After settling in the group was currently surrounding the table ready to eat dinner, since there was more people than previously thought Kushina decided to help in the kitchen and sent the rest of the genin to go out hunting for more food for dinner. Sasuke and Menma went out and caught a wild boar to eat, Karin and Sakura decided to go and search the forest for herbs and other edible wild plant life to eat, and finally Mito and Naruto just went out and fished in a nearby river with Mito using her control over her water chakra to lift the river highter and then Naruto threw Kunai into it and speared the fishes into the trees behind them.
Over all Tsunami was shocked at the resourcefulness of the group since they now had enough food to last them a week after only a few hours of "scavenging". Currently Kushina and Tsunami were in the kitchen finishing up the food and and rest were all on the table ready to eat including Inari, Suu was currently in a bucket Naruto bought in town right next to him so that she was in between him and his teammates with Kakashi being to his left.
"Alright since we Injured one of them pretty badly I think we have about a week before those two plus that unknown third nin shows up and attacks tazuna again."
"What makes you say that Kakashi-sensei?"
Sakura asked as the group listen in as Kushina and Tsunami finished bringing the last of the food to the table and everybody got ready to eat.
"Well judging from our past experiences during the third shinobi war, I can estimate that we have a week for him to naturally recover with the injuries he sustained, even with the help of a medic it would take a while."
"Now while we're at it let's decided on what you kids should do for training for this up and coming week, we only need two people to guard Tazuna and that going to be me and Kushina, while doing that the rest of you are going to be training on chakra control."
"About that Kakashi-sensei mind I also start teaching Suu, I think I can get her to fully read and write by that time."
"Confident in your teaching skill are you Naruto-Kun"
"More like Suu just an excellent student."
""I'll allow this but I need to ask you a favor Naruto."
"What?"
"I noticed that Sakura has the same earth affinity as you, while i'm not expecting any miracles, I was wondering if you can teach Sakura the basis of earth chakras manipulation since she has nearly no jutsu in her arsenal."
Both student and teacher looked at the pinket, her head down in shame as she recalled that out of all of the genin that graduated she was the weakest, the only redeeming quality she had was her knowledge in the basics of medical jutsu she learned at the academy as well as book smarts.
"I can work with that, with a good trained regiment I should be able to get her to master her earth affinity and increase her reserves."
"...Why are you all even trying."
The voice of the youngest child in the room spoke stopping the current conversation on the table, Inari still didn't look up from his food though they could tell he knew his voice got the attention of everyone on the table.
" Why do you guys bother to try so hard?! No matter how hard you train, you're still no match for Gatō's men! No matter what glorious claims you make or how hard you work, the weak will only end up getting killed!."
"Well aren't you mister negative."
Naruto spoke bringing out a cigarette and brought out his orange lighter and lite the end before inhaling a deep breath of the smoke beofre breathing it out near the kid's face. The action caused the boy to cough a little before glaring at him in anger and frustration.
"Who are you talking about negative, you or the rest of you team have never ever experienced pain or suffering like the people of wave are, how do you have the right to judge us."
The boys statement got a rise from the last Uchiha but before he could give a mouthful to the boy for the insult his blond teammate silenced him with the wave of his hand.
"Suffering….you want to hear about suffering alright let's think about that what do you currently have let's see a loving mother that still around and If i remember correctly is still alive my mother Kushina over their lost her entire clan to a attack from three separate shinobi villages, my teacher over their didn't know what it was like to have a mother since she died at birth,Sasuke is in a similar situation like my mother over their; his entire family and clan was murdered by his OWN BROTHER!."
Silence when throw out the room, Kuhian and Kakashi wide eyed that Naruto was able to uncover the information about their past with Menam and Mito eyes widened at the information, when some was about to say something Naruto continued again.
"Lets see your also sad that daddy dear got killed fighting for something he believed in, hmmm guess what kakashi's father committed suicide for the honor of his clan because of an ideal his family believes ins and going back to Sasuke his father god killed painfully by his oldest son!"
"Butt...But..Butt thier not striken by poverty like use."
Naruto spoke mocking the young boy by making his voice slightly higher of a pitch as well as faking tears as he mocked the young boy.
"Oh screw you, you having food on the table while not much is better off than tons of other people their are poor everywhere the reason there's so much of it here is because nobody here ever considered I don't know assassinating him I mean he may be rich but he isn't a Dayamo!"
Silence hit the room as naruto finished his rant not once had he looked up at anybody but Inari, the boys eyes in tears as he got up food not finished and running up the stairs and slamming the door to his room.
"Inari!"
His mother was about to go after him but fellow mother Kushina just grabbed her shoulder and shook her head no, and in their secret language only mothers somehow knew got her to site back down and look at her food sadly.
"While the boy was rude Naruto I didn't think you had to be that harsh."
"He was assuming that just because we weren't on depressants like him then naturally everyone here had picture perfect lives, it's annoying when someone assumes something without having any facts." No one noticed except the adults but just for a second Naruto eyes went towards his mother before he closed his eyes and took out a cigar out and lit it with his orange lighter.
Getting up the blond boy headed towards upstairs towards thiet rooms they were using to catch some Z's.
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A FEW DAYS LATTER
Sakura fell down onto the floor in exhaustion, next to her was Naruto who didn't even look like he broke a sweat at all while he looked down at the girl. Currently they were in the middle of the woods near Tazunas house; Karin, Mito, Menma, and Sasuke were on nearby lake trying to master water walking by sparing on it since none of them liked the idea of Naruto ahead of them on something while he was working on the pinket.
While those four were practicing on chakra control Naruto was forceing Sakura to doing physical exercises, currently they were both wearing weight on their arms and legs;Sakura's having 20 pounds weights on while Naruto had 40 pound weights on each limb. He was currently teaching her how to properly fight while also getting her to constantly use chakra by making her hold multiple leaves on her head; while exhausting she was making progress.
"Alright now that your chakra and hand to hand combat have increased, lets start on you learning earth release."
Naruto spoke as he looked on over to the other genin that were being watched by Suu on the shore, Naruto had placed her bucket their and told to observe how they fought in hops of it helping her learn how to fight and maybe be a helpful summon in the future.
"Why couldn't we have been learning earth release in the beginning, it's already been 4 days how will I learn how to use earth jutsu in only 3 days."
The pinkett shouted at the blond while on the floor exhausted, her arms and legs were to sour to even move right now.
"Because it's stupid for you to think that you would last long just with earth release; even though earth jutsu most of the time requires earth that's already around you meaning you use less chakra doesn't mean the little reserves you have will last long, you need bigger reserves and why not help your taijutsu while we're at it."
The blond spoke with a serious expression, causing the girl to node reluctantly.
"Now then fist were going to have you now try to turn a leaf into complete dirt after you master that come find me." The blond spoke handing her a leaf and then turning around to go train by himself while everyone was busy.
A Few Hours Later..
Reading on top of the roof on Tazunas house Naruto suddenly stopped and instinctively held his hand out to catch the rock thrown at his face without ever even looking up from his book.
"Yes?" The blond spoke as he turned his head to see Sakura who had a confident smile on her face as she brought a leaf up to her face before making it tune into dust completely.
"She has potential"
"Good job Sakura now comes my own personal touch to mastering earth release."
He blond then jumped of the roof and lead the girl back into the woods, this time he lead her to trees that unlike the others were thicker than those around Tazunas house; much more like the ones in fire country that were thick enough that would take a few exploding tages to chope threw it.
"What are we doing her?" Sakura spoke confusingly as she saw Naruto take up one hand and placed it on one of the tree trunks.
"What I'm about to show you is an advance training technique I developed to increase my strength in earth release, mastering this technique will make learning almost all earth style jutsu much easier to learn." The blond then started to pour earth chakra into the tree, suddenly to the the kunoichis surprise the tree started to turn int to actall dirt! In actual seconds their was now instead of a healthy green tree there was a giant long mountain of dirt in its place that was a hard as stone.
"Impossible…"
"Not really you should be able to do this by the end of the week whether your able to stand after doing it is unknown to me but this exercise will also help increase your reserves so let's get to it."
And just like that the two practiced their for hours until the sun went down and Naruto had to carry a knocked out sakura back to their temporary base of operations.
"Naruto what happened to Sakura?" Kakashi asked while they all were waiting for dinner, they were all sitting at the table except for Kushina and Tsunami who were in the kitchen; Inari was up in his room and only came out of it when the group was outside training or needing to go to the bathroom, Sakura was half asleep with her head on the table moaning it pain.
"Well a little chakra exhaustion will do that to a person but she making great progress, now i'm thinking of having her start to learn some actual jutsu." He spoke solemnly as the other genin looked at the girl with pity, Naruto had seriously run her dry from how she seemed to be too exhausted to even make any comment but just trying to not fall asleep.
"What jutsu do you think she should start to learn?" Kakashi asked in curiosity.
"That where you come in, I can teach her how to make a mud clone but can I borrow some defensive and long range offensive jutsu from you, I personally want to keep out styles as separate as possible so neither of us become easier to predict."
The blonde asked getting a node from his teacher; a good ninja and his team would be as unpredictable as possible, that way it would be harder to take them down in a fight especially at basic level they all were at.
"I think I have some that would fit her well, I'll write them down after dinner so she can learn them tomorrow." This got a node from the teleporter and a soft painful "thank you sensei" from the pinkett as her face was still firmly planted on the table.
"Hey where's Suu?" The blond questioned as the blue slime wasn't in her buket, this caused everyone else to start looking around as well, the little slime while strange didn't bother anyone so it didn't really give them any reason not to hate it.
"Im sure she just wandered off I mean she just a little slime what harm could she..."
*TO SCREAMS/MOANS*
Menma was suddenly stopped when the two shouts of surprise came from the kitchen, everyone bolted to the feet(well sakura couldn't really move so she stayed put) running straight into the kitchen, inside the sight before them caused them all to blush in both embarrassment and shock;
Currently a much larger Suu was molesting both the Kunoichi and the single mother as she sunk under their clothes and started to grab everything she could.
"Suu what wrong with you knock it of!" Naruto ordered but the little now bigger slime seemed to be not listening, the group then tried to do everything to separate them from the slime. After a while however the slim stopped leaving the two women twitching on the floor with blushes on their faces while the slime crawled into a yellow raincoat that Tsunami owned and started to change until she took the shape of a busty women.
"..What the fuck just happened.."Menma spoke as they turned their heads towards the now more adult looking Suu and slightly flinched back as she gave them a slurty smile and tenticals started appearing around her.
"Sigh let me see if I can calm her down….Suu fallow master!...you guys try to figure out what happened here." The teleporting bomer spoke to the other genin and one jounin as he lead the slime outside to make sure she didn't molest anyone else, the rest of them slowly surrounded the two women and tried to help them get up.
"Mom what happened!" Menma asked as he sister helped me pick their mother up, Sasuke and Kakashi we're currently trying to do the same thing except for tsunami with Tazuna trying to cool his daughter down with a fan in his hands.
"It happened so suddenly...Suu came into the kitschen and we thought nothing of it...next thing we know Tsunami accidentally spilled some of the water we were going to use for the stew on both of use, the next thing we knew Suu suddenly attacked us." The kunoichi spoke as her face was still flushed as they helped her onto a chair nearby.
"The slime must have been attracted to the water...but why would it only attack you two if it was already hydrated.." Mito asked as she gave her brother a look in hope he could help her figure out why, it only got said flaming haired boy to answer;
"Maybe she's really perverted."
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A Few Days Latter..
After that episode, nobody but Naruto whent anywhere near Suu, so now she joined the blonde as he taught Sakura how to master earth release and teach her some of the earth jutsus Kakashi gave them.
"...and so earth is good against water because it can absorb it and turns it into mude while lightning on the other hand is strong against earth because it can pierce through it easily." The blond spoke to Suu who was still in her more womanly form and wearing the rain coat still since it was the only clothing that would stick to her body; currently he was explaining the basics of chakra affinities to her while sakura was taking a short break to rest her reserves.
The slime girl nodded in interest while Sakura looked up at him.
"Naruto I been meaning to ask you something.."
"What is it."
"Why are you being so nice all of the sudden, back at the leaf village you would never offer to help me train nor would you stick up for everyone when that Inari kid was complaining about everyone had a easy life back at the village."
"Well it's really easy to answer Sakura, to answer your question the reason why Im being nicer is because all in all the village brings out the worst me."
"Why isn't it your home?"
"Is the place I was born at….yes….is it the place were I was raised by..yes...is it my home...no."
"Why isn't it your home."
"It may have been my home long ago but like Sasuke I don't really have anything to really connect me to it anymore." The blond spoke grabbing a cigarette and lighting it and slowly started smoking it.
"What do you mean you have your family their and all your friends."
"Please Sakura everyone in the village knows I'm not as close to my family as I use to be; in some situations it's even the opposite, and do you really think you would even talk to me if we weren't teammates."
The question at the end made Sakura stop what she was about to say, she wanted to say yes but looking back she never really showed any interest in getting to know Naruto even when they became teammates, all she was really interested in was getting Saukes attention; back to the point she couldn't think of anyone else who were interested in Naruto recalling the hostility between him and his siblings back during the academy, back then she thought it was just sibling rivalry but now she wasn't so sure.
"I guess you're right…."
The group was now silent, Suu atena faltered slightly from the sad mood utill Naruto brought his hand out and rubbed the top of her head to get her to cheer up.
"But you know…"
The comment from his fellow earth user caused the blond to turn his head to look back at the siting pinkett and seeing her raise her hand towards him.
"It doesn't mean we cant become friends now.." She spoke smiling at him causing the blond to raise an eyebrow before he let out a smile.
"Sure I guess you're right…."
The blond then shook her hand causing the slime girl to cheer in happyness causing the other two to laugh as well, but before anything else could happen the sound of something running towards them got their attention. Suddenly Menma appeared out of the trees with a serious expression on his face.
"Get towards the docks, Zabuza and Raiga along with their ice using partner are back, their attacking the bridge get over there, don't worry about Tatsumi and Inari I sent some clones to protect them, HURRY!" With that the clone popped and the three became stunned at the sudden news.
"Well let's get going." Naruto spoke as he jumped into the trees with Sakura and Suu not far behind him.
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While in the beginning this was going to have Sasuke, Sakura and a whole lot of Uzumaki Bashing I decided to have a more emotional break up instead, since it was more of a mistake that drove them apart and I starting to care for their characters a little more.
