First off, I would like to sincerely apologize for the lateness of this chapter, I'm not going to give you an excuse because you probably heard them all before. But I'm done now and if you're confused, this is a time skip from the last chapter to graduation test day at the Academy. This should in fact be one of the last time-skips that I have. Mostly from this point on I'll have it pretty much all together. But enjoy this chapter! I'm also happy that I broke 100 reviews which is awesome! I've broken 300 followers and I'm at about 280 favorites! Let's keep this going! Please don't hate me for what I've chosen as his next ability. But I got so many complaints about it so I decided that I would just reveal it in this chapter.
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Chapter Fourteen
Location- Dreamscape
Naruto found himself in the dreamscape once again, the last time he'd been here had been quite a long time ago. The marble walls and the pristine arches above his head had not changed, the near invisible glass that separated him from the mannequin like figures of himself had not changed. And Naruto took his time, going to each of the figures of himself and reading the plaques that accompanied each one.
Naruto Sawada
Brother to Tsuna Sawada, heir to the Vongola.
Power Level- 8 Stars
Naruto smiled, at least in some of the other lives he had brothers and sisters. Sayuri, Sasuke, and Mikoto were all that he needed as a family here in this life. Naruto took a closer look at the Naruto behind the glass. It looked like he wore a pair of baggy blue jeans and an orange and black t-shirt, something that never changed throughout all his life, the color orange was always there.
His eyes glowed a bright orange and there was an orange flame enveloping the boots he wore, which were black and silver underneath the flame. There was a ring on his finger inset with an orange jewel but that was about it. Naruto had also noticed that all the characters now had power levels underneath their name and the brief description that was offered.
Naruto
Strongest Arrancar in all of Hueco Mundo, not under the control of Aizen
Power Level- 8 Stars
This Naruto had a bone like mask that covered where his whisker marks normally would've been, but it still had the whisker marks on them seemingly chiseled into the mask itself. He had a cheesy grin on his face an there was a sword strapped to his back, two really. It was just hard to tell seeing as they were both thin enough and designed to fit into the same sheath.
The swords were both naginata swords which meant that they had the blade of a naginata just with the handle of a swords. The handles had the kanji for 'peace and truth' engraved on them in gold. Other than that the blades themselves were rather simple. Both of the ones that Naruto had looked at were eight stars in power level. He wondered how strong that really was?
Opening menu Naruto was delightfully surprised that it gave him a small list of how the power levels corresponded.
One Star- 1- 50
Two Star-50- 100
Three Star-100-200
Four Star- 200-300
Five Star- 300-500
Six Star- 500-700
Seven Star- 700-1000
Eight Star-1000-1500
Nine Star- 1500-2000
Ten Star-2000-3000
Ulitma Star 3000-5000
End Level- 5000
Naruto could only assume that numbers were levels, looking back to some of the figures he could only look in awe at how far he had to go to catch up with any of them. The lowest star he could find was a six star, and that had been Naruto Uzumaki, After a tragic accident this Naruto was left disabled in a wheel chair but he still managed to become a master of puppets and genjutsu. Power level- Six Star
Naruto could only shake his head at how powerful some of his other selves had become. Walking down the hallway, Naruto could only notice as more and more of the marble was taking a gold like sheen to it, as the other Naruto's became more and more powerful. By his count there was three different Narutos that had reached the Ulitma Star but nobody yet had reached the End Level, which was five thousand.
Spotting a hallway that was a dead end, but contained a single figure at the end. Naruto walked up to that figure at the end of the hallway and ran his hand over the plaque before looking at the figure.
Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze
The Original Naruto, the first Naruto who started the cycle
Power Level- End Level
Naruto looked at the figure, seemingly frozen in time as he held a void black staff in front of him. There was a three pronged kunai in his mouth and there was a blanket of orange and yellow energy like a cloak around him. He held a look of determination in his eyes and it looked like the Naruto was about to leap through the glass and attack the Naruto that was looking at his frozen figure.
After what felt like forever, Naruto dragged his eyes away from the Original Naruto before he walked away and headed to the large chamber that he knew was somewhere in the dreamscape. He didn't rush, he knew he had all the time in the world and he wanted to look around a bit and see what the other Naruto's were like. When he finally made his way to the large chamber Naruto looked around, the cage at the back of the room that seemed to ebb away the light was still there. The terminal near the entrance was also still there and Naruto sat down.
Would you like to check your stats?
Yes, No
Naruto selected the yes option and took one look at his stats, over the month that he gave himself to improve his stats Naruto had taken every quest that had been given to him. Shadow clones had improved his chakra and he'd leveled up a few times and he increased his chakra capacity as much as possible.
Naruto Uzumaki Lv. 56
Points to spend- 0
Strength- 150 (60) - 210
Agility- 200 (40) - 240
Endurance- 200 (50) -250
Vitality- 200 (20) -220
Intelligence- 100 (10)- 110
Chakra- 30000 (5000) 35000
Control- 300 (50) -350
Crystal Release
Ice Release
Sharingan Version. Mangekyou (Special Ability- Kamui)
Shadow Clone Technique
Advanced Wire Techniques
Advanced Fuinjutsu
Soap Bubble Ninjustu
Familiars- Dragon (Sora) Fox (Aurora)
Naruto looked at the stats with pride, he'd worked hard for those stats and although he wasn't as strong as some of the other Naruto's he was strong in his own right and found pride in that. Not to mention that he was powerful on his own, managing to best Kakashi even though the lazy Jonin hadn't been paying attention and was underestimating Naruto to a major degree.
Next time the two sparred, Naruto hoped that Kakashi wouldn't hold back and that they could have a decent fight. Sitting back in the chair that the terminal allowed him to view his stats, Naruto looked at the stats on the screen before it faded back to the regular black screen.
Would you like to save?
Yes, No
Naruto of course selected the yes and looked around the large empty room, noticing something new behind him. There was a small figure, of Naruto himself. His black and orange hoodie, and a pair of brown baggy shorts that reached to his knees that Naruto had decided that he'd like a few weeks back. His shinobi sandals, a cheesy smile on his face, identical to all the others figures.
They were all happy, that was one thing. Naruto was very happy with his life, and wouldn't change a thing about it and when he woke up, Naruto was sure that it was about to get better. Seeing as Sasuke was allowed to take the Academy Exam early to graduate with Naruto's class, and there was the fact that Naruto had gotten the old man to put him, Sayuri, and Sasuke on the same team with Mikoto as their Jonin teacher.
There was a heavy breeze originating from the cage and Naruto turned towards the cage itself, walking over to the edge of the cage. The cage seemed to absorb any light that entered it, and Naruto put his hand on one of the bars and looked inside. Another blast of wind, this time much stronger due to Naruto being closer to the cage. Red eyes opened in the cage, and stared back at Naruto and made him freeze up before a large smile spread across the face of whatever was in the cage. It wasn't a happy smile, it was one that terrified Naruto enough.
For what seemed to be forever the two eyes stared at each other, before the thing in the cage began to laugh. It wasn't a laugh of joy, but somehow contained so much hate, anger, and insanity all wrapped up into one neat auditory package that turned Naruto's spine to ice. That was when Naruto felt something tugging him from his dreamscape and he happily obliged to get the hell out of there and away from what was in the cage.
Waking up, Naruto found himself being shaken rather vigorously by a joint effort of Sasuke and Sayuri, both were overly excited to partake in the Academy Exams that would be that day. Naruto however, found himself at a lack of enthusiasm seeing as he wanted to sleep more. He rolled over and groaned, like he always did when he was forced to get up earlier that he wanted.
"If you don't get up, I will get mom to come in here and beat you with a hot pan again!" Sayuri growled at Naruto who shot out of bed, not caring that he was only in his boxers and grabbed both of the siblings by the back of their shirts before hauling them out of his room so he could get dressed. Closing the door, Naruto proceeded to take a shower and get dressed with record time before he tried to wake Sora and Aurora, who like always were being lazy bums and so he gave up and joined everybody at the table.
"Ah, Naruto I see that you decided to join the land of the living! I'm glad I didn't have to resort to desperate measures to get you out of bed in the morning." Mikoto giggled a bit, remembering when she had indeed beaten Naruto with a hot pan. It was drastic measures that allowed for them to get Naruto up when he was needed or else he might have slept all day. Naruto's eyes twitched a bit as he eyed the pan with breakfast that Mikoto was holding, he shifted a bit in his chair ready to make an obvious run for it if Mikoto so much as moved wrong.
Naruto knew that if the situation called for it, she was fully willing to hit Sayuri and Sasuke with the hot pan, just to prove that she wasn't favoring either one of them over him. He just got hit more because he did more things to warrant a punishment. Like the time he lovingly sewed into all of her pillows the words, "Mikoto is the head of the Sasuke Uchiha fan club."
That was enough to warrant getting hit with the pan, the time when he swapped all of Sayuri's and Sasuke's clothes. Okay that didn't really warrant it, but it made Sasuke and Sayuri feel better when they managed to get their clothes back. Naruto visibly relaxed when Mikoto put the pancakes on a plate, and set said plate on the table before setting the pan to the side to let it cool before she washed it.
Breakfast was quiet, with the three soon to be genin busy stuffing their faces more that focusing on talking. Naruto, unsurprisingly finished first and ran back into his room to get something while the siblings and Mikoto finished her breakfast. Naruto came out of his room with a pipe in his hand, not one used for smoking but a very unique and stylized pipe.
The part where Naruto would put his mouth over was rather small only a drinking straw in width and the mouthpiece was made of gold. The pipe grew a bit bigger and special designs were carved into the side of the pipe with silver, before the tip of the pipe ended in a dragon's mouth which was about and inch wide at that end.
"And what would that be Naruto?"
"Something special! It helps with a special type of ninjutsu I've been practicing lately." Naruto bounced up and down a bit before putting the pipe to his mouth and he let out a breath slowly through the pipe. Channeling chakra through the pipe, specifically water chakra Naruto created bubbles that began flying out of the pipe. The bubbles flew around the room for a bit, before Naruto popped them with his chakra.
"And that's supposed to do what exactly? Distract the enemy long enough for you to get a shot off?" Sayuri smirked and crossed her arms. Sasuke just put on a ridiculous grin.
"Instead of that, try... explode with the force of an exploding tag when the enemy brushes them off as a distraction. Let's not forget the little fact that I can drown people, cover them in acid, fly, form barriers that can withstand large explosions, oh and my own little personal twist, absorb up to A-rank techniques and return fire. In fact I based my chakra absorption seal on this technique. It is an offensive, defensive, and supplementary jutsu type and just because you think that bubbles can't be dangerous doesn't mean that I can't beat you with them." Naruto suddenly got really defensive about his bubbles.
Naruto took pride in the fact that his bubbles had the potential to be his most offensive technique, second to only the wires. Really his most offensive technique was the crystals right now, but they were technically defensive just like his ice release so that didn't really count. His wire technique were offensive and supplementary, and were the only thing he had that was made for the exact purpose of cutting people apart like cheese against a cheese grater.
And he had to admit that he didn't use it as often as he probably should have in the dungeons, but currently he was grinding on his bubble level, and he wanted to get his crystal release to level 50 so he could get a mutation for it. He was so close that he could feel it and he wanted to go into another dungeon after the graduation so he could get those last few levels on the crystal release skill.
But Naruto did get really defensive about his bubbles, mostly because he would get made fun of when people saw and they wouldn't take it seriously. Except for the people in Kiri who almost without a doubt had somebody who used the technique and would be wary of it. But almost nobody in Konoha had heard of the Soap Bubble Ninjutsu and made fun of it, calling it a 'child thing'. If he wasn't about to become a loyal ninja to Konoha, Naruto would have a bubble blow up right in their face just to show them what was a 'child thing.'
Naruto pushed the thoughts from his mind and found that Sayuri and Sasuke both were leaving him behind as they headed out to the Academy for the graduation day. Naruto shouted as he ran to catch up to them, only to find that they were now jumping across the roof tops, in an attempt to leave him in the dust.
"Oh no you don't!" Naruto shouted before he started running as fast as he could to catch up with them, easily catching up to them and surpassing the two Uchiha siblings who started going as fast as they could, trying to catch up to Naruto. Naruto slowed down on purpose just to make it seem close, and the two seem to sense this and got annoyed that Naruto was holding back, just to try and look like he was only mildly faster than them when he could have easily been at the Academy which was quickly showing up.
Naruto came to a stop and landed in the courtyard of the Academy, before he was quickly joined by Sayuri and Sasuke, who were a little peeved that Naruto had held back but the anger quickly faded and instead they filed away that they'd need to do a bit of dungeon grinding to level up themselves. Now that Naruto had basically handed them the ability to become some of the strongest shinobi in the entire world, it wouldn't do for them to sit back and watch as Naruto shot ahead of them.
They remembered his words the morning after they failed at the dungeon run due to the strong mini-boss that exhausted them before they had the chance to do any sort of damage. In fact they still echoed in Naruto's own mind.
No way in hell I'm making it my mission in life to make you strong, that needs to be up to you and if you want power you need to reach out and grab it yourself. I'm not making my goal in life to get you stronger, only you can do that but if you need help or you stray off of the pathwhat you want, then you can always call out for a bit of my help and I can be there.
Naruto had made it clear that it was up to them to get stronger, he wasn't going to do if for them. They understood that he was willing to help them, but they first had to ask him, and they understood that he had his own reason for getting stronger and getting power and he didn't have the time to baby them to power. Both of the siblings were willing to put their back into getting stronger on their own.
But coming back from their thoughts, all three of them made their way through the twisting hallways of the Academy to the room that all the graduates gathered in to take the exam. There were a few students not of the fourth year that were in there, mainly because they had both Hokage and parent/guardian permission to take the exam early. But if they failed they wouldn't get another shot at taking the graduation exam until their fourth year. If they passed the exam but failed the one given by their Jonin teacher then they would basically be out of the program or trained for a desk job seeing as those were always needed.
The three sat down next to each other in the back corner. Sayuri against the wall, Naruto in the middle, and Sasuke on the edge next to the empty seat that nobody wanted to sit in due to the glares that Sayuri and Naruto were giving the rest of the room. It wasn't until a pink haired banshee and the blonde haired gossip queen entered the room that things got quiet.
Naruto had immediately taken a strong disliking to both of the girls. Yamanaka be damned, he didn't care if she belonged to one of the main clans of Konoha, she didn't treat the shinobi life-style seriously and there for he not only didn't take her seriously but he let it be known to the world that if she kept up her attitude about the ninja life style is all fun and games that her future was incredibly bleak.
Not only did he say that neither of the girls would make it past genin rank, that if they pursued their so called 'love' interest in Sasuke that he would make their lives very, very difficult.
When those two entered the room, the temperature dropped considerably and if looks could kill then the look that Naruto was shooting Ino and Sakura would have killed them in thirty different ways. He didn't know, it would've probably killed them in fifty. The everybody froze as Naruto slowly got out of his seat, and began walking down to the door that Sakura and Ino were at. He made it painfully slow, so that it felt forever that he headed towards the two girls that were about to enter the room and fight for Sasuke's affections.
He put his hand on both of their shoulders, which turned their spines to ice right in their backs, and he leaned down so his head was right in between theirs.
"Are you strong enough to beat me without taking a scratch yet? Can you beat the combined effort of Mikoto, Sayuri, and just about every other fan-girl with your bare hands alone? If not, I advise that you turn around step out of this classroom and try to graduate when you're ready. But knowing you, that time will never come. So go, and remember that I will not hesitate to make it so neither of you will pass this academy. You don't need to go to war to get PTSD, I can scare you so badly without even hurting you to put you out of your career before it even begins."
Naruto spoke in a ice cold voice that was as hard as steel and as slow as the seasons passing, and each word that he spoke only frightened the girls a little more.
"So remember, I'll let you graduate when you give up Sasuke, when you start taking this life-style a little more seriously, when you give up those stupid diets you have, when you give up that fan girl attitude, when you get over your fear of sweating, and when you finally get over yourselves. This world doesn't revolve around you, it doesn't revolve around your little obsession. If the academy were to allow you to graduate now, you'd find a way to get killed on your first D-rank. So go, and remember what I told you, that you will never be good enough for Sasuke." Naruto finished the last bit in a whisper and a hiss, before he roughly turned the girls around and shoved them out of the door before closing it behind them.
He turned around and made his way back to his seat, smiling all the way.
"Now why did you have to do that Naruto? If you are this protective of him, he's never going to get married and I'll have nobody to show his baby pictures to!" Sayuri laughed a bit, sounding like Mikoto.
"Because I want to see if I could actually give those two PTSD with my words alone, because if I do then Anko owes me a thousand ryo."
Sayuri gave him a blank look, "You made a bet with the scary snake lady, that you could give somebody PTSD with your words alone? What kind of people do you hang out with when you're not with us?"
"The scary snake lady apparently. Is it wrong that he shares dango with me every once in a while in addition to talking about the best way to torture information out of people without actually hurting them?" The voice appeared right behind Sayuri, and Naruto didn't even need to tilt his head to know that it was Anko. He smirked as she tried to run a kunai against his cheek only for his crystal to appear against the surface of his skin, protecting his face.
Anko frowned before hugging Naruto's back, "You know Naruto, you're no fun. I can never cut you, but one of these days' I'll catch you off guard enough to taste your blood." Anko smirked as she talked next to Naruto's ears and pressed her assets against his back, trying to get a reaction out of him.
She was not expecting for Naruto lean up and whisper in her ear, "I guess you can just enjoy the best hunt you've had in your life then." She let out a hearty laugh, "I like you kid, your fun to play with." And with that, Anko left through the window this time shattering it instead of silently opening it.
Sayuri stared at Naruto, "What the hell was that Naruto?"
"That Sayuri, was Anko. She is my favorite shinobi in all of the force of Konoha, besides Mikoto and you guys of course. She's fun to play with." Naruto smiled and looked off into space.
"Why don't I want to know what you mean by 'play'?" Sayuri asked.
"Because you wouldn't be able to take Anko on when she goes full force." Naruto smiled, he was teasing her but Sayuri didn't seem to get it. Instead thoughts and images ran through her mind that turned her face as red as a tomato and she started stuttering almost as bad as Hinata, "W-w-what do y-you mean by t-that?"
Naruto leaned in and whispered to Sayuri, "You'll just have to find us and watch, we don't keep it a secret after all."
Sayuri's brain decided that was enough and somehow her face turned a dark shade of crimson that a tomato would have a hard time getting. Sayuri then knew something was up when Naruto fell over from laughing so hard. Sayuri frowned and gave Naruto a kick in the stomach to help him stop laughing.
"I can't believe you fell for that Sayuri, even Sasuke knows!"
Sayuri looked over to her younger brother who frowned as he looked at Naruto, "That's not nice to tease Sayuri like that Naruto, just because she doesn't know that you and Anko fight each other in spars doesn't mean you have to make it an innuendo like that." Sasuke then turned to Sayuri, "If you didn't know sis, every once and a while Anko and Naruto will spar and it get's really intense because Anko doesn't hold back."
A look of knowing passed across Sayuri's face, before a look of anger decided to settle in there instead and she directed that anger towards Naruto, "I can't believe that you led me on like that Naruto! That's just inappropriate and you know it!" Sayuri stood up and began kicking Naruto while he was down.
The rest of the hopeful graduates couldn't figure out Naruto at all, first he could be scary and then laughing and joking another moment. It was just like all the jonins, they all had their little quirks. Except for the fact that they found that Naruto was a bit scarier than all of the jonins and the hopeful graduates found themselves migrating away from Naruto leaving a sizable space in the room between them and the three sitting in the corner.
After a few minutes, the chunin teacher showed up and began giving the usual speech that all the teachers were required to give at the end of the year, before the test. Naruto immediately tuned out, and didn't come back down to earth until the test was given.
Begin the test?
Yes, No
Naruto selected the yes button, just like Sayuri and Sasuke before they picked up their pencils and began answering questions.
1) What is the name of the famous bloodline that only the First Hokage had?
Answer: Wood Release
2) What was the Second Hokage famous for?
Answer: Water Release
3) Name the main five hidden villages.
Answer: Konoha, Suna, Kumo, Iwa, Kiri
The test went on like that for fifty questions and when Naruto finished, he closed the test packet that was handed out and he laid his head down trusting Sayuri and Sasuke to wake him up when the next part of the test came out. Well it wasn't sleeping to be exact, more like he was spacing off with his head down and his eyes closed. Naruto knew that the other students wouldn't finish as fast as he did and he would be forced to wait a while.
What surprised him was that when he looked up after a minute he found a text box floating there.
If you are done with the first part of the test, would you like to continue to the accuracy portion of the test?
Yes, No
Naruto shrugged and selected the yes, and everything suddenly sped up. A few seconds later, everybody had put their pencils down and they were ready to go onto the next part of the test. Everybody filed out of the classroom trying to stay away from Naruto seeing as the display he put on earlier scared them. They didn't want him to try and give them PTSD with his words alone, and with how scary he got, there was a good chance that it could happen.
When they got outside, the teachers started calling names alphabetically for the hopefuls to take the test. There were three targets, one at 5 meters, one at 10 meters, and one at 20 meters. The five was worth 1 point, the ten was worth 5 points, and the twenty was worth 10 points, for a maximum of 100 points on both the shuriken and kunai accuracy test.
When it was Naruto's turn to throw, seeing as he was last, Naruto walked over to the 20 meter target and pulled out 10 shuriken before he let them fly. All ten of the shuriken hit the bulls-eyes on the target, and Naruto was given 100 points for the shuriken accuracy part of the test. It wasn't long before he got a 100 points for the kunai accuracy part as well. With that, it was on to the taijutsu part of the test.
You had to stay within the bounds of the circle for a minute, bonus points if you managed to knock the chunin out of the ring. Most of the bookworms that had only managed to barely scape by due to intelligence were quickly cut down and dropped out of the test. Naruto however, kicked the chunin out of the ring in the first three seconds and gained full points plus some extra.
The last exam was so easy that Naruto didn't even want to mention it, he would need to have a talk with the old man about the difficulty curve of the Academy test. But all three of them walked out of the room to meet Mikoto who was standing there with a smile on her face. Sasuke and Sayuri ran over to their mother, Naruto walked over instead and joined them all for a big group hug.
"I'm so proud of you three." Mikoto whispered to them as they shared the group hug a bit longer. When Naruto broke away he found that a text box appeared in front of his face.
Would you like to activate Hardmode?
Yes, No
Naruto shifted that textbox aside and headed for the tutorials section, before reading the one on hard mode.
Hardmode
Things get harder, you get better loot, nuff' said.
Naruto had to suppress a laugh, the tutorial which had always given a specific explanation for him had chosen this time to get super vague. But he could only guess that came with the Hardmode. Bringing the textbox back up, Naruto selected the yes. Nothing appeared to change and Naruto found that another textbox.
Are you sure, there is no going back after you select yes.
Yes, No
Again Naruto selected yes.
Hardmode will begin tomorrow, after you wake up.
Naruto could only smile at that, before he walked home to celebrate with his family.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter, here is a list of everything that I remember that Naruto has and a bit of what he's gained. Please don't hate on me if I forgot something. Naruto also got the Mangekyou with a special token through a quest if you where wondering.
TaijutsuAcademy Taijutsu Lv 20
Genin Taijutsu Lv 25
Feral Fighting Taijutsu Lv 31
Dragon's Claw Taijutsu Lv 44
Genjutsu
N/A
Ninjutsu
Replacement Technique Lv 20
Clone Technique Lv 10
Transformation Lv 53 Mutation (Solid Transformations)
Shadow Clone Lv 32
Soap Bubble Ninjutsu Lv 15
Bloodlines
Crystal Release Lv 48
Ice Release Lv 34
Sharingan Mangekyou Lv 20
Special Techniques
Wire Techniques Lv 32
Fuinjustu Lv 38
Other
Cooking
Sewing
Pickpocketing- Mutation (Inventory Stealer)
Speech
Etc.