Arashi Seijin

The Storm Sage

Discliamer: I don't Naruto or any of the characters therin, they belong to their respective companies and creators. This story is just for entertainment and no money is been made out of this and one more thing everything else not seen in any manga or anime belongs solely to me.

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Now onto the story….

Chapter 1

The Beginning

A small four year old boy could be seen scrambling away as fast as his small legs could afford towards an yet unknown direction and behind him one could see a large mob of civilians carrying a variety of tools ranging from pitchfork to bamboo sticks and everything in between crying out for his blood and hurling anything they could get their hands on towards the small child to make him slow down or to make him fall so that they could quickly catch and finish the demon child before Sandaime who had gone on a diplomatic mission to suna a month ago and was due back tomorrow got here and stonewall any and all attempts to get rid of the demon boy and even if they could manage to get rid of the demon in the presence of the Sandamine they couldn't escape punishment and hence it was imperative that they got rid of the demon and any evidence with the help of the civilian council before the Sandaime got back.

The council had used this time when the Hokage was away to initiate this plan to get rid of the boy purely to protect their backs and discreetly told the civilians that had grudge on the demon that if they got rid of the boy before the Hokage got back they could get away with murder, as powerful as the council was they couldn't get rid of the boy with the presence of the Sandaime in the village without risking themselves. The mob of civilians had tried too many times in the past month but had only caught him three times and all the time the little brat had escaped their clutches and this may be their last time to get rid of the demon without fearing retribution before they forever lost their chance and they were determined to not to let the brat escape them this time.

The small boy affectionately named Naruto by his parents who loved him very much and even died to protect him not that the boy knew anything about his parents, was ridiculed, hated and ignored by nearly everyone in the village ever since he could remember. At first it had hurt seeing other orphans and children loved and cherished by everyone but over the time he had gotten used to it but the hurt feeling hadn't lessened but now had few people that loved him unconditionally and he was extremely grateful for it. Overtime he had also noticed that the villagers tended to chase and hurt him whenever he was alone as a result he had pretty good idea of the alleyways, corners and shortcuts to get from one place to another for a quick escape. As the mean old woman of the orphanage always threw him out at dawn of everyday and only allowed him in during lunch and at dinner and only to sleep and as a result Naruto had been forced to find an alternate place to stay where the villagers either couldn't think of looking or were afraid of the area.

Nearly a month ago the caretaker of the orphanage had finally kicked out Naruto from the orphanage telling him that now he was old enough to look after himself and he was not allowed to come to the orphanage and if he dared to come back there would be consequences. Naruto had no intention of ever going back, he didn't like it there everyone was mean there and he also didn't get enough to eat even during lunch and dinner and he had learned to scavenge to keep himself fed.

He had no worries of been thrown out over the last year when he was always kicked out of the orphanage for the day Naruto had to find himself some place where he could eat in peace and stay hidden from the villagers that meant to harm him. Over the year he had tried many places but all were ultimately found but he had finally found a place where the villagers were afraid to enter. He had found the place when he had been running from a mob of drunken villagers one night.

-Flashback-

Three and half year old Naruto was running as fast as his small legs could carry him while dodging the various items thrown at him away from a large mob of villagers intent on beating him to death.

'Shit I have to get away from them, I can't get caught and damn I had to take the wrong turn back there and now I don't know where I am and I have never been here. Damn damn damn.' A worried Naruto cursed himself while running even faster as the villagers were slowly gaining on him.

Soon Naruto saw a huge dark forest with a large chained gate.

'Maybe I can lose the villagers in the darkness there.' With that Naruto sprinted towards and into the forest and few minutes of running Naruto heard no sound from behind him and stopped and turned around and found no one chasing him and cautiously looking around Naruto finally decided that he had escaped the villagers and decided to get out of the forest and back to the orphanage and as soon as he neared the gate to get out there he heard noises and quickly hiding himself peeked out and found the mob of villagers milling about several meters from the gate but no one coming near it.

'Why aren't they coming in?' Naruto thought confused at the villagers behavior earlier wherever Naruto they had followed without hesitation.

'Maybe they are afraid.' And after few minutes of watching the villagers Naruto concluded that they were definitely afraid.

'But why are they afraid, it doesn't matter I can't get out of here with them there or they will catch me.' Naruto thought shaking his head.

'Wait the villagers are afraid to come inside that means I can stay as long as I want and do anything here and the villagers can't get to me here, yes I finally found a place where I can stay without the fear of villagers.' Naruto thought while pumping his hands in excitement.

'I can't get out of here now better I go inside and try some fruits that nay grow here to eat, I feeling hungry as well as thirsty.' With that thought in his mind Naruto turned and headed back inside the forest.

After nearly an hour of searching Naruto found a large bush of edible berries and also a small stream from where he could get water and in his search he also stumbled into a small opening hidden by shrubs and found a large hollow inside a tree which was huge enough to hold several adults and in turn Naruto found himself a place to stay and his very own secret place. That night Naruto spent the night inside the hollow afraid that the villagers could still be out near the gate waiting for him to come out.

Next day early in the morning Naruto got out of the forest after finding no one outside and quietly avoiding the roads that villagers frequented made it to the orphanage, thankfully everyone was asleep and as his room was way out in the attic was able to quietly sneak into his bed a skill he had been forced to develop as Naruto wasn't allowed inside if he didn't come on time and was forced to sleep outside.

-End Flashback-

Since then the hollow tree in the dark forest known as the "The Forest of Death" to everyone else not that Naruto knew or would find out for a long time to come had become his secret home and only place he really called home in both heart and mind even if it was temporary.

Currently Naruto was nearing the gates of the forest of death and his temporary home where he knew the villagers wouldn't follow him and this time the villagers were determined not to let him escape but fortunately or unfortunately from ones point of view Naruto closing in on his destination and eventual escape.

Even when such a large group was chasing Naruto was bursting with happiness and excitement which was highly unusual and reason for this could be traced back to a particular find few hours earlier when Naruto as usual was scavenging through garbage for food he found a book in poor condition but Naruto could still read the title and it had said "Guide to Shinobi Career" and that had gotten Naruto very excited as he wanted to be most powerful shinobi ever. Now one may question so as to how could a small child of four read so well the answer to that was that Naruto had forced Hokage-oji-san to teach him to read and write nearly a year ago so that he could read all fairy tales the old lady of the orphanage read to other kids from the books but not to him and all the kids were always very excited about that and he had wanted to know what was so interesting and after learning to read he had sneaked out with the books and had privately read them and from there Naruto had made up his mind to become the strongest ninja ever.

Naruto had pestered his Hokage-oji-san to teach him to be a ninja as he was said to be the strongest ninja in Konoha but his oji-san had said that he had to wait till he was 8 years old and then he could join the academy to become a ninja, Naruto had been disappointed but had relented but now he had a golden opportunity to learn to be a ninja from the book he had found and he wasn't going to waste it and he wasn't going to tell anyone not even his oji-san so that no one could stop him from becoming the strongest ninja ever.

Reaching his destination Naruto immediately brought out the book with utmost care so as not to damage it even more and was about to open it to read when Naruto's stomach growled reminding him that he hadn't eaten for quite some time.

With a sheepish expression Naruto reverently placed the book in one corner vowing to read it as soon as possible and went outside to have some berries to satiate his hunger. Half an hour later he returned having satisfied some of his hunger and feeling tired and sleepy, looking longingly at the book in the corner Naruto decided to go to sleep and start up on the book first thing tomorrow much more refreshed and energetic with that Naruto made his way to his so called bed made up of old futon he had found in the garbage which he had washed and cleaned thoroughly before using and promptly fell asleep.

Next morning Naruto blearily opened his eyes and looked around as soon as his eyes fell on the book that lay in the corner Naruto was instantly alert. Getting up quickly Naruto went outside and after a quick wash up and bath and small breakfast consisting of berries and last of the meat he had stored from hunting and cooking a rabbit he came inside and quickly picked up the book and opened it to start reading.

Even with the poor condition the beginning pages were thankfully somewhat readable.

The most important thing a shinobi absolutely must have isn't kunai and shuriken but stealth, deception and info gathering and analyzing which most of the shinobis nowadays have nearly neglected for flare and style.

Stealth is most important ability a shinobi must have, stealth is ability to sneak into enemy or if required allied territory without being found for espionage, intelligence and assassination which are the main missions of a shinobi. So I urge the reader to develop and hone this ability as much as they can.

The next important ability is Deception which very few shinobis use at present, deception is a way to deceive your enemies or when required even your allies. I think this is the most important ability a ninja can ever have using this ability even the weakest can kill the strongest ninja. For example a Jōnin who is susceptible to genjutsu was fighting a Chūnin who according to the information was a primary taijutsu user but in fight the Chūnin suddenly uses genjutsu with a very high proficiency and defeats the Jōnin, the Jōnin was defeated because the Chūnin had deceived the Jōnin by providing misinformation that he had no genjutsu abilities and Jōnin overconfident went into the fight with thinking and was defeated. This is one way but there are lots of ways deception can be used to fool your enemies and if required your allies and if you keep at it you will become better at using deception as a truly powerful weapon as you gain more experience.

The next ability Information gathering and analyzing is a broad scale ability that includes everything from creating a spy network to gather information to analyzing gathered information as well as a situation to find any hidden details.

Chakra: The first and most important for being a ninja is accessing ones chakra. chakra is the mixture of physical and mental energies and is present in all living things and to be a ninja ones has learn to access and harness it to learn and use various ninja techniques.

One can access ones chakra by meditating. One will automatically understand when they have done this and then next step is to bring out the chakra using the tiger hand seal as shown in the figure both of this has be accomplished simultaneously to start on a path to be a ninja. It is recommended to practice bringing out ones chakra till one can do it without hand seal and without particularly concentrating on it.

Note: It may take one few weeks to a month to learn to access ones chakra.

Warning: Do not read further without learning to do the above steps.

Naruto was going to read further before trying to access his chakra but seeing the warning decided against it and immediately put the book down and selecting a suitable location sat down to meditate to access his chakra.

-Time-Skip-

Naruto had thought that he could have accessed ones chakra within hours but two days later Naruto was still nowhere near accessing his chakra and was getting really frustrated. Taking a deep breath Naruto forced himself to calm down and started meditating again to access his chakra, an hour later Naruto felt a falling sensation and was immediately surrounded by warm feeling and Naruto immediately opened his eyes immediately knowing what had happened and shouted.

"Yatta! I finally accessed my chakra, yahoo!"

Few minutes of bouncing around from happiness at his success Naruto finally calmed down.

'Now that I have accessed my chakra it's time for the next step that is to bring out my chakra as explained in the book.'

Naruto immediately sat back in his meditation posture and made the tiger hand seal as shown in the figure and concentrated and an hour later Naruto was able to bring out chakra.

Opening his eyes Naruto had a big smile on his face at his fast success but immediately got back to his exercise so that he could do this easily, quickly, without hand seal and without truly concentrating.

A week later Naruto was quickly able access his chakra and bring it out without using the hand seal and without truly concentrating on it. He wanted to read further in the book but decided to do it after visiting oji-san whom he had found out had returned from visit on one of his foray in the village to scavenge for things he needed.

Getting out of the forest quietly Naruto made his way to the Hokage tower discreetly while avoiding most of the populated routes, it took him sometime to navigate quietly and reach the tower. Naruto made his way inside the tower while loudly announcing this arrival and quickly avoided the secretary that tried to catch him to throw him out for arriving unannounced; quickly moving to the door Naruto banged the doors open and rushed inside.

"Oji-san!" Naruto shouted happy at seeing his favorite person.

"Sorry Hokage-sama he just rushed in, I couldn't stop him." The secretary apologized who had rushed in after Naruto.

"It's okay." Nodding her head at Hokage the secretary left closing the door behind her.

"So Naruto what brings you here?" The Hokage asked finally taking notice of the state of Naruto or specifically his clothes.

"Naruto what happened to your clothes?" Hokage asked before Naruto could answer his previous question. Naruto's clothes were torn, bloodied and dirty as if he had literally rolled down the mountain with them and hadn't changed it since then as Naruto himself looked clean Sarutobi concluded that Naruto was cleaning himself regularly but wasn't changing his clothes and was wearing the same set for a long time, but the question to be asked was why?

"Hehehehe…. Well after been thrown out of the orphanage last month I didn't have extra clothes so I couldn't change them and had to make do with these." Naruto replied looking embarrassed.

Killing intent started flooding the room as soon as Sarutobi heard what Naruto said. Naruto flinched and started shivering at feeling the killing intent and seeing the anger in his oji-san's eyes, seeing this Sarutobi immediately clamped down on his anger.

"I am sorry Naruto, I am not angry at you but what do you mean you where thrown out of orphanage?"

"Well last month the mean old lady of the orphanage threw me out and said not to come back or there will be consequences and that I was old enough to take care of myself." Naruto replied.

"Did she now?" Sarutobi replied while taking a deep breath calming down his anger.

"Well now that you can't stay at the orphanage, we will have to get you your own place, won't we." The Hokage said having decided to get Naruto his very own apartment as Naruto had been technically taking care of himself for past month and seemed to be doing hell of a fine job.

"Really, really my very own apartment, truly?" Naruto asked disbelief evident in his voice.

Seeing the nod Naruto rushed in and jumped up and hugged his oji-san tightly tear eyed.

"Now let's go and get you settled in your new apartment then we will go buy new clothes for you and food and groceries."

Taking Naruto's hand Sarutobi Shunshined to one of the apartments that were under Hokage's control and could be loaned or given to anyone they wanted.

After taking a thorough tour of the apartment and giving Naruto the key, Sarutobi took Naruto to a shinobi store he trusted for durable clothes shopping.

After buying him few sets of different clothes most of which Naruto selected were training clothes Sarutobi took Naruto to the newly opened ramen stand called the Ichiraku's Ramen stand.

That's where Naruto had his first taste of ramen which would later on become his favorite food and stand which he would frequent in the future as it would be the only play that would serve him fairly and also meet his first precious people other than the Hokage, the stand owner and his daughter both of whom would truly appreciate and love him.

After eating his full which consisted of ten bowls of ramen that Sarutobi looked on with a sweat drop took him back to his apartment.

"Naruto listen I will be giving set allowance every week till you are able to earn on your own, you will use this allowance to buy anything you might need from food to clothing." Sarutobi told Naruto after they were back in the apartment.

"Really oji-san my very own allowance that I can use as I want?" Naruto asked looking excited.

"Yes, but remember to use it very wisely as you will get only set amount a week and not waste it." Naruto nodded at that.

"Now get some sleep it's getting late, I will see you another time." Sarutobi said as he left using Shunshin.

Making his way to the well-kept futon in his bedroom Naruto collapsed on the futon not even bothering to change out of the new clothes he was wearing and quickly fell asleep tried from the busy whole day vowing to go back to his hollow tree first thing in the morning.

The next morning Naruto blearily opened his eyes and immediately tensed as he looked around for a second not recognizing his surroundings but immediately calmed down after remembering yesterday's events. Get up from his futon made his way into the bathroom to get a shower and freshen himself. Removing the new clothes he was wearing that he his oji-san had bought for him after making him throw old clothes got in the shower. After showering, Naruto took out one set of training clothes from his purchases consisting of dark green shorts and grey t-shirt.

Making his way to the kitchen Naruto prepared the premade breakfast in the groceries oji-san had purchased for him, having a full breakfast for the first time in a long time Naruto quickly cleaned up and made his way out of the apartment.

Locking up the apartment quickly made his way to his tree house, reaching his destination Naruto quickly took out his book to read ahead so that he could continue his training to become a ninja.

Now that you have learned to access your chakra the next and one of the most important thing for a shinobi is memorizing as well as recreate the hand seals from memory perfectly, the faster one can do the hand seals faster they can perform jutsus most if not all jutsus require hand seals and only way to achieve this is through constant practice. One should dedicate a couple of hours from their training time to practice hand seals till one is confident of speed as well perfect recreation of the hand seals. This is to be practiced without the use of chakra hence this practice is recommended to be used after other chakra intensive training.

The hand seals are as shown below.

There number of seals shown below, looking at them Naruto decided to at least try to form the hand seals perfectly even if slowly before reading further.

Couple of hours later Naruto could form each hand seal shown perfectly even if slowly. Each simpler seals took him nearly 2 mins to form while harder seals took him nearly 5 mins each even then Naruto was happy at been at least being able to form hand seals perfectly, he would faster in the future as he practice.

Having achieved what he had set out to do Naruto picked up the book again having every intention of reading further and continue on his personal training to be a ninja.

There are different jutsus that shinobis use and most don't master any one jutsu but gain proficiency in couple of jutsus, there are very few that gain mastery in certain jutsu.

The most common of these jutsu are given as below.

Taijutsu - This type of jutsu really only uses ones physical strength, and involves a lot of hand-hand combat. Taijutsu attacks are typically very fast, complex and usually require no chakra. Because these kinds of attacks use only physical strength and are so much different from the other jutsus, most counter attacks won't work and thus gives the Taijutsu user an advantage, every shinobi is somewhat proficient in this art but there are very few masters, but to the reader it is recommended to keep on improving in this art at their leisure after gaining a good proficiency.

Kenjutsu: It is the art of sword combat, very few shinobi practice this art most which are from mist village. To study this or not is complete up to the reader.

Ninjutsu - Probably the most common Jutsu type, Ninjutsu uses hand seals and chakra to make attacks. The more control someone has over their chakra the more powerful they'll be able to make a ninjutsu attack be. If the user is not able to fully concentrate while performing a ninjutsu attack it will not work successfully. A good example of a standard Ninjutsu skill would be the Body Substitute Skill. This technique allows the user to turn a regular item (usually a broken branch of some kind), into a real looking person. However, this person is only an illusion and cannot actually hurt someone.

Genjutsu - These kinds of attacks use mostly illusions, and are performed to confuse the enemy; giving them visions and hallucinations. They're mainly used if the user wants to run away or attack from a distance without the enemy knowing. Genjutsu attacks usually will require a lot of skill, and if performed incorrectly will not work. These types of attacks use up a high amount of chakra and need perfect hand seals. Because of this they're most often used by a fighter with very high amounts of chakra or as a last resort.

Kinjutsu - Kinjutsu attacks are the techniques that have been banned or outlawed by the leader of a village. These kinds of attacks are usually ones that can do extreme amounts of damage and are dangerous if to fall into the wrong hands. It's because of this that they are made illegal.

Fūinjutsu: It is the art of sealing. There are very few masters of this art and also to study this or not is completely up to the reader.

Hijutsu - Also known as Bloodline Limit techniques, these attacks are limited to those who belong to a certain clan or are the only one able to perform the attack. An example of a Hijutsu technique is byakugan. It's only known by members of the Hyuuga Clan, and is only possible because of those clans bloodline limits.

Doujutsu - This kind of Jutsu involves using one's eyes, and will recognize others Genjutsu, Ninjutsu, and Taijutsu techniques to form a counter attack. Two examples of Doujutsu attacks would be Sharingan and byakugan. Typically the only people who are able to use Doujutsu attacks are people born into a family that already knows it. Because these attacks don't require much chakra they can be used from long amounts of time, without tiring the user.

This concludes the various jutsus commonly used by various shinobis.

Naruto was going to continue reading ahead but his stomach growled at the exact same moment. Grinning sheepishly Naruto decided to go back to his apartment to have some lunch as the sun outside told him that it was approaching lunch time and return back here after an hour of rest to continue ahead.

Closing the book and placing it back in the corner Naruto left his tree house and quickly made his way to his apartment, unlocking his apartment Naruto let himself.

Preparing sufficient lunch from the groceries bought yesterday, Naruto consumed it and after a quick clean up collapsed on the couch for quite rest before having to head back to continue his training.

After an hour of rest Naruto locked up his apartment and made his way to his now what was going to be his training area hence forth.

Reaching his training area Naruto quickly acquired the book and continued reading ahead.

Chakra control is one of the, if not the most important ability to have to become a strong and well-rounded shinobi. Chakra control not only helps in mastering jutsus quicker and also in usage of jutsus for the longer period of time as a shinobi having good chakra control wastes lesser chakra in using jutsus than a shinobi having bad chakra control.

The following are the chakra control exercises to be learnt in the sequence given below only after mastering the earlier exercise.

Leaf floating exercise: In this exercise one has to float a leaf above their body using chakra and hold it there, any part of the body can be used to float the leaf but floating and holding the leaf on the forehead is recommended for beginners as it is easy to concentrate chakra on the part than anywhere else.

Tip: Too much chakra launches the leaf away while little chakra doesn't hold the leaf.

Tree climbing exercise: This exercise should only be attempted after mastering the earlier exercise. In this exercise one has to learn to walk up (which means walking up not climbing) any solid vertical surface without the use of hands using just legs. Trees are easily available and also any lasting damage done during this exercise doesn't cost or harm anyone. Being able to walk, run and battle on any tree/vertical surface without focus or concentration for an hour means that you have truly mastered this exercise.

Tip: Too much chakra one will blast of the surface damaging it while too little one won't stick. Getting a running start is recommended at the beginning.

Note: After mastering this exercise it is recommended to read ahead as one can work on other areas of shinobi arts simultaneously with chakra control.

Water walking exercise: This exercise should also only be attempted after mastering the earlier exercise. In this exercise one has to learn to walk on water but the difference here from the tree climbing exercise is that one has to keep a constant flow of chakra below their feet to compensate for their weight as well as the liquid nature of water. Being able to walk, run and battle on any water/liquid surface without focus or concentration for an hour means that you have truly mastered this exercise.

Kunai balancing exercise: This exercise is usually for shinobi's that are trying to become a medic-nin. So others can skip this exercise, the exercise is balancing a kunai on a fingertip and slowly learning to balance kunai on all ten fingertip and after finishing this one has to learn to balance their whole body upside down with a single finger on the tip of the kunai which will be half buried in the ground with its tip facing upwards and out of the ground.

Mastering all these exercise means that you have attained perfect chakra control.

There are rumors that one can increase their control even more by trying mold their elemental as well as normal chakra into any form or shape but there isn't any proof of it.

One can start working on chakra detection after mastering tree exercise, the concept is easy but execution is difficult and takes a long time to learn, in this one has to increase and spread their chakra senses to detect other chakra signatures. It is one of the most important ability a shinobi must have and can help in detecting and avoiding unseen, hidden and surprise attacks.

Instead of stopping there and simply trying out the chakra control exercise, Naruto decided to read slightly ahead to get a glimpse of next part, fortunately for Naruto his decision of reading ahead would be a good thing as he would be able start on one art he might have neglected until chakra control practices which in turn would have him waste the time he could have used to train in one of the vital shinobi arts.

The next part focuses on Taijutsu specifically on increasing body strength, speed and stamina. This can be achieved alongside chakra control exercise. This guide doesn't contain any styles but basics of taijutsu and tips on improving one's body.

Sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and running laps are the exercises that can help improve one's speed, strength and stamina. The number of sets can be increased with time as well as convenience of shinobi. One can improve this by

Naruto couldn't read further because the writing was completely smudged. The next thing could read no not read but understand from somewhat visible pictures were proper way of punching, kicking, dodging and countering. After that nothing was even remotely eligible except the last few paragraphs in last few pages. Deciding to read further after he mastered the leaf floating exercise, Naruto softly closed the book and carefully placed the book in one corner seeing the condition of the pages were the last few paragraphs were eligible.

Having little trouble deciding whether to first start taijutsu exercises or to start off with leaf floating exercise, after few minutes of indecision Naruto finally decided to start off with the leaf floating exercise. Naruto had seen a guy in green jumpsuit with weird eyebrows running around shouting something about youth and also taijutsu training early in morning when he was thrown out of orphanage and whenever he had seen that weird eyebrows training it had always been early in the morning and that was what made Naruto decide to start with leaf floating exercise now and taijutsu training next day early morning.

Naruto quickly made his way to a clearing he had found not too far away from his tree house which he could use as his training ground from now on. Gathering sufficient amount of leaves Naruto sat down to start on his leaf floating exercise. Placing a leaf on his forehead Naruto tried to float and hold the leaf.

Hours later late in the evening Naruto had made absolutely no progress on the leaf floating exercise, feeling tired and frustrated decided to call it a day as he had to get up early the next day to start on his taijutsu training and he was also feeling hungry and that might have played a major part in calling it a day. Naruto quickly left the clearing to head back to his apartment directly. Preparing and having his dinner, Naruto immediately collapsed on his futon and fell asleep having changed into his night clothes that he had bought.

Next morning Naruto woke up at the crack of dawn without any intervention from outside sadly the reason for the ease with which Naruto could wake up so early was that the caretaker of the orphanage always forced him to wake up at the crack of dawn and immediately threw him out and allowed him in only for meager lunch and then at night for small dinner and sleep.

Waking up Naruto finished his morning rituals and after preparing his breakfast and consuming it Naruto changing into his training clothes and immediately made his way to the training ground to start on his taijutsu training.

Getting his book from the tree house Naruto made his way to his clearing intent learning to properly punch, kick, dodge and counter after performing sets of push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and laps. Hours later a visibly tired could be seen lying on the clearing panting heavily, he had been able to do 5 laps of the huge clearing, 3 sets of ten each sit-ups before feeling the pain in his legs and started on his push-ups but was only able to perform a single set before his arms burned with pain. Doing push-ups had put him in a quandary as he had no place he could do that exercise but fortunately he found a tree whose roots had grown down to the soil from the branches and entwining with each other (like a banyan tree) to form a perfect place for him to do pull-ups. Naruto similar to push-ups had been able to only do a single set before his arms burned with pain.

Deciding he had done enough, Naruto decided it was time to learn to properly perform punches, kicks, dodges and counters. He had been able to perform proper punches very slowly but not kicks and while trying to learn dodges and counters he realized that he needed a partner to learn this properly so Naruto decided to forgo these for now and concentrate on what he could properly train in and that was the reason Naruto was laying flat on his back panting heavily.

The sun had risen completely and was high in the sky and Naruto decided that was enough of taijutsu training for now and start on leaf floating exercise after a small break.

Locating a shaded and cool area Naruto sat down with his collection of leaves to work on his leaf floating exercise. Couple of hours later Naruto had made slight progress in the exercise now he could float the leaf if only for few seconds before it blasted or slide off. Seeing that it was nearly lunch time he decided to take a longer break for lunch including a hour of rest before returing to continue the leaf floating exercise.

Going back to his apartment, Naruto prepared his lunch and after consuming it had an hour of rest and returned back to his training ground.

After having his break Naruto was back at his training ground performing his leaf floating exercise again because he was still having small pain burns in his muscles to try any taijutsu training for few hours before taking a break and having a small evening snack he had brought along with him, later Naruto decided to get in some taijutsu training as his muscle pains had finally eased off before calling it a day and returning to his apartment for dinner and well deserved sleep.

-Time-skip-

Two months later…

Naruto could be seen standing hunched in the training ground breathing heavily with a wide smile on his face which looked quite out of place for the situation but the reason for his wide grin was that after two months of constant taijutsu and chaka control exercise he could confidently say that he had finally mastered the leaf floating exercise, he could now float multiple leaves on multiple parts of his body and hold them there for as long as he wanted with little focus and could even do that while taijutsu training.

Chakra control wasn't the only thing he had improved in; he had also made tremendous progress in his taijutsu training. He had vastly improved his speed, strength and stamina from when he started. He could also punch and kick perfectly without even thinking about it with decent speed and strength.

Nothing of note had happened in the last two months so as to disrupt his training and Naruto was able to train almost every day except end of every week had Sarutobi would bring him his allowance on that day as well as take him on his weekly grocery shopping as Naruto was still too young to do it on his own.

'Well now that I have completed my leaf floating exercise, its time I started on the tree climbing exercise. I will maintain the same schedule as before but now instead of leaf floating exercise I will do tree climbing exercise and taijutsu training in the morning and evening.' Naruto thought as he slumped to the ground.

'But first some rest and food, I am tired and hungry.'

Having something to eat and an hour rest later Naruto was standing in front of the tree he had selected for his training.

Recalling what he had read Naruto got a running start and only got few steps on the tree before he fell flat on his back. Feeling a little dizzy from the fall Naruto quickly shook it off and tried again.

-Time-skip-

Three months later Naruto had finally mastered the tree walking exercise, past three months had been the most frustrating as well as the most satisfying time Naruto had. Frustrating because mastering tree walking had been a very long as well as frustrating endeavor and even more so when he decided to perform tree walking exercise while doing the leaf floating exercise and that had made the already hard and tedious exercise even more so but he had finally done it, now he could walk, run and everything else between them on any solid surface while performing his leaf floating exercise and he had tested it out on trees as well as walls of abandoned buildings.

Satisfying because when one day Naruto had tried eating in a new restaurant with the money he had gotten from allowance he had been thrown out saying that demons weren't served there. Wanting to get back at the man that threw him out of his restaurant, Naruto had collected cow dung from somewhere and threw it in the restaurant when it had been full of customers which had cost the man and in return the man had chased Naruto all around the village and the villagers were glad to help in any way to get back at the so called demon and Naruto had to dodge the villgers that were in front of him trying to cut him off or catch him while running away from the eventual mob that had gathered and chasing him. That was the time Naruto had a startling revelation, in this way he could improve his stealth and dodge skills as well as get back at the villagers in a way that he might get away with. The past three months had been hell for villagers and most satisfying. Sarutobi had lectured him three times before giving up as he hadn't listened. Sarutobi himself had been amused by the pranks and attempts by the civilian council to get back at Naruto but they hadn't been able to produce any evidence against Naruto and without evidence Naruto got away scot free.

Sarutobi had tried to explain to Naruto that the civilian council especially hated him and they might try something if they ever caught him in the act and so for him to stop the pranks but Naruto had dismissed his worries saying that he would never get caught but Naruto had learned something important then and that was that the civilian council hated him and would try to get back at him in any way possible and Naruto wouldn't understand its importance until later.

Well he had finished his tree walking and was currently sitting with the guide book in his hand deciding to finish reading the book as he had completely mastered the tree walking exercise.

One of the most important abilities a shinobi must have is elemental chakra. Training ones elemental chakra gives one massive boost of power as the ninjutsus associated with that element are easier to learn and use and also require less chakra and takes the longest time to master. One can even create their very own jutsu associated with the element they have mastered. One is advised to start with primary element and master it before starting on the secondary element. One's elemental aff….. after this the writing was completely smudged and couldn't be read. Naruto immediately scanned further fearing that elemental training was completely smudged beyond readable.

Thankful training exercises for wind as well as lightning element very completely readable. Seeing that Naruto decided to start with wind element first.

Wind Element: There are three stages one has to finish to being the master of wind element but its advised to keep training in the element to become better and better at elemental chakra manipulation.

First stage: The first stage is the leaf cutting exercise, in this exercise one has to imagine their chakra to be a sharpened edge and channel it to the leaf and try to split the leaf perfectly.

Second stage: The second stage is the boulder cutting exercise, this exercise is to be performed in the same manner as above but the sharpened edge has to be stronger and sharper to cut a boulder.

Third stage: The third stage is the waterfall cutting exercise, to perform this exercise the sharpened edge has to finer and much, much sharper than in earlier exercises to effectively cut a waterfall. The waterfall must be sliced perfectly and completely in such a way that the upper half and the lower half are completely separated for just an instant.

Lightning Element: There are only two stages in the training of lightning element to become a master.

First stage: The first stage is to imagine rubbing chakra against each other and trying to create a spark on the finger.

Second stage: The second stage is to trying to create many more sparks on one's hand and combine them to form a small lighting around the hand.

After this only the last para on the last page was somewhat readable.

This concludes this guide, if one requires more help they can ask their sensei's or visit the shinobi library that is open for shinobis of Chūnin rank or higher.

Right now Naruto could be seen standing in front of a large river that he had found four miles away from his tree house that even had its own waterfall, having decided to try out the water walking for couple of hours before starting with wind element training. Channeling chakra to his soles Naruto placed one foot in the water and immediately sank down.

"Well this is going to take some time." Naruto said to no one particular as he removed his half sunk foot. Naruto tried the exercise for couple of hours without any success and called it quits seeing that it was nearing lunch time.

Preparing his lunch and consuming his lunch after returning back to his apartment Naruto took an hour's break before being back in his clearing excited to start on his wind element training.

"Now let's see I am to hold the leaf on my hand and imagine my chakra as sharpened edge and channel the chakra to the leaf." Naruto recited as he tried to imagine and channel chakra but was unsuccessful in it. Naruto kept trying till evening but Naruto had made absolutely no progress whatsoever and decide break for now and start his taijutsu after small break for refreshments and later retire for the night as in the schedule and continue his scheduled training next day onwards as always but with a small change.

Now that he was training his elemental chakra his schedule had a slight change, he would still do taijutsu training early in the morning as well as in the morning. Chakra training was in the morning till lunch and afternoon was booked for wind element training. The chakra detection as well as hand seal training was carried out in any free time Naruto might have as these exercise could be done even while resting and relaxing.

-Time-skip-

Four months later….

Currently Naruto could be seen taijutsu training on the water surface while multiple leaves could be seen rotating clockwise and counter-clockwise randomly on multiple parts of his body.

After mastering water walking couple of months back Naruto had decided to start on kunai balancing exercise but had come across a problem, he didn't have any kunais to perform the exercise and that would be easily resolved by buying a new set of kunai or so he thought.

-Flashback-

"Well I finished the water walking exercise and as far as I can recall the next and the last thing in chakra control was kunai balancing exercise." Naruto thought recalling all the information regarding the kunai balancing exercise.

"Wait to practice kunai balancing exercise I at least require ten kunais. No problem I have money saved from the allowance oji-san gives me, I will buy some kunais from the nearest shinobi store." With that thought Naruto immediately rushed back to his apartment to get his money to buy the required items.

Getting his money Naruto immediately rushed to the nearest shinobi store.

"Hey, mister I need 12 kunais." Naruto shouted to the store owner as he immediately rushed inside.

The store owner looked at the kid and immediately recognized the boy and frowned he had no hard feelings for the boy instead he sympathized for the boy but he found the request for kunais from the boy odd.

'What would the boy need kunai for and that at such a young age, not for his pranks I hope.' The man thought.

"Sorry kid I can't sell you kunais you are neither an academy student nor an shinobi. You aren't a civilian adult and this is a shinobi store that serves only shinobis and academy students." The store owner said sympathetically.

"You aren't selling me well because of who I am? Are you?" Naruto asked suspiciously and dejectedly at not being able to buy items even at shinobi stores.

"I don't care who or what you are, a costumer is a costumer but rules are rules and I won't bend them for anyone." The man replied firmly resenting but understanding why and what the kid implied.

"But you can bring someone to buy them for you." The man replied.

Naruto smiled hearing that and immediately left the store giving the store owner a smile which the man returned.

Naruto immediately ran towards the Hokage tower to get his oji-san to buy him some kunais. Dodging the secretary Naruto rushed inside and thankfully found the Hokage doing nothing except reading a small orange book giggling weirdly. As soon as he saw Naruto rushing inside he quickly put away his book with a small cough and light blush on his face but not before Naruto saw it.

"Naruto it's good to see you, what brings you here?"

"Come on oji-san we have to go."

"Where exactly do we have to go and why?" Sarutobi asked with a raised eyebrow.

"To the shinobi store to buy kunais." Naruto replied as it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"The store owner said that I couldn't buy the kunais myself but someone else could buy them for me, you buy them for me oji-san and I will pay." Naruto continued.

"And why exactly do you want them?" Sarutobi asked raising his eyebrows even further.

"I…I…I just want it." Naruto floundered not wanting to give the real reason afraid that he would be stopped from continuing his training.

"Why?" This time Sarutobi asked firmly.

"Well I seen ninjas training using them so I thought that if I had them I could also train to be ninja." Naruto replied quickly thinking up a lie and praying that his oji-san bought it. Thankfully Sarutobi bought the lie and his posture softened causing Naruto to breath in relief.

"You cannot have kunais Naruto you are still too young to have them and you have no one to teach you to properly use them and you know I can't teach you it will cause all sorts of problems if I did." Sarutobi replied.

Immediately bringing his hand up to stop any complaints he continued.

"This is final Naruto but I promise I will gift you with a brand new set of kunais and shurikens as soon as you start the academy." Sarutobi finished firmly.

Knowing that nothing would shake the Hokage from his position now Naruto reluctantly and dejectedly accepted the decision. Seeing Naruto dejected saddened the old Hokage.

"So Naruto what do you think about some ramen?" Naruto immediately perked up hearing about his favorite food.

"Really oji-san!" Seeing the old Hokage nod his head Naruto continued.

"Come on then let's go."

After having his fill of ramen a much more cheerful Naruto made his way to his training ground.

-End Flashback-

Naruto couldn't do the kunai balancing exercise without kunais and eventual decided to make his own exercise with materials he could currently get and improve his chakra control. After brainstorming for few days he had an epiphany to mix his chakra control exercises and tweak them and that gave birth to multiple leaves rotating exercise on multiple parts of his body while performing tree or water walking exercises. That was what he was currently doing combing his taijutsu training, water walking exercise and his newly created leaf rotating exercise.

Naruto had become quite famous or infamous from ones point of view for his pranks in the last couple of months. Naruto had dismissed Sarutobi's lecture but had taken one thing to heart that was to not get caught as well as to leave no evidence pointing to him. So Naruto kept pulling pranks silently and leaving no tracks behind, the complexity of his pranks ever growing as the same pranks never worked twice even in other places as the word and working of his pranks spread quickly. Pulling such pranks inadvertently increased Naruto's stealth and infiltration skills as well his trap making skills which in turn would help him greatly in coming years. The villagers knew that Naruto was behind all the pranks but didn't have any proof for legal action and as such chased him whenever they saw him and which in turn helped Naruto in his dodge practice but recently he could easily dodge everything that the villagers did with his now quick reflexes and out run them soon he would require more of a challenge but that was a thought for another time.

Naruto had even made small progress in his wind chakra training, after nearly four months of work on it Naruto could only make a cm of cut on a leaf but he wasn't disheartened and was working on it.

Last four months had also disrupted his training schedule due to his need to pull pranks to get back at some villagers that overcharged him or threw him out of their shops as most of them had done when Naruto had tried to buy something for himself and also have his dodge practices but thankfully the only thing that had been affected was the evening taijutsu training as that was the time Naruto pulled most of his pranks and got the villagers to chase him through the village.

A week ago Naruto had also located the shinobi as well as civilian library. Both were located at the center of the village next to each other. Naruto had tried to gain entry trying his luck that he might get into the library even if he wasn't a shinobi but he had been barred entry and politely told that the shinobi library was only accessible to shinobi's of Chūnin rank or higher and that if he wanted to read something about ninjas he could find material on basics of chakra in the civilian library.

After that Naruto had tried the civilian library thinking that he might find more that chakra basics if he was lucky. He still remembered what had happened.

-Flashback-

Naruto after being politely rebuffed from entering the shinobi library Naruto made his way to the civilian public library.

Knowing someone entering the librarian looked up smiling but the smile on her face immediately dropped off and was replaced with a fierce scowl as soon as she saw who the person was.

"What are you doing her brat?" the librarian spat angrily.

"Well I want look at the books in the library." Naruto replied resignedly knowing what was going to come knowing the look on her face.

'But that doesn't stop me from pranking her every chance I get.' Naruto fiercely thought.

"And as far as I know anyone is allowed into the library."

"A demon needing to read ha… get out of here brat we don't serve your kind here before I get someone else to throw you out."

Immediately sticking his tongue out at her Naruto turned and quickly left. He made his way to the Hokage tower to complain as Naruto needed entry to the library to find out if there was anything that could help him in his ninja training.

"Hey oji-san, the library oba-san didn't allow me into library to get some story books to read." Naruto complained as soon as he rushed in.

"She did, did she." With anger in his voice, he had known that he was been overcharged and thrown out of many stores but he couldn't do anything them as those were private installations but library was public Konoha property and he could do something.

"Come on let's go see shall we." Sarutobi replied as he shunshined to the entrance of the library along with Naruto.

"Naruto stay here, I will go sort something out first then I will call you." Sarutobi told Naruto as he purposefully strode into the library.

"Haokage-sama, welcome how can I help you?" The old librarian smiled kindly at the Hokage.

"Well Akane-san I just heard from one of my ninja that you refused entrance one of Konoha's citizen." The old Hokage replied with false kind voice.

"Who might that be?" she asked confused.

"One Uzumaki Naruto." Hoakge replied with a hard edge in his voice.

"Refusing a legal Konoha resident entrance is a crime Akane-san and Naruto is as legal a resident as anyone of you and library is a public property and you have no right refuse him entrance."

"That dem …" she immediately stopped on feeling focused killing intent on her.

"Be careful of what you say next Akane-san or Ibiki-san might get a new guest I hear his new apprentice is most eager to start."

Akane-san paled and shivered slightly at the thought of those two especially the new apprentice and wisely kept her mouth shut.

"If I hear something similar has happened the next time losing your job will be the least of your worries." The old Hokage threatened with a blast of focused killing intent to get his point across, he was only being sympathetic because she had lost nearly all her family in the kyuubi attack but this would be her only warning.

"Don't think you will get way if you try something behind my back as I have him watched round the clock." Not that he had the man power to have him watched 24/7 but the she didn't need to know that, satisfied at seeing the terrified woman nod.

"Now give me a library card with Uzumaki Naruto's on it and quickly."

The woman quickly pulled out a new card and wrote the name and quicky handed it to the Hokage.

Nodding his head he took the card and went outside and handed Naruto the card.

"Here you go Naruto you can borrow and take home any book you want for a certain period of time and do not worry the old lady won't try anything in the future." Sarutobi said.

"Thank you oji-san." Naruto said while hugging the old Hokage tightly, the old Hokage smiled softly and ruffled his hair.

"Now let's get you inside the library." Sarutobi said as he escorted Naruto into the library. As they passed the librarian, the lady gave Naruto a scathing look which Naruto returned with cheeky smirk infuriating the woman. The Hokage frowned at the woman while hiding his amusement at the Naruto's smirk. After escorting Naruto inside the library the Hokage immediately took off to his tower to finish his accursed paper work.

-End-Flashback-

But the best news had come just few days ago.

-Flashback-

Today Naruto decided to skip his evening training for once and return home early for some rest not wanting to pull any pranks for the day.

As he was making his way to his apartment Naruto heard sounds of explosions as well as steel fearing that something was happening as well as to satisfy his own curiosity Naruto quickly made his way to the place where the sounds were coming from. Reaching a large ground surrounded by trees and immediately hid himself not wanting to be found by whoever were fighting. After finding proper place that allowed him to hide he started peeking on the fight.

There were two males that looked to be ninjas fighting. One had a large sword while other had his one eye and lower face covered.

Two hours later Naruto was still in a daze looking at the devastated empty ground that had been vacated nearly half an hour ago.

"Ninjas were so cool." Naruto whispered to himself.

He had seen dragons made out of water and lightning and balls of fire as well as water and earth being thrown about as well as what appeared to be a wall of earth to protect oneself. Seeing the fight had strengthened Naruto's determination to be a powerful ninja even more.

Just as Naruto was about to leave the ground he saw something glinting in the ground reaching there Naruto immediately saw a couple of kunais embedded in the ground. After much thinking Naruto decided to take the kunais knowing that couple of kunais wouldn't be missed by anyone and they could get new ones easily while Naruto couldn't and with even these two Naruto start on his kunai balancing exercise.

-End-Flashback-

Naruto was excited about starting his kunai balancing exercise as well as being able to use some of the techniques he had seen both the ninjas and with that Naruto threw himself into training with renewed vigor, excited at what future would bring.

~The End.~

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