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Chapter 11.

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Arriving just in time, they weren't too surprised to see Shino already there. What did surprise them was the fact that instead of Anko, Hana was with them today and talking to Kurenai. Seeing their confused look, Hana quickly replied:" All will be explained in a short while."

It was at this point that Kurenai noticed that both of them had arrived.

"Okay now that Hinata and Naruto-kun have also arrived, I'll start with the explanation.

Yesterday at the reporting of the testing, me and Anko were talking with Asuma and Hana here when she asked Anko whether or not Anko would teach mainly Ino- chan but al the others of team 10 too, about Poisons. Of course Hana would then in turn teach you guys something about healing." Hearing this, she could see the spark ignite in Hinata's eyes.

"Seeing as she was correct, and I don't really know all too much about strategy and even les about elemental chakra manipulation. So now each Tuesday, they come to our sessions, and Thursday we go to a session with them that way Saturday we can work on our teamwork. Sunday you guys get a day off, and the other days we do missions. At least to start with, once the mission start going longer, we'll just see then. Now do you guys agree with this settlement?"

Hinata nodded her head fiercely, she had always wanted to know more about medicine, both bad as good. Last time because of the warfare and the lack of medics she quickly became one and a really good one. Now here she was getting the chance to study it slowly. And with her arrows, the extra poison might actually be helpful, especially with extra functions on her arrows. If she added a few extra poisons, she would have a pretty nice long range weapon.

Naruto on the other hand, was more interested in the strategy he could definitely use extra practice there, and the elemental chakra manipulation was one thing he would really need. After all he only had learned elemental manipulation for his Wind element and didn't know any other. So he too nodded.

Shino took the longest too decide but in the end seeing both Naruto and Hinata agree, he also nodded.

"Okay Hannah-chan you go and give the news to Asuma. We'll wait here for the answer from Anko."

Hanna nodded, bid everyone farewell and shunshined away.

Not a minute later Anko arrived in a swirl of leaves with a big smile on her face. Seeing this everyone knew enough and when they all cheered Anko too knew what their response had been.

"Okay we'll start next week, so today we'll be doing our first mission. After it's complete which normally takes about 3 quarters of a day, then we'll train for the remaining time before heading home for the day. If there are no questions we'll be heading towards the mission centre."

Seeing as no one tried to ask anything, she led the way, it was Naruto however who first got bored of this." Say Kurenai-sensei, why don't we just shunshin to the centre? We all know it."

This surprised Kurenai cause she was certain that yesterday shunshin no jutsu was not among the known jutsu list of Shino.

So looking at Shino for confirmation, he nodded before looking towards Naruto and Hinata.

"Okay, how did you teach him the shunshin no jutsu in just one day?"

Naruto and Hinata just looked at each other and seemed to zone out before seeming to come to a conclusion. It was Hinata who answered," Kurenai-sensei we didn't teach Shino the shunshin no jutsu in just one day, we taught it to him in one afternoon. He really is a quick learner, however it might just be that he had good motivation for learning this technique."

Kurenai deciding she never was going to get a straight answer out of the, let the subject drop.

"Fine then I guess I'll see you guys there", said Kurenai setting her hands in ram sign. However she did wonder just how they were going to use it, so decided to wait. When Shino seemed to turn into bugs, she didn't really was too surprised. When Hinata suddenly turned into suddenly faded into mist it did freak her out a bit, however it was Naruto of course who took the crop. Naruto suddenly combusted into the tell tale blue foxfire flames, after getting into the ram sign. Hoping that they did only witness the cover both Anko and Kurenai quickly used the Konoha-Shunshin disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

Arriving Anko and Kurenai where glad to see all three of their genin safely there.

Anko however went over to Naruto and hit him hard on the head, making him feel dizzy for a little bit." Next time, warn us if you're gonna use combustion to hide the movement."

"Sorry, it does look like I combust doesn't it. I just figured out yesterday night how to make it and wanted to try it out. I do wonder whether or not it guards me too."

However Naruto's musing was interrupted by the arrival, walking in, of team 7. You could almost see the temperature drop and every one that knew the five of them could definitely see the dislike etched on their faces.

"Move dobe." said Sasuke,

"Yeah move dobe, you're not even good enough to be in the way of Sasuke-kun."

"Yeah move dead last. Hey Hinata-chan why don't you and I hook up after we do our mission in record time." Called out Kiba.

You could now definitely see the disgust on Hinata's face. However it was Shino who answered," why don't you guys just move along, there's plenty of room beside us. And I think it is clear now Kiba-san that she doesn't want to be with you." Said a mildly buzzing Shino.

Kakashi just sweeped his eyes over the five of them, taking a little longer with Naruto during which you could see the loathing in his one eye. At this the buzzing noise increased.

"Let's get going team, Anko-san, Kurenai-san." Said Kakashi nodding his head towards them while saying their name.

Anko nearly growled back but kept her cool and just nodded her head. Kurenai gave Kakashi one ice cold glare but also nodded back.

Once Team 7 was finally inside, the temperature returned to normal. However Naruto was still grinding his teeth and still had his hand in a death grip around Hinata's. Hinata at the same time was nearly trembling with rage. Even Shino was still buzzing.

"Okay let's go before we run into them again." Said Anko spitting out the 'them' like it tasted bad and led the way. Naruto, Hinata and Shino followed, with Kurenai bringing up the rear.

Luckily because of the size of the centre they didn't meet team 7 again. Arriving at the stand, the Hokage looked over their team, and just fished one scroll out of the pile with D-ranked missions. Kurenai nodded as she accepted the scroll and they were on their way.

"Oh boy." Said Kurenai, "this is gonna be fun. Okay team as our first mission we have to locate and retrieve Tora, the cat of the Daimyo's wife." Now everybody had heard about these dreadful missions even Naruto had heard about it the first time around and had then decided he really really hated that mission. However once Naruto had spent a little extra time with Tora one evening, him hiding away from an angry Tsunade. He and Tora had come to an arrangement, he could summon him for use of his torture scroll, Tora would when free visit a few key spots at select hours and in return Naruto had made a seal that would liberate Tora fifteen minutes after being in the hands of the daimyo's wife, in different locations around Konoha with no distinctive pattern. That way both he and Tora where quite happy. Luckily for him now, he had brokered the same deal yesterday, however the cat had this time shortened the time with the daimyo's wife to only 10 minutes and Naruto really couldn't blame the cat.

So when Naruto hearing which mission they had, suddenly started smiling while Shino looked glum and Hinata still looked quite normal, Anko and Kurenai knew something was up. And their fears were only confirmed when Naruto asked in a sickenly innocent voice,

"You did say that once this mission is complete we could get go training right?"

Kurenai and Anko not really knowing what to do just nodded. Hearing this Naruto lit up: "One moment, wait here." Before forming the ram sign and shushing away in a burst of flames.

Not even a minute later Naruto walked trough the door again, holding a gently purring Tora in his arms. It was such an absurd sight that he and also Hinata were already nearly to the door when they had to call back," Are you guys coming?" snapping out of their funk somewhat, they all hurried after Hinata and Naruto, catching up just as they were walking trough the door.

"Old man, you did order one cat right? Well here ya go!" Throwing Tora towards the Hokage who just screamed like a little girl before he quickly replaced himself with a log, no one really know where it was until the Hokage materialised in a corner behind his desk.

Ah, all praise the log thought the Hokage, clearly hearing in the distance something about logs and youth. The log it seemed had been totally shredded by Tora.

Going towards Naruto, the Hokage hit Naruto hard on the head, even sending his head trough the floor." DO NOT EVER DO SUCH A DANGEROUS THING AGAIN!" screamed the Hokage.

Naruto having removed his head from the floorboard," Oh don't be such a baby old man, Tora-chan isn't so bad, isn't that right?" asked Naruto before picking up Tora lightly and slightly petting her, making her purr.

"Now back to business, the capture of Tora the cat is complete. Team 8 reporting in." said Naruto, saluting like he was in the military

"Wait a minute, I just gave the mission to you guys a minute ago." Said the Hokage finally getting over his shock.

"Indeed Hokage-sama" replied Kurenai, now recovered from her stupor," but as you can see, Tora has been located and returned."

The Hokage deciding it was best to just accept the fact, nodded." Okay, report, I do want to know how you managed to completely shatter the previous record by 3 hours, 21 minutes and 15 seconds."

"Quite simple old man, I just went outside, picker her up and brought her back in." answered Naruto. The Hokage sighed, he really was getting too old for this shit.

"Okay fine, here take your cheque and just leave unless you want another mission?"

Looking back at Kurenai, she just shook her head. However Naruto never one to say no to easy money turned toward the Hokage and asked:" Do you have to be with a jounin sensei to complete D-ranked missions?"

"Not really no, the jounin is there for later on and for teaching purposes."

"Ah okay, then could you give me and Hinata-chan," looking at Hinata, again seemingly zoning out, then snapping back," about 10 D-rank missions, that should be enough for today." Hearing the number the Hokage was once again stumped, "Naruto you've got to be kidding me, there's no way you'd ever accomplish that many missions in a month, no matter a day."

"Come on old man, just give them to me. We'll make sure they're done well."

Now normally the Hokage would just call him an idiot for trying this but seeing as this was Naruto he was talking too, the number one surprising ninja, he decided to just humour him.

"Fine here you go, these are all D-ranked missions, going from cleaning up your mess, to weeding a garden. Enjoy."

Naruto just smirked and accepted all the scrolls," Thanks old man, see you this evening."

Before walking out with Hinata, again they had to call back to get the team to follow them.

Arriving outside, Anko decided to just ask the question," Just what do you think you two are doing? I thought you wanted to train!" nearly screaming the last part. So Naruto replied, "Oh but we'll train, it's just that we'll unlike you who have better paying missions or family, both me and Hinata are living alone without being able to get great paying missions, so we just have to do more lower paying missions."

"But but how?" asked Shino still stunned that his teammates were that confident in their skills.

"Simple like this" said Naruto before nodding to Hinata, who also made the cross sign, and calling out" Kage Bunshin no jutsu" forming only a small cloud. Now in front of them there stood 20 naruto's and 10 Hinata's.

'Okay you guys, you know what to do, two of you pair up with one of Hinata-chan. Then come up front to get your scroll." Finally done giving out scrolls both Hinata and Naruto turned back towards quite a sight. A jounin, a special jounin and a genin, all of them with their mouths on the ground in astonishment.

It was Shino who snapped out of it first," Can you teach me that, I could use the spending money?" said Shino, thinking about all the extra gifts he could buy Ayame-chan.

Naruto nodded, "I'll teach you but you'll need to build up your reserve even more if you want to make more than the 10 you'll probably only be able to produce at the end of this week."

Hearing this, Kurenai and Anko picked their jaws of the ground, " No you will not, there's a reason why this is a kinjutsu you know." Said Kurenai.

Anko's tone however was totally different, " I can't believe I never thought of that."

"But Kurenai-san, if I teach him this, the training will be going so much faster. And you do know that he too has a massive chakra store right?"

And it was once again time for Anko and Kurenai to look confused." What do you mean?" turning more towards Shino for an explanation than to Naruto.

Shino however was finally feeling a little more comfortable around his team decided to tell them although it did seem that Hinata and Naruto had already figured it out.

"It's just as Naruto-san says, I have quite a large chakra reserve for someone my age. Because my bugs are constantly eating away at my reserves they constantly replenish and get larger thanks to all that exercise. And it seems that my reserves grow quite fast, that's why I already have a second hive like Naruto noticed too. It's because my reserves are so high that I can use two hives at my age. So there really will never be any chance of me depleting that reserve as long as I have my bugs within me, should the need arise they can give a little bit of the chakra back but only enough to keep me alive."

Kurenai just sighed, she had just lost her major point and seeing that it was Shino who always knew what he was doing, she decided to let him.

"Fine but only after our training is over, which will start now, instead of much much later. However tomorrow we take a more physically challenging mission and we do not use Kage Bunshin for it."

Receiving three nods from her students, and snapping Anko out of her daydream about her childhood being so much better should she have know the Kage Bunshin back then.

"Okay, first let's head to training ground 8."

Said Kurenai before shushing away in a swirl of leaves followed by a mist, a dispersion of bugs, another swirl of leaves and combustion.

"Now that we're here, let's get this show on the road, I first want to know where you guys all stand, so I want you to run around this training ground 10 times as fast as you can without using shunshin. Me and Anko will time you. Begin."

And they were off. Both Naruto and Hinata were a little bit better than Shino, however he was keeping up quite well. However the final two rounds the time of Shino lost 25% and both Hinata's and Naruto's time was cut in half. But when they stopped they didn't even seem winded.

Now normally it would surprise everyone but it seemed that Kurenai had anticipated this one.

"Okay, do tell me how much are you're weights?"

"We don't have any weight Kurenai-sensei" replied Hinata.

Now she did frown, "Then how did you guys speed up, didn't I tell you guys to run as fast as you can?"

"Yeah you did, but you never did tell us to run with or without our seals on. So we decided we better run as fast as we could, like we usually will and then the last two we'd turn of our seals."

"Seals?" asked a now intrigued Anko.

"Yeah, Naruto made them, their called gravity seals. They equally disperse the extra weight over the entire body, training the entire body and not just the a few key muscles."

"Wait a minute what do you mean by Naruto made them?" asked Anko

Now it was Naruto's turn to frown," Didn't the old man tell you about my interest in seals?"

"Yeah he did mention you're interest but nothing about you creating ones of your own" answered Kurenai.

"Fine, I have made a few seals, one being this gravity seal, another being a storage seal with a catalogue and I'm now working on making a new explosive seal."

Kurenai just nodded and Anko even got a sparkle of hope that maybe just maybe she could some day get rid of that seal of HIS.

"Okay from now on, leave the seals off for half the exercise. I want to see what you're capable off with and without them, that way I can make a better training regiment. Next up chakra reserves. I want you to grab hold of this orb" said Kurenai fishing an orb from got knows where on her body," The orb will normally colour three different kinds of colour as you mould some chakra, that coupled with the intensity will tell us just how big you're reserves are. I'll show you." Kurenai then started moulding her chakra at which the orb inside her hand started turning a red colour however it was a little dimmed. " As you can see with me the orb coloured red, meaning I have reserves ranging between jounin and Kage, however seeing as it was a dull intensity I have only jounin level capacity. Now why don't you try first Anko."

Giving the orb to Anko, Anko grabbed the orb and started moulding her chakra. The orb first went by green like the first time but then turned blue, with quite a bright intensity.

"Okay, now blue means between chuunin and special jounin, since it was so bright and even started turning violet we can assume that Anko has special jounin reserves that are nearly becoming jounin level. Now Shino why don't you try." Shino just accepted the orb and started moulding chakra, with him just like with Anko the Blue was very bright and was even starting to turn violet although Anko was a little more violet."Okay, you do have quite large reserves for someone your age. I'd say you have solid special jounin reserves. Hinata why don't you try next." Hinata reluctantly accepted the orb, they hadn't planned to show them this just yet, but now it seemed that Kurenai had taken that choice out of their hands, channelling some chakra the orb started to glow. Just like with Kurenai the orb never even gave a glimpse of green and also quickly crossed blue, however once it was a dull red it still seemed to change and began to lighten. Till it finally stopped at a nearly illuminating blood red colour."

And again all three of them we're shocked, no wonder Hinata could produce 10 clones with ease. She had even more reserves than her sensei's.

"O-o-okay, very good Hinata, now why don't you pass the ball to Naruto."

Hinata quickly handed Naruto the ball that they were all still staring at.

Naruto was even more worried, Hinata had just given them quite a show, surpassing both Anko and Kurenai. And here he was probably going to break the damn thing, Oh well better get this over with thought Naruto, grabbing the ball and Naruto started moulding his chakra , however nothing happened. It was at this point that team 7 walked by. Sasuke seeing the orb Naruto had and noticing the lack of colour smirked.

"Look at the dobe, can't even get a colour out the chakra meter. Here let me show you how it's done." said Sasuke grabbing the orb out of his hands, and moulding some chakra. Once he started the orb quickly turned a very bright green that was shifting towards blue. Seeing his results Sasuke just smirked." Hah beat that dobe, not that you have any chance." Called Sasuke before just walking of, dutifully followed by Sakura. " Yeah you're nothing dobe, I'll show you Hinata-chan." Grabbing the orb Sasuke had dropped, Kiba started moulding his chakra however all he could get was a slightly bright green. Slightly pissed of that the Uchiha was better at this once again, Kiba threw the orb back to Shino who deftly caught it and stomped off. However he was quite pleased with himself after all he did upstage Naruto, One day Hinata-chan, you'll see just what a real loser he is and then you'll be mine! thought Kiba as he walked off towards his team again. It seemed Kakashi had always been there but had never seen fit to interrupt.

"That's strange I've never seen the orb stay blank before, and team 7 did just use it and showed that it worked. So what's the problem."

"Wait I'll try again, just give me one more shot."

After which Kurenai handed Naruto the orb, he once again moulded his chakra but now he used all of his enhanced senses to look at the orb. And there it was it had been brief but you could just see a brief flash of bright red.

"I don't think the orbs broken Kurenai-sensei, I just don't think it can accurately measure my level. You might not know this but the seal that seals the Kyuubi also drains some of the chakra and filters it. So it seems that at the moment my level is already beyond what this thing can measure. You can briefly see a red flash if you look closely enough. Just watch." Said Naruto before moulding his chakra again, and again and again. It was at the fifth repeat that Kurenai finally saw it thanks to increasing her eyesight with chakra.

"You're right I did see it, and you're right that is the only reason. So tell me just how many Kage Bunshin can you make?"

"Well I don't really know I usually lose count after around one thousand." Said an embarrassed Naruto. And once again the mouths of the three of them dropped.

"Okay so I don't think reserves are going to be a big problem here, although I will have to ask the Hokage if he knows any other methods of measuring chakra level, after all it would be better to have a fix on your limit even if it's already way above the limit of Kages. Next up is power. Both me and Anko-chan have some weights here with us, now I want you to repeat each weight 2 times up and down. First with your seals on and once you can't anymore we'll turn them off"

And so they began, with Hinata having to turn of her seals at 1.5 times her body weight, Naruto at 2.5 times and Shino turning them off at 3 times. However Hinata had to really stop at 3 times and Shino at 4.3 times, but it was Naruto who went for the cake and pushed up 5 times his body weight.

Anko whistled seeing the results. Kurenai just went on."Next up flexibility." Here it was clear that Hinata was the winner, being able to put your head between your legs while bending over backwards certainly made her top. Even Anko couldn't do that. Naruto had better flexibility than Shino but not much, both of them could to a backward flip but neither was as flexible as Hinata, Kurenai was around the same level as Naruto.

And so it went on, testing reflexes and dodging at which Anko happily started chucking kunai at the three of them, accuracy with this time Shino winning, however only with kunai and shuriken, once both Hinata and Naruto could use their weapon of choice, did they win, even able to beat Anko and her kunai however it might just be because an arrow from a crossbow could fly farther than a kunai. Naruto and Anko we're about even when he could use his boomerang. And so on and on it went until finally they came to the last test.

"Okay, last we're gonna test your endurance like," However she was interrupted by Naruto, " Sorry Kurenai-sensei but do we really need to test endurance?"

"Yeah, is it really necessary cause I really do not want to wait till Naruto-kun here is finally tired, I don't think I've ever seen him tired in the academy, ever!" emphasized Shino.

Hinata and Naruto just both nodded vigorously.

"You're right, I guess you guys are right, trying to tire this endurance monster would probably be impossible and he'd probably fall asleep sooner than really be exhausted." Said a sullen Kurenai.

"Now that I have your basic stats I think I can make a somewhat challenging training programme. Oh right just one last thing, just how high do you guys have those seals set at?"

"double." "triple" "pentruple" said Shino, Hinata and Naruto.

"Okay, so normally you would now get dismissed but seeing as for some reason, Naruto was able to complete our mission within a few minutes instead of a few hours. We'll start you both at the next stage of chakra manipulation. You my dear students are gonna walk up a tree,"

"oh that easy Kurenai-sensei."

"Without your hands." said Kurenai glancing towards the sky waiting for the complaining. However the normal complaining about that being impossible never came and when she looked back, she noticed all three of her students missing, and Anko grinning at her pointing of above her head. Looking up, she saw all three of her students leisurely standing upside down, hanging from a tree branch. "Like I told you Kurenai- sensei, EASY!"

Kurenai just sighed," I guess I should have expected that."

"Okay, then we'll just skip this part and go to the next level or are you telling me you completed that too?" Seeing the face splitting grin on Naruto's face told her enough.

"Oh for god's sake, how come you guys never tried graduating before this year?"

If possible the grin on Naruto's face had just gotten wider, "And miss out on all the fun of messing with our sensei's?" but then turning serious once again,

" and what would you think would happen should the demon boy suddenly appear to be so much stronger than his peers, do you really think the council would have allowed that to happen, especially me outclassing the Uchiha too."

"Ugh fine, I get your motivation, but what about you Shino and Hinata?"

"Well, I only changed after this year, once Naruto-kun helped me. And even if it was otherwise, I would never leave my Naruto-kun."

"I found that the other years, didn't have any real interesting persons. But this year had tons of them, the only really interesting person would have been last year with the Hyuuga prodigy but that was only one. So I just stayed in this year, hoping that someone of this year would be holding back just like me."

Both the jounins nodded, getting the picture. "Okay, since you also know water walking, do you guys also know the third level?"

"Which one? I know one but I've heard another one from Hinata, and from what I can tell Shino also has another one. It's probably depended on who teaches you or ingenuity."

"For example Shino's third level is probably based for better bug control. Hinata's would be for better Juken if she had stayed in the family but now just like with me, she and me had to make our own for extra control. But we could always use pointers." Said Naruto, knowing that even in the end, his control was sketchy still. Now with the extra reserves it was quite shitty again and he was having problems with his level 3,.it just wasn't doing enough.

"Sure I guess, after all that's what we're here for. does anyone else have any other problems?"

Hinata also nodded, but Shino just shook his head." My father has already explained all my defects and I am now working on them."

Naruto not wanting Shino to be limited to just Bug jutsu called out:" Say Shino why not stick around, after all you might need other jutsu later on that aren't bug based, just imagine if you could for example combine bug and earth, that way you can protect your bugs against water and you might even use other jutsu to hide your bugs." Shino thinking trough Naruto's idea of using not only bugs but also other jutsu did intrigue him. And seeing as how powerful Naruto and Hinata already were any proposition they might have, probably did have some solid reasoning behind them. So Shino decided to stay and listen after all.

"Okay, first we'll explain our level 3s and then why don't you explain yours and your problems. Is that alright?" asked Kurenai and was greeted by 3 students and 1 special jounin looking quite eager to hear her way. After all Kurenai did have the very best control, you couldn't use genjutsu proficiently if you didn't have great control.

"Okay I'll take that as a yes, fine my way has two stages of level 3 and you really need to be able to complete this level fluently to even think about completing my fourth level. For my level 3 you will need 10 kunai." she said quickly taking out 10 kunai out of her kunai pouch.

"In the first stage you need to balance yourself on top of blunt end of the kunai." she said while quickly throwing the kunai lightly in the ground and doing handstand on the ends of them with her fingers spread.

"Once you can keep this up for a minute, you proceed to stage two. It's quite the same only difference is, you turn around the kunai and you don't hold them still." she said while quickly turning the kunai around and doing handstand on them, she then started opening and closing her fingers. "And if you want to make it even harder you can even add extra movements or les kunai." letting go of 3 kunai on each hand and only using her pinkie and thumb to stay standing, then she stared doing vertical push ups and even spreading her legs, last but not least she started spinning around, jumping off she turned towards the four who were now quite awed." And that's my level three and even part of level four which I even haven't completed yet, any questions?"

Getting headshakes, she then turned towards Anko, "Anko you're up."

"Okay now after that terrific event comes me,' said a downtrodden Anko," don't go expecting anything as flashy or quite as impressive from me. My level 3 was my own invention and later on my 'sensei'" spitting out sensei like it was a piece of shit, and grabbing the back of neck," refined it a little bit, you see for my level 3 you only need one thing and that a little sprout of grass." Anko said, picking up just one sprout of grass," The thing you do with this is, you are going to use your chakra and keep it straight all the time." doing just that first letting the sprout hang limply, then it suddenly went rigid hanging down, she then started turning it up and up." Now just like with Kurenai once you complete this part of the level, you can increase the difficulty, by waving it around," Anko said while doing just that," and the faster you wave the bigger the wind resistance and the harder it'll get. Another option is making it wet first and then making it rigid, putting it in a stream or adding a few extra sprouts. The limit with this level is your imagination and of course even after a little while, this will not refine your technique anymore and then you step up to level 4 which I'll show you when you guys are ready."

Anko then turned around, smirking at the shocked looks on the students face, bowing she then walked back to Kurenai and stood beside her.
"Okay now that Anko has shown us her third level, why don't you guys explain yours and till what level you guys have gotten already." said Kurenai, looking at Shino, so he could go first.

Shino nodded, and then he let a lot of his bugs.

"My dad thought me this level and its use is mainly for use of insects so I'll probably have to add something else. The purpose of this exercise is quite simple, you make all of your bugs form the numbers one till one hundred, this also has multiple stages. First is completed when you can go from one till one hundred under five minutes." said Shino, letting his bugs quickly circle trough all the numbers, "after you've done that you split your colonies up into two separate units, with an even mixture of both colonies in each unit, this way both colonies also learn to work together better. You then let both Units do different things, first is moving them around until you finally are also able to shape them both the same as the first time. The third stage is making both colonies go trough number differently or alternating them or things like that. Once you complete this stage you always up the number of units and make them do more complex movements." he said this while making his bugs split up and making them do the same thing, circling them all in a pattern of eight with the upper unit going clockwise and the lower unit going counter clockwise." as you can see at the moment I'm only able to get them to do basic motions separately." Kurenai and Anko just nodded and motioned for Hinata to explain her part.

"As you know in Juken, having great chakra control is very important but I also have an interest in healing, so I combined both the third level of control exercises. With Juken, the third level contains being able to regulate the chakra flow throughout your entire body, for this you only need leafs." she explained, picking up a leaf and putting it on her body." you then open and close your tenketsu's to move the leaf over your entire body, this in turn prepares your body to learn the Kaiten. Now the medics don't really use chakra control but more, use the learning of the technique Shōsen Jutsu, so I now use a freshly plucked leave, and while moving it around I try and keep it alive. The later stages include using multiple leaves," she said while plucking an extra and moving it around too," and even making the kind of leave differentiate, this way I have to use different kinds of levels to keep the leave 'alive'." said Hinata, plucking a leave from another tree," At the moment I'm stuck at three for about 5 minutes." ended Hinata letting the leaves fall to the ground. Again Anko and Kurenai just nodded and now motioned Naruto to come forward.

"Okay well to be honest I don't really know how I came up with this one, it just popped into my head once and for some reason at the same time I thought about how stupid it would be if it was used to hop around on your balls, but never mind." said Naruto seeing the looks of horror coming over Kurenai and Anko.

Meanwhile in another universe:

Ghost suddenly got a feeling that he should make the next training really, really difficult and hard for Naruto for some reason. Oh well don't really need a reason do I.

Back into this universe:

"Okay but that's not important now. SO what my level 3 tests is quite simple, I use my chakra to make hops, now I can make it more difficult by also changing the height of the hop, the landing, the angle and all other sorts of thing. And now that I've heard all kinds of stuff like this, I'm gonna add a little extra, the leaf levitation was already one of them but maybe now I can also land on kunai instead of just any part of my body" smiled Naruto already imagining just how fabulous his control would be once he completed just this level.

'Don't let it get to your head Naruto-kun, your still a long way from completing that task.' called Kyu.

'Yeah yeah I know, but still…'

Kyu just sighed in the link,' hopeless.'

"While I admire your enthusiasm Naruto, wouldn't it be better to take it a little slower, why not first complete that exercise with just adding the leaf levitation. or even without it and then adding other additions."

"Fine, you're probably right" said a now down Naruto.

"I never said you couldn't add them, just add them one piece at a time. After all you're not going to become Hokage if you're death now are you."

Naruto just sighed again." Fine."

'Okay then, so now let's make discuss which parts each of you is going to implement," said Kurenai," Shino I think you would be best first implementing the grass usage of Anko, but now mixing not only the bugs but also a few grass straws. So while you are trying to train your chakra control trough your bugs, you also have to keep all the grass straight. Just let your bugs put one in their mouths if possible. After that I would suggest also adding the chakra hops, I must say, I think each of us should be able to completely use that skill, it's quite handy for battle plus helps your balance." Shino just nodded, plucking a bunch of grass.

"You Hinata, also add the chakra hops once you've completed your level 3, yours was quite difficult as it was. Maybe get a few pointers from Hana next time if you have trouble."

Hinata nodded and plucked of three different leaves.

"Okay Naruto, like I said before you are indeed quite enthusiastic and you should if you want to become Hokage. So any questions at all please do ask, I suggest you first complete your chakra hops while doing leave levitation only. Then after that add using the grass and strengthening it, which won't be that hard if you're anything like your mother. Yes I knew your mother, she was a lot like you. After you've completed that and still want to extra refine your technique, add my kunai trick to your arsenal. For that matter if anyone is complete I want them to implement at least one facet of someone else's training. So you three won't be the only ones practicing, as loath as I am to admit it, my control might be great but my strength which mainly Anko and Naruto's method work on, need work. And Anko you need to be a little bit more delicate control, so let's get to it. If you need any help just ask. We'll be doing this for two hours so take breaks when you're tired."

Getting nods from everyone they all started their training again. Naruto with his chakra hops and also holding a few grass sprouts. Hinata just used her original training level. Shino was also applying the extra grass, but now within the mouths of his bugs instead of just his hands. Anko was doing next to the chakra hops, her own grass sprouts but also the extra leave levitation. Kurenai on the other hand was combining her kunai balancing with the chakra hops with seemed even harder than what all the others were doing.

After two hours of gruelling exercise with Anko, Hinata taking two breaks and Kurenai and Shino taking one break and Naruto, being the stamina freak that he was, of course didn't take even one break.

He had always wondered why he really never seemed to get tired, he had first thought that it was because of Kyu, but she had dissuaded him of that notion, she did enhance his already existing although very small regenerative ability but she never did give him any extra powers, except the extra reserves that he got from keeping the seal active when she really wanted to break out.

"Okay, now that that's over with. Normally that would be it and it would be evening now, but seeing as Naruto here just made the record for catching Tora and beat the old record with like 10 hours or something like that. Now until next week I can't really teach Genjutsu as it would give you an unfair advantage. And similarly Anko can't teach you anything about poisons, so is there anything else you would like us to teach you?"

Naruto looking back towards Hinata and then to Shino, seeing both shake their heads and him being the unofficial leader, responded:" Not really, but you could always help me and Hinata teach Shino the Kage Bunshin. With your expertises too he really will be able to use it at the least somewhat more effectively then if we just taught him, after all we haven't even fully completed stage 2 and then there's still stage 3 to complete. So if you, I mean, we could first teach him the basics then maybe you guys could help us progress to stage 3 and him to catch up as soon as possible."

"Okay we could help, but do tell us, what exactly is stage 3? I never even heard of it. All I know is that you can lower the smoke and that you only need one sign. What's this stage 3 you guys are talking about? And by the way where did you learn it anyhow?"

"Well you probably know about my little expedition the night of graduation." Getting nods from everyone including Shino did surprise him a little bit and even though he did manage to hide it pretty quickly, Shino did manage to catch it," I heard the shinobi of my clan talk about it." he thus explained. "Okay well, since you all know, I don't have to tell the entire story, so you all know I stole the forbidden scroll. Now did you truly think I would steal something and at least not look into it?"

Suddenly it dawned on everyone, so not question Naruto anymore, they just let Hinata and Naruto first explain the three stages and then Kurenai and Anko took over, giving pointers to both Shino for the first step and Kurenai giving extra advice to Hinata and Naruto however it seemed that even Anko and Kurenai never fully completed the Kage Bunshin, with Anko not even starting on the second stage. So it was Anko who worked with Shino to complete the first step and Kurenai who worked with Hinata and Naruto.

They so worked the entire noon and afternoon, except for the last few hours where Shino and Anko also joining Naruto and Hinata under the tutelage of Kurenai.

They finally stopped when Naruto's stomach gave an audible growl. Hearing this, they all decided that it was enough for today. And decided they would meet back tomorrow, with Naruto, Hinata and Shino deciding they would still go eat together.

And so the evening passed, after they had said goodbye to a still red Shino at the ramen shop, Hinata and Naruto went back to their secret training spot on top of the fourth's head, were then all three of them, Kyu finally being able to come out with no one else around, started training again. Kyu and Naruto working on their foxfire jutsu, rediscovering it and experimenting with it for Kyu and Naruto trying to learn a few new ones that Kyu taught him.

But also helping Kyu with trying to mimic the already know Katon jutsu.

Hinata in the meantime was relearning her water jutsu and practising her water control. In the previous timeline she had been able to use water whip and other simpler water jutsu without even having to form seals. Tonight Naruto was also doing the same with his wind and Kyu with her foxfire. They hoped that at the end of that part of their training they could all do the same for at least two elements.

The rest of the week were all the same, team 8 quickly completing their task together tanks to the help of their clones, and then Shino, Hinata and Naruto quickly made 10 copies each to complete the other D-missions. After which Kurenai and Anko started their training.

First the physical, eating usually with Hinata even feeding Naruto and vice versa. Then the chakra control exercises at which after the week was finally over, everyone had successfully implemented a second third level and with Kurenai even implementing a third one completely. After that they would all work on the Kage Bunshin. At the end of the week Shino had nearly completed his second stage. Anko, Kurenai, Hinata and Naruto were experimenting trying to figure out just how they could use level 3 however so far not even Kurenai was having any success. After that Shino, Hinata and Naruto would always go to ramen and the last two days Kurenai and Anko also joined them, it seemed that Anko was just absolutely bonkers about the Torture interrogator special ramen 1 and 2. Teuchi's newest additions both using dango. And Kurenai just tagged along since Anko was also going.

Afterward they all went their ways with Shino apparently learning more about bugs and using his, Kurenai and Anko trying to come up with lesson plans for next weeks. And Naruto and Hinata went to their own personal little training ground on top of the fourths head or to the Namikaze compound were they trained even more with Kyu.

But now the week was finally over and tomorrow would be the start of their first lesson-day.

Arriving at training ground 10 fifteen minutes before time, Shino, Naruto and Hinata were surprised to see Shikamaru of all people already there. Seeing the incredulous looks he got Shikamaru sighed and decided that those continued looks would be too troublesome," if I'm not on time she sets those dogs of hers on me and that's just too troublesome."

Knowing look crossed their faces, "then you better also not be late Thursday, or Anko will let you run the extra laps while she chases you and throws all kind of pointy things at you. Even Naruto is now always on time. So how are you Shikamaru?" said a smiling Hinata.

Shikamaru just answered," Fine, but Hana-sensei is …." however feeling the spike of killer intent he just sighed and added," Troublesome." And then went back to cloud watching.

Hana then came out of the shadows from which the killer intent spike came, and started light conversation with Hinata, Shino and Naruto while they waited for Chouji and Ino to arrive. Luckily they never had to wait long, as they arrived 5 to 10 minutes later, with still plenty of time to spare. Seeing that everyone was there, Hana immediately started.

"Okay, good that you guys are all here, I'll just quickly explain what we are going to here. From now till noon I'll be teaching you guys something about the basics of medicine, with human anatomy and later on I'll even begin teaching you guys healing jutsu." Seeing she had the rapt attention of all the students really did make her feel better," After lunch, Asuma will then come here too and he will teach you things about strategy and later on elemental manipulation. Okay so first up let's start; we'll be going splitting the classes with 1 hour theory and 3 hours practical. I have always more liked the hands on approach, but do interrupt me if you don't understand anything." Getting to work, Hana quickly learned that the stupidity of Naruto that the records show Naruto were a complete lie. However it was the vast knowledge that Hinata seemed to hold that surprised Hana and she wasn't the only one, Ino was openly staring at the two of them, Chouji wasn't really paying too much attention also finding the subject immensely interested and Shikamaru just filed the fact away for analysis later on. Shino already used to the intelligence displayed by his two teammates just followed the lessons with an interest but nothing like Chouji or Hinata showed. Stopping and breaking after the first hour to relocate to the morgue, Hana went on with her lesson on human anatomy and even animal anatomy while showing it to the class on the corpses on display, or on charts.

After the morning was over, team 8 and 10 decided they might just as well eat together, filling the hour repose with going over the lesson again( Hinata and Chouji mostly with Ino and Naruto also adding something when give the opportunity) or just quite( Shino and Shikamaru).

As the hour was nearly up they paid the grill house and left towards training ground 10 once again. And then there was Asuma who first explained the basic of strategy, the importance of it and then ran them all trough some simulations. At the end of the afternoon, Shikamaru had another thing to add to his list, Shino just chalked it up to his teammates being strong and Ino and Chouji were just stunned. Hana had only followed the last hour of the afternoon but she was also just as stunned. Hinata and Naruto had totally owned each simulation that Asuma had produced for them, however Asuma had thought about it but seeing as these were still just basic simulations, he just decided to alert his old man too it.

"Okay, that's it then for today, team 10 I'll see you tomorrow again and team 8 I believe that we'll be joining you this Thursday. Till then." said Asuma before quickly hurrying of, to talk with his old man.

Hana also waved them of before shunshiing away. Shino, Naruto and Hinata did the same basic shunshin, leaving a still stunned team 10 behind. However it was Shikamaru who snapped out of it first, he sighed "troublesome", this snapped Ino and Chouji also out of their thoughts and could just see Shikamaru walking of. Ino and Chouji followed and tried to wheedle Shikamaru about just what he thought about team 8.

The next day just proceeded like all the others with still no breakthroughs about using stage 3 of the Kage Bunshin.

And then it was Thursday the day when team 10 and 8 would be taught by Anko and Kurenai. Just like with Hana and Asuma, they just went over the basics. Anko first discussing the use of poisons and the precautions they should take to be sure they wouldn't cut themselves or poison themselves by accident. And Kurenai the basic use of how to break someone else out of a genjutsu.

It wasn't really surprising to find that Ino and Shino were the ones too shine in Anko's lesson and Shikamaru and Hinata who shined with Kurenai. Ino with her already vast knowledge of flowers and Shino with the knowledge of his bugs. However Shino could see himself use poison and his bugs successfully together and Ino at the same time already saw the practical use it could give her. Both for immobilising and weakening the minds of her opponents.

Hinata had an immense advantage thanks to her Juken training which in point was just pushing chakra out and Shikamaru who could also push his chakra out, which he had to do to control the shadows.

It seemed that the top points would not be given to Naruto. As none of his teachers were going to teach ninjutsu or seals, he was still quite good at strategy but that was only pretty basic stuff that he had learned in the war.

The last 'real training' day would fall on Saturday. On this day, Anko and Kurenai would first lecture all three of them about a new formation, then discuss with them the advantages and disadvantages and then in the afternoon they would drill it in them. This way they would not only be able to use it effectively but also thanks to the lecture and discussion they would know when to use them. It was at this pace that the next month passed, on the off days, Naruto and Hinata usually spent just in the compound with Kyu or at another desolate place, they even went to Shino's house once and they had also invited Shino to their apartment that they didn't really use but Shino respectfully declined.

And so the weeks went on, with the lessons gradually getting harder and the entire team 8 getting stronger.

Author's note:

Okay, now that all the ground work is laid I can finally start the more fun parts

Missions here we come!

Just to let you know, I have not invented or come up with the idea of Chakra hops, the entire part of naruto's level 3 refers to Third Fangs works which by the way is an absolutely incredible read.

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I know I'll probably have got spelling and grammatical errors in this chapter as well, but seeing as still no one has applied to be my beta, you're stuck with it.

If anyone wants to be Beta just let me know, I'm still looking!

On another note: Review! Please I like to know what I'm doing right or wrong, or if there are any questions

Jutsu list: Shosen no jutsu: hidden palm technique