"Well, I read a book a while ago that talked about personalities and affinities and secondary affinities and how you could learn all of them but would probably never master any of them."
"You read a book?" she asked in surprise.
Naruto looked at her flatly. "Ha, ha, very funny. Yes, I've read a book, a few of them in fact."
"Sorry, you just never struck me as the reading type," she said guiltily.
"Meh, I don't read much but I do read on occasion," he said with a shrug of his shoulders, he really wasn't that bothered by it. "Anyway, training today, how do you want to do this?"
"Um, well I need to practice the genjutsu I learned even if I did learn it instantly."
"Yeah, I can't really train if you're putting me in a genjutsu all day."
"What about one of your clones?" she asked.
"Yeah, that could work," said Naruto. "So same pattern as yesterday then except that you mix in your genjutsu and I'll mix in my new stone skin technique. Sound good?"
"Sounds good," replied Sakura. "Let's get to work."
Naruto created a single clone for her to practice on and then refilled his chakra. That done, he activated the Ishi no Hada for the first time. Naruto watched as a fine layer of rocks crawled up his legs slowly covering his body then seamlessly blending in with his normal skin tone. He moved a few times experimentally and after deciding there was nothing wrong he charged toward the tree he'd used the day before. He could totally do both at the same time.
It didn't take long for Naruto to nearly empty out his large chakra supply. He once again sat down and refilled his chakra depleting his health by over half.
"Hey, can you heal me again?"
"Yeah," said Sakura, wiping her own brow once then sitting to refill her own chakra. She healed him, then herself then went right back to placing genjutsu on the clone.
Naruto wished there was more conversation but he understood that there was work to get done. After three more rounds of draining, charging, and healing the pair took a short break.
"So how many skill levels did you gain?"
"Six for the genjutsu," she answered. "What does gaining a skill level do exactly?"
"Say 'Skills' to find out," said Naruto, pulling out a couple of canteens from his inventory. A few water canteens was something Naruto only recently started carrying around with him regularly. He held one out to Sakura, who absentmindedly accept the water canteen and drank from it while she looked through and studied her skills list.
"This is kind of neat," she said, finally closing the window.
"Yeah, so what did it say about your genjutsu?"
"Oh, well, when I first learned it, the message said the illusion would last 10 seconds and cost 100 CP to use. Now it says it will last 15 seconds but still costs 100 CP."
"That's not too bad. The improvements are usually small, skills don't really make giant leaps in improvement. Still, a few extra seconds goes a long way in a shinobi battle."
Sakura nodded while she put the canteen to her mouth and took a long drink from it.
After they both emptied their canteens they went back to work, the same pattern repeating over and over again until the light of day had begun to fade.
"I think that's enough for today," said Sakura, refilling her chakra one last time to heal herself and then Naruto.
"Okay," said Naruto, walking back down the tree for a final time.
Once on ground level, Naruto dismissed his clone refilling his missing CP since it hadn't used any.
A special skill has been created through a special act.
Due to repeated exposure to genjutsu, a sensing skill 'Detect Genjutsu' Lvl. 1 has been created.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
[Detect Genjutsu]'s level has increased by 1.
"What the fuck?" asked Naruto, blinking several times as he was bombarded with the messages and the nightmarish memories his poor bastard of a clone suffered.
"What is it?" asked Sakura, looking around.
"My clone . . . it learned?" he half asked, half stated.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, when it dispelled, I got a new skill called [Detect Genjutsu] and it gained like 16 levels from you constantly torturing it," he replied.
"I did not torture your clone and do you mean to tell me that your clone can learn stuff and give the memories to you?"
"I will never forgive you for what you did to that clone. No ramen should ever be disrespected so . . . it was just wrong on so many levels," Naruto couldn't restrain the shudder. "As for the clone learning, yeah it did . . . does . . . whatever."
"That is so unfair," griped Sakura.
"I'm so going to abuse the shit out of my clones," said Naruto, grinning happily.
Sakura couldn't help but think about the possibilities. "You could do a lot with that. Even have them practice jutsu if you don't waste too much chakra doing it."
"Fifteen clones doing tree climbing for one minute forty seconds before dispelling equals twenty-five minutes of training in that time period. Add recharge and Sakura heals and I can get an extra seventy-two hours of training per twelve hours training . . . this is going to be epic!"
"Naruto, I'm not going to heal you every minute and a half just so you can train more," stated Sakura crossing her arms.
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