I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics, even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise. Whether I will have Oc's in the fic or not depends entirely on how the story goes.
Chapter 21
Hi, I'm clone #1, I was 'born' a few minutes ago I'd like to thank my creator for that, and no although Naruto Uzumaki is the most badass person I know who also happens to be me, sadly he is not who I'm thanking, his definitely a close second.
I'm thanking none other than the second Hokage himself, with this jutsu he became God I wonder what he was thinking when he decided to create the shadow clone jutsu, because 'Information gathering.' Did not seem like something a genius like him would create such a beautiful jutsu for. "Oops!" I ducked under the bushes as a mercenary passed behind the 30 feet fence of the Gatō mansion.
I watched as he stopped and looked around, spread his hands before calling out "Flying Thunder God sword technique flash of absolute light ahhh." Then he began bastardizing some hand seals I'd never seen before with the speed of a 2-year-old back in the village.
I grimaced, I felt bad for what I was about to do. Picking up a small pebble I aimed for his neck, a pressure point we were all thought in the academy. I watched as he jumped around from one foot to the next, drew his sword, and began mimicking teleportation as he strikes his imaginary foes I had to stop him now or he would do something stupid and I'll laugh.
I let it loose flicking it so fast it left my hand and reached him in the time it took him to feel like he was flying in the air, "bullseyes" I breathed out as the man dropped like a sack of potatoes. I wasn't going to kill the guy I was here for information if everybody can come out alive with vague recollections of what happened it would be great.
Being a clone is so awesome! the second Hokage had better plans for us I'm sure of it, I just hope I can find out what, well, I hope the original can find out what our true purpose is. I believe in myself so I know the original will one day find out what the second Hokage had planned or even better find a whole new innovation around us.
"I'll be so badass….tststststst." I snickered as I dashed towards the gates going through three hand seals 'Dog, Boar, Ram'. my eyes focused on the small Churiken-sized opening in the fence as I leaped forward and whispered. "henge" in a puff of smoke I turned into a Shuriken already in a thrown motion it was a dizzy experience let me tell you. My shuriken form got through the gap in one go and with another puff of smoke, I was back in my clone form grabbing my camouflage sheet from a seal on my pouch without a speck of smoke or sound I grabbed the sleeping man and placed him in a corner throwing the sheet over his form and left him there.
"This is gonna drain me of my life, he better be grateful, or ill dispel him." Making the cross seal, a puff of smoke appeared next to me and I rolled my eyes when I saw the shit-eating grin on his face.
"Don't even think about it buddy, if you do that you'll only get half your chakra back the other will go to the original." Mother fucker shit, sorry mom.
"Whatever just henge into that loser." I told my clone that I will call '2'. I pointed to the corner that had the mercenary slapped with a……
"You slap him with The Now You See Me, Now You Can't tag?" yeah what '2' called it, it is an awesome name by the way. I don't wanna hear it.
"Yeah, it's on his underwear under his pants, he could fart and no one would think twice about the smell." I said and we both nodded seriously it didn't take long before we snorted in amusement.
The clone went through hand seals and in a puff of smoke It became a replica of the mercenary, I nodded and walked towards '2' henging into a 100 ryo note that he snatched out of the air and put in his pocket.
"Wassup my man? hey, how's it going? Lovely weather we have today wouldn't you say, my dear sir." I rolled my eyes in the darkness listening as '2' practiced mimicking the mercenary's voice it was perfect on the first try but he was me, or he was us? So why not? Naruto Uzumaki had to practice his talk no jutsu somewhere If I could shrug as a bill I would.
Did I mention I just turned into a paper bill? We clones are not organic no matter how similar we are to the original. We are fundamentally different, an example of this is the fact that the blood running true my body is just chakra taking the form and characteristics of blood.
That is why I say Tobirama Senju could never have been so narrow-minded that he would create the shadow clone technique for something as mundane as intelligence gathering it's not like we are programmed to be great spies, the skills and the way we would go around gathering information is with our creator's skillsets and imagination in mind.
The second Hokage had become a God, with the shadow clone jutsu he replicated life itself to the smallest detail. then he went badass, challenging life itself by creating a technique to cheat death, bringing people to life. The original read the first line of that Jutsu and dropped the scroll, with that jutsu he wouldn't be able to resist bringing his mother back he could recall the original's thoughts on that day.
"Hey Odama, why you not at your post?" I heard a voice say approaching '2'.
"Lovely weather we have today wouldn't you say, my dear sir?" I gapped. what the fuck '2'!
"What the fuck. Yoh you okay man?" I heard the voice ask in confusion.
"Good sir is that a booger in your nose?" The clone continued. I just stayed put if we got caught I'm popping to get the boss my side of the story first.
"You drunk?" At that question, '2' hiccuped and I made an '0' with my none existence mouth. I'm so clever, I grinned.
"If you need me good sir I'll be in the dump cleaning out the vacuum. You get it because my mouth takes in and and and burghhhhhhhh…." '2' gagged exaggerating the act.
"Not here, not here man!" I heard the voice say and '2' began walking away I could tell he was walking like he was drunk by the turbulence I felt.
We clones have individuality in the sense that I am my own person and yet I know that I am not, I can feel, smell, hear, see and taste. But my survival instincts are tuned to the original's safety.
And because my body is purely chakra I can be anything I want to be, there are no bones to bend or break, and then reform, organs to reshape and resize, my henge is an actual transformation and not an illusion. Everything about me is chakra because I am just that chakra, but not just any random chakra I am Naruto Uzumaki's chakra given form and life.
Come to think of it tailed beasts are just that, chakra beasts, taking that into account we clones are chakra Narutos.
Wait! I just got a revelation what if the tailed beasts are actually the sum of another tailed beast and that tailed beast had learned the shadow clone Jutsu………Nah! That's silly.
I felt '2' stop before I heard water flushing, '2' took me out of his back pocket and threw me up in the air in a puff of smoke I was a replica of my original self again.
"You are an idiot." I told '2' the instant I had my working mouth again and he shrugged.
"Keep telling yourself that." He replied smirking, smart ass.
"Go back out and patrol the place for another 2 to 3 minutes then act like you are sick again and head to 1st floor check the rooms there, I will investigate upstairs." '2' nodded and left leaving me in the toilet.
I took a deep breath before going through 3 hands seals and in a puff of smoke I was a tiny spider, I crawled up the wall with my Chaka and began my way up the ceiling, once reaching the ceiling I walked on all 8 legs upside down towards the staircases.
As I crawled on the ceiling I noticed the lack of personnel inside I ran into two guards and all they were doing was guarding a door. A very lavish door but that was on the first floor '2' would have to handle that. Reaching the staircase I continued my trek and reached the second floor.
"Is Gatō-Sama's meal ready?" I heard a voice call out I crawled towards the door the voice came from and listened in.
"In 20 minutes." Another voice replied this one is a female. She sounded scared and on edge.
I have more or less 20 minutes to explore this mansion and then get back here. I moved quickly along the way I met another spider I saluted and it just walked off without any indication of acknowledging my existence, it had red eyes probably an Uchiha that died and got reincarnated into a spider.
I traveled in front of every door and stayed put to listen in before moving on and after clearing the second floor I went to the third floor I checked every door on the third floor until one was left right down the hallway. Reaching the door I listened in and grinned bingo.
"I ran into one of the genins in the woods, that's why I'm late Zabuza-Sama, the blonde one." Haku's voice came through and I wasn't even surprised he was with Zabuza everything just added up too well.
"Did you kill him?" Zabuza asked immediately and I'm guessing Haku shook his head. "Why did you not kill the maggot Haku, you're strong enough to handle one little genin." Zabuza growled out killing intent flowing out the door and hitting me like a brick.
"He is not a random genin Zabuza-Sama, he is powerful I found him in a 50-yard crater napping from doing training and when he woke up he was still ready to go, not a sight of fatigue." Haku told the man and I blinked I still couldn't remember how the original caused that.
"Explain." Zabuza said cutting off the intent to kill.
"I don't have an explanation." Haku admitted sounding downcast at not being able to be of more use to his master.
I crawled in through the gap separating the top of the door and the door frame to find myself in an ominously dark room with curtains closed, Haku still cross-dressing was applying ointments on Zabuza's burns and bruises.
We really did a number on the man, I laughed as I watched them closely.
"I want you to contact a man who owes me a favor, knowing him he will jump at the opportunity to kill some tree huggers." Zabuza said with his head down facing up at the ceiling.
"Who is this man Zabuza-Sama and where might I find him?" Haku stood up straight chest out and ready to take orders for his precious person. I don't know what kind of drugs you would have to take to see that face as precious.
"Aoi Rokushō a former leaf nin and in his possession is the Blade of the Thunder Spirit a weapon previously held by the second Hokage at some point in his miserable life." My eyes widened Holy shit is this fate am I about to meet another brother from the same creator.
"You will find him in Amegakure, just get an audience with him and explain the situation, also make sure to emphasize it is me Zabuza Momochi calling for his aid don't mention Itachi Uchiha." I crawled out the door when I felt I heard and saw enough so I rushed down to the second floor hoping to catch that meal Gatō wanted.
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"Again Odama!" '2' burped as he swayed on his feet playing the part of a drunk.
"Ahhh my good sir, ughh what's your name again?" '2' asked with a hiccup as he took 3 steps back before throwing his weight forward and taking 2 steps forward.
The confused mercenary caught him before he could fall on his face. "You're so fucking drunk you forgot you're best friend's name and you couldn't invite me." The thug accused shaking the disguised '2'
"Best friend whooooooo? Burphhhhhhhhh." He gagged again and the mercenary panicked pushing him away.
"It's me Rasen, you don't remember me?" Rasen asked and the only answer he got was a loud burp that lasted a few seconds in his face.
"I'm gonna see you around best friend." '2' said as he walked to the mansion entrance opening the door only to almost knock his head with it before walking in and closing it behind him.
With the click of the door '2's' attitude changed faster than a ninja could make one hand seal. He was on the 1st floor looking around, opening doors to peek inside only to close them when nothing interesting grabbed his attention.
'2' finally saw something interesting in the distance, a doorway with 2 mercenaries guarding it, it looked more like they were loitering there as they conversed, chuckled, and played Rock, paper, scissors.
'2' walked up towards them still in disguise and they stopped doing what they were doing looking at his approaching form in confusion.
"What do you want here Odama head?" The guard on the left teased and they both laughed. '2' didn't take it personally, it wasn't his head in the first place.
"Hahahaha good one, I was wondering if your mother was finally ready to take my appointment, Rasen said she was free to show me that little trick she does with her tongue." '2' said with a shit-eating grin on his face that if the words didn't hurt you enough the look on his face would be the salt placed on that wound.
"Why you little.." the thug on the left approached and '2' let his open palm strike the thug across his throat so fast no one but '2' knew what had happened. Immediately the thug grabbed onto his throat choking as he tried to breathe.
"Shit I think his choking." '2' got on his knees checking the thug over before turning to the one looking on in confusion. "what are you just standing there for? My comeback made him choke on his words go get him some water so we can quench the burn." If the thug was listening properly he would have gotten the joke but he wasn't listening or he was but he was just slow to the punchline.
The mercenary/thug ran off to get water and '2' cracked his neck looking at the mercenary on the floor choking. In a puff of smoke the disguise was dropped and '2' grind as the mercenary's eyes widened in shock and fear. '2' now a blonde 12-year-old rolled his shoulders before rolling up his sleeve and the mercenary began backing away frantically.
"Nothing personal man but you should treat Odama better, this is for him." '2' said and clocked the mercenary across the face so hard he lost a molar. Pulling out a Now You See Me, Now You Can't tag he placed it on the man's backside, dragged him to a corner, and threw a camouflage sheet over him.
Slowly creaking the door open '2' saw a desk and some cupboards, drawers, and a safe. He walked in and closed the door behind him.
'2' walked towards the desk and began scanning the details of the files one was a bank statement from a bank in the Fire capital a transaction from a noblewoman it wasn't stated what the transaction was for just the amount paid and it was a lot, worth at least 5 A-rank missions easily.
Another document spoke of Gatō's expansion plans for wave, planning to buy the whole country and turning every nook of land into a giant factory to produce 'Gatō industry merchandise'.
There were many more documents like this laying around but none of them were incriminating. '2' shrugged and brought out his copy scroll and began sealing documents inside only for them to be released a second later with their contents copied. the clone took the better of 15 minutes to seal all the documents in the cupboards, drawers, and so on. He took out a normal scroll and dumped a few interesting-looking books inside before finally getting to the mother load, the safe.
"How to do this?" '2' wondered, he didn't have any safe cracking skills so he was stuck but then he snapped his fingers in realization. "duh." He thought with a grin.
Taking out another scroll he placed it on the knee-length safe and after the tiger seal, in a puff of smoke the safe was gone '2' grinned he walked up to the door and cracked the it open again and saw the second guard back in his post, he stepped back and henged into Odama then peaked his head out the door scaring the guard.
"Psst, I found Gatō's porn magazine and a copy of the latest icha icha paradise you wanna see?" '2' asked and the guard glared at him.
"What are you doing in Gatō's office and where is Danko?" The guard said drawing his sword. "Get out here with your hands up." He ordered and '2' knew if he got caught now or dispelled everything in his possession would drop like items on an RPG game.
"Yeah, yeah. Danko is in here as well he did say you were a stuck-up prick I thought he was exaggerating." The disguised '2' said opening the door but stepping back inside and the guard growled following inside to apprehend Odama.
The moment he stepped into the room he was punched across the face losing a canine, then his face was caught in an impossibly strong grip before his head got knocked against the wall of the office landing him unconscious.
The clone walked out of the room and closed the door behind him gently, he walked out of the mansion whistling a tune as he passed by Rasen and told him he was feeling better and apologized promising next time he would invite him when he went drinking again.
He then went to his 'post' turned to face the fence and repeated the process '1' did, turning into a shuriken to get through the hole in the fence. With that out of the way he began his dash back to Tazuna's house wishing his partner left behind Godspeed.
AN
This chapter is dedicated to a fan who has been questioning my plans for the shadow clone technique and although the training shstick is cool, the shadow clones have so much more potential then to just gather information, be Naruto's personal meat shields or speeding up training though don't worry they are still all of that...
I thought I would give you guys a more personal take of the life of a naruto clone and his thoughts on his life and creation...just like Naruto his clones feel they could accomplish more for the original if they could understand their true potential...
Happy 21st chapter to you A different telling, they grow up so fast... I don't want more kids this is my only daughter
Guys take it how you will take it I'm done with chapters for the week maybe Monday morning you will get another chapter... Salute