"Alright, I'm game," said Shikamaru. "So we rotate, day one class we go to my house. Day two we go to Naruto's rooftop, and day three we go to Chouji's. We all agreed?"
"Hell yeah, just make sure you let your parents know I'm coming. I don't want any trouble," suggested Naruto.
"I'm game and I'll tell my parents too," said Chouji, pulling out a new bag of chips and opening it. He then surprised the trio by offering some to both of them.
"Right then," said Shikamaru. "Since Monday is day three at the KSA and my cloud watching time is about to vanish let's relax for today and tomorrow. Would you two like to join me for some cloud watching?"
You have slept in your bed. HP & CP are fully stored.
It was finally here, it was this thought that crossed through Naruto's mind as his eyes snapped wide open. Graduation exam day. His last chance to graduate, to become a real shinobi. He'd grown so much in the last five months since he started training with Shikamaru and Chouji. At least once a week one of their fathers would come out to watch over their training and usually give them a quest which usually amounted to some really great experience not to mention just being able to train.
Naruto had level capped most of his skills too which was great and not so great at the same time. He still couldn't learn Bunshin to save his life but his other skills should be high enough to carry him through. Thanks to Chouji and Shikamaru he'd even improved his grades in class . . . though if Shikamaru were to ask him he'd tell them his grades only went up because he was trying to get his INT points. So here he was, as maxed out as he could manage leading into the test. The most important skills he'd maxed out were his taijutsu and tactics.
[Advanced Academy Taijutsu (Passive) LvMax]
Taijutsu or hand to hand combat is another essential skill for all shinobi to learn. The beginner level focuses on appropriate stances and basic strikes, kicks, and blocks. The intermediate level adds a few stances, strikes, kicks, and blocks as well as a few holds to your hand to hand combat skills. The advanced level adds more stances, strikes, kicks, blocks, and holds as well as some throws. Mastery of all three Academy level taijutsu allow you to learn a more advanced form.
Passively increases STR 10%
Passively increases VIT 10%
Passively increases DEX 10%
[Advanced Academy Tactics (Passive) LvMax]
Team formations, ambush points, counter ambush and many other tactics.
Passively increases INT 10%
Passively increases WIS 10%
Speaking of skills, Naruto learned one very important lesson thanks to Shikamaru pointing it out. He'd been regularly voicing his skills out loud to active them. He'd even practiced saying them as softly as possible so that he didn't get a bunch of strange looks. So you could image how embarrassed he was when Shikamaru questioned it and told him to try to activate one without saying anything. An unspoken [Chakra Sprint] later and boy was he feeling silly about the whole damned thing. He'd learned that moving the chakra and then doing the necessary movement, sometimes hand seals, was all he needed. Shikamaru still hasn't let him live it down but then again, how was he supposed to know, this gamer ability was constantly making new shit up for him.
Beyond all that, he even learned some new cooking recipes, nothing overly advanced but still it was nice to have some variety in his buff food.
[Miso Soup]
Restores 100 HP
+5 WIS for 30 minutes
[Grilled Fish]
Restores 100 HP
+5 STR for 30 minutes
[Toast]
Restores 100 HP
+5 DEX for 30 minutes
[Fruit Salad]
Restores 100 HP
+5 INT for 30 minutes
[Yakitori]
Restores 200 HP
+5 VIT & +5 STR for 30 minutes
But his favorite part to all the training, quests, and boring grinding was his level. He'd exceeded his expectations.
Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Class: The Gamer
Title: Academy Student (+25% experience gain to level 10)
Level: LV12 Next Level: 87.57%
Affiliation: Konoha
HP: 1813/1813
CP: 1663/1663
STR: 30 (18.00)
VIT: 33 (28.30)
DEX: 30 (18.00)
INT: 33 (13.30)
WIS: 30 (6.00)
LUK: ?
DEF: 77 (19.25)
SPD: 10 (25.00)
Status: ? (+10 VIT, +10 INT, +?% experience to [?] Skill), ? (+100 HP & +100 CP per Level), Prankster (-5% reputation gains, +5% experience to [Trap] Skill, +5% experience to [Stealth] Skill)
Uzumaki Naruto is the dead last of the Konoha Academy having tried and failed the graduation twice before while clearly not prepared to graduate. His past is shrouded in mysteries for him to uncover.
Point: 5
Ryo: 26750
That's right, Uzumaki Naruto is a badass, a well-balanced badass but a badass nonetheless. Naruto had listened when Shikamaru told him that to become a genin he needed to be well-balance and once he became a genin then they would need to specialize. He'd seen as much when he looked at Tenten's stats when they sparred all those months back, her DEX and VIT were through the roof but her other stats were all really well balanced.
That left Naruto questioning what he was going to be able to specialize in, something he'd even voiced to Shikamaru on occasion. Unfortunately, Shikamaru told him to figure it out for himself.
So that's what Naruto attempted to do. He tried to figure it out for himself. The most obvious thing he noticed was that due to his increased HP, he could get beat on for quite a while without going down or getting tired, that opened the possibility of him being a 'Shield' in gaming terms. A 'Shield' in a game is someone who keeps an opponent focused on himself while the rest of the team attacked that target. Naruto actually kind of liked the idea of protecting his friends so that was definitely on the list of potential paths.
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