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For either of the orphans, that lunch was a very enjoyable moment. Other than their usual squabbles and disrespect they hadn't even spoken much. (Sasuke, because he was too uchiha to do so and Naruto because he was busy stuffing his own mouth). While very few words were only exchanged, both felt a connection being built. A long lasting one at that.
Sasuke entered the room first. Many of the students had already gone. For a second he panicked, 'Did I miss my sensei?' His fears were unraveled when he saw Sakura sitting next to team 10. So Sasuke, in all his uchiha-ness, sat down at the very first seat. He put his hands in such a way as to rest his head on. (Uchiha standard brooding pose No. 1®)
Naruto came in just after him. He was very much sure that Kakashi-sensei was not going to appear for another two hours. Naruto looked around to see that Hinata and her team were not in the class.
'Out of the konoha 12, the only other team I can access today is team 10. Might as well as kick that lazy ass into shape. Ino's gonna need some major motivation too. Good thing, my clones had gone over everything carefully.' He thought.
While Naruto had been training with various sensei's, a set of his clones, about 10 of them, had been setting up a meeting to finalize their actions from now onwards. They had carefully analyzed each and every factor and had prepared a suitable action plan. They had debated on the merits of each and everything (to or not to kill tora, how to save the Sandaime, how to save haku and Zabuza etc.).
Right now he had to give a push to the others so they wouldn't be helpless to the events that are to come. Having made his mind, Naruto made his way to were team 10 was sitting. Shikamaru was sitting (or rather napping) at the center. To his right, Choji was eating a packet of chips and to his right Ino was sitting and chatting with Sakura who seemed to have stationed herself with the to-be-Asuma's team.
"Ne, Shika" Naruto began. "Can you teach me how to play Shogi?"
Shikamaru opened an eye. To anyone else it might have seemed like a lazy gesture. But people who knew him very well like Ino, Choji and Naruto, with his past experiences, knew that the boy was hooked.
"You troublesome blond, why do you want to learn now all of a sudden" Shikamaru asked, still with only one eye open.
"Oh, that's cos I am trying to improve my strategic sense. It is somewhat weak right?" He asked doubtfully.
It was Ino who answered. "Naruto, only existing things can be weak"
"See, Ino undestr-WHAT! I was not that bad. Was I?" His reply came in the form of stares which asked him from everyone else.
"Fine, I will teach you the game." Shikamaru stood and picked up his bag. He took out a shogi set from the bag. When he turned around, everyone was staring at him. The common thought was 'Who brings a shogi set to school?'
Sensing the looks Shikamaru replied "you never know when you get a good opponent."
He set up the board on the disk and put the pieces in order. He started explaining the rules of the game to Naruto. Some explanations later, just as they were about to start playing, Asuma Sarutobi got into the room. He announced "Team 10, with me"
Shikamaru looked at Naruto "Oh, it seems our match will have to wait. How about we meet up at the Konoha Central Park this Sunday and play a match?"
"Ok, that sounds great." Naruto replied. Then he turned to Ino "Ino-chan.." Just as he was about to continue Ino cut him off.
"Don't you chan me, that is reserved only for my darling Sasuke-kun"
Before Ino could daydream any longer and Asuma got angry Naruto said "Just tell your father that I will be coming by today afternoon."
"Why would you be.." Ino was cut off this time by an irate Asuma who said "Come out fast. I don't have all day to waste"
Asuma was on the other hand observing the Kyuubi Jinchuriiki. He never had any problems with the blond and personally thought that he painting the Hokage Mountains was the funniest thing had occurred in a while. What sparked his curiosity was a comment by Kurenai earlier
(Flashback No jutsu)
Kurenai and Asuma were having tea and dumplings from the dango shop where the jounin of her generation often liked to hang out when she asked him. "Ne, Asuma-kun, what do you think of Naruto Uzumaki?"
Asuma looked a bit surprised. The question was out of the blue. "Nothing much. Somewhat of a brat, always lining for attention, but I feel the child is very good at heart, He always seems very innocent around tou-san too. Why did you ask?"
Kurenai looked at him "I am teaching the boy Genjutsu nowadays. Ebisu, that closet pervert, thought he was forcing into teaching Naruto by enraging me. He even bet me his book signing date and place. However I decide to teach him when I saw the fire in his eyes, they were glowing with determination."
"The boy soaks up what I teach him like a sponge ad is really innovative. I teach him a genjutsu and by the time I meet him again, he has it down to atleast three handsigns less and he uses it so creatively that I find it a bit difficult to dodge all his traps"
This definitely caught Asuma's interest. The Genjutsu mistress of Konoha was telling him that she had, even if it was bit, difficulty against an academy student! He would have to keep his eyes out for that boy
(Flashback No Jutsu Kai)
'I hope the boy grows into something interesting. This hidden village could use some excitement soon' The Sandaime's youngest thought. He didn't know how prophetic his words would turn out, almost too much.
In a matter of minutes the class had become vacant save for team 7. Sasuke was still in his initial position and he was still brooding. Sakura had come down to seat on a bench close to her crushes; she just sat there admiring him. Naruto on the other hand decided to work on the last thing Ebisu sensei had taught him. It was simple, the theory of the Kage Bunshin Jutsu.
The first time, when he had learned the Jutsu, he had just read the theory portion once and had decided to roll with what he understood. This time, when Ebisu-sensei told him the theory, he was almost tempted to bang his head on some rock.
The reason for this was that by slightly tweaking the concept of Kage Bunshin he could create a whole generation of custom clones. If he actually added a better concentration of Yang Chakra, the net recovery of memories would be slightly dulled, but their physical endurance would nearly double.
The greatest use of this technique was short circuiting his clone's chakra system and then holding the outburst in for a few second only to release it at the last moment with an enormous bang. This version was already a jutsu after being invented by the Uchiha prodigy/uchiha murderer/uchiha savior Itachi Uchiha. (A/n: - The author says you can have your pick from the options)
The jutsu, now one of his favorites, was called Bunshin Daibakuha. It also made sure that Naruto would never need an explosive tag as long as he had Chakra.
Currently Naruto was trying to make a version of the shadow cone that could instantaneously send messages between clones and the original instead of releasing itself. In a normal Kage Bunshin, all the experiences of the clone were recorded into a small cache of ying chakra, and upon releasing the technique the ying was moved back to the original immediately.
However ying chakra was the force that gave the clones their own consciousness, so creating a clone that could maintain the ying chakra necessary to think, while instantly transferring the cache of ying memories at all times.
Faced with this perplexing problem, Naruto started working Ying Release: Kage Bunshin No Jutsu. A puff of some later, a rather sickly little clone appeared.
'So, did it work?' He thought.
'It did' was the clone's mental reply.
'I see it wor…..WHAT IT WORKED?' Naruto was amazed.
"Yatta it worked! Yatta! Yatta!" Naruto was very happy; this was going to instrumental in his future plans. However, a breeze flew in from one of the windows slowly hitting the both of them. This proved too much for the poor clone, whose body had hardly any yang chakra in it. It immediately dispelled. This sent Naruto into a wave of anime tears.
At the front of the class, having nothing to do, Sakura and Sasuke were watching Naruto try to make a bunshin and fail. Sasuke and Sakura were both staring to be less impressed.
Sasuke thought, 'I was expecting that Naruto would not let me down, but he is this pathetic. I suppose both of teammates are really going to drag me down'
Sakura on the other hand, had been thinking that Naruto could be the kyuubi all the while, but this dispelled all her doubts. 'There is no way this baka could be that monster, even if it is inside him, this is the plain old Naruto-baka.'
"Naruto, how did you pass without being able to do the bunshin no jutsu also?" She asked.
Naruto turned around 'It's about time I gave her also a harsh awakening'
He thought. "Sakura-chan, I can't create a bunshin because I have too much chakra, being a jinchuriki and all but I can use an advanced form of the jutsu that will let me make real clones instead of illusions. And that too I can make thousands of me, the best part is that all their experiences are transferred to me at the end. After all I don't want to be the weakest member of my team. Now that you are here I am relieved. I won't be the weakest."
After that Naruto cupped his mouth as if he had just realized what had been told. "Gomen, gomen Sakura-chan that slipped out of my mouth, I am sorry"
At this point Sakura was enraged, "You think I am WEAK? I WILL SHOW YOU MY STRENGTH!" Tsunade's future desciple was very angry. She decided to plummel Naruto. That would show the dobe that he was the weakest in the class.
Sakura stared off with a punch aimed at his skull. Naruto simply side stepped her. Even more angry that the dobe tried to dodge her righteous fist of justice, she went on punch after punch, only to grow mor and more frustrated. Naruto was dodging them all!
Naruto decided to put an end to it. So he summoned his best dobe voice and said "Sakura-chan, please stop trying to hit me" He also twisted her hand to her back and pushed her to the table. He acted as if nothing happened but everyone in the room knew that if he had decided to press on with that hold Sakura would have been forced to surrender.
Sakura, dazed and shocked by the fact that she had been beaten by the class dobe, went to her earlier position and sat down in deep thought. She didn't bother to even look at her Sakuke-kun.
Sauke was also impressed, the act might have fooled Sakura, but Sasuke knew that he had told it on purpouse. He had also heard of the Mizuki events and understood that Naruto was trying to make Sakura see the hardships of the ninja world.
The class was silent for some more time, except the occasional puffs of Naruto making clones and dispersing them. Nearly an hour later, Naruto stood up.
"That's it, this teacher is so asking to pranked." He proclaimed. Sakura was too deep in her own thoughts to bother replying. Surprisingly it was sasuke who replied, "As if dobe, A jounin will not fall for one of your silly pranks"
"Wan't to put your monet where your mouth is teme?" Naruto challenged.
"Sure, 100 Ryo to the winner" Sasuke said.
Naruto was taken back, 'That damned clan brat, he has got all the money to throw around! If I bet 100 ryo and lose it will be a huge dent in my Budget!'
He saw Sasuke smirking at him. "What's wrong dobe? Loosing your nerve?"
This statement completely burned all of Naruto's doubts down. He was sooo going to get the teme's money. Besides some more money would only do him good.
"Fine, let's do it" Naruto smirked back. With those words he set to work.
About yet another hour later, Kakashi arrived and just like the last time, allowed the duster to fal on his head. What the Jounin did not expect was the chilli powder packet, set off by the fan which was set on by the duster falling, the water bucket to e set off by sneezing, or the chalk rain caused by a wet string.
Seeing one of his students, the uchiha, paying the prankster some money was the last straw, the scarecrow was not at all pleased.
"My first impression of you is….Remind me not to kill you all"
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