"Why can't I get it?" Naruto asked in annoyance "IT IS ONE STUPID JUTSU! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY." The young boy's screaming continued on and on and on, echoing throughout the forest. The special test required him to learn at least one Jutsu to pass, if Naruto did that then he would become a genin and a true ninja unfortunately he couldn't get ANY of them to work.
"Forget it" Naruto mumbled weakly, he had been at it for several hours and nothing was working he would just go home.
In another world Naruto would have learnt a Jutsu or two or thee, there are a lot of worlds out there. However in this world he didn't learn anything, the scroll did not give him anything and Naruto was a failure so it was with a dejected heart that he trudged home. In another world Mizuki and Iruka would have shown up and the secret of the fox would have been given, in this world Naruto left a few minutes before they showed up and they never saw him. Naruto made his way home, not even paying attention to the streets, as he got inside he just fell on the floor and started to cry.
"Why am I so pathetic?" he cried aloud "why why why why why?"
If this was anyone else, nothing would have happened and Naruto would have gone to sleep like the pathetic little loser he really is, but this isn't someone else this is Naruto, the main character. Naruto wasn't allowed to realise how pathetic he really was, he wasn't allowed to be average he had to be better than average he had to be the best, most of all he had to be different and interesting this lead to someone interfering.
"Yo midget what's up?" a voice asked.
Looking up in shock Naruto saw...something? Standing there. He would call it a person maybe but the form wasn't consistent. It was fat and thin, tall and short, black and white, male and female, it was all of these and more at the same time. "What are you?" Naruto eventually asked.
It smirked, this was the only constant feature on it's being, it smirked "well midget I'm what's known as a god and you are interesting so I'm gonna mess with your life, alter the very fabric of time and give you a gift."
"Huh?" was Naruto's eloquent response.
It sighed "let's try this a different way. Me god. You midget. Me come with gift. Gift for you. Understand?""
"I'm not an idiot" Naruto frowned.
"Sure you aren't" It said obviously humouring him "any way I'm a great god so here's what I'll do I'll give you a choice of three gifts you can have the ability to manipulate and alter your body at will, you can have an awesome weapon I have lying around somewhere that's just collecting dust or you could have a lollipop. Personally id pick the lollipop."
Naruto however only caught onto two simple words 'awesome weapon' "What kind of weapon? Is it strong? Is it big I bet it looks so cool" he said stars in his eyes.
It rolled it's eyes "no one ever picks the lollipop" it muttered "well brat what I'm gonna give you is a sword made out of a rare, unknown, ultra secret material which doesn't exist. It's made out of dun dun dun" here It paused for dramatic effect "iron and it's just a huge fucken sword, seriously it's bigger than most people, I doubt you could lift it but as I said it was just laying around picking up dust so now it's yours" It stated dropping a huge sword on the ground in front of Naruto.
"AWEOME" Naruto screamed eyeing the sword and trying to pick it up.
"Don't bother midget you won't even be able to lift it" It stated.
Naruto didn't even hear It and just struggled with the sword, pushing all of his strength into it he slowly, very very slowly managed to raise it a few centimetres from the ground, then a metre until finally he was able to place it over his shoulder. It was an amusing sight, Naruto was carrying a sword bigger than he was and he could barely stand his legs were shaking so much. "How do I look? I bet I look real awesome now" Naruto grinned.
It grinned "you know what midget you don't look too pathetic I'll give you another gift, no I won't tell you what it is but I think you'll like it anyway I have to go there's a group of people trying to summon a demon on the other side of the world, I always loved cultists" It said before it just disappeared.
Naruto ignored It's disappearance and stared at his awesome new sword, it was way to big for him but there was no doubt in his mind he looked awesome with it. "People will have to think I'm cool now" Naruto grinned as he gave the sword an experimental swing and fell face forward "or maybe when I can actually use it" he mused.
Several experimental swings later and with his arms feeling like they'll fall off Naruto eventually fell asleep, the huge sword resting on him.
As he slept Naruto's body was hard at work. Just picking up the sword had strained his muscles and created micro-fractures in his bones, swinging it had made the damage worse and then the idiot had fallen asleep with the sword on him it was literally crushing him. Naruto's body should have been destroyed beyond repair but he was not normal he was a Jinchuriki and a main character. As Naruto slept his body set to work, it harassed all of it's chakra and even a little of the Kyuubi's chakra and began to heal the damage. Healing it wasn't enough though as with all of our bodies it improved it's self, it adapted so that the damage would not happen again. Well that was the idea but the sword was just too heavy.
...
The next morning Naruto woke up "food" he grumbled as he rolled out from under the huge sword and made his way to his fridge. Not seeing anything to eat he decided to go out, grabbing his huge sword and stumbling under the weight a bit he made his way out, Naruto didn't even realise that while it was still heavy he wasn't struggling with it as much as he did the night before.
"Ten ramen" Naruto ordered as he walked into Ichiraku Ramen.
"Naruto what are you doing here?' Ayame asked in shock "and where did you get that sword?"
Naruto blinked slowly at her, his stomach demanded sustenance "food" he groaned.
"Naruto the ANBU are looking for you I think it's serious." Ayame tried again.
"Too hungry" Naruto groaned again "food now, ANBU later."
Ayame sighed in exasperation "fine whatever" she growled "who cares if you get into trouble what do I care I'm only your friend."
Naruto ignored Ayame and waited impatiently for his food to arrive, once it did he dug in with more gusto than he ever had before and within seconds all ten bowls were devoured "more" he ordered. Giving a sigh Ayame made him another ten, and another ten, after forty bowls he was finally slowing down. If one was observant enough they would have noticed that as Naruto ate his body changed, he became slightly taller, his muscles more pronounced and he filled out properly. Ramen wasn't the best of foods but his body was working overtime taking everything it could and using it to help him adapt, become stronger and faster.
"Thanks Ayame that was great" Naruto grinned after he had finished all forty bowls.
"Oh so you're actually talking to me now?" Ayame asked "not just demanding more food?"
Naruto paled "I'm sorry I was just so hungry and I couldn't think and umm...ahhhh...sorry" Naruto said nervously sweating bullets.
Ayame giggled "relax I understand forty bowls is a lot even for you you must have been starving, I'll forgive you this time if you go and speak with the ANBU they're looking for you after all."
"There is no need for that" came an old voice and Naruto turned to see the Hokage standing there.
"Jiji sorry about last night" Naruto grinned.
The Hokage frowned "Naruto what possessed you to steal the forbidden scroll?"
Ayame gasped "you-you actually stole the forbidden scroll? That's treason."
Naruto frowned "I was just doing the test."
"What test?" the Hokage asked taking a seat next to Naruto.
"You know the secret test. If you steal the forbidden scroll and can learn a Jutsu from it you automatically pass the graduation exam. Mizuki-sensei told me all about it" Naruto explained.
Ayame frowned, it sounded suspicious to her and she was going to voice her thoughts when a glance from the Hokage silenced her. "And how did it go did you learn a justu?" he asked Naruto kindly.
Naruto shook his head instantly dejected "they were too hard and I couldn't understand most of the words used" he muttered. "I failed."
"Where's the scroll now?"
"it's back at my place just take it" Naruto muttered "maybe I'll become a genin next time."
The Hokage nodded at a hidden ANBU, sending him to go and collect the scroll. "That's a big sword you have there" he eventually said.
Naruto's mood instantly did a one eighty "I know isn't it awesome" he grinned picking it up.
The Hokage nodded "mind if I hold it for a second?" he asked reaching out for it. Naruto nodded and handed him the sword, it took all of the Hokage's strength not to just drop it on the ground, the weight was ridiculous. "how does Naruto even carry this?" he thought to himself. "Even I am struggling to hold the thing with one hand, he shouldn't be able to do it with two. I wonder maybe this could work." "You know there is a week until the team assignments are handed out if you prove yourself I may be able to promote you" he said slowly.
"Really?" Naruto asked excitedly "what do I have to do? I'll do anything?"
"Do you know what a Gravity seal is?" the Hokage asked knowing the answer would be no.
"No" Naruto said shaking his head.
"Well it's a seal that can be used to regulate an items weight, it is normally used for training weights. A gravity seal can be used to increase or decrease the weight so what I propose is this you are to make gravity seals on your sword" the Hokage explained.
"Why would I do that?" Naruto asked confused.
"If you can master them then you can decrease the weight of the sword for faster attacks and increase it so there is more force behind your attacks."
"So then I'll be even more bad-ass?" Naruto asked excitedly.
The Hokage shook his head "not necessarily you still have to learn how to use it properly."
Naruto just grinned lost in his own little world where he swung his sword around and whole armies lay defeated. After a few minutes of this a thought came to him "how do I create the seal?"
The Hokage smirked "you'll have to find it out on your own. This test is to prove your resourcefulness above all else. You have one week" he said before getting up and leaving to go hunt down Mizuki, he made sure to leave the sword leaning against the counter.
"Awww man this stinks where am I going to learn how to make a seal?" Naruto grumbled.
"What about the library?" Ayame asked. Naruto just banged his head against the counter, repeatedly. "They don't let you in?" Ayame asked.
Naruto shook his head "no it's just soooooo booooring."
Ayame glared at him "no ramen until you're a genin" she threatened. Naruto was out the door before she even finished the sentence "he is so cute when he's scared" she giggled before going back to work.
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Naruto was in the library furiously looking through book after book, he needed to find one on sealing, the ramen was at stake here.
"What the 'ell do ya think ya doing brat?" a voice growled out from behind him. Turning around Naruto saw that the owner of the voice was a small man covered in burns and scars, one of his eyes was missing leaving a disgusting hole in it's place. "Well what are ya doing?" the man growled.
Naruto turned back to the bookcases and kept searching "I need to find out how to make gravity seals" Naruto said "for the ramen."
"So ya decided to throw all the books all over the place? The man asked voice laced with anger. Naruto ignored him. "Pick up all the books ya damn brat!" the old man shouted radiating killing intent.
"And if I don't?" Naruto asked still searching for the right book.
"Guess I won't lend ya ma book on seals then" the old man smirked before he blinked at the suddenly tidied up books.
"Really you'll lend it to me?" Naruto asked hopefully.
"Why should I lend ya ma book?" the old man growled out.
"Awww come on old man I need it" Naruto whined "for the ramen."
"What do I get outta it?" the old man asked "if ya want something ya must give something in return."
"What do you want? I'll do anything anything" Naruto said desperately.
"Follow me brat and try not to dawdle" the old man growled out before turning and walking out of the library. Naruto followed a few seconds later.
"Where are we going? What are we gonna do? What's your name? Will you teach me gravity seals? How'd you lose your eye?" Naruto asked rapid fire.
The old man whirled around and smacked Naruto over the head "shut up brat and as to what ya will be doing. Ya just agreed to be ma research assistant slash test subject" the old man smirked.
"Test subject? Research assistant? For what?" Naruto asked confused as he rubbed his head lightly, to be honest the smack didn't hurt Naruto was only rubbing it in reflex.
"I like to experiment and see the limits of what ya can do with chakra and as a result ma research assistants tend to be...short lived. Ya are ma new one. If you last the day then I'll show ya how to make gravity seals. If ya don't then I'll make sure to at least bury ya body."
How bad could it be? Naruto thought to himself as he followed the old man. Oh how Naruto would regret that thought.
…
Naruto was sent flying backwards as another rock golem sent him flying, this was the third time in a minute. "how hard could it be?" he muttered as he weakly pulled himself to his feet. "As it turns out it can be very hard." he was barely able to roll out of the way of the next attack. Thirty minutes this had been going on, thirty minutes of being attacked by rock, mud and earth golems all doing their best to smash Naruto to a paste. The rock golems were slow but they were very strong, the mud golems could change forms and thus were unpredictable and the earth golems were able to reform themselves somewhere else making it hard to keep track of them.
"Is that all ya got brat?" the old man laughed from atop a nearby rock golem.
"Screw you old man" Naruto cursed as he swung his sword, barely damaging an earth golem.
"Hahahaha ya still got the energy to be talking back? I like ya kid it looks like I got ma self a permanent test subject slash research assistant" the old man cackled.
"Fine fine just call off the bloody things" Naruto begged before taking a hit to the gut.
The old man smirked and with a small movement of his hand and a burst of chakra all the golems fell apart leaving a scroll in their place.
"how did you do that?" Naruto gasped as he weakly tried to stand up.
"I used earth, mud and rock clones altered with fuinjutsu to make them more versatile" the old man stated. "The fuinjutsu made the rock clones bigger to better use their strength, increased the mud clones versatility and made it so that an earth clone can regenerate while it is touching the earth it appears the regeneration also allows it to reform elsewhere. Now pick up all of ma scrolls ya lazy brat" he ordered.
Groaning Naruto moved to do as he was told "why were they so weirdly shaped then? I thought clones were supposed to look like the person."
"i see ya aren't as stupid as ya look. Clones look like the creator because that is easiest for the creator. Ma clones look different because I have the chakra control to make them look different. By doing this people are less likely to blame me for them as several versions of me aren't running around attacking people."
"Can you teach me that?" Naruto asked hopefully as he eventually got all of the scrolls.
"You want it ya got to earn it brat and ya payment for today was gravity seals remember?" the old man said snatching the scrolls from Naruto's hands.
"Oh right come on show me. What do I have to do? Is it hard? Do I need some special chakra ability to make seals. Will this make my sword as light as a feather? Show me." Naruto said instantly hyper again.
The old man rolled his eyes and pulled a plain piece of paper and a pencil out of one of his pockets. Two seconds of drawing later he handed it to Naruto showing him a symbol. "Gravity seals are actually two seals this one increases the objects weight and" here he drew another symbol "this decreases the weight. How a gravity seal works is ya place them on an item and then if ya want it heavier you pump chakra to the heavy seal, if you want it lighter ya pump chakra to the light seal. The more chakra ya pump the more the weight changes and it only lasts as long as ya are pumping the chakra to it. To place the seals on an object it depends on what ya wish to place them on, as ya wish to place them on ya sword ya will need to get an engraving kit and carve them into the blade. They are pretty simple seals but be careful when you carve them if ya do it wrong then ya can make anything happen."
"Thanks old man" Naruto grinned as he jumped around excitedly.
The old man grinned the brat was entertaining at the least. "If ya ever need anything brat then make ya way to the Intelligence Division and ask for Vaurien, tell them ya are ma research assistant. If ya are willing to work I'll be willing ta help ya" the old man, Vaurien said.
"Thanks old man" Naruto shouted before he began to run off, his next stop a weapons shop.
"Just what are ya planning Hiruzen?" Vaurien asked himself.
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"You want an engraving kit so that you can place a seal on your huge ass sword?" the shop owner asked slowly.
"Yup" Naruto grinned "Jiji said if I do it then I'll be made a genin."
"Have you even practised with the seal? Like at all?" the owner asked.
"I'll be fine" Naruto grinned "now how much for the kit?"
The owner sighed, the kid wasn't even a ninja yet. ""You do know the chances of you killing yourself are extremely high don't you?"
"I'll be fine" Naruto said again "now how much?"
"Fifteen hundred ryo, but are you sure you don't need or want any instructions on how to use the kit?" the shop owner tried again.
Naruto handed him the ryo, his wallet was getting low but it was worth it "I'll be fine" he grinned "now the kit?"
The shop owner would have said something but he smirked as Naruto was suddenly yanked backwards. The cause was a girl with two buns in her hair, she reminded Naruto of a panda. "Hey that's a cool sword where did you get it?" she asked rapidly.
"Ah I was given it" Naruto said slowly "you're Tenten right?"
Tenten nodded "who are you again?"
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki I used to be in your class" Naruto shouted.
"Oh yeah you were the dead-last, got held back again now I remember" Tenten replied causing Naruto to droop and the shop owner to burst out laughing. "Why is your sword so huge? Can you actually use it? If you're carrying it around it can't be too heavy. I guess that means it's probably a fake" Tenten mused before snatching the sword out of Naruto's hands. A second later it hit the floor with a loud bang, leaving a huge dent, it was lucky the sword hit hilt first. Tenten and the shop owner just gaped as Naruto picked it up placing it back over his shoulder.
"You shouldn't take peoples stuff without permission" Naruto pointed out "and you even dropped it."
"How are you even able to carry that? It weighs a ton" Tenten said in shock.
"It's not that hard to carry" Naruto said cluelessly and he was right. Not that Naruto had noticed it or been smart enough to realise it but the sword had been getting easier and easier for him to carry over the course of the day. The reason for this was because his healing factor was working in overdrive to heal the muscle strain, micro-fractures and other injuries he got from just carrying the sword. By now he was only struggling a little bit to carry it two handed. A result of this though was that Naruto's body needed food which is why he was pushing for the carving kit, the sooner he made the seals, the sooner he became a Genin and the sooner he could eat ramen. "For the ramen" he muttered.
"This is ridiculous" Tenten muttered "a mere Academy student shouldn't have so much strength."
"Maybe you're just weak?" Naruto asked.
Several things happened instantly, the shop owner moved as far away from the two as he could, Tenten let out a small growl and spears, knives and sword went flying piercing Naruto's clothes to the wall and leaving him hanging there "I am not weak" Tenten growled.
Naruto pulled the objects out of the wall easily not realising that they were almost completely buried in the wall. "you aren't so tough" he smirked "I bet I could easily beat you."
Three things happened instantly. The shop owner handed Naruto his engraving kit, Naruto found himself outside and Tenten let out a scream of rage.
"that was weird" Naruto muttered before shrugging lightly and making his way to the nearby park. It would be quicker than going home and Naruto was doing this for the ramen he couldn't delay it at all "for the ramen."
Ignoring all the people giving him dark looks Naruto calmly sat down on the grass with his huge sword in front of him "Let's see I'll do heavy on one side of the blade and light on the other" he muttered before taking out his carving kit and setting to work.
He didn't understand what the shopkeeper was going on about this was easy, the lines pretty much carved themselves. It was slow going but Naruto didn't notice the passage of the time and just kept carving his seals, one of each side of the blade. It was two hours later when he finished.
"They look right" he muttered to himself "now to test them out the old guy just said to pump chakra through the seals didn't he? Guess I'll do that."
Picking his sword up in two hands Naruto concentrated and tried to push Chakra into the seals, nothing changed. He tried again and again, pumping more and more chakra into the seals but nothing changed, he pumped in so much that the seals started to give off their own light. "Why isn't it working?" he growled out in frustration.
"You are supposed to pump chakra into only one of the seals you idiot" came Tenten's voice.
Naruto turned around to see her standing there with a smirk on her face "what are you doing here?" he asked in annoyance.
"Well when I saw you trying to carve the seals into your sword I decided to watch, I was surprised by how fast and clean your lines were you must be a fuinjutsu natural or something" Tenten said. "Then imagine my surprise when you finish it and pump chakra into both of the seals. You're a bit of an idiot aren't you."
"I'm not an idiot" Naruto yelled.
Tenten rolled her eyes "one seal lightens it one makes it heavier by pumping Chakra into both seals the weight stays the same. Idiot."
"Oh right" Naruto said instantly realising she was right, a second later he stopped pumping chakra to one of the seals and found the sword go smashing into the ground, his hands stuck under the hilt. "Aaahhh I'm stuck" he screamed.
Tenten smacked him on the head "just stop pumping chakra into the seal idiot" she growled. A second later Naruto was back on his feet.
"Hey thanks you're pretty smart" he said with a small grin.
"No you're just an idiot" Tenten pointed out. "Who even uses such a large weapon anyway? Ninjas are supposed to be fast that thing is way to big and heavy to use properly."
"Says the person who can't even carry it" Naruto smirked.
Tenten's eyes took on a demonic look "that reminds me, I owe you an ass kicking" she growled.
"Bring it" Naruto grinned getting into a battle stance with his sword. Without saying anything Tenten jumped backwards and threw several kunai at Naruto only for him to move out of the way. "Too slow" he grinned before he charged forward.
Tenten smirked at his charge, it was so slow and lumbering. She pulled a staff out of nowhere and after ducking under Naruto's swing she gave it a sweep knocking Naruto off of his feet. "Too slow" she mocked.
Naruto growled in frustration and pumping chakra into his sword he lightened it and sent it flying forward. Tenten deflected it with ease. "If your sword is lighter then there is less force idiot" she smirked. Naruto would have replied but he found a kunai held at his throat, "looks like I win" Tenten announced as she was straddling Naruto.
"Just get off of me" Naruto growled.
Sighing in annoyance Tenten got up and put her kunai away "you know it's your own fault for picking a fight with someone with more experience than you" she pointed out "besides it's obvious to anyone that you have no idea how to use that sword of yours."
"And what do you know about using a sword?" Naruto growled.
"More than you do. Idiot" Tenten replied "but as to using a sword of such size and weight I know very little, you'll probably have to make up your own style if you decide to keep using such a thing."
"Whatever just you wait I'll be awesome with this sword then everyone will have to respect me" Naruto declared.
Tenten rolled her eyes "whatever you say idiot but if you are determined to make your own style for the thing I suggest you go and talk to my sensei Maito Gai he is a master of taijutsu and should have some useful pointers."
Naruto paused as he realised something very very important. He didn't know how he didn't realise it earlier. He had just put gravity seals on his sword and that meant he had passed the test. If he went to go see Jiji then he would be a genin. Once he was a genin he would be able to eat ramen again. "For the ramen" he shouted before running off to the Hokage's tower.
"Still not as strange as Lee and Gai-sensei" Tenten muttered as she watched him go.
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"Hey jiji I passed that test you gave me" Naruto shouted walking into the hokage's office.
The Hokage looked p at Naruto with a frown "you didn't get someone else to put the seals on for you did you?" he asked "because you were supposed to do it yourself."
"Of course I did the seals myself" Naruto exclaimed "they were so easy to do as well."
The Hokage stared at him for a few seconds as if trying to work out a puzzle. "You mean to tell me" he began seriously "that in half a day you found out how to make gravity seals, found out how to place them on your sword and actually did it? All without any prior experience with seals?"
"Yup" Naruto grinned "I told you I'm awesome."
the Hokage gave a small smile "very well just let me test the seals first to see if they are acceptable" he announced "please pass me your sword Naruto."
Naruto did as he was told "the seals work I already tested them out, just be sure to pump chakra to each one individually I forgot to do that" he said slightly embarrassed.
The Hokage took the sword and holding it in both hands he inspected the seal work on the blade. "Hmmm not an ideal place for the seals but acceptable. The lines are clean and perfectly proportioned. There seems to be a few additional lines that aren't in normal Gravity seals, probably Vaurien's own design. I hope I made the right choice introducing the two, so many things can go wrong but Vaurien could teach Naruto so much. Better est the seals out now" the Hokage thought before pumping chakra into the light seal. "Hmmm it's roughly ten percent lighter but the chakra required is astronomical, probably a result of the swords size and mass I better test the heavy seal now." After testing the heavy seal the Hokage gave a small nod and passed the sword back to Naruto.
"So do I pass? Am I a genin now?" Naruto asked excitedly.
"What do you think of sealing? It has many more uses than Gravity Seals, is it something you'd like to learn?" the Hokage asked ignoring Naruto's questions.
"Nah who cares about them" Naruto said "so do I pass Jiji? Come on tell me" he begged.
The Hokage gave a small smile, he wished Naruto would develop an interest in sealing but he was fine as long as Naruto was happy. "You pass" he said simply. "I'll have your forehead protector sent to you later" he didn't even finish the sentence before Naruto had run out of the office shouting something about ramen.