ch. 8 - attack of the clones pt.1

Sunday

Naruto was bored… so so ridiculously and utterly bored.

He was sprawled into the ground, unmoving, with his legs and arms outstretched. A book was covering his face from the sunlight that was hitting him directly from above.

If someone were to see him at this exact moment, they'd think that he's either passed out or dead. But they couldn't be more wrong as Naruto is completely awake, he is just so bored that he doesn't want to move even an inch.

The sound of his clones rigorously training could be heard in the background. Some are practicing the use of their chains, some are doing the surface sticking exercise to further their mastery over the technique so they could move on to the next level, and some are practicing fuinjutsu with the equipment that Naruto bought. It almost drained all his current money but it was a necessary purchase that would benefit him in the long run. Besides, he could just ask for more of the money his parents left him from the hokage so it's not really a problem.

Their training on the art has been fruitful as now, Naruto could make a storage seal that has enough space to contain five boxes of pizza or three large bowls of ramen without problem.

Tomorrow would mark the third week of him getting Navi's memories and knowledge. He couldn't be more thankful to the person that was Navi for the help that his memories gave him. He doesn't know where he'd be right now if he didn't get those memories, actually no, he knows where he'd be. He'd still be the same ignorant kid that's hungry for attention and oblivious to the reason why he's hated.

He shook his head. ' This is not the time to think about those things.'

He got up and moved to the shade under the trees, with the fuinjutsu instruction book in his hand. He already went through the whole book a couple of times but it doesn't hurt to check if he missed some of it. The book covers the basics of fuinjutsu, tips on how to improve the handwriting and near the end, instructions on how to make the simplest of seals.

He's certain that he only needs about two weeks to completely memorize and replicate all the seals that were included in the book. He already made the storage seal, the hardest seal that was written on the book. He has it on a cloth on his wrist underneath the long sleeves of his shirt. He uses it to store the things that's essential for his training including inks for the seals, some cheap kunai and shuriken that he bought and lastly …pizza… and a bowl of take out ramen that his clone bought, which he completely forgot.

' I'm getting kinda hungry. I haven't eaten yet and it's already noon.' he rolled up his sleeve and inserted a small amount of chakra into the seal on his wrist causing a container with pizza slices stacked on each other to appear. Designing a storage seal that could take specific amount of chakra to only release a certain amount of a certain object was quite difficult and it took him the majority of the week to completely figure out and replicate, the results were worth it in his opinion though, Since now he can store different things into his storage seal and only take out what he needed. The only thing that was required was a decent chakra control and its set.

He opened the lid of the container and took a slice. 'It's still hot' he noted. ' seals really are fascinating and amazing.'

He was about to take a bite into the slice, but he remembered the clones. They're hungry too and if they're hungry they wouldn't be able to make good progress.

He put the slice back into the container and covered it before placing it into the exposed root at the base of the tree where his scarf also rested.

He walked towards where his clones were training and called out to them. " You guys can stop what you're doing now, it's time for a break."

Multiple clones cheered and left what they were doing before dispelling. But one clone though, one clone has another thing in his mind. " Wait boss! Are you going to eat all the pizza by yourself?! That's not fair! We're hungry too y'know!" The angry clone exclaimed.

"Like-" he was about to add something but Naruto decided to stop him before he could influence his other clones too. ' oh hell no, I'm not doing this. I saw the episode where my own clones rebelled against me. '

Quickly, he picked up a stone and with great accuracy, he launched it towards the clone. Hitting it in the head and popping it immediately. *Poof*

" You guys can dispel yourselves now."

" But he's right boss, we want to eat too!" Another clone protested, and other clones followed too.

" Yeah boss" " yeah, it's not fair that you're the only one who gets to eat! We worked hard too, y'know!" " Yeah! You didn't even do much! All you did was do some push-ups and practice taijutsu for a bit and read the book, nothing else. After that you just laid on the ground pretending to be dead. It's not fair y'know!"

At this point he's getting pretty annoyed. Because of one clone, all of the others now want to eat the pizza, He didn't even cook a lot! For sage's sake!. He just sighed and began explaining to the clones.

" Look, you all can dispel and it would be like you ate too when I summon you after I ate. Get it? And it's not like I could feed all of you! I only made enough for myself y'know! And also feeding all of you would be useless since you guys wouldn't gain anything from it anyways!"

Some clones nodded at each other and agreed that what he said was valid and they dispelled with a *poof* But oddly, at least a dozen remained, fourteen to be exact, and they stared at Naruto with their bangs obstructing his view of their eyes.

'oh my - this really is happening! Why do I have such bad luck these days?!'

The clones drew their kunai and 2 chains appeared behind each of them, swaying in the air as if they were tails.

Naruto clicked his young and pulsed a moderate amount of chakra on each of the seals on both his wrist. *Klink* * klink* two clinks resounded as two kunai appeared on his palms, and he held both of them tightly preparing to fight the clones.

"It seems like we'd have to take it from you ourselves eh?" The clone at the front taunted.

One by one, the clones started to walk around him in circles. Until the only clone that's remained standing still was the one that was in front of the group.

" You can still back out from this, y'know. All you have to do is hand the pizza over. We don't need violence to settle this boss." The clone offered.

Naruto shook his head, and chuckled. " If you think that small threats such as that would make me back down then you're oh so utterly wrong. Stop being stupid, It's like you're not a copy of me."

With a wide sinister smirk, the clone taunted. " But you are stupid."

Naruto, with a smirk equally as wide as the clone replied. " I was. "

-end-

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