I don't own Naruto.

I'm having a case of writers block on my other story so I've been writing on this and another one for the last several months. On the other story I've put up here I know where I want the story to go but at the moment I just cant seen to get the story to flow.

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Annoyed with how often the teachers were throwing him out of class, Naruto muttered, "Fine if you don't want to teach me then I'll have to learn this stuff on my own and if you don't want to teach me techniques than I'll come up with my own."

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Sneaking into the store hadn't been difficult because it was owned and run by a civilian who was too cheap to hire someone to help secure it from people breaking in. There were a large number of people in the village who could just get around any traps that he put up anyway. Even with his sneaking into the store Naruto wasn't truly a thief because he planned to pay for all of the books and things that he took. Looking in the book section Naruto knew that even though the scrolls for several common lower level techniques were on sale in the store that they were only able to be purchased by registered shinobi and that if he took a copy of them than he would get into major trouble even if he did pay for them. Sticking to the section of shinobi books that were available to civilians, Naruto packed up a whole set of the books that were required for the first year of the academy as well as several of the books that were on their optional list. Running through the shinobi section Naruto grabbed several of the scrolls that he knew shouldn't get him in trouble such as the scroll that went more in depth on how each of the hand seals works and how to use each one most efficiently in the jutsu that were generally available. A scroll of chakra control exercises and a basic camping jutsu scroll joined his stack from the registered shinobi section as well. Pulling out his toad shaped wallet he got out the required amount of money for the books that he took and placed it into the register. His wallet was much flatter than when he entered the store but that was to be expected with him spending almost two thirds of his savings on the books and scrolls.

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Boar wasn't one to normally observe Naruto so earlier it had been a surprise to him to see Naruto sneaking into one of the civilian run shinobi supply stores. Ever since the Uchiha clan had been destroyed by Itachi, Anbu had taken up most of the former duties that had been vacated so abruptly with all of the deaths. Currently they were taking up almost three quarters of what the Uchiha military police once took care of while they helped build a new police force that would at least take care of civilian level crime. As he watched Naruto build up a number of books and scrolls on the counter, he was somewhat surprised that most of them came from the sections that anyone could purchase from. He did see Naruto going through the section that would normally be off limits to anyone but a registered shinobi but considering that the scrolls that he came out with weren't dangerous and mostly just contained exercises or jutsu that weren't taught at the academy anymore, he decided to just let it pass for now. Seeing Naruto actually pay the correct amount for the books and scrolls was another shock for Boar, but he just shrugged and thought about how he had seen the blond being thrown out of several stores before. As long as he was paying for it than there wasn't really any reason to report it. As he watched Naruto sneak out of the store he pulled out the paperwork that the shopkeeper was supposed to fill out whenever books like the blond had bought. Quickly filling in the required fields he took a moment to think about the shinobi id number before grinning under his mask and putting in the number for a genin that he knew had died on a mission sever days ago along with changing the date on the paperwork to reflect that the scrolls had been bought several days before the start of the disastrous mission. Getting back to his rounds he wondered just what Naruto was going to do with the materials that he had just bought.

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Not knowing that he had been watched almost the entire time he had been in the store he made his way back to his apartment to look over his new books and scrolls. Starting on the books that he had already had he noticed that his new copies were not only in better condition than the ones that he had bought before but that the newer ones were larger than the ones that he had gotten when he entered the academy. He had always wondered why his books looked different than the other students in his class but then again he just tried to ignore it before as well. Comparing the books he was shocked to find that most of the material that he had been stumped about on the last test was in the new book that he had gotten when his old one didn't even speak of it. Looking closer at the older book he noticed that it had had had a number of pages pulled out in such a way that unless you knew that they were missing, you would never notice the missing pages. Growling to himself he looked over all of his other books and found that they all had the problem and that if it was possible the most important pages in the text were missing on his old books. Settling in for the weekend he decided to read the newer copies of the books to find out about what he had been missing.

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By the time that Monday had rolled around Naruto had read all of the books that were required for the first year of the academy and finally understood the lectures that he had actually been allowed to sit through without being tossed out. Ever since he had started the academy it had been frustrating with how much it seemed like he couldn't learn, that everyone else seemed to think was so easy. Now it all made sense and the sensei at the academy had to be in on it for him to have missed so many important parts of the lessons. Thinking back to his promise from when he had been thrown out of class he pulled all of the books and scrolls that he had that contained techniques in them and after counting was disappointed that he only had about thirty techniques to start from with most being E-rank techniques. Deciding to skip class for the day he pulled out the hand signs and how they react in jutsu book and start figuring out how all of the hand signs made up the thirty techniques that he had.

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The next day he had worked out how the academy's three main techniques worked with the hand seals that they were used with and while he couldn't perform any of them yet, they weren't taught for another several years anyway so for now he was good on that. During the times that he had taken breaks from breaking down the jutsu, he though about his plan's and decided that he wouldn't show any new techniques that he developed to anyone if he could help it. Returning to the academy really cut down on his time to create his new techniques but there were many areas of being a shinobi that he just didn't know about that weren't even mentioned in the books that were mentioned in the lectures that he had already been present for. He was going to hide his techniques and surprise everyone when he used them.

He was lucky that day as it was the one day a month that the whole academy turned out for as they had a jonin come in and show off one of their more flashy techniques.

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"Welcome students," the jonin in charge of the academy said as he gestured with his one good arm in welcome. "Today as those of you who have been here more than one year know. We have one of the jonin with some downtime come in and show you all one of the techniques that you may learn in the future. Today we have been given the rare honor of jonin Kakashi Hatake being in the village and he has agreed to show off a technique that he recently learned for our benefit." With that the jonin in charge of the academy left the small stage and another man took his place dressed in the standard jonin uniform and with his headband tilted to cover one of his eyes.

"Normally I try and stay away from this because I don't think that I should show off most of the techniques that I know but for today someone that I know convinced me that this technique at the very least should be okay." Kakashi said as he left the stage and moved toward several large containers that had been placed on the academy grounds just for this purpose. Quickly performing the twenty-eight hand signs for the technique Kakashi called out, "Water style: water dragon jutsu." a large dragon made of water rose from the water in the containers and was sent flying toward the small wooded area of the academy training areas. Normally the students wouldn't have been able to see Kakashi's hand seals however as he had just recently learned the technique and he was still quite slow when using it as he wasn't actively copying the motions from someone else.

Naruto who had been watching almost in awe as the jonin showed off the technique and as he could see all of the hand signs that Kakashi had used for the technique, he memorized them so that maybe he could learn the technique later.

"Ah, well that was invigorating now wasn't it." Kakashi said as he finished the technique and bowed to the class before disappearing in a whirl of leaves without a hand sign.

"Now I know that Kakashi has already left but if you would could you give him a round of applause for that wonderful demonstration." the headmaster of the academy said as he retook the stage. There was a thunderous sound as all of the students started clapping while every one of them had visions of them using the technique in the future.

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When Naruto got home that night to his apartment that night he wrote down every that he had seen about the water style, water dragon jutsu and started breaking it down the same way that he had the main academy three and after three hours of work he had the technique broken down but the results weren't what he had thought that they would be. Unless he was missing something the technique shouldn't have worked at all because there wasn't anything to tie it to the water that he had used in the technique. Deciding that maybe there were things that he didn't know about the jutsu yet he set to work breaking down some more of the techniques that he had so that when the time came he would be able to pull them off easier and yet again there seemed to be things that didn't make sense in the techniques.

The following two weeks until the end of the semester were almost the same as the Sensei of the various classes started getting the students ready for their first two month break between classes. This had been implemented by the council after the second great shinobi war so that the clans could give their younger members who were in the academy special training in their clan techniques. The break also gave the students without clans with a two month break to train in whatever they wanted. Students who weren't in clans could also add their name to a list that would be posted up for active chūnin and jonin to choose if they wished to personally teach any of the students for their break. Unless the ninja in question liked the academy student for whatever reason or if they were very skilled in the same areas as the ninja most of the time these student would not receive any training.

Turning in his application with the rest of the students Naruto left the classroom to get started on the various exercises that they had been assigned for the break. Just before he left the building he thought of a question to ask the teacher and turned to head back to the classroom which he found empty. Turning to leave again he saw a crumpled piece of paper. Taking the paper and flattening it he was shocked to find out that it was his application for further training over the break.

Walking home sort of dejected from the way that his teacher had acted toward him he decided to start researching into the jutsu that he knew further over the break as well as getting the next two years worth of books that he would need for the academy and learning their material in advance. He hoped that since he was getting up to the third year texts that he could find out how to do the techniques as well as what it was that he was missing about the water dragon that he had seen.

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Sneaking back into the same store as last time he quickly gathered the books for the next two years at the academy which thankfully weren't in nearly as great a supply as the books for the first year were because several of the books for the first year would be reused for the further years at the academy.

Going back to the registered shinobi section he searched the titles for any that would explain just why he couldn't break down some of the techniques while others he could understand easily. He wasn't having very much luck until he came across a scroll that was entitled 'The elements of chakra and how they affect hand seals.' which seemed to be an addition to the book that he had found earlier. Searching more deeply he found a scroll hidden at the back of a shelf that was titled 'Technique types and how they are different from one another.' Again searching the area he found a large book entitled 'Famous techniques from around the shinobi nations and how to know them when you see them.'

Taking these three scrolls back up to the front of the store he started figuring out what all of the books would cost him when he noticed that the second scroll that he had found wasn't listed on the price sheet that he had and that it wasn't listed as being available in the shop at all. Paying for the books that he could find the price he debated with himself for awhile before he took the scroll that he couldn't find the price for with him as well which wiped his savings down to almost nothing. Other than the supplies that he got from the academy and the supplies that he could make on his own he wouldn't be able to buy any more for awhile but luckily tomorrow was the day that he got his monthly stipend.

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Cat saw Naruto entering the store and curious as to what Naruto was going to do and followed. Seeing Naruto gathering the books for the next two years at the academy he was getting ready to show himself and arrest Naruto for stealing but wanted to wait until he actually had proof that he was stealing so he waited. Seeing the four items from the shinobi section he wondered just what Naruto wanted with them. As he saw Naruto pull out his toad wallet and pay the correct amount for all of the scrolls and books except for one from the shinobi section he relaxed because he had seen Naruto be thrown out of other stores before and obviously it wasn't that he wasn't going to pay. He was getting the books for the correct price and now that he thought about it he remembered the last scroll was one that normally wasn't available in civilian shops and that about two years ago a number of scrolls bound for one of the shinobi shops had been misdirected to this shop and that supposedly the merchant who ran the shop had run out of them shortly after. Thinking back he remembered that Naruto had found the scroll hidden in the shelf out of sight. Most likely the merchant didn't even know that the scroll was even there and Naruto had made a lucky find. Deciding that as long as Naruto had paid it wasn't theft Cat left as soon as Naruto did and decided not to report it because while it wasn't looked well upon Naruto had paid the correct amount for the things that he had taken so there wasn't any harm in it.

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After much thought and planning that night he decided that he would try and use what he had learned for at least several days by camping out on training ground thirty four which was the academy's assigned training field because it was right behind the academy. Training ground thirty four was well known because civilians and academy students both used it as well as foreign teams when the leaf village played host to the chūnin exams. During the academy break it was normally uninhabited except for the areas around the edge and occasionally the several areas in it that held training equipment. As the third largest training field in the leaf village it was mainly used by the academy for their physical exercises and for their survival training exercises. Packing up the things that he thought that he would need for the camping that he was going to do he put them in the bag that he normally used for the academy and left to find a good spot to camp for several days.

Finding a small clearing in the forest he started to set up a small camp like they had been taught in the academy and finding that he would need more supplies than what he had. Running back to the academy Naruto quickly entered the shed in the back where they stored most of the equipment for the survival exercises and grabbed a tent, cooking tools, several canteens, and one of the basic trap sets. Never realizing that like all of his previous entries this one had been seen he ran back to where he was setting up camp and finished setting up.

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Asuma Sarutobi was fresh back from the capital and freshly promoted to jonin and he was looking through the files of the next graduating class to see if there were any he would like to try and take as a team. Finding none he was exiting the academy he saw Naruto running off with the items that he had taken from the shed. As he had nothing better to do currently he followed and watched as Naruto set up a small basic camp complete with small traps and snares to catch game. Watching for a little while he saw Naruto gathering as many of the fruits and plants that were edible in the area as he could. Because Asuma knew that it was the start of break for the academy he wasn't too worried but decided to tell his father where Naruto was before he could start worrying. Forming the ram hand seal he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

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Reappearing in another swirl of leaves Asuma stood in front of the kage tower. Walking up the stairs he waved to the receptionist who waived him through. Opening the office door he saw his father working on the paperwork again and waited for him to finish with the document that he was working on.

"Asuma, what brings you here this morning?" Hiruzen said as he finally looked up from the paperwork. "Did you find any prospects in the next graduating class?"

"No, pops," Asuma said as he took the chair directly across from his father. "But I did see something interesting as I was leaving the academy that you would probably want to know about."

"Oh, and what would I find interesting?" Hiruzen asked his son as he folded his hands back into the sleeves of his robes.

"Naruto, taking some camping equipment from the storage shed behind the academy." Asuma said as he pulled out a cigarette and lit it with an almost neglect wave of his hand activating a small fire technique. "I also followed him back to his small camp site. He set up the camp correctly and then started gathering food from the area so he may be planning to stay there for awhile."

Thoughts began to fly around in Hiruzen's head at an alarming rate as he quickly pulled out his crystal ball and said, "Show me where Naruto is camping."

Giving directions to where Naruto was in the training ground Asuma watched as the crystal ball lit up from within and slowly moved about until it zoomed in on the small clearing that Naruto was staying in. Idly the thought that no matter how many times he had seen it in action his fathers crystal ball technique would always interest him because while at one point in time his father had tried to teach him how to perform it he had never been able to pull it off.

Zooming in on the small clearing they saw that Naruto had gathered some wood and dug a small fire pit that had an amount of wood already set up in it ready to be lit. Across the clearing from his tent Naruto had wrapped up the trunk of a tree in rope to use as a punching post and was currently setting up traps in the nearby river to catch fish. Sighing, Hiruzen turned his gaze to his son and asked, "What do you think that he is doing there?"

"With the way that most of the village treats him, he may just want to get away from it for awhile." Asuma said as he took the dead cigarette from his lips and pulled a fresh one from the pack in his pocket. "With the way that he set up his camp I think that he just wants to train for most of the break so it might be best to just have one of your anbu check up on him once every couple of days till he comes back to the village proper because he has the first three years of the academy's books with him in that tent."

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It took Naruto the first three days of camping to figure out where he had been going wrong with his attempts at jutsu. In one of the third year books it mentioned an exercise that consisted of moving chakra along the chakra network and as it was referring back, Naruto assumed that it was referring to an exercise that they were meant to learn in the second year at the academy because he knew for a fact that it hadn't been taught in class so far. After a while of searching he found the exercise and how it was supposed to work.

To use jutsu, a ninja runs chakra around the bodies chakra network and with the use of hand seals forms patterns from the chakra in its chakra network also known as chakra coils. The more a ninja uses jutsu the more that they adapt their body to the jutsu that they perform. Most higher tier jutsu require much greater chakra releases than young ninjas bodies can handle because along the chakra network are tenketsu or chakra points where chakra is released from the body and as the ninja gradually works on bigger and bigger techniques these points are gradually made wider and wider allowing for larger and larger techniques. The same could be said for reserves because by constantly using chakra and allowing the reserves to refill a ninja will be increasing the amount of chakra available to them. However there is a risk to this because at any given time the body only has a set limit to the amount of chakra that it has even if this amount is constantly increasing due to training. Using too much chakra can have many negative impacts on the body and can lead to the ninja destroying their own body if they train too hard or use too much chakra.

Running through the exercise he found that it was much easier than the books said it would be and that by the end of his first time doing it that he could already use the camping fire technique. The technique was designed to use minimal chakra because of sensors that could be searching for the user. In his books that were for the third year of the academy, Naruto had found out how to reduce the smoke from his fire as well as a number of wild plants that could be used to flavor his other food. After that first fire technique he couldn't get any of his other techniques to work not even another of the one that he had gotten to work. Several minutes into this Naruto slapped his head as an idea occurred to him from what he had previously read. The exercise that had allowed him to perform the technique had written as part of the directions that it may take several iterations over several days to get the technique correct and that while some of them may seem to work the exercise was in fact forcing the body to activate the chakra network and that some bodies were more resistant to this than others. In other words some people would have an easy time activating the chakra network and others would have a harder time. How hard it was to activate he chakra coils was completely dependant on the size of the reserve because the larger the reserve of chakra the harder it was to activate.

Two days of trying the exercise allowed him to hit what the scroll had said was a halfway point in activating his chakra coils. After that he could perform most of the camping techniques although apparently he massively overcharged the lightning one that was supposed to give light for reading. When he had done the technique there had been a huge flash of light and he had nearly blinded himself with it.

It had taken nearly a whole week after that event that he was able to complete the exercise as it had been intended with his whole chakra network active and able to be used. Learning all thirty of the academy level techniques didn't take very long after that, although he still did have trouble with about four of them. Henge, clones, and the two minor genjutsu that they taught in the academy were techniques that he just couldn't perform. Rereading through the techniques and their descriptions he was surprised to find that the answer had been staring him in the face all afternoon. It had taken him a week and a half to complete the exercise that would allow him to use chakra normally while the book had said that normally the exercise would be completed in three or four day at a maximum. That pointed to a very large chakra reserves and one of the other books had said that the larger the reserve the harder it would be to control the smaller jutsu as well as almost all genjutsu because they needed more control than power.

With that problem solve he pulled out the scroll that detailed the different chakra control exercises that he had gotten on his first trip to the bookstore. Seeing the first exercise was the leaf sticking exercise he plucked a leaf from a nearby tree and began trying to hold it to his forehead with his chakra.

After thirty minutes of failure with the exercise because the leaf kept blowing off because of to much chakra Naruto decided to look at the next exercise in the scroll. The next exercise was called tree walking and it went into an explanation on how it was possible and why it worked. Wasting no more time Naruto started up the nearest tree and made it three steps before he was blown backwards into the ground.

Several hours later he was making fair progress up the tree or at least not blowing off of it quite as badly as he had when he started. Another week passed with him working on the tree climbing exercise as well as studying the books that he had with him. He still wasn't very good at the exercise but then again he was a third of the way up the tree before he would be blown off. He had read all of the books that he had with him at least once and forced himself to understand what was contained in them.

After the hand seal book and the elements of chakra books he decided that with all of the differences that maybe he should try each hand seal combination and write what they did to his chakra so that when he went to create jutsu he could use the information that he learned now to make it easier. Taking a blank journal that he had gotten with all of the other books he took the first twelve pages and wrote out the names for the twelve standard hand signs and after consulting the scroll about them he wrote down everything that he knew about them in a simpler format. Forming each hand sign he concentrated on the pattern that it formed in his chakra and what he thought it could do. From there he used another large part of the journal to record what he found out that the combinations of two or three hand seals did to his chakra. As he was starting on four hand seals he found himself unwillingly creating techniques with the hand seal because at that point the chakra needed an outlet because he couldn't control the larger patterns that formed in his chakra. As soon as he used four seals his body that wasn't ready for it caused him to spit out a huge mouthful of mud. Recording that on a scroll he started back on chakra control.

Two weeks of playing around with his techniques in the morning and working on his chakra control in the afternoon led him to completing the tree walking exercise and coming back to the leaf floating exercise. Now better able to keep the flow of his chakra he wasn't blowing the leaf off quite as often as he had before. Another gain was that his hand seal journal had much more filled in on each hand seal and how it worked from what his experimentation had revealed. Beyond that he had also accidentally discovered another hand seal that wasn't present in any of his books or scrolls. When it had happened he had been so surprised that he had released a burst of chakra in to the hand seal and watched amazed as a small sapling in front of him suddenly burst upward to almost three times its starting height and started flowering. His amazement grew as the flowers fell and fruits grew in in seconds. Picking one of the fruit that he recognized from his survival book as edible but not currently in season he bit into the fruit and found it much richer than any of the other fruits that he had gathered from the forest. Taking a new journal he had recorded it as well as how each of the twelve other hand seals that he had known before affected it.

The accidental discovery of that one hand seal set him off on trying his hands in every position that he could think of until he lost his concentration while holding his fingers in a cross shaped seal. A burst of chakra flared through the seal and with a large puff of smoke he was standing in front of two copies of himself with no idea of how he had done it. Writing down how he thought he had done it he started to go back to trying random hand positions to see if he could find any more new seals when he felt slightly lightheaded and flopped back down to the ground and fell asleep from the chakra exhaustion that he had unknowingly caused himself.

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From deep within Naruto, the nine tailed fox watched these events with some boredom. The fox knew that because of the technique that had been used to imprison him here the death god had a hand upon his soul. As soon as Naruto died he would be judge upon life that he had lived so for the last seven and some years he had spent waiting and only helping the boys natural healing every once in awhile. He had also heightened two portions of Naruto's personality that he thought would make his imprisonment at least more enjoyable. Oddly enough his love of pranking people and his large appetite were genetic and Kyuubi had increased both only to ram his head against the bars of his cage in annoyance when he saw that he had unknowingly increased the genetic ramen addiction that his former container had also had much to his annoyance. But for now he was running through his favorite memories from the past both his own as well as his previous containers. He really hopped that Naruto would learn the art of the prank soon because there were only so many times that he could run through his memories before his bloodlust got the better of him. Although his new container was doing something interesting at least, and guiding his mind into accidentally recreating the shadow clone technique was very fun. Now if only he could guide Naruto to name it with its actual name, that would set up a situation later that would be amusing at least.

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Waking up the next morning he ate more than three times what he normally ate and thought back to the strange dreams that all seemed to revolve around two red haired women pulling pranks at various ages. Getting back to his normal schedule, Naruto started through more random hand placements until he had run across several more that pulled his chakra into patterns. Thinking about the new patterns when he compared them to the twelve common hand seals patterns he could only determine that the new hand seals that he was running across had weaker patterns. The weaker patterns were harder to sense when they were compared to the stronger patterns that belonged to the twelve basic hand seals. Finally running out of new ways to place his hands he started back on the first hand seal that he had discovered. Naruto started adding the twelve basic hand seals to it and watching the patterns form. Dutifully watching the patterns he records what he thinks that they will do, Naruto came to the conclusion that while this hand seal might be connected to the wood style anyone without the bloodline for it would just be generating growth in nearby plants, or that there might be something that he didn't know about it. Considering that his experimentation included causing fruit trees to grow as well as other edible plants Naruto wasn't going to complain because his campsite had been rapidly moving toward being uninhabitable. He had cleared out most of the edibles readily available in the area and on his last food gathering trip he had had to go quite a bit further than usual to get the food for the next several days.

Moving on to the next hand seals he continued experimenting with them in the morning and working on his chakra control in the afternoon. This process took up the next two weeks until he got to that odd cross shaped hand seal and decided to experiment more on it. Channeling a fair amount of chakra through the seal he was rewarded with a puff of smoke and a clone formed.

The last two weeks were largely confined to working on his chakra control and working on the clone jutsu that he decided to call the shadow clone jutsu until he ether thought of a better name or when he found out another name for it.

Two days were left until the academy was due to start back and Naruto would start his second year there. Packing up his camp Naruto was surprised that with all of the things that he had gathered he had more to carry than he could carry on his own. Creating two shadow clones he sent one off to return the academy's property that he had borrowed while he and the other gathered his things to take back to his apartment with the clone taking a different path than he was taking because of the possibility of being popped. During his training with the clones he found out that whatever they learned he learned as well as the fact that for all that they were solid and could use jutsu was a bonus but the fact that they would dispel in one hit was somewhat annoying. On his way back to his apartment Naruto received the memories of the clone that was returning the camping equipment. Opening the door he found his apartment trashed and with new graffiti on the walls and he was glad that he had gone camping over the break and that he had hidden all of his more important possessions that he didn't take with him. Resetting the traps around his apartment Naruto started getting everything ready for his next year at the academy while mentally adding a book on basic seals when he could afford it. All of the time that he had left until the next year of the academy was used and he was looking forward to another year at the academy.