Naruto: Saigo Arashi (The Last Storm)

by razorpawofdestruction96

Naruto Uzumaki is born a year earlier than the Kyubi Attack, which makes him the eldest son of Konoha's Fourth Hokage. In his name lies the Legacy and the weight to find a way to obtain peace in the war-torn ninja world. In a world where all the cards are stacked oddly in his favor. Will Naruto win against Kaguya Otsutsuki's Moon-Eye Apocalypse? Will he be the hero?

"Don´t hesitate in your attacks, use the unorthodox."

Brown eyed man with impartial critical eyes glared at a spiky blond-haired boy with violet eyes dressed in a simple short-sleeved hooded shirt, black pants and black shinobi sandals, atop his head loosely perhaps even a black konoha bandana, a fully white chokuto on the boy´s right hand as he swung his Blade upwards to downwards as the chunin easily used his Kunai to parry the strikes, the jounin did a backflip fast and from his mouth spitted away a senbon at high-speeds towards the young child whom easily did a half-spinning attack to parry and got in attack stance once more.

"Use all your arsenal, kill or be killed."

The harsh Jonin stated to the young child whom boldly easily glared at the man and continued to attack instead, the boy rushed. With the fully white chokuto-heighted Blade the boy of merely six years old continued the attacks, doing a downwards upwards slash this time to start and following by a kick. The jonin sensei of the team easily blocked the kick of the child, holding onto the boy´s leg. His hand covered in a thin sheet of bluish chakra to protect himself, the boy reacted bast by using that as leverage to slash the man´s shoulder. The man smirked and jumped away at enough distance as the boy wheezed.

"Alright Kiba, you´re next."

At this a dog bark was head and the young male rose his head, Kiba Inuzuka thus went forth easily and got on battle stance quite confident.

"Ready to meet the floor Sensei?"

At this the man snickered and called back.

"Might as well be the other way around."

The man smirked and thus the boy went forth. The characteristic Inuzuka Clan wild taijutsu which used claws, kicks and punches, unpredictable perhaps to beginners but to seasoned Jonin such as him, having fought alongside Tsume Inuzuka. He knows the Taijutsu quite well enough, by the time such kid attempted to claw his face he easily took the wrist, turned the boy and pinned him to the floor.

"Good confidence, bad appliance. Good style, bad if you face someone that knows it. Broaden your hand-to-hand technique, take a weapon."

The Jonin traced out sharply and went forth towards a light-brown haired girl whom she easily got in stance and rushed towards the man, he smirked and stepped away doing hand-seals to remove the double-false-surroundings attempted to be done on him and he vended forward evading the Multiplied Kunai through Kage Bunshin, he has taught the kids well enough.

He sharply turned around and with a simply sweep kick to the girl she was on the ground, shoving her face to it, the girl could only bear with the total humiliation.

Genma Shiranui a newly appointed Jonin after his years of service has been given a choice to lead a Team of Genin this year. Mostly filled with clan-less snobs and other stuff. To his surprise and to his shock, he found in between twelve- and thirteen-year-old hormonal brats three six-year-old children whom entered the academy at age four and through taking advanced courses and cleverly without anyone noticing they´ve been able to reach the final year without anyone stating so otherwise.

The Fourth Hokage´s first child, Naruto Namikaze alongside two others; Kiba Inuzuka and the Kurama Clan´s heiress Yakumo Kurama have passed the Genin Test of the Academy at the pristine age six. Take a year and they would´ve pulled a Kakashi Hatake under the eyes of the Fourth Hokage whom in his duties has grown perhaps very careless of the fact two clan heirs and his son have managed to graduate so early, in times of peace. Then again the 4th Hokage has been rehabilitating after the Kyubi's attack, therefore most of these pair of years. Though the Third doing damage control has allowed for these three to graduate very early.

With other oblivious Jonin around, he chose to snatch the opportunity and seize the three Genin to himself. Constitute Team Seven and after a ´Capture Me´ Test through teamwork; the team was a killing team. With the Inuzuka kid´s tracking abilities, the Kurama Girl´s natural genjutsu expertise and the hokage child´s bloodlines and assault oriented techniques, the team was an all-around balanced team for tracking and capture, for assault and assassination, for deceit and cheating and for escorting. That was promise with these little wee bastards.

After their true genin test a week ago, Genma Shiranui has literally driven the three children to the floor. Since their first day of training, he made it so to bring the children´s egos and hopes to the ground.

It was a necessity, since he ran the risk of having them being confident due to the fact of graduating so early in the academy. Almost toppling the record of Kakashi Hatake almost two decades ago. Their weeks were simple but effective; their training would start very early as six o´clock in the morning with laps and exercises for doing muscles and conditioning, followed afterwards by Chakra Control Exercises. The three were given the same degree of chakra control work, he applied the harsh exercises as if they wanted to turn to Medic-Nin or Genjutsu Experts. Such fields required pristine control, and he thus delivered with brutal and genius combination of Chakra Control exercises for the three children. He was dealing with clan-children, so he went commando and didn´t gave a shit about their chakra reserves. Practically they had already Jonin-level reserves all being wasted, better use them good. After driving them through the dust with their Chakra Control. They would take their time to rehearse the main jutsu types; Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. Their days would start with some good-ole Taijutsu training after driving their chakra reserves to almost depletion, since he was a sensor he made sure to drive the children to be on the critical point of depletion always, as for their reserves to develop a point of stress. In which he would force them to shove those Chakra-Replenishing Pills down their throats, and go on with the Taijutsu section where only weapons and hand-to-hand were allowed. Each one of the children went against him; Genma prided himself in being perhaps a perfectionist and also an obsessive man whom trained very much. Not to Maito Gai levels, the guy was a literal beast. But both inherited their sensei's constant desire to get better.

He doesn't calls himself a true master at anything since, there is always someone better than yourself in this world. He would criticize them, point out their flaws so blatantly. As if perhaps daring them to cry and run to their mammas, but instead all it caused was for them to come bolder next time. The Three Children were winded, sitting down underneath a tree in Training Ground Seven, Genma Shiranui glanced at his genin and smirked.

"Man, sensei´s quite hard today." The young boy with messy brown hair, equal black eyes with vertical-slit-like pupils and pronounced canine teeth stated rather winded.

Today their sensei drove them to the edge. Since apparently tomorrow they will start their D-rank missions which already their dutiful Jonin teacher Genma dropped any hopes of anything being important and stated that such will be chores as per the tradition of the Leaf to make lasting teamwork with your other teammates. To which any hopes of saving princesses or being famous were thrown to the drain almost as immediately as those hopes appeared. Dousing with realism meant also to Genma that they would learn to mediate their expectations with reality.

"It´s expected."

The blond haired young boy with bangs framing the sides of his face. With his black Konoha Bandana placed stylishly enough yet to not obstruct his golden blond hair. The Heir of Fourth Hokage was nonetheless wheezing and tired. Young Naruto was the unpredictable concievable miracle the couple had during the years of peace the leaf had before the tragedy stroke a year later, before the Kyubi's attack. Naruto was only a year old when his parents alongside the Third Hokage were ready to attend the tragedy that was the Kyubi being freed due to the seal being so weak, in the end though with the intervention of an ANBU team which Obito Uchiha used the Sharingan to subdue the beast, showing the splendorous power of the Kamui and the Susanoo, the Village was saved. The Yin half of the Kyubi sealed into his mother once more and the Yang section split in two halves, one in Mito and the other in Menma, both twins turned into Jinchuuriki also and thus that started what would be his nightmare.

"I don´t regret being in this team."

Yakumo Kurama commented sharply. As a member of the Kurama family she´s known for her possible Genjutsu Prowess. After Kurenai Yuuhi failed her and left her alone, the Third Hokage solved her issue fast and without any further ado, which left the Kurama Clan in debt to the Hokage. Whom just waved carelessly, thus integrated back to society and with resentment towards Kurenai Yuuhi whom deemed her a failure. Yakumo befriended the odd duo of Kiba Inuzuka and Naruto Namikaze, both apparently were already training to apply to the academy at a very early age and not be even noticed, their plans too complicated and prone to failure.

She approached and with herself added to such plan, she easily used her Genjutsu to fake their appearances and block their clan names from the list. Thus easily going through fast through the grades, advancing at exponential rates. Asking to be tested to skip grades and successfully going through such exams, the younglings found themselves graduating at age six with Genma Shiranui as their Sensei and their plans discovered.

Their goals were easy.

I want to be the greatest Ninja ever, and for a Dog appreciation day to exist!

Guess whose Goal was that.

I want to protect my family, my siblings and myself…I´ll change the world, I…shall be Hokage.

The mythical blond-haired boy´s goal was honorable, mysterious as it was philosophical, as expected for the main mastermind whom pulled it all through, after all Kiba stated that he was the one that trained early first and Kiba found him, and told him of his plan to skip the entire academy and be Shinobi way early, for the sake of protecting his loved ones, to which Kiba whom felt perhaps inferior to his elder sister chose to stick with the child of the Hokage, and thus in the end she was included in the odd trio.

Her goal, was simple.

Prove Yuuhi Kurenai wrong of her assessment, to strip the woman of her ´Genjutsu Mistress´ title and turn herself into ´Genjutsu Goddess´ if she could. Turn into a true kunoichi master of the art of Genjutsu. And so far, she´s been feeling it, her reserves were expanding. Her formerly royal frail body was doing muscle and her stamina getting a boost. Genma Shiranui was a true Jonin superior to them and each day found ways to drag them through the ground.

"Alright, Ninjutsu section kids. Bloodlines and Clan Jutsu are forbidden. As per your actual Genin Level; Mastering E and D rank Jutsu is important, while being aware and knowing your C-rank Jutsu is very much appreciated. Now, Yakumo; which are the Standard E-rank Jutsu known to Shinobi? The one that aids her will be doing hanged down meditation for the rest of the training day and tomorrow in the after-assignments training."

He asked to the female sharply turning towards her, her teammates turn to the female sharply to which she closed her eyes and opened her eyes sharply gazing at her sensei.

"The Ninjutsu categorized as E-rank are those taught at the academy; The Substitution Jutsu which allows the user to replace themselves with a block of wood or any article similar before they are struck by either jutsu or weaponry. The hand seals are; Tiger, Boar, Ox, Dog and Snake in that order. The Cloak of Invisibility which causes the user to cover themselves with a cloak that has color and pattern matching the nearby surroundings, concealing their presence by seamlessly blending in, the Clone Technique which allows the user to create one or more insubstantial after-images of themselves to move alongside them uncapable of attacking, the hand seals are; Ram, Snake and Tiger in that order. The Rope Escape Technique, in which a shinobi must escape any situation no matter how difficult things may seem to be, finding their way to untie the knot to dislocating their joints in order to get free of their bindings. Transformation Technique, which allows the user to take the appearance of whatever they choose, the hand seals are; Dog, Boar and Tam in that order."

The female heiress of the Kurama clan explained each and every technique with their detailed hand-seals and methods of applying any technique, exemplary knowledge expected from any academy student, Genma Shiranui nodded at the basic assessment

"You forgot something essential girl, but it´s advanced knowledge. Since you are considered adults and matured, this information will be useful. No jutsu is truly mastered until all it takes is This to do so."

And thus, he presented the children with the One-Handed Ram Seal, with such the male easily created one clone to his side.

"One handed hand-seals are very useful and very deadly skill for a shinobi to possess. Naruto; D-rank techniques basic for Genin to master before their Chunin exam, are?"

He turned to the blond sharply whom spoke equally knowledgeable and sharply answering as fast as the question was shoved to him.

"Temporary Paralysis in which it can cause a target to be physically immobilized, as though they´ve been tied down with invisible steel ropes, the principle is through the use of chakra you create a chakra rope around your target to coil around them, unseen, the hand seals are; Ram, Tiger, Rabbit. The Earth Styled: Double Suicide Decapitation in which using earth one can easily grabs a target and drags them to the earth, leaving only their head on the surface, hand seals are; Tiger, Rabbit, Snake. The Body Flicker in which is a high-speed movement technique, a ninja can move short distances to long at untraceable speed, the hand seal for this jutsu is; Tiger."

At this the man nodded sharply, and crossed his arms rather sharply, the boy of course performed each and every one of the Jutsu he listed with complete full mastery, his hand-seal speed at Mid-Chunin level.

"Good, Kiba what is a Ninjutsu User´s greatest weakness?"

The man asked and the young boy after a few seconds of sharp thinking he theorized.

"Chakra depletion."

At this the man nodded sharply and continued.

"Good, you children might not be very surprised, but the only basic Non-elemental Jutsu of C-rank is, the summoning technique. Through a contact with a special animal or species, you as a summoner sign your name using your own blood to tie it to that summoning species, you have to do the following hand-seals; Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey and Ram in that order. Drawing blood from either your wounds or causing yourself a wound, you slam your hands to the surface and through smoke, an animal thus is summoned through this seal here."

And thus, from the smoke, emerged unsurprisingly a black four-legged lizard with a large cigarette in its teeth, it´s height was equally o that of a horse and it simply stood in its four legs, it´s dark green eyes turning to Genma rather emotionlessly.

"You called Lord Genma?"

At this the man nodded and spoke out rather sharply.

"Could you please explain the principles of Animal-Human contract through summoning?"

At this the black lizard turned from the man back to the three children, then back to the man.

"My name is Akira, second in command of the Lizard Summons of The Badlands."

As it spoke, purplish smoke came out of its maw, poisonous gas, to which the summoner Genma is immune anyway.

"Anyhow, certain species of animals have summoning contracts. How do summoning animals get in benefit from contracting with humans? Fame and relevance, the summoning world is revered in power by how much status their summoners can obtain and turns them into legendary status; such as the famous three legendary contracts of the Snakes, Slugs and Toads; not the only ones but the most famed ones. Certain summoners get to be massively talented enough and thus, may be worthy of going through Senjutsu Trials; all summoning animals are a part of nature themselves and thus learn to naturally channel Nature Energy; shinobi whom attain the capacity to use Nature-Energy can easily reach legendary status to that of the First Hokage Hashirama Senju. No contract ever allows two to coexist, risks the summoner being killed on instant."

The creature turned towards it´s summoner as if expecting to be given an order, to which the three children were shocked in glancing at the creature.

"All summoning creatures can use unique Jutsu and certain species can cast certain jutsu. Akira, if you could…please."

The creature nodded and slightly bending its frontal legs, with one strung push, propelling itself upwards to stand on its back-legs only, it brought both of its legs on the front, doing a ram hand-seal, followed by a tiger-hand-seal followed by a rabbit, then a Hitsuji, then snake and ending with tiger once more, one could hear the sharp inhale, then it´s jaw did a chewing sound before it forcefully exhaled the air in one single motion, and a sharp purple spike pierced a tree and stayed there.

A solid deadly poisonous senbon.

"They have unique Jutsu; Akira here is like all his species specialist in poisonous constructs with chakra; they are also adequate Fire, Wind and Water Casters, a few of them can cast lightning but to him is quite complicated. Now, many of you may ask? How is actually having a summon useful? Easy; as high-ranked ninja at times we go alone, in such missions having a summon is determinant to either die or survive. Also, having a summon as aid in battle is very much appreciated when your chakra is about to be depleted and you are with no chance to cast Jutsu and your body is at its highest peak of stress, having a summon aid you is something which can easily change your tide to your favor, even an Inuzuka has a benefit of having a summon. Famous Ninja with Summons, easy said; Hashirama Senju and Tsunade Senju with the Slugs, Hiruzen Sarutobi with Monkeys, Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze with Toads, Madara Uchiha with Eagles, Itachi Uchiha with Crows, Kakashi Hatake with Dogs…many more exist, those are only few examples."

Genma Shiranui ended his speech sharply and abruptly and spoke out once again.

"Alright, in the next hour, I want you to rehearse E and D rank Jutsu; attempt to cast your Jutsu with less Hand-seals, make that your first objective, disperse into different parts of the field, NOW!"

He sharply ordered as three clones of himself appeared and followed after his Genin students one for each. As he sat down underneath a tree, after he ends his training with the three children for the day, he sat down. Genma Shinarui considers himself to be example also, as his Genin trained a clone kept vigilance of them as he himself also trained in isolation, constantly replacing himself with such clone after the regimens he puts himself at end.

"Never took you for babysitting children Genma."

The man chuckled and wheezed out also, his training was harder than that of his students, it was expected for a Jounin like him to do so and not be lazy.

"They surprised me; I saw something I guess."

The reptile´s lips curled upwards rather with a smirk and spoke out.

"I am already tempted to play with them."

At this the man instead crossed his arms sharply.

"Not yet ·wheeze·, They can barely handle a minute fully with me in Mid-Chunin level. With you around it harshly turns to Mid-Tokujo level."

At this the reptile easily shrugged as its tail simply flickered to the side rather lazily.

"Have you reached the peak you´ve been seeking our Genma. We have deemed you worthy for our Senjutsu Trial."

At this the man closed his eyes and turned his eyes towards his Genin students rather sharply and shook his head.

"Not yet, I can grow more…until they get it to the Chunin Exams. I won´t do that trial."

And for that Genma will have to determine them and himself also. If they are ready for their harshest trial yet, for him was the Senjutsu and for them the Chunin Exams.

"Alright, I won´t push…I just remind you of it. Though, what peak is that which you seek is what truly interests me. You reached the natural Rank peak already with your Jonin Rank; you were a respected member of the Fourth Hokage´s Guard and you were there when the Kyubi got free defending the family near the chaos. Is it perhaps because you saw that child, that you took him as your genin?"

At this the man snorted and turned to the Gecko.

"You are deviating yourself Gecko."

At this the creature chuckled, with its chuckle from its nose dense purple smoke was emitted, even more as it huffed.

"Whatever you say."

The creature shrugged its shoulders and turned around, disappearing in an explosion of smoke, leaving him alone as he took a Replenishing Pill and smiled. He´ll make sure the children reach to Chunin before age ten, breaking ´Prodigal Itachi´s´ record. As if to rub on the face of the humble son of the pompous Uchiha Clan Leader that the Fourth Hokage´s son easily dismissed the entire record of his golden child to the drain. He´ll prepare them for the Chunin Exams that will happen soon in Kumogakure. And he´ll prepare them to face against even seasoned Chunin for the sake of it.

Training his basic Jutsus. Starting from low-ranked Jutsu which he used two hand-seals for them only. And after going through a fast recollection of all the elemental Jutsu he knew, mostly Fire and Wind ones. He called his Genin back for the Genjutsu Portion of their studies and end the day, his shadow clones already gave him back information of the performance of his students and ´Homework´ for them in a sense of their training regarding their Ninjutsu.

The one that needed the most work was of course Yakumo. Her overspecializing in Genjutsu made her weak in the other two branches, Kiba had surprised him by getting better this time and of course Naruto already was good. Therefore he easily trumped by executing perfect chakra control and minimal expenditure, doing less hand seals, removing one hand-seal to all jutsu, speaks of the blond-boy´s determination to truly master the arts.

"Alright Kids; Now starts Genjutsu, this section of the training is more mental than physical or Chakra only, Genjutsu requires sharp-wits, a sharp mind, a cunning ability and creativity. The more perfect your Chakra Control is, the more effective your Genjutsu shall be, now. There are two Genjutsu which Genin and even Low-Chunin Levelled Ninja use in their arsenal. Demonic Illusion Hell Viewing which subjects your targets the vision of their greatest gear, regardless of whether or not they´re aware that they´re afraid to it, this fear can lead to the target become actually very scared, the hand seals are; Snake and Rat in that order, it´s range is from close range to five meters, no more no less. The second one, is Demonic Illusion False Surroundings which uses a layer of illusion over a location, causing it to look like a different location, hand-seals for this are; Tiger, Rabbit, Snake and Rat in that order. Strive to become the best, being the best is not by the amount of Jutsu you know, but how you apply those jutsu you´ve mastered in a situation, that defines a simple fool from a true Prodigy. A clone shall be with you and you shall subject him to illusions and he shall qualify their quality for another hour, afterwards, you´re good to go home and prepare tomorrow for your first batch of D-ranks."

After a tiring hour. Naruto Namikaze felt tired, winded and perhaps even grinded to the surface, to be lifted up and have his muscles mashed against a meat grinder. He felt dirty, stained and masively sweating, realizing he could sweat in placed he never believed he could; he went on automatic towards home. Being silently as possible, he got inside the house when he heard the cracks of the confetti. In his periphereal view, Mito and Menma sat in a table before them a big cake; all while Jiraiya held a camera, both Minato and Kushina were embracing their children and were too happy and obliviously smiling. Obito and Rin were clapping, Kakashi was by Jiraiya's side gazing at the photo and telling them how to be for the photo to be just perfect.

Menma was born a red-haired boy with the whisker marks, cerulean blue eyes and a bright smile to blind everyone. Mito instead with bright blond straight hair as her father's with whisker marks and Menma have started their formal physical training at age four (he´s six), as expected the house already felt crowded as hell. it was expected that they would celebrate them by a big dinner with all those they loved, to Naruto it was usual for that to happen, he was forced to be taken away three-quarters of his parent´s attention when he was two for his special brothers whom were Jinchuuriki of the Kyubi.

Unnoticed, he went upstairs, took some clothes for him to get to the bath rather extremely tired. He reeked just as his body was grinded in the training; Naruto since he reached genin rank he realized that his training was nothing compared to what Genma-sensei brought them through. Since then he copied the same methods whenever they had free days from the man to continue his own training obsessively. Neglected and forgotten by his family in favor of his young siblings, Naruto felt cheated our and stolen of his parents. But at the same time, he understood exactly why, both Menma and Mito needed more attention than him. They were younger, by a year perhaps. Lately, he found himself just with not enough time to even care for the fact his parents cared not for him. His ascention to Genin having been the most strenous years of his young life, paired with his now Genin training done by Genma. Leaves in his thoughts only training, that he bothered not to even try and state out he existed. He is a Genin, considered an adult in the eyes of the Hidden Leaf Village. Throwing tantrums is above his age and rank anymore.

As a Genin he´s expected to master the three pillars of Ninja Knowledge; Ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Taijutsu. The two first which he´s going along very swiftly, the latter which he relies on his not-revealed bloodline, the Dead Bone Pulse to do so. However he knows that a bloodline while an advantage can also mean death, therefore building his own stable Taijutsu style independent to his bloodline wills peak even more of his mastery and delivery to his task. Lately he has grown fascinated with the Soft-Fist style of the Hyuga Clan, though he knew that it was impossible to replicate the technique, he knew there could exist a way to at least build a way around such technique or have something akin similar to it, being able to weaken your enemy´s weak points sharply was something hard to dismiss. The blond stepped in the water after removing all his reeking cloths and meditated in the warm water about it, as it washed his body away.

´The Hyuga have the capabilities of seeing a body through its secrets, the discipline that studies the body is Iryo-Ninjutsu through its subdiscipline which is Anatomy. Therefore, if I want answers to my self-created Soft-Fist taijutsu style, I need to go to the Hospital and check it thoroughly.' The young boy annotated that in his list of homework, doing a henge as a curious Genin that has taken an interest in Medical-Arts will be enough to get him inside and get the usually eager Iryo-Nin to teach him things and give reference where he could go and read, his bookshelf was already filled with various different self-learning books and of course thousands of scrolls, those scrolls have been of the Jutsu Genma-sensei have taught him and that he has taken to his house and placed there, for now though he needs a clearer head for what is next. Washing himself fast before anything else as he washed himself, his tiredness reached to exponential levels as he simply after ending his bath, he was so tired he dragged himself to his bed and with the towel fastened on his hips. He just fell like log to the bed. His Sensei always found ways to drag him through even harsher training.

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A week later…

"This is dog, target spotted."

From a walkie-talkie a brown-haired young child spoke sharply and edgily, as from atop a tree a hooded figure´s glare was set on a cat a few trees beyond him.

"Copied dog, bone-master confirms."

He stated and a female voice spoke.

"Genjutsu Princess confirms…ready?"

"Brown Gecko confirms, go for it."

As the female applied an illusory spell on the Cat cleverly, the creature was thus calm in its place, before though a figure took it and finally, discovering it´s been tricked, it slashed the hooded creature´s face, with speed and pace the devilish creature was thrown to Kiba as Akamaru barked at the Cat ready to slash both and Akamaru ready to bite on the cruel creature, Kiba threw the creature Back to Yakumo whom with a soothing touch and effect, the cat was brought once more to tranquility, as they walked towards the Hokage Tower, to the mission booth exactly where apparently a dark-haired Uchiha male was chuckling out loud, on his arms a red-haired four-year old girl was being carried. Today was Uncle 'Bito´s day with Cute Lil´ Mito-chan, the girl was a joy to be around and was simply pure-light for the young Uchiha.

All while a brown-haired young male in Chunin Attire continued to check the Mission Booth.

"Team Seven done catching Tora."

Iruka Umino has recently been accepted in the position of the academy, merely a pair of weeks ago, after the generation graduated he alongside a new batch of teachers were brought in, the old ones were given the option to go Tokubetsu Jonin to which they accepted, he didn´t stayed silent in criticizing the old-instructors for using an old-fashioned system, also when the case was known through a few members of the Jonin and Chunin community that three Six-Year Olds graduated underneath their nose after skipping grades through exams somehow rather lazily, the brown-haired orphaned man made sure to criticize them infinitely for allowing children whom should be still playing get the damn headbands, for the love of God, even Itachi Uchiha had some damn childhood, moreover when it´s the eldest child of the Fourth Hokage.

Though, it also earned pity from him; he has seen how occupied and rushed the Fourth Hokage is; between managing his job and his Jincuuriki children, everyone in the family apparently forgot they had an elder heir to the family forgotten and dismissed to the side, from the reports the boy was his father´s comeback. He won the spot of Rookie of the Year and stole it from the supposed Rookie of that Generation by a considerable margin of points in the tests, of the teams they were a few of the ones that passed the true tests.

Genma Shiranui promoted to Jonin was a surprise, more of a surprise is that apparently the male easily took the three children and got them straight, literally straight; in only three weeks, two since they´ve been doing D-ranks, his Genin weren´t normal. The kids seemed disciplined, heck, for any question they had a sharp expected military answer to give, when asked what they do in their free time the three in unison answered ´Train´, in which Genma shrugged and stated that he simply showed them that their actual level is meaningless before their superiors.

It also doesn´t helps that Naruto was born in a Generation without any talented clan child. Neji Hyuga being perhaps the only person spoken between the voices, but his relevance is so little regardless. It´s as if in a time period where everyone was dying in the war, all Shinobi and Civilians in Konoha just didn´t fucked and Minato and Kushina found the adequate time to do the deed in that tranquility and conceive Naruto. Yakumo and Kiba are perhaps exceptional cases also, being bared also earlier in that generation although a year younger than Naruto. It´s obvious they found Naruto also and felt a certain kinship with him.

"Great Job, Team Seven. What shall you choose next, then? Babysitting a few clan children, maintaining the kettles of the Inuzuka Clan, aiding in cleaning plates at Yakinuku Q, Lifting crates in the Market District?"

At this Genma cleared his throat and asked.

"May I ask the amount of D-ranks we have on the record?"

At this Iruka checked Team Seven´s documents and his eyes gazed at the number, his eyes almost bulging out.

"Four-Hundred Twenty-Two D-Rank missions, quite an exceptional record Genma-san."

The man praised and wondered about it.

"Perhaps, may I request, I don´t know…If my team could be perhaps ready for a C-rank escort mission?"

At this Iruka rose and slammed his palms in the table, calling the attention of all the present.

"Absolutely not! The past Academy Instructors committed a heavy slight by allowing Six-Year-Old Children turn genin, I won´t allow your team to get a C-rank mission."

At a face-palm was heard throughout the room as chuckle echoed through the hall. Hiruzen Sarutobi sometimes was in the mission booth alongside Iruka or some other chunin for the day. "Oh, please Iruka, My team had its first C-rank when we reached the Two-Hundred mark, Genma-san´s a good Jounin." Hiruzen gave his opinion on the matter.

"Alright ·sigh·. Here is an adequate C-rank mission, let´s see. Here, an important Businessman requested escorting service from here Konoha to Sunagakure, he offers hefty pay."

A good first Job for their Ninja-Career and making credentials with the private industry, Genma nodded and took the mission for his team, Iruka stated that the man wants to depart tomorrow in the early morning to Sunagakure, to which caused the members of the team to be dismissed home and prepare for at least a week-trip towards Sunagakure

Naruto combed his hair as he stared at the swing he usually sat in when he was in his earliest academy days, alone; yet afterwards he shared the spot with Kiba and Yakumo after they managed their strategy to get into the academy earlier than those his age even. 'He made it clear, his dream to change the world came from the bitterness he could feel in the air. Marked by the Tragedy of the Kyubi attack, each day he can see many civilians glaring behind the backs of his family at them; at his parents and most of all his siblings. He got off the hook because he was botn without whisker marks and his hair was spiky and blond yet his eyes were a deep purple as were his mother's. From his pouch emerged a book he clutched.

The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi ( )

Hearing of the book when Jiraiya stated of it when he was meeting with his parents, when he was four his parents were rehabilitating at home to reinstate themselves soon; Jiraiya spoke of the book as his father's favorite. Feeling bold, he read through it and felt himself inspited. The book, was a hallmark of what marked most of his generation and those before him; the War. The Cycle of Hatred, War and Conflict; and having gotten aware that the name of the character was an alusion to him; he felt himself responsible for the conflict and the cycle of hatred. He would find himself impassionately opening a random page to remind himself a chapter and almost by muscle memory already knowing the crispy cheesy dialogues. He wondered If he would ever get as an exciting life as Jiraiya's did portraying it on Naruto.

If you're really a Hyuga, show us your Byakugan. But if you don't want to, don't look at us.

He heard male voices from the vicinity of the park, he turned and crept atop a tree. Civilian children, older than him; thre in total surrounding a raven-haired girl.

She's Neji's cousin.

She's probably stuck up too

Yeah, I bet she thinks she's better than us 'cause of her family talent.

"Not, not like that at all. I swear." The girl shyly spoke, she tried to run away but one of the boys grabbed her by the sleeve of her black shirt. She cried out, and he instictively balled his palms, was this the cause of wars. Envy; it didn't justify how they were treating her.

Trying to run off without telling us that you're sorry, huh. That's not cool.

The fat boy stated.

Yeah that's right.

The brown haired boy slammed her down to a kneeling position, and he acted immediately.

*POW*

With a single and powerful heel kick, the same boy who offended the girl by slamming her down was now head-first on the floor. Knocked out, shocking the two other boys.

"Knock it off." He stated pointedly at them, glaring at both boys who glanced shocked at their knocked out comrade. All while the Hyga girl rose her head with a shocked filled face.

He…He's the son of the Fourth Hokage.

The fat boy stated in shock.

No way, he's the one that graduated early and is the best of his generation.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. And I shall bring peace to the Ninja World. Now…leave, her…alone…" With his deadly eyes bones jutted out from his hands, knees and elbows as he glared at them.

Run away, he's a monster!

"Lady Hinata!" Ko Hyuga realized what was happening and rushed towards the Hyuga Princess who glanced in shock at the visage of the Fourth Hokage's son, the prodigal first son of the fourth. Forgotten and neglected. The shaken girl looked at the boy then at her bodyguard Ko. "Lady Hinata, are you alright?" The shaken girl turned from her bodyguard back to the blond boy who glared at the pursuers and then turned back to Ko. "H-hai. H-he helped me." The Hyuga bodyguard turned to meet him and the man immediately bowed.

"Namikaze-sama." The Hyuga stated in shock seeing the resemblance of the young carbon copy of the fourth hokage in his genin days. "Greetings, please…no need for formality. I..I'll get going." He gave a kind wink to the female Hyuga Heiress and jumped away using a tree, and with his stellar mark he hoped he left a good impression by saving someone. Shrugging, he closed his eyes and remembered the same line said by the Naruto of the book by a formidable enemy.

While there is hope in the dream of believing peace is possible, I shall grab onto it and never let go.

'I shall not let go of that hope, ever…' He ruminated and entered the Namikaze Household, not surprised at finding it alone at all. He went upstairs directly, and started to get things ready for his mission.

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Namikaze Household

A pair of stern and yet also nervous volet eyes went once again through his backpack´s articles, all for the sake of surviving his first trip outside the Hidden Leaf Village, his very brain and heart were anxious, outside the Shinobi world there were many threats, on his very hands was a scroll given to him by a kind Iryo-nin, the key to his self-created Taijutsu, he opened it and peeked inside, reading the kanji.

Chakura no Mesu (Chakra Scalpel)

He closed the scroll, he would´ve asked to Tsunade-Senju about it but seeing as the woman, whom is his grandmother whom in a drunken encounter got pregnant with so surprisingly Jiraiya´s child which was Minato was so occupied in mourning for deceased people that died already decades ago, forsaking her only family and punching her liver away with gusto, at the moment, he´s alone. One conclusion is drawn, it will be a cold-day in hell before he takes the Woman´s clan name as his.

The chakra scalpel was a unique medical jutsu which if applied well, could be used to his own advantage. But for now, he´ll have to put that on hold, tomorrow he´ll need a sharper mind and even sharper instincts, he read the mission dossier, his client was Gatou a Businessman whom is CEO of a Shipping Company. Swings in gold and riches and the bounty for his head, his enemies have also staked a very high price for it, no doubt the man is around guards all the time. It wouldn´t be surprising if they´re attacked by a few bounty-hunters on the way.

´I am prepared for anything and everything.´ He thought making mentality of the mission he´ll have tomorrow.

His first C-rank mission arrived finally and it will be either a royal mess, or a victory. He closed his eyes and embraced himself, how he wishes to have advice from his mother or father, anyone at the moment on how to deal with the nervousness he suddenly feels.

'Meditating, is the only way I can make this go through.' The blond haired boy opened his eyes and nodded sharply, he closed his eyes sat in an Indian style and slowly, as he emptied his thoughts, purging his worries temporarily, purging his very body of any and all dark feelings of neglect he felt that his parents and family unappreciated him, whitening his mind akin to temporarily just abandoning himself and just…thinking nothing at all…doing nothing, felt, placid in a sense.

Unknowingly, the young heir of the Namikaze Family fell asleep…activating his alarm at an enough time to go, yet even then he didn´t just stated anything at all, just going out of his body once again.

A four-year-old red-haired Mito Uzumaki glanced around the darkness of the Namikaze Clan Compound, as she walked the rooms, she gently knocked her Ani-chan´s room, the big brother´s room, she opened the door ajar and spoke gently.

"Naruto-Ani-chan."

She called out gently, she´s just had a terrible nightmare with a big-scary red fox attempting to eat her, she rose up from her bed and gasped, screaming out, of course no one perceived her scream, she was scared and couldn´t sleep, apparently her Ani-chan was asleep, closing the door behind her and gently approaching, her ears detected a faint rumbling-like noise emitted from her brother, once again he was slightly humid and wet from the bath, he always slept like this from what she remembered ever since she could remember, only a towel was fastened around his hip, nothing else to cover him either.

"Ani-chan…I had a nightmare."

She called out and the male opened a half-lidded eye and shrugged, yanking her forth and just embracing her near him, her Ani-chan´s chest warm and comfortable, slowly she felt her eyes droopy as she faced her dear elder brother whom seemed already asleep, she clung her body closer to his and she spoke out cutely.

"Ani-chan…"

She whispered with love only a young sister could have to her old sibling as she slept peacefully, her red hair and his blond hair, almost akin to a repeat of their parent´s story, but also not so.

An alarm clock echoed and a groan echoed through the Namikaze Family´s upper floor, a pair of violet eyes opened and he shrugged, he felt a small weight atop his body, craning his neck, his young sister wearing cutesy pajamas seemed to be sleeping atop him, shrugging he didn´t cared, but if he had to guess probably she had a nightmare or something around it, what was surprising was that instead of waking his parents she chose to go to him. Slightly caressing her red hair, he didn´t knew why but he felt placid, choosing instead to now get up gently, performing a swift substitution with a nearby warm dakimakura pillow, the female snuggled tighter to it and groaned, before sighing.

"Ani-chan."

He sighed and took a bath, the bath was warmth, and the royal twins usually wake up late, they´re still children after all, by that age he was already waking up early to get to the academy and be early enough to get some warm-up before classes started, always with a pair of books on his arms and a few scrolls paired of Jutsu he could learn or rehearse. Preparing for his mission with the usual short-sleeved white hooded shirt with black stripes, black pants and black shinobi sandals, he prepared his black Konoha Bandana and glared at the overall mirror once more, today he was a new man, an adult Shinobi ready for his first mission. Taking his backpack way early he approached to his young sister and caressed a strand of hair away from her face and kissed her forehead.

Disappearing in a gentle swirl of leaves and air, he was soon outside the Namikaze Household and instead, atop a building, jumping from building to building, with all his materials prepared, he glanced at the main gates, nobody was there still, he waited atop a building, doing an invisibility Jutsu and stared at the whole place, waiting for anyone to arrive. The client arrived alongside his sensei, he arrived and it all took a minute most for Kiba and Yakumo to also arrive, ready for their adventure.

At this the scrawny man in black suit and red tie snorted and spoke out.

"Is this what Konoha could give me? A bunch of kids?"

At this the Jonin man spoke out sharply and militarily.

"Your payment and request was for a C-rank mission sir, Low-Grade Chunin and High-Level Genin perform these missions, we promise you to give you a quality service, and if you could, perhaps, give us an overall review of our service once the mission ends, we would appreciate it. Here is an empty scroll where you could write, don´t be biased and write your mind after our service is done and before we part."

Genma Shiranui thought this a good method for his Genin to improve, with their first Client´s opinion they can build professionalism and also it can hone him to be a better Jounin to the village, a good-good situation, with that said the man snatched the scroll and pocketed it in his coat´s pocket and shrugged, soon though the man was taken inside a carriage all while escorting in a diamond formation were the Genin Team of Genma Shiranui, the pace they travelled were rushed, even the Client´s carriage was rushed, perhaps impatience of the client to be there, even the, their speed of travel would be enough to reach to the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers by Night, there´s an Inn in that border that they can stay the night before taking the entire day after that to Sunagakure directly.

And easier said as done, by night-time the group was finally in the border of both lands, on the side of the Land of Fire yet once more, he chose to use Akira to send a message to the Village that his team was alright and that things were well enough. After arriving to the Inn, he took his Genin for a short training Session, impromptu to continue on the training they did the day before yesterday with the same emphasis, starting with Stamina and Muscle Build, going afterwards to Chakra Control, then to Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and ending with Genjutsu, the training felt light, the boys did it effortlessly since he went lighter, very lighter on them and afterwards they went to take post on escorting the client.

It was already 11 O'clock in the night, from that hour up to Two O´clock the Genin would be taking care of the room, while he sleeps, then from two to Six he´ll go and the children would sleep, it was a good dynamic and Genma thought it would aid the children to start getting used to having shifts in guarding someone, they of course had the orders to call their superior if anything happened.

Therefore, at the moment; Naruto, Kiba and Yakumo were sharply around, Yakumo was inside the CEO´s room hidden in the very darkness heavily aware of any abnormality, outside the door was Naruto and atop the Inn´s ceiling was Kiba, the three of them ready to answer swiftly to any threat, Akamaru atop the male´s head remained as awake as it´s master.

´Certainly this is the harsh part of the Escort Missions, taking shifts into caring the client.´

The blond boy thought sharply and got ready to get there, and thus the children resisted four hours staying awake, not used to staying late, the children were quite resistant, had to give them that, by the time Genma arrived, the three children went to their respective bedrooms and just lied dead on the beds, tired but satisfied that they´ve been taken seriously by their sensei enough to bodyguard their client.

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Border Between Land of Wind and Land of Rivers

The way was very still, after crossing most of the land of rivers, the mission as tranquil, even his Genin were laid-back and were bickering with the other playfully as children would, Genma shrugged and chewed on his senbon, until his sharp eyes perceived something, his eyes widened and he saw an explosive note.

"GET DOWN!"

He used his body to slam his arm inside the cart, take the client and jump away as it exploded, as a very strong Wind-Jutsu hit the entire place, the Children were assaulted by surprise as they jumped way and adhered to the trees, soon the figure jumped down and revealed a shirt-less man wearing a strange hood, threads on his joints and overall face, looking akin like a rag-doll his eyes were aqua-blue with a very strange design, black shinobi pants and black shinobi sandals, the man´s back had four masks one for each element. The man´s sharp eyes were soon on Genma, as the man simply inhaled sharply and exhaled a sharp wave of fire, by his side a black figure appeared and exhaled a current of strong wind, causing an explosion and very much destruction.

´Fuck! This is no normal bounty-hunter.´

Genma Shiranui growled as they started Jumping from tree-to-tree rather sharply, Suna was far and it was still Sunset, night would arrive, and the man alongside the black masked mass of something followed them viciously, doing the same fire-wind combination, causing explosions. He turned around and spitted out a poisoned senbon towards the man whom simply took it, gruesomely his body shifted and the senbon fell to the floor, after gruesomely travelling his whole body.

"Naruto, Guys…Take the client away to Suna…NOW!"

He ordered sharply as shoved the client to his students, as they took him away using the Body Flicker technique, the three at the same time, the Jonin following after his students, produced a Shadow Clone to engage the Bounty Hunter in battle.

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Land of Wind, Near the Land of Rivers-Land of Wind Border.

´Boring.´

A red haired man with a beige colored shoulder-padded vest, black shinobi pants, black shinobi sandals and his eyes overall rather bored, on his forehead a headband of the Village Hidden in the Sand, his face covered by a cloth as all Special-Forces of Suna do, his head also covered in a turban-like cloth, above his attire a sandy-cream colored hooded coat which he wore the hood, today was his shift to cover and guard the borders of Suna, ever since the Third Shinobi World War where his Elder Cousin Rasa was forced to see that Iwagakure was doing its dirty jobs on the land, he send all the special forces to cleanse the land and kill Iwa Shinobi left and right, lest get the Ire of the Daimyo for allowing others to make dirty things on his land.

For that reason, since then, Special Forces have special rotatory shifts around the Land´s borders and in the land´s towns to search for any foreign Shinobi that if not with a good reason to be here they are killed, if they are Iwa shinobi the executive order is to bring them the sword, even then he smirks, a certain feisty Iwa Kunoichi always finds time to do those pranks she calls art around.

They meet on occasions, for the sake of confronting their arts. His lips trembled and threatened to curved upwards from their usually emotionless visage, as per the usual he knelt down and buried his right hand´s index and thumb in the floor, sensing the field around him, four; have crossed the border, Three Chunin and another minor, probably civilian, behind them a Jounin and…

"Ugh…"

He caressed his head, the other signature was so big, immense, monstrous…he sharply prepared his senses and easily disappeared in between the sand, akin to an after-image of the desert.

"We must reach to Suna fast."

Naruto Stated alarmed, as they were rushed, running as they could through the desert, the man they escorted now in a triangle formation, Naruto at the sharp front, he turned around and rose both of his arms, from his fingers bone senbon were thrown as projectiles, his very phalanges, the sharp sound of Kunai meeting such was heard and they all turned around, in between the sand, a figure stood distanced from them, another figure hovered in black hooded robes, the figure spoke.

"You´re in the Land of Wind, state your motives to be in our land."

The voice stated to which the Brown-haired Inuzuka was about to growl and scream out towards the Figure but Naruto chose to explain.

"Please Aid us, our Jonin-sensei is engaging a powerful Bounty-Hunter, they´re both coming. We have a client; we need to escort him to Suna."

Already the night has arrived and the desert at night was cold and unforgiving, Akasuna no Sasori had no love for humans or life itself, but children, he had a soft spot for them somehow, someway, they…reminded him of him in a sense, he cannot be cold towards them. Removing his hood, the figure revealed itself as a young man whom nodded and looked sharply away, the Chakra threads revealed themselves and he expanded his fingers, the hoods revealed the appearance of a puppet with that of the Third Kazekage, as another black mass with a different mask this time did an inhaling effect a thick lightning was its effect, the Suna Shinobi easily rushed, did hand-seals and slammed his hands on the surface, erecting a big wall of earth to block the lightning attack.

"Sasori, Sunagakure."

The man produced a Sand-Clone as the Genins were escorted by Sasori to the Sand Village alongside the Client while the wall of Earth cracked and then just exploded as the enraged Bounty-Hunter roared and now four masks, one of each element just were out and ready to use their Jutsus, Genma Shiranui studied the guy at his front, he knew him; in the Konoha Chunin exams of his generation he alongside many other Talented Guys of different villages participated, he was of the Suna Delegation, young compared to others.

Sasori, Grandson of the Puppet Technique Chiyo, probably a Puppet Master as his grandmother, he hoped it will be useful.

"Genma, Konoha. And he´s Kakuzu of the Hearts."

The man commented sharply, to which the Red-Haired Male widened his eyes and glanced at the man, such an addition to his collection wouldn´t be so bad, a Legendary Shinobi of this caliber, offense would be to not think of it.

"We don´t have resources nor the time to kill him Five Times."

Sasori commented to which the Jonin of Konoha nodded and glared at the man, all they intended was to create a distraction, Sasori caused the Kazekage to emerge and using the Iron Sand he launched multiple projectiles towards the Bounty Hunter, all while each one of his masks launched elemental Ninjutsu and he got ready to attack with a Kunai in close-quarters, a very useful strategy which made the man a one-man army, as he extended his arm with those threads, Sasori and Genma evaded the overall elemental Attacks with a chakra puppet barrier all while Genma easily engaged the real Kakuzu in a Taijutsu Fight, Sasori was left to engage each of the Five Hearts with the Third Kazekage, and they were Winning, mildly.

The Fourth Kazekage immediately send more Special Forces; if for what his cousin said true about Kakuzu of the Hearts being in the Land, it meant disaster, Pakura of the Shakuton alongside a few other Special Chunin and Jonin were sent alongside her, he grinned inwardly, perhaps finally his obnoxious young cousin will finally have the guts to display some manliness and date Pakura, for gods sakes, the girl was once Sasori´s friend in the academy before his parents died and his Genin Teammate before he made it to chunin quite fast.

Now though, there was another interesting controversy indeed, apparently the client of the Konoha Ninja wanted to speak with him in private about a deal, but he dismissed it for later after things were settled anyway, instead he chose to contemplate the violet eyed blond-haired boy, it didn´t took one to deduce immediately that the boy was the son of the Fourth Hokage, very young, at age six and the child was already a Genin.

"So, it´s interesting to see the son of the Fourth Hokage so far from his village, a weapon of it nonetheless."

After Gatou was taken away by a few Suna Men to a comfortable hotel, the team of three genin were left at his front, Kiba though whispered to Yakumo.

"He´s creepy."

The Kurama Clan Heiress had to nod to the male, all while Naruto instead bowed to the authority.

"It´s a pleasure to meet you in person Kazekage-sama. We also appreciate the help of your men to our cause, and also, apologize, for bothering you with your duties for this inconvenience."

The dull-red haired man instead shrugged and spoke rather convincingly although very also interested.

"Don´t mind it, you are merely Genin, it´s expected of you to go on with your mission as your Jonin protects you from the threat, and the man that followed you isn´t a simply threat."

Naruto no doubt as also Yakumo and Kiba shivered, the man seemed sinister, evil, old, as if a very evil spirit everlasting ages were glaring at them through their very souls ready to kill them. Rasa though glared focusing at the young boy, the entire nations knew the story of Taki and how they got on the wrong side in the Third World War and how Hiruzen Sarutobi the Third Hokage in a strange decision but wise, demanded Taki to hand back the containment of the Seven Tails back to Konoha as punishment, at that same day, a child was born and thus, the Seven Tailed Horned Beetle was sealed inside a boy, the son of the legendary Yellow Flash of the Hidden Leaf.

To be already a Genin at age six, Rasa had his sons…he has a daughter, Jinchuuriki of the Ichibi…and can barely even be a competent Jinchuuriki for the Village at all, his wife was too very kind with their children and while he allows it for Temari and Kankuro, with Gaara it cannot be. If the rumors are true, Iwa already has new Jinchuuriki, Kumo has a new Nibi Jinchuuriki, Kiri has a new Sanbi; all of the mentioned were parts of their Shinobi forces at very young ages.

The Nibi of Kumo is a Genin, The Yonbi and Gobi of Iwa are in the Academy Apparently, The Sanbi is also in the Academy already, meanwhile his daughter barely has four, and can´t even get things right for herself.

´I have to think on something fast, lest Suna could lose even more influence.´

He thought rather sharply and glaring as he dismissed the Genin, once more leaving him with the Paperwork which he wanted to scream at it.

A young red-haired boy, a cute blush adorning his cheeks sat in the sandy floor, with a toy plastic bucket and a toy shovel. He felt safe since the villagers feared him and despised him, but the love of her family was enough to get him to be happy overall.

"Again."

A sharp voice cried out sharply and his teal green eyes continued to play with the sand, making a sand castle. As a gentle warm breeze of wind moved him, he wore a simply light-brown tunic, dark-brown pants, black shinobi sandals, a thin white cloth covered his head and his nose and mouth, like any Suna male would have.

"Again."

He heard a male voice snap in frustration and he continued to play, and formed his castle, once ending it after a long while he heard once more.

"Again."

He rose his head and glance nearby him a couple of people. Around her age almost, apparently they were shinobi and they were training. The Blond-haired male seemed to be facing against two others, without the use of any Jutsu, only hand to hand and using Shinobi weaponry, a light-brown haired girl and a dark-brown haired boy with a dog, seemed to be engaging him in a 2-vs-1 battle, and he was doing rather well, before apparently both somehow manage to tumble him down.

"Again."

"You already had enough man! Let me at it, I want to train too."

The dark brown-haired male stated to which the blond nodded and soon both blonde boy and brown girl teamed up against brown boy and dog, the brown-haired boy took a feral stance and started to defend himself and counter to both, the fight escalated with intensity before heard a groan and refocused his sight. He blinked and refocused his sight to see the same brown-haired bow groaning and the tiny dog also whining in tiredness.

"We´re being seen."

Both Kiba and Naruto turned around to meet at a Red-haired boy, probably a local, with toys on him and a sand castle.

"Hey, mind your own business!"

Kiba snapped ready to rush against the boy, but Naruto outstretched his right arm and placed it in between the meek red-haired boy, whom gasped and the sand directed against the Konoha Shinobi, the Blond-haired male Gulped as in the very air soon though, dust covered it and created a pseudo-barrier against the her eyes he could sense a malice, a unique malice that was dense. Almost his siblings yet not. He sharpened his eyes.

'Jinchuuriki.' He thought.

"It´s alright guys. Why don't you test yourself against Yakumo Keebs, I´ll be with you both Later." They both glanced at the blond, then back at each other.

The Kurama Clan Heiress was ready to reprimand the male to about team unity but Kiba was the one to shrug and turn around.

"He´ll come back anyway, ready for me or what?" The male smirked at the female Genjutsu Mistress to be. Whom instead got on a sharp basic Hiken Taijutsu stance and got ready to attack the confident male, all while Naruto approached to the girl.

"I´m sorry for my friend, he doesn´t take kind to new people. I´m Naruto."

He outstretched his right arm to the young red-haired boy with teal green eyes whom meekly continued to play with his toys.

"Gaara."

He stated back shyly and went back to play, he asked instead.

"What are you playing?"

He asked to the red-haired boy spoke rather obliviously.

"I´m making a sand castle, do you want to play?"

It´s been years since he played with someone, he wasn´t good at making friends. Not before the academy at least, his lips curled by a tiny margin upwards and he sat down with the boy and aided him to make a beautiful sand castle, all while Kiba and Yakumo continued their training, they both giggled as they played happily like common children of their age would. The boy and the young Shinobi continued to play as the two teammates continued to play.

"Do you want to be my friend?"

He asked to the young boy who blinked and turned back at him, tilting his head to the side, unknown of what it meant to have a friend. He closed his eyes, perhaps the boy´s also a victim of bad parentage as he is in a sense, in a world where adults at times commit mistakes and are not perfect, one child can save another like him/her, he spoke out.

"I am like you; my parents barely pay me attention and at times, I have no friends…I would cry myself at night each and every day. Until, until I realized that I must be strong, all those loved ones I have, those that you hold dear and would give even your life to protect, all of them, for them I changed and made my purpose to be stronger to protect them, the strongest of them all."

He spoke to him with a smile, to which the boy glanced at him rather entranced yet also understanding his message.

"Friend?"

Gaara asked rather shocked as the message seemed to slowly fit inside his head, soon a voice called for him and he turned around, his mother was seeking for him. A kind light-brown haired kind woman, all while by her side the Fourth Kazekage seemed to have seen the overall interaction and remained there.

"Namikaze Naruto, what was your goal with speaking that nonsense to my son?"

The male instead glanced rather entranced at the horizon, his violet eyes had a slight emotional stare yet also contemplative stare in them, he spoke firmly.

"To give him a motive to grow strong, just as a Jinchuuriki can be scarred to be turned a weapon, there´s no stronger weapon than will to protect those we love Kazekage-sama, if a man can be motivated to take weapons and fight for its family, believe me that a kunoichi will be even twice emboldened to do so. Gaara being no less than that."

The Fourth Kazekage leered at the young blond as he was gone to train back once more with the other Genin of his team once more, he afterwards realized what the boy stated and he snorted and his lips twitched upwards, so that´s the secret of the Hokage and how to strengthen their Jinchuuriki.

Love.

It seemed almost poetic that out of beings representing hatred, their containers can weaponize their love and loyalty to their village, finding something to protect to give it their all and go beyond everything else. As he glanced at his wife and youngest son, the boy outstretched his arms towards his wife, and spoke something out of his young lips which made the woman smile, and carry her son and obtain an embrace. The crying red-haired young boy outstretched his arm towards him and he finally understood it, how foolish had he been to almost put up with that insane plan.

He´ll have to thank the Fourth Hokage afterwards.

Genma Shiranui and Akasuna no Sasori came back very wounded after their battle, Shakuton no Pakura very winded and a quarter of the men sent, death; the Kakuzu managed to flee away from the land, no doubt not wanting to face the strength of a hidden village by himself.

Due to the inconvenience of the incapacitated Jonin, Naruto had to send a letter to Konoha to inform their actual status instead of their Jonin´s incapacitation and request for Chunin or Jonin-Levelled Aid, the letter was sent already a day ago when the Jonin arrived from battle. Staying in a good hotel, courtesy from the Fourth Kazekage whom seemed apparently livelier somehow, the Konoha Genin were at the moment just lounging in their room.

·Click· ·Click·

The caw of a Crow was heard and easily the blond-haired male turned around as Yakumo and Kiba were having an argument about whom had now the TV, which he just shrugged and went to the window and saw the crow, taking the letter attached to one of its legs, unrolling the scroll and reading it thoroughly.

Team Seven

ANBU Agents have been summoned to your location, they shall arrive in a few hours' time, their assignment shall be to care for your team-members from the shadows, so don´t expect to make any contact with them. We´ve also reinforced the Village´s walls and the Country´s security and notified Lord Hokage about the presence of Jiongu no Kakuzu´s status.

Naruto read the letter unconvinced but rather relieved that they managed to reinforce the walls, no doubt right now the Hidden Leaf Village being aware of the existence of a being of such caliber would cause further uproar in the circles of Shinobi, for that very reason at the moment he was tense, whatever C-rank mission they had turned into a nasty B or even A-ranked shit, as a tiny monkey knocked the window also, he smiled, his surrogate grandfather always had a word to say and his advice was so damn appreciate for Kami´s sake.

The Monkey delivered the scroll and disappeared in an explosion of Smoke.

Naruto my boy, how have you been? I´ve read your letter and all I can say is that being a Shinobi means also to be prepared for the unexpected. Though, I can only guess how terrifying it can be to meet an enemy with such age and experience roaming freely around the world, I remember one such Shinobi once attempted to assassinate Hashirama-sensei, even though he was easily defeated by him, he was no easy defeat, having to kill a man four times is something already very difficult already. Anyway, I read your request for Elemental-Ninjutsu training and I wouldn´t be any happier to aid you in your development as Shinobi Naruto-kun, though it saddens me that your parents haven´t noticed you, I cannot blame Minato for it, for as I know the burdens of a Hokage. Don´t fret my boy, there´s always a light on our path and I´m sure you´ll find yours too. You managed to communicate with your beast? You seemed to also reach to a common understanding with it, congratulations Naruto-kun; you´ve already proved yourself to have surpassed your mother, she and the Kyubii never had the best of relationships and Mito-sama was also perhaps not that good at communicating with their Biju, nonetheless being a Jinchuuriki is important for the village and also do forever remember, love is the key, with that in your mind, your path shall never be let astray.

Waiting your next letter,

With all my love and support,

Hiruzen Sarutobi.

The young blond-haired male almost cried. Of all the people that truly he bonded with, Hiruzen Sarutobi was a main driving force with him. When the Third Hokage retired he dedicated back to live his retirement days in the Sarutobi Clan´s compound, attempting to redeem himself with the son´s he has so neglected. Moreover at the moment his two dearest are his son Asuma and his grandson Konohamaru, one of them having returned to the village and the other too young. The Old Grandfather made sure to start teaching his son Asuma all what he missed during his Hokage days. Mostly to turn into an appropriate Clan Leader for the Sarutobi and of course, teaching the ropes of the Hokage Seat if there were ever a need for the village to take a leader in trying times; seeing as the Senju Clan was extinct. Only the Sarutobi and the Namikaze are left of those acknowledged worthy of the chair.

Naruto would at times visit the compound whenever he felt lonely. And he was always received warmly by the village elder, whom he would engage in friendly conversation over some tea and cookies. In there the Old Man would qualify his academy progress, give useful advice and in-between the Ol´man would start to tutor him into Hard-Fist taijutsu. Nothing clan-oriented like the Sarutobi-Style but rather instead general Taijutsu for him to be prepared for classes, something more solid than the Academy Style without breaking the Clan Oath of ´A clan´s techniques belong to a Clan´.

"Who was it?"

Kiba asked curiously as he glanced at the fond smile and visage that his teammate had.

Of the few times one could see him nostalgic and in remembrance, he could only see as he was brought back to the world as he held a smile on his face, rejuvenated from the stress, relaxed and warmed somehow.

"It´s Hiruzen-Jiji, he sends motivations from his side and all his support. The ANBU might´ve already arrived and will be on the lookout for us, we won´t contact with them, they´ll be gone one Sensei awakens."

Naruto stated straightening himself, wearing his same attire consisting of a simple gray short-sleeved hooded shirt, black pants and black shinobi sandals, on his head loosely perhaps even a black konoha bandana; he just glanced at the overall sandy village through the window, it was rather a surprising place.

·Knock· Knock·

A brown haired female opened the door to be received by a brown-haired and brown-eyed female with purple painted cheeks and a Hidden Sand Village Headband on her forehead, late teenagers to early twenties the three calculated and assessed immediately, wearing the Chunin outfit of her village with the brown-colored flak-jacket with shoulder-guards pronounced, black colored high-collared long-sleeved turtleneck-shirt, black shinobi pants and sandals, enough to be useful but with that done, they easily assessed her as a mid-classed Chunin anyway.

"Your Jonin-sensei has woken up, I´m entitled to escort you to the Medical-Wing."

A red-haired male tended to a wounded Konoha Shinobi, not a comrade but Sasori of the Red Sands was a loyal man, he didn´t allowed emotions or trivialities such as loyalty to drive him, many might say that he was a selfish bastard when truly it all was different, he simply lived for himself and when he lived for himself he sought out for his true goal with was immortality and live forever. He was nearing to it, he swears he did, each bastard he catches he eliminates and dissects the body for research, might as well be the village's consolation to the lonely young male whose parents were killed right before their time, and while he may not hold affection for his grandmother that much, he dutifully visits her to train his puppet-art, poison-craft and of course his medical Knowledge, how else would the Red-haired male would go beyond Tsuande Senju best damn medic in the Nations.

For that reason, he dutifully never ceases to work on the hospital and his puppet-craft.

And she stood there, defiant and perhaps impatient yet with analytical eyes glancing at him, assessing him, studying him, pupil-less brown eyes, green hair tied up in a bun atop her head with a hair needle running through it and one short and long stands of hair with orange tips framing each side of her face, wearing a sleeveless backless top with short tight pants, with two lapels on the front and the back, ovi around her waist, purple arm warmers up to her shoulders, bandages around thighs and ankles, black shinobi sandals, taller than him even, a pair of years older perhaps.

But he managed to graduate first than her, with honors, shinobi of the year of his generation; which almost made him smirk in pride, she got the spot of Kunoichi of the Year but her grades never even compared to the perfect score that Sasori of the Red Sands got.

He knows why she was sent, he knows why she´s here, as if he´s stupid and senseless, they want her to be his leash, to hold him down, to make him feel threatened, like a snake ready to poise its fangs at the prey.

Sasori is no one´s prey, he´s the predator, whomever defies him and dares to attack him he answers swiftly and deadly with his poison, deadliest in the world, not even Tsunade ´Fucking´ Senju can heal it.

This woman defies his own beliefs and his art, her very stance and way of life defy him, such beauty, so much beauty into a woman, a deadly kunoichi, Shinobi die to her left and right…and she defied his own life morality by taking an apprentice, a symbol of stagnation and accepting the passing of time. So much beauty, wasted, so much beauty that deserves eternity, the sheer thought of adding her to his collection made his very body shiver, preserving her to his side would be…acceptable, something, very comfortable to his heart that warmed his very soul.

"What do you want?"

She stated out to him, not realizing that he stared to much at her, sizing her body with a perverse almost even twisted glance, he snorted and glared at her with disdain and pity.

"It´s a pity, that you so blindingly follow your honor and beliefs, such beauty wasted by attempting to go by time itself, doing what they expect out of you, what a such waste."

He commented with disdain and turned back around to assess the wounded Konoha Jounin, she though spoke rather ticked off.

"Says the kid that has everything handed to him for being cousin of the Kazekage, you´re a criminal, a defector, your kind abhors me…no, I pity you. You love nothing, you have no relationships with anything, you have no goals; why don´t you kill yourself; your village will thrive and survive without yo-."

The harsh sound the female´s back striking the wall echoed as the Red-haired male´s right forearm pressed on her sternum rather harshly, his cold eyes glared at her with anger, rarely had Sasori allowed himself to be overtaken by emotions, he´s sober, he´s pragmatic, always thinking new ways to improve his art and seek out eternity, yet this…this…THIS WOMAN, thorn to his side for quite a while bothers him to no end. He´s had an interaction with a feisty blond-haired woman of Iwa before, their visions of art contrasted, foolish girl he always thought. On the side already pressing it´s blades, the Third Kazekage´s puppet seemed ready to nick a piece of skin from the female, for the sake of poisoning her.

He smirked.

"You can call me a kid all you want, but white you were pitied, I rise above all with my perfect performance that shall always overshadow yours, no matter your efforts, you shall always be overshadowed by me."

His twisted smile got him to now be the one pinned by the woman whom had a face of anger, outright hatred and sheer anger.

Pride, pride is what makes nations fight, pride can cause people to kill themselves.

Pakura of the Shakuton, bloodline appreciated user of Suna couldn´t stand being overshadowed by the giant that is the Prodigal Sasori, she can´t stand it, her efforts and beating herself up to the floor overshadowed by a boy whose efforts were just as hers but seemed to be comfortably going around. She already had her shakuton, all what it would do was mummify this bastard, kill him effectively, it would spare Suna of having a Nuke-nin and a mad-man staining it´s honorable name.

"It angers you isn´t it, the fact that all your efforts will only stay in second before all the village compared to mine."

Sasori declared out loud towards Pakura whose glare at the male intensified, he instead calmly had a small smile; the male´s guilty pleasure was though to at times calculate people by riling them up, he loved superiority and showing his dominance before all others.

He has no emotions, or at least prided himself not to be but this woman, this beauty that attracted his eye, ever since she graduated and attempted to topple his grades and failed, made him connect with her and motivated him to do the best of himself, for the sheer enjoyment that seemed to bring him frustrate her, perhaps this was a catalyst to stay loyal to his village after he obtained the Third Kazekage´s puppet and aided his cousin to be the Fourth.

He hated feelings, but this woman made him feel, made his puppet heart of muscle and tissue. He glanced deep into her angered brown eyes that glanced at him with fervent hatred, for a reason he seemed to dislike that, made him feel upset, his mother´s brown compassionate eyes seemed to have turned into hateful ones…it made him feel dirty, sad, and the realization made him feel even more confused.

"…What a kid."

She snorted and freed the hold, leaving Sasori alone and upset, his eyes widened as it all was turned towards him, she mocked him, this bitch, dared to mock him due to their age difference, she dared to just leave him hanging after riling her up in such a way, what was her purpose?

"…fight me…"

He demanded to the woman whom rose an eyebrow in genuine surprise and smirked.

"If you have a death wish, I shall indulge in such Akasuna no Sasori, after you fulfill your assignments."

The woman stated so herself, using her kunoichi abilities to sway her hips from side to side to retrieve herself from the room, leaving the irate young man even more irritated than before. With lenience he once again returned to healing the Jonin whose eyelids started to show signs of consciousness, groaning Genma Shiranui glanced at a red haired young man healing him expertly and deftly with a level that would make Tsunade Senju be appalled, Sasori wasn´t foolish; he made sure to be at an equal level in Medical Ninjutsu as the Slug Princess, his experience was of course the best during the Third Shinobi World War, since while Tsunade Mourned the death of her beloved his healing and poison prowess earned him name, that even Tsunade Senju couldn´t ever be able to sleep knowing that the only true rival that she had was a mere soggy-bottom boy of the Desert, grandson of the woman whose prowess she shamed, akin to a figurative and tasty vengeance his grandmother must be so reveling in.

"W-what happened?"

At this the red-haired male easily blinked and spoke rather coldly and pragmatically.

"You were winded after facing Kakuzu, your genin already informed your village of what happened. You´re in the Hidden Sand Village at the moment, your client safe already. You have just recovered. A day has passed since then."

With a swift movement the male got up and was already up, Sasori´s prowess in healing was just that good to get a winded and half-dead man to be renewed by the next day. The Jonin spoke out solemnly.

"On the behalf of Konoha you have our thanks. My genin-."

"Genma-sensei."

A blond-haired young boy of six went through the door and acknowledged the presence of the Konoha Jonin whom seemed to have now a small smirk.

"Well, I guess that for today our mission has been done. I hope you haven´t slacked on your training since I´m ready and way creative with new torture ways since we can exploit the terrain here for the day."

The genin shivered in fright almost at the thought of being subjected through harsh training in the sandy terrains of the Hidden Sand Village, all while Genma nodded at Sasori in acknowledgement, he was a few years younger than Kakashi, of their generation nonetheless but young, thus without that much of an effort the Jonin retrieved himself with his respective Genin students.

After the Fourth Kazekage provided Team Seven with an apt training ground, the Jonin Sensei glanced at his students as they went through the first section of their usual training regimes. The forested terrain of the Hidden Leaf Village was heavy in contrast to the dry-desert of the Hidden Sand Village, it was prone to dehydrate, it was hostile if one wasn´t ready.

"A ninja must adapt well to each and every one of the elements he´s pitted at; from the mossy misty terrain of the Mist to the sandy-planes of the Sand. We won´t go out until you all have given me a full training regime on this terrain."

The winded Genin sweating already were just in the middle of their physical conditioning, doing muscle training exercises.

"As you might realize ANBU are around us, they are judging you with their stares. Make yourselves worthy of their stares, of the elites, of the ones above all and the epitome of agents in the shadows."

The three Genin somehow felt pumped up with their Jonin-sensei´s dare and got them to do that extra-pump-effort to fulfill their training regime. Genma didn´t pitied them to anything new, it was more of the same. In chakra control though he made perhaps some alterations. Facing them to the elements he forced them to focus their chakra to levitate a simple grain of sand. Which was harder since it was imperceptible to common eye, then afterwards demanded them to balance a piece of rock on their heads using chakra. Then combining the prior exercises with the leaf exercise, using sand grains, pieces of rock and leaves, then taking them to an oasis and combining all those exercises with the Water Walking exercise.

Having them afterwards scale each a palm tree nearby the oasis, combining prior exercises as they scaled up at different speeds.

By the time the special-terrain adaptation training ended, and after it was followed by a Nin-Gen-Taijutsu training section. The children ended even more tired than before, they arrived to the hotel winded. Just lying on their beds without even having a chance to take a bath due to the sheer exhaustion, hitting the Air Conditioning system to full maximum as the Jonin simple had a satisfied smile. His Genin were growing to be splendid Shinobi.

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The return to the Hidden Leaf Village brought unexpected things from Naruto, first of all once returning he was met with the fact that it was already the last days of September surprising him since in between his D-rank mission days and his first C-rank mission he consumed the first months of his entire Genin career. With it though meant that October would arrive soon. The return to the Hidden Leaf village was received though warmingly by both Kiba and Yakumo.

Crossing through the gates after meeting with Kotetsu and Izumo.

"I´ll go and report to the Mission Booth, you three take a bath and take the day off, tomorrow we´ll start D-ranks early in the morning at 6 O'clock in the morning and start our training at 12 O´clock."

Genma dismissed his Genin as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves and wind.

"Meet you later guys."

Kiba was the first one to wave to them all and he did the hand-seals for the Body Flicker. Disappearing in a swirl of leaves and wind, Yakumo did the same as he shrugged, he felt winded but he knew that after a bath he´ll be ready for the next assignment given. Even then he did the hand-seals and disappeared using the body-flicker technique.

He reappeared inside the Namikaze-Uzumaki Clan Compound, aka where his family lived. The house was very modest with vast terrain, on its surroundings to make an appropriate training ground and have a ranch around perhaps, nothing too shabby but enough for his mother to enjoy extracting fruits and vegetables and appreciate some gardening in between, appearing by the front door, as he closed the door silently behind him, the house was empty.

He sighed in relief and gave the first step.

"Ani-chan."

A loud female voice received him warmly and he was literally glomped in an embrace, as from the wall a figure pouted.

"Mou Mito-chan, I want to receive Ani-sama too."

Surprisingly his young brother Menma spoke out rather loud towards his sibling whom seemed to be rather hyper. It is the first interaction with Menma however it was the first time the young boy showed any affection clearly to him, it warmed his heart that at least his elder siblings were warming up to him. He chuckled and gestured for his young sibling to approach forth towards him, the male smiled and approached and also glomped him in an embrace.

"Mito, Menma; how have you been?" He asked to his youngest siblings whom both glanced at their brother.

Their eyes widened and their jaws almost hung in shock.

"Ani-san i-i-i-is t-t-that-?" Menma stuttered in shock as Naruto could only frown slightly at his young siblings discovering the fact that he graduated early.

His parents would never hear the end of it, everybody in the village might still believe he was just going to the first year on the academy when in fact he graduated earlier. Such practices were banned by the time his father stepped into the Seat, since peace was each day realistic and conflicts less and less recurrent. Their father made sure no more childhoods would be stripped. Even then Itachi Uchiha managed to graduate early before the days where such notion was approved, by the time it was approved, Itachi already graduated Genin at an early age. Of course his son managed to swiftly and cleverly obtain his rank under the noses of everybody through clever Genjutsu by Yakumo.

"I graduated."

He commented and knelt down before both of his siblings as he smiled at them.

"But don´t rush things yourselves, mother and father love you both, you are heroes of the village, you have nothing to prove to no one; stay as you are, make friends, enjoy the years you have. I love you both."

He kissed each of the crowns of their heads with affection, a gesture personal and intimate between him and his siblings only, both younglings blushed as they glanced to their older sibling whom simply rose once more and tiredly was about to walk to their room.

"Can you teach us Ani-chan?"

Naruto rose his eyebrow. He thought that his parents were training them both already alongside others, he blinked and spoke rather estranged.

"Weren´t Tou-sama and Kaa-sama in charge of your training?"

Both glanced to the side and shyly before they turned to him.

"Tou-san hasn´t had time for us." Menma commented rather sad about the prospect while Mito continued for him."Kaa-chan has been only lecturing us about the Kyuubi."

The young male blinked, clearly he expected too much of his parents. Though it was expected for his father to have not enough time to train his beloved children, he dedicates the few spare time he has to them. To his mother it was obvious that she would rather stay focused on that which she deems critical. Controlling the Kyubi and harnessing its power, it was her mild specialty in a sense aside from Kenjutsu where she excelled at.

"Mmm, alright; Is mom here?"

Both perked up and shook their heads. Naruto nodded and took his youngest siblings to the training ground. Nearby his mother´s gardens he took various leaves, some were scattered around, taking them also, his siblings tilted their heads to the side as he once again faced them."Did mother explain you of chakra?"He asked to both of the younglings whom shook their heads.

Sitting down and standing at attention of their eldest sweat dropped comically but afterwards continued, placing most leaves on a patch by his side and outstretching his right arm towards them to see. A decayed orange leaf on his right palm, he gave a short lecture.

"I´ll start with a short legend; Million years ago, for countless eons, on deep space a race of non-human beings created a clan. Products of the very own creation of the universe. This clan, the Otsutsuki, for eons have travelled dimensions. Yet even if they were gifted with gifted genes of beauty and power, their live were limited. Their bodies mortal just as our very skin and bones, prone to be killed easily and tempted by the sin of men. Just as we all are. Afflicted by mortality and time as we all are."

He nudged both of his siblings in their shoulders to emphasize how equal the Otsutsuki were to humans.

"Their goal, was to go beyond such limits. To evolve and obtain power and longevity. For this, they consumed worlds. Seeking to plant God Trees in them, these trees syphon the chakra and genetic material of all beings around. Like a parasite the trees ate many beings to strengthen itself and bear a fruit. The Chakra Fruit. Once consumed, the Otsutsuki would attain physical godhood. One such Otsutsuki landed on our earth, however, to us all, she´s known as the Usagi no Megami (Rabbit Goddess) Chakura no So (The Progenitor of Chakra), Mother of Chakra. She whom weighted with the duty of harvesting the fruit and consuming out planet to death. She made an attachment, the lonely princess loved earth, it´s humans, the flowers, the trees, the wind, the skies, the night-star-starry skies, on her beautiful pupil-less eyes white as snow. They would so beautifully reflect the night skies."

He sat down and continued to speak further the legend he read on an obscure dusty book in the Library of the Hidden Leaf Village, the book was of course written with many epithets and poetry. It romanticized Kaguya´s plight to the extreme and yet also revered in extreme the overall tale of the Sage of the Six Paths.

"Her eyes would cry each time men would bleed themselves, for wars, for territory. Men are driven by their own emotions and thoughts, one cannot deny that they come from animals. It was there where the princess sought out a way to get rid of all wars. By placing an illusion on all humanity she achieved peace. Through forcing her hand on others, however Kami…overlooking such defiance to her authority, cursed the woman whom loved humanity to glance as her very own paradise be turned slowly into a hell. All humans in the genjutsu slowly turned into horrified zombies walking the realm with emptiness in their minds as was in their hearts."

He closed his eyes and took a breath, a warm breeze of wind passed by the three siblings.

"The princess of the moon, Rabbit Goddess found love with a common man. Nothing except being perhaps the lowly on of a farmer, and with it they birthed two sons. One of them Hagoromo Otsutsuki, The Sage of the Six Paths. But Kaguya turned herself mad, she envied her children believing they would take her power and thus, under their noses. She consumed the God Tree of the World in one bite, turning herself into a monster. The Ten Tails, the original Bijuu, and thus the Sage of the Six Paths, Hagoromo the Sage had to divide his beloved mother, sealing the Goddess in our moon while the chakra of the beast, he took it, all the maleficence, all that hatred, all that desire to overthrow and rule over all living beings, the sage took it selfishly. With love and affection, he subdued the beast and carried it for many years."

He closed his eyes and glanced to the skies; his young siblings glanced into the skies.

"The sage saw Chakra as a way for humans to understand the other, to promote peace as he so did with sealing the Original Juubi inside him. He spread the message, calling it Ninshuu, predecessor of Ninjutsu and all ninja arts. How to control chakra, how men can use Chakra to spread peace and love. And for many years the world had peace. Until in his deathbed, the sage divided his chakra in nine sections. Each section of the Juubi took sentient life and turned themselves into what we nowadays known as The Nine Tailed Beasts; One through Nine, each one he created them with the only mission to never, ever merge and create that beast once more."

At this both children stood wide-eyed in shock at what their elder brother has told them. He then got up and showed them a leaf, to the eldest son of the Fourth this entirety was a symbolism. An introduction to his sibling´s life into the greater family that is the hidden leaf village. How better than to do so by introducing them to the pinnacle Chakra Control exercise.

"Chakra thus, is the substance native to lifeform of our planet. Chakra means connection, of inner spiritual and physical energy. We can knead it and use it for ourselves. Essential for most basic Jutsu, which we call to those techniques we use by kneading and using our very own chakra. To gain experience and mastery one needs to continuously practice the same technique, building up body and spiritual energy. Thus allows your chakra reserves to expand. For this, chakra control is essential, mold your chakra in the perfect amount, with this you gain stronger reserves, more stamina, and augment your own potency."

Lifting the leaf from his palm, surprising both of his youngest siblings, he spoke sternly.

"Activating one´s own chakra is merely the beginning. A good foundation means a good tree will sprout, using chakra, focusing it on the leaf as a focal point, you concentrate chakra effectively and you shall obtain the expected result, which is, an effective chakra concentration."

And thus, both younglings started, at first the leaves didn´t hovered at all, they simply stayed there or just swayed slightly.

"You use too much chakra, learn to minimize, use a minimal amount, as if it were nothing, as if you instead of drank a whole bottle of water, you just sip it to moist your lips, feel the chakra but not use it completely."

He gave the advice and thus his siblings started, and they had effort at first, through the rest of the day, before his parents arrived; Naruto trained Menma and Mito in the Leaf Concentration exercise, with it they once achieved it minimally, Menma made a comment that it was easy. It was there where his jaw dropped when Naruto showed them that he concentrated leaves on his entire arm, atop his head, on his palm and each of his fingertips, all of the leaves were hovering peacefully above him. It was there where his young siblings got a lesson he remarked them. A jutsu is never truly mastered until all known creative ways to implement it have been emptied.

He took a bath and just lied in tiredness for the entire day.

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A Day Later

In the early morning, Naruto Namikaze once again from six to eleven did once more D-Ranked Missions. After the fiasco of the Hidden Leaf Village Escort Mission, their client paid and gave review. Mostly which went against the unprofessional escort work due to being surprised by a Kage-Level Ninja. Of course they dismissed it since the report was heavily biased, even then after his arrival the Fourth Hokage and his Family left to The Hidden Sand Village after a request from the Fourth Kazekage to strengthen his daughter´s seal. Seeing the opportunity for an alliance, the Hokage´s family went for a trip to the Sand Village, while a solid Blood Clone was left in the village to administrate everything (mostly to do paperwork).

As usual. The Hokage´s family was gone, leaving the eldest in charge of the house. Forgetting about him, not that he could go anyway, he had duties as a Genin to the Leaf. Thus with tragedy not such tragedy, the training session of team Seven ended at Seven O'clock sharp, where the team finally was dismissed for the day, and reviewed assignments for tomorrow to strengthen, the blond-haired Ninja could only once again sit down in the Fourth Hokage´s head and glance at the hidden leaf village from his point of view.

It was very beautiful indeed. As he took out the scroll he obtained from the Medic-Nin with the Chakra Scalpel technique. He started reading it thoroughly, researching it, like any other medical ninjutsu it required expertise on Chakra Control, something that he was sure more than already was adequate to do a minimal ranked jutsu. After all his sensei already made sure to drive him to the dust with it.

A pair of coal-black eyes glanced at the Scroll rather shocked and not believing it. The Uchiha clan compound was lively, and a nine-year old young child could only hold a smile; through the streets of the Uchiha District, he walked to the house of the Clan Leader; where his residence stood. Wearing the appropriate attire, he wore his characteristic high-collared blue short-sleeved shirt, a pair of dark blue shinobi pants, black shinobi sandals and atop his overall attire the Flak-Jacket which meant the acquisition of his chunin rank, pridefully his blue Konoha forehead protector proudly worn, on his hand was a scroll that he never thought would be asked out of him.

Chunin Uchiha Itachi

After a careful study of your records, the Leaders of the Village have determined you to be an appropriate member of the Konoha Ninja Academy Institution, august institution produced by the Second Hokage Himself to educate future generations of our Shinobi. Tomorrow you are to report with this scroll to the Shinobi Academy´s Head Instructor Umino Iruka at 6 O'clock sharp for your test, good luck on your new assignment.

You´ve made your Village and Clan Proud.

Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

Recently Uchiha Itachi participated in the Chunin Exams a year ago, and he was bestowed upon the rank by the higher-ups, since then he´s been working relatively for a minor amount of time for the Uchiha Military Police, before today after presenting himself as a Chunin for Hire. He was given a scroll which placed him in the Shinobi Academy. As he slid the doors of his house to his side he spoke out.

"I´m home."

Passively and calmed as a raven-haired woman smiled kindly to her eldest.

"Welcome home Dear. How was your day."

Fugaku whom drank tea rather leisurely he glanced at his son curiously.

"Nii-san!"

Sasuke embraced his brother with love as the eldest chuckled and patted his young brother´s head, as he spoke out.

"Mother, Father, it seems I've been accepted in the Shinobi Academy as a Chunin Instructor."

At this Fugaku rose his eyebrow quite surprised, all while Mikoto clapped her palms.

"Oh Dear, that´s nice. Maybe you could get to teach Sasuke too when he gets to the academy."

The woman commented comfortably, all while young Itachi instead smiled and nodded.

"Nii-san I managed to master the Kunai throwing exercise."

The young Chunin instead wisely nodded and sat with his parents, inside his very chest, he felt blessed to be able to have more time with his family; the Uchiha Clan has seen a rebirth, after the stagnant times of the war where the clan slowly started to grow resentful, Minato Namikaze stepped into the chair and literally shoved the Uchiha back into the Village, reconditioning an abandoned territory and having a special ANBU agent built homes fast for them all to live, in between the honorable clans of Hyuga and the Nara, their territory was vast, communicated to the Naka river, it was all so beautiful.

All the agencies of the village were reopened for the Uchiha, at the expense of the Police-Force losing Three-Quarters of the Uchiha Presence in it; Uchiha´s Started to go inside the Intelligence Division´s two forces, The Torture and Interrogation Force and the Analysis Team, Keeping The Archive Library, The Aviary, The Strict Correctional Facility, Maintaining the Library and even a few Uchiha like his beloved Izumi Uchiha whose purpose was to turn herself into Konoha's first Combat Medic like Tsunade Senju was on her time.

Instead, Minato opened the Uchiha-Only Military Police Force for other Clans to get inside it, allowing for fairer treatment of citizens, slowly turning as years pass into a respectable institution dedicated to the protection of the village and following its interest not only those of the Uchiha Clan. The Fourth thought unlike Danzo and the elders that, if he spread the Uchiha through the Village, forcing them to be included into the village´s activities and several different institutions then they would have less time to think about rebellion and be more occupied in truly aiding in the whole engine that it´s the military status of the village.

Heck even Shisui was forced to leave his post in the Military Police and shoved into the Barrier Team, which brought talent to the slowly dying institution, truth to be told; the Uchiha inclusion to the village allowed for a higher quality of Shinobi to be trained, it allowed Fugaku to politicize with other clans, to meet face-to-face with clan-leaders and elders with confidence, it changed the overall overview of the Uchiha in the village, plurality on the clan, heck it allowed for the Sharingan to recover its place as one of the honorable bloodlines the village possessed and for all young Uchihas to forcefully be shoved in the academy if they wished to dedicate to any and all military endeavors, and if they activated the Sharingan they of course were shoved forcefully into the ranks of the military, a perhaps extreme vision but for the sake of the village it had to be done.

Obito Uchiha was a deciding factor of warmth of the Uchiha towards the rule of his sensei the Fourth Hokage, being a student of the Fourth allowed for the clan to see the Fourth in a welcoming light and be appreciated of the presence of the man as Hokage. Though many Uchiha were left perhaps with anxious wonder whom would get to be Hokage after the fourth, hoping that an Uchiha would occupy such a place, Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake were of course the closest guesses many Shinobi had for the candidacy of Fifth Hokage, they were developing to be splendid shinobi.

"Anyway, I heard rumors about someone hanging out with a girl during lunch ·giggle· I wonder whom it was."

Mikoto trailed off as the young Itachi blushed slightly with his widened eyes as his mother served him his plate, with pink light coloring on his cheeks Sasuke spoke out.

"Is it Izumi-nee?"

Itachi brought Izumi home only one time, during his Genin days when they were speaking about life and how things were for each other, of course his mother and little brother were around, and thus easily, of course his little brother grew fond of the girl whom seemed to be warm around Itachi´s family, since then at times the female Medic-Nin aspirant would be around the household at times.

"It´s alright Sasuke-chan, Itachi could choke if you ask him too much about it."

Mikoto gently scolded while the eldest of the Uchiha siblings continued eating, appreciating his mother´s consideration.

"Forming a stable family is also very important for a Clan Leader Itachi."

At this the young eldest sibling frowned, his father still continued placing attention on him, at the expense of Sasuke being relegated to the side, he felt not comfortable with it, sooner or later Sasuke would need to be the center while he´s slowly given independence, for the sake of his little brother not growing resentful.

With palms colored electric blue with surge of pure chakra on them, Naruto Namikaze had his palms ready, he then took out another scroll he stole from home.

RaiShin Ken (Thunder God Fist)

His father´s Taijutsu Style which emphasized on speed rather than on strength, when used alongside the Hiraishin no Jutsu is a deadly taijutsu style, of course his goal wasn´t to utilize the Flying Thunder God, it was a technique his father used and using it would only cast an even bigger shadow than himself. Therefore instead he emphasized on dissing most notes on the Hiraishin no Jutsu and concentrate fully on the Taijutsu Style itself. Apparently the RaiShin Ken assimilated the Goken Precepts with the only change that it emphasized on speed and stamina rather than strength. The style focused in moving around the enemy, compensating for the lack of a bulk build and instead using a more agile athletically faster body to resist harsh punches and answer with speed at vital places. A few of its techniques were interesting.

RaiShin Ken: Return

This one apparently through blocking all fists coming your way, using chakra it absorbed the sheer strength applied to them and effectively returned the same strength of the strikes given plus your own strength. If applied to vital points it can be deadly.

´Interesting.´

Naruto thought and started to slowly rehearse the Taijutsu Katas for the Raishin Ken with the only difference that the Chakra Scalpel technique was activated the entire time. With a Human Anatomy schematic picture on a scroll of the various organs and systems. He slowly started to do the Katas, having dummies to train the katas wouldn´t be bad either. That way he would adapt himself at hitting something living instead of just picturing it in his mind.

And like that another day passed fast for Naruto Namikaze on D-rank missions. As his team slowly started to fill records in D-ranks already.

Genma yet felt not ready to take them to a C-rank once again. Instead though training got times harsher, for all the members of team Seven. Naruto more so than others; after managing to build a dummy out of hay and some wire, made with the exact proportions of a human enough yet not the same mass. He slowly produced the chakra scalpel and started to attack the dummy. The point of the chakra scalpel wasn´t to do a noticeable external damage but rather an internal damage, he built the dummies of course cleverly. The dummy had skeleton of wood, muscles made of plastic and of course vital organs such as heart, liver, lungs and kidneys made of proportionate bags of water with ink of different colors.

He started slowly with a twist of his index and middle fingers only to the sternum, chakra scalpel of this level damaged only muscles either way, thus followed by a four finger trust of the left hand to the liver and then afterwards a kick to the dummy´s head, he rose his right leg, same he kicked before to kick chest and brought down a Karate chop right hand to the left shoulder of the figure and to his shock the sheer strength applied and his chakra scalpel itself managed to echo the sound of wood being stricken by a hammer, to his shock he approached and moved the arm, it seemed to slightly flail weakly, the most mostly.

Fascinating.

´Again.´

He continued to train, his objective was easy. He wanted to achieve the sheer speed of the RaiShin Ken yet also have the deadly factor of the Chakra Scalpel itself, merging both styles would create his own style and mark him beyond the common shinobi around the world. As he produced a white bone Tanto, he easily started to use the sword on his right hand and combine the RaiShin ken katas and basic fighting sequences with his inherent Shikotsumyaku-oriented Kenjutsu.

He fell tired after the first hour, he growled and cried out.

"More!"

He demanded his muscles, if this was all he could reach to, he won´t be able to even reach the rank of Chunin, he´ll be the disappointment of the village.

"Don´t distract yourself, Be frank."

Genma Shiranui called out to his apprentice. This time though their fight seemed different from the past weeks, this time the boy seemed more driven. His speed was quite comparable already to a Mid-Chunin Ranked Shinobi. He knew the style overall, the RaiShin Ken of the Fourth. He smirked, the boy was self-taught a genius, the Fourth Learned the RaiShin ken at the time he started his Chunin Rank. The same style that managed to save the Kyubi from being taken by Kumo.

As he spun around the boy easily jumped away and outstretched his right arm in a frontal trust towards him using the bone blade. To which he parried with his kunai, only to be shocked by a downwards upwards swing of his very blue glowering palm. The muscles of his torso and abdomen felt it. He gritted and held back the protest of the dissection being done and some blood.

´Chakra Scalpel!?´

Genma thought shocked as he jumped away almost instantaneously. The Jonin whom easily took a hold of his apprentice´s wrist.

"Good, your Taijutsu has gotten better. Kiba, you´re on now."

The male stepped forth for his friend easily whom after they bumped their fists. Naruto dropped himself to the floor and held a satisfied smile. A bead of sweat running his forehead, four days have passed since their first C-rank mission, three days since his family has been out to the Hidden Sand Village and his father´s clone simply continued working on the Hokage Tower. Sleeping on it, he cared less for it anyway.

Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru prepared themselves. Both ready to fight against the man whom got into Hiken stance and glanced at the Genin, doing a come forth gesture.

"Don´t say I didn´t warned you sensei."

The Inuzuka male rushed towards his Jonin-sensei easily and attempted to slash the man´s face whom easily sidestepped each and every attempt. A surprising kick to the man´s abdomen made the male smirk, short lived since it was easily taken a hold by the man whom Karate-chopped the leg enough to perhaps cause mild pain to the male for his careless move. He cried out as the man easily punched Kiba in the Chin causing him to take a few steps back. Akamaru rushed and but the Jonin in the shin whom easily shook his leg once, not even having mercy with the Ninja dog to kick it away towards Kiba.

"Again!"

Genma called out towards the Inuzuka male whom once again got into a four-legged man-beast stance and rushed towards the man once more, as Akamaru transformed into a clone of Kiba. Valid in Genma´s book as he easily had to fight two enemies instead of one. Their taijutsu style replaced punches for slashes, kicks the same, their claws sharp. Kiba easily maneuvered himself to so be behind his sensei as he easily attempted to do an uppercut slash only for the man to easily roll to the side and cause both Akamaru and Kiba to almost attack each other. Throwing a Kunai, Kiba rushed and made hand-seals, which turned into multiple, as he once again rushed and continued to fight Fist-To-Fist with the Jonin. Who continued with Mid-Chunin Level on the battle.

Now using Punches and Slashes, the fight turned interesting. Sidestepping one of Kiba's stroke his sensei´s solar plexus quite surprisingly which caused the man to twist the arm and soon have the male on a key once more.

"Good, you´ve improved Kiba. Your Clan Styled Taijutsu is good enough to hold you on a Mid-Chunin levelled fight. Yakumo."

And thus, after Yakumo and Kiba bumped fists. The female Kunoichi of the team was on the battlefield once more.

The female Genjutsu Princess aspirant took a battle stance. She had a firm visage, the truth is that Yakumo was perhaps one of the first people to have done perhaps a very insane thing to do.

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Maito Gai was an eccentric man, for an even eccentric career, dutifully each and every day he trained his body to the utmost limits to be the very best at what he´s best at.

TAIJUTSU!

At the moment the Jonin obsessively was doing his insane training regime as behind a tree a brown-haired girl glanced at the figure training. Managing to sneak inside the Konoha Archives using a minor Genjutsu, thankfully the Uchiha of the area was apparently distracted, she easily got inside and searched in the Taijutsu experts of the Village section and found a man.

Konoha´s Sublime Beast of Prey

Maito Gai

She was rather surprised such a man got it to be Jonin ranked, then again the Life of Shinobi is harsh therefore they all have vices, it seems this man´s was, training his body. She frowned, Yakumo Kurama was once taught by Kurenai Yuuhi and deemed a failure, then got to be in a team with the prodigal son of the Fourth Hokage, and got to be in a team with Genma Shiranui; she graduated early, probably of the last ones that will ever get a chance to do so ever again. Therefore, she considers herself a prodigy, it was only logical that she would want to seek out the very best on the main three fields to be the very best.

´Let us see how good you are truly Kedakaki Aoi Moju.´

Yakumo Kurama easily and swiftly took out a kunai and she smirked, it was her very own way to test a potential sensei, throwing the Kunai easily and doing a sequence of hand-seals, a Jutsu that Naruto passed to them personally, turning to a team-bonding insignia, the single kunai multiplied into many and she went through only three hand-seals to do a double false surroundings illusion, as she crept away.

The bowl-haired Jonin´s senses sharpened as it jumped away with an artistic backflip that would´ve made any Genin cry tears of inspiration, the female whom already calculated the landing place rushed fast and with a Kunai in hand she was ready to stab the man only for her to be easily trumped and surprisingly face to the grassy surface. Illusions were dropped and soon Gai had a young six-year-old girl with a Konoha headband on the floor.

"Oh! I´ve pinned a child with my strength to the floor. I shall run one-thousand laps in the village as retribution to attain forgiveness!"

She felt dizzy, the very strength she was dragged to the floor was monstrous, even the floor had some cobwebs of a potential crater due to the very strength.

"Ugh…"

She groaned and glanced to her potential Taijutsu sensei, of all the main three shinobi arts, the only one she´s crappy at is Taijutsu; everyone has weaknesses, except Naruto, that bastard is a good all-around ninja; Kiba´s weakness is Genjutsu and her weakness is Taijutsu, she would rather die than be a hindrance to her comrades, she acknowledges that the Academy Taijutsu won´t cut it at the level they were growing, soon the Chunin Exams will happen, and she prefers to rather win than be the shame of her clan, knowing she´s the heiress and their last hope of ever being relevant.

Once She recovered her consciousness the Jonin glanced surprisingly at the very young-aged Genin, he at first thought it was all a game.

"Say youngling, why do you wear a Konoha headband!?"

He asked out loud towards the female whom remained stern and serious, she spoke out driven.

"I´m Yakumo Kurama, Heiress of the Kurama Clan, I will be The Genjutsu Princess, the best Kunoichi of Konoha. I graduated early from the academy at Age Six, I´m the prodigy and heiress of my family, And I shall be the best and for that…please train me in Taijutsu."

The female Genin finally knelt down and literally put her forehead on the floor, pleading to the Jounin to train her in Taijutsu. At this the man chuckled out and did a nice-guy pose, his teeth even shone with a star which did a ´Ping´ effect.

"I am sorry youngling, but your youthfulness is too much and yet your age so young. I cannot teach you!"

The man commented to the female whom rose up firmly and spoke out.

´I can see her potential, she´s driven and youthful, firm on her convictions and her dreams, yet her attitude…mmm…that confidence borders on full obliviousness, hmm.´

The Taijutsu expert thought in the assessment of the very young female Genin and she closed her eyes.

"Then please allow me to train with you Gai-sensei! I shall train alongside you and prove you I can take your exercise Regimes! If I do, then please, let that be the criteria to meet your approval to have your taijutsu teachings."

At this the man though was now fascinated, no Ninja ever sought out his tutelage and yet here´s the first genin that does so.

´TAKE THAT MY RIVAL!´

He thought rather with a chuckle as he spoke out loud.

"SUCH YOUTHFUL FLAMES ALMOST BLIND ME! LET´S GO YAKUMO!"

The man with tears in his eyes continued his harsh training, by his side following him the entire way non-stop was none other than Yakumo Kurama, heiress of the Kurama clan and aspiring Genjutsu Princess.

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"Alright, then-."

Before Genma could ever even announce the start he was received with a kick intended to his face. Which he easily with shock placed his arms in an X-cross motion to protect himself,. The sheer strength and firm visage overall, he widened his eyes in recognition yet also blinked and thought of it.

´Impossible.´

What followed was both Naruto and Kiba with widened eyes and jaws dropped as the female Genin maintained a stable Taijutsu fight against the Jonin. Who was on Mid-Chunin Level and Yakumo maintained that level since her training maintained it in such a way. That dynamic entry the girl did was enough to stall Genma out of his stillness and get the fight to be a more dynamic trading punches. The sheer speed and strength the female used was insane. Underneath her sleeves he could see in shock the damn fucking weights.

´Damn it GAI!´

He cursed his former Genin teammate in his very thoughts as the female seemed to fight and very focused. The girl improved so much from Maito Gai´s training and the Strong Fist he had. Was passed to the female, and for Kami´s's sake the girl was already turning herself into a Mini-Gai at least not in looks though. By the time the female attempted to do a kick to the man´s side of the face he took it, blocked it.

"Alright, enough. That´s good, no, great indeed. You three improved your Taijutsu enough, you have no difficulty in maintain yourselves in a good fight against Mid-Ranked Chunin of the Village. Which already is quite something to say of you three. Let´s start Ninjutsu."

"Again."

Kiba Inuzuka called out harshly as he got up one more, as Menma and Mito Uzumaki opened the doors of their house. They giddily went to the grounds, all while Kushina went to the market to prepare food for the dinner and receive everyone once more to give many good news. The young siblings glanced at Team Genma´s members training. Yakumo seemed to be lounging under a tree and reading a Genjutsu scroll. Scrolls were also scattered under a tree, of Kiba and Naruto respectively.

"Alright, from above once more."

Naruto replied and took stance once more as so did Kiba. Akamaru barked to its master in support, as the spiky brown-haired male approached at a moderate pace the blond did so too. Bumping their outstretched fists in a friendly gesture, they slowly started sparring, in a common slow pace. Both Kiba and Naruto using punches at first with their respective styles. Naruto started with surprisingly a knee to the stomach of the Inuzuka whom simply parried it with his right palm and he prepared a left handed punch to the male blond, swinging in a common pace. Slow motion enough as the male easily rose his arm and bend the arm overall near the side of his head to block it. And with his left arm he closed his fist and swung it to do a practicable punch to the right side of the Inuzuka´s face whom only blocked it and he was answered with a kick to his solar plexus. Would´ve been had he didn´t momentarily spun to the side on his own axis towards the left and after once again to the front, slightly sideways from his enemy swung his right hand from downwards upwards in claws. Where the Namikaze easily with a glowering palm took a hold of Kiba´s wrist and the male easily attempted to kick the blond in the head only for him to do a sweep down kick to Kiba´s ankles as he fell to the surface in surprise.

"Ugh."

The Inuzuka groaned, the Namikaze Style was unpredictable and very observant of shatter points in an enemy´s style. Why else could his father kill so many in a short amount of time.

"Alright, all out."

Kiba declared to the male Namikaze whom nodded. Yakumo finally dropped her scroll and paid attention, all out battles were their ways of saying that they would battle akin to a tournament battle. All skills merged, Nin-Gen-Tai.

"All out?"

Mito asked as Yakumo blinked and turned around to the younglings. She turned back to the battle, both nodded and after doing the seal of confrontation they started the battle. Rushing at a common speed against each other, Kiba was the first to act.

"TSUUGA!"

Spinning fast towards Naruto whom easily did a substitution jutsu with a log where Kiba landed. Soon he was sunk to the surface by Naruto whom reappeared on the surface above.

"Grah!"

The male easily freed himself, and soon both Akamaru and himself were ready to face against the male whose palms started to glower blue and Akamaru and Kiba rushed against him. Kiba attempted to punch him and Akamaru to slash his face, he easily sidestepped the punch and the slash he took a hold of Akamaru´s wrist and with an elbow to the chin was enough for the transformed dog to give a step back.

Kiba attempted to kick the male whom easily blocked it and with a gentle poke of his neck a white pointed tanto bone blade did so to indicate the male struck a vital place opened to the Inuzuka.

"Damn it! I had it." Kiba commented, Akamaru transforming back and whining alongside its master.

The blond-haired male Namikaze easily sighed and once more took the chance to nod and Yakumo´s turn against Kiba was done. This time though Kiba´s Ninjutsu surprisingly manage to surprise Yakumo, her Genjutsu almost got Kiba had it not been for Akamaru´s sense of smell which led him to dispel and go on with the battle.

Kiba won against Yakumo barely whom could only sigh and smile, it was expected though.

"That was awesome!" Menma commented out loud excited, causing the three Genin to chuckle. As they continued to read their respective scrolls and study hard, all while Menma and Mito went to the house to play.

Seven days more passed with the same training regime, until a Friday arrived, in the peaceful hidden leaf village things won´t be as peaceful anymore for team Seven, as Genma Shiranui easily came forth to his students pridefully. As they were winded and tired after another batch of Three-Hundred Fifty D-ranks the civilians already were turning very damn lazy; his students were already doing their assignments. Using chakra control and other Shinobi abilities to do the assignments faster, heck; the last five days literally with Iruka´s careful supervision through clones and his shadow clones, he assigned one solo D-rank to each one of his Genin. And the record of Three-Hundred Fifty turned into Five-Hundred those last five days, turning already into a new-record of D-rank missions for Genma Shiranui. Of each mission Genma made sure that his cute little Genin made paperwork. Which caused them to groan and protest their cries, to Iruka´s healthy chuckles as finally his cute little Genin finally were growing by learning to use their fluent words to do the fucking paperwork reports all Military Members of the Village have to do.

You want to be Chunin, well, one requirement it's to do your own damn paperwork.

And with such a claim Iruka chuckled healthily as the Genin were left hours to fill reports of their continuous solo D-ranks. Today though Genma Shiranui wrote a lengthy review of the progress of his students. One scroll for each of the Genin he had.

Jonin Genma Shiranui´s Report on Genin Namikaze Uzumaki´s Progress.

Taijutsu (5 out of 5)

Genin Namikaze has proven to a prodigy as his own father, and even dare so to say, going beyond the shadow of his father, managing to create his own self-taught and self-created Soft-Fisted Taijutsu Style through the use of the Namiakze Clan´s RaiShin Ken and the Chakra Scalpel, it creates a unique taijutsu style focused on damaging the enemy internally while at the same time doing speed-filled strikes. Taking advantage of the shatter-points of the enemy, creates a flawless and dynamic Taijutsu style.

Genin Namikaze has the Shikotsumyaku Bloodline which allows him to manipulate his own bone-mass to weaponize it, though it he has managed to create an even stronger foundations on his taijutsu and Kenjutsu, applying a self-taught Kenjutsu style, in which he uses blades made of his own bones to attack enemies with speed, in combination with his self-created Taijutsu style create a very unique fighting style worth notating and seeing further development for.

Ninjutsu (5 out of 5)

Adept and adequate for the Chunin Exams, the aforementioned Genin has fulfilled the ´Genin Program Structure´ as per dictated by the Third Hokage, having learned all the basic E and D-ranked ninjutsu the village allows Genin-levelled shinobi to learn; The following E ranks: Substitution Jutsu, Cloak of Invisibility, Clone Technique, Rope Escape Technique and Transformation Technique. And the following D-ranks Jutsu; Temporary Paralysis, Earth Style: Double Suicide Decapitation and Body Flicker Technique.

His hand-seal execution is easily of 4, fast and short; up to now the Genin has mastered the aforementioned Jutsu to have cut the hand-seal requirement to Half.

Genjutsu (3.5 out of 5)

The Genin has fulfilled the adequate Genjutsu requirement for the Chunin exams. The Genin has learned the requirement to have a minimal of two learned Genjutsu to apply to the Chunin exams, the following Jutsu: Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing and Demonic Illusion: False Surroundings, the target has trained with a Genjutsu adept comrade which managed to better his experience and wittiness at casting out Genjutsu illusions.

Team-Dynamics (4.5 out of 5)

The Genin can fully work in team as alone, managing to fully find potential in his teammates he can commute with other Ninja easily with no effort at all. His disposition and will to protect and work with other Ninja is enough to qualify him full.

Added extra 4.5 out of 5 of Leadership points, out of the D-ranks he has lead the Genin team though, he´s shown a pragmatic leader inside him and natural to take leadership and command others when the need to rise, a cold head to know the objective and always fulfill the mission up to the last stakes.

Intelligence (5 out of 5) IQ: 193

As per a personalized test done of personal curiosity specific tests and examinations were done to the Genin which after a careful analysis of data by the Analysis Team it was determined that the aforementioned Genin has an IQ of 189, annexed to my report is sealed a certified report of Inoichi Yamanaka certifying the assessment done to young Namikaze of his IQ, which is considered a decent one if compared to Lord Shikaku Nara´s 195.

Total: 23

Jonin Genma Shiranui´s Report on Genin Kurama´s Progress.

Taijutsu (5 out of 5)

Genin Kurama has been apprenticed personally by Konoha´s resident taijutsu expert Maito Gai, successfully being able to withstand the man´s training regime, Yakumo has learned the man´s signature Strong Fist taijutsu style and already capable of opening the first two gates of the Eight Gates technique developed by Maito Dai. Her emphasis is speed more than strength, though one could easily classify her strength as perhaps second only to perhaps Tsunade Senju herself.

Ninjutsu (4 out of 5)

Genin Kurama has fulfilled the ´Genin Program Structure´ as per dictated by the Third Hokage, having learned all basic E and R-ranked ninjutsu allowed Genin-levelled shinobi to learn. Her hand seal execution is 3.5, moderate in speed though still doing the same sequences, though so far has been able to remove one hand-seal for each Jutsu.

Genjutsu (5 out of 5)

The best discipline Genin Kurama excels at, her Genjutsu expertise is undeniably handed down to her own clan´s abilities at Genjutsu, with that said, the Genin is able to cast the two learned Genjutsu, therefore being capable of holding her own against enemies in that realm.

Team Dynamics (4 out of 5)

The Genin can fully work in team as alone, managing to fully find potential in her teammates she can commute with other Ninja easily with no effort at all. Her disposition and will to protect and work with other Ninja is enough to qualify her full.

Total: 22

Jonin Genma Shiranui´s Report on Genin Inuzuka´s Progress

Taijutsu (4.5 out of 5)

Genin Inuzuka has self-taught himself the Inuzuka Style Taijutsu, which leads perhaps to a stagnant line between him and his teammates, but he hopes to be able to receive tutelage of his mother Tsume Inuzuka soon once he reaches the Rank of Chunin. With that said, Genin Inuzuka is competent enough to defend himself on adequate hand-to-hand.

Ninjutsu (5 out of 5)

Genin Inuzuka the ´Genin Program Structure´ as per dictated by the Third Hokage, having learned all basic E and R-ranked ninjutsu allowed Genin-levelled shinobi to learn. Her hand seal execution is 3.5, moderate in speed though still doing the same sequences, though so far has been able to remove a quarter of the hand-seal sequence for each Jutsu. His Clan Ninjutsu add extra points to his Ninjutsu abilities.

Genjutsu (3.5 out of 5)

Genin Inuzuka is a special adapted tracker and thus has learned to use his senses and that of his ninja dog to detect illusions, turning him into an adept ninjutsu dispelling-shinobi, his Ninjutsu execution is overall mild but good enough to qualify as well enough to be able to adapt them if a situation turns bad against him, thus giving him a 3.5 points out of 5, his last trained realm, but nonetheless he has fulfilled the requirement of knowing two genjutsu to apply for the Chunin exams.

Team Dynamics (4 out of 5)

The Genin can fully work in team as alone, managing to fully find potential in his teammates he can commute with other Ninja easily with no effort at all. His disposition and will to protect and work with other Ninja is enough to qualify him full.

Total: 20

Team Seven was resting and lounging after a mild training session. Genma Shiranui glanced at his Genin sharply as they spoke with the other about their training day.

"Alright kids, today is a special day for you three."

The man commented to the children whom rose their heads towards the Jonin at attention. He threw to each of them their respective progress reports.

"As per official. Three months have passed since you´ve turned to genin. As of today October 8th I have crafted these official Progress Reports to hand to the higher-ups. Don´t speak, and just read them. Wash yourselves with the cold bucket of water; out there in the world there are more arts of shinobi than the basic ´Great Three´. You´ve barely scrapped what it´s there to truly learn of Shinobi Arts. Stagnation means death in this world; therefore, I'll give you minutes to read it. Don´t speak between yourselves and do not allow anyone to see it. Treat it as if it were something very private and intimate. I´ll be here watching you."

Genma disappeared in the body flicker as the three Genin anxiously opened their scrolls and assessed their three-month progress. Each of them were surprised by their total scores their sensei gave them. This made them have cold buckets of water of reality, for Naruto in his Genjutsu portion, he had to get better at it. For Yakumo her Ninjutsu was poor, could get better. For Kiba, his Genjutsu was piss-poor, he had to get better. With flaws annotated they each closed their scrolls and their Jonin once again appeared.

"Now that you´ve been given cold buckets of water. This is for you three."

Giving them a big folded pamphlet. Naruto took it and his friends also by his sides glanced as he opened the paper.

Kumogakure Chunin Exams

"As of today, I; Jonin Genma Shiranui nominate and postulate my genin, Team Seven, to apply to the Chunin Exams which shall be held in Kumorakure no Sato (Village Hidden in the Clouds) to prove your worth against all other ninja of Sunagakure, Iwagakure and Kirigakure and obtain your Chunin Rank."

The hearts of the young Genin were pumped and fired up once more. Genma Shiranui had a firm belief that his Genin would stand tall and pridefully through all trials placed before them. As they all took each an individual application sheet, they all signed and placed their names and data on them. Handing them back to their Jonin-sensei that stood straight.

"Tomorrow at 0530 hours we shall part towards The Village Hidden in the Clouds. Prepare yourselves to stay three months at least there. Prepare yourselves also for three months' worth of training for team and yourselves. Also be prepared to pack tissues, because you shall return here as damn Chunin and you shall say bye-bye to your teammates to grow hairs in your pubes and take solo missions or team up with other Chunin and Jonin. The big wigs and leagues. Make sure to kiss Mamma and Pappa, cause once out there. Os a one-way trip from here, all´s high and lows."

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Namikaze Household

The Clan Heads and the Hokage were all celebrating. Naruto could see the eldest children of the Clan Heads (·cough· Itachi ·Cough·) speaking with a girl on the corner. Hana Inuzuka watching other young girls and boys playing making sure they aren´t harmed, the male though turned around and rose the stairs towards his room, once in there he glanced silently to all what he packed, he packed most of his clothes and scrolls to continue his studies. Heck he made sure to buy some Medical Books and start his studies in Medical Ninjutsu. Once there he easily glanced at his attire, back in the village he´ll have to ditch the entire Genin look and finally make sure to land it in his head he has the flak jacket, and having the Flak Jacket meant perhaps having to dress more mature. Or perhaps change of wardrobe.

´Not yet.´

He thought and once again he easily glared at the overall room he had, he emptied it almost. He needed more things to compliment his training outside the village. Three months in which he shall return as someone else, someone more mature, someone ready to attack the Shinobi World and protect all what he loves. He cleverly going through the shades arrived to the empty Library of the family where many scrolls were there, once in the big library, sought out through the scrolls for it.

"Who are you?"

A voice asked with genuine curiosity. Mostly child-innocent curiosity, to which Naruto turned around to meet a brown-haired girl, older than him, two-to-three years older than him, she seemed to wear only a purple sleeveless shirt. Black shinobi pants and sandals, no forehead protector yet.

"Naruto, Naruto Namikaze. Pleased to meet you."

He offered his arm to the female to shake hands with her. She blinked and stepped forth slightly with some mistrust and after shaking hands with him, she noticed his overall visage. The way he carried himself and also the bandana he had atop him.

Hana Inuzuka is a laid-back and calm than most of her family members, she looks after her brother Kiba whenever their mother´s on missions though most of the time he´s away stating he´ll be around training in the Namikaze Compound. He always returns at the high-end hours of the night. Which worries her but otherwise she trusts the Hokage´s family. She´s a warm person with brown hair worn in a ponytail and dark-brown eyes. The clothes he wore, he wore no weapons yet he carried himself as a Shinobi, he even wore a headband and those once obtained turn you into a ninja. He´s her little brother´s age, the same, not an age in difference.

"Inuzuka, Hana Inuzuka. Kiba´s my young brother."

She replied to which he easily nodded and went back to the library to seek a certain pair of scrolls.

"What are you doing?"

She tilted her head to the side in curiosity.

"I´m seeking out the scroll of my father´s signature Jutsu, the Rasengan. They said he based it out of the very own Bijuudama that the Tailed Beast use. A deadly and destructive technique a one-hit Knock Out that assures elimination. Also, there´s also a possibility for the Uzumaki to have scrolls about the Fuinjutsu. If I want to aid my siblings in the future, I must master the art by myself."

The male pondered and finally found the Rasengan scroll, taking it. He then went for another scroll, seeking it too well, as he continued going after it, Hana though stammered out.

"A-a-are you a Genin?"

She asked analyzing the stance of the male whom blinked and turned back at her, back to the library finding the scroll he found it and he descended the stairs.

"Genin, to be Chunin and applicant of the exams in Kumo."

At this the female widened her eyes and was about to scream out in shock at that fact but he placed his right hand on her mouth, his left index finger went to his lips and he did a ´Sh´ gesture.

"B-b-but you´re six, no genin is allowed to graduate early anymore. Y-your father-."

The female whispered in shock not understanding it but the male smiled.

"Through genjutsu, I managed to place myself and by the time I graduated it was too late, they gave the Genin rank to Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki eldest of the Fourth."

At this Hana pouted and she spoke out.

"No fair."

She whined slightly to his chuckle as he patted her arm gently.

"You´ll get your chance as Genin soon, and you´ll turn Chunin in no time."

At this the though the male went upstairs, followed by Hana herself as she glanced at backpack the boy had, it was filled to the brim already and he added it the two scrolls.

"Do you want to train?"

He asked to the female whom blinked and he nodded in reassurance to her.

"You could raise your grades if you do a good performance, you might even get the spot of Kunoichi of your Year, that is useful for when you apply for Chunin."

The female shyly with a rose blush fidgeted slightly to the younger boy whom took a hold of her wrist and escorted her to the gardens, most adults and children were inside, so instead both younglings went to the backyard and in the grass the female and the male were across the other.

"Taijutsu only K? Don´t want to all attention."

Hana though nodded sharply and driven, this time firmly and getting into her Inuzuka Clan stance, Naruto into his own RaiShin Ken stance and both rushed to the other and started a friendly Hand-To-Hand spar.

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The Next Day…

A team of four glanced at the gigantic gates already beyond them on a short distance, Genma Shiranui´s Genin Team has taken four days to arrive dutifully to the Hidden Cloud Village, their trips would start from sharply 5 O'clock and end in 2300 sharp where they would settle the tent and sleep, they would all take shifts. This was of course a test that Genma did to his genin, if they were capable Chunin then they will be treated as such and that meant, taking shifts in the night to care not being assaulted or preyed on.

By the time they arrived. They were checked by the Gate Guards in which they showed their Chunin Exam Application Sheets. Once seen there the team immediately went to the Application Registration place in Kumogakure´s Ninja academy. Where their application as received, no one was there since only was required to leave their application sheets and be given registration numbers, once Genma´s genin were given Registration numbers and placed in the sheet alongside all other applicants from four of the Great Five. Once that was done, the Genin team registered in the local hotel, a good hotel where finally Kiba sighed out loud and lied on the big King-sized bed, once there Naruto sat on a chair and also lounged out, Genma glanced at his Genin as Yakumo leaned her ass on the table and waited.

"Alright kids, tomorrow you are to report for your first application at 645 hours. But you know how Konoha Ninja excel for professionalism so, be there earlier. You shall all decide when to be there, as of today kids. I may have to apologize in advance but you shall no longer see me until the Exams end and we go back to the village. You three are applying as a lonely Genin team. Therefore in between yourself three are to survive in this city; this is reality kids. The true Chunin exams. You shall three call forth your team leader and he shall act as if he were me. He shall lead you three through this trial and either you shall all triumph or agonize in death. It was a pleasure being your Jonin sensei in this three-month segment. Good luck."

The man left and thus finally Naruto was finally stricken to realize. The Chunin Exams were more than just tournaments, Genma and perhaps many others of the Leaf will be now watching them to determine them worthy or not of the Chunin Rank.

Genma left them, it was the first part of the test which started today. Right now, at this very second, he already has ten seconds of being inside this exam where all about them will be qualified.

"·Sigh· Well, since it´s tomorrow let´s just chill and-." Naruto instead remained in deep thought.

"I am sorry to bother you guys but we need to establish the team leader out of us three. The one whom shall be in charge of leading us through all the test and make sure we all pass and make it to Chunin. Returning back alive to the Leaf."

The blond male commented in tension. Already feeling some of the weight, he prayed for Kami that he´s not shoved it since he has not a single leadership bone on his damn body. Kiba was the first to speak.

"I think I speak for Yakumo and I here to say that we wouldn´t have made it this far without you Naruto. You more than deserve to lead us here as you did when we attempted to make it to genin earlier than all those our age."

The Inuzuka spoke very sober to the Namikaze whom turned to Yakumo as if to assess her opinion to which all she gave was a firm nod in acceptance to Kiba´s overall ideas and he closed his eyes and he smiled.

"Then, first and foremost is that we must not trust anyone here aside from each other." At this however they nodded, it was a fair order; Naruto continued.

"This is potential enemy territory, while Kumo hasn´t made it clear that they are in battle with us. There´ll be Iwa Shinobi, whom are more than already hateful towards us for winning against them in the war. And no doubt, many might attempt a shot at me for what father did to them in the war. They´ll see blond and Namikaze, and they´ll go full-panic to get my blood. So, be sharp at all times, carry always your kunai and be ready for what comes. With that said, we´ll sleep but we´ll have to take short shifts each, by the time we had our registration numbers, we pitted ourselves targets to any and every one here."

Naruto glanced sharply around, he was massively paranoid but paranoid is better than careless, once this was done he easily turned around and went to take a bath, tomorrow the first section of the Chunin exams will start, and for fucks sake, he felt his blood pumping and already anxious as hell.

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Genma Shiranui glanced at the applicants of the Chunin exams; teams were sent, and there were quite some applying here truly, he rummaged through the teams applying this year; starting with the host nation of Kumogakure.

Team Killer B

Kumogakure

Jonin Sensei: Killer Bee

Samui

Darui

Yugito Nii

Team Kisa (Support: Zabuza Momochi and Utakata)

Kirigakure

Chojuro

Haku

Hebiichigo

Team Gari (Support: Deidara)

Iwagakure

Suzumebachi Kamizuru

Kurotsuchi

Akatsuchi

Takigakure

Tengu

Aobi

Nariko

As he read the profiles of each of the applicants he widened his eyes in shock.

Yugito Nii is the Jinchuuriki of the Two-Tails, Chojuro unlucky to being bared the day when Yagura Karatachi was overthrown; the deadly Biju duel left many children having the respective Three and tails sealed inside him turning them into the new Jinchuuriki of their respective villages. And finally, without a doubt, the most controversial team positioning of them all, Bakuhatsu no Gari a famous explosive release ninja has two Jinchuuriki on his team; one of them the granddaughter of the Third Tsuchikage and the other a royalty member of the ancestral Kamizuru clan of the Rock.

He continued to navigate through most teams, some of them were deadly, but not as deadly as the first three he glanced with shock.

´it seems that the Tsuchikage, Mizukage and Raikage aren´t exactly oblivious of their intentions, what have I gotten my genin into? It seems that apparently these three have been patting each other´s backs to approve their Genin, Chunin and Jonin rank raises; for fuck sakes, all teams allowed to have Jinchuuriki in them.´

If Genma didn´t felt pressured he might as well feel pressured now, moreover when he literally brought the heir of the reason why Iwagakure had to bend the knee and shame itself to the world.

´Let´s hope they manage to survive this, if they do, might as well shove them the rank already since they´ll be fighting war outside the village's walls.´

He started to weite a letter to Konoha, the Village had to be aware of this one way or another, the Two, Three, Four, Five and Seven tails are Genin of their respective hidden villages and two of them are closely related to the Third Tsuchikage, as if it wasn´t enough it seems that they are all participating in the Chunin Exams.

He took pen and scroll and started to hastily write, for the love of Kami he hoped that the village and the Hokage most of all starts to move to at least pacify these three because if they are careless might as well be in a front assault 3-vs-1 against Kirigakure, Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

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545 Hours

Naruto Namikaze dried his blond hair as his purple eyes glanced to the mirror at his self-reflection. His very face held the anxiety and nervousness of being in the Chunin Exams. Unknown uncharted territory, for now though he´ll have to find a way to just be good enough to get his friends to get a way to do it good. By the time it was 6 O'clock team Genma already left the hotel. Jumping roofs before finally arriving to the Academy, once there inside they started scaling the place until they finally arrived to a room. Once inside there, they went into a cramped classroom of the academy yet there were many different faces, all of them were new. Though Naruto easily assessed their headbands.

Hidden Mist, Hidden Cloud and a new musical-note shaped Headband he had no recognition of, whatever, once they were all in the room many seemed to talk to each other, though mostly silent. Naruto thanked that the Hidden Rock hasn´t arrived yet or otherwise they would form an uproar. Naruto lead them to an empty corner where they don´t spoke with anyone.

The doors were once again opened, where two females and a male got inside. They looked a year or so older than the Konohagakure Shinobi, they were all assessing the area.

"Ha, this looks easy." The dark bob-haired girl voiced out.

Granddaughter of the Tsuchikage, but her face went to silence once she turned towards a figure. Blond-haired with bangs, violet eyes and overall dressed akin to a certain man, he looked so familiar to…to…

The Fourth Hokage.

She widened her eyes, her very hatred, her very emotions against the very person that retrieved her of a family was now at his front. Before she could do anything, both Suzumebachi and Akatsuchi placed their arms at her front.

"Not here girl, not here." The female Kamizuru Clan Heiress and leader glanced at the headbands of the Hidden Leaf Village. For the first time ever since the Third Shinobi World War, four of the five nations involved in the conflict were facing the other. Whatever friendly competition was taken out of the window the moment Team Gari glanced at the very Hitai-Ate that shamed their village. Of the village that shamed them, the village that killed thousands of them.

Kurotsuchi will never forgive the Fourth Hokage for killing her beloved mother. She´ll return to the Fourth Hoakge the favor by killing the son that looks like a carbon copy of himself. But with purple eyes instead of cerulean blue eyes.

Meanwhile Kiba and Yakumo both had hardened glances towards the female granddaughter of the Third Tsuchikage. Even Akamaru was growling, they could feel the female´s hatred and intent to kill the male.

´Not now though.´ Naruto thought and finally a sharp figure walked inside.

Motoi a friend to Killer Bee went inside the room and spoke out loud for all of them.

"Alright applicants, take your respective chairs."

With that soon though many others took that and the man stood at the front of all easily and he finally spoke out.

"Welcome to the first stage of the Chunin Exams. The famed Written Portion, where you all have to answer this portion to go to the next test-."