and focus on the present.

Thirteen years was way too long to mourn the deaths of his friends.

Hidden Lair in the Land of Grass

A tall man in an orange swirl patterned mask sneezed from where he was placing an addition into the plans of using Pein's Rinnegan to bring back his fallen lover alongside his master.

"Hmm…?" This mysterious man muttered as he looked up to the roof of his cave home while rubbing his nose through his mask. "I wonder who's talking about me…"

That was when he noticed the feeling of a very sticky mask pressing its wet contents against his face and gave a very girlish scream that got sweatdrops from the plant-like men behind him.

"God damn it!"

Eventually, the twenty-six year old man made it to the bridge where his now former squad was waiting for him.

The team's resident, anti-social Uchiha was laid out on a tree branch staring down at the small stream that flowed beneath the bridge. Sakura, the only member that came from a civilian family, was lying against the bridge post while staring at her crush with a sigh of contentment as she dreamed of what life would be like as Madame Uchiha while the resident loudmouth was surprisingly sitting quietly next to a tree trunk almost directly across from Sasuke and reading a scroll from the library on how to make traps. After looking at this peaceful scene between comrades for a moment with Obito's implanted sharingan in order to engrave it into his memory forever, the white haired Jounin slowly walked into his soon-to-be former students' line of sight.

Normally, the red haired terror of the team that so resembled his fiery mother would have dropped his scroll at the sight of their sensei and start pestering Kakashi to learn an awesome jutsu; however he didn't, proving that despite only being out of the Academy for a short while, that the boy had matured a great deal ever since they had returned from the mission to Wave. Even during the small D-rank missions, the Uzumaki's newfound maturity only showed itself by the reduction of his complaints about said missions and the sometimes rude clients.

Instead, Naruto simply looked up at Kakashi and asked, "What's wrong Kakashi-sensei?"

Even though he clearly didn't mean any harm with his statement, the innocent question was like someone had taken a knife and begun twisting it slowly in his chest.

Kakashi gave a sad sigh and forced himself to look at his former students and speak the last words he had to give to them for a long while, "I have been relieved of command for Genin squad seven. The three of you are to report to the Hokage's office immediately where you will be meeting your new squad commander and instructor. Listen to him or her and follow the directions you are given. Also, remember that those who don't follow the rules are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are lower than trash. It has been a pleasure teaching the three of you and I wish you well in your future careers."

Back in the Hokage's office, an Anbu appeared before the old man kneeling with several pieces of tree bark falling around him.

Upon insuring that he was in the correct place and that the office was clear of any traps, the black ops agent bowed his head and said, "You called for me Hokage-sama."

Hiruzen nodded his head as he looked up from his paperwork, "Take off your mask Tenzo-kun. As of this moment you are on permanent stand down from the Anbu black ops. You have been reassigned as genin squad seven's Jounin instructor and you are to carry out this task until all members of your new squad have achieved the rank of Chunin. After that, you will be given the choice to return to the Anbu or remain as a regular Jounin."

The man nodded his head before removing his Tora mask from his face, and quickly placed it on the desk before his superior along with the Anbu corps' standard tanto. "I will do my best to validate your trust in me Lord Hokage. But I do have a question; wasn't it a little drastic to remove Kakashi from his post? After all, none of his squad members were seriously harmed by the mission and there are times when missions have escalated beyond what is expected."

"That is true," Hiruzen said with a sigh as he looked at the brunette Jounin. "And it is also true that there are some missions that can get out of hand, however what happened in the Land of Waves was inexcusable. Kakashi should have called for reinforcements as soon as he realized that someone as high-class as the Demon of the Hidden Mist was sure to be a part of the mission. The Land of Waves is close enough to Konoha that any request could have been sent and the reinforcements would have arrived well before Zabuza-san could have recovered from his fight with Kakashi." Taking a pause, the Hokage took a calming whiff from his pipe, "Newly made genin who have no experience at all in fighting against enemies of Zabuza's caliber have no place being in the middle of an A-class mission; except during wartime situations. What's more, the lack of training that Hatake has given his team beforehand over the past three months shows that he hasn't been taking his responsibility as a teacher as seriously as he should have. I trust that you will not make the same mistakes Tenzo."

Before the former Anbu could respond, the office door swung open and the man's new team quickly barged into the room with a certain red haired menace leading the charge, "Hey Old Man! What's the deal about Kakashi-sensei not being our teacher anymore?"

After a brief chuckle escaped Sarutobi's lips at how much the Uzumaki resembled his mother and godfather before speaking, "Kakashi has been removed as you instructor because of some serious judgement calls that he made during your last mission given the severity of the situation. Try to remember what Hatake did wrong, so that if any of you become Jounin instructors you will know what not to do while with a new squad of fresh genin. Now, Tenzo-kun here will be your new squad instructor. I expect that the three of you will show him the respect and obedience that he deserves."

The brown haired man slowly looked at his three new students while memorizing their faces and once their faces were burned into his memory, he spoke up, "As Sandaime-sama has said I am Tenzo Yamato and I will be your new instructor from this moment on. Since you are still a little shaken up due to the changes in the leader position of your squad, I shall allow you to have this afternoon off from training and missions. However I urge you to take this time to review your current skills in individual training that is independent from one another. Tomorrow you will report to your squad's usual meeting spot at seven A.M. with your full mission gear. You are dismissed."

His new Uchiha student was the first member of the squad of genin to respond to their new leader's order by turning around and walking out the door with his pink haired fangirl following after telling Yamato how pleased she was to meet him. However, Naruto simply remained where he was, evaluating his new sensei with his gaze.

"Do not worry Naruto-san," Yamato said after a short moment of silence between the teacher and student. "I hold no ill will towards you because of the Kyuubi's rampage."

Apparently that was the right thing to say as a small smile covered his whiskered face before the Uzumaki turned around to follow after his teammates, ready to get back to his scroll or train. Whichever came first.

"You may not realize it now Tenzo-kun," Hiruzen said as a smile formed on his wizened face at the sight of the young boy's smile. "But you have just earned yourself Naruto's respect. If I might offer you some advice, do not reveal that you have Mokuton or that it has the ability to suppress the chakra of the beast that resides inside him, Naruto hasn't shown the ability to draw on the Kyuubi's power so far and to tell him that it could get out of control would cause more harm than good in his case; just as it did with his mother when she had her first rampage on her third C-rank mission when Iwa shinobi tried to kidnap her and they murdered her teammate."

Tenzo simply nodded his head to the aged Kage and said, "I agree wholeheartedly, Hokage-sama."

As morning came the next day, the genin of the seventh squad approached their team's training ground to meet with their new instructor in the shinobi arts.

To their surprise, their new team leader was already waiting for them in the middle of the training ground next to the posts that had served as their prison at the end of their bell test with Kakashi.

This scene just served to remind the members of the team that they weren't dealing with their chronologically late sensei anymore and instead Tenzo, who was nodding in approval in their direction, had apparently been waiting for them. Once the three genin were standing in front of him, the newly minted Jounin spoke up, "It is good form to always arrive at or a little before you are supposed to arrive for meetings."

Looking over his new charges Tenzo took a moment to assess their emotions. "Arriving too early or late can lead to major, possibly fatal, problems on an A-or-B-Rank mission. For now however, I would like for you all to sit down in front of me."

Once the genin were seated before him, Tenzo continued on. "There are three things that a Ninja must know if he or she is to successfully complete a mission. First, you must be aware of your strengths and weaknesses. Without an honest understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, you will often times overestimate your abilities which will most likely result in you being killed on a mission. Second, you must be aware of your teammates' strengths and weaknesses. Without this knowledge, you cannot know how your teammates can help with the mission. Finally, you must know how to work with your teammates. Without this knowledge, your team will not be as effective as it can be."

"Since some of you may still overestimate your skills, or underestimate your teammates' skills," Tenzo continued, pleased to note that he had the complete attention of his genin. "We will first focus on becoming aware of our own abilities and deficiencies. Each of you will spar with me using the full extent of your current abilities. Meanwhile your teammates will watch the spars. After each spar you will give your assessment of your skills, then your teammates will give their assessments, and finally I will give my assessment. It will be your responsibility to learn from these assessments and see where you are mistaken in your judgment."

Finished, Yamato looked at the trio of green ninja and calmly stated, "Since Sasuke was the Rookie of the Year he will have to spar with me first. Remember Naruto and Sakura, you must pay attention to this spar and be honest with your assessments."

The two other students nodded their heads while Sasuke got up and headed a little ways away into the grassy meadow. Once he was sure that his other students understood their instructions, he approached the Uchiha and the spar commenced.

At first, by using only taijutsu, the sparing match was even between the Jounin and Genin. In fact, Sakura actually thought that her crush was just as good in taijutsu as their new sensei.

However, Naruto was far more critical about Sasuke's match and quickly caught on to what was happening. Yamato was restricting himself so that he was fighting on Sasuke's skill level.

After a few minutes, Tenzo started to release some of his self-imposed restrictions.

The spar quickly began to take on a whole new level of fight with Naruto not being able to help but be amazed at what he was seeing and Sakura couldn't help being shocked by what she was seeing.

Meanwhile, Sasuke couldn't help but become more and more furious about what was happening to him. Yamato was slowly and ruthlessly taking control of the fight between the two. The team's instructor seemed to be in control of every aspect of the fight. In fact, it was like Tenzo knew where Sasuke would be and what move he would use, almost like he had a sharingan.

It only took about four minutes after that for Sasuke to become fed up with the former Anbu controlling the fight and launched a large fireball from his mouth.

Tenzo simply stood calm in front of the fireball and created a wall of mud without any hand signs to block the Uchiha's attack. On the sidelines, Naruto and Sakura breathlessly watched as their teammates now traded low level ninjutsu.

After a few moments something strange started to happen, Sasuke continued firing his jutsu every which way except for where Naruto, Sakura and Tenzo were. Sighing, Yamato then signaled the other two to be quiet which made them realize that their teammate was under a genjutsu.

Eventually upon feeling that Sasuke had embarrassed himself enough, Tenzo calmly pinned the boy to the ground before breaking the genjutsu and leading Sasuke over to where the other members of team seven were at, and had the Uchiha sit down.

Once Sasuke was seated, the man spoke up, "Tell me Sasuke, what were your mistakes in our spar?"

"Letting you get behind me," the Uchiha growled in a brooding tone, angry at being made a fool of.

"Yeah right baka!" Naruto scoffed as he looked over at his teammate. "You forgot that you were trapped in a genjutsu. There's also the fact that Yamato-sensei completely owned you in taijutsu!"

After that, the world began to once again follow the laws of the seventh squad's dynamics that had been passed down since the time of the sannin; Sakura promptly smashed her fist into the side of Naruto's skull for speaking about her crush like that. "Don't speak to Sasuke-kun like that Naruto-baka! Though he is kind of correct Sasuke-kun, you were caught in a genjutsu for a while."

"Over all you did fairly well for a genin Sasuke," Tenzo said as he made a mental note to break Sakura of her abusive streak towards her red haired teammate. "However, there are a few things you clearly need to work on. First off, you clearly underestimated my skill in taijutsu despite my clear rank of being a Jounin. Often, enemy shinobi and kunoichi will hold back some of their skill to lure an enemy into a false sense of security and make them overconfident. Second, there were a few spots in your taijutsu where you were slow in your defense, making it painfully obvious that you're counting on your clan's dojutsu to tell you when to protect those areas. However, since you don't have the Sharingan yet and we don't know if you'll even awaken it, you shouldn't use that taijutsu style. Finally, your ability to detect subtle genjutsu isn't that good. Once again you are obviously expecting to use the sharingan to detect those genjutsu and you should stop that."

Sasuke silently ground his teeth together at the assessment given by their new teacher while Tenzo motioned for Sakura join him in the field for her turn at the spar.

How could that man, a non-Uchiha, even suggest that he, the only Uchiha left, not use the traditional Uchiha taijutsu style!?

Yamato was practically telling Sasuke that the avenger wouldn't develop the sharingan!

The mere insinuation that Sasuke might not develop the coveted bloodline of his family was tantamount to blasphemy for the young man. All of his forefathers from his father to his great-great-grandfather Madara and beyond had held the sharingan, so Sasuke knew that eventually he'd command the dojutsu as well.

It was all a matter of time…

Because of his brooding at the words of their new sensei, Sasuke completely missed Sakura's fight against Yamato, though calling it a fight was a bit of a stretch. Even the Uzumaki of the team, as much as he hated to admit it, had to acknowledge that their squad's kunoichi's fighting skills were absolutely pathetic.

Sure Sakura had given it her all, but there's only so much a person can do with poor physical conditioning, substandard taijutsu form, small chakra reserves and a very limited arsenal of jutsu that consisted of the Academy three.

Once Yamato had brought her back to sit down and the team, minus Sasuke, finished critiquing the girl's fight, it was Naruto's turn to spar against the former Anbu.

As the Uzumaki approached Tenzo, his thoughts turned to his teammate's fights in an attempt to scavenge a plan that he could use against the man.

One thing that was obvious to Naruto was the fact that Yamato was tough; possibly even stronger then Zabuza or Kakashi. How was he, a fresh genin with limited fighting experience, supposed to defeat someone like that by himself?

Naruto didn't want to admit it, but the mission to the Land of Waves had shown him that he wasn't as great as he had thought for the couple months after his victory against the traitorous Mizuki.

This miniscule amount of maturity gave the young man a flash of inspiration. How was he able to beat or at least weaken stronger ninja in the past? Simple, he had been an unpredictable pain in the ass that annoyed the hell out of everyone.

Maybe some of those tricks could work on the man standing before him? After all, Sasuke had gone by the book in his fight and their new sensei had soundly dominated that spar without a hint of exertion.

When they reached the center of the field, Yamato fixed his brown eyes on the surprisingly silent orange clad genin and wondered what was going through the redhead's skull.

After a moment, when he was unable to get a good read on Naruto, he decided to start the spar. Naturally as usual, Naruto's opening move was to spam the field with dozens of shadow clones, silently impressing the man at the fact that a genin held so much raw chakra.

The next move was for the clones to charge at Yamato before they were methodically destroyed. As a consequence of their destruction, the entire area around the man was hidden from Sasuke's and Sakura's view in a massive cloud of smoke.

The only way the redhead's teammates knew that Tenzo was still slaughtering the clones was the loud poofing sounds that each clone made as it was destroyed.

Once he had taken care of the last shadow clones that had attempted to dogpile him, the new instructor took a defensive stance to stand ready for whatever trick the Uzumaki spawn would be thinking up.

Since Yamato had to do a few 'catch the annoying orange prankster' missions back when he was beginning his Anbu career, the Jounin knew better than to just charge out of the smoke in an attempt to locate the boy. Unlike the team's Uchiha, Naruto would likely use this time to set traps to cause problems for him and Yamato knew that when Naruto took things seriously, the boy could do some pretty impressive things.

The only question Tenzo had at the moment was how seriously was Naruto going to be taking this spar.

As soon as the cloud dissipated, the former Tora Anbu received the answer to his silent inquiry. The young man was surprised by several wind jutsu in the form of Gale Wind Palms and Great Breakthroughs that were shot at him from practically every angle imaginable.

Instead of being caught up in the blitzkrieg of attacks like a rookie, Yamato calmly jumped high into air and discreetly created a set of wooden kunai. In a twisting manner, Tenzo let the kunai fly and each one struck its target.

Amid the pops of the dissipated shadow clones, there was a single thud…

With the young boy's location finally revealed to the Jounin, Tenzo homed in on the spot like a missile. Naruto's momentary surprise at being hit by a blunt wooden kunai was all the time that the new sensei needed.

Landing in front of Naruto, the student and master once again commenced their one on one taijutsu spar with Naruto frantically avoiding the older male's strikes.

Rolling, twisting, jumping, it didn't matter at all to Naruto what he did as long as he avoided the powerful fists aimed at him. A couple of times Naruto had even tried to create some shadow clones, but Yamato never let him have enough time to finish the jutsu beyond the gathering of chakra.

After a few minutes, Yamato decided that he had all that he needed and forced Naruto into submission by wrapping his arm around the boy's neck. He then led the Uzumaki back to where Sasuke and Sakura were sitting. Once Naruto rejoined his teammates, Tenzo spoke, "Now then, what do you two have to say about Naruto's performance?"

"Pathetic, as usual," Sasuke said in a grunt, not caring in anyone's success unless it was his own.

Sakura however was more hesitant in responding than her teammate, but then she quickly agreed with Sasuke. Instead of reacting as he usually would have, Naruto simply sighed, wondering why he still pined after the pinkette if this was how she treated him.

Staring down at the two in disappointment, Yamato sighed, "You two didn't pay any attention to the spar at all. Naruto's initial moves were fairly decent. His only real problem in that part was the fact that he didn't coordinate the attack with the shadow clones too well. On the other hand, Naruto's taijutsu was not as good as I had hoped it would be. The major problem that Naruto has in that area is the fact that he is unsuited for the Tiger Style that is taught at the Ninja Academy. One of the other former academy styles would be more suitable for Naruto."

Intrigued by what he meant by that, Sakura interrupted the man, "But Yamato-sensei, there's only one taijutsu style that's taught at the Academy. What do you mean by former academy styles?"

Their interest peeked, Sasuke and Naruto focused on Tenzo as he raised an eyebrow and answered, "Three years ago the Civilian Council decided to override Hokage-sama by creating a series of Educational reforms for the Academy so that civilian-born children would have more of a chance to graduate. Some of the things, like removing the option of early graduation due to the actions of the renegade Uchiha Itachi, were needed. Sadly, the educational reforms also removed many things from the academy so that everything was much more unified. Among the subjects 'reformed' were the taijutsu classes. Previously, there had been five styles taught at the Academy: Maito Gai's Strong Fist Style along with the Tiger, Panda, Turtle, Hummingbird and Fox Styles. Ever since those reforms, the only style still currently taught at the Academy has been the Tiger Style. Of course, members of the shinobi clans are more than allowed to teach their children their own styles instead of having them rely on the Tiger style."

"Tiger Style is a poor taijutsu style for Naruto because it doesn't make use of his natural agility," Tenzo continued, surprised that he had all of their attention on him. "Although the Hummingbird Style which was used by the Yondaime Hokage would make use of Naruto's agility, he wouldn't do too well with the precision accuracy that the style requires. The Panda and Turtle styles are even more unsuited for Naruto then the first two because one is a grappling style often used for sumo matches and the other is a very defensive style. Therefore, Naruto would be best off learning the Fox style because it combines his direct attitude with his natural agility."

When the man had first mentioned that there was a Fox style, the team's redhead immediately became nervous.

If things were going like Naruto was suspecting they were going, the idiotic villagers that couldn't see past the Kyuubi were about to have another thing they would claim proved he was the demon fox. Sure the Fox style was a style that was apparently a piece of Konoha's history, but when did rational thought ever stop idiots from acting out?

However, as Yamato continued to explain the other styles that were once in the Academy's curriculum, Naruto began to lose some of his nervousness at the thought of possibly learning a style named after the kitsune.

Obviously, Tenzo was simply trying to help him out by picking a taijutsu style that would suit him better than the Tiger style. Sure the name was probably going to give Naruto problems, but he wasn't about to complain. He decided then and there that he'll follow his new teacher's instructions as best he could.

It was only fair considering that Tenzo was trying hard to teach him.

Short while later

Hiruzen was sitting at his desk looking for his extra stash of tobacco for when he ran out, when his old teammates from team Tobirama walked through the previously closed door of his office.

Looking up at their arrival, the old Kage stopped looking for his tobacco when he saw his old teammates, "Koharu, Homura, what can I do for you two today?"

"You could start off by explaining why Hatake-san was removed from his command of genin squad seven," Koharu stiffly demanded as she fixed her old eyes on her former teammate.

Those words immediately caused the Sandaime to narrow his eyes at the two of them, wondering when they had learned of it considering he had only told Kakashi, Tenzo and Team Seven of the changes so far, "I don't see how that particular decision requires any explanation. Jiraiya's report clearly shows that Hatake is not suited for the duty of leading a genin squad. This, plus the fact that team seven's growth as ninja was stunted by Kakashi's half-hearted attempts at training, left me with no choice except for removing Kakashi from the team."

"While Kakashi's behavior during Team 7's recent mission leaves much to be desired," Homura said as he stared at the old Kage. "Both Koharu and I have to question whether it was a wise maneuver to fully remove Kakashi from his squad. After all, he is the only one in the village who can train certain vital skills to the members of that particular squad."

The old Sarutobi simply stared at the two dully before he shook his head, "I will not restore Kakashi to Team Seven simply because of his transplanted eye. The dojutsu of the Uchiha clan is a tool to be used, nothing more and nothing less. Besides, we don't even know for sure if Sasuke-chan will even activate the sharingan, not every Uchiha was able to activate it, as we all know from our experience with Toshiro-kun when his team interacted with ours in the first war. Even if the boy activates the sharingan, he has the scrolls of his clan's library to train with. Should he prove unable to use his clan scrolls, then Kakashi can give him a few pointers."

Both of the elders had to admit that the old monkey summoner had backed them into a corner. They had been sure that they could convince Hiruzen to at least reassign Kakashi to the squad as an assistant instructor. After all, it was imperative that Konoha regain the sharingan as a viable bloodline quickly. Since Kakashi was the only person in the village with a sharingan eye, he obviously was the only person who could teach Sasuke about the sharingan.

However, the man's words now had the two elders worried about more than just getting Kakashi back on the Uchiha's team.

What if Hiruzen was correct?

What if Sasuke didn't develop his clan's legendary and renowned dojutsu?

The two elders suddenly became very nervous as they remembered that the chance of activating the sharingan drastically reduced for each generation that didn't activate it. What if the sharingan became lost?

They were really beginning to regret forcing Itachi to kill off every Uchiha except for his brother…

The Sandaime barely kept himself from smiling when he saw his teammate's discomfort. It might be juvenile of him, but he couldn't help himself from enjoying the discomfort being shown on their faces at the thoughts he had given her.

While he was friendly enough with his former teammates, there was also an undercurrent of friction between him and them ever since they had begun choosing time and again to always favor Danzo's militaristic views instead of the peace Hiruzen and his toad using student sought. Especially with the Uchiha Massacre, there was absolutely no reason to order Itachi to kill every man, woman and child in the clan, just killing the ringleaders and main supporters of the coup de at would have been enough.

After letting the duo stew for a minute, the Sarutobi spoke up again, "While I appreciate this reunion between teammates, I'm afraid that our little chat will have to come to an end. As you know, this infernal paperwork breeds faster than rabbits if I don't attend to it. Please do come whenever you like if you discover something that needs to be brought to my attention."

The two immediately caught on to the old monkey's hidden message and dismissal before they both left quietly.

Omake (Sexy Jutsu):

As Naruto approached Yamato for the spar he would be fighting, the redhead thought about Sasuke and Sakura's fights. One thing that was obvious to him was the fact that Tenzo was tough; possibly even tougher than Zabuza or Kakashi. How was he supposed to defeat someone like that by himself? Naruto didn't want to admit it, but the trip to Wave had shown Naruto that he wasn't as great as he had thought.

This minuscule bit of maturity gave Naruto a flash of inspiration. How was he able to beat or at least weaken stronger ninjas' in the past? Simple, he had been an unpredictable pain in the ass.

Maybe some of those same tricks could work on Yamato?

After all, Sasuke went by the book and Tenzo soundly dominated that spar.

Yamato had his eyes fixed on Naruto and wondered what was going through the Uzumaki's head. After a moment, Tenzo was unable to get a good read on Naruto, but he decided to start the spar. To the man's surprise, Naruto immediately jumped backwards and shouted out, "Shadow clone jutsu!"

Before the Jounin could attack the clones, all of the clones shouted out, "New Sexy Jutsu: Lesbian Orgy no jutsu!"

It was just too much for the poor man.

All around him were dozens of different women with various different sized breasts in various intimate poses.

The hospital quickly certified that he had died of massive nasal hemorrhaging. After news about how that had been caused got around, all of the men in Konoha moved very carefully around Naruto, while certain women like a certain snake using kunoichi would give him contemplative looks.

Hey guys, I hope you all loved this chapter, I am sorry for the late time that I am finally putting this up, I just got carried away with reading other fanfictions and being caught up in writing other ideas and work.

That is all for now.

Iskander Mandoraekon signing off, Ja Ne.