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Ch. 12

Small talk littered around our small group and by the time we got to the entrance of the academy, we are laughing our heads off at a dirty joke Kiba made that involves a sailor and a married man. Wiping the laughter from my eyes, I looked towards the entrance to see if anyone is waiting and today must have been a good day for there isn't anybody waiting.

The second we walked through the doors, the bell rang to let us know we have 5 minutes left until class starts up again for the afternoon. Shika and Choji are the first ones in, followed by Kiba, Naruto and I and once again the girls are really loud arguing who gets to sit beside Sasuke. Whoa, I got his name right. Anyways he saw us coming into class and smiled but it faltered when he also saw my arm looped in with Naruto's. I noticed this, unfortunately Naruto is telling a joke about a judge and an old lady, so I didn't really care if Sasuke is glaring daggers or not because the joke is funny.

Walking up the steps and bypassing the girls, I discreetly whispered to Naruto and Kiba to keep a good eye out for a cat fight because sooner or later, one of these girls is going to snap and all hell might break loose and I for one will not miss it. Chuckling, we got to our seats and sat down, enjoying the commotion for any slip up they might do and so I quickly glanced around our classroom before turning back to the scene. I'm guessing most of the students around are either engrossed in the scene as we are or completely ignoring it to notice that Iruka came in and tried to clear his throat but couldn't be heard over the loudness of the girls. He tried again and nadda, so I thought I might help out a bit. Standing up, I quickly signaled for the guys to cover their ears before taking a deep breath and putting 2 fingers in my mouth, I let out a tremendous whistle that nearly shook the building and I could hear the dogs barking outside. When I finished, I looked to the girls who are now hiding behind the desks and covering their ears:

"Well now that is settled, I do believe Iruka-sensei is trying to start the class, however the high volume of yelling and screeching from certain female species delayed such possibility and in doing so, resulted in me getting your attention. Iruka-sensei if you would be so kind, please proceed in our afternoon class without any further disruption, Thank you!" A standing ovation and thunderous clapping from the rest of the class has me bowing in thanks and I sat back down with a laughing Naruto and Kiba as the girls blushed in embarrassment, I smirked in triumph.

The afternoon class was uneventful, just taking notes, answering known questions and us three passing notes and trying with all our might to NOT laugh out loud at Kiba's dirty jokes. When the bell finally rang to signal the end of class for the day, the three of us stretched our muscles since sitting in the same spot kind of cramps them and made our way down the steps. Walking out of class and out the front entrance, Shikamaru and Choji came in step with us and we strolled leisurely to the market but the long way. Choji munching on his stash of chips and Shika kept yawning every few minutes whereas Kiba is chatting with Naruto about something. As we are walking by a grassy hill, I smiled in content and listened to the world around me, until someone spoke up.

"Hold up" He says and stops right at the bottom of a trail that lead up the grassy hill and we turn to Shika as he looked up at the nice sunny sky and at the puffed out clouds around here and there. He nodded at Choji whom shrugged:

"Choji and I are going to head up that hill and go clouds gazing, ok?"

"Yeah, see you later guys" A small wave and off they went, up the grassy hill. The three of us walked on

"Yeah, Shika and Choji liked their cloud gazing up there. I think it's their spot or something" Kiba smiled at that and went back to talking to Naruto. I took in the sights around the area we're in: the trees, the houses and the beauty in it all. Nature at its best; I just love it!

Coming into the market place, people stared but keep on what they were doing and trying not to seem too troublesome, not like yesterday. When I looked around at some of them, they quickly looked away and when they tried to whisper, they stopped when we walked by. I guess my little lesson came through.

The market place is near normal, like any other day: people bustling here and there, children running around and driving their parents crazy. Kiba butt in between Naruto and I, slung both arms around our shoulders and smirked his fangy smile.

"I think you taught them a thing or two yesterday, huh? They seem to lessen any animosity they once had, eh Naruto?"

"It nice to just walk without anyone glaring or saying something mean"

"Yeah Roxanne did you a favor and its good, really good" Naruto then smile at me and I smiled back

"Well I was thinking that…" Kiba stopped right there in mid-sentence and step, we all stopped. A howl, a quiet howl from a dog, I could hear that and I know the 2 boys could too but it's so quiet as if it's from a distance and the people in the market place could not hear it. Only those with acute hearing could hear it and that category fall on us three.

"Kiba, I think that was for you" A bark and a small head popped out from Kiba's hoody

"Yeah, I think you're right. Well see you guys later then" He turns and runs off in the direction we just came from, Naruto then turns to me and ask:

"You heard that too right?" I nodded in confirmation and Naruto smiled: "Cool" Walking the same way we were just going, we kept a normal pace to our apartment building and made small talk regarding the training we will be doing.

Stepping up the stair to my floor, I told Naruto to change into something training worthy and meet me back here in 10 minutes. With a mock salute, Naruto hightailed outta there and I unlocked my door. Going straight to my so-called closet, I rummaged through what I have and out came a loose muscle shirt and sweat pants.

Happy with what I got, I proceeded to the bathroom and changed. Not a minute later, I came back out to the main room and heard to knock.

"It's open, Naruto" I yelled as I went into the kitchen and looked around for an empty water container bottle.

"Hey, almost ready to go?" I didn't look up from the cabinets until I found a good size container.

"Yeah, just grabbing some water for the road" Opening the fridge and picking out the pitcher of water I put in last night.

Filling to the brim, I put the pitcher back and close both the fridge door and the water bottle. Turning towards where Naruto is standing and making sure the lid is tight so no leakage, I finally looked at Naruto and I chuckled at what I saw.

"I don't know if it's just me but we think a lot alike, Naruto" I say this while looking at Naruto's choice of training clothes: A loose sleeveless shirt and sweat pants.

Checking out my clothes and looked down at his, Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly and smiled.

"Yeah I guess we do. So are you ready now?" Little eager, aren't we? Nodding in confirmation, I lead the way out my door and went Naruto walked out, I locked the door and just like yesterday, I grabbed Naruto and hauled him on my back before leaping over the railing. This time though, instead of yelling in fear, Naruto is yelling with excitement and we laughed as I jumped over the rooftops.

Ch. 13

Landing on the same tree as yesterday, Naruto got off my back and I somersaulted off the branch and landed gracefully on one foot. I smirked smugly up at Naruto and he stuck his tongue out at me: "Show off!"

I laughed and waved him down, "See if you can do better" I challenged. He smirked, actually smirked my smirk right back at me and rubbed his hands together. "Watch this" Naruto somersaults off the branch but adds a twist of his body in midair and lands with his back to me, hands in the air.

"You made that up" I clapped him on the back and we both looked up at the same branch we jumped off of. "I think you're right" Naruto looks confused as to how he did what he did. "Well I think it was awesome and I think we should keep that up along with the race to get here, like a sort of warm up to get started" Naruto nodded and started to stretch a bit.

"So what are we doing today?" Reaching down and touching his toes and coming back up, Naruto looked my way. Stretching myself, I addressed the question: "First off: you are going to show me what you learned yesterday and if you still remember it. Now hop to it, Naruto" Throwing a kunai at his feet and a hand on my hip, I waited for Naruto to start. "Alright" Picking up the knife, Naruto turned to the same tree we came off of and concentrated on molding and maintaining his chakra. When he was done, Naruto walked up to the tree and started to walk upwards on it, without the use of his hands.

I followed up after him and soon enough we were at the top of the tree overlooking the tree tops and roofs of the village. "Hmm not bad, not bad and so we'll make our way down to see if your techniques are still in stable conditions" Naruto scoffs at my use of big words but follows me back down. When we reach the mid-way point of the tree, I proceeded to the underside of one large branch, so I am now hanging upside down, and Naruto catching my drift, went to another branch to do the same.

"Good, good Naruto, now flip off" arms across my chest, I waited for Naruto to jump.

"Flip this" Flicking the finger in my direction and laughing about it, Naruto literally flipped off the branch, and landed, facing the other way. When he turned and looked up, Naruto was just about to boost about his abilities until I cut him off.

As Naruto flipped off upside down from the branch, I did a series of hand signs and only when Naruto landed, did my jutsu activated. I started spinning on the spot as the wind picked up and twirled around me like a mini cyclone. That cyclone made a tunnel-like trail from the branch to the ground near Naruto, whom is covering his face from the gust of dirt and wind. As the wind died down, so did my spinning and soon everything is as still and quiet as it was earlier. Naruto, wiping what dirt and leaves were stuck to his face or hair, looked on in awe and I smiled up at the sun shining through the trees.

"That was fun, wasn't it?" Looking at Naruto who had yet to pick up his jaw off the forest floor and so I walked up to him.

"Here let me help" Slipping a finger under his chin, Naruto's jaw clunked closed and let my hand drop to his hand and slipped out the kunai from it. Turning and walking off in the direction of where I thought I've seen a small stream and I didn't wait for Naruto to come to.

I guess the small stream wasn't far off as I could see it and it looked like a good size stream for the exercise I'm going to let Naruto do, not too deep but also not to shallow and wide enough.

"Hey!" Ah there he is and only 10 minutes has pass, so I sat down right next to the flowing stream and waited for Naruto to appear.

"Finally, I thought I lost you there for the whole day" I chuckled at his grand entrance of stumbling in the open and patted the ground beside me for him to sit. When he did, he crossed his legs Indian style and we sat in silence for a bit, just enjoying the quietness that nature has to offer.

"Well time to get to it I guess. Now (turning on the spot so I am facing Naruto) we know that you aced the tree climbing technique by maintaining your chakra in even amounts to both feet so it can stick and a very good job you did too" I patted him on the shoulder and Naruto blushed but smile at the compliment.

"Now, today's exercise might at first make you look at me like I'm beyond crazy or something because you'll give me a look that clearly says: 'seriously'. But then after you'll be so awed in my attempt to show you what I mean, that you'll run into town and grab me something to snack on that is NOT ramen, just to show your gratitude in my training you. Yes exactly like that looks right now!" The 'seriously' look he's giving me is so right on the dot that...…why is he still looking at me like that?

"What you talking about, Roxanne?" Raising an eyebrow at me and still had the look on.

"Anyways…moving on…since you now know how to climb a tree with your chakra, today you're going to try your luck on walking on water" I stood up at this but Naruto didn't move, except for his other eyebrow raising to meet up with the first one.

"Ok, you know how the tree climbing technique needed no hands, right? (He nodded) Ok, well this is an application to that. You gather an amount of chakra and maintain it. Trees are solid, so all you have to do is make it stick. This exercise is to mold a constant amount of chakra since water is a liquid and is constantly moving. To walk on water, you must constantly release the right amount of chakra from your feet to the water and balance the amount to make your body float. This chakra control is harder than maintaining chakra" At this time, Naruto choose to stand up and so I walked over to the edge of the stream but still facing Naruto.

"This exercise is designed to teach you to control your chakra by releasing a constant amount of it and will help in certain type of jutsu's. (Bringing my hand up for the normal hand sign) First you accumulate chakra into your feet (chakra glows around my feet) Next you constantly release a certain amount of chakra to balance yourself while afloat (I stepped in the stream and started to walk over the surface) and Voila! You're walking on water" I walked a ways away to prove I am constantly release a certain amount of chakra to stay afloat.

"Whoa!" Naruto stared in awe as I had predicted earlier and so I smirked and respond as so.

"Naruto, didn't I say you'll be in awe?" He nodded in confirmation

"And didn't I say that you also run into town to get me something…" I so didn't finish my sentence because the only thing left of Naruto is his after image puff of cloud and a streak lined that lead out of the forest. I laughed at this and walked back to the shore. Taking a look around the forest, I breathed in the woodsy smell and fresh water smell from the stream. I sighed in content and closed my eyes, before starting a series of katas while I waited for Naruto to get back.

During my 50th push up, since I finished my katas and started on my exercise, I looked up when I felt that Naruto was close. One last one, I pushed myself up in a hand stand and flipped backwards to land on my feet, facing the direction that Naruto went. Appearing from the shrubbery, Naruto had a large container wrapped up in a sheet. He smiled widely at his accomplishments as he set down the large item next to me.

"Whoa!" who knew right, I sure didn't and I am please he did, so I told him so.

"Thanks Naruto, you didn't have to get me THAT much" Rubbing the back of his head, Naruto blushed and waved his hand in a gesture of sorts.

"Nah, it's nothing, really. I just didn't know what you liked, so I just got you almost one of everything I could get my hands on" Looked down at his feet in a shy fashion and I won't have that.

Lifting his head by his chin with my finger, I looked Naruto in the eyes and genuinely smiled at him in appreciation.

"Naruto it's awesome and Thank you" A light kiss on his cheek told him that I am very thankful and the blushed that completely consumed Naruto told me that he appreciate it.

"Anyways, you want to get started before it gets dark? I'll keep the food as is, so when we're done, we can take back to my place and eat it there together" By now Naruto snapped out of his daze (I think) and rubbed his hands together.

"Alright, just watch, I'll have this thing down in now time…what are you going to do?" Turning his head to me as I walked back to the spot I was before Naruto came back.

"Nothing much, just weight lifting, hand eye coordination and stealth while you work on this technique" I wasn't lying. I usually keep up my training so I don't lack just because I'm in a village.

"Oh, ok then" Turning to the stream, Naruto gathered his chakra to his feet and stepped in. BUT his foot went right through the water and got his foot soaked.

"This might take longer than I thought it would be" I chuckled.

I know it's sort (I think) but it's just something to keep up since I'll be away from my laptop for a few days

PS: I have a sequel for this and I have no idea if it's a good idea to put it up…should I?

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