Eyes of the Moon

Training

Hiruzen POV

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

After the cloud of smoke that emerged when Naruto used the Jutsu dissipated, my jaw hit the floor. He had just created around 2000 clones and he wasn't remotely tired!

"Jiji, look I did it!"

"Yes you did Naruto-Kun but there's a bit too many wouldn't you say so?"

"Hmm? Oh yeah sorry Jiji,"

At this he moved to dispel the clones but I intervened before he could do it.

"Huh, Why'd you stop me Jiji? Didn't you say there were too many of them?"

"Yes but I haven't fully explained what they do yet."

At this he gave me his full attention and sat down while he waited for me to explain.

"You see, Shadow Clones are not illusions, they are solid clones, they have a Chakra charge, allowing them to use Jutsu like you and I, but when they run out of jutsu they will dispel. But that is not all they do. When they dispel, anything they learned or saw, all their memories would be transferred to you. But too many at once could harm you."

At this he nodded with understanding in his eyes, and began dispelling the Clones in 2s or 3s. Once there were two left, he instructed them to join him in Chakra Control exercises. Marvelling at his Will of Fire, I said my goodbyes and headed back to give that paperwork a piece of mind.

Naruto POV

After Jiji left I managed to complete the Tree Walking 3 times faster than it should have taken thanks to the Clones, who dispelled after they finished the task and ran out of Chakra. After that, I checked the book to see what was next and to my dismay it was Water Walking. I couldn't swim well so if I fell in I would most likely drown. Deciding on doing this another time I called out in my mind.

"Kaa-San."

"Yes Naru-Chan?"

"Can you teach me that thing to summon you guys now?"

"Sigh.. fine it looks like your Chakra Control is good enough for it."

"Are we finally being summoned? About time. I wanna go for a run in those woods Naruto saw."

"Now, settle down Gin. Okay Naru-Chan, first try and summon me. The signs are Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram. After making the seals, channel my Chakra to the hand you slam down."

After double checking the signs, I made the necessary seals for the Jutsu then called out its name, channeling Kurama-Kaa-San's Chakra to my hand.

"Summoning Jutsu!"

In a large puff of smoke, Kurama-Kaa-San was standing there in her Human form.

"Good work Naru-Chan! Now try the same but with Gin's Chakra."

"Got it!... Summoning Jutsu!"

In another puff of smoke, There was a boy about 5 years older than me with silver hair that reached his back, wearing a black shirt with a pair of matching trousers, complete with a silver vest and tie with a wolf fang earring.

"Woah Gin-Nii is that you?"

"Got it in one gaki. What do you think?

"You and Kaa-San look super cool!"

Bouncing up and down in joy I pulled them into the house where I showed them to their rooms, but they said at night they could just return to the mindscape, but they asked for him to make it a bit nicer than a sewer. So I transformed it into a beautiful forest with 2 large mountains and a huge field of flowers.

"Kaa-San, didn't you say my mother was great at Kenjutsu?"

"Indeed she was little one, why do you ask?"

"I wanna learn Kenjutsu just like her, then I'll be super strong!"

"Well if you want to learn Kenjutsu then I can't help you, but I think I know who can."

"Really who, who?!"

"The boy called Titan from the ninja tool shop, he works in a weapon shop so he should know how to handle and wield them. Besides I felt a presence I haven't felt 100s of years. If I'm correct he can definitely help you."

"Sweet let's go!"

"Wait a second Naru-Chan, I'm tired and want to rest, but Gin wouldn't mind taking you there since I know how much he wants to go for a walk."

"Yup stick with me Naru, and we'll go to the shop."

"Alright let's go!"

Gin POV

As I walked with Naruto through the town, I could see the apprehension from the faces of some of the passerby's but I shelved it seeing a majority of them treating him with some respect like a normal person and a few of them giving him a cheerful greeting. However I wasn't oblivious to the whispers about me. I couldn't hear them well since I wasn't in wolf form but I could hear the word 'hot' thrown around mostly from girls with my slightly enhanced hearing. If Kaa-San heard about this she'd never let it go. After a while though we arrived at Akido Ninja Tools, and when we entered the building we were greeted with an enthusiastic girl a couple years older than Naruto.

"Welcome to Akido Ninja Too- oh Hiya Naruto-Kun! Whose this?"

"Hiya Tenten-Nee this is Gin-Nii! We came here to ask if you or Titan-Nii could help me train in Kenjutsu?"

"Well Titan is out right now, but I could teach you. You wanted to learn how to use katanas right?"

"Yup, I wanna get super good with it so when I graduate I can be super strong."

"Well then follow me to the back, we have a training ground we can use."

We followed her out back and true enough there was a large field with several weapon racks and dummy's neatly arranged.

Tenten took Naruto and showed him the basics of sword play and helped him devise the basics for his own style which he called Biding Tide. It was a style that relied purely on deflecting enemy attacks and finding an opening and seizing it with blinding speed so there is little to no chance of them stopping the strike. After a few more hours of training with Tenten, it became time for us to go so I called out and called for Naruto. He was sad at this but Tenten rubbed his head and told him to come back tomorrow for them to go over some things like his Taijutsu. He agreed especially because she said she could ask her Sensei who was a Taijutsu specialist to help him.

When we got home I put him to bed then went into the mindspace for the night.