"Alright guys, here's what we're doin' today. we're going to build on the basics. were going to combine kunai practice with Kawarimi no Jutsu. all you have to do is, after you throw your kunai, replace yourself with it. were going to do this exercise untill you either drop from exhaustion or you get it down. now, lets begin." to drive his point home, as soon as he finished talking he began to do the drill that he just gave them. pulling out a kunai, naruto threw it at a random target, and as it was about to impact the target naruto switched places with it, smashing the target with a vicious axe kick. the former blonde then let lose another kunai, the throw just as wild as the first. again, right before it could hit the target naruto apeared, his fist hitting the exact spot the kunai would have.
shaking off thier awe, the two boys and one girl set about the task given to them, determined to complete it with in the day. shaking his head in amusement, the former blonde went back to doing the same exercise as his three students, albeit at a faster speed and using one less hand seal then them.
'damn sensei, this is harder than it looks and sounds... damn it!' mentaly groused Takaru after almost slaming face first into a target.
20 minutes later all three students were on the ground panting from slight over-exertion. "ok, now that that is out of the way for the moment, i want you to practice on your hand sealing speed. go through all the seals in random order. try to go faster each time you go through them. while you three are doing that, i'll be making a lot of racket in an atempt to distract you. if i notice the lapse in concentration you'll have to do 100 sit ups and push ups before going back to work on your sealing speed. after were done with this execise ill show you yet another jutsu that 'build on the basics'. get to it."
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Uzuru Idomizu sat on the bed in her room, going over the events of the day. it was kind of nice knowing that she getting the hang of things faster than Takaru and Baigai. first the kunai/Kawarimi combination and then the shuriken bunshin no jutsu, the shuriken bunshin no jutsu being a variation of the bunshin no jutsu. instaead of making an illusion or illusions of yourself, you make them of a shuriken/senbon/kunai.
granted, she wasn't the most skilled with either, but she could pull them off. and she could do it before either of the boys. even simply thinking about it brought a grin to her face.
Yawning, the ebony haired girl layed back in bed, but not before taking out a shuriken, hovering and slightly spinning it above her forehead, doing a chakra control exercise before going to bed.
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Shinamu Takaru was anoyed. he just couldn't see why he was unable to slash with his katana, toss a kunai and then replace himself with it, finishing the slash. sure, it might have been asking a little mutch to expect to be able to something like that, especialy when he just learned the technique that day. grining to himself he wondered if he could use the shuriken clone no jutsu and then perform the Kawarimi no jutsu.
pulling out a shuriken, he tossed it at a tree and went through the hand seals, making a total of 4 shuriken. as soon as that seal sequence was done he started the next, replacing himself with the shuriken and smashing the target with the heel of his foot. the pony tailed boy smirked before jumping in to the air and doing a small victory dance.
'I can't believe that worked! i have definately got to practice that on my own time.' the ebony haired boy then headed home for some well deserved rest.
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Togishiru Baigai lay on his bed, looking at the star filled sky through the window. he sighed as he thaught of all the crap he had to do, all for the name of training. changing places with a thrown kunai, climbing trees without hands while also sticking leaves to themselves, and making bunshins of thrown weapons. oh yea, and hand sealing speed. that was on top of the normal physical training of 150 push ups and sit ups, jogging, taijutsu and kenjutsu sparring.
sighing once again, the lazy teen rolled over and qickly fell asleep.
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so far it was a clear sunny day, hardly a cloud in the sky. it was warm and there was a slight gentle breeze. the seemingly perfect day. so naturaly 3 genin and there trainer were indoors at the academy. visiting the library.
"Why are we here again Naruto-sensei?" Idomizu whined.
The crimson haired teen sighed. "We're here to study, why else do you go to the library?" just as she was about to ask again he continued, "you three are going to look through the E-rank and D-rank jutsu scrolls. you are then going to combine the skills to make either a D-rank or better attack/defence technique. remember what i showed you with the Kawarimi no jutsu and the bunshin no jutsu".
nodding, the trio headed off to look through the stuff on a shelf a few meters away. Naruto on the other hand, turned twords the book case nearest him and swiped blood across the seal on the under side of the second shelf from the top, releasing the curently in-progress forbidden scroll of Akashiogakure no sato. the former blonde then disapeared from that section and reapeared over by a table, already in the chair provided and scribling away. snapping his his fingers when he had an idea, Naruto created a shadow clone.
with out saying a word, the clone went over to book case that was just slightly more isolated than all of the others and began to search for a specific scroll.
while the clone was off doing it's thing, the original went back over to whare he got the forbiden scroll he was creating and resealed it. thanks to the fox giving him hints and ocasional training in a various asortment of skills, he was now two or three times the shinobi he ever was. and of course, some of this knowledge he freely shared, hence why they were in the combined samurai/shinobi tactics academy library. granted non shinobi were only granted access to the E-rank jutsu and basic training manuals for numberous things.
'Sometimes I think those back-stabbing fuck-heads did me a favor.'
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A/N: i would apologize for not having worked on this story in a while, but it wouldnt matter. so i wont. at anyrate, here is a short chapter, full of mistakes.
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shuriken bunshin no jutsu: shuriken clone technique; creates illusionary clones of a thrown weapon, such as a shuriken. D-rank, offensive (0-15m)
