A/N: Due to complaints, I will not have NaruHina. Instead, I have decided on no pairings for this story, maybe I'll put pairings in a sequel…
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Why am I doing this again?
Because you wanted to, and I said so kit, so shut up!
Naruto sighed, and started to wish that he had never heard of this plan.
Flashback…
Naruto started to drift off under the droning of words from Mizuki. Gah, this is stupid, I could be doing something useful, like learning that new jutsu.
Kit! Pay attention! This is a great opportunity!
What! He just wants me to rip off a scroll from the Hokage for him!
So? Who says that you can't read that scroll before he finds you?
Why would I want to?
Kit, if this sniveling bastard wants it so bad as to resort to a twice-failed student, it must be powerful. Might even contain some forbidden jutsus…
At the word jutsu, Naruto's mind automatically started to pay attention
"…and then you meet me there, in the forest. Got it?"
"Um, Mizuki-sensei, could you repeat the instructions?
"Kami-sama…Ok, but pay attention this time Naruto…"
End Flashback…
Remembering all those forbidden jutsus that he could learn though, Naruto's mind practically started to salivate at the thought. Would it be some kick-ass katon jutsu? Or maybe a jutsu to destroy enemies with just a flick. Or maybe…Rustle. The sound of the guard changing brought Naruto's mind back to the real world.
Alright, here I go!
Wait, kit! Naruto's body froze from sheer force of habit; whenever he didn't do just what the fox said, the Kyubbi usually just increased his training regime. Naruto then started to sweat, partially because of nervousness, but mostly because of the kunai that just passed not an inch in front of him. Completely silent and motionless, Naruto could hear the guards rustling around the trees where he perched. When they left, he started to silently thank the fox over and over again for making him bring a camouflage blanket.
You're welcome, now get that scroll!
Sneaking his way into the top of the Hokage tower, Naruto inched down the hallways, and down the stairs, always careful not to make a noise. Turning the last corner, he was almost to where Mizuki said the scroll room was when he heard a voice call out, "What are you doing here Naruto?"
Shit! Freezing, Naruto recognized it as the old man's voice.WhatdoIdo? WhatdoIdo? Wait! What about that jutsu…
Kit, no. I know you're proud of you're first original jutsu, but it's useless right now!
We'll see about that… Turning around quickly, he turned around and called, "Sexy no Jutsu!" Turning into a beautiful foxy-and naked-lady, Naruto got the desired effect when the Hokage suddenly had a nosebleed knocking him back several yards. When Naruto turned back, a grin could be seen on his face, Haha! Useless is it? Not even the Hokage is immune to my perverted jutsu! Hearing the Kyubbi muttering about perverted old men and training regimes, Naruto decided that it would have been a good idea then not to push his luck.
When Naruto opened the door to the scroll room, his grin died a little. With all the rumors about the forbidden powerful jutsu that were said to be locked up here, Naruto expected quite a bit more then a small room of large, dusty scrolls. What the hell? I thought they would be in special cases of gold and jewels and have all types of security jutsus on them! These are musty scrolls in a room that looks like it hasn't been opened in years!
Kit, don't complain! This is great! Wait, don't touch anything yet!
Naruto's arm froze from his attempt to grab the nearest scroll. Eh?
There might yet be alarm jutsus on them! Quick, let me use your body for a while!
Naruto complied and let the Kyubbi start driving his body. Kyubbi/Naruto closed his eyes and made the seal of the tiger. Hey, what's that seal for?
Still with his eyes closed, A doujutsu I have, remind me to teach it to you some day, since it allows you to see chakra, like the Sharingan and Byukugan. Shut up for a second, will ya? Opening his eyes, Kyubbi/Naruto looked at the scrolls, then at the shelves, then at the room in general. Crap, we're in trouble!Wha? What is it? What's wrong?
No time to explain, just be quiet! Frantically looking at the shelves, Kyubbi/Naruto looked for the Scroll of Forbidden Seals. Finding it, the Kyubbi was about to depart when his eyes trailed over a pair of large, very old scrolls bound together, and a smaller one set on top. They were slightly set apart from the rest, but that wasn't what caught his eye. What did was the Uzumaki spiral seal on all three. Thinking quickly, Kyubbi/Naruto shoved the smaller scroll into his Ninja pouch, stuck the bound scrolls on his back, and held onto the Scroll of Forbidden Seals with his left arm. Suddenly he froze, and then struggled until his claws were fully extended on his right hand, waving it around like he was trying to slice an invisible enemy, Kyubbi/Naruto's progress was slowed to a jog. That stopped when he got outside though, but by then, guards had started to come out of nowhere. Only until he was clear of the Hokage tower and safe in the forest did Kyubbi start to answer Naruto's frantic What's happening?'s though he never stopped moving.
Whew. We got away.
What the hell happened back there? We were safe! There was no alarm!
Idiot! It was a silent alarm jutsu! And man was it big! It took up the entire goddamn room! Whoever put it there was definitely good, very subtle, and very strong to for it to go on for as long as it had.
Huh?
Sighing at his container's lack of worldly knowledge, the Kyubbi decided to be nice and give his charge a jutsu lesson. Ok, kit! Listen up! Alarm jutsus are very hard to make, you need lots of preparation, lots of chakra and control, and they only work once, so not many people use them too much. They're very complicated jutsus, but they are essentially, chakra lines that are wrapped around both what you want protect, and where you want it protected, or just around the scroll if you want to keep if from being read without you're knowing. However, when they do activate, what pretty much happens is, all that chakra you put into it? It becomes something like a one-way explosive tag, whatever you want protected won't get hurt, but whomever tries to open it is now a steaming pile of ashes along with whatever else happens to be in the immediate area, and whatever you want protected is now enclosed in a solid shield of chakra, and giving off a signal in a preset pattern, allowing you to find it if need be.
So why didn't that happen to you when you took those scrolls, Kyubbi-sensei?
Huh, 'Kyubbi-sensei' I could get used to that… I told you before kit, it was a silent alarm jutsu. They were made specifically for museums, libraries, and archives, when an explosion might destroy the thief, but also everything else in the room. They don't work like regular alarm jutsus, they're set off with a chakra tripwire or something of that sort, and they're usually a lot nastier than just explosions. When you activate one by touching it, they stick to you, some try to slow you down a little, like weights, others drain you of chakra. The one in the scroll room looked more like a huge chakra web; you would've been screwed if I hadn't cut it.
How is getting your chakra sucked out worse than getting blown up into a thousand pieces?
Death by explosion is pretty bad, death by chakra depletion is much, much worse; the explosions are usually painless unless you try to block it, and even then it just takes a few seconds for the heat to fry you. When you get all the chakra in you sucked out though…remember how you feel after a long day of training?
Um…
Tired?
Yeah.
Weak?
Yeah.
Slightly hungry?
Yea-Hey, how did you know that?
Chakra depletion is like a hastened version of starving yourself to death. Your body uses chakra for many other things than jutsus, one such thing is to help your heart beat, no chakra, your heart gets weaker, then stops completely, if your other organs don't die first.
That doesn't sound too bad.
Oh yeah? What do you think keeps your stomach acid in your stomach? How would it feel if a lung failed in a matter of minutes?
Urrgh, that sounds painful.Kit, the body has many ways in which it can kill itself, remind me to teach you some ways to make them happen when you want them to.
Um, I don't really want to kill anybody.
Kami-sama…kit, how do you expect to be a shinobi without taking other's lives? Fine, you can adjust them to just pain and discomfort then, still useful in battle. Good we're here, I'll set up the genjutsu, you do your part, remember?
Yeah, yeah.
Good. Damn, genjutsus are hard to do with this body; I'll have to find out why soon. Hm, might as well hide these Uzumaki clan scrolls while I'm at it. Here's your body back, NOW GET TO WORK! I'm going to sleep.
Grumbling at slave-driving kitsune demons, but knowing the Kyubbi's genjutsu would only last half an hour at most, Naruto hurried up. He opened the scroll to it's full length, and took out a camera, Naruto started to quickly and accurately take pictures of the entire scroll, using up two rolls of film to make sure he got the whole thing. When he was done, Naruto was about to roll the scroll back up when he remembered the lesson the Kyubbi gave him just that morning. Hm, if you can hide items in a word, could you hide words under words? I wonder…Quickly remembering his lesson on how to push chakra into a non-living object; Naruto bathed his hands in his chakra, and then quickly ran them down the characters all the way down the scroll. When he was done, he was slightly disappointed; the scroll looked exactly the same. That disappointment vanished, however, when he picked up the scroll to roll it up again and found there to be another unrolled scroll underneath the first. Trying, and failing, to suppress a huge grin, Naruto started to roll up the first scroll, and then he noticed that it had characters on the other side as well. That was when he really lost it.
"ALRIGHT!" Waking up a very annoyed demon fox, Naruto quickly informed him of his findings.
Any feelings of irritation at being woken up early quickly disappeared when Naruto showed the fox the new two pages of text. Wha, really, are you serious? Show me! Secretly the Kyubbi had never expected Naruto to show this level of intelligence, but he wasn't about to ruin the young boy's mood now. Kit, this is great, how many rolls of film you have left?
Naruto quickly rummaged through his ninja pouch. Um, one.
Damn, I'll have to use that jutsu, I hate that one…Use the last roll to take pictures of the second page, don't save, I'll show you a jutsu when you're out of film.
Naruto complied, and started to take pictures of the other side, when he was about half way done, the Kyubbi instructed him in a new jutsu.
Alright kit, the seals for this are horse, dog, ox, horse and dog. Do the seals, and then position your hands so it looks like a picture frame, you know, thumb and forefingers of both hands. Aim so what you want to see is in the picture frame, then focus chakra into an even layer between your fingers, hold the image of the picture with a chakra over layer, and then project it onto another surface. It'll take some chakra control, but what should happen is that it'll make a copy of whatever you want to take a picture at, originally invented to hasten the process of scouting.
Naruto tried the jutsu a few times, and projected it on the ground to test it. Once the Kyubbi had deemed it clear enough, Naruto took out several blank scrolls, gave a silent prayer to Kami-sama for bringing some, then proceeded to copy the rest of the text.
When he was finished, Naruto quickly put the scrolls together like he had found it, and was mildly surprised to see a flash of blue, then a single scroll, no seams to show where the other scroll had been. Wasting no time, Naruto rolled up his 'picture jutsus' hid them in a tree along with his camera, and then jumped off to where Mizuki had told him to meet. Along the way, he heard lots of shouts and noises, and figured that there must be shinobis after him. Thinking that he would need a good alibi, Naruto quickly grabbed the scroll of his back, and proceeded to memorize the first thing he saw, Kage Bunshin no jutsu. Rolling the scroll back up and sticking it back on his back, Naruto started to practice the art of making solid, shadow clones.
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"Alright, you all know Naruto has the forbidden scroll, go find him!"
"HAI!" With a wave of his arm, the Hokage dismissed the ranks of ninjas in front of him. Naruto…what have you done? If you unleash the Kyubbi…well I hope that genjutsu on him has worn off by now. Feeling slightly uneasy, the Hokage went back to his office. Opening his desk, he pulled out a secret item of the Hokage, his crystal ball. Using it, he began to search the forest for Naruto's distinctive double chakra signature. He found it, but it looked like it was in a tree or something…sighing, Sarutobi sat back and rubbed his temple; knowing Naruto's abysmal lack of chakra control and knowledge of high-level genjutsu-not even he knew this one!-he could only conclude that the Kyubbi helped him somehow, which meant that he had at least partial control over Naruto's body at the moment. With the seals shown in the forbidden scroll, the Kyubbi could let himself loose again! Sighing, the Hokage was about to get up and order that all shinobis kill Naruto on sight, when he noticed movement. Rushing back to his crystal ball, the Hokage saw that the genjutsu was disappearing, but Naruto's chakra signature was no longer there. Looking around and finding it again, he peered in, and smiled satisfactory, both of Naruto's eyes were their usual blue, his hands didn't have any claws, and none of his limbs were bathed in red chakra. Looks like Naruto was still Naruto. Satisfied, Sarutobi walked out of his office and down to the entrance to wait for Naruto, though in doing so, he missed the part when there were suddenly three Naruto's, then when two of them disappeared into smoke soon after.
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Naruto, where are you? This was the thought that kept running through Iruka's head. Ever since he heard the young boy was missing, he had joined the search for him, knowing that the others might not be as kind as him to the poor kid. Spotting orange in a clearing, Iruka changed course and left towards the clearing.
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Puffing with exhaustion, Naruto smiled. He was lying on his back in a small clearing, the scroll beside him, and smiling a happy smile. He had finally got it! His early attempts at it were pretty good, if one ignored the fact that they disappeared almost right after he called them, but they had still been a huge drain on his chakra. When he remembered the small footnote at the end though, where it said "Note: Clones need large amounts of chakra, but clones are thereafter self-sustaining." After that, he started to pump massive amounts of chakra into each attempt, and started getting perfect clones. All of that was far from his mind though, when Iruka-sensei suddenly appeared upside-down.
"Hey Naruto, now what have you been up to?"
Pointing at him, "Hey Iruka-sensei! Why are you upside down? Cool jutsu though."
"IDIOT! You're upside down!"
Grinning, Naruto replied, "Oh yeah," getting up, Iruka noticed how dirty Naruto looked. Was he training here all night…
"Hey Iruka-sensei! I learned a cool new jutsu! Let me show you…"Everything was interrupted though, as Iruka shoved him out of the way and a barrage of kunai hit him.
Iruka started to yank kunai out of himself, then looked for who threw them, "Ugh, Mizuki!"
Naruto looked at where Iruka was staring, and saw that it was indeed Mizuki-sensei. "Huh? Wha? Hey, what's going on?"
"Hey Naruto!" he called, "why don't you give me that scroll now, eh?"
"No Naruto!" Iruka yelled, "Don't five him that scroll! Protect it with your life!"
Naruto raised an eyebrow, so the scroll was that important huh? Well that just meant there must be something valuable in that scroll. Yes! I scored big this time!
"Hey, c'mon Naruto," Wheedled Mizuki, "Give me that scroll, I'm your friend right? Iruka's lying; he hates you like everybody else. I told you about that scroll, I can teach you how to use the techniques it contains." Yeah right I'm giving you this scroll. Iruka-sensei always treated everybody fairly, including him, and he always treated Naruto to ramen after he did something well. Mizuki-sen, no, Mizuki, was a bastard, he even smelled like snakes. And he never seemed to be wearing his leaf hitae-ate as much as he should have. He was damned if he was going to give him the scroll.
Frowning at Naruto's resolve, Mizuki played his trump card. "Hey Naruto! You know why everybody hates you so much?"
"Huh?" Distracted, and not used to such abrupt changes in conversation, Naruto responded as best as he could.
Horrified at what Mizuki was going to tell him, Iruka yelled, "Mizuki, don't!"
Taking Naruto's 'huh' as a positive answer, Mizuki continued, "It's because of the Kyubbi. Everybody says that it was destroyed, right? Wrong! The Kyubbi couldn't be defeated, it was too strong. So it was sealed into the body of a newborn child! You! That's why everybody hates you so much! You were the Kyubbi! You destroyed friends and family, even Iruka there hates you if he was truthful enough to admit it!"
Naruto's mind had finally caught up to the conversation, and was slightly amused at Mizuki's ramblings. Ever since he learned that he had the Kyubbi inside of him, he was always careful in making new acquaintances. When Iruka-sensei had first offered him ramen, Naruto was always aware for the first sign of hate. It had never shown on his face. Iruka-sensei had truly wanted to be his friend, he cried when he finally realized it, and was forever grateful to him for it. As such, he now wanted to hurt this man that was standing before him and slandering his first and only human friend.
Kit, I have an idea. How about…
Smiling grimly, Naruto started to slowly walk towards Mizuki. Iruka looked on in horror as Mizuki's demented grin got bigger and bigger. Finally, Naruto reached the base of the tree that Mizuki was standing on and turned around to face Iruka, a small frown on his face, and then he grinned. Naruto made the cross seal required for the jutsu he learned, and yelled, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Suddenly there were a hundred clones in the surrounding area, one of them shoved Mizuki off his branch, then the rest started to beat the crap out of him. Silently watching for half a minute, Naruto then canceled his clones, and walked over a highly beaten up Mizuki and smiled at an astounded Iruka. "Heh heh, I guess I overdid it a little."
He created a hundred solid flesh-and-blood clones. That's the highest caliber ninjutsu. But when did he… "Hey Naruto."
"Yeah?"
"When did you find out about the Kyubbi?"
"Huh? Oh, at the beginning of the school year. He told me himself, we've been talking for the past nine months."
Smiling at the unsaid statement, Iruka knew that if Naruto had been able to communicate with the Kyubbi, the demon kitsune would have been training Naruto all the time for the past nine months. Saying, "Naruto, come here for a minute, close your eyes, I want to give you something."
Confused, Naruto did what he was told. He felt something come and go, then heard Iruka saying that he could open his eyes now. Staring at Iruka, he saw his smiling face, then his goggles in his hands, "Congratulations Naruto," he was saying, "You pass."
Naruto was at first confused, then quickly asked the Kyubbi, Can I pass? Can I? Can I?
The fox was secretly proud at how fast his container had picked up two high-level ninjutsus in one night, so he said, Ok.
"Alright!" Naruto yelled, "I passed, I passed! Hey Iruka-sensei? Can we get some ramen?"