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This chapter starts a few moments before Naruto leaves with Hinata
Hinata was getting nervous, she didn't know what her father was doing with Naruto he had taken his time, so he could be doing anything, and she just hoped that he didn't hurt Naruto
Soon her father returned back to the house
"Hinata, I believe your friend is waiting for you" said Hiashi
This surprised Hinata a little bit, she thought that he would stop this 'date' as soon as he heard of it, well she would take what she could "Thanks Father, I'll be back before it gets too late" said Hinata
"That's the only thing I ask" said Hiashi, that surprised Hinata even more, what had happened when her father met Naruto, well she just losed her time with Naruto thinking about that, she decided to leave before her father changed of mind
She went and met Naruto at the compound gate, where he must have been waiting this whole time
"Hello Naruto-kun, I hope my father didn't make you pass a hard time" said Hinata
"Your dad was actually pretty cool, he just asked me some questions and then said he was going to see you" said Naruto
"That doesn't sounds like my father" thought Hinata to herself "Shall we go?" asked Hinata now talking to Naruto
"Yeah, we better go before they close Ichirakus for the day" said Naruto
"Then we better leave" said Hinata and they soon left
"So what did you and my father talked about?" asked Hinata, it must have been a little rude asking that, but she was really curious
"We talked about our last mission, he wanted to know about how you did during the mission" said Naruto
"Really, he was curious about that?" said Hinata "and what did you told him?"
"Well I told him how I got injured and how you helped me" said Naruto "And how you defeated Haku with the sixty-four palms"
"Wait you told him I did that technique?" asked Hinata
"Yeah, was that a problem, he was surprised when he learned you did it" said Naruto
Well that throws faking against Hanabi out of the window "no it was not a problem, I just wanted to keep it a secret for a while" said Hinata
"I'm sorry if I ruin something" said Naruto "I know, I'll make it up to you, just ask for something I'll see if I can do it for you"
Well she could not say no to that, but what could she ask from Naruto? The obvious one would be a kiss or something but she was too shy to ask for that, then she got an idea and she started blushing and getting red
"I w-want you t-to consider t-this as a-a" started Hinata but it was a little embracing to say the next word since she didn't know how Naruto considered this 'date'
"A what Hinata?" asked Naruto curious since Hinata had not stutter in a long time, maybe it was the cold tonight or something
"A-a da-da-dat" continued Hinata stuttering
"A Dancing competition?" asked Naruto clue less, which got Hinata a little angry
"A date!" she said before she could back away from it
"A date?" asked Naruto, but it was then that he noticed that this was indeed like a date, it was late in the day, he had gone to pick her up to her house, they were going to eat alone, this was a date, that got Naruto blushing too
"I s-shouldn't have asked that" said Hinata a little scared that Naruto was going to avoid her or run away or something
"No, its ok, I think" said Naruto still a little shocked "I think this actually looks a lot like a date, at least from what I know a date is"
"From what you know?" asked Hinata
"Yeah, well I grew up alone with no parents, and I was obsess with videogames, so I don't really know much on the romantic side" said Naruto "all my knowledge of this come from some games that had mentions of dates or conversations I had with my Jiji or Iruka Sensei"
Hinata felt sad for Naruto after being remembered he had grew up alone, she had grew up with her family even if her father was strict she at least had one, and that was one thing that she had grown to admired from Naruto, even growing up alone and with little love and friendship around him, he had grew up strong and he didn't let anyone depress him or change his way of thinking, he was stronger that she could ever be
"How about we get going, you said Ichirakus might close soon" said Hinata
"Oh! Yeah, if we don't hurry they'll probably close" said Naruto who had been reminded of their original destination until they stopped to talk a little bit "Let's go"
With that they took their original course towards Ichirakus where they ate Ramen and had friendly conversations between each other and the ichirakus, they teased him about Hinata being his girlfriend which made them both blush, Naruto quickly found other topics to talk to change the conversation, soon enough it was getting late and Naruto had to take Hinata back home
"Thanks for taking me to diner Naruto" said Hinata happy with how their date came out
"Don't worry Hinata, I made you worry a lot on the bridge, I should have left everything to the others" said Naruto
"But if you had done that, you might have not found out that those mercenaries where friendly and some might have died" said Hinata
"Yeah, I'm glad I joined the fight" said Naruto "I would have not like the talk I would have had with Ernst if someone died on that bridge"
"You sound like you have become a great friend of the mercenaries" said Hinata
"Yeah, 2 of them are even training me to learn different things that are going to help in the chunin exams" said Naruto
The chunin exams, Hinata had almost forgotten them "I hope we don't get hurt during the exams" said Hinata
"Yeah, Asuma Sensei said we could die on the exams" said Naruto "we should be careful"
"Naruto, can you make me a promise?" asked Hinata
"Sure, whatever you want Hinata" said Naruto
"Please, whatever happens, stay alive during the exams, even if you have to flee a battle, just stays alive" said Hinata
Hinata must have been worried that he would run into battles like he did back on the bridge and the forest near Forgia, he didn't really need to distract those guards back then, or fight Palomides, he could have stayed out of the fights on the bridge, but he had gone to fight every time, Hinata must have been worried for her all those times
"I promise I'll be alive when the exams end" said Naruto "I'll do anything in my powers to stay alive, but you have to promise me that you will also return alive from the exams"
Hinata was more calm now, Naruto never brakes his promises "I promise I'll stay alive" said Hinata
"Good, then you should train more, don't hide your strength get stronger that way you'll be able to survive the exams" said Naruto
That was true she was hiding her strength from her father and the clan, she was doing it to protect Hanabi, but if she didn't start to train seriously she wouldn't be ready for the exams, she would have to find another way to save Hanabi, after all no matter what happens, none of them would get branded at least until Hinata's 15 birthday, she had a few years left to find a way to save them both
"Then if you're going to train hard as well during this days, you should take this" said Hinata opening her menu and finding an item, it was a small bottle "this is a healing cream, it should help with injuries and muscle pain, it should also regen a small amount of chakra because of the ingredients I used to make it"
"Then I'll take it, I should help me to train" said Naruto
"It should last a long time, I made plenty, maybe you'll still have by the time the exams come around, if not I can give you more" said Hinata
"Thanks Hinata, this will help a lot" said Naruto as they arrived at the Hyuga compound
"Well this is where I stay, hope to see you again before the exams Naruto-kun" said Hinata
"Same here, and remember to train hard" said Naruto
"I'll make sure to train enough to complete the exams" said Hinata
"Well, see you later Hinata" said Naruto leaving heading back home
Hiashi Hyuga was ones again waiting inside the compound looking at the two when they arrived, he was now sure that Naruto was the reason Hinata had taken her training seriously, he had motivated her to become better, and he had done that yet again, it appeard his daughter would start training even more for the chunin exams, maybe he would help her during her training if he saw that she needed it
Training ground – next day
Naruto had been exhausted when he arrived home after training and his date
Speaking of training, he had been at the training ground early, Stocke had said he would be here early too, but Naruto had been here for 2 hours and he was nowhere to be seen, maybe he had forgotten, but before Naruto could go look for him Stocke decided to appear
"Sorry for being late, I had to do some stuff" said Stocke when he arrived
"Well I was about to go look for you, you told me to be here early" said Naruto a little annoyed that he had been waiting for so long, he had gotten a little practice with the jutsu Asuma gave him, it was a wind jutsu that created a wind current, it was called great breakthrough, he discovered that he combine it with kunai and shuriken he could make them go faster in the wind, he was still not good with the jutsu but it worked
"Well next time I'll try to be here earlier" said Stocke
"Good to here, so how do we start our training?" asked Naruto
"Let's start by reviewing the differences between your aftershock and my skill" said Stocke "First I need fuinjutsu to make my work at all, yours doesn't"
"Yeah, but I think that I could make mine better with other fuinjutsus" said Naruto
"I could see that, being so similar to mine it could probably be compatible with fuinjutsu" said Stocke "Also mine requires a large amount of chakra, which I complement with fuinjutsu, that way I don't run out of chakra quickly, but I don't know about yours"
"Mine also requires chakra, but I think that the amount is a lot smaller from what Gafka said when he saw me doing it the first time" said Naruto "But I haven't tried with elemental chakra so I'm not sure if it can work with that"
"You already know you're elemental affinity?" asked Stocke, Naruto was a little under the normal age to start learning elemental affinities, but the sensei of a genin team decided when to teach his team, so kids at his age were not that strange
"Yeah, its wind with fire as my second, I got some practice with the wind affinity but just beginners stuff" said Naruto
"You're pretty advance, now I see why your sensei thinks you're ready for the chunin" said Stocke "Gafka told me, apparently you're going with him to the gate one of this days to see your opponents, I'll be going too"
Naruto didin't really know why Stocke would go with them, since he was not a sensor but his opinion could help Naruto "Good to hear, well now what about aftershock?" said Naruto
"Yeah back to the skill" said Stocke "Sit there for a little bit, let me show you some of the things I can do with mine"
Naruto did just that, stocke took out his sword Historica and concentrated for a little bit, then he slashed the air and a tree dummy that was placed at the other side of the field now had a cut
"That was a normal one with wind chakra, in battle it's actually not that good, since I used a small amount of wind chakra, but it can let you damage your opponent from a distance, if you want to deal real damage you have to get closer, the distance traveled by the chakra affects the skill a lot, let me show you" said Stocke as he got closer to the tree dummy
He concentrated chakra again the same amount he used earlier, but this time when he swung the cut on the tree was deeper
"You can noticed the difference, now I'll show you some special stuff" said Stocke "This one of my favorite techniques" Stocke made some distance with the dummy, and this time Naruto could see fire on the blade "Will o' wisp" said Stocke when he swung and the fire chakra got expelled from the blade and it took an X shape form in the air impacting with the dummy and lighting it on fire
"That was cool!" said Naruto "when do I learn that?"
"Not any time soon, you need fire elemental training, something you have not begun to do yet, if I'm correct" said Stocke
"I'm still learning the wind elemental exercises, I have to ask Asuma Sensei for the next one" said Naruto
"Maybe you should go look for him after we finish here, if the chunin are soon, you should try to get at least wind in your repertory of techniques" said Stocke "if you want I can give you one of this and you can try and see if it works" Stocke took out a chakra sealing tag and gave it to Naruto
"That one has wind chakra in it, is probably more than what you can create right now, try and use it with your blade" said Stocke "By the way, do you have a name for the sword?"
"Yes, it's called Aka-shi" said Naruto
"Red Death, I like that name I didn't get to name my sword, when I got it it was already called Historica, but I like it" said Stocke "Now put that tag in the blade and try it, you just have to release the seal in the tag, just like with explosive tags"
Naruto walked towards the dummy he got in position and did just as he was told, he felt the wind chakra going through his blade, it was almost over powering, he felt like he could lose the control of the chakra any second, but he managed to keep the chakra in check and slice the air, soon the dummy was cut in half
Stocke whistled and then said "well that's power, but you might wanna use less chakra I'm pretty sure the tag is empty now" Naruto check it and it was empty, he had used all the chakra on it in that swing
"Well, I need to have better control for that" said Naruto
"Then we should probably work on that for the next few days" said Stocke "If you cannot find your sensei later, you should go to my home, Rayne might be able to help us with your wind exercises"
"If I don't find him I will" said Naruto
"Now let's try with normal chakra, that will probably be simpler, here I'll show you" said Stocke ones again this time in front of another dummy, this time his blade looked normal, but if you could sense of see chakra you would have seen the chakra surrounding it, Stocke swung and a small explosion occurred on the dummy, it was actually not that damaging, it just scratched the dummy
"You see, normal chakra is different when you expelled it, it expands in a rapid rate, creating that explosion, if you manage to keep control over it, or use less, it can be beneficial, you can use it to sharpen your blade and extend its reach" said Stocke
"Just like how Asuma Sensei infuses his knives in chakra to make their reach longer!" said Naruto
"I think so, I don't know your Sensei fighting style, so it might be similar" said Stocke "another thing I've been looking into, is using this chakra differently, if I could maybe make it spin in the blade somehow, when it gets release the expansion would be more concentrated, and the hit would not create and explosion, but rather a pushing effect, at least in theory"
"That sounds interesting" said Naruto "So normal chakra is not that great with this technique?"
"Not really, but you should always keep a layer on the blade to extend the reach, whenever you're not using elemental chakra, you will not have time to concentrate chakra in close quarter, so you will need to fall back on kenjutsu" said Stocke "Well at least with mine, we still don't know all the differences between yours and mine"
"Well, we should probably start testing, to see if we can find the differences" said Naruto
With that they got into training, Naruto practiced using wind chakra with aftershock, it worked fine, pretty similar to what Stocke did earlier, just that his required more chakra to get to same level of damage Stocke did, even if Stocke required more chakra to expelled it, Naruto was using more chakra overall
Naruto and Stocke practiced for a few hours, they had found another difference, but this one was mainly because of their swords, Stocke had to carry one more seal to be able to expel the chakra, but since Naruto carried less, he could probably be more versatile and could maybe use even more chakra for some attacks creating different results, but that they had to wait to see what happened
"Well, I think that's all for today, now let's go find something to eat" said Stocke
"Good I'm starving" said Naruto they had been training for hours, and seen he came earlier had rushed his breakfast, and they were past lunch time
"Good to hear you're on the same page" said Stocke "come on you're paying" with that Stocke started heading to look for somewhere to eat
"Wait what?" asked Naruto "I didn't agree to pay!"
"Come on, I'm teaching you for free, that's the least you could do" said Stocke "Now hurry, I'm starving and I still have stuff to do later"
Sometime later
After finally finding somewhere to eat, and after Stocke emptied his frog, Naruto was finally free for the day, he decided to go and look for Asuma Sensei, he decided to start looking in the training grounds, well he really didn't had anny leads so he just started there, but it seem he was lucky he found Asuma pretty quickly he was in one of the grounds with Shikamaru
"Asuma Sensei, Shikamaru" said Naruto as he got closer
"Naruto, what brings you here?" asked Asuma
"Well I was searching for you, I wanted to ask you what's the next wind chakra exercise?" said Naruto
"Well, I'm not sure you're ready for that, but with your game abilities, it might be easier for you to learn stuff" said Asuma "Ok, I'll do what I did last time" with that, Asuma took out another scroll he was carrying and wrote something on it, then gave it to Naruto "In there is your next exercise, if you fell that you're not ready then just keep practicing with the leaf exercise until this one seems more easy"
"Ok, I'll do that" said Naruto "and what are you guys doing here?"
"Remember that Asuma Sensei asked to talk to me when he informed us of the exams, he wanted to train me, so that what we're doing now" said Shikamaru
"Well I didn't thought you would train that much, after all it thought you would mostly be cloud watching" said Naruto
"That was the original idea, but if you are going to be training I don't want to fall behind, at least not that much, having to catch up later would probably be a drag" said Shikamaru
"Good to see you being more active, but you will probably be lazy during the exams" said Naruto
"Just if the situation lets me" said Shikamaru "I'll try to become a chunin that way if we all become chunin we won't have to attend that many annoying missions"
"We will probably have harder missions, that probably has us going outside the village more often, if we become chunin" said Naruto
"Maybe I should stay a genin, but then my mom would probably kick me out, after all, who stays a genin for more than a year or two" said Shikamaru
"Only stupid people and lazy people" said Naruto
"Yeah, staying a genin is probably bothersome" said Shikamaru
Decided to end it there, I don't know what I feel from this chapter, is kinda all over the place, I didn't got what I wanted from the date, but I didn't find how to get what I want, well anyways I can probably get what I want during the exams
Next time we go to the gate, then maybe a time skip to the beginning of the exams, I really want to get there, I think that when the exams begin the story will really begin
Some little things, I don't know if I said it before, but this is not a Naruto/The Gamer crossover, I have not read The Gamer, I'll probably will in the future, this story is inspired by videogame plot stories (which some are inspired by The Gamer) and videogame themselves
Also I might not concentrate that much in the videogame aspect, but that's because I don't really want to, I want the game to be there to help Naruto get better, but I want to show that he still needs to train and stuff to become better, if I just made him stronger and stronger through the game every chapter he would be OP before I even get to the good stuff, not that his not OP, because he kinda is a little bit compare to what's coming, but he is weak compare to say Akatsuki or Orochimaru
No videogame corner today