Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Clone ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

A/N

 

sorry for the 2 day delay I was flooded with school work. I wrote the bulk of this in my English class. Jane Eyre is excessively boring. It should be a crime for a book to be so boring. Especially when you study it every day for several weeks. Aside from that I think it is time I advertised for a beta. Any interested party should drop me a line at daemon_darklighter@yahoo.com, (there is an underscore between daemon and darklighter) hate mail has never had any effect on me so sending it would be a waste of your and my time. Well enough from me, on to what you came for. The story!!!

 

“Human speech”

“ Demon or summon speech”

“Human thoughts”

“Demon or summon thoughts”

 

 

 

Disclaimer: Why write a Disclaimer?? It gives me no legal standing whatsoever If Kishimoto came after my ass. That said I don't own Naruto.

 

 

Chapter 4: What the hell?? The Pervert wants me dead??

 

 

Naruto woke up exited the next morning, after a hasty breakfast he bolted out of Jiraiya's compound and headed straight for the bridge where his team had met over the past few days. For once he was the first to arrive though both Sasuke and Hinata came shortly after he had settled down to wait. Kakashi as usual was late, but it seemed even he was a little exited about his new team coming only 30 minutes after the appointed meeting time.

 

“Hinata what happened to you” Naruto looked up at the girl and noticed to his shame that she looked beat up and tired. He had been absorbed in his own thoughts and was yet to say a word to his teammates. Now he examined Hinata carefully his expert eyes picking up the signs of stressful combat. It seemed as if someone had kept on striking her even after she lost consciousness.

 

“Personal training, there is no need for concern.”

 

what kind of training could leave his teammate in such disrepair? Frowning slightly Naruto tuned into what Kakashi was saying.

 

“I informed you all that this team is special, in that it is the first team of its kind. In konoha genin teams are arranged according to tried and tested methods. An example would be team 10, their clans posses abilities that compliment each other. This team is different in that it is Konoha's first heavy combat specialist team. Naruto you are here because of your abnormal amount of chakra and penchant for area effect jutsu. Sasuke both you and Hinata are the top rookies this year, and you both hold Konoha's most prized doujutsu. All that said, it would be impossible for me to teach all of you to maximize your potential. That is why I will only be teaching Sasuke.”

 

Both Naruto and Hinata looked surprised at this pronouncement, while Sasuke smirked at this evidence of his importance. Naruto couldn't help but wonder why their sensei was openly playing favorites.

 

“ I can see from the expressions on your faces that you all missed the point, as I said just now I cannot give each of you the personal training needed for you to achieve your full potential. Therefore Naruto Jiraiya has been assigned as your personal trainer, Hinata you will meet yours tommorow. All that said we are still a team, we will have four hours together everyday honing your team work and doing missions.”

 

After his announcement Kakashi ordered them to star warm up exercises, Naruto saw Sasuke throwing hateful glances his was throughout their exercises but he thought nothing of it, the boy seemed to be naturally pissed off all the time. Sasuke meanwhile was reflecting on the apparent slight he had just been dealt, he was being trained by a jonin, albeit an elite one, but his teammate got a sannin! In fact not just a sannin but Jiraiya himself, the man who had trained the fourth. How could he get strong enough to defeat Itachi if Konoha did not provide him with the best training possible? Wasting it instead on some worthless boy with no real ambition?

 

After their warm up Kakashi took them to a nearby waterfall. “Hinata, Sasuke go to the bottom” Naruto watched as his teammates traversed the slippery ledges on the way down, Sasuke nearly fell once but recovered beautifully twisting his body in the air like a contortionist to grab on to a new handhold. Finally the two made it all the way down and stood in the ravine looking up at Naruto and Kakashi.

 

“wear this over your eyes Naruto”

 

Naruto looked at his sensei's hand to see the long strip of black cloth his sensei was offering him. “What is it for Kakashi-sensei?” He asked as he tied the cloth on tight.

 

He felt Kakashi grab his shoulders roughly and spin him around several times, Naruto who had been aware of his exact location even with the blindfold was now severely disorientated. He felt Kakashi lead him over a short distance and turn him around.

 

“Ok Naruto this is the first in a series of training exercises. Before you even think of entering combat as a team you MUST have complete trust in your teammates. Your objective is simple, take a jump backwards. If you trust your teammates then rest assured that they will catch you. Naruto gulped audibly. Sensei what if they... you know... miss?? this seems dangerous to me.”

 

“The missions your team will take on will be a lot more dangerous, now jump.” Naruto felt the sweat trickle down his face. He had no clue what his teammates would do if they saw him falling to certain death, that said he was reasonably sure Kakashi-sensei would not let him die. Steeling himself he back flipped falling face first towards the waterfall below.

 

Sasuke cursed as he saw the baka fall towards the deadly waters accelerating, the pool at the base of the waterfall wasn't deep at all coming only up to Sasuke's thigh. If Naruto landed he would definitely die. Sasuke ran out of the water and jumped onto a ledge climbing upward rapidly as the boy descended, he saw the Hyuuga out of the corner of his eye, she was on the opposite side and below him, she was doing something with a kunai but he didn't have time to look away. Naruto was rapidly approaching his position and he had no clue what to do. He was still racking his brain when Hinata drew his attention, she had strung ninja wire through her kunai and was preparing to throw, that was her plan!.Sasuke got ready as Naruto flashed by him and Hinata threw, the kunai passed through the boy,s jacket luckily and was heading for Sasuke. He caught the deadly projectile by the handle and braced himself.

 

Hinata held the ninja wire wrapped around her hand. She had never noticed before how flimsy it looked, she hoped it could bear Naruto's weight. She felt rather than saw Sasuke pull back on the wire above her and she pulled on her own side. The wire snapped, suddenly taut and Naruto slid down it towards Hinata. She could feel the wire cutting into her palm but for some reason she didn't care, she had to save him. She saw Naruto's jacket rip slightly and she struggled to choke back a sob. Finally after what seemed like an eternity he slid into her arms forcefully, causing her to let go of the wire as the both collapsed onto the ground.

 

Naruto felt something snag his jacket, he suppressed his initial reflex to shy away from the object, his suspicions were confirmed when he felt his body snap suddenly and come to a halt, before sliding down in a more controlled fashion. He was surprised however when he forcefully collided with something and sent both of them careening. He came to a stop finally with his head on something indescribably soft. Inhaling deeply he smelled lavender while he snuggled into whatever he had come to rest on.

 

Kakashi watched this by play slightly amused, Hinata was a deep shade of red and seemed too mortified to do anything to get the boy off of her.

 

“Ehrrrm Naruto I understand you want to thank Hinata for saving you but... I think she understands your gratitude by now.” Naruto jerked back realizing what 'soft things he had been pressing his face into. He blushed as he took off the blind fold and noticed that Hinata couldn't meet his gaze. Sasuke had joined them by this time.

 

“what the hell were u thinking fool? Or did the almighty Jiraiya teach u a jutsu to come back to life?”

 

“Calm down Sasuke I ordered Naruto to jump.”

 

Both Sasuke and Hinata looked at Kakashi as if he had sprouted wings. Why the hell would their teacher do such a fool thing?

 

“It was to test your teamwork.” the jonin started to explain. “ You two weren't told what was going to happen before hand and I had to see if your instant reaction was to help him, on this you both passed.

On the other hand Sasuke your immediate springing into action was admirable, but you went in without any semblance of a plan wasting valuable time. Hinata on the other hand you thought out a plan, ignoring your emotions before acting. Taking Sasuke's position and skill into account, you cut it a little to close however a second longer and Naruto would have fallen. On that note let me end this session. meet me tomorrow at the same time tomorrow, on a side note I feel that you all can develop into strong shinobi, the potential for this group is amazing.”

 

Kakashi walked back home slowly, he needed to have his jacket fixed. His mind kept wandering back to Hinata, he had seen another side of the cold girl and now he didn't know what to think of her. As he slipped in through the gate he saw Jiraiya and the old gardener standing, waiting for him. He knew that Jiraiya was still responsible for his training, but training with Jiraiya was always risky at best. He still hadn't forgiven the sannin for throwing him off a cliff in an effort to make him extract Kyuubi's chakra. Jiraiya had a look in his eye that told Naruto he had something evil in store for him.

 

“Naruto am sure that Kakashi told you that I will retain my role as your primary instructor, let me tell you from the beginning that it is going to be twice as hard as what you have done with me so far. Your team will be involved in a lot of full scale combat from the beginning so it's my job to get you prepared.”

 

Naruto looked at Jiraiya in mild shock, the pervert was hardly ever serious, though to Naruto's knowledge he was always brutally honest, If he said the training was going to be difficult it was going to be difficult. He followed belatedly as he saw Jiraiya and the silent gardener moving towards the back garden. The garden was completely changed, he could see several blunt and dangerous objects strewn around in various positions, Jiraiya walked over to a deep depression in the ground and began doing something.

 

“Run 20 laps around the clearing Naruto, keep your maximum speed.” Naruto complied moving at full speed around the clearing. After he had completed the laps Jiraiya beckoned him over. The depression was filled with still glowing hot embers. “300 push ups over these.”

 

“you perverted bastard you want to kill your own student?”

 

“Heh baka this is training, besides the fourth could do this exercise no problem.”

 

Whenever Jiraiya wanted to prod Naruto into doing something he mentioned his former protege the fourth hokage. Naruto seemed to have an innate one sided rivalry with the now deceased hokage. Naruto was aware that Jiraiya just used the fourth's memory asa goad but he didn't care. The fourth was once hailed as the world's strongest shinobi. Naruto wanted that title, so he did the exercise. Each time he lowered himself the heat seared through his chest straight to his heart forging his iron hard determination to be the best, and take whatever Jiraiya could throw at him.

 

“289.., 290..., 291...., 292....., 293......,294.......,295........,296.........,297..........,298..........., 299............,300

” Naruto rolled over breathing heavily, the exercise had been more difficult than he expected, Jiraiya by this time had finished setting up another contraption.

 

“come over here Naruto.”

 

Naruto obeyed quickly stripping down to just his trousers.

 

“Ok what I want you to do know is create the hand seal I tell you to. There will be... distractions but try your best to focus on just doing the seals. Naruto did what he was told standing on the dais Jiraiya had pointed out.

 

“Bird” Naruto made the seal wincing in surprise and pain as a wooden rod connected to the apparatus struck him on the back. This continued for a while the rapidity of the strikes increasing as time went on, eventually a part of his body was always getting hit even as Jiraiya started demanding seals faster and faster. Naruto was sure he was going to collapse when finally.. mercifully it stopped.

 

Jiraiya let the boy rest marvelling at his endurance, even the fourth had not been able to stay on the pain-dealer for as long as Naruto had. Naruto had also gotten every seal correctly never making a mistake even through the beating. While the boy was testing Jiraiya connected a bit of wire dipped in grease between two trees, after 30 minutes he roused Naruto.

 

“get up time to continue.”

 

Naruto groaned as he stood, trying futilely to rub the kinks from his neck.

 

“You see that wire between those two trees? Go across it... on your thumbs.”

 

“Jiraiya seriously your a sadist.”

 

“the fourth...”

 

“can it about that old man, jeez whats the point of this.”

 

“Chakra control”

 

“Obviously! I know the question was theoretical you pervert”

 

“Whatever, stop stalling and get across the damn rope.”

 

Naruto climbed the tree and started going across, he fell after 5 meters the first 8 times. Jiraiya let him continue until he was almost halfway across before he called a halt to the exercise.

 

“That's enough, get down here do 30 laps and then 400 squats to cool down. Mikio here will handle the next phase of your training.

 

“So that is the old man's name...” Naruto thought as he completed Jiraiya's command. Finally finished he sat down in front of the old man.

 

“Jiraiya tells me you are learning the fourth's prized technique rasengan. I would like you to practice it during our lessons if you don't mind.” Naruto shrugged and formed the rasengan. “Now while Jiraiya hones your body I will hone your mind. It is possible that you will play a leadership role in your team so it is essential you understand how to think tactically.” Mikio formed some seals and the ground between them changed into a miniature battlefield with a min Naruto Hinata and Sasuke on it. Let us say you have six kunai, 2 explodin-.......... Naruto sighed, this was definitely going to be a long session.

 

 

A/N

 

wow that was not as long as I initially thought, a portion of the material supposed to go in this chapter has been moved to the next so that will definitely be my longest chapter yet. That said I am most likely going on a school trip about a week long from Monday. I don't know what kind of internet connection will be available so I may not update for a while though I will write. Thanks for reading, till next time.

 

Darklighter.