Naruto: Nine And Seven

Chapter 4

Three weeks later, Naruto and Fu stood before their sensei in the clearing, ready for the next level of their training, their chakra control training finally completed. It had been annoying to both Naruto and Fu when they had tried to walk on the nearby lake and found themselves and all their clones struggling with it and unable to stand on the surface for more than a few minutes before falling in, although Naruto's control was good enough that he didn't need to redo the tree climbing exercise, Fu did, much to her chagrin. On the third day, their control was good enough that they were able to stand on the surface with no trouble, soon after they began to hold leaves to their bodies with chakra. During the last days of the three week period, they and their clones would spar while the held a dozen of leaves to their bodies with no trouble. After the three weeks were over, their chakra control was better than it had ever been, despite the seals. Jiraiya also applied Four Limb Weighted Seals to them both during the second week.

"Okay, Pervy Sage, now, what's the next level of our training." Naruto asked confidently.

"Okay, for the next step, your going to use a dozen clones for a while. You're both going to be learning to control large amounts of your nature chakra. Naruto-" Jiraiya pointed his thumb behind him to the waterfall. "-you're going to be using your chakra to split that waterfall in half with pure wind manipulation."

"Whoa..." was all Naruto could say as he gazed up at the waterfall.

"As for you, Fu, I want you to gather as much lightning as you can into an attack and slam it into the valley wall. I want you to cause as much damage with pure lightning chakra as you can."

"You got it, Ero-sensei."

"If you're ready, then get started. This is gonna take you a while and after your done with that, I've got a few scrolls for you with jutsu in your elements."

"Ero-sensei?" Fu said.

"Huh?"

"Think you could teach me that earth technique Naruto used when we sparred in Taki? That tunneling jutsu seemed useful."

"Sure, but for now, focus on you lightning manipulation." Fu nodded before she and Naruto got to work. Naruto could only barely part the water and Fu's lightning attack barely caused a crack in the wall. Neither was surprised, having already learned another element they had expected this.

A little over five months later, Jiraiya finally released the seals and his apprentices were beaming at their accomplishment. After they had completed their nature chakra exercises in two weeks, they had returned to their usual training method. One hundred clones divided into groups of twenty. The shadow clones were either reading what Jiraiya told them, which Naruto still didn't like but had come to accept, chakra control, taijutsu katas, kenjutsu which Fu had wanted to learn since she learned the Water Slicing Blade and Naruto had wanted to learn after seeing Fu and remembering Zabuza, and learning jutsu of their elements. After the first month, they had truly mastered the exercises. Naruto could cut the waterfall on pure chakra manipulation easily and Fu could pull off something similar to Chidori, but more powerful, focused around her whole arm and not really fit for practical use, still, she could now manipulate large amounts of the element easily and that's what mattered, she also had apparently gotten a few ideas from it but had filed them away for later. Naruto learned a few wind and fire jutsu and Fu had learned water and lightning jutsu, mostly C-ranks and a few B-ranks, Fu also learned the same three tunneling jutsu Naruto had and they both learned a fourth. They were about even now in terms of their elemental jutsu, it was easier for Fu to learn her elements because she had both affinities while Naruto only had the affinity to wind, so fire jutsu were harder for him to learn. Were it not for the Five Pronged Seal, it would have been much easier for them, but this had paid off.