12 The Next Stage! (2/2)

”Oh, that makes sense. We found him beaten and just trying to run away, we easily grabbed his statue, thanks for that by the way!” Izumo chuckled, ”then we fought China's team and won, though that one was a lot tougher, she kep throwing sharp things at Samui for some reason.”

”Jealousy is an ugly thing,” I sighed with a shrug.

”Who are you?” Samui asked suddenly.

I blinked and turned to her, ”what do you mean?”

”I haven't seen you before during the exams,” Samui narrowed her eyes, ”you're...oh...hood boy.”

I smirked, ”yup. So have you given any thought about that date? I promise you won't regret it!”

Samui rolled her eyes and got up, walking away. But just then B burst through the door, ”yo yo yo what's happening fools! Gather round, I'm about to take you to school!”

Samui sighed, ”he's going to give us instructions. Please listen.”

Kurotsuchi and Sidra walked over and stood by my side while B stood at the head of the table, ”alright fools as of last night the time for the task was through! So you six are the finalist for the exams, congrats all of you!”

I smiled at Zumo and he smiled back. B then continued, ”now listen up, this is how it'll go down! Right here are your positions for the third round starting a month from now! Select your number and then get split! Your other teams mates and teachers and waiting for you, you dig?”

I smiled, good this guy is so cool!

”Alright Samui! You go first!” B handed her a white box, similar to the one used at the start of the second task. Samui nodded and stepped forward, and took out number four. Zumo got 1 and E got 6.

Then it was my team's turn. Sidra got 2, Kuro got 5 and I got 4, putting me up against Samui in the first round.

”Okay yo listen up, this is how it's going to be! You fight with number you're paired up with, the winner of five and six get's to skip into the finals! There aren't any other rules, because that would be anal! Now get out yo! I hope you all put up a good show next month!”

And he suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke.

I turned to Samui and smiled, ”hey, how about a wager?”

She raised an eyebrow, ”the stakes?”

”If I win our match you go on a date with me.”

She raised a cool eyebrow, ”and if I win?”

”I'll give you a pound of chakra ore,” I winked.

Immediately her eyes light up, ”you're on.”

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Defeat Samui in your match!

Rewards:

A date!

+20 REP to Samui

Failure:

-20 REP to Samui

-1 pound chakra ore

Do you accept?

Y/N?

I clicked yes and smiled, ”tell me, are you allergic to anything? Peanuts? Shellfish?”

She said nothing, choosing instead to walk out, slowly followed by E who waved goodbye at Zumo.

”You really are one weird tree hugger,” Kuro snorted as she walked past me, ”I hope to see you in the final round.”

”What makes you think you won't fight me in the final round?!” Zumo asked loudly.

She stopped, turned around and took one look at Zumo before snorting, ”please,” and then left, quickly followed by Sidra who didn't even bother to wave goodbye.

Zumo snorted, ”she's such a bitch.”

I nodded, ”yup….but she's so hot though. Come on, let's go, I'm sure our friends are waiting for us.” Zumo nodded and in tem minutes we were off. We sprinted out of the tower and towards the entrance of the valley. And there waiting for us were our fellow Konoha ninja.

”Took you long enough,” Asuma snorted taking a drag of a cigar, ”had fun?”

I shrugged, ”it was nice,” I turned to Neji, ”I'm sorry the fight wasn't as amazing as you had hoped.”

The Hyuga said nothing, turning around and walking away. Zumo snorted, ”what's his problem.”

”He doesn't like losing,” Tenten said as we all walked through the tunnel built into the mountain.

”Yosh! So how was the exams Lee! Did you learn something?!” Gai asked.

”Yes Gai sensei! I learnt to never take anything for granted! To always be alert and to get along with people!” Lee nodded enthusiastically.

”That's good to know Lee! You're flames of Youth burns brighter now! YOUTH!”

”YOUTH!”

I just ignored them and turned to Asuma, narrowing my eyes at his cigars, ”you're going to die young.”

He snorted, ”yeah, I am a ninja after all.”

”I'm glad I'm not Kurenai, I wouldn't want to kiss that ash tasting lips and bear fur like beard.”

”H-hey! Don't say that!” Asuma cried out.

”Sorry I hurt you China,” Zumo apologized rubbing his neck nervously.

China shrugged, ”it's fine, the best ninja won in the end. I'm just glad you and Yami managed to get in. And hey, out of all the other ninjas, Konoha got two of the six slots! Isn't that something!”

Zumo nodded, ”yeah! I'm going to be fighting that sound ninja in the first round, and if Yami wins against Samui, I'll be fighting him next!”

”Wait...Yami is going to fight that blonde cow?” China asked in a low tone before grabbing my by the collar and pulled me closer, ”you better kick her ass you hear me?!”

I chuckled, ”don't worry, I fully intend too. Samui promised to go out on a date with me if I win!”

”What?!” China yelled in horror.

”Bye!” I slipped out of her grip and ran.

”YAMI! GET BACK HERE!” China cried out as she chased me. I knew she would eventually catch me and hit him over the head, but this was too fun! Heh, I was actually having fun, how about that.

A few days later:

Hiruzen took a drag from his pipe and puffed out the smoke from his nostrils looking at both teams before him. ”So Yami and Zumo managed to get in. Good, I'm glad to see that Konoha is being represented so well in a foreign land. How was everyone's performance during the first and second task?”

”The teams were superb,” Asuma said beginning his report, ”the first task had them locked underground with the room filling up with water. Yami had Neji look around with his eyes to locate an escape route. Zumo then used a fireball to blast the water away just long enough for Yami to climb inside and use his own fire techniques and make his way to the top, destroying the water pump.”

”Then came the second task yosh!” Gai continued, ”our genin were divided into new teams and set to task fighting one another to steal a treasure each team had been set to gaurd! They could only pass with three treasures! Truly a youthful test! Sadly Tenten was the first to be kicked out!”

”Stupid sand ninja,” Tenten grumbled under her breath.

”Then came Neji who was defeated by Yami in a quick and decisive match! Lee then fought the same team that fought Tenten and lost, but they failed to find a third treasure in time for the last day! Zumo then defeated China's team and were the only other team to qualify, other than Yami's!”

Hiruzen, ”nine teams but only two qualified? What happened?”

”Hehe, that's kinda my fault,” I chuckled, ”I defeated three teams and took an extra statue, thereby there couldn't be three teams who would pass.”

”Yami! That's totally not fair!” China cried out.

I shrugged, ”I'm a ninja, I don't do fair. Plus, it was fewer enemies for me to fight, so why would I want for more people to qualify?”

The Hokage smirked, ”well argued Yami. Keep this as a lesson children, if you have an advantage press it, and in certain cases, search for it. Remember, your enemy will most definitely do the same.”

”Yes lord Hokage,” we said as one, China with a little more hesitation in her voice.

”Right then,” the Hokage put the folder with our report down, ”Yami, Zumo, congratulations on qualifying to the final round. You both have a month off from missions and ninja duties, use this time to learn more and prepare for the final round, I expect a good show to display our strength, is that understood?”

”Yes sir,” Zumo and I nodded.

”Good. Dismissed. Oh, and Yami, stay back for a moment,” he said waving the rest of them away.

When Gai and Asuma left, closing the door behind them, the Hokage spoke, ”you do remember the other mission I gave you yes?”

I nodded, ”make it to the finals and show off...basically.”

He smiled, ”correct. Have you made some effort into this round?”

I sighed, ”I didn't really want to give away too much. I actually did however manage to catch some attention. I acted out of character for a while, more laid back and goofy, people bought it, I think. I'm actually liking the more fre personality. Anyway, I did display a few skills, like my scorch release, which while it impressed people, hasn't really made them curious. I'm thinking for the final round I'll go all out.”

The Hokage nodded, ”sounds like a decent enough plan. Good job. And here,” he took out a scroll and tossed it to me.

I looked at it's title, 'Chakra, Hand seals and their relations by Hiruzen Sarutobi'. I blinked, ”I didn't know you wrote a book.”

He nodded, ”I have written many, most are under a pen name though as I don't wish for my fame to get in the way of an objective reader, most would think that if the Professor of ninjutsu wrote something it must be true, but sadly my studies are questions without answers at worst or interesting propositions at best. But, that doesn't matter. Since your….unique charak control allows you to combine elements you'll have to create your own arsenal of jtus, meaning it's best if you read up on your theory as best as you can.”

I bowed, ”thank you sir, this will help a lot I'm sure.”

The man nodded, ”I'm sure. Now, before you go...there is...another matter which I have to talk to you about. Naruto...recently went through his genin exams and...there was an incident.”

I blinked, ”what happened? Did he fail?”

”No, well, at first yes, but then...” he sighed and began to story.

The whole thing went down exactly like canon, though while Naruto did score a lot higher this time, making him not the dead last but somewhere around the middle. But since he couldn't perform the clone jutsu, he still ended up failing.

Then Mizuki came, charmed Naruto into a plan to steal the forbidden scroll, apparently Mizuki played upon his good friendship with me to coax Naruto's helpd. The bastard. Anyway, things went the same, Naruto kicked his ass with the shadow clone jutsu, Iruka gave him his headband and everything ended well.

At the end of the story the Hokage sighed, ”I'm just glad this whole thing's behind us now.”

I nodded, ”yeah...how's he holding up?”

”Better than one would expect,” the Hokage sighed, ”now...Yami, there's another matter I wished to speak to you about. How much do you know about Naruto's...history?”

Raised an eyebrow, ”you need to be way more specific old man.”

The Hokage smiled before growing serious, ”I mean, do you know why people treat him so differently?”

Ah, the Kyuubi, I nodded, ”yup. You're talking about the Kyuubi right?”

The Hokage's widened, ”yes, I am. You already know?”

I shrugged, ”I'm a chakra sensor remember? I figured it out a long time ago. Actually it was a few days after I met him.”

Lie successful!

The man looked shocked, ”and you didn't say anything? Nothing?”

I blinked, ”well...you didn't either, so I figured there must be a reason right?”

Lie successful!

”Yes...there was,” the man looked at me with calculating eyes, ”all these years, you knew, and you didn't once feel ...scared?”

I chuckled, ”Naruto's a moron, why would I ever feel scared of a guy who I consider a dumb little brother? The Kyuubi on the other hand, yeah, maybe, but Naruto and the Kyuubi are totally different, so what's the point? I'm a finjutsu specialist lord Hokage, I know the difference between a sealing scroll and the kunai inside of it.”

The man's REP scored leaped to 65. He smiled, ”you're a very mature person Yami, always have been. I'm glad Naruto got you as a brother...it makes me happy to know he won't be prosecuted for being what he is.”

I smiled, ”thanks for those kind words. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a little brother to see and congratulate on making genin!”

Hokage nodded, ”right, dismissed.”

I left his office and quickly went back to my place, walking in and calling out, ”I'm home!”

”Yami!” Naruto called out from the dining room. I walked in and found him eating some instant ramen for dinner.

I scowled, ”two weeks and you're eating instant ramen again. Honestly Naruto, I told you nutrition is important!”

”Hey! Don't diss ramen!”

I rolled my eyes, ”whatever,” he got up and quickly charged into me, giving me a tight hug, Is milled as I patted his back, ”it's good to see you again Naruto. How have you been?”

”Great! And hey, check it out!” he ran into his room and came out with a headband, an old one that looked to be well used, ”I'm a ninja too! I'm a genin Yami!”

I grinned, ”alright! This calls for a treat! Come on! Let's go out for dinner!”

Naruto blinked, ”but I was just having dinner.”

”Would you rather have instant ramen or Ichiraku ramen?” I raised an eyebrow.

”Ichiraku!” Naruto grabbed his tracksuit jacket and in moments we were out the door.

We had lunch late into the night, Ayame and her dad kept it open just for us. We payed, giving the family of two a big tip, and took a slow walk around the village that was slowly growing quieter.

”So then Iruka sensei tied this around my head and called me his most favorite student!” Naruto said with a smile as he finished his story about how he got to be a genin.

I smiled, ”cool story Naruto, damn, I wish mine was half as exciting as yours was! All I had was a boring test!”

”Hehe, that's because I'm awesome!” Naruto cheered.

I smiled, ”that you are,” we walked in silence for sometime before I spoke up, ”Naruto, I'm sorry about Mizuki...I didn't realise he would use your faith in me to rock you like that.”

”Haha, don't worry about it!” Naruto said with a big smile, ”he tricked us all! Even Iruka sensei was tricked! Do worry about it!”

I smiled, ”right.”

Naruto smiled as we kept walking at a slow pace towards our home. Slowly though I noticed I noticed Naruto's smile falling down, I saw him taking side glances at me and looking conflicted.

I sighed, ”okay, what is it?”

Naruto blinked, ”what do you mean?”

”You keep looking at me with worry Naruto. What is it? Spit it out already,” I smiled.

”Well...it's just….it's something Mizuki said...before he attacked me,” he looked nervous, scared even. Why...oh, the Kyubi thing, he doesn't know I know. He probably thinks I would leave.

I smirked, ”oh and what did he say?”

”He said...he said...he said that I was the Kyuubi,” Naruto spoke in a low tone.

”GASP! What?! You're the Kyuubi?! What?! How?! Oh my! I'm going to faint! Help someone help!”

Naruto's eyes widened in fear, ”Yami please! I promise I won't hurt you I…..why are you giggling?”

”Bahahaha!” I exploded into laughter, ”oh you face! It's perfect!”

Naruto's eyebrow twitched, ”this isn't funny Yami! I'm being serious here!”

I chuckled, slowly wiping away a tear, ”I-I know idiot. I've always known.”

”What?! You knew?! All the time you knew?!” Naruto looked pissed.

I shrugged, ”yup. What, you think someone as amazing as me couldn't figure it out?”

”Why didn't you say anything?!”

”Does it matter?” I asked with a smile, stifling his anger. I ruffled his hair, Naruto stood just a few inches shorter than me, ”you're my little bro Naruto, it doesn't matter if you have a giant fox living inside of you, heck that just makes you a little cooler than normal people. I don't care what you are Naruto, just who you are.”

Naruto's eyes began to water and he hugged me again, I smiled as hugged him back. We stayed like that for a few moments before I broke it and smiled, ”now come on! You have a week before team placements right?”

Naruto nodded enthusiastically, ”yup!”

”Great! Then I can spend the week training you!”

”Really?! Any jusu I want?!”

I nodded, ”as long as it's not dangerous, then yes.”

”Hell yeah!” Naruto cheered as we quickly went back home.

The next day:

The next day Naruto woke up bright and early, obviously he was excited to learn some cool new jutsu. We traveled to training ground eleven, hopefully my team mates wouldn't mind.

”Alright! What do I learn first?!” Naruto asked eagerly, ”oh, can you teach me that blue fire one that you do?!”

I chuckled, ”sorry Naruto, but you lack the chakra control needed to perform that jutus.”

”Chakra control? What's that?” he asked stupidly.

I sighed, was he really this dense? ”Chakra control is how much chakra you can control without it leaking out. It's a major part of a ninja's tool kit and something that can mean the defrence between life and death.”

”Cool!” Naruto said giddly.

I smiled, ”glad you think so. Now, here's what we're going to do. You see that tree over there?” I pointed at a nearby tree, ”you're going to climb it.”

Naruto blinked, ”but I can already do that!”

I smirked, ”without using your hands, watch,” I walked to the tree and walked straight up it's trunk and stood upside down on a branch, ”ta-da.”

”Woah! That's so cool!” Naruto cried out.

I smiled and detached myself, landing on my feet, ”and if you're really good you can also walk on water.”

”Cool! How did you do that Yami?! Teach me!” Naruto said with his eye lit up.

”This is how,” I then began explaining the process to him, going into detail on how it should feel and how Naruto should behave. He got to work quickly, using a kunai to mark his progress.

While he did that I took out the scroll the Hokage gave me and began to read it. It wa honestly amazing and very in depth when it comes to how chakra is molded when making a hand sign.

I got the gist of it, I think. Basically every hand sign you make changes the path way of the chakra in your body, shaking it up as it were. This allows the chakra to become active and perform certain roles.

I grew curious though, just what did each hand seal contribute into a jutsu? So I got to work.

By nightfall I had a working theory, and Naruto was half tired, panting in sweat as the kunai stuck a quarter up the tree.

There were twelve hand seals each based on the zodiac symbol. It went a little like this:

Tiger- fire and earth release jutsus

Bird- wind release

Dog- water release

Snake- lighting release and a few earth release jutsus as well

Then came the specialised hand seals;

Dragon- usually involved with projection type jutsu, like fireball

Ram- used to channel chakra, usually the at beginning of most high powered jutsus

Rat- used for focusing chakra into specific use

Ox- Allows for a build up of chakra after initial formation of intent of use

Hare- Usually used in jutsus that is involved with chakra infusion into body

Horse- Helps control volatile chakra

Boar- used to focus chakra into a specific portion of the body

Monkey- used to disperse chakra, for a wide area effect

I had the list figured out, I finally understood how each worked and understood how I could manipulate them. And now since I could understand what made a jutsu up, I could get to work figuring out how to make moe jutsu for myself, instead of just combining them randomly.

But again, that would take a long time, if only I could somehow get more time...I turned to NAruto, who was now snoring. No, not more time, more mes!

The next day:

”So you want me to teach you the shadow clone jutsu?” Naruto asked.

I nodded, ”yup. It would really help with my training, I have a month before the chunin exams and if you teach me it would really help.”

Naruto hummed, ”well...I guess, but you better teach me a cool new jutsu after this!”

I smiled, ”fine, I promise. If you teach me the shadow clone jutsu, I'll teach you a wind release jutsu, one strong enough to uproot a tree.”

”Yata! Okay, here's how you do it.”

Three hours later:

I sighed as I tried again. First I formed the cross hand seal and poured chakra into my whole body, just as Naruto instructed, it took a while, but thanks to my perfect chakra control I finally understood just how it felt to extend your chakra out so much.

It felt like you were pouring a cup's worth of paint onto the floor and trying to make it fit the entire ten by ten square feet of floor space. No wonder only trained ninjas with high level charak is allowed to do this.

But what I lacked in chakra, I made for in control!

”Shadow clone jutsu!” I released the chakra at once. And unlike so many times before, now I felt something;

Ping!

You have learnt a new jutsu!

Shadow clone jutsu, B rank

Divide your chakra equally into different portions to a copy of yourself.

CP cost- X (depends on user)

Durability of clone- 20% of user's own health

Time limit- INT minutes

-1,875 CP!

There was a puff of smoke as a perfect carbon copy of me blinked in surprise. He looked down and touched his body, ”this is...I'm a clone?”

”Amazing,” I said moving closer to him, looking him over as he did the same to me, ”what do you remember last?”

”The jutsu skill being created,” he responded.

”Were you made with the knowledge that you were a clone?” I asked.

”Yes...I did...it was like...what else could I be?”

I smirked, ”glad to know you won't try to snatch away my body.”

He snorted, ”as if I would ever do something that stupid.”

”Ah, it's so nice to have such an amazing conversation with someone of equal wit.”

”And not half bad looking either,” he grinned, ”no wonder chicks think we're hot.”

”Dude! We're hot! Do you know what this means?! We can so get laid!” I snickered.

He smiled, ”hell yeah! Although,” he sighed and hanged his head, ”puberty is going to be a bitch.”

I sighed, ”don't I know it.”

”Hey Yami!” Naruto cried out, standing upside down from a tree branch grinning as he twirled a kunai in his hand, ”stop talking to yourself and look at the amazing me!”

The clone whistled, ”not bad, only a day and he already mastered it. Remember how long it took us?”

I sighed, ”yeah..anyway, let's not waste any time, you remember what the skill limit said, you only have as many minutes as our INT stat allows us.”

The clone opened the stat box, and more importantly I saw him open the stat box. Hm, maybe he could use the gamer abilities too? I wonder what would happen if we both use the inventory.

”It's a good idea,” he spoke up, ”we should try it tonight.”

”How...oh, right, clone, same thoughts. You're right, we'll explore this further tonight. Now, how much time do you have?”

”36 minutes, might as well make it 30 for all the time we wasted,” he said.

I nodded, ”agreed. You need a task, since we're interested in Swift release go into the library as see if you can dig up old records of a Konoha ninja with that.”

”Oh right, it came in that movie with the dude who tried to kidnap kekkei genkai users and eh mentioned the Swift release was one of ours. On it, see you later Alpha.”

I smirked, ”by Beta,” and then he took off. I turned to Naruto who was blinking in surprise, ”what? Never see a guy talk to himself before?”

”Ah...no.”

I snorted, ”alright, come down here, I'll show you the hand seals for the jutsu.”

”Hell yes!” He backflipped and landed on his feet. ”Show me! Show me!”

I smiled, ”right, this jutsu is called wind release: Great Breakthrough. You might want to practise holding your breath.”

Half and hour later the clone dispelled sending memories into my head. He was in the process of following a promising lead when the jutsu cut itself off. I really need to invest in the INT stat more often now.

I made another clone every half hour, Misa was confused as to how I kept walking out without her noticing every half hour, but I managed to convince her it was just an upset stomach.

Naruto and I practised his wind jutsu into the night and by midnight he had actually managed to create a proper blast of wind strong enough to topple a tree back. I smiled at that, hard work always payed off.

I had a clone take him home and then turned to the empty field and turned to my CP bar. It was regenerating at a rate of 50% every 30 seconds, meaning in half a minute my charak level was back to full. OP chakra control for the win!

Anyway after I reached max CP I focused on creating more shadow clones, this time diving my chakra into 10 parts.

-3375 CP!

There were ten puffs of smoke as a huge portion of my chakra was sapped away. We all began to sweat a little, not enjoying the feeling.

”Quick, open your stats and see if all you'r chakra is regenerating,” I said as I saw them do just that.

”No, it's not moving,” said the one nearest to me, ”the cap is at 375, it seems if you create a clone with that much chakra, that's it's limit.”

”Alright...use a fireball at that tree,” I pointed to a far away tree.

The clone did that and it got a message of the chakra it used, but none of us did. Good, at least I won't be spammed with message regarding other clones.

The clone that fired the jutsu looked at his stat and nodded, ”okay, it's regenerating the hundred CP I lost, but it's stuck at 375.”

”Okay, so you're like my little cell jrs.,” I said with a hum, ”all my skills and strength, but weaker.”

”It's so strange we all know that reference but can't understand where it comes from,” said one clone, causing us all to sigh.

”Anyway, we should see if the whole dungeon time stopping thing actually works,” said one clone.

I nodded, ”right. Three of you stay here, the rest come with me to the park, time to test this out.”

The clones nodded as three stayed behind discussing about chakra and hand seals while the rest of us went to the park. We arrived quickly and walked out the glowing blue symbol.

”Hey, why don't one of you try and touch it this time,” I suggested, ”I want to see if it will work on clones as well.”

”Right,” a clone stepped up and pressed against the blue leaf symbol and we all waited...and waited. But he was right there. Eventually he got back up and shrugged, ”it didn't work...which is a first.”

I hummed, ”must only work for me. Damn, that's too bad, kind of hoping I could just use you guys to grind.”

”That is if we can even gain EXP like you can,” one clone suggested causing the rest of us to node.

”Only one way to find out, grab onto my shoulders,” I told the others as they did that. I selected the blue leaf as the dungeon options came up, this time I might as well go with the latest dungeon level, number 7.

The world changed, and once again I found myself in a valley between two mountains and a small river flowing in between. It seems that after number 5, the dungeons just repeated themselves, with stronger pokemon.

”Alright everyone, try to see if you can access the pokemon menu,” I ordered.

They tried and the clone next to me grumbled, ”nope. Can't access it.”

I sighed, ”inventory?”

Clone grabbed a stone and tossed it to another one, he then opened the inventory and put it inside, appearing in all our menus.

The clone who opened the inventory grinned ”yup! Plus it seems that for every item we put in our inventory, it shows up in all the other ones as well! It's like instant teleportation! We can so use this on information gathering mission! Send a clone in, taake a super secret scroll and put it into the inventory and boom! The main guy has it!”

”We know,” another clone rolled his eyes, ”we all thought off the same idea.”

I smirked, ”great minds think alike!”

”Hell yeah!”

”Alright, first things first, let's see if you guys can gain EXP as well, because if you can, that would be amazing! Gives new meaning to the word grinding!” I smiled.

”Right,” a clone stepped forward, ”I'll go out and find whatever pokemon is spawning in this forest and get rid of it. See you all in a few minutes,” and with that he took off.

I turned to the clones, all looking at each other, ”so...” I began, ”how are we going to handle our love life?”

”Isn't it obvious?” a clone shrugged, ”we go for the chick with the biggest tits. So far, that's Samui.”

”Man, we really have a boob fetish huh?” another clone sighed.

Another nodded, ”yup...hey, do you think we should try and see if Hinata-”

”-Hell no! You know she and Naruto ends up together!” I eylled out.

”But Sakura and Naruto are closer in this timeline, what could be the harm,” another huffed.

”Yeah, c'mon, we all know you're thinking about it!” another clone called out, ”you've seen how massive her chest gets!”

”And you know the massive crush she has on Naruto,” another clone argued, ”as if we could ever make her forget him. Please, she would sooner die for him than be with anyone else.”

I sighed, ”why aren't there any chicks with a massive rack in this village?!”

”Well there is Anko,” one clone suggested.

”Too crazy,” another argued.

”We like crazy,” one smirked.

”Plus she has a snake fetish...you all know what that means right?” We all shuddered, we hated snakes.

”Well there's always Tsunade,” one clone shrugged.

”Except she's an old hag and her breast are probably sagging by now,” a clone argued back.

”What about Mei? The Mizukage?”

”Future Mizukage,” I corrected, ”plus she's like 30. But she does have an amazing rack...and has red hair...and blue eyes….damn it! Why are all the hot chicks older than us?!”

”I'm back,” the clone from before landed before us and looked around, ”what are you guys talking about?”

”Boobs,” a clone sighed.

”Oh...right. Anyway, I looked around, this level is filled with Pikachu and Raichu for starters. I defeated five pikachu's using wind juts and gained their fur as loot items and a sac that stores 5 CP of lightning chakra, but only half the EXP that was listed under each pokemon.”

I sighed, ”alright...that isn't so bad. So you get only half, but since there are ten of you that means I can get EXP worth five people, not half bad. Alright here's the plan,” I took out all my pokemon and released them.

Flamer, Blaze, Cuter, Basher and King came out and looked down in surprise seeing eleven versions of me. I smiled, ”alright, here's the plan, five pokemon, ten clones. This is the main base, I'll stay here while two clones and basher one pokemon move out and fighting off this dungeon's pokemon. Any clone get's dispelled or runs out of time, I'll create another and send over immediately. Then when the boss arrives we'll all work together to defeat it. Any questions.”

The clones smirked, ”you know that we don't have any.”

I smirked back, ”great, move out!” And with that my grinding session began.