AN: I'm back! Sorry I took so long, the formatting keeps getting screwed. Ugh.
Anyway, read, enjoy, and REVIEW x)
Sumary:
"Dear weird book, Hi! Sorry about the name, can't think of a good one for you yet." The Sandaime gives a young Naruto a diary. Wonder what he's going to do with it? Life has just gotten a lot more interesting. Pairings, if any, are yet undecided.
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Hey book,
Been a while since I wrote in here. Ran into a few... accidents recently, it's nearing October 10th.
Not much new stuff at the Academy, the sensei's a sabotaging bastard as usual. I slipped out during lunch break, there's really no point staying when there's nothing I can benefit from in there. I guess it's a good thing I skipped class, 'cause I saw a genin team training. They were working on chakra control exercises, I think. I spent the whole afternoon observing their training, definitely learnt a lot of useful stuff. I need to know more about chakra before I try the tree-walking exercise, though. I don't think the Academy will teach much at the moment, and I'm really sick of being dead-last when it's not my fault...
This is pathetic. I'm the dead-last when they teach useless stuff (who needs to know the condition of soil in Water country twenty years ago? -.-), I wonder how I will fare when I actually start learning real ninja techniques and stuff. Kuso.
It's decided then, I'm going to start "borrowing" scrolls from the shinobi library. Must be careful, though... I can only imagine the consequences if I get caught. I bet the librarian will start screeching stuff about the demon brat stealing jutsu to kill everyone... annoying banshee. Who the hell will be stupid enough to try taking on a whole village of ninja? (except Kyuubi, but demons don't count)
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I just don't understand why everyone treats me like this! What the hell did I ever do to them?! Their eyes... such cold eyes... eyes filled with hate... hate directed at me. ME! ALWAYS ME! ONLY ME! I can tell some of them do not even understand why they hate, it is simply what others do, what they are used to doing. And I'm so tired of being hated for just being alive! Why is always me... only me... Was I born to be a monster that does not deserved to be loved? Why? It's not fair...
I can't cry. I can't. If I cry, it'll just mean that they won. That they have succeeded in not only screwing up my life, but my own mind, my will to live. I don't want to just exist. To look without seeing, to listen without hearing, to touch without feeling, to eat without tasting, to breathe without smelling the sweet scent of flowers that grow in the most unexpected places... I want to live. To feel that my life is important to others, to myself. To know that my existence is not just something others want to erase. To wake up each and every day knowing that no matter how screwed things are, life is still beautiful. To always believe that whatever happens, everything will be fine in the end, for if I have gotten this far, I can always go further, and all that matters is that I don't give up.
So I will live. I'll never give up. I'll never allow a bunch of fools to make my life a misery. I will live, and live happily, even if it's just to spite those bastards who wish I am dead. No one has the right to judge another without getting to know them, no one has the right to make another person's life a misery. No one. I do not know why so much hate is directed at me, but for now, I don't freaking care. No matter how screwed life is, the only thing that matters is that I live my life the way I want to. So it doesn't matter if I am still the dead-last, still beaten and left to die on my birthday, still despised and hated by the villagers, because Uzumaki Naruto will not give up, and Uzumaki Naruto never goes back on his words.
So there.
And now I shall plan my greatest prank to date: Painting the Hokage tower orange. Muahahahahahahaha......
Bye!
The greatest prankster of all time,
Uzumaki Naruto
P.S. Did I seem a bit too hyper previously? I am only that hyper sometimes... I think? Er...
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So was it okay? Was the mood shift too drastic? But that's the way Naruto is... Is he too OOC? Ah well. Reviews will be muchly appreciated xD and I will be muchly grateful (:
POLL!!!
POLL #1:
Who should know about what Naruto is learning? Keep in mind that I'm trying to make Naruto really independent. So having an adult to depend on is not exactly independence... The person can only find out about what Naruto's learning after a few years if you want (: So... who?
1. Sandaime
2. Kakashi (AND TRAINS HIM!!! YAY!!! or not, depends on what you vote for! [SO PLEASE VOTE xD])
3. Iruka (when he starts teaching Naruto)
4. Someone who's around the same age as Naruto (aka most likely one of the Konoha 12. No OCs.)
5. Some other person (please state who~)
I'm leaning towards choosing no one, or maybe Kakashi as he's an ANBU so of course he'd notice stuff. And since he's an ANBU he can't exactly stay around to look after Naruto, so he's still quite independent. He can also teach Naruto some stuff once in a while.
Another good choice would be Sandaime. He's the Hokage, and he has this crystal ball which he can use to check on Naruto, thus it's pretty likely he'll find out. Besides, he can supply Naruto with the required equipment (such as weapons, scrolls, etc.). But that's also a problem - what's the point of going to all the trouble of "borrowing" stuff if Naruto can just get it easily? Hmm. What do you think? You can vote for more than one option in this poll (eg. 1 and 2)
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Poll #2:
What should happen to Minato? (in case you don't know, he's the Yondaime Hokage, and Naruto's dad *-*) As you can see, he's obviously going to be included in this fic somehow but I have yet to decide on whether he is dead or alive... So... should Minato
1. Stay dead
2. Come back to life (please choose when~)
3. Be alive all this time, but left due to whatever reason (don't particularly like this idea, since it would mean he ABANDONED Naruto D: )
4. Be a ghost (most probably only Naruto will be able to see him. Otherwise that'd be weird ._.)
5. Come back to life TEMPORARILY or something like that (like in the manga... when Naruto was going to pull off the seal)
What do you think? I really want Minato ALIVE... hmm... but there's the Naruto being independent thing again. That's why I'm leaning toward 2 or 5, or even 4.
You can also vote for more than one of these options in this poll (eg. 4, then 2)