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"Talk"

Think

Technique/Inner Character

Demon Talk

Demon Think

I do not own Naruto or any Naruto characters, nor do I own any one-piece references or characters that are mentioned in this story. I do own any OC's displayed unless I say otherwise.

BEGIN

Last Time: He grew impatent he kicked the scroll as hard as he could. It opened. Staring in shock, he watch as there was a large poof, and a large scroll appeared. He fainted.

When Naruto finally woke up, he looked at the huge scroll that lay out in front of him. Studying it he decided to open it, within the scroll was a whole bunch of writing, and some stances. Naruto's excitement grew this would be perfect. Near the end of the scroll was a section to sign your name in blood; he decided to ignore that for now though. The only part that really caught his attention was the purpose of the style. Apparently a famous pirate from long ago created the style because he was a cook. Naruto finally had the answer to his many problems; by using this style he will avoid damaging his hands.

After cooking one of his delicious meals, he decided to put together a training schedule. Luckily the scroll came with a starter one, he read it, and began the stretches. Once he had finished the stretches he began working on the lower region attacks. Due to his size and how flexible he was, needless to say that was not many attacks. Once he had finished the forms and stances, he looked more extensively at the purposes of the scroll,

'Using the feet as strength' he liked the sound of that,

'Strength to break almost anything' He also liked that as well, it was a good style. The signing in blood confused him though, why sign something in blood if the style was already listed there? He might as well do it later.

'Once I have learnt everything to do with the styles and forms I will sign my name. Maybe it's a bunch of more moves or something' Naruto thought to himself. If only he knew…

The next day was the academy Naruto grabbed his orange clothing and ran towards the door, he had little time. His alarm went of 30 minutes late. As he was running eating a quick meal he put together the night before he nearly ran into Shikamaru,

"What's he in a hurry for, he is only… OH KNOW I'M THIRTY MINUTES LATE" Shikamaru thought about running towards the academy but decided against it, claiming it would be 'to troublesome'. Naruto was in such a hurry he missed the glares he was getting, he even missed the smiles coming from his works favourite customers. Which was actually probably 1/6th of the entire villages population.

Yes, Naruto managed to leave the Ichiraku ramen stand and begin to work at a Akimichi restaurant, in which because of their superb cooking skills they are known nation wide. In Konoha Naruto is the most requested cook, his cooking skills favourite. You could say Naruto has managed to gain recognition as Konoha's best chef. Unfortunately he wants recognition as a major ninja, so he still attends the academy. Now back to the story.

Naruto continued the run towards the academy and ran into Iruka, as he was about to close the door,

"YOUR LATE NARUTO" Naruto had the decency to scratch the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Sorry Iruka-sensei my alarm went of late, and stuff" Iruka sighed,

"get into class we're working on substitution." Naruto walked into class, and sat in a seat near dog-boy. Dog-boy a.k.a. Kiba is a ninja who belongs to the infamous Inuzuka clan; his canine companion is a nin-dog named Akamaru. Although one would expect dogs and foxes to not get along, for some reason this is not the case. Within the wild there have been known cases in which the nin-dogs have in fact worked with foxes to achieve a greater goal. For this very reason the Inuzuka clan are under the impression that what the Kyuubi did was for a greater goal, which was all they had managed to get out of the dogs that talk. Luckily for Naruto this means that the heir of the Inuzuka clan Kiba has been advised to become friends with Naruto, although wether he does or not is up to him.

Substitution, more commonly known by the name of Kawarimi no Jutsu (Replacement Technique) was what the class was learning today, Iruka walked towards the board,

"I am sure you all know what Chakra is, so before anyone of you idiots can interrupt" Iruka glared at Naruto

"I am going to take this time to write on the board the hand seals needed to perform Kawarimi no Jutsu (Replacement Technique)" Once Iruka finished writing the seals on the board he performed them. All the students watched in awe as replaced him self with a log. Once he finished Naruto could barely contain his excitement. Iruka then addressed the class,

"Everyone lets go outside to practice the technique." Everyone ran outside, they were excited. Once everyone had lined them up in front of a log. Iruka got them to practice the hand seals. Naruto decided to take that a step further. He attempted to perform the jutsu. Unfortunately he should have listened to Iruka further because you have to focus on what you want to replace yourself with. When he was performing the technique he was focusing on a pink haired wonder, Sakura.

'When I perform this jutsu Sakura will have to notice me.' Unfortunately because he was thinking this he was focused on Sakura. So he switched with her, unfortunately he put the wrong amount of chakra into the jutsu. Thus they collided with each other, everyone was laughing. Naruto was nervous; Sakura was walking menacingly towards Naruto, cracking her knuckles. Naruto's screams where heard all over the elemental countries.

Sore and injured Naruto walked home, when he managed to open the door despite his muscles reluctance to agree, he walked over to the kitchen and made himself some ramen, quick and easy. After eating the meal he walked over to the scroll. Studying it further, he had yet to use the style at the academy but he wants to once he at least decent with it, slowly he began the painful stretches so he could use all the attacks

"This is going to be a long year" he muttered under his breath.

1 year later

Life was good, Naruto was finally good enough to attempt to use the style at the academy. He was exited, so excited that he ran towards the academy half an hour early. Naruto was 10, earlier he had another small birthday. Only this time was got clothes that where not ninja orientated and some chakra control scrolls. The chakra scrolls he requested because his chakra was pathetic, he decided to learn how to use his chakra better.

Once he had reached the academy gate, he jumped. The size of the jump was what you would expect when one focused chakra into the legs, but in Naruto's case it was pure muscle. Kiba was playing with Akamaru when he saw Naruto or as he called him, 'dobe' jump over the gate and wall, he whistled. Not many could boast that. Kiba absently though he must have used chakra. So he went back to playing with his nin-dog. Iruka was not so dumb; He saw that it was pure muscle. He thought to himself

"Is that due to the Taijutsu style? I have seen him practice it as soon as he goes home everyday. After his precious ramen though, I think that I will have a Taijutsu-focused match between Kiba and Naruto, I want to see how good this style is."

Everyone was nervous; Iruka had announced that there would be a test on how far everyone was in Taijutsu. The first match was going to be Naruto and Kiba. No one except Iruka was interested in this match they all 'knew' who was going to win, Kiba was one of the best in Taijutsu and Naruto was the worst, he just never improved in his form. Iruka snicked when he heard these comments,

"if only they knew, show me what you have Naruto" Kiba laughed, he had the best possible match, Naruto was the worst. He entered a classic Inuzuka style. Naruto just stood there with his hands in his pockets so that they're out of the way and placed his left leg in front of his right, the starter Redleg stance. Kiba scoffed, he couldn't use his hands how could he expect to fight like that, it was full of holes. Naruto just smiled.

Iruka laid out the rules,

"The rules are simple, One: no Ninjutsu, Genjutsu or the like, Two: any style is allowed, this includes Taijutsu oriented techniques, Three: This match will continue until either one loses or I call the match, Four: anyone who steps out of the ring will lose. BEGIN!"

Kiba took the initiative, he ran full bore at Naruto. Naruto just stood their hands in his pockets and left leg in front. Kiba jumped and threw a punch.

"Kiba's won, Naruto can't block" was Shikamaru's observation. Iruka just chuckled,

"Just watch Shikamaru, Naruto has this under control" Shikamaru suddenly took interest in this match. What was Iruka on about, Naruto's hands where in his pockets how can be block with them there? Luckily for Shikamaru the next move revealed how. No one, especially Kiba was expecting this. Naruto lifted his left leg and kicked away Kiba's high punch, then used the kick momentum to pull a 360 and kick Kiba on the side with the same leg. Kiba was kicked out of the way. When Kiba landed and began to stand up, Naruto ran at high speeds, faster than he had ever displayed before,

"Gigot (legs)" was what he called as he pulled a sweeping kick to Kiba's kneecaps. Kiba was sent flying onto the other side of the ring.

Everyone had a sudden interest to this match. Naruto was displaying skill he had never shown before. Shikamaru knew how,

"Of cause he was never good before, he isn't good at the academy style because he was practicing this style at home" Iruka smiled, Shikamaru was a genius in hiding. Kiba cursed,

'How did the dobe get so good' was what he was thinking. Kiba decided he better get serious.

"Shikyaku no Jutsu (Four Legs Technique)" Kiba then got on all fours and ran at increased speeds, Naruto was hard pressed at blocking and defending, eventually Kiba got a hit in, Kiba was impressed, he lasted longer than he thought he would. Naruto was pushed towards the edge of the ring, but he managed to stay upright. Naruto angered attacked Kiba with a new found energy. This time Naruto managed to keep up with Kiba.

'Why, why can I keep up now, when before I had no chance at keeping up? I was being thrashed, and now we are even. In fact I think I'm gaining the advantage.' This was true, Naruto was beating Kiba, but it was so small a margin the fight could still go either way.

The students watched in awe as Naruto and Kiba fought with skills only destined shinobi's could boast, respect growing as well as skill. Kiba went for a low kick; Naruto jumped over the kick and attempted to kick Kiba's chest. Kiba saw this coming and jumped back, retreating. Both Kiba and Naruto were panting; they had been at it for the last 10 minutes. Although that may not have been a long fight for a ninja, they were still students. Kiba then used a move he still hadn't perfected.

"Tsuuga (fang destroyer)" he attacked, spinning so fast he appeared to be a tornado. Kiba thought to himself,

'This takes too much energy to use like this I still haven't perfected it. I only have one chance' Naruto knew that this would decide the victor, so he used a finisher move; this would determine the winner for good.

"Mouton shot (mutton shot)" Naruto jumped and put as much power as he could into the kick and met the charge full on, once again respect for the other increasing. Once the attacks hit, a powerful airwave hit the audience. Causing the weaker students to fall backwards, the people who remained standing waited for the dust to settle so they could see the winner. When the dust finally settled, it showed nothing. Neither Kiba nor Naruto were in the arena. Both had landed face down outside the ring. It was a double knockout. Naruto was the first to get up, Kyuubi healing the injuries already. Slowly he limped over to Kiba, who was still too injured to get up. He lent a hand to Kiba who took it; together they left to the nurse's office. In one match, a powerful friend and ally were gained.

The Sandaime smiled to himself, they say more words can be spoken in a match than in a conversation. Through proving he was not as weak everyone thought he was, Naruto had gained a new friend.

A/N: Not much I could do to fix this chapter, jut made it neater. Hope you all enjoyed.

NEXT TIME: Chouji and Shikamaru delve into the life of Naruto to determine how he got this strong. What they find will drive them out of their shells; things will never be the same again.

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