Hello. I'm back. I'm am perfectly acceptant of some of the, less than savory comments because it lets me know I am doing something wrong and I can fix those problems. I also appreciate all of you who are still sticking around and reading this and giving me feedback. Anyways with that out of the way. I'm going to start the chapter, wait for it, NOW.
"Can" - Speech
'We' - Thought
Just - Non-Human
Pretend - Human
Disclaimer: SSBkb24ndCBvd24gTmFydXRvIG9yIEFrYW1lIGdhIGtpcnU= (I'm pretty sure this sorta counts, (UTF-8, you're welcome))
777777
Naruto had succumbed to allowing the teenagers to at least eat breakfast in a small moment of mercy towards the two. It also helped that Sayo had adorably pouted making it even more difficult to refuse their rather simple request. It had taken the two a while to finish the breakfast, probably to delay the inevitable of training with Naruto, but the blond would just use that as an excuse to train them even harder. Even if they didn't necessarily see it, the brutal trainer's training was improving them by leaps and bounds. Several days ago, Ieyasu would have simply charged straight towards an enemy taking any attacks while now he had better reactions, becoming more aware of his surroundings, quickly growing more agile and accurate with his weapon, gaining more strategic mind to plan ahead instead of senselessly charging in swinging his blade. Tatsumi, immediately didn't improve that much other than some improvement to his physical abilities and some quick thinking. Sayo was probably the one who benefited the most from the training. Improving her already intelligent mind and she seemed to be proficient in using her bow as a close range weapon. The young archer was also fast on her feet. But the most notable thing was her ability to conceal her presence. She exuded little to no killing intent making it very hard to pinpoint her location which proved to be an invaluable skill for the archer. The ninja's training all relied on the adaptability that all humans possessed to gradually improve themselves. Naruto didn't exactly train them per say but placed them in situations that required them to adapt to prevail. It just happened that many of the skills that the trio had gotten was easily applicable to their assassin lifestyle. After all, you could try to teach someone all you like but that didn't necessarily translate into skill. Experience however was a very valuable asset on the battlefield. Naruto had noticed that the two were almost done and had decided to begin training now. He had grabbed both of them by the collars of their shirts pulling them out of their chair surprising the duo.
"What? I still haven't finished yet." Sayo complained being dragged away after Naruto was waiting for at least half an hour for the two to finish who was deliberately trying to delay the training.
"Nope, training, now." Naruto stubbornly said dragging the girl out the door, Tatsumi following suit not wanting to become hunted down by the blond.
They had ended up in the forest where they had been trained by the blond for the past three days.
"What now? You sic your demon fox on us?" Tatsumi said fearfully looking at the fox who had somehow managed to sneak in without the notice of the teenagers until now.
"Do I want to know?" Sayo sweatdropped seeing her best friends current state of emotions suddenly gaining paranoia from the rather innocent and adorable fox.
"We don't talk about these things." Tatsumi shivered glaring angrily towards the somehow seemingly smug looking fox.
It hurt his pride damn it that he lost to such an unintimidating fox.
"I assume Ieyasu immediately bailed using Leone's 'training' as an excuse?" Naruto guessed correctly, the two seeing quite early in the morning, the axe user nervously leaving with Leone occasionally throwing backward glances at the two.
"Well it won't matter because I have a different type of training today." Naruto said in an awfully gleeful voice, "I have set up an arena for the two of you to battle in." Naruto finished getting a shocked look from the two.
"Wait what? There has to be a catch." Tatsumi suspiciously asked causing a grin to cross the rather sadistic trainer's face.
"Why yes indeed my adorable little student," Naruto said getting an actual grow to be elicited from the boy, "I cashed in a favor from our trap making specialist, Lubbock." Naruto said as Lubbock had come out. (NO NOT LIKE THAT), "He rigged the entire battle arena with traps."
"Yeah, I'm just going to go leave now." Lubbock said walking away whistling.
"So what if I don't want to fight?" Sayo tested getting an even brighter grin from Naruto.
"We could always go to plan B which involves me throwing both of you into a pit full of spikes with Kurama here." Naruto said casually grabbing the tiny fox.
Sayo gulped. If what the effect that the tiny fox had on Tatsumi have any indication, then it was a force to be reckoned with. Also, the spikes didn't sound all too pleasant.
"However, as a bit of motivation. The winner gets something special from yours truly," Ieyasu and Sayo had perked up with interest, "and the loser, well you won't want to be the loser." Naruto said ominously internally laughing his ass off at the terror that the duo teenagers had upon their faces, of course he wouldn't do anything too bad to them. "Let me explain a couple rules first." Naruto said getting the complete attention of Sayo looking for an exploit within the rules, "First off, don't leave the area." Naruto said stating the obvious to the two, "Second, try not to fatally injure each other, I may be proficient medically but even I can't help you with that," Naruto lied, however it would be troublesome to have to heal them and raise suspicion, "And finally, this will be best of three. I will judge who gets the points. You get a point when I deem you win or the other fighter surrenders. My word is final" Naruto said to the two who had begun to get ready.
Both childhood friends were standing in the middle of the rather large arena facing each other while Naruto stood in the background.
"Combatants, are you ready?" Naruto said, getting inspiration for this from the chuunin exams that he had gotten to know well. "Three", both the teenagers' eyes began wandering around the battlefield looking for traps and optimal areas, "Two," they had subtly tensed up, "One," the twos' hands began to wander towards their weapon of choice, "Begin."
777777
I'm back. So yeah. Don't have much to say but recently I haven't said explicitly to leave reviews. I would like to change that, so yes be free to leave a review telling me what I did wrong or simply a good job. PM me if you have any questions. Also, if you didn't know, these chapters are what Fanfiction considers "Hot off the press". Now I know I am not supposed to be doing this but I still do. If you want, you can PM me and I can share the google document folders w/ you for revisions and edits. With that out of the way. I'm going to go to bed less my sleep cycle becomes totally jacked up.
