Just a bit of forewarning, there are parts in this chapter that require a bit of knowledge about how the muscle system inside the human body works. If you want to get what I am talking about in this chapter, then go and brush up your knowledge on the anaerobic and aerobic ways that muscles work.
A few grammatical errors that have jutsu been fixed up in the re-upload.
The three days that team Kakashi spent in the capital of fire country were absolute torture for Naruto as he was getting his physical training along with his genjutsu detecting and dispelling, Naruto was in the thick of his training.
During these three days that Naruto had been given a fairly intermediate lesson on not falling into the trap of a genjutsu, Naruto had gotten his skills up in the area compared to that of his two teammates Sakura and Sasuke. While he could not cast any of them, Naruto was able to dispel a high B-ranked genjutsu from the training that he had gotten from his sensei Kakashi.
Naruto's weight training with the two rocks was not going as well as while he was doing the training from his sensei, he was not seeing any results in his body when looking in a mirror or when Naruto tried to push past the limits of what he managed to complete the day before in his training.
In fact, Naruto was so concerned about his training measures when he noticed that if anything, he was getting smaller thanks to his physical training.
This was a concern that Naruto voiced to his sensei as he thought that like his skills in genjutsu, Naruto would be able to see immediate results when he looked in the mirror.
Dismissing everything that Naruto was worried about, Kakashi decided to explain to Naruto how exactly the body works in getting stronger, faster and bigger muscles.
Flash back
"Now Naruto, you don't need to worry about anything like that, I guess that while you have been getting quite stronger and smarter recently you haven't been studying much how the human body works because you think that it is different thanks to the Kyubi right?" Kakashi questioned to his favourite student as he felt much more at ease when talking with Naruto compared to Sakura and Sasuke.
"The truth is that while your body is quite different from the average human's, it is not different enough that you shouldn't read any books on how the human biology works as there are many things that you could learn from it which would help you as a shinobi.
For instance, had you read the book, you would know that it takes at least 3 weeks of highly intense training for your body to show any visible signs of an increase in training.
Another thing that you would also know would be that muscles form differently under alternative forms of training, the training which you are doing as it is intense, high resistance training is meant for quick muscle growth whereas training for long periods of time with low levels of resistance are generally used for finely tuning muscles for the specific singular purpose." Kakashi lectured Naruto who nodded and had somehow managed to pull out his book that had enough pages in it to fill up a novel if they all had writing on it and started quickly writing down what his sensei was saying.
End Flash back
In terms of the training that Sasuke and Sakura were going through, it was much the same compared to Naruto's physical training in that they couldn't see any results coming from their training.
For Sasuke it didn't matter as he had enough determination inside of him thanks to what his elder brother did to him the night that he massacred his clan to know that constant training would bring results.
For the only female in the group, someone who had no real motivation to train other than to not let Sasuke down, Sakura didn't have any strong emotion fuelling her desire to get stronger, that was why after she had finished on the final day of their brief holiday she wasn't going to continue the training as she didn't see the point in getting sweaty and unattractive for the sake of nothing.
Now it was time for team 7 to go and complete their final mission of the month which would lead them back to Konoha as they could get back to a bit more hands on training without having to worry about ruining the landscape of the fire capital.
Once Kakashi had made sure that all of his genins' were packed and ready to go for their final mission, team Kakashi went to the gate that they would be leaving the fire country's capital to the military headquarters of fire country which was the place that they lived as they delivered their client to Konoha.
Unlike the first client that team 7 had gotten for their mission, this one was nowhere near as nice or as friendly as what their previous client, the elderly couple were.
In fact, in Naruto's opinion, this girl / woman, whatever you wanted to call her had the personality that could rival Sasuke's in terms of anti-socialness. This was probably caused by the fact that she wasn't thin at all. In fact, she was bigger than what most Akimichi's ever grow up to.
Naruto guessed that this was probably why she was so cold because everyone that talked to her called her fat. Now while someone who knew the old Naruto might think that the boy would feel a sense of kinship with her, they were wrong.
She had the possibility to change the way that she looked by her eating habits but instead chose not to and thought that the food was the refuge from her teasing problems, instead though it was actually the source of most of her pain. To Naruto, someone that fought through each and every single battle, it was an insult to what he stood for in battling to the end instead of giving up and calling it quits.
For someone who actually knew Naruto, it was easy to tell that he didn't like his client one bit but thanks to his control over his emotions, Naruto managed to never show one ounce of disdain towards the black haired woman.
What Naruto did not know was that it wasn't that he was getting better in controlling his emotions because he had never had any formal training of the sought. No, there was another reason as to why Naruto had a much better control over his emotions.
The reason as to why Naruto was no longer suffering from his inability to properly control his emotions was because his new training regimen. The reason why Naruto had to go through these things in the first place was because of that damned fire breathing fox inside of his stomach.
Having the Kyubi sealed inside of him, Naruto did not get super human powers or anything over the top. No, in fact, for every benefit having the Kyubi inside of him, there were always consequences and side effects that came with the pro of having the massive storage of chakra inside of you.
This was none more as true in the case with Naruto as his body was built differently. The cause of this was having the Kyubi's Youkai inside of his body practically from immediately coming out of his mother's womb.
What the Youkai that came from the Kyubi and went into Naruto's body did was that it caused an excess amount of chakra into his pathways and made it a very uncomfortable way for the blonde haired boy to acclimatise himself with life outside of his mother's stomach.
When there was just too much of the chakra running through the pathways than what Naruto was capable of safely and successfully holding, it would find ways to the chakra throughout the body to lessen the strain on his chakra coils.
This came in the form of storing the chakra in the muscles as a form of helping the tissues inside of the body combat lactic acid which was the by-product of muscles saying that they were tired and didn't want to do any more anaerobic exercise.
This was why that Naruto had such good stamina because his tissues were getting rid of his lactic acid much more quickly which allowed Naruto to not need to have oxygen going into them for them to work for long periods of time.
What this did was that it meant that Naruto basically had an aerobic system of fighting muscle fatigue in the form of using oxygen to fuel their workload that was basically rendered useless now that Naruto had such an efficient anaerobic system that let Naruto's muscles go at full tilt for much longer than what they could do when they were relying on the aerobic system.
When a baby is born there will be some growing deformities and mutations to try and accommodate what they were being forced to live through. An example of this is that if a teenage boy wore very tight underwear all through puberty, his manhood wouldn't grow to full size as the tight elastic would prevent that from happening.
This was no different in that the Kyubi was making Naruto's body perfect for surviving all of the tough situations that were going to come as the giant nine tailed fox demon wanted to ensure his own survival and with Naruto's and his own life tied together, he had to do things that he wouldn't normally do for the infant.
When Naruto's infantile body discarded the aerobic way of getting muscles to work as the anaerobic way was much better and efficient, the Kyubi noticed this and totally eradicated that way of making the body work out of his physique and in return created an even more efficient anaerobic system which was where Naruto got his great stamina from as his muscles could work out at the same level as normal muscles for a much longer period of time while still maintaining a very high intensity.
There were some side effects from having such a great way of combatting muscle fatigue though and that was that it gave Naruto a tremendous amount of energy that he could never get rid of thanks to his new way of dealing with muscle fatigue.
What compounded onto this fact was that Naruto, someone who had no education on the human body thought that the pain in his muscles thought that the first sign of pain going through them was the time in which he should stop his training because he didn't want anything bad happening to him as he certainly did not have enough money to pay for any of the medical expenses as he knew that they were supposed to be highly expensive.
All in all, this combined into Naruto never getting rid of the energy stored inside of his body which meant that he sought out the pranking as a small reprieve as it took quite a lot of energy to run away from the chunin's that were chasing after him.
It was not that Naruto was faster than them by any means, it was just the fact that he could run at his full speed constantly and never get tired from it while all of the people chasing him had to stop and take breaks. Add his unrivalled skills at stealth for someone of his age and lack of proper training in the art, Naruto was a good shinobi in the making.
This was why Naruto liked his training with his sensei because of the high resistance training for long hours was finally a training method that catered to his body's specific needs and allowed his body, for the first time in his life to get some proper reprieve from all of the energy that was stored up in his muscles.
When Naruto finally experienced the feeling of not having that restless feeling from his body telling him to do large amounts of movement, Naruto was the happiest he had been ever since his date with Karin-chan from Kusagakure.
6 days later
Once Naruto and his team had parted ways with their sensei, Kakashi went to go and do whatever it was that Jonin's did after training their students while team 7 went their separate ways so that they could each write up a mission report for each of the four missions that team Kakashi went on.
For Naruto this was surprisingly easy considering the fact that with his writing abilities and having found out which his dominant hand was, Naruto had no problem writing the reports that were required from him as a form of punishment for not listening to what was going on during the meeting with the Hokage.
Having done his mission reports up to a standard that a former ANBU captain would be satisfied with, Naruto decided that he should go and check up on Ayame, albeit through a disguise so that they wouldn't know it was him to see if there business was getting any better.
Walking down the street, Naruto was thoroughly shocked when he went up to the place that used to serve ramen. Instead of finding the ramen shop that once had been there and had housed Naruto through many of his tough times in his earlier years, Naruto now found that there no building at all and instead there was a group of construction workers there instead.
Shocked beyond belief at what was happening; Naruto rushed up to one of the construction workers thankfully still in his disguise and asked what was going on around here.
"Excuse me builder-san, but what is going on here, I was away for a month and when I came back I certainly did not expect to find that my favourite ramen bar demolished with nothing remaining." Naruto stated as his first thoughts drifted towards Ayame and Teuchi who had been so kind to him all those years.
Since the man was on his lunch break, he had the free time in which he could speak with Naruto about the blonde haired boy's concerns. "Huh, oh kid well what people tell me is that this was the place that the demon frequently visited here because this was the only place that was kind enough to allow him some food.
It's sad that the act of kindness, something that no one else in Konoha would think to do and they get repaid by having heaps of their customers leaving them as they didn't want to associate with a place that supported the demon, not that I blame them though, if I actually liked ramen, I would have done the exact same thing." The beefy construction worker said as he talked to the red eyed, disguised Naruto.
Had the man actually known that Naruto was actually the person behind the masquerade, then maybe the words that were coming out of his mouth would have been different along with the tone they were said with.
Wanting as much information as possible, Naruto asked the man one final question before he had to get back to work. "Do you know what had happened to the family that owned the business?" Naruto questioned trying to find out what he could do to help Ayame and her father.
"All I know is that they left Konoha in search of a new place that wouldn't recognize them as the people who allowed the demon to eat their food and start a new business." The man mused as he wondered where that place would be.
Naruto, frustrated at the fact that he could not get any information on where they went so that he could go and help them in their transition into a new life, tried to move onto other thoughts.
With being angry and depressed at you, it's very hard to move onto more positive thoughts and this was something that was no different in the case of Naruto. The thing that he was most depressed about was the fact that he never got to say goodbye to Ayame after they had that bitter conversation which led to Naruto never returning to their establishment.
The thing that Naruto was most angry about though was the fact that he never got the chance to repay the ramen serving family for all of the things that they had done for him in his time of need. This was a very bitter pill that Naruto was forced to swallow.
I just used them and never once in my time did I think of the consequences that the people around me would suffer from my selfish actions. Fuck, I wish that I had just done something so that the few people who actually like me as a person didn't have to leave the village because they could not pay the bills.
What makes it worse is that it is absolutely the wrong kind of thing for a Hokage to do as they must think of all potential outcomes for a situation and choose one that is has the best outcome in the eyes of Konoha.
Furious with himself, Naruto, for the first time in his life after his meeting with Shakudo never said a form of thank you or goodbye to the person that he was talking to as he left with a lot of things to think about.
The next day
After doing a morning session of training which was enough that it still kept at their prime in case team 7 went on a mission today that involved strenuous movement and yet did enough so that it body was not screaming at him to exercise it.
After having a shower and having breakfast what would be enough to feed an fully grown male Akimichi in terms of kilojoules and calories, Naruto went over to his chest of drawers and pulled out the outfit that he had gotten multiple copies of as to use as his official ninja outfit when on missions which was still good enough that he could wear it out of ninja missions and still stares from women who thought that his fashion sense was unbecoming of a ninja.
The outfit in question was a pair of black cotton pants that were fairly fire resistant. On the top half of his body, there was a crimson long sleeve shirt that was getting tighter and tighter the longer than Naruto wore it as his frame was growing rapidly thanks to all of the supplements and added food going into his system.
Over the top of that crimson red shirt was a fairly thick fleece grey jacket that kept Naruto as snug as could be during winter and now that it was getting towards the hotter months in Konoha, it was starting to get a little hot for Naruto to wear but he decided that it was better to be safe rather than be sorry.
Once Naruto had gotten his outfit sorted out along with the weapons that he was supposed to carry according to the ninja books that he had read during the major course of his transformation, Naruto headed down towards where his team would be meeting with their sensei to find out what was going to happen
In the end Naruto was not surprised when Kakashi eventually came three hours late that they were not going to get a C-ranked mission as compared to how long it took team 7 to get one before, he thought that they were spoiled with the month of C-ranked missions and were going to get some D-ranks instead.
When Naruto saw that Kakashi looked up and spotted an hawk that was flying around in the sky and then subsequently watching his sensei leave via the use of the Ninpou: Shunshin no Jutsu (Ninja Arts: Body Flicker no Jutsu), he wondered what it was that his sensei had to go and if it would have any effect on his team.
Turning around, Naruto was surprised to find that there were actually people who were dumb enough to think that hiding underneath a cardboard cut-out of a rock would be a good enough stealthy approach so that he wouldn't know that someone was following him.
Annoyed that whoever was underneath it was highly underestimated him, Naruto quickly used a low power Fuuton: Daitoppa no Jutsu (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough Jutsu) to blow whoever it was that was underneath the cardboard box out into the open five metres down the street from where he was.
To Naruto' surprise there was three kids that had just come out of the box all around the age of 8 or 9. Looking over at them, Naruto noticed that they had a smoke bomb and must have dropped the bomb when they were blown away and were now suffering the consequences of that action.
After a while, the three kids got up from where they were and ran over to Naruto and decided that since they hadn't introduced themselves to Naruto yet and decided that they should go and do that right now.
Doing a pose that would have shown off any curves that her body had if she had them; the only girl from the trio spoke up. "I'm Moegi and I am the sassiest kunoichi from preschool, check me out!" the newly announced Moegi stated with a fan girl like voice as she held her hand out. What that meant, Naruto had no idea and would just go along as if nothing had ever happened.
It was then that Naruto was greeted with the sight of the boy that was on the left from where he was facing, there was a boy that was wearing a dark blue top and had a big loogie coming out of his nose.
"I love algebra, call me Udon!" the snivelling boy called out as he put his hands into what was similar to one of the poses that Naruto saw those music people use in their TV videos. Seeing the snot coming from the boy, Naruto was highly disgusted that the kid had such poor personal hygiene but would not say anything as he didn't want to embarrass the boy in front of his friends as he had firsthand experience in what that felt like and wouldn't make someone else suffer from bullying if he could help it.
The final person of the group was none other than the Sandaime's grandson from what the pictures in the library books had when they showed living relatives of the most powerful ninjas that Konoha had to offer. Wondering what he of all people was doing bothering to talk to someone so low class like him, Naruto decided to wait and find out what the kid wanted so he could go and train.
It was then that the third person of the group spoke up. "And I'm the number one ninja in the village! Konohamaru!" the brown haired boy shouted out as he proudly stood with a pose though what he did not know was that he was almost about to trip over his scarf if he wasn't careful enough.
Once they had each done their individual introductions, the grandson of the Sandaime Hokage along with his two friends spoke up in unison with each other. "And when we're all together, we are the Konohamaru ninja squad!" the three kids stated as they posed together.
Watching the scene that was being played out in front of him, Naruto wondered whether or not his sensei had managed to slip one of those hallucinogenic plants into his body which was causing him to watch some fucked up shit going on right before his eyes.
It took a while but the blonde haired ninja eventually got his bearings right and managed to reply to the three kids in front of him. "And what was the purpose of coming all the way out here to meet with me?" Naruto stated wanting to know how long he had to put up with this blatant form of child-like behaviour and stupidity.
Not caring about what Naruto had just said to him, Konohamaru decided to reply to Naruto. "My grandpa, the guy who is the Sandaime Hokage promised that you would play ninja with us." The boy pouted as he never minded using his grandfather's fame to get what he wanted as he was a spoilt child through and through.
It was then that Sakura heard what Konohamaru had just said and misheard it thinking that Naruto himself had agreed to play ninja with them. When the girl spoke up, Naruto was thankful for her timely interruption as it led to a series of events that would make the grandson of the Sandaime Hokage forget about wanting to play ninja with Naruto.
"What's this, a ninja playing ninja with kids? Talk about pathetic." Sakura said as she could not believe Naruto saying that. Slowly but surely he was getting better as a person and then he goes and ruins it by doing something like that, she just didn't know what to believe when it came to Naruto nowadays.
Seeing someone insult the person that his grandfather had told him to visit, Konohamaru instantly took the side of Naruto in this conversation, something that the blonde haired boy was grateful for as he had never had anyone do that for him apart from Iruka on a few occasions.
"Hey boss, who is this girl anyway?" Konohamaru said which none of the team 7 that was in the area bothered to reply to. Being an impressionable kid and not really knowing what flirting and love was, he came to a conclusion.
The way that she is staring at Naruto, it's as if she is looking at him with daggers. It was as if a light bulb went off in the head of Konohamaru as he pieced things together. Rubbing his hand on Naruto's back, the brown haired boy spoke up.
"Oh I get it now, is she your girlfriend boss, you're a smooth operator huh boss?" the scarf wearing boy suggestively stated to Naruto with a grin and a wink marring his face.
Not having much experience with the fairer sex to know what Konohamaru was talking about, Naruto had to wait until when Konohamaru finished his sentence before he got what the little boy was implying. "Is she your girlfriend boss?" the boy said whilst holding up his pinky finger.
The sad thing for Konohamaru was that the pink haired girl that he thought that Naruto was dating and being the type of girl that she was, she knew that she had to set the record straight in case Ino heard the rumour that she and Naruto were dating.
"Why would I want to date someone like him when there are people out there like the great Sasuke-kun that would be so much better to be with." Sakura stated as she wanted to get the point across that she in no shape or form did she like Naruto in that way.
Seeing the harsh dismissal coming from Sakura, the brown haired boy instantly changed his mind when it came to Naruto's aid. "What kind of girl are you, you gorilla. "Yeah, now that I think about it, why someone like the boss would want to date such a girl with a humongous large forehead and flat chested girl like you anyway? There are tons of other girls out there." Konohamaru stated as he looked at the way that Sakura was fumin
When Konohamaru said what he did, for some reason, Naruto's mind instantly pictured Karin-chan from Kusagakure who was wearing a dress whilst having a large smile on her face. Quickly dismissing those thoughts as books said that it was inappropriate for teenage boys to have thoughts like those, Naruto quickly dismissed them and realised the situation that Konohamaru had gotten himself into.
"You might want to run away Konohamaru as it seems that you have bitten of more than you could chew." Naruto said to which the nine year old boy nodded rapidly and turned around and started running in the opposite direction to which Sakura was at.
Being the nice type of person that he was, Naruto decided that he should go and follow them up to make sure that nothing severe happens. It was lucky for him that he did that as Naruto saw that there was not only Konoha shinobi inside the village hidden in the leaves at this current point in time.
No, there was a couple of shinobi from the hidden sand village right inside of his village and one of them happened to be the person that Konohamaru ran into when he turned around the corner in his hopes of running away from Sakura.
Since he was the son of the current Kazekage, Kankuro had not been treated as some average civilian, that was why when the boy from Konoha ran into him, old habits die hard and his spoilt childhood showed through his veins.
Picking up the little boy, Kankuro spoke to him "Ugh, you little shit, that hurt." The sand shinobi stated as he looked down upon the boy that had run into him. Konohamaru for his part was not in any condition to say anything other than grunt.
Sakura, being the highly insecure person that she was, she thought that the situation at hand could be best solved with words and not with fists. "Hey I'm sorry about what just happened, I was just messing around." Sakura feebly tried to say confidently as she was wondering just who in the world these people were.
Seeing that Naruto was getting angry at someone being bullied right in front of his eyes as it reminded him of his childhood, Naruto ran at Kankuro in the attempt to stop the bullying that was taking place.
Amused by the sight of Naruto running at him slightly faster than what he could safely handle if it was a taijutsu fight, Kankuro proudly boasted as he let out a chakra string in the attempt of tripping Naruto. "Huh, let's see how good these leaf genin are." Kankuro mused to himself.
Feeling something grab a hold of his ankle and try and trip him over, Naruto used his skills learnt in water walking to get good grip on the ground as he made the chakra strings that were coming from Kankuro effectively useless.
With the fact that Naruto had managed to shock the puppet user from Suna as he did not trip over like the boy intended, Naruto grabbed a kunai out of his hand and watched how a rock flew straight towards the Suna shinobi knocking his hold on Konohamaru away.
Seeing the opening that someone, probably Sasuke in Naruto's mind as they had good teamwork thanks to Kakashi, Naruto used the kunai in a jabbing motion to injure the enemy shinobi who was trying to hurt one of his future comrades.
Not seeing that Naruto was holding a kunai until it was too late; Kankuro tried to dodge as best as he could but ultimately failed as he got a large gash along his right arm. Seeing that his job was done, Naruto picked up Konohamaru and used a chakra enhanced jump to get out of the way and bring the grandson of the Hokage back into the safe area.
It was then that a large killing intent filled the immediate area as a boy from a branch opposite to where Sasuke was at made his presence known. What made this even more impressive was that the boy was hanging upside down on the bottom of the branch. "You Kankuro are a disappointment to Suna." Gaara stated in a monotone voice to which Kankuro faltered and retreated back a fair distance as to show just how powerful his younger brother was.
How did he… that's Kakashi's level of stealth… I couldn't even sense him were the thoughts going through the minds of the Konoha genin in the surrounding area
Opening his mouth to speak once again, there was a definite reduction of noise as everyone was listening to the words of this red haired boy standing underneath the tree. "Losing yourself in a fight, your pathetic… why do you think we came to this village in the first place?" Gaara stated in a bored tone as he asked a rhetorical question.
Feebly trying to ignore the pain in his right arm and still keep a straight face when talking to his brother, the holder of the Ichibi no Shukaku was a hard thing to do. "Look Gaara, they started it and…" Kankuro said as he rapidly tried to find the right words to say.
Obviously they were not the right words to say judging from the reaction that came from the red haired boy. "Shut up or I will kill you myself." Gaara stated as he used a jutsu, that jutsu was the Sunaton: Shunshin no Jutsu (Sand Release: Body Flicker Jutsu,)
Reappearing in the middle of his brother and sister, Gaara had to go through the unnecessary listening to the pink haired girl from team 7's voice. With a voice that was quite loud in conjunction to the noises that he heard inside of his mind thanks to the Ichibi, Gaara was not in a very good mood.
"Hey wait!" Sakura shouted as she got the attention of team Sabaku and got them to turn around so that they could listen to what she had to say. "Judging from your forehead protectors, you are ninjas from the hidden sand village right?" Sakura questioned as she paused for a bit to get her thoughts right before speaking once again.
"You may be allies with the hidden leaf village but… It is forbidden for shinobi's to enter a foreign village without that village's permission. State your purpose, depending on your answer, we may not be able to let you go." Sakura said in what she thought was a tough tone.
For Temari though, she was someone to had to listen to Gaara all the time and what this fan girl judging by her appearance, was as pathetic in its attempt to make them scared as a newborn kitten was at looking frightening. "Huh, talking about clueless, don't you know anything?" Temari asked as she wondered how a fan girl with such poor knowledge ever managed to pass Konoha's graduating exam.
Both Naruto and Sasuke at this part were rapidly listening as to take in information that they probably should have known by now to see if it was something majorly important.
"You're right; we are genins from the hidden Sand village. We have come to Konoha to participate in the bi-annual chunin selection exam." Temari stated in a formal tone of voice that she had honed after getting lessons on the specific subject thanks to being the daughter of the current Kazekage.
"Before Temari could go into an explanation about how the chunin exams took place as she decided to educate the pink haired girl in case she didn't know, Sasuke jumped down from the tree branch and started talking. "You, what is your name?" the raven haired Uchiha questioned.
The blonde female fan wielding ninja thought that this question was directed at herself and blushed at the thought of a hot guy like Sasuke asking for her name. "You mean me?" Temari questioned as she tried to hide her blush.
Being the type of person that he was after having had to dismiss the advances of countless fan girls countless times; Sasuke was ruthless in the rejection of Temari's question. "No, you with the gourd." Sasuke stated as he stared down the container of the Ichibi no Shukaku.
"Gaara Sabaku" The gourd carrying boy stated to Sasuke who filed that information inside of his head. Not only was Sasuke filing away that information but Naruto also was on the off chance that he might meet the guy again.
Turning around so that he was facing roughly in the middle of where Sasuke and Naruto were, Gaara replied with a question of his own. "You two" Gaara stated as he looked at both Naruto and Sasuke when he said this. "I am also interested in your names and I would like to know your names." Gaara said politely to both Naruto and Sasuke.
Allowing Sasuke to have the attention that came with going first as he particularly didn't like attention as he generally got negative forms of it, Naruto waited as his teammate gave out his name and then when it was his turn to speak, Naruto answered Gaara. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki."
With that said and Gaara having gotten the information that he desired, Gaara, with the company of his two siblings left the laneway which team 7 and the Konohamaru corps by themselves.
Using this distraction as a time to quickly make off with the grandson of the current Hokage being none the wiser, Naruto left so that he could do some training as he felt that he could do much more in terms of pushing his muscles to the limit than what he had time for in the morning
Not to limit himself to only taijutsu training for the day though, Naruto went to the library to pick up a book that focused on wind ninjutsu as he wanted to get even better with his ninjutsu as that was the only real way for him to use his large chakra reserves efficiently in battle.
Once Naruto hired the book on advanced wind ninjutsu for people wanting to become a chunin and beyond, Naruto went to the team 7 training ground where he knew that he wouldn't be disturbed as Sasuke always trained inside his clan compound and Sakura never trained at all.
When Naruto was versing his sensei in their battle so that Kakashi could tell just how much Naruto had improved in a short amount of time, the blonde haired boy found out that his shadow clones could use chakra for ninjutsu as well as being able transfer all knowledge that they learnt back to him, gave Naruto a radical idea that he thought would improve his training by massive amounts.
That theory was that Naruto could have his clones training while he did his physical training and when the clones dispelled, it would be as if Naruto managed to train both at the same time thus drastically limiting his time training.
Though because Naruto did not want to waste heaps of chakra in case his new training method did not actually work, the blonde haired ninja limited himself to only using 25 or so clones instead of the 150 or so that he could potentially make for the training as he didn't want to waste chakra for nothing as to him, it was just as important as money was.
This was lucky for Naruto as the Kyubi sealed inside of him would have used the opportunity to try and take over Naruto when he was had little to no chakra to repel the fox's Youkai.
Reading over the book and finding out that the first exercise that was needed for learning new jutsus was to split a leaf via converting your chakra into a thin, sharp blade that would be sharp enough to cut through a surface of a leaf.
Reading over that it worked best when the chakra was focused into two forces grinding against each other to get the cutting motion to be stronger, Naruto told all of his clones this who nodded and took the hint to go and each grab a leaf from a tree and get to work on the training.
Since Naruto did not have the stones that Kakashi had put the weight seals on, Naruto had to improvise and had found a large rock which was more or less the same weight as the training equipment that he once used before.
Time skip – night time
After finishing his training to the point in which his muscles could barely hold their own weight, Naruto rested against a tree in the training ground and dispelled the Kinjutsu: Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Forbidden Jutsu: Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu) technique and felt the rush of information coming into him about how the clones had progressed in their wind composition training.
Picking up one of the excess leaves that had come off of the tree when the clones got their leaves for the training and used the skills his doppelgangers were trying to perfect to see for himself first-hand just how far he had come in terms of cutting the leaf.
Revealing the top hand, Naruto looked at his handiwork and frowned as he still had a lot of training that he had to do if he wanted to get this training perfected. When these self-inflicting negative thoughts arose, Naruto never bothered to realise the fact that this form of training usually took well over a month to achieve and to have done nearly half of it in just one day was truly remarkable.
There in the palm of his hand was a leaf that had a cut going down the centre of it filled with rough edges. When Naruto looked at his work in terms of training, it was easy to see that Naruto was a pessimistic type of person.
This was a trait that the snake clan would like as Naruto would never be satisfied with what he had and would always try and make the things that he has and the world in which he lived in to be a better place.
This was none more so visible in his training as he looked at the leaf in his hand and rather than think that it was cut half of the way, Naruto would look at it and think that he still had to cut the other half.
Having done his training for the whole day and well into the night after the brief encounter with team Sabaku and the Konohamaru corps, Naruto struggled to get back up and make his way home and rest for the night as his muscles were screaming for some time to recuperate and he was none more so happy to abide to that request.
The next day
After waiting the customary 3 hours which their sensei never bothered to show up at, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke were greeted with the presence of their sensei, Kakashi Hatake. When Sakura had shouted enough that the displeasure from her alone was enough that on a normal team would cover all three members; Kakashi replied with the same type of stuff he normally did. "I got lost on the road of life."
Ignoring the shout of outrage coming from his female student; Kakashi spoke up to his team of genin. "Well anyway, this might be sudden and all but I have nominated you three to compete in this year's chunin exams." Kakashi said with a smile on his face although it was not seeable thanks to the mask that he wore over his face.
"Here are your nomination forms for the exams, though this is just a nomination, whether or not you want to take the exams is entirely up to you." Kakashi stated as he wanted to see whether or not Sakura would take part as he knew that she was the one that needed the most work in terms of brushing up on skills.
When Kakashi had said goodbye, he pretended to disappear but in reality, he stayed behind so that he could watch what happened with his three students. It was no surprise that Naruto and Sasuke were both very confident in their abilities as a ninja as they were both discussing the people that they wanted to face, with both of them wanting to fight Gaara as he was the person that had seemed to be the best out of team Sabaku.
Sakura on the other hand was nowhere near as confident in her abilities as she was second guessing herself slightly that while she had improved quite a bit as a ninja and had done quite a lot of stuff for the team, she was by no means able to compare the things that she did for the team compared to what Naruto and her great Sasuke-kun brought to the table.
Kakashi was watching these scenes unfold and wondered whether or not his team would be able to participate in the exam as they needed to have a full team and could not go at it with only just Naruto and Sasuke flying the banners of team 7.
The next day
By the time that Naruto had finished his early morning training session, he had managed to barely complete the leaf cutting exercise to the minimum standard that the book mention for adequacy of cutting a leaf as Naruto had managed to cut the leaf although it was a totally rugged cut and was far from perfect as the book stated that it should be as clean a cut as possible.
After having breakfast and preparing himself for the day's new challenge as he would be attending his first chunin exams; making his way over to the academy where he was instructed to go to via the pamphlet that his sensei had given to him the day before.
When he got to where he was supposed to meet up with his team, Naruto found out that he was the first person from team 7 to get there and he was shortly followed by Sakura and Sasuke. With all three giving nods of determination, team Kakashi made their way into the academy so that they could begin whatever it was that consisted of the chunin exam.
When the trio of young ninjas walked through the door, they were greeted with the site of a kid in a green spandex one piece sitting on the ground looking fairly beaten up. It was then that the voice of the person who did that to him spoke up.
"Hah! You plan to take the chunin exams with skills like that? You should just quit now!" Kotetsu claimed as he was just doing as he was told in that he was supposed to get rid of all the inferior people trying to participate in the exam.
Being the type of person that backs up his comrades, Izumo Kamizuki was one to jump on the back of what Kotetsu Hagane had just said and started speaking up himself. "Yeah, you're just a kid, you'd never make it past the chunin exams like you are now." The man reaffirmed as he did not want kids to suffer at the hands of Ibiki Morino.
It was then that the two chunin's in disguise went into a fairly detailed speech about how the challenges that chunin face are much tougher than the ones that genin have to deal with as they have to lead missions and everything that happens on the mission is their fault, including the deaths of the shinobi partaking in the mission.
It was then that the whole room stopped listening to Izumo and Kotetsu as there was a new voice entering itself into the conversation. "I agree with that but, you will let me pass through here." The raven haired Uchiha stated in a tone that showed off all of his confidence and arrogance.
"Also, remove the genjutsu that you put up that changes the surroundings of where we are, I want to get to the third floor." Sasuke said to the chunin in disguise who were impressed with the showing that the raven haired Uchiha had just done as he was ready for the chance to earn promotion to the rank of chunin.
It was as soon as the words that came from the Uchiha left his mouth, there were whisperings of "what's this guy talking about?" and "There isn't a genjutsu on us… is there?"
With a grin on his face showing that he was impressed with what Sasuke had just done, Kotetsu and Izumo released their illusion and the Ninpou: Henge no jutsu (Ninja Art: Transformation Jutsu) that they had over themselves.
In the mind of Naruto, he had seen the genjutsu that was casted over them but seeing it over everyone else made Naruto wonder what the point of it was, deciding to play ignorant as it would make the people around him think that he wasn't that great as he had gone to the library to get a book that had all the best ways to give yourself the ideal chance of obtaining promotion to the rank of chunin.
When the illusion was dropped, Kotetsu ran out of the smoke caused from the breaking of the illusion hopefully to get Sasuke off guard. This did not work as Sasuke saw this and prepared a kick in retaliation.
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on the way that you look at it, the clashing of the legs never happened as the green spandex wearing kid from before intercepted both incoming kicks.
This induced the thoughts of bewilderment in that the kid, the same one that was getting beaten up before was now so fast that he could intercept the two kicks as if they were carrying the same weight of a single feather.
The first person to react from Lee's blatant showing of skill was Lee's male teammate, Neji Hyuga. Said pale eyed boy started speaking in a tone that conveyed his anger towards Lee. "What happened to the plan? You were the one that specifically stated that we should not draw attention to ourselves." Neji questioned Lee to see what it was that Lee would say in reply.
Not even paying attention to what his teammate was asking him, Lee was transfixed onto something else entirely. That thing was Sakura Haruno and he was walking straight up to her. "My name is Rock Lee and your name is Sakura… so let's go out together! I'll protect you until you die."
Looking once over at the person who had just asked her out on a date, Sakura quickly made up her mind on whether or not to date the boy. "No way, you're lame!" Sakura shouted as she was did not want to be associated with a green spandex wearing weirdo.
Naruto for his part found the scene hilariously funny but with his good control on his emotions, he managed to settle it down to that of a snigger mixed with a chuckle as this served Naruto a reminder of what he could have been if he had never took that initiative in taking more missions since he had little to no money which the end result after a bad mission was the meeting he had with Shakudo-sama of the snake clan.
During Naruto's internal musings, there was a conversation going on between the two prodigies of Konoha's famous Dojutsu clans, the sharingan and the Byakugan which were being represented by Sasuke and Neji respectively. "You, what is your name?" Neji asked in a not too polite tone of voice.
Being the person who had lots of formal training to do with meetings thanks to which family he was born into along with him having a smartass nature in his personality, Sasuke replied in a way that pissed off the milky eyed Hyuga. "You know, it's polite to give out your own name first when you want to know the name of someone else." Sasuke said with a bored expression on his face.
Angered by the tone of voice and the words that Uchiha clan member used to address him with, Neji replied in an angered tone. "You're a rookie right? How old are you?" Neji asked wanting to know the answer to his question.
Seeing that he had managed to get under the skin of the Hyuga in front of him, Sasuke replied in a way that would make the boy a year older than him even angrier. "I don't have to answer you." Sasuke said in a bored and disinterested tone of voice as he turned around and left to go back to his team.
Naruto, watching the scene in front of him was feeling mixed emotions. On one hand he was happy because none of the people in the room were gunning after him but on the other hand he was extremely envious of all the attention that Sasuke was getting.
Like the how all of the girls around the age of got a blush of varying degrees of red on their faces as they noticed how good looking Sasuke was, Tenten was no different as she thought that the fire user from team 7 was definitely a cutie.
Seeing that team 7 was making their way to the place which the testing would begin, Lee decided that he would go and see just how good the Uchiha genius really was. Tenten noticing that her green spandex wearing teammate was lagging behind, she decided to turn around and talk to him.
"Come on Lee, what are you doing?" Tenten exasperatedly asked as she did not have a high tolerance when it came to her teammate and their sensei. With a weird look on his face, the taijutsu specialized ninja turned around to his teammates and replied to Tenten's question.
"You guys go on ahead, there is something that I want to test out." Lee said with a weird look on his face. Neji, not wanting to associate with Lee as he was a fairly big embarrassment was fine with that as it gave him a little reprieve from the "flames of youth" that he had to deal with every day.
Looking down from a railing above, the weights wearing ninja spoke to team seven. "Hey you with the black eyes, will you fight me right here and now?" Lee questioned before he jumped down onto the wooden floorboards below to formally challenge Sasuke.
"My name is Rock Lee, when you want to learn a person's name you introduce yourself right?" Lee questioned as he wanted to have a fight with another rookie of the year to test himself in preparation for his inevitable fight with Neji.
"Heh, so you know, Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke coolly stated as he mentally prepared himself for the fight that was about to happen.
Getting into his sensei's famed Goken taijutsu stance, Lee spoke up. "I want to fight you, I want to test my skills against the offspring of the famous Uchiha genius ninja clan." said the green spandex wearing ninja as he looked directly at Sasuke before he spoke up once again.
Giving a wink towards the pink haired girl, Lee made his intentions clear what he really wanted out of this match. Acting like the spoilt child that he was, Sasuke didn't want what he considered his toys and didn't want them taken away from him even if he was not ever going to play with them.
Not caring about what Sakura was thinking about someone trying to steal her away from him, he spoke up as if it was only he and Lee in the room. "Challenging me, knowing the Uchiha name… frankly you're a fool. You're about to learn what the name means thick brows." The Uchiha clan heir stated to Lee in obvious reference to the kid's freakishly large eyebrows.
Naruto for his part was very eager to watch this match take place as Naruto thought that it would be a good way to see an opponent's skills while he didn't have to reveal his own.
I don't know what type of ninjutsu that kid uses, but I will learn all of his tricks and copy it and then use it against him. Sasuke Uchiha thought as he charged at Lee starting the spar between the two.
The first thing that the genin under the tutelage of Gai did was that he used his Goken: Konoha Senpu! (Strong Fist: Leaf Whirlwind!) And launched a high kick towards the head of Sasuke.
Seeing that he couldn't dodge the attack as it was coming too fast for him, Sasuke did the only that he could in this situation and that was block the attack Unfortunately for Sasuke, Lee was just way too fast and he didn't see to Lee increase his speed the moment that he got close to his target.
Thus the subsequent meeting of leg coming from Lee and the face of Sasuke was not a pretty one in the eyes of Sakura as she screamed in horror at seeing her crush losing so badly.
Thinking that his enemy was using some sort of ninjutsu or genjutsu to make it so that he couldn't block Lee's attacks, Sasuke decided to get serious and activated his sharingan Dojutsu to discern what it was that Lee was using.
Activating his Dojutsu, Sasuke's eyes changed from the normal, black colour into that of the bloodish red that the Uchiha clan were famous for. So that's the sharingan Lee thought as he watched how Sasuke charged at him once again, this time trying his best.
Just like last time Sasuke lost quite badly to Lee as instead of getting a punch to the chest like last time, this time Sasuke got a hard kick to the bottom of his chin.
Sasuke was in a state of severe shock as he tried to process the information that his eyes were giving him. This can't be! The sharingan can't read his jutsu! Seeing the look on the face of Sasuke, Lee decided to inform Sasuke of how he was beating him.
"Yes, my techniques are neither ninjutsu nor genjutsu." Lee stated to the Uchiha clan heir who could only grunt as he was sent flying into the air thanks to the ferocity of the kick that the green spandex wearing genin had given him.
"Goken: Kage Buyo! (Strong Fist: Shadow of the Dancing Leaf!)" The taijutsu specializing ninja shouted with exuberance as he jumped up into the air appeared in Sasuke's shadow as he prepared to use his next move, one which would end the fight between him and Sasuke.
Since Lee was the type of person who was extremely jealous of the genius type of ninjas who did not have to work anywhere near as hard as what he did for the same amount of results, this was why before Lee used his finishing move on Sasuke, the spandex wearing kid started trash talking to get inside the mind of the Uchiha clan heir.
"Yes Sasuke-kun, my techniques are just simple taijutsu, you may not believe it because it is so basic. They say that the sharingan has the ability to reveal all types of Nin, gen and taijutsu. It is true that reading ninjutsu and genjutsu which need chakra and hand seals to be performed for the technique.
But… taijutsu is a little bit different in that aspect. Even if you are able to read my movements, your body does not have the speed to react to what you see. Basically, even if your eyes can see where I am going to hit; if your body can't keep up to what your eyes see, then your sharingan is useless in battle." Lee lectured to the sharingan wielder who couldn't move at all from the pain that he was feeling.
Angered by the words coming from someone who thought that they were so much better than him; Sasuke managed to grunt out a few words. "What do you mean?" Sasuke angrily called out as he tried to process the meaning of what Lee was saying.
Unperturbed at what emotion Sasuke was using to fuel his question, Lee decided to answer the Uchiha clan heir in a tone that pissed him off even more than what he already was. "Do you know this? Among strong people, there are two types of ninjas.
Existing in strong people, there are genius types of ninjas and then there are hardworking ninjas. If your sharingan is a genius type from Uchiha blood, then I am a hard-working type who has only mastered taijutsu.
You could say that my ultimate taijutsu is the worst possible matchup for your sharingan and I will prove with this technique that hard work surpasses that of a genius." Lee declared as he loosened the bandages around his arms to prepare for the Goken: Omote Renge (Strong Fist: Front Lotus.)
Before that could happen though, there was a shuriken that pierced the bandages and made them stick to the wall. Lee looking to see who had thrown the piece of metal, he saw that there was a turtle that was right where the attacker would have been, had there not been smoke there to cover up the person's identity.
It was as if Lee had just looked into the eyes of death itself when he realised just who had summoned the over grown turtle. Releasing Sasuke from his grip, Lee dropped down onto the ground to face whatever punishment Gai-sensei was going to give him.
Sasuke, who was still too saw in that he couldn't move his body, was about to collide head first into the ground. Sakura, seeing this rushed over to Sasuke and lessened his fall by diving underneath him to take the impact.
Angry that he had been defeated by a genin, Sasuke just chose to stare contemptuously at Lee. Lee himself was just staring straight at the ground as the giant turtle started talking to Lee.
"Lee you know that technique is forbidden" the large water based reptile said in a disappointed tone of voice as he didn't want to see the kid betray the trust of Gai.
While Sasuke was getting a look over from Sakura, there was a discussion coming from the turtle and Lee. "You fool! You think that you can get away with using such a pathetic excuse?" the turtle questioned. Before Lee could come up with even a semi-decent reply, the turtle once again cut him off. "You already know what it means for a shinobi reveal his special techniques!" the turtle angrily said to Lee.
Naruto for his part was cursing the turtle for his timely interruption as he would have gotten to see the so called special move that he would hopefully come up with a counter for.
"Are you prepared to pay?" the turtle said in a final tone to which the green spandex wearing genin ninja nodded to which he spoke for the final time with Lee. "Then here comes Gai-sensei."
Once the smoke on top of the Ningame disappeared, there was a shocking sight for all of team 7 to witness, one so bad that it would give Sakura nightmares about the horrible fashion sense and personality. Standing on top of the turtle, there was a man who was wearing a larger version of the green spandex that Lee was wearing.
On top of that was a chunin flak jacket that wasn't zipped up. Like his student prodigy, he wore his Konoha headband around his waist as a form of belt, the other thing that he had in common with his student was that he had the weird leg warmers around his calf muscles.
While his clothing choice was bad enough in the eyes of Sakura, the pose that the man had struck when making his entrance was the icing on the cake of retardation.
The sensei of Lee had a large sway in his hips to the left. To make things worse, the man had one hand pointing straight up in the air while the other arm had his hand make a circle out of his index finger and thumb and hold it over his left eye. The final icing on the cake that was how stupidly funny and embarrassing the situation was, was that the man had the shiniest teeth ever imaginable.
"You guys are the epitome of adolescence." Gai shouted exuberantly whilst still in his pose. This was enough for the normally calm Naruto to lose it and started laughing quite loudly.
"Wow, he's a faggot! Better not drop the soap Sasuke or your bishonen looks may come back to bite you in the arse…literally. Hahaha!" Naruto said as he couldn't hold back his insults as to him, this was extremely funny. Sakura, while it was someone insulting her crush, she could not stop giggling from what Naruto had just said as it was extremely funny.
Sasuke for his part was looking scared for a moment of that coming to reality before he schooled his emotions to direct a look of absolute hate at Naruto for suggesting such a thing to the weird sensei.
Lee was an entirely different matter though as he did not like it one bit when someone insulted the man who he looked up to as if he was a father figure for the orphaned boy. "Hey! Stop insulting Gai-sensei!" Lee replied in an angry tone of voice.
Not one to get into a battle of words, Gai got the attention of Lee solely onto him. As soon as Lee turned around, the green spandex wearing sensei smashed Lee right in the kisser with his fist whilst shouting "you fool!"
"Sensei" Lee whined as he was almost crying, not from the pain threshold being broken but it was just an emotional trigger for the emotionally troubled boy.
Trying to stop Lee from crying although in the process actually making so bad that he started crying as well, Gai started speaking to Lee. "That's enough Lee; you don't need to say it." Gai said whilst kneeling on the ground.
What made the situation so bizarre in the eyes of all team 7 was that the sensei of team nine was crying almost uncontrollably. This was in conjunction with Lee who was also crying his eyes out along with having a bit of blood coming down the left side of his mouth.
Not much unlike a man recently coming out of an asylum, Gai started talking. "Yes! This is what the flames of youth are all about." Gai shouted with a lot of enthusiasm in his voice.
Seeing the look on Lee's face, Gai decided to cheer him up. "It's alright Lee! Everyone makes mistakes, youth and mistakes go together." This had the opposite effect as it made the tears coming out Lee's eyes borderline with the most generic Suiton jutsu that there was.
"Gai-Sensei!" Lee shouted as he started what was known by Tenten as the absolute punishment for some type of failure.
"Lee" the twenty six year old ninja shouted with equal passion as he opened his arms. To which the boy jumped in them and then a disturbing sunset via the beach genjutsu appeared and traumatized them all more than what Itachi did to Sasuke on the night of the massacre. The sad thing about all of this though was that Ningame, the summon turtle of Gai was crying along with them.
Putting his hand on Lee's shoulder, Gai spoke up. "You're just caught in between Lee. Your too old to be called a boy and not yet quite a man." Whilst Gai said this, the tears were still flowing freely down both his and Lee's faces.
"Now take off! I want you to do 100 laps around the practise field, now show me what you've got." Gai stated as he held his hand up high and proud pointing Lee in the right direction.
Not one to disobey an order from Lee unless it was very important, Lee nodded feverishly and replied to his sensei. "Yes Gai-sensei, no problem." Lee Shouted with tears in his eyes and his legs jogging to warm up the muscles.
Once again putting up the genjutsu, the Jonin-sensei of team 9 spoke once more. "Run into the setting sun, run and suffer" Gai said in a weird way and in a smaller voice he continued on from where he left off. "But don't mess up your hair." The eternal rival of Kakashi stated as he made his teeth sparkle in a totally unnatural way.
Before the duo that wore spandex went on their run around the practice field 100 times, it was Sakura who spoke up. "What about the chunin exams? There's no time for fooling around, you can't just go off and do whatever you want." Sakura said as she didn't think that there would be a Jonin that could be as irresponsible as what her own sensei was.
Bashful at the fact that he forgot about that fact, Gai scratched the back of his head in a gesture signifying that he forgot about the exams altogether. "Oh right, I forgot about that." It was then that the green spandex wearing Jonin took a good look at team 7 and thought to himself. This must be Kakashi's team, I'll check them out.
"Tell me, how is Kakashi-sensei doing?" Gai questioned holding his fist under his chin with a contemplating look on his face.
It was then that Naruto asked the man in front of him his own question without giving any information on their sensei away to some freak. "Do you know him?" Naruto asked wondering why someone like his sensei would be so important when there was tons of other Jonin-sensei's out there.
Laughing to an inside joke that none of the four ninjas in attendance got, Gai replied to Naruto's question. "Know him?" Gai said as he chuckled to himself before he decided to show off a little bit.
It was then that Gai disappeared from sight and none of team 7 had noticed before he spoke up… right behind them. "Some people refer to us as eternal rivals." Gai stated, still holding his fist underneath his chin.
This guy… Sasuke thought has he guessed that the sensei moved even faster than what Lee did before when he was battling him. The same train of thought was going through Naruto's head as he wondered how he could get that fast.
Oblivious to the internal musings from the two male members of his eternal rival's genin students, Gai continued speaking. "50 wins and 49 losses, I'm stronger than Kakashi!" Gai called out as he wanted to convince Kakashi's students that the way of youth was the way to go if you wanted to get stronger.
No way, his speed is faster than Kakashi's, is he human? Sasuke thought to himself.
Seeing the look on the faces of team 7, Lee instantly rushed to the aid of his sensei even though he didn't already need it. "See! Gai-sensei is so cool!" Lee exclaimed showing his support of his sensei.
"I'm sorry about the trouble that Lee has caused you. Look into my eyes and except my sincere apology, also notice my handsome manly features." Gai said with a thumbs up and a blindingly bright smile on his face.
"Lee I think that you should accompany these fine young ninjas to the classroom so that you can begin the test." Gai stated as he threw a kunai at the shuriken holding his student's bandages up.
Seeing the throw, Naruto looked at Lee and noticed that Lee's hands were sprouting many calluses showing that he trained severely day in and day out. One that was said and Lee's bandages were wrapped up, Gai and Ningame disappeared in a plume of smoke.
When it was only the genin in the room, Lee spoke up to Sasuke. "Sasuke, actually I have not been totally honest with you. I said I wanted to test my skills against you and that is true enough but you are not really the one that I wanted to test them against. I lied to you when we were fighting before. I told you that I was the best genin here but there is another who is better than me, someone on my own team. I came here to defeat him, you were just practice, now you are a target and I will crush you." Lee declared which got a large rise out of anger from Sasuke as he hated being told that he was just a pawn in someone else's eyes.
With that said, Lee left to go and find his own team. Once Sasuke had calmed down enough, Naruto asked the black haired boy a question. "Sasuke, did you put me through a genjutsu recently with your sharingan?" Naruto questioned to his teammate who looked at him confusingly before he shook his head.
Seeing that Sasuke did not put him under an illusion, Naruto started speaking. "Well then, I cannot think of any words that would justifiably explain the haunting sights I have just seen." Naruto stated as he was referring to his ordeals with the two green spandex wearing ninjas.
These are all the base stats. (Not including sharingan, Kyubi mode or other power ups.)
Naruto:
Ninjutsu: 2 Taijutsu: 1 Genjutsu: 1.5 Intelligence: 3 Strength: 1.5 Speed: 1.5 Stamina 4 hand Signs: 1.5 Total: 16/40
Gaara:
Ninjutsu: 3 Taijutsu: 0 Genjutsu: 2 Intelligence: 2.5 Strength: 0 Speed: 0 Stamina: 1 Hand Signs: 3 Total: 11.5/40 (There is a reason as to why his is so low and it will be answered later on in the story.)
Temari:
Ninjutsu: 2 Taijutsu: 2 Genjutsu: 1.5 Intelligence: 3 Strength: 2.5 Speed: 2 Stamina: 2 Hand Signs 1 Total: 15/40
Kankuro:
Ninjutsu: 2 Taijutsu: 1.5 Genjutsu: 1.5 Intelligence: 2.5 Strength: 2 Speed: 2 Stamina: 2.5 Hand Signs: 3 Total: 17/40
Kakashi:
Ninjutsu: 5 Taijutsu: 4 Genjutsu: 4 Intelligence: 4.5 Strength: 3.5 Speed: 4 Stamina: 4 Hand Signs: 5 Total: 34/40 (With sharingan activated, his stamina would go down as that drains his chakra heavily.)
Lee:
Ninjutsu: 0 Taijutsu: 3.5 Genjutsu: 0 Intelligence: 1 Strength: 3.5 Speed: 4 Stamina: 3 Hand Signs: 0.5 Total: 15.5/40
Oh and I have a question for you, why didn't Naruto just summon Gamabunta when he was battling Sasuke at the valley of the end? I smell a case of Plot-no-Jutsu right there.