Chapter 16: Two Years Later

Two Years Later, Training Ground AT Uchiha Compound.

A redheaded boy with spiky hair can be seen sitting under a tree in the Uchiha Training ground. Another purple-haired girl was sitting beside him looking at him with a gentle gaze.

A black-haired Uchiha was also training his Lightning nature transformation at a distance. The famous trio of Ino-Shika-Cho was also present there but not for training purposes. They just gathered there for a performance. 

Oh yeah! before moving forward, a pink-haired girl stood beside Sasuke, taking his name in her annoying high-pitched voice like an alarm clock, but nobody paid her any attention.

Right now, our protagonist was getting ready to play another one of his creations for which many considered him a music genius. Still, all he did was copy the lyrics from his previous world and started playing it under his own creation.

With a guitar in his hands, he started singing:

"Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes

But it's the only thing that I know

When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes

It is the only thing makes us feel alive.....

....

Under the lamppost back on Sixth Street Hearing you whisper through the phone

Wait for me to come home"

Yup, he copied the song from Ron Weasley and shamelessly played it as his original creation. He said," I have written a new song, I hope to get your input on it."

Naruto just like other geniuses, had a penchant for music but he was no creator. He just liked the praises he earned for his songs and that habit was carried over here too.

*clap clap clap*

"That was brilliant Naruto" Hinata immediately held his hand and gave a kiss on his cheeks. She thought that Naruto might have written the song for her, another one of his romantic masterpieces.

But she realized that she kissed him in front of others. This caused a faint blush to appear on their faces. It was not the first time it happened, but still, it affected them nonetheless.

Ino, Shikamaru and Choji also liked the song and praised him for it. Even the anbu silently praised Naruto for creating another beautiful song. Maybe he could also use a few lines to get a girlfriend.

Sasuke also humphed in his typical Uchiha fashion but they knew he also liked the song noticed from a small twitch near his mouth.

Sakura on the other hand was a different case.

"My Sasuke-kun can sing better songs than you. humph!" this was the reply of the pink head.

Everyone frowned upon hearing this. Meanwhile, Sasuke had a different thought, 'How am I connected to this, why is this girl still bothering me and I don't even know the "S" of "Singing", and why the hell is singing even important.'

Hinata inwardly groaned, knowing her habits. "Okay, who even called you here?"

"I am here for Sasuke-kun"

"Sasuke?" Hinata eyed Sasuke giving him a stern glare and he inwardly flinched for a moment. He still remembered the last spar where she beat him black and blue and used mystic palms to heal him and beat him again. Her Taijutsu has reached a whole other level and without Sharingan, he is no match for her. Even with the Sharingan, he can only bring it to a standstill and in a prolonged battle, the winner is again Hinata. Mind that in these two years of training with Naruto, his Sharingan has upgraded to three tomoe and even then he is no match for Hinata.

"Yes, I don't recall calling you here Sakura?"

Sakura had a betrayed look on her face but she still replied. "I am here to support you in your training."

Sasuke scoffed inwardly as he asked, "And how will you do that?"

Sakura again replied instantly with a determined look, "I will cheer for you."

Everyone present here deadpaned at her.

Ino realized that if Sakura got on Hinata's nerves then the situation would go out of hand so she immediately intervened and took her out of the place. Shikamaru and Choji also went out with them. They know that the three remaining will be training and they are not interested in that.

"So Sasuke, you told me that you were able to perform geppo. Let's see how you perform."

With those words, Sasuke immediately got up. He started kicking the air and walked on it. It gave the feeling of flying but actually, you have to constantly keep kicking the air. He only reached as high as 10 meters but that was a good start at this age.

Sasuke previously was able to use Soru and now also geppo. With this, he has mastered two of the six techniques. Hinata on the other hand has mastered five techniques except Rankyaku which she is currently working on.

When it comes to physical arts, she is a monster and even in chakra control, she is second to none. Her control was high enough to learn Mystic Palms from a Hyuga medic.

In these two years, she has also mastered 8 trigrams 128 palms of the gentle fist technique and even integrated it with water nature transformation.

She has also mastered Rasengan which seemed to be very easy for her and her chakra reserves have also reached Jonin level due to intense training.

Currently, all three of them have mastered Rasengan, and for Naruto, it is just some chakra practice. His normal full-powered punch without haki is more powerful than Rasengan right now.

Coming back to Hinata, she is currently practising Rankyaku and lightning chakra transformation. She wants to create a lightning chakra mode of raikage and also integrate it with a gentle fist to make it more deadly. Another one of her projects is to develop railgun. This was Naruto's idea and she liked it.

Another improvement that can be noticed is her Byakugan. The number of nerves popping out of her face when she uses her byakugan has drastically reduced. Only a couple can be seen now. She has one of the highest byakugan purity.

Naruto made her use her byakugan constantly in order to improve it. After a certain amount of time, she was temporarily blinded. After that he made her improve her other senses. In that practice, he made her increase the distance the byakugan covered. Currently, she can cover almost all of Konoha (excluding the outer areas of the forest and training grounds) with her byakugan, which is twenty times that of Hiashi.

Naruto also focused on the magnification power of her byakugan, which she was also able to improve.

Sasuke currently has mastered fire nature transformation and two of the six styles. His chakra capacity was also at a special Jonin level, lower than Hinata's. Geppo was currently new to him but with time he can improve upon it. With six styles, Naruto does not have to care about physical conditioning and taijutsu.

He also has regular spars with Naruto and Hinata and his win record against Naruto is zero and against Hinata is 45 wins and 100 losses. Yes, even after Sharingan, he lost 100 times against Hinata in the past two years.

Initially, in the first month of their training, he was easily able to win, but slowly the margin was getting closer. Her growth rate was monstrous, even better than him. After a month he needed to open his Sharingan to win but after another two months, he never tasted victory from then.

His fire nature mastery was quite high and was qualified to be at an elite Jonin level. But only his mastery over fire nature, not the chakra capacity which was currently limiting him. His taijutsu was also at a Special Jonin level because of his constant sparring with Naruto and his Sharingan. Six styles were not fully integrated so he was a bit behind than others.

Sasuke and Hinata both learned swordsmanship from Naruto, but there was a fundamental difference between the swordplay of a ninja and a pirate. Ninjas focused more towards the silent killing type sword moves, while pirates focused more towards the power generated and were too flashy. Sasuke after learning the basics focused on the Uchiha style of swordsmanship. While Hinata preferred hand-to-hand combat.

Naruto kept on training in his haki cultivation along with basic chakra control exercises like tree walking and water walking. He also mastered Rasengan and a couple of d and c rank elemental ninjutsu of each element of convenience sake.

He also tried teaching observation haki to Sasuke but currently, they had no success. Maybe it has something to do with physiques as the Shinobi physique was not able to exert the power of will.

Naruto has also dabbled in the art of fuinjutsu but after learning the basics, he has deviated towards something else entirely. Naruto treated the whole fuinjutsu branch as a programming language and is now working on a major project of making an AI or recreating his assistant AI which he personally coded in his previous life taking inspiration from Iron Man. This is the reason why his chakra training is lacking, while he copied the Shadow clone jutsu using Hinata's help (rich girlfriend's benefits), he still dedicates most of them towards his fuinjutsu project.