Naruto and the Visitor

chapter 4

Naruto was a bit rambunctious, but he still trained every day to get better. He stood alone in a training field drilling the clone jutsu, yet again, with no luck.

He clasped his fingers together and strained.

Chakra responded slowly, but en mass, like rolling a boulder down hill. He could start it but couldn't stop ot easily.

Wind kicked up as his Chakra clumsily wove into the clone pattern. Finally there was a poof of smoke and a very dead clone image with dull coloring and no eyes appeared.

"Well, that's honestly terrifying."

Naruto flinched so hard he nearly tripped and spun back to see who was there.

Naruto noticed it was the guy with dark messy hair and purple robes, "I remember you. You're the guy from the other night."

"You remembered. Cheers and celebrations for you." Simon replied with a slight grin, "I wasn't expecting to see you again so soon, but I felt a spike in mostly spiritual madra so I decided to check it out."

"Oh..." Naruto replied and Simon pointed at the dead mess of a clone.

"I'd contend you botched that thing." Simon asked.

Naruto crossed his arms angrily, "Well, clone jutsu is stupid anyway!"

Simon shrugged, "I don't use light or dream madra, and I definitely don't use jutsu, so I couldn't tell you one way or another. What I can tell you is you're imbalanced."

"Yeah right, I'm not falling down right now!"

Simon chuckled, "Not quite what I meant. Listen," he conjured two orbs of madra, one pure white, the other black. The white one was the size of a pebble while the black one was the size of his head, "You guys use Chakra by combining spiritual and physical energy together. Normally people have around the same amount of both, you for some reason have even more spiritual power than me, but only slightly above average physical energy, so your energy over compensates by trying to burden your spirit. That shoots holes all in your control since your energy actively resists you. You could eventually over come that handicap as your physical power increases, but it'll take time. Or you could switch paths."

Naruto cocked his head, "What do you mean switch paths?"

"I mean exactly that. You're still young enough I could teach you to separate your energies so you could increase your physical energy until you can use your Chakra effectively, or longer if you choose. If you had an iron body you'd have far greater physical power, more than most in this village. Regular sacred arti- ninja! Sorry. Regular ninja would have to use excessive Chakra or techniques to use the strength you'd have." Simon let the balls of power fade and then walked over to a training dummy a few feet away.

He casually threw a jab to its head that reduced it to splinters easily, then looked back at Naruto, "What do you say kid? Wanna learn to wield madra?"

Naruto practically had stars in his eyes, "You'd teach me that?"

"I'll help you develop a Path, yes." Simon replied.

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A man strode into a massive palace, "Where is the boy?"

"Honored Archlord, might I suggest calming down? In your state, you could bring down the entire facility." A small black orb trailed beside him leaking orange madra.

The man was seven feet tall with dark skin, yellow eyes and long canines. He was muscular beyond the typical realm of possibility for humans but soulfire had let him modify his body as he advanced to archlord.

"I want the boy. If I cannot kill his father yet, I will kill him, take his binding, and when I ascend to monarch I'll kill his father with it." The man sneered angrily.

"Dawnbreaker, I still think-,"

"Die." The man commanded, and the orange light instantly winked out and the orb fell. The man snorted smoke and kept going, "I will tear this world apart to find you, boy."

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Simon felt a chill run through his spirit, but ignored it as he sat cross legged with Naruto.

"Focus on your Chakra. Before we attune your core, we gotta filter your power. Ignore your body, you're naturally rolling power through your body, just focus on compressing the brighter part of your core, squeeze it down as best you can. Squeeze in time with your breathing."