Jutsu

Thought

"Talking"

Flashbacks

Alright sorry if it's a bit late. Like i said before, i have a lot of task waiting for me. My college orientation start from 18 to 27 August, thus there might have been some procrastination that holds me from updating this story.

Don't forget to review, Critics and suggestions are gladly accepted.

ENJOY

18 months later

It was a nice morning, when all the academy students are learning and scribbling notes. This beautiful morning undoubtably rise the student's spirit or youth like a bowl cut haired student prefer. It lasted long enough, well until a shout can be heard.

"NARUTO"

A Barely stifled Laugh can be heard throughout the academy corridor, the same laugh that used to brought a shiver to the spine to almost every chuunin in Konohagakure. It used to be, because those laugh now only haunt the academy, Some said because there are a new victim who once angered the devil or just simply a Divine Intervention to help those once oppressed chuunin.

Naruto keep running as fast as his feet bring him, he then regretted when he tried to look back only to crash Mizuki-sensei stomach. Mizuki grabbed Naruto and bring him to Iruka.

"Here, Iruka i brought you a present, or a fox whichever you prefer." Mizuki said distastefully.

While Naruto squinting his eyes at Mizuki, now he found his next vic- no his lab rat for his new project.

"Put him down Mizuki, and he's still my student so you better keep your mouth" Iruka said while glaring heatedly.

"Oh sorry, i forgot how much you love a certain fox, Iruka" Mizuki remarked sarcastically.

"Mizuki that's enough, thank you and sorry for your trouble, but you may leave" Iruka said almost losing his temper.

Mizuke left without any other words. Iruka sighed, he know what Mizuki think about Naruto, heck he knew what almost every single villagers think about Naruto.

"Naruto" Iruka said when he saw naruto looking around, creating escape plan in his mind. How did Iruka know? simple when someone cursed with teaching Naruto, handling his pranks and behaviour you kind of get some natural-instinct-for-Naruto's-victim, that's what naruto calls it.

"Iruka-sensei" Naruto said innocently... fake.

"Naruto" staring at his sensei

"Iruka sensei" staring at Naruto

"Naruto, you know i can't keep defending you from all of your pranks. Some of them are just too disturbing" Iruka said tiredly

"That's why i chose you for pranks, because you won't punish me, in any biased way." Naruto said muttering his last words

Iruka just bopped him on the head, some times he felt that Naruto need someone to hold him close, to keep him, to love him, and to know him. Naruto is just Naruto, he won't lose control or any signs that proves of it.

"Alright Naruto then can you explain why in the name of Kami you stick all those paper test results to the ceiling?" Iruka asked.

"Oh it's not me, i don't know who did it. Or maybe it's the wind when you open the window?" Naruto said innocently.

Iruka sweatdropped, that was the worst execuse he ever heard, aside from Kakashi's execuse obviously.

"That face mean you doubt me don't you?" Naruto asked while scratching the back of his head.

"For your punishment you need to clean the whole teacher lounge, after that we can have a ramen Naruto" Iruka said and left.

Naruto always knew that Iruka sensei was different, not jiji-like different, but close enough. Naruto decided to start his job, he wear a weights around his arms and ankles, it was a gift from Maito Gai, the belligerent-bowl-cut-haired Jounin. He gave him when he caught sneaking in again, watching a genin team training. Maito Guy wasn't mad, actually he was happy, or Sad, or touched, or maybe he was suffering constipation, you wouldn't know his feelings when he always cried in almost every occasions he found youthful. Naruto knows that from his class he's the best at taijutsu, and the other lesson, not so much. The reason is because he don't have any jutsu scroll or teacher to taught him except trio-graduation-requirements, that's what Naruto usually calls it. Beside, even if Naruto have any jutsu scroll, he won't learn it, he thinks using too much hand seals are bothersome when fighting, that's why he only train at taijutsu, chakra control, and elemental manipulation (With Jiji surveilance and permission). He is not a dead last or any kind of it, he just don't have any talents for ninjutsu with too much hand seals, or genjutsu, or history, or math, or geography, or... well you got the points. That's why Naruto train his elements manipulation, chakra control, and taijutsu instead of cool and flashy jutsu like Sasuke's grand fireball jutsu. And after long and tiring persuation to his jiji, he finally got his permission to train his elemental affinity. Until now he can only cut or crinkled a leaves, and he can cut some small flow of water, or shock some small insect to catch them for his pranks. The book about nature manipulations from Inu, his former anbu bodyguard, only covered the basics and first intermediate steps, hence he need to find another way to train his element manipulation. All this train of thougts crosses his mind while he clean the Teacher lounge and the ceiling from any Test paper results.

time skip

Naruto just finished his horrenduous punishments, he went to search Iruka Sensei expecting to get his rights of ramen. Iruka just finished some paperwork when Naruto is opening the door, Iruka can only smile at his favorite student, he may not like his attitude but there are a lot of characters from Naruto that all students need to learn.And it means his hardwork, his willpower, and his

"Come Naruto, i will give you 3 bowls of ramen." Iruka said.

"Thank you Iruka sensei" Naruto said while both of them walked out of the academy to the Ichiraku's Ramen shop.

"afternoon old man, one bowl of Miso, Beef, and Pork ramen." Naruto shouted.

"Calm down Naruto, The ramen shop won't go anywhere." Iruka reprimanded. He sighed, maybe normal shinobi's life is better than academy teacher. He need to rethink one of the option, which is, saving people and loyal to the village by doing dangerous mission that might got some of them got killed, tortured, and humiliated

or

stopped teaching some students that consisting fangirls, Hokage wannabe, bunch of Clan heirs, and not to mention a brooder emo, totally worth it.

Iruka then left Naruto, because he have another business to do, or maybe he don't want to waste all the money in his pockets for Naruto's ramen, whichever it is. Naruto start running through the village not knowing what other things to do. He stopped when he found himself arrived at the training grounds he usually uses for training. Maybe it's a sign for me to train Naruto thought.

Naruto then clasped both his hands together and start channeling some chakra to create an electrical current. He taught himself how to do it, it wasn't hard to do after long time of training his wind and lightning affinity.Electrical current run wildly trough his fingers, it make his fingers tingling. He started to shape it like a small bolt just above his nail and shot it. It did worked with the shape, but it wasn't thrown like how he wanted it because the bolt just stuck on his finger.

"Oi C'mon go, so i can get stronger dattebayo." Naruto said.

But it still stuck, until naruto waved his hand in a frustated manner. He did not realise that he stopped his chakra flow to his jutsu. That's when his hand touched a tree and the tree got blown up from the place Naruto touched. Naruto got thrown back a bit, but Naruto just stood there, mouth gaping, jaw hanging, and his hand trembling from the pain he felt.

"That was awesome, now i need to find a name for the jutsu. Something simple, something cool, and something catchy. Hmmm"

10 minutes later

"haaah i dont know that naming jutsu was this hard" Naruto shouted on a frustated manner. Better train how to use it for a fight. Naruto thought.

Naruto channeled some chakra to his hands, and electricity started to spark between his fingers. He neee to figure out how to use the jutsu without killing himself, so he just cut his chakra flow when he whipped his hand to throw the small lightning bolt from his fingers. Five small bolt of lightning sail through the wind in a mid range until it disperse itself when it runs out of chakra.

"Man i will just call it lightning bolt, it's too much of work to think of a name." Naruto Said

"It's just a mid range jutsu, it means that i need to find or create long range jutsu and wind will be a better choice for long range jutsu." Naruto pondered out loud.

Naruto really need to make himself a good ninja, a very good ninja if he might add. A good ninja need to be well rounded to cover his weaknesses. His close range is good with his speed and taijutsu, his mid range is growing better now with his Lightning Bolt. He need to cover his weakness in long range jutsu, and genjutsu. He tend to slipped when it came to chakra disturbance, he need to ask jiji later for some advices.

Next Month

Strange things happened at school, it was eerily calm. Without Naruto's pranks than made everyone on edge, thinking what Naruto might have done. Actually Naruto was just tired from all his elemental affinity and Genjutsu cancelling technique. He tend to leaked out too much chakta when he wanted to cancel a genjuts, even after all those chakra control training he still waste a lot of chakra. Therefore he decided to train his chakra output control all month that push him in an exhausted condition. He asked Sandaime how to sense chakra disruptions and his jiji told him to meditate and trained his senses. That was what Naruto did when he skipped academy.

Naruto can be seen walking through the academy hazily. He was so sleepy that he might have slept through the whole class if Iruka sensei did not woke him up. He, Choji, and Shikamaru has decided to sleep through the class. After couple minutes of sleeping Iruka maliciously threw the eraser and chalk to the sleeping trio. Naruto jerked up when he sensed a disturbance in the air. He dodged to the side when an eraser and a chalk sail through where his head used to be. But Choji and Shikamaru wasn't so lucky, so both of them felt an impact on his head that woke them up.

"You three get out from the class, stand still beside the door, and try to learn some manners" Iruka shouted with his patented big head jutsu.

Naruto, Shikamaru, and Choji just walked out from the classroom hazily. They are sleepy, especially Naruto who just overdid his training last night. He need to sleep for a day to prepare taijutsu lessons for tomorrow. After the trio walked out from the class Iruka continyed the lesson while the three students outside of the classroom just standing still, asleep on their feet, until the sat and laid their bodies on the ground. Iruka who has done the lesson walked out to find his troublemaker students asleep. He just smiled softly, maybe he hated his student's guts to break the rules, but this three are his finest students. Naruto's speed is undoubtably scary for an academy student, Shikamaru's simply a genius, And Choji's the softest and the strongest of them all. They just never have the will, or the motivation to do it, and it is Iruka's job. To nurture the will of fire until it burns within all the students. Iruka decided to woke them up and told them to wait for the bell and go home to take a rest.

"Hei Shika what do you want to do?"Naruto asked

"Watching clouds maybe, it's too troublesome to think of something to do" Shikamaru said

"Only you Shika, to call everything except playing shogi and watching clouds troublesome Shika"Naruto retorted.

"We have been friends for about a year and a half, i thought you have put that expectations in your thick head Naruto" Choji said

"Hei, i am just bored okay, i need something to do, that's not a training or eating, or watching clouds." Naruto said while stare at the two knowing what they might suggest.

"We can play shogi Naruto" Shika offered

"No way, you will rub it in my face like always. Beside won't it better to train with your father Shika" Naruto said

"It's too troublesome too ask. besides tou-san will think it's troublesome" Shikamaru said.

Naruto and Choji just sweatdropped at that. Their friend's clan may have some lazy ass syndrome or something. It was truly strange and scary to know that the whole nara clan sneezed and said troublesome at the same time.

"Fine then let's go to your clan compound and play shogi." Naruto said with a sigh. I really need to find something to do other than training and eating ramen Naruto thought.

After Naruto fed up from his another lose streak with Shikamaru. While he have to admit that playing shogi made his mind trickier. Sometimes he found Shikamaru using his thinking pose when they play shogi, and that usually means he is going to lose. He decided to go home and sleep. He need to prepare for their taijutsu test tomorrow. While he is in his room cleaning it a bit and preparing for sleep, his meeting with Gai-sensei is bothering him

Naruto taught himself most of the Gokken (Hard Fist) style from his meeting with Gai-sensei. It based on his endurance for pain, which his tenants helped with exceptional healing system, Speed, and raw power which he has trained. All in all Naruto is proficient when it comes to Gokken, although he felt not quite right to fight with Gokken. Gokken is Naruto's choice until he found or create another style that fit with his speed and precision. Naruto always liked to fight with precision, simply because hewas too lazy to prolong the fight. Some of Shikamari's lazyness might have rubbed their selves to Naruto. Sometimes Naruto trained with a bunch of dangerous weapons like senbon and kunai. He need to block a senbon with another senbon in his fingers to train his precision, which ended up with aching hands for the whole week. It was one of Gai's advice for him to train his precision. This was needed to train his precision and nailed it to his reflexes, most people will find it hard to maximize their precision and reflexes with a simple training, unless they have Byakugan. He still sometimes ask Gai-sensei for advice for training regime, even if Gai-sensei training regime is a bit too extreme, scratch that, undoubtably too extreme for normal humans. But thanks to his tenants that helped him with his autonomus healing system, he can train and tolerate with Gai-sensei training system without too much damage to his body.

Gai-sensei said that he have another student that is a genius of hardwork, Gai-sensei said he can handle his training regime with sheer willpower. That made Naruto awed, not because his willpower but because of someone who agreed to become Gai-sensei's student other than him. He must be belligerent, strong, and fast if he can keep up with Gai's training regime Naruto mused, and that means he maybe proficient with Gokken style maybe even better than Naruto.

Naruto keep thinking about Gai-sensei's full-time student, sensei said that he was a year older than Naruto. Naruto keep thinking about the result of the fights, if he and mini Gai, decided to have a fight. He was amazed that Gai-sensei was really proud and glad when they started to talk about mini Gai. It seems that Naruto has found his rival in speed.

Naruto fell asleep with a stupid smile on his face, he might have found someone which he can rival in hardworks and willpower.

Now that's the new chapter sorry for the late update