AN: Hello and welcome everybody to the 4th chapter of Naruto and the OAT! In this chapter we see the start of the training of Naruto under Guy. Next chapter will continue with that with generous timeskip, ending just before Naruto is sent for the second time to the Academy. The chapter after that should deal with his second chapter and what he learns then.
Also, look forward to an update for MotC coming soon, either this week or the next, and an update for HI after that. I'll try to update my newest story A Chronicle of Worm somewhere along the way, and I'm happy to announce that my Bleach/Gintama crossover is now finally getting its butt into gear, so maybe I can get the first chapter out sometime during this month.
March is gonna be crazy! :D
Also, beware; capslock. Lots and lots of capslock.
Chapter 4 – Training, Youth and flying lessons
Naruto couldn't help but grin. In fact, he hadn't stopped grinning from the moment Jiji had given him permission to train his new technique. He had even assigned him a teacher! Sure, Bushy-Brow Sensei was more than just a little weird, what with his massive eyebrows and his weird hair. And while Naruto could admire the man's dedication to a single colour (Naruto was still trying to scavenge an outfit that consisted solely of the colour orange) he had to wonder about what the man had chosen to wear.
A spandex jumpsuit?
Really?
Naruto shook his head, shaking of his musings about his teacher's wardrobe choices. He had more important matters to concern himself with after all.
He was going to train!
Actually train, not just mucking about by himself on some abandoned Academy training ground, trying to replicate what the teachers had thought in class that day.
Something that became noticeably more difficult when he didn't show up for class in the first place.
But today would be different! He had been forced to wait for about a week after being discharged from the hospital in order to heal from his chakra-burns and the lingering damage to his body, but today he had been finally cleared to start with training.
Today, a teacher would help him train his technique, and teach him about chakra and strengthening his body and... and... and, well, about other ninja stuff Naruto supposed.
He hadn't been in the Academy long enough (or often enough, for that matter) to really understand the full scope of what a ninja was capable of, and thus all the fields they needed to train in in order to become proficient in them.
Finally managing to control himself enough to stop bouncing in place, Naruto snapped to attention, trying to imitate the 'at ease' position that he saw other ninja fall into when around his Jiji. Focusing his attention, Naruto could tell by the man's amused smile he hadn't quite pulled it off.
He wanted to scowl at the man's smile; experience had skewed Naruto's perception of other people's expressions and social interactions, not helped by being so isolated himself.
In Naruto's young and somewhat stunted mind, a smile was almost always an indication of derision or condescension. The only exceptions to this were his Jiji and the nice people at Ichiraku's, and he knew those people close enough to be able to tell the difference.
He didn't know his impromptu sensei though.
Any suspicion from Naruto's side was waved off though, when the man crinkled his eyes and gave a grin which literally sparkled. Bushy-Brow Sensei gave him a thumbs-up, standing in a dramatic pose as he did so.
"YOSH, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT! IN THE YEAR THAT YOU WILL STUDY UNDER ME, WE SHALL ENDEVAOUR TO STRENGTHEN YOUR BODY SO THAT IT CAN HANDLE THE INFERNO THAT IS YOUR TRULY YOUTHFUL FLAMES OF CHAKRA! IF YOU STUDY HARD AND WORK EVEN HARDER, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU CAN USE YOUR YOUTHFUL TECHNIQUE SAFELY BY THE END OF THE YEAR!"
Naruto blinked a couple times at his new sensei, who was still standing in his weird pose, absentmindedly rubbing his ear.
Bushy-Brow sensei had a set of lungs on him, if nothing else at least.
Seeing that his sensei had dropped out of his pose (finally) and was now staring at him in anticipation, Naruto realized he had yet to answer the man's loud boast.
Internally shrugging, Naruto decided to go for a 'if you can't beat them, join them' mentality, and snapped to attention, his left hand lifted to his temple.
"OSSU!"
"YOSH!"
Unknown to both sensei and student, a few blocks away, a certain Copy Cat Ninja felt a chill shudder down his spine. The silver-haired ninja warily checked his surroundings from behind his orange book, but saw nothing immediately threatening around him.
In fact, all seemed utterly peaceful and normal on this sunny day.
'Then why did I just have a sense of doom filling me?' Sharingan no Kakashi thought to himself with another shudder.
"NOW THEN, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT, THE FIRST THING I WISH FOR YOU TO DO IS TO REPEAT WHAT YOU DID BEFORE YOU UNLEASHED YOUR YOUTHFUL ATTACK!", Bushy-Brow Sensei bellowed again, sparkling grin still on his face.
Naruto managed to hide his wince at the man's boisterous volume, before fully registering what the odd man had just said. Raising his hand as if he were still in the classroom at the Academy, Naruto waved it impatiently.
His sensei appeared confused at the action at first, before giving an amused nod.
Dropping his hand and again falling into an imitation of the 'at ease' form, Naruto spoke up as seriously as he could.
"But Bushy-Brow Sensei, isn't that dangerous? The last time I did that, I ended up in the Hospital for two whole days!"
His Sensei nodded a few times in contemplation, stroking his chin in a serious manner, adopting a thoughtful pose. Suddenly his hand whipped out at incredible speeds, finger pointing at Naruto, who let out an 'eep!' of surprise and fell over.
"FIRSTLY, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT, MY NAME IS NOT BUSHY-BROW SENSEI."
Naruto worked himself to his feet, only to be bowled over again, as his sensei continued talking; now holding up a second finger.
"SECONDLY, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT, YOU WILL NOT ACTUALLY BE PREFORMING THE ATTACK! I SIMPLY WISH FOR YOU TO DO THE SAME THING YOU DID BEFORE YOU UNLEASHED YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH, AND THEN HOLD IT THERE!"
Naruto worked himself to his feet again, worry still clear on his face, but was startled out of his musings when he felt a large hand clamp down on his shoulder. Looking up, Naruto stared at the face of his sensei, who was now smiling without showing all of his teeth, his eyes crinkled in the same way his Jiji's would when the man was amused.
"Please do not worry yourself, Uzumaki-san. As long as you are my student, I swear that no undue harm shall befall you. You have my word for it.", the odd man said in a comforting tone of voice, completely serious.
Naruto felt himself reassured at the man's quiet words, and gave a determined nod. His sensei gave an approving one in return and took a few steps back, arms crossed in front of his chest.
"Whenever you are ready, Uzumaki-san, please proceed."
Steeling himself, Naruto closed his eyes and spread his feet, falling in the same stance he had used when he had first connected with his chakra. Holding his hands up in the ram-seal, used for the focusing of chakra, Naruto tried to recall what he had done about a week ago.
He slowed his breathing easy enough, but once again, Naruto's mind couldn't empty itself properly.
(Though there were numerous people within Konoha that would claim this was because Naruto's mind was empty to begin with. Naruto disagreed.)
Naruto was acutely aware of his teacher watching him, and felt incredibly self-conscious. On top of that, his mind kept flashing back to the reflection of himself that he had seen when he had been inside the seal.
Which was also a sense of turmoil for the small child. While it had been incredibly reassuring to hear his Jiji think of him like a hero instead of a demon, it didn't ease the sting from the insults of the other villagers. In fact, they only hurt even more now; before, he had been able to reassure himself that the villagers had simply been mean and spiteful, their words only fuelled by, and based on, hate.
Apparently, they held at least a kernel of truth, no matter how ignorant of said truth the people were.
All of this, lead to a very troubled child, that simply couldn't get his mind to become clear and empty. His mounting frustration at his continued failures with the technique were certainly not helping in that regard.
Right as he was about to give up, he heard the reassuring voice of his teacher, who was still speaking in his soft, gentle tone of voice.
"Feel free to take your time, Uzumaki-san. Connecting with your chakra is a very difficult task to accomplish, but the more you do it, the easier it will become. For now, clear your thoughts; if you find this to be difficult, then focus instead on something soothing, like your breathing."
Taking his teacher's advice to heart, Naruto tried to stop letting his thoughts and doubts run rampant, firmly shoving them to the back of his mind, ignoring them for now. Instead, he focused on his breathing, trying to give it his entire attention.
'Breathe in.'
'Breathe out.'
'Breathe in.'
'And out'
'In.'
'Out.'
And so it continued. Slowly, the various thoughts and doubts that had been gnawing at Naruto's consciousness started to fade away, his mind clearing. Then the outside world started to fall away; the rustling of the leaves, the feel of wind on his face, the gaze of his teacher on his form.
'In.'
'Out.'
As the outside world ceased to exist, and his mind became empty of all thought, Naruto finally achieved the mental state required to interact with one's chakra.
'In.'
'Out.'
Immediately he felt that something was different.
The first time he had tried to connect to his chakra, he had 'fallen' away from his own body, coming upon his chakra that appeared to him like a sun. When he had returned to his body, the light of his chakra had followed him, coursing wildly through the passageways in his body.
And, apparently, it hadn't left.
Instead of 'falling' away from his body towards the light, Naruto felt its familiar warmth storm throughout his chakra system, a light that raced throughout his very being.
Focusing on the torrents of chakra, Naruto felt a secondary source of light, sporadically entering his system, before being assimilated in his own chakra.
'The Kyuubi?'
It made sense in a way. Whereas Naruto's own chakra felt like a sun, bright and life-giving, the other chakra was like a different kind of sun, scorching and baleful.
'Matches his personality, at least.' Naruto snorted mentally.
He couldn't tell for certain, but he thought he got a faint sense of annoyance from the back of his mind.
Ignoring it for now, Naruto focused again on his own light. He started to urge it to go faster through his veins, to draw more from the central 'core' of light that shone from somewhere around his belly. Slowly, the amount of chakra coursing through his body started to increase, carefully at first, but growing wilder every second.
Naruto didn't know it, but he was once again surrounded by a shroud of energy, swirling around him like a maelstrom, digging deep grooves in the ground.
"Thank you Uzumaki-san, that's quite enough. Please try to keep it at this level." Suddenly came the voice of Bushy-Brow Sensei.
"I can draw on more!" Naruto quickly said, not wanting to give a weak impression to his teacher.
"Really?" came the surprised reply.
Naruto couldn't see it, but Might Guy had an impressed look on his face. The Jounin thought carefully for a moment, before shaking his head.
"While that is certainly impressive, it would be better to keep it to this level for now. You are after all only recently healed from severe chakra-burns, and if you were to draw on more, it might impede with my own observations of how your technique works."
Naruto was somewhat disappointed he couldn't really cut loose, but his teacher made sense. So he stopped drawing on more chakra and instead tried to keep the chakra he had called upon from returning to his core.
"Good, very good, Naruto-kun. Now, please prepare to throw a punch like the one you had thrown when you first experimented with this technique, but do not throw the punch itself. If you feel as if you cannot contain it anymore, please try to simply let the chakra naturally recede. If this fails, please alert me, and I will make sure you do not injure yourself."
Naruto was briefly apprehensive about preparing to throw a punch again; after all, the last one had left him in a pretty bad shape. He quickly shoved it to the side though. This time, he had a teacher to help him and keep him safe, so there was nothing to fear.
On top of that, how was he ever going to become Hokage when he was too scared to even use his own techniques?
A determined frown on his face, Naruto cocked back his fist, keeping it close to his body. He started to slowly guide the chakra running through his body to pool into his fist, slowly increasing the amount in a controlled manner.
After all, teacher or no, a little caution never hurt anybody.
Because he still had his eyes closed Naruto didn't see the effect his efforts had on his clenched fist; like before, it was encased in a swirling cloak of chakra, far denser than the one surrounding the rest of his body, appearing almost as a physical construct that obscured his fist in swirling blue.
Guy, however, paying close attention to his student, did see the results of Naruto's efforts and barely contained a gasp.
'That…! That is almost like the Fourth's Technique!'
Guy was shaken from his revelation by a grunt from Naruto. The boy had his face scrounged up in determination, his teeth clenched in the effort to contain his power.
"S-Sensei. I don't think I can control anymore chakra." Naruto ground out between his teeth, sweat pouring down his face.
"Then do not call upon further amounts of chakra, Naruto. Simply try to maintain the amount you have now gathered in your fist. Remember, try not to throw a punch yet, and should you lose control, give me a warning."
Naruto gave a curt not, before starting to tone down the amount of chakra he had been pulling towards his fist. It proved to be more difficult than he had originally thought it would be. The chakra system circulated chakra throughout the body, much like the blood vessels do with blood. This meant that fully cutting off the flow of chakra to a specific part of the body was not only nearly impossible, it could have dire consequences.
More importantly to Naruto, however, this meant that his chakra system kept circulating chakra towards his fist, where it was being added to the amount already gathered. He could feel his control slowly slip with each heartbeat.
"Sensei! I can't control it anymore!" Naruto yelled, panic slowly creeping into his voice.
Guy-sensei remained calm though, his tone steady and controlled, calming Naruto down somewhat.
"No need to worry Naruto-kun. Simply try to let go of the chakra you have gathered, letting it flow naturally into the rest of your system."
Giving a hurried nod, Naruto tried to take a deep breath, taking care to not let all of the gathered energy dissipate too fast.
He had a feeling that would end badly.
However, as he started to lose his hold on the chakra pooled into his fist, Naruto encountered a significant problem.
The chakra wouldn't leave.
Instead, the more Naruto loosened his hold on it, the wilder it became, making containing it increasingly difficult. On the outside, this manifested itself in a destabilizing of the whirlpool of blue surrounding Naruto's fist.
Might Guy took notice of this with a worried frown.
"Sensei?!" Naruto asked, unable to keep the building panic from his voice.
He had felt something similar to this when his Jiji had arrived when he had experimented with his chakra the first time around; the uncontrollable chakra, not willing to stand down, violently churning within his body, searching for an explosive release.
Unbidden, his mangled reflection returned to the forefront of his mind's eye, and Naruto barely managed to keep himself from a full-out panic attack.
"SENSEI?!"
"CONTROL YOURSELF SMALL ONE!"
'Kyuubi?'
Naruto was so surprised by the thunderous voice of the demon contained within the seal inscribed on his stomach, he simply forgot to panic.
"Indeed."Came the dry response.
"Cease your panicking small one, it will do you no good."
'Well, what else am I supposed to do then?! In case you haven't noticed, my chakra won't listen to me anymore!"
"Take care of the tone you take with me, little one." the Kyuubi growled dangerously low, making Naruto involuntarily gulp in apprehension.
"Now, your chakra obviously doesn't wish to simply dissipate, and losing your hold on it will simply cause it to behave out of control. So, instead of lamenting what your chakra won't do, try to work with what you do have."
The knowledge that the fox had a plan calmed Naruto down somewhat, and he felt his panic slowly ebb away.
'So, what do I have?'
He could almost feel the demon fox roll his eyes.
"You have a powerful attack, and a very accomplished teacher. Contain your chakra, bring it under your control once more, and tell your Sensei that whatever he has prepared for you to keep you from being injured from your own attack, he should implement it now."
Naruto internally nodded, somehow having a feeling that the Kyuubi 'saw' the gesture.
'Thanks Foxy-san!' Naruto mentally yelled, once again somehow feeling the Tailed Beast give an eye roll.
While this was happening, Might Guy had been regarding his student warily. The child had obviously panicked at the loss of control over his chakra, after failing to let it dissipate, calling out to him in fear.
However, just as Guy prepared himself to step in, Naruto had fallen silent, gaining a confused look on his face, and tilted his head, as if he were listening to something. The fear turned into confusion, and then turned into determination, Naruto sometimes giving a few nods to something Guy couldn't hear.
It felt as if he were watching only one end of a conversation.
And he had a sinking suspicion on who was on the other end of it.
'Apparently, the demon is capable of communication with Naruto-kun. The Hokage should be made aware of this as soon as possible.'
He was distracted from his musings by Naruto opening his eyes. Normally a bright, ocean blue, they now glowed with an inner power, making for quite an impressive sight, despite his student's young age. The child's face was still marred by apprehension, but the fear from before was now absent, instead having been replaced with remarkable determination.
"Sensei, I can't dissipate the chakra I have gathered. I'm going to have release it into a punch. Please prepare whatever technique you have that will keep me from harm." The boy said in the most serious voice he could manage, though Guy still heard the small tremor the blonde tried to hide.
He gave a grim smile, hoping it would reassure his student.
"I am ready, Naruto-kun. Whenever you feel ready, please continue."
Getting a nod from the child, he slid into his own stance, a slight variation to the standard Goken.
Naruto nodded back to his teacher, before cocking back his fist again. The clearing he and his sensei were standing on had no obstacles that Naruto could focus on, so he simply decided to punch forwards and hope for the best.
Letting out a yell, Naruto shot his fist out, the power behind the attack making Naruto streak forwards as well, upturning the ground underneath his feet. He almost feared that he would have a repeat of his first experiment as he approached the trees lining the clearing.
And these were all trees of the great Hashirama variant, big and thick, a far cry from the spindly sapling Naruto had collided with during his first attempt. Fear threatened to overwhelm him as his fist edged ever closer to the bark of the tree.
However, before he could make contact with the rough wood, his fist impacted something soft. A brief flash of green, let him know that his sensei had caught his punch.
'Wow! Sensei is really strong!' Naruto thought in awe, before his thought was cut off by pain starting to bloom in his arm and shoulder.
Time slowed to a crawl, allowing Naruto to see what the problem was; despite the power of his attack, his sensei remained unmoving, not giving even an inch. However, this meant that Naruto, who still had enormous forwards momentum, started to flatten his own arm.
Much like a wild cart would smash itself apart when it slammed into a wall.
However, it appeared that his sensei had come to the conclusion even before Naruto did. As time slowly started to speed up again, Naruto saw his sensei shift his grip, his arm moving backwards with Naruto's forwards momentum, his hand shifting its grip from Naruto's fist to his wrist.
Turning on his own axis, Bushy-Brow sensei pulled Naruto around, redirecting his momentum away from the tree. Now with his back towards the trees, Naruto almost let out a laugh; his sensei had done as promised and saved him from going 'splat' against one of the trees.
His laugh was cut off before it even had a chance to properly form, as now Naruto faced the clearing.
While still having a lot of kinetic energy, which had yet to dissipate.
And the ground looked rather uncomfortably hard.
Before Naruto could give voice to his fears though, his sensei shifted his stance once more. Before he had pulled Naruto level across his chest. Now he let the arm holding Naruto trail behind silently, while dipping it slightly downwards.
Meanwhile, Bushy-Brows sensei other arm extended to point straight up to the sky, even as he twisted his torso slightly. Naruto was briefly reminded of a ninja throwing something as far as possible…
… Before realising that his sensei was standing in the exact same position!
"Sensei?! SENSEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIII!"
Anything further Naruto would have like to have yelled was cut off though, as with a mighty heave, Bushy-Brows sensei threw Naruto high into the sky.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Naruto was completely unashamed to admit he was yelling like a little girl, while he sailed upwards through the sky, Konoha slowly becoming smaller below him. He dimly registered the Kyuubi swearing up an impressive storm in the back of his mind, but any thoughts he could have had about that was cut-off by the sheer terror that gripped him when he realized Konoha started to get bigger again.
He was falling back down.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Meanwhile, unknown to Naruto, several Nara who had been engrossed with the time-honoured clan tradition of cloud watching, blinked their eyes in surprise; something orange was sailing through the sky.
And it was screaming.
Almost simultaneously, many of the Nara chalked it up to having lain in the sun for too long and to the shock of the rest of the village and their families, got up to continue with their ninja duties.
As that was happening, high up in his office, looking out over the village, Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed to himself in contentment. The weather was great, and Naruto was finally cleared for training, which meant that Hiruzen at last had a moment of peace after a full week of being hounded by the hyperactive blond.
He had felt the massive amounts of chakra Naruto had called upon, naturally, and with a smile on his face turned towards that direction…
… only to see something orange fall down from the sky.
Slowly, a tick-mark started to form on his head, as his office was drowned in his potent Killing Intent, making his secretary outside break out in cold sweat.
Turning around, intent of making his way towards Naruto's training ground, Hiruzen saw that Salamander had already assembled the Hokage's personal bodyguard. The man's mask and crisp posture didn't betray anything.
As Hiruzen stalked past, his robes snapping around him, he ground out "Not. A. Word."
His Commander dipped his head.
"Of course Hokage-sama."
The amusement in the ninja's voice could not be concealed.
During all this, Hatake Kakashi, who had steadily felt a growing sense of doom travel down his spine, was now holed up in his apartment, kunai ready in his hand. His paranoid mind had begun to fray at the edges as his nerves remained strung on high alert during the day.
Ready for anything, Kakashi carefully moved over towards one of the windows looking out over Konoha, gently pushing away the blinds in order to look outside.
And saw something orange fall down from the sky.
Suddenly, the sense of dread that had followed him around all day increased exponentially.
Back with Naruto, the boy was still yelling his head off, only pausing to take short gasps of much needed air, before continuing to give voice to his fear.
By now, he had descended low enough that he could make out the ground of the clearing.
Which was rapidly getting closer.
'Foxy-san, I just want you to know, I had really hoped we could become friends sometime down the line.' Naruto thought dejectedly.
"I know little one. I appreciate it. Maybe we could have become friends." The Kyuubi answered gravely.
Naruto closed his eyes, prepared to meet the cold, unforgiving ground, and ready to go to the next life.
'Who knows, maybe they have an Ichiraku's there too?'
The ground got closer still, the wind whipping around Naruto's body, and he could almost feel how he was about to smash into the ground-
"YOSH! HAVE NO FEAR, MY STUDENT! I SHALL NOT LET YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH DIE OUT SO EASILY, HA HA HA!"
-only to be tackled by something solid. With an 'oomph!', Naruto felt strong arms catch him by the middle, his downwards momentum turned into a much lower, sideways one.
Naruto and his saviour skidded onto the ground, leaving a deep trench behind them. Naruto was carefully lowered to the ground, on which he thankfully splayed himself out, laying spread-eagled on his back looking up at the sky he had just descended from.
"WELL, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT? HOW DO YOU FEEL?"
Tiredly turning his head, Naruto looked at his sensei, who was standing next to him, wearing his signature sparkling grin. Completely whiped out by his training and the experience of falling from high up in the sky, Naruto simply blurted out the first thing his mind could come up with.
"You threw me."
Guy-sensei nodded, giving him a thumbs-up.
"INDEED. AND THEN I CAUGHT YOU."
Naruto stared at his teacher dumbfoundedly, before giving a groan and closing his eyes once more.
"I do not like that man." The Kyuubi groused from within Naruto's mind.
For once, he and the fox were in perfect agreement.
The next day saw Naruto and his sensei on the same training ground. Naruto stared dubiously and somewhat warily at his teacher.
Who looked like crap.
"Uhh, sensei? What the hell happened to you?"
His teacher tried to give him one of his sparkling grins, but couldn't quite pull it off due to the black eye and the split lip.
"Ah, my useful student. It would appear that both the Hokage and my Eternal Rival Hatake Kakashi… disagreed with my teaching methods."
His teacher's raspy voice thankfully kept him from using his more… boisterous volume, but Naruto couldn't help but feel somewhat concerned for the man.
Absolutely crazy or not, the man was still dedicated to teaching Naruto, which earned him some concern at least.
"But are you alright?" Naruto asked tentatively.
Something he had said must have hit his teacher deeply, because suddenly the man was right there, shaking Naruto by the shoulders, a waterfall of tears flowing from his eyes.
"AH MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT! THE CONCERN FOR YOUR TEACHER'S HEALTH FUELS MY FLAMES TO UNKOWN HEIGHTS! I SWEAR I WILL INCREASE YOUR FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH SO MUCH THAT IT MAY RIVAL THE GREATNESS OF YOUR HEART! AND IF I CANNOT DO THAT, I WILL RUN AROUND KONOHA 300 TIMES ON MY HANDS!"
Naruto was a little taken aback by the man's odd behaviour and loud voice, but couldn't help but become enthusiastic himself. This man was gonna make him strong, dattebayo! He made a promise, and to Naruto, a promise was more binding than any contract that could be written down on paper.
"OSSU! How do we start!?"
Drawing himself to his full height, on hand on his hip, the other raising a finger to the sky, Bushy-Brow sensei looked at Naruto with flames of determination in his eyes.
"IN ORDER TO FAN YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH TO AN INFERNO…!"
"Yeah?!"
"IN ORDER TO BECOME THE STRONGEST THAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY BE…!"
"YEAH?!"
"WE SHALL START YOUR GRUELLING, BUT ULTIMATELY WORTH IT, TRAINING REGIME WITH…!"
"COME ON JUST TELL ME ALREADY!"
"Push-ups."
….
"NAAAANIIIII?!"
AN: Nothing much to say here, except that Guy-sensei is probably on of my favorite anime characters in anime history? Who is numer two, you ask? Lee-kun of course :)
Fun Fact: The reason the ninjas all wear protective headbands is because Naruto originally wore goggles (he still does in the first episode), but Kishimoto thought it took too long to draw the goggles, so he replaced them with the forehead protector.