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Chapter 11
Kakashi walked to the middle of the hot springs and motioned her to stand in front of him.
"Freeze it." He told her
"Freeze it?" Freeze what?
He sighed at how slow she was "Freeze the hot springs."
"Freeze- are you kidding me! This is a stinking hot springs, how am I supposed to freeze it."
Kakashi just knew that this was going to be a headache. "Water manipulation involves being able to change the state of it. I'm not going to go into a detailed explanation of it, for it will just confuse you. Simply put, when water gets cold it turns into ice right?" When she nodded, he continued, "You're job is to make the water turn to ice. If you can do that it means you've mastered water manipulation." He explained.
Naruto was still confused by this. "But Kashi-sensei, how am I supposed to freeze it?" She complained.
"Getting into to many details with you won't help you." Kakashi stopped to think about how to explain it to her in a way that she could understand. "Ok, all you need to do is imagine the tiny particles of water slowing down until they come to a stop. Understand?" He asked, hoping she would. He didn't know how else to explain it.
"Kinda" She thought. It kinda sounded like what Asuma sensei had told her about wind manipulation, but instead of trying to make the wind as sharp as possible she just had to slow it down. Suddenly she sunk inside the hot water.
"Ah, Och, Och" She had been thinking so hard on how to do it, that she had forgotten to send chakara to her feet to balance on top of the water. The water was boiling hot and now she was soaked. She glared at Kakashi. She had a feeling that he was laughing at her under that mask of his.
"Why do I have to do this in the middle of the hot springs, cant I stand at the edge."
"Oh. I forgot about that. Oh well, this way will also improve your chakara control, which is really poor." Kakashi tried to hide his amusement under a bored tone, but his eye gave him away. He had gotten his revenge. He laughed a evil laugh inside.
Naru glared at him but she knew he was right. She summoned a few dozen clones and got to work.
Kakashi looked at her with a sense of fondness. Even if she was a little slow at times, she really did try her hardest.
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After training for a little while, Kakashi decided to call for a break.
"Want to get something to eat." He asked her but than quickly added, "but no ramen."
"Aw, but Kashi-sensei, I want ramen. There's nothing better than Ramen." Naru pleaded.
"Come on kid, we eat that together practically everyday. Its good to try new things once in a while." Kakashi ruffled her hair. 'Plus my wallet is getting really small, from all the Ramen you eat everyday' he thought.
Naru pouted, "Okay, fine but just for today. Tomorrow I want Ramen." She gave in.
"Got it." Kakashi relented a little, at least today he could have something else. He led her to restaurant that Shikamaru and Choji always used to go to.
He noticed that Naru was walking a little slowly. He sighed, he should have guessed that she would overwork herself. He bit his thumb and summoned his summon ninken Bull. He crouched down and whispered inside the dogs ear. Bull nodded, and walked up to Naruto and barked. While Bull was the largest and most fierce looking of his ninken he didn't have the ability to talk to humans.
"Naru, this is my ninken Bull. Would you like to ride him?" Naru looked up at the dog that was easily twice her size, with something akin to wonder. She turned to Kakashi, "Yes, yes, yes." She climbed on top of Bull and pointed forward.
"Lets go." She yelled.
Kakashi just shook his head in amusement. Where did this kid get all her energy?
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1 week later.
"My eternal rival!" Naru looked up from her training to see Gai running at top speed their way. He was wearing his trademark green clothing and smile and as usual there was a cloud of dust following the man. He was going so fast that he couldn't stop fast enough and knocked the unsuspecting Kakashi inside the hot springs.
Naru burst out laughing at her teachers predicament.
"Sorry my rival. I couldn't hold back my youth." Gai apologized embarrassed to a wet Kakashi who was getting out of the water. He was about to glare at the man but gave it up when he realized it wouldn't do him any good.
"So where is this youthful student you want me to pass along my youthful teaching to." Gai said with his usual excitement. Kakashi nodded towards her. Naru walked out of the water towards the two.
"Hey. I'm Gai Maito, nice to meet you." He gave her his signature nice guy pose.
"Hi, Gai-sensei. I'm Naru. Are you going to teach me how you move so quickly or any other cool moves you have." Gai practically jumped with excitement. His eye were burning with fire. What a youthful child.
Kakashi interrupted before the man could practically tackled her with his excitement. He would have to keep an eye on the two to make sure that Gai didn't convert her. He shuddered at the idea of another Gai. Sadly in a few years, Kakashi's fears became real in the form a boy names Lee.
"He's going to be teaching you taijutsu." Kakashi explained
"Yes, my youthful student, come spare with me." Gai told her, getting into a fighting pose, and motioned Naru to come attack him.
"All right!" Naru was exited. While she had been pretty good at taijutsu originally, she couldn't claim to be one of the best. Almost all her moves were self taught. While they were powerful, she knew she had many openings in her technique. And now she had a chance to learn from the very best. A man who wasn't just the top taijutsu artist, but had also raised another top taijutsu artist. Also because her body was still extremely young and weak, she needed to get it in better shape. Gai was the absolute best person to improve her condition.
She attacked him anyway she could with her five year old body. Using all her moves and techniques, and he blocked or avoided them all. She even injected her limbs with chakara to strengthen them, but in the end it was no use. After awhile right when she was getting tired, Gai motioned for her to stop. She did immediately and slumped onto the ground.
"Yosh, you did good young Naru-chan. You have some really youthful moves. With some training, you will become great." He promised. Kakashi sensei sent Naruto home. After she had left he turned to Gai.
"So what did you think Gai" He asked. Personally he was proud of her progress and the skills she had shown.
"You were right Kakashi. Naru is very youthful. Her fighting style is very interesting and one that I have not seen before. It seems to combine a number of different styles into one. I recognized at least four different types of styles included in it that are highly prized here in the leaf. How she come to learn it, I have no idea. Her style of fighting relies highly on speed and strength. It is also highly unpredictable. She changes her attack pattern at the drop of a hat, making it impossible to read. But there are still many openings to it. Her body is also too young to keep up with her moves. Plus at times she seemed uncoordinated. But teaching her the normal academy style of fighting will not help her. The style she used today fits her the best. After she grows older and after a few years of training she should be able to advance her style into one that is practically unstoppable. " He praised. Gai was feeling as if he had won against his rival Kakashi hundred times straight. He had a great feeling about Naru. Kakashi had told him that she was an extremely hard worker and that mattered to him more than anything else.
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Right when Naruto was about to go to sleep, Kurama spoke to her.
"...Have you noticed it kit." Karama asked.
"Noticed what?"
"Slow as always. It seems your emotions and actions are slowly becoming more childish. Though you have retained all your memories and knowledge. Your mentality is reverting back into a five year old."
"Wait what? Does this mean I'm turning into a kid? Isn't that bad, how am I going to change anything, if I'm just a normal kid?" Naruto was beginning to panic.
"Kit, calm down. I suspect that it started right when we got to this time. But since you were always a child at heart, it hasn't changed you much. Only your emotions and mentality are being affected. Meaning at certain times, you will have the urge to act like a five year old would but even with your childish emotions, you are still Naruto. Your personality will no doubt remain the same. You have already started to change things even with your childish mentality. You are forgetting you are the number one surprising hyperactive knucklehead ninja. You have the ability to change people, be as it may as a child or an idiotic teenager." Kurama comforted the girl. Well to him it was the truth. No matter what age, dealing with Naruto was like dealing with a force of nature. You couldn't resist her. And Naruto no matter what age, had never normal. She had always been one of a kind.
"...Thanks Kurama. I guess there really is no use thinking about it now." Naruto was happy that Kurama had so much confidence in her. And all this panicking was hurting her brain. She decided that she would face everything head on and would not let anything stop her. With that last thought she succumbed to sleep.
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2 weeks later
Naru was walking to school with Sasuke after their training session. Both of them covered in some dirt and bruises. Him more than her of course. As they reached the classroom they both huffed at each other, and went to their separate seats. She had put her head down and was trying to get some sleep, when she noticed two killing intents trained her way. She looked up to notice Sakura and Ino glaring at her. When she made eye contact and then put her head back on the table, not wanting to deal with them right this seconds, they both got infuriated and stomped in front of her.
"So we noticed, you and my Sasuke-kun coming to school together for the past couple of days" Sakura started
"Ya, how dare you come close to him. He's mine." Ino continued. Naruto looked up at them lazily. Kakashi and Shikamaru personalities were really rubbing off on her.
"We train together." She said simply.
"Why would our Sasuke-kun train together with someone like you. You're dead last and a little kid." Ino argued and Sakura nodded her head, completely agreeing.
"Because I know how to fight." Sakura and Ino looked at her unbelieving. 'Wow they really don't pay attention to anything but Sasuke. I've only beaten everyone like ten times in front of them already.'
"Let us come where you train than." Sakura commanded.
"No." Naru said not bothering to raise her head.
"What do you mean no?" Sakura screeched.
"Ya, you only want Sasuke for yourself don't you" Ino accused." Naru sighed. She had been waiting for a chance to talk the them, but not today. She already was dead tired and they were giving her a headache.
"First of all. No I am not after Sasuke. In case you didn't notice I'm five years old. Sasuke is my friend and rival that's all." Naruto explained. The two girl in front of him had a look disbelieve that Naru of all people would be friends and rivals with their all-mighty and perfect Sasuke. They also looked a little embarrassed of accusing her.
Naruto continued, "There are a lot of reasons I wont tell you where we train. Number one, is that unless you really want to train and not try to kiss up to Sasuke than I don't want you to distract us. Number Two, if you two start to annoy Sasuke than I'll lose my training partner. He hates being around fan girls." At that Ino and Sakura glared at her. How dare she call them simple fan girls and how dare she say that Sasuke hated them. Naru noticed this and continued.
"Here's some advice. Maybe if you focused more on becoming shinobi and less time stalking Sasuke, Sasuke will notice you more. He hates weak people, and if you don't want to be a burden to him, you have to get stronger. Plus do it more for yourselves, and less for Sasuke. You two can become really great shinobi if you really tried." Naru turned to Sakura, "You hit really hard. Why don't you improve that ability + with chakara, and no one will be able to take you on. You'll have super strength. Plus your really smart, and I bet you also have really great chakara control. As a shinobi, you can do a lot with that, like becoming a genjutsu master or a medic-nin. It's just my opinion though, do whatever you want." Sakura looked at her stunned.
Next Naru turned to Ino, "I know you're from the Yamanaka clan. You guys can capture people with your mind powers right. That's a really cool ability. You can gather all sorts of info from just about everyone and read minds to. You'd be perfect for espionage and gathering information for the village. You also work in a flower shop, so I bet you know about flowers and plants right? You can use that to make poisons and medicine. You could also become a medic nin if you really wanted to." This time it was Ino's turn to be stunned.
"Honestly if guys wanted it, you could become two really powerful and respected shinobi. But instead of training you spend all your time stalking Sasuke. You guys can be so much more than just Sasuke's fangirls. And if you really to train for yourselves more than for Sasuke than I'll be happy to help. All you need to do is say the word. Just think about it." Naruto buried her head into her arms, to get some rest. She knew that she had been hard on them, but she told them the simple truth. She wanted her friends to become stronger quicker, and now maybe by listening to her they would.
Sakura and Ino walked away from the now sleeping girl in a daze. They didn't know what to think. To think that they would get such advice from someone two years younger than them.
Sakura for her part knew that what the tiny blond girl said was true. Sasuke was so cool and she would never stop liking him. But honestly she had entered this academy to become a great ninja. Sure she was the best in the class for the academics part, but had she done anything else. She didn't remember the last time she truly tried practicing her shinobi skills, all she did now was follow Sasuke around. She didn't want to become a burden to anyone, she wanted to become strong. She wanted to become the great shinobi that the tiny blond said she could become. Sakura resolved right there and then that while she would become Sasuke wife, she would also become a first class shinobi. Sakura decided to take the Naru's advice and learn more about medic-nins and genjutsu. She would even ask the tiny blond what she was taking about with the chakara strength.
Ino on her part also secretly agreed with what Naru said. Ino had always greatly admired her father and his work and that was why she wanted to become a ninja. She had always been proud of her families abilities, but when was the last time she had actually practiced them. Sasuke had been so cool that she wanted to be with him. But is that all she wanted to be, a wife for Sasuke? No, she wanted to become a great shinobi, and if she had anything to say about it she would. The blond believed in her, and Naru barely even knew Ino, so her awesomeness must show right. Ino decided to ask her dad to train her when she got home, and she would even learn more about plants. Espionage and poison sounded really cool to her. She was going to become Mrs. Uchiha and a great shinobi.
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Naru really wanted to sleep, but the sound of a cricket chirping kept her up. She looked up from her arms to find that the cricket was siting in front of her. She sighed, was she ever going to be able to sleep. She got up and gently cupped the tiny bug. She walked to the one person she knew that would know what to do with it.
"Hey Shino." Shino looked up from the bugs that were sitting on his desk. Why was the girl approaching him? Usually the other kids kept away from him. They were to afraid or freaked out by his bugs. Hey looked intently through his sunglasses to see that she was cupping something.
"Here, I found the little guy in front of me. I don't know what to do with him. Your really good with bugs right. You know what to do?" Naru asked the quite boy while handing him the cricket. When he reached up to take it, a bunch of bugs flew out of his sleeves. Naru was so used to it by now that she didn't even startle.
Shino was surprised. He had immediately jerked his arms back as the bugs escaped his sleeves, he had been working on controlling them better. Usually the other kids or even adults would cry out when they saw so many bugs at one place. Yet the tiny girl didn't even react. Why was she so different.
"Aren't you scared." He couldn't help but ask.
Naruto grinned, "Nope, bugs are cool. Its so awesome how they listen to you." Shino had never been as surprised in his life as he was now. "Hey later do you want to show me all the cool stuff you can do with your bugs?"
"...OK" Shino couldn't help but say. He couldn't help but be happy that someone didn't find him weird or someone who liked his bugs.
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idea getthe: Hehehe, its always fun when that happens
Naru-fan3400: Thank you I'm glad you like it. I'll try to update as soon as possible but i have finals next week, so I'm going to be really busy studying this week and next.
Futakomori: Glad you liked it, I loved writing it. Jiriaya won't show up for a while I'm sorry to say. I want Naru to progress some more before they meet. As for the number of books, I imagine he would have a whole room just dedicated to his books. lol.