"I swear that woman is still holding a grudge against me for the 'thousand years of pain' I pulled on her. This is child abuse!"

It's been a week since Yugao started training me and she's been working me to the bone, literally.
I always knew that I healed up faster than most people, but even I can't keep up with the rate the wounds keep appearing, especially on my arms.
'Not to mention it's been getting worse since she found out how fast I heal, I swear she's even scarier than that second examiner..."

Narrowing my eyes at the new addition in my weapon arsenal I let out a exasperated sigh, knowing that I still wouldn't be able to use it for a long time to come.

"You'll probably be all rusted by the time I can use you."

Letting out another sigh I got out of my bed and headed for the bathroom.

"Time to get ready for another day of training, oh joy! ...Not."
While brushing my teeth I suddenly realized something.
'Oh great, now I'm even talking to myself out loud, I must be losing it.'

Glancing at the clock I suppressed myself from cursing out loud, put on my gear and grabbed some toast.
I jumped out of the window and started jumping from roof to roof, I was running late and I never want to be late again, not with the punishments she dishes out.

'And I can't believe she even placed a ban on my ramen! Life is so unfair..."

Suppressing another sigh I sped up and continued on my way, having arrived at the designated location I saw her standing in the middle of the clearing, on time as always.
Resigning to my fate I landed on the clearing, standing in front of her.

"Barely in time." A smirk appeared on her face. "Let's begin then."

Begin, as in me being slaughtered while she gets a living training dummy.
Readying myself I unsheathed the katana that I now wore diagonally across my back and parried the first strike.

"Your left guard is weak." With that said I received a harsh kick in my left side.

"Gah!"

I started coughing heavily while kneeling on the ground.
When I caught my breath and raised my head, I saw her katana descending towards me, subconsciously I raised my own and blocked it, barely.

"Good, but too slow! If this was on a mission, you would have kicked the bucket by now!"

With that she pulled back allowing me to get up, narrowing my eyes at her I started my own assault, incorporating the kata's she taught me over the past week and as usual, none of my attacks connected or even got close of hitting her.

This cycle has been repeating itself over the past week.
I get cut up, can't hit her, I get cut up again, still can't hit her.
'This is so unfair...'
But this is pretty much the only thing we can do at the moment, she can't teach me any techniques for now, it seems I had a seal placed on me that cuts my connection from the nine tails, which in turn puts my chakra control out of whack.
'Must be that guy from the forest of death...'
Yugao-sensei has arranged for someone to help me with my problem next week, so until then it's sparring

After the sparring she has to leave for her duties in the ANBU, but not before she leaves me with a heap of exercises to do, such as running laps around Konoha.
Normally I wouldn't mind it too much, but she made me wear weights at all times, during training, daily life and sleeping.
As if that wasn't enough, on my second day of training fuzzy brows' sensei, super fuzzy brows, joined me in my laps around Konoha, I think he said something about 'the flames of youth', whatever that is.
'Someone up there must hate me...'

But there's no denying that the training I'm getting is working,
Compared to a week ago, I'm much faster and stronger now than I was before, even with the weights on.

At the end of the day when Yugao-sensei is finished with her duties, she comes back and observes me practicing my kata's, pointing out my mistakes and helping me correct them.
After all this, it will most probably be late in the evening and I would be completely drained physically, so I just go home to rest up and prepare for more training the following morning.

'Today is the day!' I haven't been this happy for ages, today the seal is going to be undone and I can finally start learning techniques from Yugao-sensei.

However, my happiness was short-lived, after being able to use chakra again she did start teaching me techniques, but she also started to use them during sparring.
So on top of getting cut up, now I also get burned and drenched.
'It can't get any worse than this...'

Unfortunately it did get worse.

'Curse my big mouth.'

On the third week, she deemed me proficient enough with the blade to start teaching me some techniques with it.
I'm actually surprised that she deemed me ready so soon, I was happy though, but a bit skeptical, especially since more techniques equals to more pain for me.
When I voiced my question, she said something about shadow clones, I didn't really understand though, but she said it wasn't important for now, so I let it pass, for now.
"Well Naruto, since your proficient with shadow clones, I'm going to teach you a very special technique...it's called 'Dance of the Crescent Moon'." There was a big smile on her face while she said this, I wouldn't have minded if her smile didn't look so evil.
'Oh hell, I'm so doomed.'

I'm honestly surprised that I survived the week, but it seems like I'm healing even faster now, almost like the ability evolved.

Not that I'm complaining, without I would most definitely be dead by now.

Learning 'Dance of the Crescent Moon' had been brutal, I was getting cut up three times as bad.
Not to mention that I'm still nowhere near mastering it.

Compared to when I started I changed a great deal, mostly physical though.
Nearly all my clothes had been cut up, so I had gone shopping for new ones with Yugao-sensei, but she firmly denied the color orange and filled my wardrobe with black.
'It's soooooo gloomy...'
I also developed some more muscles, hard not to with all the training I've done, finally I seem to have grown a bit in height, I think sensei said it had something to do with me not eating ramen all the time.

Now there's only one week left until the finals, Yugao-sensei had to leave the village for a mission, under normal circumstances I would have been jumping for joy for the break, but with the finals so close I couldn't help but being anxious.
Fortunately she'd arranged for a substitute during her absence, I wasn't particularly happy about it, she promised that I won't be disappointed with him, just that I mind not to pick up his bad habits.
Finally she gave me permission to start training with that blade, well, time to get started I guess.

'One week left...'