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'Thoughts'

"Talking"

"Kyuubi Speaking"

'Kyuubi thinking'

-King of all Naruto

Chapter 6: Training and the Death of a Mighty Ninja

Naruto and his friends were all trying Kakashi's chakra control exercise, but only Naruto and Sakura had the tiniest of results.

"Darn it, I almost stayed on for 30 seconds that time!" Naruto said.

"So far, my best is 26 seconds," Sakura said.

'Shit! They are both ahead of me! I think they might actually be able to help me! Maybe we'll all kill Itachi!' Sasuke thought.

"Sasuke-kun, how long can you stay on?" Sakura asked.

'I can over exaggerate a bit…right?' Sasuke thought.

"I got to 27 seconds," he said.

'Darn it! Teme is catching up to me!' Naruto thought. Kakashi walked in on the scene, letting the ninja rest for a bit.

"You can all stop for the time being. I see you have improved. Naruto, you have improved the most, but mainly with the mass shadow clone training. (1) Sasuke, you already had a good start being balanced, so you did well. Sakura, you improved a little; you need to work on your chakra reserves though," Kakashi told his team.

"Well, at least we improved a bit!" Naruto said. Nobody could be more loud and energetic than Naruto!

'We actually did improve a bit. And anyway, it was a Jounin exercise, so we wouldn't do that good,' Sasuke thought. Team 7 went to the next training ground, The Swamps of Misery.

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"Shit, this water is cold!" Naruto shouted. The water was freezing cold, and had tons of stuff that they didn't want to identify in it.

"Ewwww! There is old bread in here!" Sakura complained. Kakashi had just shown them the water walking exercise.

Flashback

"Alright. I want all of you to be able to perform this exercise by the second part of the Chuunin Exams. This exercise is called water-walking. You will repeatedly push chakra to your feet so you can stand on the water without falling. You push the chakra to your feet, and then you repeatedly change the chakra by the second. You should make a shield of chakra below your feet. Too much chakra and your chakra will disturb the water, and too little chakra results in falling into the swamps below. If you need pointers, come to me," explained Kakashi.

"Is this exercise going to be easy sensei?" Naruto asked.

'I bet you this will be a walk in the park for me! Humph!' the young Uchiha thought.

"This exercise may be easy for some, but I also want you to walk 5 times, across the lake and back."

'I bet you he is referring to me. It'll be too easy for me.'

'This exercise will be harder for Naruto and Sasuke, but Sakura doesn't have the chakra needed to go there and back 5 times, so she'll build her reserves,' Kakashi thought.

"Kakashi-sensei, anything else?" asked Naruto.

"Yes, START. NOW! That is all," Kakashi screamed.

The exercise hadn't been easy for the trio. First, Sakura mastered it, but could only go there and back 2 times. Then, after about a week, Sasuke and Sakura had finally gotten it all the way through. Naruto had finished it about a week later.

'Really, I wonder what Kyuubi does. Does he just sleep all day? The last time he talked to me was with Mizuki,' Naruto thought.

'Foolish mortal, I've been here this whole time. It just takes a lot of energy to talk to you like this.'

'Then why do you talk to me?'

'I shouldn't have thought this in the first place.'

"Naruto? Naruto? Naruto?" asked a voice.

"Huh, oh Sakura-chan! What?" Naruto asked.

"You just spaced out there." Sakura started to rest. She couldn't keep up with the boys in anything; especially in fitness training.

'This is really hard. I wonder when Kakashi-sensei will stop us from killing ourselves,' Sakura thought. Currently the trio was in endurance training.

"Naruto. How long do you think you could keep this up?" Sasuke asked.

"I dunno know? Maybe another five hours," Naruto replied.

'The dobe can do more endurance training than me. Urrggh!' Sasuke thought.

"Ok team, you can stop now. You have all done enough endurance training," Kakashi said. Poor Sasuke. He had sunburns on his face, sunburns on his sunburns, and sunburns on his sunburn's sunburns. Sakura was wearing more covering clothing; only her legs had sunburns on sunburns on sunburns. Naruto was very much covered, so only his face and hands suffered the most.

"Team, I think you need to cool down. You guys are taking this waaaay to seriously," Kakashi said.

"Well, you are the one who suggested it! You basically ordered us to do these things!" Naruto said.

"Well, life isn't fair!" Kakashi said.

"Well, I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about how you say we are doing too much, but you are the one ordering us to do it all!"

"Did you say something?" Kakashi asked.

'Great, we have a lazy ass for a sensei! Oh, wait, I already knew that!' Sasuke thought.

"Ok team! Only 2 more months until the Chuunin Exams! Now back to training you like hell!" Kakashi said. The team answered with 3 blank looks that could kill any person on Earth.
Later the next week……
"Sensei, when are we going to do hardcore training? All we've done this week is kunai practice, stealth, and Taijutsu practice!" Naruto asked.

"Yeah Sensei, when are we going to do real training?" Sasuke said.

"Even I was up with this week's training!" Sakura said proudly.

"Fine! You want harder training, then I'll give you harder training! Sasuke, Naruto! 20 laps around Konoha! Sakura! 8 laps around Konoha! Go!"

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"Hokage-sama, are we going to get the plans ready for the counter-attack against Oto and Suna?" asked one ninja. (2)

"Yes, the counter-attack is all set. I have sent word to Jiraiya, the Sannin, and he has accepted the request. He will be back in Konoha for the Chuunin Exams. We really never thought that Suna would betray us like this, but there has been word that the real Kazekage has been killed and Orochimaru has taken his spot. You will be Konoha's guider. Follow my orders. If I am not there to give you orders, then follow the orders given now. I will have one Kage Bunshin in the Kage box, and my ANBU guard will be a Kage Bunshin as well. If everything goes out well, Jiraiya and I will take on Orochimaru and slay him for good. Any questions?" the Hokage asked.

"Yes. How are you going to follow out those plans if you die right here!" the man screamed. Blood splattered in the Hokage Tower. One man had survived…the other man perished.

Ninjutsu Notes: None

(1)= Yes I gave Naruto the mass Shadow Clone training. I didn't give him all of the endurance for it though.

(2)= Oto stands for Otogakure, or the Hidden Sound Village; Suna means Sunagakure no Sato, or The Hidden Sand Village

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