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Chapter 1

Training under the Copycat ninja

A blond haired boy made a mad dash through the alley in the October night, panting. Today was the day when most people were out celebrating their fourth anniversary of the death of the Kyuubi that wrecked havoc on their home, the Hidden leaf village.

A huge mob of people soon followed the white and green wearing boy who's innocent and young eyes showing pain and suffering. The boy's whisker like lines bruised from the assault he had endured a week ago. The mob followed the boy as he made a turn to the left. The boy's face morphed into a frightful expression; he was at a dead end. The boy backed up to the wall as the mob slowly advanced towards him.

They started to yell "Down with the Demon!" …. "This is for my family!" … "We'll finish what the fourth started!"

As they were about to attack him, seven masked ninja stopped in front of the boy, facing the mob. Normally, they would have attacked the seven masked ninja altogether but they knew better from previous experiences. The mob had two options one was to disperse or to be victims of a massacre.

"Thank you, Dog." The blond told the Anbu with the dog mask. The ninja nodded before he reached out to carry the blond to report to the Hokage. Dog was the Anbu that has been saving him from attacks many times. Naruto knew the ninja tried his best to keep him safe but a very skilled Anbu captain was still human and they require their daily needs.

"Hey old man!" The whiskered boy exclaimed in joy, acting like nothing happened a few minutes ago.

"Hi, Naruto, I'm relieved that you are safe." The aged Hokage said, relieved that nothing happened to his grandson like figure. "We should get you back home." At hearing this, blond's joyful face darkened.

"I don't want to go home… Last week after I was saved from the mob, someone took over my apartment, he said that if I ever come to him, he'll kill me, if I tell, he'll tell people to kill me." Naruto said. Then he raised his tearful face and said, "Please, I don't want to die! I want to be a great ninja!" Then he started crying.

"Lioness, take Naruto to the male public bath in this tower, the rest of you except Dog is dismissed." The Hokage ordered.

After the Anbus left, the Hokage activated the privacy seal to not let any nosy people eavesdrop on the two.

"Kakashi, today is Naruto's fifth birthday and he says he wants to be a ninja. According to this note that Minato left, when he is five, his shinobi training should begin, even if we don't declare it, Kumo or Iwa will soon notice that they look alike and will start planning assassination attempts. Jiraiya also told me of a prophecy about a boy that would bring peace to the world." Hiruzen Sarutobi told the masked Anbu.

"And you are saying that Naruto is the child of the Prophecy." Kakashi asked.

"Of course, Kakashi, look at him, the Great Grand-Nephew of the first, the Great Grandson of the second and the son of the Fourth Hokage. He has potential. With good training, the Kyuubi and all the bloodline in him, who else could it be?" The Sandaime answered.

"So you want me to train him?" Kakashi questioned.

"Not only train him, I'm too old to be a Hokage, I held this hat to prevent Danzo and the others out. I'm going to solve out the problem with the council first and handover the power to you. Listen clearly, no more mourning over your team, no more reading that orange book of yours, I'm removing you from the Anbu and make you back the Jonin. You must train Naruto and yourself, I don't know when I'll hand my power over but one thing is for sure, I'll make sure that the academy will be as good as it was during my time and put the council back into their place. Your training is a mission." The Hokage then held his hand out gesturing the Dog Anbu to sigh and handover his orange book. Instead of putting it in his drawer, the Hokage burned it, slipping back into the God of Shinobi mode.

Naruto stayed in the hot water for a whole two hours trying to scrub away the dirt from his hair and body. After doing so and getting into a pair of orange pajamas that the third Hokage had sent someone to buy. Naruto's wild and messy hair was given a haircut, shortening his lightning bolt bangs that fell at his side. Then he was tucked into bed in the Hokage Mansion's guest room.

"Yo, wake up." A voice called out, waking the sleeping blond up. Naruto sat up on his bed and turned to the direction of the voice, which was towards the open window. Crouching on the windowsill was a man possessing silver gravity defying hair. The man's face was covered with a navy blue mouth mask and with the headband covering one of his eyes, the right eye and the area around it was the only visible part of his face. The ninja wore a dark green flak jacket signifying that he is a Jonin. Under the flak jacket were standard navy blue shinobi clothing, fingerless gloves with metal plates, and a pair of navy blue sandals.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked still rubbing his eyes.

"I'm your new sensei, we start training today." Kakashi announced.

"Whatever…" Naruto grumbled and before he attempted to go back to sleep, realization hit him. "WHAT?! REALLY! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" Naruto yelled, forcing Kakashi to cover his ears.

"First of all, being a ninja doesn't always mean knowing a lot of strong jutsu, you need the right equipment and clothing to aid you in battle. And you call me Kakashi-sensei from now on." Kakashi told the hyperactive blond.

"But Kakashi-sensei, people won't allow me to go into their shops." Naruto warned.

"Who said anything about buying? We already had these paid and personally made by the best shinobi clothing tailor in the world." Kakashi said unsealing a scroll. Naruto's eyes widened and his mouth started to drool as the smoke cleared. Naruto was looking at an all black shinobi clothing set with crimson flames rising in various light tone coming from the wrists, and the ankles. Kakashi had also given him bandage tape to wrap around his wrist and ankles to reduce drag that might slow him wore a similar mask as his new mentor did but the blond's color was black. As for his hands and feet, he wore a pair of black fingerless gloves with a dark titanium plate, and a pair of closed toed boots made of metal and rubber that raise the height of the blond by one inch. Another piece of his equipment was his utility belt with three-dozen seals on them. The last part were titanium plates protecting his shins and forearms.

"Naruto, this cost a fortune so take good care of it although it has self repairing seals, damage reduction, self cleaning, and growth seals on it. But that doesn't mean you are invincible, being a ninja require great responsibility, do you understand?" Naruto nodded as an answer. "Good, now come with me to the basement, there is a private training ground there, we don't want anyone to see us."

Kakashi then slowly lead the blond downstairs who was trying really hard to walk due to his resistance seal that was put on before the blond changed.

As they arrived at the basement, Kakashi made a shadow clone and handed the blond several kunai and shurikens while he went to another part of the area to do this own training. The clone then started explaining how to throw properly. "Your wrist must be at an alignment with your forearm and you hold a kunai with the blade facing up when throwing." Naruto nodded. The blond then threw kunai with careful aiming, hitting the edge of the second ring. Kakashi was surprised by the blond's skill and told him to practice until he can hit the bull's eye.
About a thirty minutes later, Naruto got it all down; he could even throw it with his eyes closed, which was extremely good for someone his age. Kakashi's clone then handed him some shurikens.

"Throwing the shuriken is a little harder because you need to control three limbs at once. Give it a try." The clone of the famed copycat ninja explained. Naruto was too caught on focusing the bull's eye that he didn't notice the real Kakashi throwing a bunch of A ranked ninjutsus around.

Unlike the kunai, it took Naruto two hours to get it to the bull's eye without closing his eyes. And with another hour to completely master it, which meant throwing the shuriken without looking at bull's eye.

Kakashi made ten clones and sent three of them outside to run up and down the waterfall while focusing twenty leaves on each of his arm two of the three had a rock each in his hands while the other one had five senbons focused on his fingertips, trying to defy the laws of gravity like his hair.

Two of the clones were to spar against each other as they were made harder to disperse. Two more were ordered to practice their Kenjutsu, one doing to katas and the other analyzing them with the Sharingan for ways to improve it. The remaining three was to refine and practice the thousands of jutsu that had been copied and think of ways to combine them. The original tried to create new versions of his Lightning Blade and try to come up with a similar jutsu for other elements.

Kakashi had refined and mastered about a hundred C and B rank ninjutsu, twenty for each element and two A rank of each. He had corrected about thirty errors in his Kenjutsu and developed some kata to fix the openings in his taijutsu. When his clones dispersed, Kakashi felt a terrible headache and the effects of his training.

"Hey Naruto, we need to get some lunch, you didn't even eat breakfast." Kakashi told the sweating blond who just noticed his growling stomach.

"Naruto as a ninja, we must eat a balanced diet, if you want ramen, I can take you to a good place." Kakashi reminded the blond. Naruto nodded happily. The duo then walked to the Ichiraku ramen stand.

"Welcome, what would you like to eat?" A man in his mid-forties asked, his head turning to the customers.

"I'll take two of the miso ramen with chicken, please." Kakashi told the girl dressed in a white uniform. The girl nodded and wrote on her mini notepad.

"I'll have ten of those BBQ pork ramen, please!" Naruto yelled, surprising the others.

"Naruto, a shinobi must keep their emotions under their controls and must keep a level head. Emotions are good but they lead you to make bad decisions. You must also be polite and have manners, if you are rude, you might scare your clients and they won't hire Konoha shinobi, damaging our economy." Kakashi lectured the loud blond. Naruto nodded his best while he gulped down the broth of his last bowl.

"Good, we have an hour to rest before we continue your training, in the meanwhile I will explain the concept of chakra to you." Kakashi said, while allowing his stomach to replenish his chakra.

"Chakra is important to even the most basic technique; it is the molding of the physical energy present in every cell of the body and the spiritual energy gained from exercise and experience. Once molded, it can be channeled through the chakra circulatory system, which is to chakra as the regular circulatory system is to blood, to any of the three hundred and one chakra points in the body. Through various methods, the most common of which is hand signs, the chakra can then be manipulated to create an effect that would not be possible otherwise. The molding of chakra has a ration that decides on your chakra affinity. There are five of them, fire, water, lightning, wind, and earth. When you mix two elements to a certain degree and ration, you get a mix element like lava made from fire and earth, ice made from water and wind, and wood by earth and water. That is basically it. Now that we have a lot of time to spare, why don't we draw out your chakra?" Kakashi explained.

"First, you sit in a meditative pose like I am doing form this hand seal like I am doing. It's called the Ram hand sign, it's used to draw out chakra. Then you focus deep into your stomach and when you feel a warm sensation deep in your stomach, use your willpower and draw it out." Kakashi told his student.

Naruto copied the copycat ninja's action and mediated deep down into his stomach, focusing on breathing in and out. Before he knew it, he entered a sewer with water reaching up to his knees, which was odd, as he didn't feel wet. The place was dark but Naruto could see a red light emitted from the area. He also felt sinister and an awful a lot of power coming from there. Without thinking about it, the blond walked towards it and made a left where he saw a huge jail with a pair of demonic red eyes and white teeth staring down at him.

"Ah, so my jailor has decided to greet me, what a pitiful honor." The deep voice said. The creature stepped forward into the light, revealing a giant red fox with nine tails waving at the back.

"Hello, my name is Naruto Uzumaki, its nice to meet you, what's yours?." Naruto said smiling, being the naive boy he is, he held out is hand. The creature blinked for a while, no human had ever approached him like this and a five-year-old boy acted like he was some plush toy. How dare the kid… His musing was cut short by Naruto who said "Well, I'm waiting."

"Its, Kurama." The Kyuubi answered. Perhaps his new jailor could be different. "And kid, do you mind if I get access to your senses? You can do that by ripping half of the seal, this will allow me to access your senses and give you my traits." Naruto nodded and did as the prehistoric creature said.

'This kid, I can sense the potential and power in him, it feels like the Shodaime, Nidaime, and Yondaime all combined in one. This must be one by previous jailor gave birth to… Perhaps, he can fufill father's wish…' The Kyuubi thought before he let his red chakra to start advancing towards Naruto, replacing the sewer water. The chakra then stopped after a while. Then all of a sudden, the chakra started to make a sphere around Naruto, then the sphere started to glow bright red, after the light faded, the demonic energy was gone.
"As you can see, I've given you my red chakra which gives you a chakra affinity of fire from me and you have claws and fangs that can be activated anytime you channel chakra to it. I'm dying Naruto, I never intended to get access for your senses, I wanted to give you my power… This is another of your bloodline, use it well. You are the savior of the world that Rikudo Sennin had predicted, I know that I'm making you shoulder a huge responsibility, but I trust you…" The Kyuubi then faded out of existence.

Naruto snapped his crimson eyes open, he was engulfed in a red chakra cloak taking the shape of a bipedal fox with nine tales protruding from his rear end. He could feel his teeth growing longer, turning into fangs and his nails growing and getting denser to form the indestructible claws. Before long, Naruto's red chakra grew denser until it looked like solid red. (Like when he goes four tails but his face looks lame. The one currently in the manga looks weird, so I decided to go with bipedal fox.)

Kakashi's eyes widened realizing that Naruto had accessed the Kyuubi's power. The copycat ninja known to keep his emotions calm started to freak out, thinking about how could something as simple as drawing out one's chakra turn into a S-ranked problem.

Naruto felt so much power in and around him, but he could see the expression on his sensei's face, which was fear. The blond then calmed himself and sucked the power back into his body; the power was too much for Naruto's small body that it made him grows six inches taller, making him almost four feet tall, but his uniform took care of it. The red chakra also turned Naruto's hair red, bringing out his Uzumaki trait.

"So… HOW WAS THAT?! ISN'T THAT AWESOME?! A cool fox gave it to me, he has nine tails and has red chakra." Naruto yelled hyper actively. Kakashi had one word running "Naruto, did the fox say anything to you?" Kakashi asked after recovering from his shock.

"Yes, he said something about giving me the power to save the world and he trust me. Oh, and his name is Kurama. But now he is dead." Naruto replied.

'The Kyuubi must have given him his power before he died.' Kakashi thought, using his fingers to rub his chin.

"Sensei, should we get back to training?" The red-hair boy asked.

"Sure, anyways, this is a chakra paper, it decides what your chakra affinity is, so basically, you draw your chakra out and send it to this paper. It will react differently, burning for fire, soggy for water, crinkling for lightning, earth if it turns into dust and being cut in half means wind." Kakashi said, handing him a paper. Naruto held it between his index and middle finger as Kakashi had showed him. He focused on the warm sensation that burns in his stomach and sent it through his arms and into the paper. It cut into four pieces, the paper burned on one piece, soggy on another, crinkling on the third, and the last turned into earth. This surprised Kakashi slightly although he had expected this.

It proved that the bloodlines of the Shodaime, Nidaime, and Yondaime are focused in him. Earth and water are from the first hokage, water and lightning from the second, and lightning and wind from the fourth. Kakashi made some calculations, two of water, two of wind, two of lightning, one of earth, but he didn't know where fire came from, but he made a guess that Kyuubi gave it to him.

"Fire is your strongest element from what happened to you recently, wind and lightning are your second strongest elements with water and earth being the third."

"Now that our hour of resting is up, lets get back to training, but we won't be doing kunai training today. We'll be training taijutsu, or combat training." Kakashi said as his clone handed him three scrolls.

"This part of the training will be on your own as I am only familiar to the Namikaze taijutsu, Eye of the Storm, but still I don't know how to use it. I will leave you a clone to read out what it says in the scrolls.
Choose one to learn first, the Senju clan's Wild Forest fist, it is free form taijutsu style so that the opponent can't predict what is your next move, if you train with it well, not even the Uchiha clan's Sharingan can predict your moves."

"The next one is the Maelstrom Palm, it is made for Uzumaki as they have a lot of stamina and chakra, the Maelstrom Palm enhance their attacks with chakra, making every hit lethal and swift.
As for Eye of the Storm, it is what you call, offense is defense, you extend your senses to make an area around you, any strike coming in your way, you parry and counter attack, if anyone gets in your area, you attack them. This style is fast and makes people think that they are in the middle of a tornado."

"Hey, Sensei, can I ask something irrelevant?" Naruto asked. Kakashi nodded as an answer. "Can you teach me that clone thing?"

Kakashi was about to say that he didn't have enough chakra but, the previous incident proved him wrong.

"Sure, these are the required hand seals, then you divide your chakra evenly, if you want twenty clones, you divide it twenty times, ok?" Kakashi asked.
Naruto preformed the essential hand seals and cried out "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He tried to create ten but due to his almost unlimited chakra and bad control over them, five hundred doppelgangers exploded into existence, surprising Kakashi.

"S-S-So, one hundred of you clones, go and practice the katas of the Wild Forest Fist, another hundred will practice the Maelstrom fist, and another hundred should go to the my third clone and practice the Eye of the Storm. That's three hundred for taijutsu, fifty of you will be doing physical exercises, fifty of you would try to walk on trees, and the last two fifties should go to two of my other clones and learn the Substitution Jutsu and the Transformation Jutsu." Kakashi announced, creating clones to match each group.

"How about me?" The real Naruto asked as his clones went to do their job.

"You'll be learning how to read and write." Kakashi said, smirking, at this, Naruto sweat dropped, complaining about why he had to get the boring job.

Kakashi had ended the day at six in the night with Naruto passing out from a terrible headache that rushed into him. After tucking the boy into his bed, he made his way to the Hokage tower.

"AH, Kakashi, how did your training go?" The God of Shinobi asked, also referring to the no longer blond. He then activated the privacy seal after ordering his guards to leave.

"Lord hokage, something happened today… I told him how to draw out your chakra and during that time, he said that he met the Kyuubi, his body was surrounded by a dense red chakra, taking the outline of a bipedal fox. But he seems to have complete control over it as he drew it back inside. But one thing strange he mentioned was the he was the savior of the world and the Kyuubi trusted him and stuff. He also mentioned that the Kyuubi is now dead. His appearance changed that I think is due to too much power in his small body. He grew six inches taller and had red hair. That is all I have to say about Naruto. He had mastered throwing shurikens and kunai at a stationary target and is learning Wild Forest Fist, Maelstrom Palm, and Eye of the Storm for taijutsu. I'm teaching him the Substitution Jutsu and the Transformation Jutsu. Oh, and one more thing, he's training in chakra control and also for his affinities." Kakashi reported, leaving the Hokage that had fought in two of the Great Shinobi Wars was startled by the boy's power.

"Anyways, how about your own training?" Sandaime asked after he made a mental note to himself of paying Naruto a visit in their next training session.

"I have refined a hundred C-B ranked jutsu, twenty of each element and two A-ranked jutsu of each. I had also made two of my clones to spar each other with only taijutsu, so I added a few katas to fix the openings. As for Kenjutsu, I made one clone practice the katas and another using its Sharingan to analyze it, they found some opening so I fixed them. I am also doing the insane chakra control, running up a waterfall while sticking leaves on my arms while balancing senbons and cutting rocks." Kakashi answered. The Sandaime nodded and knew that the Jonin was determined and taking his order seriously.

A year had passed since Naruto's training. The six year old had learned how to deflect kunai and shurikens. He also knew how to intercept them. He had fully mastered the katas of the three taijutsu and is working on how to integrate them. The boy's chakra control had improved immensely but was not close to being perfect. The affinity trainings are coming nicely, for wind, he would cut a rock in half and is working on cutting a tree. He had mastered moving water around and is working on doing it with less concentration. As for lightning, he can penetrate a feet into an earth wall. The earth exercise he had completed was making a meter long trench with a foot deep and was working on increasing it. Since fire element was his strongest affinity, his control over it was perfect as he had completed the test of vaporizing metal using fire chakra only. So Kakashi taught him Fire Release: Great Fireball, Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire, Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, Fire Release: Dragon Fire Jutsu, and Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, which the copycat ninja had learned from the mask ninja that attacked their village five years ago. All in all, his training was coming nicely as he had mastered Substitution Jutsu and Transformation Jutsu without needing hand seals.

Kakashi's skill has also improved massively, he now had retrained all the jutsus he had copied and are writing them down on scrolls to improve Konoha's arsenal. Kakashi had made another variation of the Lightning Blade that made the move mid-range, allowing him to blast it out of hand. The Cyclops ninja's stamina, chakra reserves, and control had vastly improved; he could last two days non-stop fighting with the draining Sharingan included. With several more years of training, Kakashi would become a SS-ranked ninja.
The training day ended and Kakashi and Naruto had dinner at Ichiraku ramen. After that, Naruto went to the Hokage mansion to sleep while Kakashi made his way to the Hokage tower to give his daily training report.

"Oh, well, same old same old, both of us haven't learned anything new, just improving ourselves physically." Kakashi reported.

"Listen Kakashi, Jiraiya is going to be in the village for the next month. So, do you mind if he borrows your student for the duration of his stay? He will be teaching Naruto Fuinjutsu and hopefully allowing him to sign the toad contract." Hiruzen Sarutobi said.

"Of course, this is a good opportunity for me to go to the Kuroinu and train myself in the sage art of the dogs." Kakashi agreed.

"Good, he'll be here tomorrow." The aged Hokage said.

Author's Note: I don't know when I'll be able to update as I only write when I feel like it so don't complain. Please check out my MMORPG game story too.