Uninterested | Naruto Neglect

Chapter 2

'What a royal waste of time.'

I thought as I headed home from yet another uneventful day at the academy.

'I mean can't they increase the difficulty at least a little bit?'

Most of my time in the academy was spent either reading or in my mindscape further developing my seals. But lately the teacher has been trying and failing to catch me off guard by asking me questions at random times. I could only sigh to myself as I continued my way home, hoping to be able to get in some practice when I felt something.

"!?!"

Turning my head I noticed that the Uchiha compound was not only far too quiet but also had the feint smell of blood lingering around it.

'This is interesting...'

Without hesitation I headed into the compound curious to find out what happened. As I walked through I noticed that the entire place was entirely empty, none of the shops that were usually open at this time of the day were open and their wasn't a person in sight.

'!!!'

Turning the corner and entering the main residential area I discovered the mangled bodies of hundreds of Uchiha. With the most frightening thing being that each and every one had only a single strike across their back. And seeing this I walked up to one of the dead shinobi and opened their eyes.

'Sharingan...'

In one quick motion I pulled out the eye and examined it. The Sharingan was the only kekkei genkai that I didn't understand in the slightest. So after I finished examining the eye I stored it in a scroll and then went around storing all the eyes I could find, along with a few bodies to study later.

As I walked deeper and deeper into the compound I noticed that there were two chakra signatures present, both being fairly weak.

'One of them is Sasuke, but who does the other belong to?'

I decided to ignore Sasuke for the time being and went towards the other signature, curious who else survived this genocide. After a good half minute of walking I arrived in front of the two corpses of the Uchiha patriarch and his wife.

I immediately stored their bodies without a second thought only to find a newborn child under the wife.

'She hasn't appeared in public in more than six months... I guess this is why.'

Then looking at the child I decided to take and raise them, hoping that with their help I'd be able to raise my understanding of their dojutsu. Then I visited their library and looted all the information pertaining to chakra theory, leaving all jutsu's.

'Well I should probably go before I'm discovered.'

I thought, before leaving the compound and heading towards the forest of death.

...

Once I reached a place located in the depths of the forest I stopped and hopped off a small, 30 meter cliff, and caught a ledge that was about ten meters down with one hand.

'Hm?'

My sudden fall seemed to have woken up the child as she looked at me curiously. I looked back quietly as I used my free arm to pull myself up onto the ledge, and made my way into a decent sized crack.