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Chapter 6.

Fight me.

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Naruto's class was again taken outside for another test.

Naruto was thankful that it was not another written test. Those were the most boring, especially now since all the questions were too easy.

"Class, be quiet and line up," shouted Iruka.

The children stilled themselves, wondering about what new test they had to pass.

Iruka nodded in satisfaction as his students looked at him with questioning looks on their faces. "Today we'll have an obstacle track. Your mission is to find Mizuki, who is in a position approximately two kilometers in that direction," Iruka pointed at the dense forest. "Keep in mind that there are many traps between here and your objective." Iruka fell silent for a long moment. "Go," he said.

Some of the students rushed immediately into the forest, on a straight path to their destination. Among them were Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, Shino and Hinata. Others took a slightly different direction, hoping that their roundabout path would have fewer traps.

Only Shikamaru remained.

Iruka frowned at his laziest student. "Shikamaru, I said go!"

"Yes sensei," the lazy boy sighed and walked slowly into the tree line. "This is so troublesome," he mumbled.

As soon as Naruto entered the forest, he made a hand sign to create ten clones and sent them ahead.

Hinata, her Byakugan active, rushed to Naruto and fell in behind him. Thanks to Hinata's eyes and Naruto's clones, they were the first to find Mizuki.

The professor raised an eyebrow as one clone found him into a clearing and dispelled itself. Soon after that, Naruto and Hinata arrived. Hinata was breathing heavily, but Naruto was unperturbed with the effort.

"Sensei," Naruto nodded politely, "are we the first to find you?"

Mizuki stared at the boy for a few seconds, and then nodded. "Yes Uzumaki, you are the first," he said neutrally, writing something on a notebook.

Naruto nodded, headed to a tree stump and sat down on it. Hinata sat next to him, still breathing heavily.

A minute later, Sasuke landed in the clearing, a superior smirk on his face. He clenched his teeth and glowered when he saw Naruto and Hinata sitting on the tree stump. He looked like he was about to say something to them, but Kiba and Akamaru ran into the clearing. Sasuke calmed down and rested his back on a tree, feigning unconcern. Shino was next. A few more students arrived.

Iruka appeared into the clearing and headed toward Mizuki.

Surprisingly, Shikamaru arrived behind Ino and Sakura. The two girls headed towards Sasuke and congratulated him on his victory. Sasuke's face darkened and he tuned them out.

A few minutes later, all of the students arrived.

Iruka looked at his students. "You did very well. Now, for the rankings ... Naruto and Hinata were the first to arrive." The fan girls were stunned. "The second to arrive was Sasuke and the third was Kiba." Iruka made a small pause before continuing, but he was stopped by a shout of outrage.

"Why are Naruto and Hinata first? Why isn't Sasuke first?" Sakura glowered at the pair who watched the proceedings.

Hinata wore the bland, superior Hyuuga face. A few months ago, Hinata would have stammered an apology under the pink haired girl's stare. Thanks to Naruto, the girl couldn't care less of her opinion. Naruto and Kyuubi were her universe and she would not let herself be intimidated by someone who scorned Naruto's abilities; abilities for which he trained till exhaustion.

Naruto on the other hand, just rolled his eyes under his mask. 'I can't believe I used to like her,' he thought to himself. 'Does she think Sasuke is some sort of god?'

"Yeah," said another fan girl. "Sasuke is the best. They must have cheated."

"Sensei, I saw Naruto create some sort of clones," another girl piped out. "I think they were solid."

Sakura's eyes hardened and she pointed an accusing finger at Hinata. "Yeah, and Hinata used her eyes to see the traps. And unlike Sasuke who completed his mission by himself, they teamed up. It's not fair. They cheated!"

Virtually all girls nodded in condemnation of Naruto. The boys however, were sick and tired of fan girls.

Naruto was happy Kyuubi managed to get rid of his temper... mostly that is. He still had problems, but something like this only amused him now. "Iruka-sensei never said that we are forbidden from working together," he said calmly. "He also said nothing about forbidding the use of ninjutsu or bloodline limits,"

The girls begun to grumble.

"Quiet!" Iruka shouted.

Naruto looked in interest at the man. Had this happened a year before, Naruto had no doubt his former teachers would have agreed with Sakura. While Naruto could feel the hidden loathing coming from Mizuki, both he and Iruka had a cool, yet professional attitude towards Naruto. Naruto had no idea why they were ... fair with him. He had the suspicion that the Hokage had something to do with it. Naruto could only hope they would continue.

"I am very disappointed in you girls," Iruka finally said. "What Naruto said was very true. In fact, we, leaf nin pride ourselves on our teamwork. It is in fact the cornerstone on which our village is build. As Naruto said, I said nothing about not using your clan techniques, if you have any. If you graduate and become shinobi and kunoichi, you will have to trust your teammates with your life and you must use any advantage to complete your mission, be they bloodline limits, clan techniques or even simple tricks. That is all; class dismissed."

At Iruka's words, the students begun to leave until only Sasuke, Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, Ino and the two teachers were left.

Sasuke walked towards Naruto from the spot he was resting on. "Fight me."

"Huh?" Naruto asked.

"Fight me," Sasuke repeated.

Naruto didn't know much about the boy in front of him. One thing was clear though: Sasuke was not the most stable person around. He seemed concerned only with having strength. It probably had something to do with revenge for his defunct clan. Beside these, Sasuke was also as arrogant as the entire Hyuuga clan put together.

Naruto stared at the boy, wondering about the best way to get rid of the self-centered brat. He could not stomach loosing a fight with the boy, but if he won, Sasuke probably would keep coming until Naruto lost.

"No," Naruto answered. He could at least postpone the confrontation.

"Fight me."

"I said no."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes and launched himself at Naruto.

Naruto prepared himself to block the attack, but before the two boys met, Hinata struck Sasuke twice, disabling his arms. The boy was so shocked by the sudden attack that he didn't even try to dodge the following gentle fist strikes from Hinata and he fell down, unable to move.

The Uchiha looked at Hinata with an incredulous expression, unable to comprehend that the shy Hyuuga girl incapacitated him.

"Sasuke-kun," Sakura and Ino shouted in concern rushing to his side.

Suddenly, Iruka was there to check Sasuke. The man's lips twitched slightly as he did so.

Sasuke glanced between Iruka, Hinata and Naruto with an incredulous expression on his face.

"Don't worry Sasuke," Iruka said. "You will recover in a few hours. You know, you didn't have to attack Naruto now to test your skills against his. The next time we have taijutsu spars, I was planning to have you two fight. I guess I should take you to the hospital to check you even if you will recover by yourself. Better safe than sorry." Iruka grabbed Sasuke and they disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

Mizuki too walked away.

Sakura gave Naruto and Hinata a dirty look before rushing in the direction of the hospital.

Only Ino, Naruto and Hinata remained in the clearing.

"You hurt Sasuke-kun," Ino said softly.

Both Naruto and Hinata cocked their heads as if to ask, "so what?"

The blond girl made a strange hand seal. "You'll pay for hurting Sasuke-kun! Mind Body Change Technique!"

Naruto smirked under his mask as Ino's mind tried to suppress his own. Unfortunately for Ino, she could not defeat the alert and prepared mind of both Naruto and Kyuubi and Ino was ejected back into her body.

Naruto watched the collapsed Ino. "Had you done a surprise attack, without alerting me, you might have succeeded. Your technique only works on week, untrained and unprepared minds," Naruto said before grabbing Hinata and disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

Ino narrowed her eyes at the swirl of leaves left by Naruto's departure. "We'll see about that," she whispered.

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While in previous years Naruto understood nothing from the teacher's lessons, now he found them too easy.

Unlike most children, Naruto was always alone until he met Kyuubi. He had no one except the Hokage, the ramen stand owner and his daughter to answer his questions. However, when he saw the latter two, he was too preoccupied with ramen to ask them anything. The only one who answered some of his questions was the Hokage. Unfortunately, he rarely talked more than once a month with the old man. He managed to find answers to a few of his questions, but that was too little. Naruto, like any other child needed many things explained. If at least the children his age talked to him, his mind would have grown, but all of the children were told to keep away from him. If Naruto would have been allowed to have regular contact with other people, he would have learned a few things, but he was shunned, so he learned almost nothing. Since Naruto had no source of education, his mind was stunted. Concepts normal for a child his age were completely alien to him. At school, his teachers ignored him. Years passed, and Naruto got used to not knowing things. He could barely read, and he only understood things if they were slowly explained using very simple words. While he was thirteen, his mind was no older than the mind of a seven year's old.

Thankfully, when he met Kyuubi, his deficiencies were remedied. The first books he was told to read were books for small children. Suddenly, new ideas and concepts were revealed. Naruto continued reading. When he found a word he did not understand, he checked the dictionary. After his basic reading skills were remedied, he continued reading; he even read the dictionary. Thanks to the enhanced mental abilities he received from Kyuubi and her ability to properly sort the huge amount of information, he rarely needed to read something more than once. His mind grew by leaps and bounds.

Another thing that helped in his mental development was the clones who worked. These social skills helped him immensely.

Naruto was now the proud owner of a reasonably intelligent mind who knew more theory than some educated chuunin.

While Iruka's theoretical lessons were mostly covered by Naruto's clones who studied Academy and genin manuals, he still got some use from the lessons.

The most helpful lessons were the practical ones. Naruto had almost no skills before meeting Kyuubi. The only thing Naruto was proficient was in traps, stealth and evasion, and he only put them to use when he was doing pranks. While Kyuubi and Anko's training managed to rectify many of his deficiencies, he still had many gaps in his practical knowledge. Thanks to Iruka's fairness and Naruto's newly discovered intelligence, he was learning the things he never got to learn.

One of the things Naruto was taught by both Anko and Kyuubi is that shinobi must not draw attention to themselves, nor should they let their enemies know of their true skills. That of course did not mean that he should hide all of his skills; it merely meant that he should pretend to be less skilled in some areas. While things like his taijutsu and ninjutsu techniques would be found out sooner or later, that did not mean he should let slip his skill to perform some of his ninjutsu without hand seals. Having such an advantage might save him in the future, or at least give him an advantage.

Another thing he decided to hide was his theoretical knowledge and his ability to learn and process large amounts of data. It would be foolish to let such an ability known. As such, he decided to answer wrong to some of the questions to his written tests. After all, these tests were a matter of public record. While Naruto had no problem with Anko and the Hokage knowing about his abilities, letting other know about them would be dangerous.

Another reason for hiding his skills was that the Uchiha was not the sanest person around. Kyuubi did not want Naruto to "steal" the boy's rookie of the year title. If he did, the Uchiha would become even more of an annoyance with his "I'm an Uchiha, therefore I am superior" attitude.

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Hinata and Naruto appeared in a swirl of leaves in front of his house. They ignored the many clones that trained and entered the house to prepare lunch for four.

Half an hour later, Anko arrived ignoring both Naruto and Hinata and begun wolfing down the food. Naruto summoned Kyuubi and they all begun to eat. Even if Kyuubi could draw no nourishment from the food, she still enjoyed it.

Since Naruto read so many cook books and had a few clones working at various restaurants across Konoha, he was a reasonable cook and his fridge and kitchen was always full. Naruto always had clones around the house, so even if Naruto was somewhere else, Anko could always tell one of his clones to prepare some food. The fact was that Anko took full advantage of Naruto's offer of feeding her in exchange for training, so she usually ate at Naruto's or at one of the locals where one of Naruto's clones worked.

While most of the girls Naruto's age ate small quantities of food, Naruto, Hinata and Anko ate for ten people due to their intense training program. Also, Naruto had to feed the constant stream of fox summonings. Fortunately, with all of Naruto's jobs, he had enough money.

After they finished eating, Naruto told Anko about his day at the Academy.

"So why didn't you dodge Yamanaka's attack," Anko asked. "Those are pretty slow. There's no way you could have not been able to dodge."

"I wanted to experience it then, when Hinata was with me and Ino was alone, rather than later when I might have been alone and outnumbered," Naruto shrugged.

Anko nodded at the answer thoughtfully. "Fair enough, but what if you didn't manage to overpower her mind?"

Naruto shrugged.

"In a way, you did the right thing," Anko sighed. "I don't think you were in any true danger and it was better to test it while you had Hinata with you. But if you'd been in true combat, then that would have been one of the stupidest things to do."

Naruto winced and Anko was silent for a long moment. "While your growth rate is impressive, you're still acting stupid. I think it's time to have this talk; it's time for you to see how our world works," Anko grumbled. "You need to know that this world is dangerous and a small mistake can cost not only your life, but the life of your comrades. This is something my former sensei told me. He's a sociopath and a monster, but he's the greatest genius to come from Konoha, so as loath as am I do admit it, I should tell you what he told me."

"Naruto and Hinata were surprised. Anko almost never talked about her former sensei Orochimaru. Naruto heard some things from gossip, but it was hard to separate the truth from the lies. All he knew for sure was that Anko was Orochimaru's student, that he gave her some kind of seal and that with the exception of a select few she was viewed as a traitor and a danger to Konoha."

"This will be a long lecture, so get comfortable," Anko said. "There are five great shinobi nations. Each of them are usually led by an S ranked Kage. These nations are Fire, Wind, Earth, Lightning and Water. There are other villages, smaller and weaker; most of them have no S ranked nin, or if they do, they have at most one or two. Konoha for instance, has at present three S ranked nin: the Hokage, Jiraiya and Tsunade. We also have two S ranked missing nin: Orochimaru and Itachi. Each one of these S ranked nin is a true powerhouse. As long as they are unopposed by another S ranked nin, they can lay waste to an entire village. As an example, we have Itachi who slaughtered his clan."

"There are five ranks of ninja: Academy level, genin, chuunin, Jounin and Kage level. Each rank is on a whole different level than the next. For example, usually, a Kage should be able to defeat a certain number of Jounin, let us say ten. A Jounin is on a different level than a chuunin and a chuunin is on a different level than a genin."

"This usually means that lower ranks going against a higher rank is suicide. However, things are not always so cut and dried. The lower ranked can have some sort of advantage: like surprise or a team that works well." Anko paused for a moment and stared at Naruto. "Or they can have a bloodline, or special technique like the Yamanaka has. Even a genin can kill a Jounin in cases like this, especially if the higher ranked is overconfident in his abilities."

"Konoha nin killed many enemies like this. Overall leaf ninja are weaker and not as well trained as ninja from other villages. However, we have one great advantage: Konoha loves its bloodlines and clans and we pursued a policy of attracting and keeping them. In Water, those who carry bloodlines were slaughtered. Wind and Earth have few bloodlines. Only Lightning has the same love of bloodlines, though they go about it in a different manner. Unlike Konoha who try to be as attractive to bloodline carriers, Lightning is openly unscrupulous about their way of acquiring them." Anko looked at Hinata. "You should know," she told the Hyuuga girl. "They tried to kidnap you for the Byakugan. Since bloodline carriers are treated like some sort of slaves in Lightning, those who carry them try to stay almost as far from Lightning as from Water. This leaves Konoha with the highest amount of bloodline carriers."

"This gives Konoha nin a great advantage. For example, any Hyuuga is very strong in taijutsu and they are excellent scouts. Inuzuka are great trackers and their bond with their nin-dogs give them enhanced senses, speed, strength, stamina and their clan techniques are very strong. The Aburame are also good scouts and trackers and their allies are very powerful."

"All members of these clans, even genins are as good at scouting and tracking as any Jounin."

"All of those who belong into a clan have at least one skill in which they are very good."

"When a enemy nin fights with a Konoha nin of the same rank, the Konoha nin, if he is part of a clan can use those techniques."

"Ninja from other villages think Konoha nin are weak. Unfortunately, that is half true. Konoha is the strongest village and it has grown complacent. From what you told me, most of your female classmates are brainless fan girls. The academy standard would make the other villages laugh. In a way, it's understandable. Most Academy students benefit from training from their own clans."

"Getting back to topic, one of the greatest enemy for a ninja is overconfidence. You never know when you will come face to face with someone who has a certain advantage like a bloodline. Sooner or later, you will come face to face to someone like that. You can even be a Kage and your opponent a genin. If you are not careful and your opponent has a bloodline that melts your brain when he touches you or when he looks funnily at you, then you will die."

"There is also the fact that while your opponent may have a lower rank than you, or appear weaker, looks can be deceiving. If we take you Naruto as an example, you can give most chuunins a run for their money and you're not even a genin. Also there are many things that matter in a fight. The ranks of genin, chuunin or Jounin are only approximations of strength. There are many different skills that a ninja can have. Any one of them can decide your fate in battles. While some are more important than others, none are useless. For example: your opponent is more powerful than you, but if you are good at stealth and traps, you can kill him without coming face to face. Another example: your opponent is stronger. If you are good at infiltration and assassination, you can poison him or put a knife in his back without having to fight him. Another way: if you are good at torture and interrogation, you capture someone who knows about your opponent, a subordinate, teammate or something. You find out your opponent's weakness and use it against him."

"You can have the strongest Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu skills; strength, speed and stamina, but if you are stupid and careless, you'll find yourself poisoned or stabbed in the back by some pretty lady. If you have a weakness, it will be exploited. If you have an advantage, sooner or later someone will find a way around it. You are proficient at ninjutsu? They will engage you in taijutsu. You are good at Taijutsu? They will use Genjutsu. You are strong? They will be faster. You are fast? They will have more stamina. You have more chakra? They will evade until you are exhausted. You do not know how to fight a sword user? They'll come at you with swords. You are nice and like to help people? They will use that to trick you. You are inexperienced? They will find it easier to find a strategy to defeat you. Your enemies will try assassination, poison, lies and trickery; they'll use traps and throw weapons at you. We are ninja. There is no such thing as fairness. Your enemies will always use unfair tactics against you. If you are careless, you die. Do you understand?"

Naruto nodded soberly. "Overconfidence gets you killed. Stupidity gets you killed. Weaknesses in any area can lead to death. It is good to have an advantage in a certain area, but there is always a way to work around it."

Anko nodded. "In time all ninja learn that there is more to being a ninja than flashy techniques and we all learn from our mistakes."

"One more thing that you must keep in mind is that even the strongest Kage or a Biju can be defeated by a Jounin through the use of suicide techniques."

"The most important ninja skills a ninja can have are hand seals, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, intelligence, force, speed, stamina and chakra," Anko said. "If I were to rank you ... let's see."

"For hand seals, Naruto is high genin and Hinata is low genin."

"Ninjutsu: Naruto is high genin and Hinata is low genin."

"Taijutsu: Naruto is mid genin and Hinata is high genin."

"Genjutsu: Naruto is Academy level and Hinata is low genin."

"Intelligence: Naruto is chuunin level and Hinata is high genin."

"Force: Naruto is high genin and Hinata is Academy level."

"Speed: Both of you are at genin level."

"Stamina and Chakra: Naruto is high Jounin approaching low Kage and Hinata is high Academy level."

"While all these are very important, there are other skills. Some are more important and other less. However any skill can give you an advantage in battle. Some of these ... skills are: chakra control, elemental manipulation, med skills, Kinjutsu, ranged weapons, assassination, torture and interrogation, scouting, tracking, stealth, traps, infiltration, survival skills, knowledge, sealing (fuuinjutsu), experience, reputation."

Both Naruto and Hinata raised an eyebrow at the last skill, but said nothing.

"For Hinata: your chakra control is at chuunin level; med skills are at high genin; ranged weapons at genin level; scouting at Jounin level; tracking at chuunin level; stealth, traps and knowledge at genin level; sealing low genin, experience at low genin."

"For Naruto: your chakra control and med skills are at genin level; ranged weapons at chuunin level; scouting and tracking at Jounin level; stealth at high chuunin; traps at high genin; infiltration, survival skills and knowledge at chuunin; sealing at low genin; experience at genin level thanks to me; and unfortunately you do have a reputation."

"Reputation is a double edged knife. If you have no reputation, your opponents don't know your weaknesses or your strong points. If you do have a reputation, your opponents are more likely to know information about you. While this is usually a bad thing, you can turn it into an advantage. For example everybody thinks I am insane and bloodthirsty," she grinned. "That means that even elite Jounin would avoid a fight with me. The Yondaime was said to be so strong that at his appearance at the site of a battle, his enemies would flee. Sometimes reputation can save you of a lot of trouble. Unfortunately, with reputation come other problems. There will always be people who will try to kill you as a way to prove their strength or gain fame."

Naruto and Hinata nodded solemnly.

Anko fell silent for a moment, and then she continued. "There is a reason I am training you two the way I am. To continue our lesson, the same way a Jounin is a whole level above a chuunin, an A ranked technique is a whole level above a B ranked technique. Usually the chakra expended for an A ranked technique is about ten times higher than the chakra expended for a B ranked technique. Again, note that I said usually. Techniques are ranked based on a few criteria: first it is based on chakra consumption. There are other criteria: chakra control, learning difficulty, destructive force, the number of people who are familiar with the technique, the number of people that can learn the technique. Some techniques result in the death or harm to the one who performed the technique so their rank gets much higher."

"It is because of this that Naruto's clones can practice E-ranked techniques the whole day. As it is now, your clones can master an E ranked technique in a few days. A D-ranked technique will be mastered in a matter of weeks, a C-ranked technique will be mastered in months and it will take years to master a B-ranked technique. (The exception seems to be the shadow clone, summoning techniques and techniques derived from them. You appear to master them faster than I thought. It is probably because of Kyuubi, I think.) Again, this is an approximation. You can master them faster if your chakra control and capacity grows and improves. It will also help if you have an elemental affinity. For example, if you have a fire affinity, you will be able to learn fire techniques faster. Another factor is experience, knowledge and intelligence."

"Anyway... that's about all for today, now scram to training," Anko finished.

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The Naruto clones who worked as hunters arrived home after a hard day's work. One of the ways they helped, beside the steady income, was that every day the clones would bring back some of the game they hunted.

As the foxes that acted as sentries and guards over Naruto's home usually ate things like meat in its raw form or cooked, there was a constant need for fresh meet.

Since buying large quantities of meat from the village was a bit expensive, even if the one who was doing the buying did not look like Naruto, the hunters brought home fresh meet from their hunts.

Fortunately, the summoned foxes were not very large, so they didn't eat too much.

As a matter of fact, summoned foxes were small compared to other summons. While the three legendary summons of Konoha: the slugs, snakes and toads were very powerful and were primarily used for battle, the foxes were used more for scouting, guarding, tracking and transport. The foxes could still be used for battle, but any of the three legendary bosses would dwarf the fox boss not only in size, but also in strength and power.

A fox greeted the hunters and one of the clones stopped, took out a scroll and gave it to one of his partners and started petting the small fox.

The rest of the clones entered the house, went into the kitchen, put their scrolls on a table and dispelled themselves.

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In the middle of the night, a figure entered the work room of the Yamanaka clan head. The figure approached and sat on the chair behind the desk. After a few minutes of careful searching, the figure found a scroll. She bit her finger, wiped it on the scroll and opened it.

Inside was an advanced form of the Mind Body Change Technique which was only taught to Jounin level nin. The less advanced one was taught to clan members after they entered the Academy and was much safer to use. Using the advanced form was dangerous for an untrained mind.

Ino Yamanaka smiled and started to read it.

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Author's Notes: Hope the infodump was okay.

Next chapter: What is Ino going to do? What will happen when she does whatever she's planning to do? How will Hiashi react to hearing Hinata put Sasuke in the hospital?

Surprised the fox summons are not very strong? Don't worry, they're still useful.

Some clarifications, question and answers.

About the amount of gore, blood, death, swearing, etc ... some want more. Rest assured that there will be more. There is a reason I named this fic "Naruto Unchained." At the moment, Naruto still wants to be Hokage; he still loves his village; he still wants to protect it and the villagers ... kind of. He still sees the world in black and white. He's nice, kind, self-sacrificing and all that rot. I will not make Naruto evil, but I plan to teach him some cynicism and self-preservation ... the hard way.

Why doesn't Anko teach Hinata some techniques? Because Hinata needs to improve her taijutsu and her clan techniques more than anything. The time for her to learn new techniques will come, but not now. Naruto on the other hand, has enough chakra and clones to learn more than one thing at the same time.

In regards to whether or not Naruto will go sage mode or sign the toad summoning contract ... there is a reason I gave Naruto the fox summoning scroll.

(There is also a reason I gave Naruto some of Kyuubi's foxy traits.)

Will there be bashing? A large reason for bashing is that in canon, Naruto loved and trusted his teammates - Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi who were not good teammates and thru their action and/or inaction, they betrayed Naruto.

(However, I do dislike these three ... a lot. Surprisingly, I dislike Sasuke the least from these three. Yes he's emo; yes he tried to kill Naruto; yes he's a self-centered sociopath and a narcissist with delusions of grandeur, but what can you expect? Itachi, his brother/god slaughtered his clan and scrambled his brains.)

Naruto will probably never be friends with these three and he'll not make a promise to bring Sasuke back.

Canon Naruto is helplessly ... naïve? My Naruto will change; slowly, but surely.

So in a way, there'll be fewer reasons for bash.

Thank you for reading and reviewing.

Please review. Any input would be appreciated.

Published: February 21 2009.

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