The tale of the ninja wizard
Chapter 11: The "King of the forest"?
A/N: Hey guys, I'm back! I don't know if you remember but earlier in the story I mentioned that Anko called him the "king of the forest" since the animals from the forest of death respect and fear him. This chapter will tell how it happened so I don't know how long it will be so let's start now ^^
Also I'm sorry for the slow update but big exams are coming so I write this in some of my spare time.
Disclaimer: This will be the last disclaimer in this story because I am sick of them and you all know it: I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter if not I wouldn't write fanfictions!
"Dialogue"
"Thoughts"
'Mental dialogue'
"Kurama dialogue"
"Kurama thoughts"
"Spells and jutsus"
The month of training is finally over, the next day will be the day of the tournament and every participant were resting to be in top conditions. Discussions about the tournament were all around the village and the two young wizards couldn't wait to see how well their ninja friend will do in them. Yes, two wizards as Harry had to go back to the Dursleys a while back as the only reason he could stay that long to begin with was that the charming family couldn't refuse the time without seeing him. That, the fact they had no idea about ninjas yet and mostly because they didn't plan to travel before August. Since August came Harry had to go back so that the Dursleys could arrange him to stay with Arabella Figg, needless to say he will have fascinating holydays filled with cats, cats, and more cats.
Naruto for his part was really glad that he could rest after the hellish training the toad sage put him through, granted he can't complain with the results of it though he still had a lot to learn. Currently he was relaxing in his apartment as he sat at his table and drinking tea, which he loved the day he tried some prepared by the house elves of Hogwarts. Sitting at his right was Karin reading a book on Konoha's history. At his left Ron was trying to do some of his homework at Hermione's insistence, the girl in question sitting opposite Naruto and re-reading a book on the history of the elemental nations. The silence was only interrupted by Tenten as she sharpened and rearranged her weapons in her scrolls.
"Hey, Naruto" Tenten started.
"Yes?"
"I've been wondering for some time… Why didn't the giant tiger next to our camp attack us? I know you said you have a relationship based on mutual respect but I how did it happen? And to also be able to know the chakra signature of the entire forest…"
"Now that it was brought up, the bear you saved me from seemed afraid of you…" Karin added, making the two wizards stop what they were doing to stare with wide eyes at Naruto as it was the first time they heard about that.
"You really want to know?" He asked.
"Yes!" They all exclaimed.
"Very well, I suppose it started when I was around seven…"
[Flashback]
Seven years old Naruto was camping in the forest around Konoha as night started to fall. He had a large bag full of camping equipment and rudimentary shinobi tools mostly self-made next to him and he was cooking a rabbit he caught earlier until he heard some noise nearby. He immediately went next to his bag in case he had to move out. He concentrated on his hearing and heard a sound that brought him a feeling of dread and rightfully so because the next moment he saw the worst thing that could happen to him. He was facing several bloodthirsty creatures also known as some of Konoha citizens but thankfully there were no ninjas this time so he could escape. The only problem was where to go, since he was in the forest at the outskirt of Konoha he had two choices: First to go farther away from the village but risk to be a target by bandits or missing-nins for a ransom or worse, or he could go to the nearest training ground where no one will pursue him: Training ground 44 also called the forest of death. He quickly evaluated those choices: since the villagers saw him they will follow him the farthest they could and that might drove him really far from the village while going to training ground 44…
"I found the demon, get him!" A man shouted, interrupting Naruto's musings as he chose to run towards the forest of death. Between a possible death between the villagers, bandits and what the training ground can throw at him he will at least deny his pursuers the pleasure of seeing his death. Naruto ran as fast as he could but his bag slowed him down and he was then forced to put some chakra to his feet to outrun his pursuers but even then they were on his heels. After a while he was near the fences of training ground 44 but Naruto didn't expect them to be this tall.
"Shit, I won't be able to climb fast enough! It's over…" He thought as he continued to run.
"No it's not, put all your chakra in your legs and jump" Kurama intervened.
'But if I do this my legs will_'
"I'll heal you so do it!" The fox ordered and Naruto did so, putting all his chakra into his legs until his chakra network became bright blue from the overflowing chakra and a soft blue mist came from them as he jumped. The villagers stared in shock as the 'demon' they were pursuing made an impossible jump for a kid and most ninjas over the fence, they lost their target and went back after they recovered, after all there is no way a kid can survive the forest of death.
Naruto felt the pain the moment he jumped, his legs were completely broken but he was still amazed that he managed to jump that high as he was even higher than the fence. But he knew landing will be a problem. He felt Kurama healing his legs but it won't be fast enough for the landing and even then they would just break from the impact. Thinking quickly he took some kunais and attached them to ropes he brought with him and prepared himself to throw them.
"Not yet" He thought as the gigantic trees from the forest grew closer.
"Not yet" He was going through the branches of several trees, slightly slowing his fall but scraping him badly.
"Now!" He threw his kunais and grabbed the end of the ropes tightly as he was around twenty meters off the ground. His fall stopped brutally because of ropes but it dislocated both of his shoulders making him let go of the ropes and fall a few meters before he landed on the ground, landing badly on his left arm and breaking it. Naruto was crying, pain coursed through his body and his legs made him suffer hell but he had done it: he was alive.
Naruto immediately started to crawl away from his landing place, he heard rumours about this forest and if the predators of the place were even a sliver of what the rumours told about them he didn't want to meet any. His crawling eventually became limping as Kurama healed Naruto's legs as best as he could after his arm and it was what saved Naruto as he found an enormous cavern and went in it to hide but by doing so he found himself right in front of an enormous leech. He barely had time to duck as the hungry bloodsucker that was Naruto's size jumped towards his face. Naruto spun around and threw one kunai that went through the beast's open mouth and straight in its insides, causing it to trash around and allowing Naruto to jump on its side and desperately slash and stab it to death. Naruto let himself fall on his back to catch a breath after nearly being killed right after he entered the forest.
"Seriously, I know that the predators here will be bigger and nastier than before but even the leeches? Was it really the best choice, I wonder…"
"Sorry to disturb you in your rest but maybe hiding yourself better will be a good idea. Not next to a dead body that may bring even more animals for example…"
'Yeah, you're right' Naruto answered Kurama before he got up and dragged the leech's body far outside the cave before covering its entry and cleaning the rocky ground of any trace of blood as to not draw anymore predators. After all was done Naruto was exhausted, put his bag behind a rock in higher ground and went to sleep next to it, promising himself to get out of this mess as soon as possible.
Several days passed since Naruto went into the forest of death and he swore to never enter the place again until he was ready… If he found the exit in the first place. He quickly learned that once you went in it the forest wasn't going to let you get out easily. No, in this place only the strong survived and even then it was only before someone stronger ate them. As such Naruto had to learn quickly how to survive in the forest and that meant:
1_If something looks edible make sure with at least five different ways that it is edible or there is a good chance a nasty surprise awaits you. Naruto learned that the hard way when he ate a plant that looked perfectly edible even to Kurama only to be forced to stay in the cave he set as his 'home' because of hellish pain due to poison. The scary thing was that without Kurama he would have died.
2_If you get even the slightest feeling that a predator is nearby, run as fast as possible.
3_Never underestimate your prey. This rule was set when Naruto saw the back of a big rabbit and went to kill it… Until it turned around really fast and nearly killed him when it charged Naruto's way to stab him with the hhorn on its head. If something is in this forest then that means it has a mean to survive the ways of this forest.
4_Trust. Your. Freaking. Instinct. In this forest where anything can suddenly try to kill you being in tune with your instinct can save your life in lots of situation. It saved Naruto so much that he was never going to doubt his instinct anymore.
The days passed quickly for Naruto as he tried to survive. One of the things he was really proud of was his ability to make traps, in the academy he always tried to be a clown and thus purposely failed every trap test but the seven years old was proud to say his traps were good enough to prank chunins but against the giant animals of the forest of death it was another story. They mostly just walked through his traps the first few times, forcing Naruto to develop his trapping skills as fast as he could and after four days in the forest he managed to slightly slow most predators down. Like that Naruto had many close calls because of poisonous plants, animals, poisonous animals, carnivorous plants and even a few carnivorous and venomous plants. Naruto only survived because of Kurama, his luck and his adaptation ability.
Naruto spent one full week in the forest of death and was currently exhausted and wounded. Naruto was out to gather several plants to eat and poisonous ones to use for his traps when he heard a pack of wolves. Naruto of course ran in the opposite direction as fast as he could but soon found himself in front of a king sized bear that unfortunately seemed hungry. Of course Naruto tried to run away, but this bear had no intention of letting the child do that. Despite his size the bear was incredibly fast and quickly caught up to Naruto who fought back with all he had when he knew that running wasn't going to work. But it wasn't a fight, the bear grew up in a forest of survival and Naruto only started ninja training for a year, and even though he trained really hard and had to survive the villagers since he was kicked out of the academy he was still a seven year old kid. No it wasn't a fight, it wasn't even a slaughter: it was merely a predator toying with his prey.
Naruto quickly fell, exhausted and too wounded to move. Kurama was desperately healing him but Naruto saw boredom in the bear's eyes and knew as it raised its paw that it was the end for him. He closed his eyes and waited for the blow to come. He heard something crashing but was confused that he felt no pain, was his death so quick the pain didn't even have the time to come? He opened his eyes and they widened in shock as he saw the body of the bear lying on the ground, dead. Naruto slowly got up as his legs were partially healed and saw the bear with several kunais in its neck.
"What the hell is a brat doing here?" asked an angry voice. The child turned around to see a teenager with light brown, pupil-less eyes, violet hair in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail. She wore a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck down to her thighs and a tan overcoat over this with a purple in-seam and a pocket on each side, a dark orange miniskirt, a dark blue belt and pale grey shin guards. On her forehead was the Konoha headband partially concealed by her hair. Naruto heard of this teenager before and sometimes saw her from afar: She was Anko Mitarashi, one almost as hated as him and one you should not cross with. But Naruto didn't care about any of that right now because this girl saved him from his impending death and from the forest of death as her anger to find him here told him.
"You're deaf brat? What the fuck are you doing here?" She asked again as she went next to him. Naruto did the only thing he could at the moment: he broke down in tears as he hugged Anko, much to her surprise, as he told her everything that happened to him between sobs. It wasn't really intelligible but she heard several things clearly: Villagers, hunted, hide, forest, a week, scared. Anko then put the pieces together and vaguely understood what happened to this kid that the hokage sent several squads of ninja to find over the week. Now most people thought she was a, as they say it, 'cold-hearted bitch' but she was very far from that despite the front she put on. And hearing that a seven years old kid was treated worse than her by the villagers, hunted down and went to hide in the freaking forest of death of all places and managed to survive one goddam week created a mix of several emotions: She was angry towards the villagers with how they treat this kid, impressed that the same kid had the guts to escape in this training ground and lived to tell the tale. She also felt compassion toward this kid that, she admitted, had it harder than her so she allowed him to hug her and she actually hugged him back as she tried to calm him down. A while passed before Naruto calmed down and Anko immediately broke the hug, grabbed his shoulders and stared straight at his eyes.
"Listen kid, if you ever tell someone what happened just now I'll make sure you find hell a nice place to relax. Understood?" She threatened but to her great surprise the child in front of her didn't cower in fear but rather smiled at her and nodded.
"Ok, that's the least I can do to thank you. But why do you act as if you are cruel when you are really nice?" He asked innocently, making Anko stare at him with wide eyes.
"What do you mean by nice damn brat?"
"Well you just saved me despite having no reason to, and you even let me cry on you and hugged me back. You can't be bad" Naruto stated. Anko just shook her head at that.
"Either way that's how I roll so don't say anything about that hug: it was a one-time thing because of the circumstances. Now hop on and let's leave this place before another animal come alright?" She said as she presented her back for Naruto to climb on, or jump on when she mentioned the forest's animals. And that was how Naruto finally got out of the forest, clinging to Anko in fear as the teenager gave him a piggyback ride toward the village. At this time Anko had no idea how close Naruto and she will be.
Naruto gladly went back to the academy where all the students thought he was just skipping class while their teachers knew he was in danger and all of them, except Iruka, were depressed he didn't die. Four days later Naruto came in a clearing in the forest surrounding Konoha to train when suddenly he had to dodge a kunai.
"Who's there?" He asked, knowing full well that his aggressor wasn't likely to answer but you never know: stupid people are numerous. His answer came in the form of another kunai aiming for his right shoulder's joint that he barely dodged before coming face to fist to his aggressor. He took the blow square on his face and it nearly broke his nose in the process. Naruto tried to punch back but was already destabilized by the sudden punch and easily slammed to the ground.
"How in hell did you survive in the forest of death kid?" He heard a familiar voice and looked to see the face of Anko, with an angry scowl on it.
"Traps and luck?" He tried and Anko scoffed at that.
"Yeah, you must have used enough luck to be drained of it for several lifetimes. But we are going to change that"
"What?" Confusion was written on Naruto's face and Anko smirked.
"Oh, nothing much, I'm just going to tor_ train you"
"You were going to say torture right?"
"Nope"
"Yes, you were…"
"Well, the training will help you, but it won't be a nice walk in the park kid. Well of course I can go back and forget about this…" She said with a smirk.
"No wait! I'll take the training. But I'll still be alive at the end right?"
"Why yes of course, you will survive the training but today I came for another reason" Anko now sported a sly smile that made Naruto nervous as his instincts told him to run away.
"Today is not training but punishment for being stupid enough to go to the forest of death without authorisation when you are just a brat. If you survive today we will begin training, is that ok?"
"I… don't have a choice, do I?"
"Nope~" She sang with an innocent smile and Naruto realized one thing: Anko could be a bit sadistic and crazy when she wanted. After one hour poor Naruto was found on the ground as an exhausted mess, he discovered that Anko was a chunin and that she was perfectly able to wipe the floor with him as she literally showed him at one point of the punishment. In the end Anko was surprised yet again, although he clearly suffered when she punished him he didn't scream, cry or protest. He just kept a calm face through it all as if this was nothing… This though brought a chill go down her spine: No child should have that much pain tolerance but this only further proved that the villagers hatred toward Naruto was on a whole new level.
"Hey kid, how come you stand pain so much?" She asked, but was met by silence. Annoyed she asked again and went to glare at Naruto but stopped when she saw him sleeping with a small, peaceful smile. She gently took him back to his apartment, having to dodge several traps in doing so, and placed him on his bed. She smiled softly as she brushed some hair on his face. "Well kid, for better or for worse we outcast will stand together" she stated before leaving him to rest, after all he will need it for his future training.
And that was how Naruto began to train with Anko and as time passed the closer they became. The training received from both Kurama and now Anko made Naruto grow stronger at alarming rates and soon Anko decided that he was ready to go back in the forest of death. His training in the forest was… intense: Survival training, sparing against Anko, playing Anko style tag (meaning if you are catch it will probably be painful), hunting and at the end living in the forest. Years passed by and Naruto managed to grow strong enough to live in the forest and, because of Kurama, was able to change his status in it from prey to predator. It was when he was ten years old though that he became the 'king of the forest'.
The day started fairly normally for Naruto, he trained the morning with Kurama in the forest of death, made sure to play his role as the clown of his class by hiding his abilities, and he was going to train with Kurama tonight because Anko was on a mission. Thinking about Anko brought a smile to his face as after spending so much time together they had a close little brother/big sister relationship. They both learned from each other, though Naruto was the student of Anko he managed to help her improve her skills, he wasn't called the unpredictable king prankster for nothing after all… Though she mainly learned how to teach. Naruto was looking for an animal to hunt when he fell on an interesting sight: A bear was trying to kill a baby white tiger that was gravely wounded at his right front leg. Naruto acted purely out of instinct and sent three kunais laced with a deadly poison that paralysed and killed the bear instantly. The last thing the young white tiger saw as he fell unconscious was Naruto coming toward him.
"Seriously, after me a baby white tiger. Are the bears this forest's bullies?"
"Not really kid, the environment just made them extremely aggressive" Kurama informed.
'No shit Sherlock, I totally missed that.' Naruto shot back sarcastically as he carried back the white tiger to his training camp which, ironically, was the cave he stayed at the first time he was in the forest. Now the cave was the perfect place for hiding and with all the traps he put around, and he was now much better with them, most of the forest's animals learned to stay away from the area. So as he arrived in his converted home he set the white tiger on some bed sheet and took out medical supplies. Naruto wasn't a medic but he learned a few things that didn't need chakra and he managed to bandage the wound correctly. Naruto sat on the rock ground next to his 'patient' and sighed.
'I wonder why I never saw many white tigers… And the only ones I saw were giants too!'
"Yes, it is weird since this one must already be three to four years old."
'Then how come he's tiny?'
"Hell if I know, why don't you ask him when he wakes up?" Kurama asked with sarcasm dripping out of his voice.
'Why not? You could act as a furry translator! The great nine tails furry translator… How's that for a title?' Naruto teased with a big grin on his face. One of Kurama's eyes twitched in annoyance.
"I so hate you sometimes brat…" Kurama growled out as Naruto couldn't contain his laugher anymore but stopped abruptly when the young tiger woke up.
"Well hello there little guy" The blond beamed at the seemingly confused animal.
It has been six months since Naruto took in the white tiger that he named Kori (Ice) and now he understood why he never saw a young white tiger of training ground 44: They are small the four first years of their life but have a massive grow spurt making them grow several meters in mere months. As proof Naruto was currently hunting riding on a four meters tall Kori. The young jinchuriki freaked out at first when he saw how fast his new friend grew but since he saved his life Kori never threatened him. Kori was strolling through the forest with nearly no sound as Naruto tried to find their dinner, or dinners as Kori had to eat a lot.
"Ah, over here!" The blond suddenly exclaimed as he saw a five meters tall bear, that wasn't so rare in the forest since predators of all size was in it. Kori didn't need anything more to be said as he was used to hunt with Naruto by now and charged the bear with a roar, Naruto no longer on his back. The bear turned around at the challenged it received and charged towards Kori. The two powerful beasts slammed into each other with enough force to create a small blast of wind before the two were thrown back because of their near equal strength, a fact that shocked the older bear. Kori strike with his right foreleg, claws all out but the bear narrowly dodged the fast strike before he lunged at Kori to bite his neck. Kori countered by a backhand strike with the same paw that threw the bear to the ground. The bear had no time to get up before it was wrapped in wires that it couldn't break no matter how hard it trashed around. Naruto Jumped back on Kori's head and sat down.
"Seems like fifteen chakra wires are enough to catch bears of this size… Interesting. You want to finish him?" He asked Kori who answered by cutting the bear's throat with the only paw he used in the fight. "Show off" Naruto teased and received a sudden and short breath of air that sounded like a scoff from the tiger. As they started to go back to the cavern, after Naruto sealed the dead bear in a scroll, they heard a frightening roar that froze them on the spot. They turned around to see the biggest bear they ever even heard about: The beast was about ten meters tall, had dark grey fur and had a lot of scars on its body with a big one over his right eye. All of this was a testament of its strength, and they were apparently targeted by this powerful beast.
"Just great… Why have I done in my previous life to merit all of this?" Naruto grumbled as he jumped on a nearby tree and took out real kunais and shuriken, courtesy of Anko as academy student weren't supposed to have real weapon until their last year, all laced with poison. The strategy he and Kori had was simple: Kori, being a big predator, will attract the attention of their opponent and fight them straight on while Naruto set up traps and threw poison coated weapon to facilitate the kill, if it doesn't kill. The problem here? They weren't used to fighting beasts that were tall enough to make Kori look like a kitten next to them; intelligent creatures and creatures that had enough strength to stay alive long enough to have a lot of scars… Basically everything that this bear was. So it wasn't really a surprise when Kori was sent several meters backwards in one strike, and fortunately the bear didn't use his claws and seemed content to toy with his prey. Naruto moved around to his left side and threw several kunais toward its neck but the bear easily dodged them.
"So it is strong, fast and smart since he wouldn't have needed to dodge the kunais if they weren't coated in poison… We are so screwed…" Naruto thought before he had to jump to another tree as the one he stood on moments before was easily destroyed by the giant beast. Kori jumped back into battle with a roar and changed tactic by using his cat-like agility to go close to the bear and try to wound it. Unfortunately for them the bear was the more experienced fighter so Kori only managed to give it minor wounds. The fight went on like that for a while, the bear toying with them as they desperately tried to find a way to survive. A way Naruto found by sheer dumb luck. As He circled around the bear while throwing kunais and shurikens a few of them managed to hit the bear… all on its right side.
"So its right eye really is blind… bastard did a bloody good job to hide it" He thought before he jumped on Kori to tell him to attract the bear's attention on its left. Kori then proceeded to pounce at the left side of the bear's neck, the sudden seemingly suicidal move startled the beast, allowing Kori to furiously bite its neck and did his best to keep his hold on it. While this happened Naruto took out his last poison laced kunai and put on the handle all of the paper bombs he had, twenty. Now came the hard part: Naruto had to climb toward the right side of the bear's head, while it is thrashing around by Kori's diversion… Naruto managed to climb the bear, though he nearly fell more than thirty times, and stood next to its right eye. He immediately stabbed the kunai as far into the eye as he could, making the bear roar in pain. Kori took advantage of this to jump away, tearing a small part of the bear's throat with him as Naruto jumped on the tiger. He turned toward the giant bear that started to pull itself up as he made a hand-sign.
"See ya, fucker!" He shouted as the paper bombs activated, casting an enormous explosion of gore as three quarters of the bear's head was blown off, leaving a part of its left side hanging on the floor. Kori and Naruto received a shower of blood on them, much to their annoyance. A beaten up Kori glared at him.
"What? At least we are alive so let me seal its corpse before we go and clean ourselves. After what this bastard put us through I'll be damned if I don't have the satisfaction to eat him" Kori grunted in agreement at that. After the beast was sealed and they took a very long bath to take all the blood off them, they went back to their camp. When night came they ate in silence the meat of the ten meters bear first with a vengeance. However the silence was disturbed by a new voice.
"Hey ki_ What the hell?" Anko exclaimed when she saw the carcass of the ten meters bear that Kori was currently eating. "The fuck is with the bear? You killed it?" She asked incredulously.
"Well duh! What does it look like?" Naruto shot back with sarcasm.
"Do you have any idea of what you have done?"
"Killed a pain in the ass, that nearly killed us by the way"
"Yeah, well this 'pain in the ass' is just the tallest predator of the forest. Hell it was even called the king of the forest by several people" she stated.
"You're shitting me!" He exclaimed but she just stared at him.
"You think I would be joking about that? They just decided to put a prime on its head and I planned to go after it tomorrow god damn it!" Naruto stared blankly at her, then he grinned widely as he turned toward Kori who was listening to the conversation at this point.
"You heard that big guy? We killed the strongest predator in here, that makes us the strongest now!" He exclaimed excitedly. Anko smiled slyly before she put an arm on his shoulders.
"Aw, my Little brother is growing up, how cute!"
"Ah, stop it!" Naruto shouted in embarrassment.
"No way, oh and since you killed the 'king of the forest' how about I give you this title. You know, as sign that you are growing" She said with a grin as Naruto stared blankly at her.
"You're… not serious, are you?" She nodded. "Oh come on, you're not seriously going to call me this?" She nodded again.
"Yup, it sounds perfectly childish for those that don't know or won't believe you killed this bear, and since I'm the only one to know and you ate the proof…" She started with a sly smile.
"Oh fuck me…" Naruto said as he put a hand on his face in desperation.
[Flashback end]
There was silence in the room as everyone stared blankly at Naruto.
"So she gave you this title to… tease you?" Ron finally broke the silence. Naruto nodded silently.
"After you killed a bear ten meters tall when you were ten?" Hermione asked and again Naruto nodded.
"That was the strongest predator of the forest and was even called the king of the forest?" Karin asked, another nod. "No wonder the bear was scared…" She muttered to herself.
"I so wish I was there to see the explosion!" Tenten exclaimed with stars in her eyes, making everyone sweat-drop at the weapon mistress except Ron who blushed a bit when he saw her expression but it calmed quickly though Naruto caught him from the corner of his eyes.
"Interesting Kurama,, can you remind me to tease him later if it really is happening?"
"Definitely" The fox said with a… well, foxy grin.
"Yes, well I'm sure you can test that somewhere… Far away… Really far away, and I mean it big sis" Naruto broke Tenten's train of thought.
"Ooooooh, you're no fun ototo"
"You won't be saying this when I run the show at the tournament" Naruto smirked.
"And you won't tell us what you learned?" Karin asked.
"No spoilers" He simply stated. "You will all see tomorrow" He finished with a grin.
A/N: Finally the chapter is over! It's my first try at a flashback so I really wonder about what you think about it. Also I will answer here what may be asked about the chapter:
How can Naruto jump this high when he is seven years old? Remember when in canon Kakashi said that a twelve years old Naruto had four times his chakra, so four times the chakra reserve of a retired ANBU captain still considered one of the top jonin of Konoha. And that was in canon where Naruto wasn't friend with Kurama and trained with his help. So here he has obviously a larger chakra reserve than canon seven years old Naruto, that and the villagers that wants to harm him is a good motivation to surpass his limits. And he can't die of chakra exhaustion even if he tried because he is an Uzumaki, who are considered chakra monsters, and have Kurama sealed inside him and the fox is basically a mass of chakra.
How can he climb the ten meters tall bear without tree climbing? Well he went the good old fashion way.
Why didn't Anko teach him tree climbing? Well in canon Naruto I got the feeling that a normal, fresh out of the academy student would be at what our world ninja could do and the three academic jutsus. So that would explain why even Sasuke the revered emo didn't know tree climbing either. Basically here the fresh and new gennins who are not part of a clan would only know the basic taijutsu, how to use shuriken and kunais, how to do traps and of course how to be stealthy. Because of Anko, Kurama and his life fresh gennin Naruto of this story is: High gennin-middle chunin level in taijutsu depending of if he use his chakra cloak or not; high jonin chakra reserves; high gennin chakra control; low gennin genjutsu; low ANBU in traps (I mean he did manage to prank ANBU in my story; high jonin in stealth; high gennin in accuracy (Anko and the forest of death made sure of that). It may seem a lot but he was trained by Anko in the forest of death to the point, as I said, that he could live in it (though his giant tiger friend helped a lot in that aspect).
So then again I hope you enjoyed and see you next chapter ^^
