What if Neglected Naruto Becomes Calm And Collected | Part 1

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his anticipation of an end to the Chase he neglected to take into account the fact that for the past hour Naruto had maintained a steady lead in this game of cat and mouse a more experienced ninja would have suspected a trap and rightly so as nuto neared the edge of the roof he was on his sharp hearing confirmed what is too sensitive knows far more sensitive than loudmouth kibas and that just doesn't make sense had already told him so a quick vulpine grin flitted across his face just as the tun and directly on his tail reached out to grab him only to witness Naruto dive from the roof they were on curl his body into a ball and sail smoothly through a conveniently open window and fluidly unroll into an uninterrupted run aunan cursed because he was too close to the the blonde to follow and absently mused that he had been well played the ninja immediately following the hoodwin chunin was however quick to follow Naruto executing the same maneuver he prepared to shift his roll smoothly into a run only to crash against a solid object before the unfortunate tunin could recover from the damage his comrade who had already jumped after him in a similar motion crashed into him as he rebounded and together they fell into an open dumpster that sprung shut with a click nutk laughter let the remaining tuna know that that was no unfortunate accident continuing in his run Naruto thought about the genius of painting around the small window so small his malnourished stunted frame could just fit through to give the illusion that it was big enough for a full-grown man to fit through he quickly left the building knowing that the tunin would have realized where he would pop out of and would resume the chase however his little window trick had bought him the few seconds he knew he would need for what he was about to do when he had planned this prank out see aruka Sensei I can think so ahead he had ensured that various Escape Routes would be open to him and even allowed for the possibility of the ninja chazzing him managing to anticipate some of those roots through to his prediction he glanced up to find several shapes flitting in and out of the edge of his vision lying in wait for him if he took certain paths in his bid to escape a quick mental calculation revealed that of his seven Escape Routes only two remained uncompromised in one world uzamaki Naruto would have chosen the left path eventually run into aruka and life would continue as we know it he chose right and the story of yuzaki Naruto ended 10 hours later well the story of namk is yamaki Naruto began serat toi herzen was having a bad day he got out of bed with more aches in his old bones than he went to bed with he had walked into his dining room to find his son eating well that was before said Son noticed him and chose to leave rather than finish his food and thus end up speaking to him the top it all off no matter what his ninja might say he suffered the backlash of whatever Mischief nuto got up to more than any other delivered in the doubling and sometime tripling of his paperwork so that morning was not a good one for him and to make it worse his door opened to admit an old man with bandages covering a majority of his body including one of his eyes when the yummy no shobi Came Calling it could mean nothing good what do you want danzo as you can see I am very busy this morning Cobi bit out we both know that your extra workload is as a result of your softness was the reply sighing in weary exasperation the Hokage replied when will you drop this argument danzo I have made my views on this matter clear as always happened in the past during such arguments danzo was getting agitated you allow that child to waste his potential you and I know just what that child could become if only rising from his chair serat toi thundered enough listen to yourself you call him a child in one breath and turn around to propose him becoming a weapon the frustration of his mourning had finally come to a head danzo stopped for a moment and took a good look at his former teammate he realized that years of seeing heris in behind a desk had lulled him into a false sense of complacency when it came to his teammate internally he decided to scrap the present form of offense and switch to tactics very well however you allow him to be treated as he is and without the proper guidance he might give into the Beast sealed into him and turn against us all no one knows just how containing the caoi will affect the child's mental state you will see koha burn because of some misplaced sentiment proper guidance you mean torture disguised as training for the sole purpose of creating a weapon in the shell and guise of a child if that is what it takes danzo Stokely replied serat toi was not normally one to be deterred but when the sand aim looked into danzo's eyes he knew that none of his words were getting through and curse him but he just wanted danzo gone so he sighed and settled back into his chair a flicker of surprise crossed danzo's face at cobi's actions as the Aged Hokage lit his pipe he decided on a course of action anything to get this annoyance over and done with his impatience would change the future of the elemental Nations and cause no small amount of anxiety to an elder toad Sage after taking a few good Puffs which served the dual purpose of calming him and aggravating his teammate though he hit it well he spoke the words that would damn a child's soul and change the fate of a Nation the fate of the world I hear your concerns danzo really I do but let me ask you this why do you think I always make time for nuto anzo stilled his devious mind quickly forming and discarding various thoughts and reaching different conclusions a glance at serat toi revealed a calm Visage that gave nothing away were HE capable of such thought he would have interpreted his teammate's question to mean that the Aged Hokage considered it the least he could do for the poor child however his scheming mind was almost unable to accommodate such expressions of humankindness instead he smirked and said I see by becoming the only light in his Darkness you ensure his complete Devotion to you turning to leave danzo said it's good to see you haven't lost it all heisen Sarat toi sighed sadly at the various twists and turns of his former teammate's thoughts but made no move to correct him his misled conclusions would satisfy him for a while he turned around when he felt a chill wind and found the window open dismissing it from his mind he prepared to return to his work and he allowed a moment of thought to thank Kami that Nudo would never learn of this discussion crouched behind some boxes on the roof of the Ninja Academy uzamaki narudo stared blankly ahead as his young mind tried to comprehend his world and conceptions crumbling down around his ears he paid no heed to the tears falling from his eyes as he tried to grasp the full importance of just what he had heard it couldn't be true right there's no way something like a demon demon brat we don't serve demons here leave Fox brat would be sealed into him no way that the Hokage what's up old man ha he wrote jigy what was that orange book I'm going to become Hokage so keep that hat for me W would deceive him like that but even as his little mind denied what he just learned the facts added up in a way that just couldn't be denied deny unlimited stamina out running tune and level Ninjas for hours on end since the time he was seven his injuries healing overnight broken bones mending in hours and torn skin sealing back up in M minutes the overdeveloped senses when Kiba sitting in the front row tried to embarrass the teacher by pointing out he smelled like sex probably having gotten some that very morning nuto sitting in the back knew that it was exactly 5 hours before class and with a guy finally there were the villagers and their hurled insults and slurs even narudo with his overly optimistic view on life could not hide from the truth that he probably even subconsciously realized a while ago it was in a numb Haze that nuto found himself sitting in his apartment having no recollection of ever journeying there maybe the demon is taking me over and he immediately had to smother a hysterical bub of laughter that tried to erupt out of his throat now that he had a grasp on himself if somewhat a shaky one he wondered what he could do the first thought was confronting the old man no the Hokage and demanding explanations he quickly stumped that idea out of existence not wanting any more lies no matter how he thought about it there seemed No Way Out were his faith in the people around him not shaken so thoroughly he might have fled to aruka for reassurance and comfort indeed at another time perhaps in another situation young nuto would have worked through the seeming betrayal clinging stubbornly to his determination to never give up and become all the more powerful for it but now in this place and at this time the young lad was just a little too broken just a little to beat down by the harshness of his life that he couldn't go It Alone narudo came out of his thoughts to find himself holding a Warn and discarded ninjato that he salvaged from some damaged training ground during one of the times he played ninja by himself he contemplated and discarded the thought of suicide not because he was too strong to stoop so low but because he believed that he could not harm himself fast enough to overcome the freaky demonic rate of healing he apparently had at least that was how he felt until a memory from long ago flashed before his eyes of when he had AK kunai go through his palm during one of his self-training mishaps he remembered morbidly watching as his wound tried to heal around the object in his path and failed casting another glance at the ninjato he burst into motion never giving himself time to reconsider somewhere maybe not in this life he believed he could find the acceptance he needed and even he recognized the futility of pushing at a mountain the considered the various lectures given in the academy about fatal points on the human body the hard it was then he gripped the handle of the weapon placed the tip under his Beating Heart and with a rare content smile on his face he fell forward the Quicksilver flash of pain gave him second thoughts before it dulled and he felt his little heart valiantly fighting to keep up its Symphony of life and failing that was when he felt it a surge of burning red demonic chakra searing through his body to his heart and trying to heal the Damage Done at this point nuto was barely conscious enough to feel the chriy to heal him with a blade in the way finally about to fade away he gave a moment to think of the family he never knew and pray that he meets them in the next life with that last thought he closed his eyes and gave into the Blackness the caoi was startled awake for the first time in a decade to find his host's body failing around him and the mental landscape crumbling he had a split second to react and he made the wrong call a seas and Shinobi would have pushed the panic and acted the caoi for all that he had existed for centuries never had to learn that Brute Force did not solve everything so he sent a surge of concentrated Yaki to the injury and watched in Glee as it burned away the obstruction preventing his host from getting healed his Glee turned to horror as he realized that Naruto's young body could not handle the potency of his Yaki yet and he watched helplessly as the very organ he tried to heal corroded due to the toxicity of his Yaki a mental landscape around him began to vanish as his host finally left the cruel world seconds earlier at the first surge of pure unadulterated malevolence the sand a Hokage was out of his seat quick as a shot even his conscious mind denied what his decades old senses had confirmed his body was already aligning with a window behind his desk muscles flexing in preparation pakra pooling in the required areas and at the second surge of NY physical hatred he was off faster than any I could track it took the ambo station in his office precious seconds to understand what their hair standing on end meant before they were in quick Pursuit but speed worthy of the professor himself serat toi appeared in nut's apartment in A Storm of chakra and a mind already plotting ways to drag the upcoming battle out of range of the village with as little collateral damage as possible the Raging tsunami of chakra and sheer focus flickered and was snuffed out of existence the Ambu dog who was the first of his group to arrive left eye red and spinning furiously in its socket stumbled as he came out of his shunin his Sharingan ensuring that the sight before him would hunt his nightmares until the day he died the professor who had arrived like a force of nature was nowhere to be seen in its place an aged man stood staring at one of his life's many failures that although in no way the worst one that he will always regret slowly knowing that he was already too late 10 years too late he moved over to the corpse of his grandson in all but blood the entire amboo Squad had arrived by this point and the silence that permeated the room was reminiscent of when the body of the yame was brought back that day a decade ago softly gently like a mountain being worn down by time an aged oak tree bowing before the unyielding storm he fell to his knees at Naruto's side with hands so steady they shook he reached out and Drew the body closer he was not aware he had tears in his eyes and as he saw a few drops of liquid slide down the boy's cheeks he absently wondered if the pipes were leaking again perhaps I should get someone to refurbish the entire building someday gripping the handle of the ninjato he pulled it out hating the blood that stained the blade much too soon still a child and already has his blood on a blade he discarded the thief that stole this child from him and bowed his head over the rapidly cooling body and finally allowed himself to acknowledge that he will never hear the voice of koha's precious UNS son and savior namk is uzamaki Naruto watched his once again life proved too much for in uzamaki Naruto he wouldn't blame the child though he could never judge him for buckling under a weight that should never have been his to Bear once again he stood on an illusionary knife edge knowing he was deluding himself into thinking that there existed a choice to be made at all move on and leave this world to make do without the child of Prophecy for as long as it existed anyway or do as he has always done as he would always do and step forward to take his place me he thought with a faint smile I was due a vacation anyway and with that last thought namk is yamaki nuto descended into the corpse held in the arms of a sorrowful and broken old man the kyubi raged as he felt his host Soul finally leave his body he knew that he clung to his anger as a dying man might cling to a straw in a turbulent Sea Of Terror and soul searing fear then he felt it the cold arms of nullity the pure antithesis to reality and existence the final Full Stop in every story that has ever begun the call of the Shinigami death but namic is manado dared to Shackle a God to foolish mortal whims he could never grasp just what it was he had done just what unnatural de had Rod the Shinigami reached through the seal like it never existed and pulled and the caoi knew pain it was a testament to the sheer Genius of the yame Hokage that the death God met some resistance tiny and unnoticeable as it was to it well everything is a matter of perspective anyway well the death God merely desired the soul of the caoi desired it with a hunger to devour all of creation it had no interest in the actual accumulated power of the caoi the seal placed on nuto fought the extraction as best it could and the result was the consciousness of the caoi being moved ahead of its power it's Yaki doubtless the power would have followed the soul eventually that is unless namk uzamaki Naruto had a thing to say about it through the pain of having his soul and Consciousness separated from his power the caoi felt a wall Slamm down between the two parts cutting off his power but the howl at the added pain the caoi was finally devoured whole and the death God left the only proof of its presence being the sheer lack of Vitality in the world almost as though someone had washed out all the colors in the world leaving them DED the ninja in the room felt as as though they had just rubbed shoulders with a grim reaper himself Kakashi had already began spiraling into a pit of self-disgust and regret as he saw the sanding cradling nito's body lenado Sensei wake up please wake up abido no Kakashi it's Wren she's gone he wondered why he even bothered as his plans to retire from u in time to take on a Jen and team went up Flames the other ninja each remembered times when they interacted with a little child true more often than not it was to catch him after some Act of Mischief but not one of them could deny the good-natured fun and cheer he injected into everything and so as they looked on as their leader mourned they each offered up silent prayers much like they would do for fallen comrades zerat toi pulled himself together and prepared to rise with the body he stopped the ninja around him going on alert as well he wondered what had triggered his senses for a moment he pondered if the person who did this was still around firmly refusing to acknowledge what the lack of forced entry struggle and the peaceful smile on nut's face meant and how long he could keep them alive for while they suffered his Fury and then he felt it again a pulsive chakra the ninja around him shifted in alarm preparing themselves for anything well almost anything Jaws dropped eyes widened and bodies flinched in shock as the body and the arms of the Hokage arched up took in a deep breath and let loose a scream that penetrated to the Bone nay the very Soul abandon hope all ye who enter here namk is uzamaki Naruto has arrived the sand Dame Hokage returned the greetings of the hospital staff he met on his way to his destination it had been 2 months since that horrible day he had had found nuto bleeding to death from an attempted suicide even now knowing that the child had survived the memory still caused his breath to Hitch in his chest and his body to tense he finally arrived at the door to the private room that contained the Kos blue-eyed child though undetectable to almost everyone else he easily made out the two uo guards that were stationed outside the room he opened the door preparing to go in and froze in his steps the U Inu was at his side in an instant checking to see what had startled the professor the sight before him caused his throat to close off and his body to tense during the 2 months his body was in a coma Naruto had been busy as soon as his senses informed him that he was alone in the hospital room save for the two ambo outside the door he got to work the first thing he did was weave a smooth layer of chakra just underneath his skin making sure not to let the untrained chakra of his new body surge in anyway and alert the ambo outside well it was a relatively easy thing for him to pull off he knew that for anyone else save maybe senut Tsunade it would be practically impossible to accomplish the purpose of the layer of chakra was to serve as a shield a force field if you will to keep anyone outside from sensing what was happening inside it with that done and while maintaining a firm hold on the chakra layer the real work began softly deafly he siphoned off a tiny amount of the caob Yaki and began work at the bones with a skill born of numerous lives spent as a doctor scientist Apprentice of Tsunade and even a few times as the second coming of the snake sand and yup those were Dark Times indeed he coed the bones of his body to adapt as he wanted over the period of of two weeks every single one of his bones became incredibly dense strong flexible and almost unbreakable true it wasn't anything like a kagaya but it was sure as hell damn close a side effect of this procedure was an increase in height putting him at above average for his age group The Next Step was to craft muscles to handle the increased body weight over the next 3 weeks he meticulously broke down and rebuilt every single muscle in his body while he was at it he also burned away a lot of the baby fat in his body and improved his nerves and reaction times then he improved on the efficiency of his body's internal organs strengthening his heart lungs kidneys and other organs to function at way above Peak efficiency even by Ninja standards lung capacity increased exponentially as well as metabolism and energy output 5 weeks after the start of his coma his physical attributes were Way Beyond what any of his peers could achieve even while boosting themselves with chakra without the use of chakra he would still be the fastest and strongest the best of any ninja in his generation and these were basically his base stats they would undoubtedly improve as he trained himself further next he tackled his brain after all it wouldn't do if the brain was not on par with the Consciousness using it knowing that this was the most delicate operation yet he took his time but the most miniscule amount of Yaki he could get away with he set about modifying the brain's neural Pathways and augmenting various synapses enabling his brain to process things at a significantly improved rate in addition to the brain he didn't forget to take care of his senses of course he wasn't doing anything as outrageous as giving himself a d Jutsu though after having gone down the same path as arachim Maro many times before he knew all their structures inside out however what he did do was tremendously improve and fine-tune all his senses to the point where the level of perception of his eyes coupled with the processing power of his new brain ensured that a single glance was all he would need to completely understand and perfectly recall anything he saw simply focusing his hearing without chakra augmentation could allow him listen into a conversation hundreds of yards away has already ounding sense of smell improved so much that a simple sniff could reveal so detailed a story it would seem as though he was there when it unfolded his senses were so acute that he was even capable of detecting temperature and barometric changes at this point it was the start of the seventh week and he was almost done the final task left was the Improvement of his chakra system luckily enough during the entire process of improving his new body the act of moving cao's Yaki through the body resulted in some strengthening and widening of the chakra Pathways in his body nevertheless it was a fairly straightforward procedure comparatively he simply had to circulate as much chakra as his Pathways could handle then gradually increase the amount much like training a muscle if he slipped up and circulated more than the chakra Pathways could safely handle slim as the possibility of that happening was he could easily heal it one of two ways using a tiny amount of caob Yaki or activating the FED uzamaki healing Factor on the note of the healing Factor centuries ago and many lives previously he had discovered that the healing Factor could in fact be contr controled in particular it turned up in varying strengths in different members of the Uzumaki Clan but without a doubt the expression of the healing Factor was the strongest ever in uzamaki narudo this superfactor arose as a result of being conceived by the genturi of the caoi thus requiring that he as a child be able to adapt to survive the miniscule amounts of toxic Yaki he got frequently exposed to during the course of his growth in the womb Nudo kept up the strengthening and widening of his chakra Pathways for days on end he also induced his body to grow a few extra tetus in key locations to further improve his body's chakra control by the time he was done it was the end of the seventh week and his body was as close as could possibly be to being the perfect killing machine he looked upon all that he had wrought and he saw it was good and on the eth week he rested after 8 weeks of being in a coma and the subsequent body modifications Naruto had performed he decided it was finally time to wake up and face this new world his timing was in fact impeccable because the academy would be resuming in one month giving him more than enough time to settle in and fully integrate himself into his situation before having to interact with people he had grown up with for years regardless of how morbid the thought he acknowledged that little Naruto's successful attempt at suicide would provide a plausible excuse for any changes in behavior that might otherwise have alarmed the people who knew him he opened his eyes and immediately had to fight to suppress the downright shiver inducing vulpine grin that threatened to appear on his face from the very first moment his eyes had opened his brain had begun rapidly processing everything in his wider than an average field of vision he focused on the dust Moes floating in the air backlit by the fluorescent bulb and in the time between heartbeats he determined reasonably accurate estimates of each individual particle velocity and the subsequent path of motion passing his hands over the sheet on his body noticing with a deep sense of accomplishment that his motion was smooth and unhindered by the fact he had been bedridden for two months he was able to feel out the individual threads that made up The Weave of the sheet he could easily smell past the lingering scent of antiseptic to the blood that had been spilled on the floor about 3 months before from a female diabetic patient the slight smell Taste of sugar in the blood gave it away he sat up as his acute hearing picked up the heartbeats of three people outside the door focusing in on them he picked up the scent of dogs ozone metal and blood Inu metal blood slight antiseptic and sword oil Nico probably and finally tobacco smoke ink and the slight Decay brought on by age the old man no doubt quickly compassing his face into a calm and Serene look he turned his head so that he was gazing out of the window in his room to a spectacular view of the village with the Hokage Monument as a backdrop he heard the sound of Flesh gripping metal as the Hokage took hold of the door handle then the sound of metal sliding on metal followed as the handle was depressed finally the hinges gave a near silent squeak as the door was opened even with his eyes on The View outside he easily picked up the moment when the huage noticed he was conscious by the slight hitch in his breathing as well as the flutter of chakra resulting from being so surprised enu stared at the child sitting up in the hospital bed whose gaze seemed to be fixed on The View outside privately he allowed himself to breathe an internal sigh of relief unnoticeably of course he had a reputation to preserve after all finally he could allow himself to relax from the high strung State he had been in for the past two months the record high of a rank missions he had completed a stunning 17 if you recalled no waight ah yes one of those was a mislabeled S rank had left the Hokage staring at him in slight concern whenever he reported in as he turned to return to his post in order to Grant the Hokage a private moment with Naruto he silently vowed that when the time came he would fulfill his duty to his Sensei son as he should have a decade ago serat toi felt as though the world had just decided to take a break from resting on his shoulders seeing that little blond-haired child sitting up brought tremendous relief that he was not even aware he desperately needed however quick on the heels of the relief was stomach yearning apprehension he had long since accepted that nuto had attempted suicide and that he would have to address just why he felt that was the only way out for him he walked into the room making sure not to walk silently as all ninja worth their salt unconsciously did he even closed the door slightly harder than he usually did all in an effort not to startle the poor child completely unaware that said child was bursting his gut trying not to erupt into belly aing laughter the sand a decided to start off the inevitable conversation Alo Naruto K it warms this old man's heart to find you awake again he began gently but Naruto turned and locked gazes with him he unconsciously stilled as that piercing blue gaze caused flashbacks of another blond-haired man's calm and confident Soul searing blue eyes with a start he realized that that something about the boy was different not just the aura about the child for gone was the usual childlike sunny and impatient disposition that used to cling to him and in its place was a more tempered and calm Aura but his looks as well indeed unless his aging eyes were deceiving him nutk face was more defined now having lost most of its baby fat and what little he could see of his body sest was taller and fitter than before his coma in a quick silver flash of intuition he concluded that the doctors must have noticed that a steady diet of raymen had done no good for him and added some extra nutrients to the IV drip administered to him it was a reasonable deduction and even half true for when nuto was improving his body he did obtain the needed nutrients and other important proteins from the IV drip his contemplation of the Chang child only lasted a moment and he continued his journey to the bedside seat Nudo followed him with his eerily focused gaze and when the old man had sit down he opened his mouth and spoke in a smooth and even tone J the sandan was startled once again in such a short time anytime had ended up in the hospital he was always noticeably more exuberant than he was at the moment whenever he got a visit from him then he reminded himself that he could hardly expect the child to remain unchanged by the ordeal he had gone through nuto who had easily followed the old man's train of thought for he was never guarded around him except when he asked about his parents or the reason for why he was treated as he was had to stop himself from reacting noticeably as his theory was proven correct and any change in his behavior was put down to surviving his attempted suicide since he wanted to get over and done with the real reason that the Hokage was here he said how long has it been since how long have I been asleep serat toi noticed the change in nutk intended sentence as he was meant to and replied you have been here for 8 weeks now Naruto K Naruto K can you tell me what happened did someone say something to you that made you sad did did someone do something bad to you it was that last question that got a reaction out of him Naruto blinked in carefully muted surprise at that he wondered idly if this Naruto had suffered physical violence on his person or maybe other forms of physical abuse he immediately dismissed such dangerous thoughts from his mind on the outside however he merely shook his head and having already decided on how he should play this he stated in the same calm and even tone he had been using Didi I was S I was just tired his short statement achieved its objective by leaving its meaning open to interpretation essentially making the old man come up with an excuse for him without any effort on his part and indeed the Hokage did draw his own conclusions believing that nuto meant that the various actions and words of the vengeful and misled villagers towards him had finally gotten too much for him to bear and really who could blame the child it was a testament to his tenacity that he had lasted as long as he had and the Hokage liked to believe that it was a measure of Naruto's inherent goodness that he did not immediately turn to Revenge as his way out the Hokage never suspected a thing for how could he simple and transparent Naruto had never been capable of deception when it mattered The Old Man sighed and said I understand Nudo and I just want to say that I am always here for you always when he saw the child nod with emotion gratitude finally showing in his eyes he allowed himself to fully relax and accept that nuto was here alive and well he then said well the doctors have said that once you wake up All That Remains is a quick checkup and then you're free to go while you were here I took the liberty of getting your apartment fixed up and now that I see you have outgrown your clothes I can have some brought for you before you have to leave the hospital arudo smiled at him not his usual Goofy and too wide smile but a more subdued and real one and said thanks jigi I can't wait to leave here and wrinkling his nose he said it stinks Sarat toi allowed himself to chuckle at the Naruto is complained somehow knowing that such manifestations of the bride and happy child he once knew would be rare occurrences from now on he knew in the depth of his two old bones that koha had lost something that day two months ago something that they would never ever get back arudo paused with the key in the lock allowing his chakra to flutter in Surprise not because of the amboo agent who had just sneezed the agent whose presence he had detected as soon as he had stepped out of the hospital but because of the fresh and clean walls surrounding his door unblemished by creative and often times repetitive graffiti shrugging he stepped into his transformed apartment absently noticing the reinforced ninja grade locks on his door and now that he was paying attention the likewise reinforced and heavier door he let out an amused Huff got the apartment fixed up indeed standing in the doorway he let his gaze pan across his obviously refurbished apartment appreciating its new Decor from the new and modern appliances to the farm comfortable Furniture he stepped fully into his living room ignoring the Ambu guard trailing him who just relocated to the tree beside his apartment building on the topic of new things he had to compliment whoever purchased the clothes he was wearing his outfit compassed of a form-fitting dark blue long sleeved shirt and black cargo shorts with steel toot combat boots was a definite upgrade from the orange monstrosity of yester years they were very comfortable although he didn't quite agree with their color scheme he hadn't gotten too used to Dawning red and black and would have to see about acquiring some clothes similar to those he had worn in past lives perhaps he would even get back to wearing that face mask like Kakashi does he sat on his couch and decided to finally tackle the main obstacle to his complete integration in this reality and that was researching the history of the world a seemingly inan thing to worry about but he remembered once many lives ago publicly idolizing the yame Hokage only for a mob made up of ninja and civilians to attempt to kill him much later after he had reduced koha to a smoking and Barren Wasteland he found out that the major change in this world was that namis manado was the goding Hokage an arachim maru's successor moving on he easily hatched a plan of action he was aware that the tree outside his apartment afforded any skilled individual the ability to see into his living room but not his bedroom so under the GU of checking out the changes made to his bedroom he casually walked inside it and seamlessly produced a cage bunchin without any evidence to give it away making sure that the spike in Chakra was the same as the one he let out in front of his apartment when he feigned surprise at the new decor the Ambu outside never suspected a thing while his clone hid in the bedroom he wandered back out and eventually left his apartment with a book which going by The annotation in it was left to him by jera as a birthday present not that the old Naruto would have been able to deduce what the scribbled signature of oil stood for he made his way to the top of the yand Dame's head and sat down to read easily sensing the UK guard settled down to read what was no doubt an orange book meanwhile back at Naruto's apartment the moment the cage bunin felt his creator leave and the Ambu follow him he set out to fulfill the task for which he was created with no warning his body smoothly shifted into that of an average looking 10-year-old with perfectly ordinary features brown eyes and hair he left the apartment and made his way to the koha public library he nonchalantly walked inside politely greeting the librarian at the front desk who smiled back at the polite young man he asked her if she could Point him in the direction of the History Section saying he needed reference books for his project on the timeline of the elemental Nations when the librarian expressed surprise at such a seemingly involved project for one so young he admitted to her with a sheepish smile that his father had been trying to get him to pay attention in history lessons and finally just decided to Ransom a promised trip to the festival he hoped that by doing the project he could convince his dad that he had turned a new Leaf so to speak duckling at the impatience of today's youth for things like history she pointed out the necessary section for him the Clone followed her directions and easily located various books written from different perspectives of ninjas and civilians alike all told a total of six relatives ly thick books he set the books down at a desk and began reading 15 minutes later he was done he set the books back in their place and wandered over to the section set aside for the Ninja Academy he speedread the various textbooks easily deducing the syllabus for all the years of the academy as well as brushing up on the material taught he had plans to skip a lot of days in the academy and was gratified to note that the final graduation exam accounted for 70% of the student grade for all their years in the academy a dead last student could easily end up in the upper 25% of his year at the end of the day finally the Clone went to attend to his last task the history of various Wars and battles fought as well as notable Deeds of various Ninjas the purpose of reading about such was twofold first and obvious was the fact that it would not do to be ignorant of so and so famous person who everybody knows and whatever famous Deeds they performed second and more subtle was the fact that reading about various famous Deeds would give Naro an idea of what people were capable of for example in some real I ities SpaceTime manipulation was never discovered and so using Jutsu like the Iration caused far more trouble than it was worth by the time the Clone had finished having taken some extra time to peruse books on foraging forging and geography he had been in the library for 2 hours he left pausing at the front desk to thank the librarian and left with a mischievous smile and a promise to bring her a souvenir from the festival she laughed at his adorable cheek and waved him off the Clone walked out of the library and using a technique Naruto had created a long time time ago when he got frustrated by the cage bunions limitations in terms of memory transfer the Clone sent a clump of its memories from the past two hours along the link that all Shadow clones shared with their creator the technique negated the need for a clone to disperse every time it wanted to share its experiences thus adding significantly to the overall effectiveness of a clone during its lifetime with that done the Clone walked down a deserted alley and vanished with no smoke sound or Trace gone between one moment and the next the Clone appeared in one of the deserted training grounds closer to the outskirts of the village indeed as you might have guessed he was in search of a suitable place where the original could train somewhere well away from people and with the smallest possible risk of Discovery the training ground was not his final stop however he walked with a determined gate towards the trees that surrounded the forest walking in a direction that would put him eventually at the wall surrounding the village before he could get that far he emerged into a clearing it bore the marks of area effect Ninjutsu evident by the various Scorch marks damaged equipment fell trees and in some places rust brown stains denoting where blood was spilled these clearings arose as a result of ninjas who wanted to test out some Ninjutsu of the army killing persuasion out of courtesy said Ninja rarely ever experimented in official training grounds not wanting to damage them and prevent others from making full use of them the Clone carefully memorized the location of the clearing and left to another part of the village to repeat the process after 3 hours of searching the Clone had found and memorized the locations of a total of 11 such accidental training grounds three of which had signs of of use in the past year and were thus cut out of consideration one of the potential training grounds had a waterfall nothing too outrageously big but more than sufficient for wind nature chakra training among other things having accomplished all that he had set out to do the Clone disappeared Without a Trace and this time for good on top of the yond Dame's head Naruto gave no indication whatsoever that he had received the memories of his clone he smoothly stood up and dusted off non-existent dirt from his shorts he sensed the attention of the amboo on him as he stood and surveyed The Village perhaps he is worried I might jump he inhaled the clean and fresh air held it in for a beat and then exhaled with one last glance at kanah Hager he turned to return to his apartment arriving at his apartment once more nuto went about preparing a simple dinner he made a mental note to read a cooking book in plain sight of one of his Watchers before he began to prepare gourmet dishes on that thought he should probably start taking the chance to convince anyone watching him that he had taken up reading as a hobby it was never fun when people started getting suspicious and watching him so close that it became a bother for him to cut loose and have fun after all he has found that people have the tendency to start giving him narrow-eyed looks when they discover he is a master blacksmith Hunter Tanner tailor Chef Builder artist well you get the idea the thing with living forever is that you have the time to do anything and So eventually you do after eating and cleaning up he went through the motions of getting ready for bed and after securing his apartment he turned off all the lights climbed into bed and went to sleep a few minutes later Nico arrived to release believe me said Kakashi as he finished his report of his day guarding Nudo theand exhaled a stream of tobacco smoke and closed his eyes turning to one of his most prodigious J and he said thank you Kakashi noticing that his ninja seemed to have more to add he inquired is there something else visibly hesitating Kakashi finally sighed and said no Hokage Sama giving him an assessing gaze the Hokage decided to let it rest very well you may leave thank you for your good work but the bow Kakashi vanished from the huage his office in a cloud of smoke and the old man turned back to his work hoping to finish soon and go home moments earlier the moment Naruto sensed the incoming chakra of Nico he carefully molded his chakra in preparation and when Nik arrived causing a slight spike in her chakra he burst into motion he sealess and smokeless created a cage bunion beside his bed and in the same motion switched out with clone and without losing a beat vanished from his apartment all in a time it took the chakra Spike of Niko's shunin to die down thus effectively masking his action from detection by the two U outside Nudo materialized at the first of the eight clearings he was going to convert into his personal training grounds he created 10 highly charged Shadow clones and departed for the next clearing as Naruto left his clones spread out and by the time they had stopped moving each clone stood in front of a tree from above the formation of the Clones would have looked like a circle with 10 points placed at regular intervals moving in syn each clone held up a finger and forged a small Vivid blue chakra blade together they be began to carve seals into the trunks of the trees they stood in front of having already moved through all eight clearings Naruto arrived back at the first clearing and assumed a meditative pose to prepare himself for step two in all the eight clearings his clones were hard at work inscribing seals in increasingly complex patterns on tent trees meanwhile Naruto had begun his own portion of the task very carefully he gathered and molded a huge amount of chakra and kept a firm hold on it reaching out with his senses he examined the chakra of the trees plants and animals around him as eventually getting a red on the exact frequency if you will of the background chakra of the clearing then with absolute Focus he began to mutate the nature of the chakra he had molded step by step the chakra began to change from one that was unique to Naruto until finally it was indistinguishable from the chakra that saturated the surroundings and right in time too for he sensed through the link he shared with all his clones that they had just finished inscribing the seals now came step three reaching out again he grasped all 80 chakra links to his shadow clones and gave the shadow clones that go ahead to do their parts but the active chakra link between themselves the Clones were able to act and sink simultaneously they molded all their remaining chakra into neutral nature chakra plac their hands on the seals they had just carved and activated the seals they had just carved making sure to Halt the activation process just before its conclusion essentially leaving the seals in a state of suspended animation much like drawing a circle and stopping just before closing it off now for the most delicate part of the entire procedure with his clones Minds right there with him Naruto portioned the carefully prepared chakra into 80 equal parts and after making sure that all his clones were ready sent them out along the chakra links with each chakra packet traveling at a speed that ensured that all the Clones received them at the same time as the Clones felt the chakra packets arrive without interrupting the flow they fed the chakra into the suspended seals and just as the last of the incoming chakra was sucked into the seal they closed the loop completing the charging and activation of the seals going to the neutral nature of the chakra used no ninja sensed the chakra Spike and the hidden nature of the clearings ensured that the resulting light show went unseen after the chakra eruption had died down Naruto dismissed all his clones getting up out of his meditative post Naruto probed the newly made barrier around the clearing he was in checking to make sure that all the features he had intended were present in the barrier and that nothing went wrong he was satisfied with what he found now no one but him would be able to find any of the eight clearings and even those who might have known about their existence in the past would just conclude that the trees must have grown after they realize that they can't find any clearings outside the training grounds after all who knows what the trees grown by the shaame are capable of with all that done Naruto could then get around to training up his body to flow smoothly with all the moves and reflexes he had acquired over his very long existence it was always ultimately easier to have a body that didn't fight against ingrained reflexes and motions moving to the edge of the clearing he flexed his chakra and suddenly 500 Shadow clones existed in the previously empty Place checking to ensure that they would have enough Jack to see them through the night he left them as they began grouping themselves into different squads Each of which would run through the cotas of a different T Jutsu style he moved to the other shielded training grounds and repeated the same procedure leaving clones that would acquire proper training in the use of the five elements their various combinations as well as kinjutsu kadas with that done he prepared to return to his apartment to get some rest now that he had taken care of all the necessary preparations he could start having his fun just before he vanished from the clearing he was in he watched a batch of clones juggle renin amongst themselves and mused absently that he should build a blacksmith's Forge in one of those clearings to make custom weapons and then with not as much as a whisper he was gone from his perch in the darkness 12-year-old nuto could easily make out the 73 Bandits that made up the camp which was his Target his Superior hearing picked up the whimpers and subdued crying coming from the tent pitched in the center of the clearing where he knew the kidnapped women girls were being held captive he had been going on such Bandit clearing missions for months now knowing that the smaller villages in fire country often lacked military protection and were thus susceptible to Bandit raids so he would sneak out of koha and go to those Villages offering his services for free of course he sometimes had to explain to the people that he was more than capable of carrying out the mission though he had found that simply fixing them with a look got things moving pretty quickly ever the meticulous one Naruto performed last minute checks before beginning what he had mentally termed operation Wipeout his self-made highquality kunai and shuriken were all accounted for and easily accessible his all black fitted outfit was ready as well no loose material to Flap and give him away or hinder his movements finally he used his chakra to probe the complex ceiling array on the back of his hand which was hidden by the black fingerless gloves he wore a seal a customized limiter seal was something he discovered he needed during the first of such secret outings to Wipe Out Bandit camps on that first pro bono Mission he had snuck into a bandit Camp navigating to the tent holding the captives without being detected by any of the bandits VIs intention was to get the captives free via use of his clones and Well on their way back to their little village and their loved ones before he commenced with taking down the bandits the bound he placed on them had requested that the woman captured be returned unharmed and the bandits taken in dead are alive and knowing that it was actually more difficult capturing enemies alive than dead he had chosen to keep them alive well that was his intention before he had slipped into the tent to find that the captives had all been brutally raped and murdered and the oldest had been only 14 silence spread unnaturally fast through the clearing as all the normal sounds of the nighttime Forest stilled the bandits quickly sensing the tense atmosphere began to reach for their weapons as the first man's fingers brushed the H of his sword the very air in the clearing detonated with the force of a Dying Sun instantly killing every single living human present not a single drop of blood was spilled not a single sound was made no flames no lightning no Jutsu whatsoever was cast 60 lives were extinguished by raw ferocious and quite frankly Godly killing intent after nuto had turned turned the bandits bodies to Ash and returned the murdered victims to their loved ones he reflected on the mission if it could be called that realizing that the level he was at could turn a simple face slap delivered in anger into a beheading strike he set out to rectify the situation years ago when he had lived the life of in yuzaki clansmen he had heard of theoretical limiter seals intended to drag beings on par with a bigu down to the level of common ninja these seals would be heads above the generic limiter seals which merely limited chakra or provided resistance to physical exertion no these theoretical seals would have the power to infiltrate not just the chakra system of the target but also the neural system as well their activation would lock away a stipulated portion of the target's chakra capacity thereby both limiting the amount of chakra they have as well as their rate of chakra regeneration they would also limit the rate of transfer of neurons along their neural network resulting in slowed down reflexes loss of strength and a general diminishing of the targets capabilities and attributes under the effects of the seal Gods would be as men it took for months of constant work using a veritable hord of Shadow clones but nuto did it he implemented Seven Levels level one being the inactive state of the seal to level seven placing him on par with the better jins of koha he also designed the seal with a quick release mechanism allowing him to jump in levels with but a thought silent as the Shadows he hid in he made his way towards the improvised prison slipping inside his nose covered by a blackface mask reminiscent of the one worn by Kakashi picked up the scent of blood sex and tears to his right praying and yet already knowing that it was feudal he turned to find a girl a child of about 9 years old spread eagled on the bed and staring blankly at nothing the movement of her chest and the sound of her heartbeating assured him she was still alive the blankness of her gaze and the fluids flowing down her thighs which his nose informed him were from three different men told him that she was dead in other ways the side and smell before him caused his body too still and his eyes to turn flat and frigid peripherally he was aware that the captives he had come to rescue had drawn back from him in Terror but could not bring himself to care about that at the moment turning back to the entrance to the tent he spoke in a voice that impossibly managed to come out soft and soothing Elder Kaba sent me for you please stay here while I take care of the filth outside before any of the people inside the tent could utter a word a clone had materialized beside Naruto with no prior warning and Naruto stepped outside Naruto touched his hand to the tent flap and a shimmering blue wave passed over the tent signifying that a combination sound and physical barrier had gone up inside the tent the Clone set about soothing and calming the captives as well as healing those who needed it using medical chakra Naruto forent using any method to disguise himself as he calmly and nonchalantly walked towards the main campfire some of the men in the camp had obviously noticed him judging by the sound of Swords leaving their sheaths as well as the malicious Chuckles emanating from some of them the huge bear of a man obviously the Bandit in charge stepped forward and in a voice that indicated he was simply going through the motions addressed nuto hey gaki you lost we could help you find your way back but then again you could just as well stay with us and entertain irk Naruto flicked his ninjato to dislodge the blood clinging to it and watched hisp passionately as the lead Bandit bled out from the second mouth on his neck the other Bandits glanced fearfully at the place Naruto was standing at the start of the leader speech and only the quickest of them caught a glimpse of the fading after image Left Behind when nuto moved at blurring speeds finally realizing that they were way outmatched one of the smarter Bandits turned to flee and collapsed only for his head to roll away from his body the rest of the bandits had finally caught on to the situation they were in and the camp erupted in chaos as most chose to run for their lives 15 minutes later it had all ended in a blur of black gold and silver nuto had blazed through the throng slicing through bodies armor and swords as though he were performing cot is in open air his Cuts were quick clean and efficient granting instant death to all he struck at even though the men were little more than despicable beasts he would not reduce himself to making them needlessly suffer casting his senses around the encampment he confed confirmed that all 72 bodies were accounted for he gave an unnoticeable smirk as he turned to return to the captiv tent his eyes widened as a blade erupted from his chest he gurgled as the attacker ripped the Blade free with a malicious smile on his unseen face the smile was abruptly replaced with a grimus of pain as the body he still had a hold undispersed with a surge of lightning after his muscles had stopped twitching and he had regained Mobility again he spun in a circle searching for his elusive prey bitk calm and vaguely amused tone floated through the clearing I wondered when you would show yourself it figures that trash like you would wait till the last moment to attack from behind the mysterious as salent and ninja no doubt gave off a vicious gnarl at nark statement in a tone filled with hatred attempting to mask the fear underneath he said why don't you show yourself if you think you're not trash ha the immediately paled as he heard a chuckle from about a foot behind him he spun swinging his sword a chest height neck height for Naruto intending to end this fight quickly only to find that his opponent the child was actually much farther away he quickly assessed the figure in front of him and was taken aback at the fact that the other was completely at ease the first emotion he felt was fear fear that the person was so skilled that he didn't need to pay attention to him however fear quickly gave way to anger as the situation reminded him of the way people in his home Village of Kumo had dismissed him as someone who would never amount to anything and now I'm the leader of the biggest and most infamous Bandit group in fire country well I was at any rate seeing as he never ascended past the rank of chunin he had been unable to follow nuto as he cut a swath of Destruction through the Bandit Camp his realization did not translate into caution however and he switched to an offensive stance and with no more discussion sprang at Naruto Naruto had been observing the ninja before him since the beginning and thus easily Sid stepped his initial lunge he made no motion to un sheath his ninj from where it hung on his back held in place by a subconscious application of chakra he kept on dodging the swings of the enemy tunin moving only as much as necessary to have the attacking blade pass him harmlessly by as time went on the Ninja's attacks got sloppier as frustration and fear emerged to slowly overcome the rage that had initially driven his swings all through this Naruto kept on dodging with the same calm and amused smile on his face moments later he got a notification from his clone informing him that all the captives had been successfully returned to their home Village finally now I can finish up here and get back home for the first time during the entire confrontation nuto reacted to the ninja attacking him on his next swing the enemy ninja found an obstacle in his path in the form of Naruto's silver bladed ninjato he only had time for his eyes to widen before Naruto sent a surge of lightning chakra down his blade into the enemy sword and then grounded via his body the Ninja's muscle spasmed and he let loose a pain-filled scream Naruto cut off the flow of chakra to the weapon and watched the ninja fall to his knees he locked gazes with his opponent and in one smooth and graceful motion removed his head after burning the Ninja's body he sealed his head in a storage scroll he had memorized the Bingo book and recalled a bounty on the Kumo chunan head he searched a bandit camp for any loot and stored those in Scrolls as well intending to return most of it to the Village the bandits had pillaged he walked to the edge of the clearing and turned back to face the camp then he molded his chakra stamped his foot and intoned Earth release herth land flip and watched as a square section of the ground roughly the size of the camp flipped over leaving a bare and unblemished clearing where before stood the equivalent of a mass burial sight his work done with Naruto vanished from the clearing with a flash of lightning and Rumble of Thunder sneaking back into the village was as easy as ever Naruto stealthily made his way back to his apartment door he simply placed his hand on the door and pushed it open having replaced all the locks with a complex and sometimes lethal ceiling array he took off his stealth clothes pleased to note that there was not a single drop of blood on them after cleaning up his equipment and himself he got ready for bed tomorrow was the Academy graduation exams and he had big plans ever since he returned to the academy after his Reawakening he had EST established a pattern of always missing written tests Ninjutsu practices T Jutsu tournament bars as well as Weapons accuracy tests having peruse the syllabus of the academy as well as snuck into to view some of the files in the principal's office he was well aware that it was possible for him to graduate the academy without having ever attended any of the above activities and he was very much enamored with the idea of shocking everyone with his never-before-seen skills of course iruka had tried talking to him to get him to stop skipping school on those days even going so far as to involved the sand a Hokage between the two of them it should have been a trivial matter to change nutk mind the two found out however that no one could out stubborn Nudo after he pointed out that there were absolutely no consequences of missing those class periods heruka tried to mention that the skills developed during those classes were essential to graduation Naruto merely gave the two an enigmatic smile and said aruka Sensei I will achieve the highest ever recorded score on the final graduation exam Naruto had delivered that statement in such a straightforward and serious tone his blue gaze solemn focused and piercing that the Hokage and aruka had been struck speechless after the silence brought on by Naruto's declaration serat toi sat back in his C1 gazed thoughtfully at the young man in front of him very well Naruto silencing aruka protests before they could occur he continued with a kind and proud look in his eye I believe in you picking up on the odd phrasing of that last statement aruka could say nothing else to that whatever it was the Hokage had seen as he gazed at nuto must have been something and indeed it was but when serat toi had looked at nuto he was reminded of another blond-haired man standing in his office almost two decades ago with the same determined and piercing blue eyes declaring in the same solemn and confident tone sirat toi Sama send me I will end this war some of the students already seated in the classroom turned at the sound of the door opening to find their most Tru classmate walking in as had been the case for the past 2 years nuto was dressed in his dark red muscle shirt partial covered by an open black sleeveless jacket he also wore black short s black steel toot combat boots and a dark red face mask that covered everything below his nose the first time Naruto had entered the classroom dressed like that after Awakening from his coma not that any of the students knew that silence had quickly descended upon the children gathered in the room true to form in yuzuka Kiba had taken the chance to R nuto hey dead last nice threads your injury must have fixed your fashion sense but I'm not sure it did anything for your lack of ninja skills even though there was nothing particularly witty about that statement most of the other students stud and still laughed because this was Naruto and that was what they did normally the laughter would have been interrupted by an obnoxiously loud declaration from Naruto protesting what Kiba had said and declaring that he would show them the greatness of the future Hokage but it never came at this deviation from the norm people quickly focused on nuto only to realize that he hadn't even paid attention to kibo or the rest of the class in fact nuto had never stopped walking and was already seated in the back of the room after a moment of uncomfortable silence Kiba threw out another taunt intending to get a reaction from nuto Nothing by this point some of the other students had become uncomfortable and were shifting in their seats taunt after mocking taunt and all nuto did was seat there calmly staring out of the window by his seat finally getting desperate Kiba began and what's with that face mask finally realized that it must have been your ugly mug that caused your par and he stopped wondering at what had interrupted Kiba the students turned to look at him and found him pale and shaking and even picked up faint whimpers emanating from his jacket where aamer was hidden quickly their gazes cut back to nuto and most of them shivered in fear nark eyes that had once been calm and disinterested were now frigid deadly and unwaveringly trained on Kiba after a few more seconds during which everyone held their breath Naruto finally turned his gaze back to the window it took a few minutes before people felt comfortable enough to resume their original discussions and even then there was still an undercurrent of unease running through the room at the start of the one-sided confrontation ich chasuk had looked up in well-hidden interest he had gotten bored when nuto didn't react and return to brooding as he was often want to do one slightly frightened silence had descended however he quickly played back what Kiba had just said and realizing that Kiba had been about to cross a line by mentioning nutk no doubt dead parents he turned an angry Gaze on him a gaze that quickly turned surprised as he found kba looking like he had just seen a ghost when he glanced at nuto and noticed his glacial eyes he had a brief lashback to the night his family was murdered and a slight shiver of fear traveled down his spine he silently berad himself for his re action and made a mental note to pay more attention to the obviously much changed nuto a few minutes after the students had resumed talking amongst themselves heruka walked in and began the lesson of the day months after the start of the academy term and Naruto's memorable reintroduction to his classmates the students of ARA's class began to notice that Naruto never attended classes where they had ninjab based evaluations such as Weapons accuracy tests to Jutsu spars and so on grasping at something familiar and safe they immediately began to speculate that Naruto no matter the change in attitude and clothing was still the same unskilled idiot but only much quieter you see they chose to interpret his absences as him trying to avoid getting embarrassed by having his mediocre skills and inadequacies AED for all to see so now not only were they convinced that he was a dead last loser but also a cowardly one too Sask had obviously heard such rumors and with no evidence to say otherwise having already forgot Naruto's interaction with Kiba sasu 2 was convinced that Naruto was nothing interesting and promptly went back to ignoring him nuto who was aware of what was being said simply ignored them squabbling children playing at being ninjas and continued to train and just generally do his own thing aruka finally arrived and the students quieted down in nervous anticipation quick on his heels was the assistant instructor Mizuki carrying in his arms the written portion of the academy exams heruka promptly began well then I see you're all quiet and eager for your exams so we'll start right away the exams will have five parts of 10 point each a written exam a weapons accuracy test a stealth test a t Jutsu Spar and finally an in Jutsu evaluation now as has always been the case all portions of the exam save the written portion will have allowances for students to gain extra credit if they wish as each portion comes up I will let you know how the extra credit part works now for these written exams you have 15 minutes to answer all 100 questions correctly now don't feel too bad when you can't answer everything in the time given the exams are made to be unbeatable and the record for this part of the exam has been held for over five decades by our very own sand Dame Hokage many students broke out in hushed murmuring at that little tidbit smirking to himself aruka signaled Mizuki to hand out the exams and when he finished he gave the students the go-ahead to begin Naruto glanced once through the exam and began filling in the correct answers without hesitation having lived for as long as he had and memorized the academy books on top of that it was a trivial issue for him to know the answers coupled with his body's impressive speed and hand eye coordination he easily blazed through the written exams and finished a few minutes before the time was up aruka noticing that n was done as did Mizuki frowned in confusion he knew how difficult the exams were and though they were multiple choice questions they still took time to finish just what is the demon Brad up to Mizuki thought to himself his plans were dependent on nuto living up to his dead last reputation and bombing the exams he quickly calmed himself by thinking that Naro must have either filled in absolute rubbish or just skipped a whole lot of questions the plan was still on and soon aracha Maru Sama would bestow on him unimaginable power at the 15minute Mark the timer went off and Mizuki collected the papers for aruka to start grading a lot of the students grumbled about how they couldn't finish the exam and how most of them never got beyond the 70th question Haruno Sakura lauded as the smartest student in her year turned to aruka and asked an no aruka Sensei you said that the sand Dame had the record for highest score in this portion of the exam but you never told us what he scored aruka smiled her and replied I had wondered when one of you would ask I told you not to expect too much on the exam because the highest recorded score is an 89 most of the students were visibly startled at that then aruka continued now the next portion is the weapons accuracy test I want you all to follow Mizuki who will oversee the test while I get to grading your exams I'm sure it won't take me long Mizuki led the students outside to the weapons range the range had two lines at a measured distance from the targets the closest line was at 100 yd while the second was behind it at 150 yards the 10 targets were man-shaped cardboard cutouts with special red kill spots marked on them turning to the students Mizuki began instructing them on the next portion of their exam for the weapons and accuracy test I will call your name and you will step up and receive five Kunes and five shurikens from me you will stand at the 100 yard line and throw at the targets down the range your goal is to hit as many red marked fatal points as possible for each kill point you hit you get one point as a ruk mentioned there is an opportunity for extra credit here if you want to try for extra credit you must step up to the 150 yd line and try to hit 10 of the kill spots with only the use of shuriken each point you hit properly grants you two points but each one you miss costs you one so if you try for extra credit and hit only six points you get eight points in total Oh and before I forget the targets will be in motion for the extra credit part now let's begin abiram Shino Shino stepped up to the 100 ydd line and re receiving the weapons from Mizuki began to throw them one by one at the targets he got four out of five of his targets using kunai and three out of five with shuriken Mizuki noted his score down and called the next person up this continued for a while with all the students so far opting to forgo the attempt at extra credit next Mizuki called forward Kiba who decided to try for extra credit strutting forward to the taunting calls of his classmate Kiba accepted the weapons from Mizuki and stood at the 150 yard line at this point most of the class was was quiet and focused on Kiba Mizuki activated the mechanism that set the Targets in motion and Kiba began he threw the first five shuriken in quick succession and got four kill spots the students watching cheered Deon and bolstered by his success he got too cocky and launched the last five weapons faster than before and only scored three out of five still with a total score of 11 points he was the current highest scorer he threw a smug smirk at sassu can swaggered back to his place in line the other students after him were encouraged by his success and started trying from the extra credit line none however were able to do as well as Kiba until it was sasukes turn the students immediately focused on him and his fan club began to cheer him on sasu calmly stepped up to the 150 yard line and accepted the weapons from Mizuki he quickly launched five shurikens so close together that it seemed like he threw them simultaneously to the amazement of the watching students he got four out of five missing the last one only because the target shifted at the last moment repeating the same thing with the last five he got the same score putting him at the top of the scoreboard so far with a score of 14 points Mizuki marked down his score glanced at his board and called the next student Uzumaki Naruto Naruto nonchalantly made his way forward and received all 10 shuriken from Mizuki he then turned towards the range and as the students noticed he was making his way to the 150 yard line they began to Jer at him telling him not to bother making a fool of himself paying them no heed whatsoever he stopped at the line glanced at the targets and launched all 10 shurikens simultaneously a single sound of metal shredding through cardboard echoed through the clearing quickly followed by gasps of shock as the students noticed that each of Naruto shuriken had gone through the red spot on the head of each of the targets silence spread through the clearing as the students and Mizuki attempted to understand just what they were seeing a perfect score using shuriken launched simultaneously at moving targets 150 yards away finally snapping out of his shock Mizuki smiled and congratulated nuto while internally seething at this new endangerment to his plan theak AO went next and choosing not to attempt for extra credit scored seven out of 10 bazuki finished tallying up her score and led the students to the next exam the stealth test arriving at the obstacle core set up for the students they discovered aruka waiting for them well then why don't we continue with the tests as mentioned previously this test allows you to get more than the allotted 10 points the objective of this test is to make it through the obstacle course by passing all the traps and obstacles set up for you and all without triggering any of the Bells strung up in there you will be graded on your speed and ability to make it through without using any chakra triggering any Bell or getting injured each student starts off with 15 points and if you make it through in less than 3 minutes without using chakra ringing any bells or sustaining any injuries you get to keep your full 15 points every 30 seconds after the 3-minute mark that passes you lose one point if you use chakra ring a bell or sustain an injury you lose one point the record for this particular test is actually held by the yand Hokage who took 4 minutes and 9 19 seconds and rang no Bell to get a score of 13 points but aruka had mentioned the time limit a lot of students began to think that the course would be relatively short and that they could easily make it through their hopes were ruthlessly crushed when he mentioned the yande hokage's time if a legend like him could only get 13 points then obviously the course must be insane heruka motioned Shino forward to begin and stepped back taking in a barely perceptible breath Sho ran into the sectioned off obstacle course and since the students couldn't see what was happening inside they fell silent to listen carefully one minute in they heard a bell ring followed by another about 45 seconds later they noticed aruka making a note in his scoreboard undoubtedly penalizing Shino a three-minute mark passed and Shino was still nowhere in sight then 5 minutes after he went in they heard the sound of a trap go off and many surmised that he must have gotten injured finally after one more Bell rung Sho emerged a full five minutes and 27 seconds after beginning he had one injury from a surprise trap and just barely scraped a score of seven points after Mizuki had reset the course the next student went in one by one the other students made a pass at the obstacle course with most getting times of over 5 minutes and 30 seconds and scores of 6 7 8 and in one case nine points earned by Kiba when it got to sasukes turn the students once again gave him their full attention when he started they all focused waiting to hear if he rang any Bell or encountered any traps after 3 minutes people had begun to think that he might make it through without ringing a bell then at at the 4-minute Mark they heard the distinct tinkling of a bell quickly followed by another Sask emerged after 4 minutes and 23 seconds without a single scratch on his body he earned a score of 11 points as suuk returned to his place in line he threw a blatantly challenging smirk at Naruto obviously still mythed by Naruto's performance in the weapons accuracy test Naruto obviously caught the look as did practically everyone else then nonchalantly dismissed it as he walked past sasu to the starting line this action did not sit well with sasu had to calm himself before he did anything Unbecoming in such a public place sas's fan club did not hesitate to act in his place though and quickly hurled insults at Naruto loudest of all coming from Sakura and Eno blatantly ignoring them and thus angering them further Naruto glanced at aruka to give him the go ahead to begin adara's nod he was off the students listened and despite Naruto's showing at the weapons range most of them expected to hear bells going off as well as explo lives after the first minute they had heard nothing eyebrows were already being raised and disbelieving glances being shared after 2 minutes and 58 seconds Naruto casually strolled out of the exit of the obstacle course not a single scratch on him clothes unruffled and bells remaining silent after Ruka had gotten over his surprise he marked down Naruto's time and record shattering score of 15 points calmly walking past a bewildered a chasuk and gaping in yuzuka Kiba Naruto returned to the tree he was leaning against before his turn and sat down on a raised route aruka called the last student Eno forward and she finished with a score of eight points in his office serat toi harzin continued to watch the Ninja Academy exams using his crystal ball he had been following the progress of uzamaki nuto and was pleasantly surprised by his success so far it gladdened his heart to see Naro realizing his full potential even if he mentally made a note to discover just how he had improved so much he glanced up as he heard his door open and watched as a handful of J in the future JN and senses of the present graduating class entered his office inviting them over to watch their future students performances hiri focused on what was happening in the academy after cating their results Mizuki and aruka led them to the T Jutsu sparring grounds aruka turned to the students most of whom were now eyeing nuto with something other than scorn and hoty contempt and began his instruction now I want you to listen up carefully the next portion of the exam is a t Jutsu Spar between you and Mizuki the time limit for The Spar is 2 minutes and your goal is to either defeat him or last the full two minutes each student will start out with 10 points and here's how the score will proceed if a student wins before the time limit by either knockout or knocking Mizuki out of the ring then the amount of time left on the clock will be divided by 20 rounded down to the nearest whole number and added to their 10 points for their final score if a student loses before the limit the same math occurs but with a deduction from their 10 points for their final score once a student lasts past the two-minute Mark they get their full 10 points whether they win or not the record for this portion of the exam is a win in a time of 45 seconds held by the yande Hokage now let us begin with Shino Shino stepped impassively into the ring with Mizuki and at aruka signal The Spar started from the get-go it was obvious that Mizuki was not going all out for how could he an Academy student could ordinarily never hope to match a chunin using his higher than average Clan taught to Jutsu skills Shino was finally able to knock Mizuki out of the ring after 1 minute and 37 seconds for a final score of 11 points after congratulating him heruka called out the next student and so it went the students matched up against Mizuki and only the clan children ever managed to win before the time limit was up even if Mizuki went easy on them for the civilians most were able to last at 2 minutes while the rest lost before it Kiba being the second best student in t Jutsu on paper was able to win after 1 minute and 13 seconds eventually aruka called out sasukes name determined to be the best scorer in this portion of the test sasu kicked it into high gear as soon as aruka started the match noticeably moving faster than any of the other students before him he engag engaged Mizuki in a ferocious D Jutsu encounter Landing more blows than he received he ended the match with a brilliantly executed acrobatic maneuver that had his leg propelling Mizuki out of the ring after a hard impact to his chest heruka stopped the timer and noted his time of 1 minute and 2 seconds confident that no one would be able to beat his time sasu exited the ring with a smug smirk and passed by Naruto who was already making his way towards the ring before aruka had even called on him back in the sand Dame's office some of the Jon expressed approval at the a airs to Jutsu prowess commenting that he obviously must be the genius of his generation had a Kakashi one of the J and present silently observed one of his future students with his one eye before returning to his orange covered book noticing the lack of commentary from his comrade serat toi assuma glanced over only to Huff an exasperation of Kakashi's terrible habit not that he was one to talk however when thejan noticed that nuto was next they paid close attention that attention only sharpened further when Kakashi put away his book and focused on the crystal ball as well giving off an amused chuckle the sand a returned to gazing at the scene that was unfolding in the academy waiting for aruka to finish recording sasukes time Naruto calmly observed Mizuki standing opposite him taking particular notice of the well-hidden malice in his eyes knowing that Mizuki would probably not hold back in the first few moments of their Spar he prepared himself to crush the traitor swiftly and ruthlessly the other students Sask and particular quickly focused on The Spar that was about to begin hoping to see if nut's previously hidden skills in included to Jutsu as well Mizuki just wanted to kill two birds with one stone and diminish nut's chances of graduating while getting to beat him down the moment Ruka gave the signal Mizuki was off blurring across the arena faster than any of the other jenin could ever hope to follow he appeared in front of nuto his right fist already rocketing towards the boy's head so confident was he in getting in the first strike that he overcommitted to the blow and so when his hand passed through the space where nark face used to be he found that he had overextended himself a his brain could put together what the lack of impact meant his body was already folding over the right knee that Naruto had plowed into his stomach blood left his mouth as aruka and the students watching gasped in shock when they noticed the foot sized crater created where nuto had pushed to the ground Naruto's leg came back down just as physics caught up to Mizuki whose body had begun to leave the floor it was not to be however nut's right hand was suddenly gripping his hair as he drove his head back down to meet the left knee that he had just raised The Spectators winced when a crack resounded through the clear ing quickly followed by Blood spraying out of mizuki's nose and mouth as he slipped into Blissful unconsciousness numb fingers clicked the button on the timer and aruka slowly gazed at the clock's face 3 seconds the low whistle left the mouth of one of the Jon and gathered around the hokage's crystal ball followed by an amazed yet quite accurate observation now that was a Smackdown the Hokage chuckled and puffed out a cloud of tobacco smoke CU he thought to himself Kina he really is your son the Hokage had obviously noticed that Mizuki had started off too strong for just a t Jutsu Spar and made a mental note to keep an eye on him Bashi who had also noticed that mizuki's intentions were less than pure watched with vindictive pleasure as The Idiot slumped to the ground in a bleeding and broken mess serves him right for pulling a stunt like that the students had begun to whisper as soon as nuto had been declared the winner by knockout many of them were wondering just when the supposed dead last had gotten so strong and why he had kept on avoiding assessment tests during the Academy school year Sask meanwhile was mentally reconsidering everything he thought he knew about uzamaki narudo and making plans to Corner him for questioning later back on the sparring field heruka had propped Mizuki against a tree and used what little Battlefield healing Jutsu he knew since his partner was out for the count he faced off against Eno himself winning The Spar after 1 minute and 50 seconds after the students had gotten over their shock at seeing the dead last demolished their teacher heruka herded them back into the class room for the final portion of the exam being that it was a fairly straightforward process his instructions were short you hear your name enter the next room and do what we tell you and when you're done move on to the room across from you and wait for the rest to finish he started with Sho as always and continued down the list Mizuki who had recovered joined him halfway through sasu walked in when it was his turn and then Naruto's name was called as Naruto made his way towards the connecting door his acute hearing easily picked up what was being said in the room that contained those who had already finished their exams smirking to himself at successfully stirring up the hive he entered the connecting room to see the two instructors seated at a table he walked a stand in front of them absently noting that the hatred in mizuki's eyes was more visible probably due to his humiliating injuries smiling proudly at him aruka spoke well Naruto you've gotten to the last portion of the exams this Ninjutsu test is fairly straightforward you will be tested on the use of the basic three Jutsu the kaimi hen and bunin no Jutsu we will begin with the kaimi now sometime in the next 15 seconds and with no prior warning Mizuki will launch a the blunted kunai at you which you must obviously avoid by switching out with something else extra points will be given for demonstrated Mastery of the Jutsu the 15-second Starts Now nuto had kept his cool Gaze on Mizuki throughout the speech given by aruka and thus easily made out the lust for vengeance that brightened his eyes when aruka mentioned the surprise blunted kunai fully aware that Mizuki would attempt to get him back for his previous humiliation he suddenly went on alert for any tricks while appearing calm unconcerned and wide open 9 seconds after the official start of the testing Mizuki launched a kunai with no prior warning at Naruto whose eyes easily tracted even if it was traveling far faster than a jenin could handle the kunite traveled the Gap in an instant hand to the horror of aruka and barely hidden Glee of Mizuki it plunged into Naruto's chest aruka watched devastated as Naruto's eyes widened in pain and his body began to fall backwards he was on his feet in an instant about Rush towards Naruto to give whatever feudal lady could when nut's body burst into smoke and revealed a chair with the kunai sticking halfway out of it took a moment for aruka to understand what he was seeing and he slumped in relief a chuckle behind him had him turning to see Naro standing there with an amused air about him in the hokage's office the present J and allowed their muscle to relax once they realized that Naruto had successfully performed the replacement technique most noted with interest that the kaimi had been pulled off without any hand seals and with the kind of Mastery only found in high level tunin ninja and above after he had calmed his heart rate heruka turned to berate Mizuki for using what was obviously a real kunai Mizuki acted sheepish and was able to somewhat fool aruka into believing that it was a simple oversight on his part he even apologized to Naruto who wasn't fooled for an instant Mizuki was aware that at this point Naruto had already passed his graduation exam so he privately began to revise his plan for stealing the Forbidden Scroll of ceiling after things had Cal down anuka had marked Naruto extra for performing a seamless kaimi with no hand seals and with enough Mastery to leave a decoy after image he resumed with the test good job on the KMI narudo now you simply have to henge into another person and then create at least three clones but only a nod Naruto's form simply shimmered and in his place was the sand a Hokage in full Hokage robes and his pipe in hand as the figure before them looked up aruka and Mizuki subconsciously straightened when they met that ancient and penetrating gaze calmly the figure of the sand Dame breathed out a small stream of fire and lit his pipe taking a few Puffs he exhaled some tobacco which aruka could smell and spoke in the and soothing tones of the professor how are you heruka k for an instant heruka was about to reply as he had always done when the sand masked after him but then he reminded himself that this was Naruto under an early realistic H and said very good Naruto that's another sealess smokeless and obviously Master Jutsu at this point in time you already have passing marks but if you want to continue you can attempt to create at least three bunches once again with neither smoke nor sound the room was suddenly containing 10 nudos placed at regular intervals in a circle around the room looking around neither aruka nor Mizuki were able to determine which one was the real Naruto chuckling as he wrote in his clipboard heruka awarded Naruto full marks with extra credit for Mastery of the three Academy Jutsu he then said okay Naruto you can disperse them now nine Narutos including the one standing where the original had been faded out of existence Without a Trace turning in Surprise the instructors found the original standing at the back of the room obviously amused at their surprise shaking his head heruka said you never cease to amaze me Naruto then beaming with pride at him heruka tossed him a hit I8 and told him you pass Naruto with distinction congratulations smiling at him Naruto caught the hit I8 and bowed to the two teachers he made his way out of the room and to the room across him where the students who had finished were waiting when he walked in with his hit I8 displayed on his forehead none of the students were surprised anymore Naruto had apparently already desensitized them during the earlier tests nuto sat at the back as he often did and about 10 minutes later Eno entered with her own headband followed by aruka and Mizuki aruka beamed at the students and began his closing statements well it's all done now though some of you might not have done as well as you expected I am still proud of the progress you have all made those of you who couldn't make the passing grade can retry next year I have full faith that you will be ready by then for those of you who received your hit I8 you have my congratulations make sure to be here tomorrow morning for team assignments and without further Ado the announcement I know most of you have been waiting for the Rookie of the Year this year the Rookie of the Year position is awarded to a chasuk for a consistently outstanding performance throughout his attendance most of the students applauded having already expected as much with members of the sasu fan club screeching loudly after calming them down aruka continued there is still one more thing to take care of however iassen earned the title of Rookie of the Year because all six years of schooling were taken into account taking only the graduation exam into consideration however the results are quite different I will now list the top three students with scores in each of the exam sections and yuzuka Kiba with scores of 6.7 119 12 and 11 earned a total of 49.7 to come in in third place giba immediately cheered at doing so well in the exams ignoring his terrible score in the written portion of the exam some of the people around him congratulated him while others pointed out that his accumulated score must be terrible to be able to offset his high exam score at the observation he flushed and grumbled While others laughed the students eventually turned back to aruka who continued a chasuk with scores of 8.1 14 11 12 and 13 earned a total of 58.1 to come in in second place most of the girls in class cheered at sasukes high score before quieting down as they realized that someone had obviously scored higher than him many of the students reached a proper conclusion about the identity of the first place winner at the same time and turned to gape and shock at the person they had derided as the dead last for the past 6 years speaking into the bewildered silence heruka announced Naruto's score uzamaki Naruto with record shattering scores of 10 20 15 15 and 15 earned the highest possible score of 75 points to come in in first place Naruto is now the current holder for highest score in every portion of the graduation exams congratulations Naro and to the rest of you as well I will see you tomorrow and with the rest of the class gaping at the disinterested Naruto heruka and Mizuki departed from the classroom Naruto stood up and meandered outside as well well the rest of the students looked on in stunned silence the sound of the door closing behind him roused them from their stuper and nuto smirked as he heard a cry of outrage and shock that originated from Kiba tucking to himself he vanished from the hallway disappearing as though he were never there in the hokage's office the J and who had been watching the performance of their students Miss Naruto's disappearing act because by then the Hokage had ended the Jutsu that allowed them to view the classroom turning to his J and serat toi prepared to begin the meeting he had originally called them for he mused to him himself that things were obviously about to become very interesting nuto watched the sun rise from the top of the yand Dame's head taking in such clean air and listening to the bird sing in the morning always invoked feelings of nostalgia in him contrary to what they say the world for him had ended and began not on a stormy night but on such a peaceful morning now as he gazed over the slowly Awakening Village his mind recalled a Time far in the past hopefully never in the future when koha was just a blackened spot on the map and where the resurrected aiham Madara had finally captured him Nudo fraud and struggled against the chakra bonds that held him in place he screamed and raged as Madara finished extracting the hachibi and dropped the rapidly cooling body of his friend mentor and brother in arms he turned his gaze away from the corpse and the approaching Madara to watch the remnants of the Shinobi Allied Forces standing helplessly outside the barrier that Madara had set up when they had first arrived intending to rescue killer be and Nudo they had thrown everything they had at the barrier only to watch in horror as the chak refueling their rescue attempts was absorbed by the barrier strengthening it further Madara had just scoffed disdainfully and turned to begin the extraction now he stood before Naruto and started weaving the hand seals that would begin the tug of war between nuto and the gtoo where defeat was certain death smiling in anticipation of possessing the caoi and finally remaking the juui Madara completed the hand signs and began the procedure the moment the questing hand of purple chakra touched nuto his body his world his very reality became pain a scream that was r from his throat was so Soul searing that it sapped the strength from tsunade's Bones leaving her to slump in sorrow and anguish as she watched the last thing that still mattered to her get his soul shredded to S A madman's thirst for power through the haze of pain Naruto became aware of the chakra bindings failing under the force of the chakra being exerted with his reconnection to his chakra the very thing that was being ripped out of him his pain increased tenfold h hundredfold a thousandfold even he felt his very Soul being pulled apart as the gtoo attempted to remove the caoi only to discover that the two beings were too tightly bound one would go nowhere without the other when the yand Dame had sealed the caoi and Nudo he had invoked the power of a being outside mortal comprehension the act of sealing a half of the caoi inside the belly of the Shinigami killed two birds with one stone he was able to lock away a portion of the cao's power forever but he was also able to bring the death God forth to attempt what no man had ever attempted before to utilize a portion of a God's Essence to Shackle an immortal creature to Immortal child Soul indeed people lauded The Genius of of the yame while only being aware of less than half of what he had accomplished that night even when jera and the sand Dame had examined the seal on Nudo they were unable to see beyond the admittedly complex surface design of the seal thus they missed a part of the seal that held a portion of the shinigami's power which held the main containment sealed together and bound the caoi soul more tightly to Naruto's own so when Madara attempted to extract the caoi from Naruto he was attempting to separate two Souls that had been bound as one by the power of a being that existed in the space between spaces and the moments between seconds Madara for all his vaunted power and legendary status was as a child playing with forces Beyond his limited human understanding the chakra of theoo had latched onto the caoi and begun to pull Naruto's Soul obviously resisted the extraction much like one would resist another's attempt to pull off one's arm somehow Naruto was able to finally fight through the world devouring pain he was in and pull back against the force behind the extraction process the knowledge that his life was not the only thing at stake gave him an inner strength that was beyond any he had ever possessed Madara felt the resistance and panicked the surrounding Shinobi dared to Hope as they watched Madara flare his chakra as though he were fighting against a steady force and indeed that was what he was doing noticing that the progress of the extraction process had slowed to a crawl he joined his chakra to the Statue hoping to boost it nuto gritted his teeth as he felt the strength behind the opposite pull increased tremendously because he had been fighting for so long he was at less than half strength knowing that very soon soon his current strength would fail against the combined might of Madara and the other eight bju powering the gtoo he attempted something that he had only theorized about all those years ago when he had learned to utilize Natural Energy the main principle behind successfully molding Natural Energy was keeping a steady balance of natural physical and spiritual energy in the core of the individual this requirement of constant balance is what limited the amount of sage chakra that could be molded at any a given time the amount of physical and spiritual energy the individual possessed determined how much Natural Energy they could mold to keep the balance for someone with obscene amounts of chakra like Naruto the amount of sage chakra he could mold at a time could Boggle the Mind however after a few years of using Shadow clones to mold Sage chakra and then transfer said chakra to him when he ran out he set out to find a better method his determination led to him learning how to mold Sage chakra while in motion it was however not the solution he had originally envisioned Natural Energy was the energy of the Earth the chakra of life itself and as such Naruto believed that it was as close to infinite as one could ever get this notion arose from the fact that it was practically impossible to use up that much chakra before more was regenerated but that in mind he came up with a theory if he could absorb enough Natural Energy to create a stable balance and then begin to absorb in a steady amount more natural energy while simultaneously utilizing the same amounts of natural energy from his core he could take advantage of the infinite nature of Natural Energy essentially he would be using up the Natural Energy in his core just as fast as he would be replenishing it while keeping the mixture of three energies in Perfect Balance he believed that Natural Energy being neutral could be controlled to do things normal chakra couldn't such as resisting the attempted theft of one Soul he had never tested his theory but here with his soul being torn asunder it was as good a time as any hiding through the haze of pain he was in Naruto began to draw on the Natural Energy around him energy that had always been in a relatively Surplus amount in fire country owing to the numerous trees and animals littering the land Madar roared in Anger as he felt the pul on the caoi reverse Direction turning his attention to Nudo he found a calm young man with a Serene look on his face where before there had been a body thrashing in the grasp of unfathomable pain he was just about to force out even more of his chakra when he glanced up in momentary surprise causing his concentration to flicker for an instant before he recovered his Focus sunate had been watching from her position slumped on the floor watching as her combination son and little brother and all but blood got his very Soul torn apart she stirred from The Tempest of Anguish and loss that had snared her when she noticed the change in the mood around her a glance revealed what the matter was as she noticed the peace and calm on nut's face when the pulling motion of the chakra hand originating from the jetto MEO slowed to a stop she Rose to her feet when the pull actually began to reverse she took a step forward hope and wonder beginning to shine on her face when she noticed Madara about to act in retaliation for whatever Naruto was doing she made up her mind knowing that she was about to gamble and quite probably lose she sprang forward with her clenched fist blazing with chakra with a roar of an enraged mother bear she punched the barrier producing a deep sound much like striking a Gong as the barrier's chakra absorption ability kicked in and attempted to absorb the chakra in her punch she released the chakra in one burst just as she normally did for her super punches when the shobi forces had first attempted to break the barrier she noticed that the absorption of chakra happened at a gradual Pace what she had done was try to force feted more than it could handle in such a short time the barrier flickered Lara glanced up in Surprise a chakra feedback from her stunt blasted sunate away with fatal wounds Lara's concentration faltered for a heartbeat it was enough Naruto gave An Almighty pull theoo lost nothing was ever the same the moment nuto felt Madara hesitate he pulled with everything he had and like an elastic band the portion of his soul in the grasp of the gtoo snapped back inside his body but his soul was not the only thing that came back he had neglected the fact that the gtoo had a firm hold on his soul so when he dragged the caou U Back in the chakra of the gtoo and the 8bu with it came along for the ride Naruto had just unknowingly done what Madara had intended to do to himself everyone watched in Dawning horror as the last of the jetto meos chakra disappeared into Naruto all was still as though the entire world had just taken in a deep breath then the Stillness was shattered as Naruto threw his head back and howled as the chakra of the nine bigu and Theo Meo merged inside his core the balance of Natural Energy and body chakra was thrown out of whack and so Naruto subconsciously compensated and began to take in more Natural Energy he absorbed increasingly larger amounts of Natural Energy until he had enough to match the Raging chakra and his core the problem with this was that when the chakra and his core combined it resulted in Chakra equivalent to a primordial being the juubi often called the ttail god the juui was credited with creating the world and all life in it so when Naruto tried to balance out that chakra with natural energy he had to absorb everything the world could give essentially absorbing the equivalent of two Godly beings it was too much power for a single human soul to contain and as Naruto's very existence threatened to burn out the Shinigami got involved the chakra present inside Naruto was trying to negate his existence trying to cast his very Soul into Oblivion yet that very Soul had been touched by the essence of death a being for whom Oblivion does not exist contradictions could not be allowed in reality and so Naruto had to be removed from existence without his existence being compromised only one solution presented itself and thus Naro became more than human more than merely mortal he became the Eternal Sage the actual process of transcending his mortal limits happened both in an instant and for an eternity since the laws of the reality Naruto existed and demanded that a mortal Soul be unable to exist with so much power contained in it the essence of the Shinigami dragged Naruto somewhere where such laws held no sway into the space between spaces and the moment between seconds into the place where the death God ruled there narudo experienced eternity as the powers he had absorbed integrated themselves inside him bonding to his very essence under the onslaught of so much raw power all that he was all that he had ever been was erased yamaki Naruto died for the Eternal Sage to live after the sage had acclimated to the influx of power and the shared experiences contained in the Essences of the bigu he departed from the place of his rebirth and as though taking a step he was suddenly standing at the spot where he had previously laid all this had happened in the time it took to Blink in an instant everything had changed ladara took a few moments to take in what he was seeing just moments ago the kyubi jinu had absorbed the newly made juub his juui and was in the process of burning out quite literally now the metalsome child was standing there looking at him as though he were a particularly fascinating insect he was a chih Madara and he would not be trifled with ladara locked hate filled eyes with the auly blue gaze of his adversary and spat out amatarasu the sage blinked at the Roaring black Flames bearing down on him and they simply ceased to be ladar refused to allow himself to stop to consider what just happened he clapped his hands and a forest burst from the ground Reaching Forward to destroy his opponent the sage tilted his head at the incoming trees and they turned to dust dispersed on the Wind enraged Beyond any measure Madara summoned susanow and wo three hand seals then screamed out tenai Shin say knowing what the Jutsu did the remnants of the Shinobi Allied Forces glanced at the skies in time to see three meteorites breach the atmosphere one after another many began to panic as the first meteorite rapidly descended to the spot where they stood the sage Stood Still as the meteorite got closer and closer closer and when it was seconds away from Impact he merely raised his hand and extended his finger Jaws dropped as the meteorite stopped abruptly with the other two stacking on top of the First with a sigh the sage flicked his finger and with a Sonic Boom the meteorites exited the planet's atmosphere suddenly the sage was standing in front of Madara but before he could react he found his throat in an unyielding grip Madara tried and failed to access his chakra and Escape he struggled in the grip of the being in front of him much like Naruto had struggled in his chakra bonds ear earlier on Madara paused in his struggles as he felt a stirring in the depths of his body his eyes widened as the source of the feeling became clear once more the remnants of the Shinobi Alliance forces watched and stunn shock as Madara began to scream much like nuto had been screaming when the gtoo attempted to extract his soul quickly connecting the dots they watched his Madara eventually stilled and his resurrected body crumbled to dust without his soul to inhabited the sage turned and many avoided his gaze unable to meet the eyes of the newly born primordial being before him his eyes finally settled on the barely breathing body of senut Tsunade and in a blink he was kneeling next to her something faint within him told him that the human lying before him was important to him and he decided to heat it and simply touched her cheek before the disbelieving eyes of everyone present Sun A's wounds healed up and even her chakra levels were restored looking at the man beside her in relief and deep fondness she asked Naruto is is that you Naruto are you really nuto the sage wondered if nuto was his name yes he thought to himself Naruto yamaki Naruto no namis yamaki Naruto yes that was it he was namis yamaki Naruto and with that the sage remembered smiling softly at her he replied he you shouldn't be pulling such dangerous stunts at your age botan laughing with tears flowing freely from her eyes she grabbed him in a hug and just like that it finally dawned on everyone watching that the 8-year long War had just ended cheers erupted everywhere as people grabbed their comrades in hugs crying tears of joy and relief tinged with sadness it took years but the world eventually recovered not completely but enough throughout that time the sage lived on not aging until time had run its course and turned everything he knew into dust after finally learning how to navigate the paths between realities the Eternal Sage moved on replacing any of his counterparts who had been lost to the flow of time for one reason or the other with time becoming his only companion Nudo was startled out of his Memories by the dispersal of one of his clones shaking his head to get rid of lingering memories he stood up dusted his shorts and gazed once more at the peaceful Village laid out before him smiling to himself he vanished in the direction of the academy for his team assignments let the games begin the people who were present at the entrance to the academy that morning were able to witness nuto materialize already in a smooth walk in front of the academy some of them actually allowed themselves to acknowledge how cool he looked arriving in such a fashion casually making his way inside the academy nuto ignored the muted Whispers from his peers and the others standing around the school's entrance No Doubt news of his performance during the graduation exams had already spread Naruto arrived at his assigned classroom and entered to find that he was the first one there shrugging to himself he proceeded to the single seat at the back having no intention of ending up seating next to Sask and thus suffering the horrendous voices of his fan club deciding to kill some time he took out the tale of the gutsy ninja and began to read it again his sharp senses detected the approach of a few classmates and thus he didn't even twitch when the door opened to accept four people into the room the sounds of dragging feet and chewing preceded shikimo and xiaoji while the muted sound of buzzing heralded the entrance of Shino the last student was from a civilian family and from what Naruto had observed would probably end up being Canon fod down the line Shikamaru chaoji and Sho took the seats in front of Naruto who hadn't looked up from his book since their entrance Shikamaru threw a quick and considering glance at Naruto then just shook his head and mumbled Troublesome Sho on the other hand actually turned and addressed Naruto congratulations on your success UC in the graduation exams uzamaki San Nudo finally looked up at that and giving an I smile to Sho he replied thank you abam San as I recall you also did quite well so congratulations to you too and please feel free to call me Naruto thank you and the same to you too both of them returned to their previous positions Naruto reading his book and Shino seeding calmly by this time Shikamaru had already dozed off while chiai just continued munching on his chips over the next few minutes the class slowly filled up with the successful Academy graduates and sasu entered he cast a briefly assessing gaze at nuto before taking his seat in the middle of the room Naruto sensitive hearing easily picked up the approaching footsteps of two students and judging by their voices he correctly deduced their identities a few seconds later Haruno Sakura and yamanaka Ino burst into the room obviously having just finished sprinting to the academy then began their customary arguments and competition for the seat next to the AA heruka came in before they could settle their argument and cowed them into submit arudo glanced up as aruka came in and smiled as he noticed the absence of Mizuki the fool was most probably enjoying the hospitality of the T Andi department at the moment he returned to his book only peripherally aware of the various team assignments being read out by aruka seeing as he wasn't the dead last this time around he absent wondered whose team he would be and uzamaki Naruto your J and Sensei has had a Kakashi well then that answered that he wondered what convinced the old man to place him on the same team as the top two students in his year until he remembered that as far as the Hokage was concerned Naruto had attempted suicide a few years ago well that would do it he mused to himself after banishing his thoughts and noticing ARA's closing statements and subsequent dismissal for lunch he returned to his reading hours later only the three future members of Team seven were still seated inside the classroom waiting for their JN and Sensei Sakura had spent the past two hours trying and subsequently failing to get sasu to go on a date with her after a particularly vehement denial she decided to take a little breather much to the sas's well-hidden relief she turned her attention to the third member of her team and was surprised to note that he hadn't moved from the spot where he had been reading for the past few hours now that she was paying attention to him she allowed herself to take him in fully she recalled the time when he used to constantly follow her around asking her for dates and making her feel so good about herself no matter how annoyed she had felt at the time the constant attention and adoration had bolstered her sometimes flagging self-confidence however ever since had missed school for about 2 months things had changed at first when she noticed that he seemed to be ignoring her she brushed it off fully expecting him to get back to pestering her it never happened it took some time but she eventually came to realize that nuto simply didn't care about her anymore it was a surprisingly bitter pill to swallow but swallow it she did she cast a glance at Sask and seeing the closed off expression on his face she decided to sit quietly by herself until their Sensei arrived sasu breathed an internal sigh of relief when akura finally ceased bothering him he noticed the glance she threw at the corner and turned to see nuto sitting there reading his book he was almost startled to noticed that he had forgotten that there were three people waiting in the classroom now that he had noticed his last teammate he remembered his desire to find out more about him never want to beat around the bush he addressed him directly hey dead yamaki how did you do so well on the exams if you missed so many important classes Sakura perked up at the question and turned back to nuto she too was curious about his previously unknown skill without taking his eyes of his book Naruto distractedly replied did you ever consider that I chose not to attend those classes because I didn't need them sasu blinked at Naruto's response he concluded that Naruto must have meant that he got training outside the academy thus negating any need to attend the Practical Academy classes still curious he continued his inquiry and who did you get help from at that Naruto finally glanced up from his book and fixing Sask with a disinterested look he retorted help why would I need an instructor when I am fully capable of reading Sask found it hard to believe that Naro had learned all that from Scrolls but before he could continue his questioning the door was thrown open he turned in Surprise noticing from the corner of his eye that nuto was obviously not startled in the doorway stood a tall gray-haired ninja wearing a face mask very similar to Naruto's he even had a book in hand the ninja obviously their J in Sensei or and a board gaze across the room and spoke in a lazy tone my first impression of you is that you're boring meet me on the roof in 5 minutes in a cloud of smoke he was gone sasu glanced at Sakura then glanced at the empty seat where Naruto used to be his eyes widened when he realized that Naruto had somehow vanished from the room without his notice huffing out a frustrated breath he left the room making his way towards the roof hadak Kakashi suddenly felt eyes on him and casually glanced up from his book he had to fight down a twitch when he noticed his blond-haired student calmly staring at him when the hell did he get here and how didn't I notice he saw the amusement Naruto's eyes and narrowed his eye at him in response to this Naruto in turn fixed Kakashi with a narrow-eyed gaze sasu can sakuru arrived on the roof to find their teacher and teammate engaged in a staring contest as the two kids drew near Sakura cleared her throat in an early synchronized motion Naruto and Kakashi turned to face the two of them and I smiled in unison fighting off creepy shutters they took a seat on either side of Naruto and all three turned to face Kakashi deciding to get the ball rolling Kakashi began well then why don't we get started with introductions I'll go first my name is hadak Kakashi my likes are not your concern nor are my dislikes my hobbies and dreams well you're much too young to know those Kakashi concluded with another ey smile motioning towards Sakura he indicated for her to go next she started my name is hero Sakura my likes are glances at Sask with giggles and stifled squealing my hobbies are rinse and repeat I dislike youo Pig and my dream for the future is to glance Q your piercing squeal sasu can Kakashi shook their heads to clear the residual ringing only to notice Naruto removing earplugs from his ears with laughter in his eyes almost sulking at the Betrayal Kakashi indicated that Sask was next Sask began in a solemn tone a chasuk I don't have many likes nor dislikes and my hobby is training to get stronger my dream for the future no my ambition is to revive my clan and kill a certain man at the end of his speech Sakura was gazing adoringly at him while Kakashi was giving him a thoughtful look that expertly hid the frown he wanted the show Nar was reading his book after getting over his surprise at just how indifferent his blond-haired student could be he motioned for Naro to go next as Naruto prepared to begin he was completely aware of the blatant interest on Sakura's face as well as the hidden interest on Kakashi's and sasukes faces you may call me uzamaki Naruto I like the colors red and black I dislike The Color Purple my hobby is music particularly playing the violin Bashi perked up at that surprising tidbit as did sasu and Sakura Naruto paid no attention to their reactions however he instead fixed all three with a suddenly Fierce and determined gaze that caused all of them to subconsciously straighten and pay attention my dream for the Future No the reality of my future I will become the greatest Shinobi this world has ever known the rooftop was silent for a few moments after nark declaration which sounded like a foretelling Kakashi finally broke the silence after observing his Sensi son for a few moments and decided to wrap things up very well then meet me on training ground 7 tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. for a survival test that will determine whether or not you become my genine or return to the academy for remedial training oh and I suggest you don't eat any breakfast you'll only throw it up see you in a cloud of smoke he was gone before any of them could respond to his statement saso narrowed his eyes determined to pass whatever test came his way the next day he glanced to his side only to discover that nuto had once again vanished without him knowing gritting his teeth he immediately shot down Sakura's offer of a date and departed for some training and preparation zakura completely crushed by sas's rejection and feeling anxious for her test tomorrow also left the rooftop the sound of incoming footsteps forced Sakura out of her daytime fantasy of being sasukes wife looking up she was just in time witness the figure of her blond-haired teammate entered the clearing a whole 3 hours after they were told to arrive she inhaled preparing to lambast her tardy team member when she was cut off by a casual statement from her intended target so his three-hour lateness is a regular thing good to know stunned and feeling especially foolish for arriving so early she quieted down and turned away from him thus missing the amusement shining in his Azure eyes Sask merely grunted refusing to acknowledge that he should have thought of the same thing nuto simply walked across the clearing to a tree on the other side sat down took out his book and began to read he was fully aware of the contemplative looks being thrown his way by the other two members of his future team completely ignoring said looks he prevented any amusement from showing on his face when he heard the near silent Huff frustration from Sask just as Sask was about to resume his interrogation from the day before their late Sensei showed up in a puff of smoke Kashi merely I smiled as Sakura screeched her indignation to the High Heavens causing sassu to twitch when her voice had ceased echoing he calmly took out his earplugs and tossed a thumbs up at Naruto who was failing to muffle his Chuckles before Sakura could react to that insult Kakashi's countenance became serious prompting the three before him to pay attention they raised two silver bells in one hand and began his instructions the objective of this survival test is to acquire at least one of the Bells you see in my hand you will have until noon to accomplish this task anyone who fails to get a bell will be tied to one of the stumps in the clearing and will be denied lunch furthermore the one who didn't get a bell will fail this test and will subsequently be sent back to the academy for another year now begin his instructions left no room for argument and his prospective students vanished into hiding in the surrounding vegetation Kakashi spared a second to evaluate their self Sask is well hidden certainly undetectable to anyone chuning and Below Sakura on the other hand isn't too bad but nothing like a topkin whitei should be and nuto is still standing in front of me giving his final student a vaguely perplexed look he said you are an odd one shouldn't you be hiding like those two nuto merely glanced at him then returned to his book blinking in muted surprise Kakashi decided that the kid had the right idea and promptly produced his own literature to begin perusing he crouched in position oddly more comfortable that way and continued reading his sharp hearing picked up approaching footsteps and he suddenly went on alert preparing for any surprise his Enigma of a student could have instead of attacking however nuto merely walked past him and stopped and then he too crouched and rested himself lightly against his teacher and continued reading feeling oddly amused by the cheek of his student he let him rest part of his weight on him all the while keeping a watch for any attempt on the bells tied to his belt a handful of minutes later sasu obviously got impatient and launched his attack a couple of kunai were launched from Kakashi's left and instinctively he shifted to move out of the way his blood ran cold as he suddenly realized that his movement had thrown his other student off balance thus making it very likely that nuto would get hit by the kunai without even thinking about it he spun and scooped up his Sensei son and blurred away from the incoming attack he spared a moment to ensure that his student was fine before he took off to test his black-haired student so preoccupied had he been with getting nuto out of Harm's Way that he had failed to notice the faint smirk that curled on said student lips nor the fact that said student had demonstrated a complete Mastery of the KMI no Jutsu Bashi instead vanished from the clearing too fast for any but nuto to see Sask who had swiftly changed positions after his failed initial attack remained crouched on the branch he was on he quickly threw a punch to his left only for it to meet his sensei's palm as though that were a signal the two burst into a quick and flew it to Jutsu exchange Kakashi ended it by tossing sasuka away when his hand got close enough to actually touch one of the Bells his eye however widened when he noticed the hand seals being woven by Sask his surprised expression never vanished even as a huge Fireball leapt the intervening distance between them When the Smoke had finally cleared SAS noticed that nothing remained of his teacher looking to the sides and above for him he was taken off guard when hands erupted from the ground and proceeded to drag him under until only his head remained above ground sasu glanced up in time to watch his teacher Disappear With nod but an eye smile thrown his way s Kura had decided to circle around to sasukes position the moment she saw the kunai launch to Kakashi ignorant of the noise she made as she moved through the brush she emerged in a smaller clearing looking around to orient herself she suddenly dove into some bushes praying that her teacher hadn't noticed her she peeed out of hiding and sigh in relief when she noticed him still leaning against a tree Kakashi meanwhile hid a smile at his pink-haired students adorable naivity Sakura rightfully doubtful of her chances against a ninja of Kakashi's caliber turned to stealthily make her way in the other Direction she heard a rustle in front of her and glanced up into the smiling eye of her teacher she gasped and recoiled in shock only to lose sight of him looking around frantically she turned at the sound of a voice coming from the right knowing who own said voice her face broke out into a relieved and smitten Smile as she prepared to meet her sasu K the smile fled from her face as she saw sasu drag himself into view his remaining leg bent at an odd angle fingers missing and blood leaking from numerous wounds on his body unable to face the vision before her she CL clenched her eyes shut let loose a scream of abject Terror and slumped into unconsciousness musing absently to himself Kakashi wondered if he had overdone it shrugging the thought away he returned to the clearing and promptly stumbled in surprise when he found his third student still casually reading his book moving towards him he opened his mouth intending to admonish his lazy student only to have to duck a sudden Airborne spinning kick aimed at his head before his eye had finished widening he promptly switched places with a log in time to avoid getting hit by a ball of lightning fire by a clone originally behind him finally getting a moment to orient himself his head snapped up at the sound of a page being turned to find Naruto still in place reading his book he fur at his brows at that and nonchalantly tossed a kunai at his student head Naruto simply caught it by its ring and returned it at twice the speed forcing Kakashi to shift out of the way of the approaching kunai hidden in the shadow of that kunai was another one with an explosive tag attached to it which Kakashi only saw at the last moment once the resulting explosion had settled he stepped out of the place he had switched to and closely regarded Naro still sitting there and reading well you're better than I expected I might actually have to start taking you seriously nuto let loose a chuckle and stood up facing his teacher in another eerily synchronized motion they both slipped their respective books away and prepared to engage one another Kakashi started off with a blurring punch aimed at Naruto's torso slapping the attack aside Naruto retaliated with a lightning coated jab to Kakashi's face smoothly shifting it into an elbow jab and then a rising knee as as Kakashi deflected each subsequent attack they continued in a Swift and fluid T Jutsu exchange with Kakashi pleasantly surprised at Naruto's ability to keep up with the pace he was setting finally believing his student to be wide open Kakashi slammed a kick into an Airborne Naruto only to clench his teeth as Lightning coursed through his body from the dispersed lightning clone he mitigated the damage using his own inherent lightning chakra and pivoted on the spot fluidly catching and returning the five shuriken launched at his back quickly forming hand seals he called out shuriken cage bunch and no Jutsu shuriken Shadow clone technique and the five shuriken became a 100 Naruto inhaled deeply and then blew out a chakr laac gust of wind while saying futin rinktin wind release drilling air bullet the wind bullet slammed the shuriken off course and continued on to Kakashi who responded with a wind bullet of his own canceling out Naruto's attack Kakashi glanced up as he heard Ru I kuchi no utage lightning burial banquet of lightning and witnessed Naruto stomp his foot on the ground he jumped into the air as Lightning raced along the floor towards his position in midair he was unable to react in time as Naruto faced him and calmly in toned raen ryuun notat samaki lightning release Lightning Dragon Tornado launching a tornado of lightning a Kakashi the attack impacted with Kakashi and exploded in a surge of lightning all of a sudden akuni was placed along Naruto's jugular and Kakashi lazily spoke you definitely have some smooth moves but you still have a ways to go Nudo merely glanced at him from the corner of his eye and chuckled confused at his students reaction and completely sure that he wasn't holding a clone he asked pair to share what amuses you it was then that he felt the cool length of nutk ninjato resting with its tip poised a hairs spr from his chest and crackling with tightly leashed lightning chakra he couldn't help it he threw back his head and laughed when he got over his fit of amusement he disengaged from nuto just in time for the alarm clock he set to go off indicating that the test was over shaking his head at his most surprising student he left to fetch the rest of his team when he arrived at the three stumps in the clearing sasu can sakur and to he found nuto sitting on the middle stump with his book in hand in a blur he had sat Kura tied to the leftmost post and a gag in her mouth to spare his sensitive ears he turned to take in his students and pronounced well you all F the sound of bells tinkling cut him off and he slowly turned to Naruto who was still reading but in whose second hand was held the two silver bells suppressing the shock that threatened to show on his face he asked oh and at what point during our little dance did you steal those arudo raised an eyebrow at that and said during the dance never I actually just stole them from you when you were tying Sakura up there seeing the confusion on their faces hidden in Kakashi's case he continued at the beginning when you were being my night in shining armor I filled the Bells with chakra the first step to initiating a successful kaimi and then just now switch them with the chakra lace tear next to me silence met his explanation and he looked around to find sasu and sakur looking stunned Kashi with a detectable note of approval in his voice said very well done nuto very well done indeed now seeing as you have two Bells which of the others would you give one to nuto gave off an amused huff and with a flick of his wrist Sakura was free of the ropes binding her and before either Sher sasu could react to that he flicked one Bell at each of them which they caught reflexively turning to Kakashi narudo said their instructions were to obtain a bell not necessarily maintain possession of it once we did so since I have obtained a bell and so have Sask and Sakura I guess we all pass Bashi seeing the dawning Hope on Sakura's face merely chuckled and replied nice try Naruto but I remember saying that you had until noon Naruto still looking calm and unruffled spoke that's true and I'm sure if you look at the clock you will find that someone had changed the alarm to go off about 20 minutes earlier blinking in shock the others looked at the clock and noticed that nuto was indeed correct noon was in 6 minutes giving nuto a contemplative look tinged with exas ated fondness Kakashi finally said okay then I could pass you on that technicality and I will only if one of you can tell me the main purpose behind this test looking a little perplexed at that statement Sakura offered up an answer um you wanted to gauge your level Sensei the look on sas's face said that he agreed with Sakura and so he frowned when Kakashi shook his head catching the look on sasukes face he passed him over correctly deducing that sasu had the same thing to say as Sakura and turned to Naruto for his input Naruto once again got that look in his eyes that made those listening to him lean forward in complete attention in a solemn tone that cut through the sudden Stillness he gave his own answer you are a Jan and level ninja hadak Kakashi reputably the strongest current kenoh shobi accepting the Hokage there is no way that a bunch of fresh Academy graduates would stand a chance against you you wanted to gauge our ability to function as a unit as a team as one you wanted to make us learn that we are rarely if ever stronger individually than we are together after all those who abandon their mission are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash once more there was silence after one of nutk declarations this time however it was a thoughtful one filled with burgeoning feelings of camaraderie and team spe after getting over his surprise Kakashi stared at Naruto and realized that he had never seen such a stunning resemblance between Nudo and his Sensei as he did in that moment sitting there with the wind in his son kissed golden hair and his eyes such a focused and clear blue Naruto cut a striking figure indeed smiling contentedly to himself Kakashi finally broke the silence yes that is entirely correct those who abandon their mission are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash that is the tenant I live by and the tenant I hope you will all come to live by in the future congratulations you all pass meet me on the bridge tomorrow morning for

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