Chapter 20: New Day

Konohagakure no sato :

Uzumaki apartment :

Waking up before Alarm-clock's annoying ringing and feeling accomplished . naruto goes through morning routine and heads on his way towards the new target.

Today's Target is the Civilian parks scattered around Konoha , But his target is the biggest park in Konoha near east gate and also near civilian zone .

Konoha has his own different zones , the main gate is at south and the Hokage rock , Hokage office are at far North , together with Academy and other departments near west and east .

The West is mainly Shinobi Zone with clans and Shinobi quarters , The Dead Forest is also at Far west , east is mainly civilian side with mostly divided between civilians and noble's families.

As A military nation of Land of Fire , Konoha also provides the most security to these nobles from Assasination attempts , not just Daimyo's wife but other Noble's family members also stay here time to time .

Around the Main gate between east & west is Shopping district and other common things and today Naruto is going to the park in southeast direction , the biggest one for civilians , not a training ground .

There are also quite a few in shinobi district and other places but technically they are all park nothing to do with Ninja stuff. After 15 minutes of time Naruto finally reached his destination.

( sign-in )

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Ding !

Sign in Location - Konoha Park

Sign in Reward - Happy Mood ( 12 hours )

Happy mood - Positive and in Tip-top shape .

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( Now what is this )

Getting his Skill , Naruto joggs further inside the park while pondering on the second half desciption of the skill

( Is it like When Athletes are in Form and in tip-top condition )

Naruto did feel getting a little good & happy walking along , the chirping of birds and the morning dew touching his skin , puts Naruto in jovial mood as he furthers down , Naruto also found it easy to maintain his breathing rhythm .

But then Naruto sees a comical sight, a Kid in green abdomination bodysuit doing a squat walk with both hands behind his back .

" 125 , 126 , 127...."

hearing and seeing it with his own eyes , realisation downs on him

( Rock Lee , has he already met Might Guy )

jogging beside him Naruto slows down and decided to mess with him

" Good morning 340 "

" Good morning 341 , 342 ....wait what "

Lee forgetting his count looks and saw the blonde stopping and looking at him , Lee decided to take things stupidly positive way and continues

" yoshss let me burn my youth by counting again "

seeing him seriously doing it again , naruto decided to do the same also catches up and starts doing jumping squat walk beside him

" 2 , 3 , 4,... "

hearing someone else beside him , Lee looked and gets surprised by the Boy joining him in his morning exercise instead of usual laugh and ridicule , Lee continues his training but Tears of youth already started gathering in his eyes .

Push-ups , pull-ups , running laps around park , 1 hour goes by when Naruto decided to prepare for Ichiraku but before leaving Naruto decided to introduce himself

" hufff I am Uzumaki Naruto "

hearing the introduction by the blonde boy , Lee jumps and also does the same

" yosh The name is Rock Lee , Naruto-kun let's burn our youth together with another 500 pull-ups "

" ....At this time , I work at ichiraku Lee , But you can find me at Academy later , I will still come here tomorrow the same "

" yosh , such harworking youth Naruto-kun , then let's meet here tomorrow "

Bidding Lee farewell , Naruto runs back to his Apartment , takes a bath , give water to plants and then heads to Ichiraku .

Looking at the energetic Naruto , Both Teuchi and Ayame sighed in relief .

( He has been quite stressed for the last 2 days ) Uncle Teuchi

Getting the work done , Naruto heads back to the Academy and goes to Admin area and gets his Ration bars for today , while chewing it , Naruto heads to Library only to find Ino engrossed at a table while reading a book.

Not disturbing her , Naruto sits across her and started fighting his own Battle .

Ino stirs up after more than 10 minutes and gets surprised seeing Naruto sitting and frowning , looking down she saw last year's math textbook , she smirks and says

" hehe want help "

looking up Naruto asked back

" what's so interesting on your side "

Ino shifts the Basic Intelligence gathering and related T&I books , seeing Naruto reading the title , she replies

" It's so interesting how some minor things tell about whole person , the things we overlook sometimes tell a lot , especially the environment , their little habit , cloths and every other things "

Hearing Ino , Naruto feels the chill and thinks

( Should I keep my distance from The future Intelligence Division Head )

Seeing the clock approaching 1 PM , He decided to head to Training ground and also end this conversation

" Good for you then , I am heading to the Training Ground , now do you wanna come "

At this Ino also follows his gaze toward clock and speaks

" yup let's go "

getting up they both head outside the library under the gaze of a scary Baba.

" what's wrong with that Librarian "

" definitely you , she treats me gently "

" No way ,.....wait you are lying "

" haha"

Heading inside the academy , different from the usual training ground , Ino didn't immediately ask but curiouly looks towards the new surroundings.

Approaching the new Training Ground Ino asks

" What's up with this place "

" My usual training place without any disturbence "

" hoh "

( Does he not want to be disturbed or does he not want others to be disturbed because of him ) getting out of her thoughts Ino asks

" So how do you train "

" Mainly 3 Academy Ninjutsu , Chakra control exercises and basic taijutsu around that dummy and Basic Body-building "

" Is there anything more to learn in basic 3 ninjutsu "

" Well I am planning to see if i can reduce the hand-seals while performing it "

Ino asks in wonder

" Can one even do that , isn't hand-seals necessary for jutsu "

" Enough chakra-control can do it , I already only need only 1 less hand-seal while performing Body-replacement Jutsu "

Naruto replies remembring his level 2 Body-replacement jutsu when Ino asks

" Really , show-me show-me"

Hearing the demand , naruto in happy mood takes some distance and performs the jutsu with only 4 hand-signs and displaced himself to the left with a log.

" Here "

" woooow , And it just needs chakra control like that sticking leaves exercise "

" yup "

( 'just' she said , it took a whole month with a cheat , Kakashi only uses one hand-sign though )

" Come-on let's go .....wait , can you do other jutsu's too "

" Only Body-replacement with less hand-signs , it's not that easy Ino"

" Not that , Before you can't even perform Clone and Transformation jutsu in academy , now you are saying you can perform all 3 , how "

Ino asks in wonder and remembers the old iconic dead-last Uzumaki Naruto of 1st year

( no it's just a over month of holidays in between )

hearing Ino's question Naruto replies

" I trained of course , what else..."

seeing the speechless and deadpan look , Ino sticks her tongue out and finally begins to start training with Naruto

( It should be easy since even Naruto can do it )

Thinking to herself Ino starts following Naruto and begins the hellroad Unknowingly

"Noooooooooooo "

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The Hokage office :

Drinking Tea with his friend Shikaku , Inoichi talks about his circumstance when near 3 PM , he hears his precious daughters wailing somewhere

"Noooooooooooooooooooooo"

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