"I get quests from some of the shop keepers in the village to do little errands or tasks for them. In return I get a little money and some reputation points," he explain, his eyes scanning the training field for any of the bits he needed to collect.
"Reputation?"
"Yeah, you know, earning reputation points with them. Um, making them like me more," he explained clumsily.
"You can do that?"
"Apparently. I don't mind the work or the money and it doesn't usually take very long."
"Huh, well good luck. You going to train when you're done?"
"That's the plan," he answered. "You want to train together?"
"You can leave a clone with me to practice genjutsu on if you want. You can come back when you're done. I want to work on my skills today so it would help me out," she replied.
"Sure," Naruto replied, forming a team and inviting her. He would only take another second to form a clone except a thought occurred to him causing him to pause. One clone would eat half of his chakra which was kind of a waste if Sakura was just going to expose it to genjutsu after genjutsu. However, one hundred clones, ninety-nine of which he could send to collect the stuff he needed for his daily quests would not have been a waste at all. He couldn't help but grin.
Sakura flinched slightly in surprise when there was a series of loud pops and puffs of smoke obscuring the field. When her vision cleared she was looking at a hundred copies of Naruto. "Why so many?"
"One for you, ninety-nine to do my daily quests for me," he answered grinning. "I can totally train now while they do all the hard work for me."
"That's pretty smart. I wish Kakashi-sensei would let you do that for our missions."
"I tried that once, he wasn't having it if you remember."
Sakura shrugged.
It didn't take long for the clone army to run off to complete their tasks. Meanwhile, Naruto took aim at one of his favorite climbing trees and sprinted for it, easily charging up the tree then turning and running right back down again, keeping an even pace as he went, steadily draining his chakra and earning skill experience.
Slowly but surely, the clones returned to the field, carrying an assortment of fruits, vegetables, herbs, leaves, and scrap metal, creating a pile for each. Naruto was surprised by amount the clones were able to acquire and by the time the last clone returned they had collected nearly ten times the amount of each required.
Naruto dispelled the returning clones one by one, reclaiming his chakra from them and then collecting the supplies. It seemed they had gathered enough for Naruto to turn in the quest items for the next week plus assuming none of the items turned bad in that time.
"Okay, I'm going to run and turn these in real quick then I think I'm going to train some other stuff today. You good on your own?"
"Yeah, can you still leave a clone?"
"Yeah, he can stay. I don't if he's got a maximum range though so if he suddenly dispels . . . well, you get the idea"
"That's fine. I'll catch you later then, Naruto."
"See you later, Sakura-chan."
Naruto disbanded the group and ran back to town to turn in the quests, a simple enough task. Then he sent a clone on each delivery with a slip of paper to be signed.
While they did that, he browsed the aisles of Konoha General Store. Something he had never been able to do. Store was actually pretty well stocked with a large variety of home goods, stuff for home repair, home improvement, furniture, and a lot of other stuff like shogi boards of varying quality, some civilian clothing too. Naruto took the opportunity to purchase some new undershirts and boxer shorts since he had both time and opportunity.
The clones all returned with their signed forms which Naruto turned in, collecting his money, paying for stuff he wanted to buy and leaving.
After that Naruto headed for home, to attempt a new discovery for his [Fuinjutsu] skill, he'd gotten skunked the last few weeks, nothing new had been discovered, possibly because his level was too low to learn anything new. Thankfully, the time he'd spent in wave, he used nearly 200 [Kibaku Fuda Grade 2] that needed to now be replaced. It was a time consuming process, he could have done it while he was in wave but they were in immediate danger and his time was better spent training his combat skills. But now that he was home, back in Konoha, well he had time to spare.
Back in his shitty apartment, Naruto sat down at his rickety kitchen table and started working on it. He'd made about twenty of them in about ten minutes, at the current pace it would take hours to complete. As luck would have it, that was when his clone with Sakura finally dispelled, it gave him about a dozen levels to [Detect Genjutsu] and a new skill he hadn't expected.
[Dispel Genjutsu (Active) Lv1 Exp: 0.00% CP: 50]
Genjutsu is made to confuse the senses, knowing when you're caught in on is half the battle to breaking it. Actually breaking it is the other half. By fluxing your chakra you have a chance to disrupt the hold of the foreign chakra invading your system and thus dispelling the genjutsu's effects.
Additional 1% chance to dispel genjutsu when active.
Clone memories, nightmarish as they were, aside, the dispelling of the clone did give him an idea. He formed a single clone. The clone then sat down across from him and picked up a brush and started crafting a [Kibaku Fuda Grade 2]. When the clone finished, Naruto checked his skill level and was very pleased to see he did indeed get experience for it.
"New plan, me and clone plus fuinjutsu equals winning."
After that, Naruto and the clone were able to finish all 200 seals in just under two hours. It had the added benefit of getting Naruto just above level 25 in his [Fuinjutsu] skill.
"Okay, let's see if I can discover anything good today," he said, hoping something would come with level 25 of the skill.
Naruto activated [Discovery] in his [Fuinjutsu] skill tree.
[Discovery] has succeeded. You have discovered a new seal [Shosen Fuda Grade 1]
Shosen Fuda Grade 1 – A low quality tag charged with healing chakra. Restores 150-200 HP to any target it is applied to.
Naruto was barely able to contain his excitement. This was a major achievement. He no longer required Sakura to heal him when training. He could run dungeons on his own without having to wait between every monster he fought while his HP slowly restore any damage he'd taken. He was free train until he dropped now without any holding back at all.
"Oh yeah, totally going to abuse the shit out of this."
You have slept in your bed. HP & CP are fully restored.
A week of free time and training passed quickly for Naruto and his friends. They met up almost every day to run through a training field, mostly for money as they weren't getting much for experience anymore.
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