Disclaimer: I will find a fluke in the rights of ownership of Naruto and exploit it the moment I present it in the court so I will become partially or completely the owner, so is only matter of time. *Evil Laughs*

AN: This review reply will be long so you can either skip it or not is our decision after all.

Guest: That's a hard question you got there, but since a there hadn't been given much information about the true power of Hikaru Hyuga then I'm sticking with Haru Uchiha whose full strength had been revealed.

SweetieJack: Shrek is love, Shrek is life.

grabblers: Alright for starters THANK YOU SO MUCH! To know that you give me such a detailed and deep review really fills me with joy. Okay now with your points.

Really most of them? Well I also read a lot of them and very few looked dark for me, or maybe it's because I'm accustomed to dark themes since I love those genres and my standards of what is truly dark are higher than others, anyways thanks to that I'm more accustomed to write dark stories or as you said a dark start.

Yeah, a good point there but is mostly because those kids were born in that environment but for a foreign it will totally affect him or her.

Alright I'm fascinated that you managed to get it right, but it was for the sake of drama! But is the beginning and I know that it will be a bit hard to pull everything correctly.

There are many reasons for joining one of them being keeping close tabs on Danzo and to get access to certain information, but I didn't explained or written them very well that is why I'm revising the chapters and adding as well as rewriting certain parts to put things better and clear for the reader.

Actually, about that part about believable growth, is not exactly correct. As far as I remember in the chunin exams the Konoha 12 were practically the only young candidates in the exams while the rest looked between 15-19 years even adults were there and well I highly doubt that all the teams were nominated because their respective teacher truly believed that they would make it with less than a year of training, except for Team 9. And add to the fact that most of them were members of a clan, I'm mostly following logic rather than canon.

Kakashi strength is relative, some say is very strong without his sharingan while others say he is weak without it, I'm staying with the former since he became chunin at 7 and jonin at the age of 13 or twelve, became an Anbu captain and fought in a war.

You probably forgot that Neji had been training himself to deal with multiple targets with Tenten efficiency in weapons, he knew that Naruto would spam clones and would eventually get tired so it was pre-planned and also canon-Naruto no matter how much he trained in that month with Jiraiya he still didn't have a solid taijutsu style or arsenal to fight with, the only reason he won against Neji was because he greatly underestimated him believing that Naruto was beyond stupid to actually laid a trap for him. And calling that a clone army, a clone army could be called when Naruto fought KImimaro in the Sasuke retrieval arc. This Naruto had been training to maximize the advantages of being a jinchuuriki and had been well equipped with weapons and tactics, it doesn't matter how skilled you are numbers always win as long as they are used correctly.

Yeah you are right, but still I didn't reach that point so why get ahead so soon? Besides I found it laughable that mere genins could defeat seasoned chunins or low jounins, for example Haku battle or the battle against the Sound Four.

With my grammar thing, I really can't discern the mistakes. I had been speaking english over ten years now, so it must have become a bad habit of mine which sadly was never corrected.

Hey, I said it in the beginning I truly love criticism but I know difference between real criticism and outright insults or flames, I had been a writer for a hobby for 3 years so I matured as one, I won't whine or bitch if a critique is a good or bad one. Besides I also do some criticism to others people works.

Another day, meaning another day to appreciate life.

Surprisingly enough the training grounds were the best option to seek solace or to find your personal heaven, of course with the requirement to go alone and didn't have any intentions related to training. With enough silence it was possible to hear the nature at its finest, hearing the wind rustling the leaves and occasionally a bird chirping as well was oddly satisfying.

"Keep going you little bitch."

However I wasn't there to relax or to take an afternoon nap, and training was out of the question since I already did my morning routine to keep up my physique and stamina, even if I was on vacations I couldn't ever think to neglect my training or I would be in deep trouble the next mission.

Seconds could make the difference between death and life.

But the reason why I was in the training grounds was for a certain Uchiha who loved to complain a lot, even if I had to shut him up with the end of my fists many times and yet he continued with his whining. His perseverance was ridiculous, it was good that he had such determination and perseverance but it should be applied on his training and not in his stupid ramblings; with that I could see that he was immature.

But I couldn't complain or say that much about his attitude, he was a kid who got mind raped by his brother who loved very much, otherwise I would have said a lot of things which frankly weren't nice at all.

I wasn't being lenient with him by any means, and the way how much he was literary suffering under me showed how little pity I had for his case. Understanding and pity were two differents things.

"I need...rest." The voice of my temporary human seat sounded ready to give in.

"Tell to someone who cares, you need to do twenty more." I coldly replied without bothering to check up on him, after all he took his time and I began to get frustrated by his delay, besides there was one more lesson before I could go back home.

He stayed silent for a moment but then my seat went down and returned, but it was poorly executed I felt like my seat was about to break, his muscles should be on fire by that point yet I felt a sudden surge of strength which wasn't used to finish his exercise but to attempt to throw me away from his body.

"Fuck you!"

Of course he failed, and I wasn't going to let such behaviour pass.

As he badly keep doing his push ups, I thought on a perfect way to get back at him.

With a sadistic smile I began to jump on my temporary seat making it even harder for him thanks to my weight combined with the gravity creating a force which was acting against his arms.

"Twenty five…" But I wasn't that evil, I stopped as I increased the number of repetitions. That was enough punishment for the moment.

"Gah!" He cried out, and I might as well if that would have caught me off the guard.

The reason why I was calm, was because his arms just couldn't handle it anymore and almost collapsed on the spot. However if he would have truly collapsed and his face the ground then I would have heard a painful scream from his part, as well as I would have been able to smell his burned flesh.

That picked up my curiosity to finally check up on him and see what happened.

The first thing I noticed was how close his chest was to touch the red charcoal, and judging by the strained face it was clear how desperate he was to get away from the increasing heat, even if he wasn't touching it directly it was still burning him. But without any strength left, it was only matter of time before his imminent collapse.

I had been weighing on my options as his precious seconds passed, in true his suffering brought me some amusement to my day but if I were to let that happen it would be downright cruel and I wasn't a cruel bastard.

Just a bit of a jerk.

"Careful there, I don't think that it would be pretty if you were to fall on that charcoal." I ruffled his hair like you would to a dog who behaved well, he wanted to say something probably an insult or a demand to help him but since he was fighting off the pain he only managed to make choked noises.

Good thing that he was shirtless or his upper clothes would have been set on fire right away.

I didn't do nothing even if the intensity of his incomprehensible noises increased, at least not yet. After all I felt like I needed to give him a clear message of the hierarchy that existed between us.

A couple of seconds more I decided that enough was enough.

"You are quite pathetic, aren't you?" I stood up from my seat and didn't think twice before delivering a hard kick on his gut which sent him away from the charcoal. Once he was on the ground and away from a possible lethal burn, he tried to take in all the air for his lungs as well as finally stretching his arms, in hopes to ease the burning pain that the exercise caused him.

He should have finished and he couldn't, it was disappointing but he had only himself to blame. His big mouth was the sole responsible for me to increase the difficulty until he couldn't do one single more.

"I can't believe you can't do a very easy exercise." Before anything more could be done, I kicked some dirt to the bonfire so it wouldn't cause a conflagration even if it would be quickly taken care of I would be held responsible. Only when was sure that it was completely extinct I walked up to his tired body, but he wasn't that tired if he could shoot me a murderous glare with his immature sharingan spinning wildly.

"You call that easy?!" He snarled as he used both arms to slowly get up from the ground, it was an amusing show since he was struggling to stay straight. I started to believe that he was lying to me about his exhaustion and just wanted to stop, if that were the case then he needed to be taught a very hard lessons for trying to deceive me.

"Is that a complaint?" I raised one eyebrow questioningly, true to be spoken he was complaining and knowing of his attitude beforehand, he wouldn't back down even if that meant to suffer the dire consequences.

He wasn't able to stand on his feet but he had some strength left to keep straight at least with his knees and muster some strength to point at me with an accusing finger.

"Yes! All this time you only had me doing this pointless exercises!" My training regime that I forced on him wasn't by any means pointless or useless, they were to strengthen his mind and body. He didn't know that it was a modified version of the Root training I had to go through, a highly modified version to the point that the worst could happen to him was to get some burns or cuts.

He should be thankful.

"For starters you agreed to this." He didn't have time to react before my foot connected to his chest sending him down on the dirt where he belonged. "Secondly, what did you expect when I told that I would help you? That I would hand you a secret scroll with the ultimate jutsu? That I would do some weird ritual and hand you power?"

Before he could gather his thoughts of what was happening I pulled his hair forcing his body to get up from the ground, and then slamm it back without holding back my strength. He wasn't going to die or suffer a concussion, no permanent but the headache that he would suffer would be enough reminder for him to learn his place.

"And third, don't question me again."

Then I applied pressure on his head with my foot.

"Get real you fucking idiot, the only way to get power is to train your ass off and suffer for it." Again I delivered another kick to his stomach which forced his body to turn around, however his eyes were still ablaze and with the active sharingan.

He sure was persistent.

I liked that, but still that counted as a rebellious act on my book, I kicked some dirt to his eyes.

"Get up you little shit, we aren't done yet." I grabbed one of sealing scroll of my belt and unsealed a bottle of water and a small energy bar for him to consume. I throw both consumables near his form, the bottle landed next to him while the bar landed on his stomach bouncing one time.

"Eat this, you have ten minutes of rest." Then I walked away,

After our little encounter weeks ago, Sasuke accepted my help after his crushing defeat at my hands. However he got the wrong idea as expected, he truly believed that I would give him a shortcut so he would be closer to kill Itachi. And then he began to conclude that I was holding him back like the everybody, obviously I had to beat that idea out of his head.

I wasn't cruel or abusive, even if sometimes I took some sort of amusement from doing it.

At the end I truly wanted Sasuke's sharingan to mature, it could be proven useful at later date especially with twisting his goals in my direction and plant him there so Obito wouldn't be able to get him. I was doing a favour to Itachi technically speaking, and if things didn't turn out like I wanted his fully matured sharingan could be stored for later use.

Though I didn't want them for fight my enemies, I wanted them for their unique ability to cast unbreakable genjutsus on others. It would help a lot in getting things like contracts or getting people to hand me their business for free, the possibilities were endless. But there were few thing that prevented me from removing his eyes, one was Danzo and the second was Itachi. Danzo perhaps didn't want Sasuke in his little army but Sasuke was practically his defense against Itachi, and for Itachi if word got out that Sasuke died or disappeared he would come in a flash to Konoha and demand answers from Danzo who without doubt would cast all blame on me.

And I couldn't forget about the Izanagi, to defy death only for the price of the light of one eye. But it was a trivial thing with not much relevance in my book.

When I felt like the ten minutes had passed I returned where I left him alone, and found him in deep meditation. Never expected him from doing that kind of exercise since it required some degree of inner peace and patience, either way it was time for the last part of his lesson.

"Stand up and activate your sharingan." He did as told.

However I didn't look directly to his eyes, I knew that the sharingan could automatically cast a genjutsus the moment you make eye contact, I didn't want to risk it with him since I believed that with his new activated sharingan he tried to learn all what he could by himself back in his compound.

Of course I looked straight to his eyes moments ago, but he was exhausted and totally driven by his emotions, such things were very important especially when trying to cast a genjutsu.

Yet I wasn't a fool, if he were to manage to put me in a genjutsu I would be able to notice it right away because he still was a novice with the sharingan.

"Good now hit that post until you bleed from your knuckles or break your hand, whatever happens first." I pointed at the thick pole made of wood which wasn't that far away from our position.

"Are you insane?!" His reply came almost instantly, but it was out of shock more than anything. It was clear that Kakashi had been training them to their limits and didn't push further to avoid any sort of unnecessary injury but for me those injuries were also part of the training.

I trained with more harshers method if I, a clanless orphan, was able to do it then a member of the so called Uchiha clan could do it as well.

Without saying another word I walked up to the pole and delivered a devastating hit, devastating to human but for a solid object it didn't do much of a damage except to create a hard noise, but the action made my point clear enough. "Does that answer your question?"

I had good pain tolerance, so that didn't hurt as much as it should.

He gave one last look of surprise before calming down with deep breaths, and proceeded to follow my instructions. The first punch didn't posses the same strength as mine however it caused a loud enough noise to be acceptable as a real punch.

Then I waited.

Sometimes he grunted and groaned making it obvious the pain he was feeling but kept going just as instructed, I noticed how his skin was peeling from his knuckles and showing the red flesh under it but then he did one more hit with his right hand before I heard a crack. I knew that it didn't came from the thick pole of wood, Sasuke was on his knees grabbing his right hand in the verge of crying. I mentally added to increase his pain tolerance in the next session because broken bones were common in the battlefield and it shouldn't affect you until the battle was over.

I grabbed his hand much to his growing pain, and analyzed where the damage occurred. Nothing that a medical nin couldn't fix in less than an hour.

"Very good." Only then I let his hand go. "That's all for today, I hope you are doing these routines back at you house." I proceeded to pull out one scroll and unseal the contents which were for medical uses, a bandage and some disinfectant for the peeled skin of his hands.

He quickly wiped out the small tears tears forming of the corner of his eyes and grabbed the disinfectant first and bite his shirt before applying it on his injuries. After a few muffled screams he grabbed the bandaged his cracked hand.

I could have used my Mystic Palm on him to alleviate some if his pain but I didn't because he needed to learn the pain and how to deal with it, besides he wouldn't have liked to be helped since he could take it as a sign of pity.

After that a small silence formed between us.

"What...what kind of training did you have?" His question got me curious for his sudden change, but mostly about asking something personal about me. Only Naruto was the one who asked me that particular question, and now he was added to the list.

"Worse than you nightmares Sasuke, much worse." I cryptically replied, it wasn't because I wanted to sound cool or something of the sorts. It was because I truly didn't want to remember that dark episode of my life, there were a lot of unpleasant memories after all.

"How so?" Of course being mysterious would only lead to more question rather than avoid them, but that didn't stop me from keep hoping that he could get the message about not asking for things that weren't his business.

But then I remembered what Fuu told me long ago, it was better to speak them rather than keeping them for myself and he was right but I was scared to remember everything, after all the nightmares didn't bother me anymore.

"Remember how I made you do pull ups?"

A knot bean to form around my throat as my mouth became dry in an instant.

"How I couldn't? you put a ridiculous amount of weight in my legs." He scoffed at me, as I snickered at his antics only to take a more somber stance.

I took a deep breath as I pulled out one of the many memories that I didn't want to pull out from the dark hole. At least it was one of the lesser ones.

"Well now imagine spikes all over the bar and a bottomless pit below and then imagine how your instructors throw countless senbons at you without missing a single one." My lips contorted into a very strained smile that it actually hurt, I was trying to sound casual but if he did his homework he could have been easily to spot the defects on my face.

"But you look totally fine, there should be at least some scars left."

"Ha! You don't know the wonders of medical ninjutsu Sasuke."

"Probably I don't…" I looked at him perplexed, truly I had ever expected to hear that from him at least not yet. It was sure a big surprise but a welcomed one at that, so to avoid suspicious I quickly changed from attitude and flashed a wide grin as I patted his head as a good dog.

Of course he got away the moment my hand touched his hair.

"Go to the medial post and get those arms of yours checked."

He grunted and left the training ground by feet, he definitely didn't have enough chakra to jump or run, either way he could faint on the way.

But for me I stayed a moment to enjoy the nature, having free time was a good and a bad thing, good because you had all the time of the world to whatever you wanted and bad because when you finished your list about 'things to do' you would find yourself bored.

But it was kinda a bit of a lie, I could keep training my control over my strings so I could use both gloves at the same time and don't over exhaust myself, my fight with Naruto showed me how much I needed that control or it could be proven fatal in the next mission however for the moment I just wanted to enjoy the breeze that carresed my face and hair, I could start my training half an hour later anyways.

Yet I had to cancel my plans when I found out my inner peace interrupted by the forced sound of rustling leaves not so far from my position.

"Kichiro-sempai." I straightened up at hearing a voice which I didn't expect to hear any time soon, at the same time annoyance was forming along with increasing anger.

"Shin? What are you doing here?" I frowned the moment I confirmed my suspicious, Shin had just landed behind me and showed me the respect he had for me by bowing his head. Even if all of us were in good terms to the point of calling each other friends we never visited each other residence unless it was strictly for shinobi business.

"Danzo-sama wants your presence as soon as possible." Shin quickly answered my question, and I wasn't very pleased to hear that particular answer. I didn't want to deal with any of that and my message was very clear by walking away from the scene.

However Shin wasn't one to give up, I was only able to walk a few steps before he firmly placed a hand on my shoulder stopping me from going anywhere. My frustration was mine and mine alone, holding responsible the old war hawk and not Shin, it would be totally immature if not stupid to vent my anger on him. I simply removed his hand from my shoulder with mine without being forceful. "I'm on vacation, we had a deal."

I resumed my walk.

"He knows but this summon is not to assign you a mission."

I stopped death on my tracks for a moment before I turned around facing him fully and take notice that he was wearing the standard Root equipment which I wasn't very fond of, it wasn't because it was ineffective or something that could affect my performance in the battlefield, I just didn't like to show too much skin, it felt like I was wearing a bra more than anything besides Torune wore all the time a synthetic coat and only took it off when we was going to fight to his one hundred percent.

"Then?"

He gave me a knowing smile before he said something that completely caught my full interest.

"He wants to discuss with you about the future Water Daymo."

I didn't lose a single second the moment I stepped inside my house, time was literally money in my current situation.

"Kimimaro!"

My call was heard and obeyed in an instant by the last Kaguya who appeared before me one of of his knees with his head down.

"What do you need Kichiro-sama?"

However I didn't remain in a single place, by the time he had arrived I was already opening the secret drawer where I stored my sealing scrolls which were organized depending on their uses.

"Get us four days worth of food and equipment, we are going to Wave country." Despite I was perfectly aware of his state, I was also perfectly sure that a little trip wouldn't do much harm to him besides he wouldn't need to rely on his Kekkai Genkai unless we encountered an B rank missing nin or in worst of cases an A rank.

Besides he still had a considerable amount of time, so I was just maximizing the resources at my disposal.

"As you wish." Kimimaro respectfully bowed one more time and left to his room in his own pace so he could carry out the task given to him without further delay, if I would've told him that it was urgent then he probably have finished in less than five minutes but that didn't matter.

When I felt satisfied with the amount of scroll I had between my arms, I went to the living room table so I could reorganize them again. However I was stopped from doing my task th moment a presence stood behind me. I knew from the feeling that it wasn't Naruto since she was out again with her friends, the reason was for a celebration but didn't exactly what they were celebrating. Anyways they would sure stay very late and probably would crash at the nearest house, I wasn't worried in the slightest since they within the Yamanaka compound so so they were under their surveillance.

But returning to the not so unexpected guest, I didn't need to turn around to confirm that my guest was no other but Shin who had been curious about my house. However that didn't cloud his mind to forget about the matter at hand.

I said before, I didn't want to be bothered by Danzo at all even more if he wanted to assign me a mission but Wave was a whole different story, it was my own business and not directly his, so it was obvious that I would get involved with it no matter what.

Besides Gato would prefer to see a old face rather than a new one, it would make thing go smoother.

"Why are you bringing him?" At first he sounded curious about Kimimaro's involvement but as a shinobi he immediately went to the defensive. Couldn't blame him, he was trained to be like that since he could walk.

"An extra hand is always welcomed you know?" I replied while separating the scrolls designated for food from the scroll which stored survival equipment.

"He might leak information to the enemy sempai." That didn't matter he was still in disapproval with my decision, again I wouldn't cast any blame on him since he didn't know Kimimaro like Torune and Fuu did.

I could use the time in our travel to let him know all about Kimimaro so he wouldn't be distrustful of him again.

"He? He would rather die than ever think about betraying me. His loyalty is just like your loyalty to Danzo-sama." The finished organizing my scrolls a sudden feel for food appeared, so without any complain I went to kitchen so I could grab quick bite, the whole ordeal made me feel a bit hungry for something sweet after all.

"You mean our loyalty."

His correction made me stop in mid step, watching my foot hanging in the air the realization finally struck me; mistakes were made. I was a loyal shinobi but not to Danzo; just obedient. Fact that my kohai couldn't know or his admiration and respect would be affected.

"...Of course."

The rest of my walk had been spent thinking in a way to how amend my mistake or find way to occupy his mind and so he could forget about it, but no ideas came without raising some degree of suspicious. So I went to search for ideas in the drawers and the cabinet of the kitchen until I stumbled into the box with tea and another with cookies, that would do.

"By the way you want something? Like some tea or biscuits?" I called out as I grabbed both boxes and placed them on the worktop and started my search for the cup and the small plate.

"It would be highly appreciated sempai." I couldn't help but smile in victory, the only thing left to do was to prepare his meal and mine.

Minutes later I handed him his tea and placed on the table a plate filled with cookies meant for him, as I took seat with my own treat, I really loved the pocky sticks.

"Here you go, just be careful it might be too hot."

"Thank you very much."

Shin took his time to enjoy his tea and as well the biscuits, though I didn't know if he truly like my tea since I wasn't an expert in making one, but at least I knew that it was a decent one to fulfill my standards.

Anyways I had my pocky so it didn't bother me at the moment.

"Senpai, how is my nii-san doing?" He looked at me while taking another sip from his cup, but I my attention diverted to his sudden question. In all honesty I had been waiting for that particular question the moment he appeared before me, he was just worried that Sai wasn't making any progress and be discarded as the other failure and stored for later use which mostly involved in suicidal attacks with zero chances of survival.

"He is much better, a lot better I can assure you"

"How long until he's fully recovered?"

"That's hard to answer, I mean, yes, he talks more and more though sometimes he can act a bit weird but inside the acceptable parameters. And he is making friends with some of the rookies of this generation." Well I wasn't doing something directly, it was all Naruto's work along with Sai's eagerness to learn about social skills and how the people worked in the society. And she had been doing a good job so far, he was in good terms with all the heirs but not much with Choji for obvious reasons.

He still haven't learnt about correct designation of nicknames.

"Anyways who else will accompany us?" Since I was going more like a messenger or diplomat whatever the name fitted better, and as one I needed an escort even if I could defend myself quite well.

"Nobody else."

"What?" I flinched at his quick answer, but mostly because I never expected to hear that even if not a single clan agent was deployed it would have been fine with normal Root shinobis, but to nobody else?

"I will be the only escort you will have."

I pondered about the situation, it just didn't sit well with Danzo's character, he was paranoid and never underestimated others, he studied the enemy very well beforehand. It was too risky to move with so little support, Torune and Fuu were enough since we were a team and could fight very well no matter the situation but with Shin, we had good teamwork but not at the same level.

There was an ulterior motive behind that order, one that I couldn't find yet leaving me with the only to be always on guard.

"Well even more reason for Kimimaro to tag along." Then I grabbed the remaining pocky sticks and broke them in two so I could eat all of them in one go.

It was my business and I decided how to handle it, nobody would tell me how to do it.

"I have already finished Kichiro-sama." I was glad of Kimimaro's arrival, it was just so synchronized and I loved the feeling of efficiency by wasting any second. And as expect from him, everything was organized separated in groups according to the uses and quality of each item.

However considering the amount we were taking, it would be fair for Naruto to be left with very little supplies. So a letter with a good sum of money could solve the problem unless she was irresponsible with it, possibility that was more like an impossibility.

And Hiruzen could help her if it wasn't enough.

"Good we are leaving tomorrow morning." But before I started to seal our stuff I flashed a considerate smile to Shin who still didn't finish his meal. "Go have some rest, kohai."

It was more like a signal for him to drink the tea as fast as possible, it looked like he was taking one of those one-shot but the way he placed the cup aftermath was with elegance yet I snorted when he quickly grabbed one cookie before walking to the window which was wide open.

"I bid you goodnight."

And he was gone with a breeze of the cold air of the night.

After his leave I resuming my task while giving another task for Kimimaro, the reason why I was taking my time was because I was humming a catching tune which I forgot where did I hear it in the first place.

"I wonder what I should buy first…."

AN: And another chapter had been brought to all of you, I hope that it was for your liking.

And I felt like doing a little rant so you can simply skip it.

GUYSWTF ?!

I usually check the tops of the days, I mean fav counts within 24 hours update and well the list had been infested with….yaoi.

OMG, I felt sick and then there was yuri...I wanted to throw up.

But what made it worse was when there was HAREM for both of them, and the eye bleeding MPREG.

Some people should have been born without hands….

It made me weigh my options, between gouge my eyes with a rusty screwdriver or give up my faith in humanity forever. Then it came to mind why would I consider that as an option and well is because we live in a democracy and every American has the God-given right to stick their penis in a scorpion nest if they want to ya commie.

Look is not that I hate them, they are human and hating them for that fact alone is like hating a person because they like cake instead of ice-cream. But I truly believe that there should be a Fanfiction TAG so we don't stumble into those stories and read it without knowing until we reach THAT part, truly it wasn't a nice experience i tell you.

Ja ne!