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Chapter 4: Tried, but true, training method.
A silver-haired kid was racing through the forest at speeds that could kill chuunin. Hopping from tree to tree, he looked very frightened, and the way he moved seem to be that he was trying to get away from something. He moved, and then there was a crater about the size of a fist where he was a second ago. Many trees had fallen down, around the training grounds.
Now what could make our silver-haired hero scared?
"Come out, come out, wherever you are." A cat sang out, as more fist sized craters were made near the kid.
Simple. Three words: Nelrim's training class.
Flashback
Naruto had just reached the training ground Nelrim and him had used for their fight that morning. Training ground 13 had a nice waterfall nearby, with a small stream. A field of flowers could be seen 30 feet from the clearing that made training ground 13. The trees were big and green, just like the rest of the 13 million or so trees in fire nation.
Nelrim was lazying about on a rock near the stream. He lifted his head as Naruto and Kina and walked up to him. "Hello, Naruto-san. I see you two made it back no problem."
Naruto nodded, "So, what are you going to have me do?" He scratched the back of his head, "I mean, I would love to learn those techniques, but even I know that some of them would take lots of training."
Nelrim looked at Kina on his shoulder, "You trained him nicely, Kina-san. He certainly knows what must be done to learn something new."
Kina just nodded, still a little tense.
Nelrim looked back at Naruto. "First off, we're going to do something about that blonde hair. It's not as bad as the 'kill me' orange you wore as a cover up, but it's still flashy."
Naruto put his hands in his hair, "So how do we change it?"
"You know how you're able to change in between both fox and semi-fox form?" Nelrim stated it more then asked. "Well, we're just going to induce more of your transformation to look more fox then before. It'll increase your senses and you'll gain silver hair, instead of blond."
"Okay, and how do we do that?"
"I don't, you do. Just imagine what you look like, and then change the hair color to look more like your tail fur."
Naruto closed his eyes for a bit, and when he opened them his hair had changed. It wasn't wild anymore, but instead his bangs went to the top of his eyebrows. His hair went down to about his middle back. His hair had changed to a dull grey silver. (A/N: his hair looks like Sephiroth's, only more dull.)
"Hmm, looks much better." Nelrim said. He lifted up his paw, and said, "Here," a little strip of black cloth appeared on his forearm. "Take this, and tie you hair. I would've liked it shorter, but I suppose that'll do."
Naruto tied his hair so it made a low ponytail. "Is this good?" he said, looking amazed at his own hair in his hand.
"Mmmm, good enough." Nelrim jumped off the rock he was sitting on. He did a very cat-like stretch. "Now we need to start training you."
"Okay..." Naruto was wondering for a while now what Nelrim would make him do. Run around konoha, do push ups, upside down sit-ups, kunai training, and many more things are what Kina taught him to do.
"I want you to make several hundred shadow clones."
"Huh? But i've only just barely learned it, I don't know my limits yet."
"Just make as many as you can." Nerlim said quickly.
"Fine... KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!" he said as he performed the famous cross symbol. A big cloud poofed around Naruto.
"Hmm, nice. 457 shadow clones on your first try. Very nice." Nelrim said as the dust disappeared. "Okay, I want 200 of you to start to learn how to walk on water, Kina you help them learn it. I want another 100 of you do tree walking. No running at all. The rest of you stay here."
A bunch of 'hai's were heard and the clearing only had 158 left. Kina had left with the nebies in water walking to teach them how to walk on water. "Um, Nelrim." Naruto started. "How is this going to help me train?"
Nelrim looked happy. "I'm glad you asked, Naruto-san. Did you know that each of these clones, when popped, will give you their memory that they learned in their 'lifetime?'"
"No."
"hang on a second." Nelrim said. He closed his eyes, then opened them a second later. "Okay, what do you know now?"
"That one of my clones was at the lake listening to Kina talking when you... popped... him.... ooooooh, I get it now."
"Unfortunately, these clones will only give you their memories of how to do it. If you make them train physically you wont get the muscle tone benefit from it. You only learned that it was really hard."
Naruto nodded.
"And as an additional note, all your memories will go to the remaining clones as well. So if we just pop the leaders one at a time the other clones learn what the best did to get that way."(A/N: Third Fang I love this idea, thanks for letting me use it.) "If you have 10 clones, and you train for 3 hours. Pop one, the rest learn what that one did, and improve on it. Those clones will then train another hour or so to improve, and you pop one every hour or so. In the end, during a 12 hour training period you've actually gained a total of 10227 hours of mental work, once the final one pops. That's equivalent to 853 days of 12 hour trainings periods by yourself. (A/N: Damn that math was fun XD and before you ask, NO I'm not making Naruto godlike... yet...)"
Naruto practically fainted at that number.
"You can speed up learning things by years in a matter of weeks with this process. But you have to remember, it's all mental work. Nothing physical, except for muscle memory, so you can learn katas, and learn hand movements, too."
Naruto was now drooling. Oh the possibilities this one little technique held. "So, what are you going to have these guys learn."
Nelrim smiled. "Well, I wanted to show you leaf balancing."
"Huh? Leaf balancing?" Naruto asked kind of numbly. "Is that where I stand on one leaf and balance on one foot?" he asked.
Nelrim... laughed? "No. You, clone, come here." Said clone approached him. "I want you to pick up a leaf, and place it on your palm." The clone did so. "Now I want you to levitate it using chakra." Naruto looked at him skeptically. T he clone forced chakra into his hand, and pushed up with it. The leaf was launched into the air. "I said levitate it, not throw it into the sky." Nelrim then popped the clone with something that looked like a haze. He turned to the rest of the clones. "Now I want the rest of you to try and make a leaf levitate on the palm of your hand. As you saw earlier, too much, and it flies, too little and it doesn't float. NOW GET TO IT!"
The Narutos got to work.
"Now, Naruto." Nelrim said as he turned to the original. "I'm going to be training you personally. We're going to work on your physique, and get you stronger and faster. I wont be turning up your gravity seal, as that is already pushing your body to it's limits at 3.5x. I will be turning it up when you get older, though." (A/N: at 3.5x his body weighs at around 520 pounds. Anymore and his growth will be stunted.)
Naruto nodded, "So what are you going to do?"
"Tell me, do you remember a girl named Anko?"
Naruto thought for a few moments. "You mean the nice snake lady?"
"Yes, her." Nelrim said. "Well, I've taking a liking to her trainings methods."
"And... what are these training methods?" Naruto asked.
Nelrim smiled.
End flashback
And that's how we learned how our silver-haired hero is getting his but chased by a very deadly cat.
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tcb...
I decided to end it here. I know this one wasn't long, but I can't think of anything I want to add in this chapter. The next chapter will be a two month time skip, and much longer. I just wanted to post this chapter sooner and get it out of the way.