Naruto & Gohan: Legends Will Rise

Chapter 33: One Day Rest!

The Hokage was in the center of the arena, looking upon the six genin who had passed. Kai Tokuma tapped his foot nervously as he looked at Gohan out of the corner of his eye. Gohan on the other hand, stood confidently gazing upon the Hokage. Sasuke Uchiha looked bored, while Sakura Haruno was waiting patiently. Naruto Uzumaki was glaring daggers at Gaara, who was standing still rubbing his head.

"Congratulations all six of you. The second round will commence at 11am tomorrow, giving all of you the rest of the day off while we repair the stadium." The aging ninja said.

Sasuke looked over at Naruto and saw the glare he was sending Gaara, "Will the matches continue in a traditional tournament format?" He asked his village leader.

"Ah yes, the match-ups," Hiruzen smiled as he saw that Sasuke had asked that only after noticing Naruto's glare, truthfully he was going to randomise them again, but he couldn't deny his surrogate grandson a chance to avenge his friend, "They will continue as a traditional tournament would."

Naruto smiled at this, "Watch out Gaara, I'll freeze your sand and then pummel you." Naruto growled.

"Please try, I'd love to add your blood to my collection." Gaara taunted back.

Gohan put a hand on Naruto's shoulder, noticing his ki spiking, "Save it for tomorrow." He whispered.

"Fine." Naruto pulled his shoulder from Gohan's grip and walked away.

The blond walked with a mission, he had to find Hanabi and learn the Jyuken style, or at least the basics, and that Kaiten jutsu was a must have also.

He watched swaths of spectators leave the arena and kept his eye out for Hanabi. He found her walking with Ino. He landed in front of them, "Hanabi"

"Naruto." She gasped.

"I need to learn Jyuken by tomorrow, especially that Kaiten jutsu." He told her.

"Naruto that's impossible, it took me months to learn the Kaiten."

"I want to beat Gaara using Hinata's style."

Hanabi nodded, "Okay, come with me." The two walked to a deserted training ground, "It's late so we don't have much time." She said.

Hanabi walked Naruto through the basic kata of the Jyuken style. He used his shadow clones to learn the style as fast as possible, with nearly one thousand Naruto working on each of the three kata he was learning.

Hanabi was also walking a platoon of Naruto through the Kaiten, and even when they destroyed themselves Naruto would replace them, going about this for hours on end while working on his Rasengan himself.

They kept the routine up for four hours before Hanabi got tired, it was nearly midnight now and Naruto had each kata imbued in his muscle memory. He had every clone working on perfecting the Kaiten while he was trying something new with his Rasengan.

Sasuke decided that training for the rest of the night would be the best option as well. He found Itachi wandering the village and insisted that his brother teach him the summoning jutsu.

"Sasuke it's dangerous, without a contract you'll get pulled to the lair of the summon and there's no telling when you'll get back, you may end up missing your match."

"I'm fine with that, I need a one-up on the dobe, he's got the Rasengan to match my Chidori, the Byakugan to my Sharingan, if he uses Hyoton right it'll make my Pinton useless, his Suiton beats my Katon, and his Fuuton beats my Raiton. I need a one-up." Sasuke argued.

"Fine" Itachi sighed in defeat and taught his brother the hand signs for the summoning jutsu, "But I'll come with you."

"Fine." Sasuke bit his thumb and rolled through the hand seals, slamming his palm on the ground with a shout of "Summoning Jutsu!"