Nevertheless, the look Mizuki had at that moment was of utter shock. How could a monster do so any clones? Didn't he nearly fail to do even one the last time he saw it?
"What is wrong? Weren't you going to kill me with one move?" Naruto even started to mock him.
"You little..." Mizuki actually printed and performed a Jutsu. "Doton: Flying Thrown Stones!"
Naruto got surprised since he didn't have much experience with Jutsu like that. And a lot of his clones got smashed by the massive chunks of rocks.
"Hahaha! Now, how do you like that!"
But before he could do anything more his mocking face disappeared. There were still a lot of them there and they were charging him. "AAAAAHHHHH!!"
Mizuki got utterly beaten up from the rest of those clones until he back and blue. Of course, the beating went on until he was K.Oed.
And after Mizuki didn't move any longer All the other clones disappeared into the smoke and only the real Naruto stood there and looked down at Mizuki who lay on the ground. "Hehe, I think I went a little too far."
"Well...done...Naruto.", coughed Iruka.
"Ah! Iruka-sensei!!" Naruto charged at him and pulled the kunai out of him. His next words came out with tears. "No no no you can't die here."
"Don't worry. I am also here." A voice from the side came. Naruto became vigilant and looked over only to soften his gaze. "Nii-san!!"
Kaito looked at Mizuki and went over to him to seal his chakra and tie him up. He also still had a deep frown on his face about the words that he said. Kaito had actually been here for a while now and followed their conversation.
What he didn't expect was that Mizuki had actual information on the impure resurrection and even said it out loud. Kaito actually wondered if Naruto would fall for that bait and really grab that chance.
But luckily his brother stayed true to his character and didn't act out.
Being done with that Kaito moved over to Iruka. "Iruka-sensei, you sure are getting beaten up a lot. Are you really a Chunin?" Then he took out a vial of antidote from his pouch and gave it to him to drink.
While he drank Kaito started to use up the last bit of his chakra on closing the wounds. Truthfully speaking even if Kaito wanted to beat Mizuki up, he would have a hard time with his current exhaustion.
He noticed that overusing ninjutsu at his current reserves is a little bit too much. But that could also be because of his advanced techniques. He was rather low on CP at the moment. He had about 237 left. Barely enough to heal up.
"Whoa, its closing up.", commented Naruto.
"Thank you, Kaito. I am already feeling much better. But how did you know which type of poison it was?", asked Iruka now a little bit curiously. Now that he has been saved more than once by a medic-nin, he valued the occupation even more.
"Oh, that? It is an antidote I made myself. It counteracts a pretty high amount of poison. And if that didn't help I still have stronger stuff...But...Iruka-sensei...Then I would have to mortgage your home. Those aren't cheap."
Iruka laughed softly. He was even a little bit awkward to have been receiving such an antidote. "Is that so? Well, then I should be lucky, huh?"
"By the way, Naruto. Did you not worry about me at all?", asked Kaito now and looked at him with a raised brow.
"Worry about you?...AH!", exclaimed Naruto after realizing what his question implied.
"..." Kaito stayed silent after seeing how he has forgotten about him.
"Well...You are you. There is no need to worry. Brother is very strong, right?" Naruto tried to wiggle himself out now while also awkwardly laughing and scratching his head.
"No ramen for the next week...", deadpanned Kaito.
"Huh!! NO! Please!" Naruto was shocked now that he got a ban on eating ramen.
Iruka started to heartily laugh now. He could see these two would become great shinobi of the leaf just like he thought.
"Oh, right. Look, brother." Naruto performed the shadow clone Jutsu. "See this? Now I am a master at Kage Bunshin!"
"Kage Bunshin? Where did you learn that?", asked Kaito and looked at him while still treating Iruka.
"Hm?" Iruka got interested in that Jutsu as well now.
"From the scroll...." Naruto looked at the scroll while answering.
Iruka became angry right at that moment. "Naruto, you actually learned something from the forbidden scroll!? Are you an idiot!? Don't use those skills! They are forbidden for a reason!!"
"Don't worry Iruka. It looks like with his chakra reserves he can handle it quite well. The Kage Bunshin is only forbidden because it has very detrimental effects if one has too low chakra reserves."
All three of them turned over to the third Hokage that was now standing close to them. With him, he brought a few Anbu and medic-nin. They also seemed to have collected the unconscious ninja that Kaito took care of.
"Gramps...I am sorry..." Naruto actually apologized now. Those words actually surprised the others more than Naruto. Hiruzen started to smile.
"It is alright, Naruto. This was all Mizuki´s fault so we are going to not blame you and your brother for it. Besides that Kaito already informed me of this little act so you are even less to be judged wrongly."
"Really?" Naruto looked at Kaito. "You did?"
Kaito just pointed at his head and let a medic-nin take over-treating Iruka. "I use this. Of course, I felt suspicious about Mizuki. Why would there be such an obvious test that not many know about? Anyway, let's go home. I am completely beat."
Kaito nodded to Hiruzen. "Lord third." And then moved off to get back home to rest.
Naruto hesitated and looked back at Iruka.
"It´s alright, go. We will see each other again soon enough."
Naruto grinned, gave the scroll back to Hiruzen and chased after Kaito.
While Kaito moved away he saw a window appear again.
*Hidden Quest completed: Do Not Kill*
*Beat your opponents without killing any of them*
*Bonus: Seal Chakra Reserves*
*Calculating...*
*DING, you managed to apprehend the culprits without killing them. You didn't tarnish your karma further.*
*DING...Titel Merciful gained.
*Merciful: When you have this title equipped and beat opponents without killing them you gain a boost in EXP and also may get a rare item drop. 10% chance.
*DING...Bonus reward: 2 Ingots of Chakra-Metal (Legendary Quality), 10 Chakra Restorative Pills(+250CP, Strawberry flavor).