Chapter 10: End of the First Day

Naruto just arrived at the library. He had some idea of what to expect, he was going to learn what hand seals do. Nevertheless, he had no idea what the note said. Kakashi wrote a note on the chakra paper, but it was complete gibberish.

"Must be some kind of code." Naruto handed the librarian the note. Her eyes widened, and she activated her Byakugan. She sighed as she deactivated her doujutsu.

"I'll be back in a second." She made sure that no one was watching, and opened a secret door in the wall behind her. It revealed a shelf filled with scrolls. She took one, and handed it to Naruto. Her pale eyes focused on his, demanding full attention. "Do not let this scroll fall into the wrong hands, it contains top level secrets, and you'll be in big trouble if anything happens to it." Naruto gulped and nodded in fear and understanding. Naruto soon made it to the team's training ground, and got a clone to work on reading the scroll.

"Thanks for the scroll. What else should I do Kakashi-sensei?" Kakashi smacked himself for forgetting that Naruto could do the shadow clone.

"How do you normally train your body?"

"I make a typhoon of dust, and throw rocks to the wind. Then, I smash them with my fists whenever they come close. Keep in mind that I do this in total darkness." Kakashi wasn't even surprised anymore. With the stuff that Naruto pulled today, if he said that he sparred daily with Amaterasu, Kakashi would have believed him.

"Do you know how to access the inner gates?"

"What are those?"

"Good, something that you need to do personally for once." Naruto was giddy, he was finally learning something new from someone else for the first time in years. "The eight inner gates limit the flow of chakra in the body. You can forcibly open them, and have a temporary chakra increase. The mind gate, is the first, and easiest to open. In fact some people do it unconsciously when they protect people they care about. With my training and your current level of fitness you may be able to open it at will." Naruto leaped into the air.

"Awesome! What do I do?"

"Can you feel your chakra?"

"Of course."

"What do you feel in the left side of you head?" Naruto frowned in concentration.

"Oh, I see what you mean, there is a little less chakra flow there." Kakashi got out his book, and started walking away.

"When you can remove that barrier let me know." Naruto sat down and started to meditate. Soon he was in the basement with the fox. "Hey, Kurama do you know anything about these inner gates?"

"Sure, there are seven of them that you can use, the first two are located in the brain, and the other five are located on the spine, they get progressively lower, and will give you more power. Do not, I repeat, do not use the eighth one. That will probably kill you, being a weak human and all."

"How do you open them?"

"You use the force of your will, as your will strengthens you will be able you use more gates. Right now you may be able to open three."

"Thanks Kurama."

"Don't mention it kit." Naruto exercised the force of his will to open the first gate. Immediately, he began to feel the increased chakra flowing though him.

"This feels amazing!" He ran over to the nearest tree, cracked it with his elbow, and kicked it with all his might. Then he glued his feet to the ground with chakra, then he palm striked the tree. With a thunderous crack, the tree fell. Then the gate started to close up. Naruto could hear demonic laughter.

"AAAAAAGGGGHHH! The pain!" Kakashi walked up to his student, with his biggest eye smile.

"Looks like you finally figured it out."

"Why... didn't... you... tell me... about the paaaaaaaaaaain!"

"Suck it up, you'll be in far worse pain eventually. You are a shinobi after all." Kakashi continued reading his book, oblivious to Naruto's cries of torment. At that moment, Naruto's clone popped after returning the jutsu creation scroll.

"So that's how jutsu work. I -ow- cant wait -ow- there are so many things I want to try." Sadly, Naruto had to lay in the clearing to recover while his team mates trained, and Kakashi sensei read his book.

- two hours later -

Three small bodies were scattered around the clearing. When Kakashi finally finished the chapter he was working on, he decided to see how the genin were doing. Seeing how it was sufficiently late, and the kids were run into the ground, Kakashi decided to end the training.

"Hey Naruto, when you recover-" A snore interrupted him. Kakashi decided to throw a kunai at the sleeping Naruto. It sailed in the air and stopped mere centimeters from Naruto's nose. He didn't move. "He's a deep sleeper. We're gonna have to work on that." Kakashi turned away to exit the clearing.

"Hey, Kakashi-sensei what the heck was that for! You could have hit me." Kakashi turned around lazily.

"Oh, I was just seeing if you were awake or not. If you really were awake, why didn't you catch it?" Naruto stared at Kakashi in silence.

"It was never going to hit me."

"Oh really? How did you know?"

"I can sense it. Didn't I tell you that I can smash flying boulders in a dust storm? In a dust storm, all five conventional senses are useless." Kakashi pounded his hand, as if he just solved a mystery.

"Interesting, I have to go register the team. Can you take care of your team mates?"

"Sure Kakashi-sensei." Naruto walked over to his team mates, and he used kawarimi to transport them to his secret training ground.

Sakura woke up immediately after being transported. She looked around the dimly lit cavern, and saw Naruto standing between her and Sasuke.

"How did you get us here?" Sakura asked

"Kawarimi." Sakura looked at Naruto skeptically.

"You need to be close to where you want to go to use kawarimi and you need to have something to replace with." Naruto got an impish grin in his face.

"Well, you're half right. You see- Oh wait, how rude of me, you must be thirsty from training, let me get you something to drink." Naruto then disappeared. He left Sakura waiting for a couple of minutes, then he came back with a quart of water. "Here you go. Now where was I?"

"The kawarimi."

"Oh right, you need something to switch with, I generally use-" Sasuke chose this moment to sit up.

"Ugh, where am I?"

"You're in my awesome lair teme, and I'm explaining how I can cross vast distances with the kawarimi." Sasuke immediately paid close attention. "I use water vapor for the replacement, it's not really good for anything else. I tried to use it for a ninpo once, and there simply isn't enough water in the air to do much more than get someone wet. As for the proximity dilemma, you can only go as far as your chakra can stretch." Sakura's eyes widened in amazement.

"How do you get your chakra to stretch so far?" Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his head.

"I just fill the air with chakra wherever I go." Sakura was indignant at this.

"How can my team mate be so wasteful with chakra!" Sakura cried anime tears

"In my defense it is a great reserve building exercise." Naruto whined. Sasuke smirked.

"Oh, really?" Sasuke molded chakra, and let it flow into the air in front of him. Sasuke collapsed. "Dang, that is a good exercise." Sasuke went to sleep soon after.

"That moron! Now I have to carry him home. Sakura, can you walk?" Sakura shakily got up to her feet.

"Sure" Naruto grabbed her hand and teleported them in front of the Haruno residence. "Thank you Naruto-ku-" She would have finished her sentence, but he was gone.

Naruto carried Sasuke into the Uchiha's apartment. "Sasuke, you gotta know your limits, doing something like that outside of your friends company could get you killed. With kekei-genkai hunters, enemy ninja, and fangirls running around, the world just isn't safe anymore." Naruto got no response. Naruto smirked. "Teme." With that Naruto disappeared.