Everybody was starting to find their purpose. Saotome as getting better with his taijutsu, though his team had decided they didn't want to meet Rock Lee after some time of observing Saotome's behavior and fighting styles. Saotome was also taking a few pages out of Junichi's book and trying to make his own jutsus. Most of them were something applied to the hands or legs that enabled him to use his taijutsu more efficiently.

Ayane was deep in her seal training. Nobody saw her except for the demeaning missions that were still as bittersweet as when they returned from the sand. Supposedly she was learning new seals every day and her parents were slightly worried because of all the paper she was using up and that they never saw again.

Junichi was slowly gaining more and more disciples. Nobody ever really planned on going to Junichi's neck of the woods, or came regularly. It was just something that would happen. People would migrate to him to learn of him and his techniques, which he shared freely. Naruto was especially interested in learning of Kyuubi and techniques he could learn with the demon's chakra, though Junichi told him repeatedly he had to do that on his own.

Sasuke was usually training back at the Uchiha compound where he still lived. If he wasn't training there, he would drop by Junichi's place for the latest jutsu he was coming up with or to get tips on jutsu he was trying to do himself. Junichi was somewhat more knowledgeable about ninjutsu than some of the jounin instructors, though he failed to be able to stump Kakashi, the lazy bastard.

Junichi stood in the middle of a small dusty clearing behind his house without a shirt, the way he preferred to train in case anyone came to see him. Today he was practicing on his ultimate goal, flight. He believed if shinobi could walk on walls and water, why not air? He gathered tremendous amounts of chakra into his feet and released it slowly and evenly, as if trying to construct wooden blocks under his feet. Little by little, his feet began to inch their way off of the ground until he was a good three feet in the air, kicking up all manner of dust and leaves under him. Then he let the chakra explode suddenly from one leg he suddenly tilted slightly and he flew in the opposite direction of the tilted leg straight for a tree. Quickly he whipped out that same leg and let chakra burst from it again while using his free leg to keep himself up, and he flew off into the sky. He did a quick front flip in the air and landed on the ground neatly, completely exhausted, but neat.

"You've never come here before." Junichi said slowly, sensing the presence of the being before it was even visible "Have you come here to train or to talk?"

Sakura stepped out meekly from behind a tree and kept staring at him. She had heard him speak of flying, but assumed it was a joke. In theory it could work, but in theory only…or so she supposed. In order to do such things, he must have nearly unending stamina and perfect control.

"I'm here to see if you can teach me anything" Sakura said uncomfortably around a shirtless Junichi "I think I could win Sasuke kun if were only stronger. He needs a strong woman by his side, not a weak one."

"You know, any male person living in Kohona could have told you that had you asked in an understandable and unembarrasing manner." Junichi said with one eyebrow raised and a smirk on his face. He enjoyed the first visits of everyone who came. Most of the time they were very nervous, just right for messing with.

"S-so what!" Sakura said angrily yet afraid to get too angry "I'm going to win Sasuke kun over by being strong and it doesn't matter how I figured it out!"

"Well, we should go back to the house. You can't train in that." Junichi said as he took a towel off of a nearby tree branch and headed back towards his house with Sakura following shyly behind.

Several minutes later Sakura had locked herself in Junichi's room he had let her use for changing. Ever since people started showing up he had gotten sets of clothes he saw fit for training for everybody, including the odd kunoichi he happened to know. He had actually just picked up whatever happened to look most comfortable in the different departments. The sales girl had looked at him oddly when she saw him buying women's clothing.

"I'm not coming out in this! I'll feel like a complete slut!" Sakura yelled through the door as Junichi was rubbing his temples in frustration of trying to figure a way out of this situation.

"Nobody cares what you look like, least of all me." Junichi said half defeatedly "And besides, there's nobody else around, just come out and we can get back to training."

Sakura slowly opened the door and stepped out. She was wearing what looked like normal gray athletic wear, except it consisted of a top and shorts, which barely covered any skin at all.

"Y-you promise?" Sakura asked as she stared at the ground and put her arms protectively over her chest.

Now you have to understand something. Junichi was hardworking and training was his main goal in life. He didn't care about the opposite sex hardly at all, unless they were a teammate or a trainee. But he was a guy. And being a guy entails many things, and has its own rules that cannot be broken under any circumstances. There are dead men burning in hell that were thinking about sex while demons tortured them.

"I promise. Now go and call your parents or whoever because you wont be leaving tonight and I won't carry you." Junichi said, using all his willpower not to widen his eyes in shock. He had unwittingly given birth to a very sexy beast. He hadn't looked at what he bought, and now he was starting to understand why the sales girl had looked at him oddly. It was worth it though, definitely. All he had to do now was get in contact with more women.

Sakura left the room relieved and Junichi made sure she was gone before doing a small victory dance at his genius mistake. Soon he regained his composure though, and went straight to the kitchen as Sakura hung up the phone.

"What do you wish to excel in? I know a little bit about a lot of things so I'm sure I can be of some help." Junichi said as he poured himself a small glass of water and handed her one as well.

"I don't really know." Sakura said as she looked down at her feet "I thought about doing whatever it was Ayame chan did, but I've never even heard of seal fighting before so I imagine that its' very difficult. I don't have the speed or the power for taijutsu and my stamina is too bad for ninjutsu."

"There are other things besides that you know." Junichi said as he downed his glass in one gulp "Think about what you're good at and work from there."

"Well…" Sakura though as she looked at the ceiling now, trying to avoid looking at him "Kakashi sensei says that I have better control than Naruto kun or Sasuke kun! I bet I could do some of the things you do with chakra manipulation, or…medical jutsu!"

"I know nothing of ijutsu." Junichi said plainly, causing Sakura to face fault "In my opinion, the best ijutsu is not getting hit. And if I don't get hit by becoming extra strong elsewhere, so be it."

"Well, maybe I could learn some genjutsu. That would be really good for helping my team out." Sakura said, a little put off by his inadequate knowledge of EVERYTHING. Women…

"That, I can help you with." Junichi said with a grin "Of course you can't be as sweet as you are now. In order to create effective genjutsu, you have to put your opponent in a state of such frenzy that they break down or pass out."

"Wait a minute!" Sakura said abruptly "Why do you think I'm so sweet? I can be tough if I want to. Ow! I broke a nail again!"

Junichi rubbed a hand over his face in mental exhaustion. These women were sucking his brain dry of sane thoughts. Most of them weren't completely sane anyway because of demons and a rough childhood without a shrink, but he did have some good thoughts in there. Well not anymore. He was almost completely blaming it on the females. He gave about ten percent to his insane father.

Junichi simply walked back to his handmade shed, got some weights, and then went out into the forest towards one of his favorite control training areas. That's right, he had each part of the woods behind his house dedicated to certain things. Organization was the key here.

"Here is where you will learn to walk on water" Junichi said, motioning towards a large pond "To begin, you will go out in the middle of the water and you will stand there until you either pass out or I deem you able to come in. I'll be training within eyesight so don't worry. I only tell you to apply the minimum amount of chakra necessary and you should be able to go for several hours once you get the technique down."

"What are those weird weights for?" Sakura asked warily. She didn't like the way he heaved them around as if they were very heavy.

"What? These?" Junichi said, playing dumb "I haven't really decided yet. I could use them for my training, or I could be harder on you. Just try to get the water walking down before I decide."

Sakura looked at him strangely for a second before she gathered her chakra in her feet and slowly stepped out on the water. The first time she fell straight into the water with a splash. It wasn't cold or hot or anything. It was actually kind of refreshing. On her second attempt she managed to keep herself up to her knees as she slowly waded out toward the center. It took her a while but she finally started to rise in the water very slowly.

On the shore Junichi smirked. Water walking was difficult when first starting off. With practice, it became like second nature, but those first few weeks of training were always like hell. Junichi wondered whether or not he should stir up any trouble. Sakura was in a very vulnerable position, and he liked messing with people's head like that. He almost thought he was hallucinating for a second when a giant snake appeared at the other edge of the lake. At first he thought it was the answer to his mischevious prayers, but then it hit him that the snake was too big to be a real animal.

"SAKURA! RUN FOR IT!" He yelled to her in panic as he started to rush at her as the same time the snake did.

Sakura saw Junichi running towards her. He looked very frightened by something, and then she turned around and saw the snake and almost passed out from fright. Luckily, she kept her composure and ran back to shore faster than she even thought was physically possible.

Junichi knew a thing or two about predators. It was kind of like his thing, if you know what I mean. Predators were very predictable if you knew what to look for. Junichi jumped into the air in front of the snake only to have it gulp him down in one greedy bite.

Sakura screamed from the beach. The freaking snake just ate Junichi and looked to be very satisfied about it. It started to slowly slither towards her when suddenly it stopped. Without warning, the snake suddenly had a hole blown in its throat, out of which stepped a very sticky Junichi.

Junichi calmly bent down to the water and started to wash himself off as the dead serpent turned into a puff of smoke. With that, a very scary man stepped out from his hiding place on the other side. He was tall, with long black hair down to his waist and slitted eyes. He was definitely on the top of the creepy list.

"Very good, you know the best way to destroy a predator." The man said with a strange grin.

"I destroy that which threatens me." Junichi said calmly as he stood up seriously "In this way, I am the predator. My prey is that which hunts those I protect. The only object of prey is to be destroyed, and the predator is the destroyer. If I weren't as good a predator, my people would fall and everything I value would sink into darkness."

"Stirring speech boy, but I don't think it will save you." The man said creepily, like everything else about him "I am here for the Uchiha boy. He will be a wonderful host, but first, I feel I need to get you out of the way to get him to me. I will have him, or I am not Orochimaru, one of the three sannin."

"I care not for your name or yourself." Junichi said shortly "If you threaten my friends, you threaten me, and if you threaten me, you die."
In a sudden explosion of chakra, Junichi was suddenly in the air right above Orochimaru. He shot out his palm towards the strange man to shoot a chakra burst. Orochimaru was a hundred times quicker and had many years more experience however and caught Junichi by the throat as easily as a venus fly trap catches a fly. Thus it's called a fly trap.

Junichi grinned as his body suddenly turned into a rock and weighed Orochimaru's hand down into the water. Junichi suddenly popped up behind him and unleashed a string of hand seals. As he finished, he held out his right hand and all of the fingers suddenly glowed with electricity that connected above the palm to create a sort of web. A slightly wimpy web, but a web all the same. With all his speed he rushed towards the snake sannin to plunge his grip right around the man's neck, which would have either killed him or sent him into shock.

Orochimaru suddenly wheeled around at the last second and slammed the rock into Junichi's chest, smashing it and sending him flying across the lake, his electric fingers dissipated.

"What was that jutsu you tried to use?" Orochimaru inquired slyly "I have never seen either four you have at least tried to employ thus far."

"The first technique was my chakra burst." Junichi said as he got up slowly and stood up on the water "That was what I used to get behind you and let my binding kawamari in front of you. The technique the kawamari used was a chakra blast, and the last one was my newest one, the lightning claw. Had you been hit, you would have been dead."

"Oh, but boy, surely you must know that you have no chance whatsoever against me." Orochimaru grinned as he performed a few hand seals and placed his hand on the ground, creating a gigantic snake that was so large, it stood itself up from the bottom of the lakes clear waters and let its head sit a good thirty feet above the surface with Orochimaru sitting gleefully on the top "This serpent's skin is much too tough for your feeble jutsu! Prepare to die!"

At this point Junichi would have gashed his arm and paid the extremely high blood price of a dragon summoning jutsu, but he didn't have anything to cut himself with. Thinking quickly he decided to do the next best thing. He balled his hands into fists and crossed them over his chest with his head down. As he did so, a mysterious fog moved in.

Orochimaru was slightly impressed with the boy's performance. He was nowhere near his own level, but for a child he was impressive. It might even be worth while to put the curse seal on him…His musings were cut short however when he saw a figure in front of him with it's arms outstretched offensively as it flew toward him. Without even being needed to be told, the giant snake struck and ripped off the figure's arms, causing it to fall harmlessly to the water limply.

Junichi grinned as his one armed body suddenly turned into bats, along with his severed arm that flew up to the snakes head and reformed behind Orochimaru. This was going to be so much fun.

"You shouldn't underestimate the power of demons, Orochimaru." Junichi said smugly with his strange accent "You should know. You are a sannin after all."

Orochimaru whirled around with no time to even think about how the boy had performed that feat. All he did was strike with strong punches. Junichi dodged all of them with a little dance as he grinned his fanged teeth. Orochimaru suddenly let his tongue out of his mouth, and out of the snake tongue, he pulled out a long sword, which he held readily.

"Do you believe that you'll be able to even hit me with that blade of yours Orochimaru?" Junichi laughed evilly towards the man.

Orochimaru struck with his blade, over and over again, hoping to inflict a wound, and indeed he did. He cut the boy's chest open and smirked as the blood flowed out. Junichi smirked too, as the blood flowed back into the wound and it closed up almost immediately. Orochimaru swung his sword in anger this time, only to have Junichi jump back into the air and stand there calmly with red chakra burning around his feet.

"What are you boy? Are you some sort of demon vessel as well?" Orochimaru asked the floating vampire boy in shock. He didn't know of any record of anybody using these sorts of powers and he had studied these things to an obsessive extent.

"I have the power of great devils, though you could easily beat me if you knew the secret to it." Junichi said with a grin. He outstretched one palm idly and red chakra began gathering around it. With an evil laugh, he let the chakra fly from his palm towards the snake sannin.

Orochimaru felt the power coming towards him and knew only that he would die if it hit him. Or at least, this particular body would die. He cleverly hid himself behind his summoned snake, which took the blow before disappearing. Orochimaru was outgunned at the moment. He would have to plan better or this creature would kill him. With the right game plan, he was certain he could triumph, and so, he retreated without any shame whatsoever into the woods where he wouldn't be found.

Junichi walked over to Sakura with his eyes still red. His fangs were the same, and his skin had not regained a bit of its color. To anybody paying close attention, he was still in demon mode, but to Sakura, who just witnessed something that incredible, she didn't seem to notice his killing aura.

"You were amazing!" Sakura exclaimed but stopped when she saw his hand start twitching "Is your hand allright?"

Without warning, his arms snapped out, one grabbing the back of her neck and twisting her head to the side, and the other supporting her as he tilted her back. With animal like behavior, he opened his mouth and lowered his elongated canines to her neck.

Sakura suddenly woke with a start. She was completely drenched in sweat. She surveyed her surroundings and she found she was standing on land, but Junichi was completely normal, standing a few feet in front of her.

"Wha...What just happened? What did you do to me?" Sakura asked worriedly as she backed away from him.

Junichi had a big grin all over his face. He was clearly having fun with this incident. Messing with the newbies was always a fun pastime of his.

"Sakura, congratulations." He said trying to hold back a laugh "You just experienced your first lesson in genjutsu."