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Darkjaden: He does use the sharingan to read fast and he has photographic memory too.

Yuzuki476: They are technically brothers, as Naruto is part uchiha. As for the other things, I won't spoil the story for you, so read it to find out. And I don't plan to wipe out the uchihas.

Volcasiron30: I haven't watched either HxH or MHA so I can't say anything about it, though I was thinking to watch MHA.


Chapter 7 "Assault"

The next day, everything went as usual. The children stared making friends with each other. But almost all of them ignored Naruto, probably because of his sealing chains, or atleast this was what Naruto thought until he heard the whispers about him being a demon and to stay away from him. Almost all of the class was talking about him, and were giving him weird looks. Naruto sensed the feeling of confusion and awkwardness from the other students, even from Ino and Sasuke.

'The word spread more quickly than I imagined. But it was expected. I wonder what would they do next, ignore me? Ask sensei to put me put of the class?' Naruto thought.

'Foolish kids. But you couldn't blame them either, it's their parents who taught them this.' Kurama said.

'I don't care. They can do whatever they want.' Naruto thought.

The rest of the day no one talked to him. As the academy ended, Naruto left the school quietly, without anyone noticing. Rather than using the body flicker technique, he simple walked his way back to the Uzumaki Estate. But instead of entering the building, he walked towards the training field and stopped at a certain location.

There was tree cut in half, in front of him, and behind the tree there was an aim board lying on the ground. There were eight more aim boards in the trees, all around him. He then took out eight kunai and covered them with wind chakra, four in each hand and suddenly disappeared from his position and reappeared in mid air. He then shot all eight kunai in different directions and then he quickly took out six more kunai and shot them too. Of the six kunai, four of them deflected the previous kunai to hit the aim board on the trees and other two kunai deflected each other to hit the board behind the tree. And in the next second, all of the aim boards were cut in half right from the center, and the trees behind them were also pierced. Naruto then took out three shurikens and shot them at a tree, behind which someone was standing.

"Alright, you can come out, Sasuke." Naruto said in a calm tone. Sasuke then came from behind the tree, looking somewhat frightened.

"How did you know that I was here? I didn't made any sound." Sasuke asked.

"I can sense your chakra." Naruto said picking his kunai and shurikens.

"Wow, that's amazing." Sasuke said.

"How did you do that? I saw Nii-Chan doing the same, and you even cut the aim boards." Sasuke asked.

"I trained. And you just have to apply chakra to your kunai to cut it." Naruto replied.

"Will you teach me how to do it too?" Sasuke asked.

"Sure, but first you will need to learn how to throw a kunai perfectly." Naruto said.

"You mean my technique is wrong?" Sasuke asked.

"When I saw you in academy, there were some flaws in your technique, but you can work on them." Naruto said.

"I see." Sasuke said.

"Anyways, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked.

"Well… I was… just… um…" Sasuke mumbled.

"There is no point in lying. I can sense your emotions too." Naruto said.

"WELL, THERE WAS THE TALK GOING ON THAT YOU ARE A DEMON IN THE CLASS, SO I CAME HERE TO CHECK FOR MYSELF. PLEASE DON'T EAT ME!" Sasuke shouted with his eyes closed. But much to Sasuke's surprise, Naruto started chuckling that soon turned into a full-blown laughter. But this was not all, aside from Naruto four more people were laughing in the shadows, one female and three males.

"W-who are they?" Sasuke asked.

"Don't worry, they won't harm you. They are ANBU, who are here to protect me." Naruto said.

"But why do you need their protection?" Sasuke asked as he saw four pair of eyes watching him.

"That is something I am forbidden to talk about. And don't worry, I am not a demon. Right, Yugao-san?" Naruto said.

"Yeah, but most of the people don't understand that. Did something happen in the academy?" The purple haired ANBU said.

"The word spread about me." Naruto said.

"Isn't it forbidden to talk about it?" Yugao asked.

"Yeah yeah, but you people can't hide my presence." Kurama said

"Well, you can't punish children now, can you?" Naruto asked.

"I guess you are right about that." Yugao said before disappearing in the shadows again.

"It's getting dark, you should leave Sasuke." Naruto said.

"Well… I …" Sasuke said.

"You forgot your way back home." Naruto completed the sentence.

"Yeah." Sasuke said.

"Tenzo-san?" Naruto asked.

"I told you to use my code name, not my real one." Another ANBU appeared behind Naruto.

"I can't help it. Cat-San sounds weird." Naruto said.

"What do you want?" Tenzo asked.

"Would you help Sasuke reach his home?" Naruto asked.

"Okay." Tenzo said as he placed both his hands on Sasuke's shoulders. "Let's go kid."

"Later Sasuke." Naruto said before both of them disappeared from their view.

The next day Ino asked about the same thing to Naruto, and got the same answer. This confrontation cleared the rumour about Naruto.

4 Months Later

As the days passed, Naruto started spending less time in the academy and more time with Hiruzen, Kakashi and Gai. After the first week, instead of attending the class himself, Naruto started sending shadow clones because of two reasons. One, because of the looks he got from the rest of the class and two, because there was nothing new to learn for him. Since the second day, no one except for Sasuke and Ino dared to make an eye contact with him. But because of Naruto's somewhat anti social attitude, the distance between Naruto and Ino became more and more. For Sasuke, it was clear from the first week that almost all the girls were fawning over him including Ino and Sakura.

As promised to Sasuke, Naruto taught him how to use and master the kunai and shurikens. After four months, Sasuke finally perfected his aim with the shurikens and kunai. He usually came to Naruto's home and trained with him till it got dark.

And for Naruto's training, in the last four month, he learned more elemental jutsu form all five elements. He even created his signature shunshin, the lightning Shunshin. When the shunshin is performed, it appears that a lightning fell on user and the user moves taking advantage of the bright light. For the Fuinjutsu part, he learnt how to make the sealing scrolls, chakra stopping seals and other sealing techniques along with a few barrier formation techniques. And thanks to Naruto's sharingan, he also learned to cast genjutsu, and being a ocular genjutsu, even a basic one was hard to break. But aside from sharingan genjutsu, Naruto also learned to cast normal genjutsu.

It was just a normal day at the Academy, except Sakura was missing since the break. Naruto's shadow clone was attending the class while the real Naruto was reading some scroll along with hundred other clones in his house.

"But why did you sent her to the hills?" Naruto heard one of the students talking to her friend.

"The surprise will be waiting for her there. Last night, dad's team had a fight in the hills with some enemy ninjas and he said that they are still there." The girl replied.

"I think you went too far this time." The first girl replied.

"Nah, she deserves that. She gets the attention of all the boys in the class and even Sasuke talks to him.

'Morons! Now what shall I do? Shall I tell sensei. No, it will be too late before he reaches there. I'll just dispel and inform boss about this." The clone thought to himself.

"But before that-" Naruto crossed eyes with the girl who had sent Sakura to the hills. And the next second, the whole body of the girl was burning and melting like wax. Soon, all his flesh melted down leaving only his skeleton. The girl was just crying and screaming from fear until something happened.

"What happened?!" Another girl asked her.

"My body-" She stopped as she saw that she was all okay and nothing had happened at all.

"What is going on?!" The girl asked in a panicked state.

"You just blanked out in the middle of our conversation!"

The girl looked all around her but everything was fine except Naruto was not there.

With Naruto

Naruto was running in the woods on the hills where Sakura was. As soon as he entered the hills, he made half a dozen of clones who spread out in every direction. With the help of his sensing ability, Naruto quickly found out Sakura running and behind her, three more masked ninjas were chasing her.

"Just handover that paper and we will spare you." One of the ninjas said.

"Interesting! What might be in that paper that you three want it so badly." All three ninjas as well as Sakura stopped in their place when they heard Naruto who was standing upside down on a tree between Sakura and the other ninjas.

"Another kid. No problem, we will take it even if we have to kill you two. That is the result of a whole month of spying, we can't let go of it that easily." Another one said.

"Naruto! How did you know I was here?" Sakura asked in a panicked state while panting heavily.

"I'll tell you later. It's just you luck that these ninjas are WEAK, or you would have been dead the moment they had spotted you." Naruto said looking at Sakura from the corner of his eyes before taking out two kunai from his pouch.

"How dare you insult us!" One of them said before charging blindly at Naruto.

"Wait! I sense something bad from that kid!" One of them shouted.

"Pardon me, I mistook you for males, all three of you are kunoichi! But it's too late!" Both of them heard Naruto's voice from behind followed by a thud sound. They looked at their teammate who had charged at Naruto had fell to the ground and blood was flowing from her body.

One of them instinctively placed her kunai before her neck to block an attack but another kunai slit her left eye as she saw a glimpse of red hair and blue eyes before Naruto disappeared again.

"He is strong. Let's stick our backs before he attacks again." Another kunoichi said. "What happened to your eye?"

"Are you sure that will work?" Both of them heard Naruto before the branch on which they were standing fell down causing both of them to fall as well. While they were in mid-air, dozens of shurikens came at them. One of them quickly took out a kunai and deflected most of the shurikens but a few of them dealt a few non-fatal but deep cuts. For the other one, she wasn't that skilled to defend in mid air, so even though she managed to deflect a few shurikens, a few of them penetrated her ribs, dealing damage to the lungs. With both of them, Naruto also landed on the ground. His hair was dyed red from the blood of the kunoichi he killed before and the left side of his white T-shirt was dyed red too. He was holding a kunai in each hand and blood was dripping from one of the kunai.

"Let's finish this quickly, I have class to attend." Naruto said before charging at them at a speed that Sakura lost sight of him. Both the kunoichi and Naruto engaged in a hand-to-hand combat that only the sound of the clashing weapons could be heard.

Naruto quickly outmaneuvered them and slit the throat of the kunoichi whose lungs was just punctured. The only remaining kunoichi was the one whose left eye was cut.

"If I can't kill you then I will kill that runt at least." The kunoichi said as she threw three shurikens at Sakura but Naruto also threw three shurikens that deflected them. But then Naruto spotted a kunai with a paper bomb attached to it was also moving towards Sakura. Naruto quickly moved his hand to take out another kunai but there was no kunai or shuriken there.

"Shit!" Naruto said before shooting out a chain from his palm towards the kunai but as the kunai was in mid-air a shuriken hit the kunai and deflected it and another one cut of the paper bomb.

"You should inform us before you leave, Naruto!" Naruto heard a familiar female voice and as he turned back to finish the kunoichi, he saw that she was already dead and two bird mask ANBU were standing before her body with unsheathed katana in their hands.

"You people were gone for your lunch and I didn't have enough time to find you. But I still made a clone, didn't I?" Naruto said with a smug face as another two masked figures appeared behind Naruto.

"Yeah yeah, if we were late just a bit, then the girl would have died here!" Yugao said.

"And take more weapons than these." Tenzo said.

"Yeah, I will." Naruto said. "Now then Sakura, I believe you some explanation to give." He saw Sakura just lying on the ground with her eyes wide open.

"I think she got a shock from the incident. I'll take her to the infirmary." Yugao said before picking up Sakura from the ground.

"Wait!" Naruto said as he took the paper from Sakura's hand. "I'll take this."

Hokage Tower

"This map details Konoha's patrol network! So, this is what they were trying to get then." Hiruzen said as Naruto was standing before him.

"Excellent work Naruto, I'll have the patrol unit re-examine their village sentry patterns right away. Just by mere coincidence, you saved Konoha from a potential threat." Hiruzen continued.

"Thanks, sensei!" Naruto said.

"This as a B-rank mission so it will be added to your record book after you graduate the Academy." Hiruzen said.

"I never thought my first mission will be like this. But anyway, it was fun and I believe I killed two of them." Naruto said.

"I can see that my training is taking effect. In a matter of months, you have become quite good at this, and this is just the beginning." Hiruzen said.

"Remember, think before what you do and never regret your actions after they are done. You will understand this as you grow up." Hiruzen said.

"Sure. Well then, later." Naruto bowed before leaving from the window.

Later that Day at the Infirmary

Sakura was lying on her bed when Naruto came in. She got conscious again after some time there. But all the bloodshed gave her PTSD. When she had decided to become a ninja, she didn't think about this aspect, but it was the real job of the ninjas. She thought that ninjas are all cool people who can do awesome stuff and save people, kind of like superheroes in manga, but this was the reality. And the kid who killed two people in front of her and was about to kill the third one was standing in front of him. He had changed his bloodied T-shirt but his hair was still red.

"Are you okay?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, I am all fine." Sakura said.

"What were you doing there?" Naruto asked.

"Well…" Sakura said.

"I know who sent you there, I want reason why you willingly went there. And don't try to lie, I can sense it." Naruto said.

"They said that they won't tease me anymore if I went there and brought something as a proof." Sakura replied.

"I see. Well, they won't tease you now." Naruto said.

"How? I didn't even give them the proof that I went there." Sakura asked.

"A simple genjutsu was enough to set them on track." Naruto said.

"And no one in the academy knows about this incident, so its upon you whether you want to share it or not." Naruto said.

"What do you want? Shall I tell them or not." Sakura asked.

"I don't care either way. Do what you want. I'll take the leave." Naruto said before he turned and walked towards exit.

"Thank you… Thank you for saving me. If it wasn't for you, then I would have been dead." Sakura said.

"You're welcome. Just try to be more cautious from now on." Naruto said before he shunshined away.

Next day

Naruto sent a clone to the academy while he was in his home. After training with Gai, even he was bound to get exhausted so he was resting on the couch when Kakashi entered.

"Hey there! I heard what you did in the woods yesterday." Kakashi said as he tossed a dumpling towards Naruto.

"What about it?" Naruto asked as he catched the dumpling with his adamantine chain.

"I'm both impressed and confused. How did you manage to kill a Chunnin and a Jonin all by yourself?" Kakashi asked.

"I knew you would ask this. I wasn't foolish enough to engage with them in a direct combat, so I just played with their phycology, not to mention I also had the terrain advantage." Naruto said.

"Played with their phycology, I don't understand." Kakashi asked.

"Every shinobi takes pride in their strength, so I shattered their pride by calling them weak. The hot-headed one blindly attacked me, so she was an easy kill and as for the other one, I also tricked her and she got frightened by the death of her comrade in front of her. And I also punctured her lungs before engaging her in a direct combat." Naruto said while eating the dumplings.

"Well, you could have knocked them too, so why did you went for the kill." Kakashi said.

"You know Nii-san, since I was kicked out of the orphanage, I have learned one thing more than others. That is, the only way to endure cruelty is to become cruel yourself, otherwise you will be consumed." Naruto said.

"I see. Well, enough of this dark atmosphere. Let's go out and get some ramen." Kakashi said as both of them headed out.


Author's Note

*makes some hand seals*

"Anime Quotes Copy Paste Jutsu!"

Okay, I forgot where I saw that line about cruelty and regretting actions, but I thought it would fit here. And don't lecture me about how a 6 yo kid is talking like adults, that is because an adult (20 yo are considered adult, aren't they.) is writing his character. I know that I am taking too much time to upload new chapters, but I also have other things to do. But I will upload three chapters every month, even if the interval is long. And Naruto's ANBU squad is also introduced, and those who don't know, Captain Yamato's real name is Tenzo. I just copy pasted the filler scene and replaced Sakura with Naruto. But it was fun atleast, and as many of you could notice, I am taking Itachi's scenes to write about Naruto. Now then, I'll see you in the next chapter. Make sure to drop a review, negative or positive, so that I can improve my writing.