In this story Mabui is actually Naruto's age.
"Hey Jiji!" Naruto yelled as loud as he could at the Hokage.
The Sandaime asked, "Naruto? What is it this time?"
"Teach me."
"Eh?" the Sandaime asked, not understanding the young blonde's request.
"Teach me, you know, ninjutsu and stuff."
"Ninjutsu? What brought this on?"
"The clans have started teaching their kids ninjutsu already. It's not fair that they get to learn and I don't."
The Sandaime sighed and said, "I'm sorry Naruto, I can't do that."
"What?...But why?" Naruto questioned.
"You see Naruto, most of my time is taken up making sure that this village functions as it is supposed to. I simply don't have the time to do so, besides, even if I did I still couldn't train you."
"Eh? Why not?"
Hiruzen sighed and said, "As Hokage I cannot be seen to be giving favouritism to any one shinobi, I'm sorry, but for those in public office, appearance is often more important than personal desire." As Hiruzen was conveying to Naruto his regrets he was thinking 'Besides, if I did the attacks against you would probably increase. The best way I can protect both you and the village right now is to leave you powerless.' Sarutobi sighed and asked, "Was that all?" Naruto turned around and ran out of the Hokage's office crying.
As Naruto was requesting training from the Hokage there was a team of shinobi from the Land of Vegetables in the office requesting Konoha's assistance in returning their Daimyo's daughter back to them. One of them asked, "Hokage-sama is what that blonde gaki said true?"
Hiruzen sighed and replied, "Unfortunately yes. The clans here in Konoha tend to hold their children's lives in higher regard than other families' children and tend to start teaching their children clan ninjutsu before they enter the academy. This, of course, tends to result in the clans' children excelling in their studies throughout the academy and leaving the others in their wake. The Yondaime tried to change that and put a halt to the clans' starting to train their kids before they enter the academy, but, as you can imagine, that didn't really go over too well and, when he died, before I could be reinstated the ninja council undid all of his work."
"I see," the ninja said. "Hey, Taichō," he said, turning to the team leader "would it be possible for me to take some time off while we're here?"
"Hmm," the ninja's team leader said, "very well, you can stay here and teach that boy some ninjutsu if you want...provided it's alright with the Hokage of course."
The first ninja that talked looked at the Hokage for permission. Hiruzen, after thinking it over for a few minutes, replied "very well, although I would like you to run what you teach him by me first if that's acceptable."
"Of course" the ninja said.
"Then I see no reason why not, what would you be teaching him first, if you have any ideas?" The ninja stood up and walked over to the bookshelf and, picking a flower up, out of the vase, and holding it in her palm before it levitated and flew towards the Hokage before embedding into the desk in front of him. Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes widened in shock at what the foreign ninja had just done. "Interesting," Sarutobi said, "So, what do you call it?"
"Hana Shuriken: Hikarakuyō, it is one of my family's jutsu."
"I see. Very well, you can teach him that, any other jutsu will need to be run by me as well...oh yes, Naruto is very cunning and will no doubt surprise you, both at the rate he may pick something up, but certainly in the way that he uses anything you teach him."
"What do you mean?"
"Hmm..." just then there was a yell outside of 'who could possibly think of defacing the Hokage monument in such a way!' Hiruzen sighed and said, "If you look at the Hokage monument, you will no doubt see what I mean." The team of ninja from the Land of Vegetables stood up and looked out the window and, sure enough, all of the Hokage faces, minus the Yondaime's, had neon orange paint covering them. Saying that they thought that it was amusing that a six year old could do such a thing without anyone knowing that he was doing it would be a gross understatement, they burst out laughing. "Well, if you would like to wait here I'll call in a team that will retrieve your Daimyo's daughter."
"Thank you, Hokage-dono," the team leader said.
"In the meantime, you are welcome to stay in the Hokage mansion while you are in Konoha training Naruto."
"I couldn't do somethin..."
"Nonsense, it is the least I could do, besides, there's only me living there now and it is far too big for one person."
"Well, alright then."
