A/N: This is my first try as author so please forgive me for my silly mistakes.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Talking-"Naruto don't!"
Thinking-'What should I do.'
Biju/Summon talking- "You brat!"
Biju/Summon thinking- 'He's good.'
Jutsu- fire style: fire ball jutsu
P.S. - Story starts when Naruto becomes 4 year old...
Chapter 1: So it begins...
In Konoha-
Today is 10th October, Naruto's birthday, but he wasn't enjoying it one bit. He was just sitting in his room in the orphanage, looking outside his window and thinking.
'Why does everyone hate me so much?'
'Everyone keeps glaring at me and nobody even plays with me.'
As Naruto was thinking these depressing thoughts, someone came inside his room quietly to greet him.
"Hello Naruto-kun, how are you doing my boy", said Sandaime Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.
"Ahh Jiji, don't scare me like that", says Naruto.
"Ha-ha, my boy it's funny to see you like that', Sandaime pauses then says, "Happy birthday Naruto-kun"
"Thanks Jiji, how did you come in without making any sound?" says Naruto
"That's how we shinobi work my boy, silent and precise" says Sandaime.
"Well I am getting bored and I can't do anything other than sitting here" says Naruto
After hearing this Sandaime started feeling guilty, 'If only everyone saw how kind-hearted person you are Naruto-kun'.
"Well Naruto-kun I have got a present for you", says Sandaime.
Naruto gets excited after hearing that and says "What it is Jiji, tell me-tell me! Pleaseee..."
"Have some patience Naruto-kun, I have got a kunai set for you"
"Thanks Jiji, you are the best!"
Naruto admires the kunai (though they were blunt) and after sometime he asks, "Ne, Jiji can we go outside now?"
With heavy heart Sandaime says, "I think we should stay here and celebrate your birthday Naruto-kun"
Naruto understood what his surrogate grand-father was trying to. He was trying to convince him to stay so that he may not have to suffer under the hateful gazes of adults. Depressed after thinking all this, he asks "Jiji, why does everyone hate me so much, what have I done to them anyway, I don't even know them."
After hearing this Sandaime sighs and sits down beside Naruto, puts Naruto head in his lap and starts running his fingers along his blond locks, "People usually hate things which they don't understand Naruto-kun. You haven't done anything wrong to them Naruto-kun, you are the sweetest boy I have known"
"Why don't they understand me?" asks Naruto
"I will tell you when you are a bit mature Naruto-kun"
"I don't understand why the hate me, they even serve me half the amount of food here"
Sandaime was shocked, "What! Why didn't you tell me this earlier?"
"I didn't want to worry you; moreover I also just found it recently. You see I don't eat food with others due to obvious reasons, I eat inside my own room but, after some time I noticed other children were getting about double the food that is served to me. I thought all children got less food due to us being more or less freeloaders, but I was wrong it was only me."
After hearing this Sandaime was very angry and started feeling guilty, 'Oh! How could have failed you so badly Naruto-kun, Minato-kun please forgive this old man'
"Naruto from tomorrow you will live in your own apartment; I will have some of my trusted ANBU watch over you."
Naruto didn't say anything he just nodded his head and fell asleep in Sandaime's lap. Sandaime tucked Naruto in and let him sleep.
'He suffered so much for my foolishness, Naruto-kun may look outspoken but actually he's very shy in nature, I should have known. I will redeem myself and do what's right for him'
Next day when Naruto woke up he found himself staring at an unfamiliar ceiling. He looked around the room and checked out the whole place, 'is this the new apartment that Jiji talked about, it looks really nice'.
Then Naruto sensed some one behind him...
"So what do think about your new apartment Naruto-kun?" asked Sandaime
"It's very good, thank you for this apartment Jiji."
"Ha-ha! Don't thank me my boy, take it as an extra birthday present" replied Sandaime.
"So will stay here and play with me" Naruto said hopefully.
'I sometimes fear that the loneliness of Naruto-kun will consume him one day. I need to do something so that keep his mind busy, what to do-what to do? Hmmm..." thought Sandaime.
"Sorry Naruto-kun but I am very busy, but I can talk to you for a while"
"Okay...!" says Naruto.
"What do you want to become Naruto-kun?"
"I want to be a strong Shinobi just like you, so that every on respects me and if I am able to become like you they would have to take me seriously" says Naruto in an excited and determined manner.
"So...you want to be a shinobi hmm...then tell me what do you think shinobi are?"
"Ahh...What kind of question is that, shinobi are those people that can do those amazing jutsus"
Sandaime smiles at him then says, "Naruto-kun come with me"
Then Sandaime takes Naruto to his office and both of them stand in front of his office window.
"Naruto-kun what do you see from here?" asks Sandaime
"Ahh... I see our village Konoha"
"Is that all you see?" asks Sandaime at the same time ignites his pipe filled with tobacco.
"I see some shinobi helping people and some of them running over the Konoha wall as well."
"Very good, you see Naruto-kun those shinobi are on D-rank mission to help people in market and those running on wall are on C-rank mission to alert the village if they find any threat outside Konoha walls, ultimately we as shinobi serve people of Konoha" said Sandaime
"Even those that hate you" asks Naruto.
"Yes Naruto even those that hate you" says Sandaime.
"Even you serve people that hate you" asks Naruto
"Yes Naruto-kun, even if no one shows it openly, there are people who even hate me" replied Sandaime
"But what if adults don't like it if I become a shinobi of Konoha" asks Naruto.
"Then change their mind by showing your worth by protecting them and ultimately proving yourself to them." says Sandaime.
"Do you think I can do it" asks Naruto...
"If you put your mind into it then yes it is possible" says Sandaime
"Then I will try my best to become a true shinobi" replied Naruto.
"Here Naruto-kun take this" says Sandaime giving him a book
"What it is it?" asks Naruto
"This is my personal journal from the time I become a shinobi to the day I became the Hokage. It will help you to understand what it means to be a shinobi and also answer few of your questions" says Sandaime, 'I hope you will read it whenever you start feeling lonely'
"Does it have any powerful jutsu described in it" asked Naruto.
"Well, certainly there are some" replied Sandaime
"Yatta! Thanks Jiji" exclaimed Naruto
After saying that Naruto ran out of the office towards his own apartment, leaving Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen to his own thoughts
'I can't do much for you Naruto-kun please forgive me, I hope you achieve you dream Naruto-kun and from now on I will be there to guide you' ,thought Sandaime while looking at the village from the window and seeing the setting sun paint the sky in red hue.
In the apartment Naruto immediately started reading the journal of the strongest person he knew
"I am Sarutobi Hiruzen of the Sarutobi clan born in the Warring Clan Era..."
And thus started the journey of Naruto Uzumaki who is guided by the person he admires the most to become a Shinobi.
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