Hard work + Kage Bunshin (Naruto fanfic)

Realisation

{In Naruto's Apartment}

(Narrator POV)

Naruto sighed as he entered his crummy old apartment and shut the door. He tiredly trod across the worn wooden planks and went to the bathroom. He cleaned himself out on the pot and took a short shower. As he brushed his teeth, he peered into the mirror that he could barely look into due to his short height. A tired, worn face with three whisker marks on each cheek, wet blonde hair, baggy eyes, and a pair of lips curved downwards into a frown was shown. Naruto looked like shit.

Naruto shut the bathroom door and slowly turned towards the kitchen. He was so hungry after the long mission, but he didn't want to make himself dinner, he was just so goddamn tired. He walked, as if in a trance, into his bedroom, where he fell onto the bed with the thoughts of,"I'll just make myself some chow in...the ..morni-zzzzzzzz..zzzzzzzzz.zzzzzz." With that he fell soundly asleep.

Naruto woke up to the calm of early moring. Most civilians did not wake up this early, but ninja certainly did. The silent streets were already having some shinobi walking around. Naruto got up and made his way to the bathroom, thinking about the mission to Wave Country. He rudely broken out of his thoughts by the wall, which he had walked into. As he rubbed his nose, the feeling of hunger hit him hard in the stomach. Deciding to put his ninja skills to use, he created a Kage Bunshin to make his breakfast while he freshened up. When he toweled himself off after his warm bath, a lot of memories popped up in his head. In his suprise, he tore the towel in half. Frantically, he processed the memories. They involved his clone creating a breakfast of a 5-egg omelette, 5 strips of fried bacon, two slices of toast, a glass of orange juice, and a cup of instant ramen. He had taken the advice of his sensei to eat healthy.

Realisation slowly came to him, and a long lost memory hit him: when he learned the Kage Bunshin from the Forbidden Scroll, he had read a description of the jutsu and its uses, mainly that it tranfers the memories, muscle memory, and chakra memory to the original, thus it could be utilised to boost ones training: what the original would learn in a day would be learned in 2.4 hours with 9 clones training alongside the original.

As he processed this news, a shit-eating grin slowly grew upon his face, and his teeth sparked. Naruto felt a sense of massive excitement in him; a fire burning bright within him. He got ready in record time, and quickly locked his apartment once he had stepped out. With the application of chakra to his legs and foot soles, he jumped from roof to roof, heading for the Hokage Tower.
He was going to get some help from his beloved Jiji, the Sandaime Hokage, and as he jumped from roof to roof, he felt the fire grow brighter and brighter still.

"Things are going to change, and soon.", thought Naruto.