Chapter 3: Training Begins
The next morning Naruto woke up wondering if everything was a dream. Then he took in everything around him. A new bedroom. In other words a new house. So everything was true. His parents... the Kyubi... Everything. It still hurt but he'd get over it. Next time though he'd meet Sandaime he'd have a word with him about it all. Slowly getting up he changed clothes as apparently he slept without changing into his pajamas (remember Ryu was the one to get him to bed. He didn't undress him cause that would wake him up). After changing he went out of the room to be assaulted by the smell of breakfast cooking. Remembering his hunger he quickly got to the kitchen to find Ryu cooking as he was slowly humming a song. Ryu was currently wearing just a pair of trousers and a shir with his two swords strapped to his back.
"Ohayo Naruto? Finally up eh? Thought I'd have to wake you up before lunch hehehehe." Ryu didn't even turn around to speak to Naruto. Naruto was kind of surprised but then again jiji said he was very strong.
"Umm yeah. How did you know it was me Ryu-niisan?"
"Well first of all don't call me nii-san. I have not earned it. Just call me sensei. As for how I knew, I identified your chakra signature. Its unique to everyone, so if you know someone's signature you can easily track them. Now go to the eating hall to eat. We have some things to discuss. If I'm going to train you, I'll have to know what you can do. Oh and if you want a shower it can wait."
Naruto went sat at the table waiting for his new sensei to get the breakfast. After a filling breakfast of eggs and bacon, Ryu asked him what he could do. Unsurprisingly he was pissed off again.
"Naruto tell me the truth. Has ANYONE ever tought you ANYTHING in the academy? No lies please."
"Umm not really. Most teachers ignored me so I copied everyone else. Only that new teacher Iruka started to teach me but I still don't understand anything."
"I see. Well come on let's see your taijutsu and accuracy skills. Hmm now how do I prank a bunch of stupid teachers? Hmmm I'll have to think a bit on that one, I'm out of my pranking shape"
Naruto just gaped at his teacher. Seriously what kind of sensei ever wanted to prank? Meanwhile Naruto was asking to be taught cool amazing justus only to have his sensei answer not yet. After getting to the training area Naruto took his taijutsu/brawling stance only to see his sensei facepalm.
"So... I guess I suck at taijutsu eh?"
"Yeah you do. Hey don't look so defected Naruto. Its better this way in a sense. I won't be teaching you a taijutsu style anyway. Instead I'll teach you how to fight. When to attack and when to defend. Where and how to hit where it hurts. Personally I look down upon those that use a certain style of taijutsu. In my eyes it limits them. Instead I'll teach you things from all taijutsu styles so you'll combine them and make your own style ok? You might want to learn your mother's taijutsu style. Its nice and fits your rather... explosive personality. Now for shuriken and kunai."
Naruto picked up some shuriken and kunai and threw them at the targets.
*Sigh* "I see. You actually have accuracy but your stance is way off again. I'm guessing you practiced a lot to get this accuracy right? Damn I was thinking of punishing those idiots with a prank or two but now I gotta restrain myself from going in there jutsus blazing and level the place. Alright nothing that can't be fixed. It'll just take time. Hmm too much time... I wonder... Hey Naruto can you summon up as much chakra as you can while comfortable? Don't use a jutsu, just mold as much as you're comfortable with. I want to check how much you actually have."
Naruto nodded and put his hands on the ram handseal. Chakra flared around Naruto and started growing. And growing. And growing. It became a visible flame around Naruto. Ryu just watched at the flaring power. Naruto's chakra flared in an unbelievable amount for a gennin, hell an unbelievable amount for jounins, before it stopped. Naruto just looked at his sensei and said:
"Umm this is as high as I can get it. After that it kinda feels weird at my stomach. Sensei? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Heh. Heheh. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What... WHAT IDIOTS! They call you a dead last? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is so retarded." Ryu just laughed at Naruto.
"Err... yeah. Why?"
"Cause kid you're not a dead last. You have about as much chakra as I do if I remove my restraints. What bloody idiots. They have a prodigy and they concern themselves with that stupid inbred looser? HAHAHAHA! Well Naruto, how about we show them just who the real genius is eh?"
"Sensei how about you make in plain to me?"
*Snort* "These idiots at the academy concern themselves with that idiotic Uchiha while they ignore you. Well it sucks for them cause I'm calling dibs on the real genius. You. You probably don't realize it but you have more chakra than Sandaime. Heck you have as much chakra as I do and you're half my age. If I were to train you, you'll probably become the most dangerous shinobi out there. Now how about I start training you in some real ninjutsu? None of the stupid academy crap. Well except Kawarimi and Henge. But bunshin? come on its useless. Instead I'll teach you some real jutsu. Now here's a trick. I'll teach you a jutsu that'll speed up our training. Its called Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Don't complain kid. There's a reason you can't do the normal bunshin. You just pump too much chakra in it. In other words use it too well. Well this jutsu though is different. You can pump in as much as you want and it'll never fail. Come on now try it. Oh and best of all; it only needs one hand seal. Now come on try it."
"Umm ok. KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" yelled Naruto after molding some chakra. Well some for him but probably more than most chuunin have altogether.
*POOF* A bunch of perfect clones of Naruto appeared.
"Now Naruto tell me do you feel any tired? Well this is a Kinjutsu of jounin level. Do you realize that you summoned up about one hundred clones? Most chuunin would have died by summoning up all these. Now here's the cool thing; apart from hitting your enemies and being able to use all jutsu that you know, they also have one more cool ability. Whatever they learn, you learn. In other words, you can have them study books while you train your body. When they dispel you'll learn whatever they learned. Get my point? You can also have them work on your chakra control. Now little Naruto, let's start... hehehehehehehe"
"So... in short... I have these guys learn the boring book stuff and then I learn them when they go poof. And they can also use chakra. And they can improve my control over it. AWESOME!"
"Heh I knew you'd like it. Alright now I want you to divide them in four groups. I want one group to go to library one and each clone pick up one scroll. After memorizing it come back out here and dispel. Make sure that no more than 5 at a time dispel. Same thing with the second group but they will go to library two. Group three will go practice chakra control with one of my clones and the last group will start on taijutsu. As for you Naruto, you are not going to sit around doing nothing. I want you to run twenty laps first. Now MOOOOOOVE!" Yelled Ryu making the clones and Naruto jump in the air and start their workout. Meanwhile Ryu laughed to himself. Oh how he'd enjoy this.
Hours later we find Naruto panting on the ground exhausted.
"I... thought... I liked you sensei... But *pant* You're damn evil... That wasn't... *pant* training... that was torture..."
"Hahahaha is that so? well I went easy on you since its the first day but tomorrow it'll be harder. Besides. I warned you didn't I?
"Yeah.. you did. And I know training is hard... But THIS is crazy..."
"So? We're all crazy to a point or another. So don't sweat it kid. Besides I 'torture' you because I can get away with this."
"Eh? What do you mean?"
"Simple. If I did this to anyone else they'd have died already. You however recover fast, last long and are one heck of a fast learner when you want. Come on now get up. Let me see you do some more exercises."
"I... hate... you... sensei..."
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laughed Ryu evilly.
Naruto cringed and got up to continue his exercises. Meanwhile Ryu just wondered how long it would take Naruto to start attacking him. Sure training was hard, now it was a matter of learning that which he should have learned all along. Many, many sit-ups, push-ups later Naruto was cursing his sensei under his breath. Even his endurance had a limit. He no longer had chakra, no longer had any endurance left to give. He was running on determination quite literally. Ryu casually walked up to Naruto and sat down next to him.
"I know you hate me right now. But I know you're also like your dad. You both perform the best under pressure. That's the real reason I'm pushing you so much. I know you'll pull through. Anyway how about we discuss the training regiment? I#m thinking of rotating through three different days. The morning exersises will be the same. You'll summon clones and train your body to exhaustion. On the afternoon we'll rotate through three different schedules. One will be spars against each other. For two I was thinking you asking me any questions you want, like if you have a problem with a jutsu or want to start something new, any ideas or anything really. I won't lie if I don't have to and I'll tell you if I can't answer a question. As for number three I was thinking about meditating some hours and then letting you do whatever you like. Be it extra training or going to spend time in the forest. So what do you think?"
"Err... I don't know really. Usually my sensei just ordered me to do something. Never had to choose for myself. But I think its good. These two afternoons will give me time to recover so I don't die from your torture."
"Heheheh sorry about that little Naruto but training is hard and you're way behind schedule. I gotta train you harder to catch up. Don't worry though. You'll be awesome soon. Who knows I might even teach you some of my kenjutsu."
"Eeeh? really? when can we start?"
"Hahahaha you're tired one moment and the next fully recovered if I mention jutsus. I wonder what will happen if I mention ramen..."
"Ra... ramen? where is ramen? Can I have ramen? Pleaaaaaase? ramen?"
"Hahaha you're worse than both of them at the same time. Just as stuck with jutsus and ramen as they were. Your dad even once let an enemy escape after he offered ramen. Hahaha those were the good times."
"Hahahahaha dad did that? I guess I'm like them after all. I just wanted to meet them you know..."
"Yeah yeah I know. Best people I ever met. Oh yeah Naruto lemme see something." Ryu took out a piece of paper. "Channel some chakra through this paper. It'll show us which element you are aligned with."
"Alright." Naruto pumped some chakra though the paper, which made it split in half. "What does this mean?"
"Simple you have an affinity for wind. Wind is the most destructive element. Its weaker than fire but stronger than lightning. Remember there is no set 'stronger' element. Nor does it mean you can only use fuuton jutsus. It just means you'll have an easier time with them. But you see wind chakra has one great use. It cuts stuff. Cuts them real good."
"Eh? that's all? just cuts them? that's useless. I mean a sword cuts too and so does a kunai."
"True but a kunai or sword can be stopped. The wind can't. Also it cuts them real good. You can also use it to improve the edge of a weapon and have it cut right through solid rock. Heh I should know. I can use wind chakra too."
"Cool. Oh and what about swords? Can I have cool swords like your own?"
"Cool swords like my own eh? Well I can't give you my Souryu I'm afraid. They are my personal swords. But I can give you a sword till you forge your own. Follow me."
Naruto got up and followed Ryu to one of the rooms he wasn't shown last night. Once inside Ryu turned on the light and a cry was heard:
"WHAT THE HECK!"
In front of the awed Naruto were tens of weapons of every shape and size. Polearms, swords, claws, kamas of every type imaginable. They glinted in the light and Naruto could do only one thing: drool...
A/N: I'll stop here I think. Otherwise it'll get too big. Naru's training is well on its way. So how about leaving me a review? You know so I can fix whatever you don't like and all. Till next time
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