Chapter 3
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"OW! DAMMIT FOX, HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE DO THIS?!" exploded the
|Oh shut up you runt, this is basic chakra control, how much of a loser are you to not even climb a tree?!|
"Oh shut up, furball." protested Naruto, muttering the last part.
|I HEARD THAT BRAT!|
Soon after reading through the book, Ways to Increase Chakra Control, and finding out if he brought chakra to his feet he could walk up walls, he started on the widest tree he could find, only being a tad bit wider than the span of him. The Kyuubi suggested he use Kage-Bunshin, and he could get down his control faster when dispelling them all. Which he thanked the fox for endlessly. If someone were to arrive at the training field, they'd have quite a sight to behold, it must have been at least twenty-five Naruto copies running up, falling, and cursing underneath their breath every time they landed, they slowly had gotten farther and farther, not much, but progress nonetheless. The Narutos must have been around at least seventy, if not eighty-percent up the tree.
|You passed the hour mark, you know what to do.|
This statement only made Naruto nod, and dispel all the clones, gaining the experience of twenty-five times the amount of training that the blonde himself did.
|Alright, this time I got in the bag! I don't even need clones this time!|
|Hah, less talk, and more training move it brat!| The fox ordered.
|Oh be quiet and let me have my moment!|
The Kyuubi only laughed in response. However, as soon as Naruto ran up the tree, He passed his mark and kept going, and when he stopped at the top of the tree, this time he didn't slip and crash tumbling to the ground, but he finally stayed sticking to the side of the tree.
"YES! I DID IT! I DID IT! I DID IT!" exploded Naruto in celebration, jumping for joy, however, Naruto was forgetting that he wasn't attached to the tree until he hit the ground and shouted in pain.
|Hah! You can keep on a tree alright, as long as you don't pull that idiotic maneuver again.|
|Hey, come on! I can still do it…| grumbled the blonde, rubbing his head in pain.
|On any note, it's been a few hours, how about you get back home and make something healthy for once. Although now that you have the tree walking exercise down, I recommend making some Shadow Clones and leaving them here to practice water walking overnight, you can get back to reading the other books tomorrow morning.|
|Well won't I just stop using the chakra once I go to sleep, it did say in the book somewhere since chakra is just another bodily function, it'll slow down and prohibit me from using any Jutsu when sleeping.|
|Which would be true, if I wasn't the one supplying the chakra, I'll just be going through your coils, however, It will keep the Kage Bunshin active when they use chakra for water walking.| the Nine-Tails explained.
Naruto simply said an "ohhh." in understanding. However, with it getting close to 5 and using a small amount of the Kyuubi's chakra, or at least what small amount of it the fox put into Naruto, to make close to 20 Shadow clones, they immediately got to work on it and failed spectacularly, most falling into the water and one even bouncing off of the surface like a trampoline. The real blonde simply sweatdropped at the spectacle, then simply started to head home.
|Hey Kyuubi?| Naruto thought.
|Yes brat?|
|What's your reason for helping me so much?|
|HA! That's a question I thought you wouldn't ever ask! And to answer it I'll tell you this, I want out. I want to be free and live in the mountains and forests again, to be out of this damned seal and to live my life away from humans. So if I can't simply take out the seal myself I plan on making you strong enough one day to get me out of here yourself.| The fox elaborated.
|First off what would you do if you were out? And is that even possible to get you out without either of us dying?|
|First off I don't plan on telling you what I will do, at least not yet anyhow, and to be realistic, I don't know, I don't plan on lying to you and being worse then those humans you've met, but just know that I want there to be a way we both get out alive, even if it might be the worst experience of our lives.| The Kyuubi answered honestly, with clear seriousness in its voice.
Naruto walked in contemplation, If he were forced to be in someone else's mind all the time he'd probably grow a little stir-crazy too, but he wasn't sure if there could be a way to take the Kyuubi out of the seal, the Fourth had put it in a seal and was killed, ripping the Kyuubi out of one seems like it'd be more then dangerous.
|Oh believe me stir-crazy is an understatement, and I bet it'll be the most dangerous thing you will ever do, but thankfully you're nowhere near that level yet so I wouldn't worry about it yet.|
|Right forgot you could read my mind.| Thought Naruto, mentally chuckling at his tenant.
Soon after passing through the roads back home, avoiding some routes because some very non-sober, very unkind villagers at this time in the evening, he soon ended up back at his apartment, and then promptly collapsed into a chair.
|Kyuubi, you realize I can't cook right?|
|Kami you are helpless. Ask maybe the lady at that ramen stand, your friends with them right?|
|Yeah they're nice but pretty busy so I don't want to take up here free time, though maybe if I did stop eating there they'd probably be less busy. I'll check later. Just let me sleep and relax for now.| Thought the whisker-marked blonde, before falling asleep less than a second after thinking that.
|Hah! Just wait for tomorrow, runt, today was just a warm-up for what'll be happening!|
Albeit falling asleep, Naruto still felt a shiver go down his spine at those words.
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Naruto woke up early in the morning, with his back stiff however from sleeping in an uncomfortable chair. He went up to check his alarm clock to find out it was five in the morning, with the sun not even up yet.
|Ha, look who's finally awake brat, about time, now can you dispel those Kage-Bunshin I've been up all night.| The Fox said groggily, yawning afterward.
|Haha, yeah of course Kyuubi. How about you just sleep for today, I'll work on A Complete Guide to Taijutsu.| Thought Naruto, chuckling at Kyuubi's antics.
|Yeah, whatever is fine, just let me sleep.| (This was suddenly overtaken by sounds of grumbling and something about beauty rest)
Naruto then made the hand sign for the Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu, dispelling the clones and gathering all their memories and experience, he suddenly had a lot of memories of falling in cold water, which was not the best feeling in the world. Soon after feeling Kyuubi cut the mental link, he took his new clothes and decided to change into them. He had bought a few pairs instead of just the one, in fear of them getting dirty, or perhaps even tearing by a kunai or shuriken in a fight. As he changed and looked at himself in the mirror, he did admit he looked better than when wearing the orange onesie. The long sleeve shirt fits snugly around his body, however, it was slightly longer than other shirts, reaching a little over his waist, this however simply added more movement. He rolled up the sleeves for it was bound to be another sunny day, and as that usually come with, a hot one. His utility belt clipped onto the waistband of his pants, making it fit perfectly as well, Inside, he stored around the 30 kunai and shuriken each, putting empty scrolls along with paintbrushes and small cups of ink in his the bigger storage pockets on the belt that was closer to the front. His standard shinobi pants held no special modification, only possessing a small snack bar in his right pocket for later. He then went out and exited the apartment, looking at the area this early in the morning as he closed the door behind him. He soon made his way to the training ground, as he opened the book, A Complete Guide to Taijutsu, he started reading, right away, unfortunately, it said some form of sparring partner would be required.
"Uggghhhh…" Groaned Naruto in frustration.
"Surely there's some way to work around this?" he mumbled hopefully.
"Well… It doesn't have to exactly be someone else does it? I mean… If I used Shadow Clones… They'd work… Actually, why don't I just summon a whole bunch of them and train everything at once! Then I can just kick back and let them train for me!"
|You better do some strength training or I will murder you. Read Fuinjutsu and you'll know what I want you to do, stop trying to cut corners or I will make you break every bone in your body only for me to heal you and make you do it again, now I'm going back to sleep|
He hadn't even felt Kyuubi activate the link. Man, that fox was terrifying, it's as if Kami, who watched your every move, could talk and threaten you. However, on another note, he let some clones read the other books, as he also sent some to go back to the Shinobi Library, or in his case, Armory to see what jutsu he could find, and what other items he might need. The real Naruto, however, started reading Fuinjutsu: Level One. As he read through it he started to get interested in it, and even fascinated at everything he could do, privacy barriers, storage scrolls, courier messengers, chakra draining, barriers, and these were all low-rank seals! As he kept reading, however, they placed a few high-level Fuinjutsu in here, probably to make whoever read it want to continue reading the other books. However, this was like a goldmine to Naruto, he found what he presumed to be the seal Kyuubi was talking about, it was a gravity seal, while high-ranking at a B-rank, it increased the gravity on the wearer's body, up to ten times! He quickly issued some more clones to go back home and start on calligraphy, he had exceptional handwriting, but he knew it wouldn't be smooth enough yet to do some of these smoother seals. Naruto himself started on the smaller-ranked seals. After unveiling the scroll and then continuing to tear off strips of it to keep getting paper, he started practicing the chakra draining seal, as it was the most simple and seemed to be something that if put on an opponent unnoticed, could prove to be very beneficial. He continued copying down the seals from the book, constantly tearing off slips every time he made a mistake.
"Ah, this is harder than I thought… If I can get these down I'll know that I can get stronger, I can't let myself down now!" Yelled Naruto in determination, who soon became quiet, suddenly getting the feeling as if eyes were on him. He looked around trying not to look inconspicuous, albeit being worried that someone who would cause him trouble was near. He looked around only to notice that one of his clones dispelled, giving the memory to him, who found out who the culprit both was and where they were.
"Hinata, I know you're here, you can come out now."
"EEP!"
As someone walked out of the bushes, Naruto glanced them over, Hinata was a light-skinned girl with pupil-less eyes that seemed to almost have no white to them, with a sort of lavender or peach color replacing them, she had what looked like jet-black, possibly purple hair in the bright light, it was kept short for the most part, with two long points protruding downwards to just above her chin, she wore a pale tan jacket with white fur circling the bottom, while possessing dark blue pants that stopped halfway up her shin, with open-toed shinobi boots that went a bit above her ankle. Hinata had her kunai holder on her right leg, with her headband tied loosely around her neck.
"A-A-A-Ahhhhh…" Hinata sputtered.
"Hinata are you ok? You look like you should drink some water, you seem like you're pale as a ghost right now."
"WHO ARE YOU?!" The girl practically exploded. Which completely caught him off guard, from what he remembered at the academy, she rarely talked, nevermind shouted, so this was quite a surprise, enough a surprise in fact that almost fell backward, and he would have, if it had not been the sudden clone that appeared to keep him upwards, disappearing just as quickly.
"H-Hinata! What's wrong?! it's just me, Naruto! I know I got a change of clothes but that doesn't make me a different person!"
Hinata soon seemed to be reminded of where she was as she looked around and took in the sight there was to behold, around what must have been at least fifty solid copies of the blonde all doing something, ranging from what looked like drawing onto paper to having full-on fights with each other, as she soon remembered that this was truly Naruto.
"Hinata are you healthy? Now you look like you're on fire!"
"N-N-No, I'm f-fine! I'm s-sorry Naruto, I-It's n-not ok to s-spy."
"No! Don't worry about it! You can come over here any time you like!"
Hinata only nodded in response, trying to stay as composed as she could. However, right after that, another rustle in the brushes came, and this time both looked surprised.
"Shikamaru? What are you doing here?"
"Ah! S-Shikamaru! It's nice to s-see you!"
Who emerged was a plain-looking guy, his hair was pure black and pulled back, giving it the figure of the head of a pineapple, however, it wasn't long enough to stick out too much to end up becoming a problem, he had ring piercings in his hair, while also wearing a gray overcoat that went just underneath his chest, it had a sea-green border around the edges, underneath he had a gray mesh and fishnet undershirt, thick enough so it was barely see-through. He was equipped with brown pants that went a few inches above his ankles. He wore the standard sandals while also having his Hitai-ate on his left bicep, seemingly jumping off the overcoat, his kunai holder was also on his right leg, same as Hinata's.
"I saw Hinata walking around with her Byakugan active, at first I didn't want to follow because of the thought of it being too troublesome, but curiosity got the better of me, I followed her around thirty feet back the entire time, trying not to give myself away, I assumed she'd be trying to find you, to console you on not graduating, but it looks like there's nothing to console for." Said the now identified Shikamaru, pointing to the Hitai-ate that was clipped to Naruto's utility belt.
The blonde only chuckled and scratched the back of his head with a sheepish grin.
"Also congratulations Hinata, so you finally told him huh?"
This comment caused a mix of reactions across the trio, Naruto turned his head and asked Hinata what she wanted to tell him, while Hinata turned bright red and froze, Shikamaru just widened his eyes before sighing and muttering "Troublesome."
"Hey, Naruto, Iruka got out of the infirmary you know, you should probably go see him sometime soon."
"Wait, already Shikamaru? No way I gotta go see him now! Sorry guys, but I'll see you later, first I got to talk to Iruka!" Exclaimed Naruto, already making some clones to keep working on the low-ranking seals, while also completely forgetting about what Shikamaru had said beforehand.
While Naruto ran off in the distance, Shikamaru and Hinata exchanged some words such as "Troublesome.", "Sorry about that but at least you're out of it.", and "I-It's ok Shikamaru, T-Thanks for the r-recovery." Naruto, however, was long gone into the distance, enveloped by forest and nature that was in front of them. After running through the forest and across the rooftops, he ended up back at the doors of the academy, knocking on them excitedly. After waiting for a couple of minutes, Iruka opened the door and smiled at the sight.
"Ah! Naruto! I haven't seen you in a while, how are you doing?"
"Hah! It's only been a couple of days since there's no way it seemed that long! I've also never been better, Iruka-sensei!" Said Naruto, tackling the teacher into a hug that once released, the duo walked into the classroom.
"Well being stuck tended by doctors and nurses can make an hour feel like two. On another note I'm happy to hear how you've been doing, I thankfully got off the anesthetics soon into my stay, so I'm feeling better, less tired than before."
"How's your arm Iruka-Sensei?"
"Right now I can't use it at all, even if I try to move it, it just barely lifts, the surgeons did what they could, but now it'll be a while before I can get enough physical therapy to move it again. So for now I'm currently out of action."
"Oh… I should've done something faster."
"Naruto It isn't your fault. It happened before you even knew it was happening. You still saved my life regardless of whether or not I can use my arm. Besides, I'll get back to being an actual shinobi in no time!" Exclaimed Iruka, lightening up Naruto's downcast mood. "Now Naruto, I'm sure you're busy, as am I, so we can talk later tomorrow, Ichiraku's sound good?"
"YES, IT DOES!" Frantically yelled Naruto, nodding up and down sporadically.
"Hah! We'll meet there tomorrow, right now I have to get these teams in order."
"Make sure to put me on the best team Iruka-Sensei! Only something fitting of my expertise!"
Iruka only chuckled and slightly shook his head, waving Naruto out the door. As Naruto was returning to his small factorized training area, he first noticed both Shikamaru and Hinata were gone, instead, the clones he'd sent to pick up new jutsu and other items were back, and smiling big, As he came back to meet them face to face, they dropped a whole basket of what was a mix of books, scrolls, sealing paper, chakra paper, and some extra ink.
"We got what you wanted, boss!" Said the clones in unison, slightly creeping Naruto out, but his ecstatic joy overran it.
"Nice work, Now it's time for part three of our training, JUTSU!"
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\:/AN/ Third chapter is finally up! I think this was one a good one, I want Naruto's original personality to retain itself, and I hope I'm doing a good job of expressing him. But I apologize for the long delay on this chapter and I hope you enjoyed, Chapter four will be up soon and I plan on that being the last time we talk about Naruto's training, at least until teams are assigned. Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed, NarutoFanatic15 Out.\:/
