Naruto : Corrupting my Naruto - SolaceViolet (2025)

Chapter 1: Prologue

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Reincarnating in Naruto was less than an ideal situation. Being an orphan just after the Kyuubi attack?

I could work with that. Even someone as useless as Sakura with her tiny chakra reserves became so strong. If I trained myself from a very young age, I was surely going to become strong. I will learn Chidori, Rasengan, and kick ass.

So when a Shinobi Jonin wanted to adopt me, I was thanking my luck for being the most beautiful and cute girl in the orphanage. Matron lady always praised me for being an intelligent child and not causing her any trouble like the others.

The Shinobi looked fairly good. Brown hair and black eyes, with a scar running down his face and an arm lost. He had lost his newborn daughter in the Kyuubi attack, and had just woken up from coma. He was from R&D department so money was not an issue.

He approached me with a smile and touched my belly, and I felt something stir within me. I felt intense pain, and I screamed.

"AAARGH!"

"This girl doesn't have the ability to use chakra, and will never become a ninja. Matron, please let me see another child."

Hearing that, I felt my whole fantasy world crashing down. I heard Madara-sama's voice in my head.

"Wake up to reality."

I shouted 'System!' in my mind several times, thinking that I would have gotten atleast some sort of cheat if I can't use chakra.

I hate system fanfics, but please let me have it!

I kept shouting in my mind, but nothing worked. I kept at it until I fell asleep crying.

The next day, no one called me cute and beautiful any longer. Matron no longer called me smart and intelligent. All kids started harassing me, calling me names and laughing that I can't use chakra.

"I always hated that bitch! She looks down on us!"
What kind of 3 year old talks like this? Where dids he even learn this phrase? The boy who wanted to run along with me when I was training, turned his back on me. He was laughing at me, pointing fingers. He must be proud to have copied the gossiping aunties.

And he wasn't alone. I was surrounded by kids like that, who were following me around until yesterday. They were laughing.

Most of the kids were 3 years old, but I then truly understood true nature of humans. They are greedy creatures, only looking out for themselves, and associating with people who will be useful in some way or another, consciously or unconsciously.

If an animal attacked us just now, they would push me so that they can flee when I am getting eaten.

I can't use chakra, that means I can only walk the path of Guy and Lee.

But for what? Do I have any motivation left? Do I even want to fight? Do I even want myself to get hurt?

I want to live, and I want to survive. Many civilians survived. Even after Pain killed many, all of them were revived. Sage of Six Bowls and his daughter.

But I just can't leave the chances of my survival on luck. What if I get killed before that? What if I end up crippled even after getting revived?

With my knowledge from modern capitalistic society, I will be able to make money somehow. I could hire ninjas to protect me.

While I was thinking of my future, a girl tried to pull my hair.

"Piss off, mongreal."

I performed a leg sweep and the girl fell down, tears forming in her eyes. I found crying children cute till now, but I no longer feel any 'Aww~' in me.

A two year old kid tried to attack me, and I kicked him in the stomach.

Two three year olds tried to punch me at the same time, but I just sidestepped and they got each other's punch.

4 down, 1 more to go.

I glared at the blue haired girl, Hikari, who followed me around the most.

"*Hic*! Uwaaaah! Pwease don't beat-"

I delivered an uppercut to this bitch, knocking her unconscious.

"Hey! Stop bullying others!"
Matron came and started lecturing me.

"They attacked first."

"That doesn't mean that you can beat them up so badly!"
Tch. Wasn't she saying that I am the best kid in the orphanage just yesterday?

All of them are the same. I will remember their faces and names.

"Now go to your room! No lunch for you today!"

I glared at her, but backed down, for now. But I will really do something about her later.

While walking back from the orphanage's playground, I was mulling over what I should do now.

I no longer want to be a mainstream ninja. I am not someone who can train like a madman like Lee and Guy.

But can I really not use chakra? The warm and uncomfortable feeling I got in my belly was definitely chakra. Do I have some sort of condition?

Sighing, I decided to not bother with it till Tsunade arrives. I am not too trusting towards Konoha hospital.

So, I will focus on making money, a lot of it. I had a building in inheritance in a major city in my past life, so I was super rich just bynrenting all the apartments. While I was smart enough to get into one of the top engineering colleges in my country, I chose arts because I wasn't really in search for employment. And I was always interested in manga, anime, dramas, idols and all.

Hmm, I don't want to be a single loser this time. I want a cute, handsome husband, who is also incredibly strong and easy to control. Someone who will protect me at any cost in this dangerous world.

"Hey! I heard that Naruto is a demon!"

My ears rose, and my attention was instantly drawn towards the noise. It was Naruto, the person I have been avoiding till now to avoid Danzo's attention. But seeing him harrassed, an eerily similar condition to mine, something inside me snapped.

Emo Shiori was born.

If everyone just wants to use everyone else, then fine. I will adapt. You play by the rules of the world in which you live.

I will use Naruto. I will make him solely dependent on me emotionally. I will make him love me.

He needs a friend, and I need protection.

I will play my part. I will become a perfect wife for him. Advising him, cooking for him, waiting for him as he goes to mission after giving me a goodbye kiss, enjoying have a threesome, foursome, or even fivesome with his clones.

I will make him stronger. I will make money in our early years to support him. I will make him miso soup everyday.

I would even use the 'would you like dinner, bath or me?' for the first time in my life.

All I need is for him is to protect me. Keeping me safe from any and every threat. No. I don't just need protection. I need him whole. I will become the wife of the future Hokage and the world's hero.

But I will mold him into what I want. There were many things that were wrong with his canon version. He was stupid in everything outside of Shinobi related things. He was hotheaded and relied on Kurama for everything. He didn't even achieve his full potential. He should have the strongest body in the verse except the Otsutsukis. There is literally no reason that Sasuke should even come close to his base stats except genjutsu, reaction and perception, let alone KCM2.

And he was acting stupid all the time, calling Obito the coolest guy and being a bigger Sasuke simp than Sakura.

But he will be much better, stronger, and smarter with me. He will have the best waifu in the verse.

I am much better than that doormat of that white eye-freak!

Hehe~ I will train and corrupt you properly to be my ideal man, Naruto. I will properly mold you into a perfect person unlike the naive Naruto who dreamed of being the Hokage with horrible hairstyle.

The tragedy called Boruto will never happen.

Shiori Uzumaki, it sure has a nice ring to it.

Naruto, you are mine now.

Chapter 2: Establishing Friendship

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After having made my mind, I decided to act fast.

I ran towards the 3 year old toddlers, and started beating them up. I have trained my body for a long time, and nobody can use chakra at this point anyway.

"Ack!"

"Uwaah!"

"Mommy!"

You don't have mommy, you orphan kid.

Oh. Maybe his mommy left him here?

The three idiots with tears, ran away from me, but not without glaring at me as if they will get revenge.

Revenge? Hmm, I know their names and faces. I didn't have any trouble remembering people throughout my life. This is the first time having 103 relatives came handy.

I want some revenge as well. So... I will ruin their lives... later. Right now, I have to focus on something else.

Smiling, I turned to Naruto.

"Are you okay?"

"So cool! How did ya do that!?"

He said with stars in his eyes. Wait a minute... My Naruto is so freaking cute!

"What's your name?"

"I am Uzumaki Naruto Dattebayo!"

Dattebayo will go.

"Nice to meet you, Naruto. I am Shiori. So, are you really a demon!? Can you breath fire!? Can you kill those who annoy me with a glare!?"

I said excitedly, shoving my face incredibly close to him.

Oh. His breath stinks. It will take some time to groom him. Anyway, seeing me excited, Naruto was confused, and shouted.

"I am not a demon!"

"Really...? But Demons are so cool! They are so powerful! And since you look human, you must be half-human half demon! You are an intelligent demon, so you must be much stronger than us!"

"Really?"

He was really confused, but I could clearly see him being happy to be called powerful.

"How would I know? But I protected you just now, so you must protect me too. You see, I can't use chakra. And I don't wanna be bullied by those idiot mongreals. It's a fair trade, isn't it?"

I see no problem in this.

"Woah! You are right! Don't worry Shiori-chan, I will protect you!"

Naruto boasted, giving me a large smile. And I happily hugged him.

Wow, manipulating a kid is so easy. I beat up 3 year old kids for you, and you just promised to protect me so easily. No wonder Orochimaru and Danzo has so many loyal children to them.

"Say, can you spit fire? Like the Uchiha Demon that Matron talks about?"

The Matron is probably in cahoots with Danzo. Just now, she must have spread the rumour that Naruto is a demon. How she went away when she saw the three boys bullying Naruto, means she is not a good person. Even if she isn't Danzo's agent, it doesn't matter.

She just punished me. So it is fair that she also receives punishment.

Though, now that I think about it, the Shinobi that wanted to adopt me might have been Danzo's agent. Maybe it is a good thing that I didn't end up as Danzo's child soldier? That's definitely a possibility I don't want to end up in.

Anyway, it's not a bad idea to get her into trouble. ANBU must have been hearing us, so there is a chance that something can happen to her.

"Uchiha Demon?"

"Umu! I heard Matron talking about it now and then. Something about Uchiha and Demons, fire and all. Anyway! Can you spit fire!?"

"Umm, I can try."

And he tried spitting fire, but only his spit came out.

"Maybe I am not a demon? And don't ninja spit fire!? I am going to be a kickass ninja Dattebayo!"

"Then I will become a rich lady and make you my bodyguard. You know, like the princess in the stories!"

"Yeah! I will become the strongest ninja Dattebayo!"

Yes. The strongest ninja, my bodyguard. Make it your first dream before dreaming about becoming Hokage. And I will make you the strongest.

"Then train with me! All my friends that trained with me are bad people! You won't leave Shiori just because she can't use chakra, will you?"

I used cat-eyes no jutsu. I hate dogs because I got bit by it once, so no puppy eyes.

And cats are better than dogs.

"I won't leave you! I am The Great Uzumaki Naruto Dattebayo!"

Heh. It's not like I would have let you leave anyway. I will make sure that you can't live without me.

As I held his hands and looked into his innocent and honest eyes, I saw my own expression in them.

I was smiling. Innocently.

Chapter 3: Kicked Out

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Then we started training, which was just running laps around the orphanage.

That night, Naruto wasn't given any food. And he just told me, "I have to skip dinner because there is not enough for everyone."
I was furious as he said that with a sad face.

And I wasn't given food too because of the 'punishment' for beating up those brats.

This cannot continue any longer.

"Naruto, I have a plan for getting us food. I will sneak outside and bring help. You must say yes to everything I ask, okay?"

"Okay!"
He happily nodded, already obeying me. Hehe~

Alright. Let's get into action!

I sneakily slipped out of the orphanage as everyone was eating, like I often do, and looked for a patrolling Uchiha policeman. And I found one quickly, patrolling just outside the orphanage.

"Hey ninja-sama! I need your help!"

He looked at me sitting on the tall wall, and came close to me.

"What happened kid?"

"The Matron is starving me to death! She said that she will t-or-tire me for saying that Uchiha Demons are cool!"

"Uchiha Demon!? Kid, who taught you that?"
He asked, barely controlling his anger.

"Shiori is intelligent. She doesn't need to be taught. I listened to Matron while helping her mum-ling about Dam Uchiha Demon and fox or something. I don't remember much. I made a friend today, and people were calling him demon, so I thought that he was cool and asked him to spit fire like Uchiha Demon. He couldn't do it tho, and the Matron is starving us. I am hungry. I want dinner!"

"Kid, take me to this matron you are talking about right now. And Uchihas are not demons. But they are super strong and cool. And we can spit fire."
He gently told me while patting my head.

"You are Uchiha?"

"Yes. I am a cool Uchiha Policeman on the side of justice. Let's teach your evil matron a lesson, okay?"

"Yay! Spit fire on her too!"
I excitedly told him to burn her alive. Fireball jutsu doesn't burn anyone, but maybe a civilian won't be a problem.

"Hahaha, I will show you spitting fire, but not on her. That's a bad thing, okay?"

"Okay!"
Aww! I really want to see someone getting burnt by Fireball jutsu. Sigh. I will just ask Naruto to do it for me. With his chakra, he would be able to burn entire forests.

"Now follow me."
The Uchiha guy jumped over the wall, and put me on the ground. With my toddler legs, I followed behind him. I am excited about seeing the drama.

(3rd PoV)

As Shiori brought the Uchiha policeman, he was furious. He was barely controlling his anger due to the fact that he was accompanying a small kid, who actually thought Uchihas are cool.

But the orphanage's matron poisoning the minds of small innocent kids that Uchihas are demons? And that they are connected with fox? Moreover, starving kids because they called Uchihas cool?

These people are getting more courageous day by day.

They arrived, only to see everyone eating heartily, including the matron and other caretakers.

"It sure doesn't seem like there is scarcity of food huh?"
Uchiha said in his Uchiha way, looking down on the other adults in the dining room.

Matron stood up in shock! What is an Uchiha policeman doing here at this time!?

"Mr Uchiha, may I help you with something?"

"Yes. Someone has been brainwashing the kids here and telling them that Uchihas are demons. I am here to apprehend them."

"Really? Who's spreading this nonsense!?"
She asked other caretakers, but they all shaked their heads in denial.

"There is no use in shifting blame to others! You are arrested!"

"Huh!? Why me!? I didn't say anything like that!"

Which was, in fact, true. She has a favourable opinion of Uchihas, because of their pretty faces. She would never badmouth them. If anything, she wants to marry into the clan!

"Every criminal says that they didn't do anything. I heard you have been starving kids here! Look! This pitiful girl came to me to ask for help, or you would have starved her tonight!"

The pitiful girl with purple hair was hiding behind the Uchiha, glaring at her.

"I can explain it. She beat up the kids, so I was punishing her."

"Liar! They started it first. Who pulled my hair? Who tried to punch me first? I see that they are eating without a care. And why is my friend not given food? I literally saved him from bullying when you were int-tentally spreading rumours! And I have heard you cusing Uchiha, calling them demons and fox!"

"Huh!? I never said any of that!"
She did say things about them, but not in front of any kid.

"Alright. Say whatever you want in the police station. You are arrested."

"WHY!? She is lying!"

"I am not! You are bad! You can't starve us! That's stealing village's money. Even Ochimaru can't save you from the cool Uchiha uncle!"

Suddenly, the Uchiha became more serious, and as the matron was stunned at the mention of the infamous Orochimaru. She did give him some kids some years ago, but it was only one time. How did this kid mention Orochimaru?

The policeman put her under Genjutsu after seeing the shocked face. This suddenly turned into a case of child trafficking. To the infamous traitor Orochimaru, that almost everyone knows about.

After arresting the unconscious woman, he turned to Shiori.

"Kid, you are a hero. You saved the orphanage kids from the evil clutches of this woman. You all, you are also suspects! Come with me right now!"
He glared at the other caretakers, and they couldn't do anything but comply.

Shiori thought, 'She actually sold children!? I was hoping that she would be ruined even if she did nothing. Orochimaru must be capable of manipulating the memories, so that one doesn't get caught by Yamanaka's jutsus.

Wait a minute...

Then was I getting 'adopted' in ROOT? Now that I think about it, it is a very high possibility. Phew! I dodged a bullet. No. I dodged a missile.'

"Then will I get a reward?"

"I will have to ask Hokage-sama, but you can expect something great. Child trafficking is a serious case afterall."

"Yay!"

******

Shiori stood in shock, staring at a closed door. Her stomach growled. Another stomach growled beside her too. And that was Naruto.

"H-hey Shiori-chan! Did they just kick us out!?"

"Yes. But..., is this my reward!?"

Chapter 4: Danzo-sama

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"-The Jinchuriki has been kicked out along with the failure."

"You can leave now."

Danzo read through the file of Shiori, again.

Shiori, Age 3, parents: Tou and Kaa(Civilians), birth records: normal delivery on 9th October, purple hair, purple eyes, potential: genin at best

Extremely cooperative and fairly intelligent for a 3 year old. Has shown interest in becoming a shinobi and has been training by herself in the orphanage.

Danzo coldly looked at the photo, and then started focusing on his main target, Itachi and Shisui.

But still, he couldn't help but think that it is a waste. He had considered her to be one of the top ROOT recruit from the orphanages. He also considered that she may be related to the Senju bloodline spread throughout the civilians, but it wasn't. She was just an ordinary civilian.

Still, Orochimaru was also a civilian.

So he had sent one of his ROOT operative to get her. But it turned out, she was extremely chakra sensitive that even the tiny amount of chakra sent into her system to check her reserves completely destroyed her tenkutsu, rendering her useless.

Well, there is the exception of Guy who can't use ninjutsu but has been competing with Kakashi, but he still has his tenkutsu intact to use the gates. She won't be able to do that too. Maybe Tsunade could have healed her, but that emotional brat had betrayed Konoha long time ago. If it weren't for that damn Hiruzen, Danzo would have already signed her off as a missing-nin.

A ninja not serving Konoha has no reason to be left alive.

Danzo suddenly felt his anger towards Uchiha clan rising. That orphanage's matron was being manipulated by genjutsu regularly, to slowly isolate the Jinchuriki.

As everyone will hate the jinchuriki, Danzo will come as a savior and make the Jinchuriki his weapon. The plans to assassinate Hiruzen was foiled, and the kid with Wood Release that he was investing in was taken away due to that brat Kakashi, who he failed to recruit in the ROOT.

So for now, he will just focus on the Uchiha Clan.

And since his plans to assassinate Hiruzen has failed, it will be difficult to manipulate the jinchuriki easily.

That's why Danzo no longer thought much about the Jinchuriki and had him thrown out of the orphanage, along with his new friend.

Because Danzo had a scheme. What if, an Uchiha kills the Jinchuriki's friend in front of him? Itachi is his plan A, but he has to make multiple plans.

And after the Kyuubi is released on the Uchiha clan that has been already driven to the outskirts of the village, Hiruzen will die fighting it, and there would be no one in his way to become the Hokage.

And he will be able to get Shisui's mangekyo by then. Controlling the Kyuubi will become easy.

But the problem is that there are no suitable vessels anymore.

Anyway, let's have the Jinchuriki get this friend. Either she will leave him due to the problems she will face because of associating with him, or she will become a convenient tool to unleash the Kyuubi against enemy villages.

Though, he will focus on his plan A for now. No need to waste Konoha's resources on another Konoha attack.

Orochimaru will take care of Hiruzen. If he has waited so much already, waiting some more years is nothing. First Uchiha, then Hiruzen.

'If only I didn't hesitate back then...'

Danzo hestitated when Tobirama-sensei tested them for being the Hokage. If he raised his hand before Hiruzen, he would have been the Hokage.

At Hiruzen's coronation as the Hokage instead of him, he had vowed to himself. He would go to any lengths. He would never hesitate in protecting Konoha!

Afterall, It's all for the greater good.

Chapter 5: Hiruzen

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(3rd PoV)

Shiori sighed as her and Naruto's stomachs grumbled.

'That damned Danzo! I will make Naruto drop 10 RasenShuriken on you!'

"Don't worry Shiori-chan! I know how to get fish! Dattebayo!"

'So my boyfriend already had to hunt?'

Shiori took Naruto's hand, and pointed towards the tallest building.

"We are going to Hokage. I have to collect my reward."

"Huh? Okay."

So Shiori started leading him towards the Hokage tower while holding hand. And she could clearly hear whispers.

'Shouldn't we save that girl?'
'She must not know that he is a demon! We have to save her!'

Naruto took away his hand after hearing the whispers, looking very hurt. Shiori stared right into his eyes, and took back his hand.

She then glared at the villagers, with an intensity a 3 year old could use. Then she shouted.

"Hey! That man is a spy! I saw him kidnapping children at the orphanage!"

"That woman is a murderer! I saw her killing an Uchiha! Police! Police!"

Now, everyone started looking at the two people in suspicion and fear, while Shiori acted scared.

"Hey brat! What nonsense are you-"

"Kyaa~! Naruto! I am scared! We must go to the Hokage to get protection!"

And both ran away, while Naruto genuinely got scared. Shiori just now remebered an Ayanokoji move.

To fight rumours, you have to create more rumours. She didn't care about what others said, but she didn't want her boyfriend to suffer like in the original story.

They reached the Hokage tower, and the receptionist blocked them.

"Kids aren't allowed here."
The receptionist told them, while looking at Naruto in disgust.

'Wow, atleast hide your displeasure towards Naruto.'

"We must see the Hokage! There was a spy and murderer!"
Naruto shouted frantically, and the receptionist took them directly to the Hokage's office while panicking.

''Spy' and 'murderer' don't go well with 'Jinchuriki', does it?'
Shiori laughed in her mind.

"Hokage-sama! These kids reported spy-"

"Oh uggo, that was a joke."
Shiori told the receptionist, while looking at her as some sort of trash.

"Joke!?"

Shiori ignored the her, and looked around the office noticing that no one was there, just big piles of documents on the table.

"Hokage-sama is not here?"

"I am here."
The voice came from behind the documents.

An old looking man who looked like he could be sent to Jesus at any moment, placed the documents away to see the children.

He recognised Naruto, afterall, he had eaten his fish once. But he didn't know the girl. Was she Naruto's friend?

"Hey Old Man! You are the Hokage!?"

Hiruzen chuckled by the antics of Naruto, who was pointing at him in disbelief.

"Looks like I forgot to tell you."
Hiruzen said with a gentle smile. Ah. Konohamaru has just been born. Will he become like Naruto?

"Old man, you need to get your head checked up. You are quite forgetful, aren't you?"
Hiruzen, receptionist, and even Naruto were shocked! Shiori really said that to the Hokage!?

"My child, what's your name?"

"Shiori, the future richest person in the world. I will be an important client for Konoha, so I suggest you to be nice to me."

'What an interesting kid. Even Jiraya didn't disrespect me so much when he was a kid.' Hiruzen hummed in amusement.

"You want to become a merchant? Not a ninja like everyone?"

"I can't use chakra. Anyway! Don't change the subject! I was told that you will give me a reward! But what reward I got!? Kicked out of the orphanage! I want my reward, as well as compensation!"

"Reward? Sorry Shiori-chan, but I don't think I have heard about it. Can you please tell me about it?"

"I helped the police in catching the matron who was selling kids! Uchiha guy told me that I will be given a reward! But I was kicked out just now!"

Hiruzen immediately knew what happened.

Danzo happened.

He looked at Naruto, and his hand which was held by Shiori.

'So that's why she was kicked out.'

Hiruzen have heard that some rumours about Naruto have been spreading for a while. Hiruzen could only sigh. 'I will have to talk with Danzo.'

Well, it appears that Naruto found a friend atleast. He will just give them apartments bordering each other. Now that he thought about it, the apartment that Minato used when he was a genin till he became a Jonin has nobody living in it for a while.

"Shiori-chan, thank you for your help! As a reward and compensation, I will give you an apartment and pocket money every month. How about it?"

"How much?"

"5000 Ryo every month."

"...What is the price of 1 litre milk?"

"50 Ryo. Why?"

Shiori did some calculations in her mind. While her home country in previous life had the largest milk production, it also had the largest consumption. Since there must be plenty of grass in Fire Country, the price of milk in comparison to other food products shouldn't be that different.

So 100 packets of milk every month? That's too low.

"10,000 Ryo every month, a shop in a place I will tell you later, some books on business, you know, like the rules and ideas and all? Then coming to my store and buying everything if I can't sell my stocks. You know what? Give me a printer as well. And unlimited supply of drawing pencils and paints. I will be satisfied with it as my reward for saving countless people."

"So you are going to open your shop? Will you sell drawings?"

"Yes. I am good at drawing, and I am intelligent and cute. I will make good money."

'I was an otaku in my last life. You know what I mean, right?'

Hiruzen eyed this proud and boastful girl in front of him. Wait? Didn't she say that she can't use chakra? How did she know that? Isn't it checked in the Academy when children are 5-6?

"How did you know that you can't use chakra?"

"Bad man wanted to adopt me, he touched my belly and it hurt. Then he said that I can't use chakra."

'Can't use chakra? Even guy can use chakra, albeit not enough for even Transformation Jutsu. He has to open some gates to summon his turtle.

Is her situation worse than him?'

"Come here. Let me check."

As he checked her, she winced in pain. But the chakra didn't enter her system like it usually does. Her tenkutsu were damaged.

'It looks like she is very chakra sensitive. She would have been fine if checked once she was 5-6. But her chakra pathways are destroyed.'

"Shiori-chan, who was the bad man?"
Hiruzen asked. Even while adopting kids, one doesn't check the chakra of 3 year old kid. It is against the rules that he set up according to Tsunade's suggestion after Third Shinobi War. It has drastically reduced children developing chakra disease. 5-6 years of age is the perfect age for interacting with a kid's chakra.

"Don't know. Matron said that he just woke up from coma and lost his daughter in Kyuubi attack. He had scar and... he had broken hand? leg? I don't remember what was broken.

Anyway! Will you give me my reward!?"

"Wait a minute."

He looked through the recent document, all while thinking that Danzo must have wanted to recruit her into ROOT. Danzo is getting more and more bolder by the day.

'Sigh. What should I do about you, Danzo?'

Sighing, he looked into the stash of police reports. There, he saw the case of Naruto's orphanage.

'Hmmm... I haven't checked this document yet.'

Reading through the report and investigation, he decided that orphanage isn't really a good place for Naruto. And Danzo might just get rid of her out of pettiness if she lived there.

And seeing how she is holding Naruto's hand...

"Alright. But I can't give you a printer. It's expensive. If you want, I can introduce you to a publishing-"

"Then give it as the compensation. Don't tell me you don't have the money to buy a printer? Are we poor? Are we going to war that you are saving money? I must tell everyone in the village!"

'This brat!'

"There is no war coming, Shiori-chan. Alright. I will give you a printer. Naruto, I will give you an apartment and pocket money too. You two, come with me."

"Yay! I will get my own house!? Shiori-chan, you are the best!"

'I am the one who is giving you the apartment though...'
Hiruzen complained as he was thanking her instead of Hiruzen. Yes the apartment he was going to give Naruto was Minato's property. But he should be atleast thanked.

"Didn't I tell you? I am very smart. I am going to make tons of money and buy the village!"

"Haha, Shiori-chan, you can't buy the village. Anyway, let's go."

Hiruzen chuckled at her thought process. Will she be a good or bad influence on Naruto? Well, atleast he will have a friend now.

Chapter 6: Getting my Apartment

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"So, you both will be living in this building, with your apartments beside each other. It is also very close to the centre of the village, so you can get pretty much everything in the locality.

This apartment is yours Naruto, and this will be yours, Shiori-chan."

"Yay! I am getting my own home!"
Naruto cheered in excitement.

"It's okay."
But it was barely okayish for me. When I have money, I will move to a bigger house.

The apartment was nothing fancy. just a room which had a bed, a table, fridge, a kitchenette, and a washroom-bathroom.

"I will be sending some genins to give you the supplies for a week and some basic books like how to cook and all. And Shiori-chan, the books and supplies you requested will be delivered as well, including the printer. Both of you, here is your pocket money for this month. Spend wisely."

"I will, Dattebayo!"

"Now Shiori-chan, regarding your shop-"

"What is the most popular food shop here? And with good personality and not idiots like all the villagers who would even believe nonsense coming out of a 3 year old child?"

Hiruzen stared at me weirdly, before sighing.

"There is a shop called Ichiraku Ramen. I will buy you a small shop near it."
But it isn't exactly that famous, is it? So Hiruzen wants Naruto to visit Ichiraku Ramen huh.

Well, I also want to taste how special it is.

"Right in front of it will be preferable."

"Yes. Right in front of it. Do you need anything else?"

"Lemme think about it... Wait a minute! I haven't even asked about my parents! Were they rich or something?"

"Well, from what I know, they had some debt-"

"Well, it's not like I care about them. I am suddenly not curious anymore."

"Hey hey old man! Do you know who my parents were!? Were they strong ninja or somethin'?"

Hiruzen just sighed as Naruto asked that question.

One thing that I never understood is why didn't anyone tell him about his parents in the OG? Hiruzen can be called a douchebag, but it doesn't excuse Kakashi and Tsunade. And mainly Jiraiya.

Well, that plothole is for me to exploit. Let's first see what Hiruzen will answer.

"They were normal people Naruto, who had come to the village some time ago and you were delivered here in Konoha. But I know that they loved you."

"Huh? I thought that he is some secret child of Fourth Hokage."

And I dropped a bomb.

"Huh!? I am Fourth Hokage's son!?"

Hiruzen stared at me, intensely. But with his grandfatherly image maintaining, he asked me.
"Oh? Why do you think so?"

"He just looked similar to him from the pictures in the picture book. I asked matron if he had a wife, but she said no. Then it maybe that Naruto is his secret child. Naruto, Minato. Even the names match! If that wasn't the case, who will name their kid fishcake?"

"Hahaha! Kids these days are very good at coming with conspiracy theories. You can find people with blonde hair and blue eyes everywhere. And Shiori-chan, there are weirder people naming their kids naming weirder things. I personally know someone who is named Scarecrow."
Hiruzen laughed it off. Thanks for making my work easier. Manipulating Naruto to be mine will go smoothly.

Though, I still have to keep the conversation going.

"Pffft! I will never allow my kid to have such an embarrassing name! I will name... Naruto-Shiori... Shina if I get a girl, and... Rito for a boy!"

Oops!? Did I just spit out my intentions?

Before Naruto could say something, Hiruzen interrupted the situation.

"Naruto, how about you check out your apartment? I have to go with Shiori-chan to pick out her shop."

"Eh!? But I wanna come too!"

"Then I guess I will have to stop the extra pocket money I am giving you-"

"Old man! I like the apa...tent! I am gonna check it out!"

And Naruto ran away to his apartment, leaving me alone.

Is pocket money more important than me...?

"Now Shiori-chan, do you like Naruto-kun?"

"Of course! Everyone abandoned me as soon as they found out I can't use chakra, and even started harrasing me! I annihilated them in the end though.

But Naruto is different! He said that he will protect me and become a great ninja! And that's why, I will earn large money and become a princess! And then I will marry him, and have cute kids like myself!"

Hiruzen just stared at me, and then asked something weird.

"Do you know how children come?"
Why are you asking a 3 year old kid a question like this?

"You don't even know that? From mother's belly."

"I see. Then how do children go inside children's belly?"

"...Why would they go inside if they are going to come out anyway? Isn't it because mother and father create them and they grow in mother's belly?"

"And how do mother and father create them?"

"... Let me think a bit..."

"Think."

I acted like I was thinking, and Hiruzen was surely feeling amused.

"Picture books didn't have any reference... Princess kisses the ninja so they get married. So... what is more than kiss?... What is it... uggggh! I don't know! Can you tell me?"

"Fufu~ You will get it once you get older."

"How much older? Four?"

"Well, much older than that. Anyway, if you like Naruto, take good care of him. I will have to work out some paperwork to buy you a shop. Prepare what you want to sell till then. Okay? You will get your shop in a week."

"Yeah. Thanks for my reward and compensation. But please tell me how babies are made! I am curious!"

"Hahaha! You will find out when you are old. Okay? Bye bye now. Sell good stuff, okay?"

He said that while ruffling my hair, ruining it. But I let him do that. As much as I hate his spinelessness, being close to the leader is a must for business. He is giving me a shop is weird enough, and that's most probably because I am Naruto's friend.

So I will just take it as a pre-wedding gift because he wouldn't be alive then.

"I assure you, I will become one of the biggest client of Konoha. I will let you make money out of me as a thanks."

"Really? Thanks a lot Shiori-chan! Well then, I will be going. Bye bye."

"Bye Old man!"

And he left while waving his hand.

I would have felt happy and grateful to him if I was normal. But I know that he didn't give Minato's and Kushina's money and techniques to Naruto, and didn't do anything to train him despite him being the dead last in Academy.

But My Naruto will be different than the Rasengan spamming pikachu. He will be a Rasengan and FTG spamming pikachu!

Oh well, let's get my apartment ready. I will have to learn to make food too. I suddenly miss my maid who did everything for me while I wasted away my life doing whatever I wanted. But I guess, I have to become an independent and a dependable person for Naruto.

Shiori-chan, you can do it!

Chapter 7: Danzo-sama meets Hiruzen

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Hiruzen smiled contently now that Naruto has found a friend, a smart one at that. If only Danzo didn't mess around with orphans...

Shiori, meaning guide. She is smart enough to establish the similarities between Naruto and Minato at such a young age. Most kids would have lost any hope if they found out that they cannot use chakra. But she just changed her ambition to become the next best thing.

A rich person, or a 'Princess'.

Hiruzen chuckled. Picture books sure have an impact on children. And regarding her saying that she will marry Naruto, it is just copying the picture book. If they do end up marrying, Hiruzen will happily give them his blessings, if he survived that long.

"Hiruzen. I heard some interesting news."

Hiruzen mood soured. Danzo, who brings him nothing but headache. He just barges in as if he owns the place. But he is a friend, so Hiruzen doesn't do anything to him.

Even though the said friend has tried to assassinate him.

"What is it, Danzo?"

"Well, I heard that you are giving an orphan 10,000 instead of 5,000, an apartment near the Jinchuriki and even buying her a shop? If you have money to waste on someone who would never become more than a genin, give that to me. ROOT needs more funds."

"So tell me Danzo, why would that girl never become more than a genin?"

"Who knows? I don't have time for useless people."

"Well, due to one of the Konoha higher-up, a girl with very good potential had to give up being a ninja and settle for civilian lifestyle. Plus, she did inform the police about her orphanage's matron starving her, and Naruto, and selling kids. She deserves a reward, doesn't she?"

Danzo didn't as much as twich a little, as if the 'higher-up' is someone else, not him.

"Hiruzen, she will not bear Jinchuriki's child. Someone who can't use chakra will only give birth to defecti-"

"Danzo. I heard that you have a kid with Wood Style?"

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"Danzo, I am warning you. You will not touch that child again, or interfere in her business. You have already ruined her ninja life, so leave her alone."

"You will regret this, Hiruzen."
And Danzo left with his usual parting words.

Hiruzen just sighed.

"Let's just look for the cheapest shop. Danzo wouldn't go as far as doing something to a 3 year old child who can no longer use chakra."

Chapter 8: Opening my Shop-1

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"Naruto! Breakfast is ready!"
"Coming!"

A week has already passed since we got our apartment. I have gotten the printer and all the supplies, plus a small shop in front of Ichiraku Ramen.

I have been learning cooking through the books, and making Rice Balls was so easy that I made it eatable on the very first time. Boiling eggs, boiling milk, and some other things are some of the things that anybody can do, even if they haven't cooked in their entire life.

The problem arrives with making vegetables and meat. Removing outer surface, cutting vegetables, and adding the right amount of oil and spices is very hard. But thankfully, I am not as horrible as Shion.

I guess I have good qualities of a wife. Hehe~

Then I am also teaching Naruto to read and write, and improving his handwriting with brush to get used to it for fuinjutsu. Speaking of fuinjutsu, I can do it, can't I? Can I really not even use chakra for making seals using ink? I don't know.

Anyway, I am also teaching Naruto another language, Sanskrit. It has very defined structure with capacity of unlimited words and extremely shortened statements. I am now actually grateful that I was born to Brahman parents who were very religious. Even though they died, the skills they taught me will come in handy in this life.

I know that ANBU, and even ROOT is keeping eye on us. But I can just boast about it being my own intelligence. It can even help me to get fuinjutsu access. In a ninja village, the more secretive I want to become, the more suspicious it will become.

"Shiori-chan! It's tasty, Dattebayo!"

"Thanks! I will be going to the library then. And you, spread the news among children that there will be a limited edition sale for the first 5 customers in my shop. Don't mention what I will be selling, okay?"

"Umm, but Shiori-chan..., the kids call me names and their parents tell them to stay away from me..."

"Don't bother with those stupid people. Friends can be only made with people who respect you. If you beg someone to be your friend, they will only bully you more. And you have me, don't you?"

"Yeah! But I don't like it when they gang up on me!"
"Then become so strong that they will regret messing with you. They are all irrelevant fodders. They don't matter."

"You are right! They are nothing in front of Uzumaki Naruto, the Greatest future Hokage!"

Well, looks like Hiruzen has started brainwashing him to become Hokage when I am out in the civilian library.

Oh well. If he becomes the Hokage, I will just become the Daimyo. Those guys are useless anyway. If my boyfriend will 'ask politely' to adopt me and then hand me over the position after the war, it will be very easy.

But I don't like him wanting to be the Hokage due to Hiruzen's brainwashing. It will lead to him asking for validation from irrelevant people. And I don't want him to go to save every person that treats him like a normal human being.

Guess I will have to start educating him once I make sure that ANBU and ROOT can't hear or see what we do inside our apartments.

With that thought in mind, I went to the door.

"Then I will be going! And be ready for a surprise at my shop!"

"Surprise!? What is it!?"
"Fufu~, you will have to wait for that~"

"Hey! Please tell me!"
"Not telling! Bye bye!"

******

"Hey! Do ya know!? The shop opening in front of Ichiraku is going to have a limited edition sale!"

"Hah? Why are you talking to us!? Looser!"

"You are the loosers! I am the one who will get a surprise, not you!"

"Yeah. As if someone will give you a surprise."

"Whatever. You all are stupid fodders!"

******

(3rd PoV)

A certain White haired ANBU was watching Naruto's antics, copying Shiori and calling everyone stupid fodders.

He has been the one who is on Naruto's watch duty this week as he was forced to take a rest from dangerous missions. And from what he has observed, Shiori is definitely a smart girl. A little too smart. He has seen her coming up with her own alphabets and their sounds. Some sounds are not even in their language. And she has already learnt about half of the language from the books in library. Till now, she has only come up with 14 vowels. Even though she has been creating the special language only for the two of them, Kakashi isn't shy from using Sharingan and peeping on them.

In some way, Kakashi is relieved that Sensei's son has got himself a friend and is not that sad about the entire village shunning him. And she is even cooking and shopping for him, and telling him to train or teaching him.

If only her tenkutsu weren't damaged...

Anyway, he is curious about what she will be selling. It is something she has been drawing and taking printouts, then stapling them like a thin book. And she was also drawing something like a poster.

Kakashi decided to not peek at it.

"You called me stupid fodder!? Die!"

"Konoha Secret Jutsu: Low Blow!"

"Aaargh!"

"Pfft! Hahaha! This really works!?"

Well, it looks like Naruto got a 3rd victim today, though it was in self-defense. Shiori has taught him some nasty technique.

Oh well. He will just stop-by the shop later, while following Naruto.

******
(Shiori's PoV)

It was 5pm, and the streets were bustling with people. A perfect time for opening my shop.

I have decided to start a manga series. Shin-chan. The technology here is somewhere in the 1920s-30s except for the fact that simpler technology than TV, the trains are not here. There may be various factors to it.

If there is a train, the low level escort missions for the ninja villages will plummet. Daimyos are just like UK's royal family, utterly useless and waste of space, whose only job is to spend money and be fat. Not Sumo Wrestler fat, but just fat. And they are also cowards, that's why they won't do anything to offend ninjas now that Samurais protecting them had made their own village in Land of Iron.

Suna is a special case. Rasa is an asshole with peanut sized brain who thought that attacking Leaf with Orochimaru of all people, on the event of Chunin Exam where even many nobles will be present, will be beneficial for his village.

That's just asking for being declared a terrorist village and further plummet the economy. Their strength outside of their boundary is also pathetic. Imagine Gaara in the Chunin Exam being their strongest ninja after Rasa.

While countries like Land of Snow has train, because the ninja village and the country aren't separate. And their ninjas aren't that strong. There can't be any reason other than the Land of Fire, with vast plains, and the biggest economy doesn't have trains. Shinobi need to be relevant other than wars and stuff afterall.

Anyway! In my Shin-chan, everything is same but adapted according to the technology here. Instead of Kasukabe, it is Konoha. There is also a kindergarten.

Honestly, unlike the fanfics, there are no civilian schools in Konoha, only an Academy. For civilian jobs, you either take an apprenticeship here, or go to the capital or one of the cities in Land of Fire for schooling.

Anyway, the manga is something a children my age can enjoy, and even adults. I am not going to add the extreme inappropriate things in it. Honestly, the problem with Japan's children animes is that it presented many bad things as normal. They are still the best out there, but the censoring does ruins the flow.

So, no older versions of crayon shin-chan. They weren't even that funny. I remember those episodes in the golden age of Shin-chan. When the art style was between the old and new. And I have used those episodes.

I have also replaced Choco chip cookies with Ichiraku Ramen. With his permission, of course. It is always better to be in favourable eyes of Sage of Six Bowls, who survived every calamity.

The first chapter is just a random episode I remembered before Himawari was born, in which Shin-chan adopts Shiro and fights with Misai for it. And in the end, he forgets about him and leaves him starving. It isn't that funny, but by the extent of comedy in the library, I can say it is much better than them.

Then I have made five posters in total.

First is for Naruto, where he is grown up and is the Hokage, but with good hairstyle and a cloack like Minato. And in the background, he is standing just in front of Hokage Rock, hiding the Sixth Hokage, and has his own face carved as the Seventh Hokage. It is his surprise.

Second is of Hiruzen when he was young. His young picture was fairly easy to find in the library.

The third one is Tsunade with a grin and Orochimaru laying unconscious under her feet.

The fourth is of the Uchiha Policeman who caught the orphanage matron.

And lastly, it is mine as a grown-up, dressed like a princess and sitting on a bed of money, with an evil grin. This one is truly majestic!

I have chosen these posters for a reason.

Naruto's is obvious as it can get.

Hiruzen's because I will charge him large amount of money.

Tsunade for publicity. She is girls' idol, and since Orochimaru has betrayed the village about one and half years ago, her stomping on him is a good image.

Uchiha guy for getting into Uchiha clan's good graces. And if Fugaku comes, I will even offer him to draw his grown up sons. Same for the rich.

And me, for my own publicity. New businesses will require popularity afterall.

Well, let's just open my shop.

Chapter 9: Opening my Shop-2

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At sharp 5 pm, I was going to open my shop. Well, It was more of a stall than a shop though.

I placed Shin-chan on the display, along with the posters. I am going to auction the four posters except Naruto's, and sell Shin-chan for somewhat cheap. When it becomes popular, then I will contact a publishing company.

I don't want my comics to be ruined by evil companies. I am sure that Kishimoto never wanted Boruto to happen. If anything, it could have been Naruto's grandchildren's generation. The technology went from 1920-30s to straight up 2050-60 in 15-16 years.

I don't think Kishimoto would have wanted to end the series, or atleast stop for a bit before releasing the sequel. No wonder he wasn't the author of that trash, and had to come and try to salvage whatever Ikemoto and whatever writer had cooked.

Anyway, it's not like my ranting would save anything. It's just that the sequel of my Naruto's story, my children's story will be far batter than burrito.

Hmm... Naruto hasn't arrived yet... Oh. He doesn't have a watch. I don't have one too. It's just that I can see the watch hanging in Ichiraku. Well, I think I should start my sale now.

"Everyone! Pay attention! I, Shiori-chan, am going to sell you guys my comic at a heavy discount today! Only 50 Ryo for each copy!

And the auction will start in an hour! Posters of Third Hokage when he was young, Tsunade beating up Orochimaru, the Uchiha Police Hero who caught the child trafficker, and the cute and genius me when I will grow up! Limited Opening Sale!"

"..."

People stared at the posters for a bit, seemingly intrigued, but then went on with their lives.

"..."

And just like that, half an hour passed, and I couldn't sell a single thing. Is there recession going on? I mean, 50 Ryos aren't that much, are they?

Finally, the first person arrived. And it was my Naruto.

"Woah Shiori-chan! Is that me!?"
Naruto bounced excitedly as he saw his poster.

"Of course! Since you are my first customer, you win it for free!"

"Yay! Thank you Shiori-chan!"

As I gave it to him, he shouted and jumped excitedly, and ran towards the Hokage building. I just hope he shows it to his Jiji and he comes here to take a look.

As soon as Naruto went away, my second customer came. Kakashi!

"Hello! Are you interested in my manga, Shin-chan? I assure you this will be the best comedy manga you have ever read. Well, there was no manga in the library anyway, and all novels were pretty boring. Only 50 Ryo! Just for today!"

"Can I take a look first?"

"I have the sample displayed here. Feel free to read it."

And Kakashi, around the age of 17-18 started reading it. If he was interested or not, I don't know.

"I will take 10 copies."
Woah... He is my best customer so far!

"Thank you for your patronage. As a reward, would you like to have a poster of yourself? Somewhere around 10 years later? You are quite handsome."

"But most of my face is covered."

"That makes it better. And just as a secret-"

I gestured him to give me his ear.

"My drawings can see vague futures. You see this picture? That will be me, sitting on a bed made out of money. And I can also give you a prediction."

"What?"

"Naruto will be the strongest and most handsome person in the world."

"Hmm, why?"

"I just know it! My drawings tell vague future!"

"Oh? Then can you tell my vague future?"

"You know, it's not something I can control. I just had a dream about it when I was asleep. And then I will have to draw it or I will just forget about it. I think it will be ready next week. Do you want to commission it? You would have to come here for auction then."

Unlike all those reincarnators who keep their knowledge close to their heart, I am going to use it to make lots of money, while also ensuring that I will become too important to be killed or my head to be messed with. And not just money, I will also manipulate things as per my benefit in matters that don't involve money.

Like, making Kakashi stronger. And leveraging my importance to get Naruto and me some important things.

"Sure. Then I will see you next week."

"So please write your name, any hard clan distinction, like the Hyugas have weird eyes, and your age."

Kakashi did as I told him, and I smiled at him.

"Thank you for the patronage! As my second customer, you will get a special surprise gift next week!"

"Oh. Thank you miss seer."

"Mention not."

After paying 500 Ryo and taking 10 copies, he left.

Another 30 minutes passed, and I couldn't sell a single copy of the manga. People did take a look at the four posters and praised me, but just left.

Though, it was auction time, and some people did come. Young Tenten with her supposedly parents, Ino, and most importantly, Fugaku, Itachi and a 3 year old Sasuke who was holding Itachi's leg. So they are obsessed with each other from the start huh.

Suddenly, I saw money in front of me. Naruto did a great job in advertising.

"Welcome everyone to Shiori Manga Store! On this opening week, I have prepared these posters for you! First is of Hokage-sama, when he was young and strong!

Second is the brave Uchiha Policeman who saved me and many children in the orphanage from the evil child trafficker!

Third is Tsunade, the Sanin who punches everything to dust, satisfied after defeating the traitor Orochimaru!

And the fourth is Shiori-sama! Living the dream that everyone has! Just look at how she is enjoying herself with her money! Isn't it your dream to live like this too!? Though, it isn't really for auction. But the first three are!"

I will frame my poster in Naruto's apartment. So that he always sees me.

"The auction will begin now! The highest bidder out of the three posters will get a surprise gift along with the olbi-getory gift!

Bidding for the first poster of Hokage-sama. Bidding starts at 500!"

"500."
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"1000."
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"1500."

"1500 one! 1500 two! 1500 three! This poster is sold! Please collect it with your free gift! But please don't leave to see if you are the winner of the earlier prize I mentioned!"

Some no name kid handed me the money, and I gave him a Shin-chan manga as a gift. I just hope he comes here to buy the next chapter.

"The onto the second Posted! It is the Uchiha hero! The bidding starts at 500!"

"15,000."

Everyone was shocked. Fugaku just said 30 times the starting bid! Oh my gosh! I will milk him dry till he is alive! Hahaha!

"15,000 one! 15,000 two! 15,000 three! The second poster is sold! Please collect your poster and the free gift! But please don't leave to see if you are the winner of the earlier prize I mentioned!"

Fugaku paid 15,000 and I handed him the poster and manga. I hope Sasuke gets addicted to it.

"Now the third posted for Tsunade-sama! Bidding starts at 500!"

"500!"
"600!"
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"2000!"

"2000 one! 2000 two! 2000 three! The third poster is sold!"

Tenten bought it. Well, her family must be relatively rich since she just throws away so many weapons everytime she fights.

"The winner is the person who bought Uchiha Hero's poster! Please come forward for your gift and surprise gift!"

I handed Fugaku his obligatory gift, Shin-chan, and motioned him to give me his ear.

"I can see future of people I see. So, I will draw the future as I see it in my dream. Who should I draw? Though I haven't been able to see the future of any big person till now."

"Hmm?"
He looked at me as if I am bullshitting and I am just making things up for money. But still, he pointed towards Sasuke.

"Then please state your full name, and any special clan distinction you may have. You know, like the Hyugas have white eyes."

"Uchiha Sasuke. And Uchihas are known for Sharingan."
As Fugaku told me that he is an Uchiha, I was surprised. I mean, I acted surprised.

"So you are from the same family as the Uchiha Hero. Please thank him for me."

"I will. And also, sell me 20 copies of the manga."

Good, Fugaku is really gullible huh.

"Thank you for your patronage!"

He left contently along with Itachi and Sasuke. While Sasuke was not paying much attention and just hugging Itachi's leg, I was loud enough for Itachi to hear. And he was mature enough to understand. Though, not mature enough to think like Hokage, despite what Itachi fanclub says.

Oh well. Things will become interesting next week.

Chapter 10: Naruto Crying

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Feeling happy, I returned home. I have got around two times my monthly pocket money. This either means that I am good at selling things or the pocket money is very low. Out of 21,300 Ryo, I took out 213 Ryo before storing them inside my wallet. Naruto got a frog wallet, and I got a Nue wallet. I can understand why Naruto got a frog wallet, but why did I get this? Is it foreshadowing?

No. This is not a fanfic. It must be just a random wallet Hiruzen picked up.

Shaking my head of those impossible thoughts, I first carefully placed my money inside the rice drum, locked my apartment, and went to Naruto's.

*knock knock knock*

"..."

Is he sleeping?

Well, I will just cook dinner for now. What should I make today? Rice Curry? Omurice?

Hmm, let's make Omurice today. I will even get to do the Japanese maid cafe thing! The Love Spell thing. Hehe~

"Sa re ga ma~"
While practicing my singing, I started making dinner.

*One hour later*

"Naruto! Dinner is ready!"
I shouted from my apartment.

"I am not hungry today Shiori-chan!"
And Naruto shouted back.

"..."

Something is wrong. Naruto is never 'not hungry'.

I got out from my apartment in a hurry and knocked on his door.

*knock knock knock*

"Eh? Shiori-chan?"

After some scuffling, he opened the door. But something was wrong with his eyes.

"Were you crying?"

"Huh? No!"

"Then I am coming in."

"Wait!"

And he blocked my way. Seriously...

"Let me in Naruto."

"It's umm, it's dirty!"

"I helped you clean just yesterday."

"It's dirty again!"

"Then let me help-"

"No! I can do it on my own! Dattebayo!"

"Wait! Why is there a cow in your room!?"

"Huh!?"

As he turned around, I swiftly entered his apartment. And there, I saw it.

The poster I created with so much efforts, torn in so many pieces, and Naruto was fixing it with tape.

It was supposed to be my first gift to my Naruto.

Who?

WHO?

WHO DARED TO TEAR IT!!!?

"Shiori-chan, umm, I tore it by mistake, umm, I am sorry!"

"Oh, it was a mistake. Then it's alright-

As if! Tell me, which bastard tore it!?"

"Shiori-chan-"

"It was my first gift for you! I will make him/her... no... I will make it pay! Don't try to cover it up! Let's go to Police Station! I am sure that Uchiha Hero will find the culprit!"

"Shiori-"

"That gall of that mongreal! I will make sure to take all of its money! I will make sure that people think that it is-"

"SHIORI!"

Naruto shouted at me, crying. And then he smiled, with tears running down his cute face.

"It's okay. I can fix it, Dattebayo!"

It's not okay. I failed in my duty as your wife to take care of you. You shouldn't cry. You shouldn't force a smile. Especially not for me.

You should smile genuinely only for me.

You must smile genuinely for me.

Naruto, I promise you. There will be chaos for these damned villagers. You will never willingly save these damned villagers. You will never care about these mongreals anymore.

I am all you need. And I will make sure of it. And these stupid villagers made you cry? Then they must cry as well, more than you.

I will make sure of it. Tomorrow's morning will be very very different for Konoha.

Chapter 11: Nothing Happened

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

As the sun rose upon Konoha, some interesting things began spreading.

Rumours like Naruto being the kid of a cat summoner ANBU, like certain children who tried to bully Naruto and Shiori being the kids of the person who unleashed the Kyuubi.

Or that should have happened.

But in reality, nothing really happened.

"Why?"

Hiruzen just stared at the 3 year old girl, too smart for her age in scheming.

<Yesterday Night>

After giving Naruto his share of dinner and leaving his apartment, Shiori said to her surroundings in a commanding tone, whatever a 3 year old could muster.

"Come out. I know you are there already."

"..."

Wind flew, but nobody really answered.

"Fine. Then tell the Hokage to be at his office. I am coming."

After saying that, she headed towards the Hokage Tower. It was 11pm right now, and Hokage really shouldn't be in his office. Despite that, Hiruzen was there, as if waiting for her.

"What brings you here this late, Shiori-chan? I am sorry that I couldn't come at your shop today. I was too busy."

"Someone tore the gift I gave to Naruto. And he wouldn't tell me who was it. But you must know, since you have been keeping an eye on him."

"I don't really know what you mean, Shiori-chan. Even though I am the Hokage, I can't keep an eye on everyone."

"Then what are you doing here this late?"

Suddenly, Kakashi in his ANBU uniform appeared out of blue, and Shiori screamed.

"Kyaaa~!"

Both of them stared at the girl who was showing a brave face just a moment ago, and being incredibly scared the next moment.

"So, are you saying that you are capable of senseing ANBU?"

After calming down, she said,

"Umm, I was just saying in the air. I didn't really know ANBU..., whatever it is, is keeping an eye on us. So, will you tell me who is the one who tore my gift? Why did he do it? Why wasn't he punished? Why are stupid people so bad towards Naruto? Why do some people call him demon? And if he is really a demon, isn't it a cool thing? The people are really weird. Their gazes feel afraid, but they are not afraid of harming him."

"Sigh. Shiori-chan, Naruto has got fox-like whiskers from his father. It is really just the same thing as Inuzuka, a dog clan has red markings.

3 years ago, one day after you were born and on Naruto's birthday, the Kyuubi attack happened. Many people died. Many people lost their family members. So someone got the idea that Naruto is Kyuubi's incarnation and spread these nonsense rumours."

"And the stupid people really believed that?"

"Yes. They did."

Suddenly, an innocent smile came across her face.

"So they are stupid huh?"

"I am the Hokage, so I can't really badmouth my people."

"You should. You are like, the grandpa of village, right? If it were my children who were this stupid, I would scold them. Why can't you do the same?"

"It's of no use Shiori-chan. People will just think that it is some ninja thing that I am trying to hide, even if I come out and say it that Naruto isn't a demon."

"So, people ARE stupid, right?"

"In a way, yes."

"Then they wouldn't mind if there are three or four more rumours, right? Something like..., hmmm, everyone hates Orochimaru, right!? So what if we just make some rumours like he became a traitor because he was having an affair!?"

"Where did you learn this word?"

"Orphanage lady gossiped a lot. So I know that affair is something bad."

"Affair means... loving someone else despite being married to another person? And as far as I know, Orochimaru didn't have a wife."

"Then what about he became a traitor to search for a wife!? We can make some more bad rumours about traitors! Wait, the problem is Kyuubi, right? Naruto's whiskers? But cat whiskers look the same! How about this? Naruto's father or mother had cat whiskers, and Orochimaru had kidnapped and taken away the Kyuubi years ago!"

Hiruzen rolled his eyes on the idea that Orochimaru would extend his noodle hands, catch the Kyuubi and take it away for himself. Kids are kids afterall, however smart they may be.

"Shiori-chan, Kyuubi can't be just 'taken away' by anyone. It is dead long ago."

"Yeah. But they are stupid people. If someone whispers repeatedly that eating tomotoes will lead to diarrrrr, what was the name of that disease again?"

"Diarrhea."

"Yes! That's it! I am sure that these stupid people will stop eating tomotoes. Why not just let the traitor carry the little extra stupidity of stupid people?"

Hiruzen was honestly surprised. While it might seem like a kid's idea, it wasn't something that any ordinary kid could come up with. And he could see that working to some extent.

This girl is too cunning for her age. Maybe she will become a good head of the civilian council? While Kakashi and Itachi are child genuises in shinobi skills, she is a genius in politics.

Really, it's just very sad that Danzo destroyed her ninja career in his recklessness in looking for talents.

But he could see her advising Naruto when he becomes the Hokage. Minato wasn't that versed in politics, and Kushina was... well, there is no use in talking about her in that matter.

But she will have to build up something for becoming the Hokage's wife. First Hokage's wife was an Uzumaki princess, and later the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. His wife was the head of the medical area, and the best medic before Tsunade. And Minato had the last Uzumaki and the Kyuubi Jinchuriki as his wife.

Strength isn't all that matters to become the Hokage. The people should approve of him, especially the shinobi.

They will have to build solid reputation. And that shouldn't be based on underhanded tactics like using rumours to fight rumours. It may work on civilians and less experienced shinobi, but not on chunins and above.

Thinking about it all, he looked at the excited girl.

"So? Will it be done by tomorrow morning, old man? Afterall, Naruto is clearly 4th Hokage's son. Otherwise, there is no way that there will be Kakashi keeping an eye on him-"

Wait a minute... She is still on about Naruto being Minato's son? And-

"Who is Kakashi?"

Shiori rolled her eyes and Hiruzen felt uncomfortable as she looked at him as if he is an idiot.

"Silver haired handsome guy came just after Naruto on my store. He is actually my second customer and I will be making a poster of him. And that guy, is currently in a mask right now. Why wear a mask if hair gives it away?"

"*Cough* Alright Shiori, Naruto is not the 4th Hokage's son-"

"Then why is he keeping an eye on him? Why does his face look like an exact copy of him beside being more chubby and having whiskers? People can't really be THAT stupid that they can't recognise him. Tell me, am I the weird one here?"

"Well then, did you approach Naruto thinking that he is 4th Hokage's son?"

"I approached him for many reasons. I was betrayed by everyone in the orphanage, and only he was the one who didn't treat me badly after finding out that I can't use chakra. Instead, he said that he will protect me when I asked for it. So I want to become his princess! And then guess what? I looked at 4th Hokage's photo in the public library! He looks so cool! Naruto will also become very cool like him, right!? So I will not only become a princess, I will also become Hokage's wife-"

"Shiori-chan, look here. He is Naruto's father."
And Hiruzen showed her the photo of the most ordinary blonde haired man with blue eyes. He knows he is wrong in doing so, but he can't have her babbling about it.

It is a good thing that Danzo isn't here.

"Then why don't you show it to Naruto too?"

Hiruzen was caught off guard by that question. Lying to her was alright, but lying to Naruto about his parents? Telling him that someone else was his father? That is a line he will never cross. He can hide about his father, but not lie about him.

Honestly, Hiruzen was actually trying to test her, if she abandoned Naruto after thinking that he wasn't 4th Hokage's son, she was never really his friend. And if nothing changed between them, she is a genuine friend.

"Old Man, unlike those stupid people, I am actually smart and have good eyes. And I can actually see the future. So, no need to tell me anything, and I won't tell Naruto anything. You are the Hokage, so you must have a reason.

What I want right now is three things.

First, spread the rumour that Orochimaru kidnapped Kyuubi or something and Naruto's whiskers are actually cat whiskers. Honestly, I haven't seen a fox in my life. I don't want Naruto to suffer.

Second, train him so he can become strong. I am going to become very rich, and I need a person to protect me. Plus, he wants to become the Hokage, so he must become strong.

And finally, tell him everything yourself when he becomes ninja or something. Though, I think Naruto will figure it out himself. He is not stupid, he is just dumb."

"And what's the difference between stupid and dumb?"

"Stupid people are stupid, and dumb people are dumb, not stupid."

"You are not making sense right now."

"Ugggh! Just think what you want! Naruto is my future husband! And I will not let anyone hurt him! I will never let him cry again! I want these three things to be done. I am going to sleep now, so bye! And Kakashi, protect me with Naruto too. Orochimaru will come to kill me because I am spreading runours about him!"

And she left the Hokage Office, and nobody stopped her. It was 12am already. Never in his dreams did he consider that a 3 year old girl will be the first one among the civilians to figure out Naruto's identity. So, what makes him think that spies from other villages haven't already caught on? And with the stupid rumour going around that he is a demon incarnate or whatever? Why wouldn't Kumo sneak in again and try what they tried with Kushina?

"Kakashi, assassinate some of Kiri's missing nins. Konoha must not appear weak."

"Yes Hokage-sama. If I may ask, about that-"

"I will take care of it."

"Hai Hokage-sama. I will return to my guarding duty."

"And in a few weeks, Kumo delegation will arrive in the village for peace treaty. Make sure that they don't try anything funny."

Kakashi nodded, and returned to his night guard duty.

<Flashback End>

So, why didn't Hiruzen take care of it?

Because he wants Naruto to become the Hokage, and to protect Shiori.

But, he has already made some preparation for training Naruto. If Shiori can actually see the future like she claimed, she just might become the biggest kidnapping target.

So, let's make things natural, and see what this self-proclaimed seer will do to train Naruto. He has prepared the stage by letting a certain turtle hear that a scarecrow is a fan of a certain comic store, *cough*, stall.

If she can actually see the future, she will take the bait.

Chapter 12: Corruption Begins

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

"*sniff*, I got this great idea, and I was sure that it would have worked. You know, I wrote the rumours against those who bullied us and spreaded it near the orphanage. Like that orange haired girl, Shinohara being the actual kitsune, and she put these marks on you so that she can be safe while she grows in power.
B-but nothing happened! All the paper I left at the orphanage was gone! Even the Hokage didn't help me... Uwaaah!"

"Shh! There there, Shiori-chan! No need to cry, dattebayo! I am super happy that you are helping me, but you don't need to. I am not bothered by people avoiding me, dattebayo!"

Naruto said with a sunny smile, trying to calm down the crying Shiori. He didn't know what it was to be truly cared for until now, but he had a fuzzy feeling in his heart now. And he didn't know what to call it.

"Waaaaah!"

But Shiori-chan kept crying while burying her head in the pillow.

'What would Shiori-chan like...'

Naruto looked around her room, and found two dolls and a picture book that he has seen her reading sometimes in the orphanage. She was the most popular kid in the orphanage, and the matron didn't let him come close to her, saying stuff like he will taint her or something.

He opened the picture book, and hurriedly read through the story. In it, the princess was crying after being surrounded by enemy ninjas. But the hero ninja arrived on time, saved her, they kissed, and got married.

The hero ninja had blonde hair and blue eyes, and his name was Minato.

'He is so cool!'

"Waaaah!"

'Oops!'

Naruto got so engrossed in the cool ninja that he momentarily forgot about the crying Shiori-chan. The crying princess.

Naruto put on Shiori-chan's hanky like a hero's cape, and appeared before her.

"No fear princess! I will save you, dattebayo!"

"*hic*, dattebayo is not cool..."

Shiori-chan muttered that, but Naruto heard it, since he naturally had better senses than average people.

'Alright... I won't say Dattebayo. I am a cool ninja!'

"Here, wipe you traes, princess."

Naruto said gentlemanly as he gave her his cape(her hanky) to wipe her tears.

"*hic* its "your" and "tears"."

Shiori wiped her tears, and hugged Naruto tightly.

"Don't worry about others, my Naruto. I will make you a great ninja, and I will become your princess, okay. I will make sure that nobody will bully you, bully us."

"Heh. Others don't bother me, Shiori-chan! So you shouldn't cry!"

Naruto put a brave front, but he was sure that he was bothered by how other people treated him. The matron didn't let him to even come close to Shiori-chan.

But Shiori-chan is with him now. And the matron lady was evil.

So, whoever tries to separate Shiori-chan from him is evil, right?

"No matter what, I will never let you feelhurt by those mongreals, my cool ninja. It is my promise, as your princess."

Shiori-chan looked at him in the eyes, and she looked absolutely determined.

"Then I will become the coolest ninja for you, Datte-, the coolest ninja, Shiori-chan!"

Naruto felt something weird in his heard as he saw Shiori-chan's wide smile. It was more beautiful than the moon he saw in the night while hunting for fish in the jungle. It was more beautiful than the fire he saw the ninja starting and leaving, on which he cooked his fish.

Right now, Naruto was feeling more full than that fish he ate, which that old man Hokage taught him to roast.

*GROWWWWWWWWWWL*

'Ah! No! Shiori-chan won't find me cool this way!'

But instead of what Naruto feared, Shiori giggled cutely.

"Hehehe~ You are so cute~. Wash your hands with the handwash, and come to the dining table. I have made Omurice today."

Shiori-chan left to the kitchen while giggling, and leaving Naruto stunned.

'She likes me cute?'

And so, the corruption of an innocent kid with the potential to beat everyone on the planet has started.

Chapter 13: My shop getting famous-1

Chapter Text

A week has passed since then, and I have been busy to create the items for my next week's sale.

And this time, I really want to make my shop super famous like in those fanfics where even the Hokage and clan heads can't resist it.

And that's why, I have decided to start a new series alongside Shin-chan.

'A Snake's Nest'

It is a horror manga that drove Naruto to tears, and he screamed as well when Orochimaru appeared out of nowhere in a two page spread, staring at the reader's soul.

I clearly remember how creeped out and scared I was when Orochimaru first appeared in the forest of death.

So, I have put extra effort to make Orochimaru VERY scary and creepy.

The story is silly though. Orochimaru kidnaps a young girl with special abilities, intending to eat her when she is grown up. But the young girl doesn't know that and stats caring for him as if Orochimaru is her father. Slowly, she falls prey to more of Orochimaru's manipulation and-

-see the next volume for that!

Honestly, I am just surprised that the public library had his picture and basic information, so that even civilians remain aware of dangerous people.

I chuckled by imagining the crying children when they get the jumpscare when Orochimaru appears all of a sudden, and stares straight at them. I have already made 5 chapters, in a week, and have printed 500 copies of it.

Sure, each chapter was 5-6 pages long, but it took me a lot of effort. Still, I am better than Ikemoto.

On the top of it, I created a poster of an older 6th Hokage Kakashi with purple lightning Kirin being dropped on something that isn't shown in the poster. But Shizune is in the background. I will be using it for publicity of my shop, and to give kakashi the idea. Stronger Kakashi is better for me, and Naruto's safety.

Then, the second poster is of grown-up Sasuke. I could have drawn him in the police or Jonin uniform, but where is the fun in that?

So I have chosen the Shippuden entry Sasuke, with his chest for everyone to see and him resting his hands on a katana. He has a cold blank look on his face, and there are depressing clouds in the background.

And for the third poster, I have created the Hokage Rock scene from the Minato One-shot manga, smiling brightly while mentioning Rasengan. Father-in-law is so cool and awesome! I am sure that I could make good money out of his face.

Now... I have to somehow convince the Hokage that I can, indeed, show a bit of future. Shizune in Kakashi's background is there for it.

But, I have a bonus poster, with Kakashi and Guy in it. Kakashi is screaming "Guy!" in one small panel, and Guy is giving his signature thumbs up just below it, and in the next big panel, it is Night Guy. The background is of war, obviously.

I can justify this as seeing Kakashi's future, and even if they don't believe in my 'ability', Guy will come to my stall and I can ask him to train Naruto.

And if they do end up believing me, I don't think they will scan me with Yamanaka jutsu at such a young age, and more so that I can't use chakra. It might lead me to not cooperate with them in the future, and they can't exactly imprison me now that I am Naruto's friend.

While this move is certainly dangerous, if successful, I will get a lot of say in how the plot progresses, get extra protection, more negotiation power, and obviously, more money.

If this doesn't work, the worst that could happen is a trip to T&I. But considering that I am a child, and only 'dream' of future after seeing a person, with questionable accuracy, they won't risk me somehow losing the ability due to their interference with how my mind works. And most importantly, they can't endanger me by having Yamanaka read my mind, given my chakra sensitivity.

Now that there have been talks about Kumo signing a treaty in two weels and the skirmishes finally coming to end, I can definitely use the Hyuga incident in my favour. But for that, I need for the Hyuga to come here. And I can only leave it to Shin-chan and plot armour for things to play out in my favour.

There is a risk, but the advantages are just too many to ignore. If I have meta knowledge, why not use it in the most profitable way? Being a seer is not very weird in this ninja world afterall. If I can prove myself, I will definitely get priority on almost the same level as Naruto for protection.

I opened my shop at exactly 5pm. As I displayed all the four posters, they soon became a center of attention.

Alright, it's time to start my sale for this week.

Chapter 14: My shop getting famous-2

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

"Oh, it's time."

Hiruzen muttered as he saw the clock showing that it was now 5pm. Stretching his tired arms from all the paperwork, he decided that he should go and take a look at what Shiori is selling.

And if her being capable of predicting the future is a child's imaginative lie, or innocent truth. One can never be too sure about strange happenings in the ninja world.

As he leisurely walked towards the stall in disguise, he took in the scene of a peaceful and bustling Konoha. The economy has stabilised after the reforms, the skirmishes with Kumo are over, and there have been rumours in Kumo about finalising a peace treaty with Konoha, something that couldn't happen till now.

But all his contentment came crashing down as he heard of certain whispers.

'Hey, have you heard about her?'

'What?'

'That purple haired girl... I heard that she was bewitched by the Fox, and is now under his control.'

'Hey... don't Kitsune often disguise as pretty women to lure the people in the tales? What if she is that Fox's accomplice? We should stop our kids from buying from her shop... Her main targets must be our kids, and that's why she has taken the form of a kid...'

Hiruzen became alert as he got to know the gossip. It could be Danzo, but it isn't impossible for the people to form those stories on their own. He may be the Hokage, but he can't mind control everyone to think in a certain way, nor he can stop rumours to come out non-stop.

So the best he can do is to create a new rumour that will overpower all other conspiracy theories, while still being BS. People don't like realistic theories.

Now... let's think of a rumour, that will make people to be kinder towards Naruto and Shiori, and also help her business to boom.

Shiori being economical powerful will be helpful for Naruto to become the Hokage. He knows firsthand how the importance of having a powerful wife is necessary for the Hokage for stability. Mito-sama brought the alliance of the Uzumaki clan, and Kushina was the only survivor of the same clan and held the Nine-tails, along with good relations with the Uchiha clan, which was a first. So Shiori will need to have a huge amount of wealth so that the clans and jonins don't give trouble to Naruto, who is being hated by the entire village.

And if she becomes powerful enough to control the newly formed Civilian Council due to economic strains, it will be for the best.

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"Sasuke! I told you to not eat raw tomatoes!"

Mikoto scolded Sasuke as he made a mess. She would have to clean it before those demons, the ants, catch a smell of it and give her headache. She wished she had the Byakugan to locate and kill each and every ant from existence.

"Kaa-chan! I want to get my drawing, just like Masato!"

"Yes, we are going. But before that, wash your hands and mout-"

"Kaa-san, I am home."

"Oh Itachi, you came early for the mission? Go with Sasuke and bring his poster."

"Yes Kaa-san."

"Yay!"
Sasuke jumped with joy and hugged Itachi, with his dirty hands...

"I will change and come, wait for me outside."
Itachi poked Sasuke's head, and went to change his clothes.

Mikoto could only sigh as she saw her eight year old kid's back disappearing from sight. While Sasuke did increase her work, a lot, Itachi had never given her any trouble. But that's exactly why she is worried more about Itachi than Sasuke.

While she has seen a genius like Itachi grow and become a fine man with a cheerful and healthy mind, Itachi is different than Minato. He isn't cheerful, he isn't enthralled by a cool jutsu, and he certainly doesn't have a goal, like to become the Hokage.

Sigh... If only her husband and the clan didn't pressurize her kid so much. She doesn't want him to get stress lines like Shisui.

Well... Let's clean up, and then see who this rumoured Shiori is that is becoming a very favoured person in the clan. Who knows, she might end up seeing Kushina's son.

Maybe with her being liked by the clan, Sasuke and Naruto can become friends...

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Kakashi was looking at the big posters hanging on the stall with wide eyes. Wide eye.

Any normal three-year old kid, who has been inside the orphanage until recently, can't determine how a person she met for the first time will become the Sixth Hokage. Not the Fifth. But that was okay. He is famous, so she might have heard about him somehow. And the purple lightning can be a mistake in coloring. He is known as the best lighting user in Konoha, so that thunder attack from clouds can be child's imagination of how real life lighting looks. The bulldog like shape of the lightning can be her imagination as well.

There is no way she knows about Pakkun, right?

But Guy? For a normal person, he is a Green jumpsuit wearing, running while doing a handstand, and 'Youth' shouting weirdo. There is no way, even if she is a plant, that she could know the name of his final move.

'Night Guy' is the thing that only he knows about aside from Guy himself. The red aura is the thing only he, the Hokage and elders, the Samehada weilder who managed to escape alive, and Guy's genin teammates know about, given that they witnessed Guy's father's final move.

So, how exactly she has the exact depictions of what Night Guy could be? And the name itself? Which only Kakashi knows besides Guy?

In the small panel he is in, stopping Guy, he looks roughly 10 or so years older. He can't exactly determine the exact age. And the background looks like a war site, with destruction on an even bigger scale than the Kyuubi rampage.

He felt a chill, as if he is seeing the future through the poster. A future where Guy has to use the Eighth Gate. A future of a war on an unimaginable scale.

"Oh, Kakashi! I am here to challenge-huh?"

Guy arrived on the tree Kakashi was standing on. Even though he can't use chakra good enough to be a sensor, and even though Kakashi is really good at hiding, Guy always manages to find him. Due to his 'Youth', or so he says.

But that Guy didn't complete his sentence to challenge Kakashi for a Youthful competition. Because he was staring at his poster, 'Night Guy'.

"Kakashi, who is that girl?"

"Come with me."

Kakashi came out of his hiding place, and approached the stall where many children were buying Shin-chan, and some were asking if the posters were for sale.

"Oh, Kakashi-san! Guy-san! Thanks for coming here! How do you like it?"

Kakashi wanted to make some excuse to pull her to the side and question her about all these strange things. But he felt a disguised Hiruzen in the vicinity.

'Hey, have you heard that this girl is the reason that Kyuubi is calm inside that boy? I heard from someone with connections to the elder Danzo that if anything happened to that girl, or the container, the Kyuubi can be unleashed again. She is the 'Demon's Sacrifice'. '

Now, Kakashi was more confused about why the Hokage was spreading such rumours. Before Kakashi could look for any signal from him though, Guy has already started talking with her.

"Such YOUTHFUL talent!"

"Umm, Guy-san, if you don't mind, can you teach my friend taijutsu-"

"Of Course! I am going to finish my report, and then, let's meet your YOUTHFUL friend!"

... Kakashi imagined a Naruto in green spandex, with a boul cut, shouting 'Youth!'...

Alright... It's best to not think about it. For now, the Hokage will handle this, but if all this turned out to prove that she does have some sort of future prediction ability... he needs to pick up his training. Because in the next ten years, Naruto will be probably in his position like he was in the previous war...

He needs to prevent any more of his comerades dying. And that includes his sensei's son too.

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Chapter 15: My shop getting famous-3

Chapter Text

(Shiori's PoV)

I giggled with happiness as I successfully got Guy to teach Naruto. All I have to do is to prevent Naruto from getting the bowl haircut and green jumpsuit.

It's not like Lee and Guy look ugly. They are just... unique.

They should keep their uniqueness to themselves.

Speaking of uniqueness...

"Kakashi-san, why are you just standing? Want to buy it?"

Kakashi was broken out of his contemplation, as he picked up 'Snake's Nest', and commented on it.

"Do you like stories like this?"

"I read a harer story in the library. So I made this."

He raised his only visible eyebrow. It's impressive how good expressions he can make with most of his face hidden.

I do need to throw a few broken words now and then. I am sure that Kakashi was capable of better speech than adults by my age, but I am not Kakashi.

He then looked at his poster.
"Sixth Hokage huh... Who is the Fifth then?"

"Tsunade-sama maybe? Isn't she the strongest kunoichi? Or maybe Jirya?"

"Jiraiya."

"Yeah. That guy. He is one of the Sanin afterall. So he may become the Fifth Hokage."

"Hmm, anyway, I should go now."

"Oh. Here's your poster."

With the Orochimaru manga and poster, Kakashi left.

After some more customers, Hizashi arrived with Neji. Oh. The person who I was waiting for has arrived. And now that I looked at Neji myself, he really looks like a girl, as he was shown in Rock Lee's spin-off.

Oh. I just got a good idea.

I handed Neji a Shin-chan, and smiled at Hizashi. He also smiled at me. We both smiled at each other.

... Why isn't he saying anything?

He handed me a photo then. It was of Hinata's. And then he took it back.

"I heard that you are quite good at imagining how a person may look in the future."

He said that as he eyed Guy-sensei's poster. Oh. Guy-sensei forgot to buy it...

"Yes."

"Then draw the girl's photo. She is the heir of the Hyuga clan. Make it something that shows her growing up to be a capable heir. If you make it within two weeks, I will pay you 50,000 Ryo."

50,000!? Why- oh. Fugaku bought the poster previous week for 15,000. And that was of a random Chunin. Hyuga clan can't be weaker than the Uchiha clan in anything (or that's what they think. They are quite a lot weaker). And it's the heir we are talking about afterall.

"Papa! Me too, please!"
Neji pleaded to him, and he smiled at him.

"I will make it for your kid too. How about we round it up to 100,000 Ryo? 50,000 for each?"

"...Alright."

Agreeing to the price, and buying Shin-chan and Snake's Nest, the father-son duo left.

And the next person in line was none other than a random guy I don't know about. And to her badluck, Anko cut in line and appeared before me, with Orochimaru's manga in her hand.

Wait... When did she get her hands on it-

"Thie-mph!"

I tried shouting but she closed my mouth.
"You should stop selling this, little girl."

...I am suddenly grateful to whatever they did to her in Burrito.

"Cough!"

The background character who was the original guy in line coughed, and she looked panicked.

Hmm, is that someone important?

She removed her hand from my mouth, and then warned me.
"Kid, you should stop writing this about a dangerous guy like him."

Giving me a firm warning, she left.

"That thief stole-!"

"The money is on the counter!"

Oh!

It really is. I didn't even notice. So that's a shinobi huh.

Then, the suspicious ordinary guy simply took a manga, paid the amount, and left.

I really wonder who was that.

I should remain careful. What if he was a spy that Anko remembered being an Orochimaru's lackey?

... Maybe I should heed Anko's advice for a while.

Chapter 16: My shop getting famous-4

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

"Mom! I look so cool!"
Sasuke jumped up and down in joy as he showed his poster to his parents.

"Sasuke."
Mikoto smiled sweetly at him.

"Hmm?"

"You won't dress like that."

"Eh!? But this is so coo-"

"Sasuke. You are a good boy who listens to his mom, aren't you?"
Mikoto said, still smiling.

Sasuke looked away.
"Fine. I am going to train."
Grumbling, Sasuke went away.

Mikoto, still smiling cheerfully went to the kitchen. If this Shiori girl wasn't close to Kushina's son, and how she can't get close to anywhere near him due to being an Uchiha, she would have scolded her a lot for using her son for publicity, and dressing him up so vulgar for the whole village to see.

Sigh... Sadly, she of all people can't approach them. She just hoped that the situation with the clan would get better fast.

Meanwhile in the living room, Fugaku was staring at Sasuke's poster. It looked ominous to him. He wondered how Sasuke found it cool. Kids these days...

Speaking of kids...

"What do you think, Itachi?"
Fugaku asked Itachi as he was packing for going on his first C-rank mission tomorrow.

Itachi looked like he was thinking something deeply since he came home with Sasuke.

"Father. Can someone see the future?"

Fugaku realised that they were thinking about the same thing.

"According to the clan records, there is one who can see the future. The priestess of Land of Demons, which Madara helped to subdue the Demon sealed there.

But to what extent, we don't exactly know. Madara didn't record much about the 'puny' demon subduing mission.

Anyway, it is certainly possible. Anything can happen in this world."

"So... it is possible then?"

"Well, what do you think?"

Itachi looked ready to answer, as he has already thought long about it.
"There are three possibilities. First, is that she can see the future. Second is that she is lying. And third, she has been put in a series of genjutsus to dream about what she might believe to be the future."

Fugaku nodded in approval to Itachi's conclusions. Especially the third one.

Three years ago, the Kyuubi was undeniably controlled by the Sharingan. A Mangekyo Sharingan. And it wasn't someone from the Uchiha clan itself.

So that person who could take Kyuubi from Kushina in presence of Minato must be very strong, and wouldn't just stop with one attack on Konoha.

Who that man is, he didn't know for sure. But there was no proof that the attacker three years ago was dead, since no dead body was found. If only Minato had given the information...

Maybe he did inform the Third, since he was the last person to see Minato and Kushina. And even if he did, the Third Hokage wouldn't share that information to the head of the Uchiha clan, who is also the head of the police force.

"Well, only time will tell if she can really see the future. I am sure that the ANBU will make sure that she isn't under the affect of a genjutsu."

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(Two weeks later)

"Hokage-sama, she definitely has that ability."

Hiashi and Hizashi informed Hiruzen, as they handed him the unconscious Kumo diplomat. When Hiashi just knocked him unconscious, he activated a seal to suicide. Thankfully though, with the gentle fist and Byakugan, Hiashi was able to cut the chakra flow of the seal, preventing him from dying.

Hiruzen, Danzo, and the other two advisors looked at the poster that Hiashi handed him.

It had the three year old Hinata on her birthday. With Hyugas in the background. But one eye looking at her from the shadows. And that eye wasn't a Byakugan.

"Can't it just be a coincidence?"
Old hag questioned it. And Four eyes nodded along with her. In their long life as Konoha's elders, they haven't heard of a case like this. Except that Jiraiya's child of prophecy bullshit.

"Did she make anything else?"
Danzo questioned. And Hizashi sighed.

Several other posters were put on the table. One set was of Hinata growing up, to be a shy genin, chunin, and eventually an advisor of the Hyuga clan with her yet unborn little sister as the head.

On the other hand, it was of another girl growing up beautifully, even more than Hinata.

"Who is this supposed to be?"

Hizashi coughed.
"Apparently, she mistook Neji for a girl."

Danzo was the most disappointed amongst all.
'So she does have the ability... But not all her dreams are of the future huh.'

Danzo immediately believed that the girl indeed had such an unheard ability. Orochimaru has told him that the Toad Sage does have the ability of prophetic dreams, but between a Sage and a normal human, there is no comparison.

'If I can somehow train her to control her ability-'

And Danzo started to think of ways to get her into ROOT. Even though he has no experience in training a Jinchuriki, he believes that he is the perfect person to train Naruto. So, it wasn't weird that he thought of himself as capable enough to train an ability that depended on dreams.

Hiruzen sighed.
"Alright. I will handle the issue with Kumo. Since we have definite proof, they can't make any ridiculous demands. Though, this probably means that the peace treaty is almost non-existent now."

"As if that peace of paper will stop that brat A from trying to kidnap Konoha's children."
Danzo muttered.

Well, this was the first time they tried it with Konoha, since it was at it's weakest. Kushina's kidnappers were obviously not Kumo ninjas. Just some Kumo kids kidnapped and trained in ROOT. The Jinchuriki needed to feel at home in Konoha afterall.

Thankfully, Naruto's seal is much stronger than Kushina's, so Danzo can train him-

Danzo felt cold sweat as Hiruzen stared at him. His eyes were warning him against trying anything. So Danzo just turned away, intending to focus on the Uchiha clan for now.

"Alright, we are leaving."

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(Shiori's PoV)

Around a week has passed since I delivered Hinata's posters. And my shop has become famous!

Till now, I have made around 600,000 Ryos. And since I saw Hizashi coming to my shop and informing me that Neji is his son, and not daughter, the Hyuga incident has been solved, since Hizashi is alive.

This means that the upper echelon probably has enough suspicion about me seeing the future in my dreams.

And what does this mean? I can manipulate certain events to my benefit more easily, without needing to do much. And I don't think Danzo would oust me to Obito. I am still just three years old, so there is no saying how powerful my 'ability' may become.

Though there are dangers, like Zetsu listening on their conversations, it is worth the risk to get more money and power though.

I can't be like those fanfic protagonists who constantly live in fear of their strength being exposed.

"Can you make my poster next?"
Shisui came to my shop. And now, it's time to raise the price.

"200,000 Ryo per poster."

Now, they won't have any choice but to pay me more if they want to get a glimpse of the grim future. 200,000 is enough right now. Let's see how much I can raise it in the future.

"Here."

I blinked, shocked that he didn't try to bargain. Well... not that I am complaining...

"Hmm. I will have it done in around two weeks."

Now, I have to cut down on drawing, since I have started training alongside Naruto with Guy-sensei.

So... How should I take advantage of the second stupidest yet earliest bloomer Uchiha, Shisui? With eyes that will be best in my care, though I don't know how to obtain them while being safe?

Well, I shouldn't become too greedy, and get arrogant that I can get those eyes just because I am a reincarnator. Arrogance leads to one's demise afterall.

I should play it safe.

"Thanks for your patronage."

Chapter 17: Spring has arrived

Chapter Text

(Shiori's PoV)
(Two weeks ago)

"He is late..."

I sighed as I closed my stall, and took Guy-sensei's poster from the display.

Maybe something important came up?

Well, now that I got Guy-sensei to teach Naruto, he will become a different level of absolute beast. Naruto has the best stamina, physical strength, and taijutsu potential in the verse.

Well... I just have to make sure that he doesn't try to copy his 'Youthful' ways...

"Ramen Uncle, please pack some new ramen for me and Naruto."

"Of course!"

I sat down in his shop, watching him make ramen.

"Say... Can you teach me how to cook when you are free?"

"Hmmm... How does Saturday afternoon sounds?"

"Thank you, Ramen Uncle."

"Hahaha! No need to thank me!"

A smile formed on my face as the pleasant smell of ramen entered my nose.

Honestly, I have become sick of eating rice and egg dishes. There is no wheat in the Land of Fire. And I guess I will have to adapt to more non-veg food in this world, since there aren't many options here.

I did eat some non-veg food in my past life, but it was limited to fish in half a year or so, and chicken in a month or two.

Sigh... The world isn't kind to veg liking people huh. I would have settled in Japan if it wasn't for the lacking food.

Though, I really don't understand how fanfic guys are able to eat rabbits on their missions...

If I ever went on a mission, I will pack my food beforehand. I wonder if there is a seal to prevent food from going stale...

Anyway, even though I have asked Guy-sensei to train Naruto, I am not sure if I will join him. And even if I will, I don't know if I will be able to keep up training. Well, there is no point in not trying atleast.

Sigh...

"That's quite a sigh for a child."

I looked to my left, to see Hiruzen sitting in the shop.

"Yo, old man."

"What happened?"

"Did Guy-sensei get an emergency mission or something?"

"Yeah. He had to leave immediately, so he couldn't inform you."

I see...

"Say old man. If I can't use chakra, can I not even use fuinjutsu?"

"Well, you will have to use another source of chakra. Though it is not common knowledge, the Second Hokage did try to use fuinjutsu without chakra."

Oh? I wouldn't put it past him to try that, since he probably didn't have as much chakra as Mito and Hashirama. And he knew about nature energy due to Hashirama being a sage.

"So, was he able to?"

"Evidently, yes. You know, Guy can't properly mold chakra to use ninjutsu or genjutsu."

... But wasn't he able to summon a turtle.

"But your condition is different from him. He isn't able to mold chakra properly, but he still strengths his body with chakra. Which you can't. But, he can summon a turtle with just his blood."

Summoning jutsu huh...

"Second Hokage developed the summoning jutsu that doesn't require chakra. Though it uses something that has enough chakra for the summoning itself. So, you would need to use as much blood so that it contains enough chakra for the summoning. It wastes a lot of blood, it is inefficient, and powerful summons can't be summoned this way."

Oh...

"What is a summon?"

"..."

I am still a three year old kid afterall. And I don't know why Hiruzen is readily sharing such information.

"You will learn about it in the academy."

"But I want to know. The books in the library about shinobi are going to end one day. Can I start learning this fuinjutsu thing that the Second and Fourth Hokage are said to be genius in?"

"Hmm... Only if you do something for me?"

Oh?

"What do you want me to do?"

"You and Naruto will meet me once a month atleast. And tell me about what you saw in your dreams."

"Oh? That's all? It's easy!"

I will have to be careful what to say to Naruto then, otherwise Hiruzen will notice something.

"Hmm, here's an introductory book then."

Hiruzen handed me a book, 'Fuinjutsu for Kids I' , by Tobirama Senju, which was also titled as the textbook for the first year of the academy.

Perhaps Hiruzen saw my face about being handed academy's textbook instead of something special, he started laughing.

"Hahaha! Don't make that face. I also studied from the same book. It is written by the Second Hokage afterall."

"Thank you, Hokage-sama."

For some reason, Hiruzen went silent for a few moments.

Can he stop trying being so mysterious? He isn't badass, so all it does is make him look cringe.

"Your order is here."

RamenGuy handed me the ramen delivery, and to Hiruzen as well.

500 Ryo huh.

"Thank you, Uncle Ramen."

He smiled back at me, and started preparing ramen for another customers.

"Then I should go too. I have some paperwork left."

"Yeah, old man."

"Haha!"

I stared at Hiruzen suddenly laughing for no reason, and then he went quiet. Then, he left.

Oh well. He can be weird all he wants. I got one thing that I wanted. I can atleast start learning fuinjutsu now.

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*knock knock*

Huh? Who is.... zzzz...

*KNOCK KNOCK*

"IT'S JUST 4 IN THE MORNING!"
I yelled as I looked at the clock. Who the heck is banging my door so early!?

I yawned as I got up, and opened the door.

And a Green Beast was at my door. Or was it Blue Beast?

"SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH HAS ARRIVED!"

Oh... Spring has arrived.

Chapter 18: Prelude to Academy Arc

Chapter Text

"Don't give up! Don't let the YOUTH in you die!"

Well, I gave up. I laid down on the ground, tired from running whole hundred rounds of the training ground.

"Sh-"

"Don't mind me! *huff*, continue running, Naruto!"

Naruto obediently nodded and continued running behind Guy-sensei while I crawled away from their way, and sat down under a tree.

I guees I am not really cut out for physical exercise...

Three years have passed since Guy-sensei began teaching us, which was mostly just physical exercise, and occasional spar.

While Naruto isn't exactly an early bloomer like Kakashi, who became a chunin at our age, he is a genius at taijutsu for sure. Even though I haven't seen how a genin fights, I am sure that he can win against any genin fresh out of academy in taijutsu atleast.

And for me, I don't really know how good or bad I am.

Aside from taijutsu, I had Naruto master tree walking, which took him around a year.

Then, the only other thing I focused on was fuinjutsu.

From what I know so far, fuinjutsu is really like a programming language. But it isn't magic. There is no concept of gravity seal for training, or atleast I don't know about it.

As we need better hardware for executing a more complex program, we need chakra here.

The problem here is that we must know the concept about the things we want to accomplish with fuinjutsu, have the necessary resources, and specify how to accomplish that thing. This means that I can't exactly create a Flying Thunder God seal, since I don't know how Space-Time works.

And I curse myself for not paying enough attention in the job market in my previous life. Due to the IT boom, and being in Bangaluru, almost every college student learned some sort of programming language. Though the most I knew was to print("Hello World") in python.

Thankfully, the fuinjutsu books have detailed explanations about the programming. One of the major problem it has though, is the language it uses. Kanji. Sure, it makes things very short, but no normal person can master Kanji. And to such an extent where messing up a single stroke causes numerous changes.

And that's where Sanskrit comes in. It is probably the most consistent language out there, and creating new words is no big deal. Though I still use English here and there as well.

But I can't really start writing in a new language out of nowhere, can I? So I have spent the three years 'inventing' a fuinjutsu language. Though the people that keep an eye on us probably don't know about it more than the alphabet, because I go inside a tent I have in my home, and place flashbangs so that even a Hyuga can't see. Plus, all the seals for secrecy. I don't know how good it works, but I guess something is better than anything.

And I play loud music on the TV so that they can't distinguish what I write through my hand movements. I remember Dosu, a genin, was THAT much capable. Idiot wasted his potential challenging Gaara.

And I add another layer of Secure Barrier that I activate by licking its switch.

Yeah. Licking works to activate the seals, that are already powered with Naruto's chakra. Though, large amounts of chakra can't be stored, and even the amount that can be stored doesn't last long.

Sigh... I will try to somehow make a chakra battery. Well, maybe find someone who can make a chakra battery. I don't know a thing about chakra physics.

Anyway, my money matters have been going well. A publisher contacted me for both Shin-chan, Snake's Nest and Pokemon. And because of them being popular enough before getting a publisher, I managed to get 70% commission for each copy, and the right to write my way without any interference.

Kishimoto most probably suffered from Shounen Jump's greed. There is no way he would have ended the series after war arc, introduced Kaguya, and write that trash epilogue which was all just a setup for Burrito. He would have atleast shown Naruto becoming the Hokage in his own manga. I mean, the ceremony.

All of it ruined.

Honestly, I kind of feel bad for Kishimoto. Imagine not being able to finish your life's greatest achievement because of Shogun Jump and Studio Petriot. Anime was even worse than manga. In the manga, we atleast see Naruto being the Hokage. But Anime ends with marrying that doormat Hinata, with no relevance to plot whatsoever. She only became Naruto's wife for Burrito to happen.

'Only she loved Naruto before anyone accepted him!'

Those cringe commentors forget that she never once tried to even talk to Naruto. The swing gave him more emotional support than her.

The only thing she had going on for her were her boobs, and even they got snatched away, hahaha!

Speaking of boobs... Will I have big, soft and squishy in this life? I was comparable to Sakura in my last life. I am taller than Naruto right now, so will it mean that I will have great growth in my other regions as well?

Not that I can do much about it. I will prefer better assets, but will accept whatever happens.

Anyway! I got distracted by boobs. Where was I?

Oh yeah. I don't plan to be a full time mangaka. I have already established myself as a legendary mangaka who brought the 'Shiori' art style in this industry. Before me, the little amount of mangas that were present were more like the trashy American comics with trashy long dialogues, bad realistic art, and all that, though still going from right to left.

My next step after manga is to create an exclusive mall in Konoha with exclusive shops like Starbucks, some clothing brands and stores, and all that have too high profit margin. I will sell exclusive merches, and even open a movie theatre in it.

This world already has TV, even though only Konoha TV comes in black and white. But movies already come in color. So creating Anime is certainly possible. It will be very difficult, and I will have to find many people to do the job, but being the first one at something brings immense fame and influences to control the new market.

Though until I am an adult, meaning until I have graduated from the ninja academy, I can't really enter any major business like textiles, spices, gold, diamonds, etc. and can't own big land outside of Konoha, even in the Land of Fire.

So, no establishing trains for now. And no controlling any basic product production.

So until I am in the academy, I will focus on opening my mall, and trying to establish an anime studio.

And when I graduate, I will take all of Gato's money and take indirect control over the Land of Waves. It's geopolitical position is perfect for me to make money and get some bodyguards.

It is too far from every other major contry, except Land of Fire, Water, and the ruins of Whirlpools.

Well, those things are for later. For now, it's time for academy. And I would like to make some friends who will even give up their lives to save me.

"DON'T GIVE UP! BURN YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH!"

Guy-sensei's shout snapped me out of my thoughts, and I barely dodged a kick coming at me.

"Eeek!"

I shrieked and hid behind Naruto, who wasn't looking that tired.

"I don't wanna train anymore!"

Naruto patted my head, and smiled at me.

"Then don't. I will always protect you."

"Oh Naruto~"

"Shiori-chan~"

I hugged my sweet little Naruto. And he hugged me back.

"Oh the flames of YOUTH!"

Guy-sensei started flooding the training ground with his tears, looking proud for us.

Weirdo.

But our weirdo.

Chapter 19: Konoha High Level Meeting

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)
(Hokage Office)

"So, another batch of Academy will be starting tomorrow. This batch is special as it contains major clan heirs or children of the clan heads. Sasuke from Uchiha clan, Hinata from Hyuga clan, Shikamaru from Nara clan, Chouji from Akimichi clan, Ino from Yamanaka clan, Kiba from Inuzuka clan and Shino from Aburame clan. There are also special cases of Naruto and Shiori. So besides them, are there any talented children?"

Iruka spoke, "Hokage-sama, a girl name Haruno Sakura scored the second highest after Shiori in the entrance quiz. Shiori got a 100, and Sakura 99. But she doesn't have much chakra reserves."

Hiruzen smiled at Iruka, "It's alright. Jiraya and Minato also didn't have much chakra in the beginning. Even I had slightly lower chakra than my peers."

"I apologise Hokage-sama, but may I ask why I wasn't allowed to check Shiori-chan's chakra?"

"Well, something happened when she was small-"

Hiruzen subtly glanced at Danzo, who was keeping his eyes closed as if he didn't do anything.

"-so her tenkutsu were damaged. But even though she can't use chakra anymore, she has great talent in drawing, as you know, and even fuinjutsu. She might become the main fuinjutsu user of the village in the future. So take good care of her. And Iruka-kun,"

"Yes Hokage-sama."

"Treat Naruto well."

Iruka stiffened. He couldn't forget how his father's back as he headed to battle the Kyuubi. It was the reason he became an orphan-

He calmed down. He was in front of the Hokage and the elders.

"I will, Hokage-sama."

"Good. Then prepare for the classes tomorrow."

"Thank you Hokage-sama!"

And he left the Hokage office.

Homura spoke up, "Hiruzen, have you found out more about Shiori's ability?"

Hiruzen nodded.
"Jiraya was able to talk to Toad Sage, the only one who we know that has seer ability when he dreams-"

"That child of prophecy thing? It's just an excuse for him to fool around."

Danzo scoffed. Peace is never going to be achieved, it is just Absence of War when the resources are low after a war. If there is any way to achieve peace, it is by uniting the Shinobi world, which only he can do.

Hiruzen just sighed at Danzo, and continued, "We know that the Priestess of Land of Demons has a dojutsu which allows her to see someone's death, but having dreams of images, it is very similar to the Toad Sage. But he is very old now and his ability has declined, and he only gave the prophecy with the vague images that appeared in his dreams.

But Shiori, she dreams about the people she wants to create posters of and draws it. They are very vague. The most precise prediction was when she drew for Hinata's 3rd Birthday. The kidnapping event did happen but Hizashi has already told Hiashi about the omnious feeling he got from her poster, so they were prepared.

And the vaguest prediction was Sasuke's cold look, that is completely opposite of his demeanor. And Kakashi's shocked expression, with a war-like background. Then Itachi with a straw-hat and Sharingan ON, Shikamaru with a cigarette, Guy using 8th gste, and the Hyuga sisters with moon in the background. And so on.

If we are to go by assuming that she did see them, we can assume that a war will happen in the near future, as Kakashi and Guy look not more than 10 years older. And that one where a 16-17 year old Shikamaru is giving strategy to the entire 'alliance'.

And we can't ignore what she drew for Shisui. It was him jumping in the Naka river to take a dip. And he did jump in the Naka River. But it was a suicide.

And the Uchiha situation is tense, we can't draw out the possibility exactly, but the cold looks of Itachi and Sasuke with their unique clothing styles may mean that Fugaku or Mikoto or both will die in the near future, in which Sasuke also looks about 10 years older than now.

Asuma will most likely be this generation's Ino-Shika-Cho Jonin-sensei, so Shikamaru smoking means either he got into the habit because of Asuma, or he... died as well. Again, he looks about 10 years older than now.

I don't understand about Hyugas, but maybe it is not a prophecy but just an art style?

But one thing is clear. There is going to be a war in about 10 years. And a severe one. One that made Kakashi shocked for some reason, a possible death of a close member or family, maybe,... Naruto.

And we will possibly see more skirmishes with Kiri as we have been seeing right now. Shisui has already defeated Ao's battalion which was infiltrating Land of Fire. I doubt there will be full blown war with Kiri as it has recently entered a civil war.

But if there is the slightest chance that her predictions are true, a war on a bigger scale than the Third Shinobi war may start in around 10 years.

That's why I have been helping Naruto to train through Guy, going against the demilitarization pact-"

Danzo: "Hmph! As if any village will just demilitarize because of a piece of paper. Kumo is even doing it very balantly."

Homura: "Danzo is right, Hiruzen. The academy right now is a joke. You shouldn't have listened to the civilians and decreased the difficulty. The new genins are nothing compared to the genins before the Third Shinobi War."

Hiruzen could only sigh. "I shouldn't have listened to the Civilian Council. But we can't force our way. That's why, I am thinking of allowing those who have already learnt the academy 3 and have potential in a particular field, to access more resources. Like medical ninjutsu, some more D rank ninjutsu, fuinjutsu and other things."

Danzo: "You shouldn't have allowed those unions to form. If they want, they should form it in the capital. This is Konoha, a ninja village. You are too naive Hiruzen."

Hiruzen sighed. Danzo was right.

But Homura interjected. "It was necessary if we wanted to increase our population and collect taxes ourselves. The Daimyo can't be trusted to not cut the funding on his whim-"

"He is a wimp."
Danzo scoffed at the Daimyo.

"-Anyway, now that Konoha is more self sufficient due to our citizens being able to start their own business aside from the small shops, I would say that allowing a Civilian Council is overall beneficial for us. Regarding the quality of ninjas, the Jonin and Chunin senseis have to pay more attention. Nothing we can do about it. Afterall, just the Daimyo's funding isn't nearly enough to recover from the Second and Third Shinobi Wars, and Kyuubi's attack, all happening back to back with a gap of one year."

Hiruzen sighed as Homura reiterated why he can't just disband the Civilian Council. Shiori has told him that she wants to open a very big store in the middle of Konoha, and he will have to deal with those meatheads who don't want another competitor in the market, be it a six year old kid.

Danzo opened his mouth, and glared at Hiruzen.
"If our financial condition is not that good, why are we purchasing the way overpriced posters from that girl? That money could be better used for-"

"Danzo. We are over this."

"-ROOT"

Danzo grumbled, but stopped bringing up that subject again.

Though, Danzo was also thinking about other things than the funding of ROOT. He was sure that the posters of Itachi and Sasuke meant another thing. Itachi with a straw hat probably meant that he became a missing nin, and Sasuke was hunting him down, but not a missing nin as he had the Uchiha and Konoha emblem in his clothes.

That completely coincided with his strategy. He has already killed Shisui, and the unrest in the clan is strong. This means that he will be able to manipulate Itachi as he wanted. Itachi along with his ROOTs will exterminate the Uchiha, and Sasuke will kill Itachi and start a new Uchiha clan. If he doesn't, he will have his female ROOT members drug him and become pregnant once Danzo becomes the Hokage. He will do the same to Naruto as well.

Then the new Uzumaki and Uchiha clan will be under his control. The fate was favouring him, showing him that he is on the right path.

Homura: "Hiruzen, what if Shiori could use chakra? For reaching the later stages of fuinjutsu masters, blood infused ink will no longer be enough. And what if, using chakra will make her precognition abilities stronger?"

Everyone had that thought, and then they stared at Danzo.

"Why are you looking at me? I don't know medical ninjutsu."

Chapter 20: Academy Starts

Chapter Text

(Naruto's PoV)

"Will of Fire bla bla bla..."

Ugggh! Till when will old man keep saying the same thing over and over and over!? I am sick of hearing it in the academy and in person!

Isn't it just enough to say that to protect your family? Shiori-chan, Old man Teuchi and Ayame nee-san, and Guy-sensei?

It's not like other villagers will try to save me if I am in danger. They will instead laugh that 'That Thing' died. Even Old man Hokage keeps deflecting the questions about my parents. And I strangely feel familiar to the photo of Fourth Hokage.

Is he my father? Old man Hokage didn't confirm it, but didn't deny either. But he didn't have any whisker marks. Maybe these are the reason that they hate me? Thinking that it is from Kyuubi?

Heh. As if. Kyuubi died at the hands of Fourth Hokage, and those stupid people think that I am Kyuubi?

Shiori said it rightly. It's best to not think about and associate with stupid people, it will make me stupid as well.

And Guy-sensei is not stupid, he is a genius of taijutsu.

Though his hair style and YOUTH is kind of stupid. I won't shout Youth after that one time Shiori-chan made that horrified face. I am her cool and cute husband afterall, not obnoxious and loud!

Suddenly, I felt a head on my shoulder. Okay, Shiori-chan fell asleep because of Old man Hokage's boring speech. I think she was working with some sort of seal yesterday. She must have slept late.

After a long time, the speech FINALLY ended, and we had to go to our assigned classrooms.

"Shiori-chan, wake up."

"Mhmhm."

Sigh. I will just do my duty as a good husband and give this sleepy head a princess carry.

"Kyaa~!"
Some girls suddenly started screaming. Eh? Why?

"Hey loser, remove your dirty hands from Shiori-chan!"
A weak looking twig shouted at me. Why? I already have washed my hand with handwash before coming to Academy.

Wai-! Shiori-chan woke up!

She opened her eyes, looked at me, then looked at that twig, and said, "Shut up mongrel. I am sleeping."

And she fell asleep again.

Okay, it's time to escape.

"You-"

But I was interrupted by a twig with black leaves, I mean, hair. Though leaves look better than his hair. But did this twig seriously try to punch me right now? Okay, a small kick should be enough.

*Kick*

"AAARGH!"

And he went away flying.
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.
.
He was weaker than I thought. Maybe I shouldn't have used chakra in my kick? But Guy-sensei just shrugs them off as if they are nothing.

Anyway, gotta run!

I ran away from the crowd, and entered the classroom. Though I ran carefully enough that Shiori-chan didn't wake up.

I chose the last corner seat, and tried to lay Shiori-chan down, but she kept sticking to me and mumbling something incomprehensible. Uggh, her grip is tight. If I try to forcefully lay her down, she will wake up.

"Hmm~, front, behind, ehe~"

I wonder what she is dreaming?

"Hey! Why are you always hanging around Shiori-chan anyway!?"

Shit! Why are these people so loud!? Shiori-chan will wake up!

"Didn't you listen! Hey! Answer me!"

"Because she is my wife!"

*Gasp*

People gasped, and I oops'ed.Looks like Shiori-chan woke up. I looked at her, and she was staring at me with her beautiful purple eyes, and then, she patted my head, and fell asleep again.

But not before kissing me on the cheek.

Ah! She forgot about today's quota. That's why.

I turned to those twigs and, twigys? What's the female of a twig?

Anyway, I don't have to explain anything to these stupid people, but I will since we will be classmates. I gave a 'business smile' like Shiori-chan, and 'eyes not smiling' face.

"See? Now, don't bother her sleep."

Many losers easily got scared. Heh. I guess it is the start of our academy life, and we will have to just stay in the same building as them. But, I will train and learn everything from here, and become stronger and stronger for Shiori-chan.

And though... I really don't want to study... But I will. I can't be dumb enough that Shiori-chan has to teach me despite us being the same age.

"Alright class! On your seats! The Shinobi Academy starts now!"

Chapter 21: Introductions

Chapter Text

"Good morning students. I am Umino Iruka. I will be your homeroom teacher from now on. I hope we get along. Now, from the starting bench by the door, please start introducing yourselves."

A bit younger Iruka, looking somewhat 19-20 years old, arrived in the classroom and started the introductions.

Both Naruto and me, and probably many children, didn't miss the hateful glare he gave to Naruto. Even if the children don't know about Naruto being the jinchuriki, I can see why they would hate him too.

Afterall, kids are very sensitive to how adults behave, and they are copycats.

Well, I would prefer if Iruka continues to hate Naruto. I don't want him to develop attachment to a weak chunin, who will never be able to protect Naruto, but will need protection instead. So I will never let the two of them have any chance to have a moment.

RamenGuy can take the mantle of Naruto's father in our marriage. Not Iruka. What kind of father figure starts off by hating you? It's like those otome isekai where father hates daughter for 'killing' his wife by being born, and only later comes to love her when she actively works for it.

People like that are scum. Hating a little kid like that is pathetic.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I will become the Police Commander when I grow up, and surpass nii-san!"

Oh. Sasuke. The waste of space whom I can't arrange to somehow kill, since he is very important to the plot. I hate this kid.

So what if your clan got eradicated? Go kill Danzo, village elders, and Obito. Why did he bring Naruto in all this?

And more importantly, it wasn't like the Uchiha Clan was innocent. If I have to describe the clan, it is the extremist, separatist kind with dung filled in their brains.

It's not like the village hates and fears the clan for no reason. Madara? From the Uchiha clan. Obito? From the Uchiha clan. Even if the people don't know about Obito, they know it pretty well that the Nine tails attack was done by an Uchiha.

Instead of trying to launch a coup on the village, which they would most likely fail, they should have just waited a bit more for Itachi to become the Hokage. He would need 7-8 more years to be old enough, and in front of his strength, support of the jonins, and possibly Hiruzen, he would certainly become the Hokage.

During Orochimaru's attack, Itachi would probably kill him, making him a hero, and a perfect candidate.

But no! Let's just try to control Kurama, and attack the village. Even if they managed to kill the upper echelon, will the people of Konoha live under their rule?

And Fugaku doesn't have as much chakra to keep controlling Kurama for long. Madara had chakra only second to Hashirama, and probably some Uzumakis. Obito had half Hashirama cells body, and was probably with the most powerful White Zetsu covering him, because otherwise him being almost the same height as Minato at the age of 14-15 wouldn't make sense.

Kurama would go out of control from the constant use of Mangekyo. And he will then kill the Uchihas too. They Uchihas overestimate themselves too much. They don't have much thinking ability outside of battle.

Well, the Uchihas have a little more than a year left. I have some plans to exploit the clan before and after their eradication.

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"Nara Shikamaru."

The introductions of several kids were done, and Shikamaru just said his name, and went to sleep. Iruka probably didn't shout since it is the first day.

"Akimichi *munch**munch* Chouji. I like potato chips."

"Hahaha! Fatso!"

"Don't laugh at your classmates!"

Kids laughed at him. Iruka shouted at them.

Chouji went sad, and ate a chip.

Wait... I can just sell the recipes to the Akimichi clan...

Hmm. Let's be friends with him. Maybe I will be able to learn to cook some dishes from the Akimichis themselves!

Then some more introductions went underway. Canon fodders, more canon fodders. Then Ino, Hinata, Kiba, Shino and other unimportant characters introduced themselves. Well, it wouldn't hurt to get close to them. They can give me a lot of money, especially Hinata.

Speaking of which, while Hinata looked really meek, she didn't stutter. Maybe because Neji isn't as harsh as he was since Hizashi is alive.

Anyway, If it wasn't for the Hyuga clan backing her, she would be easily bullied all her life. Well, as long as this creep doesn't stare at my Naruto, I wouldn't do anything to her. I don't want to lose valuable Hyuga customers afterall.

Then, the turn came for the third most important character, Sakura.

"I... um... am Haruno Sakura."

Oh. She was meek initially huh.

Well, even if the fandom hates her and calls her useless, she is the third most useful member of our generation. She learnt almost everything Tsunade had in the span of just three-four years. Even the Byakugou seal, that Shizune couldn't learn even after training under Tsunade for more than a decade. And if the LNs can be considered canon, then she is definitely the third strongest living character at that time.

It's the best time to bring Sakura under my wing. My, and Naruto's chances of survival would increase exponentially when she is near.

Right now, since she is shy and meek, it will be easy to make her my 'best friend'. And since Sasuke will never win against my Naruto in the academy spars, he wouldn't be as popular as he was in the canon.

I will have to make sure that she doesn't end up thinking of Naruto as cool instead, and tries to end our friendship like she did with Ino. So, I will have to make someone else look cool for her. And she deserves better than Sasuke.

"Let me sleep, troublesome woman..."

Oh. I see. Good. Actually, great. It's descided.

Some more introductions happened. Some noteworthy people were Katasuke, and Kido. Katasuke does wear glasses, so I think he is the Katasuke from the novel. As for Kido, I don't exactly remember if the name was Kido or Kaido. But he was money obsessed, and developed a really powerful drug. If he is who I think, then getting him under my wing wouldn't be too difficult.

Finally, it was time for Naruto to introduce himself.

"I am Uzumaki Naruto."
Naruto just told his name, and sat down while holding my arm, glaring at the people who held scornful eyes for him.

These people really don't deserve saving.

"I am Shiori. As many of you already know, I am the owner and creator of Shiori Jump. I am Naruto's wife, so don't ever think of eyeing him."

A kid tried to laugh, but I know how to control a lot of people to have good impression on me, and ignore whatever they consider as bad things attached to me.

"Since we will be friends from now on, I have prepared some gifts for you all. The second volume of Pokemon, which will be released two days later. And they are signed by the author herself."

Naruto put out a scroll from his bag, and several signed copies of the manga came out.

"""Yay!"""
"""Thank you!"""

All the kids were overjoyed. Pokemon will probably be the most profitable series I have 'created' in this world. But even more importantly...

I will use this to control the academy. Controlling people since they were kids makes thing a lot easier. Initially, everyone will get free manga. But from then on, the person who gives more value will get more free stuff, and those who I don't like won't get any.

Like those kids from the orphanage where I and Naruto lived. I would never bully them, obviously. But it's not like I can't just let the other people indirectly bully them for not getting free stuff from me even if they have. Everyone should know that there is nothing in any world that is free.

Gradually, the next generation of Konoha's society will be shaped according to my liking. The ones who have good relationship with me will be at the top, and the ones who aren't on my good side will be at the bottom.

And this way, I can atleast make Naruto's school life better. Even if Hiruzen didn't do much to reduce the hatred Naruto receives, I can do it myself, even though I am a kid.

When I am reigning over the academy as its queen, the commoners and nobles will have no choice but to respect the king.

Chapter 22: Naruto

Chapter Text

(Naruto's PoV)

After every fodder has taken their bribe, Shiori-chan started feeling sleepy. Well, she had to prepare a lot of things for academy today.

She has told him that, "Even though others are fodder, they aren't unnecessary. You need fodder to feed your cattle and get milk, which is the biggest source of nutrition."

I didn't completely understand what she meant by that, I understood this much that these fodders are also necessary. Why? I dunno.

"-So, we will be studying with each other for about six years, till you graduate the academy to become a ninja. Starting this year, we will also introduce extra-curricular training. This means that even if someone doesn't necessarily complete the requirements of passing a grade, some other things can make up for it. For example, if someone can't use ninjutsu, if they are talented enough in another field like Taijutsu or complex ninja arts like fuinjutsu, they will graduate-"

Sensei started explaining things, and due to his voice, the sleepy Shiori-chan fell asleep.

"-There are various rules that you must follow, like not sleeping in class-"

Sensei looked at Shiori, and pinched his nose.

"-I said, NO SLEEPING IN CLASS!"

Just how loud does he shout!? He is even louder than Guy-sensei! He woke up Shiori-chan!

Shiori-chan woke up starled? started? She looked around, and tried to suppress her yawn. I mean, tried.

"Sorry sensei, I was busy last night trying to come up with a fuinjutsu seal to sense chakra fluctuations in surfaces. Maybe you can help me in that?"

Hmm, isn't that simple? Just have the seal to spread throughout the surface and when foreign chakra comes in contact with it, it will alert us.

That isn't working? Weird...

"*Cough*, I am sorry, but I don't specialise in fuinjutsu. If you want, I can ask for teachers who do."

"I will just ask Old man then. He is more knowledgeable than anyone in the village."

"You can ask the teachers! They are more than likely to know about-"

"By Old man, I mean Old man Hokage."

"Oh... ANYWAY! Sleep on time, and don't sleep in the class!"

"Yes sensei."

"Alright! So open your textbooks. We will start the first chapter, 'The Birth of Will of Fire'-"

YOU JUST SAID NOT TO SLEEP IN CLASS!

LOOK! SHIORI-CHAN IS ALREADY CLOSING HER EYES!

Sigh. I wish she could learn transformation jutsu and transform as herself, but awake.

"SHIORI! NO SLEEPING IN CLASS!"

Tsss, too loud.

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"So to check your levels, we will be testing you all in certain areas, like your speed, stamina, accuracy with kunai and shuriken, and a taijutsu spar according to your names.

So first of all, a test of speed. You all have to run from here to the finish line with as much speed as you can. The first group will be Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Nara Shikamaru, Tono Katatsuke and Akimichi Chouji."

I went to the starting line, and I heard Shiori-chan cheering for me, but she was doing some strange dance as well. And she also had some weird things on her hands, which wiggled as she danced and jumped.

"Go Naruto! Leave all of them to dust!"

"I will win Shiori-chan!"

I looked at my competitors. An Uchiha looking guy, he must be Sasuke. I remember seeing this guy's poster, so he must be the son of the clan head.
One twig was yawning and has weird pineapple looking hair, hm, oh! He is that smoking guy.
Then there is a fat guy with doodles on his cheek. I think there was some fat guy as well in one of the posters.
So they are children of clan heads. And the last one was just another twig with glasses. I don't know him.

"Now the race is starting! Take your positions!"

I took the posture as Guy-sensei has taught, and only the Sikasu had the same posture as me.

"3, 2, 1, start!"

I ran at my full speed, and obviously came first. The second guy was Saske, and weirdly enough, the pineapple twig was last and was walking with his hands on the back of his head.

Are you sure you are running?

Sakuse was looking at me at shock, with his eyes wide like they were going to pop out.

"H-how?"

"What?"

"How did you win?"

"Umm, by running?"

He angrily stomped and went away, while glaring at me. And I smiled.
"Heh. Loser."

Then, I noticed that sensei was looking afraid of me.

"W-winner, Uzumaki Naruto!"

Weird...

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After that, more races happened, and it was finally the turn of Shiori-chan.

"Now, Hyuga Hinata, Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino, Kasumi and Shiori."

"All the best Shiori-chan!"

I waved as she waved back, and started talking with the other girls. I mean, clients/customers. I think I have seen the weird white eye girl in her posters, so she must be the daughter of a clan head, and the blonde girl too.

Weird. Do all clans have children at the same time?

"3, 2, 1, start!"

And of course, Shiori-chan won, and the white-eyed girl came in second, followed by blonde and brown. The pink haired girl came in last, and she was hiding her eyes with her hair. And for some reason, Shiori-chan was consoling her. Is she rich? But she doesn't seem like the daughter of a clan head.

After the races finished, sensei announced the results.

"Alright! The first place goes to Naruto, second to Sasuke, and third to Shiori. Clap for them!"

But not many clapped... Some were saying... 'Mom said he is a monster, is that why he is so strong and fast?'

'But why does he always hang around Shiori-chan? She wrote Shin-chan, so she must be incredibly smart, right?'

W-what is their problem!? Why am I the monster!? Doesn't that Koba guy look like a dog too? My whiskers are cute! I have cat whiskers, so why are they afraid of me and not Koba?

Cats never chase people on street like dogs do!

Why! Just why-

"Woo hoo! My Naruto is the strongest!"

Huh.

Shiori-chan'd broke away my thoughts. Yeah. That's right. I shouldn't care about this idiots.

"Even if you are a monster, you are my monster, Naruto.

Though, you aren't a monster, they are."

Yes. They can call me a monster. I may be a monster.

But I am Shiori-chan's monster.

Shiori-chan came to me with that pink haired girl, and started introducing her.

"Naruto, she is Sakura. I will be training with her in the kunoichi classes. Sakura, say hello."

"H-helwo!"

She totally bit her lip.

Wait a minute... OH! Now I understand! Shiori-chan was saying that she was thinking of starting a business which will need people, so, she is the first recruit!?

My business smile, here it comes!

"Hello, I am Uzumaki Naruto. Please take good care of Shiori-chan as her friend."

"Y-yeah!"

I wonder how she will be helpful in any business when she can't even see people in the eye, and stutters like that?

"NEXT! It will be stamina test! All of you get in line, and run while following my speed for as much rounds as you can!"

Oh, next round of test.

"Naruto, I will be spending some time with my new friend today, okay? You beat everyone in these exams, okay?"

"...Okay."

"Come Sakura-chan!"

And Shiori-chan went away with Sakura... Is she going to abandon me for that girl...?

"Naruto! Do your best!"

Shiori-chan shouted and took on those weird things in her hands, and started jumping.

"Brat, that girl is a genius. If you aren't the best, she will end up abandoning you. Just like your parents did."

Suddenly, the words of that one-eyed old man rang in my ears.

I need to be the best!

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I stood just behind sensei, and Sasuk just behind me.

"I will beat you in this."

Sisuk declared.

"Yeah, sure."

"You-!"

"You will lose. Don't cry later."

And he started huffing and puffing. He almost looked cute right now. Just like a pig, but with duck's butt for his hair.

Ew, that sounded really disgusting.

"3, 2, 1, start!"

And so, the run started. Pineapple guy gave up before we completed a single lap, and was searching something inside his nose with a finger. Shiori-chan said that it is bad manner. What a weak clan heir. And maybe that's why he became a smoking addict too in future? What a moron. He will probably end his clan's legacy.

After 34th lap, Shiori-chan gave up while only me and Sasuke remained.

After 51st lap, Sasuke gave up as well.

They sure get tired early huh?

After 100th lap, sensei abruptly stopped.

"Alright. That's enough for now."

"Huh? Sensei, I am not that tired-"

"1st: Uzumaki Naruto, 100 laps! 2nd: Uchiha Sasuke, 51 laps! And 3rd: Shiori, 34 laps!"

But I could run atleast 100 laps more...

I sighed and went to the crowd of people. Shiori-chan waved at me to come, but I thought that she should get some time with her new friend.

"Next, Kunai throwing!"

Oh, I have not practiced it enough. I won't come first in it...

"Naruto, 7/10!"
"Shino, 9/10!"
"Hinata, 9/10!
"Shiori, 4/10!"
"Sasuke, 10/10!"

"1st: Sasuke, 2nd: Shino and Hinata, and 3rd: Naruto!"

Uggh, I got only 7 times right! Sasuke came to me, and smirked.

"Heh, loser."

I felt angry by seeing his smug face. I will definitely beat him in the next test!

I need to be the best!

I looked at Shiori-chan, at she just smiled at me and mouthed, 'We just need to train in it.'

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"Shuriken Test!"

"Sasuke: 10/10, Shikamaru: 9/10, Shino: 9/10,..., Hinata: 8/10,..., Ino: 7/10,..., Naruto: 5/10,..., Shiori: 3/10!"

"1st: Sasuke, 2nd: Shikamaru and Shino, 3rd: Hinata!"

Uggh, this time I didn't even come in third!

"Now it's two on two."
Sasuke suddenly appeared beside me, and said smugly while looking at me.

"So what!?"

"Well, if we get paired up for the spar, it will be my win."

"Yeah, as if. I will totally kick your butt, duckbutt."

"You won't even last a chance against me, who is trained by my brother."

"Huh? I am totally sure that Guy-sensei can beat up your weak brother!"

"You-! I will make you eat your words."

"And I will make you eat dirt."

He grabbed my collar, I grabbed his collar.

"Alright, since you both want to fight so much, do this inside this circle. First Taijutsu spar: Uzumaki Naruto vs Uchiha Sasuke!"

I will totally wipe that smugness off his face.

And for some reason, he grinned at me.

He doesn't have those loathing, or afraid eyes. Not even mocking...

He is... weird.

Chapter 23: Naruto vs Sasuke

Chapter Text

(Shiori's PoV)

I watched with anticipation as Naruto and Sasuke faced each other.

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

"Hajime!"

Naruto moved superfast, and kicked Sasuke on the chin.

Sasuke barely had any time to move. He just flew away, with two-three teeth flying off from his mouth.

Sasuke was knocked out, and Naruto was the clear winner.

"W-winner, Uzumaki Naruto!"

Isn't my Naruto the best?

Chapter 24: Making some 'Friends'

Chapter Text

The academy spars ended, in which I won in the girls section, with some difficulty.

As if!

Anyway, after that, we were given lunch break, and it was time to make some 'friends'.

"Hey Naruto."

"Hmm?"

"Let's sit besides Shikamaru and Chouji."

"Who?"

I blinked several times. It seems like Naruto doesn't care enough to remember names of the people sensei shouted.

I gestured to them, and Naruto said, "Pineapple twig and Chubby doodles?"

Oh? What interesting nicknames.

"Yes. The chubby guy is the clan heir of Akimichi, so I am sure he will show some appreciation to my food and I can get a good deal."

"Oh."

Naruto seems a bit down for some reason...

Anyway, we three, including Sakura who was following me like a duckling, sat besides a sleeping Shikamaru and eating Chouji.

I brought out the bentos I made for Naruto and myself. Rice, fried chicken leg with gravy, and four Rasogullas for each of us, straight out of my fridge. They actually don't make the industrial polished sugar, but just dried sugarcane juice with some process that it's like gur, but cut in small pieces like sugar cubes. So it is less harmful, and I make the fried dishes in pure ghee. Plus, it's okay to eat more carbohydrates and fats here since we do so much work.

Sakura also opened her bento, and it had a normal japanese rice, veggies and curry.

Chouji's head snapped towards us, to our bentos more specifically, and I could see his mouth watering.

"Want some?"

Naruto offered, Chouji nodded. As Naruto gave him one rasogulla, I gave one to Sakura too. Then some fried chicken pieces were exchanged with veggies from Sakura and dango sticks from Chouji. Sharing food like this would have been unimaginable in my previous world after Covid, and I just hope something like that doesn't happen in this world too.

"Huh!? What's this!? It's so delicious!"

"Hehe! Shiori-chan makes me food like this everyday."

Naruto gloated. Aww Naruto, so smug!

"Chouji-san, would it be alright if you put a good word for me to your father? I was hoping if I could sell the recipe to the Akimichi-"

"It will be done."
He gave me a determined thumbs up, still eyeing our bentos.

"Then when will your father be free? If you want, I can deliver a sample for all the recipes I want to sell directly to the Akimichi clan tomorrow."

"We can always make time for tasty food!"

"Thank you Chouji-san."

"Just call me Chouji! Hey Shikamaru, introduce yourself! Hey! Wake up!"
Shikamaru yawned, and grumbled about being woken up. He just said "Nara Shikamaru." and went back to sleep, not before mumbling 'what a drag'.

"Sorry about him. He is just tired."
Chouji defended his friend, not calling him lazy or anything.

I just smiled, "I was tired as well. Sleep is very important."

"Yeah! Shiori-chan gets REALLY pissed when someone-"

"Naruto."
Naruto, you shouldn't blab like that~

"H-haha, I was just saying that I also like to sleep."

"Yes. Sleeping is very important."

Naruto, scared from me for some reason, started talking with Chouji, and started arguing whether Ramen or barbeque is better. Now that I think about it, besides Ichiraku Ramen, no restaurant has ever allowed us to enter when I am with Naruto.

And for some weird reason, some rumours start spreading about them that they use stale food some days later. I really wonder why. Though we haven't ever tried Yakinu Q, which is an Akimichi restaurant, and the only ones we tried to enter were some civilian ones, so there was no repercussions of those places getting some rumours.

Speaking of Ichiraku Ramen, it has become very popular since Shin-chan eats Ichiraku Ramen instead of Choco-chips.

I took no advertisement fees for that because RamenGuy is one of the good guys, and has even advised me on how to make certain food whenever I asked.

RamenGuy is the GOAT.

Anyway, the break ended, and we were free to play for the rest of the day.

"Naruto, play with Shikamaru and Chouji, I will play with Sakura."

"But-! fine."
Naruto became down again, but obeyed me and started playing with those two.

Playing with Shikamaru will make him smarter afterall, so its necessary.

"Sakura, come with me, I will give you a makeover!"

She just nodded, and as I held her hand, she followed me like a duckling. Finding a place where not many children were there, I opened my bagpack, and with my saliva, opened the secret storage seal in which I store my makeup kit.

Not being able to use chakra makes things a lot harder. It's a good thing that I am able to use my saliva to open the seals I made, because drawing out blood everytime will be a pain and may even lead to infections.

Not that I like licking my seals. And I certainly can't use paper bombs like that.

Sakura was surprised, but too shy to ask. Really, she looks nothing like that brash bitch who punches Naruto for no reason right now.

As I pulled her bangs from her forehead, she swatted my hands away, and held her bangs.

"Please don't!"

Sigh. I held her chin, to look in my eyes. She was on the verge of crying, so I Talk-no-Jutsu'ed her a little.

"Sakura, don't be shy because of your forehead. It signifies that you are smarter than normal people, and you know what is better than a beauty? A beauty with a good brain. Will you let me do my work?"

She held her tears, and looked at me expectantly. Sigh, small kids are really petty monsters. They bully others for the lamest things.

She turned her head, and mumbled in a small voice, "O-okay."

So I started doing my job. I lifted her bangs and tried different headbands and clips on her. I mostly used purple, golden, silver, white and black colors, and as I tried them all, dark purple, went well with her pink hair.

Then I tried various purple bindis I made in pass-time, which I don't really use because they don't really suit me. They have very small kanjis for barrier, and I was thinking of making them for protection. But it didn't work for me because they will need chakra and Naruto doesn't have enough chakra control to fill them up.

A diamond-shaped bindi looked good on her, just like the Byakugou. Next are the earrings- oh. She doesn't have ear piercings. I will have to convince her to get them later.

Then I applied some Hinoki oil to her hair, to make her hair more shiny. Her hair in the Shippuden looked kind of ugly, unlike in Boruto.

And lastly, I did some eye-brow work on her, and she winced due to the threads.

It's not that painful...

And in about half an hour, my work was done. I gave her a mirror, and she was surprised.
"How pretty..."

"See? Remember this, most of the girls call other girls ugly because they are jealous. They must have been jealous of your pink hair and cute face. So forget about them, and focus on yourself, okay?"

"B-but I can't keep-"

"Keep them. My gift for you. Afterall, you are my friend now."
Cheap worker/bodyguard/family doctor.

She became incredibly happy, and hugged me.
"Thank you!"

I should thank you, bodyguard 1.

Now, I have to ship her with Shikamaru somehow. Well, I already have a plan. I won't let my precious subordinate become a single mother with Sasuke as her husband.

Chapter 25: After the first day

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The first day of the academy was over, and parents came to pick up their children. Naruto and Shiori stayed behind to practice their accuracy with shuriken and kunai, while everyone else left.

"Dad! See, Shiori-chan gifted me the second volume of Pokemon!"
A kid exclaimed as he happily told his parents that he got a gift.

The parents became uncomfortable, picked their kids, and left. Thankfully, Naruto and Shiori weren't there to see their reactions.

As Itachi came to get Sasuke, he noticed that Sasuke was very frustrated, and looking towards the training ground of the academy.

"What happened, Sasuke?"

Sasuke showed him his mouth, and a tooth was missing.

"Well, all of your teeth will fall and eventually be replaced by new, stronger ones. No need to worry about that."

"I lost against that guy! I couldn't even see it before he defeated me in the spar, and my tooth was missing... I just won in shuriken and kunai accuracy against him."

"Well, there is always someone stronger than you. You just have to train harder, isn't it right?"

"Then train me instead of always saying 'another time'!"

Itachi put Sasuke on his shoulders, sighing with a smile on his face.

"I am free today."

"Yay! And nii-san-"

"Hmm?"

"Please don't tell father that I lost. He will get angry!"

"I don't think so. And Sasuke, it's okay to lose sometimes. And if someone is better than you, isn't it good that you will get a friend and rival?"

"But you never lost against someone your age!"

"Well, so aren't you lucky that you can make friends?"

"No. He is a weird guy. I don't like him!"

"What's his name?"

"Naruto."

Itachi got intrigued by that. But decided to not show interest in it. He was an Uchiha, and he shouldn't show interest in the Jinchuriki, especially since he has awakened the Mangekyo recently.

"And that shopkeeper girl was saying that she is Naruto's wife."

"Oh?"

"Just like you and Izumi will in the future."

Itachi almost tripped at a rock on the street.

"There is nothing like that."

"Huh? But mom was saying that you will marry her."

"She was just joking."

"Really?"

"Really."

Sasuke stared suspiciously at Itachi, and decided he will think about it later. Right now, he has to prepare for the scolding he will get from his father.

Which never came. Only a look of disappointment, which hurt more than a scolding.

"I will be heading to the Police Office."
Taking his bento, Fugaku left the house, leaving Sasuke sad and frustrated.

'Dammit! Why am I such a failure!'

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Choza was plenty surprised when Chouji told him that he made new friends on the first day of academy. For Chouji, it was difficult to make friends besides Shikamaru as everyone called him names like fatso, so it was surprising that he made not only one, but two friends on the first day.

One was the strongest in the class, Naruto. Choza didn't know how to feel about that. He had lost about 1/4th of his clan fighting against Kyuubi because of their Expansion Jutsu, and Akimichi clan had great losses due to their restaurants destroyed. Will Chouji be safe?

He will meet Shikaku tonight for some advice.

But when he heard that Shiori, the seer girl, giving him delicious chicken and sweet, and asking to sell the recipe to Akimichi clan, he quickly felt some of his worries washing away. New and delicious food? He quickly told Chouji to bring her home whenever she wants.

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"Dad."

"Hmm?"

Shikamaru and Shikaku were relaxing, watching the evening clouds, when Shikamaru asked something.

"Do you know Naruto?"
"Why are you asking?"

"For some reason, others were scared of him, saying that their parents told them to keep their distance from him."
"Oh? And what do you think?"

"...He didn't seem to be that bad. He was just weird. Calling that troublesome important woman his wife and all. He was just incredibly strong."

Shikaku blinked. What had lead Shikamaru to call the seer girl 'troublesome 'important' woman'?

"Who are you talking about?"

"Shiori, that purple haired girl who has drawn my, Chouji and Ino's posters. In which I am smoking. Something must be important about her. Otherwise, you would have just hired any other artist, who could draw better than a 3-4 year old."

Shikaku smiled at Shikamaru. He will definitely become even smarter than him.

"So, what do you want to do?"
"...I will tolerate them, as long as they don't disturb my sleep. Atleast, they said that sleeping is important. They are definitely smarter and less troublesome than Ino."

Shikaku smiled.
"Then do as you see fit. See the situation for yourself, and don't let the parents of others' influence your decision in a bad way."

"Yeah. What a drag."
Though Shikamaru would rather watch clouds than playing with Chouji's new friends.

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"Sakura, what happened?"

Mebuki and Hizashi were surprised as Sakura was no longer hiding her forehead, and even had a headband, hair-pin and some sort of decoration on her forehead.

They always told her that she looked cute and the forehead didn't make her ugly in the slightest, but children take the complements of parents way less seriously than the taunts of neighborhood kids.

Sakura had become very shy because of it, but the Sakura right now looked completely different. She was smiling cheerfully and hugging Kizashi's legs, while giggling like a happy child.

"I made a friend! And look, she made me pretty! And even said that my big forehead is cute and it means that I have a bigger brain!"

Sakura's parents sighed in relief. She finally found a friend.

"So, what's the name of your friend?"

"Her name is Shiori, you know, the author of Shin-chan and Snake's Nest! Look, she even gifted us the new volume of Pokemon! She was even the best among girls in the test! And she is super strong!"

Sakura's parents flinched at that name.

The Demon's sacrifice.

They have heard from the neighbor, who has heard from a ninja, that she was chosen as the sacrifice for the Kyuubi kid. The poor girl was taking care of him, and out of sympathy, everyone purchased her mangas. Maybe she will atleast die as a princess.

It was forbidden to talk about it, of course. But it's not like the ninjas keep an eye on every civilian and inside their homes.

But what if, she dies before becoming the sacrifice, and Sakura is chosen next because she is her friend!?

T-they will have to talk to the sensei about this!

"Sakura, please stay away from her, okay?"

"Huh!? Why!? She is so nice! Look! She even made me pretty like this!"

"Sakura, please listen to your mom, okay? She is telling you for your own good."

"Mebuki-"

"Shut up Kizashi!"

And Kizashi shut himself up. He just didn't think it was good to separate Sakura from her friend who brought out smile and confidence in her, even if she is the Demon's sacrifice.

"I hate you! I will keep being her friend!"
"Young lady-"

And Sakura ran away and locked herself in her room, crying loudly.

"Waaaaah!"

"Look Mebuki, you made her cry. Shouldn't you be thanking Shiori-chan instead of trying to break their new friendship?"

"But Kiza-"

"We will meet with Sakura's sensei tomorrow. And think about what to do after that."

"But- fine! But you are sleeping on the couch today!"

"Hey! What did I do!?"

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In some household, a blonde girl hugged her father.

"Daddy! Naruto is so cool!"

Chapter 26: Consoling Naruto

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Chapter 27: Hiruzen's and Danzo's Observations

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Chapter 28: Predictions

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Chapter 29: Epilogue to Volume 1

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Chapter 30: Prologue to Volume 2

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Chapter 31: Hierarchy

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Chapter 32: Predictions

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Chapter 33: Uchiha Massacre

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Chapter 34: Update

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Well, sorry for not updating for so long.

Honestly, I think there won't be any updates until Diwali in this fanfic. Stopping writing continuously was something I shouldn't have done. I update one chapter, and then can't another.

Some serious stuff was happening, and it is resolved now.

Anyway, I will start writing slowly by some novel, and updates on this fanfic will probably start after Diwali, i.e. November start.

Thanks.

Chapter 35: Aftermath

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The Uchiha Massacre shocked the entire world. Clans do often get wiped out. It is happening in Kiri. But, Uchiha Clan is, was different. After Senju clan's decline, the Uchiha clan was the strongest clan in the world, and nobody could deny the fact.

Hyuga aren't the strongest. Even some of the remaining members of the Senju and Uchiha will win against it.

Yet, despite being the strongest clan, the Uchiha were wiped out by a 13 year old kid. And not only that, he also killed the Hokage's main advisor and leader of ROOT, Danzo Shimura. Well, they didn't know the involvement of 'Madara'.

"What should we do, Hiruzen?"

Koharu asked Hiruzen in the emergency meeting, in which Hiruzen clearly was despirited. Not only the Uchiha Clan was massacred, but Danzo was killed too.

While Danzo may have been his friend, who carried out the dark tasks that he wasn't capable of ordering, Hiruzen had been trying to reduce Danzo's power since his assassination attempt. But the village was at its weakest after Kyuubi attack, so it wasn't really the time for internal power struggle. As if the situation with Uchiha wasn't enough.

But, now both are gone.

"First of all, we will hide the fact that Danzo died. The Uchiha Massacre can't be hidden, so its best to temporarily have ninjas and free ANBUs do the policing job."

Both advisors nodded. Smaller countries fear Danzo. That's why they don't align themselves with other nations despite the huge bribes paid to them by other nations. Danzo doesn't appear much in public anyway.

"Did that girl make any predictions for this?"

"No-"

Suddenly, Hiruzen's eyes widened in realisation.

The posters of Izumi with Sasuke for his birthday...

If Sasuke's wife will be pregnant, why will Izumi be the only one consoling him that it will be alright?

Why not Mikoto, his mother? Or Fugaku, his father? Or Itachi, his brother?

Why did he miss such an obvious thing!?

Was it because of Orochimaru and Danzo's collusion? Or his decline thinking ability due to age? Or is it because he didn't discuss those posters with anyone else?

"There was something..."

Hiruzen took out the photos of the posters in the archive in his desk, and showed it to the two.

"Huh? Where did it show anything about the massacre?"

"Yeah? I don't find anything through this. Isn't it just a gift?"

Hiruzen sighed.

"I will have Jonin commander Nara Shikaku analyse Shiori's predictions from now on. If only I caught this earlier..."

"What did you catch, Hiruzen?"

"Forget it."

These drawings are something that not even the encryption and description department know about. Only select Clan heads and some ANBU members know about it, and the less people know it, the better.

"Alright. I will deal with the ROOT now. Do the paperwork till then."

"Hiruze-"

Hiruzen quickly left the office.

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With Danzo dead, the cursed seals on the tongues of the ROOTs disappeared, and most of them submitted to the Hokage, and shared most of the information.

A horrifying information that Hiruzen got was that Karin, the Uzumaki girl that Jiraiya has been searching for in Kusa, was already in Danzo's hands, and was being trained in ROOT.

Not only that, her mother, who was in critical state, was being held in a nutrition tank and was being used as an experimental subject.

Hiruzen was buried deep in guilt and regret. Orochimaru, Uchiha, Danzo, and even some of the last surviving members of Uzumaki clan.

'I can't leave the dark matters to someone else anymore. I have to toughen out.'

The cleanup of ROOT took almost a month, during which, many ROOTs deserted the village.

During the cleanup, Hiruzen also came across Project Nue. It was aiming to create an artificial Zero tails with DNA of Hashirama and Zero tails from the Land of Sky. And, a strange seal that he has never seen before. Its style wasn't the usual Uzumaki style that the world knows of as the only style.

'Is this from something before the Uzumaki clan? Where did Danzo get it?'

The body of the tiny creature was already made, yet, it didn't have a soul.

Instead of destroying this experiment like everything else, Hiruzen decided to continue it. Since it wasn't taking away someone else's life. It was creating one.

But, the scientists who were making it are from ROOT, who are very untrustworthy with the recent defections. What if they defect with the research?

Chakra absorption that this creature can do is something that every village will want to get their hands on.

After thinking about it, instead of someone from R&D department, Shiori's face came to his mind for some reason.

And when some days later, he looked through his mindscape after years, doubting if Danzo would have something to fool him without noticing, Hiruzen discovered something, and it made him make up his mind.

And that's why, he called Shiori to his office.

Chapter 36: Meeting

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(Shiori's PoV)

A month has passed since the Uchiha Clan was massacred. Sasuke has not started coming back to the academy yet, and there isn't really any news of Izumi as well, aside from the fact that she also survived.

Well, atleast someone can now be Sasuke's punching bag.

Today, Hiruzen called me to his office for some reason.

"Yo, old man."

"Ah Shiori-chan. How are you? And Naruto? I wasn't able to visit because I was busy."

"We are good. Naruto's training is going well, though I do have to teach him the important stuff with lots of examples. The mission to collect samples of all spices from Land of Spices helped me in making various dishes. Here's the next mission to procure these spices. The quantity for each one is written. And here's the money for the C-rank mission, including the money for the spices."

I managed to find spices that I think make Garam Masala(Hot Masala), but it hasn't gotten the right taste yet. I will need to experiment more on it. The current food that I have to eat is a bit bland.

"Hmm, this mission will be done in... a week at most."

"Thanks. Why did you call me?"

"Take a look at this."

Hiruzen handed me a scroll. In it, there were plenty of characters drawn, which suspiciously looked a bit like, Indus Valley writing? It also had some mantras in Sanskrit, with letters that I haven't 'invented' yet.

And below the information was a seal, that I think is of Nue.

From what I know, if Burrito is canon, that Nue was somewhat related to Kaguya. There wasn't really any information on how.

Does this mean that the Otsutsuki's main language is Sanskrit, or this symbol language that nobody knows about?

Thinking about it, it is possible. Chakra is a Hindu concept, which travelled to China and Japan via Buddhism, which is pretty much a branch of Hinduism. Yet, the chakra of Naruto and Hinduism are pretty different in how they work. It may be possible that the chakra in Otsutsukis work differently?

And that's why this language?

"Do you recognise what is written? There are some letters similar to what you are inventing."

"Hey! Does this mean that you peek in my home!? That's invasion of privacy!"

"I apologise for that. Anyway, do you know what it says?"

"Somewhat. I will only tell you if you give me a seal that can even block Byakugan though."

"Here."

He has prepared it beforehand? Was he expecting it? And moreover, why did he hand over something so important to me so easily? What if an enemy country discover it?

Well... Not that I am complaining...

"I think that I know this द, प, ल, न, ७... I think I know about 80% letters of this language. But... I don't think I know what they mean. And I don't know what these symbols mean.

But I think I can tell that the seal in the bottom has something special about it. I don't know what."

The mantras talks about properties, binding, corruption of souls and void. Hmm... This does sound like Nue. Void can be absorption of chakra.

"Can I research on this? I feel like this is related to me since it has the language I am creating."

"That language that appears in your dreams, right?"

"*Cough*, I am inventing it!"

Hiruzen smiled at me knowingly, as if he caught my lie, and said, "Follow me."

He took me to his residence, and then, inside an underground basement. And there, I saw it. A baby Nue in a nutrition tank.

"Is this a pet for me!? Why is it inside that tube though?"

"It is an artificial creature that is in the middle of research to be brought to life."

"Eh? So it isn't alive?"

"No."

"So why do I feel some sort of connection to it...?"

There is no such connection.

Hiruzen probably wants to see my reaction, to see if I am like Orochimaru.

But what reaction should I have?

If it was an alive creature being experimented upon, I should have shown disgust and being uncomfortable.

But if it isn't alive to begin with, what reaction should I have? Show interest in bringing it to life? Does that make me similar to Orochimaru? But if I don't show interest, it may be even more weirder.

The right answer is neither options, it is bullshit no jutsu.

"I feel like... I am its... mother? That's weird."

I went close to it, and gently put my hand on the nutrition tank, looking at it lovingly, as if it is my pet.

Hmm, this will make sure that Hiruzen gives this to me.

After I stared at it in wonder, I looked back at him.

"I want this! It's cute, I will make him my pet and take care of it. Please!?"

"But it doesn't have a soul."

Soul... how is it created?

Well, if Orochimaru is also to make clones, Amado is able to make cyborgs, and this very Nue will be alive in around 25 or so years if Boruto is canon, I don't see the problem in keeping it and give it a try.

"Alright. Then I am making you incharge of this. Though, I won't give you any money for it."

Hiruzen doesn't want to spend money on this research huh... well...

"Alright. But it is mine."

"Yes yes. Just don't tell anyone about this."

"Not even Naruto?"

"... Just make sure he doesn't tell anyone about this."

"He wouldn't."

"Alright. I will trust you on that. I have more tasks for you."

"...I am listening."

"Karin have been found. She will reach here by tomorrow. She will be given an apartment in your building. Take care of her."

"Really!? Then it goes without saying. I will take care of her."

"And Sasuke-"

I raised my eyebrow at that. Don't tell me-

"I will give him an apartment in your-"

"Not a chance."

"-building. Be friends-"

"No."

"-with him-"

"Do you really want us to risk our lives? What if Itachi came to finish the unfinished business? What if assassins after the Uchiha came after us too?"

"... Alright. Just be friends-"

"I will think about it."

Being friends with Sasuke is a life-threatening risk. Just because he wants to be alone, he tries to kill his 'friend'.

Enemies are better than this type of friend.

Why did I save Izumi? Because Naruto doesn't need to be his 'friend' he has to kill to be alone. Let Izumi take the place.

But outright refusing doesn't seem to be too good. And I will need to interact with the Uchihas to takeover their property. So we need to be acquaintance atleast.

Hiruzen sighed, and gestured me to follow him.

"You can come here on weekends. All the research until now is stored in scrolls in this secret place. The shopkeepers will be guarding this place, so they will let you enter the place.

If you don't understand anything, come to me."

"Yeah old man."

Chapter 37: Karin Uzumaki

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Karin has never felt love and care from anyone but her mom.

From as long as she can remember, people always came to her house to bite her mother. And since the war between Kusa, the village in which she lived, and Taki started, the frequency of such scums had skyrocketed.

Her mother was often called taken to the hospital to be bitten by those scums, and returned the house with a pale face, yet a reassuring smile for her.

Then one day, a kind ninja saved them from the hell. He promised to save her mother's life, and took them to Konoha, the biggest shinobi village, which actually has medical ninjas so that her mother won't be required to let herself bitten.

Well, that's what she is being told by the Third Hokage.

"You have a cousin in the village-"

"Really!?"

"Yes. His name is Naruto Uzumaki."

She wasn't very sure how to feel about this. Should she be excited? Or worry?

How is this cousin of hers as a person? Is he bad like all the others? Or is he good, like her mother?

"Don't worry. He is a good kid. I will give you an apartment in the same building as him and Shiori."

"Who is Shiori?"

"She is the same age as you two. She will take care of you, so if you need anything, you can tell her."

Speaking of taking care...

"Where is Mom?"

"She is currently in hospital. Don't worry, she will be fine with some treatment."

Karin's mom is barely alive. Even if Tsunade was here, she can live for a year at most. And Tsunade isn't here.

Her vitality is drained to the point of no recovery.

"Can I see her?"

"Yes. Follow me."

Hiruzen took her to the hospital, and Karin was worried by seeing her mother.

She looked so frail that she could die at any moment.

"Karin... you are here?"

She slowly opened her eyes, and looked at her daughter.

"M-mom! Are you okay!?"

"Ha ha ha... I am..."

Karin's mother died.

"Mom? Mom? MOM!"

Karin started shouting and screaming, tears rolling down her cheeks.

Hiruzen felt bad for her. He didn't want Karin's mother to die in front of her daughter.

He thought that she will live for 2-3 more days. And wanted Karin to talk to her one last time peacefully.

But, it seems that Karin's fate is truly tragic.

She couldn't even say goodbye to her mother properly.

He sighed. Perhaps meeting Shiori will change that.

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(Shiori's PoV)

As I was busy trying to make a seal for souls, while taking inspiration from the Nue's notes, I heard a knock on my door.

"Who is it?"

"It's me."

Recognising Hiruzen's voice, and watching from keyhole, I opened the door.

And I saw Karin in front of me.

"H-hello?"

She cautiously greeted me, and I looked at her arms. She is wearing full sleeves.

"Come in."

Both came inside, and I quickly pulled up her sleeve.

"H-hey! What are you doing!?"

I saw some bite marks on her arm.

I see. Perhaps the Blood Prison should be opened by 'accident' and the heinous criminals will destroy Kusa.

Thankfully, there aren't much, and they look a bit recent. Maybe the marks will disappear overtime.

"You are my sister-in-law. I promise you, I will never let this happen again!"

Am I angry?

Yes.

Because how much Karin must have suffered?

...No. I am angry because those scums have drained Karin of some of her vitality.

That's definitely it.

Definitely....

She started crying in my arms, and I tried to sooth her.

"There there... you are safe now. Welcome to the Uzumaki Family."

Chapter 38: Uchiha Sasuke and Izumi

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Around one and a half month passed since the Uchiha Massacre, and Sasuke finally woke up.

He was feeling a terrible headache, and the scenes of Itachi killing everyone was still playing in his mind.

"Oh you woke up! I will bring Hokage-sama right now. Here, drink this."

The nurse handed him water, and he drank it with some difficulty. His throat was very dry.

As the nurse left, he could only look out of the window. Realising that he was now alone. That his big brother has betrayed him.

Perhaps, all the love and care Itachi showed to him was an act all along?

"You are awake, Sasuke."

A familiar voice called out to him, and he immediately looked towards the source of the voice.

"Izumi!? You are alive!?"

His voice was cranky, yet, he shouted in joy. There was someone else who was alive!

Izumi just stared at him. The dark circles under her eyes were haunting. As if she hasn't slept for days.

She moved to him like a zombie, and her eyes turned into 3 tomoe Sharingan.

"Itachi killed my mother...

So, I should get revenge on him by killing you..."

Her voice held no emotions, and Sasuke felt like he was going to be killed.

She took out a kunai, and plunged it into him.

"AAAAAHHHH!"

Or atleast tried to. But, an ANBU guarding Sasuke deflected the kunai and knocked her out.

"You are safe."

At the voice of the ANBU, Sasuke opened his eyes, to see Izumi being taken away.

"Don't worry. She is just stressed. She will be alright in a few days."

His words did nothing to calm him down. His breathing was uneven, and he was shaking.

It wasn't until Hokage arrived and put his hand on Sasuke's shoulder that he calmed down a little.

"Sasuke. You are safe. No one is going to harm you."

"Itachi-"

"We are constantly looking for him. Rest assured, we will find him and bring him to pay for his crimes-"

"NO! I will personally kill him! He said I wasn't even worth killing! So I will show him that he made the biggest mistake of his life by leaving me alive!"

Sasuke shouted about revenge, and Hiruzen could only sigh. It was only natural for Sasuke to want to kill Itachi, but he hoped that he will eventually calm down and not get consumed by darkness.

"Alright. We will try to keep tabs on his location. But Sasuke, don't be too consumed by revenge. Focus on getting stronger right now. A calm and collected mind will be your greatest asset.

When you are strong enough to face Itachi, we will help you to get to him. Alright?"

"...Hn."

"Sadly, only you and Izumi have survived the ordeal. I have prepared an apartment for you near the Hokage Tower. And don't worry about Izumi, I will talk to her. She was just not feeling alright. She doesn't want to kill you or anything."

Hiruzen actually prepared for the two to live together. But now that Izumi just tried to kill Sasuke, it will be best if they live separately.

It seems that Izumi's mental state is not right right now.

Will she really teach the 'second child of prophecy'?

And, is the 'second child of prophecy' Sasuke?

If that's the case, then the first one is...

Naruto?

Do they have some destiny, somewhat similar to Hashirama and Madara?

Hiruzen could only shake his head due to that thought.

It didn't seem too far-fetched though. Since Itachi has already awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, perhaps, Sasuke will awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in the future and come close to Madara's power?

I have to consider a lot of things for Sasuke and Naruto...

Chapter 39: Hyuga

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(Shiori's PoV)

"It's not the correct spice..."

Finding the right type and amount of spices in the Ninja world is harder than I thought.

Afterall, the large variety of tastes are all just stated under 'spices' means that the people of this world, which is loosely based on Japan with elements from China, don't really eat spicy food.

With me not doing much training to be a ninja, aside from fuinjutsu and sometimes taijutsu, which I don't do intensely, I should atleast be able to give Naruto the best food in the world, full of taste and life.

I have found something similar to Darjeeling tea, from the Land of Tea, but something is still amiss.

*Knock Knock*

Somebody knocked on my door.

Naruto and Karin should still be training with Guy-sensei, and Hiruzen comes after 8pm whenever he comes to check on Naruto and fire his Will of Fire propaganda.

Who could it be?

I stopped the stove, and went to the door.

Glancing from the one-way peep hole, it wasn't someone unusual.

Judging that he isn't wearing the Konoha headband...

What does Hyuga Hiashi want?

Seeing that the danger sense seal didn't activate, he doesn't seem to be an imposter.

I opened the door.

"What a surprise, Hiashi-sama. What brings you here? Please come inside."

I treat Hiashi fairly well. Afterall, after the Hokage, he is my biggest customer.

I wonder how such a week clan like Hyuga amassed such wealth. Some Hyuga must have seduced Fire Daimyo in the past, or...

If I was a Daimyo in the chaotic ninja world, especially with the Uchiha around, I would definitely keep some Hyuga bodyguards to make sure that I am not under a genjutsu.

Afterall, a normal, stolen Byakugan was even able to detect Kotoamatsukami. Though it was probably a weaker version which one can use often.

He sat down on the sofa while frowning, and I brought some snacks and tea. Well, his face is always frowning.

"Portraits of Hinata and Hanabi, as usual?"

Lately, he has been ordering his daughters' portraits very often.

According to me, since Hinata didn't get traumatize by getting kidnapped on her own birthday in a clan of peepers, and didn't see her father killing someone, she is still shy, but not on the level of og series. And is currently the best kunoichi in our class.

Hanabi must be about to become four years old, that means that she should have gotten the slave seal by now, but she didn't.

I intentionally didn't draw any of his daughters with the slave seal, to give him hope, and give myself money.

"You must already know about the Hyuga clan's seal, that protects the Byakugan, right?"

"Yes."

Afterall, I drew Neji's cursed seal vanishing, signifying his death in war. With a stick by his side.

"Then, in any of your dreams, do you really not see Hanabi getting one?"

"No."

"Then, tell me. How can I avoid my younger daughter avoid getting the seal?"

"I am sorry. But if even the Hokage doesn't involve himself in such a disgusting tradition, I won't interfere-"

"There is a large piece of land in the centre of Konoha's market, owned by Kanzaki Diaries."

Bribing me?

As if that will work.

I mean, as if only this much will work.

"Add 500 kg of gold, and I will tell you the solution."

Gold is the most reliable currency. And can work anywhere, even outside the Land of Fire sphere of influence where the 'Fire Ryo' currency doesn't work. Therefore, even the daimyos often trade in gold.

If I want to buy the Uchiha clan's land, that much gold will be necessary.

"Alright."

Hey hey hey!

It's fricking 500 kg gold! Just how rich is the Hyuga clan!?

Regaining my composure, I prepared a contract. And he immediately signed it. Without any hesitation.

"Now tell me."

I took a sip from my cup, and said,

"Did someone try pull an Itachi in the Hyuga clan in the past, that led this seal?"

In a clan of assholes, it wouldn't be hard to guess that it happened.

"No. Hyuga clan is united."

Yeah. That's why the clan head is asking a seven year old kid a solution to prevent his daughter from becoming a slave.

"Your strength, or the Hokage's strength, is not enough to change the Hyuga clan. While the First Hokage had the strength, he couldn't really bring a change while trying to bring the egoistic Hyuga clan into the village.

Only Uchiha Sasuke can change the clan. Afterall, he will have enough strength to destroy the Hyuga clan with one move.

Engage Hinata, the older sister and the heir, outside the clan, to Uchiha Sasuke.

'Outside the clan', please make sure of it.

And the future matriarch of the Uchiha clan can't be controlled by anyone, right?"

This way, I won't have to kill Hinata in the future, and Sasuke will have Hinata to kill to 'sever' his bonds instead of the 'friend who doesn't even remember his name correctly'.

Well, Hinata loves her little sister. So she wouldn't mind sacrificing herself to protect Hanabi, right?

"That's not possible! The clan wouldn't agree!"

"Then your clan will be a clan full of idiots. Only Sasuke can protect his wife and sister-in-law for what is about to come from the moon. I wouldn't let my Naruto go to the dangerous, life-threatening mission for just two Hyugas."

"There will be danger to my daughters! From the moon!?"

"After the most powerful clans of the world, Senju, Uzumaki, and Uchiha, are gone, does the weak Hyuga clan thinks it will be able to escape fate?

Karma will always pay you back."

He considered my words.

Karma, means that there will be rewards for your Karms, i.e., work.

It doesn't particularly mean good or bad. If you do good, good will happen to you. If you do bad, bad will happen to you.

There is no concept of god being forgiving for sins committed in East and South Asian beliefs like Buddhism and Hinduism, which this world has heavy influence from.

Indra, the king of gods. Powerful, but sometimes arrogant.

Asura, demons. Powerful, and the name Asura instead of a single Asur means that the Asurs as a whole.

Oh. Indra is alone. But Asura are many people combined. Not very smart, but the one who helped the gods to create elixir of immortality.

Now that I think about it, didn't Hashirama, in a way, help achieve somewhat of immortality to Madara?

Naruto lore is deeper than I thought. Kishimoto is a genius in this field.

"Will Hyuga clan also face danger like the Uchiha?"

My enlightenment was interrupted by Hiashi muttering about danger.

Actually, Hyugas are so weak that Zetsu didn't even bother doing anything about it.

"Why didn't you tell me this before?"

"I once had a dream about the legendary Sanin, Jiraiya-sama, peeping on the Fifth Hokage.

All my dreams aren't true, and a lot of them are nonsense. If just draw out all the dreams, my credibility will lower, and it will be bad for business.

I mean, it doesn't make any sense for anyone to target the weak Hyuga clan. Hyuga clan is one of my biggest customer, I don't want to lose my credibility.

It's just that, I told you everything about the Hyuga clan that I got in my dreams, because 500 kg gold and a big land in the middle of the market is too big of a payment.

This prediction might be true, or might not be.

But, if you don't want your daughters to suffer, Sasuke is the only way out. Hinata will become the matriarch of the Uchiha clan as Sasuke's wife, and Hanabi will become the head of the Hyuga clan."

"Then... how do I convince the clan, the Hokage, and Sasuke?"

"I am just a weak kid of your daughter's age. Why are you asking me?

I will just advice that you don't try to force Sasuke into anything. He won't readily accept a new family after the incident.

Hinata must be the one who convinces him that he wants to marry her in the future, on his own choice. And Hyuga clan must not interfere with him. Don't even try to make him a Hyuga clan's puppet.

Because, in 10 years, he will be strong enough to make anyone who tries to pull a stunt on him, cower in fear.

Well, except my Naruto. The future Hokage, whose right hand man Sasuke will become."

He considered my words.

He must know the situation of the Academy. Naruto is already physically stronger than chunins. He has the largest amount of chakra in the village. And while he isn't really a paperwork genius like his father, barely coming in the middle of the class on written tests, he is a genius in fights.

He probably already knows that Naruto has the potential to be stronger than even his father.

And Sasuke is the only one in the class who can dodge some of his attacks before the fight finishes in less than 10 seconds, which is a big feat.

But... given the fact that Indra and Asura have similar strengths, it might be possible that Sasuke might actually be able to use his Sharingan that he has already awakened.

I need to get Multi-Shadow Clones for Naruto soon. And either get Hiruzen to have Yamato be there to restrain Kurama's chakra, or somehow awaken Karin's chains.

Giving an unstable Uchiha Sasuke bonds in the village will surely please Hiruzen, who probably thinks that Sasuke is the 'Second Child of Prophecy'.

I took the last sip of my tea and presented a proposition.

"If you want, I will ask Old man to consider it, and create 'chance encounters' between Sasuke and Hinata. That's the most I can do. How you convince your clan is your job."

"There is a small piece of land in the Capital of Land of Fire."

"Oh. You don't have to offer me more."

"Then-"

"But you don't decline Goddess of Wealth coming to you. I will begrudgingly accept the gift."

"Thank you. Then, I will leave."

As Hiashi left, I couldn't help but predict that his twin brother and Neji will become more hostile.

Afterall, he is going to great lengths to save his daughters, yet didn't hesitate with his twin's son, who is more talented than his daughters.

Moreover, Hizashi already feels angry that the slave seal is only going away after Neji dies.

Well... for love to bloom, having a similar situation, like a bad big brother, will be useful, right?

Sasuke will probably think, 'we are the same' more with Hinata than with Naruto, who can't even remember his name properly, something he has surpassed Guy-sensei in.

Though, I think Naruto does it intentionally.

Well... let's go to Hiruzen. I have to get Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu and Yamato for Naruto so that Sasuke doesn't catch up to him with his Sharingan.

Chapter 40: Politician Shiori

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

"So, I think it will be best if Hinata and Sasuke marry in the future. It will be the best way to get rid of the curse seal in the Hyuga clan in the future, and protect both daughters of one of my biggest customer."

After listening to Shiori's request of helping her to have Sasuke and Hinata 'chance encounters', and arranging an engagement between them, Hiruzen was surprised again by the thought process of the seven year old girl.

Even though Konoha had produced several geniuses like Orochimaru, Kakashi and Itachi who were quite mature for their age, they were geniuses in shinobi related stuff, and quite bad at other aspects of life.

But Shiori is already thinking like a seasoned politician.

Suddenly, Hiruzen had a thought about some of the past predictions.

'Izumi, I leave the second child of prophecy in your hands', Jiraiya dying in water with this thought, and Izumi comforting Sasuke that his wife and kid will be alright, what if...

'What if Sasuke and Hinata's kid is the second child of prophecy?'

This certainly seemed possible. Afterall, there have been no children between an Uchiha and a Hyuga in the known history, much less children of clan heads, with more powerful blood. What will happen if the Uchiha and Hyuga blood mix?

'Will the kid get Sharingan, or Byakugan, or both in one eye?'

This thought made him curious.

As he looked at Shiori, who was gracefully drinking tea in his office, he realized that she will become a very good politician.

After the Kyuubi's attack, and with the state of Suna and Kiri, where Daimyos were destroying their ninja villages by not providing them funds, Konoha got the Fire Daimyo to agree that within Konoha, the village itself will collect all taxes instead of the Land of Fire, and people of Konoha could start their own business (aside from small stalls which were allowed previously) so that the reliance on Daimyo is reduced.

Well, Konoha did have to create a civilian council inside the military ninja village in return, and they have been causing nothing but problems, even interfering with the academy to lower the difficulty so that their children can pass on first try.

Afterall, majority of the civilians can't become good ninjas due to having lower amount of chakra. Exceptions like Jiraiya, Minato, Orochimaru are, in the end, exceptions.

Naruto's reputation as the Nine tails Jinchuriki is bad. Even if he becomes the strongest ninja, jonins might not vote for him to become the Hokage in the future. And even if they do, the Daimyo might not agree.

Kushina gave up becoming the Hokage because of the same reasons. After Minato and Orochimaru, she was the strongest jonin at that time, so she could be considered a candidate. But no one trusted a Jinchuriki.

"So, you are saying that Hyuga clan might also face destruction like the Uchiha?"

This was a big prediction that she casually dismissed as nonsense when she told this to Hiashi.

"My dreams aren't always right. Sometimes I see the legendary Sanin Jiraiya peeking on women's bathhouse. Sometimes even you with a weird crystal ball.

I mean, why would anyone target such a weak clan like Hyuga?"

Hiruzen suppressed a cough at her statement. Yes, a kid won't know the tendencies of the legendary Sanin afterall.

And well, he doesn't use his crystal ball for such purposes.

"Alright, I will do what I can. But, on one condition. You will just tell me about your dreams regularly, instead of the village buying your posters. If word spreads about it, your life may be in danger."

Shiori grumbled a bit, but nodded.

"I will hit my head 'accidently', losing this ability. Will that be alright?"

"Yes. Do it in the academy, in front of everyone."

"And what compensation will I receive?"

Hiruzen sighed.

'This girl is really greedy.'

"What do you want?"

"Multi-Shadow Clones Jutsu for Naruto and Karin, and some sort of crystals that can store chakra."

"Alright."

"Then old man, I will leave. I have to start working on a new way for my livelihood. I want to issue an escort mission for Tazuna the builder from Land of Waves, and will issue long term construction missions for building a store that the Hyuga clan gave me."

"Hmm."

As Shiori left, Hiruzen felt that even though she is a bit... a lot greedy, she still cares about Naruto and her 'sister-in-law' that had a Sharingan implanted by Danzo for quite a while.

Well, if she is helping Naruto to become stronger, than all is good.

And she will be the key to produce the 'second child of prophecy', Hinata and Sasuke's kid. A union of Uchiha and Hyuga.

And it will help in Sasuke to integrate better with the village.

She really will become a good politician, and advisor for Naruto in the future when he becomes the Hokage.

Unlike his advisors. They clearly supported Danzo in his secret dealings, some that even he wasn't aware of.

He really messed up big time with Danzo, now that he has gotten to know what illegal things he was upto after Danzo's death.

Chapter 41: Deal with Sasuke

Chapter Text

(First PoV)

"Divide your chakra equally, make the handsign, and-"

"Multi-Shadow Clones Jutsu!"

I was pleasantly surprised by Naruto performing the Multi-Shadow Clones Jutsu so easily.

"Naruto, you are a genius!"

I patted his head, and fed him a poisonous herb to build his resistance. I have, of course, gotten it from Hiruzen.

"Bleh, it's bitter."

He complained, but still chewed on it.

"It's necessary, Naruto. A mosquito can take out a Kage level ninja. You are very special to me, and I don't want anything bad happening to you."

Afterall, Shisui was taken out by a mosquito poison. Third Kazekage, was also taken out by poison.

While Naruto probably wouldn't die from any sort of poison due to Kurama, even a momentary weakness during a fight may cause his death.

Afterall, a kid stabbed Sasuke's Rinnegan, with a kunai.

When I get Sasuke's eyes that he will discard for Itachi's eyes, I will make sure that the one eye Naruto will have must have some sort of protection.

"Alright. Go and train with Karin. I will start cooking breakfast. What do you want to eat today?"

"Hmm, something with egg?"

"Omelette Rolls then?"

"Yeah."

"Alright, my Naruto. Here is a bonus for being so cool."

I kissed him on the forehead, and saw him off the house, grinning.

It's 4am right now. I guess I also need to get to work. Naruto can't be the only one working hard.

I looked at the map that I had drawn yesterday.

The 500kg of gold has been already deposited in my account, and Hiashi has handed me over the documents of the land in the centre of the market area.

If such a weak clan like Hyuga has so much wealth, I can't even imagine how much wealth Uchiha clan, the strongest in the world, is waiting for me to gobble it all.

Well, I am not too greedy. I will not touch Sasuke's house, a training ground, the lake, and the Naka river, and important buildings like Uchiha clan's library.

Anyway, back at the plot of land. It is a 2km×600m plot, right in the middle of the market. There are stores on it, which are basically rented out by ordinary shopkeepers.

I guess the Hyuga clan is too proud to run the stores themselves.

Hmm, I will have those stores demolished, and create a big mall and theme park.

Since Land of Rain and Roran can build skyscrapers, creating a multi-storey mall would not be too difficult.

The problem is, the rest of the market wouldn't be too happy with my mall taking away all their business.

The Civilian Council, which was involved in a lot of Naruto Banishment fanfics, is actually present in the village, formed after Kurama's attack.

Hiruzen was probably afraid that the Fire Daimyo will be a dick, just like the daimyos of Land of Wind and Water. That's why he is slowly making the village self-reliant.

I guess he had to compromise and create the council.

Despite his lack of strength and weakening the village during his tenure, in which he had a hand in, directly and indirectly, he does have some insight.

Anyway, all of this will take atleast a month to build, and in that time, I will just hire the shopkeepers to open their shops inside the mall itself.

Construction work is really fast in this world. If Tazuna can build a bridge connecting Land of Fire and Land of Waves in a month, ninjas shouldn't take too much time.

Sadly, I can't use Yamato to do it all for free right now.

Well, I guess I should start planning, for the theme park first. Naruto's birthday is in about a month. It will be a perfect date celebration spot.

I will name it, Uzumaki Park.

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We arrived at the Academy. I, Naruto and Karin sat with Sakura, Shikamaru and Chouji, like always. Karin now sits on Sasuke's seat.

That damn Sasuke sat near Naruto.

Sasuke will probably come to the Academy today, after two months of absence.

I looked at Hinata's seat in the front row near the gate.

I will have Sasuke sit near her. While Hinata isn't THAT much of a stuttering mess because Hizashi didn't die and Neji doesn't overly hate her, probably, she is still quite shy.

After a while, Sasuke actually arrived.

While the girls aren't THAT crazy over him because he can't do shit against my Naruto, he still has a lot of admirers.

He ignored them, and approached us. Specifically, Naruto.

"Fight me!"

Naruto grabbed his collar, and threw him out of the window. Sasuke fell down from the first floor with a thud.

"I wonder who that weirdo was?"

Naruto muttered. Oh. It seems like he has forgotten him after not seeing him for about two months. Not like he remembered his name anyway.

After a while, Sasuke arrived again, covered in dirt.

"Fight me seriously!"

He had his two-tomoe Sharingan activated. Oh. So it seems Sasuke needs to be relatively close to Naruto in power huh. As if it is the intervention of some fate bullshit.

I slammed my hand on the bench, and glared at him, staring into his Sharingan.

"Who do you think you are? Do you think I will allow the younger brother of a mass murderer come close to us?"

He flinched, and many people in the class looked at him in fear and distrust.

Controlling a class of kids, ahem, the next generation of Konoha, is so easy. They don't want to be excluded from getting my manga. They think that since those who treated Naruto badly don't get free manga now, so they are the bad guys. While adults certainly have influence on kids, kids their age are more influential.

"Shoo! Go sit on that seat in the corner. If you want to challenge my Naruto, prepare 10,000 ryo. And it will double for every next challenge.

We don't have time for people from trashy clan like Uchiha. It only took a 13 year old kid to wipe out the clan, and he left his younger brother and girlfriend alive, didn't even spare infants and pregnant women?

Hyuga clan is truly the strongest clan of Konoha."

I threw a paper ball at him, and following my example, many kids started doing the same.

"Brother of murderer!"

A kid shouted, and I glared at him. He is making me look like the leader of bullies.

"Who do you think you guys are to use me as your way to release your frustration!? I am not going to do anything when this guy comes for revenge against you for bullying him. Even though he isn't anything in front of my Naruto, he can still beat you all up alone."

I looked at Sasuke mockingly.

"Don't even try to approach my Naruto without being prepared to pay for wasting our time. Challenge those guys if you really need someone to fight. We don't have the need and time to entertain you."

My words triggered Sasuke, and Sasuke started beating up everyone else in the class.

"Aah!"

"Save me!"

"I didn't even say anything!"

Just as Sasuke ran towards Hinata, Iruka-sensei appeared and apprehended Sasuke.

"Let me go! I need to get stronger for my revenge!"

Chaos ensured, and other teachers also arrived to calm down Sasuke.

Tsk... Itachi cares about Sasuke? Yeah right. He has made Sasuke crazy by torturing him and putting him into coma for two months straight.

After a while, Sasuke calmed down, and sat beside Hinata.

Well, I want Hinata to be aware of the dangers of getting close to this guy. I do want them to marry and produce a kid with Jougan because it is somehow necessary for the plot of Burrito, but I am not cruel enough to push her into becoming a single mother with Sasuke like this.

I do hope that Izumi will fix him. She is gentle girl, so I think she will take good care of him.

Today, there was no sparring match due to Sasuke's outburst.

After the Academy ended, I approached Ino, who has been opposing me in the class.

"Ino, I want a favour."

"What do you want!?"

"Sasuke is a danger to my Naruto, and is not right in the head. Can you ask the Yamanaka clan head to provide him therapy? I will pay with the money Sasuke will pay for challenging Naruto."

She scoffed at me.

"Oh. A bully is being caring-"

"You call me a bully? Where was this attitude of yours when everyone was avoiding Naruto? Calling him names? Weren't you one of those too?"

She turned silent, looking guilty.

"Look, it's not like I care or hate Sasuke. While I think he has gone through a lot, he is the brother of Itachi. He came to my shop just a day before the massacre, and he seemed like a gentle guy.

Madara was also the founder of Konoha.

And I heard that the Kyuubi was controlled by the Sharingan, by an Uchiha.

Uchihas are mentally ill people, and I just tested Sasuke today.

And, he is mentally ill. And his target is Naruto, because he is jealous of his power.

Will you request your father to personally provide him therapy? I will, of course, pay from the money I get from Sasuke."

She sighed, and nodded.

"Alright. I will ask Daddy."

"Thanks."

She grumbled something incomprehensible, and left.

"You can come out now. Or, do you want to avoid paying by making Naruto beat you up for stalking me?"

I turned around, and Sasuke came out from the corner of the building.

Oh. He was actually stalking me?

"Is the Uchiha clan really mentally ill?"

He questioned me.

"Of course. All clan which have dojutsu are mentally ill. They think that they are the strongest, are arrogant, yet the Uchiha kills their own family for gaining power, and Hyuga enslaves it's own family to retain power for the weak.

It took three whole ninja villages to massacre the Uzumaki clan. And Uchiha, just a 13 year old kid.

Give up. An Uchiha will never surpass the Uzumaki in any way.

You will never surpass my Naruto. Don't even think about it.

My Naruto will be far stronger than Itachi by the age of 13-14.

Though, I wouldn't mind if you occassionally spar with Naruto, now that you have awakened the Sharingan.

But, you will need to agree to all my conditions."

I handed him a scroll, which has my conditions stated.

1. Take personal therapy from Yamanaka Clan Head all life, even after killing Itachi.

2. Prove that he is a functional human by taking Hinata Hyuga and other girls (excluding Sakura and Karin, who are family to Shiori and Naruto) on dates, and be the model for Shiori's clothing brand in the future with Hinata.

3. Pay 10,000 Ryo for each challenge, and the price for wasting Naruto's time will keep doubling.

4. No stalking.

5. This is a purely transactional business. No friendship or anything.

6. Will have to do one thing in the future after killing Itachi without questioning. It will not harm him or anyone in the village.

7. Don't even think about harming Naruto and his friends.

8. Swear by the name of Uchiha.

While such a contract can be easily called null and void by the Hokage or anyone, Sasuke is too prideful to go back on the conditions he has already agreed to.

Sasuke didn't think much about the conditions. He was a little concerned about what she wanted him to do after he killed Itachi, but after killing Itachi, nothing really mattered to him. What concerned him more was taking girls on dates and therapy.

Still, he thought that fighting Naruto will really make him stronger. If what she said is true, that Uzumaki clan took three villages to get massacred, and considering Naruto's strength, he thought that it might be true that Naruto is really from a very powerful clan, possibly the only survivor, just like him.

Begrudgingly, he accepted.

"Alright. I agree."

"Why should I trust you? Uchiha are infamous for breaking their promise and murdering their friends and acquaintances."

"What do you want me to do then!?"

In the Naruto world, there isn't anything to make sure that the deals are followed, except for mutual interests and strength.

Maybe Uzumakis had a seal? Well, I don't really know.

Maybe some sort of curse seal? That's possible.

Anyway, I took out a scroll, with the conditions written with my blood infused ink.

"Sign it with your blood. If you go against the contract, the God of Contracts, a diety of the Uzumaki clan like the Shinigami, will deliver your soul to the Shinigami, and it's worse than death. You can spar with Shinigami for eternity.

And tearing the contract will automatically be taken as you violating the Contract. You are free to find loopholes in the future though. I don't care what happens to you."

I am totally making it up. But how will Sasuke know anyway?

He gulped, and looked at the contents of the contract carefully. Checking and rechecking several times.

Then, he had a determined expression, bit his finger, and wrote his name with his own blood.

Then, he shoved the scroll at me.

"Uchiha isn't a clan of murderers. And I am not like Itachi. I will prove you wrong!"

He declared, and left.

Well... the deal with Sasuke is closed.

"Shiori-chan, is there really a God of Contracts?"

Naruto jumped down from the rooftop, landing beside me.

I shrugged.

"Who knows?"

I definitely don't know.

Chapter 42: Izumi gets a hickey and gets kidnapped

Chapter Text

(9th October)

"Uzumaki Park is opening tomorrow!"

The flyers of the opening of the Uzumaki Park was spread across Konoha, and Fire capital.

The Uzumaki Park has completed being built in less than a month.

Tazuna is really a genius builder, and ninjas are excellent labourers.

Out of the 2km × 600m plot, 1.2km × 600m has been used up in building the theme park.

A Way-Big themed Ferris wheel, called the 'Way Big Wheel', a Tora-Dora with various Pokemon designs, a toy train with Charizard at the front, and a giant tree in the middle, called the Tree of Love. It is said that proposing under the tree increases the chances by 50%.

Along with various stalls lined up in spirals, from cotton candy, new types of clothes, restaurants with various new dishes, all organised in such a way that if looked from above, with the lights on, the park represents the Uzumaki symbol.

It hasn't reached its full potential, knowing that it will get destroyed anyway during Orochimaru's invasion and Pain's Shinra Tensei.

Well, the costs will be covered by the insurance company. If they refused to pay, Shiori will have Naruto show off a Rasengan to the company's owner.

"Grandpa! I want to go! I want to go!"

Konohamaru was screaming his lungs out inside the Hokage Office, but Hiruzen could only sigh.

While the park will open tomorrow night officially, it will be only for the nobles from Land of Fire, and allied countries like Wind, Grass, Waterfall villages. They have paid VIP tickets to be away from ninjas and enjoy their time.

And today, only Shiori and Naruto will enjoy the park, testing it. Well, today is Shiori's birthday, and Naruto's birthday is tomorrow. So, they are going to enjoy their time.

Hiruzen sighed. A lot of kids are going to cause problems huh.

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While Shiori and Naruto were dressing up for their date cum birthday celebration, Orochimaru had sneaked inside the village.

It was almost too easy for him.

It has been three months since Itachi joined Akatsuki. And Orochimaru obviously wanted to take over his body.

But the moment he tried to do so, he was caught in a genjutsu. And burnt to nothing by a strange black flame. He 'died' then and there, and Kabuto had to revive him from a vessel.

Orochimaru was not only humiliated, but 'killed' by a 13-14 year old kid.

Previously, Orochimaru just wanted an Uchiha body with Sharingan that doesn't drain his chakra like Kakashi, to increase his learning speed. And Itachi was certainly the most talented, and he had wanted his body for a long time.

But now, he has only two options left. Uchiha Izumi and Sasuke.

While Sasuke is not really that much talented in comparison to Itachi, he has already awakened the two-tomoe Sharingan. And since he is the brother of Itachi, and has the pure blood of Uchiha, he is an ideal vessel. The problem is, he is too young to survive the Curse Mark.

As for Izumi, she is also talented. She already has the three-tomoe Sharingan for quite a while, and had awakened the Sharingan even before Itachi.

As for her low chakra reserves to handle the three-tomoe Sharingan at such a young age, he can only try to implant Hashirama cells. Even if she dies, there is still Sasuke.

Orochimaru clicked his tongue. Shin was a good vessel, even able to handle Hashirama cells and Sharingan implantation without rejection. His cells were good for cloning too. But when Orochimaru was 'dead', he ran away somewhere, and he couldn't be found. As if he just disappeared without leaving any signs.

Well, for now, he will make do with Izumi. Orochimaru snickered to himself while thinking about what Itachi's reaction will be when he finds out that his girlfriend has been taken over by him, who he thought he has killed.

Sparing Sasuke was understandable, since Itachi will need his Mangekyo Sharingan to attain the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan like Madara Uchiha.

But sparing Izumi? It was clear that Itachi has feelings for her.

Orochimaru licked his lips as he watched Izumi training in the Forest of Death. There were only two ANBUs watching her, and while they were jonins, a mere jonin or two is nothing in front of Orochimaru.

He quickly and swiftly killed the two ANBUs without them even noticing, and wore one's skin and clothes. This technique allows him to completely hide his chakra signature under the person's skin he is wearing. That's how he entered in Konoha undetected, by wearing the skin of an ANBU member that was his spy.

After waiting for a while, Orochimaru approached her.

"Do you want revenge on Itachi? You are too weak to do that as you are now."

Izumi turned around, startled. But when she realised that it was her ANBU guard, she relaxed. Yet, she still kept a firm hold on her kunais, ready to use them at any moment.

She felt like something was off.

"What do you want?"

Suddenly, his neck extended, and before she could even react, bit her neck.

"Aaaaargh!"

She screamed in pain, but Orochimaru chuckled.

"Come with me, I will give you the power to get revenge on Itachi."

Feeling that he isn't ready to fight against Hiruzen yet, he simply had a snake swallow her, and left without leaving any traces pointing at him.

Afterall, for now, Orochimaru is 'dead'. He doesn't want Itachi to find out that he is behind it and killing him once again.

While escaping the village, he looked at the giant wheel that was visible from the distance.

Perhaps during the Chunin Exam when he comes to test Sasuke, and kill Sarutobi-sensei, he will ride it once before destroying Konoha.

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Shiori, completely unaware that the Izumi she has saved has given Orochimaru a big advantage, applied her lipstick, and smirked.

"I am ready."

Chapter 43: Epilogue to Volume 2

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

Naruto was waiting at the entrance of the Uzumaki Park. Shiori was taking a lot of time to get ready.

"What are you looking at? Scram!"

Naruto threw a pebble at a kid who was looking for a way to enter the park.

It hit him on the head, and he ran away crying.

"I am the grandson of the Hokage! You will pay for this!"

The crying kid shouted while running away.

Naruto scoffed.

That wimp is the grandson of that old man? So what? Naruto himself is the heir of the Uzumaki clan, one of three great clans along with Senju and Uchiha, and the son of the Fourth Hokage.

He ignored the canon fodders staring at him, either with disgust, or running away in fear.

He occassionally glared at them as well. Shiori-chan has told him that just ignoring them will make them braver, so it's best to occassionally scare them.

Finally, Shiori-chan arrived.

She was looking so pretty... like a princess...

"Do you think I am pretty?"

"Yeah. You look the best in the world!"

Shiori chuckled, and gave him a kiss on both of his cheeks.

"Alright. Let's celebrate our birthday."

Shiori h*ld h*nds with Naruto, and they headed to the Uzumaki Park.

Sakura's parents, who were previously not allowing Sakura to be friends with them, instantly welcomed them to their stall, showing them different scarfs.

Who says money can't mend relationship?

There wasn't even a bit of negativity towards Naruto from them.

She chose a purple scarf, and wrapped it around Naruto.

"Do you like it?"

Naruto blushed, and hid his face in the scarf.

Naruto chose an orange and black patterned scarf for Shiori, making her smile.

After that, they rode the toy-train, and the other rides.

And finally, they entered the Way-Big wheel, where they were served a luxurious dinner.

"Cheers!"

They cheered their milk in the luxurious unbreakable glass, and ate, enjoying the view of Konoha as it slowly reached the top.

Shiori looked down at Konoha, and decided that she will take control over not just Konoha, but the entirety of Land of Fire, and the surrounding islands of Land of Waves and Land of Whirlpools.

She then looked at her Naruto, looking at the view with awe.

He was looking really cute today.

"Hey, Shiori-chan! Look, the moon is really beautiful today!"

"...Yeah. It is."

In her heart, Shiori felt bad for manipulating and using Naruto. Still, she convinced herself that she isn't doing anything wrong. Afterall, Naruto is really happy with her.

Isn't she giving Naruto a good life? What's there to feel guilty about?

Moreover, she doesn't really think that Naruto is her tool. Well, he is her protector in this dangerous world, but she isn't a psychopath like some anime character.

She is a real person, and has come to care about Naruto. To love Naruto as her own.

Though, not like a pedo. She isn't that far gone.

As midnight was about to arrive, the birthday cake arrived.

11:59 pm.

Shiori blowed eight out of the sixteen candles, and Naruto started singing her the birthday song.

12:00 am.

Naruto also blowed eight candles, and Shiori sang him the birthday song.

"Happy 8th Birthday, Shiori-chan."

"You too, Naruto."

Shiori fed him the cake, and ate from the same.

"Pfft! Your mouth is all creamy."

Shiori chuckled, and kissed him, directly on the lips.

"Let me clean it for you."

Chapter 44: Prologue to Volume 3

Chapter Text

Years passed by, and Shiori and Naruto have turned 12, close to graduating.

Many things have changed in these years.

Konoha's market place has transformed. Uzumaki Park has expanded, and Uzumaki Mall has opened beside it.

The number of tourists has increased by five times before the opening of the Uzumaki Park, and the tax collected by Konoha from commercial activity is increasing year by year.

Jump! has emerged as the new publishing company, almost creating monopoly over all kinds of stories.

Pokemon, Mob Psycho, Snake's Nest, Shin-chan, and even the famous Tales of a Gutsy Ninja and Icha-Icha's manga adaptations are under the Jump label.

Banners all around the Land of Fire, depicting Sasuke, Hinata, Ino and Sakura in all age aspects wearing the 'Kool' branded clothes has become a trend.

Asuma was blushing as he saw Kurenai's banner wearing a party dress displayed over the 15 floor mall.

But grumbled as he saw Kakashi's banner beside hers.

Shiori has rejected him being a model for her clothing brand. Moreover, she chased him off from her office, because smoking is banned in her territories.

Speaking of territories, almost half of the Uchiha clan compound has been taken over by Shiori, where her palace stands instead of the one or two floored houses.

Hiruzen sighed as he threw away another complaint letter from the Civilian Council to ban Shiori's activities that is harming their business. Well, she hasn't broken any laws of Land of Fire and Konoha. And once she graduates from the Academy, she will officially become an adult and become a part of the civilian council.

Hiruzen will be relieved when she gains influence in it so that the council stops interfering in the academy and other financial matters of Konoha.

Back at the Uzumaki Palace at the outskirts of the village, where Uchiha clan compound was, Shiori was relaxing by the pool, while Naruto was performing pushups on the water, and catching his sweat so that it doesn't get into the pool.

"1,998!"

"1,999!"

"2,000!"

Naruto finally finished his morning workout, and received his daily kiss from Shiori.

"Now go and take bath. It will be time for academy soon."

Naruto nodded and left for the bathroom, while Shiori analysed her gauntlets, smirking.

'These are going to sell for a lot.'

In the years, Naruto has grown a lot stronger.

He has good chakra control, to be even able to do pushups on a hot spring without any ripples. His physical condition and taijutsu is obviously top-notch.

And, he can already do Rasengan with one hand. And has already learnt Wind style chakra transformation.

While he isn't a genius at fuinjutsu, he is really good at using the seals that Shiori makes. Well, he himself will probably come close to Jiraiya in fuinjutsu, not like Minato and Kushina.

As for Shiori, she has gradually been surpassed by Sakura and Karin in taijutsu. She can't really use chakra anyway, but her most important ability is money and fuinjutsu.

She even managed to create a way for her to use some ninjutsu, and even summon Naruto to herself. These gauntlets are her greatest creation.

Well, Naruto needs to provide the ninjutsu, and Shiori just releases it.

Her kenjutsu level can't really be determined right now though, unless she gets a Jonin-sensei who is good with it. But she doesn't believe that just swinging her sword and trying to slash at Guy-sensei would do any good.

And she was defeated by Tenten in kenjutsu easily enough, but she can't really compare herself with a weapons master.

After sunbathing for a bit, she changed from her swimsuit to her normal ninja clothes, and grinned to herself as she saw herself in the mirror.

Even though she is just 12, her curves are more than her flat twig self in her past life. Judging by her size, she wouldn't be any inferior to Hinata in the future.

She sat on the dining table with Naruto and Karin, and Karin's Shadow Clone brought the breakfast.

"What do you think our teams will be?"

If the team selection goes the same way as canon, Ino-Shika-Cho will not be any different.

But since Naruto is at the second, because of theory exams, Sasuke is at first, because the maximum marks on taijutsu and ninjutsu can't be more than 100, there isn't really anything that Shiori can be sure of.

But, it goes without saying that both Naruto and Sasuke will be under Kakashi, because of his Sharingan.

"Well, I will retire from being a ninja after becoming a Chunin."

Naruto and Karin nodded at that though.

Not being able to use Chakra is a huge disadvantage. Unlike Guy-sensei and Lee, I can't even strengthen my body with chakra.

It's not like they can't use chakra. They can't use ninjutsu. They can't easily release chakra out of their body. Even learning to walk on water was very difficult for them.

But me? I can't use chakra at all, unless Tsunade comes and does something about it. Most of the fuinjutsu I created needs to be activated by Naruto or by my blood or spit.

Anyway, after eating, we left for the Academy.

"Good morning Shiori-sama!"

Many kids and people greeted me along the way.

Afterall, I have provided jobs to the kids who couldn't pass the Academy.

I h*ld h*nds with Naruto and entered the class, and sat at our usual place.

Sakura was playing Shogi with Shikamaru, Chouji was eating chips, Ino was looking at the fashion magazine of 'Kool', Kiba stayed away from me because I hate dogs, and Sasuke was sitting beside Hinata.

Hinata has started admiring Sasuke's perseverance, and Sasuke had to take her on dates occassionally according to the contract he signed with me.

After Izumi disappeared, he started challenging Naruto more and more, even at the cost of selling half of the Uchiha compound to me.

That land has no value, because no one wants to live where the entire Uchiha clan was massacred.

Well, he is probably doing fine with the constant therapy.

Anyway, Iruka-sensei arrived in the class, and started announcing the teams.

"Team 7: Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuga, Sasuke Uchiha under Kakashi Hatake."

Hmm... okay. I just need to warn Hinata one last time.

"Team 8: Shino Aburame, Sakura Haruno, Kiba Inuzuka under Kurenai Yuhi."

Well, it's better for Sakura.

"Team 10: Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka and Chouji Akimichi under Asuma Sarutobi."

As expected.

"Team 14: Sai, Karin Uzumaki, Shiori under Yugao Uzuki."

Hmm. Well...

That's good.

Chapter 45: Ninja Info: Naruto

Chapter Text

Naruto Uzumaki

Age: 12

Rank: Genin

Affiliation: Konohagakure

Chakra Reserves: 10 Kakashi (Base+Seal Maintenance), Non-scalable (full)

Chakra Control: 79%

Chakra Nature: Wind

Ninjutsu: Non-scalable

-S-rank: Multi-Shadow Clones Jutsu, Big ball Rasengan, Rasengan Barrage, Sexy Jutsu(forbidden)

-A-rank: Rasengan

-D-rank: Body Flicker Jutsu

-E-rank: Transformation Jutsu, Replacement Jutsu

Taijutsu: Jonin

-Strong First, 2 gates

Genjutsu: Genin

-Getting out of Genjutsu

Shurikenjutsu: Genin

Kenjutsu: Genin

Fuinjutsu: Chunin

Chapter 46: Ninja Info: Shiori

Chapter Text

Shiori
Age: 12
Rank: Genin
Affiliation: Konohagakure
Net Worth: 2.58 billion Ryo

Chakra Reserves: Non-usable

Chakra Control: NA

Chakra Nature: NA

Ninjutsu: NA

Taijutsu: Chunin

-Strong First

Genjutsu: NA

Shurikenjutsu: Genin

Kenjutsu: Genin

Fuinjutsu: Jonin

Chapter 47: Dealing with Naruto's teammates

Chapter Text

Lunch break arrived, and I and Naruto approached the desk on which Sasuke and Hinata sat.

Some years ago, Izumi suddenly disappeared from the village.

With Danzo dead, I came to a conclusion.

With Itachi realising the danger of Orochimaru and his Edo Tensei, must have used Amaterasu on him, and maybe even Totsuka Blade if he has it.

Afterall, he is willing to kill Danzo, so Orochimaru is another matter.

But, aside from og Sasuke's other MS ability, Amaterasu is the most useless MS ability. And Orochimaru would have probably resurrected using another vessel.

That guy is a cockroach.

And Izumi, while talented enough to become a Chunin by the age of 12, unless awakened Mangekyo Sharingan, would not be able to resist Orochimaru taking over her body.

Well, while this is unexpected, it is not entirely a bad outcome.

If Izumi didn't awaken MS and Orochimaru took over her body, Sasuke wouldn't even think about going to Orochimaru. Though I don't think Orochimaru won't try to come after Sasuke anyway. Because, Orochimaru wouldn't be able to awaken MS himself.

And if Izumi awakened MS, the situation will most likely be like Hebi Sasuke. And considering she knows about Uchiha clan's plot of coup, even if she goes crazy, it will either be killing Itachi, or typical destroying Konoha.

I have already taken countermeasures so that Naruto doesn't fall for a genjutsu. And even if he does fall in it, I can wake him up from it.

Unless it is an OP genjutsu ability.

That's why, I have been cautious with my 'predictions'.

I hit my head after slipping in shower, and 'lost' my abilities of a seer.

And knowing that the Hokage Office is most likely filled with White Zetsus, my ability has weakened significantly, and have turned very unreliable.

Just yesterday, I 'dreamt' of Sasuke and Hinata kissing just after graduation. Which is just plain impossible.

Anyway, after Izumi mysteriously disappeared, presumably kidnapped, Sasuke asked me to teach him fuinjutsu.

I asked him to pay 1 kg gold each day and permission to buy the Uchiha clan's compound, but he surprisingly agreed.

Well, he doesn't have much talent in fuinjutsu, especially since he hasn't awakened Rinnegan.

The most complex thing he has learnt is making a sleeping tag.

As for Naruto, while he isn't as talented as me or Karin, and even teaching him needs a specialised hands-on way instead of the easier theoritical teaching, he is still a lot more talented than Sasuke in that field.

And now, I need to severe any ties between Sasuke and us. It is in his nature to rebel against things that aren't in his control.

As I gestured, everyone in the class started to leave. Either because they respect me and want my attention, employment, or simply hate me that they don't want to remain in the class.

Afterall, each year, a lot of people dropped out of the academy. If I wasn't talented in fuinjutsu and Hiruzen wanted me to make me an adult as early as possible by making me a ninja, so that he can control the civilian council more easily, I would have dropped out too.

Well, nepotism rocks.

After Sakura's parents went from being ordinary shopkeepers to be the CEO of my Mall, civilians also shred the concern about the 'Demon Sacrifice' rumour and their fear of Naruto, and convinced their children to develop goodwill from me.

After they left, I brought out the the contract that I made Sasuke sign.

"Alright. I am going to cross out most of the conditions of the contract as fulfilled. You no longer need to take girls on dates or pay money to challenge Naruto. Of course, you can't have any bad intentions towards us, and we will go out separate ways.

I just need you guys to not be a burden for six months until Naruto becomes a Chunin."

I said the last part while glancing at Hinata.

Sasuke sighed in relief. Afterall, I have already gotten a huge part of the Uchiha clan compound. And that only happened after the finances of the Uchiha clan were completely drained.

Hiruzen must have seized a lot of money from the Uchiha clan. Afterall, Hyuga clan gave me 500kg gold and a huge plot of land in the center of market without much thought. How come Uchiha clan only have 1,000 kg gold and some millions of Ryos?

But I don't want Sasuke to turn against Konoha, and Hiruzen is my biggest backer, so I didn't say much. For Sasuke, 1,000 kg gold must be a lot though, since he doesn't know how much gold Hyuga clan gave me casually.

And, Sasuke is probably tired of taking girls on dates. I intentionally chose Hinata, who isn't very annoying, and some other girls who are annoying. So that Sasuke's impression of Hinata is that she is atleast better than the rest of the girls.

But, until he is bound by a contract, he will not develop any feelings for Hinata. So, it is important to let the bindings go and have him miss something that has become a routine.

As I crossed out most of the conditions, he visibly relaxed, and even let out a smile.

But, Hinata was clearly disappointed.

Well, it doesn't matter if a disappointment is disappointed.

Even in the og series, Hinata was an even worse love interest than Sakura.

Claiming that she loved Naruto all along?

As if. If she really loved Naruto, and watched him struggle with loneliness, she should have atleast made some effort to even talk to him.

No. She is just a stalker with fanaticism.

Even when she admires Sasuke for his willpower to struggle so much against Naruto, and challenging him all over again, and even when I am arranging her to go on dates with Sasuke almost every other week, she hasn't made any progress.

Even at being a ninja, she is just plain bad.

"Now, Hinata. Don't be a burden to Team 7. No one is going to risk their lives to save you if you just stay silent and shake. Sasuke is the last Uchiha in the village. Naruto is the only two of the Uzumakis in the village, and he is the most talented ninja in the history of Konoha. And Kakashi Hatake is the only person in Konoha right now who is suited to be the Hokage after Third Hokage retires.

Konoha can make do without a weak Hyuga, but not without any of these three high profile people.

Being a weak teammate will only lead to danger towards my Naruto.

Are you willing to changes or not?"

"I, uhh, ahh, -"

"Yes, or no?"

Under my stare, she could only nod her head.

"Alright. Then, I will help you somehow."

First of all, it is necessary to move her out of the Hyuga clan. Hiashi is obviously a bad teacher and bad influence, and Hizashi and Neji's hostility is certainly not good for this weak mentally challenged kid.

Kakashi is a great teacher, if he is motivated. But only in being a ninja. He wouldn't be able to do much about Hinata.

And well, wouldn't it be great if I have her under my influence, and even her sister, the next clan head of Hyuga clan, eventually?

If anything after Naruto's manga is canon, I might even get future Tenseigan wielders under my influence. Though I am not sure if they are capable of awakening it after transplanting Toneri's cells and then getting Hamura's chakra.

I looked at the two teammates of Naruto one last time, before h*lding Naruto's h*nd and heading to Uzumaki Park to have a celebration in the Ichiraku Ramen Plaza.

Things will become a lot busier from now on.

Chapter 48: Team 7 and Team 14: Team 14's introductions

Chapter Text

(Third PoV)

(Hokage Office)

Inside the Hokage Office, Hiruzen watched children through peeping jutsu, even letting Kakashi and Yugao have a look.

Both Kakashi and Yugao were members of ANBU. And while Kakashi was pulled out of it due to Guy's persistent requests, Yugao was specifically pulled out to oversee Team 14.

While Yugao is officially just a 'Special Jonin', the village often lie about some people's strength to hide their true strength from other villages. Some jonins like Kakashi are for intimidation though.

While Yugao is not the strongest, even amongst the special-jonin, her specialities like kenjutsu, sensing and genjutsu definitely makes her on par with the weaker jonins, like Kurenai.

Team 7 and Team 14 are two of the most high-profile teams.

Team 7 has Naruto Uzumaki, Kyuubi's jinchuriki and the son of Fourth Hokage, Sasuke Uchiha, one of the last Uchiha in the world and the only one in the village, and Hinata Hyuga, the daughter of the Hyuga clan head.

As for Team 14, it has Karin Uzumaki, a full-blooded Uzumaki who has adamantine chains like Kushina, Shiori, a seer and a very rich girl, though not capable of using chakra. And well, Sai is a normal one, who was previously in ROOT before it got disbanded due to Danzo's death, and has been working in the Jump as an artist as well part-time.

Team 14 will take safer missions, and remain close to Konoha.

Yugao's eyes twitched as Shiori was feeding Naruto lunch in the Ichiraku, openly in front of everyone. Even kids flirt more than Hayate and herself.

Karin was busy with Sakura, discussing about medical ninjutsu, Sai was busy in finishing his work before deadline, Sasuke was being jealous of Naruto and relieved after not having to do most of the things he signed contract of, and Hinata was...

Well, holding her chopsticks with food towards Sasuke, but he was ignoring her, lost in his own thoughts, and looking towards the Uzumaki Park that was visible out of Academy's window.

"What do you think?"

Hiruzen asked the two, and Kakashi became very Nara-like.

"Troublesome."

Yugao shrugged.

"They seem like good kids to me though."

Putting aside Shiori, of course.

"Well, then go and take your teams. And remember to keep them safe."

""Yes Hokage-sama.""

Both left the office, and headed to the academy.

For Kakashi, though, a black cat crossed his path, so he had to take another route.

And coincidentally enough, an old lady needed his help in returning to her home in the path he took. Her house was on the mountains.

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After the academy hours finished, Yugao came along with other jonins.

"Team 14, I am Yugao Uzuki. Follow me."

Shiori, Karin and Sai followed her out of the class, but not before Shiori kissed Naruto in front of everyone, without any ounce of shame.

'Maybe I should be this assertive with Hayate like this kid?'

Shaking away these embarassing thoughts, Yugao led the kids to training ground 14.

"Alright. Let me introduce myself first. I am Yugao Uzuki. I specialise in kenjutsu, sensing, genjutsu, and a bit of medical ninjutsu.

I will be your sensei from now on. So, if you have any questions, you can ask me without any hesitation."

Shiori raised her hand.

"Yes?"

"Do you want to be a model of one of my company?"

"No-"

"I was thinking of creating a marriage boutique and club. I will give you a special discount since you are my sensei."

"...Alright."

Yugao was embarrassed by this strange girl.

"Alright, let me introduce myself. I am Shiori, soon-to-be Shiori Uzumaki. I like my Naruto, money, fashion, and my dream is to become the richest princess in the world and marry my Naruto.

And well, I guess I am good with fuinjutsu, though not necessarily useful in battle. And, I like Katanas. So, I would love to learn kenjutsu."

Next was Karin's turn.

"I am Karin Uzumaki. I love Butter Chicken, and want to specialise in fuinjutsu, ninjutsu, including medical. Though I don't know if kenjutsu is for me. And ah! I am a good sensor."

Finally, it was Sai's turn.

"I am Sai. I love drawing with my brother, and well, I am not really sure about which path will suit me in becoming a ninja. But, I will do my best!"

Yugao nodded in approval at Sai. He was in Danzo's ROOT, but after Danzo's death, he, along with all the children were pulled out and sent to attend the Academy. It seems that he has adjusted well.

"Alright. Congratulations to all of you for graduating from academy, but, you haven't become Genins yet. You need to pass my test before officially becoming genins.

And don't worry. It will be just a simple test, so be prepared tomorrow."

Saying that, Yugao left.

She wasn't allowed to fail this team anyway. So, she will just train them like she was trained in ANBU.

Chapter 49: Hiruzen's changes and Team 7's inspection

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

"Kakashi, if you are going to waste time anyway, come with me for inspections about your team."

Hiruzen appeared before Kakashi, clearly displeased about him wasting time.

"... Alright."

First, they went to Sasuke's house. It was neat and clean, just as expected of an Uchiha.

Kakashi sighed thinking about Sasuke.

Not only his once subordinate, Itachi, killed almost the whole Uchiha clan, but the other surviving member, Izumi, was kidnapped mysteriously.

And if that wasn't all, he had to sell almost half of the Uchiha clan compound for learning fuinjutsu from Shiori.

That girl is really ruthless.

"It doesn't seem like Shiori has taught him much fuinjutsu huh."

Afterall, they were easily able to enter his house, unlike Shiori's, where even ANBU guarding her and Naruto can't enter without permission.

Yamato has told him that that house is a headache.

"Sasuke has been going to Inochi for therapy since that incident, though not out of his own will. And taking some girls, mainly Hinata, on dates regularly, though not out of his will. But, that definitely has improved his state. Inochi told me that there is apparently something called mental health. I didn't know that before. I am thinking of creating a mental health division in the hospital after Tsunade arrives."

"Tsunade-sama is coming back?"

"Well, it's just a prediction. But after Shiori-chan actually hit her head, 99% of her predictions have been wrong. And she has started having normal dreams too, she said that she didn't have weird dreams like now before hitting her head."

Kakashi nodded in understanding.

"Anyway, rumours have spread about Sasuke that he might 'pull an itachi' on the village one day. So he is pretty isolated and feared. Naruto doesn't even bother remembering his name, and Shiori has made sure that they keep distance. Apparently, she had a dream that the Uchiha clan was about to control Naruto and wreck havoc using Kyuubi to seize control over the village. That's why, Naruto is not going to be trusting Sasuke anytime soon."

Kakashi was shocked at that detail.

"Was Uchiha clan actually planning that!?"

"I don't know."

Hiruzen shook his head.

In fact, Itachi has informed him that Fugaku had hinted at the possibility.

Uchiha's may be hotheaded, but they aren't idiots. Just killing him and the hire-ups wouldn't allow them to be able to seize power. There is no way other clans will allow that kind of rule.

So, the most likely plan was to have Kyuubi attack from a ROOT base, force Hiruzen into sacrificing himself for sealing Kyuubi again, blame Danzo, who had stolen Shisui's sharingan, and then, Uchiha, the strongest clan of Konoha, and Fugaku, the second strongest ninja in the village at that time after Hiruzen, would save the village and become the Hokage.

If Itachi cooperated with the Uchiha clan and withheld the plans of the Uchiha clan, it might have actually worked.

But, there was a very high chance that Naruto would have died. Maybe the plan was to have Naruto go to 5 or 6 tails?

Fugaku must have had a Mangekyo Sharingan, or he must have trusted Itachi to be able to do it with his own Mangekyo Sharingan.

Good thing that Itachi got rid of Danzo. Hiruzen actually didn't know that Danzo had stolen Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan.

If not for Shiori telling him about the details of the coup according to her dream, her breaking down in tears when she realised that her seer ability isn't invincible, even though it could even see in the past to some extent, Hiruzen wouldn't have known that what pushed the Uchiha clan to finally unite all factions, to agree to coup, was somehow someone getting the information that Danzo killed Shisui and stole his Mangekyo Sharingan.

It might have been possible that Danzo himself might have leaked this information so that Uchiha clan would become decisive, and giving the him the perfect excuse for exterminating the Uchiha clan.

These things have made Hiruzen decisive, and he has realised that Tsunade returning to the village to become the Fifth Hokage might be due to his death.

Possibly at the hands of his most treasured student, Orochimaru. It isn't a prediction, but a feeling in his heart.

"Kakashi, if Tsunade doesn't return, I will leave the village in your hands. You have the strength to be the next Hokage."

But until Orochimaru is dealt with, he would not let the youngster Hokage sacrifice himself, like Minato. That's why, he must remain the Hokage until then.

Hiruzen knows that Amaterasu wouldn't be enough to kill Orochimaru. Izuna Uchiha couldn't do anything against Second Hokage with that ability, and Hiruzen had taught all his three students the Fire absorption seal that Second Hokage created to deal with Amaterasu.

"Hahaha! Why the gloomy face Kakashi!? Let's see the other students' houses."

Next, they went to the Hyuga clan, where Hiashi greeted them.

"I am going to be Hinata's Jonin-sensei. Do I have to be careful about anything, Hiashi-sama?"

Kakashi politely asked, but Hiashi frowned.

"Your talents are wasted on her, Kakashi. It's best if you focus on the two prodigies. You will be only disappointed by her. Well, do as you wish with her."

Hiashi was disappointed by the situation. According to Shiori's plan, Sasuke and Hinata needed to be apart now. And he had to expel Hinata from the Hyuga clan, so that Sasuke would sympathize with her.

But, she got Kakashi as her Jonin-sensei. And Kakashi will definitely become the next Hokage.

Hinata and Hanabi are around the same level, despite the three year difference. So, Hanabi is becoming a competitor for being the clan heir.

In his and Hizashi's case, Hizashi was given the Caged Bird Seal at just three years old because they were twins.

For a while, Hinata was continuously getting defeated by Hanabi, so he was able to stall any of his daughters getting the seal by convincing the elders that they must wait until they turn 18, so that the stronger one can be chosen. All while he was planning to give his daughter Hinata to Sasuke to protect both of his daughters.

Afterall, Sasuke is destined to become stronger than the whole Hyuga clan by the age of 16.

But some months back, Hinata began to improve, and was able to match Hanabi. While it wasn't impressive to be equal to someone who is three years younger and hasn't entered puberty which leads to rapid growth, in the eyes of the elders, both sisters are now competitors. And they are eager to eliminate competition.

But with Kakashi becoming Hinata's Jonin-sensei, Hinata's status far outweighs Hanabi's.

He expected Karin to be on Kakashi's team, since Uzumaki chains can restrain Kyuubi. But Third Hokage unexpectedly put Hinata in the team...

If she fails the genin test of Kakashi, it would be perfect opportunity to expel Hinata from the clan.

But knowing that Naruto and Sasuke are on the team, that seems to be unlikely.

'Should I have Hanabi approach Sasuke instead?'

While Hiashi was having these thoughts, Hiruzen and Kakashi arrived at the Uzumaki Palace, but no one was at home.

Unlike Sasuke's house, Hiruzen and Kakashi decided that it's best to not enter without permission.

"Alright Kakashi. Now, don't make your students wait long."

"Wait a second, Hokage-sama. If you don't mind me asking, why was the traditional team formation, using the top guy, top girl, and last guy wasn't chosen?

I mean, I can understand Naruto and Sasuke, but why Hinata?"

Kakashi knew that having the top kunoichi, Karin Uzumaki, would have been the better choice. Afterall, Uzumaki chains will be able to restrain Kyuubi.

Shiori's team will certainly not be given very difficult missions, so it would have been better to have Hinata on her team instead of Karin.

Atleast, Kakashi thought so. He couldn't understand Hiruzen's thinking.

"Hinata likes Sasuke."

Hmm, okay?

"And?"

"What and? That's all."

Chapter 50: Team 7 introductions

Chapter Text

(Naruto's PoV)

I looked out of the window, waiting for my Jonin-sensei to arrive.

I am finally a ninja officially!

This means that I will be able to go outside the village, and get pets for Shiori-chan.

Apparently, 12 years ago, a big fox appeared in the village, killed a lot of people, and the Fourth Hokage, my father, and my mother died fighting it. And the people say that Dad killed it.

So, I should hate the fox, right?

"To the Kyuubi, we are like ants and mosquitoes. When mosquitoes and ants bite you, you kill them. Thinking of this way, don't you think that you are big bad evil?

And anyway, he was being controlled. The village was in the wrong for trapping him, especially the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha who captured him in the first place.

You shouldn't hate him."

Shiori-chan made me understand, so I don't blame the Kyuubi. Instead, the person that who controlled it should be blamed.

And well, here is the thing.

Even though the people think that the Fourth Hokage killed Kyuubi, I know that Kyuubi didn't die, and somehow escaped.

Just like Shiori-chan, I often have prophetic dreams too. In it, I see Kyuubi, trapped in a cage, feeling lonely.

So, I have decided. I will free Kyuubi from the bad man's cage that used it to kill Mom and Dad, and bring him to home.

Shiori-chan likes big pets, that's why she has built a very large garrage in the palace.

She often pets the cats when she thinks that nobody is looking. So, how good will she feels by petting the big fox?

She is the only one who has given me so much all my life. So, I should be able to give her a gift too, right?

The bigger, the better, right?

Well, I will need to become stronger than Dad first for being able to do it.

Kakashi Hatake is Guy-sensei's eternal rival, the copy ninja who knows a thousand jutsus.

So, I am going to learn a lot of jutsus from that guy.

Afterall, he must be strong!

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(3rd PoV)

As soon as Naruto thought that, Kakashi entered the room, his back hunched, and looking every bit of uninterested, bored, and weak.

To Naruto, he didn't really look that strong. But, appearances can be deceiving.

Afterall, First Hokage looks stupid. Though, he wouldn't be, right? Afterall, he is the First Hokage who ended the Warring Clans Era, and no person stronger than him has appeared until now after his death.

He can't be stupid even though he looks like one.

"Alright. Though you all don't seem that impressive, come to the roof."

Kakashi disappeared, and as soon as he appeared at the roof, Naruto also arrived just a moment later.

'So he can already walk on walls, and well, Guy has taught him Body Flicker.'

Kakashi was relieved that he wouldn't have to teach basic things. It seems that Shiori has taught him some basic things, otherwise he would rather hand it to Ebisu.

He isn't good at teaching, and even got the Shadow Clone training method while guarding Naruto.

After a while, Sasuke and Hinata also arrived. And judging by Sasuke's face, he was shocked by Naruto's speed, and moreover, how he was able to run on wall.

With his Sharingan, he noticed that Naruto was sticking to the wall instead of just running up.

And he was jumping as well.

'So Naruto didn't ever go at me with full power?'

Sasuke realised that the gap between him and Naruto was only getting larger and larger. Now, even his two-tomoe Sharingan couldn't even trace Naruto's taijutsu easily.

He sighed. Even though he became Rookie of the Year, it was because Naruto isn't good at theory, just average, and that the maximum marks for everything is just 100.

The education system sucks.

Hinata didn't say anything, and just sat down like Sasuke.

Sasuke scooted away from her, making her depressed.

Kakashi saw all this, and realised that this team is going to be troublesome.

"Alright, how about you guys introduce yourselves?"

Naruto flashed a business smile, and handed Kakashi his business card.

"I am Uzumaki Naruto, the co-chair of Uzumaki conglomerate. Nice to meet you."

"Sasuke Uchiha."

"H-Hinata Hyuga."

Kakashi wanted to ask them to tell more about what they like, dislike and stuff, but,...

'Oh well.'

"I am Kakashi Hatake-"

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Naruto filtered out Kikasha bla bla'ing and putting on a show, and got the gist of the situation.

Apparently, they need to pass his test tomorrow to officially become Genins, or they would be sent back to the academy.

The test will be tomorrow at 7 in the morning, and they are suggested to not have breakfast so that they don't puke.

Well, 'suggested'. Not ordered.

So, Naruto is going to come after eating breakfast.

Well, he doesn't puke. Afterall, he digests food super fast, and is used to intense training.

After Kurashi-sensei left, Naruto also left towards the Civilian Council. Shiori-chan is going to be there.

Chapter 51: Civilian Council

Chapter Text

(First PoV)

After the team introductions, I headed to the most infamous organisation in Naruto banishment fanfics, the Civilian Council.

Thankfully, unlike those trash fanfics, where the Civilian Council is all powerful and even has the power to banish the village's jinchuriki, it is not that powerful.

After the Third Ninja War Ended, Land of Wind and Water Daimyo's have been continuously cutting funding of their Shinobi villages.

So, after Father-in-law's death, and a Hokage candidate, Orochimaru going rogue, the village was worried, so Konoha decided to start trying to become self-sufficient.

Before, Konoha, like all ninja villages, was only allowed to collect tax from Shinobi missions. And relied on the rest of the funding from Daimyo. It wasn't a big deal until Hashirama and Tobirama were alive. Though Tsunade's mother was the daughter of the Daimyo at that time and married Hashirama's son, we all know how well political marriages work and how loving rich relatives are.

Hiruzen is the second weakest Hokage after Tsunade, or probably the weakest, and his long reign has weakened Konoha a lot. If Hashirama or Tobirama 'requested' Daimyo to be able to collect taxes in Konoha and operate businesses within Konoha without interference from the Daimyo, no way would a Civilian Council be required to exist.

Most of the businesses are concentrated in the Fire Capital. So opening up Konoha meant that the businesses from Fire Capital dominated Konoha's non-ninja economy.

And they started interfering in the Academy as well, lowering the standards so that their kids can become ninja. The academy that was headed by Tobirama upon its opening is now filled with just Chunins. Afterall, these guys just want their kids to be able to become Genin or Chunin and then help in the business.

Afterall, even a genin is far more stronger than normal mercenaries and bodyguards.

Well, the situation is changing because of me. In clothing, and entertainment industries, I am unchallenged in the Land of Fire.

And now that I am officially an adult, I can formally join the council.

"Good morning, lady Daimyo."

I greeted the Daimyo's wife with a smile, and the cat she was squeezing jumped away from her and landed on my shoulder.

"Meow!"

It hissed at her, and nudged against my face affectionately.

"Tora-chan, long time no see. Do you want me to take you to your friends?"

"Meow~"

I wanted to pet her, but that will offend this fat lady, so I held back.

Daimyo's wife frowned at her cat being affectionate with me, but as soon as I took out something from the scroll, she smiled.

"Lady Daimyo, a gift for you."

A carefully crafted golden necklace set. Tenten's shop doesn't only make weapons.

I whispered to her, "I have engraved some seals so that it will glow more in the sunset. This is for you exclusively. I am sure the concubines will be jealous. I plan to open a resort in the capital, so it will set the mood in the sunset dinner."

"Aww! You are really the best in Konoha!"

She pulled me in a tight hug, suffocating me, and Tora used this opportunity to escape.

She has literally bathed in perfume. I guess just being rich doesn't bring class.

After she was satisfied, she let me go.

"Well, it's about time for the meeting. From now on, sit beside me."

Well, no pain no gain. I got in the good side of the head of the Civilian Council atleast.

She knows that she doesn't stand much chance against the beautiful young women, and girls, in the Daimyo's harem. Afterall, he is the richest man in the whole world by a long shot. That's why she uses Konoha to keep her influence.

She isn't just some ordinary cat lady. Afterall, catching Tora is the most premium D-rank mission, paying even more than C-rank and even many of the B-rank ones. And she lets off Tora to have her fun with the other cats almost everyday.

She obviously knows that I am buttering her up, but well, atleast she knows that I will not ally with the other concubines like businesses and nobles of Land of Fire.

I wonder how Hiruzen brought her to his side. Who knows, maybe she is secretly an ANBU whose mission is to keep Fire Daimyo connected to Konoha.

We arrived at the meeting, and everyone kept their smiles. Though, I could feel hostility from them towards a newcomer who has been affecting their businesses.

"Let's welcome the newcomer!"

"Good morning Councillors, I am Shiori, the co-chair of Uzumaki conglomerate. Nice to meet you."

Saying it, I sat down on the seat beside lady Daimyo.

A person handed me the proceedings until now, rules and regulations of the council, which I have read already.

33% tax is too high for companies. Moreover, the 30% tax for the rich civilians is audacious.

This council not only decides the things like business cases, civilian income tax of Konoha, and other such things, like rules and regulations of businesses.

Well, there is something that I need to take care of.

Copyright.

These guys copy everything shamelessly, so much so that I have to spend more on advertisement and keeping my products 'premium' instead of cheap copycats.

But the thing is, Konoha doesn't have many rich people that are spendthrifts.

Hyuga clan is too rigid and traditional.

Jonins like Kakashi and Guy aren't interested in material things.

While Akimichi clan is rich and spends a lot on food, I have already reached the upper limit by giving them a place inside the mall to open their restaurant.

Nara clan is too lazy to bother going out of their house.

Yamanaka clan, well, they spend a lot. Especially Inochi for his daughter.

I don't think I have ever seen an Aburame besides Shino occasionally.

Inuzukas, well, I guess they rather like the cheap knock-offs. Afterall, they are dogs. What would you expect from them?

Sarutobi clan is good to me. Especially Asuma. He buys everything I say that Kurenai might like.

But, knock-offs seriously effect business. They hold the raw materials, so even if I bring cheap things, they wouldn't be able to compete in lowering the price. It's no wonder that 'Made in China' gradually replaced most competitors, especially the quality ones like 'Made in Japan'.

Monopolising on the raw material supply chain is evil, unless it's me. They have been increasing the prices of raw materials for me, so my profits are dropping.

I could have bought some of the raw material producers, but they are united against me, as if they have formed a union.

And we all know how harmful unions are for progress and benefit of the people. It's not like I exploit my people. They work in much better condition and have much more salary than the workers of these unofficial 'unions' against me.

Well, since they have picked a fight with me instead of joining me, I will make sure that they run out of business and get swallowed by my conglomerate at the lowest cost for me.

They have hundreds of thousands of workers?

I have Naruto.

But for now, I will quietly observe them, pick my targets, lure them to my side, and then introduce copyright system that benefits me.

Right now, I don't have the support of the majority.

Sigh. Only if ninjas used their talents in making money instead of fighting stupid wars. Despite having the power, they ultimately serve those without any real power besides money.

And ninjas can easily steal money.

Chapter 52: Graduation Gift

Chapter Text

A long and boring meeting in the Civilian Council ended, which should have involved people questioning why a ninja like her is in it, what is a kid doing here, etc.

But, things like that didn't happen, because I was sitting beside Daimyo's wife.

Anyway, after it ended, I got the basic idea of some councillors.

Kizashi Haruno, Sakura's dad, is obviously a family friend and the CEO of Uzumaki Mall, so he is my employee, and has to follow my orders.

If my guess is correct, I have atleast 10% of the councillors right now who will back my proposal of copyrights.

The percentage need to cross 50%.

After saying goodbye to Daimyo's wife and the people I have connections with, I left the council building, and found Naruto waiting for me.

"How was your sensei?"

We talked on our way to my palace while h*lding h*nds.

"Hmm, I think that guy is actually stronger than Guy-sensei."

I raised my eyebrow at Naruto's evaluation of Kakashi.

Well, many things have changed a lot. So it might actually be true.

Afterall, Kakashi has is a lot talented, on par with Father-in-law. If a genius like him worked hard as much as Guy-sensei, even with the strain of Sharingan, it might actually be possible.

Hardwork doesn't beat talent. Hardwork beats talent that doesn't work hard.

Well, the stronger Kakashi is, the better.

According to me, Kakashi is actually a really good teacher.

In Part 1, Naruto was severely lacking in basics. And as a genius who probably didn't have much difficulties in learning basic things, he got Ebisu to be his teacher.

If Hiruzen left his grandson's education to him, he should be atleast good at basic stuff.

Then, Jiraiya took Naruto to 2, 2 and half, or 3 years trip, I don't know exactly, and Naruto was able to do basic stuff, and a bigger Rasengan, in which he still needed Shadow Clones.

My Naruto can already perform Rasengan with one hand, and big ball Rasengan with the help of two shadow clones.

Jiraiya is a bad teacher.

Father-in-law was a genius, creating Rasengan himself, and while he might have gotten some help in fuinjutsu, mastered the Flying Thunder God even before that.

I don't know much about Yahiko. Nagato had Rinnegan, and Konan's paper jutsu is really OP. I don't know if it is a kekkai genkai, or some jutsu she created herself, possibly with the help of Nagato's Rinnegan helping her out in the development of jutsu.

I don't think Jiraiya had as much of an effect as Konan's being a genius herself. Of course, without Jiraiya teaching her fuinjutsu, it would be impossible for her to get so strong.

If possible, I would like to recruit her.

Well, anyway, Kakashi, in the span of some days or months, taught Naruto the cheat of Shadow Clones, finished his Wind Style transformation, and helped him in creating Rasenshuriken, the strongest Wind Release jutsu.

It is clear that had Naruto stayed in Konoha with Kakashi teaching him ninjutsu, and training with the toads, he would have been much stronger.

"Naruto, Kakashi is claimed to have mastered a thousand jutsus. Ask him to help you master Earth Style transformation first and a lot of jutsus. Let's move to other nature transformation afterwards."

"Hmm."

Wind Style is best in offence, but poor in defence, so Earth style is the best nature transformation for Naruto next.

Mud Wall and hiding in a mole are really useful jutsus, especially in Naruto's hands.

Afterall, lightning can also provide defence, but not to others, like me.

And since Karin's chakra nature is water, lightning will be the third nature transformation I will have Naruto master. Purple lightning, Chidori's variants, and especially, Kirin.

It will be great to use Kirin in Pain's home turf. Where it is always raining, sky always covered with clouds.

Anyway, Naruto will be able to master both Earth and Lightning release in six months, befor Chunin Exam.

I have to be careful about what could have happened with Izumi. I can't predict how will the Konoha Crush Arc go.

And that will be the perfect opportunity to turn Naruto into a hero.

We reached home, and it seemed like Karin hasn't returned yet.

Building it took quite a lot of money. Using Hashirama trees' wood to be able to carve sealings, thick iron plates so that Zetsu can't easily come, and of course, an intent detection barrier too.

It is a fortress, though I don't know if it will be able to withstand Shinra Tensei.

We passed through the barriers, and entered home.

I should get the Gelal Stones, if they exist, soon to increase the number of barriers and not having Naruto and Karin charge them daily.

Still, Rubik's barrier that I came up with is something that I don't have much confidence in, given that there are so many geniuses. Obito will not be able to solve those, but he has Kamui.

Obito is really stupid. If I had Kamui, I could have completed his stupid plan in a jiffy.

Instead of reviving his crush, who didn't even love him back, he tried to put the world under genjutsu. Where Rin would love him, despite being a genocidal maniac.

What a loser. And people think that Naruto could have been like Obito. Gaara, definitely yes. But Obito? Hell no.

"Naruto, I have a gift for you."

I brought something that I have been working on for a while.

"Shiori-chan, you are the best!"

He carefully removed the gift wrapper, and got two gauntlets.

"It is Shinobi Gauntlet, Model-II. Put on the right one."

He put on the right-handed one, and I put on the left handed one.

"Now, put your blood in mine, and I will put mine in yours."

For fuinjutsu, I have to use blood. And well, my spit can activate the seals.

We did it at the same time, and a summoning contract was formed between us.

Naruto charged my gauntlet's crystal, and then, I smirked.

"I will go to the bedroom, and well, you can prepare your gift that you are hiding in the meantime. Keep it with you."

"Huh? What gift!?"

Yeah. He really can't lie to me. It's written all over his face.

Waving him bye, I went to my bedroom, got changed, put on a comfortable yukata, and started putting on a red lipstick.

After a while, oh.

After an hour of getting ready, I activated the summoning jutsu engraved in the gauntlet.

And with a puff of smoke, Naruto appeared.

It was a success!

"Huh!? I didn't know that summoning jutsu can be used this way."

He muttered, and seeing me, started blushing.

"Umm, Shiori-chan, I made this gift myself."

Naruto took out a Kurama stuffed toy. And, it was purple.

"You made this yourself!?"

"Yeah. I used transformation jutsu and shadow clones to learn how to make them from the Pokemon stuffed toy makers."

I immediately pushed him to the bed, and got on the top of him.

"Thank you so much! You put in so much effort for me... Let me reward you."

I took off our gauntlets, and put my hands over his chest.

I could feel something poking, but I ignored it, giving him a smirk.

He started blushing, and looked away.

Well, It's not the time yet for that.

But...

I took his chin in my hand, and made him to look at me.

He looked at me in the eyes, and they continuously darted towards my lips.

I opened my mouth, and said,

"Why don't you eat me from the inside?"

Chapter 53: A Possession

Chapter Text

(3rd PoV)

Karin was in the mall, relaxing and drinking orange juice in the mall.

She resentfully looked towards the direction of Uzumaki Palace.

"I guess I should move out now that I have graduated..."

She muttered, sighing. She just can't watch Shiori and Naruto being lovely-dovely even when they eat breakfast. She feels like a third wheel.

While she was thinking about the best place to buy a house, someone aside from the ANBU was observing her.

Suddenly, Karin was about to turn into that direction, having detected someone unfamiliar in her vicinity, but she just naturally got up from the bench and threw the plastic glass and straw in the dustbin, and started walking towards the theatre.

"One ticket for the Pokemon movie please."

Getting the ticket, she went into the theatre, to watch the new anime movie, Pokemon: Dialgia vs Palkia.

Nobody suspected anything, and the undercover ANBU guards followed her into the theatre after buying tickets.

Afterall, Karin is a person of great interest. Since most of the ANBU are also unaware of the existence of Tenzo, Karin is believed to be the only person to be able to suppress Kyuubi. Afterall, she has been doing so since she awakened the adamantium chains a year ago, helping Naruto in training by increasing the number of Shadow Clones used.

But, Karin is currently asleep, yet her eyes are open.

Currently, Izumi is possessing Karin.

'Her sensing is stronger than I thought, even sensing my soul clone.'

Izumi inwardly sighed in relief. She was almost caught by this yet-to-be Genin.

The movie started, and Izumi started rummaging through the memories of Karin.

'Such an unfortunate kid.'

She pitied Karin, and then, reached her soul in the mindscape.

A 12 year old Karin's soul was asleep, and Izumi's soul was standing in front of her.

With white skin, a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan, and red aura surrounding her.

She approached Karin's soul, and merged into her.

The combined soul woke up, and smiled.

"It was easier than I thought."

In the real world, Karin ate a bunch of popcorns as the movie started.

And, nobody knows what has just happened.

Chapter 54: Almost Caught

Chapter Text

(First PoV)

"Nee-san, I am moving out."

Karin arrived in the evening, her shadow clones carrying a lot of bags. And even before entering home, she told me her decision.

I sighed. I have been thinking that she has been wanting to say something to me for some days. So that was it huh.

I need to somehow convince her to stay. Otherwise, Zetsu might approach us. Afterall, Karin can sense malicious chakra. No wonder no Zetsu has been caught in my trap until now.

"Alright. Let's talk about it inside first. I have a graduation gift for you."

I turned and started heading inside.

But as Karin entered, suddenly, all the alarms started going off, and Karin was buried underground, with chakra suppression seals, 200 ton weight seals all over her, with a sleeping tag on her head.

My heart started beating fast as all the ANBUs inside the palace and Naruto appeared beside me, looking at Karin with caution.

"Shiori-chan, are you alright!? Is this an imposter?"

Why did Karin trigger the trap!?

Is Karin kidnapped and replaced by a Zetsu!?

Hiruzen arrived, and asked me, "Why did Karin trigger the trap?"

"Let me see... Hey Tenzo, use Wood Release to bind her. And remove the sleeping tag."

Maybe she is just angry at me for some reason? But... if it is Zetsu, it must react to Wood Release.

Kinoe did as I told him, and captured her with Wood Release.

Nothing unusual happened.

So it isn't a Zetsu huh?

After the sleeping tag was removed, Karin woke up.

"Huh? What happened?"

Karin seemed to be confused.

And, she wasn't triggering the dark intent barrier that I have created from Nue.

"Karin, what is the last thing that you remember?"

Hiruzen asked.

"Umm, I was in the mall, then I felt someone staring at me... then... I don't know..."

Hiruzen became serious.

"Someone put Karin under genjutsu, without any ANBU guards noticing...

Itachi? Izumi? Or Kakashi testing Naruto?"

I made this conclusion, intentionally saying Itachi.

And, as expected, Nue's barrier got triggered again. Another set of trap captured Karin and put her in sleep.

This brings three suspects.

Orochimaru, Izumi if she is alive, and Obito.

Orochimaru wouldn't be able to control his negativity towards the mention of Itachi. A lot of time has passed, so I don't know Izumi's feelings towards Itachi if she is still alive.

And Obito is a fool, with poor emotional intelligence. Though the possibility of him having negative emotions on the mention of Itachi is doubtful, mentioning Kakashi would surely trigger something.

The person in front of me is undoubtedly Karin. If she was a Zetsu, the trap would have worked immediately as soon as she woke up. And she wasn't stopped by the barriers which checked her chakra signature.

"Old man, let Inochi-san enter her mindscape and find out about who put Karin under a genjutsu."

"Hmm."

Hiruzen nodded, and an ANBU outside went away to bring Inochi.

"Kakashi didn't do it. It should be either Itachi, or Izumi."

Hiruzen said, and looked at Naruto.

I also looked at him, and his eyes were crimson with a slit. And his whiskers were more pronounced.

I gently patter him.

"Naruto, calm down."

"Yeah Shiori-chan."

He returned to normal, and I sighed in relief.

So the seal has started weakening huh. I guess I will have to talk to Kurama soon.

Inochi hurriedly arrived, and put his hand on Karin's head.

We all watched in silence.

Inochi frowned.

"She was angry at Karin and Naruto, for being, *cough*, too chummy without caring that she is in front of them.

She did sense some unknown chakra in the mall, but it was of a bird.

Aside from it, there is nothing unusual. Then she watched a movie, did some shopping, and returned.

And she told Shiori that she wants to move out. I didn't find anything unusual."

I frowned. Perhaps genjutsu was used to alter her memories about her finding the unknown chakra?

"What was the bird?"

Hiruzen asked.

"A crow."

The silence became chilly.

Itachi?

Why would he do it?

I don't think he will.

Oh. Orochimaru must be framing Itachi, and Akatsuki in general. Afterall, Akatsuki is after Orochimaru.

"Naruto, Shiori. I will take Karin to my office-"

"No. Increase the security, but Karin will stay here."

I said resolutely.

Perhaps, after obtaining the body of an Uchiha, he wants an Uzumaki? And he wants to create a misunderstanding between us, so that Karin will be affected more by Curse Mark?

I must make sure that the misunderstanding is resolved properly.

"Alright. But I will send Kakashi over."

Hiruzen relented, but decided to send Kakashi.

"That will be good. And please have a Hyuga check for any residual chakra in Karin."

"It is already done."

Oh? So a Hyuga is an ANBU here?

Well, it makes sense.

"Yo. I guess I will be living with you guys for a while."

After a while, Kakashi arrived.

"Then Kakashi, I will leave the protection of these kids to you."

Hiruzen said, and the ANBU removed the traps and seals on Karin.

"Huh? What happened!?"

"Someone attacked you with a genjutsu, Karin."

"Really!?"

"Yes. So, atleast until you learn to be able to counter genjutsu, I oppose you from living outside the palace."

"...Alright."

This time, no traps were trigger. I guess Karin is safe for now.

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(3rd PoV)

In an underground lab in Otogakure, Izumi's eyes narrowed.

"You failed huh?"

"Shut up Orochimaru."

While Izumi was disappointed to be discovered so easily, and having her clone to flee after getting captured once, she gained many things.

Karin's memories. Full of fuinjutsu with a new script. And the information that there is an artificial tailed beast, that is still worked on, in the depths of that palace.

She has found a weapon that can be used for her goal.

But it seems that Shiori has hidden quite a lot of things from Karin.

Shiori is too cautious for someone her age. Izumi couldn't believe that she almost got caught. If Inochi has checked Karin's mind when she was asleep the first time, she would have been caught.

Chapter 55: Kakashi's sleepless night

Chapter Text

(Third PoV)

Kakashi entered the palace. First, he had to put his hand on a tablet made of chakra metal, where he recorded his chakra signature.

Then, he was allowed inside.

The palace was massive, covering almost half of the Uchiha clan compound. And when he entered the main house, he marveled at the drawings. But taking a closer look, they were all seals, made up of very small 'Sanskrit' words that Shiori invented, carved into Hashirama wood, and placed within various metals.

Shiori led him to the main room along with Naruto and still unconscious Karin.

She took the main seat on the tatami floor, and looked at Kakashi straight in the eye.

"Please make sure that Karin and Naruto are resistant to genjutsu, especially Sharingan genjutsu."

"Umm-"

"I have a gadget. Please test it. Naruto, be ready."

Kakashi looked at the gauntlet that Naruto was wearing.

Nodding, he revealed his Sharingan, and used a genjutsu on Naruto.

Naruto was under genjutsu for a moment, but was automatically broken out of it almost immediately.

"Please use your strongest genjutsu."

Kakashi looked hesitant, but in the end, tried his strongest genjutsu.

The same thing happened. Naruto was broken out of the genjutsu.

"Please try more. Maybe put more chakra into your Sharingan? Isn't there a higher level of Sharingan?"

Kakashi was dumbfounded.

Still, he put more chakra, and the three tomoe Sharingan spun and formed a new pattern. Of Mangekyo Sharingan.

Kakashi noticed his chakra rapidly draining, and took out a kunai, watching his reflection.

"This-!"

He stopped actively putting chakra into his Sharingan, and it reverted into the three-tomoe stage.

Activating it for the first time, even though he has been training a lot to prepare for the coming doom, so he has more chakra than he had in War Arc, it still made him tired.

"Please try that advanced Sharingan-"

"No. I will need to first determine if it is safe."

Shiori sighed. Kakashi's Sharingan is undoubtedly one of the most powerful Sharingan, probably even more than Itachi's. While Sasuke's Mangekyo abilities in canon were trash, his Sharingan was the strongest, being able to break out of Tsukuyomi in base.

She needed to test how well her gauntlet would work against Obito's Sharingan.

Well, that testing will be pushed back for later.

"Can you try these goggles?"

Shiori handed him goggles, with a black glass on his Sharingan side.

"While I have created a seal that will seal your Sharingan and can be activated with an influx of chakra, there is a huge chance of damage due to not supplying chakra-

Wait!

What if doing that will deactivate your Sharingan? I mean, instead of completely sealing off the chakra flow, just reducing it?

Has the Fourth Hokage tried it?"

Shiori suddenly had this idea. But she knew that if Minato tried it, and failed, there is little chance that she will succeed.

"No. But I don't want to seal it, even temporarily. I don't want to you to be playing with my organs."

"Of course. I would need Tsunade-sama to help me in the medical part of the procedure. But remember, you must protect Naruto at all costs. If necessary, you should atleast try it."

Shiori wanted to transplant a Sharingan in Naruto, preferably Sasuke's. So that it can evolve into Rinnegan. While chakra expenditure is not a problem for him, reducing the chakra expenditure is still something that she would try if possible. And Kakashi was the perfect test subject for her.

While she was thinking about this, Kakashi was actually moved by her try to increase his strength.

"Alright. You can sleep in Naruto's room which is next to mine. Let Karin rest today. I will explain things to her when she wakes up tomorrow."

"Alright."

Kakashi picked up Karin, and put her on her bed.

Meanwhile, Naruto and Shiori went to her bedroom, and Kakashi went to Naruto's.

This arrangement was to ensure that they are safe. And there were no bedrooms near theirs.

But now that Kakashi thought about it, shouldn't he have slept with Naruto instead? Afterall, the bed is big, and they are boys.

'Well... they are kids. Sleeping together isn't a big deal.'

Not thinking much, Kakashi first took a look at Naruto's room.

A standard Konoha chakra blade, mangas, and a bunch of photos of him and Shiori together.

Kakashi suddenly got an idea. What if he discovered Naruto's hentai manga stash, and used it to blackmail him during the test tomorrow?

Kakashi silently looked through everything, but sadly, he didn't find any hentai.

'Well, Naruto seems like an innocent kid.'

But suddenly, his ears perked up.

He put his ear against the wall, and eavesdropped on the conversation between Naruto and Shiori.

"Hey Shiori-chan. Is Karin alright?"

"I hope so. She was probably attacked due to being an Uzumaki, or because you are Fourth Hokage's son."

Naruto knows that he is Fourth Hokage's son!?

Well, it seems like either Hokage-sama, or Shiori herself has told him.

"So-"

"Shh! You are sleeping with me today. Just focus on me. Kiss me."

Kakashi shuddered. It was best to move away from the wall and stop actively using his ANBUs special skills of eavesdropping.

But... he was too curious...

"Mhhm... Your skills with tongue are even better than mine..."

...

"Hey! Not there! My feet are ticklish-"

Kakashi stopped eavesdropping.

He quietly went to the bed, and stared at the ceiling.

He had Minato-sensei and Kushina checking up on him at this age. And he has never felt attraction to anyone in his life.

The only romance he has experienced is through Jiraiya-sama's novels and their manga adaptations.

And even considering Jiraiya-sama, his works weren't... this freaky...

Perhaps, they need some adult to look over them? Puberty is a phase that not only brings edginess like he had, but also...

Kakashi didn't want Naruto to become a father before him.

All night, Kakashi's eyes were staring at ceiling. He couldn't catch a wink of sleep.

Chapter 56: Genin Test: Team 7

Chapter Text

(Naruto's PoV)

I sighed as another hour passed since the scheduled time for the test. Tch, if he was going to be late anyway, I wouldn't have skipped breakfast.

I looked at my teammates.

Samasuke was... okay.

I couldn't help but remember her taste. Those lips, that slippery tongue...and her legs...

Man, Shiori-chan looked so cute yesterday. Her face totally turned red like an apple.

This Icha Icha Make out Tactics: Manga Version Signed Copy is quite good. At least my Jonin-sensei has a good taste. When he was at our home for inspection, going through my manga collection, I decided to do an inspection of his home in return.

My Shadow clone found some interesting mangas, from the genre 'hentai' that Shiori-chan doesn't let me read. The memory transfer after dispelling the clone is quite useful.

Anyway, Shisuke is alright. But... this useless girl gives me the creeps.

Imagine being the heir of the Hyuga clan and not being even in the top 10 in taijutsu. No wonder Naji looks frustrated all the time. He should have been the heir.

Atleast she stalks Sosuke, not me.

Well, I just have to endure for about six months before I become Chunin. I just hope she doesn't come in the way of missions and becomes a burden. Though I doubt things will go according to my wish.

"So you stole my book, hmm?"

"Finally arrived? You are three hours late."

"Maa, I encountered a black cat-"

"Yeah yeah yeah. Can we start the test already. I am feeling hungry for Shiori-chan's food."

"Alright. Atleast act surprised when I sneaked upon you with a kunai."

"Well, you sneaked on the wrong one. I am just a Shadow Clone."

"..."

"Start already!"

"Kids these days..."

.

.

.

Phew! I am not a Shadow Clone!

I am really glad that he didn't try to pop me by stabbing me with a kunai. I didn't even notice him before the kunai was on my neck, and that the Icha Icha manga was no longer in my hands.

I guess this is the difference between a normal jonin and an Elite Jonin, who is the Eternal Rival of Guy-sensei and a student of Dad. I wonder what happened to his teammates?

"Alright. These are the bells. You have to get them from me to pass. And you have until noon."

"B-but sensei, there are only two bells."

"Hmm? Because only two of you can pass at maximim. The one who doesn't get a bell will have to return to the academy."

Hmm, but that wasn't the case with Guy-sensei's team. Maybe Kakashi has some special privilege? Well, I just have to give my all to get the bell.

"Your time starts now. Come at me with the intent to kill."

Sasuke and Hinata hid in the bushes, and I took my fighting stance. I don't think that hiding from him will really help me. I will just have to fight him head-on.

"Oh? You aren't hiding?"

"That just isn't my style."

I ran at him at full speed, and gave him a strong kick which he blocked by his arm.

'Rasengan!'

As I thrust a Rasengan on him, he looked shocked but was able to dodge.

"Where did you learn that?"

"Who knows?"

Alright, time to get serious. Multi-shadow Clone Jutsu!

I made 50 shadow clones, with bigger and heavier Rasengans.

"So, umm, isn't that a bit overkill?"

"Nope! Bigger Rasengan barrage!"

The clones rained down the Rasengans, and he had no choice to run. But he suddenly appeared in front of me, and tried to put me in genjutsu.

I acted as if I was caught in it, and swiftly tried to get the bell, but he backed away.

Tch, I just touched it!

A barrage of shurikens and kunais were rained down on him from Sasuke's location. They didn't work, obviously. But that gave me an opening to shoot out a mini-sealing scroll like a bullet from the storage of the gauntlet Shiori-chan made for me, Tebuteki.

'Fuinjutsu: Paralysis Barrier!'

The seal quickly expanded and covered the whole training ground, paralysing Kakashi, who was on the ground.

"Wha-"

I didn't give Kakashi the chance to be surprised as I my clones on the trees formed Big ball Rasengans.

They jumped him, and as Kakashi broke through the paralysis by sheer force, I quickly cancelled the paralysis and the leaves scattered around transformed back into my clones, and got the two bells. But a kunai was by my neck as well.

And the bells disappeared in a puff along with Kakashi-sensei.

"""Dynamic entry!"""

Shouts came from all around me, aiming at Kakashi-sensei. While I shoved a Rasengan on him, punched away the kunai, and arms came from my gut and managed to get a bell before Kakashi-sensei suddenly disappeared, and I had to dispell my Shadow Clones before they hit me.

"Hey, I got a bell, so do I pass!?"

"Yes! Now let me test the other two. You go and eat."

I looked at the bell in my hand, and realised that I atleast forced Kakashi-sensei to use a hidden card. It was as if he completely disappeared, and he reappeared quite far.

Must be a great jutsu that will be quite handy.

I got off the tree, and went to the stumps where two boxes of bento were present.

Eh? They look nothing compared to Shiori-chan's cooking.

I took out my own bento from the bag, and started observing Siku and Hyuga girl trying to get a bell from Kakashi-sensei.

Hyuga girl was trying to land hits with Gentle Fist, while Sisuke was copying my moves of taijutsu while occassionally throwing explosive tags hidden behind Fireball jutsu.

The fighting lasted for an hour before the time ran out. They couldn't even touch Kakashi-sensei.

Hyuga girl was already out of breath, and Sasuke was clearly frustrated but not tired. Their coordination wasn't really good. Sasuke was focusing on attacking and Hyuga girl was trying to give him space which led to her not fighting much.

She will most likely be eliminated-

Hmm... wait a minute... three members, two bells... maybe this test has a certain meaning?

"Naruto, always look underneath the underneath. And assess the situations while thinking about things from a third person view."

Third person view...

I am Fourth Hokage's son. Sasuke is the only Uchiha left in the village. Kakashi-sensei is the student of Dad, and the one who will most likely become the next Hokage.

And while Hyuga girl is really weak, she is the eldest daughter of the currently biggest and most powerful clan of Konoha.

Kakashi-sensei doesn't seem to be a very good sensor, and neither am I or Sasuke. Well, as compared to Karin.

Hyuga girl has Byakugan. Which is very good for scouting. And Hyugas have good potential to be medical ninjas.

If I was Third Hokage, I would have rather chosen Karin to be on the team than the Hyuga girl. But, since he chose Hinata, he is probably thinking that she might be a late bloomer? Or even if she is weak, for her to become a medical ninja who can act as a scout too?

Anyway, it doesn't make any sense to remove a sensor from such an important team, which might get targeted by Itachi. Or the Uchiha that killed Mom and Dad.

Wait... The purpose of the test... is it to drive a wedge between us, and see if we can work as a team or not?

Afterall, expecting a normal Genin to get a bell from Kakashi-sensei will be foolish.

I see. I see.

Kakashi and those two came to the posts where I was eating, and he tied the Hyuga girl to one of the post.

"Naruto, Sasuke, you can eat the bentos I have prepared, with all my love-"

He said while looking at me.

"-And you can't give it to Hinata. She was the most useless. But you two, I will give you just one another chance. But this time, you two will only have one hour to get the bell from me. I have an important matter to attend to, so I will return in half an hour."

Saying that, he disappeared.

"Here."

Oh, Sakuse offered his half-eaten bento to Hinata.

"N-no!"

"Eat it. I need you have atleast some energy, maybe just to distract him. I can't sense him nearby. I am not strong enough to take a bell on my own.

Atleast use your Byakugan to tell me his positions.

If we get the bells, we will decide. Alone, we can't get a bell."

Ho? Well, even I can't sense him, but I know for sure that he must be keeping an eye on us. Well,

"You can eat my extra bento. Afterall, I have a better one made by Shiori-chan herself."

Sasuke looked around, and started feeding Hinata. Woah woah woah! She is eating from Sasuke's half finished bento and used chopsticks?

She is really desperate huh?

Granted that I just put the bento in front of her even though she is tied up. I am not feeding anyone but Shiori-chan.

But what a creepy blush. And now that I think about it, I have seen her following Sukise many times. And since she has Byakugan...

I kind of want Byakugan now. With it, I would be able to-

I shaked away those thoughts. Now isn't the time for that.

Kakashi appeared in front of us, trying to look scary and all. He is showing some black clouds and trying to look threatening by releasing some pressure.

"You all....

Pass!"

"Huh!?"

Those two huh'ed, and Kakashi started explaining things like those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon teammates are worse than scum.

That's a flawed ideology. First of all, who makes the rules? Old man Hokage is well... old. So his rules will be old and may not be relevant anymore. Secondly, let's say that there is a mission where either only I survive if I run or we all die because we try to fight for an insignificant client.

I will run 100 out of 100 times then. I wouldn't want Shiori-chan to be sad.

It is different if I can run and my shadow clones can save them as well. Or I can be a little late for a mission if I go to save a teammate. But I am not risking my life for teammates I don't really care about. Maybe I may try to save Sukuse since he challenges me almost everytime he comes. It's somewhat... okayish for him to be around?

But not this useless girl.

Anyway, Kakashi then took us to the memorial place, where his teammates' graves were. Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin. So the other two students of Dad are dead...

"Alright. Your duty starts from tomorrow. Same place, 7 am."

"And you won't be late again?"

"I won't."

Yeah. I totally believe that. Well,

"Kakashi-sensei."

"Hmm?"

"Come to my home for dinner. Shiori-chan told me to bring you by 7pm in the evening."

"Hmm, alright."

Well, I have to invite others as well now. I wonder how Shiori-chan's test went? I am sure that she will pass though.