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Threadmarks: Chapter 32: Studying All Sorts of Things
The days kept rolling by. Different teams of clones worked themselves to the bone, and of course I—the original—didn't slack either.
There were a shitload of results from the groups working on the body-enhancement project. But most of it just meant more experiments—sometimes with tiny tweaks...
My teammates were still in the hospital and were supposed to be discharged tomorrow. So I dedicated the whole day to experiments.
No, I didn't immediately jump into the final testing of my pile of theory-hypotheses on live "material." Instead, for the first half of the day my brain got hijacked...
Same day. Kakashi's hospital room
The jonin was finally sprawled out in bed, reading his little book as usual. The day had been… intense. He was still processing what he'd seen in the Land of Waves.
The way the door slid open without a sound caught him completely off guard, and in the doorway...
Threadmarks: Chapter 29: Dealing with the Mission's Aftermath
The next person my illustrious self decided to grace with a visit was Kakashi. A few doors down the hallway and I was at the right one.
I opened it and saw the same old white‑haired mug lying in the bed, jonin vest missing. A second ago he'd been staring into his little orange book; right now...
Threadmarks: Chapter 28: The Capture of the Lab Rats and Sakura
Twenty minutes later, the mist, no longer sustained by a jutsu, dissipated pretty fast.
In that time, I'd managed to patch up Zabuza, then heal Haku, and even send Shadow Clones to transport them, along with Kakashi, to the Konoha hospital. There, our special guests would get an equally special...
Morning. Original Uzumaki Naruto's POV
Stretching, satisfied and actually rested for once, I walked into the big kitchen, where everyone but me had already gathered.
Sitting down at the table, I greeted everyone, thanked them for the food, and dug in.
Last night I'd managed to shove a small...
Threadmarks: Chapter 26: The Puppeteer Hooks the Strings
In a flash, we found ourselves on a wide street by a river in a small town. Small by the standards of the Land of Fire, anyway. From what I knew from the rather sparse info in the textbooks about this area, this was the second-biggest city in the Land of Waves. It was closest to the mainland of...
He could have, and he was already planning to start hunting criminals on his own, but the opportunity to get them basically presented itself.
Hiruzen won`t touch him as long as he`s not putting his own people under the knife like Orochimaru did. The lab is in the village because he needs the...
Uzumaki Naruto's POV
Another sparring session turned out to be… not bad. Kakashi still didn't really satisfy me as a sparring partner, but it was better than nothing. And the white‑haired bastard was slowly getting back into shape, so it was becoming less boring.
Showing off Hiraishin to my...
Threadmarks: Chapter 24: First Mission, and Hiruzen's Reflections
Uzumaki Naruto's POV
I liked that test, I thought as I lazily hopped between Konoha's trees. At the very least, I scored a free meal this morning, and I'm gonna be eating for free again tonight.
But that was an evening problem. I'd handed my bento to my teammates—the rice balls wouldn't have...
Several hours later
After a good training session in the gym, I was in a big, bright room of the mansion with floor‑to‑ceiling windows and a large balcony. This room basically split the second floor into two wings, each with two bedrooms, and every bedroom had its own bathroom and walk‑in...
The silence in the classroom was almost palpable. Only the rustle of paper occasionally tore through it.
Pulling a deliberately stern face, Iruka handed out the last sheets with the graduation exam.
The air was crackling with tension; for most of the kids sitting here, this was one of the most...
Third Person POV
The greenery was bursting with life in the large field nestled in the middle of a dense forest.
On the training ground, far from the walls of the Leaf Village, there was only a single boy who looked to be around twelve. Sitting on a stone outcropping, he ran his fingers...
Threadmarks: Chapter 20: And Then There Was One Less Spy
According to the intel from my clones, Mizuki came home one day, started writing reports, and then secretly slipped out past Konoha's perimeter through a little‑known hole in the barrier to bury that very report.
Of course, once Mizuki took off, the clone, not one to be lazy, dug it up and went...
"You're gonna take the bribe," I told Gendai, dead certain, sitting across from him at a table, just the two of us in a classroom.
"Nope," he said.
It wasn't a regular classroom. More like the kind of office where adults settled "little problems."
"You're taking the bribe."
End of the school...
Threadmarks: Chapter 18: The Inner Workings of Our Academy Class
On a typical day, I was sitting through yet another lesson at the Academy. Gendai, in his usual, measured manner, was lecturing us on chakra theory—very superficially and in broad strokes, so the kids could get it. The actual lesson wasn't much use to me.
More than a year had passed since I'd...
About a year—that's how long the preparations for Revenge took overall. I didn't feel like going the crude route: grab Koharu with overwhelming force, drag her down into my basement, pump her full of a poison like the one they used on me, and enjoy her suffering. That would've been boring. And...
Evening. Sarutobi Hiruzen was, as usual, sitting in his office, sifting through papers and smoking his pipe.
Gazing at the report on the general affairs of the "P‑Puzzles" company, he could only sigh and set it aside. After that, he took out a scroll and wrote a decree saying he was no longer...
Some time later
Another dead end. I set aside yet another fuinjutsu scroll and rubbed my temples in frustration.
That fuin I'd been working on myself, along with a bunch of my colleagues and Hiruzen… The complex seals that were supposed to give me permanent enhancement of my whole body, the...