AN: I got another chapter done. And... That's pretty much all I got to say at this point... Umm... Well... Enjoy!

I do not own Naruto

Orange and Water fights.

After Naruto got back to his room he quickly unsealed all the things Akira had bought for him and started placing them around the room. When he was done he decided to finally get out of his old clothes, after running around the whole day yesterday, well, they didn't smell very good. He chose to change into a pair of cargo pants with a tiger pattern in black and orange, a white t-shirt with orange flames and a pair of orange boxers. He really had to remember thanking Akira for getting him orange clothes, he really likes orange, it's an awesome color!

After he had changed clothes he put the old ones in a basket for dirty clothes, if he's a guest then he should probably try and keep things tidy. After that he tried to find something to do while waiting for Akira to get out of the onsen.

'Hmm… What to do… Hmmmm…' He thought as he sat on the bed. After thinking for a while he picked up the books concerning the academy basics, might as well… Study… 'shudders', now that Akira was nice enough to buy them for him. He looked at the different books one at a time before deciding on Taijutsu, after all, it looks to be the most interesting. He opened the book and tried to find where he left of, only to find that he didn't recognize any of the stances. Sure, they were familiar but not exactly the same.

"Huh? That's weird, did she get the wrong books?" He said as he flipped the book around to check the title again. It was the right book, but the contents were still a bit different. "Hmm… Maybe it's a newer version or something? The stances look a bit more like the ones he saw the teacher use, so it probably is a good thing, dattebayo." He decided after a while. Content that he had solved the mystery Naruto began reading the book, it was a lot of theory so he quickly got bored, but he kept on reading for about half an hour when he got interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Hey Naruto, I'm done now so come to the living room and I'll try to teach you how to read people." Akira's voice sounded from the other side.

"All right! Let's do this, dattebayo!" He yelled happily before quickly putting the Taijutsu book and ran out the door and moved to the living room.

Once he got there Akira gestured for him to sit down and stood thinking for a bit before starting to explain.

"To read people you need to pay attention to their body language, tone of voice and eyes, sometimes you got to, I don't really know how to explain it, feel? Let's go with that, feel, what their intentions are. That part is mostly through experience though, after you get good enough to read people you will sometimes be able to tell when they are sincere or not, even if they manage to fake their actions well enough to avoid being detected." Akira explained and then began telling him what things he should look for. After a while she stopped at looked at Naruto who was listening with a blank face. With a sigh she said. "You didn't understand a word I said, did you?" and put her face in her palm.

"Umm… A little bit? Eh-hehe." He said while scratching the back his head in embarrassment. Akira looked at him for a while, thinking, before putting her hands in a clone hand sign. There was a puff of smoke and then there was another Akira standing there. The new Akira looked reluctant before sighing in defeat. In another puff of smoke, the second Akira was gone, and in her place was.

"Hey! It's that creepy fat guy from the market!" Naruto exclaimed while pointing. The Akira turned fat guy hung her, his, arms and looked like she, he, was going to die from embarrassment.

"Yeah yeah. No teasing the clone. I thought it would be easier to understand if you had a visual example than to just tell you what to look for, now pay attention." She said. After Naruto turned his attention back to her she gestured to the clone that just sighed, and then rolled her, his, bah, IT'S shoulders and, started acting like someone completely different. The eyes seemed to get a slightly greedy glint in them and it had a smile that seemed just a little bit off, and the way his hands moved was a bit weird. Naruto knew that look. The said merchant always had that look when he tried to sell him something, actually he had that look when he tried to sell Anything when he thought about it.

"This is an example of a person who is greedy. This guy in particular usually tries to sell his goods at a higher price than they are actually worth, now these are the tells of what his intentions are." Akira told him before pointing out various stances, looks and a bunch of other things that gave away a person's intentions. She had the clone transform into various other people and had it act like them before breaking down their behavior and explaining the various things that made a person react like that. She was pleased to note that if he had a visual reference, Naruto was actually a pretty good student. The lesson went on for a couple of hours before Akira said it was time to eat, and took that opportunity to teach Naruto the basics of how to cook. Naruto of course, wanted to make ramen, but that idea got shot down pretty quickly and they ended up making curry with rice. While eating she had Naruto try to review the lesson earlier and was happy to hear he remembered most of it, now it was just a manner of repeating the lesson until he could point out the tells without her aid and when someone who she hadn't used as a reference had them. After dinner Akira watched TV for a bit while she had Naruto reading from the book on Taijutsu. She answered any questions that came up and helped him get into the right stances when he tried them. This continued until it got late and it was time to go to sleep.

The next day

When Naruto woke up the next morning he quickly got dressed and got ready in hopes of getting some more training. When he was ready he started looking around to see if Akira was awake. While the house seemed to be empty, the door in the living room leading to the training field behind the house was open. He quickly went out the door and tried to find her. He soon found her, standing on the large pond, with her hands clapped together in a praying motion with her eyes closed. Just before he's about to scream about how she is standing on the water, he notices that the water is acting strange, there's whirlpools randomly appearing before disappearing, tendrils of water rising from the surface before dissolving into droplets that swirl around her before falling back to the surface. Naruto just stands there staring with his mouth open.

'That's… Amazing, dattebayo! How is that happening?! Is Akira doing this?! How?! It's so… beautiful…' He thought. And it really was, the sun reflected from the droplets to create quite a display and the sound of the water was quite calming. Naruto just stood there frozen watching the display.

A couple of hours later

Akira was starting to really feel the strain of using her chakra to control the water for so long and decided that it was time to end the exercise and started to drop her focus, but when she started focusing less on the water she could sense Naruto nearby and guessed that he was most likely watching what she was doing. Her lips curved into a small smirk as she started focusing even more on the water and it started stirring.

Naruto stared in shock as several large tendrils rose from the water and slowly moved back and forth. And then, as if on a silent command they all froze for a split second before rushing towards him to try and capture him. Naruto jumped and started running to avoid getting caught.

"AAH! What's going on?! Stop it! Get away from MEE!" He cried while desperately trying to outrun the water. He managed to avoid it for about 15 seconds before he got caught. As he was staring down on his clothes that was now soaked, he heard chuckling coming from the pond and he turned and glared at Akira who was standing slightly bent forward breathing heavily while chuckling.

"Not, Funny, dattebayo." Naruto said through clenched teeth making her chuckle a bit louder as she tried to catch her breath.

"Like I said yesterday, for me it was." She said when she straightened up as she caught her breath, a wide smirk on her face. "Although I probably overdid it, you actually managed to avoid the water pretty well so I had to keep pumping chakra in it to make it move faster." Naruto quickly forgot that he was soaked and remembered that the water Moved.

"Oh yeah! How did you do that?! It was awesome, dattebayo!" He yelled loudly. "Can you teach me to do it aswell?! Please! I will work hard!" Akira just shook her head at how excited he was.

"No, sorry. But to control water you must have very good chakra control and you must train in elemental chakra manipulation. This usually takes years, and if you don't have an affinity for water it will take even longer. We don't have nearly enough time before your apartment is fixed to even begin." She said. "How I did it though, was by converting my chakra to the water element and mixing it in with the actual water. It's a great way to train both elemental manipulation and regular chakra control. It's pretty tiring though so you usually stick to easier things like whirlpools and small tendrils. The large tendrils I used to catch you take A LOT of chakra."

Naruto's face fell when he heard she couldn't teach him to control water, and even more when he thought about why.

'Oh yeah… I'm just staying here until my apartment gets fixed. I almost forgot…' He thought sadly as he was starting to like living with Akira, even after just one day. It felt nice to know there was someone nearby when you woke up in the morning, and she was willing to teach him on top of that. Akira could see that Naruto was a bit depressed over the matter, although she assumed it was just because he wanted to learn water manipulation. Then all of a sudden Naruto's stomach rumbled, loudly. He blushed when Akira laughed at him.

"Come on, let's eat. We can have ramen and I'll show you some basic seals you could have use for later on." She said while chuckling as she walked towards the house. Naruto followed closely behind fighting down the blushing on his cheeks.

Naruto inhaled his ramen, after Akira told him he couldn't eat ramen for breakfast or dinner unless he wanted to stay short he had decided to eat as much as he could during lunch instead, and he was doing a good job too. Akira was pretty much in a morbid awe over how much ramen the tiny boy could eat with exploding from the pressure, before shaking her head and concentrating on eating her own ramen. After lunch she sent him out to the training field again as she went and got the seals she wanted to show him before joining him. She made a small table using a Doton jutsu to place the seals on.

"All right, the seals I'm going to show you are a few different storage seals, some various 'explosive' seals, although not the ones that explode in fire." At this comment Naruto's face fell. He liked explosions. "I'm also going to show you a few restriction seals that can be used in combat. Now pay attention." She said and Naruto nodded.

"This first seal is a basic storage scroll, nothing really special about it. You put things inside of it to save space or hide them, as you saw earlier I have a couple of advanced storage seals on my arms that are only visible when I channel chakra into them. And then there's this seal. It's an Elemental storage seal, with it you can seal a specific element into a scroll to release later. These are actually the reason I took up sealing in the first place as I have a water affinity. Although when you master water manipulation you are able to multiply water particles, only the Nidaime Hokage have ever reached a level where he rely on this ability to produce enough water to fight, no matter where he was. I myself can only draw enough water from the air for a simple defensive jutsu unless given enough time, and my ability is next to useless in the desert or in other areas with low humidity. So I did this instead." She said and lifted a scroll with a blue edge and opened it, and then she channeled some chakra into it. A huge amount of water burst forth from the scroll, soaking the ground and the lower portions of their clothes even though Naruto tried to jump back to avoid it.

"Whoa! How much water was in that thing?!" Naruto burst out in surprise.

"Each scroll contains about 100 liters of water which I can then multiply several times. It's truly a godsend for water users since we rely so heavily on having an existing source of water for our jutsus. Elemental seals can also be used to block enemy jutsus if you have an empty seal for the right element and manage to time it right. The seals are extremely expensive since they are so hard to make though, which was why I decided to make my own." Akira explained. "Do you understand?"

"Uh-huh! You can put jutsus in those cool scrolls and use them later!" He said with a grin.

"Umm. Close enough." She said as she used water manipulation to seal the water again. After the water was gone she took another seal attached to a kunai from the pile. "This is a flash tag. It basically creates a burst of bright light and creates a loud sound when triggered. It's perfect for distractions or misdirection. It's really easy to use, just channel some chakra into it or set it up to detonate in a trap. Don't look up, you will notice the purpose of the tag even if you don't and you will hurt your eyes if you do." She said as she ignited the tag and threw it into the air. After a short while a loud bang was heart and the area was bathed in a bright light. Naruto winced a bit at the light and noise.

"I can see how that would be unpleasant if it detonated in front of you." He muttered. Akira held up another piece of paper with a seal on it.

"Yeah, it hurts like hell and disorients you pretty badly. Anyway, this is an exploding tag that sends out a liquid or gas when it detonates, it's called a dispenser tag, this one is just filled with water to demonstrate. Watch." She said before attaching it to a kunai and throwing it onto a three. There was a sizzling sound before water flew in every direction from the tag. "These are actually quite nasty, they can be filled with everything from water to acids or poison gas. If you don't watch out a single one could take out an entire squad. The explosion tag is a simpler way to do this but makes a lot more noise, so these are a better option if you need to be quiet." She then noticed the way Naruto was eyeing the flash tag and dispenser tag with a mischievous look in his eyes as his mouth started forming a wide grin, obviously thinking how he can use them for pranks.

'Heh, I may have created a monster. Sniff. I'm so proud of myself.' She thought with a mental smile and pat on her back. She snapped her fingers in front of his face to bring him back.

"Pay attention, I only have 3 seals left to show you." She said as she picked up 2 seals from the table. "This is a gravity seal and a chakra disruption seal, these two can actually be used in hand to hand combat. Put one of these in your hand and a glancing palm strike can end the battle. If you hold out your hand and I'll demonstrate." As Naruto held out his hand she put the gravity seal on it and channeled some chakra into it. He immediately noticed something was wrong, his entire body felt sluggish and heavy and he could barely move. He fell to his hands and knees and struggled not to face plant into the ground. Luckily Akira removed the seal before that happened.

"As you can see, this makes it very hard to fight properly, even if you have the muscle or chakra control to keep moving it will mess up your body control enough to most likely turn the tide of the battle." She said as Naruto managed to get off the ground. "Some people use them for training, however since they put weight on your entire body, including your skeleton, you should not use them for a long period of time unless you're fully grown or they will stunt your growth." Naruto gulped at that, silently vowing not to use them for training. "Now, this other seal, will not have much of an effect on you since you can't really use chakra yet. However, for ninjutsu specialists this one is a pain in the ass. It messes with your chakra control, making delicate jutsus unusable and making the others take more chakra than needed, making the person tire more quickly. Do you remember how I controlled the water earlier?" After Naruto nodded she put the seal on her hand and activated it, then she went over to the pond with him following closely behind. She put her hands together in a praying gesture and focused. A tendril rose up from the water, but was visibly shaking, as if the action was forced instead of the smooth control earlier. She held it for a short while before letting it collapse back into the water before removing the seal.

"As you can see these two seals are very useful if you can get them onto your opponent unnoticed. If they do notice them they will just tear them off." She said before picking up what seemed to be two metal rods. "These rods have a barrier seal inscribed on them. They can be used to create a strong, but short lasting barrier between the rods, with 3 or more rods you can create a barrier covering all directions but up and down. They are however one shot uses so you'd better make them count, and the further between each point, the weaker the barrier. And the amount of chakra needed to create the barrier seals are no joke" After she said that she threw the rods into the ground behind a training dummy and activated it. Then she rapidly made some hand seals.

"Suiton: Mizurappa no jutsu!" She shot a jet of water from her mouth towards the training dummy and the barrier. The jutsu slamme the training dummy into the barrier hard enough to shatter it, but the barrier held with no problem. After she stopped the jutsu the barrier faded, showing that the area behind it was undamaged. Naruto was visible impressed both by the jutsu and the barrier.

"It can't stop anything above a B rank, and some strong B rank jutsus will still break through. But if you use it at the right time, you could save someone's life or surprise your opponent enough to take them out." She explained before grinning. "So, what do you have to say about fūinjutsu? Pretty cool right?"

"Hell yes! There's so much I could do with them! I could prank everyone, dattebayo! Gyahahahaha!" He yelled before starting to laugh like a maniac. Akira raised an eyebrow at the display.

"Everyone? I do hope I'm exempted to that statement. Because if you do prank me, the retaliation will be… Most unpleasant for you. And most amusing for me." She said with scary smile. He gulped before promising he would never prank her.

Now that the display of the various seals she allowed Naruto to try them and explained where he could get either the materials to have them made or just buy the finished product, while it was cheaper to have them made it would be a bit trickier to find someone to make them.

"Can't you make them for me? Didn't you say you were a fūinjutsu user?" He asked after a while. Akira looked thoughtful at that for a bit.

'Hmm. Hell, why not? I can just have a clone make them and it will help to keep my skills from getting rusty.' She thought before looking at Naruto. "Sure, as long as you get me the things I need. And I will only do them if I got time. No nagging!" She said. Naruto started grinning again, already plotting the demise of the foolish villagers who hate and ignore him for no reason, and those who had just pissed him of. 'I wonder if I really should provide him with ammunition... Meh, at the worst the Hokage will tell me to stop making them for him, and I'll have some entertainment before that happens.' She thought while studying the evil grin.

With the lesson finished they entered the house, and the rest of the week was spent either teaching Naruto or training herself for Akira, and either reading, training or gardening for Naruto. Naruto had decided that he should fix Akira's garden for helping him train, giving him a place to stay and providing him with the seals that would take his already incredible pranking to a glorious new level. During the week his ability to read people grew quite a lot, he was now able to see if someone was sincere or not if they did not have the training to hide their intentions. He was also included in the blood seal on the gate so he could open it when he returned to the academy.

Monday next week

Naruto jerked awake once the alarm clock started beeping. He slammed his hand on the alarm to silence it and let out a groan. He then forced himself to sit up as he scratched the back of his head.

'Sigh. Do I really have to go back to the academy? They only go over the theory on all the things instead of anything practical, I'm going to die of boredom, dattebayo.' He thought as he willed his body to stand before getting dressed. He had washed his jumpsuit during the week so he quickly put it on before going to get breakfast. He ate some cereal and started to get ready to go, grabbing his books, shuriken and his kunai, the only practical things they would do before New Year. As he was putting his sandals on Akira walked by with a yawn.

"So brat, are you excited to be back in the academy after so long?" She said with a knowing smirk, she had also hated the theory parts of the first year, even though her education had been more practical because of the war.

"Haha, very funny. And do you have to call me a brat all the time?" He said with a glare. Akira started chuckling at that, he really was easy to tease.

"Yep, I really do, you know, because it fits. Well then, don't let me delay you! Go on to your glorious adventure to become a ninja! And try not to fall asleep!" She said as she walked off towards the kitchen to get her own breakfast. Naruto finished putting on his sandals and started towards the door.

"Thanks a lot… Well then, I'm off!" He yelled before opening the door and started running towards the academy.

Akira made her breakfast and ate in a slow pace. After she was done she made a clone to do the dishes before heading out to watch TV, she found that she kept getting distracted by how quiet the place though. With Naruto around there was always SOME noise around the house. Now that she was alone she was starting to grow incredibly bored with the silence.

'Okay, this is ridiculous. He's been here for 1 week and I'm already starting to get used to having him around. I got to figure out something to do.' She thought. She considered training for a bit, but that would only keep her occupied for so long. 'Maybe I should go hang out in the jōnin lounge… There should be someone I know there. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, better than sitting here at least.' She got up and prepared to try and find someone to pass the time with.

At the academy

Naruto was bored. Insanely bored. He had forgotten just how much Iruka-sensei loved to talk… He was the only teacher that actively helped him, but since he specialized in the theoretical parts of being a ninja, which Naruto both sucked at and disliked in general, made it so he rarely learnt anything useful during those lessons.

'So boooored! Gah! I can't wait until they start teaching us ninjutsu and taijutsu!' He thought as he felt his eyelids grow heavy. 'Urgh. No good, I'm going to fall asleep soon.' It did not take long before Naruto was in la-la land, dreaming about the delicious ramen of Ichiraku Ramen. Unfortunately Iruka noticed he was sleeping.

"Na-ru-to… WAKE UP!" He yelled as he threw a piece of chalk at his forehead.

Naruto yelped as he woke up, and was scolded by Iruka for sleeping in class, Naruto of course was not paying attention to said scolding. The rest of the day passed in a haze for Naruto, the only respite being the weapons lesson since he actually got to do something.

Later at Akira's house

Akira was bored. By some twist of fate almost everyone she knew seemed to be on a mission, and while she respected Gai and would trust her back to him any day, he was a fucking pain in the ass to hang out with. So the idea to spend her time hanging out with her friends had been a no go.

'Sigh, I need a hobby' She thought as she stared at the roof. As that thought ran through her head, the door to the house opened.

"I'm back." Naruto groaned out, apparently exhausted from his day at the academy. Akira chuckles before answering.

"Hey brat. Welcome home." She says with a small smile. Naruto stands frozen for a while before a grin threatens to split his face.

'Welcome home huh? I really like the sound of that.' He thought happily, for the first time ever, someone had welcomed him when he got home. "Hey Akira! Any idea what we should make for dinner?" He asks

"Hmm… Well, since you like ramen, we could try to make Yakisoba I guess." She says after thinking for a while.

"Huh? What's that? Sounds tasty." He says while drooling slightly at his imagination.

"Noodles fried in a sauce made from soy and oyster sauce and some other things." She answers while standing up and moving towards the kitchen.

"Sounds good! What do you want me to do?" He asks and follows her into the kitchen. Naruto end up cutting the vegetables and Akira takes care of the sauce, dinner passes quickly and they both enjoy the meal. After dinner they decide to play some cards, which makes Akira realize she have to remember never to play for money against the brat unless she intends to cheat.

Wednesday, halfway from the Daimyo meeting

Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage, was moving along the trees along with his ANBU bodyguards, and although he was old he kept quite a high pace.

'I really don't like leaving Naruto-kun alone in the village when the council is in control, I'm willing to bet they had something to do with the timing of the meeting.' He thought worriedly. He had kept a high pace ever since the meeting finished and Konoha was insured the Daimyo's continued support, he wanted to get back to Konoha as soon as possible so he could check on his surrogate grandson.

"ANBU, I'm going to speed up. I wish to be back in Konoha before dinner!" He called out to his bodyguards.

"Understood, Hokage-sama!" The 4 people following the old Hokage yelled at once. The Hokage nodded once and took off at an even higher speed, and even the ANBU was in awe a bit over just how fast the man could move even had his high age. The man is not known as the 'God of Shinobi' for no reason.

'I hope nothing has happened to you, Naruto-kun.' He thought as he sped through the trees.

AN: There we go. Now that the training begins there will be a lot more short time skips and just a couple of moments that I either feel are needed or that just pop into my head and force me to write them out.

Akira is already suffering the consequences of the Naruto Effect, as in just a short time he is worming his way into her heart.

I'm not sure when Iruka got over his hatred over Naruto, but in this fic it was before the academy even began and he saw him around the village acting like he used to.

I'm not sure what to do with Sasuke... I don't really mind him, even though I find him to be obsessed with revenge, so I'm not sure if I should maybe change the Uchiha massacre a bit to make it a bit more believable for him to recover. Mental torture for 72 hours straight do have a tendency to fuck someone up after all. Also I don't think Itachi was supposed to be good from the start of the manga, so when Kishimoto decided to make him a hero... Sort of... The original Uchiha massacre was pretty over the top for a "Good guy". Even if I do decide to change it, Sasuke will still be pretty focused on revenge, there will just be a bit higher chance of him moving on.

Jutsu list:

Suiton: Mizurappa no jutsu (Water Release: Violent Water Wave/Water Trumpet Technique) - Rank: C, Offensive, Short to Mid range. The user launches a large jet of water from their mouth through their hand like a waterfall. The strength of the technique can be controlled by the amount of chakra poured into the technique.

That's all from me! At least for now. Have a nice day! Bye! Oh! I almost forgot, I will put a brief insight on Akira's stats in my profile soon. Now I'm done. Cya!