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"Normal speech"

"Toughs and flashbacks"

"Kyuubi"

"Inner Sakura"

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(AN): authors note

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CHAPTER 6: training, flashbacks and encounters

After walking about thirty minutes the arrived to their destination, a huge house with two floors "this is my house, it used to be an inn that's why the size, now lets get him inside".

Once inside Tazuna's daughter hurried about trying to help them with Kakashi.

The next day around mid-afternoon Kakashi finally woke up, eying the room he found Sasuke leaned to a wall brooding, Sakura guarding his body, and Naruto folding and unfolding the fumma shuriken from yesterday.

"Yo"

"Kakashi-sensei thank goodness you're okay" "yeah but with the damage I inflicted to Zabuza he should be out of commission for about two weeks so from tomorrow we'll be training or guarding the bridge" "what do you mean sensei, we all saw that hunter-nin kill him"

"It means that hunter-nin was a fake" interrupted Naruto while unfolding his weapon again

"I don't know if you noticed it but she didn't dispose of the body in the spot as the protocol states, also the needle wound Zabuza had were lethal, they just put him in a near-death state" the blond explained while keeping staring at the shuriken folding action.

The others just stood there speechless at the blond genin explanation, Sakura finally snapping out of her stupor finally asked "and exactly how do you know this baka?"

Naruto sighed; it was obvious that to her he was still the dead last "so you still see me in that way Sakura. To answer your questions: the hunter-nins are ordered to deal with the body in the spot to prevent being ambushed and get the body stolen, the main reason for this is because hunter-nins usually work alone, for the other question please Sakura" he says while pointing the senbon holster in his left leg "I am a senbon user as well and in order to use them efficiently one must learn human anatomy, with this knowledge and good aim you can hit pressure points that causes different reactions in the human body like dizziness, vertigo, near-death or even cause death if you know were to hit" after the explanation he unfolded the shuriken again.

Sasuke eyeing the weapon asked, "so what's with the shuriken dobe?" "Yeah Naruto what's that weird shuriken" "its one of my mother's weapons, its used in combination with my bloodline, but to you two its nothing but a regular shuriken" "so where is she?" asked the pink-haired girl while the other genin move to grab the mentioned weapon, seeing this the blond genin folded the weapon, slapped the raven-haired's hand and put the shuriken back in his backpack while answering in a sad tone "she died in labor, these shuriken is one of the things she left me, that's why you Uchiha cannot and will not touch it" he said the last part clearly angry of Sasuke's attempts to get the weapon.

While his team was having this discussion Kakashi was thinking while watching them "now I remember where I saw that shuriken"

Flashback:

A masked green haired woman approached the corpse of a now dead iwa spy to retrieve her fumma shuriken, then eyeing the group of genins that was staring at her she said while cleaning the blood of her weapon " so this is your famous team Arashi, I must say I'm sadly disappointed, I can't believe that a genius" she said looking at a young Kakashi "an Uchiha" now looking at Obito "and a medic-nin" looking now at Rin "were ambushed by such a low level shinobi in that pathetic excuse for a genjutsu, I really expected more" she finally said in a very obvious teasing tone, obviously trying to infuriate the boys, and for the reaction of the Uchiha, succeeding.

"Dammit woman! You just wait I activate my sharingan then ill show you" shouted the young Uchiha

"Must you always be so loud Obito, keep it down" say the clearly annoyed future copy-nin

"You shut up Kakashi, just wait and see ill show you" "ah shut up what kind of Uchiha are you? You should've activated it years ago" "why you."

"Both of you shut up! Geez you're like babies." Rin interrupted them trying to calm them but clearly annoyed for their behavior.

Seeing that her scheme worked the green haired woman started laughing in a low volume, this was after all a really comical scene, her amusement was however, interrupted by a man's voice she knew too well.

"You can be really evil sometimes Saria" she turned and smiled behind her mask to the owner of the voice before replying "look who's taking Arashi" "do you have any idea how much time its gonna take to shut them up" "maybe you should teach them discipline is not too late" and they continued the talk between laughs and hmps.

Arashi's students, finally ending their bickering they were staring at the two adults until Rin finally spoke up "hmm sensei you know her?" "Something like that Rin".

Kakashi being the genius saw the shuriken in Saria's hand "that's an interesting shuriken, where did you get it?" "It's a family thing and only the members of my clan can use it at its fullest, to you its little more than a hindrance" and with she folded the shuriken put in her back and walked to the corpse while removing his mask "Arashi I'm gonna need your help"

"Sure" and both began making seals, Saria launching her jutsu first.

Katon: kasumi engo no jutsu (fire release: covering mist technique)

The future yondaime followed with his own jutsu raiton: rai tama no jutsu

This combo of jutsus set the area of fire where the mist was incinerating the body.

"Well that takes care of it"

End of the flashback.

"Ill have to ask Naruto about that woman, maybe they are related"

"Okay now I want you to take the rest of the day, because starting tomorrow we're training"

(AN: I'm skipping (again) the scene between Gateau, Zabuza and Haku because I couldn't modify the scene and I don't feel like writing it the exact way.)

The next day Kakashi took the three genins to the forest nearby "alright today well be climbing trees without hands" and he began climbing a tree using only his feet, after the demonstration he explained everything "now you two get started use this to mark your advances" then he turned to Naruto "since you can do water-walking I can assume you can do this exercise" the blonde nodded "so you have something planned" "actually sensei I do I have some jutsus to practice so if you don't mind I'll be on my way" " sure Naruto go train" and with that the blonde went deeper in the forest and the teacher pull out a familiar orange book and started giggling.

Watching this the pink-haired kunoichi asked his sensei from a branch of the tree "sensei where is naruto going?" the mentioned without moving his gaze on the book replied "to train he already did this exercise so he's gone to do something different".

"Damn I can't believe that dead last is surpassing me, I'm an Uchiha I'm supposed to be the most powerful"

After finding a clear area in the woods Naruto proceed to look at his mother's scrolls "okay let's see the first is a c- rank jutsu looks easy enough fuuton: Daitoppa (wind release: great breakthrough)" for the next couple of hours Naruto practiced the jutsu, thanks to his bloodline it came natural to him, when he got the hang of the jutsu he moved to the next one "now the next one is. A clan jutsu! Even if it is a c- ranked one lets see uzumaki kaze buki gikou: tei senbon (uzumaki wind weapon technique: air needle) okay lets see the explanation here…. ' The idea of this technique is to condensate the air around one's hand and make something tangible to use as a weapon, the needles being the easiest to control and master, the size and denseness of the weapon vary depending on how much chakra is used, even though this technique in particular is really a d-ranked one the reason for its is because some of the clan members have known to struggle for this technique uses…"

"What! One-handed seals! Oh man I hate one-handed seals!" shouted to himself the blond while remembering the horrible and nearly traumatizing training he had to endure in the hands of Mitarashi Anko to learn them.

Flashback:

Naruto was heading in direction of the hokage tower to ask for the old man's help once again after he discovered that his clan used one-handed seals, unfortunately for him, the universe (AN: and because I feel like it) decided that today he will suffer, because you see the hokage himself was too busy to help him and it will stay in that way for a while, but the old man have a heart of gold so he find the future genin someone that can teach him the mentioned seals, Naruto of course was exited until he saw that the teacher was Anko, the poor boy shivered, and with good reason he still was recovering from the "new way of training" that Anko used on him.

After a quick explanation from Anko about what are one-handed seals and what they do they were ready to train.

"Aright twelp listen up because this is important, for some seals like dog or hare each hand mold chakra in a different manner and others like horse and tiger it doesn't matter really, now for this exercise I'm gonna tell you first a sequence for your left hand then a sequence for your right hand while you run laps around the training area, oh and don't worry about getting tired you will have all the motivation needed to complete this task" she said with a evil/maniac smirk plastered in his face "and to make sure you don't cheat I brought help" then Neji appeared from behind her, clearly pissed from the prank that the blonde played on him early in that week.

"Hello Neji by the way about that blue-dye prank no hard feelings right? I mean it was a joke besides the dye is off already" "don't worry about that Naruto I'm only here to help you" he said in a tone that betrayed his words.

Soon enough the poor blonde was running for his life being chased by a giant black snake that was trying to make him it's meal, while Anko and Neji were yelling hand seals and watching him every time he got one wrong or took to long to complete a set of seals with either of his hands he was rewarded with an extra kunai or an offensive jutsu.

After that it took Naruto one week to get out of the intensive care wing of the hospital.

End of flashback.

(AN: from now on the one-handed seals will be known as half seals, and when I use a set of these seals I'll be writing the word half and then the hand that uses it, for example: half left or half right, this for easier understanding.)

Naruto shivered at the memory and looked down to the scroll, whether he wants it or not he have to practice and master that technique for 3 simple reasons: 1. - He already brought the scroll, 2. - If Anko finds out he didn't master it she will have his head, 3. -It was needed, "well lets get this over with, now the seals are"

Half left: hare, dog, and bird.

Half right: ox, boar, and bird.

After practicing the seals for a couple of minutes the blonde decided it was time to use the jutsu for real "okay now or never first with the right" Naruto make the seals and said "uzumaki kaze buki gikou: tei senbon" and a trio of semi-transparent pale-blue needles appeared in his hand "well that was easy" (AN: for visual reference think of Jubei's needles from get backers, only not as shiny, more transparent and not as bulky).

"Now for the left" he made the seals and said the name of the technique again, now the blonde was holding air needles in both hands "well that was easy, better practice just to be safe" he shivered at the thought of going trough Anko's special training again.

Feeling satisfied with the jutsu he decided to take a look at his father's scroll " now lets see, principles and basics of sealing" 'the members of the Kazama clan are expert sealers and for that reason I sense it's important that you son learn to make properly, a seal is a painted symbol then fusing it with the precise amount of chakra for the desired effect. This can be used in paper but some people uses other materials to write in them, or even their bodies, they are a lot of seals, while some of them can be used to enhance physical attributes like speed or strength, others can be used to restrain them, for example there are seals that restrain someone from molding chakra or eats away his stamina or his mental energies, these last types of seals are often used in criminals or shinobis that are sent to prison in order to prevent them from escaping, also being a clan specialty you can seal anything in a scroll without the need of a sealing scroll (AN: in this story a non-Kazama needs a special scroll to seal something in it)'

After reading the explanation and noticing that he can't practice sealing due to the lack of materials for that task he decided to call it a day after all it was getting dark and he didn't want to miss dinner.

Back at the house they began to eat dinner, happily chatting and joking with each other, Tazuna joined them at the table and joined in on the fun. The little boy at the table got frustrated at their goofiness.

"Why are you guys so happy? Its no point how hard you train their will always be someone stronger than you." His mother scolded her son.

"Inari stop." Naruto decided to speak his piece.

"That's why we train, we protect others, I really don't know what happened to you but you need to stop crying and move forward with life."

"Shut Up, You have no idea what I've been through or how much I've suffered!"

And with that, everything went to hell.

"You said you suffered Inari don't be a baby you at least have family do you know what is being hate for something you didn't do or have control of, being rejected by other kids or being beaten up almost every day, being mistreated or even been unable to sleep at night for the fear that someone will try to kill you, being unable to even buy groceries or even walking down the street, or even worse not even have a chance to meet your parents in person, or even claim to be their son without being mocked or beaten up, and you know what's worse Inari, that with counted exceptions all my village is like that with me, its almost a rule to treat me like garbage, so stop crying and grow up"

Inari was frozen in fear and weeping because the scolding, the blonde only got up and excuse himself of the table "sorry Tsunami Chan but I'm not hungry anymore, sensei I'm going out for a while don't wait for me" and with that he got out of the house.

The pink haired girl was feeling guilty the whole time her teammate spoke, why wouldn't she? After all she indeed have treated him like trash and in that moment she realized that she really didn't know him, that she only treated him that way because she didn't want to be "left out" of her group of friends, when she realized that Naruto was leaving she snapped out of her stupor and stand up to follow him, only to be stopped by Kakashi "leave him be Sakura he needs time" and with that said he went to talk to Inari who was just leaving to the upper floor.

(AN: I'm skipping the part when Kakashi speaks with Inari and the part where Tazuna told them about Inari's dad, mainly because this chapter have too many flashbacks)

In the forest one pissed off Naruto was doing the only thing he could come up with, three climbing, running up and down on the largest three he could find while muttering curses under his breath, finally several hours later the exhaust genin stopped and fall asleep in the grass.

After a couple of minutes he woke up in what's look like to be a sewer, after inspecting the surroundings he started to have a feeling of dread and that someone or more accurate something was calling him, following the feeling he found himself in front of a huge gate that was closed with a simple piece of paper with the word seal written on it suddenly a pair of crimson feral eyes opened and looked at him with interest scrutinizing the blond, suddenly a powerful voice spoke.

"Hmp, you're finally here brat"

"Where are we"?

"Hmp you're not very smart if you didn't notice we are in your mind"

"Then that means you're Kyuubi"

"So you do have some brain actually, yes I am the great Kyuubi no Kitsune"

"So fuzz ball why am I here"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT PATHETHIC HUMAN! You're here because you pass out due to the lack of chakra and I had to save your sorry ass"

"Aww I didn't knew you cared for me"

"I don't but if you go I go so had to, besides you tapped in my power recently so this meeting was inevitable"

"So that was the weird feeling when I had that argument with Inari"

"That weird feeling as you ignorant call it was the beginning of my chakra leaking into your body also now I can start giving you more chakra, because even if you're an idiot you have guts and determination and I respect that, besides I don't want to get killed"

"Sooooo what's the catch?"

"Rip the last fifth of that blasted seal that way I can see, hear and feel the same things that you and besides it will give me someone to talk to this place is so damn lonely"

"Why should I, after all you said yourself if I got angry enough I can tap into your chakra so unless you have another bargain chip ill be on my way"

"Well there is a couple of things I was planning to give them to you later but I guess its okay now, the firs I can give you is help with your father's bloodline not many knows this but I'm probably the only one alive that ever saw your father use it to its fullest, and the second is elemental proficiency I can help you develop the other elements beside lighting and wind, so do you think that's enough"

"I can understand the first but why help with the elemental jutsus"

"Because I'm the spirit of fire, and if I help you then you can move on from pathetic excuse for a Katon jutsu and move to something more suitable for the vessel of the great Kyuubi no Kitsune, as for the rest of the elements think of it as a bonus"

"Is not pathetic, is a support jutsu" but the blonde knew that Katon: kasumi engo no jutsu wasn't a real offensive jutsu, sure it was great for setting up traps but he knew the fox in a way right, "fine and when we go back to konoha I'll think of something in return for the proficiency"

"Fine but for now rip that seal as I told you"

The blonde did as the demon told him and rip the last part of the seal at which the fox only smirked "now brace yourself this might sting a little" "what do you mean by that" an instant later in floor of the sewer screaming in pain, the experience was too much and he passed out.

"Rest brat you earned it"

Haku the hunter-nin was now in the forest picking medicinal herbs to help cure Zabuza, and that worried her to no end, after all Zabuza was the strongest man she ever knew besides her father, and the fact that he was left in a state that she actually had to save him it was troubling, and not to mention that the "cute blonde boy" as she likes to call him saw that she actually was there to help Zabuza made the matters worse, while the girls thoughts were wandering about the mentioned genin she actually came across with him, she found him lying on the floor asleep, after inspecting him her eyes went to his left leg where his headband was tied and before she could do anything the boy woke up startling the girl.

"Wow he's really cute, no dammit I have to stop thinking about that" "hello what are you doing here"

Naruto still a little groggy turned around to see a girl staring at him with interest "nothing just training I guess I fell asleep" "you should be more careful or you could catch a cold" "nah I never got sick, besides I didn't know you cared" "hmp maybe I shouldn't, after all I don't even know" the blonde finally really awake noticed the rather pouting face that the black-haired female was making and said "you know you look cute when you do that" the girl after hearing the comment just blushed and thanked the boy.

Remembering the moments before the last comment Haku asked him "why are you training you seem strong" "I want to be even stronger so that I can become the Hokage, and to make people acknowledge me also to protect the people I care about"

"So, you train because of your precious people?" the girl said.

"Huh?" Naruto replied

"When you have people precious to you, you become stronger when you fight for them." The girl explained and Naruto remembered the persons that were precious to him.

"I know what you mean" Haku just smiled at comment to her the boy already left a good impression.

"Then you will be strong" and after finishing picking herbs she left.

After stretching Naruto decided to do some training deciding to test his newly acquired proficiency over the elements, " okay lets start big" and begun a familiar sequence of hand seals boar, horse, tiger and gathering his chakra in his lungs he called the name of the jutsu " Katon: goukakyu no jutsu (fire release: grand fireball)" creating a nice sized fireball on his very first try "not bad now lets try a suiton jutsu" and went to a lake nearby, after making the seals he shouted " Suiton: Kaihodan (Water release: Pressure Cannon)." This caused a strong jet stream of water is blasted out of the lake and hit a tree near by splintering it "hmm not bad" "still you should finished the scrolls you brought with you brat" "Kyuubi where are your voice coming" "from your head moron, remember what I told you about the seal, now we can talk in your head you just think and I will listen" "okay I get it" and he started studying the last scroll " a defensive jutsu, fuuton: kaze Tate no jutsu (wind release: wind shield technique) it said that this jutsu can be modified in the heat of the battle with the uzumaki bloodline now lets try it" and Naruto began practicing the jutsu, after the practicing a couple of hours he got the jutsu, but due to the fact that he still haven't awoken his blood line he couldn't modify it. When he finished he went home, after all it was almost noon, his teammates were slightly worried.

"Where the hell were you and what happened to your face?" asked a concerned Sakura.

"Huh what are you talking about" and he went to check his face in a mirror, noticing that the whiskers in his face had practically disappeared he asked the fox "what happened" "the seal" was his only replied.

(AN: I'm skipping until naruto helps Inari because this is a way too long chapter)

And after helping the boy and his mother the genin hurried to the bridge, not really realizing what forces this will disturb.

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AN: okay another chapter, I have to tell you this was a really long one and its possible I never do one this long ever again, and finally I forgot to put Kin in the poll as well, sorry my bad, also I had a request for an oc that will appear in later chapters and since it was my fault I'm expanding the time limit to vote for the pairing to after the Tsunade retrieval mission.

Also the votes right now are looking like this:

Oc.- 1

Temari.- 2

Haku.- 2

Ino.- 2

Ten-Ten.- 1

Sasame. - 1

So see you around and please review flames however are not accepted.