Jerin had already been at the academy for just under an hour, in one of the target rooms practicing his shurikenjutsu before his team started arriving. His dad had been proud to learn he would be becoming a sensei and had already given him an idea of his first team testing exercise. Flipping through the air, he flicked himself in a spinning circle as he released nine kunai, three for each of the three targets. The first struck the head, the second the heart and the third the gut. Pulling on the metal strings he'd tried to them the kunai came back to him and he stored them again, standing again from his crouched landing. "The more I do this, the more meticulous it seems. Need to get a new routine."

As he walked out of the practice room, he was reminded of the bells jingling ever so slightly on his waist. When his father's sensei had done the exercise, he only had two bells, meaning only two of the team members would get to eat if two of any of the team could successfully take one bell each. The team in question? The legendary jinchuuriki and former hokage, Naruto Uzumaki, his own father, Sasuke Uchiha, and Lady Tsunade's star and only pupil, as well as Jerin's mother, Sakura Haruno, later to become Uchiha when she married his father. Removing the bells from his waist, of which there were three this time, and smiled. And so begins my own adventure. Putting the bells in a pouch and making sure they wouldn't jingle too much, Jerin walked to the room he'd designated for his team to meet him in yesterday and sat on the desk, waiting.