It was summer when harry had finally found a working genjutsu that fooled his clones who even knew they were being manipulated. And now that harry could make a total of six clones and had four constantly training. He felt confident in his ability to make one overpowered clone that would be able to make three others. He had slowly acquired a couple hundred pound and felt that would be more than enough to buy several sets of kunai and shuriken. Even if he had to have them commissioned.

It had taken a full day and night of cautious travel for 'Harry' to arrive in London and had to create one clone replacement already. Transforming into the disguise that he had been working on for the last couple months 'Harry' walked in the store. He spent a few minutes walking around the place before someone came out from the back to help him. "Hello welcome to Smith's Smiths'. Is there anything I can help you with?" 'Harry' walked up to the man with a confident smile. "Hello Tom Archer nice to meet you. I was actually in the neighborhood and thought I might get a gift for my cousin in the states. He's big into knife throwing competitions and I was wondering if you had any Japanese traditional shuriken and kunai." The man behind the counter under a slight genjutsu to trust 'Tom's' story smile friendly and nodded. Yeah we have a few set of those just for show I made them mind you but they are well balanced and would work well with what you need. Just need a bit of id and they're all yours."

Fifteen minutes later 'Tom' walked out of Smith's Smiths' with two bags full of foam wrapped equipment. He had had to adapt a new genjustu when the man had went to photo scan his 'id'. But it had worked well and proved to himself that he could adapt on the fly which was good to know. Stepping into an alley he pulled out the storage scroll he had been sent with and stored his buy before dropping the transformation and heading home.

Thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk. Harry smiled at the sight of all his shuriken in a tight group in the base of the tree he had scratched his bulls eye in. he had been surprised when he had started this new training regimen at how natural it came to him. He could throw shuriken nearly as well as he could Kunai. He was even throwing while doing backflips and jumping from tree to tree. Now he was ready to bring clones into the equation and practice on moving targets while engaged in three on one combat. This last month had seen him in near constant tiajutsu training with his clones and he had to say he was getting very good at keeping up with up to three at a time. With a replacement jutsu here and there he was near undefeatable to his copies.

'Congratulations, you are now up to ten shadow clones, and meet the requirements for the Chunnin level training program. Keep up the good work.' Harry read with a smile. Another year had come and gone and he had been refining all his skills and over the last two months had gotten the last scrolls from the gennin level scroll. An introduction to Fuinjutsu. Along with a warning about as long as his arm. It seemed that arguably the most powerful and most difficult Shinobi art was undoubtedly the most dangerous to learn. Even the simplest of seals such as storage scrolls could kill the creator if not handled exactly.

Another poof of smoke and a small slip of paper fell out of the storage seal on his palm. In small writing it said. 'Channel chakra into me.' He had read about this. It was chakra paper used to find the individuals natural affinity. Depending on the results of the paper after you channeled chakra into it would decide you affinity. Wasting no more time in contemplation Harry channeled his chakra. The result surprised him some. It seemed he had competing elements. Fire, air, and earth. He had read having even more than one element was rare but having three. And air and fire were conflicting elements. Fire overpowered air.

It had been a month since school had let out and Harry was having difficulties with his chakra manipulation leaf exercise. He had taken to creating all twelve clones he could maintain while still having adequate reserves for his own training which had become much harder with the gravity seals he had just received from the storage scroll. He would have three clones working on each element two on his tiajutsu and the last would continue his jutsu training it was said that when a jutsu was mastered you could use as little as one hand seal. He had went from six to three with the replacement jutsu and from seven to three with the transformation jutsu. It still took full hand seals for the genjutsu's he had learned. So settled for also training the speed at which he could use hands seals without error.

The three nature manipulations were exactly even. Which gave credence to his continued assumption that he may have access to storm release. But progress was still very slow. He could get the edges of his leafs to both curl and dampen but only slightly. The process was meant to take up to a year to accomplish and wasn't exactly needed to perform some of the lower level attacks for the elements. But he was hoping with three times his number doing the exercises that he would have had more progress. Not letting himself become discouraged he returned to his laps around the park before cooling down doing his tiajutsu kata's.

Harry had pushed himself to the brink of exhaustion every night and it was paying dividends. He had learned several new jutsu. The Great fireball technique, phoenix flame jutsu, fire dragon jutsu, great break through jutsu, gale palm, wind blade, earth dome wall. And the mud clone. He was far from mastering any one of the but now that he knew them he had clones working with them every day to reduce chakra improve control and reduce the number of hand seals.

His physical training was also coming along well he had recently moved up a level with the gravity and resistance seals. He was mixing in his two tiajutsu styles well and closing up any weakness in his combined style. He practiced his shurikenjutsu everyday as well working in some ninja wire that was real just a thin steel cable he had bought from a hardware store. He could now wrap one of his clones on the run from shoulder to foot.