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In the middle of a day, just before noon, the sun was bearing the over on the large village of Konohagakure. A young teen was leaning back in a chair, sitting in front of a small restaurant, on a stool.

The teen seemed to be around fourteen maybe fifteen years old, being around five feet tall. It seemed to be a pretty average height for someone his age. He was skinny and had fair skin, along with messy blond hair, which seemed to emphasize his dark-blue eyes.

He wore a black shirt with orange 'V' shaped stripped pattern along it. He also wore blue pants and grey shoes.

Naruto leaned back and glanced up, as he casually at his ramen. While he ate he hummed to himself with a cocky smirk on his face. Something that was pretty normal, since he was a teenager.

"Naruto!" A male voice yelled, causing the blond to close his eyes and sighed, before he smiled in a very playful manner.

"Oh, Iruka…" Naruto said, as he turned and looked at the Chuunin. "…Sup?" He asked.

"What the hell are you doing during class time!?" Iruka yelled, causing Naruto to blink a few times as he glanced down at the ramen cup in his hand. He glanced around at the small restaurant he was in.

"…I've taken up pottery, can't you tell?" Naruto asked wily, smirking towards the older man.

Iruka formed a tic as he glared at the teen, as his face turned red. "Tomorrow is the Shinobi Academy's graduation exam and you've failed it the last two times! This isn't the time to be skipping class!" He yelled.

"Hey those time limits aren't fair, it should be important that I know the information, not how fast I know it." Naruto replied with some irritation, before it left. "Besides, what if I don't want to be a Ninja, I hear those Samurai are pretty cool…plus they seem to be smarter." He added, giving the Chuunin a shameless smirk.

"Quit being an Idiot and let's go!" Iruka yelled, as he pointed at the blond teen.

"Idiot?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow, before he smirked. "…I'm not the one talking to myself." He added, but Iruka jumped as Naruto's voice came from the street behind him.

Iruka turned around and saw Naruto sitting at the a small Ramen Restaurant, before he glanced back and saw there was a window next to him with the blond teen's reflection in it. "Damn it, Naruto! Quit doing that!" He yelled.

"Sorry, Iruka…" Naruto said with a wily smile, showing that he really wasn't. "…It's just so hard to stop doing what so easy to do." He replied with a cocky tone in his voice. Iruka's eye twitched, before he smiled darkly and pulled out rope.

A few minutes later, Iruka threw a tied up Naruto into the classroom. Most of the kids in the class looked around two years younger than the blond himself, though they looked at Naruto weirdly.

"Um…Sensei, who's that?" a pink haired, green eyed girl asked curiously.

Iruka gave her a glare, not really in the mood for more jokes today. He looked at Naruto and his eyes went wide, the person that was tied up wasn't the blond teen, it was an old man.

"Geez, Sensei. You really showed me…" Naruto's voice said, as he walked into the class room with his hands in his pockets and his usual wily smirk on his face. "…Tying up a fragile old man and dragging him half-way across the village. I gotta say. You've got my attention now." He added.

Naruto casually walked past the enraged Chuunin and sat down in one of the seats. As he sat down, he leaned back and propped one of his feet against the table in front of him.

He was Naruto Uzumaki, the 'self-proclaimed' genius. A lot of people who actually knew him, liked to call him a The Mentalist or The Trickster. Despite his large Chakra Reserves and his almost abysmal Chakra Control, he was almost impossibly good at Genjutsu.

Like he said about the time limits of the tests not being fair, he knew about a lot of the things, some useless and some invaluable. Even before he joined the Academy, with the life he had. Being an orphan and well…being poor, he had to find a way to survive.

Naruto was one what people would call a Master at Prestidigitation, otherwise known as Sleight of Hand. He's been doing it for years, since he was young. He's done it for almost a large portion of his life, that he always uses it. Even if it's just to mess with people, mostly for the sake of getting people riled up.

When he first joined the Academy, he learned that he hated a lot of things. Learning was easy. He was just too bored to stay still. He learned that his Chakra Control was shit. He learned that he was mediocre if not worse than that in Ninjutsu.

But he learned something else. He learned he was incredibly good in Genjutsu, which suited him just fine. He had no idea why he was so good with Genjutsu. He was baffled as to why, even with his large reserves of Chakra and crappy control, he was incredibly skilled with it. Though he didn't have techniques, it was more instinctual and in his subconscious.

"…Time for a Henge Test! Everyone line up! And transform perfectly into me!" Iruka announced, with the students getting out of their seats.

"Transform perfectly to you? That's kinda pertinacious." Naruto commented wily, as he stood in line. "Why not something more practical and more useful…" He began with a smirk. "…Like that chair over there." He added.

"Shut up! And do the damn Henge!" Iruka yelled, as his formed several tick marks.

"So is that a green-light on the chair, alright then…" Naruto began, as he formed a hand-seal.

"No, idiot!" He announced angrily.

Naruto rolled his eyes and formed a hand-seal, before he was enveloped in a cloud of smoke. "There." He said, as he cloud dissipated, revealing an identical Iruka.

"Finally…Honestly, if you actually did what you were told. You wouldn't be such an idiot." Iruka said, as he rubbed his forehead.

"Well, if I always did what I was told. I would be one of those peons over there." Naruto said uncaringly, as he glanced at the other children, getting glares from them. Iruka sighed in disappointment.

A few hours later, Naruto was walking through the village with a plastic bag in one hand, containing some containers of instant ramen. After a few steps, Naruto bumped into a man, causing the man to fall back.

"Oh?" Naruto sounded, before he reached out and helped the man up.

"Thank…wait…" He said, as he got a better look at Naruto. In an instant his demeanor shifted to a more nervous one, before he quickly walked away from the blond.

"Hmph." Naruto sounded, as he looked forward and smirked as he held up his hand, revealing a wallet, before he put it in his wallet.

"Ah, is that what they teach in school now?" A male voice said, causing Naruto to stop and sigh loudly.

Naruto turned and noticed a teen around his age leaning against a wall, with his arms crossed. He was well-built and a few inches taller than the blond teen, and had pale skin. He had silver-grey hair that was partially slicked back while unkempt at the front and silver-grey eyes. He wore a grey and black two-toned partial-zipped jacket that covered his upper body and similarly colored pants, along with armor on his shoulders, resembling rerebraces. He also wore a large pair of black boots.

"Come on, man. Be a little more enthusiastic when we meet. It's like you don't like me or something." The silver-grey haired teen said with a smirk.

"I don't know, maybe it's because you're a douche, Mercury." Naruto said with a shameless smile, as he walked up towards the silver-grey haired teen.

"Is that any way to talk to your superior, Academy Student?" Mercury questioned.

"Not for long." Naruto replied, referring to the 'Academy Student' comment.

"Oh? You're actually going to try and pass this time? I'm shocked." Mercury said sarcastically, as he pushed himself off the wall.

Naruto rolled his eyes at the teen his age. Mercury was orphan, just like him. Though it was more of a different case, his mother gave him up since she didn't have enough money to support him and his father…well. No one knew who he was. He and Naruto knew each other since they were in dippers.

The blond teen smirked as he looked at Mercury. He knew that Mercury was probably the one person in the entire village who knew him best. They did a lot of things together. They even joined the Academy together. Though when Naruto failed the test the first time, Mercury passed became a Genin.

"Well if I don't actually try this time, I'll never become a shinobi." Naruto said with a shrug, as he glanced at his oldest friend. Despite the fact Mercury dressed and acted like a hipster douchebag, Naruto thought he was cool and a good friend. Mercury had flaws, and Naruto knew he wasn't a saint either and knew he had his own flaws too.

"And why exactly are we becoming Shinobi again?" Mercury questioned, as the two began to walk along a side-walk. "If we want to leave this village, becoming a Nin sorta fucks it up." He said dryly, as he crossed his arms behind the back of his neck.

"It only makes it harder, not impossible." Naruto replied, before he scowled as he glanced down at his stomach and lifted up his shirt, revealing a swirl-like tattoo. "And I believe if I become a Nin I might be able to learn what the hell this thing is supposed to be sealing." He added.

Mercury nodded at that one. "So we're basically everyone's going to see us as a couple of idiots who went on to become Shinobi." He commented, as he looked up. "I just love that plan." He added sarcastically.

"We aren't idiots, or pretending to be them either." Naruto replied with a sigh.

"...I had to be the dead-last!" Mercury said with some anger, before he closed his eyes and relaxed.

Naruto glanced at Mercury, before he smirked. "But you also were able to study and train under…who was it again?" He asked with a smirk.

"Yūgao Uzuki…" Mercury replied with a shrug, as he looked forward. "…An ANBU member, from what I could gather, she was and is incredibly skilled, but is a bit…how you say…" He trailed off, before he smirked. "…Trusting, depressed, vulnerable…" He added.

"Hmph, does this have anything to do with the incidents involving your teammates?" Naruto asked with a wily smile. "It's such a shame, almost every year, around this time. One of your teammates, seem to suddenly get killed off in a mission. I wonder if there's a coincidence." He commented, with a hand in his pocket, while carrying a bag in the other.

"…I know, I just…maybe I'm cursed." Mercury said with a laid-back look on his face, not looking too concerned about it.

Naruto glanced down and then looked forward. He knew it was Mercury who was doing it, sometimes people said the wrong thing to him or even just annoyed him, and he would 'put them in a situation in which they would be killed'. Naruto also knew it was to 'create space' so if he actually passed, he could join his team.

What the blond did was simple, to make sure he got with Mercury's team, he had to make sure almost everything he had was perfectly average. His Ninjutsu was incredibly poor, so he countered it with his Genjutsu. The intelligence and Taijutsu he presented was a perfect average.

Naruto knew what Mercury's team was based around, thanks to his friends information. Mercury was incredibly skilled in Taijutsu, he was very acrobatic and had that involved in his fighting style, and he seemed to be decent in Ninjutsu. From what he knew, there was also another member on his team that was incredibly smart and was really good in Medicine, along with Medical-Ninjutsu.

With his skills in Genjutsu, along with the possibility of learning Kenjutsu, the team would be incredibly well rounded. Having a form of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' type of coagulation.

"So, this 'Yūgao Uzuki', you said told me she was good with Kenjutsu?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, I was able to get a peek at her training…not too much, but a decent look. Want me to help you through the process?" Mercury questioned, causing Naruto to frown.

"No, this might need a more hands on approach." Naruto admitted, as he looked forward. In their relatively short lifetime together, he and Mercury helped each other out, a lot in fact. For years, Mercury was dedicated on learning out to fight, while he observed the Genin, Chuunin and Jonin training in Taijutsu. He used all that he saw and studied to create his own hybrid fighting style, something he imparted to Naruto.

While Naruto knew he could handle himself in a hand-to-hand fight, he knew he didn't hold a candle to Mercury in just that skill. Of course, with Mercury helping Naruto in Taijutsu, the blond repaid him with teaching him by teaching him how to break out of Genjutsu.

The spark Naruto had for Genjutsu, he couldn't teach it to Mercury. Mostly because Naruto himself didn't know how he did most of it, it just…came to him. He could move his chakra into his fingers and snap them, causing someone to hear things that he did and didn't want them to. He could tap someone on the shoulder and make them feel things that weren't there. He could look someone in the eyes, and have them see mirages and afterimages. It was all instinctual, and he wasn't sure if it could be taught.

And then there was the fact that with Mercury being a Genin, he could get ahold of some documents and books on Fuinjutsu. Naruto seemed to have a knack for it, but he really didn't care for it. All Fuinjutsu could really do was seal objects, living beings, chakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object.

'Though…the way I crudely used them, made some interesting things…' Naruto thought, as he glanced at Mercury's greaves and then he looked down at his own hands and arms. '…Interesting things.' He thought to himself.

"If you say so, Bitch." Mercury replied, as he rested his head behind his hands.

"Whatever, Douche." Naruto responded, as the two smirked. "So this teacher you have, is she hot?" He asked shamelessly.

"I don't think you've got what it takes to get with her. And well, she has purple hair." Mercury said with a shake of his head.

"Pfft, I don't care. Seriously, how hot is she?" Naruto asked, only for Mercury to move up ahead.

A few hours later, Naruto was walking to his place alone. He walked up to his apartment door and noticed a man standing in front of his door, with his arms crossed.

"Rent." He said.

"Yeah about that…" Naruto began.

"Rent." He repeated.

Naruto rolled his eyes, before he walked up towards the man. "Of course, yes, I have your money. But you need to…relax first. You're a stressed person. It'll only hurt your body more to keep it up. Just relax." Naruto said in a very calming manner, causing the attendant to visibly relax. "Maybe you should count down, how much is my rent…A two hundred, one hundred ninety-nine, one hundred and ninety-eight…As it goes down and down…one hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-six…" He said calmingly, before Naruto noticed the man's eyes glaze over, and waved a hand in front of his face, and then noticed not change.

"You need to calm and relax, you will be paid. In fact you've been paid. You're paid every day, in fact your paid so much you don't need me to pay rent." Naruto said, as he reached out and put a hand on the man's shoulder.

"Why don't you relax, take a walk down to your apartment. Get a nice, cold, refreshing drink. Find a girlfriend or a boyfriend whatever you're into. And when you're done, go to sleep in your bed. When you wake up tomorrow, you'll forget all about this…you'll feel happy, and you'll leave me alone." Naruto finish, before the man blinked a few times and slowly turned around and walked away.

Naruto smiled in a wily manner, as he entered his apartment. 'I love being me sometimes.' He thought.

The Next Day

Naruto was sitting at one of the chairs, in the Academy Classroom. He leaned back in his chair and glanced up. '…Hmm…what kind of metals should it have?' He thought, before he looked down at the table.

In front of him on the table was a piece of paper, with sketches on it. They were designs for sword, with its specs. It was scaled to be around foot and a half long, just about the size, if not a bit shorter than his arm.

'Chakra metal might be useful, but they're too expensive and I don't think I could convince them to give it to me for free.' Naruto thought with a smirk. 'Plus, it's pretty fucking useless. I mean, from what I know, Shinobi could just channel their Chakra into regular Kunais and blades.' He mused dryly.

Naruto tapped his pencil down a few times, before he smirked. 'Oh I know, how about some industrial grade Ultra-High Carbon Steel, the stuff that's used to cut stone and hard metals, like steel and metal girders' He thought, since mostly only civilians work in the industry, he could 'convince' some of them to make something for him. 'I bet I could integrate a titanium carbide coating into the outer part of the blade.' He mused, as he wrote his ideas down on the paper.

"Pfft…what else." Naruto muttered, as he looked at the drawn sheath. He closed one eye and tilted his head to the side.

He scribbled something over the sheath, right at the tip of it, forming a large 'C' over it, making the sheath look like an umbrella. Naruto glanced at the specs of the sword, before he erased the hilt of the single edge-bladed sword and drew a curved-umbrella handled hilt.

'Perfect for concealability and misdirection.' Naruto mused, as he put more notes next to umbrella-sheath. '…I wonder if I can make Fuinjutsu seals that could theoretically absorb kinetic energy from attacks and utilize it in some way…' He planned.

"…To graduate you'll have to do the 'Bushin no Jutsu' when you're called come to the next room." Iruka announced to the class.

Naruto glanced up for a moment, before he glanced down at his paper, and then his eyes moved a bit, letting him see his own palms. He noticed the two black tribal-like 'A's that seemed to be tattooed right at the center of his palms, but in actuality they were seals. Something he crudely made and jury-rigged with his limited knowledge in the subject.

After a few minutes, Naruto heard his name called, before he got up and walked into the other room. Naruto stood in front of a table, with Iruka and Mizuki sitting behind it.

"So…do you just want one clone, two, four?" Naruto asked with a shrug.

"Just make a clone!" Iruka said angrily, he just wanted to pass this kid. He seemed to have some ingrained problem with authority.

"You know I remember two years ago, when we had to do the Shunshin to pass, and then last year the Kawarimi. I gotta say. I've made sure I actually mastered them. Now I gotta do the easiest technique you could've done. Pfft, all that work is just…bleh." Naruto complained, as he rolled his eyes.

He lifted his hands up and formed a hand-seal, while looking into Iruka's eyes and then to Mizuki's. Two clones formed next to him, while they didn't leave a shadow, like they weren't solid matter. They weren't semi-transparent like some other clones. They seemed realistic enough to pass as a viable person from a distance or up really close.

"You pass…" Iruka said with a relieved sigh, and picked up a head band and tossed it towards the blond. "…Now get out." He added. Naruto caught the head-band and smiled playfully, as he walked out of the room. "Boruto Namikaze your turn!" Iruka announced, as Naruto walked out of the room.

Naruto turned and bit, as a boy, around two years younger than him walked by, with the two sharing a glance. The boy had bright blonde hair, contrast to Naruto's darker blond. He had bright blue eyes, especially compared to Naruto's dark-blue ones. He had whisker markings on his each of his cheeks and had a nervous look on his face.

"How is it in there?" Boruto asked.

Naruto smirked. "Eh, it was grueling." He said, as he walked off.

'What a weird kid.' Naruto and Boruto thought at the same time, as they went about their business.

A few hours later, Naruto was sitting on a ceiling and he reached up to the side of his head and pushed a bit, cracking his neck.

"Hey there, Naruto." A male voice said, causing Naruto to glance to his side and saw Mizuki standing behind him.

"…Sup?" Naruto questioned, as he glanced at the Chuunin.

"From your scores, you have almost an average grade…Damn, with some…incentive, I'm sure the Hokage you get you up to the top scores in class." Mizuki said.

"Oh?" Naruto sounded, thought he really didn't care.

"I know of a secret test, that'll get you to the top of the class. And might even get you to a Chuunin." Mizuki said, as he smirked with an undertone of deceit.

"You don't say, the sun's a bit bright, don't you think?" Naruto asked randomly, as he looked at the teacher.

"Uh, yeah." Mizuki replied.

Unknown to him, Naruto just asked him the random question to get an easy honest answer out of him. By judging the tone in his voice tone, facial movements, eyes, Naruto was able to deduce that Mizuki was lying about the test, by comparing the genuine honest answer of the sun being bright, to the statement about the test.

Naruto looked up at the sky, before he sighed and stood up. He turned and looked at Mizuki and put a hand on his shoulder. "You're looking a bit stressed, why don't you relax?" He asked, as he subconsciously molded Chakra in his vocal cords, pupils and his hand, causing Mizuki to slowly relax. "…You're looking a bit pale, let's sit in the sun. relax, let the feeling of those sun rays enter your skin…as you feel the heat lightly bath your arms and face, you feel a tingling…you let the tingling move through your body, into your mind…into your chest and it feels wonderful…" Naruto said calmly and smirked, noticing the glazed look in the Chunnin's eyes. "…You feel that warm tingling move down, to your stomach, and your feel tired, but you won't sleep…you feel that tingling going lower and lower, and once it reaches your feet, you'll be entirely relaxed." He said, before Mizuki almost fell, only for Naruto to catch him and sit him down.

The Chuunin sat with barely open eyes, as his head bobbed a bit, like he was about to fall asleep. "Close your eyes now, you're safe and relaxed, just listen to my voice and answer me truthfully…" Naruto said calmly, as he smirked wily.

Shinobi were resistant to torture, mental intrusion and mental manipulation, but it would seem they weren't trained for mental suggestion or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or better known as hypnosis.

"…Now tell me, what you were planning." Naruto instructed to the hypnotized Shinobi.

Here's a new story by myself obviously. I've read a lot of Naruto Fan-fic, and well, I've realized that a lot of them are strikingly similar to each other. And i wanted to write a story that was different, well as different as I could get.

This Naruto is going to be very different. He's not going to be a saint who's almost impossibly and annoyingly good, and he's not going to be the fucking anti-Christ where he kills people for shits and giggles.

He's just going to be a guy, with power and a few questions. He's going to be playful and cocky to most people he meets, with a tendency to ignore and disregard authority. He'll be generally apathetic about politics, his village and the countries in general.

He'll be like a mixture of Naruto, Neo(RWBY), Roman(RWBY), Cinder(RWBY), Patrick Jane(The Mentalist), Felix(Red vs Blue) and Gregory House(House) That's basically his character archetype so to speak. And for those of you that say 'I'm ruining Naruto's Character' 'I've destroyed the boy that we all know and love'...news flash, that's kinda the point.

As for the paring, which I'm sure some will ask, it's hard to say. I tried to think of girls that would make sense with his personality and what not, along with my plans for the story. For now it's Naruto x Yamkumo Kuruma x Female Garra x Kurostchi x Mei x(a mystery lady), Whooo spooky.

Anyway I'd like feed back on the story. Though you really don't have to, because I'd update it regardless.