Naruto always goes to the first lesson of the year, after these years he doesn't wait for anything from school; the things they "taught" not worked on him or he's better at that, even after these years they didn't teach one Jutsu, maybe after they graduate they can learn it?
Without any hurry to arrive at the school, Naruto take his time walking slowly; since he saw that "thing" in his abdomen he thinks about it, he tries to asked Guy-sensei for it but he told that he don't know and Jiji(Hiruzen) only came to visit 3 times in the whole year, even on his birthday he didn't appear, so, Naruto don't have anyone else to ask for that thing.
When Naruto arrives at the classroom Iruka's already started the lesson, seeing the look he had it's obvious that he didn't expect his presence.
"...Come in, Naruto, take a seat" his voice sounded with a bit of discomfort but Naruto didn't pay attention to that.
"Mm" nodding to him, Naruto walks to the window at the end.
All of the classmates are seeing him, it's clear that they were uncomfortable when he appeared in the classroom.
In his second and third year he still came to the classes but after they started to antagonize him, he only came a few times in a month until he disappeared from the school for a whole year.
After taking a seat he can feel an intense pair of eyes looking at him from his back, he remembers that sensation, since the first day he entered the school he felt it.
It's the girl with white eyes, Hinata.
He remembers a bit that he helped her a few years ago but after that happened none of them say a word to the other.
Ignoring the eyes that feels like an intense sun, he stopped looking around and started to pay attention to Iruka.
"...As I was saying, this could be the last year you need to come to the school. The only thing you should do is learn the three basic Jutsus and pass the test, if you fail it you have the first half of the next year but you could only take the test once a time every 6 months after that."
Everyone understands what he's talking about, the past 4 years they're learning for this moment.
No one thought they would fail, especially those who belong to prestigious clans.
Naruto didn't worry about that, he already knew the transformation Jutsu and the substitution Jutsu would be easy, the last one he don't know it works.
Given to all a brochure Iruka talked while he guided them to the gym.
"Everything you need to know about learning the three Jutsus is in this paper. I can't help much with this because even if our bodies are similar there's always a small difference and only by learning by yourself you can become a Ninja."
"Okay, everyone listen to me. I'm going to explain it one more time.
The transformation Jutsu is the first we need to learn, this one can help us to go unnoticed when we're outside. Moving your chakra isn't hard, but isn't the end; even if you can do it at the first time it wouldn't work because you don't know how the Jutsu worked itself. If you try to do it without that knowledge the only thing you will feel is pain in your whole body."
After he said it a cry of pain sounded from some kids.
Sakura, Ino, Kiba.
It isn't the first time Iruka sees this situation, when he helps other classes there's always a bunch of kids who've tried it thinking it's easy.
When Iruka wants to continue the lesson another small sound comes from the corner, is someone he thinks would never make a mistake.
Shino Aburame
Feeling that everyone was looking at him, the kid remained silent.
"..."
"The transformation can be used for everything, if you are competent enough you can become a small bird or even an ant. The school won't expect that you reached that level but at least you need to be able to transform into another person without any mistakes"
"Move your chakra through your body and try to make a laker in the surface of your skin, if you're looking at your objective this would be easy. Now mold it into the person you are thinking of, this requires a stable amount of chakra all the time. If there's any error, the Jutsu will begin to dissolve the layer every second. If you want to go further, try to use the layer inside your body; this needs an absurd knowledge of the objective and only a few people in the world can do it.
Now go and practice, if you have a question, come to me."
After hearing all the explanations everyone wants to try it.
They took the paper Iruka gave to them and started reading it again.
The hall was filled with complaining voices and groans in pain, after more than an hour no one had success and they were exhausted.
Seeing everyone in such a state Iruka has a smile on his face, it's always the same. After a few days they would do it, even if it is a cheap version.
He's glad to see his students striving to be first, everyone except Naruto. Iruka doesn't know what he's doing, since the lesson started he's in his corner with a thoughtful look.
"Something's wrong, Naruto? If you didn't understand i can help if you want"
"Iruka-sensei? No, no, I'm just thinking about other things. I already can do the Jutsu"
"Eh? You can?" Iruka can't believe it, he didn't see Naruto practice any time. Even the other kids who's hearing don't believe it.
"Iruka-sensei don't waste time with that guy, he missed a whole year and now he thinks he's better than us" as always, Kiba starts mocking Naruto. Seems that the year Naruto didn't come to the school made him think that he's at the same level.
"Shut up, damn dog. I'm not talking to you" Naruto paused for a moment before continuing "I don't know why you always wants to bother me but if you continuing doing that, the next time it won't just be a punch in the face"
"Who do you think you are, stupid f…"
"Kiba! If you continue talking like that, I can make you fail the test" this time everyone can see that Iruka is really mad, he also doesn't understand why Kiba always tries to antagonize Naruto.
"...Understand, Iruka-sensei" says Kiba as he goes with his friends. The other classmates avert their eyes when they see that.
Naruto sees all that without saying anything.
"Naruto, can you show me how you made it?"
"Yup, just like this" hearing that, Iruka couldn't see the moment Naruto became a perfect copy of him.
"How long did it take you to do it?" Iruka asks Naruto with a trembling voice. Naruto just raised two fingers.
"?"
"Two attempts, the first time I didn't know how to move the chakra and disperse itself" Naruto replies as he doesn't think it is something rare, he can do it years ago.
"...Okay, and the other two?"
"I haven't tried yet, I was waiting for you to give the explanation" Naruto replies as he dispels the Jutsu and returns to his body.
Iruka get back to the center and calls "Guys"
"Seeing that some of you are having difficulty with this, I will teach you the other Jutsus so you can practice at home.
To use transformation jutsu we need to manipulate our chakra inside our bodies and make a layer on the surface of our skin. Well, to do the substitution jutsu we need to interact with the outside.
It's a bit hard but just think that you're touching a mirror and change the place with your reflex. Make sure you have an object to make the replacement, if you don't have one the reflex won't let you change the places; if you tried to do it anyways, be prepared to lose a limb" Hearing the things Iruka says the kids felt excited but when he started talking about the price for doing it wrong, the face of everyone turned pale.
Without any care for the kids mentality Iruka continued with the explanation "But don't worry about it, with this I can help a bit, sharing my senses when I use it so the only thing you need to be worry about is to always carry an object, preferably a log"
And the last one is the clone it's the easy because you only need to use your spiritual energy and make reflex of you; these clones has no substance and his only use is for distract the opponent"
All the kids sank deep into their thoughts.
Iruka starts to help one by one and share his perception, they only need to feel it one time and that's it, to make the rest is needed practice.
When it's Naruto's turn Iruka noticed that even now he's deep in his thoughts, he isn't way for him.
"Come here, Naruto. It's your turn"
"Don't worry, Iruka-sensei. Let me try it, if i can't do it i'll ask you" Naruto stood for a moment and then he slowly started to do hand seals.
Iruka keeps his eyes on him, he wants to see if he can do it.
Minutes passed and Naruto stopped making the hand seals. Other minutes passed and he's still in the same position with his eyes closed.
Iruka and the others stopped their practice and kept their eyes on Naruto.
Inside the Naruto mind is a different world, he's trying to move his spiritual energy outside his body but when he does it, the energy disappears in less than a second; the outside is hostile to others energies.
Failing his attempts he can only try other ways, now he wants to make an eruption of energy and with that touch the layer Iruka mentioned.
Didn't work.
It's his energy, why dispel itself when his OWN energy touches the outside?
It's called spiritual energy for a reason, he thinks.
The stamina is the energy of his whole body, something near to his vital energy but isn't the same.
So, what's the core of spiritual energy? An amount of energy that's only on his head?
It 's the mind? Maybe, but he didn't think "mind" can involve that energy.
The last option, will.
What's the thing that makes us different from others? It's our will, we use our mind to think but other people also can think with their mind, everyone has his own.
But the
Our
Now, I will cover my mind(spiritual energy) with my Will. With that, I will be able to touch the outside.
This time when Naruto tries, the outside doesn't attack his "chakra" and he can touch a thin layer and when he touches it, he sees it. A perfect reflection of him.
Leaving that state, Naruto feels his head hurt. He saw more that he could do at this point, but he made it.
The kids can't see it but Iruka does. He saw it, above Naruto's head there's something big.
Iruka didn't understand what's that, but he knew something: Naruto "projected" something to the outside.
The shivers Iruka feels tells him that this is real. When you learn this Jutsu this isn't supposed to happen, the normal steps it's close your eyes and use a log to make the replacement, not this thing.
"Iruka-sensei I made it! I think it was hard but when I used my will it was easy!" Naruto's happy voice brought Iruka out of his thoughts.
Wiping away the sweat that ran down his forehead, Iruka looked at Naruto "Ah, w-well done, Naruto. Sure you have a great talent"
"Hehe, of course! You know that I'm always doing my best!" Naruto takes the Guy-sensei stance and proudly laughed at Iruka's words
Iruka almost forgot that Naruto can laugh like that, not seeing this kid for a year will surely change the way he sees him.
"Well, whatever. The Hokage will deal with it" was Iruka's thoughts as he remembered the last time he went to the Hokage's office.
Iruka smiled back and nodded"Yeah, Naruto. I know how much effort you put on it"
Iruka take a steps back and continued "If you need some space for the last one we can go to the outside"
"Nah, I will try it here. It's just to create a reflex, ok?" Naruto grinned.
"I think it's like copying my shape and moving it in parallel, eh?"
Even if he says that, the entire group takes a step back and let him some space.
This time Naruto made the Hand Seals quickly and tries to use his "chakra" to create a reflection of him.
He always feels that taking the chakra out of his body is harder than controlling it from the inside. This time isn't the exception, every time he tries to shape chakra, it dispels itself.
Half an hour had passed and he didn't feel any exhaustion, Iruka felt lethargic.
How much chakra does this brat have? Even the kids knew that this isn't normal.
Another 15 minutes later Naruto finally "can do it".
A swaying reflection appeared before everyone.
Iruka's mouth trembled seeing this. What the hell is this? He had never seen something like this before.
Even Naruto felt ashamed when he saw his work.
"Well, I think it's a success, I guess? haha…" Naruto rubbed the back of his head as he spoke.
"I guess so" Iruka replied expressionlessly. Maybe he needs to wash his eyes.
"Maybe I need to go home, don't you think, Iruka-sensei?" Naruto couldn't stand everyone's incomprehensible gaze.
"...Yeah, you can come back later and practice with us"
"Thanks! Iruka-sensei! Sure, I will come someday!" saying goodbye to everyone Naruto ran away.
Everyone stood in their places, deep in their own thoughts.
Seeing him doing the things they can't do, all of them are convinced. But that's worse, why him?
The adults say that he's a demon, a bastard.
They don't know what to believe right now.
Most of them have at least a few times where they mocked him.
So, what if they laugh at him?
He's better, even if he didn't come to the school a whole year they cannot escape from his shadow.
At first they were like watching a clown when he said that he didn't need Iruka's help.
But now?
They share a feeling: ashamed.
Naruto noticed it but he didn't care about it, the first time he came to the school he wanted to become a person like his Jiji, a great Hokage.
But the time passed and he grew, a bit, but he did.
The fact that the old man lied to him and won't explain the things annoyed him. Years had passed since he entered the school but the visits became more infrequent every year.
He didn't explain the things.
He didn't come to visit, even on his birthday.
Naruto didn't forget that the reason he missed the whole past year was because even Iruka-sensei can't tell him the truth; when that happened he felt really annoyed, but when he takes his time to think about it there's only an explanation.
Who controlled the academy? The hokage.
Who can restrict the teachers? The hokage
Naruto didn't feel rage or something like that to the old man, he feel disappointment.
The answers no one wants to tell him, he will tear it off from them.
He doesn't feel rage or something like that to the village, he will continue doing his things and live.
He didn't dream about becoming the Hokage, he doesn't know what his dream is now but it's okay, he's young after all.
Youth, the word Guy-sensei says all the time.
Naruto understands a bit, it feels great.
He wants to be forever young like his master.
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Hi!
What do you think about these Jutsus? Are the basics but it's fine.
The transformation has a lot of potential but it's so hard to do something good with it. I think someone like Orochimaru can profit from it but it seems that he doesn't think about it.
The clon jutsu, it's the same, I didn't change anything about it. It's just a reflection.
Andddd, the substitution; It's interesting to think there's a special layer like a mirror, it's not just a quick movement and smoke like the canon is. Why do they need help to reach the layer? Because they sucks, and they don't know how to use their will even if they talk about it every time.
That's why I put that part at the end, hearing Naruto's thoughts about his situation but not feeling rage or solitude feels fine; he's better than that. After all, his master is the Sublime Green Beast of Prey Might Guy who's forever young.
Naruto won't become a copy of his master but he can learn things from him, like his will. He will learn the things that coincide with him and create his own.
I like the word
In this history that will be one of the most important things.
That's all! Next ch he meets Sasuke and graduates from school with him. It will be the last chapter of this part.
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Thanks for reading!
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