Alright guys I'm writing this chapter right after the other one and I just got my first review! I'm pumped! And to top it off, sirmikeshark, our first reviewer has guess one of bloodlines that I plan on giving Naruto. (Sadly as of now he's the only reviewer, but I'll be grateful for one review) Great minds think alike I guess. But lets go!
Advanced Tutorial
(Chapter 2)
Naruto had quickly gotten used to life after Kakashi had quickly started taking care of him. It had been a few months since his apartment had been trashed and also when he'd started living in Kakashi's apartment. Naruto, quickly taking the opportunity to beg Kakashi day and night to train him so he would be a better Hokage, had been happy when Kakashi started teaching him how to use kunai and shuriken. Kakashi, had caved after a few more weeks of enduring Naruto's begging and began to teach the boy some taijutsu.
Naruto took to it like a fish in water, and while Kakashi wouldn't say that he'd mastered it by the end of the week the boy was a pretty solid Gennin level. Naruto when he put his mind to something just didn't stop and he kept going and going. Kakashi was proud of his surrogate little brother's progress and dedication, if he kept going like that he'd make a fine ninja.
Naruto however, only felt the need to push himself, he wanted to master the skills that Kakashi had granted him.
Kunai and Shuriken Throwing (Level 4)
A skill that shows how accurate you are with kunai and shuriken, and also tells how much damage you do when you hit somebody.
+30% Accuracy when throwing kunai and shuriken
+20%Damage when landing a hit with kunai and shuriken
Kunai Combat (Level 3)
A skill that determines how good you are at using Kunai and small knives in combat, when you don't throw them.
+10% Damage when slashing and stabbing with kunai and small knives.
+10% Speed when using kunai and small knives in combat
Basic Taijutsu (Level 6)
Basic Gennin Taijustu, more advanced that academy taijutsu but not as advanced as Chunin level. Determines basic damage and defense when using this taijutsu.
+15% Damage when using this taijutsu style
+10% Defense when countering and blocking with this style
+5% Speed when using this style
Naruto felt like it wasn't enough seeing as Kakashi was almost level 48, and Naruto was barely level 4. But then again Kakashi had years of training and Naruto had only started his training a few weeks ago. It was to be expected after all but Naruto still felt like he had to get stronger. After all, how was he supposed to be Hokage if he couldn't be stronger than Kakashi, who was like his older brother.
Naruto just shook his head and began punching the post again and again. His stats had taken a turn for the better when he'd started training and instead of being so low, they'd risen.
Naruto Uzumaki
300/700 Exp
Points to Spend- 20
Strength-12
Agility-8
Endurance-14
Vitality-14
Intelligence-7
Chakra-1200
Control-5
(Health-240)
(Chakra-1200)
(Stamina-1400)
Naruto currently was known as in gaming terms, "a glass cannon" he could dish it, but he couldn't take it as much. He was working on his defense but that was hard to do. What Naruto wanted was a sort of chakra technique that could allow him to sacrifice some chakra in order to protect his health. He didn't know if the library had a technique like that but he was pretty sure with all the books there that it had to have something like what he was looking.
Congratulations! Due to your hard training your Strength has increased by 1.
Naruto stared at the message before taking a short break, he'd bee doing this for a while and his strength had increased quite a bit. But of course he'd been ignoring all the stat points that he had, he was still thinking whether he wanted endurance or more control over his chakra so that he could start using the bloodline he'd gotten to more effect.
But then again he could just split up the points into both to increase both at the same time. So bringing up his vitality to 24 and his control up to 15, Naruto took a look at his health again, it was now 440. He'd almost doubled his health and he felt like he could control his chakra much better than before. This was just amazing, he could actually chose what he wanted to get better when he leveled up.
Naruto closed out of his stats and rested for a few more minutes, Kakashi would probably come out to pick up Naruto soon, so the boy decided to simply head back. He was pretty happy with the advancement today, but tomorrow was going to be a different story. Tomorrow he was going to be working on his Agility with the help of Kakashi. They were going to be practicing with rubber balls to help Naruto with his dodging. But with Naruto's impatience, that seemed like a long way off.
"Yeah look at her weird eyes! She doesn't have pupils or even iris's, what kind of freak is she?"
Naruto's head turned in the direction of the voice, only to see in the distance from where he was training was three boys and one girl who was backed up against a tree. Naruto's face morphed into a scowl, he hated bullies and had absolutely zero tolerance for them. All of his exhaustion from training was seemingly forgotten as he stomped over to where the bullies were, about three hundred meters away from his training post.
"Why doesn't the freak apologize for running into us?!" the tallest of the boys and most presumably the leader of the trio of bullies said, before kicking the knees of the girl and pulling on her hair.
With each taunt, insult, and jeer the boys through at the girl Naruto became more and more angry until his walk turned into full blown sprint towards the bullies. When he reached the clearing the bullies were in, Naruto already in a full blown sprint jumped as far as he could angling himself in the air. When the head bully turned towards the sound he heard, he got about 50 pounds of Naruto to the face, feet first. The head bully was knocked off his feet, and not surprisingly knocked out.
The other two bullies who were to surprised to do anything could only stare as the boy who just came flying in launched his fist into the second bullies chin, knocking him up into the air before he crashed down onto his back. The third bully attempted to flee, only to turn around and get a kick to the back for his efforts and land face first into the dirt.
Naruto cracked his knuckles and growled, "Grab your friend and get out of here, unless you all want to end up eating dirt." Naruto chuckled mentally as he watched the boys grab their friend and run away as fast as they could. Naruto turned towards the girl and held up a hand, before giving her the warmest smile he had.
"I hope they didn't hurt you. I'm Naruto by the way, what's your name?" he smiled and helped her to her feet.
The girl had pale eyes, and violet hair. She was a bit shorter than Naruto, but not by much.
"I-I-I-I'm fine. M-M-My name i-i-is Hinata" she stuttered out, there was a slight flush to her face.
"Are you sure you're okay, you're face is really red." Naruto's leaned in to the girls, making sure that she was okay. The girl turned as red as a tomato and Naruto backed off for a second before putting his hand on her forehead and the other hand on his forehead.
"Nope you don't have a fever. Are you sure you're okay Hinata?" Naruto asked, and then Hinata fell over her face red and steam coming from her ears. Naruto could only tilt his head in confusion, he'd no idea what he'd done. So the most he could do was set her gently against the tree. He sat next to her, hoping that she would wake up soon.
And Kakashi chose that specific time to show up, before looking at he scene in front of him. Kakashi smirked underneath his face mask, and nodded his head, "You work fast Naruto. I mean, I was a lady killer in my time, but I could never work this fast."
Naruto could only start stuttering as bad as Hinata, and his face was just as beat red. "I-I-I d-didn't do a-a-anything! I-I s-s-swear!"
Kakashi smiled,"I know you didn't, I'm just teasing you. Now come on, let's take her home." Kakashi picked up the girl and Naruto stood up along side his surrogate older brother.
"You know where she lives?"
"Yes, Hinata is the Hyuuga heiress. Normally she's not allowed off the grounds due to her training but she must have gotten a rare day off, but somebody must have been following her. I wonder if they purposefully left her." Kakashi frowned. He honestly had no idea why Hinata was out of the Hyuuga clan's mansion but she was going to need to be returned or many people were going to suffer the wrath of the Hyuuga.
Nobody wanted that, so Kakashi took off at a rather slow pace for Naruto who was now realizing that his stamina was rather low from all the training that he'd recently done. Naruto could keep pace with Kakashi and followed him as they headed from the training area, to the Hyuuga mansion. Naruto knew vaguely about the famous clans in Konoha, Kakashi had elected to train Naruto instead of teach him, preferring to leave that to the Academy in about 5 years. They did a lot of learning in the classroom, and very little outside training.
Naruto following Kakashi, tried to ignore the glares and looks that the people of Konoha were sending his way when they thought that Kakashi wasn't looking. He noticed and frowned, he knew something was up and he had his suspicions but this just bad. Many of the clothing stores that he'd entered to get Naruto new clothes had sold them at inflated prices, and they were of cheap quality. So Naruto had taken to trying to make his own clothes, at first it was just patching up the clothes that got ruined during practice and then he started actually attempting to make clothes. To Kakashi, this was just Naruto's attempt to save him money but to Naruto, this was his attempt to upgrade a skill that could potentially come in hand later on in life. Not only did the tailoring skill seem pretty awesome, he just needed to get it to a certain level and he'd be able to make clothes with special effects such as invisibility in the dark or extra durability and defense. Plus he could make some cool clothes that just made him look cool.
Kakashi picked up the pace a bit, the Hyuuga mansion was farther away than Naruto realized but he wasn't going to complain, he hardly ever did. But with the jogging pace they were going through the streets, Naruto could only noticed as his already low stamina was going down slowly instead of returning. He sighed, he was probably going to be exhausted by the time he reached the apartment and that was never fun.
"Kakashi, just go return Hinata to her house I think I'm going to head back to the apartment before I get there and collapse against the front door again." Naruto said before turning away from the path that they were taking to head back to the apartment.
When Naruto made it back to the apartment, he showered and actually made it to the couch before he collapsed. Naruto stared at his stamina which was at zero, and he felt like crap. But when he opened his menu, Naruto finally tapped on a button that he'd been meaning to tap on for a while, (Advanced Tutorial)
Dungeons
Modifiers
Status Effects
Reputation
Quests/Missions
Naruto just decided to go down the list, it would be easier to get through everything that way.
Dungeons- A dangerous place normally filled with monsters and strong enemies, but dungeons give extra exp for killing enemies and give strong items that can be used to enhance items. Each dungeon contains four 'floors' or 'levels', that as you progressively go down, monsters get stronger, loots gets better, and at the end of the second floor there is a mini-boss just like at the end of the entire dungeon, there is a main boss.
Mini-bosses, are normally tougher than the enemies on most floors. But the also give better exp and drop better loot than most of the monsters. Mini-bosses usually have a close resemblance to the boss so look closely at the Mini-bosses attacks and fighting style as it is a major clue to how the boss fights.
Boss fights are even tougher than the Mini-boss and all the enemies. Bosses have special abilities and normally are capable of inflicting some sort of status effect onto you. Most are capable of summoning minions and have some sort of ability to regenerate health, so boss fights are something not to be taken lightly. But killing a boss is worth it seeing as they drop special loot including weapons, armor, money (That got Naruto's attention quick), special items, modifiers, and much more.
When you kill a boss, they have a guaranteed drop of what's known as a 'Special Key' which can unlock a chest which can be found in a room right after the boss room. The chest also contains special items but more along the lines of scrolls and techniques.
That seemed cool, but Naruto decided that he could wait until going into a dungeon. He wanted to make sure that he wouldn't kill himself when he went inside.
Modifiers- Items that can be added to weapons and armor to give them special effects. Each weapon and armor as a certain amount of item slots that can fit modifiers. Stackable items such as kunai and shuriken all share the same item slot. Modifiers can be rare drops from regular enemies or just drops from Mini-bosses and Bosses as well as regular drops from rare enemies. Modifiers don't have durability and can be swapped from item to item with a couple button taps.
Modifiers, to Naruto seemed important, items that could add effects to his clothes and weapons would be invaluable in fights of any kind, whether it be a spar of a boss fight in a dungeon.
Status Effects- Status Effects for starters, appear right underneath the health bar. Negative status effects appear in red boxes while positive status effects appear in green boxes. Status Effects can be a simple active skill or it can be something as serious as poison or paralysis.
Negative Status Effects- NSE's
Poison-Paralysis-Insanity-Blindness-Silence-Disruption-Confusion-Unconscious-Exhaustion-Cursed
Positive Status Effects- PSE's
Strength up-Agility up-Vitality up- Endurance up-Intelligence up-Luck up-Chakra up-Control up-Regeneration-Immunity-Purified
Reputation- Reputation matters a lot, and depending on your reputation with somebody positive or negative things can happen. When your reputation is positive with somebody then buying things off that person is cheaper, bonuses with fighting them are increased, and receiving quests from them yields more exp and money. Increase reputation by doing quests and doing different people's special events.
Quests/Missions-Quests are personal requests from different people, doing a quest can reward you with extra reputation, money, new techniques, information, and possibly special items. Missions how ever are harder than quests and usually take place outside of Konoha. Although missions can take place within the village, they will be very difficult. Although completing a mission will reward you with extra exp, reputation, modifiers, and the possibility of new techniques.
Naruto nodded at the new information, before he got up from the couch, his stamina had returned somewhat and it was his turn to make dinner seeing as it was almost 5:00 in the afternoon. Him and Kakashi had a system, one day one of them would make dinner and the other would clean up, and then the next day they would switch.
Pulling himself into the rather mediocre kitchen Naruto pulled out some pots and pans and started to make rice and vegetables. He'd figured out a while ago that he could level up his cooking skill rather quickly by making high complexity dishes. And luckily the most complex dishes that he'd made had come out a cook book and gained him quite a few levels in the cooking skill.
Yeah, Kakashi who was a lazy eater, stocked up on spices and all that only to forget that they were there and when Naruto moved in, he'd started using them in the meals. So Naruto had a pretty good supply of ingredients to play around with. And just like Naruto thought, Kakashi came strolling into the apartment putting away a bright orange book.
Naruto knew what the book was, and what was inside it. A few weeks ago he'd gotten curious about what Kakashi was always reading. Well Naruto managed to find a stash of books under Kakashi's bed and when he found scarecrow again Naruto threatened to castrate Kakashi with a wooden spoon if he read those in his presence again.
Kakashi had taken the warning very seriously and made sure to put up the book whenever Naruto was around. It didn't stop Kakashi from leaving Naruto alone to train while he went off to read his books.
"It's not ramen, may I ask where the real Naruto went."
"Shut before I pull the "Night of Hanging" prank on you." Naruto snapped flicking the wooden spoon that was covered in boiling water at Kakashi who shook the water off his clothes.
Kakashi shuddered, "Night of Hanging" was the worst prank Naruto could pull on anybody. It was bad for anybody. What the prank entailed was that Naruto would spike the victims food or drink with sleeping drugs. Kakashi being the 'oh so careful' man that he was somehow missed when Naruto spiked both of the ramen cups that night. Naruto being practically immune to drugs woke up later that night only to drag Kakashi to the center of town and hung him by his underwear on a large wooden pole.
Kakashi to say he wasn't happy camper to find that when he woke up, it was raining, he was tied to a pole, and he was in his underwear was putting it lightly. He was pissed but Naruto was laughing so hard he could breath and was rolling around on the floor. Kakashi got Naruto back by ass-blasting Naruto. Naruto couldn't sit down for a week, and Kakashi was sick for a week. Ass-blasting entailed the horrid and dreaful 'Konoha's Secret Technique: One Thousand Years of Pain.' That little excursion then spawn a giant prank war that lasted a month between Naruto and Kakashi that cause several thousand ryu in damaged to Konoha and the apartment to be rebuilt... twice. But damn if it wasn't funny.
"You know, pulling the 'Nightmare on Valentine's Day' or the 'Saint Orange Day' would also be funny." Naruto smirked when Kakashi froze in place, both of those were worse than the first one, because they involved weeks of public humiliation that he couldn't hide from.
"You do that and I will leave you stuck in the ground for two days this time." Kakashi threatened.
"At least I'll be able to leave the apartment without getting laughed at by my colleges." Naruto shot back.
Kakashi had to give Naruto some credit, he was talking down to a Jonin like it was nothing. Most likely because Naruto didn't need to beat somebody up to kill their pride. He just needed to prank them and they'd stay hell away from Naruto so that it didn't happen again. But the real fun happened when you were pranking with Naruto, because it was hilarious to see the Hokage dressed head to toe in a neon green spandex suit. They had done D-Ranks for weeks afterwards but it was so funny.
Kakashi had to hand it to Naruto, he made life fun.
Yeah not much action in this chapter but in the next one I swear there will be more action, and possibly I might reveal the bloodline that Naruto chose. But then again I might not, but up next time... drumroll please... Chapter Three- First Dungeon!
