Chapter 94: Naruto 8

The halls of the Dragon Hold echoed with the sounds of merry making late into the evening. The dragon roars, the burning fires, and the smell of mouth watering cooking meat; the sounds of utensils eagerly forking up delicious foods to mouths. It was a wonderful atmosphere in the Silver Dragon Hold to celebrate the success of the Flight arriving in a new world and their reunion with their leader.

Even though he had only regained his memories of Azeroth and the Dragon Flight a bit more than three months previously, Carl was very happy to have them back in his life. Because of his insertion method into this world, he had actually been without them for several years.

Before he did anything else in this world, he wanted to enjoy a party with his favorite dragons. While they ate and drank he told them about his new life and body in this world, about Konoha and the people there, New Uzushio, the village that he had built, and about the ninja and their work.

"What?! A whole world full of Rogues?" Jeff exclaimed, aghast that there was so much competition for him as a Rogue, causing several of those nearby to laugh at him.

Most of the Flight had turned into their elven forms for the party, since it was easier to gather closer than as dragons, so Carl too had turned into his Night Elf form. Being a four and a half foot tall Hyuga among 7 foot tall elves would give his neck an awful crick.

"Well, not really." Carl chuckled at Jeff as he answered, sitting back at his seat at the head of the table. "Most of the ninja don't fight like Rogues from Azeroth. Only some of them focus on being stealthy assassins. The majority of them seem to favor stand up flashy fights, but their techniques are incredibly varied."

"Woo! Flashy spells are the best!" Chromalie yelled out in excitement as she blew a huge plume of fire straight up into the air. Carl joined everyone in laughing at her enthusiasm. Everyone knew she had a predilection for explosions and the "fun stuff".

"Everyone is born with at least one elemental affinity, which will make it easier for them to learn techniques with that element…" Carl continued to explain about the ninja's various jutsu, elemental manipulation, illusions, martial arts, and bloodlines for some while.

"I'd like to examine the DNA of these bloodlines, Lord Carl." Mortic said with a look of curiosity on his face. "Not to mention learning how they use chakra to heal has me very intrigued."

Mortic was a priest class back in Azeroth, and he had taken to learning all he could about healing from the database that Carl had. He loved delving into the field, especially when he found he could use the Harry Potter spells and magic with his own. Carl's own medical knowledge from the ATG world had also excited him after he started his own cultivation path.

"I purchased an item that holds the DNA of pretty much all the ninja." Carl admitted, and was amused to see the almost greedy look that flitted across Mortic's face. "I'll have copies of the samples sent to you to have fun experimenting with, Mortic." Carl chuckled along with the other dragons nearby.

"And what do you wish for the rest of us to be doing, Lord Carl?" Goram asked intently.

Over their time in Azeroth Goram had gone from a dragonspawn servant to one of the most respected elders among the Flight. He had proven to be quite capable in organizing the Flight's outside activities and business in the Capital Cities. He was also very good at working the auction house.

"I want to spend time learning about everything I can about nature in this world." June chimed in as she threw her arms around Carl's shoulders and leaned in, giving him the puppy dog eyes from up close. "Please, Lord Carl?" She asked pleadingly.

"That's fine." Carl chuckled and picked up the elven looking girl and set her in his lap and began tickling her in punishment. She squirmed for a while, laughter pealing out as those around him grinned amusedly.

"Fine! Fine! I give! Uncle!" June cried out, causing Carl to stop and set her back down on her bench.

It's not like June was a little girl anymore, to try to use the puppy dog eyes on him. Only among the Night Elf bodies of the Flight would her six foot five inch height be considered dainty and short.

"I don't have a problem with everyone following their passions and learning what they love to do. June, you'll coordinate with Goram and Hilda about your collections of the various plants and animals of this world. Goram, I'd like for you to start a Trade Consortium. The Silver Flight Trade Consortium sounds like a decent name to me. We'll start doing business around the Elemental Nations mostly, and eventually around the world too."

"Hmm. Judging by the number of countries in this world, we'll have to focus on strategic locations, since we're not exactly great in numbers yet." Goram said as he rubbed his blue stubbled chin in thought. "Hubs of commerce that are already in place should be our target."

"Sounds good for our personally run satellite locations." Carl agreed. "But I'd like to get fully saturated in this continent first before spreading out too much. You should also think about setting up locations that are fully operated by the humans of this world so that they become our employees." Carl saw that Goram was looking fine with the idea, so he continued on.

"At the very least the Hyuga Clan will be following me through worlds like our Silver Dragon Flight is. And if I can make it happen, then New Uzushio and most or all of Konoha will join us too. That will bring our numbers up significantly. It may also be possible that the various properties we own and build will join us as well."

Goram already knew about his various Monopoly properties around the world, since he had given Goram access back in Azeroth so he could coordinate his various business ventures outside the Flight.

"I hesitate to bring it up, since you seem so certain about it." Mortic began hesitantly. "But will our integration with the humans go as smoothly as you seem to hope, Lord Carl?"

Mortic had become the dragon that was mostly in charge of internal matters of the Flight, while Goram dealt with the outside matters. Those two older dragons worked quite well together as they organized the influx and distribution of goods, as well as the supplies needed for various expeditions.

"If Lord Carl says it'll happen, it'll happen." Hilda spoke up almost angrily from where she was sitting nearby, glaring at Mortic for questioning Carl.

"Its okay, Hilda. Mortic isn't questioning my judgment so much as he is simply worried about the logistics and how well the various groups will integrate together." Carl said in a reassuring tone of voice to calm down Hilda.

"What you say is my concern, Lord Carl. I'm simply not sure about these humans, and how well everything will work. From what I've seen, everything is quite different here." Mortic said.

Hilda simply harrumphed at Mortic and turned back to her meal, while still keeping an ear on the talk. Carl had assigned security of the Flight to Hilda. She was one of the dragons rescued from the Cult, and she had taken on a very battle oriented attitude ever since. She was excellent at coordinating security to make sure the dragons were safe as they ranged for materials, questing, or trading in the cities. And she also made sure the Hold's defenses and security patrols were tight and kept them protected.

Because of what Carl had done for her in saving her from the Cult, she had a great deal of faith in him, and hated to hear anyone question his judgment.

"Mortic, the humans of this world come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, due to chakra and their bloodlines. There is one man I know of who looks like a cross between a human and a blue murloc, and people just don't care. They may stare a bit at his coloring and sharp teeth, but that's it. So our Night Elf looks won't occasion much comment or problems. We'll just pose as a clan that they haven't met yet. It's true enough."

Carl saw that quite a few of the partiers were a bit on the quiet side as they listened in on the impromptu meeting, and continued talking about the world they were in.

"There's another clan full of people who can freely manipulate their bones and even pull them out of their bodies to make weapons out of them, and it's just considered a very useful skill. So our appearance shouldn't put the humans off, and I have faith in the Flight to do what is needed while we integrate the humans into our organization. Besides, the people we seek to do business with will be happy as long as we're all making money. Naturally there are still bandits and thieves in this world, but we're more than capable of protecting ourselves and our goods in this world."

"And there are certain blessings I have that will smooth out many rough spots in our interactions together." Carl added on, thinking of the loyalty perks he had that would make any employee of his stores one of his followers, and so under the aegis of loyalty perks.

"Aside from crafting, trade, and gathering resources, I'd like us to have a small group assigned to New Uzushio as security and help in training the people I've recruited there. One of my blood clones in my Hyuga form will be there permanently, and since I can always communicate with them, you can always speak to them as if you were talking to me."

A few more details were hammered out, like the first locations of the Silver Flight Trade Consortium stores, the various goods and services they would provide, and other such things.

Eventually the party/meeting ended early in the morning, and Carl made his way to his room. He was happy that the blood clones could now replace him at home so he got the best of everything. He could spend time with his new family and friends, while also taking care of various issues.

The memory packets he and his blood clones were sending each other let him know what was going on in Konoha and New Uzushio while he wasn't there. He could sense throughout the party that his blood clones were a bit jealous that they didn't have alt-forms of their own, which meant they couldn't be a T-Rex or Dragon. And since they knew exactly how awesome it was, it was that much more torturous that they didn't have the ability.

'Really strange that a part of me is jealous of the other part of me.' Carl chuckled. He really wasn't truly jealous of himself, just a bit sad that some parts of himself couldn't have fun too.

When Carl arrived at his chambers he saw something out of place. A new tablet was hanging on the wall. Raising an eyebrow, Carl picked up the tablet.

[Congratulations on having your own Dragon Flight follow you from world to world, jumper! Because you were not able to pick a location prior to starting in this world, the Dragon Hold was placed in the landmass near your starting location. If you would like to move your Hold to a more advantageous location, you have a one-time use option. In future worlds you will have to pick a location prior to world entry or have the randomizer function pick for you.

- Jump-chan]

"I wondered why the option to pick a location wasn't available in the jump document." Carl muttered to himself grumpily. Well, at least he got the option to move the Dragon Hold now. Better late than never. Because now he could bring the Hold over to New Uzushio and put his new village together with his Flight.

He saw a map option on the tablet and clicked and zoomed in until he found the island New Uzushio was located on. He selected a mountainous hill overlooking the village to move his Dragon Hold to. Having the Hold on the island where he was setting up a village would make it easier for his forces to interact and be united. And now the people of New Uzushio could probably join him under the Aegis of the Silver Dragon Flight, rather than the Hyuga clan.

Once Carl selected the finalize option on the map, he felt the entire Dragon Hold shudder for a moment, the wards hiccupped while the backup power kicked in, until the wards grabbed the nearby ley lines and smoothed out once more. Everything settled back down to normal, once more calm.

Carl teleported outside the Hold, flew up in the air, and saw that their new location was exactly where he wanted it to be. Spot on.

Carl suddenly sensed the slightly panicked scrambling of his dragons, and guiltily sent a high priority message to his Flight through their comms, explaining that he had just moved them to New Uzushio and that they shouldn't worry.

He saw that Hilda still took a party out to patrol the new area and inspect everything, and was pleased she was on the job and making sure everyone was safe.

'Whew. I really should have sent the message first before moving us, but I didn't expect that the wards would hiccup like that and cause them to think of the Raid…'

Carl teleported back to his room, where he spent the rest of the night in planning. The Flight had settled down after they saw his message that it was only something their Lord had done, reassured that they weren't being attacked.

In the morning, Carl gathered together his Dragon Flight and pulled them all into the time pearl. In order to prepare the Flight for the various activities they would get up to in the Naruto world, they needed to learn about chakra and the various skills and abilities they would likely encounter and need to overcome, as well as review the VIs intelligence intake.

And while he had his people there to assist with research amidst their studies, Carl figured it was a perfect time to work on two of his scenarios.

God of Shinobi

You need to master every scrap of martial technique possessed by your village, by hook or crook. And 'master' does not mean being able to repeat the hand signs. It does not even mean being able to perform the jutsu.

No, it means being able to achieve the effect of the jutsu without making any signs at all. You must master the way of manipulating your chakra by will alone, achieving the near-miraculous effect Shinobi perform with naked will.

Over the past year and a few months since Carl had regained his memories and control of his technology he had been having the spybots and VI gather all that he could about the world, politics, and the ninja arts.

At the time he naturally had no memories of the scenarios he had decided on, or the fact that his 10 years in the world would only start when he was eight years old. But he had easily figured out from his records in the computer just how many worlds he had already been to. And he figured that by the time he was eight he would regain all his memories, based on the three month intervals his memories were returning at.

So with the unknown jump document hanging over his head, he had decided to wait until his memory was fully restored before making big changes. He wasn't sure just what would be revealed, so simply doing maintenance to keep things smooth seemed like the best idea.

Little things like convincing his parents to take in Naruko hadn't been hard. Some people had to be beaten up severely before his Decency Inducing perk from the ATG world would work. Some people just had to be given a questioning look from their son to help them decide to do the right thing. And Hiashi and Himari had risen to the occasion in magnificent fashion, only needing a small pleading look from him and Hinata to do right by Naruko.

Doing little things to help his friends were also not something he thought would be a big deal to act on that would be negatively affected by the revealed jump document.

Freeing Yakumo from the demon and poison, encouraging his female friends to avoid the path to the dark…er, fangirl side, encouraging his lazy or timid friends to take their training seriously. Those were all things he thought were a necessary part of helping smoothing out his life in Konoha.

Saving the Uchiha clan from the results of their own actions? Not his problem. After discovering the traitorous and underhanded actions they were involved in, he would have taken action against them eventually anyway. From how they were already plotting against and targeting his Hyuga clan, he was already being merciful by saving the kids of the clan.

Saving Sasuke, who wasn't his friend, and who was most always central to the world plot of Naruto worlds? Not his problem.

He had already stretched his charity enough to save the kids of the Uchiha clan and set them up at New Uzushio. A bit of applied magic and they couldn't betray his people and could maybe grow up without the power madness of the Uchiha clan. Researching alternative methods for them to activate their eyes was on the docket, as well as making strict rules about how to use their special eyes and under what circumstances.

Just like the Hyuga had rules about when and how they should use their x-ray eyes, otherwise no one would ever have privacy among their clan.

Since Sasuke wasn't his friend, despite his friendly overtures, and could be used as an easy means of exposing a lot of the corruption and nastiness of Konoha for future action and clean up, Carl left Sasuke to his own devices. Unlike the other Uchiha brats, Carl knew that Sasuke hadn't been in danger of being killed. If Sasuke ultimately chose to walk the dark path to being a traitor, then Carl would take care of him at that time.

But that was all getting away from the point. During the past 15 months Carl had been amassing a lot of intelligence in preparation for when he would have his memories fully restored and wouldn't have to worry about hidden dangers inherent in any drawbacks he may have picked.

And part of that information hoarding included copies of various ninja, samurai, and monastery libraries that dealt with chakra and the application thereof. Not to mention the addition of the Uchiha Jutsu Archive and the Uzumaki hidden library only recently.

With all that information grabbed and input into the databases, the first thing his Flight did upon entering time compression once more was to split up to their various rooms and beginning a course of study on the state of the world and just how chakra worked.

Carl also made a few more blood clones that would help him in his studies to complete the God of Shinobi and Sealmaster scenarios. They would also be very useful outside of time compression to work on the Silver Flight Trading Consortium's work, or in the bounty hunting, spying, and Setting-Things-to-Rights trades.

Carl found that due to the nature of the Chakra Coils perk, he couldn't induce chakra coils into any of his Dragons until after the jump. So they were stuck without chakra to play with, which basically turned Carl or his blood clones into their guinea pigs for seeing how chakra worked.

They were generally respectful about it, but their enthusiasm sometimes overrode any decorum they had since Carl was the only one available to test out their theories, to see if they would work.

During this time of training there was one perk that he purchased in the Sword Art Online world that proved its worth.

Like Riding a Bike: Your skills never deteriorate. Ever. Not for any reason, but especially not disuse. Further, you can easily adapt them to new circumstances: recreate your favorite spell in a different Jump's magic system, translate your sword style to hand to hand, etc.

While he was working through all the various jutsu that ninja of the Naruto world used, he found it wasn't too incredibly difficult to figure out how to alter the chakra techniques to be used in a magic, ki, or profound energy system. The various techniques were more easily translated to different systems based on their origins.

Anything to do with enhancing the body and taijutsu or martial arts, were especially well suited to ki based energy systems.

Anything to do with genjutsu, or illusions, was more easily translated to the magic system.

Any kind of ninjutsu, especially elemental transformation, was easily converted to a profound energy technique.

Throughout his studies of the ninja techniques, there were four dragons that were especially caught up in their excitement and loved being there for every session.

Joyce, one of the six young dragons in the Flight when Carl first arrived at the hold in Azeroth, was a Rogue class who was an absolute crafting nut. She loved anything to do with crafting items of power: engineering, blacksmithing, jewelcrafting, inscribing, leatherworking, etc. She loved the idea of chakra conducting metals and the items she could make with it.

Rubiana was one of the rescued dragons who had chosen the Priest profession. And she was an absolute techie. Anything to do with technology held the greatest interest to her. And her idea of technology wasn't just what could be made with science. Any kind of "technology" that was based in the profound energies and magic also greatly interested her. If she couldn't figure out how to make a magic based computer, she worked on it until she could. And the chakra conducting metal gave her all kinds of possibilities to improve her grasp on technology, and what she could make it do for her, since it was a metal that naturally channeled a mix of mind/body energies, or magic/ki.

Chromalie was another rescued dragon. She had chosen to be a Mage, and she loved anything that had to do with spells, especially big effect spells. Whether those spells were based in profound energy, magic, ki, or chakra, she had a burning desire to explore them and learn the secrets behind how they all worked. So naturally with Carl being the only one who could demonstrate chakra for her, she was frustrated by her inability to experiment on her own and bugged him extensively.

And Ryvnoa was one of the dragonspawn who had chosen the Druid class. She loved all things nature, and she was amazing at growing things. So when she heard about the senjutsu skills that would mix nature energy with chakra, she was very intrigued in learning all she could about said nature energy. Even when Carl explained to her that until he met up with the summons clans and learned from them, he wasn't going to chance turning into a stone statue from messing with nature energy without supervision, she just kept coming back to hang around him and learn where he was in his training. Carl just shrugged and let her be, since she was so interested. He would eventually get around to that bit of training and Ryvnoa would get her wish to learn about senjutsu.

In the practice rooms with all manner of recording equipment, Carl began his training for the God of Shinobi scenario. He started with an accelerated version of the basic ninja training.

Every ninja started off with basic shape transformation of chakra. Manipulating the shape, flow, volume, etc. of chakra was how most of the basic foundation of all jutsu using chakra was accomplished.

The very first chakra control / building up exercise for Konoha academy students was the leaf concentration exercise. The student would float a leaf over their forehead with chakra, concentrating on holding it in place. After some practice of holding it steady, they would begin spinning the leaf one way or another.

So Carl started off with a single leaf on his forehead, idly spinning it first one way then another while his dragons recorded his chakra flow and usage. After several minutes of recording, he began moving the leaf to other parts of his body. He was making sure he had complete control over all of his chakra system and where he applied his chakra.

He was able to advance far faster than a normal academy student because of his various perks that sped up his learning, intelligence, and ability to master techniques. So he only spent a short half hour on demonstrating the exercise for the records.

The next chakra control exercise that helped a ninja learn to manipulate their chakra was tree climbing. The ninja would modulate the chakra they released from the soles of their feet so that their feet stuck to walls or trees, allowing them to vertically walk on surfaces or walk upside down.

Too little chakra applied and they wouldn't stick to the surface. Too much and they blew themselves away from the surface and damaged the wall or tree in the process.

So Carl walked up and down the walls for a while to make sure that the process was recorded. They changed up the surface he had to stick to, to see what kind of change it had in his chakra usage. And except for one amazingly slick surface, it mostly didn't matter. As long as the surface was strong enough to handle the weight, then the substance it was made from mostly didn't matter.

After that they moved on to water surface walking. Carl had to spread out and modulate the chakra he emitted from his feet to create a solid surface tension of the water to allow him to stand on it steadily.

The type of liquid didn't really matter, for the most part, but the calmness of the substance did. Walking across white water rapids would be vastly more difficult than walking on a calm pond surface. And walking up a waterfall was more difficult than walking on white water rapids.

After he finished running through the basic chakra control versions of chakra shape transformation, Carl began working on the various jutsu that branched off from shape transformation. Once more he started at the beginning, with the academy E-rank jutsu.

There were three E-rank that were required to learn to pass the academy, at least while it was under the civilian oversight. The Clone jutsu, the Transformation jutsu, and the Replacement jutsu.

The Clone jutsu was a visual genjutsu, or illusion. The jutsu created illusory clones of the ninja and was used to confuse enemies. If they could create even a minute hesitation or confusion, they stood a chance to come out on top in a fight.

The Transformation jutsu was also a visual genjutsu. The jutsu overlaid a visual illusion of someone other than the ninja, allowing them to disguise themselves and infiltrate into many locations, or fool an enemy in combat.

The Replacement jutsu did exactly what it said it did. It switched out the user for a different object, usually a log of wood among the Konoha ninja. This allowed them to avoid a potentially fatal hit, as well as gaining that brief moment of initiative when the enemy believed they had scored a hit, only to find the thing they hit was a log instead of their enemy.

For a bit of fun, Carl had his dragons set up an "obstacle" course with logs in various positions that he had to replace himself with.

Standing on the first platform, he could see the trail of platforms that meandered around the field they had set up. Molding the chakra he reached and with an application of will and a small puff of smoke, Carl found himself on the platform that was previously occupied by the thick log.

Without wasting any more time, his attention was focused on the next log on the platform several meters away. A small puff of smoke, and Carl was once more replaced with a log. As he continued to follow the circuitous route back to the beginning, Carl focused on tightening up the amount of chakra he used, so none of his chakra would be wasted and turn into smoke when he executed the technique.

After a dozen times, he had gotten rid of the wastage of chakra, so he began focusing on molding and executing the jutsu faster.

Focus on log, replace. Focus on log, replace.

Focusonlogreplace. Focusonlogreplace.

Focusreplace. Focusreplace.

Replace. Replace.

Pop. Pop.

P. P. P. P. P. P.

He moved fast, following the circle of platforms so fast he was a blur.

And eventually he stopped, back on the platform he started at. He hadn't bothered to count how many laps he had done. He was quite pleased by the speed, precision, and control he had gained in training that fun obstacle course.

After running through the various lower ranked jutsu that were only chakra shape manipulation, next on the list was the D-rank jutsu that were usually taught to academy students in their last year to prepare them for genin rank.

Down at the bottom of the power hierarchy was the F-rank civilians, followed by the E-rank academy students, D-rank genin, C-rank chuunin, B-rank special jonin, A-rank jonin, and S-rank Kage.

The set of D-rank jutsu, that was planned to be cut from the curriculum by the civilian council in order so their untalented and unmotivated fangirl children could make it through the course, was known as the Travelling Ten.

It was also the first jutsu that introduced aspiring ninja students to chakra elemental transformation. There were two jutsu in each of the five elements, and they made being out on mission away from the village survivable, which is why they were called the Travelling Ten.

Earth Element: Earthen Mat allowed for a bit of adjustment to the hard ground to make a comfortable bed. Staying rested so the ninja could remain alert was very important for a ninja when a moment of inattention could lead to death.

Earth Element: Waste Dispersal was a jutsu to hide any waste and to rearrange a campsite to appear as if it had never been used. A ninja that left behind evidence of their presence was soon tracked down and killed.

Wind Element: Erase Tracks was a jutsu specifically designed to, as the name implied, erase signs that could lead to being tracked by enemy ninja.

Wind Element: Erase Scents was a jutsu that allowed a ninja to be able to cook their food while keeping the scent from spreading. A ninja in the field was always looking to forage to stretch their supplies, so being able to cook without spreading the scent downwind was vital. Not to mention the fact that the Inuzuka clan of Konoha wasn't the only ninja that learned to track by scent, so keeping their body scent from spreading was an essential skill.

Fire Element: Fire Starter allowed a ninja to be able to make a fire so they could cook their foraged or hunted food.

Fire Element: Heat Self was a priceless technique in cold climates or when a ninja was on night watch, able to keep themselves limber and battle ready, and to keep from suffering from exposure.

Lightning Element: Reading Light allowed a ninja to have a light handy to read important documents without the need for a match or bulky flashlight.

Lightning Element: Electrical Recharge allowed a ninja to recharge the battery on their communication equipment, among other applications.

Water Element: Condensation allowed a ninja to gather water from the air so they could avoid the need to find a spring or stream. Especially in enemy territory where those springs and streams were known and possibly guarded, the Condensation technique was a life saver.

Water Element: Evaporation was a very needed skill for quickly drying a ninja off so they didn't leave obvious splotches of water everywhere as evidence of their presence after swimming through canals, rivers, and other such methods of infiltration.

While the Travelling Ten weren't very flashy or especially useful in combat, a ninja in the field would be hard pressed to survive without them. They were also an easy building block to train the ninja in elemental transformation that led to some of the big and flashy ninjutsu that so many ninja loved.

Aside from the Travelling Ten, there were a plethora of other low level D-rank jutsu that Carl went through, mastering them as he performed them. Erasing ink from paper, using wind to clean a blackboard, shaping chakra to control paint to paint a fence, enhancing the body and senses with chakra, and various low level genjutsu to fool the senses.

"Now that those boring low level techniques are out of the way, can we finally move on to something fun!?" Chromalie pouted from where she was draped over a nearby desk. Her pale vaguely purple tinted face was pouting, her solid bluish green eyes were conveying the utter pain of boredom she had been experiencing, and her green hair was pulled up in a bun with a pencil holding it together.

Rubiana poked her in the stomach, causing her to expel her breath suddenly.

"Don't complain. I'm sure Lord Carl is also just as bored of the low level spells as we are." Rubiana brushed her bluish-white hair back behind her ears. "Besides, don't tell me that you won't be doing the exact same thing when you finally get access to chakra."

"Yeah, but it's completely different when I'm doing it compared to when I'm just watching it being done." Chromalie whined.

"Yes, I'm sure a lot of people enjoy 'doing it' much more than just watching it." Carl commented with a smirk and wagging eyebrows. "And I'm not just talking about spells."

"See!? Lord Carl gets it!" Chromalie yelled, completely missing the joke, which caused Rubiana to groan and Carl's smile to get wider in amusement.

So, Carl moved on to the next jutsu. Besides the Shadow Clone technique, it was the other signature move of the Naruto world. The Rasengan.

The Rasengan in three easy steps.

1: Rotation. Learn to emit and spin chakra in the hand in multiple directions at once. Naruto used a water balloon for step one. Once Carl was able to burst the water balloon with the rotation, step one was complete.

2: Power. Increase the volume and density of chakra output. For this step of the training, use a rubber ball. Once the rubber ball burst apart, step two complete.

3: Containment. Combine the first two steps and contain the resultant swirling ball of drilling chakra inside a balloon without moving or popping it. Once this is complete, the jutsu has been learned.

It was a jutsu that was pure shape manipulation. Further mastery of the jutsu included infusing elemental transformation chakra into the spinning chakra ball of death to make it even deadlier.

"So, who wants to learn the Dentist Drill of Death Technique first?" Carl asked once he had mastered the Rasengan and converted it to a profound energy technique.

"Ooh! Me! Pick me!" Chromalie yelled, bouncing up and down with her hand in the air. Carl laughed and began teaching her how to make a Rasengan.

After Carl had finished with all the lower level jutsu, he moved on to the higher leveled fun stuff. Which almost all involved elemental transformation.

Ninja usually only used fire release jutsu in a mostly offensive manner, blowing out fireballs, great gouts of flame, or shaping big honking dragons of fire that attacked. With his great affinity for fire, he soon mastered the various forms of pure fire attacks that ninja used.

Combat style water release jutsu was mostly used as water whips, water balls, and water dragons. There were plenty of alternate methods that weren't a direct attack, though. Like dispersing mist in the air to block an enemy's sight, or using a wall of water to block attacks.

Earth release jutsu had a multitude of useful abilities, like earth spikes, tunneling through the ground, earthquakes, rearranging the terrain so an enemy ninja was off balance, making pits or domes, shields, and other various things.

Wind release jutsu created great battering gusts of wind, cutting slashes of wind, or blowing up sand to obscure a battlefield. The more esoteric usages of wind was to sense nearby enemies through the movement of wind. And there were a lot more uses available, like smothering enemy combatants, knocking them off balance, or bending the wind so that sound travelled great distances, making communications among allies work better.

Lighting release could be used to create a cutting electrical blade, a medium for genjutsu, an armor form of lighting, various lightning bolt attacks, and other such uses.

And those were just the regular elements. After mastering the jutsu for each element in the Uchiha Jutsu Archive, Carl began experimenting with the combination elements he found recorded, which could be even more fun than the basics. The archive had a list of various combinations of the elements and many techniques for them.

Fire + Wind = Scorch.

Fire + Lightning = Explosion.

Fire + Earth = Lava.

Fire + Water = Boil.

Fire + Water = Steam.

Fire + Wind + Earth = Dust.

Fire + Wind = Poison.

Fire + Lightning = Plasma.

Fire + Earth = Magma.

Wind + Lightning = Light.

Wind + Lightning = Swift.

Wind + Earth = Sand.

Wind + Earth = Phasing.

Wind + Water = Ice.

Wind + Water = Shadow.

Wind + Fire = Flight.

Wind + Wind = Sound.

Lightning + Earth = Magnet.

Lightning + Earth = Gravity.

Lightning + Water = Storm.

Lightning + Fire = Radiation.

Lightning + Wind = Static Shock.

Earth + Water = Wood.

Earth + Water = Plantlife.

Earth + Fire = Glass.

Earth + Lightning = Explosion.

Water + Water = Liquids.

Water + Fire = Mist.

Water + Lightning = Acid.

Water + Earth = Diamond.

There were a host of combination elements, based on the composition and amount of each of the single elements used in the combination. Some of the jutsu he was learning from the Uchiha Jutsu Archive were things he had already figured out how to do with magic, ki, and profound energy. But there were many abilities that he had never touched before.

The ability to shape Diamonds or Crystals, for example, had simply been unneeded and unexplored when he could simply have the VIs and his technology accomplish the task of forming crystals very quickly and with greater precision for the shapes needed for crafting. But with the jutsu available, he could form crystal swords, diamond spikes that shot up from the ground to impale enemies, tough armor, and solid construction material, etc.

Having the jutsu techniques allowed for time expedient uses of the skills for combat, even if he would still us the AIs and farms to build the crystals and precious stones needed for crafting.

It took some time and practice to get through everything in the Archives, but Carl found it a fun pastime to learn everything that the ninja of this world could do.

Carl felt it the moment he finished mastering every jutsu Konoha had available. His completion of the God of Shinobi scenario was accompanied by a sensation of increased control. It was a palpable upgrade in his ability to control the various energies inside him. His precision, power, and skill with magic, ki, profound energy, and chakra was all dependant on his willpower. He could feel the difference.

So he did what anyone would do. Threw a party with his Dragon Flight to celebrate a goal accomplished.

Once Carl finished learning and practicing with those combination element release jutsu, he began heavily experimenting with his own bloodline eyes that he had purchased, the Tenseigan.

Ever since he had regained memories of the ATG world and his profound cultivation, he had been experimenting with his eyes and learning about them. His various senses from cultivation in many ways made even his 359 degree vision from the Byakugan obsolete.

His profound energy was able to easily inspect the area around him and tell him pretty much everything he needed to know, and his Ki senses were far superior for keeping up with high speed movements that his simple vision did.

But there were still some benefits to having the Byakugan bloodline of the Hyuga clan. While relying on simple vision was much less effective in higher level combat, his bloodline did work to enhance his profound, Ki, and magical senses. They were sharper and more penetrating than they were before he gained the Byakugan and Tenseigan.

So overall Carl was still pleased that he had spent the cp on the bloodline.

He had been able to sense a mental switch that was connected to both the Byakugan and the Tenseigan. It was the equivalent of a mental gear shift that allowed him to go from one to the other. Once he shifted into the higher gear of the Tenseigan, his eyes changed. His pupil turned from the same pearl white as his cornea used to be to a dark blue. His cornea also changed to a slightly lighter blue and there was a pearly white lotus flower imprinted on his cornea that surrounded his blue pupil.

He could immediately feel the new abilities available while his eyes were in the Tenseigan mode. It was simplicity itself to control the local gravity field to lift up the large boulders in the training area and have them fly circles around him. He easily flung the boulders at great speed and shattered them onto the targets across the field.

Carl grinned at the control over gravity he had. Lightning and Earth nature combination gave him some small control over gravity, but it was nothing as easy and natural to control as the abilities his eyes had.

He then played with the local gravity around himself, negating it and allowing himself to drift up into the air, until he created a balance and simply floated in a zero-g field. Directing the gravity field in one direction, he was able to "fly" through the sky by directing how gravity affected him to fall upwards and sideways, and do loop de loops. It was like riding an intangible roller coaster.

Settling back down on the fields, he found another stone and began increasing the gravity field directly around the stone. A few seconds later, the stone was crushed into a very dense pebble that was almost diamond-like.

Once he was done playing with gravity for the time being, he began experimenting with his eye's other abilities: he played with dolls. Er…rather he animated statues. Cause that was a thing it could do, for some reason.

That's not to say he hadn't already experiment with the ninjutsu of puppetry, using chakra threads to animate dolls, er…battle puppets. He had to be able to emulate everything with seals, so of course he played with dolls. Puppets. Battle puppets.

While he had his Tenseigan eyes active, he could sense another mental gear to go up to the Tenseigan Chakra Mode. Flipping the switch, he entered Chakra Mode and was filled up with chakra; it surrounded him with bluish-silver colored chakra that radiated off him. Seven Truth Seeking Balls appeared behind him.

Once he was able to use his eyes to access the Truth Seeking Balls, he also gained access to the Yin and Yang elements through those balls. Yin and Yang were elements outside of the basic five elements, which allowed for more esoteric jutsu to be used.

Yin release used spiritual energy to control imagination, creating form out of nothingness. A lot of the sharingan genjutsu abilities were centered around yin release. The Nara clan's shadow manipulation was also a yin release jutsu.

Yang release used physical energy to control vitality, granting life to forms that have none. The Senju and Uzumaki clan's increased vitality and fast health regeneration was an example of a Yang release based bloodline, as well as the Akimichi's ability to increase the size of their own bodies.

Then there was the combined Yin-Yang release, which used the Yin release ability to create out of nothingness and combined with the Yang release to give the form life. Hagoromo Otsutsuki used Yin-Yang release to create the nine Tailed Beasts after tearing apart the Ten-Tailed beast.

Carl idly grabbed a couple of the black Truth Seeking Balls and played with them like they were play-dough, reshaping them into various weapons. The Truth Seeking Balls and their affinities were leaking information into his head, letting him know just what they could do.

Apparently the Yin-Yang affinity of the Tenseigan is what allowed him to animate statues, giving them a semblance of life as he directed them to do as he wished.

So Carl created two different statues. One statue was a two legged dinosaur like creature the size of a building with spines running down its back. It stepped up out of the depths of the pond and roared fiercely.

Across from it a giant winged dinosaur flapped its wings and took to the air. Its angry red scales quite a contrast from its dark colored opponent.

The Rodan statue swooped down and circled around Godzilla, looking for an opening to attack. Godzilla kept light on its feet, facing Rodan and not giving it any opening.

Rodan finally committed to an attack, realizing he needed to do something or they would remain in a stalemate. He swooped down, digging his claws into Godzilla's shoulder, sinking in deep. But Godzilla was ready for it and sunk his jaws into Rodan's shoulder, right at the point where his neck bet his shoulder.

Carl chuckled at seeing his statues fighting each other. It was pretty fun. But since Godzilla always won, he allowed his Rodan statue's head to be torn off. A moment later, he had them sink back into the ground from what he created them from.

Moving on, Carl examined the last ability he gained from his eyes. Yin-Yang release could also be used to nullify the effects of all ninjutsu in an area.

Carl smirked at that little bit of knowledge that he gained through the Truth Seeking Balls that he gained control of through his Tenseigan eyes. Once he figured out how to manipulate Yin-Yang release through seals, then no ninjas would be able to use any jutsu to infiltrate or attack his territory.

His people and land would be that much more secure, especially if he could create a null field around his land that would cut off any ninja's ability to use chakra; and only give the proper key seal tattoo to his forces so only they could use chakra inside the areas he controlled.

Through his study of the Uzumaki's own history books he found in the hidden library, Carl learned that the Uzumaki Clan actually had a fantastical origin, even for the Naruto world.

The Uzumaki clan was the descendents of a number of families that had originally lived on a far away planet. Their society had been a highly technological and scientifically minded people. But some kind of disaster had befallen their home planet.

The books that detailed the Uzumaki clan's origins never described what the disaster had been beyond mention of a Great Enemy. They didn't speak of what the disaster had been because of the fear that it would be able to follow them if they did.

In his original life Carl would have questioned that attitude, believing it was simply folklore and superstition. Even with the plethora of science fiction and fantasy stories he had read or watched, he wouldn't have taken those refugees at their word. Those fictional stories were just entertaining imaginings, not real life.

But now Carl was very well aware of various spells, inscriptions, and even technological means that would be able to replicate those kinds of tracking methods.

So the many families that would come to be the Uzumaki clan had drifted for many thousands of years in stasis, seeking a new home. They had arrived on this planet a few generations before Kaguya had eaten the fruit from the God Tree, which was the genesis of Chakra on this planet.

Their frantic fleeing from their home had left them without all the technology resources they were used to having. They didn't have the equipment and infrastructure to rebuild what they once had, and they feared that to do so would entice a similar destruction to fall upon them once more.

So they muddled along as best as they could in hiding as they learned to live in the primitive conditions they found themselves in.

Eventually a son of the Family met the granddaughter of the Sage of Six Paths. She was the daughter of Asura Otsutsuki. From their union two sons were born that had the ability to use chakra.

When the two boys grew up, they found that many girls would be willing to do almost anything to have their children due to the high possibility of them having the possibility of using chakra. The first "fangirls" were born. The origins of the fangirl was actually desperation to add survival traits to their family, which is why they would do nearly anything to attain their goals.

The modern day fangirls would be an enormous shame on their ancestors because they only cared about being enamored by the idea of a luxurious life, not survival. The bitches.

The older son would eventually lead what would be known as the Uzumaki clan.

The younger son would eventually lead the Senju clan.

The families experimented and learned as much as they could learn about chakra as the bloodline to use chakra spread among them. They figured out a lot about how to use chakra, including a written version of code that they called the Sealing Arts.

The Uzumaki clan especially figured out how to use seals to enhance their own physiques and clan bloodline, which led to both the Uzumaki and Senju clans being exceptional among the chakra users of the world. It was due to their uses of seals and their multi-family origin that the varied bloodline skills of the Uzumaki clan came into being.

The Uzumaki had the legacy from beyond the stars of a thorough scientific study, which led to them experimenting and becoming masters of the Sealing arts as they studied and learned the variations of chakra.

Which knowledge, sadly, led to their downfall due to the jealous nature of the nearby villages that couldn't stand seeing an organization grow beyond their own power.

Thankfully the ninja villages that instigated the attack against the Uzumaki in order to steal their knowledge came away with nothing. In the midst of tragedy, it was truly a triumph of the Uzumaki to deny their enemies any benefits from their deaths.

And Carl, who had the remnants of the Otsutsuki clan's eye based bloodline of the Byakugan, which had been passed down from Kaguya Otsutsuki herself, had managed to figure out how to find the Uzumaki clan's records of their history and achievements.

When the refugee families that eventually became the Uzumaki clan had been introduced to chakra, they had been on the planet for a few generations and had lost all their superior technology. So while they had applied the scientific means of studying chakra, they didn't have the computational capability to truly plumb its depths.

Along with the large Archive, and added in the Sealing Arts of the Uzumaki clan that Carl had for studies, he figured he, his computers, and his Flight could master the Sealing arts in a relatively short time.

It was really only with his advantage of time compression and the VIs that Carl felt comfortable in being able to add in the Sealmaster scenario on top of the others. Without those advantages, it would have been very difficult to master Seals along with everything else in the time required.

You must design hundreds, if not thousands of seals, enough that can cover everything Ninjas typically do. From releasing fireballs to having a scroll perform every step of the Impure World Summoning on its own. Only once you have utterly perfected the art may you truly be called Sealmaster, and this is when this scenario stands fulfilled.

Carl knew that this scenario would take a lot of work. But saying it like that was something of an understatement.

If Carl didn't have the Time Pearl, Archive, and Shadow Clones available to help with the experimentation, he wouldn't have picked that particular scenario. Because even for a hardworking ninja with nothing but time on his hands, it was a lot of work, maybe more than 10 years worth, under normal circumstances.

It was dangerous to experiment with the seals, so without the shadow clones to be his test dummies, Carl would have been forced to go even slowing in his studying.

Thankfully, in addition to time compression and shadow clones, Carl also had highly advanced technology and the Yamato VI to help him systematize the study of Seals and the language or symbols used for the art.

So Carl and his dragons took the information he had gathered from his earlier jutsu training, sat down with the basics of what they knew of sealing from the various scrolls they had, and compared that to all the readings he got from his use of all the jutsu.

And that is when Carl really started experiencing the many deaths of his shadow clones. There was no way he was practicing the seals they came up with without using shadow clones to do so. He had no desire to be turned inside-out by a space-time seal that could maybe kill him.

And while they mostly got everything correct by evaluating the basics of seals and comparing it to the reading he had from the various jutsu he had performed for the sensors, there were mistakes here and there that got corrected as he practiced the sealing arts and gained practical experience.

So by the time that Carl and four blood clones exited the time compression with his Dragon Flight less than a day of real time later, Carl had become a Master of Seals. His Flight was as expert in chakra and the various things one could do with it without having chakra coils of their own. And he had completed two of his scenarios, and gained the titles Sealmaster and God of Shinobi.

The moment he accomplished the Sealmaster scenario was accompanied by a complex multidimensional seal symbol appearing in front of Carl, shrinking down, and entering his mind. It was suitably accompanied by the lights of heaven shining down on him. When he entered his mind palace, Carl found a new building that held all the knowledge of seals, ancient runes from the Harry Potter world, inscriptions from the Against the Gods world, and inscription and enchantments from the Azeroth world, as well as various written forms of magic from Westeros.

Looking at the new building that felt semi-alive in his mind, Carl shook his head and began personalizing the Intellectus palace according to his preferences. He never expected it to be semi-alive inside his head, but if it was going to be here providing a link for him to learn about all the written forms of magic, then it was going to do it on his terms. He was going to make it a part of him, not let it live a semi-independent life without paying rent in his head.

Carl stumbled on his way to ninja academy.

The stumble came at the exact right moment so that he subsequently tripped on that totally invisible 1/4 inch higher cobblestone.

Strangely enough, the lack of coordination on Carl's part came at the exact right moment so that he dodged a paint filled water balloon thrown by Naruko, who was "attacking" him for an off-color joke he had just told. The paint filled water balloon smacked straight into the face of a 50 year old man that was sitting at his vegetable stall, minding his own business.

The fact that everything just coincidentally happened to allow Naruko to freely and openly approach said man and easily throw the balloon directly into the face of one of the most anti-Naruko merchants in the district that had just the previous day thrown a tomato at Naruko was a total coincidence.

It didn't even matter that she had dodged and the tomato didn't hit her face. Retaliation must be had.

Carl miraculously regained his balance perfectly in time to see the landing splat of the orange paint filled water balloon. The old man's neon orange paint drenched face was a sight to see, and Naruko's laughter accompanied by Hinata's giggles put a smile on his face.

Success!

The three eight year olds made their escape, completely ignoring the stern headshakes of Ko and Nuo who watched over them. Ever since Carl's talking to, Ko had adjusted his attitude properly, and now he was even somewhat fond of the blond Uzumaki.

"You two are so bad!" Hinata giggled out when the trio was far enough away from the market. Their stride never broke as they continued jogging on their way to the Academy for classes.

"Hey, he was the jerk who started it!" Naruko mock pouted at her best friend while dodging the turtle slow civilian pedestrians.

"Besides, dear sister, your giggles told us just how much you enjoyed it, too." Carl added in just as they arrived at their destination.

"Ooh! Next time we've got to get Hinata involved in the prank! She can't be just a spectator." Naruko excitedly began talking about pranks. "We can't do the paint filled balloon again so soon. We haven't done itching powder for a while. Or we could do the pop-up scare-crows. Maybe have the squirrel flash mob show up again. Seeing the crowd's faces on that one was hilarious. Which one do you want to do, Hinata?"

"I don't know. I think the pranks you do is funny, but…" Hinata hedged as she opened the door to their class.

Shino was already seated in the far back of the room, next to the window. Shikamaru was slumped over on the desk, and Yakumo was sitting in their usual place.

"How about you think of it as ninja training, Hinata?" Carl offered a different perspective on the pranks to try to get Hinata to go along with it while the trio took their normal seats.

"What kind of ninja training?" Yakumo asked, curious because her biggest dream was to be a great ninja and restore her clan. Any extra training that she could get in, she was excited for. And she loved hanging out with Carl, Hinata, and Naruko ever since he exorcized the demon from her, making her dream possible.

"Oh, we're trying to get Hinata to join us in doing a prank on the nasty shopkeepers. It'll be like a ninja mission." Naruko airily explained.

"They're still being horrible to you, Naruko? Jeez, what's their problem?" Yakumo frowned. Over the past several weeks as she spent time with them it was obvious to everyone that some of the civilians just really hated Naruko.

"It's not logical for the civilians to harass a ninja trainee. Why? Because you are learning to become a ninja, which is a protector of the village. It makes no sense to instill negative emotions in someone who is part of the hive." Shino piped up from his corner of the room while he had most of his attention focused on some of the bugs he was watching crawl on his hands.

"See? Shino gets it! The civilians are doing wrong by me and need to be taught a little lesson!" Naruko folded her arms, having won a great debate in her mind. "So, you're going to join in on the next prank, right Hinata? Come on! Say you will" Naruko gave the puppy eye jutsu for all she was worth, while pleadingly grabbing her arm.

"Yeah, I'll go along too, Hinata. Let's do it." Yakumo said with a big grin on her face, excited to have some fun after classes.

"Okay, fine. I'll do it." Hinata finally agreed due to everyone's excitement to get in on the "training", blushing a little at the thought of doing something so mischievous. "I like fireworks."

"Excellent!" Carl smiled at his sister and two friends. "I picked up some small fireworks that make a bit of noise and smoke. With your eyes you can totally lob them over the walls and onto the target without even exposing yourself, Hinata. And Yakumo can make that reflective genjutsu so her and Naruko can watch."

Carl smirked at the smiles that brightened up the three girls faces.

"You're more than welcome to come to, Shino." Carl offered the boy who had also spoken up for them.

"While the use of explosives to train my hives to get used to concussive forces would be welcome, I have an appointment this afternoon with my father." Shino regretfully declined.

"Maybe next time, then, Shino." Carl offered.

"Yeah, you gotta come next time!" Naruko chimed in, taking Shino's inclined head as his assent to joining them.

More of the class began filtering in at that point, so they put their talk of pranks on hold for the time being. Ino and Sakura were the next group who showed up, sitting in their seats in the row in front of Carl, Hinata, Naruko, and Yakumo before turning around to chat with Naruko, Yakumo, and Hinata.

Kiba showed up next, which was still a sight that Carl had to get used to, since his future canine partner, Akamaru, wasn't born yet. It was just one of those things that the show had gotten him to expect to see, but wasn't there.

A short time later Choji and Sasuke showed up just before their teacher did. Choji settled in next to the sleeping Shikamaru while Sasuke took his seat at the front of the class next to the window. The class settled down and they pulled out their books and began their reading and writing classes. Since they were training to be ninjas, one of the necessary skills was to be able to make proper reports in clear language. Or so they said.

While they were busy with their lessons, Carl thought back to his first weeks at the Academy and getting used to the various kids. Their class consisted of 28 student ninjas at the moment. In addition to the clan kids, there were plenty of civilian kids that were trying to make it as a ninja. For a given value of "trying".

It was interesting to see the social dynamics at play in the classroom. There were already a few cliques formed based on background and interests.

There were the clan kids that had been trained from a young age and who took their future career as ninja seriously. The clan kids consisted of Carl and Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, and Yakumo Kurama.

And while Naruko Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno didn't technically belong to the already established ninja clans, because of their friendship with clan kids they fell solidly into the clan kid's clique.

Sasuke Uchiha would normally have been one of them, but he was already trying to blaze his own path, apparently. Because Carl was fully aware that in four years Sasuke would be on a team with some of his friends, he wanted to make sure the kid was a competent teammate. So the first couple of weeks he had invited Sasuke to join the rest of them in their afternoon training sessions so he could get some extra practice time; get to know them, and learn how to work with them.

But the little brat had declined every time. And sometimes Sasuke had been quite arrogant and rude in his methods of declining.

Some days Carl couldn't even get a full "Hn." Out of the arrogant little prick.

After more than a few invites to train had been so rudely turned down, Carl could only shake his head and give up on the brat. He may not have liked the kid when he was simply a character on the screen, but he also found he didn't like the kid in real life, either. Go figure.

The little blighter seemed bound and determined to fill himself with hate and isolate himself from possible friends and future teammates.

If Sasuke didn't want to put in the effort to train with his future team mates, Carl wasn't going to hold his hand and wipe his butt. He could just go get himself a cursed seal hickey bite from Orochimaru in their first chuunin exam. It was no skin off his nose.

The largest group in the class was all the civilian kids whose parents had instructed them to get close to Sasuke to try to benefit from associating with him. The fangirls. And despite the name, they weren't all girls. They were all, however, a bunch of suck-ups to the Uchiha brat, inflating his ego beyond all reason.

Carl wondered if he could file a complaint with someone about having to share class space with them.

Maybe if the object of their obsession wasn't there every day, they may not be as annoying and could have actually focused on their ninja training. Maybe if their parents would lay off the enforced and brainwashed sycophancy. Maybe then the kids could get their heads on straight and actually try to become ninja.

Carl didn't hold out much hope for any of those scenarios.

And beyond the large group of fangirls, there was a small group of serious civilian hopefuls that were actually trying to become ninja. Carl made sure to invite Nobodon, Junirio, and Yamiko to join them for training. He was hoping those three could keep themselves motivated and become strong genin in four years.

At the very least maybe with some additional training resources and encouragement they could stay free of the trap of becoming fangirls.

So all together in his class there was a group of 14 fangirls, 10 clan kids, 3 serious civilians, and 1 arrogant Uchiha.

The second class of the day was History. They had been covering the history of Konoha and its place in the Land of Fire.

"During the Warring States Period, war was everywhere in the Elemental Nations. There were no hidden villages at first." The teacher read from his text book. "The ninja in the countries were organized into mercenary clans that knew nothing but battle. The two strongest of these clans were the Senju and the Uchiha, who had warred against each other for their entire histories…"

Carl rolled his eyes at the starry eyed looks the fangirls were giving Sasuke at the mention of his clan in the official history. With what their parents told them about how "prestigious" the Uchiha were, and now the official stories painting them in the best light possible, now that they are dead and gone, the fangirls didn't really have any chance to break their conditioning.

It obviously made sense for the Konoha higher ups to slant the histories a certain way to engender pride and loyalty in their ninja forces. Can't have disorder in the military rank and file, or else it would be a recipe for the death of their village. Especially given the bloody history of ninja wars among the elemental nations.

There were hidden ninja villages out there that would love to see Konoha destroyed. So making sure the new generation was properly inducted as Konoha loyal forces was a necessity for survival.

But the blood clone technique that Carl was using had information packets traveling back and forth from the original to his blood clones. So the blood clone that was sitting through the history lectures in Konoha was also seeing plenty of history from the other country's point of view over the past few weeks as one of the Carl's was studying up.

Add in that he knew exactly how big the world was, and Carl wasn't going to make the mistake of thinking that the Konoha histories tell the whole story of the world he was currently in.

But it was a history record that he needed to remember so he wouldn't get poor grades on his report card. It would be pretty embarrassing to have a poor showing with his memory perks. Since he couldn't forget anything, not getting a decent grade would be falling to Nara levels of laziness. And as a Hyuga, that would be an embarrassing day indeed.

Carl settled in to wait out the day. He wasn't bored, per se. He had a perk for that. But he was acutely aware that instead of listening to a teacher read to him the history book, he could easily speed read the book himself in a tenth of the time and be off doing nearly anything else.

Like watching paint dry.

Perks would make that interesting, so it was a valid activity.

'Huh, I could be training my eyes. Brilliant idea!' Carl cheered up immensely at the possibility to further train his amazing X-Ray eyes. 'Or we could be passing messages in a ninja-esque manner, keeping from being noticed by the teachers. Maybe do some extra chakra control exercises. So many little things to do.'

And so he passed a note to Hinata to suggest she train her eyes while paying attention to the lecture. Hinata then passed a note to Naruko to do her chakra control exercises while listening to the lecture. And Naruko passed a note to Yakumo to play with her genjutsu while the teacher droned on.

Similar notes were passed back and forth in a sneaky way so that those who were serious in their ninja career were all having conversations and planning sessions with each other right under the eyes of the teacher. The exercise even got Shikamaru interested despite himself.

The fangirls were too busy mooning over Sasuke to notice the notes that made it to every other member of class.

The Uchiha was too far above it all to deign to wonder why everyone was passing each other notes. He didn't even realize that passing notes in class could be a form of ninja training. Intelligence gathering and passing of information.

Due to Carl's instigation, even the lazy Nara of their class, Shikamaru, got some training in by communing with his shadows to increase his yin-shadow affinity and ability to manipulate shadows.

Or at least, that was his excuse for napping. Which is what it totally looked like he was doing, the lazy Nara that he was.

That afternoon found Hinata surrounded by her encouraging friends and brother as she held a bundle of fireworks in her hand.

She activated her Byakugan and peered at the horrible man who was nasty to her best friend. She lit and tossed the fireworks and watched as it sailed over the stall wall and landed at the man's feet, creating a series of loud explosions that made him jump like a cat on a hot tin roof.

Several more exploded at his feet a moment later as Carl, Naruko, and Yakumo threw several more just after Hinata. The group fell to giggling a little too loudly about the sight, since they were heard by the people nearby.

They swiftly ran, making their escape before they were seen, leaving behind a huge and noisy mess.

Carl was feeling pretty light hearted about the small adventure. Sure, they were training to be child soldiers, ninjas and assassins. But they could still have some fun while they were young.