14 'Growth'

A year passed since his spar with Kakashi, kisho is now 13 years old. Team 10 did some d ranked missions and 7 'c' ranked missions.

They aren't much difficult for his team, as they have two jonin level ninja's on their team. Team 7 also did all the missions as he had predicted.

But, as he predicted naruto's seal has loosened and Sasuke can also use his Sharingan without much problem, after their mission encountered with Zabuza and Haku.

Haku is pretty much a jonin level ninja and caused them to evolve. Kisho expected this much but didn't stop them as they come from these things only.

Sakura-chan on their team also improved so much that she can fight on par with a chunin level ninja without any problem.

Pretty much Kakashi team 7 right now has 3 jonin level ninja and a chunin level ninja making their team missions as easy as playing games.

Team 9 is the only team that didn't improve like these teams and it did go like kisho predicted and he also didn't care much. He can't possibly be helping all the people right?

When it comes to team 10, Shikamaru has improved very well, as kisho had given instructions on shadow gathering technique. He can very easily able to take on 2 chunin level ninja at the same time.

Ino is the most developed one in the team 10 after kisho. She created her own technique 'Pain inducing' after getting some suggestions from kisho. This technique was created after referring to all her clan techniques, she can induce pain on the targets head. If the target has less will power and chakra than the attacker, they will get braindead in a matter of minutes. Even if the target has more chakra and will power than her, she can still continuously induce a lot of pain and can fight them alternatively. Making her the most unpredictable of his team.

But, if the opponent has way above chakra and will power than her, she can still induce pain to them. But it will not affect much of their combat prowess.

This technique is only a supportive technique for her and her main combat prowess comes from the inner gates technique she got from guy sensei. She had trained like a hell for the entire year and can now open two gates. She became the third person after kisho and lee to receive this technique from guy sensei.

Combining those two techniques and also taijutsu she learned from guy sensei, she has now become one of the most powerful chunin level ninjas in the entire village. Yet, she was not satisfied with this result and started training in a new training session, after she had begged to make her from guy sensei.

She also said she was now very close to reaching the third inner gate. Kisho was naturally happy about her, but still hoped she will reduce some of her recently found madness.

Choji is the only one that hasn't developed well in his team and when kisho offered him some instructions, he slacked off making kisho neglect his progress completely.

Still, he can be considered a ninja reaching the level of chunin, after learning his clan skills.

Kisho is the most powerful person in the entire team 10. He had already surpassed Asuma by a large margin.

As kisho predicted, he was now very close to opening his sixth seal. His fifth seal has already opened by the fifth month of last year. As he was not in the academy, all have right now is time to practice. He also practiced like hell in his body training and taijutsu. This training released his fifth seal on his body by the fifth month he became a genin and at that time he predicted that sixth seal will be released in ten months.

Now he was pretty much close to releasing his seal as there are only three months for his predicted time.

When he released his fifth seal, his chakra has grown so much and he thought that it was pretty much halfway to Hokage level ninja. He has started sparring with guy sensei since he releases his fifth seal and can pretty easily defeat Guy who also opened his fifth gate. When Guy opened his 6th gate to fight with kisho, this match will get much difficult and sometimes Guy will win and sometimes kisho wins.

This caused them to make counting on their matches wins and losses. Right now kisho is still in the lead with two more wins than Guy. Their record is,

125-123.

125 is kisho's wins, while 123 is guy sensei's wins. Kisho also gained much information from these matches, he predicted that even though he opened 5 gates because his chakra is greater than guy sensei's his 5th gate should be equal to guy sensei's 6th gate.

When Guy opens his seventh gate to fight with kisho, kisho can only fight with Guy for around 20 rounds before he gets pummeled to the ground. As they only sparred in pure taijutsu, kisho's taijutsu has also improved to a level that pretty much on par with Guy.

While kisho sparred and trained with guy sensei or do their missions at day time. Kisho practiced his ninjutsu and shadow gathering technique on the night for around 5 hours.

His shadows can now materialize into a grade 3 kunai level toughness and his tentacles that he made after splitting them also have toughness between grade 1 and grade 2. He was now sure that unless Kakashi uses his Lightning cutter, he cannot even make a dent on his tentacles. If he wants to cut his original shadows, even lightning cutter needs to be used 2 times at least. But he can deflect my main shadows, as such its still a bit tough for him to win against Kakashi.

If he can open his sixth seal, he will be on par with Kakashi or even stronger. He was also trained in counter Sharingan techniques from guy sensei so that he cannot fall under his Sharingan: Genjutsu.

Even after learning this method of fighting, he was still not satisfied and thought for a counter method to all Genjutsu.

"This technique can be useful to me. But, its a bit difficult to use instantly, if I want to use that instantly I need to practice it under Genjutsu." As he was thinking about how to make his technique work properly, he thought of Sasuke who reawakened his Sharingan and started moving towards his place.

The technique he thought was derived from his shadow gathering technique and he pretty much wants to test that with a practical example. He wants to know whether this will work really or not, as he was never under the Genjutsu by anyone.