Let me tell you there's nothing worse then seeing the physical reincarnation of hatred kill your parents and being held captive by a kunai.
Yeo that's me Naruto uzumaki I somehow remember everything from my birth.
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"who is it?" Naruto yells to the person knocking.
"its me grandpa" hiruzen says and opening the door.
"hey! You should have let me say come in first" Naruto says annoyed to which hiruzen just chuckles.
"but I knew you would let me in anyway here's your monthly allowance" the third hokage says sliding a brown folder to Naruto.
"gramps out of thousands of orphans why am I so important?" Naruto asks.
Hiruzen just keeps a small smile on his face and says in a grandfatherly voice.
"well long ago the leaf had an ally named the uzumaki sadly they were wiped out by the other hidden villages so we honour them by naming an orphaned child with potential with their last name"
"oh... okay ... Gramps but do you name the parents of the children uzumaki" Naruto asks.
"only if they show potential" hiruzen says with a straight face.
....
He lied.
I mean how does a baby actually show potential.
I mean I'm sure the fourth hokage my dad showed lots of potential as a child but his surname is still namikaze.
And my mother kushina I can barely figure out anything about her. I'm sure they would be singing praises to however is named an uzumaki to boost morale.
If we took hiruzens words seriously. But I won't expose the lie after all he is the highest power in the village.
And I'm gonna need some backing if I want to grow stronger to escape this hateful village.
And the nine tails he didn't even tell me a single peep about that. Am I that untrustworthy?
Does he not care about my feelings? He could have told it's because of the nine tails except of that made up story.
And what about what my parents told him, to take care of me but no he lets the village treat me like crap.
There's a bigger fish at play and I'm gonna figure it out. But first some information about the uzumaki.
He's lost the grandpa status.
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I casually walk into the hokages office with no one telling me anything. A couple guys tried it and hiruzen secretly threw them in jail.
I roll up to my custom library (I like reading fantasy) and looks for the uzumaki.
In an ugly case with a boring title (he probably did not want me to read this unless I actively looked for it)
Red hair, longevity, master sealers, greatest water release users,lived in an island called uzushio.
Got destroyed by the combined might of the hidden cloud, hidden mist and hidden rock and more konoha propaganda.
All of this konoha is pissing me off, will of fire? Friendship?
Where's all that for me? No one hits me or anything like that. But I'm just ignored.
Parents warn their children to not play with me, the physicaly grab them and run away.
The shopkeepers tried to overcharge me but got a beating right after from some anbu or something.
Now they just give me everything for free. A little basket outside their door we I can pick them up.
Where it has everything I need and more well except for ichiraku, they are the only reason I will consider staying.
But if given the chance I would run away anytime. It would be sad when I wouldn't be able to see their faces ever again.
Oh right got distracted this doesn't give me any real deep information because off all the konoha propaganda dammit.
I'll ask the third hokage for some sealing scrolls to get started on working how to release the beast from me.
Sorry dad I wouldn't want to be a target.
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"sealing? Naruto sealing is a delicate ar-" Hiruzen get rudely interrupted.
"i read in a book about how the uzumaki knew seals and I want to learn them didn't you say Gramps that I have tons of potential" Naruto says with a shit eating grin.
"well I'll give you a couple of scrolls for seals and see if you have the talent for it" hiruzen says.
"really? thank you Gramps" Naruto says.
"dont get so excited yet you have a year to convince me of your talent or were not advancing your seal training" hiruzen says having reasons for that.
Naruto is born to terraform the landscape with his huge reserves of chakra. If he has talent for seals of course hiruzen is going to let him study them.
But wasting too much time on such a delicate art when he could be learning more jutsu and improving his body is plain stupid.
The reason kushina was so good at seals was because she was transported from uzushio not born in konoha so she had to learn seals.
She barely uses seals in a fight and just uses supercharged jutsu to destroy the landscape the direct counter to minato.
(I think kushina was super strong since she was always compared to minato in a similar light)
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These look complicated but manageable and I can already see some uses for some of these.
Looks like I'll have to postpone some of my plans for now. A smile creeps up on my face.
The old man is probably not expecting that I just learn everything from the book and nothing else.
No he wants to see my talent any nobody can just follow some instructions in a book with a year.
But only a select few can improvise and use the seals to the best of their abilities.
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A day at the academy urgh, the teachers here can barely teach.
It's not that their sabotaging my education (hiruzen would have thrown them in jail) it's that their so boring.
They explain it in a robotic and I original way like explaining the taijutsu forms.i couldn't do the simplest ones after they explained it to me.
But after showing it to me once I already got it better than sasuke (even though he doesn't use them in spars).
Same with all the physical aspects of a shinobi. Theory is the one I'm struggling with.
When they are in a middle of a boring lecture my mind drifts into creating a new taijutsu style.
They are not better than the academy taijutsu but it's one the same tier I should say.
And they have more uses then the academy which tries to cover all aspects but each of my styles covers a different aspect.
But let's talk about the students.... nah on second thought see it firsthand.
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"urgh sasuke-kun!" A collective shout escapes all the girls lips except for hinata she doesn't care for sasuke and got forgotten in the crowd.
"hmp" a snort comes out of the uchihas mouth as he ignores all the girls and sits in the back of the class.
"what a drag" a sigh escapes the naras mouth as he changes seat towards the front.
"chip?" Choji asks extending it towards shikamaru but the Nara quickly refuses.
"nah you'll use this to make me do your homework or buy you a new bag of chips" the Nara says having learned about choji the hard way.
Shino is right next to where sasuke is sitting but everyone doesn't notice him. Even sasuke.
Kiba is trying to get the girls attention with his new dog but no one pays him attention.
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Sigh I hate my class. I take a seat besides shikamaru and choji in the front row.
They're the most quiet (to me) in the class all the girls run away from me and all the other boys just insult me.
We're not friends or anything but they tolerate me and I stay out of their way as simple as that.
And I need to be as close as possible to the teacher to not lose focus.
I even circled around them staring to stay awake.
...
Weird someone came into my library. It has guards on the outside how did he get in.
"who are you?" I directly ask.
I know my anbu protector is still here so I'm not scared of him since I can just run away while he hold him off.
And this is the hokages building for fucks sake.
Wait long flowing red hair, writing something that looks like seals and I can physically feel his chakra. An uzumaki.
"i thought your kind was extinct long ago" I say trying to get an reaction.
He just smiles and says "your people is a rather negative way of saying it say clansmen to not have any problems with clans in the future"
"a nice way to deflect the question but I'm rather impatient" I basically say that I want my answers and aren't willing to play games.
"what do you know about the uzumaki?" The smiling man says.
"they are extinct and the fake one Infront of me is still deflecting my questions" I say getting a little bit impatient.
I have things to study.
"well I see your an impatient little child so I'll just do what I came here for" the man says and sticks a sealing tag on my table.
Did he just summon a firework? No it looks 2d and way too controlled.
The man vanishes in a puff of smoke.
Weird the explosion tag should have burned the paper but it's still all fine and dandy.
I have to study this. No wait this is still an explosion tag I should call the hokage.
...
"hmhm thats what happened huh? Go study the seal and go try to find the man" the hokage says with a smile.
"so it's a test" Naruto concludes.
"clarify" hiruzen says.
"since I've been named an uzumaki I have lots of potential but potential is nothing without cultivating it right
and the clan kids are going to have a leg up on me with their training, so this is a test to further test my potential and maybe give me a leg up" Naruto concludes.
"good observation but what exactly would the test you entail give you?" Hiruzen asks neither confirming or denying it.
"so thats confirmation that I'm right since you can are a very busy man and would not tolerate someone breaking into your building
and me just spouting things that are leading to nowhere" Naruto concludes.
" oh ho very good observation but your deflecting" hiruzen says with a smile.
"im stalling to think about my answer more and of course I learned from the best" Naruto says with a smirk in the end.
"still deflecting"
"fine I have a couple of theories sealing but since you already gave me a test I'll cross that one off the board
I don't have uzumaki blood so it's probably not about longevity and more theory is not it since you can just give me a book
So it's probably a water jutsu but it's only a theory" Naruto concludes.
"very good Naruto you got almost everything right but you still need to find the fake uzumaki" hiruzen says with a smile.
"alright!" Naruto screams genuinely happy.
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Let's see the firework clue, I've only seen fireworks a couple of times before every new years.
The most popular local place to buy fireworks is in a dollar store.
People don't care about the quality of their fireworks stick as long as it has enough charges and looks great.
And shinobi can weave handsings and do what they did without the money.
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"fo- I mean valued customer how may I be of service" the store owner says with an awkward smile.
"good save I'm here for any instructions you may have had in the past week" Naruto says.
'i asked hiruzen about a week ago so this should be right'
"uhm no I just got some suspicious packages from the company I get fireworks from, thats all the exciting that happened this week"
"what company do you get if from and draw a map to where it is" Naruto says.
"uhm will I be getting any payments from this" the man says with an awkward laugh.
"fox" Naruto lets the silence stretch a little bit as he sees the panic in the owners face.
"dont think I forgot about that so no you will not be getting any payment so chop chop" Naruto says clapping his hands twice.
The owner slumps in defeat and goes to the back to draw the map. Doesn't even put up a close sign he knows people will not come in when Narutos there.
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"pleasure doing business with you" Naruto says and dashes towards the place the owner has given him.
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Alright so they really expect me to sneak into a company with dozens of guards!?
Whatever I can always bother the old man everyday until he gives me a jutsu.
First order of business figure out their routine.
(5 hours later)
So this place is an illegal(I think) because I just saw some gaurd inhaling some substances from his firework stick.
Better gear up.
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"naruto you have to do this independently" hiruzen says.
"nah not using your connections has to be one of the stupidest things" Naruto refuses immediately.
"well I guess we can provide you with some training and equipment connections are one of the important part of a shinobi" hiruzen says.
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The basic academy three( transformation, substitution and the clone jutsu(( wasn't able to learn the clone jutsu)) )
The body flicker technique, rope escape technique camaflouge jutsu and paralysis jutsu.
And the leaf exercise
All learned in eight hours.
Tree walking is a different story it's way too shaky to be used confidently.
And 100 shuriken and 25 kunai and 100m ninja wire handcuffs and some ducktape Naruto is ready for the raid.
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I've already learned their patterns and they switch guards every 30 minutes.
I've just gotta wait for the right time it's been 25 minutes since the guards showed up perfect.
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Naruto silently moves towards the gate and creeps up on one of the guards while the other one is distracted.
THWAP
"huh?" The other guard hearing the noise turns his head towards the other guard who's hitting the wall with a bored face.
"hey stop that" the guards says annoyed but not really caring.
"ueah dude like this is so boring like last-"
THWAP
Naruto carriers one of the guards bodies towards the forest and ties up him up on a tree with his mouth duck taped.
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"dammit this guy smoked way too much" a guard mutters as he enters the workshop carrying an unconscious man around his shoulder.
"god dammit not another one" all the guards mutter in annoyance.
"so who wants to take his shift" a guard asks and no one raises their hands.
"i mean my shift is almost over so" the guard mutters.
"dude" a guard says flabbergasted.
The guard just looks at him straight in the eyes and says "im going to the loo"
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I got in now I'm just gonna carefully take them all out and handcuffs them.
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Over the course of the next hour Naruto has handcuffed 85 individuals.
But this one is going to be a little bit more difficult.
SWISH
'dammit he dodged that who is this guy?' Naruto thinks in a panic.
The guy who dodged it was an academy student who had failed to become a gennin and left home in shame.
Now he's a freelancer using his shinobi skills to complete every job without a scratch.
"IN-"
Naruto immediately engages in a physical exchange with gennin preventing him from calling any reinforcement or calling for help.
Naruto stays in his transfomed state because his is a little special.
He actually turns into the object or person.
( The transformation jutsu is basically just chakra covering you and the chakra making an illusion to another person. In my fanfiction.
The actual transformation jutsu is solid and kuruma doesn't really give Naruto anything but chakra so this Is one of the only things I'm giving Naruto)
Naruto is in an actual disinvantage in this fight he's weaker then the grown ninja in every single.
Naruto loses the little exchange as the mercenary kicks him to the ground and aims a kunai to his head.
THUMP
STAB
It hits solid steel as Naruto destransfroms and plunges a kunai to his heart. He tried one last time to call for help but Naruto twists the kunai killing him.
"HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH.. shou-should have gone for the torso" Naruto says breathing heavily.
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Naruto has succefuly captured all employers at this company and only the ownwer is left.
Naruto clips up a window and stalks the boss waiting for his perfect chance.
"come on out" the owner says which shocks Naruto.
But Naruto stays exactly where he is waiting for confirmation if the ownwer was talking about him.
"you at the window come out" this really shocked Naruto because he didn't make a sound and didn't turn his back.
"i have rigged this entire place in explosions now if you don't want to see this whole place and a block going down I suggest you leave"
'its been a couple of seconds after he said that and anbu have done nothing so that means it should be safe?' Naruto thinks taking a gamble.
Naruto punches through the glass and dashes towards the owner but the owner has already pressed the button on his desk rigging everything to explode.
Naruto slices his neck with a kunai and disassembles his deck.finding a wire which leads to the ground.
Naruto quickly punches the floor with all his might to bring it down. He jumps down into a sewer and follows the wire.
The wife eventually fades into the earth leaving him to follow a narrow Plath which leads him to a
A big room with explosives everwhere if he doesn't do something it will all explode. A countdown only 1 minute left.
Dousing the explosives in water should do the trick but there is no water except the sewer water which he can only take small ounces because of his hands.
Just then the fake uzumaki comes in.
"how is water made?" The fake uzumaki asks.
"two molecules of diatomic hydrogen (H2) must be combined with one molecule of diatomic oxygen" Naruto says in a hurry.
"good now how much water is needed to flood these explosives?" the fake uzumaki asks.
"no times just everything!" Naruto says in a hurry.
The uzumaki smiles"if that's your wish"
A huge wave of water comes out of the fakes mouth covering all the explosives but also the whole sewer in water.