Well!!! A few days later, and already another chapter… This was originally going to be named demons, for certain reasons… But because of how long the chapter was becoming, I had to split it into two separate chapters. Chapter five, (Which will be named 'Demons')f will be released right when I've finished writing it… That may take two weeks, as I am in the process of moving and I will not have as frequent access to the internet as I used to.
Well, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Anyone dressed as a Naruto character? I'll be an Akatsuki member next year, but for now, I'm dressed as a pirate! XP
This chapter is my gift to you. I wrote it within a few days, but I'm happy with it. Didn't edit it much though, so for any errors you see, I apologize… I just really wanted to get this out today! Hehehe. I'll much more careful with other chapters.
Well here is chapter four.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!!!
Chapter 4
A Lesson in Chakra and Hatred
"No fucking way!" Naruto yelled as he stared at his recovering sensei.
It had been a full day of Kakashi being unconscious, and when he had woken up, his body was temporarily out of commission.
"I would do it if I could Naruto, but I can't… Plus, you do know how to do it already so you have the ability to show them."
Naruto glared at Kakashi for a moment before countering.
"Even if I did agree, Sasuke and Sakura aren't the type to learn from what I've been dubbed as, a Dobe."
Kakashi chuckled weakly. "Once you show them what they need to learn, they will realize just how important it is."
Naruto rolled his eyes. "The problem is to get them to stop hating me long enough to show them and explain it."
"If I order them to listen to you for a few simple minutes, I'm sure you'll be able to do it."
Naruto huffed as he crossed his arms. "By the way, there's something that's been bugging me since yesterday…"
Kakashi raised an eyebrow at this. "What would that be?"
"The Hunter-nin that took Zabuza's body… Something isn't clicking there…"
'So… He figured it out as well? Surprising as he wasn't taught about Hunter-nins in the academy as they're exclusive to Kiri…'
"What do you mean Naruto?" Kakashi asked, wanting to hear Naruto's conclusion for himself.
"Well, I remember reading a book about Kirigakure's Hunter-nins and what they do… Maybe the book was outdated and all, but I read that they destroy the body where it was found or killed. All they are supposed to take is the head, and it's not like it's hard to decapitate someone. I think, that the Hunter-nin could have been a fake."
Naruto stared at Kakashi, awaiting a reply, who was also waiting for Naruto to continue.
A few minutes of silence from the both of them until Naruto finally broke the awkward silence.
"Well? What do you think?" he asked nervously as he shuffled his feet slightly.
"You're right… Zabuza is most likely alive" Kakashi said simply. "I'm surprised Naruto! The fact that you came up with that on your own is speaking volumes about how much you;ve matured since I bumped into you that day at the Hokage Mansion."
Naruto blushed at this. "I…It was only luck that I had read that book not too long ago…"
Kakashi smiled at this. "Still, it's good that you're educating yourself. If I had not been able to reach that conclusion already, you could have just saved us."
Naruto continued to shuffle his feet, not out of nervousness, but embarrassment.
"Well, the thing is that the senbon needles hit pressure points, and I regret that I didn't check for a pulse… I was already feeling the effects of the Sharingan hit me and it clouded my judgement. It was stupid on my end not to check."
Naruto's eyes widened. After having watched Kakashi whoop Zabuza's ass, Naruto's opinion of his sensei had sky rocketed, and now, here he was, admitting fault to his mistake. 'Wow… I want to be a Shinobi like Kakashi-sensei one day…'
"That is why you need to prepare your team mates Naruto… Sasuke and Sakura need to be better prepared for the coming battle…"
Naruto sighed as he scratched the back of his head.
"Fine, whatever… You're going to have to convince them to somehow listen to me though…" Naruto said in a defeated tone.
Sakura sat in the kitchen and smiled at Tsunami, the daughter of Tazuna. When Squad seven had arrived on her doorstep with her father, she had immediately adopted a motherly quality and began fussing over them all.
When she had heard about how they had protected him from the Demon brothers and Zabuza, she had begun fussing even more. She had immediately set up a room for Kakashi to rest in on his own so that he could recover quickly and then set her eyes on the three Genin.
She had fussed over Sakura first, probably because she was a female. While she was distracted, Naruto and Sasuke had slipped out for a few hours. Naruto had been the first to return, saying that he wanted to 'scout' the area. Sasuke walked in not long after, not even bothering to give an excuse to any of them.
Now, here was Tsunami, cooking a meal for lunch while Sasuke had disappeared and Naruto was upstairs talking to their finally conscious sensei.
"So is this you're first time being out of your village Sakura?" Tsunami asked as she continued cooking.
Sakura nodded. "Yeah, I mean, this far from the village at least… I've gone to a town not far from Konoha with my parents a few times as a child, but I didn't do anything."
Tsunami smiled. "So what is Konoha like?"
Sakura thought for a moment, having never been asked about her village.
"It's big… Everybody is so nice there, and the boys are cute… for the most part that is."
Tsunami looked over her shoulder at the girl. "For the most part?" she inquired.
"Well, Sasuke is drop dead gorgeous, and not a lot of guys in our village can compare… But the ugliest our village has to offer would be Naruto!"
Tsunami raised an eyebrow at this. "You think so?"
Sakura nodded vigorously. "Definitely! I would never date that in a million years!"
Before Tsunami could answer, a new voice interrupted.
"Don't worry Sakura, you're definitely not my type to begin with, so you're safe."
Sakura wheeled around to see Naruto entering the kitchen. He bowed politely to Tsunami before turning to Sakura.
"Kakashi-sensei wants to talk to you and Sasuke…" Naruto glanced around the kitchen. "Do you know where he went?"
Sakura shook her head. "No, I don't."
Naruto shrugged. "I'll go find him, but he wants to talk to you two together, so stay here until I bring him back."
With that said, Naruto left the kitchen and a moment later, they heard the door open and the close.
Tsunami saw that Sakura was glaring at into the hallway where she had last seen Naruto.
"I don't know what you mean Sakura, if I were his age, I would definitely try going for him…" Sakura turned and looked at Tsunami in shock.
"You're kidding!" she exclaimed while Tsunami simply shook her head.
"He seems nice, and you have to admit he's cute with his blonde hair and blue eyes." Tsunami looked at Sakura as she began going through a list of why Naruto wasn't even close to cute.
"…and one time, he painted the Hokage monument! Not to mention the horrible jumpsuit he used to wear! I'm waiting for its return honestly!!!"
"Sakura… Why do you hate Naruto so much?" Tsunami suddenly asked. Sakura looked confused at the question. "Well, it's just that he seems so polite, and you just seem to hate him with every ounce of your being."
Sakura was silent for a moment before answering her.
"…I don't hate him… It's just that, I can't really stand being near him… He used to pester me all the time for a date, and no matter how many times I yelled at him to knock it off, he would keep it up…"
Tsunami listened as the girl continued.
"Back then, I didn't really enjoy it, but it gave me a confidence boost in a way… Then, recently, it stopped, and he just started acting cold towards me… I don't know what happened, but something changed and now he treats me like garbage…"
At this point, Sakura had brought her knees to her chest. "I hit him a few times, and I tried apologizing to him, but he just rejected it…"
Tsunami could see that the girl was hurting, but she couldn't really sympathize. 'After all, there are always two sides to a story…' Tsunami thought to herself.
She set down the knife she had been using to cut some celery and walked to the table and sat down next to the pink haired Kunoichi. She snaked an arm around her and patted her shoulder.
"Well, if you're wondering if he hates you, I don't think he does… Whatever happened between you two will pass… I don't know all of the details and he may have a different view on the subject entirely, but he does seem like a decent human being… I'm sure that given time, he will come to forgive you."
Sakura sniffed. "Do you think so?" she asked hopefully as she looked at Tsunami.
The mother nodded with a small smile gracing her face. "Just give it time… You two may work things out."
Sakura sniffed again. "Well, we were never really friends… I hardly ever talked to him, and when I did, I usually was berating him for being in my way or for pulling some stupid prank…"
Tsunami shrugged. "We all do stupid things when we're young, we all figure that out at some point. For now, just be nice to him, it may take some time, but in the end, it will be worth it."
Before Sakura could reply, the sound of the door opening was heard and Sakura realized that there were tears on her cheeks. Quickly wiping them and her eyes, she stood up, ready to talk with Kakashi-sensei.
Sasuke and Naruto appeared in the kitchen, neither looking happy.
Naruto walked past Sasuke and sat on the table while Sakura and Sasuke gave him a questioning look.
"Aren't you coming along?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto shook his head. "He asked for the two of you specifically."
Sasuke shrugged as he walked up the stairs while Sakura followed wordlessly.
Tsunami sighed as she watched the pink haired Genin ascend the stairs silently.
She turned to find that Naruto was currently cutting the celery she had left unattended.
"You don't have to do that!" Tsunami exclaimed as she rushed towards the blonde.
"Don't worry Tsunami-san… We are your guests and I feel that I should at least help you out with these types of things…"
Tsunami came up behind the boy to find the he was already finished cutting the celery.
"What exactly are you making?" he asked her.
"Um…stew…" she mumbled.
"What type of stew?"
Zabuza lay in a bed, his body unresponsive to his mental commands.
'GODDAMMIT!' he yelled mentally. At that moment, his protégé, Haku, walked through the door.
Upon seeing the look on Zabuza's face, he smiled sweetly down at his father figure.
"I'm sorry Zabuza-sama, but I had to make sure that it seemed as if you were dead…'
"Well, next time, don't be so brutal…" Zabuza whispered.
Haku sighed. "The damage from that boy's water technique did more damage than I had anticipated and gave you a minor case of whiplash which worsened the aftereffects of the near death state that I placed you in… If I had known, I wouldn't have aimed for your neck…"
Zabuza could only blink.
"Don't worry Zabuza-sama, this should only last two weeks…"
'Two weeks of utter hell…' thought the former Kiri Shinobi.
Sasuke and Sakura stared at Naruto as he led them to a clearing he had discovered the day they had arrived.
'I originally planned on training on my own here… However, circumstances have changed…'
He stopped and whirled around to face his two team mates.
"Well… Seeing as how Kakashi-sensei is out of commission, I'll be taking over until he's back on his feet."
Sasuke snorted at this as Naruto focused a glare at him.
"Something to say, Teme?"
Sasuke glared back before answering. "I don't know why Kakashi is having a Dobe like you teach us… What are you supposed to teach us, how to appropriately pull a stupid prank on someone?"
Naruto glared at the Uchiha for a moment before chuckling.
"Do you really think that Kakashi-sensei would have me teach you how to prank someone? Are you that stupid?" Naruto asked, a grin etched on his face.
Sasuke huffed. "Well, I doubt you know anything that Sakura and I don't already know besides that water Jutsu you used against during our bell test."
Naruto shook his head. "I'm going to ignore that for now, Teme… No, today, Kakashi wants me to train you on chakra control."
Sakura and Sasuke both raised eyebrows at this.
This time, it was Sakura who spoke. "Chakra control? You had the worst chakra control back in the academy Naruto, what can you teach us?"
Naruto ran his hand through his hair.
"Well, to put it simply, Kakashi wants me to show you how to climb trees."
Sakura and Sasuke stared at Naruto. They said nothing as they continued to stare at the blonde.
"C…climbing trees?... ARE YOU JOKING!?" Sakura yelled as she let her temper get a hold of her.
"Would you calm down… This is a different type of tree climbing… You aren't allowed to use you're hands at all" Naruto said as he pulled out a kunai and began tossing it up in the air.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked, not getting what he meant.
"Let me demonstrate…" Naruto said as grabbed his kunai and put it in its holster.
Naruto walked towards a tree, his expression blank.
'I can't wait to see their expressions!' he thought to himself excitedly.
He reached the tree and casually place his left foot on the trunk, then the right foot. He slowly ascended the tree, using his chakra to climb vertically with his hands in his pockets. He reached a branch and walked along the bottom, and tilted his head up, so that he was looking down at an awed Sakura and an intrigued Sasuke.
'Hehehe. Priceless…' Naruto thought to himself.
"All you do, is simply focus chakra into the soles of your feet and walk up the tree… Although, I would recommend running up the tree to start off. You will be marking your progress with your kunai… Normally I should provide the kunai from what Kakashi-sensei told me, but I think you two are old enough to use your own kunai."
Sasuke and Sakura glared at Naruto for the sarcasm.
Naruto cut the flow of chakra and plummeted to the earth. Sakura's eyes widened, however, Naruto flipped so that he landed on the ground below. The impact left a small crater, which Sasuke filed away mentally for later.
'Interesting…' thought the Uchiha as he plucked a kunai out of his holster. Without a moments hesitation, he ran towards the tree while focusing chakra into his feet. He reached the tree and placed his foot on the bark.
For a moment, he grinned, thinking he had succeeded… The next thing he knew, the bark where his foot was exploded and he was thrown back.
Sasuke rolled to his feet and glared at the tree.
"Too much chakra and you're thrown off, too little, you slip off… It's definitely more difficult than you think Sasuke…" Naruto said. Sasuke raised an eyebrow when he noticed the tone of malice was missing.
'He's actually trying to help?' Sasuke wondered to himself. Before he could think any more on the subject, Sakura's voice rang through the clearing.
"You know… This is a lot easier than I thought!" Far above the ground, was a grinning Sakura who sat on one of the higher branches, swinging her legs playfully.
Naruto grinned as he turned to look at Sasuke.
"Well well, looks like our precious Uchiha couldn't beat Sakura up the tree. Too bad…"
Up in the tree, a vein throbbed in Sakura's forehead.
"DAMN IT NARUTO-BAKA, DON'T MAKE SASUKE-KUN HATE ME!!!"
Naruto ignored her as he walked past Sasuke.
"It really is too bad…" Naruto whispered to Sasuke.
Sasuke gritted his teeth angrily as Naruto walked back towards Tazuna's house.
Sasuke looked back at the tree he was supposed to be ascending.
'…How am I supposed to beat Itachi when I'm stuck here climbing trees?!' Sasuke wondered angrily.
Naruto walked through the front door to find a small boy glaring at him.
Naruto gave him a small wave which only strengthened the boys glare.
Naruto felt mild irritation at this and was about to speak up when Tazuna walked in the room.
"Ah!!! I see you've finally met my grandson Inari!" he boomed.
Naruto simply nodded, continuing to stare at the boy who would not stop glaring at him.
Naruto walked past him and towards the kitchen where the stew he had assisted Tsunami with sat bubbling mildly.
He walked up the stairs to find Tsunami exiting Kakashi's room.
"Oh, Naruto-san!" she exclaimed when she noticed him. "I thought you were out training with your team mates!"
Naruto shook his head.
"Kakashi-sensei asked me to show them a training exercise. I just need to ask him a question before I go and start my own training."
Tsunami nodded, wondering what kind of training a Shinobi went through.
"Well, I wish you the best of luck!" she said with a motherly smile.
Naruto smiled back, his thoughts drifting slightly to what it would be like to have Tsunami as a mother.
He shook his head as she brushed past him.
Composing himself, Naruto opened the door to Kakashi's room to find him trying to sit up.
"Shouldn't you be resting?" he asked the Jonin.
Kakashi grunted. "Yes, but I just wanted to assess the damage to my body…"
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "And what are the results?"
Kakashi groaned before giving up and flopping back down on his futon. "I should be back to one hundred percent in about six or seven days."
Naruto sighed. "So, Sakura already scaled the tree…"
Kakashi raised an eyebrow at this. "Well, that's… Unsurprising…"
"W…what? You knew she'd scale that tree on her first try?" he asked incredulously.
Kakashi shook his head weakly. "Not on her first try, but I knew she'd be able to get up the tree before Sasuke… Sakura seems to have precise chakra control due to her lack of reserves. Sasuke has larger chakra reserves and therefore, a more difficult time at chakra control. Sasuke will have an easier time with this exercise than you for the same reason. Compared to you, his chakra reserves are miniscule."
Naruto was silent and stared at Kakashi before speaking bluntly.
"Sounds like some weird penis measuring game to me…"
Kakashi sweat dropped.
'Blunt, but he does have a point…' Kakashi thought as his mind wandered to Icha Icha Paradise.
"So what should we have Sakura do?" Naruto asked his sensei.
"Hm? Oh… I guess put her on guard duty with Tazuna for now while Sasuke continues to struggle with his training" Kakashi answered in a sweetly happy voice.
"…You may not be any crazy bitch, but you still have your own way of being sadistic…" Naruto said with narrowed eyes.
Kakashi chuckled. "That's right, you encountered Anko."
Naruto's eyes widened. "How did you know about that?"
"Oh I saw the whole thing unfold Naruto" Kakashi said in a matter of fact tone.
"Whatever…" Naruto sighed.
Sasuke wiped sweat from his brow as he looked up at the tree riddled with slash marks.
He had made it half way up the accursed tree and was starting to feel a little light headed.
The light of day was beginning to fade rapidly, meaning he would have to return soon for dinner having skipped lunch.
Hearing movement behind him, he saw Naruto emerge from the foliage.
"Any progress Teme?" the blonde Genin asked.
"Where did Sakura go?" Sasuke asked.
"Protect Tazuna… She completed the training already, so Kakashi-sensei figured it would be a waste of her time to stay here."
Sasuke clenched his fist at this. "How the hell does this exercise benefit me?" he asked angrily.
Naruto raised an eyebrow at this. "Um… Well I thought you would know…"
Sasuke glared at this.
Grinning at the raven haired Uchiha, Naruto began explaining.
"Well, if you master this exercise, you'll waste less chakra on your Ninjutsu and therefore be able to use more Jutsu. Also, you can use this technique to increase your speed in the midst of battle."
Sasuke raised both eyebrows at this. 'I didn't think it would help that much… hm…'
Sasuke looked back at the tree, determined to get to the top more than ever now.
"My advice, find your comfort zone" Naruto said suddenly.
Sasuke glanced at Naruto before looking back at the tree.
Naruto looked at Sasuke before elaborating. "For instance, if you don't put enough chakra into it, you feel slightly off balance, while if you put too much chakra, it kind of burns in a way… You just need to find what feels…right."
Sasuke closed his eyes as he concentrated on his chakra, trying what Naruto had just suggested.
He slowly added to his chakra output until he felt that 'comfort zone' as Naruto had put it.
Opening his eyes, he bolted for the tree and straight up. He kept climbing and climbing, approaching his last mark on the tree. Before he knew it, he had passed it and was continuing to ascend until twelve more feet up, he felt himself slipping.
Slashing at the tree with his kunai, he marked his new record before flipping backwards and landing painfully on the ground.
"Nice Sasuke! Better than I did when I found out about that little trick." Naruto said as he looked up at the new mark.
Sasuke sat down on the ground, panting again as fatigue hit him.
"How… long did it… take you?" he asked between breaths.
Naruto looked at Sasuke before chuckling.
"On my first day, I definitely wasn't this far along, I can tell you that much!"
Sasuke looked up at the sky, where the first stars were beginning to appear.
"Well, we should probably be heading back to Tazuna's. Tsunami made some stew for lunch and we're having some for dinner as well, and let me tell you, it tastes fucking great!"
Naruto held out his hand, offering to help Sasuke up.
The Uchiha considered the hand for a second before taking it and being hoisted off the ground.
"By the way, Naruto… I don't have the Sharingan…" Sasuke said, recalling the outburst from Naruto back in Konoha the other day.
Naruto blinked before chuckling and rubbing the back of his head.
"So… you were really just looking for someone to train with?" he asked, feeling like an idiot.
Sasuke simply nodded. "But, it's clear that you and I wouldn't be able to stand each other for very long."
Naruto laughed at this. "Wow Sasuke! You have a sense of humor!!! I can't wait to tell all of Konoha when we get back! I may even paint THAT on the Hokage monument."
Sasuke shot Naruto a dirty look which only added fuel to the fire.
"Now I'm definitely doing it if that's the kind of reaction I'm getting from you for just suggesting it!"
Sasuke sighed. 'I guess Naruto is still just that… Naruto…'
Sakura heard the door open after having some stew for dinner which tasted divine in her own opinion.
What surprised her was to find out that Naruto had helped make the delicious meal.
'Who knew that Dobe could cook!' she had thought.
She turned to see a worn out Sasuke being supported by a grinning Naruto.
'Is…is Naruto really helping Sasuke?' Sakura wondered as she rubbed her eyes.
"There you go Teme, now we have officially arrived!" Before Sasuke knew it, Naruto had ducked out from under Sasuke's arm, leaving him with nothing to lean against as he crashed onto the floor.
'Ok…I was mistaken…' Sakura thought with a dirty look aimed at Naruto as she got up to help her precious Sasuke.
Sasuke had already pulled himself up and sat down at the table as he stared hungrily at the big pot of stew in the middle of the table.
Naruto plopped down next to him and grinned.
"I hope there's some left Sasuke… It would be such a shame for you to have missed it all!"
Sasuke grabbed one of the bowls next to him and used the ladle in the pot to scoop the stew into his bowl before devouring it with gusto.
"Seems as if Sasuke has your appetite, Naruto…" Kakashi said as he limped down the stairs using a pair of crutches.
"Kakashi-sensei! It looks like you've decided to join us at last!!!" Naruto exclaimed in mock surprise.
Chuckling, Kakashi sat down on Naruto's other side and looked at the stew as well.
"I have been upstairs resting all day, and no one seems to have remembered to bring their sensei some of this delicious stew!" he said in a hurt tone.
"Oh can it Kakashi-sensei!!! I saw Tsunami-san bring you some stew earlier when I brought Sakura back for lunch" Naruto pointed out with a grin.
Kakashi struck a thoughtful pose before admitting defeat. "You've got me there Naruto…"
Grinning, Naruto stood up. "Well, I'll be back in a few hours!" he announced.
"Where the hell do you think your going?" Tazuna asked as he entered the room, Inari trailing behind him.
Shedding his red and black coat, Naruto grinned a fox like grin.
"Well, Sakura and Sasuke have been training all day while I've been helping you're daughter cook and helping you build a bridge all day! It's time I got to it as well!"
Without another word, Naruto slid past Tazuna and bolted for the door.
"Be careful out there!" Tsunami called from another room when she heard what he was planning.
The door closed, leaving silence in Naruto's wake.
"Don't worry about Naruto, he'll be fine out there. As long as he doesn't over do it…"
Kakashi glanced at the door. 'I hope he'll be alright out there…'
Naruto grinned as he formed the cross sign for his Kage Bunshin technique.
The clearing that Sasuke and Sakura had been training in previously was suddenly full of grinning blondes garbed in black.
The original Naruto stood in the middle of the large crowd, his face expressionless, eyes closed.
'All right… Time to increase the weights one more time…' Naruto formed the ram seals as he felt the weights on his limbs pulse slightly.
'Just a bit heavier…' he thought as he continued a slow and steady stream of chakra into the seals written on his weights.
Opening his eyes, he cut off the flow of chakra and raised one of his arms.
"Not too bad… It'll require a bit more effort to move now…"
Without warning, five Bunshin from the large army of Narutos attacked him.
Naruto jumped back as one of the Bunshin's feet impacted the spot where Naruto had been, leaving a small yet noticeable crater.
"Show time!" the Bunshin all yelled enthusiastically.
Naruto narrowed his eyes as he dropped into a Goken pose.
'No Bunshin for this fight…' thought the original blonde.
He threw himself towards the oncoming Bunshin and began to throw his punches, not holding anything back.
His first strike was avoided by the Bunshin he was after while another of the clones went for a roundhouse kick which was blocked by Naruto's forearm.
Without a moment of hesitation, Naruto grabbed the leg of the clone and whirled around, using his momentum to hit one clone with the one he was holding.
Two puffs signified their defeat. From the group surrounding the fight, four more Bunshin replaced the two that had been killed.
Naruto focused chakra into the soles of his feet just like Sasuke had been doing all day and sped towards the new Bunshin, deciding to forget the other three for the moment.
Pulling out a kunai, he threw it at one Bunshin's head only for a horde of shuriken to intercept the knife.
Naruto jumped over the shuriken that were headed towards his own being and spun, avoiding a few kunai that had been thrown from behind him.
'Maybe I should have taken care of those first…' Naruto thought to himself before focusing on his surroundings once again.
Landing, Naruto was quickly met by two of the seven Bunshin.
Gritting his teeth again, he began dodging and blocking strikes aimed to incapacitate him.
Naruto then caught something as one of his clones went for a palm strike.
'A hole!!!' he realized.
Pushing himself to move quickly, he knocked the strike aside while lashing out with his foot at the Bunshin behind him.
Pulling a shuriken from his pouch, he flicked it right through the hole in his Bunshin's form and struck him in the chest.
The clone's eyes widened before puffing out of existence. All of the Naruto's present widened their eyes when the received the information of their fallen brother.
'Once I'm done with this, I'll need to fix my form…' Naruto thought as he filed it away mentally for later usage.
Using this distraction, he spun around, withdrawing a kunai and slamming it into the clone behind him who was still processing his brother's memories.
"Hey! That's not fair!" one clone yelled as the newest clone died.
Grinning, Naruto threw the kunai at one of the other clones that was charging him. "We're Shinobi! We don't play fair!"
From the group, four more had joined the fray, once again replacing two fallen Bunshin.
"Time to step up my game!" Naruto announced as he charged the Bunshin.
He met the first Bunshin within seconds, exchanging blows, neither of them gaining any ground while the other Bunshin circled him, clearly strategizing.
The clone swept at Naruto's feet which Naruto avoided by cart wheeling over while withdrawing three shuriken.
Landing on his feet, he twirled around and launched the shuriken and killed three of the Bunshin before reengaging with the first Bunshin.
While exchanging more strikes, six Bunshin replaced the three dead Bunshin.
'Duck, left, back, punch, block, grab, twirl…'
Naruto was on autopilot, thinking only his moves as he continued the struggle to gain ground on his counterpart. Pumping just a bit more chakra into his feet, he gained the upper hand, using a palm strike to snap the clones head back, breaking its neck before it vanished in smoke.
Without waiting for the smoke to clear, Naruto charged after the surrounding Bunshin.
Jumping forward and twisting in through the air, he withdrew a kunai from a Bunshin's holster and used it to kill a Bunshin just ahead of him.
Throwing his hand out, he pushed off of the ground to barely avoid a torrent of water.
'Pulling out the big guns are we?' he thought to himself as he began hand seals.
Suddenly, a shuriken pierced his skull. Naruto's eyes widened before he transformed into a log.
"Fuck, a Kawarimi!" exclaimed the owner of the shuriken.
The original Naruto appeared behind the small group of Naruto's that had been fighting against him.
Eyes blazing with intensity, Naruto ran through the hand seals for one of his new fire style Jutsu.
"Katon: Gōkakyu no Jutsu!" The clones widened their eyes as they whirled around to face their opponent, but it was too late. The enormous fireball engulfed the clones, incinerating them and even impacting on the awaiting clones before they could even react.
The army of Narutos had finally decided to all react at the same time.
Being charged by his remaining clones, Naruto readied himself.
'Oh boy… Kinda wish I hadn't increased the weights now…'
Springing into action, Naruto engaged four of his Bunshin all at once.
'Under, left, block, push, punch, block, kick, evade, sweep, dodge, dodge, ow!!!'
Naruto winced as a kunai imbedded itself in his leg.
Falling to one knee, Naruto grabbed the kunai and pulled it out of his leg, watching the blood pour from the wound. Throwing it aside, he focused as much chakra as he could in his palm, contorting it, shaping it.
"Suiton: Hahonryū!" The water molecules in the air provided the resources for Naruto's Jutsu, in conjunction with the large amount of chakra that he had poured into the Jutsu.
The results blew away any opposition in front of Naruto.
The torrent of water tore through all of the Bunshin that stood in its way and even created a large dent in the tree it struck.
Wincing in pain thanks to his wounded leg, he jumped up and avoided a punch thrown by one of his Bunshin. Fighting through the pain, Naruto side stepped another strike while lashing out with his own fist, catching the clone in the cheek.
Naruto had overlooked a clone to his left who caught him off guard and planted a foot in Naruto's stomach, launching him back through the air, winded.
Naruto landed on the ground painfully but recovered by using the momentum to roll to a crouching position.
Naruto panted and winced as he felt his leg throb painfully while a dull ache appeared in his stomach from the kick.
'Fuck… I'm not in a good position here… I need to train more often like this.'
Naruto's eyes widened as two Bunshin's ran through the same set of hand seals.
"Fuck!" he exclaimed as he ran through his own, pouring more chakra than necessary into the Jutsu.
"Fūton: Daitoppa!" Naruto's swore as the clones preformed a Jutsu he had recently began working on. He wasn't through with his hand seals as he was struck by the devastating Jutsu.
Trees were torn apart and Naruto felt the winds cutting him slightly as he flew back.
He didn't know how long he was caught in the Jutsu for, but it probably wasn't as long as he perceived.
The Jutsu died down and Naruto hit the ground, skidding painfully to a stop.
Gasping for the air that had been knocked out of him, Naruto could only think one thing.
'That's a Jutsu I need to perfect to use against Zabuza!'
Naruto sat up, wincing as his back popped painfully and his muscles screamed in pain.
'Yeah… Definitely would be useful to use against others in a fight…'
Limping forward, he shook his head and a few twigs fell out of his hair.
Stretching a bit, he felt more joints pop than he felt should pop.
"I'm lucky I wasn't impaled on some sharp branch…"
Looking forward, he saw a flurry of shuriken fly towards him.
Flinging himself to the side, Naruto withdrew his own shuriken and targeted who had thrown them at him.
'Gotcha…' he thought as he located twelve Bunshin burst through the trees, all of them wielding kunai.
Naruto ran through the seals for the great fireball technique.
"Round two, starts now…"
Sasuke woke up early that morning to find that the room he was supposed to be sharing with Naruto, contained only him.
'Where the hell is the Dobe?' he wondered as he remembered he never heard him come in the night before.
Standing up, he picked up his kunai holster that lay next to his futon along with his ninja pouch.
He attached them and walked out of the room to head downstairs, where the smell of eggs wafted up and beckoned him.
In the kitchen sat Kakashi who was back to reading his orange book full of smut.
Nodding to his sensei, he sat down at the table and grabbed a plate off the small stack for the guests. In the middle of the table was a platter of scrambled eggs, rice and toast.
Shrugging at the odd combination, he helped himself to a decent portion before slowly eating.
"Ready for another day of tree climbing?" Kakashi asked enthusiastically as he peered over the top of his book.
Sasuke didn't bother answering or even glancing at his sensei.
"I'll take that as a yes" Kakashi said as he resumed reading his book.
"So where is Naruto?" Tazuna asked as he entered the room. "I didn't hear him come in last night."
Kakashi lowered his book. "I'm sure he'll be fine… He may be the type to over do it, but he won't be caught off guard. If he were in trouble, I'm sure he would send one of his clones to inform us."
Tazuna grunted as he walked upstairs to retrieve something while Sasuke stopped eating for a moment.
"You sure the Dobe hasn't gotten himself killed?" he asked.
Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Worried about our maverick ninja are we?"
Sasuke turned and glared at his sensei. Chuckling Kakashi went on reading while speaking to his student.
"Naruto probably just tired himself out by training and just slept outside… I wouldn't worry about him."
Sasuke sat for a moment before continuing with his meal.
A few minutes later, Sakura emerged from upstairs, her hair combed, and a fresh outfit on.
"Morning…" she grumbled.
Kakashi waved nonchalantly as he continued reading his book. She sat down next to Sasuke, annoyingly close, and reached for her own plate.
She only took a small amount, a look of sadness in her eyes as she did so.
Sasuke raised an eye at this which Sakura caught out of the corner of her eye. She leaned over and whispered to him.
"I'm guessing you haven't gone into town…" Sasuke shook his head.
Sakura sighed. "It's horrible… It's a dump. Gato really did a number on this place. People are on the streets, looking for work, starving… It's tragic… I just wish we could help them all."
"We are though…" Sasuke whispered back. "By protecting Tazuna and helping him complete the bridge, we are helping this country."
Sakura smiled softly. 'True…' She then noticed just how close she was to Sasuke, the love of her life. Blushing, she mentally started cheering.
'HA! Take that Ino-pig!!!'
'Shannaro!!! She'll never be able to get this close to Sasuke-kun!!!'
The noise of the front door banging open scared Sakura as she jumped up out of her seat while Sasuke withdrew a kunai, expecting an assassin to have come for Tazuna.
"Ah, here's our third member" Kakashi said as he turned a page.
Sasuke relaxed when Kakashi said this, knowing that Kakashi wasn't easily fooled. He had definitely proven that a few days prior.
However, Sasuke received a shock when a bloody and beaten Naruto staggered in the kitchen.
He noticed that he was limping slightly and he was holding his right arm.
His eye was swollen as if he'd been hit there repeatidly and dried blood littered his outfit.
"What the hell happened to you Naruto?!" Sakura exclaimed when she saw the blonde.
"hm? Oh, nothing… Do I smell eggs?" he asked weakly as he sat down at the table next to Kakashi who laid a plate in front of his student.
The plate was already loaded with at least two portions of eggs, rice, and toast.
"Thanks…" was all Naruto said before devouring his meal in the blink of an eye.
"How was training?" Kakashi asked as he read a particularly explicit scene, causing him to blush slightly and suppress a giggle.
Sasuke and Sakura's eyes widened when they heard him ask about training.
As soon as Naruto swallowed, he looked over at Kakashi.
"I've definitely got a lot of work to do… Found a ton of holes in my Taijutsu that I need to fix, and evading some Jutsu would help… I need to work on my hand seal speed to get through Jutsu faster as well as building up chakra…"
Kakashi nodded as he turned the page again while Sasuke listened intently to Naruto's assessment of the various things that needed to be improved.
"Chakra control can always be better, and distinguishing between different chakra signatures…"
Kakashi stopped reading at this while Naruto continued on with his list.
'He can sense chakra signatures at his age?'
"Naruto…" Kakashi interrupted. Naruto stopped speaking and looked at Kakashi in confusion.
"You can sense chakra signatures?"
Naruto nodded. "Yeah, I mean… When they're close enough I can sense who it is and all… But when I'm against a bunch of people, their chakra just seems to blend together and become indistinguishable."
Kakashi rubbed his chin as he thought.
'So… Naruto has sensory abilities… I could try and get an ANBU to try teaching him a bit more when we get back to Konoha… But I think for now, Naruto should focus on his combat skills… He's already developing well without assistance, I may as well see how he does with developing that…'
"Well, it seems you have a special skill Naruto… Having sensory type abilities makes you one of few Shinobi." Naruto's expression turned from tired to joyous at this news.
"Although, you definitely need refining on it… Most sensory type Shinobi can sense other chakra signatures from a distance and some of the more talented can sense whether they're human or not."
Naruto listened attentively, not wanting to miss any information on what he may be able to do at one point.
"For now, keep up the training as you see fit. If, I see that those sensory abilities are not improving much, I can get one of my associates from ANBU to help you out."
Naruto gave Kakashi a wide grin. "Thanks a ton sensei!!!"
Sasuke glared at the blonde at this revelation. 'Everyday, something else is revealed about this Dobe! He's better than I've given him credit for…'
Sakura was in slight disbelief at the moment. 'Naruto is… a unique type of Shinobi? Sensory?... What the hell is going on? He used to be the talent less Dobe of the academy and now… He's teaching Sasuke and I things and helping Kakashi fight Jonin level missing nins…'
Without a word, Sasuke wheeled around and left the house, intent on finishing the chakra control exercise.
Sakura remained where she was, listening to Naruto and Kakashi talk to each other.
"What else do you think you need to work on?" Kakashi asked.
"Well, stealth I'm alright on currently… I mean, I've been able to avoid ANBU and mobs since I was a small child."
Kakashi glanced at Sakura quickly before returning his gaze to Naruto.
'Mobs?' Sakura wondered.
"More Ninjutsu never hurt anybody…" Naruto added. Kakashi chuckled at that.
"It doesn't matter how many Jutsu you have at your disposal… A man with a thousand Jutsu can be killed with a well aimed kunai…" Kakashi said wisely.
Naruto shrugged as he laid his head on the table.
"Yeah, but having a few more Jutsu doesn't hurt my chances."
Kakashi said nothing, after all, he was the man that had copied over a thousand Jutsu. He really wasn't one to talk.
"Wait… You got like this from training?" Sakura asked incredulously.
Naruto nodded. "Yeah… Just got into a no holds fight with about two hundred Kage Bunshin…"
Not only did Sakura's eyes widen, but Kakashi stared at Naruto, one visible eye slightly widened in surprise.
'Never ceases to amaze me…' Kakashi simply thought as he resumed his novel.
Sasuke dropped from the tree, kunai in hand. 'This is getting redundant…' Sasuke thought to himself as he looked at the tall tree in front of him.
He decided on using a new tree and to track that specific day's progress.
Gritting his teeth, he focused chakra into the soles of his feet until he felt comfortable. Without another thought, he ran for the tree and rocketed up the towering monument of nature.
He reached where his last mark was when he felt himself starting to slip yet again.
"Dammit…" he growled as he pushed himself a few feet further from his last mark.
Feeling gravity begin to pull him back towards the ground, he used the kunai to slash the bark.
He landed cat like on the ground and looked back up at the newest slash in the bark.
'At least I'm making progress…' Sasuke thought with a slight grin before continuing on.
Naruto was sound asleep, and already looking better than he had earlier that day.
Sakura sighed as she closed his bedroom door and went back downstairs.
It wasn't her choice to check up on Naruto, but Tazuna's and Kakashi's. It seemed that Tazuna was going to take Naruto with him today and Sakura would be stuck with Kakashi, waiting for Sasuke to finish training.
She reached the kitchen to find it empty. Frowning, she went to the next room where she found Tazuna reading over Kakashi's shoulder.
"I always did find these books to be interesting… Tsunami, however, would always find the book no matter where I hid and she would always get rid of it… I never got past the part where they start to…"
At this point Sakura coughed loudly to interrupt the old man before she heard anything to horrific.
Plus, it helped announce her presence, but it was mostly for the former reason.
"Naruto is still sound asleep" she said.
"Good… When he wakes up, he'll probably want to start training as soon as he can… Too bad" Kakashi said as he continued on with his book.
"Why is he training so hard?" she asked suddenly. She watched Kakashi, expecting him to say something along the lines of 'oh he's just being a boy…' or something close to that.
The answer she received, scared her senseless.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to talk to you and Sasuke about that… Well, Naruto wants to be ready when he fights Zabuza and that 'Hunter-nin' when they come after us."
Sakura chuckled, not fully comprehending what Kakashi had just told her while Tazuna looked horrified. Suddenly, the statement hit Sakura like a brick wall.
"Wait… Isn't Zabuza dead though?" she asked quickly.
Kakashi shook his head. "I doubt it… As Naruto and I both figured out, Hunter-nin from Kirigakure are supposed to only take the head of the victim back with them to prove that the Nuke-nin has been taken care of… This 'Hunter-nin' decided to take the entire body with him while procedure says to take the head and burn the body where it fell…"
Sakura's eyes widened. "So the Hunter-nin was in league with Zabuza?" she asked fearfully.
Kakashi nodded. "Like I told Naruto, I should have checked for a pulse, although I doubt I would have found one…"
"Why not?" Tazuna asked. It was Sakura that answered the old man as she realized what Kakashi had meant.
"Senbon needles!!! They struck Zabuza in the neck and I remember reading somewhere that if you strike someone in a specific nerve, that it will put that person in a deathlike state!"
Kakashi nodded. "The boy was good… That's why Naruto is training… The boy was probably trained by Zabuza, who is an extremely powerful Shinobi that shows no mercy."
"Then why am I not training?" Sakura asked Kakashi angrily.
Kakashi looked over at her blankly before answering in a simple tone.
"Naruto is training of his own accord and Sasuke is still trying to get through the training you've completed. I would suggest that you train when you can, but it's ultimately up to the Shinobi or Kunoichi to train themselves."
Sakura had the decency to blush at this statement as Kakashi returned to reading his smut.
Naruto woke after about ten hours of sleep. From the position of the sun, Naruto could tell that evening was approaching and that he had just missed an entire day.
Groaning, Naruto sat up on his futon and surveyed the room. Next to him were his clothes that he had trained in the night before. They had been washed, but there were a few holes and tears from the harsh fighting he had endured.
Shrugging, Naruto shed his pajamas and threw the clothes on. He walked towards the door before realizing something.
'Where the hell is my jacket?' He thought back for a moment before remembering that he had left it in the kitchen when he had left.
Smiling in relief, he walked out of the room and downstairs.
"Welcome to the land of the living" Kakashi's voice rang from the other room.
Looking around the kitchen that he had entered, he tried to locate his jacket.
'It's not in here…' he thought angrily.
"Kakashi!" Naruto called as he exited the kitchen and entered the room Kakashi was seated along with Sakura and Tazuna. Inari sat in the corner, looking out the window wistfully.
"Do you know where my jacket is?" he asked.
"Right here" Tsunami said as she entered the room as well. She held his jacket up and handed it to him. "I just found it in the kitchen and thought you might like it if I washed it."
Naruto bowed to the woman. "Thanks Tsunami-san, but you really didn't have to…"
Tsunami smiled at the Genin. "It's a small way to repay you for protecting my father."
Tazuna interrupted any reply Naruto had in store.
"So, Naruto! Will you be able to come and help out at the bridge tomorrow? Your clones really did help make some progress the other day!"
Naruto smiled. "Sure, it's no problem! I get to learn about construction that way! Make any progress today?"
Tazuna shook his head. "I didn't go today. I was hoping to take you again! With you on board, we could finish the bridge completely in two weeks!!!"
Naruto gave Tazuna a thumbs up. "Well, I'll be sure to help out tomorrow!"
Tazuna laughed enthusiastically at this. Sakura said nothing as she remembered how much help Naruto had been the other day at the bridge.
Flashback
Naruto, Sakura, and Tazuna walked through the small streets of the town.
'This place is a dump…' Naruto thought as he looked at the empty, broken down buildings.
A stranger or two would eye the group hungrily before scurrying off from the glare Naruto gave them.
At one point, Naruto deemed it necessary to hold a kunai in plain view when one man had attempted to take something from Sakura's pouch… He had ultimately failed and accidentally brushed against her ass, setting her off in a violent tantrum that had left the poor soul bloody and beaten.
Naruto grinned at that. 'Sometimes, Sakura can really pack a wallop'.
They reached the beginning of the construction sight where rusted cranes were in use.
There were many men there, carrying various objects from wood, to concrete slabs.
Tazuna continued through the mess of a construction.
"It seems unorganized, but we're making terrific progress!" Tazuna yelled over a drilling noise.
Naruto nodded. "How long have you been building?!" he asked/yelled.
"About three months!" answered the old man.
Naruto's eyebrows rose. 'That's impressive… I may not know much about construction, but the gap between the land of fire and Nami no Kuni is pretty large…'
"How much longer do you think until it'll be finished?" Naruto asked.
"I'd say a month or two at this rate!" Tazuna yelled as the drilling noise ceased.
Naruto thought for a moment as they continued on. "Want to cut that time in half?" he asked with a devilish grin plastered on his face.
"How?" Tazuna asked. 'I've seen what these Shinobi can do, and I'm not going to disregard their advice!' thought the old man as he remembered the sheer power behind the fight with Zabuza.
Grinning like a maniac, Naruto formed the cross seal.
"Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
A few men that were walking by dropped the items that they were carrying when a large army of blonde's appeared in front of them.
"Manuel labor is my specialty!" Naruto exclaimed loudly as the Bunshin cheered around them.
Tazuna's eyes were popping out of his head and his jaw had dropped.
It took him a few minutes to recover and a Naruto shaking him gently.
"T…Tazuna-san? Are you alright?" Naruto asked worriedly.
"What? Oh! YES! I definitely could use you and your…"
"Just call them clones!" Naruto said.
Tazuna nodded as he glanced at the many Naruto's.
'This boy… is a miracle…' thought the middle aged man.
Flashback ends
"So where's Sasuke-Teme?" Naruto asked cheekily.
Tazuna suppressed a chuckle while Tsunami glared slightly at the blonde.
"Oh, he's still out there training I believe…" Kakashi said as he flipped through his book.
Naruto nodded as he put his jacket on.
"Well, I guess I'll go out and drag him back" Naruto said as he walked towards the front door.
"You going to train tonight?" asked the silver haired Jonin.
Naruto shrugged. "I may as well if we're going to fight Zabuza again. I want to be prepared."
"Just don't over do it again…" Kakashi sighed.
Naruto grinned. "I'll try not to."
Naruto walked out of the house and felt a cool breeze hit his face.
'I really do like the smell of the ocean wafting on the breeze…' Naruto thought serenely.
Naruto then ran forward before jumping into the trees and using the branches to travel faster than if he walked.
He leapt from branch to branch, barely making any noise as he did so.
He looked over at the sun that approached the western horizon.
'About another two hours of sunlight… yippee!' he thought to himself. 'Teme had better be where he was last night if he knows what is best…'
Another minute or two of tree hoping, he found the clearing where they had all been training and sure enough, there was an exhausted Uchiha.
Naruto landed next to the crouching raven haired Genin.
"How's the progress?" Naruto asked as he looked at one of the trees.
"..I… made it… to the… top…" Sasuke panted.
Naruto nodded. "Nice… How long ago?" he asked.
"About two hours ago" answered the Uchiha.
Naruto smiled. "Yeah, you definitely got it faster than I did. I'm guessing you're trying it by just walking now?"
Sasuke nodded. "I need to get stronger."
Naruto glanced at Sasuke. "I'm guessing for revenge against your brother, Itachi, right?"
Sasuke seemed to gain a second wind, for the moment Itachi's name came escaped from Naruto's lips, he was attacking Naruto.
Naruto jumped back, barely avoiding Sasuke's fist.
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "What the fuck was that for?"
Sasuke panted as he clenched his fist, a trickle of blood appearing and leaking from his hand.
"How… how do you know about that?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto stared at Sasuke. "It's not really a big secret about how your clan was killed Sasuke… The big hint was the day we first met as a team. You stated you wanted to kill a certain man and I can easily guess who that man is."
Sasuke gritted his teeth. "…I need to get stronger." Sasuke looked Naruto straight in the eye, fire behind his eyes.
Naruto grinned. "Determination is one of the best tools a Shinobi can have… That's what a friend of mine once told me."
Sasuke looked up at Naruto. "I was told that hatred was a Shinobi's greatest way of becoming strong."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at that.
"Who the hell told you that?" he asked curiously.
Sasuke's mind seemed to drift off, thinking of the past, the moment he had heard those words.
"Sasuke…?" Naruto snapped his fingers in front of the Uchiha's face, bringing him back to reality.
"…Him…" he said simply.
Naruto raised an eyebrow at this. "You mean your brother?"
Sasuke nodded. Naruto stayed silent at this answer. "Why did he tell you that?"
"He told me, in order to become strong enough to face him… to kill him… that I would need hatred."
Naruto shook his head. "That doesn't really sound true to me."
Sasuke looked up at Naruto. The blonde was the first person he had told this, and he didn't know what had urged him to inform Naruto of what his brother had said, but he felt… compelled.
Yet, here he was, countering Itachi's advice that he had given him.
"How would you know?!" Sasuke said heatedly.
Naruto sat down and patted the ground in front of him. Sasuke hesitated, but sat down none the less.
"Think about all of the greatest Shinobi from the hidden leaf… The four Hokages for example… All of them were peace loving individuals. I've never heard of any of them using hatred to gain power, and they were some of the most powerful Shinobi of all time."
Sasuke raised his eyebrows in surprise. 'He does have a point…'
Naruto continued on. "Plus, who's to say Itachi used hatred to get to his level? He may be strong, but is he as strong as the Sannin, or the Yondaime?"
Sasuke pondered on Naruto's words for a bit before Naruto stood up.
"I'm going back to Tazuna's, and you should come to… One last thing though… If Itachi killed your whole clan, do you really think he wants you to become strong enough to kill him of something? He probably told you that whole hatred crap to hinder you… Just saying."
Sasuke's eye widened. '…T…That's possible! Why would he want me to kill him? He's evil enough to do that…'
Gritting his teeth at how gullible he had been, he stood up just as Naruto began walking away.
Looking at the blonde he continued wondering. 'Naruto has been getting stronger, at an amazing rate… He isn't using his hatred to get stronger, just determination…'
Sasuke turned and looked at the tree he had scaled. 'I will get stronger Itachi, just not the way you think…' With that thought, he followed Naruto back to the house.
The following morning found Sakura watching as Sasuke nodded a greeting to Naruto which was politely returned.
Said incident caused Sakura's jaw to drop. 'They're friends?! How the hell did that happen?'
Naruto sat down, no words exchanged as he grabbed some breakfast consisting of cooked fish and rice.
Kakashi smiled behind his book at the two male Genin and their new interactions.
'It seems as if the team work of squad seven may improve' he thought to himself with a chuckle.
The Genin ignored Kakashi's chuckle as they had become accustomed to his perverted reading which entailed, chuckling and giggling at seemingly random moments.
Finishing his meal, Naruto stood up.
"Where are you going?" Kakashi asked as he looked over at the blonde Genin.
"Just some light training. You three can come with if you want!" he suggested with a hopeful smile.
Kakashi shook his head. "I'll be alright… I'm still recovering and if I know Gai, you've probably picked up some of his habits that don't involve his dress code.
Naruto pouted. "What's so bad about how the dress?"
Kakashi actually set his book on the table and glared at Naruto.
"I'm not going to go into extreme detail here, but no student of mine shall EVER wear those monstrosities."
Naruto sighed. "Fine... Sasuke, Sakura? Either of you two wanna go for some light training?"
Sasuke shrugged as he stood up, his meal finished. "May as well…"
Sakura hesitated for a moment before leaping to her feet. "Same here!"
Naruto grinned. "All right! Hope you two can keep up then!"
Sasuke grinned, after all, light training was always easy… right?
Translations
Goken - Iron fist
Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu – Multi Shadow Clone Technique
Fūton: Daitoppa - Wind Release: Great Breakthrough
Suiton: Hahonryū - Water Release: Tearing Torrent
Katon: Gōkakyu no Jutsu - Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique
Now, to answer a few, questions and requests.
1. NO!!! I am NOT getting rid of Sakura. She's part of squad seven and I'm not going to break it up just because people want me to… I've gotten a lot of messages asking me to do so and I absolutely refuse to do so.
2. This is NOT a Sakura bashing fanfiction… Yes, she and Naruto don't get along, but she isn't always going to be yelling at him constantly… She is a smart girl to an extent, yet in many ways stupid.
3. Naruto's original affinity is wind… And I intend on keeping it that way. I will be using the canon Naruto to set things up, so he will not have fire or water affinities… I believe, that one were to train hard enough in a certain affinity, that they can use techniques from that affinity. Orochimaru doesn't have all five elemental affinities, yet he's trying to gain knowledge of all Jutsu… I'm sure he can use multiple affinities. Another example is Kakashi. In the anime, he's used lightning, earth, fire, water… Don't know if he has used wind, but I'm sure as he has copied over a thousand techniques, that he has a few Futon Jutsu.
4. No requesting Sasuke to not go to Orochimaru… please? If it happens it happens…
5. This is a Naruto and Ino ONLY!!! I'm not adding anyone to this romance to satisfy your cravings for a harem or because you prefer that pairing. I've marked this as a NaruIno fic and that's what I'm going to write. Sorry if I'm a deuchebag because of it… but that's how it goes.
If you DO have any requests or comments that do not involve the things I have addressed, then feel free to message me or leave it in a review for all to see.
Oh, and if you don't like the length, then I'm sorry… I really am, but I prefer longer chapters compared to shorter chapters. Just something I enjoy and I will continue to do…
Anyways, as always REVIEW!!!! My sanity depends on it more than it has before… Which is very strange indeed…
Anyways, hope you all have a wonderful and drunk Halloween evening. I know my fiancé and I will! Hehehehe! DRUNKEN DEBACHERY COMENCES NOW!!!