Strongest Shinobi

Izana spent the rest of his day with Sasuke and Mikoto. Izana heard from Mikoto that Itachi had become an Anbu and worked directly underneath the Hokage. Izana was very happy for Itachi for being given such an important position.

Sasuke couldn't stop but talk about how fun the academy was and couldn't wait to learn more jutsu. He also talked about a boy that he though was strange, as he was often seen running through the streets being chased by the village people.

Izana already had a clue as who that might be and decided he would see him next thing tomorrow.

Sasuke was still excitedly telling Izana about the academy and his class when Itachi walked in. He seemed exhausted but still managed to smile when he saw Izana. Izana waved at Itachi and patted the ground beside him.

Itachi didn't really care where he sat anyway and sat down beside Izana as they both listened to Sasuke's little tale. Mikoto came back with a few rice balls as a snack and started to make dinner. The sky was already darkening after all, it wouldn't be long before Fugaku returned and they could eat.

When Fugaku came back, equally exhausted as Itachi, he too smiled when he saw Izana again. He greeted Izana by ruffling Izana's head and sat down besides Mikoto.

The evening was spent leisurely as everyone talked about what they had done in the last three years and what kind of developments had happened in the village.

Izana mostly talked about how he had to collect information in one of the enemy villages. He didn't tell what kind of information, as Jiraiya had forbidden him to speak about it. Izana vaguely mentioned it wasn't really important and instead asked uncle Fugaku what interesting things had happened in the village.

So far, it was mostly about Orochimaru's defection, though Sasuke interrupted them when he told Izana about a strange technique a yellow haired kid had come up with. That kid, most likely being Naruto, would do a certain transformation technique that would let the male teachers suffer from major blood loss.

When asked what that technique looked like to cause such effects, Sasuke just tilted his head in confusion and responded with, "Don't know."

Izana could already feel a headache coming up as he really needed to talk to Naruto about this.

Izana also needed to talk with his aunt and uncle about the bad feeling inside the Uchiha residence, but that could wait until tomorrow or the day after. For now, he really wanted to get some sleep.

Izana spread out his futon near the porch, as he looked up at the starry sky. When he started to get drowsy and was about to sleep, another person crept in his futon. When Izana looked who it was, he spotted two black eyes looking at him. Sasuke even had brought his own pillow as he sheepishly smiled and just fell asleep right away. Izana sighed as he too fell asleep.

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The next day, Izana woke up when it was just about to become noon. Sasuke was already at the academy and Itachi was already gone one presumably another mission. Uncle Fugaku wasn't anywhere to be found either as only Mikoto was in the living room.

She smiled at Izana and the both shared a pleasant time together as they made Izana's breakfast and some tea.

Mikoto happily watched Izana eat and waved at him when he left the residence towards Naruto's apartment. Though Naruto was at the academy right now, Izana still had to see if he took good care of himself in these three years.

When he entered the apartment, what greeted Izana was a moldy smell and the sour smell of overdue milk. The laudry was spread across the apartment and the sink was filled with empty ramen cups and filthy dishes. Izana shook his head in exasperation as he for the n-th time made a dozen clones and started to clean Naruto's apartment again.

By the time he was done and the laundry was spread out to dry, the sun was already high in the sky. It wouldn't be long before Naruto would be done at the academy, so Izana spent the remaining time walking across Konoha.

It wasn't long before Izana could hear a commotion down the street. Interested what might have happened, Izana came to take a look and quickly regretted it. The commotion was near the hot spring and there was currently an angry mob of women in front of it pointing at a yellow haired kid.

Naruto just smiled mischievous with his arms behind his head.

"How dare you get inside the woman section! Despicable brat!" The woman in front yelled.

"I was only doing research for my jutsu." Naruto responded.

The women seemed even angrier with Naruto's response. They all began to curse at him, while Naruto just stuck out his tongue and ran away.

The women went back inside, while the men from the village began to chase him.

"Come back here you little demon!" one of them yelled.

Naruto ignored them as he just ran through the streets. Izana followed them from a distance, keeping a close eye on Naruto.

While Naruto was being chased, he somehow managed to grab a few buckets of paint aand threw it at his chasers, while also splattering it all across the houses and shops around the men.

The inhabitant cursed a loud as they really wanted to complain to someone. This happened so often that they didn't even know how to respond to it anymore.

The people went back inside and the chasers soon lost sight of Naruto.

When they all disappeared, Naruto made a triumphant pose as he jumped down from one of the trees.

"Hoh, you seem to amuse yourself a lot, Naruto." Naruto heard a voice behind him and before he could respond, he was hit on the head.

Naruto held his head firmly as he looked angrily at his assailant.

The anger vanished when he saw Izana.

"Izana! You're back!" Naruto happily said, earning him another hit on the head.

"I saw your little debacle on near the women's baths." Izana said, while Naruto didn't seem to care about it much.

"I was doing research for my new technique. Look, isn't it awesome?" Before Izana could stop him, Naruto made the kata and transformed into a n.a.k.e.d women right in front of Izana.

Izana buried his head in his hands as he couldn't b.a.r.e to look at this perverted brat in front of him. He knew he was partly responsible, but he didn't know Naruto would take it this far.

Why had the women be n.a.k.e.d? No wonder the villagers were angry!

"Well Naruto. You've really improved. I know another skill you could in improve a lot too." Izana said as he looked at Naruto with a fierce glint in his eyes.

Naruto had already transformed back and was jumping in excitement around Izana.

"Really? Is it a new jutsu? A weapon technique? Taijutsu?" Naruto couldn't seem to contain his excitement.

"Oh, no no. Nothing like that. You will need this skill a lot more." Izana grabbed Naruto by the scruff and dragged him back towards the bathing house.

"You need to improve in apologising first before you improve your jutsus." Izana said while Naruto struggled to escape.

"Don't worry, as soon as you can apologize properly, then I will teach you a something new related to jutsus." Naruto immediately stopped struggling as he seemed to have given up. No matter how much he wanted to avoid apologising, he wanted to learn new jutsus even more so he had to endure.

Like so, Naruto and Izana were both apologising to the ladies in the bathing house. Naruto for his pranks and Izana for his lack of tact. He should've taught Naruto to respect women first before he taught him jutsu.

Izana bowed deeply as he couldn't take the mistake back, so he could only apologise and hope Naruto learned from it.

Izana didn't know that Naruto was already a hopeless case. The chance that he would learn from this was close to zero.