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Chapter 01 [Kuchiyose: Kondo no Jutsu]
A young boy was sitting on the swings as he watched his former classmates receive various praises and congratulations from their families. Of course, the boy had received none. That, to him, wasn't unexpected. He hadn't passed, so obviously he wouldn't be praised. Even if he had, he had no family to give him it in the first place. Well, there was Jiji, and maybe the Old Man and his daughter at his favorite restaurant... but that pretty much it.
The boy was becoming depressed, despite his normally bright outward appearance he actually had a lot of sorrow in his heart. Still, he'd steadfastly refused to focus upon it. If he did he'd start brooding, and that way lead to the Emo-side, which he'd sworn never fall to. Unlike a certain top student.
Still, he'd been desperate. This was his third failure, he almost certainly wouldn't get another shot. Which meant he'd either be stuck in a civilian career in a village that hated him or he'd have to leave, which was something they'd never let him do. He knew, he'd tried it a few times when they'd kicked him out of the orphanage. The patrols would always come after him, beat him bloody and drop him in some alley after dragging him back. Yet still, somehow the village leader had taken two years to track him down while he was on the streets. Something really bothered him about that, but he wasn't sure what.
Either way, Uzumaki Naruto's life was looking pretty bleak. So, it was no surprise really that he latched on to the first lifeline he'd been offered. Even if it seemed suspicious and came from a silver-haired jerk who'd always been a jerk towards him.
Things had gone very wrong. First Naruto had run into the Hokage while he was on the way out with the Forbidden Scroll, supposedly a fake, that Mizuki had told him to recover. He'd managed to take the old man down with his special... distraction technique, blasting the old man back with a fountain of his own blood from his nose.
After that things seemed to calm down and start going well. In the two hours he'd had he'd managed to master not only one, but three techniques. That'll show em, he'd thought, thinking off all the teachers, Mizuki principle among them, who'd ignored and outright sabotaged his education, mocking his dreams. Now, given the leave to actually learn, and the drive to do so, he'd gotten three high level Jutsu down in about a half hour each. He'd like to see their precious Uchiha do something like that.
But then things had gone wrong again when Iruka had found him, ignorant of any "special test". That was when Naruto had had to finally confront the suspicions he'd buried in his desperation. He'd only just come to the realization that Mizuki had tricked him when the silver haired traitor revealed himself and begun trading barbs with Iruka, before revealing the secret of why the villagers had always hated him. Still, Iruka had always acknowledged him as his student, his most troublesome and exasperating student, and was now defending him. Naruto couldn't handle it when he saw Mizuki throw a giant Fuma Shuriken at Iruka, and jumped in front of his scarred teacher, throwing a messy handful of projectiles towards the traitor and, almost instinctively, enacting a massive Shadow Shuriken Technique. Though badly aimed in his haste, the sudden wall of steel was to large for Mizuki to evade and left the silver-haired man resembling hamburger meat more than anything else. Unfortunately the Fuma Shuriken had slipped through before Naruto's Justu could form and knock it off course, and had buried itself with one prong in Naruto's chest.
Coughing up blood into a suddenly weal hand, Naruto collapsed backwards, his now bloody hand striking a peculiar seal diagram on the unrolled Forbidden Scroll.
Naruto awoke in a room filled entirely with white. Everything seemed to stretch on forever and he couldn't make out the ceiling or the ground, let alone the walls. It was all just white and he would have though he was floating in it if he couldn't feel the ground beneath him.
Naruto did a quick check of himself, trying to feel any injuries he might have but found nothing. A visual inspection proved more startling, however. He was naked, except for a pair of frog- and fox-face covered boxers. Now, Naruto had been beaten and robbed before, left naked in the streets. He'd also been dropped in the hospital a few times when the ANBU that the Old Man had following him decided to do something close to their job. But this was the first time he'd ever been robbed, not beaten and dropped in some freaky endless white room. For a second he thought he might be trapped in some king of Genjutsu, but he'd never learned how to recognize or break out of those. Mizuki had made him stand in the hall holding buckets that day.
Still, his Weird-O-Meter crept another tick higher as another person appeared in the "room". She was a fairly tall silvery-blond haired lady, looking maybe in her early twenties. The woman was wearing something that looked vaguely like a priest's robe, made of light blue and silver cloth, and nothing else as far as he could tell. She didn't even have any shoes on!
The woman approached him with with a serene look on her face, studying him as he stood there, embarrassed into stillness. The neutral front lasted all of thirty seconds before she broke down giggling.
Author's Notes:
Right, this is just an idea that came to me and I felt like getting down and published before it slipped away. Right now I want to leave the details a mystery, but I'm not completely evil so I'll throw you guys a bone. Here's a list of the techniques that Naruto got from the scroll. For the record, I consider the Kage Bunshin and Tajuu Kage Bunshin the SAME JUTSU! One is just bigger, is all.
Technique: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu [Shadow Clone Technique]
Type: Ninjutsu (Bunshinjutsu)
Rank: B
Difficulty: Jounin-level
Summery: An advanced Bunshinjutsu that splits the user's Chakra among his clones, creating solid clones from raw Chakra and minute bits of the user's shadow. Clones created cannot take damage, as it would cause them to disperse, but can effect the world around them and be used to attack. Kage Bunshin possess the full physical strength, knowledge and kills of the creator, as well as an identical personality. When the clone is dispersed seventy percent of its remaining Chakra, along with memories it might have accumulate, are transferred back to the user, though without training this can cause severe mental fatigue.
Technique: Tajuu Kage Bushin no Jutsu [Mass Shadow Clone Technique]
Type: Ninjutsu (Bunshinjutsu)
Rank: A
Difficulty: Kage
Summery: Simply a variation on the Kage Bunshin Ninjutsu that is used to create massive numbers of Shadow Clones. Already prohibitive due to its innate Chakra cost, the usage of this variation divides the user's energy among so many bodies that even few Kage-level ninja would be able to make effective use of it.
Technique: Bunshin Bakuha [Clone Explosion]
Type: Ninjutsu (Bunshinjutsu)
Rank: A
Difficulty: Jounin
Summery: A techique allowing one to "Super-Charge" a Clone, of nearly any variety, with Chakra, causing the construct to explode, often in relation to their base-element. As most Bunshinjutsu are extremely draining, the use of Bunshin Bakuha, which drains yet more Chakra, is rather prohibitive to all but upper-level Ninja.
Technique: Kage Shuriken no Jutsu [Shadow Shuriken Technique]
Type: Ninjutsu (Bunshinjutsu)
Rank: C
Difficulty: Chunin
Summery: A technique similar in nature to the Shadow Clone Technique, but instead affecting thrown projectiles, such as kunai or shuriken. This Jutsu allows a thrown weapon to be multiplied, turning a single shuriken into a proverbial wall of steel, though the copied weapons will disperse soon after striking the target. As the copies are inanimate objects and far smaller than a human form, Kage Shuriken no Jutsu consumes infinity less Chakra than the Kage Bunshin, but can still exhaust a Gennin quite easily.