Naruto new loves(discontinued)

5

ALRIGHT YOU LAZY ARSES GET IT INTO GEAR OR WE'LL BE DOING THIS FOR ANOTHER HOUR" yelled Akihiro as he lead his team in running laps around Konoha…with 50 lb weights on their feet. So far his training methods have been unique, but highly effective. He had them start out with a light warm up of 100 pushups, 175 squats, 60 overhand pull-ups, and 150 crunches. He made sure every member of his team ate a healthy breakfast afterward and then the hell began. The true workout consisted of a 15 mile jog with weights of varying degree strapped to their feet. He had them balance on a metal spike with no chakra for an hour. He had them working at intense speeds on their taijutsu kata's. Finally they went to the gym where he and Naruto did some serious weight lifting. The girls would simply do a lighter form or they would work on the cardio machines.

Then at around 8:00 am they would head to the hokage tower to receive their missions for the day. They did everything from catching Tora (in record time), to weeding gardens, to baby-sitting (Hinata and Ino were particularly adept with this). They worked with an efficiency that baffled some of the chunin that were handing out the missions. At about 2:00 pm they would continue training.

Akihiro would have them start working on elemental manipulation. Naruto was wind, and Akihiro had him do a different kind of manipulation training. The usual way was to start by trying to cut a leaf with purely wind chakra; however Akihiro had him meditate in a constant wind to get a proper feel for the element. His reasoning was 'One can only control an element if they have a complete understanding of it'. To emphasize his point he used pure earth manipulation and raised the entire training ground a foot higher than what it already was.

Hinata who was water he had her meditate in a similar fashion to Naruto except he had her do it right in the middle of the lake. The already all knew water walking courtesy of Yuugao giving each of them a scroll after the first team meeting. The scroll had contained the tree walking and water walking exercises, so Akihiro had them work on them in their spare time. Ino had the hardest kind of training though. She was lightning natured, so that posed a problem. However Akihiro had a solution to even that. Bioelectricity was always around us. Even for a time after we die, so he had her work on tapping into that with meditation.

The month proceeding the initial rearrangements of the team had shown a world of improvement in the genin. Each of them was now faster, stronger, smarter, and all around better than any other genin team from their generation. They had flawless teamwork, their individual skills were almost bordering on chunin, and their focus was incredible. It wasn't long before a number of the shinobi started calling them the 'Devils Advocates'. For once though it wasn't a shot at Naruto, it was just an observation about the whole team. The rate at which they improved was astounding, hell it was almost unnatural.

They were just returning from another rousing adventure catching Tora, who was purring happily at this point and nuzzling Hinata affectionately.

"Hokage-sama mission accomplished" said Akihiro as the daimyo's wife barged in and practically strangled the poor cat. Any other team would have been silently egging her on with a maniacal glint in their eyes; however this particular team felt sympathy for the poor cat.

"Good, now for your next mission we have, repairing a broken aqueduct, baby sitting for myself and Koharu and Homura. Our grandchildren need the company. Or if you like we have…" stated Sarutobi only for them to hear a scream of,

"NO TORA COME BACK."

"Catching the daimyo's cat again" sighed Sarutobi.

"Actually hokage-sama…I believe my team is ready for a C rank mission" said Akihiro earning him shocked looks from everyone in the room.

"What how could you even consider that!? They are still too green, not to mention these three were the worst in the academy. I know, because I was there teacher, but then again I don't expect you to know something like that" said Iruka speaking the last part with just a hint of venom.