Chapter One - Introduction

Naruto stepped over the corpse, drenched in blood. He let the heavenly tears from the sky wash most of it away.

'Why does everyone want me dead?' he wondered, tears streaking his young face.

Naruto knew nothing of what resided within him, but noticed a certain chakra envelope him when he was angry or in danger. It was powerful, but had an evil taint to it. It seemed red.

'Oh well' he thought absentmindedly, 'I'll think about the red chakra later, right now I need some real food.'

Uzumaki Naruto was an eleven-year-old boy. He didn't go to the academy because he couldn't stand the evil glares from the teachers and students. He was well built, though rather lacking in height. He had bright, blond, spiky hair and strange whisker scars on his cheeks. He thought they were cool. He also had piercing blue eyes that seemed to notice everything. He wore a horrid orange jumpsuit because that was the only thing the shopkeepers would sell him at an affordable price. He also had on goggles for kicks. Despite his appearance, Naruto was very skilled, though he didn't show it. He didn't want that kind of attention. He let everyone think he was some retard, though he was smart and strong enough to kill the three Chunin he just did. He trained intensively by himself in taijutsu and using shuriken and kunai. He wasn't able to train in ninjutsu until recently, after the Hokage let him borrow some basic scrolls to study. His ninjutsu knowledge was of that of a low Chunin and his taijutsu was superior to most Chunin. His ability in genjutsu was horrible, though he would practice it all the same. The only person who was aware of his dumb charade was the Hokage, the only person-besides Teuchi and Ayame (Ichiraku people)-decent towards Naruto.

Naruto always wondered that if the most important person in the village is nice to, why is no one else?

Naruto pondered that thought on the way home as he walked. He didn't notice a certain emo as he bumped right into him.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!" exclaimed the emo.

"Sorry…" mumbled Naruto, nervous at meeting someone his age.

"You better respect me, I'm better than you. I go to the academy! You're just a nobody. Uchiha Sasuke doesn't associate with trash like you!"

A vein bulged in Naruto's head. This was getting extremely out-of-hand.

"Lick my shoes you worthless trash!"

"No." said Naruto loudly.

"What!? I'll kill you!!"

Sasuke charged at Naruto with a kunai out. He jumped and threw the kunai. Naruto disappeared before his very eyes and reappeared behind him. He grabbed Sasuke's arms and put them behind his back and kicked him to the ground. He put his foot on Sasuke's head and placed a kunai at his throat.

"Do you want to die?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto and saw a red chakra envelope him and thick whisker marks on his cheeks. He felt sharp nails on his head, but most disconcerting of all were his eyes. They were a deep red, like fire and his pupils…his pupils were slitted like a fox.

"N-no…" stammered the emo. Naruto released him and Sasuke ran screaming monster at the top of his lungs.

'I better go before he attracts to much attention' sighed Naruto as he trudged on him, taking the back alleys.

Naruto made it home without difficulty and changed out of his blood-soaked jumpsuit into another. He then made some miso instant ramen and gulped it down.

'Now to practice my taijutsu'

Naruto was fighting with a dummy he made out of some pillows. He practiced his attacks for 2 hours and moved onto weapons. He took out shurikens and through them at vital points at the dummy. He never missed. Now onto ninjutsu. He could never do Bunshin no Jutsu, no matter how hard he tried, but he could do Kawarimi, Henge, and some other basic ones. He had yet to learn elemental jutsus. Naruto was too exhausted to even think about genjutsu so he lumbered to his bed and collapsed. Another day, over.

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