Drakensis mentioned it in passing, which got me wondering - how exactly could we justify Naruto getting his signature technique? Kage bunshin for Naruto is like a jusenkyo curse for Ranma - it's just not Naruto if he doesn't have it. I do think that spending some time (espescially with Gai!) without access to it, so he has to actually develope some taijutsu skill instead of defaulting to the swarm-pound method would do him a world of good, and I can also see Gai forbidding him from using it in most of their practise sessions for the same reason. But, this is supposed to be about getting it in the first place...
Ah! Gai didn't put his team up for the first ChuuninExam after they graduated, instead making them wait a year. I doubt Naruto would have taken this announcement in good grace, so a former academy sensei telling him about this super scroll he could learn from, and that taking it is a secret test that only the best students and rookies are offered, would probably work about as well as in the canon - the objet being to pass this special test to prove to Gai that he, and by extension Lee and Rikou, are ready to thake the exams after all. The main question would be how to handle the second part - my inclination would be to cut immediately to the aftermath with enoguh narration to know it went the same as usual save for Naruto already being a graduate, and Gai's reacton - A solid clout and a ringing shout of "YOU FOOL!" followed by another ode to the irrepressible spirit of youth, which refuses to be denied! Alas, he still cannot allow them to enter this series of exams, BUT!! They shall be entered in the very next exam, at which time the true flowers of the sprigtime of youth will truly have bloomed! They will surely dominate then, with the explosiive power of their impassioned youth!
Sigh. You see what I mean when I say I can't do Gai very well? My point should be clear, though.
Ah, and married-Gai should have a mustache as well. Keiunko-chan likes how it tickles. (keiun = "auspiscous cloud" according to Jeffrey's, a similar-without-becoming-a-fusion-cameo name root for a Kasumi-like character)
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Ah! Gai didn't put his team up for the first ChuuninExam after they graduated, instead making them wait a year. I doubt Naruto would have taken this announcement in good grace, so a former academy sensei telling him about this super scroll he could learn from, and that taking it is a secret test that only the best students and rookies are offered, would probably work about as well as in the canon - the objet being to pass this special test to prove to Gai that he, and by extension Lee and Rikou, are ready to thake the exams after all. The main question would be how to handle the second part - my inclination would be to cut immediately to the aftermath with enoguh narration to know it went the same as usual save for Naruto already being a graduate, and Gai's reacton - A solid clout and a ringing shout of "YOU FOOL!" followed by another ode to the irrepressible spirit of youth, which refuses to be denied! Alas, he still cannot allow them to enter this series of exams, BUT!! They shall be entered in the very next exam, at which time the true flowers of the sprigtime of youth will truly have bloomed! They will surely dominate then, with the explosiive power of their impassioned youth!
Sigh. You see what I mean when I say I can't do Gai very well? My point should be clear, though.
Ah, and married-Gai should have a mustache as well. Keiunko-chan likes how it tickles. (keiun = "auspiscous cloud" according to Jeffrey's, a similar-without-becoming-a-fusion-cameo name root for a Kasumi-like character)
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows