Riyousha Kimouchii, Inuzuka Nushi, and Uzumaki Naruto sat around the training ground the next day, each decked out with a fresh, new sixty pounds of weight, laughing with each other, when Genma-sensei arrived. He was looking happy about something, looking at the three already working on being a team even when it wasn't too important. Looking at his students, Genma smiled.
'Alright, everyone. I had Kimouchii and Nushi come to me yesterday, telling me of a bloodline limit, and they also informed me, Naruto, that you had one. I assume you told them because you could not find me?"
Naruto nodded and explained about Speed Sight. The man grinned. "Alright, that's very well. You then, will need a taijutsu that focuses on speed and power. I talked with the Hokage about all three of you last night, and he informed me that each of you trains in a personalized taijutsu style, the Inuzuka Clan Style, the Riyousha Destruction Style that you created, Kimouchii, and Za Gamen, correct?"
The three nodded. "Then, instead of learning a new style completely from the beginning, we will need to interrelate the styles you all have, to complement each others different ways of thinking. Your style, for example, Kimouchii, is related to more speed than power, and focusing chakra to the point of impact, thereby causing more destruction.
Complementing this style with the Inuzuka style that is in fact power over speed will complement it correctly. The Za Gamen is equal use of speed over power, with added Chakra repression, which is correct for Naruto's disability, and will complement the variation very well.
Therefore, we just need to make a few changes to your styles. Leave the main components alone, like increase both your speed and power, to make sure you are all at the same speed and your power will fall into place. For example, if both Nushi and Kimourii increase your speed and power, they will complement each other, as in, you will match speed, and Nushi's power will be slightly higher than Kimourii's, balancing your style correctly.
I heard that Naruto was the fastest in the group, able to pull off the Shunshin no Jutsu, a purely speed attack, so you will both need to raise to meet half his speed level, and Naruto will just slow a bit. No one can match the speed of Shunshin no Jutsu, in case you're wondering.
Now, in the power department, I would say that Nushi is slightly more powerful than Naruto, and well above you, Kimouchii, but that's alright. She has to constantly practice carrying heavy loads for her family. Therefore, you will need strength training as well as Chakra balancing training.
So, the first thing you two need to do is get acquainted with your Chakra. Naruto, I want you to go to the lake and do you Water Rolling Exercises for as long as you can.
Naruto nodded, knowing that he needed to get used to the extra weight anyway. "Right Genma-sensei.
He walked away from the group, going to the lake. Once there, Naruto focused Chakra on the soles of his feet, grinning at the feeling that sixty pounds of weight can add to your body when it's not used to it, but is used to chakra manipulation.
"It's harder" he noticed, "kuso, it's harder."
Beginning to roll his body, Naruto released Chakra from each point, and continuously released, as each tenketsu found its mark. Releasing his speed sight, Naruto began rolling faster than before, He barely met each tenketsu as it hit the water, knowing that if he missed once, he'd go under.
Genma was surprised. The students under him were actually performing to his expectations. Naruto was off, doing advanced chakra control lessons, while Kimourii and Nushi were both learning, but soon he knew Naruto would come back, near exhaustion, and begin the lower exercises to learn to work with his team.
"Now remember Nushi" he called to the girl that had lost her concentration just meters before, "you must always concentrate, or you'll end up with a busted head and a hurt ego. Do not, for any reason, let go of your chakra when you're that high."
She nodded. "Kimourii, you're doing the same, not concentrating passed a certain point. You need to realize that Chakra control is the most important thing to a shinobi, or and that a ninja that cannot control their chakra, unless specialized in something like taijutsu, is as useless as a blind ninja.
I'm going to be talking to each of you over the next two weeks, and at the end, I'm going to give you some scrolls, which you will study to get stronger.
Naruto," Naruto, who had just entered the clearing, looked at his sensei with a since of wonder, "how did your training go today?"
"Sensei, it took a bit longer than expected in the Water Rolling than I expected because of the added weight. I didn't think about it, kuso that water was hot."
"Alright, now that you've done those exercises for the day, I want to run some drills with you all. Kimourii, Nushi and Naruto, I'm playing the roll of a C-ranked nukenin, who has just stolen a scroll that has forbidden jutsu on it. Your objective is to corner me for ten minutes. You have to work together, or this will never work.
Kimourii nodded at Genma before he took off, "also, I will give you ten minutes before you are to come after me. Begin!"
"Alright, so what do we do?" Nushi asked, right from the start. Naruto shrugged, he wasn't the strategist after all.
"Dunno, ano... Kimourii-chan, what do we do?"
The girl scowled. "Look, I know you two aren't as smart as I am, but you're the two hardest working people I know. What do we do? We find him. Yes, Naruto, we know that with your bloodline limit you could catch up with him, in a matter of minutes, and possibly kick butt, but even if we were to obtain the scrolls, the mission is for the three of us to work together. I think that we need to set a pace, the slowest up front, followed by the other's, the one up front will set the pace for the team. Since your slowest Nushi, you need to be up front, but that's okay because you're a tracker anyway, by nature. So, that puts me in the middle as your protection.
Naruto, that means that you're the back man on this, and will defend us from the rear. Also, that means that if need be, you can create a jutsu before he comes after you. What's your fastest jutsu you can perform?"
"Well, the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu but I've got other jutsu that I haven't used in battle before that I could probably use."
"No, stick with what works for right now, Naruto. If Kage Bunshin is your best move, then do it. And, remember, stick with your plan, alright?"
Naruto nodded. She looked at Nushi, "and you don't worry, you neither Sutermaru, because you're our pacesetters, we may be impatient some but, unless things change, that's the way it will be our entire time as Genin, and Chuunin if we all pass together.
Alright, let's go. By the way, Naruto, how many scrolls did you end up getting? Both Nushi and I got three a piece."
Naruto blushed, and said, "six."
The girl nodded. "Alright, that's good. He hasn't said anything, but kuso, is it hard to move in these things?"
Naruto shrugged. He had been using Chakra to move until his body got used to it. Looking to the girl he said, "not really, unless you haven't used Chakra to make them lighter, then they would be. Sixty pounds extra weight isn't something to try moving yourself."
She looked dumbfounded as Nushi made a signal to be quiet. So far they had been moving for seven minutes. She looked up ahead and said, "he's there, sitting in a tree. It's high enough that we can't jump to it, and if we try to climb it, he'll know we're there."
"I agree with your assessment Nushi, Naruto, anything up your sleeves to get him down?"
Naruto shook his head. A Rasengan would get him down, but Naruto needs a teacher for that move. He sat down, then grinned. "Yeah, a skill from the Za Gamen is called "Shadow Bend" Shadoigami. It reverses the sunlight and makes my shadow cover my body. Get into a shadow, and give him a diversion, and I should be able to sneak up on him."
"Fair assessment, Nushi, should we prepare a diversion?"
Nushi nodded before she did a set of slow hand signals, ending up with the "Henge" form. She turned into a squirrel, and Kimourii turned into, well, something. Naruto wasn't sure what she was, but it wasn't pretty. He did the seals for Shadow Bend, and with a small, "Shadoigami" disappeared into one of the shadows of the tree.
Walking up the tree larger than most of the forest wasn't fun, especially with sixty extra pounds on him. He walked, and when he heard a groan of pain, figured the diversion was working. He got up there, when Genma-sensei was getting back up to attack.
"Shadoashige!" he whispered, having finished the seals quickly. He ran forward, and after a melee of punches and kicks, landed on the ground beside his sensei. After a binding jutsu from Nushi, one she admitted that she had learned the day before, called Shadow Bind, Kagemane no Jutsu, she grinned.
The scroll, she found out, was from a collection of jutsu in a family line, the Kagemane no Jutsu was just one of the great ones from there.
The problem with the Kagemane no Jutsu, is that it's a chakra eating move, and there is only a limited amount of time a person can use it, unless they're chakra is completely off the wall.
So, it was without warning that nine minutes and twenty-seven seconds later, Genma tried getting away abruptly. Naruto, though, had activated his bloodline limit Mokushioku.
As soon as Genma started running, Naruto caught him and with a cry of, "Tajuu, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" the area was surrounded by guards.
Genma, half a minute later, smiled and dropped his hands to his side. He walked up to Naruto, and clapped him on his back. Naruto disappeared.
"Metsubou sentou!" Naruto said, when three seconds later, the watch beeped on Genma's arm. The man grinned, and guarded Naruto's punch. "good job each of you, I had a Summon animal following you so I could make sure you worked together. It was very well done, and I'm proud to have you as my team.
So, you've already started on your scrolls then, Nushi?"
Nushi nodded and, he grinned, blushed.
"Alright, all you are needing is training in teamwork. After you get that, we'll perform our first D-ranked missions."
"Are you serious, Genma-sensei? Do you truly think we are ready for missions after a few weeks more of training?" Kimourii asked. The man nodded.
"As you know, my best friend is Hatake Kakashi. He has suffered in his life, and once came back without his rival, and best friend. But, before he died, Obito told Kakashi something, that I think you'll find helpful.
'of course, those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called trash. But, those who don't care about their companions are called even bigger trash.'To this day, Kakashi won't take a team. It hurt him when he lost his teammate, due to his inaction, and he has asked me to pass that on when I thought my team was ready. You don't quite like each other yet, that is easy to see, but you already know that as shinobi, and kunoichi, that it is the job of the ninja to complete the mission with your team.
So, yes, after we figure out how to interrelate your taijutsu, I will recommend you for your lessons. Now, let me see your scrolls.
A Genjutsu Barrier? Ah, with your bloodline Kimourii, it would be wonderful. And, I see you have the Animaru Henge no Jutsu scroll, a C-rank jutsu. Very good. Now, let me see. Your third, Kimourii, looks to be a Taijutsu? Inner Decapitation skill? Let me guess, you thought it was an assassination skill?"
Kimourii nodded.
"It's not, it's mostly an Earth Taijutsu move that makes the sand a sinkhole using a Bunshin no jutsu that drags a person where they can't move. Alright, that is a move that you could have used to subdue me, however.
Nushi?"
Nushi blushed and handed the scrolls to her sensei, and he nodded at the scrolls in front of him.
"Very good, the Water-Familiar is a very good one. I agree, that could be useful in a fight as a diversion. Heh, the Konoha Senpuu, if Gai knew you were going to be learning this, he would scream about your power of youth being strong.
Don't ever tell him that you know this move.
The Five Element Seal? Why would you ever need this?"
She shrugged. The man sighed and said, "Well, we'll teach it, and I'll throw in the counter, the Five Element Unsealer.
Naruto?"
Naruto looked up and handed him three scrolls. He said the others would do well with the Za Gamen, and were Chakra freak moves. The man nodded. "Katon: Dekitate houkakyanon no jutsu? The Fresh Fire Cannon? Kuso, child, are you trying to kill yourself? Do you have no idea how much Chakra this uses?
Naruto's face fell. The man sighed. "Naruto, you were given so much Chakra, that you think being able to create a thousand Kage Bunshin is easy for everyone. But, this move uses twice of the Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Do you have anything that we could build up too?"
"Yes Genma-sensei. I have three other scrolls that I was going to use to practice with. Here."
The man seemed impressed. "Naruto, do you mind if we train this one together?"
Naruto looked, it was the air walking scroll. He shook his head. The man smiled. "good. Okay, so you've chosen the Air Walking, the Fresh Fire Cannon and the Water Dragon Blast and the Chakra Shield?
"Hai, Sensei." Naruto said. The girls were looking relieved, they thought he'd have to take them back for something easier. "Naruto, just start on the Chakra Shield, and then when these two are to the point of learning Air Walking and the others then I'll start teaching you all of these jutsu's. Kimourii, Nushi, I won't lie to you. Naruto choose three difficult jutsu, without thinking I will remind you, that I doubt even he could pull off correctly."
"Okay, go and eat. You're through for the day, and then I'm going to expect you here, tomorrow, at 7:00."
They left the grounds. Nushi walked away from the group, stating that the clan at dinner together in fifteen minutes, and that she had to leave. Kimourii left towards a Dango restaurant, and Naruto, well he found Ichiraku as soon as he could.
He made it there just as Old Man Ichiraku was closing up for the night. He ran up and said, "hey Old Man, are ya closed?"
"Naruto! I thought you'd never get here, we've got a lot left over! Where've you been, boy?"
"I'm sorry, old man. I've been training with my new Genin team, and sensei just let us leave fifteen minutes ago from field seven. I'll try to get here faster, or something."
"Ayame! Get some bowls out, we've got a late customer!"
"Right Otousan! Hey Naruto!"
"How'd Ayame know?"
"Really Naruto, you're only the only we open back up for. And, if it'll help, I have a solution. Get here by 6:30 with a basket, and we'll have some lunch and dinner for you, for the day. Since it'll have a warming jutsu on it, we'll charge a bit more for everything overall. Say �75?"
Naruto nodded, and pulled out a wad of bills, handing him three hundred yen. "That should cover it for a while, old man."
"It will, thanks Naruto."
"Itadakimasu!" (I will receive) Naruto yelled to the restaurant, as he shoveled bowl after bowl of the flavored noodles down his throat. Soon, the inventory for that day had been receded and, according to Naruto, "was good!"
The old man and daughter sighed in relief, both at the convenience of having Naruto around to eat all of their inventory, and the fact that they could still make all they wanted, and have half of it gone in the mornings.
"Thanks old man, Ayame!" he yelled, and they smiled. "Welcome Naruto!"
As he ran, along the street of Konoha, Naruto grinned, it was working out exactly the way he hoped it would.
Morning came early over the streets of Konohagakure, It was 6:20, and Old Man Ichiraku was probably done with the ramen that Naruto wanted for his lunch and dinner. As he made his way along the streets, Naruto grinned, the smell of Ramen coming from the restaurant making him feel more important. The man had said Naruto was his best customer, and he couldn't, wouldn't disappoint.
He made his way, after a hearty breakfast, to training field seven with time to spare. Getting out the first of his three scrolls, the Chakra Shield.
He read the instructions, and noticed that instead of learning how to move chakra, he had to learn to move and release it at the same time, instead of move, and release one at a time like he thought. This move uses Chakra from all 128 Tenketsu to create a perfect, circular shield that, unlike the Kaiten, does not need a motion to move. The Kaiten is, actually, a smaller version of this move, and was learned by an Uchiha that gave the move to the best Chakra molders in the hidden village, the Hyuuga.
"Shi-rudo" he practiced the name of the shield as years of practice in Chakra molding came to his forehead.
Brat, think about it like this. You're chakra is like a river that has been dammed. In order to use your chakra, you need to release a small amount as possible, and focus it.
Think you can do it? Kyuubi challenged. Naruto grinned. Understanding the move was one step closer to doing it. So, unleash chakra from his hold and, focus it on his coils.
He started slowly, moving Chakra from his center, and throughout his body. It would, if an Uchiha or Hyuugi had been watching, have been described as watching a harmless rock transform into a humongous beast that was powerful, and sane at the same time.
The Chakra circulating in his body was so powerful that, often, passers-by would stop and see the red and blue circulating from his body. Even Genma, who was a jounin of the highest caliber, could only stop and watch. The only ones unaffected, had seen it before, and they were Kakashi, Iruka, the Hokage, Hyuuga Hiashi, and even Old Man Ichiraku and Ayame.
Even Kyuubi, who was never impressed by anything Naruto did, couldn't hold in a kuso before the chakra dwindled and Naruto sat on the ground, his first attempt unsuccessful, but full of understanding.
"Hey you, fox, is it possible that you're still affecting me, even a little bit?" Naruto asked, though he didn't think it was possible, his Chakra felt like his chakra. Kyuubi shook his head, and said, it's entirely possible that you released too much at once. When you try tomorrow, push less into it., oh, and when are we going to sign that contract of summoning?
Naruto shrugged, "when I get better control, so I can do simpler stuff, and learn the Summoning Technique. I'll start studying the method of the summoning tonight. It's weird, but even though I'm only using a small amount of my Chakra, it still exhausts me."
It will, you've suppressed it so much, you have an excess of Chakra, and when you use any at all, it's trying to release a lot more than you want. If any slides through, you get tired, but the more you try and suppressing it, the harder you force it to work for you.
Naruto nodded, as if understanding the problem, sat down, It was then that the his teammates and sensei all appeared. Naruto looked at the three of them, each looking sheepish, and a bit scared.
"I did not expect to find you here, Naruto."
Naruto looked at Genma-sensei and wondered what was going on. "That chakra that I felt come from this area, I did not realize how much tight control you displayed. I believe that is the reason for the bit of fear these two are showing. Kimourii, Nushi, Naruto is your friend. Snap out of it!"
Kimourii blushed as she came to her senses. she looked at her teammate and, grinning madly, said, "kuso Naruto, you nearly made the entire village soil their pants."
Naruto sighed, they were scared? 'Kuso, I just can't seem to do anything right.'
"Hey, Naruto! Are you paying attention?" Genma said, and the boy jerked his head, apologizing. The man sighed. "Don't let people get to you, after the Kyuubi attacked eleven years ago, a lot of people are on the lookout for another attack. They just see anything like what we felt as dangerous.
Anyway, today, we're all going to be running a day long practice mission. You will need to use stealth to find various objects, and assemble them before the end of the day. If you successfully arrange them, then you will move onto the next stage of the practice mission, which has three parts. If not, then you will run the mission until each part is successfully fulfilled.
It is the job of a ninja to not allow anything to slow them down, when their pace is set, unless they are attacked. You will be attacked today, permitting a twenty-minute break at lunch, and another at dinner time. You will have until eleven this night to complete the mission, or you will fail and try again tomorrow, when the field is reset, and you have to start over.
At the end of the mission, you will do your first D-ranked mission, because by then you will have sufficient time spent as a team. You will be paid for these practice missions upon completion, but not for each day. Each part consists of seven things you will need to do, and once one part is done, you will not need do that part again. Can you do it? Can you complete the mission in two weeks time? If you cannot, you are not meant to be ninja.
Nushi, for this part of the mission you are team captain until completion. Then, you will be captain Kimourii. Naruto will be last.
In order to pass the Chuunin exams, you need to be able to lead, or you will never be given a position where you have to lead. If you cannot lead, but are a good fighter, you will remain a fighter. If you cannot fight, but can lead, you will lead, but not fight. Neither of these people will be good Chuunin.
Make sure you have at least an hour of practicing your chakra control each day, and provide for practicing your new jutsu, also. A ninja that cannot balance their time is worthless.
Just as a ninja that abandons their teammates is worse than trash. To begin, as would any mission, you will get your initial scroll from your leader, in this case me, in other cases the Hokage.
Here is your initial scroll."
Nushi took the scroll and, with a nod, turned around. Genma left, as soon as she did, and found a good place in a treetop, where he could see all the action and interaction of his team.
Team,"What the hell?" Nushi cried out. "We have to WHAT!"
In order to successfully accomplish any mission given to you, a commander may take certain liberties with his or her team. There may be a time when a person in a leadership position has to say or do something that they don't want to do, but it is necessary to the accomplishment of the mission.Your objective is to collect various items throughout the city. If you are caught, I have asked the jounin to treat you, for a time limit, as they would a prisoner. The items listed below are, while not valuable, important to the city of Konoha. In order to ascertain each part of the team, I need to see who makes a good leader, and who does not.
The items are listed below.
- A scroll of forbidden seals located in the Hokage's office
- The secret of the Kazama Household, take the scroll of the Shunshin no Jutsu.
- Kakashi's copy of Icha Icha Paradise
- The Cat of the Feudal Lord's wife
- Gai's green spandex suit (as a warning, the only time he is not wearing this is when he is asleep)
- The Scroll of Healing located in Tsunade-sama's disserted office
- Kakashi's mask (don't worry, he has more than one)
Remember, do not let yourself get caught, or you will be treated like a prisoner.
Naruto looked at the paper, and paled. "Oh my... that's not good. He wants us to... um... well, what do we do, leader?"
"We need to decide which way to turn with this. I'm best at tracking down people, but not objects. Kimourii, would it be safe to assume these are under Genjutsu?"
She nodded. "Yes, it would be. If I were to hide such items, I would want them well protected, and if I'm right, they'll be right under our noses."
"Okay, let's do the easiest things first. What do we know about each item?"
"Well, other than the cat, each item is an inanimate object. So, in order to successfully get each item, we will need to figure out a plan of attack, and get them.
"I agree, it would be best if we went after each target in a certain order." Naruto added. The woman sighed. "Alright, let's go in the order of the number.
"So, our target is the Scroll of Forbidden Seals?" Naruto asked. He had been wanting to use that scroll again, to learn another attack off of it.
"Yeah."
They made their way to the Hokage's office, using the crude skills of stealth they had developed, and opened the door slightly. In the office, the Hokage was asleep. Nushi had Naruto go, and he did. Using the Shadow Bend ability, Naruto walked to the Scroll behind the Hokage, only to be knocked out, the Hokage tutting. Nushi cursed, "kuso!" and ordered them to retreat.
As soon as they left, Naruto sat up, and the Hokage chuckled. "Well, Genma did tell me to treat you like an enemy now, Naruto, but while they're not here, tell me about your first week."
The boy grinned, and told the old man about how everything was going. When the door creaked, Naruto was again knocked out, and rapid hand seals were going.
"Shirou no Jutsu!"
Naruto was locked in a Water Prison. Two ANBU guards were leading the girls in, and the Hokage sat them down in front of him.
"Absolutely horrible. Your first mission went so well, children. As of now, this is over, you will quit training and go, do something. Naruto here will remain until he can break the Prison.
A word of advice, when you try tomorrow, figure out a better plan of attack. I will give you a new chance, by giving you two new ANBU to fool.
Ah, you remembered how to break it, Naruto. Go...." "Orioke no Jutsu!"
The Hokage's nose gushed with blood as he flew backwards, the Sexy Jutsu doing its job. Naruto grinned at the two ANBU, who were also knocked out. "What did we just learn here, ladies?"
"Ero-kage!" the two cried in unison. As they ran out of the building, none of them understood what they were supposed to do.
They met Genma outside of the training grounds, and he was disappointed a bit. He told them they were done, and that in order to do better, they couldn't just make snap judgments.
He too left, a moment later.
"Nushi, do you remember what happened when Naruto did the Orioke no Jutsu?"
The girl giggled and nodded. "Well, if there was a way to distract him long enough to get in there and get the scroll, wouldn't it be easier to distract him?"
"Yeah, but how?"
"I don't know, but I figure that while we do that, it'd be easier to go after the one target we can smell."
"The cat?"
She nodded. Nushi marked a '1' by the cat and said, "what next?"
"What about grouped items?" Naruto asked. The girls looked at him. "Well, the Scroll is with the Hokage, so, it would be likely that directions to the Kazama house and Tsunade-sama's office would be.
The girls nodded. "Well, we need a distraction before going after the Hokage. Maybe some food, or something?"
"Yeah Naruto! What food does the man like?"
"Well, he did get me into Ramen, and said that Dango was a good food too."
"Then that's what we'll do, yeah! Get some Dango and trick him with it!"
The next day, "Nushi! So glad you could join us today. It's a very special day, as you get to hear the next five hours worth of reports to the Hokage. They're very boring, but if you go to sleep, we'll wake you up."
'So, that didn't work." Nushi said, grumbling as she took the senbon needle out of her derriere.
"No, it didn't, I think that we need to just get certain items and hide them, then get the other stuff." Kimourii suggested.
"GUARDS! THOSE BRATS STOLE MY CAT AGAIN! GET THEM!" the feudal lords' wife cried out in a horrid screech. Apparently she was fed up with them. When they were caught, they explained the situation to her, and she agreed to let them just take the cat, saying it was too troublesome to keep chasing after it herself.
"Okay, we've gotten free reign over the cat, so that means that we.. what is it Naruto?"
"We've been at this for almost four days, right? Well, what are we doing wrong?"
"I can't think of anything." Nushi said. "We've followed all the rules of engagement, but nothing is working."
"I know for a fact that Icha Icha is a naughty book, Kakashi tried letting me read it, once and I got a nosebleed it was so bad. What if, I don't know, we think of an order to this. There's got to be a pattern that we aren't seeing."
"Hey, Naruto... how bad is Icha Icha Paradise compared to the Orioke no Jutsu?"
Naruto paled and said, "I am NOT going near that book again!"
Nushi smirked. "Just what I was hoping for. Alright, we'll get the cat, and put it in a safe place. After that, we'll go and get Icha Icha, and a mask while we're at it. I guess the best time would be after he's asleep?"
Naruto nodded. "And add a Genjutsu to that, so he won't wake up. We'll need to know the Genjutsu barrier though, to get passed it."
The girl nodded. "So, teach us that Kimourii."
Kimourii nodded and they began working on the jutsu while still planning.
"After we get Icha Icha, we use it to distract the Hokage. We'll have to get that back at some point to complete the mission, though."
"I'll do that" Kimourii suggested. "I'm the easiest at stealth."
"Alright. And, while we're doing that, Naruto use your speed sight and go around the room really fast, looking for the directions to Kazama house and the office."
"Hai" Naruto said.
"Well get the Shunshin then. But, how are we going to get Gai's suit?"
They shrugged.
The next day, "YOSH! FOR PUNISHMENT IN TRYING TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE GREEN BEAST, YOU SHALL ALL ENDEAVOR TO RUN SEVEN LAPS AROUND KONOHA! RUN!"
"Kuso, I NEVER want to do that again. Kimourii, we did good yesterday, same plan. I need the Icha book back fast, when we do the distraction, I want it back as soon as possible. That's your job."
She nodded. "Good, Naruto, is it just me, or is Shunshin a taijutsu move?"
Naruto smirked. "Let me see, I'll try to integrate it with Za Gamen."
He took the scroll and gasped. "KUSO! That's not spelled right! Kuso, all that time. This is one of my clan's moves. Where did you get this?"
She looked at the scroll and Naruto, incredulously. "Naruto, I got it at the Kazama house. What do you mean?"
"Remember, Genma-sensei said that I could do the Shunshin no Jutsu, he purposely misspelled the name of the jutsu. I have an idea, we'll use this to distract Gai-sensei, and I'll get it back after we get the suit. Then, I'll meet you near Field Nine, where his team trains. We'll jet back to Field seven, where we'll meet you, Kimourii-chan."
She nodded. "Alright, let's go!"
They made their way, and got her cat, which they found out was named Whiskers
Then, they found Kakashi's house, the mask and Icha Icha both under a Genjutsu. Using a Bariagen and, in Naruto's case, a Harem Genjutsu, they left.
As they arrived at the Hokage's office, the ANBU were terse, and unchanged from the day before. "Alright, things just got complicated. Are you ready, Kimourii?"
Kimourii nodded. "Let's do this, Naruto, distraction please?"
Naruto grinned. "Orioke no Jutsu, Harem version!"
Ten naked females appeared, all asking for help from the two ANBU guards. Two twin geysers appeared from their noses. Slipping the copy of Icha under the Hokage's papers, the man entered his office as Shadow Bend appeared around everyone.
He grinned at the book. "Oh, now I get to finish that shower scene with between Jacoby and Elena, oh Jiraiya, you are my favorite student."
They got the scroll as a trail of blood appeared on his nose. As the two left the room, Naruto couldn't help but shake the feeling that something was terribly about to go wrong.
His confirmation was a given when Icha Icha Paradise landed in his hands from the window, and a yell , and a holler from the ANBU said, "we got one of them, sir!"
Nushi made to go back, but Naruto stopped her. "YOU GAVE HER THE ASSIGNMENT, SHE COMPLETED IT! AT LEAST GIVE HER THE HONOR OF FINISHING WHAT WE STARTED WITH HER! DO NOT GIVE UP!"
Naruto was so pissed that a red chakra was surrounding his body.
They did, doing just that. They arrived at the Kazama house, where Naruto went exploring, hoping to confirm a hope he had. The Kazama House was different from the Uzumaki house, it was more of a compound for a clan. He learned about the different clans, learning how they were nearly wiped out in the fight with Kyuubi, and the war with Cloud.
He found a room, In it, there was a beautiful picture of a woman, and a man with blond hair. On the table, there were two scrolls. and a picture of the spiral on Naruto's stomach. He picked the two scrolls up, and left the room. He appeared back where Nushi had the scroll for the now identified Shunshin no Jutsu, and they left.
Tsunade's office was just on the other side of the village, and they arrived there with no problem. They got the scroll of healing, and Nushi was all set, to learn to heal in case Kimourii were still alive.
"Here, I'll take that, meet me where we said, alright Nushi-domo?"
She nodded, "alright, you're the best at this, so I'll agree for now. Go, Naruto."
Naruto nodded. He went to the training field. "Gai-sensei, Naruto approaches!" Lee said. Naruto raised his hand. "Gai-san, I have an offer for you. In order to attain your most beautiful state, you must have worked to attain your level of taijutsu, correct?"
Both he and Lee struck the good guy pose, while Neji and Tenten rolled their eyes, waving at Naruto.
"But, I bet there is a move that you have not yet learned, Gai-san?"
The man nodded his head, of course there were, but he would, that was his way of the ninja after all.
"Like the Shunshin no Jutsu?"
That quieted him, drastically. He spun around. "I have here the original scroll, misspelling and all, of the Body Flicker technique. I would be willing to trade this for the green spandex of the green beast of Konoha."
The man nodded, took out an extra suit, and handed it to Naruto. Naruto thanked him, flashed through a quick set of skills and said, "Shunshin no Jutsu!", before flickering, grabbing the scroll, and running as fast as he could.
He met with Nushi in their prearranged spot, and she jumped as soon as she saw the yellow flash. They made it to Training field seven, just as Genma, and to their surprise Kimourii arrived.
End Chapter