The New Past, Different Future? (UNDER HEAVY CONSTRUCTION, BEING REWRITTEN)

Chapter 9

"Yosh! Minna, we'll start with 1000 pushups! For beginners, all you should do is catch up! No stopping!" Gai instructed, and you can see that the trio from Team 7 were nervous and terrified of doing this exercise.

Team 9 knew that this would be their reaction, but they'll be there to help. "S-Sensei...?" Naruto trembled as he stood beside Kakashi. "Yeah, Naruto?"

"How do we say 'I wanna back out' in another language??" Naruto whispered to Kakashi. And he giggled. "There's no backing out, Naruto. I told you, this will be a fun training session, I can guarantee that."

Meanwhile, Sakura looked eager to training since she has a focused goal in her life. She'd like to spend this kind of life while she's still living.

"Come on guys, don't be afraid, we'll go eat ramen later! I promise! Naruto, you treat us!" After that, Naruto lightened up, but stiffened at the word 'you'll treat us'. "Uh...fine." Naruto said and went along with Sasuke, Kakashi and Sakura to start their joint training.

"Okay then. Be ready in one..." Gai positioned himself in a flat position.

"Two..." Gai bended his legs, in a kneeling position.

"Three!" Gai then positioned himself in a push-up position, the others did the same as well and they started counting.

Neji and Lee did it in a fast pace, but is still in sync with their sensei's movements. Tenten works on a normal steady pace, doing it one by one so it wouldn't look intimidating to the Rookies.

Sakura and Sasuke kept pushing and pushing to their hearts' content and didn't care if their muscles were gonna ache soon. Naruto was there trying to catch up to his sensei's movement, but he starts to grow tired. He panted and stopped for a little while, then continued.

"Sensei..." He said while fixing his breathing into the process. "Hm?" Kakashi mumbled. "How...the heck do you do this...so easily?" Naruto whined and the push-ups he did were starting to grow faster.

"I don't know. I used to work out a lot, it's normal for a ninja, or you wouldn't be able to train with your chakra without this principle." He said and continued pushing up and down, making sure he was in a hollow position.

Naruto just kept doing it, until he was tired enough and the first part is done.

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"Okay everyone. Next up, we'll run for 500 laps with leg and ankle weights on! We'll work on our speed!" Gai exclaimed and threw everyone their weights, suddenly overwhelmed by the heaviness, it made Tenten and Naruto fall out of place.

"Gai-sensei...how heavy are these?" Tenten asked. "3.5 kg! The most basic one out of all weights! Then when we get better at it, we'll go with 5.0, then 10.0!"

"Don't get so hasty!" Tenten retorted and put on the weights. "Sensei, do you mean we'll be having another joint training session?" Lee raised his hand.

"Possibly. Now come on! Let's run with youthful speed!" Gai enthusiastically encouraged everyone to put on the weights and they complied. Naruto was the last to put so they waited, and then finally, everyone got up to their positions.

"Are you all ready?" Kakashi asked. "Yeah. Let's run!" Gai shouted, not falling behind with Lee, Neji and Tenten. Team 7 ran at a normal, then steady and fairly fast pace.

They didn't wanna strain a muscle after that, so they ran properly. "Sensei, how long will be doing this?" Sasuke asked. "Are you complaining, Sasuke?" Kakashi asked. "No I'm not. It's just that, I'm wondering how far do they intend to run the whole place up?"

"Well, that's Gai for you. Overwhelming, and hot-blooded. No stop to training." Kakashi said while running. "Kaka-sensei, when will we be having a mission?" Sakura asked. "Yeah! Yeah! When will we be getting a new mission?!" Naruto backed up excitingly.

"Let's wait for the Hokage's orders either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." The silver-haired jōnin replied. "Kaka-sensei! If ever we're called in for a mission, let's make sure it's a higher rank!" Naruto proclaimed, pumping his fist in the air while running.

"Don't be so hasty Naruto! You know how hard it is to be assigned on a B-rank or A-rank mission!" Sakura retorted. "That's the fun part! Lots of action coming up 'ttebayo! And I wanna make sure teme won't ruin the fun part!"

"Whatever you say dobe. Just don't call me if I need to save your ass!" Sasuke scoffed and ran faster. "What the hell did you say?! We're lucky! I'll beat you in this race!" The blonde sped up and caught up to Sasuke.

Kakashi sighed and Sakura sweat-dropped. "Those two..." "This is not a race. They shouldn't be too energetic or they'll strain their whole body."

"Naruto-kun! Catch up to us if you can!" Lee yelled from afar, hearing this, Sasuke and Naruto ran faster, glaring at each other with competition plastered on their faces while running.

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"Sensei...I...need...a break..." Naruto said in between breaths, clearly panting with sweat dripping down from his face. "Your fault for overdoing it you two!" Sakura scolded and crossed her arms.

"It's nice training with you and your team, Kakashi! Work on it rookies!" Gai said and flashed a cheeky smile, raising a thumb on them. Team 7 got weirded out by the look. "Wait...Gai, I have a request." Kakashi made Team 9 stop in their tracks.

"Just so you and your team would get to know mine better, why don't we have lunch at Ichiraku?" Kakashi offered. "We'd love to." Neji said. "Of course Kakashi! Come on!" Then the two teams headed to Ichiraku for a satisfying lunch.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter! But, I'll have slow updates, gomen! Enjoy for now. ;)