I disclaim everything since it is easier that way. I am open to any ideas and criricism as long as your not just knocking my fanfiction for fun. Then I get annoyed. I am also looking for anyone who wants to write kyuubixnaruto lemons in the future I could try but it may not work. That is female kyuubi I do not do yaoi but I accept you if you do.
Naruto just got home from his mission from wave and decided he was pathetic a sad excuse for a shinobi. If he was honest with himself he could say that his entire team was pathetic he was the worst though.
Sasuke was far to arrogant and was easily flustered easily baited into making mistakes. He had talent that was for sure even more so now that he had the sharingan at his disposal. However power means nothing if you don't know how to use it talent is just as worthless when you don't excercise it.
Sakura was even worse she physically was weaker than all of them. Her stamina was pitiful if you could even call it that. Her chakra reserves are practically not there at all. Ofcourse that gives her incredible chakra control and she is smarter than sasuke and him combined probably.
Lastly was himself he was the most worthless on the team as of now. He wasn't smart like sakura, he doesn't have raw talent like sasuke. He was definitely stronger than sakura not sasuke. Slower than both all he really had was larger chakra reserves that he couldn't even use properly since his control is atrocious. Sure he can think of a plan on the spot that seems ingenious like his kunai henge he pulled off. However just like shougi a plan like that only buys you some time at best. He knew what he had to do, he had to train for real and visit a horrible place so he can improve. The LIBRARY!
That would have to wait however he had an old man to see so he can truly learn what he needs to learn to become one of the best.
"Jiji I need your help with something!" Sarutobi looked up from his paper work to see naruto standing in front of him impatiently.
He heaved a big sigh before speaking, "yes naruto what do you need?"
"I need your opinion of what are the most important important things for a shinobi to learn?" Sarutobi looked at him in surprise he never expected naruto to ask for help in a million years. He always saw naruto as a do it yourselfer kind of kid.
"Well I have always believed the basics are the most important things to know. Like chakra control, anatomy, stradegy, and physical prowess. Why?" He looked at naruto with a questioning gaze. Only to see a look of determination only ever matched by Minato Namikaze.
"Well I have done some serious thinking since the wave mission two days ago and realised I have not worked hard enough. Atleast that's what I thought coming in here after hearing your opinion though I think I just saw the power of a shinobi in the wrong way." Naruto fidgetted under the old man's stare for for a minute until the old man blinked again.
"Care to explain to me what you mean naruto?" Naruto smiled realizing he was not in any sort of trouble.
"Well I always thought the best ninjutsus made the best ninja but you did not even mention it on your list. Now that I think about it after teamwork chakra control was the next thing kakashi-sensei was teaching us." The third couldn't help but smile at the boy he was realising his mistakes and trying to correct them. He would be an invaluable asset to konoha one day.
He could not blame him entirely though his teaches were not all that helpful after all Iruka could not do it all. Plus him sealing up a chunk of his life was probably what slowed him down. It was all going to be worth it though when konoha's enemies trembled in fear of Naruto.
"Very well naruto I will do you a favor just this once," he said as he took out a sheet of paper and began writing down on it. He handed naruto the paper, "alright now there is a list of all the things you should learn in order of importance. However once you feel you reached an acceptable level in one do move on to the next but do not forget what you already learned. Continue training those areas just not as much."
Naruto lunged over the desk and hugged the old hokage. "Thank you so much jiji!" Naruto shouted nearly bursting the poor man's ear drum.
"No problem naruto, now if you will excuse me I have much more work to do." Naruto let go of the man before thanking him once more and walking home.
Naruto walked inside and looked at the paper to see there were notes next to some of the things on the list. In big writing the first thing was cleanliness, he sighed he hated cleaning with a passion but he did not want to do this half assed so he made ten clones and sent them to work.
A hour later he started to yell for joy his clone had just stepped on a shuriken and dispersed. That was not what excited him it was the fact he remembered it and everything else the clone did. So he had another to disperse and he smiled, he remembered its memories as well. He was so going to use this for training.
He looked at the list expecting to see chakra control but instead saw stealth with the notes on the side saying NO ORANGE! He sighed this was going to cost a lot, people just do not like him. He saw it also said go to a ninja shop they will help you.
Naruto smiled, he had completely forgotten that because he was a ninja he could go to a ninja shop now. So he left to the first shop he could find.
Naruto pushed the door open and a jingling sound was made as the bell moved. He walked around the store for a while looking at the clothes. He agreed that he needed to use more stealth but he still wanted a personal touch to it. He found a nice black t-shirt. He picked up ten of those and matching black shinobi pants with crimson red tape for the bottom.
He walked up to the counter expecting to get charged a ridiculous amount as usual but when the girl rang it up he saw it cost him what two sets of clothes normally costed him so he had money lying around now.
"Excuse me miss but I was wondering do you personalize clothes at all?" The young girl looked at him strangely, "what do you mean you want them personalized?"
Naruto stares at the girl for a moment before speaking. "I would like some things sewn on the shirts. If the store does not do it that is fine I was just wondering is all." Naruto said before starting to walk away.
"Wait!" Naruto stopped and turned around to see the girl was gone only for her to come out a few moments later with a hulk of a man wiping off his hands. "Dad this kid wants to have somethings sewn into his clothes, but since you do that stuff I thought I would get you."
"Tenten how are you suppose take over the shop one day if you refuse to sew?" He didn't receive an answer though and looked around to see her gone. Sigh. "Well what would you like then sewn onto your clothes Mr?"
"Naruto Uzumaki and I would like a fox sewn onto to it, and if at all possible i would like it in crimson." The man looked at the boy before smiling at him. "I could make it with nine tails if you like."
He saw naruto break into a cold sweat and start to look around for any possible exit route. "Take it easy I do not resent you for it in fact I greatly respect you for lasting this long. The nine tails although is evil it is still a mythical being of almost absolute power, and you have to respect power like that."
Naruto thought about it for a minute and smiled. He already accepted the fox was a part of who he was, he just did not want to flaunt it about so to speak. But now he agreed with this man the kyuubi had to be respected regardless you can hate it, hell you can even piss your pants when you saw it. You HAD to respect it though because power was power as the man said. "I want it to have nine tails sir and if you can make it as realistic as possible that would be great."
The man smiled the boy saw it his way which he thought was great because he knew for a fact that walking around dressed like that was going to do two things indefinitely. One scare the villagers more and cause them to hit him a little less out of fear. "Alright then how about we decide on designs and price. My name is Arashi by the way."
Naruto smiled at the man he had just taught him something he would never forget. "Nice to meet you Arashi and thanks. I think I want to have a design where the kyuubi is roaring in rage."
Arashi smiled and he knew that alone would help instill fear. There was a even better way to do that though to the villagers. "How about a couple with it wrapping its tails around you protectively."
Naruto beamed this guy was cool! "Yea and how about one were it has a claw slashing on my shoulder!" The man found himself smiling as well this may be one the most interesting designs he has had yet.
"Alright now how about three of each and you can take the one shirt and pants home." Naruto grinned at him with canines showing a bit more than they should.
"Alright that sounds awesome how much will it cost and when can I pick them up?" Naruto said with a smile though on the inside he was bit nervous that it would cost to much.
"Well for the sewing and I will throw in some built in seals to toughen them up for a total of about twenty bucks each since I consider it a bulk deal. Probably in a week you can pick them up." He looked up to see Naruto frozen in his place.
"That's all it costs?!" Naruto practically screamed at the man who answered with a very happy blunt "Yup" Naruto could not believe it he had Benn paying way over price before he knew that but he did not know it was by this much!
"Well you know shinobi equipment is cheaper right? You would think shinobi equipment would be more expensive and you would be right if you were not in a shinobi village. You see money from the village goes to supplying material to stores like this. We pay for the material but it does not cost too much. It is a shinobi village after all and it needs to make sure its shinobi are ready."
Naruto could not believe what he was hearing it actually cost him total probably less than half what he would have been charged at the civilian store. There he would have only gotten just the plain clothes too!
"Well then Naruto is there anything else I can help you with?" Naruto thought about it for a minute before deciding he could trust this man. "Well I am trying to take being a shinobi seriously, so is there anything else in your store you think a shinobi needs?"
"Well did you look at the weapons section and other equipment?" Naruto frowned he did not expect to have money just lying around and jiji only wrote stealth. He looked at the list again only to sweatdrop. This next thing on the list was good equipment. "No sir I did not."
Arashi sighed and took him over to the shinobi equipment section only to see Naruto drooling all over. Figuratively speaking ofcourse. "I would recommend chakra metal weapons like kunai but only five or so. I also think a sword of some sort or another weapon to have."
"Why only five? No shuriken? I see the reason for a sword I always wanted one anyway." Arashi looked at him and sighed he had fallen for what most shinobi did, that more weapons meant better, which was not true unless you were a weapons specialist like tenten.
"Well Naruto you see chakra metal while twice as expensive is ten times better. It is already made of stronger metal and can channel all chakra making it even stronger it can even channel elemental chakra. As for shuriken, all you can do is throw them you can do that with kunai." Naruto was shocked you could do that he thought it was just a cool name for stronger metal.
"Say what is elemental chakra anyway?" Arashi could only sigh he was not surprised a genin did not know let alone one of Naruto's situation.
"Elemental chakra is what element a person's chakra is synced up to. You learned the elements in school correct and which ones strengthen and weaken the others?" Naruto nodded and Arashi continued. "Well you see each person is aligned to one element or more. Which basically means elemental jutsu such as the Uchihas great fireball would come easier to someone aligned to fire and has potential to be infinitely more powerful than someone who has a water alignment."
Naruto was shocked so sasuke must have a fire element and kakashi water and raiton.
"How do you know which element you have?"
Arashi pulled out a piece of paper and gave it to naruto. "All you have to do is push chakra into it if it splits you have wind, if it crumpled you have raiton , if it burns you have fire, if it gets wet you have water, and if it turns to dust you have earth."
Naruto did as he was told and it split in half one side burned halfway while the other half crumpled into a small ball. Arashi gawked at him, "did I do something wrong arashi-san?"
"No Naruto not at all you just surprised me is all. You actually have two strong affinities one to wind and another to raiton, plus a slightly weaker one to fire. Which is incredible most jounins only have two affinities some even just one." Naruto started to jump up and down in joy but calmed remembering he was trying to be a proffessional.
"Now Naruto in order to utilize these you must train your elements to gain control of them. You can go to the shinobi library to figure out how. Now about those weapons, I think you should get a chrakra conducting katana." Naruto smiled and asked him which one he thinks he should get.
"Well anyone will do but there is one that I think will suit you well but it is expensive probably costs the amount of an entire A Ranked mission." Naruto grinned and said he could afford it. After all he just finished an A ranked mission, plus he still had his money from most of the D ranked missions he could use to pay for the clothes and kunai if necessary.
Arashi went to the back and took out a long katana that's blade and handle were probably five feet long. Seeing it though he immediately wanted it. The blade was pureblood red and had a wooden handle made of a finely finished cherry color stain.
"I made that blade over fifteen years ago no one wanted it for over five years so I put it on the shelf. I think its some of my best work and if I was in Kiri I think it would have sold in days but alas I am in a place with very few sword specialists." He smiled "Which is why i think you should buy it if you become a master swordsmen very few will have a way to stop you. Plus it is also chakra conducting metal."
Naruto smiled, "even I can tell that blade is something special but may I ask if you can make the pommel of kyuubi roaring?" Arashi smiled, "ofcourse I can you can come pick it up as well in a week. Now the question is do you want to pay now or later he said putting the crimson tape on the counter with the pants and one shirt and the five kunai.
"I will pay you now for it all." After paying the man and thanking him profusely and asking if he could pay him back any other way the man said no thanks. Now naruto was on his way home with one thing in mind training.
He looked at the list to see health was next. On the side it said ramen is recommended only two or three times a week. "..." Naruto's hand strarted to tremble "NOOOOOO!"
After fifteen minutes of rage and panic Naruto finally calmed down. He henged and went to the grocery store, its not that Naruto did not know what he had to eat he just did not want to. He was fully aware once he learned henge he could go get food but he was attached to ramen just like his clothes. The only reason he did not use a henge with Arashi was he did not believe a ninja would fall for it.
He would probably have to burn his jumpsuit in order to avoid from being tempted to wear it. Plus he thought the new clothes looked badass. Once he got home he put on a plain t-shirt and headed to the library.
When he got there he was amazed the shinobi library was huge! It had everything oraganized in catergories like taijutsu, ninjutsu, genjutsu, anatomy, chakra control, stragedy, sealing, and more. Then it was further organized from beginer to genin, then chunin, then Jounin, and finally kage. The strange thing was everyone had access up to jounin. If you wanted to take out kage level you needed to be jounin though.
Naruto made ten clones for every subject he wanted to learn and had them take one book per group each and headed out to a random training ground. It looked as though it had been out circulation for teams for quite some time.
He noticed he still had a lot of chakra left so he made ten more clones for each group. He had a group for calligraphy/writing beginners level, then sealing beginners level. Next he had a group on chakra control begginer level and one on chakra theory. Another group was taijutsu called the iron fist but it revolves around incredible power and speed. Twenty more clones were working on wind element training for beginners but after that he noticed they only had intermediate level. Once he finished that he was on his own for now. Another group had genjutsu theory which they would move onto actual genjutsu after that for beginners. Anatomy was covered by another group, lastly fourty worked on the shushin, Wind Style Great Breakthrough, and the replacement technique. He already knew it but wanted to be better at it than anyone.
Next he needed to train his body so he started to run laps around konoha until he came across a strange sight two green blurs coming right at him!