Chapter 3: Idiot Savant

So, it's been 2 years since I been forced into Murder Drone Academy. I am now 10 years old and in my third year of Murder Drone Education Program, where we children beat the shit out of each other and get brainwash into the Will of Fire propaganda. Great childhood right here, folks.

Now, in a regular OC plot fashion, since Sasuke is now classmate, I would use my sugoi manipulative strategy to ingratiate myself to Uchiha Sasuke as my inner circle for my 5D chess master plan to conquer the Elemental Nations.

Yea no, Sasuke once got into my class beat the shit out of me and claim the number 1 ranker of F class. And had been mantaining the rank ever since.

Hi, Makoto Hotaru here, Number 2 ranker of class 3-F.

Sasuke has been busting his ass everyday training trying to get promoted into higher class, but politics prove to be his greatest enemy. It doesn't matter how perfect his shurikenjutsu score or how outclassed everyone against him in Taijutsu spars. The academic board just look at his name and goes, nope. Nuh uh.

So for 2 years, Sasuke is stuck in a state of perpetual emo over this discrimination. Every Uchiha kids did. Everyone is treated as flight risk and suppressed accordingly.

Anyway, I been thinking a lot about what to do in the future. Originally, I planned to be a merchant or something, then go migrate to better nation like… oh who are we kidding, everywhere sucks and has potential to get nuked by crazy ninjas.

Well, since that plan didn't pan out, I opt to just be a strong ninja instead. Become a strong genin but not so strong that the Hokage send me to bullshit C rank missions that is actually S rank in disguise. To avoid attention, I didn't train advanced chakra control exercise like tree climbing and water walking. I don't need to get myself get marked by flipping Danzo for being too talented for my own good. I have zero intention to be root fungus, sir.

I simply keep most of my chakra exercise out of sight. Having low reserve, it's easy to train chakra control. I went from sticking leaves on my forehead to rotating pen on the tip of my finger over the course of 2 years of practicing this out of sight. I now can spin 5 pen on different locations on my body at once. It was fun.

Anyway, since I have this anime knowledge lodged inside my head, I figure, why not adapt other anime powers to be applied with chakra? One power system I recall are from Hunter x Hunter, and they're similar enough that I can adapt the basics of Nen to Chakra.

Zen to conceal chakra.

Ten to envelope body with chakra.

Ren to flare up chakra in stronger burst.

Gyo to focus Ren to specific part of the body.

Hatsu is pretty much Jutsu basically.

I didn't try practice how to adapt Ren to chakra, but Zen and Ten was basic enough to disguise as regular chakra control exercise. If anyone ask, I'll just bullshit it's just me being a clueless orphan not knowing real chakra control exercise.

As for chakra nature tho…

Man I hope I wasn't Earth element.

That's like the most boring element ever. Behold the power of chucking rocks!

Unless you're Toph Beifong, you are lame if you're an earth magic user.

I really wish Writer sama has mercy on me and give me Lightning nature. Now that's a cool element. My preference for Sasuke over Naruto is definitely biased because of his element.

Speaking about Naruto…

Man, I know he gonna grow into this swell guy once the anime plot started, but man he is an obnoxious little shit.

Everyday he would march into F class and go into a screaming match against Sasuke. It was ironic really. Naruto is an elite A class while Sasuke is the pitiful F class mob now. Even though Sasuke is actually the strongest cadet of our batch, by virtue of Konoha well seasoned classism, he is trash under Naruto in status.

This coming from the kid that everyone treat like trash, by the way.

The saddest part was Naruto is pretty much the closest thing to a friend Sasuke has, now that he has the worst rep possible as the son of the leader of Uchiha Mutiny. I am too lazy to deal with Sasuke's emo bullshit, so Naruto can have him.

"SASUKE TEME!!!"

Urrghhhh, I groaned as it's recess and Naruto once again barge into out class.

"tsk. What do you want, Naruto?"

Sasuke replied, annoyed of having this loudmouth interrupt his lunch.

"Let's fight! This time I will really beat you!"

"Fighting you doesn't bring me any benefit. Each time you just hurling punches like a moron. If I have to fight anyone, I rather fight Hotaru."

"Ahh! Why would you rather fight this girly face than me! I'm better than him!"

Sasuke snorted.

"Hotaru would beat you 10 times out of 10."

Fucking Sasuke. We never fucking talk actually, our communication consist of me and him beating the shit out of each other. Sasuke simply outmatched me as he has more chakra than me, which makes him by default stronger physically. Therefore, I had to keep up by refining my chakra control to send more chakra to the place he hits to dampen the impact. We have a flipping arms race, as far as our relationship concerns.

"GAHH!! I jolted away from my musings as Naruto suddenly push his face so close to me.

"Nee, I don't see it. He lose to you all the time."

Naruto concludes dismissively.

"Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence"

The other kids glanced back to our seats. To me.

"What?", I asked confusingly.

"Holy crap! Hotaru talked!"

I frowned. What did you mean talked? I talked just fine when teachers asked me questions. I'm not mute.

Naruto ignored the peasants ramblings, as he asked,

"Well, since Sasuke teme hype you up so much, let's fight, Hotaru!"

"No, I don't wanna."

I swear the whole class had a collective gasp over my reply. What, Sasuke deny Naruto's fight challenge all the time, even if he cave in later anyway. It's not like me rejecting is any different.

"Oh, you're afraid of losing huh, Hotaru?"

The little blonde shit smirk, as if he pull a genius 7D move to bait me to fight.

I tempted to take it just beat his stupid face in.

Hell, even Sasuke look invested. Oi, stop with the 'this is intriguing' face. Go back to being emo.

I sigh. Sparring against Sasuke is fine since we are classmates. I am the only kid here that can match him. Barely. That's nothing to put attention over.

Now, fighting Naruto on the other hand is different. We are not classmates and therefore are not obligated to interact. Interclass fight means we have contact beyond obligation, which would bring me to attention. I don't feel so keen on being on Hokage's radar as potential Naruto's friend, since that means I will be on Danzo radar too.

For fucks sake, why didn't he died in the revolt? That would have made my life so much easier.

I contemplate my choices, and proceed to pull a wild move.

"Hey Sasuke, did you know how to make lightning chakra?"

"Oi, don't ignore me!"

Sasuke must have found some kind of amusement here coz he proceed to also ignore Naruto in favor to interact me, who is a superior company.

"I heard having experience in contact with certain elements helps to change chakra nature."

"Oi! Oi!"

That's some weird noises. Must be the wind.

"So you're saying, if I jammed this fork into that power plug, I can get lightning chakra?"

Sasuke frowned as he thought about it

"Maybe?"

"Welp, here we go."

The whole class screamed

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Welp, let me tell you, being electrocuted is a weird kind of experience. Your whole body just go stiff and you feel tingling all over the place. You can't control you muscles at all as the electric current override the bioelectrical pulses from your brain.

Overall, I will do it again to avoid Naruto's stupid face.

Now, if I am the main protagonist here, the Hokage would probably the first face I see as the old man scold me over my poor life decisions.

Fortunately for me, I am just a clanless idiot that jammed a fork into a power plug. There's zero reason for the Hokage to see me, let alone Danzo. Why the fuck would he want to monitor a dumbass kid like me?

First snitching about the revolt, then voluntary electrocution. I think knowing I am in an anime make me have a lower self preservation instinct. I'm well aware I could easily be discovered for snitching.

Honestly, since ninjas are all about underneath the underneath crap, I figure I can just outstupid them by just hiding on plain surface. The result was, the ninjas overthink that the Snitch Letters was the work of a some sort of super elite spy, that managed to send all the snitch letters that jumpstarted the clans investigation of Uchiha Revolt plot, which forced the Uchiha clan to execute the Revolt early to salvage any semblance of initiative.

They did not think it was all the work of a stupid kid relying on dumb luck and basic anonymity measures.

Outstupid. The concept of bamboozling geniuses by executing a completely unpredictable stupid plans.

I will assure you that there's zero way I can outsmart anyone. I will lose to Shikamaru at fucking UNO. So I just make up my own rules and outstupid everyone.

Not that I will do that ever again. I was jumping at shadows for months. Never know when an ANBU gonna assassinate me.

Oh yeah, about electrocution.

As I lay in bed after half an hour getting scolded by my caretaker over my stupidity, shut up asshole, you're just mad becoz I am taking away your embezzled fund for my hospital bills, I try to recreate lightning.

Bzzz

Holy shit, that worked.

I tried the stupid idea both to escape Naruto and also coz Killua supposedly transmute lightning because he used to get trained to endure electrocution.

It become easy to visualize chakra into electricity since I had experienced the real thing. Neat.

I play around connecting arcs of electricity between my fingers.

Klang!!

The sound of ceramic bowl shatter against the floor as well as fruits (?) rolling around break me from my fascination.

"Hohoho, I see you at least learned something from your accident, young Makoto"

I gulped my saliva as Sarutobi fucking Hiruzan stroke his short beard, with the tiny Naruto and Sasuke gaping mouth like a fish

"WOW DID YOU JUST MAKE LIGHTING?!!"

Fucking Main Characters. They will be the death of me.