AN: hi all, as an apology for missing an update and as a celebration for achieving over 100 follows (thanks by the way, I was soooo excited) I bring you the bonus Chaplette. This was based on the episode where Naruto uses his ingenuity to complete his Rasengan training. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto; I just think he's awesome.

'thinking'

"speaking"

jutsu

demon speak

Bonus Chaplette

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That evening found Naruto lying on his back on his living room floor with his feet resting on the wall, staring up at the ceiling with tears of frustration in his eyes. He was panting slightly from the past three hours of exertion in which he had tried and failed to move more than two steps up the wall.

After over a year of practicing the leaf exercise daily he had mastered it to such an extent that he could maintain numerous leaves on various parts of his body simultaneously whilst moving them in complex shapes about his body through the use of his chakra alone.

During the month he had spent out in the training grounds he had even used small river pebble and rocks in an attempt to make the exercise more challenging, but knew that he would need to move on to the next chakra exercise to improve his control as he could feel the benefits of the leaf exercise plateau.

As such Naruto had spent the last three hours trying to attempt the tree walking exercise with little results. Naruto had opted to practice the technique in the privacy of his own living room to avoid any suspicion from anyone that may have seen his practice and asked questions on who taught him.

Taking a running start he could get two steps up the wall only to fail the same way over and over again as his knees would collapse under the weight of his body causing his back to fall towards the wall and his head to slam into the floor.

After his first failed attempt, Naruto had padded his landing area with the cushions from his couch so he remained relatively uninjured after his many failed attempts but this did little to alleviate his frustration.

Apparently there was a reason that the tree walking exercise was taught only to genin. Not only did they need to have a large enough chakra reserve to sustain the technique, which was not a problem for Naruto, but they also needed the necessary muscle and core strength to hold themselves horizontal whilst walking up a vertical surface, which Naruto did not have.

"Damn it!" cursed Naruto as he slammed his fist on the floor beside himself. "What am I going to do now?" he huffed as he blew his fringe out of his eyes.

"Tek, tek, tek"

Looking up Naruto spied a small brown gecko sitting on the wall above his head near the ceiling, "What are you looking at?"

Absentmindedly Naruto tensed and untensed his legs one at a time as he pulled against the resistance caused by the chakra sticking his feet to the wall. He watched as the small reptile moved slowly across the wall above him.

A slow, fox-like grin stretched its way across his face.

Standing up Naruto stretched one hand above his head, channelling chakra to his palm and placed it on the all. Raising his other had he did the same thing, placing this hand on the wall on the other side of his body a little lower than first.

Raising his opposite leg he channelled chakra to his toes and placed his foot against the wall and stepped up like he was climbing a cliff or a ladder, till his other foot was hanging off the ground. Channelling chakra to his other foot he placed this too on the wall.

Slowly releasing and reattaching each limb one at a time, Naruto made his way half way up the wall before he lost control and slid back down to land on his cushions. Jumping up Naruto yelled out in exultation.

"Yosh!" he yelled as he danced around in a circle on the mat in the middle of his living room floor. This he could work with.