Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
AN:Update - 01/18/2019
I'm generally just giving everything another look over before I completely derail this story, as well as canon, in my newest chapter.
Bear with the ideas of my previous 16 year old self, I am going to be changing some things. I'm sure few will be happy, and more will be angry.
People sure do love their trash fics. though I doubt that many people who have read the story before will come back and check it out.
No seriously, I am going back and rereading through this crap and I am astonished. How did anyone favorite this garbage. I struggle through my own paragraphs.
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"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
*poof*
"Yo, I'm Gamakichi. You got any snacks." said a small orange frog.
"UUUH! Finally" Naruto groaned. for the past three days Jiraiya had been teaching Naruto the summoning jutsu. Naruto had been having some difficulty with it. His chakra control, or more aptly his lack of it, didn't leave him with the ability to concentrate and direct his chakra that much. The feat would have taken much longer than three days, if Naruto didn't have his clones training as well.
/Flashback/
The moment Naruto left the pervert the first day, he rushed to training ground nine to make more clones. Once he got there, he dispelled all the previously working clones, which caused a brief moment of confusion with all the images flashing through his head. Naruto shook his head, and made a cross shape with his fingers.
"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!"
*poof* "Hell Yeah!" Naruto managed to make 2000 clones this time, and he still had chakra to spare. Naruto didn't want to get close to his maximum amount, because he still had to operate during the day, and he might need his chakra for something. Naruto examined his copies for a moment, pondering what to do with them. "Um...okay. I want the same groups as last time but ten times the amount. For the 1,000 left over, I want you to work on chakra control by grabbing leaves and sitting on water or tree branches and doing the leaf concentration exercise. Oh and those on the branches, I want you to be sitting on the bottom of it. Alright, Let's go!" The crowd of blondes just mumbled their agreements and left, some not saying anything at all. "Bastards, at least show some enthusiasm." Naruto said, with a tick mark. Naruto then started to work on his physical body, doing a more extreme version of what he did that morning. After a few hours ,Naruto stopped, finally reaching his limit."If I keep this up I should be able to refine my strength and skills, but I won't be able to do anything new." mused Naruto. suddenly getting an idea where to start, Naruto raced off towards the village.
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It was a slow day for Ishi Higarashi at his weapons shop, and he was occupying his time by sharpening a few of the blades he had. He was about to move on to a dulled kunai, when he heard the bell that was connected to the door chime. He swiftly cleaned up his area, and made his way to the front.."Hello. Welcome to Higarashi's tools, how can I help you." He said, looking down at short blonde-haired kid about his daughter's age.
Naruto didn't know what to think when he saw the huge man coming towards him, lumbering out the back, but he just hoped he didn't dislike him like in some of the other stores. Naruto never attempted to try to come inside this shop before, because usually when owners kick him out, they do it by throwing whatever is near them at him. That didn't sound like the best situation to end up in at a store full of deadly ninja weapons. Naruto only risked it today because he was just a shadow clone, and the original was no where near there. Thankfully, the man who came and greeted him showed no ill-will on his face, causing the clone to breathe a big sigh of relief.
"Hello sir. Uhh...I was actually looking to restock all my supplies, and ask to see if you carried any small weights that could be put on you ankles and arms?" Naruto responded.
"hmm well first lets get your first order, then we can deal with whatever you are asking for later." said Ishi.
Ishi then proceeded with getting everything Naruto asked for to replace his regular tools: shuriken, kunai, sealing scrolls, ninja wire, etc. After everything was packed up, and ready to be rung up, did they decide to continue their conversation. Before that though, clone Naruto wanted to ask about something he saw. " Excuse me sir, what are those blank pieces of paper, that you have in the display case there?" asked the clone. "Those? Oh, they're just chakra papers, and although they look normal, they cost a lot more than you would expect." And Naruto had to agree with him, it was too much for him to just get on a whim, he had to ask the boss about it before anything else.
"Okay, thanks. I wanted to ask earlier if you had any weights that could be put on a band or something?" questioned the clone.
"Yeah sure, we have plenty of those, and they already come with bands of different colors. Tell me what weight your looking for, and I'll bring them." said Ishi.
"I think I'll start with two 50 pound weights in black bands, and two 100 pound weight bands, that are also in black." ordered Naruto.
"Sure thing kid." Ishi went around the shop and started gathering the weights needed. Once he had them, he brought them to the front to be paid for. "Anything else?"
"Na-" almost declined Naruto, before he suddenly got a dazed look in his eyes. Naruto was in that state for only a second, before he snapped back to reality. " Actually, I would like to see the chakra papers."
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A little earlier, way across town, the original Naruto was running towards the library. The library was split into three parts, and each one had different requirements to get into. The first part was the civilian section, and it was open to all citizens of the leaf. The second part was the normal shinobi section, you had to be at least a genin to have access to it. The final part was the more restricted shinobi section, and you had to be chunin and above to read anything in it. Naruto knew most of what he would be looking for would be in the last section, but that wasn't a problem for him. The whole library is watched by three chunin, who sit at a desk in the middle of the front area. For Naruto, who has painted the Hokage Monument in broad daylight, and sneaked into the Hokage's office, this was basically nothing.
Naruto was scanning all the shelves for anything of interest, and whatever caught his eyes he threw on a table. He already amassed some books on elemental affinity, D-A ranked jutsus, chakra control exercises, and basic sealing. He had an interest in sealing because of obvious impact they have had on his life. Once he had all the books he wanted, he took a bunch of empty scrolls out his pocket and started the next step.
"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!"
*poof* Naruto made one clone for each thing he picked up. "Alright, I want each of you to pick something and copy it into a scroll, when your done, take it to our house and dispel yourself." "How about you, shut the hell up and do it yourself!" *poof* Naruto threw a scroll at the rude clones face. "Anyone else... Good." Naruto quickly made another clone to replace the last one, and left the library.
/Flashback/
Since then Naruto incorporated everything he learnt into his training. This allowed him to discover his strong affinity for wind, and slight affinity for fire. Naruto also started learning some more jutsus, and noticed how much easier it was to execute the ones that he had an affinity for. Naruto already made some headway on the leaf-cutting exercise, but he had hit a plateau and needed some help with that. Strangely enough the exercises for fire affinity were easier than the ones for wind. Naruto also started wearing the weighted bands once he got them, and also added more running to his set of physical workouts to do in the morning. All this and what he was doing before, is what Naruto's clones have been working on everyday while Naruto was training with Jiraiya.
The first thing Jiraiya did, was let Naruto sign the toad summoning contract. After Naruto did that, he was told to try to summon any size toad he could. Unsurprisingly for Jiraiya, Naruto could only summon tadpoles, and quickly worked himself into exhaustion trying to do more. When that happened, most of the times Naruto would be taught tactics, and strategies,well whenever Jiraiya wasn't out doing "research". Jiraiya knew that summoning would take a lot out of Naruto, so he didn't want to start anymore training until he was finished with that. Shockingly enough to him though, Naruto was able to summon a toad in three days, because of his liberal use of shadow-clones, something which Jiraiya never ran into before.
"Alright kid, you did a good job, but at the rate you are going now, you are never going to summon the boss," said the toad sage. Jiraiya was bluffing, he fully believed that by the end of the month, Naruto would have a good shot at being able to finally get it, but he wanted to move on to other stuff. "so we are going to try something different."
"What do you mean pervy sage?" wondered Naruto.
"Listen up, have you ever felt that you had two kinds of chakra in you."
Naruto knew exactly what Jiraiya was talking about. The red chakra that seems to comes out of nowhere. He remembers using it during his fight with Haku, as well as when he faced the snake freak. It made him way stronger, so strong he could stop a giant felt weird, more thicker, and more powerful than his regular chakra, also more wild. Naruto already had a good idea what it was. " You mean the Kyubi's chakra?"
Jiraiya looked shocked for a moment, before answering. "Yeah that's exactly what it is, I guess you are smarter than you look." An indignant Naruto was about to complain, but the Sannin kept talking. " I know that you have used the power before, but calling upon it consciously is different. If you are able to learn how to do that, you will always have something up your sleeves for when things go left."
"Yeah, I guess I se- Ack!" Naruto didn't get to finish because Jiraiya suddenly punched him in his gut hard, rendering him unconscious.
'If he can only bring up the Kyubi's chakra when under distress or when in extreme danger, the only way for him to learn how to do it actively is for him to remember how it feels.' concluded Jiraiya.'Forgive me Minato for what I am about to do.' He then picked up Naruto and started walking away.
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A while later Naruto woke up on the floor, rubbing his groggy eyes."uuugh- what just happened?" groaned Naruto, not noticing the white-haired man standing in front of him.
"We end your training today, if you don't complete it you die" Jiraiya said. He then pushed Naruto's forehead with one finger sending him backwards, down a slope that was covered by plants.
"Wuh?" Naruto was rolling through the bushes now, getting many scratches along the way. The slope finally ended, sending Naruto sliding out of the shrubbery. Unfortanately the ground ended there too, so he fell out of the bushes and into a giant deep chasm. "AAAAAAAGH?!"
Naruto was disoriented before so he didn't really process what was happening, but after he started falling he was wide awake. Aware enough to know what was happening and also who caused it, if his curses towards a certain pervert are any indication. Naruto was about to try catching himself on the walls using his chakra, but then he saw how spiky and wet they were and figured that would be a terrible idea. He would have tried to summon a toad, or even some clones, but he was all juiced out from training. 'That fucking bastard! If I survive this I am going to kill that pervert!' Damn. Naruto didn't know how he would survive this. After all the close calls Naruto had, he finally gets done in by his teacher."Hell no! I don't care if I am out of energy I'm not going to die here!" proclaimed Naruto. He then bit his finger and did the seals for the summoning jutsu. Naruto started trying to push whatever chakra he had left, closing his eyes from the strain. All of the sudden he didn't feel the wind whipping past his face, or the sensation of falling.
Naruto opened his eyes and found himself in a dark, murky sewer. When he looked around, he realized it was more of a flooded building or industrial factory than a sewer. Naruto felt a familiar feeling in his gut pulling him towards the direction of one of the doorways. Naruto followed this feeling through halls and turns, until he came upon a large chamber, that had a giant gate with a seal on the middle of it.
"So my esteemed warden finally comes to visit me." a deep rumbling voice sounded from behind the gate. pulsing the water out to the direction of Naruto
Naruto knew immediately what it was. "Kyubi?"
"No it's the other giant being in your stomach." the now identified Kyubi sarcastically said.
Naruto developed a tick mark after that remark, and lost some of the reservations he might have gained from the fact he was facing such a massive beast." Shut the hell up fur ball,why did you bring me here anyway."
"Cuz your dumb ass was about to get us killed." grumbled out the Kyubi.
"One: I wasn't about to do anything, I was THROWN off a cliff. Two, What do you mean us... oooh. heheheh. I get it now." Naruto said, finally thinking about what the Biju said."If I die, you die huh..." Naruto sat there and pondered for a while, before nodding his head to something he apparently figured out. "Well I guess that means only one thing-"
The Kyubi thinking he knew the depths of all humans thought that he had Naruto pinned too. Like any other mortal he would seek to have the Kyubi under his thumb and use his power for his own purpose. The Kyubi would rather die than be under someones control again, luckily it turned out that his container was one-step ahead of him and got himself thrown off a cliff. The tailed beast only brought him down here to give him a chance to honor his father's words, even if he didn't believe them. But it seems this human is just as he thought. Now that he found out the lack of control the Biju actually has over him, he will seek to put the Kyubi in submission.
"-we'll be working together from here on out. " declared Naruto.
'what!?'thought the Kyubi, eyes wide. There is no way he heard that right. "What did you say kid?"
"I said that we are partners. I don't want to die, and I am pretty sure you don't want to die. So if our lives depend on protecting my body, It is better for us to work together than to be against each other."Naruto clarified. "Plus I would rather have a good relationship with the big ass fox that's living inside of my body."
"GRRR! That makes no sense, I attacked your village,I am the reason you have no parents, I am the reason everyone despises you, why would you try to help me, what makes you so sure that I won't just kill you, then go back and destroy your village?!"
Naruto, completely misunderstanding the part about his parents, confidently responded "Because I get it. All I have been told all my life is that your a monster. The same thing was said about me. I know that sometimes the people that are despised the most, don't really deserve it. I think it would be better to hold my reservations about you until I see you actually did something wrong. And if it turns out everything everyone said about you is true, and you are just a big, evil fox..." Naruto grinned at him. "Then I'll find a way to finish what the Fourth Hokage started myself." Naruto finished with a determined smirk.
the Kyubi was quiet for a moment, before he started chuckling. "I guess your not as stupid as I thought, though you are still missing a few marbles for even thinking about threatening me."
"Heh, I never said it would be easy,"Naruto said. "But I never back down from anything!"
"Yeah, whatever." puffed out Kurama. "I'll allow some access to my chakra, so you don'y end up as a bloody smear."
"Gee thanks furball."
"With that, you have overstayed your welcome." growled out the Kyubi. "Also open up a history book sometime, the fourth hokage didn't start anything."
"Huh?"
Naruto eyes snapped open, and he found himself once again falling down the chasm. Naruto wasn't scared this time though. He could feel chakra running though him that didn't belong to him, but was his at the same time. He pushed the chakra towards his still outstretched hand, knowing it would be more than enough than what he needed.
"Summoning Justu!"
*POOF*
"Huh, What?! Where the hell am I! Jiraiya!"
Naruto was now standing on top of a humongous toad dressed in what seemed to be a yakuza uniform.
"Hey whose that on my head!" the toad called out.
Naruto ran down to the summon's nose so it could see him. " I was. Naruto Uzumaki, your new summoner." answered Naruto
The toad laughed "There's no way a shrimp like you could summon me! HAH!"
Naruto was starting to get pissed off." I was the one who summoned you, you piece of shit toad."
The summon stopped laughing, and looked at Naruto for a long time, before seemingly confirming something. "Alright then I guess I could make you my underling,"
"Um..Alright." said Naruto, not really knowing what was happening.'underling? is that how all summoning contracts work?'
"Now to initiate someone into the family I would usually see if they can hold there sake good enough to impress me, but since you are probably to young for that, I have to come up with something new." the toad sat there for a moment."hmmm, how about this. You get on my back, then I try to shake you off. If you can stay on till sunset, then you can join the family."
Naruto didn't like the sound of that. The only way he could stay on long enough, was for him to use chakra, and therein lies the problem. He couldn't use Kurama's chakra because he couldn't control it. He also couldn't use his, because that was just starting to replenish and was still at a low amount. Naruto was just about to humbly request(read: Beg) for the first test, when the toad suddenly shot out of the chasm.
"Alright! Let's see if you got what it takes." the giant amphibian said." By the way, I am the toad boss summons, Gamabunta, and don't you forget it runt." And with that he started jumping, and flailing around, trying to shake Naruto off.
Naruto was hanging for dear-life on the back of Gamabunta, turning greener and greener every passing moment. Naruto didn't think he would be able to survive until the end of this test, much less hang on for the entire time, But he isn't Naruto Uzumaki for nothing. The one thing he never does, is gives up.
*boing* *boing*
Naruto never questioned his nindo so hard in his life.' uugh, I'm never going to forgive that damn pervert.'
*Boing*
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Naruto woke up hours later to a white ceiling. Groaning, he sat up and looked around, and recognized the place he was currently at as the hospital. Naruto felt a presence next to him and turned to meet a pair of black eyes, staring right back at him.
"So, your finally awake huh?"
Naruto looked at the rest of the body, while matching voice to a person in his head, and he realized that Shikamaru was in his room.
"Shikamaru?"questioned Naruto. "Why are you here?"
"I was visiting Choji, when I heard that you were in the hospital too. So I decided to visit you." the Nara responded.
Naruto tried to ignore the way his chest warmed up at the thought of Shikamaru coming to see him. Naruto never really thought that he and the other genin were that close.
"Like Choji, I didn't really think you are the type to have girls visit him."
Naruto was about to retort with his own remark, but thought about something he just noticed. " Wait Choji's still in the hospital? I didn't think his injuries were that serious."
"They weren't. Choji ate too much and ended up landing himself in the hospital again." Shikamaru explained with a sigh.
"Oh, shouldv'e figured." Naruto then noticed a fruit basket, sitting on the edge of his bed.
Shikamaru, seeing where Naruto was looking, started talking. " I originally brought that for Choji, but the nurse said it wasn't good for him too have anything to eat, so I thought I might as well give it to you.
"Gee, thanks" deadpanned Naruto, trying to ignore the warm feeling that popped up again. " You know what we should do... eat this in front of Choji's face."
*Sigh*" Let's go, I don't have anything else to do."
Naruto got up and got dressed. He then grabbed the fruit basket and headed into the hallway with Shikamaru. On the way to Choji's room, Naruto got a cold feeling near his gut, and it was directing him to a another part of the hospital. He darted off to find the source of the chill, with a surprised Shikamaru following behind.
"Naruto, what's gotten into you?" spoke Shikamaru.
"I'm not sure, but if you follow me, you'll probably find out."
"How troublesome."Shikamaru complained, but he still followed.
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"well, that was intense." Shikamaru said, rolling his neck.
"Yeah, your telling me." responded Naruto listlessly. Shikamaru gave him a curious look but thankfully didn't say anything as they were approaching Choji's room. Shikamaru slid open the door, and was immediately verbally attacked by a feisty blonde girl.
"Where the hell were you? and what took you so long? and don't you know how to knock!" scolded Ino.
"Well we ran into a unplanned situation with a foreign ninja, and before that I was visiting Naruto." pacified Shikamaru.
"Naruto?" repeated Ino with confusion. " He's in the hospital? what's wrong with him? I just saw him a couple days ago and he looked fine."
Shikamaru shaking his head in annoyance. "Go ask him yourself" Shikamaru said."speaking of, Choji! you mind if Naruto comes in?" Shikamaru asked Choji, who was munching on some chips Ino gave him on his bed.
*munch**munch* "that's cool" *munch**munch* "I don't mind" Choji affirmed.
"Alright Naruto, he said you can come in" called Shikamaru. Naruto opened the door and walked in while cleaning his ear with a finger.
"Damn Ino, I'm sure the whole building could hear you screaming." Naruto then turned to Shikamaru. "I feel sorry for you, at least with Sasuke on our team, Sakura pretends that she is nice. No luck for you with Ino,"
*crack* Ino cracked her knuckles with her fist in her palm and smiled sweetly at naruto. "What's that supposed to mean huh?"
Naruto wisely took a step back. "hehe, oh nothing." he said with his hands up in a placating motion.
"Are you sure? You look like you still would like a few more days at the hospital."
"No I'm perfectly fine...uh Hey Choji. Hope you feel better. See you guys later. Bye!"
Naruto made a quick escape, not wanting to risk the wrath of the blonde girl.
'Man,'He thought. 'There have been too many violent people in my life recently, I'm seriously considering a change in careers.'
Now that Naruto was away from the others, he started to think back to the meeting he had with Gaara. A person, who was just like him, but also completely different. He shuddered at the thought. Not because he was scared, but because of the thought that this was how he could've have ended up. Thankfully, Konoha was still a good village to live in overall. He wouldn't have been so lucky in some of the other hidden villages if rumors are to be believed.
Naruto was walking down the hallway thinking about Gaara and the Kyubi, when he was thrown out his thoughts by crashing into a small girl, and accidentally sending her crashing into the ground.
"Oops, That was my fault. I'm very sorry. Are you okay?" asked Naruto, stretching out his hand to help the girl up.
The girl ignored the hand, and got up off the ground by herself. "Thanks, but no thanks. I can help myself." she said evenly. Now that the girl was off of the ground, Naruto had a good look at what she looked like. She was a very small petite girl, with long black hair. She had a very familiar face, and big white pupil-less eyes which signified the Hyuga Clan. Naruto stared at he for a moment, which quickly agitated her." Why are you staring at me?!" she demanded.
"It's just that... You are so Adorable." gushed Naruto. "Your like a plushy version of a real ninja."
Naruto decided to have a little fun with her. Not only did she reject his offer for help, but he never did like uptight people.
The Hyuga girl turned a little red from anger, and closed her eyes in an attempt to control her temper. "Don't call me adorable or plushy. And I am a real ninja." she growled out.
This just made Naruto gush harder. "Did you just Growl! Hahaha look at you playing shinobi. Where's your parents at little girl? Are you lost?"
The girl could feel her grasp on her emotions slipping. She clenched her fist at her side to reign back her oncoming explosion. "Do you know who you're talking to." she said with slightly puffed cheeks." You would apologize if you knew what was good for you."
"I just want to help find your parents. Do they know where you are?" teased Naruto. "Here take my hands , I'll walk you home."
"Stop treating me like a child, Treat me with respect!" she demanded, stomping a foot on the ground. She was losing her composure and wouldn't last much longer.
"I don't even know who you are little girl"
"Don't call me that! I am not little! " the Hyuga proclaimed. her voice was steadily raising higher and higher.
"Yes you are. But don't worry all kids are small when they're seven." Naruto said, trying to 'reassure' her.
"I'm 15!"
That surprised Naruto. True, he purposefully over shot her age, but he didn't think she was that old.
"Wow!, okay then, never mind, your not a little girl then." Naruto agreed. "Your a midget."
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" she yelled out and launched herself at Naruto. A flurry of jabs later, Naruto was now lying on the floor twitching.
"Hmph. Know your place next time." The girl said walking away.
"uhhh. Man that girl has an anger problem." Naruto groaned out. "Hello! Is there any nurses around? I would like to extend my stay."
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Hinata Hyuga was having a good day. The doctors just told her she was getting better without any complications, plus her older sister visited her. The only thing that could make this day better would be if-
*knock**knock*
"um, Come in" she called out.
The door slid open and Hinata's heart skipped a beat when she saw who it was.
"N-Naruto-Kun"
"Hey Hinata! How are you feeling?" Naruto asked, sitting down on a chair by the bed.
"Much better. The doctors even said I should get out before the end of the month." Hinata said, trying to calm her racing heart.
"That's awesome. Then the next time we meet it can be somewhere other than a hospital." Naruto said distastefully.
"next time?" Hinata repeated. She wasn't sure what reason Naruto would have to talk with her after she got released.
"Yeah! I hate hospitals, almost anywhere else is better. Ichiraku's is definitely a better place to hang out at." Naruto said offhandedly.
"um, Is Ichiraku's really that good?" questioned Hinata tentatively. "I never actually had it, but you make it seem like it's really good." Hinata had ramen before, and while it was good, she has had a lot better.
Naruto started gaping at her with his mouth open after she finished her question. He started turning pale and shakily pointed his finger at her. "Y-you n-never had Ichiraku's ramen before!" He was shocked how anyone could live like she had.
"...no."
"No wonder your so gloomy and dark!" Naruto said missing Hinata slump a little at his words. "I need to take you there ASAP! Its on me! I'll gladly cover the cost in this kind of emergency."
Hinata turned red. "T-take me!" she squeaked.
"yeah, I'll have to find you sometime after you get released, since we can't go today. This is something that has to be fixed as soon as we can."
Hinata felt a little woozy, and leaned a little back in her bed. She must have been worse off than she thought, and now she started hallucinating.
Naruto seeing her face start flushing, got concerned for her health. "Hey Hinata, you look a little feverish. Are you okay?"
"I-I'm fine. I probably just need to take a little nap. I should be okay once I wake up."
"Okay, I should probably leave you to sleep then. I wouldn't want you too miss out on Ichiraku's longer than you would have too." Naruto started too turn towards the door,but suddenly remembered something. "hey Hinata, do you have a little sister?"
Hinata chuckled, and nodded her head."Yes, but she's actually my older name is Hanabi, and she's two years older than me."
"No way! She's actually 15!" Naruto said shocked.
Hinata chuckled again. "Yeah, she's normally cool-headed, but when it comes to her size she starts to become sensitive."
Naruto started unconsciously rubbing the welts he just got. It took him a while to find a way up from the floor. "Your telling me."
"Why do you ask, Naruto?"
"Well I just met her in the hallway, and when I first met her, I definitely saw how cool she was but I found out the other part you mentioned the hard way." Naruto said wincing.
Hinata smiled at him. "She's not likely to forget that for some time too. Not too many people would say something like that to her, so she remembers the few that do." Hinata didn't think that was such a bad thing. Usually her sister only expresses herself when they were alone together. The way they were raised and the expectations put on Hanabi as the heir causes her to be stoic most of the time. Anytime she can shed that weight and show her emotions freely Hinata would be happy. Even if, unfortunately its at the expense of Naruto.
"Sorry Naruto-kun."
"huh? Why are you apologizing!?"
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After a long nights rest, and a morning at training ground 9, Naruto arrived at the clearing he and Jiraiya have been using for training. He saw Jiraiya at the center of the field reading a scroll, and made his way to him.
"Good morning pervy sage! What are we learning today?"
"What did I say about calling me that brat!?" Jiraiya scolded, bringing his fist down on Naruto's head."As for your question, well since you are finish your summoning training, we can start training you for real. What you were doing before was just a warm up. I have made up a whole schedule of what you will do for your training. I noticed that you took some interest in seals, so I decided to make it one of the things you will learn about. I tell you, you couldn't have picked a better teacher in seals than me kid! anyway the schedule is like this: First is Evasive techniques. then some seal work, Third is meditating under a waterfall, Number four is jutsu theory and application, and The very last thing is a spar between you and me, no hold barrels on Naruto's part.
When Naruto heard his upcoming daily schedule, he realized that he would be coming home broken after every training session. He was happy he had clones running around doing things for him, because he would have little time to do anything without them. Naruto had a little over three weeks until he had to fight in the chunin exams, and he was for damn sure going to take advantage of every second he had.
"Sounds Good pervy sage! what are you waiting for, let's start the first lesson."
Naruto quickly knew regret.
"Dodge!" said Jiraiya, who punched Naruto in his stomach, sending him flying to the other end of the field.
Naruto got up and wiped his mouth. He then ducked under one punched, just to get hit by a round house kick, shooting him off again, but this time towards a big rock wall. Naruto smashed into the wall then dropped. His collision caused pieces of the rock to fall off it, and bury Naruto in stones.. "So this is the future Hokage of the Leaf Village?" Jiraiya proclaimed." Can't say I'm too impressed. Come on Naruto, I wasn't even using 30% of my strength in those punches."
"gggrrr!" Naruto started to throw rocks up off him, and broke himself through the top of the stone heap."It doesn't matter what you see now, because I am going to become Hokage and I never go back on my words." Naruto declared, crouching down in preparation to dodge the next blow. "I'll just keep on getting hit until I no longer can."
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'Maybe Ichiraku's has some open positions'