It’s been twenty eight days since the third round of the third exam. In one more day, Sakura will have to battle Ino again.

Once Sakura was able to knock down a tree in a single punch, I made her try another type of punching technique, by making a perfect round hole on the tree.

This method takes extremely good control over your chakra. This new method is a good way to damage your enemies, when all of your strength is gathered on a specific spot on your fist, then the damage is even more terrifying than before.

Of course, Sakura accomplished this, thanks to her shadow clones and great control of her chakra.

But the last test was a bit harder.

For the third and final test, I placed 10 candles neatly in a single line. What Sakura needs to do, is to blow out 5 candles with the strength of her fist, no more and no less. When Sakura hits her fist, a bunch of strong gust comes out of it, that’s how she is gonna blow out the candles.

Not everything is about punching as hard as you can. This test will show Sakura to control her strength, otherwise if she fought with Ino without controlling her strength, then Ino will die.

This test was very challenging for Sakura, she is very good at controlling chakra, but the same could not be said about her physical strength.

Even till now, she can only blow out either 4 candles or 6, she still cannot blow five with her fist.

She has mastered the basics of healing Justu as well, this shows you just how much work Sakura put into practice.

Kat has mastered the plant energy, which only took her a few days to master. She has the idea of combining her Kekkai genkai with her new plant energy. The bad thing is that she doesn’t know how it works. At first she thought it would be easy once she mastered this plant energy, but faith proved her wrong.

On the bright side, she does have another strong ability. I do believe that Kat has the talent to combine both her powers, someday, but not today.

TenTen has improved a lot as well. At first, my shadow clones were always unpredictable and fast, every time they easily dodged her weapons.

At the second week, TenTen used more weapons like wires and such. With this new combination, she easily hits every single of my shadow clones, no matter what.

And I even taught her a lot of my fuinjutsu skills, she has even applied some of this seals on her weapons making them even sharper and deadlier than ever before. She can be considered as an expert in this stage.

As for Luna, she’s a bit more special than the rest. She learned everything from her scythe techniques from the book I gave her, she is very good at it. Even her mangekyo powers don’t take up as much chakra as before, due to her repeatedly using her moves a bunch of times.

Nobody knows this, but I taught Luna to control her Susanoo, Sakura and TenTen agreed to keep this secret by heart.

Of course Kat was very competitive, and demanded me to teach her something like that. Which I did.

Kat cannot use the susanoo for obvious reasons, but I did help her make a giant humanoid tree. I thought of teaching her to use the same technique as Hashirama senju used in his fight against Madara, but that technique was long lost, and Kat doesn’t possess the same strength as Hashirama Senju once did.

Kat’s giant humanoid tree was as tall as Luna’s, it even was surrounded by a bit of her plant natural energy, making her have a nice aura surrounding it.

This wooden humanoid did not have a weapon, that’s because the environment was her greatest weapon. She can summon even bigger and thicker woods than ever before, if she could also use her plant energy, wouldn’t she be stronger than Luna’s susanoo.

Luna had yet to fully awaken her susanoo form, so it’s kinda hard to say which is stronger.

And just like before, TenTen and Sakura swore to never tell this to anybody else.

As for me, I went back to the land of birds to have a bird to summon, I forgot to make a contract with a bird. The only one who was available at the time was Al.

Surprisingly, Al was stronger than he seemed, especially when he was taught to use natural energy from the Phoenix King himself.

Although I could have a summoning contract from Elgae's son or the old crow, I had a good feeling from Al. So I agreed that Al should be my summoning contract.

(No, Chris is not referring to the plant energy, it’s another type of natural energy.)

The children of the Phoenix king asked me for a rematch, but I refused, as I said.

“I have better things to do than to bully a bunch of kids.” (Chris)

After which, I left.

The children of the Phoenix king were all mad and flew in a frenzy, how can a mere kid say that he’s gonna bully them, and that he has better things to do.

The Phoenix king smiled awkwardly at this scene, he has truly never met such a shameless human like myself. His kids don’t have the same authority as they once did. Once chris defeated them easily, they were now a laughingstock.

The land of birds is doing better than it ever has, and Al’s family didn’t need to worry about food for a while, since Al and Chris won the tournament, the yearly supply of bird seeds went to Al’s family.

Penny was still afraid of humans, and probably will be for the rest of her life, but she was still grateful for the human kid.

Jewel wished that she would thanked Chris personally, but he left so fast that nobody had the chance to bid their farewells. Ever since her mate died, their family has suffered for years, but that all changed when Chris arrived and solved the problems of this village.

Al was the happiest right now. He has always wanted to see what the human world was like. And now that Chris agreed that Al should be his summoning contract, then how could he not be happy right now.

I could have more summoning contracts, but not now. I remember that Naruto was able to summon a bunch of toads, but it will be troublesome if I did do that. Just having Al is good enough.

There might be a time when I will need the help of the phoenixes, but now is not the time.

(Epic foreshadowing.)

Once I got back from the land of birds, I studied the scroll that will teach me to use ninjutsus without any type of hand signs.

And I would you all to meet a new friend of mine, his name is Planty.

Planty is a carnivorous plant that I made with my plant energy, I thought that it would be cool if I had a plant like that.

Planty was the same the same length as my arm. At first it wasn’t this tall, but after eating several bugs he has grown a lot. The only animals that he can eat are frogs, or squirrels.

He even once attempted to eat Akamaru, but I didn’t let it. After that incident, Akamaru is too scared to even pee in the grass.

The Inuzuka clan did indeed came to cause trouble to me, but with Hiashi's and Hina’s support, they didn’t cause much ruckus to me nor my friends.

And everyday that I saw Hanabi, she would always pester me to tell her the avatar story, and once I finished telling her the entire avatar story, she would always ask for more.

And for the last month, I have been telling Hanabi a bunch of bedtime stories. At this rate, I know that our bonds as siblings are closer than before.

The stories I have told Hanabi were either anime, or cartoons from my world. She liked them all.

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If you guys are wondering why the charm has not worn off Akamaru, that’s where you’re wrong, the effect of the charm had disappeared from Akamaru about three weeks ago.

The only reason why Akamaru is still with us, is because of Luna. Honestly speaking, Luna is a much better master than Kiba ever was. It’s obvious that Akamaru will stay with Luna.

I heard that Kiba is facing at least 10-20 years in prison. This punishment might be far fetched, but the girls he harassed were all from powerful clans. And when Hiashi and several other powerful clan members heard about this incident, they used their own authority to extend Kiba’s punishment from a few months, to a few decades.

This is why Hiashi and Hina easily sided with me when the Inuzuka clan wanted to cause me trouble. Now the Inuzuka clan is their enemy.

They did not go as far as to start a war between them, but they weren’t that far from it. To actually harass one of their own, and especially when that one person was Hiashi’s daughter.

To avoid a huge conflict, the Inuzuka clan offered them an apology and several items as an apology. They should have been more stricter to Kiba, otherwise this would have never happened.

Speaking of trouble, Anko was a serious pain in the ass. She has been looking for me for this whole month. I don’t know why she is looking for me, but it’s nothing good.

Hinata has been taught the strongest Hyuuga techniques from her aunt, Hina. Now Hinata’s strength is something that shouldn’t be laughed at.

Naruto arrived today as well, he and Jiraiya did a good job bringing Tsunade back. Now Konoha has another strong powerhouse to protect them from Orochimaru’s attack on the leaf village.

I decided that we should take a small break before the exam.

Right now, I am walking on the streets of Konoha, it's nice to walk around a bit and do nothing.

I was actually walking towards Ichiraku's ramen shop. I might sound crazy, but I actually have come to like that food.

While I was walking there, I can't help but have this feeling that I forgot something. Did I forget to give Luna something… Maybe it's just my imagination.

“Just do it, and we will be sure that your restaurant won't get burned to the ground. You will even profit from it.” (?)

I was just about to enter Ichiraku’s ramen shop, until I heard somone talking to somebody else beside the shop. My curiosity got the best of me, so I decided to look who it was.

“I won’t do it!” (Ichiraku) said very angrily to the man in the Anbu mask.

“You just need to pour this poison to the food of the demon brat.” (?) The man shows a clear flask, inside was some deadly poison.

“If you don’t comply with my boss’s demands, then you and your daughter can forget about living here for the rest of your lifes.” (?)

Ichiraku seemed to be between a hard place and a rock. Over the years, he has considered Naruto as his own son, but to poison him just so he and his daughter won’t get it trouble… What can he do about this.

‘Don’t do it, for Naruto.’ I thought to my self.

“What is your answer.” (?) The man demanded to know quickly.

“I… I won’t do it!” (Ichiraku) made it very clear. But tears were pouring from his face. He can’t do that to Naruto, but now, his own life and his daughter’s are not gonna be smooth sailing from today.

“Shame. I thought you were a smart man, but to lower youself to helping that demon brat, you are a disgrace to Konoha.” (?)

Then without saying anything else, the man disappeared from the scene, leaving the helpless Ichiraku on the ground in tears. He loved both his daughter and Naruto, and he was supposed to make a tough decision like this, it was the hardest thing that he had to do in his life.

“I’m sorry Ayame, forgive me.” (Ichiraku) kept repeating the phrase to himself over and over again.

I on the other hand was seething with rage. How dare them hurt a friend of my student. Whoever it was that did this, they will pay.

Bluescreen.

Sup.

I decided what I want for my 18th skill

What is it?

Then a grin appeared on my face. Today there is gonna be hell to pay.

On another part of Konoha, the Anbu man from earlier was walking on the sewers that were located beneath Konoha.

These sewers are only used by high ranking members of the Anbu, for hiding purposes. He was heading to the one who gave him this mission.

Then he heard someone else behind him. The man drew out a Kunai and turned to see the source of the noise. He didn’t see anything other than pitch black.

“SQUEAK!” (Rat) it was just a rat running around the sewer.

The man turned around and proceeded to head to his boss.

What this man was unaware of, what that I am standing right behind him, literally centimeters away from him.

I was never the sneaky type of person before, but now I am. It is thanks to my 18th skill, Sneaking.

I was afraid that if I were to confront him, then he would either commit suicide and refuse to let out any information about who his boss is.

These guys have a bit of cyanide with them, and when something is wrong, they’ll eat it so as to not reveal any information to enemies.

But if I were to follow him, then he will save me the trouble of kidnapping him, and other things. Not only that, but this move is a badass skill. I could be behind somebody for hours, and they will never know that I am there.

Surprisingly, this fellow is not thinking about what his boss is or looks like. Somehow, his boss knows about my mind reading skill.

I frowned upon learning about this. Only a few people know about that skill of mine, is it possible that this man right here was sent by the Akatsuki, or maybe even Orochimaru or Sasori.

Hopefully it’s Sasori, that way I can accomplish the mission that bluescreen gave me back a month ago.

(The mission is mentioned in episode 24 Blood puppet)

The man then pushed a small brick button on the wall, which then opened up a secret passage. He looked both sides of the sewers to see if anyone followed him, then entered the secret passage.

I can’t believe how this skill is so useful. He didn’t sense or hear that I am behind him all this time. I still have 2 more skills to choose, so I have to be careful.

Once the man and I entered, we exited out of the sewers and were inside the Hokage’s residence.

Good thing too, the stinge from the sewer was too much to bear.

The man then stood in front of a wooden door, and did a serious of knocks. These knocks are like a secret code or something.

“Come in!” (Boss)

That voice, it sounds really familiar, and I know exactly who it is.

The man entered and so did I, both of them didn’t notice me enter the room.

“Did he say yes.” (Koharu) said as she sipped a bit of hot tea from her cup.

That’s right, the one who sent the Anbu man to poison Naruto was Koharu. Why am I not surpised.

“Looks like he favours the demon brat more than you and I expected.” (?)

“Are you serious! He was actually willing to sacrifice his own life and his daughter’s, for that brat.” (Koharu) said a bit angrily.

She hated that Naruto had so many people that cared for him, such as the Hokage, Ichiraku, Chris and others. He doesn’t deserve that love from many people, after what he did all those years ago, he should have been executed a long time ago.

I was angry again. This is one thing that I hated about the anime, was the people. Are they seriously that stupid, that they couldn’t see that it wasn’t Naruto’s fault when the nine-tails attacked Konoha.

Even if they might not know the truth behind the attack, they should at least posess some common sense. I mean, just how old was Naruto when the nine-tails attacked.

About… 9 seconds.

Exactly. How can a 9 second old kid cause so much damage.

“If you don’t mind me asking, why do you want to kill the demon brat before the chuunin exam.” (?)

They wouldn’t benefit at all if they do manage to kill Naruto. Once he dies, that nine-tails will spawn in another part of the world.

Kinda like a CPU in a video game.

Exactly.

“Kill him! if I killed him, then the Hokage will investigate the death of the demon brat, until the culprit has been found. The poison I gave you will only give the demon brat a strong stomach ache. The reason I want him to miss the 4th round of the chuunin exam, is for Neji Hyuuga.” (Koharu) took another sip of her tea.

“What does Neji Hyuuga have to do about all of this.” (?)

“Think about it, does the demon brat actually compare to a prodigy like Neji Hyuuga. It will be a great humilation for the leaf village, if a young prodigy were to miss the 4th round, and a demon brat were to enter. So if the demon brat is unable to attend in the 4th round, then Neji Hyuuga will be able to participate in the chuunin exam, and become a chuunin.” (Koharu)

Then the man couldn’t help but smile awkwardly. Koharu never told him that the poison she gave him caused a stomach ache, so he thought it was a strong lethal poison. If he knew that it only caused Naruto a stomach ache, then maybe Ichiraku would have gladly accepted it.

Koharu told the Anbu to threaten Teuchi to poison Naruto, if he didn’t, then his shop will be burned to the ground, and he will be framed for a crime he didn’t commit. But she forgot to mention that the poison is not lethal.

After I finally got the answer I was waiting for, I made myself appear before them.

Before both of them could react, the man’s foot was caught in a thick vine, and he was dangling in the ceiling.

I summoned Planty to take care of the man, which he then ate the man before he had the chance to retaliate.

Koharu didn’t expect this, and I punched her stomach as hard as I could. She spit out a mouthful of saliva from the immense strength of my punch.

She looked up to me, and saw my evil sinister grin. It didn’t matter if the poison was lethal or not, they are still gonna pay for this.

Koharu was about to call for help, but I kicked her before she had the chance, then held her neck so tight that she was turning blue from loosing oxygen.

“W-why are doing this, aren’t you loyal to Konoha.” (Koharu) despite being choked to death, she was still able to talk.

She didn’t know this, but I rigged the truth stone when I said that I was loyal to Konoha. I am only loyal to my students, and friends, and that’s it.

“I lied, I never saw Konoha as my home, I see it more as a shit hole. The only reason why I remain here is because of my students.” (Chris)

“Are you betraying us. HELP!” (Koharu) yelled out.

“Don’t bother, with the seals I put around this room, no body will be able to hear you even if you screamed from the top of your lungs.” (Chris)

Ha, and to say that I am betraying Konoha. She is the one who betrayed Naruto, and since Naruto is a Konoha citizen, then that would be betraying the leaf village in a way.

I didn’t want to waste my breath on her, but I planned to feed her to Planty. Planty likes to eat live prey, dead prey is kinda gross to him.

Once Planty was done with the main dish, he was ready for the dessert.

“Here ya go Planty, eat well.” (Chris) I then threw Koharu to Planty, which he started eating her whole like a snake would with his prey.

I am not a insane person, but this is what I would do when a person tries to do something like that to my friends.

After Planty ate those two people, he grew stronger and taller, he was more or less my height. Looks like human meat makes him grow fast, like damn. Imagine if he ate a strong person like Madara.

I made sure that I didn’t leave any evidence behind, and I teleported out of the room.

I will never turn to the dark side and kill civilians for Planty’s hunger, he will just have to settle with bad guys.