Naruto/FTL/Space Engineers/Aliens (Earlier this Year/2013)
The Adventures of the Yōshanai-Ishi
Discovery of the Great Star Ship
Despite what many people think, Naruto Uzumaki isn't dumb, sure he might be slower than most. But what most people forget is that he was never had any form of parental guidance during his childhood, as such he never gained the basic reasoning skills that parents teach their children. He's had to learn everything from scratch with few people helping him and many trying to stop him from learning. Despite that the spiky haired blonde with crystal blue eyes was very charismatic, his words held an innocence that made people stop and think about what they said and what he said. Not long after the events of the Chunin exams and the return of Tsunade he proposed having the rookie teams go on a short expedition to the lands of Nami no Kuni for some training, he actually proposed this out of boredom and wanting to explore a bit more of the lands around Nami. However Tsunade took this as a sign of Naruto's unusual way of thinking discovering that the rookies (and Team Gai) needed some ordered R&R. The rookies and Team Gai with the exception of Sakura and Sasuke loved the idea. Not wanting to force a confrontation Tsunade let only Naruto and Kakashi of Team Seven go, but made Shizune go with them just in case. She also sent the ANBUs Neko and Tora to keep an eye on things. Little did she know this was the precursor to events that would leave the Teams stranded far from home and having to survive many difficulties on their way back.
To top everything off Tsunade gave Naruto operational command, but if he abused it one of the Jounin (probably Kakashi) would take over. The Jounin though surprised were intrigued as to how Naruto would lead the teams, The rookies didn't have a problem with it. Shikamaru is happy that someone else got the 'troublesome' duty of leading, Chōji and Kiba are good friends with Naruto and had trusted him when he lead them in pranks before. Shino had seen Naruto's power during the confrontation with Gaara (He'd had a Kikaichū observe Naruto) and wants to see how his leadership abilities, Lee smiles thinking about Naruto's Flames of Youth and how they would let him lead them. Neji is intrigued at what is happening but like Shino wants to see what Naruto's leadership skill are like, Hinata was blushing and inwardly happy that her crush was leading them. Tenten and Ino didn't really have an opinion, but were happy to go along with the flow to get out of reconstruction duties for some relaxation.
Naruto is shocked at being trusted with such a momentous responsibility for a Genin, He tells the teams to meet at the Main Gate tomorrow morning with the supplies for a month-long mission. Naruto then heads to the library and gets some books, despite what some would think there are actually five libraries in Konoha. There's the Civilian Library where Naruto wasn't allowed due to a biased librarian, it has civilian level texts and fantasy novels. There's the Academy Library where Academy students borrow their textbooks from, Naruto studied as hard as he could but some bias and a lack of reading ability held him back until Iruka taught him to read in his last year of Academy. There's the Shinobi Library where Genin and Chunin level texts and some basic jutsu scrolls are held, that is Naruto's current destination. There's the Jounin Library where Jounin level information is kept and finally there's the ANBU Library where the most sensitive and secretive books and scrolls are kept.
Naruto walks into the Shinobi Library, he shows his ID card to the Librarian and asks for the location of basic Leadership textbooks. The librarian directs him to the bookshelves he's looking for, Naruto smiles as he spots the books he is looking for 'Basic leadership Practices' and 'Shinobi Unit Tactics Vol. 1'. He takes them to the librarian and says he's going on a long-term mission and would like to borrow these books for the length of the mission, the librarian smiles and writes down the books Naruto is borrowing on his account ledger.