Okay! I should get some fights done this chappie, so let's go, yatta!
Disclaimer-Anything that's noncanon is mine. Anything that's canon is not.
Chapter Eleven-Training
"Has everyone got their training assignments?" said Iruka.
It was the next day, and the wolves were assembled in the courtyard of the Wolf's House. Iruka was handing out instructions for each of them, personalised training schedules for the next two weeks. Shikamaru was working with Daiki and Tsume, Tenten with Hayate for Kenjutsu and several of her family members to practice weapons techniques, while Lee was, predictably, getting extensive Taijutsu training with Gai and heavy Kenjutsu tuition from Hayate. Hinata was practicing Jyuken with her uncle, and some basic Suiton techniques with some of the village's Ninjutsu specialists. Kiba was learning Raiton techniques, as well as some of the higher level clan techniques of his. Neji was learning some Doton, and sparring occasionally with his father to keep up his Jyuken.
"Kame, we'd like you to work with some pure Katon users, you don't have many of them, and apart from that you can just work on your own techniques." Iruka said. The three ninja from outside, of course, had less to work with due to their unique fighting styles. "Manami, you're a little over-reliant on your clay techniques. You're going to be working with Tenten's family on some weapon techniques. Hanma, Naruto says your... sister was using Genjutsu, so we're going to have you work with Kurenai. Sasuke, that Taijutsu style you copied plays to your strengths, so Hizashi and Gai are going to help you perfect it. Ino, you're with the same people as normal, Anko and some of the demolitions experts. And Naruto, everyone knows you hate Genjutsu... so Kurenai's teaching you too. It's the last thing people would expect from you. We're also asking one of the specialist clans if they could teach something playing to your strengths."
Naruto looked positively mutinous over the enforced Genjutsu practice.
"You all know what you're doing?" asked Iruka. "Okay. Good luck-and don't forget to spend some time with Tsume, she's got a couple of special moves she wants to teach."
Some time later
"Well, Naruto. I've been told a lot about your Genjutsu skills, but none of them were right." said Kurenai in amusement. "You are beyond terrible. Given a few more months, I might manage to teach you a single working technique."
"..." scowled the boy.
"Look. You've only got two weeks." she said, exasperated. "If you want to keep practicing Genjutsu, then fine. But if you want to win... we managed to get the Daitai clan to teach you some of their techniques."
The Daitai clan.
Naruto's eyes widened.
They were a clan that rewarded a large chakra capacity, and didn't much care for chakra control.
They were perfect.
Naruto was going to be a summoner.
His eyes glazed over as he imagined hordes of half-feral hounds loping across a battlefield at his command, giant hawks blocking out the son, immense lions serving as a truly mighty steed...
"This is gonna be awesome." he grinned.
"Hold the rock over your head with chakra." said the Daitai family member, presenting Naruto with a stone almost as large as his head.
He almost dropped it instantly.
"...What?" he asked. "Rika-san, how do I even do that?"
The woman sighed, looking around the clan training ground for guidance, passing over the small pond, waterfall, and trees, before staring at the sky in despair.. She was dark haired, with storm-grey eyes, wearing a black and blue set of robes, much liked the famed Genjutsu mistress Kurenai.
"Right, gaki." she sighed. "Look."
She picked up another stone in one hands, and raised it above her head, before concentrating. A tiny current of chakra, the same colour as her eyes, curled up, forming what seemed to be a solid layer of chakra-that held the stone up, an entire inch above her hand.
"Wha... how?" he asked.
"It's simple." she sighed, dropping the stone to the side-leaving a small crater in the ground. "Pick up the stone, and start forming chakra. If you let it leak too much, the stone won't float, but if you can condense it, it'll just float. You're meant to have a lot of chakra, gaki, it can't be that hard."
Naruto gulped. He cast his eyes around the clearing, and then went back to the small boulder his insane teacher wanted him to lift. He took two steps towards it, reached down, and pulled.
…
And pulled again.
…
"Now that's pathetic." said Rika, pushing him out of the way and lifting the rock. "Catch." she said, casually tossing it to him.
Naruto held his hands above him, ducking down.
"Are you insane, Rika-san?" he said in terror.
"Apparently not." she smirked.
"You threw a rock bigger than me at my head!"
"And you caught it."
Naruto stopped. Then he looked up. The rock was floating on a thin layer of blue chakra.
"Not bad, Naruto-kun." she said, not calling him a brat for the first time. "Not bad. You're not the sharpest kunai in the box, but you've got strong chakra. This style's gonna suit you down to the ground." she said with a feral grin. "Pick an animal."
Naruto's expression had gone from insulted to beaming, and he began casting his mind back, trying to think of a cool animal.
"Umm… toads?"
"Anything but toads."
"Snakes?"
"Or snakes."
"Slugs?"
"Are you doing this deliberately, Naru-gaki!"
It was much, much later when everyone had returned to the Wolfhouse. Past the young trees by the entrance, through the gates, into the building more impressive, although not quite as ornate, as any in the village, save the hokage's building.
"Today was so awesome." cheered Naruto, pumping his fist into the air.
Sitting in a corner, Shikamaru yawned.
"It was just practicing the same moves I already know. Troublesome." he complained.
"It was too easy." complained Ino.
"Yeah, well everyone knows you can overpower some jonin." interrupted Kame. "I think we should have a spar.
"No." said Sasuke, sitting next to Ino. "You're not safe fighting anyone but the baka."
"But he never does anything interesting." complained Kame. "It's all clones."
"You just wait!" said Naruto. "I'm gonna get stuff so cool you're too impressed to fight back!"
Midnight
"Why are we doing this in the middle of the night again?"
"You were an hour late, sensei."
"Well, there's a good reason for that. You see,"
"Save it. I wanna start this special training."
"You know, you can be a good ninja without going to this kind of extreme for versatility."
"Well, I don't want to be a good ninja." smiled Naruto, eyes glittering. "I'm gonna be a great ninja, and I'm gonna be hokage someday."
As the two began the special training, the waters of the lake behind them shimmered in the moonlight, and large waves began to form.
Plotty plotty plot. Yawn…. so, no fights. Sorry. Next chapter. Probably.