It was here that things had become hard for the Uchiha. He had thought he had been prepared, he had his Sharingan, he could track Kakashi's movement and so stopping them should be easy. At least that was what he had thought.
It turned out the Sharingan had a large weakness. It did not matter how well he could track an opponent's moves, if said opponent was far faster than him. Kakashi had hit him, hard. Despite the fact that he had seen it coming, Sasuke had not been able to react in time. While his eyes may be able to keep up with Kakashi, his body had simply not been up to the task.
And so it was with that, that Kakashi had forced Sasuke to work on his speed. To do that Kakashi had Sasuke copy Lee's movements and then push his physical body to mimic those movements… while in combat with Kakashi.
Needless to say Sasuke felt like he was one large bruise at the end of each day.
"Alright Sasuke, break's over. Time to get back to work," Kakashi ordered, making Sasuke, who was lying on the ground panting groan.
Naruto was left panting on the ground as Jiraiya stood over him. It had been a week since they had met, and since Naruto had shown he was more than capable of summoning, the Sannin had decided to help him with his taijutsu...
... Which basically consisted of him beating the living shit out of Naruto every time they sparred.
When the man had said he would beat Naruto one handed he had not been kidding. The half-demon shinobi had known that the difference between himself and a Sannin was large, his defeat at the hands of Orochimaru in the Forest of death had proven that. However his spars with Jiraiya had really shown just how large the gap between their abilities truly were.
The difference between a Genin, even one as skilled as him, and a Kage-level shinobi was like the difference between a human fighting a Bijuu, it was less of a fight and more of a wholesale slaughter as the Toad Sennin continued to shove his foot off Naruto's ass. The only difference the blond had been able to discern between fighting one of the legendary Sannin and a Bijuu was that he could not seal Jiraiya into another person or object in order to win. It was a frustrating turn of events for the blond who was not really used to getting beaten so handily.
Every day after Naruto had made his clones to work on whatever he had set them to do, he would meet Jiraiya in that clearing and they would spar. And Naruto would lose…
…badly.
The worst part for Naruto was that Jiraiya still had yet to use more than one hand to defeat him.
"Not bad gaki, you managed to make me move from this circle," Jiraiya smirked as he indicated that he was out of the circle he had set up and stayed in while he pounded the crap out of his apprentice. "However, it looks like you're still a hundred years too soon to beat me."
Said blond tried to glare at the man as he lay on the ground, but considering how exhausted he truly was it was completely ineffective, "Shut up… Ero-sennin… just you wait… I'm gonna… kick your ass… eventually…"
"If some snot nosed little brat like you actually manages to beat me then that just means I've lost my game and deserve to get my ass kicked," Jiraiya replied as glibly as possible.
He would not admit it, for fear of Naruto's head getting too large, but he had been impressed with the blond. He had heard of his fight with Gaara, who if Jiraiya's reports were to be believed was an unstable Jinchuuriki, but hearing reports on how strong the boy was and actually seeing it were too different things.
Naruto's speed was easily Jonin-level, or what could be considered the standard for a lower level Jonin. Most if not all Chunin would have trouble just seeing Naruto at his full speed, though even a rookie Jonin like Kurenai would be able to keep pace with the blond. His strength was likewise impressive. Whenever Naruto had unleashed a full powered punch he could easily leave decent sized craters, about two times the size of the blonde's fist. What's more impressive was that it was not chakra enhanced like his teammate's punches, it was all muscle power. The kid also had a very powerful, though admittedly unusual fighting style, which seemed to be a mix of styles that he would just switch on the fly to suit the needs of combat at any given time.
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