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"Owww!" Gon whined as he rubbed his bruised nose after being slammed into the floor a fifth time in a row. The young hunter looked up at his opponent with a mixture of frustration and admiration. His opponent, Son Goku was taking him down with ease, and had been for the past several days. The Saiyan hopped from foot to foot, enjoying the fight that the boy was putting up, even if it was very minor. Gon stood up and wiped the sweat off of his brow, before running towards his opponent, staying low to the ground. He jumped up in Goku's face, trying to hit him with an uppercut, which the Saiyan dodged with ease. Before hitting the ground, in a show of athleticism, Gon spun his body around and followed the wiffed punch with a back hook kick, which was caught by Goku. Goku took his foot in an attempt to throw him, which Gon thwarted by slipping out of his shoe and jumping back to create space between him and his opponent.

Goku looked at the shoe in his hand then back at his sparring partner. "Wow," Goku said tossing the shoe up and down in his hand.

Gon breathed heavy, winded from the intense training. The training facility his group had been assigned was placed on the shore of a beach on the south side of the kingdom. The beach was private with several training areas. On the sandy shore was the main building. It was basically a giant beach house and looked more like a small resort than any kind of training facility.

"That was pretty good," Goku said, tossing the shoe in his hand one last time. Gon smiled at the compliment, but that smile faltered as Goku brought the hand that held the shoe and reeled back.

'Wait a minute, he's not going to...?' Before Gon could even finish his thought Goku threw the shoe at the boy at a lightning fast speed. Gon panicked for a second, barely doding to the right in time to dodge it as his shoe went flying into the ocean. Gon, however, didn't even have time to be upset at his lost boot due to Goku rushing towards him. Gon attempted to get into a defensive stance of some kind, but Goku was already in front of sent an open palmed strike to the boys midsection, sending him flying upwards into the air. Trying to recover despite the pain in his torso, Gon looked down to see that Goku had disappeared. The hunter's search for his opponent was quickly answered as a painful elbow to the center of his back sent him flying towards the ground.

Gon hit the sand hard with bounce, creating a small crater around him. He lay motionless for a moment before rolling over onto his back to see Goku floating in the sky above him with a smile on his face.

"What? No fair," Gon shouted in frustration at his flying opponent, "You didn't say you were allowed to fly," Gon turned to the sideline where his teammate and new friend, Wendy Marvell, was watching while reading some books. "Wendy!" Gon called over to the bench by the sparring ring, "Can you make me fly like before?"

"Gon," Wendy lightly scolded, looking up from her book, "You know Saber-sensei's rules, no outside help during sparring matches." Gon gave the girl a defeated look as he looked back at Goku who had floated back to the ground. Wendy just sighed at her new friend's antics, normally she would show a lot more concern at her friend being beaten to a pulp during training, but Wendy had learned that Gon was particularly durable, and was already used to seeing him get thrown around by Goku.

It's been nearly a week since Gon had met his team and he still felt like he hadn't made any headway. His new teacher, Frank E. Stein, had assigned Goku as Gon's sparring partner, but so far it's just been 6 days of Gon getting kicked around.

"How do you even do that, Goku-san?" Gon asked

Goku smiled and floated back to solid ground before holding out his palm. A small glowing orb about the size of a basketball rose from the center and hovered over his hand. "This is ki, it's the tangible life force within every living being. I can use it to fly, or create attacks," He finished as he tossed the ball of energy across the field, creating a small explosion.

"Wahhhhh!" Gon looked in awe at the explosion before turning towards the Saiyan. "Can you teach me how to do that?"

Goku just scratched the back of his head, giving Gon a nervous smile. "Sorry, I've never really been good at teaching people, I've always just..." Goku trailed off as he noticed that Gon was no longer listening to him and had instead entered a wide stance and mimicked what the Saiyan had just done. The young hunter concentrated hard on his hand, sweat emerging from his furrowed brow. Wendy and Goku watched the boy for a moment, but nothing happened.

"Don't worry Gon, it takes time to...!" Goku's words of encouragement caught in his throat as he felt the boys power level begin to slowly rise. The air around Gon shifted slightly, kicking up sand around him. A small orb of ki, about the size of a volleyball emerged from Gon's hand, before bursting and silently fading. Gon fell to the ground, seemingly unconscious, suddenly exhausted. Goku and Wendy ran over to the fallen boy, looking over him.

"Gon!" Wendy shouted, worried that her friend had suddenly collapsed. She checked and saw that he was still breathing, and was simply unconscious. She breathed out in relief and turned to Goku. "What happened?"

Goku crossed his arms with a confused look on his face. "I don't know, I've never seen someone pass out from using ki before,"

"I believe I can answer that," Goku and Wendy turned to see a slender woman floating down towards them. It was a woman that the two recognized as their teammate.

"Merlin-neesan!" Wendy exclaimed happily as the mage descended onto the scene. Since the team had been formed, Wendy had been assigned to study under Merlin directly, as she was a powerful mage, and Saber-sensei had thought it good for Wendy to learn from her. In the short time that Wendy had been studying under her, she had grown to respect the mage a lot. Unfortunately, all Wendy has been doing is reading and studying magical theory books, a lot of which went right over her head, but she tried her best to make Merlin and Gon proud. Wendy ran over and gave the older mage a hug.

Merlin gave the sky maidin a friendly smile and patted the young girl's head. "Hello Wendy-chan, did you finish those spell books I gave you?"

"Yes!" Wendy responded excitedly as the Merlin made her way over to the fallen boy. She examined him for a moment before nodding to herself in confirmation.

"It is as I thought," Merlin said to Wendy, "The use of a foreign energy caused his body great stress." She turned to Goku. "Goku-san do have any of those senzu beans on you?"

Goku perked up as if just remembering and reached for the pouch on his hip. "How'd you know about senzu beans Merlin?" Goku questioned as he tossed a seed to Merlin.

"I have done a lot of research since we've arrived, Goku-san." She said as she put the seed in the boy's mouth. "You'd be surprised what I know."

Gon chewed the seed and swallowed it, after a moment his eyes shot open and he sat up. Gon looked around confusedly. "I feel great," He thought out loud, "and my wounds from sparring are all healed too." He turned to Wendy and Merlin with a questioning gaze. "Did you heal my wounds Wendy?"

Wendy shook her head, "Actually, it was Merli-"

"More importantly," Merlin interrupted, causing Gon to look at her. "You should be able to continue using ki without having to fear for your body collapsing again. Now that your body has used it, it should quickly become accustomed to it."

Gon's eyes widened at hearing this, remembering what he had been doing before falling unconscious. He quickly stood to his feet and turned to Goku. "Goku-san, let's get back to training. I wanna practice using ki more!"

Goku nodded excitedly and ran back towards the training ring, with Gon in tow, off to spar once again. Merlin just watched as the two excitedly went to train with her usual smirk before turning to Wendy.

"Come Wendy, let's do some training of our own, it's time for you to start applying what you have studied, First, we need to pick up some magical items from the cellar." Merlin said floating towards the main training facility. Wendy smiled at finally being able to do some physical training.

As the two ladies made their way across the beach, Wendy looked around at her teammates who were doing their own training in various ways.

"Watch out Wendy-chan," Merlin said casually as she used her magic to float Wendy casually to the left, just as a body crashed into the sand where she was standing the moment before.

"Ah!" Wendy shrieked in surprise at the sudden impact. A cloud of sand and dust had been kicked up before a katana swung out of the smoke, clearing it to reveal spiky red hair tied into a ponytail.

"Renji-san?" Wendy exclaimed, recognizing her teammate.

"Oww, damn that hurt," Renji said, rubbing the back of his head. "Fucking bastard," he muttered to himself before turning to Wendy.

"Sorry about that Wendy," He said getting up, "You ok?"

The dragon slayer just nodded, before hearing a call from across the shore.

"Hurry back, ya bastard. I can hear you messing around over there." Wendy looked over to see Erik, formally known as Cobra, standing with his scales showing, small cuts and scratches on his body.

"Tch, sorry again," Renji said before charging back at Erik to continue their match. Wendy knew that Renji was training his swordsmanship without using his sword's transformations, while Erik was trying to find out if it was possible for him to use dragon force. It had taken Wendy a couple days to get used to Renji and Erik's intimidating presence, but they were both actually very kind to her, to the point where they often discussed their training together. Wendy watched as the two worked hard in their training, sword clashing against claws, and felt a surge of motivation.

She chased after Merlin who hadn't slowed down at the commotion and caught up to her just as she reached the building. As they entered the training facility, Wendy was once again blown away at how nice it was. The inside was lavish with tiled marble floors and glass walls. State of the art health facilities and training equipment were all over the building. Standing over a large table with a 3D map were two large, muscular men, one of which Wendy recognized.

"Elfman!"

Elfman and the larger man turned towards the young sky mariden. The large wizard smiled at Wendy and motioned for her to come over.

Wendy jogged over, hesitating a bit as she neared the larger man who gave her a sideways glare. He was very tall and even more muscular, making Elfman look like a child in comparison. He had slicked-back red hair with a large tear from his lips to his ear on the left side of his face. His beady eyes combined with his scarred smile put his face into a generally terrifying image, and it was definitely something that Wendy was not used to.

"H-H-Hello, Zebra-san," Wendy greeted, trying to be polite. "Whatcha doing?"Zebra sneered at Wendy, bending over to get down to her level, putting himself inches from her face.

"Are you getting cocky with me, kid?" The hulking man scowled at the girl, causing her to cower back a little bit.

"N-no," Wendy responded nervously, wondering how she could have possibly been cocky.

Zebra simply huffed and turned away from the girl, making his way towards the halls exit. "C'mon Elfman," the brute called as he made his way out.

Elfman turned towards Wendy with an apologetic glance. "Sorry Wendy," He said pointing at the map on the table. "Zebra is helping me find new monsters for my takeover magic. Apparently his world is full of crazy monsters that will make me more manly. Somewhere called the Gourmet World," He finished excitedly while flexing his muscles before chasing after Zebra.

Wendy giggled at Elfman's antics before turning back to Merlin who was watching Elfman with an inquisitive eye, quietly muttering to herself before turning and heading back down the hall with Wendy in tow. As they made their way to the Library they passed by various rooms, one of which had a large amount of noise coming from it. Taking a peek inside, Wendy saw Killer B, a stocky, dark skinned man with white hair balancing swords on various parts of his body. Wendy also noticed very thin metal threads near the man, but didn't pay much attention to them. In the same room was Franky, a very tall cyborg with blue hair, welding a material that she didn't recognize. Deciding not to disturb the two oddballs in their training, Wendy walked past the room without calling attention to herself. She finally made her way to the library where Merlin was shelving a book.

'Everyone is working really hard,' Wendy thought to herself, taking a deep breath and then raising her magic as much as she could then lowering it again, and flaring it up once more. Magic burst from her, turning her hair pink, small angel wings sprouted from her back, wrists, and ankles. Her skin gave off a soft glow. 'I won't be left behind,'

Merlin gazed at Wendy and with her signature smirk. "You're improving," Merlin stated, "It only took you 3.765 seconds to activate Dragon Force." The woman snapped her fingers, causing the entire room to shift. Walls folded in on themselves, bookshelves and furniture shifted in a kaleidoscope pattern until the library had turned into a large open room with a high ceiling, bookshelves lining the walls. Merlin floated down to the center of the room and pointed at Wendy. "Show me what you've learned,"

'Everyone is working hard,' Wendy thought to herself again as she raised her magic. She then charged at the woman, at a high speed, preparing to attack. 'I've got to work even harder!'

"Ow, that hurt," Killua muttered to himself after being slammed into the floor a fifth time in a row. The young hunter looked up at his opponent with a mixture of frustration and admiration. His opponent, Sasuke Uchiha had been dismantling Killua with ease, he was even fast enough to keep up with his Godspeed technique. The Uchiha looked down at Killua with a blank, calculating stare, as if he was even analyzing the way Killua was getting knocked into the dirt. Killua stood up and grit his teeth and activated Godspeed again, he had gotten a lot better at using it over a long period of time, vanishing out of sight. Sasuke didn't move for a moment before raising his right arm to block a kick from Killua, who seemed to have appeared from thin air. A normal opponent may have been caught off guard by the sudden burst in speed but the Sasuke's Sharingan made keeping up with Killua's movements very easy. Sasuke went to grab the boy but missed as Killua vanished again, reappearing across the room.

"Fu fu fu fu," came the laugh of Mukuro who eyeballed Sasuke's Sharingan. Mukuro was a tall and slender teenager with lavender pineapple-shaped hair. He wore a long black jacket over a white button down shirt, with long black pants. He had heterochromatic eyes. His left eye is blue, and his right eye is red with the kanji for six in the middle. "Quite an interesting technique he has there."

"Good job, Killua! Fight on!" Gilthunder and Kirishima encouraged from the sidelines. Sasuke and Killua were currently sparring in a large ring similar to that of heavens arena. Sitting in the stands were Killua's and Sasuke's teammates. Gilthunder was a tall, muscular man with chin length pink hair and a pretty face. He had fair skin with bright blue eyes. He wore a dark blue tunic, with armored pants. Kirishima was a lean teenage boy with spiky red hair and sharp features.

"Hurry up and lose pipsqueak, I wanna fight that emo looking bastard next." Kenpachi called out with a wicked grin on his face. Like Gilthunder, he was tall and muscular, but he was much rougher and was a much more imposing figure. He had tall spiky black hair with small bells at the end of them. He face and body were covered in scars, showing years of battle experience. He had broad shoulders under a black shinigami uniform, a torn white Captain's shihakusho over it.

Killua ignored the remarks from the sideline and analyzed his situation. Sasuke's eye technique makes most of Killua's usual strengths of speed and deception almost useless, and many of his skills seemed to directly counter his own. Killua knew this is why Yoruichi-sensei had paired them up in the first place, but it didn't make the situation any less frustrating.

Sasuke stared at the boy with an indifferent expression, before quickly firing through some hand signs then bringing his fingers to his mouth.

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)," Sasuke said, launching a large fire ball toward his white haired opponent.

"Shit!" Killua muttered to himself as the ball of fire hurled towards him. There wasn't any room to dodge it so he had to try disrupting the attack somehow. 'I guess I gotta try that,' The boy thought as he charged Nen into his hands and began to transmute them into balls of lightning. E then began to spin a rapid rate, creating a barrier of lightning around his body just as the fire passed over him. 8

"Sandādōmu! (Thunderdome)" Killua shouted as a small dome of electricity formed around him, shielding him from the attack. Killua smiled as the dome stayed sturdy through the attack, happy at his new technique's success. That smile quickly dissipated as he saw that his opponent had vanished before him. Keeping his Sandādōmu up as a precaution, he quickly took a survey of the area, his mind racing.

'He's not above, behind, or in front.' The hunter thought to himself, 'That could only mean, SHIT!'

"Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu! (Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique)" Realizing a nanosecond too late, hands erupted from the ground by Killua's feet, grabbing his ankles and pulling his body into the ground until only his head remained above the surface. Killua's Sandādōmu disappeared at his break of concentration, and before he was able to realize what had happened, he felt cold metal on the side of his neck, halting his movements. Sasuke had already placed the edge of his sword on Killua's neck, not hard enough to draw blood, but certainly hard enough to keep the boy from moving.

With that, Yoruichi stepped into the sparring ring and called the match. "That's enough," The ebony Flash Goddess declared, "The winner is Sasuke Uchiha."

Sasuke pulled himself from Killua's neck and sheathed his sword as he made his way to the stands without another word. Killua pulled himself out from underground with an irritated look on his face. Seeing this, Yoruichi came and put a hand on the boys shoulder, a comforting look on her face.

"Don't focus on the negatives, Killua-kun," the woman said, with a strange mix of the tenderness of a mother and the strictness of a mentor. "Acknowledge your failings and learn from them, but don't dwell on them,"

Killua felt his frustrations deflate a little at the woman's words, before making his way over towards the stands and sitting with his teammates. Beside him, his teammate Garaa gave him a glance but said nothing as he stood and made his way towards the entrance of the arena for his sparring match against Gajeel, another one of their teammates, who was already waiting impatiently for his turn.

Sitting on Killua's left was Gowther, an effeminate man with androngenous features, a slender body, and raspberry colored hair. Gowther simply sat there and sparkled in Killua's directions, an act that Killua tried his very best to ignore. Instead, Killua looked at his other teammates. Above him Jura watched the match intensely, analyzing every detail of the two fighters movements and strategies. Beside him, Kirishima and Gilthunder were doing the same.

Killua paid the match no mind as he reflected on his own. Killua had fought against many of his teammates in practice matches, with various levels of success and failure, but no matter how hard he fought, Sasuke always utterly destroyed him. Killua had been working hard on not running away from opponents that were stronger than him, but not sense Meruem had Killua felt such a vast difference in someone's abilities and his own. It was hard to imagine how he would be able to defeat him any time soon.

"That's because you won't,"

"AH!"

Killua jumped at the voice right at his shoulder and turned to see a literal alien creature, also known as Koro-sensei. He looked like a yellow bipedal octopus. He was very tall, almost eight feet, and had a large, bulbous head with a wide smile and small, beady eyes.

Killua let out a sigh of relief and irritation. "It's just you, Koro-sensei" Koro-sensei was their team's mentor along with Yoruichi. Together they've done a really good job of analyzing and breaking down each of their fighting styles, as well as introducing them to new techniques.

"Killua-kun," the yellow octopus started, "you come from a family of assassins don't you?"

Killua hesitated but answered the man, "Yeah, but I never liked it. That's why I became a Hunter,"

"Oooh, I see," Koro-sensei muttered, "so you weren't very good at assassination, so you became a hunter instead,"

A vein popped in Killua's forehead. "HEY!" he shouted, "I may hate being an assassin, but I was good at it! I was gonna be the best in my family," he finished, puffing out his chest.

"Hmmmm," Koro-sensei put a tentacle to his chin, as his light flashed with a green question mark. "Then why aren't you trying to fight like one?" He asked, with his grin never fading.

"Huh?" Killua asked, his attention finally being peaked, "What do you mean?"

"Look at your teammates fighting a little closer Killua-kun," Koro-sensei said, pointing towards the match. Killua looked at the match between Gaara and Gajeel for a hint of what the octopus man could mean. Gaara was keeping Gajeel at bay by using his sand to keep him from getting in. Gajeel to his credit was keeping his cool, and carefully analyzed the patterns of the sand. Finding an opening, he heightend his speed and turned his arm into a into a metal pillar.

"Iron Dragon's Hard Fist! (Tetsuryū no Gō Ken!)" The punch moved faster than Gaara's sand could move, sending him sliding backwards. Gajeel smirked as one of his blows finally connected, only for him to suck his teeth as the Gaara's form dissolved into sand, only for the real Gaara to rise from the pile of sand across the ring.

"Sand Substitution, (Kawarimi Suna no Jutsu)" The red haired Kazekage quietly spoke, his sunken eyes never leaving his opponent.

"See how they're playing to their strengths Killua-kun?" Koro-sensei spoke pointing at Gaara. "I'm sure Gaara-kun would love to use his sand to end the fight right now, and while I believe he certainly could, that's not his strength." Killua listened as he watched Gajeel get close enough for another blow, only to pull back at the last moment to avoid being enraptured by a wall of sand.

They continued this dance for a while, before Gajeel got frustrated enough to make a mistake, and had his body encased in sand, ending the match.

Killua turned back to Koro-sensei, who shot him a toothy smile, "Your assassination skills are great Killua-kun, so are your combat skills. Combining them is far more difficult than one may think, but you will grow exponentially if you can, " He put his tentacle on the young hunter's shoulder as the rest of his teammates, done with training for the day, made their way off of the bleachers. "If you would like me to teach me how to properly fight as an assassin, let me know,"

And with that final statement, Koro-sensei vanished from the stadium, leaving Killua alone in the bleachers.

Later that night:

"Mahhhhh!" Killua shouted in frustration, "Who does that guy think he is?"

Killua was currently venting his frustrations to his two friends, Gon and Wendy. The three of them had grown very close in the couple of weeks since they met. They had made it a tradition to meet up in Gon's room after training to talk and vent about their days. The three prodigies, sat in a circle on the circle, eating snacks and drinking juice. Gon listened to Killua rant as he stuffed his face with food while Wendy sat reading, occasionally chiming in to help calm the boy down when he got too loud.

"What does he mean fight like an assassin?" Killua muttered as sipped on a juice box, an irritated look on his face. "I already fight like an assassin,"

"Mmmgumgmgg-urk!" Gon said, his mouth full of food before choking on a piece for a moment.

"Swallow your food first dumbass!" Killua shouted as Wendy went to help Gon,patting his back to help clear his windpipe. "I can't even understand you!"

"Ahh," Gon sighed as he finally got the food down his windpipe. "I said that I think he's right!"

"Huuuh?!" Killua said getting in Gon's face, "What do you mean?"

"Hmmmm," Gon said, crossing his arms and tilting his head to think. "Well, you do it sometimes, like when you fought that mosquito lady, or when that dude attacked us on Greed Island,"

Killua knew exactly what he was talking about, it was the switch he flipped when he was about to kill someone. His killing intent. Killua was able to direct towards people whenever he wanted, but he rarely did nowadays. But there had to be something more to it than that.

Killua let out a sigh and turned to the blue haired girl next to him. "What do you think Wendy?"

Wendy looked up from her book and pondered for a moment. "Well," she started, "it's hard to say since I've never actually seen you fight, and I don't really know anything about assassinating or anything like that." She said with an apologetic look.

Killua shrugged, not really expecting the kind girl to know much about the subject.

"But," Wendy continued, catching the boys attention, "if what Gon says is true, than I think your sensei may have a point." Killua and Gon turned to the girl, wanting to see where she was going with her statement. "Merlin-neesan says that you should never let your opponent know what you're thinking in a fight. That way, you remain completely unpredictable."

Gon tilted his head in confusion. "What does that have to do with Killua?"

"Well," Wendy thought aloud, "If Gon can tell when Killua is going to kill somebody or not, that means that Killua's opponent would know as well. If you were trying to kill someone, wouldn't it make more sense for the person to have no idea either way? I think th-"

Wendy stopped her explanation as she saw the two boys staring at her. Getting a healthy blush under the gazes she was getting, she quickly turned away. "A-anyway, that's just my guess," She looked at the time and closed her book. "It's getting late, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow." And with that she got up and hastily made her way out of the room."

"She left," Gon said slightly disappointed as he watched the door close. "Welp, I might as well head to bed too. Goodnight Killua!" Gon said cheerfully as he left the room. Killua smiled at his friend as the door closed. He turned towards the clock, it was definitely getting late. Killua looked at the other bed in the room, his roommate still hadn't gotten back since the first day. Shrugging, Killua made his own way to bed, thoughts of Koro-sensei's and his friend's words swirling in his head.

The next day:

Koro-sensei sat behind a desk in the office of his team's training hall. He was currently looking over Yoruichi's notes on the sparring matches yesterday only to be interrupted by a knock at his door.

"Come in!" The assassin called, his grin never leaving his yellow face as a familiar white haired boy walked in.

"Ahh, Killua-kun," The creature said as he set down the papers in his hand. "Have you thought about what I told you yesterday?"

Killua walked towards the desk with his hands in his pockets, nodding. "I'm interested in what you meant," the boy said. "I want you to show me how to get stronger."

Koro-sensei's grin widened at the boy's words. "Excellent!" he said excitedly. Standing up from his chair and making his way over to the boy. "Then we can begin immediately,"

"Great," Killua said in a relaxed tone, "What do I have to do?"

"It's quite simple," Koro-sensei stated as he adjusted the small hat on his head, his grin becoming sinister. "All you have to do is kill me," He finished, his beady eyes staring into Killua's.

"Ok," Killua responded, not skipping a beat, his nails sharpening, electricity crackling from his fingers. "Sounds easy enough."

Koro-sensei let out his signature chuckle as he was reminded of a certain red haired student he had. "Don't be so sure,"

"Uggggh!"

Naruto groaned as he continued to toil through the scrolls on his desk. Around him, several shadow clones were doing the same thing as they tried to comprehend the complex algorithms on the parchments.

It's been almost a month since training had started, and Nartuo was very deep into his training at this point. He had shadow clones all over the Shounen Kingdom studying and training various new techniques in order to get stronger. When they would improve on, or master a technique, the shadow clone would disappear, sending the information back to the original. It was an incredibly useful technique for training, all Naruto had to do was make sure he didn't overload his brain with too much information at once.

While Naruto's clones were all over the kingdom getting training done, the original had been toiling always in his room, looking over scrolls, studying theory, and writing complex formulas. Naruto sighed as he reexamined the scroll in his hand. On the scroll were complex sealing formulas that Naruto was barely able to grasp.

"How was he able to come up with all of this stuff?" The future hokage muttered to himself, as he once put down the scroll and picked up another.

"I GOT IT, Dattebayo!" Naruto turned to see one of his shadow clones, shoot up to his feet with a wide foxy grin on his face. In his hands was a book that Naruto recognized as his Dad's personal journal. The shadow clone turned towards the original with a wide grin and a thumbs up, before bursting into smoke, sending the information back to original's head.

Naruto's eyes widened as a flood of information and understanding entered his brain. Quickly he reached back for the first scroll, rereading the information on it, the equations and formulas finally beginning to connect in his head. Naruto stood up and reached for another scroll and once again read it over, his smile widening as he had finally made a breakthrough.

"YATTA!" Naruto shouted as he and his shadow clones jumped around and celebrated his achievement.

KNOCK KNOCK

All the Narutos ceased their celebration and self congratulations and turned towards the knocking at the door. Naruto disbanded the shadow clones, as he gathered some of the stuff on his desk. "Come in!" He called at the door.

The door creaked open, revealing a short, teenage girl with short black hair with red highlights at the end. She wore a short, dark red skirt that split at the side with a small brown belted strap across the gap. Underneath the skirt was a pair of red shorts. On her arms, she wore black bracers with brown belts around the wrist as well as black fingerless gloves. Around her waist, she had a brown belt with several bullets and a buckle of her emblem on it. She wore thigh-high steel-toe boots with brown belts around the thighs and no laces. THe most notable feature was her tattered "red riding-hood" esque cloak, along with the mechanical scythe strapped to her back.

Naruto smiled at the younger girl. "Hey Ruby, what's up?"

Ruby walked into the room with a concerned look on her face as she saw the huge mess of scrolls, papers, and books scattered all around the room. "Uhhh..hey Naruto," the girl said as she carefully maneuvered her way around the mess. "Archer-sensei is looking for you so you can train with Deku-kun,"

"Oh yeah, sure thing," Naruto said as he made his way through the mess to the door.

Ruby raised an eyebrow at the ninja as she led him out of the room, "By the way, what was all that cheering I heard, it sounds like you finally had a breakthrough with all your research."

Naruto gained a small, proud smile as he made his way out the door, taking a brief look at the three pronged kunai on his desk next to the scroll he was studying. "Yeah...a breakthrough."

I'm finally fucking done. I'm so so so sorry I was late by a few..*checks watch*...months...

Oof.

I don't really have an excuse besides the fact that I'm always super busy, and unfortunately this can't be super high on my priorities list right now as I try to finish up my undergraduate program and get into grad school. I'm no longer gonna leave a timetable for the next chapter, just know that I'm definitely going to get it out as soon as I can. Anyways let's get into the points of order.

-This is going to be the standard chapter length from now on. This one is about 6,000 words, so expect between 5k-7k words per chapter from now on.

-I've also decided to avoid harems for this story and will probably at most do some love triangles, maybe some ffm pairings.

-We've met Goku and Sasuke's teams, here they are to recap:

Team: Frank E Stein & Saber

Goku

Gon

Wendy

Merlin

Renji Abarai

Erik (Cobra)

Franky

Zebra

Killer B

Elfman Strauss

Team: Koro-Sensei & Yoruichi

Sasuke

Killua Zoldyck

Gowther

Gajeel Redfox

Kenpachi Zaraki

Eijirou Kirishima

Rokudo Mukuro

Gilthunder

Jura Neekis

Gaara

As usual, let me know what you think. Who's got the strongest team? What fights would you like to see? What cool ideas do you have for techniques?

-Next chapter we will see the final 5 teams. Then maybe one more setup chapter before the tournament! So stay excited and stay tuned!

-Should I start responding to reviews in this section, I've seen other stories do it, so let me know if you'd be interested in seeing something like that.

-NEW STORIES. I'm planning a couple other stories. A Harem Naruto Bleach crossover, where a hollow attacks the village the same night as Kurama. With the hollow being sealed in Ichigo and Kurama being sealed in Naruto. I've also been really excited for Pokemon Sword and Shield, so expect and OC Pokemon Fanfiction sooner rather than later. If any of that interests you, give my page a follow so you can get updates on those as well as this story.

-I just really wanted to say, you guys have all awesome and great readers. I get lots of dms and reviews with great ideas and things to say. I'll try my best to get these updated more often, and I hope you all understand. Please keep leaving more reviews, it helps me get better. And be sure to follow/favorite this story and me if you want. Stay amazing, I'll see you next time.