Chapter 1: Realization, Betrayal & Determination

The village hidden in the leaf, otherwise known as Konohagakure on Sato or in short Konoha, is one of the greatest ninja village of the five main greatest ninja village located in five great countries. There are also several other smaller countries between them and while there is an ocean but for some reasons all the countries are connected with each other by land mass even it seems not.

The leader of each great five nation is given a title of Kage. In Konoha the head ninja is called Hokage. Now is the reign of Sandaime Hokage known as Sarutobi Hiruzen. But it should be a Yondaime that should be in charge, but it wasn't meant to be because twelve years ago a natural disaster known as Nine tailed demon fox or Kyuubi suddenly appeared in the village and it was so powerful that any attack towards failed to even scratch it but the Yondaime sacrificed his life to kill the beast by using an extremely powerful fuinjutsu to kill it. After that sanding has to take back the control which he had retired from just two years prior.

"What a load of bull." said a boy of twelve year old boy bitterly who has bright golden yellow spiked hair and light blue eyes, he is wearing a sleeveless orange hoodie, a half sleeved blue shirt inside it and orange pants.

This is Uzumaki Naruto the ninja academy class clown and dead last and he is in very bad mood because earlier today he had failed the graduation second time he had applied for early graduation exam ahead of scheduled for his age because the instructor ignored his questions and all the students of class laughed at him and no one in the academy stand up for him. So he thought that if he became ninja then he would not have to put up with them anymore but due to negligence and ignorance of the instructors he had failed second time.

And on top of that when was sitting on that swing just outside of the academy dejected of not passing he heard whispers of a chunin telling his friends that it was good that he didn't pass and when his friend asked why he replied that the Yondaime used him as a sacrificed as to seal the Kyuubi inside him and then he was hastily shut upped by his friend by saying that it was an S- class secret.

So now he was reading the piece of where Yondaime was said to be able to kill the beast but to thing that said natural disaster was inside him somewhere is a bit overwhelming. He snapped the book shut and thought of his future of his life and what he wanted to do now.

From the age of 5 his dream was to be hokage and he was determined to train extra hard to achieve it but as soon as he was admitted the ninja academy and saw that there was no one to help him or even be a friend to him his drive become less and less and eventually he began spending his goofing off and playing prank due to which although unknowingly improved his stealth. But the other aspect didn't improve at all.

He was waiting for someone to acknowledge him and teach him but now that he knew the reason of everyone ignoring him there was no chance of him getting any help at all hell even the old man Hokage who he thought of as his grandfather didn't help him at all only said that it would be seen as favoritism and to try harder but there must be something to try harder.

After thinking things though he realizes that he still want to become Hokage but he would be a Hokage that would not use other to be a sacrificed and to become that he would need power and there can't be any free shortcut to it. He realizes that he had to take things seriously and portrait himself that he hadn't know of his tenant and he is the same idiot till he became the ninja which also known as shinobi which means to endure and not break under the pressure.

But the new question arises from where he would learn to be a proper ninja and the answer hit him like a ton of bricks. There is a library at the academy which he hadn't ever bothered to visit because reading bored him. So he made up his mind that first thing tomorrow and went to sleep.

Next Morning

Naruto is making his way towards the academy library with a large smile plastered on his face to keep up the act. He had decided that no would know of his acting till he became ninja but first his goal is to improve himself to his classmate level in three months as there was a three months break till the starts of his new semester where he would be assigned a new homeroom teacher but now he wouldn't be depend on anyone for training.

He enter the library and searched the selves for the subject related to first year academic course. He select scrolls of taijutsu which consist of basic academic katas and upon which students can improve upon, chakra which contains details instruction of it, history of Konoha, geography of various places, Mental conditioning, Body conditioning and since he knew that first year students activate their chakra and he already activated it so he also took the scroll of chakra control with him. He took out his only storage scroll which was a gift from the Sandaime hokage and sealed all the item inside it and make his way to his room.

As soon as he entered his room he sorted out what he should read first. He open first scroll regarding chakra at first he was confused what the hell is chakra is but when he started reading he realizes that the instructors had told him chakra as catra and he had believed him and now he was truly realizing the extent of his stun growth. The scroll contains details of how to unlock chakra and its uses and what its consists of.

According to the scroll chakra is a energy present in all living beings be it plant to an animal or a civilian but they were at deactivate state but due to the training ninja can use it for various supernatural purposes by molding their physical energy

with mental or spiritual energy. The physical energy represents raw power of chakra while mental energy represent control of a ninja have over his or her chakra.

A ninja can use chakra for three major branch of techniques ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu. If a ninja has more physical energy than spiritual energy he can excel in taijutsu and ninjutsu while he can still use genjutsu but not as proficiently as other two. Similarly if a ninja has more spiritual energy than physical energy he can excel in genjutsu and ninjutsu but not be proficient in taijutsu. But if a ninja is able to properly balance his physical and mental energy ratio the he/she can excel in all of them. But it's extremely difficult as only ninja to be able to achieve is Shodai Hokage Senju Hashirama.

At the very beginning a person only have a small amount of chakra present in them but it can be increased by training. There are three methods to increase chakra capacity. First and direct method is to use all the chakra present in them to the brink of exhaustion and in time the amount of chakra your body produces will increase.

Second is to do increase physical energy or spiritual energy by training. The physical energy can be increased by maintaining healthy diet and doing body conditioning exercise while mental energy can be increase by doing meditation, chakra control exercise and learning new useful things and it also increase as a ninja's experience increases. But the mental energy is quite very difficult to increase in comparison to physical energy thus it's very hard to gain perfect control of chakra.

The third method is to use all three methods to increase your chakra reserve. If a ninja is to increase his physical energy and spiritual energy simultaneously then his chakra reserve will shot up by huge margin but he still will be able to have same amount of control over his chakra when he had small capacity. Now the direct method will have different meaning in this but to understand this you have to understand the difference between chakra capacity and chakra reserve.

Chakra capacity is the amount of chakra flowing through a ninja chakra circulatory system at time which is present in whole body like blood circulatory system. That is the amount of chakra a ninja can use in ninjutsu, genjutsu etc. Once a ninja used up that amount he had to mold his chakra again to use it but if a ninja reserves is low then it can led to extreme chakra exhaustion and death. Its depends upon the lowest amount of energy a ninja has.

(For example if a ninja has physical energy of 50 and spiritual energy of 20 then his capacity will be 20*20=400, that is average amount of a low level gennin and has potential of excelling in taijutsu and ninjutsu.

Similarly if a ninja has spiritual energy of 50 and physical energy of 20 then his capacity will be 20*20=400, that is average amount of a low level gennin and has the potential of excel in genjutsu.)

Chakra reserve is a amount of physical and mental energy a ninja can mold to produce chakra its amount can be less, same or more the amount of chakra capacity. Its depend upon the all the physical and mental energy a ninja has.

(For example if a ninja has physical energy of 50 and spiritual energy of 20 then his reserve will be 50*20=1000, that is average amount of a low level gennin and has potential of excelling in taijutsu and ninjutsu.

Similarly if a ninja has spiritual energy of 50 and physical energy of 20 then his reserve will be 50*20=1000, that is average amount of a low level gennin and has the potential of excel in genjutsu.)

As you saw in the example here a ninja has more than the double the amount of chakra reserve than his capacity so he can use same amount of chakra of his capacity two more times safely and will only feel tired after that but if he/she attempted to use more than that he will starts to used up his life force required to keep him alive.

To determine the amount of your chakra you have to channel your chakra till you feel tired at the seal present at the bottom of the scroll. It's a seal designed by Second Hokage Senju Tobirama to determine the amount of chakra a person has by measuring the time required to deplete your chakra and how many times you can repeat the process for a day. After that the information in the form of number will appear just under it .

Naruto had to read the scroll four- five times and memorize it thoroughly after that he finally understands it completely because it's very difficult for him to sit still and from what he remember it was like that when he had activate his chakra system. He has suspicion of its cause but decides to complete it first. He opened the scroll all the way up to the end and there he saw a symbol consisting of various squidgy lines that he can read and starts to channel his chakra.

After 2 hr 15 min an exhausted naruto finished channeling his chakra through the seal and waited for the information to appear and after 15 more minutes of patiently waiting the information appeared which baffled naruto.

Capacity :- 900 mid gennin - high gennin, Reserve :- 6000 high jonin - low kage and the ratio of physical and spiritual energy is 6.6 : 1. If you are incapable of performing long physical daunting task then your spiritual energy is more than physical energy. Advice is to do more physical exercise and body conditioning to increase your chakra.

If you are having trouble in concentrating on any task then your physical energy is more than spiritual energy. Advice is to do minimum amount of physical exercise and body conditioning required to keep you fit and start the method to increase your mental energy which will not only increase your control over your chakra also chakra capacity and reserve as wells.

After reading his information from the scroll and having vaguely understanding the reason of his large reserve naruto kept reading first chapter of all the books he had taken from the library.

By the time he had finished the reading the sun was already down and it was nearly dinner time. So he make his way towards the only place which accept him to eat his fill. On the way he was deeply thinking about all the thing he had learnt.

First thing he came to conclusion that he had to make a time table if he had to complete the first semester course within the first month.

Next he was to eat healthy in order to keep him fit and he thought that in that way he can skip the body conditioning for next six month and that would be enough time to bring his spiritual energy up to acceptable level but he understands that if he has to become his dream Hokage then he would be have to have massive chakra reserve and perfect control over his chakra. To do that he would have to work extra hard and for extra time on his chakra control exercise and mental conditioning.

Next comes taijutsu practice from what he read from the scroll that the academy style consist of three parts. Basic which consists of how to properly execute punch, kick, without losing power while not letting your guard down. Intermediate which demonstrate how to successfully feint, guard, counter blows from your opponent without losing balance. Advance is to how to perform each of the above flawlessly in a single combat. He decided that he would show some of his improvement in taijutsu to everyone to test himself because he didn't have any means to test that with anything.

He noticed that he had reached his destination so he plastered a smile and enter the establishment while shouting "Ossan 5 miso chasu ramen and keep it coming."

"Oh naruto how are you and what happened to your test did you pass." asked an old man of age approximately of 55 years. His name is Ichiraku Teuchi. He is the owner of this ramen bar named after him ICHIRAKU RAMEN.

Naruto winced for a brief moment and his eyes dimmed for a moment which was unnoticed by the old man but he bounced back and boisterously replied "Well I failed but next time I will definitely passed. By the way where is Ayame-chan." asked naruto.

Old man chuckled at his upbeat attitude. "Here you go your order and Ayame went to bring some ingredients for shop." and went to continue his order. while eating naruto was thinking about his diet problem he paused at mid eating looking at the old man. He gulped his rest of his order and tentatively asked "Ne Teuchi-jiji can you make my ramen a lot more healthier."

The older man raised an eyebrow "What do you mean why suddenly you ask that you never seemed to bothered with it before." asked perplexed.

"Well you see I just recently found out that to grow taller I need a healthy diet but I also like ramen So..." naruto trailed off in mid speech waiting for reaction. Seeing a little hesitant expression on his face he decide to play a little dirty "Well I would eat different food but no one allows me to eat at their place." he finished in a down hearted tone.

The old man face softened seeing his face and smiles softly "Oh alright I will make you healthier ramen from now on but you have to pay a little extra as well."

Naruto doesn't like to manipulate him but he had no other way of getting healthier food so h smiles brightly and paid his bill and thanked him and went to his apartment for sleep. As he was about to sleep he remembers to create a schedule so took out a notebook and starts to right. From 7 am to 9 am meditation, 9.30 am to 1.30 pm chakra control, 2 pm to 6 pm taijutsu practice, 7 pm to 9 pm study all the books. Satisfied he went to sleep.

NEXT MORNING

As soon as naruto woke he hastily finished his daily morning routine and went towards the Hokage monument. It's a place which is made of massive stone face of all the previous Hokage's face. Starting from the left it has a face of Shodai Hokage Senju Hashirama, to his right it contains Nidaime Hokage Senju Tobirama, to his very right it has young face of current Sandaime Sarutobi Hiruzen and lastly it contains Yondaime Hokage Namikaze Minato. All the faces of Hokages are looking over the village like gods are looking upon them. It is one of a place for naruto to get away from ignorance of villagers.

But now naruto was not going to it but what is behind it. The land behind hokage monument doesn't contain anything and by chance he had found a big enough clearing where he can continue his training without any restraint.

As soon as he reached the middle of clearing he took out the scroll containing meditation and practice it till 9.30 am. After that he open his chakra control scroll and starts to read. First and only chakra control exercise its mentioned is leaf exercise. In this one must be capable to hold a leaf to his/her forehead for a minimum of fifteen minutes. But naruto realizes that all the academic students have small reserve and capacity so it isn't necessary for any higher level technique but due to his condition so if he was to be able to gain perfect chakra control he would have to make every available exercise more difficult.

But first exercise is leaf exercise in which he had to channel minimum amount of chakra to his forehead which will create suction and then place a leaf over it. If the amount of chakra is less then leaf will simply fall off but if it more than required then it will shot off from forehead. So with that in mind he tried it but the result was as not he was expecting at all his leaf simply disintegrated.

By simply the result of most basic exercise it was clear that naruto has work cut out for him. But he didn't get discouraged but push through it with sheer determination and continue till 1.30 pm. Now the leaf at least didn't disintegrate just blew away.

After eating a dose of healthy ramen he went back to clearing and began practice taijutsu. The scroll contains how to attack by executing different types of punch, kick, elbows, knees. So he practiced them by repeatedly performing them on tress repeatedly and by one hour he had gotten an idea how to perform them effectively but by no way he had perfected them and his fists, elbows, knees and calf had also began bleeding so he decides that to take a break from it and began practicing throwing kunai, shuriken and starts them at 10 feet.

After finishing his first day of exercise naruto is exhausted but there is certain amount of satisfaction in his eyes of successfully completely and by now all his injuries are also almost healed only just light scrapes remained and by the looks of it they were also begun to heal as well. And seeing this naruto realized the second good thing he had gotten from having kyuubi inside him. First being is his massive chakra reserve for his age.

He ponders that if there is a way to meet the kyuubi himself may be he would be able to meet him through meditation requires one to look inside himself and that is the same process for some one to have access to his chakra for first time. He shook those thought away and went to his apartment.

After reaching his apartment he freshens up and began his most dislike thing to do regarding a ninja that is reading book. But he accepts that if he has to become hokage he has to have vast knowledge which will only be possible by reading dammed books and it would also help in increasing his spiritual energy.

And for the next three months naruto continues this routine and now it was again time for the academy to start again tomorrow. He was not looking forward to it because it would cut his time from his training. And thinking of his of his training he was impressed with his own progress.

After first month he had began seeing the improvement in everything he had been training on. He had success in getting into meditative state much easier and can stay longer in it than when he had first started. At first it took one hour for him to get into meditative state and he can only last longer in it for 10 minutes. But now not only he can it in 20 minutes and stay in it for 40 minutes but can see his chakra core vaguely as well.

In terms of chakra control it took a month for him to be able to hold the leaf the for two hours on his forehead but once he had achieve it he began thinking how to make it more difficult and the answer he got from the chakra control scroll itself, from it he learned that the forehead is an easy place to concentrated chakra to it so that's why the basic exercise is made up by it, the next difficult place is palm and fingers and most difficult place is feet.

So with that in mind he began using same principle to stick leaf to first his palm then on each of his finger and lastly on his feet as well and it took him second month to finish all this.

At the start of month three he had tried to create bunshin but again it came out as dead as dead a clone can get but it has a little more color definition after that he racked his mind for how to modify the exercise because as far he knows that he can't get any more exercise till he became gennin. After thinking long and hard he found a way to increase his control. First,he had to make a leaf float on his palm on a specific spot after that he tried that on each of his fingers separately and it took him 8 days for him to be able to float the leaf on each of his fingers and palms and after that he tries to spin the leaf on each of his fingers and palms separately and it took him 12 days to complete it.

But the hardest is to be able to perform all those things simultaneously. The amount of amount of chakra required to realized through his hand is so great that it causes chakra burns on it but like his physical injuries it would also heal quickly. One good thing happened that due to his increase in control he mastered kawarimi and henge to near perfection and now it took him only one hand seal to be able to perform it and it was also with almost no smoke.

His shuriken jutsu which consist of throwing kunai and shuriken at a target from a distance has also improve and he had test himself today based on the final exam of this section which is always fixed. The requirement is to be able to throw them from 50 m and depending upon the score the level is determined if a person score less than 5 out of 10 then it was fail, if a person score less than 7 out of 10 then it was low gennin level, if a person score less than 9 out of 10 then it was mid gennin, if a person score less than 10 out of 10 then it was high gennin, and he had scored 8/10 in kunai throwing and 9/10 in shuriken throwing.

The level above high gennin is decided by increasing the distance and speed of throwing chunin level will be at a distance from 100 m. 150 m for jonin and above that will come elite jonin, kage etc.

He had found an interesting thing with regarding to his taijutsu that due to his excellent healing due to kyuubi it would took less time for him to get used to the moves in other words he would take him 10 times less than to learn than a ordinary boy of his age and it help him to be able to complete both basic and intermediate scroll in six weeks and for that he was able to get mastery in taijutsu and complete the third scroll because it took him remaining six weeks which is double that amount for each for the previous two.

According to the scroll if one was able to successful all the move demonstrated in the final scroll by instincts then his taijutsu skill will be somewhat between high gennin to low chunin. He had also continued his studies on the evening and had memorized everything required for him to know pass graduation written test on flying colors and it helped him with his short attention span and now it did not take him much effort to sit still which helped him immensely for his meditation and it also help him increasing spiritual energy which in turn help him in increasing chakra control.

Now naruto was sitting on his bed and in his front was the same scroll which help him to find his chakra capacity and reserve. He was contemplating weather or not to see his stats now after some pondering he thought "what the hell what did I have to lose might as well see." and began the procedure and after two long hours he saw the result.

Capacity :- 4900 near high jonin, Reserve :- 14000 low kage-high kage and the ratio of physical and spiritual energy is 3 : 1.

Seeing the results his jaw unhinged seeing his increase in chakra levels at the start of his training he had near high gennin chakra and now it was nearly high jonin and his reserve has increased from high jonin to somewhere between low kage to mid kage. and from the physical and spiritual ratio while it was clear that his physical energy was still more than his spiritual energy but where before it was more than six times more than spiritual energy now it was only three time more and this indicates that his chakra control has improved drastically in fact it has improved the most out of all the thing he had been training.

But he began thinking how its possible every one knows that the more chakra the lesser the control so how not only his chakra capacity and reserves increases but chakra control as well. After some thinking he came to realize that since chakra is made up of both physical and mental energy which represents power and control respectively and he had spent his last three months meditating, reading and practicing chakra control and which increases his spiritual energy and he didn't do anything to increase his physical energy sure he improved his taijutsu but his physical parameters such as speed, strength, stamina, health are still the same and by his estimation they were at mid level gennin and it would take him long time to increase those.

With that he came to a conclusion that no matter how much his chakra increases if ratio is same or less than present his chakra control will not be affected and when his ratio become 1 : 1 he would have achieved perfect chakra control which is present goal to achieve that within the academy.

All in all he would measure him a mid level gennin with high chakra levels. With that thought he went to bed last thing his mind before sleep takeover is that how to make up for the time he would waste in academy.