Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 32: The Konohamaru Korps
Naruto had finished his training the following day, pleased that learning his second element did not take nearly as long as the first, this was mostly due to the fact he was already experienced in the process of how to manipulate an element at such a high level as his Fuuton was.
Having a small lunch which many would consider enough to feed a family for several days, he began to make his way to the training ground to meet his temporary students after a temporary stop off at the hospital as he decided to check on Asuma's recovery, the Nurse told him he was currently sleeping but he would be discharged in a few weeks once they were sure he was fully healed.
Naruto had arrived early but was surprised to find that all three members of team Ebisu were there waiting for him.
"Hey guys" he called out landing in the clearing in front of the genin.
"Heya Boss" Udon called out eager to improve as much as possible.
"Well then, I have never been a sensei before but I'm willing to give it a go. Now Konohamaru we are going to work on your Taijutsu and tactics as well as that other jutsu I began to teach you before I left, I will give you the second part to work on in your own time. Udon, you will be having target practice until you can hit every target dead center every time, I also want you to read these books on Fuinjutsu. Moegi unfortunately I am about as useful at Genjutsu and medical ninjutsu as Iruka sensei's big head jutsu is in combat, but don't worry I will get you some scrolls and maybe some help from Sakura if she will agree to help. Finally I will get the scrolls of the kunai and shiken Kagebushin no jutsu and we will all learn it, as it could be useful to me as well" Naruto informed the young genin.
"Yes Naruto sensei" the three chorused
"Sensei huh, I kinda like it... Anyway before we can get started on any of that we need to work on your speed and reaction times while dodging, if you cant be hit you cant loose" Naruto said and brought out three seals and released several sets of weights onto the ground as well as several red balls.
"We are going to be wearing weights while we have to dodge those balls" Udon guessed.
"Very good, oh and this training will continue all week until you can last fifteen minutes without being hit by me or my clones" Naruto said creating several shadow clones who picked up the red balls and spread out around the field "Now hurry up and put on the weights before I go to Baa-chan and request you get the next fifty Tora missions"
The genin disappeared in a burst of speed, the threat of facing Tora that many times was to horrifying for words.
The training had not been so much about dodging as about Naruto belting small children with medicine balls. "come on you guys can do better than this" he yelled out hitting Konohamaru square in the back causing him to fall on his face.
"How we can barely move at a civilian pace with these stupid weights on how are we supposed to dodge these things" Konohamaru complained.
"By forcing your body to move faster than it knows it can, move before I throw anticipate my attacks, and finally... practice, it is far better to end up with some bruises from training than to end up dead because you were not fast enough to dodge an attack" Naruto said before throwing a ball at Udon who almost rolled out of the way but had the ball clip his ankle.
This went on for several more hours before Naruto called it quits for the day, "Good job guys, I know you don't feel it yet but this will make you are already much faster, now I want you to wear those weights from now on and only take them off for half an hour each day and when you sleep to get used to your new speed and strength"
"Yes Naruto sensei" the three beaten genin called out.
"So we will meet back here at 1 tomorrow and I'm going to bring Yugi-chan and Kakashi sensei to help as we start on the rest of your training" the blond said before leaving with a shunshin.
The Konohamaru Korps just sat there exhausted not wanting to move. "You know I'm starting to think asking Nii-san to help us was a bad idea" Konohamaru said nursing his wounds.
It took the others several moments to respond as they too were sore from the indiscriminate beating the blond chunin bestowed upon them. "Yeah but he is right you know, If we can dodge his attacks we will be able to dodge anything we could be faced with in the chunin exams" Udon moaned.
"That is a good point but I just wish it didn't hurt have to be so painful" Moegi said struggling to her feat followed by Udon and Konohamaru.
(With Naruto)
Naruto walked towards his apartment when he heard a mellow voice coming from beside him. "hello Naruto long time no see"
Turning his head he saw a tall teen around his age wearing glasses and a long coat covering most of his face.
"Uh, uh, Shino? Is that you?" Naruto asked honestly unsure of who the teen was.
"You don't recognize me, it is not nice to forget about your friends Naruto" the bug user said in a monotone.
"Well its kinda hard you know with that big coat you wear" Naruto reasoned
"You are wearing a coat also" Shino said pointing to Naruto's sage outfit.
"I guess, but I mean come on Shino, I couldn't see your face all I had to go on was your voice, I think I did a pretty good job considering" Naruto said defensively.
It was at that point a large white dog jumped down from a nearby roof a tallish teenage boy sitting atop with wild brown hair and fang marks on his cheeks. "Well look who it is, if it isn't Naruto, how you doing man" the boy said eagerly
"Hey Kiba! Its been so long and is that Akamaru last time I saw him he used to ride around on your head now its the other way around" Naruto said in amazement at the size of the large white dog.
"Sure!. Him you recognize" Shino moped "Kiba where have you been we were supposed to start to start training 15 minutes ago"
Kiba grinned sheepishly at this "Oh sorry Shino man I was just complimenting the only thing that smells like a cat that is worth knowing about, but man she cant take a compliment" Kiba said
Naruto narrowed his eyes at this statement he had to have been talking about Yugito and he wondered just what it was he said, but his question was soon answered for him.
"You said my ass was looking exceptionally lovely today, that's not a compliment I want to hear from you dog boy" Yugito snapped as she appeared behind Kiba with an annoyed look on her face.
"Ah come on Yugito-chan it was just a compliment, if you didn't smell like cats you would be the perfect woman" Kiba leered.
"I would appreciate it if you would stop hitting on my girlfriend Kiba" Naruto said annoyed at the Inuzuka's antics but was also aware that this behaviour was just part of what made him Kiba
Kiba pales slightly at this, if there was one thing he could tell as soon as he saw Naruto again was that everything about him, his stance his aura even his fox like sent screamed Alpha! If Naruto was to spend any extended time in the Inuzuka compound he would be sure that there women would be throwing themselves at him.
"Uh sorry man I didn't know she was your girlfriend, It wont happen again, I was just having some fun I meant no harm" Kiba rambled getting a raised eyebrow from Shino who had never seen Kiba so submissive.
"Don't worry no harm done, right Yugi-chan" Naruto said.
"I guess so" she grumbled out still upset at Kiba's actions.
"Oh and for the record, your ass is indeed looking exceptionally lovely today" Naruto teased giving her a quick kiss on the cheek and squeezing her ass making her jump slightly in shock.
Kiba looked jealous while Shino, well Shino was Shino, calm, cool and collected, seeing the way the two blonds interacted with each other.
"So are you guys training for the Jonnin selection's or just for the sake of it" Naruto asked
Kiba now that he was not encroaching on Naruto's territory was back to his usual self. "yeah man it's going to be fun we will make Jonnin for sure, right shino"
Shino didn't answer immediately and seemed to be contemplating this "It will be difficult they are being held in Iwa this time round and it is a difficult terrain as it will be foreign to us, it is only logical to guess that the teams most likely to pass will be from Iwa" Shino reasoned
"Wow that's a lot of words for 'yes'... …. what about you Naruto are you going to enter" Kiba asked.
"Hmm good question don't know, Iwa and my father have a rather... difficult past, so I wouldn't exactly be welcomed, also I don't have a team to go with" Naruto admitted.
"Why not go with Tenten and Lee. Neji made jonnin last time so they were going to ask Sakura but she isn't eligible as she only just made chunin last exams" Kiba said completely ignoring the fact he would be highly disliked in Iwa and would have to put up at the very least glares.
"I will think about it but right now I have to focus on training Konohamaru and his friends for the chunin exams... oh Yugi-chan I could use your help with it tomorrow, if you don't mind helping me out I think you would be a perfect sensei for Moegi until I can talk to Sakura to help her with some medical ninjutsu, I don't want her ending up a fan girl so I want you to train her first and show her what a real kunoichi is"
Yugito thought about Naruto's question for a moment, she liked the three genin a lot but didn't know much about teaching. "I guess, but I don't know how good I will be, I have never taught before" Yugito admitted.
"That's fine neither have I except for a couple of jutsu I began teaching Konohamaru before I left" Naruto said happily.
"Alright I'll do it. Could be fun and all that pink haired witch that dotes all over the memory of the fucking Uchiha could teach the girl is how to break things with her massive strength and cry" Yugito joked.
"It's sad but it's true. Anyway guys we should go. I'm starving, teaching genin to dodge builds up an appetite" Naruto grabbed Yugito's hand in his own and began to slowly walk in the direction of Ichiraku's giving Kiba and Shino a friendly wave goodbye.
(The Next Day)
Konohamaru, Udon and Moegi, sat waiting in the clearing for Naruto to arrive. They were not waiting long when they saw three people appear in front of them.
Naruto and Yugito were on either side holding one arm of a clearly annoyed looking copy ninja.
"Yo" Naruto called in typical Kakashi style. "We were on our way here when we found your final sensei walking aimlessly in the wrong direction... but don't worry he's no longer lost on the road of life isn't that right Kakashi sensei?"
Kakashi sweat dropped at this. "Yes, now can we just begin already"
"Ok guys first to explain what you are going to be doing for the first two hours. Udon, your coming with me and going to learn sealing, it will be perfect for your skill in trap making and as the team's strategist will give you an extra option to use when dealing with tough opposition. I also need to work on your accuracy and test your taijutsu. Konohamaru you are going to go with Kakashi who can teach you a taijutsu style that would work for you, I only really know three well outside of the academy style but Kakashi sensei knows far more the only person that would be better to teach you would be Gai sensei who taught me Goken but he is a little eccentric for my tastes. Moegi, Yugi-chan will be taking you, I want you to improve your taijutsu to make it passable in a fight, but most of all extra dodging work, I want you to be able to slide away from every attack thrown at you, and the best teacher for something like that is Yugi-chan her reflexes are so fast she is almost impossible to hit" Naruto lectured
They split up after that and went there own way to different sections of the training field.
(With Konohamaru and Kakashi)
Konohamaru was standing patiently when Kakashi got into a loose stance. "I want you to come at me, taijutsu only when I can see how you fight mentally I can decide what would be the best form to learn"
Konohamaru didn't need asking twice he rounded on the silver haired jonnin and charged, attempting a kick to his side but when that failed spinning into a punch aimed at the jonnin's face.
Kakashi was dodging with ease as the genin attacked. "Why cant I hit you!" Konohamaru yelled in frustration when Kakashi eventually jumped away.
"Because I am a far more experienced ninja and you are using your style the wrong way... The monkey style of your clan is designed to frustrate your opponents and attack just before they do giving them less time to react, your problem is your mentality to charge in and continue your assault even when the initial attacks have failed. In the monkey style the first strike is always key as it uses the most strength and has momentum behind it, the other strikes in this form will not be as effective if you don't end the attack by the third strike" Kakashi said
"Well what do I do about it then" Konohamaru demanded
"Until you can keep a clear head I suggest not using the Monkey style in combat, I will teach you the Goken as it favors the frontal assault type, now follow these kata's" Kakashi said and the pair began working on the young Sarutobi's new style.
(With Udon and Naruto)
"Ok Udon we are going to begin work on several seals that will be very useful, now I want you to read these books during your free time, first I want to show you the three seals I want you to be able to perform before the end of the month" as Naruto said this he unsealed a bottle of ink and several sheets of paper.
"the first is the common exploding tag" Naruto said slowly drawing the required matrix on the first sheet of paper before wrapping it around a kunai and tossing it a rock before it exploded.
"there are three different types, Timed, Remote by Trigger and Proximity, I want you to pick one of them and learn it off by heart. The one I just used was a timed one perfect for kunai, proximity are the most dangerous as they require the target to be close to them but they also are easily set off and once active cant be disabled easily, finally the remote trigger are perfect for traps or ambushes often set off by trip wires" Naruto lectured
"Um I will learn the triggered seal, I remember you told us the second task was in the forest of death and if it is a similar task I want to be able to set up a perimeter" Udon said
"Good choice, next is the storage seal, if you get a task like the one I had with the scrolls to be able to hide your equipment not only will they not be able to find the scroll, by sealing your equipment you will weigh less and have far better movement" Naruto said drawing the seal and sealing a kunai inside
"Ok sensei, what is the last one" Udon said eagerly
"Last one is a two leveled stasis seal, it is a very basic and easy to overpower seal but for any genin level ninja if you can trap them they wont be getting out anytime soon, this requires four seals placed over an area and will activate once the fourth is placed, practically this is very useful with kunai" Naruto said drawing a seal on four separate tags and tossed them around Udon.
Udon watched in interest as the seals landed around him, the second the fourth one landed he felt heavy. What appeared to be black ropes were trying to pull Udon to the ground and he was only just able to stand, and was unable to move at all.
"Wow this is amazing I cant do anything" the genin said struggling to move.
"Yes for a basic seal it is a very useful one, those three seals if you can master them will make you easily good enough to get to the finals, or at least the preliminary rounds"
after that Naruto began explaining the dangers of sealing and then the individual sections of the seals he would be teaching Udon, after that he told him what parts of the book's to read and began working on the Glasses wearing genin's aim.
"There is one more thing because you obviously do not like Taijutsu I recommend studying some Kenjutsu, It's not my style but it would be perfect for you, I will get you a scroll on a Kenjutsu style tomorrow I want you to study it and invest in a Katana. I will help you with it were I can but I suggest looking for someone else to train you in it, I think I will ask Tenten she always loved Kenjutsu.
(Moegi and Yugito)
"So Moegi I want to test your taijutsu, then extra dodging practice, as a squads support if you are hit who will heal you, you need to be able to dodge any attack so it is impossible to hit you" Yugito said
"Uh I get it so does this mean more medicine balls?" Moegi asked in fear
"Yes it does, but first I want you to come at me with all you got in taijutsu then once that is passable we can start getting your reaction time higher" Yugito said and readied herself for an attack.
Moegi was not talented at taijutsu this became painfully obvious to Yugito several seconds after they began, her punches were sloppy and weak and she rarely used her legs.
"OK, that's enough I have what I wanted. I'm sorry but your taijutsu is horrible looks like academy level, and I don't even recognize the style so before we can even begin to work on dodging, we need to teach you a new taijutsu form. In fact I am going to teach you the style I use because it requires fast reflexes its called the 'Tiger Fist' and uses a combination of slow fluid movements before quick bursts of speed to catch your opponent off guard now follow these Kata's" Yugito said and began her demonstration, correcting the young genin with gravity defying pigtails.
The two hours past quickly for the group and while they had not made all that much progress it was a start.
When the pairs met back up Naruto gladly informed them that they would now be working on there dodging for the rest of the practice. Naruto was pleasantly surprised when at the end of the training session they were beginning to be able to predict the attacks and even evade several of them.
The next three weeks went on like this Konohamaru trained in his new Goken style taijutsu that suited him far more than his clans monkey style and he was even using his brain a lot more after being taught to look 'Underneath the Underneath' by kakashi, however that is not saying much as it had never been used in the past so using it more now could hardly be considered straining.
Udon had progressed well with the seals, as he was up to the last seal of the three and now was able to hit all the bulls eyes at the target range every time,he had asked Tenten for help in Kenjutsu and had brought a katana, it was nothing special and only had a plane blade with a white handle, but he liked it.
Moegi had found Yugito's style of teaching dodging far less painful than Naruto's, as she only had to focus on the one person, her taijutsu had improved by leaps and bounds as well and had almost landed a punch in on Yugito during one of there friendly spars. They had also all learned the Kunai and Shuriken Kagebusin no jutsu's.
"Ok guys well done, I think by tomorrow you will be able to last the full 15 minute's with out worry's you almost had it today, unlucky Konohamaru" Naruto laughed as the young Sarutobi rubbed the back of his head.
"Yeah just you wait Nii-san you will get yours when I beat you to being Hokage" Konohamaru mumbled.
"We see about that, now I want to say that I am proud of you guys and I'm sure that once this final week of training is up I promise I will request Ebisu to let you into the exams" Naruto said.
"Yeah! with Nii-san's training and his approval we will get in for sure" Konohamaru said.
The final week went smoothly Sakura taught Moegi several basic genjutsu and beginners ninjutsu and first aid. There speed had improved greatly and were able to last almost 20 minutes before Naruto could hit them with the large balls. That said he was only a small amount of his strength but it was still impressive.
(With the Konohamaru Korp's)
Konohamaru and his friends were currently looking for Ebisu who had given them a month to train and prove they were ready for the chunin exams. They eventually found the closet pervert outside the mission collection office.
"Ebisu sensei we want to prove we are ready to take the chunin exams, we have been training hard" Konohamaru yelled getting the jonnin's attention.
"Oh really Konohamaru what make's you think that, not one of you came to me for training and you just expect me to believe you trained yourself so that you are good enough for the chunin exam's" Ebisu said disbelievingly.
"We had help, but we have been training really hard you will see" Moegi said surprisingly firmly for someone who was usually much more quiet. Training with Yugito had made Moegi far more confident and this showed in the way she was able to speak back to there sensei.
Ebisu took note of this and was slightly more optimistic at the prospect that they might actually impress him, however he was immediately on guard this change just screamed that someone had been training them privately. "So you want a test then... fine, 5 minutes training ground 3"
The genin wasted little time in getting there to find Ebisu waiting for them. "That was impressive much faster than usual, now may I ask who has been training you" he asked.
"Sorry sensei but if we were to tell you that before the test starts you would know what to expect and some of our new skills would be known"
This statement shocked Ebisu, not because if what it was, he had expected that sort of response from Udon, he was shocked because it came from Konohamaru. "Well who ever it is must be a genius to get you to use your brain... now for the test you must be able to get one good hit on me"
At Ebisu's words they immediately got into there stances and waited for there sensei who got into a loose stance. 'damn it, how am I supposed to get a good hit in on him I could barely touch Kakashi sensei even when he was reading his damn books' Konohamaru thought
Similar thoughts were running through his teammates mind's but remained calm knowing they had a team with them now.
"Begin!" Ebisu called out, he was shocked when both Moegi and Konohamaru both charged forward,
'well this is new Moegi attacking with Konohamaru' he thought but couldn't elaborate further on the point when Konohamaru arrived and sent a kick towards the jonnin's head.
Ebisu ducked under the kick with relative ease when Moegi sent a jab for his gut. Using his hands he pushed off from the ground a decided to teach them a lesson and sent a relatively fast punch towards Konohamaru that he expected would hit. He was shocked however when the genin dodged it easily and sent another punch towards his face. 'this is new, he doesn't seem to be faster but his reaction time has gone through the roof from where it was at last month and his taijutsu is much better but this seems to be a completely new style' Ebisu thought as he spun away from another kick this time from Moegi.
During this time Ebisu had been too busy to realize that Udon had moved off to the sides and was quickly wrapping kunai with seal tags.
Moegi had just shocked Ebisu again by jumping back into the fight and instead of her firm high powerd strikes of before she moved to a viscous assault of pinpoint accuracy at vital area's, they were easily blocked but Ebisu was sufficiently impressed.
"Guys... NOW!" Udon called out.
On cue the two genin involved jumped back and Udon sent several Kunai at Ebisu who easily jumped out of the way, unfortunately when he landed he was in a field with thee tags scattered around him. 'what are these seals, did Udon make them, there not explosive notes so what do they do' Ebisu thought before another kunai landed in front of him.
The second the final kunai landed the tags began to glow and thick black cords shot out and wrapped around the jonnin in the sunglasses, 'A Constriction seal, but who could have taught him that' Ebisu once again did not have time to contemplate as Moegi and Konohamaru appeared on either side and pulled out a kunai each before tossing them.
As the kunai flew through the air the jonin's eyes widened when he saw both gennin do the same hand signs "Kunai Kagebushin jutsu" they both called out at the same time and 2 kunai became close to 50.
Ebisu had no choice he had to get out of there using a quick kwarimii he substituted with one of the ever plentiful logs that were so conveniently placed all over the ninja world. "Damn it! Why is there Always! A Log!" Konohamaru called out in frustration.
"That was a clever trap, and a most impressive piece of fuinjutsu Udon, but you are going to have to do better than that" Ebisu said, at this point he had little doupt they could compete in the chunin exams but wanted to see what else they had done with there time off.
"Damn it we cant hit him like this, we need to take them off" Konohamaru said receiving nods of agreement from Moegi and Udon.
"Take what off" Ebisu questioned, it was a pointless question because moments later several sets of weights were crashing to the ground leaving several small dent's in the earth where they hit.
Konohamaru took off again this time much faster than before while Moegi waited behind and performed hand seals before whispering an inaudible genjutsu name.
Ebisu saw the genjutsu it was a subtle one but effective non the less, his entire vision had shifted about three centimeters to the left, if he wasn't an experienced ninja he would have fallen for it, she had used it perfectly waited for him to close his eyes for a split second before casting it.
Moegi was shocked when Ebisu easily parried Konohamaru's punch and went to kick the young genin on the side of the head, only to narrowly miss by Konohamaru ducking and jumping back.
"A very good Genjutsu Moegi, but its not going to work against me" Ebisu said then became weary when Udon pulled out a storage seal and unsealed his katana and ran at Ebisu who had been to shocked to see that the glasses wearing genin had a sword to realize that the pointy end of said blade was heading toward the fleshy parts of his body.
He snapped out of his shock just in time to prevent being impaled by the blade and sin out of the way, unfortunately he hadn't seen where he jumped to and came face first into the fist of Moegi.
"Yes! Moegi-chan you did it we get to enter the exams, were going to be chunin for sure now" Konohamaru yelled, his joy plastered all over the other genins faces but were less vocal.
"Yes yes, congratulations I will enter you into the exams but now I want to know, who trained you" Ebisu said slightly annoyed that he was actually hit, he had planed on letting them enter after what they had shown but it was still embarrassing.
The three genin were about to answer when another voice rang out "We did".
Spinning around as fast as they could they saw Naruto, Yugito and Kakashi sitting in a tree, Kakashi was handing over some money to Yugito and was grumbling about lucky blonds.
"I told you Moegi-chan would get the hit in not Konohamaru" Yugito said out loud
"She got lucky he jumped into her fist" Kakashi said indigently.
Yugito's response was to stick her tongue out at Kakashi and jump down to high five her pupil.
Ebisu was taking that time to contemplate what he was hearing his students were trained by the apprentice of Jiraiya-sama, Kakashi Hatake former Anbu captain and elite jonnin and the jinchuuriki from Kumo.
"Na-Namikaze-sama you I expected, you have taught Konohamaru before but for you to bring in Kakashi and Yugito-san just to help my genin is a bit much don't you think" Ebisu said
"I really wish you wouldn't call me Namikaze-sama, I mean just three years ago I was just a punk remember, I prefer that than all the respect I'm getting I haven't earned it yet... Also as for helping your student's, well I was given two months off to train in my second elemental manipulation but it only ended up taking around two days and as Kakashi was assigned to train me, so we just trained these guys instead" Naruto said with a smile.
"Thank you. But I must call you Namikaze-sama its only proper, you are a toad sage of Myobyokuzan and sage is a highly respected tittle, to not address you as such is highly disrespectful" Ebisu said.
"Gah. How did you know that I didn't think it was common knowledge" Naruto asked.
"Oh its in your file Jonin sensei's are allowed to read the files on other ninja under Jonnin or Anbu rank, although it doesn't say much except for your tittle and the fact you can use Senjutsu, your battle skills are totally unknown, in fact even I don't know I would love to have a match against you to test myself" Kakashi said from beside him.
"Your on Kakashi, but were not doing it here I have the perfect idea for where and when" Naruto said and before anyone could reply he grabbed Yugito and shunshined away.
"Hey Ebisu sensei what do you mean by toad sage and whats senjutsu" Konohamaru asked after Naruto and Yugito had left.
"It is a special type of Jutsu that uses natural chakra from nature, in the entire history of Konoha there have only been two people who have been known to use it Jiraiya-sama and Naruto" Ebisu said.
"Wow Naruto sensei is awesome" the three genin said getting a nod from Ebisu and an eye smile from Kakashi.
END CHAPTER!