(I didn't realize that 3 pages of writing was so short when submitted.
Sorry for making the chaps so short. I'll do better this time)
Okay, I know some of you want me to do some pairings. I haven't much thought about them, but I'll try to add them. If I don't, please don't hate my story for it. It would've been for the benefit of the story. Anyways thanks for the reviews those who have reviewed, and those who haven't...well...just review. Even if the review is an insult it'll help me out a bunch. Thanks!
By the way, this is after they (Neji, Chouji, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Naruto) bring Sasuke back, if you haven't noticed, and none of them have died either.
(Spikey is Shintu's nickname because his hair's spikier than Naruto's.)
Training
When the pair got to a ramen shop, they ordered their ramen and talked about nothing in particular, just random things. Finally, Shintu asked Naruto a question that bugged him, "Naruto, since you have that seal and all, I suspect that you don't have any friends do you." "Not really. I have a few now that I'm a ninja, but none of us are that close. The closest one is probably Iruka-sensei."
"Oh, I remember him. He used to try to act funny to get everyone's attention. No one really liked him though. They just laughed at his stupidity. Wow, so now he's a teacher, eh. Interesting." Shintu said.
"Why did you want to know about my friends?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Oh, I just wanted to ask what you do in your free time since your so alone most of the time."
"I train and eat ramen." Naruto replied with an innocent smile.
"You train...and eat ramen." Shintu repeated chuckling at the last comment. "Now, I'm thinking that since you're in the Uzumaki family you need to learn our jutsus and you need to get the Arronkogan, so how about I train you when we get back to Konoha, huh?" Shintu offered.
"Really?!" Naruto asked as his smile widened and he began jumping up and down.
"Of course, after all, I owe you for not coming back earlier so you wont be alone in the first place." Shintu said with a slight laugh.
"Sure. Hah. I'm gonna learn new jutsus. I'm gonna learn new jutsus. I'm gonna learn new jutsus." Naruto chorused starting to become somewhat of an annoyance.
Shintu just sat there smiling at how much his cousin had grown.
--= END OF SCENE =--
On the way back to Konoha, Naruto began to think again. 'Maybe he is my cousin, and so is she.' He began to wonder. He thought long and hard and finally decided to accept the fact that he was a cousin and not an enemy. The more he thought about it, the more he believed. Until he mind had a break down because he was thinking too much again. After the mental breakdown he remembered the training and figured that he should tell his team about it, so he did. He told them what he was doing, when he was leaving, and told them that he didn't know when he was coming back.
--= END OF SCENE =--
As soon as they got back to Konoha Shintu remembered that they had no place to stay, but Naruto let them into his place. "Don't expect too much food. I don't have much." Naruto said. "Anyways, when do we start training?" Naruto asked in a hopeful voice.
"Tomorrow or later." Shintu replied. "The sun's already going down. We should sleep early so we can train well for the next few days, because we're not going to be practicing here. We're going to practice at a more suitable place."
Naruto grinned and went to change into his pajamas and hat. "Good night," he yawned. Shintu just stood their, watching Naruto sleep turn and snore. He laughed a little before he left and went to prepare for bed himself.
--=END OF SCENE =--
The next morning, Naruto was the first to wake up out of excitement for the training. He quickly put on his clothes and scrambled to the room where the other 2 were sleeping, "WAKE UP!" He yelled. "It's 5:00 Shintu. Time to help me train."
"WHAT?! FIVE O'CLOCK?! YOU WOKE ME UP AT FIVE O'CLOCK JUST TO GO TRAINING?! GO BACK TO SLEEP BAKA!" Shintu yelled punching Naruto in the head and closing the door behind a hurt (physically) Naruto. "AND DON'T COME BACK UNTIL AT LEAST 8:00!" Shintu yelled after Naruto.
"Baka this, baka that. I'm always being called a baka around here," Naruto mumbled, on his way back to his room. Back in Shintu's room, Koichi had just waken up.
"Huh? What was all that noise?" She asked clueless.
"Oh, nothing, we just have a baka for a cousin, that all." Shintu answered laying back down."
"Oh, okay." Koichi replied unclearly as she fell back onto her bed and fell asleep.
--= END OF SCENE =--
When 8:00 finally came, Naruto went to Shintu's room again. "Ummmm, it's 8:00 now." He said more quietly, afraid that Shintu would get mad at him again for yelling. After the quiet 'wake-up' call, the two were still fast asleep. Naruto decided to risk it. "WAKE UP, IT'S 8:00 NOW. TIM TO GO TRAIN." He yelled. Shintu and Koichi were up in a second, shocked at the loud voice.
Then Shintu said, "All right, all right. Let me get dressed first. I'll be right out for breakfast." "Good," Naruto replied happy to finally see Shintu up. Koichi, on the other hand said a good-bye to his brother than layed back down and fell asleep again.
When Shintu finally came out Naruto was already eating and drinking. Shintu looked at the ramen that was prepared for him.
"Yum, ramen." Shintu commented in an unenthusiastic tone. He ate some then grabbed the milk and observed it. "Ummmm, Naruto...this milk is 1 month over the due date. Are you sure it's okay to drink it?" He asked worried.
"It's fine." Naruto answered in a worry-free tone.
"Okay, whatever you say." Shintu replied taking several big gulps. Then he went back to eating his ramen. It was like a slow motion ramen eating contest between Shintu and Naruto. They were both to tired to get overexcited about the ramen so they ate slower, but they still ate faster than normal people eat ramen and within a minute or two, began chugging down the soup like it was nothing.
"Ahhhhh." Naruto said as he finished.
"Good old ramen." Then Shintu finished and the two left.
--= END OF SCENE =--
After 2 hours of jumping from tree to tree Naruto asked Shintu, "Where are we going that's so freaken far away?"
"To a sea side. It's the best place to practice our jutsus." Shintu replied.
"Well how much longer is this traveling going to take?" Naruto asked getting a bit tired.
"Half a day," Shintu answered.
"Awwwwwww. That long? We might as well be going to the other side of the world. I'm starting to grow tired." Naruto complained.
"SHUT UP!!" Shintu shouted, finally blowing his top, "STOP COMPLAINING! WE'LL BE THERE SOON!"
Naruto's eyes widened, 'Wow, he can get pretty angry.' He thought to himself. 'Better not mess with him anymore!'
--= END OF SCENE =-- They traveled the next 10 hours in silence, or kind of. Naruto kept cursing and making complaints under his breath. When they finally got to their destination, Naruto was too wiped out to train, so they set up a fire, went to look for food and ate dinner.
"We're going to start training tomorrow. Get a good night's sleep tonight 'cause you're going to need it." Shintu said during dinner. The way Shintu said this kind of scared Naruto. Naruto didn't really know how to describe the voice but he was definitely pretty spooked out. Naruto quickly pile some sand to make a pillow and fell fast asleep in eagerness for training the next day.
--= END OF SCENE =--
The next day, Shintu woke Naruto up at 7:00 in the morning. "Go get firewood." He commanded. Naruto, too eager to complain ran into the woods next to the beach to gather firewood. He was back in about 5 minutes with a full arm load of wood.
"Will this do?" Naruto asked.
"I guess." Shintu answered. "Now start a fire and then go catch some fish for breakfast." Now, Naruto was starting to get somewhat upset at being commanded to do all of these chores but didn't still didn't complain. He was still pretty eager to train. In half an hour, he came back with 2 decent sized fish. "Now cook them and then we'll eat." Shintu ordered again.
Now Naruto couldn't hold it in any longer, "WHY DO I HAVE TO DO ALL OF THE WORK?! I'M HERE SLAVING AWAY WHILE YOUR JUST LAYING THERE WAITING FOR ME TO FINISH! WHEN ARE WE GOING TO START TRAINING?!"
"We'll start training as soon as we've finished eating and cleaning up. Now Naruto, if you don't want to clean or do anything then you won't train. Got it?" He said calmly.
"You suck." Naruto insulted under his breath as he started cooking the fish.
"I heard that Naruto." Shintu said in a taunting voice.
"You suck. You suck. You suck," Naruto repeated over and over again in front of Shintu's face.
"Criticize me all you want Naruto. If you don't finish your chores, we won't train. It's as simple as that." Shintu said.
Naruto just turned red-faced with anger but said nothing knowing that it would accomplish nothing.
--= END OF SCENE =--
Back at Konoha, all of the 'rookie' genins, like Shikamaru and Kiba, had already found out where Naruto had gone due to the big mouth Sakura who just haaaaad to tell them. She just couldn't hold back. She opened her big mouth and BAM! Out came the words, the words that told everyone that Naruto had left to train of course.
Shikamaru was in the hospital then looking after Chouji. "Sorry buddy for making you fight that guy on your own," Shikarmaru apologized. "Naruto's out training, but if he were still here, I think he probably would come to see you like Kiba and Neji." Shikamaru lied, trying to make Chouji feel better. Chouji smiled thinking of that.
Hinata was also in the hospital, looking after Kiba, who was sleeping at the moment. Akamaru was sleeping in the bed next to Kiba. 'I wonder if Naruto-kun is okay. They say he went out training. I bet he's getting much stronger.' Then she realized that she was thinking about Naruto when she came here to see Kiba and scolder herself mentally for doing so. Then, Hinata began blushing, thinking of how Naruto will probably look when he comes back. "Naruto-kun, gambatus (do you best)." Hinata encouraged.
Lee, who had suffered quite a bit of damage, was also being taken care of in the hospital, and was being looked after by Tenten and Gai-sensei. Tenten was thinking 'I hope you're going to be all right Lee', While Gai- sensei was crying for Lee. "Lee, how could you leave right after your surgery?" He asked to the currently sleeping Genin.
Neji, who had already come to visit these three wounded people before was outside in the forest training for the next Chuunin Exam, as well as Shino, and Sasuke (with Kakashi of course). Sakura had just went to visit Lee and Ino was taking care of her cashier business at her flower shop.
Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were now partial members of the Konoha village and were also training in a separate part of the forest. Gaara has now learned to control his thirst for blood and his cold temper (can you believe that?!). He now actually cares about his two siblings who have loved him all of this time. He had apologized before for being so cruel and now is a decent guy, but he still doesn't smile much less laugh.
Meanwhile, back at the beach, Naruto had just began his training. "All right Naruto. The Uzamaki family specializes in one specific element which is the wine element." Shintu explained. "During this training period. You will learn some new juts-
Naruto yawned and said, "This is boring. Hurry up and get to the point."
Shintu got really mad. "I was just explaining the point when you interrupted me." He said trying to keep his voice calm.
"Well then make the point shorter. I want to hurry up and train," Naruto yawned again.
"Fine then, if you don't want to hear this, then let's go straight to the training." Shintu sighed. "Okay, the first thing you need to do for me is to show me what kind of techniques you've learned so far, besides the transforming technique and replacement technique."
"Okay, let's start out with my first one, KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU," Naruto yelled as many more of himself turned up beside him.
'Ahhhhh. He knows the kage bunshin. Interesting.' Shintu thought to himself. "Now, undo it and do another technique." Shintu commanded.
"Okay," Naruto said with smirk, "HENGE!" Naruto shouted as he turned into a beautiful girl.
Shintu's nose began to bleed aas he fell back, shocked at this. Then, when he regained composure, he yelled at Naruto, "I SAID A TECHNIQUE OTHER THAN REPLACEMENT AND TRANSFORM!"
"But... but this is my sexy technique," Naruto protested as he undid his technique.
"NO TRANSFORM OR ANYTHING ELSE RELATED TO IT! GOT IT?!" He scolded
"Okay, okay. Gosh if you don't want something, you should say that," Naruto muttered scornfully. He thought about doing harem no jutsu but decided against it. 'Spikey's going to get mad at me again if I do something like that.' Naruto thought. 'Better just go to my summoning.'
"Now continue," Shintu said when he calmed down again.
Naruto nodded, then bit his thumb and began doing hand seals, "SUMMONING TECHNIQUE!" he yelled as just as small frog the height of a pencil appeared underneath his hand. Naruto sighed, "Why couldn't I do it again?!"
"Oy." The little frog said. Shintu couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing. He laughed so hard that he fell to the ground and couldn't get back up until Naruto had to kick him hard in the stomach. Finally, Shintu regained sanity and asked, "Okay. Was that supposed to be Gamabunta?"
"Yeah," Naruto sad with a down face.
"Don't feel bad, I'm actually surprised that you learned at such an early age." Shintu said.
"That perverted sennin taught me." Naruto explained.
'He must mean Jiraiyi,' Shintu said to himself. "Well I guess you're not good enough for it yet." Shintu replied, wiping away the tears that had accumulated while he was laughing. "Is that all you know?"
"No. I still know this one." Naruto said as he stuck out his two hands and began collecting chakra and spinning it around in one hand while trying to control it by moving his other hand quickly around the other uncovered sides. "This one's called rasengan." Naruto explained.
Shintu was amazed, 'He can already use that technique? I wonder who taught him. Probably Jiraiyi, but still, for him to have learned that technique already.' "Naruto, that happens to be one of the techniques that I was going to teach you. Now it seems like you have to use two hands. When I get to this technique, I'll help you make it stronger and I'll help teach you to use it with only one hand." Shintu said. "By the way, how long did it take you to 'master' it?"
"Oh, a little less than 2 weeks." Naruto replied.
'Two weeks?!' Shintu thought to himself, 'This guy has to be lying, I learned that in 5 years. The fastest it took someone to learn it was 3 years and that was my dad! How could Naruto have done it. He must be lying. When we get back to Konoha, I'll ask Jiraiyi the correct amount of time it took him.'
"Okay. Now I'm warning you, if you don't want to go through a whole lot of trouble and hardships then leave now, because this training is going to be hard, very hard!"
"Are you crazy? Of course I'm not backing down from this training." Naruto said, now more eager than ever to continue.
"Okay, but I warned you. Now, first thing's first, make as many kage bunshins as possible. Then run along side the sea, to where the land ends and then sprint back. Got that? You need t beat 10 hours, 36 minutes and 57 seconds. If you don't SPRINT, and I mean sprint, then you won't feel very comfortable, I'll tell you that much." Shintu said with his now famous smirk.
"I'll finish it in an hour Spikey."
"Don't get your hopes to high up. Now start making the replicants." Shintu said.
Naruto began making more and more 'Naruto's' and then, when their were over 10,000 of them, he stopped, undid them all, and waited for the signal to begin running. Already Naruto was tired up and had his hands, and weight, on his knees, and was panting heavily. "Now, start running." Shintu said and Naruto began to run.
He ran and ran. Even though he was exhausted, he still ran. Finally, after what seemed like days, Naruto got to the end point and stopped there to rest for a little while. He ended up falling asleep and had to be waken up by Shintu. "Naruto, your supposed to be running, how could you just fall asleep like that?" Shintu asked.
"I'm sorry. I guess I failed didn't I." Naruto said all depressed.
"Well, I didn't really expect you to do it the first time, but everyday, before practice, this is what your going to do, got that?" Shintu asked. "It's not as easy as it looks now is it?"
Naruto answered with just a shake of his head.
--= END OF SCENE =--
When the two got back to their 'camp', Shintu began explaining to Naruto his next objective "There is one more thing that your going to need to do every day until the very last day. That means that you'll have little time to practice you jutsus, but you'll still have a little bit of tiem each day. On some days, I will teach you taijutsu instead of a technique but most of thie time you will be either learning or practicing a new technique. You won't go onto another technique until the previous one has been mastered." Shintu explained. "Now, this other thing you must do is to not get hit by any of the kuneis or shurikens I'm going to throw at you. This will continue for five hours. If one hits, then we'll stop for the day, but if you make it through...than it'll probably be about time to go back to Konoha village.
"Uhhhhhhhh, no. You went too fast Shintu. How am I supposed to catch up," Naruto lied. The real reason was because that was too much to remember and Naruto just couldn't fit it all in his head.
"Fine, I'll repeat it once more, ONCE MORE!" Shintu sighed, as he repeated again what he had just said, but Naruto still didn't understand, but he nodded anyway to keep from getting into trouble again.
"Okay, now go onto a tree and we'll begin." Shintu said. When Naruto made it to a tree branch, Shintu began to 'countdown' "Ready? Set? Go!" Shintu said as he began throwing the shurikens and kuneis toward the defenseless Naruto. Naruto caught on pretty quickly, either that or he was just trying to dodge to hold onto life. 'If I get hit I'm dead,' He thought to himself. 'Keep dodging,' After an hour dragged by, Naruto finally got hit, right in the shoulder. It went in pretty deep, but the wound quickly closed because of Kyubii. "Don't worry about dying if you get hit okay, Naruto. You won't because I'm here," Shintu said with a smile that seemed pretty similar to hairy eyebrow's. 'Oh I'm very reassured,' Naruto thought to himself sarcastically.
"Now," Shintu began after they cleaned up the already closed up wound. "I will teach you your first technique."
Okay, I know some of you want me to do some pairings. I haven't much thought about them, but I'll try to add them. If I don't, please don't hate my story for it. It would've been for the benefit of the story. Anyways thanks for the reviews those who have reviewed, and those who haven't...well...just review. Even if the review is an insult it'll help me out a bunch. Thanks!
By the way, this is after they (Neji, Chouji, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Naruto) bring Sasuke back, if you haven't noticed, and none of them have died either.
(Spikey is Shintu's nickname because his hair's spikier than Naruto's.)
Training
When the pair got to a ramen shop, they ordered their ramen and talked about nothing in particular, just random things. Finally, Shintu asked Naruto a question that bugged him, "Naruto, since you have that seal and all, I suspect that you don't have any friends do you." "Not really. I have a few now that I'm a ninja, but none of us are that close. The closest one is probably Iruka-sensei."
"Oh, I remember him. He used to try to act funny to get everyone's attention. No one really liked him though. They just laughed at his stupidity. Wow, so now he's a teacher, eh. Interesting." Shintu said.
"Why did you want to know about my friends?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Oh, I just wanted to ask what you do in your free time since your so alone most of the time."
"I train and eat ramen." Naruto replied with an innocent smile.
"You train...and eat ramen." Shintu repeated chuckling at the last comment. "Now, I'm thinking that since you're in the Uzumaki family you need to learn our jutsus and you need to get the Arronkogan, so how about I train you when we get back to Konoha, huh?" Shintu offered.
"Really?!" Naruto asked as his smile widened and he began jumping up and down.
"Of course, after all, I owe you for not coming back earlier so you wont be alone in the first place." Shintu said with a slight laugh.
"Sure. Hah. I'm gonna learn new jutsus. I'm gonna learn new jutsus. I'm gonna learn new jutsus." Naruto chorused starting to become somewhat of an annoyance.
Shintu just sat there smiling at how much his cousin had grown.
--= END OF SCENE =--
On the way back to Konoha, Naruto began to think again. 'Maybe he is my cousin, and so is she.' He began to wonder. He thought long and hard and finally decided to accept the fact that he was a cousin and not an enemy. The more he thought about it, the more he believed. Until he mind had a break down because he was thinking too much again. After the mental breakdown he remembered the training and figured that he should tell his team about it, so he did. He told them what he was doing, when he was leaving, and told them that he didn't know when he was coming back.
--= END OF SCENE =--
As soon as they got back to Konoha Shintu remembered that they had no place to stay, but Naruto let them into his place. "Don't expect too much food. I don't have much." Naruto said. "Anyways, when do we start training?" Naruto asked in a hopeful voice.
"Tomorrow or later." Shintu replied. "The sun's already going down. We should sleep early so we can train well for the next few days, because we're not going to be practicing here. We're going to practice at a more suitable place."
Naruto grinned and went to change into his pajamas and hat. "Good night," he yawned. Shintu just stood their, watching Naruto sleep turn and snore. He laughed a little before he left and went to prepare for bed himself.
--=END OF SCENE =--
The next morning, Naruto was the first to wake up out of excitement for the training. He quickly put on his clothes and scrambled to the room where the other 2 were sleeping, "WAKE UP!" He yelled. "It's 5:00 Shintu. Time to help me train."
"WHAT?! FIVE O'CLOCK?! YOU WOKE ME UP AT FIVE O'CLOCK JUST TO GO TRAINING?! GO BACK TO SLEEP BAKA!" Shintu yelled punching Naruto in the head and closing the door behind a hurt (physically) Naruto. "AND DON'T COME BACK UNTIL AT LEAST 8:00!" Shintu yelled after Naruto.
"Baka this, baka that. I'm always being called a baka around here," Naruto mumbled, on his way back to his room. Back in Shintu's room, Koichi had just waken up.
"Huh? What was all that noise?" She asked clueless.
"Oh, nothing, we just have a baka for a cousin, that all." Shintu answered laying back down."
"Oh, okay." Koichi replied unclearly as she fell back onto her bed and fell asleep.
--= END OF SCENE =--
When 8:00 finally came, Naruto went to Shintu's room again. "Ummmm, it's 8:00 now." He said more quietly, afraid that Shintu would get mad at him again for yelling. After the quiet 'wake-up' call, the two were still fast asleep. Naruto decided to risk it. "WAKE UP, IT'S 8:00 NOW. TIM TO GO TRAIN." He yelled. Shintu and Koichi were up in a second, shocked at the loud voice.
Then Shintu said, "All right, all right. Let me get dressed first. I'll be right out for breakfast." "Good," Naruto replied happy to finally see Shintu up. Koichi, on the other hand said a good-bye to his brother than layed back down and fell asleep again.
When Shintu finally came out Naruto was already eating and drinking. Shintu looked at the ramen that was prepared for him.
"Yum, ramen." Shintu commented in an unenthusiastic tone. He ate some then grabbed the milk and observed it. "Ummmm, Naruto...this milk is 1 month over the due date. Are you sure it's okay to drink it?" He asked worried.
"It's fine." Naruto answered in a worry-free tone.
"Okay, whatever you say." Shintu replied taking several big gulps. Then he went back to eating his ramen. It was like a slow motion ramen eating contest between Shintu and Naruto. They were both to tired to get overexcited about the ramen so they ate slower, but they still ate faster than normal people eat ramen and within a minute or two, began chugging down the soup like it was nothing.
"Ahhhhh." Naruto said as he finished.
"Good old ramen." Then Shintu finished and the two left.
--= END OF SCENE =--
After 2 hours of jumping from tree to tree Naruto asked Shintu, "Where are we going that's so freaken far away?"
"To a sea side. It's the best place to practice our jutsus." Shintu replied.
"Well how much longer is this traveling going to take?" Naruto asked getting a bit tired.
"Half a day," Shintu answered.
"Awwwwwww. That long? We might as well be going to the other side of the world. I'm starting to grow tired." Naruto complained.
"SHUT UP!!" Shintu shouted, finally blowing his top, "STOP COMPLAINING! WE'LL BE THERE SOON!"
Naruto's eyes widened, 'Wow, he can get pretty angry.' He thought to himself. 'Better not mess with him anymore!'
--= END OF SCENE =-- They traveled the next 10 hours in silence, or kind of. Naruto kept cursing and making complaints under his breath. When they finally got to their destination, Naruto was too wiped out to train, so they set up a fire, went to look for food and ate dinner.
"We're going to start training tomorrow. Get a good night's sleep tonight 'cause you're going to need it." Shintu said during dinner. The way Shintu said this kind of scared Naruto. Naruto didn't really know how to describe the voice but he was definitely pretty spooked out. Naruto quickly pile some sand to make a pillow and fell fast asleep in eagerness for training the next day.
--= END OF SCENE =--
The next day, Shintu woke Naruto up at 7:00 in the morning. "Go get firewood." He commanded. Naruto, too eager to complain ran into the woods next to the beach to gather firewood. He was back in about 5 minutes with a full arm load of wood.
"Will this do?" Naruto asked.
"I guess." Shintu answered. "Now start a fire and then go catch some fish for breakfast." Now, Naruto was starting to get somewhat upset at being commanded to do all of these chores but didn't still didn't complain. He was still pretty eager to train. In half an hour, he came back with 2 decent sized fish. "Now cook them and then we'll eat." Shintu ordered again.
Now Naruto couldn't hold it in any longer, "WHY DO I HAVE TO DO ALL OF THE WORK?! I'M HERE SLAVING AWAY WHILE YOUR JUST LAYING THERE WAITING FOR ME TO FINISH! WHEN ARE WE GOING TO START TRAINING?!"
"We'll start training as soon as we've finished eating and cleaning up. Now Naruto, if you don't want to clean or do anything then you won't train. Got it?" He said calmly.
"You suck." Naruto insulted under his breath as he started cooking the fish.
"I heard that Naruto." Shintu said in a taunting voice.
"You suck. You suck. You suck," Naruto repeated over and over again in front of Shintu's face.
"Criticize me all you want Naruto. If you don't finish your chores, we won't train. It's as simple as that." Shintu said.
Naruto just turned red-faced with anger but said nothing knowing that it would accomplish nothing.
--= END OF SCENE =--
Back at Konoha, all of the 'rookie' genins, like Shikamaru and Kiba, had already found out where Naruto had gone due to the big mouth Sakura who just haaaaad to tell them. She just couldn't hold back. She opened her big mouth and BAM! Out came the words, the words that told everyone that Naruto had left to train of course.
Shikamaru was in the hospital then looking after Chouji. "Sorry buddy for making you fight that guy on your own," Shikarmaru apologized. "Naruto's out training, but if he were still here, I think he probably would come to see you like Kiba and Neji." Shikamaru lied, trying to make Chouji feel better. Chouji smiled thinking of that.
Hinata was also in the hospital, looking after Kiba, who was sleeping at the moment. Akamaru was sleeping in the bed next to Kiba. 'I wonder if Naruto-kun is okay. They say he went out training. I bet he's getting much stronger.' Then she realized that she was thinking about Naruto when she came here to see Kiba and scolder herself mentally for doing so. Then, Hinata began blushing, thinking of how Naruto will probably look when he comes back. "Naruto-kun, gambatus (do you best)." Hinata encouraged.
Lee, who had suffered quite a bit of damage, was also being taken care of in the hospital, and was being looked after by Tenten and Gai-sensei. Tenten was thinking 'I hope you're going to be all right Lee', While Gai- sensei was crying for Lee. "Lee, how could you leave right after your surgery?" He asked to the currently sleeping Genin.
Neji, who had already come to visit these three wounded people before was outside in the forest training for the next Chuunin Exam, as well as Shino, and Sasuke (with Kakashi of course). Sakura had just went to visit Lee and Ino was taking care of her cashier business at her flower shop.
Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were now partial members of the Konoha village and were also training in a separate part of the forest. Gaara has now learned to control his thirst for blood and his cold temper (can you believe that?!). He now actually cares about his two siblings who have loved him all of this time. He had apologized before for being so cruel and now is a decent guy, but he still doesn't smile much less laugh.
Meanwhile, back at the beach, Naruto had just began his training. "All right Naruto. The Uzamaki family specializes in one specific element which is the wine element." Shintu explained. "During this training period. You will learn some new juts-
Naruto yawned and said, "This is boring. Hurry up and get to the point."
Shintu got really mad. "I was just explaining the point when you interrupted me." He said trying to keep his voice calm.
"Well then make the point shorter. I want to hurry up and train," Naruto yawned again.
"Fine then, if you don't want to hear this, then let's go straight to the training." Shintu sighed. "Okay, the first thing you need to do for me is to show me what kind of techniques you've learned so far, besides the transforming technique and replacement technique."
"Okay, let's start out with my first one, KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU," Naruto yelled as many more of himself turned up beside him.
'Ahhhhh. He knows the kage bunshin. Interesting.' Shintu thought to himself. "Now, undo it and do another technique." Shintu commanded.
"Okay," Naruto said with smirk, "HENGE!" Naruto shouted as he turned into a beautiful girl.
Shintu's nose began to bleed aas he fell back, shocked at this. Then, when he regained composure, he yelled at Naruto, "I SAID A TECHNIQUE OTHER THAN REPLACEMENT AND TRANSFORM!"
"But... but this is my sexy technique," Naruto protested as he undid his technique.
"NO TRANSFORM OR ANYTHING ELSE RELATED TO IT! GOT IT?!" He scolded
"Okay, okay. Gosh if you don't want something, you should say that," Naruto muttered scornfully. He thought about doing harem no jutsu but decided against it. 'Spikey's going to get mad at me again if I do something like that.' Naruto thought. 'Better just go to my summoning.'
"Now continue," Shintu said when he calmed down again.
Naruto nodded, then bit his thumb and began doing hand seals, "SUMMONING TECHNIQUE!" he yelled as just as small frog the height of a pencil appeared underneath his hand. Naruto sighed, "Why couldn't I do it again?!"
"Oy." The little frog said. Shintu couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing. He laughed so hard that he fell to the ground and couldn't get back up until Naruto had to kick him hard in the stomach. Finally, Shintu regained sanity and asked, "Okay. Was that supposed to be Gamabunta?"
"Yeah," Naruto sad with a down face.
"Don't feel bad, I'm actually surprised that you learned at such an early age." Shintu said.
"That perverted sennin taught me." Naruto explained.
'He must mean Jiraiyi,' Shintu said to himself. "Well I guess you're not good enough for it yet." Shintu replied, wiping away the tears that had accumulated while he was laughing. "Is that all you know?"
"No. I still know this one." Naruto said as he stuck out his two hands and began collecting chakra and spinning it around in one hand while trying to control it by moving his other hand quickly around the other uncovered sides. "This one's called rasengan." Naruto explained.
Shintu was amazed, 'He can already use that technique? I wonder who taught him. Probably Jiraiyi, but still, for him to have learned that technique already.' "Naruto, that happens to be one of the techniques that I was going to teach you. Now it seems like you have to use two hands. When I get to this technique, I'll help you make it stronger and I'll help teach you to use it with only one hand." Shintu said. "By the way, how long did it take you to 'master' it?"
"Oh, a little less than 2 weeks." Naruto replied.
'Two weeks?!' Shintu thought to himself, 'This guy has to be lying, I learned that in 5 years. The fastest it took someone to learn it was 3 years and that was my dad! How could Naruto have done it. He must be lying. When we get back to Konoha, I'll ask Jiraiyi the correct amount of time it took him.'
"Okay. Now I'm warning you, if you don't want to go through a whole lot of trouble and hardships then leave now, because this training is going to be hard, very hard!"
"Are you crazy? Of course I'm not backing down from this training." Naruto said, now more eager than ever to continue.
"Okay, but I warned you. Now, first thing's first, make as many kage bunshins as possible. Then run along side the sea, to where the land ends and then sprint back. Got that? You need t beat 10 hours, 36 minutes and 57 seconds. If you don't SPRINT, and I mean sprint, then you won't feel very comfortable, I'll tell you that much." Shintu said with his now famous smirk.
"I'll finish it in an hour Spikey."
"Don't get your hopes to high up. Now start making the replicants." Shintu said.
Naruto began making more and more 'Naruto's' and then, when their were over 10,000 of them, he stopped, undid them all, and waited for the signal to begin running. Already Naruto was tired up and had his hands, and weight, on his knees, and was panting heavily. "Now, start running." Shintu said and Naruto began to run.
He ran and ran. Even though he was exhausted, he still ran. Finally, after what seemed like days, Naruto got to the end point and stopped there to rest for a little while. He ended up falling asleep and had to be waken up by Shintu. "Naruto, your supposed to be running, how could you just fall asleep like that?" Shintu asked.
"I'm sorry. I guess I failed didn't I." Naruto said all depressed.
"Well, I didn't really expect you to do it the first time, but everyday, before practice, this is what your going to do, got that?" Shintu asked. "It's not as easy as it looks now is it?"
Naruto answered with just a shake of his head.
--= END OF SCENE =--
When the two got back to their 'camp', Shintu began explaining to Naruto his next objective "There is one more thing that your going to need to do every day until the very last day. That means that you'll have little time to practice you jutsus, but you'll still have a little bit of tiem each day. On some days, I will teach you taijutsu instead of a technique but most of thie time you will be either learning or practicing a new technique. You won't go onto another technique until the previous one has been mastered." Shintu explained. "Now, this other thing you must do is to not get hit by any of the kuneis or shurikens I'm going to throw at you. This will continue for five hours. If one hits, then we'll stop for the day, but if you make it through...than it'll probably be about time to go back to Konoha village.
"Uhhhhhhhh, no. You went too fast Shintu. How am I supposed to catch up," Naruto lied. The real reason was because that was too much to remember and Naruto just couldn't fit it all in his head.
"Fine, I'll repeat it once more, ONCE MORE!" Shintu sighed, as he repeated again what he had just said, but Naruto still didn't understand, but he nodded anyway to keep from getting into trouble again.
"Okay, now go onto a tree and we'll begin." Shintu said. When Naruto made it to a tree branch, Shintu began to 'countdown' "Ready? Set? Go!" Shintu said as he began throwing the shurikens and kuneis toward the defenseless Naruto. Naruto caught on pretty quickly, either that or he was just trying to dodge to hold onto life. 'If I get hit I'm dead,' He thought to himself. 'Keep dodging,' After an hour dragged by, Naruto finally got hit, right in the shoulder. It went in pretty deep, but the wound quickly closed because of Kyubii. "Don't worry about dying if you get hit okay, Naruto. You won't because I'm here," Shintu said with a smile that seemed pretty similar to hairy eyebrow's. 'Oh I'm very reassured,' Naruto thought to himself sarcastically.
"Now," Shintu began after they cleaned up the already closed up wound. "I will teach you your first technique."