AN: I am back everyone. I know I did not post during the semester so everyone has been waiting a long time for the new chapter. I do have good news though. I have finished the story. I will be updating the chapters once a week because if everyone has a problem with an element in the story I can still change it. As far as this chapter is concerned, we will see the bridge battle and some training once everyone gets back to the village.
Chapter 7: Zabuza's Last Stand
At the bridge, Kakashi, Sasuke, and Ino were escorting Tazuna when they noticed no one else was on the bridge. Tazuna was complaining about the workers being cowards. Ino and Sasuke did not really know what to do. Ino was tempted to go back and get Naruto to make a clone army to work on the bridge. She did not want to stay another night in Wave.
Kakashi however, was waiting for the strike. He knew the absence of workers could only mean one thing. Zabuza was ready for round two, and Kakashi was determined to end it today. Soon mist covered the bridge slowly. 'Mist again is it', Kakashi taught as he readied himself. He was pleased to see his Genin doing the same.
It wasn't long before the whole area was covered in Mist. The water below was speeding up the process. Zabuza and the fake hunter Nin step out into the open. "We meet again Kakashi," Zabuza sneers. Zabuza looked to be back at 100%. Kakashi would not be caught in a trap again, but to fight at his best he will have to trust the other two to take care of the hunter Nin.
"Sasuke take the hunter Nin, Ino protect Tazuna. I will handle Zabuza." Both Genin nodded. Kakashi wished Naruto was here. One thing was made very clear to Kakashi a week ago, and that was that Naruto and Sasuke together made an almost unstoppable team.
"Take care of the runt quickly and kill the old man. I will take care of The Copy Nin." Zabuza tells his accomplice. The hunter Nin nodes showing his understanding. He jumps to the side a bit so not to get in the way of Zabuza. Sasuke followed anxious to prove himself against a strong foe.
Sasuke was facing off against the Hunter Nin waiting for him to make the first move. Sasuke did not know what jutsu the Nin could have, and he did not want to find out the hard way. The Hunter Nin chuckles lightly. "What's so funny," Sasuke demands. "Your caution and hesitation has led to your doom. By waiting for me to make the first move you have given me enough time to gather the moister in the air." The Nin flies through hand seals quickly. "Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals Jutsu" He calls.
All around Sasuke mirrors formed trapping him in a dome. 'What is this?' Sasuke thinks looking around. The Nin steps into one of the mirrors and appears in everyone. Now Sasuke was really confused. The Uchiha prided themselves on knowing every single jutsu in the world. The Uchiha have participated in every ninja war since the beginning, and had recorded every jutsu copied by the Sharingan in the Uchiha library. It was possible that this jutsu was not copied by the Sharingan or was just recently created. Sasuke cursed himself for not reviewing the library more closely in recent years. He had been too caught up in mastering a few jutsu his brother had mastered when he was much younger than Sasuke to care much to research the possible jutsu he might face in the field.
"This is the beginning of the end Genin." The Hunter Nin tells him while raising senbons up in a throwing motion. He realizes the senbons at Sasuke at lighting speed. Sasuke dodged to the right, but two were able to nick him still. Sasuke flies through hand seals of his own aiming at one of the mirrors. "Great Fire Ball Jutsu" Sasuke fires the huge fireball hitting one of the mirrors.
Sasuke was very surprised to see the mirror still standing when the fire cleared out. "It will take a much more powerful Jutsu than that to break one of my mirrors. They are infused with my chakra making them much sturdier than normal ice mirrors." The nin tells him. More senbon fly at Sasuke forcing him to dodge again. Again some of the senbons hit him. He could not keep this up forever.
Naruto finally arrived at the bridge. He already knew the battle had started since he could sense what was happing to a point. Naruto landed beside Ino scaring her. "Don't do that!" She screamed at him. "What is the situation?" he asked cringing a little from the loudness of her voice. "Kakashi and Zabuza are fighting one another but neither have tried to get the advantage yet. I think Zabuza is waiting for Sasuke's battle with that hunter nin to finish. The dome over there is where Sasuke is fighting. They seem to be made of ice, but Sasuke hit one with a fire ball and nothing happened." Ino explained quickly.
'The mirrors must be reinforced with chakra.' Naruto could sense the chakra inside of each one, and he was very impressed. He did not know if he had a jutsu strong enough to break one of those mirrors. "Wind Shrunken Jutsu" Naruto called out causing several shrunken made of wind fly at the mirrors. They bounced off the mirrors without a scratch. Naruto was surprised since wind Jutsus were good at cutting things up, but Naruto guessed that the jutsu was not strong enough. He would have to get Katsu to teach him something that had a little more kick when he got back.
"Ino, I want you to wait outside the mirrors for a chance to hit him with the Mind Transfer Jutsu." Naruto tells her. "Are you kidding? I could not hit him at that speed." She tells him. Ino had explained her jutsus to Naruto a few days ago to improve their teamwork so he should know that there was no way she could hit the nin with the Mind Transfer Jutsu.
"Let me worry about that," Naruto tells her as he speeds towards the mirror dome. Flying through hand seals, Naruto releases his jutsu as soon as he enters the dome towards the senbon hurling towards Sasuke. "Great Wind Breakthrough" a huge gust of wind send the senbon flying away, for a second Naruto even saw the Hunter Nin was blown into one of the mirrors.
"Sup Sasuke?" He asks as he stops beside him. "Naruto why did you come inside? Now we are both trapped here." Sasuke scowls at him. "I tried breaking the mirrors from the outside but I did not even leave a scratch." Naruto tells him. This did not surprise Sasuke since if he could not break the mirrors then Naruto certainly could not. "Then you should have stayed outside throwing kunai at him." Sasuke tells him. "I couldn't keep up with his movements. Besides I have a plan to beat this guy." Naruto responds calmly.
"Ino is on the outside waiting to use her jutsu, but we have to hold him up for a second so she can use her jutsu." Naruto tells Sasuke his plan. "That's it? If we could do that then I would have already done it idiot." Sasuke sneers at him. "Calm down Sasuke, there is more. When I hit him with that jutsu earlier I saw him get blown into one of the mirrors."
"So?"
"So, that means that he is jumping really fast to get to another mirror when he attacks. Which means we can hit him when he is outside of the mirrors." Naruto explains. Sasuke's eyes widened. Naruto was right, as long as the hunter nin was inside the mirror then he was unhittable, but if to attack them he had to leave the safety of the mirrors then they could win.
Sasuke nodes showing that he understood. He turns away from Naruto to activate a jutsu that he had keep hidden from the others until now. Naruto sensed the chakra output coming from Sasuke's eyes causing him to smile. Katsu made sure to teach him about the other shinobi clans including the Uchiha, and their powerful jutsu known as the Sharingan.
Naruto knew they could win now. Sasuke's Sharingan could keep up with the hunter nin, and Naruto could follow him up with big blow to stop the hunter nin's movement. "When the next attack comes follow my movements closely we are going to end this now." Sasuke tells Naruto waiting for the hunter nin to move.
Haku the fake hunter nin watched the new comer closely, sizing him up. These two together were able to beat Zabuza. Granted Zabuza was busy keeping the copy nin trapped, but still he could not underestimated them. He brought up his senbons for another attack.
When he jumped out of the mirror to attack he was surprised to see the black hair Genin almost intercept him. He got over his surprised quickly, and was able to kick Sasuke away before he could grab ahold of him. Luckily he was able to kick Sasuke into Naruto sending them both away, and he quickly dived back into a mirror.
Haku was very surprised, Sasuke was not able to keep up with him before so why was he able to now? Haku could not figure it out, but one thing was still clear, neither Genin was fast enough to keep up with him. He would just have to be more careful and end this quickly.
Several more times Sasuke tried to intercept Haku only to have to dodge senbon, or take some senbon in the shoulder, legs, or arms. Sasuke quickly realized what was wrong. Even though he could see his movement's cause of the Sharingan, he was not fast enough to catch Haku. Sasuke cursed himself again for not training his body to keep up with the speeds the Sharingan could see. If Sasuke was being honest with himself he had never even thought to increase his speed. He was so sure that if he could see his opponent's movements then he could counter with no trouble.
Sasuke looked back at Naruto to see him barley hanging on. Unlike Sasuke who could see the senbons coming, Naruto did not have this advantage, and was paying dearly for it. 'If this keeps up we will both die.' Sasuke thought to himself. Though the senbons were not doing a lot of damage he could feel the loss of feeling in his body where the senbons were stuck in him.
"Naruto, when he leaves his mirror the next time I am going to jump in the direction he is going. I want you to jump off my back to gain some speed to catch him. Understand?" Sasuke looks at Naruto to see if he was still capable of fighting. Naruto shakes his head in agreement.
Haku jumped out to attack them again. Sasuke moves to intercept again only to feel Naruto to catapult off his back over the senbon and right into Haku, sending him outside of the dome, crashing into the ground.
Ino wastes no time firing off her jutsu trapping Haku's mind. Sasuke quickly ties him up after checking for weapons. Sasuke sits down exhausted. He knew the battle was not over, but he could not bring himself to get back to his feet. A quick scan of the area showed that the ice dome had shattered now Ino had control of Haku. Naruto had quickly gone over to Ino's body, and was now carrying her on his back towards them. Naruto looked like he was just as tired if not more so than Sasuke. Sasuke did not see how he could still walk much less carry Ino.
Kakashi seemed to have the advantage over Zabuza. Nothing had changed in Kakashi since a week ago so Sasuke was unsure why he was easily handling Zabuza now. Maybe Zabuza was not all the way healed yet.
Kakashi faced off against Zabuza. He was worried that Sasuke could not handle Zabuza's partner, especially when the ice dome went up. Kakashi knew exactly what that was. The famous Ice Release knew only to a clan in Kiri. It was a Kekkei Genkai that was feared during the second ninja war. Kakashi had not seen the Kekkei Genkai himself, but had heard stories about it when he was Anbu.
He and Zabuza traded blows, and Kakashi could tell he was waiting for Haku to finish off Sasuke. Zabuza most likely believed that once Sasuke was dealt with then Tazuna would be finished off quickly. Of course he was right, and the distraction would be enough to cause him to lose.
When Naruto arrived Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief. He was confident that Naruto and Sasuke together could take care of Haku. Now that that was settled, Kakashi focused entirely on his fight. The change was immediate. Zabuza was pushed back quickly. The giant clever blade quickly fended off Kakashi's kunai.
Kakashi drew another kunai to dual wield, trying to overwhelm Zabuza. Zabuza was a master at Kinjutsu, and was not easily defeated using blades. Kakashi would need to switch quickly to his specialty, Ninjutsu. He just needed an opportunity. That opportunity came when the ice dome shattered causing Zabuza to look away. Kakashi quickly seized the advantage. "Lightning Dragon Jutsu" Kakashi poured chakra into the jutsu to skip the hand seals for a quicker release.
Kakashi got the desired effect. The dragon caught Zabuza by complete surprise hitting him in the chest. Zabuza screamed being electrocuted. Zabuza hits the ground hard twitching a little from the electricity. Kakashi quickly covers his Sharingan conserving what little chakra he had left. He did not want another incident like last time to happen again.
Kakashi determined to end this once and for all quickly approached the fallen Zabuza ready to bring down his Kunai to end him. Before his kunai could connected he heard his Genin yelling. It was too late to stop. His kunai stabbed into human flesh killing the target immediately.
On the ground in a pool of blood laid Zabuza. His eyes were wide from what he was seeing. On top of him bleeding profusely and already dead was Haku. Water crept up into his eyes but he held them back.
When Kakashi brought his kunai down Haku had jumped in the path to save Zabuza. The yelling his Genin were doing was a warning that Haku had escaped them. Kakashi was use to killing. He had killed many during his time in Anbu. He even killed kids younger than Haku. His team had removed his mask when they had caught Haku, and Kakashi could tell he could be no more than 15.
Kakashi could tell the death of Zabuza's partner affected Zabuza even if he tried to hide it. The mist started to clear, and Kakashi caught movement in the corner of his eye. Standing at the base of the bridge was Gato and his goons. Kakashi was surprised by the stupidity of Gato. Gato must have believed that one team of ninja would kill off the other and being too tired to defended themselves.
Even fresh out of the academy kids could beat these fools. Zabuza was able to stand shakenly. He was very angry about Haku dying, and it was even worse that Gato was here. Obviously Gato planned to betray him.
"Kakashi stay out of this those fucks are mine." Zabuza tells Kakashi walking towards Gato and his goons. His hands were useless after being electrocuted, and his legs were barley moving, but somehow he was able to get a kunai in his mouth and started running at Gato. The thugs were confident at first, but as Zabuza cut through the lines easily not stopping even though he was being hit by multiple blades and fists. Now they were scared. Zabuza was a demon devouring everything in his path. Gato quickly ran away after the first 10 were killed shouting to his men to kill the ninja.
Gato was meet by a mob of villagers who had seen the thugs head to the bridge, and decided enough was enough. They had grabbed whatever tools they could and went after Gato. When Gato had come running back into them they quickly surrounded and killed the little swine. Each took great pleasure in his death.
Zabuza had finished off the last of the thugs and now laid on the ground bleeding to death. It started snowing in Wave country, and Zabuza was reminded that Haku loved the snow. It felt right, like He was making it snow just for Zabuza. Zabuza died there at the base of the bridge, satisfied that in the end he had done something that would have made Haku happy.
A week later the bridge was complete. Naruto, now that he did not have to guard the house, had made thousands of clones to help the workers finished the bridge. Tazuna had decided that with the extra help, and extra money confiscated from Gato, they would make the bridge the nicest bridge in the five elemental nations.
With the bridge complete it was time for Team 7 to head back. Kakashi was proud of his Genin, they had proven themselves quite capable of handling themselves in any C-rank out there. If it wasn't for the Chunin exams that were coming up in 3 months Kakashi would take them on another C-rank. That being said he still had every attention to sign them up for the Chunin exams. A little bit more training, and they would all become Chunin.
He would be sad to see them go, but he felt they were ready to at least try for Chunin. He would have to speak to Ino's father to convince him that she was ready for more advanced clan jutsus. Right now her only knowing the Mind Transfer Jutsu was not good enough.
Naruto was happy. They were heading back to Konoha, and everyone in Wave was happy. He had succeeded in saving an entire country. That will look good on his resume when he applied for Hokage. After all, it was time for the third to retire. Who better to take his place than Naruto?
Little did Naruto know the people in Wave had added something else to his resume. The most beautiful bridge on the continent was just named The Great Naruto Bridge.
Once back in Konoha Kakashi gave the Genin the week off for rest. Naruto went straight to Katsu's place. Naruto needed to learn a powerful jutsu just in case something like what happen in Wave happened again. He reached Katsu's shop to see the shop full of people. It was not unusual for customers to come by, Katsu did make great weapons, but it was never packed like this.
Naruto could not even get in the shop. What the heck was happening? Naruto tried to ask what was going on, but it only took a couple of dirty looks to remind Naruto that here in Konoha he was not a hero like he was in Wave. Here everyone knew about the fox inside him.
Naruto was disappointed about not starting up his training yet, but he figured it could wait until after lunch and there was only one place he wanted to get lunch at after such a long absence. 'Ichiraku here I come' Naruto thought happily. Teuchi and Ayame were very happy to see him. It made Naruto happy that there were people here that wanted to know about his mission, and cared he came home after one. Four bowls later, and after telling Ayame about his adventures, Naruto was headed back to Katsu's shop. Luckily no one was at the shop this time around.
"Yo Katsu, you here," Naruto shouts when he stepped into the shop. Katsu appears from the back, and smiles when he sees Naruto. "Welcome back, how was the mission?"
"It was great we…" Naruto told Katsu everything that had happened. Katsu listened closely smiling at the enthusiasm his apprentice had. Once Naruto was finished Katsu knew what Naruto was going to ask. "So I am guessing you are going to want to learn a jutsu with some punch behind it?" It was more of a statement than a question but Naruto nodded anyway.
"By the way Sensei why were there so many people here before? I came by but was unable to get in." Naruto asks. Katsu smirks moving behind to counter. "This is why they were here," Katsu tells him while setting an object on the counter.
Naruto was confused at first, it looked to be a piece of paper, but it was when he saw the Kanji on it that Naruto knew what it was. It was a seal of some type, but for what Naruto did not know. "What does it do?" Naruto asks curiously.
"You would know if you were keeping up with you Fuinjutsu. I am mad at you for not using any on your mission. If you were using your head you would have remembered that you could just seal the mirrors away, but no you had your head full of big exploding jutsus." Katsu lectures.
"Sorry Sensei." Naruto says once he realizes that Katsu was correct. If he had just wrote the seal on the mirrors when he was outside the dome things could have been done quicker. He risked his teammate's lives by not considering every possibility.
Katsu took pity on the sad look that Naruto had. "This seal has healing chakra inside it." Katsu tells him. He continued on when he saw the confusion on Naruto's face. "I sealed some of the healing properties of my Senjutsu. Senjutsu has some of the most powerful healing properties in the world. Those who master Senjutsu are hard to kill because of the great power, and the fact that there wounds heal almost instantly." Katsu informs him.
"Wow! Why doesn't everyone learn this? It sounds like you could become invincible."
"Cause you need to have massive chakra reserves, and perfect control. Senjutsu is dangerous to learn. Depending on the method you use to gather nature chakra you could turn into a statue of an animal. Because of this the method to learning Senjutsu, and all of its jutsus that go with it are sealed and left with the animals who can teach you." Katsu tells him.
Naruto did not understand everything about it but got that it was dangerous to use and only animals could teach you how to use it. "Wait then is it not dangerous to give that seal to people?" Naruto asks.
"No, I only sealed the healing properties, and not the chakra itself. No one will turn to stone, but it will only work once. I gather some once a year and sell it. Of course everyone wants to buy the miracle healing scroll." Katsu laughs, but Naruto could see the genus behind it. Everyone would want something that could heal mortal wounds once.
"About that jutsu you wanted to learn. There are two that I think would be perfect for the job, but I only have time to teach you one." Katsu lets him know.
"Are you going somewhere?"
"Yes. In about three months I will be heading off on a mission. Unfortunately even though I am retired, there is still some jobs only I can do. It will take me a month or two so you will have to learn the jutsu quickly if you want it in time for the Chunin exams."
"Chunin exams?"
"Yes, every six months the villages host an exam to see which Genin is ready to be a Chunin. Any Genin can sign up, but the next one you are going to compete because it will be held in Konoha. Obviously with you being a Jinchuriki you won't be allowed to compete in Chunin exams hosted by hostile villages."
Naruto was a little bothered by Katsu bringing up the fox, but ignored it because he had every intention of passing this exam the first time around. "Well let's start that jutsu then" Naruto said heading towards the underground training facility.
Sasuke was in a bad mood. He realized right off the bat when he returned home that he could not continue training himself. He needed someone to help him develop his speed, and teach him Ninjutsu. He searched everywhere for Kakashi but apparently he took this week off thing very seriously. No one he asked had seen Kakashi, not even the other Jonin.
As Sasuke searched for Kakashi with a scowl on his face, someone stopped him. "You should smile more kid, you'll get wrinkles."
Sasuke faces the new voice to see who would speak to him like that. A blonde hair man with a muscular build, and what many women would call a handsome face was sitting in front of a weapons shop polishing a kunai. The man was smiling at Sasuke with a knowing look, telling Sasuke that he said what he said to get a rise out of Sasuke. Sasuke turned away from him not bothering to offer a response.
"Now now, Sasuke there is no need for that. I can help you, you know?" Sasuke turns back to him. "And how can you help me?"
"I am guessing on your last mission you found out that using the Sharingan does not help you speed up. Now you need someone to teach you so you can use the Sharingan to its fullest potential yes?" Sasuke stares at him.
"And you can help me with this?" Sasuke asks with some skepticism. After all, how could a civilian teach him things only an Uchiha would know?
"Yes I could. I am a retried Shinobi. I have only had two apprentices in my life. One of them just happened to be your brother Itachi." Sasuke became furious.
"Don't you dare say that name in front of me!"
The man disappeared and reappeared behind Sasuke holding him in an arm lock. "Sasuke I trained your brother everything he knows. Itachi did not master the Sharingan using the Uchiha way, he used my way. Itachi wheatear you want to admit it or not is the strongest Uchiha since Madara Uchiha, and all of it is because of me." He let go of Sasuke and calmly walks to his shop. "If you want to beat Itachi your best beat is with me." He gives him one last parting shoot before disappearing into his shop.
Sasuke stood there dumbfounded. He never saw him move, and those things he said about Itachi. Sasuke wanted nothing to do with his brother, but if this man could give him the power to defeat Itachi then he would suck it up.
Sasuke followed the man into the shop. He sees him walks into the basement. Sasuke follows. He could not believe what he saw. Empty white space was all he saw in every direction. Sasuke activated his Sharingan to dispel the Genjutsu. Nothing changed. 'How is this under the village?'
"Sasuke?" Sasuke knew that voice. He turned to see Naruto, his clothes were torn, and he looked like he been through Hell. Sasuke saw the man who owned the shop. "Your other pupil was Naruto?" Sasuke was stunned. How could this man teach such a prodigy like Itachi then go to an idiot like Naruto?
"Yes but that's not important." "Kage Bushin Jutsu" two Katsus appeared. "Great Earth Wall Jutsu" A huge wall rose from the ground dividing Sasuke and Naruto. One of the Katsus were with Sasuke.
"My name is Katsu, and if you want to train under me you will have to fix that anger problem you have."
"I don't have an anger problem" Sasuke tells him angrily.
"Really?" Katsu asks sarcastically. "SIT!" Katsu commanded. A force of pure chakra pulled Sasuke to the ground. He could not believe it. Never before had Sasuke seen someone able to push another to the ground by using chakra alone.
Katsu sat in a meditative pose. "Shall we begin?"
Kakashi had just finished his report to the Hokage. Kakashi suspected that the third had set up this whole mission to save Wave Country. When Kakashi asked about it the third just smirked and said, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Kakashi was now heading to Inoichi Yamanaka's house. Inoichi was a veteran ninja that was about nine years older than himself. Kakashi fought beside him during the Third Great War, and brought many prisoners to him for intel extraction. Inoichi Yamanaka was a feared ninja. Not for his ability to get any info out of you he wanted, but for the fact he could destroy your mind from miles away and there was nothing you could do about it.
Kakashi was scared shit less the first mission he had with Inoichi. The man had somehow forced the enemy to believe they were allies, and then made them attack their own village after the Konoha team left. Villages started to check the minds of their own shinobi to make sure Inoichi had not placed sleeper agents in their villages.
Of course this caused the enemy suspect one another, and destroyed team work. If it had not been for Minato-sensei Inoichi might have been the most hated and feared man coming out of the Third Great War.
It was this in mind that Kakashi knocked on the Yamanaka flower shop's front door. Kakashi could never get the man to tell him why he got a flower shop after the war, and to be honest Kakashi was feared the man too much to make a big deal over it.
Ino was the one to answer the door. "Kakashi-sensei why are you here?" Ino asks him.
"I need to speak with your father, is he around?" Kakashi gave his patented eye smile.
"Yeah follow me." Ino lead Kakashi back to the storage of the flower shop. Inoichi was taking inventory it seemed.
"Dad, Kakashi-sensei is here to see you." Inoichi looks at them, and smiles at his daughter.
"Thank you Ino. Go man the counter while I talk to Kakashi." Ino left, and Kakashi waited for Inoichi to address him. He really hoped that Inoichi would not get mad at him for this.
"What can I do for you Kakashi?" Inoichi asked curiously. It was not like Kakashi to visit him at his home even if his daughter was on Kakashi's team.
"I came to ask you to start Ino on more advanced clan jutsus. During our C-rank Ino showed some skill but was obviously limited. I was thinking about signing them up for the next Chunin exam. I was hoping you might start progressing her training so she can compete with the others."
Technically speaking Kakashi was over stepping his bounds. Even as her Jonin teacher, Kakashi could not demand a clan to accelerate their own training for a student. To do so is seen as very rude since most clans train their members a certain way, and having outsiders interfering would disrupt the training process; however, the Yamanaka clan was one of the more laid back ones.
"I will consider progressing her training. Thank you for the visit Kakashi." Kakashi quickly bowed and left. He was lucky Inoichi handled that so well. Inoichi had every right to berate Kakashi for interfering with clan training. Especially when that training concerned the mind arts.
Inoichi thought about what Kakashi said very carefully that night. When Ino asked what was spoken between the two men he told her honestly. Ino knowing it was not wise to pester her daddy when it came to training. Sure in everything else in her life she could get what she wanted, but she found out the hard way when she saw one of her cousins performing a clan jutsu what a bad idea it was to try to get her dad to train her.
She had asked to learn the jutsu, and her father told her she would learn when she was ready. Not use to being told no, she through a fit about not being taught the jutsu. Inoichi became very angry with her to the point of whipping her for stepping out of line. To this day it was the only time Inoichi ever whipped her.
"Ino do you want to start your clan training again?" He asked her. Ino got very excited.
"Yes I really want to learn, please daddy teach me some more of the clan jutsus!"
"Very well. Tomorrow we will start training again" He told her. Ino squealed loudly. She hugged her daddy as hard as she could, she was finally going to learn more than the Mind Transfer Jutsu. She could not wait for tomorrow.
AN: That's that everyone. Hope you liked this chapter, I think it is the biggest one yet. Next chapter I will be going to the Chunin exams. I am skipping the training because I don't like it when people do training chapters, and it gives me the ability to throw any jutsu I want in there and say they learned it during training. I am keeping the three task system that was in cannon, but I will be changing the first task. I never liked that the first task was a written exam to see who would crack under pressure. My first task will be testing the same thing just not with a written exam. Thanks for reading.
