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Chapter 1
The scorching earth and the blind ambitions
Long ago, in a time most have forgotten, people learned to bend the four elements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air. Over time, these people formed 4 great nations, one nation for each element and for a time they lived in peace with one and other.. But then everything changed when the Fire lord attacked and declared war on the other nations with the goal of ruling them all.
The only one who would have been able to stop him was the Avatar, the only one capable of bending all the elements…But when the world needed him, he vanished.. Nearly 100 years had passed and the fire lord was nearing victory.. He assume that using the power of the great fire spirit, the nine tailed fox, would be his key to winning… he just needed a human host to hold the beast inside so that he could control it.
While the Fire lord was biding his time, a certain red headed women was giving birth to a child in the Fire nation.
"Come on Kushina… you're doing great" A male doctor said. "I can see the head.. Just a a little longer now… so keep pushing"
Nearly another hour past before a little baby boy was born to Kushina. The infant had bright blond hair with red streaks in it and violet colored eyes when they briefly opened.
One of the nurses that had been assisting the doctor smiled. "Looks like her baby takes after his father for the most part.. Except his eyes ,which are more like Kushina's.. and his hair.. The blond is like his father's but the red streaks are certainly unusual I wonder why he has them? "
"Doctor!.. Miss Uzumaki is still loosing blood" The other nurse exclaimed, getting the doctor's attention.
"Nurse Akira.. Take care of thee baby.. Nurse Midori.. Help me out here" The doctor said, "I don't know why she's bleeding .. So we need to stop it before it's fatal.. And get me donor blood as well immediately… B type blood"
"Right away doctor" Nurse Midori said as they both got to work.
It was just hours after Naruto had been born, and Minato was still a few days away from reaching home to see his newborn child, unaware that his wife, Kushina had nearly died in childbirth.
"My Lord?.. Welcome.. What brings you here on this day?" the head doctor asked as the fire lord walked into the room where the infant Naruto was laying. "This is uh.. The son of Kushina Uzumaki… the former one who had chosen to be the Jinchuriki of the 9 tailed fire spirit beast"
"I know who she is… this damn women.. Because of her father, I was prevented from making her into my ultimate weapon to harness the power of the fire spirit.." The fire lord said, narrowing his eyes at the baby. "If not for him.. I'd be ruling this world completely instead of having this war my father started drag on longer"
"I see.. What do you intend to d-"
"This child carries the same powerful blood in his body . And with his father not in the village to stop me… . This boy, will be my weapon to end this war" The Fire Lord said, cutting the doctor off.
The doctor started to speak again but was cut off again. "But I must protest my lord the child is only a few hours old and-"
"Are you questioning my orders, doctor?" The Fire Lord asked, looking at him with a star that would cause anyone to freeze. " This child will be taken to the chamber the sealed away beast will be implanted into this boy.. So that I may rule.. And it will happen right now.. Or should I find a new head doctor?"
"N-no.. of course not.." The doctor replied reluctantly, whispering an apology to the infant. " I shall have the baby bought to the chamber of sealing and fetch… what about his mother. She might pull through"
"Her life force shall be used in exchange to seal away the beast.. She's as good as dead anyways" The fire lord said firmly. "I will be waiting at the chamber. I expect you to be there quickly"
"Understood, my lord" the doctor said, bowing. "It will be done"
"Good. And we'll speak about your.. Disobedience… later" The Fire Lord said, before exiting the room.
A short time later, the Fire Lord, a doctor and the unconscious Kushina were in a large underground chamber, away from the main fire palace, preparing to seal away the fire fox spirit into the baby Naruto.
"Bring forth the sacred lantern containing the spirit of the fire beast" The doctor said, as several assistants carefully set down the white colored lantern. "I shall now have the partial seal on the stomach of the infant to hold the fire beast before applying the cover seal to complete it"
The doctor had an assistant paint on the seal with special ink and the bring the lantern over and hand it to him. He gathered his chakra and fire bended some special sprit fire material around the lantern, removing the seal and pulling the fox shaped fire out of it. It resisted as best it could , but after being seal away for so long it didn't have the strength to break free.
After silent battle that last nearly ten minutes, the doctor used the life force of Kushina to spirit bend the fox into the seal of Naruto and had an assistant quickly apply the top seal, permanently sealing away the fox inside of Naruto and ending Kushina's life.
"Hear me now, fire sprit" The fire lord said, as soon as the doctor gave him the signal it was safe. "I am the leader of thee fire nation.. And you will obey me"
The baby opened it's eyes, revealing silted red eyes. "I… will never serve you.. You vile human.. You .. Disgrace to the Avatar Wan.."
"You dare to speak his name in my presence, you filthy monster?" The Fire lord spat. "You will do as I say.. And you have no choice in this manner"
"Is that right?.. I think not…I will train this boy, but not to help you.. But to stop you" the fox said through Naruto. "Besides… you have more then just me to worry about… I since the human Minato Namikaze near by.. He will be here in a matter of moments.. Let's see you get out of this one.."
"Minato?" The fire lord asked, in surprise. "He's not suppose to be back here for at least another day or so…how could he have gotten here so fast?"
"Fire lord Ozai?.. My wife?. Kushina.. And our child.. Where is she?.. Kushina!" Minato shouted, seeing his wife lying dead on a table, while his newborn son was on another one now sleeping. "What.. What happened here!?"
"It was.. a tragedy, Minato.. Someone, we do not know who, attempted to free the fire sprit from it's prison and your wife, Kushina volunteered to become it's Jinchuriki to stop it from being unleashed" The fire lord replied ,quickly crafting a believable story. "But.. She was too weak.. To close to death after giving birth to your child, to possibly last long as a Jinchuriki.. She agreed and knew that only her child, with her blood would have the ability to seal away the beast and protect the fire nation"
"I.. Kushina…" Minato said with tears." Even with your last breath, you did everything you could to protect our nation.. I promise.. Our son will know of your strength"
"She will be remembered for all time. However,… I'm afraid this ..incident must be kept secret from the general population.. To keep them from.. Rioting" Ozai said, calmly. "You understand"
"Of course, my lord" Minato said, bowing his head in sadness. "I.. I'd like to be alone with my son and ..and my wife"
"..of course" The fire lord answered reluctantly, holding in his anger. "Take your time"
The fire lord and his small group left Minato, Kushina and Naruto alone, while silently cursing at his plans being further messed up by the fox spirit and Minato.
"Mark my words.. In the end.. I will have my way" Fire lord Ozai said, after he exited to the surface. "One way or another.. I always do"
"We'll see about that, Ozai" White haired figure, hiding his presence not faraway, said. "I may have been to late to stop this.. But I won't be to late to protect Minato and his child"
Nearly 13 years had passed since that day and Naruto and Minato was leaving the fire nation to get away from the war.. And so that Minato could raise his son in peace.
The two had just made it out of the borders of the fire Nation when they were ambushed by spies of the fire lord.
"DAD!" Naruto shouted as the highly skilled assassins, attacked Minato.
Minato did a flip and spun kicked a wave of fire at the assassins, who blocked it and sent a more powerful wave of fire at him, that sent him flying into tree.
Seeing his father in trouble, Naruto got in a basic fire bending stance before doing a thrusting motion with his arm shooting a giant fire ball out.
While seeing a citizen of the Fire Nation fire bend was normal, they were shock by the fire being whitish blue colored rather then orange and red like normal. Even Minato was somewhat shocked, having never see Naruto produce white colored fire before.
This moment of distraction by the white flames and his injuries, unfortunately gave several of the assassins the advantage they wanted. Before Minato could react, two of the assassins sent a stream of fire at him and while he managed to dodge it, he wasn't so luck to avoid another assassin that got behind him.
The assassin took the chance, and stabbed his sword through Minato's chest sending a stream of blood shooting out.
Naruto froze, too shocked to know what to do at that moment.. While incredibly angry beyond reason at the same time.
Naruto's eye changed into red slits as he shouted out at the top of his lungs and white flames surrounded him. Naruto looked at them with hatred in his eyes and dashed forward, thrusting his fist through the stomach of one the assassin that his killed his dad.
He then pounced on one of the others who did their best to fight him off with Firebending.
"MINATO!.. Damn it… I am sorry am late" A man with the white hair man said as he appeared in the area.
Naruto looked at the before the man who sighed in sadness and then quickly knocked him out, placing Naruto on the ground before looking at the remaining soldiers.
"Your all about to wish you had never been assigned with this mission" The man said, charging at the fire benders and used wind bending to create powerful blasts of mini tornados to knock the soldiers away, killing some of them and injuring the others.
Afterwards, the white haired man did a few a strange hand signs and wiped their minds of the memories of Minato and his family.
The man, who was called Jiraiya, then did another hand sign and summoned a small toad that spit out oil on the ground everywhere. He then before pulled out a match and lit it, letting the toad disappear, before he tossed the match on the oil, which set the nearby house that had belonged to Minato, on fire.
Jiraiya then quickly grabbed the dead body of his former student Minato and the unconscious Naruto, making his way out of the area as fast as he could.
His destination was the Earth Kingdom and a old friend of both his and Minato…. the Beifong family. He indented to ask the Beifong lord to help raise Naruto and to prepared him for the challenges of life while he took care of other important matters.
Several months later after burying Minato in an unmarked grave so it would be desecrated by the Fire Nation,, Jiraiya and Naruto secretly made the Beifong family in the Earth Kingdom.
Jiraiya knocked on the door of the Beifong estate and the door opened to the Lao Beifong the wealthy leader of the family.
"Master Jiraiya?.. Is that you?.. What happened to you?" Lao asked ,after seeing his injuries with bandages "Well.. It's been far too long since we last saw… please come in.. I'll have my wife prepares some tea for us and have my doctor check you over"
"Tell me…Who did this to you Jiraiya?" Lao asked in concern. "And who's this with you?"
"This is Naruto…Minato and Kushina's son.." Jiraiya replied as he sat down on a chair. "I'm sorry to say.. Both of them are…are dead"
"What?. .dead!?" Lao exclaimed . "How?"
"It.. It was the Fire Lord… he sent assassins to kill Minato and capture Naruto… they managed ti kill Minato but.. I managed to get there before they could get Naruto"
"Minato's dead?.." Loa asked in shock as he sent for doctor and his wife went to make tea.
Jiraiya looked at Naruto. "Hey Naruto…why don't you go outside for a bit why the grown ups talk"
Lao Beifong had a servant take Naruto to the gardens and Naruto walked around them looking around.
Naruto was walking and suddenly saw a girl about his age sitting and kicking her feet through a pond. He saw her look up and noticed that she had strange, pale colored eyes and was confused.
"Um.. Hi there" Naruto said, walking over. "I am Naruto… Naruto Namikaze…. What's your name?"
The girl didn't look at him but replied still. "Toph.. Toph Beifong"
"Hey.. Naruto was it?… what are you doing in the earth kingdom?" Toph asked suddenly. "By your chi I'd say your a fire bender.. and a powerful one from the feel of it"
Naruto looked incredibly shocked that she known he was a fire bender with out even looking at him..
Toph suddenly stood up and did a few stances, before creating a half dome of earth around them.
Naruto's violet eyes seemed to glow in the darkness of the dome and thinking she was trying to capture him, he got in a stance of his own before thrusting his arm forward shattering the dorm with a stream of fire.
Several guards as well as Jiraiya and Lao came running saw Naruto standing there with bits of white fire still burning on part of the broken earth dome. Jiraiya went to Naruto and managed to calm him down, while Toph apologized ( in her own way) to him saying she was simply curious about his power , since she could sense how strong he was and wanted to see it in action.
Having white colored fire it was un heard of as Lao Beifong turned his head to Jiraiya who walked back over to him.. "White flames?… what… what is he?"
"White flames.. Thought to be used only by the first fire bender that the first avatar taught fire bending too" Jiraiya said, looking at him. "It was considered the strongest ability in the fire nation at the time.. But since then, the strongest fire that's been created is blue…. no one has seen them since Fire lord Sozin"
"I know the tales….This.. this is quite unprecedented, lord Jiraiya" Lao Beifong stated in shock. "Is.. Is he safe to be around?.. I'm ashamed to admit that my daughter was born with the handicap of blindness.. Will she be safe around him?"
"Don't worry, Lord Beifong.. I assure you, Naruto's father raised him to be respectful and be careful about using his fire bending" Jiraiya assured him as Naruto calmed down seeing Toph sit back down and not do anything further.. "Your daughter is no way in danger from him… his father believed differently then the fire lord does.. He wasn't stupid or blind about the threat the Fire lord represents.. He just pretended to be.. In order to help make things better from the inside"
"I know full well that Minato was not corrupt like the fire lord.. I just want to keep my helpless daughter safe.. She needs to be protected from the world" Lao stated watching as Naruto sat down breathing hard while Toph didn't move muscle, just sitting there. "I'll take your word for it that the boy is safe.. But-"
"I assure you, I swear on my life your daughter's safe" Jiraiya said, cutting him off. "In any case. I'd like to ask your permission to let him stay here for a short time.. I need to go talk to my spies in the fire nation and it would be safer for him to remain here"
"I.. will allow it for now as long as he treats myself, my wife, my daughter and this house with the deserved respect" Lao stated in reply.
"I appreciated the generous favor, lord Beifong" Jiraiya said, making sure to pay fake respect to the man in order to make himself look better in the snooty man's eye. "I promise it won't be for long and I'll return the favor however I can"
Jiraiya and Lao then walked away, satisfied that Naruto was calm and Toph was safe, leaving the two kid alone.
"I know your wondering about my eyes Naruto… so go ahead and ask already" Toph said, folding her arms.
"Um.. Yeah.. Your eyes.. Their like the Hyuga clan I heard once existed.. They had some kind of special eyes that had better sight then other people" Naruto stated sitting back down across from her. "Are you related to them? Are the Hyuga clan real people?"
"Hyuga clan?.. Never heard of them.. Hate to break it too you ramen boy, but I'm blind.. Blind as a mole badger from the day I was born" Toph said simply, shrugging. "You never seen a blind person before?.. Do they kill kids born blind in the Fire nation?"
"I .. I don't know.. My dad said they fire lord is an evil man that needs to be taken down for al the evil stuff he's done" Naruto, looking at her strange eyes. " I've never met a blend person before … I hope the bastard isn't killing kids because of them being different"
"Well.. I guess you seem sincere enough.. And even though you have the chi of a fire bender.. You have the personality and aura around you of a earth bender… unbending, stubborn .. Reminds me of me" Toph said, before letting out a huge burp. "Woo. .that had some hang time huh?"
Naruto stared at her for a minute, slack jawed before busting out laughing while Toph grinned.
"What?. Never heard a lady burp before?" Toph asked, still grinning. "I assure you I'm most lady like…. 5 percent of the time anyways"
"You.. Really don't seem like most girl's I've met.. In fact. You seem more like boy.. Personality wise, anyways" Naruto said still smiling. "Don't get me wrong you. Pretty and all.. But you definitely aren't lady like"
"Pretty huh?.. That's a first…." Toph said, sitting back and yawning. "Then again… you're the first boy I've ever met up close that wasn't talking to me because of who my father is.. They say you never forget your first.. and though I'm sure that usually just applies to when you loose your virginity, I'm sure It can be used here too"
Naruto's face went dark red and he sat there frozen while Toph leaned forward and poked him in his forehead.
"I bet your face is like a cheery tomato right now, huh?" Toph asked, grinning brightly. "It's fun to mess with people.. Especially people like you who react so great"
"What.. What the heck is with you?" Naruto half-shouted with a still red face. "Blurting stuff out like that?"
"I told you, it's fun" Toph said, shrugging at him. "My dad wants me to be a helpless, lady like object to be viewed, and not touched.. So this is just my way of telling him to go stick those ideas up his ass"
"Well.. Your certainly not my dullest friend.. Not that I've had many friends mind you,.. But I'll take a pretty and fowl mouthed girl as a friend over a pretty stuck up girl.. Like that "princess" Azula.. That girl was really psychotic sometimes "
"Azula?.. As in the daughter of the Fire lord?" Toph asked, raising an eyebrow. "You knew her personally?"
"Somewhat… she was mostly normal when she was younger.. But something happened with her mom and she began acting differently. A little at first but it got worse at time went on" Naruto stated, calming down again, though on guard against the unpredictable Toph. "She went from mostly normal to .. Well. Abnormal.. Claiming her mom loved her brother more then her. Having random outbursts of emotions.. Even tried to kiss me once and then chased me, trying to kill me with Fire bending… next day after that, she didn't even acknowledge it had happened and seemed to think everything was ok.. As she plotted strangling her brother in his sleep.. That's when I distanced myself from her.."
"She sounds like a real basket case.. Good thing your away from her now" Toph said standing up. "Did she manage to kiss you that day?"
"No.. I pulled away since I was young and though that was gross" Naruto said, with a slight reddening on his cheeks. "I can't imagine what would have happened if that nutbag had kissed me ..she probably would have bit lips off or something.. And I'd rather my first kiss not lead to being bitten"
"I see.." Toph said, turning away. "Well I'm going to sneak away from the house and practice earth bending away from my overprotective father.. Though with you here, maybe he wont notice as fast.. You can tag along if you lie .though I recommend not Firebending.. People might t try to kill you and crap"
"Um.. I guess" Naruto replied as Toph earth bended a small piece of earth behind Naruto.
"By the way" Toph said getting close to him. "I bet even blind I can out race you"
"What? How would you out race me if you can't se-"
Naruto was cut off as Toph kissed him on his cheek and smacked him in his forehead, tripping him over the earth mound behind him making him fall onto his butt.
"Your way too easy, ramen boy" Toph said grinning as she earth bended an opening in the ground and slipped inside leaving Naruto there red faced and confused. "You'll never catch me if your that easily distracted "
"That girl…" Naruto said as the laughing Toph raced outside of the mansion. "She's .. something else.. But not in a bad way.. Wait up!"
On the other side of the mansion, Jiraiya was sitting with the blabbering Lao talking about his greatness while he thought about how he hated kissing asses of upper-class people but knew their was no other option at the moment. "I hope Naruto will be ok here… and that I can keep my promise I made to protect him, Minato"
Meanwhile… in the Fire Nation the Fire lord was drinking tea when a guard came and reported what had happened in their attempt to kill Minato and capture Naruto.
The fire lord glared at the guard before roasting him alive on the spot and ordering the survivors of the attempt to be hung for their failure.
"Father?.. Is something wrong?" The princess of the Fire Nation ,Azula , asked as she walked into the room and seemed unfazed by a body burnt beyond recognition.
"Not only is there a remote possibility of the Avatar still being around somewhere.. But now my plans to unleash the power of the nine tailed fox spirit of fire has been thwarted" The fire lord said bitterly. "I will find that boy and if he will not willingly do what I want. .then he will not live in my world"
With the at The Fire lord turned and walked towards the door past his daughter who stood there watching him.
"May I ask who this "boy" is father?" Azula inquired making the Fire Lord stop at the door briefly.
"… you know his name well, my daughter" He replied, not looking at her. "Naruto Namikaze"
"Naruto?!" Azula exclaimed after her father left. "Naruto.. My.. What do I do?…"
"Would I be able to face him?.. And kill him if my father commanded it?" Azula whispered to herself staring out a window. "He betrayed me.. Ignored me.. Stopped being my friend!.. I should slit his throat and watch his bleed out!.. And yet"
".. and yet.. He was my first friend.. Who didn't care about my position as the Fire Nation Princess" She said sadly. "..and I don't even know why he stopped being my friend.. Was it my fault?.. Or was it once again my brother Zuko?.. That son of a bitch who stole our mother's love away from me.."
She sighed heavily and closed her eyes ."What do i do..?.. Naruto?"
"I.. I hope I never have to face him… I don't think I could process what to do if I did"
She sigh again and looked at the stars, wondering why her life was some messed up and unfair.
"I hate this world.. I wish it would burn away into nothingness"
To be continued…
