AN Naruto still has the kyuubi but minato sealed it so that he can get no chakra from it and it has no influence over him. Also I really hate how weak everyone is so I decided to give everyone substantially more power. Lastly in this fic there may be some gore so You have been warned

this is also a fic where Naruto becomes a puppeteer so if you don't like that I don't care

Ch 1

It was the night of October 10th and screams echoed throughout the konoha. A boy no older than 6 was being chased by unknown pursuers. He ran and ran but the pursuers didn't relent, they kept chasing. The boy was tired. He had been running for five minutes and was feeling tired.

Suddenly he tripped and fell over into an alleyway not far from the side of the road. Theboy looked up from the ground to see his pursuers, three middle aged men who were piss drunk.

The boy looked around noticing where he was, a dark alleyway with no visible light source, he fumbled around and lifted himself up against the side of the alleyway eliciting a grunt from himself. He had been injured and felt pain coming from his leg. He looked down and saw that there were multiple scraped on his leg. Most likely from when he fell.

The boy slowly walked out of the alleyway while wincing due to his injured leg, he almost made it out of the black alleyway when two ninjas. Most likely chunin judging from their vests went racing by saying something about a fox. Opting to stop the slowly walked backwards until his back hit something and it resounded with a metal clanking sound. He turned around to find a metal door with a handle that seemed to gleam in the dull moonlight.

He carefully put his hand on the doorknob and opened the door. As he opened the door he felt a gush of wind travel past him and to the end in the alley. He carefully stepped into the room that he had just opened and as he let go of the door it closed trapping the boy in darkness.

The boy didn't know this yet but by closing that door he had sealed his fate, either for better or worse, the boy known as Naruto uzumaki would become; The Whisper.

Naruto gasped as he was plunged into darkness. This was one of the things he knew well of, from his time at the orphanage where he would be locked in a chamber in total darkness to the time when he was forced to steal food just to not die of starvation. The darkness was the one place where he was welcomed and could stay.

He reached around in the pitch balck until he felt a rope attached to the ceiling. He pulled the rope and the room was engulfed in light. As his eyes adjusted to the light difference he looked around and saw that he was in some sort of library as there were books lined up row on row neatly organized.

He stopped for a second to look at the books and noticed that they all; were locked with strange markings that he couldn't read. As he looked around he saw a book that didn't have any markings on it and he pulled it out. As he pulled it out he found it to be much heavier than he expected. Maype 10 pounds.

He grabbed the book and opened it up and was hit with a storm of dust fro the seemingly old pages of the book. He turned the book over and found what it was. The title was The Art of Puppeteering with the image of a puppet on the side. As he went to take the book and leave he saw another book without the weird scribbles on it.

Ghe pulled that book out and found that the title was The Art of Genjutsu and weighed about the same as the other book. Naruto then took both books and left the room.

As he got out of the alley he found that it was the morning and the festivities of last night were just being finished put away. He ran back to his apartment and locked the door to start reading one of his books. He closed his eyes and picked up a book The Art of Puppeteering, this would be his first book and he decided that he would read through all of it no matter what.

He opened the book and felt shocked at what he read. The first line in the book was This book is dedicated to the ninja art of puppetry and has been written by sasori of the red sand. Well naruto always wanted to be a ninja so what better place to start off at.

As he read the first lines it said that to be a ninja you will need to unlock your chakra. What that was Naruto didn't know but he would soon as hell find out. As he continued reading he found that to open your chakra you need to concentrate and feel inside of you.

Naruto did this and closed his eyes, it felt like nothing had happened. But when he opened his eyes what he saw amazed him. He saw blue chakra coming off of him in waves lazily floating about. He stood up and found that the waves continued their lazy wave. Then he thought about turning off his chakra and the waves just disappeared.

He picked up the book again and continued reading. He finds that to use techniques effectively he needs to have good chakra control so you can not waste chakra. He found that it showed the exercise of tree walking.

The book said that for tree walking you need to keep a constant flow of chakra to your feet, too much and you'll shoot off, too little and you'll fall down. It also said something about water walking but he'd get to that later.

Naruto voyaged outside and traveled around a bit. He made his way to the outskirts of the village and with that found a densely populated area filled with trees. He started the exercise but almost immediately got shot off the tree

'Okay less chakra' naruto thought to himself while preparing for another go. This continued until sunset when naruto could successfully make it up the tree in one go. Noruto then picked his tired body up off the ground and started walking to his house. Once he got back he looked back into the book. And found something interesting

'Shadow clones? Those sound interesting.'

Time skip (1 year later academy open house)

"And that is why you shall all succeed to your greatest extent here at the ninja academy an.." at this point naruto started drowning out the wise words in the third hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi. At this moment all naruto was thinking about was how far he had come in the 1 year he's had. It all started with the use of shadow clones. After he learned that he started reading both books and found that the number one ninja skill is deception. So naruto did just that, he changed his outfit from one of a stupid child to that of a hardened shinobi. Putting to rest his jumpsuit and getting a black trench coat along with a black mask hiding all of his features. To the untrained eye in the night you could barely see him.

But the upgrade in clothing had been equally matched by his skills when it came to being a ninja. While he hadn't learnt much when it came to frontal attacks he had developed great skills when it came to his stealth. He could if tested sneak through the middle of konoha in broad daylight and not be seen. He also developed a skill for poisons, being able to create many from the training grounds outside of the city. He applied this well through the use of senbon which he had taken a great liking to and so far could throw relatively well which was great when the needles were dipped in poison. The last thing he learned was sealing which he understood almost instantly and where his use of shadow clones really shined.

But back to reality he came as he was called to to the front of the class to tell everyone his name and dream. On the way up he quickly activated his voice changer seal that made his voice much more intimidating and deeper.

"My name is Naruto and my dream is none of your concern" was all naruto said before taking off the voice changing seal and heading back to his seat .

"Okay class now that we're all done our introductions let's go outside and spar!" said one of the academy teachers whose name naruto couldn't be bothered to remember. As they headed outside naruto felt someone's gaze on him an das he turned around to look whoever it was stopped looking.

'Note to self… read up on info gathering' was what naruto thought to himself as they reached the training grounds. The teacher started calling out names of who would fight each other. Naruto zoned them out opting to think about what to have for dinner.

He was suddenly forced back into reality when his name was called along with that of a girl called Haruno Sakura.

They both stepped into the arena and thoughts were racing through both of their heads. One's thoughts were about a certain black haired boy and the others were about a battle strategy. Eventually naruto decided on just hitting one of sakura's pressure points with his senbon.

Suddenly interrupting naruto from his thinking sakura charged at him with a kunai aimed for his arm. As she drew nearer naruto sidestepped to the left causing sakura to miss him by a sliver of an inch. As she turned around naruto drew one of his senbon and nailed her in the back of the neck knocking her unconscious.

As the medical team went to pick up the girll Naruto walked out of the arena and was met with stares of hate from many clan heads. Similar thoughts raced through all their heads.

'Who is this punk stealing my spotlight?' their gazes followed him as he walked to the back and rested against the wall and appeared to sleep while standing up. After many more fights the teacher told everyone that they were done for the day and without another word Naruto left and raced back to his home.

'finally , i'll get to read the next part of the book' were the thoughts racing through his head as he entered his appartement. Over the last year he had bided his curiosity for the point where he had enrolled into the academy. He had set a goal that he would bring his other skills up to the max before reading this part of the book and he was fuck well ready for it. He busted open The Art of Puppetry book and proceeded to read. All the book said was 'to truly become one of the shadows one must guide from the shadows like a puppet master'.