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"Balloons."

"Water balloons."

"Water balloons?"

"Yes, now pop it." Naruto explained to her everything that she needed to know from him. Naruto held a small water balloon in his hand and held it out to her. Fujimai looked at the water balloon in his hand, and she blinked when the surface bubbled for a brief second, before the water balloon popped. The water covered his hand and dripped onto the ground, giving her no time to analyze what he had done. "Now figure it out and do it for yourself." Naruto explained to her with a grin.

Fujimai found a water balloon in her own hand moments later.

"... How?" Fujimai had no real hints on how she could pop a balloon the way that he did. She could easily pop the balloon with her chakra, by forming a youjutsu spell inside of it and popping it that way. That wasn't the right answer though, she could tell that she had to do it the way that he did, and that she was required to use nothing but pure chakra control. "... You didn't explain anything though." Fujimai couldn't learn how to do something, if she wasn't taught about it.

"Okay, your body has to go gaaaah, and then bam, to burst it. This training is something you have to learn with your body, or the training is pointless. When I learned it, my own Master didn't tell me anything." Naruto explained to her with a rather neutral look on it, no grin, just seriousness. She looked at the water balloon in her hand for another second, before back to him.

...

"... What is this suppose to do though?" Fujimai had pretty much mastered chakra control.

Well, he could explain that to her.

"Techniques... not just chakra techniques, but all techniques that require energy, can be broken down into manipulation of energies. Shape manipulation and Form manipulation... also called elemental manipulation." Naruto clapped his hands together, and Fujimai jumped in shock when she felt a surge of chakra, and a wall made of earth came out of the ground and formed next to her and Naruto. She looked at the earth wall, and she could feel that unlike earth techniques, he didn't just manipulate the earth, he created it.

He created the element of earth out of nothing, with it only looking like he manipulated it.

"Woah..." Fujimai was impressed that he had managed to do that with zero charge time, perfectly, and creating matter out of chakra.

"Earth Style: Mud Wall for example, I changed the nature of my chakra into Earth, and I manipulated the shape of it into a wall." Naruto explained to her as he crossed his fingers in front of him.

*Poof*

"Shadow Clone Jutsu, I divided my chakra and gave my chakra flesh and blood bodies, perfect copies of my own." Naruto Clone spoke as he wrapped an arm around the original body, who just nodded his head to the clone.

"Hey handsome." Naruto made a show of touching his clone's cheek, and the clone vanished in a puff of smoke, leaving only the original Naruto behind.

"... Amazing." Fujimai had sensed that.

He had truly divided himself, it wasn't an illusion in the slightest. He had created matter out of nothing, a second version of himself that had all of his skills and abilities. If this training would allow her to do something like that, something as amazing as splitting herself, then all of it would be far more than worth it.

"This training is the Ultimate form of Shape Manipulation, there is no higher forms of changing the shape of your chakra than this training. This training is broken down into 3 steps, and once you complete all three, you will become a true master of manipulating the shape of your energy." Naruto explained to her the value of the training, while still not giving her any hints about how to complete the training either. Naruto crossed his arms and looked down at her, the massive different in height making him need to strain his neck to look into her eyes.

She nodded her head slowly, letting his information sink in.

"What is the benefit of this though... other than shape mastery?"

"Whenever you use a technique, some energy will always be wasted. This training not only gives you shape mastery over your techniques, but it also makes it so that you never waste even the smallest amounts of chakra on shape. Not only that, but this training unlocks a great technique." Naruto told her as he turned and started to walk away.

She blinked.

"Wait, you're not going to stay and watch?" Fujimai thought he would stay with her and watch her training unfold, but he was making it seem like he was really going to just tell her what to do, and make her figure it out herself. It was as if he was really just, not involving himself with her training more than he needed to.

Naruto glanced back slightly.

"No amount of hand holding will help you here, you either do the training yourself, or you don't." Naruto explained rather harshly.

She grimaced at the harshness, but nodded her head.

How hard could it be?

-2 Years Later-

It was hard.

Out of everything, this was the most impossible challenge that she had been faced with so far. Every day she worked her hardest, until she was out of chakra, to try and pop something so simple as a water balloon. When she wasn't training to pop the water balloon, Naruto was making her meditate in order to focus her mental energies and increase her chakra reserves even further. She learned that there were two main ways to increase chakra reserves, physical training and spiritual training, and while she had increased her chakra as far as it could go with physical training, she could still increase her chakra reserves further with spiritual training.

"Come on... spin..."

The water balloon in her hand rotated and flattened, but it didn't bubble on the surface or pop like it did when Naruto did it. She had figured out that she was suppose to rotate her chakra into spirals, but the fact remains that a spiral was one of the hardest shapes to turn your chakra into by nature. She could manage a single spiral, but whenever she tried to create multiple spirals with her chakra, she could always fail to do it. The sheer number of spirals that she needed to make her simply impossible for her.

Shape Manipulation.

No wonder Naruto told her that this was the hardest form of it, the very action of creating so many spirals of chakra in the palm of your hand went against the very nature of a person's mental capacity and energy chakra. The technique required you be able to not only constantly channel energy, but rotate that very energy into a spiral, while ALSO doing the same thing with many more spirals at the same time.

It felt wrong.

This technique went against nature itself.

"It's pissing me off so much... but damn if this isn't impressive." Fujimai stated with a tired grin as she looked down at the object of her ire. She knew exactly what she needed to do, she had figured that out, but knowing what to do and doing it were different things entirely here.

She heard a giggle, and she looked up and saw that Himawari looking at her.

"Oh, sorry, don't mind me... I'll just let you figure out what you're doing wrong." Himawari stated with a wide, prankster's smile on her face.

She was doing something wrong.

"... I'm suppose to make multiple spirals to burst it... I'm not doing anything wrong... I just can't do it." Fujimai corrected Himawari, who just giggled again and looked down at the base of Fujimai's hair. A strange place to look, but she didn't think much of it for that matter.

"No, you're training to pop it the same way Papa popped it."

"That's how I have to pop it, I have to rotate it the same way that Master rotates it... or the training is worthless." Fujimai watched as Himawari jumped out of the tree and landed next to her.

The girl was happy most of the time, so the smile on her face was not out of place.

"Yeah, you have to do it like Papa, but you aren't suppose to do it like Papa... you're spiral is different than Papa's spiral." Himawari explained to the woman. Himawari extended her hand out to, and allowed her palm to face upwards. Fujimai watched a single spiral of chakra appeared in Himawari's hand. "This is Papa's spiral, this is how it spins." Himawari showed Fujimai the spiral.

"I'm doing that though." Fujimai created a single spiral of chakra in her hand. "It's more of them I can't do." Fujimai reminded the girl.

Himawari created another spiral of chakra, and this spiral was different. It was spinning in the opposite direction to the first spiral. It was the exact same as the spiral from before, but the simple direction it was spinning was different.

"This is your spiral."

"No, I'm doing it like Master." Fujimai argued against the girl, since she was making the spiral the same way as Naruto was, like she was suppose to. Himawari rolled her eyes though, before she pointed to Fujimari.

"This training doesn't just teach you how to master shape manipulation, it also teaches you to master your own body a little. Your body is different than Papa, the way your body naturally wants to spiral it's chakra isn't the same. You have to spiral your chakra like Papa does, but you have to do it in a way that your body likes. Try spinning your chakra in the opposite direction." Himawari helped out with some more advice. Honestly, she felt bad that it was taking Fujimai this long to figure this out on her own.

She was a great student.

That was the problem though, she was trying to copy Naruto to the letter. She wanted to do things exactly the same way that he did them, which was holding her back too much. Her own stubborness and determination was preventing her from attempting to find a new solution to the problem.

*Pop*

"What the fuck!?" Fujimai popped the water balloon, shocked that she did so, and she looked at her hand. "What the fuck? What the actual fuck..." Fujimai looked at Himawari and pointed at her hand, stunned that she had managed that.

After 2 years, she popped the water balloon.

*Clapping Sounds*

"Good job Fujimai, you completed the easiest step, you popped the water balloon. Though Hima, you need to let her figure these things out for herself-"

"Papa, you just forgot to tell her what her spiral was." Himawari told Naruto, and Fujimai looked at Naruto with startled eyes when she tried to see if he had indeed just forgotten to explain something to her. If it was that important, then he really should have told her what her spiral rotation was, so that she could actually succeed in her training.

Naruto paused for a moment.

"What the fuck?" Fujimai questioned with a dropped jaw.

"Not really, I believed that you would be able to figure it out on your own in time. I expect my disciples to be able to overcome every challenge, be they challenges I give them or challenges they give themselves. Now, onto Step 2 of this training." Naruto explained to her as he reached into the back of his pocket, and Fujimai waited with excitement in her eyes, all over her face as she waited for what she was going to be given.

Two rubber balls.

Fujimai blinked and pointed at them.

"But... I just popped balloons."

"Right, and these are rubber balls."

"Rubber balls?"

"Yes, rubber balls, and what you're going to do is this." Naruto took one of them and held it out to her so that she could see what he was going to do. The surface bubbled more violently than the water balloon, before she saw the rubber ball pop more violently than it. There was no water inside of the rubber ball this time. "Pop the rubber ball."

"Pop the rubber ball?"

"Yes, the rubber ball this time." Naruto was patient with her need to question his explaination. He gave it to her, and she frowned and looked up at him when he shifted, getting ready to go and relax at the house. "Have fun Fujimai, and no helping her this time Hima." Naruto explained to his daughter as he beckoned for her to come with him.

Himawari hummed and followed after him.

"... You're not going to stay for this step either?" Fujimai asked him with a very small frown.

"You've got to learn this on your own, it's my job to guide you. I gave you the tools you need, and told you what you need to do. Once you complete this step, and then next step, I'll be taking a more active role in your training." Naruto stated to her, leaving her zero option but to nod her head obediently.

Fujimai just looked at him with want.

'... I'm going to impress you, I'm going to make you look at me with pride as I complete every step of your training.' Fujimai promised herself. "... when I complete my training... tell me stories about your past..." Fujimai whispered under her breath, not having the courage to outright come and tell him.

She didn't see Naruto smile.

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