Naruto's Darkness Part 10 Intense Wind Training

A/N: Hey everyone been a long time I know but here is chapter 10 I hope you like what I've decided to do things will be different from canon but if you've read the story it's quite obvious it will be different because Naruto's not the same as canon Naruto.

Kyūbi Talking/Jutsu's

'Naruto Talking to Kyūbi/Sakura Talking to Inner Self

'Inner Thoughts'

Inner Sakura

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto just this story

Naruto awakens before everyone else, he can hear people moving but he just ignores it and quickly leaves the house, the first thing he does is create some clones, about 20 appear, Naruto looks at them all wondering what he should do first.

After a few minutes of thought he looks up "OK, listen up, there are 20 of you here, so I want to have a little test, 10 on 10 spars, this isn't just Taijutsu use whatever you want, first have 10 of you put your Hitai-ate's on the left arm the other 10 on your right."

Once the clones do this Naruto continues, "Do whatever it takes to win, I know it only takes one good hit to dispel you, well normally but I've reinforced you so the fight will take longer each of you can take about 10 hits unless their fatal hits then it will be 5."

Naruto watches them as they fight until he senses someone approaching him he looks to the side to see Asuma lighting a cigarette.

He looks at the clones then Naruto "An interesting test, but why exactly."

Naruto doesn't look at Asuma just his clones "I want to see how I fight I want to see if I have any holes, also I've had my clones looking into more than one Taijutsu style, so far, I know 6 styles, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Wing Chun, Jujutsu, Aikido and of course Kung Fu."

"Although I have read about them I haven't had much time to practice with them but as you can see my clones are all using different styles."

Asuma listens in shock and surprise 'Way to go overboard kid, still, nobody would be able to guess what he's planning if he uses different styles in combat.'

"Not gonna lie kid you don't do things the easy way, does anyone know about you learning all these styles, some are difficult."

Naruto just shakes his head "Nobody knows but you and me."

Asuma chuckles "Your one crazy kid you know that, but enough about that, Kakashi tells me your affinity or one of them is Futon (Wind), how far have you come in learning the exercises."

Naruto looks at Asuma for the first time "I have no learned any exercises, I remember in the academy we did the leaf balancing but that's it as you also know I have learned the Tree, Water Walking, and Rock Climbing exercises, what are these Wind exercises."

Asuma chuckles "You've been using Wind Jutsu without learning the Chakra control exercises, your insane kid, still if you've already learned some Wind Jutsu then the exercises may be easy, the first is to split a leaf in half using only your Wind Chakra, but let's make it a little harder hold on one second."

Asuma walks over to a tree and picks up 2 rocks and brings them over Naruto watches him closely "Now I want you to do what I said about the leaf but use the rock instead I will show you what I mean."

Asuma pours chakra into the Rock and it's quickly cut In half. Naruto watches he doesn't say anything but is thinking about what he saw.

Asuma smirks "As I said it is normally a leaf but as advanced as you are I think you can do it will this rock." He passes it to Naruto "Give it a try."

Naruto looks at the rock he's about to start when he hears a cough and looks behind himself and Asuma and sees Kakashi.

Kakashi gives him an eye smile "Before you start that it's best to have breakfast, after you've eaten you can try, although I am curious Asuma, why are you teaching my student."

Asuma scoffs "It's quite obvious don't you think you are not a Wind user, whereas I am, I am best suited to assist Naruto, your time would be best suited for Sakura and Sasuke, and my team, I am the only one who can assist Naruto you know that, your talents lay In Water and Lighting attacks myself and Naruto are Wind, I am only assisting him, I would have thought you would have asked me but you didn't."

Naruto rolls his eyes and just walks past them and places the rock near the door before stepping inside. Asuma watches him go before once again looking at Kakashi "You know I'm right Kakashi, he's more advanced than Sasuke, Sakura damn he's more advanced than my team, in such a short time he's changed, plus I know about what happened with Danzō."

At the mention of Danzō's name Kakashi clenches his fists "He once again attempted to get to Naruto and met Naruto in person."

Asuma looks shocked "The guys got balls I'll give him that what happened."

Kakashi explains it to Asuma who takes it all in "This isn't good the kid's gonna be looking over his shoulder all the time, my old man needs to do something, does he know, wait I was there when Pakkun arrived unless you informed him beforehand he doesn't know, dammit Kakashi, what were you thinking, you should have informed my old man, you know that right."

Kakashi looks down "I know Asuma, I was hoping that being away from Konoha would be good, I want to protect Naruto, from Danzō as does Yūgao, we are both students of his parents."

Asuma uses his thumb and finger on the bridge of his nose, "We can't worry about Danzō right now, we have Zabuza, this Masked assailant, Gatō, his hired goons, and whoever else he hires to worry about lets go and eat, and talk about this more later." Kakashi just nods his head and follows Asuma inside.

Several hours later and Teams 7 and 10 are outside, Kakashi is yet again watching his team and Asuma's team, Asuma made a Shadow Clone himself and the clone took Sakura and Ino to the river they were at yesterday and watches them continue to learn the Water Walking exercise, while the Original Asuma is with Naruto who's trying to cut through the rock, Asuma did test out the leaf and was surprised that it didn't take long for him to cut it fully which was quite surprising.

Several hours later Tazuna's leaving his house so they stop the training and Asuma takes his team with Tazuna while Kakashi continues to train his team well one of them.

While Kakashi watches Sasuke continue to learn the Tree Climbing Sakura who was watching looks over at Naruto who's sitting on the ground holding a rock, she wonders what he's doing so goes over to him.

Naruto's got a few knicks on the rock but nothing major, he notices a sound and looks up as Sakura sits close to him, Naruto looks away from Sakura and continues the exercise.

Sakura watches confused she notices he's concentrating but on what exactly it's to do with the rock she does see some knicks on the rock 'What's he doing exactly' she then sees another knick on the rock and looks at Naruto 'Did Naruto do that' "Naruto what are you doing exactly."

Naruto doesn't look at her before he replies "Concentrating, now be quiet."

Sakura bites her lip "Concentrating on what though."

Naruto sighs "What part of being quiet don't you understand."

Before Sakura can say anything someone else speaks "Naruto you shouldn't be so mean to your teammate."

Naruto scoffs "And yet you never tell the Uchiha off for badmouthing her Pot meet Kettle I think the saying goes."

Sakura giggled at that, Kakashi has to admit he got him there "Touché, as to what Naruto is doing Sakura it's a Wind affinity Chakra exercise, although I was led to believe you used a leaf, not a rock."

Naruto rolls his eyes "I already did the leaf this is harder to do because I already learned some Wind Jutsu it made it easier."

Sakura looks confused "I don't understand what was he supposed to do with a leaf."

Naruto sighs "Use my Wind chakra to cut it in half."

Sakura looks surprised "Wow, so the knicks on the rock are you trying to do the same with that."

Naruto looks at her like she's an idiot "I would have assumed you would have figured that out already Sakura."

Sakura blushes in embarrassment, Kakashi then remembers something Asuma mentioned yesterday "Say Naruto why didn't you tell me you have two affinities and the other was Water, I could have helped you I have that affinity you know."

Naruto continues to try and cut through the rock but sighs at all the interruptions "You never asked, and isn't it best as a ninja to not let everyone know your skills."

Kakashi nods "Yes usually but I'm your Sensei, that rule doesn't apply."

Naruto sighs "I haven't learned many Water Jutsu's, only Water Wall, this is my Primary Affinity so I will focus on that."

Kakashi sighs "Very well when you are ready I will teach you the exercises."

Naruto doesn't even reply so Kakashi just walks away but Sakura remains "So you can use Wind and Water Jutsu's that's so cool, but wait when did you find the time to learn them."

Naruto just shakes his head and places down the rock it's not as if he can concentrate with all the interruptions "My clones learn I get the knowledge, anything else or can I get back to this."

Sakura wraps her arms around her legs "You and Sasuke-kun are so far ahead of me."

Naruto rolls his eyes "And who's fault is it that you don't train if you do it's the bare minimum, you think Sasuke-kun will save you, keep dreaming Sakura, you need to realize he won't risk his life to save you."

Sakura's eyes open wide "He'd let me die but were teammates."

Naruto scoffs "To him you are just holding him back he's realized I'm not weak anymore but you haven't changed he has his goals you don't figure into his plans and saving you would go against his goals, train and get stronger, quit your pathetic dieting because it's making you weak."

Sakura just sits there deep in thought after a few minutes of her not saying anything Naruto picks up the rock and continues.

Meanwhile,

with Team 10 there watching Tazuna and his workers, they've seen a few workers stop working and head over to Tazuna and talk to him although it seems to Asuma it's more like arguing before they just leave, Asuma sighs 'The threat of Gatō has them scared, can't blame them.'

Asuma then looks at his team, Shikamaru is smart but lazy, Chōji could be a powerhouse but he's too soft and Ino is too loud and barely trains. "Ino, tell me why don't you train more."

Ino looks at her Sensei "I do train, besides Sasuke-kun's here if I get into some trouble he'll rescue me."

All 3 of the males roll their eyes Asuma groans 'Damn fangirls' "Ino, you need to train more, this is to prevent you from being captured, not only considering the thugs that Gatō has hired but at other times, getting captured for a Kunoichi is worse then a ninja a Kunoichi getting captured there would be a strong possibility of them being raped do you want that to happen to you because if you don't train then it could and then what."

Ino shrugs "Like I said if anything ever happens here then Sasuke would rescue me"

Asuma sighs "Do you honestly believe he would save you I think he'd say that it would be your teammate's job to rescue, not him."

Ino says nothing but Shikamaru does "I doubt he'd lift a finger to save anyone, the way he looks down on everyone were beneath him in his mind, the Uchiha's are a lot like the Hyūga with their arrogance and the way they look down on everyone."

Asuma thinks that's kind of a harsh thing to say but nobody is surprised when Ino lashes out. "Shut up Shikamaru, Sasuke-kun would save me, your just jealous, you'll see, unlike you lazy bastard Sasuke-kun, would save me your too lazy to do anything, you know nothing Sasuke-kun loves me."

The rest of the team says nothing just continues guarding Tazuna and watching more workers leaving.

The next day Kakashi's team followed Tazuna and like the day before witnessed more workers leaving,

Naruto has almost got it down he showed Asuma last night and he was impressed but told him to keep at it and once he was done he'd show him another exercise a much harder one so Naruto continues to do the exercise, Sasuke watched for a few seconds before looking away not knowing what Naruto was doing.

Kakashi was watching and like Asuma was amazed at the progress Naruto's making, he watches his other students mainly Sasuke who's nearly finished the Tree climbing exercise but is still angry that only he and Chōji are yet to finish the exercise whereas Naruto, Shikamaru, Ino and Sakura the last two infuriated him that those two weaklings are ahead of him an elite it was a joke, and soon he'd wipe those smirks off there faces.

Sakura's been quiet all morning thinking about what Naruto said she even talked to Ino about it Ino in her mind knew that Sasuke-kun would save them, Sakura though wasn't convinced, and with Naruto busy and Kakashi reading his book she decided to test the water and ask Sasuke about it.

Sakura walks over to Sasuke who's leaning against a tree "Hey, Sasuke-kun, can I ask you something."

Sasuke who's staring off into space looks at her "What do you want Sakura."

Sakura smiles at Sasuke, "Sasuke-kun, would you rescue me if I was in trouble like I got captured or something like that"

Sasuke looks at her and scoffs "You already have the dobe to save you, so there is no need for me to waste my time or do anything to save you." Although he's subtly hinting to both of them that he would essentially leave them to their fates if they were captured.

Both Kakashi and Naruto heard what he said and knew that he wouldn't lift a finger to save either one of them, not that Naruto would want Sasuke to save him, for Kakashi he inwardly frowns knowing that Sasuke wouldn't lift a finger to save his teammates pretty much ignoring what Kakashi told them about abandoning there friends makes them worse than trash. 'Are you that cruel Sasuke, what I told you about not abandoning your friends did that mean nothing to you?'

Later on, they returned Asuma and Kakashi discussed the situation with all the workers leaving they had to figure something out but what, they also needed to know what Gatō was up to.

While they were talking Sakura was trying to come to terms with what Sasuke said she's not dumb she's a smart girl she was the top Kunoichi of her class she knew what Sasuke meant was that if she got captured then it's her own fault and he wasn't going to save her exactly like Naruto said he would.

The next day Asuma checked on Naruto's progress it was almost done, and after lunch which was quite tense because of that brat Inari, Naruto showed Asuma that he completed the job.

Sakura saw it also and was glad along with Kakashi, Shikamaru, Chōji, and Ino weren't sure what he was doing but for their sensei to be helping Naruto personally it must be important plus Naruto was their friend so they were happy he passed whatever Asuma had assigned him to do. Ino wasn't friends with Naruto but she did keep glancing at Sakura she's been quiet since yesterday afternoon but seems to be OK now and was happy for Naruto maybe she was right and Sakura has or is falling for her other teammate.

Only Sasuke ignored the whole thing, he didn't care he'd finally completed that dammed Tree climbing exercise along with Chōji and was anxious to get on with the next exercise Water Walking.

Asuma noticed that his team was unsure what Naruto did he explained it to them, of course, Sakura and Kakashi already knew but the rookies of Team 10 were shocked that Naruto was so far ahead of them, it was quite a shock for the so-called Deadlast is way ahead of them.

The only one who wasn't happy was Sasuke who was pissed the Deadlast was ahead of him it was incomprehensible that this was the case how could he get so strong and so quickly whereas he was falling behind.

To get things moving he decided to end the talking "Forget about him I need the next exercise what is it, tell me? an Elite like myself can't fall behind weaklings such as them."

Asuma looked disgusted at the attitude of the Uchiha, not being a fan of the Clan, to begin with, he's certainly not going to stroke his ego, he's also glad he's not on his team.

Kakashi sighs "Well come on then everyone let's show Sasuke-kun and Chōji-kun the next exercise."

Everyone followed Kakashi but Naruto and Asuma were behind the rest discussing the next exercise for Naruto it also meant working with the water but doing something different meaning they would have to do this away from the others.

Kakashi started explaining the Water Walking exercise to Shikamaru, Chōji, and Sasuke. To add insult to injury for Sasuke, Kakashi had Sakura show them, Naruto and Asuma were there and saw the angry look, and although they shouldn't they found it amusing that Sasuke was so angry.

After that they shook their heads and headed off with the others wondering what they were up to, Kakashi watched wondering just what it was Naruto is getting stronger at a fast pace, it's both good and possibly bad he could go overboard he just hoped Asuma watched him closely.

After a few minutes walk Asuma stopped and Naruto stopped also and Asuma explained what he had planned for Naruto "So Naruto the next exercise is difficult what I plan to teach you is how to keep the water back with a sphere of wind swirling around his body while you're submerged in the water, you can swim right."

Naruto nods "I can swim, this seems interesting if not quite dangerous, it will be hard to hold my breath for that long."

Asuma nods his head "Oh it certainly will, that's why I will be timing you what is the longest you can hold your breath underwater."

Naruto starts to think he's never timed himself really, he doesn't know if the Kyūbi would assist him on this he knows it's a few minutes at least 5 maybe "I'm not sure as I've never timed myself I'd say maybe 5 minutes no more than that."

Asuma rubs his chin "OK then 5 minutes it is now let's get in the water, and I'll show you how it's done."

Asuma showed Naruto what to do, for Naruto watching it would certainly come in handy especially if he had to hold his breath underwater, this would be a tough test but nothing that Naruto couldn't master eventually.

Asuma timed Naruto minutes each time after 5 minutes they'd stop come up for air, and have a breather for a few minutes before starting over again.

Several hours later, Naruto had upped his time to 10 minutes, he was making progress on the exercise but was finding it hard, it was getting later but Naruto wanted to continue, but Asuma put a stop to that, with even Kakashi who had come to see what was going on deciding to stop his training, he was surprised at what Naruto was doing but also knew this would come in handy.

After they all headed back to Tazuna's house they all sat down to eat, the worst part of the mission wasn't the actual mission itself but putting up with the whining brat who wouldn't shut up, everyone was getting fed up with him and everyone even Sasuke kept wondering who would snap first most believed it would be Naruto, especially after what happened the night Team 10 arrived.

For the next 2 days, Naruto made progress on the exercise, Sakura and even Ino had come to watch, again they weren't exactly sure what Naruto was doing, Asuma mentioned it was another Chakra exercise but that was about it, both Sakura and Ino though were trying to understand just how far Naruto had come although Ino still believed that her Sasuke-kun was still ahead of Naruto.

It had been 5 days since the encounter with Zabuza and both Sensei and their students were wondering what would happen, it wouldn't be long before Zabuza was back they just trained in preparation for the confrontation.

Naruto was still yet to get the exercise down he could get the Wind sphere to materialize but keeping it steady was hard it wouldn't last and Naruto was getting angry.

This wasn't good though because he was in a bad mood, with himself when it came down to sitting down to dinner and again Inari being a little bitch Naruto finally snapped, he didn't hit Inari although he probably wanted to no he just made Inari soil himself, he laid into Inari telling him how fortunate he was to have a family people who love him but no he wasn't happy with that he was a whining little bitch, who believed he knew what real pain was, but he knew nothing and never would so he should keep his opinions to himself.

Naruto then stood up and walked towards the door opening it before slamming it on the way out leaving everyone in shock, they expected it to happen.

Tsunami wanted to say Naruto went too far, but when Kakashi explained just how bad Naruto's life was all the anger went from her anger at Naruto to anger at Konoha, even Tazuna was angry, Inari had run upstairs as soon as Naruto left so never heard about what was said. All the rookies were in shock. Even Sasuke realized that he and Naruto were more alike than he thought.