10 Two years [10]

On top of a lake can be seen two people exchanging blows as one of them is using a kunai with white gravity defying hair and the other person having a katana with green hair and a way shorter frame.

The green haired brat (me) who is currently on the defence is being pushed back by Kakashi as he goes in for a slash at my head.

Reacting as fast as I could I crouch down with my hands touching the water, seeing myself being open to a kick and slash I backup and use a side ways slash.

Kakashi using a kick misses, takes a step back

"Hah!" I shout as I go with a side slice with Kakashi swiftly deflecting my hit.

Using my momentum to counter attack I dash forward exchanging a fluid motion of weapon clashes between Kakashi and I with Kakashi cleanly parrying my hits as he dances around me.

"Clang...clang....clang!" After a few more exchanges my hits start to waver as Kakashi finds an opening and kicks my side.

Trying to block I sending my left arm to the side I proceed to get sent a few metres away as I try to defend from the two kunai thrown at me.

Dodging the first kunai thrown I quickly deflected the second as I parried a slash from Kakashi right after.

"You're getting better at this, your kenjutsu is able to match a lower genins strength while you battle prowess surpasses a Chunin." Kakashi says praising me as he faints an overhead slash, booting me on the left side of my body for the second time which sends me towards a tree.

"Ugh, I'm gonna get you back for that." I groan out after I impact the tree shortly after I drop my katana in pain.

Kakashi seeing my state starts to walk towards me with his book now on hand flipping over some pages.

"Your style is too defensive which makes sense because you have only mastered one kenjutsu style but you need to add some more offense. Like when I feint a stab to your head you could of tried to stab your katana into me, of course it wouldn't have worked but it was still the right move there. Your left side is also at a disadvantage as you aren't able to counter any hits there because of the amount of stances you limit yourself with" Kakashi says telling me about my mistake in those last few exchanges.

Regaining myself after a minutes rest I pick up my sword and walk towards the lake to drench my face after a good spar.

"Splash!"

Looking at my reflection of the water you could see a little boy with a cute and diamond shaped face. My green hair glistening in the sunlight with my green eyes starting to shine.

With my body right now you would guess that I was actually a five year old in body size but other than that my baby fat sems to be going away as I'm growing quite a few muscles I assume due to my chakra enhancing me as I produce more chakra.

Smiling at my reflection I start to head back home.

Today I'm going to be attending Hinata's birthday with Danzo and will be trying to make some "Connections" as Danzo always says.

"A favour goes a long way." a sentence Danzo said to me on my fourth birthday a few months ago now.

Still it's a shame I wont be able to use swift release till I have high Chunin reserves with a decent amount of control of the power.

It's a hard kekkei genkai to train as I need to use it multiple times to train but I cant get used to it if I run out of chakra in just a couple of seconds of trying as I lose the feeling of swift release immediately.

Eventually though I will master it if I improve my chakra control enough with my reserves growing.

I've spent most of my extra time hanging out with Hinata as she's my only friend which is something quite funny. One day I met with Hinata's mother Himawari as I noticed that her chakra coils near her heart were starting to fade in colour and told her.

This just proves to me how great my chakra sensing is.

But telling Himawari in hindsight was something completely stupid of me but led to Himawari finding out that the elders were trying to poison her which in turn benefited me in more ways than one. Of course I asked for her to not disclose what I told her which she listened to but I still have to assume that Hiashi knew this.

Any matters than included the concerns of his wife would probably be known to him immediately, especially with the information that his wife got poisoned.

After a few hours I get back home and start to prepare to go to Hinata's party after relaxing my aching muscles because of Kakashi's physical conditioning schedule he has for me.

Talking about training, my skills have improved quite significantly which I am quite happy about.

My Shuriken and Kunai proficiency has improved to mid Genin level.

Kenjutsu has hit low Genin level.

I'm able to from my knowledge sense around 3km in my opinion but I have no way to really measure it.

Chakra reserves are now mid to high Genin level while my control I'm not sure as how to measure it as I have never asked how someone can tell how good their control is. All you need to know is that I have mastered my water walking as I can fight while walking on water.

Finishing up my preparations for the party I grab a box from the table in my room.

That box currently contains Hinata's gift that I made for her.

A purple scarf.

I kinda stole the idea from Naruto but we don't talk about that right now.

I made it myself with the extra time I had as I basically had four days of pure rest every week for two years. So as a temporary hobby I started knitting which I hope Hinata will like the gift.

The reason why knitting is a temporary hobby is because I've decided to make a few food shops in the village in the future which includes a pizzeria.

When I'm older I'll try to give cooking a try as I want to make it so my future friends smile when eating my food. Kinda like how one of my bros did back in my past life when he made lasagne for the boys.

Eating together is a good way to connect with a group and if you add great food it adds to the experience.