Okay, to start with I'm presuming that you have at least read and know about things in the narutoverse. As such, I won't be describing any clothing that the characters are wearing unless it's something different than what they have in the manga.

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Legend (of Zelda)

"speaking"

thinking

"Kyuubi face to face"

"Kyuubi thinking or voice in head"


Chapter 1: The Powers That Be

Welcome to the ninja village Hidden Leaf, Konaha, deep in the heart Fire Country where people greet you with a friendly smile. That is unless you happen to be a blonde haired blued eyed child by the name of Uzamaki Naruto. He has always been hated and shunned for reasons unknown to him. The only that he can actually remember showing any real kindness was the Sandaime Hokage, the current leader of Konaha, and the people at the ramen stand. But this matters not to the many travelers and villagers.

"Well that proved to be rather pointless," said a man with waist length dark blue hair as he exited a bar. He wore a matching dark blue Chinese style shirt and pants. The shirt had several dragons embroidered on it in silver.

As he walked down the street, he came upon a rather large crowd. As he neared, he could hear people yelling 'demon' and 'monster'. Curious, that and it was on his way; he decided to see what was going on. Though once he discovered what the crowd was doing, he became enraged. For the crowd was beating a small boy no more than six years old.

"What the heck do you people think you're doing," the man bellowed. Everyone in the crowd froze at the tone the man used. At was a voice that promised extreme pain. Then he made his way to the boy. He reached out and gently placed a hand on the boy's shoulder but, even while unconscious, the boy jerked away, afraid of the touch.

"Man, what have these people done to the boy? To put him in a state like this they must have beaten him before. This is interesting, the boys wounds are healing faster than they should be," the man thought.

"You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Attacking an innocent child," He continued aloud.

This statement caused one man, identified as a ninja by his hitiate, to step for and shout back, "We don't care what you say we all know he's a demon!"

"Stupid people if you really want to see a demon you should go look in a mirror. Now, I suggest you all return to your homes right now if you don't want to die," the man's voice was cold and laced with killing intent that had even the ninja among the mob sweating in fear. The crowd quickly dispersed wanting to be to get away from the man in front of them.

"Now what should I do? I guess I'll have to take him to the inn with me," he thought

Arriving at the inn the man proceeded to set the boy down on a bed. The man then began to check the boy over for wounds and was surprised to find that all his wounds were almost completely healed.

"I guess if I want any answers I'll just have to use that jutsu," the man thought contemplating the mystery lying on his bed. After a few quick hand seals, he reached out and touched the sleeping boys forehead. His eyes closed for a moment and when they opened, he found himself in a dimly lit sewer with doors on both sides. These doors were not of the physical kind but of the mental kind. Each door represented a memory. He figured it would be best to go backwards through the boy's memories, starting from when he found him.

As he watched the most recent memories play, he began to wish he had done more than just scare the villagers. It turned out the reason they were beating the boy was because he had tried to partake in a festival and he only got angrier from there. The boy's life was filled with sadness and despair. He was constantly shunned and beaten. Whenever he would try to make a friend with a kid at the playground the child's parent would rush them off and tell the 'little demon spawn' to never come near their child again.

There were very few happy memories in the boy's mind and they were either of an old man referred to as the Hokage or the man and his family at a local ramen stand. The man had to stop watching when he saw the boy get thrown out of the orphanage at two. He began to wander down the hallways thinking of different ways he wanted to kill almost the entire village with his bare hands. He was brought out of his thoughts when he ran into a large cage with the word 'seal' written on a piece of paper in the middle.

"What's this," he wondered out loud. Just then, a giant claw came from behind the cage trying to kill him. Ragnarok jumped back and that's when he saw two glowing red eyes that were slitted down the middle. As the eyes made their way forward, the dim light illuminated the owner of the eyes. It was a giant red fox with nine tails swishing behind it.

"Kyuubi," the man said in disbelief. "Hey Kyuubi old buddy how yah been." As he made his way over to his old friend, another claw shot out from behind the cage to kill him. Once again, he jumped back to avoid the strike.

"Hey, what's wrong with you," the man asked. Kyuubi just snarled in reply.

"Now I get it," the man stated as he transformed into a giant dark blue dragon with eight tails.

"WHACK" one of his tails hit Kyuubi head.

"Hey man, whoa Ragnarok is that really you man. Dude that was some messed up stuff that I ha…"

"WHACK" another of Ragnarok's tails hit Kyuubi's head.

This time Kyuubi shook his head and then began to turn into a human with spiky red hair and wearing clothing similar to Ragnarok except red with foxes.

"OOOHH, my head. Ragnarok," came Kyuubi's puzzled voice. "What's going on and why am I in a cage?"

"Yah, Kyuubi it's me," Ragnarok said sighing as he reverted to a human form. "Well from what I can tell, you were under a powerful genjutsu. Now as for the cage, you attacked Konaha and during that time, someone called the shinigami to seal you into a kid. But what do you remember happening?"

"Not much really," Kyuubi explained. "I remember being summoned to deal with a guy that reeked of snakes with yellow snake eyes. Everything after that's fuzzy right now but enough of the past. Why are you here?"

"That, my friend, is a much sadder reason," Ragnarok said solemnly. "I suggest you use your link with the kid to review his memories." It didn't take Kyuubi long to review all of the boys memories and when he was done he was even angrier than Ragnarok was.

"Right now the only thing keeping me from telling you to rip this village apart is this kids desire to protect it," Kyuubi growled. "I can't believe that they disregarded their leader's last wish like that."

"What do you mean their leader's last wish," Ragnarok asked confused.

"Apparently you didn't look at all of this kid's memories," receiving a negative nod Kyuubi continued. "Apparently their leader, the Yondaime Hokage, this kids father, wished for him to be seen a hero for constantly keeping me imprisoned."

"What are we going to do now? It's obvious that they hate this kid because of you," Ragnarok asked.

"Nothing!"

"What did you say, Botan" Kyuubi and Ragnarok shouted at the same time. Botan was a pale looking woman of average height wearing a light pink formal kimono. Her light blue hair was in a high ponytail that ran to her lower back.

"You are not to do anything," after Botan saw the looks of 'you better have a good reason'. She continued, "Upstairs doesn't want you to do anything."

"Why not," Ragnarok yelled.

"He has decided to give this boy a test to see if he is worthy of gifts from him," Botan answered.

"He has," Kyuubi stated floored that Upstairs would even consider giving this child gifts.

"Yes, he has but I don't know what the test will be. I am to simply modify the seal," she replied trying to answer the obvious questions.

"What's the reason for all the change if we're not supposed to do anything," Ragnarok asked.

"The changes to the seal will give Kyuubi access to the boys mind without him knowing it and will make it easier to heal him," Botan finished with a little sadness in her voice. After seeing no more questions, she continued, "Now Kyuubi you cannot interfere, he must learn of your presence on his own. Now Ragnarok, once you get out of here you are to take him back home alright."

Ragnarok simply nodded at the order and exited the boys mind. Back in is body; Ragnarok gently scooped up the boy and went to the boy's apartment. Ragnarok was so engrossed about what would happen to the boy in the future that he didn't notice the stares of the people as went. After getting into the boy's apartment, he gently laid him down, tucked him into bed, and walked out the door with a "goodnight".


FIN

That's the end of the prolog. The story will pick up next chapter at a point during the manga. Keep reading to find out when. If you don't I really don't care.