Chapter 4, enjoy, hope you like it!

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"So, Shika, how are the clan jutsu coming up?"

The shadow user shrugged.

"Not bad, learned most of them. Now I'm working on creating my own jutsu, you?'

"Well, my jutsu isn't finished yet, and I'm kind of recreating it"

'That's interesting. If he is recreating it, that means the jutsu was lost, I wonder which one he means'

They walked in silence for a few more minutes.

"I think we should learn the Shiunshin no jutsu, what do you say?

"Hai"

With that they continued their journey, making occasional stops and practicing the jutsu. After spending nearly a week on the road, they had gotten it down, and both of them had created their own stiles, adding their own little elements to that of the original Kohoha shiunshin- their elements Naruto could make a 'Konoha shiunshin', 'Seiton shiunshin', 'Kaze shiunshin' and 'Yuki shiunshin' as he dubbed them, and Shikamaru a 'Kage Shiunshin' and the 'Konoha Shiunshin'. After finishing his wind manipulation in Wave, Naruto had noticed he could fuse his 2 chakra types. It wasn't a bloodline like Haku's, so he couldn't use the freaking ice mirrors. So he had to make his own Hyoton jutsu. But he never got to that, as 1-it was very hard, and he had very bad progress with it, 2 he focused on modifying Kawarimi. Technically, his first Hyoton jutsu was the Shiunshin. Shikamaru was staring at him strangely when he showed him the finished Snow Shiunshin.

"Nani?"he asked

"You can mix your chakra types? I wonder if you started training earlier what would have happened. You'd make jonin by the time we were genin."

The shadow user was frowning.

"So would you, you are a strategy genius, dattebayo" enquired Naruto, pointing an accusing finger at his friend "and you learned nearly all your clan jutsu in a month and are nearly finished with your own jutsu, ne?"

"Well, you are a fuuinjutsu genius, much like the Yondaime. You mastered it in a month and are working on a jutsu too, you created your own seals for combat, didn't you? You mastered your chakra types and can mix them."

Yes, Shikamaru knew of the fuuinjtsu training. Naruto told him the first day they were out of wave. The shadow user, knowing it was a very complicated art and was very troublesome, was impressed, when the boy told him he was nearly done with intermediate level.

"Cut it Shika, I'm not a fuuinjutsu master, I still have a lot to learn, and why the hell are we arguing at all? When we return to Konoha, it won't know what hit them" he smirked. Shikamaru returned the smirk with one of his own.

They continued their journey. Every morning they would run for a few hours (Naruto had drawn weight seals on Shikamaru the day they left, while he had them when he started intermediate fuuinjutsu. They refill them with more chakra nearly every 3 or 4 days, to add weight. Currently Naruto nearly had 500p while Shikamaru-200p), then after breakfast they would train in taijutsu. Both boys had created their respected taijutsu stiles in Wave. Shikamaru's stile was perfect for him. He blended with surrounding shadows, when needed. His strikes were strong, but mostly he hit on the thighs. When finding an opening, he would grab the opposing enemy, and use his shadows from his hands to go squash said place. It had to do with his own jutsu. He was still working on it, and wouldn't even tell Naruto what it was. Shiakamaru named his taijutsu stile 'Kage no mai'. Narutoo's stile was centered on high speed and unpredictable attacks. He would appear strike and disappear. He didn't curl his hands into fists. He held them vertically and when striking, would channel wind, water and ice chakra to them, making the dance more deadly. To make his attacks more pronounced and effective, he trained on water in Nami no kuni. When using futon chakra, his hand would cut really deep, even cut limbs. When using Seiton, the water would go under the skin of the attacker and blow up. When using hyoton chakra, it would freeze the place it touched to the point, that say the thigh couldn't be used ever again. Of course Naruto controlled all this. When sparring with Shikamaru, he didn't make his attacks deadly. He named his stile 'Fuuriendan no mai' as he mostly used wind chakra. All in all, the 2 stiles were extremely deadly, and only Naruto could fight off Shikamaru, as when the shadow hands capture him, he can cut them. After taijutsu, both boys would leave and work on their jutsu. Naruto would make a shadow clone and sat it on fuuinjutsu, while he would pull out his notebook, where he kept his notes on his created seals, and the half finished Hiraishin seal. He still had problems with it. The summoning would be too unstable, and he didn't really want to feel dropped on the way. After a few days, the solution came to him. He would make a blood seal, which will work together with the summoning seal. That way, when activated, the seal would call only him, but there was a problem. He had to mix these two seals, which was very dangerous, especially with the little seal he created already attached to the summoning seal. The little seal would react to his chakra, despite the distance. That way, if he was in Suna and needed to be in Konoha and the seal was, lets say at the hokage office, performing the jutsu, he would appear in the office in a matter of seconds. That and there was the matter of safety. He didn't know what could happen to him while doing the jutsu. He had to make a safety seal too, which will secure his chakra and body. All in all, he was for a massive headache and he knew it. Nevertheless, he started to work.

Nearly 2 weeks had passed. Today they were standing on the outskirts of a small town. Naruto needed to see a weapon maker, though Shikamaru didn't ask why. Maybe the troublesome blonde wanted to refill his kunai and shuriken? If only he knew. Naruto had finished the seal; the only thing left was to test it. For that, he needed specially designed kunai. Shikamaru had agreed, but also insisted they buy new clothes too. Naruto really didn't want to lose his orange, so he put up a fight.

"Shikamaru, why? I really, really love orange, It's the best color there is, what's wrong in it?"

Shikamaru sighed for the 10th time.

"We are going after an S-ranked nuke-nin. Do you want him to notice us as we sat foot near Iwa?"

"Hai, hai…." 'it's only for the mission, after all, as that thought calmed him down a bit, he smiled, thought barely, eyeing his jumpsuit like it was the most precious thing in the whole world!

They parted ways. Shikamaru went to a clothes store, while Naruto went looking for a weapons shop. He found one at the end of the road he was taking. It was a small place, but considering the town was small, that was normal. As he walked in, he was greeted by a plump man near 40 with a kind face.

"What can I do for you, young man?"

Naruto fidgeted a little, than said "I need special kunai, with a longer handle, that when thrown will stand firmly on the ground, probably more pronged"

The man stared. This boy was just asking him for the special kunai many years ago another blonde had ordered. Come to think of it, they do look alike, well…

Naruto was getting nervous; the man was just staring at him

"Of course, let's see" said the man, waking from his stupor and walking to the back of the shop. He returned with a fairly large box. He opened it and pulled out a three pronged kunai. Naruto took it. It was perfect, maybe a little heavier that the kunai he was used too, but great, nevertheless.

"I take all of them, how much?"

"That wound be 200 ryo, young man"

Naruto pulled the money and gave it to him. Then he pulled out a scroll, and sealed the majority of the kunai in it, leaving only 10, which he put in his kunai holster.

The man watched him work, than he said "You are from Konoha, aren't you?"

Naruto looked up "Hai, when I need more, I will contact you, jii-san" he ssmiled and left, with a plump man yelling at him he wasn't old. When the boy left, the man thought 'So, Kiroi senkou had a son, hmm, soon shinobi will hear of the second kiroi senkou, I'm sure of it'

After dealing with the weapons, Naruto went to a clothes shop, where he met Shikamaru. The boy had bought standard black jonin pants, black sandals and a long black turtleneck. With his chuunin vest over it, he looked quite well. The blond gave him a thumbs up, then went to choose his own clothing. He ended up wearing standard dark blue jonin pants, and a blue turtleneck. He stared himself in the mirror. 'Well, not bad really, these are comfortable, and the color suits me too'. After that he pulled off his headband and tyed it under his hair, instead of over. With the fact that his hair had grown over the month and he didn't bother cutting, he now looked like a miniature version of his father, not that he knew that, of course. When he walked out, the girs in the shop drooled over him and blushed. He, as usual, didn't understand why was that happening. Shikamaru, on the other hand, was staring at him. Before the blonde could say a word and be attacked by girls, the shadow user dragged him out of the shop. He kept dragging the blonde till they reached a forest.

The blonde pouted.

"Girls are scary! what did i do to them!

Sweatdropping at the oblivious blonde and pushing away the thoughts of how would Sakura and the others react to his new look...he paused and let out a groan.

"Mendokuse..."

Hyuuga Hinata...what will her reaction be? Apart from fainting?

Back to real world! Frowning slightly, Shikamaru pulled out a small, a bit dirty book and gave it to the yellow haired genin.

"What's wrong, Shika? And what's with the book?"

ok, if you want to know what the book was , then please review!