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Naruto slugged his tired and sore body back through the streets of Konoha towards his apartment. His arms feeling like they weren't even attached anymore but at the same time much stronger, how that made sense was anyone's guess, and sweat poured down like a river.
He locked the door and sat down on his bed, just to have a rest. He sat there for about 20 minutes before he felt like moving again. He knelt down in front of his bed and reached in to get the scroll and book out from underneath.
He unraveled the scroll and unsealed the beginner's book and basic ink set. The first seal listed in the book was the explosive seal, which were a common sight amongst all shinobi due their effectiveness for clearing out enemy locations and laying traps. They were designed to be unstable seals but only when chakra was pushed into them. Naruto decided that the explosive seal was just a bit too dangerous to practice indoors, in the middle of Konoha by the village pariah.
He instead turned to the second seal listed, the storage seal, this seal was designed to do exactly what it was supposed to do and that was store this, the seal was commonly used to save space when a shinobi went out on a mission. "This looks like a better option", he muttered, "So I just follow the diagram shown on the page and infuse a small amount of chakra into it, doesn't sound too hard".
Naruto moved down to the floor and started copying down the seal, being as stable with his hands as he possibly could, moving slowly so that does not make a mistake as any mistake would be disastrous for him, his career and his reputation.
Slowly but surely, he finished the last curve on the seal and injected what was equivalent to ten millilitres of chakra into and then placed an old instant ramen cup over it and sealed it. It worked. "Now then, let's try that again at a quicker rate as that took me ages".
So he picked up the brush from the inkwell again and copied it down at a faster rate, using an old milk carton of confirm that this one had worked. He continued to copy the seal down at a increasingly faster rate each time, using old trash to confirm that it worked. Each time was a success, each one of them looking exactly the same as the last.
Deciding that that was enough for now, Naruto put the scroll and all affiliated objects back under the bed and got changed for bed, tired, he nodded off until the next day.
Waking up at 6 am, Naruto did his usual pattern of have a cold shower, get dressed, make instant ramen, eat instant ramen, leave instant ramen cup lying on the floor and leave, though this time he wasn't going to the Academy, he was going to meet up with his team at the old bridge in the middle of town.
Arriving there early, Naruto had enough time to ponder and think about things, "I wonder what my grandfather was like, he seemed kind from the wording of that letter but still, that doesn't show his full personality. Though if I remember correctly, the Old Man did say that the Uzumaki were as kind and friendly as no one else could be. For that matter, what was my grandmother like?, I don't even know her name as it was never mentioned in the letter. And just how relatives do I still have anyway? It seems like a noble and honest goal to reunite the Uzumaki clan again but in Konoha, Uzushio is in ruins after all. But would the general populace of Konoha accept them? The shinobi obviously would but the civilians would probably have a hard time believing that I have a family. Though I still don't know why they hate me, ah well, I will work it out eventually".
Just after he thought that, a brooding figure approached. Sasuke leaned against the railings on the south side of the bridge, not giving any need to Naruto. Moments after, a haggard and tired Sakura arrived, obviously still worn out from the exercise the day previous, she sat down opposite Sasuke and decided to snooze off.
Sasuke gave a brief unimpressed glance at the girl before shrugging and leaning his head back. 10 minutes passed and so did some civilians who didn't really pay any heed to any of the team members, obviously more concerned with their own business than the village pariah, the last Uchiha or a pink haired civilian girl. 30 minutes and several more civilians passed, most of which did take glances at the team but only a few were cold. 1 hour and Sakura woke back up and stood up, nothing else really happened. 2 hours and Team 7 was now a thoroughly annoyed mini-mob as a cheerful and carefree man with gravity-defying silver hair arrived with his eye smile on full lock and a porn book in his hand arrived, "Your late!", Sakura screamed at him.
"Sorry you three but the road of life is a long and winding one with many intersections, it's easy to get lost on it".
The trio of Genin gave him a stare that would kill him if looks could kill, that's altogether of course, "Alright then, we are going to do some missions", the collective interest of Team 7 peaked up at that, "So let's all go to the Hokage's office to get them, my Genin".
The walk from the bridge to the Hokage's office was uneventful and passed by Team 7 quickly. They arrived, ready to take on whatever types of mission that they would be sent on. They were rather underwhelmed by what they got though, "Pulling weeds out of Mr. Takahashi's garden".
They were all annoyed for different reasons except one overarching one that had to do with the fact that weeding gardens was not what they joined for. Naruto was annoyed because the man in question, Shou Takahashi, absolutely hated his guts. Sakura was annoyed because Takahashi was her next-door neighbour and absolutely hated her guts. Sasuke was annoyed because Takahashi absolutely hated the Uchiha Clan and thus hated his guts. It makes you wonder who he didn't hate.
Needless to say that when they arrived at Takahashi's house, the man was not pleased but tried his best to keep a straight face because of one thing. Kakashi Hatake, Shou Takahashi was not a fool, despite what his gangling appearance would make you think. He knew that if he tried to hinder the Genin in any way, he would be set upon by the Jonin.
So he kept out of the working Genin while secretly fuming that he didn't get one of the other teams that he didn't mind, expect the the Inuzuka, he thought they were all untamed monsters who were no better then the Kyuubi even though they had helped defeat the giant fox. He also had prejudice against the Yamanaka as he thought that they were all secret enemy spies that had always had some kind of information train off to Iwa, despite the fact that they had been in the village much longer than he had. As you can see, this man was a bit off his rocker and he wasn't liked very much by the rest of the village. It was a wonder that he hadn't been kicked out already.
The work that the Genin had done, in their opinion, wasn't even D-Rank worthy as there was only about 20 weeds in the entire garden and this includes all sizes, types and ages. Needless to say that they were pissed by the time the mission was done but were glad that they at least got some money for doing civilian work, they knew that there had to be something positive about the whole thing. But it left Naruto plotting and by the looks on their faces, his teammates would probably want in on this plot.
"You two, I'm planning to get some revenge on that guy, not only did he make us do grunt work, he gave all of us some pretty cold looks", he whispered to the other members of Team 7, "Do you guys want in?".
The other members looked briefly at the Hokage and at their sensei before nodding their heads, "Right,so what we do is meet up at Sakura's house before sneaking into that bastard's garden and then pull out as many plants as possible, he don't have to do it tonight or any time this week for that matter but that is the plan and the plan that was".
Naruto was sure that the Hokage and Kakashi had heard them clearly but that last variable would make them only a slightest bit paranoid, if they cared about the man, Naruto doubted that even the Old Man liked the prick in the slightest.
Still though, it was well known that even the bravest and greatest warriors had the lowest backgrounds, some even coming from slave or servant parents who were forced to do their master's every whim and where often forced to do drudgery just so they could get some bread so they didn't feel too bad about, even if it wasn't what they wanted to do for their first mission.
"So then, Team 7, let's go to Training Ground 7 so that we can do some training for each of you. By that I mean specialized training for what you want to do".
The faces of Team 7 simultaneously lit up, when I say lit up I mean Naruto having a grin that a Cheshire cat would be proud of, Sakura having grin that would normally be found on Naruto and Sasuke smirking so hard that it looked like it would come off the side of his face.
"So you three, I will talk with each of you individually and use these shadow clones to train each of you so there can be no interruptions that were done on purpose".
Naruto and the clone of Kakashi had gone to the south-west of the training ground, "So Naruto, I know you are aware of your parentage so there is nothing you need to tell me in that regard, now then, we need to find out what you are good at. First of all, take this slip of paper and push your chakra into it".
This confused Naruto but he did so, to his surprise the paper split into 8 pieces that promptly lit alight in flame. "Hmm interesting, that was chakra paper, use to determine what chakra nature you have and by the looks of things, you have an incredibly strong fuuton nature with a weaker though still fairly strong katon nature, fuuton is rare, especially so in Konoha, we only have 2 or so people with it, katon though, is incredibly common, especially in Konoha so I can teach you that".
Kakashi knew perfectly well why this was the case as these were the elements that the Kyuubi used in the attack on Konoha, of course Naruto didn't know this and it wasn't Kakashi's place to tell him so, which he despised fully. "I imagine because of your parentage, you are aware of the art of fuinjutsu, do you wish to learn this?"
"Well, yeah, of course I want to learn but are you any good?".
"I'm average at fuinjutsu and we only have one seal master in Konoha and currently away, supposedly checking on his spy network but he's probably doing his 'research' which is an incredibly loose term for the act but I'm not going to complain about it, so as soon as he comes back, we will inform him of this, for now, it's probably for the best that you practice on your own with books from the library. Your a shinobi now so they can't bar you access and if they do so anyway, tell me. That reminds me, I understand that you like that jumpsuit but you must get new clothes but so do the others so we'll do that at a later date but right now, I think we'll do some chakra control exercises as, let's be honest yours is absolutely terrible because of ridiculously high amounts of chakra, so I'll teach you how to wall-walk".
"Sasuke, the first thing we have to do is learn your chakra nature or chakra natures, can push some paper through this piece of paper, it's chakra paper used to determine chakra nature".
Sasuke was quizzical but pushed some chakra into it, it scrunched up before igniting, "You have both raiton and katon, you are lucky in that regard as I can help you in both of those as raiton is my chakra nature and katon is the easiest to learn in general so I know many of them. Now let's talk, i am the only person in Konoha that can help you learn how to use the sharingan, should you unlock it. The reason why is underneath my hitai-ate".
Sasuke knew instantly what he was talking about and scowled in suspicion, "Did you steal it?".
"No it was a parting gift of my teammates before he died, I'll tell more about it later if you really wish to hear that but for now, what do you wish to learn during your shinobi career?".
Sasuke's scowl had eased and he sighed, "I would like to learn my clan's techniques but apart from that, I want to learn kenjutsu and genjutsu. I know much work will have to be put into those but I am willing to learn both".
Kakashi pondered, noticing how Sasuke was acting was not how generally did, "Hmm, while I can teach you genjutsu, I can't teach you kenjutsu as I am not that skilled in the art, however, I do know someone that is, so I'll see if they can help you with that, right now, I think you need to up your chakra control, so I will show you how to wall-walk".
"Sakura, we will need to determine your chakra nature so I can teach you more effectively, take this chakra paper, it will tell you what your chakra nature is by you pushing chakra into it".
Sakura took the paper and pushed chakra into it without argument or displeasure, the paper at first turned soggy before turning brown and crumbling away.
"According to your results you seem to have a strong suiton nature followed by a weaker doton nature, neither of which are mine but I can help you with them, though you'll have to find people more advanced in the art of doton to get past the basics, now Sakura, what do you wish to specialise in?"
"I know I have a small amount of chakra but high chakra control which means I'm suited for things like iryo-ninjutsu and genjutsu, out of the two I'd like to learn iryo-ninjutsu but I'd also like to learn taijutsu. I will explain that by saying that the fact I have a small amount of chakra mean I can't throw ninjutsu around left, right and centre like those two can but I want to be in the fray of the fight so I can help my teammates a lot more than simply healing them".
"A good goal, indeed but I'm afraid neither of those I can teach more than the basics of but like I said, I can teach you the basics but first, it will be useful to improve your chakra control to an even higher standard than it already is, so let's do some wall-walking".
By the end of the day, all three of the genin had managed to get the wall-walking technique and given a jutsu scroll that was suited to their chakra nature, Naruto had been given the Futon: Daitoppa, Sasuke had been given Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu and Sakura had been given the Suiton: Suiben. They had been charged with learning these jutsu in a week, while Kakashi would ask people if they could help him with what his genin wanted to learn.
To do this they met up at Training Ground 7 every day and practice together with Kakashi giving the best help he could from the background. Naruto was the first to succeed, only 3 days in he managed to create a blast of wind so string that it leveled a few trees, Sakura, not to be outdone, achieved hers next, successfully breaking a tree 5 days in. This drove Sasuke to learn his quicker than, he refused to let Sakura be better than him at something, the day after Sakura had achieved her Suiben Sasuke nearly enough burned down the entire training area with his determination driving him hard to do this not only properly but well. Kakashi said he'd done a bit too well.
During that time, they also managed to complete the quota number of D-Ranks that was needed to enter the Chunin Exams and take C-rank missions and Kakashi had managed to get all his friends on board to help his students achieve what they aspired, as well as one person who more of an acquaintance but was the only person for the job. Naruto had been told to talk to the sensei for Team 10, Asuma Sarutobi and the Jiraiya, the Gama Sennin, who was interested to learn that Naruto had an interest in fuinjutsu and decided to teach him how to use the art but he failed to show up, which, to say the least, pissed Naruto off. Sasuke had been instructed to talk to the sensei of Team 8, Kurenai Yuhi, the Genjutsu Mistress and Hayate Gekko, who was to help him in the art of kenjutsu and Sakura had been told to report to the hospital so the head Iryo-nin, a woman named Mesu Sekkai and the sensei of Team 9, Maito Gai. When they were training with Kakashi, they trained in teamwork exercises.
They also practiced their own studies at home as Naruto had also learned some other basic seals, like the explosive seal and the chakra seal, a seal which trapped chakra that was used for medical purposes to administer chakra to those who desperately needed it, he gave all of the successful ones to Sakura, speaking of whom was reading upon theory of Iryo-ninjutsu so that she could apply her techniques more thoroughly, if she wasn't doing that, she was resting from Gai's training which Sakura considered closer to torture than actual training. Sasuke was getting used to his sword, a tsurugi-type sword, that he hadn't given any actual name yet, and learning the ways of the Uchiha genjutsu.
At the end of the week, they all met up at Training Ground 7, Kakashi had something he wanted to announce, deciding that it was so important that he arrived on time for once. "Right Team 7, I believe you have all made great headway in your training and so does the Hokage, as such he has decided to assign you a C-rank mission, the only problem is that you have to choose one and you've only got 2 choices, either escort some bridge builder to the Land of Waves or escort a minor noble back to his home near Tanzaku Gai, now which one will you pick".
I guess you could call that a cliffhanger though it isn't a very good or dramatic one. Anyway as you have noticed, I am not actually dead but you never know what could happen in the future so who knows. Also, I need a beta reader to go over my grammar and spelling mistakes and perhaps help flesh this story out a bit more and make it not be an absolute wall of text.
And I still haven't posted that Danganronpa thing up, I'll do it soon though.
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P.S: If you see any grammar mistakes, please let me know. I posted this last time but I really need to know.