Hey guys-
I got my reviews so I'm updating.
I would have done it on Saturday but I had my friend's bar mitzvah. And my grandparents came over on Sunday.
Anyway this week's goal is at least 33 reviews. I will not update this story in till I update Naruto's Perfect Life.
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Darkflash-
Hiruzen Sarutobi of the village hidden in the leaves, known by most as 'Lord Hokage' or 'old man' by his son and grandson sighed as he looked over his paperwork. Being Hokage may seem like an amazing and outstanding thing to be, why wouldn't it? To be revered across the shinobi nations as the strongest kage of them all and have the love and respect of your village, what's wrong with that?
It was days like today that made him question himself as he wondered if everything he did was worth it. His job was to be the shield of the leaf, protecting its inhabitants so they could live happily and peacefully and he failed miserably, no, miserable didn't even come close to how bad he screwed up in regards to a certain blonde haired, blue eyes Jinchuuriki.
When he heard the reports that Hinata Hyuuga had been kidnapped by the delegate of cloud during the Kyuubi festival, he had dedicated the entirety of the ANBU force, the special group of shinobi that answer only to the Hokage and do the most important jobs, to search and retrieve.
It seemed that such an action was completely unnecessary as the Hyuuga head, Hiashi Hyuuga captured the kidnapper before he could leave the village and dealt with him swiftly. Which would have its own outcome in its own, but it was his naivety and narrow minded decision led to the death of Naruto Uzumaki.
When he was discovered missing by complete accident when Teuchi Ichiraku had informed him that Naruto had not come to his restaurant in three whole days, which was a matter of concern since it was the only place in the village he could get food without being poisoned.
He had organized a full scale search only to find a puddle of his dried up blood on the outskirts of the village with a cut rope. The sight had immediately made him sick to his stomach. There was so much blood and a trail of said blood leading into the forest. Animals must have taken him away after he was beaten by the villagers and finished the job.
There was, of course, a full scale investigation as to who was responsible for such a dreadful act, but when the reports came back, it was so many people that he couldn't possibly punish them all without having a civil war on his hands by doing so, so the murderers of said child were set free, with absolutely no punishment. Not that majority of the council cared. Ignorant fools.
The reports officially said that he is dead, body most likely devoured by animals, but Sarutobi knew better. He wasn't Hokage for nothing after all. He had seen the Kyuubi's effect on Naruto in terms of its healing powers on its container, he knew that next to decapitation or the destroying of a vital organ, there wasn't many injuries that would kill the boy, blood loss being one of them.
He knew for a fact that Naruto Uzumaki was still out there somewhere, perhaps it was for the best. All he could hope for is that he would not return stronger seeking vengeance, because with the power he could wield at his disposal, he could very easily do that, and he was very tempted to let him do so.
Naruto's first week of training had been difficult, but he never complained once. Sasori-sensei wouldn't appreciate that. He had told Naruto from the beginning that it would be difficult and he would want to hear no complains, and Naruto had been the one who requested it in the first place, who was he to complain?
Sasori provided the supplies he would need to begin his training from his own supplies. He was to at first increase his speed, stamina, chakra reserves and most importantly chakra control.
The control aspect was most important because Sasori-sensei told him that due to the seal placed on Naruto's stomach, it is constantly converting Kyuubi's chakra into his own, giving him abnormally large reserves for someone his age. And if large reserves weren't hard enough to control, the type of chakra that is being flooded into his system is causing an imbalance.
Chakra was split up into two components, physical and spiritual. Seeing that the Kyuubi was a massive spirit sealed within his body, its power is also spiritual and though adding to his reserves, it only adds to his spiritual chakra reserves, leaving less of the physical component, thus causing an imbalance and thus making his control horrible when he tried to exercise his control by focusing it to his feet and trying to stick to a tree.
To fix this, Sasori had told him that he would have to fix the balance, but it would take hard work, when he completed the incredibly hard task of fixing the balance though he would be all the stronger for it. Apparently, there were only two ways to do this in Sasori's opinion, one was to seal off Kyuubi's chakra for good, so that the physical component of his chakra could catch up, or the more viable option, to train hard physically by doing physical exercises not involving chakra to increase their supplies quicker than the spiritual component of his chakra was increasing. This would require him to do intensive physical workouts until the balance was there, which he could then combine the two components in his training and increase them evenly. The end result would be Naruto having massive reserves and perfect control of them, a deadly combination of any powerful shinobi and something Sasori told Naruto he would need if he wanted to learn what he had to teach him.
To begin his training, Sasori had given him a workout routine that was designed to increase his physical stamina which involved lots of running and minor physical exercises.
Being that he needed speed too, Sasori-sensei told him that he could not pack on too much muscle else he becomes bulky and slow instead of strong, fast and agile. To remedy this, Sasori-sensei had him only do exercises that increased his stamina as once he attained good enough control, he could use his chakra to augment his speed and strength.
A week later, the sand storm died out and Naruto was fully rested so Sasori and Naruto headed out to go to the sand village.
It took a day and a half, but only because they walked.
"Hello Sasori how was your mission? Who's the kid?" asked the chunin in charge of the gate.
"Fine, thank you." Sasori said walking on, ignoring the second question. He went to give his report to the Kazekage.
"Hello lord Kazekage." Sasori nodded
"Sasori, I trust your mission went well." The 4th Kazekage said not even looking at the young blonde boy in his office next to Sasori.
"Yes, it did. I got caught in a sandstorm or else I would have been here earlier."
"Very well," the Kazekage gestured to Naruto, "who is this?"
"This is Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki. I found him half dead near the gate of the village. If I didn't find and take him he would have died." Sasori said causing the wind shadow's eyes to widen.
"Sasori, do you realize that taking a person from their village is considered a kidnap."
"Yes, but the villagers of his village attacked the boy and left him to die, he is an orphan who has no one to care for him, and this is only because he is a jinchuuriki, the jinchuuriki of the nine tailed fox." Once again Sasori's words caused the kage's eyes to widen.
"That means if the leaf finds out we have him they will want him back."
"That is why I wanted to ask you to make him a citizen of Suna. And I am going to train him to be a ninja." Sasori smiled inside his puppet.
"Alright then, welcome to your new home Naruto." The Kazekage smiled at the boy, but Naruto noticed his eyes and knew the smile was a fake.
Sasori left with Naruto and took him to his home. It was a large plot of land with two buildings, neither of which were very big. One was his house for living and one was his workshop for working on his puppets. "This is where you will be living and training Naruto so get used to it.
It had taken him a week to get used to the harsh training exercises Sasori planned for him. They usually consisted of laps around a specific circuit near the cave; sit ups, pushups, crunches, squats and all other forms of physical exercise. Soon, he went on to shuriken and kunai throwing followed by learning things that Sasori deemed beneficial to all shinobi like mathematics, strategy, history, economics and meditation. The end of his routine consisted more so he could focus and relax more often to keep his emotions bottled up when around his enemy, 'show your enemy the slightest weakness and they will exploit if they are good shinobi' he had told Naruto on many occasions, to drill it into his head.
Over the next two years, Sasori continued to train Naruto in his chakra control and building his stamina to the point where his control was at a level high enough to begin the next phase of his training. As his reserved naturally grew, he had also began to teach him some Nin jutsu that would compliment his abilities, such as the Shunshin technique and the basic academy level techniques like the Henge and Replacement, which he mastered quickly and efficiently.
Sasori had also begun to teach him about poisons and the human anatomy, so he could utilize his knowledge about poisons, and where to strike his opponents to cause the most damage. The blonde was so naturally talented in the field.
"Naruto, stop training and come here, we have much to discuss" spoke Sasori to Naruto, who was currently doing his daily exercises. He may have grown fond of the boy, who was a pleasure to teach, but he would not baby the boy or grow soft, it would not help either of them.
"Yes Sasori-sensei?" asked Naruto with a calm if not curious look on his face. He had been a bit excitable at the beginning of their training but Sasori immediately beat that out of him, it was unbecoming of a shinobi to act like a child of all things.
"You have progressed a lot quicker in your training then I had expected, thus, we will move on to the next phase that I believe you will enjoy as a result" he began, cold and emotionless as always. Seeing Naruto nod, he continued.
"What can you tell me of shinobi techniques?" inquired Sasori, allowing Naruto to figure out what they would be training in next by leading the answer to him with a line of questions.
"Well, there are many types of Shinobi techniques which can either use one's physical stamina or chakra to perform, such examples are Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Kenjutsu, Fuuinjutsu and so on. One either learns stances and trains to master Taijutsu and Kenjutsu, but normally, in regards to techniques, one would mold chakra in the way they desire to have the desired effect of the technique they try to use" Naruto answered, as best as he could remember earning a nod from Sasori.
"Basing your next answer on your training so far, what do you think I would like you to train in next?" asked Sasori, goading him for an answer.
"You have tried hard to make sure that my control is as perfect as possible first and foremost" Naruto answered before pausing "You have also tried to sharpen my mind and increase my intellectual power, so I would guess that you want me to learn Genjutsu?"
With a nod, Sasori decided to explain his decision "That is a good guess. Genjutsus are extremely complicated ninjutsu that use that focus on using the chakra in your opponent's nervous system to manipulate their senses to your liking; allowing you to create phantasms that can cause your opponent to hear, see, taste, smell and/or feel whatever you like. It is extremely difficult and deadly, but once mastered, you can defeat your opponents without using as much chakra as a regular ninjutsu technique would. But, because of the Kyuubi's chakra that is constantly being converted into your own reserve I feel you still need work before trying genjutsu. So, I want to teach you elemental ninjutsu and sealing." he explained to the amazed Naruto.
Naruto then had a frown on his face before answering "So, when will I be able to learn Genjutsu?" asked Naruto and Sasori simply answered soon enough.
"Don't think that elemental jutsu and sealing aren't useful. In fact, if perfected they are even better than genjutsu."
With a grin, Naruto nodded "How will I learn this sensei?" asked Naruto, showing an excitement that Sasori only saw on the boy whenever he would teach him something new. That was why it was so easy to teach the boy, he would soak up everything he would teach him like a sponge, but, he would also enjoy it.
Sasori pulled out a piece of paper. "This will be used to find out what elements you are. Just apply chakra to the card."
Naruto did as he was told and the paper split into two. One half wrinkled and the other half got damp.
"You have a powerful wind infinity as a first, a secondary lightning infinity, and a water infinity as a third." Sasori said, impressed that a boy his age had three powerful elemental infinities.
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