Yet another filler. My everlasting thanks to my reviewers. You are my strength. Enjoy :)
Even before the rays of the shining father had started to touch the gentle landscape, Naruto was awake. His alarm clock had woken him up. The sun rose well before four in konoha and in the land of fire in general. They were also abundantly blessed with most other resources and gentle climate for most parts of the year. This meant immense cultivation and trade. Any wonder the Fire Daimyo always topped the list of richest men on earth?
Naruto was slightly jogging as he moved to training ground 25. He figured it was a pretty good way to get his blood flowing. Naruto also avoided the urban areas instead choosing to move through the outskirts. The outskirts were the area between the walls and the city that had been left largely empty. This was primarily to put some space between the defenders and invaders in case of any invasion of konoha. Konoha did not have any geographical advantage like Iwa, Kumo,Kiri or Suna. The best konoha had was a deep forest around it.
To Naruto the outskirts meant no glares from civilians and he was more than happy to go for that option. Years of disuse had transformed the outskirts into a garden. A garden but not a forest. Since a forest would mean decrease in visibility, it was a frequent D rank mission to clear the larger trees and shrubs of this area.
Naruto was soon at the 25th training ground, all warmed up from the jog and ready for a full day of training when his sensei arrived in the poof of a shunshin. 'Man, I've gotta learn that Jutsu badly' he thought.
"Hey sensei, Good Morning. I finished the chakra control exercise you gave me" Naruto waved and told. Ebisu was stunned; it was simply unheard of a ninja finishing this chakra exercise in one day. 'Could Naruto be lying to escape the 'boring' exercises?' He wondered
"Please show me Naruto-kun" Naruto wasted no time in showing an awestruck Ebisu his mastery of the exercise. Needless to say, Ebisu was pleased 'I have got a real gem. He has incredible talent. I wonder how he ended up as the dead last' he wondered.
"Naruto, I am surprised. I was thinking of making you do this exercise the whole day and then letting you practice it at home from then, but since you have already finished it we will work on something else. How about we work on the three academy jutsu?"
"Whaaaat? Those three techniques are so boring. I can't even do one of them. Even the old man accepted that I have too much chakra to do a bunshin. I can only do Kage Bunshin, but that's alright, since I can throw tons of them around." Naruto was whining.
Ebisu laughed lightly. "How about I teach you a Jutsu based on the Kage Bunshin?"
"You are teaching me Jutsu? Yatta! Awesome! And here I thought you were gonna drawl the whole day about some stupid theory."
Even though Ebisu had an ominous looking sweatdrop behind his head, he answered. "Naruto, you know I am a Tobuketsu jonin specializing in teaching. I do understand that you learn better from doing. So no more lectures for you. Only short 'reviews' into topics before teaching them. Anyway the Jutsu I am going to teach you is the Kage Buki No jutsu (the Shadow weapon technique). I will demonstrate first." Ebisu said pulling out a shuriken. He flipped through a few hand signs before throwing the shuriken and crying out "Kage Shuriken No Jutsu"
The kunai seemed to multiply as they flew hitting a nearby tree as about 20 shuriken. Ebisu turned to see Naruto looking at him with drool coming out of his mouth, "Naruto! Wipe of that droll…" The man went into a brief review of the jutsu before teaching Naruto the handsigns and asking him to try using Kunai.
Naruto slowly went through the handsigns before throwing a kunai and shouting "Kage Kunai No Jutsu" The effect was surprising. The kunai multiplied…
Into a shower of kunai that lasted about a minute. The targeted tree looked black from all the kunai's colour before they turned into a puff of smoke. Naruto turned to see a dumbstruck Ebisu.
Naruto and Ebisu would continue training on the jutsu and its variants till the afternoon. Their main concern was aiming. Naruto had a pretty much ok aim but Ebisu wanted perfection. He soon understood that Naruto's Kunai and shuriken ills were also mediocre at best. So, Naruto had to go through lessons on that too. Naruto, when taught in practical ways, was already a genius student. So with his clones, he would get strong in no time. Ebisu knew this and was determined to use it to the maximum. However right now the sun was at the very height and this made outdoor training difficult. So he called out to his student who was still throwing kunai at one of his own clones.
"Naruto, it's almost noon. Let's go to lunch. Since you have worked hard, I will buy. BUT NO RAMEN" He knew how the blond changed into an eating machine when he went near that food item and he was not ready to risk his purse.
Naruto looked like he was about to whine again so Ebisu said "Naruto, you should eat more of proteins and"
"NO, NO don't go into lecture mode. I will eat anything you command me to" Naruto begged sitting on the ground. Ebisu had to sweatdrop. "Ok then, let's go"
Naruto followed Ebisu to the Market district. Civilians all around automatically went to glare mode. However, Ebisu was not like Naruto and he was not going to take any of their shit. He shot full powered glares right back. This unnerved many of the civies who went back to what they were doing. They didn't want to get Ninjas angry. Naruto was overjoyed 'He is actually sticking up for me! Ebisu-sensei is actually pretty cool!'
They soon reached a nearby store called "DANGOYAKI". And Ebisu set of back to lecture mode "Despite the name, this store offers a wide variety of highly nutritious meals and since their customers are primarily Shinobi you can expect a welcome in here…" He turned around to find Naruto missing.
"Ebisu-sensei, are you gonna lecture the air or come and order some food" The voice came from inside the store. Naruto had already found a seat and was busy looking at the menu to order; Ebisu sighed, went to the table and gave his order also.
Soon the teacher and the student were discussing their plans. "Naruto, we will work on table manners and related etiquette right now. I have once seen you eat from the ramen shop in a simply horrendous fashion. I will not allow any of my students to breath in food in that manner. After that we will return to the training ground and you will, or your clones will read some books and instruction booklets that I have collected on various matters. After an hour we will work on taijitsu. I have set up an appointment with someone to help you in that field"
Naruto didn't know why a cold shiver crept through his back.
"Due to your huge chakra capacity, we have to assume that Genjutsu is currently out of you reach, that leaves…" Ebisu never finished the sentence.
"Don't tell me you believe on that crap, Ebisu" Someone told from the table behind them. Naruto and Ebisu turned to see a certain jonin who he had not seen since before the attack of pain. It was th =e genjutsu mistress of konoha, Kurenai Yuuhi.
"Ebisu that is just a popular misconception. A person like Naruto might not be able to use small genjutsu like Bunshin but his large chakra capacity is also a boon for him. While affecting a single person can be difficult for him large scale Genjutsus will be his forte."
Ebisu had a haughty smile. "Don't be ridiculous Kurenai. If, I, the elite instructor Ebisu tell its impossible it means it is impossible."
This seemed to have set up a flame in Kurenai's "I bet I could teach him too"
"Bet you can't" was Ebisu's reply.
"Can too"
"Can't"
"Can too"
"Can't"
"Can too"
"Ok then, Let us test it. If you can instruct Naruto in atleast four B or above ranked Genjutsu before the next month, I will tell you where the book signing for those cursed perverted little books will happen next. Believe me; those who know hold this secret very seriously."
"Ok, I accept it. I get a chance to crush your smug face and kill perverts. I am fine with it. Tell me where you meet up with Ebisu Naruto and we will meet there every day at six in the evening. Is that fine with you? "
"Yes mam" Naruto replied as if he had never met her before. Which he technically had not done yet.
"Oh! My name is Kurenai Yuuhi. You can call me Kurenai-sensei from now on. I also wanted to talk to you about something else also anyway." She soon moved out of the room. As soon as she left the door of the restaurant Ebisu got a weird smile. He turned to Naruto "And thus we have solved the problem of getting you a Genjutsu instructor"
Then, it all struck to Naruto. "Y-you p-pranked K-kurenai s-sensei into doing this. You knew all along"
"Actually, I didn't know that could be done, but when she told me I rolled with the plan" and Ebisu was smirking by now. Naruto slowly put his hands in the ram hand seal and said "Kai". The world didn't collapse. "It's just not possible for Ebisu-sensei to joke is it?" He asked himself loudly. When he looked up Ebisu was not pleased.
"Really Naruto-kun, is that how you thank me. I guess I will have to incorporate some more Shinobi lectures-" And Naruto was again at Ebisu's feet. "Anything But that" he was begging again. "Anyway, Sensei, how did you know where the perverted book signing is going on?" Ebisu started sweating "Uh-uhm. My intelligence network is wide and strong. That's how I know it."
"If you say so" Naruto gave a not impressed shrug. Ebisu just went back to his table etiquette lesson
The student teacher pair soon reached their training ground. Ebisu gave Naruto and his clones a wide variety of scrolls to read while he cleared any doubts they had. This seemed to go on for about an hour more until they heard a distant shout.
"YOUTH"
"I suppose it's about time to introduce your Taijitsu-sensei Naruto–kun" Ebisu said.
I don't think I can reach canon by next chapter but I will try. Anyway Please read and Review.
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