So Here is Another chapter. Aminly the starting of training and a bit of NaruHina. I'm expecting a lot of reviews. Please bear with spelling and grammar mistakes. Enjoy

Naruto woke up by four. He had figured he wanted to shower before he got ready for Ebisu Sensei's training. As soon as he switched on his shower, a burst of cold water sprayed on him. Damn, I'm back to cold water and mean looks from the neighbours. Kinda wish I could do something about it. Hmm that's worth considering.

Anyway the cold shower had destroyed all traces of sleep in the blond. He opened a can of instant ramen and poured some hot water into it. Man I gotta get myself something else to eat; only ramen will keep me a shrimp. The very thought set off alarms in Naruto's mind. SHIT! TIMETRAVEL IS MESSING WITH MY HEAD. WHY AM I THINKING SUCH BLASPHEMOUS THOUGHTS! ALL HAIL RAMEN, THE GIFT OF THE GODS. Now that the internal struggle was over, Naruto went to water his plants, he also made some clones to clean up the flat (and did the clones complain!). I gotta keep this place neat and clean at least this time around, I guess you know the value of stuff only when they are gone. When pain hit konoha (obviously the Akatsuki one) Naruto had lost his apartments. Only then did he start missing his house. Even though it was small, it had a creaky roof, it had no hot water and had cranky neigbours….Ok maybe he didn't miss it much. But still the feeling of home was not easy to come by anywhere else.

By around four forty five Naruto was at the park doing some warm ups and a bit of jogging when he saw Ebisu at the entrance.

"Ohayo, Ebisu Sensei"

"Hello Naruto-kun shall we be on our way"

"You're the boss"

Naruto followed Ebisu to a training ground a little far away from konoha central. He said "Naruto, this is training ground No. 25. As you can see it is not exactly anything special, just a patch of land with some training posts, a river and some trees here and there. What is your opinion of this ground?"

"Boring sensei"

Ebisu developed a tick mark. "Were you calling me boring Naruto?"

"Yep, but my answer was also the same"

"You know what, if I keep getting angry for every comment of yours, I might not make it 30 years of age due to all the stress so I will just ignore most of them."

"That's the spirit Sensei!" Naruto gave a thumbs up.

"You are not helping Naruto. Anyway to the topic, everything I teach you may not be flashy but it will definitely help you in your career. However I want to first see what you are made of. So let spar, You can use any ninja art you want, however I will hold back to only Taijutsu. You ready?"

Ebisu looked around to see a giant fridge flying toward him. WHAT THE HELL. Were his thoughts as he dodged it. What followed were tons of items, all sorts of things from paper clips to shuriken to home appliances. Ebisu was sure the last thing was a giant gate. He barely had time to dodge all the assorted items when a giant puff of techniques dispelling was heard. He turned around to see that all the items he had dodged had turned back into Naruto clones and at least five of them were within his guard. Though Ebisu managed to dispel them, he was surprised at the level of strategic thinking that Naruto had shown. He took advantage of the facts that I was confused to get so many clones within close range. The boy thinks fast in battle situations. Suddenly half the clones got an evil smirk on their faces. They were going through hand signs for the Henge No Justu and then..

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Ebisu was in heaven.

20 minutes and a lot of tissues in the nose later!

"I will give it to you Naruto, you've got the art of distracting people down pretty well and though you really do fight like a drunken brawler, you are wise in selecting your moves and counterattacks.

Of course when you fight Hardcore Badasses like Itachi, Obito, Diedera, Kisame, Nagato and of course Madara, if you don't improve you are dead. Evil, but hardcore badasses. Chibi Naruto said with an annoyed look inside Naruto's head. Okay, I seriously need a mental checkup, what's next? I start saying Shannaro! And go violent every twenty seconds?

As Naruto's mental rant was continuing Ebisu was also ranting rather well in the real world. He had started off at Taijutsu, passed through his greatness, come into the history of konoha, touched past his great teaching skill, flew to first shinobi world war and was just about to start another hint on his greatness and start lecturing about something else when Naruto interrupted. "Now wonder that brat keeps running away from you, if I continue hearing more lectures, I have half the mind to wear a ladies muffler as a cape and try to assassinate the old man before the three meals. See sensei, the point is I don't work well when people lecture me, instead you show me something and I will work it out slowly. That's how I learn the best"

Ebisu completely ignored the first part of his speech. "I suppose that would have worked if we had more time but"

Before the man could rant again, Naruto said a few words "Shadow Clones. Huge Chakra. Up to 500. Capish?"

(Thankfully) This shut the man up. His face seemed to glow with excitement. He asked Naruto "You put a lot of thought into it didn't you. I thought you wouldn't even notice it till someone told you."

Naruto sweatdropped and massaged his head "Ofcourse not Sensei". Was it really that easy to spot that you would get your memories back?

Soon Ebisu had Naruto make about 50 clones, He watched in amazement at seeing such a huge number of solid clones. "I have never seen people with enough chakra to make this much clones, screw 500" He said.

"Okay, about 45 of you will be working on a little chakra control exercise I will teach you while five of you will help the original on training."

A clone standing on water asked "Which exercise sensei?"

"It is called the surface climbing or as we call it in konoha, the tree climbing exercises….wait you are standing on water, which means you are already cleared up to there?" He asked with a bewildered face. "How do you know this exercise?"

Inwardly Naruto cursed his own boastful nature. "Oh! In a last ditch effort to be able to do bunshin and pass the academy, I asked the old man for help in chakra control he showed me both these exercises. It seems it is impossible for me to cast such a low leveled Ninjutsu"

"Hmm….Then I will show you the next exercise in Chakra Control." Ebisu went on to describe how splitting apart sand particles could help in chakra control. When he finished his lecture, half the clones were asleep, and the other half were picking fights with each other. Annoyed he let the clones try. The clones had learnt their lesson, they acted like they had some difficulty. To a sage who could tune his chakra to nature and then fine tune it to suit each individual member of the united shinobi forces, this was a piece of cake, however to regain hi sage level of chakra control, Naruto would have to work some more on his meditation. Naruto made a mental note to do so. The real Ebisu lead to a clearing a bit farther away, he made Naruto and all the clones watch as he ran through the first kata of the academy style over and over again. Then he had Naruto work on it while the clones supervised him correcting his mistakes. Naruto had to accept; that was a pretty good idea. Ebisu went to check on his clones who were still faking having problems. When he came back he saw Naruto had gotten into a brawl with his own clones. Only you Naruto, are capable of starting a fight with even yourself. He thought exasperatedly as he pacified them.

"What went wrong Naruto?"

The clones and the original started complaining. "This ass of a boss can't even take a suggestion."

"You call that taunt a suggestion, you should try it yourself then" and so on it went to the start of a brand new brawl.

Ebisu was fed up. "Okay, that is enough. Naruto, dispel all of 5 of yourselves"

He did that and immediately said "No wonder my clone were angry, I was acting like an ass. But then I was so frustrated too"

"And why was that Naruto?"

"Sensei, are you sure you showed me the right kata. It feels so wrong."

"Show me Naruto". Naruto went through the Kata as Ebisu did and Even Ebisu could see that it did not fit Naruto's body language at all.

"Ok. Naruto since this is the first Session we will cut it short today. Tomorrow. Same Time. Here. And bring your lunch; you will stay till the evening." Ebisu disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Man, I still don't know that Jutsu."

"Why did you fake about your Chakra control. Boy?" It was the voice of the kyuubi.

Oh! I forgot about our agreement. Were you watching my training Kurama?

"STOP CALLING ME KURAMA YOU BRAT, and it was an improvement from watching a sewer even though you still don't compare to me. Even with all your training forever, I would kick your ass"

Kurama, does the ego also increase with the number of tails? And I was faking control cos I didn't want to answer anyone's questions. I mean one of the oldest creature sin the world doesn't believe me. Why would a human do so?" Naruto had walked out of the training ground and was cruising the streets of Konoha. He completely tuned out the Fox's enragement from the Ego comment and just enjoyed the streets of "old" Konoha. He wished it would have been looks of adoration and Happiness which he had started receiving instead of the glares he was currently getting. On turning around the corner Naruto saw someone who made his heart leap. Hinata Hyuuga. His lover and greatest supporter. No, No this is not that Hinata, this is the Hinata that is still not confident in herself, this is the Hinata that needs a push in the right direction. Anyway who says I can't enjoy some time with her.

Hinata's day had started off bad. Very bad. She had to spar with Hanabi yet again. And she could not bring herself to hurt her little sister. Hinata understood that if she didn't win these matches, father would never respect her. Even then, she couldn't let herself hurt her last memory of her mother. Worse, nowadays even Hanabi had started growing cold and aloof like the rest of the clan. She had even started sneering at Hinata. Anyway, I am a failure, ots only that Hanabi-chan also recognized it.

"What's with the long face Hinata?" A bright and cheerful voice asked.

Hinata looked up to see her crush and her inspiration Naruto. Needless to say, she immediately started competing with Tomatoes for the Most-Red-Object-Awards and her stuttering, for which she had been reprimanded countless times by her father, worsened. She was hardly able to form a sentence. "G...Good M…morni..ng N..Naruto K…kun., H..how'd…do y..y…you'd….d…do?"

"I'm fine Hinata-chan, how are you?"

Chan? Naruto-kun is calling me chan. OHMYGOD…..must not faint must not faint.

"I….m f..fine N..Naruto K..kun. A….re y..you training?" She asked seeing his sweaty outfit.

"Na, I was training, but for now I'm done. Say, did you have breakfast?"

The question was answered by a growl from Hinata's stomach. Hinata had run out of the dojo crying. She thought if she came to the suburbs, she would feel better. So she hadn't had any breakfast. By now Hinata had left tomatoes and chilies in the dust in the competition and was well on the way to inventing a new shade of red for herself. Don't faint Don't faint. Had become her minds motto. However the embarrassment was too much, especially for someone trained all life to act lady like and regal.

However Naruto brushed it off "I know right, even I'm hungry" His next statement was the official inauguration of Hinata red, a new colour found only in the facial regions of Hinata Hyuuga. "Say what Hinata Chan. I'll go change up and then we will go to the new café the opened in West district. You fine with that?" Hinata had managed to say Yes despite all the blood in her face before she fainted.

Office of the Hokage

Ebisu stood in attention, and a model to behold that attention was, in front of the Hokage's Desk. Hiruzen sighed, "At ease Ebisu-kun, there is no need to be formal. This is more like grandfather checking on his grandson's progress. So, how was the first day?"

Ebisu soon left after giving a brief report. When he left Hiruzen looked worried. He had never shown Naruto any Chakra control exercises. Not because he didn't want to but because he didn't have time to. If this was any other Genin he would have let it pass. But this was the village's Jinchuriiki. But above all this was his Foster grandson lying about his Ninja training. The boy had received training from somewhere else. Even the way Ebisu described him fight was that like that of a veteran with lots of experience. All these along with Naruto-kun's expression yesterday left a bitter taste in the professor's mouth. He had to get to the bottom of all this.

Many lines, jokes and Ideas are from other fanfiction's I have read before. Also check out my other story, Of Computers and Tailed Beasts. I think its fun. PEOPLE ABOUT TO PRESS THE FOLLOW OR FAVOURITE BUTTON, both of these options are available in the Review column also. Please leave a review. Bye Charmerdark :)