If you've read my first story then you might think this story might not be very good but I hope you'll read it. I've been trying to think of things to add into the story but I couldn't find as good time to add them. This story is not completely different from the last story though the plotline and characters will be different.

AN: This chapter has been revised for younger audiences

Chapter 1: A Lost Soul

It was currently a sunny day with a few clouds in the village of Konohagakure with people everywhere moving about. People were smiling and laughing having a nice time. That was just about what everyone did, be happy and have fun.

But if you looked very closely you could see the form of a male figure around 5"7 feet tall on the top of the Hokage monument. The figure was covered in crimson and black with a cloak covering a lot of the body. He had a black mask on with the symbol of a Nine Tailed Fox and the Konoha leaf. This figure… was Uzumaki Naruto.

Naruto was looking over the village of Konoha with a small frown.

"Nothing of importance here at the moment..." he thought silently and shunshined to the Hokage office.

Hokage Office

The Sandaime was currently sitting in his office reading a report for the latest mission report not looking pleased. Apparently there was word of movements to form a new village near Rice country. He was about to send a chunnin to get some jounin and do a recon mission when a swirl of fire came into the room. In it's place was Naruto crouching on one knee and face down he had taken off his mask. Showing his dull blue eyes to the world.

"There is nothing of notice going on within the market district except for the usual Tora retrieval mission Hokage-sama"

Sarutobi's frown deepened as he stared at the figure in front of him.

"Naruto please... there's no need to call me Hokage-sama when no one's around"

Naruto looked up from the floor and stood up. He bowed.

"I'm sorry Hokage-sama but that would be disrespectful"

Sarutobi sighed. It was like this ever since the incident 9 years.

Flashback

Naruto was 4 years old and walking past the park when he saw a indigo haired girl staring at a white flower in the fields. He saw that she was looking at it longingly and came over.

"Hi there! My name's Naruto Uzumaki!" he said smiling. The girl looked up and blushed.

"A-ano my name is Hinata..." she stuttered out. Naruto looked at her and then the flower.

"Do you want me to get that flower for you?" he asked. Hinata poked her fingers together.

"I-i-it's okay... I just thought that the flower looked pretty" she said shyly. Naruto frowned alittle, but it turned into a smile half a second later.

"Okay then, well then see you later Hinata-chan!" he yelled out as he went off remembering that there was a half off sale for Ichiraku Ramen today and he wanted to get there fast. Hinata just sat there atring at his back when her mother came over.

"Who was that Hinata-chan?" the woman said smiling. Hinata blushed.

"H-he said his name was N-naruto" she said embaressed that her mother saw her with a boy. Her mother smilied and said that he seemed nice. Hinata nodded as she and her mother walked back to the Hyuuga estate. What they didn't notice was a group of people staring menacingly at them seeing them being friendly with the demon.

A few days later Hitoko Hyuuga was found murdered after being attacked by a number of men and then killed while her daughter Hinata watched. After that both Hiashi and Hinata both became cold and distant. Hiashi was not over the loss of his wife and Hinata blamed Naruto for her mother's death.

After a few days Naruto was walking from the Hokage tower when a group of ninja came and took him to an unknown location. For the next 24 hours he was tortured with over half of his body riddled with scars of all kinds. By the time he got to the hospital he was in critical condition and in a coma. Several monthes later when Naruto woke up he refused to talk to anyone. Another month passed and the Sandaime was visited by the child.

"Hokage-sama I want you to train me so I can become stonger" Sarutobi flinched when he heard the dead and cold tone coming from the 4 year old child. He knew what happened was most likely his fault for not finding Naruto sooner so he agreed and taught Naruto for the next 3 years. By the age of 7 Naruto joined the ANBU with the codename "Kitsune". 2 more years later and he was vice commander of his captain's squad. Another year passed before he became a ANBU captain himself. Three years have passed and here he was now, after serving the protocal of the 3 year enrollment into ANBU twice.

Flashback end

Sarutobi looked across his desk and stared at the cold as death face that used to be a bundle of sunshine.

"Naruto I'm sending you on a recon mission in Rice country. Find out whether or not the rumours of a new village are true of not. You will be going with some jounin of my choice in case the village is hostile. You are dismissed"

Naruto nodded and turned to leave. Sarutobi couldn't bear to watch as his pupil left and spoke up.

"And Naruto..." Naruto stopped at the doorway. Sarutobi continued "I just want you to know that no matter what happens you'll aways be a part of Konoha and that I'll want you whenever you need me" Naruto's body stiffened, but he destoryed the once feeble part of his old self and answered in a cold voice.

"Your words are acknowlaged, Hokage-sama" and with that, he left. Sarutobi looked towards the door to see the back of the once most energetic person in Konoha.

In Naruto's Apartment

Naruto packed the necessary materials into a bag for the recon mission he was going on and sealed them into a scroll. He went to his room and unsealed his weapon from a hidden compartment in the wall. He stared at it's brilliance, a spear. He had gotten this from the Hokage for his seventh birthday when he joined the ANBU.

The spear was a good 7 feet with a long sharp blade near the top. A golden dragon curled around the head of the staff with with it's tail as the the end of it. The spear was a dark blue in color and was made of a special material to store chakra and was easily compatible to infuse with chakra.

After he made sure he had everything he strapped his spear to his back. He was about to leave when Sarutobi's words came back to him.

"I just want you to know that no matter what happens you'll aways be a part of Konoha and I'll help you whenever you need me"

Naruto froze. After a while he shook the words off and shunshined to the office.

Hokage Office

Sarutobi was currently sitting behind his desk with 2 jounins in front of him. One has gravity defying hair and a hiate covering his eye. The other was a brown haired man with somethin similar to Nidaime's helmet on him. They were being briefed on their next mission, a recon, when a certain someone made himself known.

"Kakashi, Tenzo, it seems you are to accompany me on this small recon"

Both jounin spun around to see Naruto standing there with a hand on his spear in case of emergency. Sarutobi watched the interaction with interest. Kakshi did his one eyed smile and looked at him.

"Yo Naruto how's it been?" Kakashi asked lifting a hand lazily. Sarutpbo watched to see what Naruto would do next. Naruto showed that he still had some emotions when a frown was edging near his lips.

"Still such a carefree attitude Hatake" he answered back cooly as he observed everything around the room. Seeing no threat, he lowered his hand and did a small bow to the Hokage.

"I trust that we are to leave immediately Hokage-sama?" he asked quietly. Sarutobi just slumped when he saw that Naruto wouldn't change as he had hoped, although he now knew that the old Naruto he knew was still there. He answered hesitantly.

"Yes Naruto, I expect to you all to act accordingly and make sure that you are not caught up in any trouble"

Naruto nodded. He looked over to where Kakashi and Tenzo stood and gave them a hard stare and then a nod. Both understanding, they all shunshined to the North Gate. When they got there, Naruto turned around.

"Okay then the first thing we'll do is make sure we're prepared in case of battle. If any enemies come then the first thing we should do is make sure we can beat them without casualties got it? If not, then I want both of you to get back to Konoha and get reinforcements. I'll hold them off" Naruto told them in a monotone. Both Kakashi and Tenzo knew that they couldn't argue with him after a few missions with him. They nodded and headed out.

It had been a few hours when they sat down to make camp. Naruto was making a fire with a small stream of fire from his hand, watching the fire glow. Kakashi had just gotten back from who knows where reading his book. Tenzo was keeping watch. Naruto looked disapprovingly at the book Kakashi was reading but didn't tell him off.

After eating they all hit the hay and went to sleep. Naruto's eyes were closed, but you could see him squirming here and now.

Naruto was chained to a room in a dark abandoned building with cuts all over his body. He watched the darkness to see the faces of his attackers, but coulnd't make anything out of it. All he heard was their laughter as he was screaming his lungs out. They had gotten tired of cutting him up so a man started making some seals and set his body on fire. The fire was weak so it would spread slowly. Kyuubi's healing factor was healing his burnt skin just for it to be burnt once agiain. They left him like that for a few hours before they got tired of torturing him and took some kunai out. They stabbed him in 5 seperate parts of his body. But before they reached heart, the Hokage appeared in time for them so stop it. When they took the kunai out of his body and put out the fire, he let out a loud and hoarse scream from his abused throat and blacked out.

Naruto woke up in a cold sweat, with his heart beating quickly. He took off his shirt to let his body cool down. showing all of the scars he had collected over a life time. He clenched his hand tightly, as if it were the memory itself in his grasp. A few minutes later he was tired out and was about to go to sleep when he heard a rustling. His eyes narrowed to see into the darkness but didn't see anyone. He woke up his teammates and told them to be on their guard.

A second later some kunai came whizzing towards them. Naruto did a blackflip using the spear strapped to his back as a shield. Both Kakashi and Tenzo had taken out kunai to deflect them. About 70 ninja appeared wearing a headband with a musical note as an insigma. Naruto could tell most were Jounin and ANBU level with a chunnin or two. Naruto knew the odds weren't good. He made eye contact with the 2 men standing behind him. They nodded.

Naruto pulled out his spear in less than a second and began making quick one handed seals. With a shout of "Karyuu Endan" he blew a stream of fire south towards Konoha. The quick ninjutsu had caught some off guard and caught a few of the ninja off guard. The rest jumped out of the way. Quickly taking the opening Tenzo and Kakashi and raced towards Konoha. They knew Naruto could hold his own for now but they knew not for long.

Some of the ninja moved to follow them but with a quick shunshin Naruto appeared in front of them. A nija threw a puch at him but Naruto used his spear to block it, breaking the man's hand. As the man screamed he silenced him with a slash to the throat. Naruto threw an icy glare at all of them.

"If you think I'll let you pass..." He made some hand seals and infused his spear with chakra. He then yelled out "THINK AGAIN!" With a cry he yelled out "Fuuton:Daitoppa!" he sent a large blast of wind toward the ninja with a quick horizontal slice of his spear he sent another wave of wind towards them.

He killed about 15 of the ninjas, leaving many of them injured or missing a limb or two. He watched as the remaining amount of about 59 ninjas left. He watched them circle him and shoved his spear into the ground settling into a stance.

The ninjas charged aiming to kill. One launched a punch towards his head which he dodged and kicked in the chest sending him flying back. Using the momentum to launch himself back he did a round house kick towards a man's head. The man ducked and threw a punch to his landing head. Naruto thrust a hand out and caught the fist in mid-air. Twisting around he kicked the man in the neck, snapping it.

Another ninja came in with a ningato and did a downward slash towards him. Naruto weaved to the left to dodge another swing from a nija behind him. Grabbing both swords with his hands he spun around to lauch the swords into both ninja's neck. A ninja jumped into the air and launched some kunai at him. He threw some kunai of his own so deflect them but noticed the explosion tags. They exploded near him, knocking him back alittle before he regained his footing.

He grabbed his spear and threw it up at the same ninja nailing him in the chest. He jumped into the air and grabbed his spear and rip it out of the dead man's body and used his body to get some distance. With all the ninja's attention on him, they followed him until he reached a cave. He ran into it thinking that it would be easy to kill them all with a good jutsu but they were smart enough to spread out. Sending some kunai into the cave, Naruto dodged them all, with one nicking him on his cheek and the other hitting his left arm.

He grunted as he felt his arm go numb. It seemed that there was a combat medic among them. He cursed as he reached near the end of the cave. Dead End. He watched as the rest sound ninja blocked off the entrance. He saw the lead ninja smirk. He has silver hair and small round glasses. The man sneered.

"What do we have here, a tiny fox trapped in a cave!" the man laughed. Naruto's eyes widened as he finally recognized the man. But keeping his cool he taunted th man into carelessness.

"Well if it isn't Orochimaru's playtoy Kabuto!" He said showing off a fake smile. Kabuto's laugh turned into a frown full of anger. He charged at Naruto with his chakra scalpuls out. Naruto smirked, he was expecting this. Putting his hands into his cloak he pulled out a row of scrolls from inside and lined them into a straight row in the air. He knew that this was his only chance. He put in a large amount of chakra into all of the scrolls and the seals on the scroll glowed. A second later an assortment of dragon techiniques of all kinds were sent flying throughout the whole cave, eliminating all of the remaining ninjas. He knew that amount of chakra should let all of Konoha know that he was there. He slumped down against a cave wall out of chakra and watched as the mouth of the cave was covered in the quickly weakened rock.

A few hours passed and no one came for him, his wounds were not healing due to the large amount of chakra he used, with some of the techniques clashing and combusting, hurting him as well. His vision was fading quickly and his dull blue eyes got even duller. Soon, when he felt that he was about to pass out and felt no one coming for him, he let his body fall to the floor. But before he faded into the darkness, he thought back to when he was leaving the office.

"I just want you to know that no matter what happens you'll aways be a part of Konoha and I'll help you whenever you need me"

His once ever cold eyes was getting a little moist.

"Oji-san... you liar" and with that, he fell into a dark abyss.

I hope you all liked it! I tried to make it a lot better than my first story's beginning and I hope that it was good. I don't know what the story will end up, but this isn't the end.

Ja Ne