Naruto Of The Shadow Clones

chapter 18 Elemental Manipulation

Team 7 passed through the main gate of the Hidden Leaf Village the afternoon of the same day that they left Wave. Thanks to their training from the past week, Sasuke and Sakura were able to keep up with a moderately paced Naruto and Kakashi allowing them to make good time back to the village.

Turning to his youngest students, Kakashi said "Good job on the mission you two. Take tomorrow off and meet at the training grounds same time as usual in two days." He waited for them to nod before turning to the only student from his former team and said "Naruto, I would like you to come with me to report on the mission."

Naruto nodded and said "Sure." before the two took to the roofs towards the Hokage tower.

As the two rooks watched Sakura turned to Sasuke and said "I don't know about you, but I'm going home. I need a shower and really want to sleep in my own bed again."

Sasuke nodded in agreement and the two split up and headed to their respective houses. It was only as he entered the Uchiha district that Sasuke realized Sakura had not asked for a date before they split up. He just chalked it up to her being too tired though.

By this time, Naruto and Kakashi had entered the tower and were now in front of the door to the room where low rank missions were normally turned in. (Gotta remember it started out c-rank.)

Walking in, they noticed that once again Naruto's favorite teachers were in the room as well as the Hokage. Besides these three, no one else was in the room. Naruto was glad because this meant he could tell the teachers and Hokage about his personal crusade without any one else learning about it.

The three shinobi behind the desks looked up and the hokage smiled before saying "Ah, Kakashi, Naruto. Good to see you back. I take it the mission went well?"

Kakashi chuckled before saying "As well as expected given the complications and solo mission Naruto here gave himself." This last statement was followed by Naruto nervously chuckling as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.

Sarutobi, Mizuki, and Iruka each raised their eyebrows at what the silver-haired Jounin said, especially about Naruto giving himself a solo mission.

Sarutobi then said "Care to explain that?"

Before Naruto could say anything, Kakashi went on. "Well sir, turns out that Tazuna was building the bridge to get his country out from under Gato's thumb. Gato didn't want this so sent ninja after him. While everything will be in my report, the short version is they came, they saw, and Naruto and I kicked their rear ends back to the Mist they came from. (The hokage heard the emphasis put on mist but did not comment on it.) Also, Naruto took it upon himself to royally screw Gato over by launching a shadow clone invasion on the islands and raising a week long blockade to attack all of his warehouses and ships."

The three people who were not on the mission looked at Naruto while their jaws dropped to the desks.

Seeing this, Naruto just shrugged and said "Is it really that hard to believe that I created an army of shadow clones? I could make two thousand while still back at the academy after all. It really wasn't that hard making five thousand to handle everything."

The hokage just shook his head at this and said. "I am not even going to ask Naruto. Still since you decided to have your own personal crusade, I am going to have to ask you to write up a mission report about this."