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Naruto the Great:
Summary: What if Naruto woke up one day when he was younger and saw that the only way to stop people from hating him was to get strong and strove early on to reach that goal of strength? How would this affect the others? Read to find out.
Prologue:
'Those stares, those hateful stares, I've known them all my life. They follow me everywhere I go. Well today I'm going to change that.' A tiny 5- year-old Naruto thought while he lay awake in his bed, after another horrible day of being cursed, insulted, and bullied. 'I see how they respect strength. They especially admire the strength of the Hokage, the most powerful of the shinobi of our village. I will gain that strength and with it the admiration of all the villagers.'
'Tomorrow I will start on my way to changing those stares around. Tomorrow I become strong...'
* * * * *
In the morning he woke up and sat down to a breakfast of chicken ramen and old milk. 'I can't wait to 'come strong. Well I better get started.'
Naruto stepped outside and only after the door slammed shut behind him did he realize something.
"I ain't got no key!!!" Naruto shouted while turning with dread towards his door. "Hmm, I guess I could jump through the window, but I don't have enough money to pay for the cost. Well, no choice then. Off to the old man's place. He'll open the door for me. He has a key." Naruto didn't stop at all to wonder how or why the Hokage had a key to his apartment.
* * * * *
Naruto arrived at the door to the Hokage's office with a torn shirt, dirty shorts, and shredded sandals. Needless to say Naruto met a few villagers that preferred to demonstrate their hate rather than just whisper about it as he passed.
"I'm here to see the old man. Let me in, you mask wearing freak." Naruto declared loudly to the Anbu outside the Hokage's door.
"Lord Hokage doesn't have time for brat's especially not a demon spawn brat like yourself." The Anbu replied coolly.
"Demon?"
"That's enough right there." The Hokage spoke breaking the argument between the 2. "Naruto you wanted to see me?"
"Yes, old man. But this baka here didn't want me to." He said pointing at the guard, "And he called me a demon spawn." Naruto finished bubbling over with tears.
"Did he now?" The Hokage said with a quirk of his eyebrow towards the guard. "Well Naruto how about you go into my office. I'll be in there in just a sec."
"Explain."
"Sir, how can you stand being around that... that... thing." The guard said searching for a word. "You know that you're the only one who even can stand that demon."
"That demon, as you call him, is a hero for our village." The third said calmly yet at the same time, almost angrily, "Would you rather the demon had been sealed in you or your child? I'll have you know that this demon of yours is far more innocent than ¾ of the villagers that hate him, including yourself."
"I... I never that of it that way, sir." The Anbu mumbled quietly.
"Yes, well that hardly makes it any better. As of now I have stripped you of your Anbu title and your Jounin level. Remember this and make certain to help others to do so as well." The third said almost as though speaking to a 3-year-old. "Now leave."
"Yes sir." And the Anbu was gone in a wave of smoke.
The third sighed and entered his office...
Naruto was standing in front of the Hokage's desk looking a little lost. He didn't look back as the Hokage entered. In fact he didn't look up from the floor until the third had taken a seat at his desk.
"Now Naruto what was you wanted to see me about?"
"Um, well, I came here for 2 things actually. I came first to ask you why all the villagers call me a... a... a DEMON!!!"
The third looked down and sighed trying best to put into words why the villagers feared and hated the boy without hurting him. He finally settled on just telling the truth, for the most part.
"The villagers fear you for something beyond your control." He started. "But before I explain, do you know what the Kyubii is?"
"Yes, he was a horrible demon that attacked our village 5 years ago."
"Good, that saves some time. I assume then you heard that the Yondaime defeated the monster." The third inquired.
"Yes, sir." Naruto responded, being polite for once.
"Well then here is the truth. The Yondaime was incapable of fully defeating the monster so he was left with one last choice. To seal it in a newborn child." Hokage sighed then prepared to continue "He chose to seal the Kyuubi inside you. Now all the villagers see you not as human who has bravely taken on the task of managing the demon, but rather as the demon itself. Do you understand?'
"I, guess so, sir,"
"Good, and so you know the other kids don't about this, so it would be wise not to mention it." Then the third remembered that Naruto had come for another reason as well. "Now, please tell your other reason for coming to see me, and right now I will tell you that I will not buy you ramen."
"Oh! Oh, that isn't why I came. I came to ask you how best to go about becoming strong. I, I figured you would know best being the strongest shinobi around."
"Oh, that's not quite what I expected. Hmm, how to start. How about first, do you know how to read?"
"Yes sir I started learning last year."
"Good that makes things easier." The third started to think where to start the boy "I have an idea how about I teach the basics of being a shinobi and you can teach yourself from there. How does that sound."
"Alright!!!" Naruto shouted leaping up, "Umm, when do we start, sir?"
"Tomorrow at 5 AM." Upon seeing the look in Naruto's eyes he quickly added "It's the only time of the day I know I am free everyday." Naruto still didn't look happy "Plus all the best ninjas get up early." This made Naruto's face light up.
"Ok, old man, I'll be there."
"Good, well then if that's all you want. I'll see you tomorrow." The third spoke a farewell and Naruto left. "He's already heading down the road his father had wanted. This should prove interesting..." the third thought aloud.
*** Next day 5 Am ***
"Good morning, Naruto-kun" The third spoke cheerfully.
"Mf" Naruto grumbled back.
"I see this morning routine might take a while to get used to."
"Mf" Naruto mumbled back again.
"Very well. Now let's begin with some hand-to-hand lessons. After 3 months of that, I will start you on shuriken and kunai practice. Depending on how you do from there I will teach you how to manipulate your chakra and use it to do jutsus. Now let's begin.
Three hours later saw an exhausted Naruto and an amused Hokage. Naruto had been practicing all the basics of hand-to-hand for the whole morning on a tree stump and was hurting all over.
"Now that's enough for today, Naruto." The Hokage said "You should probably go home, take a bath, and sleep for awhile."
"Aw, man how am I ever going to get strong if I can't even do this for more than 3 hours." Naruto complained.
"Don't worry. The more you do this the less draining this will become. Now go home." So Naruto did just that, although he stumbled all the way.
Once inside his house he slowly, painfully stripped down and slipped into his bathtub.
"I've started down the road to strength and recognition. Nothing can stop me now."
*** 3 hours later ***
Naruto had finished his bath and had just woken up from a 2-hour nap. He decided to go to the library and read up on hand-to-hand combat so that he could impress the old man tomorrow.
At the library Naruto went straight to the section he needed and began to read. He didn't stop until the sun began set. He quickly ran home and got into bed early for an early awaking the next day.
This routine he continued for the next 3 months...
*** 3 months later ***
"Very good, Naruto-kun. You have come far these past 3 months, further than I expected." The third praised Naruto after he had executed a complicated kata, flawlessly. "Today you begin to learn the art of throwing shurikens and kunais."
"But, Old Man, I didn't bring any of those with me. How am I going to practice?"
"Don't worry, little one. I brought some for you." The third spoke while revealing a pouch of shuriken and another of kunai. He then launched into an explanation of how and when to use the weapons.
Naruto practiced past their usual ending time, 8 o'clock, when the Hokage left. He practiced all the way 'til dark when he fell asleep outside.
He awoke with a start when he saw a young girl looking down on him. He quickly leaped up and jumped away from her.
"Oh, yo... you're a.. alive, I wa.. was worried." The girl stuttered.
"Yes, of course. Why wouldn't I be?" Naruto asked confused.
"Be... because you, you were on the ground out here." The girl answered shyly.
"Yes, well I was, I was looking at the stars" Naruto lied, he wanted to keep his training secret.
"Um, are you te-telling the truth. Because I- I never heard of stars that hurt you." She said eyeing his wounds.
"Um, well actually I was training. Say, what are you doing outside at this time."
"Oh, oh we-well it's 9 AM which is the time I always take walks at," she replied. Naruto was shocked, he thought that it was earlier than that.
"Oops, oh well. I guess the old man just didn't see any reason to wake me," Naruto murmured to himself.
"Excuse me, bu-but what's your name?" She asked shyly, Naruto looked up and studied her. She had short blue hair, a slight build, and strange pupiless eyes, he decided that she seemed all right to trust.
"My name is Naruto the Great, the future Hokage." He proclaimed proudly. "What's your name?"
"My-my name is Hyuuga Hinata." She answered quietly.
'Hyuuga, eh? I read about them in one of the books at the library. They are supposed to be the most powerful clan in Konoha. She might actually make a good friend.' Naruto thought.
"You want to be my friend?" Naruto asked the question only a little kid could ask without feeling weird.
"Su-sure, Naruto-kun." Hinata answered, thus starting a friendship that would help both of them to reach new strengths.
The third watched all of this from his crystal ball and was glad that he had left Naruto to sleep.
For the next six months Naruto would train with his weapons until eight. Run home, take a bath, and then meet Hinata for her daily walk at 9.
The two best friends started to train together during her walk. Naruto began to learn better ways to defend while she learned how to better attack.
They used only taijutsu until Naruto reached his 6th birthday and began to learn about chakra. The third trained him by teaching him to climb trees without his hands. After that both Hinata and Naruto would spend time climbing trees together and looking up jutsus in the library.
This continued until the third told Naruto when he turned eight that he had learned all the basics soundly and was ready to teach himself the rest for the time being. And so Naruto did just that.
He had entered the academy at age 7 and cut class to go train on his own or go to the library so often that he had ended up at the bottom of his class. Most people considered a stupid punk. Yet despite what others thought he proved in the final exam that he was indeed worthy of being a shinobi, but was still the lowest in the class, the dobe.
"Well, Hinata, tomorrow we get our new teams and begin to train with others." Naruto began while he and Hinata sat on top of his apartment complex "But, I promise you that I will come by as often as I can."
"And I promise that I will see you as much as I can too, Naruto-kun," Hinata spoke without a single stutter, Naruto was the only person that she felt calm around and therefore was the only person she didn't stutter around.
"Well then it's a promise. See you tomorrow, bye." Naruto said in farewell, leaping down to the ground, making a dull thud due to the large number of weights he wore, and then entered the complex.
"Bye, Naruto-kun," Hinata spoke softly.
AN: Well this is the prologue. I hope you enjoyed it or are at the very least interested. Let me know if I had any blatant errors. Flamers, when relevant, are accepted. This is hopefully going to be a NaruHina fic. Until next time.
Naruto the Great:
Summary: What if Naruto woke up one day when he was younger and saw that the only way to stop people from hating him was to get strong and strove early on to reach that goal of strength? How would this affect the others? Read to find out.
Prologue:
'Those stares, those hateful stares, I've known them all my life. They follow me everywhere I go. Well today I'm going to change that.' A tiny 5- year-old Naruto thought while he lay awake in his bed, after another horrible day of being cursed, insulted, and bullied. 'I see how they respect strength. They especially admire the strength of the Hokage, the most powerful of the shinobi of our village. I will gain that strength and with it the admiration of all the villagers.'
'Tomorrow I will start on my way to changing those stares around. Tomorrow I become strong...'
* * * * *
In the morning he woke up and sat down to a breakfast of chicken ramen and old milk. 'I can't wait to 'come strong. Well I better get started.'
Naruto stepped outside and only after the door slammed shut behind him did he realize something.
"I ain't got no key!!!" Naruto shouted while turning with dread towards his door. "Hmm, I guess I could jump through the window, but I don't have enough money to pay for the cost. Well, no choice then. Off to the old man's place. He'll open the door for me. He has a key." Naruto didn't stop at all to wonder how or why the Hokage had a key to his apartment.
* * * * *
Naruto arrived at the door to the Hokage's office with a torn shirt, dirty shorts, and shredded sandals. Needless to say Naruto met a few villagers that preferred to demonstrate their hate rather than just whisper about it as he passed.
"I'm here to see the old man. Let me in, you mask wearing freak." Naruto declared loudly to the Anbu outside the Hokage's door.
"Lord Hokage doesn't have time for brat's especially not a demon spawn brat like yourself." The Anbu replied coolly.
"Demon?"
"That's enough right there." The Hokage spoke breaking the argument between the 2. "Naruto you wanted to see me?"
"Yes, old man. But this baka here didn't want me to." He said pointing at the guard, "And he called me a demon spawn." Naruto finished bubbling over with tears.
"Did he now?" The Hokage said with a quirk of his eyebrow towards the guard. "Well Naruto how about you go into my office. I'll be in there in just a sec."
"Explain."
"Sir, how can you stand being around that... that... thing." The guard said searching for a word. "You know that you're the only one who even can stand that demon."
"That demon, as you call him, is a hero for our village." The third said calmly yet at the same time, almost angrily, "Would you rather the demon had been sealed in you or your child? I'll have you know that this demon of yours is far more innocent than ¾ of the villagers that hate him, including yourself."
"I... I never that of it that way, sir." The Anbu mumbled quietly.
"Yes, well that hardly makes it any better. As of now I have stripped you of your Anbu title and your Jounin level. Remember this and make certain to help others to do so as well." The third said almost as though speaking to a 3-year-old. "Now leave."
"Yes sir." And the Anbu was gone in a wave of smoke.
The third sighed and entered his office...
Naruto was standing in front of the Hokage's desk looking a little lost. He didn't look back as the Hokage entered. In fact he didn't look up from the floor until the third had taken a seat at his desk.
"Now Naruto what was you wanted to see me about?"
"Um, well, I came here for 2 things actually. I came first to ask you why all the villagers call me a... a... a DEMON!!!"
The third looked down and sighed trying best to put into words why the villagers feared and hated the boy without hurting him. He finally settled on just telling the truth, for the most part.
"The villagers fear you for something beyond your control." He started. "But before I explain, do you know what the Kyubii is?"
"Yes, he was a horrible demon that attacked our village 5 years ago."
"Good, that saves some time. I assume then you heard that the Yondaime defeated the monster." The third inquired.
"Yes, sir." Naruto responded, being polite for once.
"Well then here is the truth. The Yondaime was incapable of fully defeating the monster so he was left with one last choice. To seal it in a newborn child." Hokage sighed then prepared to continue "He chose to seal the Kyuubi inside you. Now all the villagers see you not as human who has bravely taken on the task of managing the demon, but rather as the demon itself. Do you understand?'
"I, guess so, sir,"
"Good, and so you know the other kids don't about this, so it would be wise not to mention it." Then the third remembered that Naruto had come for another reason as well. "Now, please tell your other reason for coming to see me, and right now I will tell you that I will not buy you ramen."
"Oh! Oh, that isn't why I came. I came to ask you how best to go about becoming strong. I, I figured you would know best being the strongest shinobi around."
"Oh, that's not quite what I expected. Hmm, how to start. How about first, do you know how to read?"
"Yes sir I started learning last year."
"Good that makes things easier." The third started to think where to start the boy "I have an idea how about I teach the basics of being a shinobi and you can teach yourself from there. How does that sound."
"Alright!!!" Naruto shouted leaping up, "Umm, when do we start, sir?"
"Tomorrow at 5 AM." Upon seeing the look in Naruto's eyes he quickly added "It's the only time of the day I know I am free everyday." Naruto still didn't look happy "Plus all the best ninjas get up early." This made Naruto's face light up.
"Ok, old man, I'll be there."
"Good, well then if that's all you want. I'll see you tomorrow." The third spoke a farewell and Naruto left. "He's already heading down the road his father had wanted. This should prove interesting..." the third thought aloud.
*** Next day 5 Am ***
"Good morning, Naruto-kun" The third spoke cheerfully.
"Mf" Naruto grumbled back.
"I see this morning routine might take a while to get used to."
"Mf" Naruto mumbled back again.
"Very well. Now let's begin with some hand-to-hand lessons. After 3 months of that, I will start you on shuriken and kunai practice. Depending on how you do from there I will teach you how to manipulate your chakra and use it to do jutsus. Now let's begin.
Three hours later saw an exhausted Naruto and an amused Hokage. Naruto had been practicing all the basics of hand-to-hand for the whole morning on a tree stump and was hurting all over.
"Now that's enough for today, Naruto." The Hokage said "You should probably go home, take a bath, and sleep for awhile."
"Aw, man how am I ever going to get strong if I can't even do this for more than 3 hours." Naruto complained.
"Don't worry. The more you do this the less draining this will become. Now go home." So Naruto did just that, although he stumbled all the way.
Once inside his house he slowly, painfully stripped down and slipped into his bathtub.
"I've started down the road to strength and recognition. Nothing can stop me now."
*** 3 hours later ***
Naruto had finished his bath and had just woken up from a 2-hour nap. He decided to go to the library and read up on hand-to-hand combat so that he could impress the old man tomorrow.
At the library Naruto went straight to the section he needed and began to read. He didn't stop until the sun began set. He quickly ran home and got into bed early for an early awaking the next day.
This routine he continued for the next 3 months...
*** 3 months later ***
"Very good, Naruto-kun. You have come far these past 3 months, further than I expected." The third praised Naruto after he had executed a complicated kata, flawlessly. "Today you begin to learn the art of throwing shurikens and kunais."
"But, Old Man, I didn't bring any of those with me. How am I going to practice?"
"Don't worry, little one. I brought some for you." The third spoke while revealing a pouch of shuriken and another of kunai. He then launched into an explanation of how and when to use the weapons.
Naruto practiced past their usual ending time, 8 o'clock, when the Hokage left. He practiced all the way 'til dark when he fell asleep outside.
He awoke with a start when he saw a young girl looking down on him. He quickly leaped up and jumped away from her.
"Oh, yo... you're a.. alive, I wa.. was worried." The girl stuttered.
"Yes, of course. Why wouldn't I be?" Naruto asked confused.
"Be... because you, you were on the ground out here." The girl answered shyly.
"Yes, well I was, I was looking at the stars" Naruto lied, he wanted to keep his training secret.
"Um, are you te-telling the truth. Because I- I never heard of stars that hurt you." She said eyeing his wounds.
"Um, well actually I was training. Say, what are you doing outside at this time."
"Oh, oh we-well it's 9 AM which is the time I always take walks at," she replied. Naruto was shocked, he thought that it was earlier than that.
"Oops, oh well. I guess the old man just didn't see any reason to wake me," Naruto murmured to himself.
"Excuse me, bu-but what's your name?" She asked shyly, Naruto looked up and studied her. She had short blue hair, a slight build, and strange pupiless eyes, he decided that she seemed all right to trust.
"My name is Naruto the Great, the future Hokage." He proclaimed proudly. "What's your name?"
"My-my name is Hyuuga Hinata." She answered quietly.
'Hyuuga, eh? I read about them in one of the books at the library. They are supposed to be the most powerful clan in Konoha. She might actually make a good friend.' Naruto thought.
"You want to be my friend?" Naruto asked the question only a little kid could ask without feeling weird.
"Su-sure, Naruto-kun." Hinata answered, thus starting a friendship that would help both of them to reach new strengths.
The third watched all of this from his crystal ball and was glad that he had left Naruto to sleep.
For the next six months Naruto would train with his weapons until eight. Run home, take a bath, and then meet Hinata for her daily walk at 9.
The two best friends started to train together during her walk. Naruto began to learn better ways to defend while she learned how to better attack.
They used only taijutsu until Naruto reached his 6th birthday and began to learn about chakra. The third trained him by teaching him to climb trees without his hands. After that both Hinata and Naruto would spend time climbing trees together and looking up jutsus in the library.
This continued until the third told Naruto when he turned eight that he had learned all the basics soundly and was ready to teach himself the rest for the time being. And so Naruto did just that.
He had entered the academy at age 7 and cut class to go train on his own or go to the library so often that he had ended up at the bottom of his class. Most people considered a stupid punk. Yet despite what others thought he proved in the final exam that he was indeed worthy of being a shinobi, but was still the lowest in the class, the dobe.
"Well, Hinata, tomorrow we get our new teams and begin to train with others." Naruto began while he and Hinata sat on top of his apartment complex "But, I promise you that I will come by as often as I can."
"And I promise that I will see you as much as I can too, Naruto-kun," Hinata spoke without a single stutter, Naruto was the only person that she felt calm around and therefore was the only person she didn't stutter around.
"Well then it's a promise. See you tomorrow, bye." Naruto said in farewell, leaping down to the ground, making a dull thud due to the large number of weights he wore, and then entered the complex.
"Bye, Naruto-kun," Hinata spoke softly.
AN: Well this is the prologue. I hope you enjoyed it or are at the very least interested. Let me know if I had any blatant errors. Flamers, when relevant, are accepted. This is hopefully going to be a NaruHina fic. Until next time.