Rain's Truth Part II (Rain Part ) 12- Training

"Hey, where's Shikamaru?"

"Home. He's gotta go collect medicinal antlers with his dad or something."

"Huh. But he's always celebrated mission completions with us before…how odd…"

"Well, since he's not here…I get Shikamaru's!"

"Hey Chouji! We should introduce ourselves to Sai before we start eating."

"Oh, right…"

"Chouji, you're drooling." He wipes his face and I giggle.

"Thanks…"

"Er, I'm Akimichi Chouji of the Akimichi clan. Nice to meet you, uh, Sai."

"Nice to meet you too, uh…" Oh no, he's searching for a word. If he says anything about Chouji's weight…! "Chub…" Naruto and I cover his mouth.

"Don't ever say chubby or anything similar around Chouji, it's taboo. He'll kill you."

"You were about to say something?"

"Oh…no, no."

"I'm Yamanaka Ino. My parents own Yamanaka Flowers. Nice to meet you!" She's flirting…crazy.

"Nice to meet you, um…you're beautiful." Huh? Oh no, he's dead on Sakura's end. She's pissed now.

"Beautiful!! You call her beautiful?!" I flinch as Sakura pounds him and we start eating.

"So! Um, Kiro-kun, you were kidnapped on that mission right? How did you get back?"

"Not this again. I don't know. I think someone might have taken me out of the hideout while I was sleeping or something. I went to sleep and when I woke up, I was on the roof of the office building."

"Really? Wow."

"Man, I was hoping to get an action story out of you. You always come back from big missions like that with awesome stories!" I shrug.

"Life happens. Hey Chouji! I was going for that piece!"

"Last bite." I sigh and put the chopsticks down, sticking my tongue out.

"Picky fatso." He glares at me and everyone at the table is suddenly very apprehensive. I glare right back at Chouji and he shoves the piece of meat into his mouth.

"Hey, how come you survived calling him that?" I shrug and wave my hand at the waiter. He nods and goes to the back to bring out more meat.

"Gosh, I don't see how you can eat twice as much as Chouji and keep that figure." I smirk.

"It's a gift. Called a high metabolism."

"Yea, yea, you always say that. Tell us something we don't know, Miss Boulder." I glare at Chouji for a moment and laugh.

"And I get away with calling him that because he knows that if he tries anything, his fat ass will get flattened."

"Watch it, Kiro-kun." I stick out my tongue and turn a piece of meat that the waiter just put on the grill for us.

"I still don't get it. It's dangerous for anyone but Kiro or Shikamaru to say anything about his weight." Chouji shrugs and I grab the first piece of meat.

"We're gonna be here a while."

"How many rounds have you two gone through this time?"

"Oh, hey Asuma. Kurenai. And we've only gone through, what, three rounds now?"

"Racing with Chouji to see who finishes first?"

"Nope. We all know that Chouji will get full first."

"And that's why you can go for five or six days without eating! You stuff yourself in one sitting."

"Actually, you can ask anyone who's actually seen me sit down to a meal, even at Ichiraku; I eat more than Chouji almost regularly. It's just convenient that I can go without food for several days if I'm on a mission that prevents that."

"Yea, you're lucky."

"Only in that. You see how tall I am?! It's almost to the point that Gai's almost the only person tall enough to handle me if I'm out."

"Yea, that's kind of creepy." I nod and grab another bite of meat.

"Everything about Gai is creepy."

*Next Day*

"What's Kiro doing here?"

"I'm helping with your training."

"You may be able to…" I smile at Kakashi.

"This is training specifically for Naruto right? I doubt I'll be able to handle it." I wink at Naruto and he laughs.

"What's so funny?"

"Well, you know…it's been a while since you've taught me, Kakashi-sensei. Don't know why, but I like this…"

"Laugh while you still can." I sigh.

"You're about to go into a spill aren't you? I get the jest of this, so I'll make it simple."

"Go ahead." I nod and step closer to Naruto.

"First things first, we're trying to come up with an even more powerful technique than Rasengan, right? So, to be simple. With Rasengan, you form your chakra into a ball in your hand and control the flow." Naruto nods. "So, there's another thing that makes powerful jutsu. Change in nature. The element. Like…Chidori, it's a lightning attack. All there is to that is gathering a bunch of lightning based chakra into your hand. So, to make an even more powerful jutsu that's just for you, we need to do two things. One, find out what element you work best with, and two, put together both changes to match that."

"Right. So…how do we find out what element I am? And how are we gonna cut down the time like you said?!" I laugh and look at Kakashi.

"Multiple Kage-bunshin."

"How will that help?" I laugh.

"I get it! When you use Kage-bunshin, after you release the jutsu, you learn everything that your doppelgangers learned. Brilliant Kakashi!"

"Huh?"

"I just said. Basically, if you use a Kage-bunshin and do the exact same training with it, when you release the jutsu, it's like you trained for twice as long. If you do the same with a hundred, it turns the amount of training into a thousand times normal. Okay, to make it simpler, why don't both of you guys use Kage-bunshin?" They nod and use the jutsu.

"Kage-bunshin no jutsu."

"Now, send the doppelgangers over there, out of sight. In a few moments, you'll find out what they did." The clones nod and walk off.

"What are they doing?"

"You'll see in a minute." After a minute, the clones release the jutsu and Naruto stares at me. "Well? What did they do?"

"We played Roshambo, and I won!"

"Now do you understand? What I said about the training." Naruto nods and I look at Kakashi. He nods and reaches into his bag.

"I get why you're so strong, Kakashi-sensei! This is how you've been training!"

"Nope."

"But…" I sigh.

"Just because someone can use Kage-bunshin, doesn't mean they can keep it up for very long. Not everyone has as much chakra as you do, Naruto."

"Then how come…? Hey, Kiro, you're twice as strong as me, and you've beat Kakashi-sensei, have you…?"

"Nope. I can't use Kage-bunshin. Or any other type of clone for that matter. I'm stuck with Wood clones. And that doesn't have the same effect as Kage-bunshin. I can actually see through my clones' eyes."

"No, Kiro has an unknown amount of chakra at her disposal, probably more than you."

"I'm gonna work on training how to tap into that chakra and use it to the max. I'm ten times stronger when I'm in 'berserk mode', but even that, plus using the curse mark, which adds to that strength by ten, I couldn't beat Orochimaru. That means I'm not going at my full power even like that."

"Anyways, the element."

"Right." Kakashi pulls out some Litmus Paper and pulls one page off, handing it to me. "We'll figure out what element you have with this. It's paper that reacts to chakra to show what element you're using. Almost everyone fits into one or more of the five elements, fire, wind, lightning, earth, and water. The element, or elements, in your chakra determine which style of jutsu you specialize in. The Uchiha clan, for example, mostly have fire based chakra, so they excel in fire style. Chidori is Raiton."

"So…Sasuke has both fire and lightning?" I nod.

"Yep."

"What about you, Kiro?" I smile and hold out my hand. Kakashi sighs and hands me a second slip of paper. I hold each in one hand and push earth and water based chakra through each hand. One slip of paper crumbles, while the other gets soggy. Kakashi takes another and pushes chakra into it. The paper in his hand crinkles. I hold up my hands.

"With earth nature, the paper crumbles, water, it gets wet, fire, the paper burns, wind, it tears, and lightning, the paper will wrinkle." Kakashi hands Naruto a slip and he pushes chakra into it. The paper rips in half.

"Okay then. We'll start with wind change in nature training."

"Anno, Kiro, what does your wood style fall under?" I laugh.

"You saw me use both earth and water a minute ago. Wood style is a combination of those two elements. Is Yamato coming?"

"No, that's why I asked you to come. You can use the same jutsu to suppress the Kyuubi." I nod and back up.

"In that case. I'll show you." I put my hands together. Daton, Rampart of Flowing Soil! The ground underneath me rises to create a cliff in front of Naruto and Kakashi.

"Hey! What?!" I smile and change signs. Suiton, Art of the Waterfall Basin! "Wow!"

"Almost everyone, once you hit the Jounin level, has at least two natures. I can use more than lightning you know."

"So…plus your wood style, that makes three?!" I sigh.

"Nope. There isn't a 'Wood Nature'. Mokuton is a combination of Daton and Suiton. Look. I use earth with one hand and water with the other…" I put my hands together and trees sprout all over the cliff I just created.

"Wow!!!" I laugh and jump down to stand beside Naruto.

"It's not that hard to use two elements separately, but to use them simultaneously, that requires a Kekkei Genkai. Hm, for another example. You remember that kid Haku that we fought?"

"Yea."

"He had a Kekkei Genkai called Hyoton, ice style. He was able to manipulate wind and water changes in nature simultaneously to create ice."

"And that's why I couldn't copy it with my sharingan. I can't copy Kiro and Yamato's Mokuton either."

"Time to start you training. I'll get set up."

"What about Shikamaru's Kagemane, or Chouji's art of expansion? How do Medical Ninjutsu and Genjutsu work?" I sigh and glance at Kakashi.

"Hm, it's going to make the explanation too long, and you'll only get confused in the end."

"We should keep that explanation for another time. We really should start the exercise."

"You'll be taking a leaf between your two palms and cutting it in half with your chakra." I walk in front of the pool created by the waterfall and set up for the suppression. One pillar for each tail, with three spots in front of me. I nod and sit down.

"How many clones do I need?"

"Let's see…at one leaf per clone, this many." Kakashi points at a tree and Naruto nods.

"Ready, Kiro?"

"Yep." I start the jutsu while Naruto starts working on trying to cut the leaves.

"You said that you're training?"

"Currently, I'm inhabiting a wood clone and my real body is at one of the other training grounds, working. I said before that I can see through the eyes of my clone, in truth, I can freely go between every clone I currently have created. It's a shared mind. And I think that somehow, it's more advanced than Tenzo-kun's wood clones, he has to have a radio to communicate with his clones, and he can only create one at a time. I've created about ten total at a time."

"He's still using Yamato right?" I nod.

"I know that. However, I'm not the type that takes easily to using a new name for someone."