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Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! - (Shadow Clone Jutsu!)
The Uzumaki created two clones, who immediately pulled Ino and Hinata out of their seats so that they could sit down and put them on his lap, seeming to pamper them just as the original did with Tenten.
- I created a battalion of these to help me with the test, I learned a lot about how Kakashi-san fights, but in the end it was no use, I tried to distract him, force him to back off, ask the two over there for help and in the end rescue them from the logs... in the end it was no use, that guy is very strong and he electrocuted me, it hurt like hell. - Said the clone who was caressing Ino, laughing at how she wasn't shy with her clownish manner.
- Anyway, we're here! - Said the clone who was caressing Hinata, in the face of his fiancée's feverish shyness.
- I escaped from the hospital and I'm starving. - Naruto, who was cuddling Tenten, gave her a pitiful look. - Now that you've gotten the promotion and I'm going back to the Ninja Academy... you'd pay, wouldn't you?
- How is that possible? They're all real! - Chouji shouted in amazement as he pinched one of the clones.
- Are you crazy, featherweight? - The clone grumbled, only for them all to disappear, surprising their fiancées.
- See? Pretty cool, huh?
- Where did you learn that? As far as I remember, you couldn't even make Henge properly. And now you're creating these solids. - Shino spoke for the first time, even too interested in the Jutsu
- That's for me to know and you to find out... I won't expose my trump card that will allow me to be stronger than a Hokage even without being a Gennin. - He finished with a laugh, until he was interrupted by an ANBU agent appearing in a Shunshin right behind him.
- Uzumaki Naruto, imagine my surprise to discover that you've escaped from the hospital for the hundredth time? - The tall agent with the long gray hair said sarcastically under the general gaze. - Hokage-sama summons you to his office immediately.
- Hokage-sama might as well fuck off. - Naruto said to everyone's shock. - I spent a lot of chakra earlier today and I'm starving.
- Naruto... now as clan leader, he has to be more responsible.
- Fuck, no. - Naruto stood up grumbling, placing Tenten gently on the bench. - I'm going, sweetheart, I'll meet you in the evening to train... I want to show you the swords I got from Mom. - The Uzumaki planted a kiss on her head, to the laughter of the girl, who loved to see him always changing his personality.
- Hinata-chan, don't faint. - Naruto also said, planting a kiss on her head, which turned red.
- Ino-chan... - Naruto was about to say something, but the girl pulled him in for a kiss on the lips, surprising everyone, and driving Kiba almost mad with euphoria.
- There you go, Seph. - Naruto stood with his back to everyone, giving them no chance to see what he was carrying. - Another race? - He asked as they both left the establishment.
- If he wants to lose, of course. - Seph, the Uzumaki's personal security ANBU agent, responded excitedly when he activated the Shunshin on his legs, taking advantage when he vanished in sheer speed.
This act was repeated by the Uzumaki, who had already made the hand seals, and so disappeared quickly, trying to recover his disadvantage.
His friends, still dumbstruck, were even going to comment on this, but Chouji noticed the most important thing.
- The bastard stole the meat when he kissed you. - Chouji looked on in pure fury as the food in front of them contained nothing but salad.
- Leave Chouji alone, he deserves it after the disappointment of failing... we're his friends, remember? - Shikamaru said, with Shino nodding.
- I even tried to cheer him up like we used to, but I don't think it worked. - Kiba said slightly discouraged.
- That's what we came to do, Kakashi-sensei asked us to tell Naruto that we passed the test, we're team 7 now. - Sakura said, to the shock of the Uzumaki's best friends, who immediately broke into excited smiles, especially Chouji for the new round of meat rotation.
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[ First Arc: The Awakening ]
Of all the nights and recent discoveries for the female sex, these last ones have been the best of all.
Kurenai, Anko and Yugao literally made it their life's work to mold Naruto into the best he could be, the boy already had an insatiable vigor that never tired, add to that the fact that he had always enjoyed cloning himself ever since he discovered that the experiences of cloning came back to him as double, triple or even more learning based on him always extrapolating absurd amounts of Kage Bunshin.
As far as Naruto knew, Tenshi no Karada was a Kekkei Genkai that strengthened his body. A state that magnified everything in him tenfold, what was once a small, malnourished boy, had a body being accelerated in building strength, speed and endurance to a healthy state that someone should have at the age of sixteen. When he activated his Body Kekkei Genkai, everything about him, such as his strength, speed or endurance, was multiplied tenfold, with his muscles doubling in size and defining everything he had in his body, be it chest, back, biceps, triceps, trapezius, leg, calf, abdomen, shoulder and forearm.
The pain Naruto felt every time he ran away from the villagers as a child, when his malnourished body and total lack of muscles couldn't stand the unconscious use of chakra to accelerate his speed or perform acrobatics, causing excruciating pain every night in his spine, lower back and legs, causing his back to curve in pain and him to agonize in bed. Everything was simply gone in this strengthening of the muscles that protected him and kept him on his feet, totally healthy and ready to face the world.
Naruto didn't know how much he could take now, because it wasn't as if he had a machine to punch and get an estimate, he just knew that without using chakra or anything, he was very strong, always having to be careful when opening the door, using toothpaste, turning off the tap, everyday things, with Tenshi no Karada active, he was very careful when hugging his wives, who even though they were Kunoichis, he was still concerned to see how easily he could now lift a tree trunk, only having to focus on the balance of not knocking down the logs, which every morning he cut down in the clearing of his house, creating obstacles to use in races and maneuvers in this speed control that has also evolved, always making him drag or even stumble in the use of Shunshin.
Naruto laughed internally as he once again stumbled while using his Tenshi no Karada and the Shunshin, which practically exploded the ground, and threw Naruto against the trunk, where he ripped out the splinters of wood that impaled his arm, and he soon saw his wound closing rapidly with a smoke spreading, as if burning the flesh so that they connected, where in the end there wasn't even a line of what had been the splinters impaled in his arm.
Since the Hokage summoned him to his office, introducing Naruto to all the Jounnin sensei of teams 7, 8, 9 and 10, he was informed that his promotion to Gennin had been approved. The scandalous reaction that everyone expected was completely cut short when Naruto spotted the village's two civil counselors, where he gave them the middle finger and told them both to go fuck themselves that he had finally become a Ninja, showing that there was some ancient history between these three.
His routine, from that day on, was shaped by how everyone watched his test and advised him that his potential was incredible with the clones, but that, if he wanted to continue at this pace, he would have to eat a diet of at least ten thousand calories a day . This was said by Maito Guy, the sensei of one of his fiancées and two of his former colleagues who joined Team 9 while Naruto was failing at the Ninja Academy, showing that the expenditure his clones were making was overlapped by the fact that he also had clones sleeping, but that the food intake was only being used for the metabolism of a Naruto and not that of the absurd clones who also required a similar diet.
From then on, his life was divided into a daily routine of training to control his strength, endurance and speed, Rank-E missions for Naruto to pay for the food that all the Jounnins had instructed him to follow, a return home where Naruto found himself with his three wives and his own fiancée Hinata, who now lived with him.
Add that to the fact that Naruto would leave his clones behind to escape to the village where he had meetings with Ino and Tenten, and... Naruto could say that he finally knew what happiness was and it wasn't eating something tasty like Lamen no Ichiraku, no... with clones he practically extended his day and routine, seeing how even though the villagers hated his presence, the ninjas practically adored him and treated him like a little brother who needed advice, or even adored him for managing to keep the three Jounnin goddesses as wives.
Yamanaka Ino is the most extroverted of all her age, and aimed to make great date plans with Naruto, in which she even split the bill at the end of the night under his protest, saying that "mom is rich and would take care of her fox".
The two of them met every Monday and Thursday at 9pm, while on the other days the girl's whole life had changed in the eyes of her parents, who saw that she no longer cared about food restriction diets. This was when Naruto shocked the girl into reality by showing her that there were no fat kunoichi in the ninja population, as they all trained in chakra manipulation and this was much more exhausting than physical training, showing that in reality his fiancée should start eating more or she would faint one of these days.
Mitsashi Tenten is currently the bride most focused on her ninja career. With a burning desire to one day become as capable as the Sannin of the Slugs, Naruto tends to meet up with her and have fun at night through intensive training in Kenjutsu and Bukijutsu, which, although he doesn't understand at all, still helps her to be his target while at least getting used to wielding the Knight Slayer and Rasaka's Fang in the act of deflecting or blocking Kunais and Shurikens.
The two of them met every Tuesday and Friday at 9 p.m., while they trained at the Mitsashi Forge Dojo and had picnics, which his fiancée always loved, outdoors, often turning in at night and having to be carried into the house together by the girl's parents.
Hyuuga Hinata is the cutest of them all, not that he would admit it in front of his other fiancées or wives, but the shy, demure girl who always became more confident when she activated her Byakugan. With this girl, Naruto was literally addicted to making her blush.
They both tried to go to meetings every Wednesday and Saturday, something that was good for her because it was the only day that was less busy for her personal training within the Hyuuga district, but their closeness only increased with her having moved to the Uzumaki District, thus living in the same house as him and always surprising him when she went to sleep all shy and blushing at the goodnight kiss Naruto planted on her forehead, only for the bossy girl to wake up with Byakugan active, jacket unbuttoned and a confident look that they were both going outside to do their morning cardio.
Naruto didn't know if this change in personality was normal, or if it was just that her Kekkei Genkai was incredible, because from what she said, when she activated her Byakugan her strength multiplied, making her practically another person, to the laughter of Kurenai, Anko and Yugao, who knew that it was only a matter of time before they saw this change in the girl, it was one thing to see the girl from time to time, but it was quite another to live with this person.... you only get to know someone well when you live together and they laughed at how Naruto adored and flirted with the shy Hyuuga, only to be shocked by the bossy Hyuuga with active Doujutsu.
He'd barely noticed that he'd gotten into this routine social life, after he'd refused to carry out any higher-ranking missions, because he was already on a tight schedule with the daily Rank-E missions, and was more than able to pay for his absurd food and keep a savings account to invest in the future.
So it had been a month since he had started his new life as a Gennin, involving training, meetings, missions, meetings, cardio at night with Uzumaki Anko, Uzumaki Kurenai and Uzumaki Yugao.
Hatake Kakashi directly assigned three Rank-E missions to his team to complete each day and, incredible as it may seem, progress was being made. Naruto tended to force Sasuke and Sakura to act as a team with him, because if they didn't, he would use his clones, receive his salary and the two of them would be left sucking their thumbs. Always pretending to need help on some construction site with a heavy log to carry, or any source of help that the Uchiha and Haruno intended to come to his aid, thinking he couldn't take it, but Kakashi always standing far away in a tree with his book in his hands, smiling at how Naruto looked like a complete Kushina at that age, only missing the long hair that twirled around in nine long strands looking like the Nine-Tailed Fox.
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{ February 01, 1618 }
The sun was low in the sky, gradually brightening the leaf-hidden village as the ninjas got up and got ready for another hard day's work and dangerous missions that could mean the end of their journeys.
Shopkeepers poured water in front of their stores, cleaning the sidewalk for customers, merchants opened their stalls and began selling their wares to anyone who passed by, children wiped the sleep from their eyes as they dragged themselves to the Ninja Academy.
And in the middle of a training camp, in a huge fortified clearing above Mount Hokage, an Uzumaki was doing his initial warm-up for another day, but not a normal cardio where you walk or run long distances, no, Naruto's cardio consisted of him running through the entire labyrinth of his clan's defenses, using only the Shunshin to cover long distances and the Kawarini to dodge the blades that Anko, Kurenai, Yugao and Hinata threw from the top. It was a complete adventure to avoid being stabbed in the face of the speed and agility of the throws that Jounnins or a Gennin with active Byakugan were capable of.
The Uzumaki barely noticed his sensei's presence when Anko decided to launch blasts of flaming shurikens, causing the Uzumaki to roll into the area of the clearing in sheer preservation of his life.
- Yo, Naruto-kun. - It was Kakashi who waved to him with his book in hand.
- Kakashi-sensei! Save me from those damned things. - Naruto ran to his sensei, who had been treating him like a younger brother since his training.
- Calm down, calm down... Anko-chan can be a bit harsh at times... - He was trying to calm him down when he saw four figures rapidly descending from the top of the labyrinth.
- Anko-chan? Are you making fun of me? - Naruto asked, scandalized. - If it was just her with these crazy snake tendencies, I'd understand, it's Hinata-chan, she's changed. - Naruto whispered this time when the girl showed herself without the presence of her baggy blouse, which always hid her body, in an animated and even euphoric expression, walking alongside Naruto's wives.
Kakashi, finding this strange, studied the Hyuuga heiress's posture and could actually notice that she seemed more confident, with a determined look, an upright posture and not at all shy about wearing the ninja mesh along with her active Byakugan eyes, which were deactivated at this realization and suddenly the girl's whole posture had changed, becoming shy as she picked up her blouse and covered herself, approached Naruto, planted a kiss on his cheek with her face all flushed and left, running quickly home.
- Yeah... you're fucked, Naruto. - Kakashi immediately realized that the Hyuuga girl was hiding her true personality due to her physical strength, an act which, when the Byakugan was activated and her strength multiplied, made her much more confident and determined, as the Hyuugas always prostrated themselves in that superiority complex of theirs. - Now hold on, she'll soon find out how to use ropes, whips and handcuffs... and it won't be on her.
- Damn. - Naruto smiled as his three wives congratulated him and disappeared into the Shunshin, running straight home, where a clone of Naruto was preparing breakfast. - I've become a submissive houseboy, don't fuck around.
Studying his student, Kakashi saw how Naruto wore his training uniform, which now consisted of baggy navy blue sweatpants, bandages tied tightly around his wrists, which both prevented the muscles in the area from tearing during rigorous training, and the fact that his hands contained his characteristic gloves with Uzumaki runic seals, keeping those blades ready for use at any time.
- But hey, Kakashi-sensei. - Naruto said, interrupting his warm-up. - What's with the compression shirt without the vest? Did you come to train with me? - Naruto continued jokingly.
- In fact, that's just it. - Hatake said, under Naruto's doubt, not knowing that his sensei was going to come here for this, when, this past month, all the focus has been on teamwork. - We've been on daily missions for a month now, and I've seen an improvement in the teamwork potential of you, Sakura and Sasuke... against taste, of course... but it's still acceptable. I think it's time you learned something more important.
- Shinobi Skill Number 04: The Art of Silent Assassination.
Naruto's eyebrows furrowed. He hadn't thought it would be so soon and this was the fear of having to leave the village, since the Ninja Academy had been saying about the terrible monsters outside.
Being forced to kill in order not to die... really weren't the ideals Naruto wanted to follow, but he knew there was nothing he could do about it, because he was a Ninja, not a pacifist preacher of ideologies.
- Are you sure? I don't know... - Naruto said with a sense of internal panic that he never wanted to feel again after events in his past. - I've beaten people until they looked almost dead, but it wasn't pleasant.
- It never will be, Naruto-kun... no one I know here in the village likes to kill, everyone gets caught up in their own vices in order to occupy themselves with the thoughts and visions we have when carrying out such acts and having to take a professional approach to it. - Kakashi sat down on the grass, accompanied by his student. - The two things I need you to learn... are how to die... and how to survive.
- I'm not teaching you to become a genocidal monster. - Kakashi carefully explained to his student. - I'm teaching you to survive, teaching you not to freeze and weaken when something shocking occurs in front of you, as if, even in the midst of despair, your mind continues to function in self-preservation and focus on the mission.
- Shinobis are trained to kill without pity, but that doesn't stop them being human.
- The pain of taking a life, the sight of it... really, the first time it happens, it will send a shock through your whole body, paralyzing you.
- And this is where I want to instruct you, in a safe environment, because whatever happens... I'll be here to support you, unlike a situation outside the wall, where if that happens you could be captured by enemies, or even worse... killed without the chance to defend yourself properly, leaving behind a life full of opportunities and half a dozen women who entrusted their safety to you.
- Can you understand that, Naruto? - Kakashi finally explained with a question under deep breaths from the blond, who was trying to calm his inner panic. - You became Lord Uzumaki upon the awakening of your two Kekkei Genkai, that doesn't mean you've been given the right to abuse a law to have brides and wives in your bed, no, it means that their lives are in your hands, you're the one they'll look to when they don't have the answer, and in the future that will grow beyond the six people linked to your life, maybe one more member, or maybe a hundred... maybe there are some remaining Uzumakis out there who will seek asylum and safety with you.
- Right... - Naruto sighed deeply. - What did you mean by learning to die?
- In the same way, I'd prefer to train him here to prevent a mistake like that from killing him on the battlefield. - Kakashi began. - I want you to understand and comprehend the sensation of death and that this is something you shouldn't wish on anyone, especially since your main use of Ninjutsu is clearly the cloning of shadows, remember when we had the rattle test last month? - Hatake asked, in agreement with Uzumaki.
- You need to understand that using more than a thousand clones against me was extremely risky. Throughout the fight, I found it incredible how, with each clone I dispelled, you adapted to my style of Taijutsu and tried to create ways to get used to it in search of loopholes, even this unprecedented use with the cloning of shadows. - Kakashi complimented the boy by stroking his hair. - But that was only because I wanted to awaken them, what do you think would have occurred to your mind if I had decided to slit each clone's throat? What if I broke their spines? Or crack their skulls? Sever their tendons? Break their necks, jaws, arms, legs, wrists, lower backs, calves or shove Kunais into their hearts and Shurikens into their eyes?
- I would receive this information too... even though I had no blood or wounds, my pain receptors would feel it and it would totally weaken me.
- It's one thing to kill for your own survival or that of someone you care about, it's quite another to kill for fun, for the desire to do it... - Kakashi smiled at Naruto, looking shaken at the thought of having almost suffered such feelings. - I don't kill for pleasure and I didn't see any point in killing your clones in a brutal way, knowing that my student would suffer for it... and Naruto, I can tell you that you're going to find plenty of enemies who wouldn't be sorry to use their clones just to force you to fall in agony of pain on the battlefield, not out of a desire to beat you, but out of pure sadism in enjoying seeing your brain collapse in the continuous sensation of death that never ends, because only the clones would die, not you with your body totally intact.
- I'd like to say that people don't know who you are, but that's impossible, the Sandaime Hokage has tried his best to contain information about you, but somehow information about the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki being a short, scrawny boy with orange overalls and genetic traits of the Nine-Tailed Fox on his cheeks, that information has escaped and is the main factor that hunters out there can track you down. - Kakashi said, liking how Naruto had a determined look in his eyes to learn everything he said. - That's why I wanted to come out of retirement and become a Jounnin instructor, I couldn't let my godmother's son risk getting out there and being captured.
- Was Mom your godmother? - Naruto asked, elated to hear that.
- Yes, Kushina-sama was my godmother when my father died... she took me in when I was alone in this world. - Kakashi said, trying to control himself so as not to expose the boy's father, even though he wanted to very much, but the risk of increasing the bounty on Naruto's head was too risky, so he rummaged through his tool bag, pulling out a black book. - I want you to understand this pain, but don't carry it around or blame yourself for it.
- The animals, I understand, we hunt because it's food. - Naruto said in respect for how he had been surviving in that place all his childhood, running away from the villagers and hunting fish to eat, sleeping on Mount Hokage which, however high, was still a very safe place with the village's Kekkai imposed there. - The Draugr, they say, are walking monsters who should be dead by now, but people... they want to survive too.
- Don't let it get to you. - Kakashi repeated what Kushina had once told him. - On our journey as Ninjas, we will be attacked by all kinds of creatures, the worst of which I know carries the title of humanity.
- Don't be shocked by their despair... don't get involved in their suffering... don't feel bad for them, because none of them would feel bad for you. - Kakashi said at last, with Naruto still looking skeptical. - Use your own experience, I've always been present in the shadows with Seph, Kurenai, Anko and Yugao... the one time I was away on a mission, somehow the village councilors managed to find a way for their three wives to stay busy and Seph himself, your personal ANBU security agent, simply had to act in a breach of the barriers at the Walls of Salvation and if I remember correctly.... the villagers that night tried to do some serious damage, forcing you for the first time to act in self-defense and really hurting anyone who tried to touch you.
- If the people you keep safe from the chaos that is the Kyuubi no Youko were capable of this... what makes you guarantee that they won't be much worse out there? - Kakashi gave the boy a shock of reality, but one that he thought was accurate. - And I'll be with you every step of the way... because let's face it, the Nukenins and hunters are already getting angry at the fact that the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki never leaves the village on a mission, and boy, your three failures at the Ninja Academy seem to have been a blessing, because your name is in the Bingo Book and Seph has been personally taking down the threats that lurk out there. - Kakashi presented the thick book, pointing to the last page.
- Last updated three years ago. - Kakashi showed a photo of a scrawny Naruto wearing orange and blue overalls, green glasses on his head and a can of paint in his hands, making the characteristic marks on his cheeks very noticeable. - Those cute little marks on his face alone guarantee a reward of 90,000,000 Ryo, with an additional 10,000,000 Ryo if it is proven that the Nine-Tailed Fox really does live inside you.
Seeing Naruto's shocked look, Kakashi even thought he was afraid of the money his head was worth, but flipping through the last few pages, the Uzumaki soon started laughing.
- Are you kidding me, I'm tied with the Snake Sannin? - Naruto asked with a huge smile on his face. - Can we arrange a kidnapping so you can get the money and rescue me? I swear I'll split it with you for... 70 to 30.
- Wow, that's got to be a problem. - Kakashi cursed under his breath as he lay on the ground, only an Uzumaki could act like that. - And what the fuck about 70 to 30, clearly it should be 50 to 50.
- Don't fuck about... 60 to 40 and that's good enough. - Naruto said, leafing through the book. - Look here, you're only worth 65,000,000 Ryo.
- You think you've got too much on your plate... and you're tied with Orochimaru for nothing, look at the specs. - Kakashi showed the last page again. - You, my dear Uzumaki, are tied in the Bingo Book with Uchiha Itachi who's head is worth 90,000,000 Ryo, you'll only be able to tie with Orochimaru if someone can prove that you really are the vessel of the Nine-Tailed Beast.
- And how do you prove it? - Naruto asked.
- I don't fucking know. - Kakashi cursed sarcastically. - You're the Jinchuuriki, you've got tons of chakra to spare and the reserves of the sealed fox itself... a plate of meat only goes on a vegan's table, and I'm fucking here with only 100,000 Chakra.
- Wait a minute... you know how to calculate Chakra? - Naruto asked euphorically. - Is that a Jounnin thing?
- Yeah! - Kakashi answered anyway. - No, wait, it's not... it's complicated.
- Nothing is complicated for an adult, Kakashi-sensei. - Naruto said with pure maturity, to Kakashi's proud nod. - Anko-chan told me that a man who doesn't know how to be uncomplicated with a woman is just a blowjob with a flaccid micropenis who deserves to be chained up and castrated so that a real woman can fuck him on all fours like she should.
- Fuck! - Kakashi almost drowned in his mask. - Don't talk like that in public, Naruto. Leave your submissive tendencies to your wives.
- Relax, she even tried to tie me up. - Naruto said with Kakashi even more elated, pulling the mask slightly off his nose to breathe. - She really thought I'd let her, she may be stronger than me alone, but I've got ten good clones to beat her.
- Ten!? My friend... are you kidding? - Kakashi bowed to the ground. - Please donate some Chakra to that poor Jounnin with the damned eye who nerfs me every time I pull on my bandana.
- Just tell me how you calculate Chakra. - Naruto laughed, feigning sovereignty.
- Oh yes! Well... because of a tragedy in the past, I got a Sharingan transplant. - Kakashi thought about the past as he looked at a large stone in the clearing, but then shook his head in denial. - When I became a Jounnin and awakened a very cool and dangerous stage of the eyes, I ended up seeing these numbers on top of everyone's head, with time I realized that it was the amount of Chakra, when I looked in the mirror and pulled the bandana, I could see that there were 100,000 exactly there, but that every minute it reduced 1,000 units, pure damned drain that no Uchiha suffers for being able to deactivate the Doujutsu and that unfortunately I have it constantly active.
- So you can keep it going for an hour and forty minutes at most? - Naruto calculated thoughtfully. - That's if I don't use any more Jutsu, which to be honest is a bit unrealistic in combat.
- That's it. - Kakashi smiled at his student's quick thinking. - By the way, I see you're interested, so now that you know the reward for your head in the Bingo Book, which is 90,000,000 and not Ryo's 100,000,000, okay, little boy, don't come trying to think you're better than a Sannin. - Kakashi squeezed his cute little cheeks. - In our test, I tried to copy your elemental manipulation, but it didn't work, a tragedy... anyway, so I just dodged them and analyzed you... congratulations again. - Kakashi this time feigned denial. - Your Chakra is almost 13 times greater than mine and is fixedly estimated at 1,250,000.
- Ah... is that enough? - Naruto feigned ignorance, much to Hatake's shock. - I mean, it's just that your chakra isn't much, so... you know. - Naruto pretended to measure something with his thumb and forefinger in a mischievous way, disappointed by the size of it. - 12 to 13 times your size doesn't seem like much when yours is average... if you can call it that.
- Ah, you bastard. - Kakashi jumped on Naruto when he noticed the double entendre of the boy who had been corrupted by Anko and her sadistic tendencies.
- Calm down, sensei, you're still average shinobi... don't worry. - Naruto said, performing hand seals.
- Don't fuck. - Kakashi activated his Shunshin behind the blond, when he saw Naruto running fast towards his house.
With both of them jumping over the first defense cliff of Naruto's house, they came to a halt with the Uzumaki dragging himself a little on the grass out of control with his improved speed.
- Easy... I'm kidding! - Naruto tried to appease his sensei. - Let's have breakfast, then you can teach me about dying, killing and surviving.
- Hnpf... just like Kushina-sama. - Kakashi grumbled, going after him, sighing slightly at how cozy the atmosphere was there, like when his sensei and godmother invited him to dinner every night and now he saw it in the boy.
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- All right, Kakashi-sensei. - Naruto said, sharpening his eyes in a seriousness that even amazed Hatake internally, after finding it very funny how Naruto ate so much food early and interacted with his wife and fiancée, showing how their presence was helping his godmother's son so much. - What are we going to do?
- Today we're going to divide it into two stages: how to die with me and how to kill with Sandaime-sama. Well, without further ado, let's get on with his understanding of death. - He began, seeing fear in the Uzumaki's eyes. - Don't worry, you really won't be physically hurt.
- I want you to make as many clones as possible, use all your chakra and keep only a portion that will keep you standing here while you watch. - Kakashi dictated to the blond, carrying it out.
- The maximum? - Naruto asked, entering a thoughtful state that confused Hatake. - Okay, wait... - Naruto began to walk around the grounds of the clearing, where he tried to theorize whether this would work. - Look, I'm going to line up some of the clones above the labyrinth, because they won't all fit in the clearing at once.
- How much exactly are we talking about here? - Kakashi wondered where he saw something of epic proportions coming, as he had only seen this analytical look in his sensei in the past. And that was before he decided to go and confront all the troops in Iwagakure, emerging victorious on his own and creating a rotating Jutsu inspired by the Biju Bomb of the 4- and 5-tailed Beasts.
- In theory, I can create 100,000 clones, that would divide my energy reserve so much that it would keep each of us at 12.5 chakra... - Said the Uzumaki thoughtfully as his sensei informed him that his Chakra measured 1,250,000. - However, just the act of performing the Tajuu Kage Bunshin is enough to spend 100,000 chakra, in other words, creating as many clones as possible without accidentally exhausting myself... - Naruto calculated everything analytically. - 92,000 clones, it was supposed to be 100,000 shadow clones available in class, but when I form the Jutsu at maximum capacity, I'll use the chakra of 8,000 clones to disperse just so the minimum charge of the Jutsu doesn't exhaust me, so it's... 92,000 clones will appear here in the clearing and labyrinth with 12.5 Chakra available to perform your class.
- "Holy shit." - Kakashi was shocked when Naruto already performed the hand seal and summoned.
Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! - (Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!)
The explosion of smoke and the horde of birds that flew out of the area was surreal, fleeing everywhere as if a catastrophe was about to occur, attracting the attention of the people of Konoha and the Sandaime himself, who had just felt all of Naruto's chakra disappear so suddenly.
Kakashi barely had room to conjure up an altar with candles around it, on which he had asked Naruto to take off his shirt and sit in a meditation position in the center.
And so, jumping backwards rapidly when, in consecutive hand seals, a pillar of earth rose from his feet, two figurative sides remaining there:
On the one hand, a single Jounnin who has been through the most diverse battles and chaos that have shaped him, today acclaimed worldwide as the Ninja Copier of a Thousand Jutsus.
On the other side, a huge army of ninety-two thousand shadow clones stood side by side as they surrounded their sensei, with no room to move in this agglomeration of the entire clearing, labyrinth, Mount Hokage and fields that followed far from there.
- The rule is clear, Naruto... repeat what I say to the others consecutively. - Kakashi began audibly to his student sitting on the altar below. - Whatever your clones sense, you will sense... I believe you've already understood that. - He said at the royal Uzumaki's nod.
- For this reason, until one last clone is still standing, I ask you not to leave the altar. No matter the pain, the sensation, the anguish or the excruciating agony... stand firm and understand that these are all mental sensations like those of a nightmare and not real wounds affecting your body. - Putting a stop to his explanations under Naruto's understanding... the Hatake soon began to perform hand seals.
Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu! - (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!)
Kakashi said seriously before spitting out a medium-sized ball of flame that spread along the path towards the clones, aiming to open the way around the royal Uzumaki's altar.
Noticing the discomfort on the original's face, Kakashi knew well that he was already feeling the continuous sensation of fire charring his skin, and not just once, but taking the hundred clones that disappeared in bursts of smoke, so surely the pain multiplied by a hundred must be horrible.
- "Hold on, gaki... and for your sake in this shitty village I'd try to kill you the first moment I wasn't looking." - Kakashi thought with a tightness in his chest as he saw the discomfort on his student's face.
Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu! - (Water Release: Water Dragon Projectile Technique!)
Kakashi had said it with extremely fast hand seals, whereupon a huge dragon appeared in all the water in the clearing, flooding the clones in a gush that took two hundred more to leave and disappear with the dragon.
- "I could use the excuse of training Sasuke-kun just to keep you away from the reality of a shinobi, even believing that it would keep you out of pain." - Kakashi thought as he saw a gasping Naruto as if he really were drowning.
Doton: Doryuheki! - (Earth Release: Earth Style Wall!)
Kakashi summoned once more in multiple seals at surreal speed, crouching down and touching the ground in the process, which quickly created a huge wall of earth with four dog faces carved into it, and the wall collapsed, crushing another hundred clones.
- "But that wouldn't really protect you... your enemies would catch up with you one day and take advantage of your incapacity." - Kakashi thought as he saw Naruto holding his chest and head, as if a very strong blow had crushed them.
Fuuton: Shinkuujin! - (Wind Release: Vacuum Blade!)
Kakashi summoned a Kunai in his hands, infusing it with Chakra to resemble a makeshift wind scimitar, and began to run through the clones at the top of the labyrinth, brutally slicing each one he passed and ending up in the smoke explosions.
- "And I would never allow my godmother's son... and also my sensei's, to suffer at the hands of someone else due to negligence... no, never again." - Kakashi thought, pulling on an ANBU mask to cover his entire face, thus focusing his attention entirely on finishing off the clones as quickly as possible.
Naruto had never thought he could feel so much pain and panic at the sensation of a broken neck, a slit throat, a decapitated neck, a heart pierced, removed, crushed, suffocation, strangulation, drowning and the most derivative sensations of death being repeated over and over again in a massacre by his sensei, who was literally ruthless when he put on that ANBU mask, practically becoming someone else.
That pain, that panic and despair of the clone not being torn apart as it always was, but murdered, sending all the sensation of death straight to the original, all of it condensed in a way that his mind formulated everything and he aimed to check at all times if he had really suffered from what had happened, gnashing his teeth, biting his tongue, fidgeting uncomfortably as his sensei used the Shunshin to affect on a large scale every clone that disappeared and opened up space in the clearing in this slaughter that was a veritable ANBU of the Leaf Elite coming into action.
And as much as his mind tired and begged for a blackout that would protect him from all this sensation of pain and suffering, the ritualistic altar prevented him from losing consciousness, or ending up really suffering from a mental trauma to all this, only assimilating such pain in this safe environment, of which in the future if it were to occur outside, Naruto would already be polished in not falling into agony on the battlefield, because what was it to suffer a cut or be hurt by an enemy, when you have already suffered and become accustomed to it 92,000 times.
[ ... ]
It was 10:00 when a clock woke up in the destroyed clearing where the Hatake had finally returned and, seeing the last five hundred clones near the original, he landed with his last hand seals, chanting:
Raiton: Raijū Tsuiga! - (Lightning Release: Pursuit of Lightning Beast Claws!)
Kakashi summoned a canine beast made of lightning that chased clone after clone, swallowing them up and brutally electrocuting them, in this finale to Kakashi's massacre of 92,000 shadow clones.
Gasping for breath when he sat down next to the Uzumaki at the altar, he picked up a bottle and drank from it to refresh himself.
- Damn... you really are tough. - He said, noticing a cut on his arm. - Who knew that some people would start to develop critical thinking of their own? - He continued to himself, seeing that his student was currently saying nothing. For a moment, Kakashi wondered if he had really crossed a line. - I thought I'd give you a break for today, take some time off and go make out with your wives. - He informed the Uzumaki mischievously.
- No need, let's get it over with. - Naruto said for the first time. - Sandaime-sama is going to teach me a few things too, isn't he?
- Well... Alright, do you really want to continue today? - Kakashi asked, watching his student nod, completely focused on what was to come.
- Right, go take a shower and freshen up to relax your muscles, I'll go over the report of what we did and how to continue, in an hour I'll be back with Hokage-sama.
[ ... ]
Returning to the clearing after an hour's bath, Naruto only saw Hatake talking to Hiruzen.
- Oh, Naruto-kun, I heard about you creating 92,000 clones for training, very good... very good indeed. - Hiruzen said, wearing a suit of battle armor that he hadn't worn in ages. - What I'm going to guide you through is how to kill silently through a Genjutsu... It will replicate damage to a human body in a completely realistic way.
Naruto nodded. While he wasn't familiar with Genjutsus in particular, he hoped to analyze analytically when it would activate.
- And when does this Genjutsu start? - The Uzumaki asked when he saw them both standing still.
- Now, you were already trapped in a Genjutsu the moment Kakashi picked up the bottle to drink water an hour ago. - Sarutobi explained jokingly. - You didn't go to bathe and refresh yourself, your mind was confused. - Seeing the scene around him change dramatically to a kind of castle guarded by guards in the dark of night, Hiruzen soon dictated. - Now, suppose you were on an infiltration mission and the only way to successfully enter the target area would be to eliminate that guard, while the rest of your team awaits you at some designated location. - Hiruzen said, hiding in a tree next to the Uzumaki and Hatake. - What would be the best method of killing him without leaving any evidence for the next patrol to find?
Naruto's eyes narrowed thoughtfully, contemplating his choices:
- Maybe if you snuck up behind him and cut his jugular? - Naruto said, even shocked to hear such a phrase come out of his mouth, because from the look on Hiruzen's face, it wasn't just talk... it was action.
- Then go... do it. - Hiruzen dictated in order, handing the Uzumaki a Kunai.
Naruto, who could sense the difference between reality and illusion, was soon sneaking up on the guard.
It was a matter of seconds before he approached the guard in surprise and, with a silent blow, the steel penetrated deep into his throat, spreading blood all over the Uzumaki's arm and hand, the corpse falling to the ground in a small pool of dark blood.
Naruto hadn't thought it would be so realistic, but... his hands were shaking like never before and he couldn't take his eyes off the guard, agonizing on the floor at the choking sound he was suffering from this horrible hemorrhage.
The fear, despair, anguish and understanding in his eyes, the realization that he was really going to die right there and there was nothing he could do about it, all reflected on Uzumaki, who was stuck in the thought that he had just taken someone's life, someone with a family, someone with sons and daughters.
- You have failed. - Hiruzen said and so Naruto was brutally impaled through the heart by a spear from a guard who had noticed a strange movement there, with Naruto falling to the ground in a horrible sensation of his throat flooding with a liquid with a horrible metallic taste, very different from when Kakashi killed his clones, this Genjutsu was really replicating everything, the blood, the metallic and disgusting taste of the blood, the sensation and the life draining away with Naruto's body falling like that of the guard he murdered.
At this, his vision darkened and he soon noticed that he was back standing where he started, with Hiruzen repeating the act of handing a kunai to his student, almost as if it were a loop of where it all began.
- In many situations, this method would work well, but... - Hiruzen began, looking at the confused and terrified Uzumaki. - As you can see, the body and the blood leave behind a lot of evidence. It might alert a nearby guard who notices his companion's agony in the choking sounds that compromise his location and mission.
The Gennin absent-mindedly shook his head, disgusted by the sight continuing to flood his mind, and taking a moment to calm down, he asked:
- What about breaking his neck? - He asked, still perplexed by discussing forms of murder, something he had never imagined doing.
Noticing the elderly Hokage's biased gaze, Naruto quickly understood and sneaked off in the direction of the guard he had killed a few seconds ago, who was already on his feet.
Wordlessly, Naruto activated his Tenshi no Karada and wrapped his arms around the illusion's neck while tightly covering its mouth... and, with a snap of the tremendous force that was this tenfold multiplication of its physical potential, the body fell to the ground in a quick death.
Only for the Uzumaki to feel an excruciating pain go through the back of his head and out the front, only for him to realize that a guard had shot an arrow at him and his vision cleared before he even hit the ground.
- As you can see, breaking a neck creates a clearly audible noise, and any competent ninja can hear that sound and understand that a comrade has been murdered. Between that and the body, your infiltration mission is torn to shreds once again. - Hiruzen said, looking at where Naruto had died for the second time. Noticing again, the same guard on standby. - While breaking your neck works well in most situations, in high-risk infiltration missions it's not a viable option. - Hiruzen explained. - The way to really kill someone quietly without leaving much evidence is to use something that incapacitates your enemy and also instantly disappears with the traces, so that no one notices anything wrong for you to replace him immediately without suspicion from others.
And so the next hour passed, an hour with Naruto killing and dying non-stop, there were so many failed attempts that he no longer cared, he just wanted to formulate plans and strategies to put an end to it all.
Hiruzen, who at all times only watched, soon had a gleam in his eye when Uzumaki died for the hundredth time, coming very close to completing his task, but something was missing and he seemed to understand what it was.
With a determined gleam in his eye, the Uzumaki hardly paused to think or talk to the Hokage, only aiming to concentrate his Chakra and thus be swallowed up by the earthen soil. Hiruzen soon understood what this Jutsu was and promptly smiled at Kakashi, who read it in the corner and only nodded, indicating that he had trained the Uzumaki in a basic Doton technique, but molded in the style that his Doujutsu worked in this elemental fold.
A few meters ahead, two hands came up from the ground, grabbed the guard's ankles and, before he could make any audible protest, he was instantly pulled into the previously firm ground, which had suddenly turned sandy, leaving only his spear.
Casually wiping the sand from his clothing as he returned from the underground, which had already become solid and firm, burying the target and preventing any sound from spreading in warning of something, Naruto promptly used a Henge where his appearance perfectly cloned that of the enemy, wielding his spear just as his murdered target usually did in this whistling and lack of attention to duty, just pure boredom on a monotonous night on watch.
He waved to the guard who passed in front of him a few seconds later, bidding him goodnight, and the guard went on his way without suspecting a thing, ending with Hiruzen coming out from behind the tree while clapping his hands.
- Well done, Naruto... You know! I was betting that you would complete this today. - Hiruzen said proudly. - Understand, these are Chunnin-level trainings, and you, however many times you've failed in the last hour, have shown progress in not letting your emotions cloud your senses.
- It's great that you're taking not only my training seriously, but also that of Kakashi-kun? because there's nothing more dangerous than a ninja who understands and becomes a master of the basics of his job. You need to master the basics before you can move on to techniques with a greater scale of effect.
- And although this Doton Jutsu is a great way to temporarily incapacitate an enemy so that they can be captured, as was done with Sasuke in his tests last month, it was originally created as an assassination technique, as you yourself understood you were capable of using. - Kakashi explained as he put down the book and gave his attention to his student. - I hope you noticed that the jutsu also allows you to walk and breathe underground, allowing you to drag someone down, but when you completely drag someone, they are not protected by the Chakra that only acts on you and will suffocate before they can escape, so...
- So I shouldn't try to use it on allies, believing that they'll be as safe as I am, because they'll suffocate just like the guard I just murdered. - Naruto concluded, understanding that his Chakra worked on him and him alone.
- Keep this in mind. There is no real division in a judgment about permitted Jutsus and forbidden Jutsus. It all comes down to the intention used, and in the end, if it is used against an ally of the village, it will be judged in the same way if it uses a permitted one or an extremely forbidden one. These divisions are purely for cataloging whether they are allowed to be taught or kept secret. - Hiruzen pointed out to Naruto that his shadow clone was the same, it was a Kinjutsu and no matter how much he had learned and mastered the Jutsu, he was not allowed to teach it, because his Chakra was unique enough to perform the multiple clonings, very different from someone with average Chakra who would run out and could drop dead. - Kakashi-kun must also have explained that this jutsu only works on the ground, that he wasn't supposed to try it on a tall building? Am I right? - Hiruzen finished his debate and advice under silent confirmation from his student. - I'm glad, because if I tried it, I'd collapse from the floor of such a house, or even from a tall building with little chance of getting out unscathed... remember, you've molded this Doton Jutsu to your Onigan's Bend style, only use it differently if you're sure you'll be safe.
- Hey, old-sensei... have you killed before? I mean, being forced to? - Naruto asked as he saw a slight expression of regret on the Hokage's face.
- Yes... - Hiruzen said with a sigh. He pondered his student's question for a moment. That was unexpected, because if it was just murder, it was simple. He'd been in three wars and had to kill a lot, but the only time he'd been forced to was when, in the Kyuubi attack, his wife didn't die, she was mortally wounded by an explosion that occurred at the Uzumaki's birthplace, and she agonized painfully until help arrived.
He felt he owed the student an explanation after all the mental torture of the day that would hold him firm against enemies, but he wasn't sure he was ready and it wasn't even Naruto he was talking about, it was himself that during all the chaos, be it the death of the Yondaime Hokage, Kushina-chan, the sealing of the Nine-Tailed Beast on Naruto, the creatures appearing out of nowhere in savage snarls, that he had to choose to end the pain of his beloved Biwako-chan, as there was no capable Iryo Ninja alive to save the love of his life, thus taking her life to end the pain of her crushed internal organs and charred skin, having to resume his post as Sandaime Hokage to fight the savage creatures that were trying to invade his village and not even having the proper time to respect his grief.
- Listen Naruto... The world itself is not a beautiful thing, seen at first hand. Of course, it has its primordial beauty, but humans are what spoil that beauty. There is genocide, murder, brutality, rape, torture, wars. All of this for humanity's petty, sick and selfish reasons.
- In my youth, I was trained by two of the most powerful Kages ever. These were Senju Hashirama, the Shodaime Hokage, and Senju Tobirama, the Nidaime Hokage.
- I fought in three ninja wars, Naruto. And of course, in order to maintain victory for my allies and family, I had to get my hands dirty with enemy blood.
- The difference between you and me is that I'm teaching you how to survive through an illusion, when I myself had to learn it the hard way.
- But one thing is certain... in order to prevent my family from suffering from all this, I aimed to train, perfect myself and find myself at the top of all shinobi... I carry the legacy of Nidaime Kami Shinobi that only Hashirama-sensei held, along with the Hokage legacy of Tobirama-sensei who sacrificed himself so that my team and I would return alive.
- Life is not easy and I believe that outside the Walls of Salvation you will see a lot of brutality and inequality. What I ask is that you don't let this shape you, keep growing, keep training and keep protecting your family.
- One last thing, I understand the pain of losing a loved one, of knowing that you will never see them again the next day. It's agonizing, it makes you want to give up everything and go find that person somewhere far away from this rotten world.
- But giving up on everything is never the key to anything, I know the pain, Kakashi knows the pain, many people around the world know this and the best people are those who don't let themselves wither away, continuing on their path until one day they receive their due for their noble acts, whether minimal or extreme, because a Ninja may be a murderer, but he's not a monster.
- So, from the moment I leave the safety of the village. Should I never let my guard down and always expect the worst? - Naruto asked, where Hiruzen could still see that inside was the infectious and innocent child of the Uzumaki, who was now shaping up and maturing to protect both himself and his family.
- Of course. - Hiruzen replied.
- Will there be allies? - He continued to ask.
- It's possible. - Again, the Second God of the Ninja replied.
- And the enemies? - The blond man finally asked.
- They're already on the prowl because of the Bingo Book that exposed your name and appearance... don't become cold and bloodthirsty towards them... it's one thing to murder of your own free will, it's another to kill out of survival instinct, but don't let your emotions get the better of you either and let your guard down against the wrong person... because humans are ambitious and you carry within you the most powerful, dangerous and rare creature in this whole world.
- None of them would take pity on you, regardless of whether you begged, cried or despaired. There are many ninja villages that even teach their ninjas to kill their weakest allies in order to stay on the podium.
- But anyway... you're doing very well, especially considering that it's only been a month since you became a Gennin.
- Right... shall we continue? - Naruto asked determinedly as Hiruzen laughed and they both moved forward a stage, in order for Naruto to master his total infiltration of the enemy castle in the next stage of shaping his silent assassination style, which he may have learned from the first guard, but there are still many and in different locations.
- "This kid is going to be a good one... I hope you two can see that." - Hiruzen thought on behalf of his student, who day after day showed incredible progress in his career as a shinobi, whether it was in the tedious meetings he attended to learn about politics, or here, learning to kill and survive.
Little did they notice, then, that just outside the Genjutsu an astral figure was sneaking between the trees.
Studying and formulating her thoughts in favor of that blond boy who seemed so familiar to the entity in question, but who didn't know where.
Part 02 in the next chapter due to the word limit of the chapter post.
-- Characters Introduced --
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Uzumaki Kurenai:
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Uzumaki Anko:
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Uzumaki Yugao:
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Hyuuga Hinata:
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Hatake Kakashi:
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Hiruzen Sarutobi:
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-- Bingo Book --
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Hatake Kakashi: 100,000 Chakra
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Uchiha Itachi:
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Uzumaki Naruto: Chakra of 1,250,000
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Orochimaru:
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