Questions & Mysteries What if instead of the shadow clone jutsu Naruto had eaten the hana hana no mi?

[Mikkel86]

In the actual series Naruto's bread and butter technique is the shadow clone jutsu, but what if instead he had the forbidden "bloom bloom" jutsu? Of course it's not actually a jutsu, but most people would assume it was and he would probably call it one just like people from Wano do. Would this have been a more useful technique for him? Obviously this would change the series a lot and I'm curious what you all think about it. The main issues with this is that first of all shadow clones can travel very far away from Naruto whereas he would only be able to bloom in a comparatively small area around himself. That changes a lot because this Naruto can only be in one place. Second, shadow clones are what he used to learn the rasengan in such a short time which sucks because a bloom bloom rasengan would be ridiculously strong. He could make arms bloom on an opponent's back, make a rasengan, and shove it into them from behind. Even substitution or teleportation might not protect someone from this because the arms would travel with them. I'm just not sure that he would even learn the rasengan without having shadow clones, though. An advantage this might have though is that using his devil fruit power may not use any chakra. It would be physically draining, but just as devil fruits don't drain haki they shouldn't drain chakra either. This would definitely throw people who can see chakra off because they'd see Naruto crossing his arms like some sort of hand seal, calling out a jutsu name, but then the blooming would occur without any chakra flow. This is when people would become suspicious of the power. Also there may not be any seastone in the Naruto world but there's something arguably worse for a devil fruit user: water style. If this version of Naruto ran into Kisame it could be a big problem. What do you think about this timeline?