Born to Be: Naruto
WARNING: this story may have some extreme violence. I swear sometimes, btw.
IMPORTANT READ: I will be laying out the story in a unique way. I will be leaving a lot of what happens in the story's past to be deciphered by the reader, though eventually most things will be revealed, I will make the characters as canon as possible, with SOME bashing, not too much though.
Let us begin:
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The boy ran through the streets of Konoha, he was 6. He wore a grey shirt with an orange swirl on the chest. He stood around 3'4; he had short spiky blond hair, and bright, vibrant blue eyes. He turned another corner, dashing through the streets like a scared animal. Tears forming in his eyes, he wiped his eyes and started trying to formulate a plan as he looked back at his raging pursers.
Said angry mob was now gaining on him, shouting awful things, 'demon child', 'kill', 'evil', and many more horrid things that simply scared the young boy more. He was recently kicked out of his orphanage, and was confused about many things.
As he rounded his next corner he noticed that the alley was a dead end, but he didn't stop, no, instead he dropped his head and ran into the brick wall in an attempt to knock himself out, as he did the wall seemed to move through him, and soon after he was in the building on the other side of the wall.
Not expecting this he stumbled and fell. He was in some kind of abandoned house. He lay down, tears still falling; he tried to contemplate what had just happened, if at all now at least he would have a place to sleep for the night. He knew one thing; he would leave the village before the week was up.
Meanwhile on the other side of the wall.
Random villager 1 turned the corner and noticed the reason for his venture had vanished "THE DEMON IS GONE".
Random villager 2 spoke up next "MAYBE HES THIS WAY"
The mob then led away from the place naruto actually was.
XXX
6 years later.
A masked man approached the gates of Konoha. He wore white anbu style armor, he had a black torn up cloak draped over him, it blew and swayed in the wind, making it seem more like a cape of sorts. He wore a white hunter nin mask, it had white tribal war paint on it, the paint formed to look somewhat like a foxes face. He also wore black ninja cargo pants. His blonde spiky hair tussled in the wind. To finish off his look he had a tanto in a black sheath on his back. The figure was obviously a ninja, but he had no headband or any sort of markings to prove he was from a certain village.
The two guards at the gate stopped the ninja.
The first spoke in a lazy tone "Hello, welcome to Konoha, if you would please explain your reason for being here".
"I am to speak to the hokage and become a ninja of Konoha". The blonde haired boy spoke softly, with little emotion.
"Do you have an appointment?" the same guard spoke again.
"I didn't, but I am already speaking to ojii-san, thank you". With that the boy disappeared into a puff of smoke.
XXX – Hokage Tower
"Hello, and who may you be?" the hokage said with a slight smile.
In response the hokage's guest simply reached up to his face slowly and removed his mask.
It showed the ninja's face, his large blue orbs of eyes, his large canines, his blonde eyebrows, and his unmistakable… whiskers?
"NARUTO!?" Sarutobi yelled in delight as he lunged himself at the boy hugging him.
"Hello ojii-san" naruto spoke emotionlessly but his face did hold a small smirk. After 'the professor' was done hugging naruto spoke again. "I am here to become a ninja of Konoha; I hope the genin exams are soon? I wish to take part in them if you will allow me?"
"Hmm, yes indeed they are in 2 days, do you think you can pass with 0 academy classes under your belt?" the hokage asked seriously wanting the answer.
"Yes, in fact, I am sure I will pass quite easily." The Blondie somehow seemed humble in saying that, boasting humbly, it was an odd say to say the least.
"very well, I will allow you to participate because you are still technically a member of Konoha, now why don't you tell me where you've been" the hokage raised an eyebrow at Naruto's smirk.
"Maybe later, I must leave." With that naruto poofed into smoke, revealing he was a shadow clone.
'Hmm, he knows Kage bushin no jutsu, I have a feeling this will end either very good, or very, very bad. '
XXXX
2 days later.
Iruka had heard that naruto Uzumaki was to be taking the genin exam, he didn't really know the boy, he had heard that he was dead after a gang claimed to have scared him out of the village 6 years ago, he was even at the party where most the village enjoyed not having to deal with the 'demon brat' anymore. Though, Iruka had asked Sarutobi about the issue of naruto, and Sarutobi had told him this 'Some people cannot see the difference between a kunai holder and a kunai itself. A kunai holder is not a weapon, a kunai is.' Iruka was starting to understand the metaphor, though he still did not think that the boy with no ninja training was going to be able to pass the genin test. With 26 people in the class, it would make choosing teams easier if there were 27, at least something good came out of it.
Iruka was pulled out of his thoughts when students started flooding into the room for their test. The first in walked up to him, Iruka did not recognize the individual. He wore some kind of tribal fox hunter nin mask.
"Hello Iruka-san, I am naruto Uzumaki, I trust you know why I am here."
In response Iruka simply nodded and suggested for naruto to take a seat, naruto did so at the back of the class. Getting a better look whilst naruto walked away, Iruka noticed the boy's physique; he was easily the tallest of the students, standing at around 5'7. He looked to be around 15 years old, even though he was only 12. Not only that but he walked with complete confidence, the walk was very laid back, but still commanding. The chunin was instantly reminded of a young kakashi hatake.
Naruto sat at the top of class, and just watched over his potential teammates, it disgusted him, 80% of them were some emo's fan girls, and the other 20% were either lazy, cocky, assholes, or a combination of each. Naruto thought back on how much work it had taken for him to become as strong as he currently is. He had been training nonstop for the past 6 years, honing his particular skill set so he could live the life of a powerful shinobi. Naruto's thoughts were interrupted by a pink haired banshee screeching.
"NO ILL SIT BESIDE SASUKE-KUN INO-PIG"
"IN YOUR DREAMS BILLBOARD-BROW"
Annoyed at the banshees naruto leaked out a small bit of his killing intent, silencing the girls and getting the attention of everyone in the room.
"Please, Stop, Yelling". Naruto stated clearly what he wanted; he was actually just trying to see what kind of reactions he could get out of his pitiful classmates.
A general thought of 'who the Fuck'ing Fuck is that' was the general thought.
"QUITE EVERYONE!" Iruka brought attention back from the distraught class. "I will now start handing out the written portion of the exam.
40 minutes later everyone was done the first part of the exam
"Now for the next part of the exam, ninjutsu, first we have…"
After everyone finished their ninjutsu it was Naruto's turn, he was last.
"and lastly we have Naruto Uzumaki" Mizuki, the other chunin instructed, said the name as if it physically hurt him
Everyone perked up, realizing that Naruto was not a familiar name, meaning the stranger leaning against the wall at the back of the class must be him. Their thoughts were confirmed when naruto stood from his leaning position and headed to the front of the class.
'Wow, he's tall' a young blonde Ino noticed.
"he looks troublesome" a classic pineapple haired Shikamaru remarked.
"Alright Naruto, please henge into the Hokage."
Naruto did as told and turned into a perfect replica of his surrogate grandfather.
"Good, now please create at least 2 bushin".
Naruto created 2 Kage bushin, because he didn't know how to simply make bushin.
"You all pass! You will all need to be here in 1 week for team orientation, see you then" Iruka said with a smirk.
XXX 1 week later,
For the last week naruto had continued training with Kage bushin, something he had learned during his travels in the past 6 years. He would training with about 500 at a time, he could make more if he wanted to, but he found that 500 was plenty, considering that theoretically it made him train 500x faster in his chakra control and jutsu use.
Though naruto trained himself physically through the use of resistance seals he placed on himself, he learned how to do this after reading a book he found in kumo, "Intermediate seals 2 by Minito Kamikaze. Naruto recognized the author as the yondaime hokage of Konoha, and the man that sealed the 9 tails inside of him. Yes naruto knew of the 9 tails, but it was his mother that gave him his power, the uzumaki clan was known for being Jinchuuricki, and he being able to harness the youki (demon chakra) of the fox is why he has a specific bloodline, his very own time space jutsu.
Naruto still wondered who his father was, maybe he'd find out one day.
After Naruto yes usual physical exercise of 3 hours, he stood up and reached his hand out.
"MUKO (VOID)"naruto whispered, as he did a black circle appeared on the ground, it looked like a black hole, a scroll shot up into his hand and the hole closed. Naruto unsealed the now recognizable as a containment seal, he now held a small plate of sorts with rice and fish on it. He ate and pondered who might be on his team.
'They're all useless; though I guess I can't expect them to be at my level… even so maybe I will be able to make a friend or 2?'
'ya right naruto, these kids will probably treat you like everyone in this village already has, I don't see why we had to come back'. Kyuubi snarled.
'You're probably right, but I won't know unless I try.' With that the masked boy stood and started his journey back to the academy, to find out what dead weight he was going to have to pull around.
XXXX 1 hour later – at the academy
"ALRIGHT CLASS, now I will reveal your teams and jonin instructors, team one.." Iruka talked in a loud tone, it annoyed naruto.
Said blonde was now just eating another plate of rice well he listened for his name.
"Team 7, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, an-"Iruka was stopped by a screeching pinkette.
"YESSSSS, IN YOUR FACE INOO PIGGG". Sakura screamed so loud it gave naruto an instant headache.
"Alright calm down, and lastly on team 7, Kiba Inuzuka, your jonin sensei will be Kakashi Hatake, good luck"
Some dog smelling kid stood up next and, to Naruto's bane, he also screamed "I HAVE TO BE ON A TEAM WITH THAT THING AND THE EMO-KING, THIS IS RIDICULOUS".
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT SASUKE-KUN LIKE THA-"The screeching pinkette was cut off by the chunin at the front of class.
"QUITE DOWWNNN!" Iruka was really not upset to be moving on from this class "Alright now, team 8, Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, and lastly Naruto Uzumaki, your jonin sensei will be Kurenai yuuhi, good luck. Next is team 10, Nara Shikamaru, Ino Yakama, Chouji akamachi, your jonin sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi, Good luck to you all, I hope you use the skills you have learned here to become splendid ninja, Your jonin sensei's will arrive shortly".
After a short wait, Naruto's sensei arrived. Naruto's team had pleased him, he was with 2 antisocial people, meaning they would most likely not bother him 2 much, if he would have been with that banshee he probably would've slaughtered her.
Their sensei brought them to a training field and sat them down before she spoke.
"Hello! I will be your jonin sensei, why don't we tell each other something about ourselves, you, Hyuuga, you go first" Kurenai had not yet stopped smiling.
"u-um o-ok, I-i-I am Hinata Hyuuga, I like t-to train. And cook, and i dislike my families need to have a main branch and lesser branch. I hope to one day be a good shinobi, and a strong heir to clan head".
"ok now you, with the glasses"
"I am shino Aburame, I like the colony, I don't like when people kill bugs, I want to be clan head and have my own colony" as the young Aburame spoke bugs crawled around his face, making most uneasy about the mysterious shinobi.
"O… Kay.. Now you, blondy"
"I am naruto Uzumaki, I like training, I dislike arrogance, and I wish to someday be the most powerful ninja in the history of time".
"WOW, quite the ambition.. ok then, Ill meet you guys here tomorrow for our first mission, 9:00, see you then". Kurenai smile as she thought to herself, 'so that's the kyuubi kid huh? Well he does seem very large for his age, maybe he has a decent about of ability, then I can school Asuma's bunch with mine, mwhahahaha'.
The team dispersed without talking, they proved to have little to no interest in getting together after their discussion, and they just walked away. As they walked away, naruto turned into a puff of smoke, revealing he was simply a clone.
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For the next week the team did D rank missions and trained, when they sparred they were all even, though no one had yet to land a hit on naruto, he always just seemed bored, he would rarely attack, he would just pivot and dodge attacks like they were nothing. The teams did start to bond though, not often, but sometimes they would throw around a casual hello, and goodbye, or a how are you.
All together Kurenai was very pleased with the team's inability to complain about doing so many D ranked missions.
XXXX
Naruto sat in a tree watching his clones try to mix together shushin with his space time jutsu, then he got the memories of one of his clones, he smiled and set off into the forest.
XXXX In the forest
2 men stood looking at each other; one was recognizable as Iruka, and the other as mizuki, the 2 chunin instructors at the academy. Mizuki had injured Iruka quite abit, and was holding some sort of giant scroll.
"Mizuki, how could you betray the village?" Iruka shouted, blood pouring out of his mouth, a large shurikan sticking from the right side of his chest.
"Easy, I needed power, and now I have it. With this scroll I can-" mizuki was cut off by a fist hitting his face.
A new figure now held the scroll, a masked blond boy.
"Naruto, thank god you're here". Iruka smiled knowing he was saved, and so was the forbidden scroll of sealing.
"You Demon-Brat, how dare you sneak up on me, I'll kill you" Mizuki spat as he regained his footing.
"I don't think so" was Naruto's rebuttal.
"PSHH, U THINK U CAN BEAT ME, UR JUST A GENIN". Mizuki then threw one of his huge shuriken at the young blonde, in a flash the blonde move to the side and revealed his tanto, he then stabbed through the open space of the shuriken, twisting his body he sent the weapon straight back at mizuki.
"shi-" was all mizuki could say as his own weapon ripped him in 2. Blood splatter over the young shinobi as he smiled beneath his mask, it was his first ninja kill.
"Good job, n-naruto" Iruka smile, still bleeding profusely
Naruto popped a clone into existence and gave him the scroll; he then picked up Iruka and sped off towards the village.
XXXX- hokage's office hours later.
"-and then naruto showed up, saving me and the scroll" Iruka panted out the last of his story well being treated by the nurses that now accompanied him.
Sarutobi smile and looked over at the blonde in the room, beside him stood his jonin sensei, Kurenai.
"from there on I simply killed the traitor and took the scroll ojii-san" naruto said, grinning under his mask, if there was 1 reason he hadn't slaughter everyone in Konoha yet, it was his surrogate grandfather.
"ok, Iruka please go to the hospital, naruto you are free to go, here is your pay, this will count as a B ranked mission, thank you"
Naruto took the money and again was smiling under his mask 'this will set the tone' with that naruto handed back the money "I think I'll get boss to come by and get it tomorrow" with that the blonde saluted and puff into smoke.
"A… shadow clone. One of Naruto's clones defeated mizuki?" Iruka and Sarutobi were stunned.
'How strong have you become, naruto-kun, and how faithful are you still to this village' the professor thought as he sat back at his desk, paperwork piled high, he let out a pleading sigh, 'troublesome'.