Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I'd be looking for fanfics with no disclaimer to sue, but I don't so everyone is safe.
AN: Yosh! This story is getting to where I want it! I have most of the girl's skills planned; Hinata's just need a little more thinking on my part. Also because of a lot of requests, I'll probably make this Naru x Ino x Hina, but that's it, no changes to that format. Even if another girl likes him or something it's only going to be those two. I also have to plan the amount of missions they will do before the exam (and the missions themselves). Ohh yeah, it may not be justified yet, but this is rated M for a reason.
Thanks to MissNaye for helping by being my Beta!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter 6: Choice of SkillAfter getting Sakura, Kurenai left and they went to Ino then started the meeting. The girls were seated on tree branches across from Naruto. "First I want to say you all did well today. Most of my expectations were met and some were surpassed. There is also a lot of work that needs to be done. I've also noted a few large issues that need to be dealt with right now," Naruto said to his students. He had a lot of stuff he needed to change about the girl's attitude about being a ninja and he wanted to address those issues ASAP.
"Ino and Sakura, you both are too weak physically. If you two are dieting and not working out enough because you want to look good, you better stop that right now. There is no point in looking good only to die in your first battle," Naruto said. He wanted to say something about the Uchiha, but decided to save that for later.
"Hinata, you are physically stronger than both of them and I'm sure you are more skilled as well, but they both would beat you in a fight because you have no confidence in yourself," advised Naruto. Again, he would have said more, but he didn't want to mention it in front of the others.
"Tomorrow we will be assigned our first mission. I would like to get more than one done per day. If possible, I would like to complete four missions a day. Once we have a total of eight, which is the minimum amount needed for a certain event, we will not do any missions for a few months. During those months, you will be training. Prepare yourselves because it won't be easy, but the results will be worth the effort," said the Jounin.
To the girls, that didn't sound so bad. Ino's father told her she spent too much time on her looks, but she ignored him. After the meeting, they were dismissed.
Hours Later: Jounin Lounge
"So Naruto, how is your team? Still think they will be ready by the end of the exam?" asked Kakashi.
"They will be. They might not be the best right now, but they will be. In one month, I plan to have them at the level your team is at now. In two months, I plan to have them at the level equal to yours at the time. After that, they are going to leave your team in the dust, forever," Naruto said with a grin.
"You're really confident that you will win this bet. Why don't you two put a wager on it?" asked Asuma.
This got Naruto thinking. There was something he wanted from Kakashi for a long time, but the man would never budge. This is would be an excellent chance for it. He also knew Kakashi wanted something from him.
"That's sounds good. How about it Aniki? If I win the bet I want to meet them. If you win…?"
"If I win, hmm, you're asking for a lot so… If I win I want you to teach me that jutsu when you complete it," said the copy ninja.
'Shit, he wants that? I though he wanted the Icha Icha Paradise: Harem book Jiraiya gave me when I was promoted to Jounin. There are only five of them and I never even let him read it. I really can't let him win now, that jutsu will make me the greatest ever. But I REALLY want to meet them. No choice then, I just have to win the bet.'
"Ok, it's a bet." Then they shook hands to make it official.
It was at this moment Anko entered the room. Quickly all of the chatter died down and a few of the Jounin opted to quickly vanish into a plume a smoke, others looked at her with disgust or just plain ignored her. She didn't care though; she was only here to see one of the very few friends she had, Uzumaki Naruto.
She didn't have say anything because Naruto knew she was there for him. After that incident, all those who started to trust her gave up on her completely. In the first incident, she killed all but one of her teammates while on a mission. The survivor said she seemed a little different, but couldn't be sure if it was the cursed seal as there were no markings on her face.
The second incident, none of her teammates survived, but this time she didn't claim to be under control by the seal and activated it willingly. She claimed to have done it in self-defense. She was going to be imprisoned, but Naruto took responsibility of Anko. If anything else happens he would have to execute her himself and also he would be forever stripped of his Jounin rank, not that the latter mattered to him that much.
Naruto got up from his seat and was about to make his way to the woman, but Asuma grabbed his wrist. "Naruto, you should stop associating with her. The people you are around can make or break your reputation. The shinobi love you, but the civilians still hate you. If you hang around her, they will probably never change their opinion of you and that will make things harder later on," said the chronic chain smoker.
Naruto heard this line a lot. People around him were always trying to stop him from helping Anko. Did they not realize that he was in the same situation years ago? Did they really want him to abandon one of the few people who could understand him? Cursed with something they didn't want. His mother, Anko, and himself were all victims of circumstance. His mother is dead and he was not about to let another person die. She only had the surgery because with him being a ninja, earning money for the house, she wanted to be able to help, and she needed to be able to walk to do so. Now Naruto was getting angry.
Naruto blinked but when his eyes opened they were blood red. For a few seconds he simply looked Asuma in the eye and then turned to look at Kakashi. Then he blinked again and his eyes were back to their regular blue. That was enough to send the message.
Naruto walked out of the room with Anko following behind him. He knew what she wanted, a sparring partner. He was also the only person that would go on missions with her. Now he has a Genin team, so he won't be doing any high level missions for a while.
Next Day: Hokage Tower
Naruto and his team were in the room where ninja receive their missions. They just received their first mission. He couldn't wait to see the look on their faces when they found out what a "D-Rank" mission was.
Once out of the tower, he led his team to a house in the middle of Konoha. He pointed to the lawn and said, "your mission is to clean the trash from this lawn. Make it quick because I want to do a few more of these missions today."
Ino and Sakura was looking at him like he was crazy, but Hinata just started picking up the trash. A few moments later the two started to help. It only took twenty minutes for the lawn to be clean.
The second mission was walking some dogs. It was an easy mission and it took forty minutes to complete.
The third mission was to catch a cat named Tora. This would have taken a long time, but Naruto gave them hints on where the cat was.
The fourth and last mission of the day was to clean trash from a steam. Naruto also decided to help with this by using an army of Kage Bunshin to speed up the work.
"Sensei, I thought you weren't allowed to help us with these missions?" asked Ino.
"Who said that? I could have helped with all the missions. I could have even done them myself, but I didn't want to. Now let's go back to report in and get our pay."
The next day was pretty much the same; they completed four "D-Rank" missions. Naruto also informed them that that was probably the last one they would do until they got a Genin team of their own.
Next Day: Training Grounds
"Now that we are done with those missions, we are going to start training. For the first month we are going to be strengthening you up physically and mentally, whichever you lack. I'm going to drill chakra control into your brains, double your stamina and triple your strength. But first I need a bit of information so I can setup the second stage," said Naruto.
He reached into one of the pockets of his vest and pulled out what looked like sheets of paper. He gave one to each of them and said, "focus some of your chakra into those."
By now, they already stopped questioning everything he did and focused some chakra into the sheets of paper. The sheet Ino had ripped in half, Hinata's sheet crumpled up, and Sakura's sheet burned.
'This is excellent! Ino is a wind user like me, Hinata uses lightning so I could give her those, and it would work well with the training she has from Jyuuken. Sakura, hmm…I wonder if she could handle using it. Her chakra control would need to be twice and good as the others,' thought Naruto.
"Ok now that's done, I want you to sprint from there," he points to a tree, "to there," he points to another tree on the other side of the training ground, "ten times." A few seconds after that, they started to run.
It wasn't as bad as they thought since the girls have run further than that before, but when they were done, Naruto told them to do twenty-five pushups and then twenty-five sit-ups. They repeated this until they did one hundred of both.
Next, Naruto brought out a scroll and unsealed a small mountain of kunai. When they were done gawking at them, he told the kunoichi to land twenty-five hits on a tree that was 500 feet away. This task was completed in two hours. Afterwards, the girls did a series of stretches to make themselves more flexible.
After the stretches, Naruto started them on a few basic kata of a Taijutsu he would be teaching them later on. Once those were done, it was time to rest and eat lunch. After lunch, they repeated everything over again and once more after they ate dinner.
This continued for an entire week and at this point, it was no longer tiring to complete each set of exercises. Naruto was yelled at the beginning of the second week when he informed them that they will be doing this for a second week, only this time they will have thirty pounds of weights on. Ten pounds for each leg and five pounds for each arm. He also told them not to remove them unless they were showering. The girls knew they had a long road ahead of them.
