Hello ladies and gents here's the third chapter for my story it took longer than I thought it would. Thank you to those who reviewed.

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Demonic Voice"

'Bijuu thoughts'

Justu

(A/N: Author Note)

Flashback

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the lyrics that you see in this story. If I did I wouldn't have to write this to cover my ass.

This is going to be a harem pairing I have already decided on four girls but I only have three, so tell me what girl you would like to be number four.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the characters except the ones I have created.

Chapter 3: Naruto Sensei

"I want aniki to stay!" Naruto sighed as he looked down at a teary-eyed Mei clutching his shirt. "Mei-chan I have to go, I'm sorry," Naruto said which made Mei actually cry and clutch his shirt harder. "Mei-chan let go," the little girl shook her head. Naruto grabbed her hands and pried them of her shirt. "Come on kid, don't cry, listen you'll see me again don't worry. You and Tomoko here are going to come to Konoha in a month's time," Naruto told the little girl, who was still teary eyed and hiccupping. "Plus, I'll make you your favorite dessert as soon as we meet up again," the little girl's tears stopped but she was still sad.

"Promise?" she asked looking into his eyes. "Promise," Naruto replied and the little girl nodded. Naruto smiled at the little girl and turned to look at Tomoko. "Tomoko-chan always a pleasure to see you," Naruto said to her. Tomoko walked up and hugged him, "Be safe Master."

"Aren't I always," Naruto said smiling at her, to which she rolled her eyes. Naruto turned and walked down the opposite path of the road and Tomoko and Mei went the other way.

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It was morning and he had just gotten back into the village using his Fox Mask to disguise him as a rat and just stroll on in. Naruto was back at the training area that he had asked Sakura to come to. The blond ninja was running through his mourning exercise routine. As Naruto finished stretching he saw Sakura walking into the training grounds.

"You're right on time, good, I hate tardiness," Naruto said to the girl. "Well fist things first, stretch then ten laps around the field."

Sakura nodded and proceeded to stretch then run. Thirty minutes later she came back breathing heavily. Naruto handed her water, which she drank, then he gave her a kunai. "You're lacking in stamina. Let's see what you can do. Attack me," Naruto said as he got into a defensive stance.

"What? Are you sure?" Sakura asked.

"Yes now come at me. Taijutsu fight only."

Sakura, hesitantly nodded, then rushed him and thrust her kunai forward. He grabbed her and flipped her over his shoulder. She rolled, recovered, and sent a right jab at him. He dodged, and avoided another left jab.

Sakura slashed with her kunai then deliver a left spin kick; both were dodged, using the momentum the girl sent a right snap kick at his face. Naruto caught her foot then swept her other foot from under her. Sakura fell on her back and rolled to the side as Naruto's foot connected to the ground were her head was.

Naruto then went on the offensive sending a snap kick at Sakura's chest. The girl blocked but was sent sprawling from the force. She got up and barely dodged a right cross from Naruto. Naruto followed up with a jab, which connected, then another, then a palm thrust to her mid-section knocking her back. Naruto grabbed her before she got out of reach and rammed his knee into her stomach.

Sakura coughed up spit and collapsed onto her knees holding her stomach. Naruto stopped and help her up. He set her against a tree so she could recover. He also pulled out a band-aid and placed it on the cut from his second jab. "Well you aren't a lost cause but you're not adequate, by my standards any way," Naruto said as Sakura was still holding her stomach and breathing hard.

"If you want me to help you there's going to be a lot more pain, a lot more bleeding, and bone breaking, so what's your answer?" he asked looking at her.

She looked up at him, the supposed deadlast, had just decimated her with minimal effort; was she that weak that she wasn't worth the effort?

"Yes, please help me," Sakura said to him.

"Good, now no time like the present, so here's your first lesson," Naruto said as he helped her up.

"What it is it?" Sakura asked to which Naruto smiled. "Look out Sakura!" he said pointing behind her. Sakura turned around as she did Naruto kicked her in the back knocking her to the ground.

She turned to shout at Naruto but the words died in her throat as a shuriken embedded itself next to her head. She looked at Naruto who had a serious expression on his face, "Your first lesson, deception is a shinobi's best friend and worst enemy."

"W-What?" Sakura asked.

"Deception, it's what we shinobi are trained in, don't forget that. Make the enemy think you're weak then strike when he thinks you lost. Make them think there's any army when it's just you. Understand?" Naruto asked. Sakura nodded as she was helped up, again, by Naruto. "Good."

"It still early so well keep training and break for lunch at noon, alright." Naruto told her. It was at this point that Sakura's stomach grumbled, which caused her to be embarrassed and Naruto to look at her quizzically. "You did eat breakfast, right?"

"Um, well I'm on a diet so no," Sakura said then rubbed her forehead as Naruto flicked it. "Ow, what was that for?"

"One pain is a great way to remember mistakes, two you should forget about diets as you'll need all your strength, got it," Naruto said seriously to get his point across.

"Yes, Naruto," Sakura said his message going in one year and out the other, "So should I get something to eat."

"No, we're going to keep training, today I'll teach you a chakra exercise and why you should eat," Naruto said a sadistic smile appear at Sakura's shocked expression.

"Now you'll be learning the tree walking exercise," Naruto said as he went on that you needed to gather chakra at the soles in your feet to stick to the tree, and how to much would blow you off and too little would make you fall off.

After he finished his explanation he told her to practice the technique and to his surprise she got it on the first try. Sakura came down smirking that she got it down so fast. "You made it sound harder Naruto."

Naruto had a smile on his face that made Sakura nervous, "You only learned it quickly because your reserves are so low," which made her frown, "and who told you to stop, keep running until you run out of chakra. It'll expand your reserves and give you a good work out." Two birds with one stone.

As Sakura was continuing the exercise, Naruto was having a conversation with the fox. 'So in two months well finally find out where your comrade's killer is hiding.'

"Yes, the dept collector will be able to tell us where that murderer is. Then when we find that bastard Shikkan, give me control so I can tear his skull out and beat him to death with it," Kyuubi said an insane look in his eyes.

'That doesn't seem physically possible,' Naruto thought to himself. 'Anyway who is this debt collector?'

"Demons, the strong ones, make a deal with the Shikigami when they're on death's door step," Kyuubi said to Naruto.

'What kind of deal?' Naruto asked curiously.

"They give the Death God half of their soul and another soul as payment in exchange for a time extension on their life," Kyuubi said to the young man whose eyes widened in shock.

'They cheat death; doesn't that break some law of nature?' Naruto asked wondering if the laws of nature even existed or if was all made up.

"No the Shikigami still gets a soul so he doesn't care," Kyuubi told Naruto nonchalantly. "However it's a one time thing and they only get a few years, some try to run and since the Shikigami can't keep coming down to the mortal planes he sends his debt collectors to make sure the other side keeps up their end of the bargain. I know Shikkan must have made a deal, I should killed him instead of leaving him for dead."

'Why do you think the debt collector is coming here, there aren't any demons around here,' Naruto said contemplating why the debt collector would be coming to Konoha.

"The demon, if there is one, could be hiding in the village, it is enormous," the fox said putting in his two cents.

'Whatever the reason, how is the debt collector going to tell us where Shikkan is,' Naruto said to the demon, who nodded his head in agreement. "We will discuss that later, you should check up on the girl," Kyuubi said cutting the link.

Standing up, Naruto looked at Sakura to see her resting on a branch, covered in sweat. Wondering how long he was out he looked up at the sun to see it was almost noon. 'Took longer than I thought it did,' Naruto said to himself. "Hey Sakura come down."

Sakura jumped down from the tree, then collapsed, panting, "Can…we…go…eat?"

"I don't think you could make it, here have this," said Naruto handing her a bento. Sakura looked at it like it someone just handed her gold. She tore it open and proceeded to scarf down the contents.

"Slow down or you'll throw up," Naruto said smiling as she nodded her head and slowed down. Naruto pulled out his own bento and started eating. "Where did you…buy these lunches… from, they're pretty… good," she asked between bites.

"Actually, I made them myself," said Naruto surprising her. Never being able to trust the cooks at restraints Naruto taught himself to cook using cookbooks and ingredients he had stolen from stores and restaurants. He used to feel guilty until he met with Kyuubi and now saw stealing from villagers as them making 'reparations'.

"Really?" Sakura asked wondering where he learned to cook. "Yeah I never actually had anyone there for me so I had to learn how to cook for myself, my house smelled like burnt food for a long time while I leaned how to cook," Naruto said scrunching his nose remembering the smell he had to deal with. Sakura giggled at the face he made. "So how about you or does your mom cook for you?" Naruto asked.

Sakura stopped eating and looked down, "My mother is never really around the house. She's a medic ninja so she's always at the hospital; she had a friend teach me to cook so she didn't have to worry about me."

"Oh, what about your dad what line of work is he in?" Naruto asked only to regret as he saw a sad look on her face. "He died when his squad was ambushed on a mission," she replied looking away from him.

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to-, "but he was cut off. "It's okay it happened when I was four, I don't even remember him," she said doing a bad job of covering up her emotions.

Naruto knew it wasn't his place to say anything so he remained quiet as they finished their lunch.

"So what's next?" Sakura asked Naruto who pulled out a scroll.

"Since you're probably still tired we take this time to make a training schedule," He said unfurling the scroll. "So what exactly do you want to work on?"

So, Naruto and Sakura spent half an hour working on a schedule. They talked about what she wanted to work on, what she needed to work on, and things Naruto thought would help. Here's what it looked like:

7:00-8:00 – Warm-up and physical training

8:00-9:00 – Meditation and chakra training

9:00-10:00 – Practice sparing

10:00-11:00 – Weapon practice

11:00-12:00 – Simulation Session

12:00-1:00 – Lunch and relaxation

1:00-2:00 – Civilian skills training

2:00-3:00 – Ninjutsu training

3:00-4:00 – Taijutsu training

4:00-5:00 – Genjutsu training

6:00-7:00 – Personal projects

"There that's your schedule," Naruto said as Sakura looked it over. She raised an eyebrow at the civilian training. "Hey, Naruto what's civilian training?"

"Basically it's learning civilian skills cooking, sewing, carpeting, entertainment, hunting and skinning animals, and botany," Naruto said listing the various skills as Sakura's eyes widened.

"Why on earth would I need to learn all that?" Sakura asked wonder how those would make her a better ninja.

"For one they are use skills to have, secondly they make it easier to go blend in or gather information; third you never know when these skills might come in handy," he finished and waited for her input.

"Oh I get, like sewing could be used to sew up wounds, or cooking to gather information at bars and restaurants," she said enthusiastically realizing that those skill would be a big help.

"You hit the nail right on the head," Naruto told her then continued, "Since it's one we might as well start on this schedule."

"Well I already now how to cook, and since where out here you should teach me to hunt animals," Sakura said getting a curious look from Naruto. "What?"

"Well I thought you would pick something girly, like sewing," Naruto replied earning a glare from Sakura. "Hey I can learn whatever I want, got it," Sakura said crossing her arms.

"Yes ma'am," said Naruto giving a mock salute which made Sakura roll her eyes.

"Come, we're wasting time," Sakura said grabbing his hand and pulling him up, "Lead the way, sensei."

Naruto raised an eye brow but didn't comment and walked into the woods. For an hour he taught Sakura how to track animals. He taught her that she had to be observant; what to do when she found track, to take into account the environment, what marks on the ground and trees meant, what smells meant, and to not assume anything because it would cause her to make mistakes.

Naruto told her that all these things could be applied to tracking ninja or targets. When they found a boar he taught how to sneak up on it. "Okay Sakura, pull out some kunai and throw it from here," Naruto whispered to her. She hesitantly nodded and pulled out some knives.

Rearing her arm back she took aim, and threw her knives.

THUNK!

The knives struck the boar in its side, one going through its eye into its brain. They both went up to the boar. "Nice kill, Sakura right into the brain," Naruto said pulling out the knives, handing them back to her.

She took them, wiping the blood off, and placing them into her pouch. Naruto took out a large hunting knife and showed Sakura how to skin a boar. The he showed what to take from it.

Sakura was a bit sick from seeing Naruto open the carcass, pointing out what could be eaten. "I could've gone a long time not seeing that," she said looking green.

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(Hour Later)

"How do people not throw up at the smell?" Sakura asked still looking a little green.

"You'll get used to it, seeing lots of blood is part of being a ninja," he told her. "Now time to work on your Taijutsu."

"So we're going to work on the academy style?" Sakura asked Naruto. "Well that's the problem, I don't know the academy style but I can teach you my fighting style," Naruto said scratching the back of his head.

"Yeah I would like to learn you style," Sakura said genuinely excited about learning his fighting style.

"Alright, this style is broken into three areas dodging, redirection, and brawling," Naruto said.

"I understand dodging but what about redirection and brawling?" Sakura asked curiously.

"Listen your going to be hit eventually so learning how to take a hit redirect the energy from the attack would leave the opponent open, and brawlers hit anything anyway the can they take ever opening they can to just land a hit," Naruto explained to her then took out some kunai.

"What are those for Naruto-sensei?" Sakura said nervously.

A sadistic grin spread across his face, "I'm going to teach you how to dodge, Sakura-chan."

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(Hour Later)

"…Your…in…sane," Sakura said panting on the ground a few cuts on her arms and legs, her red dress cut up as well.

"Oh come on, wasn't that bad was it, I missed most of the time and you're pretty fast when motivated properly," Naruto said smiling as he twirled a kunai on his finger.

Naruto sat there waiting for her to catch her breath and get up. 15 minutes later Sakura got up, "Okay I'm ready for the next part."

"Good it time to practice ninjutsu, what do you know?" Naruto asked.

"I know Clone Jutsu, Substitution Jutsu, and Transformation Jutsu," she told him to which he nodded. He didn't expect her to know anymore that the academy techniques.

"You're going to practice those three techniques until their second nature, it'll reduce how much chakra you use for those techniques," he told her.

She started making hand signs, activating the Clone Jutsu, then the Substitution Jutsu; finally she used the Transformation Jutsu.

"Again," Naruto said and this is how they passed the hour.

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(Hour later)

"All right Sakura stop can't have your levels get to low," Naruto said as she stopped making hand signs and took a break.

"I…have never…been this…tired," Sakura said panting her hand on her knees. "It feels…kind of good."

"You're going to be feeling a lot more of that in the future, Sakura," Naruto told her pulling out a scroll and tossing it to her. "I suck at Genjutsu but here's a scroll on some beginner level techniques and a stronger one. You'll have to work on them on your own, because I suck at Genjutsu."

Sakura looked a little surprise that he couldn't help her, "I can however teach you how to break out of them. Your focus today will be learning Genjutsu; I teach what I know tomorrow and alternate between the two until you have it down."

"I understand Naruto-sensei," Sakura said and opened the scroll and proceeded to read. Naruto decided not to waste this time and started to work on his own project.

Sitting in a cross position he started to focus his fire elemental chakra into his hands. His hands began to turn red; heat waves could be seen coming from them. He increased the amount of chakra every ten minutes. At the thirty minute mark his hands began to burn and he cut off the chakra. 'Still can't go past the thirty minute mark, better start on wind,' he though to himself.

"Hey Naruto-sensei what was that?" Sakura asked raising an eyebrow as she looked at his hands.

"Don't worry about that, and why aren't you practicing your Genjutsu?" Naruto asked crossing his arms giving her a stern look. "Oh, sorry I just got distracted by what you were doing with your hands," She said, "But really what was that?"

"That's not important right now, get back to your Genjutsu training," he told her sternly. Sakura huffed but went back to her training, a little ticked off he wouldn't tell her. Why would he not trust her, he saved her life, she trusted him, why couldn't it be the other way around.

She looked at the scroll that contained three techniques. The first was Genjutsu: Surrounding Echo, the second was Magen: Hell Viewing Technique, and the final one was Magen: Nightmare Forest.

The first jutsu, C-rank, was used to confuse the enemies for an ambush, throwing your voice so they won't know where you're attacking from. That is the only purpose it serves and it takes more chakra for multiple targets.

The second jutsu, C-rank, showed the targets worst nightmare to them, petrifying enemies making them easy targets. If the enemy realizes they are trapped the technique can be easily broken.

The last jutsu, B-rank, was the advanced version targeting multiple enemies and placing them in a forest full of monsters that attack and wear the enemies down. This jutsu is harder to brake out of but the caster must focus hold multiple enemies.

''Wow, a B-rank jutsu, he must really believe in me,' Sakura couldn't contain the smile that broke across her face. With this new motivation she got to work learning the techniques as quickly as she could.

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(Hour later)

'She sure tore into that scroll, didn't she?' Naruto questioned the Kyuubi. "Yes, looks like she has interest in my kin's art, of course that's no surprise," the fox smugly replied. Naruto just rolled his eyes at the demon's arrogance, but that's what happens when you have a lot of power.

"Well Sakura this time would be for personal projects but since this is the first day I don't think you have anything your interested in," Naruto said picking up his cloak and started to walk out of the training field.

"Wait, Naruto-sensei there is something I'm interested in," She said making him turn around a quizzical expression on his face. "Really? Well what are interested in Sakura?" he asked making Sakura grin.

"I wanted to learn what you were doing when I was training in Genjutsu, Sensei," her grin still on her face knowing he had to tell her what she wanted to know.

'She sure is a curious girl, I guess I might as well tell her' he thought to himself, "That was a form of high level elemental training."

"What is elemental training?" Sakura asked never having heard of it. Naruto launched into an explanation that elemental training was used to increase your elemental affinity, and that it was dangerous so only Jonin did elemental training.

Of course Sakura asked what an affinity was which Naruto replied, "An elemental affinity is the element a person is attuned to. For example I have a fire affinity so learning a fire jutsu would be easier for me and it would also be stronger when I used it."

Sakura was awed that Naruto was doing this kind of training, "Wow Naruto-sensei, that's incredible! Is that what you used against Mizuki-teme?"

"Actually that's a jutsu I created on my own," he replied getting a shocked looked from Sakura. "You created you own jutsu?!"

"Yeah, the Blast Palm is actually I combination of wind and fire chakra. I pressurize oxygen into a volatile state then I ignite it with fire. Different amounts of element I get different reactions. The Blast Palm is just on of the variants I've created," he told her surprising her further.

"Can you teach me Naruto-sensei?"

"It's too dangerous for you to learn plus I doubt you have both affinities," Naruto answered making her frown, "Anyway, I've been meaning to ask, why do you call me sensei?"

"Well you are teaching me what you know, which makes me your student, so it only makes sense to call you Naruto-sensei," she replied and watched as Naruto looked at her then up the sky.

Nodding to himself he turned back to her, "Okay, I'm your sensei and you're my student lets go celebrate, my treat." At this point Sakura's stomach growled, she blushed and nodded her head. They both left the training grounds heading towards a Konoha to find somewhere to eat.

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(Hokage Office)

Nine jonin stood in the Hokage's office who called them in to discuss the team assignments. Three jonin were discussing there assigned students as they were the most controversial.

The first was a woman in a dress that seemed to be made of bandages, her right arm covered in bandages, her left covered in a red sleeve. She had crimson eyes, and black hair, she was Yuuhi Kurenai.

The other was a tall man with a beard, wearing the standard jonin uniform and a sash around his waste with the fire symbol on it. He also had a cigarette between his lips he was Sarutobi Asuma.

The last was a man wearing the standard jonin uniform, he silver gravity defying hair, a headband covering his right eye, and a mask covering the bottom half of his face. He held an open orange book up to his face, he was Hatake Kakashi.

"Kurenai you are assigned to Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuuga, and Kiba Inuzuka. Asuma your students are Chouji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara, and Ino Yamanaka. Kakashi you will be assigned Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Uzumaki Naruto. Are there any disagreements with these assignments," Sarutobi asked his hands folded in front of his face waiting to hear their comments.

Kurenai was the first to speak up, "Hokage-sama when did Haruno become a genin, I heard that she failed the exam."

"I passed her when it was found out the Mizuki failed her on purpose and she stole the Forbidden Scroll," Sarutobi replied surprising the other Jonin.

Kakashi snapped his book shut, "From the academy files she is smart but an average kunoichi, perhaps she has some promise."

"Well Kakashi, looks like you won't be passing a team this year," Asuma said smirking, "Uzumaki barely passed his exam, Haruno may be a little stronger, but it looks like Uchiha will have to wait another year."

"You should not underestimate the genin Asuma-kun, as Kakashi would say look underneath the underneath," Sarutobi said confident in Naruto's ability. He knew all about Naruto's secret training and his trips out side the village. He was no fool and his observant eyes knew many things about his village and the other villages.

"You seem to have faith in their abilities Hokage-sama, are we missing something?" Kurenai asked having a feeling that there was more to the genin than the academy files told.

"I'm sure all of you will find out what your genin are capable when you have them take your test. If there is no more to discuss, dismissed, oh, and Kakashi watch out for sparks," Sarutobi replied his cryptic message staying in Kakashi's head as all the jonin left.

When all the Jonin left the third Hokage lit his pipe and walked to the window that overlooked the village. "I wonder how strong you really are Naruto, and what is it that you needed to hide," Sarutobi thought out loud contemplating the mystery surrounding the young shinobi.

"I have a feeling my questions will be answered."

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(Unknown Location)

"So Madara you thought the higher ups would leave you to your own devices. Just like a human, young and filled with arrogance," the unknown assailant saidhis white hair an unruly mess, his green eyes showing how insane he is and a psychotic smile on his face, barefoot the stranger was wearing tattered pants, bracers, a chest plate, wielding a giant axe looked down on Madara. "This should keep that fucking Shikigami off my back."

"W-who the h-h-hell are…you?" Madara asked having difficulty breathing with the hole in his going through his ribcage and out his back. His eyes had been ripped out leaving bloody sockets and it looked ad if his right arm had been torn off. Blood pooled around his body and his armor was broken, and his legs had been shredded to stumps.

"Me, why the hell should I tell you!" the man shouted but calmed down, "It's Shikkan if you really want to know."

"What d…do you…want?" Madara asked trying to buy himself some time to escape. His thought were halted as Shikkan's axe planted it self in his stomach. The demon leaned against the handle picking his nose. "Oh me nothing big, just to DESTROY THIS ENTIRE WORLD! HAHAHAHAHAHA! You know the usual," the demon replied looking down at Madara.

"Hey you don't look to good, buddy," Shikkan said leaning down to Madara's face, "Hey pay attention!" he shouted slapping the Uchiha in the face making said Uchiha groan. "Awwww, does someone have an booboo here I know the cure," a crazed smile crossed the demon's face as he ripped his axe out of Madara's stomach and raised it above his head. "Give my regards to the Shikigami," Shikkan then slammed the axe down on Madara's neck severing the head clean off, blood spattering onto his face.

"Now nothing is going to get in my way. HehehehahahaHAHAHAHAHA," his mad laughter rang out through the mountains of Lightning Country.

"Oh boy I'm hungry wonder if there's a nice village around to grab a bite to eat, maybe a nice human or two."

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Thanks for reading I'll try and get the next chapter out as soon as possible.

This chapter came out better than I expected and I hope you enjoyed.

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