Chapter 11: D-rank Missions

Disclaimer: Naruto is the work of Kishimoto

Naruto woke up and checked the date. It was currently Jan 2 on the date and it was the day after the Graduation test.

It was a week from then and the day after the team selection.

"WOHOO!" he shouted in joy, "Next checkpoint get!"

Naruto really didn't care about how loud he was since there was no one else living in his apartment.

Hell the area he was living was mostly deserted and wasn't one of the nicest place to live at all. But right now, all Naruto was thinking of was what he could learn now he was an 'official' Genin.

The Genin Section of the Library was now open to him.

But first he should learn what he could get out of his new Sensei of training. He knew the man was late and the reason why. One of the previous Loops he found the man standing in front of the stone monument for the three hours he was late.

He never questioned the man's action since it was private but one of these days he was going to find out why he was so late all the time. Well Naruto had other things to look at before he would drive into the privacy of his Sensei.

Right now it was 7 am and he had a team meeting at 9 am…which probably meant that Kakashi would appear at 12 or something like that; though it wouldn't look good if he was really late.

'That means I have two hours to do whatever I want…in that case'

"Shadow Clone Jutsu."

Poof.

Naruto made a couple of clones, no more than 5 and said, "Go to our personal training field and start practising Chakra Control, Aiming, Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and Genjutsu of what we know. When you get there, make more clones."

The five clones nodded and ran out of his shitty apartment.

Now that he was at a checkpoint in this Time Loop; he should try to tidy this place up and fix it…he hadn't had hot water in years and the pumping sucked.

With a sigh, Naruto clothed himself in his new and now default look and went to the library to see what they had in terms of topics.

He even made sure he had a Transformation up when he entered so no one who knew about his new look knew it was him. Walking up to the next story up he once again found three doors.

The Genin and Chunin sections of the library seemed to be even in size.

The Jonin section was considerably smaller and the ANBU section wasn't even here but located in the ANBU headquarters.

Naruto dispel his Transformation and gave his ID to the Chunin guard to the Genin section. The Chunin section had two Chunin guards and an ANBU guarded the Jonin section of the library.

"Things seem to be in order" the Chunin said ignoring the fact it was him and gave back his ID before saying, "You can't remove anything from this library but you can copy them to a scroll which you can remove. Make sure not to wreck anything; if you do then you'll be banned from the place for a while with a fine."

"Got it" he replied before entering.

Inside there were a couple of other Genin in there reading or copying a scroll for later. What he was here for was not for information exactly but information on other information. There were lots of topics which he could get into but he wanted to focus his abilities.

This meant A) To find stuff that would make him stronger in the areas he already knew and B) To find new potential things to practise.

'Hmm…seems there's a list of things sorted in this section' he thought walking up to the thing called an Index list that listed the name and locations of all the books in this section of the library. Reading down there were some things that caught his eye.

'Advance Chakra theory, Advance Chakra Control…there's a couple Taijutsu styles here as well though they are the basics of them…couple of low ranked Ninjutsu as well…Elemental affinities? What's that? There's also some Genjutsu here as well though I doubt that can use them. Doesn't seem to be anything about stealth and trapping/wiring here aside from what I know…there's also something about Kenjutsu; that might be worth spending time with and…Fuinjutsu? Sealing?'

At that last section Naruto frowned.

Sealing was something that wasn't covered in the Academy at all; all that he got was that there were only a few Seal Masters and the Yondaime Hokage was one of them. It was probably the reason why he was able to seal the Kyuubi which was a 10 story large Demon inside him who was an infant then.

'I should read that up..some of the basic stuff along with Kenjutsu. There seems to be a lot of them in the stories back at the Academy and it would be best if I knew what the guy was doing swinging a sword at him' he continued to think.

There were really a lot of areas he wanted to work with but at the same time he wanted to increase what he knew already to a higher level.

Kenjutsu seemed to be something that would take a lot of them learning their Kata but Fuinjutsu was something that he could retain Time Loop or not. Scribbles on paper and you would get the same effect even if his writing speed was a bit slow.

Therefore Naruto decided to learn Fuinjutsu on the passing.

Genjutsu was something Naruto wanted to learn but his Chakra Control was something that limited him heavily.

Due to this, Naruto was more than motivated to learn everything he could with Chakra Control which would evidently help him in Ninjutsu as well. Speaking of Ninjutsu; at this point Naruto really had 3 (5 including his originals) Ninjutsus and the stuff he saw were all minor at this point unlike the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Furthermore they were mostly about Elemental Jutsu which he needed to read on as well; most Ninjas used this kind of Jutsu.

Then there was his Taijutsu which needed to be upgraded into something better than a modified Academy Style mixed with Shadow Clones. His basics were solid enough to learn a new one but he had no idea what kind of Taijusu style would fit him.

Then, Naruto smirked thinking of a solution.

'Then why don't I learn them all? I mean with the Time Loop I have all the time to learn all of them to a certain extent. A master of all types of Taijutsu seems interesting' he thought.

But first, he would need to get his Chakra control up.

That was the most important thing after all.

Naruto using Clones pretty much read the books on Advance Chakra Theory and Advance Chakra Control which was in more detailed than the basic version of the books.

In the theory side, it detailed more of how Chakra was composed of spiritual and physical energies. It was something he already knew with Mediating but an outside source was good information either way.

He was far more interested on the book about Chakra Control which had two new exercises and a bunch of variants to increase it even more.

The first was called Tree Climbing which would allow you to stick on solid objects and the second was called Water Walking which would allow you to stand on liquid surfaces.

Plus he would be able to combine this with the Leaf Exercises he was doing to increase his control even more!

Hell there were some variants of the Leaf Exercises he had thought up before. Things like floating the leaf, spinning it or even moving it were included and Naruto could now add flipping the leaf, folding the leaf and shooting the leaf into the things he wanted to practise.

Unfortunately he needed to complete both Tree Climbing and Water Walking to gain enough control to try them.

His Chakra Control by the end of all of this would probably break into the Chunin level which was something he hoped for dearly.

"Yosh! Let's see what kind of training Kakashi-sensei gives us to get stronger Dattabayo" he said aloud while walking the Training ground 7.

Right now it was 10 am and he found that Sakura-san and Sasuke were already there.

Although Sasuke was the first to notice him, it was Sakura who responded shouting, "NARUTO-BAKA! YOU'RE LATE!"

Naruto waited for 3 seconds and could hear an echo of her voice; if not for the fact that it was directed to him, Naruto was impressed…though a part of his mind seem to shout that there were many things impressive about her.

"Is Kakashi-sensei here?" he asked her with a stern look to which Naruto saw how she got frustrated and moved him to attack him…again.

You would think she would have learnt after the first two times. Sasuke had no indication of even noticing what was happening as Naruto dodged the blow and tripped her again.

THUD.

After falling to the ground pitifully Sakura for reasons beyond him turned and wailed at Sasuke saying, "Sasuuuuke-kun!" before trying to grab him and most like cry on him or something. It was then that he seemed to care and moved away from Sakura immediately.

"Hn" Sasuke made a disgusted look her Sakura but she didn't seem to notice at all.

"Doooon't ruuuun awaaaay!" she cooed as she tried to catch him as Naruto tried not to laugh at the scene.

Now that his crush on her practically disappeared; if not only due to that she needlessly attacks him whenever she was in a bind; this was actually funny to him.

The Rookie of the Year, Uchiha Sasuke was running away from the Kunoichi of the Year, Haruna Sakura.

After 5 minutes of this, the Teme seemed to have temporary put aside his pride for a bit before looking at him with slightly pleading eyes and said, "Dobe" as Sakura continued to swoon to him in a more aggressive manner.

On one hand, he could do nothing and watch this play out. But on the other hand, he could stop Sakura; earn her ire and complaints and a bit of the Teme's respect.

Yeah, it was a clear winner here on which one he was going to do.

"Bad luck Teme" he said with a shrug, "If I do then both our eardrums will pop."

He let that message slide to him as Sasuke thought of something and said, "Hn. Help me and I'll give you a scroll the basics of Fire Jutsus."

Naruto frowned and raised an eyebrow to what the Teme just said. Those kinds of scrolls were common on Konoha so Naruto thought Sasuke was skimming him off. But at the same time there may be some differences between the one from the library and the one from Sasuke.

"Is there a difference between your one and the one I could get from the library? He asked which mad Sasuke raise his eyebrows in surprise. The dobe actually went to the library?

However Sakura in his moment of distraction was about to jump on him and then most likely rape him so he quickly dodged and shouted to the blonde haired boy who was watching this in more than enough amusement, "Yes! My Clan's scrolls are a lot more detailed."

Naruto got from rope out as he asked, "How detailed? I know most Fire Jutsu comes from the mouth…"

"Hn."

Seeing the last Uchiha in such a state from his most prominent fan-girl; Naruto took pity on him and moved in to tie Sakura up. It was sad that it was too easy to do so; she was like a civilian the way she froze up when he did.

"NARUTO-BAKA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" she shrieked seeing that it was him who did this.

"Sasuke, knock her out else she'll won't shut up and break our eardrums" he commanded his new team-mate. He swore that his level of hearing was already decreasing rapidly at this rate.

"Hn" Without more than a grunt Sasuke did though Sakura had a look of disbelief on her face while he was doing so.

Thankfully she collapsed easily after the chop to the back of neck and fell to the ground without any power.

With a sigh to relief, Naruto then turned to the man that ended their suffering even if it was only temporary and asked, "So why did you listen to me? I mean it took a hell lot of convincing and bribing the last time I did" referring to the Genin test with Kakashi.

"Hn" Sasuke grunted again making Naruto sweat-drop before actually answering, "You're not useless" referring to when Naruto was keeping Kakashi at bay during said test for almost the entirely of it.

"Only Genin level at best" Naruto waved offhandedly, "If I was at least Chunin level with my Clones, then maybe I could've taken Kakashi-sensei. But I still can't believe the three of us were stuck on a team; I mean you're the brooder, I'm the pranker and Sakura-san is the Fangirl. There's no balance between us at all."

"Hn. I just had to get the biggest Fangirl in my team as well. And I thought Sakura wouldn't try to rape me immediately when she thought she could…like those older Fangirls" he shuddered at the thought.

"Yeah…that is actually quite disturbing" Naruto shuddered as well, "What are you? 12? Haven't even hit puberty properly yet and they want to make you a father. I swear some of those Fangirls are more dangerous than most ANBU."

"Hn."

And the duo simply decided to wait on their ever late Sensei in peace and quiet with some level of understanding.

"Sorry there was a black ca-why is Sakura on the ground tied up and knocked out?" Kakashi asked suddenly as he saw his team. Both Naruto and Sasuke seemed to be acting as if this was perfectly fine.

"Hn."

That was as much as a response he got from the Uchiha. He looked to the blonde hear a better answer.

"She tried to attack me, then got hurt by falling and then for some unknown reason tried to rape Sasuke over there" Naruto explained causing Kakashi to sweatdrop before causing the later to ask, "That is a good story….right?"

Both Naruto and Sasuke deadpanned as the former said, "Do you think we would have not tied her up if that wasn't the case? She tried to assault both of us though in different ways."

"…."

Kakashi had to ponder for a second.

If this was the case than having Sakura on the team was a mistake. He had hoped that they would form a close team in the future else fall apart in the future as well.

Now it looked like neither of that would happen though Naruto and Sasuke seemed better in their own relationship between each other.

From his reports Naruto would try to challenge Sasuke or ask Sakura to dates. Neither seemed to happen but he didn't seem to want to take punishment from Sakura anymore which was understandable.

Sighing Kakashi thought, 'Sensei…Obito….Rin…what should I do? This team was even worse when we started off.'

However Kakashi had no answer to that as he said, "Right. Wake up Sakura and untie her; we're doing missions today" with an eye-smile.

Naruto nodded and cut the ropes that bound Sakura and took some smelling salt to place near her nose.

Upon awakening and seeing Naruto, the first thing she seemed to want to do whether it was an conscious act or unconscious act was to attack him; no matter how slow it was to him.

BANG!

Fortunately for both of them, Kakashi moved in to block the attack though not showing some surprise with the power of the blow and said, "Mare mare, no need to attack your team-mates" but then switched to a more serious tone, "If you intentionally do so then you'll be punished."

Sakura looked startled at him and nodded without saying another word. However seeing Sasuke again, Sakura seemed to float to him as he tried to avoid her with even more energy than before. Kakashi sighed thinking this was going to be more than a pain than he thought.

It looked like the Fan-girl was the most pressing issue right now…

Some minutes later, Kakashi explained to them that they would now on meeting at a bridge since it would be much closer for them to go to than the training field.

Plus there was the issue that the training field might be booked at one point or another.

It seemed that no matter how high ranked you are; with the exception of Hokage can infinitely book a training field.

'Not that I need one' Naruto thought with a small grin getting the hourly memories of his clones dispelling.

He decided that once every hour or so, unless he was doing something important, he would get the clone memories of the Shadow Clones he had set up. This was to ensure that he wouldn't be completely bombarded with information at once; even if some of them were dispelling due to failing to do Tree Climbing.

Yep, Naruto was using his Shadow Clones to train for him in Chakra Control as well as to read up some books in the Genin section of the Konoha library while he himself would be during missions.

'While the Teme doesn't train, I'll be getting stronger bit by bit…though it is sad that I'm still individually weaker than him even after a long time of training using the Time Loops' he thought sadly.

Half of year of Time Loops did increase his skills…but there was a clear physical wall with Taijutsu.

If he would rate his body's raw abilities it would be at Low Genin while the Teme as much as he hated it would be rated as High Genin.

Sakura on the other hand barely passed as an Academy Student.

As he was musing about this fact and to increase his physical training later and finding how to, the team got to the mission centre.

Looking around, it was a large room with nothing but a table lined with scrolls with labels from D to A rank. And on the table was Hokage-jiji at the middle with Chunin at the side doing stuff.

Hell Iruka was here as well.

Kakashi stepped first in front of everyone with respect to Hokage-jiji saying, "Team 7 here for their first mission."

Hokage-jiji looked up fondly to look at them. Sakura immediately stiffened up while Sasuke looked uncomfortable. However Naruto only felt the same fondness to the old man that became like a grandfather to him.

"Team 7 and your first mission" the Hokage chuckled to what seemed to be some glee in his eyes that only Naruto and Kakash caught, "I believe this mission will do for your first mission."

Excited on the prospect of a mission he imagined battling bandits or enemy Ninjas and saving princesses; Naruto shouted, "What is it? Taking out bandits? Saving clients?"

"No, weeding a garden" the Hokage answered bluntly.

The Hokage almost failed to stop himself from rolling on the floor laughing at the expression that Naruto had.

There was so much expectation with new Genin on what they would do in missions and besides the fact that they were way beyond ready for those kinds of missions right now; the aged Hokage found joy in watching them react.

"WHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTT?!" Naruto screamed not believing what he was hearing. This was the kind of thing that Academy Students should be doing!

"NARUTO-BAKA! SHUT UP!" Sakura shriek at the same time before hitting Naruto on the head hard when he was distracted. Before she went in for a second hit, Kakashi-sensei moved in to stop her fist for a second time.

"Mare mare, I told you no violence against team-mates in this team unless it's in spars. We'll need to correct that" said Kakashi before turning to Iruka and asking, "Was she always like this? I believe it's against protocol to attack fellow comrades."

Naruto watched Iruka-sensei sigh before saying, "At the beginning no. But she changed and with no restraints since the Civilian Council…"

There was something unsaid and Naruto didn't know what it was. However Hokage-jiji looked grimly at Sakura before saying, "Sakura-chan. I believe this will be a warning not to harm others needlessly. If this persist then you will be written up and punished."

"H-Hai Hokage-sama" Sakura shuttered out in fear that even the Hokage was against her right now though she didn't know how close he and Naruto were or that this kind of actions are frowned upon.

However the Hokage probably figured that those at the Academy looked away at these kinds of actions.

He would need to 'talk' to them later; this kind of attitude to Naruto wasn't in the reports of her that he got for team assignment. The Hokage grumbled as Kakashi sighed off the mission for his team and told them to follow him out.

"This is going to be a long day…" The Hokage muttered though chuckling at the same time seeing his son and Team 10 enter the room for their first mission as well.

"Team 10 reporting in for their first mission…." The chain smoker said.

Some hours later, the team finished with the mission with them weeding out the garden.

Naruto had some trouble since he was a bit distracted with Shadow Clone memories popping in once in a while. However Naruto was pretty good in identifying plants due to his hobby of gardening and managed to get through the mission fine without a word.

Sasuke was completely silent like Naruto and did his work as best as he could without thinking too much about training and getting stronger. Sakura…complained a lot about getting dirty and her skin getting rough and such…

Naruto had to endure a lot with both Sakura trying to put him down while encouraging Sasuke while the villager that hired them looked at him in suspicion due to him holding the bloody Kyuubi inside of him.

'It's not like the damn fox can get out without me knowing' Naruto grumbled as he walked away from the bridge where Kakashi instructed them to meet up again for training tomorrow since he seemed to have finally figured out how to train them.

Naruto was looking forward to the training since there was a good difference between simply reading of something and training on it and getting someone to train you on an area.

The former may have more technical details but the latter corrected any mistakes you may make quickly and even may throw in new tips.

And he wanted to be in top shape for that kind of training.

As such, Naruto made a Shadow Clone and dispelled it to show what order he wanted the rest of the Shadow Clones to have.

And then the mass headaches happened.

"Daaammnnn….forgot to tell them to dispel one at a time…" Naruto muttered falling unconscious onto the ground in his apartment thankfully.

The next day, Naruto woke up and did some physical conditioning so he would be a bit stronger and faster than before in the long run…whenever the loop could end when he screwed up or something. He really didn't know whether the Time Loop continued or not and he wasn't going to take any chances.

If he did have more chances…then he would train a fair bit to get the best results he could get.

"Before I couldn't even get a good hit into Kakashi-sensei but now I could pressure him a fair it…though I'm too slow to still hit him" he said to himself crossed armed. He could honestly say that he wasn't strong individually, Sasuke was better than him in that regard, he gave the Teme that.

However he was someone would and could split into dozens willingly. Hell if he really pushed himself right now he could split into a thousand. Not even Sasuke could beat a thousand of him; he wasn't that weak to lose in a match of sheer stamina. Sasuke would probably tire himself out in the first hour.

Naruto noticed that Sasuke was fast and strong. Fast and strong was what he was; but at the same time not so enduring. He had read a bit about the Sharingan and what it allowed you to do and it frankly pissed Naruto off in same aspects but humbled the blonde boy in some other areas.

The fact that it allowed you to copy any jutsu you see with very few exceptions pissed him off. The good thing is that you copy it exactly how it was used so no variants or different uses aside from the one you copied.

The ability to cast Genjutsu using your eyes only was interesting to Naruto. It allowed those from the Uchiha Clan to use Ninjutsu or Taijutsu while casting Genjutsu on enemies which would slow them down and potentially allow them to kill them. Powerful and useful when used right; Naruto could respect that.

The final seeming ability of the Sharingan was to allow the user to track and to some small extent predict the movements of anyone you see.

A person who sees a second into the future is a powerful enemy and that was probably what the Uchiha Taijutsu style was based around. They had the eyes to dodge any attacks so why bother to make a style to take a hit?

That was probably the reason why Sasuke's Taijutsu seemed powerful but at the same time…shallow to Naruto. It was really just an improved version of the Academy Style which was an all Taijutsu style which wasn't much.

"Still I wonder how good the Teme is compared to me right now?" Naruto wondered, "In straight up Taijutsu I will lose but add in Ninjutsu…"

Naruto giggled at the thought of Sasuke bursting out blood from his nose against the Harem Jutsu. He knew Kakashi would with those perverted orange books of his. Looking at the time, Naruto made a few Shadow Clones and sent them to the library to read on some interesting things.

With the Time Loop in place and Shadow Clones, Naruto could literally read every book in the library.

But he didn't since there was the chance he would have nothing to do there anymore. Naruto made the wise choice of sending only some to do so at a time since he needed something to do else he would be wasted on nothing to do.

And that was something he figured he couldn't endure in the end.

A/N:

So some may have noticed that A/N Chapter disappeared. Some may have noticed it suddenly being in my Profile Page. Yeah, guidelines and someone pointing it out made it clear that it was against the rules. Then again, outlining later plot and possible endings wasn't a good idea as well.

And so back to the relevant part where I talk about bits of the chapter.

There's nothing much to talk about really. The chapter title is more self-explanatory...but then other than D-rank missions I need to talk about the team.

You see, in Canon Kakashi would probably allow Sakura to physically abused Naruto. Mainly because he's frankly annoying and got what he got for constantly trying to get a date in a loud voice. Here, Naruto is a lot less annoying and Sakura really has no reason to attack him.

Then there's Sasuke. Oh Sasuke, how screwed up you are that Authors everywhere can make you from a deluded Saint to a raging psychopath. Like I said before, Sasuke respect power...and also anyone who gets him away from fangirls like Sakura.

Think about it this way, you have raging girls chasing after you and trying to have your clothes or worse your babies even if it means rape at an age you're just noticing girls...and those girls are what you notice. No wonder why he's so asexual for the entire Series!

Seriously, even if the fangirls in Canon really didn't try to do unmentionables to Sasuke, he still sees them as clueless...things that try to get closer to him when he has other things to worry about. Such as an actual psychopath S-rank order brother that slaughtered your family and made you relive it over and over again with Genjutsu that may come back to get rid of anyone you could and would be close to, all to make you suffer more.

While...misguided as Itachi was, that really screwed Sasuke over in the emotional development that he rivaled Naruto there.

Also, from now on it'll be 10 pages a chapter.