chap. 7 - I am a genius (or am I not) - Fixed

Now that I've freed my mind from external problems, I'll go back to thinking about myself.

Grandma asked me to use the shadow clone only to go to the academy and train seals, everything else was for me to start doing with my main body.

One Sunday morning, while the 5 of us were having breakfast, Grandma said that she was going to finally test our elemental affinities. Which caused Naruto and I to overfill our mouths with food and choke, causing everyone to laugh.

She starts with Naruto, who as soon as he puts his chakra on the paper, it breaks in two and a very small end gets wet.

"Naruto, you have a strong affinity for wind, and very little for water. The wind element is great for cutting attacks by imbuing your chacka into weapons. The water element is very good for defense and support, but it also has good attacks, not many, but good," she explains.

Naruto is looking not happy at all, his dream of doing flashy jutsus with fire have been dashed this way. I approach him.

"Look at it this way, it's harder for Sasuke to beat you now, water is strong against fire, and if you combine it with wind, it will give more pressure to the water, which will make it stronger to defend and attack.

He gives me a look like he understands the idea and smiles, already thinking about the beating he would give Sasuke.

My turn, and Grandma hands me the paper.

When I put my chakra on it, half the paper gets wet and the other half crumbles. I look at Grandma without understanding and see her astonished face.

"Water and Earth Nox, just like Grandpa. Who knows, maybe you also won't develop mokuton" says grandma smiling while Naruto has a face of disgust and envy, but I can feel that he is happy, the face is just to make me angry.

"Great, now we can work on your space-time too. " Kira says to me, which makes Grandma jump with fright and Naruto and I laugh. Which was a bad idea, since we each got punched in the head.

"That being the case, at least I don't have to worry about having to look up space-time techniques for this ungrateful kid," says Grandma while Naruto and I are on the floor, rubbing a bump the size of a papaya that has sprung up on our heads. "Pick an element to start with and tomorrow I will deliver the scrolls."

I look at Naruto, who says wind and I say earth. Grandma nods and walks away.

"Naruto boy, learn the shadow clone, and put the ones to study the scrolls, not too many, just two or three should suffice, that way you will learn faster." says Kira to Naruto.

Despite being my contractor, he still teaches Naruto to use swords and even the basics of taijutsu, which gave him a good base and a huge respect for Kira.

The next day, one of our clones goes to the academy, we are at the gate of the complex waiting for Ino, Sakura, Choji, Shikamaru and Hinata, who are going to train with us.

Ino, Sakura, Hanabi and Hinata are with Grandma and Shizune, learning Iryō-nin techniques.

Choji, Shikamaru and Naruto are training chakra control, that is, climbing trees.

The days, the months, and the years are piling up. We are already finishing the ninja academy, about to graduate, when I start to feel malice coming from somewhere. As soon as I look I see Iruka sensei talking to another ninja I don't know. But I know who it is. Mizuki.

I call Naruto and Grandma, and we go to Grandpa the third. I picked up this mania from Naruto.

"Grandpa Third, I have been feeling malice from one of the teachers at the academy, that malice is aimed at Naruto. I have a plan that can help the village get rid of a possible traitor. Of course, only if Naruto accepts." I say as soon as we arrive at the Hokage's office.

"You're talking about Mizuki right?" the Hokage asks me as he makes his way to the desk. "I know he's up to something, but I don't know who the order came from and I can't have a shinobi arrested just because I think he's up to something. Let's hear your idea." He speaks as he sits down at the table and lights his pipe.

"Simple, just have Naruto fail the graduation exam and isolate himself for a bit. I'm sure Mizuki won't resist and try to persuade Naruto to do something. As soon as possible, Naruto will inform us of the plan and we'll go on from there. What do you think Naruto?" I ask looking at him, since he is the one who might not have a chance later.

"If Grandpa accepts the plan I'm on board, but how am I going to fail an exam that I know and have trained so hard to pass?" he asks me, I realize he has some ideas, but he doesn't want to tell me not to make a mistake and look like an idiot.

"Brother, grandma always trained our chakra control, not only to do the jutsus right and know what to use and when to use it, but also if, you use too much chakra in a jutsu like the clone, it will go wrong. Now do you understand why in the beginning you always failed when you tried?" I explain to him and I see his eyes light up like light bulbs.

"That's also why I don't let you do the jutsu as soon as you start learning it, so you can feel how much chakra is spent, its path through the body, and how much you can take out and still function," Grandma explains. I must admit, this explanation surprised me. I am not a genius. "And there's more, the more used to a jutsu, the less hand signals will be needed after a while." she completes and now it's my eyes that are glowing.

"Then I accept the idea. Not only that, if you do the basic clone jutso for me right here and now, you will be automatically trained and this will be your first rank A mission. Infiltration. That goes for you too Nox," says the Hokage.

I don't think twice and create a clone, Naruto follows me and makes his. There, we are graduated and already have an A rank mission.

"Congratulations to both of you. Now get ready for the mission." says the Hokage.

Naruto and I are jumping up and down and hugging each other, he cries with joy and I cry with joy at seeing him cry with joy and after that we laugh at each other at seeing each other cry and stop as we leave the Hokage's office and go home.

We still have time until graduation, so both Naruto and I, intensify our training.

But let me tell you what we have learned in the meantime. Three-year summary on jutsu.

In the first year, Naruto focused on learning wind jutsu which is his strongest and I went into earth jutsu. We always used 3 clones that would read and reread the jutsus and I wouldn't start practicing until 10 days later. Of course that's not all they did, they also practiced chakra control and hand seals.

In the second year the same thing, with Naruto and I learning and training the water jutsus. Add to my training sword fighting and short teleportation.

We had a clone just to go to the academy.

In the third year, Naruto started to improve his water technique as much as possible, and I focused on training in one-handed jutsus. So as time goes by I'll be more accustomed to it.

Regarding the Racoon clan's teleportation, it works in a very simple way, I just have to visualize where I want to go, and see myself there just by doing the Shadow seal. Yes, I need the seal, while Kira and the others don't. To make the mass teleport, which according to my chakra is more than 4 people, I need to make the sequence of Shadow-Relampage-Earth-Shadow seal. I must warn you my friends, that the chakra consumption is insane.

(Let's say I have 100 chakra points, I spend 20 +1 chakra points for every 1 meter more after 50. Like, for 51 meters distance 21 points. For 22 meters is 42 points. Likewise, in mass teleportation, to take me and +1 costs half. And each person increases +10, the distance is 20 meters).

But Kira explained that until my body gets used to teleportation, it will be expensive. But when I get used to it, I'll be the new yellow lightning, he guarantees, and he doesn't even need a Kunai.

(Explaining the technique: Every space-time jutsu has a coordinate, which works as a portal for you to cross the space in the shortest time. The Racoon clan jutsu, makes the launcher's own body be the portal and cross the space in the shortest time.

Exemplifying: Minato would tag a kunai and throw it, by triggering the "portal" he would appear in the area where the kunai was and didn't even need the seal. In Kira's jutsu, the body itself is the kunai and the portal is activated in the seal).

End of summary.