They even went back to Training Field 15, the swamp they fought Washi and the alligator in and it was completely different. An Oversized Alligator still leapt from the water but it was weaker, a lot weaker. So weak it died before it could run away. Then they fought through two mobs of snakes before being confronted by an Hardheaded Alligator, same attack pattern as before but also one that died and didn't run away. Two more mobs of snakes and last was an Armored Alligator. It died leaving money but no skull cap and more importantly no Washi. Naruto figured that Washi being there was some kind of special event.
Anyway, Naruto trained hard that week exploiting all the new things he'd learned about his clones and especially the healing tags, something all of his friends loved, even Sakura as it saved her on chakra.
Naruto was the first to arrive at his teams meeting place for a change. And by first, he meant he was there a few hours before anyone was even supposed to be there. So Naruto got acquainted with his favorite climbing tree yet again.
Once Sasuke and Sakura arrived, Naruto stopped training. He restored his chakra then used a few of his healing tags to restore the damage from the [Raiton: Chakra Denka no Jutsu].
"What were those?" asked Sasuke, surprisingly it wasn't a demand.
"Cut your hand," Naruto replied, wanting to see what Sasuke would do.
"Why?"
"Trust me, cut your hand."
Sasuke eyed him suspiciously.
"Just do it, Sasuke-kun. You'll be surprised," Sakura added.
Sasuke finally relented, cutting his hand with a kunai, not deep but just enough to draw blood. "Now what?"
Naruto pulled a new tag out and held it above the cut then channeled chakra activating it. The fuda glowed green for a moment then crumbled.
Sasuke was slightly wide-eyed seeing that his cut was simply gone. "What was that?"
"Shosen Fuda, a seal tag with healing chakra in it," answered Naruto. "Pretty cool right? I just learned to make it this week."
"Can I buy some from you?"
"No need," said Naruto, handing over a stack of fifty of them. "I've been mass producing the things all week, you can have some."
"Thanks," he mumbled, stuffing the stack into his hip pouch.
Naruto grinned at getting a thanks from Sasuke. The boy was still very cold for the most part but he seemed to have developed a little respect for his team. Very little, but it was a start.
Naruto would have taunted him further at that point but Kakashi's arrival ended that notion.
"Hello my little students. I hope you have all rested well this past week. Today we get back to work," said Kakashi, his nose happily in his little orange book.
"Bring it, sensei!" shouted Naruto excitedly.
"Hn."
"Nice to see you too, sensei."
"Anyway, I thought today we could focus on training, make sure you haven't gotten rusty after a week off."
"What will we be doing?" asked Sakura, playing along with their weirder than usual.
"A little conditioning, maybe some sparring. I may even teach you a little something if you're not too out of shape."
"It's been a week, not a year. We couldn't have possibly gotten out of shape in that time," deadpanned Sasuke, glaring at their sensei. Sasuke obviously wasn't in the mood to play along.
Naruto and Sakura both nodded a firm agreement to the statement, no reason not to anymore.
"We shall see," said Kakashi, a twinkle in his one visible eye warning them of pain to come.
And pain did come, Kakashi put them through the ringer. When he said conditioning, he had them running laps around the village, including one lap on their hands. When he said sparring, he meant him verses them, one on one and he didn't hold back much.
"Well, I guess you didn't deteriorate as much as I feared. I suppose I can show you something new."
Three groans from the sprawled bodies on the ground before him were all the response he received.
"Now pay attention, it is lecture time," began Kakashi. "To start with, you all know that chakra is the mixing of spiritual and physical energies. Now, who can tell me how this energy can be used? Sakura?"
Sakura groaned but sat up anyway. "We can expel the chakra from our bodies and bend it to our will, even enacting that will on our own bodies or the bodies of others."
"Good, what else can chakra do?"
"What do you mean sensei?"
"What can chakra do for your muscles?"
Naruto sat up for this and raised his hand.
"Naruto?"
"It can make your stronger and faster," he answered.
"Very good. Now, there are two different ways to strengthen and two different ways to increase your speed. Today, we're focusing on speed. First, does anyone know both methods?"
"Hn."
"Please enlighten your teammates."
"You can force chakra into your muscles for a sudden burst of strength or speed. You can also circulate and contain the chakra within your muscles for a constant boost to your speed or strength."
"Excellent," said Kakashi, smiling behind his mask. The only clue to his students that he was smiling was the strange one-eyed smile the man had mastered. "So, for the rest of today, we'll work on it then we can maybe have a little race. Winner gets to choose where we eat dinner."
Naruto was excited as usual to be learning something new, especially if he was going to be rewarded with Ramen. As to the skill, he already knew he could increase his speed by pushing chakra into his legs for a sudden burst of speed because of his [Chakra Sprint] skill. But this new one was about applying a constant amount of chakra to his legs.
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