Chapter 14: Training and Dates: Part 2-3
"Come on!" Naruto yelled as he focused his chakra into the water balloon.
"…wow." Jiarya said as he watched Naruto's hands glowing blue.
Naruto's chakra swirled around and around and the balloon was bulging in random spots. Naruto's face was set in a solid determinate face. He was going to master this technique no matter what. Naruto roared as he applied more chakra.
"FASTER!" Naruto yelled. The balloon became to shake.
"More power!" Naruto yelled and the chakra around his hands expanded.
"MORE POWER!" Naruto screamed into the air. The water balloon began to shake wildly and threatened to explode.
"MOOOOORRRREEEEEE POOOOWWWEEEERRRRRRRR!" Naruto screamed louder and the balloon stopping shaking suddenly and began to hum.
"I did it!" Naruto yelled and Ino cheered suddenly.
"Yes! all right Naruto-kun!" she said and pumped her fist.
"Well kid that's impressive…I guess it's time for the fifth step eh?" Jiarya asked setting down his can of pop. The Sannin stood up and walked towards Naruto with a grin on his face and pulled a marker out of his back pocket.
"What are you doing now?" Naruto asked as he dropped the water balloon to the ground where it popped and sprayed water everywhere.
"I'm going to make a focus point on your hand, you have to apply everything you have learned to it and make a perfect sphere of chakra." Jiarya explained and drew a small spiral on Naruto's hand.
"GAH!" Naruto roared in frustration. "This is impossible!"
"You are going to lose that bet!" Jiarya said with a grin and sat back down.
"No." Naruto said and looked at Ino. "Sorry about the lame date Ino-chan… I just have to master this technique before the exams though." Naruto said to the blond girl who was sitting against a tree watching her date with interest.
"Oh, it's fine Naruto-kun, this is interesting. A technique made by the Yondaime himself!" Ino said with a dreamy look. "You're going to be so strong!" she said with a smile.
Naruto grinned and averted his attention to his hand and focused. 'Everything I have learned…' Naruto thought hard and began to focus his chakra. It swirled around for a split second making a raging whirlwind before exploding and sending him flying backwards.
"AH!" he groaned as he skipped across the ground.
"Naruto-kun!" Ino yelled as he came to a halt.
"Whoops, I forgot to mention that it is much harder for YOUSELF to just focus your chakra without applying it to an object." Jiarya said with an evil grin. "Now better learn how to do it in 10 days." The white haired man said and put his sunglasses on and sipped some pop from his can.
"Asshole-sensei." Naruto muttered as he got to his feet and sighed heavily.
"You can do it Naruto-kun!" Ino said encouragingly.
'Come on Naruto!' Naruto chastised himself mentally and began to focus again. Chakra began to swirl in his hand again with the same effects as the first time.
"Damn it!" he screamed in frustration and threw his hands up. "I give up for today!"
"Oh!" Jiarya said in shock. "Really, well your loss."
"We'll see." Naruto grumbled before motioning for Ino to follow him.
As they walked away Naruto sighed and rubbed his forehead in agony. He had to master this technique soon or else…
Flashback no Jutsu Begin
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…"
Flashback no Jutsu End
"No way." Naruto whispered in horror.
"What?" Ino asked curiously and Naruto chuckled.
"Nothing, nothing." He said and stuck his hands in his pockets. "So it's only about 3 o'clock so what do you want to do?" Naruto asked and Ino blushed.
"Well what do YOU want to do Naruto-kun?" Ino asked shyly.
"Well, I'm pretty hungry, we could go get some ram-" Naruto began before Ino cut him off.
"No! You took Temari there yesterday; you have to take me somewhere else!" Ino said angrily and then slapped her hands over her mouth. "G-gomen!" she stuttered.
"Ha-ha it's cool. Let's go get some barbeque." Naruto said pointing to a restaurant that was at the end of the street they were on.
"Okay!" Ino said and both blond began walking again towards the BBQ restaurant.
It took only five minutes to get there and when they did they found familiar faces waiting for them. Ino's team was sitting at a booth eating and when they were seen Asuma beckoned them over.
"Hey guys, you wanna share a booth?" he asked and Naruto shrugged.
"Sorry Asuma-sensei we're on a date." Ino said and Chouji and Shikimaru began choking on the steak they were eating.
"What?" Shikimaru gasped out.
"You heard me you lazy basterd, I'm going on a date with my Naruto-kun!" Ino said with a triumphant heir about herself.
"So are you guys…boyfriend and girlfriend?" Chouji asked and Naruto began coughing wildly before Ino could answer.
"No." Naruto said simply.
"But-"Ino began.
"No, we're just on a date…maybe sometime later but right now we are taking things slow." Naruto said and Ino sighed in defeat.
"Oh well, see you later then Ino." Asuma said and both blondes waved and walked over to their own little booth.
The waiters brought over some steak and Naruto quickly threw them on the grill and lit it. While they were waiting for the meat to cook Naruto brought his hand up in front of him and looked at the small spiral and then grinned.
"Don't even think about it!" Ino said seeing the look in his eyes.
"But Ino-chan!" Naruto said with a grin.
"I said no." Ino said laughing. "People like the restaurant, so don't destroy it."
"Fine…so how have you been?" Naruto asked and Ino smiled.
"Pretty good. I've been watching over the shop lately and taking on more responsibilities with it. I am going to inherit it soon." Ino said and leaned forward on her elbows. "But other than that I have been learning my clan's ways with more depth. I want to learn some of the advance techniques so that I can be a good clan head." Ino said and sighed. "If only my dad would give me our clans Taijutsu style…then I could kick some serious ass in the exams." Ino said and Naruto laughed.
"Yeah but remember one thing, if you did get passed the first round you would have to face Gaara." Naruto said and Ino raised an eyebrow.
"Why do you think Neji will lose?" she asked and Naruto snorted.
"Trust me…Gaara won't lose…he wants to fight me to badly." Naruto said and Ino chuckled.
"So you think you're going to get all the way to the final round?" she asked and Naruto nodded.
"I know I will… I have to." He said and thought about what would happen if anyone but him got there.
"Why?" Ino whispered.
"Because I have to kick the shit out of Sasuke." Naruto said with a smile and Ino let her curious look turn into a look of amusement.
"That's it?" she asked and began laughing. "You already did that!" she almost yelled but kept her voice down.
"Yeah but no one but the Sensei's and Genin saw me, I want EVERYONE to see it happen." Naruto said with a sadistic smile.
"I know that you'll do it!"Ino yelled and blushed immediately.
"So…what did you do for the six months that I was gone?" Naruto asked and leaned forward on his elbows like Ino.
"Oh…not much…just trained with my team, learned some techniques, and…well wondered where you were." Ino said with a slight blush again.
'She is cute…maybe…' Naruto thought. 'I think I could actually enjoy a relationship with her.' He thought and was brought back to reality when Ino tapped him.
"You okay, I know I'm hot but you don't have to stare at me." She said and Naruto chuckled and rubbed his hair sheepishly.
"Sorry." He said and smiled.
"So what did you do?" Ino asked leaning forward more so that her shirt revealed her cleavage.
"Oh you know I learned a couple knew tits" Naruto's eyes widened suddenly. "I mean TRICKS!" he said and blushed at the slip up. 'Damn pervert.'
"Umm, okay?" Ino said and shuffled a little bit which just gave Naruto a better view.
"I went to…Uzu no Kuni and trained under my sensei and he taught me some good stuff, you saw most of it so far…well everything but my ace in the hole." Naruto said and Ino cocked her head to the side.
"What is that?" she asked.
"If I told you then it wouldn't be my ace in the hole." Naruto said playfully.
"Fine, then I guess I won't tell you my secret." Ino said scratching her chin.
"Oh well." Naruto said grinning.
"That was so mean!" Ino said and punched his arm.
"That was mean!" Naruto accused and both teens bursted out laughing at the same time that their steaks burst in to flames.
"Shit!" Naruto muttered and swirled his hand around in a small motion. The water in both of their cups spiraled out and splashed across the steaks before swooping up into the air again and landing in the cups. The steaks were blackened and Naruto shook his head in disgust. "I'm not eating that, we'll have to get some new ones." He said and Ino sighed.
"Such a waste." She muttered.
Naruto thought for a little bit before grinning like a fox. He picked the steaks up and set them in his cup of water and flicked his hand so that the water floated into the air and spun slowly. Naruto added Ino's water to it and soon there was an orb of water the size of a soccer ball floating in front of them.
"What are you doing?" Ino asked as the brownish water spun slowly with the black lumps in it.
"Well, Chouji might still be hungry and it's time to wake Shikimaru up." Naruto said gesturing to Ino's team who were only four booths away from them. Asuma would be the only one able to see what was coming and would be able to dodge it.
"Wait…" Ino began but Naruto grinned and flicked his hand towards the team.
"Kitanai Niku Mizukyū!"
Naruto said the name of his newly made jutsu and watched it fly across the restaurant and make contact with its targets. As he assumed Asuma had seen it coming and had jumped away from the booth but Chouji was curious so he turned around and was hit full on in the face. The meat and water splattered all over Shikimaru who shot awake and knocked over the plate of gravy that Chouji had at his table. It split all over Chouji's leg and the boy roared in pain and tried swatting the hot sauce off but he only managed in smacking the table which sent the meat flying into the booth next to them. Embers form the fire then managed to get on Shikimaru who screamed in shock and ran out form the booth with his pants on fire. Chouji tried to throw water at him but it hit fire and it roared even bigger and Chouji winced when he saw that it was actually the igniter fluid.
"Well…" Naruto muttered turning his back on the scene and plopping some more steaks down on the grill. The waiter had brought some more over during the chaos.
"Oh my GOD!" Ino yelled and fell on the floor laughing at her Team mates.
"Yeah…best invention of a jutsu ever." Naruto said as he cracked up.
"You just invented that?" Ino asked and Naruto nodded.
"Well I already know the basis of it, Mizukyū, so It wasn't hard." He said and Ino smiled. "Hey Ino-chan… come with me." Naruto said standing up suddenly and walking towards the door.
"O-okay!" she said and followed him.
"So what are we doing?" Ino asked and Naruto smiled.
"Just hold this piece of paper in your hand." He said and gave her a small slip of paper.
"What does it do?" she asked curiously and he sighed.
"It is an Affinity slip, it tells you what you affinity is." He said and she nodded. She took the paper and held it in her hand.
"Nothing's happening." She said and Naruto chuckled.
"Focus your chakra into it." He said and she did.
As soon as she did the small slip of paper became soggy and then burst into flames. Ino yelped and dropped the paper to the ground where it sizzled away.
"Well…you are one lucky ass ninja." Naruto said and Ino raised an eyebrow.
"Why?" she asked.
"It is VERY rare for a ninja to possess both Fire and Water affinities." Naruto explained and Ino grinned.
"Well, it suits me. I am hot, and my personality is cool." She said and both teens laughed.
"That was corny." Naruto said and Ino nodded.
"I know but what can I say?" she said and Naruto shook his head.
"So I can teach you some water jutsu but you have to learn fire jutsu from someone else…maybe Asuma?" he said and Ino nodded.
"Yeah he can use fire jutsu so I will ask him." She said and Naruto nodded.
"Now, I am going to teach you the most basic water jutsu there is." Naruto said and then brought his hands in front of him. "Copy these hand seals until you can do them perfectly." Naruto said and made four hand seals.
"Okay." Ino said and began to work on the seals.
Naruto smiled and wandered off a bit and looked into the sky. The sun was getting lower in the horizon, and Naruto guessed it to be around 5 o'clock. He sighed and looked at the spiral on his palm. He HAD to master this jutsu and learn whatever else Jiarya would teach him. He focused a very small amount of chakra into his hand and watched it spiral like a small whirlwind before dispersing. He sighed and held his hand out in front of him and brought his left hand around and gripped his wrist. He closed his eyes and focused his chakra carefully into his palm and steadily increased the amount of chakra until he felt a sufficient supply building up in his hand. He released it all at once and watched it spin in a sphere before exploding and sending blades of chakra fling in all directions.
He was sent skidding backwards as he gritted his teeth. He had small cuts on his body where the chakra blades had sliced through his clothes and cuts over his faces which had trickles of blood leaking from them. He gritted his teeth and flexed his hand which had tons of cuts all up his arm. He decided that he wouldn't be able to make a Rasengan that way without destroying his hand in the process. Naruto sighed and held his hand in front of himself again and took in a deep breath. He focused again and let the chakra pour into his hand as he struggled to make it spiral equally and form a sphere. He gritted his teeth just before the chakra imploded and sent him flying backwards. He came to a halt right next to Ino who was staring at him in shock.
"You got the seals down yet?" he asked from the ground, acting as though it was all a part of the plan.
"Um yeah." She said and Naruto grinned.
"Okay well now you have to apply some chakra and try to direct your focus towards some water. When you master it you will be able to draw water from the ground or the air around you, hell even from the nature itself. Now focus on making a sphere of water, start out small…about the size of your fist and gradually work your way up." Naruto said and Ino nodded and started to make hand seals and held the seal right out in front of her in an awkward style.
Naruto sighed and walked around behind her and carefully and gently he took a hold of both of her hands and pulled them apart. Ino was breathless as Naruto held her from behind, his body almost making complete contact with her own.
"Like this." He said and made her hands go through the seals and end with the last seal down by her right leg. "When you get better you can use one handed seals and make them by your waist so there harder to see." Naruto said and Ino nodded as she blushed.
"Th-thank-you Naruto-kun." She whispered and took in a small breath as the blond boy stepped away.
Ino went through the handseals and focused on the small pond beside them. She gritted her teeth and a small column of water rose about three feet into the air before splashing down again, sending small waves across the pond.
"Close, just keep practicing that whenever you can. When you are able to use it and can make a perfect sphere then I'll teach you Suiton: Mizumūchi. The name of this technique is Suiton: Mizukyū." Naruto said and walked away from Ino to his own little spot to train.
They trained for about an hour before Naruto told Ino that they should head home. As they walked Ino made a brave move and grabbed Naruto's hand as it swung by her and held on to it tight, interlocking their fingers. Naruto almost pulled away but decided to go along with it all. He acted like it was no big deal and squeezed Ino's hand in his own. He flicked his eyes over and saw the girl blushing in the sunset and he smiled. She really was cute, why hadn't he ever noticed before.
It didn't take long for them to get to Ino's house and when they arrived they stood their staring at each other for awhile.
"Well, today was fun." Ino said with a small smile.
"It was wasn't it?" Naruto agreed and rubbed his hair.
Ino brought her hands behind her back and toed the ground nervously before leaning forward and kissing Naruto on the lips. When the girl pulled away Naruto looked at her in shock and she blushed wildly.
"Th-that was for s-saving us back in t-the forest of death. Good night Naruto-kun!" Ino said before running inside and slamming the door.
"Yeah…" Naruto muttered in confuzzlement.
As he began to walk away he felt a sudden killer intent behind him and he looked up and saw a pair of red eyes glaring at him. Naruto raised an eyebrow as a blond haired man dropped from the roof of Ino's house and walked towards him with a rose in his hand.
"SO you're gonna make a move on my daughter eh?" Inoichi asked as he twirled the rose around. "I don't think so you pu-"
WHAM!
"AHHHH!"
"Oh shit!" Naruto said when the man fell to the floor with perfectly round and flat face. Ino's mom stood next to him with a frying pan in her hand. She was smiling at Naruto softly while she ground her foot into her husband's back in anger.
"Hey Naruto, I hope you had fun tonight, I hope to see you again soon. Don't you Inoichi?" she asked evilly.
"Hehe…yeah." Inoichi said but it was muffled because his face was buried in the dirt.
"Well bye I guess…" Naruto said as he walked away from the house as he left he could hear the sounds of metal hitting bones.
Naruto sighed as he got to the hotel he was staying at. As he walked up the steps he had a feeling that something was about to happen. He got to the third floor and started walking down the hall to his room when he saw a pink haired girl standing outside by his door. He raised an eyebrow when he recognized her.
"You're Tayuya right? What are you doing?" he asked and stopped in front of her.
"Yeah I am." Tayuya said and cracked her knuckles. "I just wanted to meet you in person to see how easy it will be to kick the shit out of you in the exams." She said with an evil smile.
"Okay then have fun -"Naruto began and went to walk forward but tripped on the carpet. He flew forward and crashed into Tayuya and both of them went down, Naruto on top of her. When Naruto opened his eyes he reeled back in shock.
"Y-you little f-fucker!" Tayuya said as she wiped a sleeve across her mouth. "You k-kissed m-me!" she yelled.
"YOU K-KISSED ME!" Naruto yelled back still on top of her.
Tayuya growled and flipped them over so that she was straddling him. She was pinning his arms down in anger and got three inches from his face. "I should kick your ass!" she yelled.
"Why! SO YOU CAN KISS ME AGAIN!" he yelled back.
"You owe me now! No guy gets to just kiss me!" Tayuya said as she sat up with a grin. "Tomorrow, I will meet you here at 9 o'clock in the morning. Your taking me on a date." She said and leaned down slowly and Naruto struggled to get free but it was to no avail.
"No way!" he yelled.
"Yes way Blondie, you wanna make a move on me! Well now you owe me!" she said before lightly brushing her lips over his again making him go quiet.
"G-get out of here!" he stuttered as a blush crossed his face.
"No problem, see you tomorrow perv." Tayuya said as she jumped to her feet and walked away. "Oh yeah I didn't come to tell you I was going to kick your ass."
"Then why did you come! Was it worth making me want to puke?" Naruto yelled. Of course I wasn't that bad but it was sudden and weird.
"Nope, I got what I came for." Tayuya said and walked away and before she rounded a corner and went into her own room she looked at Naruto and winked. "A date." Tayuya disappeared and Naruto slapped a palm against his forehead.
'Why me…I have to focus on training…' Naruto thought and before he turned he saw a glint in the window. "What the hell?" he muttered and then narrowed his eyes. What he saw shocked him.
"ERO-SENNIN!" Naruto roared and made a few hand seals.
"SUITON: MIZU HĀSHIRĀ!"
Water erupted from the wall next to Naruto destroying someone's plumbing but the effects were what he wanted. The water crashed through the window and hit Jiarya, who wasn't able to dodge because he was hanging by a rope, and sent him flying into the distance.
The man was able to get in some last words though. "UZUMAKI NARUTO HAS THREEEEE GIRLFRIENDS!!!"
A vein bulged in Naruto's forehead as he clenched his fist and he walked over to the gaping hole in the wall. "I DO NOT!!!!" He roared.
He could hear a very distant "Liar…"
"Fuck…" Naruto said as an image of Temari appeared in his mind. "My…" he said and an image of Ino appeared next to Temari. "Life…" he said and finally Tayuya appeared next to the two blond girls.
A/N: Well this chapter may be boring but it is time that I brought some romance into the story. I know the Tayuya thing was rushed but it gave it the sense of suddenness which was what I was going for. Also the whole 'Naruto dating different girls thing' will play into this part of the story. I want to do it not just for entertainment but also for his training and it will be explained maybe, in a couple chapters.
Let's go over what happened in this chapter.
-Naruto completed the fourth step of learning the Rasengan
-Went on a date with Ino
-Ino learned she has Fire and Water affinities
-Ino and Naruto kissed
-Naruto met Ino's parents
-Naruto met Tayuya and they kissed
-Naruto has to go on a date with Tayuya now
-Naruto only has 9 days left to learn how to use Rasengan
Kitanai Niku Mizukyū = Dirty Meat Waterball
Suiton: Mizu Hāshirā = Water Release: Pillar of Raging Water