Chapter 2: Getting Started

A/N: Here is where Kakashi gets Naruto to his new home, then takes him to training ground seven to start the basics. I still do not own Naruto. I will pump out as many chapters as I can as quickly while the story is hot in my brain. CHAPTER TWO, here ya go!

-Break-

Naruto and Inu(Kakashi) were walking down the street. It was only a block to Naruto's new home. His apartment complex was adjacent to a big wall. "On the other side, is where all the ANBU get housing for when they are apart of the unit. It makes it easier and it is free for the shinobi instead of having to live farther away from Hokage-sama. This place was chosen so that myself and other members of my squad can come and assist you incase you get yourself into any more trouble Naruto-kun." Kakashi told the young shinobi in training.

After getting to the top floor, and entering the apartment, Naruto did a little exploring. It was only a one bed unit with a living room and adjoining kitchen area. The bathroom was across the hall from his bedroom.

"Now Naruto-kun, we have stocked your fridge with all the necessities, as well as your cabinets. Three times a day for the next three weeks, an ANBU will be here, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and will be trying to teach you how to cook your own food. You must be here to let them in every day at 7AM, 11AM, and finally 5PM. This is so that we can get you self-reliant as fast as we can. We cannot afford to always be sending somebody to take care of you with how busy we are. Pay close attention to whoever is to teach you how to use your kitchen, do you understand?" Kakashi asked, looking down at the boy with his hands on his hips, trying to be as stern as possible.

"Yes Inu-sensei, you can count on me, I will pay close attention. When will we be going to the training grounds?" Naruto asked, nearly bouncing with anticipation.

"As soon as we get all your things unsealed from your scrolls, and we get you changed into your training uniform. Now come here so that I can show you how. Hmm, better yet, I should probably teach you to access chakra before we do that." Kakashi responded with a hand on his chin.

"Ok Naruto-kun, please sit down. Good. Now copy my hands with yours." He told the boy while making a full Ra, seal. "This is the most basic hand seal for accessing a shinobi's chakra. I will go over the rest later today. Now, close your eyes and concentrate. You must look inside yourself until you can spot what feels like your life force. Simply search your mind, and once you find it, try to pull a little bit of it out."

Naruto was focusing as hard as a little six-year-old possibly could. After what felt like an hour but was only ten minutes, he could swear he felt something, and tried to pull it to the fore front of his mind. He started to feel more at peace yet more energetic as the feeling grew. Kakashi was watching with a small amount of surprise. The boy had managed to find his chakra source incredibly fast for his age, especially considering he was supposed to learn it while at the academy during his second year after physical training. Kakashi could visibly see a small stream of blue chakra pump out from Naruto though, kicking up some dust from the apartment floor before Naruto opened his eyes and broke the pull from his core.

"How was that Inu-snesei? Did I do it right?" Naruto asked with hope in his eyes. He refused to repay the man's kindness with failure. It just would not do for the future ANBU shinobi.

"That was actually impressive Narot-kun. You are already above the learning curve the academy teaches now. The academy students do not learn to access their chakra until the very beginning of their second year. He fact that you already have a large enough core to pull some from is a good sign that you may be a powerful shinobi, with the right training and hard work of course." Kakashi responded with his patented eye-smile, not that Naruto could see that though.

Naruto beamed at the praise. He never received any when he was at the orphanage, and to have someone acknowledge and accomplishment of his felt rather good. When he learned reading and writing faster than the other children, the matron never said anything positive to him, she only muttered words that he could not hear under her breath. "Thank you, Inu-sensei!"

"Now moving on Naruto-kun, what you need to do, is to bite your thumb, and spread a little bit of your blood on the seal when you unroll it, and then using the half ram seal, like this" he demonstrated "And putting a small amount of your chakra into it. The first scroll you should use is this one, as it has your uniform, and you should go hang up the extras after you go change."

"Hai sensei!" Naruto responded before doing just that. After taking all seven sets of his new clothing to his closet, he came out ten minutes latter in his new attire. No longer did he wear the drab orphanage rags of a white tee-short and brown cargo shorts. Now Naruto wore a long-sleeve dark blue shinobi shirt, matching ANBU styled pants, and a pair of black shinobi sandals. On his left arm in red was the Leaf Villages symbol, and on his right was another in the form of a simple spiral.

"How do I look Inu-sensei!?" he asked his new mentor.

"Not bad Naruto-kun, you look like a proper Leaf shinobi, miniature of course." Kakashi teased. "Now, this scroll here has your training equipment, such as your kunai knives and your shuriken. Repeat the process you did with the last scroll, load up your holsters and put your extra weapons in your closet."

Naruto did all this, coming back out wearing a weapons pouch on both of his legs, the area of his pants with the holsters covered in white shinobi tape.

"Now Naruto-kun, do the same for this next scroll, put the scrolls for chakra control into your utility pouch, and store the rest in your bookcase over by the couch." Said Kakashi

Finally, once Naruto had everything, he could possibly need for the training grounds, the took off.

-Break_

At training ground seven.

"Ok Naruto, I am going to get you going on the exercises I want you to do before you start any of your training in chakra control, taijutsu, or weapons training. As you can see, there are three tree stumps for punching dummies, and a few targets placed throughout the grounds for shuriken-jutsu training. What I want you to do for your physical stuff will be to start up with 5 laps around the training ground at a jog, after that, I want you to do 20 pushups, 20 squats, 25 sit ups, 5 pull ups off of that tree over there, 20 burpees, 20 hello-dollies, and 20 flutter kicks. Once you finish all of that, you will need to take a 5-minute break for water and to do cool down stretches before you move on to taijutsu. Now, get to those laps my cute little student!" Kakashi explained with sadistic glee. This was going to be ohhhhhh so amusing. 'This is just a watered-down version of all the exercises that Minato-sensei used to make me, and my team do after all Naruto-kun.

30 minutes later saw a panting red-head bent over his knees trying to catch his breath after finishing his cool down. 'If I do this every day, I might die of a heart attack at a young age!' though Naruto to himself.

"Ok Naruto now come here" Inu-sensei called over to him.

Once Naruto was in front of him by the training posts, he got to explaining. "Ok Naruto-kun, now, every day, to build up your form, and to harden your body I want you to do 100 punches and kicks with each arm and leg. Once you get older, we will ramp those numbers up, but for now, this should be brutal enough training as it is."

Another 20 minutes later, and Naruto was trying to Simultaneously nurse his bleeding knuckles, and his poor throbbing shins.

"Here Naruto-kun, let me teach you to wrap your hands so that you can stop the bleeding." Kakashi said as he beckoned him over. "Shinobi tape really comes in handy for a number of things Naruto-kun, I hope you remember that. Now that you are done with your punches and kicks, lets get you onto target practice."

After showing Naruto how to properly throw both the kunai, and the shuriken, Kakash had him practice for another full hour. By the end of it, Naruto was hitting 4 out of ten bullseyes with each typle of weapon. 'For a first day of trying, that really isn't a bad way to end on his weapons training. This kid may very well just go as far as myself, maybe even you sensei.' Kakashi mused to himself.

"How are you feelining right now Naruto-kun?" he was asking since they had been at it for awhile now. Naruto was after all only 6, and he had been actively training for over two hours.

"I am doing fine Inu-sensei! Just a little winded and a bit sore from the punches and kicks." Naruto responded with a small smile.

"Good, now, we are going to go over chakra control, this will be especially important for you, considering you are going to have a large chakra core, I can already tell just from how much you pulled on when you tried earlier. The more chakra you have, the harder it is to properly control, but since you are starting off chakra training so young, you may just beat the learning curve, and not have any issues in the future since you will have a good grasp of your chakra as it grows with you." Kakashi explained to his young pupil. "The most basic chakra control exercise here in the Leaf village is the leaf balancing exercise. What I need you to do is take a leaf, put it on your forehead, and try to keep it there using only focused chakra. You should do this from the sitting and use at the very least a half ram seal to help you focus until you get it down. I won't be here every day to train you, so it is up to you to do everything I have shown you, as well as read all the texts the Hokage gave you that are in your book case at your apartment Naruto-kun. When balancing one leaf becomes too easy, you should add another leaf. After you get to say, 15 leaves at once, I will teach you the next control exercise, deal?" Kakashi asked his student.

"You can count on me sensei! I will study the texts really hard when I am not here at the training grounds." Naruto responded with a thumbs up and a closed eye grin.

And so the training of a new shinobi has been kicked into gear.