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New Game New Challenges
Chapter 2: Tutorial level
Konoha streets
Naruto jumped from rooftop to rooftop faster than he ever had before he felt like his body felt so light but strong, he'd never felt this good before. He was on his way to Ichiraku's he felt like ramen was deserved for passing the genin exams, well he felt like he always deserved ramen. He landed a few streets away from the hokage's tower and walked straight into the stall.
"Hey there Jiji fancy whipping me up a few bowls of ramen for Konoha's latest genin." Naruto had a huge smile on his for finally becoming a ninja. Ayame and Teuchi looked upon the young blonde they had known for years with pride. Naruto sat on his favourite stool at the counter it was in the perfect position to be able to talk to Ayame and Teuchi but still being able to smell the food cooking in the kitchen.
Ayame had the biggest smile Naruto had ever seen the waitress possess. "Well done Naruto we always knew you had it in you, isn't that right Tou-san?" Teuchi had gone into the kitchen and had quickly returned with a bowl of ramen for Naruto.
"Of course we are. We're proud of you Naruto. We know you will be an excellent shinobi. Though when you become a big time ninja you better still be coming back here." Teuchi turned back to the kitchen to start making more, he couldn't remember the last time Naruto merely stopped at one bowl of ramen.
"You bet Teuchi-jisan, I don't think I could last without your ramen, pretty sure I would just waste away. Plus I know Ayame-neesan would miss me." Naruto grinned as he inhaled bowl after bowl of ramen.
After eating eight bowls of ramen and chatting a considerable amount of time with the Ichirakus he bade them goodbye and stepped out into the street, it was around two or three in the afternoon with most stalls on the verge of closing, he decided to head over to the tower to talk to the hokage. He hadn't seen him for a while and figured he could use a distraction from all the paperwork. He had a few other things to do today but knew this was the most important. The old man had been there for him as much as he could during Naruto's life.
Naruto walked through the tower at reasonable pace, he'd wanted to run but the last time he had charged into the tower to try and get to the hokage he had ended up in a cell, apparently one of the newer ANBU deemed the hyperactive jinchuuriki to be a threat to the hokage's security. He hadn't been there very long but he somehow managed to befriend a few of the other inmates and by the end was almost sad to go.
Flashback:
"I'm gonna a miss you crazy eight, I really will." Naruto was crying anime tears as he hugged the nearly seven foot tall inmate he had befriended in the cells.
The humongous man hugged the small blonde child back. "I'll miss you too little man, make sure you become the strongest hokage ever and remember to watch out for those of us who can't fight for ourselves."
The hokage merely sweat-dropped at the sight, he had rushed down to the holding cells utilising his Kage-level speeds from sheer fright at what the inmates could have done to Naruto and he had found the boy teaching this "crazy eight" how to count cards and a few other card tricks. Needless to say the ANBU who had detained the blonde had been demoted to the most meaningless tasks possible for the foreseeable future.
End flashback
"Hey Secretary-san is Jiji-san busy?" the secretary looked up and smiled at Naruto nodding slightly at the boy. At first she had disliked the boy, the way he used to just burst into the office would annoy her but over the past year or two he had behaved himself much better. "Hehe thanks I'll try not to keep him for very long."
The hokage looked up as his doors burst open revealing an orange blue blur that quickly bounded over to him stopping just short of knocking his desk over. "Hey there Jiji-san two guesses which badass just made genin. That's right not too long till kick your old ass out of that chair now." Naruto hadn't taken the time to notice the silver haired shinobi that was talking to the hokage before he had burst in. "Oh sorry to interrupt secretary-san said you weren't busy. I'll wait outside."
The silver haired jounin turned to look over the genin with his single eye. "There's no need Naruto, I'll come back with the other jounin later hokage-sama." He bowed to the hokage and gave a small nod to Naruto before shunshining away leaving a few leaves and blowing a few more of the papers off of the hokage's desk.
The hokage frowned but quickly resorted the papers then raised an eyebrow at the blonde as het dropped into one of the chairs in front of the hokage's desk. "Congratulations Naruto, I knew you had it in you. So what can I help you with today?"
Naruto just grinned at the praise from his would be grandfather. "Well I just came by to drop the news and distract you from your paperwork, I know how much you hate that stuff." He shuffled in the chair trying to find the comfiest position. 'Hmm I wonder if Jiji knows what a Bijuu is? Nah I'll just look it up in the library later.' "Hey Jiji I was wondering if I could look through some taijutsu scrolls you had lying around?"
The hokage raised an eyebrow at this. "Oh and why is that Naruto?"
"Well I know that I passed the taijutsu exam by the skin of my teeth so I figured I should look into a specific style. Oh and some chakra control techniques would go a long way as well." Naruto was looking at his shoes by the end of his request, figuring the hokage wouldn't be able to help the jinchuuriki.
The hokage seemed to take a few minutes to consider it. "Okay Naruto I will get a few taijutsu scrolls together to help and I can do the same for the chakra control ones as well. But can I ask what has brought all of this on, no offence but you never really seemed the type to be aware of your weaknesses before." The hokage tried not to sound insulting knowing it had taken a lot for Naruto to ask for help.
Naruto had a huge smile on his face at the news of the scrolls but it soon disappeared at the questioning of the hokage. "Let's just say it's been made painfully obvious to me what my weaknesses are." The look on the hokage's face didn't really seem to believe him so he decided to elaborate slightly. "Well the taijutsu part is obvious and the whole chakra control thing was pretty obvious to me seeing as I had to make so many damn clones to pass instead of just the two that everyone else could do."
The hokage had to admit it made sense though he would also have to look in top changing the graduation exam in the future to account for students with above average chakra capacities. "okay then Naruto come over here, now I'm going to take you into the taijutsu libraries this is normally reserved for jounin but seeing as how you did so well to pass the exam and I know that other than Iruka the other teachers didn't help you out much."
Naruto followed the hokage into a room hidden behind one of the bookcases in the office. "Much? Try at all Jiji." The room was huge and arranged into row upon row of scrolls. Naruto thought it looked more like a library that you'd find in the end bosses castle than some room hidden behind a bookcase in an old man's office. The room smelled of old books and dust yet looked immaculate.
Naruto could only whistle at the scale of the room. "Wow Jiji, you really live up to the title of 'Professor' don't you." The aged hokage could only smile at the young blonde.
"Now Naruto I will allow you to look through these for a while until you find a style that you think will suit you. I'll allow you to take a copy of the scroll back with you but I'm warning you now that I will have to apply a memory seal you forget the location of this room, top secret ninja stuff and all." Naruto paled at the idea of his memories being tampered with but he trusted the old man and knew it was worth it, he nodded to let him know he was fine with it. "okay now the scrolls are sorted by type of taijutsu and also alphabetically for there, any questions?"
Naruto thought for a minute then remembered that skill he had created after the taijutsu exam not really knowing how to view it against a wild swing. 'Skill book.' Instantly another orange window opened up in front of Naruto it listed the skills Naruto knew divided into a few different sections listed as ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, passive skills and finally game skills. Naruto knew his new abilities where game like but for it to be stated so flatly in front of him made him blanch. He quickly found the taijutsu style he had developed in the fight and tapped on it, another window popped into existence describing the skill.
Kazenokami no nagare [passive] Lv1 ExP: 0.0
Flowing taijutsu style that uses great flexibility agility to evade and move but strong and heavy blows to strike.
5% increase in physical attack speed and damage.
Having already seen the information before Naruto wasn't very surprised at the window he quickly read through it again in order to figure out what best to say to the hokage. "Well I was thinking the type of style I used against Iruka-sensei seemed to work." The hokage nodded having watched the fight through his crystal ball he knew Naruto had shown promise with the style he seemed to create on the spot.
"Okay Naruto, that style seemed to be based on a more evasive and countering style. That would lead you to this section over here." The hokage lead Naruto over to a different section of the small library. "Okay Naruto feel free to look through the scrolls here. But don't take any without my permission I don't expect you to but I won't accept you mistreating my trust like that." The aged hokage's tone was deadly serious. All Naruto could do was gulp and nod.
"Hai hokage-sama." Sarutobi merely grinned at the genin.
"Calm down Naruto I was just making sure you were aware of the privilege you're being afforded by being allowed in here. Now get looking if you have any questions feel free to ask." At that Naruto bolted down the aisle like a child going to unwrap his first Christmas present.
Naruto quickly began looking through the scrolls, he saw some styles that he thought looked cool but didn't think he had the skills to use. He looked through a fair few before he came across the Kazenokami no nagare scroll. His heart nearly stopped when he found it. He pulled the scroll out, it seemed older than the others having clearly not being used for a long time.
'Scan' Naruto didn't know why he decided to scan the scroll.
Scroll of Kazenokami no Nagare:
Scroll holds several forms and kata's for Kazenokami no nagare. As well as training methods that will enhance user's flexibility, speed and strength.
Upon reading automatically increases level of Kazenokami no nagare by 1.
Naruto nearly wet himself at the scroll he was holding but calmed his nerves when he saw the sandaime approaching. "Hey Jiji-san, can you tell me about this one, it looks different from the rest." Naruto tried to sound as nonchalant as possible hoping to throw the hokage off his enthusiasm.
"Hmm let me have a look at it Naruto. Kazenokami no nagare, can't say I've ever heard of it before." The sandaime opened the scroll giving a quick scan of the contents. "This is very similar to the style you used against Iruka Naruto. I'm surprised you found this so quickly. It's certainly an interesting form." He thought for a minute still looking at the scroll. "Okay Naruto you can take this scroll, I'll make a copy of it when we get back to my office and I'll get you some chakra control scrolls as well."
The pair walked back into the office where sarutobi sat Naruto down and began drawing a small seal on slip of paper, Naruto didn't know what the hokage was doing but he was starting to worry about the hokage removing his memories, he still wasn't comfortable with losing his memories but he trusted the old man.
"Okay Naruto now please lie down and I will seal the memories regarding the location of the taijutsu room and we can move on. I know you're scared and that's fine but I'm going to have to ask you to trust me."
Naruto just nodded and lay on his back. Sarutobi placed the slip of paper on the genins forehead and ran through hand seals and activated the seal "Memory Erasing Seal" the seal pulsed with chakra and then disappeared. Naruto grunted as his eyes rolled to the back of his head. The sandaime merely picked up the genin and placed the young blonde on the couch. Sarutobi walked back to behind his desk and began to write out some chakra control exercises and some basic information on chakra for Naruto, knowing that Naruto hadn't paid all that much attention while in the academy.
It had been two and a half hours when Naruto began to stir the hokage merely glanced towards the blonde and signalled the ANBU in the room to fetch a pitcher of water for the genin. Naruto shot bolt upright as he awoke with a headache that felt like he'd been through the gauntlet. "Jeez Jiji-san I feel like I just squeezed my head through a straw. Did you really need to do that?"
Sarutobi just chuckled at Naruto handing him a glass of water. "I'm sorry Naruto we can't be too safe with security around here." Naruto just nodded in understanding, still confused as to the missing part of his memory.
PING
Warning Malware detected, restoring system to previously safe state.
'Now that doesn't sound good' Naruto just stared at the message as a loading bar seemed to appear underneath it, he just sat and drank the water the hokage had given him. Wondering what was going to happen when the bar finished loading.
Malware deleted, would you like to send a report?
Yes or No
'Oh fuck no I have no idea what this means but that sounds horrible.' He quickly tapped no and the window disappeared, his vision blurred for a second before all his memories regarding the taijutsu room returned. Blinking he turned to the Sandaime who was just looking him over with a worried look on his face.
"Calm down Jiji, I'm fine just a little light headed. What did that thing do to me anyway?" Naruto was confused why it hadn't worked, he didn't want to lie to the hokage but he didn't know if he was simply going insane or not and didn't want to raise attention to his new abilities, at least not until he understood them better.
"I used fuuinjutsu to seal away a limited part of your memories. Naruto I know that seems excessive but if someone where to find that room a lot of the villages secrets could fall into enemy hands. That room doesn't just contain taijutsu scrolls it also contains effective counter strategies to all the styles known of within and out of the leaf." Naruto knew the information he now had was both priceless and also incredible dangerous.
The hokage walked back to his desk beckoning Naruto to join him. Naruto went and almost fell into the chair opposite the hokage with a grimace and a sigh, his head still ached though the pain was leaving him. "Naruto here is the taijutsu scroll you selected and some notes and methods of training your chakra control. Now I expect great things from you Naruto and if you honestly expect to become hokage one day know you will need to work harder and longer than anyone else. Do you understand?" the hokage spoke with clear care and trust in Naruto but his voice was also stern and strong knowing there was no other option to Naruto.
Naruto sat there, he didn't have many precious people the only people he truly cared for would be the man sat in front of him, Iruka, the Ichiraku's and maybe Shikamaru. Memories of all of them passed through his head. his first time meeting the hokage and how he had treated the boy with care when no-one else ever had, he had gotten the boy his apartment entered him into the academy and put him on the path to make his dreams come true and with the events of the last few hours had done more for him than he could have ever asked for. He pictured training with Iruka and going to Ichiraku's to eat and talk with the caring family the only people to ever show care for him without need or reason to do so. The memories of Shikamaru where brief but he hoped he could be true friends with the young Nara.
Then and there he vowed to himself that he would never allow those he cared for to come to harm, he would be strong enough to do anything and everything he needed to protect those people precious to him.
Naruto stood up from the chair pulling a kunai out of his pouch as he did so he slashed the palm of his hand shocking the hokage then without a whimper or grimace he held his fist outstretched to the hokage blood dripping through his fingers and onto the floor. "Hokage-sama I swear I will protect this village and all my precious people, I will protect the children, the elderly and even those who would treat me with scorn and hatred. My will exists for whatever purpose you would see fit. I will become hokage and I will make sure everyone knows the name Naruto Uzumaki and those who do would never dare threaten those close to him." Sarutobi had no idea what to say in all of his years he had never seen such strong determination from one so young he looked into Naruto's blue eyes and he could see it, he could see a fire burning, one that he hadn't seen in years, it burnt true and strong it looked like if left alone that small flame would reduce the world to ash. He knew then and there that the boy in front of him would be something special. He would be hokage, he would be the strongest ninja ever he would be all those things and more. 'If you could see your son Minato you would be the proudest father in the world. This child is the very embodiment of the will of fire and I have never been so proud.'
"Thank you Naruto, those words mean a lot to me and I believe every word but for the moment you are still a child you cannot do those things just yet but with time and training I know you will be the strongest among us, any of us. Now please come here and let me see your hand." The hokage held his hand out to Naruto the determined blonde had yet to lower his fist but he walked over to the hokage and opened his palm to the aged sarutobi. The hokage looked at his hand and noticed the slash had already begun to heal. He knew the boy held the fox within him, could it be causing this, or could it be something else.
Pushing those thoughts away the sandaime looked at the boy and took note of his ragged jumpsuit and his dull and near broken kunai still held in one hand. "Naruto, when was the last time you got new clothes and gear?" The hokage wasn't fully aware of how the merchants would treat Naruto, sure he knew about the mobs from when he was younger and that the general populace of the village disliked the boy or even outright hated him. But he didn't know about the harsh and sometimes cruel treatment Naruto received at the hands of the civilians.
Naruto was nervous he didn't like to complain about his life and didn't want to cause a fuss but he knew if he wanted to be a ninja he would need several things first. Clothes and training equipment as well as general gear needed by shinobi.
"Jiji the villagers don't really let me into their stores and the ones who do charge me about four or five times what everyone else pays, I don't know why but they do. Anyway thanks to that I can't really get new equipment or clothes heck I can barely afford my cup ramen."
Hiruzen sarutobi had lived a long time for a shinobi, 68 years with nearly 40 of those years being spent as hokage of Konoha. And it took all those years of experience to stop himself from leaping from his window into the merchant's quarter and showing some of the scum who had mistreated his would be grandson what a true demon really was.
"Old man, are you okay?" Naruto was worried he had said something to get the hokage upset with him and didn't know what it was.
The sandaime sighed he regained control of himself and looked at the worried face of Naruto. "Naruto I'm going to write down the address of a shinobi store, its run by an old friend of mine I'm sure he will be more than happy to help you get everything you could need. Do you believe you will have enough money to get what you need?"
Naruto pulled his little toad purse Gama-chan he was a bit thin lately and Naruto was really looking forward to earning some money as a ninja. Naruto counted through his money hr figured he had around 2000 ryo, it wouldn't be nearly enough for a set of clothes and new equipment.
"Uh I have about 2000 ryo. I guess I'm gonna have to wait til I get paid to get some stuff." Naruto picked up the scrolls the hokage had given him and went to leave. "See ya Jiji try to give me an awesome team eh."
"Naruto wait." Naruto turned around confused about what the hokage wanted. "I'm going to give you some money for equipment. Keep in mind though that I want it all back as soon as you start earning money from missions." Naruto wasn't sure the old man had given him so much today.
"Jiji are you sure you should be doing all of this for me, I mean there are plenty of orphans in the village that could use the money more than me.
Sarutobi chuckled at the young genin. "Naruto it's precisely that reason that you deserve this money, trust me Naruto this is more along the lines of investing in the progress of a ninja that will prove to be an invaluable member of my forces. He threw Naruto a small scroll. "Send my regards to Higarashi-san when you see him."
"Hai Jiji-san, I'll see you soon."
PING
A quest has been created: hole in my pocket.
Go to The Sharpened Leaf and purchase new equipment
Reward: 50 ExP
Do you accept: Yes or NO
Naruto was again jumping from rooftop to rooftop going to the address that the hokage had given him. He looked around the village the sun was soon to set and most stalls in the street below had begun to close up for the evening.
On a rooftop just ahead and to his right Naruto could see the silver haired jounin from before leant against a chimney reading a small orange book. Naruto figured he would apologise for interrupting the man's meeting with the hokage earlier.
The silver haired man looked up from his book to find the young blonde he had seen earlier land a few meters in front of him. "Uzumaki Naruto, now to what do I owe the pleasure?" the silver haired man had a headband covering his left eye and a face mask pulled up and above his nose, the part of his face that was visible would be his right eye which was curled upwards in what Naruto assumed to be a smile.
Naruto had his head down and was shuffling from foot to foot. He hated apologising it always seemed so awkward. "I'm sorry I interrupted your meeting earlier today. As I said I didn't realise you had a meeting with the old man."
The jounin just waved his hand in a lazy manner. "Ah don't worry about it Naruto we were just finishing up anyway. So what did you want with the hokage anyway?"
"Just asking for a few pointers to improve my skills, I'm a genin now after all gotta look the part. He gave me a few pointers on chakra control and stuff." Naruto could swear he had seen the man before but couldn't quite put his finger on it. "Anyway I just stopped by to apologise." Naruto turned to leave trying to remember the way to the sharpened leaf.
"You look lost need a hand?"
Naruto turned red from embarrassment. 'Dammit my first day as a genin and I'm making myself look like a bigger idiot than Kiba.' "You don't know where The Sharpened Leaf is do you?"
"Aww poor little genin lost on his first day." Naruto looked like he was about to erupt, he needed to take the man down a few pegs.
'Scan' the man revealed to be Kakashi Hatake's information revealed itself in front of Naruto, he gave it a quick look taking in the information as fast as he could when he noticed something that took all motivation to prank the man away. "Inu-san is that you?"
Kakashi was shocked he hadn't been in ANBU for a few years but one of the jobs he was frequently assigned was to protect Naruto and had on a few occasions had to drive off mob's or take him to the hospital.
"It is you isn't it no one else has that hair." Naruto lost all control at this point and practically glomped the jounin.
"Naruto please get off of me, how the hell would I explain this if someone saw, I don't need that on my reputation." Seeing Naruto making no effort to get off of him he slowly peeled the orange monstrosity and the boy inside it off of him.
Naruto took a minute to get himself back together then proceeded to kick kakashi in the shin. "That's for just disappearing you dick, I thought you died." Naruto's glare could have a burnt a hole through the jounin's skull.
Kakashi still hopping and rubbing his shin "I'm sorry Naruto but when we leave ANBU we don't get to revisit clients or targets from our missions." Naruto knew this but didn't know he was a target or a client.
"Why did you all protect me anyway what was so special about me, no other kid had an ANBU guard on them." Kakashi kept a blank face though inside he was face palming over and over again for letting it slip about Naruto.
"It's nothing Naruto the hokage just didn't like the way the villagers treated you." The jounin hoped beyond anything that Naruto would just let this go. "it is good to see you again Naruto and I am sorry that I couldn't keep in touch. But thank you for worrying about me. Also try to keep my ANBU codename a secret could you." Naruto seemed to have let the issue lie and was happy to have met Inu again. "And the sharpened leaf is just down that road there, see you around Naruto." With that he ruffled Naruto's hair much to the boy's disdain. He then shunshinned away, Naruto just jumped away towards the shinobi store.
Back in the hokage's office the jounin sensei of Konohagakure had gathered to discuss the team formations for this year's genin. There were several famous jounin aiming to be sensei this year, the most notable of course where sharingan kakashi the famous copycat ninja said to have copied and learnt over a thousand jutsu. Another of the jounin present was Asuma Sarutobi son of the sandaime as well being a former member of the twelve guardians of the daimyo. The next and newest jounin in the room was one Kurenai Yuhi known as the ice queen of Konoha and known as one of the best genjutsu users in the village. Finally and most surprisingly was one of the last known uchiha in the elemental nations, one Obito Uchiha the last loyal uchiha in the shinobi corps apart from the newly promoted Sasuke Uchiha.
"Okay you all know why you are here, please state your wishes for team configuration and I'll take your suggestions into consideration." Sarutobi had to admit this was one of his favourite parts to being hokage, moulding the lives and futures of the younger generation and ensuring the will of fire lives and burns on. "We will begin with you Asuma seeing as you were here first."
Asuma stepped forward from the line of jounin smiling at his father as he did so. "I wish to re-create the ino-shika-cho team with their children having all graduated this year. we have all seen how their abilities can complement each other and how effective they can be." He stepped back into the line jounin feeling confident with the case he had presented.
The hokage seemed to think over this proposition for a few moments. "Well you do have a good point asuma, though as you have stated we already have a team in the ranks that can perform just as well as those three and will be better and infinitely more experienced than them for the foreseeable future. I will take this into consideration." Asuma's smile dropped momentarily but he saw the sense in his father's words. "Kurenai-san if you would please state your preferred team."
Kurenai stepped forward and bowed to the sandaime. "Hokage-sama I wish to form a reconnaissance, infiltration and tracking team with Hinata hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka and finally Shino Aburame. Their clan abilities will complement each other well and combined with my own genjutsu skills I believe I can create a very effective team." Kurenai stepped back just as Asuma had done believing she had made a good argument with a strong cause to be accepted.
Again the sandaime sat and mulled this over again though this time he looked over the three genins folders. "Again you have made a good argument here Kurenai-san though I do have some concerns, you have stated that you wish to take three children from some of the more prominent clans in Konoha yet you yourself are a newly promoted jounin, while I have no doubt in your skills I do have to question whether you would be able to take on such a large responsibility, I do not mean to insult you I just want you to think this through. Also while I see the logic in creating a team purely for infiltration and tracking I have to state some flaws in this, for one two of the three members of your team are close range fighters and the other a long range support type, none of the clans these three belong to are used to using any elemental affinities, as such you yourself are not know for any elemental affinities. There are a few more reasons that this team does not sit well with me though I think it would be better for those reasons to be spoken of in private if you should wish to hear them, thank you for your suggestions Kurenai-san." Kurenai looked dejected as she returned to the line of jounin, she was sure she had thought of everything when it came to her team of genin yet all the hokage's arguments made sense to her, she couldn't argue either as she didn't want to seem petty.
The hokage looked over the jounin in-front of him. "Obito if you will please state your case, know though that in accordance to some demands from the council that while I do agree with them I would not enforce this as they have made me. Obito you will have been ordered to be the jounin sensei of Sasuke uchiha in order to train him more effectively in the use of his sharingan should he awaken it." Obito stepped forward he was a tall man around six feet tall, he had the raven coloured hair signature of the uchiha clan, he possessed a lone onyx coloured right eye with the other covered by his Konoha headband, the right side of his face was heavily scarred from an incident when he was much younger in the third shinobi war, since then he had become one of the most powerful shinobi in the village and his tag-team partnership with the jounin to his left kakashi Hatake had driven them both to near s-rank status throughout the elemental nations. He wore the same standard jounin attire as his partner as well.
"I have no problem training Sasuke-kun as the last member of my family I also have no preferences on the other genin assigned to me, I would like to ask for Uzumaki Naruto but I get the feeling kakashi might try to cave my skull in from behind." Obito just chuckled at this while kakashi just rolled his one visible eye. "Though I would like at least one tracker on my team." Kurenai was annoyed at this but couldn't seem to blame obito, his happy go lucky attitude just made impossible to stay mad at the man.
"Very well obito, so long as you're comfortable with training Sasuke we will have no problems, please refrain from teasing kakashi though." The hokage turned to said jounin and signalled him to step forward.
Kakashi had been thinking about which members he would like for his team and had been looking over all of the genins files since he left the hokage's tower earlier in the day. "Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuuga and Shikamaru Nara that's the team I want and I also believe it the best choice of genin to compliment the others skills. Naruto with his immense chakra reserves and my guidance I believe will become a true ninjutsu powerhouse. Hinata hyuuga using her clan's taijutsu style will always be a close range fighter not to mention she would provide the team with a skilled tracker and scout. And finally with the long range support and tactical abilities Shikamaru Nara would complete this team and bring the most out of the other two's abilities." The other jounin where shocked at the research and thought kakashi had put into this, well except obito who understood Kakashi's drive to be Naruto's sensei perfectly well.
The hokage just leaned back in his chair and stared into the silver haired cyclops' eye. "hmm I'm surprised to admit your team choice does make a lot of sense to me and was the closest to what I was originally planning for your team kakashi though I was tempted to place the Haruno girl on your team." This shocked Asuma and Kurenai as Hinata and Shikamaru where the genins they most wanted respectively.
"If I may hokage-sama I think the haruno girl would be a mistake, she has shown previous dislike bordering hatred to Naruto which would disrupt the team dynamic. Also if I were to judge the girl purely on her skills she has near perfect chakra control though has little to no chakra reserves. This leads me to think the girl would be a decent genjutsu and medic Nin with sufficient training and clearly the best person to train her in this aspect would be Kurenai-san." At hearing this Kurenai was shocked she hadn't even bothered to look at the Haruno's file but had to agree with kakashi if what he said was true.
"Very well I believe we are done here unless anyone else has anything to say? No, okay come back here tomorrow at nine am, you will be meeting your genin at the academy at ten. Dismissed." The hokage turned to look over the village as the jounin's left. 'This may take some time to think through, kakashi has given me some good ideas though.' Sarutobi took out his pipe and a small pouch of tobacco, patting the tobacco down with aged and practiced care, lighting it with pure Katon manipulation he laid back into his chair and puffed away looking over the village and mulling over his thoughts.
Naruto sighed preparing himself to get kicked out of the store as soon as he entered, but hey it was a quest they weren't meant to be easy. He remembered the hokage's words about the man who owned the store being an old friend of his. 'Relax Naruto just relax you're a shinobi now the mobs won't chase you and you need to do this.' He sighed but braced himself; he stepped through the large oak and glass doors of the shop.
Ryu Hyabusa was an old man at this point in his life. He had retired after the second shinobi war and had opened up this shinobi store so he could serve those ninja of the next generation. He saw the easily recognisable Naruto walk through his doors and was surprised though he didn't let his face show it. 'So the brat made genin then, hmm I'm sure danzo and his lot will have something to say of this but the boy has done no wrong.' He smiled at the blonde who shuffled nervously before walking up to the counter.
Naruto fingered the scroll the hokage had given him before handing it to the smiling man on the other side of the counter. "Umm excuse me sir but hokage-sama told me to come here to pick up some new equipment now that I'm a genin." Ryu looked through the scroll Naruto had given him.
"Ryu-san, I'm sure you're aware of who Naruto is and how the other villagers have treated him, please help him get everything he needs to become a genin, a few packs of shuriken and kunai, as well as a standard field kit and some training weights should do. Feel free to charge the fee for all of this equipment to my personal account. Hiruzen Sarutobi Sandaime, Hokage of Konohagakure. Oh and please get rid of that orange monstrosity for something a bit less visible."
Ryu just rolled the scroll back up and placed it behind the counter. "Okay then Naruto where would you like to start?" Naruto just smiled at the older mans masked face but didn't move to say anything not sure what he needed the most or where to start. "How about we start off with getting you some kunai and shuriken?"
The pair walked through the store picking up whatever Ryu told him to, the old man told Naruto to pick out whatever caught his eye. He quickly came to the clothing section; he picked out some standard ANBU cargo pants tying them to his ankles with some bandages and into a pair of black shinobi sandals. He picked out plain white t-shirts with a simple black swirl that was on the back of most Chunin's vests. He also picked out several black and blue hooded jackets that had a fur outline surrounding the hood. "well young man not to disrespect your previous choice in clothing but this makes you look very respectable, I'm not sure about the fur hood but each to their own I suppose."
Naruto just smiled at the masked man playing with the zipper of his hoodie as he did. "Hey you're the one selling them." Ryu just chuckled and lead Naruto to the counter. Something caught Naruto's eye from his peripheral vision as they walked through an aisle labelled as 'chakra conductive weaponry' Naruto walked over and standard into a glass cabinet at a pair of special kunai, they had four finger holes in the handle, with a single serrated edge both being slightly longer than regular kunai but shorter than you're standard tanto. 'Scan' he had to know more about these weapons that seemed to just call to him.
Chakra Blades (Chakra conductive Trench knives)
Made from highly chakra conductive metal. Possible to infuse chakra into blades to increase damage, piercing ability and length.
Added bonus, highly compatible with Kazenokami no Nagare, increases experience gain by 10%
Seeing this Naruto's eyed began to sparkle and a small amount of drool began to leak from his mouth splattering onto the glass cabinet. Seeing this dry smile came to Ryu's face underneath his mask. He quickly bonked Naruto on the back of the head. "Brat please don't drool on the merchandise like a pervert in a bath house." This quickly brought Naruto out of his stupor.
"Please, please, please….. PPPLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEE can I have them." Naruto was somehow bouncing up and down with excitement while on all fours begging the shop owner.
Ryu was stunned he didn't know why the young blonde was so drawn to the chakra blades but had to admit he had good taste, he had made these blades for asuma sarutobi years ago before he went to join the twelve guardians. Unfortunately he left the village before they were completed. "Hmm I suppose I could give them to you, the person who commissioned them doesn't want them. Sure go on then son you can take them, but you better look after them, I made those myself and if I find out you lost or broke them , I'm gonna be pissed." He finished giving Naruto a glare that sent shivers down the young man's spine as he could swear he could see a dragon glaring at him behind the old shop keepers emerald green eyes.
Naruto took the weapons out of the cabinet and along with everything else he had collected walked over to the counter placing them down as Ryu walked behind. "So how much is it Ryu-jisan?" Naruto fumbled for Gama-chan taking out all the money he had and scattering it onto the countertop.
Ryu was surprised he assumed the boy would just let the hokage pay for everything. "You don't have to give me this Naruto Hokage-sama has agreed to pay for everything."
"I wanna pay for the chakra blades, I don't need them really I and can't ask the hokage pay for them knowing that." Ryu had to admit he was impressed by the young man; he didn't really want to tell Naruto that the blades that are worth much more than that if he tried to sell them.
"Very well, that amount should cover the blades, okay so with the 3 packs of twenty shuriken another twenty kunai, chakra weights all the clothes and the two field kits that should come to, 15000 ryo." Naruto paled at the amount of money he would be in debt to the Hokage.
"Don't worry Naruto I'm sure you'll earn enough money to pay that off soon enough." Ryu eye smiled much in the same that kakashi did though with both eyes. "Now Naruto I want you to train hard and become a strong ninja, the hokage seems to have faith in you and if that old crone does then so do I."
"Of course I will Ryu-jisan, I will become strong enough to protect all of those precious to me and pay back everything I owe to Jiji-san, and everyone in this village." Naruto face took a darker shadow upon it at the last part but Ryu paid it no mind.
"Naruto if you ever feel like you need some pointers on how to use your new weapons your welcome to come round in the evening and I will give you some pointers, that's when I train my niece. I believe she was in the year above you in the academy as she graduated last year."
"Sure Ryu-jisan, I wanna go train though gotta make sure I'm ready for the team selection tomorrow. I'll be sure to come visit." With that Naruto bolted off hoping to get some training in before it got too late in the day.
Ryu just returned to his counter. 'That boy should become something special.'
Naruto arrived in a clearing in the woods just outside the main part of the village. He had gained some experience from finishing the quest as soon as he had left the sharpened leaf, he hadn't levelled but wasn't bothered he didn't expect to with so little experience. Naruto quickly looked through the gear he had bought, looking around to make sure that no one was near he changed from his old orange clothes and placed on his new outfit zipping the hoodie up about half way and then quickly tying the headband he received for passing around his left bicep.
He then opened up the Kazenokami no Nagare scroll the hokage had allowed him to take. He read through the scroll taking time to memorise all of the forms and katas, the scroll gave information about the different ways to train the body of the user in order to utilise the style to its fullest potential. He kept reading through the scroll, one of the sections described feeling the air waves produced by the enemy's attacks allowing the user to evade and counter easily, it also had a section describing the usage and some forms and katas needed to utilise small weapons normally smaller than a tanto.
PING
Kazenokami no Nagare's level goes up by one due to skill book being read
Kazenokami no nagare [passive] Lv2 ExP: 0.0
5.5% increase in physical attack speed and damage
Smiling Naruto closed the window pleased that his Scan ability had yet to lie to him about anything. He decided that before it got too late he would go through the kata's of his new taijutsu. Before that though he quickly put on his new chakra weights 'okay so the way Ryu-jisan described it I have channel a small amount of chakra into the weights and they will automatically set themselves to a weight best suited to increase Naruto's strength, they would slowly increase while he slept and could be deactivated by sending another pulse of chakra to them. Naruto activated the chakra weights with his arms instantly dropping to his sides and knees buckling slightly. Taking a second to flex his arms and legs adjusting to the new weight Naruto took a quick glance at the scroll then putting it away and setting into the basic kata and began moving through the forms.
After around two hours Naruto stood in the clearing his brow covered in sweat arms and legs aching from the exercise, he had just finished going through the katas for what seemed to be the hundredth time, he wanted to continue but his muscles screamed at him and he knew they needed to cool down. Knowing this he sat down under a tree the sun had gone down about an hour ago yet it was a full moon so there was plenty of light in his would be training area.
PING
Due to diligent training and practise Strength stat +1, Speed stat +1
"Wha!? I can increase my stats through training? Actually that makes perfect sense I must be an idiot I swear I don't know how people put up with me being that stupid sometimes…. Oh wait they don't." Naruto frowned realising he was an idiot and even if people had been cruel to him over the years, he had driven a lot of his classmates away through sheer stupidity.
Feeling like he needed to increase his knowledge a bit more he decided to read the hokage's scroll about chakra.
Chakra is the energy all shinobi use to power their techniques, strengthen their muscles and even enhance their senses. This energy can be separate into two forms, physical and spiritual. A ninja can increase the amount of physical energy available to them through training, stimulants and exercise. A ninja can increase their spiritual energy through studying, meditation and experience.
Once the chakra has been moulded and channelled through the bodies Tenketsu points. The most common method to manipulate chakra is to use hand seals. The possibilities through manipulating chakra have shown to be limitless with no known end to the possible uses for chakra.
Chakra control is what we use to refer to an individual's ability to control specific amounts of their own chakra. Chakra is taken by extracting energy from the user's cells for the physical aspect and their consciousness then mixing them together within their body. General training methods to increase one's chakra control would be the leaf floating technique, tree climbing technique and finally the water walking technique. (Information on each is listed below)
The higher forms of chakra control are known as shape transformation though this is not needed until your control improves.
Most ninja have a natural affinity to one type of chakra; these affinities are known as Suiton, Katon, Futon, Raiton and finally Doton. These five are water, fire, wind, lightning and earth respectively. Each of these affinities are stronger or weaker than another, with water beating fire which beats wind which negates lightning, that is able to pierce earth which can easily block water.
There are also abilities known as Kekkei Genkai which can mix certain elemental chakra e.g. the Hyoton release was known to be able to combine wind and water chakra to create and manipulate ice. The Shodaime was famous for being able to combine water and earth chakra to create wood with Mokuton release.
Naruto sat there after reading feeling like his mind had just absorbed a bit too much knowledge for one sitting, he didn't understand all of it so decided to read through again slower this time to make sure he understood it all.
After reading through the scroll several more times he felt like he had finally understood most of the scroll. He still didn't fully understand the whole Kekkei Genkai thing but he got the feeling that no one really did. Leaning back against the tree he let all the knowledge sink in mulling it over in his mind.
PING
'Due to diligent study Intelligence stat +1, Chakra control stat +1
"Well that makes sense, if I get stronger from training I suppose I'd get smarter through studying, the chakra control thing is a nice bonus as well. I'll get started on the chakra control tomorrow but it looks like I was reading that for quite a while.' The moon was high in the sky and Naruto guessed it to be around midnight, he took to walking home though having recovered a lot didn't really feel like jumping around at that moment in time. Just as he was about to leave the 'training' area he seemed to walk face first into an invisible barrier and falling flat on his backside.
"Oww what the fuck is this shit?" Naruto was holding his nose and looking to the 'wall' he had walked into. 'Scan' the information on the barrier in front of him revealed itself. "Okay so this is a barrier for an Level 1 dungeon." He took a few steps back and turned around facing the clearing around him. He looked around not finding anything; he focussed on his hearing trying to find anything out of the ordinary. Quickly losing his temper the blonde yelled out. "Whatever the fuck is causing this better show yourself right now!"
PING
Would you like to begin Level 1 dungeon?
Yes or No
"well that doesn't sound good at all, though it sounds like it's below my level so I should be okay, but seriously this thing couldn't wait til I was recovered." Naruto checked himself over; his stamina had mostly recovered from the earlier training. He reached into hoodie to touch his holster that he had wrapped around his shoulders; he grabbed both of his chakra blades and placed his fingers through them. Holding the one in his right hand in a reverse grip and the left in a standard grip like the scroll instructed.
"Fuck it yes" he may as well have smashed his fist through the yes button. At first nothing happened but then the ground started to crack in some places. "Well this is gonna be interesting at least." He dropped into his fighting stance and dash into an open clearing with no cracks.
The cracks burst open and five blue bugs burst from the ground hovering slightly in the air. Naruto visible had to gulp, he looked at the five bugs that looked to be as long as his legs and more mouth than body. 'those things are bigger than most dogs, what the hell is this?' panicking Naruto fumbled his speech before. "Scan, scan NOW!'
PING
Bug Bite:
Bug monster with minor flight capabilities, fly around in groups of two to five, can inflict poison with their needles and teeth.
All stats below genin level baring speed which is mid genin level
Having a decent idea of his opponent's capabilities Naruto knew what he needed to do, he quickly threw several shuriken at the group of bugs, they all managed to dodge. Fortunately that was Naruto's plan as he had managed to separate the bugs from one another he pulsed chakra to his legs and dashed forward to meet the left most bug which was furthest from the rest. The bug turned to see him coming straight on it opened its mouth to reveal several six inch long teeth dripping with a purple-green liquid, the bug tried to snap at Naruto, but he had slid underneath the bug stabbing his reverse gripped blade into the bugs carapace, using it as leverage flip himself upright and slamming the bug down to the ground. Realising it was dead Naruto turned to see the rest of the bugs flying towards him at a reasonable speed, knowing their speed wasn't that great he took out some more shuriken and dashed forward barrelling straight into one of the bugs slamming it away from the other three at which point he turned and threw the shuriken at one of the bugs clipping it's wings causing it drop to the ground injured but not defeated. Refocussing his attention on the bug he slammed into he saw it flying slowly towards him though looking a bit stunned and wobbling in its flight. Naruto simply waited for it to get near and with two parallel slashed from his blades bisected the bug in two before it could even open its mouth to snap at him.
The two remaining bugs able to fly had risen to about eighteen feet in the sky before dive bombing directly towards Naruto who back flipped out of the way as they crashed into the ground before springing off as soon as he landed seeing one of the bugs teeth dug into the ground launched himself at it but feeling a slight air wave from his right side ducked to avoid the other bug before countering with a spin kick that caught it full in the undercarriage and splattered it leaving blue blood on his leg.
"I swear to kami that better wash out, I just bought this stuff." Seeing the bug with its teeth still stuck in the ground begin to vibrate Naruto jumped backwards before it released a dark yellow gas into its immediate surroundings.
'Scan' the information revealed the gas to be a smokescreen attack of the bugs that had a slight paralytic agent to it. Being wary of the bugs' movements Naruto circled around before he found the previously injured bug crawling towards him at a jogging pace, he merely tossed a single kunai towards it which hit it square in the carapace where it slumped over leaking the blue liquid across the dirt.
Turning to the final bug he could hear it struggling in the smokescreen so he just waited for the smoke to dissipate, when It did it revealed the bug still with its teeth stuck in the ground not taking any chances Naruto dashed forward as quickly as he could and cut the bug in half with a quick downward slash. With all the bugs defeated Naruto let out a sigh of relief.
PING
5 bug bites defeated 300 ExP gained
Loot remaining: 3 Antidote, 1 Paralysing Poison Vial 500 ryo
"Loot? Wonder where it is?" Just as he finished speaking the window closed revealing three green lights and one purple and one gold light floating at arm's reach in front of him. He naturally reached out and touched the lights where they proceeded to fly into one of the pockets on the inside of his jacket. He reached inside to find four vials of liquid in the pocket and Gama-chan was a bit fuller. "Okay that's useful I guess." He started walking towards the edge of the clearing hoping to leave the 'dungeon'.
PING
Level up: level 3 obtained
+10 stat points to allocate.
"Thank god this was all worth something at least. Status screen" he looked through his screen wondering on which stats to level up.
Naruto Uzumaki: level 3
Age: 13
Strength: 10, Speed: 9, Defence: 6, Stamina: 12, Chakra: 24 (+255), Chakra control: 8, Endurance: 7, Intelligence: 10, Charisma: 9, Vitality: 10, Stealth: 10
Bijuu control: 0%
"Okay so my increases from training and reading the scroll have already been applied, guess I could increase my speed some more seeing as all I know at the moment is taijutsu, though if I increase my strength I can increase the damage output." Naruto stood there pondering what to do for the time being. He decided to put three points into strength and four into speed leaving them both at thirteen. He decided to save the other three for a later time when he could think over it more.
Walking towards the edge of the clearing he reached his hand out to make sure he wouldn't walk face first into another invisible barrier. Sure enough his hand came into contact with the barrier. "oh come on I beat the bugs what else could I have to do." He walked around scratching the back of his head in thought. "There must be another monster or something that I need to defeat."
Jumping up to the top of a large boulder nearby he looked around and seeing the trees rustling to his left hand side. He threw two shuriken in the direction of the rustling, at first nothing happened there was merely dead silence in the clearing as it seemed everything had stopped. Then there was earth-shaking roar that shook all the trees around where Naruto had thrown the shuriken. Naruto could feel the power behind the roar and fell into a position described in the scroll to give the best evasive movement. He reached for a kunai to throw at the first thing he saw.
Before he could even get his hand into the pouch a huge lizard came marching out of the woods, it must have been at least fifteen meters tall and stood on two hind legs with two smaller arms hanging in front of it. It had a huge head and jaw with hundreds of razor sharp teeth; it also happened to have a single shuriken embedded in its left eye. Naruto winced at the sight of the monster. 'Nope, nope not happening this is all a dream, there are no such things as giant lizards that could crush me with one foot or eat me or crush me then eat me.' At this point the lizard breather a stream of fire in Naruto's direction aiming to roast the blonde where he stood. Naruto just leaped to the side and landed in the clearing a good distance from the monster. 'Or crush me and cook me then eat me.' Feeling the heat from the flames Naruto had to accept that this was in fact real. He gathered his courage and prepared to fight the lizard. 'Scan'
PING
T-Rexaur:
Alive since the beginning of time, it's strength and vitality are extremely high it's better to run if you encounter one.
Jounin level strength and high chunin level vitality, all other stats low genin level.
Naruto just gawked at the screen in front of him. "What the fuck is this some kind of boss battle, how the hell am I meant to beat this? And why is it telling me to run away when I'm stuck here."
PING
Scan's level goes up by one, more information on designated target available to user.
"Not now you stupid thing." Naruto closed the window so he could concentrate on the monster. Realising more information is never a bad thing Naruto quickly scanned the T-Rexaur again. Looking over the new information Naruto was surprised to find a small description of the monsters weakness. 'Okay so its weakness is its underbelly and its speed which is almost non-existent. Guess that means I can deal some major damage with a few well-placed strikes there." Stretching his legs out and settling into his evasion form he waited for the Rexaur to attack.
The monster charged at Naruto resembling a freight train, a very toothy train that looked like it was incredibly hungry. Naruto quickly sent a pulse of chakra to the weights on his wrists and ankles before dashing away at a speed Naruto had never felt before, he bolted to the Rexaur blindside and as it turned to face him he had ran straight underneath and jumped up using its own leg as a springboard where he then planted both of the blades into the lizards chest just below its ribcage and dragged them downwards as he fell leaving a near two meter long gash in the beasts torso hearing its pain filled roar so close Naruto began to tremble. He didn't see the leg coming never mind the clawed foot that caught him full on with Naruto barely blocking the worst of the damage with his left arm, which just happened to produce a very audible snap as Naruto skipped across the ground away from the Rexaur, the beast continued to roar and thrash around in pain.
Naruto tried to lift himself up off of the ground groaning from the pain shooting up and down his left arm, he glared at the beast seeing the large wound on its chest. 'oh come on that must have done some damage but it only looks like a scratch at that thing' Naruto growled at his own weakness, there was no fear though he swore to himself he would grow strong to protect his precious people and he wouldn't allow some jumped up gecko to end his life here. 'I can't deal enough damage to this thing to put it down.' Looking at blades in his hands he suddenly remembered what information his scan ability had given him about the blades. 'Okay there was something written about increasing the length and damage I can increase' he wracked his brain trying to remember what to do. 'It said something about infusing chakra into the blade I wonder if that'll work.'
Seeing the monster still thrashing around Naruto tried channelling chakra into his right-hand blade it took a moment but slowly a blue shroud surrounded the knife. 'No this won't do it needs to be longer, sharper.' The shroud began to thin and lengthen along the blade til it resembled a small beam of blue vapour pouring out from the blade. 'Sharper this won't do any damage.' Focussing everything he could into sharpening the chakra. It started to thin out but this time it stayed the same length but the blue shroud took on a more angular shape as the density of the chakra increased. It slowly took on the form of a two and a half foot long blade extending out from the knife which was effectively a handle at this point.
PING
A skill has been created through a specific action.
A skill to increase the density, length and shape of user chakra, 'Chakra Formation' has been created.
Chakra Formation [active] Lv1 ExP: 0.0
Looking at it Naruto couldn't help but feel proud of himself slightly those thought were quickly dashed as the Rexaur appeared to have regained some form of control. It turned to Naruto and let loose another roar before a stream of fire shot towards Naruto. Naruto quickly dashed out of the way using his newly upgraded speed. He avoided the snaps from the Rexaur's jaws while slashing with his chakra at the beast leaving small gashes and cuts on the beasts face. The Rexaur just span and went to whip its tail at the young blonde, Naruto jumped over the tail though had to wince at the pain coming from his arm. Landing back on the ground Naruto saw the Rexaur stumble after missing its attack so bolted in under it again. Knowing the beast probably wouldn't allow it uses its leg as a platform again he focussed chakra into his legs augmenting his jumping power, he leapt like a flash towards the beasts under belly and aimed the chakra blade into its torso impaling it with the blade, the beast roared again but still didn't fall so Naruto pumped as much chakra as he could into the blade, the blades length increased before it burst out the other side of the Rexaur before Naruto swept it to the side cutting it through and taking its arm off as well.
Naruto fell to the ground panting from sheer exhaustion both physical and in using nearly all of his chakra to maintain the blade and then lengthen it so much while keeping the density. He just smiled knowing he had won, what he didn't notice until it was too late was the large corpse of the Rexaur falling towards him. 'Oh come on.'
The force off the fall sent a shudder through the ground of the clearing.
Naruto woke up in a pitch black corridor with the only light being a small red pulse in the distance. He felt groggy and could barely keep his eyes awake. "Ugh I feel like hell, and where on earth am I?"
Feeling like he was drawn to the light he started walking towards it, as he was walking he noticed the ground under his feet was a pool of water around an inch or so deep. As he kept walking the water got deeper and deeper, by the time he entered the huge room where the red light had come from the water had reached to his knees.
But before he could question that a huge red-eye opened up to look at him from behind a huge cage that put the Rexaur's size to shame. The eye seemed to be looking the boy up and down, as it closed Naruto felt a wave of killing intent flood over him, he fell backwards as his knees buckled and gave out.
Naruto couldn't help but shake on the ground before the killing intent faded only to be replaced by a demonic laughter that seemed to ring through his ears and shake his very mind. Naruto tried to see where the laughter was coming from when suddenly all the laughter stopped when the eye opened again. "Be gone human come back when you've proven yourself worthy of my power." Without any notice a red almost malevolent shroud blasted Naruto backwards into the corridor once again as the red light faded and Naruto fell into unconsciousness.
Author's note:
10000 fists requested/recommended I put Naruto's stats at the end of the chapter so I figured I would oblige.
Naruto Uzumaki: level 3
Age: 13
Strength: 13
Speed: 13
Defence: 6
Stamina: 12
Chakra: 24 (+255)
Chakra control: 8
Endurance: 7
Intelligence: 10
Charisma: 9
Vitality: 10
Stealth: 10
Bijuu control: 0%
Skill list:
Scan: lv 2
Free running; lv 2
God wind flow: lv 2
Chakra formation: lv 1
About Naruto's skills, I won't be giving him a ridiculous amount as I've read a few fic with a Naruto that had an arsenal of just and the author seemed to forget most of the interesting ones, I also need to re-iterate that Naruto will not be OP in this fic as I find those type get boring fast and I'm hoping to make this one quite long in length.
Also I don't have a beta and hate reading my own stuff so there may be a few spelling errors or random symbols in the text, but nothing that shows up on auto-correct.
Until next time Smogged Troll