Acidic Properties 5


As you will see in this chapter, I will not make Naruto super strong with a billion pounds on his person at the get go. I think that even ninja have to start out low and work their way up. More info at the bottom.

Naruto sat Indian style as he looked at his new Sensei. The man, tall and intimidating looked down on him with…a blank expression. He had a body suit or something of the like underneath his combat fatigues and a vest on over those. Just two days ago he had met the man, when he was informed by the Old Man that he was going to be his Sensei for a year and possibly next year as well.

"Well then, for the last two days we have yet to start training. So for starters…what do you want to do when you get older." The man said as he sat down in similar fashion.

"Naruto wants to be eight fingers!" Naruto said with nine fingers held up, making Yamato sigh. He had a lot of work to do, not just training him in the ninja way, but also things that parents should have taught him.

"You want to be eight years old right?" Yamato asked as the boy nodded. "First of all, you have nine fingers help up, put one down and then you will have eight." He said as Naruto took one finger down…from each hand. "No, that's seven, put one finger up on one hand, and then you will have eight." He instructed as Naruto complied. "That's right, but just turning eight…isn't there something else you want to be? Like a genin, chunin…jonin or maybe even Hokage?" he asked as Naruto shrugged.

"Naruto just wants to be stronger…" he said, leaving a bit off at the end, though Yamato didn't pry.

"Well that's okay too, you can think of what you want to become later on!" Yamato reassured with a grin. "But today is the first day of your training…are you excited?" he asked as Naruto shrugged. "You just said you wanted to be stronger so why aren't you happy?" the man asked.

"Naruto has never trained before...Naruto has only run." The words hit the back of Yamato's mind just a little too hard for his liking. First off, the boy had never had any kind of training other than running, and that was probably because of older kids and some piss hobbled drunk who wished to slay him for his tenant. Secondly…this may take a while, getting a child into shape to train wasn't the easiest thing to do in the world, but hopefully it wouldn't take too long to do so. He would also have to find out who his next Sensei was going to be before he stopped training him.

"Okay then, well lets see…training involves becoming fit, so that you or who ever is strong enough to guards ones self. Yours would start off with small repetitions or sets of pushups, sit ups, pull ups and jogging and maybe running and other exercises. Normally we would train all day but since you haven't trained before other than running…we will only do pieces of the exercises a day. So today, we will start you off with two sets of 8 for push ups and sit ups, 2 sets of 8 for pull ups and then to finish it off…3 laps around the training site we will be using, okay?" he explained to the young boy who didn't nod for a bit. After a minute or two of thinking and putting everything in his mental banks, he nodded. Yamato liked him already, if giving the right amount of time he could remember and understand things better than if just told off after ten seconds like they would at the academy.

"So Naruto and Yamato-Sensei will be training today?" Naruto asked as Yamato nodded with a small grin. "Yes!" Naruto did a little victory pull with that.

"Alright then…let's get going!" Yamato said with a grin as Naruto stood up and ran to the door, excited about learning something that could help him gain strength.

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Ten Minutes Later – Training Ground 12

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"Here we are." Yamato said as Naruto looked at the field in front of him. Yamato had chosen this field because it was in good condition and it was medium sized field about ninety yards, so about a square acre in total, Naruto would only be doing three laps around this monster for a few months or unless he had good breathing and times, then he would add laps.

"Okay then, lets start, I want you to do two sets of eight pushups, can you count that high?" Yamato asked.

"No…Naruto can count to eight now though thanks to Yamato-Sensei!" Naruto said as he started to count to eight, not messing up once.

"That's great Naruto, now two sets of eight is sixteen, so if you count to eight twice, that's two times, then you should have done all sixteen. Now, you do know how to do a pushup right?" he asked as the boy nodded, "Good, now begin!" instantly Naruto got on the ground and started to do some pushups, not very good ones, but they passed and they would have to do for a bit until he knew more about training and Yamato.

As Naruto finished up his sixteenth pushup, Yamato started to show him how to do sit ups, in which Naruto was a lot better at, most likely due to his prior living experiences in the Home. Sixteen sit ups later and it was time to move on to pull ups, which for the time being was a tree branch, which was low enough for Naruto to grab and use. After sixteen pull ups, to point out, Naruto was beginning to tire rapidly, Yamato took him aside from training and told him to take a break as he explained the correct method to jog or run long distances.

"So that's all Naruto has to do? Three?" the boy asked, his face covered in sweat.

"That's right, just three laps and then were done for the day." Yamato answered with a grin. He was impressed, for a child, he had a lot of energy, of course with what his life was like he wasn't too surprised. As he pointed out the edges and the posts, he had put up during Naruto's pushups and sit ups, and then sent him off as a shadow appeared behind him, though it was a friendly shadow.

"So…how is he?" the voice was old but still powerful.

"For a brat his age and his current physical state I am impressed, I think by the end of the month I might be able to place one pounders on his legs." The ex-Anbu stated with a smirk as the shadow laughed a few breaths of air.

"Just don't kill him now Yamato…I mean it." The shadow said with a cold nip at the end to make the point clear.

"Hai…Hokage-Sama…but I have to ask…who is his next Sensei after me?"

"Yuuhai Kurenai, Naruto is easily susceptible to genjutsu so the best way to better him is to train him with her. And even if he wasn't; her other pupil is a bit of a handful."

"And who is that Hokage-Sama? The pupil I mean." He felt like smacking himself for that one, the Hokage had just mentioned that the next Sensei's name was Kurenai so why did he ask that? He felt stupid.

"Another genjutsu Master, or should I say Mistress." The man said with a slight edge.

"Hmm…she isn't the strongest is she?" Yamato asked as he watched Naruto trip over a small clod of dirt and pick himself up again and went back to his running, still his first lap.

"Ninjutsu is her second weak point but her first and for most is her taijutsu her body is weak, not so much that she can't train but weak enough that she would take years to train, I was thinking of having her start training now but Gai is the only one who could bring her up to speed with her age…but he would probably kill her by accident."

"I see…so what's the point of training her other than genjutsu?"

"I am hoping that her condition is because of how her parents baby her. If she is inspired to do better then maybe she will become healthier and maybe even become a genin if not low chunin rank. She will never become a jonin, which will be painful to say to her but maybe being a ninja of any rank will cheer her up."

"I see…why not start now then? If she is a little better off…then maybe she could become better than just low chunin." Yamato inquired as Naruto started his second lap.

"Her parents won't have it. It is all that I can do now just to stay their moving plans." Sarutobi said with a sigh.

"Hmm…I see, so if she has a partner to train with her own age then maybe she will become stronger and her parents will see to reason?"

"Hopefully. At least that is what I am hoping for."

"And you want Naruto to help her?" Yamato asked with a huff. He hated being used.

"Yes, but not just for her own life, but for Naruto's as well. Had Naruto never received that glove then he would be able to make friends at the academy or might have. But now…if he doesn't gain a friend and that glove starts making suggestions…then we could loose him." His tone was hard and cold.

"You're afraid that whatever that thing is will mold his mind to what that alien or whatever it was, wants?" Yamato asked.

"Yes…and I will tell you now not to say a thing to anyone else…Kyuubi is already speaking to him." Yamato's face turned bed sheet white, his eyes large with fear; "He says that she only talks to him at night or when he is sleeping, but he doesn't mention what she talks to him about."

"She?" Oh Kami! She could be posing as his mother for all they knew!

"Yes; and little children are more susceptible to females than males when it comes to something as parental role…females have that connection to children that most males don't."

"And that is another reason why you chose Kurenai isn't it?" Knock the Kyuubi's methods of luring from his mind with someone real…brilliant!

"Yes…and his genjutsu problem but that is mostly why. I have no clue as to what kind of person that demoness is pretending to be other than Kirei Oneesan…but I don't quite trust Naruto on that…he is young and although not stupid he is gullible just like all children." Sarutobi said as he looked at his watch. "I have to return now…just send me a report at the end of day and then another at the end of the week…okay?" with that the Sandiame Hokage left in a small gust of leaves.

'So this is to protect both a child, a young girl…and the village…okay then I guess being used this way isn't as bad as I thought it could be…although the whole thing with the Kyuubi being a role in Naruto's life might not be so easy to crack than what Hokage-Sama thinks it might…but maybe that girl can help him kick her ideas and whims away when he is older. I can only guess as to what she might do to him when he is a teenager.'


Okay there people longer than the last but the next one will be longer than this, as the story has picked up a bit. I was going to make this chapter longer but I figured that the next one should be the long one I was talking about.

You have a hint as to who I am talking about for Naruto's training partner when he goes to train under Kurenai. For those of you who guessed last time I will have let you wonder if you can't figure it out this chapter.

For Naruto's apartment, I didn't want to take up a lot of space with something that might either look weird; I am weird when it comes to color coordination so I left it like it is in the manga. His new clothes, he has regular training clothes, which are just light gray clothes for now; and he now struts along in a green long sleeve shirt and black pants. I don't care for fashion so I just picked them because of the glove.

I thank any who read and any who review. Thanks…

P.S.- My schooling starts on Monday so I will be busy, busy. I got rid of one idea for a new fic for one I have never seen on this site before, although since there are a lot of Naruto fics on this site it is impossible to make sure. But I will not tell you Nya!