Truth is but a similar to an illusion
-My Own Quote
Chapter 4
Naruto slid carefully into their meeting place, successfully avoiding the parading village guards. He was far away from Konoha, leaving only a Shadow Clone on his bed. The man was waiting behind a tree line, crossing his arms. The moon that night failed to illuminate his whole features as the darkness is more dominant behind the tree that he was standing on.
"You're the type of individual who has a death wish", the man cut off the silence while Naruto walked towards him.
"Did they see?", the blonde asked.
"I have a lot of experience than you youngling. I know what I'm doing".
Naruto reached out in his pocket some material possessions that he stole from other bandits he pillaged. "This is all I have, will this be enough?"
"You sure have a lot of wealth in your hands", says the man, pocketing the cash into his cloak.
"I already made a deal with you so do your part. I expect great things from you", Naruto said.
"Show respect to your elders if you don't want to be killed", he says preparing to jump off the trees. "And one more thing", he continued. "Don't let yourself be captured".
"We are far from being friends but wishing you the same is no harm for me". The blonde replied, watching on the figure disappearing into the woods.
Naruto ran back into Konoha, jumping into the trees and forests. The cool wind brushed through his features, revealing his blonde hair underneath a mask. Despite that, both parties knew each other's faces and with the right price, the blonde knew that the person he contacted to can perform the job above his expectations.
There are a lot of threats everywhere. Naruto was stressed as he reached the gates. Opening the window of his home, he signaled his clone and then it poofed out of existence. He hasn't gotten a decent sleep lately. Comics littered the floor with various protagonists having different powers. One female protagonist had the power to make an explosion in an empty space, another had the ability to summon weapons without the use of a scroll. The latter is advanced fuuinjutsu he knew. Fuuijutsu is the art of sealing and sealing objects needed scrolls, to which these objects to be contained.
In the case of this protagonist he read, she summons weapons and armor from several pocket dimensions, effectively donning them in battle giving a wide variety of effects. Doing this for the first time is tricky as he knew nothing of time space dimensions. Papers littered everywhere, with Naruto's diagrams and drawings pertain to summon a weapon out of thin air without hand seals. In this stage, hand seals aren't necessary but this will be an impossible feat. But he is Naruto. He can make the impossible possible.
Trashing around his room, he experimented on with his kunai. Settling down the weapon on the floor, he focused all his intention to make the weapon disappear. He read on the comics again, trying every possible theory on his head.
'What I need is chakra control to which I suck. Medical ninjas practice with a fish to better control their chakra to which I will do'. There was a semi-alive fish that Naruto caught from the river earlier on. Putting on his hands at the fish, he focused on the amount of chakra he exerted. And then the fish exploded.
"Damn!", he grunted. "How does even the Otsutsuki do it?"
He spent the hours focusing on several fishes. Most exploded, others died and others nothing happened. He wanted to give up at this point but he knew that his nindo is to never give up so why would he give up? He already knew how to walk on walls, and walk on water. The biggest problem here is control. He had massive amounts of chakra, which in turn did not allow him to have that advanced chakra control like Sakura. But the Otsutsuki clan, they, too, possess massive amounts of it. How can they control it that much?
Questions and questions start pouring down on Naruto's head. Pulling on his hair in frustration, he got out of his house. It was already around 10PM, and luckily for him, he was in time before the comics store will be closed. Naruto isn't fond of comics, though he remembered reading them in his spare time.
"You're too late at night Naruto that we're already closing off", the owner said.
"Do you still have those comics in the action genre?"
"Yeah, lots of it. Though I won't sell you anymore considering it's already too late. Just come back tomorrow", the owner replied.
"No, I can't. We have a mission and I can't go into your store".
"It's not that these editions are running out. We still have plenty in stock".
"I know…", Naruto scratched his head. "But youngsters these days are heavily invested on those types of genre. Who knows?"
"Yeah, yeah. How many will you buy?". The owner entered the store followed by the blonde.
"All of it".
"Wh-What?", the owner bulged his eyes in a comedic manner seeing the wad of cash on Naruto's hand.
"I didn't expect that you're so fond of these things", he said.
"Just hurry up!", Naruto said in annoyance.
"Yeah, yeah I get it. No need to be so demanding". The owner prepared all the comics; put them into a large box. Minutes later, Naruto was outside, carrying 3 large boxes of action comics.
'I didn't know this was supposed to be so heavy'. He thought.
He kicked the door and hurried into his room. He spilt the contents of all the comics he bought and read and read for potential techniques and skills he's going to invent to be used in preparation for the arrival of the Otsutsuki.
"This is too ridiculous", he told himself. The man with the ability to stretch himself? That's too funny and way impossible unless he had a bloodline or something. He threw comic after comic. He saw one with the ability to eat fire, to which is interesting but no logic behind it. Another incorporated elemental ninjutsu with taijutsu, much similar to how Tsunade fights but the lady only uses chakra enhanced attacks. The other manipulates elements but all come out black in nature. Black lightning, black fire and black wind.
"I like it. God Slayer", Naruto chuckled to himself.
He's interested in this ability. The girl manipulated wind and can heal her own wounds without hand seals. She even eats wind or air to replenish herself. Another character he saw had the ability to affix their power into certain things and can change the entire world, which obviously requires massive amounts of chakra if were to perform in real life. This girl turned a princess into a rat, connected her eye into the sky and turned soldiers into berserkers. It seems she's a real god if she's real. Another comic that caught on his eye had the ability to materialize memories. He then read the dialog of the character in the comic.
"With Orga's black lightning and your ice, I make it Sword of Frozen Black Lightning. With my ability, I easily memorize all abilities I saw and then give birth to it by combining two or several of them. Your memories are your weapons"
"That was a great dialog", Naruto said. "Giving memories forms, quite versatile and highly effective. Even a Kekkei Genkai can be replicated and combine it with another, having a new hybrid of abilities all at once. But still, I haven't found some clues as to how control chakra better without hand seals. The Otsutsuki have huge amounts of it and can easily sway forth their hands to just have another jutsu in existence".
Ability to manipulate time, ghosts, everything and everything. Naruto listed down all potential abilities he wanted to invent and no one would replicate. He opened another box, dug through a whole stockpile of comics and saw a character.
"Using spiritual power?", Naruto muttered. "Chakra is composed of two kinds of energies, physical energy and spiritual energy. Spiritual energy is derived from the consciousness…"
Looking on at some explanations at the comics, he saw this passage.
"When one has massive amounts of spiritual power, their soul also becomes powerful. Spiritual power is linked into our mental energies. When one thinks, those thoughts come forth and spread throughout the mind. For those thoughts be given form, the key is visualizing. Visualizing the desired effect and then believing in it will make what you want come to life".
At that moment on, Naruto reached his Eureka moment. That's it. Books in the library will do no good but comics will give clues. That's it, how to control it. Ignoring the trash bin of his room, he positioned again his kunai and visualized that it will disappear.
"Naruto, focus, focus. Believe in yourself. It will take a while", he chanted under his breath. Imagining the kunai will disappear and be stored into an empty void, he continued pouring in his willpower. His head ached but kept his focus. Still no effect. Minutes turned to an hour until later on, Naruto screamed in frustration.
"I take it back. I think the library will help". But then, Naruto looked on at the single kunai on the floor and then it disappeared into view.
"Holy…how come?" Rubbing his eyes to see if he was imagining, the kunai wasn't there anymore. Naruto felt a strange sensation on his forehead, something ticklish despite the throbbing headache. Wanting the kunai to reappear, the kunai again appeared and dropped out on his head, causing him to fall down on the floor. Rubbing his head in pain, he can't believe that such simple act such as visualization will do the trick.
He did it again and then the kunai disappeared. Excited at this prospect, he made all his weapons disappear but at the cost of a huge headache. He practiced that very night and before he noticed it, it was already dawn.
The team meetings began for the first mission and when Team 7 saw Naruto, he was only wearing some black swim briefs and a set of black sleeveless waistcoat with gold on its rims. It was further accentuated with high black boots and some black lipstick. He sauntered groggily, with his eyelids almost dropping. There were black bags under his eyes but was further intensified by black eyeliner just for what he term 'fashion effect'.
"Naruto? What happened to you?", Kakashi asked.
"Had a party…", Naruto replied.
'So indecent…', Sasuke thought to himself. Meanwhile, Sakura wondered what brought on the change in Naruto's wardrobe.
It was so indecent that it made the pink haired blush and cover her eyes. For Naruto, this is fashion, better than that Franky character he saw. The clothes he wore for his upper torso was modeled after that comic character named Natsu though he only changed the colors. And those black boots and piercings were modeled after that Gajeel. His black lipstick and eye shadow was inspired from that super intelligent Lawliet, who is a detective and is very intelligent.
"Naruto, change your clothes", Kakashi ordered. "You're way too indecent".
"Kakashi-sensei, this is fashion!", Naruto insisted while doing the Franky pose. All three sweatdropped at this. Seeing no point to argue with the blonde, they proceeded with their first D rank mission.
In the forest, Naruto and Sasuke were hiding behind the trees, looking for the target.
"What's the distance to the target?", the voice of their teacher can easily be heard into their earpiece.
"About five meters…", Sasuke replied.
"I'm ready", Naruto added.
"So am I", came the reply of Sakura.
"Go!", Kakashi signaled. The three genin leaped out of the bushes and wanting to end this, Naruto immediately leapt for the cat.
"Got ya!"
"Good lost pet Tora retrieved", Kakashi said casually. Immediately, in the Hokage Tower, Shijimi, the owner of Tora, hugged the cat fiercely.
Naruto ignored the overwhelming 'affection' of Madam Shijimi and he just wanted to have a C rank mission.
"Now, Team 7's next duty is babysitting an elder's grandson, shopping in the neighboring village and help with some potato digging".
"No!", Naruto exclaimed in exaggeration. "No more of these stupid missions. We want something cooler, more like real shinobi". Naruto said while making his arms in a cross formation.
"You idiot, you're just a rookie!".
Naruto covered his ears with the sheer intensity of Iruka's voice vibrating in the air.
"And not to mention, your clothes are way too indecent. Go home and change it!", Iruka bumped on his fists on Naruto's head.
"But this is fashion!", Naruto insisted, earning another bump on his head.
"That's enough", Hiruzen interrupted. "If he doesn't want to change his clothes so be it. Though people from other villages will see us in a new light because of you".
"Anyway, about these missions, each one is divided into ranks. A, B, C, and D. These ranks pertain on difficulty level with S being the highest and most dangerous. Shinobi are also divided, with the genin being the lowest, chuunin next, and then jounins. When a mission becomes completed, the client receives payment in exchange for their services. In…"
"Stop, stop! We already know!", Naruto waving his arms in a no.
"I apologize for that", Kakashi said.
"If you insist, I'll give you a C rank mission". This earned surprises except for Naruto. "A protection on a certain individual".
There entered, Tazuna in his glory.
"What's this? A bunch of brats out here to protect me? Especially you only wearing underwear, are you really a ninja?"
"This is fashion!", Naruto defended with eyes bulging in intensity.
"I told you that it will give a bad image to others", Sakura said.
"I am the super bridge builder Tazuna. I expect you to provide me super protection until I get back to my country and complete the bridge".
Later that day, the five of them departed going to the Land of Waves.
"And Naruto", said Kakashi, glancing at his student at the gates. "You didn't bring any of your necessities".
"Nah, don't worry about me. Can handle it myself". Naruto grinned sheepishly.
"Just don't regret it if you don't have weapons with you", Kakashi said, continuing on walking along with the client.
'Haku, Zabuza, this time I'll protect you'.