The large Toad Boss was about to send a retort when Gamakichi made himself known, "It's true pops, I watched this kid summon you."
"Gamakichi?"Gamabunta asked in surprise, "What are you doing here?"
"The kid summoned me, I thought he was cool so I decided to stick around," Gamikichi put another stick of pocky in his mouth. "Anyway this kid did summon you. I was right here watching him."
"I see…"Gamabunta looked at the blond, who stared back defiantly much like another spiky-golden haired blond gaki had a dozen years before, "Well I know my son's not a liar so I'll believe you. However, don't think that just because you summoned me means you get to be one of my underlings. We still have to drink together to commemorate you becoming my summoner."
"Well, that might take a while. I don't have any alcohol on me," Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Besides, aren't I a little young."
"You're a ninja aren't you? Old enough to kill, old enough to drink wasn't it?" Gamabunta paused, "Hmmm, tell you what, we'll hold off on the drink for later. Tell that perverted lecher I approve."
"Got it!" Naruto shouted as Gamabunta disappeared in a puff of smoke. The blond flipped over and landed on his feet.
"Nice job gaki!" Jiraiya said as he came over to Naruto, "I really didn't expect you to be able to summon Gamabunta out of all of the summons available."
Naruto smirked, "Still think teaching me will be a waste of your time?"
Jiraiya shook his head as he plastered a smirk on his face, "Don't get cocky gaki. You're still no one near strong enough to even lay a finger on me even when I have one arm tied behind my back."
"You wanna bet?" Naruto asked, narrowing his eyes at the man. He had come a long way since the academy, and was infinitely more patient and calm than he used to be… well calm so long as he was in battle situations and moments that may actually require him to use his brain. But if there was one way to anger Naruto, it was to underestimate him.
Jiraiya smirked as he looked at the blond, "If you think you can take me on then come and try gaki."
Like Naruto many of the other Genin who had made it to the finals were busy training themselves.
"489, 490, 491, 492..." Lee grunted as he continued doing hand stand push-ups… on his thumbs. Standing next to him was Maito Gai who was shouting out… youthful encouragement.
"That's it Lee! Sweat! Sweat and let your flames of youth explode!"
Rather than work on anything new, the pair had decided to simply up Lee's training regime, increasing his weights near daily; making him run around Konoha with boulders on his back; making him destroy said boulders with his fists and feet afterwards. Essentially trying to increase his strength and speed to epic proportions with an insane training method that only they could come up with.
"499, 500!" Lee pushed himself into a flip and landed on his feet, "Yosh! I finished!"
"Attay boy Lee!" Gai gave his student the nice guy pose, "Now that you have finished your youthful warm up. It is time to engage in a spar to fan your flames of youth! C'mon Lee!"
"YOSH!" Lee shouted as he charged at his sensei, disappearing in a burst of speed.
Gai grinned as he too disappeared. A few seconds later the sounds of fist hitting fist echoed throughout the training field as many trees were destroyed and the landscape became more crater and hill like then before.
Neji was sweating as he looked at the training dummy he was practicing on. Getting the technique he wanted to master was turning out to be quite difficult, more difficult than he had initially thought it would. The Jyuuken relied on being able to see a person's tenketsu points in order to close or destroy a person's chakra system.
By using a dummy he had to make an estimation on where the chakra system would be on a person, and go from there. That meant that in this case at least, the Byakugan was useless since he the dummy did not have any chakra coils. It was even more difficult because no two people had there tenketsu in the exact same spot, while all chakra systems were very similar to each other, the minute differences in where the tenketsu points were located meant all the world when dealing damage to them. If the hit was not one hundred percent accurate than the attack, while painful, would be useless in closing a person's chakra coils.
Still, he was determined to get this technique down. He knew that he was going to need a trump card in the finals. That Uzumaki boy had proven to be stronger than he had anticipated when the blond beat Gaara. Though he doubted he would need this for him, the blond was still the dead last of his class. But even so it was still wise to have just in case.
Besides that there was also the Uchiha to content with, another genius from a powerful clan, and the last of his clan to. He had not gone into town much, but many people were riding on the Uchiha to win it all.
Neji scoffed at the thought. The boy was good, no doubts there. But Neji was still certain he would win. After all, it was his fate to win.
Woosh-Woosh-Woosh-Woosh-Woosh-Woosh!
Thunk-Thunk-Thunk-Thunk-Thunk-Thunk!
Tenten brought her arm back in after throwing the kunai, like always she hit all of her intended targets. Her aim was perfect.
However even as she looked at her kunai the bun haired weapon user frowned as she thought of her opponent. She was up against that Suna kunoichi, Temari in the first round. From what she had seen of the girl in the final, she was a wind user. For a weapons user like her, that meant nothing but trouble. Any weapon she threw, Temari would just be able to blow away with that fan of hers.
That meant she would have to get in close. However there was still a problem with that course of action. Tenten would have to find some way to close the distance between them in order to use close range weapons. And while Tenten trained with weights, as well as with the speed demon that was known as Lee, she was not anywhere near as fast as him.
However that in no way implied that she was going to give up, not without least giving it her all in the fight. She would just have to train hard and do her best.
Looking at the training dummy she took aim, this time with shuriken.
At an unknown location far from Konoha Sasuke panted heavily. His entire body was laden with sweat and he felt as if someone had put him through a meat grinder. He was feeling pain in places he didn't even know existed.
Sasuke had always prided himself on being a good shinobi. In the academy he trained well above and beyond what was required, spending most of his nights training to the point of exhaustion. He would push himself till his muscles burned and his body ached, going far beyond his body's physical limitations.
Apparently he had not even begun to scratch the surface of understanding what hard training really felt like. Almost as soon as Kakashi had finished paying a visit to a still unconscious Naruto, he had taken Sasuke and left the village. It was here that he began to pick apart Sasuke's abilities and skills piece by piece. And he had started with the Sharingan.
"Activate your Sharingan," Kakashi demanded. Sasuke obeyed immediately and his eyes transformed to the familiar red with single tomoe in one eye and two in the other. "I'm sure I don't need to tell you, but for the sake of review I will anyways. These eyes will allow you to track and memorize any movement, not only slowing down the perception of time but allowing you to copy your opponent's movement. With a lot of training and practice you will eventually get to the point where you will actually be able to mimic your opponents so quickly, it will look like your moving before your opponent does."
Sasuke nodded, he already knew all of this.
"Now I'm going to punch several centimeters below your solar plexus. I want you to stop me."
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