Ino, stood stiffly then walked away from the field, trying to maintain even a little dignity and failing miserably when she tripped over divot in the ground.
"So, hunting?" asked Naruto, grinning happily.
"I'm done," said Shikamaru. "That was almost too much for today. I think I'm going to go cloud watching for the rest of today."
"Okay, Shika, see you," said Naruto cheerfully.
"I'm out too," said Chouji.
"I would but I really want to study this scroll," said Sakura, hugging her new technique scroll.
"How about you, Hinata?" asked Naruto, smiling in as friendly a manner as he could.
Hinata though turned bright red and fainted.
"Not again," groaned Naruto.
"I'll get her home," said Sakura, trying to withhold a giggle of amusement. "You go have fun hunting."
"Yeah, sure, I'll go keep myself busy elsewhere," said Naruto. He didn't really want to try hunting by himself, it just wasn't as fun and he didn't want to repeat any of the other fields so off to Ichiraku's it was.
You have slept in your bed. HP & CP are fully restored.
Naruto awoke feeling refreshed the next morning. While his peaceful relaxing weekend plan may have gone to crap, he was only too happy for all that he accomplished.
Bouncing out of bed, he started off his morning as usual, hygiene and breakfast followed by his daily quests, something he rushed through to get done to make it to his team meeting on time.
The team met at their usual spot on one of the small bridges not too far from the Hokage's tower.
Sasuke was sharpening the blade of his sword. Sakura was buried in a medical text with the scroll she got the previous day sitting next to her, partially unraveled.
"Yo," greeted Naruto, mimicking Kakashi's normal greeting.
"Hn," grunted Sasuke, barely glancing at him.
"Morning, Naruto," greeted Sakura, also barely looking at him. She was really into her text.
Naruto sat down with his teammates to wait on their sensei. The man arrived within a few minutes so it wasn't a very long wait.
"Yo," greeted Kakashi, causing Naruto to giggle a little while the other two just rolled their eyes. "Anyway, let's go get a mission."
Naruto followed along, a bored look on his face. These D-Rank mission were pure monotony. Today they ended up chopping fire wood for a farmer on the outskirts of town. The only major upside was Naruto gaining a level at the end of the mission.
Congratulations! Your level has increased by 1.
Naruto ended up smiling the rest of the day after that, regardless of Sasuke dominating him in their taijutsu spar yet again. The guy was fast as hell and seemed to be able to counter anything Naruto threw at him. However, when Naruto did manage to hit him it was totally worth the pain he suffered to make it happen.
After they all sparred for a while it was back to tree climbing. A standard routine, even after just two weeks as a team. It was long and exhausting and very uninteresting. Still, it gave Naruto the time he needed to improve all his skills.
Naruto returned to the academy training field after the day's team activities ended. He had bonus points to earn. It didn't actually take very long to achieve the points either, he'd really got the hang of it by now. But that left him looking at his stats again. He had way more dexterity than strength and with the way Sasuke was able to speed around him he needed to increase his speed and to do that he needed to balance his strength some with his dexterity. With that in mind, Naruto dumped all seven points he had left over into his strength.
Having plenty of daylight left to burn, Naruto stopped in at Higurashi's.
"Hello, Naruto," greeted Hiten, seeing Naruto enter his shop.
"What's up, old man?" returned Naruto, smiling at the old man.
"Same old, what can I do for you today?"
"Just browsing, got done early today so . . . here I am," answered Naruto, shrugging.
"You ever make any storage scrolls with those supplies you bought?"
"Not yet, why?"
"Well, if you ever have any to spare, I'll buy them from you if they are good enough. My last supplier of storage scrolls died in a fuinjutsu accident and none of my other suppliers can keep up with the demand."
Naruto's eyes widened slightly. He was suddenly very thankful for his gamer skill making accidents like that nearly impossible. "So, how much are we talking about here?"
"500 Ryo per grade 1 scroll, more for the higher grade stuff."
"Done," said Naruto. "I'll make some up for you, no problem."
"Great," replied Hiten. "Now, anything else I can get you?"
"More supplies then. I'll take one hundred blank scrolls and fifty bottles of ink," said Naruto.
"That's a lot of scrolls," said Hiten.
"So, I'll use them all," said Naruto, still grinning.
"I'll be right back then," said Hiten. The man moved into the back of his shop.
Naruto could hear the sound of boxes being moved and shifted from the back room. He took a little time to explore some of the weapons on display. They were all very nice but not really his style. He also noted none of them were made with chakra conductive metal according to his observe skill.
"Here you go brat," said Hiten, setting two large boxes on the counter.
"Hey, I noticed you don't have any charka conductive weapons out here, do you have them somewhere else?"
"Yep," answered Hiten, suddenly cold to Naruto.
"Can I see them?"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"I like you kid, but I don't like you that much. Those weapons are extremely expensive and even more valuable, maybe if you prove yourself a bit more, someday I might consider letting you take a look at the reserve stock. Understood?"
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