LB: And hello, welcome to my newest attempt to write a decent Naruto fanfiction. Now, this one is inspired on a fanfic I've seen a few years ago that is about Naruto romancing his own Shadow Clone(A female clone) because of sheer loneliness, it was only a one-shot but I felt like it could continue on, I mean, it's actually a great idea, at least for me.
Now, this fiction is not my main one, so it may take a good time to update, that's because I'm doing my original fiction on FP (Raios de Luz, it's in Portuguese, but I plan on making a English version called Lights of Hope).
So, since my main language is NOT english, there WILL be errors, so if anyone wants to help or be a beta, I shall be thankful.
Now, sorry for making you wait, to the history!
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Mirror Love
Chapter 1: Shadow Clone
Distance, glares, quiet and insulting whisperings… That is all the attention they gave him, and honestly, it hurts, it hurts a lot to the poor eight years old.
He is lonely, oh so very lonely, that doesn't mean that he don't have precious people, Teuchi and Ayame, the Hokage and Iruka-sensei. But even still, he doesn't have a single friend his age, and he can't stay with the few people that likes him all the time.
Naruto having been only for about two years in the academy, Naruto tried to make friends, at first, he tough Sakura could be a good friend of his, but she suddenly just didn't want to have anything to do with him, just like the rest of the kids.
Sighing to himself, the blonde boy continued to walk in direction to his home, a simple apartment the old man has given him. He couldn't help it, he is just down today, and the people whispering and glaring as he walks at him doesn't help his mood at all.
Feeling like crying, Naruto decided to just make a run for it to his home and to try and forget about that crushing loneliness in his heart.
Suddenly, he felt a strong impact and fell down with a yelp of pain.
"Ouch…" The blonde was holding his head in his arms.
"Dammit kid! Look where you are going!" A irritated voice yelled. Naruto looked up and saw a angry brown haired ninja, and immediately felt afraid for his life.
The man, recognizing the boy, calmed down and sighed. While he doesn't particularly like the brat, it's hard not to feel sympathy for him.
"Look kid, I'm not going to hurt you, just try to look forward when running like that, 'kay? Now off with you, I have to meet with my team." Shaking his head, the man walked away from the boy and off to god knows where.
"… sigh…" Naruto gave a sigh of relief, and still shaking, decided to stand up. Before going forward, however, he noticed a scroll on the ground.
"That man must have forgotten this! Nice!" Taking the scroll for himself, the blond resumed his run for his apartment.
The Jounin shinobi would only notice that he lost a scroll after the training session with his team.
A while later…
Naruto couldn't believe his luck, it was a jutsu scroll! And what's more, it's a better version of the academy clone! And apparently it's a solid clone!
"Awesome! Now I will be able to pass the academy in no time!" Jumping up and down, Naruto set down after a while to practice the jutsu.
"Hmm… I see… I see… A cross shaped seal… Oh? So the clones have their own will? Hmm… What is that about memories? I don't understand… Hmm… Shit, a forbidden jutsu? Oh well…" The boy kept talking to himself as he read, apparently, it's a B rank kinjutsu because each clone splits the user's chakra in half, and even then, he needs a big quantity of chakra to make a single clone, so very different from the normal clone jutsu.
"I see… Ah damn, let's get to It alrealdy!" Jumping to his feet, Naruto made a cross sign, shaped his chakra and shouted.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" A draining sensation, and next thing Naruto knew, another him has besides him.
"…" The two keep staring each other for a while.
"Uhh… Hello?" Naruto said to his clone. Said clone looked just as uncomfortable.
"Yeah, hello…" And then, he vanished in a poof of smoke.
"Wait, what?! He is not supposed to be gone alrealdy! Dammit!" And for the rest of the day, Naruto kept practicing the kage bushin until he could finally make the clones stay indefinitely.
"Ahh… Ahh… Yeah… I did it…" After making sure the clone could stay up for at least 30 minutes, he collapsed in exhaustion.
The clone looked at Naruto for a while, the boss forgot to dismiss him, so, he did what a normal person would: Put his original self in the bed with the blanket over him, and the vanished in smoke.
The next day…
*Riiing!* *Rii-crack!*
"Uaahh? What?" Naruto sat up, confused for a while, then he remembered he had to go to the academy today.
"Oh, crap! I forgot to do homework!" Jumping off his bed, Naruto quickly got in his clothes, took a bath, brushed his teeth, ate breakfast, and jumped out of the window.
Only after Naruto arrived, did he notice something.
"How did I manage to get In my bed?" Then, a memory hit him, he has carrying himself to his bed.
"Weird…" Shrugging that tough off, Naruto saw a flash of pink hair and grinned.
"Sakura-chan! Good Morning!" The blond yelled, making said girl wince and turn around angrily.
"Damn it you freak! Stay away from me!" She said rudely, but Naruto ignored her, and still keep grinning.
"Hey, hey, want to go on a date, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked his usual question, trying to gain her attention…
"NO!" … And got a punch to the head.
As the girl walked away, Naruto just keep grinning, trying to ignore the painful ache in his heart.
As Naruto got in his seat, and even as Iruka sensei came in, the ache in his heart still haven't disappeared.
Time passed, the lessons of the day going through one ear and out of the other. Naruto is just having a very bad day. Again.
"Now kids, we will have a sparring season! Let's go outside!" Naruto only noticed this because everyone started to follow Iruka, so he got up from his seat as well.
Outside, Naruto watched silently a few sparring matches, that actually cheered him up a little, if he can show up his new jutsu in front of everyone…
"Alright! Next we have Naruto Vs Sasuke! Go to the front you two." Iruka's assistant, Mizuki said with a loud voice, bringing Naruto's attention. He grinned.
"Give up dobe, you always lost badly against me." Sasuke has already tough he won, the bastard!
"I will show you! What I learned yesterday!"
"Alright… Begin!"
"This is my power bastard! Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Naruto made a cross shaped seal, making Mizuki and Iruka's eyes widen, seriously, he couldn't possibly…
"What?" Sasuke asked, surprised as 5 Narutos appeared on the field.
"Go!" The Narutos charged with a mightly yell.
"Hn, you can make a feel clones, so wh- WHAT?" Sasuke took a punch from one of the clones and then a kick from another. Recovering quickly, Sasuke fought the way a genius like him fights.
Intercepting a punch from one the Narutos, he took his arm and throwed him against a clone that was behind him, making both go out in smoke. He smirked. While Naruto might have numerical advantage, there is still the factor that quality beats quantity, Naruto's taijutsu sucks.
The other three tried to gang on him at once, but he easily dispatched then with quick punches and a kick in the stomach of the original, sending him to the edge, almost out of the ring.
"I can still make more, damn you!" Another shout of 'Kage Bushin no Jutsu!' and this time, 10 Narutos appeared, and charged straight to Sasuke, who has one eye twitching.
Iruka, all the while, has very wide eyes.
"How in the world he can make so many shadow clones? And where the hell did he learn then?"
This pattern continued for a while, Sasuke maiming the clones with taijutsu and Naruto spamming more, tough, he has getting increasingly tired because of the chakra used to make the clones.
The Uchiha, however, has even more so. The clones started getting hits, and his fighting became more sloppy, he has being beaten by sheer numbers. He growled.
"Fine, you want to use ninjutsu?! Let's use ninjutsu!" He started going through handseals as more 12 clones rushed him.
"Wait, Sasuke, no!" Iruka shouted, but it was too late.
"Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu!" And a giant fireball shot out of his mouth towards the Clones, incinerating them.
Naruto however, saw the fire coming, but he couldn't do anything, he has trembling in fear.
Suddenly, a pair of arms caught him, and next thing he knows, he has away from the fire as it collided with the fence, making it catch on fire and prompting other teachers to put it out.
The boy looked up, and saw a very furious Iruka.
"You idiots!" The sensei yelled at them.
"You guys are supposed to use only taijutsu, taijutsu. Not ninjutsu to fight! You could have hurt the others, or worse yet, killed someone!" This time, both Naruto and Sasuke hanged their heads in shame.
"It's not my fault…" Sasuke started, making Naruto, Iruka and the others to look at him.
"He is the one that started using ninjutsu! You guys should have canceled the match right then and punished him! I only used my jutsu to defend myself!" He exclaimed, pointing towards Naruto.
It got a chain reaction, everyone in the class, except a few, started shouting insults at him.
Naruto at first had wide eyes at everyone, then he hanged his head and bit his lips.
"Would you all SHUT UP!" At Iruka's legendary yelling, everyone got quiet, he then looked at Naruto.
"Class is dismissed, Naruto, come with me."
The boy followed quietly behind his father/brother figure.
A few minutes later…
Iruka and Naruto are having their regular Ramen dinner, with tough, the blond barely has touching his food.
"sigh… Naruto, look at me." Said boy winced and looked up, shocking Iruka with the emotions in his eyes.
"Y-yes, Iruka-sensei?" He asked.
"Look, I won't ask where you learnt that jutsu, or how you can make so many of them. However, I must say that, it was indeed unfair of you to use ninjutsu in a taijutsu only spar." He tried saying to the boy, who only looked down again.
"But… I can't beat Sasuke otherwise… And wanted to show off the work I had to learn that…" Naruto looked up again when a hand has placed in his head.
"Naruto, even if you can't beat Sasuke, you have to train harder to beat him. As for the Kage Bushin… It left me and the others very, very surprised, it's unheard off for an academy student to make even a single shadow clone, let alone a few dozen or so you made. I don't know how you learned them Naruto, but I'm very proud of you." This time, Iruka finished with a smile that immediately brightened Naruto's mood.
"Iruka-sensei… Thanks!" And thus, the boy gave the man a mightily hug.
"Hahaha, you welcome Naruto, now come, eat it up before it gets cold!"
"Ah! You right!"
The next day…
Naruto wake up as normal and got to the academy, and as usual, upon spotting Sakura, he tried to talk with her.
"Good Morning, Sakura-chaan!" He yelled, but to his surprise, she turned, glaring daggers at him.
"Stay away from me, you cheater!" She pointed at him in anger, the rest of the Sasuke fangirls also started joining in, along with a fell boys.
"W-what…"
"You hurt Sasuke-kun!" "You cheated!" "We can't trust you!" "Go fuck yourself!"
"What, no, I!" Naruto has saved from any further heartache when Iruka arrived, alrealdy yelling for then to shut the hell up.
"sigh…" Naruto walked dejectedly to his seat, praying for the day to end quickly.
After classes…
Naruto felt like crying again now, everyone in the class kept glaring at him, refusing to work with him and even whispering behind his back. Heck, after classes someone threw a rock at him!
Now, as he walked out of the school, he could feel it, the glares, the harsh whisperings, are there again.
Why? Why did everyone hate him so? What did he do? Why dammit?!
He began running without looking where he has going, eventually, he ended up in what seemed to be an empty training ground.
The boy fell to his knees and began crying loudly. It's unfair! Why is he hated? Why no one in his age group even tried to be friends with him? Why? Can't no one comfort him? The one thing he wants the most… Is to be loved, to be held, to be acknowledged…
"I'm with you…" A sad voice…? No… In his mind? Is he imagining things?
"Use it… Use you shadow clone… I want to cry too…" The sad voice said again… Why is it coming from his mind? Are his clones sad too?
With trembling hands, he made the cross seal and muttered a quiet Kage Bushin no Jutsu, making a single clone appear besides him.
The clone had his heads down, and made a hand sign. A poof of smoke later, and he… No… she emerged. She looked almost exactly like him, even her jumpsuit, tough it looked tighter on her body. Long blond hair on two pigtails, and a girlish and cute face.
"W-what?" He asked, the girl looked up, just as tearful as him, and opened her arms.
"I'm you… Let us comfort each other… Naru-kun…" That is all she needed to say, Naruto latched onto his female self, and both kids began to cry loudly in the night.
Later, Naruto would fall asleep on his clone's arms, having cried enough.
The clone, still awake, couldn't afford to dispel and leave her original self here, so she held him in her arms, and took him to under a tree in the field, where both would fall sleep.
The clone's last toughs were:
"Is this alright…? We are the same person… Aren't we…?"
Chapter 1: END!
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LB: So, what do you guys think? The idea of Naruto falling in love with himself, his own shadow clone?
The idea here is, she is not kiyubi, she is not his sister, she is HIM. You could say that she is Dark Naruto, a split personality and will eventually develop her own personality and soul.
I have an idea here, I'm actually going to make Naruko a yandere, based off on Yuno (Yes, THAT Yuno from Mirai Nikki/Future Diary) who is completely obsessed with Naruto and his well being, the only difference is that Naruto will be accepting of her and slightly crazed too.
Also, I'm planning on having Naruko learn the same fighting style used by Nanaya/Tohno Shiki from Tsukihime, a taijutsu designed solely to kill with a knife.
Well, I will be accepting help, because I honestly don't know how the hell should I proceed from now on. Thanks for reading, please leave a review if possible!