You know what. I sucked at being a shinobi.

Okay maybe that's a bit of an overstatement. Its more that I wasn't that good yet. I had been in the Naruto world for a month after all! But that wasn't nearly enough time to catch up to everyone who had been doing this for years.

I had been hard working, sure. I had even learned the Hidden mist jutsu. Something impressive for only knowing how to use chakra for like a week at that point. But I still sucked. 'Thats why your here at the academy still idiot,' I would love to go to anywhere better than Kirigakure but I didn't even know how to leave yet, let alone escape hunter nin. And I couldn't even fight most of my fellow students yet. Sure I got a few incredibly good hits in, but that was out of my brawling skill. Not actual taijutsu.

I was getting better though, I was starting to hold my own on my spars with Kaina and Choujuro. But still. So far everything had been a challenge within itself. Nothing, Nothing had been easy for me. At least until now.

"Sensei how do we do this!" Kouku whined. He was the short kid.

"Well take Tanku's example here. He got it on the fifth try," Sensei praised as he gestured toward me. We were learning water walking. As it turns out, my low chakra reserves were fairly easy to control. We skipped tree walking as there was little need for it, but we'd be taught surface walking later in the year. I was the first to get water walking. Even before the shark people, "He's been doing it the correct way, He balances his chakra like a disk whilst on the water. Try it,"

It was draining though.

[Liquid Walking Exercise: Lvl 1

Allows user to walk on liquid like surfaces.

Cost: 4 chakra points per second]

And I didn't have a lot of chakra to throw around. My reserves were increasing steadily but not by much. I still had less than everyone else too because their reserves were also increasing. A lot faster than mine too. At least I was catching up stat-wise though. At least in my humble opinion. 'Stats.'

[Name: Kukui Tanku

Age: 10

Title: Academy student of Kiri

Chakra: 10/50

Stamina: 50/50

Strength: 7

Dexterity: 11

Constitution: 10

Chakra: 5

Chakra control: C]

I genuinely felt like I was about to pass out with how low on Chakra I was. I'd need to up my training for sure... My stats didn't look as good as I thought. Seven strength. Seven fucking strength. That was pitifully low. Not to mention I only had fifty chakra. 'I suck...' That blunt thought didn't hurt as much as I thought it would. 'How the hell would I escape Kiri or at least do something big enough to fuck them over for a while?'

I'd need a distraction if I wanted to get out of Kirigakure and escape further into the land of water. But if I wanted to fuck over Kiri somehow I'd need something big to happen. 'But what could I reasonably do?' I looked over to my classmates. 'He's putting to much chakra into it.'

Choujuro's attempt to walk on water ended up with the water "exploding" and it raining upon us.

I had my idea then.

Okay what the fuck was I thinking? I prided myself on being a smart cookie. I really did. But right now I was being dumb. "Level six stealth, don't fail me now," My voice was just a whisper. I couldn't risk being heard. There were even shinobi in the shop I was in! 'Well this is a shinobi shop after all.' I would have to activate stealth as I was making my escape.

My objective was simple. Steal a fuckload of explosive tags and get out. Without being beaten hopefully. Knowing my luck, I was going to get stomped on again. And I'd need to go back and lick my wounds. Nobody ever did it enough to break bones, just enough to where it'd hurt. A lot.

I crawled past the first shelf of items with ease, "So, Have you seen the Kaguya bastards bodies. They look like shit," It was one of the shinobi. I kept crawling as I heard the other shinobi chuckle.

'Sick fuck,' I saw my prize as I kept crawling. It was going to be a tough battle. But if they were still being sick fucks, I could use this as a chance to get out of dodge once I secured the explosive tags. They were a core part of my plan.

"Yeah! You'd think that at least their flesh would be decomposed by now, but no. The sick fucks are just there still, almost entirely undecomposed. Its weird as fuck but its sickening that even in death they haunt us," The man sighed, "I wish they'd just disappear already,"

'Again. Suck fucks,' I then made my way to the Explosive tags even more. I also noticed there was a few sealing scrolls nearby.

"Same. Like, why should us good people have to look at their bodies? They don't deserve to be buried I know but we can't even burn them otherwise the smell would be even worse. I'm at least glad we don't have to deal with them being such condescending battle hungry assholes," I looked and saw the man grinning at his friend.

'Okay I need to get the fuck out of here soon," I reached the explosive tags and began pocketing as many as I could. Dozens and dozens of them. I also pocketed one sealing scroll.

The other man nodded, " Yeah. Thank god they attacked us first in our home turf. They'd have been much more of a pain in the ass to defeat if we attacked them first," The man chuckled, "But literally all of them had such a large battle boner they took it to us once they realized they weren't getting the missions they thought they deserved," His face dropped into a scowl, "Like why would those freaks deserve to go on a mission for our great village?"

I began crawling toward the exit now. Whilst they were Soo

The other shinobi nodded, "And then a majority of those Yuki bastards showed up and tried to save those freaks. I still can't believe some were in hiding though." Both looked down, "May our comrades rest in peace," They didn't deserve too.

The other man nodded, "May they rest in peace," There was a stiff silence as I reached the door, "Now lets go we need to get our next mission from Yagura-sama," He then looked to the exit.

'Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.' Our eyes met, "Uh... Hello?"

He raised his eyebrow and then looked to his friend who grinned, "Looks like we got someone tryin' to be a thief here." Oh fuck, "Lucky for Ms, Yamamoto we're here to stop him before he can even start," Okay that was good... Oh wait. I was still going to get beat up wasn't I?"

"Uh we don't need to be so hasty here. I wasn't going to steal anything," That was a lie, considering I had just stolen at least fifty explosive tags and one sealing scroll. But they didn't need to know that.

The first one grinned too, revealing a set of sharp teeth, "Well then why are you crouching?" They walked to me slowly.

I raised my hands, "I'm trying to practice stealth!"

"Well then, you should have been better!" I felt a kick impact me.

The beating had begun.

[One week later]

I shifted lower to the ground as a fist flew over my head, I quickly tried to leg sweep Choujuro but the boy stomped on my legs, "Fuck!" I punched Choujuro off of my as I jumped back and hissed, that fucking hurt. I'd pay him back for that. 'Bastard.' I didn't actually mean it. But still, it hurt.

"Sorry Kukui, but I want to win," Choujuro dashed toward me and A threw a kunai at him. The blue haired boy blazed through a set of hand seals I couldn't even see, "Water style: water clone!" A clone of Choujuro appeared from a nearby puddle and took the Kunai for Choujuro.

'How does he know a jutsu? Did sensei teach him?' I thought as I jumped out of the way of a punch and ducked under another, groaning in pain as I felt Choujuro's knee hit me in the sternum. I slipped my hand under his guard and got a good punch in the ribs in. Choujuro winced as he recoiled back. I jumped toward him, trying to get into his guard once more.

[Basic Kirigakure taijutsu has gone up a level; Basic Kirigakure Taijutsu lvl; 4]

'Nice but not the time game.' My focus was not longer on Choujuro thanks to the system distracting me.

Choujuro saw this and quickly placed his foot out, making me fall onto an uppercut. I recoiled back as I was punched once more, 'Fuck he hits hard.' I soothed my jaw as me and Chojuro stared at each other. 'But I can take a lot of punishment before I go down.' Those assholes last week ensured that.

I went through handseals of my own, 'Hidden Mist jutsu!' Mist began rolling in the battlefield and it became foggier. Not quite full of mist, but a good distraction. I threw a kunai at Choujuro which he dodged. I saw him go through hand seals o his own.

"Sorry Kukui but you lose," I felt a kunai on my neck and Choujuro was both in front of me and behind me, "Water clones are really awesome." I gave him a questioning look and he rubbed the back of his head, "Oh yeah, sensei taught me for being able to get to get the first stage of water manipulation down," Lucky bastard.

[Lightning manipulation; Lvl 5:

Increases control of lightning according to level

Lightning jutsu are 5% more effective.

Lightning jutsu cost 5% less

Lightning jutsu are 5% less effective on user]

I wasn't naturally good with chakra sadly. I had just been brute forcing everything I had been doing so far... Sure for a month of work this was good, but... it just felt so small in comparison to someone like Choujuro who was already swifly progressing. 'Clones might be a good idea though...' Maybe I should also learn water manipulation. That would be a good idea so I can learn water clones easier, "Nice... Also couldn't have you not uppercutted me earlier?" I rubbed my sore jaw.

Choujuro looked down, "Sorry... I didn't hit you too hard though didn't I?" He then began muttering, "I probably didn't... I'm too weak to land any meaningful punch," That was a lie.

I chuckled, "My jaw is sore now but you don't need to feel guilty. You have a killer left hook. No wonder why you can carry around your sword with such ease," The sword he carried around at the academy was a two handled one. It was large, and it fucked your shit up.

Choujuro shook his head, "Thank you for the praise but it is wasted on me. I'm sure anyone else could carry my sword and punch harder than me,"

I sighed and took his sword off of his back. I barely was able to hold it, "No, not everyone can. You are just a beast," I gave the sword back to him before my back gave out and I sighed a sigh of relief, "Don't sell yourself short dude. You're a strong person already,"

[Strength has went up a level]

I elected to ignore that as Choujuro smiled at me, "Thanks..."

I smiled back, "Don't mention it,"

"ALRIGHT BRATS, I HAVE SOME MORE NEWS FOR YOU ALL!" We turned and saw our sensei, elated as ever and with a smile, "We've finally wiped out the Fushiguro bastards!" With that I saw Choujuro clench his fists.

Well, I knew what he supported now. Inwardly I smiled.

[One week later]

'399,' Push ups. My worst enemy. I had to do four hundred of them. The end of the tunnel is in sight though! This was only my second exorcise but I already saw the light at the end of the tunnel. '400!' I dropped to the ground after a summited at the top of the metaphorical mountain. I had two exercises left.

'Now comes the log kicking.' With weights on. It was both strength training and dexterity training. I walked up to a log. One that wasn't already kicked to hell and began kicking as soon as I put the leg weights one. I had to do 300 kicks on each leg.

'One, Two, Three...' I began counting mentally. I was kicking with my right leg first. It had been six weeks since my arivial into the world of Naruto. So far, it wasn't too, too bad. It certainly wasn't hell or anything worse than some places back in my old world so far.

Sometimes I wondered how things were back home. Were my family fine? Was the prick that put me here behind bars? Sometimes I wondered "What if I didn't die?" And what kind of life I would have led if I survived? But it wasn't worth it. It only served to make me feel more pain.

'Don't dwell on it now. 100, 101, 102,' I always was one of those kids who wanted to be in the Naruto world. To be a kick ass shinobi. But I realized now that things were much more dark than the Anime and manga portrayed it. Now I was in Kirigakure, Like four or five years older than the protagonist, I was nowhere near the summit of power in the world. My stats proved it. And I was inside of a place where if they found out I didn't think the same things they did, I'd die a painful death. 'I think I'll just take a look at my stats, 188, 189, 190.'

[Name: Kukui Tanku

Age: 10

Title: Academy student of Kiri

Chakra: 60/60

Stamina: 60/60

Strength: 9

Dexterity: 12

Constitution: 12

Chakra: 6

Chakra control: C]

My stats were only slightly better than two weeks ago when I last checked. They were almost pitiful... It made me feel a bit sad to be honest. I literally only had 60 chakra. That was enough to hold water walking for like... 30 seconds? I wasn't going to do the math right now.

I had also calculated the rate my chakra regened and my stamina points regened. Every ten minutes I gained 2.5 stamina/chakra back. when it was 50 it was two. So I have a two percent regen rate every ten minutes. For a while I thought it was less and I cried myself asleep for a while... '298, 299, 300,' Okay the right foot was done. I breathed in deeply. I felt sweat dripping off my skin already.

[Constitution has went up a level]

Nice. Now for my left side.

'I look... Either like an idiot, average, or both,' I had never really thought about my appearance much. In past and present lives. But looking into a mirror... I didn't know what to think to be honest. I had short brown hair with some spikes in it(which was the average part) but my eyes were what was strange to me. I had bright yellow eyes. They were beautiful. At least in my humble opinion. 'And that's the unique part of me,' I haven't seen anyone else with yellow eyes yet.

I wore a black tank top and baggy brown pants. I also wore regular shoes I stole. Not shinobi sandals. No way in hell I was leaving my toes open like that. I wasn't a dumbass. People could stomp on my toes during combat. That hurt a lot. Especially if you had an ingrown toenail.

"Eh Tanku, what are ya doing?" Oh great. I hated some people sure, I hated Obito a lot. But nobody could ever come to the amount of hate I had for this douchebag, Katsu Nendo. This prick has consistently beaten me up every day for the last two months. And he was a genin. So he was far stronger than me. Plus he was thirteen. So he was bigger too. A lot bigger. Three years was one hell of a difference.

I turned around and saw the older boy and his lackeys. I didn't even know their names but they hated me, "Just admiring my beautiful looks," My eyes rolled, "Now, here to beat me up again prick?" I heard a snort from the lacky on the left. 'Why does he like to take out his frustrations on kids?' Katsu beat random kids up to release the stress from missions and not being able to move out of the orphanage.

Katsu chuckled and nodded, "Yeah, a mission went wrong and those cunts with Kekkai genkai blew up our encampment," Katsu was a sensor. One of the best in Kiri. So whilst he didn't have the skills to be a chunin or Jonin yet, he was very valuable, "Luckily for me. Lord Kisame came to our rescue. So I don't want to beat you to brutally today. But..." He pulled out a kunai, "But I want to experiment instead,"

Oh hell no. I thought he had some standards. 'Well... Kiri shinobi aren't known for being the most sane.' I wasn't about to be shanked today, "Any chance you can just fuck off today? I kinda don't want to be stabbed by some asshole who needs a better way of releasing his anger than beating up someone who can't fight back,"

He twirled the Kunai around his finger as he walked closer to me, "Nope!" He popped the "P" as he spoke, "Your my favorite little punching bag. I can't let you get off easily today can't I?" Well fuck. I didn't want to have to wear bandages like most Kiri shinobi did so early on.

'Well, I'll do the only thing I can do to escape this psychopath.' I put my hand in my pocket and grabbed its contents, "POCKET SAND!" I disappeared as I heard Katsu sputtering at the sand thrown in his face. 'Thank you King of the Hill for teaching me this amazing trick.'

"GET HIM!"

I opened a window and activated running. I could feel I was going to be caught otherwise. I ran through an alley and I saw Lacky number two appear. Ready to catch me and hold me down, "No you don't!" I grabbed a trash can and hurled it at him. I then began to attempt to run up a wall. 'If I can do Water walking I should be able to do this.'

Luckily for me the wall wasn't that high and I was able to run up it, although my chakra was slightly drained. 'Okay, Chakra like a suction cup should do the job.' And it did, I made it up the wall with little trouble. I then began traversing the roofs. I could circle back to the orphanage or the academy from outside of Kiri.

[New skill unlocked; Vertical surface walking: Lvl 1:

Allows user to walk on vertical surfaces using chakra.

Cost; 3 chakra points per second]

"How the fuck is he walking on the wall? I thought Academy students weren't taught that?" They weren't. I literally just figured it out on a desire to not get shanked by some brat who has a superiority complex.

'I'll ignore how fanfic bullshitty it is that I discovered how to do this without extensive experimentation for now. I just need to get out of here.' I could almost feel them catching up to me. I needed to lose them fast. And I didn't have that much chakra to go around.

"GET BACK HERE!" I saw a kunai wiz past my head, "I'LL KILL YOU NOW BRAT!" Well fuck me... I ducked into an ally, We were close to the outskirts of Kirigakure. I quickly hid behind a wall. I suppressed my chakra as much as possible. Thanks to my low reserves, I could do that pretty well. And pretty quickly.

'Please don't sense me. Please don't sense me. Please don't sense me.' I prayed to whatever god could hear me. I could suppress my chakra well sure, but Katsu was a sensor. One that was valued by Kirigakure. I couldn't hurt him either. So I needed to just hide.

"I don't sense him. Only small amounts of his chakra... He was just here then," Oh thank god. Oh thank fucking god.

"What if he's still here? He does have a pitiful amount of chakra after all," Okay, fuck you too fatso. Revenge would come swift with me shitting in your pillowcase.

"Nah, this is less than usual. He must have used chakra enhancement," I heard two grunts and then they disappeared apparently. I let out a sigh and collapsed to the ground.

'Okay I need to get out of here before they come back.' I left my hiding spot and I calmed myself down. I'd need to circle back to the Orphanage and find Katsumi. The one chunin here who stays to make sure Katsu doesn't hurt anyone. They were ironically brother and sister and she was the nice one of the two.

I began running and eventually, I left Kiri's walls. Nothing of note happened before I reached the wall.

Then it hit me, the smell. I nearly puked then and there. 'Its like something died an hour ago and it had every known disease in the universe!' I looked around and saw bodies. Hundreds of bodies. All barely decomposed. They all had white hair or almost white hair. 'Is this the Kaguya clan?' I shouldn't go near here. I've heard how bad it was from those ninjas that beat me up two weeks ago but... I didn't think it'd be this bad.

One particularly bad one was the body of a child. The child's ribs and strings of rotting flesh were coming out of their chest like a flower. With their heart crushed in the middle and their lungs being on either side of the heart. Their head was caved in and their eyes were missing. Their left leg was torn off and the other was missing its calf muscle. Its arms were practically melted, skin, flesh, and hardened blood were like a twisted smoothie.

I threw up then. 'What the fuck? What did that child do to warrant this?' I threw up again. 'This... is horrible...' This is what people did to kids. Just because they had special blood. It was sickening... It shouldn't happen... 'This is what Obito caused...'

The worst thing I could see was the expression on the child face, the look of fear. The look of not wanting to die. Even without eyes, their face was expressive. 'Obito needs to die.' And for that to happen. 'I need to be stronger.'

Okay and that's chapter three! I'm really proud of this chapter as its the longest yet. Then end part is more important than one would think. Anyways, Kukui is getting stronger, but not strong enough, so he's going to be pushing his training further than ever before. Which is going to be what next chapter is, a training chapter, combined with other things to make it more interesting. I'm excited already, I'm half way done with the first stockpile of chapters! And you are all going to see them soon... Well once a week, so your probably gonna see this at some point in june.

Anyways! Tobi out!