I'm crying tears of joy right now, I just got the most wondrous reviews last chapter showing that a majority of people who read this story love it. And that makes me happy that many people enjoy reading my story, and the fact that I got over 1.11K views last chapter which is the most that I've ever gotten in one day. I've also noticed that I've sort of strayed away from the whole gamer thing, even though this is a Naruto gamer story and I will try to remedy that soon. but Merry Late Christmas to all who celebrate it, think of this as my gift to the community. Also I would like to apologize for the quality of this chapter, I think it's just not up to par with what I normally do. But currently I am lacking motivation to type this story and I'm doing a sort of pallet cleanser to get back in the mood and hype for this story. And for those of you wondering Naruto will not show that new shiny ability that I hinted that he had last chapter. Also I think that I made Kakashi kind of weak in this chapter but you've got to understand that when he can't use Chidori and Raikiri then he is a bit of a pushover in my humble opinion. So sometime soon I should get back in the mood for typing this story and chapters should be coming out at a more regular pace.
Chapter Eleven
Sparring and Starting Dungeons
Hiruzen jumped away from the sparring area, and started the match. Kakashi whipped out a book, and Naruto sat down and began drawing seal on some blank tags that he'd brought out. Hiruzen sighed at the shinobi and the shinobi-to-be, they never took anybody seriously. Kakashi sighed, and put his book up he would be the one to initiate combat this time instead of Naruto.
Naruto however never moved from his spot on drawing the seal even when Kakashi brought his heel down on Naruto's head. Except for the fact that Kakashi's foot never made contact and instead banged up against a crystal arm that appeared out of the ground beside Naruto who looked oblivious to Kakashi staring at him. Kakashi's eye narrowed at the crystal arm, until it suddenly twisted and grabbed him by the ankle and threw him across the clearing.
Kakashi twisted in mid-air and landed on the trunk of a tree before launching himself at Naruto who had yet to move from his spot but instead wasn't paying attention to his seal anymore. Instead he was grinning madly at the Copy cat ninja. It slightly unnerved Kakashi to see an ear to ear grin like that on Naruto's face but he quickly shoved the thoughts of the smile to the back of his mind and focused on hitting Naruto.
It was an exercise in frustration seeing as the crystal arms, legs, and sometimes shields would block all of his attacks. Kakashi stayed calm and instead switched to Ninjustu seeing as Naruto had made himself basically immune to all forms of taijutsu.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
The giant fireball sailed towards the motionless Naruto and Hiruzen nor Kakashi moved knowing that Naruto was smart enough and strong enough to block or dodge the fireball. Naruto however leisurely stood up and put his hand in front of him as if he was going to block the fireball with a single hand. A large crystal mirror formed in front of him and he slapped the seal on the back, "Crystal Sealing Method: Jade Time/Space Mirror!" Naruto called out as the fireball crashed into the mirror and in was then absorbed into the mirror, causing both Hiruzen and Kakashi's eyes to widen and their jaws to drop.
Naruto only however cheered, "It worked! Dang that took a long time, do you know that seal took me a month to make. Over three thousand Shadow clones were sacrificed in order to get that seal working properly. And now let's get this party started!" Another mirror of crystal formed underneath Naruto and he whipped out another seal before calling out, "Crystal Sealing Method: Levitating Jade Mirror!"
Naruto slapped the seal onto the mirror and in began levitating a few feet in mid air, only causing Kakashi's eyes to widen further and Hiruzen's jaw to drop again. Not one but two special seals that were uncommon.
"Again this seal took me a while to get and several thousand Shadow clones." Naruto smirked before the mirror floated higher and then dashed towards Kakashi at easily jounin level speeds, "I made this seal when I didn't have Sora with me to allow me to fly so basically I have the advantage in maneuverability any where I go."
The time/space mirror floated behind Naruto as he formed a large crystal hammer and attempted to slam it into Kakashi's face, not hard enough to kill him but hard enough that he would be sore in the morning. And he would be one giant bruise but that's beside the point. Kakashi rolled out of the way and jumped towards Naruto before the time/space mirror blocked his kick.
Kakashi flew back and rushed through hand-seals before calling out, "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Technique!" Kakashi shot out several fireballs that while not as big as the great fireball, were just as fast and moved in a more erratic pattern making them harder to dodge and block. Naruto however slapped his time/space mirror and it split into several smaller mirrors that easily blocked the smaller fireballs.
"Crystal Sealing Method: Splitting Time/Space Jade Mirrors." Naruto smirked as he said the name of his techniques. The seals were working perfectly, even though this was his second time testing them. Now it was time to move on the offensive, "Crystal Sealing Method: Time/Space Jade Mirror Return Attack." Naruto called out and the smaller mirrors quickly fused back into one giant mirror before the fireballs that Kakashi had shot at him returned.
Kakashi rolled out of the way of the first giant fireball, and then dashed out of the way of the several smaller fireballs that struck the ground shaking it every time one made contact. Rolling to a stop Kakashi got up and flipped through some hand signs before rushing in close, fire didn't work so he was going to have to move to his primary element to see if that would work.
"Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder!" Kakashi called out as he got in close and a wave of electricity flew from him, close enough to strike Naruto, who moved his shield in between him and the attack, and a thin layer of ice covered his mirror before the attack was absorbed. Naruto grinned before a small pop up made itself known.
Shield Durability 30%
Seal Power 50%
Naruto's smirk disappeared, he would have to finish this faster than planned. Seeing as the electric attack was strong against his crystal and the ice wasn't thick enough to protect it all the way, his shield was breaking down faster than he could provide chakra to it.
The weakness of his seal and the shield was that it chewed through chakra like an Akamichi on an all you can eat buffet. And that's why Naruto limited himself the amount of chakra that he would provide to the mirror or else he would run the risk of wearing himself ragged. And although he'd increased his reserves with this technique, it still took a hell of a lot out of him to perform this maneuver. So instead of using more chakra on the technique, he launched both shield at Kakashi releasing the electric technique and forcing Kakashi to dodge.
Naruto blasted through some hand signs and then called out, "Ice Release: Black Dragon Blizzard!" The air suddenly got super cold and dry, a sign that Naruto had used all he the moisture he could in the air to make the dragon that was absolutely huge! The black dragon appeared to be made out of a combination of snow and ice all of it was a black color.
"This is one of my favorite techniques, and I haven't used it in a while so I thought that I would start to use it again seeing as I've been using Crystal Release more often these days." Naruto grinned as Hiruzens eyebrows raised and Kakashi's pinched himself to make sure that his adopted little brother was actually doing this and this wasn't a dream.
"Sic 'em!" Naruto shouted as he jumped off the dragon and formed more handseals before claws of ice more on his hands and feet and Naruto dashed in for the taijutsu, it was time to use the stamina that he was known for.
Stamina 100%
That was wonderful! Kakashi was in for some hurt if he thought that Naruto was going to use that Genin taijustu that he taught him all those years ago. Naruto shifted into a stance that he found worked wonderfully when he had claws. The Dragon's Claw taijutsu that he found in the library was a taijutsu style that although documented wasn't used anymore. It required ridiculous strength in the fingers and toes to hold kunai between each of the fingers and toes and after people realized that it required more training than what they already had, the style was turned away from seeing as people didn't think that it was worth it.
But when Naruto found it, he was ecstatic seeing as he found a taijustu style that worked well with his claws, both the style and his claws focused on slashing damage instead of blunt punches and kick. So Naruto instead of giving bruises would be giving potentially lethal gashes and cuts. Naruto got in close to attack Kakashi in unison with his dragons, who would go in for a heavy attack and when Kakashi dodged Naruto would be the one to harass him.
The only type of teamwork that could be displayed in the same way were the Inuzuka or particularly close Genin teams. Naruto however worked easily with jutsu that came alive such as the dragon jutsu, as some people labeled them. Each element had a jutsu that allowed the element to be formed into a dragon, and usually the mixed elements such as ice, crystal, and magnet. Naruto worked well with a real dragon, and a fox, but he also worked extremely well with a dragon made from chakra and black snow. The said dragon wasn't even giving Kakashi a chance to get up let alone strike back while Naruto was districating Kakashi with his closeness and different taijutsu style. Kakashi's sharingan was working over time in order to read the moves of both the dragon and Naruto, who's style seemed to be almost unpredictable.
In reality the reason that Kakashi's sharingan wasn't working properly was because of a seal that was underneath his shirt, attached to his stomach. The seals main purpose was to distort chakra in the area around Naruto, the chakra distortion Naruto found somehow affected ocular bloodlines such as the sharingan to an extent and it made it so the Byakugan could not see all of the tenketsu or some of them would appear to be in the wrong place.
Another seal that Naruto had used was attached to both of his legs, and it made it so that anything entering the chakra distortion would be slowed down to almost half the speed meaning Naruto would have more time to react when anybody entered the distortion around him which had a range of about ten meters. Any more than that and Naruto was using chakra to fast to care about the effects seeing as they wouldn't do him any good for that long.
Over time Kakashi was moving slower and slower, seeing as everytime Naruto even nicked his clothes or skin he was placing micro seals on his clones and skin which would slow him down very little but the effects would multiply the more that Naruto applied seals. So far Kakashi had ten different seals on him, slowing him down by a total of 10%. Five more seals and Naruto could put Kakashi out of the battle for good, not killing him but forcing him to surrender due to the fact that he would be rendered immobile.
Kakashi seemed to notice that he was slowing down, and Naruto didn't know if he noticed the seals or if he wrote it off as exhaustion. But Naruto and the dragon attacked with more effort and more brutality, ready to end the battle. Kakashi pushed himself away from Naruto and the dragon long enough to flick through some hand signs and he called out, "Fire Style: Ash Pile Accumulation!" Kakashi breathed out a large cloud of dust, ash, and black smoke over Naruto and the dragon.
Naruto knew this jutsu, if was very handy and since his own Sharingan had been active when Kakashi formed the handseals and did the jutsu, he now new how to perform it safely. Naruto's dragon curled around Naruto as a large pyramid crystal formed around them and then Kakashi clicked his teeth. Everything exploded, before Kakashi blew some dust away from his face.
He let the headband come back over his sharingan and he sighed, Naruto would survive but he would be in the hospital for a while. Kakashi turned around to face Hiruzen who was still staring slack jawed at the battle, he didn't know that Naruto was capable of.
"Konoha's Secret Technique: One Thousand Years of Death!" Naruto called out from the dust cloud and shoved his fingers in the ram seal, right into Kakashi's rear end. Kakashi's face scrunched up for a second before he was shot in the air by the power of the strike. He landed on his face, butt still in the air. Kakashi, had been defeated by his own move.
Hiruzen and Naruto started chuckling, before it turned into all out laughter. Kakashi seemed to sense this and get up, the visible part of his face clearly red.
"Pay back! That's what you get for trying to blow me up!" Naruto said between laughs. Kakashi however growled and lowered his head in defeat. He knew when he was beaten although he would make both Naruto and Hiruzen swear up and down not to tell anybody lest he lose reputation being beaten by an Academy student. He didn't care if said Academy student had been training since age 6 and had been taught by him, he wasn't about to let it go.
Naruto stood up straight, although no scratches on him from the spar, which only served to make it even more embarrassing. Kakashi spent the last half an hour they were on the field bribing Hiruzen and blackmailing Naruto in order to make sure they didn't tell anybody. So for the next ten years he would arrive on time to anything and he also would show everybody the embarrassing photos of a younger Naruto playing in a bubble bath.
Kakashi smiled before Naruto held up said pictures and proceeded to burn them, and the copies, and the copies of the copies. Kakashi did a quick check of his pockets, his extra pockets, and his secret pockets. Naruto had stood still and still managed to pickpocket him, Kakashi would find out how he did that or he would take off his mask for a week.
Naruto however smiled, made some hand gestures when he was chuckling and explaining why Kakashi couldn't do it, and then pulled out all five of the Icha Icha books that Kakashi kept on him at all times. Naruto thankfully didn't burn them like the pictures but then told Kakashi that there was no way to blackmail him if you waved pictures in front of Naruto.
Naruto then proceeded to pickpocket all of the Icha Icha books on Hiruzen, some kunai off of Kakashi, and he even plucked the pipe out of Hiruzen's mouth. Hiruzen and Kakashi were stunned, especially because Naruto had barely moved and he'd pickpocketed most of items off a top jounin and the HOKAGE! Naruto smirked, he'd been leveling up the skill and when it hit level 50, he'd gained the chance to give a mutation. He had the choiced, Inventory Stealer, Without a Trace, and Loot Grabber.
Inventory Stealer allowed for Naruto to open a persons inventory and steal what ever he wanted but he had a limited time before the person would notice. Without A Trace allowed him to walk up to a person and literally shove his had in their pocket without them noticing but others would be more likely to warn the victim. Loot Grabber made all the things he could grab random, unless he knew where to get something or it was a mission and it multiplied the loot that he got.
Naruto of course chose Inventory Stealer and since he had gotten used to the menu, he knew how to work around things like the time limit, also known as the pause feature. It had been balanced in the latest update, he was no longer aloud to move when paused but he could still work his menu and steal things from others. So he knew that the next update would make the pickpocketing more balanced or something like that.
But Naruto had picked the pockets of just about everybody in Konoha, except for the Anbu Captain, and some of the more paranoid people who never left their homes until they needed to get food from the market. Naruto was an excellent theif, and he couldn't wait until he could proudly announce that he'd picked the pocket of some of the richer in the ninja world.
Naruto was allowed to leave and the first place that he headed was the now rebuilt Uchiha district, population 4. Naruto had been allowed to move in, mainly because he was so close to the family and because Kakashi and Mikoto allowed it. He was Sasuke's brother in all but blood and he and Sayuri got along better than any siblings or friends ever did. Mikoto liked to joke that the day an argument started between the three, was the day that the sky was going to fall.
Naruto walked in on the Uchiha family, eating lunch in their own dinner table, which seemed very empty until Naruto came in. Naruto sat down and began staring at Sayuri and Sasuke with a big smile on his face.
"So how'd the testing go? Did you get your butt kicked?" Sasuke teased before he shoveled in another tomato.
"No, but I picked the Hokage's pocket and I used Kakashi's own jutsu against him." Sasuke stared at Naruto like he was insane, Sayuri let her food almost fall out of her mouth, and Mikoto chuckled.
"I'm sure you did, now tell the truth." She smiled, obviously not believing that he could do that, even though she was still apart of the party that he created days ago.
"No really, Naruto smiled before pulling the Hokage's pipe out of his inventory. I replaced it with a cardboard cutout. He should be sending Anbu to retrieve his pipe in 3...2...1..." Right as Naruto hit one he held the pipe over his shoulder and an Anbu silently took it from him before disappearing in a whirlwind of leaves. Sasuke stared at Naruto with wide eyes, Sayuri started sputtering out her food in surprise, and Mikoto's normal smile was replaced with a look of shock. All of them made permanent mental notes not to doubt Naruto so much, even if he was renown as Konoha's biggest and greatest prankster.
Naruto opened a letter that the Anbu had also left in his hands, and smirked at it. "The letter says that if I steal the Hokage's pipe again my punishment is going to be 100 D-rank missions."
Mikoto sighed, that was one of the worst punishments that the Hokage could give you, besides exile or execution but those were only for the true traitors or enemies of Konoha. Or the true punishments, E-rank missions. Punishments that had no reward, like cleaning out the sewers or scrubbing the Hokage monument with a bucket of water and a brush. Normally those missions were done by teams of volunteers, citizens mostly but sometimes a solo ninja would do it. Naruto knew that he could get away from just about anything and that if he was forced to do an E-rank then he would either use Shadow Clones or he would probably just outrun any of the Anbu that ever came to get him.
He'd done that when he was younger and now it would be even easier. Erasing the chases with the Anbu from his mind, Naruto's smile returned to his face and he looked at Sasuke and Sayuri, who had just finished with their lunches.
"Hey Mikoto, do you mind if I steal Sasuke and Sayuri for the rest of the day?"
"No, but I would like to know where you're going."
"We are going dungeon crawling!" Naruto said gleefully, yet the thought of crawling through dungeons was appalling, the smile fell from his face before he knew that he was going to have to explain.
"We are going to go into a dungeon and we are going to kill things and get loot."
"What types of things are you going to kill?" Mikoto asked, suddenly not sure she wanted Naruto to let her children do this.
"Rats, spiders, snakes, you name it if it's an animal then it has turned into viscous monsters and I'm going to let Sayuri and Sasuke get used to going through dungeons."
"Okay, but if they don't return in one piece then I am going to hurt you Naruto." Mikoto said with a straight face, how she did Naruto had no clue but she made it really menacing and he could feel the killing intent.
"Don't worry, we are going into a relatively easy dungeon. The monster levels are twenty to twenty five, both of them could easily solo this dungeon." Naruto smiled as he dragged the two out of the house and towards one of the training fields.
"Naruto is the dungeon as easy as you say?" Sayuri asked, a bit apprehensive about the whole ordeal.
"Hell no, you guys are under leveled for the dungeon that we are going into so you guys are going to do it all and I'm going to make sure that neither of you get killed or horribly mutilated." He had that ear to ear grin on his face the entire time that he said it and it made both of the Uchiha sibling shiver. This wasn't going to end well for either of them.
He dragged them to a spot in the training area and then opened his menu, allowing both of them to look at his menu as he surfed through the list of dungeons, most of them had the word Cleared by it meaning that Naruto had defeated the boss and beaten the dungeon.
"Lets see, what do you guys think that we should do. It's either going to be Yeti's Retreat or Mutants Forests."
Yeti's Retreat had enemies that had a average level of almost 50 while Mutants Forest had an average enemy level of 40, Sayuri wasn't happy with either but in the end both her and her brother chose Mutants Forest seeing as Naruto was level 50 and she though that going into the Yeti's Retreat without proper clothing would be suicide.
"Hmmm, not my first choice but lets do this!" Naruto said as he selected the dungeon and his team mates before the world around them shifted and formed the dungeon. Neither of the Uchiha's were going to have fun while Naruto was cackling and giggling behind both of them as the trio set off into the dungeon looking for the way down to the second level.
Yeah like I said at the beginning, kind of not my best chapter but I did have to deal with almost 13 people in my house while I'm typing this so it is hard to get some time alone. Not to mention I've been getting bored and searching for inspiration for this story I started reading a type of fanfiction that I never thought I would read, you guessed it, RWBY. That and I've gotten two new games to play and so I've also been playing them for quite a while. Also don't blame me for reading RWBY fanfiction because I'm sure that you dear readers have read some funky stuff on this website just like me. There is some stuff that should just never be read. But anyways, don't expect a new chapter super soon because I'm trying to regain some of my motivation to type this story.
