"I think you should train her," Kakashi said still reading his book. Naruto looked down at the girl before him she turned from Kakashi to him. As he looked down at her all he could see was Hinata. Her expression changed from one of shock to excitement.

"No," he said coolly. Her expression changed from a look of disappoint to one of outrage.

"Well I don't want to be trained by you anyway," she said crossing her arms pouting slightly.

"Naruto can I have a word with you," Kakashi said putting his book away. Naruto followed his old Sensei a short ways away, "I think it would be good for both of you if you do this. Your human contact has greatly deceased over the past two decades consisting of me and the occasional would be killer. That is no way to live especially the hero that saved the world. And her...at first I thought that Sasuke was confident in her skills which she is for her age but Sasuke should have know she didn't have the skills to beat me, but even other ANBU he sent after me were in teams of three and four. I think he hoped that I did kill her."

Naruto looked back over at her, he took a deep breath, "I think me training her isn't the best thing for her, why don't you train her?"

"I'm too old to take another student," Kakashi replied lazily.

"You are Ero-Sennin age when he took me as a student," Naruto countered.

"You are a much better Shinobi than I and you can teach her more than I can," Kakashi said, "just give her one month then she can return to Konoha."

Naruto looked over at her, Kakashi knew Naruto would do it and he was smiling as he waited to hear the reply, "very well," Naruto walked past Kakashi muttering under his breath. He made his walk back to Mikoto.

"Let's go Gaki," Naruto said.

"I have a name you know," she snapped at him.

"I know it is Gaki," her eye started to twitch.

"Where are we going?" Mikoto asked.

"Somewhere I can train you," Naruto replied without looking at her. After walking in silence for a few miles he glanced over at her, her hands rested behind her head as she walked casually beside him. It was a few more hours still hours before either of them said anything.

"How much longer until we arrive?" Mikoto asked sounding bored.

"At this pace, three days," Naruto replied nonchalantly.

"Three days!" Mikoto shouted in shock unable to hide her disappointment in her tone.

"Three days too long for you...very well let's see how fast you are," Naruto said smirking, he saw her recoil slightly but she wasn't going to back down. If he was as powerful as people believed him to be she wasn't going to miss out on this opportunity.

"I'm fast enough," she replied.

"We will see," he replied then he started running he turned to see her keeping up and he was mildly impressed so he decided to kick it up a notch. He could see that she was doing her best not to fall too far behind. He decided to see how long she could maintain this speed.

Two hours, for two hours she did her best to keep up but slowly she started to fall behind, but she wouldn't give in. He could see the determination in her eyes. He saw her stumble and she was unable to regain her balance, but before she hit the ground he appeared before her and caught her. She had passed out from exhaustion. With her in his arms he vanished.

He reappeared just outside a small wooden cabin in the middle of nowhere. He opened the door making his way to the bedroom. He placed her on the bed before going back outside. He made his way to a bolder that over looked a lake. He took a seat upon the rock and he began to meditate.

Then sun had begun to rise and felt a chakra signatures approaching, "where are we?"

"We are at the place I will be training you for the next month," he replied not even bothering to open his eyes.

"I thought you said it would be three days before we would get her?" She replied slightly confused.

"I am considered by many as the fastest man alive," he answered getting to his feet.

"What about my father, where would he rank amongst the fastest Shinobi?" she asked.

"He maybe the fastest Shinobi alive," Naruto replied coolly, "are you ready to begin your training?"

"Hai...what are you going to teach me?" Mikoto asked.

"That depends on you and how quickly you learn," Naruto replied, "we will start with Taijutsu, it is important for a Shinobi to be unpredictable in their attack and change to adapt to the situation at hand."

"My gentle fist is more than good enough I thought you would be teaching me some Jutsu," she said sounding less than happy at this bit of news.

"Good enough you say...show me how good your gentle fist really is," he replied coolly. He got into a fighting stance and she frowned slightly but she was going to back down she didn't care who he was he was insulting her family's Jutsu. She activated her Byakugan and charged in he stood up allowing her attacks to hit him he didn't as much as flinch as she hit him with her Jutsu. She stepped back in shock as he stood there with all his chakra points cut off, "is that all?"

"What do you mean is that all I cut off your chakra flow?!" Her eyes widened in shock as his chakra began to flow through his body once again.

"This is why you must expand your Taijutsu skills, so if you thing fails you have something else to use," Naruto explained as a clone appeared beside him, "watch and learn."

Naruto started to fight his clone, which was attacking with heavy brutal attacks while he used a highly defensive fighting style that looked equally as devastating, using the force of his opponent's attacks against him, in a blink of an eye his fighting style changed to something more fluid with quick strikes. Finally he thrust his palm forward sending a large amount of chakra through his clone causing it to explode.

"That was amazing," she said, he didn't say anything he thing he just created another clone this one had much less chakra than the one he had fought but the amount of chakra in the clone was nothing less than amazing.

"Don't use your Byakugan I don't want you to solely rely on those eyes of yours," the clone said. She did as she was told she studied his stance it was the third style he had used in the fight against the clone. She countered each of his attacks. The attacks came at her slow at first, but slowly the speed of the attacks increased until she was barely able to keep up, "don't just defend attack as well."

She did her best to but it was easier said than done, trying to find an opening to attack and the attacks were still coming at her increasing in speed the entire time. After a couple hours of training the clone vanished giving her a chance to catch her breath. She was sore all over, never in her life had she ever been pushed so hard in training and this was only a clone with a small percentage of his usual chakra reserves.

An hour later another clone appeared before her, "your break is over get up."

She got to her feet and again he took the same fighting stance and he started at a slow pace, she countered his attack and mimicking his fighting style used an attack of her own. The tempo of the fight she one was able to keep up much better with this time but still his speed over took her. After awhile the clone vanished and she took a break only to come face to face with another clone and the process continued over and over again until night fell and she went back into the cabin slipping into his bed and drifting off to sleep.

Sometime later Naruto peeked into the room and a sense of guilt washed over him as he watched her sleep peacefully, "goodnight Mikoto," he whispered before slipping out of the cabin making his way back to his bolder.