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Over the next few months, the young man spent a lot of time and hard work strengthening his physical attributes. It was hard for him, as Naruto had never undergone such an unrelenting training regimen. He placed equal emphasis on all aspects of his body, attention provided for each attribute, strength, agility, and the cardiovascular system. The training method was surprisingly simple, required little equipment, and was highly effective.

He began to cut a mine into one side of the lower plateau.

The high altitude of the work already made breathing difficult, however Naruto wore a ninja mask as well. This would have drastic effects when he went back to the village, as taijutsu stamina relied on a strong cardiovascular system. The thin air and mask ensured that he could engage in taijutsu for a much longer time. Shovelling the rock from the mountain and into a wheelbarrow, provided a thorough upper body workout. Strengthening his shoulder muscles and forearms, this activity greatly added to his striking power. Wheeling the full barrow back up the developing tunnels trained his lower body, this training increased his explosiveness and agility.

He spent half of each day on this training, four hours at dawn, and then another four hours at sunset. In the intervening time Naruto refined his taijutsu and weapons forms. He had nobody to spar with, so he made sure to become as technically accurate as possible. Weapons wise, he concentrated on shurikan, his kunai, and a katana.

A new addition that was virtually unused in the village. He had always liked to be different.

Even so, it had taken the young man four months to get nine tails to agree to once more work on the higher elements of ninjutsu, those dealing with chakra.

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You have done well.

"So you finally decide to talk." Naruto replied snidely.

Forget that. You will do as instructed. Your training has shown surprising results, and we can now begin your chakra training.

Naruto, not expecting the matter of fact response, could not help but reply, "Chakra training?"

Yes. It is time to refine your control, and learn a new jutsu. Perform your standard jutsu. You will find that they are now a lot easier to perform. To further this improvement you must work on your fine control. Maintaining a constant flow being paramount to your further advancement. I suggest for now that you choose a very simple jutsu, transformation jutsu for example, and practice until you are able to perform multiple transformations with just the required amount of chakra. Once you may do this I will teach you the first new jutsu.

Naruto scoffed, "Heh, no problem, this will be easy."

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It wasn't.

It had taken Naruto almost a month and a half to reach the required control. His day was much the same, only now he did his body strengthening in a five hour block from dawn. The next five hours he spent on charkra control. And then a further five hours on his taijutsu and weapons training.

Transformation was second nature to him now, and he often used partial transformations, turning his hands into claws being a particular favourite. This control carried over to other skills as well, he could maintain his clones for a much longer time, and the concentration required was not as high. Even so, he was becoming frustrated.

He wanted to learn higher techniques!

You will get your wish. I am satisfied with your progress so far and have decided to teach you one of the forbidden jutsu. This jutsu is known as scrying, and allows you to see the current activities of any person that you have ever met so long as you can identify their spirit. It can be performed on any reflective surface. Observe.

With these words, Naruto found himself involuntary forming a chakra pattern on the glass mirror before him. Taking careful note to memorise the minute details of the weave Naruto watched the surface waver then solidify. He could see his clone in a group with a jounin and two other genin. Seemingly guarding an older gentleman that did not stand out in any way. Looking closer, he identified the two genin. Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura.

So, his clone was in a group of three was he, interesting. The group appeared to be leaving konoha for some reason. After watching the trio for some time he noticed that the group was being followed. From the body motions of the people the only ones to notice this fact were Sasuke and the Jounin. When his clone froze from the attack, Naruto became so enraged that his control shattered, and the scene vanished.

Pissed, Naruto flung himself outside, and began to go through the calming motions of a kata. Something he had become used to over the past few months. He couldn't believe that the clone had faltered, as ultimately it was him. It would develop differently, but the both of them had the same basic template.

To think that he would freeze in such a situation, it was a joke.

So help him, the next time he seen the clone it would receive the beat down of the century.

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Time wore on, and as it did Naruto kept monitoring the progress of his clone. All in all it was disappointing, though it did provide great motivation. To think that he may have turned out that way, a joke. Lacking any form of respect from those closest to him, it was disgraceful.

No matter, they would all see eventually. To make sure of this he had furthered his chakra study. Successfully learning the basics of four more techniques. The first, a teleportation jutsu, required a high level of concentration, but minimal chakra, as it locked onto a water molecule in the general area and shifted your aura there. The second, was an offensive attack, an extremely powerful aura blast created by the fourth hokage, Rasengan. The third was an offence/defence technique. It created huge serrated blades from the excess water vapour in the air. Undetectable, when in use it just appeared to tear apart whatever got within ten feet of the user. Luckily, depending on the users whim, the blades could be created blunt if desired.

The final was a pure enhancement technique. He could choose one aspect of his body, and it would go into overdrive, this used his stamina at a very high rate, but the boost it provided was unbelievable. Strength, speed, durability, cerebral processing all could be boosted to previously unimagined rates. When he had finally gained a modicum of control over those techniques the nine tails once more decided to provide some advice.

You have progressed nicely. It is now time for me to unlock a few of the special characteristics that you gained from being fused with me. The first is to do with your eyes, they are now going to be slitted like my own. As such, you can now see the chakra within everything, it will take some getting used to as everything within nature has chakra. With practice you may now be able to pick up any attack used against you. The second gift is that of bone density, the density of your bones will now triple, things that once would have broken your arm, will do little more than hurt. Finally, you now have the ability of regeneration. It will occur automatically from now on, this is possible directly because of the imbalance between your spirit and body energy, the excess can be used to replenish your stamina. Thanks to your body strengthening over the last few months it is now possible. The only thing you need to watch out for is anger. The unleashing of a part of your true nature will cause your anger to become white hot and on a hair trigger. Your greatest task now is to curb that anger problem, it will be your greatest weakness.

Prepare yourself, this is going to hurt.

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