Hello and thank you for visiting my fanfic. I've taken the time to read and edit an existing work to remove the overused harem trope that plagues WebNovels. I hope you'll give this fanfic a chance and enjoy it now that it is devoid of the heavy, fluffy harem elements.
This chapter features minimal revisions, I primarily focused on refining the prose to better suit my literary preferences.
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On the streets of Konoha, in a narrow apartment, a small blond Child woke to the sound of an alarm clock. dim light streamed in through the window. the remnants of sleep clung to his face.
Nobody knew that a foreign soul had descended in the middle of the night to take the place of the protagonist of a popular anime back on earth 123.
[Ding! The Take It Easy System is loading]
[7%]
A lazy sweep of his eyes brought him to the realization that the room he awoke in was not his own.
'Ah… did i get kidnapped?'
Suddenly with the force of a sledge hammer foreign memories rushed to the forefront of his mind.
'It hurts! Hiss~!'
'Thats not right. How will I go to work tomorrow?'
'I'm on the verge of a promotion. I've come so close... I worked so hard.'
As the pain subsided, Rodger opened his eyes. Dim light revealed a strange, cluttered room.
The air smelled faintly of mildew, and the walls were faded with age. Clothes and books lay scattered messily on the wooden floor.
He seemed to come to a realization. Looking down at his hands his pupils dilated, and with a cry, Rodger fell backward.
'Why am i so small?'
[System loading progress 13%]
A mechanical synthesized voice echoed.
The memories flowed smoothly through him.
Sadness seemed clouded his vision and dampen his spirit.
'Is it that child? How disgusting!'
'I told you not to play with him. Who knows what that demon might do to you?'
'The forth Hokage is dead because of him.'
'Naruto, do you know what the Will of Fire is?'
'Hokage-sama is the most powerful person in the village. He protects and guides us. Naruto, you have to work hard if you want to become Hokage too.'
"Hokage? Are you kidding me?" His head throbbed painfully.
He stumbled over to the window where people roamed the streets of Konoha. All kinds of people exchanging smiles and laughter to one another, but never to him.
Their eyes were always full of disdain, indifference, and resentment whenever they fell upon him.
'Get lost!'
'monster!'
'I won't sell anything to you! Out! Out!'
'Why has is he allowed to attend the academy?! I dont want my kid near that monster!'
He could feel a deep cold spread over his heart. It was almost suffocating with its veracity. He turned over, pressed his face into the pillow, and clenched the sheets to his chest with all his might, and only then was he able to catch his breath.
[System loading progress 17%]
Lying on the bed, he saw a slowly appearing panel in front of him. He had read many novels with this exact set up, so he roughly understands his current situation.
He had crossed over and become Uzumaki Naruto from the anime Naruto. He should still be in the academy with the genin graduation exam fast approaching.
He took comforted knowing that the system was here to make his transition smoother.
'It seemed to be still loading, but what kind of system is it?'
'Whatever, having any system is better than having no system at all.'
Looking at the outside the window, Rodger had no intention of returning to sleep. He turned over, got out of bed, and fumbled to turn on the room light.
With a click, the bright light dispelled the uneasiness in his heart.
"From now on, I am Uzumaki Naruto."
Naruto ignored the messy room and the cluttered table. No one could blame an orphan who had no one to care for him. After all, there was no one to scold him or tech him how to live properly.
Naruto sat at the table, took out a paper and pen, and tried to write a line. A language resembling Japanese came flowing from the tip of his pen and Naruto could understand it. He tried to speak, and transitioned between several languages. He could switch back and forth between his native tongue and the couple of languages he picked up in school. Although french and latin were useless in this world, as long as he knew the common language of this world it would be enough.
He pulled open his clothes, but couldn't see the seal of the Nine-Tailed Fox on his belly.
'This was a bit troublesome, the seal was designed to leak minuscule amounts of the foxes chakra into his system over time. '
The seal was designed to allow portions of the Kyubi chakra to flowed through his Chakra Pathway System, eventually merging it into his normal blue Chakra. With his bodies constant adaptation the burden of housing a tailed beast would hopefully be reduced and allow him its use once he was old enough.
Although he seemed to be able to use some of the Kyubi's Chakra in the anime, it was not something that would help him at this time.
After thinking for a while, Naruto wrote down some of his training goals on paper. In this world, naturally, only the strong have the right to speak.
Being strong meant freedom in any world. wether that means being strong physically, financially, or politically it doesn't matter. What matters is strength equals freedom.
Naruto had to consider what path he wanted to follow in this life. He scratched his head, stood up, and walked to the dressing mirror. Looking at his young face, he grinned broadly, baring his teeth.
'To hell with being Hokage!'
'Who wants to be chained to a desk doing endless amounts of paperwork and protect a village filled with those who despise him? Dream on, better for them all to die! Bastards!'
He vented the negative emotions in his heart and instantly felt a lot more relaxed.
'Putting the previous owners desire to be hokage aside, New Naruto had to think up a new goal to pursue. Without the position of hokage he obtained in the future, he had to make other arrangements to make his life better.'
'The Will of Fire? hah... Those old decrepit elders have already taken it and bastardized a system dedicated to burning the young to keep the old in power. Living should be for enjoyment. Once the system is finished loading, I can start planning what my next move will be.'
While humming a tune, Naruto finished putting his thoughts to paper.
[System loading progress 34%]
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The first thing Naruto did after rolling out of bed was to pull up the panel to check the system's loading progress. The damned loading speed was not exactly slow, but it definitely was not as fast as someone who was used to 5G internet would like it to be.
[System loading progress 69%]
Naruto yawned. He didn't get much sleep last night.
or
Maybe the transition of one soul to the other took a lot more energy than a hyperactive blond jinchuriki had to spare.
Since he still had a while before his morning classes started, he knew he was in no rush. He decided he would just lie down in the classroom and catch up on his sleep there. Besides, in the eyes of his classmates, Naruto was always and will always be the dead last. No one seemed to care about him as long as he was out of the way and not being annoying.
Choosing his clothes before going out, Naruto had a really hard time even looking in his closet. His usual outfit was kill me orange, and that big jacket was way too hot for this time of year.
After hesitating for a moment, Naruto sifted through a pile of clothes in the back of the closet and chose a casual black short-sleeved shirt with brown shorts. probably gifted to him by the hokage in an attempt to spare himself of the obnoxious orange color the previous Naruto seemed to love.
He left the goggles on the table and walked out of the room.
He did not have a Konoha forehead protector yet, since he had yet to graduate.
"I'm heading out!" He shouted into the empty room, receiving no response, but he didn't mind, and slammed the door shut.
He lived in an old apartment building with a red roof. Seeing people standing in the sunlight, Naruto paused for a moment. He didn't care what they thought of him but being given hostile looks from a crowd of people was still something that could leave anyone feeling unsettled.
He kept his head level and avoided eye contact. Silently he walked through the crowd on his way to the academy.
The villagers' expressions were devoid of any warmth. Disdainful glances were shot at Naruto before quickly vanishing in hopes of forgetting his existence entirely.
[System loading progress 87%]
At the Academy, Shikamaru lazily scanned the crowd and then seemed to notice something. He nudged Choji next to him and pointed in a direction for Choji to look over there.
"Isn't that Naruto?" Choji stopped eating his chips, "Wheres his usual orange jumpsuit?"
"hmmm." Shikamaru heavy gaze passed over him before going back out of focus in hopes that the morning would pass by without trouble, "who knows, maybe he lost it."
Choji threw the last chip into his mouth, crunching it loudly.
The two noticed a group of troublesome students making their way towards the blond outcast.