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One month after the appearance of the baby on top of the Hokage Tower and the boy looked just like you would expect a healthy baby boy from the Uchiha Clan. Naruto was sleeping peacefully in his crib, and a young Mikoto looked at him smiling, "He sure looks cute, don't you think so mom?" Her mother was smiling too. "He might be cute, but you should see how he eats. He drank 15 bottles of formula." The young baby was sleeping but something made him frown every once in a while. Naruto had very good senses and he was getting a smell that was making sleeping not so easy.

You see today was the day that the Uchiha practiced fire jutsu by collecting and burning the dry leaves that fell in their backyards. The smell of smoke was not so bad for most people, but to little Naruto was like he was surrounded by it. It was 7 o'clock in the morning when it happen. The smell was so bad for him that he simply began to cry and it happened, he was being carried by Mitoko's mother when she was passing a smoking pile of leaves and after the strong cry there came a gust of wind out of nowhere and blew the smoke and leaves away.

Kagami saw that since he was the one that burned the leaves in the first place, "Well either Kami did not like having a child near all that smoke or little Naruto could not stand the smell and blew the leaves away with wind chakra. If he did this kid is going to give the other clans competition when he gets in the academy." Kagami said as he smiled and laughed all the way to the kitchen.

Little did he know that the leaves would eventually land on a Nara that was enjoying seeing the clouds, "What else could happen to me now! how troublesome."

-timeskip 2 years-

Little Naruto since having learned to walk his "parents" began to train him and now in his second year on training the child had no difficulty at all in walking, running, jumping, and preforming small acrobatic moves. On a impulse they even tried to get him to use chakra through his limbs, which turned out to be a major success on one side and a source of constant worry for the matriarch of the Uchiha family. This child was completely obsessed with training, as soon as he began to learn to read there was no book that the child would not want to read, well all except subjects that his mother called either disturbing or plain dishonorable.

Naruto was now wearing kids cloths of a 2 year old all black and some parts of his shirt red, he never seemed to wear anything without the color red, it was his favorite color. His mother used to joke that maybe he would end up in the assassination division of anbu one day because he liked the color so much, but there was something he liked to do even more. He loved to sneak around where Mikoto was and get her to relax and smile. Mikoto was sure that little Naruto had a bit of a crush on her but the fact was that he knew him for 2 years now and she used to joke around with her friends that if Naruto grew up really strong, kind and handsome she would marry him.

In the back of the house where Kagami and his family lived was a large library, and for some reason he used to joke that it was Naruto's favorite place to hangout. At age 2 he had read an impressive amount of books of all kinds. His reading went from physical training to meditation, from ninja skills to the skills of trades such as tailor, carpenter, builder, healer, and blacksmith. This was also included things like meditation, strategy, and history.

From the books he read he did the one thing no child should be able to. He designed a training schedule that would make most genin beg for mercy. He was sure that he needed to push himself, to protect his family and he would show no mercy to those that threaten his family. Naruto however was plagued with nightmares, specially of an old man wearing what looked like samurai armor. This old man would not leave him alone, it was him that really taught Naruto how to read, and every night it got worse. He showed him scenes of battle, missions that failed and asked him why had they failed. He of course had no idea that this was Madara having left an imprint in his grandson's mind to make sure he was properly trained.

The night came and the time he dreaded came, the time to sleep. What would the old man show him now? What horrible thing would he be told or shown? How long will he have to endure this and most importantly why? As he fell asleep the old man smiled as he saw Naruto open his eyes in his dream. "Why you are shown this for you to become strong, why must you endure so that your loved ones be safe, and how long will this go on until the time I see that you are strong enough to bear the burden of a family. Naruto being a ninja might seem like playing to you now, but it is a very hard,dangerous, and sometimes unrewarding life. Is is a life of service to others and those others will appreciate the things you do, but not always."

"Now for today's lesson. There is a simple jutsu one that will help you learn and do many other things. This jutsu is forbidden to regular ninja, but since you have continued to train I am proud to say you can summon 1 a day but if you used them often you might be able to summon 5 in 2 years. This jutsu i am going to teach you can not teach it to anyone else, unless the Hokage approves. Now follow my hand signs, you learned hand signs last year and I know you will be able to keep up. Madara went through the signs of the shadow clone jutsu, and naruto did too. The only difference was that Naruto was just practicing the hand signs he was not using any chakra. When Madara felt that he had the signs down he told him to use chakra and use the jutsu.

Naruto stood at the center of what looked like a dojo and went through the signs in rapid succession. Just as he finished the last sign he shouted "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Madara was expecting to see 2 Narutos but to his surprise he saw 10 clones around Naruto. Madara began to laugh, "Boy with your chakra control as bad as it is I would not be surprised if you fainted right now!"

"Hey old man if my chakra control is so bad then tell me how to get better instead of taking pot shots at me!" Madara could see that his grandson had some guts to be able to stand for himself. "I was going to just teach you this Jutsu, but in recognition of your bravery to speak your mind and desire to grow stronger I will teach you something that will help. The dream changed to a forest. Try and do this. Coat the bottom of your feet with chakra and try and stick to this tree, but be warned that too little and you will fall, too much and you will damage the tree and fall." Madara said this as he walked up and down the tree. "The reason you are in this forest is because all of you, that means all 11 of you will do this exercise till you wake up, and them after on your own time!" Naruto and the clones tried to do what they were told, but Naruto and the clones managed to walk 10 steps and all of them fell down, "OW, that hurts!" Madara simply told him to stand and land on his feet. For the rest of the night he kept at it and finally was able to keep standing on the tree trunk, that is when he heard a loud ringing. "Well it is time to wake-up, wouldn't want to keep Mikoto waiting now would we?"

As Naruto woke up he remembered the jutsu, and the tree walking exercise, but decided not to tell anyone out of fear that they might consider him something not normal. Kagami and the family had their breakfast, they talked about Mikoto's time in the first year at the academy. She also told them that there were some boys that been picking on her. This made Naruto very angry, so much so that the glass of water he was holding began to from bubbles, as if the water was boiling. Kagami looked at Naruto and smiled and simply said, "Naruto as much as I appreciate a cup of tea, we do have a stove to boil the water take it easy or you might break that glass, and that hurts."

The family had a quick laugh as he mentioned that, well all except naruto who at that moment was plotting his revenge. He needed to find a way to sneak into their classroom and he needed to know where they sat at. A nice coating of glue and some nice sharp metal tips and he would get even on those that bullied Mikoto. But he needed training. Stealth from some books, metal tips from a blacksmith that threw them away for lack of quality, glue from his house, and how to get it the tree walking exercise. Yes these fools would pay for bullying Mikoto alright.

As Mikoto left Naruto gave her a small hug and she returned it. As she left he went to the backyard yet again. When his mother asked he simply told her that he was either going to play or read. Lies to be sure but the matriarch believed Naruto or so she made him think.

Naruto looked around and saw that no one was there. "Shadow Clone Jutsu." and 10 Narutos appeared, "Ok, now on to operation payback! 5 work on the tree walking, 2 go gather the metal tips, and the rest practice the stealth by trying to find who it is that is bullying Mikoto!" All the clones looked at him and asked, "What are you going to do, Boss?" He smiled and simply did a hang signs at the end of the sequence he looked at the air. "Fire Style: Fireball jutsu!" He looked at his clones, "Nothing much just making a fire or two, now get going!"

He did not know that his mother was looking at him and listened to everything he said. "So my little Naruto is plotting to do some payback? He must mean the bullies that bother Mikoto. I sure hope that boy doesn't go over do it."

The clones managed to find out who it was that was bullying Mikoto. They were 3 boys from what looks of it the Hyuuga Clan. They did not bother to hide the bullying, so what if a brat sees them, who was going to believe him. The clones looked thru the window and saw where they sat all in a row right behind Mikoto. All the clones dispelled at the same time as each finished their assigned task. This was a mistake since Naruto tripped and fainted from all the memories coming back at the same time. When he woke up he was on his bed, "I need to dispelled one at a time to give myself time to get used to it!"

His mother was agreeing with what her baby boy said, can't have him fainting like that in an important mission. Specially Operation Payback.. she left some wood glue that would work for his little scheme out in the open.

10 days later was a day that lived in the minds of 3 very angry hyuuga for a long time. Naruto managed to use the tree walking exercise to get to the roof of the academy. An anbu saw him and was following him from the shadows. As he reached the roof he jumped from there to the door and walked very fast to where the class was seated. He waited for the teacher to tell them that physical training time was next and for everyone to go warm up. Not a single of the students notice him, and as they left he got to work. Made 3 shadow clones, one to watch the door, the other 2 to help him coat the seats of the bullies with glue and place 6 metal tips. on where their back touched the seats. "Lets see those jerks try and bully my precious ones again after this!"

He walked up the wall and onto the ceiling and walked all the way to the roof, no one would expect a 2 year old to do that. He simply sat down and waited, "That Uchiha sure is easy to beat since she can't activate her precious doujutsu, that will teach her that their is no clan better than a Hyuuga!" The Chuunin instructor came in and told the class to sit down. That is when it happened, all three felt a sharp pain on their back. "OW, something bite me!" The teacher wanted to make sure they were alright told them to get up from their seats,but every time they tried they couldn't and would end up pushing against the back of the seat yet again. "OW, I can't get up teacher, and this really hurts!" The teacher did not like to be told that they could not obey his order. He simply grabbed one of them and broke the student seat until he saw what was really happening. The glue, the tacks, and the placement of them a perfect booby trap he was sure it was a fellow classmate. He asked and no one knew who could have done it. The three bullies would have to activate their doujutsu just to make sure their seats were safe from now on.

Mikoto simply walked towards the roof to eat her school lunch in peace, but there she found someone she was not expecting. "Naruto what are you doing on the roof?" Naruto simply smiled a toothy grin and said, "Oh just wanted to keep you company while you ate." Mikoto kissed him on his forehead, "That is very sweet of you Naruto."