Sage mode and training with Gai sensei

It has been a week, Naruto is searching for Gai sensei but he was not able to found. After asking around, he found that Gai is on a mission outside the village with his team.

He just trained with the Transformation technique. This technique despite being a basic technique is a divine skill. Every transformation comes with advantages and disadvantages. More detail you know about the target, more perfect the transformation.

For example, changing into a snake gives you extra perception towards heat and smell. There is no poison skill. Need some time to adjust in the snake body to use it as his own body.

Other than this, he just experimented with nature chakra. There is no nature chakra regeneration for him. He needs to absorb it through meditation. He can't use it for ninjutsu but can be used for taijutsu. Today is the day try the sage mode.

Naruto started with controlling a little of both chakras and try to mix them together. Due to near-perfect chakra control, it is a piece of cake. Slowly all the chakra is mixed and converted in the Senjutsu chakra.

*Ding, A new skill Sage Mode is generated.

Sage Mode(active) - This skill uses the Senjutsu chakra. No time limit. Increases perception by 5 times. Increases strength and agility by 2 times. Increases Jutsu attack by 3 times. Increases HP regeneration by 2 times.

*Ding, New perk unlocked.

Sage Body(passive) - Increase in affinity to nature. Passively absorbs nature chakra. Increase in perception, strength, vitality.

"Wow, this is a surprise. Now, I can use sage mode whenever I want. If I fight smart then I can fight for a long time too. Now, I should use this advantage to find its other uses like medical Jutsu or cooking."

If he can use nature chakra in cooking to revitalize the target then physical training will be so much more effective. People won't be able to find what he is using since not everyone can sense nature chakra.

He at once uses the sage mode and starts cooking to see what he can make using the cooking skill LV85 and medicines bought yesterday using transformation. He bought these herbs using observe LV(Max) on them and seeing what they can do.

Today's menu is medicated chicken soup. He started cooking the chicken first. His movements were very beautiful and experienced. It took him about an hour to complete soup as well as some side dishes.

He used the observe skill on the cooked food.

*Ding, The medicated Chicken

Quality - excellent

Excellent food by a grandmaster cook with medicine and infused Senjutsu chakra.

Increase HP and SP regeneration. It helps to heal internal injuries and muscle damage.

"Looks like I was right. Senjutsu is good for medical purposes. I will be cooking from now on for both me and Hinata."

Now he just needs to find some more ninjutsu to increase his arsenal. Training to clone technique to the max and get some more clones techniques. He also needs to train chakra nature change, now that he has Sage mode he can train without worrying about losing a lot of HP.

Until Gai sensei comes back, I can only help Hinata train in chakra control and body strength. she is really try hard and slowly losing her shyness. She can easily fight while standing on trees or water. She also getting the hang of her clan techniques. It looks it was her low confidence preventing her from mastering those techniques.

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Finally, he found Gai sensei. He now just have to find a way to convince him to teach me. He approaches him slowly.

"Hello, are you by any chance Gai Sensei, the strongest Taijutsu user?"

"Yes, I am a green beast of Konoha, Maito Gai. Who are you and how do you know about me?"

"I am Naruto, the future Hokage. I heard about you from your eternal rival Kakashi sensei when I asked him about who is the best Taijutsu teacher in Konoha."

"Yes, Kakashi is my eternal rival. So you want to learn Taijutsu."

"Yes, Gai sensei. My classmate and I are very poor at Taijutsu."

"I can't teach you as I have my own team to teach but you can train with Lee and me."

"Thank You Gai sensei. We won't waste your time and teaching. Also, I will provide the best medicinal food for lunch as a thank you."

"You don't have to do it. You can train with us from. now on. Come at this place after academy to start training."

"Can I start training today."

"Yes, that's the burning youth."

He started doing push-ups with Lee. Today he will be doing the training alone.

The next day, he brings Hinata with him to training grounds. Training with Gai sensei is harsh but effective. He judges our physique from just few exercises and adjusts our training accordingly. They train till we are sweating buckets and then take a break. He takes a sealing scroll from his backpack. He opens the scroll in his front and unseals the food he made in the morning. He serves the food to everyone to eat and replenish our energy. Everyone started eating while Gai sensei and Lee have comical expressions.

"Oh, this food is amazing. I can feel the power of youth erupting from my body by just eating it." Gai sensei.

"Yesss, Gai sensei. My body is bursting from energy." Lee.

"Yosh, Let's start the training again Lee. We can't waste the power of youth." Gai.

Hinata and Naruto ignore them. Naruto already told her about the duo and their antics.

And that's how the gruesome training with Gai started. Naruto can see his stats rising fast and the same can be said for his taijutsu skills. Hinata is making progress fast. Her strength and agility rising rapidly while Gai pointing mistakes in her stances. The mock battles with Lee and sometimes with Gai are most exciting as progress can be seen in the most direct view.

Naruto trains his skills in ID at night. The Clone technique is now LV98. The last level before it hit the max. It uses less chakra and more perfect that it is very difficult to see between the clone and original.