Chapter 27 Boredom
Naruto was bored, plain and simple. He desperately wanted to start creating the Reagent, however all the other ingredients were back at his lab. He had so little to do that he was starting to wish he brought the Necronomicon with him. Sitting in the forest he summoned Xel to talk to.
"Why have you summoned me my lord", asks Xel.
"I have the divine flower, now it seems as if I have more time on my hands. You have a copy of some of the Necronomicon right?", asks Naruto.
"Yes I do, however the copied text is merely rituals and knowledge", says Xel.
Naruto sighs.
"To bad, I was hoping I could train in some Jutsu in the book", says Naruto.
"What of the ones you have not yet practiced enough with", asks Xel.
"No progress there, the Jutsu sap my stamina like crazy, it's powerful but I can only use it so much in one day, it makes training difficult with a limitation like that", says Naruto.
"Why not show me, perhaps I can be of some help", says Xel.
"Xel you have practically raised me for the past five years, in retrospect being practically raised by a Deep One cannot be good for me but I digress. What I have learned in that time is your knowledge of Jutsu is limited, how could you help", asks Naruto.
Xel sits down.
"Humor me", says Xel.
Naruto shrugs. He cracks his knuckles. He does different one handed signs with each hand before grabbing his right forearm with his left hand pointing his palm at a tree.
"Y'Golonac Scream Jutsu", screams Naruto.
As the words leave his lips his hand violently rips causing a fanged mouth to appear on his right palm. The mouth screams a sound who's colors make Naruto sick. The tree begins to shatter from the sonic attack. Naruto lets go of his forearm and the mouth disappears from his palm. He breathes heavy as he sits down to catch his breath.
"Impressive, though I would prefer Y'Golonacs Bite Jutsu, much more quiet", says Xel.
"Xel, to use Y'Golonacs Bite I have touch them for the mouth to bite them, plus it creates a wound that can never heal and will bleed forever, not a pleasant thought", says Naruto.
"Perhaps, but since when has anything in the Necronomicon been pleasant. In any event It will be difficult to do either of the moves without the handseals, I recommend using clones. You will need to create many, the stamina sap will instantly dispel them, but at least it will be some progress", says Xel.
"Both moves as they are now are a last resort type move. I lose too much stamina to train with it constantly. For now I have no other Jutsu to practice. Maybe some more training in Eldritch form", says Naruto.
"It is much to early for that, the chances of being spotted are to great, perhaps you can simply practice your normal moves rather than those shown by the book", says Xel.
"I'm well enough in those Jutsu, I literally have nothing to train with. Kakashi is still teaching Sakura the Genjutsu, Sasuke is still training with treewalking and his fire Jutsu and I'm bored out of my mind", says Naruto.
Naruto slumps his head.
"It's my own damn fault, I asked for less training to practice with my summons, but really I just needed time to find the flower which I now have, I didn't think I would have it by now", says Naruto.
Xel nods.
Then Naruto flinched. The memories of his clones hit him. Naruto smiles.
"Looks like a few of the summoning contracts have been found", says Naruto.
"Good, how many", asks Xel.
"Seven, the teams have converged into a single group of seventy clones all transformed to look like a caravan and are on their way back to get the scrolls back to Konoha", says Naruto.
"Good, but how do you know, they should not have dispelled until they made it back, they need the protection should someone attack", says Xel.
Naruto looks at Xel nervously.
"Well one dispelled after he tripped over a brick, apparently they are very tired", says Naruto.
Xel looks up at Naruto. Maw open.
"A brick, you tripped over a brick and died", said Xel disbelieving what he heard.
"Hey, it was a clone who was exhausted, at least they weren't attacked", said Naruto.
"Well yes but a brick", says Xel putting emphasis on the last word.
Naruto shakes his head.
"Yes Xel, a brick", says Naruto.
"Maybe you should practice your agility and balance, it's not Jutsu you should worry about if you die tripping over bricks", says Xel.
"Xel shut up", said Naruto.
Xel shakes his head.
"Fine, I will be silent, but should you ever die in such a humiliating fashion I will personally resurrect you and kill you myself", says Xel.
"Duly noted Xel", says Naruto eyes narrowed.
Naruto lays on the forest floor, completely bored. Hours pass as his boredom increases.
"What's the point of my intelligence if I can't think of anything to do", says Naruto.
"You know when on a mission you should not let your guard down"
Naruto looks up to see Kakashi.
"I know, but that's the problem with those with large intelligence. We need a lot of mental stimulation", says Naruto.
"Well if that's the what you think maybe I can help", says Kakashi.
"I thought you were helping Sakura", says Naruto.
"I am, you are not the only one who can use Shadow clones", says Kakashi.
"Why didn't you do it earlier", asks Naruto.
"You wanted to get better acquainted with your summons, how's that going", asks Kakashi.
Naruto looks to Xel catching fish in the ocean.
"Xel got hungry, he's just hunting now", says Naruto.
Kakashi nods.
"What about your other summons", asks Kakashi.
"They are some of the strangest creatures I have ever seen, and don't talk hard to get to know them", says Naruto.
Kakashi nods.
"Mind showing me", asks Kakashi.
Naruto gets up. Biting his thumb he slams it to the ground. Within the smoke stands a tall figure with four arms that split at the elbow.
"That's new", said Naruto.
It is a huge beast covered in black fur. It had four arms each with long tallons on each of it's paws. It had a vertical mouth filled with yellow fangs. On either side of it's mouth were two pink eyes. It was twice as tall as Kakashi. Xel comes to shore.
"A Gug, useful in large battles quite adept at taking down enemies quickly, while at the same time they are very difficult to take down, though they have difficulties against large crowds", says Xel.
The Gug walks forward. Kakashi looks at the strange creature.
"Naruto, please tell me this is as weird as your summons get", asks Kakashi.
"No sensei, they get much stranger. You should see a shoggoth", says Naruto.
The Gug roars before it dispels.
"I think I can wait before you show me whatever that is", says Kakashi.
"I understand completely", says Naruto.
Kakashi nods.
"So what have you been teaching Sakura", asks Naruto.
"Just a genjutsu called Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Jutsu", said Kakashi.
Naruto turns to Kakashi.
"What the hell kind of name is that", asks Naruto.
"It's a simple D-rank supplementary Jutsu, has a short range but can be quite useful", says Kakashi.
"Really because it sounds like something a demon would use", says Naruto.
Kakashi chuckles.
"So, you want to be a jack of all trades type ninja right", asks Kakashi.
"Yeah, why what are you gonna teach me", asks Naruto.
"Well, after thinking it over I decided to get you trained in some supplementary Jutsu before anything offensive", said Kakashi.
"Seems good, what were you thinking", asks Naruto.
"Well at first I was hard pressed on what to give you, so I thought what would be useful. I wanted to keep it simple with a D rank Jutsu, so I though why not something that is close to what your father and my sensei did", says Kakashi.
Naruto looks up at Kakashi and smiles. Kakashi smiles back.
"If you are as smart as your old man. Which you are, maybe even smarter when you reach his age. I have no doubt you will one day figure out how he did his famous Flying Thunder God Jutsu, I have no idea how he did it, but I do know something that is pretty close to it to let you play around with", said Kakashi.
Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke and leaves.
"It's not really like his technique, it is just moving faster than the eye can see while using something like smoke to act as a distraction, I use leaves as well to show my pride in my village. It's not a space time Jutsu, but it's the closest thing I know to it, and I wanted to teach it to you. It's called Body Flicker", said Kakashi.
"When can we start", asks Naruto.
Kakashi smiles.
Meanwhile back in Konoha. Konohamaru was working in the lab with several dozen shadow clones.
"Listen we can put up the scanners when Naruto returns, for now we should begin the Yithian power source", says a clone.
"I can have it up and running before Naruto returns. I don't trust you not to get me blown up", says Konohamaru.
"Fine, but what about the plasma turrets", asks the clones.
"With a stable power source you can build it safely, but that's your problem", says Konohamaru.
The clone nods.
"Alright, next order of business, what to do about the summoning contracts, who gets what contract", asks the clone.
"That's easy. The Panther goes to Sasuke, the Horse to Sakura, the Rabbits to Ino, The Boar to Choji, the Owl to Shikamaru, The Scorpion to Shino and the Wolf to Kiba, so that leaves Hinata who should get the as of yet undiscovered Dove Contract. The summons fit their personalities and attributes, so what's the next order of business", asks another clone.
"We need to decide when we introduce the others into CDA, I hear that the Chunin exams are coming soon. If all are entered it will be a good time to see if they can be introduced to CDA or not", says a clone standing at the wall.
"I have no objections to that", says a clone wearing a lab coat.
"Well with that settled we need to begin with more pressing matters. Some of our transformed clones gathering supplies has told us of an underground building used by the supposed disbanded ROOT, the base is located closer to the center of the village. Available information suggests they have become suspicious of Naruto, we have to be much more careful. Right now our only defense is the Shoggoth that is helping put the equipment together, I think we should take them out", says a clone next to Konohamaru.
Konohamaru smiles.
"I have a better idea", says Konohamaru.
"Lets hear it then"
"It's simple, we find their leader, kill or kidnap him, and use transformed clones to effectivly take ROOT for ourselves, clones can only get us so far with an army on par with the ANBU imagine what can be done", says Konohamaru.
"I thought you were not going to get involved", says a clone.
"I'm not, but I can voice my opinion. Simply watching events is not good mental stimulation for me, so I may voice my thoughts from time to time", says Konohamaru.
The clones nod.
"We will run this information to Naruto when he gets back, for now we need as many men as we can. Our goal is to complete the labs before Naruto returns how far along are we", asks the clone.
"The greenhouse is completed and the plants for the reagent are beginning to grow, the foundry is finished as is the medical labs and computer room for holding all our collected information. The labs for analyzing equipment and training room is nearing it's final stages. So far the only things we need to concentrate on is the Armory, Generator room, workshop for coming up with new inventions, and testing room. Once all those are done we will move on to necessities such as sleeping quarters and mess hall", says a clone.
"We are still behind out projections, but not by much. In the mean time let us get more information on ROOT", says another clone.
The clones all nod as they go to their respective jobs.