Chapter 26 - Progress (2)

Walking out of the tower, Naruto decided to head to a lake. When he arrived, he looked around to make sure no one was there and screamed at the top of his lungs. After the scream, he jumped into the lake and stayed there as much as his body let him. When he was underwater, the cool water helped chill his rage-filled thoughts and Naruto felt better.

Getting out of the water, he saw a small silhouette looking at him blankly. He quietly observed Naruto and Naruto did the same back. Naruto immediately recognized him and just walked passed him, not bothering to acknowledge his existence. Avoiding morons. That's one of Naruto's philosophies.

?: "Why did you scream and then jump in the lake?" Naruto acted like he didn't hear a thing and continued walking. He took off his shirt and decided to dry it, only to be attacked from above from the person he ignored before. With this his battle instincts at a decent level, Naruto automatically reacted to it and dodged by squatting. Looking up quickly and seeing that it was a leg, he grabbed it tightly and spun at great speeds. Only after the 10th rotation did he smash the person down over his head then jumped on him with a hard punch directly to the stomach, making his opponent throw up a little. Seeing the person in pain, he grabbed him by his head pulled him up from the ground.

His opponent's body was like a ragdoll as it lightly swang left and right. Naruto brought him close enough to whisper in his ear.

Naruto: "Don't mess with me Uchiha. I'll make you regret it." Relaxing his grip on his head, Naruto let him fall. Naruto felt that he didn't do enough so he punched the Uchiha in the stomach as he was falling to the ground which resulted in him throwing up again as he was flying away. "That felt good." said Naruto as he clenched and unclenched his fist. "I should go into fights more."

[No you shouldn't.]

Naruto: "Why?"

[Because violence without purpose is just violence. Trust me. if you want to prove that you're nothing but a small-brained barbarian, then what you did previously to that kid is the perfect action to take.]

Naruto: "Hey man! I thought you were on my side."

[I am. I just don't want you to simply attack people because you feel like it. That's not the meaning of my existence.]

Naruto: "Whatever." He rolled his eyes. "He deserved it."

[Because he did beat you up once, I'll let it go for now.]

Naruto: "Haha thanks." Walking home, he realized that he didn't have groceries so he decided to "obtain" some today. When he was done with his task, he decided to dump everything he "bought" in his apartment and go to the library.

As he walked to the library, he decided to follow a shinobi to the restroom and stole his headband without the shinobi noticing. Stealth was slowly becoming his favorite skill to use. Transforming to an ȧduŀt after the shinobi left, he decided wear the headband and go to the library once more.

Before he left the restroom, he made different clones of males and females so that some would occupy the civilian section of the library meanwhile the others will take the shinobi section to study with Naruto. Naruto's plan is that all of them would go out one by one so that it would look less suspicious. For the females, however, they would just wear something that will cover their body and face until they go through an alley way where they can wear their original clothing.

Naruto learned from his previous mistakes when he dealt with that stalker a few days ago. He made many people go out at once and that was highly suspicious. The following day, he realized how stupid his plan really was and how stupid the person who was following him was as well.

In the Anbu Headquarters, a purple-haired Anbu sneezed while the Anbu Commander was briefing the other Anbus of the next mission. Everyone looked at the purple-haired Anbu who felt a little embarrassed. Putting her head down, she decided to slowly walk to the back so that she doesn't get noticed.

Night time came and Naruto decided that it was time to head back. He was starving and physical exhaustion was still a thing for him. Mentally though, he was perfectly fine. Giving the sign to his clones to leave, he himself also prepared to leave.

That specific clone was extremely shocked and looked around to his partner as to what to do but the other clone didn't know what to do either. Seeing that they had no plan, they both simply bolted.

The child on the other hand was extremely confused as he walked home. His father who he only saw a picture of appeared in front of him and ran away. Feeling a little sad, he decided to go tell his mother about his encounter. His mother was shocked at what her child told her but then she calmed down and realized that it was impossible for the dead to be alive. The mother started to remember the night of when the Nine-tails appeared.

As Naruto was about to open his apartment door, he was hit with the memories of the encounter his clone had with the random child. This normally wouldn't worry him but what if his clones randomly transformed into a person who was either an enemy by accident or someone who was already dead? Then he would get exposed!

He quickly went in and smashed the door behind him. Gamer's Mind calmed him down quickly and he once again possessed rational thoughts.

Naruto: "I should be more careful next time."

[Do you want to see the notifications you missed?]

Naruto: "Yeah. Anything to get my mind off of the little accident."

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