Naruto would have been overjoyed if he didn't hurt so much. He and Sasuke went into the base and Sasuke helped him with his essays of course it was all in Naruto's words Sasuke just helped him plan it out better and fix some spelling mistakes. Then Sasuke left and Naruto ate. He took a shower and started a small load of laundry before passing out in his bed.

As Naruto slept an orange glow surrounded his body.

Naruto woke at sun's first light and got up. He switched the laundry around after getting dressed. Today he decided he was going to scour the shower but first breakfast. He was shocked to see a scroll laying on the table who could have gotten in here besides him, Sakura and Sasuke. Maybe Sasuke had been told to bring him this? He noted his screen in front of him.

Kyuubi Merging has begun!

Novice Healing Factor- 4 hours

Chakra Paw Jutsu- 4 hours

Fox Style Novice Taijutsu- 4 hours

Kyuubi? Naruto wondered as he made breakfast. Maybe that was why people hated him. He ate then did his dishes.

Dishwashing-2

He couldn't tell if the dishes were any cleaner or not but he put them away and picked up the scroll. He opened it and a storage scroll was inside. He put it in his inventory and caught the note. He read it.

This scroll will teach you the Rasengan the 4th Hokage's signature Jutsu. In the Storage Scroll there are tools to help you learn the Jutsu easier. This scroll is just a copy.

It wasn't signed.

Would you like learn Rasengan?

He pressed yes.

Rasengan- 4 hours

The scroll glew and vanished. He put the note in his inventory as well then went to the bathroom. He pushed the window open and the whole thing collapsed outside breaking. He sighed he'd find away to fix that later. He took off his orange jacket and got to work.

Scouring-1

Scrubbing-1

He worked and worked for four hours straight scrubbing his shower clean of course when he was done he couldn't even tell if he'd done anywork except that he'd gotten some stat boosts.

He wiped his forehead and splashed his face with water from the sink. If this was what living in a home entailed maybe he'd go back to living on the streets. Keeping a house was hard.

You've learned

Novice Healing Factor-1

Chakra Paw Jutsu-1

Fox Style Novice Taijutsu-1

Rasengan-1

He smirked to himself. He went outside and began stretching out. Working for four hours straight made him not want to train Taijutsu today that and the beating he'd taken from Sasuke.

Would you like to activate Novice Healing Factor?

It is a passive skill and will always stay on once you activate it.

Naruto quickly did. He assumed that meant he could heal himself. After stretching out the kinks and sores in his body he pulled out the storage scroll suddenly knowing what to do thanks to the scroll's knowledge suddenly being in his head. He emptied 99 water balloons into his Inventory then closed the scroll and put it back while pulling a water balloon out. He held it in his right hand and focused on what the scroll had said for him to do.

Wind began to form in his hand he tried to make it dense enough to burst the balloon. This was hard work. It took several minutes for Naruto to be able to make the balloon burst.

Wind Chakra is unlocked!

Wind Chakra-1

Level up Wind Chakra through Chakra training.

Warning: This will take a lot of time and effort as Chakra Training is hard no matter how much CC you have.

Naruto sweat dropped but pulled another balloon out to keep training. By the time it was 1 o'clock in the afternoon Naruto had burst all 99 balloons but hadn't gained a level in Rasengan. He emptied another 99 balloons into his Inventory then took off running towards the school as fast as he could. He met up with Sasuke again and they raced neither even noticing that Sakura was behind them trying her best to keep up.

Sasuke won again. Naruto just grinned at him. They turned when they saw Sakura racing towards them actually pushing herself to the limits of her speed. She finally arrived and doubled over in front of them.

"Wow, you are slow." Naruto said, to her with his arms behind his head. "How long were you following us?"

"I was behind you from the time you met up with Sasuke I called out several times for you to wait up." Sakura cried.

"Our daily race is training." Naruto explained, "No, waiting up. You do your best to catch up or you get left behind. But don't worry we wont leave you behind on missions or anything like that. This is just training."

The adults were already there and were nodding at Naruto's words.

"Ugh!" Sakura grabbed Naruto's arms and made him lower them. "You smell when was the last time you had a bath?"

"I took a shower last night." Naruto stated. "But then I spent four hours scrubbing my shower clean this morning then after that I was practicing a new Jutsu off of a scroll I found on the table. Did either of you leave it?"

"I was yelled at for being late getting home." Sakura huffed, "No way I would be allowed to leave again."

"Hn."

"Oh, you came back." Naruto nodded. "Where'd you get it?"

"Hn."

"ANBU?" Naruto translated. "Hmmm..."

He shrugged it off. What ANBU would want to help him and why? Had someone given the ANBU the scroll to give to him? If so why? He really shrugged it off this time.

"I got scrolls too." Sakura said, frowning. "Water Shuriken Jutsu and a Healing Jutsu. Apparently, water is my chakra."

"Mine's wind." Naruto explained. "and Sasuke's is fire. We'll have to think of useful ways to use that to our advantage. But the reason I smell and am sweaty is because I've been working all day."

"What Jutsu are you trying to learn?" Sakura asked as they walked to the Jutsu dummies with a giant 7 behind them.

"It's a secret." Naruto replied, "I wont use it until it's a lot stronger. I've already decided that but I have learned about another Jutsu that I can use." He looked for Iruka-sensei. "Hey, Iruka-Sensei, can I practice against these?" he pointed to the dummies.

"That's what they are there for, Naruto." Iruka replied, looking up from the make shift judges table where he was getting the Hokage, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Danzo and two others seated. "Go ahead, just don't let Sasuke burn them down."

Naruto looked at Sasuke.

"You heard him take it easy."

Sakura giggled.

Naruto pulled his right hand back bending his fingers at the knuckles. Chakra filled his hand until it was glowing. He shoved his hand forward into the dummie.

"Chakra Paw Jutsu!"

Damage was calculated by the counter above the dummy he'd attacked.

"2 Damage, Naruto." Sakura pipped up.

"It's new!" Naruto defended his cheeks burning. "I just learned it a few hours ago. I just need to train it that's all!"

Sakura nodded and went to Shuriken throwing line that was close to the dummy on Naruto's left. Sasuke was doing the same on Naruto's right. Both pulled out Shuriken.

"Water Style: "

"Fire Style: "

"Water/Fire Shuriken Jutsu!"

Both Sasuke and Sakura released their Shuriken but water and fire didn't stay on them.

Naruto stopped in his attacking.

"You know what helps me when I'm learning a jutsu?" He asked them. "I practice channeling the exact amount of Chakra needed over and over again until I can do it as second nature. Why don't you guys try that. Channel your Elemental Chakra over and over again until it feels like you can do it in your sleep and your screens say you've mastered it."

Sakura blinked at Naruto in shock but nodded and retrieved her Shuriken Sasuke doing the same.

+2 Int/+ 2 Wis

Naruto was glad of that. He hadn't been studying because he was so busy training he'd need to work studying into his day somewhere. He went back to practicing and was soon so focused he didn't notice anything like Tsunade and Jiraiya watching him closely.

"Hm." Jiraiya said, to Tsunade. "You trained Kushina didn't you, Tsunade?"

"I did." Tsunade agreed.

"Chakra Paw Jutsu is of the Uzumaki Fox Style isn't it?"

Many people were listening.

"Yes, it is." Tsunade agreed again. "Meaning the merge has already began."

Jiraiya was just as worried as his friend an ally but Hiruzen had called them back for this reason. Or rather he seemed to think that Naruto was suicidal though neither of them had seen it.

"Fire Style: Fire Shuriken Jutsu!"

Sasuke was shocked when it actually worked. Okay, maybe Naruto would make a good team leader after all because that had been very good advice. He looked over at Sakura just as she launched hers apparently having the same result.

"Great!" Naruto said, having noticed. "Then I have a great combo attack we can use."

He pulled them in to a huddle much to Sakura's dismay Naruto smelled even worse now. He began whispering frantically to them. Both were shocked but agreed to his idea as a combo attack.

Iruka finally called class to order.

For coming up with a combo attack, +2 Int/+2 Wis

Iruka took attendance.

"Okay, listen up. Lord Hokage wants you to learn at least one Jutsu outside of three before he allows you to graduate. All those who know Jutsu go to the dummies with your numbers behind them and practice all those who don't come to me."

Only the clan kids and Sakura began practicing the other reported to Iruka and Mizuki.

"Naruto knows a Jutsu?" Ino asked, with a frown.

"What?" Shikamaru yawned.

Ino nodded to Squad 7.

"Naruto didn't go to Iruka-Sensei or Mizuki-sensei." she pointed out. Then made up her mind. "Hey, Naruto, lets see your Jutsu then."

"Chakra Paw Jutsu!"

Chakra Paw Jutsu-5

It was harder than it looked really it was but he did 15 damage all a sudden. Which he liked it'd kill a lot of the small chakra rats in the TG with one hit.

"That's all I can do right now." Naruto said, rubbing the back of his head and laughing.

"Whoa. He really does know a Jutsu." Shino said in shock.

They all went back to training. Iruka and Mizuki were soon annoyed with the civilian ninja kids; except Sakura, as they had to find out what type of Chakra they had then had to find the proper Jutsu scroll and walk them through it. Hadn't they taught these kids anything? They should know that they needed to read the Jutsu scroll and study it before trying. But they were teachers and went around helping.

Iruka was glad when five o'clock came and he could call a stop to the class. He had a migraine.

"We're doing something different for combat class today." Iruka said, preying that class would be over soon. "Everyone has noticed the padlock that has been set up in the school yard?" Everyone nodded it was hard to miss. "A ninja will be placed in the padlock and each of you will face him individually and as a team."

"We have to face a full grown ninja?" Sakura cried.

The man in the padlock looked like a mountain made out of pure muscle.

"That's correct."

Naruto and his team sat down not far from the judge booth.

"Sakura, Sasuke, Maintenance your weapons so they don't break on you during the fight." Naruto was reading a pamphlet.

"Eh, where'd you get that?" Sakura wondered.

"Found on the ground by my feet when we stopped." He showed it to them. "See? It says channeling Chakra into weapons lowers the durability and makes them prone to breaking quicker and easier."

They both read the pamphlet a lot quicker than Naruto and understood it better so did what Naruto told them to do.

Leadership-2

"I knew I was right making Naruto the Team Captain." Hiruzen chuckled. "Thank you, son."

Asuma Sarutobi nodded his head to his father the Hokage.

"No problem." He shrugged. "I was wondering why you asked me to bring that though. Now I understand."

All the kids before Hinata fled the ring after a few minutes including the Clan kids though they'd fared better than the civilian ninja kids. Hinata stayed in the ring for a full half hour before finally having to be dragged out by her Genin cousin because the ninja had managed to get in her blind spot.

Neji landed in front of his uncle and set Hinata down. He hadn't liked rescuing her but he wasn't about to let her get hurt because she was trying to prove something.

"Thank you, Neji." Hiashi said, indifferently.

After that the kids started fleeing quickly again.

Naruto watched with a frown on his face trying to figure out why no one's attacks were doing anything. It wasn't until Sasuke that he finally noticed. Sasuke had rotated between Uchiha style Taijutsu and Fireball attacks most hitting the same spot. Naruto noticed that what looked like small bits of rock fell off the Ninja. It clicked in his head now he just needed away to prove it and even if he did there wasn't much they could do about it.

Sasuke stayed in the ring for a full hour before having to flee and get healed. Then Naruto entered. He fought his best determined to out last Sasuke. He used mostly Taijutsu as his Kunai and Shuriken did nothing and neither did his Chakra Paw. He lasted an hour as well before fleeing do to a leg injury. Throughout the day his Novice Healing Factor had been leveling up and he could actually feel his leg healing. He fell on the ground between Sakura and Sasuke and rubbed his leg. Moving the leg of his pants up so he could see the wound most were shocked to see that it had already started to slow in bleeding.

"Sakura, heal it." Naruto said, "The best you can. You need to train that healing Jutsu after all don't worry what you can't heal will heal on it's own soon enough."

Sakura didn't understand but centered herself and put her hands over Naruto's wounds. They glowed green as she attempted to heal. She ran out of Chakra after awhile and had to stop though.

"Nice you almost fully healed it." Naruto said, checking his screen. "With that my wound should be fully healed...crap...not fast enough..."

Tsunade was suddenly kneeling in front of Naruto looking at Sakura's work.

"Not bad, young lady." She commented. She then healed the rest. "There you go, Naruto."

"Thank you, Tsunade-Dono." Sakura said.

"Thank you, Tsunade-Dono." Naruto parroted being brightly.

Naruto sat whispering to Sakura and Sasuke as the first team went in.

"EH!" Sakura cried, loudly. "YOU'RE JOKING!"

Naruto and Sasuke pulled her back into the huddle both glaring at her as people were now staring. After a second they all just sat side by side.

"I'm not joking." Naruto sighed, "I saw it. Pay attention and maybe it will happen again. Hinata maybe strong enough to make it happen again if she gives it her full focus and power."

Nearby Hinata suddenly sat bolt up having heard. Ignoring members of her family she bolted for Shino, Akamaru, and Kiba who were trying to get out of going in without her.

"We're going in now, Iruka-Sensei!" She cried pulling Kiba behind her by the arm. Kiba grabbed Shino who remained stoic while he was dragged along. Akamaru happily ran after them. "We'll do our best!"

Naruto blinked stupidly and everyone could almost see question marks dancing above his head.

Squad 7 paid close attention to the fight and sure enough Hinata proved herself to be a Hyuga and fought with everything she had along side her teammates.

"Palm Bottom Strike!' Hinata finally yelled striking with all she had.

"There!" Naruto cried.

"I see it." Sasuke nodded.

"I don't!" Sakura cried.

They both gave her a dead look and focused back on the battle. Hinata realizing her attack had done nothing had frozen and was tackled out of the way by Kiba as Shino tried to use his bugs as a distraction. The team had to leave do to low Chakra reserves but everyone was shocked by Hinata's performance Iruka even praised her for a full three minutes before putting Ino-Shikamaru-Choji in the ring.

The result of this was Shikamaru not being able to hold the Ninja therefore Ino not being able to capture his mind and Choji getting his butt kicked. Shikamaru yelled for a retreat after only five minutes.

"We'll this is us." Naruto said.

"Do you actually have a plan going into this?" Sakura asked as they walked toward the padlock.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head in thought.

"I've got one but it wouldn't work until my other Jutsu is ready." Naruto sighed. "So nope. Sorry, I'm not Shikamaru and if you keep complaining I'm going to ask the Hokage to switch you with Hinata."

"Hn." Sasuke replied.

"EH!" Sakura cried. "You can't mean that, Sasuke!"

The look he gave her flat out said, he was willing to go along with Naruto's request to get Hinata on their team.

"I can think of at least four plans to beat this guy with Sasuke and Hinata but none with you." Naruto said, as they entered the ring.

Several people were snickering or laughing. Hinata promptly fainted. Kiba caught her while Shino pulled an essence out, lit it and began waving it under her nose.

The tactic turned out to be Sasuke and Naruto attacking non-stop with Taijutsu while Sakura covered them with Kunai, Shuriken and the occasional Water Shuriken.

Naruto hit the ground hard at Sakura's feet ten minutes into the battle. His cheek already bruising. Sakura was quick to heal and Naruto charged back in using his Chakra Palm.

Thirty minutes later.

"COMBO HIM!" Naruto bellowed catching Sasuke's eye.

Sasuke nodded.

"Fire/Water Style: Fire/Water Shuriken Jutsu!" Sasuke and Sakura bellowed. "Combo Attack! Smoke Shuriken Jutsu!"

Sure enough upon hitting the Ninja he was surrounded in a thick fog of smoke. Taking advantage of this Naruto and Sasuke went all out hitting the same place over and over again with Taijutsu and Ninjutsu finally the Earth fell away revealing a flag jacket underneath.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled jumping away.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"

The ninja yelled in pain and his Earth style fell away. Sasuke and Naruto didn't let up and Sakura provided long rang support until the ninja was down and bleeding. Sasuke and Naruto landed next to Sakura both breathing hard and drenched in sweat. There was silence all around them.

"I'm out." Sakura said.

"Hn." Sasuke agreed.

"Same here." Naruto nodded. "Retreat!"

The ninja was shocked but actually proud of the kids for knowing that they couldn't deal the finishing blow to win. Not to kill him but if they knocked him out or drained his chakra they would have won.