Chapter 9: Results of New Training

Disclaimer: Naruto is the work of Kishimoto

Almost 25 Loops passed by or around half a year passed by for Naruto as he spent all of that time training on his own making sure that any of his weaknesses were slowly disappearing with time and training.

Right now he was wearing a set of near black with some orange flames at the bottom jacket with a hood over a black shirt and pants. The spiral symbol was red on the back of his shirt and jacket as well making him looked quite cool.

If you compared him now to the one before, he was completely different in appearances and attitude.

The training helped a lot with his attitude and patient and while he was still prone to outburst, he was more quiet and observing of everything.

With the hood on and his headband on his neck rather than forehead; most people and pretty much any civilians couldn't tell it was him. They were too used to the orange neon suit and him shouting at everything.

Naruto chuckled at the looks he got from some people when they found out it was him; not that he really cared their expressions were too funny.

'Now that I think about it, it has been almost a year since this Time Loop thing started' he thought.

A year in total had passed and he went from literally being dead last to being someone at the Genin level. He was definitely not ready to be a Ninja a year ago without the training and he shivered and what could have happened if he did.

In all he guided himself as the following now.

Ninjutsu: Genin (Exception of Shadow Clones)

Taijutsu: Low Genin

Genjutsu: Academy Student

Chakra Capacity: High Jonin

Chakra Control: Low Genin

Weapon Throwing Aim: Low Genin

Stealth: High Chunin (High Genin in neon orange)

Trapping/Wiring: Chunin

Since he didn't train his Stealth and Tapping/Wiring skills, they haven't really increased but he didn't want them to decline so once in a while Naruto trained them by the one thing he was best at. Pranking.

He did a redo of painting the Hokage Faces and this time no one suspected anything until it was too late with him gone from the scene quickly.

It was funny how no one could find him when he didn't shout out that he did it.

"Kinda makes me want to redo all of my failed pranks to see which one would have worked now than before" he thought aloud.

On the other end of the village, an aged Hokage shivered uncontrollably at the possibility of more paperwork with that idea.

Ninjutsu wise, while he didn't learn anything new, he refined what he had right now. With more proficiency the Transformation, Substitution and Shadow Clone Jutsu were much easier to execute with him taking only a second for each compared to a few seconds to build up Chakra to use.

He didn't know how he managed to use the Substitution Jutsu before when it took him a good 1-3 seconds to prepare for the jutsu.

"Good thing my execution of the Jutsu is more reliable" he commented, "Can't have me take a free hit because I suck at using the Jutsu."

Furthermore the number of Hand-seals for both the Transformation and Substitution Jutsu decreased thankfully.

His Transformation Jutsu originally took 3 Hand-seals was now decreased to a single hand-seal needed which was a great improvement. The Substitution Jutsu required 5 Hand-seals which was a lot for a Jutsu to escape from danger was now decreased to 3 Hand-seals.

"Things are so much easier with me not remembering all of those hand-seals, urg!" he commented again. Naruto did not have the best memory but with lots of reading and more thinking came more memory retainment.

Since the Shadow Clone Jutsu took one unique Hand-seal there was no difference there.

Plus Naruto managed to somehow decrease the amount of smoke that each Jutsu creates or in some cases increase it.

He found out that the smoke was actually Chakra residue from lots and lots of reading on why some Jutsu causes smoke when used. The less residue, the less smoke and no smoke along with Seal-less execution meant mastering the Jutsu to its limits.

Thanks to this fact, Naruto now had an near infinite supply of Smoke Bombs at hand with his Clones being created or dispelling releasing smoke when either happened and he willed it.

"I bet Kakashi-sensei would be super surprised when he's covered in smoke and can't see anything" he chuckled at the thought of doing that.

Taijutsu wise, Naruto could not say with confidences from Iruka when he used the man to judge his abilities that he was Low Genin level there with the Academy Style.

While normally his Taijutsu would stay at the Academy Student level; Naruto made adjustments to it making it a bit quicker and more forceful.

Combining this with his Shadow Clones, Naruto managed to make a new style (Else he didn't know there wasn't a style based around using large amounts of Shadow Clones) that allowed him to weave his Clones in and out while attacking.

Mixing in his aim which was now also at Low Genin level (7-8/10 aim), it made it difficult for the target to even counter attack.

It took him some time to get his timing right and not accidentally hitting his own clones…or himself for that matter.

Now if only he could get the Clone Jutsu right so he could get false hits in as well…

"Well we can't have everything immediately…I have to work on my Chakra Control for that" he muttered to himself.

He knew that with enough time he would get the results. Hell his nonexistence Genjutsu skills went up to the Academy Student level which was him managing to detect Genjutsu to begin with.

Until he got his skills in Genjutsu to Genin level or his Chakra Control high enough he would have to resort to pain to break out of Genjutsu.

"And speaking of Chakra…" Naruto sighed thinking about it.

Before he remembered that his Spiritual energy was a lot lower than his physical energy which made it hard for him to learn any kind of Genjutsu which they were Spiritual or Yin based.

With him…reading and generally thinking of new ways to train and get stronger that energy increased compared to before and while in no way even a quarter the size of his physical or Yang Chakra; it increased. And with it, his Chakra Reserves which in one word was troublesome.

While his Chakra Control was now considered Low Genin level compared to his reserves; his actual Chakra Reserves increased to High Jonin level!

Naruto bet by the time he managed to increase his Chakra Control to Chunin Level his Chakra Reserves would increase to Elite Jonin levels or even to Kage level if he was unlucky enough.

He was pretty sure that he had enough Yang Chakra to compare to a Kage and when his Yin Chakra caught up…

Yeah; he needed more Chakra Control exercises to fix that.

The Leaf Exercise was really only meant for the average Academy Student who had little control as well as little chakra reserves at the same time allowing both to grow at a steady rate.

Him who had little to no control and stupidly large chakra reserves at the same time would take a hell lot more effort to increase it.

He even went as far as well as to float the damn leaf, spin it and move it from parts of his body to increase his control over his chakra and in a year he just managed to get his chakra control to low Genin level.

If his Chakra was water, than his Chakra Control was filled with small pipes in a large dam trying to control the flow of water going through which was being strained heavily.

The pipes or in this case his Chakra Control exercise was too small and used too little Chakra for him to use large amounts of Chakra without losing control over it.

He was sure that there were better methods but he could never find a way to get Iruka-sensei from teaching him or anyone else…or even the library which he needed access to the Genin section which wasn't allowed.

Stealing a person's ID and appearance for a bit didn't work since they checked…somehow.

He didn't know but they did and he was caught because of that. He had to answer to Hokage-jiji about that which was super awkward until he said that he wanted to learn more now that he was a ninja which resulted in him being told to wait a week to be assigned to a team first.

Because of that his training was now limited by the fact that knowledge; key knowledge was being kept from him.

There were a number of things that he wanted to learn like Kenjutsu since he heard someone say that they looked really cool or even Fuinjutsu which he also heard someone say was difficult but powerful.

Due to this fact, Naruto decided it was time for him to pass the Genin test that Kakashi would give and make sure that he knew that they were working together with a high amount of teamwork.

Plus he trained as much as he could conditioning his body so when the next checkpoint happened, he would start off stronger than before.

Walking to the Academy he entered the room and heard the room fall silent. Frowning since he never got this kind of reaction before.

"What's going on? Why all the silence?" he asked pondering what on earth made them shut up.

After a few second of the room and his classmates getting the fact that he was Naruto and no one else; Shikimaru was the first to rise up to say something.

"Well I believe everyone is shocked about your appearance as much as it is a drag. Plus how did you pass?" he yawned before shutting his eyes again.

Typical Nara and their need to sleep. He simply raised an eyebrow for a moment to this.

"Headband means I'm a ninja. I did a make-up test since I can do something better than the Clone Jutsu" he quickly answered the question that was on everyone's mind.

Next in line to speak or rather bark was Kiba saying, "Yeah yeah who cares if a loser like you pass. What the hell is up with your appearance dead last?!"

"Akamaru please keep your pet in line. He may need to be put down if he keeps this up" Naruto said seriously to the white puppy in Kiba's jacket.

Luckily enough Akamaru knew humour and barked with a couple of other guys laughing as well.

But Naruto sighed thinking of how before he was really dead last.

Now he was sure that he could at least be in the upper half of the class though he never tested how strong they were.

"Honestly can't a guy change his appearance without the whole class being speechless and such?" he rhetorically asked Kiba and the rest of the class at once.

There was much sarcasm in his tone that only some of his classmates seemed to get.

Unfortunately Kiba wasn't one of them.

"Yes!" he shouted, "What the hell are you doing showing up looking all cool and such!"

Sakura…she didn't seem that close to him with a full year of him not pursuing her anymore.

Funny how time literally made his crush on her disappear. Plus with the Time Loop any relationship he would have with her will disappear quickly.

She was the next to say something about his appearance shrieking out, "Yeah! Stop trying to act like Sasuke-kun!"

"I act like an emo who has a large stick my ass now?" Naruto asked 'innocently' while tilting his head and widening his eyes a bit to pay the 'innocent' card a bit more.

He thought he heard someone collapse near the back of the room for some reason before the fan-girls started shouting at him at once.

"Shut up dead last!"

"Take that back!"

"Don't you dare talk to Sasuke-kun like that!"

As such were the comments and shrieks that he managed to get out. It took a full 5 minutes for their insults and scream to stop which made Naruto quite glad that practically the majority of them would fail the extra exams by the Jonin.

He was sure Sakura would pass…Ino as well since she was with Shikimaru and Choji. Hinata would as well since she seemed competent enough with Kiba and Shino. That's a total of nine of them including himself out of everyone here.

Quite a low ratio indeed.

Ignoring everything else, Naruto went through the team selection being placed with Sasuke and Sakura again.

When everyone else left and an hour passed, it was time to act. He brought his pranking gear for this after all.

A/N:

Well this is near the end of the current 'checkpoint' of the series.

This Chapter is just a rehash of what happened off-screen since I rather not have described every last bit of training that Naruto did. There's nothing much to say here...

Hmm...

Might as well asked, What's your opinion on this 'Boruto' manga series?