A Set of Broken Blades

By

Ragnorokrising

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Chapter Six: Tough Battles

Naruto opened his eyes and found himself in the same room he had woken up in before. He wiped the seals off of his body. He stood up and walked down the stairs to a living room. He started to eat the food that was compiled there.

Jiraiya, Asuma, Sasuke and Shikamaru all came inside. "Naruto, heads up!" Jiraiya yelled. He tossed a chakra enhanced kunai at Naruto. The ash shield rose to stop it bit it only slowed it down. The kunai soared forward and an inch form Naruto's face, it disappeared. All that was left was a silver puddle.

"What the hell was that for Pervert?!" Naruto yelled.

"Testing that new shield of yours brat." Naruto started grumbling again and turned to the food.

Asuma sat down across from him and put three scrolls bundled together on the table. He slid them over the table to Naruto.

"These are training techniques for your Wind Affinity. I've chosen an appropriate weapon for you to focus it through. It's sealed inside."

Naruto sent a stream of ash out to grab the scrolls and tuck them down next to him.

Sasuke and Shikamaru sat down on either side of him. They both started to eat themselves.

They spent the next ten minutes talking about their training.

"So, Naruto, how would you like to learn the Rasengan?" Jiraiya said suddenly. The result was Sasuke getting a face full of spit out rice.

"Dad said I could learn it?" Jiraiya nodded and slurped down some ramen.

"We'll start your training as soon as I get the right supplies." they ate all the food, help Tsunami clean the plates, and all went to sleep, except for Naruto, who opened the scrolls.

The first scroll said to cut a leaf in half using only your chakra. Naruto retrieved a few leaves from outside the window and started to practice the technique. The leaf had too much chakra and it exploded. The next had to little and just shook slightly.

Naruto went out into the forest and made two hundred fifty clones to help him. By the time the sun came up, he could split the leaf halfway and the only proof was thousands of small leafy bits on the ground and a tree with lots of empty branches.

Naruto walked inside the large house and took a shower. He asked Jiraiya to paint the suppression seals on him and fell asleep in his room.

(Next Day)

Naruto woke up, took a shower, changed clothes, and went down to breakfast. He greeted Tsunami, ate a few oranges and went to train.

He emptied more trees, made more clones, and nearly passed out several times. He did this until the sun was a quarter of the way across the sky track.

"I final did it." the two halves of the leaf fluttered to the ground as the Shadow Clones disappeared in blasts of smoke.

Naruto opened the scroll again. He groaned and reached for inside for the reserves of red chakra.

He performed two jutsu, forming a waterfall.

"Already on the second step I see." Asuma said. He looked at the waterfall and sighed. "I remembered when I first had to do this. Took me several months to even part the water. I don't expect you to do any better. No offense but…" he trailed off as Naruto jumped onto the water.

A gray energy swirled around him as a long line of wind shot down the water. There was a cracking sound as a lien ran down the stone and spider webbed beneath him.

Naruto made a clone and side stepped. He and the clone sent two more waves of wind down the waterfall. The water exploded then started to run again.

Naruto made one more clone to take his place and jumped down next to Asuma. "Do you feel like helping em make a few waterfalls?"

"I don't' see why not." the next one hundred and fifty minutes were spent making waterfalls and then youki enhanced clones to train two at a time.

They left the area to find Jiraiya in front of the house with a bunch of water balloons. He tossed one to Naruto.

"What's this for?"

"You wanted to learn the Rasengan. This is the first step." Jiraiya put another balloon in his hand and focused his chakra into it. It bubbled and exploded outward.

"Wow, what was that?' Naruto exclaimed, his mask of indifference not even standing a chance.

"I just swirled my chakra around inside it and used the water to destroy it." Naruto instantly started to send his chakra into the ball of water.

The middle section of the sphere expanded outward and it popped. He looked at Jiraiya, who shook his head. Naruto spent the next five hours popping the balloons the wrong way. At noon, Jiraiya told Naruto to come to lunch.

"Hold on, one last balloon."

"Naruto, come inside and take a break!" Jiraiya ordered.

"One more balloon!" Jiraiya growled and ran towards Naruto, who put both hands on the balloon. Jiraiya knocked him down, making it so when the balloon exploded, the whiplash hit Jiraiya in the balls.

"OUCH!!!"

While Jiraiya recovered from the whiplash, Naruto experimented with the two handed Rasengan. He threw the water balloon behind him as he went in for lunch, making Jiraiya get whiplash in the face.

(Later)

Naruto came back out of the house and picked up another balloon. He popped it using two hands, then, after he picked another up, he tried using on hand.

He sent the chakra in, but the balloon barely shook. He made a clone, who performed the two handed Rasengan for him. He remembered what the balloon Jiraiya had destroyed look like.

He gathered chakra in his hand until a thin layer of blue light covered it. He let the chakra go, and it swirled around inside the water. He spun the chakra in every direction in every direction. It expanded out in every direction, but it never popped.

He tried to pop the balloon with one hand for the rest of the week. In actuality, he got it in one day, but it took so long to charge, he'd be dad half way through. So he spent the rest of the week learning how to do it quicker.

Near the end of the week, he was out in the woods, popping balloons, when the sun came up and some one came into the clearing. She was dressed in a kimono, with her brown hair flowing down her back. A basket hung on her arm, half way filled with good smelling herbs.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know any one was here." she said.

"It's no problem. By the way, I'm Naruto."

"I'm Haku, and it's very nice to meet you Naruto." she picked some more herbs and put them in her basket.

"Do you need any help Haku?" Naruto asked.

She showed him what herb to pick and smiled at him. He smiled back at her and sent his ash in every direction. Once Haku's basket was nearly over flowing, they sat down together.

"So what are you doing all alone out here?" she asked him.

"Training a new Jutsu. I'm a ninja." he pulled one of the balloons over to him and sent a quick, already spinning, burst of chakra inside it. It exploded in two seconds.

"Oh, wow, I've never known a ninja before." Naruto smiled and stood up.

"I need to leave so my allies don't worry. I'll see you some other time Haku?"

"Of course you will Naruto." Naruto disappeared into the woods as Haku pulled three senbon out of her pocket. She looked off in his direction.

"What are you thinking?" someone asked her mentally.

"I think he's like us. If so, we have some touch battles ahead in another week."

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A/N: And there you have it.