I will say that I like how you expanded the actual size of the Naruto world. Such as making Iwa a 2 month travel by Shinobi standards, and yuki around 9 months away by boat. Most fics and canon have them going from country to country in days, which I personally didn't like since it made the world so small.

I agree with Kakashi needing to DO something. Most people get mad at him for not teaching Naruto anything... Which they are right for getting mad at.. BUT he really doesn't teach any of them ANYTHING... He teaches sasuke, but ONLY how to copy Lee's moves (and I think there should have been a law against that) and the Chidori... And he ONLY teaches him those things after seeing garaa... He taught him NOTHING up to that point... He taught sakura NOTHING at all... He's just not really a teacher AT ALL.. No matter how much the canon SAYS he is...

I DO have a question, why would kumo still be trying for a hyuuga? They already KNOW about the cage bird seal, and according to the lore, NO hyuuga (until hinata) ever LEAVES the leaf WITHOUT the cage bird... So it's KINDA POINTLESS to keep trying, isn't it? They ALREADY have a hyuuga corpse with that on... Which is all they'd get by continuing to try to get one. Just makes me scratch my head... Although I never understood the obsession with the byakugan anyway, they aren't even really "combat oriented" eyes... In fact without the taijutsu (FROM THE CLAN), they really don't have a whole lot of utility at all in combat. Just seems to me that if Kumo is doujutsu crazy for a military advancement... Wouldn't they go after the sharringan? It IS a "combat oriented" eye, as the abilities don't seem to really NEED to be taught... They just kinda APPEAR, (considering how many times those eyes are "hot-swapped" between so many characters in the series, and EVERYBODY can instantly use em')... Not only that, but with the entire clan being dead.. It would be CONSIDERABLY easier to get!

I also never understood the whole "MUST GET HINATA".. Yes it was done in canon.. But the motivation is weirdly DUMB.. Even if they COULD get an unbranded female hyuuga... AND knock her up.. They'd have ONE soldier after nine months.. Then a few days/weeks/months to reset the body and try again.. Plus, they have to KEEP HER that entire nine months... (and keep her from getting RID of their one soldier). A male hyuuga could impregnate 10-11 women in A DAY! (given the proper stimulants, and replenishment).. So, in nine months they get ten or ELEVEN soldiers... Plus, they only have to keep the male... The one day! That's about it. No fuss, no muss... It's just NOT PRACTICAL, from a military standpoint, to even TRY for a female hyuuga. Strategically, they just aren't WORTH it.

I'm confused... How is this "TRAINING" AT ALL? All they EVER are.. Are just FIGHTS.. They LEARN NOTHING.. This isn't training... It's just STUPID. In the anime, it's just wasting time and giving the audience something showy... But here, it really shows.. That they DO NOTHING AT ALL.. Except constantly be expected to FIGHT OFF greater forces then they are.. Which is retarded... How about let a fight go on for a minute or two.. Then GO.. "stop, stop... HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO in these situations" and SHOW THEM SOMETHING. You know?... TRAIN THEM!

"so do we pass?".. So this is what? THE FOURTH "test" in a row?.. There is no way IN ABSOLUTE HELL that Mizuki or Iruka went through this many trials, they would have never been ninja.. Heck even the uchiha would be a civilian again... (especially at this point because he doesn't have his ONE source of power yet)... So how about SKIPPING absolutely pointless "tests" and just get on with TRAINING THEM? (I say absolutely pointless.. Because you've already SHOWN they can beat summons and genjutsu users... So what's the point of teaching them? They ALREADY ARE badasses... APPARENTLY).

How does Ino and Sakura running cause an EARTHQUAKE? A few Akamitchi clan members, maybe. But Ino and Sakura can be tossed around ONE HANDED by just about everybody... The building is made of STONE right? Then um.. Yeah that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Aren't written tests a LITTLE beneath ninja? I mean think about Mist's graduation... One had to SLAUGHTER everyone else.. Seems to me, that leaf would be a LITTLE "lacking"... As in, HORRIFICALLY under-trained. (considering that kakashi passed the graduation AT AGE FOUR! It can't really be THAT tough, but it shouldn't be ANYTHING like an IRL test either.. You can say that Kakashi was a "prodigy", but REALLY, if the test has ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH NINJA stuff: fighting, chakra using techniques, etc... Then it DOESN'T MATTER if he was a prodigy.. He STILL WOULD NOT have been physically developed enough.. It's just PHYSICS and BIOLOGY! Ergo, the test would have to have had NOTHING AT ALL, or very little, to do with real ninja life).

"there was NOBODY else involved in this"? How is that even POSSIBLE? Mizuki was getting information for Orochimaru, and the ONLY "real" spy that Orochimaru has in the leaf, that could have POSSIBLY been mizuki's "handler" is kabuto. (remember, that someone tattooed the formula for the failed cursed seal across his entire back too - which AGAIN, points STRAIGHT to kabuto). It just doesn't make any other sense.. Because Mizuki is just a "flunky", a screw up, plateaued CHUNIN that's just a teacher's assistant, that doesn't even GO on missions or leave the village. (how, OTHER then a "handler" would he POSSIBLY be able to get orders or give info? Then again, how does he go to prison in canon and they ALL somehow MISS a GIANT tattoo, covering his ENTIRE back?)

I just got to this chapter; and I'm sorry that my buggy-eyed, razor-beaked finark didn't get the message to have me vote then. Just so you know, if theres ever another vote you're nominated in, you've got mine!

Why no more?

Hi what will be you continueing it

Man, I was really hoping to like this, but I just can't. I tried to get into it but no matter what it just grates at me

love this so far and bet i'll keep loving ot unless you do something silly like make danzo the hokage

This fic should be named it as "When Hiruzen does the right things about rising and training Naruto"

I love Naruto's relationship with Hyugaa Family

Man, Kakashi is a great character but he sucks as a teacher, I can undersrand why he concentrated only on Sasuke, Sakura was useless and Naruto was too green, he only know how to spam clones while shouting about being Hogake, I get that but it was Kakashi's job taught him how to be a proper shinobi.

I really like Kakuzu as a character and his abilities, he was the most badass Akatsuki in my opinion using his five hearts alongside with the five natures of elements.

you said they had to last at least 2 minutes and after that they can quit? so why did iruka call time at only 2 minutes

so the council work in keeping the fact it was uzumaki senju and uchiha that founded the leaf quiet hmm and no lessons on uzumaki or uzu hmm