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Training
Ryuu stepped into the clearing, stopping as he watched Guy train his students. He shook his head in amusement. Guy looked like an older clone of Lee. Right down to their unnaturally shiny white teeth and eyebrows. If Ryuu had to guess, he'd say Guy was his father.
Finally, the genin stopped, Neji glaring at him.
"What do you want Uchiha?" Neji demanded.
"I need to speak with your sensei for a moment," Ryuu said.
Guy nodded, walking over to him. "How can I help you?"
"I'd like to request permission to be trained by you for a while," Ryuu said. "In addition to the training I already receive."
"Why?" Guy asked.
"Because I can't keep up with Lee," Ryuu said. "My Sharingan can't even track his movements. I have another friend who's even faster than him but I can't see often. And I know that Itachi may try to finish me someday. And if he does, I know he's stronger than Lee. So...I need to be faster. For that, I need to be trained by you."
"What about your own Jonin sensei?" Guy asked.
"I don't have one," Ryuu said. "I was an extra, so I'm being trained by an ANBU member in between their missions and for my own missions I'm simply attached to other teams as back up."
"I see," Guy nodded. "Sure. But I can't promise to have much time for you. I have to get my own team ready for the Chunin exams."
"Oh, are they coming up?" Ryuu asked. "How do you enter?"
"Your Jonin Sensei has to recommend you," Guy said. "And you have to have a team of three."
Ryuu nodded, sighing. "Okay, so what's first?"
"Put these on," Guy said, pulling out a set of leg weights.
Ryuu strapped the strips of weights onto his lower legs, lifting his legs experimentally and instantly seeing he was going to have trouble lifting them higher than half their normal height. Guy nodded approvingly.
"Now, run twenty laps around the village," Guy said, Ryuu staring at him.
"You're kidding," Ryuu said.
"He's not," Tenten said sympathetically. "It's a warm up."
Ryuu sighed and nodded, turning and beginning to run. As he ran, Yugao and Kakashi both found him, jogging over to run next to him, staring at the weights.
"I see," Kakashi nodded. "That's going to be hard. Probably the hardest thing you've ever done."
"I know," Ryuu nodded. "But since I'm not allowed to become a Chunin, I figure I might as well find a way to train well."
"Yes, about that," Kakashi said. "We're trying to find you a team."
"It's fine," Ryuu said. "I'm not a part of one normally, so there's no reason why I should have one for the Chunin exams."
"While true, you are a shinobi," Kakashi said. "We'll find you a team, don't you worry. Just try to get along with them."
Ryuu nodded and Kakashi branched off. Yugao turned to him, jogging backward.
"Are you sure you can handle Might Guy's training?" Yugao asked.
"No," Ryuu said. "But I have to try."
Yugao nodded and also left, Ryuu facing the front and continuing his run. After hours of running, he finally slowed to a stop in the clearing again, drenched in sweat and barely on his feet. Neji saw his condition and snickered, Lee nodded approvingly, Guy grinned and gave him a thumbs up, and Tenten gave him a sympathetic look.
"Right, good run time," Guy said. "Next up, do three hundred pull ups."
Ryuu slumped forward before walking to a tree, struggling to walk up it to a branch then hanging from it, beginning to do pull ups. After fifteen, he dropped, landing heavily and panting. He looked back up at the branch before sighing. Hours later again, he finally fell off the branch, finally having somehow managed to pull off doing three hundred pull ups. He wasn't surprised by the next one.
"Five hundred push ups," Guy said, now sparring with his genin team.
Ryuu rolled over, beginning to do pushups. Fortunately, the extra weight was on his feet this time, so the push ups were only made harder by the pull ups beforehand. After about an hour, he finished his push ups and stood, turning to Guy who nodded.
"Good. Lee, spar with him," Guy said. Carefully."
Lee nodded, crouching then sprinting at Ryuu. Ryuu dove to the side, struggling back to his feet and gritting his teeth as he forced his arms up, his muscles not wanting to respond. Lee reached him almost instantly, throwing a punch. Ryuu ducked under it, arms beginning to respond again as adrenaline kicked in. Lee's next punch he blocked only for a kick to slam into his gut almost instantly, throwing him backward. He flipped, crashing down in a roll before rolling to his feet as Lee streaked forward for a straight punch. Ryuu dropped, sweeping at Lee's legs but Lee picked his feet up, his momentum not only carrying him past Ryuu but slamming his feet into Ryuu's face first.
Ryuu groaned, slowly pushing himself up as Lee waited patiently, one hand a fist behind himself, legs straight and nearly together, and his left hand held vertically in front of himself with his fingers extended and joined and his thumb across his palm. Ryuu staggered as he stood, then regained his footing and readied himself, nodding. Lee shot forward, Ryuu throwing a punch. Lee ducked down and to the side of the punch, driving his own punch into Ryuu's jaw. The next thing Ryuu knew, he was lying under a tree. He sat up, wincing as his beyond fatigued muscles protested and his jaw throbbed painfully. He looked around, seeing the weights sitting beside him and Yugao was beside him, her mask in her lap and a shinobi sitting in front of her, a reg-hilted katana beside him in the grass.
"Oh, you're awake," the shinobi said. "I'm Hayate Gekko. I'll be the proctor for the third portion of the Chunin Exams. Yugao asked me to help train you, as well."
"Oh, joy," Ryuu sighed. "More training."
"He's a Kenjutsu master," Yugao explained. "He's still training me in Kenjutsu."
Ryuu nodded, understanding, and stood, drawing his tanto, arm nearly falling limp from even that small amount of weight.
"Not yet," Hayate said. "You're in no condition to train in Kenjutsu. I'm going to teach you a jutsu first. Try to learn it without your Sharingan first. It's better that you can do it without first. In case you need to use it but don't have enough energy for Sharingan."
Ryuu nodded, sheathing his tanto and sitting down as Hayate explained the Transparency Jutsu, a jutsu that allowed the user to turn almost totally invisible. He demonstrated it, the only thing remaining being a barely visible distortion where he was, which Ryuu only noticed because he knew where to look. After a few minutes of memorizing the hand seals, Ryuu tried it, successfully managing to turn his arms and torso in visible, but leaving his head and legs. He released the jutsu, trying again, getting a little further this time. The jutsu didn't require very much chakra, thankfully. It was mostly a matter of control.
Finally, Ryuu sighed, letting his hands fall and leaning back against the tree, wiping some sweat from his forehead. "Yugao, do you think it would be possible for me to learn some Medical Ninjutsu?"
"Probably," Yugao nodded. "I also plan to turn you into a Sensory Ninja."
"Man, I'm going to be a jack of all trades," Ryuu grinned tiredly. "Okay. I think I need to go home for now."
"I'll get your weights," Yugao said. "You head home now. By the way, I got you a team. I had to pull a lot of strings to, but I found two shinobi willing to take the exam. Also, Guy can't train you anymore. He and his team got a last minute mission before the exams. He'l be out of the village until just before it. We'll be doing all of your training weighted from now on. That's what Lee does."
Ryuu nodded and pushed himself up. "See you in the morning then."
Yugao nodded and Ryuu left, making his way slowly back to his and Sasuke's house. Then, he dropped onto his bed and passed out instantly.
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