ReTurn

Chapter 11:

The Forest of Chakra and Sexual Innuendos

Team 7 stood in the middle of a clearing, surrounded by tall trees, the three genin standing in a circle in front of their sensei, who was using crutches to support his sprained ankle.

"Now that we have moved on from teamwork, I can now teach you how to climb trees," Kakashi said.

Sasuke spoke up,"Wait, so if we never learned teamwork, then you would have never taught us anything?"

"Yes, anyways-"

"But Kakashi-sensei," Naruto interrupted. "I already know how to climb trees! I thought you were gonna teach us something new!"

"Yes, I know, but-"

"Baka, he means without using our hands," Sakura exposed to Naruto.

"Yes," Kakashi finally broke in with an authoritative voice, trying not to show how irritated he was from being interrupted multiple times. "Sakura is correct. Today, I'm actually gonna teach you chakra control."

Naruto cheered,"Yeah! Catra!"

"It's chakra, Dobe," Sasuke corrected him.

"Ah," Sakura agreed. "Come on, Naruto, we learned this in the Academy."

"I knew that...what's chakra?"

Sakura and Sasuke rolled their eyes.

"Again, we learned this in the Academy, but I'll explain it to you anyway." Sakura said.

"Chakra is the center of our energy, an even combination of our physical and spiritual energy," she explained. "Chakra is essential to even the most basic techniques. Through various methods, the most common being hand seals, chakra can be controlled and manipulated to create an effect that would not be possible otherwise, such as walking on water, exhaling fire, and creating illusions. Chakra is ordinarily not visible to the unaided eye unless it's highly concentrated or manifested in large amounts."

Then Sakura mumbled quietly, "But not everyone can use it." It wasn't directed to any of them, but Kakashi and Sasuke, being the closest to her, raised an eyebrow in question.

Kakashi brushed that comment aside and nodded. "Thank you, Sakura, for that elaborate explanation. So, taking what she said into account, you can manipulate your chakra to the soles of your feet and walk up the tree. Like this," he said.

He took a moment to focus his chakra to his feet, making the gennin look at him curiously.

"It's impossible, Kakashi-sensei," Naruto grumbled.

Kakashi defended, "Nothing is impossible, Naruto. The word literally says 'I'm possible'."

Then he turned around to put a foot on the trunk behind him, then the other, and taking casual steps up the trunk. He walked higher and higher, making the kids crane their necks up at him, gawking(mostly Naruto and Sasuke), as he continued to level up the trunk foot by foot. He broke off from the trunk and he walked on a thick branch from upside down.

"Su-sugoi," Naruto gaped before he grinned and clenched a fist, a determined look in his eyes. "I so gotta try that!"

"Yeah, now," Kakashi said from his spot upside down on the branch. He took out three of his kunai and threw each one at the ground near the gennin's feet. "Take these kunai, and mark the spot on the tree where you stop." Kakashi pushed off the branch and gently landed back in front of them, careful of his injury.