More Sage Mode And Sasuke!
"It seems you have mastered toad oil assisted control, impressive. Now you need to master controlling the natural energy in your body without using the oil, it will be much more difficult." Naruto then jumped out of the pond very high in the air and landing on one of the stone frogs, "I can feel the power flowing into me, stronger than I've ever felt!" Naruto said feeling his body as it had gotten physically stronger.
"Ninjutsu chakra consumes your internal chakra, the more you use it, the more exhausted you will become. In contrast, Sage jutsu chakra draws in external energy, so it will not tire you out. In fact, you will recover and heal faster too." Naruto then walked up to one of the stone statues with one hand, he had mastered the oil assisted sage mode long ago and with training could enter it very fast and had better results.
"I get it, with the nine-tails chakra in the mix too, I can recover at an amazing rate. Sage mode truly is a terrifying ability!" said Naruto who was excited with his increase in power. Fukusake then gave him something, "Here, I thought maybe you could read this in your free time, Naruto-boy." "What is it?" "This is the first novel Jiraiya-boy ever wrote, don't worry it's not pervy."
Naruto grabbed it and looked at the title, 'Tales Of A Gutsy Ninja' Naruto read it a little and had to admit it was actually a pretty good book, very unrealistic but good nonetheless. "Well, I will read the rest later, for now, let's get back to training." Fukusaku nodded and they went back to training. "Now let's go somewhere else." Naruto followed Fukasaku until they reached the next location, "Hey, this isn't what I'm thinking, is it?" In this area there were giant rock spike formations much taller than skyscrapers, Naruto had never been around anything so big.
"It is exactly that. This is your next training site. Stack a stone slab at the top of that summer and begin Zen meditation. If you lose concentration even for a moment and move even slightly, you will fall to the bottom of the ravine." Naruto knew he very well might die if he fell from there, "Ok, let's go" Naruto grabbed one of the stone slabs and walked up the giant spike. Once up there he started, at first, he was sitting still and doing well until he got an itch. He didn't itch it but his muscles moved from it which almost caused him to fall off.
"You must learn to stop your motion as an animal. Find your own center of balance, and motionlessly synchronize with nature!" Naruto did his best to stabilize himself but couldn't and so he fell off. "Ahhh!" he thought he was going to fall but a tongue came down and grabbed him, the stone slab hit the floor and was destroyed. "Taking in Nature energy will have to wait until you can first perfect staying still motionlessly." Naruto kept trying and trying but couldn't stay still and fell off repeatedly, "Time for a break!" said Fukasaku. "Damn, it's way too hard to stay still, this is close to impossible." staying still wasn't difficult but not being able to even move a muscle was insane!
"Such nonsense! Even Jiraiya-boy managed this feat." Naruto nodded, "So that perv did the same training, I should get this down soon." Fukusaku nodded happily, "Jiraiya-boy and I came here quite often. He had the same problem with staying still. I must say, he has more guts than anybody else around. " "How long did he train here?" asked Naruto, "Well Jiraiya-boy came here to train in between missions, so it took him quite some time, I don't know exactly how long." Naruto stood up, "Well let's get back to training!"
Outside of Mount Myoboku, in Konoha, Kakashi and Sasuke were standing next to each other. "How are we going to train?" asked Sasuke who wanted to get strong as fast as possible, "Well first, I want to take advantage of the copy ability of the Sharingan. But before we do that I have some advice, don't copy every jutsu, there are so many jutsu I never use and will never serve any reason. So don't copy everything. You already have a certain battle style and I don't want you to change that up too much."
Sasuke nodded, he didn't want to completely change his style either. "For this, we should hunt some people in the bingo book, easy targets." Kakashi then handed Sasuke something, It was a straight-bladed tantō with a small, circular hand-guard. "This is mine, it's called the White Light Chakra Sabre. It was destroyed but I had them fix it up for you, it is made of chakra conductive metal give it a shot."
Sasuke inserted some chakra into the blade and swung it, a white streak came out cutting the ground cleanly, "So sharp, amazing!". Kakashi was shocked, 'it's even stronger than before!' it had originally been his father's than his, and now Sasuke's, he expected it to be weaker, not stronger! Ignoring this Kakashi opened the bingo book, "I already have a target, he is known as ghost sword Raiken. He might be a little weak but he is skilled in Kenjutsu and some wind style Ninjutsu which you could find useful."
"Ok, how strong is he?" Kakashi read the bingo book details,
Name- Raiken
Ranking- C+ or B-
Alias- Ghost Sword
Village- Mist
Nature- Wind
Orders- Attack if you feel you can win, if not then do not engage.
"Not too hard, but I don't want you using NInjutsu, only Kenjutsu, and Taijutsu, but of course copy all his moves." "Yes, Kakashi." Sasuke knew this would make it harder but he needed to get stronger. Sasuke and Kakashi then left to go find this 'ghost sword Raiken' Sasuke didn't want to be caught off guard so he would take his opponent seriously. In the bingo book, there was a list of locations he visited and with Kakashi being an ex-ANBU captain he was easy to find. Sasuke jumped in front of Raiken, "We are fighting one way or another." Raiken stepped back, "Ok, I will show you why I'm in the bingo book!"
Sasuke took the blade off his back, Raiken also took out his Rapier. Even though Raiken was fast and an expert, with Sasuke's Sharingan he could easily keep up and read his movements to get better and better. "Disappearing Slash!" to the normal eye it would look as if Raiken's sword had disappeared but in front of Sasuke, it was like nothing had even happened. Sasuke dodged and copied the technique, Raiken noticed Sasuke was getting better so he used his strongest move, "I will show you why they call me ghost sword, ghost slasher!" Raiken disappeared, well not that it was just that he moved at an insane speed using wind style.
Sasuke once again copied his ability and blocked. Raiken Finally noticed something strange about Sasuke's eyes, "No you're all supposed to be dead, an Uchiha!" Raiken was amazed, they were all supposed to be dead! "I will show you the power of my eyes, the power of the Uchiha!"
The White Light Chakra Sabre then disappeared, Raiken was shocked, that was his move. Suddenly the next thing he knew his arm was clean off, not even blood! He looked up at Sasuke who was holding his blade, he was going to attack but the next thing he knew the blade was in him, "Ghost slasher?" this move was copied too!
Raiken then died soon after that as the blade pierced his heart. Kakashi nodded, he already knew what Jiraiya's plans would be in the future, he needed Sasuke to get used to this type of thing. "Let's head back to Konoha, it's getting late." They then returned back to Konoha with Sasuke taking his first steps toward beating Itachi.
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End of the chapter, let me know what you thought. I know some of the stuff Sasuke said was cheesy but he said stuff like that in the Anime too so I don't think it was too bad. If you liked the idea of the Bingo book hunting let me know so I can keep doing it, I liked it a lot but let me know.