Title: Shadow Clones For EVERYTHING!
Rating: T for violence and swearing.
Disclaimer: Masashi Kishimoto created and own Naruto. This story is purely written for entertainment.
Warning: AU Naruto.
Summary: Upon using Shadow Clones Jutsu for very first time, Naruto immediately fell in love and decided to make a significant life-changing decision. Shadow Clones jutsu is the only jutsu for him!
Chapter 1: SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!
Long Time Ago...Konoha...
"Kyuubi! It's time for you to be sealed!" shouted a blond hair adult man in white hoari with red flame pattern. It's none other than Namikaze Minato, doing his duty as Fourth Hokage to defend Konoha from 9-Tails Fox, Kyuubi. In his arm is a newborn baby sporting small patch of blond hair and six whiskers.
"GRAWWRRR!" Kyuubi roared in response to Yondaime Hokage who proceed to use Reaper Death Seal jutsu! Couple seconds later, Kyuubi disappeared and Yondaime Hokage could be seen saying farewell to newly made Jinchuuriki, "Good-bye, Naruto...I'm sor-" Minato paused before remembering something important. Something he meant to do before sealing Kyuubi. "Shit, I forgot to split Kyuubi into two-"
"Too late, you're mine now." said Shinigami who promptly pulled Minato's soul out before disappearing. His job is done, no need to waste time sticking around.
Present time...Night time...Somewhere in forest…
An almost 13 years old blond boy with whiskers could be seen squinting at the Forbidden Scroll, which is pretty hard since it's night time and he only has moon providing light. But those darn trees blocked most of moon light. Plus he has to learn at least one technique from the Scroll in order to pass a make-up Genin exam! Oh, Iruka-sensei will be so impressed that he'll probably ask old man Hokage to make Naruto a chuunin!
Now if only he could read this freaking Scroll with limited lighting. Maybe he should've brought a flashlight, lantern, or even a cheap candle. Something that can give him a light.
"Hmm...Shadow...Clones...Jutsu? Are you kidding me? Meh, whatever! It's a different clone jutsu so I should hopefully be able to do this! I have to!" Naruto grumbled as he remembered his embarrassment of his inability to do ANY of all three Academy basic jutsu. Sure, he can do taijutsu, throw kunai and shurikens, and stuffs though they're below average to average. But ninjutsu? He couldn't do it! Plus he doesn't feel like wasting time trying to read other jutsu on the Scroll since he has time limit.
"Ok, so I have to...make this sign...and uhh...do something with chakra. And focus my own...imagine...Why there's so many hard words in this stupid Scroll?" Ok, sound simple enough so Naruto began his attempt to use Shadow Clone jutsu. Standing up, he crossed his fingers and shouted, "SHADOW CLONES JUTSU!"
And poof! Just like that, Naruto found himself surrounded by dozen clones of himself who all looking around. Huh, he didn't put in that much chakra but he did it!
"Huh, that was easy!" Naruto remarked, prompting multiple responses from his clones all at once. Not understanding clearly, real Naruto shouted, "QUIET!" and all noises died down with all clones giving him an undivided attention. Studying him as if real Naruto is an undiscovered specimen.
Real Naruto walked toward a nearest clone and poke him. And again. Whoa, it-ahem-he's solid!
"That's...so cool!" Naruto yelled excitedly, only get poked by an irritated clone who went, "Watch where you're poking!"
"Hey-Wait a minute! Do that again!" And so a clone did and Naruto felt it as he look at his clone before studying every single other clone. They're solid and can physically touch. Does it mean...his clones can keep him company? Play games and pranks? No longer, he'll be alone? Naruto couldn't describe this wonderful feeling when he look at his solid clones. This accomplishment, is this what people refer as love?
Curious, Naruto walked back to where the Forbidden Scroll sitting at. Picking it up, Naruto squinted to read as he attempted to read more about Shadow Clones jutsu, "Something...Something...Can only take 1 hit...Something...something...Cool...But how I do...Ok, got it!"
A blond kid set down the scroll before crossing his fingers, concentrating before screaming, "DISPEL!"
Poof! All of his clones disappeared, replaced by smoke that slowly fading away. Leaving Naruto alone in the forest-
"SHADOW CLONES JUTSU!"
Never mind, Naruto is surrounded by his clones. Poof! His clones disappeared and Naruto proceed to practice by summoning his clones, dispelling them, and repeat. This is...AWESOME! He can summon an army of him at anytime!
Later…
"Naruto! There you are!" a tan skin chuunin with scar appeared, hopping down from the tree. Naruto's face lit up as he happily greeted him, "Iruka-sensei! I found you!"
"What do you mean you found me? I FOUND YOU!" Iruka's head comically grew to large size as he pointed at his blond hair student, "But that's no-"
"Yeah yeah, but come here! I wanna show you something! I got this awesome jutsu down!"
"Jutsu-"
"Hurry!" Naruto gestured impatiently.
"Have you-"
"SENSEI!"
"Oh fine, I'll humor you on this." Iruka shook his head before standing next to Naruto who grinned, "Great, now watch this!" Naruto crossed his fingers together before screaming, "SHADOW CLONES JUTSU!" Iruka's eyes widened at the jutsu called out by Naruto. Shoot, he should've-
"..." Iruka's jaw dropped with his eyes comically ready to pop out as he found himself surrounded by hundred-no, more than that. Every single direction, a brown hair chuunin could see nothing but Naruto clones standing on the ground, hanging on tree trunks, and on branches. Everywhere. EVERYWHERE! And it is currently...CRAMPED!
Iruka was so gobsmacked that he didn't catch Naruto attempting to get his attention. Just when Naruto was about to whack Iruka with Forbidden Scroll to get his attention, a man's scream of agony echoed throughout the forest.
"AHHHHHHH!"
Jolted, Iruka quickly scanned his surrounding before hearing another scream. It's coming from that direction! They're not alone, someone's there and must've got injured when Naruto summoned his numerous clones! With real Naruto trailing after him, Iruka navigated through horde of Naruto clones but finding it difficult to get through. Too many of clones standing in their way. It was as if he's swimming in pit filled with exercise balls.
"Naruto, dispel your clones!"
"Yeah, that's what I'm trying to tell you, sensei!"
"You-Never mind, just dispel them! Need to get to injured man and get medical help!"
"You got it! DISPEL!" And so, the forest ended up being covered in smoke everywhere. Iruka didn't mean dispel every single clone! But whatever, now there's no clone standing in way, he and Naruto can run to wherever an injured man at.
It didn't take long for Iruka and Naruto to a person who sound as if he's in great unimaginable pain and upon arriving, it was no other than-
"Mizuki?"
"Mizuki-sensei!"
Sure enough, it's Mizuki. It wasn't a pretty sight for Iruka to see his childhood friend and coworker and for Naruto to see one of his teachers at Academy. Lying on the ground in pool of blood, grasping his abdomen and fuma shuriken. He need medical attention immediately, Iruka thought alarmingly. Before Iruka could jump into action, Mizuki's expression shifted from pained to hatred as he glared at them.
"You! YOU! You stupid brat! And you, Iruka! You weren't...supposed to find him yet!" Mizuki grimaced before spatting, "Curse you, Kyuubi brat!" He wanted to say more, maybe helpfully elaborate that S-rank secret about Naruto being host to Kyuubi, sealed by Fourth Hokage. But no, he lost conscious due to blood loss. And embarrassment, he should've put his fuma shuriken on his back.
Naruto and Iruka would later learn that Mizuki was hopping from branch to branch, carrying his fuma shuriken in his hand when suddenly, thousand Naruto clones popped into existence everywhere, from ground to trees. As a consequence of hopping so fast, Mizuki bumped into multiple Naruto clones and fell from dangerously high height. While falling, Mizuki has panicked as he flapped his arms fruitlessly with one hand still holding fuma shuriken. As a result, Mizuki landed on his own fuma shuriken.
Tragically, Mizuki later died from blood loss. Anyway, that's not important for Naruto. What's important is that Mizuki, in his hated tone, has called Naruto a 'Kyuubi brat'. As a result, Naruto, Iruka, and Sandaime Hokage affectionately referred as 'Old Man' (by Naruto) ended up having a heart-to-heart discussion on how Naruto is a host to Kyuubi. Not Kyuubi itself.
Since Naruto has explained how Mizuki approached him and how he tasked him with 'make-up Genin exam' to steal the Forbidden Scroll that has been returned to its rightful place, he ended up walking out of Hokage Tower with Iruka's headband on his forehead with Iruka next to him. Wearing his new headband. It's good to be prepared.
"Remember, Naruto. It start at eight, got it?"
"Off course, Iruka-sensei! You're looking at Naruto the Genin!"
"That's right, Naruto and don't forget that! As a ninja of Konoha, punctuality is very important!"
"I will be there at eight! Believe it!"
"Good, now go home!"
Two days later…
Naruto is not in good mood. Being genin on his first night was great! But being genin on his first MORNING which was yesterday just plain sucked! Ok, yesterday didn't start off badly as Naruto managed to get to the classroom before eight. And that was after having awesome ramen noodles for breakfast. And Iruka showed up and gave his boring but heartfelt speech after bluntly told the Academy graduates of Mizuki's death. Official story, off course where Mizuki was on last-minute mission and he died.
It wasn't so bad since both Iruka-sensei and Old Man comforted him. That it wasn't his fault for summoning unreasonable number of his clones and being indirect cause of Mizuki's death. No way, he could've known that Mizuki would be hopping from branch to branch. While holding a fuma shuriken in his hand for unknown reason. But no, that wasn't it.
What really sucked happened when Iruka started to announce the teams where three genins would be paired up with their jounin sensei. As announced by Iruka, Naruto found himself on Team 7 with Sasuke-teme and Sakura-chan and blond genin has no idea whether to cheer or boo. Oh and some guy named Hatake Kakashi as Team 7's sensei. A said sensei who turned out to be extremely tardy and got hit by an eraser. He look to be a type who probably chanted "To hell with punctuality" every night before going to sleep or something like that.
But no, that wasn't it either. What truly sucked was that Naruto and his teammates have to take TRUE Genin Test. A test that has 66 percent chance of failing or something like that, Naruto didn't exactly pay attention and so, he has been practicing his rather amazing Shadow Clone jutsu without blowing up his shoddy apartment with clones. And the neighboring buildings.
Flashback...Yesterday...Naruto's apartment…
"ALRIGHT! I MUST PRACTICE FOR TOMORROW TEST! I CAN DO IT!" Naruto screamed, all pumped up after finishing his dinner (ramen noodles, off coruse) while wearing a simple black shirt and orange short before crossing his fingers together, "SHADOW CLONES JUTSU!"
Naruto found himself completely surrounded and squeezed by his numerous clones with the living room walls cracking and furniture broken. Crud, he didn't mean to summon that many in living room. With his clones glaring and pushing at each other, Naruto attempted to 'swim' upward before gawking at more clones standing outside his living room AND outside his apartment. Maybe he should've use little LESS chakra.
"HEY! Where all these brats coming from?"
"QUIET DOWN, YOU FREAKING BRAT! TRYING TO SLEEP!"
"GET OFF MY WINDOW!"
"Oi, get away from my cart!"
"MY CABBAGES! MY CARROTS! MY-"
"STOP STEPPING ON ME, YOU DAMN BRATS!
And many other neighbors complaining about Naruto clones disrupting their night time activities and blocking several streets and alleys. Sweating, Naruto strained himself to bring up his arms before dispelling his clones. Now, everybody complaining about the smoke and blaming him. Wow, what an ungrateful bunch. Naruto has even received multiple visits from chuunins, ANBUs, and civilians to give him a 'warning' which was more as a threat. Multiple threats. Even Old Man himself came in grumpy mood, only to sigh before telling him to be careful with Shadow Clones jutsu followed by congratulating him for creating world's record of high number of clones. Aww yeah, Naruto's the best!
Flashback end...
Note to self, do not practice Shadow Clone jutsu inside apartment. Also note to self, obtain wooden planks. Also also note to self, practice Shadow Clones somewhere spacious and then, have some of them follow him to home. Now, he thought about it, his Shadow Clones are physical and therefore, can do chores! Genius! By using Shadow Clones, Naruto can spend his time doing something else! Like practicing more Shadow Clones and prank-oh wait. Didn't Naruto promised himself he'll stop doing pranks, now he's officially a ninja?
"...Did I?..." Naruto paused to remember, only to get blank, "Don't remember..."
But Naruto felt confident in his ability and has even enjoyed ramen noodles before heading to Team 7 meeting place for TRUE Genin Test. Ok, he can do this. He can pass Genin Test, he is Uzumaki Naruto, a self-proclaimed 'Naruto With Super Many Friends'. Ok, now he thought about it, that doesn't sound cool at all. Plus, can his clones be considered as his friends when they're well clones of him, from personality and stuffs? He'll have to keep working on his nickname title thingie, a work in progress or something like that. Hmm, using 'work in progress' make him sound mature.
Focus, Naruto, he has to get to Team 7 meeting place. From there, he will pass TRUE Genin Test. After all, he has practiced doing Shadow Clones jutsu for two days. Technically less than that, but who care? He's Uzumaki Naruto who will rise up in ninja ranks through his Shadow Clones jutsu! Believe it!
"Sakura-chan will be so impressed, she'll go out with me! And Sasuke-teme, he'll want to bow down and beg me for training. I'll at first will refuse and he'll beg and beg, maybe grovel before I'll later accept him as my pupil! Cause I'm a nice guy and all." Naruto mused, entertaining himself in unrealistic fantasy as he made his way to meeting place.
Author: Decided to write this story out of boredom, it's kind of inspired by Konosuba (created by Natsume Akatsuki). More specifically by one of Konosuba's characters named Megumin aka a female mage who use Explosion spell and absolutely nothing else. Similar to Megumin, Naruto in this story will only use Shadow Clones jutsu and absolutely nothing else. No Rasengan, Henge, Replacement, Summoning, etc. Just purely Shadow Clones.