Demon Sage

Ch-12

Naruto's eyes slowly fluttered open. He blinked, and quickly sat up. He looked around, confused.

" Your up. ", Saya's voice called happily, entering the room.

" Hi, Saya. Where are we? ", Naruto asked.

" When you passed out, Zabuza attacked and Kakashi fought him. Kakashi woke up yesterday. ", Saya returned, walking over.

Naruto winced, " I suddenly felt my Chakra drain. ", he lied, right through his teeth.

" Yeah, Kakashi-sensei said that a poison the Demon Brothers injected you with is only taking affect. Rather weird though, at least your okay. ", she smiled, " We're at Tazuna's house. ", she added swiftly.

" Oh, right... ", Naruto sighed, wincing. He usually could feel his Chakra in his body easily, but now he could barely find any of it pounding through his coils. He felt...weak.

" Come on, everyone is eating breakfast. ", Saya stated. Naruto nodded, and stood up.

" I'm hungry.. ", Naruto muttered, walking past his sister.

-o-0-o-

" You must be Naruto, my name is Tsunami. ", bowed a black haired woman, " I'm Tazuna's daughter. ", she added.

" Nice to meet you. ", Naruto returned, as he sat down at the table.

" How are you feeling? ", Kakashi eye-smiled.

" I'm feeling... better. ", Naruto returned, taking a bite of scrambled eggs.

" That's good. We have something to do, later on. ", Kakashi returned.

Sasuke glanced over at Naruto, as he ate his own rice and eggs. Sakura and Saya were both already done eating, and waiting for them to finish.

-o-0-o-

Kakashi looked at his team, and spoke, " I'm going to teach you how to walk up tree's. No, it's not climbing up a tree, it means your going to walk up the tree. ", Kakashi said, leaning on his crutches as he turns and walked straight up the tree, and hangs off a branch.

" I want you all to master this technique It's rather basic, but it's very hard to channel the Chakra. You have to channel the correct amount of Chakra into your feet. ", Kakashi claimed easily, before he walked back down.

Naruto winced slightly, 'I really hate you, Jubi.', he thought.

'I know you do. Don't worry, it won't be that hard anyway. You've already learned this, but you just need to adjust to your Chakra System, this will help. Once you get this down, re-practice the Striking Wolf.', Jubi instructed.

'Yeah, yeah..', Naruto returned.

-o-0-o-

Sakura completed it easily, while Saya, Sasuke, and Naruto were still doing it. Naruto had gone the highest, while Sasuke could go just five feet away from where Naruto could go, and Saya around a foot, or more away from Sasuke.

The three different tree's were lined up, while Sakura cheered Sasuke on. Naruto sneered to himself, as he raced up the tree easily but lost his grip on his chakra towards his same marker.

He fell back down, and landed swiftly on his feet.

'What am I doing wrong?', Naruto hissed.

'Think about it, your not using enough Chakra. You've never really understood just how much chakra you were using, your using barely any at all. While it sticks long enough, it's being used up.', Jubi returned.