Naruto continues to contemplate on his current dilemma. His objective to create a wind chakra around his body. However just exerting is chakra does not serve any purpose. His current method of doing so is using one single strand of chakra around his body. However he is not able to effectively scatter it around his body, causing him to over exert his chakra, creating a distortion and cause an explosion. What I lack currently is balance; a system which would prevent a distortion despite how much chakra I exert. He drew his gaze down towards the busy streets down below and furrowed his eyebrows.

I should first meld wind chakra to the rasengan; then observe for any hint which I could use. Besides I should have done this before in the first place. Sighing to himself he continued to observe his surroundings in silence for another hour and called it day.

......

Two days later in the dream world, he opened his eyes after five hours of meditation. Then he proceeded to continue with molding his wind chakra with the rasengan. As he continues to fail in combining chakra nature with shape manipulation, he tries to theorize his failure. He then creates a normal rasengan.

He then observes it closely to get an in depth analysis as to how the chakra keeps its shape. The chakra here rotates clockwise. However I've been trying to add wind chakra along the same direction in the same quantity, yet why do I fail? Why don't I meld in the wind chakra to the opposing direction with the same amount of quantity as an ordinary rasengan and see the result?

Gathering his wind chakra, he adds it to the rasengan, this time rotating it the opposite direction. However instead of losing its shape and exploding, he notes how it slowly blends into the rasengan. How could I be so stupid? To retain the spherical shape of the rasengan, both forces must be equal and must be rotating in opposing directions. In other words, I cannot treat the chakra in the rasengan and the elemental chakra as the same even though they originate from the same system.

Smiling at his final product, he thrusts it to the ground. A blinding explosion occurs upon contact and leaves a crater with a radius of 7 meters with a depth of 2 meters. Observing the result of his new jutsu, he starts laughing. So let's see whether is works with the jutsu I've been trying to create. Taking a deep breath, he gathers his chakra. This time instead of using just wind chakra, he combines ordinary chakra and wind chakra. Using shape manipulation he wove threads of chakra around his his body. Then he started adding equal amounts of wind chakra while rotating it is in the opposite direction what regular chakra is flowing. He exhaled and increased his output, however instead of bursting out into an explosion, the wind chakra formed a layer around him, with wind rotating around him, constantly entwining together forming an armor around him.

He exhales and releases the jutsu. Better test the jutsu tomorrow morning, I've run out of time for today

Grinning like an absolute idiot, he starts dancing around. Hahahaha I've just created my first jutsu. Ah I gotta meet up with Hinata after tomorrow's mission. The familiar green flash illuminated the world and once again Naruto fell into a slumber.

Waking up before daybreak, Naruto donning his orange jumpsuit left towards the outskirts of town. After doing his usual morning sprints, he headed towards the training grounds. Instead of doing his usual physical training, he activated his wind armor. With a feral grin, he broke out into a sprint, however not used to sudden gain in speed he lost his balance and crashed into the ground. He broke out into a wild laughter and got up. Activating the armor gain, he broke into a sprint again, however he gathered chakra into the soles of his feet to steady himself; this time instead of tumbling he flew across the training ground at a breakneck speed. After flashing around the entire ground for a few minutes, he charged at a nearby tree and kicked it. Upon impact, his foot slashed through three and the remains of tree were sliced into tiny piece of wood as it came in contact with the wind.

This jutsu definitely uses the finer points of wind. It propels the user forwards while he is moving and also drastically reduces factors like friction and air resistance making the user feel like he is flying. Also this attack power is truly terrifying, the wind around me also act like blades, dramatically increasing its power. I should find out its defensive power pretty soon but I got to meet up with the others for the mission.

Naruto soon met up with the rest of the team. Sakura grimaced when she saw Naruto's disorganized form; his unkempt hair with branches stuck in it, his disheveled clothes and his face smeared with dirt. Her eyebrow twitched as she threw a punch at Naruto. Unaware of his surroundings, Naruto felt a sudden force hitting his left cheek. With that a massive blob of saliva popped out of Naruto's mouth and hit Sakura dead center on her face. Nerves popped out her head as she attempted to knee him right in the balls. Sensing the sudden killing intent, Naruto immediately leapt several meters back. Without missing a single beat, he nonchalantly stated, "Good morning Sakura, please do keep away from my family jewels." while covering his testicles with his hands.

Sasuke coldly stared at them then snorted and turn around. Sakura clearly displeased with her predicament screamed at Naruto, "I was trying to teach you a lesson about appearances but instead you spit in my face. Hmph"

"Ahh you are wrong Sakura, this is the latest fashion I tell you."

"What fashion and why aren't you apologizing?"

"Well why aren't you apologizing to my future son or daughter, you nearly killed them you know" He exclaimed with mock indignation while wearing a cheeky smile on his face.

Enraged by his ignorance, she charged at him once again however it is at this unfortunate time that Kakashi decided to appear right in between the two of them. Her kick did indeed land on the intended region but it belonged some other person entirely. Sasuke's eyebrows twitched the ugly sight and Naruto couldn't help himself and roaring with laughing. Sakura however had the word horror written all over her face.

A loud squeal of pain echoed throughout the village.

......

Naruto while walking back to the apartment, started contemplating about his life. Does he really want his dream to be what the original Naruto had as his? Does he really want to be the hokage for a simple reason as recognition? He continued to ponder and felt conflicted on his feelings.

After refreshing himself, he left to meet up with Hinata. Upon meeting Naruto, Hinata saw the conflicted look in his eyes. They silently walked together side by side. However Naruto came to a halt and started staring at a mother and her daughter. The little child was laughing and smiling, dragging her mother's hand as they walked towards the village gate.. Upon walking to the gate a man wearing the Konoha shinobi outfit knelt on one knee and spread his hands. The little girl ran towards the figure while screaming "Daddy" and hugged him as tightly as she could. Her mother with tears in her eyes walked toward the man. Looking at his wife, he held out his arm with a smile.

He must have returned home after a dangerous mission. He sadly smiled at the spectacle. We shinobi are destined to step into battlefield with no guarantee of return. Surviving and killing, doing our utmost to accomplish our mission, witnessing sacrifices and sacrificing your own well being to protect this village is it worth it? Would I be left all alone?

Noticing his complex mood, Hinata slowly reached for Naruto's hand. Grasping it gently, she softly said, " Naruto you are not alone. For everyone in this village let's try our best" . Her gentle words drew his attention to her. As she was about to release his hand, he tightened his hold on her hand causing Hinata to redden. Slowly the pair walked together, savoring their moment together in silence.

......

Three weeks went by and Naruto continued with daily schedule of training and missions. Once every few days he would meet up with Hinata. However today Kakashi instructed them to gather on top of the Academy building.

"Good morning team. The reason why I told you to come here is to each of you tell us your hopes and dreams. Now we coulda done this earlier but eh I wasn't really bothered to, okay then let's start with Sakura. Oh by the way start by giving out full name and don't bother about asking mine."

"My name is Sakura Haruno and my hope is..." and she blushes as she looked at Sasuke "and my hope is..." once again she threw a longing look at Sasuke.

"I see, okay then moving on" Kakashi said. Looking at Sasuke he said "Your turn." His eyes grew cold as he stated, "I have no hopes or dreams. I have a goals that I must accomplish at all costs. One, to kill a certain man; two, let's put it as I want to show the true might of the Uchiha clan to world."

Another change in the plot, his goals have certainly changed. What did he really mean by proclaiming he wants to show Uchiha's true might?

Kakashi frowned at this statement. Then he pointed at Naruto, "Your turn" .

Naruto took a deep breath and exhaled.

"If this was a few weeks back I would have said I want to be the hokage so everyone would recognise me. Now I realise something else entirely." He got up and looked towards the sculpted and continued, "The first, second and fourth have sacrificed their lives for the sake of this village. Countless more have sacrificed themselves for this village. If so isn't it selfish of me to be the hokage just for attention?" He paused and looked towards the village and laughed.

"That is why I decided I shall be the hokage to be its protector; to try my best protect its citizens, to try my best to prevent any orphans from war for I know I am one and I hate being one. I want every child in this village to live their childhood relishing every moment. I also know the vile and hypocritical nature of man, despite that I want to be protector of this village, the protector of their dreams." He looked up at the sky and smiled.

Kakashi's eye widened in surprise and his hands trembled at the sheer might of those words.

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