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Shadow Clone Jutsu- Jutsus
Okay guys, without further delay, here is the story
FLASHBACK:
Naruto came to the hokage's office to receive the scrolls. He entered the office to see that the hokage was busy with with paperwork. But as soon as the hokage saw him, he put aside the paperwork and from his desk, took 7 scrolls and placed them on the table. He then said to Naruto with a smile, "Here are the scrolls for your training, Naruto. I will check your progress once every month. We will then see what is the best course of action to be taken with your training. Now, I will accompany you to your 'private' training area. It is the training areaa 37. It has been reserved only for you. You can use the kyuubi's chakra without anyone interfering. And I also should show you how to perform the exercises. A demonstration is in order. Now, shall we leave?" Naruto, with his biggest foxy grin said, "You are the best jiji. Come on, we can't waste any time. Let us leave, now".
The third hokage chuckled slightly before getting up from his seat and accompanied Naruto to the training ground, to begin his more serious training.
At the hidden training ground:
Naruto led the third hokage to the secluded spot behind the hokage monument. After getting there, he said, "We are here jiji. My 'secret-not-so-secret' training spot". The third chuckled at this. "What's so funny jiji?" asked the blonde. The hokage replied, "Strange that you would choose the same spot where all the previous hokages trained. Your father mastered the flying raijin. I was taught by the first and the second hokage at the same grounds Naruto". Naruto was overwhelmed by this news, hearing that previous hokages used this ground was too much for him. But, he fought down the urge to jump up and down in joy. Instead, flashing his famous foxy grin, said, "Well, add another hokage to the list jiji. The Konoha's orange hokage trained here as well". The third hokage smiled at the boy's enthusiasm and joy. Then he said, "Well Naruto, shall I demonstrate to you the exercises?" "Of course jiji", replied the blonde. "But, can you do all the exercises jiji?" asked the boy. "Of course Naruto, I had to practise a lot, but now, I can use all five basic releases", replied the hokage
"Okay Naruto, let us begin with fire manipulation. First, take a leaf in your hand and channel your chakra into it. Imagine that your chakra is heating it and add that imagination to the chakra. Then, burn the leaf with the help of it", the third said as he did the same thing. "Then, after you have mastered this, you go over to a small body of water, like a puddle or something bigger, but not too big, and try to vaporise it with your chakra. Once you managed to do that, you will have mastered the fire manipulation", he said as he demonstrated it on a big puddle of water.
"Next is the water manipulation. First step of the elemental manipulation training of water element is to make a small amount of water into a sphere using your chakra and channelling it into the water while imagining it moulding into the shape you want it to. It would be best to make it a sphere for a start", said the hokage as he demonstrated it. "Once you master that, you have do the same with a large body of water, like a pond, but not into a single sphere but multiple ones", he said as he did that too. "The highest anyone has been able to do was about 75, by the second hokage, who had the strongest water affinity among all shinobis, which allowed him to draw water from the moisture in the air", said the hokage. Naruto was awed by this and thought whether he could do it too since he had Isopu's chakra too.
"Then comes the earth element manipulation. What you have to do in the first step is, take a small rock and make it crumble using you chakra. It is the same principle as the rest", said the third while demonstrating it and continued, "then, after mastering it, you do the same with a big boulder", he said as he did that too.
"Lightening element manipulation is next. You have to take a leaf and channel chakra into it. Just like the chakra paper, it will crumple and burn. You have to imagine that you are channelling lightening to it. Then, the chakra will do its job", said the old man as he demonstrated it. "After you master that, you have to cut a log with your lightening chakra. That is the final stage", once again the hokage said as he did it. He then asked the blonde boy, "I suppose you know how to do wind manipulation training?" Naruto replied cheerfully, "Yep jiji. Just get me that waterfall and I will get to work. And what about advanced chakra control exercises?"
"Cool down Naruto, I will tell about them to you. But first, you need the waterfall", he said as he did some hand seals and called out loud, "Earth Release: Earth Style Rampart", and a huge wall of earth rose. Then the old man passed through another set of hand seals and said, "Water Release: Water Basin Jutsu", and a waterfall appeared. He did the same jutsu again, and an even bigger one appeared next to it. Then he said to Naruto, "Naruto, the bigger one is for your wind manipulation training. The smaller one is for your chakra control exercise. You have to run up and down the waterfall using your chakra. It is just like the water walking exercise. Just the next level. Then, walk up and down the wall in between the waterfalls, with waits tied down to you. Gradually increase the weights. It will not only help your chakra control, but also increases your already massive chakra quantity and stamina".
Naruto was just ecstatic about it and made the hand seals for his most favourite jutsu and said out loud, Shadow Clone Jutsu", and the next moment, 700 shadow clones were standing around the blonde haired boy and the old man hokage. He then said out loud, "Alright, split yourselves into 7 groups and get to work on the exercises, while one group works on the intermediate fuinjutsu scroll". The shadow clone army followed the order obediently and got to work.
Then Naruto looked at his grandfatherly figure and spoke, "Jiji, since I know who my parents are, is there anything that they left behind for me, you know, like for memories?" The hokage looked at Naruto and said, "Actually yes Naruto. Tomorrow, come to my office. I will give them to you". The blonde replied, "Thanks jiji, I will come tomorrow. But why tomorrow? Why not now?" The third hokage replied, "I need some time to think over some things. And don't worry, it has nothing to do with your story". Naruto then replied with a grin, "Alright jiji. I will come to your office tomorrow morning". The hokage then left the place as the original Naruto got to climbing the wall with weights tied to him.
The next day, Hokage's Office:
The hokage was sitting behind his desk and was contemplating, when suddenly the door to his office burst open as a certain blonde haired whiskered boy made a very dramatic entrance(for his age). "Naruto, you have to stop destroying the door to my office", he said as he smiled at the boy's antics. The blonde just gave his foxy grin and replied, "You know me jiji, I just can't help it. Guess, I picked it from pervy-sage". "Pervy-sage?" asked the hokage. "You know, Jiraiya, the toad sage and my godfather", said Naruto. "What a nickname", said the hokage as he chuckled at that.
"Well then, let us get back to the work in hand. ANBU's if you will", he said as he looked at the hidden ANBU's in the room. The ANBU's left the room and the hokage was about to activate the privacy seals when Naruto stopped him and said, "Jiji, I suggest you send that Root agent away too", pointing towards one of the corners of the office. The said agent, realising that he had just been caught, shunshied away. The hokage passed through variety of emotions before asking Naruto, "How did you know that he was there Naruto? Even I couldn't sense him". Naruto replied, "One of the powers of Kurama is that I can sense negative emotions, and there was a ton of it rolling off that guy". The hokage sighed and said, "Guess Danzo is up to his tricks again. I just can't stop him without reliable clues".
"Well, I'll let you and pervy-sage handle him, jiji. Now, can we get back to work?" asked the boy. The hokage nodded and activated the privacy seals. He then got up and went to the portrait of the fourth hokage. He made a small cut on his thumb, drew some blood and pressed the thumb on the frame of the portrait. The portrait, after some seconds, moved up revealing a small storage space, with 4 scrolls and some documents. He took all the things in the small storage space and placed it on his desk and locked the space again.
He then turned towards the blonde haired boy, who was watching all of this with great interest, and said, "Well Naruto, these are the things that your parents left behind for you. I will explain about them one by one". He took two scrolls which were comparatively small and said, "These are the letters that your parents wrote to you. I wouldn't exactly say wrote, because, Minato developed some kind of seal that when channelled with chakra could create writings, on anything the user was thinking. Your parents used it when they were about to die". He gave it to Naruto, who took it with a single tear in his eyes.
He then took a scroll with the Uzumaki swirl on it and said, "This is the scroll that your mother left behind. It contains most of the Uzumaki fuinjutsu. But, I suggest you don't try them until you have got down the intermediate, advanced and master fuinjutsu". He then took another scroll and said, "This Naruto, belonged to your father. This scroll contains the secret of Rasengan and your father's most famous jutsu, the Flying Raijin. All 4 scrolls need your blood to open"
He then took the documents and said, "This Naruto, is the documents to all the properties that your parents owned". At this, Naruto openly gaped. The hokage chuckled, "Now Naruto, you didn't think that the most famous hokage and the most famous kunoichi didn't own anything, did you?" he asked. "Your parents left behind one house, a couple of million ryo in the banks of Konoha and some other property", he said. Naruto could only gape at this. A couple of million ryo? Imagine all the ramen he could buy. No, no, no, no, no, he wouldn't eat too much ramen. He had promised his mother that he wouldn't eat too much ramen.
Naruto then looked at the hokage and said, "Jiji, I will just take the letters for now. Please keep all the documents and the rest of the scrolls with you for safe keeping. I won't shift to my parents' house until I am old enough and earned the respect of Konoha". The hokage could just look at the boy and feel immense pride inside of him. He then said, "Alright Naruto, I will keep them with me until you take them back".
Naruto was about to get up and leave with the two scrolls when the hokage called out to him, "Wait Naruto, we are not finished yet. We still have things to discuss". Naruto looked confused, but sat down anyway. "I was thinking on what you told me two days ago. Naruto, I want you to act as the class' dead-last again", said the third hokage. Naruto just looked at the old man and shouted, "WHAT?" The third hokage explained, "You see Naruto, you yourself told me that, most of the fights you won were because you were considered an underdog. This time, you are very strong. So, if you keep the façade of being the dead-last, you will have a massive advantage over your opponents. That is why I want you to do that. And besides, you don't want to change the future drastically to prevent us from predicting it, do you?"
Naruto thought about it for a while when Kurama interrupted, 'The hokage is right kit. We don't want to change the timeline so drastically that even we won't be able to predict it. So, agree to his suggestion'. Naruto replied in is mind, 'Alright furball, just don't press on it'. He said out to the old man, "Alright jiji. But, I won't go chasing after Sakura this time around. How long should I keep the mask on?" The hokage replied, "Alright Naruto, you don't need to chase after the girl. As for your question, I suggest until chunnin exams". Naruto replied, "Are you serious jiji? Chunnin exams? By then, I will have had broken down, trying to hide my true self".
The hokage just smiled and said, "Naruto, by then, you will have had gained massive advantage by hiding your true powers". Naruto thought about it and replied, "If you say so jiji. Anything else?" The hokage replied, "Yes, when are you revealing the truth to the others you mentioned?" Naruto replied, "I will inform pervy-sage after he begins training me. That is, after the preliminary rounds of the chunnin exam finals. Kakashi sensei has to wait till after the exams are over since I have a lot to get even on with him. Granny Tsunade will get to know once we bring her back. That is all". The hokage accepted the answer and said, "That is all Naruto. You may leave now". The blonde smiled and said as he got up, "Okay, bye jiji. I have got a lot to train for and on".
Naruto then proceeded to the door, when he stopped and turned towards the hokage and said, "You know jiji, have you ever tried Shadow Clones to do the paperwork for you?" He then left to get back to his training. The hokage on his part could only gape at what the boy had said and curse his own stupidity.
That's it folks. Another chapter comes to an end. And another poll comes to an end. The votes went for,
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Yes for Naruto adds other elements to Rasengan.
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