AN: I do not own Naruto. I am currently looking for a beta reader because while my ideas are awesome, my writing is not. So I want to make the story read better for all of my faithful readers out there.

Naruto grumbled as he turned the page of his textbook. 'Why do I have to study? Sasuke doesn't have to study. Sakura, well she doesn't need to. But why me?, he whined as he looked at the diagram of the Calvin Cycle in his AP Biology textbook.

Flashback

"Student?", said Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi simultaneously.

Mari looked at Naruto. "You did not tell them?" It was more of an observation than a question.

Naruto shrugged. "It doesn't really come up in a conversation."

Mari looked at the three non-reapers. "Yes, student. This boy here is very special. My former student had sent me a letter saying that he needed training in techniques called Zemen techniques."

"I see.", Kakashi said. "Would you mind explaining to me what these techniques are?"

Mari snorted. "Wouldn't matter if I did. Only six people right now in this world other than me can use these techniques. Unless you count Uzumaki, then you would have seven."

Kakashi got a little evil glint in his eye that Mari didn't like. "Okay, Jinso-san. I'll just grab my team and go then." Sasuke and Sakura attempted to protest but Kakashi grabbed the two and leaped back into the woods, heading toward Kira's house. But when Kakashi thought that he was far enough in so Naruto and Mari couldn't see him, he turned around and landed on a branch far above where the two were.

"What are you doing?", whispered Sakura harshly, "Kakashi-sensei, it's rude to spy."

"Don't worry. If I'm right, this might be fun to watch."

"Hn. How is watching that dobe going to be fun? I rather train.", said the avenger.

Kakashi turned to him. "Sasuke, trust me. This will interest you too. Now, pipe down and be quiet."

"You know, they're still here.", said Mari in a hushed tone.

"I know. I can still sense Sasuke's darkness.", said Naruto, out loud, not caring if anyone hears. "But how did you know?"

"I can sense the elements needed for the human body. There are three sets of the elements nearby. The amount of each one matches the ones of your friends."

"Cool. Now, can we start training?"

Mari looked up and down as she examined Naruto. "You're an impatient brat, aren't you?"

Naruto put his hands on his hips and put on an insulted face. "How dare you?", he said, but in a joking tone, "I will not stand here and be called a brat by someone who's not that older than me. Good day, ma'am."

Mari let out a laugh. "Don't be fooled by looks, boy. I might look like seventeen, but I'm about 156 years old."

"WHAT!", came from the trees above.

Mari leaned over and whispered, "How do we ignore that? Should we acknowledge their presence now?"

Naruto looked up and then looked back at Mari with a confused look, "I… I don't… know."

Just then, the three spies jumped down, one of them with an embarrassed look (coughSakuracough). Naruto waved.

"I'm guessing that you knew we were still here again, right Naruto?", Kakashi asked.

"Yep!"

"You know, I knew too.", said Mari. Naruto just waved her off dismissively. "Yeah, yeah. No one wants to hear an old hag talk."

Naruto suddenly realized that everything went dark and something tasted like tree bark. And he should know. This one time when he was chased into the woods by a mob, he tried eating it. The taste isn't too bad, but the splinters nearly pierced his tongue.

Then he felt an odd throbbing pain in his back. He put everything together and realized that Mari must have punched him in the back. That punch sent him flying into this tree, face first.

He put his hands on either side of the tree he was in and pushed until he got out. Then he glared at Mari who at the moment was sharpening her knives. "You see, I really hate being called that.", she said. "So the next time you do, I'll use this knife instead of my fist, got it?", she finished with a monster-like tone.

Naruto could only nod as he hid behind Sakura. "She's scarier than you.", he whispered to the pink-haired girl.

The next moment he found himself in the same predicament but now the pain was in his stomach.

When he got out, Mari picked up a bag and threw it to Naruto. Naruto grunted as the bag hit his chest. "What's in here? It's fricking heavy!", Naruto complained.

Mari didn't answer so Naruto opened the bag.

Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura started to worry about Naruto. He had just opened the bag and now is just staring with a dumb look on his face at his contents. It was a minute until Naruto looked back up and said with the same expression on his face, "Why?"

Mari smiled. "Well, you know that Zemen techniques are used to control the terrestrial things, right?" He nodded.

"Well, you have to control every little thing to be able to use the techniques. Like, you could change aluminum into gold, but you have to understand how that works. Like, you add some protons and electrons in so that you have a stable gold." He nodded again. "But what's that got to do with the stuff in here?", Naruto asked.

Mari gave a little evil smile. "Well if you have to understand how that works, you need to study that stuff, right?"

Naruto dropped the bag. The bag landed with a thud, surprising everyone on how loud it was. Then Naruto lifted his arms up over his head and yelled, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Flashback End

He really hated Mari now. Inside the bag were three thick textbooks. There was an AP Bio textbook, a APES textbook, and a AP Chem textbook. He had created two shadow clones and now they were looking at the other two books while he read the AP Bio book. He would create another shadow clone for this book too, but Mari said firmly that he wouldn't be able to start training without the understanding of the world around him.

Naruto sighed. It wasn't that he was dumb and he probably couldn't understand this stuff. He just really hated studying. The Academy was hell in his opinion with all those tests and facts. He shuddered at the memory.

Finally after a week, he finished all the books. The thing was that he usually forgot most of it, but ever since he went into his mindscape the first time when he met the Kyuubi, he found out that memories never go away. There just stored somewhere, but his brain can't retrieve them. So inside his mindscape now is a library, filled with books that have his memories on everything he read.

He walked over to where Mari was and put on his angry face. Why? He was angry at what he saw. He spent an entire week in his room, studying, working hard. And here she was goofing off. For some reason, knowing that he suffered and she had a good time pissed him off.

Mari was at the table in the cafeteria of Kira's house, listening to the stories that Team 7 had to tell her. She figured out quickly that when Uzumaki was around, unpredictable yet funny things happened. She noticed said person walk in with a not so pleasant look on his face. "Whoa, why are you so grumpy?", she asked, knowing full well why he was.

Naruto just grunted as he passed her and went to Kira to ask for food. Mari just snickered. It seems that her new student already hates her. Good. She likes that. It makes life more… interesting.

He dropped the heavy books on the table, making the entire table jump, and sat down and asked Kira for food.

Mari looked at the books and said, "Why are you putting these books here? Shouldn't you be studying?", she asked, prodding him to get an interesting reaction.

Interesting indeed. Naruto just looked at the plate of food that was placed in front of him and said, "I finished."

"Heh?", came from Mari as she looked at Naruto with wide eyes. She immediately shook her head and said, "Nice joke. I know you didn't finish, because it takes at least three years to memorize all that."

"Ask me any question, and I'll answer it."

"Any?", her eyes still holding doubt.

"Any question from any book."

"Fine", she said as she picked up the top book. It was the AP Biology book. She thought for a moment. 'Let's see. If he was trying to get out of more studying, what would he do? He'd probably read the front part of the book and the back so he can answer the first question I read and the hardest. So I have to pick a question from the middle.

"Fine. Here's your question. What are Koch's Postulates?", she said, smiling smugly, so sure that he won't be able to get it.

Naruto was quiet for a few moments. During which, Mari thought she had won. But suddenly, he picked his head up and said, "It was his rules to identifying pathogens to specific diseases. There are four of them. One, find the same pathogen in each diseased individual, two, isolate the pathogen from the diseased subject and grow it in a pure culture, three, induce the disease in animals by transferring the pathogen from the culture, four, isolate the same pathogen from the animals after the disease develops."

Mari's mouth hung wide open as he went through each one. Even more surprising, he said it word for word in the textbook. "How-", she began saying but could not form the words.

Naruto tapped the side of his head with his finger. "Photographic memory. I had to read each page only once. Then I have that memory in my head that I can take out anytime I want."

Mari shut her open mouth and crossed her arms. "Hey, that's cheating.", she whined.

Naruto didn't bother responding. He just picked up a fork and began eating. Kakashi and Mari were silent. Mari was because she felt like she was cheated out of a few years of torture. Kakashi was because he felt like something was off. He looked at Naruto and realized it then. His exam scores were always horrible. Every test was a huge failure.

Kakashi asked, "Naruto, if you have photographic memory, how is it that you failed all your exams?"

This brought Sasuke's and Sakura's attention as well. They realized that the scores Naruto had in the academy and what Naruto had just said clashed. Both couldn't be true.

"Yeah, Naruto, why did you fail?", asked Sakura.

"Well, what do you expect from the dead last?", Sasuke said with a smug look on his face. Naruto was still his rival and it felt good knowing that he was better than him still at some things.

Naruto sighed. "I don't know. I complained with Iruka-sensei, but he didn't understand. Every test I got had questions that I've never even heard of. I'm pretty sure one of the questions that was on the test in the Chunnin Exams was on it."

Both members of Team 7 were surprised. But Kakashi thought he probably knew what had happened. 'It seems that some teachers were willing to put little Naruto under a genjutsu so he would never become a ninja. Maybe Mizuki?

The blond gave a yawn as he stretched. "So, are you finally going to teach me Zemen techniques?"

Mari's arms remained crossed. "Well, I don't wanna. But I did make that deal with you, so fine. Let's start now."

Both stood up and headed for the door. Sakura asked, "hey, Kakashi-sensei, what are Zemen techniques?"

Kakashi shrugged. "I don't know. I'm pretty curious though. Let's go watch their training and find out." He stood up and Sakura followed suit. "Sasuke, you coming?", he asked.

Sasuke grunted but inside he was eager to watch. He could copy some of Naruto's moves with his Sharingan and see how powerful he actually has become.

They headed outside and found the two in a clearing. Both of them were sitting on the ground. They had to strain their ears to listen, but they could make out the words between the two.

"… learned the entire world is made of molecules. What Zemen techniques are using your zeher and moving these molecules to your favor. And not just molecules, atoms, even subatomic particles too. You can control all of these to make what you want. In short, this is what people called alchemy."

"Alchemy?"

"Yes, alchemy. It was a branch of science where people tried to figure out how to make ordinary metals into gold. It was accidently started when one of the stupid Zemen reapers got drunk and started to show off.", she said. For some reason, she looked really annoyed at the last sentence.

"But not only the molecules of metals. You could control the molecules of anything. You could freeze water without the use of temperature changes. As you know, freezing is just molecules when the movements have slowed considerably. Using your zeher, you can do this too. Not only that, you could control carbon and make diamonds out of trees for example."

Naruto's eyes bugged out when he heard that. "So-"

"No. You cannot. I said you could. But it is very bad for a reaper to use his abilities for his own selfish gain when he doesn't need it."

"Aww."

"So, what I want you to do is to try this for youself."

Naruto nodded and went into a meditative-like state. He concentrated on his zeher and reached out to the earth around him like he would using Shadow techniques.

Suddenly, the an area of land next to them exploded. Pieces of hard rocks shot out and grazed Naruto on the cheek. Mari reacted quickly and a wall of earth rose up and protected her.

"AH! What the hell?", Naruto shouted as he stared at the crater. He was sure that it was his fault. Right before the earth exploded, he was reaching out here.

Mari stood up and saw a huge cut on Naruto's face. She was going to offer him to heal it, but then the wound started to steam and it closed up.

Shaking her out of her surprise, Naruto started yelling/asking, "Why did the ground just blow up? What did I do wrong?"

"Tell me what you did.", she demanded. She'll find out about what happened to his cut later. Now was teacher time.

"I just did the same thing I do with Shadow techniques. I reach out and focus on the things I want to control and move them with my will."

She nodded. She picked up a stick and drew a circle. "This is you." She started drawing those greater than signs you learn in math all around the circle until it looked like a sun drawn by a little kid. "This is the path of your zeher. When you focus it, it goes out like an arrow. That amount of focus is good, if you're trying to move one molecule."

"what?", Naruto said dumbly.

"What I mean is you're putting too much focus into this. Instead of you focusing your zeher like this, you should do it like this." She drew another circle and began drawing math symbols around it again. But this time the symbols were like less than symbols so all the points pointed toward Naruto.

"Be relaxed. Winds are never caring. Water is never changing. You have to not focus so much on the object but the deed you want done. As long as you can imagine it, it will be done. Remember, your brain is part of this world. It's hardwired for this."

Naruto nodded and went back into his meditative-like state. This time he followed Mari's advice and became relaxed. He felt good. This was different than using Shadow techniques. He didn't feel like he was charging into battle. He felt like sleeping.

Suddenly, he was aware of the entire earth around him. He could feel Mari across from him. He could feel the grass, worms, beetles, and even the microbes he sat next to. He was overwhelmed at the feeling.

"Good, isn't it?", he heard beside him. He turned to his side and saw Zemen sitting there with him.

"Zemen!", Naruto shouted. He looked around and saw that for some reason everything looked hazy. "What's going on?"

"Remember kid. All things of this earth has my zeher. It's what makes you physical. Actually, everyone has all zehers but at miniscule amounts. But, thanks to your new sensei here, you are relaxed enough to be in this state. I think one of my reapers named it the Mojinome (Blind Man's Sight)."

"Ehh, not bad, but it could use a little fun in it."

"Shadow is getting to you, isn't he?", he said, chuckling a little. He waved around the haze. "Well, this is your playground right now. I'm going back to sleep. And, say hello to Mari for me." With that, he faded out.

Naruto smiled at the feeling of everything. He knew that if he imagined something in this state, it would come true. But right now, he was enjoying the feeling of knowing where everything is. It annoyed him a little that his team was nearby, but his loss that he didn't see them earlier. They are in plain sight.

He felt a bunny jump in front of him. He was a little surprised that the animal didn't jump away. But he just placed it with Zemen's zeher making it seem like he was one of them. But in his opinion, a good rabbit was a dead one. Rabbits taste pretty good if you have the right spices.

He heard a gasp coming from Mari. He tried to figure out why she would be surprised until he felt it. The zeher that any animal would produce wasn't coming from the rabbit. In this state, he couldn't see it. He became focused again and the real world came back to him.

In front of him was a dead rabbit.

He wasn't surprised. It was by accident that he killed it. But if you can control all terrestrial things, you could also kill them right?

So why was Mari so surprised?

She merely stood up and walked away, leaving a confused Naruto sitting on the ground. Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura walked over. Naruto looked over to them and asked, "What did I do?"

Sakura sniffed. "What's that horrible smell?", she asked. She looked down in front of Naruto and screamed. "What is that?", she yelled.

Naruto followed her gaze and saw the dead rabbit. "Possibly dinner. But that's not the problem right now. Mari just went off for no reason."

"Hmm, I really don't know what's going on, but let's get back to Kira-san's house. I'm sure Jinso-san will come to you whenever she feels like it. Come, let's go."

All four of them made the walk back to Kira's house. Naruto was the first one in. He was so confused. What did he do to make Mari just leave like that? He sat down in the chair of the cafeteria table where he just was not too long ago, and sighed. Oh well, he thought. There's no point in thinking about it if there wasn't any chance he'll figure it out.

His teammates sat down with him and waited for something. Naruto noticed this and said, "What?"

"Dobe, what are those techniques you've been doing?", asked Sasuke. His Sharingan was on during the whole ordeal and saw an odd energy coming from Naruto. It wasn't chakra, but it looked like it. He saw this weird energy go to the rabbit. Suddenly, that same energy started to come from the rabbit but Naruto's energy engulfed it. It soon went back to Naruto, all the energy from the rabbit gone. Next thing he knew, the rabbit was dead.

Naruto stuck his tongue at him. "Not telling. My techniques.", he said childishly.

"Dobe", Sasuke growled. However, Naruto couldn't prod his growing annoyance and anger because something caught his eye.

It was a little girl hiding behind the doorway. She looked a little familiar, but Naruto was sure he never saw her before.

The girl, realizing that she had been seen, pulled her head back behind the door way. A moment later, Naruto could hear footsteps going away from here.

"What is it, Naruto?", asked Sakura.

"I saw a little girl over there. She just ran off when I saw her." He thought for a moment. Then he yelled, "Kenta!"

A minute later, the boy came in the cafeteria. "Whatcha need?"

"I saw a little girl there by the doorway just now. Are there more people staying here at the hotel?", Naruto asked.

Kenta muttered to himself, "little girl, little girl. Hmm." Then he snapped his fingers. "Wait, maybe you saw my little sister, Kairi. She's an extremely curious girl, but she's too shy to ask any questions. She's a little weird in my opinion."

"your sister?", repeated Naruto. He could see some resemblance between that girl and him. They both had brown hair and brown eyes but the similarities stopped there. Kenta had short spiky hair that hanged down all the time. Not as spiky as his, but spiky. The girl had short, straight hair that stopped at her shoulders. Kenta was loud and talkative, especially when you got him on the subject of warriors. The sister he just described sounded like the complete opposite.

Naruto realized something just then. "hey, Kenta, you say you want to be a warrior, but you never said what kind. What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Hmm, I really didn't care which kind of warrior I'll turn out to be. But if I had to choose the best one, it would be samurais. Their swords are so cool and they are always so honorable and cool and stuff."

Naruto smiled a little mischievously. He turned to Kakashi, "Hey, sensei, let's duel. If I win, you'll never ask me about my abilities again. And plus, you might see some of them in action."

"Hmm, that's seems okay. Fine, let's have a little spar, but I'm not going easy on you. I'll be going all out, and I expect you will be too.", replied Kakashi. Sakura and Sasuke looked at him in shock. Their sensei, a jounin, going all out on a genin? It seemed a little overkill. Sakura didn't care how strong Naruto had gotten. This was too risky even for him. Sasuke, however, could see why Kakashi would even think about going all out. It meant Naruto was strong enough to at least put up a fight. His teeth grinded in anger. 'Dammit, Naruto. How do you keep surpassing me? I almost kill you and you come back like this?, thought Sasuke.

All five of them walked back to the clearing. Sasuke, Sakura, and Kenta stood where Team 7 had been eavesdropping earlier, far away but not too far. Naruto and Kakashi walked over to where the dead rabbit was, and was surprised to see it was all bones.

"Ah, come on! I was actually going to eat that later!", complained Naruto.

"Maa, maa. Naruto, should you really be concentrating on that rabbit?", Kakashi said as he pulled his hitai-ate up, "when you have me to deal with?"

Naruto smirked. "You don't scare me."

"Then Naruto, you still have much to learn."

"Oh, really?"

A wind blew against them. Naruto removed his hitai-ate. Kakashi looked at him, questioning look in his eyes. "Naruto, what are you doing?"

Naruto didn't reply, but threw his hitai-ate into the sky. "Soul Stealer, arise from the darkness in my heart."

A black orb appeared at the center of his hitai-ate and expanded until it engulfed it completely. Then the black orb started forming into a sword shape, before drawing back, revealing Soul Stealer.

Naruto caught it and aimed it at the surprised Kakashi. "I'm not going easier on you either, sensei. Let me say it this time. Come at me with the intent to kill or you'll fail."

Kakashi got into a battle stance and got his kunai out. Naruto let his sword's tip rest on the ground as he stood relaxed. But Kakashi knew better. He wasn't sure who taught him swordsmanship, but Naruto was actually tensed mentally. He was ready to act as soon as he saw something. This stance, with proper training, is a very dangerous one, especially for a ninja since there way of life is about discretion and taking them out without their target being aware of it. In this stance, no ninja could surprise him.

Kakashi quickly threw his kunai at Naruto. The blond genin slashed upward and cut the kunai in half, much to everyone's surprise. But Kakashi didn't stop to wonder what that sword was made out of. He quickly made some hand seals and began his famous jutsu.

"Raikiri!", he called out, the lightning chakra forming in his hands and jumping to the ground. He noticed the shocked looks of his students, but Naruto seemed pretty relaxed. Nonetheless, he said, "Are you sure you want me to go full out?"

Naruto gave a calm smile. "Bring it on!", he yelled. But on the inside, he was freaking out. His Rasengan matched the Chidori in power barely. And Kakashi's Raikiri was stronger than that. He yelled in his mind, "Zemen!"

"What? I was sleeping!", came back.

"What's the opposite of Lightning? Tell me before I die!"

"Lightning? Well, in most places, rock or stone is the opposite, but for ninjas, I think it was wind."

"Wind? That's easy. So I just gather air molecules and push them toward him, right? Then I'd better go into the Mojinome state and then-" he was cut off with Zemen's cry of "You fool!"

"Just gathering wind molecules and pushing out will give him a gentle breeze. His attack is a chakra based elemental attack. That means only chakra can counteract it. You have to use your zeher to make gather wind molecules and then add chakra into it. From what I remember, wind chakra makes thin and sharp attacks."

"Add both? Aww, I can't do that. That's too difficult."

"Just do it, or you'll die, remember?"

Naruto huffed. "Fine. I'll try." 'But this is going to be impossible. I can't handle two energies at once! If only Mari-san was here. It'd be so much easier if another person helped. Wait, another person? I got it!

Naruto made his favorite cross-shaped seal. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" A clone appeared next to him.

"Are you sure you want to go with the Rasengan against me, Naruto?", asked Kakashi, waiting for Naruto to attack first to give him a fair chance.

Naruto smirked. "Who said I was going to use the Rasengan?" 'I'm going to use a cooler technique. One I just made up a name for.

He put his hands together and turned them into the hamburger position. Then while concentrating on his zeher and the air around him, he willed the molecules to come to his hand. He moved his hands in opposite directions, one going up and the other going down. As he did, the clone placed his hands near the growing opening between the original's hands and started to feed it chakra.

A small and thin tornado appeared. The top and bottom of it attached to the original's palms. It got taller and taller as he moved his hands further and further. Dust and dirt started to be picked up, making the tornado into a grey-brown color. It made it visible to the others. To the others, it looked like a blade made out of wind, but it was curved.

Kakashi, seeing Naruto's hands stop moving, decided that he gave him enough time. He raced toward Naruto with his Raikiri breaking through the dirt underneath.

Naruto turned his hands sideways so that the wind blade was horizontal. When he saw Kakashi coming, he clapped his hands together, making the blade shoot out like when you try to break a flexible toothpick, and instead of breaking, the force makes it fling out.

Kakashi saw the brownish blade come toward him. He could dodge it if he wanted to, but he wanted to see the power behind Naruto's new jutsu. He believed that the Raikiri was stronger still even with the elemental disadvantage and knew he wouldn't get hurt.

Well, he was half-right. He wasn't hurt. But as soon as the Raikiri hit the wind blade, they both shattered. Kakashi's eyes widened.

Naruto grinned. "My new technique, Whirlwind Sickle."

END

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