Aftermath (A Sequel to A Flash to the Future)

Chapter 20 - The Finals: An Overture

Naruto panted as he looked at the ground with a smirk. Eight hirashin kunai laid scattered about the dense forest of Training Ground 44. Looking at the timer, it had took him 15 seconds to teleport around the large forest. His goal was one second. The blonde stood upward and stretched. He felt some of his bones crack as he did so. After shaking off his light fatigue, Naruto set the timer once more and readied himself to teleport again.

It has been one month since Naruto started 'training' with Jiraiya. Honestly, Naruto had not learned a thing from the sage. The only beneficial thing Naruto received from Jiraiya was a toad summoning contract in which he was able to summon Gambunta, a boss toad. After hours of having to ride Gambunta's back, Naruto was finally accepted by the summon. He planned on meeting with the head toads at a later time. He had much to discuss with them.

Since the Sannin barely trained him and ditched him in the middle of the month for his spy network, the blonde had been training on his own as usual. He had mostly been sharpening his skills and practicing his father's hirashin jutsu. He had already finished adding the wind element to his rasengan and was now working on adding lighting to it. It was harder than it sounded. In his free time, he was studying and evalutating the Hyuga Juken fist style. While he didn't know all of their moves, he knew enough. He rememeber when he first came across the scrolls in his younger years. You'd be surprised at how much information you can get by simply looking in the trash. Many look down on it, but Naruto didn't care. Information was information, no matter how you got it.

When he had finished mastering the Inceptor's Fist, his father's Hummingbird Style, the Uzuken, Anko's snake style, and Arhat's Fist, he happened to be going through some of his belongings and found the taijutsu scrolls for the Juken along with other scrolls from different clans. He had wanted to scoff at the mere fact that they were that accessible. You would think that for a clan as exclusive as the Hyuga, they would do better about how they dispose information. It was sad really.

He had spent the past two years, combining them together and adding different styles here and there. He didn't know what the call his fighting style yet, but he knew that once he mastered it, it would be deadly. Besides training in his taijutsu, fuinjutsu, and ninjutsu, he also traveled to the Land of Iron during his second week. He enjoyed talking and practicing with the samurai general, Mifune. He could remember when Chief first introduced him to the older man. He didn't like him at first, but after seeing the samurai in action, he almost worshiped the very ground he walked. He would travel the country once a month for a meeting or spar with the old man. It was always a refreshing vacation.

Naruto shook himself of his thoughts and disappeared in a yellow flash. Fourteen seconds later, he returned to his original position. He lurched over as he tried to calm his breathing. What people didn't know about the Hirashin was that in the interval in which time is divided and space is created, the opening was only open for a few seconds before it closes. Because of the limited rift in time, the person would have to be moving a very high speeds to make it through before the tunnel closes.

The purpose of his father's markers was to give a specific position to the time-space interval. Without it, there was a possibility that a person can get lost in another dimension within the time loop or even physically distort themselves that would lead to death. That's why his father's equation for the jutsu was so complex to understand. The Hirashin was practically a ninjutsu that used fuinjutsu as way to anchor the user in the same reality, time, and space. Most would get a headache at trying to understand the physics and mathematics of it all. (A/N: I do not know if that is how it works. This is just made up.)

Naruto hummed as he stood and stretched once more. He wiped the sweat off of his brow and looked at the two kunai that wasn't far from him.

"I guess I can call it a day for this." Naruto said to himself as he walked toward the kunai and grabbed. He left one kunai in his spot before disappearing in a flash. He returned seconds later with six kunai and his hand.