Hey everyone Kanoha Civilian here! I am sorry that I haven't updated in a while. It was crazy trying to write while graduation for my family was happening so I put it off. I know lots of you are going to hate me but the chapter is not to terrible long. I just wanted to update so you don't think I am dead.

I would like to tell all of you that the story so far is just the back story to what I want to write my story on. Eventually I will get to a point where we don't skip through time so much and there is more of an actual plot. Just FYI.

4:30 am "THE SPRING TIME OF YOUTH!"

Naruto was awakened by a man shouting and banging on his door. Naruto went to the door and opened it, not knowing if he was still dreaming or not. Once he opened it there were two people in a tight green spandex uniform with large smiles and bushy eyebrows.

The taller one held out his hand, "I AM MAITO-GAI AND THIS IS MY DEVOTED PUPIL LEE-KUN! KAKASHI SAID THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO TRAIN WITH US EVERY MORNING!"

Naruto grumbled and went back into his apartment and got ready. As soon as he was done Gai handed him a pair of weights with a blinding smile. Naruto took them and nearly dropped them because of how heavy they were. Naruto put them on his arms and legs and the three of them set out to run around Konoha.

Naruto was hard pressed to keep up with the two bundles of energy, but he managed to stay with them. When they finally stopped running after three hours Naruto collapsed on the ground panting.

Lee came up to Naruto, "ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!"

Naruto nodded, "Ya, I'm fine. By the way I hear you can't use nin-jutsu or gen-jutsu at all. How do you get along in the ninja world?"

Lee smiled like his sensei and held up his thumb, "THROUGH HARD WORK!"

Naruto had finally caught his breath and stood up, "I would like to see your hard work in action. Would you mind having a spar with me?"

Lee made a fist and fire seemed to shoot from his eyes, "LET US TEST OUR SPRING TIME OF YOUTH AGAINST EACH OTHER IN A MOST YOUTHFUL WAY!"

Gai smiled blinding everyone again, "LET US HAVE A MOST YOUTHFUL MATCH!"

Naruto and Lee faced off on either side of a clearing that they had found to spar in. Lee got into his stance with one hand held out and a deep calm seemed to overtake him. Naruto could tell Lee was very serious and would try as hard as he could during this match. Naruto got into his primary style, the Fox style.

"Lee during this match I will only use tai-jutsu."

"A most youthful thing to do."

"Naruto noted that he did not yell; he was entirely focused. He readied himself. Lee charged Naruto strait on and engaged him with quick punches and kicks. Naruto slipped around the punches and deflected others, but the ones he deflected seemed to still have a heavy impact. Naruto realized that one of those punches could put him out for good. He ducked under another punch and caught the leg that came up for a kick and threw Lee backwards to get some space. Lee stood in his ready position, not even winded. Naruto stood back up and got back in his stance. Lee once again rushed him, instead of just blocking or deflecting Naruto threw punches and kicks back. Naruto managed to land a few punches that were not very powerful until Lee hit him square in the chest. Naruto slid back five feet dragging his feet the whole way. Lee was there in his ready stance watching Naruto carefully. Naruto spit up some blood and smiled. This time Naruto charged in and put Lee on the defensive soon Naruto was able to land a solid hit on Lee's shoulder. The hit spun him around and made him lose his bearings. Naruto capitalized on this and pressed his attack soon they were in a stand still trading punches and kicks, neither getting solid hits and both smiling.

Gai was standing on the sidelines where it sounded like thunder from a huge thunderstorm was raining down. He watched as Naruto and Lee fought on even grounds.

There was a resounding crack as Naruto and Lee's fists collided and pushed against each other, neither one was willing to admit defeat. The ground around Naruto and Lee started to compress and crack under the pressure. Both started to yell and put every ounce of strength they had into it. Suddenly Lee flew backward at high speed and collided with a tree. Naruto walked up to Lee breathing heavily and reached out his hand. Lee was able to stay conscious and extended his hand to Naruto, who pulled him up and supported him over to his sensei.

"WHAT A YOUTHFUL SPAR THAT WAS!"

"Lee suddenly stood up strait, "GAI-SENSEI! I WILL TRAIN EVEN HARDER AND WILL WIN IN OUR NEXT SPAR!"

"LEE"

"GAI-SENSEI"

"LEE"

"GAI-SENSEI"

"They both hugged and a sunset on a beach appeared behind them. Naruto, try as he might could not look away as the scene played out in front of him. His eye started twitching and his mind seemed to focus on nothing but the scene in front of him. As soon as it was done Naruto collapsed and was twitching and foaming at the mouth.

Lee looked in concern at his new rival, "NARUTO-SAN ARE YOU ALRIGHT?! QUICK GAI-SENSEI, TO THE HOSPITAL!"

The two green clad ninja's took off in a green blur carrying Naruto between them.

-The next day-

Naruto exited the mental treatment section of the hospital. "It's okay, I'm fine. All I have to do is not think about it."

Naruto jumped up to the roofs and went to the one place he could always count on to have the best food in the world, Ichiraku's.

Naruto sat down at the bar and quickly getting a bowl set down in front of him. Teuchi winked at him, but had too many customers to stay and talk. Naruto just enjoyed his ramen.

Later he found team ten at their usual barbeque place. Naruto walked up to their table and nodded his head at Shikamaru.

He bowed, "Asuma-san, I was wondering if you could show me how to use the chakra blades you are so famous for. In return I will do anything you ask of me."

Asuma looked up from his meal, "I guess I could show you a thing or two since my team has the rest of the day off. In return I would like you to deliver a message for me. I would go myself but I am just too lazy."

Naruto nodded with a straight face but was super excited to learn how to wield chakra blades. Asuma got up and walked slowly toward a training field. On the way he lit up a cigarette and took a deep drag.

'It is so strange that Asuma is one of the only wind users I know of and he is the only ninja that smokes.' Naruto shrugged his shoulders at the thought.

Finally they arrived at a training ground.

Asuma turned around and pulled out his knives and stood in a ready position. "These trench knives are made out of chakra conducting material. I use my wind chakra and pump it though the material. This makes the knives almost indestructible and sharp enough to cut through steel."

He tossed one of the knives to Naruto who caught it with ease. "Remember when you pump chakra into the blade that the more you put in the bigger it will get. I wouldn't advise using a large amount of chakra, because it will eventually erode the metal and they will be harder to work with. Also remember that these knives are specially made to use wind chakra. They won't respond if you use regular chakra or a different chakra nature."

Naruto listened intently and once Asuma finished held the blade out in front of him. He put some wind chakra into the blade and could feel that it was working, but couldn't tell how long it was. He looked up at Asuma questionably.

Asuma just pumped wind chakra into his blade and swung it at the empty space to the side of the blade. Asuma's blade stopped and he slid his knife down until he got about two feet from the edge of Naruto's blade.

"I would say that you probably don't want to have the blade any longer than this. Try to put less chakra in to it."

Naruto focused and brought down the chakra level slowly. After a few minutes Asuma's blade slipped off of the invisible wind-blade.

"There you go. Now remember how that feels. That is where you are going to want to keep the length when you fight."

Naruto nodded, "Thank you for the lesson."

Asuma nodded his head, "Oh, wait. I almost forgot. You can also charge the blades with chakra and throw them."

He threw the blade he had without charging it and it stuck cleanly into a tree. He motioned for the other knife, which Naruto threw him. He charged the second blade and throws it through a boulder and stuck it in the tree behind it.

"Do you see the differences?"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Yes, Thank you again for the lesson Asuma-san."

Asuma nodded and handed Nauto an envelope, "I need you to deliver this to Kurunei. She hangs out with that Anko woman, I'm sure you have heard about her by now."

Naruto shook his head no.

Asuma just shook his head, "just be careful kid."

Naruto headed straight for the ninja outfitting section of the shopping district. He walked into an older looking shop and looked around. No one was there but there were weapons of all sizes and shapes all around the store. Naruto walked up to the counter and knocked on the wood and waited for someone to help him. Not too much later a young girl came out of the back with sweat pouring off of her from working on the weapons.

"Can I help you?"

"I think so. Do you sell chakra blades here?"

"Yes, but they are much more expensive."

Naruto nodded, "That's fine I need two sets, one or wind chakra and one for lighting chakra."

The girl behind the counter scribbled the order on a piece of paper, "What shape would you like them in?"

"Umm, I guess trench knives like Asuma-san has."

"The girl smiled, "Well aren't you lucky. I am the one who makes his blades for him so I have an extra set of the wind chakra ones. The lighting chakra set will take about a week to make. You can pay for both now if you want and take the wind chakra ones and pick up the lighting chakra set in a week if you want."

Naruto shrugged, "Why not."

She smiled and handed him the receipt. Naruto's eyebrows rose at the price, but he didn't say anything and handed over the money in cash. Now it was the girls turn to raise her eyebrows. She took the money and handed over the wind blades.

Naruto took them and for the first time appreciated the amazing craftsmanship. The blade was curved slightly though the back of the blade was completely straight. The material had straight ridges that provided better grip. He ran a finger horizontally across the blade. The blade seemed to stick to his skin, indicating how incredibly sharp it was.

The girl behind the counter smiled at his approving eye, "If you ever need a new set just come back and ask for Tenten, okay?"

"Yeah, sure thing."

He started to leave before being stopped by Tenten who was holding a pouch for the knives. "Those are really sharp and might cut through anything else you put them in." She handed him the pouch, "It's on the house." She then turned around and disappeared back into the shop.

Naruto yelled out a thank you and put the knives into the pouch and strapped them to his upper thighs.

From there he went to find Kurunei. Though he did not know where she might be he decided that starting with asking the Hokage would be a good idea. He made his way towards the Hokage tower, but before he could get there he heard a drunken woman screaming that she didn't want to go home.

Naruto curiously jumped up to the roof as one woman chased after the other.

"Get Back here Anko! You have to go home you can't stay out here drunk by yourself."

"Ta hell I can't! I'll do what I want!"

Naruto caught up to the one who was chasing Anko, "Umm, I know this is a bad time but are you Kurunei?"

The Jonin looked irritated at him, "Yes, yes, What do you want?"

Naruto held out the letter, "Asuma-san wanted you to have this."

Just as Kurunei was about to accept the letter Anko dashed in and took it. Kurunei sped after her.

Anko started reading, "OHHH, That man of yours is a feisty one. I can't believe he would do those sorts of things to you… Wow I haven't even tried that before."

Kurunei's face became super red and she instantly used one of her best genjutsu's to shut her up. She then glared at Naruto who held his hands up in innocents and slowly backed away.

That was weird. Now to work on the stuff that Jiraiya-sensei left for me.'

Naruto found a secluded training ground that no one uses. He opened his mind and did not feel any chakra signatures coming from anywhere near him. He then unrolled the scroll that Jiraiya had given him he practiced on the nin-jutsu that he had left until it was dark and he was sweaty and tired and even with the foxes help was bordering on chakra exhaustion. Naruto got himself back to his apartment and collapsed on the bed and fell asleep instantly.

Soooooooo how was it? Please review and tel me what you think. I will try to keep on schedule for updates but no promises.

-Konoha Civilian out!