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"Naruto!!!!" A man wearing the standard chunnin vest and hair tied up ran towards the figure of Naruto before landing in front of him.

"What the hell were you thinking, stealing the scroll of sealing? This is serious stuff, you should not be stealing village secrets as pranks, Naruto." Iruka yelled as he landed in front of Naruto, who just took a step back to dodge the shower of spit approaching his face.

"Calm down Iruka sensei. I didn't do such a thing. It was all Mizuki sensei. He approached me after the exam this afternoon and gave me a 'task' saying that I had to just pick up the scroll to pass the academy exam and become a genin.

At first, I thought it was true, but then, I felt it to be too good to be true, so, when I researched about the object, he was asking me to steal, I figured out his plan. So, when he came here to pick up the scroll and tried to silence me, I just snuck a paralyzing seal on his body. Look, he's over there, lying in the bushes.

I was just about to go and look for a ninja to report the traitor." With a harmless smile, Naruto explained his story.

"Mizuki did this? No way, how could that be? He is such a good person; he would never betray the village. Naruto did someone put you up to this?" Iruka asked once again.

"You won't believe me until you get proof, will you?" Saying so, Naruto passed Iruka the directions that Mizuki handwrote. 'Such an idiotic thing to do as a ninja.' Naruto shook his head with a smile.

"This really is Mizuki's handwriting. Damn it. That son of a bitch, I should have known he was a traitor. Damn it.

Sigh. Naruto, come with me, and let's explain this to the Hokage before the situation worsens." Saying so, Iruka was about to pick up Naruto, but a voice sounded from the trees.

"There's no need to go and find me, I came here myself." An old and dignified voice sounded out, causing Iruka to turn around and bow down instantly quickly.

"Hokage-sama"

"At ease, Iruka. I have heard all that Naruto has to say. We will interrogate Mizuki in the T&I department, Naruto, you come as well." That was all the Hokage said, as a bunch of ANBU guided the pair of students and teachers towards the Hokage Building.

Throughout the night, Naruto was questioned, but the answers were carefully coached, making sure, that none of his secrets may fall into the hands of others, all the while making him seem like a pitiful victim of Mizuki during his Academy years.

Upon Naruto's insistence, the Hokage had an ANBU pick up a stack of test papers from Naruto's apartment, and seeing all the crosses over the correct answers, the Hokage was convinced of Naruto's condition.

"Investigate all the teachers at the academy and find out who was responsible for this incident. I want the answers within an hour." The Hokage commanded to the shadows.

No longer was he the broken man suppressed by Danzo most of the time. Now, he was the man who had survived 3 world wars and lived to tell the tale.

'Guess Danzo's methods of memory suppression and replacement made Hiruzen unaware of the manipulations and possessions.' Naruto and Hiroki thought.

"Naruto my boy. I am truly sorry about this huge injustice you have faced. I will try my very best to make it up to you, and the first thing I will start with is by making you a Genin. Report to the Academy tomorrow morning to meet your Jonin supervision." Hiruzen commanded with a soft expression.

"Yes, Hokage-sama" Naruto bowed lightly, before going back to his apartment.

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"Good acting little brother. Good acting. No one suspected a thing. And we also got a huge loot from all of this." Hiroki exclaimed when naruto entered the mindscape. "And best of all, we got a bloody brainwashing cheat."

"I know right. This is so awesome. Now, I can help Sasuke see the true light. He has suffered almost as much as I have, all thanks to that mummy." Naruto grumbled the last bit in anger.

Yeah, over the course of the past few years, after the Uchiha massacre, Hiroki shared general knowledge about the events that led up to the massacre and the reasons behind it.

If it was the original Naruto without the guidance of Hiroki, he would have rushed right ahead and spilled the beans to Sasuke then and there.

But Naruto, a student of Hiroki, took all the information in and analyzed the minute mechanisms that could be affected if he rushed in.

So, Naruto and Hiroki decided to have a talk with Sasuke only after A) Naruto was strong enough, and B) Danzo was taken care of, preferably permanently.

With both these conditions met, it was now time for naruto to share the secrets with his 'rival'.

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"Careful now. This seal will limit your chakra to only a tenth of your full capacity. With this, your control will increase by at least 90%, and for this to work, you will need all the control that you have to work." Hiroki explained patiently as Naruto went through hand seals, before slamming his hands on a scroll filled with ink.

Crawling over his body like worms, Naruto felt his chakra being suppressed to the limit, and suddenly a feeling of extreme weakness filled his body.

"Damn, is this what people with such low reserves of chakra feel like. This is so pitiful." Naruto commented, before beginning to control his meager amounts of chakra.

"Don't pity the weak just yet. You are far from reaching that stage yourself. Now focus on the task at hand." Hiroki gave a virtual slap to the boy's head, which did pretty much nothing, but Naruto began with the operation.

Lying in front of him on an operation table, was an eagle, with a saline drip along with some anesthetics dripping occasionally. Carefully extracting the bird's right eye, Naruto replaced it with a bright red one. Soon, a blue hue glowed on Naruto's hands as the red human eye was perfectly fitted inside the eagle's skull, as the chakra and blood vessels merged together.

After fifteen minutes, Naruto walked away to wash and disinfect his hands, before coming back and sitting in front of the bird.

"Sorry little one, but I promise to give you your eye and life back once I'm don't with this. Thank you for your sacrifice." After sticking a paper seal on the bird's back, Naruto weaved his fingers to make a triangle in front of his eyes, aiming it at the bird.

"Mind Transfer Jutsu"

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