Pre-Academy [Part 1]

As I was walking towards the Clan heads house I could feel that most people were ignoring me while a few were even glaring.

Now that I see how they treat me like this, I have little to no problem letting Itachi and Obito get rid of them.

*Sigh* I finally made my way to Fugaku's house and knock on the door. A beautiful woman in her late 20s or early 30s opened the door. "Hello Daisuke-kun, how can I help you?" fair-skinned woman asked me.

"Hello Mikoto-sama, I need to talk with Fugaku-sama." I said to her. She nods her head and let's me in.

As I walk inside their house, I can tell you that this is one of the most beautiful houses I've ever been in. It had old Japanese architecture with a touch of modernism and it was big enough for a big family. Fitting for a clan head.

I enter their living room where Itachi was playing with Sasuke and Fugaku drinking a cup of tea. They both looked at me with curious eyes, wondering what I was doing here. "Uchiha Daisuke, what is the reason you've come to my house for?" said the clan head in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Hello Fugaku-sama I've come here to inform you I can perform Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu and am requesting access to Uchiha Clan library." I told him

He looks at me for a second thinking 'if the boy is telling the truth he is quite talented, Itachi only learned it 2 months ago and Shisui was around 6 years old when he learned it as well.' He puts his cup down "If you can perform the Jutsu I'll grant you access. Let's go and see how you'll do."

We went outside towards the lake, Itachi didn't accompany us, either he didn't care or he wanted to spend time with Sasuke.

Clan head finally said "Here we are. Perform the Jutsu if you can, Daisuke."

I nod "Snake → Ram → Monkey → Boar → Horse → Tiger Fire Release Great Fireball Jutsu." Taking a deep breath then releasing a mid sized fire ball lose on top of the lake.

After finishing the Jutsu I was gasping for air. This body could only use this Jutsu once a day apparently. I'll need to work on my Chakra reserves and control. "HI-HI-HI as you can see Fugaku-sama. I can perform the Jutsu."

He nods and takes out a Uchiha Clan symbol from his pocket. "With this you are considered an adult. You can use the clan library as you wish, except the restricted section." He starts walking away "Make sure to make the clan proud."

"Hai, Fugaku-sama!" I shout out loud, while secretly thinking 'As if I need to make bunch of sheep proud of me. Within few short years you'll all be dead.'

Regardless of my opinion about Uchiha, with this I can access resources that would turn most Jounin green with envy. After all, Uchiha clan has been around for centuries and the fact that they can copy any Jutsu they see creates an impressive Clan Library.

I made my way to the clan library. There were two guards, most likely Chunin rank shinobi guarding the clan library. "Hello there. My name is Daisuke, I've recently past the rite of passage and clan head allowed me access to the clan library." I said in a respectful tone, hoping they don't hate me, unlike some Uchiha's.

One of them glares at me, but before he could say anything other one stops him and tells me to "Go ahead kid. The symbol behind your shirt is proof enough for me."

"Are we really going to let this brat in. He is bad omen. He got his parents killed, who knows what he might do next?" the hateful guard said.

"He is still part of the clan. He has a right to enter the library if he wishes to." said the one I started to like.

"I guess... fine you can go in. Just never talk to me again." the sheep of a guard said.

I nodded, not wanting to get into an argument. I made my way towards books on physical training. I needed to make a training schedule for myself. As I was looking around books I came across one called 'YOUTHFUL GUIDE TO PHYSICAL TRAINING BY MAITO GAI'.

This was perfect, Gai was not only the greatest taijutsu master, he was also the greatest taijutsu teacher. He turned a handicapped shinobi like Rock Lee into a Kage Level Shinobi. While I wasn't going to seek out Gai, due to risk of entering Hokage's radar, with this I should get the same result ... maybe not to that extent.

The book provides me with how to create my own training schedule, it showed various different workouts and which muscle groups should be trained how.

The book states to increase numbers of reps each days ever so slightly and create new challenges for myself such as 'if I can't run 500 times around the compound I will do 1000 push-ups'

More importantly it mentions not to use any weights before the age of 8, as it would stunt growth. Apparently after the age of 8 shinobi's physical growth wouldn't be negatively effected by physical training due to chakra's effect on the body.

However with my current chakra reserves it was impossible to do Gai level training, but if I want to get stronger, I'll need to do these kinds of exercises.

I also found a taijutsu book commonly used by Uchiha's, apparently all Uchiha's use this book as base for their taijutsu style and add improvised version of their copied techniques.

After quickly skimming through both books and getting a grasp on what they were about and how they could help me I walked towards the librarian.

I checked out 'YOUTHFUL GUIDE TO PHYSICAL TRAINING BY MAITO GAI' book and 'Complete Manual to Interceptor Fist (Uchiha Taijutsu Style)', the librarian gave me the stink eye but still checked out the books, not saying anything. Most likely because there were dozens of copies of both books and it wouldn't effect anyone.

Anyway I decided to work on my chakra reserves and control for the rest of the week and start my physical training after increasing my capacity and control.

I went home and worked on the leaf sticking and spinning exercises and practicing hand seals while doing them for added control benefits.

I continued working on them until I felt tired, gave a small rest and repeated the process. It wasn't an exciting training, but it was immensely useful.

The week continued like that. As a result my chakra reserve and control had increased greatly. Both of them reaching from mid tier academy student levels to the level of a high tier academy student.

Overall I was happy with myself. I think with my increased chakra reserves and control, I should be able to use Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu 3 times a day now. Great deal of improvement compared to a week ago.

I still have 6 months until academy starts. During this time I want to catch up with Itachi, or at least as close to it as possible.

I then remembered something. That I should spend at least 2 years at academy so that I wouldn't be compared to Itachi and drew needles attention to myself. It is going to be really boring. But, if I don't do that either Obito or Danzō might decide to make me 'disappear' or worse... take an interest in me *sigh* "Mendokusē".