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Uzumaki training.
"Okay... today I'm going to train you in utilizing the Uzumaki Style: Greater Strength."
"Sounds dangerous... and we have to be at a hot springs for this training... because?" Naruto enjoyed training with Kushina, and usually the training did happen near the water. Since their family manipulated water, it was kind of a requirement to train by or in the water in order for them to pick up and master new techniques.
Just towels wrapped around their body.
The steam in the air was thick enough to cut with a knife, and was hot enough that both women had sweat already forming on their bodies.
"Because it is important you feel this training with your body... and trust me, you don't want to be wearing clothes... it hurts worse if you fail that way... it is extremely easy to mess up, and very painful when you do..." Kushina would have paled if the heat wasn't bringing red to her face. "Come here and put your hand in this water." Kushina stated as she leaned next to the water and just dipped her hand in it.
Naruto followed her example and did the same thing.
"HOT!?"
"Oh yeah... this hot springs has water that is too hot for people to safely bathe in, so we use it to training... not to mention it is far enough away we can be naked, and nobody will see us." Kushina dropped her towel and allowed her body to show in all of it's glory. She sent Naruto a thumbs up, before she went through several handsigns. "... this training has 4 steps... and this is the 1st step... the goal is simple... submerge yourself in the water."
Kushina took a deep breath and grit her teeth, before taking a step in the water. She grunted in visible pain for a moment, before she walked into the water even more until the point that even her butt started to go under. Finally. she got to her ribcage, and finally stopped when her boobs started to float slightly on the surface of the water.
"Are you okay?"
"... It hurts to do this, even when you've done it before... you need to stay in the water long enough that you can truly memorize every single part of the healing, down to your bones." Kushina was visibly shaking in the effort it took for her to not jump out of the water. It was easy to fail and jump out of the water, which wearing boiling hot clothes meant that it took even longer to get them off and more suffering.
Naruto dropped her towel and took a step in the water, walking slowly and joining her mother, before she submerged herself to the shoulders, her boobs floating even more than Kushina's did.
"Gah... this sucks..."
"Okay... feel the water... feel the heat down to your bones... and memorize it... and yes... it does suck." Kushina quickly got out of the water, her body right pink everywhere that had touched the water. She panted and enjoyed the warm air touching her body, feeling cool when compared to what she had just experienced. "... look on the bright side... you don't have to worry about ruining your balls right now... perfect time to do this training." Kushina sent him a thumbs up.
There were benefits to the Gender Swap Awakening, like the fact that Naruto could do training that would be way more painful for a guy to do, with less pain and suffering than before. Kushina sat and crossed her legs, watching as Naruto gripped her fists and stayed in the water.
"Okay... so what even is the Greater Strength technique?" Naruto asked Kushina.
"The imitation of steam, bringing the kon in our body up to the limits of our body in heat. We boil our kon, leak it out of every pour in our body, and gain greater attacking power. The first step is memorizing the healing of boiling down to it's limits... and not just with our mind." Kushina explained the training. She took a deep breath, sucked in hot steam, before she cooled it inside of her body and released it as a breath filled with ice crystals, cooling the air around her and only her.
She took ice on her hands and started to rub her body up and down with it, sighing in sheer relief of how great it felt.
"What is step two?" Naruto was extremely sure that this was going to be the step that sucked the worst, because even now she felt like her body wanted to give out. "Let me guess... replicate it?"
"Don't get your nipples in a twist... complete Step 1 first. Naruto... oh shit!"
-Seconds Later-
"Okay... you CAN get out of the water before you start to pass out." Kushina had jumped in the water to force Naruto out when she had seen she had went too far, but instead of giving up and taking a break, she went to try and surpass her limits. "Actually, you NEED to get out at the perfect time. You need to learn at exactly what point your limit is at... if you get out too early, I push you back in... if you start to pass out, I drag you out." Kushina had never trained anyone in the technique herself, but now she could see why the technique required the master to be there for every step of the first step in training.
"But passing out is the limit."
"No, passing out is way past the limit... you need to get out of the water right before you even feel like you're going to pass out. Once you know where your actual limit is, it means you have memorized the heat." Kushina bonked Naruto on the head.
"Uh... what?" Naruto had no clue how that was suppose to work.
"You are training to know your limit, not surpass it. If you surpass your limit, it makes the training impossible... try it again when you're ready."
-Hours Later-
"Hup... this might not be the type of training for you."
The training for this technique was something that went against Naruto's very nature. Naruto, her child, by nature was unlike both her and Minato. Minato didn't try to surpass his limits, he trained to reach his limits and then he trained more to make it so that he could fight at his limit without expending effort or energy. She trained to her limit, but when she was the Kyuubi Jinchuriki, she could never risk going beyond her limit or else risk her seal. Minato created new techniques when he hit a wall, and she did the same thing.
Naruto was not like them.
He trained for the purpose of surpassing himself, and even as a girl, she still trained with that point in mind. Training to know your limits, but not surpass them, was something that fundamentally did not agree with the core of who Naruto was.
"Sorry Mom... Mom?"
"Oh... huh... what?" Kushina looked at Naruto, and saw concern.
"You were smiling."
"... Heh..." Kushina rubbed the back of her head. Even though the training was ending in failure, she couldn't help but feel an immense happiness that she was struggling with her child. Naruto wasn't getting the training, but that said, she was still having a ton of fun teaching her child. "... I'm just a little surprised you are having trouble is all." Kushina didn't know how to phrase it.
Naruto for her point of view, just pouted at how it was being pointed out that she was genuinely struggling with it.
"It isn't funny."
"The thing is, you already know how to boil water and freeze it, so you passed both requirements to start this training. You need to gain an understanding of both to even start the training... but where you are struggling happens to be because this training just... doesn't work for you." Kushina was going to think of a different way she could teach the lesson that needed to be learned in step 1. As it stood, it wasn't that Naruto wasn't suited for the technique, but it was that the training done to teach the technique just was not the way that Naruto would learn it. It was directly opposed to his personality.
"Thanks... I guess... my boobs hurt."
"Ah... yeah that wears off eventually, your entire body is going to be sensative for awhile. I'll do my best to rethink how we're going to train... doing a training you aren't suited for won't help you learn." Kushina sent her a thumbs up. She was going to do some research until she found a way to get the lesson across about finding a limit and accepting it, without trying to flat out say what that message was to her stubborn child.
She was excited.
She was unbelievably excited to be able to act like a mother and a mentor to Naruto in this life.
"Mom... I'm going to try again."
"Nah, I think we're done with this lesson for the day. This training isn't working out... lets go by a ramen stand on the way home. Heck, we can make it training... first person to make it home butt naked without being seen is the winner." Kushina offered a challenge. Since ninja weren't known to still be active, it was great training to keep their skills sharp. In their ninja uniforms, regular people couldn't see them. Training regular ninja stealth was typically pointless.
Naruto stared at her.
"Mom... are you sure you want to do this, you're pushing 40 soon... I'm sure you don't want to end up as a porn video "Hot Milf Exhibitionist Streaks"... that would be embarassing." Naruto started to stretch, taunting the woman. She was down for the competition.
"Hah, that is only IF somebody sees and records me... with that bright gold hair of yours, people are way more likely to notice you... not to mention you have a bit of a handicap... 116 centimeters of handicap." Kushina felt her competitive side being set ablaze. She was single, and there was no reason for her to not have a little fun with her nude body... though she lacked any interest in sex itself, a little naughty fun was a great way for her to let off some steam. "Loser has to clean the house."
"You're done."
"In a maid outfit."
"Fine by me... lets get this on." Naruto was ready and willing to start whenever Kushina was. "... I'm going to enjoy beating you... I will have you know, I've been working on a new stealth technique."
"Oh have you... well, let this woman show you a thing or two about stealth." Kushina was going to enjoy every second of this competition.
*SMACK*
"Ouch!" Kushina shouted when her ass was smacked, and when she looked, Naruto had vanished, the competition started. "... you dirty cheater... you make me so proud."
Cheating just like a ninja should.
Chapter End!
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