Naruto: Origins
Arc 1: Chapter IV: More Training!
Hey guys what's up? How's life been slowly killing- I mean treating you? As you can tell I have been rather stressed as of late. Also the fact that I have zero reviews is bugging me. Is this story that bad? If so tell me NOW. I don't want to waste my time on something that no one will appreciate.
If you have time and are craving something on the dark side I suggest Windschild8178. Really dark stuff that makes you subconsciously cares about Naruto, and the story. Those kinds of stories draw me way more than the 'Raikage' for example. Fight scenes spanning 80,000 words doesn't appeal to me unless it is this super complex strategical battle that's turning points can be summed up in a paragraph here and there? I personally know that I can't keep track of 10 fights at once; it just won't work for me.
Also sorta big announcement, Guns will be in this fic but will not be the weapon of god; hell they really won't become important until the next part of this series. If I even get that far.
So yeah that's all, now onto the Story!
Next Morning, Konohagakure, Hokage Tower, rest room 2- time 08:04
Naruto opened his eyes and the ignored his first instinct to shut them in a vain effort to combat the never ending light shining in from the window. 'What the fuck, I feel like I got run over by a Mac truck yesterday, what happened? … oh yeah, I lost. Wait, where the hell is I?' Naruto threw of the covers and walked around the rather plain, but nice room before heading for the door.
He opened the door to find himself in what appeared to be a waiting room. All the chairs where empty and all the magazines and such where stacked neatly into plies on tables waiting to entertain who ever happens to pick them up. There to his left was a desk with a somewhat petite looking brunette lady behind it who was contently staring at him. He turned to her and just looked for a second not doing anything as his mind was still asleep. His brain started to warm up and he walked up to the desk and asked the woman, "Hey, yeah excuse me lady, would you mind telling me where I am?"
The young woman just looked at him and smiled, "Yes you are in the waiting room in the Hokages office. The room you where just in was the guest room." Naruto was about to ask a question when she continued "As to how you got there well Hatake-san brought you there last night with the approval of Hokage-sama."
"Oh, uh thanks" Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head out of sheer habit. "Would you know where I could find Jiji?"
The young woman looked perplexed but her face contorted with understanding and she snorted before saying "You mean Hokage-sama? Well he is in his office, which is in that door over there, and I guess you can go talk to him as long as you aren't bothering him, as he doesn't have a meeting with anyone for more than 30 minutes." She stated as she rose and placed her hand on the blonde's shoulder as she guided him into the office.
She opened the door somewhat gingerly and poked her head in the slight crack "Hokage –sama, the young man in rest room two has awoken, and has asked to talk to you may I let him in?" she was greeted with a smile and slight head nod. She opened the door and brought Naruto into the room, she pulled up a chair, from the side of the desk and put Naruto Down she then got right in front of Sarutobi's desk and gave a deep bow, and then she promptly left the two males to their devices.
"Morning' Jiji." Naruto stated as he was sought somewhere in between sleep and ecstasy, at seeing his favorite geezer.
"Yes good morning, Naruto. How was your sleep?" The old man asked with a candid smile on his face.
"Pretty good, hey the secretary lady said that Hatake-san dropped me off isn't that one of my instructors?" Naruto asked as the silver haired man from yesterday began to enter to his brain.
"Yes Kakashi-kun dropped you off after your test yesterday when he gave me his report." Sarutobi said as he took out a pipe and opened a small tin of what looked like cherry flavored tobacco, just as Naruto was about to ask something the old man seemingly read his mind and answered his unspoken question, "He gave me a very interesting report Naruto, you seem to have impress him with your skills. He said that you showed some great tactical thinking with the little tools you had and he said you even managed to draw blood from him, a Jounin! That is quite good Naruto"
Naruto blushed at the praise from the Kage and asked, "So do you think I passed Jiji?" clearly he still didn't get it.
Sarutobi paused as he lit the pipe and inhaled and exhaled once then he spoke "Yes Naruto I'm almost certain that you passed, now let's talk about some of what happened yesterday. He said that you used exploding tags and that you possessed an advanced bunshin technique the Kage Bunshin, and that you even seemed to know how to gather information and imbed them with commands and Chakra to be used. That's awful impressive; tell me how you managed to figure that one out?
Naruto was confused as he thought that Crow-teme had left the scroll because Jiji had told him to. "Uh jiji the guy with the crow mask, the OMI left it there for me didn't you know?"
Sarutobi had pretty much narrowed it down to Itachi but hearing that confirmed it, "Hmm, yes I will be having a word with Crow about giving 12 year olds Kinjutsu."
Naruto just stared back and said,"Crow maybe a silent, stoic asshole but don't need to do that I could handle that jutsu like it was nothing come UN, jiji!" Naruto had apparently morphed into a whiney 5 year old in the matter of a few seconds.
Sarutobi just stared and smoked, clearly amused at the loss of maturity in the new ninja, then said "Crow's job is to be as silent as possible it isn't his fault that you seem to pick up on where he is hiding. And language young man, besides ninja doesn't whine." The old man could really bust Naruto's balls if he wanted to Naruto remembered, not only was he likes family but he was also his boss. Shit.
"Fine you win, jiji, but don't make crow do anything that bad, otherwise he might take his revenge on me." Naruto chided then added "Hey old man I could use some new stuff could I borrow some money? I promise I'll pay it back before I make Chunin." Naruto pleaded like a beggar asking for bread on the streets.
Sarutobi paused and thought. For as long as he had known Naruto the boy had been incredibly prideful, and almost never accepted any form of Charity outside of the Apartment and the gifts for his birthday but that didn't really count. He had offered the boy a chance to live with him and his family at the estate but the boy had denied the offer. He must really need something if he was practically begging.
Sarutobi stopped his wonderings and asked him "Well Naruto I now you are a very prideful person despite your upbringing, so what is it that is so important?"
Naruto looked pensive as he said "Well I could use some new Kunai and I think some wire and maybe some fuin paper also I need to re-sharpen the trench knifes, again."
Nothing big Sarutobi thought, hell he had all of that in his little armory he kept in the closet of his office, he didn't really need it but just in case there was a significant threat in his office or the building and the guards couldn't handle it he could always go down and help out even if it wasn't his place. He got up and walked to the couch next to the door Naruto had been escorted through and reached down and picked up what looked like a pouch, 'hey that's my pouch how did-oh yeah Kakashi.' Naruto thought as he eyed the pouch. Sarutobi brought it down to the coffee table in front of him and sat on the couch, and after a moment he gestured to Naruto so he could come and sit next to him on the couch.
Naruto no t wasting a moment got up and walked to the aging leader, the old man opened the bag and took out what he found grouping them neatly on the table. He noticed the bag wasn't even a quarter full, Naruto really needed to get some more stuff, as most ninja had a vest and at least 2 bags worth of stuff on them. Sarutobi sighed this was going to be as the Nara clan would say, 'a drag' he and to convince Naruto that he and to get much more stuff, and that was going to impossible if he didn't just accept the old man's money. "Naruto is this all you have?" he already knew the answer.
"No I have my vest that you got me at home, but other than that yeah I guess." Sarutobi just grew a somewhat hard looking face and asked "So what about the fish net I gave you so that you could make webbing to carry things on your vest?"
Naruto's mouth grew to look like a fish's when he said "Oh so That's what it was for, I sorta thought it was suppose to be used as clothes or something and I don't swing that was so I gave it to one of the ladies at the brothel." Sarutobi's palm met his face, and he took a deep sigh, he had to remember who this child's mother had been.
"Listen Naruto, I know that you don't want to take anything for free, and I can understand that you want to be self sufficient but you are just a kid, no matter how you grew up or what your job is you are still a child. S o as your boss I am going to give you some more stuff and give you some money, and you will not pay me back, am I understood?" Sarutobi stated in a business like fashion.
"Listen, jij-" Naruto was cut off by Sarutobi. "This isn't your grandfather Naruto it is your Hokage, your boss. So you have to follow orders." Sarutobi Chuckled at the face the boy made he clearly wasn't impressed with the old man's abuse of power.
Sarutobi stood up and walked over to a closet that was to the left of his desk, he opened the door and motioned for Naruto to follow, the blonde got up picked up his bag and walked into the closet following the old man. The walls where lined with weapons, there where lot's of bo staffs Naruto thought as there was a good stretch of wall dedicated to that lone weapon type. Also there were no ranged weapons, no rifles, no bows, no crossbows, hell he didn't even see a revolver. "Hey Jiji, why do you have so many Bo staffs and what's up with no guns or bows?
Sarutobi didn't even look back at the boy as he was bent over picking some Kunai for the child when he turned around grabbed the bag and answered, "Well Naruto I don't have anything to sharpen your knives with but I do have Asuma's knifes when he was your age hear, I obviously don't use them but they remind me of happier times."
"Jiji I can't there yours and their spe-" once again he was cut off by the older man. Naruto there is no one else I would rather give them to and besides I owe this I owe you so much. So please don't be troublesome or I'll have to fire you." He said with a pained smile, Naruto on the other hand had no idea what he was talking about the Hokage owing him something that was a joke, he would have laughed at the old man but he saw the pain underneath the smile and didn't want to hurt him so he nodded numbly.
The old man went back to going through the supplies and turned around a couple of minutes later with a content smile on his face. He bowed down a bit to get to Naruto's level, he looked the boy in the eyes and handed him the bag which was now filled to the brim. Naruto looked very vulnerable, he decided part of him, likely the guilty party said, yeah probably because you weren't there for him. He shuffled those thoughts away for some time when the new ninja wasn't there.
The boy took the bag and asked the time receiving 8:00 sharp for an answer he yelled something that the old man couldn't quite make up and sprinted out of the office, he was obviously late.
"Uh-huh the Hokage himself actually knows you? Some random ass orphan who he ran into a couple of years ago? Uh-huh sure, he probably met you when you tried to pick pocket him or something." Sasuke commented after receiving two stories when he asked why he was late. The boy had told them that the Hokage himself had insisted upon giving him his own son's old trench knifes. While the trench knifes the he had shown where quite nice and noticeably bigger than the ones he had yesterday he doubted they where once the Hokages son's. Then there was the story with how him and the Hokage had met on the street and instantly became pseudo-family, whole story didn't make sense but the kid had come from the direction of the Hokage's tower and office, so maybe…. Naw.
Sakura just gave the raven haired boy an elbow in the ribs for his sarcasm induced comment then she chided, "Sasuke no need to be such a dick about things."
Sasuke grunted in reply not even trying to form a response. With Sakura in the middle anything that would even begin to instigate conflict would become completely un-acceptable. How delusional considering her new job was to kill people Sasuke mused. An eerie silence fell over the car like a fog as no one of the adults were talking probably listening to Naruto's story and like Sasuke thinking something was completely wrong.
Trying to break the silence Sakura spoke up, "So Rin-sensei today, will we be working in pairs again, or will we be doing some team building exercises?"
Rin just chuckled and answered, "Sakura teamwork cannot be taught by a teacher like us. It needs to be kicked into you or something like that, I remember when Minato-sensei had us do d ranks as team building exercises it really just made us hate each other because it was so boring, no you guys will become more of a team when you run into a real life situation that makes you trust each other."
Sakura just pondered her next question for a second," Okay then how did you guys get your real life experience?"
Rin sighed and answered, "Well Kakashi had just been promoted to Tokubetsu Jounin, and Obito and I where both Chunin so this was gonna be one of our last missions before Kashi split off into OMI as he wanted to become a deep undercover agent." Rin paused and looked at her Husband who was currently driving and not really listening to the story. "Back then Kashi was an asshole." She paused and looked at the man again he seemed unaffected but his left eye was twitching up a storm.
Obito was laughing, "Understatement of the year, he was the biggest ice cube outside of the Uchiha clan. Oops don't tell daddy I said that okay Sasuke, or else I won't be teaching you anything." The younger merely huffed in response.
"So the mission was to investigate some mob activity in Oni county, there had been more abductions than usual there and the signs where pointing to human involvement rather than Oni's. So we had been tracking for clues and came across a rumor that the person abducting them was working for a local mob boss, we found his address and went to confront the man behind the man. We get him and interrogate him and he spills after all of 20 seconds he says 'I can't stop Solomon anymore just as I can't stop the sun from a rising.' And 'he is using me as he has used everyone.' He seemed pretty delirious but he spilled where he was eventually. Minato-sensei had to go help his girlfriend Kushina out so he left but left us a kunai with his marker on it. So we went to the fore mentioned place and when we arrived we found out that it was a cave so we went in like the fools we where. And we found a man who was hunched over a man who was naked the man seemed sort of crazed as there was foam coming from his mouth. The other man turned his head to us and we saw what looked like an Uchiha's Sharingan, but it was different. He just smiled grabbed the man placed his hand on the ground and caused the cave to start to cave in he just disappeared like a ghost and the man went with him, we all sprinted out of the cave but I didn't make it." She paused, "Or so they thought until Minato-sensei came back."
"Sensei came back about ten hours later to find these two, crying there asses off and when they told him what happened he tried to sense the marker he gave me so when he sensed me he teleported to me and got me out, I guess it changed Kakashi's view of life or something because now he acts more like obito than his old self, thank god for that!" Rin said in an almost casual tone.
"Wow, so did you get hurt and did you ever get that guy?" Naruto said in an exited but not necessarily loud tone.
"No, never got the guy and Rin had a shattered leg so she was out of it for like 6 months." Kakashi answered this time.
The car pulled up to the same training ground that they were at yesterday. The doors flew open and everyone got out the respective teachers motioned for their students to follow them. Kakashi went to the other side of the training ground again and sat in the middle with his legs crossed and began to meditate, Naruto just stood there not really getting what to do, after about 5 minutes Kakashi just motioned him to sit next to him and be quite.
Naruto complied and sat to Kakashi's right, then the older man spoke up, "Naruto I think you can be a great ninja." Naruto blushed at the praise, "you show excellent planning skills, you have tons of chakra for your age, and you seem to be studious. But you need to be a lot quieter if you want to be a ninja that someone can take seriously, if you are gonna talk that way on missions you will be a genin for the length of your short career." Naruto nodded grimly and gulped slightly at the grim prophecy.
"Can you do it?" Kakashi questioned although he already knew the answer.
"Yes Kakashi-sensei, I promise I'll do it." Naruto answered in a hushed whisper.
Kakashi chuckled part of him thought that the blonde would have gotten up and proclaimed to the world that he would do it. It seemed as though Naruto caught on to things somewhat quickly for someone his age. "Excellent, now we will meditate until your chakra is focused and calm." Kakashi paused here as if he was waiting for a response. None came. "The purpose of this is to get your chakra calm so I can see what frequency and in turn control level it is at. This is to gauge your control so I can see what needs to be done so I can teach you some more precise and more advanced techniques." Naruto nodded and said 'yes Kakashi-sensei.'
He started to inhale through his nose and exhale through his mouth in slow and steady rate. His body eventually began to relax from the lack of movement and the fact that he was telling his major muscle groups to relax from the smallest to the largest. This went one for about 10 or so minutes before Kakashi saw that he was completely relaxed and actually almost asleep, he took out a little pad and scribbled some critism for later use.
"Okay that is enough Naruto I think I get it" he paused here "You actually have decent control for someone with your level of reserves, so I guess I'll teach you some Katon today and then go over a bit of taijutsu."
"Okay follow me" Kakashi got up and walked to the middle of the stream and faced the middle of their side of the training ground, Naruto imitated him. "Okay so what we will be doing is trying a very simple Katon technique. It's called Katon: Ni. It is very simple all you have to do is focus chakra in your middle and pointer finger and stick them out while all the others are tucked back in a fist. Good" he noted as Naruto did the same thing in his right hand. "Naw focus that chakra to the tip of your fingers. Then visualize a spark and then a growing fire, oh you already know how." Kakashi paused here then face palmed himself. "Of course you know how you showed good skill with the Hosenka yesterday."
Kakashi looked up and saw two fingers which resembled more of a sword in the heating process, "Wow excellent you are a pretty quick learner, this technique is actually a basic wire cutting tech, but I've seen it used in torture to so you got two techniques for the price of one!" Kakashi said with double eye smiles, Naruto sweat dropped at Kakashi's somewhat sadistic side.
"Now make me 5 Kage Bunshin and have them start to do the same thing for about half an hour, if you do this then the technique should be a lot more efficient, and remember to focus it on the tips of your fingers." Kakashi said as he walked over to the tree in the middle and laid down in the shade his back propped up against the trunk.
30 minutes later Naruto dispelled his clones all at once mind you to which he yelped and latched to his head in pain, "Yeah one at a time should work better you won't get nearly as bad whiplash, probably should have told you that, oops." Kakashi answered secretly thinking it was hilarious the kid had made such a mistake.
"Okay listen up right now we are going to do an actual combat technique, Ho Bunshin." He paused looking at Naruto who raised his hand like he had seen others kids do on television when they were in 'school'.
"Hey, uh no offense Kakashi-sensei, but I already know Kage bunshin, don't you think that one bunshin technique is enough for now?" Naruto asked generally confused at the path his teacher was going.
"Yes this is true but Ho bunshin are more combat orientated where Kage bunshin are more for general appliance and recon. Ho bunshin are first off made of fire so if someone dispels them and isn't quite fast about it they will be burnt hell they might even de because of the burns, secondly I saw how you already know how to imbed commands and chakra into Kage Bunshin, well you can do the same for these except Katon come at a lower cost due to the nature of these clones makeup. And say if you put some chakra into a clone but it is taken out before it can use that chakra it is wasted in some clones but not in the Ho Bunshin, instead of going to waste it is used in the explosion which comes after it being dispelled." Kakashi explained to the blonde who was currently marveling at the power of the technique.
"But every technique has a down side, Naruto this one has a couple actually. One never have it fight Mizu bunshin or even Suiton users in general they dispel at the prolonged touch of water, don't worry they can walk on water if that was what you where thinking. Also they only give memories from the moment before they are dispelled so they can't be used in the same way that Kage bunshin, also Kage bunshin can perform any kind of technique as long as there is chakra, Ho bunshin can only use Katon and a couple Ninpo but other than these weaknesses the technique is in my opinion the second or third strongest bunshin technique." Kakashi lectured.
"What's the strongest bunshin technique then?" Naruto inquired.
"Rai bunshin is pretty nuts but cost a lot of chakra, but I think it can be worth it sometimes, Daibukhua bunshin can easily kill someone in one hit if they aren't careful, but both of those are high risk, high reward techniques so I won't be teaching you either until you have good enough judgment, okay?" Naruto simply nodded.
"Alright well to perform this technique you have centered your chakra in your navel gate, like Kage Bunshin. But instead of simply making an image of yourself in your head and siphoning off the appropriate amount of chakra. You have to in your head imagine a flame then have it spread out and create another copy of you. Have the start of that image at your navel gate, just like in real life have it traverse your entire body. While this is happening pour the chakra in the amount you need depending on the amount of clones and jutsu etc." Kakashi drawled. "Okay get to it oh and I almost forgot the hand seals ram, hare, and dragon."
"Okay Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said as five Kage bunshin poofed into existence.
The five Naruto's walked onto the water and started to try the technique, some had too much, and some had to little. Some didn't have the chakra conversing the right way. The clones would dispel once there chakra ran out and the original would make another to replace the now 'dead' one. This went on for about two hours until he was consistently getting it right, but he wasn't stopping which intrigued Kakashi.
No longer questioning himself he went to the source of his confusion, "Naruto what are you doing these clones are quite close to perfect so why are you wasting all of this chakra?"
Naruto just paused and looked at Kakashi "Well I want to get the hand sign count to one instead of three."
Kakashi just looked at him somewhat surprised by the boy's drive, "Well you do have good control it's not good enough for that but tomorrow I'll bring some more supplies for chakra control and such, well right then lets practice a bit of taijutsu."
Kakashi walked over to the water and started pumping water to the soles of his feet, when he thought 'Holy shit, Naruto has been doing this all day, that's good chakra control practice. I am so taking credit for this.' "So Naruto when you are fighting me stay on the stream and you can use weapons bar explosive tags and no Ninjutsu." Not giving the blonde to react he charged the blonde and lead with a right hook, then a left and tried to knee him in the chest. Naruto backed up for the first hook but was grazed by the second; he barely had time to use his left leg to divert the course of Kakashi's knee. Kakashi then broke off of the little engagement and skidded back about 20 or so feet.
Naruto reached into his pouch and took out 2 kunai with his right hand and one with his left, the latter which he hid away in his left sleeve while it was still behind his back, but he also grabbed a small shuriken the old man had given him so it didn't look to obvious. He charged at the silver haired man and when he was close he threw one of the kunai at him in a caked back manner and tried to be as subtle as possible, it didn't go well as Kakashi deflected the kunai with two fingers and caught the badly thrown shuriken. Kakashi was about to chide Naruto when said blonde leapt at the man and began to swipe with the kunai in his right, said swipes where too wide and inaccurate.
Kakashi grabbed the swinging arm by the wrist and tried to bring Naruto in for a haymaker from his right Naruto tilted his head to the side and barely dodged the punch which surprised Kakashi. Kakashi was surprised even more when Naruto's left arm soared right above his arm and right next to his face, but Kakashi was shocked when Naruto brought out a kunai mid punch and managed to scrape Kakashi's face. Before Naruto could re-arrange his sensei's face anymore Kakashi kicked the blonde off as the midget soared backwards in the air.
Kakashi ran his hand across his wound it was not deep so he could get Rin to fix it in a bit. "Naruto, you have no fighting style." He yelled at the boy who was now getting up. "I have an idea for that but I am going to go get my face fixed now because someone thought it would be okay to rearrange my face in the mean time make a Kage bunshin and spar with it until I get back." Naruto grumbled but did as he was told.
About 10 minutes later Kakashi came back looking new only to find Naruto and his clone rolling around on the stream like a bunch of children when the one on the bottom flipped the other over and head butted him quite hard, the original was rewarded with a pop of smoke, then he just laid there panting for a bit. He then heard clapping in the background he turned and saw his teacher slowly clapping with both of his eyes in a smile like form, "Well Naruto I am presently surprised, you coming from no formal back round in teaching I thought it was going to be a drag to break you and make you compliant but you have performed marvelously so far." He paused here expecting some form of embarrassment from Naruto but apparently the boy was to tired because he didn't even look phased by the praise, "But your Taijutsu is weak you must know I was moving at what an average Chunin moves at nowhere near my real speed, and you need some form of style. But I think that your unpredictability won't be harvested well in any of the Kata reliant styles I know so I will teach you a very special style, it is called Systema."
Naruto got up now and laid down in the shade next to the tree "Cool, can we take a break I'm exhausted." Kakashi took note of it and nodded.
"I am going to talk while take a breather okay, Naruto?" not waiting for a reply Kakashi started up again "Well the reason I'm teaching you this is because I'm almost certain now that you are smart, at least somewhat. So this style is actually a Jounin level style, it is taught to the paratrooper squads in Kumo, but it can also be seen as a bastardized version in about half of Chunin level missing nin. The whole point of this style is neutralizing the opponent. It is pretty heavy on disarming people above everything else, wither it be sword or hand gun. The key functions are grabs, throws, punches, and elbowing. The movements are supposed to be short, brutal and above all efficient. Since it has no katas rather actions which aren't performed in any sort of order, more of when the situation fits I'll have to teach you by sparring, so make a Kage bunshin and watch what I do, come on get up enough break time!" Kakashi finished yelling.
Naruto grumbled but got up and made that cross sign one clone poofed into existence, "Good now both of you follow me to the stream, okay Naruto you can stay on the shore but you have to stand because you might not be able to see everything from down there. Now clone show me your defensive stance." The clone brought both of its hand s up to its face and formed its hands into fist; he had a standard boxing stance. "Good, good this is with compatible with Systema, now show me a right punch, no hook no uppercut just a normal right punch." Naruto did he threw his arm and mid action his fist shifted from a vertical alignment to a horizontal alignment. "Okay that's a good punch, quick and it looked pretty tough. But in Systema what's the purpose of catching someone off guard when you disarm them if you aren't fast enough to capitalize? So in this system we will not make the fist change from vertical to horizontal. It's just a slight waste of time but in a fight it can make the difference believe me. That's not what to say you can't do what you did as it is admit ably more powerful since more of the fist will make contact and energy will traverse your arm and consequentially, be dealt to your opponent this way but just make sure when decide to give a haymaker that there is an opening. Now do what I just told you fifty times, I both arms, okay?" The clone nodded and started his task, five minutes later he was done.
"Naruto another clone please." Kakashi yelled out once that one dispelled itself. Naruto did as he was told as he absorbed the information, "Hey Kakashi-sensei why don't I do it to?" Kakashi just looked at the new clone and motioned it to come to the water, "Because after I have gone over all the basics and moves you will be sparing me with no weapons, no Ninjutsu, using this style until I say you are done." Naruto gulped at the tone Kakashi had just used what had he gotten himself into? "Assume your stance." Kakashi said in a now non-chalant tone, the Clone assumed its stance bringing fist up to protect the face. "Okay first off the stance would be good for boxing but that is not what you are doing, so I need you to widen it" Kakashi said as he took the clones hands and arms bringing them out about three inches and angling them out so they almost looked like a right triangle. "This formation sacrifices defense, in the name of quickness and mobility. Also it is a tiny bit easier to throw your punches like I told you. Oh and another reason for the punches like that. It makes it a lot easier to grab someone's something. If you can do that you can dictate the battle for a bit and if you capitalize on that then you can usually take them out or set yourself up for a finishing Ninjutsu."
Then the original spoke out "Kakashi-sensei, what will we be grabbing?" Kakashi just looked at the boy for a second with a deadpan face, not that it was all that obvious due to the mask.
"Anything really nose, hair, clothes, mask, and straps." Kakashi answered after recovering, 'I thought this kid was smart couldn't he figure it out himself?' he thought but then another voice in his head popped up out of nowhere into non-existence 'Just because he looks like sensei, doesn't mean he thinks like sensei, Kakashi remember that.' Why the hell did that voice talk down to him in third person like he was talking to a child?
Kakashi showed him how to grab someone and get a good grip how to capitalize it and how to block punches wither they be hooks or uppercuts. Then he went on to kneeing and elbowing and in turn how to block those. This went on for about an hour, before Kakashi just said stop and that was enough.
"Okay Naruto come on lets go come over here so I can make you look like the cute little student you are." Kakashi said with an eye smile motioning for the original to come, he actually expected some sort of response verbal or physical, but none came. Naruto simply walked to 5 feet in front of Kakashi and assumed his stance, Kakashi lead with a right hook to which Naruto blocked with his back of his left arm, and the blonde quickly sent a right punch to Kakashi's face. After hitting he grabbed Kakashi's hair and pulled him down for a healthy helping of right knee to the face after this Naruto tried for another right punch on the now kneeling Kakashi. But the silver haired man was having none of that he blocked the punch with his left and then delivered an uppercut with his right. Naruto stumbled back and swore, and then he jumped at Kakashi who as soon as the blonde landed from his two meter jump launched a haymaker from right. Naruto blocked and saw a hook from the left coming, but he jumped, pushing more energy into his left block bringing it up behind Kakashi's head, grabbing the elder man's silver mane. He also forgoing the left hook took his right and gave Kakashi an uppercut to which Kakashi stumbled backwards.
"Good Naruto, that is what I want to see use that fierceness, harness it!" Kakashi yelled as he switched stances into what looked like a much more formal style with his left arm tucked behind his back and his right arm out pointed towards Naruto, he then motioned with his middle and pointer finger, 'bring it'. Naruto walked forward standing opposite of Kakashi. He was bleeding from his lip and his face hurt like hell but he managed to hide it mostly. Kakashi then brought his right leg up and tried to deliver an axe kick to Naruto's head Naruto formed an x with his arms and neutralized the kick mid kick, then Kakashi hit Naruto with a lightning quick from his left too which Naruto flew back.
Kakashi having both feet in the air descended to the water but his hands supported him as he got back into the stance from his latest meeting with Naruto, "Come come Naruto is that all you have? No don't worry I won't be actually using Gokken on you, not yet at least it is probably the strongest style in Konoha that is used by more than one person, well maybe gentle fist but still you have no counter to it yet." He said as he dropped the rigid stance and went into something more lax looking like Naruto's stance.
"Come on get up I didn't come here to waste my time, get off your ass Naruto!" Kakashi yelled as he walked over to the bent over Naruto who was facing away from him, Kakashi stormed over and raised his fist as if he was gonna punch Naruto as he moved closer, he knew Naruto saw him due to the shadows. As soon as he got in 5 feet of the blonde the Younger one rose and turned charging the man as he screamed out some war cry. Kakashi didn't make a move as he wanted to see what Naruto could do, the blonde started off by making a kick Kakashi's shin with his left foot, Kakashi's right dodged it but didn't sense it when the leg wrapped around his and when Naruto slammed into him with all his force. Kakashi fell down with Naruto on top of him, the blonde was hunched over on his chest as he cocked back his left and then right to hit Kakashi in rapid succession. Kakashi though, was quicker he maneuvered both of his arms inside the punches and grabbed the whiskered blonde by the elbows. Then the both of them where at a standstill neither could move, until Kakashi made a gamble and released the arms and tried to make his hands grab the blondes cheeks. As the hands where reaching for the cheeks Naruto threw his head forward and tried, to out run the hands they grabbed his golden mane but he was going too fast and head butted Kakashi. Kakashi being dazed let go of the blonde hair and tried to recover but couldn't as the blonde grabbed the older man's neck with his left and covered his face with his right as he forced him under water.
'Wow he really doesn't hold back does he, even that face and war cry he really just goes at it.' Kakashi pondered as he was struggling for air, while he had been surprised by the blonde's ferocious intent, he was a Jounin for a reason and he could hold his breath for 10 minutes so this was a walk in the park. The practice was pointless know he knew the blonde got at least the basics and he would have to grow into this style for him to use it perfectly, but if he kept up at this rate he would be as good as anyone in Kumo at it.
Kakashi's feet stretched to their limit so they could make contact with the water, then using chakra to stick to the water he catapulted himself up at breakneck speeds. Naruto who wasn't completely clamped onto him fell off and skidded back a couple of feet before rising to his feet, then taking his open stance as if he was asking for more. "This practice is over Naruto." Kakashi stated as he walked over to the tree and sat down, Naruto followed him and they sat in silence for what felt like hours, but was only really a couple of minutes.
"How did I do?" Naruto eventually asked.
"Honestly? Great." Kakashi said as he paused "You aren't as tired as you where when I came back after I got my face fixed, what where you doing?" Kakashi asked honestly wondering what could have made the blonde pant like a dog if there little tussle hadn't.
"Well I summoned a Kage bunshin and then we fought but as I was about to get the bastard with an uppercut he backed up and made 2 clones to help him out so I had to take on three bastards!" Naruto exclaimed.
"How? Did you tell it too and why did you give it that much chakra?' Kakashi asked secretly thinking it was hysterical for his little student to get beat up by his own clones.
"My clones sometimes put their interest above min when they are in casual situations, and I was sloppy with distributing the Chakra I had." Naruto said with a frown. Kakashi merely giggled at his student's expense.
About 20 minutes later Kakashi said "Well I'm done teaching you things for today now all you have to do are my tedious drills." Naruto just looked at him with the words 'Fuck you are serious.' Being silently conveyed.
"You stay here Naru-chan while I go to the car and go get the weights." He ignored the remark 'call me that again you masked fucker, I dare you!' as he walked over to the car, he saw Rin watching as Sakura did push-ups.
"What's up babe, you making pinky work hard?" Kakashi asked playfully, expecting the genin to do something as she had not liked being called pinky this morning, he got nothing as the girl seemed to be to emerged in the action of breathing to even try to respond.
"Why of course Sakura has been an excellent student today. Tomorrow if she keeps it up I might bring in some of my toys so I can teach her how to use them." Rin said loudly.
Kakashi wanted to ask if he had heard that right but he was fairly certain that he did, "Rin what kind of toys are we talking about?" Kakashi asked in the most innocent voice he could muster.
"Not actually toys Kakashi, medical supplies." Rin said in a normal tone.
Kakashi exhaled loudly, 'right rape averted.' "Sorry just wasn't sure what kind of 'toys' we were talking about here." He said with are quotes.
Rin put two and two together and suddenly it all made sense. She started to blush deeply and yelled "Kashi that is so wrong! With my student you thought that? Ewwwww!" Kakashi didn't wait for any kind of physical reimbursement and jogged over to the car where he had the weights, he grabbed them and brought them back to Naruto who was still at the trunk.
"Get up and put these on." Kakashi ordered the blonde stood up and secured the weights to his ankles and to his wrist. "Now channel the amount for one Kage bunshin into these weights, one clone for one weight." Naruto did as he was told and he slumped a little but didn't waver.
"Now go do suicides from the left of our side to the right until I tell you to stop." Naruto just looked at Kakashi and the same look promised something a kin to hatred but the boy just silently walked to the left and started to sprint there and back.
This went on until Kakashi thought it had been half-an hour it had been about three times that, obviously he had lost track of time, but hey you can't blame him he was reading. "Okay Naruto that is enough, now drop and give me 100 push-ups!" Kakashi said as his voice fluctuated from a relaxed tone to one of drill sergeants.
Naruto gawked but did as he was told counting out loud, as he reached 100 Kakashi just looked at him, he wasn't panting just drenched in sweat. "Okay makes a Kage bunshin and has a Systema spar with it, oh and keep the weights." Naruto did as he was told and in about 20 seconds grunting could be heard.
"Okay meet us here tomorrow at 8 okay?" Obito told the students they all nodded numbly and walked off. Once they were out of sight and Obito had picked up all the stuff they had been throwing around in the forest they got in the car and silence reigned for about a second or two before Obito asked from the driver's seat "To the usual place?"
"You can't call it usual Obito we have only gone there like two times." Kakashi said in reply. Rin just nodded from the middle row.
"See Kakashi why can't you be more like Rin she just nodded and was quite. I think I liked you better when you were an absolute bastard." Obito said jokingly as he pulled out of the training ground and back on to the side road. Silence reigned once again. Obito didn't break it as he guessed if Kakashi had something to say he would save it for the restaurant.
15 minutes later they pulled up to the Restaurant they got out and walked in the place was busier than yesterday but there were no chakra signatures big enough to be a ninja so they found a booth and sat down waiting for someone to serve them.
Kakashi finally broke the wall of non-talking with "Well Naruto is gonna be a great ninja, I can already tell. He is taking to my stuff like a fish to water and he isn't complaining. I have already started to teach him some stuff that could be the foundations for his style for the rest of his career and to top it off he doesn't get tired to the point of collapse I gave him a Gai-style workout for the last couple of hours and he didn't do anything to protest besides grumbling at me, he has the stamina of an Oni, it's nuts." Kakashi said in a quite but exited tone.
"Really Kashi? What did you give him that was so advanced?" Rin asked in a quite tone.
"I thought today was going to be a Ninjutsu training day with a little bit of Gai style training but he absolutely ate up the Ninjutsu in the first half of the day, he learned Katon: Ni and Ho bunshin. Progress like that is unnatural bar the Uchiha clan. His affinity for Fire must be off the charts." Kakashi paused and Obito was about to say something before Kakashi resumed his summary of the day "I also taught him the basics of Systema."
This made everyone quite for around 30 seconds, "Systema huh, isn't that one of the main parts of Sensei's primary style?" Obito asked in a melancholic tone. He only received a nod from Kakashi.
"Can he handle Systema; hell can he even use it effectively? He seems to be a bit small in my opinion for a style that is so momentum centric and can he even push stuff away?" Obito questioned not really getting the decision to choose such mature style for someone in their early teens.
"Obito apparently Naruto managed to sneak a kunai into his sleeve when he was fighting with Kakashi and almost managed to re-arrange my precious husband's face so I don't think we should take him lightly." Rin chided as she grasped on to Kakashi in a faked manner. Kakashi didn't even bother to roll his eyes as he was more fixated on conveying to obito how he felt about Naruto.
"Well Sasuke has been doing well he has the traditional bow training and shuriken jutsu of the Uchiha clan and his lightning manipulation will be useful when he gets more control and chakra but for right now he is just a lightweight." Obito said as the waitress came over to take their orders.
"Well that's good to hear do you think he'll be as good as his bastard brother?" Kakashi asked. It was a known fact that part of the reason he had left the OMI combat team was because as soon as Itachi had become captain everything had become like a clean freaks room, everything nice and tidy and perfect. That was part of the reason he also couldn't deal with some of the SPARTANs there soulless eyes and fake smiles annoyed the shit out of Kakashi.
"No, no I doubt it he won't be as good as Shisui either but he will be more direct combat orientated then those two in my opinion so it's hard to say. Both of those guys are more built for covert ops quick in and out no questions asked kind of thing, I don't think a prolonged battle would do them any good they could get beat by lots of people who are in all actuality of it not as good as them on one versus one but they might not be able to take the stress." Obito reasoned, he received a nod from Kakashi but nothing from Rin who was looking at the door as a familiar face walked in. It was none other than Anko Mitarashi.
"Wow you guy actually tried out this place?" Anko yelled as she walked over to the table drawing the attention of everyone in the Restaurant, Rin groaned Kakashi face palmed and Obito just grinned. It was a commonly known fact between the ninja's of Chunin level or higher that Obito Uchiha and Anko Mitarashi had plenty of no strings attached casual sex. They had been called but buddies and Anko hadn't even denied Obito would just try to change the subject or tell the talker to shut up.
Anko came down and sat next Rin who greeted her with an almost silent 'hey Anko'. She didn't the Snake summoner but her boisterous attitude and glaring lake of shame, made for some very awkward and embarrassing situations. Plus she wanted obito to be happy not have casual sex! She wanted her quasi-little brother to have a woman he go home to and have a family with and Anko, well Anko just didn't fit those lines. At all.
"So what are you guys talking about? You where clearly talking about something important if you where talking in the tone I saw when I walked in here and there is no other reason you would come here instead of the Jounin Lounge." Kakashi mentally swore he forgot how Anko despite her quirkiness and intense sexual desires was a Jounin of his level; she obviously had some brain to back up her brawn.
Everyone was silent until Anko moaned somewhat quietly "Come on guys, don't be like this, I am not gonna tell anyone anything. Come on if you don't tell me I will spread rumors of you guys have raunchy threesomes." She finished in a devilish but almost silent tone.
Rin cracked at the word 'Threesomes' "Okay, Okay Anko you win. We were talking about our new students okay, just be quite?" she was clearly not in the mode to play with this.
"Oh really? I call bullshit if that was all you were talking about then you a: wouldn't be whispering, b: you would be in the Jounin Longue with the rest of the teachers. So what was it?" She asked Menacingly, she was clearly not gonna move an inch, and as she did this she took off her sandals and started to rub her foot up Obito's leg getting a blush for her troubles.
Obito mumbled out something and Anko couldn't quite make it out "What was that Obito?" she asked oh so sweetly.
"We think one of them could be Sensei's son." Obito said, Anko who had been drinking a bit of Rin's tea she had stolen promptly spit it out all over Obito's hunched over face.
Anko grabbed a napkin and gave it to Obito who looked pissed for what it was worth, She simply said "Could you repeat that I think I heard something crazy in my ear." As she put her hand to her ear mockingly.
"You heard him correctly Anko, what I am about to tell you cannot be repeated on any basis do understand me?" Kakashi said his voice oozing seriousness.
Anko merely nodded, and listened.
Finally done …. Thank you, Jesus.
On a more serious note this is the end of this arc there will be 3-5 arcs in this part so yeah, they also vary in length.
Systema is a real style also, it is used by Spetsnaz forces, if you want more info look it up. Could you guys follow the fight scene or did I get you guys squinting and asking yourselves WUHT?
So please leave a review and yeah until next Master Chief.
