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"Hey, Naruto!"

"What, Ero-Sennin?"

Jiraiya closed his eyes and attempted to hold in his anger. Veins popped out of his head. 'Think calming thoughts…Breathe in and out…'

"Alright Naruto, let me see your progress."

Naruto formed the seal by interlocking his pinkies and ring fingers and pointing his forefingers and middle fingers upwards. "Mizu Kadou (Water Vortex) No Jutsu!"

A small whirlpool of water formed in the river, and a thin column of spiraling water burst out from the center of the whirlpool. The pillar of water curved to the side and hit against the side of a tree, leaving nothing but wet wood.

Naruto cursed himself. 'I can't get this jutsu to be powerful enough. Maybe if I tried to rotate the chakra faster, then it would be more powerful.'

Naruto swirled more chakra into the water, which formed a column of water that swerved upwards and smashed against the battered tree, which left a small dent in the tree's trunk.

'Still not powerful enough. I better try again.'

"Still no vortex, huh? You're making as much progress on this jutsu as the Kuchiyose (Summoning) No Jutsu. That took you, what, a month? You only have a week, and I'm hoping that you can learn this one pretty quick so that you can train for other stuff."

Naruto tensed up and summoned more chakra to try and show Jiraiya that he was capable of learning this jutsu quickly. A spiraling column of water rose from the center of a fairly large whirlpool of chakra and water, and the water curved up and smashed into the beaten-up tree, which collapsed as the water hit the dent where the previous vortex had hit. Jiraiya looked at him in approval and said,

"Good progress. However, there is more to that technique. You can also create more than vortex at once. I can create about five; eight if I use most of my chakra. I'd like you to at least be able to get two vortexes before we progress."

(The Next Day)

"Good job, Hinata and Naruto. Both of you made extremely good progress, far better than what I expected. We still have five more days until we leave for this United States thing. Never been there; actually, I've been to this place called Europe. Ah, that place was heaven. All their beaches…" as Jiraiya closed his eyes and chuckled in his perverted self. (A/N: In case you guys didn't know, European beaches are nude beaches. There are beaches in Europe that don't have nudes, but the nudist beaches in Europe are given the title of European beaches.)

Hinata and Naruto, not knowing what Europe was, looked at him in confusion, yet Naruto, knowing Jiraiya's personality and being familiar with Jiraiya's perverted chuckle, naturally yelled at him.

"All right, I think that you two should both work in your weaker areas. Naruto, your taijutsu is, well, pathetic, and Hinata, your ninjutsu isn't bad, yet you could learn another technique or two. So, Hinata will be learning how to summon, and Naruto, I will be teaching you a new taijutsu style that I happen to know a little about and that the Yondaime mastered. So, Naruto, ladies first. Since you have mastered the tree-walking and water-walking, I want you to walk on trees and on water with your hands only. This will train you to summon chakra to your hands and to be able to control it. It will be useful for this new taijutsu style."

So Naruto went off and practiced this new exercise, while Hinata sat down with Jiraiya and thought over which animal to summon.

"I don't recommend summoning a frog because if you two both have to summon, only one of you will be able to summon the Frog Boss, Gamabunta, while the other will summon a lesser frog. In a tight situation, I'd prefer to have two bosses. So, which animal do you like?"

Hinata picked the owl (A/N: I picked because 1) I can't imagine Hinata summoning anything other than a bird, 2) the owl has strong eyesight, which is relates to the Byakugan.)

Jiraiya found an old friend who happened to have the scroll for the owls. Hinata signed the contract with her blood, and in thirty minutes, she was able to summon a fully-grown owl that was slightly larger than a regular owl. She had excellent chakra control to determine what size owl, yet she would probably have to increase her chakra stamina to summon the Owl Boss. Jiraiya left her to train her chakra stamina while he went off to teach the new taijutsu to Naruto.

"All right, Naruto, this taijutsu was developed by the Yondaime, who based it off of the Hyuuga's Jyuuken. Because he and you don't have the Byakugan, the Yondaime designed his taijutsu so that it would combine the Tekken, which does external damage, and Jyuuken, which does internal damage in few hits, by dealing external damage in very few hits by summoning chakra into one's palm. The chakra is used not to damage the internal organs, yet by burning the opponent with raw chakra, by using the chakra to increase impact, or by using chakra to bypass the skin and muscles and breaking the opponent's bones.

"Lucky for you, the first two techniques of this taijutsu, which is called the Kashouken (A/N: "Kashou" means "burn", and I just added the "ken" part so it fits with Jyuuken and Tekken.), does not require much chakra control. However, the last technique does, since you have to be able to break the bones without ripping the skin or ripping the muscles.

"I know all three techniques, I just have never used them in an actual battle, so I lack in experience. I'll teach you this, since you obviously can't do Tekken, and you don't have the Byakugan for the Jyuuken. So, have you gotten the walking yet?"

Naruto smiled and said, "Yeah, I can walk on both with my hands."

Jiraiya watched Naruto walk on trees and on water with his hands as he thought to himself, 'How do both Hinata and Naruto progress so well? Even if they are both chuunins, the techniques that I have taught them should have taken a lot longer. Maybe Hinata has been progressing because she seems to like Naruto and may want to impress him, but maybe Naruto is also trying to impress Hinata? Hmm, I never pictured Naruto as being a lover-boy…'

Naruto finished his training and walked over to Jiraiya, asking about the next training.

Jiraiya said, "Alright, calm down. We'll start off with the burning part of the taijutsu style. Raw chakra naturally burns, which explains the burns on your hands when you were training the Rasengan. That's also why chakra takes the form of fire whenever someone summons or concentrates a large amount of it. The bodies of ninja are adapted so that the chakra does not burn them as easily, and because of the Kyuubi, your skin is resistant to chakra burns more than others. I was very surprised that you did so much training that your palms burned from the chakra.

"You need to be able to shoot chakra from your palms in a way similar to Hinata's Jyuuken, except that instead of concentrating it to hit the chakra points, you don't need to concentrate or control it in any way. Just let the chakra burn the target. Here, I'll give a demonstration."

Jiraiya concentrated chakra into his hands, which made his hands surrounded by blue fire. Jiraiya went up to another poor tree, and he then did a quick palm strike. The chakra burned the trunk of the tree, resulting in a circular burn mark having a radius of about 5 inches (or about 13 cm).

"This burn damage is produced for each palm strike, punch, or kick. Therefore, this is a powerful taijutsu if you are able to use it correctly. Since you have high chakra stamina, this would suit you because you would be able to use multiple strikes to the enemy to give multiple burns without losing too much chakra."

Naruto then went off to practice this taijutsu.

Ok, I got bored of going in detail of their training, so I'm going to skip to the end of the week:

Naruto woke up to an alarm clock, which he turned off and rubbed his eyes. Knowing that he had to be at the gates of Konoha at seven to start his journey, he pulled out some clothes that Obachan had provided for him. All of the ninja had to wear certain clothing that she had provided, since they had to fit in with the rest of the non-shinobi world. Naruto pulled on an orange T-shirt with a blue sweatshirt and a pair of jeans. His hair stuck out wildly, looking much like the Yondaime. He had left his forehead protector with Iruka-sensei, just in case some guy would try to break in. He had left his usual clothing in his apartment yet entrusted his few valuables to Iruka. His kunai and shuriken had all been stored in a suitcase along with everyone else's so that their weapons wouldn't be caught in the carry-on luggage. He then packed all of his stuff into a backpack, ate some instant ramen, and set off to the gates of Konoha to travel to America.

Sorry for such a short chapter, but since I won't be able to update for about a week, I figured that I should update before I leave for vacation. Please review; I only have five reviews, which is pretty sad.