BSNW CH 037 Training time - 1

Leaving the Hokage Office , Jun wandered around a bit in the village, searching for a suitable place to develop various ideas flowing through his mind. Wandering about he coincidentally reached Nazuna's shop. He entered and saw a medium aged uncle sleeping with his head down at the shop. Jun was surprised since Neither Nazuna or Hinoki was present, he had thought the shop would be closed. He went and pressed the bell at the counter.

"Haaghhubah?!!" The man was startled and fell back due to the sudden jerk of being woken up. With a crash of a few more ninja equipment , he woke up. Looking pissed at being woken up he looked about and saw Jun by the bell.

"Damn brat! What is the meaning of this? Don't you have any respect for your elders?!" The man shouted at Jun in annoyance.

"An elder who sleeps at shop counter instead of managing customers? No, I have no respect for such elders." Jun retorted in return.

"Hmph… what would a brat like you know. I wasn't sleeping, I was… searching for new forging ideas. Yeah .. that's what I was doing you see!" The man found an excuse and tried to convince Jun that .

"Oh idea for forging, so you own this shop and are a blacksmith?" Jun

"Yes" The man's eyes changed when forging was mentioned. There was a subtle passion which could be seen when he spoke of it. Jun determined that this guy was true blacksmith , not a pretender.

"Do you know Nazuna and Hinoki? I … ehh ?!" Jun was forced to stop and retreat suddenly because on mentioning Nazuna and Hinoki, the man suddenly attacked Jun with a Kunai, which was more extended than a regular Kunai, almost looking like a Short-sword.

'What the heck is this idiotic uncle doing?!' Jun panicked at the attacked filled with killing intent directed towards him. He dodged a few by side stepping, moving towards the inner part of the shop towards the practice range Nazuna had once shown him.

'Hmm?' On noticing that the the practice area was near, the uncle too directed his moves, forcing Jun in that direction. He thought it was a coincidence that the boy chose to move there. As soon as the uncle crossed the door way, Jun teleported himself behind him using a mark he secretly left during entering. Gathering nature chakra in his body and strengthening himself, He attacked the uncle with palms outstretched.

'Twin Shock wave palms' Jun used a Taijutsu move he developed using Nature Energy strengthened body. Usually he didn't use this since most of his fights were do or die situation. However he dint wanna kill this weird uncle even though it was annoying how he was keeping on attacking without explaining himself. Chakra induced shock-wave was generated from the point of contact of Jun's palms and the back of the uncle. The shock-wave threw the uncle forward and the Kunai was thrown out of his hand . Jun caught the Kunai and stayed in the battle ready pose.

"Oww! Kid are you for real? Hinoki told me you are not one to messed to be messed with but to this degree. Ow Ow Ow!!" The uncle groaned and exclaimed while rubbing his back. Jun was sure that there would be bruises forming there soon. He had not held back too much, just enough to make sure it wont be a killing blow. But he also doubted this guy would die so easily. He wasn't all that he appeared.

"What else was I supposed to do when a pervert leaps at you with a blade?" Jun exclaimed

"Who are you calling a pervert?!" The uncle gasped in astonishment.

"No one apart from you is here." Jun calmly retorted back.

"You.. You!!" The uncle pointed at Jun red faced, but then left the practice area with a humph while softly wincing with each moment. Jun followed him back to the store counter.

"Lets talk then brat. What do you need?"

"Actually I hadn't planned anything. I might be going to a few dangerous places soon so I just wanted to be prepared." Jun

"You will have to pass a test before that."

"Is kicking your ass not enough ?"

"You just were lucky you brat. I wasn't prepared enough. Anyway if you want something good to be made for you here, you will have to pass my test." The uncle told Jun

"Why do you think I would want anything made from you?" Jun asked back "There are many others in this village. In fact there is an awesome shop of one of my acquaintances." Jun said remembering about Tenten's Family. The were a whole family of blacksmiths.

"Well of course you can. However just so that you know, I taught Nazuna her craft." Jun went silent on hearing this . he knew Nazuna's prowess with blacksmith techniques and her taste of unusual weapons. Seeing this uncle's Kunai with which he had attacked, Jun was pretty sure It was not coincidental. In fact Jun was covered with Nazuna's craft, His special coat which took ideas from a Haori, a Hoodie and a flak jacket was something of Nazuna's original creation. Also he had his special whip-sword which she created. If this guy was her teacher, then his craft would be comparable to hers if not greater.

"What do I have to do?" Jun asked getting serious now that he recognized the guy in front of him as competent.

"Actually its embarrassing to assign you this particular test but also necessary for me. You see, a few days earlier I was in Training Ground 20 since its pretty isolated and rarely used by anyone. I needed to test a few of my creations. However I by mistake lost my way and got stuck in the lair of a particularly dangerous chakra mutated beast. I attacked it in hopes of repelling it , However it was many times more dangerous than an ordinary chakra mutated best and it overpowered me. I escaped thanks to a few life saving equipment which were sacrificed in the process. However, I lost the scroll containing my new creations. They are really valuable equipment made from high quality chakra conducting metal. I would like to have them back. Therefore all you need to do is get it back. You see , easy peasy isn't it?"