Chapter 4

Hey everyone, here's the cap to the training arc. Hope you like it! Also my deepest thanks to all the people who reviewed!

"Talking''

'Thinking'

'The Uzumaki scroll'

'Demon talking'

'Demon thoughts'

Training arc Finale:

In the small apartment the book materialized. In front of it was the young blonde sleeping peacefully as, he laid sprawled on the bed. Hovering menacingly above the blondes head the book opened to the hidden pages where the cold water no jutsu was sealed. As it began drawing on the boy's chakra…

Naruto woke up turned around and immediately held out his hand in protest shouting "NO! I get it alright I'm awake!" By now he had gotten used to wake up at this time and had even managed to wake up before the book for the past couple of days. The book closed, and nodded, possibly to indicate satisfaction

and sat down in his hands. Channeling some chakra, he made it go into the storage dimension.

Sighing in relief Naruto got up and began to prepare for the day. As he was brushing his teeth in front of the mirror, 'Hmm, so the graduation ceremony is tomorrow, I hope I get a really great team!' thought Naruto. 'It had been almost two weeks since I got the Uzumaki book, I wonder what fresh hell I'll be put through today? Though Kushina-san did promise that today would be fun day!'

Gurgling with some water he spat into the basin.


After completing his exercises for the morning Naruto, which had now been amped up to include 200 squats and skipping as well, Naruto sat down to catch his breath. He had managed over these past few days to keep up rather consistently with the training pace, especially considering that he got to eat his favorite ramen every day. The Uzumaki Kushina special was really amazing. His chakra control had improved a great deal as he was even able to walk on water, albeit only for a couple of minutes before losing concentration.

Summoning the book (which only seemed to appear on its own if Naruto attempted to skip any exercises) he opened it to the last page he had talked with Kushina to… and as always on que she began 'So I see that you've managed to do your morning work. Good! Now here's the surprise I promised you today. Today you're going to learn how to turn your gravity seals on and off. As for how to set levels that I will teach you later but for now just close your eyes and… umm wait read this trough first and then close your eyes. As you close your eyes feel your chakra flowing through you. Chakra, our life force comes from the that feeling of life. I know that we have been training how to control it, but now you must really try to understand it. Direct the flow of chakra into the seals on your back. Once pulse of chakra there will activate or deactivate the seals. Got that? Now try it!'

Reading through the words a couple of times, frankly just to understand them better, Naruto placed the book on the ground and closed his eyes. 'So I'm supposed to feel my chakra?' Concentrating (or at least attempting to) Naruto focused on the part where he felt he had the most chakra, his navel. 'This is just like the tree climbing, all I've got to do is concentrate my chakra on my back!'. Naruto didn't realize it but on his back the rather intricate seals began glowing. "Whoa!" Naruto exclaimed as his eyes popped open. All of a sudden he felt so much lighter, almost as if he'd lost all his weight, 'although now that I think about it, that's probably exactly what happened'. It was an amazing feeling, a feeling of weightlessness and complete freedom of movement.

Standing up without seeing the book, which was attempting to tell him something he started to break into a run… only to shoot ahead and crash into the ground face first. Shaken from the impact he tried to get on his feet but ended up getting up with a jolt as he flew a couple of meters and feel on his butt.

The book materialized in front of Naruto's face and hit him on the head before opening up, 'If you would have payed attention that wouldn't have happened!' Naruto still a bit woozy from the whole fiasco tried to read what was written but the book just continued in its reprimanding tone, 'I guess that Mito san was right, kids never listen to their…umm their… their semi sentient books? Anyways listen up, for the past few days you've been living under 2.5 Gs of gravity did you suddenly expect to control your strength when you shifted back to normal? Ha! That would be ridiculous! You have to accustom your body back to the original levels and learn to switch between the two. For example, without the seals on it will take 1/5th of the energy to jump as it would with the seals on. Don't worry your body will get used to it soon enough. But over the years it has been decided that 2.5 Gs is pretty much the maximum that we can use without causing major problems to our co-ordination. So this is the limit of the gravity seals we can use. Don't worry though we have plenty to learn! For now practice getting used to the gravity very slowl…'

Reading the last sentence Naruto immediately got up but again in his eagerness ended up back flipping to fall on the ground face first.

'This is going to be a long day' the book wrote, to itself.


Later that day, in the evening Naruto was sitting on his bed at home, practicing the sealing strokes at a furious rate along with 5 of his clones doing the same on the floor. Kushina had promised him that when his calligraphy was good enough, he would learn his first seal. In her words, 'It is important that your strokes are perfect cause even a minor error in a complex seal can lead to disastrous consequences' So since that night he had begun furiously practicing the basic strokes. To his amazement what had seemed a tedious task at first, seemed to come naturally to him, especially with 5 clones working with him. By now his basics were starting to look perfect!

As he dispelled the 5 clones and received their experience, the book which had laid silently open besides him opened to a fresh page, began to signs of activity as Kushina began, 'Good! Your foundation seems to be well established. And to have done it so fast too, you must be a natural! So, this means you are now ready for your first seal, the storage seal!'

'What?', thought Naruto. 'I expected to learn something amazing, this is a little disappointing'.

'Now now mister don't make that long face. Let me tell you a little secret. In my career as a kunoichi there was never a seal more useful to me than the storage seal. It is a rather simple seal but it can be used to great effect. It greatly reduces your travel weight, you can store and carry weapons, and if you're innovative you can use it for a great deal more. Also, a lot of the higher level seals such as those that launch projectiles are subtle variations of this seal. Trust me, practice this seal to perfection and you'll be one step closer to being a great shinobi!'

'Well to be fair that does sound kind of cool? Plus, Kushina-san has only helped me until now'

Thinking so Naruto nodded rather vigorously, and then felt a bit silly nodding to a book.

'Alright then! Let's start with your first seal! You might want to summon your clones to help you out'

"Oh! Umm… yeah, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"


So short chapter! I'm sorry but I had to end the training arc and I didn't want to overlap with Naruto's first day as an official ninja. Don't worry the chapters coming up are pretty long. As promised I'll be posting every two nights at least until about chapter 15. Anyways read and review! Please review! Constructive criticism is loved so much!