2 years after taking apprentices, Both My and Hiruzen 's team applied for chunnin promotions.
Their chunnin exams were to be held in konoha itself. We were making a grand deal out of it because of tsunade's participation. She was granddaughter of the first Hokage and student of genius Hiruzen. Even her genius teammate orochimaru could not outshine her popularity.
Even my own team has some spotlight because of them being hokage's team. Both Sukomo and Shinku were very popular by now. They both had excellent reviews from many teams that they provided backup as medics, illusionists and swordsmen.
My first inkling regarding upcoming war was through the rain village's team-9. It was a team of older gennins that was targeting the weakest teams in the forests of death during the 2nd challenge. They had killed 6 teams from different villages by the end of the second challenge.
This was a clear disrespect by rain village and was bound to bubble up into larger and larger conflict very soon. When the sand village's kazekage complaints about this behaviour to Hanzo the salamander of rain village, Hanzo just says that only the strong have the right to survive.
In the end, my whole team got promoted to chunin, even Duy. Orochimaru got promoted to chunin. Tsunade's won the whole tournament, but didn't earn a promotion due to some childish behaviour.
I met Tobirama sensei next day to talk to him about him taking over my students. I discussed with him about the possibility of a brewing war, considering Hanzo 's behaviour in the exams.
After seeing my team at the arena in the exam, Tobirama sensei has a good understanding of their capabilities. Shinku and Sukomo both had earned titles of ideal shinobi with no weaknesses.
Duy himself made a really big showing, opening the 3rd gate, the gate of life, in the semi-finals against a rain village Ninja.
Tobirama sensei recognised their infinite potential. All my students were first and foremost, Hard workers.
Sukomo had great affinity for swords and Shinku has great affinity for illusions. Despite this, I had asked them to spend their whole time with me overcoming their weakness .I had them practice their affinities on their own time . This had actually turned out great, since they practiced with each other, sharing into each other's specialisations.
Sukomo and Shinku became assistants to Tobirama sensei, while Duy became a teacher evaluator by sitting with students and evaluating other teachers. Tobirama sensei thought that Duy could use some extra lessons in basics .
I still send a clone to each of them from time to time to catch up on their progress and offer guidance. In just 6 months under Tobirama, they have stepped out of the generalist template I put them in through their gennin careers.
Shinku Yuhi came up with a genjutsu that hides his blade, turning it invisible. He had honed this jutsu sparing constantly with Sukomo. It can even turn thrown weapons invisible. Dojutsu like Sharingan and byakugan can see through it.
He can further channel wind chakra through it to increase its blade length and cutting power.
Sukomo came up with a medical technique that mixes the concepts of heat/cold massage medecine technique, chakra channeling from his sword technique . It was a technique that imparted lightning chakra in target through contact.
Sukomo then uses concepts of genjutsu to control that lightning chakra inside the target to either momentarily stun the target or let the chakra build up for a more powerful discharge later on.
He can be subtle and conserve chakra with this efficient but deadly technique , but he can also Overclock the technique by increasing chakra overflow and keep an enemy paralysed and hurting as long as he is touching them.
Duy himself was on a journey to understand, heal and refine his chakra network through second gate -gate of healing. He was making great progress, while still maintaining his taijutsu routine. Sukomo and Shinku still help him with medicine every day due to his phisical overexertion.
Just 3 years after I announced that graduation age has been increased from 13 to 18, the ninja world fell into chaos. Hanzo of the Rain village declared himself the god of shinobi and started a campaign to expand territory
Everyone was reluctant to target us directly due to our renewed strength, but were quick to target us covertly through bandits. We had the fewest ninja among all due to not getting any new gennin in the last 3 years.
It would be much more of a problem for us if I hadn't made sure to guide every single ninja myself to better themselves. After my students became chunin, I decided to take a more direct approach in training all our ninja.
I would send my clone to other Hokage duties and my real body was always roaming around the village, from one training ground to another, offering guidance to gennin and jonin alike.
Seeing me routinely offer career-changing advice, more and more ninjas decided to train more often in hopes of encountering me and gaining my wisdom as their senior.
Furthermore, due to increase in age limit for new recruits, I had increased their curriculum under guidance from Mito, Tsuba and Tobirama. All graduates now have to further learn atleast the very basics of sealing ninjutsu(release), medical ninjutsu(massage/recovery), and elemental ninjutsu(clone).
They can further specialise in one or more fields depending on their aptitudes. Tobirama sensei and I have even recruited the best in the village to oversee the new batch.
Tsunade handles the medical training, Jiraya handles sealing training, Duy handles taijutsu, Shinku handles genjutsu, Sukomo handles bukijutsu(weapons) and Orochimaru handles ninjutsu training.
All of them have been recently promoted to jonin. They all go on team and seperate missions from time to time to keep up their own strength and mission records.
Tobirama, Mito, Tsuba and cover for them when they are in a mission. Even other jonins step in to cover these lectures from time to time as missions wherever there is a shortage. This makes sure that children gain from a wide breadth of experience.
After hearing about the approaching war, Tsunade had proposed further medical training for existing ninja and for students. Currently only 20% of total students choose to pursue medicin as a speciality. Only 5% of current troops can be considered field ready medics. Only 1% of total troops can be considered actual fully trained doctors.
Tsunade proposed some changes and incentives to bring the student rate to increase to 33%. She wanted future konoha teams to each have a medic.
The council politely laughed at her ambitious plan and scoffed at her projected spending. She only got them to attend it because she is the senju heir and one of the strongest jonin in the village.
After the meeting, I approached Tsunade. I told her that although her idea is too ambitious to the council, I see merit in it. Although I don't want to force students into specialities they might not want, the ANBU are exclusive direct forces of the Hokage. I can have her train all my ANBU forces to become expert medics.
During Tabirama sensei's time, there Anbu made up of less than 2 % of the total ninja forces. In my reign, I've increased the percentage to 20%.
Most of this recruitment happened in the time since I've announced delayed graduation for next batch. The fact that I got 20% of ninjas to pass the entrance criteria is a testament to my dedication in improving and training my ninja
The ANBU are tasked with the most dangerous and most gut wrenching tasks, these are ninjas among ninjas. Anbu only select from chunin or above rank and have some of the toughest but most fruitful training regime.
Although Anbu have the best resources and best trainers for each subject, only stealth and swordsmenship are mandatory to master as leaf's prime Assassin's and Guards. I propose to Tsunade that I can designate medical mastery as mandatory as well, but it would be incompatible with her doctrine for medic ninja.
I implied that later on, she can have her own team that she can put her ideology on, but my ANBU are killers, they will not hold back. I told her that my ANBU are stealth specialist, with them all trained to the level of field surgeons, we might be able to deploy them as support teams for war regiments.
She thinks it over and agrees. This is better than status-qou as far as she is considered. Once she sees the ANBU facilities, she even begs me to join the ANBU. It's the private medicinal hot springs that did it for her, completely ignoring state of the art training tools used to train there myself.
Soon the we were forced to declare war on sand village, after they were caught terrorising and looting a border village. I had an unexpected guest that wanted to interrupt the little me time I got in between war meetings. It was the 20 year old Hyuga heiress, Hitomi Hyuga
Due to war deployment, her clan was trying to hurry the caged Bird ceremony for her younger brother, now that he might be deployed at war. She wanted me to marry her so that her brother could become the heir and remain free of the caged Bird seal.
She needed someone as strong as me with authority as high as a Hokage to avoid getting caged Bird sealed herself if she wants her brother to take up the heir position
I tell her to wait a minute as I call on my ANBU guard. I ask them to get Mito and Tsuba . They soon arrive, I ask for a lockdown. I tell Hitomi that I'm about to tell her a S Rank village secret, she is not to divulge this information to anyone, even get father, the Hyuga Clanhead.
I tell her than I'm romantically involved with both Tsuba and Mito, any women who would be my wife will have to be content with that.
Hitomi pulls a string on her shoulder and let's her gown fall. She says that she is here for a favour and in return is offering herself as dutiful wife, regardless of who else he might love.
Tsuba let's her own gowns fall as she approaches Hitomi and tells me how she can personally attest to Hitomi's character and talant as her sensie. Hitomi had been the one to replace Tsunade at the academy as medicin jutsu specialist when Tsunade joined ANBU.
I asked everyone to get dressed as I asked an ANBU to summon the Hyuga Clanhead. I proposed a grand wedding to increase morale for the upcoming war. He is happy to oblige, wanting to create closer relationship with the Hokage. It seems that I'm the only one that cares about our age difference.
Next day, as the war parties are getting ready, my wedding takes place with all the festivities of a new year. I call upon a war council the same day to delegate leadership for different war fronts.
The meeting was attended by all clan heads and leaders of each branch of military. I was guarded by Tsunade and Hitomi in their ANBU Uniforms.
I declare that with each regiment, I will send my own ANBU members who will be under my direct command and independent of other leadership structure. They can be coordinated with, but not command by my generals.
I declare that the General against Sand village will be my father in law, the Hyuga Clanhead. He will be accompanied by a regiment of my ANBU, lead by a veteran Uchiha loyal to me.
Seeing the upcoming tide of war, I decided to declare generals for other fronts as well. If war breaks of with the water village, Hiruzen will be the general to lead our ninja there with an ANBU regiment lead by Tsunade.
Against earth village, I deployed my former teammates, under the leadership of Danzo. They will be accompanied by an ANBU regiment lead by my ex Head Body guard, Torifu Akimichi.
Against lightning village, I myself will be deployed, while Hitomi will act as head of my body guards and leader of my ANBU regiment.
Tobirama sensei will remain in the village as a deterrent and for defense.
All clans start coordinating with each leader to help with strategising deployment of specialists. Before leaving for my wedding night, I call aside the leaders of sand deployment , the Uchiha ANBU and Hyuga Clanhead.
I tell them both that I want them to note down, corroborate and reverse engineer the puppet skills of sand village. With a Sharingan and a Byakugan, and years of experience between them, the task should be possible. I even told them to try to steal/copy as many jutsu from them as they can.
After that, I leave for my wedding night with Hitomi. She is very well trained in medical massage, enhanced by her Byakugan. Once we did the deed, we spent the whole night experimenting with chakra and sex using My Sharingan and Her Byakugan. Ninshu indeed.
We would use cold/hot touches, feather touch jutsu, deep touch(blunt chakra scalpe) jutsu and much more in various parts of our bodies to enhance our sex with chakra.
We were disturbed by Mito near midnight. She told us that the water village has declared war on us. I told her to inform Hiruzen as he is the general for that front. I told her to not disturb my wedding night unless the Cloud village declares war on us. Then our wedding night will have to shift into honeymoon in the lightning country.
Next day, both Hitomi and I woke up tired and unwilling to move. But war is afoot. In the morning, I met the outgoing teams of sand and water front. I greet Hiruzen and hand him a flying thunder god kunai. He knows what it is and accepts it, keeping it in his vest.
Hiruzen is joined by all three of his students, but Tsunade will lead the ANBU and act independently from him. I approach Jiraya, Orochimaru and Tsunade and hand them each a scroll. It is a sealing technique derived from barrier technique. Once this seal is applied to a wooden fence or shield, it will become as strong as steel as long as it is supplied with enough chakra.
All three of them have great future in fuinjutsu, so i thought it would be an appropriate departure gift. They can use this to reinforce battle fortifications, or even for their own clothes and armour.
A month into war with sand and water village, Earth and Cloud also declare war on us. Rain village then declares war on the whole world for using it as our battlefield.
I finally step into the battle field, with my students and my wife. I had designated Sukomo and Shinku as my personal bodyguards, while Duy is Hitomi's bodyguard.
I'm personally getting involved on Cloud front because I want to decipher the third Raikage's Lightning suit technique. With both Hitomi and me, we should have all our bases covered.