The Limits of a Single Jutsu
This is my first fanfic chapter ever, so please no flames but any criticism is welcomed cause I just can't get the feel for how to make a story long but not boring or with an incredibly complicated plot. If you have any suggestions on how you want this story to go, just put it in the reviews. I will take any suggestions except for a NaruSaku pairing… just no.
~8 Year Old Naruto~
Naruto, as usual, was being a relatively huge idiot in class. What else would he be doing. As Iruka-sensei turned around to explain the next boring concept in history, he not so subtly ripped off a piece of paper from his notebook, crumpled it up, and threw it, hitting Iruka-sensei on the back of his head, attempting to not laugh as his teacher turned around slowly.
"NARUTO!" Iruka-sensei roared as he turned around with his Big Head no Jutsu Activated. "I TOLD YOU TO PAY ATTENTION!"
"Well, I would if it weren't so boring," Naruto complained, crossing his arms. "Hmph! I want to learn some cool jutsu."
Of course, his cool jutsu being some sort of all destroying fire or unstoppable genjutsu or maybe a huge chakra avatar. With wings and a sword, of course. Maybe add on being able to summon meteors down onto Sasuke's head! (Hmm, I wonder where those abilities are from… *cough* unstoppable kekkai genkai *cough*)
Sasuke, on the side of the room, lifted his head up and snorted. "As if you could learn any jutsu dobe. You have a rare disease that stops you from learning anything."
"OMGGGG SASUKE SO COOL!" screamed every fangirl in the class except for Hinata, who of course said, "N-Naruto-kun…" while blushing.
"And what is this strange disease?" Naruto asked, wondering if it was why everybody didn't seem to like him.
"It's very deadly and its name is retardation."
All the fangirls used Fangirl Item Summoning Jutsu to whip out signs proclaiming their eternal love for the almighty, noble, and handsome Uchiha Sasuke.
"Naruto… you Baka…" Sakura muttered, starting to get up and punch Naruto yet another time for yet another negligible reason.
"I'll have you know, teme, that future Hokage Naruto Uzumaki can learn any jutsu! Any jutsu!" Naruto declared dramatically, standing on top of his desk in an eerily Jiraiya-like pose. "I am Naruto Uzumaki, Future Hokage, Keeper of Unstoppable Jutsus, Konoha's…"
That was as far as he got before Iruka-sensei yet again showed his mastery of the Big Head no Jutsu.
"*Cough* Clone Jutsu *Cough Cough Cough*" Kiba coughed out in the back row with a stupid look on his face like always, Akamaru barking a couple times in response.
"Grrr…" Naruto muttered under his breath.
"Look, Naruto, I'll talk to you later, just shut up for the rest of class," Iruka-sensei sighed. Of course Naruto could easily tell that meant ramen, and he immediately got up in an attempt to look attentive and hardworking. At least that was one way you could Naruto to shut up for more than one millisecond.
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"Look, Naruto, what will it take for you to be quiet in class?" Iruka-sensei sighed out, crying anime tears discreetly over how flat his wallet looked. Naruto literally ate money in the form of ramen!
"Weelllllll, some cool jutsu would be great!" Naruto exclaimed.
Iruka-sensei sighed and ran his hand through his hair. Maybe another friend in the Academy would be helpful. Hmm… fangirls out, Hinata… can't have her in danger of fainting, Sasuke definitely not, Kiba no, Choji and Shikamaru just didn't fit… Shino!
"Naruto, I think you could be friends with Shino, maybe then you'll have something to do other than pranks," said Iruka-sensei.
"But he's creepy and always wearing a trench coat!" Naruto complained. "And he really likes bugs!"
"You should talk to him, Naruto," Iruka-sensei said. "His clan has a bunch of cool jutsu!" Iruka-sensei incidentally knew that Naruto was a huge fan of "cool jutsus".
"Really? Really?" Naruto asked. "He's going to be my friend by the end of the week!" Naruto declared loudly.
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Shino was sitting next to a bush in a clearing on the edge of the forest. looking for any kinds of insects.
"Shino? Wanna eat together?" Naruto asked.
Shino was confused for a moment, thinking this was going to be yet another prank that he would be dragged into. The first and last time he had been dragged into Naruto's pranks his bugs hadn't recovered for a full month. "Sure… Why? Because eating with a friend is more interesting than eating alone."
"Um… Okay?" Naruto said. Naruto soon sat down and started eating his lunch.
"Does your clan have any cool jutsu?" Naruto asked while bouncing up and down and side to side.
"Yes, we have many jutsu based on our kikaichū bugs." Shino responded. "I am personally able to use the Human Cocoon Technique. It allows me to suck chakra out of a certain target. My bugs also allow me to sense chakra much easier."
"That doesn't sound that cool…" started Naruto, before Shino turned around with dark clouds on top of his head.
"I am very cool but nobody appreciate me…" Shino muttered, using a hand to wipe away tears on his cheek.
"That's cool! Wait… can you watch me try to do the clone technique? I don't understand why I can't do it!" Naruto cried, shaking his head.
"I will watch. Why? Because it would be beneficial to a new friend," Shino replied. "Go ahead. I will watch."
"Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled out, and immediately five very misshapen clones formed in front of him. "Come on!" Naruto yelled, stomping his foot on the ground. Shino looked with a perplexed look.
Naruto asked, "So what's wrong?"
Shino waited a second before answering. "It appears that you are overloading your clones with chakra. Why? Because you have some of the largest chakra reserves I have detected before."
"Really Shino? Lemme try this again! Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled, and this time, several hundred clones formed around them, all doing their own thing.
"Wow! I'm so cool!" Naruto yelled, doing a small happy dance that was rather strange. "I can make a bunch of clones now! Sasuke's going down!"
"That would be extremely doubtful," Shino replied. "Why? In spars only taijutsu is allowed and jutsus are not used in most situations and mostly only in testing."
Naruto immediately started pouting and dispersed all of his clones. "So what are you doing?" Naruto asked.
"I am looking for other species of insects," Shino replied while holding out a finger to allow a small bug to crawl onto. "Insects can be very fascinating and when used in the right way can also be very effective in all sorts of battle situations."
Naruto looked at another insect. "Aren't they all the same? I have big ones that come into my apartment every time I leave out some food. They smell weird."
Shino sweat dropped. "Those are called cockroaches…"
"I wonder what they taste like…"
Shino suddenly started sweating even more. "You shouldn't eat bugs. Why? They are fascinating animals that have feeling just as much as humans."
"But they can't be as tasty as the almighty FOOD OF THE GODS, RAMEN!" Naruto explained while miming shoving noodles into his face.
"Speaking of ramen, isn't Naruto a type of ramen topping?" Shino asked. "I believe it is a type of fishcake."
"…"
"…"
"IT MEANS MAELSTROM!"
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"Old Man! Be prepared to lose the hat! I, future Hokage Naruto Uzumaki, has mastered the clone jutsu!" Naruto yelled out. "Allow me to demonstrate the powers of my new abilities! Bunshin no Jutsu!" Immediately, dozens of clones appeared, all peering at the aged Hokage.
Hiruzen laughed. "My my, took you long enough. At this rate the hat will be mine… forever!"
"Come on, Old Man! I mastered the clone technique! Gimme a super cool jutsu! One that makes huge fireballs or tornados! Come on!" Naruto screeched, hopping all around the office, nearly hitting one of the ANBU standing in a corner.
The Hokage sighed. "Naruto, you aren't even close to mastering the technique. Take Shunshin no Shisui, for example. He was famous for his Body Flicker Technique, which is actually just D-rank! If you can master your basic jutsus you could be extremely strong."
"What do you mean by master a technique? I can already do it though," Naruto whined.
"Well, by using less chakra on the technique and being able to do it without handseals. See, look, I can do the water clone technique easily with only one."
Suddenly, five copies of Old Man Hokage were standing all next to each other before Hiruzen dispersed all of them. "In fact, with enough practice every time you are about to get hit you can use the substitution jutsu to not get hit multiple times."
"Aha! So that is your secret! I will practice these jutsus so much that they don't cost any chakra! Then I will be unstoppable!" Naruto yelled.
Hiruzen attempted to say, "All jutsus cost chakra, you should know that…" before he got cut off by one Uzumaki Naruto bouncing out of the room literally, cursing when his head hit the top of the doorframe.
Hiruzen sighed. "Dear me, dear me. What have I released upon the world this time? Eh, not my problem," he said as he lit his pipe and stared down at Konoha. "But I hope that Shino rubs off on him a bit and he stops goofing off as much…"
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"HENGE!" Naruto yelled, this time transforming just slightly, with a long blade attached to the end of his arm. "I can definitely work with this…" After that single slightly Shino-induced relatively mature thought, his brain reverted to more primitive language. "SO COOL AND AWESOME! HAHA! I'M COMING FOR THAT HAT!"
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"OLD MAN JIJI!" Naruto yelled, running straight into the Hokage's office at a speed rivaling the Yondaime Hokage. "Is there a way to do jutsu without any hand seals?"
Hiruzen thought carefully before replying, "You could try using fūinjutsu to help control your chakra flow using a few sealing matrices…"
"TEACH ME TEACH ME!" Naruto cried, falling on his knees, stars in his eyes, crying anime tears.
"Weellllll…" Hiruzen smirked, finally getting a way to make the young child read a book. "I can provide some very interesting reading material…"
Naruto waited for a second, thinking, deciding which would be better: the potential for the most awesome jutsu ever, in his opinion, or not having to sit down and read a book for more than 5 minutes.
"Hmmm…. I'll give you this book, right here," Hiruzen said, pulling out the book from a shelf next to his desk. There were all sorts of books on the shelf and don't forget the all the storage seals on the shelves. He took out the book Fūinjutsu for Beginners: Storage Seals, Explosive Tags, and More!. It was the default book for most beginners and had plenty of interesting seals in it… Hiruzen only hoped that Naruto wouldn't use the seals for his pranks… it would be a nightmare to deal with explosions and the like along with the usual.
"This book contains a lot of the basics like explosive tags, which make explosions, storage scrolls to store things in, and some basic barrier seals," the Third Hokage explained.
Naruto grabbed the book and quickly ran off, arms windmilling before running back inside. "Henge can transform you into anything right?" Naruto asked.
"That is true," the Hokage said. "And…"
He only got that far before Naruto zipped out of the room, knocking down several stacks of papers, no doubt to go and read his new book.
The Hokage started crying anime tears on how he would have to clean up and reorganize the bane of humanity and Kage's, paperwork. "I wonder what Minato's secret to paperwork was…" the Hokage thought. "He always seemed to be done with his paperwork so quickly… And then I can finally open that letter he left me… Always wondered what's in it…"
A certain technique sat inside a certain scroll of sealing waiting to be utilized for its original purpose, not combat, not infiltration, but paperwork.
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So reviews are how I get motivation to get up and do anything, thank you very much if you do review. Yeah I bet no one's ever going to read this. And yes, check the wiki, Henge is in fact a physical transformation. I'm most likely going to use fan fiction stuff for fūinjutsu mechanics because it wasn't really explained in canon.