4 Chapter 4

(I known that we all hate timeskips and I skipped a lot. It is because he is weak and can't do anything now. There will hardly be any timeskips in the future chapters.)

I got up the next day in the same dusty and stinky house near the Uchiha clan. My house practically demonstrated why you need a woman in the house. Although I cleaned it occassionally, it was still dirty.

I then got ready and headed towards the only known blacksmith who I didn't piss off. I found his shop when I was kicked out by every other blacksmith who refused to sell me stuff after what I have been doing to genin of the village and my act with that shopkeeper's nuts.

He was a blacksmith who didn't care who his customer was. As long as he pays properly, he sells. That's why I go to him whenever I need kunai for my training, I would buy some from him.

I looked at my pocket and sighed. The money mom and dad managed to save up for me are almost getting exhausted. I don't think I will last longer with the money left.

Worrying about my financial matters, I arrived at the rundown store of the blacksmith. I could hear him hammering something from outside. I opened the door and he surprisingly heard the door open. He said "What do you want kid?"

"How do you know it was me?" I asked and he replied as he walked to the shop "You are the only person who visits my store."

The forgery is in a room attached to the back of the shop and he usually spends most of his time there. With curiosity I asked "Hey, what do you keep making all the time, even though no one comes to your store."

He replied "It has always been my dream to create a mighty katana that will be weilded by the strongest ninja of all time."

I chuckled at his dream and he rudely asked "What do you want brat?"

"I need weights for my hands and legs." I stated and he asked "Do you also follow that mad man's training methods. If so, you should stop now. They slowly go extreme and crazy."

I can tell whom he is talking about, the mighty taijutsu master, Might Guy. I asked "What did he do, to make you fear his training methods?" and he recalled things from his past as he said "He came to me for weights. He asked for a pair of weights for his legs and each weighed 40 kilograms. He wore those and started running."

Well, I can imagine him doing that. I said "I don't want mine to be that heavy. Make them each of 10 kilograms. That should be enough to train for two more years." and he replied "As long as you pay, I don't care what you do." and went back to work after taking the money in pull payment.

Even when I was handing over the money to him, my hands wouldn't let go of the cash. Since the rest had to attend the academy till 3:00 pm, I didn't have much to do, so I went back to my training.

This time, as I was jogging to the park, I heard someone's shouts from one side. It was another forest near the park, but on the opposite side of the park, from where I train.

I go to my training spot pretty early everyday, so I didn't hear earlier. Since I was late today, I found this person. It sounded like the voice of a girl.

I followed the voice and when I arrived at the scene, I found a girl with her brown hair tied to two buns on her head and a one piece dress. I recognised her immediately with her unique hairstyle. She is Tenten, the character with very less screentime in the show.

She was hitting her palms against the tree trunk as she screamed with each hit. And here I thought only me, Might Guy and Rock Lee were crazy enough to train at a young age.

I walked up to her and noticing my presence, she turned to me and asked "Who are you?"

"Hello senpai, I am Hatsuo. I was just passing by when I heard your screams and followed them here. So, I was hoping if you could spar with me. That way, you get a sparring partner while I get pointers from a great kunoichi.x I said and this managed to impress her.

She was a girl afterall, and every girl/women love to get praised. She had a proud face and she said "Well, if my junior requests me that much, I guess I don't have a choice. Get ready Hatsuo. By the way, I am Tenten."

After she finished saying that, she ran towards me and started hitting me with per palms, but contrary to what I had expected, she was just randomly hitting me, without aiming.

I guess they don't teach kids much about fighting. Even in the academy, their opponents are their classmates, so they don't have enough experience.

I wanted to train with her, but seeing her performance, I don't think she can teach me anything. I can't even outright tell her that she is weak, or show her my strength. This will only make her feel pathetic after all the pride she built up.

So, I let her hit me and even her palm strikes weren't painful. They just felt like soft hits from a normal girl her age.

Seeing me get hit without doing anything, she said "If you don't do anything and just get hit, you will be more of a punching bag than a sparring partner."

I sighed slightly and started throwing punches at her, making sure I don't hit her. I still can't pull my punches and if I hit her, it would hurt both her pride and her body.

She noticed that my punches were fast and said "You have strength, but don't know how to use it. You should be lucky I am willing to train you." and we continued the spar till she got tired.

We both sat down under a tree, as it is the best place to relax in the afternoon. Since it is summer, it felt even more good sitting under the tree.

She then asked "So Hatsuo, what are you doing here skipping your classes in the academy? If you are my junior, it should be your first day at the academy." and I explained why I couldn't go to the academy.

She said "Well, we have a kid in our class who is similar to you, but unlike you, he doesn't have any weird physique. He just doesn't have talent for ninjutsu and genjutsu. He has chakra, but can't control it to use it for any jutsu. He also trains like you to be a taijutsu user. You can get into the academy if you want to." and I knew about this.

I know that I can get into the academy, but I don't want to study. I already wasted enough life in school and college. To change the topic, I asked "Tenten senpai, why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be training in the academy. It should be way more productive than training alone."

Tenten liked how I kept calling her senpai. She replied "All they teach in the academy is the seduction techniques needed for a kunoichi."

"Isn't that normal?" I asked and she stood up immediately. She clenched her fist and said "I want to be a strong kunoichi, like the legendary sanin, Tsunade sama. I have no use for these seduction techniques."

Oh, I forgot that she admired Tsunade. She then went on about Tsunade and how she fought. I was starting to get tired of hearing her name.

Before long, it was evening and she said "Oh Hatsuo, I have to go back to the academy. I can't let my parents know I didn't attend classes." and ran to the academy. She skipped classes and returned back to the academy everyday at evening, so as to not get caught in front of her parents, who come to pick her up from school.

I also got up and slowly started walking towards my usual training spot and hear someone call out to me. I turned back and found Naruto waving at me as he ran towards me.

He came to me and stopped before me, breathing heavily and waiting to catch his breath. He then said "Hatsuo, my first day in the academy was amazing. I had lots of fun and made many friends. There are still kids who bully me, but then I remembered what you said and completely ignored them, which pissed them off. And..." and went on describing his first day of the ninja academy.

In the end, I didn't get to train, but it still wasn't a bad day. Except for the part where I had to spend 5000 ryo for those weights. An average genin team earned 2k-3k per mission, varying depending on the contractor and the work.

So, that money was a lot for me, who wasn't earning anything. I returned back to my house and even as I lay on my bed, I still kept thinking about my financial situation and couldn't sleep.

My life continued like this, with me training with weights which I got a week after I ordered them. My strength steadily increased as I kept training more everyday.

Before I knew it, years passed and I was already ten years old. Nothing much had happened around me since then and I just went with the flow.

Hinata was also allowed to roam out of her house after a year from the incident and everything returned to normal. Well, everything except my situation amongst the girls.

So, after our first date, she started moving close to me and this always casued a quarrel between the girls. I didn't care much about it, as they were still kids and we all have done stupid things as kids. Their opinions might change in the future so, I didn't take it too seriously.

As for my major concern in life, money. It was solved by the kind ramen guy, Teuchi. His daughter, Ayame, notice the how popular I was and devised a strategy of making me work in their stall.

Idiots, who were brain dead and lost against me, or held a grudge against me, found it humorous that they can order me around in the stall. It increased their business, not a lot, but decent enough.

No one did extreme things, as they know how it would end. It would be just comments that would satisfy their ego. So, I didn't care much and I earned 1000 ryo everyday. Since they set up the stall at night, it didn't affect my daily schedule.

So, I was done cleaning the store and Ayame and Teuchi had finished packing their stuff and were ready to leave to their house.

I turned to Ayame, who was 14 years old and asked "Ayame, do you have a boyfriend?" and she turned to me as she raised her eyebrow. She asked "Hatsuo, if that was your idea of trying to ask me out for a date, it didn't work. And to answer your question, No I don't have a boyfriend."

"Don't get the wrong idea. If you are dating someone, I just wanted to meet that pityful person who would end up dating you." I said and it immediately managed to piss her off. "You little brat?" she shouted and started pulling my cheeks until they turned red.

Now don't get me wrong. She is a very kind and lovable character, but that is only on the outside. On the inside, she is a complete businessman and very cunning.

She then let go of my cheeks and I rubbed them to ease the pain a little. She then said "For your information, I was the most popular kid in our cooking school and many kids proposed to me. You should be lucky I am even talking to you."

That's then I heard a rather scary news. Two Uchiha policemen who were patrolling the streets and doing their usual duties were talking about something.

I focused on their conversation and heard them talking "Why did they call for a special meeting at midnight. Don't they usually do it at 8 pm or something, so that we can get back to our night duties and avoid suspicion."

"Don't you know, they found Shisui's body floating in the river and found a suicide letter in his house." the other Uchiha member said and this was shocking for me.

"What? Isn't he one of the best ninjas we had? He would follow any order and was a crucial memeber of our fighting team." the other one said.

"Calm down. We are still in the village. Don't you know that the Anbu have an eye on every Uchiha." the other one said and they left silently.

Ayame kept going on about her greatness, but I didn't even listen to her. All I thought was about the thing I just heard.

Teuchi pulled his daughter back and said "Hatsuo, it's already late now. You should leave her to me." and I immediately went back to my home.

Shisui died and following this incident is the annihilation of the Uchiha clan by the madman Itachi Uchiha. He might have fans for being a great character in the show, but I am also an Uchiha and I am still not strong enough to fight against a Uchiha member who had unlocked his Mangekyou sharingan.

I immediately started packing my clothes and every other valuable thing in my house. I wasn't going nto stay in the village any longer. I can't escape Itachi if he decided to kill me, although I doubt he would do that with my history with the clan, but you can't say. He killed even the non combat Uchiha members, killing me is a possibility.

I went through all the things in the house, hoping for anything valuable to help me live in the outside world. As I went through all the drawers, I found a box well hidden in a hidden compartment in a drawer.

I took out the box and as soon as I looked at the label that was on the box, I was shocked. It read "Contains Unlimited Power" in English, which isn't a language you can find in this world.