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Now a few more months have passed and Hinata has officially lost her stutter. Now, on to the story.
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A boy started to stir in his bed, he started moving a bit more, eventually he rolled over and fell out of the bed. He hit the ground with a loud thump, the boy quickly sat upright pulling a kunai out of the pillow which had fallen with him, "Alright, who pushed me?" the boy stared around for a few seconds with a dazed look on his face. The bo eventually realized what was happening, he put the kunai back into the little spot in the pllow where he kept it. The boy got up and looked over at his clock "Six o'clock still two hours before class starts." The boy walked to the bathroom and turned on the shower, letting it go alittle while so it could warm up. He got in to the shower and began to wash himself.
After about 10 minutes he stepped out of the shower, and got dressed. He walked over to a wall which had a glass case mounted on it. He stood there staring at the wooden saber that was sitting inside for about 5 minutes before he turned away. He walked away from the case heading for the door to his room. As he was walking down the stairs to the kitchen he heard a knock on his door.
'Now who in the hell could that be. No one is awake at 6:00, and if they were then they weren't going to come looking for me.' Naruto jumped down the last couple of stairs and walked to his door. The sight he beheld when he had opened it was completely unexpected. There standing on his door step was Hinata. "Hinata! What are you doing here?"
"I thought you might forget since you space out in class so much so I came to remind you that today is graduation exam day and you need to be at the academy an hour earlier than usual".
"Oh, thanks a lot for reminding me, you were right I completely forgot that today was graduation day." He smiled at her "You want to come in?"
"Sorry I can't my dad is making sure I get to the academy. He thinks I'm going to wimp out and not go."
"That's too bad, your dad really needs to lighten up, But then again you are the hyuuga heiress."
"Yeah, but when I pass this test I wonder if my father will be even the slightest bit more satisfied with me. Well I'll see you later my father is probably getting angry about not being able to find me."
"Alright, I'll see you at the academy, bye." Hinata nodded and turned and started walking back towards the village waving over her shoulder. Naruto shut the door and walked into the kitchen 'What should I eat?"
'You should eat something healthy, but knowing you you're going to grab a ramen and eat that.'
'Hmm, you've got a point, but I feel in the mood for steak today.' Naruto walked over to the fridge and grabbed a big steak out of it. He turned on the stove and put a pan on the burner. He put a few spices on the steak and put it in the pan to cook.
'Steak for breakfast sounds good, oh how I wish I could get my body back. I miss the excitement of the hunt, the glory of the kill, and the savoring of the raw juicy flesh as it is ripped from the bones.'
'Uh huh, on that note did you have any specific training you wanted me to do today.'
'Well I had some but since you have the graduation exam I think I just might let you have today off.'
'Alright, I'm very bored though so I need something to do, the steak's done.' Naruto turned the stove off and pulled the steak out of the pan. He picked up the pan and put it in the sink, then sat down to enjoy his steak.
'I envy you very much right now.' Kyuubi sounded pissed but she cooled off after a while. When Naruto was finished with his steak he put the plate in the sink and walked out to his training circle.
'Kyuubi come out I want to train a little before the exams.'
'Alright.' A loud popping sound was heard then Kyuubi materialized in front of Naruto in a cloud of red smoke. "Well are you ready to get beat."
"And what makes you so sure you will win."
"Because you have never won a match against me."
"Good point." Naruto got in to a battle stance facing Kyuubi from across the ring Kyuubi stood at the other side of the ring and watched Naruto. Kyuubi stretched her arms out and two short swords materialized in her hands. She threw one to Naruto, and held hers up in a ready position. Naruto caught the sword and held it in his hands. It felt very awkward in his hands.
"I haven't used swords before."
"I know and I think it's about time you learned. The can be very advantageous in battle. You remember our little summoner friend, and how he overpowered you with his abilities using a sword. One thing that bothered me was that his sword had seals on it so I'm thinking he had a little help during that fight, but they might not have been activated I didn't get enough time to study the blade. Anyway I'm going to teach you one of my personal kinjutsu styles Fox style: Fox Claw(1). It uses any sort of short weapon like knives, kunai, any sort of short sword and things like that." Naruto nodded and looked at the short sword in his hand. The blade looked to be about a foot long, it was also very sharp. The weapon had a leather wrapped wooden handle with a metal cross guard.
Kyuubi dropped low to the ground holding the blade parallel to the ground. "One of the main parts to this style is speed which is why I'm teaching you this style. This will help you a lot if you ever meet your speedy little friend again." She launched herself at Naruto's feet keeping the blade parallel to the ground with her middle and pointer finger on top of the blade and the rest of her fingers gripping the handle. Naruto tried to take a step back but he had known as soon as she had launched herself at him he wouldn't be able to get away. Kyuubi came up on him bringing her arm back she shot it forward and around Naruto's leg cutting the tendons in his leg. She then stuck the blade in the ground and using her speed spun herself around him and pulled out another blade striking into the middle of his back. Because of the propulsion she had obtained from the maneuver she flew above him dragging the sword upwards in his back before it popped out with a squelch.
She landed in front of Naruto and shoved the sword in to his abdomen cutting to the left and out the side of his skin, with a twist of her wrist she brought the sword back to his chest, she stopped her movement as she came towards the heart.
In Naruto had thought happened in 10 seconds had actually happened in about somewhere between a half second and a second. He fell face first in the dirt.. Kyuubi knelled over him and began healing his wounds with a few medical jutsu so that he would still be able to get what he needed to get done at the exam.
Naruto sat up again with a slight grimace of pain on his face, "Shit that hurt a lot, but you're right fighting that guy would definitely have been easier if I had known how to do that."
"What I have shown you is the basics of the style at the speed that a master would do it at. The style relies heavily on maintaining a high level of speed while keeping complete control of your body and trying to deliver a never ending combo so that your opponent can't do anything against you."
"Well I'm going to go take a nap for a little while, if you wouldn't mind will you wake me up at 6:50."
"Sure, but remember after you graduate you are going to learn this style."
"What makes you think I wouldn't want to learn that style, did you not pay attention to how much damage it did to me? I could barely keep my eyes on you when you were attacking." Naruto turned to the house and walked to his room. He collapsed on his bed and fell asleep.
Naruto woke up in the middle of a forest. 'What am I doing out here?' He got up and walked out of the tent he was in. He was in the middle of a small campsite, there were three tents including the one he had just walked out of. In front of the first one was a tall human-looking blob, with a pointy top. Standing against a tree was another blob-like human but this one had a very spiky top. In front of the other tent was a smaller human-like blob. Standing on the edge of the campsite was another human-like blob, this one's top had a spiky top but instead of it coming straight up it went back.
The taller spiky head object moved around and everything started packing up the campsite. When they had finished putting everything away and shouldering their packs they walked out of the campsite and began to follow a trail leading away from the campsite.
They had been walking for about 15 minutes when Naruto had suddenly got a very bad feeling about the clearing they had just walked into. Naruto was looking around then he recognized something the faint glow from the mask in the tree was from a dream he had before. 'Next a giant sword is going to come spinning across the clearing.' As if it could read his mind the sword came flying across the clearing. 'Shit now I know for a fact that I am having a dream, what happens next… Oh yeah that bear is supposed to come flying out of the trees.'
On cue the bushes to the side of the clearing start shaking, but instead of a bear flying out of the trees a young man comes flying out wielding his sword with expert care, he quickly slashes Naruto's arm and turns going for a decapitation. Naruto seeing his movement looked at the young man. Naruto looked at the man, that faint feeling of knowing was taking hold again. Then Naruto figured out that this guy was the assailant from the clearing.
Naruto woke up to Kyuubi carrying him towards the window. "HOLY SHIT, What the hell are you thinking?"
Kyuubi stopped walking and dropped him on the ground. "I have been trying to wake you for the past 3 minutes."
"That means that it's 6:53, which means I have to be at the academy in 7 minutes… FUCK." Naruto Jumped up and ran out the front door, tapping a security system seal as he flew out the door. He ran as fast as he could go all the way to the academy. He got to the academy at 6:59:55.
"Cutting it a little close there Naruto." Iruka was sitting at the desk at the front of the room. Sitting next to him was a man with straight white hair. The room as was usual at the beginning of class was very noisy. There just as he expected was his vacant corner seat. He remembered back to a time when a new kid had made the mistake of sitting there.
-Flash Back-
Naruto had walked into the classroom a little later than usual and had walked over to his seat, only to find that a boy was sitting in the seat. Naruto looked at the boy and calmly said, "This is my seat, Move Now."
The boy looked back at Naruto and simply said, "I don't see your name on it, and I got here first."
"I gave you one warning already, you get three and believe me you do not want to know what happens after three. Now, I suggest you move, and that's your second warning."
"You can make all the bullshit threats you want, but I'm not moving."
"Last warning, Move" Naruto was getting angry.
"You might want to do as he says." One of the students yelled over to the kid, not wanting to see what Naruto would to this newbie.
"I already said I wasn't moving, and you see this kid isn't even to back up what he says. This kid is just another little pussy."
"You had your three warnings. I was just giving you a little time to reconsider and move. Now you are going to get the punishment that you deserve." Naruto calmly took a kunai from a pocket on the inside of his sleeves. The boy in the chair was looking a little worried now. Naruto took the boys arms, and before the boy could move tied them up behind the boy. Now the boy looked really scared. Naruto stuffed a large cloth into the boy's mouth so that the boy wouldn't be able to make any noise. Naruto then took his kunai and cut the boy's arm. The boy screamed as loud as he could but because of the rag he couldn't yell very loudly.
Naruto then took a small amount of the boy's blood and drew a small seal on the boy's chest. Naruto pushed some charka into the seal to activate it. Naruto picked up the boy and threw him to the other side of the class room and sat down. "Now in case you are wondering what that seal does it allows me to interrupt the charka flow in your coils at will, and allows me to mess with your charka so I can make small things like this happen." The boy made a small yelp of pain as he felt a sudden searing hot pain in his chest.
-End of Flash Back-
Naruto looked towards Iruka waiting for him to start talking about something. Iruka stood up and looked over the classroom, "As you all know today you are going to take the academy exam. Now all of you should be able to pass but you never know. You are all probably wondering who this man with me is, his name is Mizuki and he will be helping me with the exams."
Mizuki stood up and made a slight bow to everyone in the room, "A pleasure to meet you all, as Iruka said I am Mizuki and I do have the great pleasure of helping Iruka pass or fail all the new recruits."
"Now you all are going to be required to perform the bunshin-jutsu you must make at least three perfect copies of yourself. First on the list is Aburame Shino." Shino got up and walked into the little room of to the side. Everyone heard a poof and then Iruka walked back out and asked for the next person. It continued on like this for about an hour before Naruto, who was the last person called, walked into the room.
"Alright, knowing you, you weren't paying attention so make three copies of your self or more."
"I was listening, and guess what I bet neither of you noticed it but I am a copy. A kunai flew through the wall and imbedded itself in the clone's body. The clone disappeared and Naruto walked into the room. "I know the required amount was three so here you go Naruto lazily brought his arms up into a seal and made 10 clones of him in front of the two instructors in the room. Then three more appeared on each side of the instructors each with a kunai on the instructor's necks. Then all the clones disappeared leaving two shocked instructors, and a smirking Naruto.
"You pass" Iruka stuttered out handing a headband to Naruto. Naruto took the headband and tied it around his left shoulder. Naruto turned and walked out of the room. He met up with Hinata outside the academy.
"You passed, good job Hinata." Naruto smiled at her.
"Yeah, are you saying you doubted I would pass." Hinata teased Naruto.
"No, I knew you would, I was just congratulating you." Naruto pretended to have a hurt look on his face.
"So how has your training with Achlys been going?"
"It has been going really well. I have actually gotten a lot stronger in the past couple of months that I have been training with her, then in the 5 years that the many professional tutors have tried to teach me in."
"Oh really, I don't believe you."
"Do you want me to show you?"
"Yes, I would love it if you showed me." Naruto brought his arms up in the form of an X. Hinata activated her byakugan, and held her palms open facing towards the ground. She crouched down making sure that her hands could intercept any blow headed towards her body. A large group of kids started to gather around the two, the kids started chanting fight while Naruto and Hinata smirked at each other. Naruto pulled a kunai out of his pocket and threw it in the air.
When the kunai hit the ground both Naruto and Hinata launched themselves at each other. Naruto pulled a kunai out of his jacket and tried to slash at Hinata's arms, that way she wouldn't be able to use her clan technique. Hinata pulled her arms out of the blades path and quickly shot her palm out towards Naruto's chest. Naruto brought his foot up to Hinata's body and was able to push off of her, dropping the kunai as he flew from her. Hinata's attack still almost connected with him, narrowly missing his right leg.
Naruto landed on the ground trying to keep his balance from the awkward jump he had to make to get away from Hinata. 'Kyuubi you really have done a good job of training her, you said The Fox Claw required lots of speed right?'
'I know I have been trying really hard to make her into someone a little more like me, and as I said in the lesson The Fox Claw does require lots of speed… why?'
'Because Hinata's style relies mostly on speed, so wouldn't it be a good idea to teach it to her?'
'I did start teaching it to her. She is actually a very good learner too. I started teaching and she started learning rather quickly actually, it's quite impressive just how well the style suits her. I showed you this style so that if you spared against Hinata you would be a little more prepared for it. You might want to watch out though it looks to me like Hinata just grabbed the kunai you dropped during the skirmish.'
Naruto came back into full awareness, and sure enough there was Hinata crouching low to the ground with her pointer and middle fingers following the blade. 'It's a good thing she is not as fast as Kyuubi.' Hinata gathered charka into her feet waiting for the right time to release it. Naruto pulled another kunai from his coat.
Naruto threw the kunai at Hinata then ran at her. Hinata blocked the kunai with hers and waited till Naruto got closer. Naruto put his hand in his cloak and jumped up above Hinata. Hinata launched herself towards him releasing all the charka that was built up in her feet. Naruto saw her launch off and threw the kunai, he had been gripping in his cloak, at Hinata. Hinata got hit in the shoulder by the unexpected projectile setting her off balance enough to miss her swipe towards Naruto's neck.
They landed opposite each other on the school yard, Hinata was starting to breathe hard and Naruto had barely started to get winded. Naruto grinned at Hinata from across the arena, "You have definitely gotten much better, but your still not good enough to go against me."
Hinata raised an eye brow, "Really, then whats that gash on your left side?"
"Huh? There's no ga-" Naruto looked at his side and his eyes went a little wider "When did you do that? Normally someone feels their side being riped open like that."
"It was during that last skirmish if you remember that strike that i had missed against you had actually been double edged, so to speak. First there was my kunai which you dodged very easily, but i had been able to hone my chakra into an almost invisible blade which is what caught you in the side. Your reason for not feeling it is that Achlys taught me a little thing I can do with my chakra that allows for a numbing effect."
"Damn, Achlys really has done a good job of training you."
"I know." Hinata smiled at him.
"What are you kids dong out here." an irate looking Iruka walked out of the school building. "Shouldn't you all have gone home by now."
One of the kids yelled out "We were going to but then Hinata and Naruto started fighting."
Another one yelled out "And it was well worth the wait. Those two fought like demons."
Iruka sighed 'They don't know how close they actually are by saying that.' "Well now its considered tresspasing to stay with out some legitimate excusse, now all of you go away. Unless you would all rather take my class again." At that comment everybody started rushing home.
Hinata turned to Naruto, "My dad will be worried if I'm not home soon so I'll see you tommorow."
"Yeah, see you tommorow." Hinata turned and walked towards the Hyuuga compound. Naruto turned and ran to his house. He arrived after about 10 minutes of running. He walked over to his shower and turned it on so he could wash the blood from his body. After he got done with his shower he made a cup of ramen and went outside to train.
'Kyuubi, when are you going to teach me more of the fox claw style?'
'Well I was actually thinking of teaching you a different style, it relies mostly on strength and endurance which you have alot of already. It also uses an older type of weapon that nobody makes anymore. Which, now that I think about it, means I'm going to have to teach you how to make these, but that is for a later date. The style I'm going to teach you is called Fox style: Charge of the Fox , it uses... maybe I should come out there to show you.' a loud popping was heard, and a red cloud formed in front of Naruto. Kyuubi stepped out of the cloud holding a large sword. It had a blade that was about 3ft long, leading down to a leather wrapped hilt about half a foot in length. The cross guard spread out to the sides ending in what looked like two very sharp points, with small barbs along the length of the cross gaurd.
"Here you are." she handed the weapon, hilt first, to Naruto "It has quite a few names, but it is most widely known as a longsword." Naruto held the weapon with both hands gripping the hilt tightly.
"it's kinda big, how is this going to help me if I run into my summoner friend again. Hes fast which would be the weakness to this style, am I not correct?"
"Not completely, it is true that you will have a harder time against faster enemies than against slower, but that speed problem can be overcome with a little practice." She put her hand out and another blade appeared in her hand, she gripped the blade in two hands and held it in the center of her body, the point of the sword towards the sky. She set her legs a little wider apart and looked towards Naruto, "Put your body in the same position as I have mine." Naruto did as she instructed and waited. "Now I'm going to attack you, try to block me."
She brought the sword more towards her left pointing the blade more towards Naruto, instead of the sky. She ran to the right of Naruto then abruptly turned and charged in towards Naruto. Naruto tilted the sword to the right to block the blow, but kyuubi jumped over to the left and swung the large blade at Naruto's exposed right side. Naruto seeing the gaping hole in his defence quickly dropped his left hand and thrust allowing the weight of the sword to carry his arm towards Kyuubi's attack. Kyuubi seeing the blade angle change and come towards her face quickly brought her sword up to the arm Naruto was using to hold the sword and sank the blade into it stopping his thrust and making him drop his sword, due to the loss of his nerves in his arm.
"I haven't even started teaching you this style yet and you have already learned how to use the swords weight to your own advantage in a fight. Maybe this style is more suited for you then I originally thought." a large crimson belt with a small clasped loop appeared in her hands. She handed these objects to Naruto who took them and started buckling the belt around his waist. "You are not very smart, the belt goes over your shoulder and around your torso. If you buckled it around your waist how fast do you think you could draw it during battle. Not soon enough, it goes on your back so it is easily accessible and quick to draw."
"That's a good point." He quickly buckled the Belt around his torso and clasped the loop closed around sword. "Well I'm feeling tired so I'm going to turn in for tonight so I'll see you tomorrow." With that kyuubi disappeared in a puff of red smoke and a popping noise. 'I wonder what I will dream tonight.'
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Shakranon: Hurray! Naruto starts training a new ability, now I wonder what will happen in the next chapter stay tuned, and remember: Reviews are very much appreciated.
Shakranon: T_T Sad Face, we weren't able to get this chapter out in the time frame we allotted ourselves. We had hoped to get it out within a week but instead it almost took a month.
Shakranon: one thing I would really like you guys and gals that are reading this to do is to critique me a little, things like what should I improve in my writing, what you like about my writing, am I not being descriptive enough, and other things like that.
1. I know it's a lame name I couldn't really think of any names that Kyuubi would use to name her styles and a name that could go with smaller types of weapons.