Hey guys sorry for the delay!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
And this chapter's name is kinda lame and too long, I know that. But I couldn't think of a good name~! *author whining*
Naruto: The New Training Menu, Arashi style!
Naruto walked down the street, jumping up and down, unable to keep still at the mention of training. He was training with Kurou daily, but still, he had found it to be pretty boring, anyone would, if your teacher was literally inside your head.
He tugged at Arashi's pants and asked when Arashi looked down upon him, "Ne, nii-san. I'm itching to go to the forest! Walking takes too long, can't we run?"
Arashi shrugged his shoulders at that, "Well, I guess we can. But I don't see the point-"
He stopped short when he felt Naruto bolt pass him like a bullet, leaving only a cloud of dust at his wake. Arashi was unable to calculate what had happened, and he stared, his mouth opening and closing.
A few seconds later, the answer settled on him. He shot to the forest as soon as I said yes…
"W-wait up!"
He shouted into the direction Naruto had took off to, and dashed after him.
"Ha, ha, ha*," Arashi panted, out of breath, as he finally stepped came into the view of the woods.
He was taking deep breaths when he heard some shrill laughter from above, and he jerked up to see Naruto standing on a branch, grinning like a madman.
He shot a glare at the laughing blonde and complained stiffly between breaths, "Don't go too fast, Naruto-kun*!"
Naruto cocked his head in a questioning manner and asked innocently, "You're tired already? Gosh, and I thought that you said your skills match of an elite jounin!"
Arashi glowered, and instead of answering, he just muttered several words under his breath, "Stamina freak."
Naruto's eyes widened at this and clutched his heart in a mocking way, "Excuse me? Stamina freak? I'm so hurt, a Arashi-niisan!"
Then he placed his hand on his chin, as if pondering over something.
"I wonder what's next?" He bent low and squatted on the branch, peering at Arashi, "Hmm?"
Arashi glared daggers at the boy and growled under his breath as his eye twitched irritably. "Cheeky brat!"
Naruto merely grinned, waving off the offense, as he jumped down onto the ground before Arashi. "So, when are we going to start?"
Arashi fixed a glare one last time before shoving his hand into a pouch hanging by his waist, and pulled out a piece of paper, handing it to Naruto.
Naruto blinked as the paper was shoved into his hands, and he eyed it warily, "What is it?"
Arashi grinned and gestured for Naruto to open it. "It's a training routine that I conjured up for you."
Naruto brightened and complied without objection as he unfold it, skimming through the contents.
"All right," Arashi addressed Naruto who was busily sticking his nose into the paper, and began to explain, "Wake up at 6, sharp, then wash up and dress, eat a quick breakfast, and meet here at 7 to begin your training."
He paused and looked at Naruto who glanced up for a brief moment, nodding at him to continue, "First comes the warmups. Do the regular training, you know, the push ups, pull ups, sit ups, and squats, 50 times each. 50 laps around the forest…"
He trailed off when he saw Naruto looking quite bored, as if the training menu was easy as pie for him. He grinned wickedly to himself before crinkling his eyes and smiling sweetly, which, in fact, looked suspiciously similar to a certain cyclops, and said cheerfully, "Don't worry, my cute little munchkin, if it get's too easy for you, we'll be raising that number to 100, then 200!"
Arashi chuckled in amusement as he saw the blood instantly leave Naruto's horrified face, and savored the moment, mentally taking a picture of it.
Then he decided to play around with Naruto more, as he suddenly looked up to the sunny blue sky with a finger on his chin, taking a thinking posture, and a few seconds later, he clapped his hands in delight as his face lit up and he grinned, Cheshire cat style.
"Oh, that's right!"
He looked down at Naruto and smiled sweetly once again, sending shivers down the poor boy's spine, "I totally forgot, that's not all, we still have the weights!"
He chirped away happily, taking out a piece of paper, seemingly out of nowhere, and dangled it before Naruto's confused gaze and said,
"These are weight seals. They work like the regular training weights, except they're much more useful. You apply this seal on your body, wherever you like; they channel the weight all over your body, and then you channel chakra from your coils into the place where you placed the seal. The more you channel, the heavier they'll get. It's the same when lessening the weights, too. You can take them off whenever you like using a fūin release, which I'll teach you about later, and when you want to empty the heaviness of the weights, just empty the chakra in the seal."
Arashi couldn't help but chuckle, watching Naruto's face turn into fascination and awe by the explanation as he smirked to himself. Oh, how he was going to enjoy this.
Arashi smiled and handed the seal tag to Naruto. "Here, want to try it?"
Naruto bobbled his head up and down ferociously, his eyes brimming of eagerness. He took the tag, almost like snatchedit out of Arashi's hand and placed it on his right shoulder after rolling up the sleeves.
Then something astounding happened. As soon as the piece of paper touched the surface of the skin, it glowed bright blue before the paper itself melted, like molten lava and was swallowed into the skin, as if it was actually water on tissue paper.
A split second later, the characters reappeared on the skin, imprinted clearly.
Naruto gasped loudly, mouth agape as he breathed, "Wow! It's…almost like a tattoo, niisan!"
Arashi's corners of the mouth turned upwards slightly in a smirk as he explained further in an amused voice, "Yup, I designed it like one, and this way it won't be taken off easily, whether its by force or not." Then he paused and said, "Also, this way it won't be teared off or broken, since no one can tamper with it, as its embedded on your skin."
"Cool! You're so smart, niisan!" Naruto looked up at Arashi with…was that stars in his eyes?
Arashi smirked further and then gestured at the seal on Naruto's arm. "Don't you want to try it?"
Naruto blinked. Then his face lit up in realization. "Of course, I want to! Ugh, how I completely forget about that?" He slapped himself on the forehead.
Completely oblivious to Arashi sweat dropping, Naruto grabbed his right arm, placing his left hand on the bicep and looked at the imprinted seal. He concentrated as he proceeded to insert a nice amount of chakra into the seal.
As he felt the chakra flowing through his chakra network into one concentrated spot; the seal, he started grinning to himself as he felt his body getting heavier and heavier. But that triumph feeling only lasted a few seconds, for the next thing he knew, he was flung at the ground on his back, hard.
Thump.
"Ow!" Naruto yelled at no one particular as he tried to get up into a sitting position. Key word: tried.
"Huh?" Naruto uttered in bewilderment, as he found himself not being able to lift himself up. He couldn't move an inch, even his head refused to budge!
"Why can't I-"
He stopped short as soon as realization hit him, -he had placed too much weight on the seal, and thus having his body too heavy- and he glared daggers at Arashi, who had the nerve to be looming over him, laughing hysterically.
This continued for a few moments before Naruto yelled at Arashi, "Help me up, damn it!"
Arashi continued to chuckle as shook his head and replied, "No, you should be able to get up yourself. Remember what I told you about the weight seals before?"
Naruto scowled at the reject, and he scrambled his mind for the answer that would help him out. What had Arashi said before?
A few moments later, his scowl deepened as he remembered, vaguely about what Arashi had said in order to decrease the heaviness. How could he have forgotten something as simple and important as that?
He glared at the seal from the corner of his eyes, -he couldn't even twist his head to the side to look at the bloody seal- and closed his eyes as he willed the chakra to go back into his coils. He sighed blissfully as he felt the chakra recede, the heaviness on his body lessen. He continued doing so until he felt that it was enough, and he staggered to his feet with some difficulty.
"Whew," Naruto breathed in relief as he straightened up somewhat, and then he swiveled his head to the side, glared menacingly as the seal.
Arashi chuckled, watching this event unfold from a few feet away.
Now, this caused Naruto to use Arashi as his glaring toy instead of the seal, making Arashi sweat drop.
Naruto finally softened his icy glare after a few moments as he sighed and hobbled towards the trunk of a nearby tree, sliding down onto the ground.
He forced his head up as he looked at Arashi and asked tiredly, "Whats next?"
"Oh," Arashi said, "let's see…where was I?"
"…Right!" He snapped his fingers, his face brightened as continued, "So we're going to use this seal the whole time when you train…"
He suddenly trailed off as he started to grin. "On second thought, you're going to be having the weights 7/24!"
(AN: For those who don't know, 7/24 means 24 hours times 7 days, literally meaning all the time, nonstop.)
Naruto eyes widened as he scowled deeply, "No way in hell I'm going to have this all day!"
Arashi merely smiled at this, his eyes crinkling into upside-down 'U's', which was, in Naruto opinion, a rather creepy smile.
He sighed for what it seemed like the hundredth time and grumbled underneath his breath, "Fine. Can we go on now?"
"Of course, little fishcake!" Arashi chirped -once again earning Naruto's icy glare- before settling into a serious tone.
"All right, so after you finish the warmups, you can train with regular weapons. Let's see, how good are you with shuriken, kunai, and senbon?"
Arashi asked Naruto.
Naruto pondered over for a moment before answering, "Well, I'm pretty confident in my abilities in shuriken and kunai, but I don't think I can do the senbon. I've never tried it before."
"All right, then. Care to show it to me?" Arashi asked, unsealing the scroll with a swipe of blood from his thumb. He spread it open on the ground and did several hand signs before the 6 scrolls appeared with a poof. He then reached for the 3 scrolls that were labeled, "Kunai, shuriken, senbon."
He opened them, making the mounds of weapons appear on the scrolls. He reached for one kunai as he sprinted towards the several trees surrounding them and slashed gashes upon the barks.
"Here," Arashi handed Naruto 8 kunai, and gestured at the places he had just marked, "Pin them in the spots I just made."
"'Kay." Naruto shrugged his shoulders and accepted the knives. Then he grinned at Arashi, "Watch how I'll pin them in dead accuracy! I'm great at these stuff!"
Arashi nodded in reply, "Of course, Naruto-kun." Naruto, satisfied by the reply, bent low on his haunches as he suddenly sprang up, chakra pumped into his legs as he spun mid-air, all kunai hitting the spots nicely.
Naruto collected himself from the jump as he straightened up and turned to face Arashi, grinning form ear to ear. "Wanna see shuriken next?"
"Sure!" Arashi answered, and leaned back upon a tree to watch as Naruto got into his position again, now holding shuriken between the knuckles.
Naruto looked around again for the second time at the spots where he had scored, and instantly re-memorized the spots. It had to be a little off from the kunai, so that the weapons would not collide.
He smirked in confidence before crouching low again, his legs braced for the jump, as he sprang up the instant he channeled the chakra into his legs. He spun like before, striking at all the spots, with dead accuracy. Thunk, thunk, thunk.
His feet touched the ground gracefully before he straightened up, looking at Arashi for his approval.
"Nicely done, Naruto-kun!" Arashi clapped lightly, causing Naruto's ears to flush slightly pink.
"Uh, thanks!" Naruto grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.
"Well, I can see that you're pretty good with the shuriken and kunai, so keep practicing so that you can perform them for more longer distances, including the hard blind spots. For senbon, I doubt you can throw one properly; they're really hard, so we'll start practicing with them from tomorrow. You know the secret to the Shadow Clone Jutsu, right? So we'll be using your clones to speed up the process, too." Arashi said. "Any questions?"
"Well, I do have one," Naruto spoke up, "why do I have to practice senbon? They look pretty useless to me, as they look rather light and flimsy. Won't shuriken and kunai be better for shinobi?"
"Well," Arashi started to explain his reasonings, "while kunai and senbon are much more useful when killing and such, senbon can be used to temporary paralyze animals and humans. You know, like when you don't want to kill a target, just un-arm them or capture them, senbon will come in handy. They can be also used for medical purposes, too."
Naruto's twin orbs widened at that, and he exclaimed, "That's so cool! I'm so gonna learn how to use senbon!"
Arashi chuckled, and then started to continue. "After you've trained with the weapons…no, actually, you can just have the clones practice while you train in other areas. But for the senbon, you might want to do them yourself. Anyway, so after you're finished with the weapon training part, -we'll do that until about 8 o' clock- we'll move onto ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu. I can help you increase your abilities and knowledge in them, so that you can add more arsenals into your jutsu library. Then we'll do fūinjutsu-"
He was abruptly cut off as Naruto suddenly jumped and latched his small body onto him and stared at him with stars in those big, charming eyes.
"You'rereallygonnateachmefūinjutsu?" He shouted gleefully in a non-stop manner, obviously unable to contain his excitement.
Arashi smiled at him, and fluffed up his blond hair a bit. "Of course. Didn't I promise you before?"
Naruto grinned further, threatening to spilt his face in half as he exclaimed, "Thanks, nii-san! I'm gonna study real hard, it's a promise!"
Arashi smiled warmly at him, "I'm sure you will." Then he peeled Naruto off him before sitting down. "Do you want to hear the rest of the training menu?"
Naruto nodded viciously, not bothering to look into his paper as he continued looking at Arashi, probably forgetting all about it.
Arashi complied happily as he started again, "So after that, we'll do kenjutsu, since I'm sure you want to actually use your kodachis. You'll pick it up in no time. Then after that…" Then he paused for a dramatic effect as he looked Naruto straight in the eye before continuing.
"…comes medical ninjutsu."
Naruto gaped at him, disbelievingly.
"Iryou ninjutsu*?" Naruto somehow managed to choke out the magical words. "You're really going to teach me Iryou ninjutsu?"
"Um, yes." Arashi replied, a lone brow cocked in a questioning way, as he found himself somewhat bewildered. Sure, medic type shinobi were pretty rare because of the need of near-perfect chakra control, and getting taught in that field was pretty nice, but what was the reason for Naruto's happiness? He already had the healing ability from the fox, anyway.
Naruto's eyes widened further, as he latched himself onto Arashi for the second time, grinning away, "Thanks, aniki*!"
Then Naruto averted his gaze as the he suddenly looked up at the bright cerulean clear sky. He spoke softly,
"You know, I've always wanted to know healing ninjutsu. Even though I posses Kurou's healing ability, I still thought that healing my body myself was pretty neat. I'm very fascinated by the way my wounds heal all the time, so I wanted to prod further into that area. You know, like maybe become a medic? And there's also the fact that it should come useful when around comrades. I think its kind of unfair that I get to heal and others don't."
"Oh," Arashi replied, now knowing the cause of Naruto's interest in medical ninjutsu, "Thats great! I'm no medic myself, but I'm still pretty familiar with it. I'll do my best to teach you."
Naruto smiled, now looking directly at Arashi.
Arashi felt the corners of his mouth starting to turn upwards slightly as he broke off into a bright smile that mirrored Naruto's. Naruto's smile was contagious, yes.
"All right," he found himself saying, "I suppose you're tired with everything that happened today, so how does 7 at here tomorrow sound? I'll pick up your clothes that we ordered on the way to here, and I'll also bring that storage seal I promised you for your kodachis. 'Kay?"
Naruto grinned at the mention of training, his new clothes, and the special seal Arashi was going to make for him, and bobbled his head. "Roger, nii-san! See ya tomorrow!"
Naruto waved good-bye and leaped out of the clearing. Probably heading out to Ipuudou's, Arashi thought, seeing the direction the blonde had taken leave to.
It brought a smile at his lips as he thought about the little bright bundle of sunshine, and he began forming out a sentence on his lips, self-consciously. The words were soon swallowed, as quickly as it had come, lost into the depths of the now darkening forest.
He's so much like you, Kushina-hime.
Hey guys, how was that? I'm really sorry that it took a while, no, a very long time for me to post this new chapter. By the way, I want to say sorry that I had to give out that in Chapter 10, because of my stupid mistake…Anyway, thanks for all those story alerts!
Now, I wanted to explain a bit about the words I wrote with an * at the end.
First of all, 'ha, ha, ha' means 'huff, huff, wheeze, wheeze…'(panting) It's used for irregular breathing, like when out of breath in Japan. I figured that since 'Naruto' was a Japanese anime/manga, and I'm a Japanese myself, I should put it that way. Some of you who already knew, just a reminder.
And 2nd, 'aniki' means brother in Japanese, like the word 'nii-san', except it's more carefree, like saying 'bro' instead of 'big brother' or 'brother'.
I put it there once while all the other parts refer to Arashi as 'nii-san' because I wanted them to bond more.
And last of all, 'Iryou ninjutsu' it means 'medical ninjutsu' in Japanese. You know, it's really funny how they say 'ninjutsu' which is Japanese instead of the english translation 'ninja techniques', and they say the 'medical' part of 'medical ninjutsu' in English. Since they say 'fuinjutsu, kenjutsu, genjutsu…' they should put medical ninjutsu in Japanese, too. As Iryou ninjutsu. So basically, I wrote both because I wanted other people to know. That's all!
And by the way, I think that most people out there think that the term Arashi refers Naruto ( '-kun' ) is used for people they love, like when those fangirls squeal, referring Sasuke as their 'Sasuke-kun.' But that isn't the case. Although it is also used for those kind of purposes, they're also used when older people address those younger formally (politely). It's basically like 'Mr.' used when referring to people. So taking out the 'kun' actually means that the people are getting more into a friendship; family bond. Not necessary love, like in this case. Please take that in mind! I don't like it that much when people think that 'kun' is all about love and romance. And by the way, I don't mean to offend or criticize, but such words like 'Naruto-koi' and 'sochi' don't exist in Japanese. I've searched hundreds of dictionaries (…all right, maybe a couple…) and asked my parents and all, but everything concluded to this, "the word 'sochi' doesn't exist in the Japanese world!" And '-koi', while there is such a word, it's meaning is kinda different. 'koi' means love. (most ofmu might know this) Think of it this way: Do English speakers say 'Naruto-love?" Putting 'love' at the end of someones name? Okay, it might be used sometimes like 'sweet heart' but it isn't correct grammar, as far as my knowledge goes. In Japanese, it isnt, anyway. And guys, please don't be mad at me...I don't mean offense. 'Kay?...
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me!
P.s I totally forgot. Did I tell you this? 'Yen' is the current currency in Japan, approximately equivalent to 'cent'. (In the American currency, I don't know about other currencies, sorry!) So what Matsuri said, '6,500 yen, please.' it translates as approximately $65. It may be a little expensive, but its shinobi wear (with everything from t-shirts to shoes), and shinobi get quite a lot of money doing missions, anyway. Though, now that I think of it, it might have been a bit too expensive. (admits sheepishly)
Well then guys, please review! I'll try to update as soon as possible!
Happy that she has successfully completed and posted her new chapter, Minato4yellowflash is signing off!
