Professional... otaku?

School life I.

Weeks and months flew by once again, as Naruto's school days were nothing remarkable. The only thing school did was tie Dix's hands, even if he sent his clones to attend. Most of the time he just had to 'pay attention' to the teachers while between and after classes he had to socialize with the other kids. This was quite frustrating for him, as there is nothing more annoying then playing along with 8 year old kids trying to have fun between each other. Dix, once again, felt like the odd one out. But this time he was glad for it.

He regularly spoke with many of his classmates, like Sakura, Ino, Hinata, even Kiba whom the original Naruto was in a bad relationship with. He even managed to force out some reluctant answers from the stoic Sasuke. But the one he had the most interest towards was Shikamaru. He had a legendary brain, inherited from his father, who was the genius of strategy in his own generation. Shikamaru had a high as fuck IQ, while he remained a cool and interesting guy, instead of being some super-nerd. He was lazy, but that's something that will change in the future.

Dix wasn't really sure he could be as convincing or inspiring as Naruto was in the series, so he had to make sure their allegiance and loyalty is secured in other ways. Thus he tried to make a circle of friendship between the series's major side-characters. His first target was Shikamaru, as he was the brightest and most approachable out of all of them. He tried to maintain a good relationship with each and one of the others too, but he would try to push on them one by one to join the Circle.

Shikamaru obviously noticed Dix's advances, and at first he had no idea why that was and everything was a bit awkward, but soon they got used to his presence and even hanged out sometimes after school. Shikamaru didn't find it 'troublesome', because he mostly hanged out only with his childhood friend Choji. Do not misunderstand, he is a nice guy, but he only thinks about his belly, and Shikamaru had a hard time getting too complex stuff into his head. Thus, when someone came to befriend them whose not an absolute idiot, even though Shikamaru had some doubts, he still warmly welcomed Dix.

One day some kids came down from the higher classes to test the power they mastered in class and rule over the two year lower peasants as their seniors. Dix thought its funny that the bullying trope would come up again. He really likes putting idiot kids in their places. So when the 'big kids' came down from above and started harassing the class, Dix was the one to step forward as the savior.

The reason for the bullies impudence was that they learnt chakra control and a few E-rank jutsus in the 3rd year, while Dix's class was just in the 1st year and was only learning history math and theoretical chakra manipulation. No one was able to defend themselves, not even the 'genius' Sasuke stood up for his classmates. Well he actually knew some jutsus, and could've defeated the thugs, but he probably didn't care. He just stared out the window. So when the higher class kids entered the room Dix was the first one to address them.

"Hey there guys, whatcha' doin' around here? Are you lost? This is the first years' classroom, yours are on one of the floors above, but you should know this by now, don't you?" Dix said to raise the temperature in their brains a bit. It worked well.

"Ahh, shut your trap you little idiot! We need some lunch money, and I think you would be a good chum and let us 'borrow' from you, haha." he retorted with an angry face, which turned into some evil-sounding laughter which his friends echoed back. Dix stood up from where he was sitting and made his way to the door to receive the guests.

"Ahh, I see, so you need money huh? Yeah I'd give you some money, here." he said while getting his wallet out of his pocket and pulling quite some cash out of it. The bullies face, seeing the huge amount of money, turned into a huge smile, running ear to ear, with a deeply satisfied and happy expression.

"Haha, I see you know your place kid, don't worry, for your kindness we'll visit you again soon, haha!" the one in the front reached for the cash, but at the last second Dix pulled it back.