54. Little skip.

Currently I was in my child form of about 9 and under some great stress. I had bitten off a little more than I can chew as I ducked under a bone blade and twisted out of the way of a chakra rod aimed for my throat, only to have to use my hands to balance and dodge a snake aiming a strike at my balls.

"Hey I thought we discuss no strikes to the privates?" I shout kicking Kimimaro away with a thud as her tank like body barely felt the blow. Damn bone density.

These girls were all fucking monsters!

Just 3 years of training and I could barely keep up with them at the same skill level.

A simple dagger whipped through the air as I blocked some ice senbon and paper shurikens which started to sizzle before exploding.

I had just managed to avoid the blow when a massive blue fireball tore through the smoke. Once more I tried to flee only to have my body freeze and get sucked towards the flaming ball of fury.

I see Nagato with her hand raised at me.

"All's fair in love and war master~" the voice of Anko says behind me as she spits a mist of poison in my direction.

The grass sizzles and dies instantly under the miasma.

"Bunch of little tricksters!" I pump some gravity from my foot launching me into the air as the fireball and poison combine before exploding.

Bone Bullets, Paper shuriken, Normal shuriken, Ice senbon, Kunai all fire at me from different directions.

Little monsters made sure to block pretty much every path of retreat. I'm going to need to step my training up in the future.

Damn Sharingan and thier predictive abilities.

Throwing my hand up I pulse gravity once more and shoot towards the ground where it's clear from projectiles.

"Man you guys are going all out today." only to see numerous glass like crystal spikes where I wanted to land ready to impale me. There is a fizzle as explosive tag above me pushes my body down faster.

Once more I push my hands out and come to a halt.

"Alright you guys win this one, excellent teamwork." if I didn't have gravity control I more than likely would have been seriously injured or killed.

Yugito, Nagato, Guren, Haku, Kimimaro, Anko and Konan appear in front of me. Red eyes in full rotation besides the set of purple in the mix.

They were well beyond genin level ninja, chunin rank as well. Kakashi I believe was Jonin at age 6 so maybe this was just how geniuses worked. However I have to make sure they stay humble. Using the danger room I had given them multiple missions with 100% fail rate just to make sure they aren't arrogant. So far none of them had showed any signs of arrogance which was great.

I give them all a big smile and shift back to my adult form. "You all are doing amazing, I'm proud of you. Make sure you keep up the good work."

They all beam happily at the compliments. They were all hard workers and I was indeed proud of them. They put in a lot of time training and studying.

They had developed almost the same as thier respective counterparts, except they now had hobbies they enjoyed.

Nagato took a shine to sealing as that was pretty much in her blood as an Uzumaki. Konan still loves origami. Kimimaro took up dancing and sword fighting. Yugito loved playing video games but also enjoyed lazing around and napping. Guren enjoyed training with Rook in various martial arts. Anko somehow had still turned into a little pervert, I blame Stella. Haku enjoyed gardening and learning about medicine. Fuu was still too young to train but she was a happy little girl who loved to play she mostly stuck to either myself or Amber.

But things had slowed down the past couple of years to a comfortable pace. We still attended classes as there was much to learn in the ninja world. But it was relaxing.

However today was the day I had been waiting for quite a while. The day I would join the academy and the plot of this story would start. I hadn't cultivated my soul force yet as I was waiting for this.

I had applied for the school and paid the fees and got in easily.

I was curious what would happen to Nie Li and wanted to witness it first hand. Not to mention I was rather interested in recruiting Xiao Ning'er. Hard working and loyal people were always on the top of my recruiting list.

Anyway after sparring with the young ones it was time to head to the academy.

I grabbed a pair of sun glasses as my eyes always attract way too much attention. Fully evolved the Sharingan portion by the way, good stuff. But it was still going, I had the mangekyo version unlocked which just added another tomoe making it 4 in each eye, however even the mangekyo needed to be evolved. Not to rinnegan no, but there were different mutations and abilities that I had to unlock for the damn mangekyo.

Anyway sunglasses still attracted attention but not as much as the strange eyes.

Right now my body looked about 16 and I was wearing some nice clothes I had found around the city, pretty comfortable actually.

Heading for the school I made my way towards the classroom. It had only taken a few subtle manipulations with Genjutsu to get put in here.

Shame I was one of the first ones here so I jut picked a nice quiet spot to sit and wait hopefully I'll get to see something interesting. If not I can still come up with some good fun, plus I'm going to start cultivating today. Which actually needs my normal body to be present. Having my soul split among 8 different bodies wasn't exactly good for cultivation and could cause some serious problem when recombined such as destroying the smaller parts of my soul or having trouble adapting to the new influx of soul energy.