Chapter 5

For Tenzen the next day couldn't come soon enough. He was up half the night rethinking all the events of the day before, and how lucky he had gotten getting Minato for a sensei. Sure in the beginning he didn't think much of man, but seeing how fast he was and how kind he was Tenzen knew he got the luck of the draw with Minato-sensei. He couldn't wait to really get down to business and start training.

Walking out of his apartment and down to the street, he saw his friends Asuma and Genma at the bottom of his apartment steps.

"Hey there guys. What's up?" Tenzen said jumping of the steps to land on the road below.

"Just wanted to see if you wanted to go to the park." The boy with senbon in his mouth said putting both of his hands in his pocket. "Everyone else is meeting up to play ninja."

"Sorry can't. I have training with Minato-sensei in twenty minutes." The giddy white haired boy said, giving a big grin to his two closest friends.

"Yeah I heard you got yourself a sensei." The boy with the bandana said sighing in envy. "So what are you going to be doing while training."

"I don't know. He hasn't told me anything about the training." Tenzen said with a shrug of his shoulders. "But, I can't wait to get started."

"You're so lucky, I have to deal with the old man barking commands at me." Asuma said folding is arms in frustration. Asuma had already been training for a year now under Hokage-sama. Most of the kids in prestigious clans, or prestigious parents, like Kakashi, have already been training for a while.

"You got to take what you get, and besides not everybody gets to be trained by the Hokage." Genma said envious of two that already been training to be ninja while he just had normal bookwork with his mom.

"Don't worry man, soon we will all be at the academy, and then we will all become ninja together." The yellow-eyed boy said with a big grin. Both of the other boys couldn't help but smile at the big smile on Tenzen's face, he could put a smile on anyone's face.

"Well, see ya later guys." Tenzen said before he began jogging to his destination.

Upon arriving at his destination Tenzen couldn't see his sensei anywhere, he was a tad early. So, he decided to sit down with his back against the nearest tree, and wait for Minato to show up.

He sat there for about ten minuets wondering what it was the Yellow Flash was going to teach him. Maybe he'd teach him the Hiraishin, then Tenzen could be known as the fastest ninja too. Looking up towards the sky he could see that his sensei was officially late, and that bugged him a little. How could a top-notch ninja like Minato be late, Kakashi always told Obito that all ninja were prompt. Maybe Kakashi was wrong, which would be something to celebrate. But, more likely Minato wasn't like most ninja's. Tenzen couldn't decide if that was a good thing or a bad thing. But, anyway he looked at it his sensei was still one of the highest ranking shinobi in the hidden leaf That is at least what Jiraiya and the Hokage said, and seeing how the other two were ranked he was inclined to believe them. But, man his tardiness was really starting to get to him; he was already 20 minutes late. He was about to storm of, but then he felt as though someone was looking at him, and stopped in his tracks.

"Took you long enough." The blonde shinobi on the branch right above Tenzen said with a smirk. Tenzen turned around and saw his sensei sitting casually on the branch twirling a kunai in his right hand, and his left leg hang down off the branch.

"Your late!" the young boy said his face turning red from embarrassment and anger. The blue-eyed shinobi wasted no time jumping from his perch to land in front of the boy, his hands on his hips.

"Actually I was right on time." The blonde man said a grin present on his face.

"You're lying!" the white haired boy said his rage building from his sensei toying with him. "I've been here the whole time and I didn't see you."

"That's because I didn't want you to see me." Minato said trying to explain himself before the boy had a hissy fit. "This is what is want to teach you first and foremost. A ninja can know every jutsu in the book, but nothing will save him from being surprised by the enemy."

"So you're going to teach me how to be a pansy and hide from the enemy." Tenzen said a little upset and confused about what his sensei was saying. To him being a ninja was about standing face to face with an enemy like a man. But, his sensei suggests that it's about being a pansy and hiding from your foe.

"Not at all." The wise young man paused before he continued to try to get the idea through his student's thick head. "Some times a mission requires you to get in and out of places without anyone seeing you. It is the most important thing for an ninja to know."

"Sounds like being a pansy to me." Tenzen said folding his arms across his chest and giving a hmph of disappointment.

"You know Tenzen, being a ninja doesn't always mean being the gallant hero on the front lines of battle. Most of the time we have to do things behind the scenes that no one ever sees." The Yellow Flash said in all his wisdom trying to get new student to cooperate.

"But sensei, I thought you said being a ninja meant protecting those that can't protect themselves. How can I do that from a hiding spot?" the confused Seishin said his voice slightly rose from frustration.

"As I said I'm going to teach you how to hide from the enemy. I'm going to teach to not be seen by the enemy." Minato said his gaze serious. "Tell me Tenzen, If a powerful man threatened Konoha what do you think would be best? Fighting all of his men in a bloody battle that you may not survive? Or sneaking into his headquarters and killing him in his sleep, saving hundreds if not thousands?"

The young boy stood there for a minute thinking over what his sensei had said. It made sense to just kill the man in his sleep, but to him it still seemed cowardice. He supposed that to save hundred, being a coward was okay.

"I see what you mean sensei." The boy took a deep breath to release his frustration before continuing. "If you want to protect the ones you love, sometimes you need to do it without them or anyone else knowing."

"There you go, now lets get started." Minato said his signature grin appearing back on his face.

Five grueling hours later, Tenzen found himself in a small bush looking into a small clearing. His sensei stood in the middle of said clearing, kunai in both hands.

"Not good enough." The man said throwing a kunai that sailed straight at Tenzen. The boy jumped back from his position to dodge the projectile, then he started looking for a better hiding spot.

"Remember to suppress you chakra as much as possible." He heard his sensei yell from his spot in the clearing. Before starting this little exercise, Minato had attempted to give the basics in chakra control. He had to stick a leaf to his forehead using only his chakra to keep it in place. Tenzen struggled a bit with this exercise, as his sensei had assured him everyone does in the beginning. But, he did manage to have the leaf stay in place for a whole minute before Minato startled him by sneaking up behind him. He had told him it was important to have control over your chakra at all times, even stressful situations.

They then went on to do some light sparing; where Minato taught Tenzen the basic taijustsu form the taught at the academy. After a quick lunch, during which he had gone over how to suppress chakra, they began this exercise. Tenzen just couldn't seem to get his chakra low enough so his sensei couldn't sense it. It was difficult for him to both move around attempting to not make any noise, and keep his chakra down. But, his sensei said it was a must.

Finally finding a nice place to hide in a tree with thick leaves, he looked down at his sensei. The man was slowly scanning the area for his student. Then in the blink of an eye Minato was gone.

"What did I tell you? Always check your surroundings." Minato said pointing the kunai to the boy's neck to get it through his head that if it wasn't just training he would have been dead. "Didn't you notice my Hiraishin seal?" The man then pointed his kunai behind him to the small black scribbling on the base of the tree. Tenzen was getting sick of this he had to stump him. He quickly reached into the pouch that his sensei had given him to grab to smoke bombs that he also received from his sensei. In one quick motion he threw them down and jump from the tree branch. He hustled as fast he could away from his former position, but then he felt something coming up behind him. He grabbed a kunai out of his pouch, also given to him by Minato, and threw it behind him. The experienced shinobi easily blocked the kunai with his own and continued chasing the boy. Tenzen knew this was about something else his sensei had told him, what to do when the mission goes wrong. But, what had he failed to notice? Why didn't he just go back to the original exercise? Then he noticed it, a small radiation of chakra on his black jacket. His sensei must have put a Hiraishin seal on his back. He wanted to see how long it would take him to notice, well he noticed and now he had a plan.

Minato was wondering how long he would have to chase his student around the woods. Had he still not noticed it? Then his student turned around and threw another smoke bomb followed by another kunai. Nice way to get me to slow down but as long as he had the Hiraishin seal on his back there was no escaping him. He quickly blocked the kunai and began trying to feel where the marker had gone, then he felt it, it had stopped twenty yards away from his position. Not wasting any time Minato Hiraishin'd to the boy's location, he wanted this to end. As soon as he Hiraishin he felt something metal press against his neck.

"Nice try sensei." The confident boy said grinning at his supposed victory. But, before he could celebrate to much his sensei disappeared only to appear behind him with his own kunai at the ready.

"Well done finding the one seal. But, you failed to find the second." The Yellow Flash said giving the boy a smile grin to let him know he was still proud he picked up on the one.

"Aw man! That's cheating sensei." Tenzen said stomping both of his feat. Minato gave a small chuckle, even though this was serious training he still couldn't help but laugh at the boy's frustration.

"Non-sense I put a lot of chakra into the first seal as to mask the chakra of the second. I do this often to give the enemy the false sense of assurance." Minato said relaxing a bit and putting his kunai away.

"Is that right?" the boy said with a devilish smile. Then suddenly the Yellow Flash felt the all too familiar touch of metal to his skin. The seasoned shinobi's eyes went wide at the realization that his student had played him.

"I know what you meant about that false sense of assurance." The boy now behind him said with a wily grin.

"Using yourself as bait while a clone sat at the ready." Minato said explaining how the boy did it. "Not the smartest move, but I guess it works."

The clone poofed and Tenzen turned around and gave his sensei a big grin while rubbing the back of his head.

"I couldn't think of anyway to get rid of the seal on my ankle so it had to be me." The boy said trying to explain his reasoning. The Namikaze fooled his arms across his chest to try and think of a way but couldn't. He hadn't planned on the boy discovering the second seal.

"Nicely done then. I think that's enough for today." The blue-eyed ninja said leaning down and ruffling the boy white hair.

"Was it good enough to get me Ichiraku's?" the boy asked bouncing on the balls of his feet.

"No I told you eating too much ramen is bad for you." Minato said, his face growing serious.

"Fine I'll ask Kushina-neechan to go." The boy said knowing full well that the red head woman couldn't pass up ramen either.

"You will not!" Minato said his frustration apparent on his face. He even had a little vern sticking out of his forehead.

"Watch me." The boy said before he took off at full speed for the village.

"Hey! You get back here." Minato yelled while running after the boy completely forgetting about the Hiraishin seal on his ankle.

End Chapter 5

So Tenzen's training has begun. What will come next for the young boy? Will he convince Kushina to take him to Ichiraku's? Or will Minato remember the Hiraishin seal on his ankle? Who knows? Who cares, fillers are boring right. I think it's time for a time jump, just a little one to get the important stuff. Please let me know what you think about pairing because I'm not mushy enough to think of anything. Please review and keep on reading.