Kamen Shinobi Naruto

Ch. 3: 3 Years of Training Start

In the village of Konohagakure no Sato, it was to be the day when graduates from the ninja academy should be assigned to their 3-man squads…

In his small apartment, Naruto wakes up and looks at his calendar on October 15th, the day of the explanatory meeting was supposed to take place.

Naruto Uzumaki, however, is feeling rather reluctant to show his face as he eats his instant ramen breakfast and milk. He sighs, "Why should I even bother to show up in class? Everyone might kill me for being involved for starting the 3 Year Training program the moment I show my face."

At the Haruno residence, the young girl Sakura Haruno is getting herself ready for the biggest day of her life. She is also completely unaware that she and the most of the other academy graduates are going to have the biggest shock of their lives.

At the academy, Naruto for once is keeping attention away from himself as he sneaks into class and on time, blending in with the other students too.

Seeing his classmates in the same room, Naruto sighs for successfully coming in without being noticed. Now all he has to do is keep low and pray that no one would notice him after Iruka-sensei announces the 3-Year Training regime in effect. He looks at them carefully, especially about the 8 who stand above the rest, save for himself and remembers a few extra things about them.

Hearing two girls shouting, he turns to the door and finds two pretty girls struggling to see who will come into class first.

One was Sakura Haruno and the other is a very pretty blonde with long hair in a ponytail and dressed in purple named Ino Yamanaka. The two have been rivals for as long as Naruto has known them.

Naruto then looks at the one he proclaims as his rival: the class heartthrob and rookie of the year, Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto doesn't like this guy, not because almost every girl his age is stalking the bad boy because this fact is shared with many of Naruto's male classmates, but it's because he treats everybody like they're beneath him and Sasuke is very poor at socializing with others.

'Maybe the bastard Sasuke should take the 3 years to learn how to socialize' snickers Naruto.

Naruto sees a guy louder than him showing up in class like he would in a flamboyant manner, yelling out "Yahoo!" He remembers him as Kiba Inuzuka, who in Naruto's opinion is an annoying bastard who always acts like he's the boss. His diminutive sidekick and pet dog, Akamaru, usually hangs out with him and mostly rides on top of his head.

Finding another familiar face: Shino Aburame, the mysterious guy whom Naruto almost knows next to nothing about, Naruto doesn't like the guy all that much. The guy with shades is capable of being around people unnoticed, right now being next to him while keeping calm and quiet sounds like a great idea for Naruto.

Unfortunately, his luck isn't all that improved—

After bumping into a girl with short dark blue hair and very pale lavender eyes and clad in a thick jacket, named Hinata Hyuga, he and she panic and yelp, catching everyone's attention!

"Gomenasai, Naruto-kun!"

"Gomenasai, Hinata!"

They look at each other, confused "Huh?"

He remembers Hinata as the shyest girl in class. Thankfully, she's one of the few not after Sasuke, but he has absolutely no idea why she's not as mean toward Naruto as most of the villagers are or why whenever they make eye contact, she tries to avoid it.

Kiba blinks, "Naruto? What are you doing here?"

"Also," blinks Ino "when did you get here?"

Shikamaru dryly asks, "Did you steal another student's forehead protector?"

Shikamaru Nara, in Naruto's opinion is a lazy bum who does nothing but complain. His buddy, Choji Akimichi, is a fat boy and is usually seen eating something, like a bag of chips (particularly the barbecue-flavor). These two seem like the type of people to get close to without angering if what Naruto is dreading comes true.

"No," gulps Naruto, trying to self-assure himself "I graduated in a make-up test."

Choji blinks in confusion, "There was a make-up test?" "If there was one, Naruto certainly would take the chance to go for one" says Shikamaru.

Sakura blinks, "Naruto Uzumaki?"

"Oh Kami-sama!" sweats Naruto "My whole name, and from Sakura-chan…"

"I thought you were eaten by that swarm of monster spiders the other day!"

"Hey, I remember that day," says another student "I've heard it was chasing him and the honorable grandson of the 3rd Hokage."

"His name is Konohamaru Sarutobi," insists Naruto, stressing on his newest friend's full name "he hates it when everybody refers to him as that instead of his name. And yes, we were chased by swarm of monster spiders, but our skin was saved by a mysterious savior who killed the monster." He didn't want to reveal that he's a genuine bona fide Kamen Shinobi, because they wouldn't believe him and would press him for more unwanted information if they did.

"A mysterious savior?" asks Ino "What did he look like?"

Naruto gulps "Too much armor on, I couldn't tell."

"Sounds pretty weak" laughs Kiba, "I wouldn't wear all that armor to emphasize my power!"

'If only you knew, you moron' frowns Naruto.

Now Naruto's getting the feeling that they're getting too interested and he might slip. 'Please Iruka-sensei,' pleads Naruto in his thoughts 'please get to class and get this attention away from me!'

Iruka, fully healed and recovered, enters the classroom and calls out "Good morning, class."

There was a bit of unorganized chatter among the students, Iruka takes a deep breath and bellows out "IN YOUR SEATS!"

Silence takes place, then his students take their seats. Most of them are eager for the explanatory meeting to take place.

Iruka-sensei says, "I know that all of you are expecting to become ninja today, you will be but you won't be assigned to teams today. That means you won't be taking the official roles of genin just yet, but the program has been placed on hold for three years of training for all ninja."

"WHAT?" gasps most of the students, "It's been canceled?"

Naruto sweats bullets, he whispers to himself "And now would be my cue to run and hide."

"That's not what I saying;" says Iruka, "I'm just saying that it's just going to be on hold for 3 years, you see on the night you got your headbands, Naruto—"

"NARUTO?" exclaim most of his students.

They spot Naruto moving very slowly and carefully to the door, looking very guilty. That is then most of Naruto's classmates instantly fume and exclaim "GET HIM!"

Naruto mentally screams, 'Oh, which god under Kami-sama's rule did I anger to deserve this?' as he runs for his dear life from his overreacting classmates who wish to lynch him without listening to the whole story; most of his classmates are particularly angry at him for being involved with the 3 Year Training program started and were not in a patient mood to listen to the rest of the reason.

As most of the classroom was cleared, chasing down Naruto, the only ones who remained were about 12 students and Iruka-sensei. Among the students includes Shikamaru, who then sighs "The whole lynching thing is troublesome."

"They didn't even bother to hear the rest of the information, which borderlines with foolishness as well as brashness," agrees Shino.

"I hope Naruto gets lucky and escapes their wrath," says Choji as he munches on another chip.

Hinata, who is another one of the students that stayed behind, whimpers "Naruto-kun…"

In the midst of running, Naruto hides himself in the men's bathroom. One of these reasons is because he is having gastrointestinal problems and he has to go badly.

Naruto groans, as quietly as possible, and whispers to himself "Why did I drink that expired milk?"

As he finally finishes, he looks for some place to escape through because he knows someone would try to search the bathroom he's in.

"What is that smell?" asks a boy, who is inspecting the place.

Naruto spots a high window and speedily squishes through it and outside of the building.

Searching outside, Sakura looks with killer intent for Naruto.

Sakura quietly growls, "I swear Naruto is going to pay for whatever he's done." Inwardly, her inner self roars out 'HELL YEAH! THIS TIME HIS WHATEVER THE HELL HIS PRANK WAS TO DO THIS TO US HAS GONE TOO FAR!'

Naruto jumps to a rooftop and then to the streets, but a few of his classmates plus Sakura spot him— "THERE HE IS!"

"Kuso!" groans Naruto, putting more speed in running away.

Finding Sasuke Uchiha blocking his path before socking him in the stomach, Naruto realizes that unfortunately, his effort to escape bore rotten fruit as his angry classmates, who now surround him, later catch him.

"String him up!" yells another classmate.

As they carry Naruto to a tree, Naruto sees his future look horribly dim.

"Please don't do this!" pleadingly cries Naruto "Mizuki-sensei tried to frame me!" "In a minute, you're going to be boxed!" growls another classmate. "YEAH!" exclaim the young mob.

Seeing the noose being placed around his neck, Naruto braces himself for the oncoming death awaiting him…

He then sees a middle-aged woman in a simple sky blue kimono dress with a gentle white sash pushing a mobile food stall, or yatai, comes onto the scene. The woman is pregnant, modestly bosomy, and very pretty though more cute than gorgeous, has creamy fair skin, waist-length brown hair with short bangs, a beautiful pair of ice blue eyes, and is wearing white nail polish. She has blue circular bracelets hanging around her wrists, white high heel sandals, a diamond necklace, and a blue Konoha forehead protector worn as a headband. She is Chichi Shiba, the local mochi ice cream vender in Konoha.

"Mochi ice cream!" calls Chichi with a gentle smile. Naruto calls to her, "Chichi-basan!" Spotting the tiny blond, Chichi replies in confusion "Naruto-kun? What's going on here?" "I'm getting lynched!" "Without a fair trial?" asks Chichi, "Are you pulling my leg?"

"The dumb blond dead last loser just caused the entire ninja program get frozen for all of us genin graduates around the world so we could train even further for another 3 years!" argues another student. A lot of the other students grumble in agreement.

Chichi frowns and she steps up to the young crowd, "Do you know the real reason why it is or even the whole truth?"

Sasuke growls, "I blame the loser for doing this to me mainly!"

"If you so much as kill him in any way, I will personally see to it that all students here involved will be permanently dismissed from the rank of ninja before the shinobi program is up again!" sternly warns Chichi to the kids.

Every academy student gasps in shock, horror, and disbelief.

"You can't do that!" says Sasuke Uchiha, shocked and befuddled at first.

Before any of his fan girls/stalkers could even back him up, Chichi frowns and sternly says, "I may be not working as a ninja, but I am a Jonin and I still have the authority to do so."

The students surrounding Naruto release him from the noose, much to his relief.

"You youths," groans Chichi as she places her hands on her hips "always rushing into things without wondering the 'how', the 'what', the 'when', the 'where', the 'who', and most importantly the 'why'. You usually get too excited you just have to overreact and jump to conclusions."

Naruto is listening to Chichi's reasoning; his classmates had rush in without hearing the full reason as to why the program is on hold so all ninjas would train for an extra three years. Sakura's head dips down, knowing well she just acted like Naruto, seeing it as embarrassing, besides she was sort of looking forward to being a kunoichi to catch Sasuke.

Chichi continues "The reason to why this 3 years of training goes much deeper than you actually think. It's been established as a peace treaty between all shinobi villages long before any of you were born; once a certain lost object was found, the 3 years of training for all ninjas around the world will begin. Once a year, each ninja village sends a champion out into the world to find it. Naruto-kun just found said device the night when Mizuki tried to kill him, when the device was confirmed to the very one the champions were looking for for years, the whole thing came into effect. That was about a week ago. Under no circumstances, Naruto-kun is innocent. Lynching an innocent is a crime and I wouldn't want your parents and guardians to be horribly disappointed in you or hate you for years, now would you not want to either?"

The genin, save for Naruto and the classmates that came to stop the lynching, hang their heads in shame and self-disappointment. Everyone understands what's going on now.

Kiba scratches the back of his head in embarrassment and apologizes to Naruto, "Geez, sorry." "I get death threats from people older than us 3 times a week since I was born, Kiba. No biggie." nods Naruto.

Iruka came out with the students that remained with him, saying "I was about to tell them that the 3-Year Training program will allow them to train so they could be better in these three years time." His students look at him, as he says "Sure, you're ready now but you'll still make genin by then, only better."

Seeing reason, Naruto's classmates nod in understanding.

"We're very sorry, Chichi-baasan and Iruka-sensei" says a young brown-haired girl with pigtails "we would've made a horrible mistake." Chichi's face softens and she nods.

Still angry for Naruto being involved, one of the male classmates yells "Tie him to the post instead!"

Naruto is grabbed by some his classmates and they bring him to a wooden post, using rope to tie him securely to it. Being tied up, Naruto sighs and shrugs "At least it's better than execution."

Seeing the kind mochi ice cream seller and inactive jonin, Chichi Shiba, coming toward him, he looks up to her and says "Thank you, Chichi-basan! How can I ever repay you?" "How about buying at least 20 pieces of three different flavors of my mochi ice cream?" asks Chichi in response.

"Why did you come to save me?" asks Naruto, "I thought you are part of the crowd that hate my guts because of… a certain incident I couldn't be possibly responsible for… personally."

Understanding what he meant, Chichi huffs and scoffs "That incident? Knowing you for years, most of the villagers are about as understanding and tolerant like this bunch of kids, particularly the ones who wanted you hanged. I didn't exactly come to save you, I saw this crowd and decided to do some business. Plus, in all honesty, I don't think this kind of behavior suits these genin-to-be."

Choji comes forward and says to Chichi "I took some vanilla." "I can't break 5,000 Ryo, Choji-kun, go help yourself to some extra" says Chichi, patting the large boy on the back as he says to her "Thank you" and leaves to get some more.

"Look, Chichi-basan" asks Naruto "I don't understand, why are you being so nice to me though? I was involved with starting up the 3 Year Training program to add on top of the list."

Looking at Naruto, Chichi says "If you ask me, your classmates should get five years. Besides, unlike most people in the village, who don't know about you too well; I am, admittedly, one of the few who do care about you."

Naruto feels a balloon of joy inflating inside his chest, "Gee… I'm… really touched. How many others are there?" "Aside from me, my husband, Iruka-sensei, Teuchi-san, Ayame-chan, the Sandaime Hokage-sama, and Konohamaru-kun? About 8 I'm going to leave anonymous to you, plus a few of the many children, who don't know about that painful secret imprisoned in your body" smiles Chichi as she playfully strokes Naruto's right cheek.

"Hey!" calls another kid to Chichi, "Got any filled with lemon sherbet?" "Check in the back compartment," motions Chichi.

Naruto complements Chichi, "You're just the Ichiraku of mochi ice cream." "Why thank you, Naruto-kun" smiles Chichi, knowing Naruto's liking for ramen for years.

Hinata comes by to Chichi, "Can I please have some strawberry-flavored, Chichi-san?" "Sure, go ahead, Hinata-chan" nods Chichi.

Naruto says "As for me… I'm just full of bad luck for most people… also a big jerk and a loser, believe it." "No, you're not!" says Chichi. "What?" whispers Naruto to Chichi "Does finding the genuine Kamen Shinobi System make me a winner?" "No," whispers back Chichi "but you're very good person in my book, you're just very lonely."

Hinata comes back with two small bowls of strawberry mochi ice cream, she stutters out to Naruto "N-N-Naruto-kun… I g-g-got you s-s-some so y-you wouldn't starve." Naruto looks up to her eye-to-eye and says "Thanks, Hinata."

After a few moments of being fed by Hinata, Naruto was freed from his bindings. But one of the most surprising things of that moment was he did it by himself.

"Hey, dobe!" frowns Sasuke "How'd you remember the rope escape technique?" Not wanting to reveal the strengthening aftereffects of the Kamen Shinobi System to the others, Naruto shrugs "I just remembered that lesson, Dattebayo."

Deciding to take the announcements outside, thanks to Chichi's intervention, Iruka says "As I was saying, the shinobi program is placed on hold for 3 years due to a top secret event that just came up. For that, all ninja villages decide to have a 3-year wait while all shinobi, who are still in the academy, just graduated, etc., better themselves during said time until then. In my hand are the names of the higher-ranked ninja you are going to train with over the years before the day when you get assigned to your team. You are not to trade them for someone else nor mention their names and you better show up at the designated areas to meet them."

Iruka calls for certain students by their names to claim their cards with their individual designated temporary sensei's names.

"Naruto Uzumaki!" calls Iruka. Naruto walks up to Iruka to retrieve the name of his temporary sensei for the 3 years of training… Naruto looks at it and gasps in amazement and joy; he's got two teachers to work with for the next three years today, and one of them is his beloved Iruka-sensei himself.

Later… every one of the young ninjas was working with their selected higher ninja.

Being true to his assignment, Naruto is studying under Iruka all over again. Naruto decided that he shouldn't complain anymore, as long as he gets to learn the exercises jonin are supposed to teach their genin teams according to Iruka. Naruto is not using the Kamen Shinobi System, because he personally knew it would be cheating.

After about a week, Iruka says to Naruto "Okay, Naruto, I think it's time for one of the more advanced techniques that jonin normally teach their teams." "I am so going to impress my jonin-sensei in the future!" exclaims Naruto elatedly, then he innocently asks "Uh, what is it, Iruka-sensei?"

"You are aware of what chakra is, right?" asks Iruka-sensei. Naruto nods, Iruka then continues "Well the balance of the physical and mental or spiritual energy that make it up is never the same. Each technique requires a different recipe. If you don't follow the right recipe, a jutsu could blow up in your face. You wind up wasting time and energy."

"So, uh, how do I learn all that?" asks Naruto.

"I'm giving you 15 days to practice controlling chakra with your body. But I should warn you, this training is very hard and very risky for beginner genin."

Naruto gets a little nervous but quickly shakes it off.

Iruka-sensei says, "You're going to practice climbing trees."

After a moment of silence, Naruto exclaims "Huh?"

Iruka-sensei says "You're going to practice climbing trees, without using your hands."

"How do I do that?" asks Naruto.

"Watch and learn, Naruto" says Iruka casually, and then he walks up a nearby tree as easily as if it were the ground without falling. Iruka continues to walk up the tree until he reaches a branch, he briefly takes out a kunai and cuts a notch on the tree, and walks onto the branch, except now he's upside-down. He stops and smiles at Naruto, "I didn't say you shouldn't use your chakra doing this."

Naruto is truly impressed, "Whoa! That was totally awesome, Iruka-sensei! Believe it!"

Flipping to the ground, Iruka says to the blond "Admittedly, the soles of your feet are two of the trickiest places to focus your chakra at. You just need the right amount of chakra to stick to the trunk. Even veteran ninja have trouble sometimes. But if you can learn to do that, you can learn to do anything."

Naruto is in full spirit and ready to exercise his chakra control, "Alright, Iruka-sensei, let's go! Believe it!"

"One more thing, Naruto:" says Iruka "a ninja cannot stop fighting just to fix his chakra. He or she must adjust his chakra on the fly, in the heat of battle."

Remembering about his encounters with the Shippo Kaiju and Kaijin, Naruto nods "understood, Iruka-sensei."

"Now," instructs Iruka "concentrate your chakra to your heels and try it out; climb as high as you can, use your kunai to mark at that spot you've climbed to, and mark a new notch each time you go up even a centimeter higher. Try a running start first to try and get a good grip on the tree's surface."

Naruto concentrates a bit with a hand seal set, he charges for the tree with his battle spirit.

Perhaps too much battle spirit; as soon as Naruto gets his feet to its side, he slips and immediately falls on his back.

"Ow…" groans Naruto "I take it that this is the dangers of this specific training?"

"One of them," answers Iruka, "not enough use of focus of chakra will give you no grip at all. But focus way too much chakra and not only will you still not stick…" he demonstrates on another tree, only to cause a small explosion and push him away and leave a foot-shaped hole on its truck "but the tree will repel you, sometimes even with explosive force."

"At least I'll have a cool new attack if I could get that" shrugs Naruto with a smile. Iruka lightly smiles at that, "We've got a lot to do before we make a great ninja out of you, maybe even a better Kamen Shinobi."

Regardless of his first failure, Naruto continues with determination to improve on this chakra exercising session. He is going to put a lot of effort in his training for the next three years.

In the middle of the third day after the first tree-climbing exercise…

"Naruto!" calls Iruka, looking for his student.

Not finding the blond container of the demon fox anywhere on the ground, hoping he's not slacking off somewhere, he looks up and finds Naruto standing upside-down on the next highest branch Iruka stuck to almost a week ago without effort.

"Great job, Naruto" smiles Iruka. Naruto nods, rubbing the back of his head "Thanks, Iruka-sensei."

Two days later…

While brushing up on a training combination of stealth and taijutsu after a heightened tree-climbing exercise, Iruka and Naruto are unaware that they're going to meet up with someone.

Iruka performs a shoulder hold on Naruto, "You're slowing down, Naruto."

"Is that so, Iruka-sensei?" says Naruto, who flashes a grin.

Curious for a second, Iruka then feels a light punch against his back knocking him and 'Naruto' to the ground. He looks up to find another Naruto; the boy had enough time to create a Shadow Clone to perform a sneak attack.

"Very sneaky and clever" sighs Iruka, with a small smile "of course, this is stealth and taijutsu training, but I guess that would work just as well."

After dispelling his Shadow Clone, Naruto admits "Whenever I use the Shadow Clone Technique, Iruka-sensei, I learn everything each one has learnt. So I thought I could use them to speed up my training and my studying, despite the overuse of chakra."

Getting back to his feet, Iruka pats Naruto on the back "I applaud to you learning the lesser form of the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu: very few ninja would ever use that technique, yet very few genin would be able to create any more than eight Shadow Clones before fainting from exhaustion. The regular Shadow Clone technique alone is a Jonin-level technique. Of course, the Shadow Clone technique would help you learn more and faster, as well as help you help strengthen your chakra and not your P.O.W.'s, but there's still physical training that you, the original, must perform to make your Shadow Clones just as strong, tough, or fast, etc. Hence the taijutsu."

"Hai, Iruka-sensei!" salutes Naruto with a light smile.

Iruka smiles at the effort his blond-haired student is putting in this training, as it will help him progress further into a better ninja and a better person.

Iruka and Naruto sense an oncoming target, they turn left to see a large black sphere rushing in at them, they leap out of its way as it suddenly explodes into a large black cloth wall with its kunai-equipped corners sticking into trees.

What, or rather who, inside that cloth is revealed for all the world to see—

It's a woman who had her dark hair that's in a short tail on the back of her head and long bangs in front. She's wearing a short style trench-coat which is in a light tan color, a Konoha forehead protector on her forehead, an orange mini-skirt, shin and foot guards on her legs, and strange pendant.

But her clothes are not what were really striking about her, the fact is that she's wearing a fishnet bodysuit that covers her form, with her big breasts being the most prominent, and the bodysuit's lower leggings are only a few inches up her knees. The outfit is enough to make most normal men look at her with surprise… and more.

This woman surprises Naruto with her flashy appearance, he has no doubts that this woman is beautiful, even though her brown eyes have an odd quality to him and yet her personality is certainly off.

"Thought you could hide from me, big boy?" grins the flashy lady, expecting to find someone. Then she holds up a fist exclaiming loud and proud (a la Naruto style) "Your days of training with me for three years starts today! SO COME ON, LET'S GO!"

Naruto is stunned silent, 'If I was born a girl, would I look a little bit like her? And man, her mesh is almost see-through.'

Iruka sighs, "Can't find the boy you're assigned to, Anko-san?"

The flashy kunoichi, Anko, blinks in surprise and spots Iruka, "Iruka-kun? What are you doing here? Did I mess up again?"

"You can't find him," groans Iruka, deducing her problem.

"Is she one of my classmates' selected higher nin to train under, Iruka-sensei?" asks Naruto. Iruka nods "Yes, Naruto."

Anko looks at Naruto, 'Hmm… the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon, Naruto Uzumaki… the one responsible for finding the Kamen Shinobi System and making things all the more interesting again.' She then grins, 'This could be fun.'

"Who is she anyway?" asks Naruto. Iruka gulps, "Her name is Anko Mitarashi; she is a special jonin."

"And your Iruka-sensei is my boy toy" smirks Anko seductively.

"B-B-Boy toy?" gasps Naruto, "As in… y-y-you're his g-g-girlfriend?"

"Well," says Iruka, fidgeting a little "yes, accurately speaking, Anko-san and I are dating whenever we aren't working." Turning to his girlfriend, Iruka asks "I suppose you're not having much luck looking for the genin selected to train under you."

"He's a slippery one," frowns Anko, "I'd rather force him to walk through Battle Training Zone #44. Oh… makes me wish for a replacement."

"What's Battle Training Zone #44?" asks Naruto.

"A fenced up forest sometimes reserved for chunin examinees, or a few who want to toughen themselves up," explains Iruka. Anko adds in, "It's also known by other name: the Forest of Death."

Naruto's eyes widen in horror as he screams, "What the heck is in there?"

"Lots of dangerous things native in the Land of Fire, like our giant bloodsucking tree slugs" grins Anko savagely.

'This woman's scary!' cries Naruto mentally 'Why does Iruka-sensei date someone like her?'

"About this whole 3 Year Training program, I'd prefer a hot young pretty boy!" frowns Anko.

Iruka whispers to Naruto, "Can you think of something, Naruto? I think I can convince Sandaime-sama to let this slide if we ask her to train you." "Are you crazy?" cries Naruto, "She's a psycho; she'll kill me before the Program is up and running again!" "She will teach you how to be capable of men-to-women relations" says Iruka, convincingly. "Okay…" groans Naruto, still nervous.

As Iruka leaves to talk to Hiruzen Sarutobi, Anko says to Naruto "Come on, kiddo, let's go eat."

Later, at a dango and sweet bean soup yattai, Anko and Naruto are eating there.

"Why are we here again?" asks Naruto.

"I've heard you're a big fan of ramen," smiles Anko, speaking after gulping a stick full of dango "so before we head back to the spot in the forest where we've met, I'm introducing you to my favorite foods: sweet bean soup and dango." Then she skillfully takes a few empty dango sticks and throws them against a wooden wall, sticking into it like kunai, forming the phrase 'Mitarashi Anko-chan is the hottest of the hot!'

Then, the two journey to a secluded part of the forest with her black banner.

Anko then crosses her arms, "Until Iruka-kun confirms that he's convinced Hokage-sama to allow me to train you and let my anonymous genin learn his big mistake for not joining me, let's see if you can entertain me."

"What do you have in mind?" asks Naruto, "Racing you to the top of the Hokage Monument before nightfall? Or for me to trek through the Forest of Death you mentioned earlier and actually survive?"

"No," shakes her head, "but the thought had occurred to me for weeks from now. What I want to see personally is this 'stupid' Sexy Technique Iruka-kun told me you developed."

Naruto gulps, "Okay…" then he thinks of an alternative "how about this instead? Do you like sexy men better?"

"You better believe it," smirks Anko.

"How about this?" asks Naruto, forming a hand sign "Henge!"

POOF!

In a puff of smoke, Naruto transformed into a nude muscular man with a handsome face and long majestic blonde hair, his whisker marks on his face remain but they didn't detract the sex appeal. Smoke is covering his nether regions to the barest minimum.

In a mature man voice, he answers "Otona no jutsu."

"HOLY SHIT!" exclaims Anko, with a luminescent blush on her face.

He sees and hears other women passing by turning to see what whomever the shinobi performing the transformation is transformed into and immediately drop from over-arousal.

His same-sex version of his Sexy Technique is proving perfectly effective against Anko. Anko's face isn't the only place that is heated from looking at the sexy grownup version of Naruto, but her heart, and the spot between her legs.

"I LIKE YOU, KID!" she says with an atmosphere of elation around her, as blood cascades from her nostrils.

The transformed Naruto thinks to himself in disbelief 'Is she really dating Iruka-sensei? I'm kind of grateful that this version affects women better than on men.'

Then he asks almost affectionately to Anko, looking quite alluring "So, if the request is accepted by Old Man Hokage, you will assist in my training for the next three years?"

Feeling turned on even more, she says "Of course. But on one condition."

"One condition?" blinks the transformed Naruto, "What would that condition be?"

Anko smiles lightly, "Use the original Orioke no Jutsu and let me see it and then I'll tell you."

The transformed Naruto shakes his head, "Unbelievable…"

POOF!

Naruto transformed into a nude blonde in long pigtails with a voluptuous build.

Anko closes her eyes and nods, "I think you'll be enjoying the perfected transformation technique, despite its incredible chakra cost."

"Is that the condition, Anko-sensei?" asks the female transformation of Naruto demurely.

"Oh no," says Anko, shaking her head. Then she disappears and reappears behind the transformed Naruto, scratching 'her' cheek and licking the blood coming out before seductively saying "I'd prefer it if you were in that hot male transformation the entire time you're with me… alone."

Naruto shrieks and jumps back, transforming back to Naruto stumbling to the ground.

"You're a bloodthirsty perverted psychopathic kunoichi!" yells Naruto, pointing a finger at Anko.

"I'm not a bloodthirsty perverted psychopathic kunoichi!" shouts Anko, annoyed by the accusation.

"What are you then?" shivers Naruto, nervously.

Anko smiles proudly and exclaims, "I'm the bloodthirsty perverted psychopathic kunoichi."

Naruto stutters a bit more, "E-e-even s-sc-scarier…"

Later… Iruka comes back telling the Third Hokage has accepted the request, as it will better Naruto's knowledge and relations with women.

Currently, Naruto and the two grownups are preparing to train at a forested river in the village.

"Okay," says Anko "since your sensei was teaching how to walk up solid vertical surfaces, I'd look forward to your team jonin who will lead you to be real impressed, I'd suggest adding weight to your body. You know; should the need to carry any of teammates in need of medical attention and to get out of danger."

"That'd be an important circumstance to look out for," nods Naruto "What do you have in mind, Anko-sensei?"

"Strip," says Anko simply.

Naruto gets nervous, but complies quickly "Okay, but if you jump me, I'm calling Iruka-sensei!"

"Down to your underwear's fine, boy" smiles Anko.

Iruka shakes his head at his girlfriend's antics. Anko is a fierce lady of a kunoichi and acts like Naruto, but she's very nice person when it comes down to it.

Naruto places on weighted straps on his limbs, while he's standing in only his green boxer shorts with yellow lightning bolts. Then noticing Anko staring at him, he asks "What?"

Anko answers, "You know, for a kid you're pretty sexy when you're naked. Why didn't the girls in your class notice before?"

Naruto shivers a bit, but answers her question "Well, a lot of them were too busy craving the eye candy face-wise, skill-wise, and personality-wise, and their hatred of me is inherited from their parents."

"That would explain it" nods Anko.

"Also," says Naruto "I don't think of myself as being sexy. Believe it."

Anko gapes in disbelief, "You don't say."

Naruto concentrates as he gathers his chakra, then he works his way up the tree, slowly, but with adequate success.

After Naruto picks up the exercise even faster, Anko says to him "I'm going to have to add more weight than that to you, kid. By then, you can put your clothes back on."

After a few more sessions of the tree-climbing exercise with added weight, Anko decides to ask the young genin "I wish to see the belt you've gained from the scroll, kid."

Naruto closes his eyes, clasps his hands together in a hand seal, inwardly prays, and finally concentrates on summoning the belt. Around his waist appears his Kamen Shinobi System, for the female instructor to see.

Anko stares at the belt studiously, "So this is the Kamen Shinobi System, at least Naruto-kun's version of it."

Naruto opens his eyes and asks her, "You mean there are different versions of this for each ninja?"

"Yep" nods Anko "so far, we theorize that the system that is placed within a shinobi is incorporated with his or her persona, character, or soul. Look at the green crystal leaf on the buckle, do you have any good feelings of connection toward your village of birth?"

"Yes, plenty."

"Then there's the flaming red crystal swirls to suggest your courage and the orange center," continues Anko "I believe they suggest a connection to some sort of heritage that I, myself, don't really know."

"What about the Gashapon knob on the right side?" asks Naruto.

"Gashapon?" blinks Anko in curiosity.

"Watch," says the blond-haired genin turning the knob "I turn it a bit and at the right moment a ball capsule appears into existence. I pop the capsule open, which then enlarges a bit and opens to reveal the item within it into existence. I figure it must mean like an arsenal of infinite possibilities."

POP! A walnut-sized round capsule with a clear half and a pale blue half with the kanji reading 'Karei Manto', or 'Flounder Mantle', forms from the knob's hollow and falls into his right hand. He squeezes it and it then becomes football-sized before opening and revealing a pale blue life-size robotic flounder which flaps around a bit in the air before landing in Naruto's hands.

Naruto shrugs, "First time I found that out, I got an orange toad that turned into a powerful metal glove for punching. I also found out from the little robot that I can mentally will it out of existence or keep it in existence." "Before disappearing, I saw that the flatfish's capsule said 'mantle' on it," says Anko.

Frowning a bit, Naruto says "Sorry little guy, just have to find out." It wiggles back to him, as if shrugging out "Eh, it's bound to happen sometime." Waving it out once, the little robotic fish expands into a large blue sheet of cloth with white silhouette depicting a flounder with the symbol of Naruto's village on it.

"Cool!" exclaims Anko.

Naruto waves the new mantle out around him and he vanishes from existence.

"Whoa!" calls out Naruto, although he's nowhere to be visibly seen "I'm invisible, believe it!"

After revealing himself behind her, he says "I'm going to try to Gashapon thing again, see if I can get anything else."

Hearing cranking before another pop behind her, she turns to find him producing an instruction booklet with the 'Gashapon knob'.

Naruto blinks at the picture on the front cover, "This is an instruction manual of my armor and arsenal." Then he smiles with satisfaction, "I look cool in it."

Anko snatches it from Naruto's hands and looks into the pages, then she points at a certain spot in one of the pages with a smirk on her face "Aha! The magical Gashapon knob mechanism on the right side of your belt is called the Mugen Hunpaisha Odorokiremono (Infinite Dispenser Surprise Receptacles), and turning it will generate and produce one orb-shaped container called an Odorokiremono (Surprise Receptacle) at a time, each with a random item contained within it. It's a physical extension and manifestation of your apparently unlimited cunning on your armor. You've figured it out accurately, Naruto-kun!"

"Sweet-ttebayo!" smiles Naruto.

The three of them begin to mess around a little, studying more and more of Naruto's new Kamen Shinobi armor.

As night falls, an exhausted trio of shinobi is enjoying a good night soak in the hot springs.

"We're going to train and teach you for the next three years, Naruto" smiles Iruka as he relaxes in his side of the spring. Naruto sighs, "I'm looking forward to it. I hope the other higher ninja designated for me is going to be as great as you two, Iruka-sensei" Then the blond genin calls to Anko, who is concealed in her side of the hot spring "Anko-sensei."

"Call me Anko-nee-chan, Naruto-chan" smiles Anko "we're going to spend a lot of great times together before you finally get assigned to your squad in the future. Remember, after this is a tea ceremony and then onto Ichiraku's and I'm paying." "Woo-hoo!" cheers Naruto in a series of splashes.

And so, Naruto's 3-year training starts with his favorite sensei, Iruka, and his sensei's girlfriend, Anko.

To Be Continued…

Featured Terms—

Dattebayo: Naruto's verbal tic, also means 'believe it'.

Jinchuriki: (lit. 'Power of the Human Sacrifice') a person sealed with a powerful entity, namely and commonly a Tailed Beast, within his or her body. More often than not, others look at Jinchuriki with disdain and fear for the entity taking control of their host. The host is granted additional powers, techniques, and incredible amounts of chakra. Removal of the beasts locked inside is known to be fatal to their hosts. Pregnant female Jinchuriki get more time gestating and would be in danger without outside help during childbirth, where their seals would be at their weakest.

Next on 'Kamen Shinobi Naruto': in a failed attempt to locate Jiraiya, they resort to Ebisu who later teaches Naruto water-walking. Then they find Jiraiya, it was only after a few attempts, Naruto finally convinces the Toad Sage Jiraiya to help in Naruto's training.

(A/N: Please mail me a few suggested ideas for garments, features, etc. for those participating the 3-Year Training Program to have upon the end of the program)