Chapter 7 – Shinobi legend in the making
After Iruka stopped talking about the teams, he issued the new genin to wait until the respective jounin senseis arrived for them. Since Anko was already there, she figured it would be pointless to sit and wait the rest of the jounins to arrive, so she issued her team to go meet her at her favorite spot in Konoha. "Alright Team 5 meet me in twenty minutes at the dango stand, ja ne". – Said Anko as he shunshined out of the classroom, leaving Naruto, Tenten and Neji with a scowl on each of their faces, since their so called jounin sensei left without even saying where the hell was the dango place in the first place.
Naruto suddenly remembered Yuugao saying that she along with Kurenai went to meet Anko at the same place every day and that such place was a dango stand. Catching up on the location after searching his mind, Naruto turned to his new teammates and lead them on to where was the place they were supposed to go. As Team 5 left the classroom in a calm manner, since Naruto didn't want to use fuuton shunshin, they came across a certain jounin wearing sun glasses that happened to go pick one of his new genin team. Yamashiro Aoba was wondering just how different would this new batch of genin be, since the new academy and for once didn't notice a familiar blonde coming towards his way. "Aoba-sensei, is that you?" – Asked Naruto for Aoba to lift his head to see to whom belonged such a familiar voice just to see that the boy was Namikaze Naruto, but Aoba was checking on his new appearance and the fact that now was taller than before (of course, they met four years ago). "Naruto, man you've grown. I can see that you're a genin now, congratulations. Where are you heading?"
"Thanks Aoba-sensei. I and my team are heading to the dango place to meet our sensei Mitarashi Anko". – Said Naruto, which Aoba lifted his eyebrow. He would never know why Anko volunteered to teach a team of genins in the first place. He remembered that night at the Hokage's office where she wanted to take Naruto's team, being that the only condition for her to pick a genin team. Aoba, since then, was pondering on the topic of how much Naruto's abilities influenced her decision, sure he was strong but to pick the snake mistress's interest was nothing short of amazing. Aoba recalled chatting with his ex-students Kurenai and Yuugao and he remembered both of the girls praising about Naruto's shinobi skills. "Oh, I see. Well, nice seeing you, I'm off to see my team, later". – Said Aoba as he continued walking towards the classroom.
--At the Dango place--
As Team 5 were keeping their pace towards the dango place, Anko was already there enjoying a few set of dangos and a cup of tea. It was only five minutes left for her team to arrive and this was her team's first test, to arrive in time. She had a knack for punctuality and such a rule would be extended to her team.
Before Anko finished her last set of dango, she looked at the clock to see that the time she gave them has ended and they were due to arrive yet. But, unfortunately for her, her team had just arrived, meaning that there wouldn't be any lecture on her part or 'torture lesson' as she would like to call. Upon seeing their new sensei, Team 5 joined her table for what would be their first team gathering. After they all sat, Anko chose to eat the last dango and address to them. "Welcome to my team. Together we will be a part of Team 5. Now, even though I was your teacher at the academy, I didn't get to know any of you as I will now. So, we'll start with some introductions about ourselves. As I point, I want each of you to tell me your names, likes, dislikes and dreams for the future. Okay, you go". – Said Anko as she pointed to Tenten. "Hi, I'm Tenten, I like weapons, my friends, my family and training, I dislike those who think boys are stronger than girls just because of the gender. My dream for the future is to be a weapons specialist and become a part of Anbu". – Explained Tenten, earning a recognition nod from Anko who sympathized with her. "Very nice, Tenten, now you, Neji isn't it?" – Asked Anko as she pointed to him.
"My name is Hyuuga Neji. My likes are training, my family and friends. I dislike wasting my time when I could be training. My dream for the future is to surpass my tou-san in the arts of the jyuuken". – Said Neji, turning his head to Naruto, since he would be the next one to talk about him. "Right, I'm Namikaze Naruto, I like my family, friends, ninjutsu, training and watching the full moon. I dislike favoritism based by whose father you are or whose clan you belong and my dream for the future is to be an Anbu captain". – Said Naruto, earning glances from Anko and the rest of the genins, since they believed Naruto said that he enjoyed watching the full moon. Anko for her part was recollecting Yuugao talking to her about the time she got to see Naruto staring at the full moon one time and from what she described; Anko could only want to know more about the namikaze blonde. "Ah, Naruto, did you say you like to stare at the full moon, what's so nice about it?" – Asked Tenten, getting nods from Neji who was also interested, but apart from Tenten, Neji remember hearing something about it from Naruto's father once.
"Well, at first I was really impressed by the beauty and magnitude of moonlight acting like a second son illuminating Konoha. Of course, when the sun does it, it's still nice and all, but the feeling is completely different. But nowadays, every time I look at it, somehow I'm hypnotized just by looking at it. It seems that I couldn't get enough of looking at". – Explained Naruto to his peers, who thought best to question someone's hobbies. "Your father was right, Naruto, you are indeed a werewolf". – Said Neji, actually making a joke at the namikaze genin who in turn smiled, remembering the hokage saying that to him. Anko for her part was actually smiling upon seeing Naruto's genuine one. She knew deep inside about her friend Yuugao's blabbering about him and she wondered how much Naruto had influenced Yuugao over time, but seeing it was her chance to talk about her, she did just that. "Well, my name is Mitarashi Anko, I like dango, tor…interrogating missing-nins, my friends and Iruka-kun. I dislike guys who are full of themselves to even bother looking at the dictionary about a word called humility sometimes and my dream for the future is to…I don't know…maybe be with Iruka, I guess. Oh and seeing that you are mine for at least the time you being promoted to chunnin, I plan for the training to be as 'pleasurable' for me as it will be for you, if you know what I mean". – Said Anko, smiling deviously at the genin who thought best of daring to ask the question and figure out what she meant by that.
--With Yuugao--
Meanwhile, Kurenai and Yuugao were returning from their assigned mission with a smirk. Yuugao, since she got to fight a lot of missing-nins and was able to use the strategy she planned on using on a certain blonde-haired genin once they sparred again. Kurenai for her part was smiling just because Yuugao was smiling as well. She knew how much Yuugao love to fight and as she witnessed the display of the kenjutsu specialist's skills, she silently thanked Kami for not putting her to fight against Yuugao at the chunnin exams. Also Kurenai shivered upon remembering as to what she heard about Yuugao's strategy after the fight. She recalled seeing Yuugao's eyes as she said that such strategy and techniques were to be directed to Naruto off all people. Yuugao explained to her about her 'evolved' rivalry with the blonde and wished that he wouldn't get badly hurt after this.
"Come, Kurenai-chan, I have to test this strategy on him today, even if I have to ask permission for Anko-chan. If my thoughts are correct, she must be having her first conversation with her team, seeing that the academy time would be over and all. Bet you 20 ryos that they are at the dango place". – Said Yuugao, instantly showing her signature smile, same as she did when she was to fight him or had already did, much to Kurenai's secret delight, since she happen to like Yuugao when she is like this all cheerful and all. "That's not fair, Yuugao-chan, we're talking about Anko here, there wouldn't be any place she would rather go to". – Said Kurenai as she giggled at the last comment, same to Yuugao. "I know that, it seemed like easy money that's all". With that, both girls took a quick pace towards the dango place.
--At the Dango Place--
As Anko finished explaining as to what she meant by the word 'pleasurable', pretty much making the genins slightly scared of her. She addressed to them to meet tomorrow at 8 am, as for a little display of skills in order to see how to improve them if needed be. Little after the team left, two girls arrived at the place only to see Anko there sitting by herself ordering some more dango and one more cup of tea. "Anko-chan, I thought you were here talking with your genin team, where are they?" – Asked Yuugao, trying to hide the fact that she was looking for Naruto only, which didn't get unnoticed by Anko, since she was smiling deviously at her friend. "They just left, Yuugao-chan. I believe that your boyfriend was heading for his house, if you hurry, you can catch him". – Said Anko, earning a glare from Yuugao, from the boyfriend remark, but since she wanted to fight him so badly, she decided to let it slide for later and just vanished using shunshin, leaving Kurenai and Anko. "Kurenai-chan, how about a little bet, what do you say?"
"A bet, you say? What's the wager?" – Asked Kurenai, earning a smile from Anko. "How long it will take for Yuugao to actually tell the truth to him? I would say two years from now, what about you?" – Said Anko, to which Kurenai smiled when she thought about it and realized that her kenjutsu friend was beginning to display different affections towards the blonde. "That soon, Anko-chan. No, even though I think on the same lines as you do, Naruto-kun is only ten and Yuugao is eighteen, I would say four years from today. How much will be betting?"
After a few discussions regarding the wager, the girls settled for 100 ryo, because of how long they were betting for the romance to begin, to which both of them laugher about, with both of them also imagining Naruto and Yuugao together, with Naruto in a Konoha chunnin outfit by them and Yuugao either in a jounin outfit or in an Anbu attire. "Well, Anko-chan, since Yuugao-chan went after Naruto, I'll have to deliver the mission report to Yondaime-sama alone, see ya".
--Elsewhere in Konoha--
After leaving the dango place, Naruto actually felt a little shiver up his spine upon hearing about how would be Anko's training. Just for hearing what she planned for the team, Naruto wondered if he would live to even become a chunnin in the first place. Since Naruto was deep in thought about it, he failed to realize that a purple haired kunoichi was reaching up to him, while speeding through the rooftops. Just as Naruto was about to set his foot on the upcoming rooftop, a kunai came flying at him, leaving him with no option but to defend himself from it. Naruto reached one of his trench knifes and blocked the upcoming kunai, before hearing the noise of metal against metal and sighing in relief from not being imbedded by the kunai. Going through his mind over who might do that, he came to the only person who challenged him like this and smiled. It has been some time since his last spar with the kenjutsu specialist and he wanted to have another go.
As he turned, he spotted said woman at a training ground nearby with a grin on her face, meaning one thing, well at least for Naruto it only meant one thing. A spar. Quickly picking the last trench knife, he then channeled fuuton chakra through it as to show Yuugao that he was ready for it. Seeing this, Yuugao smiled and quickly picked her katana and dashed towards him with a swing motion, being stopped by the wind trench knifes courtesy of Naruto. "You are a lot stronger than before, Yuugao-chan". – Said Naruto while keeping his defenses up in case of a sudden suiton technique, being this typical of her. "Thanks, Naruto-kun, your speed has improved as well". – Smiled Yuugao, before suddenly jumping back while making hand seals true to Naruto's suspicions. "Suiton Hahonyruu no Jutsu (Water Style: Destructive Rapid Torrents Jutsu)".
Witnessing the surprised rise of torrents forming behind her and going at his direction, Naruto jumped using chakra through his feet, while also making hand seals on his own. "Raiton Jibashi no Jutsu (Lightning Style: Electromagnetic Pulse Jutsu)". With that, Naruto charged the raiton element through the rapid torrents of Yuugao since water conduct electricity, making Yuugao curse and perform a back flip as to avoid the technique. Quickly, after landing, she threw a couple of shurikens at Naruto who used his trench knifes to try and block them, but one did pass his defenses and imbedded his left arm. "I won this one, Naruto-kun". – Smiled Yuugao as she declared her victory to her rival to which Naruto smiled, even though his arm was slightly hurt because of the shuriken. "It seems so Yuugao-chan. So, can you help me take care of my arm, I'm afraid to remove it" – Asked Naruto for some medical attention, much to Yuugao's sudden alarm, after the heat of the battle died. "Oh, right. Sit down for a while and extend your arms a little for me, would you?" – Said Yuugao as Naruto complied and sit on the ground, extending his wounded arm.
Upon some inspection, Yuugao sighed in relief since the wound was light. After some hand seals, Yuugao's hand became green and she rested both their hands on top of the wound she happened to cause in the first place. Yuugao was thanking her sensei for telling her to learn a medical jutsu, just in case and now she was using it on Naruto. Naruto for his part, was feeling somewhat warmed inside, after sensing Yuugao's hands on his wound. Such a feeling was pretty much foreign to him, but the warming sensation inside him was peaceful and made him smile. After the wound stabilized and the Yuugao extracted the shuriken, they began to talk a little bit about what happened since the last time they sparred. Naruto told her about how scary Anko could be and asked Yuugao if what she said to him was true. Yuugao after hearing this could only nod at her rival and saying that it was Anko's personality and such training would only emphasize her slave driver personality.
It was safe to say that Naruto shivered even more after that, which made Yuugao giggle upon seeing a guy scared of a woman like that. After it, Yuugao shared about her co-op mission with Kurenai, when she got to fight some missing-nins from Suna, using the same suiton jutsu she used on Naruto. As she was explaining the mission contents, Naruto was listening intently, wondering when he would be doing missions like that. Naruto shoved this thought aside, because even though they would be starting to do C ranked missions, it would only be low-level ones, mostly fighting bandits or something like that. Fighting missing-nins it is nothing less than B ranked and Naruto would take a while to be able to do. Resigning his fate, he listened as Yuugao finished her report to the Namikaze, but not the one who should be hearing this.
When she realized that she was supposed to hand the mission report, she panicked for good. "Naruto-kun, I'm sorry, I was supposed to handle a report to Yondaime-sama, oh shit. I have to go, bye" – Screamed Yuugao the last part as she was already sprinting towards the Hokage's office. "See you, Yuugao-chan and the next time I'll win". – Said Naruto as he turned to his house's direction and sprinted. On the way, he concluded to take a look at the new raiton jutsu scroll he earned as a gift from his parents.
--At the Hokage's office--
Minato was doing his paperwork, cursing himself for it the entire time. He couldn't use the kage bunshin, since he wanted to read this reports carefully. All of them were results of the new academy and he wanted to make sure that the new system was enough to improve Konoha's standard genins. As he read, his satisfactory grin went wider each minute, they were no complains about the teachings and both classes managed to graduate at least 80 of the academy students with elemental training already narrowed down. He was content with the results and was imagining the future with such genins now on the shinobi village's bingo book with the same reputation as his own. Yep, life was good.
As he was reading through it, a knock on the door and his secretary appeared saying Yuhhi Kurenai wished to hand in the report, which got Minato concerned since Yuugao wasn't with her. Since Naruto and Yuugao's 'friendly' relationship has initiated, both Minato and Kushina took a considerable time to get to know the purple haired girl that happens to be their son's rival and seeing that Kurenai was alone, Minato feared for the worse, but after a while such feelings stepped aside after hearing a panting kunoichi climbing the nearby stairs to enter inside the office. "Sorry, Hokage-sama, I had to take care of a few things". – Lied Yuugao, who didn't want to say that she was late because she wanted to fight against his son, earning a lifted eyebrow from Kurenai and a suspicious look from the hokage who not only managed to see the look on Kurenai's face and that he had very good interrogation skills. "Yuugao-chan, you wouldn't try to lie to me would you? I thought you're better than doing such a thing". – Said Minato that even though he was smiling, it was clear to both of them that the hokage caught her. "No Hokage-sama, I…." – Began Yuugao but was stopped by the hokage with his hands up. "Just kidding Yuugao-chan, there's no need to feel alarmed about it. Kurenai-chan here already told me about it". – Said the hokage, setting the bait which Kurenai caught but Yuugao didn't.
"Kurenai-chan, how could you tell him about Naru…" – Mumbled Yuugao before putting her hands on her mouth from keeping her of telling the hokage that the reason she was late, which upon hearing Naruto's name, Minato did already get the picture of what happened. "Got you. So how is my son's fighting skills Yuugao-chan, tell me about him. I was actually wondering about that, since it's been some time since I got to see how he bare in a fight". – Asked Minato, now more like a father's wish than a hokage's order, which made Yuugao look at the blonde with a surprised look on his face, but answered anyway. "Naruto-kun right now is adjusting to the 7x gravity seal rather nicely, for a moment there I thought he released it, but he didn't. In our last fight, his fuuton knife taijutsu were on par with my father's kenjutsu stance. As for ninjutsu, his raiton is becoming very proficient, he used a raiton technique that channeled electrical discharge and pointed to the little river I formed with suiton, enhancing the power of the electricity". – Explained Yuugao detailing with precision their last spar for Minato who couldn't help but smile at the vivid and energetic description given to him. Minato could very well see as Yuugao was telling what happened, that her smile never ceased or even diminished, quite on the contrary. "Very good, it seems that you picked quite a rival there Yuugao-chan and with Naruto being exactly your opposite regarding ninjutsu and taijutsu, I would say both of you will benefit from this rather greatly". – Smiled Minato, earning a approval nod from both Kurenai and Yuugao, being the former because of the way that Yuugao talks about Naruto and Yuugao for having someone like Naruto on her life.
"Now, Kurenai-chan, I believe you owe me a report?" – Asked Minato now shifting to the hokage position.
--At the Namikaze residence--
After Naruto arrived, he talked a little bit with Kushina who by the way was reading some medical books, just like she's been doing for some time now. Because of raising Naruto, Kushina never got to harness her skills as a medic-nin and now that her boy was now a genin and wouldn't spend much time at home, she resigned to studying once again and maybe even work at Konoha hospital once again. At first, Kushina was sad that her Naruto wouldn't be home anymore, but she sighed upon figuring that he would spend less time at home as the time passes by. But she knew the life of a shinobi as she happened to marry Minato, who at the time was one of the jounin elite of Konoha.
Kushina learned from Naruto about who would be his sensei and she shivered at the name of Mitarashi Anko. She didn't dislike the girl but if the rumors were true, Anko was known for her rather 'dangerous' persona and she was afraid that Naruto would be killed before getting to leave the village for a mission. After talking and having a quick bite, Naruto went upstairs to pick up the scroll for his new raiton technique and shunshined to the garden.
Kushina for her spot, tended to look at her son with a hint of pride on her face. She knew Naruto's little chakra warm-up which initiated with normal chakra meditation and then proceeding to elemental chakra meditation, either one of Naruto's chakra affinities. Naruto for his part was found sitting down and began the calm breathing process in order to initiate the meditation and the elemental chakra gathering. As he began his meditation, Naruto turned to channel lightning chakra through his chakra coils and circulate them to travel through his entire body. As he closed his eyes in concentration, he was able to hear the sound of electricity travelling through his body. Naruto once applied too much chakra throughout his body and electrical pulses surrounded his body (try to imagine DBZ Gohan's SSJ2 transformation). Now being able to focus his chakra better, Naruto opened his eyes and continued the chakra flow as a way of such control becoming similar to fuuton chakra and be able to read the scroll without having to do it all over again. Because of Naruto's natural affinity for wind, he still had some trouble shifting elemental affinities. It seemed that Naruto actually had to stop the flow of fuuton chakra just so he could use raiton. But by doing this, his control was improving.
As he read through the scroll, he learned that the Raiton Ikazuki Butoukai Hou no Jutsu (Lightning Style: Thunder ball cannon Jutsu) actually involved not only control over the element but also shape manipulation, something he still didn't know how to do it. Upon realizing this, he was slightly upset, but refrained himself over behaving like this because he couldn't use such a jutsu yet. But, since his mind was still pondering on raiton techniques, he remembered when he forced chakra out of his body that day and wondered if he could do that to use together with a punch or any other taijutsu kata for that manner. So, Naruto closed his eyes once again and channeled chakra to one of his fists. Upon reaching its destination, Naruto turned to focus on using a big enough surge of chakra and like magic, Naruto's hands began to shine as electrical discharges seemed to come out of his palm. When he opened his eyes, he saw his hand and then turned to a wooden dummy that was abandoned. Deciding to test the raiton punch, he charged the dummy while preparing to land the punch.
Kushina was reading her book when the door bell rang and Kushina went to answer it. As she opened the door, she saw the little Nara genius and her mother who greeted her and expressed the pretension of a little visit. Nodding in appreciation, Kushina lead the two to the living room, but what the three of them saw after looking at the garden was an image they wouldn't forget. There Naruto was sprinting very fast with what appeared to be a raiton charged fist towards the target represented by a wooden dummy. As the fist made contact, it was safe to say that the dummy simply disintegrated, exploded, ceased to exist.
Naruto was smiling like hell over this. He didn't know if such a technique was already invented or not, but Naruto did wanted to take credit for it in case it wasn't. Seriously, the possibilities were endless with such technique. With it, Naruto could make a raiton kick, raiton roundhouse kick. For the name, Naruto decided that such technique would be called Raiton Raikou Dageki no Jutsu (Lightning Style: Lightning Strike Jutsu). Since the technique still involved considerable amount of chakra, Naruto labeled unofficially as a B ranked jutsu, but his father's words would be the one who decided. As he turned towards the house, he came to see three heads looking at him like he had two extra heads.
--On the next day--
Naruto awoke and got out of his bed. Jumping through the hygiene routine, he went downstairs to do his morning training routine as a way of warming up. Today would be the day his sensei Anko would test him to see his abilities and he needed to be warmed up for it. As Naruto was taking a morning jog around morning Konoha (6:00 am) with the 7x gravity seal active working wonders on his body, he was feeling something strange like he knew he was being watched. Little did he know that Uchiha Itachi was near the premised while on patrol around the compound.
Itachi for his part, was smiling upon seeing such determination within Naruto seeing that the genin woke up early in order to train. Itachi was slowly but surely condemning every single important clan in Konoha, simply because every member of such clans were either depending on their bloodline or using their political image as a way to improve their status in Konoha. Even Itachi's brother Sasuke who was supposed to even surpass his brother in talent once, nowadays he was blind only wanting the power of the sharingan. And for those who think Itachi is being hypocrite, he is not. Even though his fighting style relies on the sharingan, Itachi trained his body until exhaustion every single day of his life. Itachi was thanking Kami from at least saving one from total idiocy and laziness.
Naruto for his part, had returned home and took some breakfast. After a few time, Naruto went to the scheduled training area where his team was supposed to meet, by preferring on a slightly more aggressive approach. Naruto used four times the fuuton shunshin no jutsu and appeared at the training ground, only to see the snake mistress Anko sitting on a rather large rock while eating some breakfast dango. Upon reaching her destination, she suddenly was aware of someone near him only to see a cool and tranquil face of a certain genin with his hands inside his pockets, staring at her direction as he was about to initiate the conversation. "Good morning, Anko-sensei?" – Greeted Naruto making Anko look down and acknowledge his presence. "Naruto, you're here already? You're one hour early, you could've used it better, but seeing that you're here, we may start our little test. Since teamwork is not a problem, we shall move to ninjutsu and taijutsu training. As you probably do or do not know, my teachings to you regarding ninjutsu will be inexistent, seeing that I do not know fuuton or raiton techniques, since I'm a fire person with good knowledge of doton techniques. But we will train with all the other ninja arts, taijutsu, speed, stealth, endurance, stamina, enhancing chakra reserves, all in due time."
As Anko were explaining Naruto's genin training, he wasn't going to complain about the non-existent ninjutsu training, simply because of his fuuton ninjutsu book as well as the fact that he just acquired a new raiton scroll and developed a new jutsu which according to Minato, who demanded a demonstration after hearing about the Raiton Raikou Dageki no Jutsu (Lightning Style: Thunder Strike Jutsu), considered the technique to be a B ranked one and set Kakashi to add such technique to the ninjutsu archive by the name of its creator. Minato was proud of the boy who like himself was beginning in the art of jutsu creation. Back to Anko's explanation, Naruto was actually looking more forward to physical skills enhancement. "It's okay, Anko-sensei. I was actually counting on more physical training anyway. I have been doing some at home but by fighting against you, Yuugao-chan and Neji, I'll be fast and strong in no time at all". – Said Naruto, expressing determination towards his future training regime.
"Okay, then gaki. Seeing that we got at least one hour to kill, what do you say we test your abilities with a spar". – Said Anko to which Naruto smiled and nodded in acceptance. Naruto knew that he wouldn't stand a chance against her even if he released his gravity seal but since she wanted to test his skills, he had to go all out, also as to measure his capacity against a stronger foe. "Okay, Anko-sensei, but first I've got to do something". – Said Naruto, deactivating the 7x gravity seal and gravity suddenly wasn't even there for him. It was forever since Naruto took off the gravity seal and now Naruto was feeling like he could fly. Anko for her part, noticed something different about him, she saw his shoulders lift like Naruto was lifting weights. It was strange for her seeing that Naruto was like this, his whole time at the academy and already came to a scary conclusion…the boy was holding back. "I can see now why Yuugao likes to fight you so much, assume your stance Naruto, let's begin". – Said Anko before watching Naruto fetching his twin knife while channeling with fuuton chakra. "Already am, Anko-sensei". Anko was searching inside her mind to recognize such style since she already saw Asuma using it, but as Yuugao said, with Naruto you could never assume anything.
Deciding on starting the fight, Anko charged Naruto by running towards him in a straight line before dashing to the right, in order for Naruto to lose sight of her just for her to find an opening to his defensive, but being adjusted to speeds even with the gravity seal, Naruto followed her movement and just lifted the left knife a little as to block any chance of attacking, much to Anko's both disappointment and also happiness, being the first because of her failed attempt to attack him and the second because she saw how good Naruto's close combat skills are. Deciding to change the tactic, Anko backed away and threw three kunais towards Naruto in a way to test his defensive abilities regarding projectiles. Upon seeing the kunais approaching, Naruto focused on looking at the distance between each one of them and blocked them using his twin knifes to cut the kunais in half as each of them were approaching. Naruto, after that, turned to charge the opponent, while still with his defensive up, being that a wise advice from his father. After he reached a close distance to Anko, using his right knife, Naruto began a slashing vertical motion, which Anko defended with her kunai, only to see the kunai split in two because of the strength of the attack. Deciding to test his ninjutsu skills, Anko jumped back while making speed hand seals, screaming Doton Doryuudan no Jutsu (Earth Style: Earth Dragon Projectile Jutsu), making a mud dragon head appear and throw rapid mud balls at Naruto who were also making his own set of seals for a defensive jutsu. "Fuuton Shouheki no Jutsu (Wind Style: Wind Barrier Jutsu).
Since Anko never got to see Naruto's techniques, when she saw two typhoons spinning side by side, creating a shield in front of Naruto, she was mesmerized. As the mud balls approached, one by one was being overwhelmed by the wind shield and ended up disintegrating. Naruto, remembering on a fuuton ninjutsu strategy once, decided to implement it. Anko was thinking on using a katon technique, since Naruto wouldn't be able to counter using fuuton, when she noticed that Naruto's defensive jutsu was still on and creating an air current towards her that at first was like a little breeze, however as Naruto was pumping more chakra, the typhoons were spinning faster, enhancing the wind, transforming the breezed to a gust of wind. Because of the force of the wind, Anko was having problems seeing, since the strong wind was making it difficult for her to let her eyes open, leaving Naruto with the opportunity to finish his plan. Since Naruto's natural affinity for wind, he was able to stop one jutsu and then engage on another one in little time. Naruto stopped the flow for the defensive jutsu, leaving Anko close to two seconds to breathe normally, but not enough time to realize Naruto's now enhanced fuuton technique.
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Naruto, after returning to his house, after a little spar with Yuugao, was at his room reading his fuuton ninjutsu book. Whether was coincidence or not, Naruto went straight to the page that explained the daitoppa. As he looked upon the information, he realized that such part he already knew and moved to flip the page, but as he flipped the page, he managed to see a paragraph that he didn't read before.
'The fuuton daitoppa is a C level ninjutsu, which applied the correct chakra, the ninja exhales a strong gust of wind towards the enemy. But recently, it was discovered that upon further use of chakra, the technique become stronger. The gust of wind now is a wind storm and the enemy must think quickly if he doesn't want to get caught in it. This new version of the daitoppa is a B level ninjutsu called….
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"Fuuton Chakra Daitoppa no Jutsu (Wind Style: Enhanced Breaktrough Jutsu)" – Screamed Naruto, as he began to exhale the huge wind storm towards Anko, taking some chunks of the ground and the some small trees with it. Anko for her part, found herself in a difficult situation, since because of the strong wind, she couldn't move. Resorting to a low level technique to escape the wind's wrath, Anko managed to escape seconds before being dragged by the wind. After the wind died so as half the landscape, Naruto kneeled from slight chakra exhaustion. Such technique, even though a B ranked one, Naruto ended up using more than was necessary, since he never used it before.
Anko for her part was dumbfounded upon seeing the destruction of Naruto's technique. When she looked to a panting Naruto, sitting down to rest, she was remembering about Naruto's two chakra affinities and the fact the only elemental technique she saw him doing was a B ranked raiton attack that also happened to do a little landscape on the place.
Now kneeling next to him, Anko rest her hands on his shoulders and smiled, saying that the test was over and that she could get a good grasp of his abilities, as she concluded Naruto to be close to middle range fighter, but with a possible long ranged if needed be. Anko realized that all three genins had good knowledge on close combat situations, so she could change the attack patterns and train all of them on different fighting approaches.
A few minutes later, Tenten and Neji arrived at the training ground and made their test as well, but since they weren't so developed in elemental ninjutsu as Naruto was, it was easy to assess their abilities and train them accordingly to their element. For this two, Anko would train them in elemental katon for Tenten and doton for Neji, since the former was her affinity and the latter was an element she had good knowledge about.
"Okay, team 5. Now that I've seen each one's abilities, we can begin our training and doing C ranked missions from Konoha. Seeing that today was about test of skills, we'll begin elemental teaching for both of you. Now, I know you two got a grasp at the final year of the academy, but in order to become proficient with the element, training until exhaustion is what we're going to do. Naruto, seeing that you had lost a considerable part of your chakra, please rest a bit, we'll wake you up when the times comes for us to split ways. And so on, Naruto was sleeping and Anko was dividing her attention between teaching katon to Tenten and doton to Neji.
-The next day at the Hokage's office--
After Team 5 met at the training ground, all of them went straight to the Hokage's office so they could 'fetch' a C ranked mission, the first C ranked mission. As they entered the office, Naruto was somewhat nervous after seeing his father sitting on the hokage's desk, while looking as professional as a hokage should be. "Team 5 reporting for duty, Hokage-sama" – Greeted Anko presenting her team, to which the hokage smiled at the sight of a team with such promise on the future. "Oh, team 5. Ok, let's see here. Right, here we go. Anko, bandit camp northwest of here 20 miles. There has been some illegal action running down there and we need to clear the bandit camp. My orders are capture the chief and dispose of the rest of them" – Explained the Hokage, earning surprising looks from Naruto, who never heard such voice from his father, but to his dismay, he would have to behave like a Konoha shinobi, taking orders from the hokage or else quit the ninja program which was something Naruto just was afraid to think of such a thing. "Hai Hokage-sama. Ok gakis, pack for a one week travel from here to our rendezvous point. Meet me in half an hour at the west gate." "Hai, Anko-sensei".
--At the west gate--
Half an hour later, Neji was the first to arrive at the premises. Naruto, Anko and Tenten was still to arrive. After a moment, Neji arrived followed by Naruto and then Tenten. As they acknowledged each other's presence, Anko turned to them signaling for them to move on toward his this objective. "Let's go. We have a lot of ground to move". – Said Anko as they were jumping thorugh high trees an such.
