Okay guys, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, just so you know...
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'Someone thinking'
"Speaking"
"Reading something/Technique name"
"Shouting/boss summon/kyuubi(maybe)"
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Shikamaru quickly hid behind a shopping cart as Naruto looked back. 'Damnit. I know he's a friend but I have to see what's happening. The only way to do that is to spy on him. Troublesome.' Running through the streets using what he had learned at the academy to make his running as quiet as he could possibly do, he eventually made it to the hokage tower. This is where Naruto went in with a smug look on his face.
Within mere minutes he could see Naruto running on one of the balconies about to run into the Hokage. 'Hehe, busted!' Running into the hokage tower he made his way up to the balcony Naruto was on with the Hokage. Strangely enough, on his way he found a mass amount of male chunins unconscious on the floor with blood all over them and female chunins blushing furiously. When he got there, he just saw the Hokage on the floor in a pool of blood looking very pale.
'What the hell have you done Naruto, and how did you beat the Hokage?' Just then the Hokage's eyes opened and he groaned.
"That NARUTO! That was a dirty trick. Oh dear, it seems I've lost a lot of blood..." With that he drifted back into unconsciousness. Knowing it was the right thing to do, Shikamaru prepared to pick up the Hokage and take him to the hospital.
He got strange looks from the civilians and ninja alike at the fact that he was carrying an unconscious Hokage through the streets. What caught his eye was a figure running across the rooftops holding a scroll. Obviously Naruto, and he had to go after him. 'I'll just give the Hokage to someone else to carry to the hospital.' Passing the wrinkled old man on to someone else, he leapt after Naruto to find out what he was doing with a humongous scroll that was supposedly forbidden.
Within a blink of an eye, Shikamaru had lost Naruto. 'So I was right, Naruto is really fast. And incredibly fast. Troublesome..' Deciding it would be too troublesome to continue on without knowing Naruto's location, he turned back. Five metres on his stroll and he saw the scroll on the ground with a note attached to it. Lazily going to pick it up, he read it silently knowing he shouldn't really have the scroll and that people would be chasing Naruto very soon.
"Shikamaru, I know you're following me, but I can't let you. I have with me a scroll that I have transformed to look like the forbidden scroll. I know Mizuki is after it, so I'm going to give him the fake and run off, but not before alerting every single ninja in the village.
PS Mizuki is chasing after me, so hide
PPS I had a quick read of the scroll, and could you copy down the 'Shadow clone technique' which is the first one, I think I can find a brilliant use for it.
PPPS I know I lied to you about my abilities somewhat, but I'll explain when I get back"
With that he crumpled up the note and stuffed it in his pocket since he was in a rush. Before running down a nearby alleyway in the direction of the Nara compound and its forest. Luckily no one was usually around this area of the village so he was not seen, so he jumped over the wooden rotting gate into the forest where only Naras were allowed. He quickly copied down the shadow clone technique onto a empty scroll he had in his rather small schoolbag. With that he quickly ran back into the streets to see a large mob of ninjas carrying a beaten up Mizuki and Naruto nearby sitting down on a bench.
"Hey Shika! Over here!" Naruto shouted with the same nickname and enthusiasm as his parents. 'Troublesome blondes'
"I'm coming I'm coming.."
When he reached the bench Naruto was sitting down on he couldn't help but see the resentful stares of the villagers, most directed towards Naruto.
"Here's the Shadow Clone technique you asked for. What do you plan to use it for?" Since the regular clone technique was something Naruto couldn't do if his life depended on it, Shikamaru wondered why he wanted this.
"I looked at the description, and it relies on a completely different principle to the regular clone technique. Since the regular clone technique only affects the light and what people can see, whereas the shadow clone technique actually creates mass from chakra. It also has a brain and does actions independently of the user without you having to control it. And finally, it uses a lot more chakra than the clone technique making it easier to use for someone with as high a level of chakra as me." Naruto exclaimed excitedly. Shikamaru could understand the many uses this technique could have; infiltration, information gathering, combat, searching and that was just on the top of his head. Since he now knew that Naruto was probably the same level of intellect as he was, he figured that Naruto had thought of these as well.
"I can definitely see the uses to them. Anyway, I've got to return this scroll to the Hokage's office. I take it the ninja you knocked out will still be out of it for a while."
"Yeh sure, maybe I can teach you the technique I used to knock them out" Naruto said knowing Shikamaru would definitely be surprised when he showed him the move.
"Maybe tomorrow." With that he sped off towards the Hokage tower keeping to the alleyways so as to not be seen by anyone.
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NEXT DAY
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After reaching the academy to find a smirking Naruto sitting next to a shy Hinata Hyuuga on the back row of the classroom.
"Hey Shika, meet Hinata, she's really a nice person once you get to know her. And she's not all arrogant like the rest of her clan!"
"I'm coming, geez Naruto you're just as troublesome as my mum.." Shikamaru said wandering towards them setting down on the bench.
"How 'troublesome' is your mum?" Naruto said smiling all the same.
"Oh my god.. Will he ever shut up!?!?!" The pineapple haired boy said slamming his head down on the desk making a noticable dent. Hinata saw this and giggled, laughing at her crush's annoying nature. 'Hmm.. it seems obvious by the way she's blushing that she has a crush on Naruto, surely Naruto knows this? Maybe not.'
"Oh, Hi Hinata. Umm... you look pretty." Shikamaru said sounding as pathetic as a dead sheep. 'WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT??!' he literally screamed inside his mind. Hinata blushed and looked down obviously not used to the compliments she was getting.
"So Naruto, it would be less troublesome if you told me what you can really do. Even though I don't care very much, it would be better if you didn't lie to me." Both Naruto and Hinata stared at Shikamaru as if he had grown an extra head. Naruto spoke first.
"That's gotta be the most you've ever said at a time, EVER!" Shikamaru groaned and punched him in the face in a very un-Shikamaru-ish way.
"He deserved that. Umm, Hinata why were you looking at me like that though?"
"Um.. What do you mean by 'what Naruto can really do'. Can Naruto do something special?" Naruto eventually stood up off the floor wobbling as he came up.
"I'll tell you two after school." 'After school, WAIT A MINUTE! I still need to see Iruka after school today, maybe after they've left.'
"EVERYBODY SHUT UP AND GET TO YOUR SEATS!" came the deafening shout from Iruka as he used a technique to amplify his voice.
"Everybody, we will begin todays lesson with chakra moulding, chakra controlling, and technique practicing." With that the day started.
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End of school
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Naruto rushed out the classroom in his normal way that still baffled Shikamaru, to find Hinata sitting on one of the wooden benches outside the academy building in her usual beige coat. Shikamaru soon followed with his head looking up at the clouds only to bang into a post and be laughed at. Remembering his reason fore being here, he started.
"Okay, so here's how it goes. Ever since I was really young, I've been hated by the villagers for an unknown reason. I've been beaten more times than I can count but am usually saves by Konohas ANBU black ops before the villagers kill me. I've never been able to find out why though. 2 years ago I realised that I can't let myself be beaten any more, because the ANBU won't always be there to protect me. I decided that I needed to become stronger so that I don't get beaten which is why I became a ninja. I also knew that the ninja academy started in 2 years, so I needed something before then. That's when I chose to train in speed and stealth, speed so I could run away from the villagers and stealth so I could hide from them.
Speed is self explanatory how I trained but I had no idea on how to train in stealth. This is where I went to one of my favourite places to think, which was the Nara forest, next to your house Shikamaru. In there I saw a man with white hair and had scrolls on his back sitting meditating. Little did I know then that the man was Jiraiya, the toad sannin."
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FLASHBACK - IN NARA WOODS 2 YEARS AGO
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"Who are you old man?" asked Naruto 100% oblivious to who this 'old man' was. The old man opened one eye to see who it was, then he stood up opening both eyes.
"I am the great toad sage, member of the three legendary Sannin, master of jutsus and stealth and a super-pervert! I am Jiraiya!" the old man said doing a strange dance. He spoke up again.
"And who might you be, don't mind me saying but you look a little strange for a Nara." Jiraiya said confused, 'Naras' hair is almost always black or grey, wonder who this Nara's parents were'
"I'm not a Nara, I'm Naruto Uzumaki! and I'm gonna be the Hokage someday!" This took Jiraiya by surprise. Two thoughts were running through his mind. 'This is Naruto? I see.. the resemblence to his old man is uncanny. Definitely him.' and 'How has he not been eaten by the animals in these woods'.
"How the hell have you not been eaten by the animals in these woods?, they eat any non-Naras." Naruto was taken back from this comment. 'I could have been eaten?'
"I dunno, anyways you haven't been eaten yet!" Naruto shot back getting slightly annoyed by this man.
"A good question young one, and a story for another time. So do you want me to train you?"
"um.. okay?"
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END FLASHBACK
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"He taught me stealth once I told him I wanted to learn that and taijutsu. He also revealed to me who my mother was and for that I am eternally grateful, but he can't tell me who my father is." Shikamaru wanted to shout at him that he thought his father was the yondaime but knew he couldn't.
"He then remembered about the summoning contract my mother held which was the deer summoning so now I have that which I got when I was seven. And that's about it. Oh and once I snuck into the Nara compound and read their strategy books because Jiraiya said they were unmatched among the nations. Hey Shikamaru, you're a Nara aren't you. Oops!" Naruto proceded to get a second wallop in the face that day resulting in him faceplanting into the ground.
"Uhh. sorry about that Naruto, remember that you're coming round in 6 days. You're welcome to come too Hinata if you want." Hinata blushed and muttered a quiet.
"I think I'm busy that day, maybe another time." After 10 minutes of chatting, Hinata left and so did Naruto, leaving Shikamaru to have a talk with Iruka.