'Thank you, whoever set me on this path. Thank you.'
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Waking up as one of my childhood superhero's, was freaky as all get out.
The even weirder part, I was 100% me, but also 100% Naruto.
Yeah, Naruto, blonde super loud mouth, talk-no-jutsu extraordinaire.
THE, fucking guy.
I am Naruto, and today is the day we are getting our teams. Now, part of being Naruto, was conjoining our memories, if you will.
So, you bet your fucking ass, as soon as I realized I could make shadow clones, that's exactly what I did.
To be honest, there was a LOT I could get away with, being Naruto.
While Hiruzen failed him(Naruto) more times than Hiruzen's mother failed him(Hiruzen), he never let Danzo near the jinchuriki. So, I was simply going to go ham, because why the fuck not.
Moving on, as my hands went into the unique hand sign of a cross using the index and middle finger of each hand over lapping with each other, I realized something.
There were a million words in an untold amount of languages that could describe chakra, and yet, none of them could truly explain it to you.
It was hot, cold, fast, slow, hard, soft, sharp, dull. Everything and nothing. It was impossible to describe it accurately.
Next thing I noticed was the fucking oceanic amounts of chakra that came with me executing the jutsu.
"Shadow clones jutsu!"
Unfortunately a habit of Naruto and most of its denizens, shouting his/their technique, which I'd have to get rid of.
Then, with enough smoky fog to fill a warehouse, my bedroom, hallway, kitchen, and living room were clouded with clones.
"Holy fucking shit!"
It worked, it fucking worked.
With a joyous belly laugh, I went about giving orders.
"Okay, so there's about 50 of us." A quick head count provided there were 55 in total.
"Alright, break up into 5 squads. One group of you start tree walking. Second group, find any learning material we have, and gorge yourselves on it. Third squad, take some of our money, and get us out of this fucking monstrosity. Make sure to henge when you do so."
Three groups went off to do their assigned tasks.
"Alright, fourth squad… now that I think about it, just help first squad with chakra control training. Last squad, you guys go scour the village to see if you can find any weighted training gear, weapons, and places with the best prices for what foods."
My job, was to familiarize myself with my body. I didn't know if it'd de-sync or not, but better safe than sorry, so I made about 10(read 17) more clones using the littlest amount of chakra I could, to start sparring.
I had about four and a half hours before I had to be at the academy.
And I just had a great thought. Every 30 mins I'd make more clones, on top of having clones pop around ten minute intervals, that way I'll have over a hundred clones training by hour two.
I made a group of clones(got down to 9 this time), trying to make one, and had them pop relaying the info.
Made another group of clones to help with even more chakra control training, and another group to go raid the academy library under henges.
Which turns out, Naruto's henge was indeed the OP version that let him literally transform into different objects.
So, I made a clone henge into an actor from earth, a kid one specifically, the kid from home alone, as the person who'd go.
Then, the other 9 clones, henged into different objects that I placed on his(the clones) body.
That way, they could revert from the henge once inside the academies library, and spread out.
Next group, I had do the same thing, but at the local library. Turns out there was indeed a Shinobi library, but you had to have a Genin card first, with your Jonin instructors signature on the back, to be allowed into there.
Or the Hokage's signature which you'd get if you got sent to the Genin core, that's real too!
At this point, I locked in. My sparring would now turn into real fighting, because Naruto's body, my body, seriously didn't run out of steam.
They'd sparred for over an hour already, and he was only barely sweating. My body was insane! And the rate which my chakra regens? Fucking unbelievable.
So the next two hours and some change, I trained. Trained. And trained some more.
At some point a dull throb started to make its way into my head, but it'd disappear around five minutes after a batch of my clones popped themselves.
So there was my first limit, but that's get sorted by my healing factor, including the Kyuubi's chakra healing me.
"Welp, ain't nothing left but to keep going."
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New get up, just, younger and no sword yet.
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-POV change-
All the Genin hopefuls that were talking amongst themselves, slowly became whisper quiet, as someone none of them ever expected to show up, walked in the door.
The new clothes he was wearing, were completely different than what he used to wear.
Dark matte gray long sleeve, with chainmail underneath. Same colored pants, with black sandals and black bandages, instead of white, securing his kunai holster to his thigh- fingerless gloves that had metal plates on the back of his hands, and metal knee guards.
He looked like a completely different person.
He quietly walked up the rows and sat by one Hinata Hyūga. Sakura was so shocked she couldn't even get the screech out, that she wanted to shout when he first walked in.
Hinata was faint, who would have guessed, with Naruto being so close and all.
Iruka… well, to say he was worried was an understatement.
He knew what Naruto went through, and he hoped, that the changes he's seeing, were a good thing. He trusted the blonde ball of sunshine, but he'd always be ready to bring him back to the right path, if needed.
"Alright!" Iruka clapped his hands together.
"First and foremost, I'm proud of you all. You have successfully taken the first step of your Shinobi career, and now begin your paths of becoming a splendid ninja of the leaf. I hope all of you-"
There Naruto tuned Iruka out. Not entirely though. Iruka just had a tendency to be wordy when he was giving speeches.
So instead he started to make hand seals under the desk. Rat, boar, bird, snake, horse, on and on.
He went faster and faster, pushing his hands to their limits. Fortunately for his desk neighbor, he was too focused to realize she was staring with wide eyes.
'His hand signs are so fast! I'm so proud of you Naruto-kun!'
Suddenly the world came back into focus around Naruto.
"Now that that's out of the way, let's announce your teams and Jonin sensei."
Everyone subconsciously shallowed their breathing in excitement.
"Okay, from the top. Team ten: Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akamichi, and Shikamaru Nara."
Ino slumped in defeat and bemoaned her future lazy teammates.
"You will be under Jonin instructor Asuma Sarutobi."
He flipped the page.
"Now, there will be no team 9, as they are already in circulation under Jonin sensei Might Guy."
He flipped the page on his clip board again, and went down the line. Naruto only paid attention when he heard names he recognized like team ten.
"Team eight: Hinata Hyūga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame. You will be under Jonin instructors Kurenai Yuhi."
He flipped to the next page.
"Team seven: Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno-" Sakura very audibly reacted as if struck by projectile vomit, "and Sasuke Uchiha."
"CHAAAA, take that ino pig!-"
"PIPE DOWN SAKURA!"
The infamous big head jutsu exploded into existence at Iruka's shout. Naruto had to still a snort at the comical looking jutsu.
"Ahem, now that that's out of the way-", Iruka lightly glared at Sakura making her wilt, " -you will be under Jonin instructor Kakashi Hatake."
He went on to name a couple of more teams but again, Naruto zoned out. He had about two hours before Kakashi would be there.
So he made a clone(he had officially gotten it down to one, now, after what amounted to about forty to sixty clones for four hours. Meaning roughly two hundred hours of practice at it.) and had it pop, delivering the new info to his other clones, including the command for his clone chakra battery to make more clones.
He'd had the idea to super charge a clone with chakra, and let it be his clone maker while he was away.
To make sure he didn't get a massive headache from it for being "awake" for four hours worth of memories, he had it meditate, training to keep his mind completely thought free.
Then, he had a clone that was sleeping, pop. He was curious what would happen.
And… nothing.
Or at least, nothing he could feel. Maybe he could try it while he was mentally fatigued or something? Anyway, with two hours at his disposal, he decided to take a nap.
Or try at least.
Having his clones pop every couple of minutes(the time in between the ten minute time limit he'd originally set, and staggered for better memory defusing.) made it a little hard to get there, due to the memories.
He'd do his best though.
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Two hours later, Naruto woke up.
Kakashi was due any minute, so Naruto popped a clone in and out of existence. It was to relay the order of pausing all clone training by popping all clones active, over the course of the next twenty minutes.
Another fifteen minutes went by, with his last clone popping around two minutes ago, when the sliding door to the class room was opened.
In walked Kakashi Hatake, the copy cat ninja. He opened his mouth and said-
"My first impression? You're all totally boring. Meet my on the roof."
With that, Kakashi disappeaered in a puff of smoke- a shadow clone. More than likely he did it for laziness but he might have done it to try and subtly show Naruto he could relate. Meh, don't matter at this very moment.
Instead of speaking with either of his new teammates, he went to the classroom window, and before either Sasuke or Sakura could say anything, he started to walk up the side of the building.
Once he saw the ledge after walking for a few seconds, after hearing Sakura sqwuak from down below, he flipped over it.
Kakashi raised his one eyebrow in shock at what Naruto was doing.
"I don't know how much Jiji told you about what happened, but during all that shit, I just remembered Mizuki-teme, and Iruka-sensei doing it, so I figured I try it out and got it down."
Kakashi absent mindedly nodded, wondering how the hell he managed to do that with reserves the size of the moon itself. Well, at least had the control for it, because Kage level Shinobi and all that.
"Hmmm, so you think leaving your team behind was made up for with your sudden low level chakra control?"
Naruto stared at him in a deadpan.
"We aren't a team yet. I'm well aware that we have to pass our Jonin instructors test first. No matter how badly I want either of them to be my friends, they won't because I'm the dead last. On top of that, I've heard about your reputation for failing every team you've ever gotten, so why even bother with someone that clearly doesn't care?"
Those words icily hung in the air, needling something deep in Kakashi's chest, because he saw how lonely Naruto was, and the fact Naruto thought that he didn't care about him.
Truly he'd failed his sensei, beyond any words… and he'd failed Naruto. It hurt more than he'd thought it would, to hear Naruto thought he didn't care about him.
In that moment, a small fire ignited in his chest. One whose consequences, would bring only good.
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