Five Years Later… Again

Naruto had been living alone for a good portion of his time in the academy, due to his Uncle going out on "missions." Naruto had thought that it was more or less to make sure that he wasn't accidentally taught something "too advanced" for a non-ninja. 'I mean who does he take me for? An idiot? I wouldn't use anything advanced on anyone in class. Except Teme. That douche has almost every girl in the class fawning over him and does nothing with all that power. He could say one thing about someone and ruin them socially. Actually now that I think about it I'm glad he doesn't use that power on me.' Naruto thought to himself on his way to his prep class after school for the final exam. As he walked in Iruka had his brown spikey pony tail up and was already sitting there waiting in the usual dark green chunin vest and black outfit, for only Naruto. He had been the only one that needed extra help because he still couldn't make a clone, not a single damn clone. Well at least not at a functional level. He could make one, it would just be black and white, and passed out. So he spent the better part of the afternoon sitting in the room, and making clones to dispel them and repeat. He woke the now sleeping Iruka and told him he was going home. 'I'm surprised Iruka wasn't up waiting for a prank to be pulled on him' Naruto thought as he left. All the time alone lead to him having an affinity for pranks. They passed the time and he could use what he learned in class. On some of the few times that his uncle was home he even helped him prank saying something along the lines of, "If you can prank a Jonnin on your own before you officially become a genin I will teach you something special."

On his way home, he was scooped up by his uncle, and carried the rest of the way. "I hear you have been having trouble with the Bunshin jutsu. Can't clone yourself kiddo? Want me to teach you how to do it right?" Naruto's eyes lit up and he smiled widely. His eyes almost shining.

"Really Uncle! You'll finally teach me how to do it?!" Naruto was so excited that his uncle was going to teach him something for the first time other than the tree walking technique. And it had been years since then, literally.

"I'm going to teach you a jutsu that only our family and high level shinobi can do. I'm talking at least A rank, if not S rank. It's because of our high chakra reserves. The Kage no Bunshin Jutsu. It uses a ton of chakra but it make solid clones, that can even share memories with the original. It can use jutsu and hit as solidly as you can." Naruto's eyes lit up again, this time with an evil glare. Imagine all the pranks he could pull with a duo of himself. "Although the downside is that they are pretty fragile. One good punch and poof, they're gone. Well I think it depends on the person's pain tolerance."

"Wait did you say they? As in you can make more than one?" Naruto looked at him puzzlingly.

"Kiddo your mom could make like at least 10, and your dad could make like 6 minimum. After feeling out your reserves, I don't have a clue how many you can make." Naruto pouted for a second and looked upset until Akihiro spoke up again, this time in a serious tone. "Kiddo, I don't mean I don't know if you can make one. I mean I don't know what your upper limit is. At all. You have more chakra than any family member I have ever met." Of course Akihiro knew that part of that was the nine tails, which had been implanted in him once he was born. The worst part is, in all the time scanning through his chakra he hadn't found an end, therefore he hadn't found the nine tail at all yet. He wasn't lying to Naruto at all, he had the largest natural supply of chakra he had ever seen. Sure at the moment most Jonnin and even some Chunin out ranked him, but this was a kid who had only academy training, nothing on the field. He was both amazed, and excited at what he could test with his own nephew. Nothing too dangerous of course.

"Wait really?! I can do that much with such a strong technique! I'm AMAZING!" He yelled and threw his arms up, throwing his uncle off balance landing in their training zone, causing them to fall to the ground. The same one that Naruto had run off from getting his two scars, and at the same time, his uncle left mental scars on three other children, and one physical on another. "What are we doing here Uncle? Other than getting a sore reminder?" He said as he got up and dusted himself off.

"Well we are going to need space to make the clones. I can only make a few, but like I said I have no clue how many you can make." Akihiro said as he stood up and put his fingers in a crossed position, retracting his thumbs, pinikes, and ring fingers. "Hold you fingers like this and channel your chakra through your body, them try to peel your chakra off your body." He then demonstrated doing so, leading to a poof of white smoke and a copy of himself appearing next to him. "Pretty cool right?" They said at the same time.

"HELL YES IT IS!" Naruto immediately copied his uncle's hand sign, and channeled his chakra. He pushed it away from himself, and with a poof of white smoke, there was half a Naruto without its legs next to him. "Opps." He instantly dispelled it and tried again, this time, it was missing an arm. And then he tried again and again, after about an hour he had finally gotten it right, making his first shadow clone. "I got it!"

"Great. Now have him expel all his chakra in a burst." Naruto nodded at the clone and he nodded back. Naruto's clone got his hands in a Ram seal and started to expel all that he could, causing an explosive force as he disappeared. It knocked Naruto onto his ass as Akihiro started to laugh. "I should have warned you, but they become bombs, without the fire. It will do decent damage, if they are touching the target. Think like if you put too much chakra in during the tree walk, it blows up the tree. Same idea but with the air. Now then, you are going to spar with my clone to see how much you took from the academy!" His clone looked at Akihiro with shock and then nodded, getting into a stance much like a boxer. His arms up and near his chest, one leg shifted slightly farther forward than the other. "Go."

Naruto instantly dashed in, going for a large right hook, and upon almost hitting him, he flipped and went to kick Akihiro on the head. The uncle ducked and grabbed onto Naruto's leg, chucking him towards a tree. Naruto flipped around in the air and landed on his feet, sticking to the tree, and throwing kunai at his uncle. Akihiro threw his own kunai to stop the ones mid air, and had to duck to dodge shuriken that were hidden behind it. "Damn kiddo I didn't think you could pull something like that off. Next time you should try actually hitting me." Naruto was now split into a total of three, Akihiro too busy gloating to notice the Kage no Bunshin. He Kawarimied above and moved his hands through multiple hand signs, and show out an array of small balls of fire, "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" Two of the balls of fire chased down two of the Narutos, and popped them. "Guess I found the real one."

"UNCLE YOU WERE GOING TO LET THOSE HIT ME?! WHY ARE YOU SO CRUEL?" Akihiro laughed at his nephew's comment and landed. He stretched his arms and yawned, as he felt two hands around his ankles, and looked down to see another naruto popping up from the dirt, smiling, "Got you!" As soon as Naruto said this, a barrage of kunai and shuriken flew in and the clone poofed upon being pelted. "I WON!" Naruto jumped out of the ground as he cheered.

"Or did you?" AS Akihiro said this, a pair of his own hands appeared under the young boy and dragged him below the earth, burying his shoulders in rock. "That's how you trapp someone kiddo. Not that it would work on most other ninja, but good try."

"You cheated! You said I was sparring with your clone, not clones!" Naruto pouted, still stuck in the ground.

"I never said he couldn't make any clones. Anyway, I think you're ready for my super cool, experimental Taijutsu!" Akihiro expelled the clone and pulled Naruto out by the hair. "Do the tree walking technique, but with your hands." Naruto grumbled about something, then did as he was told, basically crawling up the tree without his feet. "Good, now drop down and use it to grip my arm." Again, Naruto did as he was told, while grumbling about something. He grabbed onto the arm, and Akihiro tried to pull away but couldn't. Naruto looked confused for a minute, then his face lit up with realization.

"YOU CAN'T GET AWAY!" Naruto yelled out.

"Yes that's the point. You have immense strength and chakra, so you're gonna use it. We are going to focus on strength training everyday after your graduation." Akihiro smirked, "And it's not gonna be easy."

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine." Naruto whined, and trudged off to their home, to sleep so he could pass the next day's test.

The next day went without a hitch, until it was Naruto's turn to go up. "Iruka Sensei, I can't do the normal Bunshin is a substitute Bunshin allowed?"

"Sure Naruto, we all know you're going to try to prank us so try for your worst" Iruka put his head in his hands and rubbed his eyes. "Hell, if you graduate, I'll teach treat you to Ichiraku Ramen." As Iruka said this he heard a loud Kage No Bunshin Jutsu and say two more, solid Narutos. "Is that the shadow clone jutsu Naruto! That's a clan's technique!"

"Yeah my clan actually. It's cool right? I was told that the second hokage made it working with his sister in law or my great-great-great-great grandmother. He used it as a distraction, but it's still cool!" All three Narutos said in unison.

"Well I guess so, you pass! I don't care what Mizuki's input would be. Congratulations Naruto, you will be assigned to your team tomorrow with everyone else." The white haired ninja sitting next to him saw silently shocked and nodded his head.

"Yata! I did it!" Naruto jumped with joy and took his headband as he left. He wandered around for a bit before realizing that he either had to go do body training with his uncle, or go to another training ground, and try to learn something on his own. Which is exactly what he did, running off to find the nearest to him and farthest from his uncle.

He ran until he arrived at an empty field with a few trees around the area. He walked up to one and put his hand on it, channeling chakra into it, and lifting himself perpendicular to the tree. He started to do what one might call push ups, except he would bring his knees up to the bark of the tree before on curling. He kept doing this over and over again for about an hour, he still needed to build strength after all. He then switched arms and went at it again.

Eventually he got tired on this arm as well, Naruto landed back on his feet and started to punch the tee over and over again, with his full strength. This caused the tree to shake violently and gave naruto an idea, what if he practiced blowing the tree open by infusing a ton of chakra while punching. He started by infusing his fist with chakra and punch, causing dents in the tree with each punch.

It took him a while punching the tree, and he thought he heard something run by him as he was doing it, but he took down the tree. Then he heard a girl behind him, "I thought I heard some snot nosed brat ruining our training field. Can you leave before I have to make you do so?"

"You are you to tell me to do anything!" Naruto turned around to be met with a girl with two brown buns on top of her short hair. She had a pink shirt with a red trim, and it seemed to have a somewhat chinese theme to it. On her forehead with the Konoha Leaf Headband, she was a fully fledged ninja. He looked up at her, yes sadly she was indeed taller. She had at least a good ten centimeters on him, her grey eyes piercing his own.

"Well first off, I'm part of the team that is in charge of this training field. Second, I'm a ninja and from what I can tell you are a civilian. Third, I'm probably older than you. Now leave." The girl said in a stern tone.

"No way, First off I'm a ninja too, second off I only see you here, not your team so I'm sure we could share the space, third off who cares if your older?" Naruto said back copying her tone in mocking manner. He stuck his tongue out at her.

"Where's your headband pipsqueak?" Naruto felt around for it and couldn't find it, and his jaw dropped. She could tell he didn't have one from the look on his face.

"I'm still not going anywhere." Naruto said turning to the next tree.

"Fine, I'll make you leave squirt." She pulled out a long chain with a sickle on the end. "Wanna spar?" Naruto only nodded before throwing a triad of kunai at the girl and using his Kage no Bunshin to create a cloud of smoke and send five clones after her. "All you got is clones? Nice try kid!" She said as she sung the chain around to block the weapons, yet a few slide threw. She assumed those were the clone's and let the fly, slashing her skin. "Ow you runt, if you ruin any of my clothes I'm making you pay for them." She threw a barrage of kunai, dispelling the clones.

"Yeah send me the dry cleaning bill!" She heard Naruto say as he grabbed her ankles and dragged her straight down, burying her to her shoulders. "Cause this fight is over!" Naruto was about to put his foot on her head when he heard a loud scream.

A Few Moments ago.

"Tenten, Guy Sensei was looking for you! Tenten it's time to train as a team again. Oh I know you are looking to train my sense by hiding from me! THANK YOU FOR THIS TRAINING. YOSH." The boy yelling for his teammate kept looking around the woods till he heard a tree crashing down. "Oh maybe she is trying to make it easier for me. How nice but unnecessary!" The boy started to dash towards the tree, yet it was quite a while away. Upon arriving he saw his teammate buried up to their head and some blonde with an orange jacket about to stomp her out. "TENTEN! DYNAMIC ENTRY"

Naruto was instantly met with a foot to the face, which dispelled the clone that had captured the now named, Tenten. "Lee you idiot! We were in the middle of a spar! One that he sadly won. Wherever he is." Naruto walked out from behind a tree holding his head, almost collapsing.

"That kick hit so hard that just having the memories of it hurt." Naruto fell to his ass sitting on the ground. "I guess I win?"

Lee helped Tenten out of the ground and bowed with such speed he ended up doing a front flip. "SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING YOUR MATCH. I AM ROCK LEE, THE LEAF'S BEAUTIFUL GREEN WILD BEAST." The boy had a black bowl haircut as well as a fully dark green jumpsuit, and orange arm and leg warmers.

"It's cool as long as you never kick me like that again. Damn it hurts, and I didn't even really get hit." Naruto kept rubbing his head, and waved as the two of them left. Right before they got out of ear shot he yelled at Tenten, "YOU PUT OF A GREAT FIGHT! YOU ONLY LOST QUICK BECAUSE I'M SURE YOU DIDN'T GO ALL OUT LIKE I DID!" Tenten blushed as they walked away.

Naruto arrived to the training ground with his Uncle waiting after being about 3 hours late. "Where exactly were you?" His uncle raised an eyebrow at him.

"Training with a ninja named Tenten and her teammate Lee. It was kinda fun." Naruto shrugged, and kept walking toward his uncle. "So what are we working on today?"

"You have been doing it already." Akihiro help up Naruto's headband. "You think I wouldn't come looking for you the second that you were more than five minutes late? You must be crazy. Good show though. You proved I have nothing to teach you yet. You already figured out the basics of the style I was gonna teach you, stick to your opponent and then bash them with chakra pulse strikes. Good job kiddo, you can fight somewhat well, from where on out, I will teach one clan technique per 10 C rank missions, then I will teach you one per 5 B ranks. Then 1 per 1 A ranks, and once you hit 1 S rank you should be able to make your own Jutsu. Hopefully."

"YOSH" Naruto said with a smirk. He had figured out what the weird sound in the woods was once Lee almost blew his head off.

"Where did that come from?" His uncle asked.

"No where." Naruto giggled to himself while heading home.