AN: Sorry for the info-dumps. I just decided to group them together, for the sake of finally being able to advance the plot. I'll probably change it when I rewrite this story (after it's completed). So if you're disgruntled, and manage to care enough to wait that long (self-decrepating: Hahaha, as if this story is that good.), all the more power to you.

'But this antediluvian and insouciant approach of unfettering the chakra within us all...'

So far it seemed average to me, but I was far from normal. So I decided to ask the waitress.

It was not normal after all.

Now, some of you might wonder, why the heck would I need a third opinion to spot something like that? The short answer: I'm an omniglot. Thinking back, I seem to have glossed over a lot of things still. I guess I should explain.

One of the first things the duPont's do at birth is to craft a few extra bits to the souls of the baby and change a few others. Some are needed to survive life as a duPont -You didn't think being able to stare abominations, whether Eldritch or not, in the metaphorical face came natural, did you?- and others are sheer convenience. Being an omniglot was a little bit of both. It's not like some languages could ever be understood by vanilla-flavoured humans.

It was both a blessing and a tiny little bit of a curse. On one hand, I could understand pretty much everything on first try, on the other, some things were inevitably lost in translation. In person I could pretty much rely on a person's aura to tell me what I'm missing, but with books that was a lot harder, unless a writer had truly poured their heart into it.

Well, lost in translation might not be the best turn of phrase, since I didn't actually have to translate it in my had, being naturally fluent, but it was a hell of a lot harder to read between the lines nevertheless, if only because I never had to work to learn the nuances.

But anyway, back to business. I could tick off one thing on my list now. Naruto could read, but was given exponentially harder texts than his classmates. Still the bit that I've read was correct as far as I knew.

And I knew very little, admittedly. I preferred magic over chakra. Simply because of the fact that it doesn't really have mechanics. I can just will something to happen, and if my want is strong enough, it should.

It's why I only learned some supplementary jutsu so far: the Academy Three, the Emberspitting Technique and shunshin. I made a start with chakra control exercises too, which included tree- and waterwalking, I'm not to adept at the latter when using chakra though. I've also had my affinity test, but that turned out to be a dud, if I did have an element, it hadn't manifested yet.

I was basically a mid-genin with a C-rank technique, hidden box of magic tricks not withstanding, and I liked to keep the latter that way.

A part of me was protesting against that though. Some might think it's my decency as a human being, but it was rather the opposite, it was the hedonist inside me. The small voice in the back of my head that told me to do whatever I wanted, and in this case, it was for the sake of fun.

It was my DECENCY that decided not to deliberately mess with the plot for my own amusement, and it was my DECENCY -as well as what little common sense I had left after life as a duPont- that told me introducing a new kind of power to these wartorn lands was NOT a good idea.

Still Naruto needed an edge, didn't he? And his nindo WAS to never go back on his word, he was also idealistic enough to get through with that . If I could get him to promise to not breathe a word about the true source of this power...

But he was also a bit of an idiot, so he might accidently blab about it anyway.

Meh, I'll just wait and see if he gets better about it. Until then, I'll probably just work on the worst flaws in his taijutsu and his academics. Sage knows he needed it.

Even Naruto did, after all...