(Starting with a rant, Nothing Bad, skip to chapter if you don't want to read though do read the first paragraph as it says something's about story.)

Just to let everyone know a few things, I will try to make this weekly. This however depends on my life and work. As for first person in the last chapter, I was using the old first chapter as reference and I was to lazy to change the wording so I just continued using First Person POV.

Rant incoming. Now, over the last week I had watch a review and they shit on Tsunade badly. I personally think she is one of the better Hokage's. This is as HOKAGE not STRENGTH. In terms of power and ability, she is one of the weakest due to Kishi not actually showcasing her abilities outside of super human strength and her regen.

My list of Hokage's, in term of what they did during their TERM and how things happened, is Tobirama, Hashirama, Tsunade, Minato (due to not having a long period as Hokage), Hiruzen. This is my OPINION so I don't want to HEAR BITCHING about it. This is about their accomplishments that we know about.

Why Tsunade is high up on my list is because of what she has done in the story as Hokage. She had brought the village back to a stable state and brought an alliance back between Konoha and Suna. This is in the back story because the two elders said that Konoha's strength was greatly depleted. It shows leadership skills to not only return the strength of the village but also keep the village safe from attacks while doing so.

She had the insight to send in higher backup on the Sasuke retrieval mission by sending Kakashi in first and later, back up of higher level Ninja. She was able to get a medical team immediately to follow them. Remember, at the time of forming the team under Shikamaru's lead, she didn't have information about the sound four till after Genma's team was attacked. She rapidly responded as soon as she got better info.

She created the Niju Shotai. As one of the only two leaders at the time to take the threat of Akatsuki seriously, she made a powerful platoon to combat them. By doing so, she was able to track down two Akatsuki members that were later defeated by Naruto. She responded to a great threat by doing this.

During the Pein arc, people seem to forget that while yes she could of fought Pein directly, that would have cause hundreds of deaths resulting in the weakening of Konoha. She saved who knows how many lives with her Medical Ninjutsu and protected them with Katsuya. Yes people still died but she kept looses to a minimum. Tactics wise, she made the right decision. She put trust in her people to neutralize the threat. She had a lot of accomplishments compared to some of the others.

The reason Sarutobi is the lowest is because he failed at a lot of things that out way whatever accomplishes he had. He failed with the Hyuga incident by placating the Lightning Village when they had all right to deny anything. He failed to stop the Uchiha incident without killing the clan. There were many things he could of done to end it with out them dying AKA HAVING THEM LEAVE THE VILLAGE AND SENT TO PROTECT THE FIRE DAIMYO OR SOMETHING.

He also let the knowledge of Naruto being the Jinchuuriki out. I mean come on, only three people saw the incident. Sure, you could say he had to tell the higher ups but he still let it leak. That extremely irresponsible. He failed to kill Orochimaru which resulted in not only his death but a lot of people in his village. I don't even want to get started one him letting Danzo stay in power. He was bad and worse Hokage in my opinion.

Minato only beats Sarutobi because of him putting things in motion to give Naruto the tools to protect the village and saved everyone from the Kyubi. He did die though at a young age so he's only a little better as a HOKAGE than Sarutobi.

Remember this is based on WHAT THEY DID, not power levels. If you want power levels, Hashirama, Tobirama, Minato, Tsunade, Hiruzen. The Sandaime is only last because we really haven't seen him as extremely powerful like the other Hokage's. Tsunade has done some OP healing so she is just a little higher. Well I'm done with my rant. On to the chapter.

Shunshin no Naruto

Chapter 2

A blonde haired women sat hunched over a bar table with one hand holding her head up while holding a drink in her left. She looked absolutely drunk though despite her continued drinking, didn't seem to get drunker. She was wearing mostly green and her haori has gamble on the back.

"Tsunade-sama…" A black haired women wearing a Kimono yelled out to the blonde as she walked up. The blonde haired women glanced at her before going back to her drink. "I finally find you. I thought I told you not to run off like that. What if something happens while I'm gone?"

"I can take care of myself Shizune." Tsunade said with a slight slur in her voice. The black haired women, Shizune, put her hands on her hips and gave her a slight glare. It seemed that Shizune was thinking something else entirely when Tsunade said that.

"Oh, well no offense Tsunade-sama but when was the last time you actually trained?" Shizune asked with a respectful but curt tone. Tsunade stopped for a second and seemed to blush at the thought. It seemed that Shizune was right in that because it seemed like it had been a really long time since she had trained.

"Shut up… I'm fine even if I haven't trained." Tsunade said with defiance of the thought. She was one of the Sannin. She didn't have to train… right?

"You haven't trained in around a decade since we left the village have you?" Shizune asked blandly at the thought and Tsunade just blushed in embarrassment even more to which she gulped down another drink. She couldn't believe her master sometimes.

"What would happen and I'm not around? Look at what happened a month ago. The Raikage… THE RAIKAGE of all people found us. We were just lucky that he was only there to ask you to heal one of his men and not there to collect the massive bounty you have on your head." Shizune exclaimed making Tsunade tilt her head down as Shizune had been right.

She trusted Shizune to be able to handle everything and maybe overestimate her strength a little while she wallowed in her own self-pity. Shizune was strong in her own right, she made her that way but she wasn't strong enough to fight S-Rank or high A-Rank opponents.

Add into the fact that Tsunade had hemophobia and she really wouldn't be able to fight. Shizune would be the only one to be able to fight and she was more a medical specialist than a fighter. She could handle around one or two low rank Jonin but not the people that would be coming after her.

Luckily her name was the only reason everyone stayed away from her and didn't come to claim her head. It was nice for her because she was left alone and didn't have to worry about anything. It was just her, Shizune and her sake. It was nice not to really have to worry about anything that she had to deal with before.

"Well, this isn't good. We cant have you being seen as weak. Its just going to be harder for me to protect you if people think they can beat you. All you've actually done is make the Yin Seal and while that thing is amazing, it does nothing to help me." Shizune whined out and while she normally wouldn't do this, she had been being especially careful over the years and now hearing this…. Well she kind of lost her head.

"Well I guess I should train, can't have the younger generation getting better than me anytime soon." Tsunade said as she did feel like she should train. Training always got your mind off of things and concentrated on other things. She also didn't want some looser to be the one to claim her head. That would just look back, especially if she got beat by another but weaker medical specialist.

Somewhere in Konoha, Kabuto sneezed. He had a feeling someone was calling him weak but just shrugged before going back to collecting data.

"Great, than we can also work on getting Hemophobia." Shizune said in a cheerful tone as she looked perky. At the mere mentioning of her Hemophobia, Tsunade became instantly sober and she froze in fear. There was no talking Shizune out of something she set out to work on. She did get her stubbornness after all.

"What… no please don't Shizune." Tsunade said scared as she didn't want to go near blood. It made her remember really bad things and something she didn't want to do. Shizune however was going to hear none of that.

"Oh no you don't. Its unbecoming for someone of your stature and renown to be scared of blood. If my uncle and your brother were here, they would do the same thing as I'm going to do for you." Shizune said with a nod of her head and Tsunade gulped at this.

"How are you going to do that?" She had to ask with a stutter which was probably the worst thing she could do. She would not like any of the idea's, that was for sure and it would be on her mind until she actually started with her sick plan. Curing Phobia's were never easy.

"Well, I made plans to have you sit in on Surgery's for the next two weeks. When you can stand the sight of blood, the week after will be going to blood banks and buying some to get you used to having it on you again. A medic can never be afraid of blood. We cant heal anyone if we did. What if he…" Shizune said with a matter-of-fact and with a chipper tone.

"Don't bring him up." Tsunade said with a growl as she thought of the little boy she left. She didn't want to think about it as it hurt her just as much.

"Ok but… Its time to go." Tsunade paled and was about to bolt when Shizune grabbed the back of Tsunade's collar and started to drag her. "There's no better time to start like now. Lets go to the nearest hospital." Shizune said as she continued to drag the shivering women. She should of never taught Shizune her the Chakra Strengthen Technique even if she rarely used it in combat.

With Naruto

"HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSE TO UNDERSTAND THIS?" Naruto screamed out as he groaned in annoyance as he looked at the Fourth's Journal. Yes the Fourth's Journal. "Did the Yondaime really have to really think someone could actually understand this mumbo-jumbo?"

It seemed that the Yondaime had written out everything in complex math as well as in words. Being who he was, all of it went completely over his head. Everything the man wrote was something that Sakura or Shikamaru would understand. What was with the Hokage?

Naruto had also learned that the Yondaime had a really bad names for his Jutsu. They were either way to long or made no sense with what the Jutsu actually did. The only saving grace was that the Yondaime drew pictures of what he was talking about so he had some idea as to what was going on while he tried to piece together what he was writing about.

The man wrote like he was trying to have an intellectual conversation with someone else. Why the hell couldn't he explain something towards a normal person? These were the thoughts that he was having after reading the whole thing from front to back.

The journal was only half the actual book. Most of the Yondaime's Jutsu were in the back. While he was interested in the Jutsu, he was more interested in the man's life. The Sandaime said this journal was about two people he had been wanting to know about.

At first he could only hope and then when he started to read it, he was amazed that it was the Fourth's Journal. He read further into it trying to get an idea about the man's personality. The Yondaime then got into talking about this beautiful women named Uzumaki Kushina and Naruto's heart skipped a bit. Maybe…. Maybe that women was his mother or relative.

As he got more and more engrossed into the Yondaime's journal, he heart wrenched. He had learned a couple of things about who he was and if he had any family. He was slightly horrified by what he found out and shivered at the implications of some things.

He found out that his Father was the Yondaime and this Kushina was indeed his mother. He was happy to hear that both of his parents loved him and were happy to know that they were excited to raise him. To know that felt like something missing had finally been filled in his heart.

That still didn't make him feel better. His father had been the one to seal the Kyubi inside of him. He didn't know how he felt to know that his father was the one that condemned him to this life. Naruto knew that it couldn't be help but it didn't change the fact that his father was the one to do it.

He also found out that his mother was the former Jinchuuriki. He now had even more question than he did before and it made him wonder what had happened that night. He pushed that from his mind right now because he would ask the old man after the Chunin Exams.

He also wanted to know who this Jiraiya was. The man was apparently his Godfather. Why hadn't the man taken care of him and why hadn't he been here for him? Did the Yondaime mean nothing to him or was it something else? Naruto hated himself sometimes because it was easier to just be angry at people but he always gave someone the chance to explain themselves.

It was like with that old lady that used to take care of him. He really doesn't remember her that much but he had called her mother at one point. She disappeared around his fourth or fifth birthday. He tended to not think about it or even try to remember. He barely could remember anything from that age anyways but it was nice to know someone at least looked after him.

"Alright, no more thinking about sad things or the past." Naruto said to himself as he slapped his face as he went back to the journal. The Chunin exams were the first thing that he should be thinking about. It was the immediate problem after all.

He flipped through the pages to see if there were any Jutsu that he could find that were useful and that he could figure out himself. The Taijutsu was easy to figure out as he just had to look at the book and practice the stances that were shown with diagrams.

The Ninjutsu was the difficult part as they were written down to the letter and with words that he couldn't understand. He found one that seemed simple enough when he looked at it. All it was, by what he could tell, was a pure chakra technique similar to Kawarimi.

"Shunshin?" Naruto said as he mouthed the syllables of the word. Where had he heard the name of that Jutsu before? Wasn't it the thing that the Jonin used but it was more of a speed technique wasn't it? It seemed like an interesting technique but it seemed like the person could only move in one direction.

Wouldn't that make the technique useless? If someone could track your movement than wouldn't they be able to predict where you were going to land. Maybe Naruto could make a technique based on this one. Like something that involved Chakra more and was just a little slower.

Shunshin had something that happened to the eyes of the user because of the speed. He needed special eyes like Sayuri to be able to predict everything. Stupid Uchiha and there fancy dojutsu. Wait, maybe he could make a fake couple of the Sharingan's prediction ability?

"Problem is, how am I going to do that?" Naruto thought for a second before looking down to the things sitting in front of him on the ground. One thing caught his eye in particular. "Wait, if Fuinjutsu could something as cool as sealing the Kyubi it could do what I wanted. That'll so that bitch Sayuri."

Speaking of Sayuri, maybe he was a little hard on her when he saw her the other day. He kind of freaked out on her. He should apologize to her or something. He kind of felt bad for yelling at her like that. "Nah, the asshole deserved it. I did nothing wrong." Naruto said after thinking about it. He didn't do anything but speak the truth.

It wasn't his fault that she went off on him for just bumping into her. She was the one that started to make fun of him and he wasn't in the best of moods in the first place. He was done taking shit from everyone and being the nice guy after words. Those times were over but that didn't mean he was going to be mean about it.

"Alright, time to get started." Naruto said to himself as he jumped up. He had the first few things he needed to work on. The question was, which one did he want to start with. That was definitely a hard one but Naruto just smirked after a few seconds. "I'll start with Shunshin. The other two things should be two hard to master." Oh how he was wrong. Oh so wrong.

Three Days Later

Naruto stood outside of a large house near the forest. He didn't know why he was really here but the person he was looking for was probably one of the smartest people he knew. The reason why he wasn't sure was because he didn't know if said person was going to help him.

Naruto knocked on the door and to his surprise, the person he was looking for came to the door. "Wow, I'm surprised your up Shikamaru." Naruto stated to the bored and tired looking teen that used to be one of his classmates. Shikamaru just stared at him.

"What do you want Naruto? I'm busy training even if I don't want to." Shikamaru stated with a bored tone while mutter a troublesome after his sentence. Naruto deflated slightly at this but it was unnoticeable by Shikamaru even if the boy was sharp.

"Well, I came to ask if you would help me with this Jutsu. I cant understand the wording right. I don't want to mess up." Naruto stated with a hopeful tone that Shikamaru recognized this time. Why would Naruto be coming to him to help with a Jutsu and not his sensei?

"Naruto, why didn't you just go ask Kakashi-sensei?" Shikamaru asked and all trace of happiness left Naruto's face rather fast and he looked away.

"What Sensei?" Naruto stated with a growl and Shikamaru's eyes narrowed at this. He wasn't about to pry though as there was something going on and he didn't want to upset Naruto more than he already was. After all, he was only here to make sense of the wording for his technique.

"Alright I'll help. Come to the living room and I can take some time helping you. Just the wording though. This is all so troublesome." Shikamaru stated with a sigh as he rubbed his head as he brought Naruto inside before heading to the living room. Almost immediately as they sat down, Naruto shoved an open journal into his hands.

Shikamaru grumped before looking at the wording and sighed. It was pretty normal but for Naruto, it was probably harder since it dealt more with the intricacies of the technique more than anything else. Shikamaru looked at the technique name and blinked. The Rasengan? Why was Naruto learning that.

"Naruto, who did you get this from?" Shikamaru had to ask as he knew this was the technique of the Fourth Hokage.

"Jiji did." Naruto said with a clueless expression and Shikamaru sighed but was still wondering why the old Hokage would give Naruto this technique. He wasn't however going to question his leader on it though.

"Well, the technique is quite simple in terms of process though I doubt its easy to actually do. The First step is rotation. You have to use your chakra and move it in multiple ways to form a ball. A grinding motion of sorts since chakra is moving all over the place in different directions.

The Second Step deals with power more than anything. Moving chakra all over the place isn't going to do that much damage but if you increase the amount of chakra in the technique, in theory it will do more damage to the weight of the technique. It needs to be destructive as well as moving. The movement and the power will deal a lot of damage.

The Third Step is to compress the technique. In laments terms that you will be able to understand is that you basically have to hold it in a stable form. Picture a ball of chakra in your hand and that's what it will be like. All the power and movement in one small form so to speak. Understand?" Shikamaru said with a bored tone. It wasn't that hard to figure out but he knew that he would never be able to master the technique. He doubted Naruto would.

"Thanks. It makes much more sense. So I need to rotate my chakra in different direction before adding more to power it up and then hold it in a stable form." Naruto said to himself more than Shikamaru before nodding. "Yosh, thanks man. That was really helpful."

Shikamaru just nodded back while yawning. Naruto took the journal back and put it in his ninja pouch. He then had a feeling to ask something. "Hey Shikamaru, are we friends?" Naruto asked with a slight sign of worry in his voice and Shikamaru just looked at him. It was easy that Naruto was waiting for an answer. Shikamaru wasn't about to lie to him though.

"Well…. Were more of comrades Naruto. Associates. We really haven't hung out and we only skipped class together. So I wouldn't really call us friends." Shikamaru stated with a bored tone and had closed his eyes. Naruto's bangs were covered and he stood up.

Shikamaru blinked his eyes open at this as Naruto seemed to move out of the room. When Shikamaru looked at Naruto's back, it felt incredibly small. Naruto had never felt small before. He was always there even if you didn't want to see him.

"Thanks Shikamaru for all the help." Naruto stated as he looked over his shoulder with a smile before walking out of the house. His heart hurt because it just was another reminder of him having no one really. A small inconsistent life that really had nothing going for him and no one to really care for.

Shikamaru just stared at the spot Naruto had been in just a second ago. That was not the Naruto he knew. That smile was not real, like he was hiding something behind that smile. He was confused and it showed him that he knew nothing about Naruto. Something was going on inside him and to Shikamaru, he didn't know what would happen to the blonde. Why was he asking if they were friends as well? The whole thing seemed strange.

"Shikamaru, was that Naruto? Did something happen because he didn't seem right?" Another male came into the room and asked with interest.

"Dad, does Naruto have any friends?" Shikamaru asked with a neutral tone and Shikaku looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Aren't you his friend? You guys got alone really well and did stuff together all the time when you were younger?" Shikaku was confused as he said this.

"I don't really know. It was strange for him to ask me and I really didn't know how to respond." Shikamaru stated with a confused tone.

"Well, he really doesn't. Due to some circumstances, I can probably count on my hands how many people he's actually around all the time." Shikaku stated making Shikamaru go wide eyed.

"Dad… is Naruto happy?" Shikamaru asked with a serious tone which caught the older of the two by surprise.

"He always seems happy. Why?"

"Because I don't think he really is." Shikamaru stated with a mutter as he had a feeling that he just made things worse for the blonde. Hopefully he could take to the blonde sometime over the month.