Interlude: Hiruzen pov

Hiruzen Sarutobi was having a leisure day in office as three shadow clones of his dealt with the bane of his life, paperwork. He usually let his shadow clones deal with the usual paperwork while he dealt personally with passing of any laws, important mission reports , diplomacy issues and security threats since a young Naruto after learning the shadow clone jutsu asked him an innocent question of why he didn't use the memory transfer feature of shadow clones to deal with paperwork. That idea freed up his time to spend with his family and train his body regularly to regain his legendary mastery over his shinobi skills which had grown rusty and he was no longer kage level but just low s- class ninja. Some regular training and physical exercise with resistance seals had brought him back to solid kage level and he was feeling less stressed and more healthy and fit than he had in nearly one and a half decade.

He had even taken to teaching Konohamaru the basic shinobi arts and sometimes even Naruto taught Konohamaru. He had been very surprised by Naruto 's skill and talent for the shinobi arts and concluded that he was his parents son in that record. He was greatly impressed by his skill with seals and now Naruto usually sold the sealing tags to the konoha shinobi forces under an assumed name and had also upgraded the defenses of the hokage tower and the village walls and also helped in capturing a few spies. Hiruzen nearly had had a heart attack when Naruto explained how he had managed to attain perfect control over his vast chakra reserves without fully mature chakra pathways and his mouth was gaped in shock when he heard the reply about the supplementary chakra system seal he had designed and attached to his chakra system. He knew that Naruto 's goal was to be known as the next God of Shinobi and also that he was well on his path to achieving that. He knew that even without knowing all of Naruto's skills that Naruto was solid jounin level and above in Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, Ninjutsu and Fuinjutsu. Naruto was an a very accomplished sensor and also very skilled in stealth and had the correct attitude towards shinobi life to kill an opponent as soon as possible and not showoff and complete an assignment with maximum efficiency. He had also been very impressed by naruto's Genjutsu disruption seal but it could only be applied to those with kage level chakra control and as such Hiruzen had the seal placed on his body. He had also been impressed by the addition Naruto made to the Kyuubi's seal which increased jis healing factor dramatically. He also was impressed with the fact that Naruto did not hesitate to use underhanded means to win in a fight and his perfectionist attitude to master everything he knew before learning anything new.

Hiruzen never regretted bringing Naruto to his house as Naruto was basically a son to Kanna and a big brother to Konohamaru. He was looking forward to the graduation day of Naruto's year group from the academy and was thinking hard on which team and sensei to place Naruto with.