Hi everyone, welcome to my newest fanfic. I've been out of the writing side of fanfics for far too long so I've decided to write not only this story but, at least one more. I hope you like this one.

Also if you would like to a certain pairing is this story or any other story I'm writing let me know. No Yaoi/Hentai and no NaruSaku. Never really been a fan of Sakura. This story won't be a harem. So please read and review.

So without further ado on with the story.

A new dream:

Naruto was walking back from training. He had been out there for a few hours now, and since it was Saturday he didn't have class. He had been working on that stupid clone jutsu all day, but he still couldn't figure out why he couldn't do it. Everyone else in the class could. Maybe he'd ask Iruka-sensei for some help later.

As he was walking along the path back to the village he heard the sound of metal clashing. Being as curious as every 8 year old boy was he headed towards where he heard the sound. Looking through the brush he say to figures blurring around clashing often and every time they clashed he heard the sound of steel clashing with steel. After a few minutes they started going slow enough for him to get a good look at them and the weapons they were using.

The first was a male in he's late teens maybe early twenties. He had a bandana style forehead protector, brown hair and looked kinda pale like he might have been sick. If the bags under his eyes were any indication. But what really caught Naruto's eye was the ninjakan the man was holding. It looked like a standard issue ANBU blade at first glance, but when he looked a little closer he could see a dragon pattern carved into the blade.

The second was a female around the same age as her male counterpart. She had long purple hair, brown eyes and was wearing a standard ANBU black pants and a dark blue t-shirt. She had her forehead protector wrapped around her right bicep. 'Wow she's pretty' Naruto thought. When he looked at her sword he noticed it was a little longer than the one the guy was holding. It had a purple had that matched her hair color and the blade had a slight curve to it. He looked and noticed two things about the blade, first he saw a little pendent hanging just off the handle of the blade. He couldn't make out what it was from where he was. The other thing he noticed was it also had a carving on it but instead of a dragon it looked like a tiger.

Suddenly they both turned and looked towards him "you can come out now" the male stated.

He stood there for a second scared that they might get mad at him like some many others have before when they caught him watching them training. But he steeled himself, he was caught and it was better to just go and get it over with.

Slowly he started to walk of the bushes. Not wanting to make them angry at him. He was shocked when they didn't look they were mad at him. They looked happy for some reason. He just couldn't put his finger on it. So he just walked up to them.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to spy on you guys." He said sounding a little weak.

"It's alright my names Hayate and this is Yaguo." Hayate replied. "What's your name?" They already knew who he was but they thought it would be best to get introductions out of the way and try to make him a little more comfortable.

Naruto was a stunned at first, they were being nice to him. But then he thought about it and realized that maybe they didn't know who he was and if they heard his name they would start yelling at him. So softly he stated "Naruto Uzumaki". Staring at the ground. Unsure what was going to happen now.

"Oh so you're the kid that keeps pulling all those pranks." Yugao said. "Got to say they are quite funny sometimes. I just hope I'm never one of your targets. Haha."

"Right just don't target us with those ok kid?" Hayate Asked.

Naruto was confused they weren't mad at him, they didn't want to yell at them. He didn't know what to think, let alone say. So he just nodded his head at them.

After was seemed like an eternity of silence, Hayate spoke up, "so what were you doing all the way out here Naruto?"

Looking at Hayate, Naruto noticed he was just as curious as he was a little bit ago. So he answered truthfully. "I was out training since I have the day off from class and all." "That stupid clone jutsu is kicking my ass."

"So your why were you spying on us then?" Yugao decided to pipe in.

He looked at with an owlish look while scratching the back of his head. "Well I was heading back to the village to get something to eat when I heard metal clinging against each other so I wanted to check it out."

"So what did you think about the little show you got then?" Yugao asked. Truthfully she was hoping to find another person to teach kenjutsu to. It was so hard to find kids these days that wanted to do anything other than Ninjutsu.

Naruto wasn't sure what to say, honestly he thought it was cool watching them fight with swords and he was thinking he would be so cool if he learned how to fight with one himself. But he didn't have the slightest clue about the art. "It was amazing, they way you to seemed to be dancing with your swords." He cheered.

Hayate and Yugao smiled at his statement. They had hoped he would have been interested in kenjutsu. It made passing on the art to the next generation a little easier. They nodded to each other and then looked to Naruto.

"Do you want to learn how to fight with a sword Naruto?" They asked him. "If so we can teach you. That is if you think you can handle it."

He went from happy to his mouth dropping to the floor. Not only were they being nice to him but they wanted to teach him. They were challenging him to accept their offer. He didn't want to pass up the chance to learn. If someone was going to give him a chance to make something of himself he was going to take it. They were shinobi's so maybe they could help him with the stupid clone jutsu too.

"I would love to." He said running up to them and hug both of their legs. "Thank you so much I'll do my best and make you both proud of me just you wait and see." He was grinning ear to ear.

"Be that as it may Naruto, this is going to be hard." "You have to work your hardest to not only learn kenjutsu Naruto. But so you can keep your grades up in class." They told him. "We expect you to do good in both class and with us." "And if you are having troubles with something you can always ask one of us." "From now on after class is out for the day you'll be training with either myself or Yugao here for three hours a day."

"I'll do my best sensei's." Naruto nodded in understanding.

"Good and on the weekends when you don't have class you'll meet us here at 8 a.m. sharp." "That means tomorrow too. Well bring a sword of each type for you to get a feel for the one that well best suit you then." Yugao said with a hint of pride in her voice. She was excited and knew the hokage would let them teach the boy.

"Now go home and get some rest Naruto, because tomorrow you're going to need all the energy you can." Hayate stated.

"Yes sensei." He replied "bye Yugao-sensei, Hayate-sensei."

"We need to go talk to Hokage-sama about this" Yugao said. And with a nod they both shunshin out of the clearing.

xxxxxxxx Hokage office xxxxxxxx

Sarutobi had watched the whole scene with his crystal ball. He had been watching Naruto that day since the boy sometimes over did it when it came to training. He was both happy and surprised that his top kenjutsu specialist had taken an interest on passing their styles onto the boy.

He was hoping one of his Jonin, he didn't care which, would take a liking to the boy and help him out. He would do it himself but as the Hokage he wasn't allowed to play favorites and help just one or two people. So he did what he could for the boy take him to lunch, tell him stories and help him get groceries every once and a while too. He wanted to help with his clone jutsu issue too but that again was not allowed.

But with two of his Jonin wanting to help Naruto, he could give them permission to teach the boy the shadow clone jutsu, which was a B-ranked kinjutsu. It was given to the leaf village from the whirlpool village anyways so it was technically Naruto's birthright. He could also let them tell him about the fox. Better to hear it from someone he could trust and not someone else.

The boy needed to know sooner than later about the fox. At least then he would understand why he was hated by a lot of the people of the village. Not that everyone hated him. He had a lot of the clan heads backing him, even if he didn't know it. The hokage himself, over 90% of the ninja and a small portion of the civilians that would at least sell him goods at regular price.

Sensing a small spike in chakra just in front of his desk, he looked up and said "ah just who I wanted to see."

xxxxxxxx With Naruto xxxxxxxx

Naruto had decided to head over to Ichiraku Raman stand. He walked up to the booth and lifted the veil so he could walk in. "Hey old-man can I get two bowls of miso raman and two bowls of beef raman please?"

Teuchi looked over to the counted and noticed the boy. "Sure thing Naruto." "Ayame need two bowls of miso and two bowls of beef for our favorite customer."

"Ok dad." She replied. She came out a with two bowls in her hands and set them in front of Naruto. "So Naruto what did you do today? Finally get that clone jutsu down?"

At first he hung his head remembering he still hadn't gotten that stupid clone jutsu down. But perked up thinking about all the cool training he was going to get from his new senseis. "I'm still working on the clone jutsu. But I did meet two new people and they are going to teach me kenjutsu." Exclaimed Naruto.

"Is that so Naruto?" Teuchi teased. "Maybe one of these days you can bring them in so we can meet them. Haha." He'd always make sure Naruto was taken care of and if that meant going to the hokage he'd do it. But he would give these two people a chance if Naruto trusted them.

After talking with the Ichiraku's for a while longer he paid for his meal and started walking home. It was nice out, still before sunset so he decided to go to his favorite spot in the village. He noticed that most of the shinobi's were nodding their heads at him as he walked by. The civilians on the other hand would either glare at him or just look away. He always wondered why they would do that or why they would charge him extra for food or cloths. That was the main reason for wearing his orange jumpsuit. He loved orange but even he knew it was too much orange to do him any good. But he would deal with what he had.

Once he got to the top of the Hokage Mountain, he went straight to the 4th hokage. He always thought the man was the greatest ever to live. He would surpass him one day it was his dream, to be the greatest Hokage of all time. He sat there thinking about everything that happened that day, from still having problems with that stupid clone jutsu to meeting Hayate-sensei and Yugao-sensei, then having a nice meal over at Ichiraku's. He was happy he would finally have someone to teach him. All the other kids had families to teach them, well other than Sasuke. But the stupid Uchiha had a lot of people that wanted to help him.

He was just enjoying the view of the village when he heard someone walking up behind him. Turning he saw his jiji walking up to him. "Hokage-jiji" Naruto screamed with joy. He ran over to the elder man and wrapped his arms around the man as he bent down to hug Naruto.

"So I had a talk with a couple of my Jonin today Naruto." Sarutobi said. Naruto looked up hearing this. "Do you know what they asked me Naruto?" Naruto looked at him and shook his head in the negative. Hiruzen just chuckled at the boy. "They asked me if they would be allowed to help train you during your time at the academy."

Naruto looked at his jiji with pleading eye's "are you going to let Hayate-sensei and Yugao-sensei teach me jiji?" Hoping his jiji would let his shinobi train him. He knew he needed the help and it would crush him if he didn't get to learn from his new senseis.

"Don't worry Naruto they can train you when they are not out on missions for me." Sarutobi answered. "Truthfully I am glad the two of them are passing on their knowledge of the blade to someone." "I know you'll make me proud Naruto."

"I promise you jiji that I'll be the best kenjutsu master ever." Naruto proclaimed. "And once I'm the greatest kenjutsu master you're going to be handing over that hat to me jiji!"

Hiruzen smiled at the boys enthusiasm. 'He's just like his mother and father.' He looked up to the sky 'you would be proud of your boy Minato, Kushina' he thought. He looked back at Naruto and told the boy he should get home and get some rest for his big day tomorrow.

Naruto hugged Sarutobi one last time and then ran home. As the hokage watched the boys retreating form he said out loud. "The 'will of fire' burns strong in him don't you agree Kakashi?"

Just then a male not older than maybe twenty-two appeared next to the hokage. He wore an ANBU mask over his face. It looked like a dog. He wore the standard ANBU black pants and long sleeve shirt along with armor and arm guards.

"Yes Hokage-sama." Kakashi replied. "It's scary how much he is like his mother in attitude, but so much like sensei in looks."

"Kakashi when the time comes I want you to help train him as well." Hiruzen said. Before Kakashi could reply he put up his hand. "Don't worry it won't be for a few years Kakashi. But when the time comes he well need you to be in his life." "After all he is basically your brother in all but blood." Kakashi nodded and disappeared into the shadows again. "Tomorrow is the start of you journey Naruto and I can't wait to see you become one of the greatest shinobis ever….."

Well I hope you liked it. I know there wasn't much but an intro in this chapter but the next chapter well be longer. Until next time….. Please review. xP