This is a disclaimer. I do not own Naruto. I own nothing from Naruto. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Techniques are translated at the bottom of the chapter.

The sound of flesh meeting flesh, explosions, and wood breaking were not unusual sounds coming from any of Konoha's training grounds, but they did not usually last for several hours nonstop. It was this that had led to so many off duty ninja gathering around the training grounds and placing bets.

"Who was training here?"

"How long have they been at it?"

"I'm betting they'll be finishing up in one hour tops."

"No way they can go that much longer 20 minutes more maybe."

"You're underestimating them. It's a Sannin's apprentice and Gai's apprentice out there. I give them two more hours at least."

"Is that Hokage-sama over there betting on the fight?"

"No way would she involve herself in this."

"You don't know much about shishou do you? She's a notorious gambler."

"Yeah notoriously bad. I feel sorry for whoever she bets on."

"Why is that sempai?"

"She only wins under two conditions. One something bad is gonna happen, or two someone else's good luck is enough to overwhelm her bad."

"Look they're slowing down!"

"No they aren't they're just taking it up a notch."

In the now battle-scared clearing the two blurs came to a stop some distance apart from each other. One turned out to be a slightly winded Rock Lee with nothing more than some tears in his outfit. Removing the weights beneath the orange bands he wears Lee says, "Truly you are an excellent example of someone in the Springtime of their Youth Naruto! In one week you have learned enough of a forgotten taijutsu style to force me to drop my weights, but can you push me into opening the gates?"

The other figure was a bruised, but barely winded Naruto Uzumaki wearing a badly ripped orange jumpsuit. Looking at his opponent and the craters left by his weights Naruto could only say, "Probably not without using any of my kenjutsu, or ninjutsu. Don't think I'm not going to try and win this though!" On the heels of that declaration Naruto charged at Lee with a speed few of the observers could see.

Blocking the incoming kick with his arms Lee countered with a kick of his own which knocked Naruto back a few feet. "Ah you are finally using chakra to enhance your speed I see. The burning flames of your youth are commendable Naruto, but I am afraid that through my hard work I am far beyond what your flames of youth can achieve even with your chakra enhanced abilities!" Disappearing from sight Lee appeared in a blur behind Naruto and left all of the spectators gasping in awe at his pure physical speed. With a cry of, "Konoha Dai Senpuu!" Lee attempted to hit the blonde with a series of spinning kicks.

Leaping straight up before Lee could even finish calling out the attack Naruto dodged all the kicks. Seeing Lee jumping up after him Naruto prepared for whatever Lee tried to use. When Lee began to unwrap his bandages Naruto was confused and decided not to try finding out what Lee was going to do. "I don't know what you intend to do bushy-brows, but I know that you unwrapping those always leads to nothing but injuries for everyone involved." Naruto then used chakra to move towards Lee headfirst. Almost as if he were jumping off the air. Before impact Naruto spun around and kicked the stunned Lee with both feet firmly in the stomach. Seeing Lee crash into the ground with considerable force Naruto landed then got into a defensive stance some distance from where Lee hit.

As the dust cleared Lee could be seen in his Gouken stance with what appeared to be flames burning in his eyes. "Yosh! Naruto your flames of youth burn brightly indeed to have mastered the more advanced techniques of the scroll in such a short time!"

"Actually I just held back the techniques I hadn't mastered yet in our previous spars. This time I'm using everything I know even if I haven't mastered it."

"Still you managed to use them most skillfully. You may yet make me unleash all of the might of my most passionate flames of youth to defeat you in this spar!"

"Can we just get back to fighting I think some of our audience is falling asleep."

Lee looked at the gathered shinobi and noticed that sure enough there were a few catching up on missed sleep. "Excellent idea Naruto let us demonstrate to these hip shinobi what the springtime of youth is like!"

Sighing at his sparring partner's speech Naruto decided to just attack before he fell asleep as well. Rushing at the distracted Lee he used as much speed as he could muster to close the distance between them and to get behind Lee. From behind Naruto tried to strike Lee in the neck, but Lee blocked the attack with his forearm before grabbing Naruto a tossing him at a tree. Reorienting himself so he hit the tree feet first Naruto softened his impact with chakra before pushing off of the tree with such force it nearly split in two. Naruto's spinning kick at Lee's head was blocked with Lee's own leg then countered by Lee's punch to Naruto's face. Crashing into the ground Naruto used his momentum to roll away before springing up to his feet and getting into a defensive stance.

Lee looked at his foe and tried to find an opening in the stance. Seeing only one that Naruto had surely left to bait him into attacking he decided to see if he couldn't get Naruto off guard. Lee rushed at Naruto and began to circle him just out of striking distance and at a high speed. When Naruto closed his eyes and relaxed his stance slightly Lee struck. His first strike, a kick, was blocked by Naruto's arm. Circling somemore before the second, a punch, was knocked aside by Naruto's hand. Rapidly getting to Naruto's other side Lee let lose the third, another punch, which was blocked by Naruto kicking out at him. The fourth strike was a kick from directly in front of Naruto which he caught. Naruto used his grip on Lee's leg to keep him from evading a punch, but Lee grabbed Naruto's fist and stopped it inches from his face. Naruto tried to kick Lee in the stomach, but Lee knocked the blow aside with his free hand before twisting out of Naruto's hold and jumping away.

"Are you ready to use the gates yet Lee?"

Seeing the grin on his blonde friend's face Lee replied, "I have not been pushed that far just yet Naruto. After all you've only landed one significant blow since we started. My flames of youth have yet to diminish while yours have faded somewhat during our fight."

Naruto's smile just grew as he said, "I'll just have to correct that oversight won't I bushy-brow?"

Smiling in return Lee just settled into his stance and said, "Very well let's see if you have anything left Naruto, or if your flames of your have been burned out completely from our match."

Naruto simply stood there arms at his sides before closing his eyes and saying, "Anybody who doesn't want to get hit by this next one should back away from the clearing because this is going to be big." As the observers backed away Naruto's chakra flared up and began to become visible due to the amount he was putting out. Opening his eyes Naruto's smile became a smirk and he said, "Time to end this." Launching himself at Lee with enough force to leave a crater in the ground Naruto seemed to disappear from even Lee's sight. Appearing right in front of Lee he stood on his hands with his legs coiled like a spring. Kicking upwards at Lee's face Naruto launched him upwards with incredible force. Leaping up after him Naruto used his modified Kage Buyou to follow Lee into the air. "Sorry about this bushy-brow, but you wanted me to go all out this fight. Now here I go." Kicking Lee higher into the air Naruto then used his chakra to launch off the air and get above Lee. Just as Lee began to recover from the blow Naruto began to spin in the air before he sent Lee crashing down with a kick to the chest. Naruto however was too exhausted from the attack to do anything to prevent himself from crashing down almost as hard as Lee would.

In the audience a pink haired kunoichi only said, "Suicidal idiots." Before rushing out to catch the two falling ninjas. Barely catching both of them in time she then dropped them to the ground as the shinobi that didn't know the two left.

As the eight remaining ninja gathered around the pink haired kunoichi Lee said, " Hello Sakura-chan and thank you for catching me before I hit the ground. That technique seems to be just as powerful as my own Omote Renge."

"It was nothing personnel I just didn't want to have to put the two of you back together after that fall." Was Sakura's light-hearted reply.

"Yeah right Sakura. You just wanted to feel up your boyfriend while he couldn't resist."

"Ino-pig! You're just jealous that I have a boyfriend that actually does anything."

"Yeah right forehead. Besides he does to do things."

"Like what?"

Blushing Ino just muttered under her breath something that nobody could hear.

Stepping forward Jiraiya said, "As much as I love catfights. Particularly between such lovely ladies such as yourselves. I have to interrupt."

Having recovered enough to walk Naruto stumbled over to the group near Lee who was already being treated for his injuries. "Oh yeah Ero-sennin and just what important information do you have for us that Baa-chan there doesn't?"

After knocking Naruto to the ground Tsunade said, "All he was going to tell you is to report to my office for your next mission as soon as possible. Since you are all here however I can just tell you about it now. As you know we have had a team doing border patrol along the Grass Country border and that the team failed to report back when their month long mission was over. What you don't know is that the team I sent to investigate the disappearance has concluded that the border team was taken out by Iwa-nin and it was not the work of missing-nin as we had suspected. This information can only mean one of two things. One is that Iwagakure is going to attack and has the support of Kusa, and the other is that someone is trying to provoke us into a war with Iwagakure. Both situations will likely end up with Konoha becoming involved in another war. Our enemies are either Iwa or whoever is trying to provoke us. I am sending all of you to find out whether it really was Iwa-nin or if someone is trying to get us to attack Iwa. If it is indeed the latter case I want you to find out who. You will be joined at the border by some more Konoha-nins. Some of them you will know some you will not. I trust that you will be able to tell if they are really your reinforcements or not without having me make up some stupid password or something. You are to leave on this S-class mission tomorrow. In order to make sure you are all in top shape I will be treating any wounds you have now, and you are to take it easy until you leave on the mission. Is all this understood?"

In unison all the ninja with the exception of Tsunade and Jiraiya said, "Yes Tsunade-sama!" This resulted in Tsunade checking Naruto for head injuries since he actually addressed her with respect.

Naruto lay on his bed and stared at the ceiling while thinking, 'Holding back my chakra so that I can do techniques that normally would require opening the gates might not be the good idea it seemed when I started this. Then again releasing suppressed chakra that should be accessible to me normally doesn't cause the damage to my body opening the gates would. Whatever in a real fight I would call on the fox's chakra to do the techniques anyway so it should be less tiring than it was when I fought Lee.'

'Servant! I need to speak with you face to face.'

'Alright I'll see you in a minute Kyuubi.' Naruto settled into his meditative pose and went to talk with the voice in his head. "What do you want this time Kyuubi."

"There isn't anything I particularly want right now aside from you getting laid or something so you might become less annoying. What I called you here for is the fact that I have some information for you about what kind of demon you might transform into."

"How would getting laid make me less annoying? Actually never mind that question I don't really want to know the thought process behind that. Now what was that about knowing what kind of demon I'm turning into?"

"While you haven't become demonic enough for me to tell you if you'll become an animal demon, an elemental demon, a humanoid demon, or even whether you will be a high or low level demon. I can however find signs of what the elemental aspect will be of whatever you become."

"Elemental aspect?"

"Yes elemental aspect. That is what determines what a demons unique attacks will be like. I for example have an elemental aspect of both earth and water. That is why I can cause earthquakes and tsunamis with my tails. You will likely have multiple elemental aspects as well. One will be you primary and will have some effect on your appearance as well as dictate what kind of demonic jutsu you can preform. The other will be your secondary aspect and it will do one of two things. It will either complement your primary or it will be negated by your primary. If its negated you probably will never even notice you have it as it will have no affect on you. If it complements your primary however it will also have a slight effect on your appearance, but the real bonus to having a complementary second nature is that it allows you to use more demonic jutsu and to enhance the ones you can use due to your primary nature. Got all that?"

"Uh kind of, but it just sounds like chakra nature to me as long as your discount the appearance effecting parts."

"Well I suppose they do have some things in common. A demon's elemental aspect however is far more limiting than chakra natures are. For example a ninja with wind chakra nature such as yourself can still use suiton, doton, katon, and raiton ninjutsu just not as efficiently as fuuton ninjutsu. A demon that has a wind elemental aspect however can only use fuuton demon jutsu. They are completely incapable of preforming any demon jutsu that are for any other element. The exception to this is if the have water or fire for a secondary elemental aspect. In that case they can use katon or suiton demon jutsu also, but not quite as powerful ones as a demon with that as their primary. As a bonus certain combinations of primary and secondary elemental aspects allow the use of jutsu not accessible to those who have just one or the other element. Wind and water are a good example. Someone with this combination can use hyouton jutsu as well as fuuton and suiton jutsu. Now do you get it servant?"

"I think so, but what does this have to do with me again?"

Growling in frustration the kyuubi says, "I know what elemental aspect is going to be your primary if things keep going the way they are."

"Oh! Well what is it then?"

"Currently it is fire with wind being what you will have secondary if you get a secondary aspect. I can even tell you why it is going to be fire and how you can change that." Seeing Naruto looking up with puppy eyes Kyuubi continues, "You will have fire because you have spent so much time training with Shounetsujigoku. The wind comes from the fact that your chakra nature is wind. Thinking on this mess for a bit I have come to a decision. I order you to not use Shounetsujigoku until you are sufficiently transformed into a demon that your elemental aspect cannot be changed. Instead I want you to train with Hie. Besides it is a lot easier to say Hie and whatever blade you start to favor now you a going to be stuck with once you become a demon."

"Why should I use Hie and why won't I be able to use both after becoming a demon?"

"The two blades have almost completely opposite elemental abilities. So when you become a demon you will no longer be able to properly mold energy to wield one of them. I want you to use Hie because it will make you have ice or water as a primary aspect with wind as a secondary. Knowing you it will likely be ice since that will take more training and use than merely water. Being ice and wind for your aspects will be a good advantage as a demon since demonic ice jutsu tend to be rather powerful due to them being formed by combining two natures. With it for a primary nature you can use more powerful ice jutsu than just about any other demon and having wind for a secondary will make others think water is your primary. After seeing how powerful your ice jutsu are they will think your ability to use water jutsu is at my level instead of the nearly nonexistent level you will have. This should allow you to bluff your way out of most fights beyond your level for awhile."

"Okay that sounds like a good idea, but if I can't use Shounetsujigoku anymore shouldn't I give it to someone who can?"

"Do whatever you want with it as long as you don't use it and you start training with Hie. Now leave I've had enough of talking with you."

Opening his eyes to reality Naruto thought, 'Damn all that training to master Shounetsujigoku is useless now. Since he made it an order I can't even use the sword if I need to. Guess I'll have to work on mastering Hie while on this mission. Maybe Tenten would like a new sword.' Looking at his clock Naruto noticed it was pretty late and decided to get to sleep so he wouldn't be late for the mission.

Konoha Dai Senpuu - Leaf Great Whirlwind

Kage Buyou - Shadow Dance

Omote Renge - Front Lotus