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Another Bunshin Jutsu

Chapter 1:

In the village of Konohagakure, a certain blond child was in class, sleeping on his book next to another sleeping kid who had black spiky hair that stuck up like a pineapple. The teacher of the class, known as Chunin Umino Iruka, was going over the clone technique once again and noticed the two sleeping kids in the corner. Not only that, but alot of his students were not even listening to him, making a tick mark appear on his head. He got mad and decided to use his fabled Big Head Jutsu.

"YOU BRATS BETTER PAY ATTENTION TO THIS AND LOOK AT THE BOARD! AND NARUTO! SHIKAMARU! STOP SLEEPING DAMN IT!"

Everyone started paying attention and two faces looked up to the teacher with grumpy faces, one of which was grumbling about something troublesome. " What is it Iruka-sensei? I'm really tired" the blond said.

"Maybe you wouldn't be so tired if you stopped plotting pranks at night."

Naruto looked down ashamed. He didn't plot pranks last night... okay maybe for alittle bit, but most of the night was spend practicing the bunshin jutsu. No matter how hard he tried, you couldn't grasp how to do it. His clones always came out misshapen and deformed. He wished that he could find a way for them to work, but he could never make one. Besides that, he didn't care much for school anymore. While he wanted to graduate, he knew that alot of people didn't want him to.

Naruto basically gave up on school after his second year, when it was clear that he was being sabotaged. He did well in class and did his best, but his grades were always poor and the tests seemed very difficult for him. He even found that the kunai and shuriken given to him were bent or damaged, affecting how they flew. He tried to complain, but nobody listened and ignored his protest, so he decided to give up.

After that, he spent all his time getting better at trap making. Not only was it useful for protecting his house, which was attacked sometimes, but was also great for traps. It was alot of trial and error, one incident covering him with peanut butter and chased by all the Inuzuka dogs in the village, but he learned quick. He used the new skills and targeted people who were terrible to him in school or sabotaged him. He also went after restaurant and store owners who refused to serve him for no reason. While it may have gotten him in some trouble, he felt it was all justified.

"Got it Iruka-sensei, I'll try harder next time to got to bed on time! Then I can get stronger and become Hokage!" he said, half yelling with a cheesy smile on his face. Almost everyone rolled their eyes at his declaration, which he seemed to do everyday. Iruka shook his head in amusement at the statement, used to Naruto's attitude.

"That's good and all, but to be a Hokage, you have to pass the academy to become a genin, so lets see if you have been paying attention. You only have one week until you take the next test so come up here to show us what you have learned."

Naruto got up from his seat and walked down to the front of the class, which seemed to be whispering amongst themselves about his imminent failure. Naruto ignored it walked to Iruka with determination.

"Now Naruto, lets see some basic techniques. How about a Kawarimi no Jutsu?" Naruto nodded and quickly went through the required hand-seals and next second he was gone with puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, Iruka could see a book where Naruto originally was. The book was titled with big words 'Property of the Ramen King'. Iruka knew immediately that it was Naruto's and looked up to where the book used to rest to see Naruto. He was not prepared for what he saw next and was blasted back by a bloody nose. Where Naruto should be was naked girl who looked alot like Naruto, but had round breasts, longer blond hair in pigtails and larger hips. The only thing protecting the naked girl was a plume of smoke that only covered her private areas.

"What do you think Iruka-sensei? I think you like it judging how far you flew. I call it the Oiroke no Jutsu! It's great, ain't it?" said a sultry voice coming from the naked girl.

Most of the girls were livid at the fact that not only did he just change into a woman, exposing his body, but that this technique seemed to get the attention of most of the boys, some of which had to cover their noses that were dripping blood. Even Sasuke looked with interest before putting the calm and grumpy face on. That was more then they had ever gotten and they have been chasing him since the first day at the academy!

There were girls that found it amusing, but most of the girls like Sakura, Ino and others were ready to walk over to punch Naruto in the head, but they didn't have a chance as their teacher recovered and had an angry look on his face.

"Naruto! For what reason did you think up such a ridiculous technique! Change back this instant!"

Naruto changed back to his original look with orange jumpsuit and all and started laughing. Iruka looked like he was ready to burst and most of the veins on his forehead were pulsing with irritation.

"I made that Jutsu for perverts sensei! And it works too, so does that mean you're a closet pervert?!" This only seemed to irritate Iruka more.

"Naruto you idiot! I would make you sit back down..." Naruto started sitting back in his seat, with a lazy Nara muttering troublesome right next to all him "... but you still haven't shown us your bunshin. So come on Naruto, please show us what you have learned."

While Iruka would not usually put Naruto in a position of failure like this, he had to get it to the blond that the bunshin was necessary for passing, and getting him to do it in front of the class would force Naruto to see that he needed to train more. He may also have done it because of Naruto's stunt from a moment ago, but it was mainly the former.

Naruto stopped and looked back at Iruka with a downtrodden look and simply nodded. Naruto walked back up to the front of the class and tried to go over everything that he practiced the night before. Naruto gathered his chakra and focused. He closed his eyes before making the hand signs and screaming out "Bunshin no Jutsu". He felt the release of chakra and heard two poofs, but didn't need to open his eyes to know what happened. Naruto heard a collection of laughter from many of the kids in class and opened his eyes to see two dead looking clones on the ground with weird shaped limbs and deformed heads. Iruka looked at the clones and sighed as he looked at the young whiskered blond.

"I'm sorry Naruto but you failed at completing the Bunshin no Jutsu. You may now take your seat again." Naruto nodded blandly and walked back up the stairs with whispers following him. Whispers of him being the dobe, the dead last, the loser, the kid who won't ever pass if you gave him a thousand tries. Naruto learned to ignore them, but they still somewhat hurt.

He sagged into his chair and turned to Shikamaru, only to see that the Nara was asleep. He decided to get some sleep as well.

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Iruka watched all the student leave for yet another day and sighed. He hated that these kids would have to fight as a lifestyle but he made the best of his position by making sure they were ready for what awaited them outside the village. He then noticed that not everyone was gone. It seemed that nobody woke up Naruto, who was asleep at the top floor of desks.

Iruka walked up the stairs to the blond child and shook his shoulder in an attempt to wake him quietly. "Naruto.. Naruto you need to wake up, school is over." The blond must have heard or felt him, as he began to shift and move from books that were being used as a pillow.

Naruto was having a wonderful dream. He was Hokage! Jiji gave him a pat on the back and told him how proud he was and the villagers finally looked at him with happiness instead of hatred. He was was about to put on the hat when he was suddenly pulled from his dream and found himself looking down at a math book from the Academy. He when he realized it was all a dream and that he was still in school. Naruto finally took notice of the person pushing against his shoulder and looked up to see Iruka-sensei looking down at him with a slight smile.

"Naruto, school is over. You should head home, okay?" Naruto nodded to the chunin's suggestion and groggily got up from his desk then grabbed his books. "Okay, see ya Iruka-sensei." Naruto walked over to the exit, prepared to leave the class. Iruka looked sadly at the dejected look his young student had. He knew that Naruto didn't have much to go home to. Naruto was an orphan like him, and while Iruka hated the Kyuubi no Yoko, he could not blame Naruto for what happened. Naruto was put in a position like him, left with no one and having to take care of himself.

"Naruto."

"Yes, Iruka-sensei?" The young blond asked with his head turned to look at his sensei. "Would you like to join me for ramen today?" Naruto's eyes widened and gave Iruka a wide smile. "Thanks Iruka-sensei, I would love to!" Iruka smiled at the enthusiasm that radiated off the young blond. Naruto could always get excited over ramen. "Well then we better get going." Iruka said while shaking his head with amusement. Sadly nobody heard him because Naruto was already down the street from the academy screaming to Iruka about hurrying up.

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Iruka could only cry anime tears for his wallet as Naruto ate through his twelfth bowl of ramen. While he was happy to spend time with Naruto, the blond boy was very expensive when it comes to food. He decided that maybe he could distract the kid from ordering more of 'his precious ramen'.

"So Naruto, why haven't you been practicing bunshin lately? I know you don't like it, but you can't pass any genin tests without knowing the how to make one." This seemed to get the blond's attention as he stopped eating and put his chopsticks down on the table. Iruka noticed how sad his student looked and wondered what could have made him feel that way.

"Well... no matter how hard I practice, I can't make one. I practice it alot but they always come out wrong and weird looking. I even practiced all yesterday! I must have made thousands of them, but they were always dead looking." Naruto said before going back to eating, but slower this time.

Iruka was confused by the statement. He always thought that the blond did poor with bunshin because he never practiced. While that might be true with paper tests, Naruto always seemed to do well in practical stuff. He managed to learn the Kiwarimi no Jutsu in two days! And he did great in trap-making. And that comment about making thousands. To make thousands in one night means that Naruto has alot of chakra.

Naruto never did show much aptitude for chakra control so maybe the blond was putting too much chakra in his clones.

Then Iruka suddenly felt his own words hit him from earlier. He accused Naruto of using all his time making traps and pranks and never even considered that his student was trying to practice or do something else. Iruka got out of his thoughts and looked back at Naruto, who just finished his twelfth bowl and seemed to stop there.

"Naruto, you said that you made thousands of clones. Did you feel tired at all after making them?" Naruto looked up to his sensei and answered with a confused expression on his face. "Of course! It was nighttime and I should have been sleeping." Iruka sighed and mentally slapped himself for not asked the right question. "That's not what I meant Naruto. Did you feel exhausted for out of energy after making so many clones?"

"Not really. I just kept trying to get it right but it would always come out wrong. I made tons of them but I never got tired except because it was past my bedtime." Iruka's suspicions were correct. Naruto had too much chakra to pull off a single clone, let alone several. The bunshin was the hardest for him because it required less chakra and needed more control, which Naruto had none of. Iruka got up from his seat and gestured for the blond to follow him.

"Naruto, I think I know why you can't do the bunshin." Naruto's eyes widened at the statement. He had been trying to do the bunshin right for years and it always failed. It was the reason that he never passed. That and his poor grades but he always scraped by in the paper tests."You really know why I can't make a bunshin."

"I THINK I know. I'm going to go to the Hokage and ask him if he can deduce if my hypothesis is right."

Naruto nodded and a huge smile formed on his face. He didn't know what some of those words meant, but if jiji could help him then he could finally graduate! Then he was one step closer to becoming Hokage!

The duo reached to Hokage tower, but Naruto was not very patient and ran inside to see his jiji, now with Iruka chasing after him. He made it to the Hokage's office and pushed the doors open to see the Hokage talking with a man in a full green skintight uniform with leg warmers, a bowl shaped head of hair. The man turned around to Naruto and revealed eyebrows that looked like they were ready to crawl off his face. "Yosh! Another young man who is ready to experience the power of youth! If only Lee were here to meet him!" Naruto stepped back to get further away from the man who looked like he was going to scream louder about youth and stuff. The Hokage sighed. " Gai, now that we have finished discussing your team's next mission, you are free to leave. I believe Naruto-kun would like to speak to me."

"Yosh! I will leave at once Hokage-sama!" And with that, the spandex wearer disappeared with a poof of leaves. Naruto was still extremely confused by what he just witnessed. Then he heard steps and turned around to see that Iruka finally caught up with him.

"Naruto! Don't go running off like that. Even if you know the Hokage, that does not mean you can interrupt him if he's in the middle of a meeting."

"It is alright Iruka. The meeting had just ended. But I am curious as to why Naruto and yourself needed to come and see me?"

"Well Hokage-sama, Naruto and I were discussing the bunshin and he told me that he cannot create one. He them explained that he did not get tired of making them despite making thousands over the period of last night. Naruto also told me that he could never make one and that he never got tired of making them. I thought that you might see Naruto so we can come up with a solution for his problem. If he cannot make a bunshin, then he will never pass."

The Hokage looked at Iruka then down to the young blond with sadness. He should have known that Naruto would have trouble with the bunshin concerning amount of chakra he had. He knew that the Kyuubi affected its host by expand into their coils and that Naruto was an Uzumaki, meaning he had more chakra then most jounin. The Hokage wished that he could have helped sooner but he had little time for anything other than paperwork lately. The Sandaime had been run rugged by the council so he has had little time to spend with his family or Naruto. Perhaps he could make this up to him. He pulled out a sheet of blank paper and handed it to Naruto.

"Oi! Jiji what is this?"

"That is chakra paper Naruto-kun. I want you to put some of your chakra into it, alright?" Naruto nodded and pushed some (or alot due to his control) into the paper and it split into two halves very quickly before both sides became soaked in water. Naruto looked at the paper with confusion but both Iruka and the Hokage looked surprised by the fact that Naruto had two strong affinities. 'Water and wind huh, it seems he got an affinity from both of his parents.' The Hokage thought.

"What does that mean jiji?" The blond asked. He was confused why the paper did that and wondered if he did something wrong. "Naruto-kun, that means you have two affinities." "What's an affinity?" "An affinity means you have stronger control over those elements then others. You can control wind and water better than other elements." Naruto nodded dumbly, still trying to make sense of what his jiji just told him.

The Hokage pulled a scroll out from his desk and looked it over before handing it to Naruto. The blond looked at the scroll with confusion and excitement, wondering if it was a new jutsu or just another chakra control exercise. The Hokage turned his attention to the chunin.

"Thank you for bringing this up to my attention Iruka. I wished that I had noticed before but I am thankful that this can be fixed before the next test. Now Naruto, don't open that until you get home. In that scroll is a technique that will help you with the next academy test. I expect you to pass now that you won't have anything holding you back. I know that you may not like to written portions, but do study this time. Now take this scroll home and learn how to use it. After you finish learning from it, please bring it back to me. Now both of you should head home. I still have paperwork to do so I will be busy, and you should too Naruto by getting ready for the next test."

"Sure Jiji, I'll make sure I'm ready then I can finally pass the genin test. After that I can become Hokage!" Naruto screamed as he ran out the door. Iruka was about to follow him but was stopped when the Hokage asked him to stay.

"Iruka, I'm very happy that you did not let your animosity towards the Kyuubi affect how you treated Naruto. I will make sure to remember this in the future. I also recommend that you watch over Naruto while he is testing as I have come across one of his tests that had a genjutsu put on it, and I know Naruto could not have sensed it. I always feared that there were teachers that had animosity towards him but I could do little to stop it. Just dispel any genjutsu and uncover any attempt that would make Naruto fail. Now please head home. And Thank you."

Iruka nodded. He didn't know what to think as he walked out of the Hokage's office. Was Naruto really being sabotaged. That would explain why he wouldn't try anymore if he knew he was going to fail anyway. He would have to sleep on this and be prepared for any mess ups in the future.

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Naruto ran all the way home and slammed the door behind himself then opened up the scroll to see what jiji gave him to help with the bunshin. He unrolled to scroll to see instructions and different hand-signs necessary to use it. He wonder what was all used for, then noticed at the top there was a title for the technique.

'Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu'

Naruto's eyes widened at the new jutsu's name before his face changed to anger. "Is this some kind of joke! Another clone technique!? What game are playing jiji?!"

(End Chapter)

Hah. I know this idea has been used but I'm giving it my all. Tell me what you think and review.

This is my second fic so I will try to update often.

Thanks for reading.

'Mizu Bunshin No Justu: Water Clone Technique