Chapter 9 - Bird Shark Cannonball (1/2)

Izuku's training was going well.

Only a few months into the training, and Naruto was able to visibly see the massive amounts of improvements that had happened to the boy. His muscles had been ripped to shreds, and reborn into a new, slightly more macho, form than his starting point of... well having no muscles. Izuku had cleared away over half of the beach of the garbage at this point, and by the time that January rolled around, the first 9 months of the plan would be over, leaving Izuku ready for his training in One for All to start. It would take about a month before the boy learned how to not fire off all of his punches and kicks at 100% power, something that was bound to happen considering the boy was Quirkless and had no experience controlling a Quirk. It would be harder for the Quirkless to learn how to use something that those with Quirks naturally knew how to use.

Then again, his uncle was an exception to that rule.

”Seriously, you're just going to lay there... not even play in the water?” Mina asked Naruto as she stood over him, looking down at him with a disappointed look, wearing her white frilled bikini just for him now. Originally, she had just wanted to show it off, but she had been waiting for this chance since they started dating.

Honestly though, their dating life wasn't really different than what they did before, only they were a little more physically affectionate now.

”You enjoy the beach your way, and I'll do it my way. You're the one who wanted me to take a break from training more often, and that is what I'm doing. If I go into the water, I can promise you I'll start training.” Naruto waved her off. She had her friends from her school here with them, so it wasn't like she was going to be lonely with him not playing around. She had two of her girlfriends, and the Kirishima guy that she had tried to introduce him to, and the guy seemed pretty cool for the most part.

He had decent muscle on him, but other than that he was a pretty average looking guy. He had light tan skin, with long black hair that covered a small part of his face, though all of his teeth were sharpened. The guy was a pretty friendly dude, and he was pretty enthusiastic about swimming in the ocean.

Mina pointed at him.

”Gush over how cute I am!”

”Oh Mina, you're so cute, so sėxy, I can't take my eyes off of you... my heart is all aflutter, and my stomach has buŧŧerflies... please, allow me to look away so that my weak heart won't explode.” Naruto closed his eyes as he went back to laying back. Her cheeks puffed out, and she kicked some sand onto his legs. ”See, I'm enjoying myself just fine, watching you have fun.” Naruto cracked open one of his eyes and looked up at her. She stopped pouting and puffing at him, before she shrugged her shoulders with a smiling sigh.

Guess they had different ideas of what it was like to have fun on the beach.

...

”That bikini makes your ȧss look just as sėxy as it always is!” Naruto called out to her as he laid back down. What was he going to say, that her ȧss only looked nice in practically nothing. She was always sėxy, the bikini didn't really change how good looking she was in his eyes.

Mina pumped her fist in victory.

”I'll take it!” She would take that compliment in stride, not much he could really compliment her on when it came to her swimsuit without sounding like a pervert. Also, she had kind of goaded that out of him. She wasn't shy about her body, so no reason to get angry about a compliment. ”Wait up guys, I want to play too! Kirishima, get a bucket, we're making a giant sand castle!”

Naruto smirked.

He then glanced back at Izuku, the boy was actually sending them all jealous looks. Like he wanted to join them, and Naruto was about to say something about it, before his fellow teen got back to work with a more determined expression than before.

'Okay, he's a pretty decent guy... he's got determination, and he can motivate himself.' Naruto wasn't just laying down to relax, he was also doing it so that he could keep an eye on Izuku's training. It was moving along well, if the boy kept it up at this pace, he would actually finish the first 9 month part of the plan in only 8 and a half months. That was, if he didn't push himself even harder than Naruto's plan was pushing him. ”... Actually, in this heat, he should stay hydrated.” Naruto opened up the cooler next to him, and grabbed a bottled water. Standing up, regretfully standing up, he walked towards Izuku with water in hand. The boy was pushing a broken fridge through the sand.

*Touch*

”Aaaaah, cold!”

”Really, like a hero! Thank you so much!” Izuku bowed repeatedly, thankfully taking the water and setting it down gently in the sand, before he waved to Naruto as he got back to clearing the beach.

Yep, the boy was hero obsessed, so comparing him to a hero was a great motivator.

'I'm going to take a break from everything.' Naruto fell face first into the towel he laid down. He would keep an eye on Izuku, but he would do it with his eyes closed. As long as he was listening to everything that was going on, he was sure everything would be okay. The sun just felt so good on his skin, and the warmth of the towel and sand was just divine right now.