(A/N: I am just gonna say that I am sorry for starting yet another story out of the blue like this without finishing another, but this one was stuck in my head and wouldn't leave until I wrote it out. Since I am forced to remain at home given the state of the world and any and all places I would go to entertain myself are closed for who knows how long, I have discovered Manhwa. Now while it may sound silly to hear that, I kept getting ads for Tappytoons and Webtoons, so I said to hell with it and saw what they had to offer. And dear god did I get heavily into it. I have about 30 different stories I am reading, but they all are not finished so I have to wait until chapters update. But the one that got me most of all was one called Solo Leveling. I loved this one since the character is OP, but he doesn't start off that way. So you see his growth into the one man army he becomes in an interesting story. So as I read all 129 chapters as of writing this chapter, a new story formed into my head. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I did writing it! Stay safe and healthy out there!)

The life of Naruto Uzumaki could be summed up in one simple word alone…

Horrific…

And one may ask why that was, and as such allow me to explain his life in detail up to this point…

Naruto Uzumaki was only 6 years of age, and yet in that small amount of time he had never truly lived once since the people around him made it all but impossible to do so. He was constantly beaten by pretty much everyone he came across, both young and old without them receiving any sort of punishment for their actions. He was an orphan child who was told time and time again that he was worthless by those who ran the orphanage he lived in, and that his parents were just as bad.

Naruto was for lack of a better means of describing him, an exceptionally fast learner. And given his life up to this point he needed to learn fast to avoid being hurt on a constant level. Like for instance, he fled the orphanage at the age of five and never went back, since all that did was give an exact location for the people who came into his room in the middle of the night and beat him senseless. So this way he was no longer able to be targeted that way.

He learned what to eat and not to eat since the stuff he was given was rotten or just nearly inedible to his stomach. And so he had to ruffle through peoples' trash to find sustenance, which he did on a daily basis easily enough. Given he was little he learned to get in and out of places without being seen, which would help him in the long run given his dream of being a Shinobi in the future, and as such he was able to steal better food and medical equipment he needed like bandages and the such.

But out of all the things he learned about in his short life, it was simply not to trust people…

The reasoning behind this was saddening to say the least. As a child with no friends, Naruto would jump at the chance to make at least one, which he did a few times, but those were just bullies who wanted to lure him into a trap of sorts and hurt him even more than just physically beating him could. He used to frequent a ramen stand which was run by the two people he honestly thought were his friends, but one day he overheard them speaking about the mixture of poisons they put into his meals to hinder his growth, so he stopped going there. Then there was the Hokage himself. The man appeared to Naruto as a grandfatherly sort of person, who told Naruto that the people would get over it and his life would get better in time, but by this point after so many people claiming to be friends only to hurt him he needed to know the full truth for himself.

So using his small size once more to get into a place where no one else could, he spied on the old man to see what he was hiding if anything. And it was that day that morally shattered him…

He saw the old man speaking with his former teammates as well as a man with bandages and a cane. There was also a spikey white haired man there as well, and they were discussing Naruto. On the table were charts and such of all sorts with plans and things that Naruto could not see from where he was in the vents, but he heard about their plans to beat the submission into him so as to mold him into the perfect weapon in the future. This came as a shock to him because of the fact that he now knew why the people hated him so much.

The Kyubi had rained destruction to their village six years ago, and now it made sense to him why he was called demon and such by so many people. But to hear their plans for him, to the point of them arguing about how to mold him into the proper weapon with one side saying he should become an emotionless tool while the other side was against it, it made his rage swell. So Naruto left the way he had come, lost in his own mind wondering what to do with his life now given what he had heard.

But as he walked, he was too far into his own mind to the point that he was unaware of the group of civilians who followed him while brandishing knives or various other weapons. But he learned soon enough as they pulled him into an alley and tore into him for about an hour. By the time they left him there with his blood pooled around him, his clothes were slashed and the tears were falling heavily onto the ground.

"I want to break free," said Naruto simply. His life was nothing more than a prison, and to live a life worth living, he knew he had to break free somehow. But the problem with that was that those who were in charge would never let him gain the strength to break free of his bonds. To them he was a weapon and they would never let him go. Naruto had nearly resigned himself to his fate when out of literally nowhere; a thin blue screen appeared in front of him.

Do you wish to grow stronger?

That was all the screen had written on it, which was easy enough to read since while the screen was blue the words were white. Naruto was surprised to see this thing out of nowhere, but he was more surprised by the message. He didn't know whether or not it was some sort of sick joke, but he would play along while his body healed up to the point he could walk away and find himself a place to sleep for the night.

"Yes," was all Naruto said, wondering what good admitting such a thing to this floating screen would do him?

Acknowledged… Sacrifice must be made to begin process… Ready for sacrifice?

Naruto was even more confused than he was before the second this popped up. Since what the hell could he honestly sacrifice to this thing? He had no money or even a home or the like. So after thinking about his lack of just about everything one needs to survive, he came to the conclusion that he had honestly nothing to lose here.

"Yes," Naruto said, and before he could say anything else, his surroundings just disappeared. It was hard to explain in words properly, but he was in the alley one second and then just suddenly there was nothing but darkness all around him. It was like he wasn't in the village anymore. Naruto was just about to get up when he felt a pain unlike anything he had ever felt up to this point course through his body. Yet as he screamed in pain, he felt as well as heard something else screaming as well. He looked down and saw the Kyubi, the demon that had been sealed inside him all his life, being suck out of his body. But it wasn't just being sucked out to roam free, no the demon was being sucked into the screen itself. After a few minutes of this, which seemed like a lifetime to Naruto given the pain he was going through, the demon was finally sucked out completely and the pain stopped.

Naruto fell forward and panted as his body felt so weak right now. And even more so that he also felt empty of all things, which given the fact that a demon sealed inside him was ripped out, there was probably going to be some sort of gap to fill. How long that would take though, Naruto had no idea.

But eventually, Naruto finally got onto his own two feet and looked back at the screen.

Sacrifice accepted. Place hand on screen.

Naruto looked at this with a raised eyebrow, but since he had already come this far, he might as well go all the way. So he did as the screen directed him to do and placed his hand onto it. Once there, he felt his hand lock into place, and no amount of struggling could move it. But he stopped almost immediately as he saw a man standing there with his hand on the other side of the screen touching it as Naruto was. There stood a young man who was tall and powerful looking. He had short black hair, black pants with equally black shoes. He had on a white shirt which was a stark contrast of the black jacket he had over it that matched the rest of his clothes in color. He was fairly taller than Naruto, which made sense given the clear age difference.

Beginning power transfer.

Under that sentence, a bar appeared as the man standing in front of him smiled. What Naruto could only assume was some sort of liquid darkness began to crawl around his skin in a manner that directed itself towards the screen. Whatever this was, this was the power that was being transferred to him via the thing. He felt it as it began to enter his body and to be frank it felt so cold to the point he wondered if he would freeze from this.

"So you are the new wielder of this power," said the man as he looked the young boy up and down. "You remind me of myself when I was younger."

"How so," asked Naruto since he was curious as to how this was.

"A while back," said the man with a chuckle, "I was considered the weakest of my profession, like your village sees you as now. I went through so much until I was gifted a means to grow stronger. And it is the same thing I am gifting you with, and in turn you shall gift another of your own choosing in the future."

"But why me?" was all Naruto could ask since this was the main thing on his mind. Out of all the people to grant power to, why him out of everyone else he could have picked?

"Like I said," Said the man with a genuine smile, "you reminded me of myself. So why not? So accept this power kid. Train daily to grow stronger with it and in time show the world and all those who thought you weak just how wrong they truly were." It was with those words that the man began to fade from wherever this place was. The bar showing the progress of the transference was almost full, but Naruto still had one question on his mind.

"Who are you?"

"My name is… Sung Jin-Woo…" said the now named man before he vanished completely. But as the transference became complete, the man's memories flooded Naruto's mind to the point of such clarity it was almost like he himself was living the man's life.

He saw as Sung had started off his career as a Hunter, being labeled as the world's weakest E rank. He saw the pain the boy suffered that reminded him of his own, yet with less malice more monstrous given his opponents were literal monsters that entered through gates. He saw the trial the boy went through, where he was abandoned by all who came into the dungeon with him and accepted his death, but found himself alive and in a hospital. He saw as Sung grew stronger as he fought progressively stronger foes, and in time he kept his world safe from the monsters until the gates finally stopped appearing entirely. With no gates left, there was no need for hunters like him, and so he took the System that had been made to help him progress into what he had become and rewrote it to make it simpler for someone else who might need it. Power like that did not just go away, so he used a hunter who was deemed insane given her ability to perceive alternate dimensions that weren't gates of some sort and got her help searching for someone to give the power to.

It was through this method that Sung learned about Naruto and took pity on the boy since his life was horrible from the beginning with no end to the pain in sight. So Sung decided to help the boy by granting him this power, yet came the problem of needing massive amounts of energy to get to his dimension. Sure he was powerful, but not that powerful. So calling on the hunters of the world, who were trying to find a place in the world given their powers were useless now that the gates were no more, he used his own hidden ability to extract their powers to power up enough to do as he wished. The former hunters gave up their powers willingly since they now had a chance to live normal lives once more, and with a flash of light Sung was gone to gift his chosen successor his power, to use as he saw fit in another dimension entirely.

Naruto did see that Sung had returned home as a last vision, with the man smiling and waving towards him as the vision faded away. Naruto smiled himself since this was the first person who actually cared about him in some manner without any sort of ulterior motive of some sort. Naruto felt as the last of this power granted to him entered his body, and yet he was a bit surprised since he didn't feel all that different then he had when he had started this whole thing. It was then that a new screen popped up, this time far more was written then what had been there before.

Welcome New User Naruto!

This Program was designed to aid you in achieving more power through training. As of right now you are at your weakest, but in time you shall unlock more. Please read all the guidelines below for information on how to begin your new journey.

Guidelines of the Program:

Daily missions will be given to the user, and penalties will be given if not completed. Once appropriate level is gained, penalties will not be given anymore for failing to finish daily missions.

Missions will grant you levels. Levels increase all your abilities. The higher level you are, the stronger you will become.

Completed missions will give out rewards such as currency and items. The shop is available to you at all times via the screen.

Extra missions may be given at random, and there are no penalties for failing to finish them.

Once the user reaches a certain level, their level will remain so until the mandatory mission is completed. Completion of such will grant a new ability.

Items and weapons may be stored into the screen as long as there is enough space in the inventory. Higher levels mean more space given.

Only User is able to see the screen.

Stats are raised automatically due to improvements with the program from its predecessor.

Naruto saw these things on the screen and smiled since it all seemed so easy. But then again he had seen how Sung had trained, and his training seemed so easy as well but it started off rough given he was still weak when he had started. So with a wave of his hand, he sent the screen away and saw that he was in the alley once more as he had been before he went towards what he honestly suspected was a place between dimensions. It made sense since he as well as Sung were able to meet halfway and head back to their own dimensions easily enough. But Naruto had so much more on his mind given his newfound power, and he would be training nonstop to gain his power, since with such power under his control, he could finally break free from the invisible bonds that held him down. So with a new plan in mind that would take time to actually accomplish, he set out to find somewhere to sleep for the night…

(1 year later)

The past year had been hell for Naruto, but in a good way. The reason for this had been the power he had been given had helped him escape his tormentors successfully about ninety nine percent of the time. There were a few times that he couldn't escape, but those times were interesting to say the least.

It humored Naruto that the people of the village had shunned his existence for so long to the point that they went out of their way to ignore him. This only helped him in the long run since no one was looking after him; he was able to train in peace. The training he had to start with was a bit hard at first, but over time he got used to it as his level began to rise at a small but steady rate. As the Program had stated, he felt more powerful with every level, and he knew he made the right choice when he accepted this power a year ago.

The daily mission he was told to do was just exercising constantly. He had to do 100 Push-ups, 100 Sit-ups, 100 Squats, and finally run 10 kilometers by about eight at night. For the most part this was easy, but there was one day he failed to do so since he was just honestly tired. He wondered just how bad the punishment could possibly be, but when he had to go through it, it was worse than he imagined. He was transported to a realm that was nothing more than a vast desert. What made it worse was the fact that there were large carnivorous worms setting out to kill him. The punishment was he had to survive for several hours here and he did. After that day, he did his daily mission no matter how sore he was since he had no intention to ever go back to the horrible place.

The more of the daily mission he did, he saw that the currency the Program used was growing a bit. What amazed him was the vast amount of things he could purchase in the shop of this thing, but what he mainly used it for right now as food. This way, he no longer had to go dumpster diving and was no longer the scrawny kid he used to be. Speaking of which, the kids his own age that used to bully him stopped doing just that. An ability Naruto had acquired at level five… or was it six? He couldn't remember nor did it really matter since he still had the thing regardless. The ability allowed him to look at just about anyone or anything as long as it was living with brain function and see their level. This came in handy since while he was about level twelve, the bullies who themselves were ranging from four to six with the strongest being seven if just barely. So when they came to beat him up as they used to, Naruto this time was prepared for it and fought back.

He broke so many arms and legs that day and walked away from a bunch of crying kids with an honest to Kami smile on his face as he did. They had it coming for a while seeing that they went out of their way to hurt him, but he knew this was not the end of it. And his intuition had been correct since the parents or older siblings of the kids whose limbs he had broken sought him out to return the pain tenfold. Naruto was sadly not strong enough to fight them all off given the adults, even civilian ones were about level forty at least. So they took their time and hurt him. But Naruto didn't scream as they did and it only pissed them off since they wanted him to. They broke his arms and legs, but his power just healed it time and time again like the Kyubi had when he had been sealed within him.

Naruto didn't care that they did this, since eventually it would end like it always did, and in the future he would be the one laughing, and judging by the time he saw on one of their watches, it was going to happen sooner than they thought. It was about a minute to eight pm when he started to laugh hard, which disturbed the people who had spent all day basically torturing him like this. But then that disturbance became straight up fear as the abandoned building they were in vanished and instead they were in the middle of a massive desert.

You see, since Naruto had been bound most of the day, he had not been able to do his daily mission, and as such he was now going to have to go through his punishment for failing to complete it. And luckily for him, the people who had so joyfully tortured him all day were stuck here too. So using the strength he was hiding since he didn't want them to know he was stronger than he was letting on, he broke free of his restraints and began to run away from the group of people. Attacking kids his own age was not showing too much strength, but he had to keep it hidden so that he was not hindered in some way by those who sought to control him.

The people who came to this place with him had seen him run away as fast as he could and could care less since he could die alone in the desert for all they cared. What mattered the most was understanding where the hell they were now and getting back home themselves. It made them regret not bringing a Shinobi of some sort along to hurt Naruto, but they could do this without one they thought.

Naruto was a good distance away before he heard the first of the screams as the sand worms began to devour those who had tortured him. This only helped him since it gave him such a good head start to run, and he retained that head start for the several hours he was meant to survive. Once the punishment was complete, he returned to his own dimension but none of the others did. Naruto simply smiled as he left this place and found himself a place to sleep for the night.

But while the excursing was helping, his leveling slowed down about half a year into his training regimen. It was then that he began to decide to choose a different reward from time to time after his daily mission. He was always given the choice of two, which was either currency for the shop or a random reward. He had not wanted to gamble his chance at a stable source of food so he just kept choosing money over a random object as a reward. Now that he had a nice sum saved up, he decided to choose the reward, and was surprised to be given a key of all things. This key came with instructions to use it on any door to enter a dungeon. Wondering how the hell this worked, he used the key to do so, and like the screen had said he was in another place like when he was taken to the desert for his punishment. But this place was a forest of all things. The door disappeared behind him and he traveled through as the screen told him to kill the boss monster inside.

Apparently the monsters he had to fight in his first dungeon were wolves, which wasn't hard really. It was just the sheer number of them that made it so. Naruto had used some of his currency to buy a decent dagger and began to slaughter these creatures one by one. It took so long to do this, but by the time he got to the Alpha wolf, he had gone up at least several levels and was better prepared for the fight. If someone could see this six year old child attacking this massive wolf, they would have thought the boy mad. But he was doing so with a smile since he was not afraid anymore. Too many near death experiences gifted to him by the villagers had made him accepting of his own mortality and knew that one day he would die but he would die fighting his opponent head on instead of running like a coward.

That fight with the Alpha wolf had nearly ended in Naruto's death, but even with his left arm broken and a torn up leg that was bleeding heavily, he still did not submit and faced the wolf. The Alpha had jumped at him to finish this fight here and now, but Naruto thought fast enough to through the dagger at the blasted thing. His weapon hit the beast between the eyes and pierced right into the brain. The Alpha wolf died shortly after from its injuries.

It had been a hassle to find a place afterwards to rest, but the shop provided him the proper medicine to heal up from his injuries fast enough. Naruto had remembered that day as the day his real training began. And from then on he would choose the random reward, which was always a key mind you, once a week and enter to clear the dungeon. As the next six months passed by, he grew in level to the point he hit fifty, and it was there that he hit a very large snag. As the Program had warned him, there would be a limit that he would need to complete a mission to overcome, and while the program wouldn't tell him exactly what it was yet which ticked him off since he wanted to grow stronger already so as to be free of this place, he was no longer punished for not completing his daily missions. He still did them for the currency, but other than that he had no means to grow stronger than he was at this point of time. But on the upside, he was stronger than civilians at least so he had no reason to fear them anymore, but Shinobi were such higher levels than them so he still could not face them as he was.

And now that he no longer could level as he was till the time the mission to break through his limit presented itself, he would do his daily routine, since the shop had some items he wanted to purchase and as such needed to make some more money to get it since he was not dumb enough to dip into his food money…

(Meanwhile…)

As Naruto had grown stronger without full on supervision of the village, the Hokage of the village Hiruzen did still hear things from time to time. While he planned to put the boy under constant surveillance upon his entry into the Shinobi Academy when he was eight, right now the boy was too young to watch so much since where would he go? He had no means to make it out in the world outside of the village so there was no need. He only had to make sure from time to time that Danzo didn't kidnap the boy to turn him into just another one of his ROOT Shinobi like he kept proposing time and time again. No matter how many times he or Jiraiya told the stubborn old man that a Jinchuriki needed their emotions to function properly without snapping, he kept saying that they could easily just make a seal that would make sure it didn't. This then would always lead into the discussion of the fact the Shinigami itself was the one bound to the seal that kept said demon in place and placing any added seals could piss off the deity one way or another. Plus given Jiraiya was their only true Seal master made it more imperative that they didn't do it since he was irreplaceable. Danzo would then go out on a huff about Jiraiya sacrificing himself would be for the betterment of the village, and it would give the two of them a headache since it was like talking to a broken record at times.

But right now he had more pressing issues to deal with. His spy had informed him of the Uchiha clan's plans for a coup towards the village. On the one hand, he wanted to deal with them harshly since he would not tolerate such insubordination like this, but the Uchiha were invaluable given their Sharingan so he couldn't just kill all of them like he wanted to do since that would be a major waste. So right now he was going through so many plans in his head, but while so many were running through his head, they all basically went back to killing off the clan. But eventually he came up with a solution that would work if planned out well enough. He would have the majority of them killed, thus preserving the clan for the future, but they would be too low in number to properly execute a coup. So with that plan in mind, he prepared a scroll to write out the secret mission for his spy to carry out when he returned later…

(That Night)

Naruto had been resting in his well hidden hiding place that was essentially a condemned building that the doors were barred. There was a hidden crack in the wall behind a dumpster that he could crawl through and so he had a place to call home, or at least as much as he could call a dump like this that. But it was better than nothing at all really. He had killed all the rats in the place easily enough given his enhanced senses, and he bought a sleeping bag from the store as well as a magical lantern that illuminated the place well enough. There were no windows or means to see inside the place from the outside so light did not give his location away.

But he had just gotten through eating and was lying there deep in thought as he waited for sleep to come to him. He had decided once he was able to break through this limit he was under, he would leave the village once and for all. He had waited long enough in his own mind and had the proper survival skills to survive in the real world after all he had done for the past year. Sure he would have to be stealthy given the higher ups would be hunting him down relentlessly once he did, he had bought a few items to keep him easily hidden once he made his escape from this place. And just as he had felt as sleep began to creep in, the screen popped up in front of him out of the blue. This shook Naruto awake since the thing never did this before, so he wondered why it was now. So he read what the screen had written on it, and as he did his eyes widened:

Limit Breaking Mission: Slay the Uchiha (0/498)

Naruto looked at this mission given to him and raised an eyebrow. He was shocked that this program knew so much about his world to know the exact number of Uchiha of all things when he himself was not aware of their numbers. It wasn't even the fact that he was being asked to slaughter so many people that was getting to him, since in his chosen profession, nay the entirety of the Elemental Countries, such a thing happened from time to time. Three wars and multiple conflicts in the past hundred years including genocide of entire clans could attest to that.

His own clan had been slaughtered down to mainly him years ago during the Second Shinobi War, so like he said, it happened…

Naruto didn't care that the Program was telling him to kill the Uchiha in fact he was happy about it. The Uchiha had been the people who had hurt him the worst out of all the people in the village. While civilians could only hurt him physically, the Uchiha had the Sharingan and were able to use Genjutsu, and they did so with Naruto on multiple occasions all while laughing as he screamed out in fear of the illusions he was forced to endure time and time again.

So pulling out a cloak he used to increase his ability to hide, which was only amplified at night, he set out to do as the Program said. He was looking forward to breaking his limit once and for all…

(The Uchiha district)

Naruto had arrived to the district that housed all the Uchiha and wondered on how he was going to complete this mission. While he was up for it, he had to take a step back and think about this logically. While it may seem strange for a seven year old child to think like this with such forethought, when he leveled up, he his stats would increase automatically. These stats included Strength, agility, sense, and of course intelligence. So as he was higher leveled then the barely level seven kids of his own age, obviously he was far more intelligent than them.

So as he thought on what to do to actually complete his quest, it was then that he noticed a screen that was behind the original. How he had missed this he had no freaking idea, but he wondered what it was. It was then that he saw that he had unlocked abilities other than his analyzing of people's levels by looking at them. Naruto face palmed himself since he had gone into multiple dungeons and nearly died multiple times when he could have made it easier with said abilities to use. So as he looked through them all, he saw one that made him smirk since it was perfect for this moment, and now that he knew he had it, he would use it to finish his mission…

While Naruto was doing all this, the majority of the Uchiha, except a few who were guarding the place outside but still knew what was happening inside, were in the largest building where the clan held major clan events. Right now they were using it to finalize their plans for the coup against Konoha. The reason they were doing this was that for years they believed that they were being held back by those in power. This form of thinking had started when Madara Uchiha had left when he was passed over as the first Hokage of the village, and every time a new Hokage was elected that was not an Uchiha; it only made this anger grow to the point they now wanted to openly rebel against those they thought were hindering them.

The one leading the coup was none other than the clan head Fugaku Uchiha, who had made sure his son Sasuke had spent the night somewhere else for the night so that he wouldn't interfere. He wouldn't chance their meeting being crashed and his son being killed. If the worst came to be, he knew that at least Sasuke would avenge them all. While he loved his son Itachi, given his prodigal status as a Shinobi, Fugaku had seen his son had grown cold to the rest of the family for some time now. He was not sure as to why that was, but he didn't trust Itachi like he did Sasuke and kept him in the dark to their plans. He even had Shisui watch him, but that had stopped when the boy had turned up dead. No one knew how this had happened, and while Fugaku had suspected Itachi, he had no definitive proof on the matter so could nothing against him. This was the reason they were speeding up their plans so on the off chance Itachi betrayed his family; the village would expect the coup to take place later than sooner.

As they continued to discuss their plans in full, one of the Uchiha on guard was lighting up a smoke when out of nowhere his throat was slashed in a manner he could not utter a sound as he fell forward and bled out. Naruto appeared out of thin air as the man died and looked at the screen with a grin. He saw the number before the 498 change from 0 to 1.

"One down," said Naruto to himself with a chuckle, "a whole lot more to go."

Naruto than vanished once more as he hurried off from there. One of the abilities he had gained was Stealth, which made him completely invisible to the naked eye. But what made the ability even better was the fact that even his presence as well as his scent disappeared as well which made it perfect for evading people. Naruto had been pissed that he had this ability since he had spent funds on his outfit and items that made him invisible as well, yet those ways did not hide his scent or his very presence so he would still have to put effort into hiding even with said items. But it wasn't a total waste of funds since his Stealth ability was limited by his magical power, which was a bit of a shock to know he had when he learned this. When the Kyubi had been ripped from him, it wasn't just the beast itself that had left his body, but the chakra inside him that powered his body as well. It was the reason Naruto had felt so weak back then since he had been near death's door and only with the transference of the magical power from Sung was he saved from dying.

The next door was guarded by two people this time, so Naruto had to cause a distraction by throwing a rock so one left to check it out, and then repeated killing by a slash to the throat before he tossed one of his daggers into the back of the head of the one who had left to check out the rock throw. With them dead, he moved on until he killed all twenty that were on guard duty. Once he was done with them, he drank a mana potion to be fully prepared for what was going to do next.

He entered the building stealthily enough, which was a bit of a hassle given that the place was nothing more than one giant room. Once inside he took note of positions and thought out how to do this. The way he though to do it was through shock and awe, and he knew exactly how to do that…

He pulled out the first dagger he bought when he had become a User and threw the thing into the head of the woman sitting next to Fugaku, who happened to be his wife Mikoto. She died quickly from the attack, and then the shock on the sudden death set in. This opened a window of time for Naruto to kill these Shinobi who were weakened by the fact that not a single one of them was in their Shinobi gear or even had a means to defend themselves. The guards had been, but not the people inside since why would they need it. They planned it like this on the off chance they were discovered they could play it off as a clan meeting on another subject altogether.

Within that few second window alone, Naruto used his speed that had enhanced itself as his level grew as well as the ability Sprint, which amplified his speed through magical means, to slash the throats of about two thirds of them before they finally made any sort of attempt to fight back.

"Who dares to attack us!?" demanded Fugaku as he saw the figure standing there. Naruto's coat was black and had a hood, but the thing hid the face of its wearer so all people saw was darkness instead of an actual face. It was this fact that protected his identity from the Uchiha.

"Oh no one special," said Naruto as he pulled his hood down to show his face to them. "Just a very pissed off kid is all."

"The demon brat…" said Fugaku in shock since this was not what he was expecting at all, but then again who expects a seven year old to kill so many people like this?

"Bingo," said Naruto, who used their extended shock of his true identity to kill the majority of the rest of the Uchiha still standing. Naruto could only mentally laugh as well as thank the circumstances to this situation. If this had been any other sort of one he wouldn't have been able to kill the Uchiha so easily like this. But maybe this was the reason the Program sent him after them now of all times since he was a weaker level going against a small army of higher levels. Either way, he was here now and he was so close to finishing this. Sure there were still the children resting peacefully in their homes he would have to kill, but he had already spilled so much blood already like this, what was more when the blood spilled was from traitors as well as bullies?

It was at this point that the shock finally wore off and a few members started to do hand signs to use jutsu. Sure they had no weapons, but they were still Shinobi. But Naruto smirked as he put his hood back on, and what they saw terrified them. They saw what appeared to be a demonically glowing blue eye that stared at them with such hate. Apparently Naruto was remembering all the things they did to him in the past few years and was getting revenge for it. But what they were unaware of was the fact that Naruto had used yet another one of his abilities called Bloodlust. This instilled his target with fear, but the downside was the number of targets was limited, yet with there being so few Uchiha left, they were all affected. Sure the ability lasted one minute alone, but that was more than enough for Naruto to kill all them sans Fugaku, who he didn't kill easily. He cut the man in the left jugular vein. He wanted the man to die slowly, and this way he would do just that. He as well as plenty of Uchiha had done the same to him, and the old saying went to do onto others what you wanted done to yourself.

Naruto left him there to bleed out in horror of being killed by a child of all things, the memory of which would haunt him for an eternity in the afterlife. As he bled out there among the countless bodies of the Uchiha who had been planning to slaughter so many in the village in a vain attempt to take control of what they deemed as theirs, Naruto made his way to the various homes of the Uchiha who had children. One by one he killed them all quickly and efficiently in their sleep, all the while the number needed to be killed was ticking them off until he reached his goal.

Naruto was shown a screen that congratulated him on the success of his mission, but even more than that he had acquired a new title and a perk that went with it:

Uchiha Slayer – Immunity to illusions

This was not what Naruto had expected, but he gladly excepted since he had enough of being fucked with through Genjutsu of all sorts. But as he continued on, he saw the ability he had unlocked from breaking his level limit. It made him smirk as he thought of the possibilities, and now instead of simply heading out of the village, he needed to make a quick stop before he left…

He entered the building with the dead Uchiha still in it and just stood there to admire his handiwork for a bit. To think that only a year ago he was getting tortured by the people of this village, and now he was strong enough as well as skilled enough to fight Shinobi. He wouldn't become arrogant about this though since he knew he had a long way to go before he could face fully prepared Shinobi, ones with their proper gear and weapons to defend themselves. But it was still a victory in his book.

"Father…" said a voice behind Naruto that caused him to twitch a slight bit in surprise since he had been enjoying this moment too much to pay attention to his surroundings. He had to work on that and made plans to do so in the future. But he turned around to see Sasuke Uchiha of all people standing there with the horror in his voice being easily heard. This was understandable given the fact the boy had walked into the scene of a massacre like this. "Who are you!? What have you done to my family!?"

"Who I am is not really important," said Naruto with a cackle, "and as for what I have done? Does this scene not paint it in such a bloody color?"

"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!" shouted Sasuke as he rushed forward in a fit of rage to do something to this person who killed his family. He didn't even have a weapon on him and was going off pure rage. Naruto simply shook his head before he punched Sasuke square in the stomach hard enough to the point he puked out the contents of his stomach before he kicked him back hard to the point he hit the wall and slid down. Naruto hadn't killed him, but he was surprised to see an Uchiha still alive. He had assumed that he was meant to kill all of them and thus wipe out the clan, but apparently the Program had a sick sense of humor. He wondered if this was a means to make a challenge for him in the future or something along those lines, but he would cross that bridge when he came to it later and leave it at that.

"Idiot," said Naruto simply, "you charged your opponent without so much as a weapon in your hand like that? You are just asking to get yourself killed. Now while I would kill you, I have had enough to last me a bit and will leave you alive to deliver a message for all to hear who are willing to hear your words."

"What do you want me to say," asked Sasuke in fear as he coughed out blood. He was hurt pretty bad right now, and even though Naruto had held back quite a bit of power, it was still more than a seven year old should have.

"That the Shadow Monarch lives," said Naruto as his eyes glowed with the same blue light that had instilled fear into Fugaku and the Uchiha who now lay dead at his feet. Sasuke was pissing himself in fear about this since this was too much for his mind to take. But what happened next only made it worse.

"Arise," said Naruto as he held up his hand. Sasuke wanted to scream as he saw the shadows of the slain rise up arise to serve their new master, but his fear made it all but impossible, and instead his mind snapped and he feinted.

This was Naruto's main ability, the one that would make him a legend amongst the people of the Elemental Countries…

Reanimation… the ability to raise the dead as shadows to fight under his rule…

And with the beginning of his future army now under his control, he began to walk out the building as well as the Uchiha district. He ordered his shadows to burn the accursed place to the ground, and they did so without question. As Naruto made his way to the wall of the village, he heard the alarms going off as various Shinobi went to fight off the fires. But that was the whole point of this since it served as a distraction for him to simply leave. He didn't even need to be stealthy about it since there was no one manning the gate since they too had gone to help with the fires.

So with a laugh, more to himself than anything else, Naruto set off towards new lands…

Adventures awaited him elsewhere, and in time all would know who he was…

Naruto Uzumaki, the Shadow Monarch…

(A/N: For those wondering why I am doing the whole 'automatic' skill points route on this is for two reasons. In Solo leveling, the system is akin to an RPG game, which the main character is aware of since he played them. Video games do not exist in this universe, so Naruto would have no idea what it all meant. True he could learn, but then we come to the second reason being I don't want to have to remember so many numbers as the chapters go on.

Just to set the stage on what to expect in this story, there are no random portals in this world like in Solo Leveling, so Naruto is the only one capable of transporting to other places via the keys he gains from his daily missions. This is not about Hunters and all that like in that story; no this is the making of a Godlike OP character Fanfic with a story to tell exactly how he got to that point. Also, I am looking for suggestions on a girlfriend/future wife for Naruto in this Fanfic. Remember that he is only seven now, so take age into account as you make a suggestion. So I hope you enjoy this story, and I will see you in the next chapter!)