The Forgotten Child of Heroes

Disclaimer: I don't own, nor will I ever own Naruto! (Makes me sad)

Challenge given by "Shiroyasha Gin-San"

"Normal Speech"

"Demon Speech"

"Normal Thoughts"

"Demon Thoughts"

"Jutsu / Technique"

AN: This is my first fanfic (Ignore the Rosario + Vampire one. I wrote it when I was 13) so I'll definitely be prone to having incredible mistakes because I don't normally write whatsoever. I'm more than happy to receive criticism so long as its constructive cause that flamer type of comment doesn't really make a difference.

Summary

Born at the oldest, but with the least potential, this child becomes a hero in a ninja world, fighting for the good of the people and making the world a better place. Naruto fights from the bottom of and rises to become the best in the entire ninja world. He'll take the world as the second ninja to never be able to use chakra.

Chapter 1: Forgotten


Prologue:

October 10th, the night that the child of prophecy was born and also the night that Konohagakure was destroyed. Taken completely unaware and unprepared in the night. An entire section of the village was destroyed in a matter of moments as the Bijū known as the Kyuubi no Kitsune. A monstrous beast with tails that could summon tsunami with the swing of a single tail or level a mountain with a destructive howl from its maw.

Many shinobi had risked or lost their lives that night, however the fourth hokage, Minato Namikaze stood in front of it head on, fighting for his children, his wife and his village the very same as most of the villages shinobi had. The wife he stood to protect was struggling in a battle of her own, giving birth to two beautiful children. The first born, being cradled in her arms in a small bundle of blankets was Naruto, a small child, born with his mother's red hair and a emerald green eyes who had been surprisingly quiet for a newborn and a complete opposite to his brother who had only just been set into his mother's arms. This new child came into the world kicking and screaming before he calmed down, but never to the point that Naruto had calmed down to. During this time, as Menma was being born, Naruto's eyes hadn't left a blank wall. If one could see through this wall though, they would be greeted with a sight of Minato fighting the gigantic fox on the head of and equally sized toad that was currently fighting against the nine tailed fox.

That was until the man on the top of the toad had disappeared and reappeared in the same room as his wife and children. Tears in his eyes as he whispered down to his wife. "Kushina… I know this is hard but you need to trust me. We have to seal this beast within a new host or our people will keep dying. We can't wait any longer and have any more losses. I'm sorry Kushi-chan." Kushina replied swiftly through choked out tears "W-why must it be our child? Surely there must be another parent willing to let their child bear the burden of taking… in the… fox…" as she spoke, she got quieter, understanding that if she wasn't willing to give her child the burden, then what parent would be willing to let their child take the burden.

Her grip slowly loosened on the small bodies that had been clinging tightly to her body. Of the two children, Minato was forced to decide who would be the host of the demonic fox outside. He knew the host had to be of strong mind and strong body so he thought that the Menma would be perfect for taking in the fox, he was practically bouncing in his mothers arms and making childish baby noises so he knew who to use. He brought the child into his arm and quickly gave his wife a kiss before using his Hirashin to get back to the fight outside.

- Outside with Minato and the Kyuubi -


As the fight kept on, the fourth hokage had unsealed a small table and knocked out his child with a simple genjutsu before painting the Shiki Fūji onto the infants belly, as soon as he finished, the man known as the third hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived beside him, panting and sweating. "I really hope you have a plan, we won't be able to keep this going for much longer." The old man croaked out as he stared down the young leader. "Of course lord third. He's my plan." He whispered, gesturing to the small boy that lay on the table.

Hiruzen dropped his look to the small child and gazed upon the seal before a gear in his mind clicked into place. "Minato. You can't possibly use THAT jutsu. You can't leave your wife and children without a father." He said, surprise and shock evident in his elderly voice. "I'm sorry Saru. I'm afraid that there is no other choice at this point in time. I'm sorry to have you do this for me, but I want you to be their guardian angel. He'll need a grandfather." Minato changed his stance and went back to the fight, only coming back a few moments later, a gigantic fox on his heels, the toad still trying to hold the beast back.

"Hiruzen! Its time!" Minato shouted before staring down the beast and beginning to sort through the hand seals to complete Shiki Fūjinjutsu. It was here the Minato was kicked hard from behind, messing up his jutsu and canceling it entirely. It took him a few moments to recover and by the time he had, Hiruzen had completed the seals and the deed had been done. The shinigami was floating above the two men and was slowly eating the old hokage's soul while the chakra of the fox was being sealed into the screaming child. Soon the old Sarutobi's body had fallen over, dead where he stood.

- 7 Years Later -


Naruto could be seen in his room, staring out the window onto an old beaten training ground where his father and younger brother Menma had just spent late morning training and were taking a break as Kushina had come out with triangle cut sandwiches and water for her two darling boys. Naruto had come to realize when he was only 5 that he wasn't going to be getting any help from his family in terms of training. He wasn't born with the ability to be a ninja, at least not a ninja in the general way of thinking. Young Naruto was born with miniscule amounts of chakra because of his a slightly underdeveloped chakra coils, similar to that of Rock Lee. Naruto knew of this because every single time he asked for training. His parents constantly ignored him and told him that it was impossible of him for to become a shinobi. He knew that his parents were only trying to protect him and so he wasn't angry. But this lack of help didn't stop him from continuing on his own and training himself. While he didn't have enough chakra to make or use jutsus, he had enough to activate seals and that was enough. While his brother got his massive reserves from his parents and the Kyuubi, Naruto got his mothers innate ability to use seals. They just kinda came to him. At night he would practice his calligraphy and writing so that he could properly write his seals but during the day, he had a rigorous training routine where he would train by himself on an unknown training ground.

Naruto put a storage seal containing food and a drink in a bag as well as a few scrolls that showed the basic katas for numerous taijutsu forms. He knew that his only chance at being a ninja would come from his taijutsu abilities. Fuinjutsu was powerful and versatile but you couldn't bank your entire ninja career on just this one aspect. Naruto had to be educated, and strong physically in order to pass as a ninja. If he could ace the exams as well as the bukijutsu sections, then he wouldn't need to score any points in the basic jutsu portion of the exam and so these were the things he was training.

Once Naruto finished packing his bag, he ran down the stairs and went passed the sliding door that led to the training ground his family was on. "I'm going to the park!" He screamed out to them before charging himself through the front door and out to his regular training ground.

- With Kushina -


As her eldest son ran out the door, she made her way into the house, an empty tray in her hand as she made her way to the kitchen. "I wonder what my little boy is doing. He always seems to be going out to the park. I'm happy that he's making friends." She spoke softly and with a sigh, still blissfully unaware that Naruto was in fact actually going the completely other direction as the park.

- At The Training Ground -


After Naruto had reached the training area, he huffed and dropped his bag at a sparring log before grabbing out the sealing scroll and activating the portion that held his training weights. His sensei had given them to him as a gift to continue his training. A ridiculous training that was incredibly difficult, even for most chuunin. He strapped the weights to his arms, legs and a vest to his torso before beginning the run he was given. His routine consisted of running the perimeter of the training ground 10 times, before doing a hundred pushups, a hundred branch pull ups and two hundred sit ups and following that with a hundred left hand punches to the dummy log and then a hundred right hand punches before repeating this with left and right kicks.

Naruto had only finished his pull-ups when the sky itself seemed to glint, sending out a blinding light and shouts were heard from the sky. "Dynamic entry!" the bowl headed man screamed as he slammed into the ground. "Hello young Naruto! How has your training been today!? Youthful?" Naruto covered his eyes from the glinting teeth of Might Gai as the man assumed his nice guy pose. "Hai sensei! I'm doing it now!" He shouted out excitedly as he started doing his pull ups even faster, lines on his body began to for and they had a sparkling red coloring to them.

This didn't go unnoticed by Gai however who began to question what the young boy in front of him could really do. So he joined Naruto in his workout and worked with him until the finish and then was sat down. "Young Naruto! I want you to try something for me. Something I did when I first started learning taijutsu! Please try to punch this training post! Squeeze your butt cheeks and yell this from the very inside of your heart. SMASH!" As Gai told Naruto what to do, he slammed his fist into one of the training logs and Naruto watched as the thick log exploded into the smallest of splinters on the other side.

"Woah! Sensei, can I do that?" Naruto asked with a spark in his eye. "Of course, my youthful student! Just remember what I told you to do and I'm sure you'll break that log!" Gai shouted in encouragement before Naruto stepped up to one of the training logs that still existed in this dimension and closed his eyes while breathing. "Remember to focus on all of your body. You're one big machine so move and power everything at once. Build the energy from everywhere at once to destroy that log!" Naruto followed the instruction and focused to the best of his ability, his hands at his hips and building his energy before clenching his butt and drawing his fist back, still unknown to Naruto, the lines shot across his body and a whole new energy filled within the red headed child's body before his hand started to move "Smaaaaaaaaaash!" He screamed from the depths of his soul as he delivered his balled up fist into the wooden post, doing even more damage to the post. Instead of leaving the log in splinters, he had completely pulverised it. Any remains that had splintered off were shot of into the trees behind, sticking in like metal kunais.

This scream of pride and power was quickly replaced with a short scream and then a whimper of pain as he felt the bone in his arm break, unused to this power. He slumped to the ground and cried silently before Gai picked him up and ran him to the hospital as fast as he could without further hurting him. This was the beginning of the tale of Naruto. The Forgotten Child of Heroes.

AN: Thank you for having a look! I hope you liked it. I'm not very good at talking parts and I'm trying to go for a more silent, smart and cunning naruto so there will be less talking from him or talking in general. I'll do my best, but this is my first really thought out fanfiction so I'd like any feedback. Any character design flaws or anything you don't like, just give me a heads up and I'll do my best to make it as great as I can. I know I haven't portrayed Gai or Naruto's family very well, which goes back to my conversation problem. I'm just not very good at it so I hope for your feedback. Can't wait!