(A/N) Every time i switch the setting, i will probably switch the character being focused on too, so if its sticking with one character too much, don't worry. Next time it will be someone else..
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-Chapter 6-
-Hyperbolic Time Chamber-
Team Goku (Kurama,Naruto)
Goku's mind was flooded with memories as he let his gaze span across the endless horizon of this dimension of nothingness. It took him back to the time he had been training Gohan, for the Cell games. When he thought about it, this was completely different from that time. He would be teaching his students all of the basics, and increasing their raw power, but most of their actual learning would be coming from each other. Goku sighed. His was the only team that had been set up before hand, although the two weren't meant to know. He was disappointed that he wouldn't be doing much with them past the beginning, but he cheered himself up with the thought of sparring with them after they had finished here. It would be incredible.
"This place feels very strange." Kurama stepped lightly out into the white void that was the floor of the time chamber. His knees buckled slightly, and he had to brace himself so he did not fall over. "Not only is the gravity much higher than earth, but the oxygen is thinner, and the atmosphere thicker. This is truly a terrifying place..."
"Goku-Sensei!" Naruto came up behind Goku, casually watching Kurama test the new training grounds.
"Yes?"
"Um, i was wondering if we would be doing a special kind of training here, kind of like how we had to climb trees with Kakashi-Sensei one time."
"Special training?" Goku thought a moment for the best way to phrase it. "You will be getting some special training, but first, were going to expand your limits. Also, were going to be re-learning the basics, which, in this place, is not as simple as it might sound." He left the steps, feeling the familiar yet unable-to-get-used-to feeling of being in this dimension cover him like a blanket. "Come on Naruto, we have to start soon, we need to make as much out of the time we have in here as we can." He gestured for the boy to follow them down. Naruto nodded in agreement and started to walk forward to join them. The moment he stepped off of the platform, however, he fell over flat on his face.
"Ow! What is this??" Naruto struggled to pull his face off of the floor, being completely unused to this kind of gravity.
"Oh, i guess i should have warned you about the gravity in here, it shifts though, so be careful, it can swing wildly, as well as the air temperature"
"That would have been nice to know before..." Naruto managed to pull himself to his knees. "How do you expect us to train in a place we can barley walk?"
"If you can master walking, and even basic fighting skills in this kind of environment, imagine how much it would improve your speed and strength back outside." Kurama pointed out to Naruto, as he held out a hand to help him up.
"I guess that makes sense." Naruto reached out and grabbed Kurama's hand. The moment they touched, however, they both froze in place, as if stunned. A red energy flowed out of Naruto's body and up his arm, to meet a blue energy that had swam down from Kurama. The two seemed to flow around each other, before disappearing as quickly as they had appeared. Kurama wrenched his hand free and fell backward into a sitting position.
"You...a Fox..?" Kurama managed to get out in between surprised gasps for air. His eye's widened as he looked at the other boy.
"What!? What just happened?" Naruto looked at his hand as if it were on fire. "The Kyubii, it did something without me!" He jerked his head around to stare at Kurama. "You're like me...I can tell somehow." Goku merely stood aside and watched as his two students discovered each others secrets. It was sooner than he would have done it, but it needed to be done.
"I would have never suspected. Another Fox, and one like me." Kurama's look of shock had changed to one of awe. "Tell me, how did you end up a human?" Naruto shifted uncomfortably under the others intense gaze, but looked him in the eye and replied fiercely.
"I was born this way! I'm not a fox! I'm a normal human!" Naruto's anger caught Kurama off guard. He sat stunned for a moment. "The fox is inside of me. It was put there when i was born. It was sealed to stop it from destroying our village!" Suddenly it was Kurama's turn to shout.
"It was sealed?!? Against it's will?!" Kurama's eyes were now filled with righteous indignation. "Who would do such a thing!!?" Suddenly he stopped himself, as if a thought had suddenly struck him. "Naruto. The Fox inside of you. You said it was sealed there, and you are a normal human?"
"Thats right!" Naruto was shaken by the exchange, but his burning desire to learn about the monster caged in him kept him going. "And what do you mean who would do it against it's will? It's a monster!" Kurama was left in silence for a few moments, silently regarding Naruto.
"I see." He looked over to Goku, who was watching them with an almost emotionless, intense look on his face. "So, is this why we are the only two on this team?" He was rewarded with a nod from Goku, who kept his expression neutral.
"What are you talking about? What's going on?" Naruto's voice was high pitched, and on the verge of panic. He placed a hand on his stomach where the seal that held the beast inside of him was placed. "What do you know about Kyubii?"
"I know everything you want to know about it." Kurama stared straight at Naruto with an intense glare. "Although the Kyubii is not exactly the same, it is in the same family, so I am probably the only person who can give you the answers you desperately seek."
"How? How do you know about it?" Kurama laughed, a cold laugh, despite himself.
"Being one myself, i know much about the subject." Suddenly a blue aura engulfed Kurama, spilling out of him and forming into a fox-like shape, only smaller and leaner than the Kyubii. Naruto's eyes were wide open as he gazed breathlessly at the sight before him. He felt a strange churning, coming from somewhere from inside him, but he wasn't familiar with the sensation.
"You have one inside of you?" Naruto could barley believe the words as they came out of his mouth.
"No." Kurama's quick dismissal of Naruto's statement shocked the boy. "I do not have a fox spirit jailed inside of my body." His eyes were once again cold. "'I AM' the fox." Naruto continued to stare in disbelief, while the blue aura sunk back inside of the lean framed boy.
"You.. ARE one?" Naruto scrambled back slightly, widening the gap between the two boys. "But, their monsters, you CAN'T be!" He felt something stinging in his eyes, but he ignored it. Both of them were cut short, however, when Goku stepped back between them.
"I know you both have a lot to digest, but you have to get over this quickly. The faster you accept each other, the faster your training can start." Kurama looked down at the still horrified Naruto.
"And the faster he accepts what he is, the faster he can become whole..." Kurama turned away from the boy on the floor and walked out into the time chambers dangerous environment. Naruto stared after him, part of him horrified by what had just happened, and another part, very deep inside of him, was mysteriously satisfied.
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Team Vegeta (Hiei, Inuyasha, Sasuke)
The Tetsusaiga's blade seemed to bounce off of Vegeta when Inuyasha made a direct hit.
Vegeta scoffed as he threw Inuyasha to the floor.
"Is this really the best any of you have?" He spread his arms. "I tell you to come at me with all you have, and you give me this?" He spat "You're more pathetic than i had come to believe."
"Thats it. Prepare to die!" Hiei tore his headband from his forehead, his Jagan glowing as his power surged. His skin became green, and large eyes popped open all over his body.
"So, you have more power than these other weaklings!" Vegeta smirked in anticipation. "Now, show me what you can do with it!"
"I'll show you how much training I need!" The bandages on Hiei's arm fell away, and he threw his shirt to the floor. "This attack will finish you, i don't care how powerful you are!" Vegeta just continued to smirk. "Dragon of the Darkness Flame!!!!"
Vegeta's eyes widened in surprise.
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Vegeta laughed as he sat down in from of his two trainees, both of whom were nearly unconscious with exhaustion.
"You put up a good show, I must admit you impressed me." He laughed at the prone Hiei, who struggled to rise to a more dignified cross legged sitting position. "I had to put in some effort to deflect that one."
"This..is...insane..." Inuyasha made out from between his gasps for air. The gravity and air density were taking a heavy toll on all of them after their failed attempts. The only one standing back, was Sasuke, who had yet to show any inclination to attack.
"What about you? I told you all to attack! Now hurry it up! I don't have all day to judge your strength." Suddenly Sasuke scowled.
"You cannot judge the strength of the Uchiha clan...I'll prove that too you now!" Sasuke rushed at Vegeta, jumping to the side just before reaching him. Vegeta hadn't moved from his spot.
"Is that it? A pitiful clan if this is all it has to offer." Vegeta laughed again. Sasuke yelled as he lunged froward, a Kunai aiming for Vegeta. Vegeta easily sidestepped the projectile, and took out Sasuke with a quick chop to the neck.
"All that for nothing?" Vegeta smirked. He was startled when suddenly Sasuke disappeared in a puff of smoke. He heard his voice yell from behind him.
"RahhH!" Sasuke charged at Vegeta's back with blinding speed, the Chidori fully charged in his hand, blue sparks of electricity surging though the air. He lunged, throwing his hand forward into Vegeta, who sidestepped just as Sasuke's hand reached where he had been.
"Humph, not bad." Vegeta ran a finger along his side, where his armor had been cut, and his glove came back tinged with red. "But your still weak!" As Sasuke tried to turn to face Vegeta, Vegeta appeared in front of him, and delivered a quick blow to his stomach, knocking all of his breath out of him, and leaving him face down on the floor, like his two teammates. "I suppose i can tell where you all stand... although it's pitifully low for the expectations that have been placed on you." He sighed as he sat down to wait for them to recover. "This will be a long year." He smiled as Hiei pulled himself to his feet. "But worth it..."
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Team Piccolo (Yusuke, Kuwabara, Sakura)
"Damn, this is one huge place." Yusuke whistled as he peered out at the white nothingness.
"Yeah, and I'm getting a weird vibe from it too." Kuwabara shuddered.
"Enough standing around and gawking!" Piccolo called to two back to task. "I'm giving you all two days to get used to the gravity here before we begin the real training. I want you all to run one hundred laps around the base." He gestured back toward the enclosure that held their food and beds, as well as the door back out.
"See? This is why i hate training." Yusuke started to do stretches in the high gravity, straining to keep his balance and push against the extra weight. "All these rules and stuff to follow."
"Are you sure she's gonna be OK doing this?" Kuwabara asked worriedly about the third member of their team, who was still struggling to stand upright, let alone run. "I don't think she's on the same level as us Uremeshi."
"I'm not weak." Sakura pushed herself up, looking them both in the face. "I'll keep up with you, and i wont hold us back, no matter what." She tried to sound determined, although her knees were still shaking violently.
"You have two days." Piccolo seated himself on the floor in a cross legged position. "I'll be waiting." He closed his eyes and began meditating.
"What the? Is he asleep?" Kuwabara waved his hand in front of Piccolo.
"You idiot, hes probably doing some kind of deep Kung Fu meditation thing. Don't you ever watch movies?" Yusuke watched the Namek expectantly.
"I guess we should get started." Kuwabara started forward. "Man...two days seem a lot shorter when your in a room where a year passes in one." Yusuke stood back for a moment as Kuwabara disappeared around the corner. Sakura was still finding her balance farther off to the side.
"So, teach." Yusuke addressed the seemingly un attentive Piccolo. "This girl really supposed to keep up with us?" He watched her slowly take a few steps toward the point where Kuwabara had gone around out of sight.
"I'm going to have to rely on you to get her up to speed." Piccolo replied without twitching an eye. "Shes behind in the stamina department, but i believe here fighting potential is much higher than the normal human. During this year, I will be training all of you to greatly surpass your current limits, but she will have the hardest time out of all of you."
"Jeez, pretty rough." Yusuke started forward to catch up to the other two.
"Uremeshi." Yusuke stopped and turned back.
"Yeah?"
"Do everything you can. I'll be your teacher for this year...but you'll be teaching her on your time as well." Yusuke managed a surprised look. "She has the makings of great mental strength as well. But she will need some help. I'm counting on you. Don't let me down." Yusuke laughed as he turned around.
"Who would believe it? Me, a teacher." He held up a hand as he walked off. "Talk to you in two days."
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(A/N) When i started this chapter i was thinking of doing a lot of their training, but I decided I would let the openings go through first, so everyone knew exactly what was going down, and i don't want to make the chapter TOO long. It's a pain reading them sometimes when they get a certain length (although I do like decently long ones, just not too long). Anyway, next chapter we have everyone training in the time chamber. I know your thinking 'how is that going to be exciting? just skip with one of those things you authors do, and get on with the story!' But i have a few things to do before that. Yes, there will be one, but closer to the end of the training. I don't want you seeing what they can do until it comes down to it. Should make it more exciting . As always, please Read and Review!!
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-Chapter 6-
-Hyperbolic Time Chamber-
Team Goku (Kurama,Naruto)
Goku's mind was flooded with memories as he let his gaze span across the endless horizon of this dimension of nothingness. It took him back to the time he had been training Gohan, for the Cell games. When he thought about it, this was completely different from that time. He would be teaching his students all of the basics, and increasing their raw power, but most of their actual learning would be coming from each other. Goku sighed. His was the only team that had been set up before hand, although the two weren't meant to know. He was disappointed that he wouldn't be doing much with them past the beginning, but he cheered himself up with the thought of sparring with them after they had finished here. It would be incredible.
"This place feels very strange." Kurama stepped lightly out into the white void that was the floor of the time chamber. His knees buckled slightly, and he had to brace himself so he did not fall over. "Not only is the gravity much higher than earth, but the oxygen is thinner, and the atmosphere thicker. This is truly a terrifying place..."
"Goku-Sensei!" Naruto came up behind Goku, casually watching Kurama test the new training grounds.
"Yes?"
"Um, i was wondering if we would be doing a special kind of training here, kind of like how we had to climb trees with Kakashi-Sensei one time."
"Special training?" Goku thought a moment for the best way to phrase it. "You will be getting some special training, but first, were going to expand your limits. Also, were going to be re-learning the basics, which, in this place, is not as simple as it might sound." He left the steps, feeling the familiar yet unable-to-get-used-to feeling of being in this dimension cover him like a blanket. "Come on Naruto, we have to start soon, we need to make as much out of the time we have in here as we can." He gestured for the boy to follow them down. Naruto nodded in agreement and started to walk forward to join them. The moment he stepped off of the platform, however, he fell over flat on his face.
"Ow! What is this??" Naruto struggled to pull his face off of the floor, being completely unused to this kind of gravity.
"Oh, i guess i should have warned you about the gravity in here, it shifts though, so be careful, it can swing wildly, as well as the air temperature"
"That would have been nice to know before..." Naruto managed to pull himself to his knees. "How do you expect us to train in a place we can barley walk?"
"If you can master walking, and even basic fighting skills in this kind of environment, imagine how much it would improve your speed and strength back outside." Kurama pointed out to Naruto, as he held out a hand to help him up.
"I guess that makes sense." Naruto reached out and grabbed Kurama's hand. The moment they touched, however, they both froze in place, as if stunned. A red energy flowed out of Naruto's body and up his arm, to meet a blue energy that had swam down from Kurama. The two seemed to flow around each other, before disappearing as quickly as they had appeared. Kurama wrenched his hand free and fell backward into a sitting position.
"You...a Fox..?" Kurama managed to get out in between surprised gasps for air. His eye's widened as he looked at the other boy.
"What!? What just happened?" Naruto looked at his hand as if it were on fire. "The Kyubii, it did something without me!" He jerked his head around to stare at Kurama. "You're like me...I can tell somehow." Goku merely stood aside and watched as his two students discovered each others secrets. It was sooner than he would have done it, but it needed to be done.
"I would have never suspected. Another Fox, and one like me." Kurama's look of shock had changed to one of awe. "Tell me, how did you end up a human?" Naruto shifted uncomfortably under the others intense gaze, but looked him in the eye and replied fiercely.
"I was born this way! I'm not a fox! I'm a normal human!" Naruto's anger caught Kurama off guard. He sat stunned for a moment. "The fox is inside of me. It was put there when i was born. It was sealed to stop it from destroying our village!" Suddenly it was Kurama's turn to shout.
"It was sealed?!? Against it's will?!" Kurama's eyes were now filled with righteous indignation. "Who would do such a thing!!?" Suddenly he stopped himself, as if a thought had suddenly struck him. "Naruto. The Fox inside of you. You said it was sealed there, and you are a normal human?"
"Thats right!" Naruto was shaken by the exchange, but his burning desire to learn about the monster caged in him kept him going. "And what do you mean who would do it against it's will? It's a monster!" Kurama was left in silence for a few moments, silently regarding Naruto.
"I see." He looked over to Goku, who was watching them with an almost emotionless, intense look on his face. "So, is this why we are the only two on this team?" He was rewarded with a nod from Goku, who kept his expression neutral.
"What are you talking about? What's going on?" Naruto's voice was high pitched, and on the verge of panic. He placed a hand on his stomach where the seal that held the beast inside of him was placed. "What do you know about Kyubii?"
"I know everything you want to know about it." Kurama stared straight at Naruto with an intense glare. "Although the Kyubii is not exactly the same, it is in the same family, so I am probably the only person who can give you the answers you desperately seek."
"How? How do you know about it?" Kurama laughed, a cold laugh, despite himself.
"Being one myself, i know much about the subject." Suddenly a blue aura engulfed Kurama, spilling out of him and forming into a fox-like shape, only smaller and leaner than the Kyubii. Naruto's eyes were wide open as he gazed breathlessly at the sight before him. He felt a strange churning, coming from somewhere from inside him, but he wasn't familiar with the sensation.
"You have one inside of you?" Naruto could barley believe the words as they came out of his mouth.
"No." Kurama's quick dismissal of Naruto's statement shocked the boy. "I do not have a fox spirit jailed inside of my body." His eyes were once again cold. "'I AM' the fox." Naruto continued to stare in disbelief, while the blue aura sunk back inside of the lean framed boy.
"You.. ARE one?" Naruto scrambled back slightly, widening the gap between the two boys. "But, their monsters, you CAN'T be!" He felt something stinging in his eyes, but he ignored it. Both of them were cut short, however, when Goku stepped back between them.
"I know you both have a lot to digest, but you have to get over this quickly. The faster you accept each other, the faster your training can start." Kurama looked down at the still horrified Naruto.
"And the faster he accepts what he is, the faster he can become whole..." Kurama turned away from the boy on the floor and walked out into the time chambers dangerous environment. Naruto stared after him, part of him horrified by what had just happened, and another part, very deep inside of him, was mysteriously satisfied.
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Team Vegeta (Hiei, Inuyasha, Sasuke)
The Tetsusaiga's blade seemed to bounce off of Vegeta when Inuyasha made a direct hit.
Vegeta scoffed as he threw Inuyasha to the floor.
"Is this really the best any of you have?" He spread his arms. "I tell you to come at me with all you have, and you give me this?" He spat "You're more pathetic than i had come to believe."
"Thats it. Prepare to die!" Hiei tore his headband from his forehead, his Jagan glowing as his power surged. His skin became green, and large eyes popped open all over his body.
"So, you have more power than these other weaklings!" Vegeta smirked in anticipation. "Now, show me what you can do with it!"
"I'll show you how much training I need!" The bandages on Hiei's arm fell away, and he threw his shirt to the floor. "This attack will finish you, i don't care how powerful you are!" Vegeta just continued to smirk. "Dragon of the Darkness Flame!!!!"
Vegeta's eyes widened in surprise.
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Vegeta laughed as he sat down in from of his two trainees, both of whom were nearly unconscious with exhaustion.
"You put up a good show, I must admit you impressed me." He laughed at the prone Hiei, who struggled to rise to a more dignified cross legged sitting position. "I had to put in some effort to deflect that one."
"This..is...insane..." Inuyasha made out from between his gasps for air. The gravity and air density were taking a heavy toll on all of them after their failed attempts. The only one standing back, was Sasuke, who had yet to show any inclination to attack.
"What about you? I told you all to attack! Now hurry it up! I don't have all day to judge your strength." Suddenly Sasuke scowled.
"You cannot judge the strength of the Uchiha clan...I'll prove that too you now!" Sasuke rushed at Vegeta, jumping to the side just before reaching him. Vegeta hadn't moved from his spot.
"Is that it? A pitiful clan if this is all it has to offer." Vegeta laughed again. Sasuke yelled as he lunged froward, a Kunai aiming for Vegeta. Vegeta easily sidestepped the projectile, and took out Sasuke with a quick chop to the neck.
"All that for nothing?" Vegeta smirked. He was startled when suddenly Sasuke disappeared in a puff of smoke. He heard his voice yell from behind him.
"RahhH!" Sasuke charged at Vegeta's back with blinding speed, the Chidori fully charged in his hand, blue sparks of electricity surging though the air. He lunged, throwing his hand forward into Vegeta, who sidestepped just as Sasuke's hand reached where he had been.
"Humph, not bad." Vegeta ran a finger along his side, where his armor had been cut, and his glove came back tinged with red. "But your still weak!" As Sasuke tried to turn to face Vegeta, Vegeta appeared in front of him, and delivered a quick blow to his stomach, knocking all of his breath out of him, and leaving him face down on the floor, like his two teammates. "I suppose i can tell where you all stand... although it's pitifully low for the expectations that have been placed on you." He sighed as he sat down to wait for them to recover. "This will be a long year." He smiled as Hiei pulled himself to his feet. "But worth it..."
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Team Piccolo (Yusuke, Kuwabara, Sakura)
"Damn, this is one huge place." Yusuke whistled as he peered out at the white nothingness.
"Yeah, and I'm getting a weird vibe from it too." Kuwabara shuddered.
"Enough standing around and gawking!" Piccolo called to two back to task. "I'm giving you all two days to get used to the gravity here before we begin the real training. I want you all to run one hundred laps around the base." He gestured back toward the enclosure that held their food and beds, as well as the door back out.
"See? This is why i hate training." Yusuke started to do stretches in the high gravity, straining to keep his balance and push against the extra weight. "All these rules and stuff to follow."
"Are you sure she's gonna be OK doing this?" Kuwabara asked worriedly about the third member of their team, who was still struggling to stand upright, let alone run. "I don't think she's on the same level as us Uremeshi."
"I'm not weak." Sakura pushed herself up, looking them both in the face. "I'll keep up with you, and i wont hold us back, no matter what." She tried to sound determined, although her knees were still shaking violently.
"You have two days." Piccolo seated himself on the floor in a cross legged position. "I'll be waiting." He closed his eyes and began meditating.
"What the? Is he asleep?" Kuwabara waved his hand in front of Piccolo.
"You idiot, hes probably doing some kind of deep Kung Fu meditation thing. Don't you ever watch movies?" Yusuke watched the Namek expectantly.
"I guess we should get started." Kuwabara started forward. "Man...two days seem a lot shorter when your in a room where a year passes in one." Yusuke stood back for a moment as Kuwabara disappeared around the corner. Sakura was still finding her balance farther off to the side.
"So, teach." Yusuke addressed the seemingly un attentive Piccolo. "This girl really supposed to keep up with us?" He watched her slowly take a few steps toward the point where Kuwabara had gone around out of sight.
"I'm going to have to rely on you to get her up to speed." Piccolo replied without twitching an eye. "Shes behind in the stamina department, but i believe here fighting potential is much higher than the normal human. During this year, I will be training all of you to greatly surpass your current limits, but she will have the hardest time out of all of you."
"Jeez, pretty rough." Yusuke started forward to catch up to the other two.
"Uremeshi." Yusuke stopped and turned back.
"Yeah?"
"Do everything you can. I'll be your teacher for this year...but you'll be teaching her on your time as well." Yusuke managed a surprised look. "She has the makings of great mental strength as well. But she will need some help. I'm counting on you. Don't let me down." Yusuke laughed as he turned around.
"Who would believe it? Me, a teacher." He held up a hand as he walked off. "Talk to you in two days."
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(A/N) When i started this chapter i was thinking of doing a lot of their training, but I decided I would let the openings go through first, so everyone knew exactly what was going down, and i don't want to make the chapter TOO long. It's a pain reading them sometimes when they get a certain length (although I do like decently long ones, just not too long). Anyway, next chapter we have everyone training in the time chamber. I know your thinking 'how is that going to be exciting? just skip with one of those things you authors do, and get on with the story!' But i have a few things to do before that. Yes, there will be one, but closer to the end of the training. I don't want you seeing what they can do until it comes down to it. Should make it more exciting . As always, please Read and Review!!