Building the Yellow Brick Road by LittleOne94

Chapter 14 : Run

Meditating in on a boulder situated in the middle of the underground lake. Thinking about his situation and trying to plan accordingly with integrating his new situation with his current plans. Harry guessed this was just part of being a Ninja, rolling with the punches and making the best of a bad situation, he certainly seemed to excel at it with all the practice he had under his belt.

"You're teaching the boy Senjutsu" accused Mia from the far side of the lake. Sitting down to 'meditate' herself after just having disturbed his own meditation.

"I'm just preparing him right now." Admitted Harry unrepentantly, he knew the Toad Sennin was preparing Naruto in the art as well.

"Summons?"

"He's signed three." Normally with Senjutsu the shinobi was taught by the sage summon; granting the shinobi the same characteristic's as the summon they learned from as the nature chakra was saturated with the chakra of the summon while they were learning.

"That's a dilemma" admitted Mia, before signing "How far along is he?"

Why was Mia always such a chatterbox whenever he was trying to meditate? "Last stage before gathering. I've gotten his reserves big enough to start the final process but his patience is still below what is required." He'd need to teach him some elemental jutsu basics as well before Sasuke even attempted to start his gathering. He knew the way he was teaching it was slow but it was the least dangerous road he knew.

"Hmm…Gima-chan left an hour ago. She should be reaching that Sirius character of yours in a few days."

"Thank you Mia-sensei" thanked Harry, hearing her give a final 'Hmpt' before they both settled in to meditate and passively gather nature chakra.

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Bang. Whack. Thump.

Poking his head out of the toad library, Sasuke saw what amounted to a small army of young toads gathering leafs under the direction of Ryuu-sensei…oh boy. What was sensei up to now?

"You should go down tadpole." Turning, Sasuke found one of the water toads standing in the doorway, "Lessons about to start."

"Lesson?"

"Yes, Kisai-chan's been studying scrolls again." Mumbled the old toad before hopping off somewhere after saying his piece, Sasuke sighed before standing himself. Walking through the open window, Sasuke jumped the last few feet.

"What you teaching Ryuu-sensei?" called Sasuke as he fell, gaining Ryuu-sensei's attention easily.

"Elemental Chakra and Raw Chakra Manipulation Sasu-chan!"

"Been in the Uzushio scrolls again?" asked Sasuke, long used to the nickname Ryuu had used in public when they were dressed as girls; Sasuke as Sasu-chan and Ryuu as Hari-chan.

"Yep! Now everyone grab a leaf and sit down." As the children followed his instructions Harry sat down himself. "We are going to concentrate on recognising the element of water first as it's the easiest to see the results. The aim of this exercise is to extract water droplets from the leaf itself. You'll know you've achieved this when you have water on the surface of the leaf and the leaf itself becomes brittle and dry."

"Why are we learning water? Why not fire? Waters everywhere!" exclaimed one young toad.

"Hmm…We may have an abundance of clean water here, but places you'll visit when you're older aren't likely to; especially Wind country. When this element is mastered you won't need to risk your position finding a water source, but simply use the water element to draw the water floating in the atmosphere into a concentrated form, which you can then drink." He'd seen the kiri-nin do it often enough when he was visiting Sirius. Instead of vacating their position the ANBU watching them gathered bite sized orbs of water from the atmosphere in order to drink. "Any more questions?" no one answered. "Begin!"