Sitting in the classroom Naruto glared at the Kanji he had been carefully tracing as his mind thought of all the awesome things he could do once he got the exploding tag down right, gently tugging on his lower lip as he thought the young blonde finally sighed before looking up at the one teacher that did not ignore him. "Iruka Sensei, does this have to be done on paper?" he asked as the teacher blinked at the question for a moment before responding.

"No actually, the exploding tag can be placed on anything that would take it, wood, stone, cloth, nearly anything in fact." The instructor explained before pressing the advantage to educate the few students listening "paper is simply the easiest to draw it on and to feed Chakra into, the other items are slightly more complicated to energize if you will and the energy needed changes depending on the size of the Kanji seal and the item it is drawn on, the larger the item the more energy will be needed to charge it and the larger the seal the larger the explosion.

As he went on to explain other things Naruto tuned him out as his mind wandered to the many options he had for exploding tags now.

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Carving the Kanji into the wooden plank Naruto finished before channeling chakra into it, he was amazed at how much it took, the wood absorbed massive amounts of Chakra from him before the familier process began to activate leaving a smiling Naruto holding an improvised exploding device in the middle of his bedroom.

Fortunately he realized his predicament and quickly hurled with danger out of the window, fortunate for him, not so much for the mean lady with the snapping dog across the street.

As the dust cleared and ANBU began to arrive in response to the rather sizeable explosion Naruto came to the decision that this was a conversation he would prefer to not have with JiJi-Sama at the moment and quickly disappeared over the rooftops away from the scene of the crime.

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Sitting in the dirt outside of class as he failed yet again Naruto idly drew in the dirt as he tried to figure out why he was always 'Lucky' enough to have the Bunshin be his choice for graduation Jutsu, never anything cool like spitting poison or flying decapitation, he just knew he could pull those off.

Heck he would be happy with just the seal writing, he could make an exploding tag in his sleep, he mused before swiping out the needed Kanji in the dirt before tossing the stick away angrily, punching the seal the young Ninja was surprised when he the seal glowed briefly before fading, blinking Naruto threw some more Chakra into the seal and watched as it writhed and sputtered for a moment before turning black.

In a moment a new seal was swiped into the dirt and Naruto threw a ton of power into it, leaving the familiar smoking seal on the ground, smiling in victory at successfully making a seal on dirt Naruto looked from the exploding seal to the classroom full of students currently being taught by Mizuki before realization set in, the next few moments were spent frantically trying to extinguish the seal before it entered it's final phase with a scream of terror Naruto took off for the hills.

Had the young boy looked back he would have been surprised to see Mizuki throw the window open and begin to screech at him for disrupting class, the assistant teacher never even took note of the Kanji beneath the window.

In the aftermath of the explosion the assistant teacher would have several of his darker secrets escape and he would quickly be transferred from the hospital to the tender mercies of Ibiki and Anko at the village Interrogation department.

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Swiping his feet across the ground Naruto watched as his feet dug into the dirt of the practice court, with an evil grin a horribly wonderful idea began to form.

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"Guy Sensei" Naruto said as the strange Taijutsu master continued in his morning workout regime alongside the determined Rock Lee. "Can you teach me how to fight like you and Lee?" Naruto asked as the duo stopped in their one ton sit-ups before glancing at each other and back to the blonde.

"Naruto, you must know that to be accepted as Guy Sensei 's student I had to first prove my worth in the challenge of stone," Lee said seriously as he set the weights to the side and stood up as his Sensei did the same 'I had to Face Guy Sensei and with only one move force him to move, it took me a month to achieve that." The young Taijitsu specialist said as the green clad Guy nodded seriously.

"Well I know I'm not out of the academy yet but I REALLY want to learn" he said before rubbing his chin and frowning in thought. "How about this, give me today, if I can make you move before lunchtime you train me." Naruto challenged as Guy and Lee glanced at each other before nodding.

"Very well Naruto, you have until Noon, should you fail you will never take your place alongside the most Youthful Lee in training, but should you succeed, I shall teach you my Strong Fist style, I shall even teach you both the secrets of Summoning contracts." The green clad Jounin swore to the heavens as Lee stood beside his mentor and began the drama of how he would learn the secrets or swim to Wave with only one hand.

Cutting the two off before they could get too far Naruto and Guy moved over to one of the sparring fields to begin.

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Watching the youth as he took up a stance and began moving around the field Guy observed him critically, the boys stance was sure and his steps precise yet his form was a crude mockery of the academy style, as the boy moved around him Guy watched as he swept his feet around the practice field sometimes nearly coming close enough to strike before retreating, after a few minutes the boy returned to where he had began and smiled.

"So Guy Sensei, are you ready for my one move?" the blonde asked and for a moment the Jounin hesitated at the smile before he reset himself in the strong fist stance and nodded.

Watching as the boy gathered chakra into his hand Guy blinked in shock as Naruto slammed his hand on the ground and the entire practice field began to glow, while the angle was far different than usual Guys mind easily filled in what exactly he was standing in and panic set in.

In moments Guy was standing atop the Hokage tower with the two boys under arm as the Gate release began to close leaving the man exhausted, looking out as the training ground they had just been in disappeared in a fireball guy let the flames reflect in his eyes for a moment as he smiled at the boys trick before collapsing to the roof tiles as the Third rushed to the window to see what the commotion was all about.