Well this is chapter thirteen. To tell you the truth; I am amazed at how much I have written so far. I never expected to write a one-hundred-thousand word story. And to think it is about half way done if that. I also am surprised but ENORMOUSLY happy at the amount of reviews I get.
I also had some complaints on the genin fights. I understand that they were short and kind of rushed. But I really didn't want to explain everything in extreme detail and I prefer to focus more on Naruto in this story. I still wrote them and said how they won, just not in detail… sorry if you wanted huge detail. The finals will be better I promise, but no where near as long as Naruto's and Kakashi's fight, I hope…
As for any Sakura bashing I did in this story last chapter… I'm not sorry for it, but I will try not to bash her to much any more. People seem to not like it, even though I do immensely. Though there will be more to come… so ya… sorry to Sakura lovers, I warned you when I first started this story not to read if you like Sasuke and Sakura.
As for Neji believing fate doesn't exist any more and control everything, bull. I'm sorry if it sounded like that, but that was not my intention. I wanted Naruto to be part of the development, but I guess I portrayed it to look like Neji turned a new leaf. He still believes fate controls everything; he just now thinks that if one is strong, one can fight fate. He isn't convinced yet though. Sorry for the confusion.
I also had tons of questions of what happened with the bet between Kakashi and Naruto. I didn't clarify on purpose for there to be a cliff hanger of sorts, but read and find out in this chapter.
Now onto the chapter that you would all like to read.
Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto
My Precious and New Jutsu's
"Kakashi?" Naruto asked as he walked up to the man that was leaning against a glass window and looked ready to cry.
"What are you doing Kakashi?" Naruto asked again but this time getting a good look at him. He looked disheveled. It looked like he had no sleep and his fingers were twitching now and again.
Looking up from the ground, and straight at Naruto he responded. "They took my precious…" he trailed off again looking longingly at the book store.
Naruto could see in his eyes that he didn't sleep last night at all if not for the last two days. He was curious now. "Your precious?" Naruto asked clearly confused.
Kakashi nodded and turned back around. "You know how we tied in the fight due to you falling unconscious seconds after you knocked me out right?" Naruto nodded waiting for him to continue.
"Well, when we tied, that meant that no one won the bets for the fight so we didn't have to pay up. I guess when we were in the hospital, Kurenai, and Anko got together and some how got all the female ninja in the village to give a donation to them."
Naruto arched an eyebrow at him. "A donation you say. What for?"
Here Kakashi's fingers started to twitch and his eye dropped. "The donation was to buy every 'Icha Icha Paradise' book in Konoha from every store."
Naruto raised his eyebrow again clearing saying silently, 'and this is bad why?' As he saw the sign that Kakashi was blocking until now with his body. The sign on the store said, 'All out of Icha Icha Paradise books.'
Kakashi saw this look and was instantly right in Naruto's face before he could even react. "They bought every 'Icha Icha Paradise' book in Konoha. They also some how got into my apartment while I was sleeping in the hospital and took every one of my own personal books to."
Naruto had a look of understanding on his face as he said this. Those books were Kakashi's life source, you never saw him without one. Then it hit him, if they bought every book in Konoha, then where did they turn up?
"Kakashi." The man nodded for him to continue even though his back was to him now. He had his attention. "Where did they put all the books that they bought?"
Here the man in front of him literally stiffened as hard as a board and then slowly but surely turned around. When he was facing Naruto he got the shook of his life. Kakashi, the great 'Copy Cat of Konoha' was crying. Crying!
"Good Kami-sama Kakashi, what did they do to make you cry?!" Naruto asked startled and a little afraid of the answer he would get.
Kakashi started to shiver and convulse uncontrollably and then looked right at Naruto in the eyes. "They burned them all! All of them Naruto! What am I going to do now! I need those books Naruto! I need them!"
Naruto at this point was between laughing at the man in front of him and feeling sad for him at the same time. Laughing because of the ludicrously he was showing for some books and sad because the man was breaking down because of them.
After a full minute of trying to keep it to himself and laughing up a storm inside, he finally was able to control himself outside and not laugh openly at his friend's expense.
Naruto walked up to the shaking man and put a hand on his shoulder. Kakashi looked up and saw it was Naruto with a sympathetic look on his face. "Is there anything I can do for you Kakashi?" At this the man brightened some what but you could tell he was still down.
Kakashi turned around and started to walk towards the directions of the woods. He stopped and looked back at the prone Naruto standing there. "Are you coming?" With that he started to walk again and Naruto quickly caught up.
After a full ten minutes of walking they got to a clearing that looked like it had a fire recently and their were white flowers all around the burned area that was about twenty feet wide.
After a few seconds Naruto realised that this must be where they burned all the books. He looked at Kakashi and he saw he was staring longingly at the ashes.
Naruto had to resist the urges to not laugh again. Then he thought of something. 'How are there this many white roses? Kakashi couldn't have bought them all could he?' He asked himself.
Kakashi just happened to see the confused look on Naruto's face and guesses what he was thinking. "Your wondering if all these white roses are mine, aren't you?"
Naruto just nodded. Kakashi sighed in sadness. "No these are not all mine. It seems I wasn't the only one in Konoha that had there books taken from them. It was every male person in the village that has a wife or boyfriend. These flowers are there respects to the precious."
Naruto looked at the white roses again and his eyes nearly bulged. 'There has to be over five hundred white roses here!' He realized.
Shaking his head he walked up to Kakashi and put his hand on his shoulder again. "Don't worry Kakashi; I'm sure the book stores are already ordering more books to replace the ones lost. Do you know when the next shipment is coming?"
Here Kakashi nearly cried again. "T-the next shipment is… is… in o-one month." He stammered out as if it was the most horrible thing in the world.
Naruto looked at him again and just sighed. He walked up to the burn sight and sighed again. He bowed once and muttered a 'sorry ero-sennin' and stood back up and walked back to Kakashi.
"I've paid my respects Kakashi; I'll see you around, ok." Naruto said as he walked off leaving a man to stare longingly at the ashes of his precious.
Once out of ear shot and walking on auto pilot he let loose his inner demands. He laughed his head off. He started to laugh so hard that his side was starting to hurt and tears were coming out of the corner of his eyes. After a full three minutes of laughing he had no idea where he was going but he didn't care.
He ended up walking right into training field nineteen and he heard talking. He didn't pay attention to it though and kept walking along ignoring the three people staring at him intently with different looks on there faces. One had irritation, confusion, and the other one had anger.
Finally the one that was angry shouted out at him, which made him get his bearings right and he noticed he was at training field nineteen or rather was leaving the training field after just entering. "You teme! What's so funny and why are you an hour late?!" Kiba yelled out harshly.
Naruto looked confused as hell and Choji picked up on this. "You do know its ten O'clock right?" The look on Naruto's face clearly showed he didn't know that little detail.
Naruto had a look of understanding suddenly. He scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Oops."
"Troublesome." Shikamaru said to no one in particular.
Kiba growled at him and was rolling up his sleeve to give a beating. Naruto took a step back and held up his hands shaking them wildly. "I have a good reason!" He said defensively. They all arched there eyebrows clearly not believing him.
He sighed and sat down which his three genin followed reluctantly. "Talk." Kiba said bluntly.
Sighing he told them about his morning of waking up and getting the training ready and bumping into Kakashi and the whole thing about him and the grave of his books. They looked at him like he was crazy and then suddenly they all burst out into laughter and fell on there backs laughing at Kakashi's expense.
When they were laughing Naruto suddenly thought of something. 'I haven't laughed this hard with other people since Kaito was alive. Are my three genin becoming more than just subordinates and becoming friends?' He asked himself as he kept laughing with a far away look on his face.
After a good laugh they all managed to get there control together and Shikamaru and Choji both thought of something. They looked at each other and suddenly both burst out laughing again. Naruto and Kiba looked at them confusedly.
"What so funny guys?" Kiba asked his friends.
Choji managed to get some control and said between laughs. "We just realized that this funeral is the reason both out dads have been so sad these last two days." And burst out laughing again. Kiba and Naruto joined in again.
If a person was walking by at that time, they would not have seen a Jounin and three Genin. No, he would have seen four friends laughing and enjoying time together.
Naruto himself had a huge smile on his face. 'Yes, definitely more than subordinates, they are my friends also. This is what the old man was talking about all that time ago.' He thought happily to himself.
Flashback two days before genin team selection meeting…
"Ah Fox, calm down a little, this is not the end of the world and I have a very good reason to take you out off the Anbu. That is because you have no experience with people your age what so ever, you may be a good shinobi but you don't know how to have fun and act around people your own age. You need to spend some time with your own age group or at least around your own age group. That is why I am taking you off the Anbu and making you a Jounin."
After some heated argument they eventually came to an understanding with Naruto letting in with a heated glare.
"Thank you for seeing it my way Naruto-kun, you will thank me for this later." The old man said with a smile to him after some extensive glares and arguing.
End Flashback…
'Thanks old man. You were right. I didn't have friends my own age, and now I do and I'm happy.' He thought sincerely to himself. Soon the laughter of the four people settled down and they all sat up again and faced each other with small smiles on there faces.
"Ok guys lets get to business." Naruto stated with seriousness. The other three in the clearing also got serious and listened intently to what there sensei had to say to them.
"As you know the Chunnin exam finals are in one month and you might have to face each other in battle." After Naruto said this each one of the three stiffened some what and Naruto caught it.
"Just because you might have to face your own teammates is not a bad thing actually. To tell the truth it is a good thing. It will just add to the already great teamwork that you have." They each gave him a confused look here.
"Think of it as training guys. You will fight with everything you have and then depending on how good you are you might make Chunnin." They each nodded in understanding.
"Now since we have two months to train and the fact you will be facing each other, we're going to do training a little differently this time."
Here Naruto smiled sadly at the three. "I myself have training to do and it will take up most of the two months. So what I'm going to do is give each of you one B-rank jutsu of your element and show you how it's done. But there's a catch to this."
"What's that sensei?" Shikamaru asked.
"That catch is I'm going to train each of you separately that way you won't know what your teammates can do. This will allow for some surprise in the matches and so you don't know each other like a book. I also want you to try and learn one more of your family jutsu's if you can in the months time."
"This will be the only day I will train with you and it will be the only day you guys train together for the next two months. I want each of you to train separately and work on your own abilities."
"If at some point you need my help in the next two months, just come and find me yourself. Remember though, I will not teach you any more jutsu, but I will help you with the ones you know."
Naruto sat and watch each of his genin think on what he just said. After a full minute they all looked like they understood.
"Good, you all understand what training you're going to do right?" Naruto asked them.
They each nodded. "We can still hang out right?" Choji asked.
Naruto gave a light chuckle and nodded yes. "Hai Choji, you can still hang out, you just can't train together for now."
Choji and the other two looked relieved at the comment. "Ok guys." Naruto said standing up which was followed by his three students.
"Shikamaru you can go first. Follow me." Naruto stated as he nodded to the said person and walking into the forest surrounding the training field.
Shikamaru himself stood up and followed and then looked one last time at his teammates before leaving them.
After walking for a full minute Naruto jumped into the trees and then started to jump from one to another. After another full minute of tree traveling, Naruto finally stopped and landed on the ground. He looked around and nodded and then turned to look at Shikamaru.
"Where'd Shikamaru go?" He asked himself. He looked back the way he came and saw that he was no where to be found.
Scratching the back of his head Naruto sat down and waited for his student to catch up. With in forty seconds Shikamaru came blazing through the tree lines and flew straight over Naruto.
Naruto himself watched him jump right over him and keep going. He looked at his student and just stared. "Well… he must not have seen me?" He thought out loud.
Just when he said that Shikamaru came back through the trees the way he just disappeared and landed twenty feet in front of Naruto.
The second he hit the ground he feel to his knees panting and gasping for breath.
Naruto looked at him with his head tilted to the side questionably. "What took you?" It was a simple question but the reaction he got from Shikamaru was quite funny.
"You fucking prick!... You were going… to fast… I couldn't keep up!" Shikamaru said in-between breaths and then he threw a kunai at Naruto.
Naruto himself looked confused and dodged the kunai by just tilting his head to the side and it flew past his head harmlessly. He thought back to how fast he was going through the trees and realized something.
'A crap! I was going my full speed... ops.' He thought to himself as he scratched the back of his head. Shikamaru saw this and just glared at him.
"Ah… my bad." That comment just made Shikamaru glare more.
Coughing to gain some composure when Shikamaru caught his breath and stood up Naruto started the point of why they moved out this far. "Well now that we're far enough away from the others I can show you the jutsu I wanted to teach you." Shikamaru stopped glaring and started to pay attention again.
Standing straight Naruto started to explain. "All things aside this jutsu is a B-class jutsu that should take you two to three weeks to learn and master enough to use in battle." Naruto started and Shikamaru nodded in understanding.
Seeing Shikamaru's determination he got to what he wanted to hear. "I've already taught you one attack jutsu so now I'm going to teach you a defense jutsu. It's called Futon: Sepuutate." (Whirlwind Shield)
Shikamaru looked confused at this. "There is defense jutsu using wind?"
Naruto just chuckled at him. "Hai Shikamaru, although there aren't that many out there. Anyways this jutsu as its name suggests, creates a shield using wind. To do this attack is actually pretty hard. But you will learn that on your own."
"There are five seals and when you finish the seals you put your hands out to the side in a cup like fashion and then you do a quick spin using your entire body."
Here he paused to catch his breath and then continued. "You only do one spin but the faster the spin the better the results are. When you spin push chakra out of your hands and the seals will guide the wind to cover your entire body in a three foot radius of you. The wind will cover 360 degrees around you so it blocks from all sides. The wind itself circles you at high speed and where your body is at there is zero wind. The use of this jutsu is almost purely defensive. Though if an opponent is close enough you could push them back but it wouldn't hurt that much. Do you understand?"
Shikamaru looked deep in thought and then slowly nodded that he got most of it. Seeing him understand he continued the lesson. "Now I'll show you the jutsu myself." With that he went through the five seals really slow that way Shikamaru could see them easily and learns them.
"Once the seals are done do this with your arms and hands."
Naruto showed him the way to position his arms. His arms were bent just slightly at the elbows and extended to the sides with his hands in the form of a cup to gather water from a stream. Both hands were facing the same direction if put on a circle around Naruto.
"After this spin as fast as you can and stop in the exact same spot you did when you started the spin."
With that Naruto spun once where his body was a blur and then stopped just as quickly. When he spun the wind around him picked up dust and compressed around his body and when he stopped all the dirt and dust exploded outward in a three foot radius and you could see a slight barrier form a circle around his body. For one second all the dirt stayed in the barrier and then it feel harmlessly to the ground again.
"That is the Futon: Sepuutate. (Whirlwind Shield)" Naruto said with a small smile.
"As you might have noticed the jutsu doesn't last long but it has the power to easily block other B-rank jutsu and even some A-rank ones. If you try to stop an attack that is more powerful than the shield; than it will still break through but it will force the attack to hit another part of your body or maybe even miss, if just barley. This jutsu is a last second defense that has to be timed just right." Naruto explained some more.
Shikamaru nodded in understanding. "Now you try it out." Naruto encouraged.
Shikamaru nodded and went through the seals and positioned his body in the same way that Naruto did and then spun. When he spun the dust and rock seemed to get sucked in and then he stopped after a full rotation and the dust and rocks shot out in every direction. Shikamaru looked confused at this.
'Naruto-sensei's rocks stayed floating for one second, but mine blew away. Why?' Shikamaru asked himself.
Then he heard clapping in front of him. He looked up and saw it was Naruto. "Very good Shikamaru, though not perfect, you still did very well for a first try."
"What did I do wrong Naruto-sensei?"
"Well… lets see, you spun three inches to much and then when you did the spin you moved your hands so they weren't perfectly parallel to your body, then you also didn't put enough chakra into the jutsu itself."
Shikamaru thought hard and after a few seconds he nodded and was about to try again when Naruto appeared beside him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry but you'll have to practice this without me around Shikamaru. But a few more tips. Remember you have to stop exactly were you started and not undershoot or overshoot your position. It has to be perfect. If not the wind will do what yours did. It will either shoot out or have severely less power than the normal shield or it will just suck in the attack and inflict more damage to you. Also, if this jutsu if mastered to an extreme point you can hold it for more than just the one or two seconds it normally is."
Shikamaru nodded in understanding. "Good… now I must get one of the others and show them their jutsu. I'll leave you here and you can do what you want. I'll be around if you need me." With that he disappeared in a swirl of water.
'This might take more than two weeks to get perfect for a battle situation.' Shikamaru thought.
Naruto reappeared in front of Choji and Kiba. "Well Shikamaru's learned his jutsu now, Choji your turn." Not giving them the time to respond Naruto walked out into the forest.
Choji and Kiba looked at each other and shrugged. Choji walked into the forest following their sensei. They walked for a good minute and suddenly Naruto stopped.
When they stooped Naruto was thinking. 'That look on Shikamaru's face was priceless, I want to see that look on the other two's faces also.' With that an evil grin came onto his face.
Choji was wondering why they stopped and was going to ask his sensei but then he jumped into the trees and started to leave him behind. Quickly following him he kept up. If he would have seen that smirk he would have cringed. Even without seeing it though, he still felt a tingle go up his spine.
Soon Choji lost track of Naruto but he was sure he was just out of sight. He kept increasing his speed to catch up but never did. He went his fastest and still no sign of his sensei. After a full minute of running at top speed while pumping chakra into his legs to increase his speed even more, he came to a small clearing and put extra chakra into his jump.
Like Shikamaru, Naruto watched as Choji jumped right over him and kept going. He smirked and wondered how long it would take him to figure out he was back here.
A full twenty seconds later Choji came charging through the trees panting.
"Good you made it." Naruto said cheerfully. Choji jumped to the ground and glared at the same time. Naruto smirked and inside his head he was full out laughing his ass off.
"Why the hell did you ditch me?!" Choji huffed angrily.
Naruto looked confused. "I didn't ditch you Choji. You just couldn't keep up that's all." He got a kunai thrown at him and he caught it with ease.
"Now now Choji, you have to watch that temper of yours. Maybe you've been hanging out with Kiba to much?" Naruto chuckled at the intense glare he received.
"Well, enough of the fun stuff, time to get to work. Like Shikamaru I'm going to teach you another jutsu. You already know an earth defense jutsu, so now I'm going to teach you an earth attack jutsu." At this point Choji stopped glaring and listened intently.
"The jutsu is called Doton: Dorama. (Earth Shot)"
"This jutsu requires quick movements and some what fluid movement. What it does is shoots rocks anywhere from the size of pebbles to boulders, two feet big, out of the ground and then you launch them at the enemy. What you have to do is make the proper seals, and then either slam your hands or feet onto the ground. Hands would be easier to do then your feet. But you can practice that later. Anyways, once you hit the ground, rocks will pop out of the ground."
"Once they are out of the ground hit them as fast as you can with a good amount of force and if you've done the jutsu right, you will be able to launch the rocks at your enemy. The speed, size and density of the rocks all depend on your control and amount of chakra you use. Do you understand this?" Naruto finished up and looked at Choji.
Choji himself was deep in thought and after a few moments nodded his head for Naruto to continue. "Ok, now that you know how the jutsu works, I'll give you a demonstration."
With that Naruto went through five seals really slowly so Choji could memorize them himself.
"After the seals remember to hit the ground as hard as you can without breaking the surface. You want your foot or hand to literally sink into the ground with ease like it was water. If you do this the effect of the jutsu will be substantially more powerful and more under your control. Although I don't expect you to be able to do this perfectly until your Jounin, with genin control you should still pack a really good punch."
With that Naruto hit the ground with his fist and when his fist hit the ground, it didn't make an impact it just sunk into the ground like the earth moved out of the way of the fist and molded around it, but Choji did notice that there were still cracks spreading outwards from the impact for about two feet.
Immediately after the fist sunk into the ground, a piece of rock about one foot round came popping out of the ground and jumped out to two feet in the air. Naruto immediately took his fist out of the ground and with the same fist hit the rock in the center and it rocketed towards a tree completely embedding itself into the tree and making the seven foot wide tree groan.
Choji was struck speechless. Naruto saw this and smirked. "As you can see, even with its flaws, it is still quite the powerful jutsu." Choji could only node his head in total agreement.
"Now there are a few things I want you to understand about this jutsu." Naruto started. "This jutsu is by all means to only be used by a person with the chakra element earth. Without the element the jutsu can not be mastered. You noticed that I used the same fist to hit the ground and hit the rock right?" Naruto asked and Choji nodded.
"Good, the reason I did that was because I had to. If one doesn't have the element earth then the jutsu is not suited for them. You do, so this attack is perfect for you. You see once you have mastered this jutsu you will be able to hit the ground with any of your hands or feet and then launch it with any hand or foot you want. Not the same one like I did." Naruto said confusing Choji.
"Why could you not do it then Naruto-sensei?" Choji asked truly confused.
"Choji…this jutsu is in all actuality a Jounin level attack when mastered, but when not it is chunnin level." Naruto said with a completely serious voice.
Choji was startled but nodded none the less eager to learn how it worked.
Seeing the eagerness Naruto continued on. "Like I said, it requires the chakra element of earth, but more precisely Nature manipulation of earth. I don't expect you to even start to get Nature manipulation until you are high chunnin, but you need the potential to master this jutsu. Your chakra with the help of the hand seals will mold your normal chakra into the earth chakra you need, giving you the necessary things to master this jutsu eventually. Right now you can only hope to do what I did, but some day you will be able to master this jutsu completely beyond anything I could ever do." Naruto said with a smile to Choji.
"If this requires such control then how will I be able to do it?" Choji asked again.
Naruto just chuckled. "To do what I did requires just lots of practice and more chakra then the normal attack does. This jutsu is considered B-rank for normal people but if you are able to master it, it is considered a high A-rank jutsu because of the speed, density, and diversity you are able to launch the rocks at. Right now it is perfect for you. You will also be able to grow into the jutsu later on. Now I want you to try it."
Choji could only node dumbly that his sensei had this much faith in him but took a confident breath and got ready. He did the five required seals and then punched the ground. His fist melted into the ground to about a centimeter before it started to get resistance and the rest was forced.
Then a rock about the size of a fist came out of the ground and as fast as he could, Choji hit it with his same hand and it went rocketing towards another tree. The rock shattered on impact with the tree but still left a dent the size of the fist only it was two centimeters in depth.
"Very well done Choji." Naruto praised him.
"What are you talking about well done? I barely scratched the tree and mine was way smaller then yours." Choji complained disappointed.
"Nonsense Choji, my first try on the jutsu I only made one the size of my finger tip. With practice yours will get better and by the time the two months are over, I have confidence yours will be just as big as mine if not bigger."
Choji brightened up at hearing this. "Thanks Sensei." He said with a genuine smile.
Naruto just wave him off. "You will have to practice this jutsu a lot to get it perfect. A few tips now. The more chakra the bigger the bolder but to big and it won't matter and be weak in density. You have to find the balance. You also have to compress your chakra into a tight ball if you can in the ground. The tighter the ball the harder the density the rock will be. You have to balance every one of these things."
"Good luck on this jutsu Choji. Practice hard until we meet again." With that Naruto disappeared with a swirl of flames.
'I will master this jutsu one day Naruto-sensei. But I want to at least get to your level by the time the finals start.' Choji thought with determination and started to practice again.
Naruto appeared in front of Kiba and Akamaru and saw that they were sitting against the tree. Naruto walked up to him. "Kiba lets go somewhere else. This place isn't big enough for the jutsu I want to teach you."
"Alright." Kiba responded with Akamaru barking a reply too.
With that Naruto jumped into the trees and speed away with Kiba following easily. That is until Naruto speed up and Kiba also speed up but he noticed even with pumping chakra into his legs he was loosing distance with Naruto fast.
"Naruto, wait up!" He yelled at his sensei only for it to fall onto deaf ears.
"Kami damn it!" Kiba shouted as he tried to catch up but no matter what he couldn't and soon lost track of Naruto.
After a full minute of running he saw a clearing up ahead and Akamaru barked that he smelled that Naruto was in it. Kiba jumped down into the clearing and dropped to his knees.
Naruto noticed that he was panting and smirked. "What took you so long Kiba?"
"You teme! Why'd you leave me and Akamaru behind?!" Kiba yelled only for him to look up and see Naruto cleaning his ear with his pinky.
"You say something Kiba?" Naruto asked nonchalantly. 'Damn that's fun to do. Now I know why Kakashi always does it to Gai.' He thought to himself.
When Kiba heard his reply he growled and charged at Naruto intending to hit him. Right when his fist was about to connect Naruto leaned to the side and grabbed his arm and flung him over his shoulder. Kiba landed on his back.
"Now now Kiba, no need to get hostile for not being able to keep up." Naruto said in a scolding manner. Kiba just growled again.
Seeing another confrontation going to happen soon, Naruto just straightened up and cleared his throat. "Now that were both here, let's get to the training." Naruto said in a more serious voice while on the inside laughing his ass off for doing that to all three of his students and getting them all riled up because of it.
Kiba also stood up and listened intently to what he was going to learn. Seeing this Naruto started the lesson. "Now I've already taught you a lightning attack, so now I'm going to teach you a lightning defense jutsu. This jutsu is actually pretty hard and will take some major work to master." Kiba listened even more intently now.
"This jutsu is called Raiton: Gekitai. (Lightning Repulse)"
"As the name suggests is uses lightning to repel attacks. In essence it creates a gravity field using your own chakra and if done right creates an electrical field and pushes back attacks. The jutsu uses five hand seals and after done you put two points of your body on opposite sides of you. For instance, put your arms to the side of your body and put the electric charge around both arms. The two currents will push against each other creating a field that pushes everything outside that field out. Do you understand so far?" Naruto asked
Kiba looked deep in thought and after a full two minutes nodded his head yes. "Good, I see Iruka still teaches physics at the academy then." Naruto said, getting another node from Kiba.
"Now this jutsu can block almost any B-rank and some A-rank attacks. But you have to time it perfectly. This defense is not to be used for long, at most five seconds unless you have great control of your chakra nature, which you don't right now. I don't expect you to even attempt chakra nature until your high chunnin." Kiba nodded his head at this understanding this some what.
"Now to make this jutsu easier to work, you should use metal objects like your kunai to put the charge into. This is good because it is a defense and an attack if you can manage it."
"When you put the charge into the kunai they will repel each other and put a field around them. In other words what ever you put the charge into or around will repel each other. So it doesn't cover your entire body, but only that one section. But remember that you must have the two kunai opposite of each other at all times other wise the field is lost. Are you starting to understand that this will not be an easy jutsu Kiba?" Naruto asked with a serious voice.
Kiba answered with a serious voice to. "Hai Naruto-sensei."
"Good. Now I want you to promise me you will never try this jutsu on any of your body parts until you start to learn about nature manipulation." Naruto said with the utmost serious voice Kiba had heard him speak of since the bridge in wave.
"Why can't I use it on my body like you said is possible?" Kiba asked.
Naruto looked him straight in the eye and answered. "If you do try and some how mess up then you will shock your own body part and it could do anything from burn marks to a nerve stun that could last from five minutes to an entire day." Kiba gulped and agreed to never try it until he learned this nature manipulation Naruto was talking about.
When he agreed Naruto looked him right in the eye and knew he understood the dangers and nodded to him. "Thank you Kiba. I don't want a friend getting hurt." Kiba's eyes widened for a split second but Naruto didn't catch it.
'He thinks of me as a friend.' He thought startled but then that turned into a grin. 'Ya Naruto, were friends, so are Shikamaru and Choji to.' He thought to himself.
"Well lets get started; because I'm not lightning natured I can only use this jutsu with kunai also. You will eventually be able to use it better than I can with time and practice. Now there are five seals, then you put the kunai opposite of each other and swing the kunai at the incoming attack, but always have the other kunai opposite of the one you're using."
Kiba nodded in understanding. "This jutsu gives the illusion that you deflected a B-A-ranked jutsu with only your kunai making the opponent startled and might give you an opportunity to attack. To practice the jutsu you will need some ones help to attack you. You can have Akamaru throw stuff at you or have a Kage Bunshin attack you or throw stuff at you. Now watch closely."
With that Naruto made one Kage Bunshin and then he tossed two kunai into the air and made the five seals slowly so Kiba could follow them with ease and memorize them. The second the seals were done Naruto jerked his hands out and grabbed the kunai in the air.
Naruto spread his hands to the side and then Kiba saw a small spark the size of a finger nail go off on each kunai. Then the kunai suddenly jerked to the opposite sides of each other still in Naruto's hands. The clone Naruto tossed a kunai at Naruto and Naruto just waved his own kunai at the incoming one.
The second the kunai got with in two feet of the one in Naruto's hand Kiba saw it divert slightly and slow down and then suddenly be pushed back to the side and harmlessly go in another direction.
With the task done the clone Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke. Naruto then looked like he was straining his muscles and then pulled the two kunai closer together and he was literally shaking from the muscle strain.
When the kunai were two and a half feet away from each other Naruto let go of one and it shot off and embedded itself into a tree all the way until it disappeared into the seven foot wide tree trunk.
Kibas jaw dropped at the display of power both defense and offence the attack had.
"Now you've seen the jutsu Kiba." Naruto said rubbing his arms a little.
"Are you ok, that last part looked like it hurt you?" Kiba asked seeing his sensei and friend hurting some what.
"Na, I'm fine. It just takes a lot of strength to pull those two magnets together with out the control needed for the jutsu." Naruto said off handedly.
"So you need a lot of control to do this jutsu?" Kiba asked worriedly.
"No, not that type of control Kiba, nature manipulation control. If you have mastered nature manipulation of lightning then you can control the magnetic force of the two magnets easier and make it less, then increase it right when you plan to launch it, that way it is easier to pull the two kunai together and then launch them. I don't have a lightning nature so I can't do that. So I had to use my own strength."
"Oh, I get it. So I'll be able to do that one day easily then?" Kiba asked hopefully.
Naruto grinned at him. "Yep!" Kiba grinned back.
"Ok now, right after you do the seals, you want to direct your chakra to the point on your body you want to turn into a magnet. This would be the hands but seeing as there is metal in your hands and that conducts electricity easier it will go there. Now when putting chakra into the kunai, don't put to much other wise the kunai will repel each other too much and it will fall out of your hands. To little and it won't repel the attack. You have to find the balancing point. Now I want you to try." Naruto said happily.
Kiba grinned and stood up. He pulled out two kunai and tossed them into the air and did the five seals.
"Raiton: Gekitai. (Lightning Repulse)"
He caught the kunai and Naruto tossed his own kunai at Kiba. He went to block and did. The incoming kunai got two inches from his and then slowed down and repelled it to his upper left. The kunai landed harmlessly on the ground.
"Very good for a first time Kiba." Kiba grinned back and said thanks.
"Remember that the kunai repel each other so when you go and repel the attack move the other one, the opposite one, to the side slightly so you can direct the attack coming at you where you want to. Also the seals are set up so the current only lasts for five seconds max. You can make it last shorter by cutting the chakra off, but for longer add the ram seal at the end. That will make it last as long as you keep pumping chakra into it. But be warned that this is a B-rank jutsu for a reason, so it does drain chakra pretty fast." Kiba nodded again to the advice.
"Now I'll leave you alone to practice this Kiba. I'll see you around." With that Naruto disappeared in a swirl of fire.
Kiba looked at the two kunai in his hands and then at Akamaru. "We're so going to kick ass Akamaru!" Kiba grinned at his friend and companion and Akamaru barked in agreement.
'I'll master this jutsu by the time the finals come around sensei. That's a promise!' Kiba thought to himself.
Naruto reappeared in the shopping distract of Konoha with a swirl of flames. When he could see exactly were he was he saw that he was in the middle of the street with people that had relieved looks on there faces.
Scratching the back of his neck Naruto laughed nervously. "Sorry for worrying everyone of an attack." Every one that was nervous was now relieved and continued on like nothing happened.
Naruto then saw the ramen restaurant that he and his team went to once in awhile. He was about to walk away when his stomach decided for him.
He walked into the place and took a seat at the counter in the front of the place. "Yo Ayame-chan." He said as he sat down with a smile.
Ayame herself smiled and they made small talk before he ordered some beef ramen with a side dish of three dango sticks. She happily got his order and within ten minutes his meal was in front of him. He ate it with gusto. After eating he headed out of the shop and after taking his fourth step he heard a screeching from a bird.
Looking up he saw a bird circling above him and it came swooping down. He held out his arm and the falcon landed on it with ease. He noticed it had a message tied to the leg and took it off, then sent the bird away with a swish of his arm.
'The old man must want to see me or something.' He thought to himself. With that he opened up the parchment to read what was inside.
Naruto,
Jiraiya is in town again. If you want to talk or catch up with him you know where to go.
Sarutobi
With that read Naruto made a ram seal and the note in his hand burst into flames do to the seal on the piece of paper. 'So Jiraiya-sensei is in town again, sweet.' Naruto thought to himself as he started to walk the opposite way he first intended and was now heading to the bath house and spa.
Across town at a certain office there was an old man reading up on some important information.
"Hokage-sama?" A woman asked as she walked in with a stack of papers.
She heard some shuffling and looked up. She saw that Sarutobi was surrounded by two clouds of smoke on each side of him. She also saw that he was trying to wipe away a line of drool from his chin.
Coughing he tried to recompose himself. "Yes what did you need Mai-san?"
"Ah nothing Hokage-sama just brought in some more papers for you to sign." She said with a smile.
"If that is all, than thank you, you can leave after you set them on the table." He told her kindly. She gave him a weird look but left none the less.
When she left Sarutobi sighed in relief. "That was to close for comfort. I thought she almost saw my last book."
Then he took out his precious last book from his draw and looked every where possible again. Seeing it was clear he made two Kage Bunshins and then started to read again.
Outside the office, Mai steeled her gaze and went up in a poof of smoke.
She reappeared at the Sarutobi household mansion. She went up to the door and knocked.
A minute later a women of about sixty five years old answered the door. She had brown gray hair and some wrinkles on her face but for her age she looked good.
"Mai-san, what are you doing here?" She asked kindly with a small smile.
Mai had a serious face on and she bowed once to the women. "I'm sorry Ayako-sama but this is not a pleasant visit." Her voice was serious also.
"What's this about then?" She asked in a confused and slightly scared voice.
"Your husband."
Ayako felt tears starting to form in her eyes at what could have happened. "Is he ok?" She asked scared.
Mai's eyes widened to the point where they looked like they would pop out and she suddenly felt horrible. "No! No! Your husband is just fine!" She said franticly.
Ayako sighed in relief at hearing this. "Thank Kami-sama! I was so worried." She sighed and then got her heart to stop beating so fast.
After a few seconds she was ready to talk again. "So what was it you had to talk to me about that involves my husband about now? Try to be more pacific this time please."
Mai chuckled an apologetic laugh. "Sorry about that, I really came by to tell you about your husband's books."
"Books?" She asked questionably.
"Ah… thee books that we burned two days ago. I caught him with another one today in the office." She said with contempt.
Ayako narrowed her eyes and had a hard look on her face. "Thank you for telling me this little bit of information Mai-san. I'll be sure you get a bonus this month." With that she disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Five minutes after Mai left his office, Sarutobi's door opened up very slowly and he saw a kunai tip pushing the door open. He saw this and prepared a kunai under the table just in case and put his orange covered book on the table and grabbed a piece of paper to look normal.
When the door was all the way open he saw it was just his wife Ayako at the door. He sighed in relief. Then he remembered the book that was still on the table.
He went to grab it when his wife suddenly appeared beside him and grabbed his book before he could tough it.
Coughing he tried to play innocent. "Honey, it isn't my book, I swear it! It… it was… it was Kakashi's! Ya Kakashi's last book. He had me holding it so the other people wouldn't find it." He tried pitifully.
Sadly for him his wife didn't buy it for one second. "Do you really expect me to believe that?!" She asked with such a tone it made Sarutobi flinch.
"I… hai?" His response was meek and pathetic.
She narrowed her eyes at him and started to walk out with the book in her hands.
Sarutobi sighed in relief for not getting reprimanded.
Ayako heard this sigh and grinned evilly.
Sarutobi felt a chill go up his spine and shuddered. "Darling." He heard his wife say in a sickly sweat voice that made him shudder again.
"H-hai."
She turned to him fully with a look that promised pain. He cringed slightly. "If I ever catch you with another one of these books again, you sleeping on the couch will be the least of your worries. Do I make myself clear?!"
"H-hai Ayako-chan." He said weakly.
She gave him one last pointed look and then left the office with a happy smile on her face with a new book to burn.
Sarutobi was left in his office without his precious book. He slumped in his chair and he lost his control on his Kage Bunshins and they dispelled.
With the combined memory of three Sarutobi's being yelled at he cringed again. He shook his head and a few tears came out of his eyes.
"I'm so sorry I couldn't save you my precious 'Icha Icha Paradise.' You deserved better." He cried and grabbed some papers and started to sign them completely forgetting about the way to defeat this pure evil called paper work.
Author Notes…
Done with the chapter, I hope you liked it. I explained what happened with the bet and I added quite a bit of funny stuff in there also. I thought of that stuff and HAD to put it in this story.
As always I will answer any questions you have gladly in a reply or PM.
For those looking forward to the Naruto and Haku date, you don't have to wait long, next chapter is the date and some other stuff I have planned. If you're smart you will know by just reading this chapter. I told what Naruto would be doing for the next two months.
I would also like to thank those who reviewed last chapter. I had about eighty some reviews but five awesome reviews that helped my writing tons. They complained about something that I was doing wrong and they told me how I can improve on that problem or fix it. Those are good flames. I love seeing those. They help me out more than anything else. Thanks again for those reviews.
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