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Live another Day
Chapter 4: Training sucks!
Inuzuka 101
Gaku Inuzuka
Chapter II: Strength, speed and endurance
An Inuzuka MUST be strong. Without strength, there is no power. Without power, there is no victory. Without victory, you're not an Inuzuka.
An Inuzuka MUST be fast. Without speed, there is no acceleration. Without acceleration, there is no strength. Without strength, you're not an Inuzuka.
An Inuzka MUST be endurant. Without endurance, there is no resilience. Without resilience, there is no strength. Without strength, you're not an Inuzuka.
How one gets all of this? There is one simple method that had existed since the Warring States Period.
Consistent fighting against your feral partner. Only once you're far stronger than your animal can you relax just a bit – until then it's a great shame to be weaker, slower or less endurant than your pet.
Fight until you can't move no more.
XxX
Naruto had finally started addressing his stamina and issues, both of which are related, since the more stamina someone has, the more chakra they have.
'I've been delaying this enough, Kiba's body is fast, but only for a minute or two.' he told himself, looking towards his white-fured dog.
The white-fured dog quickly performed "Jujin Bunshin(Beast Human Clone)" and turned into a carbon copy of 'Kiba.'
He took a deep breath before rushing forward towards 'Akamaru'. Once he got close enough Naruto tried delivering a punch to it's stomach, but it quickly attacked with it's left hand with aggressiveness Naruto didn't anticipate and stopped Naruto's attack.
Naruto tried jump back, but the copy didn't stop and instantly attacked the now not so 'blonde' teenager. Once again, it managed to hit Naruto leaving bloody stains on his body because of the sharp nails the dog possessed.
'How the hell am I already out of breath,' he thought to himself before continuing his thought process, 'This is going to be a very long day, isn't it?'
XxX
(Academy; 1 week before graduation)
"The hell is that supposed to mean?!" Tsuyu shouted at Naruto.
Naruto just raised his shoulders, and said, "I've got too much on my plate. I wrote this step by step tutorial for you so you could learn "Fūton: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!)" without me watching over your shoulder."
"Hmph. As if I need such a dog like you!" She said clearly displeased at him, before taking the paper out of his hand.
She stared for a bit at 'Kiba', before she patted the dog. Naruto smiled at that, and she quickly smacked Naruto across his face.
"Was it really necessary?" Naruto asked while brushing the pain out of his left cheek.
"It's a bad habit to lie," she smirked slightly, as some slight violence clearly helped her to get into better mood.
Naruto couldn't help it. Seeing how out of shape he is compared to his last body just feels wrong. Also, reading "Inuzuka 101" and other books related to Inuzuka he found doesn't increase the time he has, so more often than not, he reads it through the academy time, with little to no time to help Tsuyu, besides a few tips and tricks.
XxX
Minato wasn't too worried about the strength of his daughter.
In fact, he wanted her to stay away from any danger and stay in the village for as long as he can make her. Her living a simple life was much preferred over the rigorous training he had to endure to become so powerful.
A wish for world peace – a place where conflict is no more was what Minato wished. A place where children can live a life without worrying about death and suffering.
So he had avoided training Tsuyu. He thought he should do it later. This later constantly became later and later, until today, when she is a week and a half away from graduating the academy.
However, deep down he knew that he couldn't protect his daughter forever. She was a kyubi jinchuriki, in other words, a girl with powers straight from gods.
So today he made an exepction and helped her in learning a jutsu she had been struggling for a few days.
'Am I too soft for her? Am I a bad father, Kushina?' was what Minato constantly asked himself.
XxX
Chakra control is essentially the most important thing, for a ninja that doesn't possess large chakra reserves.
To be able sufficiently control and conserve your chakra is the Ninja rule 101, however, in practice it isn't that easy.
Knowing that you have to mould as much chakra as the jutsu requires is one thing, doing it is another.
That was always a big problem for Naruto in his previous life. He used to put too little chakra in his jutsu or too much. He just never could get it right. Even when he got older, his chakra control never compared to Sakura and about anyone in Konoha 12.
This wasn't that bad when he had so much chakra as he could've wasted a ton without noticing. However, he doesn't possess the Kyubi right now. While this easens his chakra control, as there is nobody to disturb it anyone, he still has pathetically little to what he used to have.
So he added chakra control to his daily exercise among fighting with Akamaru.
Specifically, he added the 2 exercises that Jiraya taught him when he was being taught rasengan.
Everyday he started doing the two exercises that were before "Rasengan", that is Naruto trained his chakra control by improving his chakra rotation and power.
He took a water balloon and spinned it with chakra. Blowing up wasn't a problem for Naruto, but rotating and feeling how the chakra rotates as to almost blow it up certainly helps in chakra control.
The other exercesise is also similar. He used a similar rubber ball and increased the volume and density of chakra he put out. This training was a bit problematic, because it requires to use more chakra, and by the end of the day Naruto was already chakra exhausted, so he trained with it only once a day. Similarly to the water exercises, the point wasn't to blow it up but rather to feel be able increase his volume and density more consistently.
'How did Sakura get such a good chakra control,' Naruto thought at the end of the training, lying on the floor completely exhausted.
XxX
(1 day before the graduation)
Naruto has been trying to keep his profile as low as possible, as he could feel odd stares among his peers and especially Iruka.
Despite being rather unusually quiet and not as narcissistic as Kiba, most students stopped caring in a matter of few days. Especially when Naruto started to sleep in class due to tiredness and his chakra exhaustion. However, it seemed that Iruka only looked more often.
"Kiba Inuzuka versus Sasuke Uchiha!" Ikatsuchi shouted at the students
Before starting the fight, Naruto looked back and met the concentrated look of Iruka, who then instantly looked away.
With a gulp, Naruto came forward and bowed, before hearing "Begin" shouted by Ikatsuchi.
Naruto anticipated to hear something from the Uchiha boy, but nothing came, as soon as the battle started Sasuke rushed forward.
Once the boy with incredibly black hair managed to get close, he attempted to hit Naruto with his right leg into his, however Naruto was just quick enough to back away.
After fighting 'himself' all day, Naruto realized one thing he could use. Extending his nails, Naruto rushed forward with animal-like intensity.
Sasuke expected a hit to come, and once it seemed that Naruto would punch him, he would block with his left arm and counter-attack with his right leg.
However, he was very wrong. Naruto didn't hit him with a punch, but instead his long and sharp nails, which resulted In blood coming from Sasuke's arms.
Naruto continued his slashing with sharp nails, but Sasuke was a bit more prepared now and managed to avoid them.
Kiba was always fast, however, his weakness was always his endurance. With it improved, Naruto managed to not stall after a few seconds and continue his ferocious attack.
"You filthy beast." Sasuke angrily said when they made some distance to rest for a second.
"Heh, not bad Sasuke. But you have a lot to learn until you get on my level," Naruto responded in a teasing manner.
"As if you're above me. I could step on you anytime if ninjutsu was allowed," Sasuke grinned before getting ready to attack once again.
The fight ended with a draw, as it went on too long and bloody(mostly on Sasuke's part) for the instructor's liking.
As the lesson finished and Naruto entered the academy, he felt Iruka staring at him. The blonde couldn't help but wonder what kind of information does Iruka have on him and why he wished to get it in the first place.
XxX
Minato was a tad bit disappointed. Hearing from Iruka that Kiba had kinda slacked off in Iruka's lessons and slept through classes wasn't what he expected.
During spars, he seemed to be a lot smarter with more stamina to fight with, but it wasn't anything too spectacular.
The final graduation day, Kiba performed about enough for a genin, but nothing too spectacular.
Nonetheless, it seemed to Minato that during the time he had helped Tsuyu, she kept getting frustrated, and upon asked if that's because of some boy she responded with, "As if I would be mad because of some dog!" which did put a smile on Minato's face.
After some consideration, the yondaime had finally finished making the team list, which he had been working on for the last two weeks
I had real trouble writing this chapter. Actually, I wrote it a month ago and had a writer's block with this story. Anyway, I hope I'll get my motivation back for this story and make a better chapter than this one.
Here is the obligatory training chapter + test. Really, I needed to get this out of the way ASAP. In fact, I probably should've done this training earlier.
I tried to keep it as short as possible since I'm not that interested in doing academy slice of life. Not sure how well did that turn out though, but I had a lot of trouble writing this chapter.
Anyways, Dendras out.
