Disclaimers: I do not own Naruto or any other world I use as reference. I only owe my main OC and any other OC I may create.

Chapter 4: The meeting with the Hokage

The months flow by and it is now a few weeks after my eighth birthday.

I have finally completed my Fūinjutsu-language, at least theoretically, I still have to test it in the real world and with real chakra, but it should work.

On my eighth birthday I finally got my academy pass. With that I can visit the academies library and buy training weapons. Buying training weapons was the first thing I did on that day. I bought 25 of both Kunai and Shuriken, and 50 of Senbon.

The reason for the higher amount of Senbon is because I prefer them and while I will learn how to use a Kunai and Shuriken, I want to master Senbon. Furthermore the Senbon are the only one that can already be used as weapons. While the Kunai and Shuriken relay on sharp edges, the Senbon only has to be pointed, and training weapon means that all sharp edges where removed, but nor the pointed ends.

And so I began to retrain all throwing techniques I had already once mastered in the void. I remastered how to change the trajectory of Shuriken mid-flight, how to let Kunai bounce off of other surfaces to hit the target and how to drive a Senbon into anything from any angle.

At the end I could change the trajectory of a Shuriken up to four times mid-flight, let a Kunai bounce off up to two times before it hit the right target and drive three quarters of a Senbon into a tree from any angle. But this is not the limit of my mastery but the limit of my tools. They weight too little and they aren't perfectly balanced.

It was after one of my training's seasons that I walked into an interesting scene. A child with blond hair, blue eyes and whiskers marks was running away from a dozen plus civilians, part of them visible drunk. It was only now that I remembered that today was the 10th of October.

I thought about what to do and decided to give Naruto a helping hand, or a Senbon. I followed them until Naruto was driven into a death end and one of the drunks was about to hit him. I moved fast and stepped before Naruto, one of my Senbon in hand, but I didn't attacked with it, I simple held it before the fist of the drunk.

A second latter you could hear a pained scream, as the Senbon pierced into the fist of the drunk, driven by his own force.

"This is enough. Now fuck off before I use you as a pincushion."

"Brat, don't you see who the demon is, you should go away and let us do what should have been done eighth years ago." Shouted one of the drunks in the back, he most likely didn't see the Senbone in the hand of his drinking buddy.

"I don't give a fuck who he is and the only thing I see are a few bad examples of humanity who try to beat a child. Would you all now be so kind and fuck off?"

"We will not let the monster walk away. He has killed our loved ones and is now walking in our village as if nothing happened. We will kill the Ky…"

He didn't finish his sentence, because a Senbon was now stuck in his neck. Not deathly but he could say goodbye to his vocal cords.

When the other drunks saw what happened they began to attack me and again I simple held my Senbons before their attacks and every one of them ended with a Senbon in their limbs.

After the third scream, the drunks seem to understand that they didn't have a chance against me and began to run away, without even helping the wounded one. Fife drunks lied now before my feet. Four of them were crying while holding one of their limbs that had a Senbon in it and the last one was still unconscious from the shock of having his neck pierced.

Taking a last look at them to make sure no one of them would attack us any more I turned around to look at Naruto. He was already wearing his orange jumper, visible still too large for him. There were a few strains of dirt and blood on it, but no visible tears.

"Are you alright?"

He didn't answer at first and keeps staring at me. Slowly stars began to form in the sky blue orbs of his.

"Awesome, how did you do that? Are you a ninja? Can you teach me how to do that?"

He began to ask questions one after another and didn't seem to stop.

"Man slow down. We should first get out of here."

I held my hand out to him. He looked at it for a few seconds before taking it. We moved out of the death end and I noticed that we weren't so far away from one of the places where Naruto is accepted and likes to visit, Ramen Ichiraku.

I moved in its direction and could feel his gaze on me and many other gazes on him as he followed me. When we reached Ramen Ichiraku, I ordered a large bowl of miso ramen with extra meat.

"Now say are you a ninja? You beat them without even hitting them."

"Hmm, no I will only join the academy next year. This all was self-taught."

"Man I'm in the fourth year and we don't do such cool thing."

Hmm fourth year, which means he joined at the age of four into the civilian class off the ninja academy. The civilian can join the civilian class at the age of six. There they learn how to read and how to write for two years. After that they can either chose the civilian path and search for an apprenticeship, or they chose the ninja path and join the ninja academy at the age of eight.

The clan children are thought by their clan until the age of eight, as such they normally only join into the ninja class of the academy or begin to search for an apprenticeship.

Only this generation there is a difference. For some reason all clan heirs have joined the civilian class. I believe the reason is because there are so many heirs and their heads wanted to give them as many years as possible to get to learn each other.

And then there is Naruto, I remember to have read once, that the Hokage made it so that he could join the academy two years sooner, so that he could get his own apartment and allowance.

We talked a little bit longer – Naruto kept asking questions while I tried to eat and at the same time to answer his questions without answering them. This lasted until I felt a new presence appear 100 meters behind us. Knowing that an Anbu was coming to take us to the Hokage, I increased my eating speed.

At exact, the same moment as I finished my last bowl, we heard a voice from behind us.

"Uzumaki-san, Yamanaka-san. The Hokage would like to speak to you."

"Jiji? What does the old man wants from us?"

While Naruto began to question the Anbu, I paid for my three bowls and the six bowls from Naruto –I didn't ever see him eat them. After saying goodbye to Teuchi, I moved to the Anbu with the cat mask, who used Shunshin no Jutsu with us to get to the Hokage tower.

My first Shunshin no Jutsu as a passenger was unpleasant –even more so because I have only eaten a minute ago-, but bearable. Naturo on the other hand fell onto his ass and began to mutter something about 'happens every time'.

As I looked around, I noticed, that we were already before the Hokage and that the Anbu was nowhere to be seen –but I still could feel him and four other presences in the room. Three of them had their chakra lowered to civilian level, but the last one had no chakra at all.

A second later I bowed low and greeted the leader of Konohagakure.

"Hokage-sama, you wanted to speak with us?"

"Yea Jiji, what do you want from us?"

"Ah yeas, Naruto-kun, Yamanaka-san, I would like to know, why there are fife new additions to the hospital, all with crippling wounds."

He said it with a smile and the tone of a grandparent, but the smile didn't reach his eyes and the tone had a sharp note in it. Before Naruto could say anything, I began to speak.

"Before we answer, could I know how many ears this room should have?"

The Hokage studied me for a moment and answered.

"Four"

As soon as the word left his month, two of my Senbon left my right hand in the direction upward behind me. Not a second later the four Anbu surrounded me as at the same time a fifth person fell from the place where the Senbon landed. The Senbon were now visible in his knees.

As the Anbu clad person with a completely white mask tried to move away, three of the real Anbu moved away from me and surrounded the fake, a single second later all Anbu disappeared from the room and I turned again to the third god of Shinobi.

"Now that the nuisance is removed, we can answer your questions Hokage-sama. The person with a Senbon in his neck is a traitor and the other four where self-defense."

The old man didn't seem happy with everything that was happening today.

"A traitor and how do you know that he is a traitor?"

"He was about to announce a S rank village secret and I had to stop him somehow."

"And with secret was he about to announce?"

"The secret you declared on the 14th October eight years ago."

He looked me in the eyes and stared into them for a few second, before asking Naruto to leave. He wasn't happy about it, but after a promise from his jiji to visit Ichiraku with him and a promise from me to speak with him at a later time, he finally left the room.

As I felt the presence of Naruto move away from the door, I felt two new Anbu placing themselves in the room – this time without lowering their chakra to civilian level.

"Now if you would be so kind and answer me from where you know the secret and how you find out that there was a spy in my office?"

The old man lost his smile and nice tone and showed the true face of a Kage.

"Every adult knows of the secret and many talks about it, even more so if they see Naruto and I'm someone who likes to observe everything."

The Hokage looked at me to see if I was lying, but gave up a second later knowing that it was most probably true.

"And the spy, whom even I didn't sensed?"

"Hmm, has Inoichi-dono already talked to you about me?"

The Professor seemed to think about it and nodded. Pleased that I didn't had to explain the perfect memory thing, I continued to explain why I sensed the spy.

"After eight years of sensing chakra, I can now even sense the absence of it in the air. While it is true that the spy didn't have any chakra, the air around him didn't had any either. At first I thought that it was an Anbu but after seeing that he didn't helped Naruto from the dunks and that the Anbu used a different way to stay hidden, I deemed it important enough to ask if he was one of yours."

"You say he followed Naruto?"

"Yes." –and this was even true, he did truly followed Naruto from the beginning.

"Hmm, how far can you sense?"

"About 150 meters without concentrating and three times as far if I concentrate on it." –a lie, but I didn't want to say that I could "see" everything in a nearly two km radius without even concentrating.

"And from where have you learned to fight?"

"Self-taught from books." –again the true, but the timeline is wrong.

The Hokage took a puff from his pipe and stared at me. After thinking for a while, he continued to speak.

"With the performance you showed today you can be promoted to the fourth year of the ninja class." –he stopped here to look at my reaction.

"With all due respect Hokage-sama, I would prefer to join the academy with my generation and end it at the same time as them."

"And why is that?"

"Time is something I have most of at the moment and time is one of the best teachers. I would prefer to learn for the three years, rather than to die on one of my first real missions."

"It is true that time is a good teacher, but the Jōnin you would get would be too a good teacher. Furthermore experience is a good fuel for growth."

"While it is true that a Jōnin would teach me many things, the thing that I lake at the moment is my physic. The body of an eight year old boy can only reach such a level and time is the only way for it to grow further."

"A good answer, but if you change your mind say so and we will promote you to the fourth year and know that there are good ninjas who have reached Genin rank before the eighth year. This is all, you can leave now."

"Thank you Hokage-sama and goodbye."

As I left the Hokage-tower I noticed an Anbu following 300 meters behind me. I do wonder myself if this is for protecting me from Danzō and Root or to spy on me and see if I am loyal to Konoha. Lucky for me, I didn't have to keep anything secrete.

My training is extreme, but understandable if I have read all books and my work with the energies is invisible to them, because I still don't work with chakra. So I continued to do what I did and walked to the academy library.

The new subjects of my interest are the civilian and ninja laws. I want to know who had how much right over me. At that time I didn't know it would be so complicated.

-line break-

It took me months to completely understand who had which rights. I had already all knowledge off the clan rights, but they oftentimes said to look at the standard laws, which they didn't had in the clan library or even the civil one.

My final conclusion is that the entire system is corrupt. You could find the laws only in the ninja part of the academy library, which means that most part of the civilians didn't even know what right they had. Furthermore they were placed under the civilian section, which nearly no ninja has ever read.

In cases that some ninja did want to read them, they couldn't because the text was nearly completely masked –they were made indestructible with Fūinjutsu- and made unreadable for the normal eye. That is to say, that someone with a Sharingan or with a sensing skill based on spiritual energy could still read them.

What I did find out was that neither the civilians nor the civilian council had any real power. The Hokage was a dictator and the ninjas could do nearly anything with the civilians as long as they had a good reason for that.

The reason for this was that the foundation for all of Konohas laws is based on the first few laws written during its creation and at that time civilians weren't seen as much. As such most of the laws where for ninjas - for example they weren't allowed to attack a civilian, but were allowed to discipline them.

This continued until the first shinobi war, where the second Hokage allowed a few civilian to take control over the civil population of the shinobi village –under the condition that it will be disbanded after the war is over-, this was the first civil council.

As the Nidaime had to stay longer and longer in the front line, the civil council began to take more and more control over the village. At first was the market, followed by the academy and then the genin corps. It was at this situation, that the Nidaime died and the war ended.

With the Nidaime death, the civil council continued to work and everyone, who know about the condition that the Nidaime had set for the council, died in wrong ranked missions and other suspicious conditions.

At the moment the civil council has even the right to imprison jonin level shinobi and has a word in nearly every matter concerning the shinobi of Konoha. From what they learn in the academy, to who will be promoted and who gets what mission.

Sure on the other side stands the clan council, but they only have a 50 percent say in the matter concerning the shinobi and zero say in the matter of the civilians. While they should have 100% say in everything, with the Hokage having the last word and the civilians with no power at all.

It was then that I decided to change it all. I would bring this to daylight and take the power from the civil council. It was to corrupt, it may be true that the civilians have a right for rights, but they took more rights than they had claim to.

But before that I had to become a shinobi and preferable a Chunin, then I would have at least a part of the council behind my back and the civil council wouldn't have the power to remove me without a say from the clan council.

It was now only one week before the start of the new academy year and I have learned more from the laws then I searched for. I had found out that one only had to pass all tests with a score of 90% and then one wouldn't need to join the classes. It may sound hypocrite from me to demand to join in with my generation into the academy and then only visit it on tests, but I needed more time. I still lake too many things, like information, money, weapons and many other things.

The next thing on my agenda is to find a forge that I am allowed to use.