AN: I'm back, and I'm sorry it's a late upload, I was supposed to upload it Saturday but because of a storm I haven't had any power until today, so nothing much I could do. I will try to upload the next chapter sooner because of this.

The lack of electricity was a bit of a problem since it happened while I was writing, around 3 or 4 times before it disappeared for good, making the chapter rather choppy, but it's mostly a filler anyway to let me get into canon. Anyway, let's get on with this!

I do not own Naruto

Resolutions and training

Naruto was comfortable, very comfortable. So comfortable in fact that he felt like never waking up. He had his arms wrapped around a huge pillow that radiated warmth, and for some reason this warmth made him feel happy as well, something he didn't feel all that often.

'Wait! Since when did I have a pillow this big anyway?' He suddenly thought and opened his eyes. When he had blinked the sleep out of his eyes he tried to figure out what he was hugging. When he was able to focus his eyes and studied what he was currently hugging he first saw dark cloth, when he raised his gaze higher he saw a well-trained but not muscular arm followed by a head with gray hair. Here it took a while for his brain to figure out what was happening, because waking up next to someone, that was definitely a first for him. When his brain caught up with what was happening he realized it was Akira, but why she was in his bed? No idea. Although he liked the warmth he decided that moving away would be the best action since he didn't know how she would react to him being there, but when he started moving differently than when he was sleeping one dark green eye immediately snapped open and caught his. He stopped moving and just froze. Akira looked at him for a while before she started sitting up.

"Morning brat. Did you sleep well?" She said as she swung her legs off the bed and stood up and stretched her arms and neck and gave a grunt of satisfaction when her joints seemed to snap into place. This snapped Naruto out his stupor and he sat up.

"Uhh, good morning, and I slept fine. Why were you in my bed?" He asked while scrunching up his face and tilting his head in a confused manner.

"You started having a nightmare when I put you to bed, I figured you wouldn't want to be alone after what we told you last night so I stayed." She said as she walked towards the door. "I'm going to change and start with breakfast."

Naruto flinched a bit when he was reminded of the kyūbi and the dream, but he also remembered the end with the people that treated him like a person.

'So the presence was Akira huh.' He thought. "Hey Akira." He waited until she turned her head a bit before continuing. "Thanks... For staying I mean. It felt nice." He said embarrassed, as he really didn't know what to say about this situation. Akira just nodded at him before continuing to walk towards the door.

"You're welcome." She said before going out the door.

Naruto looked at the door for a while before getting out of bed and changing clothes, as he was still dressed the same as the day before. He went to the bathroom and got a shower while going over everything he had learned and that had happened just yesterday.

'Funny how much can change in a day. Yesterday I had no idea why I was hated, and now I know it's because I have a huge ass fox in my stomach…" He thought sadly, no one likes to know they have a monster inside of them. But he had also realized that the people that didn't care was even more precious to him than before, since he now knew just how rare they would be… That was a depressing thought, that people who cared for him would be incredible rare for something he had never done or wanted in the first place. That thought made him quite angry, and then he thought about what the old man said about people being stupid. 'Well if they don't want to look past the fox, screw them. I know what's going on now and I don't care what you idiots think, I got people that see the truth and they are enough for me.' He thought with a nod. He wouldn't strive for attention from people who he didn't really need anyway, he would find the ones that could see through all the rumors and stick with them, like Teuchi, Ayame-nee-san, Iruka, Sandaime-jiji and Akira. He would get strong and protect Konoha, so the ones that could see him for him would be safe, that the others would be safe as well would be more like a side effect until they could start thinking on their own.

With Akira in the Kitchen

"I'LL DO THIS, DATTEBAYO!" Akira jumped at the loud declaration coming from the bathroom and she turned to stare in that direction for a while, she then shook her head and went back to making breakfast, sometimes not knowing is the better option. After about 10 minutes Naruto came in and sat at the table as she put the food on the table. They ate in silence and afterwards Naruto started doing the dishes. Akira sat at the table and looked at him.

"I trust you remember everything about last night?" She asked after a while. When she got a nod she continued. "And you're fine? There's nothing you want to know?" Naruto stopped scrubbing the dishes and made what Akira had dubbed his 'thinking face', it was kinda cute.

"You and the old man were talking about being a ninja-something, something about you training me?" He said with a hint of excitement in his voice as he turned to face her. Akira nodded at that.

"Yep, although you probably won't be this happy about that once we get started." She said with a slightly evil smile and a glint in her eye that scared him a bit. "My training will be so tough you will call it torture, so I hope you're ready for this." Naruto started grinning and straightened up and hit his chest.

"Hah! Bring it! I can take anything you throw at me and get up for more, dattebayo!" He boasted, he almost took it back right then and there when Akira's smile grew into a grin.

"Yes, this will be fun indeed." She whispered in a way that promised pain. "Well, enough of that. I need time to fix some things but I should be able to start later today. And you should probably start moving towards the academy unless you want to be late." She continued in a more normal tone. Naruto glances at the clock and quickly finishes the dishes before rushing towards the door. He puts his sandals on before opening the door and yelling.

"I'm off!"

"Yeah yeah, see you later brat." She answers offhandedly and Naruto runs out of the door. After he was gone she started thinking about what she would need to teach him, because if she was going to teach, she was going to make him the best damn ninja of his generation.

'Let's see… Well, for starters, I guess some mental tortu- training is in order.' She thought with a grin as she started getting things ready. Oh this would be a fun 4 years indeed.

Akira's house after the academy, training field

Naruto stood before Akira, who was holding some kind of contraption made out of ninja wire and straps with seals on.

"Right, before we even start I'm going to warn you. What I say goes, if I tell you to do anything, you will do it." Akira started with a serious voice and starting him dead in the eyes. "I don't care if you think it's stupid, feel free to complain, but complain while doing it because you WILL do it. If you don't do it, I won't teach you. Ever." She continued with finality. Naruto gulped and started nodding furiously, he was NOT going to mess this up. She gave him a nod before continuing. "I will not spoon feed you everything, I will give you what you need to do the task I give you, but I will be here if you need advice, but you need to learn to analyze the task given to find the purpose. Now, strip."

'crickets sounds in the background.'

"Umm. Come again?" He said in a very confused voice.

"Strip, down to your underwear." She said with a mischievous smile. "This is one of the things where you will do as I say by the way." Naruto removes his clothes with a very confused, and embarrassed, face and is soon standing in just his ramen bowl boxers. She looks him over, actually quite surprised that his diet hasn't done more damage to his body, must be the fox. After that she takes the wire and strap contraption and starts to attach it to his body. While she does that Naruto is standing rigid and very uncomfortable at this point, as she is fastening and tugging at the various straps and wires, seemingly without caring what position he's in. After a good 15 minutes the contraption is attached properly and Akira backs up telling him to put his clothes back on.

"What was that for, dattebayo?" Naruto asks with a red face. "It was embarrassing as hell!" She just smirks at him.

"Ah, that will be answered now. It's time for your first lesson." She says with a mirthful voice. At this Naruto perks up and opens his mouth to start asking questions about what 'cool things' he was going to learn, but Akira stops him before he can start and walks behind him. She lowers his jacket so a seal near his neck is visible and puts a finger on it.

"Today's lesson," She channel some chakra into the seal. "Is to stand up." Naruto's body retracts into a fetal position and collapses on the ground and he lets out a loud gasp.

"What?! What did you do me, dattebayo! What's going on?!" He yells panicked. Akira steps back and walk out onto the pond nearby and puts her hand together.

"Don't worry. That contraption under your clothes puts weight on certain muscles and will stop you from moving if you try to use certain wrong muscles. My fighting style is quite complicated and unpredictable, but it is also very surgical, and if you build your muscles wrong, it won't work nearly as well." She says as she begins working on her water manipulation. "The purpose of this is to make it subconscious to use the correct muscles, since even if you use all the right muscles together with even 1 wrong muscle, you can't move." She explains. "So like I said, todays lesson, is to learn how to stand up from the ground. Good luck!" She says with a happy voice, even though she had come up with this exercise herself, she had hated every moment of it since it was so humiliating. Naruto had started to get his panic attack under control and begun trying to move, with no success.

'Come on! I'll finish this stupid exercise so fast she won't even know what happened, dattebayo!' He thought, wanting to get out of this embarrassing situation. However no matter how much he tried he couldn't budge. 'This is going to be a long day…'

Several hours later

After hours of Akira making jokes and comments about his struggles, no dinner with Akira eating while sitting on the pond and very little change to his situation, Naruto had just one thought about Akira. She's a fucking sadist. And the only thing that could be said about this evening was – Hell. He could now move his arms and legs for a limited amount, however his muscles would freeze when he tried to stand up and he would collapse.

'At least she told me to stop trying to force it and try to find which muscles I'm allowed to move first…' He thought bitterly, before she had said that he hadn't had any progress at all. He took a deep breath and tried to 'feel' his muscles move as Akira had described it, and when he concentrated enough he really could feel the slight shifts in his muscles when he tried to move. He slowly moved his body, careful not to shift to fast or in any way that he could feel resisting his movement. 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5, 15, 20 minutes, 20 minutes and he had yet to manage to stand all the way up, even though he had yet to fall down. His muscles screamed under the pressure as the contraption weighted him down as well as force him to move in a way he wasn't used to, but he was slowly straightening up. Another 5 minutes and he was standing straight while panting as if he had drowning. When his breathing calmed down he became aware of a slow clapping coming closer, and as he turned his head he could see Akira walking towards him with a proud smile. Proud, not even the old man had shown that he was proud of him for something he had done, his strength of character yes, but not his actions, only kindness and sympathy. His back straightened a bit more now when someone was proud over one of his achievements.

"Very good. I had actually thought we would have to do this more before you managed to stand up." She said with the smile still there. "You did great brat." With that she channeled more chakra into the seal on his neck to deactivate the contraption. "So, how do you feel?" She said and a bit of mirth tinted her voice. Naruto may have been happy she was proud of him but that didn't stop him from glaring at her.

"Like hell. My whole body hurts, dattebayo!" He yelled. It didn't help that she started laughing when he said that.

"Sorry, but you will see how much it helps later on. I used the same thing when I started but since I'm used to move like that by now I don't even notice it, I just use it every now and then to make sure I haven't relearned any bad habits though." She said waving her hands defensively. "Now, I sent a clone to get you some ramen from Ichiraku's since I figured you deserved a treat." When she said that any negative emotions the boy had disappeared and he wanted to cheer, if his body didn't hurt so much. They made their way to the kitchen and waited, which didn't take very long. 15 bowls later Naruto looked like he was in heaven while he patted his belly.

"That was delicious. I can almost forgive you for the humiliation earlier" He said with a small glare in Akira's direction, to which she just grinned.

"Aww, don't be such a cry baby. And here I was going to help you get rid of the muscle pains." She said still grinning. Naruto glared a bit more before shrugging and moving on. It turns out that the way Akira would help with his muscles was by having a clone giving him a massage before sending him into the hot springs, and while it didn't get rid of all the pain it made it bearable. However any good will she had scored was instantly crushed when she activated the contraption again when he was in bed. Apparently it would help with his subconscious learning and actions, he just thought she wanted to torture him.

This training/torture kept going in the same pace for about a month, and he was slowly getting used to moving the way he was supposed to and was now required to have the contraption activated at all times around the house. Naruto had gotten comfortable around the house and had even taking to calling Akira 'Akira-nee-chan' which had been quite awkward the first time it slipped out, but both had adopted to the new name rather quickly. They had started some light exercise and weapon throwing, and Naruto had realized that Mizuki was interfering with his progress. Everything he had taught him was wrong, but not by that much, just enough to make it nearly impossible for him to do things right when it came to throwing weapons.

Flashback

Iruka had come over with Naruto after eating ramen at Ichiraku's and was now watching Akira train him. He had heard about the weird contraption Akira had him use and was interested to see her methods in other things. When Naruto started throwing his shuriken he noticed that there was something odd about his form, but couldn't figure out what it was caused by. Akira however, figured she could hazard a guess.

"Hey Naruto, why are you using that form for throwing?" She asked, even though she had a hunch as to why, and sure enough. Naruto stopped and turned to look at them a bit confused.

"Huh? Because Mizuki taught me to throw like that." He said, clueless to what he had done wrong for it to be brought up. Akira and Iruka just looked at each other, Iruka having a look of disbelief, sadness and shame in his eyes. His friend was sabotaging a student and he hadn't even noticed. Akira sighed.

"Sorry to say this Naruto, but you should probably ignore what Mizuki teach you from here on out, because that form will make sure you never get any better at throwing weapons when you reach a certain level." She said while locking eyes with him. Disbelief, followed by sadness and finally anger flashed across his face. He gave a bitter chuckle.

"And when we start doing taijutsu he's going to do the same thing, isn't he? All to make things hard for the 'fox brat', great…" He said causing Iruka's eyes to widen and whip towards Akira, who just nods to show he knows about the kyūbi.

"Well you won't use the academy taijutsu style so no harm done there at least, and I can teach you weapons just fine." She said trying to make him think about the positive events instead of the negative ones.

"Yeah, but what's the point of going to the academy when they won't teach me anything." Naruto said bitterly, making Iruka flinch. He didn't like what the others were doing to the boy, even worse, a year ago he would probably have been the same. Shaking his head to get rid of those thoughts, what's done is done, at least he realized the truth before he did something unforgivable.

"I'm in charge of theory and chakra, and I can assure you that I will do my very best to teach you." He said to Naruto getting him a grateful smile return. Naruto seemed to be in thought for a while before he suddenly blinked and started grinning. Both Akira and Iruka looked confused to what he was grinning about.

"Hey, Akira-nee-chan, Iruka-sensei." He said getting their attention. He kept the mischievous grin on his face while continuing. "Didn't you two point out that a ninjas strongest tool is deception?" Both were a bit confused to this question, although Akira started to get the idea, but nodded anyway.

"Yes, the less that is known about your skills in a fight the better, because then you can surprise your opponent." Iruka said causing Naruto's grin to widen.

"And you know the saying 'to fool your enemies you must first fool your allies'?" He said, causing Iruka's eyes to widen in realization and Akira to grin and let out a short laugh.

End Flashback

After that Naruto played the fool while he was in the village, concealing his skills from everyone but the ones he trusted, and he was getting really good at using Akira's teachings to find out if people were trustworthy. Iruka had wanted to report Mizuki to the Hokage instead, but Naruto pointed out that the new teacher could be even worse and the other students would suffer because they would have to familiarize themselves with them all over again, making him reluctantly agree to the plan.

February at a secret location

The Sandaime Hokage was sitting down in a small room, facing an ANBU in a weasel mask, wearing a serious and tired expression.

"And you are certain we don't have any more time?" He asked tiredly, more because he wanted a miracle to occur and grant him an out. The ANBU shook his head.

"No. I'm sorry Hokage-sama. Shisui had planned to attempt to use a special genjutsu called Kotoamatsukami which might have been able to end things peacefully, but he got… intercepted… by ninjas reminiscent of ROOT." The ANBU said in a stoic voice, only faltering when mentioning Shisui's troubles.

'Danzō… You old fool. Your actions have caused this situation… If Shisui had succeeded…' Hiruzen thought as his hands gripped the armrests of his chair. 'I'm going to find enough evidence to have you executed for this, mark my words! Your actions cannot be tolerated any longer!'

"I see… Then Weasel, remove your mask." He said in a resigned voice. The ANBU nodded and removed his mask, revealing the face of Uchiha Itachi. The old man sighed and seemed to slump in his seat, he had given orders he knew would get his people killed, but never before had he given an order for someone to kill their own clansmen and kin. He gave a heavy sigh.

"Are you absolutely certain this is the only way left, Itachi-kun?" He almost pleaded, even if he knew it was the truth.

"Yes, Hokage-sama. The Uchiha Rebellion is almost ready. Their actions will bring a civil war that could trigger the Fourth Shinobi World War. I cannot let this happen." Itachi said with a stoic voice.

'If only I had noticed what was happening sooner, I could have done something!' Hiruzen thought. "And you're certain you can perform the deed? This is not your standard mission even by ANBU standards, neither physically nor mentally." He asked after a while, almost hoping he would say no.

"I will do what must be done to prevent my clan from starting a war for foolish reasons." Itachi said stoically.

"… And Sasuke-kun? Would you be able to kill Sasuke?" Hiruzen asked after a pause, this question got a response. Pain, Sadness and although it was well hidden, hesitation. Itachi didn't answer verbally and just nodded. Hiruzen studied the young man, way too young to have to do this. Then he nodded, as if he had made a decision.

"Very well. Uchiha Itachi. As your Hokage I order you to kill anyone inside the Uchiha Compound for treason. I want the deed carried out tonight!" There was no need to stall, the plan had been there just in case for quite a while.

"It will be done, Hokage-sama." Came the stoic reply and Itachi disappeared in a puff of smoke. When he was alone Hiruzen seemed to slump even more and gave another heavy sigh. Why had things come to this? He had no answer, and he didn't think he would ever find a satisfactory one. Steeling his features with resolve he stood from his seat, he only had one thing left to do.

A couple hours after the meeting as the sun was starting to set, Uchiha Sasuke was making his way home from training to catch up to his older brother. However a figure was watching from the rooftops as the boy was running towards the Uchiha district. A quick set of hand seals and the young boy suddenly changed direction running into a nearby park. Another set of hand seals later and the boy was fast asleep under a large tree.

'This is the least I can do for you, Itachi-kun.' Thought Sarutobi Hiruzen as he studied the sleeping boy, who would not be found until morning. And just before midnight, a grateful Itachi would leave the village, tears of both anguish and gratitude streaming down his cheeks. He had not been forced to kill his brother, he was not certain he would have even been able to bring himself into performing the deed anyway, and he was certain whom he had to thank for this tiny piece of light in this nightmare.

'Thank you, Hokage-sama' He thought, as he left the village he had loved enough to destroy his own clan to save.

After the massacre

Konoha was in an uproar, one of its most prestigious clans, the Uchiha, had been wiped out in one night, by one of their own. Young Sasuke had been found in the morning sleeping in the park, this had been a blessing with all the chaos going on, that fate would save at least one of the precious clan. Sasuke had first refused to believe that his brother could do such a thing, but had slowly come to the realization that this was real, it wasn't just some bad dream, and if he hadn't fallen asleep in the park… He'd be dead too. He hadn't taken the news well as one could expect.

Events following the massacre

Once things had calmed down life in Konoha went on as normal. Naruto was training with Akira trying to learn how to move freely even with the device messing with his muscle, and he had reached a level where he was now wearing it all the time and it barely interfered with him. Akira had begun to teach him in both chakra control now that he had learned the academy basic jutsus, except the Bunshin no Jutsu, that was proving to be impossible for him to get right. Akira said this had to do with the amount of chakra, according to her, she had enough chakra to put a Hokage to shame and had barely been able to create a proper clone, and he had enough chakra to put Her to shame, and had promised to teach him a solid clone to use instead when she thought he was ready. She also taught him several complex movements that were even harder to perform without his muscles locking down. Naruto had his first birthday at Akira's house, and he loved every moment of it. His birthday had rarely been something to look forward too, since the kyūbi festival seemed to have the unintended effect of people getting drunk and trying to hurt the boy, physically or mentally, and while the Hokage always made sure to have extra guards around on this day there was always a little bit of problem. However, Akira's house is almost impossible to sneak into, so there was no interference from the villagers. Everyone had showed up, even the old man and the ANBU that protected him over the year, with the exception of Weasel. Naruto had been happy as everyone had expected, and for the first time he had seen forward to his next one. And when Akira taught him something awesome the next day things just got better.

Flashback

Naruto and Akira were standing on the training field, and she had told she had something awesome to show him. Naruto was almost bouncing, because other than chakra control, accuracy and physical training he hadn't actually learned anything else, specifically anything cool, not even taijutsu.

"Hey Akira-nee-chan! What are you going to show me?! Is it some cool taijutsu move? To breathe fire or water or anything like that?! Tell me, dattebayo!" He almost screamed in excitement. Akira just stood there waiting for him to calm down first before saying anything.

"You should know by now that I never teach you anything before you calm down, brat." She said, although with a hint of amusement in her eyes. Once he stopped bouncing in place she gave a short nod before she started talking. "This has to do with my taijutsu style. As you might have noticed it is very complex and contains pretty much everything you can do, kicks, punches, grabs, throws and everything in between and beyond. My style actually contains so many different styles that it should be impossible to do, and it really is impossible to learn without training pretty much 20 years straight." At this she stopped and waited for the explosions from Naruto… However… Much to her surprise it never came. Naruto just stood there staring, waiting for her to continue.

"Umm… Didn't you hear the whole impossible to learn part?" She asks, a bit disappointed with the lack of a reaction. She had looked forward to him blowing up. Naruto started grinning his foxy smile.

"And we both know you wouldn't waste time training me if what you're teaching can't be done. You would much rather train or something than babysit someone. And you mastered it, so there must be some trick to it." He said causing Akira to glare at him, he ruined her fun damn it!

"Damn brat. Well you're correct. I'm going to show you the trick on how to master this. Usually you wouldn't have the chakra to do something like this for years, but I guess the fox is more than just your pet medic-nin, it gives you tons of chakra as well. I had to get permission from the Hokage to do this, so if you overdo it I'm going to be in tons of trouble." She said and her expression turned from a glare to a look of pure seriousness. That meant whatever she was going to say was very important. "I'm going to teach you a jutsu called Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, this will solve both your problem with the normal clone as well since this one takes a lot more chakra. However the awesome part of this jutsu is that the copies are solid, and they transfer memories when they dispel."

End Flashback

Naruto had loved the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and had learned it in only 5 hours. And even though Akira knew he had more chakra than her, the amount of clones he could make without feeling tired was… Amazing, to say the least. He could make as many clones as she could, and she was over 10 years older than him! And she had more chakra than a Kage! When he was 20 he would be a one man army without a doubt. With his clones he started mastering her taijutsu while his physical workout was upped even more, the use of clones would give him the knowledge but not the actual muscle, giving him the effect of being rusty at fighting. For the next 2 years they would learn this and every 6 months they would spend a month trying to get his body used to fighting at the level it was at.

Akira had let slip that for her way of fighting to work completely he would need a seal that makes your brain work at a higher level, but it was risky and would need a medic-nin of Tsunade Senju's level to even be attempted. Naruto had said he wanted the seal without even hesitating and managed to convince Akira to try it.

Flashback

"Please! I really want to be able to fight like you do, dattebayo! Please Akira-nee-chan! I'll do anything!" Naruto begged while following Akira around. He had done this ever since Akira had let it slip that the reason her style of fighting was a bit different from his was a seal that let her react quicker, which allowed her to be far more aggressive. Akira sighed for what seemed to be the 50:th time.

"Look, I should never have mentioned the seal. There's a reason I haven't given it to you, it's dangerous! Hell, even Orochimaru stopped trying to use it because too many people died, and that says A LOT." She burst out. "Not even the Yondaime could make it safe to use, there's just too much of a strain on the brain that causes brain death. The only reason I'm not dead is luck and the fact that Tsunade-sama was in the village to heal me, and I was still comatose for a month." She explained hoping to calm him down. It didn't work.

"You said it yourself, the damn fox is probably one of the best medic-nins in the world for me, it can do things no doctor or medic-nin could dream of. Shouldn't that make it easier?" Naruto continued without even considering the risks. But he did raise a valid point, Akira thought. The fox could help with the procedure, but the seal would have to be remodeled to take it's chakra into consideration.

"Okay, here's the deal. I'm going to try it." She said making Naruto open his mouth excitedly before she stopped his outburst with a hand. "I will try to change the seal to work with the fox, however, if this doesn't work, you will drop it, and never mention the seal again. Understood?" She said sternly. Naruto nodded his head so fast he should have gotten whiplash. He had no doubt that his Nee-chan could make this work.

End Flashback

Akira had started working on using a jinchūriki's mindscape to lessen the mental strain while the brain adjusted and was actually making progress.

Naruto's taijutsu was increasing by leaps and bounds, and because of the amount of clones he could make his chakra control was also increasing. Because of this Akira had started him on elemental manipulation, he was to master the first 2 steps in Wind manipulation, cutting a leaf and then a boulder with pure chakra, as well as the first step to the other elements. When he had done that he would be taught some ninjutsu, and needless to say, he was incredibly excited.

The next 3 years progressed in the same way, and on his last birthday before graduation he had received the seal Akira used and knew several low level ninjutsus and had even come up with a new Kage Bunshin no jutu variant after observing Yamashiro Aoba use the Sanzengarasu no Jutsu, the new variant was created by studying the anatomy of a raven and have the clone appear in the shape of the bird able to fly, allowing it to be used for spying since unlike Aoba's jutsu it was still basically a Kage Bunshin and returned it's memories to the user once dispelled. Akira had been very, very impressed when he came up with the idea and had helped him making it possible.

It had been 4 very eventful years, 4 years no one had foreseen when Akira picked Naruto up that day, and now it was time to see the results, tomorrow Naruto was graduating.

AN: I hope it was okay, like I said it was a bit choppy, and it's also quite rushed, since I wanted to start writing in canon. I think it will be a bit easier than just pretty much writing out of my head.

As you can see I spared Sasuke from the mental torture, this should make it a bit easier to 'save him' later on if I decide to keep him in Konoha. If we compare him to a puzzle, his mind is now broken in 1000 pieces, while with the torture it is more like a 100 000 pieces. Still haven't decided if I actually want to keep him around though.

I also gave the romance some thought, and I got 4 possible pairings that I'm considering right now if I go for it. The choices are -

Tenten: She is quite capable, even though she's useless against a wind user, and there's enough leeway for me to work with her. And I kinda like her overall.

Guren: Since she's from an OVA I can just retcon her, that means no Yukimaro, she will be younger and she will be found by Konoha instead. She does remind me of Anko a bit, maybe Anko picked her up and got a little sister? :P

Fū: She's easy to add and I don't know why, but I always liked her from when she was introduced.

Tayuya: Do I really have to say it? Tayuya is foul mouthed and prone to violence, what's not to like?! :P

I'd like some feedback on these choices if possible, although the decision will still lay with me. On another note I tried to pair Akira with somebody, and I realized something, There Is No Normal Male in Konoha for that age group. There's maybe Iruka, but he's a bit to stiff, so I don't really feel like writing him. So unless everyone got a problem with it, I'm going to pair her with Anko, any reason to write more Anko is a good reason :P

Well that's it. Next chapter will be graduation and the start of Canon events. This should make things a bit easier for me to write and hopefully, more interesting to read. Until next time!