Dar1us here with chapter 2…

I'd like to thank Cherry_t for her constructive criticism in the previous chapter. I will go back at some time and clean up my blunders.

Read enjoy and review

'Awesome, this is going to be soo awesome' Naruto thought to himself. He had been sitting in the clearing where he had just learned the Kage Bunshin, contemplating what to do with his new found skill. While he had been sitting there it had come to him, a prank that was only possible with multiple people. What he planned was truly devious, truly horrible and would probably get him Killed if he got caught.

Earlier that day he had heard that Chouji's Dad was on a week long mission with Ino and Shikamaru's fathers, Naruto realized that this would be the perfect time to do an impersonation and cause trouble. Naruto planned out his prank before heading home; little did he know Kakashi planned to watch the boy the next day?

The Next day found Kakashi looking in on an industrious blond boy. The child had made three Kage Bunshin and had transformed them into The Nara, Akamichi and Yamanaka trio. The three adults were briefed and set on their missions. Deciding to emulate the young boy; Kakashi made three clones and set them after the Trio whilst he followed Naruto to the Academy.

The Yamanaka patriarch made his way to the Akamichi grounds and stormed into the clan street screaming and ranting,

"You damn Akamichi's all you ever do is eat, all it does is cause you to become soo fat. That is why our mission failed because Chouza was to damn fat to keep up with Shikaku and I, we lost the team we were trailing. I hope you don't raise any more Fat asses!"

This little rant ignited a fire that burnt soo deeply that the Akamichi's could not even think of looking over the rant for the sake of the family partnerships. Seeing the work done the clone bounded off and dismissed itself, once it was out of the Akamichi's sight.

Back with the Original Kakashi watched as the boy burst into laughter unsure as to why he planned to check until his Clone dismissed itself and he learnt what naruto had done.

The Nara patriarch Stormed into the Yamanaka clan street and started hurling insults as well,

"You damn Pansies; you are to busy growing flowers and trying to read minds to concentrate on the job. Inoichi left Chouza and I hanging mid mission to go chase a Damn flower. You Yamanaka's are both Gay and stupid or Fangirls and stupid. You make me sick." Also escaping to safety it dismissed itself while the Chouza copy began its own rant against the Nara family,

"You damn lazy Nara's, Shikaku was too lazy to help out in the mission. It's a wonder your wives are always on your case. You couldn't even scratch your ass because you are too lazy."

Kakashi watched as chaos unfolded, the normally peaceful Akamichi's tore across the Village towards the Yamanaka's whilst the Yamanaka's went to destroy the Nara's and the Nara's the Akamichi's. They had met in the middle and had begun a three way brawl destroying much of the village centre. The Kakashi clone watched the madness unfold and was sure that, as he had dismissed himself, He had seen a laughing Blond Dismiss itself.

Back in the academy Naruto started laughing soo hard he fell out of his desk and rolled around the aisles holding his sides.

"Uzumaki Naruto, What is soo damn funny get back to your desk. Your disruption has earned the class a Quiz tomorrow on the Explanation of Chakra." Iruka screamed.

The class moaned in despair and the blond immediately found himself in his desk. Just as he was about to complain the Bell rang announcing the end of school. Naruto sadly trooped out already getting insults thrown at him for causing the quiz. Naruto was met outside by Kakashi, who merely looked at the Boy before, in a very serious tone, he begun berating the boy,

"Uzumaki Naruto how the hell could you use the technique I taught you to…" His face changed to a smile "pull of such a good prank."

Naruto smiled at the man's praise but soon his face fell,

"It doesn't matter Kakashi-samma, now I got a stupid quiz tomorrow and I suck at written tests." Naruto glumly moaned

Kakashi grimaced at the thought of theory tests. He remembered how much Obito had hated them.

"Why don't you use the Kage Bunshin to lighten the load?" Kakashi threw the comment over his shoulder as he left the boy.

Elsewhere

The Sandaime had a massive amount of paperwork being delivered by his aide,

"Sir, this is the paperwork with regard to the fighting in the village centre. It seems that it stemmed from a misunderstanding between the Ino, Shika, and Chou clans. They had a disagreement that escalated into a fight that soon needed the Anbu to sort it out. We are unsure of the Nature of the disagreement."

The Sandaime merely sighed. How he hated this part of his job, what happened to the good old days when he would journey out on dangerous rescue missions to rescue fair ladies for "rewards". That's it, he would do the paper work later, and right now he had a book to read that followed the good old day's way of thinking. 'Praise Jiraiya' the sandaime thought with a perverted giggle

Back with Naruto

Naruto stood in front of his theory book; contemplating it, he picked it up and ripped out the section that dealt with Chakra theory. It was a hefty section so Naruto split himself into 4 Kage Bunshins that took over the Duty of studying while Naruto himself went to attempt to join a game of Ninja, Ninja.

Four hours later Naruto returned home disappointed at his exclusion from the other kids fun and dismissed the grumpy Clones. As he stood there, his brain was flooded with information and he promptly collapsed.

Naruto groggily awoke. He wondered what happened, looking at his clock it said it was 8:30. Looking outside he realized it wasn't night either. Naruto sat there for a few minutes trying to figure out the conundrum, suddenly with a start he realized it was the next day and he was definitely late for class. Naruto rushed through his ablutions and ran to academy.

Naruto arrived just as Iruka handed out the paper. He got his paper and sat down, He was soo sure he would fail until He looked at the paper.

Question 1: What are are the constituents of chakra?

Naruto didn't even think about it as he wrote, "Chakra is comprised of Physical energy, or Stamina, that is gained through physical training and spiritual energy which is amassed via study and experience." This isn't so bad he thought to himself.

Question 2: What are the uses of chakra?

Once again the answer came easily to Naruto. "Chakra is used mainly in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, but some is used in Taijutsu."

Question 3: What are the Physical traits shown by having a large reserve of Stamina?

This answer, Naruto noticed, applied greatly to him. "An abundance of energy, Do not tire easily and the ability to push past the bodies natural limiters."

The next question that stood out for Naruto was the

10th Question: What are the traits shown by a lack of Spiritual energy?

The answers had no trouble flowing from Naruto as he had studied for 16 hours technically. "Traits shown will include an inability to concentrate. Lower than average recall rates and less self control."

Naruto continued through the test with ease, he came to the final few questions:

Question 25: If a Ninja were to have large physical Stamina and low spiritual energy, how would this affect them?

"The ninja would struggle greatly with Chakra control, and would find themselves using an excess amount of Chakra to perform a Jutsu. The Ninja would also find themselves having a large amount of trouble with Genjutsu recognition. However their physical strength would be above average and they would be able to push themselves quite far beyond their average physical capabilities. They would also have a high pain tolerance."

Question 30: What would the benefits be of keeping the two constituents of Chakra at near equal levels?

"A ninja would be able to perform optimally in terms of the three main Ninja principles, Nin, Tai and Genjutsu. They would use far less chakra to perform Jutsu's and would have much better chakra control. With high levels in balance a ninja would be able to push their physical and spiritual abilities past their normal capabilities. The two energies work in harmony so having equal amounts of each constitute gives much greater results."

Naruto finished the test and looked up, expecting to have no time left, and found he had 30 minutes before the test time ended. Naruto decided to use the time to think over the questions that stood out for him. He knew that chakra was made up of spiritual and physical energy and that these were increased in different methods, he hadn't got to that section in the textbook with the previous days studying. Naruto reviewed himself according to his answers and came to the conclusion that although his physical stamina was really high, he had to face the facts and admit that he was severely lacking in spiritual energy.

"All right kids time to take in the question papers. How did you enjoy that test, huh? Don't worry if you did badly, that was the Chakra section from the final year test level. That was two years beyond your level but I'll still be marking it though so don't you think it was all for nothing. Hopefully you learnt that you are far from ready. As they say a Ninja always needs to keep himself in balance. The Yondaime once said that A Ninja that is in balance is a Ninja that can change the world. Now I think it is time to do a recap on Chakra basics" Iruka continued to drone on.

Naruto had stopped listening and instead focused on the quote from the Yondaime. Naruto wasn't so sure about changing the world but he understood that if you had that amount of Skill you would be respected like the Hokages or the two remaining Sannin. The dream that naruto wanted to achieve was to be loved and respected so this meant he could achieve that if he worked to balance himself while getting stronger.

This small decision that was sparked by the kindness of an elder Ninja caused Naruto's destiny to take a new path. Not unlike the previously intended path of saving Konoha from the destruction brought on by Akatsuki and the curse of the Founders feud between the Uchiha and Senju bloodlines.

The Goals stayed the same but the path to those goals now changed, for better or worse is only for the future to know.

What do you guys think?

Hope you like it. This chapter was just to introduce the changes that lead Naruto down an alternate path.

Tell me what you think of the theory. I will be attempting to be detailed with my take on the mechanics of chakra, but am open to suggestions.

Still looking for advice on Team make up, it is unlikely that Naruto will be able to be placed on Cannon team 7 due to a change in Naruto's academy performances.

Review or Pm me with suggestions and thoughts, I'm open to ideas and constructive criticism.

Dar1us out.