This is a Naruto Fanfiction Only.
The next morning I was not happy at all, I guess it would be too much to ask that people didn't stare at me like they seem to be doing, all my gear and clothes were stuff I either repaired or modified to fit me from stuff I took from either bandits or stuff people threw away. Thank goodness those bandits also stole hundred of rolls of cloth, leather and other things I would need.
The Hokage was honest when he said I would get a nice apartment, and it was rather nice, he did set up a monthly sum of money to my name, that is true, the part that he didn't mention that most of that money would be gone if I did something as to buy something as extravagant as an apple or a roll of toilet paper.
I was something that made me even angrier when I saw the price tag on the apple stand, and I walked over to where it was and brought this to the attention of the cashier. She didn't even blink when she said that price was for everyone else, and not for me, I had to pay a different price.
I looked at her and it took a great deal of control to walk out of there, which made every person in that grocery store to start cheering that I was not inside it anymore. I went to a nearby forest and using my Chakra I caused an apple tree to grow, honestly I had half a mind to take a bag of these much nicer apples, take them to the manager of that grocery store and telling him and the cashier that they could shove them where the sun don't shine, free of charge.
I walked to the Academy and the staff pretty much told me to get out, that a creature like me had no place in a place of learning, I ignored them both and walked down a corridor, I wrote the number of the classroom I was assigned the night before. I had two apples with me, wanted to make a good impression on my teachers.
As I reached the door I knocked on the door, nobody came, so I knocked on the door a little harder, again I was ignored, now I was angry, I began to bash my fist against the door and the door broke free from the door frame and came crashing down on the classroom floor.
The teacher had his hair in a ponytail, and had a scar on his face that ran across his face, right at the bridge of his nose, "Yes, can I help you, young man? As you can tell we are in the middle of class and do not have much time to spare.
I took out the letter written by the old man, and I was angry enough to make a ball with the letter as I wrapped it around the apple, and I threw it at him. He, of course, caught it like it was nothing major, opened the letter and began to eat the apple as he read the letter. The second he got to the part where he saw the signature he looked at me.
He told me to come stand near him, "I am sorry Naruto, I was not told I would have a new addition to my classroom. Class I have some news before we continue our lesson, the young man near me is our new classmate, his name is Naruto Uzumaki, please make him feel welcomed, as for what we have covered I am sure you will catch up in no time, or I could ask our class rep to help you to catch up."
At that point a pink haired girl stood up from her seat, "I would not give that thing a bucket of piss if he caught on fire, you either catch up on your own or fail, don't expect any favors from me."
I guess this would constitute the warm welcome I just heard about, it's not like I would ever depend on them in the first place, I waited till my teacher actually assigned me a seat, and wouldn't you know it, it looks like I was given a seat in the middle row of the class.
I didn't want to make a scene so I decided to walk towards the seat, but apparently someone tried to trip me up and cause me to fall, instead, I gave the idiot a sharp kick to the leg and walked over to my seat.
I sat down and began to listen to the lecture I had interrupted, if I had to describe the lecture in one word, that word would be boring. I am kidding, it was also inaccurate. I didn't want to disrespect my teacher so I kept quite about the glaring mistakes he made in his lecture. The history I knew better than he did, and the theory was nothing that you would call surprising.
Guess it really pays off to have spent the previous night reading up on things that have been either discovered or found since my last time living as the Emperor of my domain. I didn't like how my beloved was portrayed, however, and I felt a little pride in what my eldest was said to have done.
After the lectures, we were told that we would have practical lessons with another teacher. Iruka introduced his fellow teacher as Mizuki, and he would be the teacher in charge of teaching practical skills.
I threw him another apple and in contrast to Iruka, he glared at me and then at the apple, before he threw it back at me. I heard him say that he would not eat anything I could have easily poisoned or maybe he was saying that my touch was poisonous. I couldn't hear him very well since he whispered what he said.
I didn't care, I took out a kunai and began to eat the apple as he began his lecture on practical skills, he even showed up how to throw a weapon, everything from shuriken to kunai as a matter of fact. I found his lecture held quite a few hidden insults being thrown at me, I guess I know which portion of the class I will not do so well at.
The guy that sits right next to me in class was a guy wearing glasses and was not someone that you would accuse of being one that liked to chat, his name was Shino, or so the bugs that were in him told me, the guy seating behind me was a guy that was named Sasuke, and from the way people treated him he was the crown prince of this village, and he acted like he expected it.
The other guy that was seating right next to me, with what I call a pineapple looking haircut was if anything by my opinion on how he behaved a slacker. The seating arrangement did not change even in the open field where our practical lesson would happen.
I, of course, was singled out and asked to throw some kunai at the targets that Mizuki pointed at, he probably expected to humiliate me, and make it look like I was inept. I threw all the kunai he handed to me, in such a way that they hit the targets dead center.
The Targets were dummies and each dummy had circles carved on the surface, it was a circle that showed where the most vital points to hit on the human body, I, of course, knew this very well, I fought in a war after all, and killing an enemy was certainly not something I was unfamiliar with.
Mizuki called it beginner's luck. Told me to sit down and called another student, the next one after I was the pink haired woman that had been ever so kind to me before, she, of course, missed every single of her targets. I mean the woman who I came to know as Sakura missed the targets because her kunai didn't even reach the targets.
She did complain that throwing the kunai at a target at such distance was harming her fingernails. I wanted to tell her that this was a Ninja Academy, that if she was so concerned with her looks, that maybe she should enroll in a Modeling Academy instead, I didn't of course because that would be lowering myself to her level.
The woman who sits right next to Sakura was a girl that she clearly didn't like Sakura, even more than I did, as a matter of fact, Sakura tried to trip her and cause her to fall. Her name was Ino and unlike Sakura, she actually managed to hit three of the targets Mizuki was pointing at.
I don't know why I did it, one guess is that these two were so pathetic that I actually felt sorry for them, I walked over between the glaring match between Ino and Sakura, I looked at them both and they stopped glaring at each other and chose to focus their glares on me. "Girls it is all a matter of measuring where and how strong is the wind, and when you feel it's the right time, the time of least wind resistance, throw it while the side is flat, the throw is just a matter of putting enough strength on your wrist."
They actually managed to agree on something, I thought the world was going to explode when I saw that happen, they both agreed that I was full of it, and I should shove my useless and unwanted words straight up my rear end. Well, I was feeling much better after that exchange of grateful and caring words.
That pretty much told me any attempts to help those two was wasted, I decided that since they didn't particularity appreciate my advice, I would let them learn on their own, I was not going to make this mistake again in a hurry.
This was pretty much how it was in my practical lesson, I answered a question, I was ignored or insulted, I threw something I was told it was a miss, even if the weapon I threw was sticking right on the target, and my sparring matches felt more like I was spanking my ill-mannered child than actually feel like an actual fight.
Seeing that my chances to actually learn something was negligible at best, I decided from my first day in class, that the only actual alternative was for me to study at my own pace, not rely on my teachers, and I would simply use the time in class to do something I will need after all the learning I needed to do on my own, and that takes a nap.
The librarian pretty much told me that a thing like me should stay away from something as valuable as the books in the building, the second that she actually called me a demon when I didn't turn around and leave, that is when I took a kunai from my hip pouch and I slit her throat from ear to ear. I let the body hit the floor and left her to bleed to death. I simply didn't have the time nor wanted to waste any more time on stupid people that break the law.
This cause the people in the library to scream and take off running away from the building, like the building was on fire, actually that gave me a lot a privacy and since I was the only person there, I seemed to remember something called the Shadow Clone Jutsu, I used it and sent twelve of these Shadow Clones to pick up and read books in the library.
I had the foresight of actually telling the Clones to change form to look like an ordinary ninja. I was actually enjoying a great book about poisons when the old man decided to come down to the library. He carefully stepped over the dead body of the librarian. I heard him mutter something and I looked away from the book, to look at him.
"Naruto was it really necessary to kill this woman?" I began to shake my head at the sheer stupidity of that question. He wrote the law and even made it so that people that called me demon would be punished, a death penalty in fact, why is he so surprised that I actually upheld his law?
"She broke the law, and I punished her according to the law. Now if you will excuse me Lord Hokage I had a lousy day at the Academy, and I rather get some actual learning done before the day ends. This book about poisons and poison antidotes is fascinating. I really wish I could go to Suna and be able to talk with the author."
I figured that since he fought in the Second Ninja World War, he would not find my praise of a Suna Ninja, a master in the puppeteer division no less, very much to his liking. He actually sat down on an empty chair right next to me.
"I am sure Lady Chiyo will find your comments on her book to be quite flattering. Now that you said that mind telling me what happened in the Academy to make your current foul mood?" I looked at him and began to shake my head at him, I was not in a foul mood at all, bored to tears maybe but how is that me being in a foul mood?
"Let's see the staff pretty much told me to get lost, I had to knock down the door to my classroom for my teacher to even notice that I had been knocking on the door, my seat is right between a slacker, an emo, and a boy who spends more time reading about bugs than actually pay attention in class, to top it all my practical lesson was impractical and I was insulted by my fellow classmates throughout the lesson."
I looked at him and he was just nodding his head, "So you see I have absolutely no reason to have any negative reaction to the things that happen to me at all. I had a sunny day of friendships, kind words, considerate teachers, and to make matters even better a very nice and helpful librarian that was more than willing to help me. Now if you will excuse me I need to study some things that I will never actually manage to learn in that place."
Now he took the book from my hands and looked at me, "So that is what happened, look Naruto while you grow up, you have to learn to deal with people that you don't like or can't get along with, it's just a matter of life. You could have simply walked out of the library and come to my office, told me and I would have taken care of the situation, the only difference is that poor woman would still be alive."
I looked at him and began shaking my head, "If I did that, and not punish the person who broke the law, your law becomes more of a suggestion than an actual law. You want me to bring the person or people to you, it's simple, change the law and write that instead of saying and I quote, those that are found breaking this law are to be executed on the spot."
"I was only obeying the law Lord Hokage, I don't see where the problem is? Can I have the book back?" He just handed me the book and with a smile, he said if in fact, changed the law and said that I had to passionately kiss a person who called me a demon would I actually do it?
I had no recourse but to tell him yes I would, I would also need to find some strong mouthwash to get the disgusting taste out of my mouth. "You know Naruto the reason why we have actual teachers is that students don't know what they need to study, what exactly are you using as a guide in your studies?"
I looked at him and smiled as he handed me back the book I was reading. "I don't need a guide, I guess you could say I am a little more mature than most of my classmates. I know exactly what I need to know."
He began to laugh and continue to sit down right next to me and watched me read, book after book, he sometimes even took some of the books and asked my why I picked those books. I didn't think me going to the library would end up like this, a supervised reading session, supervised by the Hokage no less.
I honestly hope that he does not change the punishment to something like having me kiss the offender. As far as I remember, thanks to observing that so-called tailed beast, I regained some of my memories with my beloved wife, and I hope that never happens, Kaguya is the love of my life but that doesn't mean she doesn't get nasty when she thinks a woman is making romantic advances on me.
