During the celebrations , Hokage sama promoted both me and tenten to chunnin rank. He gives us our military jacket in the stadium itself. The kazelage sama praises us and congrattulates us.
That night, Tenten came to my room with a bottle of expensive wine for celebration
One thing led to another and we both lost our virginity that night. Maybe it was the alcohol, Maybe it was the adrenaline from the fight.
I did try to tell her about my relationship with Bella.
She told me " I already know . Hinata had helped me out tremendously in the last two months, I wouldn't be in your Room without her blessings. Let's just say we hatched up this plan when we realised we both wanted you. If we had to share your with bella anyway, what's the point of fighting each other. So we decided to share ".
When we reached the village , we were greeted like hero's, having had a great showing in the tournament. I go to the orphanage with Tenten. I met Naruto and others before going towards Bella's room. In there, I find Bella and Hinata making out.
I enjoy the show as Tenten and I enter the room and close the door behind us. I kiss Bella and hug Hinata. Hinata tries to go for a lip kiss, but I turn my face to land it on my cheek instead.
I tell her " Nope, I've already told you , you have to same rank as me before we do anything, or else I would feel like I'm taking advantage of you"
" But you are a chunin now. I was 6 months away from becoming a gennin, now what. Chunin is no joke." Hinata fake cries
But I cheer Hinata up. I tell her " if you plays your cards right, you can become chunin in the next exam, next year. Both Tenten and I pledge that we will do our best to help you get there. "
Due to intense training and the tournament,we got a week of vacation. I mostly spent it at the orphanage, taking care of the birds, spending time with the girls. This year I'm expecting many graduates to qualify for my gift of trained magpie from inuzuka vet clinic.
Hinata had already learned mystic palm by the time I was just a recent academy graduate. Sakura and Ino both have shown keen interest in it after Sasuke started trying to learn it. While Sasuke himself never learned it beyond Cauterise technique, both Ino and Sakura are expected to learn it by the time they graduate.
Kiba has also learnt it to that level already after constantly hearing his sister and His mother praising my work at the vet. He even helps his sister now. Hinata and Kiba have taken over my role as volenteer assistants at the inuzuka vet.
Kiba has even chosen his bird already and actively trains with it and akamaru every day as well.
Both Shino and Shikamaru can Cauterise and are likely to learn it to level of mystic palm as well, but it's a cointoss whether they can learn it by graduation day.
Choji has already learnt it to level 3- raw marinatiom. He seemed to stop caring about leveling up in the jutsu after that point, even though mystic palm is at arms reach, he doesn't seem to care about this jutsu beyond its usage in preparing food.
I told Choji about a medical Jutsu surgery I learned at the vet that allows me to treat my magpie like a chicken, the more I feed it, the more eggs it produces.
And since inuzuka trained magpies are much more independent and can feed themselves if you let them rummage for food, you can get an unfertilized egg every hour from a bird that is focused on feeding. All he has to do get one, is get good.
I will be happy if Naruto can learn Balmburn to level 1 by the time of his graduation. He just doesn't have the chakra controll. over cooking on his every attempt for now.
But he has been getting better. Just practicing with Eveie at training ground zero has improved his chakra controll to the point that he can make illusory clones.
My team , Team Guy started taking on more and more C rank missions. We even took a B rank mission, considering both me and Tenten were chunin.
Our team was more suited for high B rank, low A rank missions because of Guy Sensie's and our strengths. But the Village wanted to be cautious with us young talents.
Whenever we were in konoha, we spent time sparing with Hinata. It would usually be a three way brawl , where all three of us are trying to hit the other. Hinata was already leauges above her contemporaaries, the closest second would be Kiba. Sasuke trailing a bit behind kiba, as the third best.
I even encountered my mother on one of our missions. It was to protect a merchant fleet travelling from land of fire to land of water. We were to only escort them to the borders of land of water, the shinobi from land of water would take them from there.
Land of water is right now in a civil war like situation. Their mizukage yagura is said to be mad with power and had become a tyrant, specially against ninja clans.
I saw an opportunity here. If we can use this civil war to replace the current mizukage with one that is grateful to leaf village, we can secure great benefits.
I leave my 3 birds here to follow the merchant trail. They look like wild magpies when not carrying their scalpels. My 3 birds are going to stay here for 1 month together, and then cyclicaly migrate back to me to report everything they find here and go back with any further orders.
They're intellegent birds by now, capable of talking and following orders. They are similar to inuzuka dogs in that way. But their prime loyalty is to their nest - konoha orphanage, not to their school- inuzuka clan.
After returning, I let the hokage know that I've set up a rudementary surveillance over at water country.
I tell him " Every time one of my orignal birds come back to tell me about the situation there, i will send two more birds trained specifically for this roll with him. Slowly, i can build a flock of recon birds as information and communication network between konoha and water country. "
Hokage sama is impressed with me. He says "Impressive, I've really enjoyed watching your journey. This bird nest you started has really worked to incentivize learning mystic palm. Already people who have taken your birds have benifited greatly from it. "
I say " It can't win you a fight but it can help you pick your fighter better. Their recon capabilities mean that they help one see threat coming much earlier than gennin normally can. Their hunting abilities make tracking wounded or weaker enemy much easier."
Hokage sama nods and says " Your former classmates are about to graduate. I'm filling in the proposed teamsheets right now . I wanted to know if you have any opinions."
He says " You've also trained with most of the jonin involved. Kurenai helped you develop your Genjutsu: Killing Intent. Asuma taught you his wind style. "
I tell Hokage sama " In my opinion, all my classmates will get along with others, but there are some exceptions. Ino and Sakura will remain uncomfortable around Shino and his bugs for a time, it will create unnecessary friction. "
I tell him " Most of my classmates will benefit from any Sensie, but there are some exceptions. Sasuke is hell bent on revenge, for good reason though. He won't care about any teammate beyond the mission. The best bet to get him out of his shell is a good Sensie. "
" One might think that Kakashi might be useful in teaching Sasuke about sharingan, but no one taught Kakashi. Sharingan is pretty self explanatory but if he does need to discuss it with kakashi, he can easily do it as fellow leaf shinobi"
I instead suggest " Guy should train Sasuke. He can steer Sasuke's hate into hard training, which can turn into real earned strength. With Me and Tenten as chunin now, we are too powerful for the type of mission we usually take. It would be better to break the team into weaker parts so that we can take on more missions anyway"
I tell him that " Both Me and Tenten have been planning to join the Anbu. Team guy would have to disband as it is. Instead Sasuke should replace me in my team. Tenten can be replaced by either Naruto or Hinata."
I further tell him " Teaching coiling link taijutsu has revealed some hidden comparabilities between students. Perticularly, Shino and Shikamaru team up well. Despite their rivalry, Ino and Sakura also team up well above their combined might. "
" While we shouldn't make full teams based on individual pairings, it would do is well to tap into this potential more by pushing more joint team missions. " I conclude.
He takes my opinion with a grain of salt and dismissed me, telling me to keep him up to date in any information I gain regarding water country.
Eventually, the day of Naruto's graduation came. We celebrated all day at the training ground zero. Me and Tenten played music. She played the band drum. I played a guitar/violin hybrid.
We were both students of Guy Sensie, so we took it to next level in challenging ourselves. I play the violin/guitar with my bare hands, my fingers and both hands have bled and healed so much that they don't bleed anymore. Forming calluses that turn my own hand into a gauntlet.
My hand is completely disfigured after every performance. But thankfully, i can use mystic palm to restore it. Every time I recover from these, I make my SKIN more resistant to such damage.
Tenten is also playing drum. But it is a simple sheet of metal that she wears like an apron. She then uses her fingers to play the sheet like a drum. Has spent so much time beating her fingers on the metal, that she suffered from many micro fractures in her hand.
Thankfully, she too knows medical jutsu and can heal herself. Every recovery makes her BONES and MUSCLES more resistant to next damage.
We both came up with these strategy to build natural defences for our hands. Utility of hands can't be understated after all. Both tenten and I will trade our instruments after today, to build verity of resistances.
I'm pretty sure that i turned a lot of Sasuke fangirls to my side with my performance that day.