Chapter 3
The Forest of Death isn’t a place for a five years old to be, but Izuku needed to assess his abilities, so here he is, in the heart of one of the most dangerous places on earth.
“can’t use that”, Izuku says in his mindscape after slicing a whole tree the size of a three store building into small cubes the size of a d-6 dice, “now that I think about it, a good chunk of my spells are way overkill”.
“pfft, there’s no better kill than overkill”, Kurama snickers inside his head, “I don’t get why you even bother trying restricting your strength”.
Meanwhile, Inu and another Jonnin who were watching from his hiding place pales as Naruto approaches a bolder.
“did you saw that shit?!”, the Jonnin, a woman that looked to be wearing nothing by a full body fishnet suit and trench coat points out with bulged eyes, “he just… touched that, what kind of jutsu does that?!”.
Before Inu could answer, they see Naruto walking away from the bolder.
He raises his right hand, he does no hand signs, he simply does a twisting motion and the next this they know the bolder, which was roughly the size of three adults standing one above the other and as thick as an elephant is crushed into a smooth sphere the size of a bowling ball.
“this village is so lucky Naruto isn’t out for blood”, Inu says, his only uncovered eye fixated on the toddler bellow, until he hears the leaves shaking.
From the tees behind Naruto comes a giant snake, so giant it looked like it could swallow an elephant whole.
It jumps from the treetops in an attempt to swallow the toddler who had his back turned to her.
Inu and the woman spring into action, only to freeze at the sight of the body of the snake being practically vaporized into a mist as Naruto without a care in the world dodges the now disembodied head.
“I need a drink… or a hundred”, the woman says with a scared tone.
Inu was going to say something when all of sudden, Naruto uses whatever was that mysterious jutsu to carve a brand new clearing the forest.
“sensei, your son is a monster”, Inu thinks to himself, also wishing for a drink, the second part he says out loud, “I hope he never goes renegade”.
At that, the Jonnin shudders.
Meanwhile at the Hokage’s tower.
“the fuck was that?!”, a wild looking woman with red face markings says while staring with wide eyes at the crystal ball Hiruzen was using to spy on Naruto, “Nara, did you saw that?!”.
“I did”, the usually lazy head of the Nara Clan says, “that’s troublesome”.
“troublesome my ass, that was badass!”, the same woman says with a wild grin, “holy shit, did he just pulled that out of his ass?!”.
By that, she means new trees growing out of thin air to replace the ones destroyed.
“is that a kekkei genkai?”, the Hyuuga patriarch asks, a nervous drop of sweat rolling down his forehead.
“I know what Kushina’s kekkei genkai was”, Hiruzen speaks, taking a deep drag from his pipe, “and sure as hell wasn’t… that, nor it was the wood release of the first Hokage”.
“so the boy developed a brand new kekkei gengai”, the head of the Yamanaka Clan points out, “I’ll borrow my friend Shikaku’s catchphrase here, that’s troublesome”.
“he’s gonna be one hell of a powerhouse in the field”, the wild looking woman says, still pumped up, “man I pity the idiot who has to face him in the Chuunin exam”.
“Tsume, please sit down, I believe the Hokage has something to discuss with us”, Shikaku says, as he points a vacant seat to the woman.
“the reason I called you here is because”, “Hiruzen makes a pause and looks over the Clan heads, “Naruto doesn’t want to join the academy”.
“what?!”, the four guests exclaim in unison.
“what do you mean the brat doesn’t want to join the academy?!”, Tsume exclaims, “I tough every kid dreamed of being a shinobi!!”.
“what she said!”, the Hyuuga patriarch says, “that kind of power would greatly benefit the village”.
“and that’s exactly the problem”, Hiruzen says with a tired groan, “Naruto doesn’t harbor any love for the people in this village, in fact the only reason he hadn’t turned…”.
Hiruzen points at the crystal ball with a hysteric wave;
“whatever that is, is because it would be a disrespect to his parents sacrifice”, Hiruzen says, noticing Shikaku raising his hand, “and before any of you ask, he figured who his parents are”.
“so what now?”, the Yamanaka head asks, “is forcing him into attending an options?”.
“after what we saw I believe that isn’t”, Tsume says with a groan, “he’s too powerful to be forced to do anything”.
“maybe we could put another seal on him”, the Hyuuga patriarch chimes in, he himself admonished the idea, but he couldn’t deny the effectiveness.
“that’s not a viable option”, Hiruzen says, “some of the ANBU seal master, level seven seal masters by the way, tried to put some seals on him while he was asleep and let’s just say… it backfired horribly”.
“can’t we try to convince him of joining on his own accord?”, Shikaku asks.
“he doesn’t see why is he obligated to give his blood for people who would rather see him dead”, Hiruzen points out, “actually the fact he’s not putting the civilians at the business end of that kekkei genkai is nothing short of a miracle”.
“can’t blame the pup”, Tsume says with a growl.
“well, he does have a soft spot for the Uchiha”, the Hyuuga points out, “I think Mikoto gives him food from time to time”.
“yes I do!”, Naruto says, appearing out of nowhere in the room, making everybody jump.
“damn it Naruto!!”, Hiruzen says trying not to have a heart attack.
“how the hell you do that?!”, Tsume says, she was a sensor ninja and she didn’t felt him coming.
“that’s not important!”, Naruto says, with his eyes fixed on Hiruzen, “jiji, shit hit the fan big time!!”.
“what is this time?!”, Hiruzen asks, his expression hardening.
“this!”, Naruto slams a huge pile of books into the Hokage’s desk.
“oh Sage, now even you is giving me paper work”, Hiruzen sighs.
“you can cry about it in the shower later, this is important”, Naruto says, pulling one of the books and a pile of receipts, “look, right here and tell me what you see”.
Hiruzen sighs, but looks into what the five years old was pointing at, he also choose to reserve the questions as how he was in two places at the same for later.
The old man looks at the books and at the receipts and he notices discrepancies.
“oh no, you are right, something is wrong here”, Hiruzen says, comparing numbers.
“my godfather Jiraiya may not be as present as both of us would like, but he is far from a deadbeat”, Naruto says, the altercation catching up the interest of the other guests, “he’s been sending money to a savings account ever since I was two months old, the same account you deposit my monthly allowance and yet, I only see one third of your money and not a single ryo from the money he sends me”.
“let me check this”, Shikaku says, approaching the table a looking at the books and receipts, after a going through the pages the man’s expression turns sower, “Naruto’s right, the bank is stealing from him”.
“how did you even got your hands on these books to begin with?”, the Yamanaka asks, as the Clan Head of a clan focused on info gathering, he was very interested in the skills Naruto was showing.
“using my network of shadow spies”, Naruto says matter of factly.
“your what now?”, the Hyuuga asks, “that’s not possible and these books are written in the hand writing of the chief banker”.
Naruto groans and claps his hands and by doing it, al the shadows in the room come to life, creeping from all corner into the walls and ceiling while beady red eyes appeared all over the sea of darkness.
Featureless humanoid shapes emerge from pool of shadows with the beady red eyes staring at the occupants of the room.
“as for how the books are written in the had write of the chief banker”, Naruto says and from the shadow of Tsume comes… her, but with beady red eyes, “it’s called shadow mirror, it’s basically your shadow realm version and it knows all of your secrets and skills, here’s the proof, do you do anal?”.
“twice a week”, the shadow Tsume answers promptly and the real Tsume goes red faced.
“ha!”, the Hyuuga laughs.
“bold statement coming from the guy that lets his wife peg him every Friday night”, Naruto says and the Hyuuga patriarch almost dies on the spot.
“I have them all around the elemental nations keeping an eye on everything”, Naruto says as the shadow people recedes back into the shadows.
“you are very good at being a shinobi for someone who doesn’t want to be one”, the Yamanaka says, noticing the dumbfounded expression of Shikaku.
“if you know yourself and know your enemy, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”, Naruto quotes.
“brat, if it wasn’t for the Hokage’s order forbidding me from adopting you, you would be a Yamanaka now”, the Yamanaka head says.
“pass, but back to the main topic, the bank is stealing from you and from me”, Naruto says, pointing to the rest of the books he brought, “they are also stealing from the public budget and using to fund an illegal web of brothels that, let’s just say, its one underage escort away from lord Tobirama to resurrect himself to flood this village to kingdom come”.
“Shikaku, Inoichi, I want a task force formed yesterday!!”, Hiruzen scream in rightful anger.
“the blue one is list of everyone on their payroll”, Naruto points to a blue book, “now, if you excuse me, I have a Senju to track”.
“ok you can- what did you just said?!”, Hiruzen asks, almost shouting.
“I said, I have a Senju to track, more specifically, one of your students, my shadow clan just informed me she’s in a town three days away north east from Konoha”, Naruto says, looking dead serious.
“you cannot…”, Hirusen says, feeling his blood pressure rising.
“I already did and I’m already there”, Naruto says.
“then who’s-“, Tsume asks, pointing at the crystal ball and at Naruto.
“shadow clones”, Naruto answers flatly.
At that, Hiruzen averts his eyes and stares into the horizon and then proceeds to face palm so hard he leaves a hand shaped bruise on his fore head.
“I guess you just realized you could use them to help with the paperwork, since you gain the memories and experiences of the clones once you dispel the jutsu”, Naruto says with a smirk, “speaking of dispel, peace!!”
And then both clones disappear in a cloud of smoke.
“should we send the ANBU to retrieve him?”, the Hyuuga patriarch asks, confused and impressed.
“he sneaked out of the village without being noticed and after his clones dispersed, I can’t sense his chakra”, Tsume says, “damn, the pup is good!”.
“he’s gonna come back”, Hiruzen says, massaging his forehead, “right now we have to focus on this”.
He points to the piles of books and files on his desk.
“the bankers are stealing from the village”, Hiruzen says, “Shikaku, go through the blue book, root out all the corrupt officers and shinobi and send them to Ibiki for interrogation. Inoichi, go with him and gather all the jonnin you can, also inform Fugaku, we’re gonna need the police force for this”.
Meanwhile, Naruto, henged into Izuku’s appearance, arrives at the aforementioned town.
“alright, let’s do it”, Izuku says to himself.