Simply put, he'd gotten the wrong scroll.
Oh, this one had the Shadow Clone jutsu. It was just an odd version of it that caused some of the clones to look a bit... odd. Tails and ears popping out at odd times, giving them a foxlike look. Naruto had no idea what was up with THAT.
Well, except that the first time one of his foxy clones (which had been a Sexy Jutsu version that had popped up without him intending it to be such) was spotted by a village elder - there had been much freaking out.
"Do I GOTTA stay in this circle?! It tickles!" complained Naruto as various medic-nin and research-nin and official-looking nin all stood outside the circle and did various inscrutable things.
"Where'd he get that scroll anyway?" asked one of the officials, apparently unaware of a hidden kemonomimi Naruto who was eavesdropping.
"No idea, it looks just like the hidden scroll of kinjutsu - the S-rank stuff," said one of the other officials, likewise apparently ignorant of eavesdroppers. "It's just that all the techniques there are ones nobody has heard of and they're mostly not S-rank. Some are just plain bizarre, while others..."
"One question," asked the other official. "Why is there a large keg of rice here?"
POFF! went the keg of rice after getting kicked.
"Just thinking about him using that transformation jutsu and any version of Shadow Clone gives me a headache," confessed the first official.
"Are we sure we've even got the real one?" asked the second official, shooting a glance at the boy in the circle. "Transformation jutsu is supposed to be an illusion, but he really does it."
"Quiet," said the first official.
"He wouldn't be so devious and sneaky as to put a spy on the spy just so he could overhear..." said the second official, sounding quite uncertain.
The first official raised an eyebrow.
"That's... actually kind of admirable in a ninja," said the second official.
"I'm going to see if the medic-nin can do anything about this headache," said the first official, stalking off.
Poff went another of Naruto's disguised Shadow Clones a moment later. Maybe disguised as a welcome mat to the facility wasn't his best choice there.
"What the hell is it with that boy?" asked one of the old men of the village.
"Sasuke? He's just got a major stick up his butt about his brother," said the other old man on the park bench.
"No, not Sasuke," grunted the first of the old men. Waldorf just shook his head. "Pfeh. You've seen one after another anal-retentive vengeance-obsessed ninja going off on a quest for power, at least one every generation. Sometimes two or three. Who freakin' CARES about the Uchiha?"
"A bunch of obsessed fangirls," pointed out Statler. "Don't sound so envious."
"Yeah, I could have used one or two obsessed fangirls myself," admitted Waldorf. "Mind you, I don't think I'd have managed to keep the whole vengeance-obsession with a couple of pretty young kunoichi trying to get my attention."
"Well of course not," said Statler. "You're not a vengeance-obsessed ninja going off on a quest for power. You're an old retired CPA turned movie critic."
"I wasn't always old," grumbled Waldorf. "Being a hotel manager didn't exactly swarm you with groupies either."
"Not all the time, no," said Statler, smiling mysteriously.
"Off the subject though," said Waldorf, hating that smile for some reason. "What IS it with that boy? I had to leave before the final decision came through. Just a bunch of old farsks arguing back and forth."
"Safe shak, different day," agreed Statler. "What they finally decided was:"
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