YOUTHFULLY

Sakura had been worried that even by asking Gai to avoid pure strength training, he'd still have her running everywhere on her hands, but he was a surprisingly good teacher.

"Miss Haruno, you keep wasting power when you run. It's most unyouthful. We're going to have to build it up from basics, I'm afraid."

Sakura wasn't sure why Gai had a spandex exactly in her size, but the fact they'd gone through twelve almost identical pink suits before finding the perfect fit hinted that he had a very large collection. Or a very confusing jutsu. "Why do we need to focus on running? Is that really going to help my taijutsu?"

"Speed and power are the most basic basics of taijutsu. If this were ninjutsu, you have not yet learnt to even properly mold your chakra. That is something you know much about, hm?"

Chakra molding was something that was taught before any technique in ninja schools. Children who were part of ninja clans learnt it from childhood. Sakura, ever the studious type, had spent a massive amount of time practising them in an attempt to catch up to the other students. She didn't believe she had much of a gift for control, but she did have the stubbornness to perform incredibly boring exercises until her control exceeded most anyone around her.

"Why would you think that?"

"You are more similar to Lee than you might think, miss Haruno. You threw yourself into academia and control, he threw himself into taijutsu. The fires of youth burn fiercely in both of you."

"I feel like I should start yelling 'Gai' right about now."

"We'll get there, miss Haruno. Now, let's align your legs a little better."

Naruto had never been quite so glad to have a technique that let him dry his clothes. The tattered remains of water balloons surrounded him, a single full one in his hand. It soon broke, joining its shredded brethren on the ground. He slumped back, annoyed.

Hinata looked over as she finished the last of Naruto's clones.

"Would you like to take a break?" She called over to him.

"You're doing harder stuff than I am, so if you want to, sure." Hinata sat down next to him. The grass surrounding Naruto was dried and withered, yet still green. A side effect of repeatedly using the drying technique.

"What's the point of the water balloons?" Hinata sat a little awkwardly, not really sure how close she should get to Naruto.

Naruto, having no such uncertainty, leant back against her. "I don't really know. Pervy sage told me it'd help with some super-powerful attack. It's like, the hardest control technique I've ever heard of. Even in the library scrolls. I'm meant to be able to contain enough power to destroy a rubber ball inside the balloon without breaking it."

Hinata melted into him a litte, sighing in happiness. "Have you considered doing some other control exercises? Easier things to get you better prepared."

Naruto shrugged. "I'm not sure what else there is to try. I can already walk on water while sticking leaves to me. I don't really need to think about it to do it. Any Hyuga things that might help?"

Hinata frowned. "Not directly. I noticed something last night though, with the Byakugan. When your eyes went red and you got all..." she shivered a little, remembering the pleasure of the night before. "Anyway, I saw that your chakra was significantly rougher. If you tapped into that, it might make the easier exercises more difficult. Master them like that, and you should find the water balloon exercise much easier."

"Soooo, make it harder now to make it easier later?"

"That's the size of it."

Naruto nodded thoughtfully. "One problem. I don't know how to access that without Kurama's help. And he said he wasn't gonna help."

"Well, I mean," Hinata was blushing furiously, "If we recreate the situation from last night, we might be able to."

Naruto blinked a couple of times. "Oh, that might work." He immediately started stripping.

"Wait, just like that? No mmph-" Hinata was silenced as Naruto's mouth crashed into hers. One hand reached out to grope her breast, the other slipping inside her shorts to caress her cunt. When he pulled back from the kiss, his eyes were a deep, slitted, crimson. Hinata's chest was heaving, her cheeks flushed. "It, uh, it worked."

Naruto made a cross with his hands. A couple hundred clones popped into existence around him. He turned to survey them. "Go work it out. You," he pointed to the closest clone, "stay."

The assembled nude Narutos went to grab leaves, while Naruto prime and the lucky clone stayed behind. Hinata gulped nervously. "You'll give me a threesome fetish if you aren't careful, you know."

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Guess I shouldn't be careful then." He looked up at his clone. "You take the mouth, I'll take her pussy."

"Aye aye captain." Came the lazy response.

The clone grabbed Hinata's head and manoeuvered it closer to her crotch. She opened her mouth eagerly as his cockhead got closer. At the same time, Naruto pulled down her shorts. She was already a little wet, but Naruto dove in with his mouth, probing with his tongue and bringing his hand to meet her clit.

Her moan was cut off midway as the clone thrust into her mouth, soon evening out into long, deep thrusts. Her throat began twitching as the clone fucked it deeply, pleasured moans emanating whenever she had a chance to breathe.

Content with the foreplay, Naruto stood up behind her. He gave her ass a slap, then hilted his cock in her in a single thrust. He started fucking her for real, speeding up until he matched pace with his clone. Hinata was a drooling mess, arms and legs having long given out under her, and she was supported only by the two dicks fucking her ruthlessly. When she came, the writhing of her cunt was matched by her throat, heightening the two Naruto's pleasure even more.

The Narutos had not yet cum, however, and by the time they pumped Hinata's stomach and cunt full of their semen she was a bleary, giggling mess. The two turned and found some leaves to join the rest of the crowd in trying to develop their technique.

Sakura's training was significantly less erotic than that of the other two. She was walking through her paces, very very slowly. Gai would stop her if he saw a fault in her technique. Finally, she managed a lap around the field without being corrected once. She looked at him expectantly.

"Excellent! Nine more and we can speed it up a little." Gai flashed her a thumbs up and a grin.

Sakura groaned. "Nine more?"

"In a row."

"In a row? Why?"

"If you do something right ten times in a row one day, you'll be able to do it at least once the next. This is taijutsu, miss Haruno. Do you think if Lee had anything less than perfect technique, he would have been able to withstand as youthful a training as he went through?"

Having seen how heavy Lee's training weights were, Sakura wasn't sure technique was really all that went into being able to do something like that. She could understand that it would certainly help, though. "Fine, then. Nine more it is."

Sakura focused fiercely, making sure that each movement was exactly as Gai had specified. Finally, after the mentally gruelling experience of walking round a field, she looked up at Gai, triumphant.

Gai was crying. "Such focus. How youthful!"

Sakura sighed. "So can we speed it up now?"

Gai wiped away a tear. "Soon, I'd like you to do one thing first. Run, fast as you can, while keeping all that technique in mind. Just from here to the end of the field and back again."

Sakura wasn't sure why he was asking this, but any excuse to break the monotony was welcome. She turned on her heel, and focusing on her legs began to sprint towards the end of the field. She was rather surprised at how quickly she found herself in front of the trees at the other end. She'd been expecting an infinitesimal improvement. What had happened was that the time it took was cut in half. She turned back to Gai and sprinted back, seeing a similar speed.

"And that, miss Haruno, is why we focus on technique."

Sakura grinned fiercely. She had a reason to try now. This was going to be a mental battle more than a physical one, and mental battles were what she excelled at.

It was a tired trio who met back up at Naruto's apartment that night, all with their own stories to tell.

"You got two of him fucking you?"

"You spent the entire day learning to walk?"

"You chose to be trained by Gai?"

"What happened with the chakra?"

The Fox's chakra had been so difficult to control that trying to stick any leaves to Naruto had resulted in them being destroyed. Even using shadow clones, Naruto had only managed to leave the leaves torn instead of dissolved. Nevertheless, had been a great help with the balloon though, Naruto was able to hold it for a couple more seconds before it ruptured completely.