Chapter 26
"You know fire attacks would work well," Rengoku said as he watched Nashi train his body with weights, its similar to the way rock Lee did his training, just change the weights with beads and you have it, he had ankle, and wrist beads that make him feel like he's carrying 500 kg on each bead.
"Why are we talking about elemental attacks again?" Ryu asked as he summoned a clone and proceeded to make it train tsubami gaeshi.
"I don't know, Stein opened it up and Rengoku talked about dragon claw," Hans said as they observed me train physically.
"Yeah, and it got me thinking that we can use tsubami gaeshi and something similar to dragon claw punching three holes in one go," he said with a bright and cheery smile, "ohh," he said as he noticed me drop from exhaustion, he then signaled his clone to start restoring my stamina.
"You sure its alright to continuously train him like this? Isn't there something like diminishing returns when constantly training? Without break?" Stein asked as he couldn't help but drag another stick on the ground counter the amount of times I collapsed from exhaustion, to which the tally is now 8, and considering my stamina it has already been 16 hours.
"Y-you know, w-why don't, you, all have a body?" Nashi asked as he breathed in air like a thirsty man finding an oasis in the desert.
"Come to think of it he has a point," Rengoku said.
"Well we can just merge with an empty blood clone body," and after that everyone silent as they pondered on that fact, "Come on guys it cant be that easy," Hans said.
"Have we tried though?" Stein asked as this has got his attention.
"We haven't, but we could, since thanks to our constant usage of the blood clone we managed to make by using mud clone as a base we practically have a minor blood manipulation ability, though that's possible due to the fact that we are manipulating the chakra traces in our blood, but its heavily possible, were made of pure chakra, so it makes sense that we can infuse ourselves into something," Rengoku said.
"True, but that's a big if, and i'm not sure if our situation is like a regular clone, were basically separate from the original and we have a completely different chakra signature now, granted its literally just an inch of difference but that's enough to separate our connection to him," Stein said.
"We need proper information," and everyone except Hans turned to Nashi.
"Bruh," all of them said in unison.
"Son of a bitch tricked us," Stein said.
"Cant say it wasn't a good distraction," Ryu said.
"Well we've been torturing him for 16 hours straight," Rengoku said.
They all said this to Nashi who took the time they used for discussion to take a dirt nap, but unknowingly Hans has entered the depths of his mind imagining how this could work, with Rengoku's added information of being pure chakra, and Stein's input of not trying, and if he uses Ryu's method it could be possible.
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"Urgh, I still feel like I got ran over by a train," Nashi complained as he twisted his neck trying to get the kinks and pain out of his body.
"What were you doing to feel like that?" Shikamaru asked as he noticed the brother trio looking tired and in pain.
"I don't know about these two but for me I just used a hell of a lot of drugs to restore my stamina and chakra and went ham on training," while drugs weren't involved, Rengoku's crude use of medical arts were basically doing the same thing.
"Must be tough," Kiba said as he is now more cognizant than before.
"Trust me you don't want to know," I said to them as memories of me waking up just to see the worst drill masters looming over me as Hans and Stein worked on the empty blood clone body, "though Choji seems to have been doing well now," I said as Choji glowed as he ate barbecue stick after barbecue stick.
"Yeah, it started three days ago, I think Choji is celebrating after completing his training," Shikamaru said as he watched everyone.
"Speaking of training have you seen our two resident slackers?" I asked as I looked for Ino and Sakura.
"Don't know about Sakura, but from what I heard from mr. Inoichi Ino has knocked herself out from training to much last night, but by the looks of the training ground he showed me like a proud parent she was practicing the advanced version of reinforcement," Shikamaru said.
"Well that's a surprise, but by that logic Sakura must be doing the same," I said which everyone looked at me wondering how I came to that conclusion, "Come on guys, its quite obvious that the two has this intense rivalry, and like Sasuke and Naruto, if one is training then the other must be doing the same," I then pointed at my feet, "biggest clue is fucking look," and they looked to see the book open on advanced chakra training page 82.
[page 82 of Nashi get strong fucking quick training]
This page hold a massive fucking what if from the theory on chakra training books, it's the usage of water walking and wall walking, by forming a small sphere out of pure chakra, the doing it by using the bottom of your feet to form it, you must then use water walking mixed with wall walking to maintain its form, this gives you the ability to walk on solid chakra.
!!WARNING!! Very slippery so don't try with hard dirt unless you want brain damage.
Below this was a drawing of a shinobi sandal and foot that has a small sphere under its feet and walking on the ground.
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"Whats page 82 of the book?" They just asked me as I have noticed that they didn't use my guide since they have there family jutsu, realizing that I feel to my knees.
"W-what am i? Just a tool for your minor improvements," I said with tears dramatically falling down my feet.
"Oh shut up, we know you learned more from us that we did from you, honestly I still don't think it was worth it letting you learn the inner working of my shadow jutsu," Shikamaru said.
"Oh don't be a spoil sport, plus its not like I have the years of ingrained constant use of your special jutsu that it became a kekkei genkai, plus you got more out of it than I ever did, I managed to improve, and increased your possible uses of your family jutsu, and fighting style, more on Kiba on that fighting style by the way," I said as Kiba just gave me a lazy nod.
"Speaking of special training how has yours been Choji?" Naruto asked.
"Been doing great, and thanks to, the massive improvements, i've been able to push it to the limit," Choji informed us while stuffing his face with food.
"How about you Sasuke? Training treating you well?" I asked as the blood shot eyes boy looked at me.
"Been doing good, though I can hardly close my eyes after prolong use of the sharingan, but its not as bad as it used to, I have completely matured my other eye so that was a helpful endeavor, though thanks to big sis Izumi i'm on edge, cause for the whole month she's been beating my face in whenever I turn my sharingan off," he said with a haunted voice.
"Well better than nothing I say, plus stay tuned for when the exams is over i'll be training you in ways to increase your chakra pool and control cause with more chakra, you can use more jutsu and your eyes will strain you less, while at the same time i'll be training you the same way Izumi has," I said as I wrote it down on my notes.
"What? But isn't it already enough that i'm being forced by her?" Sasuke complained.
"Of course not, because from the looks of it she's doing the training program wrong since she's not giving you time to rest your eyes, which I might add is what were training, and if we continue to stress it without rest it would just end badly," I then dodged a punch from Sasuke as he cried about sleepless hours and it was my fault.
And before we could continue our banter we heard a childish scream, we all went to the direction instantly.
"you dam brat, do you know who I am?" A boy wearing all black covering everything except his face which had face paint said.
"Let go of me you jerk, and who do you think you are talking to me like that," a small boy with a blue scarf said as he kicked and swung at the boy.
"Looks like someone has a death wish, i'm sure no one important will miss you," he said, but before he could do anything his body froze and without his control he let go of the boy.
"Konohamaru, come over here," Naruto said which the boy rushed to hide behind Naruto.
"Ugh, and, who the, fuck are you?!" The boy struggled to move or release himself from Shikamaru's hold.
"Oh us? That's none of your business, just wondering why you fucko's were threatening the esteemed grandson of current fifth hokage," I said with a grin which shocked them.
"You know he'a still got the title of third hokage right?" Shikamaru asked.
"Fuck if I care, old man can have two faces in the mountain at this point for putting up with so much shit from this village," I said as Shikamaru's shadow slowly retracted from the boy.
"So back to the main topic, what the fuck were you thinking," Naruto asked as his eyes gained a sharp gleam to it.
"Tch," he sounded out as he regained his confidence, "That's none of your business," he said as he prepared to take off his weird puppet, none of them knew that but I did, but before this could escalate a rock landed on his arm.
"That's enough Kankuro," a gruff voice sounded out, everyone looked there and they saw a red haired boy with teal eyes and black marks around his eyes, as soon as Kankuro laid eyes on him his demeanor instantly changed and instantly backed off.
"And who might you be?" I asked as its been a while since i've seen Gaara, and his first introduction was as calm as before, hell I would think that there was nothing wrong with him to seeing as how calm he is right now, but if you look deeper you can see how violent he is, and I bet Kiba can smell the amount of blood on that gourd of his.
"Let me introduce myself," he said as he jumped down from the tree, "I am Gaara, and these are my siblings," he said as he stood in front of them.
"Ok Gaara, what now? You wish to continue what your siblings has started or wait till its legal," I said, and from my tone it was less of a question and more of a scenario.
"Your eyes are rather dull, we shall continue this on a later date," he said as he turned back and the siblings followed, though the one in all black Kankuro looked back to glare at me, to which I responded with my very own, and from the looks of it i've killed more that he has experience death.
"Who were they?" Kiba asked still getting that look of disgust on his face.
"Well if i'm not wrong there the sand siblings, Gaara of the sand, and his sibling Temari of the tempest, and Kankuro master of the string," I said as I pondered on what I could from memory.
"Can you tell me about that gourd on his back?" Kiba asked.
"Its simple, that gourd is made of special sand that he tended to himself, its believed he has magnet release a combination of wind and earth, while the gourd is made primarily out of sand, its been used countless times to crush and kill his opponents which are mostly humans, so his gourd is most likely a percentage of humans organs and boned and a high percentage of sand… oh and its been told he has never received a wound from any of his missions," I said.
"Looks like we have impossible odds to fight against," Shikamaru sighed and added a what a drag at the end.
"Well lets hope that none of us ever fights him or encounters him at the test, cause believe it or not we might end up dead," I said as I continued to walk, "Also who's taking the runt back?" I then raised my hand to say not it and everyone followed except for Shikamaru.
"Looks like you were to slow," Naruto said mockingly.
"Dam it, why me," he said with gritted teeth, "Come now you brat, i'll take you to lord third," he said with a sigh.
"Take care Konohamaru, and tell that old fuck that he needs to find a replacement soon!!" Naruto yelled out as they left.
"So anyone got plans for today?" I asked my squad.
"None," was all there answers, while Sasuke and Naruto did say training I gave them a good scolding about rest and if they don't I will smack the shit out of them.
After pondering for hours we just decided to say fuck it and did what we could, so we bought toys, played games, stole from the bitches, got into a brawl with the adults, turned into adults, won big time with Naruto's surprising luck and my manipulative ways, with the help of Choji we managed to win eating competitions which we needed him to roll us out.
Some trick games that made Kiba's nose incredibly useful, found some traveling foreigners bought some good pranking tools, and some ingredients for cooking that I hadn't realized was here, and some for decorations, we traveled, stole, and fucked with each other, Sasuke never liked spicy food so I used some ingredients like the chilly powder I just bought.
For Naruto a simple transformed veggie specially garlic or onion.
Kiba was simply strong tasting food like garlic and onion.
Choji just eats anything, and Shikamaru doesn't trust me after the half cooked food, he doesn't like half cooked food since he doesn't like the icky feeling.
Over all I had fun, and I was chased, crucified, and was paraded through the streets, tied to a tall pole.
After that I got home with random fruit juices covering me, and for some reason a pair of panties, I didn't know who's it was so I just tossed it out to the street.
"I'm back," Nashi said out but no one replied, he entered the bathroom and showered.
A few minutes later he walked out, opened a cabinet that he stuffed his clothes in, entered his room and cleaned the area, then left through the window, after that I snuck out of konoha using the underground tunnel, exiting behind the wall of konoha I walked out and left for the deep forest surrounding konoha.
Finding the entrance and I walked down the secret entrance, walked through the pillar room, the technique room, and walking in the cooking/research room, there I found Hans and Stein messing with something as Hans and Rengoku looked around, I just entered the kitchen which doubled as a boarding room where I slept and took my proper nap.
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"You sure this can work?" Rengoku asked.
"Bruh wasn't it you who was mostly in the market for this?" Hans said as he prepared a blood clone, he then used a clone jutsu, the clone walked into the same room as the blood body, it had the usual, bone, muscle, skin, and organs, the clone used his kekkei genkai to envelop the blood body, as the clones hands that were in contact with the blood body slowly dissolved into the empty body, but as his chakra lessened which meant the amount of chakra used to envelop the empty body lessened and ultimately dispersed as it ran out of chakra.
"Looks like we need more chakra," Stein said as he noticed that the blood body had hints of the clones chakra entered the body, he managed this by funneling so much chakra into his eye that if he wasn't made out of chakra it would instantly burst and spray gallons of blood.
"Duh, wasn't it obvious?" Rengoku said as he saw it to.
"Ok we need to make the clone parallel to the body, as when they were merging the chakra from his arms just dispersed all around the body," Stein said.
"Ok, why? What makes it different?" Ryu asked.
"Well unless you want your arms to be your shoulders and your knee's to be where you ass is be my guest," Stein said as his eye turned normal.
"What?" Rengoku asked.
"Were made of chakra, how we enter the body is how our motor functions work, so if you want to be upside down when merging then be my guest," Stein said as he calculated how much chakra they need, since 10 days wasn't any good, but with the wider surface of contact it might help, but we can see what happens.
"Want to see what happens when we make the merger rushed?" Ryu asked.
"Hmm, we can see how fast it can go before the body destabilize, good idea, but lets focus on how much chakra we need first," Hans said.
"Ok, i'll test speed cause if we can make this process faster we can meet in the middle and lessen the need to drain Rengoku," Stein said as he went to the side where they prepared empty bodies cause they knew it wouldn't be that easy to get what they want.
"Why don't we ask boss?" Rengoku said as Ryu looked at him.
"Well he should be able to help since he's all us and what not," Rengoku said.
"Look Rengoku, boss may be us, but he's still human, were clones and as you said pure chakra, so lets leave the braining to those two and lets continue on what were good at," Ryu said as he went out the research room and climbed up, Rengoku followed and watched Ryu go to one of the side where there was a ton of pillows, he performed a shadow clone and spread out 5 clones around the room and began to suck in chakra.
Rengoku got the gist of it and sighed, he then performed the same shadow clone technique and with the same amount, and left them to meditate but he didn't join them as he had a lot floating inside his head, he went down and stayed with the two, he stayed somewhere safe just incase one of them causes and explosion like usual.
As Rengoku laid down he couldn't help but just stare at the roof, and float through the memories he had, he found it hilarious that even in this world of ninja and death he lived normally, well as normal as a fragile clone that lived passed the original purpose of its creation, he knows its stupid to think about this and that this is strange for him.
But he wasn't the original, and its already well documented for them that a clone despite its 100% accurate compatibility to the user was not in personality, while our knowledge and skills are our thinking pattern is different, cause believe it or not a clone is just another part of the users conscious.
We don't have disputes like who's the original and who's worthy in leading the group, we all know that out of everything were still a person, this clone shtick wasn't our conscious decision cause like being born we can choose, but it doesn't mean we cant choose how to live it, it's the same for us and we aren't sad in anyway, matter of fact we rather enjoy it this way.
Hans is Nashi's brain that enjoys the curious part of anything we can touch or get our hands on, Stein is the part of Nashi's brain that enjoys tinkering which was also present in our previous life since we tend to have old broken electronics or machines that we fixed, which I guess is the reason we have our elements, lightning for our fascination towards old gadgets, and wind for our free personality, also going around and walking where the wind will take me.
"Hey guys," Rengoku said.
"What?" He got from Stein and a audible sound from Hans.
"What would happen to us when we get a body?" He asked as both stopped working.
Out of Nashi's life before and now, he always feared one thing, and it was silly and is something unpreventable for anyone out there, present or future, it was that he was scared of forgetting a friend, being forgotten, or not being able to help, while yes this is a silly thought, for Rengoku who was the more open personality out of all of them it wasn't, they all knew this to since from the first month where they started to show there personality differences, Rengoku was always easier to read.
"Oh silly boy, of course nothing will happen," Hans said as he got closer to Rengoku.
"You must be worried huh, I bet its something about forgetting something or being sent out and not remembered," Stein said as he to got close.
"Well don't worry, it's the reason why were researching so that everything will get safer," Hans said as he got close to him.
"I'll call for the big guy," Stein said as he went up to get Ryu.
And they spent the whole night with each others company, and each of them showing each other's role that most people never see, while Stein was the strict and playful sort, shown by his work ethic and his devotion to his work which is sprinkled with his playful nature to fulfill his childish desires, examples are explosions, exploding bodies, and more morbid experiments.
Hans was always the focused no nonsense sort of guy, he focused on his work and anything he was doing to improve and better an action, lessening its chakra consumption, figuring how a technique or a jutsu works, breaking it down and playing with it so he can see how he could branch it off from his own uses.
Rengoku was the most disciplined out of all of them shown by his work ethic, he wakes up early in the morning, that being 5 in the morning quite literally a few hours before they woke up. He spends his early mornings getting a grasp on his techniques, like chakra control, walking on water, walking on tree's and training by performing kata's so perfect that a ripple in the water was considered a failure.
And Rengoku, well Rengoku was the open person in the group, he was normal, he woke up around six just three hours ahead of Stein and Hans, he laughed and enjoyed every little thing about life, while he was the fastest he was also the most cautious of the group, in his mind he cant help but be so scared that he would explode if he gets hit once that he became the fastest out of all of them, just so he could run away, granted while everyone had the instinct to dodge so they wouldn't pop, Rengoku had it the worst.
The others didn't want to pop to he knew that, but the fact that they indulged on light spars always had him on edge, because he feared one of them would explode, and he feared that one of them would disappear and when boss created a new one he wouldn't be the same, cause in his and everyone's mind it was there little family.
Boss was basically there boss and head figure of sort, Stein was the strict elder brother that watched out for everyone, Hans was the serious brother that would do anything to protect everyone even if he died seen by how he jumped to pushed me away from a falling box, and which was the reason why we had nothing stacked up high in the entire building, in the kitchen there was no top cabinets, in our rooms where was no book shelfs, and in every room it was fully baby proof, no tables or unprotected side doors cause you could stub your toe on it or the cabinets would fall on you.
Ryu was that brother that enjoyed the calm, and enjoyed when everyone was happy, when we rest under a tree after a long day he always offers himself to be a giant pillow for everyone.
And Rengoku, well Rengoku was the little brother, the little brother that they all protected, Rengoku was the easiest one to read and the most worried, every time they talked he always asked if you were ok, if he felt worried simple poking around would open is mouth, and if you did something worrying he would be pissed cause he was scared something might happen.
So that night they spent the night with Rengoku, comforting the blond boy as both Stein and Hans made jokes and comforted him while Ryu offered snacks and juices, while this was mainly for Rengoku it helped all of them, because despite the time they all enjoyed and liked to spend with each other, it was never in such a relaxing environment.
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"Looks like they didn't invite me in the slumber party," I said amused as all of them were sprawled randomly on there own corner, but I amused cause its been a while since i've seen these bitches smile.
I soon left them and went to the gathering point of the chunin exams, it was rather simple really since we just needed to go to the school, there we gathered and entered the building.
"So did anything interesting happen in the month of free time?" I asked as I looked at the back of my wrist to watch the seals still active.
"Oh nothing much, just improved and developed new skills," Sai answered.
"The same for me, though my clan is expecting a lot so my training was pushed to the advanced variation," Tsubaki said as she stretched in her purple kimono like shirt, she bad her wrists tied with black cloth that went up her forearm, her usual skin tight pants with open thighs were fully closed, and surprisingly she wore shoe's this time, her shoe's looked more like those high end high heels where her toe's are covered and pointed to a sharp end, though unlike high heels it didn't have high heel's, though it was attached to shin guard.
"Guess that makes sense seeing as how your shorts that usually had an opening on your inner thigh now closed up, but wasn't it so that it didn't chafe?" I asked.
"Not really, it was mostly open to get us comfortable in our wide stances, its like the inuzuka clan, but different," she said.
"Ok, so what animal you guys represent?" I asked.
"None particularly, its all up to interpretation since the clan has many fighting styles that branches off from the basics taught to us, and if we are bold enough we make our own, though I am far from making my own so I have just learnt from one of the branches," she said.
"Oh like the swords styles of the snow swords men?" I asked.
"Yes exactly," she said.
"So any of you mind telling me what you two were training on?" Sai asked curiously with a note pad out.
We looked at each other, then at Sai and said no, "and don't worry about it, if the situation calls for it i'll use it, but not now," I said as Sai sighed, which surprised me but with that smile of his I know he was acting.
"By the way whats everyone doing over there?" Sai asked as he noticed a group of kids.
"Hey what are you doing man," a kid said.
"Stop blocking the way," another one said.
"We got to do the chunin exams you know," another one said.
I didn't know what was going on since I couldn't see due to the crowd of children, so instead of pushing through them I just jumped up and stuck myself to the wall, Sai and Tsubaki followed, "hey is t that droopy and spiky?" I asked the two as I looked at the two young kids blocking the door.
"Yeah, also what do they mean by getting in? Don't they know we need to get to the third floor first?" Sai asked wondering.
"Its obviously a genjutsu, just look at the signs," Tsubaki said as she pointed at the room number, it said 306 but looking outside it was clearly the second floor.
"We should just ignore them, less problems mean less competition," I said as I jumped down and continued to go to the stares, they both followed me and we were the first few to enter the room.
The others were the sound trio, Kabuto's group, the sand siblings, and the rain trio, we waited there for a few minutes and everyone entered, most of the current generations squad, Shikamaru, Hinata, Naruto, and co, we chatted for a bit as people slowly but surely trickled in.
As Kiba and Naruto was making noise the guy with the sound gauntlet got close to try and shut us up, but before that our knight and shining armor Kabuto came and took the hit, we fussed over him as he bleed from his nose and the sound dude tsked and left.
"You good bro?" Naruto asked as he saw Kabuto bleed from his nose.
"Sorry about that, I couldn't just let him attack you guys," Kabuto said as he coughed blood on his hand.
"Here, this should help," I said as I gave him a medicine pill.
"So who was that guy?" Sakura asked.
"Oh him, his dosu, he's from the new village of the sound from the north of konoha, he's aggressive, done 5 B rank missions, 30 C rank missions, and 302 D rank missions, as stated before he is violent and so is his friend Kazu, the main reason for this is due to the fact that they are from a new village, and they want to prove themselves.
After that it went down hill, from questions about an orange haired rando, a gray haired man, and even to Kabuto himself, where he sheepishly told them it was his seventh time in a row, and explaining that he wasn't able to finish the exams due to his lack of chakra and that he still pushes on.
The exam was standard, question about hokage, elemental affinity what is stronger against what and whats weak against what, equipment, and intel gathering, information about other villages, chakra theory, and monster types and regional variants, over all standard there were some direct questions like who was the inventor of medical ninjutsu, what did the sage of six paths do, what are the tailed beasts and what not.
But over all he just fucked with us, scared the shit out of some contestants, and laughed at our faces and passed all of us, after that short debacle Anko was introduced to us, some female slapped there male teammates in the eyes, some ogled freely at the way she dressed, just a trench coat, brown skirt that only covers her hips, and very dark fishnet armor underneath and if you looked close enough tapes to cover her more private parts.
The two argued for a bit and informed us that the next objective will be done tomorrow, and that we need to prepare, I naturally was shocked at this since my information that she will give us a week was not the right move.
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"Alright ladies we got till tomorrow to do this, Hans keep doing your think, Stein is time for your thing, Rengoku, Ryu…….. power his thing," I smiled from the unnecessary pause as I took off my shirt and got on top of Steins table.
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Chapter end.
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And that's all folks, as usual thanks for reading, have a good rest of your day, afternoon, night, or what ever time your in, as always shit on me if I made a mistake, just give me the right information and if your gonna flame me let it be a good critique.
Anyways love you for reading and fish out.
Question of the day: who's your favorite ship? It can be genderbend, or just same gender.
Fun one for me is might guy and Kakashi, and its not even romantically, in my mind it would be hilarious since the dynamic they would bring if they ever foster a kid together.
But serious one for me is anko and Kakashi, its nothing to special, just two broken people comforting each other, while both cooped differently seeing as one became eccentric and to drown out the feeling betrayal and whispers behind a wall of music and light, and the other fell deeper to avoid the light people shone, joined the anbu to hide, and used a mask of a beloved one to hide from the guilt, and pushed anyone and everyone away to not feel the pain of ever loving another so hard just to lose it.
So yeah I think them just comforting and helping one another would be an interesting love story.
Enough sad shit, fish out.