Chapter 7: Spending Time with the Kids

There are only a few days before my time is up. By that I mean my free time. Tsunade, Jiraya and Orochimaru are almost done with the academy. They will go from one academic institute to another one, only this one will be completely different.

Anyway, today is going to be awesome; he said with sarcasm.

I am scheduled to meet with the trio and test their combat capabilities, which is fine since I'm comfortable with my own. It helped me to have months to practice my skills and abilities before today.

The memories of my predecessors have stopped coming for now. So at least I have that going for me.

I have superb control of my Helheim Ice (what I call my ice ability).

I am Haruno's equal in hand to hand combat. The man is no joke, I tell ya. While he is not as skilled as his brother, he is just as deadly because of his years of experience. He is the older brother, by quite a lot, so he has many many ways to kill someone.

What I am saying is that I am extremely pleased with my progress.

Today should prove no challenge in the fighting department. The trio should at most be able to challenge the average Chunin (according to Hiruzen).

I have a few things figured out related to my development. One is my power scaling.

The more powerful I become the slower I improve because my body needs a long time to adjust to the changes in me. This means each time I take one step closer to complete Godhood the process will be slower. Worst case scenario is that it will take thousands of years before I become a fill God.

But now it is time to beat up some kids. Let's leave the hard question for later.

I have been waiting to wipe Tsuande's annoying smirk off her lips. It will happen today, I swear by my name as a future God.

Neither she nor the other two know what I can do. I found out yesterday that my existence is an S-ranked secret. Honestly, I have no idea why, but I took Haruno's advice and stopped questioning things. I should just let them run their course.

I feel them coming through the woods. One last thing, I developed a sort of sensory ability. I don't know if it's similar to the sensors here in this world but I can sense the auras of the people around me. I sense their emotions, their general power and the stronger I grow the more I can tell discern just by observing their aura.

The three squirts land in front of me looking smug. All except Orochimaru, he's wearing a familiar stoic expression.

Tsunade in front of the two, Hiruzen told me she had declared herself the leader of the trio. Jiraya is probably agreeing on the off-chance that she falls for him. Orochimaru is according to reports very docile. He doesn't speak much, he stays in the background, does what teachers tell him to do and keeps to himself.

If I am going to teach them I am definitely taking advantage of what I know about them. Orochimaru can forget about going rogue. He is going to become my head butler...

Jokes aside, it would be a waste to have him hiding away in some cave. I can use him in other ways.

"This is the guy? He doesn't look like he can sneak into a bathhouse on his best day. Why would the old man assign us to him?" Jiraya speaks as if I am not even here. And I got to say... it hurts. Guess the only thing to do is hurt him back.

"Constant vigilance." I moved at a speed I know they can't react to and appear in front of the young pervert.

"You have just graduated from the tutorial phase. Welcome to the real world, squirt." I deliver a love-tap that sends him head-first into the dirt.

"What are you doing?! Aren't we going to introduce ourselves first?"

"Would your enemy care for what name you carry? Would they demand to know it before killing you? You're no longer an academy student. From now on I want all of you to be constantly aware of your surroundings." I move quickly and kick out against Orochimaru but he jumps back just in time.

"Good job. That was the speed of a usual Chunnin shinobi. I will start here and I will slowly increase my power and speed to see what your limits are." I will never tell anyone about the countless hours spent in front of the mirror practising my introduction.

Creator of the Legendary Sannin is a title too cool to give up on.

"Are you alive, Mr Pervert?" I ask the boy with his head underground. I know he's alive by his fiery aura. It tells me he is very, very mad.

"I would be fine if he was dead," Orochimaru says.

I point at Orochimaru and grins. "Okay, I've decided. Since stoic people are so annoying to deal with, I am issuing a new rule. Every time someone fails to answer my questions with a smile I will beat them unconscious." I say as managed to pull out the biggest grin I am capable of.

He looks stumped, Jiraya who managed to unbury himself looks overjoyed. Tsunade has her face buried in her hands, not hard to wonder why.

"Y-you can't be serious. What kind of rule is that? You're telling me not to be myself?"

"Exactly!"

"No. Absolutely not. I will go to the Hokage and put in for a transfer. This is preposterous."

"Guess you made your choice." I appear in front of him. "Take your punishment like a man." I deliver a much more savage punch that sends him hurling back crashing into a tree.

"Is the old man really okay with this? We're a famous trio, top students of the academy. Are you sure it's legal to do this?"

"Mr pervert, I assure you, I have the Hokage's full blessing to beat the crap out of you if I so wish. Now if you don't want to lose a limb, take a stance and try to fight back."

I think I hit Orochimaru too hard. He is completely out cold and I meant for him to last a little longer. I still don't have a hundred per cent control of my raw physical power.

"Okay, Jiraya. It's just the two of us and we're clearly not getting out of this. Let's focus and beat the shit out of our smug soon-to-be professor." Tsunade still hasn't lost the complacent grin. I think it's because I haven't hurt her yet.

"You got it, princess!"

"I told you to stop calling me that. It's creepy."

"Are you two done? I am being nice here allowing you time to talk." It feels great being the one beating someone up for a change.

"Let's go!" Jiraya charges forward without much thought. He shows his inexperience in his actions immediately. He forgets to communicate with Tsunade even when they just agreed to take me on together.

I easily dodge his punch and reward him with one to the face that sends him flying once again.

"Man he hits hard, I can't feel my jaw."

"That's because you don't think. He is clearly as skilled as the other Jonin, we can't take him alone." Tsunade said.

"Oh? You compare me to a Jonin. I suppose that is a fair assessment, I am definitely way above any of you currently." It is already obvious what this trio needs to work on the most. "You have now identified who I am and how strong I am. The question is, how are you going to deal with it?" I make sure to look at Jiraya since he is the "Naruto" of this generation.

"Teamwork." He grumbled out. It's funny how he agreed to work with Tsunade but then immediately disregarded that and instead went in alone. He is acting exactly as I predicted he would.

"Jiraya it's just the two of us. Orochimaru is knocked out, to even have a chance here we have got to synchronise our attacks."

"I got it, princess. Let's do this already!"

"We are so gonna die."Tsunade sighed but prepared to engage.

She dashes forward and there is a lot of chakra gathering in her legs. Jiraya started weaving hand signs.

"Earth release: Earth-style wall" Behind me a wall of earth rose up effectively blocking my immediate escape. Ah, so that is their plan. Smart.

Tsunade took advantage and jumped forward into a flying kick.

"Heaven Spear Kick!" The amount of chakra gathered in the soles of her feet is enough to outright obliterate any earthen wall.

"Good. Now you're starting to get it." They would definitely pose a threat to a Chunin. I reach out and catch Tsunade's attack barehanded.

"But this is not an academy teacher you're fighting." I wouldn't admit to this. But her kick her a lot, and she is still not thirteen years old. I think the manga downplayed how truly terrifying her strength is, and especially how scary it will be in the future.

"Don't lose focus, Tsunade." She must have lost her senses because I caught her foot so easily, which proves that she knows how powerful she is. I swing her around and throw her to the ground easily.

I then turn my gaze to Jiraya.

"Jiraya, show me what you got."

"Fire release: Fireball jutsu"

Impressive for being so young. Jiraya had the second-biggest chakra reserves among them with Tsunade in the lead. And they used it pretty well. His fireball is impressive for a newly graduated Shinobi.

But the large drain on their reserves was obvious, Jiraya was almost spent after just two jutsus. Admittedly they were intense Justus for a kid fresh out of the academy.

Time to stop their hearts. I will show them the disparity between our abilities. As the fireball closes in, I raise my right hand, stretch out my index finger and let the attack collide with it. As it does it evaporates instantly, as a candleflame pinched between two fingers.

"WHAT!?"

Jiraya had jumped away, maybe counting on his attack acting as a distraction to help Tsunade. But seeing the result he accidentally drops Tsunade on the ground.

"Do not lose focus in battle." I choose this moment to appear between them and point a finger each at their throats. "You lose."

"P-Professor, was that your ice release?" Having prior knowledge, Tsunade wasn't as shocked as poor Jiraya.

"Indeed. You have to learn to expect the unexpected. That is vital when fighting unknown enemies." Jiraya was out of commission, he had eyes like saucers and his jaw was on the floor.

"You okay, Jiraya?"

"Y-yeah. Just surprised, that's all. What did you do? Did you absorb it?"

"Hahaha, no, no. I used this." I raise my hand and cover it in ice.

"Ice? I had no idea the village had a clan with an ice kekkei Genkai."

"We don't. It's just me." I can't say my smile was an arrogant one, but unmistakably a confident one.

"Wow."

"Professor, that still doesn't explain how you did it. I understand that your release is effective against fire, but you evaporated it instantly. How is that possible?" Tsunade asked.

"Well, a few reasons actually. Firstly, Jiraya has great chakra control for his age, but it's not anything mindboggling. His jutsus suffer because of this. So parts of the reason I could do this was that Jiraya's fireball was rather weak."

"So you can't freeze anyone's fire jutsu?"

"No, if the Hokage were to use the same jutsu as you used Jiraya I would have to dodge. I could freeze it but it would take longer than a second and that is a very long time when fighting an opponent of his calibre."

"Have you fought the Hokage?" Orochimaru who had now woken up and wobbled back to us asked. He held his ribs and his expression was one of utter pain and frustration.

"Many times. Even when one is as powerful as him, you have to make sure to keep your skills sharp. That is why we can never stop training. At any point, we could be caught in a situation where we need to fight our way out."

"Neat. So is this all we are going to be doing with you this year? I wouldn't mind." Jiraya said. He shot a sneer at Orochimaru who returned it.

"No. We will fight like this occasionally but most of our time will be in the classroom. You will receive knowledge that you aren't used to getting."

"Like what?" The snake Sannin asked.

"Biology, manipulation of information. Stealth, infiltration. I will teach you how to use your mind to win a war." Surprisingly, they get very little of this in the academy. What they do get is only the basics of the basics. To get more they have to specialize later on.

"Sounds boring. Can't I just punch the guy?"

"Moron. A simple-minded ape like you wouldn't understand the wonders of knowledge."

"What you say, snake bastard?"

"Boys, calm down," I say stepping in-between them.

"Are we done for today, professor?" Tsunade asked as she yawned.

"Yes. You can go home but we won't see each other until the start of the semester. Don't be tardy."

"Goodbye, professor. I ask that you tone it down with your strength next time."

"Constant vigilance, Orochimaru."

"You could definitely benefit from some time at the bathhouse, professor. Think about it."

"Goodbye, Jiraya. And get some help, that attitude will never get Tsunade to notice you." His face basically lights up in red and he rushes off.

"Goodbye, professor. And please don't encourage his perverted tendencies."

"Goodbye, Tsunade."

And that marks the end to the first of many long and exhausting days to come.

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