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A week after the first meeting (and before the mission to wave)

On the bridge, Team 7 was splitting up the money after another annoying but successful D-rank. "Okay, my cute little genin, looks like we have 25,000 ryo. Now since I'm your sensei, I get 10,000 ryo and each of you get 5,000 ryo." Kakashi eye-smiled.

"But, sensei! You just sat there and read Icha Icha! It's not fair that you get so much. You didn't even help out!" Naruto yelled.

"Hn!" Sasuke grunted in agreement.

"Yeah, cheapskate-sensei, I think we should get 8,000 ryo each and you 1,000 ryo. It's only fair!" Sakura shrieked making everyone wince.

"Maa maa. Are my small adorable students saying they want more endurance training in the mornings and that I should take more catching Tora missions?" Kakashi asked with a glint in his eyes.

"No sensei! We're happy with what we got! Yay! 5,000 ryo!" Naruto hurriedly replied as Sasuke and Sakura frantically shook their heads.

"Good, I see those teamwork lessons have been working for all of you to agree in unison. Ok, I'll see you tomorrow here at 7am sharp! Ja ne!" Kakashi said before flickering away in a sphere of lightning.

"Show off!" grumbled Naruto. He noticed Sakura and Sasuke were still there and decided to ask if they wanted to join the meeting with Team 8 and 10. "Hey Sakura-chan, Sasuke-teme, do you guys want to come with me to eat lunch with Teams 8 and 10?" Sasuke only scoffed before striding away. "Sakura-chan?" Naruto prompted again, hopeful that at least one of his teammates would want to hang out with him.

Sakura snapped out of her Sasuke-induced stupor and said, "Naruto-baka, I don't want to go on a date with you! I like Sasuke-kun!" She shot him a death glare before racing after Sasuke.

"Wait, Sakura-chan!" Naruto tried again, but she was already out of sight. Naruto sighed and heard his stomach rumble. He opened up Gama-chan, his trusty toad wallet, and checked how much ryo he had left, "With today's 5,000 that makes 12,760 ryo, just enough for 3 bowls of ramen! I guess I can spend a bit today; it is the weekend so maybe Jiji will eat with me one day and I can always ask Iruka-sensei to treat me!" He looked at the time and saw he was running late, "Dattebayo, I need to run!" He stuffed some leaves in his pocket and took off to Ichiraku's. "I hope they haven't started without me!"

"Urgh! What's taking them so long. I want to see my Sasuke-kun!" Ino wailed with hearts in her eyes. They pulsed each time she thought of how wonderful Sasuke was.

"We'll wait five more minutes before giving up on Team 7, ok? Just calm down," Shikamaru started edging away towards the tables, getting more and more creeped out by the glittering hearts in Ino's eyes.

"How's she even doing that?" Kiba whimpered to Choji, who just shrugged, used to it already. Hinata's eyes suddenly snapped up and started becoming heart-shaped. Kiba watched her with mounting horror. "It's spreading! Make Ino stop," he hissed at Shikamaru.

Shikamaru snorted and said, "That's not why, someone's arrived." The door to Ichiraku's swung open and Naruto jogged towards them sweating and panting hard.

"Hey guys! How's your week been?" he asked and plopping into a chair nearby.

"It has been a very good week so far, Naruto. My Kikaichu are especially happy. Thank you for asking," Shino spoke suddenly, startling everyone as he was right behind them.

"Shino! I told you to stop doing that! Akamaru's here too, cool." Naruto noticed happily.

"Naruto where's Sasuke-kun?" Ino demanded.

"Sasuke-teme didn't want to come and Sakura-chan thought I was trying to trick her or something…" Naruto said a little sullenly.

"Let's order some ramen," Choji said trying to cheer Naruto up, not liking the frown on his usually happy face.

"So how many leaves did you get to spin, Naruto?" Kiba asked competitively. Can't be more than my five. He did suck at this at the academy.

Naruto brightened up and took out the leaves he stuffed into his pocket before coming. "Check it out!" he said proudly and showed off the ten leaves rotating on his fingertips. He grinned widely at Team 10's gaping faces. "See I could so do it too! Thanks for telling me about it Shikamaru!" He beamed at Shikamaru who's mouth hung wide open.

"How? Wait, what? That shouldn't even be possible. A week ago, you were burning leaves and you couldn't even make them stick to you but now you can! What the heck! This doesn't even make any sense!" Shikamaru spluttered.

"Yeah, and I even almost got tree walking down too." Naruto smiled widely with his eyes closed and his hand rubbing the back of his head.

"Damn, you beat me. I only got one hand to make it work. And that too, only works sometimes. How'd you do it so fast?" Kiba asked jealously while Shikamaru continued muttering about how impossible this was.

"I used my clones and made them do it too so I could train more," he explained and looked at Shikamaru as if he was dumb for not understanding.

"What? That doesn't make sense! Clones are only illusions. Even if they copied the same actions as you, it wouldn't matter because they couldn't pick up the leaves," Ino pointed out confused.

"My clones are different! They're solid. Here, watch. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled and a double appeared in a burst of smoke.

"Yo, Boss! We should do the magic trick!" The clone exclaimed conspiringly.

"Good idea! Hinata whisper a number into my clone's ear and write the same number on a piece of paper and hide it. Ok, done?"

"Eeep. I mean, yes," Hinata blushed while shyly hiding the folded piece of paper underneath a bowl of ramen on the table.

"Ok, Kiba punch my clone." Naruto commanded while feeding Akamaru some steak.

"What? But isn't it just going to go thorough it?" he asked confused.

"Just do it!"

"Oh-kay…" he said before punching the clone which disappeared into a puff of smoke.

"Is the number 8?"

"Yes. H-how did you know that?" Hinata stuttered.

"It's a shadow clone, which means they are solid and can be used for training because the maker gets the clone's memories back" Shikamaru clarified.

"What! Why didn't we learn that clone at the academy instead?" Kiba whined.

"Because it takes way too much chakra for a genin to use. You'd have to be a jounin to actually use it, and even then, you'd only be able to use one or two."

"What? But I can make like 500!" Naruto said spreading his hands out in front of him.

"How much chakra do you have? That's like two or three Kage's worth! And even if you can make that much you shouldn't because it could fry your brains with that many memories. How'd you even learn it anyways? It's a kinjutsu and forbidden to learn." Shika wondered doubtful.

"What? No, I was fine. Plus, I'm an Uzumaki! I've got super healing and stuff. And, Jiji said I could because I have too much chakra for the Bunshin," Naruto replied, happy that the Hokage made an excuse so he didn't have to explain about Mizuki.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to take into account that you are part of the Uzumaki clan known for their large chakra levels, no chakra control, great vitality, and masters of seals," Shikamaru said thoughtful as he rubbed his chin in a thinking position.

"Naruto's part of a clan?" Ino asked, interested.

"I have a clan?" Naruto asked also confused but interested.

"Yeah, you didn't know?" Shikamaru frowned.

"How can you not know?" Choji wondered as he placed another dumpling on his plate.

Naruto flinched slightly and shrugged, "You know I'm an orphan. It's not like there's anyone to really tell me."

"What about your Jiji? You talked about him before," Kiba asked while slurping his soup.

"I meant Hokage-Jiji. He's the closest thing to a family I've ever had, but he's busy. So, we can't meet all the time and talk much. He eats ramen with me sometimes, though."

"What about the orphanage? Didn't anyone ever tell you there?" Hinata asked. Naruto laughed bitterly, surprising the others. As if they'd care about me. They hate me.

"I've been living on my own ever since I was four when I left the orphanage." Naruto sighed, not really wanting to talk about why he was kicked out. "It wasn't too bad living alone, just lonely. But Jiji bought me an apartment and even pays the rent. So, he's like the grandpa I've never had. Him and Iruka-sensei are like family. Iruka-sensei even taught me how to read when he found out I couldn't in my second year at the academy!"

Shikamaru made a little choking noise, "You didn't know how to read before?"

Naruto started looking uncomfortable again, "No one really taught me how and Jiji's busy with the village and his own family. Iruka-sensei noticed and helped, so it's all good now anyways." Naruto tried changing the topic, "So, what did you guys do this week? Any new missions or training?"

Shino caught on and replied, "Kurenai-sensei showed us our chakra affinities. Kiba only has Earth, while Hinata has Fire and Lightning. I have Earth and Fire like Shikamaru and Choji. Lightning is also rare in Konoha. I believe Kakashi-sensei also has Lightning."

"Really?" Naruto asked surprised.

"You guys still haven't learnt about chakra affinities yet?" Kiba asked.

"No, Kakashi-sensei is still making us do teamwork exercises until we can fully trust our teammates to become our new hands and feet, whatever that means…" Naruto pouted remembering about all the teamwork exercises they'd done. "We haven't even talked about chakra affinities yet or learned any new jutsus!"

"That's strange. Even Asuma-sensei, who's as lazy as Shikamaru, taught us a few campfire jutsus." Feeling guilty again, Ino asks if everyone wanted to practice the jutus their senseis taught them. "We can go to a training field after eating and share the jutsus our senseis taught us and even spar a little. Later we can even work on our chakra affinities together because some of us have the same ones."

"Ino, you actually said something smart!" Shikamaru sounded shocked as he looked at Ino with wide eyes.

Ino shrieked, "Shika!" and smacked the back of his head. "Ignore him! Anyways we can trade jutsus after eating. So, is everyone done or are they still eating?"

"It looks like we have all eaten. Unless someone wants more ramen?" Shino asked Naruto if he was going to order anymore.

"Nope, I'm done for today Shino!" Naruto smiled widely while he placed his money on the table and piled his three bowls on the side counter.

"What? Only three bowls today, Naruto? What happened to eating 12 like last time?" Ino teased as they exited the shop.

Naruto laughed and replied, "Yeah, I used up all my money today as a treat, so I can't get any more until tomorrow's 5,000 ryo."

"You guys only make 15,000 a day on missions?" Ino asked shocked. "We make around 40,000 each a day!"

"No, we make around 25,000 ryo on one mission per day. Kakashi-sensei always comes three hours late so we only have time for two missions at most, and he wants us to work on our teamwork most of the time so we only take one mission anyways."

"What happens to the remaining 10,000 ryo?" Shikamaru asked.

"Kakashi-sensei takes it as payment for watching us work," Naruto complained annoyed at Kakashi.

"That's not right! Kurenai-sensei doesn't take any money from our missions!" Kiba protested.

"Yeah, neither does Asuma-sensei. Don't Sakura or Sasuke complain?" Choji dissented.

"Not much. They want more money, but I don't think it really matters for them. Sakura still lives with her parents and Sasuke has a lot of money from his clan. For me, well, I'm living off the pay…" he paused to look at the forest. "I'm thinking of growing a garden if Kakashi-sensei doesn't let us take more missions. For now, I can find food in the forest and weapons on the training grounds. And Jiji and Iruka-sensei sometimes treat me." Naruto shoved his hands in his pockets and looked up. "Besides, I'm practicing rationing and how to live of the land. Every ninja needs to know how to do that anyways. I'm pretty good at it too!" Naruto smiled remembering how bad he used to be at catching fish when he was six. "Now I can catch fish in a minute and trap animals in five. There's nothing like the real world to train for the living in the wild." He said fondly.

Team 8 and 10 glanced at each other, clearly not liking that Naruto had to literally hunt for food. There was nothing they could do for him now, but they promised to help him out in the future.

On their way to the training fields, Ino, Hinata, and Choji talked about what snacks they could bring to these get-togethers while Shino and Shikamaru told Naruto about some cheap plants he could grow and harvest soon. Kiba and Akamaru were on the lookout for an empty training ground that was big enough for all eight of them.

At the training ground, Team 8 decided to show the rest what they learned first. "Ano, Kurenai-sensei taught us how the campfire three: how to light a campfire, put one out, and erase its tracks." Hinata explained while showing them how to do each jutsu.

"Oh, I know those! Jiji taught them to me when I was five. He said they'd help, when he found out I was hunting for food in the forest. They also help for pranks!" Naruto said excitedly.

"Naruto-baka, how can they help with pranks, unless you light something on fire!" Ino rebuked.

"You can use them for different things. Like the light is good to use in the dark as a flashlight, but if you put enough chakra in it, you can make it a firework. See, watch!" He did the hand signs for the jutsu and pointed towards the sky. A large sparking flame flew into the sky and with a bang burst into little sparks like a firework.

"What's the point of that?" Kiba sneezed at the remaining smoke in the air.

"You can use it to signal a teammate if you're in trouble," Shikamaru suggested.

"Yeah, and with the water one, you can make different amounts of water with different amounts of chakra, and since it's clean you can drink it, make soup, or refresh yourself with a mist bath when it's super-hot outside. If you combine it with the first jutsu you can make hot water which is perfect for making ramen!" Naruto drooled thinking about the ramen he made with it.

"We could make ramen and soup away from home on missions!" Choji's eyes gleamed, picturing all the dried food he could bring with him on missions from now on.

"The last one is the best, though. You can use it to erase tracks on fireplaces and footprints, but if you use it on yourself, then you're untraceable. Here, I'll show you. Shino, can you bug me? And can you smell me Kiba and Akamaru?" Shino nodded and Kiba gave Naruto a thumbs-up. "Ok, now I'm going to do the jutsu." He made the hand signs and performed the jutsu on himself. "Okay, now can you track me Kiba and Akamaru or can you use your bug to find me Shino?" Akamaru sniffed the air and walked around in a circle while Kiba also tried to track Naruto's scent.

"That's so weird! You were right there, but now it's like you don't exist anymore." Kiba said as he walked in a circle around Naruto.

"Yes, I cannot feel my connection to my Kikaichu anymore, nor can I find a trace of you anymore." Shino frowned, put-off that he couldn't feel one of his companions.

"Oh, here's your Kikaichu back," Naruto carefully handed back the beetle to Shino who looked relieved he could feel its connection again. "Ok, I'm going to do it again," Naruto said and activated the jutsu once more. "Hinata can you see me when you use your Byakugan?" Hinata tried them and was shocked.

"No, I cannot see you anymore. Your chakra signature is gone. It doesn't seem to exist anymore." Hinata's eyes stopped bulging as she stopped using her Byakugan.

Naruto laughed and said, "I used to use that jutsu to hide myself from the ANBU after a prank. Only Iruka-sensei could ever find me, but that's because he used to be a prankster too, so he knows all the good hiding spots. Don't worry, though. If you use more chakra in your Byakugan than I use for the jutsu then you should be able to see me according to the tests Jiji did."

"Naruto, do you know what that jutsu means? If a rouge nin ever used it then we wouldn't be able to ever track them down. They could sneak into the village and do anything. You can't teach that to anyone," Shikamaru said urgently.

"I know. Jiji wanted to know why the ANBU couldn't find me. When I told him, he said that I couldn't teach it to anyone who could betray the village, but I trust you guys." He looked up at them and continued, "You're all my friends. I want you to be safe. That's why you guys have to learn how to do those jutsus without seals because it's an A-ranked secret according to Jiji." Hinata and Ino blushed as they looked at Naruto, while the boys felt touched that he thought that highly of them. "Also, can you guys have to keep it a secret. Jiji said only I can tell you guys about it after we learned the campfire three from our senseis, and I haven't told Sakura-chan or Sasuke-teme about it yet. I guess Kakashi-sensei doesn't think they are ready for it yet. Besides, they haven't exactly been the nicest to me, so I don't know if I can trust them with it yet. I know that you all know the dangers of A-ranked secrets falling into the wrong hands. But Sakura-chan doesn't know yet, and I don't think Sasuke-teme cares about that." Naruto finished looking each member of Team 8 and 10 in the eye to emphasize the severity of revealing this to them.

"I guess we'll just have to train harder then, and learn how to do them without seals," Shikamaru drawled. Naruto smiled at him brightly, glad that his trust hadn't been misplaced.

Ino spoke up, "Asuma-sensei taught us the same three jutsus. So, it's weird Kakashi-sensei didn't teach you guys those three. You really think he doesn't think you guys are ready for it yet?"

"Yeah or maybe Jiji told him I knew them, and he thought Sasuke and Sakura also knew them?" Naruto suggested and shrugged his shoulders dismissing the topic.

"Yeah, maybe," Ino said, still not fully convinced. "Asuma-sensei didn't teach us anymore jutsus, but he made us practice the basic three a lot. He really likes throwing things at us and making us Kawarimi."

"Did he tell you that you can Kawarimi with air?" Naruto asked.

"I didn't know you could do that!" Kiba said excitedly and tried to do it. "Why didn't it work?" He asked when the jutsu failed.

"Try using more cat-chakra and pretending that the air is an object you want to replace with." Kiba tried again and this time it worked.

"Wow that's so cool! Now I don't need to walk anywhere. I can just Kawarimi there."

"Jiji says that if you can picture a place far away and use a lot of chakra then the Kawarimi becomes Sunshine" Naruto happily stated before showing it to them.

Shikamaru chortled, "I think you mean Shunshin. Asuma-sensei sometimes does it and leaves behind leaves."

"I can do the teleporting part, but I don't get how you make the leaves." Naruto said confused.

"I think they use some chakra to unseal a scroll of leaves which makes smoke too."

"What's the point of it?"

"Maybe they just want to look pretty, though I don't get why they'd want to use leaves. Flowers are much better!" And if they bought them from my shop, it would really drive up sales! Ino thought with a gleam in her eyes.

"I believe they use it confuse the enemy and make it so they cannot be tracked. Or jounin just use it because they are used to it." Shino supplemented.

"Well, at least Kawarimi has a use, but Bunshin and Henge are useless!" Ino moaned.

"What? Henge is awesome!" Naruto defended. "You can become anyone and anything!"

"No, you can't. You can't become objects or become smaller than yourself. And it isn't even solid. It's just an illusion like Bunshin!"

"Bunshin is useless, it's too bad you can't learn shadow clone. But I think you're doing Henge wrong. When I use it for my Orioke no Jutsu or become a weapon, I'm solid. See?" Naruto became a kunai while everyone just stared at him with wide eyes.

"That's not supposed to happen either," Shikamaru whispered faintly.

Naruto changed back and said, "I can teach you guys this version too, because I made it up! It's also an A-rank secret. The trick is to only use the Ram hand seal and to use way more chakra. Like the presence erasing campfire-three jutsu, you guys can only hold this up for about a few seconds because the drain's like five Kage Bunshin's worth. But if you use it enough, then your reserves should grow and you'd be able to hold it up for longer. I think you guys can probably hold it up for at most 15 seconds right now. It's super useful though! You can change into any size, gender, animal, or object. Jiji said to be careful though because you can become pregnant if you become a girl, but he didn't explain what he meant." Naruto pouted again with a small frown wondering what The Talk Jiji was always saying he needed to give him was about. He stopped spacing out when he heard Kiba choking and saw that everyone was blushing. "You guys know about The Talk and what Jiji was talking about, don't you?" He asked suspicious. Kiba made a strange whining noise again and Shino's Kikaichu seemed to be buzzing louder. Hinata, Ino, and Choji were all still blushing heavily while Akamaru put his paws over his head.

Shikamaru's face still had a pink tinge when he turned to Naruto and said, "It's more of a thing your family tells you. And you said that the Hokage was the closest thing you have to family, so you'll just have to wait for him to tell you. Think of it as a family secret."

"Okay, I guess I'll have to wait." Naruto sulked a bit while the rest sighed in relief.

"Why don't you show us your special Henge again and we'll copy it," Ino persuaded.

"Okay!" Naruto happily agreed.