Training Ground Seventy Two was one of Konoha's more specialized training grounds. It consisted of one long street that was full of abandoned buildings on each side. The purpose of TG72 was for a shinobi to train in infiltration, deception, assassination and stealth in an urban area. It was here that the newly created Team Seven found themselves at five in the morning.
Sakura was dead on her feet, barely able to keep her eyes open and would occasionally nod off before startling awake.
Sasuke was more well rested than Sakura but he looked like he was used to getting up a little later and would occasionally let out a yawn.
Naruto, despite a night of no sleep, was well rested and ready to go. He was also halfway through a sake bottle as well.
Kakashi wasn't there, he was home asleep under his bed, the genin didn't know that though as he had sent a Shadow Clone in his place.
The second it turned five am the Kakashi clone stood up straight and started to address the genin. "It appears that even after being given adequate warning some of you were not well prepared to be up at this time," the clone stated coldly. "You are to run the length of the street there and back twenty times," the clone ordered, "and just so you are perfectly aware the street is five miles long and you will not get to eat, drink, rest or do anything else until you are done. MOVE!" he shouted causing the three genin to jump into action.
Sakura was the first to collapse, it was understandable after all that she did. The average genin could run a mile in slightly under four minutes so that would mean it would take twenty minutes just to run down the street, forty minutes to do one full circuit, or thirteen hours and twenty minutes to do the whole run. Sakura worked this all out in the time it took her to do the first mile, after one and a half circuits though the strain was too much for her and she was on the ground gasping for air, unable to continue any more.
Sasuke did a lot better than Sakura, he was an Uchiha after all he was destined to be better and do better than everyone else, well that's what he convinced himself anyway. He completed four circuits before the strain became too much even for him and he stumbled forward, his vision swimming and his body refusing to move.
Naruto on the other hand had no problems, all throughout the run he just casually jogged along, whenever he felt himself getting tired he would take a swig of Rest the was hidden in his sake bottle. Rest was a mixture that he came up with in his past life, it allowed the drinker to work all night and all day by giving them the feeling of being fully rested. It was a double edged sword though as the drinker's mind and body did not actually get any rest he just felt like he had. not like Naruto cared about the problems, every five circuits he would just take a swig of a mild healer to restore his muscles back to full health.
After a bit of rest both Sakura and Sasuke dragged themselves to their feet and wearily began to drag their feet forward, they didn't want to anger their self-admitted insane sensei. They changed their mind right about the time Naruto reached his eleventh circuit, the both simultaneously fell to the ground and said in unison, "fuck it. Nothing is worse than this."
"Why are you not running?" the actual Kakashi asked, he had gotten up an hour previously, with a slight growl and leaking Killing Intent.
"Fuck...you," Sasuke spat. "This...is... torture not...training."
"It's just a simple run," Kakashi stated, still leaking his Killing Intent, "even a tokubetsu Jounin could do it now get back up."
"Genin...not... Toku...jounin," Sakura gasped out weakly.
"Uzumaki isn't having any troubles," Kakashi pointed out, "he does not even appear to be tired."
"He's...too...drunk...too...know that...he...is tired," Saskue shot back.
"I'm actually sober," Naruto complained as he came closer, "this isn't sake in my bottle it's Rest"
"Let me see that," Kakashi said holding his hand out for the bottle.
Naruto shrugged and gave it to him, Naruto then pulled out a bottle that was filled with sake and started to drink from it.
Now normally in a situation like this Kakashi would be the one to drink from the bottle to test the effects of this Rest. Normally. Without any warning Kakashi grabbed Sasuke by the back of the head and shoved the bottle into his mouth, forcing him to drink from it.
The effects were instant, Sasuke's breathing was no longer laboured, his eyes were more focussed and he had the energy to push Kakashi away a bit and throw the bottle at him. "What the fuck was that for!?" he shouted in anger.
Kakashi calmly grabbed the bottle from out of the air, "I wanted to see the effects of it in action," he pointed out.
"Why didn't you test it on yourself?" Sasuke snarled back, jumping to his feet.
Kakashi stared at him blankly, as if Sasuke was an idiot, before responding, "it might have been poisoned."
Sasuke just stared at his sensei in shock, not sure how to respond to something like that.
Naruto just watched the two in amusement as he emptied his bottle of sake, the run was apparently over for now.
Sakura, still on the floor and still exhausted stared at the bottle in Kakashi's hand. She had seen how energized Sasuke was after drinking some and she needed to have some as well. She needed it! Weakly, slowly, she crawled along the ground until she was able to reach up and snatch the bottle out of Kakashi's hand and downing it in one go. Sakura felt all of her fatigue just melt away and in a second she was on her feet, walking, jumping and even skipping around. "Wow this is pretty impressive," she admitted. She turned to face Naruto, "where did you get this?"
"Made it," Naruto blithely admitted, "it's nothing special, I usually only use it when I pull all-nighters."
"Side-effects?" Kakashi asked, he wasn't going to take everything Naruto said at face value but at the moment Naruto's word was the only information he would get.
Naruto shrugged, "depends what you mean by side-effects. It leaves you feeling as if you just got a good night's sleep but that is it. It doesn't actually give your mind or body any rest though so it's best not to use it too much or you could find that your body stops working."
"And i'm supposed to believe that a dobe like you created this all by yourself," Sasuke said sarcastically.
"Believe what you want," Naruto replied, pulling another bottle of sake out of his coat and drinking from it. "I don't actually give a fuck what any of you guys think about me as long, as I have my sake i'm good."
"Don't talk to Sasuke-kun like that Naruto-baka!" Sakura screeched.
"Does the dobe think he is better than me?" Sasuke asked with a sneer, ignoring Sakura's shriek.
A burst of Killing Intent was enough to silence the three genin and cause them to pay their sensei some attention. "Perhaps I was a bit rash in having you three do such a run," he began, "however I do not remember giving you permission to stop."
"B-but that r-run was way t-too long," Sakura objected nervously as she slowly backed away from her sensei.
"Wether it was too long or not is irrelevant," Kakashi growled. "MOVE!"
The three genin began their run yet again, "tch look what you two did," Sasuke muttered.
"Yeah Naruto-baka look what you did," Sakura added.
Naruto shrugged, "well guess you guys won't need any more Rest then," he finished with a grin. "You are energetic enough to blame me for all of our mistakes after all."
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It was almost eight at night when the trio of genin finished, Naruto had finished an hour before the other two. Instead of being dead on their feet, the trio were full of energy and well rested so to speak as Naruto had given in and shared some Rest and some mild healer to Sasuke and Sakura every now and then. They were full of energy, in no pain but the fact still remains it had been a two hundred mile run and all of them were hungry and severely dehydrated.
"That was pathetic," Kakashi sneered, once they were all finished. "However I did not actually give you three a time limit so you won't be punished for it this time. All of you eat up and make sure to drink at least three litres of water, I don't want you to die."
Sakura, despite her ravenous hunger, only had a small salad with a bit of chicken in it and the required amount of water.
Naruto contented himself with a sandwich, some sake and one of his potions.
Sasuke had the lunch box that Sakura had made for him the night before, not that he knew that.
No one saw what Kakashi ate, or even if he head eaten.
"Sooo Narutooo?" Sakura began in an attempt to sound sweet and nice, "how much Rest do you have left?"
"Bout half a bottle," came Naruto's response. "Oh well as long as we don't have to do any more run's like that we won't need to use it anyway."
Kakashi paused at that, a thought running through his mind. "What do you need to make some more Uzumaki?" he asked.
"Just a few herbs, the left half of a sheep's brain, a bit of copper and some of my blood. Why do you want me to make some up for you sensei?"
Kakashi ignored the question. "and how long can someone survive on Rest and without any sleep?" he asked.
Realization dawned on Sakura and Sasuke's faces but Naruto remained either unknowing or uncaring for what was to come. "It depends on what you are doing in that time," he responded. "You need the sleep to allow your brain to process everything that has happened. If you do dull, monotonous work then you could theoretically go up to half a year with no sleep. If all you do is study all day every day then you could last a week and a half safely."
Kakashi nodded in understanding. "Write me a list of everything you'll need to make all of us a week's worth of Rest and i'll send a Shadow Clone to go and buy everything."
"What's in it for me?" Naruto asked with a small smirk.
"I'll get my clone to pick up a bottle of sake."
"Deal!," Naruto agreed instantly.
"So is Rest some of that Alchemy you were talking about yesterday when you dragged us to the bar?" Sakura asked after Kakashi sent off a clone.
Naruto nodded, "yeah it's pretty simple to make too. Useful as hell but still pretty simple."
"Teach me how to make it," Sasuke ordered.
"No point," Naruto replied. "It would be like you trying to teach me a jutsu. I may learn how to do the jutsu but I would never be able to actually use it, the same for you and Alchemy."
"You saying I can't do it?" Sasuke growled.
"Well yeah," came Naruto's blunt response. "To be capable of Alchemy you have to have an innate understanding of how the world works and that can't be taught."
"You're just worried that i'll be better at Alchemy than you," Sasuke challenged.
"Whatever you say," Naruto shrugged, taking a drink of a new bottle of sake.
"Where the hell does he store it all?" everyone thought.
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There you go chapter three.
ending's a bit weak but otherwise im happy with it.
Two of Naruto's potions showed up Rest and the unnamed weak as fuck healing potion.
So what do you guys think so far?
