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This Chapter is slow but do not worry as future chapters will be faster.
Prologue Chapter 1: Smart and Ruthless Naruto?

A lone 4 year old boy stood out in the horizon; his golden blonde hair swaying with the strong howling winds of Konohagakure's Autumn season. The image of him sitting on the Yondaime Hokage's bust could send you into wonder and curiosity. While you may not see anything special or spectacular, he is a boy who will make history in the shinobi world and his name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, son of the Yondaime and his wife, Kushina Uzumaki, one of the the last known survivors of the inhabitants of Whirlpool Country. The lone boy, a pariah of sorts, is also the holder or better known as Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune; a nine tailed fox which could destroy mountains with a swish of its tails and cause tsunamis the size of said mountains. A known fact is that the fox attacked the village which he inhabits which makes him the most hated member of the village history. Not that he was supposed to know but he did.

Naruto sat looking over the village contemplating his life and silently cursing those village idiots for his recently received beating. His body was bruised and he was sporting a few broken bones. A normal human would be sent to a hospital for receiving those injuries but Naruto, no he did not care about his abusive life as he healed at an incredulous rate that was considered inhuman. Instead, he was memorising the faces of the hundred or so people present at his beating. As the sun rose, he stood up ready to start his journey to his 'home', training ground 44 or better known as the Forest of Death as there was always numerous dead bodies that could be spotted after each Chunin exam in Konoha. He got kicked out of the orphanage 6 months ago so he opted to stay in hostile evironments due to less frequent human activity; although that is just a smart way of saying that the residents were terrified. The only reason Naruto could survive in the Forest of Death filled with humongous and deadly creatures was because he had an incredible brain and mind.

His mind processed information at an incredible rate that made the Nara's seem like children. He had a rare ability to read two pages of a book at once and memorise an entire 800 page book in a span of two days even with 8 hours sleep. Furthermore, he had the ability to adapt to any environment which he learned of during his time living in the red light district for the first month. On the first day living in the Forest of Death, he had memorised the patterns of the animals and ninja patrols which included Anbu patrols as well. Together with intelligence, he acquired a knack for stealth which was weird considering he had enormous chakra reserves. This was relevant during the recent Chunin exam 2 months ago which was held by Konoha. Despite the second exam being monitored by the Sandaime Hokage and a few Jonin, Naruto managed to slip off the radar and instead observe the several Genin teams in the exam. He witnessed many deaths but he was not disturbed; he instead began looting the deceased bodies of the Genin ninjas.

After the second stage of the Chunin exam, Naruto began living his life as per normal except this time he had a secret stockpile of weapons. He hunted down some animals, trapped fish, upgraded his shelter and made a decent campfire using sticks and stones sprawled around. He had seen some of the tricks, traps and jutsus the ninjas use and had memorised every single on of them; hand seals, names of the jutsus and the type of affinities it required. It was relatively easy to know how to activate a jutsu but he just did not want to perform it yet due to the risk of being caught. The traps however were the ones that caught his attention the most. He became fascinated with one when a Konoha team had lured an unsuspecting team into a trap which was quite sophisticated. The trap had a relay which was a switch designed to activate a trap through the use of lightning. When the team stepped on it, wooden several spikes erupted from the ground which then proceeded to impale all 3 genin. While the Konoha team had to relieve their stomachs, Naruto just looked on in fascination before he jumped from a tree, landed and stole a few weapons from the impaled ninja before anyone could notice.

After a few minutes Naruto arrived at his camp. As the boy wandered through his thoughts of incidents that have happened for the past few months, he failed to notice an old man sitting near his campfire. When Naruto realised who was there, he quickly regained his composure and muttered 'Hokage-sama' before bowing much to the surprise of the old man who then sported a calm and soft feel on his face. The man had finally found where Naruto had lived ever since he got kicked out of the orphanage. To put it frankly, he issued a 'small' punishment for the matron there. He then gestured for Naruto to sit beside him. As Naruto made his way beside the Hokage, the old man spoke:

'Hello Naruto-kun, how are you today?' Naruto responded by saying 'Im fine Hokage-sama. Im just a bit tired from running around a lot.' The old man frowned as he looked at the slightly disheveled state of Naruto knowing he had received a beating not too long ago. With a sigh, the renowned 'Kami no Shinobi' spoke in a voice that showed why he was respected across the land. 'Naruto-kun come with me I have something to show you. Besides, if you do not mind, on the way may I know the instigators of your troubles today?'

As Naruto and the Hokage made their way to their intended destination which Naruto had to guess would be an apartment, the golden haired boy began listing names, descriptions, tone of voice and just about anything you can use to identify a person. As Naruto listed, Hiruzen wrote down all known physical descriptions and names onto a notebook and was getting more and more surprised at how many Naruto had said and could not help but think he inherited the genius brain of his father but even so, not even Minato could remember so much information in such a short span of time even in his prime. It showed how scary it was if Naruto were to reach his full potential. After Naruto had finished, half of the Sandaime's notebook was occupied by descriptions and names of Naruto's tormentors. After a few minutes, they arrived at their destination which was an oval like building with an orange tiled roof and peach walls with green fences on the walkways to the rooms.

The Sandaime ushered Naruto in and they got the key to his room from a pompous and fat land owner. As the Sandaime entered the building first, the landowner sneered at Naruto which luckily for him Naruto decided to dismiss the blatantly taunting and rude gesture. Naruto was shown into his room by the Hokage and his apartment was not too shabby nor not too fancy; however, he knew that was not going to last when people knew the 'demon' was staying there. He might have planned some 'harmless' consequences for the people who did disrupt his living space. In the room, the old aged Kage sat down and began laying down plans for Naruto's lifestyle. He would give Naruto a weekly pension of 1000 ryo to accomodate for his daily needs while he would be paying for Naruto's rent. This would continue until Naruto either became Genin or had started working as a normal civilian; though that outcome was unlikely.

After doing what he needed to do, Hiruzen stood up and left Naruto to his fully furnished apartment. Naruto looked around his apartment to observe his surroundings as he has to once again, adapt to his new environment. Naruto knew he would need to move some of his belongings from the Forest of Death but that is not going to be too much of a hassle since he did not have much anyway. Naruto left his apartment again that day to relocate some luggage he had in the Forest of Death all the way back to his apartment without being seen.


A few days after Naruto got his apartment, he had managed to get whatever little he had to his apartment except for his secret stockpile of kunai, shuriken, tantos, katanas, wakizashis and whatever weapon he could get his hands on. However he did take 5 kunai, 5 shuriken, and a tanto so that he could get a little bit of practice in before he started the academy in a year. In order to get practice, he needed to repair the weapons because the weapons had acquired rust after a few months of not being used and not maintained underground in his secret stockpile.

Today, he decided to go out and buy some food and reforge his weapons at the local weaponsmith shop. Before he walked out the door, he observed his surroundings for any prying eyes. He found none so he quickly activated the
Henge No Jutsu and turned into a random generic brown haired Chunin. He would be hard-pressed if anyone knew he could perform a few taijutsu styles, kenjutsu all the academic ninjutsus as well as some extra C rank ninjutsu meant for Genin or Chunin level ninja; at the age of 4 no less. He would not want anyone even the Hokage to find out about this as it could probably cause some major problems among the populace and the council considering his reputation. In todays world, he would be considered the prodigy amongst prodigies even better than one Itachi Uchiha. Somewhere in the Uchiha compound, a 9 year old black haired Uchiha genin sneezed.

As Naruto exited the house, an old man with bandages wrapped around his arm and eye watched curiously as he observed the boy leave the house while a smirk adorned his face. 'Interesting, very interesting Naruto Uzumaki.' The man then walked away weaving up a plot to try and get the Uzumaki to join him in his ROOT program.
Naruto had to keep to the roofs as he had to avoid the Uchiha and the Hyuuga as their doujutsu's could see through the illusion. Unfortunately, the best weaponsmiths were all located near the Uchiha compounds. It would make it easier if he went with the Hokage to avoid the bullshit price increase but Hokage was a busy man and Naruto wanted to train as early as possible.

Fortunately for him though, there was a weaponsmith near the Hokage tower. He guessed he probably did not to have the best maintanence for his equipment so he landed in front of the shop. As he opened the door of the shop, he saw a 5 year old girl with two buns on her head throwing a kunai at a target while putting her elbow on the table while her head resting on the palm of her hand. When she noticed him, she immediately straightened up and went to call her
Tou-san.

'Tenten what is it?' said Kazashi Tomiro. He was a big man with a pointy beard much like Asuma Sarutobi. Once he turned his head to see henged Naruto, his expression quickly brightened. 'Hello!' greeted Kazashi. 'How may I help you today?' said Kazashi. 'I would like to get these pieces of equipment maintained please.' responded Naruto. 'Very well, the cost would be 250 ryo and you can get these back 2 days from now,' exclaimed Kazashi. 'Thank you!' said Naruto.
After Naruto gave his thank you's, he felt good about himself. It was his first time going out to work out a few deals so he figured he did not do too bad. Soon after, he went to buy groceries of healthy produce like bacon, eggs and a few types of vegetables. He also bought milk and water from the nearby supermarket. He felt ready to go back home when he saw smoke coming from the direction of his apartment.


Meanwhile with the landlord...

'That 'demon' thinking he can stay in my property. I don't care if the hokage himself assigned him here. He will never be welcome as an official resident if I have a say in it,' thought the pompous landlord. He began spreading rumors and gathering the villagers so that they could rampage into the 'demon's' residence. After having around 20 citizens gathered, they evacuated the apartment block before marching into Naruto's room.
What they saw enraged them. How could the 'demon' possibly have decent furniture and a room? Armed with bats and pointy sticks, they began smashing everything in the room. One villager took the television and threw it out of the window while a few villagers swung their bats wildly destroying the sofa, tearing curtains and smashing the shower heads and bathtub causing a water leakage. 'That should teach the 'demon' a lesson,' thought most of the villagers. The landlord thought that they could do more so he took a standing lamp and smashed it on the mini dining table which caused a small fire.

They thought nothing of it before the fire raged increasingly and enveloped the entire room. The bright red flames towered amongst the villagers who were now cowering in fear. Now they were in a serious predicament; they could either stand there and hope for rescue or try to escape and die trying. The landlord knew that the ninja in the area would come to their rescue so he decided to stay put and pray. The others though had different ideas and had decided to try and jump through the fire. All of them that had tried perished a very painful death so the remaining survivors started to whimper and cry in fear.


With Naruto...

Naruto raced back home in concern not of the people living there, but the apartment itself and all his stuff there. As he got closer, he narrowed his eyes and saw the landowner and a few villagers trapped inside his apartment surrounded by roaring and powerful flames. He felt rage build up in him because although he only had that apartment for a few days, he had grown rather attached to it. A few ninja and Anbu began powering up their water style ninjutsus to help put out the fire but Naruto halted them from doing them in his henged form. 'What are you doing? We must quickly put out the fires to save them,' shouted one of the ninja. Naruto however stood firm and made a few Anbu hand signals to show that the Hokage would be displeased if you would save the occupants in the room. The Anbu hesitantly backed off even though they did not think it wrong to save the civilians trapped. Anyone who knew Anbu hand signals was someone well respected by the Hokage.

Naruto was glad he had memorised all 366 Anbu gestures while just watching just a few Anbu who were patrolling or either taking care of him. He first saw them when a gravity defying white haired man with a dog mask was gesturing towards his comrades. How he knew the meanings, he gathered that information from the Hokage tower, a few from the Anbu records and the rest he deduced what they meant through the secret hand signals by decripting the already known information from watching Anbu and memorising the Anbu records.

The other ninja onlookers were confused but most backed down after the Anbu did which was probably a wise choice. However, an Inuzuka just got plain angry and tried to lash out but was stopped by one of the Anbu this time with purple hair and a cat mask. She ordered him to stand down albeit he did not at first but after a few convincing words fortunately he did. Naruto smiled eerily and watched happily as the landlord and the civilians trapped in the building endured a terrible fate. This was what happened when one tried to mess with Naruto Uzumaki.

End of Chapter 1