The 'Eight Gates Sutra.'

In the village of Konoha, we see a ten-year-old bo- no wait. It's a girl, but no one really cares enough to notice that, dozing off in class. This is Naruto Uzumaki, pranking extraordinaire and future Hokage.

The girl had long blonde hair, but no one knew that since it was pulled into a ponytail and hidden into her enormous orange jumpsuit. She had a gorgeous face, with sapphire eyes and a button nose. Not that anyone cared, she was the demon child after all. She wore a giant, baggy orange jumpsuit that covered any feminine body details. Leading even more people to believe she was a boy. It didn't help that the teacher tossed her out of Kunoichi's class, so now even more people believed she was a boy.

Naruto had a lonely life. Only a couple of people really caring for her. Her Jiji, who was keeping the hat warm for her, Ayame and Teuchi Ichiraku, who she personally thought should be cooking for the Daimyo. Their noodle recipe was probably handed down from Kami herself. And recently, Iruka-Sensei, who had gotten over the fact that she had fuzzball sealed inside of her belly. Naruto wasn't as stupid as people thought, she just didn't have a chance to show her intellectual prowess, what with being kicked out of every class. So of course she deducted between the murmurings of 'Demon Child' and 'Fox Brat' on top of her birthdate that people assumed she was the Nine-Tailed-Fox. The Bijuu that attack ten years ago. She thought these people might be slightly damaged in the head, she wasn't a huge orange fox with floppy ears and a malicious smile, but she kept her opinions to herself.

Of course, it never went too far. If a villager even dared to throw a rock at her, which none ever did, they would be quickly swooped up by ANBU and brought down to T&I for attacking a fellow Konoha civilian. But that didn't stop them from glaring and whispering, but at least she was never bullied, their parents made damn sure they stayed over six feet away from her. They also hiked up prices on literally everything, hence why she was stuck with the baggy jumpsuit. Everything else cost an arm and a leg. This also made her live off of instant ramen, making her a midget. Of course, it wasn't that bad. She still had the most endurance and strength in her class somehow, not even she was sure. But she still seldom won against the clan kids. You know what they say, quality over quantity. Or in this case, skills over just pure fitness. Added to her terrible test scores and sabotage, she was just barely scraping by at the bottom of the class.

Naruto was brought of her daydreams when a piece of chalk boinked her right between her eyes. Naruto looked up in a disoriented haze to see everyone looking at her and laughing. In a rare moment of weakness, she blushed and looked down in shame. Usually, she would just laugh along with them and put on the megawatt grin, after all, with all the negatives in her life she needed something to be positive. These actions caused many in the class to suddenly scream 'Cute!' in their heads, before shaking it off. It was the dobe after all. Of course, she was only dead-last because of the sabotage, but no one else knew that.

"Naruto, please explain why you were dozing off in class," Iruka-Sensei said, glaring her way.

She sheepishly rubbed the back of her head before chuckling, "Well, Iruka-Sensei, I just don't see how listening to your dull voice is gonna help me be a better ninja-ttebayo! It's like your putting me under a genjutsu to go to sleep!" She exclaimed in her regular over-the-top voice. There were murmurs of agreement, even Sasuke the Slug gave his regular 'Hn' of agreement. Not that he had any other words in his dictionary, but with the many emotions he can use in that word he didn't really need it.

Of course, Iruka was greatly angered by these words. And cast his world-famous 'Big-Head Jutsu' as it doubled in size and started screaming, "Naruto Uzumaki! You'll be staying after class today!"

Naruto was about to groan at that before she really thought about it. What did she have to do outside of the academy? Sure she trained, but without a teacher, it was just a repetitive action over and over again without any feeling of progress. She could visit Jiji but he was always busy. She had no friends so she couldn't hang out, and she barely had enough money each month for food. So she decided that she didn't really care if she had to stay the extra hour. Sighing she resigned herself to listening to the history of Konoha and how big the Shodaime's dick was. Seriously, she felt that they blew up these stories a little too much, he could go for a walk in the forest and historians would turn it into an epic tail that included dragons and fairies, and those didn't even exist!

A little over an hour later and Naruto was sitting alone in the classroom with Iruka. He leveled her with a slight glare before sighing, "Look, Naruto, I know you're a good student, but I need you to pay attention in class. You're barely scraping by right now and it will only get harder when we start working on chakra soon. I know these first two years are boring because we only go over ninja rules and history, but this is an important part of your career. Now I know we both have better things to do," Naruto snorted at this, " so I am not going to hold you here, but I will tell you to go to the library and catch up on the subjects we learned in class. Good day." And with that, he left.

Naruto was tempted to tell him that even if she did go to the library, she would be tossed out, but decided it wasn't worth the trouble. Sighing, she decided to give it a try.

Walking down the streets of Konoha, Naruto was ignoring the glares once again as she made her way towards the library in town. The library was a large tower that was split into four parts, The base floor being for civilians and academy students, the second floor for Genin, the third for Chunin, the fourth for Jonin, and a heavily guarded basement with forbidden techniques, and other secrets that enemies of the leaf would love to get their hands on.

Naruto entered and was on guard immediately, preparing to get tossed out she had her eyes closed before nothing happened. Now that she listened, it was unnaturally quiet. Reopening her eyes, she looked around to realize that the library was empty, much to her amazement.

Even the restricted section didn't have the regular guards on it! She didn't quite understand why just relating it to a lunch break that included the whole staff. So doing what any other curious ten-year-old would do that knows how to lockpick due to various complex pranks, she entered the restricted section without a second thought.

Going down the stairs, she entered an eerie room that was barely lit. She stared in awe at the scrolls that piled high on the shelves. Going over to one, she picked up the scroll and read it out loud. "Shadow Clone Jutsu, huh. Seems lame." And tossed it aside. Pulling out another one, "Edo Tensei, sounds like something an idiot would do." Somewhere in the Land of Rice, a creepy man with pale skin and bad eyeliner sneezed along with his ash-grey-haired apprentice. Pulling out another scroll, "Flying Thunder God? What kind of narcissistic idiot names a jutsu this, isn't there something cool here?" Again, somewhere in the Shinigami's belly, a man with yellow hair and a handsome face cringed.

Naruko looked around and finally saw something interesting, she wandered her way to the corner, where a book that was covered in dust and looked like it hadn't been touched in ages. She picked it up and dusted it off. "The 'Eight Gates Sutra' huh. This seems much more interesting than Flying Thunder God, plus, this book is even older than Jiji. And he probably saw the beginning of humanity!" Giggling to herself, she pocketed the book and cleaned up after herself. Locking the door, she skipped home not knowing how much finding this book had changed her destiny.