1 Prologue

"Who am I?" He asked himself. He realized something very important – he cannot remember his name, or anything! It all blank, like nothing was there before he woke seconds ago. Is this a dorm? The big room has many double-floored beds. He looked around it was empty all the beds except his were neatly made and left empty. Something is odd… but he cannot put his finger on it. He walked towards the balcony. The sunlight made him shut his eyes, it was way too bright then he remember… wait what does he remember? He noticed a national monument, well, the Hokage Mountain was hard not to notice with those big faces carved on it – Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Namikaze Minato – 'Weird…' it is funny that he remembers some old men but not his name!

"Boy, what are you doing? It is dangerous; do not lean over the railing." An old voice called from behind, he turned behind and saw an old woman wearing plain dress and wooden sandals walked towards him, "Huh… what was it not… Achoo… Kunai?" It took a minute for him to realize the old woman was trying to remember his name, 'I would help an old lady only if I could myself remember it!'

"Ah! You are Akishige Asai right?" She triumphantly said, after all for remembering something was no less than beating the Nine Tails Demon Fox for a woman her age. 'Asai… it had a good sound, even though I do not remember the meaning, is it Asai as in clothing or bloom… wait it is nowhere close to either achoo or kunai! What is wrong with this old woman! "Um… yes… ma'am?" He was not sure what should he call the old woman, 'Who is she, my grandmother? Grandparents might be old but they can't conveniently forget the names of their grandchildren… right?' He was not even sure was it sarcasm.

"Akishige-kun what are you doing here, don't you have to go to the academy, or are you trying to skip your exam," Academy… exam? Well, he knew what exam means but…

"You know they will make you repeat an year if you don't even attempt it…" the old woman said as she walked towards the bed I woke up on and started to tidy it. "Now, go I will tidy your bed for you and don't worry it will be alright, if those idiots can become chunins, then you will pass with flying colors!" She laughed loudly. 'I don't mind going to the academy, if it helps me know something more about myself… but what is academy anyways? A school, if a school then why don't they just call it a 'school' because 'the' academy sounds a bit… how can I word it? Taunting…?'

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Apparently, the academy is a place where you send children around eight years or so to study and train in the ways of killing. Asai's right eye twitched, 'How in the heaven is this place legally‼' In addition, he felt it was weird that he remembers Hokage but not the name of his school, when the Hokage or rather the village administration funded his school!

The academy building had humongous gates, as if they guarded the national treasure or something and for a lack of better word, the one who made it lacked any kind of fashion sense because the red walls did not go nicely with the wooden – whatever those straps are – and why are these steel pipes so visible. This building looks more like a factory than a school. On a back not, it seems like he is an orphan, at least he is staying in at an orphanage. However, that does not make him sad, or does it.

He hurried to fourth or last year class, because first year students are eight years old and he is twelve years old, there he saw the class was full and the only place left was at the last bench so he made his way.

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'So a transformation jutsu, substitution jutsu and clone jutsu.' Asai repeated what the man with the nose-scar said, Asai was more familiar with this place called academy, it was just a military school – with geography, history and math for some reason – and students coming here wanted to become ninjas.

He had passed the written test, now it was about time to do some jutsu - a complicated word for ninja magic - he saw many students going with confidence and excitement but only a few were back to their seat happy. Honestly you could count them on fingers. The person standing before Asai was a boy wearing an orange jumpsuit. Wild blonde hair, blue eyes and whiskers. Asai rubbed his eyes, 'Are whiskers so common!'

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Naruto was nervous he had no plans to fail for a third time, but the Clone Jutsu had other plans... "Sexy Jutsu!" In a blast of cloud, a beautiful girl stood in place of Naruto, her body was covered with clouds! Every boy in the class had a stream of blood blasting of from their nose leaded by their teacher Iruka-sensei, even the ever-stoic Sasuke was a bit moved...

But every good thing has an end, "Naruto!!" Iruka-sensei was a chunin and by how he was shouting at Naruto showed that Ninjas have high lungs capacity, there was even little sign of fire coming out of his mouth once.

Naruto was yelling, he had failed again. "I am going to be a Hokage no matter what!"

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Sasuke was next. 'That idiot Naruto,' he scoffed, he knew Naruto's intelligence level was near zero but it seems like he was mistaken, it is in negative. Sasuke gave a quick look to Naruto and went ahead, it was a non-verbal "Watch me beat you in every way" look. Sasuke gave it to everyone, after all each one of these idiot were useless, except that Shikamaru Naru. Idiot, no, useless, yes.

Sasuke was arrogant, but his arrogance was backed by his abilities. He easily transformed into Iruka, then substituted himself for a log of wood and finally made enough clones to match the class strength. 'What a waste of time.' He scoffed. No one knew it but scoffing was one of his hobbies.

"Pass." Iruka announced.

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Now it was Asai's turn. He had not realised it yet but he was still in hos sleeping clothes, all this was way too much. He was feeling dozy all of a sudden but contractidory to his mind his body went up ahead and he lost consciouness...

"Fusing with the Player...."

"Modifying certain traits and abilities..."

"Conforming all the changes and completion of fusion..."

"Welcome."