Naruto: Winds and Changes

"That clone that hit you from behind, you didn't see even see it until its mass was about fifteen feet behind you, and exactly 180 degrees behind you. Your blind spot is located there and start soff with a five degree radius that slowly expands in a conical fashion, the further you get away from the Byakugan user, the larger the blindspot is. When my Kage Bunshin attacked you it had actually used the wall to push off the wall so that it was horizontal to the ground, letting me know how large your blind spot was and how close it had to be in order for you to see it."

Naruto stood back up, "After that I threw those shuriken, all I needed was for you to dodge one of them, then make sure I got you to move until that shuriken was Behind you. After that it was a simple matter of getting you to talk so I could prepare. After you attacked, I used the time I spent dodging to channel my chakra perfectly so that I could do a seal-less and smokeless Kawarimi, replacing myself with a clone and then replacing myself with the shuriken and combined it with a simultaneous henge to disguise myself."

Naruto rubbed his chin for a second before grinning, "The clone was actually a creation of my own. It was really just a standard Kage Bunshin with one major difference. I had it prepared before I had even gotten to the stadium and hid it far enough away that your Byakugan wouldn't be able to find it unless you were actively looking for it. The clone itself had a seal on it which I call Fuuin: Raiton: Kuuden Shokku (Sealing Art: Lightning Release: Static Shock), which basically took all its chakra and released it the moment the clone's chakra was disrupted."

Everyone who heard this was gaping like a fish. To have planned so many moves in advance was genius. Something that reminded many of the shinobi present of the way the Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato had battled. Yet here was someone who had been considered the dead last of his graduating class, coming up with a strategy that was so advanced that only a Nara should have been able to come up with.

Asuma had dropped his cigarette as he listened to the explanation given, "Damn… I knew Naruto was good at strategy, given that he beat Shikamaru at shogi as often as he lost, but this is… damn."

"Who would have ever expected this from the dead last at the academy…" Kurenai mumbled, seemingly in agreement with Asuma.

Anko grinned as she looked at her best friend, "And thats why he's my favorite gaki." He just continues getting better and better.

"Un-fucking-believable," Kotetsu said with wide eyes and a gaping mouth.

"You can say that again," Izumo said, currently unsure what to think since his mind felt like it had been put into an oven and deep fried.

"Un-fucking-believable."

"Just so you know, I failed the academy a total of three times before I was able to graduate," If Neji could have gasped he would have. "Because every year, there was this one jutsu that I could never get down."

Naruto looked at Neji, "For some reason I was never able to do a Bunshin, it was the most basic technique in the entire academy and I could never do it. To be honest, I still can't do it. Apparently my chakra reserves are simply too large for me to have enough to control to use the jutsu properly with only the basic chakra control exercises they gave."

He decided to leave out the fact that he had never learned those control exercises until he left the academy, it would ruin his point after all.

"For years I struggled to do this one technique, and in the end I never could. After my third failure I was approached by one of my Chunin instructors and told that there was another test, a secret one that would allow me to pass. If I could steal the Forbidden scroll of sealing from the Hokage's office andlearn a single jutsu from that scroll, I would be allowed to become a ninja. It was a trick of course, but I didn't know that. In the academy we were always taught to trust our senseis, I had no idea he was tricking me. I should have, of course, I mean what kind of sensei asks their student to steal something with the word forbidden in it? But what can I say, I was an idiot."

Naruto sighed as he ran a hand through his hair, "I managed to sneak into the Hokage's office and steal the forbidden scroll. I was able to learn a jutsu, and even managed to beat the holy hell out of the traitor who had tricked me. Despite what had happened and the fact that there really was no secret graduation test, I was passed and allowed to become a ninja. And with the help of my grandfather figure, I was able to gain a powerful method that only I can use to become stronger."

Everyone who had not heard this story looked at the Genin in shock. Not only because of the story itself, but because he had actually succeeded in gaining strength. Neji himself just listened in shock as well, not sure what he would say even if he could talk.

"For the past six months, and with the help of some new people I met and made friends with, I was able to learn everything I had not at the academy and then some. I worked hard, pushing myself to the limits every day. I experienced pain, hardship and even learned what it felt like to lose someone important to me." It was here Naruto paused before deciding to press on, he had gone this far with his little story so he might as well go all the way, "On my first C-rank mission my team and I went up against foes far beyond my team's capacity to deal with, and on that same mission…"

Naruto grit his teeth a bit and swiped a tear that threatened to fall from his eye, "On that same mission I lost the only person who had ever truly professed her love for me."

Up in the stands the eyes of Tenten, Sakura, Ino, Yugito, Lee, Temari and several others had their eyes widen. Sakura finally realized why Naruto had been crying that day and was surprised to say the least.

"She was actually an enemy kunoichi who was working under an A-rank missing ninja from Kiri that we had been forced to fight in what should have been a simple C-rank protection detail. I had met her in the forest after I had passed out from exhaustion after an incident occurred withour client's grandchild. We talked for a while, and despite the fact that she knew I was her enemy agreed to meet me there again. And she did, the next day, and the next day and each day after that we would meet. We grew close, having both shared a burden similar to each other's we became far closer than most people do in that time frame. However both of us knew it wouldn't last. And in the end, she had sacrificed her life for her master, taking a jutsu that had been meant for him. A jutsu that my own sensei had delivered."

Several gasps came from the stadium. Shock rippled through the arena. No one knew how it felt to have your own sensei kill someone you fellin love with. Many wondered if the boy hated his sensei.

Naruto closed his eye and sighed, "So believe me, while I don't know what it's like to lose family, I do know what it's like to lose a loved one. And I do understand what it's like to bear a burden that you can never get rid of."

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