Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Kale's POV

We wasted no more time getting Tazuna home, we ended up having to carry Sensei who had used his Sharingan for too long and ended up immobile. We took up residence in Tazuna house, he lived there with his daughter, Tsunami, and his grandson.

"Will you be alright Sensei?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah I just won't be able to move for a few days." He told her.

I was sitting towards the door in meditation, it was that time of day and I needed to focus.

I can't keep having Sunstrike as my man attack, it's too difficult to land, I need to find a way to tap into the other combinations.

"The Sharingan is pretty impressive." Sakura said "But I suppose it's dangerous if it puts you on your back so long."

"I suppose all Jutsu put a strain on the body." I hummed as I focused my mind "For example I can only Invoke a few moves at a time."

"You Jutsu is weird." Naruto said "I don't get it."

"My Family's Jutsu is far to complex for your tiny mind." I smirked opening my eyes "It involves lots of memorization and familiarity with the elements of Ice, Electricity and Fire, Quas, Wex and Exort respectively."

"I still don't get it." Naruto grumbled.

"Simpleton." I sighed closing my eyes again.

I started meditating again, slowly drowning out all distractions till I could picture only myself in an empty space working out the spell I had been trying to get the hang of for a while now.

"Quas, Quas, Wex…The Ghost Walk…A technique that will get me out of a few jams, I need to master it. I also want to wrap my head around those other two moves as well…

"Hey you ever wonder what's under that mask of Sensei's?" I heard Naruto say snapping me awake.

"What are you two doing?" I said looking at Sakura and Naruto crouching over our teacher.

"Seeing what he looks like." The girl said "We've been talking about it since he fell asleep two hours ago."

"I was meditating that long…I must have lost sense of time." I mumbled.

"HA!" Kakashi-Sensei suddenly sat up.

"WAH!" Naruto and Sakura both fell back in a panic.

"We were so close." Sakura whispered under her breath.

"Are you alright Sensei?" we all asked.

"Hmm…" he sat up more and rubbed his eyes "I was just thinking back to what I said about those hunter teams, normally they'd dispose of a body right there on the spot."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.

"The boy took Zabuza with him." I remarked.

"Exactly." Sensei nodded "If he just needed proof of his work he could have just taken the head…and the weapons he used."

"Are…you saying…" Sasuke asked slowly.

"Yeah, I think so." Kakashi sighed.

It does add up…did we screw up that to, was the masked boy working with him the whole time.

"What are you guys talking about?" Tazuna asked.

"Zabuza is still alive." Sensei told him.

"B-But you said he was dead!" Sakura yelled "I saw you check his pulse!"

"It was most likely a simulated temporary death like state." Kakashi told her "Thee needles the hunter ninja used, you'd have to hit just the right spot of a vital organ for that to kill someone, it would have served better for acupuncture. Hunters know the body inside and out, so it's not hard for them to simulate a death state, plus the way he carried Zabuza away, he wasn't trying to take him away, but trying to save him."

"Maybe you're over thinking it.' Tazuna suggested "Hunter Ninjas are supposed to kill missing ninjas."

"No with all these suspicions, we should prepare for the worst." Sensei said "Besides regardless of Zabuza we don't know if Gato will send other ninjas after you."

"But Sensei you can barely move." Sakura pointed out.

"Heh…well then it's time for you four to do some training." He smirked.

"But he was strong even against you." I said.

"But you all put up a fight, your growing fast. Especially Naruto, you're improving the most." Kakashi pointed out "but this is just training till I get better you can't beat him without my help."

"But if Zabuza is alive he could attack while we're training." Naruto pointed out.

"He was put in a momentary death state, it'll be a while till he's back to full strength, so until then we train." Sensei said.

"Sounds fun." Naruto smiled.

"No it's not." A bored voice said.

I turned around expecting it to be Sasuke making a remark about how training is serious work but instead it was jut some little kid.

"Who are you?!" Naruto yelled.

"Have you ever heard of something called an inside voice?" I sighed.

"Inari where were you?" Tazuna asked.

"Oh welcome back grandpa." The boy said entering the house fully.

"Inari say hello, these are the people that protected Grandpa." His mother pointed at us.

The boy looked at us and blinked "Mom they're gonna die."

"Talk about a bad omen!" I yelled.

"You brat!" Naruto screeched.

"There's no way for you to beat Gato." The little boy said.

"I'm gonna-!" Naruto grumbled.

"Don't pick fights with children!" Sakura snapped pulling Naruto back.

"I'm gonna be hard of hearing if you guys don't stop yelling all the time." I sighed.

"Shut up you were yelling before!" Sakura and Naruto yelled.

"Listen kid." Naruto pointed "I'm a super strong ninja hero who's gonna become the Hokage one day, this Gato guy is nothing to me!"

"Pfft." The kid clicked his tongue "There's no such thing as a hero."

"WHAT?!"

"Shut up!" I snapped "Use your damn inside voice."

"Unless you want to die you should leave." Inari said walking to his room.

"Sorry about all that." Tazuna sighed.

"It's nothing." I said going back to meditating.

"You guys get a little more rest." Sensei said "We're gonna start training in a few hours."

Later

"Okay time to start training." Sensei said "First I wanna talk about Chakra."

"Huh…" Naruto had a stupid look on his "What's that?"

"Did you pay attention in school?!" Sakura snapped.

"I used to sleep during class." He shrugged.

"Sakura give him the crash course." Kakashi-Sensei said.

"Chakra is the energy needed to perform a Jutsu." Sakura explained "it's a spirit energy gained through experience. With the help of hand seals and Chakra performing a Jutsu is easy."

"Yeah that about sums it up." Kakashi said "Good cliff notes."

"So it's something you learn with your body?" Naruto wondered.

"Naruto has a point." Sasuke said "We can already use Jutsu."

"Nope." Kakashi-Sensei shook his head "You guys aren't using Chakra properly."

"Huh?"

"Be quiet and listen." Sensei said "Like Sakura mentioned early Chakra is made with spiritual and physical energy, you guys aren't using your Chakra efficiently. Unless you control it correctly your Jutsu will be weak or not even work. If you waste energy you can't fight as long, you need to learn how to control it through training."

"So what are we gonna do?" I asked.

"We're going tree climbing." Sensei smiled.

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