Training or torture?

At that moment, everyone had already returned to the village for their normal activities, preparing for the end of the Chunin exam.

Kaito, on the other hand, was at home preparing to begin his training.

"What I need is much more combat to gain experience, I think I'll have to ask my father or mother for help with that." Kaito sighed, not wanting to train in combat with his father, as he was afraid of him seeking revenge from last time.

He walked inside his house towards the training field and there he spotted his mother, who was training calmly.

"Mother, could you help me train?" Kaito asked as he walked towards her.

"Of course, my son," Hana looked at Kaito as he spoke and smiled, gesturing for him to come closer.

"What do you need help with? Ninjutsu?" Hana asked softly.

"I want a fight, Mom. I need combat experience," Kaito spoke without hesitation.

"Alright then, get ready. I won't go easy on you, and this might cause you some injuries," Hana smiled, but it didn't seem like a smile, as it seemed to exude some feeling that suggested Kaito would be in more trouble than training with his father.

"Let's go to the forest. I don't want to accidentally destroy our house," she said, not giving Kaito any time to process the information. Grabbing his arm, she dragged him to the forest.

...

Konoha Forest.

Kaito and Hana stood face to face, preparing for a battle.

Hana seemed to be super excited about the battle, which made Kaito doubt whether asking his mother to fight was a good idea or not.

"Ready?" Hana asked.

"Yes, I'm ready," Kaito replied as he assumed a defensive stance, but it was in vain as a large jet of water quickly came out of Hana's mouth, hitting him directly, leaving him no time to dodge.

Kaito was thrown backward by the force of the impact, but he was relatively okay as Hana hadn't used something powerful.

As Kaito got up, he felt that something was wrong, and looking up, several water bullets were prepared to fall in his direction, while Hana was smiling diabolically. This frightened him, causing him to dodge frantically as the water bullets were fired at him.

Before he could catch his breath, a large water bullet was shot toward the area where he was retreating. Kaito noticed this and began forming hand seals, creating a water barrier around him, successfully protecting himself.

Looking from inside the barrier, Kaito finally got some rest, but the next moment something worried him a lot, and that was his mother. She had formed a huge wind blade, causing Kaito to doubt his water barrier for the first time.

The giant wind blade cut everything in its path until it reached the barrier, and as Kaito expected, the barrier couldn't hold for more than a few seconds, forcing Kaito to quickly retreat from the barrier to avoid being cut in half by that blade.

As soon as he got out, he saw a huge water dragon coming towards him, along with a swirling vortex of wind spinning together.

'She's trying to kill me, that's the only explanation,' Kaito's face was pale as he watched, but he didn't stop forming hand seals for a moment, creating several hand signs. The next moment, a water dragon also appeared by his side, and Kaito attacked the two jutsu that were coming. He knew it wouldn't be enough to stop his mother's attack. Just as the jutsu were about to collide, Kaito froze his water dragon, forming a large ice dragon that collided head-on with the combined jutsu, successfully stopping it.

Kaito sighed, seeing that he had succeeded, but he soon realized that his ice dragon had dissipated afterward.

"Damn it, my strongest jutsu only managed to stop that combined jutsu and then dissipate. I can't even imagine my mother's stronger jutsu," Kaito was looking at his mother who was at the top of a tree watching him with a smile.

"You need to react," Hana said, jumping from the trees while forming some hand signs. Kaito saw that and didn't wait to see the result, starting to do his own hand signs.

"Ice Bullets Jutsu," the next moment hundreds of ice bullets were fired by Kaito towards Hana, who finished her jutsu and a large tornado destroyed Kaito's ice bullets and took over the forest.

Kaito's mouth was open in an "O" shape.

'Damn, I use the damn ice bullets, and she throws the damn tornado at me,' Kaito thought as he tried to escape the tornado, but the next moment he felt a gust of wind hitting right in front of him, throwing him back towards the tornado.

Kaito was pulled toward the tornado, spinning at absurd speeds, along with branches and rocks that hit him, causing several minor injuries and bruises. Seeing this, Kaito began to freeze the air around him, forming a crystal around him to protect himself from the attacks.

Several minutes passed as Kaito was still spinning in the tornado, his ice crystal had been shattered and reformed several times, and he was extremely dizzy.

Hana was smiling, but after a few more seconds, she deactivated her jutsu, causing the ice crystal where Kaito was to fall, knocking down a tree in the process. She then appeared next to Kaito, who had already deactivated his ability.

The next moment, Hana formed two giant water hands. Seeing this, Kaito knew that nothing good was coming. He then formed an ice sphere to protect himself, but soon saw that Hana had also frozen the giant hands and they were ready to attack.

'I have to do something,' Kaito thought as Hana's attacks began to hit his protection.

Kaito formed two hands that punched towards Hana's giant hands, blow against blow. He sighed when he realized they were evenly matched, but soon found that he lacked proficiency as his ice started to break quickly in the confrontation, while Hana's ice remained intact.

Kaito observed the scene and knew he would lose in a direct fight, so he put his hand on the ground. The next moment, several ice spikes emerged from under Hana, who quickly realized and jumped, easily dodging them.

But this gave Kaito a moment of rest, who, the next moment, cast the "Great Flood Jutsu," leaving the forest where he was with a lot of water.

"Domination: Stage 1," he said. The place where he was completely froze, and without giving his mother time, several spikes emerged from all sides, constantly forcing her to retreat, while she dodged. Kaito then formed several ice snakes that tried to attack Hana from various sides. And not stopping there, he formed several ice hands that attempted to strike her.

"Haha, very good, you are learning well," Hana spoke while dodging. The ice snakes were jumping towards her and wrapping around her feet, while the ice hand descended on her. Hana then formed a giant ice blade that easily cut through Kaito's creations.

Just when she thought it was over, she saw a large ice dragon coming fiercely towards her. She tried to dodge, but the ice dragon followed her faithfully. The dragon was opening its mouth ready to swallow Hana, but the next moment, it was dismantled into pieces.

Hana had thrown a wind sphere into the mouth of the ice dragon, and as it entered, it exploded into several smaller wind blades, cutting everything in its path into pieces.

Kaito was trying to quickly get closer to Hana while dodging on the ice. He was at high speed, reaching her instantly, but the next moment, he regretted it because he saw what was really a dragon, which simply attacked him with its tail. Kaito formed a shield in front of him, but it was easily broken and hit, throwing him away as he hit several trees.

Hana approached him and saw that Kaito had formed an armor around himself to protect from the collisions. It was all broken where the dragon's tail had hit and on his back, which was used to protect against collisions with the trees.

Kaito was fine but in a lot of pain.

"Let's stop here for today," Hana said as she looked at the sun. They had spent some time in that fight, and although she was not afraid of the Anbu ninjas, she didn't want to cause too much trouble.

Kaito got up irregularly, as he was feeling a lot of pain all over his body.

'Damn, I'd prefer a thousand times to have trained with my father...' Kaito was regretting asking his mother, so while Kaito was lost in his thoughts, Hana grabbed him by the arm and led him back to their house.

...

Hokage's office.

"He is really strong, he will surely become a very strong shinobi. I did the right thing letting Haruki intervene in the massacre and rescue Hana. And I see that Haruki finally removed the seal from his wife. I thought it would take a little longer, hahaha. Who would have thought he would have so much talent for fuinjutsu? Konoha is progressing well. One day we may become the village we once were in power," Hiruzen blew the smoke from his pipe as he looked at the crystal ball.

After that, the image in the crystal ball changed, and now it was Naruto who was appearing, training in the training field with his staff.

"It seems you really like using staffs, Naruto. Maybe I should teach you a bit," Hiruzen said as he watched Naruto's training.