Professional... otaku?

KAGEBUNSHINNOJUTSU

Dix was totally flabbergasted.

"For the love of all that is holy in this world, what the heck is this doing here?!" he accidentally said out loud, but fortunately nobody noticed him. These archives were hardly ever used.

*God damn, I thought these were forbidden! Oh wait... Naruto was using the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu', while this is without 'multiple'. As I know the only difference between them is the number of clones summoned... What the heck? That simple difference means that has to be branded as forbidden while this one is in a library? Oh well, now as I think about it, actually every jonin, and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IN ANY VILLAGE can use this technique... So this must mean its really common, just like other lower level jutsus... Well, better for me... And here I thought I'm going to have to steal the forbidden scroll from the Third. Lucky me I suppose... Well, actually, if I don't manage to convince him to let me learn some other high level techniques I need that are forbidden, then I'll have to steal it anyway. Whatever, this will help me out a lot though.*

As previously mentioned most low level techniques have close to zero actual value, only genins use them and even those only use them to build their foundation and train their chakra usage. No wonder they are usually assigned on missions like chasing cats instead of assassinating someone. Also the grade of a jutsu is not an indicator for their strength or rarity, more like their complexity and how hard it is to master them. Following this thought if we look a bit closer we can see that literally EVERY SINGLE jonin and even some chuunin level ninja can use this technique, only problem is that its hard to use for anyone that isn't a jinchuuriki or Kisame.

As Dix searched the bookshelves a bit more, he found a few better scrolls, but nothing like the B-rank Shadow Clone Jutsu, at best a few not very useful C-rank ones. This one was the only one.

*It's like some divine intervention to help my quest or something...*

At this thought he shuddered a bit as his mind wandered back to the circumstances regarding his rebirth. He didn't want to think like this, so he just tried to believe in his luck for now. He quickly engraved the jutsu into his brain, because he wasn't allowed take out any of these from the library. Then he made his way out of the building, eager to jump right into training his newly acquired jutsus. As he was leaving everyone silently stood out of his way, but when he was already a fair distance away he heard that the clerk and some visitor talk about him with his heightened senses.

"Well, would you look at that... He is interested in becoming a ninja... Not too dedicated as I see." said one of them.

"Probably the demon inside him is enticing him to kill people. Why can he just walk around like that? We should lock him up..." came the exhausting answer.

Dix could perfectly hear them, but those people couldn't have known, and he didn't show any sign of it either. He just shook his head, threw out another mental 'idiots', as he kept going towards the village gates. He was stared at once again as he exited, just like any other day. He even enjoyed it a bit, but once again, he didn't show any sign of that and just kept walking. He didn't want to draw attention yet, there will be plenty of that later on.

When he left the village it was still before noon, so the sun was already way up, but there was still a lot of time until he had to return. He decided he would get some food first. He usually hunts his own food, as he is more than capable to do so. Mostly rabbits and other small animals easily fell prey to his superhuman capabilities, even though he is still just 4 years old. Sometimes he tried to go for larger game, like boars or deer that live in the forest which is all around the village. He never had any problems, but he still felt like its a waste to kill big animals just for fun, because there was no way he could eat a whole boar while also he couldn't process and sell it or preserve it either.