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Chapter 24 - The Grind

Konohagakure No sato :

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

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

Naruto puts his hands behinds his hands out of habit while grumbling

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

looking back to the desciption of the skill

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

" 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 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 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 taking a deep breath 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 looking at the right hand extended in a fist bumps it with his fist while saying 

" You are gonna have some serious competition "

( Like reallllyyy serious )

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 , 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 and 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 diffrent 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 for 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 embarrising moment , to distract everyone and seeing 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 he was definitly not Gian's equal Physically , with speed and Dynamic Vision and The smooth Taijutsu and + the other Training over these days really did a wonder on him . Looking at Gian working on his legs for Agility .

( It was necessary to wake him up , he hasn't faced a Hyuga or Uchiha in his class and others are less but that may not be 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 he 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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