Changed by Leaves 13- Rasengan Training?
"Huh? What's up with this thing?" Naruto catches the balloon and stares at it.
"Did you pay attention to the jutsu I just did?" Naruto nods once.
"Yep!" Jiraiya smirks. This is pointless.
"What did you see in the jutsu?" I stare out at the village and finish eating my squid. I turn around and notice that Naruto is glaring at the balloon and Jiraiya is sitting down. I look between them.
"What did I miss? What's with the water balloon?" Naruto narrows his eyes.
"Training!" I raise an eyebrow and Jiraiya sighs.
"He has to break the balloon by spinning the water around in the balloon using chakra." I frown.
"Why is he doing that?" Jiraiya crosses his arms.
"It's the first step to mastering the jutsu I used earlier." I nod slowly.
"Oh. This?" I hold up my hand, gather normal chakra in a circle and hold it up.
"How did you? Just by seeing it?" I disperse the chakra and shrug.
"It's a waterless version of my Suiraiki. So it's easy." Jiraiya pauses.
"You mean?" I smirk.
"I created Suiraiki from my own knowledge. I didn't have any formal training as a ninja until I went to Konoha. I'm going back to the festival. I'll come back later."
*Several Days Later*
"Ha!" I lower my leg and stop moving. Naruto has been trying to break that balloon for three days now. He still hasn't gotten it right.
"There you are! Guess what, Yaya!" I turn to him.
"What? You finally managed to break the balloon?" He nods once.
"Yep!" I grin.
"That's great, Naruto." He grins back, but then frowns.
"What are you doing out here anyways?" I smirk.
"Training, of course." He raises an eyebrow.
"By yourself?" I nod.
"This is how I trained myself before. I spent a lot of time watching the exercises at the school and then went home and trained myself to be able to copy them."
"So what were you doing out here? And why does it look like it's been raining?" I smile and punch the air. A blast of water flies from my fist and slams into a tree, cracking the wood. "Wow!"
"I've been working to strengthen this part of my fighting. What's the next step of your training?" He holds up a rubber ball.
"I have to break this ball. And no matter how many times I try, I can't get it to break." I look at it for a moment before turning.
"It's rubber. Different from a balloon." I lift my leg and swing, sending a crackle of lightning at a tree, slicing it in half. "It takes more power to break through rubber for a ball than for a balloon." I jump and flip in the air, creating a twister of water and lightning at my feet and sending it drilling into the ground.
I land on my hands. "Pardon my training while talking." I push off the ground, with a blast of water and land solidly on both feet. Naruto is staring at me.
"You look like you're dancing." I smile slightly.
"That's sort of the idea. Water moves smoothly, so it's easier to maintain the flow and power of water by moving smoothly. With lightning, it's a combination of smooth movements and quick strikes." Naruto frowns.
"I don't see why you have to train." I shrug.
"Because the festival is over and I get bored easily. Of course. This is the only thing to keep myself occupied for now."
*Three Weeks Later*
"You've been at it for three weeks and you still haven't got that damned ball broken?"
"No. It's way harder than with the balloon. Because there isn't water to help me tell how the chakra is going around. How do you keep your jutsu in the circle the whole time? I mean, I get the whole thing where you manipulate the water into a circle, but you were able to master this jutsu just by seeing Ero-sennin do it."
"Hm…can I see your hand?" Naruto holds out his hand and I look around. Oh. A leaf. I pick it up and put it in the middle of his hand.
"Huh?" I smile slightly.
"Put it on your forehead." He frowns.
"Why?" I sigh.
"Just put the leaf on your forehead. This is how I trained myself to concentrate my chakra. For the longest time, whenever I would do jutsu, I was just using my ability to move the elements. So to be able to concentrate my chakra, I'd put a leaf on my forehead and concentrate on it. Or for this, you could…picture…say Jiraiya's face, in the center of your hand and concentrate on making your chakra explode in his face." Naruto starts laughing and I smile.
I notice something and turn over his hand. "How much have you been training?" He shrugs.
"Almost constantly. Why?" I frown.
"You're overexerting yourself. The muscles in your arm and the back of your hand are straining. You should take a break for a little while."
*Couple Days Later*
"Any luck?" Oh. I walk over to Naruto and look around for the rubber ball.
"Huh. Nowhere to be seen." I crouch and touch his hand. It's burnt, and there's a leaf inked on the center of his hand. So he concentrated his chakra so much that it burnt his hand. Jiraiya shows up and Naruto stirs.
"It's done." Jiraiya grins.
"Seems like you've mastered the second stage." Naruto gets up shakily.
"Err…let's start the third stage quick…" I frown.
"Oh no you don't. You need to rest before you end up like Lee-kun. Over exerting yourself like this. Mataku." Jiraiya waves a hand.
"Let's save it for later. We're gonna meet Tsunade now. I'll explain the basics of the third stage on the way." I help Naruto up and he winces.
"See. If you keep up this training constantly, your muscles will be strained to the point of permanent damage. I swear, men are such pains." I shake my head as I speak and Naruto laughs slightly.
"And yet you're pretending to be one." I stick out my tongue and we follow Jiraiya. We head to a village, but have to stop occasionally for Naruto to rest.
"Mataku, Naruto. Sit down already." I push him to the ground and unwrap my arm. I hold my arm in front of him.
"What?" I sigh.
"Bite my arm." He frowns.
"Why the hell would I want to do that?" I shake my arm slightly.
"Just do it. You'll see in a minute." Jiraiya laughs.
"Your chakra also has healing properties? It's no wonder it was a major loss for Kirigakure when your clan disappeared." I smirk.
"I wish they'd told me that. They wouldn't even let me go to the ninja academy." Naruto raises an eyebrow.
"You mean…if I bite your arm I'll be fine?" I nod and wince when Naruto bites my arm. I concentrate my chakra and send it into Naruto through that connection.
"Better?" He nods.
"Yea." I wipe my arm clean with a bit of water and redo the wrapping on my arm. We start walking again and get to the village we're going to quickly.