One Step Forward

Naruto awoke, happy to find himself still in his room. Recalling his meeting with Aimi he reached into his mind to find her in a humanoid form. Standing before him was Aimi, clad in a white silk kimono, complimenting her heavenly generous hour glass figure. She didn't have a perfect template figure, she wasn't exactly thin or fat each of each of her curves only seemed to enhance her beauty, she was one of a kind. Her face was masterfully sculpted with a lean feminine jaw line, her eyes shown with mirth as if she was anticipating something. Her crimson hair cascaded to her mid-back, and her furry red fox ears twitched every so often. By far the most eye catching though were her nine tails swaying behind her, lustrous crimson white tipped tails.

While he slept Aimi had taken a look through the rest of his memories while giving him the knowledge of the jutsu she wanted to teach him. To say the least she was appalled, it was a wonder this child was still sane. The never-ending hate and crippling loneliness, the brutal slaughter of his pets the only companions he ever had, being shunned by the other children and harassed because of his mere presence, even being attacked in his own less than livable home. "Good morning, Naruto did you sleep well?" "Best sleep I've had as of late, so how will we begin?" "First I'll help you access your chakra, then we'll go through chakra control exercises, then you'll try those jutsu I taught. Would you tear a small piece of the seal of to allow my chakra to flow more freely? Naruto didn't answer he simply acted and stepped forward and tore off a bit of the seal, then joined Aimi within the cage. With seal weakened Aimi gently pulsed her chakra through Naruto's system, when she was through Naruto felt rejuvenated as if he was reborn. "I feel great! There a presences all around us…ANBU" "It seems you have a rare sensory type, you can sense others chakra; we'll have to work on that as well it'll come in handy. Before we start understand something, shinobi live and die in the shadows; to survive in this world you must become like them, better than them. When learning jutsu you master them to the point where you don't need hand seals, and unlike other shinobi you will not call the name of your jutsu." "Understood, Aimi sensei." "Good, this shouldn't be too hard. You already know how to meditate, calm yourself, focus on you chakra unite with it and flow with it. Once you've got that down we'll move on to other chakra control methods, then you'll begin mastering the jutsu I've shown you." "Yes, sensei." Naruto sat in front of Aimi closed his eyes and began meditating.

TWO WEEKS LATER

Naruto had quickly gotten his chakra under control and mastered the different chakra control exercises tree walking, water walking, the leaf exercise, even some advanced exercises like levitating and spinning kunai and senbon; all within his mind. He also mastered the jutsu the Shadow Clone, Blood Clone, Henge, and Fade Away. The Shadow Clone and Blood Clone would be useful in training, and the Henge and Fade Away would allow Naruto to move through the village undetected. Naruto awoke from his meditative trance and paid a quick visit to Ichiraku's, then snuck down a back ally and mentally chanted 'Fade Away' as he did so he used his chakra to form a second skin that bent the light around himself allowing him to disappear and fade into the shadows. Unfortunately, Naruto didn't have much money, what with being overcharged for just about everything. So, he decided to steal a few dozen scrolls. As Naruto entered the nearest shinobi store, he moved around taking thirty-six scrolls from different shelves so their absence wouldn't be notice to soon while wrapping them in his chakra making them disappear. Walking out of the store and into another ally a bit farther away re-emerged and with a single thought of 'Henge' became a non-descript jonin with a light tan, brown hair, and dark brown eyes. He headed for the library and sat down taking down everything the library had on Fuuinjutsu from storage seals to dimensional and time manipulation seals. Naruto went home at sundown; he made a blood clone, twenty-shadow clones to start on the scrolls and went to bed things would get more interesting tomorrow.