Chapter 9

The golden katana (part 1)

It's been almost two months. Mifune had gotten a message from Zabuza stating that he would be back soon. With this in mind, he decided to conclude Naruto's training. Naruto had been working hard in the 2 months. After discovering Naruto's amazing ability to mass produce shadow clones, Mifune put it to good use. With at least 10 samurai supervising to ensure he did the training correctly and if had any questions. Mifune also designed a separate training schedule for the clones.

He had 100 working on kata, 100 working on education (he discovered that Naruto only received the education he needed and things like science and human anatomy were almost new terms to him), 100 working on the double and twin slash. Mifune also discovered that with the clones, Naruto learned the techniques at an amazing rate and mastered the one-slash in a month.

The double and twin slash were advanced forms that Naruto made up. The double slash was Naruto using two swords sheathed across his back and quickly drawing them. The twin slash was Naruto creating a shadow clone and standing on opposite sides of the opponent. Each would then use the one-slash at the same time. Cutting them into 3 pieces. All with at least 10 samurai to help of course.

The new timetable looked something like this:

8:00 – 9:00 – tea, meditation

9:00 – 10:00 – warm ups (50 laps around the mansion, 5 minutes stretching, 100 pushups, 200 sit-ups)

10:00 – 11:00 – sparring

11:00 – 11:30 – discussion of mistakes, lunch

11:30 – 14:00 – sparring

14:00 – 14:15 – break while dispelling clones in groups

14:15 – 16:30 – double and twin slash

Naruto himself had grown quite a bit. He had lost most of whatever baby fat he had, grown a few inches and was smarter than most 15 year olds. His resistance on the seal had gone up twice. He was working on stage 2 of the training. Around when the second month started, the fox pulled him into his mindscape to tell him about it.

Stage 2 of the infinite one sword style was about momentum. Naruto was taught how to keep momentum up and to move one move into another. The fox told him that it was essential to keep moving and keeping the enemy on guard.

Unknown to Mifune, Naruto always created about 100 clones before arriving at the mansion. The clones would find an unoccupied training field and work on the style. They would work in groups of 10 until they dispelled. Then the next 10 would take their place.

As he had for the past month or so, Naruto created his clones and headed for Mifune's mansion. However, instead of seeing the grounds prepared for training, he saw Mifune sipping tea and reading some papers. "Good morning Naruto, I have received a message from Zabuza. He is due to arrive in a few days. Before you go, I want to test how much you've improved. Rest for today, tomorrow we will have an all-out battle. Anything goes until one is unconscious or surrenders."

Naruto was shocked. Two months had passed so quickly. And not only that, but an all-out battle against Mifune. Naruto didn't have any illusions that the battle would be a cakewalk- even if he was allowed to use ninjutsu. "Good morning Mifune-sensei, do you think that I'm really ready to defeat you in an all-out battle?"

Mifune smiled, the kid doesn't give himself enough credit. With his crazy routine, he had already surpassed most of the older samurai already. And if he adds on his clones and other ninjutsu, then there are barely a handful samurai that can defeat him. "Well I guess we'll see tomorrow wont we?"

"I guess we will" Naruto grinned, "I'm gonna go tell Haku that Zabuza is coming back, see you tomorrow sensei!"

"Meet me at the samurai stadium tomorrow at 9!" Mifune called after him

The old samurai leader watched him go. Once he was out of sight, Mifune stood up and went to his bookshelf. He pulled a book and revealed it was a lever for a hidden doorway. Walking in the dark with practiced ease, he eventually came across a dimly lit room that had a pedestal and on the pedestal was a golden katana. "It appears the time has come"

Naruto walked away from the mansion in deep thought. "It's been an entire two months already. Time really flies when you're training"

Without really thinking about it, Naruto came across the training field that Haku was using. There were multiple puddles of water, ice senbon needles in trees and craters around the clearing. Naruto blinked. It seems that he wasn't the only one who was training hard.

He was so busy looking around at the destruction he almost missed the ice ball that was heading towards him. It was only thanks to his reflexes that he got from training with Mifune that he didn't lose his head and ducked in time. It was a good thing too because the next moment the ball landed a couple meters behind him and exploded into ice spikes.

Naruto whistled, suddenly very glad that wasn't him. "You've been training hard Haku."

Haku landed next to him, "why are you here instead of training with Lord Mifune?"

Naruto pouted, "aww you so cold Haku! Couldn't I come I see my favorite fem-boy?"

Haku grew a tick mark, "firstly, I am a boy! Secondly…" he created a ball of ice identical to the one that missed Naruto moments earlier, "you got 10 seconds to tell me why you are here before I get a moving target to practice my new jutsu."

Naruto started sweating. "damn Haku is scary!"

"10" Naruto's eyes widened

"9" Naruto started backing away

"8"

"Now, now Haku! Let's not be hasty!

"5" Haku got his arm in a position to throw

"Mifune-sensei told me Zabuza is coming back soon and I just thought I would tell you!" Naruto blurted out so quickly that it took Haku a second to decipher it. Once done, he lowered his hand and let the ice ball fall apart. "Alright, thanks for telling me. Is that all?"

"Well pretty much yeah. Oh and I'm fighting sensei in an all-out battle tomorrow."

Haku was surprised at that. "Wow, good luck then"

"Thanks I'll let you get back to your training" With that said Naruto left the training grounds.

The next day

Naruto got up early. He had barely been able to sleep the previous night. He got dressed, did his morning routine and checked all his equipment. Then double checked it. By his fifth time checking it, the demon fox grew annoyed. "You have everything, you checked that, nothing will disappear between your first and fifth check"

"Right, I'm just nervous in facing against sensei. I mean sure we sparred a lot in the last two months, but we never actually went full out." Naruto said as he adjusted his pouch he had gotten from Zabuza when he had left.

"Just go there and kick his ass…" Naruto was feeling better with the pep talk the fox was giving him. Maybe the fox was starting to like him! "… and let me sleep. You are interrupting my nap time with all your noise" Well that goes that hope.

Taking a deep breath, Naruto looked in the mirror and nodded. Being nervous won't help. He will just have to stop being nervous and just do his best. With this in mind, Naruto headed out.

The streets seemed more deserted than usual. There were a few people around, but not as many as Naruto expected. "Where'd they all go? There should be plenty of people at 8:30 in the morning." Naruto wondered out loud. "Ah well, no time to think about it. Time to head to the stadium."

Arriving at the stadium, Naruto finally saw where all the people had gone. He swallowed hard. That was a LOT of people! The whole stadium was filled with people! Apparently word had gotten out that the samurai leader was going to be battling his new student today. "Well Naruto? You ready?" Naruto turned around. "Haku! You here too?"

"Yup. You better win. i betted quite a bit on you." Naruto groaned. Now he was just something to earn money off? "Well better go! You wouldn't want to keep the crowd waiting would you? Good luck!" Naruto sighed Haku was right. Naruto hung his head as he walked towards his doom.

AN: right, sorry for the wait. I know I said that I would post during my holiday but it seems that ZV was also on holiday then. Well I'm back now so you shouldn't have to wait another month for the next chap ;)

Besides that, I have created a page on facebook. You can find the link on my profile. If it doesn't work then just search it up. It should pop up when you type in Jackalope33. It's the one with the blue sharingan. I'm not too sure how this all works so if there is someone who can explain that would be helpful.

Also the correct answers from my challenge in chapter 9 were:

Bleach

Sword art online

One piece (congrats for getting this one thegodofanime)

Sengoku Basara

And obviously

Naruto

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