Naruto looked at Kakashi, who had just stood up after stretching and looking at the sun. "It's nearly ten, so we had best head over to the others." He said, somewhat sadly. Kakashi had no desire to deal with the other two ruining his day.

"How are we getting there?" Naruto asked, as the walk would take ten to fifteen minutes. "Shunshin, do you know it?" Naruto shook his head, asking "How do I do it?" 'Well, Naruto would grow suspicious if I denied him knowledge after him asking for it, and the Hokage said nothing about what to do if he requests knowledge. Best tell him, and I can cover myself later." Kakashi thought with a glint in his eye.

"These are the hand signs," he went through them "there are only three, and this jutsu is not that challenging. What most ninja have trouble with is the chakra amount required, but that should be no problem for you. Just focus on an area, make the image in your mind as detailed as possible. Oh, side note, try to avoid using this multiple times in a row, it tends to damage your leg muscles with too much exposure." The blond boy nodded, formed the signs, said the jutsu name, and it brought him to the edge of the clearing.

He frowned. "That was nowhere near as difficult as I was suspecting." Kakashi had a maddening smile in his eye, making Naruto think he was missing something. Kakashi on the other hand was marveling at Naruto, even the so-called prodigy's wound up running into something their first time using that jutsu, and Naruto stopped with plenty of room to spare from a tree. "Well, let's go and face the team!" He said, more cheerful at the idea then he had been a few minutes ago.

~Break~

After an incredibly lout scream from Sakura, Kakashi had them start training. Well, teamwork exercises. Naruto accepted it and worked at it, but both Sasuke and Sakura complained about it, Sasuke because he needed power to kill his brother, not teamwork, and Sakura because Sasuke was complaining.

Kakashi sighed to himself, not understanding why those two didn't pay attention during the Shinobi Academy. Iruka went over just Why teamwork was so important to a Konoha Nin, and it wasn't just for collaboration jutsu. Famous teams like the Sannin, the Ino-Sheika-Cho trio, or even the famous pair of the Nidaime and Saindaime. Those stories showed just why teamwork was important, but apparently it just went right over those two's heads.

Finally tired of it after an hour with no progress, he decided to start the separate training programs. "Alright, enough!" Sasuke wasted no time in getting away from his two teammates.

"Alright, first, Naruto. Seeing as you were the only one, once again, to put any effort into working as a team, here is your exercise. Kucyoise no Jutsu: Inu pack!" A group of dogs appeared once the smoke cleared, and a pug wearing a Leaf headband raised his paw and said "Yo!" Ignoring Sakura's screamed "It talks!" and the pugs indignant exclamation, Kakashi pulled out eight scrolls and gave one to each dog, giving the final one to the pug.

"Alright, genin, these are my summons, headed by this guy, Pakkun." The pug waved. "Naruto, these guys are expert trackers and stealth specialists. They are going to help you sharpen your tracking and stealth skills. Your objective is to find the scrolls that I've given them, and to not get caught. Pakkun will teach you a few things before we begin, and upon finding a scroll, you are to open them. I'll know when you have done so. I expect this exercise to take a while, several months in fact, so do not be concerned if you are incapable of finding them. However, to make it more challenging," here Kakashi regained the manic gleam in his eye "they will also be tracking you!"

Looking at the grinning dogs, Naruto felt a surge of anxiety. "Alright, these are Bull, Urushi, Shiba, Bisuke, Akino, Uhei, and Garuko. The will be tracking you, and so will Pakkun if you last twenty minutes into the exercise. Have fun!" he finished cheerily. Naruto walked off with the eight dogs, feeling like he was walking to his doom.

The happy but crazy glint in Kakashi's eye changed into an evil one as he turned towards the remaining two genin. "Now, let's see what we can do with you." He said, rather ominously.

~Break~

"Where is he?" Pakkun asked, thoroughly frustrated with the exercise. It had been two hours, and while no scrolls had been taken, they had yet to find Naruto either. Not even a glimpse had been found, even those "leads" were all dead ends. If it wasn't so frustrating Pakkun would be happy for the kid, as he was doing something that had only happened with Jiraiya and Minato, avoiding a highly experienced pack of trackers.

Naruto's eyes narrowed, before he jumped, snatching a scroll and was gone before the dogs knew he was there. The process was repeated seven times before he finally found the last scroll, guarded by two dogs and with the other six roaming around trying to find him. Naruto knew that there was no way to get to that without causing a distraction. He drew a kunai and tossed it, far behind him. The sound of it hitting the trunk of a tree was just loud enough for the ninken to hear, and the frustrated dogs all left except for pakkun, who was shouting at them to stay.

"Damn ninken, every bit as childish as they were years ago!" he muttered angrily. "Where are you gaki, I'm ready for you." The continuous muttering made Naruto smirk, and he put his hands in a cross sign to use one of the four jutsu he got from the forbidden scroll. "Kage bunshin no jutsu!" he muttered, an exact copy of him appearing next to him in, without the trademark puff of smoke.

The clone nodded to him, and went about the plan to distract the ninken.

Pakkun shut up immediately, the smell of Naruto hitting his nostrils, and a wicked grin crossed his face. "Thought there wouldn't be any of us here after your little distraction, did you?" He muttered darkly. "Well, I'll just have to disillusion you!" Pakkun ran, silently and swiftly, towards the origin of the scent. Naruto was hard pressed to prevent a snigger at the serious little dog. Still cautious, he looked around for traps. Seeing none, he successfully grabbed the scroll, replacing it with a henged rock that looked exactly like it. Pakkun soon came back, once again muttering darkly about genin who were too talented for their own good.

Escaping to a safer area, away from all the dogs, Naruto began opening the scrolls, in the order that he found them. The first was an explanation of Earth natured chakra, as well as lessons as to how to manipulate it. Apparently the first exercise was to take a round, flat stone and turn it to soil, then back to a rock. Once you could do that in under a second, you had mastered it. Most people worked to the point where they could do it in a few seconds, not bothering with anymore.

Opening the rest of the scrolls, what looked like an entire library of useful earth jutsu popped out at him, at least two dozen. A note popped out of the second scroll that he opened.

"Naruto,

These are jutsu for your element. I need to focus more on your teammates, so other than a few tips I will be unable to help you. Learn these quickly! Knowing the council they will attempt to force us out onto greater missions before you all are ready. Work on your taijutsu especially, and incinerate this note once you finished reading it.

A chibi Kakashi with a peace sign was at the bottom instead of a signature, causing Naruto to sweatdrop. He wondered just why the man would be training the other two, but he accepted it, seeing as at least the man had provided for him. Scanning the techniques, he saw nothing over chunin level except for a mud dragon jutsu, but that one would take an abnormal amount of hand seals to accomplish. He needed jutsu that could be used in the heat of battle, not something that took a while.

Looking over the jutsus, he noticed that a lot of earth jutsus required the user slamming his hands or feet onto the ground. He decided to try using only his feet after he got ahold of it. He began to incinerate the note, but as he crumbled it up he saw a note on the back.

P.S.

Shadow clones return the memories of their lives to their creators upon dispelling, as well as being able to cast jutsu. Happy training!

Naruto nodded at that, before burning it. He looked up and saw that he was surrounded by a group of irritated ninken, but also with a grudging pride in their eyes. The Pug came up to him, saying "Congratulations, you beat us. We expected this to take months! Your stealth is far greater than we expected, but your tracking could use some work." Naruto nodded in agreement.

The pug smiled at him. "In reward, I will allow you to touch my paw!" He held out a paw, pad up, that was pink. "It's quite soft and pleasant." Quite confused, but unwilling to risk getting bit, he touched the bad with a finger.

His eyes widened as he realized just how soft it was. Pakkun looked incredibly smug at his expression, before stating "No one ever believes me when I say it, and they all wish they had pillows this soft." Naruto smiled at him. "Well, our job is done here, see you Naruto. Oh, by the way, Kakashi will still expect you to be "training" tomorrow with our aid. Despite the fact that you completed it, your team will know no different. Have fun!" With one final smile, oddly reminiscent of Kakashi's eye smiles, he poofed away with the rest of the Ninken.

'Odd group. Oh well, Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!' Several dozen clones materialized, getting started on the manipulation while a dozen more started the first jutsu. Naruto himself did physical training, expecting that the clones would not pass that back to him.

~Break~

"Is everything ready Fu?" came the low voice of Danzo, speaking to one of his Root members. "Hai, Otou-Sama." Was the monotone reply from the Aburame. "We are going to leave the items at his apartment. It took longer than it should of because he has some rather fascinating traps, both regular an fuin type…" seeing the look on Danzo's face that quite clearly said 'I don't care' made him stop. "Good. We can discuss traps later Fu, right now we have other things to be doing." The ninja nodded.

~Break~

Kakashi finished a rather trying training period with his two genin, heading towards the last one, his preferred one. It was amazing how much difference there was between the three. He came into the clearing where his ninken said they left Naruto, only to see the boy himself staggering around in the middle of the clearing, blood leaking from a few cuts. A horrible moment passed, where Kakashi saw his teammate Rin instead of Naruto there, but the flashback was ruined by Naruto vomiting up blood. The crimson liquid spattered the forest floor, scaring Kakashi out of years of life as he was by the boy's side immediately, running one of the many jutsu's he had copied over the years, the basic scanning jutsu, over the boy in an attempt to find out what was wrong.

"I'm…fine…Kakashi." The boy panted out, a little blood leaking out after each spoken word. "Don't talk, you'll wind up killing yourself." The boy, oddly enough, smiled, before roughly saying "Too…much…muscle…training…tore the…hell outta my…muscles. I'll…be…healed…in a…hour." Kakashi looked incredulously at the boy, before assuming he had a concussion as well as internal injuries. He refocused on the scan just in time to find that the boy was right, but in a way he had never seen.

A great deal of malevolent chakra was in his system, rocketing around the boys destroyed muscles, and even as he scanned, the muscles were being rebuilt, thicker and stronger than they had been. "Some meat…would be…appreciated though." Kakashi was about to ask why, but the answer hit him like his own original jutsu. 'Protein!' He felt rather stupid, considering how fast the boy was healing he would probably heal even faster if he had access to a raw source of protein, that being a major component of muscles. The extra fat would probably go a long way as well.

He put the boy down at the base of a tree, leaning him up against it and spending a moment making sure Naruto was as comfortable as possible, before creating a clone to keep watch and heading deeper into the woods to find game.

~Break~

"What the fuck were you thinking?" Kakashi angrily asked. Cold blue eyes rose to meet his brown orbs, apathetic to his rage and concern. "I did not intend to destroy my muscles Kakashi," he hissed, still not fully recovered, despite the hour he had stated already passing. "Yeah, but you did! What could you have possibly been doing to do that?" It was with a mixture of curiosity and anger that he asked that, as he knew anyone else would have died without intensive medical treatment after that.

Naruto sighed, and started healing what was left of the damage, ignoring Kakashi for the moment. A vein above the older mans eye twitched, but he kept his temper, understanding that hurting the boy would be a problem considering how hurt he was.

Thirty minutes later, the blonde stood, a slightly arrogant smirk on his face. He finally spoke, as he removed a pair of anklets and bracelets, as well as two pieces of paper from the pockets of his coat. "I was training." And the boy vanished from view, Kakashi loosing track of him completely. He whirled around upon hearing an "ouch", seeing the boy reeling from a tree, with the impression of a Konoha headband in it.

'Note to self: Next time my speed greatly increases, train with it!" Kakashi was amazed, but still angry, tapping his foot with his arms crossed, waiting for an explanation. Naruto turned around to face him, his usual cold expression back in place. "I was training my speed, and I have learned that the best way to train in anything is with the threat of death near. So I had shadow clones, as well as earth shadow clones attack me, while I was wearing extra weight. Unfortunately, I forgot that I was wearing chakra weights, so they increase every time I get used to them. By the time I figured that out, my body was incredibly damaged and there were several lethal attacks headed straight for me. I ruined what was left of my muscles in a desperate attempt to avoid it."

Kakashi looked at Naruto, thinking 'Not even Gai is that dumb.'

~Flashback~

Naruto could barely move, as he was wearing a great deal of extra weight. He looked at the dozen clones waiting to attack him, one at the time to begin with, and nodded to show he was ready.

The clone came at him full speed, with all ½ of Naruto's skill and power. Half the chakra, half the power, after all. Ninjato in hand, Naruto waited for the clone, but wasn't waiting long. An upper slash was far too fast for him to even consider dodging, resulting in a sword wound crossing his chest. Another movement had a perfect X in blood across his chest.

Eyes wide and panicking, Naruto swung his blade, the extra weight he was wearing ensuring that it went harmlessly wide from the clones dodge, before the clone stabbed the ninjato into his arm. Blood sprayed onto the forest floor, but this had the added benefit of awakening a creature inside Naruto. The Kyuubi no Kitsune looked through its containers eyes, seeing the brat's idiocy, but decided he had might as well help so that this didn't happen again.

The atmosphere itself palpably tinged with murderous intent, as Naruto's typical blue eyes changed into the Kyuubi's eyes. He vanished from sight, left fist slamming into the neck of the clone and destroying the entire head thanks to the chakra imbedded in his fist. The other clones eyes widened, but one advanced just the same.

Naruto felt bloodlust, for the first time in a while, eagerly killing clone after clone after clone. However, the Kyuubi's chakra rebuilt his muscles as quickly as they were ruined by the quick movements against the weight, resulting in said weight increasing. Two clones stepped up to fight him now, and Naruto's feral grin was countered by gleaming blades.

He vanished, hitting the one on the left with a leaf whirlwind, but was blocked. The clone grabbed his leg and slammed him into the ground, before twisting his ninjato into a reverse grip and stabbing downwards.

Naruto once again felt like he was about to die, but this time his own ingenuity won out. Unable to perform a shunshin, he did the next best thing. Focusing a great deal of chakra to his foot, he kicked the clones shin, releasing it on impact.

In other cases, such as Tsunade, this resulted in super strength. Because of Naruto's lack of control compared to the Sannin, what he got was an explosion that launched him back at a great speed, but obliterated the clone. Many sets of eyes widened, as did the originals. Back flipping into a standing position using the momentum, he landed and attempted an experiment. Dozens of yards away from the other clone, he slammed his foot on the ground, chakra releasing on impact, sending him catapulting at such speeds that even his eyes could barely see during it. It was more luck than skill that resulted in his destroying the clone with his outstretched fist.

Standing at the end of the clearing, watching the dozens of clones, he marveled in his new talent. He stomped again, killing three this time, before the rest of the clones began attacking him. He drew the ninjato from his arm, and went to murder city. Dozens of slash's killed dozens of clones, never a move wasted, even his new speed attack was refined, changing instead from one uncontrollable stomp on the ground releasing a great deal of chakra to ten speedy stomps with a lesser chakra amount allowing him to control the technique, being able to use it on any solid surface rather than destroying said surface.

However, he swiftly grew exhausted, and wound up with four clones at four points around him. His body hurt, every movement screaming at him to surrender and die rather than deal with this pain, but he merely grinned. That sight set the four clones to a uneasy stalemate, rather than test whatever the original was planning. That move turned deadly as he had time to gain the scattered dregs of his chakra for his an even newer technique.

"Kenjutsu: Earthbound Hawk!"

Staring at nothing, he barely heard Kakashi's shocked cry. He felt what was left of the Kyuubi's chakra working on his body, and while he knew he would survive, he also knew that he would never do something like that again.

~End Flashback~

'Now for a name…well, all I really did with it was pure speed, and while I grew to control it, it was always a close shave. Hmm, shave…that will do. My newest speed technique, Soru!'