In the center of the village of Konoha, a old man is looking into a crystal ball in his office.

'hmmm, interesting... According to Kuroshi, this boy would already be able to graduate and become a genin if he wanted to, it's really nice to live a long life and be able to see amazing things like this, a few years ago Kakashi surprised everyone being able to become a genin himself at just 5 years old, and now there is another genius in the village who has an even more impressive talent than him.' Sarutobi thought as he watched Itachi.

Hokage's job demands most of his time and attention, which makes him unable to spend as much time as he would like to spend with his family or relaxing. But he makes it his pleasure to observe Konoha's new generation of potential ninja whenever he can, after all they are the future he must protect as Hokage. These moments when he watches the new generation are one of the few moments he has to relax lately.

He looks again at the ball and a new child appears in the image alone in his house and training in his backyard, this young man has spiky white hair, and a mask that covers the lower part of his face. He looks angry and determined, his eyes a little wet trying to suppress the tears. He keeps repeating to himself the rules of conduct for a ninja as they are in the book beside him, while practicing with shurikens.

Hiruzen takes a drag on his pipe as he sighs at the sight of this scene. 'Sakumo... you didn't have to take your own life after your first failed mission, no matter what the ninja rules say, you were an important member of this village, and you were also my best option to pass on my mantle of Hokage, in case something were to happen to me, look how Kakashi has become and the suffering the poor boy is going through because of it.' thought Hiruzen with a sad look.

Jiraiya has no interest in the title, he prefers to travel the world and write his erotic books (although I must admit he has a knack for that, hehe), Tsunade is more interested in her project at the Konoha hospital to train and increase the effective medical ninja, her boyfriend Dan, is also helping her and he has an interest in becoming Hokage, and despite having a powerful technique I don't think he is fit yet to be a strong candidate, Orochimaru is what I always thought that I would put him as my successor, but I feel that he has been becoming more and more distant and dark lately, although he wants to become Hokage, he never managed to understand what it takes to be one, and he lives only looking for power for his own benefit, Danzou is a much more hopeless case than Orochimaru, although he is loyal to the village, he has no qualms and will do anything for what he thinks is the greater good of the village, glad Minato is proving itself more and more the perfect choice to succeed me.

He is a genius that only appears in each generation, he has talents and a mind that reminds me of my teacher the second Hokage, or maybe even better, and he was recently married to Kushina, the Kyuubi's Jinchuuriki, with his skills and techniques he is certainly capable of keeping her under control. He never showed his full potential in a battle, but I have a feeling that even I couldn't defeat him nowadays.

After observing a few more boys and girls who show potential, including his son Asuma. Hiruzen went back to the Other room to continue with his work reviewing all mission reports.

'shssss, Asuma is more and more rebellious and he can't forgive me for not being able to take more time to spend with our family, I hope that one day he understands that for a Hokage, the whole village is part of his family.’ After taking another drag on his pipe and sighing, Hiruzen went back to checking the documents. After some time analyzing the information in the documents on his desk, he was interrupted by an ANBU member under his command.

“Lord Hokage, I have important information to report!” said the ANBU

"Say it!" commanded Hiruzen.

“According to our sources in the village of Sand, the third Kazekage is missing, and many ninja from his village have been mobilized to try to find him again!” reported the ANBU member.

"WHAT!?!" Hiruzen stood up in surprise.

“Call Homura and Koharu, and let the Jounin get ready to prepare for an urgent meeting!” commanded Hiruzen.

“As ordered, Lord Hokage!” said the ANBU before disappearing.

'Damn it, the disappearance of the third Kazekage left the Sand Village in a weak position, and that old fox Tsuchikage won't miss this opportunity, considering the history of rivalry between the two villages, a new war will finally be started and there's nothing more we can do to postpone this conflict,' thought Hiruzen.

“Hiruzen! We have been informed of what has happened, we need to put our preparations into effect as soon as possible!” said Koharu as she entered the door with Homura.

“Yes, we already predicted a war would break out at any moment due to the movements of some villages, and for sure this will be the event that triggers this war!” said Homura.

“During the meeting with the jounin council we will delegate commanders for each battlefront on each frontier, Homura you will be in charge of civil affairs inside and outside konoha and keep the feudal lord informed of the war situation, Koharu will be in charge of logistics of supplies and military arsenal during the war!” commanded Hiruzen.

“Where is Danzou?” asked Homura.

“Danzou went to try to get an alliance with Hanzou in the village of Hidden Rain, if he succeeds, our chances in this war will be even better.” Hiruzen replied, barely knowing the shit Danzou would do in the near future.

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It's almost the end of the year that I decided to stay at the academy, and the time I'm spending here has been an interesting experience.

After the shock that my classmates took on my first day, everything was back to normal in a few days, I got to know most of them over time, I thought it was great to experience what it's like to go to school again after so many years ( in my other life).

As expected, many boys underestimated me for my age and size, but when I started to highlight me as the best in the class, some were impressed and others were jealous, after all, they are just kids.

The situations that other children tried to bully at my expense were extremely funny in my point of view, after all, when they tried to attack me with words, they were the ones who ended up being ashamed and when they tried to use violence, they always ended up on the ground after being beaten by me. Soon those types of kids learned the hard way to leave me alone.

In fact, most of the time I go to the academy is in fact my wood clone that attends classes in my place, I found that he is much more resistant than my shadow clone and can stay activated longer. I've learned to have a lot of control of my chakra and adapt to it over time, so I use the fact that I also have chakra sensing abilities to hide my chakra and get outside the perimeter of Konoha's barrier, I'm not at the level of the second Tsuchikage, but I'm good enough not to get caught by the local sensor ninjas, and I know how to pass through the barrier without being noticed thanks to the technique information I inherited from the first hokage.

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Thanks to that, I was able to find a cave relatively far from Konoha, and I placed several seals to hide it and hide the chakra emissions that happen inside it, having the knowledge of techniques from a Hokage who was Tobirama's brother and Miko's husband is really a cheat.

Inside this cave I am finally able to train without being afraid to show my true capabilities, and finally I can better adapt to all my power and skills, every time I come here I do hundreds sometimes even thousands of shadow clones to speed up my training in all the skills I have, during all these months that I've been here I've been able to progress quickly thanks to that.

I'm still not at the same level that Hashirama was at his peak, despite having the same amount of chakra and having the same knowledge about jutsus that he had and having my own powers as an Uchiha, the fact is that knowledge is not experience and my body is still that of a 3-year-old child (a few months ago on June 9 I turned 3 and will graduate at the end of the year), which presents obvious difficulties for me. But even if I'm still not at his level, I'm sure that after all the training I'm doing here, I'll at least make sure that few ninjas will be able to pose a threat to my life in this coming war, and even if I find some of the ninjas that can still defeat me in a direct confrontation, I already have confidence that I can at least escape these dangers. Unless Madara finds a way to rejuvenate himself and get his rinengans back and show up right where I am, then I'm pretty sure I can make it out of any other situation alive. (I'm not planting a death flag here, but just in case I'll try to have one more ace up my sleeve after thinking this through)

My experiments with the pressure points that exist inside our body were a success, I am already able to release chakra through all of them, just like a Hyuga, thanks to their bloodline they are already born able to do that, but for the rest of the ninjas , they have to learn with difficulty to release chakra through some specific pressure points during their lifetime, like hands and feet or other places that they manage to release through training. The most common place everyone is able to release chakra is through their mouths, the rest requires training, and even jounins continue this training to improve themselves.

My idea was that if I started from my first month of life to release such points they would be easier because my body is constantly changing and growing, and it is still very easy to model as I wish, think of it as the fact that our joints stiffen over time, but babies still have very supple joints compared to professional gymnasts. I also thought that the fact that the Uchihas and the Hyugas had the same ancestor would make things easier for me, and in the end it worked out, I won't be able to use Hyuga techniques other than Kaiten since I don't have the Byakugan, but the main advantage that I found was not that, but the facility that I can use my jutsus through my whole body.

I remember that the original Itachi was able to use his visual genjutsu even if the opponent looked at his fingers, and I found that it has to do with the pressure points, I can basically use my genjutsu no matter what part of the body my opponent is looking, and that's amazing if you stop to think about the possibilities, not only genjutsu, I can also throw a fire ball from the back or from any other place on my body, and not just from the mouth as is normal, the same goes for any other Jutsu.

I never get tired of practicing the diversity of jutsus I have in my arsenal, it's just amazing for someone like me who was a normal person and used to a totally different lifestyle to be able to manipulate wood, water, earth, fire, crows and illusions. Not to mention my eye skills, it's amazing to see my Susanoo, it's just like the original, a skeleton with a red aura around it, I never had the courage to use its full form for obvious reasons, I don't want to destroy this cave after all, but I use the incomplete form, the shield and sword are amazing, and also the wooden dragon I can make is really cool. Due to the synergy between my eyes and the wood element I don't have to worry about losing my sight when using my mangekyou sharingan, I can use my powers freely just like Obito could use his in the original. Of course, nothing is totally easy, my Amaterasu makes my eyes hurt a lot if I use it constantly and my Tsukuyomi cannot be used consecutively, I have to wait 3 minutes between each use.

Speaking of Obito, I found out that he and his class graduated a little before I entered the academy, sometimes I see him leaving the Clan's territory to go do his missions, but I decided not to interact with him, however much I thought about saving him I'm also afraid of triggering a butterfly effect in which instead of Obito attracting Madara's attention, it could end up being me or Shisui who ends up attracting his attention if Obito is saved, and I'm not in the mood to risking my skin or Shisui's for Obito.

During that time at the academy through my wood clone I became friends with Shisui, he is a mature boy for his age, as he ended up growing up without his parents who died on a mission, his father was the same age as the third hokage and even was an old friend of the Third and was also subordinate to the Second Hokage, he decided to have a child at an advanced age, but Shisui does not have many years of difference between Asuma, who is the youngest son of the Third.

Something I also found out is that Shusui had a best friend before me, his name is Hideki Aoi, his parents were also ninja who died on their missions, which made them have something in common and started their friendship. Hideki is 10 years old, he is not very talented in terms of being a ninja, but he is very outgoing and is a very cheerful boy, the fact that I am quieter and Shisui is well behaved, makes the role fall on Hideki's shoulders to get us in trouble with his antics, and even though I have the mind of an adult, I admit that I let myself act like a child in those moments.

Today I decided to personally go to the academy and get some rest as I have been training so hard lately.

“Good morning, Itachi!” said Shisui as we left the clan's territory to go to the academy.

“Good morning, Shisui!” I answered.

“The final exams are coming up, and the whole class is training hard to graduate, Hideki is on edge and training hard to pass the tests.” Said shisui bringing up the subject.

“haha, after all the training we did together, he just won't pass if he doesn't want to, we've already managed to put all the basic jutsus in his thick head after all.” I replied in a good-natured tone.

“haha, I wouldn't put my hand in the fire with that, he can still be very anxious and end up making some mistake when it comes to being examined, but after he manages to pass the tests, what teams will we be placed on?” asked Shisui when we arrived at the academy.

“Hey guys, what are you talking about?” Asked Hideki when he saw us arrive.

“We are talking about upcoming exams and also what teams we will be placed on when we become genins after graduation.” I said when I got close.

“Wow, I don't even want to remember the exams, I'm almost unable to sleep with anxiety, unlike two geniuses like you who don't need to worry because they already have the sharingan, Itachi's is even already complete, I'm just a normal boy. ” Hideki complained after sighing.

"Stop making excuses, after we've trained so hard I'm sure you'll do well in your exams." Said Shisui with a smile.

“Ah, changing the subject, did you hear the latest rumor?” asked Hideki conspiratorially and in a low voice.

“hmm? I said without paying much attention, already preparing myself to hear something that will probably turn out to be some mischief in Hideki's hands.

“There is a rumor that the Kazekage has disappeared and that a war has broken out on the borders between the countries of stone and sand, and that Konoha is already sending troops to reinforce our borders.” Hideki continued in a low voice.

I stopped after I heard that. So that’s why my parents have been so anxious and busy lately, and the whole ninja movement has been on the rise. The War has finally begun and will spread across the entire shinobi world before long, if it hasn't already spread and for the time being it hasn't come to the public.

'GOD DAMN IT!' I thought. I thought I would have more time, I hope my preparations have been enough to survive this event, not that I intend to expose myself fully, I intend to use only my Uchiha skills with the normal sharingan to get through this war without much repercussions, and save my power only in case of an emergency, of which I hope there is none.