Naruto: A New Beginning
Chapter 4
As Naruto was cleaning his home he realized that the seals he made yesterday night were also ruined from the toad oil.
"Damn it! I spent all night working on those, Ero-Sennin is really gonna get it this time." And with that Naruto sped up the process with Shadow Clones while he took the time to take a shower. As he was in the shower he was contemplating his new found ability with seals.
'I remember Ero-Sennin telling me I had to be proficient in basic sealing and advanced basics if I even want to attempt my own custom seals, but after my shadow clone training shouldn't I be beyond that by now? If I can create my own seals now, then it should probably be a piece of cake to recreate my dad's Hiraishin technique.' Naruto thought with confidence. Although his logic was somewhat sound he is ignoring the important details of what Jiraiya told him yesterday, and that is faulty seals have consequences so without the proper knowledge it isn't a good idea to recreate something as advanced as the Hiraishin. The only problem to that is Naruto isn't really good at remembering those types of details yet, regardless of his great progress.
'I can probably use the Hiraishin kunai my dad left me as a basis for my own custom seal.' Naruto felt like he was on to something. 'Yeah! And all I have to do is copy his original sealing matrix and tweak to my chakra signature instead of his.' Naruto finally finished his shower and got changed in one of his spare outfits that consisted of a black shirt with the Uzumaki insignia and orange track pants, because there is never no such thing as too much orange.
Once Naruto was prepped he decided he shouldn't keep Jiraiya waiting much longer. The faster he finished today's training the faster he could see his friends. With that he disappeared in a wind shunshin from his balcony.
We currently find Jiraiya waiting impatiently for Naruto in the clearing of training ground 44 otherwise known as the forest of death.
"If this kid keeps me waiting another minute I'm gonna shove Shima's cooking down his throat." Jiraiya was still stewing in his anger of wasting time waiting for Naruto early in the morning so you can understand why he wouldn't tolerate it again.
Finally Naruto appeared in his wind shunshin with his arms crossed and a frown plastered on his face.
"So what are we doing today Ero-Sensei, some more seal work? Or lemme guess you're gonna waste my time with strategy and planning." The resentment was quite literally dripping from his tone of voice, No one would be happy with a wake-up call like that.
"You ungrateful BRAT! I was actually gonna show you something special today so depending on your performance of the next few training exercises, it's going to help me judge whether you deserve it or not." With that Jiraiya took out a sealing scroll from the inside of his red jacket and unsealed its contents. "Today's training is gonna consist of Kenjutsu and Taijutsu, I was lucky enough to find this sword at Zabuza's supposed grave when I checked out some rumors in the land of wave a while ago, and Maito Gai is going to come around when he is done with his daily exercises with his student Lee." Naruto's eyes were wide with surprise and delight as the shining hunk of sharpened steel glistened in the light.
"That's Zabuza's sword! Oh man I've always wanted to hold it, it looks so cool." Naruto's childishness always pops up from time to time, that's a habit that no one is ever gonna break.
"Yes this is the legendary swordsman of the mist blade, the reason I chose it was because of its weight and it will be a good kenjutsu exercise for you." Jiraiya said as he picked up the sword by the handle and tossed it to Naruto casually, Its quite funny looking seeing Naruto catching it and then fumbling with its weight for a bit, but eventually he got used to it. He's strong enough by himself to break boulders with his fists so he could handle the weight of a zanbatou. Jiraiya let Naruto marvel at the craftsmanship of the blade for a moment. 'It's amazing, holding this, it feels like it was just yesterday that Zabuza was trying to cleave me and my team in half with it, i can't believe I've been given the honor to train with such a special sword, i hope Zabuza doesn't mind' Naruto thought to himself with a grin.
"Alright Naruto make exactly two-hundred clones, I could feel Gai making his way here so it's time to start your training. 50 clones are gonna work on these fire ninjutsu scrolls while the other fifty are going to work on taijutsu forms with Gai. The rest of your clones are going to work with me on kenjutsu forms, I've lived through a lot Naruto so I know quite a bit on sword fighting. While your clones do all of that you're gonna work on the same exercises progressively as your kenjutsu clones pop at 10 per half an hour intervals." Naruto's eyes widened once again at the training regime he was about to go through, then his eyes transformed to that of steely determination to get stronger.
"No problem Ero-Sennin I'll get right to it." With that Naruto created the specific number of clones and got to work himself on getting a feel for Zabuza's sword. He felt kind of bad that it was taken from his grave but then he realized better for Ero-Sennin to find it then someone else with evil purposes.
Time Skip-One Week
For one entire week Naruto followed that training regime and for one entire week Akatsuki had not made any new moves yet, although it was only a matter of time until that changed.
Even though Naruto has been training for one week, that week of training equates to months due to the secondary power of Shadow Clones. He has progressed by leaps and bounds in the art of the strong fist which is Gai and Lee's preferred taijutsu style and the same with kenjutsu, although he has no specific style of fighting with Zabuza's sword he can maneuver and swing it just as well as Zabuza could. In fact it matched his unpredictable style so well that Jiraiya decided to let him keep it and now Naruto keeps the sword sealed in the palm of his right hand.
Along with those new improvements Naruto now has an arsenal of fire style ninjutsu to compliment his wind style. Jiraiya also remembered to bring up his special surprise during the training.
Flashback
"Original Naruto! Stop what you're doing for a second and come here, I got something to show you." Jiraiya said original Naruto so he wouldn't distract Naruto's clones from training.
"What's up Ero-Sensei whatcha got?" Naruto asked as curious as ever.
"Remember what I said about what level of proficiency you need to accomplish your own custom seals?" Naruto nodded rapidly, hope immediately flitting through his mind at the implications of Jiraiya's question.
"Well I think it's about time you got some practice working how to draw the sealing matrix for your dad's Hiraishin technique." Naruto couldn't help it, he screamed "YEAH!" while doing a back-flip of excitement. You can't blame him as he imagined the story's he heard of how badass his father was with that technique. "You can't recreate it just yet but you can get a feeling of understanding to how it's made." Jiraiya took out a golden scroll with the Uzumaki and Namikazi insignia's inscribed on them. "Your mother Kushina was the one who helped your father create this seal with her own excellence in the art of sealing, take care of this brat, it's basically your familial heirloom." With that Jiraiya calmly handed Naruto the Gold plated scroll.
"Awww man this is gonna be awesome, I'm gonna be just like my dad." Jiraiya didn't know it but handing Naruto that scroll was one of his worst mistakes in the history of Jiraiya's mistakes.
"Go ahead and take some time to read his notes and study the separate seals that make up the Hiraishin, it will bring you one step closer to making your own version, but remember, this is just practice, don't get any funny ideas." With that Naruto disappeared and reappeared at the base of a tree in training ground 44 and began to look through the scroll with excitement shining in his eye's.