"Pokemon's volume 10 is here! Free signed copies in class 2A after the classes!"
After the academy ended, Everyone in the academy started flooding into my class.
It has been a little bit more than a year since we started attending the academy, and I have gotten to know everyone's name and face. Remembering a measly 700 kids' face and names is no big deal. I had more relatives than that.
This whole year, I have fed these kids the privilege of getting free autographed copies from the author herself. Since I am giving them out for free, and a huge majority of kids suffer from being orphans and one or another form of depression for not being talented, even the senseis don't have any problem with it.
But they fail to realise that there is no such thing as 'free' in this world. If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.
After a year, I have raised myself at the top hierarchical position in the academy, which will be the next generation of Konoha. Because of this, most kids don't try anything funny with Naruto.
Most.
There are always people who don't get social cues, and don't have any idea about who they can and can't offend.
Since any society is inherently hierarchical, there will be people at the bottom. And today, I am going to decide who are going to be the bottom of the next gen society.
It includes the kids at the orphanage who turned their backs on me, those who bullied Naruto, the kids who I met at the academy who were, and are against Naruto, and the kids who irritate me.
It will also include those who have tried to covet my Naruto.
Then, those who have some sort of talent will be acquired by me as servants. Our apartments are small right now, so it is easy to take care of them. But since we will getting a mansion soon, it is necessary to have some servants.
Honestly, I want to live a life where I have maids to do my makeup and help me dress up, like some sort of princess. In my previous life, the helper I had for my cosplay and stuff stole my jewellery and disappeared, and I haven't had any servant aside from the maid who cooked me food since Grandpa was alive. She was a good lady, and like a family to me.
But the situation is very different in this world. I can hire kids who are easy to make loyal, especially orphans. And if someone tries to betray me, Naruto will take care of them. There is no concept of courts here, and killing is a social norm.
Of course there will be spies, but they will be mostly from Hiruzen and Danzo. Both I and Naruto are important enough that even the likes of Danzo will try to protect us from any life-threatning situation.
Though, he is the type of guy who will likely use me as a bait to destroy another village using Kurama.
Anyway, it is better to have spies that are easy to figure out, i.e. kids, than not have any spies and be on constant radar.
This is something Hiruzen told me when I told him about that bitchy Mizuki, the weak as hell assistant teacher who constantly tries to sabotage Naruto's progress. He is a piece of trash who is jealous of Iruka of all people.
Apparently, Hiruzen already knew about him being Orochimaru's spy, and has been changing information that is being sent to him. So now I know how Naruto stole the forbidden scroll.
Hiruzen let him steal it on purpose, so that Naruto learns the only clone jutsu mentioned in it, since he failed in the clone jutsu. The other jutsus must have been either fake, or of no importance.
Because if I was the Hokage, I wouldn't put all the forbidden techniques, hell even two forbidden techniques in one scroll.
Anyway, I have made a plan for how the heirarchy will work out.
On the top will be obviously me and Naruto. Then, Sakura, Shikamaru, Tenten, Katatsuke and other boys of Konoha 12 except Kiba and Sasuke.
Sakura because she is very important asset, Shikamaru because of Sakura, and Katatsuke because he is has good aptitude in science.
The shinobi gauntlet is something that I will make for myself.
Tenten because-
The bottom of the heirarchy, aside from the obvious ones I mentioned earlier, will also have Kiba, because I hate dogs.
Dogs and dog lovers are the worst kind. I was chased by a hoard of dogs, and even got bitten when I was a kid. All because they think that the park surrounding my building was their territory, treating me as if I intruded on their place.
I am not the girl who hates eating fish just its bones poked me badly. That mistake is on me, but the dogs are an entirely different thing. A bunch of idiot barbarians.
Classes ended, and a line formed in the class as I brought out the copies from the storage scrolls.
"Have a lucky life ahead, Sakura."
The people who decided to be at the top got autographs with their names, the common people just got common copies with just a signature of my pen name, SolaceViolet. It's an unusual name, but I use Solace Violet as my pen name. Well, it can be unusual in Konoha, but the Shinobi world is a diverse world.
If you can have A, B, C as proper names, you can have Solace Violet as a pen name.
But, for the bottom, I gave them the copies which had mistakes by the publisher. And there were no sign on it.
"Give me another one! It is printed wrong!"
An entitled orphan shouted, and I just ignored him.
"There are others in the line. Don't waste everyone's time."
"But-!"
"Naruto."
Naruto grabbed the entitled brat, and 'escorted' him out of the class.
After several incidents like this, the kids caught on that whoever was getting the mangas from the bundle on the right are on the bad side of me. They started fearing that they will also get from that bundle.
People want to stand out, yet want to fit in. They especially want to fit in more if the only other option is standing out in a negative light.
Though, it seems like Ino wants to stand out in a positive light. Despite receiving a common copy, she threw it in the dustbin.
"You are disgusting! Why are you discriminating against some people!?"
Well, this makes it even better.
"Because they are bad people. They don't deserve to get my autograph. That Amy bullied my best friend Sakura. Those kids from the orphanage bullied me, and many disrespected Naruto. I just didn't want them to feel excluded, so I gave them the copies that were going to be thrown away by the publisher. I am not going to spend my money on them."
The class went silent, and without a comeback, Ino left.
Alright. Now the stigma of being a bad guy, or girl, by getting mangas from this bundle is established, and even the stupidest kid can see such a simple pattern.
People need a bunch of people to make fun off for their own ego, and who will be the perfect targets now? I don't need to get my hands dirty to do anything to people I don't like.
And from this group, I will 'forgive' those who will have potential to be used, and protect them from being at the bottom of heirarchy.
Most of the fanfic writers consider Academy years to be unimportant, but they fail to realised that the kids at the academy will be the next generation of the village, and this is the best time period to have a very big influence over the whole village.