"This is a fan fiction, I do not own Naruto in any from being anime, games or published format."
When he entered the academy and walked towards the classroom, he was not wearing his usual orange clothes, but the clothes that the 3rd Hokage bought for him. When he entered his classroom, he waited for the teacher to see him. Iruka did his very best to introduce him to the class, and he was seated right in the middle of the middle row of seats in the middle of the class.
Naruto felt like someone had painted a target sign on his forehead. He did his very best to pay attention to the class and to answer every question he was asked, it was just that Mizuki was the one recording the student's answers as right or wrong, and it happened when Mizuki had to wake Kiba from his usual nap, that Naruto saw the sheet for today's questions and how he marked each student for their answers, his were all wrong, even though he had answered correctly.
This was the day he simply stopped caring about how the teachers felt about him, his answers or even if he was present. He marched right into the village library and began to read everything he could, when the librarian came over to him she told him, the library was forbidden for things like him. Naruto's eyes were not of a child, they had an almost feral look to them. "You listen to me, cause I don't plan to repeat this to you. You have five seconds to get the hell away from me, or I will beat you till you are unconscious, drag you by your hair to the Hokage's office, and then I will do everything in my power to get you fired, and cleaning toilets in the village hospital for the rest of your miserable life. I don't care if your family is hurt by your loss in income, I don't care if you are hurt because of me dragging you there. Now get the hell away from me or face the consequences."
This was not a very smart librarian it seems because she called him everything that was clearly forbidden in the law the 3rd made soon after his birth. Naruto simply put back the scrolls as he began to count to five. The librarian was thinking that she had own, but as he finished the counting, he grabbed the chair and with a swift and power swing he hit the librarian across her face, and when she was on the ground he beat her head with it till the chair broke.
The other librarians could hardly believe that a kid was either willing or able to do that. Then he took hold of her long hair and began to drag her towards the elevator. Half way to the elevator she woke up, which made Naruto give her a kick to he jaw. And he continued to drag her to the Hokage's office. The secretary just opened the door and stepped away from the eight year old dragging the unconscious body of the librarian.
"I told you, I told you this would happen. This was just as I expected. The librarian pretty much wiped her rear end with one of your laws, and was trying to prevent me from reading the scrolls in the library." Hiruzen asked which laws was he taking about. Naruto told him the one that was considered an S rank secret to violate.
Hiruzen walked over to the librarian and used a water jutsu to wake her up. "Hokage, I would like to place charges against that thing, for destruction of village property, assault and battery and attempted murder on my person. That thing should be in prison for the rest of his worthless life." Hiruzen just let the woman say everything she wanted. "Did you call him a demon? Did you try to stop him from using the materials in the library?" The woman knew she could not lie, so she said yes to both.
"Well you should know I been watching Naruto since he arrived in the academy. I know exactly what you told him, and sorry Naruto this woman will not be cleaning toilets for the rest of her life." The woman was smiling as she saw the angry look on Naruto's face. She must have felt rather happy since the smile was not possible for her to hide. "Instead, her fate will be decided by me. You are too merciful for your own good, Naruto."
Hiruzen called for one of the ANBU guarding him. "ANBU take his own and prepare her for a public execution, I want her dead and buried by the end of today." The ANBU walked over to the now scared woman, she demanded to know why she was going to die, the worthless demon brat is the one that should die. "You revealed an S Rank Secret and violated a law that clearly states that if you call Naruto a demon you will die, in a public execution."
The woman left screaming and kicking that it was not fair, that it was the demon brat that should die. "You knew I was watching you, and you knew that I would listen to you say those things to her. Why would you have her clean toilets, instead of the punishment you knew she deserved." Naruto looked at him and told him that sometimes death was not a punishment, that living in shame of cleaning toilets for the rest of her life would be a punishment for someone that felt as high and mighty like her."
Clearly Naruto was going back to the library and he was going back to read, so Hiruzen stopped him and told him he do him a favor and instead he could go to he room next to his office and use his personal library instead. Clearly someone did not understand that if a kid found a scroll with the word forbidden on it, the kid would do everything he could to actually read it, and that includes dragging a few chairs to reach it.
One his first day in the academy, he should have not even access to his chakra, but with the way he used that chair he clearly did. Naruto while the Hokage wondered what he would do began to read the first jutsu that was on the scroll. The infamous shadow clone jutsu. He read everything he could about the different zodiac hand signs before the now soon to be dead librarian tried to kick him out.
He read the reason to why the shadow clone was considered dangerous, that is when Kurama told him that the concern did not apply to someone like them. He began to do the hand signs and sure enough 3 shadow clones appeared and he told them to take a scroll and start reading. He continued to read about the other things in the scroll, and the clones picked up different scrolls to read.
By the end of the afternoon the clones had read something that he wished they never found. He marched right up to the old man, and asked him why he had something as perverse in his personal library. He even held the book, or what he called a badly written piece of smut.
"My bad, totally forgot that you were going to read things in the library, but it did stop you from reading any more of the forbidden scroll didn't it?" Naruto told him that he finished that scroll by the time his shadow clone found the disgusting book in the first place. "Let me get this straight, you sent shadow clones to read other things in my personal library while you kept reading the forbidden scroll?"
Naruto told him it was pretty much useless to try to keep it hidden, he knew of the beast, the seal and even how to break the seal, he didn't have the key, since it appears to be in the stomach of a very old toad, and he had no desire to open the seal as of right that moment. "How about the gravity seal?" Naruto told him he should read the fine print under that seal, forbidden for use by people less than 10 years of age.
"But you know what it does?" Naruto told him increases the gravity on the one using it by the number of times the level of the seal was. That a level five seal, would increase the force of gravity on that person five times. Minato Namikaze used it as a training method, but the damage to the bone structure made it dangerous past level 10.
"So you pretty much know everything in it? What did you think about the scroll?" Naruto sat down in a nearby chair. Began to tell him what he thought about the scroll. "Poorly organized, the handwriting is no better than chicken scratches. The language is in so much jargon it would take some real need to decipher, and even if you did decipher it would take years to actually put into practice. The piece of smut is easier to read."
"Which was all intentional to make stealing the forbidden jutsu and knowledge within as difficult as possible. If it was organized better, easier to read and with clear detailed wording of what was written, anyone could steal and and steal all that information. The book you keep calling smut was written by my student for the purpose of entertainment. The forbidden scroll was written to secure dangerous information."
"So how many shadow clones did you manage to make?" Naruto looked disappointed when he told him only three. "Well keep at it, that jutsu will help you learn so much faster than you can possibly believe right now." Naruto knew of the memory feature, but chose not to say anything about it.
"So each morning you will send to my library three shadow clones, and while you are methodically and intentionally graded unfairly by Mizuki, your clones will read anything in the library they can get their hands on. Don't worry I will lock away the rest of my Icha Icha collection, at least until you actually ask for it. "I would sooner french kiss a snake that do that." Hiruzen told him to be careful of what he says or he might end up doing that.
Naruto reached his apartment and sure enough on his walls were the same horrible smelling graffiti. Now with his shadow clones he got done cleaning his walls that much faster, but that did not mean he was free from the memory of the smell. With that dinner was shot straight to hell. He decided to take a bath, and fell asleep.
The following morning he did as he was told, he left three shadow clones in the private library of the Hokage, and went to his class. Lectures on materials his shadow clones has actually read about the day before. It was simply sit there pretend to listen and wait to answer a question when asked, he gave the textbook answer, and Mizuki marked it wrong yet again. For practical training he had perfect accuracy with kunai and shuriken. Taijutsu he beat Rock Lee like it was a walk in the park, he heard that the lesson was over and sat down on a nearby swing, as his shadow clones dispelled and he got the memories of what they read.
He walked to the village library and no one, and I mean no one even looked at him in the eye. He took as may books, scrolls and other materials he could carry to a nearby private reading room, made three more shadow clones and they began to read everything they could carry. Sometimes the clone would exit the room for some supplementary materials.
He went home, had his clones clean the walls and had some ramen and went to sleep. This was the routine for six years, six years where he had to learn everything alone, six years of being graded unfairly and passing only because of his practical scores, and six years of learning from a demanding fox that simply would not let him sleep without a lecture or teaching him something.
At age 10 he had started to use the gravity seal, he was currently at level five, and his chakra reserves were pretty close to Chuunin. Thanks to the transformation jutsu, he did not need to hide in the private reading rooms anymore, and with all his chakra control practice he did at home, he was now able to make 10 shadow clones, this made studying at the libraries so much easier.
But today was the last day, the final exams and knowing that Mizuki would do anything to fail him, he got a written persmission form the Hokage that he could use the shadow clone jutsu instead of the academy version of the jutsu. This pretty much put a damper on Mizuki's mood. He took his seat, and answered his written test, did his shadow clone during the jutsu part of the test and beat Sasuke during the practical segment of the test.
Mizuki knew that his plan to get the forbidden scroll was pretty much ruined. So he flat out walked over to Naruto, "Naruto, how would you like to make a ton of money, really easy?" Naruto pretended that he was all for easy money, that he could even improve from his lousy broken down apartment. "Well it's really easy, you just need to steal the forbidden scroll from the Hokage's library. It should be a piece of cake for you, you can walk in there whenever you want. Just take a regular large storage scroll, paint it to look like the forbidden scroll, and replace it for the real one."
Naruto was nodding his head as he heard. "Then meet me by this cabin, and I will give you more money that you will spend in your lifetime." He agreed to Mizuki's proposal and did get a large storage scroll, he knew Mizuki was watching him. He however could not watch inside the library and he did paint the outside to look like the forbidden scroll. But he actually made the scroll into a huge explosive tag. Good thing he learned to make those from the books he read.
He ran towards the cabin, and Hiruzen followed along with the ploy. When he told the ninja of the village to find Naruto and bring back the scroll he knew that Iruka would be the one to find him, he was actually the only teacher that actually cared about him. Having lived similar pain he understood Naruto perfectly.
He got there as Naruto gave him the forbidden scroll, "Naruto don't give him the scroll." Mizuki was about to tell Naruto he should that he owed the village nothing, and was about to tell him the reason why everyone hates him, and why he should come with him, and leave the village. "Nah, I wouldn't be able to get my revenge if I did. As to why they hate me, that doesn't matter. Dead people can go on to hate my guts in hell for all I care, take the scroll and beat it."
Mizuki was actually smiling as he took the scroll, he couldn't believe that it would be that easy. But as he jumped on the nearby tree branch. "Naruto, I know this village has treated you wrongly, but why did you give the forbidden scroll to Mizuki, you know you will be blamed for that right?" Naruto did a hand sign and he smiled. "I didn't give him anything like the forbidden scroll. He just took with him, my special explosive tag."
"Your special what!?" Mizuki was heard saying as the supposed Forbidden Scroll blew up and Mizuki came raining down in chunks from that tree branch. "What is it Iruka? We are ninja deception is our very best friend, you should really look beneath the underneath you know."
Naruto and Iruka walked to the smiling face of Hiruzen Sarutobi. "So Mizuki is dead, and you prevented the theft of one of our most priced scrolls." Naruto walked away yawning, "Yea, yea, all nice and all, but I need to sleep and get up early, graduation is tomorrow,and I don't want to fall asleep during your whole speech about our future as genin."
