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He had plenty of time left. So, instead of heading towards the stadium where the final round of the Chunin Exams was taking place-
Daiki instead circled the entire village. Every so often, he'd bring out one of his clones from the training dimension, and have them transform into a nondescript civilian, using his eyes to mask their chakra signatures.
He placed them all around the village, and especially at vital points, such as near the gates. Their job was simple.
Once the invasion started, they would create a shadow clone each and dispel it to disperse the information throughout the hundreds of already battle ready clones, and letting them know where to appear when they left the dimension behind.
He would crush the entire invading force outside the walls of the village, before they ever even got inside the village.
Leaving only the plants already in the village mixed in with the envoys brought by Orochimaru to be dealt with.
'Not a single Konoha life will be taken.' Daiki declared mentally as he casually made his way towards the stadium almost an hour later, with twenty or so minutes to spare before the exam started.
"Daiki! Hey Daiki!" a call behind him made him pause.
He'd already felt the massive chakra signature behind him, so he wasn't surprised when he looked over his shoulder to see Naruto jogging up towards him, massive grin on his face, arm over his shoulder as he waved to him.
What did surprise him though was the changes Naruto had went through. It wasn't much really. He'd changed out his jacket for a dark blue one with an inner red puffy hood that was partially unzipped, a red band ingrained around the right bicep with the swirl of the Uzumaki clan, and was wearing orange and black fingerless combat gloves.
…But that was surprising in of itself.
'Blue?' Daiki thought blankly.
"New look?" Daiki prompted when the blonde reached him.
"Kinda had to," Naruto shrugged, "You destroyed my jacket during our training."
Daiki raised a brow, "….No I didn't?" he'd think he'd remember something like that.
"I had my sexy jutsu up and it hid it," Naruto shrugged, looking him over and raising a brow, "The hell though, what's with the chunin vest? Where's your funky armour?"
"It's around," Daiki replied vaguely. Honestly, thanks to integrating the Infinite Armour with it, he could shape it at will, so it didn't specifically need to be armour, but he'd use it as such anyway because it was hella sturdy now through the combination of both armours and the garian sword, "And it ain't a chunin vest, it's a Jonin one. I stole it from Kakashi's place, you like?"
Naruto gave him an odd look, "Daiki…you and Kakashi-sensei are super weird you know that?" he said, "Like, the crap you said to each other back at the second round was just harsh as heck."
"Don't worry about it," Daiki waved him off, "Anyway what's with the blue? Even if I destroyed your jacket, I figured you'd go back to a pure orange monstrosity."
His fist came up to block a fist aimed at his face, eye raising, "Don't mock the orange, it's cool, you just don't get it, I loved that jacket," the blonde huffed, pulling his fist back, "And I didn't choose it, Pervy Sage did."
The blonde looked around before leaning closer a bit, "Said it had a bunch of those seals and stuff in the seams, and was why he got a thick jacket like this, its supposed to help me suppress the Kyuubi's chakra," he said, before leaning back on his feet and grumbling, "That old perv is a real slave driver you know? Right after you left, he slapped these stupid things on me, and it was like I was suddenly walking around with Choji's mom and dad both sitting on me it was so heavy!"
He pulled his sleeves back a bit, to show him prayer beads wrapped around both arms, and Daiki's eyes widened a bit as he recognised them, "Four Limbs Weighting Seal?" he gaped.
"You know em?" Naruto blinked, before nodding, "Yeah that's them! Got a pair around my legs too, which reminds me I gotta take em' off!"
Daiki just stared as the blonde went about pulling them off, before pulling out a scroll to seal them inside, his thoughts racing, 'Originally Jiraiya wouldn't put him through that training till the tail end of his training trip.' Daiki thought.
That was the training he'd go through that would let him physically be on par with Kakashi when he returned. What prompted Jiraiya to put him through it already.
'Most likely it was your influence and what you told him about the best way to teach Naruto when you were talking with him and the Sandaime.' Isobu piped in.
That made sense he supposed.
…But then what else had he taught him then? Because he'd specifically told that old toad that one of the best things to do with Naruto was teach him a bunch of high level, high chakra intensity techniques.
"Anyway Daiki!" Naruto grinned at him and pointed a finger straight between his eyes, "I'm not the same as I was when we last fought, I'm on a whole new level now!"
"That was two weeks ago." Daiki snorted.
"Semaphones!" Naruto puffed his chest out proudly, "I'm gonna kick your ass for the crap you gave me last time, helpful or not! Your cocky ass is in need of a good beating, even more than that bastard Sasuke!"
He raised a brow, "Do…you mean semantics?"
"…Same thing," Naruto coughed in embarrassment, "Just get ready for the beating of a life time, dattebayo!"
"Sure, about the same as you winning against me," Daiki snorted, turning around and continuing on towards the stadium, "Meaning, not even close to being true."
"Just you wait Daiki! I'm gonna kick your ass!" Naruto huffed as he caught up with him and fell in line walking with him.
It wasn't long before they reached the stadium, Naruto chattering all the way. It was quite busy outside, with all the people meandering around the area, coming and going, a palpable excitement in the air at the upcoming fights.
"Daiki! Naruto!"
His name being called again, alongside Naruto's by a familiar voice brought his attention to a bench off to the side of the street shading under a tree. Daiki looked over at the sound of Sakura's voice, and once more he found himself surprised.
It seemed like Naruto wasn't the only one who'd changed up his clothes. Though hers were more familiar. Switching out into an outfit a lot like the one she'd wear in the other timelines future, acropped red top, pink elbow and knee supports, black sandals, a pink short apron over thigh length spandex black shorts and switching out the cloth of her headband for a red one…
'God damn.' he stared, he couldn't help it.
Because….were her thighs always that thick?
Just…damn.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto beamed at her, practically bouncing on his feet towards her as she approached, "You look great! What happened, why'd you change your clothes?"
"My other ones got all worn out from training a bunch," Sakura replied, puffing her chest out proudly, before looking him up and down, "And it looks like I'm not the only one, what happened to the usual jacket you wear? And why…that one?" she trailed off in askance, eyes darting between his orange pants, the blue jacket, and the jackets inner red colour of red showing in the hood, and the rolled up sleeves.
Orange, blue and red, it definitely wasn't the best colour coded outfit that was for sure. But it was definitely so Naruto in the end, so fit.
"Cuz of that asshole," Naruto grinned, jabbing his thump at Daiki, "We trained together a bit, he was helping me learn something…and he tore my jacket apart."
"Still didn't see that happen, I think you're just blaming me to try and get me to feel guilty." Daiki shrugged.
"Cuz you made me train in my Sexy Jutsu, so obviously you wouldn't see it when it was under my transformation!" Naruto scoffed, "I already told you."
Sakura looked over at him with a raised brow, before rolling her eyes, "Of course you did, why am I not even surprised?" she said, eyes roaming over him, his collarbone and arms, before settling on his torso, "Why do you have a chunin vest? I know you said your promotion is already set in stone, but did you already get given one?"
"Nah I stole this from Kakashi." Daiki boasted proudly.
She shook her head, "I really don't get the relationship between you and Kakashi-sensei."
"I know right!?" Naruto nodded, clasping his hands behind his head, "Bah, whatever, let's go! I can't wait for this to get started, I'm gonna kick so much ass!" he laughed, turning and power walking into the arena.
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