A month later and we were finally all situated and had everything all sorted out. The Senju estate a huge mansion with a large area behind it full of woods and a training area. The twins and I had explored the place and still hadn't discovered everything.

I had a room upstairs in the left wing while Tsunade and Shizune had two rooms on the ground floor. The bath was big enough to easily fit forty people at once and had a boiler attached to provide enough hot water to fill the bath as well as for any other use. It was obvious that the place was meant for an entire clan to live there and caused Tsunade to be a bit melancholic for a couple days.

I was a little worried about whether or not the barrier would stop me since I wasn't sure if I was actually related to Hashirama Senju, but apparently when I got my internal skill it apparently boosted the tiny amount of Senju blood in me to get me the skill. I found out that pretty much everyone in the village had at least some sort of blood ties to the Senju clan, but that the blood was so diluted by now that it didn't have any noticeable effect and that the barrier wouldn't recognize them as relatives.

There was a huge library which I was allowed to look at, but only after Tsunade had checked through it first since there was some not child appropriate and sensitive scrolls in there. I had decided that I would look through the place afterwards if for no other reason than to have more in depth information on the village and the Senju clan as a total. I don't want to end up having a surprise sickness like Nagato or any of the other deformed or dying ninja I had seen in the series. Who knows what having boosted Senju blood entails. Hopefully not the terrible luck and gambling issues Tsunade has. Though the drinking seems to be more or less a personal coping thing.

I decided to start doing some proper training after reading about a child training regimen the clan had done to make stronger shinobi during the first war. It was very detailed and in later notes in another scroll I read it described an alternate training that didn't cause the problems the first training style did.

The first style was meant to increase strength quickly and wouldn't cause problems for three decades, but after that would cause the body to rapidly deteriorate to the point that the person would become bedridden and become a burden to the clan or could potentially cause death. I found out from a journal that the people who became that way were given honorable deaths. Which basically meant they were drugged into sleep and would get a senbon to the heart. Pretty damn cruel if you ask me.

After reading some deeper bits and pieces I came to understand that the reason the body broke down after three decades is because the training would cause the muscles and joints to be put under extreme stress and advanced growth while also having stress to the bones to keep them from breaking or deforming. It involved using drugs while also using the workout while the ones doing the workout were basically all less than seven years old.

The workout itself would be fine once a person was ten or older since the muscles and bones would be properly formed by then, but the drugs were basically a different form steroids.

The workout that was safe to do was basically a mix between Tai Chi and Calisthenics. It was very healthy and could be performed by anyone safely. I decided to create one for canines since I had the time and it turned out to be extremely effective since less then a week later the twins were moving even faster then they could before. I of course shared the workout with Tsume when she came to visit and she came back a week later telling me of its success. She paid me for it and told me that if I ever came up with anything else that she would happily buy it from me.

Tsunade of course wanted to borrow the money from me and I gave her a tenth of my money and had her sign a contract that had a two year wait on repayment before starting to accrue interest. Tsunade grumbled about how even a three year old was a stingy shark while Shizune gave me a light smile and nodded to me.

I then bought a safe with some of the money and put it in my room where I stored the rest of my money. I of course used a fake set of money while hiding the real money under a floorboard which I had booby trapped with a mixture that acted as a sleeping potion and caused severe diarrhea while also shooting out a group of needles in every direction if not opened properly. The only way to open it properly was to either have an actual claw like the ones Tsun and Dere had or to form one made of chakra and pull a string from the other side of the room that was hidden in a covered up hole in the corner. It may seem like a lot, but from what I knew of shinobi, and Tsunade in particular, I was still worried it wasn't enough. I could only hope that since the poisons were often used as medicines that Tsunade wouldn't have a resistance to them.

I went about my time reading training and playing for the next two years, after which I had read everything in the library and even all the scrolls Tsunade had tried to hide. She really underestimated me if she thought that I wouldn't notice how there was a space between two doors that was much larger than the others. Trying to use a genjutsu formation might work on me for now, but it doesn't work if I can spot the difference. After that I got to read the darker side of the villages history. Which in all honesty really wasn't that dark. I mean Voldemort and his death eaters were a special kind of crazy. This was just kind of meh after dealing with those guys.

I only had the time to do all of that since Tsunade and Shizune had gotten jobs as mednin at the hospital. Tsunade had a hard time of it due to her fear of blood, but I had talked to her and told her that she shouldn't be afraid of blood since if a person was bleeding it meant that the person was still alive and that they needed her help. I think that helped her to start moving forward past her fear. She was still working on it, but now she could help with small cuts and scrapes and was starting to move to larger cuts with time. If only to apply some bandaging if nothing else.

A month after my fifth birthday, which Tsunade made sure to never forget to get me a birthday present after our first meeting, Tsunade called me to the dining room table to talk for a bit.

"So I signed you up for the ninja academies basic schooling section." Tsunade said while watching my expression.

"Okay." I nodded back.

"Really, no complaints about it being to easy or a useless waste of time. I thought you would be going and complaining about how unfair and pointless it was since you have already read the entire Senju library, as insane as that sounds." Tsunade said with a wry smile.

"Social interactions with my peers is an important aspect of every child's upbringing." I grinned at her.

"Sure thing snob." Tsunade grinned right back. "So I take it you just want to go and find some new friends to play with."

"Of course, that and finding out if the ninja academy has books I haven't read yet. If things keep going like this past month did I'm going to have to go raid the jutsu library and the labs library."

"I shouldn't even be shocked you know where the labs library is located." Tsunade said while shaking her head. "Okay well starting tomorrow at 8 in the morning you need to be at the academy to get put in a class. It is a mix of ninja and commoners kids who are looking to become leaf shinobi so Tsun and Dere will need to stay at home while you are at the academy, not that those two could fit in the classroom anyways."

Tsun and Dere had grown a lot in the past two years. If they were around the size of a large dog before they were now the size of a full grown tiger and were still considered as being in their adolescent stage. The chakra I fed them and the food caused them to always be full of everything they needed to grow and with the different exercises and the running around we did it meant they were always healthy which caused them to grow quickly.

I had once asked Herashi about how big demon wolves could grow to be and she just laughed and told me that there was a legend of a demon wolf that had grown to be the size of a mountain. Apparently so long as I kept giving them chakra and nutritious food they would just keep growing and the more they got to play and exercise the stronger they would grow. Tsunade was curious as to how strong they were and had one on one spars with all of us. I was ranked as a genin level while both Tsun and Dere were ranked as top tier jonin. Tsunade told me that while my Taijutsu was extremely advanced the fact that I didn't have any Ninjutsu other than the ones I had made based off the ones I had seen from the Inuzuka clan was the only drawback she could think of. She told me I should practice with my weapons more since they were still very rough.

I had of course shared my personal Ninjutsus with Tsume who gave me the okay to use them since I had come up with them myself and I was already considered the same as a clan member already. Not to mention the amount of time I spent in their compound was already more then some of the actual clan members did.

The rest of the day went by in a blur as I got ready for the next day including walking the route to the academy and back twice. I did get some odd looks, but I didn't want to mess up and end up missing my first day at the academy, after all this is when I would get to meet a portion of the actual cast of the series.

I went to bed early that night looking forward to the next day.

I woke up early the next day and got dressed and went downstairs where Tsunade was waiting with breakfast.

"Thanks for the food." I said before digging in. Tsun and Dere also started eating and were unusually quiet.

"So what's the plan for today Alex?" Tsunade asked with a smile.

"I'm going to the academy and heading to the office to be assigned a class. I will then be taken to the class and introduced as a transfer student. After which I will go through the training to become a shinobi which will then lead to my path of showing off in order to make friends and eventually getting married. This will lead to a line of failed marriages and bouts of stress related drinking after working at a dead end office job where I will wonder where I went wrong with my life before meeting a nice woman from the office across the street who also had a number of failed relationships. We will then begin dating and eventually become married and have a lot of ninja babies one of which will eventually become a palace worker for the fire daimyo and will proceed to live an exceptional life until..."

"Okay I get it you brat." Tsunade said while shaking her head. "I only needed the first part. What are you two going to be doing?" She asked to Tsun and Dere.

"We will go wherever the wind may take us." Dere answered.

"We will be somewhere." Tsun told her.

"Okay, but make sure to stay out of trouble you three. I swear that every time I look away from you guys something happens." Tsunade said with a wry smile. "You need to get going or you're going to be late Alex." She said before giving me a quick hug and sending me off.

"Thanks Tsunade, I'll tell you how the day went later." I said as I ran off with Tsun and Dere.

We ran to the academy in a few minutes and went into the office. Tsun and Dere almost gave the poor lady at the desk a heart attack when she saw two demon wolves suddenly showing up in a school full of children until I explained that they were my partners. She then explained that even though they were my partners they wouldn't be able to stay since they were to large and none of the curriculum would benefit them in any way.

"Well guys, I had hoped we could hang out, but it looks like you'll need to go do your own things now. I'll see you guys later and give you an overview of what the classes taught me."

"Fine, but if anyone tries to bully you let us know so we can have a snack." Dere said with a grin.

The poor office lady almost passed out in a panic.

"Don't go scaring the poor lady to much Dere or Tsunade will get mad at us."

"Okay, we will see you later Alex." They both nodded before running out of the school while also scaring a few straggling students.

"Well that was something else." The office lady said before turning to me. "So you must be Alex Senju, I was already told by the hokage and Tsunade to expect you."

"So in the first 3 years you will be doing general education such as math, science, reading, writing, coding, geography, and other general knowledge. In the last 3 years you will be focusing on shinobi related skills such as chakra control, kunai usage, senbon usage, hand signs, as well as a few basic ninjutsus that are required to pass. Taijutsu will be taught every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from the first year to the last. Do you have any questions so far." She asked with a smile.

"Nope." I answered simply as I followed her down the hall before we stopped in front of a classroom.

"Well here we are, if you have any trouble please come and let me know and we'll see what we can do. You have a wonderful rest of your day." She said before walking off with a smile.

"Welp, guess it's time to get on in there." I say to myself as I open the door to the room and interrupt a bunch of kids who were discussing the two wolves.

"Alex." I hear Kiba yell from the back of the room. "See guys, I told you I knew those wolves you all were talking about."

"Hi Kiba." I say back as I wave at him.

"So you must be Alex." Iruka says from his seat by the podium at the front of the room.

"Yes sir." I say with a respectful bow. This guy is someone I respect from the series. Even though he didn't have much of a part to play outside of the academy arc he made an impression in the short amount of time he did appear. A teacher who didn't see Naruto with the same jaded view as the others in the village and was even willing to take a blade to protect his student from harm. That is something I can truly respect.

"Oh, that is some nice respect you got there." Iruka said with a nod before turning to the class. "Okay class, this here is Alex Senju and he will be transferring in today."

I heard a mixture of groans and cheers from the class.

"You can sit over in the back by the window Alex." Iruka said while pointing at a desk over by the window that looked like an almost perfect spot for napping. Before I could take a step however Iruka went and called on Ino who had raised her hand and looked like she really needed to either ask a serious question or go to the bathroom, whichever.

"Iruka sensei did you say that Alex is a Senju like the first hokage? It says in the history book that every Senju had died except for Tsunade hime. Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?"

You just have to love little kids who try to act like know it alls when they've barely started to learn from a book. Hermione was just like her.

"Yes that is correct." Iruka said before turning to me. "Alex was recently found out to be a direct descendant of the first hokage and a relative of miss Tsunade. He is currently living with her at the Senju estate."

"Wait, so doesn't that mean that he is a prince?" I heard someone yell out causing everyone to look at me which caused me to let out a sigh. It's so hard to be so amazingly me.

"No, calling the Senju clan members royalty was a term of respect since the first hokage along with the head of the Uchia clan at the time stopped a war and formed the village that we all live in today. The Senju clan isn't actually royalty." Iruka corrected with a sigh.

"You might come from the family of the first hokage, but I'll be hokage soon enough." I heard Naruto shout out while standing up and pointing his finger at me as if to challenge me.

"I hope you succeed in that dream." I told him with a smile. "Though you had better get really good at studying then since the hokage needs to do a ton of paperwork on a daily basis."

"He does?" Naruto asked while looking a bit shaken.

"Oh yeah, whenever I would see him he would have a huge pile of paperwork on his desk. I even heard that if he misses work that it just keeps growing and growing to the point that it could fill the entire room." I told Naruto who was becoming more and more worried looking. "So you had best work on your learning now otherwise you'll get buried in paperwork for life, future hokage sama." I gave a smile that looked innocent, but Kiba recognized the smile from across the room and let out a squeak along with a shiver.

"When I become hokage I'll change that so there won't be any paperwork." Naruto yelled out having regained some of his passion.

"Good luck." I cheered him on.

"What idiots." I heard Sakura say from her seat next to Ino who nodded in agreement.

I was about to head to my seat when Iruka stopped me and said to the class. "Okay everyone, since it's Monday it's time for our Taijutsu class. As this is your first day you can sit out if you would like Alex and just observe."

"Thanks Iruka sensei, but I love to be active and I would like to see where I am when it comes to the other children's Taijutsu skills." I said with a smile.

"Well there goes my number two position." Kiba complained loudly causing the other kids and Iruka to look at him.

"So you think that Alex is better at Taijutsu then you are?" Iruka asks.

"I think he's better then everyone here, you might be the only one who can beat him sensei." Kiba said to Iruka with a frown.

"No way, Sauske can wipe the floor with Alex just like he wipes the floor with you." Sakura, Ino, and most of the girls in class yelled out at Kiba.

"Fine, at least I get to see the looks on all your faces when Sauske gets his butt handed to him."

After that little spat between the girls and Kiba we all went outside and Iruka had us run ten laps around the field. I of course outpaced everyone since I was used to running with the twins.

After that was the spars between the students to see where we were at and Iruka would let us know where we made mistakes and what we could do to correct them.

I sat to the side and watched until it was time for me to spar. Kiba and Naruto had went before us and I have to say that Kiba had done a good job with his families style of Taijutsu, even without a partner. Though it was still a little awkward since sometimes he would use a move that would require a partners follow up attack.

Naruto was pretty random in his attacks which were pretty simple and straightforward all things considered. He did however have a ton of stamina which made him difficult to deal with.

Sauske and I moved into the circle and made our signs to each other. He took a defensive stance to prepare for my attack while I just straightened up and put my hands in my pockets causing everyone to become confused while Sauske started to get angry.

I started walking over slowly as if I was just going for a stroll and Sauske got impatient and rushed at me and threw a fist at my face which I dodged by stepping to the side and sweeping my foot at his ankle in a hook to trip him.

Sauske did get tripped but did a backflip with his hand and went back upright. He then rushed me again and kicked at my stomach which I used my leg to push his off to the side and then kicked out with my leg still raised at his stomach this time and got a solid hit which caused Sauske to hit the ground hard.

I backed off and just waited for Sauske to get back to his feet. I of course still had my hands in my pockets and could here the girls cursing me in the background and cheering for Sauske to get up and beat me senseless.

Sauske got up to his feet unsteadily and looked a little wobbly before taking a defensive stance again. This time though he didn't get impatient and just waited.

I started walking over to him again and began to circle him a bit before kicking at his chest which caused him to block with his arms and let out a slight grunt from the hit.

After I connected my first hit I spun on my heel and jumped with my other foot in the air to bring my second foot to the side of Sauske's head and knocked him out cold before I lightly jumped off of him in a backflip to land in front of him.

Iruka after checking on Sauske to make sure he was okay called the match with my win, much to the horror of the girls. He then told me that I shouldn't go into a fight with such a laid back attitude since doing so could get me hurt when I couldn't use my hands.

I just laughed while rubbing my nose and told Iruka that I had only done so because I was trying to test out if Sauske was actually as good as the girls were making him out to be. After all with how high the girls were putting him it made me want to go all out on him so I had to keep my hands in my pockets so I wouldn't accidently hurt him.

"So Kiba really wasn't kidding when he was talking about your skills earlier." Iruka said with a slight smile. "How about you spar with me next since we still have some time?" He asked after moving Sauske outside the circle.

I was a little worried since the girls were moving dangerously close to him while he was unconscious and called out to Kiba to keep an eye on him and let him know if any of the girls happened to touch him or his things while he couldn't defend himself, which of course got me a lot of glares. Kiba gave me a thumbs up while I went back to my starting position and made the sign to Iruka who also made the sign to me.

I crouched down with one hand down on the ground while Iruka got in a defensive stance. I then charged at him from low to the ground and swept my legs at his legs while using my arms to hold myself off the ground causing Iruka to jump off the ground and strike downwards with a fist. I rolled to the side and jumped upwards from his side with an open hand in an attempt to grab his forearm, but Iruka quickly pulled back and fell backwards while kicking upwards in mid fall.

I grabbed his leg and flipped over it while kicking backwards. I felt Iruka grab me by the ankle as my foot connected with his chest and he pulled me backwards and tossed me backwards to the ground.

I curled into a ball and rolled over twice before going back to a crouched position and diving back at Iruka. This time I kicked up high at his face with both legs causing him to move his head by leaning back and I grabbed one of his legs with both hands and bending my body forward to drive my feet towards his chest. Iruka tried to block with his arms crossed like Sasuke had done earlier only for me to bend my knees causing him to be confused for a second before feeling me pull him to the ground with his leg in a lock.

"I give, I give." Iruka laughed out.

I let him go after that and stood up while dusting myself off and we bowed to each other and gave the end sign for the spar. When we looked over at the crowd of students everyone had their mouths hanging open in shock before the silence got broken by Naruto cheering.

"That was insane." Naruto yelled out in excitement.

"I see that Kiba wasn't kidding around." Shikamaru said in his low tone.

"Congratulations." Shino told me.

Choji just offered me a meat bun from his pocket which I gladly took with a smile. For him to give me a piece of his own food is a huge sign of respect.

Kiba simply snorted and then told me. "You keep getting stronger and stronger, but just wait, I'll beat you one of these days."

I heard Sakura and Ino complaining about how I had obviously bullied Sauske before they shut up and I saw Sauske come over and hold out his hand. I took it and shook his hand with a grin.

"You are pretty skilled, let's spar again sometime." He told me with a smile that caused the girls to let out growls at me.

"Sure thing Sauske, whenever you want I'll be glad to help beat some skills in you." I told him with a huge grin.

"I don't think you will need the Taijutsu classes Alex. Why don't you use the time to do some free study to catch up with the other students or work on some exercises." Iruka told me after patting me on the shoulder. He then proceeded to awkwardly limp towards the school building. I may have put a bit too much pressure on his leg. I wasn't sure about how much strength he had and I didn't want him to get away.