Chapter 7

*Ding!*

[You have leveled up 'Create Life' lv.5]

By the time Kakashi had tied them up to the logs I had reached level 5 in [Create Life]. I had increased my leveling speed by creating bigger animals.

Though, I was careful not to create anything that wasn't common in this world. I waited until Kakashi had come back to find them sharing their food.

"You...pass!" He said after a dramatic pause. I decided to tease him by throwing a Kunai at a speed that was just below what he could catch.

He caught it with some effort as I deactivated [Presence Concealment]. It has become a habit that sometimes, I don't even realize when I turn the skill on.

"So you're here after all. I was worried that you didn't come at all. So...how long have you been here?" He asked calmly. He's been long aware that I can't be found unless I want to be found. It's useless to try. Even his dog summons could trace my scent.

The now official team 7 looked surprised as I jumped down beside Kakashi.

"I've been here before you even got here. Though I'm surprised you passed them." I said to him.

Sasuke and Sakura were surprised that I had been here for so long without anyone noticing while Naruto was offended.

"What do ya mean you're surprised he passed us?!!" He yelled.

"I mean it!" I said sternly. He was about to protest again but I cut him off.

"You especially! I have no idea how you passed the academy with your below average skills. Your taijutsu is barely acceptable. Your speed is nothing to take note of. Genjutsu is entirely out of your reach. You lack the IQ required to properly use techniques in a fight. You barely know the basics of being a ninja. And most of all...you're cocky. You overestimate yourself. You lack the mentality of a ninja. You're not fit to be a ninja." Truly I was just ranting but I needed to get it off my chest somehow.

"I won't contest Kakashi's decision to pass you but...in my eyes I can't acknowledge you as a ninja." I continued. The mood was terse as Naruto's hair covered his eyes.

"Do not think I hate you. I do not. It's your mindset I hate. If you can't change that, you'll forever remain weak." I finished as I turned to Kakashi but not before leaving one last thing.

"One last thing, before you go off learning more jutsu that you don't understand, go and work on your basics. It'll do you a lot of good. I'm sure Kakashi would be able to help you with that." I advised him. I see his face brighten up a bit when I said that I didn't hate him and even more when I gave him advice.

I fully turned to Kakashi with my full attention on him. I could see that he wanted to say the same thing to Naruto but not as harsh as I said it.

"So...what's my test?" I asked him. He gave his usual eye smile before answering with a statement.

"It's been long since we've sparred, hasn't it?" He said lightly. The eyes of team 7 bulged, including Naruto who had bounced back already and was back to his cheerful act.

"S-s-Sparred...with Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura stuttered out.

I smirked at him before retorting. "I'm starting to think you're a masochist. It's like you enjoy having your ass handed to you." Kakashi simply smiles as their eyes widen further at what I implied.

"He...beat...Kakashi-sensei?" Their thoughts were along this line.

"Oh! and there is a special rule for you." He said somewhat smugly.

"Rule?" I asked. His smile widened from what could see from the mask.

"Yes! You can't use fires style!" He said dramatically. I deadpan at how Kakashi was acting like a child.

"Sensei? How come Izuna isn't allowed to use fire style?" She looked truly curious. The others were curious but Sakura beat them to the punch in asking.

"Well that's because his fire style is too strong. He can turn a C rank fireball jutsu to an A rank bordering S rank." He explains. That's true. With my passive buff from being Madara's direct descendant my Fire style is especially powerful. The first and only time that I sparred with him, a simple C rank turned S rank fireball severely destroyed the terrain.

If these kids get more surprises today, I'm sure their eyes will finally burst. We both walked to the center of the field. We stood approximately five meters away from each other.

[[[3rd Person POV]]]

Izuna and Kakashi stood apart from each other in silence. While Kakashi took a loose but effective stance, Izuna stood calmly with his eyes closed.

'It's as I thought. He's much stronger than he was that time. That time he could intimidate me a bit before I shrugged it off. This time...it's like he's a predator...and I'm prey.' Thought Kakashi as silent alarm bells rung in his head.

A single leaf floated slowly in between them as they sized each other up. While this was happening, Izuna had his own thoughts.

'It looks like this is the perfect time to reveal it. Hahaha...you're not as smart as you think Sarutobi.'

As the falling leaf finally touched the ground, Izuna's eyes snapped open, revealing a fully matured sharingan.

'Sharingan?!' Kakashi thought in alarm seeing those eyes. Before he could say anything, Izuna was already on him trading blows with him.

A kick came for his stomach which he barely avoided by leaping back. He tilited his head to dodge incoming shuriken.

'He's not playing around.' Kakashi thought.

Kakashi leaped at him with a punch aimed at his chest. It was caught but he wasn't discouraged as he made a kick at Izuna's side.

In a show of flexibility, he released Kakashi's hand flipping backwards to avoid the kick. Kakashi took advantage of his dodge to rush at him, only to be force to dodge as the earlier thrown shuriken returned targeting his back.

He observed the shuriken as they sailed past him.

'There's no string attached to them. How?'

Kakashi went through hand signs at high speed before stopping.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu"

He shot out a large ball of fire out of his mouth at Izuna who brought out a kunai before smirking but not dodging the fireball.

'What is he-' Before Kakashi could finish his thoughts, Izuna's calm voice sounded throughout the training ground.

"[Full Counter]"

He sliced the kunai vertically upwards as soon as the fireball was close to making contact with him. Kakashi's lone visible eye widen as the ball of fire more than doubled in size before heading straight back at him.

The ball of fire engulfed Kakashi and a bit of his surroundings. When the fire cleared, the clearly burnt Kakashi standing in place turned into a burnt log of wood in a burst of smoke.

For a few seconds only Izuna was left at the training ground. After a full second he leaped upwards as a hand reached out of the floor to grab at his leg but missed. Up in the air Izuna puffed his cheeks before blowing a high pressured blast of air at the hand.

The hand retreated below surface as the high pressured blast of air hit the ground as hard as a chakra enhanced sledgehammer.

Kakashi emerged a distance away from the damaged terrain throwing Kunai with a paper bomb tied to its end.

When they came close, they were repelled by what looks like a wall of wind before exploding. His eyes narrowed as he formed more hand signs. Izuna dashed at him at high speed to stop him but he was too late.

"Earth Release: Earth Release Wall"

He spewed out a stream of mud that solidified itself into a string wall. It proved to be for naught as Izuna reached the wall.

"Hidden Shadow Snake Hand"

Multiple snakes came out of his sleeves, smashing and pushing against the wall causing a large crack in the center of the wall which Izuna took advantage of. He punched at the crack, completely destroying the wall.

Seeing this, Kakashi tried to leap away but his arm was caught by Izuna's hair which in the heat of the moment, he had regrown back to his Madara length hair using [Hair manipulation].

Kakashi was caught off guard by this, which allowed Izuna to lightly press a kunai at his neck. Kakashi sighed before raising his two hands in the air, signifying his surrender.

The present genin looked at Kakashi and Izuna in shock and awe, mostly Izuna.

"You didn't get serious in this fight." Kakashi said to Izuna as they separated.

"Neither did you." Izuna retorted.

"True, but more importantly...you're an Uchiha." Kakashi stated more than asked, to which Izuna nodded, deactivating his sharingan.

"And clearly you're experienced with using the Sharingan. *Sigh* Just like you to pull out something like this." Kakashi said as he sighed in exasperation.

They walked to the members of team 7 who were still looking at them with wide eyes. Sakura was the first to calm down.

"Kakashi-sensei, you said that neither of you were fighting seriously." She said, which Kakashi nodded to.

"Then who would win if you went all out?" She asked. Kakashi was silent for a while before childishly turning to Izuna with narrowed eyes. Izuna simply sweatdropped at Kakashi's behavior.

The implication didn't go unnoticed as she gasped. Before she could continue Kakashi sobered up and stated.

"If we went all out with the intent to kill, I'd be dead in the first minute. Even without his Sharingan, his genjutsu is second to none that I've seen...Well there is someone...ok ok." He stopped the last part as Izuna glared at him. They both knew that the only one who could beat him in Genjutsu was Itachi and that was because of his tsukuyomi.

Izuna turned to Sasuke. "If you're an actual Uchiha, you would have unlocked it by now."

Sasuke looked down sadly as he said that causing Izuna to sigh. He was sure that Sasuke already had it because of the massacre, he just wasn't aware of it.

"Sasuke! Look me in the eye." Slowly Sasuke's head went up until he was looking at Izuna eye to eye. The others chose not to interfere as this was a personal matter.

"Channel chakra into your eyes." Sasuke did as he was instructed. His formerly black eyes turned red with a single tomoe in each. He gasped a bit as he adjusted to it.

"See...there is no way you wouldn't have it. You just weren't aware that you already had it." He explained before the excited Sasuke.

-Izuna-

I watched as Sasuke had an excited look on his face after 'awakening' his Sharingan. This fight served two purposes. The first is create a connection with Sasuke and possible team 7.

The second is to let Konoha know that there is one more Uchiha alive and he takes shit from no one.

After leaving team 7 with a goodbye and my assurance to train Sasuke, I flashed straight home. Looking at the amount of system points I had, I was a bit excited and a bit frustrated.

[System points:41,900]

I already got my Mangekyo without the whole 'kill your best friend stuff'. It awakened naturally but the system informed me that the Eternal Mangekyo wouldn't be the same.

[Store]

[Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan][Price:40,000 System Points]

I was happy that I could finally afford it. I had gotten 1500 system points for 'awakening' Sasuke's sharingan and another 500 for becoming an official genin. While I was happy that I could buy it, I was sad that I'll be broke after it.

Steeling myself, I took off my shirt and went to the bathroom before purchasing it, leaving me with 1900 points.

The pain in my eyes were excruciatingly painful. It felt like someone was sticking needles into my eyes. I kept my eyes shut throughout the entire process.

After about ten minutes, the pain subsided as I felt warm liquid roll down my cheeks. I opened my eyes to see the new pattern in my eyes.

My former Mangekyo pattern was the outline of a six pointed star with a small circle at the center. The Eternal Mangekyo added a three pointed star, with the circle as its center.

I deactivated my eyes before washing off the blood that flowed down my cheek. The headache that came with unlocking the eyes is heavy. I changed into my sleeping clothes before walking to my bed.

Before I get on it, I see a lump under the sheets. I sigh in amusement as I already knew who it was. I pulled off the sheets to see a sleeping Ino.

I lay down on the bed beside her going to sleep as I hear her whisper.

"You're back. *Yawn* how was it?" She said sleepily.

"It was...interesting. I'm assuming you passed" I answered. She nodded

"It was easy. Well-*Yawn*" She was cut off as she yawned.

I smiled before saying "Goodnight"

"Goodnig-" she tried to respond but she slept off.

Say what you want but I can be caring when I want to be. It's not the first time she's slept here and I'm sure it's not the last.

[[[3 weeks later]]]

D ranks. The bane of all ninja... but not me. D ranks, as annoying as they can be, are a source of income for me. I was right in my assumption that missions can count as quests so I took a lot of them.

I've regenerated more than the amount of system points that I lost. Right now I'm sitting at 86,300 system points.

In my determination to acquire system points, I took at least 10 D ranks each day. I think I made a record. I just submitted my report for my 217th D rank before I'm not allowed to take anymore because there are almost no more D ranks left for other genin teams.

'*Sigh* When you're too strong everything seems boring. Now I somewhat understand how Saitama feels. What a drag. Maybe it's time for a C rank.'

I was currently laying on the roof of the hokage tower after submitting the mission report. I was about to get up when an Anbu landed beside me.

"Izuna Uchiha, Lord Hokage wants to see you." With that he disappeared. This is the kind of stress I'm talking about. Ever since that spar with Kakashi, my name had been changed without my permission.

I could get angry about it but it's the first part of the plan.

Phase 1; Reveal the sharingan to put a bit of attention on me.

Phase 2; After letting rumors settle exercise my power, get the attention of strong or curious ninja and possibly the Akatsuki.

Phase 3; Make myself both highly valued alive but also feared.

After phase 3, the stage is set. Some may say that stage three is unnecessary seeing as how I could fight my way out of anything and get what I want by force.

That's what I want to avoid. At some point they'll band together and try to fight me. While I could kill them all, it would be senseless slaughter. Innocent and clueless people would get involved. I'm not a good person but I also don't involve people who have nothing to do with me in my plans.

By the time I'm done, I would have more influence in Konoha than even the Damiyo. Patience is the key, no matter how troublesome it is. That's why Tsunade, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke are at the centre of my plans.

Tsunade with her possibly wood style if I choose to help her, Naruto with the future influence that he'll have on certain people, Sakura with her future influence and power in the medical field and Sasuke for his connection to Itachi, the Akatsuki and many other stuff but most importantly, the reincarnation of Indra.

I sigh putting everything out of my thoughts before making my way down to the hokage office.