I honestly didn't mind, it was fun goofing off from time to time with the guy, helped me keep my mind off anything too serious.
I did manage to finally get my work published, people were skeptical at first but soon almost everyone in the village had at least heard about or had a copy of my book, 'The Batman', I wanted to call it Batman Begins, but my editor was an ass about that.
Either way now that I was published I gained a new title:
Author- +20 REP with people who admire your work and are aware you're the author That last part was important as not many people knew I wa the writer. Based on Baroma's suggestion I decided to keep my name out of the books, putting it under a pen name: Stan Lee. Hehe, in this world Stan Lee created Batman, the irony is thick.
But now luckily I got a steady stream of cash incoming, a month deposit of 120 thousand ryo every month based on book sales. I had all of it in the bank, which I decided would be my white money, the money that I legally earned, with the money I gained via my gaming ability be my lack money, money no one knows of.
By the fifth month I had more than enough cash to buy my own place. I found a cheap three bedroom and two bathroom place near the Inuzuka clan compound, it was cheap since the dogs from the Inuzuka clan kept barking at all hours of the night.
I bought it for 500 thousand easy, and then spent another hundred grand furnishing the place. I had one room for myself and the other for Naruto. The third I had assigned as a workroom, but since Naruto never used it, unless he was pulling off a high profile prank that needed planning and preparation, I got to use it as my own study.
Naruto's face when I told him I had gotten my own place was priceless, he looked like he someone had gotten him a puppy, gave it to him long enough for him to fall in love with it, and then killed it.
Yeah, he was sad, figured I was going to leave him. Moron, when I told him I expected him to come with me he actually cried. Idiot, like I would ever leave him behind.
Naruto had talked to the Hokage and got it okayed. The man gave us his blessing and also reduced Naruto's pocket money by half since he no longer needed to pay rent. The man's REP score grew to 38, guess because I took Naruto in and treated him right the guy thought I was a good person. Which I am.
The day we moved in however I noticed a few people lurking about, mostly Inuzuka ninjas looking at us from their compound wall, which was the first thing you saw when you looked out of our second story window. But there were also people with the title 'ANBU' looking at us. Really creepy shit.
I'm guessing Naruto's change in location warranted the surveillance and because of this I needed to make sure any gamer related activity I did ws done without being seen. I had enough trouble to deal with, having to explain my gaming powers was not one of them.
For the first few weeks I had sneak around with the utmost care, by the third month I was used to it and by the fifth month I had their patrol patterns memorized, which is saying something when the only thing way one knew about their location was by observing the floating words and numbers over their heads.
But, on the bright side, by the end my sealth had gotten a major upgrade!
Stealth, Lv- 27 (8%) Your ability to hide in plain sight is crucial for being a ninja.
Chances of not getting spotted- 56% For stronger opponents, -2% for each level they surpass you Not bad for over two years worth of sneaking around. It wasn't much higher simply because of the fact that I could only be sneaky during night time. I was building a profile for myself, quiet and smart, I don't want to give any observing ninja the idea there was more to me than meets the eye. Hence, only stealthy during the night. And speaking of training, though my schedule was now almost always jam packed, I made a promise with myself to train in the natural dungeon every week at least once, and as time went one I found myself sticking to that promise like religion.
I always made sure to only use the first level for the first few month, so that I would be well prepared for whatever that be in the second dungeon. Because of this I killed an average of 40 pokemon, fighting them with mainly Growlithe as my main attack force while I provided long range support, though a few times I did get myself involved to improve my taijutsu.
This resulted in Growlithe leveling up scary fast. He grew to level 10 by the time we were done with the first level natural dungeons. He didn't gain any new attack or anything of the sort, but he did grow much faster, since I put a majority of his stats there. By then I decided it was finally time to catch a second pokemon, and I decided to catch another Growlithe, this one I called Blaze. Blaze was a female and so Flamer soon came to look at her as someone to protect. With a second pokemon added I moved on to the next level natural dungeon because frankly, I was starting to get bored fighting just rats and cats.
In the end I got around 672 pelts, which I turned into leather. There were the same number of fangs which I turned into fang daggers, so that rounded up to around 200 daggers. I quickly began to use them as my main weapons to save up on kunai metal.
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