A/N: I do not own Naruto
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A battered man sat near a campfire, the dull glow illuminating his features, exploring his battle worn face. His eyes hide under his odd forehead protector, which had the kanji for oil upon it, were staring across the fire to a bloody body, wrapped in bandages. Ragged breathing filled the long silence as he watched the boy. The man had a white lion's mane that reached to the small of his back, and wore a green jacket with a red vest over it, and pants to match the jacket. His most distinctive characteristic were the red lines dropping of his face from his eyes, the lighting made it appear that they were bloody tear trails.
The attack happened so fast that neither of them had a chance to retaliate at first, as they were separated. It was astronomical odds that they ran into the certain people they were trying to hide from. At first the boy seemed like he would survive long enough for him to help save him.
He was wrong.
Deidara and Tobi were there names, he overheard them talking to themselves. He told the boy to try and stay near him no matter what, and those two Akatsuki knew exactly how to keep them separate from each other.
Tobi, the one with the mask, had fought him, and that man had a fighting style unlike any other he had seen before. The man wasn't fighting him as much as he was keeping the boy and himself separated. Deidara had tore apart the boy's defense, using his clay bombs. The bombs tore through his shadow clones, they were useless in this fight against explosion. It took more than one bomb though to take out the boy, as he had a will of steel, but the succession of bombs in the forms of small animals was more than enough to do the job.
And now the boy was lying across the fire from him. His body was mauled by the explosions, but thankfully to his tenant, he was healing, and would be fine by morning. And the boy would need it, because starting from tomorrow on, he was going to take his training more seriously. He needed to, for the boy's safety, during the boy's fight he realized that the boy was severely handicap when it came to nearly all forms of the arts of the ninja, besides stamina and being stubborn.
The man's ears perked. The boy's ragged breathing stopped. The man smiled, no more was he going to slack off as a sensei, he was going to make this boy live up to his name.
Jiraiya leaned back and smirked as he thought of all the training he could put Naruto through, as said boy let out a heavy snore.
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Naruto rolled over, and started drifting to the land of the living, before he decided that it wasn't worth the trouble. That was before he was assaulted by ice cold water hitting him in the face.
"GAH!!! What was that for!!" Naruto yelled at the culprit, still standing over him with a dripping bucket.
"Because today we start your training." Jiraiya said as he began to walk over to the campfire, which had a scrambled egg on a skillet that hung above the fire.
"What do ya mean ero-sennin? I thought you've been training me since we left Konoha." Naruto asked as he got out of bed and started making his way over to Jiraiya.
"First of all Naruto, I am now your sensei, and you will call me your sensei, and I haven't really taken your training seriously, the fight we had yesterday shed some light upon that." Jiraiya explained, as he handed the scrambled egg to Naruto. "Eat."
Naruto, not used to this type of Jiraiya that was very serious, unless he was talking about the Kyuubi, took the skillet with the egg, and started eating it, before he realized something. "Fight? There was a fight yesterday?" he asked, still oblivious to the bandages wrapped around his body.
Jiraiya looked at him and came upon the conclusion that the boy must of suffered a concussion. It was an ace of luck too, it was probably thanks to the Kyuubi that the boy woke up, instead of slept till he died. He sighed and realized that Naruto had no idea about the fight, so he had to think quick, to try and not worry him about the Akatsuki finding out where they were, but because Jiraiya used Gamabunta to help them travel a vast distance within a couple of hours, they should be relatively safe where they were now.
"Yeah, you pissed me off yesterday, badly, and I beat some sense into you." Jiraiya said, as he watched Naruto eat the rest of the egg. "Take off those bandages, you have to start your daily workout." Jiraiya told the boy, as he stood up and started walking towards the forest.
Naruto looked down at the bandages covering his body and realized that he must have received quite a beating yesterday to be fixed up like this and not remember it, and began removing the bandages.
Jiraiya was looking at trees that seemed to be about 2 feet in diameter, and slashing a select few that he must have liked with a kunai, before Naruto came over dressed and ready for the day.
"About time gaki," Jiraiya said, as he turned his attention to Naruto, "I want you to sprint around this campsite as fast as you can for 10 minutes, then jog for 2 minutes, and then go back to sprinting, do this for as long as you can before you fall to the ground or just can't go on."
Naruto's eyes got big, and his jaw hung open, this was the most brutal thing that ero-sennin has had him do so far. "WHAT!?" Naruto said as he looked at Jiraiya in disbelief.
"Naruto listen, I told you that I would train you, and I haven't really been doing that since we left Konoha, so I am going to take it serious until I feel that you are truly able to fight on equal ground with me." Jiraiya said, still staring Naruto in the eyes, keeping his attention. "Now get going, you will be done with that exercise quicker than you think you will be. It will get you moving faster than you do now." Jiraiya said as he turned back to the trees he was marking up.
Naruto looked at Jiraiya's back, and sighed angrily and mumbled under his breathe about stupid perverts before he took off at a sprint.
Jiraiya with his back towards Naruto smirked, as he knew that the boy would not last that long with such a taxing exercise. As he had just finished up marking up the certain trees he wanted he focused chakra to his fingertips and extended that past them quite a ways before cutting the base of the tree, and walking up to the top of the tree and cut it, making the tree about 15 feet tall. He continued to do this to all the trees he had marked before, and got them all cut down, and summoned a small army of shadow clones to help him start working on his training field. He then looked at Naruto and noticed that he was still sprinting, but the sprint was a fast run, but that was to be expected as he should be drastically slowing down sometime soon.
Jiraiya couldn't help but smile, remembering the other person he put through this type of training, he became the legendary Yondaime Hokage. Even with Naruto's beastly stamina, he wouldn't last long in this type of exhausting exercise.
Jiraiya watched Naruto with his last few laps around the campsite as his clones began putting the trees straight up into holes that they had dug in the ground. Even with his insane stamina Naruto eventually fell flat on his face, out of breathe and energy for now.
The toad sannin stood over the boy as his breathes came in giant gasps.
"I'll wait for you to catch your breathe a little before we start our next training session." Jiraiya said with a smirk as he watched Naruto rolled over to his back. The boy's face was covered in sweat, and his jacket looked a little stuffy for Jiraiya's liking.
"Wha…What do you mean next training session?" Naruto forced out, still breathing heavily from his overexertion due to the running.
"Watch." Came Jiraiya's simple reply as he still had not dispelled his clones, he walked over to the group of clones and started doing a series of hand seals, and quietly said a jutsu name under his breathe, and the clones began to drift to separate stalks of the trees, and molded into the trees.
After that was accomplished Jiraiya made three other clones, and sent one clones to slowly walk into the middle of the small square of trees that had passages only the width of the clone's shoulders.
"This, is what we are going to be starting on today, we are going to be working on your horrid taijutsu." With that jib Naruto was about to counter, but found that he would rather gain his regular breathing back and watch the clone in the middle of the tree square.
The clone stood still for a moment, and took a relaxed fighting stance. Everything was quiet for a moment, Naruto looked to Jiraiya and was about to ask him what was going on, but suddenly the clone came alive with movement. Out of the trees that were stood up in the holes in the ground the fists and feet were coming punching at the clone in the middle. It was a dance of deadly blows, and the clone in the middle was doing excellent, it had yet to get hit in a vital point, and had blocked most of the assault efficiently.
Naruto stared at the fight before, and was slightly taken aback, this type of training was so much different the type he was used to, he had no doubt in his mind that he could possibly get torn apart by this type of training.
"…Sensei…" Naruto started, not used to having to address Jiraiya with honor, "…what exactly is the point of this exercise?"
Jiraiya turned towards Naruto and looked him in the eyes "This is going to make you a taijutsu powerhouse." With that simple answer Naruto saw that the clone had made a mistake and had vanished, leaving the tree square eerily devoid of motion.
"Looks like its your turn." Jiraiya said as he helped Naruto to his feet and motioned for him to make his way to the center of the tree square. Naruto made his way slowly there, as his legs felt like jelly.
Once Naruto got to the center of the square, he waited for the attacks to come. It didn't take long. Out of no where fists and legs were catching Naruto in the face, gut, back, and legs. The boy felt overwhelmed at first but he desperately tried to block as many as he could, but the attacks kept coming. He started moving his body side to side and began bobbing his head, dodging a few strikes, but he had to work on the body shots that were destroying him. He slowly began using his arms and legs to block a portion of the strikes from hitting his body, that was before a fist hit him in his side, his blind spot, and felt two of his ribs break.
"AHH!!" Naruto cried out, but continued to block the attacks from landing and hitting vitals spots, this kept up for about 2 minutes before he felt a sheering pain in the front of his shoulder. He looked down and saw a kunai buried deep into his flesh, as he looked up he saw Jiraiya with a handful of kunai and shuriken, and a grim look on his face.
'This training is serious' Naruto thought to himself steeling himself for the rest of the training. He recovered from the sudden pain and continued to parry some of the attacks coming at him, occasionally he could sense a projectile being aimed at him, he was able to dodge a few, but by the time 5 minutes had passed the boy began to look like a pin cushion, kunai here and shuriken there.
Naruto eventually just fell flat on his face after about 20 minutes of the exercise, breathing in pained gasps. As soon as he hit the ground the attack from the logs stopped, and Jiraiya made his way over to Naruto to help him up.
"Come on, lets get you over to the campfire," Jiraiya said as helped Naruto to his feet and let the boy use himself as a crutch to walk over to the fire place. Jiraiya was surprised that Naruto had yet to yell at him, or say something about the brutal training, but kept quiet. When they got to the campfire, Jiraiya helped Naruto out by removing the various weapons sticking out of him, and washed and bandaged his wounds. After all that was done Jiraiya moved over to his traveling bag and brought out a shogi board, which caused Naruto to raise an eyebrow at.
"I am going to teach you to become a strategist, and you will be a great one. I will eventually give you many situations in which you have limited resources and various ninjas who specialize in a specific area, and I will expect you to come up with a good strategy. But for now we will start with a simple game of shogi." Jiraiya explained as he set up the board for the both of them to play each other.
Naruto was mildly interested, he was more concerned with nursing his wounds he received during that last training exercise. Eventually Jiraiya got the shogi board set up and Naruto played the elder man.
They played shogi for 2 hours, Naruto had lost 3 out of 3 times, and had got very frustrated with himself for not being able to come up with at good strategy for beating the old man.
"Naruto, you have to realize that you need to plan ahead, and the farther ahead you can plan the better off you are, and when you know something is going to happen you should do your best to try and come up with a plan to help counter whatever is about to happen." Jiraiya lectured the boy.
"Alright, gotcha." Naruto replied still a little sore about his brutal loss to the sannin. He had taken the words to heart, and was listening to what ever Jiraiya had to say, if his sensei was going to take his training seriously, then he was too.
"Sensei," Naruto said, still getting used to having to the honorific title.
Jiraiya turned his head from where he was packing up the shogi board "Yeah gaki?"
"I'm pretty wiped out I think I'm going to hit the hay, is there any other training for today?" Naruto asked with a yawn at the end of his sentence.
Jiraiya smirked "Nope, you finished your first real day of training, but tomorrow will be just as hard." He warned.
"Psht, whatever." Naruto said as he rolled over in his sleeping bag. Little did Naruto realize that Jiraiya was counting on the boy's quick healing factor to help him be prepared for the next day of training.
Naruto was so exhausted that he fell asleep relatively quickly, leaving Jiraiya to his musings. It was only about 7 o'clock, and he had a lot of time on his hands, but the white haired man decided to not, as it would be leaving his student alone, and defenseless. With that final thought Jiraiya reached into the his traveling bag and retrieved a blank book, and grabbed a pen. He smiled before he began to write on the first page, he wrote for a couple hours before he joined his blonde companion in sleep.
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Naruto was in a peaceful bliss, he can't remember the last time he was that tired, and the sleep was amazing…before a bucket of cold water came crashing down onto his face.
"WHAT THE CRAP IS THIS?!?!?!" Naruto roared, as he was abruptly awoken from sleep that he desperately wanted.
"This, is breakfast." Jiraiya said as he handed Naruto the skillet with what looked liked salmon on it. "Hurry up and eat, we have more training to get through today." Jiraiya said as he too sat down and began eating his own food on a separate skillet.
After the hard day of training yesterday Naruto was famished and the salmon disappeared very quickly.
"Kay sensei, what are we doing today?" Naruto said as he climbed out of his sleeping bag, and began stretching.
Jiraiya smile at his pupil's enthusiasm. "We have more physical training, and then some more battle training, and again with the strategy."
It took Naruto a few minutes for Naruto to finish his stretches, and he removed his jacket, leaving only the black t-shirt he wore underneath it to show, Jiraiya and Naruto walked about 20 feet away from their camp.
"Alright Naruto, make about 10 shadow clones." Jiraiya commanded the boy, who obliged and soon there were 11 Naruto's standing in front of Jiraiya.
"Now what sensei?" Naruto asked still trying to be as respectful as he could be.
"I want you to do as many push-ups, pull-ups, and sit-ups as you can do before you collapse from doing to many." Jiraiya said, causing Naruto's face to flinch, "And the shadow clones will be working on chakra control exercises, this way eventually you will be able to learn many jutsu during your training."
After Jiraiya had said this he began walking away from the real Naruto who was already starting to do the push-ups. When he was a little ways away from Naruto he had assigned half of his shadow clones to run up and down the trees using their chakra, and the other half he showed them how to make a leaf hover above their palm, and set them free. This was a great training exercise, as the clone's chakra would be drawing from Naruto's chakra supplies, and the boy would be getting his reserves even greater by this exercise.
Jiraiya went back to the camp and watched the exercises that he put his pupil through, it will be a while before he will put Naruto through the next training exercise. Jiraiya sat down and grabbed the book he was writing in and began writing in it again, continuing where he left off the night before.
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'You can do this, it is nothing, you are not tired.' Naruto thought to himself as he was running out of gas. He had done as many push-ups continuously, and then sit-ups, and now he was doing pull-ups, and he would be stopping soon, he couldn't feel his arms anymore, they felt weak. He pulled himself up one more time, before he fell of the tree branch that he was using to do his pull-ups.
Naruto landed on his back and let his arms rest where they fell to the floor, as they were exhausted.
"Your done, good, I'll let you rest for a few minutes," Jiraiya said as he sat down next to Naruto, and let the boy rest his obviously tired arms.
"After a few minutes we will go dismiss your clones, and hopefully then your chakra control will start to improve over the few days." Jiraiya said.
After a 5 minute rest Jiraiya got to his feet and Naruto followed and they both began to walk back to the group of shadow clones.
"Now, you should only dispatch half of them at one time, and let the information sink in before you dispatch the rest of them." Jiraiya instructed, to which his student nodded his head, and did the hand sign to release the 5 that had been running up and down the tree. As soon as he did this he received a large head rush, realizing that he could run up and down a tree using chakra quite easily now, with no problem.
Next Naruto moved and dispatched the rest of the clones, and received their information, and realized that he was not that good at the leaf exercise, but he could tell that eventually he could get better.
"Alright good, now it's time to really work on you taijutsu." Jiraiya said as he spaced himself away from Naruto, giving them a good distance to work with.
Naruto had a confused look on his face at first, "Didn't we work on my taijutsu yesterday?"
"Kind of, we were mainly working on honing your reflexes, and being able to block attacks coming from all over," Jiraiya explained "but this is going to be your real taijutsu style, it is something that you will have to create yourself, but I am going to point you in the right direction."
As Jiraiya had finished this sentence he launched himself at Naruto. Naruto was taken aback by this sudden action and had little time to react. Jiraiya landed a punch on Naruto's left shoulder, and forced the punch all the way through, and Naruto doing what came natural to him took the momentum that Jiraiya gave him and spun around and used his elbow trying to hit Jiraiya in the back of the head.
Jiraiya, predicting this, ducked under the blow, and swept at Naruto's legs, taking both of them out, causing Naruto to fall flat on his back.
"Gah!" Naruto cried out, trying to get back up, doing it slowly though.
"Naruto, the style I'm going to teach you uses counterattacks, and your opponents momentum against them, it is a very rare taijutsu style, and there are virtually no styles the counter this style." Jiraiya explained the taijutsu style.
Naruto's interested peeked when he heard that there were no styles that could counter the taijutsu style, "That's freaking sweet!" Naruto said excited to learn something so cool.
"The basics of the style is to be able to predict where you are going to get hit by an attack, and put a field of chakra in front of your body on that part of your body, as to protect yourself, and then you use the momentum your opponent has given you and use that against them." Jiraiya explained the very simple basics of the style, and continued "But there is a risk involved. To be able to use the style correctly you are putting yourself prone to enemy attacks, and opens up your defenses to your enemy. So that is why I am going to be teaching you a large arsenal of jutsus that you can use at a seconds notice, so that if you start taking too much damage you can use jutsu to fight at a distance." Jiraiya finished his plans for how he was going to teach his apprentice.
Naruto listened, to the entire speech, and had his grin plastered on his face, eager to begin learning this taijutsu style. "Let's begin sensei." Naruto said with excitement in his voice.
"Alright." Jiraiya replied, as he launched himself forward, and struck Naruto square in the chest, giving Naruto little time to put a pad of chakra there hence forth knock the breathe right out of him, and causing him to go sprawling.
"What the…sensei?" Naruto as he got up slowly and regained his breathe, the strike had much more force than he expected it to have.
"You have to learn how to counter every attack that you can, and block the rest of the attacks that you cannot counter." Jiraiya explained as he made his way over to Naruto.
"How was I supposed to block that last attack?" Naruto asked.
"Simple." Jiraiya walked right in front of Naruto and slowly punched at him like he had done mere seconds ago, and stopped when his fist made contact with Naruto's chest.
"When a strike like this happens to you, you must focus chakra to your feet very quickly, so that you adhere to the ground." Jiraiya said, as he began to slowly push Naruto backward, Naruto focusing chakra to his feet to keep them there.
"Once you have began to fall towards the ground, stop the flow of chakra to your feet. That way you can perform a backhand spring, and catch your opponent by surprise and under their chin." Jiraiya explained, as he gave Naruto one final push, forcing the boy into a back handspring, going through the entire acrobatic move a bit awkwardly, he was back into a relaxed battle stance.
"See what I mean by using your opponents momentum against them?" Jiraiya asked.
"Yeah I do now," Naruto replied, "but how do I counter a strike that hits me in the thigh, or the legs, or arms, or even the head?"
"Good question." Jiraiya said, proud that his pupil thought of these things, "For a strike on your thigh or legs you should try to deflect the attack, or make it graze off of you, and then get inside your opponents guard and take them apart with quick attacks. Arms and head shots are easily avoided, eventually you will be quick enough to dodge those attacks aimed at those body parts. But after you have dodged the attacks and are allowing your enemy moving by you, you can utilize shuriken and kunai within their guard and still use your quick attacks." Jiraiya finished the explanation of the style.
"This style is mainly used for close range combat, so as to compliment that, I am going to teach you an arsenal of useful jutsu, like I said before." Jiraiya added. This caused a huge grin to spread across Naruto's face.
"But first we need to finish with forming your taijutsu style." Jiraiya told Naruto.
Naruto's grin dropped a little bit, but the prospect of learning something that was meant only for him made his spirit rise. "Alright, let's go then!" he yelled with enthusiasm, energy returning to him.
Jiraiya nodded once, and returned to his normal stance, he was going to spar with Naruto and his new taijutsu style, though he was going to be using a slower fighting style to help Naruto get the basics.
As soon as Naruto had put himself into a relaxed stance, Jiraiya surged forward, and aimed a punch at Naruto's face, which he ducked under, as soon as the boy had chosen that course Jiraiya quickly brought up a lightning fast round house kick that connected with Naruto's shoulder, one that he didn't have the speed to block. The kick sent Naruto into the dirt, and skidding for 5 feet, leaving scrapes and scratches along his body.
Naruto bit back a yell, as the kick to the shoulder felt like it had broken his shoulder joint. "Never duck under anything, you had compromised your position in that situation. Your have more options if you were to dodge to the sides, and that way you can attack any part of your opponent's body, as compared to if you ducked you can only successfully attack the lower part of your opponents body." Jiraiya lectured the more useful ways to fight in the stance.
Naruto hissed as the pain in his shoulder slowly ebbed away. "Alright, I understand that, buy why did you have to hit me so hard?" Naruto asked, a little peeved that his sensei nearly destroyed his shoulder.
Jiraiya gave a hearty laugh before he elaborated why he attacked so ferociously, "Because, that way Naruto, you come to realize that whenever you make a mistake, pain is the punishment." The explanation was blunt, but it delivered the message clearly.
Naruto steeled his resolve as he stood and took his fighting relaxed fighting stance, ready for Jiraiya to come at him again. Jiraiya smiled and got into his respective stance again.
Jiraiya launched himself at Naruto again, and this time he brought his right hand far back, and was going to throw a wide punch that obviously had a lot of power behind it. As Naruto saw that the punch was aimed at his head, and not knowing what to do, he brought his arms to block the attack. But the punch had so much power that it again rocked Naruto's world, shooting pain up both of his arms and sending him sprawling to the floor, which seemed to be a common occurrence in this training session.
"AH!!!" Naruto shouted as he cradled his already sore arms, now they would have major bruises forming on them. Naruto wondered if the toad sannin had broken them for a moment, but came to a conclusion that the white haired man only liked beating up on teenagers.
"When guarding from those type of attacks, you should try dodging most of the time. But the most successful counter to those attacks are to try blocking the strike at the shoulder, or even just moving inside your opponents guard, so the powerful attack is wasted." Jiraiya lectured, all the while with Naruto glaring at him.
"Alright," Naruto said, "I get that now, but why are you hitting me so hard?" he was a little upset that his sensei thought it was funny to nearly break the bones in his body.
"This way you won't make that same mistake twice, and it helps relieve me of my anxiety." Jiraiya said, obviously lying on the second part. "Now stand up, so we can continue your training."
Naruto obliged and returned to that relaxed stance that he was beginning to get used to. After a moment's worth of waiting Jiraiya rushed at him again, and threw a lightning fast punch straight towards Naruto's head. Naruto moved his head quickly to the side, causing Jiraiya to miss his mark. At this sudden development Naruto was inside Jiraiya's guard, and brought up his elbow quickly to strike Jiraiya in the stomach. It connected, forcing the air out Jiraiya's lungs, and causing him to double over. Naruto followed through with his strike, going up, and connecting with Jiraiya's jaw, sending him sprawling onto his back.
After seeing what he had accomplished Naruto pumped his fist into the air and cheered loud, almost starting a celebration.
"Good," Jiraiya said as he got back up to his feet, "but the strike was weak, lacking force, and speed. We will work on that." Jiraiya continued, causing Naruto to look a little disheartened. "But that was excellent form, and an even better idea on how to use a chain of successful strikes." Jiraiya praised, causing Naruto to smile again.
"Let's continue." Jiraiya said.
That was the way that the rest of the afternoon proceeded, with Naruto sprawled over the ground, afterwards getting tips from Jiraiya, and occasionally Naruto landing a series of damaging strikes on Jiraiya. They kept at it that specific training for a few more hours, until Jiraiya thought that Naruto had enough training in the taijutsu apartment for the day. They had trained for 2 hours and took a break to eat lunch, before they continued with their training.
After lunch both of them were on the training field again. Though this time Naruto was allowed to sit, by his abundance of complaining and the lack of any physical activity in this part of his training.
"So, you know how to use the shuriken and kunai," Jiraiya said, while he made 4 shadow clones and sent them off into the woods surrounding them to retrieve a tree. "but do you truly know how to utilize them?" he asked as his clones came back with one, dug a hole and stuck it in the ground, and drawing a very small circle in the center of the tree, before they were dismissed.
Naruto sat there and pondered it a bit, before he came up with the answer "I know how to utilize them as a distraction, or as a silent kill if my enemy does not know I am there. I'm not very accurate with them though." Naruto finished, analyzing his own use of the two ninja weapons.
"Those are some descent uses of the weapons, but I am going to teach you how you can kill a trained ninja with only those two weapons." Jiraiya said, catching Naruto's attention with that saying.
"Most trained ninja know that a kunai or a shuriken are a desperate attempt to kill an opponent, or to slow them down. Other ninja know that they could be mere distractions, which is what they usually are. They distract so that one could sneak up behind their enemy, or so they can form the hand seals to perform a jutsu." Jiraiya lectured on.
Suddenly with quickness he threw a kunai at the tree stump, Naruto watched as it thumped into the stump, but his eyes widened when he saw a second kunai push the first into the tree even further, before it dangled from the first kunai.
"I used chakra string to attach the second kunai to the first." Jiraiya explained, as he cut the flow of chakra connecting the kunai, the second one fell to the ground with a dull thud. "When I reached into my kunai pouch I attached the first and second kunai with the chakra string, and only threw one. This is a way to catch your enemy off guard, as most of the time ninjas only notice that you threw one kunai and don't account for the second in the shadow of the first."
Naruto sat and listened, thinking of all the ways he could use these ideas that Jiraiya was giving him, this was the type of training that he wanted.
"And this is also great because most of the time ninja tend to deflect the first kunai, and do not notice the second." Jiraiya finished his explanation of the useful tactics of the shadow kunai.
"AWESOME!!! How do I use chakra strings?" Naruto asked, excited about learning the useful technique, he already had ideas how he could work that into his other jutsus.
Jiraiya laughed before he answered, "Chakra strings take a certain level of chakra control, you will learn it eventually, but not today. Today I want you to think of other ways to use those two weapons usefully." Jiraiya said as he began to walk away, he wanted Naruto to get the idea that kunai and shuriken were truly deadly weapons, if used correctly. But he did not want to spend that much time on the subject; he was going to retrieve Naruto at the end of the hour, because they still had their shogi game to play.
It was about an hour later when Jiraiya came over to retrieve Naruto, they still had a few hours of daylight before night set in. Naruto smiled as he thought he would be able to end his hard training early. He was wrong.
"Alright, time for your run again." Jiraiya said, surprising Naruto.
"It's almost night! How come I have to go for a run?" Naruto yelled, angry that he had to do more physically demanding exercises.
"To increase your speed, gaki. Besides it won't take you that long to finish, it's the same sprinting exercise as yesterday." Jiraiya said, causing Naruto to groan in pain.
"That exercise is HELL sensei!" Naruto said, making use of the word sensei easier than it had been in a while.
"I don't care, it's a good speed training exercise, now get it done with so we can play our game of shogi." Jiraiya instructed Naruto as he walked back to the camp and began setting up the shogi board, while Naruto started sprinting as fast as he could for as long as he could.
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45 minutes later the two of them were playing shogi, but Naruto was being assaulted by situation questions, and scenarios were being played out on the shogi board. Jiraiya had set up the shogi board so that he had the upper hand every time, but Naruto had the option of setting up good defenses and dwindling Jiraiya's pieces without losing many of his own.
"Come on Naruto, you have to do better than that." Jiraiya scolded as he began to put the shogi pieces back to where they were at the beginning. "These are real battle situations that could possibly happen, and if you are going to lead a team these are the choices that you have to make."
"I know sensei, but I haven't ever really thought of stuff like this before, so cut me some slack." Naruto countered, defending himself, as he was getting aggravated with the pervert for stomping him in the board game.
The game ended with Naruto eventually understanding what he had to do in that situation, but it took him a while. After the game Naruto ate the food that Jiraiya had been preparing and fell asleep a few minutes after he laid down in his sleeping bag. Jiraiya looked at the sleeping boy, exhausted from the hard day of training.
'You better get used to it Naruto, the training has only just begun.' Jiraiya thought as he threw another log on the fire in the center of their camp before he climbed into his own sleeping bag, and eventually dozed off.
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A/N: Sorry about this chapter, it's not the best, but I had to describe how Naruto was going to be trained and the things he was going to get trained in. I also apologize because Naruto wasn't really a big force in this chapter, because he had to listen to what Jiraiya had to say to him and the training procedures.
