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Tsunade's Apprentice

They betrayed him, again. Now, like every other time he was left alone. What else would he do but train? He had to take his anger out on something. Punching the wooden log in front of him just happened to be a very adequate way to do it.

" (Pant) Just (pant) five (pant) more (pant)," muttered Naruto as he stopped to wipe his sweaty forehead, his headband long worn out from the days training.

He was training alone, again. But who else was he supposed to train with? Kakashi was training his "prodigy" and apparently, he didn't have time for anything else. Or he didn't care about anything else. Probably the later of the two, not that he would change though. Though Sakura did get lucky, she managed to frighten an old perverted Sannin, who she had caught peeping on her, into training her.

'She just wanted to be more powerful than me. She didn't want to be dead last.' Thought Naruto 'But no matter who I ask, they won't train me, not even Iruka…'

The Next Week

'So Sakura was assigned to find Stunned and ask her to become the new Hokage. Good for her! But isn't she a Sannin…if she doesn't want to be found, she could be really hard to find. At least this means that we will have a strong Hokage. I really will miss the old man though…' Naruto thought as he sat a top the lake behind the Hokage tower, practicing his chakra control.

Without someone to teach him new jutsu and techniques Naruto was stuck. Sure Kakashi would pass him on the street now and then but, he never even said hello, let alone teach hi jutsu. He dared not try jutsu on his own. He had once, but he almost killed himself for he could not control the jutsu. He did not wish to take that risk again. So he just perfected his techniques. That was all he could do though….

'I'm changing' thought Naruto ' I think differently know'

His training became very intense. He would wake up and run laps around Konoha, he started at one hundred and added twenty-five every day. He would then swim around the Konoha Lake fifty times. As he dried he would practice his chakra control for hors. And if the sun was still up he would do push ups, sit ups and shin ups. It would be a quick dinner and then off to the library for him. If he didn't finish studying that night he would borrow some scrolls and read them on the weekends. He did not accept missions. He could not he had no team. But he was compensated, so he had money.

Those weeks changed Naruto. His diet, wardrobe, personality and even I.Q. changed in those weeks. And he totally withdrew from humanity. Yes, he was a completely different person.

The only times when human eyes gazed upon his figure, were when he grocery shopped or when he stopped at the library to borrow some scrolls. No one saw him at the spring festival, or the Celebration in Name of the new Hokage, Tsunade. Many thought him dead.

One Month Later

'So they are both gone now, wrapped in the lust for power. What idiots.' Naruto's fists clenched as his cerulean eyes gazed out the window 'Sasuke wants to be able to be Sakura and Sakura wants to bring back Sasuke. Either way, they think the only way they can do that is to become more powerful. It's sad, they are idiots.'

Just three minutes ago Kakashi had come to deliver the news. He told the story, of how Sasuke challenged Sakura and was over welled by her power, and how he wanting to become even stronger than her went with Orochimaru's servants. Of course it was still stupid to come within ten feet of Naruto without apologizing for his stupidity. He wouldn't leave the hospital the same man. That is, if he ever left the hospital.

With that he left to train.

Later

Tears Slid down Naruto's cheeks as he punch the wooden log in front of him. His was not crying because his knuckles were bleeding, no he would never cry from that, for he was crying because he did not want to believe the truth, and the truth hurt more than any wound.

" They are both meant to surpass me defeat me and eventually kill me," cried Naruto as he curled up into a ball. His knuckles already healing.

Unknown to him, sad eyes watched him from far away.

"I do need an apprentice…but I swore I wouldn't take another, although if I don't take another then Orochimaru and Jaraiya will have successors and Shizune is to old…yet…" thought the old woman as took another swig from her sake bottle.


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