Konoha Spider

Bridge Battle

The rest of the day the ninja spent resting their bodies or preparing the other side of their mission. It was Kakashi who made sure that they continued training to ensure that they did not let their victory over the Enforcers make them think that they were untouchable. The silver haired Jonnin took his book and rested while watching the results of his students and their training. The Jonnin was very proud of all that his students had managed to achieve in the time that they had been gone. In the past few days they were here, they had managed to show him how strong they really had managed to become since that day in which they had barely managed to steal those bells from him a few months ago. Now they were to the point where they could fight high level gennin low level chunnin shinobi. If they continued to improve at this rate, they would become some of the best in the business. When the time of the Chunnin exams came around and he would be glad to nominate them when the time came around. He doubted that there were many students that had even half of the skill and potential that his Gennin possessed, and they would shock any and all comers.

The Jonnin was distracted from his thoughts as he saw that Naruto and Peter had already left to work on some more of their training while Sakura was still recovering from her wounds and Chakra use. The two boys were determined to finish off their bet. Their healing factors did give them an unfair advantage when it came to training. The way he figured it after all of the training that they had been doing he wouldn't be surprised if one or both of them managed to complete this particular type of training. If it hadn't been because of his injuries he would have been out there with them, unfortunately he had to prepare himself for another fight with a shinobi just as potentially strong and powerful as he was instead of just giving them small little hints. He had been fortunate that Sakura had mastered it so quickly. He sat on a tree and watched as the pair of boys climbed up and down in an attempt to master the chakra exercise. He was still unsure if they would master it thanks to their weeding out the excess of skilled foot soldiers. Still even if they didn't master it today, their skills and powers had taken large leaps from what they had been.

The pair of boys finally made it to the very top of a tree. They were tired and worn and looked like they would need twelve hours of sleep each when they finally returned to Tazuna's house. The pair of them had slowly trudged back into the house and a shocked Sakura had seen what a mess that her friends had become. It seemed that the extensive training had taken the pair to the limit of even their chakra reserves. The two boys had tiredly accepted her help even as they explained that they had finally managed to reach the treetops.

"So who won?" Kakashi questioned them curiously.

"We tied," Peter admitted to the man grudgingly.

"Hmm, well I guess that means that the two of you will be splitting the lunch bill for a week then won't you?" Kakashi said with an eye grin, as he stared at the two daring them to back out. The two boys nodded their heads in agreement at this as they eased themselves into their seats. The other two offered congratulations to the pair as they celebrated the pair having finally finished the last piece of preparation for the upcoming fight.

Inari watched the pair as well with wonder as he saw that they were all set to fall down from low chakra from all of the work that they had done in the past few days. They had taken out some of the worst of Gato's men. All that was left was Zabuza, and then they would have dealt with the worst of the people that had oppressed their village for so long. For the first time in a long time Inari felt the flickering of hope that he hadn't felt in years. It was like having the protection of his dad with him once again. There was a part of him that was starting to believe that these people might just have a chance against the shipping mogul's forces. The boy didn't say anything to the two figures as he recalled the last time that they had spoken had not been good, and he would rather not have something like that happen again.