The tenth of October, five years after the Kyuubi attack on Konoha. We find Naruto Uzumaki, the young jailor of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, walking from the direction of the Hokage's tower. It was his fifth birthday, and the Hokage had given him his gift an hour or so earlier. The rest of the time was spent in the company of some nice ninja people, all wishing him a happy birthday.

Naruto walked slowly, his eyes staring at the starry sky, thinking. The villagers never bothered him much. It always seemed to him that they were scared of something. There were a few instances of glaring and muttered insults, but he's take it in stride. To him, their opinion mattered little.

He was so deep in thought, that he didn't notice a man walking towards him. He bumped into the person. "Oh, sorry sir."

"That's all right." The man patted him on the head, before heading on. Naruto noticed a large book on the ground.

"Um, sir, you dropped…" He turned around, finding no one in sight. "Huh, maybe he doesn't care about the book." He took it and studied it under the streetlight.

It was a very large, very thick leather bound tome, titled 'The Great Book of Crafts'. Interested, Naruto opened it on the first chapter, and gasped when he read the text. He quickly turned around, carrying the book with him to the Hokage tower.

Meanwhile, the same man Naruto bumped into earlier was standing on the roof of a nearby building, watching the boy. He chuckled before he disappeared, his long, white hair flowing in the breeze.

The Hokage was finishing up paperwork for the day when Naruto barged in. He raised an eyebrow when he saw the child carrying a book that was almost half his height.

"What's wrong, Naruto-kun?" He asked kindly.

"Old man, look at this." He showed him the book. Sarutobi raised another eyebrow when he saw the title.

"What is it Naruto."

"It's a book of jobs, and I wanna be this one…" He turned the page to Sarutobi so he could read.

The Detective

The fine craft of the detective is a difficult and challenging one. The profession will better be described on the example of the single most famous and successful detective in history

Sherlock Holmes

This is the first of my new collection of stories entitled "The Crafts". As you can see, this one is the detective, using the example of Sherlock Holmes.

The reason the first chapter is so short is that I will be posting the second one right after this, and also the fact that it will be relatively the same for all the stories in the cycle.

If you want to see a particular craft or job, review, and I'll see if the thought is appealing enough for me to make a story out of.