Naruto Of The Shadow Clones

chapter 13 More Than One Way To Skin A Cat

Team 7 Training Grounds

It was the fourth day of the new Team 7's training and Naruto decided to go ahead and start working a little on Ninjustu and Taijustu.

First order of the day was Taijustu with Naruto going over different strengths and weaknesses of the rather large collection of styles he knew about. After he explained what to look for in ways of getting past a style, he then created a couple of shadow clones and had Sasuke and Sakura fight them while the clones would use the different styles he had explained. To make things fair and keep him from growing to dependant on it, Naruto had Sasuke not use his Sharingan for this exercise, much to the emo kid's displeasure.

After fifteen minutes of watching the two and seeing what they were doing right and wrong, Naruto called a stop to the spars and dispelled one of the clones while ordering the other to help Sasuke fill in the gaps of his Taijustu skills since his Interceptor Fist style relied to much on the Sharingan in his opinion. The original left with Sakura to another clearing and started working with her. He started drilling fighting moves into her like a drill sergeant teaching her everything from grappling to different types of attacks used while dropping in on an opponent. While he was doing this, he recommended her to get a set of weights to not only increase her strength but also her speed as well and offered to go with her after missions were over for the day to get some, which she agreed to.

An hour before lunch, the two groups met back together at the main clearing and Naruto started teaching Ninjustu. He started of with a couple of basic survival justus such as a water condensation trick to refill cantinas when there wasn't a ready water supply and others that came in handy when hiding traces of a camp. He explained what each justu did and it's importance to know. Sakura took to it like a sponge while Sasuke just scoffed and claimed that they were below him.

Naruto got a tick over his right eye when he heard this before a gleam came to his eyes and he started smiling evilly.

Sakura, who had heard rumors over the last couple of days about her veteran teammate, which she picked up whenever she heard his name now that she had a face to go with it, saw the look and took a few quick steps back.

Sasuke, who had also heard the rumors but didn't pay them much mind just looked at Naruto silently daring him to try something.

Naruto's grin got particularly nasty before his hands flew in a rapid sequence of hand signs. Right after he finished, the air condensed around Sasuke and what looked like five gallons of water suddenly dropped on the kid's head, completely drenching him from head to toe.

Inside his mind, Naruto could hear his father bursting out in laughter, most likely causing internal damage rupturing his spleen from laughing so hard.

Sakura just stared for a second before getting angry and demanding why Naruto had done that.

Naruto simply raised an eyebrow and replied that if he could use that simple of a justu to make that much water, than it would be easy to use water justus anywhere, even to an extent in a desert, so that justu really should be learned. Sakura realized where he was getting at and so became quiet again while Sasuke just fumed at Naruto while he gave a Cheshire cat's grin at him.

Moving on from there, he gave Sakura a few more basic water justus and showed Sasuke a few lightning style justus as well figuring that the kid probably didn't know as many as those as he did fire style justus.