NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.

Tayuya chuckled, "You would think so wouldn't you shithead, but that fucker never let us go anywhere. He just kept us cooped up in that stupid little underground rat's nest of his. He only let us out to go on missions that kept us in Ta no Kuni, so no, I'm not as worldly traveled as you think I fucking should be."

Naruto held up his hands in defense, "Damn, it was just a question. No need to bite my head off." He turned to Shikamaru, "I think you might be on to something with the whole 'women are troublesome' thing. I would say that out loud, but as often as you say it, it might make people wrongly think that you're gay."

Shikamaru gave Naruto an irritated glare, but let it pass as he figured it was too much hassle to stay mad about something like that. Tayuya had another question however, "So why exactly do we need to go for reconnaissance in Mizu no Kuni?" Kakashi answered her, "Well it's been about ten years since any reliable information came out of that place, what with all of the on again off again fighting that was always taking place, so we're heading in to get good scope of what Kiri has as far as military, or anything really."

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(The Next Night)

By nightfall of the previous day they had made it to the shores of Hi no Kuni and had boarded a ship heading out towards the island nation of Mizu no Kuni. In order to barter passage aboard for the entire squad, Naruto had to enlist the services of his Kage Bunshin as deckhands. This led to Naruto being cursed out every single time he came on deck by his clones turned sailors.

As the rest of the team were below deck, Shikamaru was doing absolutely nothing, while Tayuya was practicing with her flute, Naruto was up above, ignoring his belligerent clones bumping into him and giving half-assed apologies.

"Hey Naruto, what are you doing out here?" Kakashi came up above and found the real blonde amid the batch of fakes that were hard at work.

Naruto dispelled one of his more rowdy clones with a punch after it elbowed him in the ribs, "Not much, just thinking. Hey Kakashi, when you make Kage Bunshin do they ever try to mess with you, or is it just me?"

Kakashi chuckled as he looked over the side of the ship alongside his one-time student, "It's just you Naruto. Only you could have disgruntled copies of yourself."

Naruto let out a small laugh, "I'm not sure if that compliment was backhanded or not. Hey, you were on my dad's team back in the day right?" Kakashi looked around for eavesdroppers, "It's okay. Ever since I made clones to work through the night the regular sailors took this as their cue to slack, they're all down below getting sloshed right now, we're alone up here. Yep, all 45 of us. Right boys?" He yelled over his shoulder.

"Fuck you boss!" Was the response from one of his clones.

Naruto gestured to the clones moving about the ship, "See how much respect I command? So you knew my dad right?"

Kakashi nodded, "Yes I did, he was a great man. You lo-."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Yeah, yeah, I look just like him, I know. I know tons of stuff about him from ero-sennin, what I want to know about is my mom. Did you know her? Because I can't get anything on her. Come on Kakashi, you've got to give me something here."

Kakashi stroked his chin and made exaggerated thinking sounds, "Hmm… Well I guess it couldn't hurt." He then turned to Naruto with an eye-smile, "Call me Kakashi-sensei and I'll think about it."

Naruto gave Kakashi a dry look, "Kakashi…" He growled out.

Kakashi wagged his finger chidingly, "Ah, ah, ah. Kakashi-sensei."

Naruto leaned on the railing, "Well if you teach me something I'll call you Kakashi-sensei. Otherwise you're not getting that one out of me."

Kakashi shrugged, "Alright fair enough. Do you know how to make your own jutsu?"

Naruto shook his head in the negative. He knew that the ninja that were able to did so, but he had never been taught how exactly to go about doing that for himself. In truth, his one original move was more of a kick-ass henge that no one else could do as complete as he could, so knowing how to come up with a way to actually utilize all of the crazy little things that he had swimming through his head at all times of the day and night was damnably useful.

Naruto looked up at Kakashi and smiled, "Deal. Kakashi-sensei." Kakashi smiled and ruffled Naruto's hair, "Okay, now you're pushing it."

Kakashi removed his hand from Naruto's head, "Okay, so you know the two forms of chakra manipulation right? Shape transformation and nature transformation. Well from what I've heard you've already mastered both, what with you learning the Rasengan, the pinnacle of shape transformation in ninjutsu, and with you mastering your elemental affinity over wind. That means that there's only one thing left for you to be able to do."

Naruto waited for the rest of his speech, "And that is?"

Kakashi stalled for dramatic effect, and apparently it was working too because all of Naruto's topside Kage Bunshin were waiting nearby with their attention set on listening, "Nothing, you should be able to make your own jutsu now. Are you sure that you're just not imaginative enough for it?"

44 face-faults were his response. The Kage Bunshin all hit the deck so hard they dispelled. The original hopped up and glared at Kakashi with a twitching eye, "Kakashi I'm going to-."

Kakashi waved him off, "Maa, maa, Naruto. Calm down, I was kidding, but I was mostly serious though, you already have all you need to start making your own jutsu. Just experiment with things that you think could work, you can pretty much do anything you want with the level of skill that you possess in the necessary areas. Maybe you can even succeed where I failed."

Naruto raised a scarred eyebrow, "What do you mean Kaka-sensei?" Kakashi extended his right hand as a spinning blue ball of chakra that was quite familiar to Naruto took form. Naruto stood gaping at the Rasengan in Kakashi's hand, "You know how to do the Rasengan?"

Kakashi had a pleased look on his masked face, "Yep. Minato-sensei taught it to me in the hopes that I could take it to the final stage of the jutsu's development. Uh, is there something wrong Naruto?"

Naruto simply stared at Kakashi with a tick mark on his head, "Yeah Kakashi I think there might be. Now when you went off for a month before the chunin exam finals with Sasuke to teach him your shocky, stabby Chidori why oh why did you not leave me the instructions to the Rasengan? That would have been so much more helpful than getting THROWN OFF A CLIFF BY A PERVERT! Especially seeing as how it was my old man's jutsu anyway and you knew I was his son. What the fuck?" Naruto's eyes flashed red for a moment.

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