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Chapter 10:

Training Lessons: Tree walking technique.

Its been a few days since Jiraiya collapse of exhaustion. Right now, he woke up from exhaustion. He found himself laying on the ground inside a house. He groaned in pain and rubbed his head. "Ow. Where am I?"

"Ah! So, you're awake." He heard someone, a woman if he's correct. He turned to see a woman with black hair. "Your students are worried sick about you."

"Who are you?"

"Well, I'm the daughter of the bridge builder. My name is Tsunami." said the woman named Tsunami.

"Tsunami, huh? Daughter of the bridge builder. So this must be Tazuna's house, right?"

"Thats right."

"Jiraiya-sensei!" He heard his students calling him. Naruto, Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Lee and Tazuna came inside the room.

"Jiraiya-sensei, you're ok!" said the cheerful Sakura.

"Its been a few days since you passed out. Thank god you're ok!" said Ino.

"W-we don't know w-what can we do w-without you." said Hinata.

"The battle against you and Zabuza must have worn you out." said Lee.

"So ero-sennin, are you feeling refresh?" asked Naruto.

"Well… I don't think I'm at full strength yet. My body worn me out." said Jiraiya.

"Well now, since you've wake up, lets start going to the bridge. I need your help in all of this." said Tazuna.

"Wait a moment, Tazuna. Theres something I must tell you all."

"Huh? What is it, ero-sennin?" asked Naruto.

"Its about that ANBU we've met a few days ago."

"That guy who killed Zabuza? If you're wondering where he is, we don't know." said Sakura.

"No. Its not that. That "ANBU" is not actually an ANBU."

"What? He's not an ANBU?" asked Ino.

"No. Let me tell you the ANBU's job. Their job is to assassinate someone when they're on a mission. You all know that, right?" The four genins nodded in respond. But Naruto doesn't know about. He just rolled his head. "They have to dispose the body of someone they assassinated, by for exemple: They put the body to the area where crows are founded. They feed on lifeless bodies. No one knows where the bodies are. This guy is not an ANBU."

"H-how can you be so s-sure?" asked Hinata.

"Lee, you know what did the man throw at Zabuza's neck, right?" Jiraiya asked Lee.

"Yes. He threw needles at him." said Lee.

"Of course. They're called sambons. If I read it right, sambons are needles that can paralyse the entire body, meaning makes someone dead. However, the body acts like its dead, but the heart still lives."

"Wait. You mean that the Zabuza is…?" asked Tazuna.

"Yes. He's still alive. And the man is actually Zabuza's partner. We'll have to fight him again."

Everyone is shocked. They found out that Zabuza is still alive. Naruto regained his confidents and said to everyone in the room "So Zabuza is still alive? Ok! The next time we meet, I'm gonna kick his ass without breaking a sweat!"

"Don't be so excited. I doubt that Zabuza won't be playing around. You'll need someone who is as strong as him. And thats me."

"Heh! Ok! But when you're in a lot of danger, I'll rescue you and the others!"

"Well… I hope you can't do that." said Jiraiya, hoping that Naruto won't save his butt.

"We'll have to fight Zabuza again? Oh man! I don't know if I can survive this." said the fearful Sakura. The two other kunoichis nodded.

"Don't worry, you'll have to protect Tazuna, while us mens can take care of him." said Jiraiya as he smiled at Sakura.

"Yeah. But… I want to be stronger."

"Oh?"

"I realized that I didn't help anyone while we're fighting Zabuza. So I want to be stronger. You can help me, right Jiraiya-sensei?"

"Well, of course. I can help you with that."

"What about me? I want to be stronger too." said Ino.

"S-so am I." said Hinata.

"Alright! I'll make all of you kunoichis stronger then anyone you ever face!"

"Thank you, Jiraiya-sensei." said the kunoichis.

"I'm pretty sure you did that because you want to peek at them, ero-sennin." said Naruto suspiciously.

"What?! Come on! This is serious! We gonna fight the strongest ninja of Kirigakure again! Theres no time for me to peek at womans!" yelled Jiraiya.

"Yeah, yeah. Right." said the still suspicious Naruto.

"I'm serious!"

"So, what are you going to do, Jiraiya-san?" said Tazuna.

"Well, I have to train my students so they can be at least stronger than a chuunin. Don't you worry, in seven days, my students will grow stronger than ever. The Land of Waves will be a better place soon."

"Grampa, why don't you get them out of our house? They're trespassers and they're not allowed to enter our house!" They heard someone, a young voice. They turned at the direction where they heard someone and see a boy with a stuck up attitude. He has a black hair and a pair of black eyes. He wore a hat, a white shirt and a green pants. Seems like his eyes are all hatred.

"Inari! Thats not how you threat guest nicely! They just want to save our land." said Tazuna.

"So? If they don't get out of here, they'll be killed by Gatou's hands!" yelled the boy named Inari.

"They can take care of Gatou. And besides, they're Konoha nins. They're unstoppable. We have plenty of hope."

"Theres no hope. We lost our hope a year ago. How can there be hope when Gatou smash it into pieces?"

"Hey kid! There IS hope, you hear me?" said Naruto.

"And who the heck are you?"

"Listen kid, if you want to live, you'll have to let us take care of everything. Because I'm Uzumaki Naruto! I'm going to be Hokage and a hero of all Konoha!" he said with full potential.

"A hero? Theres no hero. Heroes are always going to die by someone who controls everything. Why should I believe theres a hero? You're just a stupid kid who doesn't know everything."

That pissed him off. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?!" Naruto is ready to beat the crap out of Inari, but he was hold back by Sakura and Lee. "Let me go! I'm gonna trash this kid!"

"Naruto, calm down! He only said that because he's afraid!" said Sakura.

"Sakura is right! You don't have to be angry about it!" said Lee.

"Listen losers, if you don't want to die, then get out of our land!" shouted Inari as he left to go out. Naruto is really pissed. He wanted to strangle that kid for calling him a stupid kid.

Its been a few minutes and still, Naruto is pissed. "Damn that little brat. Once I set my eyes on him, I'll pin him down to the wall and punch the hell out of him!" He was walking upstairs. As he's about to said another plan to torture Inari, he heard a sobbing. Its coming from the room of his left. He peeked at the inside of the room and see Inari sobbing while holding a picture. It seems that the picture is his father.

"Father… Why?... Why did you have to die?..." sobbed Inari.

Naruto lowered his head down. He feels sorry for Inari. It must be the whole reason why he wants the others to get out of the Land of Waves.

He walked back downstairs. When he reached downstairs, he noticed Lee standing with his back on the wall. "So? How is Inari?" asked Lee to Naruto.

"You notice it?" asked Naruto.

"Yes. I'm wondering about what Inari said. About why he want us to get out of the Land of Waves. Maybe its because he lost someone precious to him."

"Y-yeah… I think… he lost his dad."

"His father?"

"Yeah. Maybe he died in a war or something. Thats why he so hateful."

"Or maybe Gatou killed him."

"What?"

"I can see by the looks of his face. It was all Gatou's fault. Inari must have changed in the past. After seeing his father killed by Gatou's henchmen, Inari changed his whole life."

Naruto once again lowered his head. "I understand what he's feeling. Dammit! Its that Gatou guy's fault! I'm gonna kill him for what he did!"

"Yes. We must stop Gatou once and for all."

As they discussed, Sakura ran toward them. "Hey you guys! Jiraiya-sensei and the others are waiting for you guys! Hurry up! He's going to teach us a new technique!" said the excited Sakura.

"Why are you excited about this?" asked Naruto.

"Because I'm going to be stronger than anyone! So lets go!" She ran back outside.

"Gee… Sakura is sure pretty excited about this, huh?"

"Naruto, you do realized that in our battle against Zabuza, she didn't do anything, along with Ino and Hinata." said Lee.

"Oh yeah! I forgot about that!"

"Naruto, we must go quickly! Our comrades are waiting for us!"

"Right! Lets go!"

The two shinobis ran outside to rejoin the team.

Team 7 are in a forest. A forest for them to train. This is where Jiraiya will start teaching them a new technique. "Alright, everyone! This forest will be our training area, which also mean thats where I teach you a new technique to you all." said Jiraiya to the team.

"Alright! Bring it on! I'm ready for anything!" shouted Naruto.

"But first, lets make a quick research on something."

"What?! Do we have to, ero-sennin?"

"Yes. This one is the most important of this new technique. If we don't learn how to use it, then it'll be meaningless."

"Oh. Right."

"Now, lets have a good look on chakra. You know what is chakra, right?" The team nodded, except for Naruto who look at Jiraiya confusingly. Jiraiya noticed it and started to know what is Naruto's response. "You haven't pay attention to everything, huh Naruto?"

"What? Of course I've been paying attention to everything!"

"Ok then, why don't you tell us all about chakra?"

"This'll be easy! I already know all about… uhh… chatora!"

"Naruto, you haven't pay attention at all. And its chakra, not chatora."

"Grr… You're such an idiot, Naruto!" yelled Sakura.

"No wonder you and Shikamaru fell asleep." said Ino.

"Naruto-kun…" said Hinata.

"Naruto, I'm disappointed in you. You don't know what is chakra." said Lee.

"But guys, I know what is it!" said Naruto.

"Alright, that's enough. Lets make a quick review on chakra. Sakura, you know all about chakra, correct?" asked Jiraiya to Sakura.

"Yeah. Thats right. Why do you asked?" said Sakura.

"Because I like you to tell the others the basics of it. You can do that, can't you?"

"Why don't you tell them yourself?"

"Well, lets just say I'm not a guy who likes to explain a long information. So I'll just leave it to you!" He smiled brightly.

"… You're too lazy to explain it to us, huh?" said Sakura, getting suspicious.

"… Just do it."

"Alright." Sakura took out a scroll that contains chakra basics. She opened the scroll and started to tell the team all about chakra. "Chakra is a mixture of the energy present in every cells of the body and the spiritual energy gained from exercise and experience. When the physical energy and the spiritual energy are mixed, it can channelled through the chakra circulatory system to any of the 361 chakra points in the body. Chakra can be use to form jutsu or kekkei genkei. By forming a jutsu, you need the exact amount of chakra to use it. Chakra can be use on something else, but I don't know what it is. Thats all."

"Wow. You're really smart, Sakura. No wonder you've became a genin." Sakura smiled. "Alright. Is everyone understood the basics?" The team nodded. "Ok. You must remember that you don't always use your brain in battle, you also need your body."

"It sounded simple enough. So can you tell us the new technique?" asked Ino to Jiraiya.

"Alright. The new technique that I'm going to show you is tree climbing."

"Tree climbing? Ha! This will be easy!" said Naruto.

"No Naruto. Not with your hands, only your feet."

"What?!"

"Thats right. This new technique is to climb the tree with your feet. To do this, you must put your chakra into your feet by forming a ram handseal. Here, let me show you." Jiraiya formed a ram handseal. His feet are filling with chakra and it makes a small wave of smoke. He began walking towards the tree. He puts his right foot on the tree, then he puts his other foot. The team watched him in amazed. Jiraiya actually stand on the tree. He walked up to the branch and walking it upside down. "See? This is the tree walking technique. You need the exact amount of chakra to use it. Understand?" The team nodded. "Good. Everyone, try using the tree walking technique, except you, Lee."

"W-wait. Jiraiya-sensei, why don't you want L-Lee to do this t-technique?" asked Hinata.

"Thats because he already knows how to use it."

"Thats right. You mustn't forget that I am from last year." said Lee.

"Oh." Hinata dumbly said.

"Alright, everyone! Lets start on the technique. I like to see who made the better progress." said Jiraiya. "Here. Take those kunais." He threw four kunais on the ground. "When you feel that you're going to fall, trace a mark on the tree to see how much higher you have. Now go!"

The team, minus Lee, nodded. They formed the ram seal and put their chakra into their feet. Naruto is the first one to be ready to climb the tree. As he began to run on it, he fell down on the ground. He groaned in pain. He's not even going half way of it. "Oww! What the?" groaned Naruto. "Whats going on? Why did I fell on the ground already?"

"Be careful, Naruto. If you use a small amount of chakra, you'll fall down." explained Jiraiya.

"Ok! So I need a large amount of chakra! Leave it to me!"

"Oh! And don't use too much chakra too. If you do, you'll smash the tree."

"So, all I need is an amount of chakra that isn't too small and too large, right?"

"Thats right. You can do it, Naruto. I'm sure you can."

"But everyone is already so far from me. How can I reach them?"

"Don't worry, I'm sure the others made a small progress like you."

"Hey! Thats easy. I'm already on top!" They heard Sakura.

"Yeah! Tree walking is so easy!" they then heard Ino.

"Y-yes. It wasn't t-too hard." They heard Hinata. They turned around to see the three kunoichis already on top of the tree. Naruto's jaws fell down. The kunoichis smiled brightly at Jiraiya.

"Oh. Thats right. Kunoichis have better chakra control. So of course they can reach the top." said Jiraiya.

"You said they did a small progress!" yelled Naruto angrily.

"I… stand corrected."

"Did you see that, Jiraiya-sensei? We made it to the top!" said Sakura.

"Ha ha! Thats a shame. Naruto didn't even got half way there!" laughed Ino.

"I-Ino, I'm sure that N-Naruto-kun did an e-excellent job." said Hinata.

"Alright, girls! Continue your work. Its not over!" said Jiraiya.

"But Jiraiya-sensei, we already reach the top!" said Sakura.

"Yeah! Why should we continue?" said Ino.

"Because you have to remember the amount of chakra you used to be capable of climbing the tree. If you don't remember that, you'll end up just like Naruto." explained Jiraiya.

"Oh." Sakura dumbly said.

"Well, I guess we should continue, right girls?" said Ino to the two kunoichis. They nodded.

"Alright. Now move!" said Jiraiya. The kunoichis continued their progress. He turned back to Naruto. "You too, Naruto. Remember, use the perfect amount of chakra. That way, you should be able to walk on the tree."

"Alright! Leave it too me! I'll do better then that!" said Naruto as he continued his training.

'Heh. The kid got guts. He must have really want to surpassed anyone who is stronger than him. Become Hokage… Thats his dream.' thought Jiraiya.

The genins continued their training. But they didn't notice that Inari is watching them from afar. He didn't like what the others did. He wanted them to get out of the Land of Waves. After he thought about that, he left the area.

An hour later, the genins are tired. They got a couple of dirt everywhere. The kunoichis are capable of knowing what are the amount of chakra they needed. Naruto still made a small progress. The mark he traced is still on the lower part of the tree. "Dammit! What the hell did I do wrong?!" yelled Naruto.

"Ha… ha… Man… That sure is a lot of work. But I got the hang of it." panted Sakura. She looked at Naruto, who's scratching brutally his head. 'Ha! It looks like Naruto didn't get so far. He's just gonna give up and go away.' thought Sakura as she smirked. Naruto stand up for some reason. Sakura knew whats going to happen next. 'Here it comes.' But that wasn't what she thought Naruto did. He walked up to Sakura instead of giving up. She got a confusing look. He then knee in front of her with his forehand facing the others and his hand covert his mouth.

"Hey Sakura-chan? Can you give me some tips about how can I climb up the tree?" whispered Naruto.

"What?" said Sakura. Now she's really confuse. Is Naruto actually asked her some advice?

"You're really amazing on climbing the tree. I want to know how you do it."

"But why do you asked me? Shouldn't you tell that to Ino or Hinata?"

"Yeah. But I just want to asked you instead. Can you tell me, please?" pleaded Naruto.

"Well…"

While they discussed about something, the others looked at them. They all have a different thought.

'Whats that idiot doing? Why is he whispering to Sakura?' thought Ino.

'Naruto-kun… You really w-want to be stronger, right?' thought Hinata.

'Naruto, your will is full of youth. The path you have taking is the path to become a stronger shinobi.' thought Lee.

'Naruto, you really want to become Hokage, huh? Well, its crazy, but its important too. With so much chakra like that, you'll surely surpass me and the old man.' thought Jiraiya.

"Thats all?" whispered Naruto.

"Yeah. Thats all. I'm sure that my advice will come in handy." whispered Sakura.

"He he! Thanks, Sakura-chan!" chuckled Naruto as he smiled brightly at Sakura. Sakura also smiled.

Half an hour later, after Naruto and Sakura whispered some advice, Jiraiya said to the team "Alright, everyone! I'm gonna make this quick. Sakura, Ino, Hinata and Lee, you guys are going to help Tazuna to build the bridge, while Naruto has to continue his work."

"What?! Come on, ero-sennin! Shouldn't I go with the others too?" asked Naruto.

"No. You still got work to do, so theres no point on telling you to go with them. But don't worry, I'll help you on your work."

"How is that gonna make me feel better?!"

"Alright. Now go help Tazuna, guys." The team, minus one, nodded. They're going to the direction of the bridge. "Ok. Hurry up, brat! I don't have time to babysit you."

"Shut up, ero-sennin! I know what I have to do!"

"Hurry up! The womans aren't going to stay here on the famous hot spring!" said Jiraiya with a perverted look.

"I also heard that theres no hot spring in it."

"Oh."

Naruto's work is far from over. Will he be done with it? They only got seven days of training.

End of chapter

Phew! Done! Its a lot of hard work, but I'm done. Hope it satisfy you guys!

I'm gonna make another chapter tomorrow or the day after that. So be patient.

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