Hello, guys.

I finally finished the new chapter for this story, honestly it took a lot of time, working on this part, but now, probably, it will be very easy for me write more chapters for this story.

I am extremely sorry for the delay though, I left this chapter in half for a long while, but I completed it finally.

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(Konohagakure No Sato

2 years later)

A figure stood in the middle of the training ground. He had black hair and was wearing color of the same shade with a red and white fan symbol drawn at the back. He had his eyes closed waiting for something to happen in the open ground he stood.

Soon enough he got what he was waiting for, when two shuriken came from one of the bush. The man in the middle did nothing more than tilt himself to the side as the bladed stars just went past him. He opened his eyes to show simple black eyes staring towards the bush.

"Come on out Naruto." The man said as he looked towards the bush. "You need to do a lot better than that to get me. I mean." The man just looked behind to see the two stars that were still there on the ground. "Two stars, just two, Sasuke does better than you." He could've kept on rambling but was stopped when more shuriken came this time from totally different directions. Seeing the stars the man eyes widened. He quickly jumped up to dodge the stars, but this time from the bush another shot came, and instead of a ninja star it was a boy clad in green spandex, with bowl cut and large bushy brows. This was Rock Lee, Maito Guy's student, and one of the friends that Naruto made when he joined academy, and as much as the figure know, Naruto was the reason that Kakashi and Raiga that led for Maito to train the little guy, and many of them later regretted their decision, especially after two months when Lee came back in the spandex and with giant brows. Rock Lee when he came close to lashed out with a kick to the face of the man, which he stopped with his hands. 'That hurt.' The man thought as he landed and Lee jumped away from him. 'But I shouldn't expect anything less with whose teaching the kid.'

"So that's how it is." The man said while looking at the kid with a smirk.

"Yes, Shishui sensei." Rock Lee said. "One of us cannot defeat you alone, so we decided why not team up." And with that Lee, jumped back in the bush, effectively hiding from the man. Shishui would have gone after him if not for the timely shot of a kunai that shot from in front of him and then embedded itself in the tree. Shishui jumped back seeing that after that kunai, several came flying towards him with perfect precision, making him continue jump back and when one of the blade reached near him he used one of his kunai to quickly deflect it, when from behind him in the bush Naruto jump forward with a kunai in his hand. He had been told by his teachers to never use his ability not until they allow him themselves, making him pout in the beginning but he gets to get stronger so he swallowed it and decided to use other tools to fight.

"Not bad." Shishui said as he dodged the slash and the income kunai at him. "But not good enough." With that he caught the Naruto's arm and punched him in the stomach making him gasp and then fly away.

As Naruto flew away he landed on the ground in heap with a grunt away from the bushes and in the open area.

"Now that you are in the open." Shishui spoke as he looked down at his charge. "How are you going to fight me now?" He asked the kid, Naruto on the other hand just raised his head after a while and grinned at his teacher making him raise a brow.

"Don't worry." Naruto spoke with a grin toward Shishui. "We planned for this too." With that Naruto stood up and dusted himself and took a deep breath. Shishui got ready after thinking that Naruto might use one of his techniques got ready to jump out of the way. Instead Naruto jumped back.

"NOW!" Naruto shouted at once. To Shishui's surprise several projectile launched at him. From around him, he would've moved forward to dodge but instead Naruto launched his attack at him.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Naruto shouted out the name of his attack as a huge torrent of blazing fire came at him, with him being surrounded by a lot of dangerous projectiles and an attack that could probably leave him with more damage. But alas, he isn't known as Shushin no Shishui for nothing, he is one of the strongest shinobi right now in the village, so attack like this while dangerous is still nothing to what he has to deal with regularly while on mission. The attack struck which resulted in a large explosion.

"Do you think it was enough?" A voice said from behind him. He turned to look at a girl who had her hair in two buns, suspiciously looking like a panda. She had a lot of throwing knives and stars in her hand. With her was Rock Lee that came from the side.

"Ofcourse it is." Naruto answers back with a bright grin on his face. "Did you see our final attack, nobody could dodge this attack." He said with little pride and rubbing his nose.

"I wouldn't be so sure, Naruto." Another voice came and a boy same age as them came through the bush with his hair in highly resembling porcupine.

"Why do you say that, Shikamaru?" Rock Lee asks as Shikamaru now stood alongside them.

"Well for one he is a Jounin." Shikamaru said as he looked at the place where they have attacked the man. "For another he is very strong and a good tactician from what I've found out from my father." Shikamaru who is in Naruto's class looked at the ground where it was starting clear from the smoke and fire.

"You are right on your assessment, Shikamaru." A voice came from behind them making the four jump and turn quickly with a kunai in hand in defensive position as they saw Shishui standing on calmly behind them. "I might say, it was a good strategy working together as a team to take me down, but still not enough. I suppose that it was you who came with the idea." Shishui asks while looking at Shikamaru. "It was good tactic, but it could've been better like you could've used your family technique to hold me there but I am quite happy that you didn't, and I suppose most of your strategy was depending on Naruto and Tenten, am I right?" Shikamaru just nodded his head. "And Rock Lee was an extra helping hand." He got a nod again. "As I said it was good, but it could've been better, also try atleast take part in it physically too." Then Shishui turns to look at Rock Lee.

"You've come along great, Lee." Shishui complimented the kid who just gave him a brimming smile, which was far to similar to a youthful Jounin he knew for his liking. "For a child with your disability, but you didn't let it beat you, you've done great, it could still need some improvements, for example I noticed that there few times when you attacked me in the air, you slipped a bit, also as Shikamaru said I am a Jounin and from what I remember I told you to come at me with the intent to kill and also not to hold back." Then his eyes turned down where there were two small orange bands. "Yet you still are wearing these weights, care to elaborate why?" This time the smile turned to a frown as Shishui stared at him.

"Shishui-sensei, Guy-sensei told me to I can only remove them once he allows me to." Lee said while looking down at the ground.

"I am happy that you are listening to a part of your sensei's word." Shishui said as Lee curiously looked at him. "But you ignored the other part he told you, or have you forgotten, as long as Guy is on mission you are my student and responsibility and as such you have to listen to my instructions." Before Lee could protest Shishui continued speaking. "Also how will you know how much you have grown, if you keep limiting your self like that, so next time when I say intent to kill, I meant intent to kill, so you need to be serious, understand, also keep working on your precision." Rock Lee just nodded his head understanding his words as stars shone in his eyes, he was going to say something Guy-like, but before he could, he quickly turned towards the only girl of the group.

"Now, Tenten." The girl looked at her teacher expectantly "You have grown tremendously out of all that I've been teaching." Shishui said as he looked at the girl. "Your aim has gotten much much better than before, you made me bring out my kunai to deflect a blade that would've probably taken my eye or most likely could've grazed me, but while it is good, you need to practice more to increase the speed of you throws, it was good but I know that you could do better." The girl just eagerly nodded her head. He then finally turned toward the last member of the group, the one because of whom they were able to learn more.

"And you Naruto." Shishui started as he looked at his charge. "You are improving, just like others, but there are still few things that you need to improve, with first being your headfirst approach, and your carelessness." Shishui looked at the child who had his ears sticking to the words he is speaking, that is the only good quality that he might have. Naruto is not genius tactician like Shikamaru, prodigies like the Uchihas and Hyuugas, or book smart like few other people, but he a drive to learn, he wants to learn, and even if he doesn't understand he will try it once, twice or even more, and won't stop until he learns it. "Otherwise your taijutsu is coming along fine, but I would advise you to practice more you could be better, now other things, you all created a valid strategy, but did any of you created a plan B" at this the four turn to look af each other and then turned to look at him.

"Well..." Tenten trailed off.

"We thought we lost when our original plan failed?" Shikamaru looked at the man who was helping teach them.

"You are smart Shikamaru." Shishui stated as he looked at the young Nara. "Tell me, does the first plan has ever been successful." He asks the teen.

"Well no."

"Exactly." Shishui said as he looked at the four. "Initial plan is never pulled of successfully and I know for the fact that both Shikamaru and Naruto could've made few more plans to defeat me, while you didn't and first I would like to know the exact reason." Both Shikamaru and Naruto turned to look at each other.

"Well." Shikamaru started. "First we did not have any time as this was our last activity, meaning that after this particular scenario we are free, and I did not have any more plans with how you were standing there with your guard, it was very difficult and our only option was retreat because of your level which is very high."

"But that wasn't the option."

"That wasn't an option." Shikamaru said as his look of indifference turned to that of a frown. "Because of the knuckle head here."

"Retreat was a good option, Naruto." Shishui admonishes the young Uzumaki. "Especially when you know the person in front of you has much better experience otherwise it could leave to some drastic consequences." Shishui said but then he turned to the Nara. "So if say, Naruto would've agreed to retreat, what would you've done."

"The four of us would be lying under the tree shade enjoying the clouds." His response made the Uchiha sweatdrop.

"You do know that you can't learn if none of you try to fight." Shishui said while looking at the Nara.

"We fought and we didn't win, what else was there left?" The young Nara said as he looked at the Uchiha.

"Sometimes you learn more from the loss than from the win." Shishui said as he stepped to the side. "Now if I am not wrong, it's time for you to enjoy your weekend." And with that the Uchiha left the place with his signature technique.

"So what should we do now?" Tenten asks as she looks at her friends that she had made since last year, and she was very happy regarding the friendship that she had formed, the benefits that came in the form of extra training and becoming a better shinobi was just a bonus."

"Why don't we have ramen?" Naruto asks the three, knowing that he cannot force it on the others, it could work if it was Chouji and Kiba, heck even Sasuke agrees to it if he gets the tomatoes in ramen, but the girls were other story. He watched as other just sighed and Tenten glared at his obvious ramen addiction.

"Naruto." Lee starts "You should eat food other than ramen, I get that it is your favorite food, but too much of it is not good for your youthful growth."

"I didn't hear a no." Naruto said as he looked at the three.

"It means no." Tenten said as she glared at the Uzumaki making him frown.

"But why?" Naruto asks in indignation.

"Well how about that it's still morning." Tenten said while looking at the kid. "And that food is not good for your health." Before Naruto could say anything Tenten continued. "With how you consume it." And she was right, for how much Naruto eats the food, it was surprising that he hadn't fallen sick.

"Be that as it may." Shikamru spoke up from his place. "Remind me again why did I decided to join this morning sessions, especially on the Sunday of all the days." Shikamaru grumbled as Naruto looked on at him in confusion.

"But you told me that there was nothing to do." Naruto said as he looked at his friend. "When I asked you if you were doing something that there was nothing for you to do."

"And I would've liked it that way."

"And well, also Chouji and Ino are finally learning their clan techniques, alongside Kiba and Shino, and Hinata now that she finally activated her bayakugan, she was busy too, and Sakura, well she finally got one of the sensei to teach her some genjutsu or something like that, and me and Tenten were already training with Lee, and we needed one more person and you were the only one left, so I asked you to come."

"And I regretted the decision the most." Shikamaru said. "What a drag, now follow me." The others gave him a confused expression. "My mother is preparing the meal, you could eat there."

"Really?!" Were the two sets of word.

"Yeah, just-wait stop!" His words were cut short when Naruto and Lee began dragging him towards The Nara residence, behind them Tenten just shook her head, before she began following them.

"Hey wait for me!" She exclaimed running after them. Leaving the ground that was being observed by two people.

"They've grown tremendously." Kakashi Hatake said as he held his favorite book in his hand.

"You are right about that." With him stood Shishui Uchiha. "Shikamaru Nara is one of the best tactician and strategist of there generation, whereas Tenten has the best hand to eye precision, her aim is never off, Rock Lee, he is tenacious I'll give him that, but regardless, his Taijutsu is very advance while not the top of his class, he us just below the Hyuuga prodigy in hand to hand combat."

"Ahh Neji Hyuuga." Kakashi said as he nodded his head in affirmation. "The prodigy of Hyuuga from the branch house, both Hizashi and Hiashi are proud of him." He then paused as he thought of one more thing. "But for some reason, he is quite indifferent to Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata, did you find the reason why?"

"Hizashi believes that the main house elders are filling the heads of the clan members." Shishui told the masked ninja. "While it is leading to some internal strife, it will not harm the village." Kakashi nodded his head at that.

"Then comes, Hinata, while still a bit shy with her obvious crush on the wonder boy there." Shishui said while pointing towards the direction through which the children disappeared. "She has gained some confidence, still a bit reluctant to deliver the first strike, but now she doesn't shy away from finishing the fight."

"Yes, but." Kakashi looked at the Uchiha. "Was it good to have Mitarashi and Yuuhi, help her?" He asks.

"While I think that we could've chosen someone else, like Uzuki for example, but with how cares for her, she can't let any harm befall on her charge from Mitarashi." Shishui said.

"Well I just hope she doesn't take any of there personalities, except for the confidence." Kakashi said with a sigh. "What about the other students he us to teach?"

"Sakura Haruno, civilian born, but is a diligent worker, if Sasuke isn't nearby, she needs to let go of her fangirl tendencies. Other than that, she has extremely good chakra control with how easily she was able to learn chakra excercise in the academy without any difficulty, but she needs to work on her reserves, and is just below Nara in the IQ department and is one of the smartest in this generation, only if Shikamaru could put in some efforts in his tests." Shishu said the last part in lamentation, the Nara was much more lazy than his father and that is saying something because Shikaku Nara is the laziest of the bunch.

"Then comes Ino Yamanaka, has good enough for her age and good control, but is overconfidence in her abilities, need to have some humility, other than that she is good in taijutsu and knows how to infiltrate considering she is third person in their class who has the least amount of rings and did it in the 10th shortest time in the history of academy." Shishui said and Kakashi nodded his head. "Chouji Akimichi, true to his clan nature is the tank of the class with Naruto, he could take the most hits in the class and is endurance is quite good, taijutsu is average but could improve." Shishui turned to look at the sky. "Kiba Inuzuka, is good at taijutsu, but with how the clan teaches the kid with the partner he fights in one on one is like he already has a partner, according to Lady Tsume she is trying her best to change this and has been having success, until then he is also training for his ninken. Other than that, he has no control of his chakra, and has a habit of getting in trouble." He then paused trying to think about another student that they've gained. "Shino Aburame, just like the rest of his clan is a person who thinks everything logically, other than that he is above average in taijutsu, academics, chakra control excercise, already started working on his hive, and just like Ino is very good in espionage and infiltration, has the position of 11th just because he was second late than her."

"Now this left the rivals of the class isn't it?" Kakashi asks.

"Yes." Shishui said and then looked at the teen. "Sasuke Uchiha, second son of the clan head, and Naruto's rival, while he doesn't have that kind of chakra it's still better than the rest of his peers save one, also is good tactician and has above average IQ, not like Nara's or Sakura, but still good, is supposed to the prodigy of his year, and is very good in Taijutsu, already have learned the basic Uchiha ninjutsu and is on his second one." This got a wide eyed reaction from the masked Ninja. "Blame Naruto, with how much he has with his high reserves and the ability to refill those reserves, Lord Fugaku agreed to teach Sasuke one more technique granted he laid down some conditions for him to learn those techniques. Also while good at espionage, he still has to learn as he is right now a little below Aburame and Yamnaka."

"I see." Kakashi then closed his eyes for a moment. "Is there any news about the clan?" Shishui looked at the non-Uchiha-sharingan-user from the corner of his eyes.

"There are some grievances in the house, with some of the pest acting out, but other than that nothing much." Shishui looked away from the masked Ninja.

"Alright, you can have the pest removed, once we are able to make sure that the pest doesn't spread out to do more damage and get them away from the rest, after that it's all in you." Kakashi said and looked at the ninja with an eye-smile of his.

"Yes." Shishui said and then finally looked at him again. "Last comes Naruto Uzumaki, is a good student, but has a very short attention span as you know which makes him learning things a lot longer, but because of his bloodline ability attacking him with ninjutsu is very foolish and dangerous, apart from his headfirst approach to most things, he is able to make good enough plans on the fly, which is most of the time is very unexpected and unorthodox but still works, other than that he needs to learn that he cannot depend on his bloodline alone, and as such he has shown that he could work without it but his tendency to lean on it when cornered is something that I am trying to remove. Apart from that he is extremely good, or I might say the best when it comes to infiltration, sabotage and espionage."

"And why is he the best?" Kakashi asks with a raised brow.

"Apart from the fact that he broke the previous record of the obstacle course at the hardest setting, which had only been done five times, last Wednesday, he was able to find and infiltrate the ANBU headquarters, for his prank on Boar." Shishui said and Kakashi nodded his head.

"So it was him who did it?" Kakashi asks, he remembers that Boar last Wednesday was given an off day because of how all of his uniform and dress, were colored stark orange that lead to utter humiliation in front of all the member of the corps, safe to say he learned not to mess with the Uzumaki. "That is quite a feat, for one as young as him."

"It is." Shishui said. "Especially with the amount of security in that place and also the fact that it is hidden from the civilians and there is no knowledge of where it exists." After that they lapsed into a comforting silence.

"Also Captain." Shishui started. "It has come to my attention that there are moles in the academy." Kakashi's whole demeanor went from relaxed to utter seriousness at a moment notice.

"What?" Kakashi asks the Uchiha.

"This Monday, as young Hyuuga heiress activated her doujutsu in academy, she was trying if out, when she noticed during the test that many of the tests were layered with genjutsu, and some papers have questions that are yet to be taught." Shishui told the former ANBU captain. "Several of the students, including Uzumaki and Aburame alongside the Akimichi had received these questions, which begs the question as to why and who did it."

"Are you sure about this, Jounin Uchiha?" Kakashi asks him.

"Yes, sir." Shishui said. "I decided to check for myself after I went in there myself, many of the student have been either under marked or over, some of the teachers have made some illicit transactions from an unknown source, they are sabotaging the academy, sir."

"Very well, I will report this to the Hokage and the shinobi council." Kakashi said as he looked at the distance. "If what you have reported is true than we are sending some of the prospect candidates who are undertrained in the field." Kakashi then sighed as he closed his book.

"Captain?" Shishui said while looking at his expression.

"You do know that we are not in ANBU anymore, you don't have to call me that." Kakashi told the Uchiha. "Anyways, Lord Hokage was right, our situation is very much troublesome." He then thought for a moment. "Well atleast we didn't make any bets with Naruto this time and what would ya know he was right all along about the teachers in the academy being pricks." Shishui and Kakashi then shuddered as they remembered how much they lost against a child in poker of all things when he didn't even know what a Jack or Ace was. Atleast when they lost all they had to do was teach Naruto's friend alongside him.

Hello guys, one of my favorite story is back with a new chapter, the academy arc has begun, there are again going to be several changes, many different things and if you read the previous chapters you will remember some of the programs that have been discussed by two Kages.

With the pairing, finally decided on Narutoxharem, ShikamaruxOC, SasukexSakuraxOC.

Also so sorry for the delay in this story, but I still hope you like it. And also remember to leave a review.

Until next time.

Lights Out guys.