marriage of convenience

chapter 8

Haii, so this chapter is gonna be right around the time of the chunnin exams! Enjoy
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Kakashi had called a meeting for something and has yet to show up of course. Late as always, so they were talking about what it could be about "could it be we're finally going on an official A-rank mission?" Sakura asked.

"No way, we weren't even supposed to go on the first one. There's no way we'd be going on another.. purposely." Naruto replied.

"Maybe it's the chunnin exams? It's around the time it usually starts or at least that's what I was told because Itachi completely skipped being a chunnin and went straight to an anbu." Sasuke said.

"Maybe, but why meet with us? He could've just sent a letter or something instead of making us wait for him" Said Naruto.

With a 'poof' Kakashi had finally arrived "I'm sure you know why we're meeting here today?"

"Chunnin exams?" Sasuke asked earning a nod from Kakashi.

"Yes, exactly. I have your papers right here. The chunnin exams start in a week so be ready"

"Why didn't you just mail it to us?"

"It's better to hear it all at once"

"But it's easier to just send it to us"

"Oh nevermind, just go. We'll be training all week for this so be ready."

They all left and went their separate ways back to their homes to either train or just do whatever.

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(Le next day)

They met up with Kakashi who was early for a change "Jesus, he's actually early. I think this deserves a round of applause" Naruto said sarcastically whilst clapping his hands.

"Haha Naruto. Very funny, now let's start with today's lesson" Kakashi replied back, rolling his eyes (or eye for that matter)

"Today we are learning chakra control. For today all you have to do is walk up the tree using your chakra."

"That's it?" Sasuke asked

"Now now, it may sound easy but doing it is much harder than it seems."

And so they each went to an individual tree and they all failed their first try, "I told you" mocked Kakashi.

'maybe I'm putting too much chakra into my feet?' Naruto thought and he decreased the amount of chakra he had from earlier and successfully yet slowly made it to the top.

"See, it's not that hard y'know!" Naruto grinned and chuckled as the other two looked on, amazed at him.

They then went back to concentrating and Sakura was the second to make it up "hey! You know. Once I actually started to think, it's actually pretty easy."

Sasuke groaned in frustration 'im the only one who hasn't done it yet. I'm falling behind Sakura of all people!"

He walked up to Naruto "how'd you do it? You got it almost immediately..how!?"

Naruto smiled widely and answered "just limit the amount of chakra you use. Use to much and it's basically get blasted off but, use to little and you might as well not use any at all. You have to calculate the perfect amount of chakra or else it won't work."

"Just calculate the amount of chakra you have now and decrease it little by little y'know. You have to be purely focused on just how much you use, that's why we didn't get it right first try. We didn't think about how much chakra we were using."

Sasuke listened intently and tried each time he was basically blasted off he decreased the amount he was using until he got it right.

"Ah! I did it!!"

Kakashi then appeared and clapped for them all "hooray. It usually takes longer for gennin to figure this out, but it took a mere day for you to do a task that usually takes a week for gennin to get and weeks or months to perfect."

"Well, for the next week we'll be training to get you perfect chakra control. You should also focus on being able to better enhance your main jutsus."

"We get it Kakashi-sensei, now let's train and get this over with y'know."

Kakashi laughed and taught them more about perfecting their chakras- to their best abilities of course.

During the entirety of the week they would spend half of practice on chakra control and the other half on enhancing their main jutsus whilst also teaching the others on how to use their main jutsus as well.

Naruto learned how to make about a thousand if not twice as much more shadow clones than before whilst Sasuke taught him to do fireball jutsu which was hard for Naruto considering that Naruto was more experienced on wind release but, now he's got it down.

Sasuke learned on how to finally do the great dragon fire technique and on that note Naruto also taught him how to do The great breakthrough technique to which you blow a massive amount of air and take out anything infront of you. It was difficult for Sasuke but not a whole lot considering he had great lung compasity and this is kind of like some of the fire releas techniques.

Sakura- seeing as she came from a civilian clan with only parents who didn't have a main jutsu nor did she ever practice considering the low amount of chakra she had. She practice on her weapon usage but, Naruto was able to help her focus chakra on mainly her fist or feet to cause a bigger amount of damage on impact and said the damage will be greater once she grows her chakra.

"I think I'll start using fire release, I have to study more about wind release though as it's what I'm better at but fire release seems scary...which is awesome, y'know?" Naruto said enthusiastically making everyone chuckle a bit.

"I'll stick to fire release for now, although wind release is great, my lungs aren't that strong." Sasuke exclaimed.

"I don't think I'm cut out for all these jutsus just yet. My chakra is still very weak so I'll start trying once I grow my chakra. For now though, I'll try to focus my chakra on one part of my body to be able to fight better." Said Sakura with a little sulk on her face realizing just how far behind she is from the 2 teammates.

'if I don't catch up soon... I'll surely be left behind'

Although they seem to be progressing rapidly..they still have a long way to go before the go head-to-head with any ninja who kill with no mercy.

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