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Prototype: Apex Predator

The more I fight the stronger I get, my predators become my prey, my prey becomes my strength. I Adapt, I Consume, I Evolve. RawNovel Community | Dark Novels: Discord: (https://discord.gg/eQGh6sTmNt) Our spot: (https://discord.gg/8ZgkStbwMj) --------------- This is a fanfic, it is written for entertainment. The update will be irregular and dependent on my daily life. Thank you for your understanding. Disclaimer: I own nothing except my Original Character/s. Everything belongs to their respective owners. The cover is from DeviantArt.

Angelo_Mercer · Anime & Comics
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YOUTH!

STATUS:

Name: ------ (Blacklight)

Race: Virus

Age: 6 Year Old

Affiliation: Konoha (Questionable)

Strength: 2->5 Endurance: 8 ->10

Agility: 2->5 Perception: 4->9

Dexterity: 4->5

Chakra: 1/953 (Medium-Genin)

ChKR Regen: 10/s

Affinity: (Fire)

ChKR Control: 75%

TRAITS:

--->Racial: [Expand]

--->Accelerated Thoughts(You have an accelerated perception of time, 1 second to others is 2 to you… your body does not necessarily keep up though.)

Skills:

(Different skills have different max Levels.)

--->Calligraphy(Beginner Lv.1)

--->Taijutsu(Beginner Lv.1)

--->Shurikenjutsu:

--->Shuriken Throwing (Lv.1)

--->Kunai Throwing (Lv.1)

--->Ninjutsu:

--->Clone Technique (Lv.1->5 - Max)

--->Transformation Technique(Lv.1->5 - Max)

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Superior… I was superior, and I was not being arrogant, it was but a fact. Weakened and on day 1, I had already the prowess to defeat almost every chunin ranked ninja in this world… but Jonin were mostly survivors, they had many techniques in their arsenal… though I may just be overrating them.

The most troublesome enemy for me though would be the same one the most powerful entities in this world had… Sealing. It was one thing I could not allow to happen to me.

That being said, a change had to be made in my plans. I could not expose my seemingly invincible physique until it was too late, meaning I had to specialize in something else that would keep me out of harm, keep my regeneration out of their eyes until the end of the chunin exams… speed. With the Flying Raijin out of reach momentarily, no way of gaining the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, so my plan relied on the D-Rank Shunshin/Body Flicker.

It required a large amount of chakra, a problem I could solve with time. perception of my surrounding, nothing a Sharingan if mine wasn't high enough yet and probably other problems I couldn't deduce without experience.

That being said I didn't just spend 6 years doing nothing. My physical attributes hadn't moved from the moment I consumed the 20 residents of Konoha. Sadly due to my young age, I remained under constant supervision… only Naruto had the freedom of movement, the fact that everybody despised him being the main factor.

Four years I spent, continuously trying to raise my perception in order to sense shinobi, and not by using chakra, but by using my natural gifts. Smell, sound, vibration through the air, through the ground, infected vision, and every time I reached for further. That being said, I could sense every breathing creature within 500 meters, no meter their location or their hiding abilities, they couldn't hide from me… and neither could Danzo Shimura's shadows as they made rounds in the orphanage.

I could see the way his eye moved from one child to another, his eye moved just like mine did, viewing a product and whether it was worth the investment or not. The only difference was that I would outlive him. Still, I had to hide when he came as to not accidentally get chosen by him, the last thing I needed was a seal stuck into me.

Children disappeared from time to time and I did not doubt that the old Hokage knew of this, he was here once every month for a year straight, eyes staring at Naruto as if looking at his own grandchild… but right now he needed Root more than ever. The other villages were getting restless. Orochimaru's defection a year after the Kyuubi incident only served as incitement for the other villages to try something. That being said no major conflict broke out so the timeline was still mostly preserved.

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The other two years were spent on trial and error on reaching the Uchiha compound without being noticed, after all just because I knew where they were didn't mean they didn't know where I was. I had no doubt the guards would be the first to be taken out the night of the massacre so I didn't bother planning a way in based on their patrol patterns.

I was more concerned with where Danzo's men would be posted, to take care of any potential intruder… and survivor.

The Transformation and Clone Jutsu were the only ones I had in my arsenal and could be practiced without drawing attention. Improving my chakra control was rather difficult, sometime I would end up moving tentacles, but keeping my chakra at a minimum helped with control as well as with keeping sensors from finding out my actual chakra capacity. My Jutsu's would serve as my decoys and if need be traps, in the off chance I would be noticed. It wouldn't fool anyone but I just needed a second of distraction or confusion to take them down quietly. I was much faster now and while Jonin was a qualitative leap from chunin… they were all just human.

Heart, Spine, Neck, Head… each of the limbs. I only needed one clean hit. Their rank may change but their durability stayed about the same.

Getting up and looking outside the window I could see the preparations for the new year begin. Time was ticking and I only just had gotten permission to leave the orphanage grounds, to get to know the city before being assigned at either the civilian academy or the ninja academy. This left me with only a few days at most before the massacre began. It happened on January 1, 127. Given the quiet night, it should have been the night after the new year, but I couldn't rule out it being changed due to my presence alone. I would go out in 2 days during the new year and then again the next night.

It wasn't an opportunity I could miss, it may as well make up 60% of the reason I came to Konoha.

Making my way outside I took a few turns and visited quite a few stores, making sure nobody was following me before entering another shop and changing my identity to an old man. In a world where strength reigns, the weaker you are, the more you are ignored. A crunched elderly would slip right through the crowd of people.

As I walked at a slow pace for about half an hour I finally arrived at the specified building, the Jutsu Library where Kuro was told he could purchase E-Rank, D-Rank, and C-Rank Jutsu's after graduating… at least if he had any money. Kuro had been missing for years now and so had my other shinobi identities, so while I couldn't go as any of them, I had made my preparations. I didn't just consume the bodies 6 years ago but also robbed any money I could find. I couldn't exactly keep them in any pocket or wallet, but inside my own skin worked about just as well. Thank god for being born as a shapeshifter or I would have had to use my prison pocket.

Reaching on my pocket I pulled out an ugly one-piece green suit and while I didn't want to take this route, it was the most optimal without having to take out another ninja, orphan genins were rare and I had no time to find them… The windows were shut with seals, and at night even the doors were, making it impossible for someone who didn't know the first thing about them to get inside undetected. Few Chunin and at least one Jonin stayed guard inside the library. It was mostly for show but they were still shinobi, so while their strength was low, it was good for me to keep a low profile.

Making my way towards an alleyway I expanded my senses and checked for any other shinobi in the vicinity, Once I confirmed that they were only a few genin near the building I started to execute my plan.

"I am so going to regret this… is Shunshin even worth doing this… is survival?"

'Transformation Jutsu' – I murmured as I looked at the broken piece of glass on the ground, a face with a broad, almost blinding smile emerging from the smoke. Bushy brows that could be used as training weights, a green bodysuit that would make even the weakest monster ashamed of killing me...

"Testing, testing… YOUTH, YOUTHFUL ENERGY."

Satisfied(not really) with how I looked, I made my way towards the entrance, and all I needed was to act like an idiot and not allow anyone to interrupt me and ask for ID, simply run in headfirst, leave more money than it's needed for the technique and scream about challenging Kakashi... and if somebody asks Guy, well, I am sure the answer will involve YOUTH somehow. Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually the only sane person in this world… Nah.