The next morning Naruto didn't wake up early like every day .
He only reached the training ground around 8 and didn't train his physical strength today.
Kakashi thought that since it was the last day before a while, he would meet him earlier today. But when he noticed that Naruto didn't come, he went to his house and saw him a sleep
After asking the Anbu, they said that he practiced the leaf for some time before failing a sleep early. So Kakashi thought that yesterday training was more tiring than he thought and left him to sleep.
The Anbu didn't tell Kakashi about the kyubi chakra outburst. So Kakashi didn't say anything to him.
After Naruto reached the training ground
He looked at Kakashi and said with embarrassment
"Sorry Kakashi sensei, I overslept"
Kakashi closed the book he started to read recently and said.
"Good, you trained very hard yesterday so some rest is always advisable."
Naruto then continued practicing tree climbing technique after a while however a guest suddenly arrived.
Naruto saw it Hiruzen and said.
"Hey, Hokage granpa. This is Kakashi sensei. He is training me how to climb the tree."
Kakashi looked at Hiruzen and wondered why he would come here today.
Hiruzen smiled at Naruto words and said.
"Good, keep practicing well . Kakashi is a fine shinobi and he was genius when he was young."
"Yeah, I know "
Naruto replied subconsciously.
At the same time in the mental space, kurama was laughing, while the others were worried.
Naruto realized that he had a slip of tongue and immediately closed his eyes and entered the mental space.
Jack appeared in front him and said to him
" transfer your chakra and be fast."
Naruto remembering the 99% amount from yesterday. Transfered it immediately.
Hiruzen and Kakashi were taken back, then Hiruzen continued.
"Oh, who did you hear that from."
(Naruto) opened his eyes and looked at Hiruzen then lowered his head again.
Hiruzen looked at him and asked.
"Did someone tell you about him in your dream?."
(Naruto) immediately opened his eyes and looked surprised at Hiruzen.
"How did you know?."
Hiruzen smiled kindly and said.
"I just guessed. But didn't you promise me that you wouldn't enter that place."
(Naruto) looked guilty and said nothing.
Hiruzen looked at (Naruto) and said with a solemn voice.
"Naruto, the monster in that dream is dangerous. His invitation to you was meant to lead you in and bewitch you.
As you're still young , it might manipulate you easily."
While Hiruzen was speaking with (Naruto), he didn't notice that (Naruto) was taken back when he heard the word invitation.
It suddenly clicked with (Naruto). Jack cursed himself for missing such an important detail. So Hiruzen grew suspicious because of the invitation that unlike the typically proud kurama.
How long have Hiruzen been paying attention to Naruto after their conversation. But when he understood what Hiruzen's purpose is , he knew that that he couldn't delay answering anymore.
So he immediately looked at Hiruzen with a nervous face and said.
"I didn't really want to go there and talk to it. But I suddenly found myself there."
Hiruzen looked at Naruto and then asked.
"Calm down. I believe you. So What did you talk about, then?"
"It said that he knew that I hate the village and it also hated the village and wanted to destroy it so he asked me to remove the seal that trapping him and he will destroy it ."
Hiruzen looked grim and said.
"So, what was your reply."
"I told him that my parents were heroes that died protecting this village and I will never allow him to destroy it. I also...."
Hiruzen looked pleased and said.
"It's okay, what else . You can tell me anything."
(Naruto) looked ashamed and said.
"I also wanted to attack it and kill it, but I was too scared to move."
Hiruzen laughed as he heard that.
"You don't have to look ashamed, fear makes the one aware of his weakness and that will make him try to get stronger."
"Yeah, I will absolutely become more stronger than it in the future and defend the village."
"Hahahaha, good. So what else did he tell you."
"He laughed at me too. And said how I would that when I'm this weak. I told him that I will train hard under Kakashi sensei and defeat him.
But he laughed even harder saying that even your Kakashi sensei himself escaped when he saw me. Even when he is called a young genius, he can only hidevwith his tail behind legs when he saw me leaving his teacher, his wife and their child to defend for themselves."
Kakashi face turned grim as he heard that.
Hiruzen also felt bad as the conversation turned dark and in a direction that he didn't like.but he said with a calm voice.
"Then what."
(Naruto) said with an angry face.
"I told him he was lying and Kakashi sensei would never do that. I also told that I will become the Hokage in the future and defeat him when I grow up. Then I got out telling him that I don't want to talk to him again ."
Hiruzen stayed silent for a long time then said .
"Good job Naruto. You did will. You will become a great shinobi in the future if you keep up such a strong spirit.
Kakashi, you must train Naruto well so that he can defeat that monster in the future."
Kakashi looked at Hiruzen who had a serious look at his face and knew what he meant.
"Understood, Hokage sama."
(Naruto) at this time asked.
"Granpa, did that monster really attack the village before?. I thought this was a dream but you seemed to think that he is real."
Hiruzen looked at (Naruto) and said.
"It's true, Naruto. Your parents also died in his hand. But the fourth hokage defeated him in the end."
(Naruto) eyes widened as if he was shocked and said.
"The fourth Hokage must be really strong to defeat such a strong monster."
"Yeah he was. Although he sacrificed his life to defeat it, his will has been passed down to others like Kakashi here and others who will defend the village in the future."
"But granpa, why does it always come to me. Also it seemed like a big fox. Is he the fox spirit . Is he the reason why everyone hate me."
Hiruzen knew that Naruto will ask this questions someday and he had prepared answers for him .
"Naruto, you are too young right now to understand. But right now you are still too young to tell you. So when you become a shinobi in the future I will tell everything."
(Naruto) stayed silent for a while and then said.
"Okay, I understand."
"Good, then I will then as I have another matter to attend."
"Wait granpa Hokage, I have a question . Do you have any idea how to spend my chakra quickly."
"Oh, why do you want to spend your chakra quickly?."
"Kakashi sensei said that kids with low chakra reserve will have easier time controlling their chakra. So I thought I would just have to spend mine then training chakra control will be easier. But then I thought that Kakashi sensei would have told me if he knew so i just thought to ask you as Kakashi said that the Hokage is the strongest person in the village."
"Hahahaha, Kakashi. Thank you for the compliment but I'm now quite old and you young people will surely surpass us in the future.
And Naruto don't worry, Kakashi knows more ninjutsu than I do so of course he will teach you, he might just have thought you are too young to use ninjutsu but I'm sure it's gonna be okay.
I will take my leave then, Kakashi take care of Naruto."
Hiruzen left after saying those words and Kakashi and (Naruto) were left alone.
Kakashi was still reminiscing about his teacher when he heard (Naruto) say.
"Kakashi sensei, Do you really have an idea how to exhaust my chakra quickly.?"
Kakashi snapped from his memories and looked at (Naruto) and said.
"Yes. But it's a b class technique so you should be careful when you use it. Also don't use it alone until I give you my permission."
"Understood."
Just as Kakashi stood up to demonstrate the technique , Jack switched with Naruto again after giving back his chakra to let Naruto learn the new technique.
This was a crucial step for Naruto to legally learn the technique which is the shadow clone ninjutsu. But Jack still no accustomed to Naruto's body so he left it.
After he entered he saw kushina, Minato and kurama faces were unnatural.
Jack asked with confusion.
"What's wrong, why the grim faces."
Minato spoke with somewhat a high tone.
"Was that necessary, you have shamed Kakashi and if it weren't that kushina and I distracted Naruto, he would have known the truth about our death. You shouldn't have done that."
Jack stayed silent for a while then said.
"I understand what you mean but it was necessary. Kakashi has been wasting his time and needed a wake up call. As for Naruto, don't worry as I plan to resurrect you two."
Kushina and Minato was taken back and asked.
"How and when did you plan to do this.?"
"When I became aware of this world. But before we continue, why are you angry too kurama."
Looking at kurama who seemed to be about to explode.
"How dare you make me look like a third grade villain. You have tarnished my good name. I have never once tried to manipulate children, I always gave them chance to try to overcome their darkness and mine. I have never attacked humans but you attacked me and imprisoned me so Can't I retaliate."
Jack covered his ears with his hands as the voice was too loud. After kurama finished he replied.
"I'm sorry, I didn't have a choice.I could give excuses that because it was an urgent situation and I couldn't come up with a better story. But my brain always goes to the easiest lie that's mixed with the truth.
I promise that I will never do something like this again."
Kurama suddenly laughed.
"Hahahaha, I don't really care what those people think of me. I just wanted to see if I can fool you into thinking that I'm angry. I was surprised by the way you looked genuine in each reaction that I wanted to try it.
But you should be sorry, you should have made look a better villain than that. Why would I care if Kakashi run away or not.
Would you pay attention to which ant you destroy if you were me.?"
Jack smiled helplessly as he realized that kurama was just displeased that he tainted as a weak villain.
"I had to bring Kakashi name to justify Naruto's slip."
"Well that's true. He is three years old after all."
"It doesn't matter. He will learn to be careful."
Kushina then interrupted their talk as she asked.
"Jack, how do you plan to bring us back alive again."
"I hadn't thought about that for now but I think we will need to bring back previous Hokages too.
It's not on a whim that I said that but something we need to do.
Outsutsuki clan is a conqueror clan making their forces unknown and we will need every help we can get. Don't try to look at Boruto that we will be safe if he is with us.
As we change things here, Outsutsuki clan may increase the people they send.
The original future maybe taken as a reference not absolute. Especially farther and farther in the future. Because as we keep changing things, the things we know will also be altered.
Look at Naruto situation. Just a simple invitation from kurama that we thought nothing about, caused such a strong reaction from the third Hokage because he felt like it was suspicious.
So I don't dare to underestimate the people of the ninja world."
Kushina and Minato nodded. Yeah if the third Hokage reaction was this strong from one fleeting word, how about those people who spent years in the dark scheming.
Minato eyes showed that he understood and then asked again.
"Okay, I understand. But are you sure that you manged to convince the third Hokage at least.?"
"Not sure . We still need to be careful. The old man kept calm the whole conversation and he might sensed some inconstancy in my story as I came up with it on the spot. So for now let's hope for the best but be cautious about the worst."
Meanwhile on the outside.
Naruto learned the shadow clone ninjutsu from Kakashi and was fascinated by it.
"Kakashi sensei, this is awesome. If you know about such technique you should have taken it earlier .
Now What to do to deplete my chakra.?"
Kakashi however shook his head.
"No, don't do that. Release two more shadow clones and let them start climbing trees. The experience feedback from shadow clones will be helpful to you and their chakra amount will be weakened greatly."
"Exfoliating feedback? What's that."
Kakashi hold his hand so not to hit him and released a shadow clone. Then said.
"Let a shadow clone go with my shadow clone into the forest."
"Okay, you go."
Naruto picked a clone that moved to the forest with Kakashi's one.
"Mmm, now what."
"We wait."
"For what?"
"You will understand after a while."
"Understand what"
Kakashi felt a thread snapped in his head and started yelling.
"What , what , what. Can't you calmly wait for 1 minute. Are you a racoon?. As shinobi you should be calm all the time."
Naruto, the main body said.
"Kakashi sensei, I only asked the first question, the other two were from the shadow clones."
Kakashi looked at Naruto then at the shadow clones who has a mischievous smiles on their face and sighed.
"This gonna be along day."
At this moment the memories feedback came.
It turned out that naruto and Kakashi played rock paper sessiors and Naruto while betting on the loser treating the winner for ramen.Kakashi lost while Naruto won.
When the memory came, Kakashi asked Naruto.
"Did get the memories of the clones?."
Naruto smiled happily and said.
"Yeah, Kakashi sensei will treat me to ramen."
Kakashi looked tired and asked.
"That's not the point. I mean you know what the shadow clone did even though you didn't see it. That's what what we call experience feedback. So when the shadow clone tries to climb the tree, if they fail because of a mistake , you will understand why it failed and try to correct the mistake ."
Naruto finally understood so he nodded.
"Oh, I understand. But you will still treat me to ramen , right?."
Kakashi exhausted said while crying inside.
"Yeah, I will still treat you to ramen. Now make another shadow clone and let them all start climbing the trees."
Naruto said happily.
"Yosh, then after we finish training , we will eat ramen together."
Kakashi looked at Naruto naive smile and smiled back.
"Good. Let's start."
Naruto made another clone and moved them to different trees but Kakashi stopped him.
"Naruto, only the shadow clones will climb the trees. You will only need to keep releasing shadow clones."
Naruto was about to ask why but Kakashi said.
"Just do as i say for now."
Naruto replied.
"Okay."
Naruto looked at the shadow clones climbing the trees and then fall to their death.
Naruto got the experience but Kakashi said.
"Again, this time make six."
Naruto was confused but did as he was told.
But the cycle continued with Kakashi increased the numbers of shadow clones each time.
After some time naruto felt his chakra was exhausted . Only then did Kakashi said to stop.
"Okay, we got the base line for you. You will create 110 clones to climb trees.10 at each time.
After that you will refine chakra and repeat.
This way you can train safely even when I'm not there with you."
Naruto understood that Kakashi was teaching him how to train without him because his main body will be hurt if he climb trees and fall.
"But Naruto, you have to understand that training like this very dangerous and you might die. Because shadow clones exhaust your spiritual energy as well.
So to know how many times you can withstand spiritual energy consumption, you will keep going like this today .
Naruto looked confused.
Kakashi looked at him and said.
"Just start refining chakra."
Naruto did as he was told but after using shadow clones for the fifth time and refining chakra four times, he seemed spent and tired.
"Okay, now we know your limits. You can use shadow clones for training 5 times a day with each time you use 110 shadow clones before starting to refine your chakra . Do you understand.?"
"I understand "
Naruto spent said while feeling a little dizzy.
"Good, now let's eat before you go home to rest."
After eating, Naruto gained some strength and asked.
"Kakashi sensei, how long will you be gone for?."
"I don't know. Maybe one to two weeks."
"What, that long?"
"Yeah, you probably would have finished tree climbing so I will also show you now water walking as well, but you will only start training after you complete tree climbing. Also don't forget to constantly try leaf concentration exercises. It will be very helpful for you specifically because you will need fine control of chakra to successfully do it."
Naruto nodded his as he said.
"I understand."
After which Kakashi showed water walking then left him to rest.