The arena was in ruins, the tiles and plating on the walls, floors, and even roofs had either been damaged or had already come off. The floor was littered with debris from the battle that had just ensued. Not only was the arena in need of attention, but so did Sakura, Ino, Choji, Kiba, three other leaf shinobi whose names Kenji didn't know, and several Jonin who accompanied the Hokage were injured and hospitalized. The Key Blade master surveyed not only the structural damage, but also the injuries that the Heartless inflicted during their last assault. He knew right there and then that not only would there be more attacks like this, but also, now that everyone was involved with the affairs that he usually dealt with, their lives may never be the same again, and that they would start asking questions, especially ones that are best left unanswered.
The remaining Jonin as well as the Hokage were meeting in a cramped room just inside the tower. They had just enough seats to settle all those who still weren't hospitalized.
"The recent attack by those unknown creatures and that cloaked man indicates that they are all allied with Orochimaru." The Hokage began. "Anko, gather as much information as you can on them and step up the village security, make sure all ANBU are on the look out for that man and as well as anymore of those creatures within the village."
"Yes sir!" said the purple haired Kunoichi as she left without saying another word.
"Lord Hokage, about the boy named Kenji…" Kakashi started.
"Go on." The elder shinobi permitted.
"Well, to me it doesn't look like the one who attacked us and the kid is allied, in fact because the two did fight one can safely assume that they hate each other." Kakashi explained as everyone recalled the brief duel between the two Key Blade masters. "Not only that, but he took that giant head on."
"Hm… That is a good point Kakashi." The Hokage said rubbing his chin. "At the end of the announcements, I want you to bring Kenji in for questions, and if you have to, make him tell you everything we need to know. It's apparent that we can't stop these exams, or we'll risk another attack against those creatures."
The Jonin and their Hokage walked out to the crowd of curious and anxious Genin, not only were they worried about their injured team mates, but also what will become of the exams. Their anxiety started making them sweat, all except for the three sand shinobi. And once again, despite the assault, Garaa still didn't get any scratches on him, he just stood there, calmly with his arms crossed around his chest and still having that peculiar look in his eyes.
"Listen well, all of you… Because of the unusually large amount of Genin passing the second exam, we were about to stage a preliminary round. However, in light of the recent attack, we've decided to only pass the remaining examinees. Meaning that only those of you remain are the only ones who pass." The elder explained.
There was a massive uproar amongst some of the Genin. It wasn't fair that their other team mates wouldn't get a shot just because of some random incident.
"Now, you'll have three weeks to prepare for the final rounds of the Chunin Exams, I suggest you use it to train yourself to acquire new techniques." The Hokage suggested. "That is all, you are all dismissed, and may we see you 3 weeks from now, ready to fight in the final rounds."
With that, everyone escorted to a secret passage way where they took a tunnel outside the forest. Everyone so was relived that they were able to get out of that dense forest, and that they are able to breath the fresh air once again.
"Feh… It's as I've said countless times, you can't escape destiny…" Neji smirked. "It's better for them that they were eliminated this way instead of being humiliated in a fight."
"What the hell did you just say!?" Naruto shouted. "What's your deal?!"
"I'm just saying that those who were hospitalized were going to lose in a battle anyway." Neji said a cold and calculating manner. "Unlike you, I can see that everyone of those Genin would have thoroughly humiliated, and that for the sake of their pride, it's better that they did get eliminated that way."
Without hesitation, Naruto rushed Neji, only to have not only Kenji trying to restrain him, but for Rock Lee to slide in the way of the completely irritated blonde shinobi. It was a struggle for Kenji as he hasn't recovered from the last battle yet, he tried hard not to show it, but he was in pain, and was barely able to hold him back.
"Naruto, I know what you mean, believe me I know!" Rock Lee pleaded to the blonde. "But the rules say that all fighting is to be done in the ring."
"I agree with him, you don't want to get into this kind of trouble." Kenji grunted.
"A failure beating a genius through sheer will power… Now that would be an exciting match…" Rock Lee said.
Those words of Rock Lee not only put a grin into Naruto's face, and made him calmer, but it also gave the blonde something to look forward to… An underdog rising above all odds, it is indeed a show worth seeing.
"You'd better hope that we don't fight in the final rounds, because if we do… I'll be sure to knock you down! I vow to win!" Naruto declared raising his fist and pointing it at the smirking Hyuga.
"Hey Naruto, calm down, we should go see how Sakura is doing in the hospital." Kenji said trying to douse the fire in Naruto's eyes.
"Yeah, I guess you're right…" the blonde grumbled.
The Key Blade master let out a sigh of relief, as it was lucky that things didn't turn out ugly. Sasuke went with Kakashi somewhere, while Rock Lee, Ten Ten and Neji left with their Sensei: Guy, and went off somewhere to probably celebrate them passing this part of the exams. Kenji and Naruto both went off to the hospital, where many of the injured Genins' parents were in after hearing their child getting injured. They had worry was plastered across their faces as they're all hoping that none of them were too injured. Both Kenji and Naruto went up to the front desk and rang the bell.
"May I help you?" the desk nurse responded.
"Do you know where Sakura Haruno is? We're her friends, and we want to see if she's alright." Naruto explained.
"Well, isn't that sweet, that you came to visit her." The nurse teased. "She's at the 2nd floor with all the other Genin that were injured."
With that, the two took the Nurse' directions, they arrived at the room where Sakura laid down as she stared out the window; she had the usual hospital garments on. Naruto gave a grin to the pink haired kunoichi as he rushed up to her.
"Hey Sakura! How are you doing?" Naruto said.
"I'm fine." Sakura replied. "How about Sasuke?"
"Well, Kakashi-sensei took him somewhere… I don't know where though…" Naruto said recalling the events.
"Hm… I see…" Sakura said in a worried tone.
Then, a man wearing a mask decorated with the head of a bird, as well as a gray light protective chest gear with several paddings on his fore arms and shins over a black suit and a sword hanging from his back. Though his eyes were hidden behind those masks, it was obvious he was staring at the Key Blade master, and chances are, that he didn't have the friendly ones.
"You're Kenji, am I right?" he stated. "I am with the ANBU black ops of the hidden leaf village. You need to come with me."
"What for?" Naruto said suddenly.
Though it was almost impossible to see, it was obvious when the masked shinobi reared his head towards Naruto, he had anger in his heart. If it were silent, you could hear him breathing hard behind that mask.
"This doesn't concern you, fox boy." He said coldly. Not only was he cold, but he had hate in his tone… Hate and fear, but why?
Suddenly, a nurse came in just in the nick of time.
"Sir, you'll have to please stop… The patient is still recovering." The nurse said calmly.
"Out of my way, bitch!" the ANBU spat as with a flung of his arm, he knocked down the nurse.
"What the heck was that for?! She was only asking you to stop!" Sakura shouted with aggravation in his tone. "Why are you so hostile to Naruto? He hasn't done anything to you."
"Shut up! This has nothing to do with you!" the ANBU raising his voice.
Sakura could sense that something was up, but where did all this hostility come from? The same questions popped into the Key Blade master's mind as well in almost the same time. There was this sudden hostility towards the kid who didn't do anything and yet there was some kind of violent reaction… Could there be a story behind all of this?
"H-Hey, please, Naruto hasn't done anything wrong!" Sakura pleaded with worry in her tone.
"Yeah, just come back ten years from now, and you'll see how horrible he really was!" the ANBU spat.
Suddenly, the masked shinobi drew the sword from his back, poised to kill the blonde shinobi. The Sakura gasped at the treacherous thing the ANBU was about to do, killing one of his own without a reason…
"This is for my parents, demon!" the ANBU shouted as he arched his sword downwards but, Kenji drew his Key Blade to block the attack. "Don't get in the way brat!"
"Demon?! Stop that! He's just a kid who hasn't done anything to you!" Kenji shouted as he pushed away the ANBU with his Key Blade.
The masked shinobi made another mad dash forward, and swung his sword at full force horizontally, but Kenji raised his Key Blade sideways to block the incoming blade. Seeing an opening, the ANBU plunged his boots into the Key Blade master and sent him crashing out through the window. Kenji landed on his feet on the dirt outside, the air was filled with dust, and he was barely able to see the ANBU jumping out the window and was even barely able to roll out of the way.
"Why the hell are you trying to attack us?!" Kenji demanded as he took a defensive stance, keeping his Key Blade across his upper body. "We haven't done anything to you!"
"Because that brat is nothing more than a demon and you are one of Orochimaru's agents!" the ANBU shouted with paranoia in his tone.
The masked shinobi hurled several shuriken from his pouch, but Kenji had already leaped into the air, avoiding the spinning blades of death. The Key Blade master was in the air, ready to arch his blade down wards. Though the ANBU raised his sword to defend against the assault, the Key Blade slashed through the sword, and went through to his collar bone. There was a loud crack that could be heard as the masked shinobi fell on his knees, clutching his shoulders and was whimpering in pain. Kenji poised his blade in the ANBU's face. It was then that Naruto and Sakura along with the nurse that the ANBU knocked down came down from the hospital.
"Now don't bother Naruto again." Kenji said as he withdrew his Key Blade in a flash of light, turned around and walked towards his two friends.
"Are you okay?" Naruto asked examining the Key Blade master if he had any injuries.
"Aaaaah!" suddenly, there was a high pitched scream coming from the ANBU. There were several heartless that surrounded the masked shinobi. "Get away from me!"
These heartless had a humanoid shape, they took on a striking resemblance of that of a shinobi as each had swords in one hand as well as kunai knives on the other. They had small pouches; undoubtedly for carrying shuriken and more of those explosive notes. Though they took on the shape of a ninja, they still had those empty yellow eyes that crave to literally tear the heart out of anything that lives. The heartless before the masked shinobi came forward, and raised his blade to deliver a final blow, but Kenji got to the dark creature first and cleaved the cretin in half, though he saved his assailant, he also caught the attention of the rest of the heartless.
'Not good… Where did these heartless come from?!' Kenji thought.
"No you don't!" Naruto shouted as he rushed in with his index and middle fingers crossed. "Shadow clone jutsu!"
Then, just like before he replicated himself into 5 in a puff of smoke. All 5 replicas charged down the heartless shinobi, giving them a good pounding as soon as each solid replicas got hold of one. Though each clone bashed the heartless and forced each back into darkness, more came in the way and did the same to each clone, making them all vanish in a puff of smoke.
"It's these things again!" Naruto shouted taking out a Kunai knife and hurled a pair of shuriken only to have it deflected by the blades of the heartless.
Suddenly, shuriken were fired seemingly from nowhere, they were showered with such precision, only nailing the dark creatures. These spinning tools of death were fired at such random areas, that neither Naruto, Kenji nor Sakura was able to find who or where they were thrown from as sent each of them back to the darkness from which they came. Suddenly, Kakashi along with several of his replicas on trees, atop the hospital as well.
"Nice! One, Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto shouted out cheerfully as their sensei managed to bail them out of another jam.
The replicas of Kakashi suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke just as the real Kakashi leaped down from a tree, and to his students as well as the Key Blade master. He had his hands in his pocket, showing that neutral expression as usual.
"Hey you…" Kakashi said to the ANBU. "Why are you fighting with the kid? You were only supposed to bring him in for questioning."
"Well, he resisted sir!" the ANBU lied.
Kenji, Naruto and Sakura couldn't believe the lies coming from the shinobi's ears. He was supposed to be an ANBU, a shinobi of a high rank, and yet he tells of such lies?
"Liar! You attacked Naruto and Kenji!" Sakura shouted still in her hospital garments.
"Yeah, she's right, he attacked and called Naruto a demon." Kenji stated recalling the event.
"Demon, eh?" Kakashi said turning to the masked ANBU with disgust and disappointment. "You do realize what you've done, haven't you? You just broke the decree of the 3rd Hokage…"
"They lie!" the ANBU retorted.
"If this is what we get for saving your ass, then maybe Kenji should've let those things finish you!" Naruto shouted.
"Enough, Naruto… If you aren't lying, then it'll show on the security footage on Sakura's room." Kakashi said simply.
"That won't be necessary…" the Nurse said. "I heard everything, and what the children say is true."
"Why?! I was trying to avenge the death of your parents! That brat was the one who killed them!" the ANBU spat. "He deserves what he should've gotten!"
'Naruto deserves to die? What in the world is this guy talking about?' Kenji thought as even more questions popped in his head.
"Enough!" Kakashi said coldly as with a snap of his fingers, a whole group of ANBU appeared in an instant behind Kakashi. "Take him to prison…"
"Yes sir!" they all said at the same time as they chained the struggling ANBU. Once the rouge shinobi was secure, they all disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Man… What a headache…" Kakashi said pinching the top of his nose in hopes of easing that ache in his head caused by the ANBU as he turned to Kenji. "Alright kid, you've got to come with me…"
"Wait! What for?" Naruto asked hoping for an answer.
"Relax, Naruto, we're just going to ask him a few questions, that's all. In fact, I think you should also come too." Kakashi said calmly, explained to the hyper active blonde.
Kenji gave a long sigh… Realizing that if he didn't want the same thing to repeat, he figured that he may as well go with him. Naruto along with Kenji decided to tag along with Kakashi. But that was only one of the things in the Key Blade master's mind that bothered him…
'What's the deal with that guy? Naruto couldn't have done anything wrong, and even ten years ago, that would be impossible because I'd have to say he was probably just a baby back then!' Kenji thought as he grew more and more curious as to the reason of that ANBU's sudden hostility. 'Maybe there is a story behind all of that after all.'
"Hey, where are we going exactly?" the Key Blade master asked.
"Well, for one thing, it's not an interrogation; we just want to ask you questions." Kakashi said simply.
"Interrogation for what?" the clueless blonde wondered.
"About the attack during the Chunin Exams…" Kakashi said simply.
Kenji gave a long sigh, he knew that this was going to happen eventually. Interfering with the affairs of the world was prohibited, and this was the reason. But nonetheless, it's something that has to be done if one could hope to save this world from annihilation. Kenji pinched the top of his nose in hopes of soothing the headache caused by what he was about to do. The blue haired Jonin led the two to a single story building, inside was none other than Ibiki Morino, the sadistic first proctor of the Chunin Exams, as well as the Hokage himself. The mere sight of Ibiki sent chills down Naruto's spine, as he recalled the previous events on what happened on the first exam before… The trench coated man couldn't help but to rear his head to the blonde.
"Ah, you…" Ibiki chuckled. "From the first exams…"
"This is Ibiki Morino." The Hokage said introducing the sadistic looking man to the two. "He's just here to make sure you tell the truth."
"The truth, huh? That's what I actually planned on telling that from the beginning." Kenji said calmly. "If you guys really want to survive, then I have to tell you guys the truth…"
"Well then, care to start from the beginning?" Kakashi said.
Kenji gave a long sigh in preparation to the long story that he was about to tell them. Kenji told them all he knew, from the Key Blade to the Heartless along with the Key Blade wars and all the worlds it ravaged. The boy continued on with the battle against Veil, where he summoned Kingdom Hearts, absorbed some of its energy to become this near God-like entity of supreme power. They were dumbfounded of the words that came out of the Key Blade master's mouth.
"And after landing in that forest, I was ambushed by a bunch of shinobi, but I took them down and they gave me the scrolls I needed to go on, and after that, well, you guys know the rest." Kenji said taking a deep breath from his story telling.
"So, there are these Dark Key Blade masters known as the Scions of the Void who want to take control of each world, and you and the rest of the Key Blade masters are at war with them." Ibiki recited still disbelieving the words that were spoken just now. "And these weapons you hold, they are known as Key Blades?"
"Yeah…" Kenji said as he lifted his hand, and in a flash of light, he called his Key Blade to him. "This is a Key Blade. And those creatures back there are known as heartless."
"So, the Heartless go from world to world, in hopes of trying to steal hearts." Naruto said as he too had a hard time believing his new comrade's words.
"Those heartless were about to take that one guys heart, but I managed to stop them…" Kenji said as Naruto recalled the ANBU's assault against the two. "No matter what happens, nobody deserves that kind of fate."
"I see… This is a problem…" the Hokage said giving a long sigh as he could feel a headache coming in.
"To add on to the problem, we have reasons to believe that these Dark Key Blade masters are working with Orochimaru." Ibiki said as the adults realized the problem that they were facing.
"Wait, who's Orochimaru?" Kenji asked as he remembered hearing that name before from his assailant.
"Perhaps it is best that you did know… You see, Orochimaru was once a shinobi of our village, he was one of the best, in fact, he was one of my pupil… And ever since he was denied the title of Hokage, the leader of our village, he turned on all of us." The old man explained as Kenji's eyes widened. "I suppose with the help of his new allies, he may have enough power to attack the village. We must prepare for the worst… Ibiki!"
"Yes sir!" the scarred man said as he came into attention.
"We need to have an emergency council meeting, gather all the Jonin and Chunin along with the elders. We can't stop the exams because these Heartless may attack again." The Hokage explained. "Tell them that I request an emergency meeting regarding new developments. And Kakashi, have you taken care of Sasuke?"
"Yes, he should be fine now…" Kakashi reported as Ibiki disappeared almost instantly.
"What's wrong with Sasuke?" the blonde shinobi wondered.
"Well, something happened to him during the exams… I can't exactly say what it is yet though…" Kakashi said with worry in his tone. "In either case, because of these incidents, I'll have missions to do, so I requested a substitute to train you for the exams in my place…"
"Say what?! A substitute?!" Naruto shouted in disbelief. "No way! I want you to train me instead!"
"It can't be helped Naruto, and besides, the one I asked to train you will be better than I am…" Kakashi said calmly.
"I don't give a flying fuck on which trainer you picked out! I want you to train me!" Naruto protested.
Then, the door opened, revealing a shinobi in a navy blue overall, and instead of a head band, he has a bandana with a plate that had the leaf symbol on it "You should listen to your sensei more, Naruto." He said.
"This is Ebisu-Sensei, he'll train you for the next few weeks…" Kakashi stated as he expected a rather large protest from the hyper-active blonde shinobi.
"Gah! It's you!" Naruto said in horror, as if he had seen a ghost. "No way! I'm not training with this closet pervert!"
"Closet… what?" Kakashi said dumbfounded.
"You should've seen it! When he saw my harem jutsu, he pr—" but the before the blonde shinobi could finish his rant, Ebisu, the so called closet pervert rushed up to him and shut the blonde shinobi's mouth before he could say anymore…
"Listen… I'll buy you ramen or whatever just shut up about that!" Ebisu said in a barely audible tone, as Kenji had gotten a general idea of what happened and began to snicker uncontrollably.
"Harem Jutsu? What are you talking about?" Kakashi now curious as to what happened between the two eyed Naruto with a penetrating stare.
"Ahahaha! Oh nothing… It was just a joke we shared." The shinobi trainer said giving off a hollow laughter, hoping to throw off the suspicions coming from the blue haired Jonin.
"I see… Well, I know this is a lot more trouble than I asked you to handle, but can you take Kenji as well?" Kakashi requested as the Key Blade master stopped snickering instantly and had a sour face plastered right across it. "Seeing as though he's already proficient with his sword techniques, I'd like you to help him focus with chakra control."
"Say what?!" Kenji protested.
"Come on, you said you lost your powers, right? Well, you need to have something to be able to defend yourself with." Kakashi explained. "Just train with the guy, and who knows, you might be able to pick something up."
"Fine…" Kenji sighed, giving into the light-blue haired shinobi's request. "Anyway, what is chakra?"
Naruto began to laugh uncontrollably with the question that came from the Key Blade master. What was chakra? They did mention it before, but what was it?
"You're in no position to laugh, Naruto…" Kakashi said to his pupil. "You keep mispronouncing chakra."
Kenji began to snicker uncontrollably as his comrade put on a sour face after realizing that he indeed mispronounced chakra… Or whatever that was. Ebisu led Naruto and Kenji to a stand with the smell of cooking about in the air. There were several stools along with a long table to eat whatever that was going to be served. Behind the tables, there was what seemed like a kitchen with pots boiling with something that obviously tasted really good; and a door to the back of the bar which is most likely where they stored all of their supplies. Kenji's stomach grumbled as he realized that he hasn't eaten anything even before he landed in this crazy world.
"Woohoo! Ichiraku Ramen!" Naruto said uncontrollably as his mouth began to slightly drool over what seemed to be his favorite food. "Ramen time! Ramen time!"
Then, a middle aged man with an apron and a chef's hat came out along with a young woman with brown hair, who's probably in her 20's, donning the same outfit as the middle aged man. They greeted their customers with a smile in their faces. The young woman then checked the boiling pot of noodles, after giving it a whiff; she gave a look of approval, indicating that the noodles were ready.
"Alright you two, lunch is on me." Ebisu said generously as those words put a wide grin across Naruto's face and drool running across his lips.
"Hey old man Teuchi! Get me some beef ramen!" Naruto requested to the Ramen Chef.
"I guess I'll have…" Kenji then looked at the menu right above the Ramen Chef's head, and scanned it thoroughly. "I'll have some chicken teriyaki ramen."
"And I'll have some miso ramen." The Jonin trainer said as he too was a bit hungry.
Then, in almost no time at all, the ordered Ramen came. The steaming smell of those delicious noodles added with meat smelled especially delicious. Naruto quickly went through his first bowl of ramen even before Kenji or Ebisu had a chance to finish half of their bowl of noodles. Naruto quickly ordered another… and another… Though Ebisu hadn't noticed it yet, Naruto was in his 5th bowl of ramen already it was by that time Ebisu and Kenji finished their bowl of Ramen.
"Okay you two, listen up, we're going to have to train both of you on chakra control." Ebisu began.
"Why? Chakra control is like baby training!" Naruto shouted as he continued to scarf down his 6th bowl of ramen, as Kenji's eyes widened in horror on how much this one kid is eating in one lunch meal.
"Well, your sensei told me that it's the only thing you're having such an issue with." Ebisu replied to the blonde shinobi whom was already at his 8th bowl of noodles. "And as for you Kenji, since you have no experience with chakra at all, then it's perfect timing that I trained the both of you."
"Well, what can I do with chakra anyway?" Kenji asked----
"I'm sure that you've already seen chakra in action when several other shinobi execute their Nin-Jutsu, which is one of the several things that we'll be training for the next few weeks." Ebisu explained. "Nin-Jutsu is executed through focusing chakra through the use of hand seals."
"Nin-Jutsu…?" Kenji said curiously. His curiosity was quickly put to rest as he remembered his battle with the 3 shinobi back at the forest who were also using their Nin-Jutsu as well as Veyn who used a jutsu to summon a heartless. "Oh yeah!"
"Here, let me show you my favorite!" Naruto said enthusiastically as he crossed his index and middle fingers together. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Then in a puff of smoke, a replica of Naruto appeared on the other seat. The clone waved hi to everyone and disappeared as how it materialized in the first place.
"Shadow Clones, huh?" Kenji said in bewilderment as he once more recalled that one Nin-Jutsu that the shinobi named Bane did… When turned one shuriken into a deadly shower of sharp metallic spinning tools of death. "Hey, can you clone anything else besides yourself?"
"Of course, you'll need to transfer your chakra to the object that you want then execute the jutsu." Ebisu explained to the Key Blade master who tried hard to absorb all of what his new sensei was saying. "Well, you'll get to that later, but first the basics… You can't do any of those if you can't master the basics first."
"Yeah…" Kenji said disappointedly with his head falling down to the table of the ramen bar.
"Okay, I think we should get started." Ebisu declared as he finally rose from his seat.
"Hey! Your bill!" the ramen chef said suddenly.
"Oh silly me… Gah!!" Ebisu's sentence was then unexpectedly interrupted when he finally saw all the bowls of ramen Naruto ate, along with the stuffed blonde himself who was rubbing his stomach in satisfaction of his meal.
"That was good eats! Good thing it was your treat!" Naruto said as he continued to tend to his inflated stomach.
'Is this why everyone was so mad at Naruto?' Kenji thought at the possibility, but isn't likely.
"NARUTO!!!" Ebisu squealed as he handed over everything that he had on his wallet to the ramen chef until it was flatter than a day old soda once he left the ramen bar.
Having very little time to train the basic chakra control, and a bad mood because Naruto drained the Jonin's fundings, Ebisu decided to force Kenji to climb a tree as he focused chakra on his feet. He was to keep getting higher and higher, if he didn't make any progress at all, the sadistic Ebisu would "inspire" the Key Blade master by searing his butt with a fire ball jutsu if he didn't go any higher. Kenji was so driven through fear that the young Key Blade master would attempt to go higher and higher as to avoid having his ass look like fried chicken. It was until the Key Blade master was finally lying on the ground, completely drained of his energy. Kenji managed to climb about 12 feet up to the tree until his whole body gave out.
"Crap…" Kenji muttered to himself as he tried to move his body but to no avail, they wouldn't budge an inch. "Damn… I'm at my limit…"
"Hm… He's worn out… Alright, next up, Naruto!" Ebisu ordering the blonde shinobi who deprived his wallet of it's stuffing. "I know you've been doing the tree climbing exercise, so I'll have a much higher expectation of you."
"Say what?! Oh whatever…" Naruto mumbled, taking his position before the tree. The blonde then focused his chakra to his feet and dashed upwards high through the tree. It was until he reached about 25 feet when he started to go down and lose his momentum.
The hyper active blonde used his kunai knife and plunged it into the tree, slowing himself down. Naruto managed to land on the ground safely, and on his feet like a cat. Kenji was at awe at how high Naruto climbed already. It was at that time when the sun began to set upon the village, and darkness began to fall.
"That's enough for today, so go home and rest, because tomorrow, you two will start training again." Ebisu declared to his two trainees. "You're dismissed…"
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