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The sounds of training.

"Master, I don't see why-" Fujimai threw a punch that was easily blocked by Naruto's index finger as he knocked it to the side, and he knocked away her next 17 kicks as well as she started to chase after him and fought him in a pure hand to hand combat battle. No tricks, just straight hand to hand to improve whatever it was that she needed to improve.

She could be trying to master the 3rd step of the Rasengan.

Instead, after 2 more years of training with it, she was still on the second step of the Rasengan, she still could not get that rubber ball to burst like Naruto showed her.

"You are lacking the disciplined focus of a martial artist, those trained in Taijutsu are able to focus their power far better than those who lack the mental focus of a martial artist. We're going to work on getting your hand to hand abilities to an acceptable level for a disciple of mine." Naruto swung his left hand.

He started to swing it.

Fujimai was caught off balance when his left hand stopped completely, and she was flicked in the forehead by his right hand. Either way, it felt like her head exploded from the force as she was sent flying into a stone wall that was keeping her from leaving the battle field. He was right, she was not a martial artist, and had never really trained for it a day in her life, and she was forbidden from using Senjutsu until Naruto believed her mentally ready for it, so she couldn't even use that to increase her abilities.

"That was a dirty trick Master." Fujimai complained to Naruto as she landed on her feet, getting herself out of the wall she was imbedded into.

Naruto just beckoned her to continue.

"Keep fighting."

"Right."

"You see Fujimai, hand to hand isn't just about overpowering your opponent, speed and strength are extremely important. You need training and focus though to be a real master, I mastered the art of Taijutsu with my own Master, and then I took my abilities with it even further when I learned the Frog Kata. Taijutsu is an art that makes your body stronger, but through practice and effort, it also increases your mind's ability to focus your energy." Naruto explained to her as he dodged every single attack she threw. He was only using a single finger most of the fight, since anymore would be complete overkill at this moment.

She had zero martial artists training.

"Then... teach me a style instead of beating my ass." Fujimai complained when Naruto tapped the top of her head, and sent her face into the ground below her. She got back up with her nose bleeding, and clearly dazed.

Naruto gave her 5 seconds to clear her head, and once those 5 seconds were up, he flicked her again and sent her flying into the same wall, same spot, as earlier.

"I am, refine your movements, use your cat-like agility, use your small and nimble body to weave through attacks. You aren't built like a tank, you are built like an assassin, act like it. Increase your focus, increase your reaction time-" Naruto continued training with her, and she rushed at him and continued to do whatever she could to complete her mission.

Make the bell on his waist ring.

Naruto had 2 bells on his waist, and her only goal before she could continue with the Rasengan would be to make those bells move enough in such a way that they jingled. At the moment, all of Naruto's movements were flawless and done in a way that the bells didn't so much as make a sound. She needed to force him to move in a way that caused them to ring in some fashion.

It was impossible for her at her current level.

Fujimai grinned.

She could be sneaky and use Senjutsu, very sly, like an assassin like her told her.

She stopped grinning when an ungodly fear filled her being, and the mountain underneath them started to crack. She dropped to her knees, and Himawari dropped out of the tree that she was watching the spar from. Birds started to drop out of the sky, dead before they even hit the ground, their poor little hearts stopped by the primal fear.

The world lost color.

The entire world, all things in it that weren't Naruto, were completely black and white now. She could see the blue of his eyes though as he glared down at her.

"You will not cheat during my training child!"

For once, Naruto was not kind to her, and she could hear disdain in his voice as she tried to take a small little shortcut in her training. It was her first time trying to break one of his rules after years of training under him, and she never wanted to do it again.

"Ow Papa! Don't do that again, a birdie hit me in the head!"

The feeling of death and despair, a killing intent greater than any she had felt before, stopped when Himawari spoke up while rubbing the top of her head. Color returned to the world as Naruto's killing intent was gone, and he rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, guess we're grilling bird tonight, sorry Hima, why don't you collect these birds and get them ready to cook. Fujimai, clean yourself up, and do 10,000 push ups, sit ups, and jumping jacks. Until you're done, you will not eat or step foot inside of the temple." Naruto told her as he gave her a harsh physical punishment. "Ah, shit... I cracked space some more. That midget dragon is going to be pissed that I destroyed more of her precious gap." Naruto rubbed the back of his head in annoyance as he started to walk towards the temple.

Fujimai breathed again.

"Wha-what was that?"

"Papa's chakra, when a shinobi releases their killing intent, it is proportional to their chakra as well. Papa's chakra is so powerful, that he is slowly destroying space and time just by existing. Usually, the universe fixes itself, but when he unleashes his power, he causes cracks in the universe's space and time... You made him angry when you tried to cheat." Himawari explained to Fujimai of where she went wrong. Even she could see that Fujimai had opened up her chakra to allow nature to step inside and boost her. Naruto had strictly forbidden her from using her tainted Senjutsu until she was ready to learn it properly.

Not only did she nearly break that rule, she did so when she would have been cheating during her training, and her father did not take to people who disregarded his teachings lightly.

"Cracks?"

"Well, in this Universe you have this thing called the Dimensional Gap... whenever Papa uses too much power, the cracks form and this Universe gets bigger... and that makes the Dimensional Gap smaller, destroying more of it as the Universe expands... Papa's existance causes this Universe's power to expand upon itself." Himawari explained the best she could, and she explained it well. She remembered an Otsutsuki explaining it to her father when they discovered how they kept finding this Universe and fighting Naruto.

Naruto's power was so great, it could be sensed from other dimensions and the universes in those dimensions. It was how Momoshiki and Kinshiki originally found him long ago, and it was how the new generations of Otsutsuki kept finding him. His existance caused the Universe he was in to crack and expand, fracturing space and time just so that his existance itself could be permitted by the universe.

Her father was amazing.

He was a being of truly ultimate power, an existance that was greater than the Universe itself, but he never used his power for evil.

"... Is he going to stay mad at me?" Fujimai's ears were pressed flat down to his head.

"Nah, Papa never stays angry for too long. He wants you to get stronger, but he wants you to really appreciate yourself better. If you cheat and grow stronger in a fake way, you'll be corrupted by your own power. He just wants you to own your power, and not be owned by that power."

"Why are you so smart?" Fujimai asked the child-looking woman.

Himawari had the brain of a child, despite being only a mere 20 years younger than her father, who was the oldest being on the planet. Her brain had never finished developing, so she shouldn't be capable of understanding such concepts.

"Well, I look like Papa, but my hair color isn't the only thing I got from Mama. Anyway, maybe you should quit, you've made incredible progress... but I don't think you'll go much farther than this." Himawari admitted with a sad expression on her face.

She could see it in Fujimai's eyes.

Fujimai's eyes turned to Himawari, with utter betrayal in them.

"I can grow stronger, I'm not done, I'll master everything Master teaches me! I can go way farther than this, and get way stronger!"

"You've already failed though, and now that you've gotten this far... even if you do succeed in the Rasengan, you'll fail Papa's teachings. You don't have the right mindset. Why did you come to this island Fujimai?" Himawari asked the woman, the fully grown, fully matured woman who had come to this island as a mere child, and was now in her later 20s. She had spent this entire time on this island, spending more, far more, than half of her life here.

Fujimai blinked.

"To learn Senjutsu from Master, to get stronger-"

"Why?"

"Why..." Fujimai opened her mouth to speak, but she didn't know the answer. She had forgotten the answer to that question years ago. "... because... well..." Fujimai had to really think about this.

She wanted to make Naruto proud.

No, that wasn't why she came to the island, that was part of her goal now that she was learning under Naruto, but that was not what her original goal was. She looked and saw Himawari walk closer to her, with nothing but sadness and pity in her eyes.

"In these millions of years I have lived with Papa, I have never once forgotten my goal. I always want to remain by Papa's side, to be with him, so that we will always be together as a family, and so that he will be proud of his daughter. I will never forget my goal, and I'll never stop striving towards that goal... what was your goal?" Himawari's pity came through loud and clear, and Fujimai looked at her with wide eyes.

Millions of years?

Himawari had never forgotten her goal, and had never stopped striving towards that goal after so long?

"Bu-but..."

"I want to die." Himawari admitted to Fujimai, and her eyes were dead too. The bright and cheerful eyes that she usually had were gone, replaced by the eyes of a person who had seen everything, done everything, and was genuinely sick of it all. "I want to die Fujimai. I want to die so much, that there are many times I walk to the edge of the mountain and think of ending it myself." Himawari even admitted that to her.

"But-but your goal?"

"My Papa is stronger than I could ever be, whenever I'm alone, the urge to die becomes so strong... but whenever I'm with Papa, I want to live for his sake. Papa is protecting this Universe from our enemies who would come for it. He protects the weak and defenseless humans of this world... Papa's is a hero among heroes. When I think of him being all alone, the thought of being alive with Papa... makes he truly happy. Knowing that I can serve this world, I can serve my Papa, by being happy and being with him gives me strength." Himawari monologued, but her words were listened to by the cat woman very carefully. Every single word sank into her skull, and brought her down more and more.

"Master... does... is... how long..."

"Papa lost Mama, he lost my brother, he lost everything he worked so hard to build. Papa created world peace in our world, he became the leader of our people... practically of all people. In all of the legends of heroes, his name would be the one written in gold, while everyone else would be silver. The pain I feel, Papa feels that pain 10 times greater than I feel it... I lost Mama and Big Brother... I was 10 when I was sent here... I had little to lose compared to Papa." Himawari got a little more angry as she spoke.

Fujimai still couldn't remember the goal she had when she came to the island, she tried to think of it, but no matter how much she thought about it, she just couldn't remember why she wanted to come to the island in the first place.

"I-"

"Papa's goal is to never go back on his word, to never forget, to always be a protector... Papa is a leader, a defender, a shield, a sword, and he has never lost those goals. Fujimai... I think you should leave this island... teach yourself Senjutsu, start a family, become a great mother... take what you've learned here, and pass it down to others who can benefit from it."

"Papa has done everything he could think of to help you remember your goal, it's okay though, everybody who has come to this island has forgotten why they came here. If Papa's killing intent didn't make you remember, nothing will."

Himawari's eyes held no hate or malice in them.

Only sadness, and because of that, Fujimai couldn't be angry with her, and her words hit her to the core all the worse because of it.

After all her years on the island.

After all the strength she gained, and the skills she had mastered.

After everything... Fujimai found her limit.

Fujimai quit her training.

She failed.

Chapter End!
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