Waking up once more, Kazuo felt like smashing everything around him.

Taking deep slow breaths, Kazuo quickly calmed his emotions down.

'Chakra control training is on top of the list, those bastards at the corps didn't even teach us water walking and even the tree walking is scuffed at best.' Kazuo thought before getting up from the bed and heading to the training ground once more, deciding that today and every day after would be dedicated to chakra control training until he managed to at least have decent water walking down.

Back at the training ground again, Kazuo quickly found a tree at the very edge of the area and started using tree walking.

His footing could barely be called stable as he walked up and down the tree, one small push would likely mess it up and cause him to fall down to the ground.

Kazou spent three hours just walking on the tree before he heard a bell-like notification.

[ Ding! ]

[ User has gained Tree Walking Skill ]

[ Tree walking ] [ 5/10 ]

It didn't change much even after he gained it, his mastery remained the same as before the system gave him the notification.

'Gaining a skill through hard work doesn't boost what you are trying to do and simply shows your current level of mastery, maybe in the future a quest could give me a skill upgrade skill point but even then it would be much more useful to try and use it on time looping than any other skill' Kazuo thought before shaking his head and continuing his training.

He continued for two more hours before he ran out of chakra and had to lay down on the grass to rest.

The idea of killing himself passed through Kazuo's mind however he quickly removed it from his mind.

Dying was fun, in fact, it was horrifying and Kazuo didn't want to put himself through that willingly, he had already died twice today because of his own mistakes.

As he rested on a patch of grass under the tree he had been training on, he saw a shinobi come toward him.

"Kazou, the commander has called for you." He said before turning around and heading away.

'That damned Shikaru, can't he just leave me alone.' Kazuo thought as he got up from the ground and started walking toward the commander's tent.

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'If I were him then I would have monitored myself as well, the village most likely has files on all of their shinobi about their abilities, and chakra sense is most definitely not on mine which would cause any commander with a decent head on their shoulders to become wary. However, he has decided not to eliminate me and instead use me as a way to motivate the camp and raise their morale while also having a good excuse to monitor me almost constantly.' Thoughts whirred inside Kazuo's head as he analyzed the situation he had found himself in.

*Sigh*

Releasing another sigh, Kazuo thought.

'Im really going to get gray hair at twelve years old aren't I?'

A few minutes later, Kazuo appeared before the commander's tent, seeing the same guard as before.

"The commander called for me," Kazuo said and the guard didn't stop him this time, in fact, Kazuo could see it in the ninja's behavior, he was now respected by him.

'I killed a fellow leaf ninja but none of you saw it, I wonder what your expression would be then.' Kazuo thought to himself jokingly before he entered the commander's tent.

Once inside he saw that it had been completely restored and looked almost exactly the same as before it had been incinerated to the ground.

There was a new addition however, that addition was the presence of another man standing next to the commander.

'Minato Namikaze, what's he still doing around here' Kazuo thought before moving his gaze away naturally and looking at the commander.

"You called, commander"

Shikaru stood silent for but a moment before nodding his head.

"That's right, as I said before, I'll be taking you under my wing so I want you to be next to me and observe everything I do from now on and try to learn as much as you can," Shikaru said before pointing to a chair that had been placed a few meters away from him.

"I see, that would be an honor sir," Kazuo said giving a ninety-degree bow to the man and holding it until Shikaru told him to straighten up.

Now Kazuo finally turned completely toward Minato, clearly showing his curiosity to the two shinobi.

Minato seeing this gave Kazuo a warm smile and a wave.

"Hey! Im Minato Namikaze, nice to meet you." Minato said before walking to Kazuo and offering a handshake.

Kazuo looked at his hand for a split second before taking it and twisting his expression.

The look on his face changed to that of admiration, almost as if his eyes were shining as he looked at Minato as though the man was some kind of god to him.

"Im Kazuo sir, I've wanted to meet you for so long, you're my idol," Kazuo said as he shook Minato's hand quickly causing Minato's smile to twitch.

Scratching the back of his head, Minato gave a short laugh clearly embarrassed by the high praise.

Meanwhile, Kazuo wanted to kill himself.

'I have to be a fangirl, building a good relationship with him is necessary even if it's not going to happen right away, I need to leave a good impression. Im just an innocent cute little junior who idolizes him. Ah fuck I want to kill myself.' Kazuo thought as he maintained his expression of idolization.

Shikaru looked at the two for a moment before returning his gaze to the papers on his desk.

Parting their handshake, Minato's smile finally returned to normal before he turned to face Shikaru.

"I'll be heading off to different battlefields now, I wish you the best of luck Shikaru-san," Minato said causing Shikaru to lift his head and nod at Minato.

Turning around once more, Minato took something out of his backpack and offered it to Kazuo.

It was a three-pronged kunai.

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