Chapter 2

So, what can I say, the system is convenient, I realized this on the first day, when cleaning the apartment brought me +3 to strength, +5 to stamina and even +2 to agility (there were hard-to-reach places where you couldn't get through without some pain) .

Cleaning also brought me a skill, and no, not the banal "cleaning" or "washing dishes" and something else. No, the system turned out to be either a twist or a joke, but I got the Butler skill.

Butler: during banal household chores, without noticing it, you look aloof and somewhat elegant. Your stingy movements and prim appearance can conquer any aristocrat. You are not yet experienced in your business, but you are already able to hold yourself, as befits a real "John Bull".

Chance to conquer everyone with your butler skills 0.5%

You clean 2% better than others.

Your dishwashing performance beats amateurs by 2%.

Things in your hands are washed 3% better.

The chance of meeting Integra (or Alucard) is 0.00001%.

Spending time doing household chores makes you 10% less tired.

But I'd better keep silent about this shame. I'll be honest, I even liked some of the bonuses, but really, is it just me, or is the system1 trying to give me as many ways as possible to seduce Kaguya? WTH am I going to clean up in a battle with her? Remnants of Madara? Or maybe water Zetsu?

Stepping back from this cringe, both systemic and what was in my thoughts, I decided to make sure how much the system influences this world... it's a pity that the method I chose was not the most successful. But this is not surprising, with my intelligence parameter, and for some reason the missing wisdom parameter, I generally wonder why I am still able to think?!

Intelligence has been increased by 1.

No, well, the system is definitely mocking me. So, I decided to check the influence of the system on my body. What if it only reflects actual achievements and has almost no effect on the real world? Taking a needle I found at home and disinfected, then poke it into my finger. As expected, a unit of HP was taken away. In real life, no matter how many times I poked a needle into my finger, it wouldn't kill me, let's see what happens if I lower my HP as low as possible using this method. Just a simple and painless check..

That's what I thought at first, but ten minutes later, having knocked out three-quarters of my HP and struggling with regeneration, I felt, to put it mildly, not very well. Really not very well. Moreover, I gained the skill of a Masochist, which I won't even argue with, and increased my stamina. Regeneration was not given, but I no longer had the strength to poke myself with a piece of metal. Therefore, recognizing that the system has a direct impact on me, I put this idea aside and lay down myself, allowing my HP to recover.

Next, I managed to create another skill, and I also quickly gained the missing Observation, which could have made my life much easier. But back to the skill, sometimes in the evenings at the Orphanage I had the habit of humming something under my breath, and then on the very first evening she brought me the Singing skill. In general, if it doesn't work out with the shinobi profession, I'll become a singer, because I actively developed the skill every evening (this is such a cunning maneuver for the future, to charm Kaguya, yeah!), and as it grew, singing became more and more enjoyable.

In the first couple of days I stocked up on custard noodles; that was the most I could buy with my rather meager allowance. I confess, I still couldn't resist blowing some money – I bought a couple kilos of carrots and the same amount of rice in addition. That's okay, rice, there seems to be a whole country named after it, and it's not that far away, but carrots... I was just tempted, at the same time deciding to check how long they can be stored. Yeah, preparation for the event of the appearance of the Rabbit Goddess ahead of time. At the same time, under Stealth I managed to explore all of Konoha. Or rather, the places that were open to me, and I found a couple of unused or completely abandoned grounds. I need a place to train, right?

But, given that the shadows were not everywhere, other people still noticed me, especially the shinobi, thats clearly had the skill of resisting stealth, it's a pity, but I still can't see the skills of others, Observation has not yet reached the required level.

In general, after twice the sellers tried to "screw" me for money, greatly inflating the prices, I felt all the hatred of the other townspeople, which was picturesquely reflected in the looks thrown at me, and on some of their faces. It's good that no one wanted to deviate from their routes for my sake, and kicking the demon was just for fun. Yes, having received more than once slaps on the head from shinobi running past (yeah, it only takes a moment to step towards me and hit me a little, but after that their mood was raising to sky-high heights, of course, they such a "cool" adults, just pushed a child), I got one more skill. Moreover, I pumped it up on the very first day...

Cold gaze (level 4). If you could freeze or kill with your gaze, you would live surrounded by corpses and ice cream. But, alas, this is impossible, and you have to steadfastly endure the presence of other intelligent people nearby. Every 5 skill levels give +1% to reputation growth for females and -1% for males.

It seems to me that somewhere I made a mistake, and it's not my goal that is approaching me - to become a cool shinobi and... well, you get the idea. And little by little the system's nasty covenant is being made about one person.

Having gone to an abandoned ground with a river, I decided to fish there. The realization that I had nothing to catch with came to me when I've been already standing over the pond. Hmm, life is hard with low intelligence and without wisdom.

Having decided to correct this, and at the same time, since I was at the training ground anyway, to physically train, I started doing push-ups, combined with going through the entire multiplication table in my head, and then the periodic table. There were difficulties with the last one; when I lived in the previous world, I was not a chemist, and here, with my intellegence, that for some reason reduced to the level of canonical Naruto, I could not become a chemist even in my dreams!

I realized that I had gone too far when my stamina showed the bottom, and I passed out right there, on the river bank. But I still raised my intellegence a little bit, I hope this will help me survive the bullying of the system that dominates me!

I woke up late in the evening, to the trill of my stomach. But it was impossible to go home - my whole body was aching terribly. Well, what did I expect, first I put such a strain on my body, which was unaccustomed to this, and then I also slept on the hard ground. These thoughts were confirmed by the Masochist, that had increased by two levels, eloquently hinting who else could do the same, well, except for a complete idiot or Naruto. Hmm, for me my own name is already more of a common noun, and it's creepy.

Deciding to wash and relax in the water, fortunately it was the beginning of summer, and the climate here is mild, there is almost no normal winter. More precisely, it doesn't happen at all, if suddenly once every five years it snows, everyone is already in shock. But even so, having first tested the water with my hand, made sure that the temperature was acceptable, and I wouldn't get boiled or go numb (in a shinobi village, anything can happen, what if someone upstream is training katon?), I took off my clothes and jumped into the water. In my state, these two simple actions already made me feel as if I had been unloading cars all day, and now I was trying to do something else. Hmm, so the previous six years of quiet life on the outskirts and a passive lifestyle came to pass.

Soaking in the water and feeling my muscles releasing, I decided to look at the status.

Name: Naruto Uzumaki

HP: 525

Chakra reserve: 110

Chakra Control: –250

Level: 2

Experience: 0/200

Class: -

Statistics:

Strength: 13

Agility: 8

Stamina: 21

Chakra: 6

Intelligence: 11

Free points: 5

I didn't look at the features and skills, I'll laugh a little bit later... I mean, I'll read them afterward. So, what we have is that for a level, my parameters are completely restored, I found out when I passed the very first task, HP and stamina returned to normal, but they didn't give me anything else. And I didn't get any XP yet. Stats do not increase as you level up, only through training, but each level brings five free points. I hope that this will be the case for each level, because so far there has been no opportunity to check; in almost a week I received only one level, and that's all.

Hmm, I was hoping things would be better. And okay, put aside the whining and limped off to Ichiraku, and at the same time we'll see how I'm received there. By the way, it's somehow even surprising that so far no one has gone further than slaps on the head and angry looks/faces. True, a slap on the head from a shinobi was no worse than a full blow from my peer, at least it felt somewhere close. So, get the butt in gear and go, for the grub.