Regrets

by Everything is AKu

Naruto is born with a birth defect which makes him born with snow white hair, The plot starts off with Naruto being tricked by Mizuki into stealing the Forbidden scroll, eventually Iruka finds him just in time before Mizuki can find Naruto Mizuki ends up throwing a giant shuriken which ends up hitting Iruka, Iruka then tells Naruto to run while he engages Mizuki, so he dies.

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Progress

Naruto's Apartment – Late at night

Naruto after talking to the Sandaime decided to go home to his apartment as he entered his apartment he first went to go check himself in the mirror he firstly noticed that there was blood soaking his white hair so he decided to clean up. Then Naruto thought about what Iruka said before he died he now had a reason for everything, he has to change his attire because he promised to Iruka, he has to become hokage for Iruka and he has to become a better shinobi for Iruka. Naruto then started brain storming on what he can improve on over the next two weeks.

Next Day

Naruto firstly used the henge to transform into a civilian, he firstly went to a shop to replace his attire he brought black shinobi sandals, black shinobi pants with kunai holsters, a black cloak, and a white long sleeved tea shirt and he also brought bandages for his legs. After that Naruto then goes to the library and checks out the books on the Academy basics which are the Kawarimi, clones and henge after taking a few books home and spending time reading he discovered he could learn to make clones by improving his chakra control he firstly tries the tree walking exercise but fails miserably.

He then tries again but fails miserably again, after 5 attempts Naruto realized that he can't channel too little or too much chakra and so he channels just the right amount of chakra and he's able to get 5 steps before falling off, he kept practicing for the rest of the day until he was able to at least get half way up the tree. It was 6 pm he decided that it was time to go eat but then he stopped and remembered something he read from one of those books, it was about that shinobi usually eat healthy foods, so for once in his life Naruto had to struggle to not eat ramen after henging into a civilian Naruto went shopping and bought a month supply of food which consisted of meat, rice, eggs, vegetables, fish, seasoning and other important utensils. After going home Naruto cooked up a meal consisting of rice, steak and peppers. After that he went to go train he noticed how he was getting better and better at the tree walking exercise after he felt like he did enough he went home.

Iruka's Funeral

"Shinobi and Civilians" announced the Sandaime Today we have gathered here to bring a farewell to our friend Iruka Umino who sacrificed his life by protecting a village secret from a traitor. Naruto didn't participate when everyone was attending because he felt if Hiruzen mentioned him being involved in helping kill Mizuki he felt that everyone would blame him for Iruka's death so after everyone was gone Naruto finally approached Iruka's grave and placed a picture of him and Iruka eating at Ichiraku Ramen on Iruka's grave and then he left to go finish the tree walking exercise.

Naruto was almost about to give up but then he remembered Iruka's last words and so he kept practicing until he was able to finally complete the exercise after 5 hours. He was worn out when he finally made it home he didn't bother cooking up a meal he went straight to sleep. Waking up the next day, then Naruto remembered something it was the use of the shadow clones; he remembered gaining memories of one of his shadow clones throwing the shuriken. He then tests this theory by creating a shadow clone and having it practice the tree walking exercise and after it dispelled Naruto felt his chakra control improved and he also gained the memory of the clone.

This made Naruto happy because he found a way to gain progress faster, So he created 10 clones and had them all practice the tree walking exercise while he read more books. He was reading a book on the hokages and how each of them had a signature technique they were known for the Shodaime had his Mokuton the Nidiame had his water infinity and Ftg, the Sandaime had mastery of all the elements and adamantine staff and finally the Youndaime had his Ftg and Rasengan. Naruto then thought that if he was going to be hokage someday he would need to create his own techniques, after he finished reading he then went to go check on the progress his clones were making he noticed that 6/10ths of the clones had already completed the exercise while the others were almost done. After a while all of the clones finally completed the exercise, So he told them to dispell Naruto then read a book which consisted of another chakra control exercise the water walking exercise Naruto tried exercise and noticed how he was able to get about 12 steps before sinking he theorized because of the training him and his clones did, his chakra control improved to the point where he has an easier experience with water walking than tree walking on the first time trying both of the exercises.

After a day Naruto finally completed the water walking exercise and created 10 clones to practice on the exercise to further improve his control. The next training Naruto did was improving his body physically so he did a standard set of 200 pushups, 200 sit ups, 200 squats and 5 laps around the village because of the healthy eating Naruto has been doing for the past 2 days he was able to gain a little bit of abs and muscle. After another 2 days of this Naruto was absolutely exhausted to the point he had to rest for two days, which in turn meant one weak was remaining before the Academy was reopened. The next thing Naruto trained on was his taijutsu he realized how bad it was and since he didn't have a sensei yet he decided to resort into learning the Academy style until he could learn another style. So for two days strait Naruto practiced on the katas and stance and practiced by having 10 clones attack him at once, by the third day Naruto had finally remembered everything about the Academy style taijutsu.

With 4 days remaining Naruto's last worry was ninjutsu since he was a genin he had access to genin level ninjutsu which usually are D rank he decided to learn the shunsin no justu he also decided to master Kawarimi but couldn't do to his chakra control not being enough it took Naruto awhile to learn the body flicker and after learning it a thought came by, what if he combined shunsin no jutsu and Kawarimi he then for the last 3 days decided to polish his skills by doing chakra control exercises polishing his taijutsu and improving his mind. As of now you could say Naruto was no longer a dead last but 4th strongest only behind Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburome and Sasuke Uchiha.

End of chapter 2