Chapter 1
Hearing the rice cooker finish its last whistle, I moved toward it and removed the lid, and in came flooding the great smell of freshly made tomato rice. After puffing the rice and waiting for it to cool down, I served myself quite a large serving of rice, which I started devouring with a side of rolled omelet aka tamagoyaki. After finishing my breakfast, I packed the remaining rice and tamagoyaki in the bento for lunch.
While walking towards the Academy for my first day in it, I couldn't help but notice the hustling morning a lot of people were having, which was to be expected as today a new generation of children was going to join the academy to become future Shinobis. While passing through the streets I couldn't help but reminisce about events of the past years.
I was born in the world of Shinobi to Kushina and Minato as Naruto. For the initial four years, my memories of my previous life were foggy and my thinking ability was limited, which is standard among children because of the lack of development prefrontal cortex. But on my fourth birthday, I received the Pill of Inheritance from an unknown source, who was most probably the one who reincarnated me in the first place. Upon consumption after contemplating for some time, the pill not only fully awakened my old memories but also gave me the powers and abilities of both Minato and Kushina in an enhanced manner.
This resulted in me getting all the powers of a peak Uzumaki clan member from my mother's side and very high talent in everything, good intelligence, high reflexes, and reaction speed from my father's side.
Two months past my fourth birthday, a rumor about me containing Nine tails started spreading, which was most probably done by Danzo the same as he had done in the anime. Slowly the people in the orphanage and the village started distancing themselves from me, which I found quite annoying. Even though no one escalated to physical abuse, people always had scornful glares and talked behind our backs, especially shinobis who lost their families on the day Nine-tails attacked the village.
On my fifth birthday, I was thrown out of the orphanage and was given a small two-bedroom apartment by the Hokage office to live in. Even though I had a monthly allowance to buy basic necessities, most shops didn't sell their wares and products to me, and even though one who sold, tried to increase the price as much as possible.
To avoid starving and getting scammed, I did two things. First was fishing and placing traps to catch small animals, which decreased the money spent on food, and second, was practicing chakra control to try transformation jutsu. I learned hand seals for the jutsu from the academy students by bribing them with some cheap candies. I was able to perform the transformation jutsu at an acceptable level after four days and by the end of the week, I mastered it. This was expected considering a better understanding of jutsu than most children do and I had inherited Minato's talent. From then on wherever I needed to buy something, I would transform into unremarkable men and women who were created based on the average looks of Konoha villagers.
Sometimes Hiruzen would visit me and take me out for dinner wherever I wanted. On such a particular visit, after having dinner and giving me some general books I requested, while he was about to leave, he asked me something which I expected would happen sooner or later. It turned out that, he knew I was using transformation jutsu to go to the shops, I just acted surprised about it. He asked me how I learned to do it, to which I didn't answer him immediately, rather I told him, I would answer his question if he would answer one of my questions. He instantly agreed to it, upon which I asked, "Why didn't you stop shop owners from scamming me and stop villagers from mistreating me when you know it was happening ?"., with a face, which made me look like the most pitiful child in existence.
He had a shocked and guilty look on his face as soon as he heard my words. After few a seconds, he let out a depressed sigh and said he would look into it, following which I told him that, I just saw some students from the academy trying to do it and imitated them to learn it, and after couple weeks of practicing I was able to pull it off. He again had a shocked expression, but this time he had some happiness mixed into it, probably on finding a talented child to secure the future of Konoha and the legacy of the previous Hokage.
From the encounter with the Third Hokage, I gained a few things. One was an increase in allowance by 50%, basic books about hand seals and chakra, and less visible hatred of the shinobis. Another was the information that someone either saw me transforming or stopped using transformation jutsu, which I always do after going out of my house and nearing the shops. And Hokage exclusively enquired about the Jutsu, but not about chakra control exercises and wall climbing I have been practicing inside the house, which means it is safe to assume that at least the Hokage is not spying on me.
Still, I had decided to try using the Mind's Eye of Kagura to sense Chakra signatures around and near the house, because people like Danzo's root members could be spying on me. After about ten days of meditation and trying to concentrate on chakra signatures, I suddenly felt like another sense, except the five basic senses open in my mind, which let me sense chakra and chakra signatures clearly in a 250-meter radius. I kept checking for chakra signatures, that were present in unusual places and one's not any emotion in them for the next 15 days near my house and whenever I was roaming outside, by which time due to continuous practice my sensing range had doubled and I could approximately guess chakra levels.
As soon as, I was sure that no one was spying on me, I increased my training time and intensity in both the categories of physical exercise and chakra control to the maximum amount possible, while reading books and practicing hand signs in downtime after I was exhausted doing physical exercise. After gaining enough chakra control to consistently stand on water without needing to think about it, to increase the level of training, I combined physical exercise, chakra control exercises, and mental exercises by doing exercises like push-ups, handstands, sit-ups, jumping jacks on water and on the wall, while doing mental mathematics or trying to recite information about countries, histories of people, things and places, find patterns in images, text, etc.
The were multiple reasons I worked hard til the point of exhaustion repeatedly, the first being that I was not sure if plot armor actually exist in real life, and in the case, it didn't, I would not survive any of the cases of near-death experience naruto experienced multiple times thorough out the series. The second was, regrets from my past life, in which I never worked hard enough in the things I was talented in, and I didn't have much talent in the things I was interested in. I didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past and have regrets again. And the last reason is, as a hardcore naruto fan, why wouldn't I want to do all the cool things which can be done using chakra?