Arrival. Konohagakure!

The two members came before the hidden leaf village. This was the place Sato wanted to visit.

He wanted to try and advance his cultivation in this village.

Konohagakure was also known as the Land of Fire and Sato thought that fire meant that yang qi had gathered in abundance here.

This was the reason he came. He needed more yang qi to be able to progress his cultivation and this seemed to be the perfect place.

Upon entering the village anbu shinobis immediately came before Sato and Midori. Sato had told Midori earlier that they would enter the village, so it might be better to hide her headband.

"Why hide when we can just walk through the front door. I am sure the Hokage would send people to welcome us and that we would be treated fairly once I explain the reason we came." refuted Midori.

Sato could only look on helplessly because even if he explained to her the advantages of laying low Midori would do whatever she wanted.

Just as he was about to speak Konoha anbu appeared and looked towards them.

Midori then said "We are shinobi of Kirigakure. I am a member of the yuki clan and we've come to pay respects to the hokage of Konohagakure."

The anbu noticed the headband on Midori's head and that they were not here to do harm and nodded their heads.

"Follow us." replied the anbu leader and then both Midori and Sato followed along.

While following the anbu, Sato was taking in the sights of the village. He saw on one side of the village the shinobi stores and general shops. Then he looked more and saw that there was a shop that sells ramen.

He knew this shop as this was the famous shop that Naruto would eat his ramen called Ichiraku Ramen.

Sato knew that this would be a famous shop in the future but right now it was not as luxurious.

He looked at the shop and saw a kid wearing an orange jumpsuit eating ramen at the shop. Sato knew who this person was. That orange color was too famous that no one would not be able to not tell who it was. This kid was Uzumaki Naruto. Sato however did not want to meet with him as he thought he would change the timeline.

The group kept walking and they came to the Akademī (ninja school) where Sato saw the kids training to be shinobi within. He glanced at them and kept on walking. He did not care so much about this place either and looked towards a large circular building that was located close to the Akademī. There was a large 火 character painted on the build and it represented the kanji for fire.

Sato knew that this was the building that the hokage resides in and that the building next to it was the administrative office.

The anbu members brought Midori and Sato to the front of the building and was given permission to enter to see the hokage after a few minutes.

Anbu knocking on hokage's door, "Hokage-sama, I've brought them".

"Let them in" said Sarutobi.

Midori and Sato came into the room and saw an old man sitting at a desk looking over documents. When they came in he put the document in his hands down and lifted his head to take a look at them.

Midori and Sato was also taking in what Sarutobi looked like. Sato was fanboying out hard. This was the third hokage in front of him. He was a fan of the naruto series and looked at how Sarutobi was kind and caring to Naruto. He knew that Sarutobi was like a father figure to Naruto and he admired it.

Midori on the other hand was more professional and and bowed to him and greeted him. "It is my pleasure to meet the Sandaime(third) Hokage-sama".

Hearing this Sarutobi nodded his head and gestured for Midori to lift her head.

Then he asked, "For what purpose has the Kirigakure shinobi come to visit my village?".

Hearing his question Midori replied, "Un, Hokage-sama my nephew here wanted to visit the village and stay for awhile and I came with him for protection. I hope Hokage-sama will acknowledge our unreasonable request and permit us to stay."

Sarutobi lifted his eyebrows a bit with a slight astonishment but did not let it show. He starting thinking and looked lost in thought.

Sato saw Sarutobi and looked excitedly at him. He wanted to run to him and tell him to train him but he was from a different village and thought it wasn't good decorum.

Also he could not use ninjutsu so it would not be beneficial to him even if Sarutobi taught him his ninjutsu techniques.

Sarutobi decided that it would be for the best if he could form friendly relations with the two before him. This would bring Kirigakure closer to his side and would be an ally of Konohagakure.

But then he remembered the civil wars that Kirigakure are experiencing right now and he had to weigh the pros and cons of this relationship. In the end he let them stay in the village and send them with anbu members to guide them to where they will be staying.

After sending them away Sarutobi stood up and looked out the window. He started smoking his pipe while deep in thought.

Midori and Sato came to a secluded place covered by trees and isolated apart from the village. It was a perfect place for Sato since he intended to cultivate in private.

This took away the chore of having to find such a place. Sato had to admit that Midori's way did bring some benefits.

There was a small courtyard located at the front and a cottage where they would be resting. There were rocks outlined at the sides and the place was hidden behind some trees.

Sato was satisfied with the arrangements made and quickly told Midori,

"Don't disturb me. I'm going to start my training immediately. Also you need more clothes so you should buy some".

Hearing what Sato said Midori's cheeks flushed red and she was about to retort him but Sato had already entered the cottage and locked himself away.

Stomping her feet because she had no outlet to release her anger, she left to visit the shops in the village.

Sato did not bother with this anymore. He could not wait to start cultivating again. As he went into his room he took up the lotus position again and cleared his mind to enter into a serene state of cultivation.

After sometime passed Sato could feel the qi circulating in the air and started absorbing the qi greedily. He notice that the qi in the air did in fact have an abundance of yang qi and this helped him balanced his qi.

Some hours had passed and Sato could feel the bottleneck he was stuck on becoming a thin barrier and only needed an extra push to breakthrough. He gathered more qi from the air and condensed it to make the final push.

Then he heard a loud explosion in his head. *Boom boom boom*. This time he heard a series of explosions.

Then qi rushed into Sato's body and was attracted to his meridians that was just unlocked. Sato felt that euphoric feeling once again and could not help but let out a sigh again. "Ahhh...".

Sato cleansed the impurities in his skin again and muscles as well. This time however he felt his qi cleansing his bones removing the impurities within and solidifying them, increasing their density.

His bones became milky white and his skin also looked more pale but he still looked healthy.

"Having cleanse my bones with my qi, does this mean that I have achieved minor stage?" asked Sato.

He reexamined his body and notice that he did indeed breakthrough up to qi disciple stage eleven which is known as the minor stage of qi disciple condensation.

The qi stored in his meridians also became abundant once more and stability returned to his qi.

His sword qi also increased as well. This result was a dramatic increase in his strength.

Having more qi stored within meant more techniques could be executed. Unfortunately Sato had no techniques at the moment and could only create his own from understanding the elements that are present in this world.

After taking care of his base cultivation mastery now, Sato has to train his battle techniques. As he opened his eyes a white and black light shone within his pupils. His pupils gain another depth to them.

He quickly withdrew the light and notice that he was covered in more impurities. Unlike last time however there was less impurities on his body and only some tiny traces of black, gooey substance clung to him but still, this was still malodorous.

Sato quickly went to shower to cleanse himself. After doing this he thought about some of his old goals and prepared new ones to replace the ones he had achieved.

He was thinking about his goals and suddenly thought that he had not tested his strength yet prior to breaking through.

Sato swiftly located a tree that he could practise with and came before the tree and threw a punch at it. This was just a normal punch without any technique to it just a straight jab but it produced miraculous results.

The tree absorbed the blow and there was now a hole, indented into it from the punch. This shocked Sato as before, he could only punch the tree without making a dent to it.

Now however he made a hole through it. This was unbelievable to him and he nodded his head in satisfaction. If even after all that he has attained he was not even able to hurt a tree then what was the point of cultivation.

Even though he should not expect results right away surely showing some kind of results to his training was acceptable was it not?.

This was what Sato was pondering about then he kept his fist and left back to his residence. After coming to the cottage he noticed Midori still had not return.

He didn't think much of it because Midori is almost jonin level and can handle herself. Only someone like the Hokage would give her problems so he knew that she was safe.

"She's probably searching for dangos again." thought Sato shaking his head.

Sato knew that aunt Midori had an addiction towards dango and would need to eat it at least once a day to be satisfied.

He chose not to think about this anymore and focus on his new goals now. Sato needed to obtain the Katon, Raiton and Doton scrolls and derive his meditation technique from it.

He also needed to adjust his power using his fist, palm and kicking techniques in taijutsu. Then he also needed to learn more Bukijutsu so that his arsenal of weapons would not be limited.

He also needed to find someway to unlock more of his sword intent to gain more insight into sword will.

Sato had a lot on his plate to accomplish but he wanted to challenge himself and this was one way to do it.

So he decided to start with his taijutsu first. This was something that Sato could do without having the need for any external items like scrolls or something to gleam inspiration from.

It was a simple, old and methodical way to train taijutsu and he knew that this would only require time.

He set out to complete his training for the day as his goal was to never stop this training. He had to do push-ups, sit-ups and running to temper his body.

Then he would perform his battle techniques to understand them better. Sato quickly finished his push-ups and sit-ups and was preparing for his run now.

As he was about to set off he notice someone coming towards his direction. When he looked closer he saw that it was aunt Midori holding a stack of boxes in her left hand and a dango stick with her other hand.

She happily chewed on the dango and came before Sato. He did not say anything but he had his mouth opened wide enough to fit an egg in it.

Sato looked at her and his eyebrows twitched. Shaking his head he told her that he was going for a run.

Midori did not say anything and only nodded her head. She then proceeded to the inside of the cottage to enjoy her snacks.

Throwing this to the back of his mind, Sato decided to head out and finish his run so that he would have time to practise his battle techniques.

While running through the village Sato notice more and more characters that were popular from the anime.

He first saw Lee the taijutsu specialist, although now he was still only a kid the same age as Sato who was five years of age.

Lee had his bushy eyebrows that was trademark, his hair was long and split down the middle he also wore a headband around his head.

He wore a white robe that seems worn out with the amount of practise he did and his pants was black with everyone's favorite sandals that seems to be the new dress code for shinobis.

Lee was doing his insane body training and did not seem to notice anyone. Sato did not want to mess with the timeline of the naruto story and decided he would not bother anyone.

But he came across more characters from the anime. He then saw the Ino-Shika-Cho group along his way. Ino was still a kid but she was beautiful even as a kid. Sato could not help but blush when he realized that he was staring at her.

He also notice Shikamaru who had his hands interlocked behind his head looking at the clouds. Choji was eating his potato chips as usual and listening to Shikamaru telling him that he eats too much.

Sato could not help but laugh when he heard the famous,

"You eat too much Choji" from Shikamaru.

After laughing Sato continued his run and found the main character of the naruto world. He saw Uzumaki Naruto training on a training ground till he was exhausted.

He also noticed that Naruto had wounds on his hands and feet, clearly Naruto had injured himself trying to improve his taijutsu.

Moving a bit further away Sato saw a girl, who wore a grayish white jacket watching closely behind a tree staring at Naruto with a worried expression on her face. She had short dark blue hair and her eyes was white with gray pupils. This person was Hinata Hyuuga.

While watching Naruto she reached into her pocket and brought out a container. Sato knew that this was medicine and he knew that she had it only to give it to Naruto.

Looking at this Sato had a slight smile on his mouth.

Sato then continued on with his run and came back to the cottage taking a short rest before starting his battle technique training.