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 up and coming 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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It has been three days since Naruto had started the next part of his training, and one week since the preliminary rounds had ended. Naruto had been correct in the assumption that he would be dead on his feet after every day of training. When he came home, he would have just enough strength in him to make and dispel a shadow clone. This was so he can relay his experience to any shadow clones he had around. Through the course of the days, Jiraiya was metaphorically and literally cramming information in his head. Naruto never received any rest, especially since his sensei knew how much endurance he had. The moment he was finished one subject, they would move on to the next. If Naruto never understood a spoken explanation, he learned by being demonstrated on. Naruto had to admit that while the lessons hurt, he was learning faster because of it. The only part of the day that didn't have any practical lessons were seals. Jiraiya told Naruto to work on his handwriting before he can even begin making seals, so at this point the class was only theoretical. Jiraiya also taught under the belief of starting from the foundation and working your way up, so Naruto got to revisit and properly learn many things from the academy that he didn't care enough to remember the first time.
Besides his training with Ero-sennin, Naruto's independent sessions were bearing much fruit. Naruto was already making substantial progress before, but when the training with Jiraiya was added, his progress was multiplied. The clones working with weapons, like shuriken and kunai, continued increasing speed, precision, and accuracy. Naruto discovered from that group that they found a way to apply the shadow clone justu to the shuriken and kunai, where they could just make copies of the weapons, they even found a way to do this after the projectile has already been thrown. Naruto had learnt a lot of the jutsus that he copied from the library, only really having trouble with the higher tier ones. Naruto also had assigned clones to learn how to do fire and and wind jutsus with as few seals as possible. Something which Naruto found out was possible from Ero-sennin's teachings. Naruto chakra control increased day by day, which allowed him to improve all across the board, but medical ninjutsu and genjustu was still a improbable for him. After the first day of his new lessons with his sensei, Naruto decided to add a new group of clones that would only work on his calligraphy for seals, as a result his handwriting was unrecognizable from his academy days. Naruto was even on the final part of his fire affinity training, which he found surprising considering it wasn't even his main element. The only setbacks he had during training ,strangely enough, was in his wind affinity training, which he was supposed to have a strong affinity for. He was still on the first exercise, and he still didn't have a clue on how to complete it. Naruto had done many things with the leaf, even some things that could be passed off as a tear down the middle, but he was never able to get his chakra to cleanly cut through the leaf. Naruto already made up his mind to find help if he didn't get any results in the next few days.
The one lesson Naruto learnt best from all this was that Shadow clones were truly bullshit. He could get hours and hours of experience in anything he wanted, and because they were clones, he didn't have to worry about harming himself. It turns out, that Mizuki was even a better teacher than Iruka.
Currently Naruto was trying out a new training routine that he was planning on doing once every week. Naruto was standing in the center of about one hundred clones, that were standing in a wide circle around him. All the clone's were standing in fighting position, ready to launch off their feet in a moments notice. The original Naruto cracked his necked, and rotated his arms before he got in a similar position as his clones. "Let's go!"
One by one each clone started to run towards Naruto and tried to attack him. Naruto would block, parry, counter, or dodge every hit. One clone would come with an overhead flying kick, and Naruto would spin his body in a way where it would miss, and come around with a kick of his own. Another comes from behind Naruto trying to attempt to attack at a blind spot, but before a hit could land Naruto flips over the clone, putting one hand on the clone's back to help the maneuver. Naruto gripped the clones shirt and the process of the flip and threw the clone at another one who was preparing to do a jutsu, dispelling both of them. The clones switched up and started attacking in two's, making Naruto have to work harder than before. From an outsider's perspective it was clear that the original was faster than the army of clones by a good amount, despite that Naruto was starting to get glancing blows and cuts. A clone, seeing that Naruto was wearing down, decided to finish it in one blow. The clone quickly made a bird seal. " Wind Style: Air Bullets!" Three balls of pressurized air shot out of the clones mouth towards his maker. Naruto dispatched the clone he was fighting, and tuned towards the incoming projectiles while going through seals. " Earth Style: Mud Wall!" A portion of the ground shot up to intercept the bullets of air, and when they collided, they exploded into rubble and debris, covering the area with rocks and smoke. Naruto did a simple wind justu to clear the smoke, and paused at what he saw next. All of the clones which were left, which was about twenty-something, were in the air facing Naruto, flashing through the same justu.
"Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullets!" they cried in unison. Then a countless number of expelled air balls filled the air, and they were all headed for Naruto at a frightening speed.
BOOOOOOM
A large explosion happened in the middle of the field, the resounding noise resonating through the air. The smoke from the combined blast took several moments to clear by itself, all of the clones waiting watching the impact point without lowering their guards. When it was visible enough for them to see, they peered in. Now where once the original stood, there was just a big crater, that looked as if multiple bombs were set off to dig it, and at the very bottom of the hole there was one small man-sized hole, partially hidden by dirt and rocks.
"What the he-" one of the clones said, but before it could finished it was interrupted by a loud voice.
"Over here idiots!" said a figure that launched in the air from the forest. The airborne ninja made a tiger seal and inhaled widely. "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Exhale.
A massive orb of roaring flames burst out of Naruto's mouth flying towards where the clones were gathered. Before they could move the attack hit the clones,
BOOOOOOOM
erupting into a magnificent explosion of fire. Naruto landed in a crouch on the ground, breathing hard from the exertion of his latest activity. He stood up from the ground, brilliant crimson light bathing him, and started to stretch.
"You got all that" breathed out Naruto towards the treetops of a few trees. Up in the tree several clones sitting on branches gave Naruto the thumbs up.
Naruto had thought of the idea for the exercise he was currently using after trying to run a couple of his laps with the weights off. He ended up tripping countless times, and crashed into a couple trees. Naruto was then able to figure out that he did successfully gain more speed, it was just that he wasn't use to moving at them. He knew that this would hinder him if he ever decided to take off his weights in a fight and decided that he needed a way to get use to going fast and he came up with the one against a hundred exercise. He would summon a hundred clones while he had weights on, then he would take the weights off and fight against all of them. He also had a couple clones observing the entire thing from afar. Naruto planned to do this once a week, so that he would feel comfortable when he got rid of his bands. But Naruto only completed the first part of the exercise.
"you ready to go again boss,"One of the clones said.
Naruto was going to keep sparring until he couldn't move anymore, he was determined to be prepared for all situations.
"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!"
*POOF*
A hundred clones, surrounded Naruto once again.
"*sigh* Let's do this" Then Naruto charged.
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Later that day, Naruto was lying in a heap after one of his and Ero-sennin's sparing matches, like always. Unlike always, Jiraiya didn't immediately go off searching for the nearest bath house, and stayed behind to talk to Naruto for a few moments.
"Hey Naruto," Jiraiya said to the pile of meat that was once Naruto." I realized today during our sealing lesson that I have never seen you write before, so I don't really have a clue how long it would take until you were ready to do fuinjutsu."
"uuuuh" groaned Naruto.
Jiraiya ignored Naruto and kept on talking."So in light of that fact, I decided to finally see now before it slips my mind and I never remember."
Moans of pain was the only thing the toad sage received in response.
"Well here's some paper," said Jiraiya pulling out paper from his pouch, still ignoring Naruto's condition."and here's something to write with." he also pulled out a inked brush and held both items in front of Naruto's limp body.
Naruto didn't do anything for a few moments, but then he took the two objects and started to do something on the paper. After he was done he threw them both on the ground.
Jiraiya walked over to the sheet and picked it up. He looked at what was on the paper with scrutiny. "While you need to work on your artwork, Your strokes and brushes are near flawless." complimented Jiraiya. On the paper was a drawing of a deformed Jiraiya with horns sticking from his actual head, instead of his forehead protector. Underneath the drawing were the kanji for "Akuma". Anyone who saw the picture would have to admit that while the drawing was crude, it was still elegantly done. " It's practically unheard of for someone to have this good of handwriting starting off, huh. You really are full of surprises." Jiraiya said chuckling." Tomorrow come with some sealing supplies, you are going to need them for your fuinjutsu lesson." with that, Jiraiya stalked away, presumably out to find some more research.
Naruto was still in the same position he was in ten minutes ago, a bloody lump. "oooooooh"
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The next morning Naruto was walking into Higarashi's weapon shop, on his way to the training ground he trained with Jiraiya at.
*Ring*
"Hello, Mr. Higarashi!?" Naruto called out. He noticed that the store was empty
"I'll be out in just a minute!" shouted the owner in response from the back. True to his word, only a moment later did did Ishi emerge from the back door. He was wearing gloves, had on goggles, and was greasy, so Naruto assumed he was doing some work. "Oh Naruto, your back already? did you already need your things replaced, or are you here for a different reason?"
"I'm actually here to get something new," Naruto responded. "How many blank sealing scrolls and papers do you have?"
"A lot of them, we order them in bulk but not too many ninja buy them, I was considering reducing the amount we order."
Naruto shook his head and pulled out Gama-chan. "No need to do that, I want to buy every one you have." he said, pulling out the required amount.
"While this solves the problem of my current stock of sealing materials, what you just ordered should last you a while, and there would be no need for you to come back and but more when I restock."
"Trust me," Naruto replied. " I will go through everything quick."
"...Okay?"
"I also need all the brushes and ink you have as well."
"Whatever, it's your money." Ishi went and gathered everything asked for, and rung it up. When Naruto saw the price on the cash register he almost started crying on the spot. He was thankful that he learnt to save every cent that he could at a young age.
'At least it's for a good cause' whimpered Naruto in his head. "*sigh* Here you go... Now that I think about it, I am probably going to need a storage scroll for all this."
Once they was finished with the dilemma of sealing everything, they was finally set to go.
"Pleasure doing business with you kid" Ishi said." Matter fact I have a couple propositions for you if you are willing to hear them, and they all involve making a little cash."
Naruto, who had just witnessed the death of his wallet, was eager to hear about anything that could his funds. " Sure, I'm up to hear whatever you got to say."
"Since your doing sealing, If you bring in some explosive tags and storage scrolls, I will pay you for them. I can never have too many of those, especially since they are one of the products most in-demand."
Naruto knew that with the lessons he was currently receiving, coupled with all of his clones, he could probably make a pretty penny with this job alone."That's sounds fine. What about the other one?"
"I have a usual delivery girl, that goes and picks up and drops off things for me from time to time. The problem is that she is a ninja and she can't always be there, so I usually have to request a mission for some genin to do. I am willing to make you my permanent backup and you will be the only one who gets the mission pay. I like to have familiar faces handling my stuff, and I feel like you are going to be a regular in my store."
Naruto thought this would also be a good way to make money, especially since he could just make clone do these jobs whenever he wanted. "Alright I'm game for both of them."
"Good, Just come in at any time for the tags and scrolls. I think I might have a delivery for you in a few days too, so come by and check." Ishi said. "Anything else you need."
"Yeah, Kind of. If you don't mind me asking," Naruto questioned."What were you doing before I came in?"
"Huh? Oh that? I was just sharpening up my swords."
'Sharpening... Hmmm.' mused Naruto." How exactly were you doing that?"
"I use a sharpening stone, which I use to grind against the sword. This sharpens and hones the blade the more I grind. Is there a reason for these questions?"
Naruto ignored him and just sat there thinking for a few moments. Naruto decided something and made the seal for a shadow clone. Naruto did this silently, because he was trying to get into the habit of not verbalizing his attacks, well unless, of course he wanted to be dramatic.
*Poof*
A clone appeared in the middle of the shop, but before the smoke even had a chance to dissipate, Naruto punched the copy in the jaw, causing it to dispel.
"...Uhh?" Ishi, the shop owner, just stood there confused while all this played out. " If that will be all... I will just leave you to it." Ishi went back to sharpening his swords.
Naruto was too busy getting over the fact that he might finally make some progress in wind manipulation to notice what Ishi did.
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Naruto finally arrived at the place where he trained with Jiraiya, after a quick stop to the training grounds to drop off most of his sealing materials. When he looked around to find Jiraiya, he was confuse because he spotted him behind what looked like a fortified wall made out of mud and rocks.
"Hey Ero-sennin what is that for?" Naruto asked pointing at the wall structure.
"Don't call me that idiot!" snapped Jiraiya, with his veins poking out. "and as for this? Well let's just call it a useful piece of scenery which I will be using as a resting post for the remainder of the day."
"..Whatever." waved off Naruto, not feeling like putting up with his sensei's antics today." So how come you didn't immediately try to hit me when I arrived, I thought evasive movements was first?"
"Today gaki we will only be working on fuinjutsu," explained Jiraiya" You have quickly grasped concepts of sealing in a short amount of time, so now it is time to get your practical knowledge up to where you are theoretically."
"Yes! Today I won't be going home in pain, I will just be sitting, and drawing. Maybe a few explosions, but none of them will be with me in them. I am ready to start Jiraiya-sensei."
"HAHA! Now that's more like it!" cheered Jiraiya. "Let's see how enthusiastic you will be at the end of the day" the sage said, mostly to himself. Naruto was crying and thanking the heavens at the moment, and didn't even know his sensei opened his mouth.
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A burnt and crispy Naruto is what showed up at training ground 9 that evening. Naruto also was burning mad. The clones weren't sure whether the smoke rising from his head was the result of his anger or whatever got him the way he looked.
"Stupid ass pervert. Resting post my ass, he was using it as a shield." grumbled out Naruto. No one told him how dangerous messing up a seal was, and even though he should have known that by his self, he wasn't expecting it to be so precise. Naruto blew himself up no less then two dozen times, and he wasn't even working on explosive tags when those happened. When he did try explosive tags, it looked like the entire Uchiha clan came back to life and decided to use that field as practice. A good thing is that he got use to fuinjutsu enough, where he won't be making as many mistakes as he did today again. Another upside is that, while he was more burnt than he has ever been in his life, he could still move and function unlike all the other training days. The fact that he could still move, and his chakra was full bothered Naruto, so he decided to come to the training ground to work himself to proper exhaustion.
"Hey boss, come over here" one clone yelled from the other side of the field. Naruto went over to him to see what he was called over for. "Check this out." the clone said holding out a leaf in his hands. Then right before Naruto eyes the leaf split cleanly into two, as if sliced by the finest blade. "Finally, Yes! I completed the first stage. Tel me did any clones start on the second part." "Yeah, there is a whole squad of clones down by the water fall trying to split it in half. We already accomplished it a couple times, but we are trying to achieve it with less and less numbers until only one is needed to split the whole waterfall." "This is great news. I'm guessing that since I didn't know about this previously that, none of the clones working on this dispelled." the clone sheepishly laughed, and rubbed the back of his head. "Oh yeah, I knew we were forgetting to do something." " It's alright, just dispel now, I am sure the knowledge of this will help other groups a lot." "YOSH!" "man how come more clones can't be like you" the clone didn't answer, it just smiled and dispelled itself into smoke.
Boom
Well that was what was suppose to happened, but instead of a cloud of smoke, it was a explosion of flames. Naruto barely jumped away, avoiding being burnt once again for the hundredth time today. Naruto landed a few meters back, and looked around to see all the clones laughing at him. Shortly after he received the memories from the clones. It seems one group discovered how to make clones explode, and all the clones decided that it would be something funny to demonstrate on Naruto when they saw him come in already burnt. Thankfully everything else that came out of the scheming clones mouth was true. Naruto was tempted to massacre all the clones he had, if they weren't working to improve for his betterment.
"I swear, where the hell do they get this from."
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There is only a week and a half left until the third round of the Chunin Exams, and Naruto's training was very productive. Pervy sage told him that they far exceeded what he expected to go over in just one month. Naruto was also coming up with more and more stuff too learn on his own too. He stopped going to Higarashi's to buy weights because he figured out how to mimic them with seals, and could now increase and decrease the amount of weight the seal was by application of his chakra. He mastered both exercises for fire and wind manipulation and was working on increasing his proficiency with all corresponding jutsus. When it came to sealing, Jiraiya told him he that he was picking it up faster than his last student, and considering his last student was the fourth Hokage, Naruto decided to take that as a compliment. On a side-note, Naruto was finally able to function normally after training with Jiraiya, he would only be sore for the rest of the day, and didn't have too immediately pass out.
Naruto did come back to Higarashi a few days after he bought his sealing supplies, and he already completed a few deliveries. He has also been delivering explosive tags and sealing scrolls twice every week. Naruto figures that once he was back to doing active missions, he would never be short on money. Naruto visited Hinata a couple more times too, and even ran into Hanabi again. Those meetings went exactly as the last ones, ending with both Hyuga's faces red, although for different reasons. He also was learning when to make a strategic exit when someone was gunning for your head.
Currently Naruto was warming up in front of Jiraiya, getting ready for their first lesson. It took him a few minutes of nothing happening to realize that his sensei wasn't going to attack him any time soon. Jiraiya beckoned him over with his hand, and gestured for him to sit down.
"Alright Naruto today I am going to teach you another Jutsu." Naruto started jumping up and down in place, and was about to verbalize his excitement. Jiraiya cut him off before he could get too far in his celebration. "But this one will be a little different kid."
Naruto sat back down, and stared at his sensei attentively. "What do you mean Pervy sage?"
Jiraiya was agitated, but decided to ignore the disrespect at the moment."I mean that this jutsu was made by the fourth Hokage himself, who taught it to me, and I in turn will teach it to you."
Naruto was looking starry-eyed at his teacher now. "What is it?"
Jiraiya put out his hand out and a spinning mass of chakra formed spherically in his palm."the Rasengan"
Naruto was mesmerized by the jutsu, and couldn't wait to learn it. Jiraiya reached into a previously unnoticed bag and pulled out two water balloons. He tossed one to Naruto and put the other in his right hand.
"First step is popping this balloon by spinning the water inside" *pop*" Now your not going to get it in your first try, bu-"
*pop*
"- huh!?"
Jiraiya looked over at Naruto and saw him with one wet hand and no balloon.
"Your right, it took me two tries." Jiraiya did't know what to say, so he just stood there stammering. "I mean after it didn't work the first time I just increased the rotations and bam!"
"yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Beginner's luck." Jiraiya pulled out a rubber ball and threw it at Naruto. " Try to pop that with just your-"
*pop*
"Come on!"
" really" Naruto deadpanned. " If there is one thing my chakra has in spades is density and power."
"Yeah whatever. The last step is combining both steps and then stabilizing it"
Naruto tried the last step, but unlike the other ones, he failed miserably. He tried a few more times and didn't get any closer to making anything resembling what his teacher had shown him earlier.
"Harder than you thought it would be huh?" Jiraiya told him. "The other two are really just to help with understanding the concept. This step is where you are going to need more than just natural ability and luck. Now try that later on your own time, we can start your regular training now."
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Naruto had just finished shopping for all the food he needed for his house. He also made a second trip to the library to see if he could gleam anymore useful information. Now all he had left to do was one more thing before he was done. Naruto discovered while he was training that it was easy for him to get a lot of cuts and scrapes. Naruto decided that the perfect thing for him to get to avoid all that was a mesh undershirt. An idea he got after seeing Jiraiya's one day when they was sparring.
Naruto walked into Higarashi's weapon shop, making the bell ring when he opened the door.
"Hello. How may I help you today" said a familiar girl at the front counter. "Hey wait, I know you. You're the guy that's going to be facing Neji in the finals."
"Yeah that's me. I'm Naruto, and if I remember correctly your one of his and brushy-brows teammates." said Naruto.
"brushy-brows?" she repeated while chuckling. "Yeah, that's me. The name's Tenten. I don't think I have seen you here before, is this your first visit?"
"Nope, I've had more than a few visits here already. Now its my turn to ask a question. Why are you-" Naruto stopped. He remembered Ishi telling him how he had a daughter on a genin team that worked for him sometimes, and now that Naruto thought about Tenten had way too many weapons for a any normal person to reasonably have." Never mind...i answered it myself."
"Okaay? So what were you looking for?"
"A mesh shirts that I could wear under my clothes. I also came to see if your dad had anymore deliveries but I can see that is a moot point."
"Deliveries?" she questioned. "Oh! My dad did say he found someone to take some of my load so I can train more. I guess you were the one he was talking about. Thanks for that!" Tenten went and got out of a box a stack of mesh shirts that looked around Naruto's size. " I think I got some that can fit you, but I'm not one hundred percent sure."
"That's okay" said Naruto, before he started to remove his shirt.
"W-Woah, What are you doing?" said Tenten. Her face gaining a pink hue. Its not that she hasn't seen any guy shirtless before. She was just surprised at how suddenly Naruto started stripping.
"Well I wasn't going to buy them and wait until I get home to find out I can't fit them. So I'm try it on now. Don't worry, I will still pay for the one I wear."
"That's not the problem here!" Tenten was more shocked than anything. People normally had more reserve than this in public. Naruto finally got his shirt off, and Tenten's jaw dropped when she saw his upper body. She would have never guessed that the boy wearing a bright orange jumpsuit, would have such defined abs, and a strong chest underneath it. Naruto put on the mesh clothing, and it didn't help to hide his body. The shirt barely fit and was tight around his lean muscular frame. Tenten had to admit that the by made for good eye-candy.
"Well look at that. It fits perfect. One would think that it being so tight would make it uncomfortable, but it feels completely fine. Thanks Tenten. I'll take the rest of the shirts."
Tenten shook her head, and continued to do her job. 'This isn't fair. I get two green weirdos, and a uptight jerk, while the useless pinky has three cute guys all on one team. Man some people get all the luck.'
Naruto put his regular shirt back on and paid for his purchases. "Thanks for the help Tenten"
"No problem. It was a slow day and I was getting bored. Come around anytime you want."
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It was a new day, and Naruto was headed back to the Hospital. Jiraiya came to his apartment that morning and told him he had two days to rest before the finals. Naruto was thankful he was finally getting a break. He always felt sore after their training, and that meant a lot considering he had advanced healing.
Naruto made his way inside the building and quickly walked to Hinata's room. When he arrived he heard some talking from behind the door, and wondered who else was visiting Hinata. Strangely enough, He hasn't ran into anybody else all the other times he had been here.
*Knock* *Knock*
"-Come in."
Naruto walked in and saw Hinata sitting on her bed back in her normal attire. Naruto noticed that their was someone else in the room glaring at him, and decided to ignore them.
"Hey Hinata. I see that you are finally getting out. You remember our plans to go to Ichiraku's?"
Hinata blushed a little from embarrassment. "Y-yeah I remember" She glanced at the other person in the room for a second.
"So let's go, right now is the perfect time to go because this is when less people usually come."
"um sorry I can't go. My father requested that I come straight home."
"Oh well that sucks. This is something that shouldn't be put off." Naruto said disappointingly. Then he turned to the other occupant of the room who had been glaring at him icily the whole time. Naruto just looked at them with a blank look on his face, which just made the person glare harder. The room became quiet.
"..."
"..."
"..."
Hinata didn't say anything because she wasn't sure how to settle the atmosphere. The other two just kept looking at each other. It seemed as if the silence would last forever, before Naruto suddenly broke it.
"Hinata, I think your baby sister might have gotten a few inches taller since I last saw her." Naruto said. Hanabi face immediately twisted into a deathly glare. "They grow so fast, don't they?"
"Your just begging to die, aren't you." Hanabi growled out."I suggest you leave before I have to traumatize my littler sister."
"huh, Little sister?" asked Naruto, looking around in exaggeration. "Where at?"
Like a replay of other times, Hanabi jumped at Naruto with plans to have him in pain and on the she could get to him though, Hinata jumped in the way.
"Sister, wait!"
"Get out of the way Hinata." seethed Hanabi. "He practically begged for it after he so boldly flirted with you in front of my face."
"Woah, hold up? Flir-"
"Shut up! No one is speaking to you oaf!"
"Sister, you can't hurt him. He has a match in the Chunin Exams in a couple days."
"Maybe that's something he should have thought of before he disrespected me, as well as you." She turned her eyes to Naruto. "Now, he'll be lucky to arrive in hearse."
"Wait, his first match is against Neji."
This was finally what got the smaller girl to stand down.
"Against Neji?" Hanabi asked. "Is that true?" she asked Naruto.
"Yeah, and I'm going to beat him black and blue until he crawls back to Hinata and apologizes." Naruto answered.
Hanabi just stared at Naruto for a few moments before turning around a leaving. "Come on Hinata, Father is expecting us."
"Bye Naruto." Hinata said while she made her way too the door. "I hope we can get ramen another day."
Naruto watch the two sister leave with an unreadable expression on his face. It was only after a few seconds did he finally release a huge breath he had been holding.
"Man, I seriously thought I was going to die." he whined. "What am I retarded?"
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It was officially the day of the Finals and Naruto was happier than anyone else that it was here. The combined weight of the anticipation and the boredom was killing him, and he was sure he was going to start picking fights if he had to wait any longer. The night before he tripled checked all his gear and ran through what he knew in his head over and over again. He almost couldn't fall asleep because of his impatience, but the day was finally here.
He worked long and hard this past month. He completed training for both of his affinities. Mastered countless techniques. Exhausted himself everyday. All of that for this moment. Well kind of, he was doing it to increase his skills to do better in the field but since he was officially on a month break for the Finals primarily it was for the Finals.
Naruto woke up two hours before he had to be at the stadium, and started getting ready for the day. He put his clothes on, attached his ninja equipment, and did a few stretches. Naruto ditched his old clothes for some new threads. Something that looked better(which wasn't that hard to do.), felt better, and lasted better. Naruto was finally ready to go, and he had and hour and forty-five minutes left. Wanting to psych himself down so he could be in a calm mind, he went to the middle of his floor and started meditating.
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AN: Okay this is the point I wanted to get to. All of the training is done, and I laid the foundation down for the story which means I can just write without thinking about what I need to establish. Next chapter is the third rounds, and No it won't be interrupted during the first fights. Just to let you know. When writing I am usually going to be following Naruto, meaning if he is somewhere, I probably won't cut to another scene, Unless I want to of course.
This chapter is shorter because most of the stuff I want to put in, happens after the invasion so I was coming up short. I am still longer than a lot of other people so I don't really care.
Alright I'm signing out
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