The Grind Continues - 3

Hinata sure had changed.

A lot.

Daiki watched the older girl leave, and he had to admit it, she was rocking the confidence and her new outfit.

She had all the energy of that alter Hinata from the Road to Ninja, without the raging bitch to go along with it.

She wasn't his match at all during their spar, but she just kept on coming no matter the punishment he gave her, and the way she seemed to not flaunt her body or even relish in the attention but accepted his ogling with a confidence he'd never seen in her…

No doubt about it. Hinata was hot as fuck. He'd actually had to resist grabbing a few gropes here or there, or outright looking through her clothes with his eyes.

'I'm surprised, I have to admit, with how greedy you are, I thought you'd jump on the chance to take the girl and fulfil your desires,' Isobu mused, 'The girl was clearly receptive to your leering.'

He had noticed that as well actually. She'd full on stuck her breasts out more for him to look at when she noticed he was staring, and didn't shy away from him leering at her tits while he was healing her.

'That's just because I'm the one that fuelled her confidence in the first place.' Daiki shrugged.

He had a feeling, if he pushed with her, Hinata would let him 'play' with her. But, he wasn't going to.

A cunt he may be, but he and Hinata were more or less friends. He wasn't going to take advantage of her leaning on him like that, it would be a complete scum move.

She was in love with another guy anyway, grating as it was that he'd accomplished more than he thought with Hinata on making her actually have worth as a partner to support Naruto and found himself desiring her himself.

Mission failed successfully?

'Besides, as much as I would love to rail her till she has hearts in her eyes, my place is a shithole.' Daiki pointed out. He wouldn't be bringing any girls back to his place, until he got a better place.

And that wasn't even going in to all his other issues that would make him horrible boyfriend material right now.

He wondered idly how much it would cost to get him a compound of his own. Maybe not one suited for an entire clan or something, but one with a big living space and general property area where he could train if he wanted.

'What about one with a nice big pond?' Isobu suggested.

'Like for coi fish?' Daiki asked.

'I suppose, but more for me.' the turtle Bijuu replied.

'Hate to break it to you, but you're a bit too big to fit a pond buddy.' Daiki snorted at the mental image, imagining the leviathan of a turtle dipping one of his feet in a pond and barely covering a toe.

'Not like that you fool,' Isobu huffed, 'I can form miniature clones of myself, remember? If you can form a summoning contract, I can link it to myself and you can use the contract to summon a clone of me.'

Huh, that could work. He vaguely remembered Naruto getting stuck inside Isobu's stomach once and a horde of mini Isobu's trying to eat him alive.

That would be a useful jutsu for dealing with multiple enemies.

Hmmm….

Summoning: Isobu Horde Devourer!

That would be a badass name for it as well.

'I just want to relax in some proper water when I can, but sure, feel free to weaponize my leisure idea,' Isobu sighed, 'You really do have a one track mind, earlier you were thinking about how you could create a seal that would have your clothes strangle someone for you in case they pinned you.'

'Gotta keep up the grind set buddy.' was Daiki's only excuse.

Speaking of the grind set.

A rush of memories flooded his mind. One of his clones just popped. It was one of the ones working on water elemental manipulation.

It looked like it was spreading what it learned so far to the other clones. He had twenty one clones in total grinding away in Isobu's dimension. Ten working on the water jutsu that Isobu told him of through Yagura's and holy fuck was there a lot, and that wasn't even going into the jutsu of other elements the dude knew. And another ten working on the basics of water elemental manipulation, which started off from draining moisture from physical items that retained water, like leaves.

The one left over, was the main clone he made, to replace clones that popped themselves and be refilled on chakra by Isobu.

Once his chakra capacity grew, he'd be able to make even more and steadily increase the amount of clones he could use for his training.

Hmm..

Yeah, he should totally work on that summoning scroll. Isobro was such a big help to him, he needed to show his gratitude.

'Please don't call me that.' Isobu groaned, he sounded in pain.

He was about to respond, but just then, a familiar dark haired teen walked into his training ground, though the Uchiha was looking over his shoulder oddly.

"I'm popular today." Daiki snorted.

"Hey," Sasuke greeted him, "What's with the Hyuga that just came from here? I hope a new girlfriend isn't gonna slow your training down, kicking you around is good for my progress."

Daiki raised an eyebrow, "You've never kicked me around before, even back in the academy you weren't that much better than me," he shot back, "And what do you mean, it's Hinata."

Sasuke gave him a blank look, "Who the hell is Hinata?" he asked, completely lost.

…What?

"You know, the Hyuga heiress? Was in our class for eight years?" Daiki reminded.

"Doesn't ring a bell." Sasuke shook his head.

This guy…

"She's on a team with Shino and Kiba, she stalked Naruto all the time?" Daiki added.