09 - The Bells Training

The other day I've had lost strength and I wasn't sure what was causing it until I realized the following.

"In real life, when you lose weight by reducing your daily caloric intake, you usually lose fat, but you also lose muscle mass because the body doesn't really choose where it gets its energy from."

"Resistance training has greatly increased my caloric expenditure, which means that in addition to losing fat, I have probably lost muscle mass, which is now not even a 'maybe', I have LOST STRENGTH... my goodness, how surprising that theory should be so blatantly thrown in my face as reality" Shin laughed.

"Considering the system doesn't lock me into any status, I'm at my peak right now, so if I want to stay strong I have to keep training, I don't even want to think about what two weeks off can do to my status..."

Aside from the loss of strength, I was also surprised by the absurd increase in my Lightning Bolt Jutsu, I wasn't sure why it had increased in level so much, maybe because it was one of the first times I used it, so I didn't think much about it.

After waking up, I remembered Kakashi's training, I knew very well what was going to happen, but to avoid problems that I had no idea could have consequences, I skipped breakfast and went to the training ground.

At the training camp

There I saw Sasuke, introspective as always, Naruto with a look on his face that cried out for more sleep and Sakura, also sleepy, with a look similar to Naruto's.

After 3 hours and 21 minutes, Kakashi arrived.

"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto, Sakura and Shin shouted poiting him.

"Sorry, a black cat got in the way, so I had to take a shortcut" Kakashi said.

"Well... shall we begin?" Kakashi continued.

I never really understood Kakashi's purpose with these delays, it seemed a bit sloppy, but in any case, one of the most formidable ninjas in the village of leaves was standing in front of us, so I wasn't going to contradict him in any way.

The clock started ticking, Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto ran for cover and I followed.

I played fair with what was expected of a team of 7 ninja, trying to act alone, without the support of the team, so that the canonical event of us feeding Naruto would happen, the only difference being the 3 bells instead of just 2.

At the end of the training, Kakashi offered us a second chance, saying that he would be more firm this time and that Naruto shouldn't eat because he had broken the rules of the training. (GIF)

We eat, Naruto too, I follow the idea of Sasuke and Sakura offering food to Naruto, Kakashi appears in anger and we deliver our speech based on Kakashi's teachings of never abandoning your friends.

In the end... we are accepted.

"Tomorrow, your first mission begins" Kakashi said from afar.

"Eyyy, you forgot me! ! !" Naruto complained from a distance, tied to the log that was stuck in the ground.

Unlike Sasuke and Sakura, I was still nearby eating while everyone followed Kakashi, Sasuke proud of having passed and Sakura probably just there to stay close from Sasuke.

I untied Naruto with a smile on my face and as soon as he felt the knot in his hands loosen, he quickly picked up one of the obentos on the floor and devoured it immediately.

While whe were eating Naruto asked.

"Ey Shin, what are you doing today?"

"Oh... I'll keep training, I want to warm up for tomorrow, we don't even know what the mission is yet, do we?" Shin replied.

"Hmmm... we're going to kick asses on the mission Shin, you'll see" Naruto said confidently and then continued to devour his Obento.

Shin smiled stupidly when he saw Naruto's excitement.

At that moment, he remembered the legacy that Naruto would bring to the Village of Leaf. Hiruzen denied the real problems of the Village of Leaf, it made no sense to leave Naruto alone in the middle of the Village, both in a charitable sense, because he was a lonely orphan boy, and in a political and strategic sense, because he was the bearer of the Nine Tails.

We can't be completely sure of the influence the boy's emotions might have on the Nine-Tailed Seal. To me, this was an extremely risky decision that Hiruzen made, not to mention completely senseless... whether the system wanted it or not... From now on, I had a goal.

"Hey Naruto, do you want to continue training so that we can rub Sasuke's face with our power tomorrow?" I asked.

"Huh?" Naruto hesitated for a moment.

"YES, WE WILL!" Naruto replied excitedly.

It would be great to train with someone else, after seeing my results with Sasuke, it would be great to train with someone else to get better results, I wanted to see how much more I could train with Naruto.

We ate and went to training.

"Naruto, today I need to train more strength and endurance, an easy way to do that is in a one-on-one fight, what about you?"

"Oh, I'm going to train my strength as well... I think... LET'S FIGHT!" Naruto said excitedly.

"AHHHHHH" Naruto runs towards me with his guard wide open and tries to throw a punch.

Using the size of my leg, I kick Naruto in the stomach and he can't reach me to throw the punch.

*Tushh

Naruto is thrown several meters away from me.

"Naruto, you can't just run up to an enemy and hope that they won't do anything" I said.

"If you want to defeat someone, you have to have a strategy... everything works, but to be honest, if you want to come at me head on, at least use your Shadow Clones" I added.

"Ah... ok ok, I'll try" Naruto replied.

"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu"

*Puff

Naruto revealed 8 clones next to him.

"AHHH YOU'RE SCREWED SHIN"

The 8 clones ran towards me.

"You don't learn, do you Naruto..."

"Raiton: Gian (Lightning Bolt)"

Taking advantage of Naruto's advance, I threw my Jutsu into the middle of them, making them disappear.

*Boom!

All the clones disappeared and Naruto, covered in dust from the explosion, said.

"Ouchh Shinn, you didn't tell me you were going to do that!" Naruto complained.

"Naruto, on the battlefield, the enemy doesn't tell you what they can do, you just adapt..." i've replied.

"I'm not that stupid" I added to Naruto, throwing a kunai at my back.

*Tchlak

"Ahhh!" A clone on my back is hit by my kunai.

*Puff

"HOW DID YOU KNOW?" Naruto complains.

"In the training camp against Kakashi, I saw that you used a total of 9 clones in addition to yourself, you had created 8 clones in front of me this time, I knew that one was missing, it didn't look like it, but I was waiting all the time for the last clone to appear, it was the element of surprise." I replied to Naruto.

"Ahh... you are very clever Shin..." Naruto said a bit disappointed.

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Author note 

If we hit 100 power stones by Saturday, I'll post 1 extra chapter

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