Disclaimer: First Chapter
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'So these were the moves my father was working on...'
Naruto was having trouble sleeping, and it wasn't because he was surrounded by women in futons around him. He was grown enough to not be bothered by something like that. At his age, things like sharing a room with a girl wasn't really something to be freaked out about. The results for the tests would be posted in the morning, right before the final test that would decide the 40 students who would end up becoming official students for Setouchi.
His father's Keijo journal.
The techniques that he had studied and tried to improve, as well as several of the techniques that he had tried to create for himself. Minato had truly wanted to play the sport, but had no true talent for it.
Spiralling Hip Sphere (Incomplete) - Uses built up vibrational and rotational energy, forming a sphere of released air pressure around the body in the form of an attacking, spirally, sphere that is directed by the hip. The technique is nearly impossible for the women to use, and when I tried to use it myself, I strained every muscle in my hips. It is just as dangerous as the Vacuum Ass Cannon, I'll give up working on it.
His Spiralling Hip Sphere was not only an incomplete technique, but it was just as dangerous as everyone was telling him it was. There was a list that was created out of all of the techniques that his father had been developing, some completed, and many incompleted.
Naruto didn't really remember his father, he was young when he died in the accident, but seeing this carefully handwritten notes... calmed him.
'Dad... I'll make you proud. Even if you could never become a Keijo player... I'll do it for you and mom... I'll even earn the money so that mom can finally get that surgery.' Naruto wiped a tear from the side of his eye. He never would have thought he would be in the position he was currently in.
He was living his parents dreams.
"Na-chan?"
"Kawai... you should go to sleep. You will need to rest up for tomorrow." Naruto saw Kawai rubbing her eyes. She had been sleeping pretty close to where he was. Surprisingly, she didn't try to sneak into his futon, and play it off as being cold. She might be boy crazy, but she did have an understanding of time and place for such actions.
Kawai sat up and looked around.
Naruto was the only one awake, besides herself, but she only woke up because she felt the urge to use the bathroom. Her need wasn't desperate though, and she saw a little book that Naruto was reading. She even saw that Naruto had another book that had a pen inside of it, with it looking like Naruto had written in it.
"Minato... Namikaze?" Kawai saw the name on the journal he was reading.
"My Dad's name... this was his journal." Naruto mentioned with a small smile on his face, and Kawari could remember that name.
"... He was the Keijo Genius... the Engineer who built some of the best Lands, and even helped to couch a lot of the pros. That's his journal?" Kawai wasn't really surprised that Naruto was that legends son. The two shared an uncanny resemblance, and while she was too young to ever really meet Minato, she did read several Keijo Magazines that paid homage to the man in several columns.
While Minato's Land designs weren't really used anymore, many new Keijo engineers showed their respect for the man by designing Lands based off of Minato's lands. All of the man's lands were both challenging and fun to play on, if any of the older pros were telling the truth.
"I'm sorry for your loss." Kawai offered the only words she could.
Naruto smiled.
"Dad protected me and Mom... I really look up to him. I don't really remember him too well... but I really want to make him proud. My Dad helped to improve a lot of player techniques... and he even modified some... but enough about that. If tomorrow, you and I face on the land, I want you in your best condition when we go at it." Naruto told Kawari with a smile. She looked at him for a moment, before she moved silently, to not wake others, towards him and sat next to him, leaning her head on his shoulder.
She looked at his book with him, the moon's light in the window behind them giving them a good view of the words and even pictures.
"... Your Dad isn't good with naming techniques."
"Yeah, this move... the Jet Ass Striking Arrow... not exactly a good name. I would have named it the Assassin Strike Arrow." Naruto made his own Keijo pun. Kawai smiled and giggled at the name, and while it was a pretty good name, she could see that Naruto was a little more cheered up than he had been before.
She looked through more techniques.
"This one is..."
"It's the one I was using... The Spiralling Hip Sphere. It's incomplete, and my dad stopped working on it before he died... I'm going to master it, and complete it." Naruto words were spoken with soft confidence.
He didn't want the technique to just be known as the Bastard version of the Vacuum Ass Cannon. While it was the technique that inspired it, Naruto wanted to show everyone that it was just as good, and could become even better, than the mother technique that brought it about.
"Are you nervous, about tomorrow?" Kawai felt her nerves on edge. It wasn't the fact she was going to be on the land that bothered her. It was the waiting for it to happen that got to her. She was excited, she was nervous, everything in her was in conflict.
Would she still feel like this once she got on the land?
Naruto grinned.
"Yeah... There are so many awesome people here I want to race again. Mio, Rin, that Kotone girl, even you... and a lot more." Naruto looked at Kawai with a confident grin. He had so many opponents that he wanted to race with. He had friends that he wanted to grow with, and become stronger with.
Kawari blinked.
"You beat Rinrin already."
"So... I'm going to get better, and so is Rin... and we'll race each other, and compete in an even better battle. Racing Rin was really fun, and I learned a lot about Infighters from racing her." Naruto meant every word he said to Kawai. He didn't just want to get better, he wanted Rin to get better too. He wanted both of them to keep improving, so that they could battle again, and have that same fun feeling all over.
He truly did enjoy himself on the land.
Kawai rested her head on Naruto's shoulder, but she smiled.
"Can we stay like this?" Kawai whispered.
"Sure."
The two stayed together, reading Minato's Journal, for what felt like hours, until Kawai needed to go to the bathroom, and finally went back to her own bed to sleep. Naruto, satisified and calmed down, closed his eyes and allowed himself to drift off into slumber as well.
-The Next Morning-
"I'm gonna wake him."
"Don't do it." Kawai didn't want to see how Rin was going to try and wake their friend. Naruto seemed to be a naturally deep sleeper, while everyone else was already up and dressed, Naruto seemed to be in a deep sleep still. Of course, Rin wanted to wake him up in a way most befitting of their blond friend. "Oh! I'll give him a-"
"Wake up!"
Rin jumped into the air, did a cannonball, and landed with her butt right on Naruto's stomach. Instantly Naruto's eyes shot open as he folded like a folding chair. Rin was rolled off of his stomach, and he held it with widened eyes.
"Flat chested whore!?"
"Hahaha, you should see your face Naruto." Rin stated as she unravelled herself. Naruto's reaction to waking up, insult and all, had been hilarious for her. She earned herself a glare from her tall friend.
*Smack*
Naruto smacked the back of her head with an amount of force that was the appropriate amount for her actions. She wasn't too hung up or insulted by it, after all, if you hit, you better be ready to get hit too.
"-kiss. The list of the Top 10 has been posted if you wanted to check it out. I told her not to do it." Kawai was more than willing to throw Rin under the bus.
Naruto just yawned.
"Yeah yeah, thanks for the wake up. You better hope we don't race today." Naruto stood up, showing that he was already dressed in his swimtrunks. His shirt was just something that he could easily throw on. He had already mostly prepared, he had been so anxious during the night that he had prepared ahead of time, all that he needed to do was get a light breakfast. "Where's Girl-Me?" Naruto asked as he looked around for Mio.
She had fallen asleep pretty close to him, so he was curious when she woke up and left the room.
"Mio went for a light jog. She said she didn't care about the rankings. She just wanted to warm up before the race." Rin explained as she sat down. She had already eaten something light enough that it wouldn't slow her down, but good enough to fill her. She just wanted to wake Naruto up.
Naruto grinned.
So she was taking this seriously after all, she wasn't just goofing around like everyone thought she was.
"Heh, fine by me, we'll settle this on the land then... but first..." Naruto's stomach growled, reminding him of something more important than getting a morning warm up.
His belly was empty.
Food came first.
Chapter End!
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