Chapter 13: Training and Dates: Part 1-3
"Okay kid your first exercise…"Jiarya said and pointed at the small pond in front of them.
"What the hell is this?" Naruto said and Jiarya chuckled.
"Do you want to learn how to walk on water?" Jiarya asked and Naruto slapped his forehead.
"I KNOW how to do that!" the blond said and Jiarya opened his eyes shocked.
"Oh…well… then on to exercise B!" Jiarya said and pulled out a large scroll. "I'll let you sign this contract as long as you agree to –"
"I have a summoning contract…I'm the master of it to." Naruto said as he picked at his ear.
"…Then what the hell can I teach you kid!!!" Jiarya roared and Naruto looked at him.
"Well how about how to use Kyuubi's chakra?" Naruto asked and Jiarya sighed.
"Well that's about the…only…thing…" the old man trailed off as he thought about something.
"On second thought what if I taught you a super cool jutsu!" Jiarya said spreading his arms out wide.
"I know a bunch already…" Naruto muttered.
"This one tops them all." Jiarya said with his arms across his chest.
"Oh really?" Naruto asked and raised his eyebrows. "Prove it."
Jiarya chuckled as he held out his hand to Naruto. Naruto stared at it until suddenly he saw chakra begin to spin in it in the form of a perfect sphere. It was pinkish white and Naruto was transfixed by it.
"This is Rasengan, the 4th Hokage's original jutsu. Pure, raw, destructive chakra." Jiarya said and slammed the jutsu into a tree. The jutsu bore into the wood and when it faded there was a hole that went through the entire tree, perfectly smoothed out and perfectly circular. "That was only at half power." Jiarya said and turned to Naruto.
"That was awesome." Naruto muttered and looked at Jiarya in a new light. "Please teach me Ero-Sensei."
"Don't call me that!" Jiarya yelled.
That was a week and a half ago.
"FOCUS!" Jiarya yelled as he hit Naruto with a small pebble.
"THIS IS HARD!" Naruto yelled right back.
"…FOCUS!" Jiarya yelled back.
Naruto shook his head as he held the water balloon in front of him again. Jiarya told him that learning the technique was a six step process. Naruto had completed the first three steps and was on the fourth one but he was stuck. It had taken him an entire 6 days to complete the first three steps but this one just wouldn't get over and done with. The first step was to be able to concentrate chakra into your hand which Naruto mastered after a day. On the second day he had to try and channel the chakra out of his hand which took him 2 days to learn. Then the third step was to hold a solid spherical object in your hand and rotate it with chakra. It took Naruto three days to get that step down but here he was 4 ½ days later, stuck on the fourth step.
He had to channel his chakra into the water balloon and rotate the water WITHOUT making the balloon burst. He had already gone through 150 balloons now and the number was still climbing.
"I can't make my chakra go into the water and spin it in a perfect circle for some reason…which is weird because I have great control over water." Naruto said as he threw the balloon which had just popped into the ever growing pile of balloon remains.
"That is because you have water based chakra. With this technique you use raw chakra and channel it through your hand then make it rotate before it expands beyond your control." Jiarya said as he took a sip form his pop.
"…Damn." Naruto said and grabbed another water balloon from a trash bin full. "How long did it take the fourth to complete this technique?"
"I told you it has not yet been completed, this step here is only the first of six stages. The fourth only made it to 4th stage and was starting to work on the fifth stage before he died. Even then he didn't have a complete grasp on the 4th stage...besides it took him about 2 years to make this first stage here. It took me about a year to learn it…and master the first stage." Jiarya said and Naruto sighed.
"So I WON'T have this technique for the exams." He cursed.
"Not if you keep whining you won't!" Jiarya yelled and threw another rock at him.
Naruto grumbled as he began to focus more chakra into the water balloon urging it to spin. It was then that he felt something, it was slight but he felt it, he felt the water slosh around in the water balloon for a few seconds before it exploded.
"I did it, I made it spin!" Naruto exclaimed as he jumped up and down.
"I doubt it kid; I bet it'll take you at least these next two months to get to the fifth stage at least." Jiarya said as he sighed impatiently. 'I thought he would be better…'
"Oh really!" Naruto said and threw the destroyed balloon at Jiarya's face. "I bet I can finish it in the next 11 days!" he yelled and Jiarya snorted.
"Kid if you can do that I will personally teach you another cool technique." Jiarya said and Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"What is it?" he asked and Jiarya shook his head.
"Only if you finish this technique because it builds off this." Jiarya said and Naruto rubbed his hands together greedily.
"You got yourself a deal." Naruto said but Jiarya raised up a hand.
"But if you lose this bet you have to do something for me." Jiarya said and Naruto scratched his head.
"What?" the blond asked.
Jiarya got a shy and perverted face as he poked his index fingers together. "You have to go around all day using your Sexy Jutsu…"
"…"
"…"
"PERVERT!" Naruto yelled.
"I'M A SUPER PERVERT!!!" Jiarya screamed.
"Your pathetic." Naruto said as he went back to work.
Else where
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"Come on Sasuke focus the chakra into your hand like this and hold it there." Kakashi said as he pointed at a spot on Sasuke's hand.
"I do but every time I try I can't control the lightning and it shocks me and messes up my control in this hand." Sasuke said as he shook his head.
"Yes I had that same problem when I first started out but you learn how to do it right eventually." Kakashi said and Sasuke groaned.
"Can we take a break from this, my arm is tingly and I can't feel it." Sasuke said as he rubbed his arm.
"Fine, I want to teach you something else anyways." Kakashi said and Sasuke cocked his head.
"What?" he asked and Kakashi sighed.
"Well…it's a technique that seals chakra." Kakashi explained and Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Why should I learn about that?" the Uchiha asked and Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Oh…Naruto."
"Not just him but all of your opponents, if you can get them with this seal then they can't use chakra properly." Kakashi said and held his hand out. "This seal is a bit complicated and only a few can use it."
Kakashi then went through some hand seals and then held his hand back out only now his fingertips were all glowing a different color. His thumb was a yellowish white, his index finger was red, middle finger was blue, ring finger was brown, and his pinky was pure white. "It's called a five prong elemental seal. It is handy when fighting against people who can use elemental chakra sufficiently."
"So it IS meant to be used on Naruto." Sasuke said and shrugged. "Oh well."
"Okay I want you to copy my hand seals with your Sharingan." Kakashi said and Sasuke nodded.
The next day Naruto was walking down the street taking a little break from training. In his hand was a metal ball that was the size of a baseball and inside was a small metal marble. Jiarya had given it to Naruto and told him that if he could make the marble spin around in circles in the larger ball then he would have a better chance at excelling at the 4th step. Naruto immediately went to work on the small thing all night and all this morning.
As he walked he felt the small metal ball bouncing around, not spinning in smooth circles yet. Naruto swore as he continued to concentrate on making the ball spin. As he focused he suddenly felt some lean way and began to work on it and felt the marble begin to spin when all of a sudden-
"NARUTO-KUN!" a voice rang out and Naruto lost his concentration.
"Kuso!" Naruto yelled and gained a couple looks form strangers.
"Hey Naruto-kun what's up!" Naruto turned to see Temari bounding toward him happily. She had on a short black skirt that came down low enough to hide her panties from sight yet high enough that she wouldn't have to even drop the skirt to go to the bathroom. Over that she was wearing a tight pink t-shirt that showed off her chest and despite Naruto's best attempts his gaze kept traveling down to it.
'Curse you pervey-sage!' Naruto swore in his mind.
Temari also had on a pair of pink and black striped socks that came up to her knees and she wore a simple pair of sandals for shoes. Her hair billowed freely behind her and came down to her shoulders.
"Hey Temari…" Naruto muttered and waved lightly. 'Damn it!' he thought.
"Hey we match today!" she squealed and Naruto sighed. He had only adorned himself with a pair of black pants, a tight black t shirt that showed off his Uzumaki crest tattoo, and a pair of black shoes. His head band was still tied at his belt loop and he let his hair fall freely in front of his eyes. His sword and scroll were strapped onto his back only he carried them a different way. He carried his scroll like Jiarya did because he found that it let him move with the scroll easier. It was down at his lower back and vertical while his sword was strapped on his back diagonally. Naruto eyed Temari carefully and then sighed before giving her a grin.
'Maybe if I am just nice to her today…' he thought. "You look pretty cute today." He said and Temari stared at him before a small blush made its way across her face, right under her eyes.
"Th-thanks Naruto-kun." She said as she toed the ground.
'She looks kind of cute right…NO! I need to FOCUS!' Naruto said as he mentally straightened himself out.
"So what's up?" he asked as he shifted his weight slightly and leaned against a building next to him.
"Well…I saw you and then I kind of thought that maybe we could…hang out or something?" Temari asked looking at him sincerely.
Naruto sighed and shrugged his shoulders. "Why not, I could use some company." He said and Temari squealed again.
"Thank-you so much…so what do YOU want to do?" she asked and Naruto rubbed his head.
"Well I'm kind of hungry…" he began.
"Let's get some ramen." She said immediately and Naruto looked at her.
"How did you know I liked ramen?" he asked and Temari blushed.
"Well…I kind of did some digging up on you but also it is because of Gaara…he likes Ramen a lot for some unknown reason and well he has an insatiable urge to eat A LOT of ramen and you guys are somewhat the same." Temari said and Naruto shook his head.
"That's not true, we just have good taste it has nothing to do with… you know." Naruto said and Temari nodded. She obviously got the meaning of what he and Gaara were talking about back in the forest.
Fū smiled as a bowl of steaming hot ramen was set in front of her.
"All right!" she said and smacked her hands together. "I-TA-DAAAA-KI-MASUUUUU!" she sung out and dug in.
"Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. With this ramen there is no need to pout." Killer Bee said as he slurped some Miso Ramen down.
"Come on Bee, slow down." Yugito said as she finished her tenth bowl.
"Look who's talking Yo!" Bee accused.
Gaara looked around his room and shut the curtains and walked over to his bag. He slowly pulled a cup of his favorite instant ramen from it and smiled evilly. "And they said I wouldn't get you past them." He said and poured some boiling hot water into the container.
Roku looked around before he snuck out of the giant fancy restaurant and ran across the street. He opened the curtain to his favorite ramen stall and took a deep breath. "Oh Miso-chan I'm back."
"Roku! Stop having fantasies about the ramen!" the chef yelled and Roku blushed as he sat down.
Natsumi smiled as she slurped from a bowl politely. She set the empty bowl down and then her entire demeanor changed.
"HIT ME UP BABY!" she yelled and the chef slammed three bowls down on the table.
"Come on break the record! 25 seconds Natsumi!"
"DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!" the crowd began to chant as Natsumi downed the ramen in split seconds.
"YEAH!" she roared.
Ochi burped loudly after he finished his 15th bowl of ramen and then looked around.
"It's been a good day today my friends." He said and sauntered out of the Ramen shop.
Jikōru stretched happily as he fell asleep in his bed. Around him was a castle of empty instant ramen cups.
"I LOVE RAMEN!" Every Jinchuuriki chorused at the same time, unbeknownst to them.
Naruto shuddered as he got a weird feeling. "Weird…" he said and Temari smiled at him.
"Come on let's go get some Ramen right now." She said and grabbed his hand and led him down the street. After about ten minutes though she stopped and turned towards him with a nervous smile. "Where is the shop?" she asked and Naruto laughed at her and it was a real laugh and it felt good.
"It's this way." He said and pulled her along lightly.
'Oh my Kami! He's holding my hand!' Temari thought and she blushed.
'What am I doing…'Naruto thought as he saw the blond girl blush. He continued walking, weaving in and out of the crowd and ignoring the hateful glares that came his way. Temari saw the glares and shook her head in anger. She had seen people give Gaara these looks when the boy went into town which was rare, very rare.
"Here we are!" Naruto said with a grin as he grabbed the curtain and pulled it aside, letting Temari duck in.
"Thank you Naruto-kun." Temari said with a smile as she sat in a chair and spun in a circle on it.
"Oh, Naruto-kun who is this?!" a girl's voice said and Temari turned.
"Hehe this is Temari… Ayame, Temari this is Ayame and that." Naruto said pointing at the chef. "Is Ichiraku."
"Naruto you said that I would be your first date." Ayame said raising an eyebrow at him.
"Aww Ayame that was like six years ago." Naruto said with a grin and sat down.
"SO what do you guys want?" Ayame said as she laughed about her and Naruto's joke.
"I want the usual…Temari?" he asked and looked at the blond girl.
Said blond was zoned out while staring at Naruto's face. "Temari?" Naruto asked again and she jumped when her concentration as broken.
"Huh, what?!" she said and Ayame laughed.
"What do you want to eat?" Naruto asked again and Temari blushed.
"Oh, just a bowl of… Miso/Deer Ramen if that's okay?" she asked and Ayame nodded.
"No problem." She said and walked into the kitchen and joined her father.
Naruto sighed as he leaned on the counter and turned his head so that he could eye Temari carefully. She wasn't paying attention and was letting her gaze wander around the shop. 'Hmm, she is kind of cute and a lot more developed then some of the other girls around here.' Naruto thought as his gaze traveled down ward. 'NO!' he thought. 'I am NOT like the pervey-sage!'
"ACCHHOOOO!" Jiarya sneezed and was blasted off the building that he was crouching on. "What was that?" he asked himself.
"So Temari, tell me, why aren't you training?" he asked casually and Temari glanced at him with another small blush.
"Oh, I um… well I, I mean, my team is already strong enough you see and besides I like to train at night…" she said quickly and Naruto grinned.
"That sounds cool…so you primarily are a wind user then?" he asked and Temari eyed him carefully.
"Are you digging information out of me?" she asked playfully and Naruto couldn't help himself, he smiled at her.
"Nah, just curious." He said and the blond girl nodded.
"Well, yeah I am really good with wind…in fact I'm inventing my own technique finally." She whispered with a large smile.
"That sounds awesome!" Naruto exclaimed. "I have yet to do so… I just have learned stuff my sensei has taught me." Naruto said as he wiped his nose in embarrassment.
"So what element do you use, besides water?" Temari asked curiously.
"Oh that's it…I haven't discovered if I have any other affinities." He explained and Temari nodded. "But that doesn't mean I'm not any weaker…" he said as he thought about the technique he was working on.
"Oh no, you're not weak!" Temari said as she held her hands up defensively. "I never meant that!" she finished.
"Relax I know…" Naruto muttered and rolled his eyes. 'Girls…' he thought.
'That was close…' Temari thought as she blushed again and looked down and saw Naruto's tattoo. "Hey why do you have a tattoo and what does the symbol stand for?" she asked curiously. While it wasn't uncommon for many ninja to have tattoo's it was an uncommon symbol she never saw before.
"Oh this?" Naruto asked as he held up his arm. The tattoo seemed to glow as though it was in moon light. "It's my clan's symbol…" Naruto said, obviously not wanting to explain it any more.
"Oh, what clan are you from?" Temari asked curiously.
"Uzumaki." Naruto said simply and then cut her off before she could ask another questions.
"My turn to ask questions." Naruto said and tapped his forehead. "So are you and Gaara and Kankuro actually siblings?" he asked and Temari nodded.
"Yeah, our dad is the Kazekage…" Temari muttered and Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Oh really so you guys must have it good?" he asked and Temari snorted louder then she hoped and then covered her face with a blush.
"S-sorry but no…our dad neglects us because…well you know about Gaara already and well he hates Gaara but me and Kankuro, we don't share those feelings and so he hates us all." Temari explained and then looked away from Naruto. "he has sent us on several dangerous A and B-ranked missions along with one S-rank, all in hopes that we would die but we never did and his congratulations were always curses in disguise." Temari said and Naruto shook his head. He could feel for the three kids, his life sucked just as bad growing up.
"So why did he send you guys here?" Naruto asked and Temari snorted.
"You know that there may be an invasion or well whatever they are assuming right?" Temari asked and Naruto nodded. Jiarya had talked to him about this several times when they trained together.
"Yeah what about it?" Naruto asked.
"Well our dad caught whiff of it and well he sent us over here as 'reinforcements' for Konoha." Temari said and shook her head. "He just hopes that at least one of us will die, hopefully Gaara." She said with disgust.
"So I take it you don't really like you dad?" Naruto asked and Temari laughed.
"Like him? We hate him…it took everything me and Kankuro had to stop Gaara from killing him one day…" Temari said and Naruto looked away and Temari caught this. "Gaara… he isn't as sadistic as you think…it's the seal that's on him…my dad screwed with the original one, tampering with its effects so that he could make the perfect weapon out of Gaara…but it didn't work." Temari whispered. "Instead Gaara…he gained a insanity that would surface when adrenaline was within him… but if he is outside of battle he is a typical boy…somewhat."Temari said and Naruto nodded.
"I can understand his pain." Naruto said and laid a hand on Temari's shoulder and the blond girl blushed like crazy. "But I still have to kick his ass in the finals." Naruto said and Temari let herself laugh by accident.
"In case you haven't noticed, Gaara has the ultimate defense. Sand protects him automatically, he has a layer of sand skin, and he also has his deadly Sandstorm Taijutsu style." Temari said and covered her mouth realizing her mistake. She had just given Naruto information about her brother.
"It's cool, I already deduced a lot about him when he battled." The blond boy said and that was when Ayame popped into the front of the shop again.
"Here you guys go." She said and set bowls of ramen down in front of the two.
"Itadakimasu!" both Temari and Naruto chorused at the same time.
"Man that ramen was awesome!" Temari said as they left the shop half an hour later.
"Yeah it is the best ramen ever." Naruto said with a grin. He was starting to grow rather fond of Temari. "So…"
Temari sighed and looked up at the sky and then back at Naruto. "Well it's been fun Naruto-kun, but I guess I should go if that's all." She said and Naruto heard some hope in her voice.
"Well I guess-"his sentence was never finished.
Ino saw both blonds walk out of the ramen shop and immediately she became angry. Naruto was going to be hers; she had always secretly been infatuated with the boy after she heard about his actions in wave country. She also heard about the way Sasuke was treating him and she realized how big of a dick he was and regretted ever really chasing him. So that being the case Ino wasn't going to just give Naruto away to the dumb sand bitch.
"NARUTO-KUN!" she yelled and hugged him tightly. "How are you?" she asked sweetly and Naruto looked at her in shock for a moment.
'What the hell?' he thought and Ino blushed at his look.
"What is it Naruto-kun?" Ino asked as she held her hands behind her back nervously and toed the ground in front of her.
"N-nothing Ino…" Naruto muttered and shook his head.
'Okay any guy in Konoha would kill to have Ino hanging on them…' he thought and shrugged.
"What do you need?" he asked and watched as Ino blushed slightly, a small red haze making its way across her cheeks and over the bridge of her nose.
'She's even cuter then Temari!' Naruto thought before mentally kicking himself.
"Oh, um, well, you see…can we go on a date?!" the words spilled out of her mouth before she could stop them and her blush reddened.
Naruto and Temari were both taken aback, Naruto because he never saw those words coming and Temari because she knew that Ino would be competition. Naruto looked at Ino closely with his 'eye' that he gained form Jiarya by accident. The girl was wearing more civilized clothing but that didn't mean that it wasn't seductive. She had on a pair of short shorts that were black, a pink halter top that cut off a little bit above her belly button and showed her chest which was just a bit smaller then Temari's *Mental Smack*, and a pair of purple sandals. Her long blond pony tail hung down her back and ended just a bit before it touched her butt.
'She is actually pretty cute...this could work. The hottest girl in Konoha, what seems to be the hottest girl in Suna…hmmm?' Naruto thought.
"Maybe, I have to train though…" he said and both girls' jaws dropped.
"O-okay Naruto-kun, maybe I'll stop by and watch you train!" Ino said happily and Naruto raised an eyebrow at her. "Not to learn anything from you though!" Ino said and Naruto smiled.
"If you want to that's cool." He said and turned around and started walking. Both girls stared at him happily before he turned around and using as much of his charm as possible he winked with his right eye. "Bye Temari-chan, bye Ino-chan."
Both girls dropped unconscious and Naruto continued walking with a smile, he had done Jiarya proud.
Jiarya looked up from his notebook and looked around dismayed.
"Why is it that I feel as though I did something reckless?" he asked himself but then suddenly an odd feeling came over him. "But why am I so happy and full of pride suddenly?"
Jiarya looked around and couldn't find any reason so he went back to his 'research'. "Come on Fuki-chan just a little bit closer to Nakomi-chan and you guys will have made the perfect position!" Jiarya muttered while he scribbled quickly.
A/N: Okay so here goes Chapter 13 and I cranked up the romance a bit. Lately I have read a lot of good fictions about all kinds of different pairings and so I have finally developed enough sense to make an okay pairing or two. Now Naruto's personality, it isn't different because I don't believe in killing off his happy go lucky attitude. No I like to make him more I don't know…more of a smart ass while fighting and more laid back somewhat. Otherwise outside of battling he is, smarter, charming, funny, and typically fun to be with. Now I only am having Naruto learn the Rasengan because well, I think that it's bullshit that Sasuke learned the F-ing Chidori during the Chuunin exams, got the cursed seal, became one of the fastest Genin, injured Gaara when he couldn't even beat Haku, get the Sharingan, get a postponed match, it pisses me off. So hell yeah Naruto IS LEARNING THE FUCKING Rasengan!!! Now form what I have talked about so far I think I should bring up.
Naruto = Water Affinity
Naruto = Heir to the Uzumaki Throne, Royal family Yadda yadda.
Naruto has his own summoning contract
Naruto can only use 5 major jutsu not counting Henge and Kawarimi
Naruto is starting to develop his perverted personality
Naruto's mom is Kushina
Zabuza is Naruto's uncle
Possible Harem, or at least Naruto paired with 2 girls
Sasuke has advanced his jutsu arsenal.
Kakashi is teaching Sasuke the five prong elemental seal and Chidori
Sakura and Sasuke are dating
Rasengan has six stages
Two months training and rest period instead of 1 month for exams
Ayame is NOT a possible pairing.
Gaara is not always insane
Everyone who ate ramen in this chapter minus Temari were Jinchuuriki (SURPRISE!!! Now we know everyone's names and their Biju for the most part.)
Suna will NOT be invading Konoha
My perception of characters is horrible, I got Ibiki and Genma totally mixed up
Sakura x Naruto isn't going to happen…