Sorry! I was planning to get this out sooner...but I started on it, got busy, forgot about it, remembered it, had no inspiration, forgot about it again and then finally wrote it. Hope you like it!

Again thank you to all who have liked/faved/commented on this story. :)

~Kaito

I do not own Naruto. But I do forgive Kishimoto Masashi for his killing of Itachi now that I understand how the story continues.

"Naruto." the voice called as the girl he was waiting on arrived in the door way. "Are you ready to begin?"

"Hai, sensei." he replied as he stood, the girl raised an eyebrow at the change in attitude. He was subdued; however, she simply nodded before turning and leading him out of the building. As they wandered the streets the blond finally broke the silence, "Silver?" she flicked her fox ears back towards him to acknowledge him. "Will the fox here really kill me?"

The red head stopped and turned towards him, as did the few fox in the area. "Yes Naruto, they would and it wouldn't even be your fault. After all, you were only a mere child when Kyuubi was sealed within you."

"Then, why?" he asked, still very quiet.

"Because," she smiled softly, "They believe you know how to release him, but instead want to use his power for yourself." Then the girl grinned, "However, when I am finished with you, that will be different, but Kyuubi may enjoy working with you then." With that said, she continued down the road.

Naruto stood there for a moment, processing what she had said, 'Hey! Wait up!" he yelled after her as he ran to catch up.

"Again!" the red head demanded. Naruto panted heavily as he slowly rose from his position and charged at her once more. When they had arrived he had been expecting her to teach him some new jutsu or something like that, but when they reached the training fields, she said, "Kill me." He had thought she was serious and had gone about trying to talk her out of suicide. Now, he understood why she had said that. The blond threw a punch at his new sensei and as expected she caught it, allowing him to use the momentum to swing himself and bring his right leg up towards her head. The smirk was the only warning he had before he found himself falling to the ground again. The girl standing a decent ways back. "You're slowing, but you seem to have grasped the concept." she stated. He gaped at the girl, they had been out since morning and now the sun was setting. She had done very little in terms of fighting all day, simply prefering to doge.

"We've been out here all day! I haven't eaten since morning!" he yelled at the girl, who simply smirked in amusement.

"Oh?" she glanced at the sky, "Is it that late already?" she mused. "Naruto, tell me, what have you learned."

His ranting stopped when she asked this, looking at her once again. He had learned a lot from his time with the toads and being able to analyze things, he was able to understand exactly what had she was refering to. "I need to pace myself." he replied.

The girl smiled and nodded in response. "You now understand what happens when you just go straight for your powerhouse attacks first." she confirmed refering to the morning when he had immeadiately tried to attack her with a rasengan and then followed it up with a few rasen-shuriken, all of which she had blocked.

"How did you block me?" he questioned as he stared at the ground. It was nagging him, there were very few people able to completely block that jutsu and he was now wondering exactly how 1) she was able to block his jutsu, and 2) she did so without even a twitch.

Black boots appeared in his vision, causing him to look up at his new sensei, "You are familiar with sage chakra correct?" he nodded. "So you are familiar with the process of pulling the chakra around you into your own system. I did the opposite. I pushed my chakra out. This created a barrier which took the full force of your jutsu. It's impressive that you created such a dangerous weapon at such a young age." she praised. He was about to ask another question, but she stopped him, "Before you ask, I'll show you." she started raising one finger and pointing it towards a tree to his left. "Chakra can be condensed into a solid form that is harder than most substances." he saw the long spear shoot out from her outstretched finger and through the tree she was pointing at, before disappearing. "It's quite a simple process, but it takes time to master." she mused. His round orbs and open mouth spoke volumes. "I can teach you how to do that, but first you must improve your chakra control. We will continue this exersize until you can you maintain reasonable strength for this length of time. Only then will you be ready to continue." she told him before turning and starting to leave the training ground.

It took him a moment, but he fell to the ground twitching when he caught on. Leaping from his date with grass, he yelled after her, "Hey! I have to starve again!" she just continued to ignore him, causing the blond to run after her.

I know it's short, but I wanted to get something up for you all. I shall try very hard to get the next one up by this time next month. I tried to write a fight scene, but it just didn't work out so I re-wrote it. I will figure out how to write one eventually, but not for this chapter.