Third year at the academy

I had stood first in the exams at the end of my second year in the academy beating sasuke to it. Hinata and Ino occupied third and fourth places respectively. Sasuke was furious that he was beaten by a no name orphan again and had tried picking fights with me or spying on me the first of which I ignored imitating kakashi whom I found to be a seriously cool character and when he tried to spy on me I made a shadow clone and made him follow my clone all over the town and finally into a brothel of male prostitutes whom I had paid to fondle him saying that his blonde friend had paid for him to enjoy himselves and he immediately ran away his face turned bright red after realising that I knew that he was following me all along, whether that was out of embarrassment or anger I didn't know and nor did I care and that had finally made him stop his amateur attempts to spy on me.

Sometimes I thought that I could have done something to make a difference during the uchiha massacre incident but then I immediately squashed that part by reminding myself that I found most of the uchiha to be egotistical jerks at best and their coup would have put my family at risk and then I made peace with it as they could die for all I care as long as my family was not at risk because of them.

I had made good progress in learning the advanced katas of the slug style taijutsu and incorporating it into my personal taijutsu style. Kenjutsu was me modifying it to better suit my personality by making it more fluid compared to the anbu style and incorporating smooth deflection of an opponents weapon and redirecting the force of his or her blows instead of getting into blade locks and getting into a contest of strength as a full grown adult would still be able to overpower me due to his fully developed body if he was the same caliber shinobi as me.

I had finished the fifth volume of fuinjutsu

which was an introduction to intermediate sealing theory, it included new languages, ideas about chakra and a start on log and algorithms. The volume also discussed on how to translate elements of ninjutsu into fuinjutsu , focusing mainly on incorporating elements into barriers and ideas on how to suppress jutsu like the fire sealing scroll. It was difficult as I had to consult jiji and many other books for doubts on some of the concepts in ninjutsu mentioned in this volume. Jiji was impressed with my progress in all fields and on my ninth birthday he taught me the second stage elemental manipulation of water and lightning and also gave me the jutsu scrolls for two jutsu each for water and lightning which were the Water clone jutsu, water pistol jutsu and the lightning clone jutsu and lightning style shock fist jutsu.

By the end of my third year in the academy I had managed to master the second stage elemental manipulation of water which was creating a whirlpool in a pool of water using only your chakra and lighting a bulb using only your chakra for lightning manipulation. I had taken it a step further in water manipulation by mastering how to make a whirlpool of water around me to block anything thrown at me as a defensive jutsu. I had also mastered the four jutsu given to me.

The lightning shock fist jutsu was useful for paralyzing enemies and the water pistol jutsu which fired a bullet made of water from your fingers at high speed was useful as a long range technique as it was accurate and could easily penetrate a body and useful for assassination. After mastering the jutsu given to me I had learnt the water bullet jutsu and water wall jutsu from my mother. I had started working on decreasing the handseals required and also on increasing the speed of formation of my handseals which I left to my shadow clone and worked on a third stage of elemental manipulation for water invented by the second hokage according to jiji which was first stopping the flow of a waterfall and then reversing the flow of a waterfall and I was trying to come up with some more elemental manipulation exercises for water and lightning. I had also started using lightning chakra infused wires tied to kunai. Mother had taught me how to channel lightning chakra into my weapons increasing their piercing power tremendously but I had yet to master it. I had decided to learn and master the creation of rasengan during the next year as I had a feeling that it would help immensely when learning jutsu such as the water dragon jutsu, Chidori eiso and any other jutsu which requires giving shape to an element.