Naruto stared down at his hand in awe, this, this was amazing, he could feel the power flowing through him, increasing his physical abilities and senses far beyond what they once were, he could see and hear further and more clearly, he slowly clenched his hand into a fist and gained a look of concentration on his face, and his fist became shrouded in a blue grow. He looked down at the ground and raised his fist, before bringing it down as hard as he possibly could. The ground caved and the force of the punch sent out shockwaves of air, blowing away every thing around him as the earth was torn asunder in an expanding circle of devastation, he used his other arm to shield Mayu from the buffeting winds as his cloak was blown off.
In the end it was just him standing in a massive circle of razed ground staring in aw at what he'd just accomplished, he'd known he'd be really stong, what with his Herculean Strength and all, but this?
Unreal.
"DAMN"
He snapped out of his revere and looked to where the voice came from, Anko was standing at the edge of the crater looking down at him with a bit of awe in her expression before it was quickly wiped away when she noticed him looking.
"Ok I'll admit, that was frickin' awesome brat" she said
It was also a bit scary to be honest, she'd sensed he that he had a lot of chakra before and thought that was it.
She'd been wrong, Oh so wrong, she hadn't felt the sheer magnitude of his chakra till he'd actually unleashed it.
It was dense enough to be fucking visible!
Huh the boy was pretty lucky they'd unlocked it now, if he'd waited to have it unlocked half way through his first year at the Academy like the other non clan brats, God knows what would happen with his control, it would still be hell to get it under control but it wouldn't be flat out impossible.
And then there was that super punch, Kami she'd actually had to dodge out of the way from that blast, and she still got buffeted a bit from the winds it generated, it wasn't a Tsunade punch by any means but he was still growing, and it probably would be at some point.
What on Earth would this boy grow into.
Her face stretched into a massive grin and she unconsciously licked her lips.
She didn't know but she'd be damned if she wasn't going to find out!
Screw just waiting to see what happened this was way too interesting!
But that could come later, right now they had to run like he devil was after them before the someone came to investigate that chakra surge.
"Okay good job, now we might wanna get out of here before someone comes running, unless you plan to explain about the power of yours"
His eyes widened and he quickly ran over and got his his cloak, which was still intact, huh, that's some really durable silk, and threw it over himself once again shielding the bat before his wings burst out and he rocketed off to a nearby forest with her following behind him on foot.
It was about two hours later that the two felt it safe to head back. Anko had started teaching him the leaf sticking exercise.
He was still at the not obliterating or blowing up the leaf stage.
BOOM!
"God dammit!"
And hadn't moved on from that stage this time either. She popped another dango into her mouth as she watched him get knocked onto his ass again, next to her Mayu was happily draining a stray cat that had wandered to the onto field that Naruto had killed for her after she'd woken up since he didn't want her latching on to him right in range of the exploding leaves, the were harmless and only had a bit of force but he figured he couldn't be too careful, plus he figured he'd just eat what was left of the cat afterwards.
Never waste food after all.
BOOM!
"That one actually hurt a bit"
Anko sighed, this didn't seem like it was working.
Maybe she was going about this wrong, I mean she's certainly never heard of someone blowing up or obliterating the leaf before.
Then again she'd never seen someone with this much chakra do the exercise before either, they usually already had some really good control before they had this much.
She wasn't an expert on chakra control either so she didn't really know what to do to fix this.
Maybe she should ask for a bit of help?
BOOM!
"FUUUUUU-"
She sighed again, yeah she'd need some help.
"Hey Gaki!" she called out
He turned to her with a curious look on his face
"Hai, Mitarashi-Sensei?"
Sensei huh? She kinda liked that, but-
"Oi! none of that Mitarashi crap, call me Anko"
"Hai, Anko-Sensei"
She grinned, yeah she could get used to that.
"How'd you like to meet another one of my friends?"
She noted that he wasn't as wary as when she first brought up Hana, perhaps he was starting to trust her and her friends a bit more.
Naruto waved back at his new teacher as she leaped away, telling him to meet her at the same training ground tomorrow and she'd bring her friend with her, he figured he'd just sleep in a tree at the grounds tonight, he absently took a large bite out of the stray cat's withered husk of a corpse.
Ability [Unmatched Balance] learned
Ugh, God this was dry, he absently thought as he finished it off in a few more bites, sucking in the tail like one sucked in a noodle.
Ability [Night Vision] learned
Huh, he could also tell his senses of smell and hearing were a lot better, but he didn't feel the familiar click in his head, maybe it wouldn't happen for things like that?
Not bad, kinda feel like having something really juicy now though.
As he thought this his ears picked up the sound of something beating through the air, was that flapping?
A black raven gracefully flew over a few trees heading back to its nest, it had had a good day,, found a bunch of field mice, had a big lunch.
Yeah, life was good.
It gave a squack of surprise as a web suddenly burst out of nowhere and attached to its stomach before it was pulled out of the air.
Yeah, its life was good. Too bad it was now over.
Naruto grinned as he waited for his sensei to arrive, he'd actually had a pretty decent night last night, he'd found a few more stray cats and a 5 more birds and had gotten 3 new abilities!
From the cat's he'd gotten 'Feline flexibility and 'Incredible Agility' and the birds had given him 'Bird Wings Generation'. He was a bit disappointed that was all he got but they were just regular animals. The birds helped his eyesight though, especially that creepy one with the spinning head (Thank Kami he didn't get that as an ability) and the cats improved his smelling and hearing.
He'd tried out his new wings the moment he'd gotten them, 2 absolutely massive black wings had emerged from his back, and when he said massive he meant each one was bigger than he was when fully spread.
Turns out they were slower and less maneuverable than his bug wings even if they looked cooler, they were still ok but against faster enemies, multiple enemies, enemies that can aim or just when he was in a rush the bug wings were superior.
He didn't let it discourage him though, he's sure he could think of some use for them, he'd just need to be a bit creative.
On another note he tried to use his advanced thread wielding to make himself some new clothes.
It was an exercise in futility, turns out even if he was able to make the threads into cloth, making the cloth into clothing still required actual sowing equipment...and ability.
On the plus side he had a blanket to sleep with that night, and he was able to punch a hole through another one to use as a much better non hooded cloak, and boy it wasn't easy the cloth had been really strong, reasonable considering it had been made of Spider Queen Reinforced Silk, he'd actually needed to use quite a bit of strength to punch through it.
After that he'd just fed Mayu with his own blood again, and flew around with her since she couldn't fly for herself anymore because of him.
He found her little chitters cute when he did, he thought he detected genuine excitement in them when he flew at speeds he knew were much faster than what she could even when she could fly on her own, and he honestly liked having her cuddle up to him with her tail wrapped around his arm while they slept, it was a bit odd for her to be sleeping at night, what with her being a bat and all, but with how often she'd been woken that day he supposed it was natural.
She was actually awake now, though she was taking shelter from the light beneath his cloak, she was hanging on his arm with her tail wrapped around it.
He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the sound of footsteps approaching, he turned and his eyes zoomed in on the two women rapidly closing in on his position.
"Anko-sensei!" He called out.
"Yo Gaki" she greeted as they slowed to a walk.
Naruto's gaze shifted to the woman behind his sensei and his smile dimmed but remained in place, his eyes narrowing a fraction of an inch. The woman was about the same age as Anko-sensei, had long, black hair, kept out of her red eyes with a ring inside them with her Konoha headband, she was dressed in a standard chunin flack jacket with a red, sleeveless version of the standard shinobi uniform underneath, though with their legs coming up shorter than usual at her shins' halfway point (Kurenai's canon appearance when she was a chunin, before she wore the bandage dress)
"Is this the friend you were telling me about yesterday sensei?" he asked a slight cautious tone to his voice.
"Yep this is her!" Was the cheerful response.
Naruto nodded and gave the woman a slight bow "Uzumaki Naruto" he said and saw her eyes widened in recognition, but no anger or hatred.
'Huh, thats two of Anko-sensei's friends that didn't despise him on sight' he thought to himself as she gave a nod and slight bow herself
"Yuhi Kurenai" she introduced herself before turning a raised brow to her friend
"Sensei?"
"Yep! The brat interested me so I decided to take him on as a little protege" She said to the woman who gained a worried expression on her face as she turned back to him
"Oh God you poor child, you're not hurt are you?" she asked
"Words hurt Nai-chan" Anko pouted with folded arms and Yuhi-san suddenly gained a small smirk and giggled a bit
"Sorry sorry, its just, you as a teacher-"
"I'll have you know I could be a great teacher if I wanted to be" she said back, huffing in mock offense
"Right Right, sure Anko" she conceded, though the slight chuckle while doing so would make one doubt its sincerity.
"So what is it you needed my help with?" she asked her friend who put a hand behind her head
"Did you that chakra surge yesterday?" she asked
"Did I feel it, more like it suddenly smacked me and everyone else that could sense it in the face, chakra over jonin level in amount suddenly appearing out of nowhere, yeah I felt it, people were running all over the place trying to find out what the hell it was until the end of the day when the culprit went to the hokage and said it was just a training incident."
Anko nodded "I was the one that reported to the hokage and the surge came from him" she said pointing her thumb at him
Kurenai froze and seemed to contemplate that for a while before laughing softly to herself again "Good one Anko but seriously what did you need my help with?"
Anko didn't laugh back, she just continued staring at Kurenai who stopped laughing "You are kidding right?"
Her eyes widened as Anko still didn't laugh back before turning a shocked look at him then back at Anko then at him again, he simply nodded.
Then Anko finally spoke up again "Well you see the problem is, with all that chakra, comes control issues, show her Gaki"
Naruto nodded and shifted his cloak to get Mayu, Kurenai's eyes got even wider at the sight of her
"Is that a devil bat?" She asked in stunned deadpan
She was ignored as Naruto handed Mayu off to Anko and he went to a nearby bush before plucking out a leaf, and putting it on his forehead.
'Ah the leaf exer-'
BOOM!
She actually flinched back in surprise at the sudden noise, her jaw falling open in shock.
She'd never seen such horrible control and such a large amount of power that it actually caused a leaf to explode before.
It was neat.
"Tha-that's-"
"Yeah its bad, really really bad, and I'm no control expert like you so I figured some advice would be prudent here" Anko gave a sheepish grin to her friend who just stared back at her and her student in mute shock.
Once they finally snapped Kurenai out of her shock, she'd immediately gained a determined glint in her eyes.
Apparently control that horrible literally offended her, and she'd made it a personal goal to get his control to the level ANBU medics would go green with envy even if it took years.
And that's how Naruto Uzumaki got his second sensei.
Turns out the problem with which the exercise was easily fixed, the leaf exercise was usually easy and given to academy students because of their pitiful reserves at the time, for Naruto it was like trying to squeeze tar through the eye of a needle without getting any tar on the needle itself.
Using a powerhose.
So the matter was simply having him do a more chakra intensive exercises and work his way up to the leaf, which would to him be one of the hardest exercises instead of the easiest.
Which is why he was now being rocketed from a tree like he'd been shot out of a cannon, but at least he was improving she absently thought.
Unfortunately not everything could go your way, as she learned when she tried to write up a schedule he could do on his own.
"I can't do this"
She blinked at that and raised a brow
"Oh and why is that?" she asked, no matter how much that control gnawed at her she would not train a slacker.
"I don't know what's on this" he said holding up the rolled up scroll.
"Then open it and read it"
"I can't do that"
Her eyes narrowed what he playing a joke of some kind?
"And why not?"
"I can't read."
Her thoughts halted. Oh. Ohhhh. What?!
"You...can't read? At your age?!" Even Anko has stopped playing with the bat, that she still needed to explain to her later, to turn a surprised look at her student.
He shook his head negative "No one would ever teach me how"
That's...Ok, wow, really Konoha?
Her respect for the village and its people was rapidly decreasing, and it wasn't at an all time high with how they treated her Best friend before in the first place.
"Don't you start school in a year gaki, how did you plan on doing that if you couldn't read?" Anko piped in
He shrugged "I'd have thought of something"
She somehow doubted that.
She sighed "You know what I'd like to have a few words with your caretakers" yeah, a few words, and quite possibly a genjutsu demonstration, honestly she lost her father to the Kyubi but you don't see her taking it out on an innocent child of all things.
"Don't have any" Her eye twitched
"...what?"
"Oh yeah did I forget to mention, he lives in the forest of death, its where I found him, he's just out cause he's taking care of Mayu here." Anko piped in
Kurenai paled "You live in the forest of death?!"
He nodded "Its nice there, lots of food to hunt and no villagers"
"I-I see" 'NO I DON'T! HUNT? DID HE SAY HUNT?! HE HUNTS THINGS FROM THE FOREST OF DEATH AS FOOD?!'
Giving no external display of her internal freak out she smiled serenely at the small blond
"Hey Naruto, why don't you stay over at my place for a while?"
"Wha-ah no that's fi-"
"Why don't you stay over at my place for a while?" She cut him off
"E-eh, B-but...Mother of God what is that thing?!"
"Why don't you stay over at my place for a while?"
"Ha-Hai!" He shrieked, skin almost bleached white.
She suddenly shifted and became inexplicably cheery "Right, come along now and we'll get you a nice hot meal and bath, and then we can get started on teaching you how to read"
"H-Hai Yuhi-sensei!"
"Oh please Naruto, Kurenai is fine"
"Hai Kurenai-sensei!"
She hummed a bit as she walked off
Naruto turned wide eyes to meet those of Anko, who'd also gone pale, with Mayu now hiding in her coat.
"W-What the hell was that thing?!"
"I...I have no idea"
"I-It had bleeding eyes!"
"Yeah I noticed!"
Naruto gulped and trembled a bit
"Scary~Kurenai-sensei is scary" He murmured to himself.
"Naruto!"
He startled "C-Coming Kurenai-sensei!" He quickly got Mayu from Anko and ran after the red eyed woman.
He'd never been so scared in his life, even when he'd had his first encounter with the villagers!
Was he gonna be alright?
Current abilities list
Absorbtion
Exoskeleton
Spider Thread Creation
Thread Wielding Arts
Herculean Strength
Insect Wing Generation
Aquatic (I won't be counting swim so don't ever expect it on the list)
Venomous Bite
Enlarged Field of Vision
Reinforced Web Creation
Advanced Thread Wielding Arts
Web Bullets
Acid Spit
Spider Sense
Echolation
Pump Up
Vampirephilia
Unmatched Balance
Night Vision
Feline Flexibility
Incredible Agility
Bird Wings Generation