Hi all, just wanted to say thanks for the support of this story.

Here is the second chapter for you.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or any part of the world created by Masashi Kishimoto

The darkness of night had finally settled over Konoha as Naruto strolled back to his apartment. The young boy still smiled at the day's events, even though things had almost turned out for the worst. To the left of Naruto walked the reason for this happiness, his long lost family member and cousin, Zorn Namikaze.

In all his life, Naruto could not think of another time when he was as cheerful as this. The few glares and mutters of 'demon' from the remaining villagers still outside could not distract him from the evening's happenings. However, for the hyperactive young blond, the best part was that he would be learning a new jutsu for the Genin test tomorrow.

Zorn looked down on Naruto and could see something in the boy's eyes which no other could see. Loneliness. With the grinning face Naruto now wore, Zorn knew that a small glint of light had returned in his eyes from the verge of impending darkness.

'It seems that the life of my cousin was hard. . . . harder than mine. Just looking at him, with that smile, and the way he walks, you would never think that he had suffered in the least.'

Zorn smiled and continued to look around the village. He met the stares of the population with his own and forced them to submit and walk away.

Being wary, Zorn extended his vision to make sure no idiot would try to attack his cousin again this evening. He sighed when no-one was around and started to think about what he was going to teach Naruto.

Before long, Zorn was brought out of his thoughts and was bombarded by questions so quickly, that he could have believed there was another five people speaking at the same time.

"So what are you going to teach me? I bet it's an awesome jutsu of our clan!" Before Zorn could answer, Naruto kept up with the verbal assault on his ears. "When are you going to teach it to me? Am I aloud to use it for the Genin test tomorrow? Come on, please teach it to me, I can't wait!"

Zorn chuckled at the boy's antics. "Yes, yes, calm down little cousin. I will be teaching you a jutsu for tomorrow so that you can pass the exam. Believe it!"

"Awesome, oniisan, what is the jutsu called?" Naruto asked.

"It's a clone-style jutsu, it's called. . .."

"NANI! Why are you teaching me a clone? I want to learn a cool and powerful jutsu!" Naruto let his disappointment show on his face in the form of a pout.

"Let me guess, the 'Bunshin no Jutsu' is your weakest jutsu, am I correct?"

"Huh! How did you know that?"

"Simple, it was my weakest jutsu whilst I was becoming a ninja. It was the same with my father and, from what I have heard, it was the same for yours too." Zorn laughed yet again at Naruto's face, which was looking at his, full of shock.

They both continued walking through the streets of Konoha and after twenty seconds Naruto finally spoke. "I see. I'm guessing that it has something to do with our bloodline then?"

Zorn looked at Naruto. The young Namikaze had shocked him for the second time in one hour. "Well-thought out Naruto. Yes, the problem is in our blood." Naruto tilted his head as Zorn continued speaking.

"The problem is that every Namikaze has very large chakra supplies. When any child from our clan is enrolled at an academy, their chakra is as large as a high Chuunin or a newly-promoted Jonin." Naruto's eyes widened at this.

"By the time said child is ready to graduate, they have a chakra supply which equals an experienced and high-ranking Jonin. Sometimes it's double that!"

Naruto took a little time to reply. "Ok, I know why we have so much chakra now, but how is this stopping us from being able to learn and perform the 'Bunshin no Jutsu'?"

"Simple. The academy teaches jutsu based on the assumption that every child is starting out with a small supply of chakra. The others can perform the Bunshin because they have so little chakra that they can control the needed amount without too much hassle. We, as Namikaze, have so much that the smallest amount we can use is equivalent to somewhere between ten to twenty times the needed amount for the Bunshin."

"So we make the jutsu so overpowered that the clone cannot do anything and is, in all reflection, poor." Naruto finished off the explanation after grasping what Zorn had been teaching him.

"Correct."

Both walked on in silence; Zorn waiting for a question from Naruto and Naruto thinking of what he had learned from Zorn about the chakra troubles of their clan.

The question that Zorn had been waiting for was finally spoken by Naruto. "So what is the point of teaching me the 'Bunshin' if I am unable to perform the jutsu?"

Zorn laughed at this. "I said I would teach you a clone, but I didn't say what type I would be teaching you."

"You mean there are different types of clones?" Naruto quizzed.

"Hai, I will actually be teaching you two types of clone in preparation for tomorrow. Both can be used with the Namikaze chakra reserves since they are Jonin techniques." Naruto's eyes lit up at this. He jumped in the air with a shout. "HELL YEAH!"

Zorn and Naruto finally reached the apartment complex in which Naruto had lived for seven years. Naruto proceeded to show Zorn up to the top floor and into his home. Zorn's mouth opened in disbelief as his gaze drifted around the dining room. The apartment's walls were crumbling in places and the ceiling had holes where the mortar had broken down. The floor was sticky in places and some of the lights were hanging by their leads from the walls.

"Naruto, how have lived like this?" Zorn asked, still shocked at the shack which Naruto had called home for the past years. Zorn's eyes showed him that the table and chairs had woodworm and that there were termites nesting behind the fridge. Overall the apartment was in very poor condition.

"Well, I have never really thought about it to be honest." Zorn gave Naruto a strange look. "This was the first place I could call my own so, no matter what state it was in, it was home."

Zorn looked around the apartment once more. "We had better get started, especially if you want to pass the test tomorrow." Naruto nodded at his family. "First thing's first, we need to clean up and make some room so we can practise." A loud groan was heard around the general area of the apartment complex.

"Ok, Naruto. The first clone technique that I will be teaching you is called the 'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu' (Shadow clone Jutsu). It creates multiple doppelgängers of whoever uses the technique and it is very different to the clone which the academy teaches. The first difference is that when the shadow clone is created and also when they are destroyed, a small smokescreen is formed from the clone. This means that they can be used to obscure the view of an opponent. The next difference is that the clone is solid rather than an illusion and also takes a small amount of chakra from your supply so it can fight and is able to use jutsu."

Naruto's grin threatened to cut his face in half. "So you mean these clones will be able to fight along with me?"

"Hai. Now there is only a single hand sign for this jutsu, which means it can be used quickly in combat. You take the tiger seal and separate your hands. Then you place your right hand in front with your fingers pointing upwards. Next, you position your left hand behind the right so that your two hands form a cross shape. Finally, you tuck your thumbs into your palm so the tip is touching the other fingers which are not pointed."

Naruto eagerly tested out the hand sign and called the name of the jutsu, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."

The Dinning room was suddenly in smoke as two solid clones appeared behind Naruto. Naruto gazed at the figures whilst they laughed at his face. Zorn smirked to himself and asked Naruto to dispel the doppelgängers.

"Hey, I remember laughing at myself." Naruto stood in shock for a moment. "But that was my clone!"

"It seems you have discovered another piece of information about the shadow clones." Zorn paused for a breath before explaining in detail. "Whenever a shadow clone is destroyed or you disperse it, all knowledge and experience, in essence their memories, come back to you so you then have their combined knowledge."

Naruto placed his fist on the right hand side of his chin and thought for a second. His eyes widened and mouth dropped open. A moment later he shut it, shaking his head slightly before he opened his mouth again in preparation for a question.

"So does that mean, if I were to use them for training, I could learn faster?"

Zorn laughed again, whilst Naruto smiled at his new cousin.

"Yes Naruto that is exactly what it means, although I would not recommend you doing that without anyone around, the strain on your body might become too much. Alright?"

Naruto nodded his head in agreement and stifled a yawn.

"Now, I want you to repeat the jutsu three times. When you perform the jutsu the first time create three clones, on the second time create five clones and on the last time create nine clones. This will help you learn to process the clones' memories and also grow accustomed to the clones taking some of your chakra with them when they are created."

"Ok. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Following the hand seal, three clones immediately appeared, each with a smug grin. Zorn merely nodded his head in acceptance of the clones as they dispersed.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Yet again the required amount of replications appeared surrounding the original. Zorn smiled at the site, it appeared that Naruto was able to grasp this technique tremendously well.

"Ok, Naruto. This time create the nine clones but allow me to speak to a single clone before you disperse them." Naruto nodded in understanding.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Nine clones burst into the world through smoke. Zorn took one of the doppelgängers by the hand and took it into another room. Naruto looked quite bewildered, but didn't question his cousin's experiment.

After reaching the bedroom, Zorn shut the door and spoke quietly to the clone. "Ok, this is so the real you can learn to sort through the feedback memories of this technique." The clone bobbed his head up and down.

"If Naruto can find this memory I will take him out for my favourite meal after he completes the Genin test tomorrow and, just so you know, my favourite is ramen."

Zorn walked back into the dinning room with the clone. Naruto still had the questioning expression upon his face.

"Right. End the technique and see if you can win the prize," Zorn teased, and the clone he had told giggled a little. A smokescreen covered the small room and when it cleared both Naruto and Zorn stood coughing from its affects.

"Ramen is your favourite too, huh?" Naruto asked, a grin prominent on his face. Naruto didn't wait for an answer from Zorn, instead he decided that bounding around and yelling at the top of his voice would be a more suited way to express the situation."Hell yeah, ramen, ramen, RAMEN!" Seeing the childlike display, Zorn sweat-dropped.

"Hey, Naruto!" The young boy continued to jump and dance around the room. "HEY, SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME FOR A MINUTE!"

Naruto ceased bouncing around and stood to attention. "Good. I was planning on teaching you the second jutsu as well tonight but you need your sleep for tomorrow. Ill teach it to you after ramen tomorrow, okay?"

"What? But you said you would teach me both before the test!"

"I know I said that and I will," Zorn defended, but he didn't get to finish his sentence

"Then teach me. Pleeeeeaaassssseeeee!"

A small sparkle lit up in Zorn's eye and he smiled at his younger cousin. "How about this? If you go to bed now, I will wake you before the academy starts. We can have breakfast, get to know each other a little better and then we can go out to a training field for a while and I will teach you the technique."

Naruto thought for a brief moment. "Yeah, sounds good to me. As long as you don't forget!"

"Hey. I gave you a promise and I never go back on my promises!" Zorn grinned. "Well, off to bed with you. I'll go and find a place to stay."

"Huh? I thought you would be staying here with me." Naruto looked downhearted. "You know, with us being family and stuff."

"Then I would be grateful if you would allow me to spend the night here. Don't worry I have a sleeping bag and pillow so the floor won't be too bad." Zorn sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Maybe tomorrow I could go and find out about your parents' house and we could move in there. It should be a little bigger than this place, considering that your dad was the Fourth Hokage."

Next day . . . .

After a heavy training session, Naruto showered and got dressed. He allowed himself a slight grin as he stood in front of his mirror. He had changed his 'kill me' orange jumpsuit for a pair of dark blue cargo trousers and t-shirt. Zorn had attached the Namikaze symbol to the back and the shoulder of the shirt a little earlier.

"Come on, Naruto, we're going to be late if you continue to gaze at yourself any more," stated Zorn as he poked his head around Naruto's bedroom door.

"Coming, oniisan!"

The walk for the two had been uneventful apart from a few glares from the villagers directed at Naruto. He had enjoyed the walk with his cousin. They talked about many different times in their lives and from what they heard, both had similar upbringings. Along the way, Naruto looked over to talk to Zorn, but he had vanished. Confused, Naruto stood around waiting for a minute before Zorn appeared behind him.

"Hey, we'll be late if you keep on standing around here. Come on!"

Naruto looked disbelievingly at Zorn as he started to resume walking towards the academy. "And where the hell did you disappear to?"

Zorn looked back at his cousin. "I might have left to gather something for later, or it could be that I went to get you a graduation present."

Naruto's face went from showing surprise, to shock, to finally settling at happiness. "Thank you oniisan! What did you get me?"

"As if I'm going to tell you before you graduate!" Zorn smiled. "Although I know you will love it." Naruto continued to question Zorn some more as they reached the school's grounds but the older blond didn't budge. As they walked to the entrance of the academy, Zorn noticed many of the parents grumbling under their breaths about a 'demon child'. Naruto was so excited that he hadn't realised this, but Zorn had. He said his goodbye to Naruto as he walked into the academy, then turned and pumped out an enormous amount of killing intent at all the parents and others who had gathered.

An idiotic villager from the previous night saw the cape and shouted. "It's the man the demon corrupted." The villager was about to continue but a sudden punch to his jaw sent him flying into the wall surrounding the academy building. Zorn's rage had finally got the better of him.

"Listen to me," he shouted. "If anyone tries to make Naruto's day anything less than it should be for him, I will personally gut said person or persons, and make a display of the corpses across the Hokage monument!"

Many of the adults gasped at the hideous threat whilst younger children started to cry, but Zorn did not care.

'Let them feel the fear they have inflicted upon a young boy. They are the true demons for such barbaric behaviour.'

Iruka's lecture room.

Iruka had slowly been going through the register for the class Genin test. The order in which previous classes were tested was alphabetical. When he got halfway down the list he was surprised to see that Naruto was no longer listed at the bottom. When his eyes eventually picked out the last name of his favourite student his eyebrows rose up and his brain went into shock. The class was behaving in its usual manner. Screams and voices were being thrown everywhere. Most of the girls were drooling over Sasuke, the last of the Uchiha, whilst the boys were either sleeping, eating or arguing over some small problem in life. Even above the noise, the class still heard a shocked Iruka speak.

"Naruto, is this really your last name?" Iruka questioned. Everyone had stopped talking and had given a confused look to both the sensei and the 'dead last' Naruto who grinned to himself and gave a single nodding motion. "Ok then." After a few seconds, the rest of the sentence was delivered by a bewildered Iruka.

"Naruto Namikaze . . . . please come with me to take your test."

A single gasp was heard throughout the entire class as Naruto walked down from his seat positioned at the back of the lecture room.

Next chapter the fun begins and the world of Naruto undergoes changes.

Also You all get to see what other Jutsu Zorn has taught Naruto. looking forward to writing it =]