And now the adventure begins!!! YEAH WHOO!! LOCK AND LOAD!! Oh..ahem, sorry I've had A LOT of recently
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
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Naruto woke up and stretched.
"RAHH!" He yawned.
He scratched his head then got some breakfast, ramen.
"Let's see, Kakashi-sensei said that he'd come tell us personally if we had a mission or maybe a squad meeting so I guess I've got all the free time in the world." Naruto said. "Sweeeet."
He finished his food then went to his "secret" training grounds, he had found them one day when he was insulted by a villager. He sat down in the middle and began to think.
"If I know Kakashi-sensei he'll spend most of his time training Sasuke, leaving Sakura-chan and I out to dry." He began. "Well then I'll just train myself! That'll show him!"
Then for once in his life Naruto began to actually THINK things out. He knew his strenghts even if he only had one, his almost limitless stamina. Based on that he decided his best bet was to train in tai and ninjutsu the only problem was he didn't know much other than basic academy techniques.
"There is that really nice old lady at the library, she could most likely tell me where I could pick up scrolls on fighting but last time I checked all the scrolls were meant for people who already knew the basics of that certin tech." Naruto said to no one.
Naruto flopped on his back and sighed.
"Hmm, I do have all those scrolls in my kunai pouch and if I remember I have five on taijutsu and five on ninjutsu. I hope Iruka-sensei won't be mad at me for swipin' em'." Naruto said.
He sat back up and pulled out the scrolls and read the titles of each taijutsu scroll aloud.
"Chinese Kempo, Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Shotokan Karate, and what the hell is Mishima style fighting Karate?" Naruto said.
Shrugging he read the ninjutsu scrolls.
"So two scrolls on Fuuton jutsu, two on Raiton and one on Suiton." Naruto said.
He placed his hands into his favorite cross sign.
"Kage bunshin no jutsu!"
Now there were nine other Naruto's.
"Okay, I'm going to study this style." He said holding up the Mishima style fighting Karate scroll. "And you're going study up on the other scrolls."
The clones saluted and went off to study, oh my god, Naruto study?! He sat down and began to read.
"This style is not known for insane speed but mainly for the powerful blows. So it's not fast but strong, I like this already." Naruto smiled.
For the next week he would go to his training grounds and study then he began trying some of the moves out. It took him sometime but eventually he got it, he always did. After a long training session Naruto was lieing in the grass panting.
"Damn I'm outta shape." Naruto said. "Maybe I should add like push-ups and running to my training." Naruto said.
"Yeah, that'd be a good idea." Someone said.
Naruto jumped up and looked at the person. It was a man probably in his late thirties maybe early fourties.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked.
"Better question, what are you doing on my property?" He asked. "At first I didn't mind because all you were doing was studying or at least I think so, but now you're training and it's got me thinking about my ninja days."
"Oh, sorry. By the way I'm Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto bowed.
"Oh so you're Naruto! I've heard about you, they say you took down that ninja from Suna all by yourself." The man smiled.
"Yeah that was me!" Naruto said excited.
"So what's in that scroll right there?" He asked.
Naruto looked over and picked it up, he handed it to the man.
"Mishima style fighting Karate." He said. "It's been a long time since I've seen this."
"Wait you know about this style?" Naruto asked.
"Know about? Hell it's the style of my family kid." The man said with a proud voice.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked again.
"Kazuya, Mishima Kazuya." Kazuya said. "So you want to learn how to fight like me eh?"
"Uh...yeah! This style is perfect for me!" Naruto said.
"We'll see about that, here take this." Kazuya said as he handed him a piece of paper.
"What's this for?" Naruto asked.
"Put some chakra into it." Kazuya ordered.
Naruto did as he was told and the paper split in half then crumpled up.
"Wow, you're right. This is the perfect style for you." Kazuya said.
"Really why?" Naruto asked.
"That paper was meant to see what your chakra affinity was and when it split that indicated wind then as it crumpled it means lightning." Kazuya explained. "You see our style is powerful on it's own but when the blows are infused with chakra in the form of lightning they're even stronger."
"Whaddya mean?" Naruto asked.
Kazuya chuckled and said. "Stand right there and I'll show ya'."
He pulled out a pair of red fingerless gloves from a pocket that didn't seem to exist.(invisble anime pocket hah!) He slipped them on and flexed his hand.
"It's been sometime since I've put these on, maybe you'll give me a reason to put them on more often." Kazuya said.
Before Naruto could ask what Kazuya meant he was rocked by a punch that sent him flying across the ground. He looked up and saw Kazuya's arm with dark blue lightning surrounding it.
"That's what I mean, notice how your face is numb?" Kazuya said.
Naruto nodded and Kazuya smiled.
"You see the power behind the attack is enough on it's own but when lightning is added to the mix it becomes one horrible attack. The lightning will numb whichever body part was hit, but at the same time this isn't always the best way to fight. When chakra is used this way it is sent out of your body so if you use it too much you'll be drained before you know it." Kazuya explained.
"I thee." Naruto said.
"Hahaha! Don't worry it'll wear off....eventually." Kazuya said. "Now stand up and I'll help with your training."
Naruto stood up as he was instructed and began a light sparing match. By the time it was over Naruto was panting harder than ever while Kazuya was barely sweating.
"You're right, you do need some push-ups and running in your training regiment." Kazuya said.
Naruto looked up from where he was and said. "Shut up."
Kazuya just laughed and helped Naruto up.
"I think that's enough training for today huh?" Kazuya said. "Tomorrow I'll have a nice training schedule for ya'."
Naruto nodded and walked off, or as best he could, back to his apartment. He crashed to the floor and went to sleep but not before muttering something like.
"Stupid Kazuya-sensei."
The next morning Naruto dragged himself to the training field still very sore from yesterday. He found his new sensei waiting for him, he handed him a piece of paper.
7:00 A.M-Morning stretch, 30min. run
7:35 A.M-Study of all scrolls for 1 hour
8:35 A.M-Series of excercises: 100 push-ups, 200 sit-ups, 150 pull-ups
9:30 A.M-Sparing for 3 hours
12:30 P.M-Lunch break
1:00 P.M-2:30 P.M-Chakra control and Raiton jutsu training
4:40 P.M-Fuuton jutsu training then sparing again until 7:00 P.M
"What's this?" Naruto asked, a little scared.
"Your training of course." Kazuya answered with a smile.
Naruto gulped.
"Well let's get started with the stretching and running." Kazuya said.
With a groan Naruto did as he was told, after the stretching he followed Kazuya around the training field. When the running was done, Naruto made nine more shadow clones to study the nine scrolls he didn't. It was VERY boring to him and soon he was asleep, but that didn't go unnoticed by Kazuya who kicked Naruto right in the head.
"What was that for?!" He yelled.
"For sleeping! Now get back to work!" Kazuya ordered.
Naruto sighed and went back to studying.
"Cmon Uzumaki! Push it!" Kazuya commanded.
Naruto groaned as he tried his last ten pull-ups. He was drained but then he remembered he had to spar with Kazuya. The match ended with Naruto on the ground while his eyes were all swirly. By the end of the day Naruto was dead tired, he wasn't sure how long he could keep this up. He started to get a good look at what his new sensei wore, usually he was beaten too far into the ground to take notice. He wore a thin white short sleeved shirt and white pants with a shiny material sewn onto it that resembled a wisp of a flame. He had black hair that was slicked back kind of like Sasuke's only he had his bangs slicked too. On his hands he had those red gloves that he used to beat Naruto into next week.
"At this rate I think you'll be dead in the next month." Kazuya laughed.
"Shut up Kazuya-sensei!" Naruto yelled.
Kazuya laughed and helped Naruto up. He walked home and this time he actually made it to the couch. Just as he was about to fall asleep there was a knocking at the door.
"Oh come on!" Naruto whined.
He opened the door and there was his other sensei.
"Oh Kakashi-sensei what's up?" Naruto asked.
"Just thought I'd tell you we have a mission tomorrow." Kakashi said then jumped off.
Naruto sighed then went back to his couch, once again about to fall asleep when there was a knocking at the door.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me!" Naruto whined.
He swung the door open and standing there was his mentor for the Chuunin exams.
"Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked.
"I told you not to call me that!" Jiraiya yelled.
"Sorry but it's true! Whaddya want anyway?" Naruto asked.
"Oh right, can I come in?" Jiraiya asked.
Naruto moved out of the way and let his mentor in.
"So I hear that Kakashi is keeping you back for the next two years huh?" Jiraiya asked.
"Yeah, more time he can train his precious Sasuke." Naruto grumbled.
"And I've also heard that you've gotten a new sensei, none other than Mishima Kazuya himself." Jiraiya smiled.
"You know about Kazuya-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"Of course I do! And I don't think it's fair that Sasuke gets special training from your real sensei so I figured that I'd train you myself. Unless you're more interested with Kazuya's training."
Jiraiya asked.
"No! I'd love training from both you and Kazuya-sensei!" Naruto said excited.
"I bet you would! So after your mission tomorrow I'll see you at your and Kazuya's training grounds." Jiraiya smiled.
Naruto nodded, the toad sannin ruffled Naruto's hair then left. Finally with no more interruptions Naruto fell asleep. He woke up and changed into some fresh clothes, and oh my god it wasn't his orange jumpsuit!! He had switched his clothes into something a little more ninja-e. He had black pants with an orange bandana tied to his left thigh, he wore a black short sleeved shirt and bandages around his hands. He looked at himself in the mirror and liked what he saw, especially the small bit of orange he added. Tieing his forehead protector on he walked out of the door. He met his team at the red bridge where they always met, Sakura saw him she smiled and waved, he waved back. Sasuke saw him and surprisingly waved too, Naruto waved back once again.
"Wow Naruto, I'm surprised. No orange jumpsuit?" Sakura teased.
"Eh, I like orange and all it's just that jumpsuit got in the way of my training sometimes with Kaz-" He stopped his sentence. He didn't them knowing about his own personal training.
"Well I like your new outfit Naruto, it looks really good on you." Sakura said.
"Thanks Sakura-chan." He replied.
They waited in comfortable silence for their sensei when he finally showed up two hours late.
"Hey gang." Kakashi smiled under his mask. "Now then our mission for today is actually three missions, all D-rank."
You could see Naruto's eye twitch as Kakashi continued.
"Let's see, mowing a man's lawn, weeding a lady's garden and finally planting vegetables for a farmer." Kakashi finished.
"So we're slaves pretty much?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, pretty much." Kakashi said.
"Of course." Naruto sighed.
They walked towards their first destination, the man's lawn. Once there they found his lawn mower was broken.
"Ugh. Fine I'll do this the shinobi way." Naruto said.
He created one shadow clone then it transformed into a large shuriken. Naruto threw it just perfect and the lawn was cut nice and short.
"Next." Naruto sighed.
They went to the woman's house and began the weeding while Kakashi read his beloved book. Naruto was thankful he had decided to wrap up his hands when he took a look at Sasuke's and Sakura's. Some of the weeds were prickly and left the other two ninjas of squad 7 with stinging hands.
"Hey are you okay Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah I'm fine." Sakura said.
Naruto could hear the discomfort in her voice, sighing (he's doing that a lot huh?) he gently grabbed her hands. Using a water jutsu that was meant to heal he took water from the watering can near them and engulfed both of her hands. The small wounds went away and the minor swelling went down.
"Thanks Naruto." Sakura blushed. 'Why did I just blush?' She asked herself.
"Hey no problem, that's what friends are for right?" Naruto laughed.
Sakura blushed again.
'Dammit stop doing that!' She yelled at herself.
"Hey Naruto, think you could help me out too?" Sasuke asked.
"Come here." Naruto sighed. (see told you!)
Sasuke walked over and held out his hands. Naruto did the same jutsu for Sasuke then they went to their last assingment. When they reached the farmer's they could see why he needed help, this guy was OLD! Sakura and Sasuke groaned as the grabbed a bag of seeds, surprsingly Naruto didn't. When they were done the farmer called Naruto over.
"You wanted to see me?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, that was some nice work today." The old farmer said. "Here's a little something extra for you."
He handed Naruto 100 ryo.
"I can't accept this." Naruto said.
"Keep it, there's plenty more where that came from." The farmer laughed.
Naruto shrugged, it wasn't everyday someone gave you money.
"Nice work today team!" Kakashi said. "You've got the rest of the day off."
"FINALLY!" Naruto said.
He walked away back towards Konoha, more specifcally Ichiraku's.
"Hey Naruto, where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"To get some ramen, wanna join me?" Naruto asked. "You can come if you want Sasuke."
"Sure." Sakura said.
"Hey free food." Sasuke said. "Right?"
"Heh, yeah it's free cmon'." Naruto said.
With that all three Genin of squad 7 went off to Ichiraku's, once there they all ordered their food. Naruto had a large bowl of miso beef, Sakura a medium bowl of chicken and Sasuke a medium bowl of beef.
"So, Sasuke-kun Naruto. What have you two been doing for the past week or so?" Sakura asked.
"Training with Kakashi." Sasuke answered.
"I've been training too, so what's up with you Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
"The same thing you two have been doing." Sakura smiled.
Naruto nodded and continued to slurp his noodles until he felt something hit the back of his head. Turning around he saw Jiraiya throwing a rock up and down. Naruto made a gesture that said "What?" Jiraiya jerked his head. Naruto put his palm to his face, now he remembered. He was supposed to train with Jiraiya and Kazuya today.
"Um, I'm done." Naruto said. "Here's the money, keep the change."
Naruto jumped off his chair and ran off to their training grounds.
"Sorry I'm late Kazuya-sensei." Naruto said.
"Yes well, don't do it again." Kazuya said. "But for being late, you have to double all of your training."
Naruto hung his head and began his run of now an hour.
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There we go, now the next chapter will be focused around either Sasuke or Sakura and keep in mind that it will start with them waking up the morning after the first chapter
Oh and heh heh went a little Tekken on ya!
-Raidori