Does anyone have an Omake to celebrate Naruto's birthday?
With a bit of luck, I might have time and inspiration to write one on Saturday.
For potential content, I brainstormed four rough ideas:
- Flashback: wardrobe shopping shenanigans, Rin despairing over how hard it is to find respectable/formal clothes that Naruto doesn't reject
Present: custom-made orange-accented clothes including the Uzumaki swirl as a birthday present by Korin
- On his actual birthday, Rin gives him a partial present from her and Korin so that he doesn't feel neglected: A beginner's set for calligraphy and sealing. Naruto asks her whether she could teach him a cool jutsu. After berating him for being impolite, Rin decides that without knowing his elemental affinity Naruto's best chance would be the shadow clone:
Other than the Chakra expenditure, it's a very simple jutsu. Even Naruto shouldn't have much trouble with it, considering he has about as much Chakra as you do, possibly more.
- Rin stays over until the evening and sees the gathering mob. Eyebrow twitch, followed by a frosty "oh look who volunteered for genjutsu practice". After the mob runs away screaming, Naruto thinks it's both heartwarming and really scary. Right after that, Naruto thinks he heard someone chuckling (Kurama) but decides he must have imagined it.
- Rin wants to schedule the party, but Naruto prefers to delay until after the mission - both to invite Tsunade ("The old man lied to me about having no family, so I wanted to know if there was anyone else. I sneaked into the library and found out that the Senju and Uzumaki are related") and so that Korin will be able to walk again.
@AoMythology, which of these would you like to see most, and would any of them have a chance at canon status?
BTW, if someone else likes one of these ideas and would like to write an omake around it, feel free to do so as long as you call dibs first. I'm not going to write four omake by myself, so I'd be happy if someone picked one of them.
On a completely unrelated note, remember how we rarely have a chance to improve our magecraft because as a clan head we're rarely unsupervised?
Gandr… which needs an incantation now, due to you not having your Crest.
Working on the basics of a Crest through fuuinjutsu should be unsuspicious. We could start by asking our mother to teach us how to create a seal that allows us to form one specific jutsu without handseals, then apply that knowledge to Gandr.
Skill 'Senjutsu' has been forgotten!
She now knows instinctively how to avoid turning into stone. The purpose is so that she doesn't know about Senjutsu this early.
Combining alteration reinforcement and chakra reinforcement (preferably test it on an object instead of our body first, can't be too careful) might allow us to re-discover the basics of senjutsu that Kaguya forced us to forget.
"I've discarded my previous names and identities. Just call me 'Hollow'."
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You have gained social option 'The Hollow Nun'!
Tutor bonus: Second best in the world, Hollow's Trait: Super Teacher activates
Once we're on the way back to Konoha, we should subtly ask Tsunade about who she'd consider number two among the village's med-nin past and present. We can probably get Hollow's true name that way.
[]How to become a Lightning God, by Mikoto
+Has partial instruction to learning two high ranked jutsu called the Lightning Release Chakra Mode and Hell Stab, but it will be a long-term project, piecing them together
'How to become a Lightning God' is not really a beginner's book, but you find yourself eventually understanding the concepts in it thanks to other books from the jutsu library
[...]
You are at step 1 of (?) for learning Hell Stab and Raiton Chakra Mode
[...]
You are going to bank on [Sasuke] having even half of the late Mikoto's talent for the Lightning Element. After all, [...] according to your late grandmother, Affinities are passed on from mother to son and from father to daughter more often than not.
Once Sasuke has caught up to the appropriate level of Lightning manipulation, we might want to re-read this book together with him. I'm sure he would appreciate joining us in reading the instructions of his mother (relationship bonus), and two geniuses are better than one for re-creating Lightning Release Chakra Mode and Hell Stab.
Does that mean that you will never see Shisui again? If her Magic Circuits are the reason Hollow-san was kept out of the afterlife, then you are going to be stuck as a ghost… unless, of course, you make sure that you survive, and that you get a body back by using the Second Magic if you die and are stuck in the living world as a ghost. Still, no loved ones in the afterlife…?
Actually, mastery of the Kaleidoscope (might taka a few decades) might eventually allow us to contact Shisui in the Pure World... it's just another dimension, after all.
You have gained access to Yin Release Chakra Flow at E- rank! (Makes weapons more difficult to notice/detect. Can turn them invisible, or nearly so.)
I think the corresponding entry for this in the character sheet is a bit misleading:
Flying Swallow is an offensive variant of Wind Release chakra flow, so one needs to look up the chapter where we gained Yin Release chakra flow to realize that "Flying Swallow (Yin)" refers to an assassination technique instead.
