Naruto tried to enter the compound, but, to his surprise, found that he couldn't. Even though his parents had never remembered to set the security seals to allow him in, they had blood seals making it so that anyone who was related to them by blood could enter the compound. Naruto sighed. They had upgraded the security so that he couldn't get in anymore. Well, get in by normal means, anyway. Naruto had a grid of seals on his forearm which were all the seals that he used to reverse summon himself to different places. He pressed his finger against one of the seals and channeled chakra into it. There was a puff of smoke, and Naruto appeared in his bedroom. He quickly began sealing all of his things into storage scrolls. The Uzumaki child looked around at his bedroom. There was nothing inside his room except the reverse summoning seal hidden under the floorboards. Naruto added some more seals to the reverse summoning seal, so the seal he had on his arm would start glowing if anyone entered his room, and another that would cause the reverse summoning seal to self-destruct on that occasion, as well as the one on his arm to slowly fade out and erase itself

Naruto wasn't finished in the house. He walked towards his parent's room, adjusting one of the kunai he had stored in his pocket...

He then passed his parents room and entered the clan library. He had learned most of the seals there, but he hadn't mastered all of them, as he was still working on the space-time seals there. His space manipulation seals were used by his reverse summoning seals, but he still needed to finish learning the time aspect before he could use things such as the flying thunder god technique. Not that he wanted to. The flying thunder god technique was his father's thing. Naruto wanted to create his own thing. He would probably learn the flying thunder god technique anyway, because it was so useful, but it wasn't a priority for him and he wasn't planning on using it in battle.

After making copies of all the sealing scrolls he hadn't learned yet, using the mirage ink copy seal that he invented for copying scrolls, he went back to his room and reverse summoned himself to one of his underground hideouts, before using earth style: hiding like a mole technique to transport himself to the surface.

Naruto emerged in an empty training ground on the edge of the village. As Naruto made his way back to the village, he wondered where he would live. Most people would object to having him around the village. Naruto considered moving to the red-light district. It had a lot of objectionable people in it, so they were more likely to tolerant of disreputable people such as himself.

The red-light district emerged during the reign of the third, who had been so buried in paperwork that he hadn't taken serious action against it until the kyuubi ate him. Minato, finally becoming Hokage after the Sarutobi's death, began a series of legal assaults on the red-light district, but never got very far, as it had grown in power and become almost impossible to dislodge since chaos following the kyuubi attack.

Naruto realized that now that he couldn't escape to the compound anymore, he would have to reveal some of his tricks. And because people had a tendency not to take the messed-up people from the red-light district too seriously, it was unlikely that he would have any confrontations with some higher authority figure over something like that.

You may be wondering how well Naruto did in the red-light district


A group of five thugs was harassing Naruto in the lounge of the inn that he was staying at.

"C'mon brat," said one of the thugs, "we don't want any trouble. Just give us your money and we'll be on our way."

"Hmm." Said Naruto, his face entering a thoughtful pose. "I don't suppose you fine gentlemen would tell me what would happen if I were to refuse?"

Naruto wasn't talking so much because he was bored. He was talking so much because he wanted to test the strength enhancement seals he had on one of his arms in a stressful combat situation. Unfortunately, the seals required an amount of external selection, channeling chakra into certain parts of the seal at the same time. Naruto had been doing it with his other hand while training, but now he realized that doing so would reveal that he knew some sealing. Thus, he had to channel chakra into the symbols on his own, which took a small amount of time and concentration.

Suddenly, Naruto succeeded, and he felt his arm grow much stronger, as well as a slight drain on his chakra pools.

The thugs were still speaking. "…barely alive. Of course, we can always…"

"You bore me," said Naruto, and, in quick succession, bunched all five thugs out the same window.

"You know," said the owner of the inn, "I've been getting older lately, and I'm certainly not fit to deal with the stress of running an inn. My point is, boy, how would you like to own an inn?"


The answer is: very well.

Naruto took over the entire red-light district in a manner of months.

The red-light district then underwent a slow turnaround. Thugs turned to business and counting, the homeless started businesses, and everyone else helped build new housing complexes for the formerly homeless.

All in all, by the time Naruto was old enough to enter the academy, the formerly red-light district had turned into a prospering business district, and the remaining drug dealers and thugs packed their things and moved to a poor housing district, which slowly began to change into the new red-light district.

Naruto had become greatly respected, and was, without doubt, the guy in charge. As such, people sent him things daily. Gifts, requests, death threats, Naruto had received much of each. He accepted the gifts, did what he could for the requests, if he deemed they were reasonable, and ignored the death threats. Naruto, under a henge, spread a rumor that he knew some shinobi arts, and his mailbox quickly filled with scrolls from ex-shinobi who wanted to please him. He learned the shadow clone technique, and had them work on the techniques, as well as some weapon throwing and other supplementary techniques, while he worked on his physical training and taijutsu skills.

The only downside to this was that Naruto never got that chance to learn any of the basics. Sure, he might've been able to do a water style: water dragon technique, with only half the required handseals out of thin air, but that was also the least powerful water technique that he had in his arsenal. After all, who would give something as weak as a fire-starting technique as a gift to someone who's ninja skills were unknown. It was something that he would have to work out in the academy.

Naruto already had everything ready for the academy. He had an underling of his adopt him, so that he could sign Naruto up for the academy. The academy was a big blank for Naruto, but he couldn't become a ninja without joining it.


AN: Sorry for the formatting issues here, I'll avoid making the same mistake in the future. Thank you to the reviewers who brought this to my attention.