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Chapter 25 - The Grind

Konohagakure No sato :

Walking back to the village , Naruto made his way to the training ground while thinking the reason to get such an absurd skill

( Well that was indeed a suicide and technically a Self sacrifice too )

Naruto puts his hands behind his head out of habit and thinks while grumbling

( Kotomatsukami , Mangekyo Sharingan , Shisui's Body flicker , Shishui Sword Arts , fire release , Genjutsu and so much more )

looking back to the description of the skill

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Suicidal Strike - The Final strike powered by the power of Self-sacrifice .

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" Final ...hehe"

( When cornered and death is certain , only then something like this would be used .... let's make sure I will never need to use it )

Looking at the skill Naruto reinforces his belief and heads back to the direction of the training ground for further Grind.

Approaching the training ground , he witnesses the kids still there and gets surprised

( it's almost 2 hours since then , what are they still doing here )

Seeing him approaching the gang of 5 with Ino gets up , And after a while they all approach him . standing across him Gian comes more closer and does the Seal of Reconcilation .

Seeing this Naruto gets surprised and does the same and Gian seeing this speaks up

" Thank you , Naruto "

" ... I think I was being too meddlesome "

hearing the Blonde's answer Gian and others gets surprised , and Gian shouts 

" My Teacher and my father , they both say to not take a shinobi lightly "

hearing this naruto curiously waits for him finish

" I always thought being shinobi will be easy just like in academy and One day I will become Hokage "

Hearing his words and his thoughts , naruto looks at him surprised

" Ino told me you wanted to become Hokage and you train whole day long here but I never trained seriously after playing in academy "

" Gia--"

Gian interrupts Naruto 

" But you proved me today , how a shinobi and someone who wants to be Hokage should be like , Whether in Fight or even thinking , you were not meddlesome but you cared enough to voice out "

hearing Gian's words everyone was silent and Gian shouts again

" Uzumaki Naruto "

" haaa , what is it Goda Gian "

" Do you really want to become Hokage "

" The Greatest of them all "

replied Naruto calmly and his voice's reassurance changes somethings inside all people listening , while Gian takes a deep breath and stands in front of him and stretches his Right hand out 

" Good , Then I Goda Gian will become The Right Hand of the Greatest Hokage "

hearing this Gian's friends gets surprised especially knowing his Stubbornness of admitting defeat. Even Ino standing further away gets surprised .

( I thought he was gonna say something about Rivals or something )

Meanwhile Naruto looks at the right hand extended in a fist bump , 

While fist bumping Gian , Naruto says

" You are gonna have some serious competition "

( Like reallllyyy serious ....like Indra's Reincarnation )

mentally musing himself both him and Gian gets surprised to find another fist bumping and a slit eyed boy Suneo speaking

" Someone need to care things in the back while you both run forward , I guess "

before saying anything a petite fist bums and a soft voice calls out 

" When you are down and tired , someone needs to heal and take care of you too , My prince "

Ino walks over and also speaks up

" well leave the Intelligence to me , I am definitly gonna take over my dad's office"

and finally the Megane walks over and declares 

" Someone need to use all your positions to slack off too , count me in too "

hearing the stupid kids stupid talk Naruto somehow feels giddy inside because 

( Do they really believe that I can become Hokage or is it just Kage's Charisma working )

Getting trusted and believed , even from a bunch of kids , a different kind of fire burned inside Naruto as he shouts 

"oooooooooooooh"

"ooooooooh"X6

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Hokage office :

Looking downwords from his office window and hearing the little leaf sprouts dreams and goals , The Hokage remembers his own Academy days and dreams he and his friends once had .

( Am I really the same Hokage as I once dreamed about )

Having journeyed this far and being Hokage far more than any Hokage , the accomplishment , The mistakes , The regrets .

The Hokage walks back to the seat and sits down

( If Only I can go back ..... even once )

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Jonin Commander office :

Looking at the kids and Konoha's future ,The Nara finally made a decision that he was wavering about before .

Walking back to his table he picked up an old document goes out of the Hokage Building and heads back to the clan .

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Training Ground :

After that fist bump , it seems like everyone wants to forget that emabarrasing moment , to distract everyone and seeing there is still a lot of time before evening Naruto suggests training.

The Gang also curiously follows his Training Regime while a certain blonde's Ponytail deflates comically .

Basic Weighted Training

Taijutsu 

Leaf sticking exercise with more than 10 leaves sticking around body

Kunai sparring

Shuriken throwing

basic 3 body exercises 

and other tricks that Naruto realized in his previous session

while Others were busy , Naruto finally takes time to review himself and his Spar

( Internal strength is such a cheat , it feels like accelerated learning + improved focus , running 24/7 . it's slow and gradual process but works all the time )

Even though Naruto was definitly not Gian's equal Physically , with speed and Dynamic Vision and The smooth Taijutsu + the other Training over these days .

All of that really did a wonder on him . Looking at Gian working on his legs for Agility .

( It was necessary to wake him up , Gian hasn't faced a Hyuga or Uchiha in his class and others are less talented in his class but that may not be the same later , Ninjutsu is the key , A single body flicker will give edge to all Shinobi vs A pure Taijutsu Ninjas )

Even Guy needed to open gates to keep up against that kind of advantage . Walking back Naruto decided to focus their training towards Speed , substitution and Chakra control .

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Konohagakure no sato:

Konoha Academy :

Exclusive Training ground -

It's been a week since the spar with Gian and except for training himself , Naruto has been looking for new skill to sign-in during the grueling training.

This week the places he signed in were :

Herb store 

Pharmacy

Beauty salon

Over-head Water Tower 

Konoha Aviary

Except for these , Naruto signed the skill buffs for the remaining two day Accelarated training ( 12 hours ) and Rejuvenation ( 8 hours ) .

The skills he got were 

 

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