the rest of the year passed by in a blur of missions with my team, pranks with sora cooking with haku intense training sightings of orochimaru infiltration missions to gather intel of him and messages from shisui and itachi.

I was getting better, my eating was more often now, especially as haku and I cooked for everyone and we all sat down joking around at meal times.

I kept my genjutsu off in our team grounds, but when we left the naru genjutsu came back on, my anbu status had risen among the elemental nations and everyone knew who I was or who naru was, I was the unholy kitsune but I'm also an anbu general of the leaf first and foremost.

I visited queeni and the kids a bit and kept teaching them chakra, they were almost on par with genin at the end of the year making me proud.

A few of the kids there were adopted when the potential parents discovered their chakra control, they were found suitable for clans to adopt.

I still visited kiyoshi's grave every now and then just to leave some flowers and let him know I missed him and that I was still thinking go him.

The hoodie he gave me was still worn whenever I was in my naruto body and it was one of my most precious possessions.

Sasuke still brooded around and it only got worse as he got older, he was in the academy now training to be a genin I still Tok care of him whenever I could.

The gravity seals I had on allowed me to lift the hokage tower if I took them off and then some, they had progressed a lot and I had started training removing the gravity seals.

Life was getting better, I was happy and even in the showers at night looking at the scars on my body I just smiled, these scars had brought me to who I was today and it was worth it...

The end of book one.

Naruto pov-

I was summoned to the hokages office late in the afternoon, the dog anbu was not there the hokage said something about a long term mission.

Sighing I knelt to him and focused on his words, I had a team to get back to.

"General naruto, your anbu team is being disbanded" he told me and I froze my heart beat rising "sir?, what did we do?... I can fix it..."

He stared at me for a long while, the council has brought it to my attention that not a single one of your team members bar the two banished ones are legally ninja in our village.

In order for your team to re assign together they will have to reach genin and chuunin level in our village before they will be able to become anbu of our village.

They will have to go through the academy and then have a new team until they become chuunin

i know naruto that in doing so they will leave you so I have a mission for you, one that is non negotiable.

Sasuke Uchiha, you know just as well as I that orochimaru your target is after him, it is my belief that he will try to make a move against him in the near future.

As so it is time you take off the genjutsu and rejoin the academy, you must make sure to be placed onto his team, as he is the highest in the class I expect you to be at the bottom of the class, he cut off my protest with a glare.

You will act as the dead last until you reach genin and his team. Until then and only then you will act as the dead last.

You must protect sasuke and his sharingan form orochimaru, and consequently you must defeat orochimaru.

Your team will be taking the accelerated academy lesson and will be genin as soon as possible likely a week or two.

They will train after that with their instructors outside of the village and partake in the chuunin exams as you do.