Naruto's Strongest Shinobi

"Akira, you are a genius when it comes down to the gentle fist... but don't be complacent in your achievements today, this is nothing but the beginning, the hard part comes when you awaken the Byakugan," Jin said.

"Dad, how can I awaken the Byakugan?" I question my father. "Haha although you are my little genius, you are still too small to be asking those questions, Kira," he responded. "But daad... I just wanna know how..." I tried saying in my cute kids' voice. "Okay, seeing that you can manipulate chakra... I'll tell you once you join the Academy," Jin said looking smugly at me.

"Daad..." I said in a low voice while walking to the house with slumped shoulders. I knew bugging my Jin about how the Byakugan worked won't take me anywhere. Halfways through the house, I turned around and yelled, "The last one to the kitchen is a bad shinobi," after yelling that I turned around and started running as fast as I could. My dad just stood there for a while until he laughed and started to follow me.

"Ohh, my dad is a bad shinobi! I beat you, I beat you!" I started chanting. Hana just looked at us and smiled, while Jin laughed and said, "Well, I'm glad I'm a medic-nin if not, we'll be in trouble."

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'It's been 5 months since my 3rd birthday. I have become way stronger and my chakra has improved tremendously. It also feels that I've reached the limits on the gentle fist, the next step should be to awaken the Byakugan and fully master the gentle fist with its advanced techniques.' Akira said to himself while standing upside down on a tree branch.

'Hmm, I believe the way to awaken our Byakugan is to input chakra on the tenketsu around our eyes. Although I need to be careful, I don't want to damage the tenketsu around my eyes and permanently damage my eyes.' Akira said while remembering studying the books in his father's study room.

They were all types of books and one of them showed all the tenketsu in the body. Specifically, around the eyes, they were a group of tenketsu's. 'I should probably wait till I have a better chakra control and know how to release chakra throughout the tenketsu in my body.'

'Well, I should probably go home before Hana and Jin start to question me too hard,' I said to myself while dropping to the floor. I started running through a patch of forest, 'I'm glad there's a small forest inside the compound, I don't think my parents would of let me stray too far from home.' I contemplated while getting out of the Hyuga forest.

Arriving home, I went to my room and changed. "Where you training?" asked my father. "Yes, I was training in the forest not far from here," I said while putting my clean clothes on. "Don't go to the forest tomorrow, one of my friends is coming and they are bringing their son. We are planning on holding a little spar between you two," replied Jin while heading to the kitchen. "Okay!" I yelled so that I was sure that he'll here me.

After eating I went to my room and started to meditate. In my mind, I was going over the gentle fist, imagining how my opponent is going to move tomorrow. After a while, I went to sleep, feeling ready for tomorrow.

The next day I did my usual routine, instead of doing the same as Rock Lee and doing as many as I could, I did my exercise as fast as I could. I usually didn't keep count on how many squats or push-ups I did, all I was focusing was on my form and speed.

I spent the whole morning doing my regular exercise and rested a little bit in the afternoon until my father came for me. "Are you ready? I know you can win this fight, this is mostly training for Kai, he's in the second year in the academy and hasn't learned how to mix both halves of the book yet," Jin said to my surprise. "What? He hasn't learned how to do it yet?" I asked somewhat skeptical.

Jin looked at me proudly and said, "Well, not everyone is a genius you know, but that doesn't mean that It'll be an easy fight. Kai is older than you and has more experience sparring with other people. This will help you as much as it's going to help him."

I simply nodded and headed to the training room where the spar would take place. In there I saw Kai and his father already waiting for me and my dad. I noticed Kai wasn't so happy, he might be unhappy that I'm way younger than him.

Jin approached us and told us that we are going to have a traditional shinobi sparring. "Okay, today we have Kai Hyuga vs. Akira Hyuga, please do the seal of confrontation to start the battle, after the battle is over, do the seal of reconciliation." Kai and I acknowledge what my father said and we did the seal of confrontation.

After we did the seal, Kai rushed directly to me, 'While he beats me in strength, I'm way faster than him' Akira thought to himself while evading the punches from Kai.

Akira took an offensive form and rushed to attack Kai. Kai just waited and when Akira was close by, kai grinned waiting to attack. When Akira threw a punch to Kai, Kai threw a punch back, 'Ohh, so he wants to trade off punches, should I dodge it or take the punch?' Akira thought while engaging Kai.

'Let's take a punch, just to see how I would fare if I got hit,' Akira threw punches as fast as he could directly into Kai's lungs. Kai felt like he couldn't breathe but landed a hit on Akira. Akira jumped back, amazed at the power of Kai's punch, 'If he landed a few good punches he could've beaten me!" Akira said while grabbing his shoulder.

"Match is over, winner, Akira," my dad said proudly, while going over to check on Kai that was gasping for air. After a few moments Kai was able to stand up, he looked at me and said, "I'll be sure to beat you tomorrow!"

I quickly rejected the idea of another spar, "How about we have a spar weekly? That way we can practice a week and come back stronger," I encourage Kai to have a weekly spar instead of daily. "Yes, Kai, you need more training in the gentle fist, let's come back tomorrow," said Kai's dad. Kai didn't have any other option but to agree since it was his father that said it.

At night while I was meditating, I went over my fight, 'It seems that although the gentle fist is good at evading and going with the flow of the opponent's attack, it doesn't have enough attacking power. Although it will be stronger once I learn to block the tenketsu of my opponents, it won't work with some people. Naruto was shown to unblock his tenketsu thanks to Kurama, probably other jinchuriki will be able to do it too.. I need to learn taijutsu that focuses mainly on explosive power.'