Chapter 4
••••One year later••••
Naruto's POV
I just failed the academy. "I should feel bad or upset but I feel almost happy."
"This gives us more time to train." Kyuubi says.
"Hey do you know anything about genjutsu they didn't teach anything about it?" I asks.
"Just that it's looked down upon, and there are four ways to get out. One is to cause pain to yourself, to have someone give you chakra, to build up the chakra and release it and another way is to cancel all chakra then to release it all at once." He says.
"I should learn some." I say.
"You don't have enough control to do genjutsu." He says.
"Well if I use my shadow clones to practice chakra control I could gain the ability to do genjutsus." I tell him.
"That's true, but you would have to do it a lot and you have to keep the amount of control." He says.
"Ya but it's not like I'm try to learn medical ninjutsu were I need absolute perfect control." I remind him. I arrive at my house and see the thousands of clones all working on chakra control. Now we can fight on trees and waters covered in leaves. I pick up the scroll and see the ones we have mastered. We have completed sticking leaves on your body, spinning the leaves, tree exercise, water walking, combing the leaves techniques with water and tree walking. Now we need to do that with pebbles and the next one is chakra strings. The clones start dispelling but fifteen every minute to be safe.
Once all of them are gone I make another set of ten thousand and half work on the pebbles while the others work on chakra strings. I make four more ice clones. They follow me to the other clearing.
When we stop moving we stare at each other. "Okay you guys come attacking me with whatever you got I'm only going to be able to use the water as my weapon." I tell them. They nod. Four water puddles circle me. Think Gaara with sand but Naruto uses water.
They throw the ice senbon at me. My water rises up and blocks them. "Icicle release, senbon storm." One yells and a wall of senbon rushes at me they're moving in all direction. The water forms a protective sphere around me and I harden it to ice. The needles slam into it some even stick into the ice the others fall onto the ground.
"Return!" I yell and the senbon that are stuck into the ice flies back in the direction they came with incredible speed.
One pours the water bottle I have on my hip onto the ground Icicle release, Fighting statues!" One yells. The water rises and forms three tigers made out of ice. They rush me.
"Water release prison!" I tell. Three water balls shoot out of my sphere and surrounds the tigers. If they were actually tigers or anything living they would drown from the water but they don't. They can't move. "Water pressure crush!" I yell. The water crushes the tigers but nothing happens.. "Water boil release meltation!" I yell. The water starts to boil and the heat and pressure melts the ice so they shattered.
When I look back I see only one clone. Where's the other ones? I wonder. When one comes through the ground and punches me into the face the doom collapse.
"Double headed suicide!" I hear. Two hands grab my feet and pull me under the ground. The water didn't protect me under ground. So much for absolute defense. I say. A snake made of ice is hovering over my head. "I give." I say. The snake crumbles to the ground. Next thing I'm standing where one of the senbon are. Good thing I mastered the substitution technique. The three clones crumble to the ground.
"I don't get why you practice with the water manipulation so much." Kyuubi says.
"It's super helpful with freezing, boiling abilities." I tell him.
"Ya but their could be times where there is no water and not enough water in the atmosphere." He says.
"So I could always bring it with me." I tell him.
"What if the container falls off or your separate from it?" He ask.
"Well I could make it with water so I could control it." I suggest. I start thinking. I run to my apartment.
I got a great idea. I fill up four water bottles and run back.
I get to the cave and open all the water bottles. The water comes out and starts taking shape. I put all my attention into it. It looks like a gourd, like Gaara's. With a place to put a strap in. Then I go through and signs. "Freez!" I yell. The gourd fall to the ground. The entire thing is made out of Ice.
"How are you going to control it if it doesn't have water?" He asks.
"There is a small layer of water in between the outer layer and the inner layer. Even the plug has water inside it." I tell him. I raise my hand and it rise back into the air and comes towards me. I take of the plug. I use my hand to fill it up with water. I go into town to find a piece of cloth to use as the strap.
I find the right store and henge into someone else. I walk into the store and look around. I see two pieces that would work. A solid black, and the other is black with red whirlpools on it. I think for a minute and desire the one with the whirlpools. I walk out of the store and head back to my house and put the cloth through the hook and attach it to the gourd and the extra I tie it around the middle. The clones start dispelling and I start making dinner and get ready for bed. I put a sleeping bag inside the cave because it's starting to get uncomfortable sleeping on the solid ground.
When the clones are all finished I clean up dinner and head into the cave. I bring the gourd inside to and let it rest into the wall of the cave. I bring up an Ice door.
I wake up and stretch. The door melts and I step outside with the gourd on my body. The strap goes over my right shoulder. A hundred shadow clones appear. They went to work on the chakra control techniques. I mean they were just adding the tree technique to the pebble. The chakra string where only an inch long. I start doing my laps with the gourd on.
"With the extra weight it made the laps harder than they were. I stop when I smell a familiar scent. I take a deep breath. The scent of snakes and Dangos was wafting around. It's old. "Why does that person keep coming in here?" I wonder.
"Well why do you keep coming here maybe the person lives here." Kyuubi says.
"Well the person must be interesting if they live here." I say and continue running.
When I finish with my routine I'm tired and fall to the ground to catch my breath. The chakra amount to walk on water and in trees is more than it was before so running up and down the trees and water was harder then normal.
The clones dispel and my mind tingles. I go through the hand signs and yell "clone jutsu!" A puff of smoke appears and one almost dead clone is standing there it looks like it's sick but it's better than the others I have made. I make an ice clone. "Go find things on Genjutsu." I tell him. He nods his head and leaves.
"You getting better at the clone jutsu." Kyuubi comments.
"Ya it's still not ready but I will get there." I says. I make a thousand shadow clone.
"Go work on chakra control." I tell them they all leave. I make five shadow clones. "Okay we're going to work on scenes first hearing. I blindfold myself and wait. I have to avoid each kunai and shuriken, and you can't use senbon then later we switch to were I throw senbon at you. You guys will still throw shurikens and kunais while you dodge and block. I will still work on hearing and blocking." I tell them.
"Hai!" They all yell.
At the end of that I'm tired and sore, but it was great training. I got both side knowledge from them and me. "Your know there's no such thing as absolute defense so what happened if someone does get through you defends?" Kyuubi asks.
"Um I need some kind of armor." I reply. I wake two ice clones. "Okay guys we need an armor so incase something happens we will have a second defends." I tell them they nod their heads and leave to think.
"What are you going to do?" He asks.
"Well the only thing I haven't trained in is sealing, so that's what I'm going to do." I tell him. I walk towards the cave. I put down the gourd inside and grabs the scroll with my money inside. I henge into Kakashi and head into town.
I step into a shinobi only store. I find a scroll, paper and ink. I also find the book that I read before I decide to get it again. With all the money I make from hunting and Sarutobi's allowance it covers all of it and I have some left over. I seal the ink, paper, and sealing book into a scroll and exit the store. "Hello my eternal rival!" A voice tells behind me.
When I look it's a tall man with big bushy eyebrows. His hair is cut in a bowl cut and he wears a green one piece spandex suit. "Did you say something?" I asks.
"A curse you Kakashi and your hip attitude." He says. I remember Kakashi mention a man who wore a spandex suit.
"Guy how can I help you?" I asks.
"I challenge you." He says. I can't fight a jounin and win.
"Guy I'm busy right now, but how about later you come find me and we can have this challenge then." I tell him.
"That sounds like a deal." He says.
"Oh also I might forget so don't take no for an answer." I tell him. He nods his head and leaves. I head back home.
When I get into the forest I drop the henge and head to the cave. I smirk at what I did.
"That was genius. You also were able to prank two jounin. Guy into thinking you're really Kakashi and Kakashi for him having to accept whatever challenge he was talking about." Kyuubi laughs.
"Ya that was fun I should prank more." I say.
When I get to the cave the two clones are waiting for me. I put the things inside the cave and follow them to the river. "We made it out of ice." They say. I take a kunai and stab him in the arm. There is a chip but he didn't dispel. They show me the armor.
When I uses it it's rigid anywhere it needs to bend is difficult. Him it's like when I tried to move the frozen sculpture/ the armor crumbles away and I redo it but tweak it a little theirs water where it needs to bend to helps it move more freely. "Why don't we just have a water armor that way I can just freeze, melt, or add my poison to it." I realized.
I head back to the cave I sit down and open the scroll and the book and start with lesson one.
The sun is setting and all the clones are dispelled when I take a break. I look at the book. I'm half way through it. This is easy why doesn't everyone learn seals?" I asks.
"Not everyone can understand and find it easy as you do." Kyuubi answers.
"Then how come I can?" I asks him.
"You're an Uzumaki they were known for being masters at sealing. That's why you find it so easy because it's in your blood." He responds.
"The book only has four to five section. The first is about penmanship, second light eliminating seals, storage. Second part is explosive tags, flash tags, silence seals and house seals. The third is paralyzingly seals, blood seals, and training seals. The last group is on weapons seals, privacy seals and elemental seals." I tell him.
"Yes, but speed and writing takes time and patience which is not what everyone wants. Most people want power and they want it fast." He explains.
"I guess you're right." I say as I lie down.
I step out of my cave and look at the book the ice clone left. The one about genjutsu. I pick it up and read them. The book talks about the amount of control and the basic things about genjutsus on how to break them. How to cast them and the more difficult how to create your own. I need more control before I can use these. I realized. I put them in the cave and work on sealing.
•••• Time Skip 3 months••••
Academy
It's the start of a new school year. I walk in and again sit in the back of the class. As I wait for the class to start I take out a book and open it up. The book is part of a set. It's called The Sides of War. It's has four parts. The defense, the attack, the strategist and the interrogation. Each book explains how each part is needed and how to become an expert in each side. I just started today. The bell rings and Tao walks up and says the exact same thing as last time.
"Uzumaki." He says. I stand up. Now I were a black coat with black pants and I wear the respirator that Kakashi gave me just so it blocks my teeth and whisker marks from being seen. I leave the gourd at home for now. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki." I say and sit down.
The teach sighs "is there anything else you would like to share with the class?" He asks.
"Yes. I don't like to be touched." I say and continue to read.
When the class ends I run home. Which is not easy with my restriction seals on my body. They go up automatically so once I'm use to them they increase. I also was able to make the amount of chakra I get from Kyuubi smaller which help my control. I now can use genjutsus.
When I get home I make shadow clones to go work on my control I almost mastered all of them I just need a waterfall and do each technique. Leave, pebble, boulders, kunai and senbon with the waterfalls.
I make ten ice clones they follow me to the other clearing. "Attack me." I tell them. The first one runs at me. I deflect and knee him in the gut I used the water in the knee armor to form a spike of ice. The clone crumbles. That's starts the fight.
I'm down to three clones and my armor is chipping I have to keep fixing it. I only see two of the three clones I'm on high alert. Both clones rush at me and as I throw a punch he catches it hand holds onto me. The other clone does the same with my other arm. I look down but I don't see him in the river. Where is the other one. Until I see a shadow above the water. I look up and he's standing on water. He drops. The heel of his foot hits me in the head and I go straight down into the water. "Water release, water prison jutsu!" One of the clone say. That's when I feel it. I look at my arms they're covered in a light color blueish green smooth scales, I bring my arms up and I have claws also the webbing between my fingers increases. I bring it to bite to see if they're real and my teeth are pointy. I can feel movement all around. Shouldn't I be feeling like I'm drowning? I realized. I bring my hands to the side of my neck and there are three slits on each side. I feel something on my back I bring my hand and it's a fin but it stretches from the back of my head to the back of my spine and that's when I noticed it I grew a tail but the tail has spikes on the end. I swipe my tail and it destroys the water prison. I stand up on the water and I can breath. "Kyuubi what the hell you never mention this when you told me of the abilities that I had gained."
"Kit I never knew. I only new of the groups and those abilities were the only ones that I could understand. I have never seen something like this." He explains.
"So what I could have more hidden abilities?" I asks.
"You could and I don't know even where to look to see if you do that snake man put a lot of DNA into you.
I calm down. I don't want to be in this. The shark form disappears. I guess I need to think I don't want to be in to get out. I check my body and everything is back to normal. I guess I need to practice that form some more, but there isn't enough water to go fully submerged. I realized.
"Maybe that's why we never knew you have to be fully covered in water for it to appear." He suggests. I look at my clothes and the jacket and pants are ruined from the transformation. I turn to mist and head to my apartments
When I get inside I find my spare clothes. I can't afford to, buy new clothes every time I have to go in that form. If only I could make then reform themselves. My eyes widen at the thought. I grab my book on seals and flip through the pages.
I stop at the page about reaper seals. I'm going to need these on everyone of my clothes. I take of my ninja clothes and turn them inside out. I get my ink and start writing seals on them.
It takes me most of the day but I finally have the seals down. I realize when I see the rip I put in heal itself in seconds. I put them on and head back to my house.
When I get there the clones start dispelling and I start making dinner. The sharks great it's made for swimming, but not really for land fighting. If I could make the water prison bigger and movable it would do the best combined with the shark. "Hey kit I found the shark DNA." He says.
"Okay did you find anything else?" I asks.
"Well I found out that the shark has your immunity to hot, cold and electricity. I also found that when in the form you can sense the movement in the water. I also found that there is another releases this is ink and acid. There are two other pieces of DNA. One is open it just needs something to activate it and the other one needed another piece of DNA to activate it." He says.
"Can you activate the other one?" I asks.
"Well I can but it will hurt a lot." He says
"Do it. I can handle the pain." I tell him
"I know kit." He says. Then my body feels as if it's being lit on fire every cell in my entire body feels like they are burn with the hottest slowish fire in existence.
The next day it's hard to open my eyes almost the entire night my body was in extreme pain even now my body is sore all over. I get up slowly and walk out the cave. I breath in and out in shallow breath to not move my body too much. I go check my traps.
I walk away from the empty trap when i hear a twig snap. I look around and a giant snake comes rushing towards me. I bring my hands up butt no water comes. I look around and realized I left my water bottle at the campsite. That's when this aqua blue chain comes out of my hands and slices the snake. It wasn't enough to kill it just draw blood. The snake runs away. The chains come back and I turn around and head home.
When I get there I make shadow clones to go work on chakra control while I try to figure out what happened. "Hey Kyuubi are you up?" I asks.
"Now I am. What do you want?" He asks.
"A chain just shoot out of my arm. Did that have to do with what you did last night?" I asks.
"Partly the chakra chain was the bit of DNA that I activated last night." He says.
"What do you mean partly?" I ask catching one to what he had said.
"Oh I might have tweaked the shark from a little bit." He says,
"What did you do to it?" I ask
"I made it be able to run on land faster than what it would have been yesterday." He say proudly.
"Thank you for doing something for me without me asking for it. I tell him full of gratefulness.
"Your welcome." He says shocked. I head to the ninja library just incase I can find the water technique I'm looking for.
When I get there I find the water ninjutsu section not that many. I look around some more and I find it. Great Exploding water collision S-rank ninjutsu. I take and it's covered in dust and it had fallen behind the bookcase. They must have not realized it was here. I run back to the forest.
When I get there I read the scroll. No wonder this is an S-rank. The amount of chakra it takes is enormous. Let's go further into the woods just incase I use too much chakra.
I find my spot which is perfect there's a big dip with the trees behind just as tall as the other. I take a deep breath. I go through the hand signs "Great Exploding Water Collision!" A huge waves crash into each other as I make it form a giant bobble look. My shark form appears. I start swimming. The water moves as I move. I let the water collapse. A giant lake is made. That will destroy the ecosystem here. I realize. I raise my hand. The water forms a ball and starts going back up. It take a lot of chakra to do this. "Boil release evaporation!" I yell and the water starts heating up to the point we're steam is coming out from all directions but I force them into the sky to look like a cloud. I feel drained and my breathing turns heavy.
When the steam stops the water is all gone. I almost collapse from using too much chakra. I take few deep breaths and heads back.
When I get back I'm too tired so I take a nap and put my head back down after I put the door back up.
