Here is chapter 2. Thanks again for your reviews that you left for me! And somebody PM me what will the name and abilities of Naruto's Doujutsu... Well, that will be explained when Naruto goes to Uzshiogakure with Kakashi within the next 2-3 chapters. So be patient just a little while longer. Now i'll answer some of the questions you had for me!
tomy98 - Well, it's all of Minato's and Kushina's notes and jutsu's they mastered or gain throughout the years, but it will be shown in this chapter. Thanks for the review, and keep reviewing!
Guest - Later in the story, he will.
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Now on with the STORY!
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CHAPTER 2 TRAINING BEGINS
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Previous chapter...
Naruto teared up after reading the letter. He folded it up and put it in his pocket. Naruto stood from where he was sitting and took a deep breath of the cool night air.
"Thank you for believing in me...Tou-san. I will make you and kaa-chan proud!"
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Two days passed, and Naruto was on his way towards training ground nine to meet Kakashi. He was walking through the village and received the normal glares he would usually receive. It angered him slightly more than it usually did after learning who his parents were. They worshipped his father as if he were kami himself. But in time, he would prove to them that he wasn't the kyuubi, but Uzumaki Naruto. One day, he would be seen as the greatest Hokage, even greater than his father.
15 minutes later...
Naruto just reached training ground nine and saw he was the only one there. He walked over to a nearby tree and leaned against it. It was fifteen minutes till noon, so he had some time to spare. He was excited to begin his training, so he left earlier than he needed to. Naruto was there for another fifteen minutes before Kakashi had arrived.
Naruto could see Kakashi walking with an orange book in hand that he was engrossed in, with a backpack swinged over his shoulder occupied by his other hand. Naruto sweat-dropped after he heard Kakashi giggled like a school girl.
'Great, I have a pervert as a sensei, just my luck,' Naruto thought as he stood up from the tree he was leaning against.
Kakashi saw Naruto and put his book away in his kunai pouch. "Yo," greeted Kakashi. Kakashi was happy that Naruto took his offer in training him and excited to be training his sensei's son.
"I have a question that's been bothering me since you told me who my parents were a couple of days ago." Naruto said.
"And what would that be?"
"Do I have any other family that's still alive?" asked Naruto, hope filled in his cerulean blue eyes.
"By blood no. At least none that I'm aware of at the moment," Once Naruto heard that all hope left his eyes. "But," Kakashi continued. "You do have a godfather that is still alive."
Naruto looked up at Kakashi and asked, "Who and where is he?"
Kakashi sighed and replied, "His name is Jiraiya... one of the Legendary Sannin and your father's sensei. And where... he is the village's spy master and gathers important intel for our village. He wanted to take you with him knowing what the village would do to you, but he couldn't because it would be too dangerous for the both of you. So he asked me to look after you and I did from the shadows and made sure no harm would come to you."
Naruto nodded and contemplated for a minute or two before sighing and asked, "Do you know when he will be back?"
Kakashi shook his head negatively and said, "He never said, but you will meet him one day. That I promise. Now, before we start, I have a question."
"What do you remember from your fight with those chunins?"
Naruto thought back to the incident and replied, "I remember the chunins leading me to that forrest and telling me why they brought me there... Then they attacked me, and then I woke up in your apartment. That's all I remember."
Kakashi nodded "Well thats not all that happened..." Kakashi relaid what else that happened with the two chunins.
Naruto was shocked from what Kakashi told him and asked, "I did all those things?" and received a nod from Kakashi.
"Whoa?" was Naruto's response.
"We also think you activated a new Doujutsu to, Naruto."
"What? Like what the Hyuga and Uchiha clan have?" asked a baffled Naruto.
Kakashi nodded and asked, "Do you know how to access into your chakra?" and received a nod from Naruto.
"Ok, I want you to channel some chakra into your eyes, alright." The one eyed jounin said with a intrigued eye.
Naruto did as he was told and started to channel his chakra towards his eyes. A few seconds went by, and Narutos cerulean blue eyes changed into red eyes with black swirls that looked like whirlpools, and for his pupils were three connected tomoe's. Kakashi pulled out a kunai so he could see his reflection.
"Wow... this is amazing... My eyes look awesome! I can also see your chakra Kakashi-sensei! This is awesome! I'm one step closer to becoming Hokage!" Exclaimed Naruto as he hopped around Kakashi, and he could only smile or eye-smile at Naruto's antic's.
"Ok, Naruto, calm down. During your training, I will teach you how to control your chakra, and I will try to help you use your Doujutsu as best as I can. Then later, I'll teach you some jutsu once your chakra control is adequate enough, alright. Any questions before we begin?"
"Yea, what do you mean you'll try and help me with my Doujutsu?" asked a confused Naruto.
"Well... Hokage-sama and I have no idea what it does. There were no records for your Doujutsu. Later, though, you and I will go on a misson and try and figure out what your mysterious Doujutsu does. But in the meantime, we will be strengthing your eyes by keeping them activated while we train. The more you use them, the less strain they will cause to your eyes... I hope." said Kakashi but muttered that last part to himself.
"Ok, the first thing I'll teach you is the tree walking exercise." which he got a confused look from our orange clad hero.
"Let me explain," said Kakashi as he walked over to a tree and started to walk up it as if it was an everyday thing. An Kakashi continued " This training involves in focusing a fixed amount of chakra to the bottom of your feet, and using that amount to climb the tree and keep channelling that fixed amount to stick to the tree. If you use too little, you'll lose your footing and slip off, but if..."
Kakashi was cut off when Naruto dashed to a tree and tried to run up it. Keyword tried. Naruto only put one foot on the tree and was blasted off and sent in the opposite direction of said tree and landed in a nearby pond. Kakashi sweat-dropped as he watched the scene play out.
"Just like his mother," thought Kakashi.
Kakashi saw Naruto get out of the pond drenched head to toe. "And that's what happens when you channel too much chakra to your feet," he said as he eye-smiled and received a tic-mark in return from our favorite orange clad hero.
"Why didn't you say that in the first place before I did that!" exclaimed and irritated Naruto.
Kakashi sighed and replied "Well if you didn't rush into things and would've let me finish, you would've known."
Naruto sheepishly scratched the back of his head and said a simple "sorry" and stood up.
"Now Naruto, focus your eyes to the soles of my feet and see how much chakra I am channeling to stick to the tree." said Kakashi as he pulled out his his orange book again and started to read it.
Naruto nodded and focused on his feet and saw he was channeling not too much or too little, just enough to stick to the tree. Before Naruto started to run to the tree, a kunai landed about a foot away from his right foot.
"Use that to mark the tree, and we will see how you progressed at the end of the day. I want you to be at least half way up the tree by sunset. BEGIN!" kakashi said as he jumped over to a nearby tree and sat on a tree branch pulling out his favorite orange book.
Naruto picked up, said kunai, and darted towards the tree. He got up about five feet before he started to slip and marked the tree. "This is going to be a lot harder than I thought," said Naruto.
Naruto continued this for the rest of the day. On each attempt he made, it was better than the last, even if it was only an inch. The sun started to set, and Naruto made it past the half way point. Kakashi was pleased with this and decided to call it a day and told Naruto to be back at the same time tomorrow. Kakashi left in a swirl of leaves, leaving a worn-out Naruto to his thoughts.
"I'm getting closer and closer to becoming Hokage!" Naruto thought happily and made his way back to the village. There was something else he had to check before he went home.
30 minutes later on top of the Hokage Mountain...
Naruto was standing on the fourths head and was looking for a specific seal. Naruto couldn't find the seal after ten minutes of searching he had the same problem last night after reading his tou-san's letter. He subconsciously channeled chakra towards his eyes, and Naruto saw the kanji for 'seal' that was glowing blue at the center of the fourths head. He walked up to the seal and channeled chakra into the seal. Naruto vanished from the fourths head as if he was never there.
With Naruto...
"Where am I ?" asked Naruto to no one in particular. He looked up and was amazed by what he saw.
"This is amazing," said a shocked Naruto and couldn't help but grin ear to ear.
In the room Naruto was in, there were shelves upon shelves filled with scrolls and books. Ranging from basics on chakra control, fuinjutsu, history of all the hidden villages, taijutsu, genjutsu, ninjutsu, fuinjutsu, kenjutsu and the list goes on an on. "To think tou-san would hide this under everybodies noses heh heh hahahaha!" said Naruto as he started to cackle maniacly.
Naruto started looking around the room and just couldn't believe what he was seeing. Everything was in chronological order. That would make things much easier for himself. After looking around, something caught Naruto's attention at the back of the room. He made his way there, and it was slip of paper attached to the wall with the kanji for 'blood seal' written on it.
"Blood seal huh? Well here goes nothing!" Naruto cut his finger with the kunai Kakashi gave him and swiped his blood and added some chakra on the seal it glowed for a couple of seconds and it opened. Inside there were a lot of papers, probably his fathers notes, but what caught his attention was a sword and some rather strange tri-pronged kunai with some kanji written on it.
It was a katana approximately twenty-seven inches long, and the hilt of the blade was another ten inches in length. The sheath was blood red with black and red swirls near the hilt on each side (Uzumaki insignia). The hilt was also blood red with two dragons, one black and one white intersecting with each other on both sides. The blade was a magnificent work of art.
Naruto removed the sword from the sheath and showed the sword in all of its glory. The steel of the sword was pitch black with a red sword on each side of the blade. Naruto couldn't help but gasp from the site of the sword who ever had crafted the sword put a lot of time and effort into this work of art.
Naruto was shocked at how light the blade was. It felt as if it was a couple of pounds at most. Naruto was flabbergasted. This had to be one of the best crafted swords in all of fire country. Naruto put the katana back in its sheath and placed it back. He resealed the contents and decided it was time to go.
"I think I should take a couple of books or scrolls with me.." Naruto said as he grinned ear to ear.
The next day mid-afternoon...
Naruto was on his back, trying to catch his breath from doing the tree walking exercise still. Naruto was about three-fourths of the way up the tree.
"I will get this down by the end of the day!" exclaimed Naruto and dashed towards the tree that had at least over a hundred cuts engraved in said tree.
Naruto passed his old mark and continued up about another five or so feet before he started to lose his footing and swiped at the tree. Naruto managed a smirk and said, " Huff... Huff... progress...Huff. Huff. "
Kakashi eye-smiled from the tree he was leaning against, 'Just like his father,' he thought. He could see the same determination in his eyes, just like he used to see in his fathers when he was still alive. 'He's like both you Minato-sensei, Kushina-sempai. The will of fire burns the strongest in him. You'd both be proud'
"Hey Kakashi-sensei," said Naruto, gaining the one-eyed jounin's attention.
"Yeah, Naruto," said Kakashi as he looked up from his book.
"What were my parents like?" asked Naruto.
Kakashi put his book away and gathered his thoughts and replied, "Your mother, from what I remember, she was a loving and caring individual. She would go out of her way and help those in need and risk her life in doing so. She was well known kunochi for her kenjutsu and fuinjutsu. She also earned the name the Red Hot - Blooded Habanero. She also had a temper, too, when she wanted to... And from what your father also told me when she came to live here, her first day at the academy, she proclaimed she would be the first female Hokage heheh. She also loved ramen and pranking, so I see where you get it from."
Naruto couldn't help but grin ear to ear after hearing that.
"Your father was always calm, collected, and highly perceptive. He was also loving and caring, and if anyone tried to harm any of the people he cares for, especially Kushina, he would show no remorse. You resemble your father more than your mother, well excluding your whisker marks. If you grow out your two side bangs more, you could be mistaken for twins. Your father, as you know, was a powerful shinobi and would do anything to protect his home, " said Kakashi as he saw Naruto looked down from the last comment he said.
"After my father died and I became a genin, Minato was like a father figure to me. I looked up to your Father and wanted to be just like him. I know you must be angry with your father for what he did... but you have to understand that he and Kushina loved you they counted down the days until you were born. Your father smiled every single day, knowing he would become a father. I know it killed Minato inside for what he did." Finished Kakashi.
"I'm not angry with my father, Kakashi-sensei. I love both of my parents. He did what he had to do and protect the village. If I was in his shoes and it was the only way to protect the village, I would do the same thing." Naruto said as he gave Kakashi a huge grin.
"Well, that's very mature of you, Naruto. Hey, if you finish the tree walking exercise, I'll get you something to eat anything you want, my treat!" said Kakashi he obviously didn't know what he was getting himself into.
"DEAL!" exclaimed Naruto and dashed towards the tree he was practicing on with re-newed vigor.
Later that day...
Naruto was chowing down on his tenth bowl of ramen and showed no signs of stopping anytime soon.
"Hey Naruto, do you think you had enough yet?" Ask a baffled Kakashi as he watched naruto scarf down bowl after bowl as if he had never eaten before.
"Mmm uhh" was Naruto's intelligent response.
Kakashi couldn't help but sweat drop. 'What did I get myself into,' he thought.
"I still can't believe you finish that exercise I gave you." said Kakashi as he watched Naruto finishing up another bowl of ramen.
"Well, you...slurp..burp.. know how to inspire somebody, heheh? " Naruto said as he was handed another bowl from Ichiraku Teuchi. Teuchi was a kind man. He treated Naruto as if he were his grandson. He is often seen smiling and treats Naruto as well and considers him as their best customer.
"Thanks, old man! And keep them coming!" Naruto exclaimed as he dug into his new bowl of ramen.
By the time Naruto was done eating, there were twenty-six empty bowls in front of him. Teuchi was smiling as if he hit the jackpot and Kakashi... well, he was crying anime tears with his now empty wallet in hand.
"Ahhh, now that hit the spot! I'll see you tomorrow, Kakashi-sensei!" said Naruto as he made his way back to his apartment.
"Yeah... see you tomorrow, " replied Kakashi putting his wallet back into his pocket.
'Well, there goes all of my money (sigh)... just like Kushina-sempai' Said Kakashi as he left in a swirl of leaves.
End of chapter!
So how did you like it? Make sure you take the time and review. I would like to know how you like my story so far! It would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I won't be able to update next week. I'll be working extra hours... sucks.. But hey, it is what it is.
The next chapter will be a one year time skip. Just a heads up!
SO UNTIL NEXT TIME!
-Kenshin out
