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Bold - Demon speaking

Bold Italics - Demon thoughts

Underline - Jutsu

-Flashback-

Naruto looks to the Hokage questionably, who gives him a nod, before speaking. "I accept Shisui-san. If I'm ever to be strong enough to protect myself well enough to learn who my parents are I'll need to be trained." The Hokage looks on with a smile.

"Just call me sensei or Shisui sensei or just Shisui, non of that san or sama crap kid. Makes me feel so much older than I am" Shisui states with a chuckle.

Hiruzen also chuckles a bit at that comment remembering how he was the same way when he was young and not used to the respect the position of Hokage brought to him.

"Now Shisui" Hiruzen says, to which Shisui automatically snaps to attention "Officially you will remain Naruto's personal guard full time, I'd rather not have to deal with any backlash from the council. They cause me enough headaches trying to gain power and take over all village functions as it is."

He rubs his temples thinking about the last thing they tried to slip past him. "Now that does mean officially I can't compensate you for the additional workload, however unofficially I can allow you slightly more freedom than your guard position or a sensei position would. Considering Dog doesn't want to retire until Naruto is in the academy, I'll have him take over full-time for the next week with a trusted member of the team he leads when not on guard duty.

This will give you some time to make plans for how you wish to train Naruto. In one week exactly, you'll go back into his guard rotation during days only while Dog takes nights when he's in the village so you can train him during the day. Do you have any questions or concerns with that?"

Shisui shakes his head in the negative while Naruto thinks for a moment about everything before doing the same.

Hiruzen nods and gives a silent signal, Shisui returns his mask back to his face as the Hokage's personal guards return to the office.

"Okay, Crow once your current shift ends you'll be free until then. You may take Naruto and leave now."

Shisui nods and places a hand on Naruto's shoulder before shunshining away with him.

As Hiruzen gets back to work he thinks to himself "I doubt I'll come to regret allowing this in secrecy, It's for my and Naruto's benefit. I'm finally able to truly help the kid out. I just hope when I pass on Minato understands why I told him of the Kyubi so early."

Over the next week, Naruto spent most of his time running around the village and staying out of sight of the general populace by taking mostly alleys.

He did test the waters by entering a few shops to see if any would treat him normally only to be told to leave from those few.

Now knowing the truth it doesn't bother him nearly as much but it still does hurt a bit.

Having been told that he has ANBU guards, he's made a small game of trying to see if he could spot Dog or his partner, only to come up empty-handed every time. Naruto really didn't expect any other outcome but he figured he might as well give it a shot anyway.

Shisui spent the week coming up with a basic outline for training. The only thing he really has to go off of is that Naruto has high stamina and decent stealth without being taught a thing. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, he has to start with the bare basics anyway.

-Flashback End-

The day the training is meant to start, Naruto is once again found on top of the Hokage monument. He wasn't given a location to meet at so he figured a nice place away from everyone was a good place to sit and wait. This also gives him some time to think about what he may be learning and get himself excited while trying to calm his nerves.

A few minutes after arriving, Shisui appears in his full ANBU getup.

"Shi-" Naruto begins when he sees him but is cut off with a raised hand.

"When the mask is on I am Crow, an Anbu's identity isn't known to the public. We are meant to be the elite, protecting from the shadows to not be seen or known." Shisui says in a monotone voice from behind the mask. "Now, if you're ready to go, I have been given access to a private area for us to use"

Naruto nods in understanding and steps toward Shisui ready to go.

Shisui unable to stay completely emotionless and boring, tosses Naruto on his shoulder. With a yelp from Naruto, they vanish in the quickest shunshin he can manage with another person. It's not his quickest but it's fast enough for it to seem like he just vanished without a trace.

After appearing just outside of a secluded and empty training ground, Shisui sets Naruto down who instantly doubles over holding his stomach and gags from the sudden rush and stop. Shisui can't contain his laugh and waits for Naruto to pull himself together before saying anything.

Naruto stays in that position, gagging for a solid five minutes before regaining himself enough to just sit there breathing deeply. After another two minutes, Shisui finally speaks up.

"Welcome to Training Ground 37, this is where the Hokage would come to train if he decides to instead of his private training grounds at his home. We were given access to this one because there are chakra suppression and security seals surrounding it. Before we can enter, I'll need to add you to the security seals." He goes to make a few hand seals then stops and asks "Do you know how to use chakra yet kiddo?"

"No, I don't I was never shown how to unlock it as that is part of the academy and I doubt anyone would've just told me." Naruto replies.

Shisui deadpans behind the mask and sighs "I should've seen that coming honestly because yes you learn that in the academy. Alright, copy me."

Shisui sits down and takes a deep breath. Naruto copies the position and also takes a deep breath.

"Now, close your eyes and focus inward. Look for a warm and calming feeling around your belly. When you find it, latch onto that feeling and pull. This may not work on the first try, in fact, it's pretty rare that someone can unlock their chakra on the first try. Just keep going until I tell you to stop."

Naruto closes his eyes and takes another deep breath before focusing inward. He stays like that for a solid thirty minutes.

"Remember, most don't get it on the first attempt so don't feel down about it, just keep going." Shisui says in a calm tone.

Naruto continues focusing inward for another fifteen minutes before he finally feels something. It's warm and calm just like he was told so he focuses on that feeling and tries his best to pull it out. After another five minutes, he feels this warm sensation grow and grow before it floods throughout his body. A blue aura quickly surrounds him and produces small cracks on the ground.

"Alright alright you can stop now Naruto" Shisui calls out as he activates his Sharingan on instinct, instantly breaking Naruto's focus and causing him to stop pulling. The aura recedes back into him. He opens his eyes and sways a bit where he's sitting.

"Good job kid, and if I may say so myself your chakra is damn impressive. I've met only a handful of adults who could do what you did and stay awake after doing so and never once have I seen a kid do it."

"Unlock my chakra? Couldn't everyone do that?" Naruto asks in a lazy and sorta tired voice.

"No, not that. everyone who wants to be a ninja has to do at least that. Look around you, at what your chakra did." Shisui answers with a small amount of excitement leaking into his voice.

Naruto does as told and his eyes go wide at the cracks around him but he can't keep them wide for long.

Shisui deactivates his eyes and smirks. "Oh training you is gonna be fun if you're already surprising me" He quickly does a few hand signs "Alright channel a small amount of chakra, I'll let you rest a bit after this is done"

Naruto does as told and tries to channel as little chakra as he can, which is still a considerable amount.

Shisui just shakes his head and does a few more seals. "Alright, you've been added to the security seals and can enter this training ground without causing the ANBU to be alerted." He picks up Naruto and walks into the training ground before placing him beneath a tree at the edge to rest a bit.

-In the Hokage's Office During the Time Naruto is Unlocking his Chakra-

Hiruzen is watching Naruto and Shisui with his crystal ball knowing Naruto is gonna have to unlock his chakra to be allowed into the training ground. When he does his eyes go wide and his jaw drops before he has a chance to stop his reaction. "Holy shit" He mutters under his breath.

Regaining his composure quickly, he keeps his thoughts from being spoken so as to not have any questions later on down the road.

"I am glad I sent them to that training ground specifically. If I had suggested a closer one that didn't have so many seals, that would've been felt all over the village and caused slight panic. Or worse Danzo would've sent his men to investigate." He leans back in his chair with a smirk. "Your child is gonna be a monster Minato."

Dog appears in a swirl of leaves in the middle of the office and kneels. "Sir, I was doing a perimeter sweep and felt a strong chakra signature that I partially recognized by your training field. It disappeared before I could investigate so I came straight to you. Sir was that-"

Hiruzen cuts him off before he continues with a raised hand "Indeed that was, he just unlocked his chakra. Do you know if anyone else was in the area that I'm going to have to worry about?"

"No sir, I was the only other person besides his normal occupant during this time"

"Good, fewer questions and less paperwork" Hirizen smiles "You may return to your duty Dog, you already know to keep this quiet."

"Hai" With that Dog vanishes in another swirl of leaves.

-Back With Naruto and Shisui About Thirty Minutes Later-

Naruto is sitting up fully now and watching Shisui twirl a kunai on his finger while he explains what they are gonna be doing.

"Alright, now that you aren't on the verge of passing out I can explain the basic outline of your training schedule. Now, you probably won't like this but for at least the first year you won't be training with chakra at all. No control exercises, no jutsu, no nothing.

This was the original plan anyway but the amount of chakra shows that you definitely have an imbalance of spiritual and physical. No one your age should have that much chakra, let alone with absolutely no training so I highly doubt you have a lot of physical energy built up.

We will be starting with pure conditioning and it will be pretty light, at least by a genins standards, to hopefully balance you out some. This has two major benefits.

Firstly, it will make it so you can properly fight meaning your hits hurt and you are quick enough to make hits and avoid being hit yourself.

Secondly, balancing your spiritual and physical energies will make chakra control and other exercises involving chakra, like learning a jutsu, easier to accomplish as you won't have to fight yourself to use the correct mixture of them.

Before I continue, do you understand so far? And if it's the bit about physical and spiritual energy that has you confused, that will be fully explained once we start using chakra."

Naruto went to say something before Shisui added the last part. "I understand so far Sensei."

Shisui smiles at being called sensei for the first real time.

"Good, to begin I want to test your absolute current limits. I know you have a ton of stamina so task number one is to just simply run laps until you start to feel tired. Once you're done with that, I'll let you rest again before we move on. GO!"

Naruto scrambles to his feet and starts running around the training ground. Shisui hops up into a tree and sits on a branch to observe.

After a solid forty-five minutes of running from Naruto, he starts to slow down and he's breathing noticeably heavier. That's when Shisui calls out for him to stop and join him by the tree he's sitting in.

"I knew you had high stamina but that was still pretty impressive. A forty-five-minute high-paced run is coming up on basic out-of-village mission-level stamina as is. You can rest for twenty minutes then we'll begin on push-ups. This will be until you can't complete another." Shisui calls down to Naruto.

Naruto drops next to the tree and leans against it while trying to catch his breath.

Shisui drops a bottle of water next to him "And don't forget to stay hydrated while working out, wouldn't want you to pass out from dehydration of all things if you even can and I don't particularly want to test that."

Naruto grabs the bottle and drinks half of it before stopping to breathe again and properly catch his breath.

After twenty minutes, Naruto's breathing has normalized again and he begins his pushups. He may have high stamina but that's basically all he currently has. He lasts for about fifteen pushups before his arms give out and he lays there.

"Alright, once you can move your arms properly again move onto situps then I'll be done figuring out where we are starting" Shisui calls out from his spot in the tree.

Naruto just groans from the pain in his arms in response but complies nonetheless. He only gets through about thirteen full situps until he ends up not making it back up to a sitting position fully.

Shisui hops out of the tree and pulls out a notepad and pencil. "Alright while you relax for now, I'm gonna write up a basic schedule for our sessions. Enjoy this time while you have it, tomorrow you're not gonna like me as much but this is the cost of getting stronger kid."