Chapter 3, enjoy, and thank you for the review :)

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Shikamaru was silent. 'No wonder he wouldn't tell anyone, but still...' then he noticed the boy tense. Naruto was unlike his usual hyperactive self, and the tan from his face was gone, he was pale...

Does he think I'm going to hate him or what? The tall boy sighed and rubbed his temples. Naruto looked at him nervously, expecting him to turn around and abandon the mission...and him too...

"You are a baka, you know that?"

"N...nani"

Totally confused.

"We, the rookie 12, we are your friends, no one will hate you for what you had no control over. You keep it at bay every day, Konoha should be thankful. I guess that's why they tried to banish you."

"Hai", he replied in a small voice, but a small was present on his face. he had been accepted by someone his own age! A friend, a real friend!

"Well then, we will just have to complete this mission, even if it's troublesome"

Naruto smiled at Shikamaru, who was in deep thought.

"Ano sa, Shika, daijobu?"

"Hai, I just wonder why he chose you, there must be a reason"

This made Naruto pause and scratch the back of his head.

"I think Tsunade-obaa-chan, Kakashi-sensei and Ero-sennin know, but its probably 'cos i was an orphan and..."

"Mendokuse...thats nonsense and you know it. Anyway what did your sensei give you?"

Naruto stopped and digging into his pocket, pulled the scroll out. His brows furred and a swetdrop appeared at the back of his head.

"Kage bunshin, wait why did he give me that, and the theory too?", he whined ."I already know it, damn..."

Sigh.

"Just read it"

"Ok, ok..." The yellow haired boy pouted and opened the scroll.

"The kage bunshin was first made as an infiltration and information gathering technique, as what the clone learns is transferred to the actual user when dispersed. If the person has large amounts of chakra, the jutsu can be used for training, whoa, I didn't know that!"

To say Shikamaru Nara was amazed would be an understatement. He had heard from Asuma sensei that the kage bunshin no jutsu was a kinjutsu, it was forbidden. How in the world did Naruto manage to learn it? Where did he get it? And he had seen the amounts he makes...damn...

"That's a hell of a jutsu, what else?"

"Lets see, some chakra control exercises, Shiunshin no jutsu, and theory on elemental manipulation"

"Ok, we both do chakra control, Shiunshin and elemental manipulation. I also brought some family jutsu scrolls to learn, what about you?"

"I brought a scroll too, I'm thinking of making my own jutsu, you should do that too. And maybe taijutsu?"

"Mendokuse, your own jutsu? Maybe it's not such a bad idea after all. I suck a taijutsu, and so do you, from what I've seen"

"Hey, I'm better than you, dattebayo!"

"Maybe. You know Asuma sensei once said something about creating your own stile. We could do that."

"Hai, now lets see what the hell is elemental manipulation…."

Shikamaru sweat dropped.

After reading aloud the theory on elemental manipulation, they each pulled out the special chakra paper. Shikamaru's turned to dust, while Narutos split in 2 and the pieces soaked. After that, and according to the scroll, Naruto took a leaf and tried splitting it in 2(strangely water manipulation came to him easily), while Shikamaru got a rock and tried to turn it to dust.

While doing that, Naruto told his friend about the Wave mission. The Nara was going bug eyed...which was a courtesy of Shino...

They had walked for a few hours, with Naruto occasionally looking up from his leaf, which wasn't torn at all, to check the way. Walking for a few hours, and each of them busy with their own elemental manipulation and thoughts, they didn't even notice that they had already reached the bridge. It seemed like they were walking for days….They stopped dumbfounded. In front of them was written in big letters 'The Great Naruto Bridge'

"Mendokuse"

Naruto, however, was smiling. Hell yeah, im a hero here! Jumping up and down excitedly he grabbed Shikamaru's hand and dragged him all the way to old man Tazuna's house. He was really glad Wave was coming back to it's former glory. People were happily doing their day-to-day activities, and there weren't poor people left, at least he and Shika didn't see any.

Tazuna was more than glad to help their friend and hero. Inari was overjoyed to have his 'nii-san' back. The boys agreed to stay a month. Tsunami led them to the spare room. After the long, difficult day, they gladly went to sleep (with Naruto slamming on the fuuton, fast asleep, in his clothes and hugging the life out of the poor pillow, and Shikamaru sweatdropping a bit). Tomorrow they would start their training. While in bed,. Shikamaru thought that maybe they could complete the mission; when they were already nearing Tazunas, Naruto had already made a small cut on his leaf, while his rock had its edges turned to dust. But The boy was a realist, he knew the risks, and he knew that their life depended on the mission, Shikamaru was a chuunin now, it was his duty to complete this mission, after his first failed one...he sighed...mendokuse...

Naruto, however was thinking about his own jutsu. He wanted to recreate the legendary Hiraishin, Yondaimes jutsu. He found very little information about it. All he knew it was a space-time manipulation jutsu, which had something to do with fuunijutsu. He had already brought a fuunijutsu scroll with him. It was written by the Yondaime himself, starting from the basics, to the most advanced level. He got interested in fuuinjutsu from the day he learned about the fox and the seal on him. His resolve deepened, when that hebi-teme put the cursed seal on Sasuke. From that day he made a promise to himself, to master fuuinjutsu, and never let something like that happen again. Now, the only space-time manipulation jutsu he knew was the basic E-rank Kawarimi, wait! Kawarimi, however basic it is, it's still a space-time manipulation jutsu. He could start with that. Then, when I master my wind chakra, maybe I could remodel the Rasengan too, didn't ero-sennin say it wasn't finished? And taijutsu. I have to bee faster, and more unpredictable. I will create my own stile and maybe use wind chara too, as it cuts threw anything….

With a smile, he went to sleep. It was going to be a long month here.

i want to hear some suggestions if you think im not writing this too well, there will be a pairing later on, i am planning an OC, but if you guys want, i can put Naruto with someone from Konoha too, just it will not be Hinata for sure

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