kinda short...ok really short but guess what i don't care as always and if you don't like it don't read it its not like i'm really gonna read hate reviews. and if your wondering why i made it like this its because its never been done before so if you don't like it YOU CAN GO STAIGHT TOO HELL FOR ALL I CARE

hugs and kisses,

reaper-sama

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It was a beautiful day in Konoha. The birds were singing; the sun was shining. It was a good enough day to almost be called perf--

"NARUTO!"

...Well almost perfect.

Right by the Hokage tower, there was a giant dust cloud. Within the cloud, a passer-by could make out the shape of a blonde haired boy with cuts all over his body, carrying an old-looking chest.

"NARUTO, GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!" Sarutobi shouted, but the young boy did not listen. All that did was make him run faster. As the blonde now known as Naruto ran in to the woods, he lost the sandaime.

"No worries, old man! After I find out what's in this chest, I'll give it back," Naruto yelled back with a grin as he tried every way he could think of to open the chest: smashing it, crunching it, even beating it with a rock.

"I'M NEVER GOING TO GET THIS THING OPEN!" he shouted. He then realized what a dufus he was when he noticed the key was innocently sticking out from the lock.

"Hehehe…I guess I have my blonde moments," Naruto admitted to himself as he opened the chest to find...

"A FRUIT!!!!! A GODDAMN FRUIT!"

Yes. Indeed there was a round purple fruit, sitting evilly in the chest. The hard work and curiosity seemed to be for naught! However, after Naruto got over that sad fact, he noticed how hungry he was. "Well, I'd hate to see perfectly good food go to waste, so why not?"

He picked up the fruit and examined it carefully for a moment. He then shoved it gluttonously into the abyss formerly known as Naruto's mouth, just as the third found him.

"NARUTO, YOU IDIOT!" was a phrase that echoed throughout the village and some several miles beyond.

"Naruto, do you have any idea what that fruit was?" the Hokage said. Seeing Naruto give him a blank stare in response, he knew that was a definite "no". "That was cursed fruit from the Grand Line. Whoever eats it is granted powers not of this world, but the cost is that you will never be able to swim in water without drowning."

Naruto was silent for a short time before the expected reaction spilled forth from his mouth. "I HAVE POWERS NOW!"

Sarutobi rolled his eyes at the behavior and answered flatly, "Yes, Naruto, you now have powers."

"SWEET! WHAT POWERS DO I HAVE?" Naruto demanded annoyingly and in the loudest voice he could muster.

"IDIOT!" the third exclaimed in exasperation. As he hit Naruto in the side of the head, Naruto's head flew three feet in the direction of the hit, amazingly staying attached to his body. As his head when back into place, Naruto gasped in realization.

"I'M A RUBBER BOY!" Naruto whooped in triumph and then added, with a disappointed tone, "That's gotta be the lamest power ever."

Sarutobi was about to slap him again when he remembered it didn't hurt him.

"Damn it. I guess there is only one thing to do," the old man said in a grave tone.

"And what's that?" Naruto asked, scared about what might happen. What if they had to chop off his limbs and lock him in a closet? He didn't want to be called "Torso Boy"! However, he was brought out of his panic when the third's face was enveloped by a huge smile.

"I'm going to have to train you on how to use your power the right way." And after hearing that Naruto leaped at the old man and hugged him tight.

"You're the greatest jiji-sama!" Naruto cheered with a big smile. As the Hokage got up, his grin went to a face of stone-cold seriousness.

"Now, Naruto, the training will be hard, but you're going to have to bear through it, now matter what. Understand?" the Hokage warned. Naruto nodded, knowing that if the Hokage was going to train him, it would be tough.

"Now," Sarutobi said with a grin, "let's start."

And with that Naruto start too do training that would change his life forever.