The third chapter, and my longest one yet - 1203 words without author's notes. It was four pages, which is pretty long for me. Enjoy.

Title - A Couple Millimetres
Chapter - Three; Training
Word Count w/o AN - 1203
Word count with AN - 1380
Summary - Kyuubi takes Naruto out to train in a forest, and informs him of how the week is going to go.

Oh right, and I'm going to rap up the training next chapter, as well as maybe fit in the return to Konoha.

"So what now?"

"I told you not to speak out loud – people will think you're insane, or they'll find out about you talking to me, and then you'll be executed."

"M'eh."

"Argh!"

Naruto was hopping along the forest from tree to tree, getting farther and farther away from his beloved village and home. He was a bit sad to be leaving, but he knew he'd be back in a week and that he'd be getting stronger. That thought kept him going.

Kyuubi, on the other hand, was as about as happy as a snowball in hell. He knew he had to train the brat, or else he'd get them both obliterated on their first mission above D-rank. But that didn't mean he had to be happy about.

Finished shouting in annoyance, the demon started to give information to Naruto. "While you were talking to the old man, I was planning a rough outline of the week for your training."

Naruto snorted. 'Who needs a schedule? Teach me some kick-ass jutsus, and I'll own everyone."

Kyuubi, half-relieved and half-pissed at the fact that Naruto finally started to mentally convey images, sighed and replied, "No, dumbass. Most of the jutsus I know require a shitload of chakra as well as mental and physical endurance. You have neither. And some of them need a bit of refined chakra control too – you're not even close to being ready for them."

'And how the hell am I supposed to gain that in a week?'

"I'm going to train you to a repectable level for a genin this week only so that you won't make a complete idiot out of yourself. We'll work on more advanced stuff later."

'Psh. Whatever.'

"Stop."

Naruto skidded over and fell to the ground at the sudden and unexpected command. "Ow! God dammit!"

"This will do. See that cave over there?"

'Yeah?'

"That's your home for the next seven days."

'You have really crappy taste in housing.'

Ignoring him, Kyuubi continued on.

"Here's the schedule – we stay at the cave and work on your physical stamina, as well as your survival skills. Then we'll move on to chakra control fir the next three days. That leaves us two days to work on some jutsus."

"A little rushed, don't you think?" asked Naruto sarcastically, forgetting about not speaking aloud.

"We only have a week, so shut up and start working."

'What the hell do I do?'

"Go fetch some food for yourself. I'd say it's about noon. You've got an hour to catch it, and thirty minutes to eat. If you're not done in one and a half hours, we're skipping lunch."

'WHAT?'

"We don't have that much time, remember? Now get moving, brat. You only have one hour and twenty-nine minutes left."

Grumbling, Naruto left to catch himself some food.

Spotting a thin and shallow stream, the loud blonde dropped down to do some fishing. He tried in vain to grab some with his bare hands. He managed to catch one once, but it slipped right out of his hand back into the water. He attempted for half an hour before stopping.

"Dammit…there must be a way to keep the fish from escaping. If I knew some Suiton jutsus, I could just move the water out of the lake…"

After thinking for awhile, he grinned and exclaimed, "Yes! I have it! In your face, fish!"

He put his hands into the familiar cross-shaped handseal. "Kage Bunshin no Justu!"

Fifty short blondes materialized and jumped into the streak. Some dived and some stayed on top, and they made two human walls between some fish. "Ha!"

The remaining ten clones jumped in and tried to get the fish out of the water. They still slipped in between his fingers, however. So they took off their orange jumpsuits and surrounded the fish before dragging them up to shore, where they let the fish flop around and die out of the water.

"You've got thirty minutes."

"SHIT!"

He quickly collected some dead wood and started rubbing them together. "C'mon, c'mon! Burn, damn you! Burn!"

It didn't. Naruto got so mad, he took a kunai and lunged it as hard as he could into a nearby rock. It made a resounding Clang! and bounced off. But more importantly, a spark flew from the impact into his pile of wood and leaves, started a small fire.

"Brat, you must be the luckiest idiot I've ever seen. You've discovered flint. Congratulations. Flint can make sparks, which, as you now know, can make fire."

But Naruto wasn't listening. He was too busy spearing some fish and placing them over the fire.

"Are you even listening?"

"Yeah yeah – flint equals fire. Got it."

Kyuubi desperately wanted to bang his head against the bars of his cage.

"Ah crap! Crap! Damn! Crap! It's burning! Ah!!" Naruto swiftly plucked the fish out of the fire. They were only slightly burned, however.

Kyuubi sniggered. "Serves you right."

BREAKER LINE

Twelve fish later, Naruto fell to the floor, bloated and tired. 'Ah…that was good.'

"Hey, what the hell are you doing, runt?"

Naruto, in a dreamlike sleepy stage, suddenly jumped up. "Eh? Whozzat?"

"Wake up, dumbass. Go wash your face in the stream and come back for training."

"Uuug.."

He slowly trudged down to the water and washed up. Once again alert, he questioned about his training.

"Since we're in the middle of a forest and we don't have much time, we'll just have to make do with what we've got. Go pick up those rocks over there."

Naruto did so.

"Now stick them in your pockets. Tie up your sleeves and put rocks there as well. These will be your weights for now."

When he finished, Kyuubi informed him that that was about two pounds he had on him. "Not much, but that's the best we can do for now."

'Alright…and?'

"Now drop and give me a hundred push-ups.'

Naruto sweatdropped, but obeyed.

While he was doing that, Kyuubi was talking. "Now, since I'm doing this and teaching your loser ass, you're going to have to refer to me as "Kyuubi-sensei," got it?"

It was a good thing he didn't have to talk out loud, because by now Naruto was out of breath and tired. 'Don't push it, fox.'

"You can't blame a demon for trying."

"Give me a final hundred."

'Fine.'

After ten minutes and the push-ups were done, Naruto got up, complete unwinded and unhindered.

"I think you're ready."

'So do I. I've been thinking that for a while now.'

It was two days later, and Naruto was much stronger than before Iruka's death. It had only been two days, but the Kyuubi had been driving him ragged for those days. He had to complete one hundred push-ups every two hours, as well as five hundred sit-ups every three hours. He ran over two hundred kilometres in those two days, greatly enhancing his already great endurance. He ran, jumped, dug, among many other things, and was twice as strong as he was before, at least physically.

"You ready for chakra control training?"

'Just tell me what to do already.'

Kyuubi grinned at the reaction he was going to get from the blonde runt when he gave him his task.

"Alright, then. You asked for it. Remember that."

This chapter took longer - thirteen days. The other one took nine. But they're both still faster than my estimate of a month. Maybe I'll get a chapter up once every two weeks then.

Until next time!