NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.-Chapter 154: CH

Other than that, he was having more trouble manipulating his new lightning element than he had been expecting. He couldn't even hold the chakra in his hand like he could with his wind chakra without damaging himself. The damage would come by way of him shocking the feeling out of his hands for hours, he couldn't practice getting the feel of the chakra with his Kage Bunshin because they would dispel after taking the damage, and this was the only way for him to train the element for the time being.

His elemental Rasengan was a work in progress as well. Adding his wind chakra to the orb ended up blowing up in his face, or more accurately on his arm, giving him deep gashes that took time for him to heal even with his advanced healing. He joked to himself that he needed a medic-nin on hand for whenever he wanted to train these days the way all of his current projects were going.

Learning his seals with Hamako was a very self -esteem crushing experience to say the least. Every concept he had been working on prior to bringing her back to Konoha had been burned as she had proceeded to verbally tear down every single original idea he had come up with. Her reasoning being that everything he had made could have been classified as a forbidden technique, and not for the good reasons, like they were strong, or that if they fell into the wrong hands they could endanger Konoha. No, they were forbidden because everything he had come up with had a greater than not chance of flat out killing him if he had really gone through with their usage. So as far as Hamako was concerned he had to start straight from square one, and she had half a mind to find Jiraiya and make him sit through her lessons as well if he had really been the one to introduce Naruto to those abominations that the boy had the gall to call seals. Even his 'custom explosive tags' that he designed to take the Kyuubi's chakra were flawed. The timer on them was next to two seconds before detonation, and with the mass of the explosion that really wasn't enough time to get safely away. As far as she was concerned, the only thing she didn't have to reteach him was how to make his own ink and how to write the seals out.

The girl was usually very kind and patient normally, however when she was teaching Naruto fuuinjutsu she was a very harsh taskmaster. Instead of letting him freestyle seals the way that Jiraiya had done from just about day one, letting him get along through trial and error, she had him break down seals that she had put together for him by order of difficulty. Then she would have him do it again under a time limit. She wanted him to be good enough to identify every major nuance of any seal he would come across at naught but a glance, much like she herself was able to. Looking at what Konoha had referred to as seal masters had actually gotten Hamako to laugh. Not smile, not giggle, but full-board laugh uproariously.

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As far as she could see, Kakashi was a hack and a novice and Jiraiya was overrated.

So when Naruto was called into Tsunade's office he figured that this was as good of a break as he was going to get from the grind he was putting himself through on a daily basis.

"What's up baa-chan?" Naruto asked, "And before you even complain about it, if anyone in the entire world has a reason or an excuse to call you baa-chan it's me and you know it." Tsunade's eye twitched. The brat had a point, but she still didn't necessarily have to like it... and she was still his boss, relation or not, "Listen up brat. As you know, the chunin exam is taking place in Suna this time around and the finals are rolling around in about two weeks."

Naruto blinked blankly, "No. No I didn't know that. Why the hell would I know that?" A paperweight to the head was his response, "Gah! That was a reasonable question!"

Tsunade put her hand down with a smirk on her face, satisfied with the throw, "Anyway, I'm taking you and Shizune with me for my security." She pointed towards the black haired woman standing by the desk, waving pleasantly.

Naruto waved back before groaning, "Aww... another escort mission. Fine, whatever, it's an order. And speaking of Suna, where the hell's my money, I gave you the DNA which means I gave them the DNA, why am I not rolling in dough right now?"

"Yes about that." Tsunade said, "They don't feel comfortable transporting that much money themselves so they've laid that responsibility on us to collect, which is another reason that I'm assigning you to my personal guard detail."

"Oh." Naruto looked at her vapidly, "Well thank you then baa-chan. But do you think I'm really your guy in case it all goes down while we're there? Shouldn't you bring someone like Kakashi-sensei, or even Ero-sennin?"

Tsunade let out a laugh, "You don't think you're up for this? You killed a top level missing ninja that had eluded capture for twenty years and destroyed Otogakure bases. You're a jounin in everything but title kid."

"So..." Naruto said somewhat testingly, "Promote me." A grin worked its way onto his face.

Tsunade let a wry grin of her own show, "Maybe later. I'll think about it. Anyway, tie up all of your loose ends Naruto, you're coming with me and Shizune to Suna."

Naruto smirked, "If I yelled road trip out the window at the top of my lungs would you hit me?"

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"Kabuto... what does that make, the fourth or the fifth of my bases that have been hit in the last half year?"

The medic in question adjusted the glasses on his face as he smirked, "The last one that was hit last month makes five Orochimaru-sama. And I think you'll find the person that is responsible for the damage to be extremely interesting." Kabuto placed a video tape in the nearby VCR that revealed Naruto fighting the Curse Seal prisoners in the empty lab, "I guess I do owe him some thanks though. He did free me of the control that Sasori had over me if the buzz over the bounty is anything to be believed."

"Well now isn't that interesting kukukuku? Little Naruto-kun is growing up... It looks like your rival hasn't been losing any steps since you left Konoha has he Sasuke-kun?"

A pair of spinning Sharingan eyes glowed in the dark, "Hn. The dobe is nowhere near my level anymore." His glare grew intense as he saw Naruto easily dispose of his opponents with little effort, "I'll be sure to prove that the next time we meet. He'll never get a victory over me again."

Orochimaru chuckled in the background, "That still remains to be seen Sasuke-kun, perhaps, just maybe Naruto here is more special than you."

Sasuke bared his teeth in the darkness as the Curse Seal ran across his face, "There's nothing special about that loser. And soon I'll finish what we started myself. First him, then Itachi."

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