Ch6: academy days part 3
"Hey Shika." Naruto says as the pair of brothers are sprawled out on the ground staring at the sky above them. "Are you bored with the academy?"
Shikamaru shrugs. "A little, why?" He asks, dreading the work he's sure naruto will make him do.
"Let's graduate early. Between you, me and ino it shouldn't be too hard. Plus we could work with Itachi and the others." He says.
Shimamaru let's out a groan. "Why? Sure it's boring but extra work is troublesome naruto."
"Think about it, once we graduate we can be real ninja! We will be able to learn cool stuff and earn a lot of money." Naruto explains
Shinamaru takes a moment to think about it. "Ughhhh fine." He says. "But I'm not doing your work."
"Yes!" Naruto cheers. "Just you wait Shika, we'll be ninja before you know it."
"Troublesome." Shikamaru mutters before falling asleep.
The next day at the academy:
About half of the day has went by in a blur. Most of the day had been spent going over history and geography of the elemental nations. Before they know it it's already lunch time.
We find naruto eating lunch talking with shikamaru , ino, hana, izumi and Itachi.
"Ok guys, I've got a plan." Naruto suddenly says as they're eating. "So shikamaru and I decided that we're bored. So, we're gonna graduate early. I figured we could all work together to graduate early." He says.
Everyone but shikamaru looks at him surprised. "What brought this one though?" Itachi asks curiously.
Naruto simply shrugs. "Don't know, just decided I was bored and want to be a ninja already."
"So here's the plan." Shikamaru says, taking over for naruto. "Ino and I will help everyone with the academic stuff, studying, tests you name it. Naruto and Hana will work on everyone with taijutsu, and finally Itachi and izumi will help with everyone's accuracy , and possibly the ninjutsu. Though ultimately it'll be a group effort."
Hana smirks "sounds like a plan."
"As long as everyone pulls their weight we should be able to graduate by the end of the year. We have at best maybe three months until the year ends." Shikamaru tells the group.
The six then finalize their plans and head back to class.
The next month goes by as the 6 spend much of their free time training and studying. They don't notice any results right away but slowly they notice their improvements academically and physically.
Currently naruto is sitting outside at his home with shikamaru and shikaku. "How's school going?" Shikaku asks his two songs.
"Troublesome, but we'll be done soon." Shikamaru says. Shikaku nods his head. "Have you gotten the academy jutsu's down?" He asks them. "Show me."
Shikamaru goes through the three jutsu's with little to no difficulty. Next naruto performs the subsitituion and transformation with success.
"Ok naruto, next do the bunshin for me." Shikaku states, wondering what will happen. Naruto nods.
"Bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto says as he tries to perform the clone jutsu, though instead of a normal clone like shikamaru, he makes a sickly looking clone. "Dang, it failed again." Naruto says, clearly disappointed.
"Try using less chakra naruto." Shikaku says, wanting to see one more attempt. Naruto nods his head and tries again but no luck. Again, it just turns out as a sickly clone. Naruto sighs.
"I'll never get it. I've already used as little as I can, but it won't work!" Shikaku smiles and puts his hand on Naruto's head. "I had a feeling this would happen. I'm gonna teach you both a technique. Naruto, you can not teach anyone this technique unless I say so, ok?" Naruto nods his head.
"It's called the kage bunshin, or shadow clone jutsu. It's a physical clone that can fight, gather information and even help with training. The only downside is it takes a lot of chakra." Shikaku teaches naruto the basic hand signs of the jutsu.
"Make sure to practice it, with it I'm sure you'll graduate just fine." He then turns to shikamaru. "And I'll be teaching you the main clan technique, the kagemane no jutsu, or shadow possession jutsu." He said explains to his sons. "Now both of you get to work, or your mother will have all of our asses for slacking off." He tells them. The two boys gulp and get to work perfecting their new jutsu.
thank you for reading! And sorry for any delays with uploading, I haven't really been in a writing mood recently. Hopefully I'll be releasing chapters regularly soon.
