This is my first story. Don't hate for no reason. Will take fair criticism though.

I do not own Naruto or anything related. That goes to Masashi Kishimoto


CHAPTER 17


Arm in arm Naruto and Hinata were walking towards a training ground. They had two days before team training began but they were getting restless just waiting. So they decided to get in training on their own.

"I'm going to work on the shunshin, what about you?" Naruto asks.

"I will be working on the shosen."

"How? There wouldn't be anyone to heal."

"The scroll you gave me said that I could practice on fish."

"So that's why we're going to the training ground by the river."

"Yes."

"Alright so spar at 11?"

"See you then!" Hinata pecks Naruto on the cheek then runs to the riverside. With a grin Naruto shouts, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" With all 100 clones poofing into existence around him.

"You know the drill," Naruto directed, "ten of you on sealing, ten on hand seal seeds, ten on suiken katas, twenty on combining the raiken and the suiken, and finally twenty-five clones each on both lightning and water affinity training. Break!"

Jumping away in sections, Naruto was left to his own devices. Opening the scroll, he read it through and memorized the seals.

Shunshin no Jutsu: D-Rank

Seals: Tora

Description: The user disguises a quick burst of pure speed pushed to the extreme by the flow of chakra through the user's system.

Closing the scroll back up he closed his eyes and thought of the area of the forest he wanted to teleport to. Pumping chakra through his body he focused on the details of the exact place and the feeling of a quick burst of speed. Running through the hand seals he shouted, "Shunshin!"

He felt air rushing by him but then he slammed into a tree. Slowly he peeled off and fell to the ground with a groan. Opening his eyes he looked around to find that he did in fact shunshin, 'At least I moved, but maybe next time I should try without crashing. It'll be much less painful.'

Getting back up Naruto thought back to the original spot he first used the shunshin. Again he thought of the different trees, pumped chakra through his system and shouted, "Shunshin!"

But again he crashed into a tree. Rubbing his head hoping to quell his growing headache, Naruto thought, 'Maybe not so much chakra? I might be overshooting.'

He waited a minute for the pain to subside before he stood back up and this time he used much less chakra as he pictured the area he wanted to teleport to, but when again he shouted, "Shunshin!" This time he didn't move at all.

'Huh? So not enough this time?' he thought. He pumped more chakra in his next attempt but this time when he shouted, "Shunshin!" He moved but not as far as he would like. Over and over again he attempted to use the shunshin without, but every time he adjusted his chakra for a new attempt it never worked out.

After 15 minutes of constant trial and error he flooded his system in chakra in rage and screamed, "Shunshin!"

Instantly he appeared exactly where he wanted but he retained all of his momentum and in an instant all the anger vanished and turned into fear. He was about to crash head first into a tree faster than he had ever moved before. In an attempt to avoid any amount of head trauma he used the chakra still flooding his system to shunshin once again. No shout, no hand seals, just instant movement 10 meters back away from the tree, landing steady on his feet.

It took Naruto a minute to calm down from the adrenaline flooding his system, before he realized what he did, 'I just sunshined without hand seals!'

Naruto calmed himself, focusing on his singular successful attempt and the place he wanted to shunshin to. Pumping chakra through his body he raised a singular hand seal and whispered, "Shunshin."

Instantly he was transported to exactly where he wanted to, upright, and only needing to take a few extra steps to regain his balance.

"Big improvement!" Smiling from his success he tried again. And to his excitement he did it getting even better. And in an attempt to replicate his earlier feat he used twice as much chakra and shouted, "Shunshin!"

-few hours later-

Naruto let out a big sigh. He has to remember to dodge Hinata's strikes because her shutting down his chakra points during the spar made him really sore. But it was nothing that some food didn't fix. They were on their way home from lunch when Hinata asked, "Naruto, can you teach me the shadow clone jutsu?"

Thinking it over for a second, Naruto shrugged, "Sure, but I have to ask Kurenai-sensei."

"Why?"

"Because it requires a ton of chakra. For example, how well can you function with only half your chakra?"

"I--I don't know. Why do you ask?"

"Because to make a shadow clone it splits your chakra evenly between you and your clones. So one clone means you're only left with half your chakra."

"Is there any way to improve my chakra capacity?" Hinata asks hopefully.

"Quickly? No. The best way is to repeatedly do chakra control exercises and it will passively get larger but maybe I could draw out a seal…" Naruto paused in thought.

"Naruto?" Hinata was concerned when he paused.

"Why didn't I think of this earlier!" Naruto turned to his girlfriend, "I have an idea so when we get home I'm going to be a little busy."

Despite the confusion Hinata continued to converse with Naruto until the opened the door to their apartment where he sat down next to the table and began to draw a seal while she just watched from the couch. He messed up quite a few times and everytime he did he had to restart. But after twenty minutes of trial and error he was able to complete the first seal, though Naruto dove right into another. This one caused him much more trouble. Every few minutes he threw away the seal paper and restarted.

She had fallen asleep when she heard a shout, "Finally, I'm done!"

Walking up she saw that the sun was rising. Walking into the kitchen Hinata asked, "Have you been working all night?"

Tiredly Naruto waved her over and responded, "Yeah this seal was super complicated so it required a ton of testing, but I did take a few naps."

"What does it do?"

Handing her the seal slip he said, "Don't worry about that yet, pump chakra into this until you are at exactly half of your total chakra. Though if you're about to pass out you can stop."

Despite being confused she did what Naruto asked. It took her a few minutes but eventually she finished pumping exactly half of her chakra into the paper. When she handed the paper back to Naruto she felt drained.

"In this state do you think you could still train or fight?"

"No. I'm too tired."

"That's why I won't teach you the shadow clone." Sticking the paper to Hinata's arm he activated it and her chakra began to diffuse back into her system.

Leaving the second seal on the table Naruto stood up and yawned, "I would place the second seal now, but I think I should be well rested before drawing something so complex."

Letting her boyfriend rest Hinata started to get ready. She was going to visit her family today after all it has been months since she last saw them. Dressed in traditional Hyuga clothes she closed the door behind her and began the trek to her clan's compound.

-that evening-

Hinata walked through the door and smelled something amazing coming from the kitchen.

"Good evening Naruto-kun, what are you making?"

"Hi Hinata-chan, just rice and chicken teriyaki. When I woke up I was hungry, and when I saw you weren't here I thought you'd be hungry when you came back, so I began to cook."

"I am hungry so thank you."

As Naruto served Hinata her food he asked, "So where did you go today?"

"I went to visit my family."

Naruto sat down to eat his food, "How did that go?'

"Great! Hanabi-chan was so happy to see me."

"That's nice, and your father?"

"He was happy to see me too. I even told tou-sama about us."

Naruto felt a chill go down his spine but he kept his composure.

Naruto gave a nervous smile, "How did he take it?"

"Well, though he would like to see you soon."

Trying to shift to a new topic, Naruto asked, "Oh, ok. By the way, should I explain to you the seal I want to place?"

Yes please."

"Ok, the seal has two main parts: the cuff and the storage chain. I designed the cuff based on a chakra restriction seal, but reworked it so that it would drain half your chakra. The cuff also contains a regulator so that you can retain half your chakra and for it to increase as your capacity increases as well. This should increase your reserves by tricking your body into believing that it's not producing enough chakra, thus forcing your body to develop larger coils."

Slightly nervous Hinata asked, "Is it safe?"

"Without a doubt, however, the second part, the storage chain goes down your forearm. All the chakra being drained from your system has to go somewhere, so I figured that in a battle situation you should be able release the seal and regain your full reserves. So the storage chain is to store all the chakra being drained by the cuff so that if in battle you run low on chakra, you may refill your reserves."

"How fast would this improve my chakra capacity?"

Scratching his chin Naruto attempted to do the math, "Well the larger your reserves are the less effective this seal will be so, your current reserves should be doubled within…two months give or take, and tripled in six."

Finishing up her food Hinata asks, "When will you place the seal."

"After dinner if you want."

Hinata smiled, "The sooner the better."

To be Continued…


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