It was a normal day for Naruto. He woke up, brushed his teeth and had some breakfast. He looked at the clock and saw that it was 9:30. Shit, he was late again Iruka would be angry -he thought to himself. He hastily put on his favorite orange jumpsuit and goggles and rushed to the academy. On any other day he would get a lecture from Iruka about his tardiness , but as fate would have it Iruka was home sick this day. Naruto opened the classroom door only to see Mizuki staring at him.

"The academy starts at 9 o'clock Naruto." Mizuki said.

"He he sorry I'm late sensei my alarm didn't go off" said Naruto with a grin on his face and started walking towards his seat next to the teme.

"If you don't bother coming on time Naruto like the rest of us don't come at all, now leave my classroom!" Mizuki snapped at him.

"Whaaa but come on sensei its only 40 minutes" pleaded Naruto.

"YOU have disturbed my class for long enough now LEAVE or i will make sure your punishement is much more severe!" Mizuki snarled at Naruto.

"Fine i'm too awesome to even be here." answered Naruto, trying to smile as much as he could to hide his sadness from everyone.

Mizuki was happy, "A day without the demon around, someone up there must really like me" he thought to himself barely concealing his delight.

Outside the academy Naruto was walking around Konoha. "Stupid alarm clock, stupid Mizuki"he muttered to himself. Why did these thing always happen to him, he hated being kicked out of class it made him be alone and that was something he hated the most. There wasn't much to do in Konoha for a 10 year old orphan with no friends it also didn't help that the grownups seemed to dislike him and ignore him , something the younger generation seemed to do as well. " Who needs em anyway" thought Naruto to himself "They'll see when I'm Hokage no one will ignore me, i'll have tones of friends and Sakura-chan will be my girlfriend and the teme will see how awesome Naruto Uzumaki is." thought Naruto to himself. His daydreams lifted his spirit and made him smile. Naruto had been walking aimlessly around Konoha for a long time and he started to look around him only to find himself in a place he had never been before. He was deep into the forest surrounding the village and as hard as he tried to remember how he got there, he couldn't.

"Oh man what am i gonna do now, the old man will be so angry" Naruto panicked as his eyes darted around trying to find something familiar. Suddenly he heard noises coming from his left.

"What was that?" Naruto asked with fear in his voice.

The noise was getting closer and Naruto took out a kunai from his pouch.

"Who ever you are get out or I'll kick your ass datebayo!" yelled Naruto.

Suddenly a rabbit jumped out of the grass and froze as it saw Naruto.

"AAAAH stupid rabit scaring me like that" yelled Naruto at the frightened rabbit.

As the little creature heard the loud noise coming from the little boy, it turned around and started to run for its life. Naruto gave chase to the little rabbit. He chased it for a few minutes before he saw somewhere in the distance a shrine. He stopped immediately and headed towards the unfamiliar structure.

"YES, someone over there must know the way back to Konoha" Naruto yelled out excitedly.

Naruto approached the shrine only to find ,much to his disappointment, that it was abandoned. It looked really weird like nothing he ever saw in Konoha, it had those weird swrils he often saw around Konoha and wall of masks on it. The masks all looked really weird as well, not like the ones he saw being sold around the village or even the ones that some shinobi around the village wore. No, these masks were like nothing he ever saw in his life, all of them even looked like they were the faces of demons. "I really hope there are no ghosts around this place." muttered Naruto while shaking slightly at the thought. Those thought quickly left his mind as his prankster side emerged "Ha ha ha oh men i could probably scare jiji into giving me his hat with one of those" Naruto chuckled evilly. With another prank in mind Naruto approached the masks and from the corner of his eye he saw another mask, one that was very different from the rest. It wasn't one shaped like an oni but instead one that looked like a wolf. He walked over to it and picked it up, it was much heavier than any other mask he ever held in his life the colors also seemed to be brighter than the rest of the masks. For some reason Naruto decided to put the mask on as he did so he felt pain like he never felt before in his life. His body felt like it was on fire, his limbs felt as if they were being torn over and over again, but the worst pain of all came from his chakra coils. All of his chakra was drained from him in a few seconds and soon he lost conciatusness. His blissful slumber came to an end as he heard chirping of birds and the sound of a river near by. His whole body felt numb and achy,but after a few seconds of this Naruto opened his eyes and saw a figure standing not to far away from him with his back towards Naruto.

"W-who are you?"asked a nervous Naruto. The figure turned around and Naruto saw a 6 feet tall man looking at him. He wore a dark blue samurai like armor, a katana strapped to his side and a head protector Naruto never saw before. He had long dark red hair and black eyes narrowed at Naruto.

"It is customary to introduce yourself before asking the name of someone, young one" replied the unknown shinobi.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage of Konoha" half-yelled Naruto.

"Blond is an interesting hair color for an Uzumaki, you wouldn't just be claiming to be an Uzumaki now would you?" asked the the man with slight anger in his voice.

"Eer the old man said my name was Uzumaki, and what do you mean for an Uzumaki, are there other people with that name too, are they my family?" asked Naruto.

"Hmm the Uzumaki clan is one of the world's most famous clan chld, you are wearing the Uzumaki clan symbol on your... whatever that is. "replied the man.

"WHAT i have a clan that is soooo cool, i can't wait to tell everyone in class..." Naruto started to ramble only to be interrupted by the man.

"Yes, yes you do. Now my name is Misashi Uzumaki could you please inform me where I am, this place is unfamiliar to me" asked Misashi.

"You are an Uzumaki too wow so you are from my clan, can you teach me some cool techniques..." Naruto started asking only to be interrupted by Misashi again.

"If i ever had any doubts that you are an Uzumaki you just erased all of them, didn't your parents teach you even an ounce of self-restrained?" asked Misashi.

"Ano i don't have any parents, jiji said they died during the Kyuubi attack 10 years ago." Naruto replied with sadness in his voice. At this Misashi narrowed his eyes at Naruto. Surely Naruto's jiji would know who his parents were, at least one of them if he allowed for the name Uzumaki to be used by the child. This sounded suspicious he needed to have a word with this man and soon before revealing any information to Naruto.

"Who is your jiji and where can we find him Naruto, I need to speak to him" demanded Misashi.

"Oh well he's in Konoha and he's the Hokage" answered Naruto.

"Well then young Uzumaki lead the way" said Misashi.

"Ano you see I'm kinda lost." replied Naruto looking sheepishly. Misashi wasted no time and concentrated on the chakra signatures around him after a couple of seconds he detected a large amount of people about 2 miles east from his current location.

"Is the village where you jiji is the only one around this area" asked Misashi.

"Yeah i think so" answered Naruto.

"Well then i believe i have located it, come now Natuto lets go meet your jiji". said Misashi