Chapter 13: training part 2 and finals
Naruto was on his knees panting hard using Shadow Claw as a crutch. His mother was in the same boat. Her gold swords both being used as crutches. The two had been training for a few weeks and Naruto had gained some new skills. He had learned to use Angel's Hand and Shadow Claw in unison and without their power negating each other like it would normally do. He had also learned some techniques that used two swords. His speed with said moves had increased and so had his overall strength.
"You've gotten better in the few week's we've been together son," Kushina said, "Now why don't you go see your friends? I bet your curious about there progress."
"Yeah I am," Naruto said with a grin, "thanks mom."
Naruto sealed up the swords in his arms. Then he bowed to his mother and ran off to check up on his friends. Kushina smiled to herself. While he did this she could spend some quality time with her husband.
At another training ground…
Sasuke was breathing hard as he got up from a crouching position. He stood in front of a large boulder with two large craters in it. His arm had a few scratches on it and he was almost out of chakra.
"It looks like your good for two bursts," Kakashi said as he looked at his student.
"I can do more," Sasuke said as he rose up only for him to fall down slightly.
"Don't even think about it Sasuke," Kakashi said, "even if you did have a bit more chakra you can't do it more than twice. If you try to force a jutsu when your low on chakra not only will it send your chakra dwon to zero but it will also kill you."
"I'd listen to the Cyclops if I were you Sasuke," said a voice that surprised them.
They both turned to see Naruto leaning against a tree with a smirk on his face.
"Hey Sasuke," Naruto said, "how has your training been going?"
"Fine," he said, "I've learned the chidori and I'll be trying to lean the Raikeiri next."
"How about your sword training?" Naruto asked wondering how sasuke was coming along.
"I've learned some thing from Zabuza," Sasuke said, "He taught me the vital spots on the body. I didn't want to learn the silent killing technique because it sounds a little bit annoying. I don't think I can keep quiet for that long. I also learned how to transfer my elemental affinities, which are fire and lightning to my sword."
"What about 'That'?" Naruto asked making Sasuke get serious.
"Kakashi sensei," Sasuke yelled, "Can I talk with Naruto alone for a minute?"
"Okay," Kakashi said. He was wondering what he was talking about but he decided not to pry since it was probably a clan matter.
"My Onyx Sharingan has come along greatly," Sasuke said once Kakashi was out of hearing range, "I all three tomoes right now."
"All three," Naruto gasped, "How did you manage to unlock the other two so quickly?"
"I got my first one from the fight with Yoroi," Sasuke explained, "I guess the stress of the fight called for it. I'm not sure."
"And the other one?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke's face went grim. He growled slightly as he remembered. He then started to explain.
Flashback…
Sasuke had just come home from his first thing of training and was look forward to some time to relaxation with Haku. When he entered the clan complex he noticed something was odd. The door had been broken into and there were signatures inside he didn't recognize. He ran inside to find a site that made his blood boil. The sight was Haku being held down by some ANBU with a blank mask and a kanji for root on it. On the ground was a hypodermic needle that was empty. Sasuke guessed that was what was keeping Haku from fighting back. Then he heard words that made Sasuke's blood pressure go through the roof.
"Hold still you slut," the ANBU growled, "Lord Danzo has use for you. You can reproduce ice soldiers for us to use and I hear he'll let us keep you when were done."
Sasuke had enough at that statement and burst through the door his onyx Sharingan blazing. The ANBU turned his blank masked face to him before his eyes widened. He saw the black eyes with a red pupil and three tomoes in each. That was the last thing he saw before he burst into black flames.
Sasuke ran over to Haku to see if she was all right. He smiled when he found she hadn't been touched. Haku looked up and smiled at him before they kissed.
End flashback….
Naruto was quite and then he started to seethe. He couldn't believe that someone would try to do that. It was also surprising that someone was able to get close to Haku without her either turning them into a human pin cushion or into a life sized ice sculpture.
Sasuke then explained that the only reason that that ANBU had gotten close to her was that he had disguised himself and had suppressed his chakra so that she thought that he had come home early to surprise her. Naruto still in shock at that began to think when he realized something.
"Isn't Danzo that guy on the council?" he asked getting Sasuke to raise and eyebrow.
"Yeah I think he is," Sasuke said then he realized something.
"I'll take this to the Hokage," Sasuke said after a few seconds of silence, "It's my girlfriend it's my problem."
Sasuke and Naruto both nodded at each other and then they went their separate ways. Naruto walked on for a little bit until he came across Shikamaru and his dad in a field. Shikamru actually seemed to be panting and was sweating. Had the Nara actually started to work.
"Shikamaru," Naruto said as he got closer, "are you actually working?" Shikamaru nodded at his friend. "It's a sign of the apocalypse! Run! Hide your children! We're all going to die!"
The tow Nara in front of him just shook their heads and muttered troublesome under his breath. As it turns out Shikamru had been trainign with some of his clan techniques. His dad was persuaded by his wife to train him. By persuaded I mean that his wife had come at him with a frying pan threatening to bash his brains out and have him sleep on the couch for a month before she would let them sleep in the same bed. Since then the lazy man has been training his lazy son. Naruto had to shake his head as he heard that. Naruto left the two to their own training.
Naruto ran around until he found Sakura with Lee on one of the training grounds. He found them in a very surprising position. Sakura was sitting in Lee's lap and they were currently making out. Naruto noted a few craters and dents in the ground so he guessed that they had both been training. Sakura had learned some medical stuff and had been Lee's personal nurse while he healed from the beating Naruto gave him. After that you couldn't even separate the two. Naruto just smirked and left the two to there own devices.
Naruto didn't even bother looking for the Suna siblings.
Naruto found Ino at the flower shop her dad owned. He walked in and found himself instantly hugged by his girlfriend.
"So how's your training been coming along foxy?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
Naruto had told Ino about the fox during some time during the breaks between training. She had been upset that the village had treated him like they did since his dad wanted him to be seen as a hero. She would have gone out and tried to do something stupid if Naruto hadn't given her a "calm down" kiss.
"Just fine," Naruto said, "My mom's been training me nonstop ever since the second round. Though she and dad had something to do before they did. I don't know what it was but I had the sudden feeling that someone was going to be in a world of hurt."
Ino just giggle and held Naruto close to her.
"Well," Ino said, "I've been training too. My dad's been training me in some of the other Yamanaka clan moves. I've even learned a few taijutsu moves and my genjutsu had gone up a bit."
"Nice," Naruto said hugging his girlfriend.
"Well I got to go," he said, "I have to go meet another sensei for training."
"Let me know how it goes!" Ino called after him as he left.
Naruto left and went home. When he got there he found Tobirama, and Hashirama conversing with two other people…and a pig.
The first of the two was a tall blonde woman with a blue diamond tattooed on her forehead. With her was a slightly shorter brunette. Both of them were in talking happily with the tow while the pig just sat down at the feet of the brunette. The pig was actually the first one to notice Naruto in the room and it walked over to him. Naruto smiled and reached down and petted the small animal. it was then that the brunette noticed the pig was gone and looked around. She saw the pig being petted by Naruto and smiled.
"Oh Naruto," Hashirama said as he looked over, "glad to see you're home."
"Glad to be home I guess," Naruto said, "Who are these two and the pig?"
"Well," Hashirama said, "the blonde is my granddaughter Tsunade and the other girl is Shizune, her assistant. The pig is Ton-Ton."
"So," the blonde said, "you're my godson huh?"
"Yes," Naruto said, "yes I am."
The blonde woman was silent but then he walked forward and hugged him. Naruto held her and returned the hug.
"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you," she said, "I thought that you had died thanks to the pains on the council."
"It's okay," her godson said, "besides I have a source inside Danzo's group. I think I might havea way to bring those pains in the butts down."
"Good," Tsunade said, "I just have one condition. That when the time comes to execute them that I get to be the one who crushes their skulls."
"Naruto," Minato said walking in the room, "There you are. I was looking for you. Tomorrow your training with me starts."
"Got it pops," Naruto said before turning then he stopped, "oh I almost forgot. In the time that mom wasn't training me I came up with some of my own jutsu. I think you'll be interested to see them."
"What are you gonna need new jutsu for?" Tsunade asked.
"Well," Naruto said, "I think that the sound and sand villages are trying to take out Konoha. I came up with a few new techniques so that I'll be able to surprise them. Plus, if my suspicions about that dang snake are correct then I'm going to need all the help that I can get."
Naruto nodded to the group as he walked out of the room to go relax for a while. As he left Tsunade raised an eyebrow.
"What did he mean by that?" she asked.
"You should sit down granddaughter," Hashirama said, "This is going to be a long explanation."
The girls sat down at the first hokage explained.
"First of all," he said, "naruto was taken to heaven by Kami to train under us. While ther Kami gave hima mission. A mision that if not completed could spell a lot of trouble for everyone. I can't tell you what it is though as I am sworn to secrecy. However, at the end of the Chuunin exams if our suspicions are correct then you will learn for yourself."
Tsunade would have pressed the issue but she knew from her family line that her grandfather would be very stern about the subject. If there was one thing that the Senju clan was known for it was that they were as stubborn as mules. She just mentally sighed and went to the kitchen so she could get a bottle of sake.
The next day…
Naruto was running alongside his father to the spot where their training would take place. He followed his father to a large and very spacious river with a water fall.
"Okay Naruto," the man said, "here I'll teach you one of the Namikaze clan's most prestigious jutsu, the rasengan."
"What's that old man?" Naruto asked. His dad bristle slightly as that he wasn't really that old.
Instead of making some snappy comeback. He held out his hand and slowly a spinning ball of chakra formed in his hand. Naruto stared at the technique. Minato then turned around charged at a nearby tree. He shoved the pinning ball of chakra forward and ground a huge dent in the side of the trunk. Naruto stared at the damage that had happened.
"Now," Minato said, "There are three steps to using this technique. First you must be able to focus a large amount of chakra into your hand. After that you have to be able to form it into a ball. Then finally you must be able to hold it in that form for as long as it takes you to do so."
Naruto nodded at his father and began to do so. Naruto may have had a lot of training over th years by the kages but he had a little bit of trouble with chakra control every know and again. He basically just focused his chakra into his hand. Unfortunately he didn't want to unseal any of the chakra seals on him so he had some trouble with it at first. After a few days of practice he got it down.
The day after that Minato came buy with a box of balls.
"Okay," Minato said, "for this you have to form the chakra into the form of the ball. To do this it will take extreme focus and a lot of hard work. The hard part isn't getting the chakra into the ball the hard part is trying to get the ball to stay in one piece."
Naruto took a ball and tried to form a ball of chakra with it but it didn't go well at first. The first few times he tried the ball burst and other times he just didn't get enough in there. After a few more days of trying he actually got the chakra to form a ball.
The day after that Minato showed up with a box of balloons.
"Now for the toughest part yet," he said, "For this you have to be able to pump the ball of chakra and hold it without the balloon bursting. You have to keep the chakra under control until you can manage to get it. Once you've done this you can form the Rasengan."
Naruto just nodded. It took him a lot of tries. It took him forever to do this one. The balloons that he had used almost always burst. It took him a lot of time and balloons to get this down. When he was on the last one this one actually stayed intact. Naruto smirked as he saw this. He then formed a rasengan with his own hands and launched at a tree. The result was the same amount of damage his father had done to the tree that he had practiced on.
Minato had just arrived to check on Naruto's progress and saw his son master in a few weeks what took him years to develop. He smiled to himself. He always knew that his son had been destined for greatness.
"Naruto," Minato said getting his son's attention, "there is something you should know. That move is incomplete."
"What do you mean by that dad?" Naruto asked.
"After I first made the rasengan," he explained, "I had intended to fuse it with my elemental affinity. Doing so would create a whole knew technique. I didn't get a chance to do this because of the Kyuubi attack. Naruto I leave this to you. Complete the Rasengan and show them what it means to be a Namikaze."
Naruto nodded at his father and the two went home. After studying a technique that cold crush someone was actually very exhausting. When naruto got home he was asleep before he even hit the pillow.
Naruto spent the rest of his time training with his dad in Taijutsu and a little bit o genjutsu. It never relaly was his strong point and he had gotten help from Tobirama in that department. After a few eeks of relaxing and working out it was time for the tournament.
Everyone gathered in the arena. The Kazekage and Sarutobi sat in the kage box. With him were the other fire shadows but non one could tel lit was them because they all had hoods on and hid their faces very well. In the arena Gaara, Temari, Kankouro, Naruto, Neji,, shino, shikamaru, and Sasuke all stood in the center of the arena. Sasuke would have been late but he had gotten over his ego and wasn't as self centered as used to be.
"Welcome," Sarutobi announced, "to the finals for the Chuunin exams. The contestants in the arena will fight for the right to be called chuunin and to become one step closer to there dreams if they have one. For those of you who did not make it this far…there is always next year. Now…let the tournament begin!"
So the tournament has begun! What are the new moves Naruto has? Will or will not the village fall to the invasion? What the heck is wrong with Orochimaru and him yelling at his reflection a few chapters ago? You'll find out won't you. Also In the upcoming chapter of phantom among titans get ready for aguest appearance by (Names withheld)" Hope you enjoy it!