As he continues to observe the scroll, the green strands in his mind starts to fade away. Slowly as if waking up from a deep slumber, he slowly starts being aware of his current situation. However despite this, observing his actions one would feel that they are haphazard, for he felt no apprehension of being dumped into another world let alone assuming the identity of a fictional character. Analyzing his current predicament, he frowned. From the moment he woke up in this foreign world and the first conclusion he was forced to come to was to not think about his current predicament. Any sane person would be scared witless yet why am I excited? Even more importantly why am I accepting the fact that I am Naruto? This doesn't make sense, unless...
For the next 10 minutes, he continues to dwell on this and came to three hypothesis due to his memory being the only source.
1. He believes that during the period that the white light shone on him, certain mental maybe even physical changes could have been made. Those changes were maybe made to nullify any forms of anxiety or fear. However it is still to be known to the extent of these changes.
2. The green strands were responsible for his actions a short while ago. As if they were some sort of intermediary. However it is still to be proved whether they are detrimental or incremental. Also it is still to be proved whether or whether not these stands completely disappeared.
3. The final theory is by all means is the easiest to prove with time, not only has the original body of Naruto has fused with Steve's mind; Naruto's mind too has fused with him. However it is still to be seen the extent of this fusion. There are three ways to prove this theory. Firstly the strands of memories which appeared his mind. Secondly the fact that there has been seemingly no change to the Nine-tails seal (presumably) and finally subconsciously accepting the fact that he is Naruto.
As to who or what is responsible for his changes, it is still beyond his comprehension. Well right now there is little that I could do about it. Time to move on I guess and take this second chance at life with a new identity. Hereby I will be Naruto; his hopes and dreams being my own, my past and my mind his. Ultimately to live a life with no regrets. With that resolve, he assumes the lotus position and inhales, closing his mind off to the environment and starts focusing on his chakra. He focuses on those slight distortions and notices that these distortions follow a certain pattern, which leads to his navel. As I thought these are caused by the Nine Tails.
Suddenly he appears before a gigantic gate with a small seal at its center, looking around he only see the wet floor otherwise he seems to be in dark and a spacious room. He only hears the sound of water droplets falling onto the floor and sounds of breathing from across the gate. A red flash illuminates the room, blinding him for a few seconds. As he slowly opens his eyes, he sees a dark red miasma which had a shape of a fox. Its red eyes looking down at him in a condescending manner; its teeth curled to a snarl.
"Oh, it seems like we meet finally puny human." The red miasma snarls. "Let me introduce myself I am the Nine Tailed Fox, you dare appear before my presence! "As he finishes his last syllable, he emits a frightening aura towards Naruto. His pupils shrink at the sudden aggressiveness. The overbearing nature of that vile aura suffocated him making him unable to breath. His hand trembling before the might of this age old beast. I shall not kneel, I shall not yield and I shall triumph. He remained resolute and out of the deep recesses of his mind a white light began illuminate the darkness which was rapidly consuming him. Suddenly the tables were turned, the white aura made its presence known. It illuminated the surroundings, blinding both the fox and the little human.
As the baleful aura dissipates, Naruto regained his senses. The white light concentrated to a form, a form of a human with a height of around 6 feet however he could not make out his out features, yet displaying a majesty rivalling that to a deity. As the white image formed, the nine tails could only gape at him in awe. The white image then teleported before the seal, laying his palm before it and once again illuminating the surroundings before disappearing once again. This sort of answers my first theory but this is beyond what I imagined.
The Nine tails stares at Naruto as if he has seen the most amusing little toy he has ever seen. "Hoo how amusing, a little ant with such a vast potential. It would be an amusing sight indeed. Though I wonder whether he would ever as great as he was. Looks like our time is up, until next time little ant.." As he utters the last word the cage disappears only to have Naruto appear back to his own world.
With that he opens his eyes and observes that his shadow clones are carrying out their orders. Another observation was that he could feel that his chakra reserves have increased and at the same time he could sense chakra. Wait is this even possible? What on earth was that? From what I saw even the Nine Tails was humbled before the white light/image. Oh well, since I have another 3 hours left let's try the multiple shadow clone jutsu.
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He disperses his previous clones, gathers his chakra and then executes the hand sign he then roars "Multiple Shadow Clone jutsu!" and as he uttered the last syllable he felt 30 percent of his chakra drain and then hundreds of clone appeared before him. Hold on, has my comprehension speed increased and what is with the monstrous level of chakra regeneration. I could easily cast this technique. Currently there are is exactly 1500 clones. This is just ridiculous. Hold on, the reason why I summoned the 4 previous clones was simple. It was to merely get used to this body. However what would two hours was accomplished within 15 minutes according to the information from the clones. Let's see... why don't we conduct a mass training session.
He then looked at his clones. He decided to create 3 groups of 500 and then set the following commands. For the next two hours one group was made to do the tree climbing exercise. Another group to do the leaf concentration test. He then commanded the final group to go for an all-out brawl. So each clone would at least train for a time span of 1 hour therefore each group would at least have 500 hours of training. I better switch between groups every 20 minutes.
And so the 1501 ninjas labored away, climbing and falling from tree, concentrating their chakra to a single point and honing their battle skills. However during this intense training he still did not feel any form of fatigue. But what he did not notice was deep inside his soul rotates two orbs, white and green, giving out voracious amount of chakra which his body absorbs at a staggering pace.
Well it must be past two hours now. Suddenly he hears his stomach grumbling loudly. Goddammit I am hungry. Sigh, let's get this over with and what is with my stomach anyway, that more an explosion than a grumble. Grumbling to himself, he stands up. Well not much time left now, better get to the place where Mizuki shows up. As he makes his way through the forest, he recalls the training from the Multiple Shadow Clone jutsu. He notices that despite the insane nature of his training he is brimming with energy.
However when gets closer to the location, he starts hearing a verbal confrontation between two individuals. One distinctly is the voice of Iruka sensei, while the other being Mizuki. Oh interesting turn of events. In the main series it was Naruto and Iruka who first meet, I guess that there maybe a few differences. Interesting if we were to see how events would play out this time around.Hopefully the sequence of events won't change drastically.. He observes the surroundings and observes how the area around those is an open area of width of around 50 metres and then formulates a plan. He summons six clones at a safe distance away from the two. When all six clones appear he points at the 5 clones from the furthest to the right then he commands, "You five are to throw your kunai and separate Mizuki from Iruka sensei, when I raise my hand. The remaining one throw a smoke bomb when there is sufficient distance between the two. Now go hide on top of 6 trees where you could get a clear aim and where you could see my signal."
After the 6 clone take their positions he then makes his way towards the two instructors. He notices the lack of reaction towards his well second life and death situation. As he makes his way he shouts "Ah Mizuki sensei, Iruka sensei look look I could use the jutsu in this scroll does that mean I pass, does that mean-", Mizuki then turned towards Naruto with a crazed look in his blue green eyes and retorted "You fool, you really think that you are capable enough to perform such a jutsu, it was all a lie. A lie so that you could do my dirty work for me, Iruka you damned fool your parents were killed by that monster, the nine tails and yet you take his side, how pathetic. Oh well kindly give me the scroll and die, die being my scapegoat." As his ridiculous laugh echoed through the night, Naruto finally raised his hand. Kunais from 5 directions rained down and Naruto yelled with all his might "Iruka sensei get away from Mizuki" and as the distance between them was 50 meters, the last clone threw his smoke-bomb at Mizuki. Finally Naruto roared with resolution, "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu".
Hundreds of shadow clones appeared out of nowhere swarming Mizuki whose countenance pale with fright. Naruto then, pointing at Mizuki, roared "Charge" and with that hundreds of clones beat down on him, pummeling him for a good part of an hour. The final result was a bloody mess of a man sprawled all over the floor. His face beaten black and blue, his ninja outfit in tatters as he remains unconscious.