Grace
Standard Note and Disclaimers still apply.
Mrs. Nozomu Sohma – hahah, thanks. You never know –wink- especially with what goes on in my head.
Jennjennr – right now, it's 50/50 whether or not anyone will find out who it is. –evilgrin-
Miako – my other favourite word is "Man-slave." Hahah going up to people and saying "will you be my man-slave" was really fun to pass the time.
Thank you everyone else for reviewing! There shall be shameless advertisement at the bottom of the chapter…
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Monday came and went, Tuesday came and went… and on Wednesday morning everyone who was in the yellow group was waiting.
"Jeez, was taking him so long?" 'Him' was actually Naruto, who was hiding in the trees watching them. Tsunade was looking ready to start killing. Naruto chuckled. Since last Friday, Jiraiya and Tsunade had hung out with him a bit. But he felt like they felt they were obligated too, not because they wanted too.
Naruto decided to test out his students again. Slowly he lifted his hands to his chest and started forming seals: Tiger, Boar, Dog.
"Hyuuton, Haryuu Muuko." He said in a normal voice. From the mountain, a large dragon/tiger ice thing sprung into existence and attacked. Naruto made sure to put a lot of chakra into it for a reason. He watched their reactions.
"Katon, Goukakyuu no jutsu!" Itachi called. His dragon-tiger was unaffected by the heat of the flames, this was why he put so much Chakra in it, to make it resistant to fire.
"Doton! Yomi Numa." This was Jiraiya's attack. It too was nullified. His underworld swamp froze over once it touched his dragon-tiger, and only added to the training area.
Orochimaru and Sandaime tried to slow it down as the dragon-tiger or ice made it's way to them. Sandaime used wood shuriken to distract while Orochimaru tried to use an earth wall to defend. Useless. The ice-dragon-tiger plowed through it like it was nothing. Tsunade was next, she ran up and punched his jutsu. Rather a unique approach.
He may have fortified it with extra chakra, but there was just no way it could have stood up to Tsunade's strength. Naruto watched his technique get demolished by Tsunade, who now had a touch of frostbite on her hands. There was one person who hadn't attacked, and on further inspection, Naruto realized a tad too late that Kakashi was a bunshin.
"Yo." Naruto nearly had a heart attack and nearly lost his footing on his snow covered tree. He sent a glare at Kakashi, who was hanging upside down on a tree branch just above him.
"Don't DO that!" he whispered to him. Come to think of it, Kakashi was acting as strange as Jiraiya and Tsunade were. Perhaps another person who felt obligated to hang out with him? Naruto's thoughts circled around in his head and he nearly missed Kakashi's question.
"… we doing?"
"Huh? Oh….. dunno yet. I have an idea…" Naruto's feral grin was back. He started to chuckle in the way Jiraiya would when he spotted a bath full of naked women. Naruto had a very funny idea. Kakashi was immediately on alert now when Naruto started laughing.
"YOSH!" Naruto jumped down from his tree and into the clearing, faceing his 'class'
"hehehehe, now, um, you all have to put these on." Naruto told them, holding up 6 blindfolds.
"and have an all out taijutsu battle.. against me." Jiraiya was the one who voiced complaint at this.
"But you won't be blindfolded!" he cried out, acting like the baby he sometimes was. Kakashi had come out of hiding as well and was eyeing Naruto like he was crazy.
"Hehehe, okay. To make it fair I'll wear a blindfold as well, and I'll also wear bells. This is like the survival test only blindfolded." He tossed the blindfolds to them each and put his hands on his hips.
"Only, it doesn't matter if you work in teams or not. Because this is simply for fun. Also, it IS a straight out taijutsu battle, which means no genjutsu and no ninjutsu. However, that doesn't mean if I won't know if you're cheating." Naruto waited until they started putting on their blindfolds before putting on his own.
"When I say go, we can start." Naruto explained, starting to get used to his lack of eyes. After a few moments of standing there, Naruto smiled.
"GO!" honing in to the sound of his voice, Itachi made a step forward. Naruto waited a few more seconds before jumping into the air, and landing gracefully on a tree. His bells didn't ring, and he made no sound.
"You're a bunch of slow pokes, you know that?" now Naruto's voice came from the left, not in front of them. Heads swiveled towards him. Actually, the only one Naruto thought that would give him troubles was Sandaime. He didn't think that Kakashi, Itachi and the Sanin would be efficient in this exercise. He was right. Sandaime's chakra signature started to approach him at a high speed. He only had enough time to dodge.
Sandaime continued his attack, his body flowing at odd angles, kicking and punching at odd angles as well. As blindfolded as they were, Sandaime and Naruto had training in this area. Naruto swung over a branch only to meet a face full of Sarutobi's foot. Sliding backwards under the branch he came up on the other side and swiped Sandaime across to get his feet from under him.
Sandaime flipped backwards on the same branch they were both on and by sticking his hands onto the branch again, Naruto once again meet a face full of Sarutobi's feet. The counter attack caught him by surprise and Naruto fell backwards, loosing the grip with his feet and falling to the forest floor. Sandaime used his momentum to carry him forward and jumped to another branch and paused. Listening. Waiting. As Naruto fell through the air, he thought about Sarutobi's attacks and grimaced. In this field, Sarutobi ruled.
"Eh, lets give the others a chance now Hokage-sama."
"Hai." The old man chuckled and for a moment, stood there in his tree with his head cocked to one side as if listening to something else. After a moment he headed to the right and back into the clearing. After awhile Naruto followed suit.
"Alright, you had your fun now put your blindfolds back on please." He could feel the shock that they emitted. Secretly Naruto grinned, they had taken off their blindfolds and watched him and Hokage fight. After all, he did say they didn't have to keep them on when not fighting him.
"How did you do that?" Naruto's head twisted to Itachi's direction and he grinned, revealing his fangs. They were caught back by this.
"Ah, Sarutobi-sama and I have an advantage. Me because of my heightened senses, and Sarutobi-sama because he's had previous training in this area before. The trick… well… I shouldn't exactly tell you. You are all able to feel Chakra right? Well the trick is to feel the Chakra that you opponent emits."
"WE know this." Orochimaru stated, he didn't sound too impressed.
"If you know this, why didn't you apply it to attack me then?" Naruto shot back, and the snack man didn't answer.
"The trick is the fact that all living organisms emit Chakra. Did you know that bats are blind, and use sound to see? Objects reflect sound and thus create a black and white image almost to the Bat. By applying this simple principal to humans, as well as the ability to sense even the smallest amount of Chakra, we can create a similar image by the vibrations caused by the Chakra signatures that each person has.
"Hokage-sama, I'm going to flare my chakra, I want you to explain to them what their supposed to see with their blindfolds on."
"Hai." Sandaime answered before there was a sudden surge of Chakra coming from the boy.
"Its like a sun emitting light almost. Except the rays of light come in pulses."
"Good, now im going to change my Chakra, I want you do explain what you see." Naruto changed his Chakra and started to channel a relatively small amount of Kyuubi's chakra. Sandaime drew in a hissing breath and backed away.
"I..its not a pulse exactly. Still like the sun only it comes out like tendrils…" Naruto hummed in agreement before returning to his original Chakra and its output.
"Normally chakra comes out of the body in relatively small dosages. Tsunade-baa-chan would know this because she is a medical ninjas."
"That's right, if a ninja is severely low on Chakra they will die if not treated because of the constant outpour of chakra the body creates."
"Correct, Chakra can actually be harmful to its generator if it's bunched up together for too long. Hokage-sama, try and sense me now." Naruto dimmed his chakra to nearly non-existent causing Tsunade to gasp along side of Sarutobi.
"…. You.. it…"
"Hehe, someone with incredible chakra control can make themselves 'appear to be dead' to someone. Due to Kyuubi's healing and the fact that my body has had time to adapt to condensed chakra and little chakra output, I can go for a relatively very long time prohibiting the natural chakra output.
"Therefore, by honing into the chakra output the body does, you can create an image of that person in your mind, much in the way a bat does."
"How can you navigate then?" Kakashi voiced.
"Simple, the trees emit chakra as well. Though.. I guess you'd call it the frequency of the chakra is significantly lower, you can actually divide how you sense individual things."
"It's also easier to move once you've gotten the hang of it. I didn't teach this to you because at the time you weren't ready to know it. Cloud is known for their chakra control, thus it'll be harder to sense them."
"Ah, not only that but it'll be dark out. We'll be at a disadvantage because of the weather. Hence, why I'm working on your senses today. Since Hokage-sama knows it already, he's going to help. We're actually going to function something like a collective and help each other.
I'll take Kakashi, Jiraiya and Tsunade-baa-chan and Sandaime will you take Itachi and Orochimaru?"
"Sure."
"Alright, I expect you all too at least get a good grip of this by the end of the lesson, I'm not spending more than two days teaching you it. Got it? We'll head over to the ice mountain, Hokage-sama you work in the forest."
Naruto abruptly walked to his small mountain with a smile on his face. They had been staring at him all throughout his lecture as if he had sported a purple nose. It was amusing to see them showed up by someone younger than them. After a few seconds his students followed him and Naruto stopped at the base of his mountain.
"Alright, I expect you to be able to get this fairly easy after explaining the trick. So now we'll do this one at a time. Tsunade will be going first with the blindfold. What I want you to do is find us. Kakashi, Jiraiya and I will be placed around the base of the mountain, but we won't be on the mountain. You have to feel us out. Jiraiya will stay at his normal chakra output, while Kakashi will be flaring his chakra, and I will be nearly non-existent. You have only an hour to find us."
Tsunade nodded and pout the blindfold on without complaint. Signaling to Jiraiya he motioned the Sanin to move to the left, and for Kakashi to move to the right while Naruto stayed where he was (in front of Tsunade). He nodded his head and Kakashi flared his chakra while Naruto lowered his. The exercise had begun.
It took Tsunade 45 minutes to find both Kakashi and Jiraiya. She was having difficulty however, with Naruto. The chakra embedded within the ice mountain was throwing her off more than she thought.
"This is why you must divide what you're sensing." Came a voice to her left. Tsunade sighed and took her blindfold off.
"How am I supposed to do that then?" She asked, frustrated by the boys knowing smirk.
"Easy, locate and understand what you can sense without trying. Then block that out, and see what's left. Whoever said anything about continuously sensing them? Jiraiya, your turn. Tsunade, flare your chakra this time, Kakashi normal output." And the exercise began again. It took Jiraiya the same amount of time to accomplish the task, only with the second explanation he managed to locate the general area Naruto was in.
Jiraiya was told to flare his chakra when it was Kakashi's turn. When Kakashi did it, though it took him longer, he managed to pinpoint Naruto.
"Alright, that's enough for today. Practice it, more practice for tomorrow as well. I want you to master it." They stared at him as if he was crazy. Master it in two days!
"I had to master it in the battle field when my eye sight was momentarily taken from me. Therefore, you can do it in two days." Naruto said simply. He Shrugged and popped out of existence.
Personally, Naruto thought it he was an okay teacher, stricter than he thought but… he promised himself he would lighten up later. After all, it was his first time teaching. Tomorrow, he would play with them more.
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I'm going to do a few time skips though out the months simply because I can't force myself to do everyday… it just wouldn't work….. hehehe…Also, the theories in this chapter were a combination of things i already knew, common sense and my own wacky imagination, i hope it makes some sense.
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(edit: if you can't see the chapter, i'm sorry. i updated it sunday at noon, and it still hasn't shown up. So the update was sooner than you all thought)