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The Uzumaki Prodigy

Chapter Three: A Chance Meeting

2 Months Later

Kakashi woke up with a terrible hangover the morning light shining in his face.

He stood shakily taking off his shirt and went to take a shower.

He felt the warm water sooth his bones as he stared at his scarred body a feeling of emptiness came over him.

He decided today was the day things needed to change he couldn't drink himself to death he needed help.

He grabbed all the alcohol stashed throughout his house and put it in a black trash bag tossing it out.

He got dressed in civilian clothes walking down to the Uchiha compound he visited Shi's home but no one was there.

He went to the Dango spot Kasai frequented and Anko told him they were at Kasai's place he walked there as they were leaving out the door.

"Captain Kakashi?"

He nodded.

"Shi I need your help."

Shi motioned Kasai that he'd be right back and grabbed Kakashi walking away a few feet.

"What's wrong, Captain?"

Kakashi grabbed his head.

"I just can't do it, Shi, the voices the ghosts they keep haunting me."

Shi nodded.

"It's alright Captain I'll get you help."

xXx

Naruto awoke in a cold sweat since the day he'd first encountered the Kyuubi it's foul chakra had been invading his dreams he sat up in his bed and stared at the wall.

Palely illuminated by starlight his blade Uzushi glew with a faint blue light he stood up and grabbed the blade twirling it in his hands.

"Guess If I'm not gonna sleep I should get some extra training in."

He strapped the blade to his back silently opening his window before sneaking out into the night.

xXx

Naruto landed on the grounds of training ground 7 where Kasai-Sensei had been trained he pulled out his blade and began practicing katas.

The moon shone brightly and the wind whipped at the trees overall it was a beautiful night he could hear the stream and the song of crickets.

He swung down with his blade and then swung it back up before sidestepping and stabbing it diagonally.

He was preparing to practice the next formation when he heard footsteps creep up from behind.

He jumped and spun around to see a tall muscular man with short spiky brown hair and a goatee he wore the standard Konoha flak jacket with leather shoulder guards stitched on.

"Relax kid I'm here to train."

Naruto lowered his guard.

"My bad."

The man waved it off.

"It's cool the name's Sagi."

Naruto sheathed his blade and extended his hand.

"Naruto."

they shook hands.

"Kenjutsu, huh a little young aren't you?"

Naruto shook his head.

"Kasai-Sensei says its never too early to learn to kick ass."

Sagi chuckled.

"Well said kid, how about I give you some pointers."

Naruto's eyes lit up.

"Really!"

he nodded.

"Sure I've got time to kill."

Sagi drew a blade from his side it was a long black nodachi with a leather handle he spun it into a reverse grip.

"Now guard."

Naruto changed into a traditional guard stance.

"Now watch carefully."

He rushed forward spinning his blade upward and knocking the sword out of Naruto's hand before punching naruto with the pommel of his sword knocking him to the ground.

"Oh, that looked like it really hurt my bad."

He stifled a laugh.

"Screw You "Grandpa"."

Naruto gave him a dirty gesture.

"Now that's just rude."

Sagi smirked.

"That move is called Reaver it's a signature kenjutsu of my clan if you master it, it can't be guarded."

He reached down and Naruto took his hand.

"Now you try."

He handed Naruto his sword and began guarding Naruto rushed forward and spun his sword upward attempting to disarm the man.

Sagi simply sidestepped slamming the pommel of his sword into Naruto's gut knocking the wind out of him and causing him to fall over he pulled him up by his arm.

"Next I'm gonna show you, Stinger, the follow up to Reaver prepare yourself this is gonna hurt."

Naruto guarded a second too late as Sagi rushed forward driving his blade through his gut.

Naruto fell to his knees in shock coughing out blood as Sagi pulled the blade from his gut.

"Don't worry kid it's just genjutsu, Release!"

Naruto snapped out of his shock.

"Now you try don't worry kid if I can die to you I have bigger problems."

He tossed Naruto his sword.

"I'll let you disarm me with Reaver then follow up with Stinger, Begin!"

Naruto rushed forward using Reaver he spun his blade disarming Sagi.

He attempted to pierce him with Stinger only to get sidestepped and sent skyward with a knee to the chest.

He fell roughly to the dirt wheezing as the wind was knocked out of him.

"Nice try kid but you've got another twenty years before you can use that move on me."

Naruto glared daggers at the man.

"Don't feel bad just practice daily and in another lifetime you could acquire a fraction of my skill."

He chuckled smugly.

"Later."

He made a handsign and vanished in a cloud of leaves.

Naruto punched the ground.

"Dammit."

xXx

Naruto halfheartedly ate a piece of toast Minato walked over with a cup of orange juice.

"What's wrong kiddo?"

Naruto shrugged.

"Nothing."

Minato looked him over pensively.

"A father knows when something's wrong."

He ruffled Naruto's hair.

"I just haven't been sleeping well."

Naruto took a drink of his orange juice.

"Nightmares?"

He nodded

"What about."

Naruto gripped the glass.

"A fox."

Minato paled.

xXx

He went to training ground six and awaited his sensei's arrival since she had started training him he had become slightly toned and grown a half inch taller.

He was at an apprentice level in kenjutsu, had completely mastered the leaf exercise, and begun tree climbing.

He sat against a tree and began to meditate while holding some leaves to him with chakra to get a feel for his chakra coils before training.

He was interrupted by a loud thump as Kasai teleported in dropping a heavy bag full of sticks Naruto looked at her curiously.

"What are those for?"

She smirked.

"You'll see, first things first come here."

He walked up to her and she reached into her pouch handing him a small piece of paper.

"What's this?"

She pulled out another piece from her pouch.

"Chakra paper you channel your chakra into it and it shows you your elemental affinity."

She demonstrated channeling chakra into hers it burned to ash, crumbled to dirt, and got wet.

"See I have a primary fire affinity a secondary earth affinity and I've developed a water affinity over time."

She put her hands behind her head lazily.

"Most people below chunin usually only have one affinity, chunin have two, and Jonin are expected to have three it's nearly impossible to have five,"

"But a few people such as Kakashi and the Third have managed it."

She motioned for him to try he channeled chakra into his paper and it split into two both sides becoming wet.

"Wind and water huh no surprise there your father has an extremely strong wind affinity and your mother has a water affinity with fire as her second."

She put her arms at her side.

"Though I am surprised you have two this early you really are something."

He nodded.

"What now."

She pointed to the pile of leaves he was using earlier.

"Using wind chakra you have to split those leaves this will be ten times harder than tree climbing so don't get discouraged if you fail at first."

He nodded and grabbed the leaves while she took a seat and began to eat a bento box.

He came back a second later with a split leaf making her nearly choke on her yakisoba.

"I did it."

Her eyes nearly bulged out of her head.

"How it took your father three weeks!"

He shrugged.

"I just felt the wind."

She was amazed he truly was a prodigy.

"So much for lunch, alright,"

She pointed to the sticks.

"Now that you know how to make a fine wind blade now you have to make a larger one take three sticks, stack them together and split them in one stroke if you fail to split all three simultaneously you'll have to start again."

He nodded and went to gather the sticks she resumed eating and looked over at him to see if he would amaze her again but luckily for her stomach he was struggling.

She took a bite out of a slab of pork and smiled.

xXx

Kakashi and Shi landed silently in front of the root compound.

"Captain Kakashi, what's our course of action?"

Kakashi turned to Shi.

"Standard scouting run we get in, search for evidence of ROOT corruption, and get out if we're caught the op is blown."

He activated the camouflage jutsu and began to enter the compound Shi sweatdropped.

"No pressure."

He made a handsign.

"So what are we looking for exactly Captain?"

Shi asked activating the camouflage jutsu.

"Scrolls blueprints anything that bodes ill."

Kakashi made a handsign channeling chakra into his nose and ears.

"No sound, no scent can you detect any chakra?"

Shi closed his eyes and began to channel chakra.

"No signatures the coast is clear."

Kakashi nodded.

"Let's go."

"Wait."

Kakashi turned to look at him.

"What?"

Shi looked concerned.

"Are you gonna be okay Captain?"

He nodded.

"With time."