Author's note

April.

Character ages

Naegi - 9

Sasuke - 8

Sakura - 9

Lee - 9

Naruko - 8

Hinata - 8


1 year later

Academy.

8:00

(Third person)

Today was graduation day for students at the academy and yet again there would be early graduates while not as young as the previous one they made up in being more than just one this time around.

"Yukio Shimora." Iruka called out and a boy with dark blue hair walked into the examination room hoping to get his forehead protector. He was mad when he didn't get one for not being able to do a minor genjustu. Not as mad as his dad would be when he got back.

No one in his family ate dinner that night.

"Hinata Hyuuga." Hearing her name a girl with dark blue hair got up from her seat next to her friend with two different hair colors.

"Good luck Hinata. Not that you'd need it." Naegi told Hinata as she got up to go to the examination room. Th exams usually consist of just using the academy basic three but as of late it's becoming obvious that those aren't the only skills needed in the field as fresh gennin kunai accidents have been at an all time high and Konoha doesn't want to have to change their motto to 'Konoha we practically kill ourselves'.

Hinata walked off to the examination room. She walked out a little while later with a blue headband tied around her neck signifying her status as a kuniochi of Konoha. She went back and took her seat next to her friend who was still waiting for his turn.

"Good job Hinata I knew you could do it." Naegi said as he continued to wait for his turn to put on his forehead protector. He already had one in one of his scrolls. He just couldn't wear it until the day he actually became a ninja of Konoha.

"Naegi." Hearing his name Naegi mouthed a finally and quite literally jumped out from his seat and hopped across the desks towards the examination room where two examiners were waiting for him.

"Alright for the physical portion we want you to hit as many targets as you can with ten kunai." Nodding Naegi picked up ten of the kunai and hit them all on the mark earning approving nods from the examiners all that was usually needed was to hit in the inner ring and prove you won't stab yourself with it.

"Alright now we want you to try to put us in a genjustu." Naegi did a minor genjustu making the room under go a color palette swap of various bright neon colors and random textures. The examiners nodded but not with as much approval this time as what use is changing the color of everything going to do all that was needed was to put them in a genjustu what it was is not important.

Marking him down with an one and a half in genjustu they went into another room with logs strewn about the place."For the final portion we want you to perform the basic academy three justus substitute, clones, henge."

Naegi started out by creating his limit of two shadow clones surprising the examiners it was a jonin level technique. Next Naegi used a single hand seals to substitute himself out with a nearby log. Returning to his original position he performed one of Naruko's special transformations. Nodding impressed at the demonstration they put him down as a three and a half in ninjustu and a four in hand seals one of the examiners moved up to prepare for the final part of the exam taijustu.

"Alright come at me with everything you've got." the examiner slipped into an academy style taijustu stance and prepared for battle.

Nodding Naegi charged at the examiner leading off with a low sweep kick. The examiner back stepped it and used his superior height to send a punch towards Naegi's face. Ducking under it Naegi attempted to punch the examiners knee being punished with his arm getting twisted behind him and a kunai held to his throat ending the match. Having no choice Naegi tapped out knowing that moving would give him a painful, but not fatal, cut on his throat regeneration or not cut hurt like a bitch.

The other examiner put him down as a two in taijustu, a one point five in strength, a three in stamina, and a two point five in speed. Taking in his earlier test submission and situation awareness he has at most a three point five in intelligence. Combining the scores he totaled out to a twenty two. It was good for a kid his age and met the requirements of passing early. It seemed like they had a recent increase in prodigy ninja among clan heirs this year.

The examiners motioned for him to get one of the headbands on the table all of them navy blue in color. The examiners were surprised however when he just reached into his pocket and pulled out a heavily worn black headband. Wondering where he got something like that they figured the kid found some dead ninja's forehead protector and called in the next person as he walked outside.

"Sasuke Uchiha."

Walking out Naegi was passed by Sasuke Uchiha on his way out and the two shot a quick glare at each other before continuing on each others way. The two have had a rivalry with each other at their time in the academy. Naegi would win in the intelligence and ninjustu departments while Sasuke had the physical departments. The two didn't know why they had chosen to antagonize each other. Naegi would tell you that Sasuke was the enemy and he needed to be better than him to protect his friends. Sasuke would tell you he wouldn't let some kid with weird two toned hair beat him.

"Good job Naegi-san." Hinata congratulated Naegi on his success on being a ninja. After all with the help of Lee and Naruko-san she had graduated early and she doubted she would of gotten rid of her confidence issues without their help.

"Well of course I did I am going to be the biggest bad ass after all after all." Naegi said looking smug about his accomplishment at the age of nine.

"Of course you are Naegi-san." Hinata said already used to her friends egotistical tendencies. He had helped her become more confident in herself. "Would the great bad ass Naegi like to go get dango?" Hinata already knew what his answer was.

"Oh hell yes let's go." Naegi said without pause and in the same beat rushed off with Hinata close behind him to get to the nearest dango stall. Arriving there Naegi immediately ordered ten dango sticks to celebrate his new ninja promotion and gave Hinata the two she asked for. The two took there dango sticks and sat on a bench outside.

"So Hinata are your parents going to do anything special for your graduation?" Naegi asked. He was hoping that someone was doing something special that he could attend with it gets lonely not having parents sometimes. Who doesn't like to go out and celebrate being an over achiever?

"Ah no in fact they've renounced my status as heir." Naegi didn't register what she said for a couple seconds, but when he did he was outraged. Why had they'd done that Hinata was a better ninja compared to her original self what happened to cause them to completely shun her this time?

"Why would they do that you're a already a ninja, much better than that Neji dickhead." Naegi had seen Hinata a couple of times after Neji had sparred with her and he immediately decided the guy was a total dick. At least until Naruto told him to work that stick out of his ass using his special talk no justu skill. He really hoped that gets reinvented soon.

"Ah well there is a couple of reasons. For one my behavior is not of a Hyuuga considering that I am still much kinder than your average Hyuuga and the fact that i'm constantly around people 'lower'," Hinata added quotation marks around that word. "than me and they recently found out about how I also use ninjustu and that is unfitting of a Hyuuga. Then there's the fact i'm not doing as well as Neji-san when it comes to using the gentle fist. When I go home today they'll brand me with the curse mark since they think i'm a disgrace of a heir." Hyuuga very heavily frown on the use of ninjustu and doing so will result in the entire clan looking down on you in shame. She was honestly lucky they didn't just disown her.

"Sorry Hinata it's my fault this has happened." Feeling downtrodden that her family was going to discard Hinata just like that simply because she wanted to use more than just the gentle fist. At the time relying more on than just her taijustu skills seemed like a good idea. she was actually good at using lightning affinity.

Hinata didn't want to make Naegi feel bad when he had helped her gain confidence in herself besides it was like he said she was a better ninja than she could of been so she didn't regret it. "It's okay it's not your fault. they probably would of put it on me even if I didn't do those things." Hinata hoped these words would cheer him up.

Those words made Naegi feel worse considering the fact he knew they wouldn't if he hadn't interfered. His actions caused Hinata to become ostracized by her family. She eventually would of become a great shinobi on her own and live a happy life as the heir to the Hyuuga clan without ever receiving a caged bird seal.

Hinata seeing that her attempts at making Naegi cheer up failed and only made him feel worse decided not to say anything further and the two sat on the bench uncomfortable with an increasingly uncomfortable silence in the air.

"So whose team will you think you'll be on?" Hinata asked hoping to relieve the tension she honestly didn't like it since it wasn't really normal for it to be this uncomfortable. Se did wonder whose team she would be on this year from what she heard Sasuke got the rookie of the year title mainly due to Naegi not showing up most of the year. She herself got kuniochi of the year while Naegi was a dead last due to his many absences.

"Well you and Sasuke Uchiha will be on my team since it's tradition." Naegi explained not bothering to go into the details of why. He honestly hoped he wasn't on Sasuke's team he was a traitor and he wished that Naruto had killed him in the original series because he didn't understand why someone would just betray their best friend like that and try to kill everything they cared for.

"What tradition?" Hinata wasn't aware of any tradition between Uchihas, Hyuugas, and random orphans. Both clans hated each other with a passion. Hinata would say it's like magnetic forces in that the same forces repel each other. In this case the forces are both over arrogant, stoic, jerks, who care way to much about their eyeballs to be called healthy.

"You're top kunoichi, i'm the dead last, and Sasuke is the rookie of the year." Being dead last didn't mean you didn't do good enough to pass. it just meant you had some of the lowest scores of your graduating class. It really didn't effect much as long as you pass the twenty or above requirement so you could graduate early they really didn't care.

"Oh that's why." Hinata looked at the sun and noticed that daytime would soon be over judging from the now fading orange glow into dark night black. She sighed and got up from her position on the bench, she couldn't avoid going home forever and she doubted they would allow her to just stay at someone else's house tonight. "Sorry Naegi-san but I must go home tonight." She really didn't want to go from what she's seen from Neji these things inflict a lot of pain.

"Hinata don't worry i'm getting into sealing just bring me as much as you can on curse marks and I should eventually figure out a way to get rid of it as soon as I can." He already had plans to remove curse marks anyway those things were plagues no matter who they came from whether it be Danzo, Orochimaru, or the Hyuuga's.

Hinata didn't know why but she believed that Naegi was telling the truth about being able to get rid of the seal and smiled maybe getting it wouldn't be so bad if she could help everyone else get theirs removed as well. Resolving herself with a new mission she went home and made plans to steal some of the scrolls on the caged bird seal.

Now left with himself Naegi had no idea what to do. He could go home but that sage mode plant became sentient a while ago and now acts like a nagging housewife. The worst part is that it can communicate through his mind when he is in range so he can't even pretend like he isn't listening. Naegi can't tell other people of course for fear they'll lock him up in an insane asylum.

It's name was Shelia. Naegi didn't know why or how but it had a name.

Deciding that he would have to go home eventually he had decided to just go home and face the music eventually he sulked off towards home not looking forward to the scolding he would get for returning late. Arriving there he was immediately tripped on his face by the killer plant and yelled at for returning home late.

"Yeah yeah I know I was busy eating dango."

Naegi regretted saying that because the plant then went off on a rant about how dango was bad for you and that he shouldn't eat so much of it. Naegi just tuned it out and got ready for bed he really didn't want to get a lecture from a plant he created. If only sage mode didn't prevent it from dying of dehydration his life would be so much easier. He decided that training for a fire affinity was more important than ever so he could burn that motherfucking plant into the ground it was starting to become a pain in his ass.

*CRACK*

Naegi rubbed his ass after the plant got done whipping it, now it was a literal pain in his ass. 'Fuck you too Sheila' he thought.


The next day at the academy.

The next day at the academy Naegi made sure to bring a pillow to sit down on since his ass was still sore from last night damn senjustu enhanced vine whip attack now he feels bad for water pokemon. Hey that's an idea he's a mudkip and Shelia's a snivy using vine whip hitting him for four times effective damage and that's why it hurts so much. His thougths continued like this until it moved onto more than just him and the plant. By the time Hinata had walked in he had an enitre translation for all the named characters and their pokemon equivalents and stopped when he saw Hinata. He looked at Hinata's forehead protector and a flash of guilt took over him as he realized she was probably hiding the caged bird mark under their.

"Naegi-san don't look at me like that. I don't want pity i'm still my same strong self and you don't need to feel bad over it what's happened has happened." Hinata said. She had been getting those looks from people outside the clan who had heard the news and she didn't like being being looked upon like she was weak. She most certainly didn't want to see it from the first person to tell her that she was powerful.

"Sorry but you know me shamelessly doting over my friends like a mother hen." Naegi acknowledged it he really was worried and the guilt continued to eat at him it was his fault after all. It would stay until he had eventually got rid of that thing. In his mind it was a when and not an if.

Hinata sighed that was true Naegi lacked a sense of self preservation and would more than likely throw his life away to give his friends one more second of life. "I know but please stop you are going to help me remove these from the branch house one of these days. Speaking of here is all I could get on the seal." Hinata pulled out copies she made of the caged bird seal designs and gave them to Naegi.

Naegi took them and looked at them carefully. The way curse seals work is that when used they command what ever that body part controls. Orochimaru puts his on the neck because that is where the cervical cortex is and allows it to affect the entire body. Danzo does the tongues to silence his members. Hyuugas do the frontal lobe to cause mental pain and shut down eyesight.

Curse seals are also extremely veritable could range from making a person stay silent or be used to inflict major pain on the person receiving it. If someone was skilled enough at sealing like Minato or Jiraiya they could just make it to where they could command complete obedience over their target. It was for this reason seal masters were feared and that the Uzumaki clan was destroyed in the end the thought of a single village having the possibility to just control all of the village leaders and control them was too big a risk to allow them to live. Not that he condones mass genocide over a possibility. Speaking of the place he would have to visit there later to see what juicy seals they have there.

"Today you shall become ninja of the strongest village of all the nations," Naegi nearly burst out laughing at that. Konohagakure was second place at the most and third at the least the only thing they really have is bodies and decent training programs. Kumogakure had less bodies but they had quality over quantity and most fresh ninja there were better than your average Konoha gennin due to their better academic training. they also had a better economic situation than Konoha allowing better funding for ninjas.

Iwagakure didn't have as many soldiers, but yet again they learned from their past mistake know in Iwa as 'That time the yellow flash fucked us up by himself.' a thousand scrubs do not equal one good ninja. So they pooled at lot of their money and resources into bettering their military forces and was better than Konoha in that department.

If Kirigakure got their heads out of their ass and realized that having Hitler as a leader and slaughtering their own ninjas they would be a better country. Hey guys just so you know two good ninjas are better than one good ninja. If the other good ninja lost to the other one that doesn't mean he is weak just that he has a disadvantage. Killing your own special Kekkai genkais isn't the best idea either. Then again the Kaguya clan did try to kill you all. Maybe people would take more missions from you if you weren't know as the village that kills each other.

At least they weren't Sunagakure. No one really wants to travel into a dry desert area of death, doom, and despair when you can have a relaxing trip through Konoha's neutral climate it's a pretty easy decision between a ginat scorpion poking at your desecrated corpse or seeing cute little monkeys in the tree's. Then there's the fact you constantly have your jinchuuriki go one rampages through your town. So emotionally damaging a weapon is a bad idea and would result in heavy damages to our infrastructure, forces, and reputation as a whole? Who would of thought? Every smart person ever.

"You will all be put in teams of three with a jonin sensei. Please wait for your sensei to show up when you team is called. The graduating class had gathered in their old class room and sat down so they could listen to their team placements. Most of them were aware how team setups usually go in was to balance out team member strength. Hyuugas, Inuzukas, and Aburames were usually together if Konoha needed a tracker team. Ino-Shika-Cho with a Sarutoi sensei existed because of a longstanding tradition between the clans due all the way back to a treaty formed during the warring clans era. however seeing as there weren't any Yamanaka, Naras, or Inzukas and mostly just civilian kids and a couple of Uchiha's.

"Team one Junko Hatabi, Tsume Hifume, Hibari Akane. jonin sensei Shura Shiro" Team ones usually were fodder teams that usually fail due to them having a lack of talent. If they do end up turning into a team they usaully don't last long in the field and those that do take on support roles mainly since most didn't turn out that well in the field.

"Team five Izuna Jinnai, Mahiru Takeyeba, Rio Anri. Jonin sensei Gekko Hayate." Team two's were either hit or miss and really wasn't anything spectacular. Though unlike team ones they at least produced occasionally good ninjas like our very own Anko Mitarashi. Even if she is a bit mentally unstable.

"Team seven Hajime Uchiha, Yukine Bon, and Rin Inuzuka, jonin sensei Kakashi Hatake." That team was going to fail most jonin thought at seeing it. The council usually put Uchiha's with Kakashi since he was a sharingan user himself, but his combined lateness with the addition of Uchiha's natural ability to piss off anybody they come across usually resulted in bad team relations from the start. It was necessary to drill teamwork into team sevens they were usually good teams but ended up split apart somehow due to a lack of teamwork if the previous sannin and Minato's team had anything to say.

"Team nine Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuuga, and Naegi. Jonin sensei Yamato." The three turned to look/glare at each other and they all silently agreed to sit next to each other. They figured they might as well get to know each other before anything else.

The final teams to be called were teams ten, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, and eighteen. The jonin sensei's eventually all came to pick up their students and about halfway through the teams a man with short brown hair and a happuri style forehead protector showed up in the doorway.

"Team nine I'm your sensei meet me on the roof." Leaving no room for argument he body flickered up to the roof and team nine followed him up the stairs as well. Standing on the other end of the roof Yamato was waiting for his students to finally walk up the stairs. He really didn't want to take on a team but with the recent reveal of another wood release user he needed to help train him or at least make sure he was competent enough not to accidentally turn himself into a tree. He would of just taken him in as an apprentice but the hokage wanted to make sure he knew the importance of teamwork. If there's one thing he was glad about form his time with Danzzo it was that he wasn't required to teach anybody.

"Alright then we're going to start off with introductions since it is Konoha's tradition. My name is Yamato and I like architecture, trees, Kakashi, and Yukine. I dislike people who abandon their comrades and people who don't take being a ninja very seriously. My hobbies include using wood release to create houses and I have no dream right now." Sasuke took interest once he said that he was in possession of wood release. No one was in possesion of that.

Naegi sneezed into his grey sleeve.


Meanwhile

Obito was having a discussion with a white Zetsu clone when he had sneezed. He couldn't get colds and no one knew of his real identity so why had he'd sneezed he wondered?


Back to them.

Hinata started looking in between the two trying to find a resemblance between them but she could find none. Naegi on multiple occasions used his wood release capabilities to escape the police and so she already knew about them but was under a vow of secrecy. Being a Hyuuga she knew a bit about keeping kekkai genkai secret and simply went along with it.

"You with the two toned hair your next." Yamato motioned for Naegi got off the bench and moved forward in order to introduce himself.

"My name is Naegi, I lik- no love dango and seals, I like fruits but mainly strawberries and grapes, my friends, and ramen. I disli-no I fucking hate," Yamato wondered where he had heard that word. "Shelia and carrots, poisons, snakes, Danzo, Madara, Orochimaru, and back stabbing bastards." The last one was said with a quick glance at Sasuke. "My hobbies are planting and training and my dream is to be a bad ass ninja one of these days." Naegi finished and sat down on the bench.

Yamato took in this information with some confusion. Nothing in this kids profile said anything about having an encounter with Orochimaru or Madara and snakes usually refer to the former. He was almost recruited by Danzo but apparently already hated him before that. The kid also had no sort of history of being poisoned or betrayed. The planting made since due to the wood style and everything else made sense. Although who the hell was Shelia? That wasn't exactly a common name for anyone in the shinobi nations let alone the leaf village.

"Alright then the Hyuuga next." Yamato motioned to Hinata to come up and introduce herself.

My name is Hinata Hyuuga. I like my friends, lilacs, and dango. I hate being weak, and assholes." Yamato almost let his face drop. He wasn't expecting such words to come out of a the ex-Hyuuga clan heir mouth. Why did he have a two foul mouths on his team. "My hobbies involve training and my dream is to change the Hyuuga caln house traditions." Hinata realized that if something doesn't eventually change they'll end up dying out in the end. She was glad at the chance to use ninjustu and it had increased her close range skills immensely than if she just used the normal taijustu style. The clan however figured out she mixed ninjustu into their style when she had used it and beat Neji in a spar and their hard-ons for tradition made them scorn her for corrupting the normal Hyuuga style.

Yamato nodded seeing that everything was normal with what she said. After all most of the branch house mebers never approved of that cursed seal and being someone who had one albeit one that wasn't active he understood wanting to change tradition a bit. Yamato motioned to the Uchiha clan member.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha," Sasuke wondered if he should tell them his likes or dislikes after all he didn't really like Naegi that much but Hinata was a nice enough person. Deciding that he would have to deal with it he made his decision. "I like tomatoes, nii-san, and kaa-san." Sasuke mentally debated whether or not to tell how he dislikes Naegi. Seeing that he didn't express how he dislike Sasuke took it as on offer of peace and relented saying it. "I dislike being looked down on and annoying fangirls." If there was one thing Sasuke was glad about was that there was no fangirls to bug him constantly. "My hobbies are training and my dream is to surpass my nii-san." Sasuke was told a little while ago by his tou-san that he was already on the path to do that since he graduated early.

When he had first met Naegi he was surprised that some random clanless kid surpassed him in both ninjustu and taijustu skills. Being beat by some orphan didn't sit well with him so he threw himself, literally in some casses, into his training and managed to get moved up.

Processing all his information he quickly came up with his observations of his teams personalities and quirks. Naegi was going to be the most trouble for him since the kid seemed like the most goofy of them all. Bad luck he needed to tutor him in wood style at least he had good enough sense to wear mostly light grey and black. He didn't know what he would do if he wore bright colors. The Hyuuga seemed like she was going to be the one stopping most of the fights between the two and just making sure the other two didn't kill each other he wasn't blind he saw the glares they gave each other. Sasuke seemed alright but from the fact he wanted to surpass his brother and was an Uchiha prodigy he would have to keep an eye on him to make sure Danzo or Orochimaru never got anywhere close to him. At least one of his students were of the danger of those two.

"Alright then when you go home pack enough to last for a week." For what Yamato had planned he would only need at most three days but hey better be prepared for the worst.

"What are we going to do?" Naegi asked. He was only really aware of what Kakashi does for his students and he was quite confident that the bell test was a team seven only thing.

Sasuke resisted scoffing he didn't want to make relations bad already. Doesn't mean he was able to keep the Uchiha superiority out of his voice. "Isn't obvious survival training he needs to test us if we're going to be on his team." Sasuke was made aware of the test by his brother when he heard he graduated.

"Correct during the time i'll be watching you to see if you are able to be on my team so we'll be going to training ground forty four." Yamato's constant mental link with wood clones would monitor them and make sure they didn't run into something they couldn't handle.

"That's bullshit you can't have us go there." Naegi was well aware of what training ground 44 was and he wanted to avoid that place at all costs. The thought of a giant tiger attempting to eat him was unnerving. The fact the forests was full of plants possibly more murderous than Shelia was also a massive no-no.

Yamato looked at Naegi and him a ghoul like stare. "Is there a problem with the way I teach maybe I should use fear to control you instead of asking nicely." Yamato wasn't an idiot the only purpose of this test was to see them in a what they think was a life or death situation. He already made the decision to pass them a while ago. They all had demonstrated a high level skill and teamwork was something he could work on while they were a team.

"No, no that's okay." Naegi had seen faces like that before usually they ended with someone getting stabbed, repeatedly. Reincarnation may exist but he wouldn't go through the womb again.

Seeing that his method worked Yamato nodded he found the way to keep his student disciplined. "Alright then meet me there at seven tomorrow for those of you who aren't aware it's over there past the chuunin examiner building." he pointed towards the northeast section of Konoha just to be sure you can never be to careful. Positive his students knew where to go he body flickered out of there. He had had to set up his cottage.

When he left Naegi calmly voiced his concerns out loud. "Of all the places he had to choose why there?" He screamed grabbing his head.

Sasuke and Hinata weren't aware of why Naegi was so downtrodden about training ground forty four. Naegi-san what's so bad about training ground forty four?" Naegi looked at Hinata in fearful shock did she really not know the horror of that place.

"It's a chuunin level area it's name is ominous enough." Naegi held his head in his hands in defeat he might as well prepare for death now.

It was Sasuke's turn to ask his question. "Why what's it called."

Naegi turned to Sasuke. "It's called the..."


"...The Forest of death." Yamato said pointing to the canopy of tress and wildlife behind him which only continued to grow more ominous with each passing moment. Naegi was thankful that none of the wildlife figured out the secret to forming cognitive though processes. Then again he was only told by Shelia that none of them could think she said nothing about them not trying to kill him.

Sasuke was lucky enough that his older brother was home today and asked him about the forest of death and what exactly did it do to earn it's name. Sasuke listened to everything his older brother had to say about the forest and the thought his own prodigy older brother was worried about going into that place. Sasuke di not sleep easy that night after being told what was possibly in that forest.

Hinata followed Naegi home so he could hand her some of his storage scrolls for easy packing and told her all about the forest of death and it's possible living murderous plant life and scarred the wits out of poor little Hinata. He assured her that the three of them should work together and watch each others back if that doesn't work he'll have wood clones patrol the forest to make sure nothing too bad got close to them.

"As I said before you're crazy as hell." Naegi said. He protested heavily against going anywhere near there before they were there. Sasuke and Hinata nodded in agreement. That place was too spooky for them.

"Oh maybe I should just throw you in there and leave you to die." Yamato said glaring at Naegi. Naegi shook his head in disapproval and lowered his head in defeat. Seeing that his scare tactics were effective he walked them over to entrance gate one the least dangerous of them all. Make no mistake the place was still pretty bad inside just less so from this angle. "You will stay here for for two days and end at noon on the second day, before anyone protests about packing for a week I'd rather you'd be safe than sorry." Yamato was a bit worried that two of his students didn't have any backpack but hearing that one of them liked seals he assumed that he had storage seals and the third one was left out.

Looking at each other and gaining resolve the three nodded in silent agreement and prepared to walk into the forest of death as the gates opened.


Outskirts of Konoha.

On a grassy hill overlooking Konoha a certain red headed Uzumaki and a white haired toad sage were overlooking the city in the distance. They were almost there and there last stretch of the trip. They would only be there for a week or so.


"I want you to kill all of the clan ninjas and leave only the best of the clan kids alive." Itachi sighed as he recalled the orders Danzo had given him earlier. He was glad he didn't absolutely have to kill everybody in the clan but murder was something he really didn't want to do. At least Danzo would follow his orders on leaving his little brother alone.

Itachi sighed he was going to murder his own parents and leave his brother scarred for life in a couple of hours. He wouldn't even see him before he left since he had to absolutely do it tonight and he wouldn't be able to escape from Anbu when they showed up and send Sasuke in the Tsukuyomi. At least he wouldn't see his parents dead.

Itachi decided to change his plans for Sasuke, If he couldn't make him seek him out for vengeance now he would have him seek him out for answers instead. Already working out the details of his plan Itachi began his preparations for the massacre of his clan tonight when he ran into a strange man with an orange spiral mask.


End note.

Surpass =/= kill

I want to try to keep these in the 4 to 7,000 range so I had to cut this off and split it into two parts. Sorry for the massive build up in the end that got left on a cliffhanger. I'll try to make sure the next chapter is satisfying.

Hinata came up with her own style of the clan taijustu style. A style from withing a style, styleception.

I'm thinking of sticking to writing mostly in third person from this point on. I feel like I write better when I do. Let me know what you think.

I honestly wasn't exactly sure where the massacre took place so I said a little after Sasuke turned eight just to be safe. Kishimoto really needs to detail some this shit it's annoying trying to find details that aren't there

Team Yamato

Naegi (Ninjustu, support), Sasuke Uchiha (genjustu, taijustu), Hinata Hyuuga (Taijustu, ninjustu) Leader Yamato.

Hinata Hyuuga

Dark blue hair, Pale hoodie jacket with the Hyuuga clan symbols on the various parts, dark blue pants and sandals, blue forehead protector on her forehead.

Likes: Dango, her friends, liliacs.

Dislikes: Being weak or seen as weak, people who are mean for no reason.

Hobbies: training

Dreams: Getting rid of the branch house system of the Hyuuga.

taijustu 3.5

Ninjustu 2.5

genjustu 2

strength 2

intelligence 3

speed 3.5

hand seals 3

Stamina 2.5

total: 22

affinity: Lightning

Specialties: taijustu, (Sensing) (Byakugan)

Eight trigrams thirty two palms, palm lightning nerve attack, Eight trigrams sixteen palms, lightning style: Palm beast lightning attack, Lightning release electromagnetic murder, palm bottom, eight-two palms.

Justu info

Palm lightning nerve attack

Rank C offensive kekkai genkai

The user focuses lightning into their palm and directly strike an enemy with it causing nerve damage and can even damage chakra coils if targeted properly. However if used improperly the user can damage their own hands severely thus the aid of a byakugan is needed to perform the technique to it's fullest.

(This was made because the lighting release would work very well with the gentle fist style.)

The poll currently.

Naruko - 25

Hinata -13

Karin - 8

Sakura - 5

Temari - 4

Tenten - 3

Ino - 1

As always leave a review telling me what you think and if you have any suggestions on how I should handle the story this is still technically my first one and I want to know how I could improve on this. No unnecessary flames though there's a difference between good criticism and sipping on haterade.