Naruto's Strongest Shinobi

'My birthday is already next week,' said Akira, while meditating underneath a tree; the tree behind him seemed damaged, it looked like the tree had taken a beating. Standing up and doing some light stretches, Akira looked happy towards the tree.

'It seems like my new style is coming along very well,' thought Akira while finishing his stretches. Form-Intention Fist or Shape-Will Fist is the new style he's practicing, back on earth, Gentle Fist(Baguazhang), Form-Intention Fist(Xing Yi Quan), and Tai chi, are the three main Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school.

'Practicing this style is quite the task, it's different from the Gentle Fist. I guess it would be good if I had books or notes of this style,' Akira sighed while running to his house.

*****

"We should do karate or something like that Cain, imagine being like Bruce Lee!" said John while walking home with Cain. "Haha, that's a pretty high goal," responded Cain. "Come on! Don't tell me you don't want to be like Bruce Lee or Rock Lee," John kept on insisting.

"Yeah I do but, you know my family, they won't let me do anything like that. They won't like to pay money for anything like that, besides its kind of expensive," Cain replied with some regret. "You shouldn't worry about that, I'll tell my dad to let us join Karate," replied John with a smile on his face.

"Well you know, Bruce Lee was a master in Wing Chun, not Karate," Cain replied smugly. "Well, we can do all types of martial arts, I bet my dad would be happy I'm doing something good instead of not doing anything, haha," said John happily that he convinces Cain to join him in martial arts.

'Well, it was about time. I didn't know if me bringing movies about fighting, or watching action anime would work. Still, having experience in martial arts would look good in my college applications.' thought Cain while following behind John.

*****

Arriving home, Akira noticed that the atmosphere was gloomy. 'I guess the 3rd Shinobi World War is reaching its climax," Akira thought. "Hey, I'll probably won't be here for your birthday next week son." Said Jin with a somewhat serious face. "Why is that dad?" I asked questioning him. "I'm not going to lie to you, the war is getting more intense and I was requested to go back in 2 days," Jin said with a serious tone.

Looking at the kitchen I also noticed that Hana was anxious and nervous. "Don't worry dad! I'm sure you are going to come back safe, after all, you are a medic-nin," I said while smiling. The mood in the house lightened up.

"Haha, come on and let's eat, you can show me that new style you've been practicing," said Jin while sitting down on the table.

Once we finished eating, we went to the training room, "Okay, show me what you have been practicing," Jin said while using the Gentle Fist. I went into one of the new stances, changing my breathing technique I approached Jin.

Jin kept on evading all the punches that I threw at him, still, I didn't give up. While Jin was evading and studying my new technique, I kept on improving it. "Let's stop, for now... I see that the new taijutsu that you are using isn't complete, although you are working on it," said Jin while looking impressed at how a young kid could come up with a new taijutsu style.

"I see that you are going for power with this new style, but, you should focus on the Gentle Fist. Once you awaken the Byakugan, the power of your attack is going to be negligent, you are going to be able to block your opponents tenketsu, making them unable to counterattack. The Gentle Fist has many variations and advanced techniques, you'll know once you are older... I just hope that you don't get distracted and focus to much on these styles," Jin said seriously.

"I know dad, I read about the greatness of our clan and how dangerous the Gentle Fist is. I just want something that can help me until I get my Byakugan. You saw how I struggle to defeat Kai with the Gentle Fist alone," I responded to my dad.

"I know son, just don't neglect the Gentle Fist okay," Jin said while patting my head.

"Dad, can you teach me some medical ninjutsu?" I curiously asked. "Now that I something that I support," said Jin with a smile. Getting out of the training room and going to the study room, Jin gave me a scroll and said, "This is one of the basic healing techniques. Study it well and when I come back, you can show me how much you learned."

And like that, my birthday came. On the day of my birthday, only kids and some mothers showed up. 'It seems like they called most of the shinobi and kunoichis got called to the war,' I thought to myself while greeting the guest.

'I wonder how many of these kids' parents aren't returning from the war.' I was thinking while looking at the serious expressions of women near my mom. Nothing interesting happened at my party.

2 months have passed since my birthday and the end of the 3rd Shinobi World War was announced.. Arriving home, I saw Hana smiling, 'Apparently, Jin survived,' I thought when I saw how happy she was.