Iwill play along with you old man. After all, I don't wantsomeone to be head over hills on me for some crappy reason.'
I took the candy fromHokage and opened the packaging and began to eat it. Fuck! It is the cheapest candy available in Village. I kept these thoughts to myself as I flashed asmile to Hokage.
"Thank-you Hokage Sama. Thanks forthecandy."
"Now! Now don't be so formal to me. Just call me grandpa Hokage as this is what most of Village Children call me."
Hiruzen smiled gently towards Izuna as he spoke to him.
"Ok! I will keep that in mind Hokage Sama….I mean Grandpa Hokage."
"Good! Now let's test your Chakra Nature."
I began to fidget when I heard those words. I have an affinity for every element known what kind of reaction will the Chakra papers give out when I infuse it with Chakra.
Akira nodded towards Hokage as he fished out a Chakra paper out of his pocket andhanded it to me. I looked at my father as I muttered,
"Father! I don't feel well. Can we do theChakra paper test another day."
Akira had a troubled look on his face when he heard my words. He hesitated for a while before he eventually decided.
"Ok! I will talk to Fugaku and Hokage-sama about it."
I nodded with joy at my father as I acted the part of feeling unwell and slumped on theground. My father immediately caughtme as he spoke to Hiruzen and Fugaku,
"Izuna isn't feeling well, I will take him back home. He will be fine after resting for a while. If you want to know about his Chakra Nature, I will test out and tell you later.
Hiruzen waved his hand and said,
"It's fine to go take him home to rest. It is nothing of major importance. You can report it anytime."
Akira nodded to Hiruzen and Fugaku as he piggy-backed me and dashed towards the Uchiha clan.
'What happened to that kid so suddenly?I only gave him six months old candy to eat which I usually carried in my pocket. Was there anything mixed in the candy or it was stale.' Hiruzenthought about the matter.
Meanwhile in the nearby bushes,
'Damn! That Uchiha brat left without showing his Chakra Nature. I must place root anbus to keep an eye on both of these kids. Although, I can't monitor them inside the Uchiha Clan, being able to track their whereabouts outside the Uchiha clan compounds is fine by me. If I can control these two Uchiha brats then I will be able to control the entire Uchiha Clan in the future. The position of Hokage would be in my grasp soon.'
Danzo signaled his root anbus to retreat to Headquarters, as he disappeared from the spot. Yagami together with Shisui in his arms flickered out from the training ground.
I and father reached home as Mom welcomed us back. She was worried to see me lyingon father's shoulders as she asked,
"Are you alright Izuna? Come mama will take care of you."
Aiko snatched Izuna from Akira as she began to cuddle with him.
"My boy is a real ninja now. You must be tired from unlocking your Chakra, now go and rest. Mama will prepare your favorite food at dinner tonight.
I slowly wobbled to the bedroom as I pretended to be tired. Once I entered the room, I jumped on the bed and silently shouted in my mind.
'Finally, I can train in ninjutsu. Gone were the days when I had to helplessly wait for ninjutsu training. Now from which element I should start with.'
I began to contemplate as there were too many options to start with. Fire and lightning jutsus would be taken care of by my father. I can ask Uncle Yagami to train me in Wind Jutsus. As for Earth and water style jutsus, I will put them on back-burner until I join the academy.
Now, this left with me other elements thatwere uncharted territory for me. I knew of some other elements besides the one mentioned in Naruto like Space element, Time element, Light element, Dark element, Void element, and Chaos element. Other elements are still unknown to me.
I can't practice in space, time, void, and Chaos element as these are too complex and Ineed some sort of external aid or assistance to figure them out. That leaves me with Light and Dark elements. I think the light element would be easy to master compared to the dark element.
The number of hours I spent on learning the properties of Light in Physics sure would come to use here. I would have never thought that such a thing would happen when I slammedmy head in those physics books to prepare for the college entrance exam.
Light can be used in a variety of ways. I can adjust its wavelength to manipulate the effect on the surroundings. There are infrared rays, ultraviolet rays, gamma rays, microwaves, Radio waves, and whatnot, the possibilities are endless. But I need to figure out my necessity for now.
I want to evolve my Sharingan as soon as possible while hiding it from the eyes ofeveryone present out there. Maybe I should try mastering optical illusion first. I can bend light around my eyes using the phenomena of refraction and dispersion to create an illusion to hide my Sharingan.
But there is a catch in this technique anyUchiha or Hyuga would be able to see the infused Chakra around my eyes and would be able to figure out the use of ninjutsu. I would have to figure out a way to disrupt their senses.
I laid on the bed as I was trying to figure out a feasible way to hide my Sharingan.
'Wait a sec! I am a retard. How could I forget about the genjutsu? It will easily synchronizewith the light element and enhance the genjutsu. So, I can cast a small genjutsu around my eyes using the light element which makes people believe that my eyes are normal instead of Sharingan. And the best person to learn Genjutsu is right at my house. Mother would the best teacher to teach me Genjutsu.'
I locked the room from inside and activatedmy Sharingan as I laid on the bed and began to recall the hand seals required for the Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique. I want to surprise my father by performing this Jutsu on my first attempt and thus force him to teach memore jutsus.
Learning the Shadow Clone and multi shadow clone jutsu would be a good start as it can exponentially increase my Chakra training and other sorts of training. For now, I shouldjust train in the basic Chakra control technique.
I insert my hand in my pocket and took out a bunch of leaves I plucked earlier. I will practice the 'Leaf Concentration Exercise' till dinner. It is a very good exercise for a beginner like mewho knew almost nothing about the Chakra control. I placed the leaf on my forehead as I began to concentrate my chakra and focus on the center of the leaf. It is a common exercise taught in the academy and I don't want to spend most of my time in the academy learning beginner's stuff. Kakashi was able to graduate from the academy at the age of 5 and was promoted to chunnin at the age of 6. This news created a shock among villagers as they marveled at the abilities of Kakashi. Kakashi had too much potential and talent, too bad he wasted it on a grave.
Kakashi is 9 years old now, five years older than me. Uncle Sakumo is still alive, he is yet to fail on his mission and commit suicide. If possible I want to stop him from dying. In the future, he could be a good alternative for Danzo. I don't know the necessary details of Uncle Sakumo'sdeath. But in anime, it was two years before the Third Shinobi War that Kakashi started behaving like my high school principal who continued to bitch about rules. So, I still have two years, maybe I should interact more with him.
That reminded me of the Incoming Third Shinobi war, maybe I should participate in it from backlines to broaden my horizons about the warfare of the Shinobi world. After all, I am still a green-horn to all this killing. Operating on dead bodies was one thing, but killing actual living people is another. I have to stain my hand with blood, I want to carve out a name for myself in the Shinobi world.
And in the future, I would have to face Grandfather too. I don't want any interactions with the Black Zetsu until the fourth Shinobi war. I may be able to deal with him earlier but that would alert the Kara Organization lead by Isshiki Otsutsuki. He is one scary guy the likes of which Kaguya couldn't compare to.
"Izuna! Shadow clone is a B-rank jutsu that can only be performed by having the Jounin level of Chakras. Although your Chakra Capacity is enough, the shadow clone has no practical battle applications. It is only good for scouting and reconnaissance, as it eliminates the risk of death at the cost of some Chakra. Shadow clone halves the user's Chakra thus preventing the user from performing any powerful ninjutsu. Are you sure you want to learn it?"
'Why would I not learn it? That's my ticket to dominating the plebs in the future, how could I not learn it.'
"Father! You know I have lots of Chakra. This jutsu won't harm me and will help with my Chakra control."
Akira thought for a while and nodded. He showed me the hand signs required for Shadow Clone and warned me to practice moderately.
"Yes, Father! I will keep that in mind."
I nodded to him as I began to practice. This will mark the beginning of my journey towards Great power as I will become op.
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Another year passed in the blink of an eye,
I am five years old now. Lots of things happened in the previous year.
I mastered the Shadow clone to the point that I only need one hand seal just like Naruto to perform the jutsu. I began training Multiple Shadow Clone after I begged father to teach me the jutsu. I have to show him my perfect Shadow Clone before he reluctantly passed the Scroll containing the jutsu to me. Father wasn't able to perform the jutsu as it required Uzumaki levels of Chakra to be performed and thus was a Forbidden Jutsu.
My greatest gain was Chakra control. Mother trained me non-stop to practice in Chakra-control.
I learned walking on walls, trees, and even water. It took me a month to master all these techniques. My control of Chakra was raised to the proficiency of a Chunnin after one year of training with my mother.
Father also taught me a few lightning Release Ninjutsus which are quite powerful. I learned the body flicker technique from Uncle Yagami, but he warned me to not use the technique in battles unless I awaken my Sharingan. I also learned quite a few Wind jutsus. I am only lacking the Earth Release and Water Release jutsus. I will get plenty of chances to learn those jutsus in the future.
Father trained me in Shurikenjutsu as it is considered as the specialty of Uchihas. It took me a while to get used to the weight of Kunais and Shurikens, but after a year of regular training, I was able to hone my skills to a Chunnin level. If I pair it with Sharingan I can even go hand to hand with a Jounin in Shurikenjutsu. He also taught me some basics of Taijutsu, which I practiced for a while.
I had decided to start my physical training only after I turn seven as this is the optimal age to do so. All of the bones of the body would have been formed and it would be the start of the first growth spurt in kids.
Mother taught me a few genjutsu techniques and I mastered them perfectly. There was little progress in the development of the Optical Illusion technique. Despite my awareness of the laws of light behavior, It was pretty hard to influence others to fall into illusion. My test target was as usual Shisui, whom I bribed to play along with me.
I guess it will take me another six months to create the optical Illusion technique. My inability to reveal my Sharingan was hindering my growth.
But there was a piece of good news. The new session for the academy would begin soon and I together with Shisui will enroll in the academy.
Today was the day for academy enrolment. I and Shisui went to Academy accompanied by Uncle Yagami. Father was on a mission and wasn't able to accompany us.
We reached the academy which was near the Hokage Office just right at the base of the Hokage Mountain. There was a giant kanji sign for 'fire' imprinted at the front of the building. There were lots of people gathered at the front of the Academy. I spotted members of Hyuga, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Nara, Uchiha, Inuzuka, and Aburame clan members together with their children gathered at the entrance of the Academy for their children to participate in the Academy entrance examination. There were many other minor clans too, but I wasn't aware of any of their names as there was no detailed information in manga or anime about them. I knew only about Sarutobi Clan because it was the clan of The Third Hokage.
By reading books in the Uchiha clan I came to know of a few other minor clans like Shimura Clan, Onikuma Clan, Hatake Clan, and the Kurama Clan.
There were a few Civilians with their Children standing nervously on one of the corners of the Academy. The children were nervous as they would face other kids from various influential clans. This got me intrigued as I wondered, how will the academy evaluate the Civilian kids. Every kid from any clan would have learned a Jutsu or two of their clan and thus would certainly enter the academy. But what about civilian kids with no access to any jutsus.
My doubts were cleared soon a Chunnin came out from the entrance of the Academy and posted a notice. The kids from Ninja families would be assessed in the backyard of the academy whereas Civilian kids would be assessed in the front ground.
All of the clan kids went to the backyard of the academy including me and Shisui. All of the kids began to whisper among themselves with their respective friends and families. I began to check my surroundings to search for any Chunnin or Jounin who will conduct the test. Suddenly I shivered as I felt a scrutinizing gaze upon me. He frantically began to search around again but wasn't able to spot anyone.
'Fuck! It is that pervert Hokage again. He is observing the recruits of the academy. But what's with this gaze on me.' I grumbled and ignored the gaze as I closed my eyes.
In the Hokage Office,
Hiruzen was perplexed when he noticed the Uchiha Kid searching for something the moment he laid his eyes on him.
'The kid can sense my gaze on him. What a monster? Such Chakra sensitivity at such a gaze, I shall train him as one of the possible candidates for the Hokage. This kid has too much potential, I won't allow Danzo to recruit this kid. He is mine!... Uhun….I mean he will be in my care.'
I felt a chill run down my spine. Somebody is having unhealthy thoughts about me. Must be Danzo for sure, it can be that pervert too, I am not sure but it is one of them.
I was able to figure out about my ultra-sensitive. It is neither a kekkai-Genkai or instinct, it is because of my strong soul blessed by God. I can somehow feel any negative intentions against me.
Clap….Clap...
Our attention was gathered by a Chunnin who began to announce Academy rules,
"Not everyone can enter the Ninja academy. Some of you will be recruited in the Academy but some of you will be failed. Now listen to the Academy Rules,
Rule number one, all of you are required to love the Village and help to preserve Village's peace and prosperity.
Rule number two, all of you should have a firm and unyielding mindset that can endure the hard training.
Rule Number three, all of you should be healthy in both body and mind.
Now we will conduct your test to determine your qualification. Follow me whenever your name is announced.
The academy entrance exam thus began. Honestly, I wasn't anticipating too much from this exam. I have suffered more in my previous life where I have to compete with a million other students, just to qualify for the College. Compared to that honestly, this is Child's play. Well, I am a child after all but still, this exam would be a breeze and they can pretty much I can graduate at the same time if I want to. But that would be pretty suspicious, I will at least spend six months in the academy before I request for graduation.
Soon, it was my turn as the chunnin called my name and I walked away with him. He took me to one of the closed Training halls as there were three Chunnin instructors seated on a chair and surprisingly on the middle sit sat the Hokage himself.
He smiled at me and gestured me to sit on the seat I front of him. He gently questioned me,
"Why do you want to become a Ninja?"
"I want to become a ninja to grow strong. So, I could protect my loved ones from any harm." I unhesitatingly replied.
Hiruzen nodded to himself as he further asked,
"What are your thoughts about the village?"
'Oh! He wants to test my character, so he phrased his question in such away. But old man I have no qualms with the village. This village was founded by my Grandfather when he wasn't manipulated by Black Zetsu, so, I will fulfill his wishes and protect the village. Though I have a different opinion about the people of the village.'
"I will protect the village whenever the Village will face any danger."
"What will you do, if you failed the examination today?"
'Is he trying to pull an Ibiki Morino on me?'
"Then I will try in the next examination and will succeed."
Hiruzen nodded as he was satisfied with my responses.
'A good seedling indeed.'
He then instructed the Chunnin instructor to test my Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, or genjutsu talent.
I performed well in taijutsu as I fought with a Chunnin and suppressed him when the later was holding back to the level of a genin.
For the Ninjutsu, I performed the signature Uchiha Fireball Jutsu and immediately passed.
The chunnin instructor trapped me in a genjutsu which I quickly dispelled and even reversed on the Chunnin who was caught off-guard.
Such proficiency would have easily graduated me from the academy. I have to show some talents if I want to graduate early. My only weakness was Taijutsu which I will practice soon. The exam came to an end as I was passed and the Chunnin instructed me to arrive early the next morning for the Opening ceremony.
"Hokage-sama, that kid is already as strong as a Genin."
Hiruzen nodded as he replied,
"The academy isn't just about battle capability. Kids needs to interact with each other and also learn subjects from academy. This may seem redundant during war time but for now, kids still needs to grow under a stable environment and foster positive feeling for Village."
The Chunnin silently nodded his head as he stared at Izuna's departing back.
I walked out of the Training hall as I anticipated my Academy days in the Ninja world
Next day we arrived early in the morning. There were lots of children gathered in the front training ground of the Academy waiting for the commemoration of ceremony. After half an hour, when all of the students were present their the ceremony started.It was a boring event and I felt like sleeping when the Jounin and Chunnin instructors gave their speech."Now, it's time to end the ceremony."I opened my eyes as I yawned when the announcer announced this news."But before that, Our Respected Hokage-Sama will give a speech to the future ninjas of the Konoha."The surrounding clapped and cheered when Hiruzen wobbled over to the stage.'So, it will be his usual will of fire Bullshit! to rile up young children to give their life for the sake of the village. Like, come on, almost 50% of the population is Ninja in the village and the rest are civilians and what he means is to risk the life of half of Konoha's population to save the life of the rest 50% of the population who can't take care of themselves. From what I saw in these five years an average shopkeeper earns more than a genin per month and some popular shops even earn as much as a Jounin. Where Jounin have to put his life on the line to do a few A-rank missions to get the money and a portion of the money provided by the mission would be taken by Hokage office as maintenance fee and the rest half would be divided equally among team members depending on their Ninja rank.'The Hokage continued to rant on as I tried to figure out the reality of the situation.'Also, if the Ninja is from a clan he has to pay some of the mission money to his clan to fund the clan. After all of these cuts what is left is a meager sum of money. If I open a weapon shop and start to sell some ninja tools, I wonder how much money would I earn. Then my story would be 'the birth of a Business Mogul in Ninja World'. Till now, I haven't heard of any Ninja getting extremely rich by doing missions. To be realistic, any person be it chunnin or jounin can't complete missions non-stop. I observed my father in previous four years and came to a conclusion.'Any jounin can only opt for a B-rank or above mission unless he is a genin instructor. The C and D rank missions are reserved for Chunnins and genins. An average B-rank mission usually takes a week to complete and the ninja needs to relax for a minimum of three days to recover from fatigue. The payout of a B-rank mission is 150,000 Ryo to 200,000 Ryo. After all the cuts it amounts to an average of 100,000 Ryo if the person is solo on the mission. For an A-rank mission, the payout is anywhere between 150,000 Ryo to 1,000,000 Ryo. No jounin can go solo on such mission and need the assistant of at least another Jounin to safely complete the mission. The mission usually lasts for anywhere between a week to a month. Also, the ninja needs a rest of at least two weeks to recover from the mission. It will take even more time if the ninja has serious injuries. The payout for a ninja would be around an average of 400,000 considering the highest payment of 1,000,000.Now let's talk about the S-rank mission. Need a group of at least three skilled Jounin and the number can go up to seven members. The minimum payout for the mission is 1,000,000 Ryo. And the upper cap would be decided by the Hokage office depending on the severity of the mission. No ninja will willingly take the S-rank mission unless specifically requested by the Hokage office. After my birth father has rejected all of the S-rank missions issued to him. If I estimate then an average payout from S-rank would be 600,000 Ryo considering the sum is divided among other people.Ok! That may sound a lot, but there is a catch. We have yet to cover the expenses of missions. The shurikens and kunais are made out of metal, so they cost a lot to purchase. A set of 6 kunais and shuriken cost 10,000 Ryo and this set last for 3 B-rank missions, one A-rank mission as for S-rank consider carrying another set with you. The shurikens and kunais would usually be lost, nicked, or have to be left behind while escaping from ambush. Other expenses include medicines after all who isn't injured during a mission and most of the teams don't have a medic ninja with them. The Chakra pills and recovery medicines are a hell of expensive as rare herbs are used to make them. A bottle of 10 Chakra pills cost 50,000 Ryo and medicinal liquid and gel cost around 10,000 Ryo. Also include the average hospital expenses of 10,000 Ryo for B-rank, 50,000 for an A-Rank, and a minimum of 70,000 from S -rank. I would hardly believe if someone said a person comes out unscathed for the S-rank mission. Such a person would easily be near Kage level and could easily steamroll a bunch of Jounin.When I figured out such a thing, I began to question the sanity of peoples and laughed at myself as I would soon join the madness. I am pretty sure the higher-ups of Various Clans are aware of this thing but they choose to shut their mouth as they need to sustain the clan. Also, if everyone just sat at home and opened a shop or two, then they will become degenerates who need babysitting like civilians and thus would lower the power of a Clan. Only disabled and old person was allowed to open a shop in any clan compounds, this is the rule enforced by Clan.The speech of the Hokage ended as we were dismissed to our respective classes. I walked over to the notice board and checked for my class number. My class is on 1-B whereas Shisui's class is on 1-C. The selection of the class was random and no class was filled with geniuses."Too bad, nii-san! Our classes are different, I won't be able to stay with you." Shisui complained."You can always meet me during lunch-time." I consoled Shisui.I searched for my class and found it after fumbling for a while. I entered the class and sat at the edge of the class close to the window.There was a podium in front of the blackboard and the desks were arranged in ladder steps increasing the height of the last row and thus making the face of every student visible to the Instructor. Students continued to enter the class and the class was almost full. There was no sign of an instructor anywhere. My good looks earned me the favor of many girls as they continued to pester me about my name and hobbies.Many of the boys were jealous but I was irritated by this continuous pestering of bothering. I replied to a few girls during the start, but after that, I stopped bothering them as I gazed out of my window.A few civilian kids were jealous of me and thought of teaching me a lesson as they approached me. One of them placed his foot on my desk as he barked,"Hey! You spiked chump! go away from this seat. I and my friends will sit here."Honestly, I am quite stunned by this development as I thought,'Hey, buddy! I never bothered with you, why you want to make my life miserable?'I ignored them as I continued to gaze outside the windows. All of the nearby civilian kids were anticipating a fight as they murmured among themselves."That kid is going to get beaten and taught a lesson. Who told him to impress so many girls.?"'Nani the fuck! How I offended you all. I don't have any interest in these small lolis. Honestly, aren't you all too young to think about such matters? In my previous world due to modernization this could be considered normal, but here it looks weird. But I can guess the sentiment of these sheltered kids. Also, do all of you honestly believe that they will flour me.'I looked around to see the reaction of kids from clans. Most of them were lazing around and muttering among themself. They were honestly not bothered by this show. I guess everybody here is the protagonist and I am the mob who gets picked on.'Why you do this to me? Now I have to bully you all. I guess I will go full hentai on you all and unleash tentacle monster on you guys. Will it break their mind? Who cares, I am not a soft persimmon. This will serve as a lesson for them.''These civilian kids are too full of themselves. I remembered from the anime they surrounded the clone of Itachi to teach him a lesson, but he kicked their asses. Also, civilian kids used to surround and bash Naruto often. Guess, I will teach them what their parents weren't able to.'
