They 't really be bmed for it but the vast majority of shinobi were uhe impression that taijutsu was not as powerful or dangerous as ninjutsu. For the most part that is correct as to turn taijutsu into something that cause widespread destru you needed either a freakish natural body like myself or an inhuman amount of training. Ninjutsu oherhand could cause such destru in multiple fvors at a mere k level of jutsu. The higher the jutsu rahe more destructive they teo bee and not by small is either.-

  Taijutsu however had a be that ninjutsu could not match that when hoo my sensei's, Guy's or my own level made it far more dangerous than ninjutsu. That advantage was chakra ption. Pure taijutsu didn't cost any chakra at all to utilize unlike ninjutsu that depleted the stuff quite rapidly when more powerful teiques are used. This meant that while taijutsu didn't have the pure destructiveness of ninjutsu it could be used pretty mufinitely with the right level. My sensei, Guy and myself all had punches easily as destructive as a B rank jutsu and we could throw them all day if we wao.-

  This meant a teique that enhanced my taijutsu increased my danger rating sharply. Only Naruto, Karin and the old man knew about my chakra armor however or I was sure that the rating in the bingo book would have only said S rank. I was admittedly flicted about the rating to begin with as a perfeist since I didn't think of myself as at that level. I had fws, big ohat I was willing to say at most put me at the Elite jonin or A rank. Don't get me wrong I get that this wasn't how that was calcuted but that was simply how I saw myself. -

  (3rd person POV)

  While Kenzo was honing his teique and biding his time Danzo was getting angry at how hard to deal with the boy was. The man had assumed that with the third Hokage dead he could easily remove this dangerous thorn but reality had proven him wrong. The boy had acted decisively and hidden away so deeply that none of his best trackers could find a whiff of him. Even worse was that the cil was uo force the boy to expose himself despite Danzo's best attempts to use that authority to do so.-

  All he had actually aplished was to reveal his own motives to the cil which they did not appreciate.

  'Fools the lot of them! How they be so blind as to not see the threat the boy poses to Konoha!? During the event during the exams the boy had shown off his power and rather than pruhis dangerous and clearly introlble factor they simply ignore him and even hail him as a new hope for Konoha!' Danzo thought with cold viciousness.

  If any of the other cil members heard these thought they'd call Danzo a madman. While they all agreed that Kenzo had a fiercely indepe streak and dislike of being ordered about they also agreed that nearly all powerful shinobi were simir. Those with true power didn't like being strained by those weaker then themselves in most cases. It was to be expected and not some disastrous fw so they saw nothing wrong with it. Danzo oherhand simply wasn't satisfied if he wasn't in absolute trol at all times so a person like Kenzo was a threat in his mind.-

  In the nd of grass meanwhile Naruto and Jiraiya had found Tsu were having difficulty ving her to take up the mantle of Hokage. She was resistant to the idea, highly so. Jiraiya was of the hope to slowly vince her but Naruto was not the patient sort and refused.

  "I'll master the rasengan in a week and if I do you will return to the vilge!" Naruto bet her and the woman agreed thinking that there was no way he'd pull it off.

  It wasn't so smooth however as Orochimaru sent Kabuto to vince her of the exact opposite and unlike Naruto he was more than willing to py dirty to achieve his goals.

  That ironically ended up being a VERY poor decision as by this point in time she had mao minimize her fear of blood to almost ent levels. So when Kabuto cut open his wrists in order to try and give himself an adva did nothing but piss her off. As anyone familiar with her could tell you that was a bad thing to do as she turned violent when angry. As a result when Kabuto was distracted mog Naruto aing him up she punched him through a building.-

  It was only through his highly advanced mediinjutsu teiques that he survived the punbsp;areated to inform his master of this ued development. Her immunity to his shed blood was not part of the pn and Orochimaru himself may o get involved. This was extremely dangerous as he had very limited use of his hands after the third Hokage sealed his souls hands within the reapers belly. This meant that unlike before where the snake sannin would have been fident enough to face Tsunade and Jiraiya and win, now he had a near ent ce of winning.-

  So at the end of the week when the csh of the three Sannin came about and they stood on their respective sage nd summons he khat he had lost. Thanks to Naruto she had finally overcame her fear of blood and now she was after his life alongside Jiraiya for revenge on his murder of their sensei. He put up a great fight before he fled but the fact remaihat he had lost to his old teammates. The part that stung the most however was that he lost to his sensei as well and couldn't even win as the man died with his victory.-

  Sure he had cimed the life of the old man but he had not won as his dream of learning all the jutsu in the world was no longer possible. It wasn't all a loss though as he had learned a fact that awed him even now, Kenzo Mizuyama was a sage. Wasn't that a massive surprise to discover? He wasn't sure how often the boy trained his sage mode but that tration of natural energy around the boy wasn't something that could be mistaken, the boy was a sage, or at least one in training at the very least.-

  'It's no wohat the boy has managed so much despite his age. He has been practig sage mode uhe whole vilges his eime. Kukuku, I wonder what sort of monster he'll bee after I ihose bloodlines into him?' the shought with a gleam in his eyes.