ALL NOVEL 13. Years [1]
Unknown Location.
''To think that you managed to fail up so miserably, I thought that Sensei had grown too old and too soft, he did, indeed. You, however, grew too old and too dumb, acting in such impulse, Danzo...'' A man with long, black-colored hair, his skin was extremely pale, his eyes were akin to a snake.
''Shut up. We need to think of what we'll do, even though Hiruzen has grown old and soft, by now, I'm probably an S-Rank Nukenin (Missing Nin), just like you, Orochimaru, without me there, I won't be able to grow conflicts between the Village and the Uchiha Clan!'' Danzo said while frowning slightly.
Orochimaru looked over Danzo before licking his own lips 'Ah... The Sharingan, I wonder when I'll be able to have a proper one?' he thought.
Then, he said ''It's simple, you're too short-sighted, the Uchiha Clan is often misjudged as an arrogant Clan due to their desire for battles, however, they also protect their dignity to the extreme, all you need to do is kill one of their clansman that went to a mission, take the Sharingan and make it ''coincidentally'' fall in the hands of an enemy Village like Kumogakure...''
'Cunning snake!' Danzo narrowed his eyes before he nodded ''Smart as ever, Orochimaru. There's only one flaw, it would cause war, one of Kumogakure Jounin had stolen the Byakugan, if someone steals a Sharingan as well, another war would break out, the Hyuuga and Uchiha Clan wouldn't accept that the dignity of their Clan being trampled.''
Licking his lips, Orochimaru said ''Isn't this exactly what we want, Danzo? Always using the Village as an excuse, all you want is the so-called Sharingan, I have a similar goal, we're now Missing Nin of Konoha, with the war, these two Clans will go to defend their pride and dignity, they'll have casualties, through that, we'll be able to harvest many bodies...''
With one last look, the snake-like man said ''We'll put the plan to practice in four years, I can estimate that the war will also attract more Villages to it, essentially, we'll be the ancestors of the Fourth Great Shinobi World War, how exciting...'' he licked his lips excitedly at the thought.
[Naruto P.O.V]
Since I joined the 'Ninja Academy', six months have passed, I started to contact Kyuu-san every single day, in the first and second month, he simply ignored me but after three months, he stopped ignoring me, basically, I annoyed him so much that he couldn't ignore me anymore.
I asked him to tell me stories about his past, he only told me parts of it, I got to know exactly how he started to hate humanity, Kyuu-san really suffered, he was actually a peaceful, fluffy Fox in the beginning, it changed when the Humans started to slave him, he couldn't be free.
He's still fluffy, though, don't tell him that, he gets all embarrassed when praised, there was a day Kyuu-san got so embarrassed after I praised his strength and fur that he ignored me for a whole two days.
The word 'hate' may be strong but only I and Kyuu-san know about that, he suffered in the hands of Humans and so did I, however, differently from him, I experienced hate but nii-san showed me love, love that only family can give, something Kyuu-san was deprived.
Even though Kyuu-san never admits that he's my friend, I can feel it, I got this strange ability, I can feel someone emotions, not things like anger or whatever, rather, I can see if they have good intentions or bad intentions towards myself.
Even though the Third Hokage has good intentions towards me, his so-called good intentions or as he said one time 'Will of Fire', it isn't worth nothing to me, I stopped caring about him.
In the past six months, we did many tests on the Ninja Academy, every month, I won in the first place, two weeks ago, which was at the start of the month, there was a special test, we needed to run through many obstacles, run at least ten laps around the field, throw Shurikens and lastly, the usual fight.
In all but Shuriken, I was the first, followed by Sasuke, I didn't like him because he was always challenging me to a fight even though he always lost, even so, I think we became at least acquaintances, aside from Hinata, I only made one friend, he's named Shikamaru Nara, he's extremely lazy, though.
We started our friendship when I saw him playing Shogi with a chubby kid named Chouji, he's always eating. I took a liking to the game, even though I lost most of the time in the start, I started to understand how it worked and every now and then, I managed to win, it is a good experience since when it comes to almost everything, it's rare for me to lose against someone of the same age as myself.
In the past six months, I started to increase my Chakra Control and now, I can confirm that I have a high and almost perfect control, all I need to do is to maintain it as my Chakra continues to grow insanely, I also started to learn Fuuinjutsu, nii-san told me about his Sharingan circumstances, I'm trying to learn the Chakra Sealing Technique so that I can seal a specific part of Chakra Flow, which I would use to stop Chakra from flowing to nii-san eyes.
I wasn't able to succeed, though, I need to learn the basics, I promised to release Kyuu-san seal, too, it earned me a rare sight, his face was full of worry before he said that I should wait till I'm 12 years old as before this, the release of the Seal would make a big deal of the Chakra that was being used up from my body to maintain it to suddenly overflow, damaging my growing body in the process.
I've learned everything I could from the Ninja Academy, my strength already at the levels of a Genin, however, nii-san didn't let me graduate early, he said that we are in times of peace so graduating early right now would only do more harm than good, something he experienced beforehand, also, he said that I need to make more friends, I don't think it's possible, aside from Sasuke, Hinata and Shikamaru, the rest looks at me in a somewhat fearful manner, they treat me as if I'm some kind of Demon.
Also, I achieved mastery in the Body Flicker Technique but nii-san said that it isn't time for him to teach me new Techniques yet so I'm just perfecting it, sighing, I resigned to life that I will need to accept boring lessons for 8 more years as the Graduation Exam only happens when the ninjas to be are 12 years old.
Just then, I remembered something, I had an idea, mischievous thoughts filled my mind as I searched for a certain Jutsu that would allow me to go to class yet stay in my home training.