AN: I know. I know. You aaaaaaaaaaaaall hate me. I know its true. I deserve your flaming balls of hatred because I haven't updated in such a looooooooooooooong time. I don't expect you to forgive me, but here is a new chapter I think you guys will like to help compensate with my apoligy. Again, I am terribly sorry and I hope you guys continue to read and review this fic. I still love aaaaaaaaaaall of you guys, so I hope you enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 6: The Training (The title sucks... I KNOW!)
Neji stood infront of everyone at the training grounds as they were all talking to eachother and wondering why they were all brought together. As the conversations roared through the field, Neji spoke aloud.
"I SAID QUIET, EVERYONE!" yelled Neji. Everyone looked at him kind of shocked to see that he could yell so loud. "Alright, now that I have your attention, I suppose I better start explaining." he said.
"Yeah, you better! Akamaru and I were on a nice walk until Naruto came and messed it up for us and practically dragged us over here!" yelled Kiba out of frustration as Akamaru barked in agreement. Neji looked at him sternly and then over the crowd of people. It was bigger than he had expected. The whole group consisted of Sai, Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Shino, Lee, Tenten, Asuma, Gai, Kakashi, and Sakura. (Kurenai was not there due to the fact that she was pregnant at the time.)
"Everyone, something terrible has befallen Hinata." said Neji. He turned to Naruto as he stepped up to explain the rest while everyone was talking again as they wondered what happened to Hinata.
"Thank you all for coming!" said Naruto aloud. "I'm still not very good at public speaking… but I need your help." said Naruto. He looked at everyone as they seemed confused in his request. He was also kind of nervous, for he had not exactly told anyone about his and Hinata's relationship except for Kakashi and Sakura. "I went on a mission not too long ago with Hinata to the Village Hidden in the Clouds. While we were on this mission, Hinata and I had developed feelings for eachother-" At this point, everyone groaned with anger and disappointment. Naruto looked at them like they were crazy. "What the hell guys! I'm trying to say something!" he yelled.
"Everyone already knew that Hinata was crazy about you waaaaaay before this mission! And you JUST now figured it out! You're the dumbass here!" yelled Ino. Naruto looked at them like an idiot and totally froze. All this time and he just noticed, wow he was stupid…
"Okay… well, I get that! Look, when we came back to the village as a couple, Hinata and I had arranged to go on a date. But when we came back, Hiashi was pissed as hell to find out that she had gone out with me. Since then, Hiashi has tried everything to keep her and I separated; he even tried to use a technique on me that would make me commit suicide. When I went to go speak with him again, I saw Hinata again, but he used that 'air-palms' technique and blasted me through the wall of Hinata's room-"
"What were two doing in Hinata's room!" asked Sakura sounding enraged. Naruto looked at her with true fear in his eyes and spoke.
"W-Wait! Sakura! I-It's not what you think! I went to go see Hiashi and there were guards all over the place! The only way to safely get inside was through Hinata's room! We didn't do anything!" yelled Naruto. Everyone looked at him suspiciously. Naruto sighed at their stares, and then continued on. "Anyway, I called all of you here, because I found a way to be with Hinata and Hiashi can't say shit about it! All I have to do is beat his sorry ass in a fair one-on-one match." said Naruto. Neji once again stood forward.
"So, as you all know, Naruto is too weak to take on Hiashi in a fight and win." said Neji.
"You ass! You're supposed to be supporting me! Not tear me down!" yelled Naruto. Neji shrugged it off and continued.
"So, in order for Naruto to get stronger, we've all called for your assistance. We all need your help to train him and teach him new jutsu that will make him stronger than Hiashi so that he may defeat him. With your efforts, we would gladly appreciate it!" said Neji loudly. Kakashi sighed and stepped forward.
"Sure, I'll do my part." said Kakashi with his hands in his pockets. He turned to Naruto. "Hey, didn't I tell you not to screw it up?" he said.
"Shut up! It wasn't my fault Hiashi is a complete ass!" said Naruto over exaggeratedly. Kakashi laughed a bit and nodded.
"That's true. Hiashi is a little bit more of a stiff than others. To be honest, I'm not even sure if I've ever heard him laugh before." said Kakashi. Naruto nodded and looked at all the others.
"I can't believe that guy! I'll help, Naruto. But not for you, for the sake of true love!" yelled Ino as she thrusted a fist into the air. Naruto looked at her and smiled.
"Hell yeah!" he said. Naruto looked to chouji who only nodded as he snacked on chips and then at Shikamaru who was sighing the entire time.
"What a drag… fine, I'll help out too." said Shikamaru. Next, Naruto looked to Lee and Gai who were both practically crying.
"Nooooooo! Naruto's youth was ripped away from him by Hiashi! We must do something, Leeeeeee!" yelled Gai.
"Yes, Sensei!" yelled Lee. Naruto only rubbed the back of his head in embaressement. One by one, the others agreed to help out as well and when everyone was ready, they began to train for the day…
Naruto blocked Lee and Gai's punch as the combined forced sent Naruto sliding across the ground by his feet. When he stopped, he jumped to his right to dodge Shino's and Kiba's attacks from behind him. They both missed as Naruto cartwheeled out of the way and he regained his feet on the ground, he heard both Sakura and Sai coming up to him; Sakura with a chakra punch and Sai with his strange flat-tip sword. Naruto redirected Sakura's punch and caught Sai by his hands as the blade came from a downward swing. Sai attempted to punch him in the face with his free hand, but Naruto dodged it by a paper-thin width. Then, Naruto gathered chakra in his arms and hands and threw Sai a long ways away from him. Sakura tried to follow up with a backwards kick that would have gotten Naruto in the neck, but he ducked after throwing Sai and sweeped Sakura off balance with his feet. Then, Naruto jumped high into the air, flipped backwards and threw a lot of shuriken at Kakashi and Asuma as they were coming at him with Kakashi using Lightning Blade and Asuma using his totally kickass wind-style shuriken that wrapped around his fingers. They dodged all of them and both leaped up to attack Naruto while in the air. When they both hit him, he disappeared into smoke while Kakashi and Asuma were in the air. Then from out of nowhere, the real Naruto jumped out from a nearby tree with two large Rasengan in his hands, heading for Kakashi and Asuma. Right when Naruto was about to hit them, they both flipped downwards toward the ground in order to dodge his attacks. Naruto continued to soar through the air as they both touched down and Naruto ceased his Rasengans to produce two shadow clones in the air to help maneuver him down into the safety of a nearby tree branch. Unfortunately, there was no resting for him. Naruto saw Tenten and Ino coming at him with Tenten throwing a bunch of scary looking weapons and Ino throwing exploding-purple-flower kunai.
"Oh, give me a break!" yelled Naruto out of exhaustion. He jumped out of the way from the oncoming metal-shower of knives and landed back in the clearing. When he came back to the ground, Chouji was already moving fast as the human boulder technique. Naruto saw it coming and while he was headed for the ground from out of the tree, he used his hands to flip himself to the side to avoid being hit. At last, Neji had come to attack him with a full force gentle fist. Naruto knew it was easy to dodge, but for some strange reason, his body didn't move. Naruto looked down and followed his eyes until he saw Shikamaru kneeling towards the ground with a handsign. Naruto had been caught in a shadow-possession jutsu! Naruto knew that there was no way to get out of it so he prepared himself to embrace the impact. When it didn't come Naruto opened his eyes and stared at Neji who looked at him seeming impressed.
"Good job, Naruto." said Neji. Shikamaru released the technique and allowed Naruto to be free. Naruto was huffing immensely from such a rigorous workout. Everyone came to surround Naruto and to evalutate him on his progress.
"Wow! You were able to dodge or block every single one!" said Ino with surprise. Naruto huffed and nodded with a confident smile.
"Of course! That was the exercise after all! I needed to block or dodge everyone's attacks without fighting back. I tried to do all of that!" he said as he turned to Shikamaru. "But still… I always fail for that shadow-possession technique. I can never see it coming!"
"Other than that, you were able to keep dodging and blocking all the way through for the past six hours!" said Sakura. Kakashi, Asuma and Gai all nodded at Naruto with approval.
"To be honest, I didn't think you could go for that long! I mean, I would have expected at least four or five hours, but I never would have guessed six." Said Kakashi.
"Your youth still has a long way to go!" yelled Gai. Asuma nodded and sent Naruto a thumbs-up.
"Nice job!" said Asuma. All the others commented on his progress too. He was dodging and blocking the whole time and he had no margin for error or any time to rest throughout all of it. It was hard for anyone to believe he could do that for such a long time.
"Alright. I'm pretty sure you would do okay with dodging in a match, but blocking a Hyuga technique is too dangerous to do for anyone. Still, it couldn't hurt." said Neji.
"Hell yeah!" said Naruto with whatever little energy he had left.
"If we keep this up, Naruto will be strong enough to defeat Hiashi right?" asked Tenten. Neji shrugged.
"I don't know. Hiashi is very powerful, but Naruto can't win a fight with just dodging and blocking attacks. He needs power to back him up." said Neji.
"Great! Then we'll work on that tomorrow!" said Naruto. Everyone looked at him like he was joking.
"You can't be serious! We trained long and hard today and you think you'll be okay for another go tomorrow!" said Sakura. Naruto gave her a thumbs up.
"Sure! All I need is a good-night's sleep and I'll be ready for tomorrow!" said Naruto. Neji and a lot of others sighed at his endurance.
"Where does he get all that energy? I'm not as young as I used to be, so I'm pretty worn out from attacking him nonstop." thought Asuma. He wasn't sure if was gonna make it tomorrow. Naruto turned to Lee.
"Hey Lee, I know that you were using your training gear today, but could you have them off tomorrow so that you're faster?" asked Naruto.
"Is this guy serious!" everyone thought in unison. They couldn't believe that Naruto was trying so hard to train. Neji walked forward and nodded at Naruto.
"I'll be here tomorrow first thing in the morning." said Neji. "I'll be ready when you are." Naruto nodded at him and stuck out a hand.
"Thanks, Neji. I owe ya." said Naruto. Neji nodded and shook his hand. At this sight of friendship, everyone smiled and knew that even if they told themselves they weren't going to show up tomorrow for Naruto's training, they would show up anyways.
