Naruto's eyes gleamed and Kushina smiled as she took out a scroll and unsealed two pieces of paper. Naruto stared at them intently and turned to his mother.
Kushina picked up the two pieces of paper and slapped one on Naruto's arm. She then slapped the other on his left leg and channeled chakra into each of them. As soon as she did Naruto slammed into the ground like he felt Gamabunta was sitting on him.
"Kaa-san this...is...heavy," Naruto struggled to say and Kushina nodded. She really didn't want to see her son struggle, but she knew it would him him in the long run.
"These are training weights that I made. I am a pretty good seal master if I do say so myself. Right now, you don't have the required speed to do my taijutsu or my kenjutsu. When you reach an appropriate speed the color of the paper will change. Right now it's white and the appropriate speed is navy blue," Kushina said and Naruto widened his eyes. He was supposed to move like this until his seals change color?
"Kaa-san this is evil," Naruto said and Kushina chuckled.
"You said you wouldn't complain Naru-kun," Kushina said and Naruto sighed. He merely nodded and strained his body to get up. Kushina watched the blonde get up and it amazed her that Naruto was already on his feet. When she tried it for the first time she couldn't even get up for about half an hour, but Naruto was already up. The sight only served to make Kushina smile at her son more.
"Well for now, we'll have your body get accustomed to wearing those seals for the days. You won't be completely adjusted to the seals for a few days or even weeks, but it'll serve to make you stronger," Kushina said and walked off. Naruto watched his mother leave and he gasped. She really wanted to kill him, but Naruto didn't let that get him down. He tried to look at the positive. He would be wicked strong when this was all over and he would have his mother to thank for it. Not to mention that Shin wanted to turn him into a human shinigami. He wondered what kind of techniques he would be learning, but first he had to walk back to his room.
"Well Brat, you've gotten into a weird situation," Kyuubi chuckled and Naruto sighed. He knew he was going to hear his tenant sometime and he knew that Kyuubi was gonna laugh at him.
"It's not funny. Man this is hard," Naruto said as he trudged through the plains back to the town where they were staying. Each step was like moving a damn boulder with his body.
"Forward and march Kit! Hup, two, three, four. Hup, two, three, four," Kyuubi said sounding like a drill sergeant smiling all the way as he talked. Naruto grunted his pain. He would give anything to get this heaviness off of him.
As the blonde walked, he came up to the site were his mother had kicked his ass all those times. He saw his sword still on the ground and the blonde narrowed his eyes. He quickly reached for his sword and tried to get it off the ground, but the combined weight of the seals and the sword made it even harder for Naruto to pick up. Naruto steeled his nerves and pulled with all his might and finally he managed to bring his sword to his hands. Naruto looked at the sword and the blonde sighed.
"The hardest part is knowing is to find the equal parts to both strength and speed,"
Naruto remembered his mother's words and narrowed his eyes. If he was going to adjusted to the seals then he would have to do it now. He came on this training trip to do just that...train and he was going to.
Naruto crossed his fingers and the fire burned in his eyes.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," Naruto yelled and made ten clones. The blonde took his sword into his hands and struggled to raise it, but when he did he turned to all his clones and waved his hands.
"Bring it on," Naruto said and all his clones charged at him. He wouldn't lose to Sasuke, he wouldn't be considered the dobe anymore. He would change and he would show them all the new him.