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Ch 9 – Homework?

"…You pass. Congratulations. It is now official; you three are hereby pronounced, in the name of Jiraiya the Gama-Sannin, official Genin!" announced Jiraiya, to which all three new ninja countered with pronounced enthusiasm (well, as much as one could expect from the Uchiha).

"However, this is not the end of the trials. Now that you are Genin, you will begin to take missions for Konohagakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Leaves), meaning that you are now official representatives of the Shinobi Community of Konoha." Here he paused for emphasis, scrutinizing each of the new ninja, taking a long time at Naruto who was fidgeting around a lot.

"If I find any reason to, I will have your shinobi status revoked and you will be banned from reentry; I am not a lazy teacher, I will be here on time every morning at 6 and will not accept tardiness from anyone, unlike some people."


Elsewhere, a certain grey-haired Jounin sneezed while reading an orange book with a large red circle on it.
"For now though, we have some other business to take care of. Do you all remember the original objective of this training exercise?" asked the Toad Hermit.

"Hai, sensei. We were supposed to be collecting scrolls as we looked for the middle of the area, and whoever got the most points gets a special scroll and a cash prize," answered Sakura, while Naruto looked on with hope that he won.

"Correct. Now, please hold out your scrolls."

"I know I got enough! I got two A-Rank scrolls! I'm gonna win this!" proclaimed Naruto as Jiraiya tallied up the scores. "No way I'm gonna lose!"

As he continued rambling on, Jiraiya interrupted with a short "Done counting; I know who the winner of the scroll and the 50,000 ryou cash prize is."

50,000 ryou! thought each Genin, including Sasuke, even though he had inherited a fair amount of money from his parents after their deaths at the hand of his brother.

"The winner is…Sakura, for obtaining her 1 S-rank and 2 A-rank scrolls. Since you won, you get the 50,000 ryou," he tossed a bag of bills at her, "plus one of these scrolls." At this, he brought out from his pouch on his back 3 scrolls, each with a large bold SS on it. "I have a scroll on a unique Taijutsu stance known only to a few people that utilizes pure speed and stamina, a scroll on a Genjutsu able to rival that of the fabled Mangekyou Sharingan's Tsukuyomi technique, and a Ninjutsu capable of leveling a 50 mile square radius around you," said Jiraiya, as he watched Sasuke and Naruto lift their jaws off the floor at the mention of the stance and the Ninjutsu attack.

"Hmm… you know, I think I'll take the Taijutsu scroll. Maybe having a better stance can help me to improve upon my poor skills in hand-to-hand," she said, as she was handed the large yellow scroll.

"Now, you two, since Sasuke obtained the other S-rank scroll, he may pick from one of these A-rank jutsus I have on me. Again, they are a Taijutsu scroll on advanced Tekken techniques, plus information on a lesser used stance, a Ninjutsu that allows the user to duplicate any item they need, much in accordance to the Kage Shuriken Bunshin technique, and a Genjutsu that fools all 5 senses of the brain," explained Jiraiya as Sasuke decided to take the Ninjutsu scroll.

"Now, since Naruto here collected the least amount of scrolls, he gets no choice of scrolls, but gets to decide what rank scroll he wants, from D up to B."

"Well, since I got no choice, can I get a C rank jutsu? Something Easy maybe?" asked Naruto, not comfortable with the idea on receiving a random type scroll. Jiraiya responded y handing him a smallish blue scroll. Aww man! Genjutsu? Not cool! thought Naruto as he accepted the scroll with a 'smile.'

"Now that we are all done, you may go and do whatever you do. However, I have some homework for you. Sakura," he started, looking her way, "I expect to see at least one technique on that scroll by tomorrow. Sasuke," he continued, looking at the Uchiha, "I want to see at least some form of an item replication tomorrow. Naruto, all I want you to do is try and get the basics of that Genjutsu down," he finished, looking at the blond who was trying desperately to burn the scroll with no one looking.

"Now, dismissed!" yelled Jiraiya as his team vanished to go to their respective homes.

Hehehe…now I can get on with my 'research,' thought Jiraiya as he made his way to Konoha's famous hot spring bath areas.


So, Jiraiya-sensei wants to see me perform a technique from this scroll by tomorrow, huh? Shouldn't be too hard thought Sakura as she walked home, looking at the title of the large SS rank Taijutsu scroll. Let's see…this style is known as the Hayai Shikyo Style (Quick Death). So, Sensei wasn't kidding when he meant that the style was based on speed. Aright, now that I think I know what's in the scroll, let's look in it.

She opened the scroll, and was shocked to see it had dozens of techniques listed on what she decided was the index. 1 ft 3 in – Sakura Senpuu (Cherry Blossom Hurricane)? 5 ft 7 in – Jishin Ashige (Earthquake Kick)? Looking down, she saw that the final technique – Kouki no Kyuushutsu (Final Deliverance) – was located at 25 ft. This scroll is 25 ft long! exclaimed Sakura, thinking there was no way she could master all of these techniques. She decided that the easier ones must be at the top, and picked out a reasonable-looking technique; she picked the Suji no Tama (Bullet Line)technique; the picture depicted a person warping from one point to another.

The Suji no Tama technique utilizes the user's speed in such a way as to move in a straight line to any designated target directly ahead of them. While this may seem impractical, since teleporting would be much simpler, this uses little to no chakra, thus rendering it superior to chakra-consuming techniques such as the Yondaime Hokage's infamous Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God). This technique also increases one's momentum the longer they run. Turning is possible while using this technique, however the maximum recorded turn degree measured was only 10 degrees she finished reading, amazed at how much could be done with this technique.

Sure it may not seem like much, but already Sakura was running through different ways to fully utilize this technique in other styles of combat. However, reading what speed she must achieve in order to get the technique 'properly mastered' made her pick her jaw off the floor. 150 mph! thought Sakura, knowing that this would be a long day.


Sasuke arrived at his apartment quietly, coming in through his eastern window and promptly shutting it. Living in an Apartment Complex instead of the Compound has some advantages after all. No noise, no "Welcome home Sasuke-kuns!"; yup, this is just fine.

Of course, we all know he's only BSing himself, and desperately misses his family and Compound. However, we'll save all that teenage angst for another story.

Sasuke, after sitting down and putting his shoes away, decided to get cracking on that Jutsu that Jiraiya was talking about. Kage Kajou Bunshin (Shadow Item Replication), eh? Sounds good. He read the first part of the scroll, learning that this jutsu takes any item and makes it clone itself as a manifestation of one's chakra; thus, the more chakra, the more items. It also said the jutsu was good for missions, when supplies were scarce; however, a replica- item cannot be replicated again; only original items can be replicated; finally, a replicated item only has 25 of its durability, nutrition, or dosage as a normal item, so it not an all powerful jutsu. Plus, it looked like it took a TON of chakra to replicate even a small item, like a senbon (needle) or kunai (throwing knife).

Sasuke read the last of the scroll, then decided to try it on one of his own senbon. He ran through the four or so seals, landing on Uwa (Horse) and whispering "Kage Kajou Bunshin (Shadow Item Replication)." He suddenly felt drained and started panted, looking on the floor and seeing only half of the senbon, the other half not more than a swirling mist that vanished quickly.

HOLY CRAP! thought Sasuke, this takes WAAY more chakra than I have. I guess I need to REALLY increase my chakra reserves, or fine tune my control. Deciding merely increasing the reserves would be easier, he went outside to his training grounds and started doing chakra building exercises, pausing every hour or so to see if he could make more senbon appear, taking soldier pills as needed. This the Uchiha boy continued until the late night.


"Outo-san (Dad)! I'm home!" yelled Naruto as he dropped in through his window and kicked his shoes into their cubbies, putting his slippers on. "Where are you?" yelled/asked Naruto as he rummaged through the cupboards for his afternoon snack of Instant Ramen. No matter what other universes may exist, Naruto would always be the number one ninja in Konohagakure (Hidden Leaf) of eating Ramen.

"I'm over here Naruto! How was the first day?" responded Shun from the living area, listening to a small radio and tapping his foot to the beat as he worked on deciphering a seal he had to bring home from work. Naruto walked in just as he poked it in the wrong spot, and created a small flame jet shooting straight up. "AHH!" yelled Shun as his bright yellow hair caught fire and he quickly put out both fires using a small Suiton (Water Type) jutsu.

As in Uzumaki fashion, Naruto was quickly on the floor laughing at this. After Shun managed to get the fire under control and used a quick cosmetic jutsu to re-grow the hair lost in the horrible disaster, Of course some would be cut off later, but again, that's later.

"So, how was your day of Genin-testing?" asked Shun, quickly realizing what he said and shut his mouth with a small 'crap!'.

"What! You knew about the test and didn't tell me? I oughta punch you for that!" Naruto yelled at his dad, who just laughed and explained that 'all new academy grads had to do it.'

"Well, since that's over with, can you help me with something?" asked Naruto as he pulled out the scroll on the Genjutsu. "Jiraiya-sensei gave us some homework to do, but it's Genjutsu and you know how bad I am at Genjutsu," pleaded Naruto to his father, who looked over at the boy and nearly cried at how pitiful his son was acting.

"You know that you don't need to beg for help, son. Just ask," responded Shun as he took the scroll, opened it, and started reading.

"Well, this doesn't look too hard! Even you should do it, no sweat!" encouraged Shun as he handed the scroll back to Naruto, who looked at the name of the Jutsu in surprise

Konoha Bunshin (Leaf Replication) no Jutsu? thought Naruto as he continued reading, seeing that it was like a normal Bunshin, only using leaves instead of pure chakra. Looks easy enough though Naruto as he finished up.

Instead of using pure chakra to create a likeness of the user, the Konoha Bunshin gathers leaves from the area and fuses them together into a likeness of the user. Chakra is used for three things in this jutsu: gathering the leaves, fusing the leaves, and transforming the leaves into the user's likeness. Several debates have been fought over this jutsu and its usefulness, since it requires quite large amounts of chakra to gather, fuse, and transform the leaves.

However, its most useful feature is that since they are physical replications, if enough leaves were added to give it enough density, the replication could fight alongside the creator and inflict bodily harm.

Wow thought Naruto. I guess this IS a simple jutsu. "Alright outosan! I'm gonna go to the backyard and practice this jutsu!" yelled Naruto as he ran out the door to the backyard, where a HUGE oak tree was standing with many leaves on it.

"Alright! Since this is my first time doing this, we'll work from the ground up! Starting on the foot, here we go!" said Naruto to himself, using his mantra for jutsu-learning to concentrate. He read the scroll again, making sure he knew the proper seals, and began to focus.

He brought his hands together in the chakra-molding symbol, then once he felt he had enough chakra, he began concentrating on gathering/fusing/changing the leaves into his foot.

Dog-Boar-Horse! "Konoha Bunshin no Jutsu!" said Naruto as he finished with Horse and saw a bunch of leaves come flying off the tree, land on the ground, clump together and turn into the front half of his shoe.

"Aww! What's that!" asked Naruto to no one in particular. "I was going for whole foot, not half a shoe!"

Trying again, he molded a bit more chakra, went through the seals again, then released it all and saw more leaves come off the tree and combine with his show, so now he had ¾ of a shoe.

"AGGHH!" yelled a very frustrated Naruto as he went and stomped through the leaves, breaking the shoe apart.


"AGGHH!" someone screamed from a distance. Jiraiya, who was at the local bath houses, simply smiled and laughed as he knew who was screaming.

"Now maybe I can have a little fun with this kid," mused Jiraiya as he continued sketching down pictures for his novel and writing down little notes.


A/N: Alright, I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I have no schedule in life, and do things as I think of them.

Kill me now, kill me later, just leave a review and a slice of cheese at the door on the way out.

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