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The shadow clone jutsu was an extremely useful and potentially lethal technique depending on it's use or on what the intended goal of the user was. In the hands of a medic 1 truly skilled medic could save hundreds of lives. In the hands of a researcher, projects would be finished faster, report written and filed. In the hands of administrators, judges, and people in business 1 person could clear mountains of paperwork, or do dozens of negotiations. But the most lethal aspect was when it was used in combat. In Naruto's case it was something that struck fear at the mere mention of it. In the years that led to this moment, Naruto had used the shadow clone jutsu to master himself. He mastered his family's doujutsu. He mastered 5 elements, and he even then would always admit that he had much to learn, and was always what some would say humble.

But as time was drawing ever closer, and as his beloved wife saw him. The day for him to take up the mantle of teacher was getting closer. Many of the noble clans were in fact wishing that their future clan heirs to be his students. He tried his best to scare them of that idea, He mentioned once in council when he was asked about how his teaching method was coming along. He merely gave a feral grin and answered, "I have patience, strength and intelligence enough for it, but mercy is one thing my students will not receive." Some of the Clan heads could only shake their heads, one even mentioned, "What did you expect for an Uchiha? This is so very troublesome."

Mikoto had a healthy baby boy, who she named Sasuke. Little Itachi was a small boy, but that did not stop him from trying to take care of his baby brother. Kushina had a small blond baby girl who she named Naruko. Unlike Itachi Menma would not volunteer to take care of his baby sister. In fact the eldest child of Minato was more interested in training to able to beat his ever ready rival, Itachi was always stealing his spotlight, and he was not happy about it. He was sure that one day, Itachi would finally see that he was better, stronger, smarter. He was after all the son of the Hokage.

Kushina and Naruto got along just fine in contrast. She was a good friend, and he was a good sparring partner for her. She even managed to have some conversations with the nine tails fox. The use of the shadow clone and summoning jutsu had allowed a small clone of the fox to be able to appear in the outside world, for a limited amount of time. To say that Kurama was one happy fox was an understatement. For someone who had been locked inside for so long, you could practically see tears of joy on her face when the experiment turned out to be a success. Mikoto was even present as she was always when her husband was about to do some of his recreational research. Orochimaru found it rather amusing that Naruto kept experimenting on one jutsu and applying it to other fields. But the true lethal aspect came about when he summoned 5 shadow clones and each began to do collaboration jutsu. Fire and Wind, Water and Lighting, And finally Earth and Lightning. As they each began to do the jutsu and each slammed into the each of the collaborated attacks something weird began to happen. Each one of there attacks began to feed the others and it seemed as if the elemental attacks were feeding of each other. It was when he did the most reckless thing he ever considered he had 5 shadow clones use 1 elemental jutsu and aimed them at the same spot. The light jutsu merged together and for a second there was a small black hole formed where all the jutsu collided. The clones and himself had a tough time holding onto the floor using chakra, but he was just fine. The furniture was a different story. Where there had been a fully furnished room was not completely bare. Not even the rug on the floor survived. "Good thing we only used a C rank jutsu." One of the clones had mentioned. Naruto and the rest of the clones could only imagine what would happen if they had used an S rank one instead.

Minato was living a perfectly healthy and happy life. Well as healthy as someone is his position could workload, meeting and paperwork had begun to be tough but it was enough just to make him a little tired in the end of the day. This made the possibility of having a bigger family almost none existent. Let's face it, how were he and Kushina going to have any stamina, time or even mind when he was Hokage and she was a teacher in the academy. Not to mention a baby girl and a constant troublemaker by the name of Menma. The job of being hokage may have left him a bit tired, add the work as a clan head, and being a father. Minato was crawling into his bed right after dinner. To those that said that the hokage was exaggerating, he only had one thing to say, "When you have your kids and a demanding job like I do. You will see, how tired can a person feel. Sleep will be a pleasure."

Madara too knew the shadow clone jutsu and sadly enough so did the other members of the Akatsuki before long. Hidan was of course the weirdest member of the group. Insisting that if he could not sacrifice more people, he at least practiced the rituals with the clones. Even Tsunade found that to be insane, after all who wants to remember the memory of being put through that horrible ritual? But the real purpose was that Madara wanted the extraction process perfected now, not tomorrow, not in the next month. And he did perfect it, he had to give the group a full month of rest afterwards but it was perfected. The once proud Jinjuriki of Sanbi had fled his failed attempt to take over Kirigakure. He was also quite easy to capture by Madara and several of his subordinates. The extraction process was perfected true, but it still needed to be tested. Yagura was the first and last test subject of the extraction process. The process did work, and left the host quite alive. Temporarily weaken, but very much alive. The only negative consequence was that during the process the person experiences an ungodly amount of pain. The screams from Yagura almost made it through the silence techniques that the group used. Tsunade was quite happy to explain, "Imagine childbirth, Imagine taking your bottom lip pulling it and stretching it to till it stretches to the back of your own head, Now that is normal childbirth. For the extraction imagine that times 100."

A person must have an extremely tough mind, and have an incredible tolerance to pain. If not the mind could either shatter leaving a raving lunatic, or simply be destroyed leaving a lump of flesh. Naruto was quite talented and intelligent, but Madara wondered about his tolerance to pain. Then of course he had spies steal the records of the much feared Oni Anbu. He was surprised, pleasantly surprised to see that Oni and Naruto had been one and the same. The extraction process would do little that give Naruto a small headache.

Itachi graduated as top of his class, and Menma as second place, a much hyper Yori Inuzuka was named dead last in that class. Well it was no real surprise there. She was always more interested in either Itachi or Menma that she was in studying in class. Some of her clan wondered why she was so troubled by the selection of her potential mate. Itachi was strong and wise, Menma was focused and relentless. The clan wanted her to pick one and be done with it. She needed to work on her clan techniques if she was to survive after all.

Naruto was quite upset, or how some would say, Naruto was holding onto his urge to punch a hole through the hokage's office wall rather well. "Hokage, mind if I know why am I here?" Naruto asked Minato who was smiling, and with a big laugh he answered, "You are here because the teams have been decided. You will have the distinct joy of being teacher to not 1 but 3 from noble clans." Naruto was really fighting the urge, and he was doing an admirable job, still the other teachers did decide to give him some space. Getting near an angry wolf sage was sure to leave the person in the intensive care ward. That was a commonly held belief by the other teachers.

Naruto just slumped against a wall and decided that the best way not to let his anger get to him was to be occupied. So he decided to talk to Kurama till his team was announced. Kurama was of course very glad to spend some quality time with him. If he didn't know it any better he was sure that the fox was making some romantic advances, but he loved Mikoto too much for Kurama to succeed. Didn't mean that Kurama was not going to keep trying, and the fox sure tried her best. Naruto was struck on the head by a hard object, and Kurama told him that his attention was requested. Yawning, "Well that was a nice nap, where is everyone? what did I miss?" The hokage was the one that was now angry but not doing such a good job at hiding it. "Oh, nothing much. Just the entire team selection that is all. You are team 7 in case you are wondering. You have a Roshi Nara, Izumi Yamanaka and Toda Akimichi." Naruto was sure those names were not on the graduation list, he even did a mental check. Nope, those names did not exist. "Ok, Hokage if this was the way to make a joke. Very funny. But those names don't even exist. Mind telling me who is going to be on my team, or I will simply assume that I don't have a team and just keep busy with my clan duties." Naruto was about to leave when the Hokage let out a big sigh. "Itachi Uchiha, my son Menma and the headache of the Inuzuka clan, Yori Inuzuka. There is your team, and you have about 20 minutes to get to the academy and picked them up. Any questions?" Minato now was laughing when he saw the look on Naruto's face. "Mind if I speak freely hokage?" Naruto asked and of course Minato told him yes. "What did I do to make you hate me so much Minato?" Minato got up and patted him on the shoulder. "Nothing at all, my friend. I just happen to have a lot of faith in you. Want to grave some ramen? my treat." As he walked outside the office he was heard muttering, "That is more like my last meal."

After their meal Minato and Naruto walked casually towards the academy. He made Naruto promise him to train his son hard. Naruto promised that he would live, not that he would enjoy it, but he would live. As he entered he walked towards the graduating class and gave his congratulations speech and told him to walk towards their teachers as the team was called. It got to number 7 and only 3 people where left. Itachi, Menma and Yori at first they wondered if they had no team at all and would have to focus on individual training till the next graduating class. Yori was wondering if it this was a chance for her to find a mate between the two boys. "You 3 are team 7 your teacher is waiting for you on the roof. Or did you not hear that when the hokage was giving his speech?" One of the teachers said. They ran out the door up the stairs all the way to the place where their teacher was waiting. He of course was in full Anbu gear, and wearing his Oni mask. "Well took you long enough, wanted to take your time did we?" Itachi of course knew who it was, so did Menma but Yori was really scared, she had heard stories about this Anbu.

"Well since you are so very young, I guess I can forgive you this time. But from now on, punctuality is your best friend. Now lets start with introductions." He moved his mask and smiled, "I am Naruto Uchiha, I have many things I like, I hate a whole lot of things, and my dreams are private so you don't need to know." The three looked at each other thinking the same thing. "We just heard his name..." Itachi of course was just kidding and Menma was playing around.