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Sorry for the last cliffie but I'm guessing most of you knew what happened already.
In answer to the reviews I got for the last chapter;
I've figured out the blood limits I just need your opinion on wether he should have both or just one.
Chapter 4 – Serious Training
Last Time;
Naruto set down the scroll and looked at it once more making sure he remembered all the seals. He stood up, took out a kunai and cut across both his palms. He then started going through all the seals trying to finish before his wounds were healed by Kyuubi. When he finished the seals, ending on the rat seal, blood was being drawn from the cuts on his palms. After a few moments he started feeling a little dizzy from blood loss and was relieved to see that his blood was no longer being drawn out. His blood was now a small blob on the floor, after a second of wobbling it started to take shape, shooting up and sprouting arms. When the blood finally stopped shifting and changed it's colour to be a perfect clone, all Naruto could do at what he saw was shout, "WHAT THE HELL!"
This Chapter;
Naruto stared at the blood clone in front of him. The clone looked nothing like him, it's hair wasn't blonde but it was spiky, it's clothes were nothing like his and it was well above Naruto's height. In fact the clone in front of him right now looked like Kyuubi in Naruto's subconscious, orange-red hair longer than Naruto's but in a similar style. Red eyes with slit pupils. A shirt with a flame motif coming from the hem, the shirt being kept closed with a black belt around his waist and finally, red pants coming down to his ankles with nothing on his feet. The blood clone even had the bracelets on each wrist and a collar around the neck. To be modest, Naruto was freaked out.
'So? What...' Kyuubi started in Naruto's mind. "-do you think of this Kit?" Kyuubi finished in his new body.
Naruto was so surprised he simply started spouting nonsense and then promptly fainted. When he came to, he found himself in a large king-sized bed. He looked around the room and saw Kyuubi leaning against the wall, looking like he was asleep. Getting over the shock of seeing him he decided to wake him. "Uh... Kyu-Sensei?"
Kyuubi opened his eyes and looked over at Naruto in the bed. "Your finally awake then Kit? I knew you'd be surprised but... fainting, come on Kit?"
"I just don't get it Kyu-sensei. How could you be out here, I thought you said if you'd try to break the seal and get out, that both of us would die?" Asked Naruto.
Kyuubi started to explain, "That's true but I haven't broken the seal. I am still very much bound to you Kit, as you can see from my shackles." Referring to the collar and bracelets. "Right now I'm just transferring my consciousness into this clone made with your blood. Don't worry it's my chakra that's fueling the clone not yours so I should be able to sustain this clone indefinitely, although using some of your chakra to sustain this clone would be a good way to increase your chakra reserves." Said Kyuubi, musing out loud.
"So this was what you meant by finding a better way of training me? Now you can actually help my train in the real world!" Exclaimed Naruto.
"Yup! That's right Kit! This way I can teach you jutsus and other things much easier!" Explained Kyuubi.
"Alright! Finally I can learn things properly! Hey wait a second how long was I out?" Asked Naruto a little worried.
"A little over an hour now Kit. Don't worry Kit I would have woken you if you stayed unconscious too long. Either way you better get back to your apartment you have to be ready for the academy tomorrow. Don't worry I'll stay here and I still have my mental link with you so if you need me just call. I'll probably be in suspended animation when your not here so I can save chakra. You also need to insert your chakra signature on the way out so you can open the entrance, it works the same as the vault, the panel should be to the right of the entrance. Oh and Kit? Even though I'm going to help you get better I want you to keep your grades just low enough not to raise suspicion but high enough to pass okay?" Asked Kyuubi.
"What!? But why Kyu-sensei?" Asked Naruto.
"Because Kit, other shinobi will always look at your progress while in the academy during your first few years as a ninja. When they see that you only just passed when becoming a genin this will most probably make them underestimate you and give you a trump card." Explained Kyuubi.
Naruto just nodded at this and started towards the door of the bedroom. The last time he saw of Kyuubi, he was sitting down on the bed Indian style. He closed the door, instantly he knew where he was in the compound and headed to the exit. As Kyuubi had told him the panel was to the right of the entrance, he forced some of his chakra into it and the door opened much the same way it did when he first came in.
When Naruto stepped outside it was already dark. Looking at his watch he cursed, it was already past 11pm, he was going to have to be fast if he wanted to get enough sleep tonight. He sighed, 'This is gonna be exhausting but hey at least I'll definitely sleep tonight.' He thought with a bit of glee. He started running at about triple the speed he had been running on the way to the compound. 'I'm gonna have to find a way to get back and forth between my apartment and the compound faster. Otherwise I'm either gonna die from exhaustion or I'm not gonna have enough time at the compound to learn much of anything.' He thought as he was jumping from tree to tree.
Eventually he got back to the apartment by midnight. Once he got home though he went into his bedroom and as soon as his head hit the pillow he was asleep.
For the next few days Naruto would go to the open training area near the academy as usual but he would then go to Ichiraku's to get something to eat before going to the compound. Because of the trip Naruto would order more than usual though, much to the joy of Teuchi and a young Ayame. When the weekend finally came he went to the open training grounds for bit more target practice and taijutsu practice. After that he went to Ichiraku's again and ordered a really big meal of 10 Miso ramen, 10 Beef ramen and 10 Chicken ramen. Once he finished his meal he went to the supermarket for some food. The second time he had gone to the compound he found out there was a small kitchen with basic cooking areas and storage areas. Seeing as it was the weekend he decided to spend his weekend in the compound training, if he planned on staying that long he would need to take some food with him.
Once he had all he needed he headed for the compound to get some serious training done. Over the weekend though he mainly studied in the library. He would study many subjects law, history even a little on basic seal making. He would come out of the library to get food and would sometimes enter the vault and went through the scrolls. It was here that he eventually found a seal his father had created and he instantly found a use for it. It was a teleportation seal which would allow a person to be instantaneously transported from one seal to the other. All a person had to do was write the two locations in a certain area of the seal and place them in those two areas. Then when the person wanted to teleport all they had to do was put some chakra in the seal, the amount of chakra needed to use the seal would differ depending on the distance between the two seals. He set to work copying out the seal onto two different scrolls, using the seal equipment his father had left him. He would leave one out in the compound wherever he was when he left and would keep the other in his apartment when he went back on Sunday.
After figuring the transport problem out, he went back to his usual routine. After the academy was over he would carry on his target practice, even though he really didn't need it anymore thanks to the tips he got from Kyuubi, he still kept up the practice, as 'practice makes perfect', Iruka-sensei would always tell the class this when he was in charge of them. He also enjoyed the silence he got when he was training out there, even if the feeling of somebody watching him never went away. He could even swear he heard a gasp when he took his jacket and shirt off one summer afternoon because he was too hot in them.
While he was at the compound, he would study, work on any new jutsus Kyuubi gave him until he could perform the jutsu in his sleep. For some reason Kyuubi had him learn each and every one of the different clone jutsus in the vault. By far, his favourite bunshin was the Kage Bunshin, for one thing it didn't require any substance to create it and any knowledge his clones gained while in existence was instantly transferred to him when they were dispelled. He liked to use them when studying because he could study up to ten times the usual amount of scrolls he read when in the library which is a big reason why he knew as much as he did. Although he didn't like to use them when learning new jutsu unless they were used to attack him or defend against him when using the jutsu.
When he asked Kyuubi why he had to learn all the bunshin, he said that clones where useful as shields or when performing Kawarimi no Jutsu, since they would be the same shape and size as him, it would be easier to substitute with them and escape attack. Even though he performs the other clone jutsus pretty easily because they require more chakra to create, he still could not get the hang of the normal Bunshin no Jutsu. Kyuubi just figured this was because he had a large amount of chakra and the Bunshin no Jutsu required so little he would always overload the clones making them useless. Out of all the clone jutsus his favorite was the shadow clones, this was mainly due to the fact they didn't require any medium to create them so he could make them any time any where. He also learned a few other jutsu.
While at the compound he did manage to read the scrolls left for him about his two clans. Sufficed to say he was impressed with the two Kekkei Genkai but he decided not to try them out until he made genin.
Eventually though the weights he wore became light and he needed to make them heavier so he looked through the seals his father had made and eventually found one that made things heavier but from the look of it he would have to put the seal on his body as a tattoo, at first he didn't want to use the seal but then he read that the seal would turn invisible and become passive, meaning it would stay on once Naruto used some chakra to activate it. He would also be able to increase his weight merely by using the ox hand seal and pouring more chakra into the seal, each level the seal went up by his body weight would be increased by 100Kg. If he needed to he could also deactivate the seal completely, letting him go full speed and full strength. He would be able to use this as another trump card in a fight. So with the help of Kyuubi he had the seal tattooed onto his back. When he first activated the seal, after taking off his weights and storing them in a closet at his apartment, he instantly had to increase the level of the seal to level 6. He got some strange looks when he went in to the academy the next day, his friends of course didn't know they were weights, except Shikamaru, he figured out that they were weights the first day he saw Naruto, they just thought they were sweatbands he liked to wear. He explained by just saying he felt like a change.
One thing that did surprise Naruto was when, on his 11th birthday, he walked out his front door ready to go to the academy in the orange jumpsuit he'd taken a liking to. When he almost stepped on a package that was left on his front door step. At first he was little wary, thinking it was some sort of trick sent by the villagers, when he couldn't sense any chakra in the package he thought it would be safe to at least pick it up. Once he got a better look at it he saw it was actually addressed to him but the sender had left out their name. This fact alone struck the Hokage off the list of people that might have sent him a gift, he had always sent things through the ANBU or signed the package to show he had sent it and it couldn't be Iruka because he just usually took him out for ramen or got him new kunai or shuriken. Naruto eventually just shrugged and opened the pack only to find a pair of goggles. He grinned and instantly put them on his forehead, just as he would with a hitai-ite, it felt good to wear them so he decided to keep them on. Obviously he didn't notice the blush that a certain Hyuuga in his class had seeing him wearing the goggles.
By his final year at the academy he was very adept at using many jutsu, most of them defensive though. He also had very good knowledge of Konoha's history and laws, he also knew the rules of the being a ninja off by heart. Although he obviously didn't show this in his classes, he made it look like he knew only enough to pass. Even though he still had problems with the Bunshin no Jutsu. His weight seal had been very useful even if he had to increase the level every couple of weeks, although he was sure he had broken through level 50 of the seal long ago, which places his current weight somewhere above 5000Kg, he wasn't sure what the exact level was but he kept going. He had even started using his own chakra to sustain the blood clone Kyuubi's conscious now resided in. Through all his training he had become very strong, very fast and his already large chakra capacity had grown to be even larger, he could now sustain the blood clone through a whole weekend, even being able to perform a few simple jutsu at the same time.
On his 12th birthday though he had been resting in the bedroom he now used whenever he stayed at the compound on the weekends. It was the same place Kyuubi had taken him a few years back when he fainted from shock at seeing Kyuubi in the blood clone. He was about to drift off into a power nap when Kyuubi burst in.
"Get up Kit! I've a new jutsu for you! Actually three to be exact!" Naruto nearly jumped out of bed when he heard Kyuubi say this, all his tiredness gone from his eyes.
"What are we waiting for then Kyu-sensei? Let's get to the jutsu training area!" Naruto had taken the liberty of naming some of the caverns since they didn't already have name. The one with all the elements gathered in it was called the jutsu training area, while another cavern which had some target posts in it and a larger clearing for sparring. He just called it the taijutsu training area, not very imaginative but straight to the point.
When they got to the training area Kyuubi had to explain a few things about these new jutsus before he was allowed to learn them.
"I created these jutsu specifically for you to learn. They will be like a blood limit if you will, no one will be able to copy them because you require my chakra to have been in your system at one point or another to use them. You will be able to use your chakra to use the jutsu but they will be much stronger if my chakra is used, you may even be able to use the jutsu without the hand seals if you use my chakra." Naruto looked at Kyuubi with a twinkle in his eyes like he always did when learning a new jutsu. Kyuubi continued, "The first jutsu I'm going to teach you is a pupil jutsu, it's called Kitsune Boushi no Jutsu (Fox Eye Jutsu), which will give you the power of my eyes. My eyes won't allow you to copy any jutsu like the Sharingan or give you a near 360 degree view of your surroundings like the Byakugan. What it will give you is the ability to see the chakra a ninja molds when using a jutsu, it will also tell you what kind of element the jutsu is, or when they are expelling chakra of any type to increase their abilities. It will also allow you to see fast moving objects with relative ease. Now on to the hand seals." Kyuubi went on to do three hand seals and then finished with some new seal Naruto had never seen before. The jutsu of course had no effect since he already had the fox eyes active.
"Uh... Kyu-sensei? I've never seen that last hand seal before, what was it?" Asked Naruto, genuinely confused.
"Glad you asked Naruto! That seal was one I created for the soul purpose of activating these jutsus, I call it the fox seal." Naruto nodded at this and started the jutsu. When he got to the new fox seal it felt strange using it. It was basically a variation of the tiger seal except the index and middle fingers were held horizontal to the ground and his thumbs were vertical, pointing upward.
When he made the fox seal his eyes started to itch for a few seconds as his irises turned red and his pupils became slits. When the jutsu was done he saw something interesting about his body. Chakra was literally flowing out of him like the mist off of dry ice, he could see where his tenketsu were because that's where most of the chakra was coming out of. He turned to Kyuubi, "What's up with my tenketsu Kyu-sensei? They're not keeping my chakra in my body."
"I was hoping you would notice that. I think this is reason for your abnormal chakra reserves and your incredible stamina. Because your body has always been leaking chakra your body has had to work to replace that chakra. It could also be because of your Kekkei Genkai on your mothers side, yes I know about it. I'll teach you how to use it when you make genin." Explained Kyuubi. "Now back to the eye jutsu, watch as I perform a fire jutsu."
Kyuubi sped through a set of seals and as he was about to launch the attack Naruto saw his chakra turn into fire. Kyuubi repeated the practice but this time with a lightning jutsu and again as he was about to launch his attack Naruto saw the chakra turn into lightning.
"So do you understand now what the eyes do?" Naruto nodded and deactivated the eyes. "Now this next one is pretty multi purpose. You can use it for attacking, defending or simply trapping your opponent." Again he ran through a set of hand seals and ended on fox. This time though the jutsu did have an effect, nine tails shot from the lower part of Kyuubi's back, each tail was orange with a white tip.
"This is called Kitsune Bikou no Jutsu (Fox Tail Jutsu). Now then, these tails are a form of henge but they are reinforced with chakra. You can control these tails with your mind, you can use them to stab or slash your opponent since the white tips can be sharpened or dulled to your liking. They can extend to 30 feet and more if you train with them. They are also able to block almost any attack as long as your fast enough to block the attack. Now you try it." Naruto nodded, went through the seals and felt the tails shoot from his lower back.
"Whoa... That feels weird!" He said as he had one of the tails come over his shoulder so he could get a better look at it. "Pretty fluffy, they'd probably be good when camping out to keep me warm." He then swished the tails round and struck one of the stalactites which promptly fell, "Cool!" He then used another tail to grab a stalactite and haul himself in the air. "I've got a lot of ideas for these things!" He said lowering himself to the floor.
"You done having fun?" Kyuubi asked. "Yup!" Naruto said as he jumped over.
"Right then this third one is made purely for attacking. It's called the Kitsune Tsume no Jutsu (Fox Claw Jutsu). Instead of explaining I'll just show you." Kyuubi once again ran through several hand seals and finished on the fox seal. This time , what happened scared Naruto a bit. Kyuubi's hands were now covered with red chakra that had taken the shape of claws. "This jutsu can be done with your own chakra as well but the claws will be blue and not as powerful. This Jutsu is the most difficult to perform, in the last two you just had to activate the jutsu and add chakra if needed but you have to keep a constant flow of chakra into the jutsu to keep the claws shape and potentness. It is constantly releasing chakra so any strike you land on your opponent will do damage, think of it as an inaccurate form of Jyuuken. If you manage to land a cut on your opponent but it is not deep enough to kill or incapacitate him or her, then the chakra coming from the claws will act as a poison and bring them down from the inside by interfering with their chakra systems and eventually render them unconscious or dead if you were to use my chakra in the jutsu." Kyuubi explained motioning for Naruto to try once he had deactivated the jutsu. Naruto tried the jutsu as he had the other two but once on the fox seal his hands were surrounded by a large set of chakra claws which proceeded to flare up then die out. Naruto looked at Kyuubi for answers.
"To put it simply Kit you used too much chakra to start the jutsu and then you didn't release enough chakra to maintain the jutsu. You have to get the proportions of chakra you use just right to maintain the jutsu. Keep trying Kit you'll get it right eventually!" Kyuubi shouted over to an excited looking Naruto as he sat down to watch the orange-clad ninja practice this new jutsu and make sure he didn't kill himself from chakra exhaustion, 'The Kit can be very stubborn and impatient when it comes to new jutsu. Just like you Kushina, you would never stop until you could do it right or collapse trying.' Kyuubi let a small grin cross his face as he thought of his late friend and mother to his student.
After five straight hours of practicing and some encouraging shouts from Kyuubi. Naruto had finally gotten the jutsu down enough to hold it for up to an hour while striking at the walls, which were now covered in claw marks.
"How's... that... Kyu-... sensei?" Asked Naruto gasping for breath from exhaustion. Kyuubi simply nodded and Naruto promptly fell into unconsciousness. Kyuubi sighed and thought, 'You're just lucky it's a Friday Kit.' As he picked up the unconscious Naruto and took him to the bedroom he always used whenever staying over.
Kyuubi placed Naruto in the bed and said quietly, "Good work Kit. You've excelled further than I thought you would. You'll pass the genin test without the use of the regular bunshin while keeping the cover of an underachiever. You'll find a way, I know you can come up with something, you've surprised me even, sometimes with your alternative way of thinking."
The genin exams at the academy were a few weeks away now. Naruto already knew which jutsu he had to perform to pass the exam, while he had no problem with the Kawarimi no Jutsu, he was dreading having to do the Bunshin no Jutsu. He still couldn't draw the small amount needed and kept on overloading the bunshin making them useless. He had thought about summoning more than just a couple of bunshin, when he tried this it did feel easier to create the bunshin but he couldn't make them look perfectly the same unless he created fifty or more bunshin and he didn't want lose his cover as an underachiever. He was still thinking about this when a thought struck him, 'They don't have to see all the bunshins I create, they just have to see two to five to let me pass!' He quickly formulated a plan on how to get a passing grade on his bunshins.
He was in a better mood for most of the week. That was until Iruka had decided on holding sparring sessions at the end of the day. By some cruel twist of fate he had somehow gotten paired off with the Uchiha-baka. Not only that but by the time it was their turn to spar, everyone else had finished their sparring and had decided to watch them.
Author's Note:
Now I need your help guys. I'm gonna let the guys who are reading this to decide which Kekkei Genkai Naruto has. Once the votes are in I'll tell you what both of them are.
So, should Naruto;
A) Have both Kekkei Genkai
B) Have the Uzumaki Kekkei Genkai
C) Have the Namikaze Kekkei Genkai
or
D) Have neither Kekkei Genkai
Please post your answer in the review section, I don't care if you answer anonymously or not as long as you give me your votes, the story can't really continue unless I know this so you better answer quickly.