Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Limitless But that will soon change after my dosage of NZT.
Past the limit
Naruto was frowning. It was a strange sight on the usually happy boy but most people were too caught up on their children's success to care.
He had just failed the genin test for the 3rd time and was thinking about how it all went wrong. The day started off with a great prank on the hokage mountain and then getting caught by Iruka-sensei and scolded by him about how he should be preparing for the genin test. He remembered being confident throughout the whole test, even the written part, he did the henge(transformation) and the kawarimi(substitution) perfectly but when it came to the bunshin(clone)…..
Naruto sighed, he didn't know what happened. Each time he tried to do the jutsu he overpowered it. It was too hard to use that much chakra, but he failed nonetheless.
Getting up from the swing and away from the baleful stares naruto thought about what he would do next.
'I couldn't go to Iruka-sensei he would be grading the marks.' Naruto thought as he walked. Maybe I should get some ramen…No I don't want to face Teuchi-ojisan right now.
Naruto's head snapped up from his depression, 'I know I'll do prank, that will cheer me up. He snapped his fingers and broke into a run. ' now who should I prank this time, the hokage….no I did that last month, the hospital….nope that was last week, I know ill prank the research facility, but first I need to get my pranking gear.
15 minutes later, Medicinal Research Facility
Naruto was weaving through the corridors avoiding the scientists and researchers to get as far away as possible.
Naruto smirked as he ran, 'This is going to be awesome…3…2…1..
BOOM!
A series of colourful explosions of paint splattered the halls of the facilities.
"NARUTO!"
Naruto couldn't help it he started laughing. "I knew this would cheer me up, Catch me if you can!"
Naruto sped up with a bunch of angry civilian scientists and cleaners on his heels.
He turned a corner and made the handsigns for a quick to turn into a potted plant. The Scientists ran past him without noticing.
Naruto henged back as soon as the coast was clear and burst out laughing again.
"Suckers" he muttered between laughter. After he recovered from his fit he murmured "Now how do I get out of here".
He scratched his head and then noticed a door with a sign that said
DO NOT ENTER UNLESS AUTHORISED PERSONNEL.
Naruto's eyes lit up "Oh my god there might be some really cool jutsu scrolls in there dattebayo."
He ran to the door and slipped inside thinking he was going to find swords and jutsu but instead he found a bunch of machines, syringes and medicine bottles.
"Ahhhh damn, I thought there was going to be cool stuff inside f here" He said pouting
"Well might as well take a look around then" he muttered.
Naruto started walking forward through the stations and saw tubes with liquid inside of them, Boards with complicated numbers on them and weird pointy machines. As he was walking he bumped a jar full of clear tablets on a table.
Naruto quickly turned around to stop it from falling but was too late …
CRASH!
The jar shattered sending the clear coloured tablets scattering everywhere.
Naruto winced and stood very still, hoping no one heard the sound. Sweat dropped from his brow thinking about the lecture he might get from Saratobi-jiji right after he failed the genin test.
After a full 60 seconds of silence, Naruto let out a breath he was holding and started to franticly find something he could put the tablets in. he found a bag and started to stuff the tablets inside. While he was doing that he saw something that caught his eye. It was the lid of the broken jar and attached to it was a piece of paper. He picked up the paper and recognized it as a label.
"What the hell is NZT-48?" Naruto said out loud but then saw the tablets and realized that that was the name of the tablet. He read on and saw a whole bunch of random word that he didn't understand.
He skipped that part and saw a part at the bottom that explained what the tablet did.
"NZT-48 affects the brains learning and processing cores."Naruto read out loud "This improves the users overall intellect of the...WAIT, that's just the technical way of saying it makes you smart." Naruto realized.
"Hey if I take this I might impress sakura-chan and make her agree to come on a date WITH ME." Naruto said excitedly.
His previous task forgotten, Naruto quickly started to put the remaining tablets into his jumpsuit's pockets until he heard footsteps.
Naruto's eyes widened. "Crap I forgot about them"
He quickly ran outside and shut the door behind him and then quickly henged into a familiar prank as the scientists walked past him.
"I could have sworn he was here"
"Oh forget him let's get back to work already."
"Yeah I have research."
As soon as he coast was clear, Naruto quickly released the henge and then quietly followed the scientists waiting for a chance to escape.
The opportunity presented itself in the form of an open window which Naruto quickly climbed out of and into a small alley.
Walking out of the alley Naruto took out one of the pills from his pockets and examined it.
It was clear and small, about the size of his pinky nail, and seemed pretty ordinary.
'It doesn't look like much but I might as well try it now' Naruto thought before swallowing the pill.
Naruto waited for some sort of rush or buzz but nothing happened. Naruto sighed in disappointment.
'Well I guess I had my hopes up for nothing.'
"NARUTO"
'That sounds like Mizuki-sensei' Naruto thought turning around just before the Surge hit him.
"Whoa"