"This sucks", I said as I failed to draw a perfect seal for the 50th time today. Why couldn't the Kyuubi teach me a more orthodox way on how to improve my writing?
"Oh stop whining. I can teach you how to write properly with more orthodox methods but that would take too long. This way you'll learn much faster and maybe you'll be able to use it in battle soon."
"I can't just write a perfect seal on instinct", I said a bit angry with how this was going. You'd think that learning to write would be easy for a ninja. With this thought, I made up a new saying 'Never judge a skill by it's cover'.
"Listen, you need to look within yourself. You're genetically programed to be able to do this! You just have to act on that instinct."
"Easier said than done. And why can't my shadow clones help with this again?"
"For the last time, your shadow clones are made of 'Your' chakra, but they don't have 'Your' god damn DNA!"
With sigh I decided to try again. I closed my eyes trying to look within myself like the Great Kyuubi No Kitsune instructed. I didn't know when it happened but I fell into a deep meditation. When I did, I could see a hand writing on a paper making the seal I had tried to write. I wasn't sure what type of seal it was, the Kyuubi wouldn't say, but it looked oddly familiar. The seal was close to being finished, I didn't know how I knew that but I did. Disturbing my meditation was the sound of people talking to each other. It was soft at first but it gradually grew louder until it sounded like someone yelling.
"MY MOTHER DIED TOO!" came a voice that sounded a lot like Hikari's. As sad as that sounded right now I didn't give a fuck about her dead mother. I was so close, so fucking close to finding out how to act on my instinct. A tick mark appeared on my head as the yelling continued. Having enough of it, I got up and stick my head through my room door before shouting.
"WILL YOU TWO SHUT THE FUCK UP. IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE, DO IT OUTSIDE. NOT IN THE DAMN HALL WAY!"
Two faces turned around in shock at my outburst. One was Hikari's and the other was that guard that I had to fight when we arrived. Noticing who shouted at him Akiro scowl at me before storming out the hallway. Hikari on the other hand was more polite.
"S-sorry for disturbing you", she said before she quickly went in her room and slammed the door. Whatever they were talking about must have been personal because she had tears running down her face. With a sigh I was about to go back in my room before someone shouted at me.
"Naruto! How could you say that!" Ino said as she came out her room. She was no doubt eavesdropping on their conversation. I wasn't surprised by that at all. She did have a reputation as a gossip queen back in Konoha.
"What do you want now Ino", I said. Why did everyone feel like interrupting my training today? Ino walked pass me and went straight into my room before pulling me in and closing the door.
"That was very rude of you. How could you say that to a person grieving over their dead mother." I stared at Ino blankly not even slightly entertained by this. I wasn't in the mood for this at all. They interrupted my training, which by the way I was training so I could defeat the people terrorizing their village but they decided to interrupt me to argue about their dead mother. If I were them I'd kill the bastard who killed my mother and move on.
"Easily, by moving my lips and using my tongue. Now If you don't mind, I need to get back to my training." I said ushering Ino out the door. Once she was out I closed the door in her face. "Troublesome woman", I whispered under my breath before going back to mediating.
"Well that was interesting. It seems like that civilian you seem to be attracted to has some history with that orange haired human", said Kyuubi.
"So what? That doesn't help me with my training now does it!"
"Is that you or the jealousy speaking?" I sighed knowing how this was going to go. I knew I didn't like Hikari and he did too but if it annoys me, he'd do anything. Cutting off our mental link, I went back to training. I was able to get into a deep meditative state once more. I was able to see the same hand writing a seal on paper once more but just like before, I was rudely interrupted... again!
My door was opened an in came Kakashi. "Ahh Naruto its good to see you awake", came Kakashi's cheery voice. My eyebrow was twitching in annoyance. "Can't a person train in peace!" I thought as I replied to Kakashi.
"Do you need something sensei?"
"Were having a training session together with team ten." Not this again. I didn't enjoy the company of Konoha shinobi at all. I'd much rather stay in my room, train, and talk to the fifty foot demon inside my head.
"I didn't know you enjoyed our conversations."
"Not now fur ball."
"I'll get ready", I said as I unsealed my luggage. Opening my bags I got out a clean pair of my ninja clothes. Once I got what I needed I quickly sealed my stuff back into its scroll. Ushering Kakashi out the room I quickly changed my clothes and put on my ninja sandals. It seems like I'll never get to train in private. With a sigh I walked out my room.
I walked out of the hallway and into the living room to see everyone eating breakfast in the couches. Seeing everyone eating made my stomach grumble as I finally noticed just how hungry I actually was.
"You might want to eat something kid, we'll be heading out shortly", said Asuma before he took a bite out of his sandwich. Noticing a plate full on bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches resting on a counter, I quickly took two before I took a seat next to Shikamaru. I was surprised to see him actually eating instead of sleeping. But when you think about it, he has to eat sometimes or else he'd die.
"I thought the whole sparring thing was so you could give us a personal training schedule so we can train in 'Private", I said putting emphasis on the word private. I really didn't care about the whole training schedule but I want to train by myself.
"It was", Asuma said after he swallowed what was in his mouth.
"So why are we having another group training session like we did yesterday?" I asked confused.
"We are going to give you your private training schedule but since Kakashi and I notice something you all needed help on, well everyone except Sakura that is, we decided to have one more group session."
Wait...my ears must not be working today because I swear I just heard him say that I needed help doing something that Sakura god damn Haruno could do! I stared at Asuma waiting to see if he was joking or not only to receive no outward reaction. This had to be some sort of joke!
"Calm down kit. He's not wrong but he's not entirely right either." Deciding to listen to the millennium old demon inside me I took deep breathes calming myself down before replying.
"What do you mean?"
"What he means is that all of you don't have very good chakra control and use more chakra than needed when you use your Justus. I noticed that problem during your spars also. But that pink haired girl doesn't because she has near perfect chakra control."
"Your lying. To have near perfect chakra control at our age she'd have to be a genius!"
"Not exactly. You see her chakra reserves are so small and that makes it easy to control. I've met animals who aren't even summons that have more chakra than hers. You'd have to be mentally retarded to not be able to control that little chakra."
"What about me, do I use way more chakra than needed when doing my Justus?"
"More than the others in fact." I frowned at that revelation. Was my chakra control really that bad? I thought the tree climbing exercise would at least make me up to par in that area.
"Don't worry yourself kit. Your chakra control is up to par, at least for someone your age, but your chakra reserves aren't. There too huge for you to be able to control at your skill level. Plus I don't see you using all that chakra up all at once, and if by some chance you do, you still have my chakra to use."
Deciding not to dwell on it too much I quickly finished my sandwiches. Looking around I noticed that I wasn't the only one who was disturbed by this information. Sasuke frowned, Ino looked shocked, and Choji hesitated before putting a chip in his mouth. Heck even Sakura looked surprised before she quickly replaced her shocked expression with a smug one. Surprisingly though, nobody argued.
We all ate in a comfortable silence until we were done with our breakfast. Once done we all left the house with Hikari tagging along as usual. Strangely, instead of taking us to that training ground we sparred at last time, Kakashi and Asuma escorted us outside the village and into a forest near by. If the Kyuubi was right then I was beginning to figure out what this training session was going to be about.
They were going to teach us the tree climbing exercise. I sighed knowing that I already mastered this exercise. So once again my training was interrupted for nothing. I kept quiet, deciding on waiting until the exercise was introduced before I said anything.
Ten minutes after traveling through the forest we came across some 'REALLY' huge trees. These tress look like the result of giving plants steroids. They were really wide taking up a lot of space and with their height added on, they were quite a site.
"Okay, today we'll be learning how to climb tress", Kakashi said once we all settled down. Everyone looked confused except for me because I knew what Kakashi meant. Sakura decided to raise her hand like an academy student and waited until Kakashi called on her.
"But Kakashi-sensei, we all know how to climb a tree."
"Of course you do Sakura, but can you climb a tree without your hands?", said Kakashi looking smug. What a show off. "Asuma could you demonstrate for us", Kakashi continued. Asuma shoved his hands in his pockets before walking up the tree like it was a flat surface.
"That's Impossible!", Sakura exclaimed as she watched Asuma's demonstration. Ino also look surprised at this which made me sweat drop. They've seen a person spit fire, control shadows, and turn themselves into a human boulder and a man walking up a tree is what surprises them. Ino could go inside people's mind for heavens sakes!
"Actually, it isn't impossible. By channeling chakra into your feet you can stick to surfaces", Kakashi said.
Ino raised her hand and waited until Kakashi called on her before she asked him a question like Sakura did."Kakashi-sensei, Asuma said everyone but Sakura needed this training but she doesn't seem to know it", Ino said trying to point out that Sakura needed this too.
"It'll be easier to show you rather than explain. Sakura can you channel chakra into your feet before climbing this tree", Kakashi asked Sakura. Sakura look worried but complied anyway. Walking up to the tree Asuma walked up, she channeled chakra into her feet before placing one foot on the tree. Sakura quickly placed her other foot on the tree before walking up the tree slowly. With each step she took Sakura got more confident.
"Hey! This is pretty easy", Sakura said. Sakura walked up the tree with ease going even higher than Asuma did before she went and stood on a branch looking winded. I know Kyuubi said that she had near perfect chakra control but seeing her do what took me three days to master on her first try was Impressive.
I wasn't the only one impressed. Sasuke looked shocked before he quickly covered it up with a stoic expression. Ino was also surprised by Sakura's skills, her mouth hanging open slightly as she watched.
"Troublesome", said Shikamaru with a yawn.
"B-But how?! She didn't even know that was possible before today! Yet she's doing like its nothing", Ino exclaimed.
"You see Ino, Sakura's chakra control is almost perfect", Kakashi said with an eye smile. All the genins were amazed by this. Ino was staring at her rival with admiration and so was everyone else except Sasuke and I. I could tell Sasuke was impressed but of course he wouldn't show it.
"You hear that Sasuke-kun! I have perfect chakra control", Sakura exclaimed from up the tree.
"I said near perfect chakra control", Kakashi corrected. Kakashi was about to continue before Sakura cut him off.
"If I already know how to do this exercise, what am I going to be doing sensei?" Sakura asked.
"You see Sakura the only reason you have such good chakra control is because... well... your chakra reserves are pathetic. Your chakra reserve grows when you exercise your body, like when your trying to get muscle. But because of your lack of exercise unlike the rest of academy students your chakra reserves got smaller instead of bigger."
Sakura's face fell at this revelation. After all the praise she was getting about having good chakra control only for them to drop a bomb saying it was only because her chakra reserves were pathetic. It was the cold hard truth though. Walking as far up the tree as she did drained her chakra. It was funny really, it almost had me laughing...almost.
Seeing Sakura's down expression Kakashi quickly reassured her. "Don't worry Sakura. Asuma and have a training schedule prepared to help you, but for today we want you to run up and down this tree. And I mean going all the way to the top", Kakashi said as he pointed up the tree causing Sakura to look up.
I looked up also and I guess the other's did too. The top of the tree wasn't visible from the ground, and I doubt Sakura could see it from her position either. Sakura gulped looking at the height of the tree. Shakily raising her hand and pointing up Sakura stuttered, "U-UP T-There!" Kakashi gave Sakura a nod before he eye smiled at her.
"Don't worry, we'll catch you if you fall", Asuma reassured her before he blew smoke out his mouth. With all that happened I almost forgot the fact that I knew this exercise already. Deciding to that now was the best time to announce that I could do the tree climbing exercise I raised my hand. I mean... everyone else was doing it.
"I learned this exercise before", I said once Kakashi called on me. Kakashi gave a skeptical look before asking me to prove it. With all eyes watching me I walked up to one of the trees before walking up it easily. I decided to go higher than Sakura just to get the point across.
"So sensei", I said hanging upside down from a branch, "what will I be learning today?"
After getting over his shock, Kakashi looked over at Asuma who smirked at him. I frown knowing what that look was. That was a 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking' type of look. And trust me, nothing good came out of that look.
Focusing back on me, Kakashi gave me an eye smile before saying, "Naruto your job is to watch over everyone and help those who need help." Staring at Kakashi I couldn't help but imaging him with an evil smirk on his face. "Oh and the personal training schedule are in here. Hand them out to those who complete their training," Kakashi said as he threw a scroll at me before he and Asuma shunshined away, giving me no time to protest.
Catching the scroll I jumped off the branch and landed on the ground. Everyone was staring at me as if waiting for instructions. Annoyed, I yelled at them, "What are you waiting for!? Get to work!" With that everyone attempted to walk up the tree except for Shikamaru who decided to observe the others and learn from their mistakes. Great... just great. My training was interrupted multiple times and now Kakashi and Asuma decided to dumb their work on me.
Taking a seat on the ground I sighed. I've been doing that a lot today. "I hate my life sometimes."
"Hey, at least you still have me here to talk to."
"Thank you Kyuubi, you just made my day", I thought sarcastically.
"Thank you, I try." I mentally rolled my eyes at the Kyuubi's smart remark. Feeling another presence near by I turned around to see Hikari sitting next to me.
"Hey", Hikari said.
"Do you need something?" Okay, That sounded less rude in my head.
"Not really, sorry for bothering you", Hikari said as she started to get up. I know I wasn't the nicest person in the world but I wasn't a jackass like Sasuke was.
"I'm sorry", I said causing Hikari to pause, "I'm just having a bad day." Turning around Hikari sat beside me again. Hikari and I sat in silence watching everyone fail at climbing the tree. There was one point where Sasuke was sent flying much like I did when I first tried which got Hikari laughing.
"Naruto-san, when did you learn this exercise?" Hikari asked.
"Back in my village while I was training to be a ninja at the academy."
"Then why'd don't the others know this?"
"Well you see, I found this exercise in a library. They didn't teach it in the academy." Hikari gave me a nod of understanding before focusing back on the training genins. A slightly serious expression came across Hikari's face before she asked me a personal question.
"Why'd you become a ninja?"
"To be able to protect myself."
"Not because you wanted to protect your village or your family?"
"I don't have a family and I hate my village." I could see Hikari frown, unsatisfied with my reply. Having answered Hikari's questions I felt like it was time for me to ask the questions.
"What would you do with power?" I asked. Hikari looked surprised at the question. Finally getting over her shock Hikari replied.
"I'd protect people precious to me. I lost my mother in one of the bandits raids. The pain of losing someone precious is something I don't want to go through again." The pain of losing someone precious is something I didn't understand. I couldn't sympathy's with Hikari not really having any precious people. I guess the old man, Iruka, and the Ichiraku's are my precious people. I'd go insane if I didn't have these people in my life, no seriously without them I would only have a dark side who enjoys killing people.
Many people fell into depression after losing someone precious to them. Tsunade the legendary sannin left the village because she lost her brother and lover to war. I didn't believe that I'd breakdown if someone I loved died but just to be safe, I made a mental note to remember to protect my precious people. Still, I doubt I'd have to do that. The old man had personal ANBU protecting him plus he is the Hokage, the strongest man in the village. Iruka is a academy teacher so he doesn't go in the field and the Ichiraku's are safe within the village walls.
"A very admirable thing to do", I said as I looked at Hikari. Hikari blushed in embarrassment at my praise.
"Anyone would do it", Hikari said trying to brush off the compliment.
"I wouldn't. I grew up by myself really so I didn't think I had any precious people but when I think about it, there's four people I wouldn't want to see die." I could see Hikari giving me a sympathetic look. There were only four people in my life that ever looked at me that way. This made me gain respect for Hikari. Noticing that I revealed a lot about myself I decided to change the topic.
Hikari and I continued to talk for awhile, getting to know each other better. We became friends, at least I think we did. I knew what a friend was but I never had one so I wasn't sure.
Everyone's training went fine. Other than saving Sakura when she fell from the tree, which should have been Asuma's job, I didn't do much. No one asked for my help so my job was easy. With the sun setting and everyone's chakra exhaustion, we decided to call it a day. Arriving at Hikari's house, I finally got to continued my training.
AT THE SINS HIDEOUT WRATH POV
I looked down at the six members of my organization with a blank face. Lust, Envy, Greed, Gluttony, Pride, and lastly Covetousness. We were finally reunited and wasted not time in planning on how to destroy Xertisque.
Below Xertisque was a temple that had a treasure that I have dedicated my life on finding. The Dragon summoning contract was hidden in that temple. A Legendary summon was something most of the world didn't know about. They were all scattered around the world and hidden skillfully by our ancestors.
Summoning contracts like the Dragon, Phoenix, and Minotaur all existed. These creatures of mas destruction were once used by ninja's as summons but unlike other summons, these beast didn't work with the person who summoned them.
In fact, to use these creatures as a summon you had to forcefully control them. With no one being strong enough to control them and the creatures retaliation to the attempts made, we had no choice but to seal them away.
Xertisque was held hostage by a dragon for Centuries. This dragon was no other than the king of all dragons. They worshiped the dragon in an attempt to please the beast enough to spare their lives. It work as the beast spared them so long as they did everything it asked. While living to please the dragon the people of Xertisque plotted against their God.
Using the gold from their village, the people of Xertisque built a temple underground for their Dragon/God. The temple was really a sealing ground in disguise. After asking the Uzumaki for help, this is what they were instructed to do. The Dragon lived in the temple for years without knowing this fact, fuinjustu being an art many couldn't grasp. After letting the dragon get used to his home the people of Xertisque turned on him.
One night while the beast was a sleep Xertisque's people snuck Uzumaki warriors into the temple where they proceeded to seal the dragon into the temple. Normally such a powerful creature could only be sealed into a living creature but this temple was specially made to be able to hold the beast. This was something not easily done, and the requirements had to be perfect. A being as powerful as a tailed beast can't be sealed into an object.
No, they would easily get out. But because the Dragon was not as strong as a Tailed Beast is what made this feat possible. Although the dragon wasn't as strong as a tailed beast, their numbers made them just as dangerous. The temple was skillfully created with the help of the Uzumaki with seals to help keep the beast inside. Basically it would have to break free from multiple seals to ever be free.
With the Dragon king seal off, so was the contract with the dragons. Once I took over Xertisque I am going to get the second half of the scroll and find out the entrance to the temple and unseal the Dragon King before I control him and become the first person to ever have the Dragons summoning contract.
"When do we attack", asked Pride as he stood there staring at me with his cold eyes and crossed arms. Pride stood tall at 6'3 wearing a long sleeve black shirt. His pants were black also along with his glove, ninja sandals, and coat that went down all the way to his feet. He had spiky black hair and cold black eyes.
"We'll be attacking in one weeks time", I said answering Pride's question.
"What's the plan", Envy asked.
"We'll be attacking much like we did last time. We'll split up in groups taking a certain amount of bandits with us to one side of the village. This way we can separate the genins and take them out easily. Their best chance of beating us is using teamwork, take that away and they'll fall easily. I will take out the copy ninja. If you don't encounter a genin, take out Xertisque's guard before heading to the chief's office and find the other half of the scroll."
Having said what I needed to I waited to see if there was any questions.
"What about the Jinchuriki. Surely he'll be a problem", Greed asked. Turning around to look at Envy I asked him a question.
"Can I trust you to take care of him using you know what?"
"I'll try", Envy said as he brought his hand up to his neck.
"Anymore questions?" I asked as I looked down at the members of The Sins. Everyone stayed silent. Taking that as a yes, I left the room.
HIKARI'S HOUSE NARUTO POV
My eyes shot open as my hands quickly grabbed a piece of paper and a brush. Dipping the brush in the ink, I quickly drew a seal on the paper. Looking a the perfectly drawn seal I couldn't help but smile. It took me all day to be able to do draw this seal.
"I finally did Kyuubi."
"Took you long enough, anyway...now we can move forward."
"You know for an instinct, that was pretty hard to act on", I said in my defense.
"That's because unlike normal Uzumaki's who were born with the ability to draw that seal you just recently gained your Uzumaki bloodline, hence the reason why you had to unlock that instinct", Kyuubi explained.
"What is this seal anyway?"
"It's a resistance seal. You can seal your chakra into it. You see with the amount of chakra control you have you'll barely be able to do most seals. So we'll seal off half your chakra so you'll have better control."
Nodding my head I looked down at the seal I drew. It had the kanji for Power in the middle with four slashes making a tilted square that almost looked like a diamond around it. On each slash was two lines that connect creating a triangle on the slash. Also connecting to the lines was a bigger slash much like the ones the lines were on. This happened on all side.
The seal was hard to describe, it being very complicated. Yet, it seems to make perfect sense to me how it works. There were other things that branched off of the part that I described that went down the paper.
"How do I seal my chakra inside this again?"
"You'll have to draw the seal again but this time on your body. Once done, focus your chakra to the body part that has the seal drawn on it which will activate the seal."
Doing Exactly what Kyuubi instructed as usual I drew the seal on my left arm since I was a right handed. Once I channeled chakra into my hand the seal activated. It started to glow blue as the huge slashes started spinning rapidly. Black lines branched off the seal before spreading all over my body.
I could feel my chakra being drained as the lines started to go back into the seal. I smirked as the seal stopped glowing showing that the seal was done.
"Now let me give you your actually training schedule. You'll have fifty clones practice chakra control while another fifty try and master all the Justus's in your arsenal. In the mean time you and I will practice fuinjustu."
Being too tired to ask any questions I nodded dumbly before jumping in bed.
I know I failed to describe the seal so once I figure out how to either post a link or the picture on my profile I'm sorry to say you'll have to deal with my sucky summary. My notes will also be written like this now. Ja ne
