Moments later, they arrived at Team Gai's room, and Tenten opened the door, directing him inside.

Daiki blinked at what he found.

'I kind of should have expected this.' he thought.

Neji was sitting on the edge of one of the three beds, the one closest to the wall and one that seemed to have been moved a bit away from the others.

…While Lee was doing one handed vertical push ups.

"Six thousand six hundred, sixty eight, six thousand six hundred sixty nine-" the bowl cut haired boy counted off to himself, before noticing his presence, "Ah, Daiki-san! Good to see you, how have you been?"

It seemed he'd gotten quite into a little bit of training over the past two hours while Tenten was with him.

"I've been good Lee, you?" he replied automatically.

"SORRY WHAT WAS THAT?" Lee suddenly shouted, "I AM AFRAID I CANNOT HEAR YOU MY EARS HAVE BEEN DAMAGED!"

Daiki rocked back on his feet, startled in spite of himself at the sudden…loudness.

Neji sighed irritably.

He heard Tenten face palm from behind him and then groan, "Please fix this idiot."

"He seems fine to me." Daiki shrugged, looking over his shoulder to the grin at the bun haired girl.

"You're not as funny as you think you are you know." she deadpanned.

"…Why does everyone keep saying that?" he rolled his eyes. First Isobu, now Tenten.

He was hilarious and people quoted everything he said.

'That has never once happened before, ever, and it will never happen, the only person who thinks you are funny, is yourself.' Isobu deadpanned, like the hater he was.

Tenten rolled her eyes right back at him, before stepped past and reaching down and palming Lee by the face, "I told you to take it easy until you got healed, didn't I you moron?" she huffed, and bodily picked him up with one hand and tossed him onto the bed.

"WHAT?" Lee shouted in question as he landed on the bed., "TENTEN THAT WAS NOT VERY YOUTH-"

She palmed him by the face once more, shutting him up, "Please…please just be quiet," she groaned, then turned her head to give him a pleading look, "Please fix him up so he can go back to his normal loud volume and not…this."

"See, I would…" Daiki trailed off and gave a shrug, "But my feelings have been hurt. I'm all depressed and as it turns out, my chakra control dips by negative sixty nine million percent when I'm feeling sad."

"Seriously?" she gave him a dead stare, "You're doing this because I said you're not funny?"

"Hey, what's with that look," Daiki smirked for a brief second before giving a mock gasp of pain and grasping his chest in an over the top manner, even making sure to stagger back a bit just to add to the show and force his legs to tremble, "I'll have you know I've been wounded in the heart, this is true emotional damage."

"I'm going to cut you." she deadpanned.

"Well, my chakra control is shot and now I'll have to worry about getting attacked, how am I supposed to use medical ninjutsu like that?" Daiki retorted.

"I hate you, hate you so much right now." somehow, her voice became even more dead. Like wow, if her voice was a corpse right now, it would have been in worse condition than Shisui's body.

"Ooof!" Daiki grasped his his chest even harder and stumbled back against the door, "The emotional damage just doubled, negative sixty nine billion chakra control now."

"WHAT IS HAPPENING!?" Lee tried to bounce up from the bed, only kept down by Tenten pushing down on him, "DAIKI-SAN MY FRIEND ARE YOU OKAY!?"

"…Tenten, just give him what he wants," Neji's head mechnically turned to stare at her, his somehow blank eyed gaze…becoming even more blank. He had some real skill with his eyeballs for sure, "Whatever he wants, just give him it, whatever will shut that idiot up, I'm this close to puncturing my own ear drums."

"…How is sixty nine billion doubled from sixty nine million, this is so stupid." she groaned.

"Your mind is just at a lower stage than mine I'm afraid, my brain exists in a higher dimension." Daiki replied, his lips twitching up into a brief smirk before he hid it again.

Tenten's eyebrows twitched.

She totally saw it.

"…Is that the dumbass dimension?" she snarked with a huff.

"OOOOF!" Daiki's legs 'gave out' beneath him and he slumped to the ground, limp.

"DAIKI-SAN!" Lee shouted, eyes wide in horror.

"…Is this truly my fate? How cruel." Neji rubbed his temples, trying to massage away what was no doubt quite the killer headache.

"…Alright, alright, I give up, you win," Tenten's shoulders slumped in defeat. The bun haired older girl closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she exhaled a few moments later and opened her eyes, a bright perky smile was on her face and she walked over to Daiki, hips swaying, "Daiki-sama~"

Daiki perked up.

He was actually quite surprised when Tenten boldly sat right down on his lap, wrapping her arms around his neck, bringing one of her hands around to gently trail a finger daintily over his cheek, "You're so cool and strong Daiki-sama, I bet all the other guys around here wish they could be like you~" she simpered, "And so handsome too."

"This is all true." Daiki nodded, 'Though not gonna lie, wow, she can act really well.'

If he didn't know any better, he for sure would think he was dealing with a fangirl on the level of Sakura or Ino in their heyday of Sasuke simpery.

"And so humble~" she gave a tittering giggle, crushing the flash of exasperation that appeared on her face for a brief moment expertly, "Can you do me a favour Daiki-sama and please heal my dumb teammate? It would mean ever so much to me~" she asked, leaning forward to plant a quick, chaste smooch on his cheek, before pulling back to give him a pleading look.

His hands grasped her hips and in one motion he rose to his feet, "And suddenly I'm totally healed," he announced, "Sure, I'll fix up your teammate for you Tenten-chan, anything for a fan."

"You're the best Daiki-sama!~" she chirped, pressing another quick smooch to his cheek before letting go of him.

"TENTEN-SAN? DAIKI-SAN, WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Lee hollered, ruining the moment.

Tenten cringed.

Daiki laughed, walking passed her, "Don't worry about it leotard boy." he waved the bow cut ninja off.

He noted Neji was giving both him and Tenten a horrified look, his head turning from him to her and back again, back and forth, as if unable to understand what just happened, but disgusted all the same and not sure who to direct that disgust at.

He could see Tenten's face burning bright red in his peripheral vision, but being a generous guy and all, he didn't stare and make it worse, or comment on it.

Instead, he formed a single hand seal, of one of his most used jutsu and green healing chakra began to warm around his hands.

When he was done healing Lee, he beat a hasty retreat. Just to let Tenten calm down a bit.

She hid it well, but her embarrassment at simping for him to boost his ego to do what she asked, had hurt her pride a bit. And she knocked Lee the fuck out when he was still just as loud.

Like full on senbon tipped with a sleeping drug.

And stabbed him in the leg with it.

Well, it was fine, she could heal that much herself.

He wasn't afraid or anything of course, he just wanted to let her get her emotions under control. Honest.

…Okay so maybe he pushed it a bit far.

'I regret nothing.' Daiki grinned to himself as he returned to his room, closing the door behind him.

It may have embarrassed Tenten to put on that little act, but he got to see an all new side of her. So it was totally worth it.

'And all that because she said you weren't funny.' Isobu snorted.

'Clearly a lie.' Daiki shrugged. Just because everyone else had such low levels of humour, didn't mean he wasn't funny, it just meant everyone else was too dumb.

Clearly.

…Obviously.

'That's a bigger delusion than Shukaku thinking he can take Kurama on in a fight.' Isobu scoffed.

Hey, it could happen.

If Shukaku fought Kurama out in the desert, he'd have the advantage, and for as stupidly powerful as Kurama was, he was only at half strength now at best, so he wouldn't put it past Shukaku to eek out a vict-

'No, it wouldn't even be close,' Isobu cut him off, 'Even at only half capacity, Kurama would still have more chakra than the other eight of us combined, and while when it comes to you humans, more chakra isn't really a full indicator of strength, it's different for us Bijuu. The more chakra we have, the stronger, more durable and faster we are in general, and of course…none of us even come close to Kurama's destructive output with a Bijuudama. Even now, he could form one that could blow away an island and the entire surrounding area easily, Shukaku has no chance one on one, even in the desert.'

…Huh.

Granted, Daiki had a good idea of how absurdly strong Kurama was just from reference. After all, he did see Kurama in his first bijuu transformation with Naruto, beat not only his buddy Isobu himself, but Matatabi, Son Goku, Kokuo, Saiken and Chomei.

And even with all six of their Bijuudama's combined, Kurama still countered them at full power…after they had a head start in charging theirs over his.

…Poor poor Shukaku.

Ganbare sand guy.

'Well at the very least, he can take pride in being a Tanuki and having the biggest balls of all.' Daiki mused.

'…We Bijuu lack genitalia, I have told you this before, have I not?' Isobu snorted.

Oh yeah.

Poor, poor…poor Shukaku-chan.

'Indeed,' Isobu laughed, 'While we all have rather useful and powerful abilities, in the end, Kurama's raw power and strengths trumps the versatility we have over him. At full power, I would be lucky to last a few minutes in a fight against him.'

Kurama was such a broken cheater man. Nine-tails Op, pls nerf.

'I'd rather whoever you're pleading to didn't,' Isobu rolled his eyes, 'That overpowered strength will be vital in the future if things go to hell as you saw.'

Well…yeah.

But Kurama was a real dark spot. There was nothing Daiki could do to get him to cooperate with Naruto. His arrogance and hatred was just that high up there.

It would be up to Naruto himself to win Kurama over. If he even could this time around. The best Daiki himself could do…was maybe teach Naruto how to use his powers as a jinchuuriki.

'And that won't be a simple issue either,' Isobu pointed out, 'After all, I'm fully working together with you. He will have to wrestle mentally with Kurama to control the chakra and resist my brothers attempts to send him into a blood rage that will attack anything in sight.'

'….Have I mentioned how much I love you buddy?' Daiki replied. Seriously, he was so, so glad he didn't need to deal with anything like that.

'Fake and gay.' the huge turtle bijuu snorted.

'How can it be gay if you don't have a dick?' Daiki squawked, surprised at the internet meme suddenly thrown his away.

A dead one at that.

'Watching your memories through your subconscious and learning about your former culture is a good way to pass the time,' Isobu was completely unrepentant, 'Also, going by the logic of the culture in your former life, I 'identify' as male.'

'No.' Daiki replied simply.

'I do have to say though, your taste in literature and these 'anime' you liked to watch shows your poor taste,' the three tailed bijuu ignored him and continued on, 'You watched so much of these harem shows because of girls, but ground your teeth in a rage over the main characters because of how spineless they were. I suppose your lust for voluptuous girls and the childish dream of a harem overpowered your sheer dislike, especially of this, hmm who was it again, Tom Aolo?'

'Yes, that's his name,' Daiki replied instantly, blocking out any thought otherwise, 'Also again, we're not doing this.' so he disliked that the wimps that were never proactive or improved on themselves at all got all these grade A girls to themselves, sue him. He wasn't alone in that taste.

Rosario Vampire just happened to be the first ever harem series he watched through.

His biggest problem with them was that they were supposed to be your average joe. But they weren't. He was an average joe in his other life. And he was nowhere near as pitiful as those clowns.

'Hoh, are you embarrassed? How amusing, if I knew bringing up your horrible taste in entertainment was enough to do this, I would have done it much sooner,' Isobu laughed, amused, 'Though if it makes you feel better, I do believe you are much superior to the likes of this Tom Aolo."

You know…it didn't make him feel better.

That was like saying he was more interesting than a dogs turd, covered in flies, and having been baked under the sun for an entire day.

"…I think I'll get started working on my new seal." he nodded to himself. He had two days now until the preliminaries started. He was eager to add the power of Shisui's Sharingan to his Shinkugan.

Isobu's laughter echoed in his head.

Distracting him.

Damned turtle bro!

ith the Sharingan now in his grasp, Daiki threw himself fully into developing his new seal.

It was going to be the greatest seal he'd crafted yet. Using everything he'd learned, combining much of the powerful seals he'd learned together.

Taking not only from the Four Symbols Seal, but his Chakra Filter seal, the Chakra Absorption Seal, the Dimension Force Seal, the Life Force Conversion Seal and even the base make up seal matrix of his Heavenly Star Seal.

It might have sounded simple, claiming he was more or less combining them. But, it wasn't.

Not even close.

For one, making them fit together, was a challenge in of itself. And that wasn't taking account of the fact he needed to break down each and every seal matrix and pick and choose the right parts of each seal to conjoin together, in the process having to edit to make it mesh with other seals.

A day and a half later of constant pouring over the seals, experimentation, research and trying things out…

And he was barely any closer than when he started.

"…This won't work." Daiki groaned, tossing aside a huge rolled out scroll, a seal attempt scribbled on the middle.

It landed on the pile of other duds.

…The pile that was now taller than him.

Daiki rubbed at his eyes, "This is even more complicated than I thought it was going to be." he huffed.

He knew it wasn't going to be easy of course.

But, he'd still seriously underestimated the sheer scale of what he was doing. And that wasn't taking into account the fact that, he was going to be putting the seal on something as small as an eyeball.

There was a limit after all, to just how much a sealing matrix could be locked and miniaturized.

…But it was worth the effort.

Should, or rather once he managed it, because he would, he would have access to all the abilities of the Sharingan.

Enhanced perception, increased prediction ability, technique copying. And that was just the base.

Above that, he would have access to Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan. Putting aside his bullshit mind control genjutsu, there was his Susanoo.

With the Susanoo, he could perform the Majestic Attire Susanoo with Isobu in his full Biju Mode.

On top of that, he could create even more armour with chakra with the Mysterious Peacock Method.

With all that stacked on top of Isobu's absurdly durable shell, there would be few ever capable of breaking through their defences.

They would become an unbreakable wall, the tankiest of all tanks.

His stomach growled breaking him from his delusions of grandeur, "Ugh, I need something to eat." Daiki groaned, grasping his stomach.

How long had it been since he last ate?

'Nine and a half hours.' Isobu helpfully informed.

Ugh, that long?

While he could go longer without food if needed, he was expending a lot of chakra with his clones training and the seal attempts, plus concentrating with all he had.

Thus, his stomach got more growly faster.

His eyes drifted over to the night stand he'd pulled back out of his dimension force seal.

Where a few empty plates were piled up.

He'd sent a clone out every so often to bring him back some grub to munchity munch on. He needed his vital proteins after all for his epic muscles.

Hmm, now that he reviewed the memories he'd gotten from said clones…it seemed Ino and her team had finished the exam not long ago. Well, not long was relative because he wasn't exactly sure how long ago that was.

He'd noticed them in the mess hall. And stopped to say hi and the like, Ino had been totally red faced when he did.

Temari had given him dirty looks when his clone flirted with Ino a bit. While Tenten had ignored him entirely.

Ouch.

And his clone had caught sight of Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai and a few other jonin arriving at the tower when he was out just browsing around with his eyes.

Hmm, his clone had felt his frustration it seemed and had been tempted to go see about banging Kurenai.

Good thing he didn't. Those memories would have totally distracted him from his seal experimentation.

The path of the horny was no good for this kind of thing. 'Though maybe getting my rocks off could clear my head a bit.' he mused.

There was a knock at his door, making him pause.

'Maybe that's Kurenai now?' he mused, perking up. Chakra flooded into his eyes and he peered through the door.

Only to sigh in disappointment when he found himself looking at a familiar orange book toting one eyed scarecrow wannabe.

Ew, Kakashi.

'Why would it have been Kurenai you dunce? The woman has tried her best to distance herself from you, lest she get roped back into your embrace.' Isobu asked.

'For that reason, she's the one that keeps coming back for more.' Daiki shrugged.

Standing up, Daiki stretched out the stiffness in his joints and walked over to the door, pulling it open.

"Yo Daiki-chan." Kakashi greeted him with a perky eye smile and wave.

"Go away, I'm busy." Daiki responded flatly.

He had no desire to get involved with Kakashi. Whatever the man wanted, it was going to be, to borrow a word from Shikamaru and his clan, troublesome.

Fuck that noise.

"Aw, you think you have a choice, how cute," Kakashi giggled, "Still, is that anyway to talk to a good mentor like figure such as myself?"

Technically, Kakashi did have authority over him, since he was a genin and Kakashi was you know…an Elite Jonin.

Daiki could also technically transform into his Bijuu Mode and Bijuudama the man out of existence.

He was just saying

That was all.

'When I get Shisui's Sharingan working right, I'm going to copy and steal all your jutsu.' Daiki mentally vowed, while out loud he said, "Since when are you a good mentor figure? I've taught your team more jutsu than you." he deadpanned.

"What can I say, I'm a trend setter, I'm so hip and cool I don't need to teach personally, they just learn from my example." Kakashi shrugged, not missing a beat.

Ugh, how he hated dealing with this guy.

'Probably because he's one of the few people that can be as obnoxious as you.' Isobu commented.

Daiki ignored him.

He was nowhere near as obnoxious as Kakashi after all.

Honestly, with that imagination of yours it's a shame you don't focus on Genjutsu, you'd be an undefeated master of it.' Isobu snorted.

Silly turtle bro. He just didn't understand that Daiki was a really down to earth, kind, generous and extraordinarily humble guy.

If he wasn't, he'd be crowing from the roof tops, boasting for all he was worth and rubbing all his achievements in everybody's faces.

He was fucking amazing after all.

...Totally.

'That…that's the complete opposite of humble, just because you don't say it out loud doesn't change that.' Isobu groaned.

Daiki gave an internal shrug, he disagreed, "What do you want?" he asked the virgin porn peddler on the other side of his room door.

"A new Icha Icha book, an Icha Icha movie, the Mizukage to star in the Icha Icha movie, Gai to stop wearing that horrible leotard, more new icha icha books-" Kakashi began rattling off.

"No, enough, you're not as funny as you think you are bro." Daiki cut him off.

'Pot meet kettle.'

"I'm funny, you're just not smart enough to understand my humour kid," Kakashi shrugged, "Anyway, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura finished the exam not long ago."

Daiki blinked.

Huh, that was news to him.

He glanced behind him to a clock on the wall of his provided room, 'There's still a good twelve hours before the next part of the exams start.' he noted.

They finished faster than they did in the other timeline it seemed. Good for them.

"Good for them, what does that have to do with me?" Daiki responded.

"Mmm, well it's two fold, Naruto's exhausted and sleeping it off right now," the man informed, "But Sasuke and Sakura are different. Sakura has broken her wrists and medical staff won't intervene right now for the exams unless it's life threatening, to keep things fair and all."

…Oh yeah, Tenten did say something about that didn't she? Though, he didn't know that the medical staff weren't going to intervene and heal people right now.

That was odd.

Though it did explain partially why Tenten came to him to heal Lee instead of taking him to the infirmary.

"You want me to heal her then?" Daiki cottoned on.

"See, you're not as dumb as you look after all," Kakashi's eye smile got bigger...somehow, "And as for Sasuke, well I'm sure you already know why I'm bringing him up, the Hokage tells me you jumped in when he had a little run in with a certain snakey snake man after all and managed to grasp quite a bit about the Cursed Seal."

"Insulting my looks just shows how much of a jealous virgin you are, Tinyashi Peniskate," Daiki shot back, before smirking and crossing his arms, "So you came to see me not only to heal one of your genin, but also to help deal with a seal you don't understand at all. I see, I see, not much of an Elite Jonin are you?"

Of course, he left out the fact that it was just pure luck and outside world knowledge that let him understand the Cursed Seal itself.

"Hmm, you seem to have a fascination with my sexual exploits and penis, sorry kid I'm not into dudes, no matter how much steroids they pump into their muscles," Kakashi shrugged off his words easily, "But I have no problem sealing off the Cursed Seal myself, it was the Hokage that told me to have you tag along. And as for Sakura, well, healing jutsu were never my forte, medical ninja like yourself are a bit squishy and need to hang at the back as support, unlike a super powerful front line fighter like myself."

Daiki resisted the urge to click his tongue in annoyance, "Just means the Hokage has more faith in me than you, which is telling really, weren't you taught by the Fourth Hokage, one of the greatest seal masters like ever?" he fired, "And front line fighter, that's a laugh, can people that can't last fifteen minutes in a proper fight be qualified for that role? Does someone have a small chakra capacity?" he smirked tauntingly.

"Bigger than yours," Kakashi didn't miss a beat, and Daiki had to force his eyebrow not to twitch, "Anyway, as much as I love this little game of ours kid, I'm afraid I don't really have the time to indulge your poor attempts at flirting with me, so what will it cost me to move this little shindig along? I'd like to have Sasuke and Sakura ready for the next part of the exams."

Honestly, he didn't really need payment. He was just shooting the shit and giving the guy a hard time because he was a prick.

Sasuke was his friend and Sakura was eye candy, teasing the pair of them, in totally different ways, sounded like a fun time right about now as far as breaks went.

Still, that didn't mean he wouldn't extort Kakashi with the option available to him.

And he knew exactly what he wanted from the man, "Tell me how you trained your ninken summons and I'll do it." he replied.

He'd ask for a lightning jutsu, but this was more worth to him right now. The thing was, he wouldn't really need them soon.

At least from Kakashi.

He'd be learning from the Third Hokage himself over the next month. That man was sure to know plenty of lightning jutsu he could teach Daiki.

"Huh, figured you'd ask for a lightning jutsu," Kakashi blinked, then shrugged, "Sure, fine with me kid, I'll write down how I did it and give you it later."

"Good," Daiki smirked, "Where's your team then?" he asked, he may as well get right to it.

"Sakura is with Naruto in their room," Kakashi replied, "As for Sasuke, he's waiting right now for me, he was allowed to get checked at the infirmary because of the Cursed Seal, I'll be taking him to a specific room soon to apply the Evil Sealing Method to it, I'm sure you'll be able to find your way there with those eyes of yours once you're done with Sakura."

"Right, just point me towards their room for now then." Daiki shrugged, 'The Evil Sealing Method, huh?' he mused inwardly.

That was one he hadn't been able to find an example of. So he could learn all about it from watching Kakashi and see if there was any parts of it he could put to use for himself.

And here we are back again, this time with the big three to the two, thirty ol two hoo hoo.

So in this chapter, Daiki had a bit of a social, took the piss out of Tenten a bit, pissed her off a bit in the process and beat a hasty retreat after. at which point, he began working on his new seal, only, as expected, it's not something simple at all and before he could make any more progress he got interrupted by Kakashi coming to bother him to heal up his team so they could compete in the next round without issue. Of course, Daiki isn't going to do that for free and now is gonna get his hands on what is needed to train the new black mane wolf clan to become massive ninken summons. So, we're up to chapter thirty nine right now on the Pa-atreon, been a bit busy the last week with a whole lot of drama from looking after my nephew, helping him out since he was starting high school, dealing with the police because my sister got her door put in and her house ruined cuz she was a suspected drug dealer, going to a new gym, dealing with the fact there was a dude trying to break into houses in the area, including mine, the same dude who tried to chop up my friend with a machete a few weeks back and pulled a knife on me months ago before I smashed him with my metal baseball bat. And the heat wave certainly didn't help. So yeah, been a bit of a hectic week. Still, I'll most likely be starting on chapter 40 when I get back from the gym later, and we're halfway through the final fight in the prelims with the end of chapter 39. So with chapter 40, the prelims themselves most likely will come to a close and thank fuck for that.

Anyway, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.