After the events of a couple nights prior, Sumihiko had been resting and recovering from his injuries but now it was time for business. Benzaiten had woken Sumihiko up at around 4:00 a.m. in order to begin some training. She walked him to the Sarutobi training ground. Sumihiko had four more days till team selection and Benzaiten would be damned if her son wasn't the leader of the pack in strength since he was far from the brainiest of the class.

"Mom, why are we here?" Sumihiko said with an exhausted yawn. He wasn't used to waking up so early even for school so he was insanely exhausted.

"I promised to teach you a new jutsu didn't I? If you're gonna learn it, you need time to practice it, don't you think?" Benzaiten asked.

"Fair enough," Sumihiko yawns out a bit dejectedly.

He was still wearing his pajamas and was in no way ready for training on any level. However, a new jutsu is a new jutsu and if he was lucky his mom would be teaching him something crazy.

"Back when I was a bit older than you when I wanted to see your father and your grandfather wouldn't let me leave, I invented this jutsu to be able to escape the window which was a few stories high." She weaved a few hand seals and said "Wind Release: Air Step!"

She began jumping off of the air a couple of times, shocking Sumihiko immediately. He had never heard of ninjas being capable of flying and his mom was just able to do it so casually. She eventually landed after her 10th step.

"So this jutsu is relatively simple but it works amazingly well. You use wind release to solidify the air underneath your feet and hop off of it. Only weaknesses are it takes timing to land on the air constructs, it's invisible so you need to be really careful to make sure you step on the right place, the solid air only lasts a couple seconds unless you pour more chakra into it, and every step you take drains some chakra."

"That's insane, mom! You can actually fly! How am I supposed to fly!? I didn't even know flying was possible! I'm gonna be able to fly!? When are you gonna teach me!? How are you gonna teach me!?"

Sumihiko was befuddled to say the least at the notion of flight for himself, his mother, and Shinobi period and Benzaiten was shocked at how annoying her son could actually be. She put her finger to his mouth and shushed him.

"If you want to learn, stop talking and watch me. I've already shown you once, I'm gonna show you this one more time and then you're on your own," Benzaiten said in a stern voice immediately bringing Sumihiko's attention to her and clearing the clouds out of his head.

The mother went through the hand seals and demonstrated the jutsu once more. "Remember it's important to time when you solidify the air just right. Go , and the air falls apart before you land on it. Go too late, and you wind up with some nasty scars from getting cut." Benzaiten pulled up her pant leg and showed her shins riddled with scars from slash wounds she had received in her youth when she had just conceived the jutsu.

"Now I want you to work on this until you can land perfectly every single time and make sure you only go up a few feet in the air because if you lose control or run out of the necessary chakra without the ability to land you're gonna be in trouble. And not with me, but with the Lord himself." After giving her "pep talk" Benzaiten scruffled the boy's hair and walked back to her house. She then shouted back, "Come inside, change your clothes, and eat a fruit! You're not getting any breakfast until you can pull off at least three in a row in the air. Sumihiko sighed and began running back to his home.

And thus began Sumihiko's four days from hell

He took a shower, took the time to fix his bed, changed into his signature outfit, grabbed an apple and went back to the training field to practice the jutsu he was instructed to learn.

He weaved the hand seals for the technique, shouted the name, and jumped up to land on the air, but instead bonked his head as he had accidentally made it over his head instead. This went on for a couple of hours as Sumihiko got multiple nicks, bruises, and scratches as he repeatedly tried to land on the air with success being few and far between the massive failures.

He couldn't understand how he had such a hard time learning a jutsu his Mom said was simple. Sumihiko was a prodigy in every sense of the world. His grasp on Taijutsu was amazing, at his young age, he could already use a few jutsu from all 5 chakra natures, and his genjutsu prowess was nothing to sneeze at either. But this jutsu that couldn't be anything higher than C-Rank was seemingly impossible for him to learn.

Hinata Pov

Hinata was sitting in the Hokage's office with her father. Everyone thought of her father as this strict, responsible, stoic, man but Hinata knew who her father really was. She watched as Hiashi did his best to try to flick a piece of paper he had folded into the shape of a triangle in between Hinata's fingers that were positioned with her thumbs touching, her Index fingers pointed up and her other fingers closed. He flicked the paper and it went through the makeshift goal.

"I WIN!!!" Hiashi shouted with excitement.

Yes, in reality, the Hokage, the Leaf's most powerful Shinobi, the strongest member of the 5 kage, their highest authority, the Leaf's last resort, was like a big kid.

"How could someone like you be Hokage?" Hinata asked putting her head in her hands.

"How could my own darling princess say that to me?" Hiashi said, cartoonist tears running down his face. "You can't play one game with your dad? You're becoming a ninja! Soon enough, you'll start going on missions, and ranking up, and then you won't have any time for your father!" The Hokage continued to sob as Hinata just shook her head.

"I came here because I want you to teach me a new technique, but if you're just gonna be annoying I'll go ask a guard," Hinata said, knowing she had no intention of asking a guard for anything.

If Hiashi was anything, he was a doting father. There would be no way he would let anyone steal the time that he'd get to be spending with his rapidly aging daughter. Although he could be bothersome, she did realize that there were some advantages to having the Hidden Leaf's most powerful ninja be wrapped around her finger.

"No, you don't have to stress the guards like that! I'm more than happy to teach you something, I'll reschedule my meeting with the Daimyo for another day!" Hiashi said. He immediately wrote a message and sent a sparrow to deliver it so he could get the father-daughter time he had been craving.

Hinata and Hiashi went to the Hyuga training ground that she had been visiting ever since childhood.

"Even though I'm happy to spend the time with my beautiful angel, why do you need a new jutsu? You learned the Shadow Clone from when you stole one of our village's most treasured possessions right?" Hiashi asked jokingly making Hinata laugh nervously.

"Well, I did, but since that night I've only been able to make around 20 clones at a time and I'm still not that strong physically so the clones aren't that strong. Besides, I thought we could spend some time together," Hinata said, which excited Hiashi at the thought of his daughter finally being open to hanging out with him.

Even though she acted like her father was the most obnoxious person to ever live, Hinata really did love her father. She had never had a mother and even though she had side branch members to teach her about womanhood her father still had been the one to nurture her and get her through all of her trying times in the ways that truly mattered. She respected his strength as well as the fact that he was one of the two last lliving members of the team of that was like a second family for him. And with the loss of his twin brother a couple of years ago, she had been of the few strong bonds that had been yet to be severed by the cruelty of the world.

"Okay, so I think you should learn how to cut ninjutsus. Observe!" Hiashi made a shadow clone. "Alright, so I need you to shoot a fireball at me so I can teach Hinata how to cut jutsu."

"Hinata!" The clone said. "Where? Do I look bad?" He notices her and begins to gush. "Oh Lady Hinata looks so beautiful today!"

"I know right! I was just thinking the same thing!" Hiashi and his clone began discussing Hinata's beauty until Hiashi slapped the clone. "Alright, Hinata may look beautiful but we need to focus." The clone nodded and did as he was instructed.

Hiashi focused before putting his index and middle finger together and coating them in chakra.

"Activate your Byakugan so you can see what I'm about to show you," Hiashi said in a serious tone.

Hinata does so and watched as the chakra in Hiashi just slices through the fireball like butter.

"The chakra of the Hyuga is slightly different from other people's. Our chakra is good for cutting through chakra and when we weaponize it, we can make almost all jutsu useless in our presence. That's why you don't see most Hyuga using traditional jutsu. Our style relies on using as little chakra as possible with maximum efficiency."

As Hiashi explained this, she began to gain a bit more of a respect for her clan. She always wondered how a clan with such a dainty fighting style could be seen as the strongest clan in the Hidden Leaf and now she's beginning to understand it a bit better. Why would they need to use ninjutsus that burn through so much chakra when they could force a Taijutsu battle that they would always have the advantage in.

"Alright are you ready?" Hiashi asked to which Hinata responded with a nod. "Alright fire!" The clone did as instructed and launched ball of hellfire at the girl that came careening at ridiculous speeds.

"This might be too much for her," Hiashi said in his head. "Maybe I should st-"

Before he even gets to finish his thought he watches as the Byakugan Princess lives up to her name and cuts the attack from hell in half which then dissipates to nothingness. Hinata sweats both from the heat from the jutsu and the fear of possiblly getting turned into a barbeque.

"Wow, even Neji didn't get that on his first try. But I know for a fact that that should have taken more chakra control than she should be able to muster, considering her struggle with the academy techniques. I wonder what's going on in there. I'll put a pin in that for now though." Hiashi thought as he saw his daughter smile and cheer. "Wow that was incredible! I can't believe you did that first try, it takes some of our clansmen years to pull that off, especially with an attack of that magnitude." Hiashi said.

A soft smile spread across Hinata's face which meant the world to Hiashi.

"So what else can you teach me?" Hinata asked

"Whoa whoa whoa, you gotta slow your roll. You did a really good job with that technique but that doesn't mean you should automatically move on to the next jutsu. You should go out and see some friends, maybe practice with them a little bit. I'm gonna go back to the office. I didn't expect you to grasp that technique so fast so I'm gonna try to get my meeting with the Daimyo back on," Hiashi said as he began walking away.

"Dad?" Hinata said as Hiashi was walking.

"Yes, princess?" Hiashi asked.

"Thank you for everything," she said with a smile.

Hiashi just snickered, "that's what dad's are for," he said as he kept walking. "She probably thinks I'm so cool now," he thought to himself as he kept walking.

Hinata decided she would take her father's advice and began the treck to go into the main area of Konoha.

Sasuke's Pov

Sasuke had been walking through Konoha in a haze. He had always imagined his parents being there for his graduation as a Leaf Shinobi. His father finally giving him the praise he had desired for so long, his mother being sweet to him as she always had, and his brother finally accepting him as a fellow Shinobi of the Hidden Leaf.

However, Sasuke did not get this nor would he ever. All he got was a congratulations from his teachers and some of the parents that had gone to the graduation to see their children move on to begin their careers. And it was all because of "him". The man who had taken everything from him. The same older brother that he had desired to be acknowledged by all those years ago. But now that he'd become a ninja, he'd finally have a chance to give the man what he deserved. To crush his brother completely and make sure he suffered for the murder of the people he loved most dearly.

It was all the poor young man had thought of. He had no one so he had nothing to distract him from constantly fantasizing about finally getting even with the bastard that took everything from him. He would get a powerful Sensei that would teach him ninjutsus powerful enough to finally rid the world of the insect that was Itachi Uchiha.

He was walking through the village in order to get some new ninja tools, some storage scrolls, and see to get to the old Uchiha Hideout, the place the Hokage told him he'd have access to once he graduated the ninja academy. Sasuke didn't like most people, but the Hokage was an exception. Hiashi always took time out of his day in order to check on Sasuke, make sure he was doing okay, and even occasionally teach him a little here and there. However, this had been a secret as someone like the Hokage showing favoritism, even to an orphan, could cause a huge uproar for the Leaf's Shinobi community.

Sasuke got to the weapon store and saw a girl with two brown buns in her hair, a pink suit, grey pants, brown eyes, and a Konoha head band.

"I need about 20 kunai and 100 shuriken. I pre-ordered them about a month ago, it should be under; Sasuke Uchiha," he said very directly and briefly.

"A please would be nice," the girl muttered, before shoving a bag into the boy's chest. "Thinks he's so much better than me just because he's an Uchiha. I bet he wouldn't be acting like that if Neji were around," the girl said.

Sasuke glared at her and then said "I'm not better than you because I'm an Uchiha, I'm better than you because you can't even do your job right." Sasuke said as he went through his bag, noticing multiple chips and scratches in some of his weapons.

Hearing that made the girl furious. How dare this boy who hadn't even been on his first mission yet talk down to her a genin who had been working for just under a year.

"You know if you have a problem with me, we can settle it the way ninjas do," the girl replied.

"Fine by me, though I doubt you'd even be able to land a scratch," Sasuke said. He had been in a mood and although he'd usually just shrug off a nuisance like this one, he decided that he'd test himself against a real genin.

The girl changed the sign on her shop from opened to closed and locked the doors. Her and Sasuke walked up to an open field and began to square off.

"I'll give you one chance to beg for my forgiveness before I squash you," the girl said. Sasuke just grunted which made the girl smile.

She immediately pulled a scroll from her pocket which began sending mounds of weapons cascading at Sasuke with enough force to lodge themselves deeply into the surrounding trees. The boy knew that if he gets hit even once it would be trouble. However, he wasn't worried in the slightest.

Sasuke watched as he found a blade in the stream of metal and began knocking the other blades out of the air as series of clinks and clanks riddled through the air. The ninja he had been fighting was shocked to watch this boy just easily parrying these relatively forceful weapons. She decided to grab a blade of her own and ran up to Sasuke where they began an exchange of sword play.

The girl could tell that Sasuke was relatively inexperienced in sword play but was baffled at how with every scratch he received he seemed to fight better and better. This girl realized she may have been slightly in over her as seemed to have underestimated the boy but there was no way she was gonna just let this boy show her up.

She took another scroll off of her belt and through it into the middle of the air, where it opened and began raining blades furiously. This girl seemed to have known exactly when and where every blade would be launches as she had no problems, effortlessy dancing around the blades that were being blasted. Sasuke on the other hand, was put on the back burner. He now had to fend off this troublesome girl's bladed assault while also dodging the rain from hell she set for him.

Sasuke had enough of the onslaught and decided to get rid of the problem the best way he knew how. He jumped into the air, weaving through the blades and weaved hand seals.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke called.

The blast immediately incinerated the scroll and even melted down some of the iron weaponry. The girl was utterly floored to see her jutsu so easily dispatched by someone who didn't even have a team yet. She prepared to forfeit when suddenly, Sasuke dashed in front of her and hit her in the stomach with his knee.

She began coughing but Sasuke decided that she hadn't gotten what she deserved just yet. Sasuke began an onslaught of attacks that winded the girl. He began to walk away after he felt like he dealt her the punishment necessary.

As he walked, he saw two boys. One with long brown hair and white eyes similar to his classmate Hinata's and a boy with a bowl cut, bushy eyebrows, and a green track suit. The boy with the bushy brows began to talk to him.

"Have you seen our teammate? Her name is Tenten? She was at her shop selling weapons and now she isn't. She has brown hair with two buns and wears a pink shirt,".

"Oh I saw her in that training field a little bit ago but she was a bit banged up," Sasuke said with a smirk as he walked away.

"Thank you very much! I'm Rock Lee and this is my friend Neji!" He said as he sprinted towards the training field.

As Sasuke kept walking to Konoha, he saw Sumihiko and Hinata both all walking around in the village. He didn't really mind either of them as despite Sumihiko being a bit of a loud mouth, he definitely had the skill to back it up and Hinata was kind of an inverse of Sumihiko not being the most skilled but being very quiet, unassuming, and polite.

The three all looked at each other for a second before all looking back away and going back to live their lives.