A lone boy running through the forest with tears in his eyes. Looking back at what had transpired with shinobi hot on his trail. He was used to running...but not like this. How could everything had gone from being so bad to worse. The only person to openly show affection to him, slain by another man of the same village. The thought was sickening to him. Iruka Umino, Academy Teacher of Konohagakure no Sato, was betrayed and killed by none other than Mizuki, fellow academy teacher. Naruto Uzumaki held on tightly to the scroll, with a few tears streaming down his face. Never so much had he held anyone in so much hate as he did Mizuki.

Earlier That Night

"It's because you are the Nine Tailed Fox!" Mizuki exclaimed while pointing at Naruto. He began to spin a windmill shuriken in his hand and prepared to throw it. "And now, i'm going to do the entire village a favor!" he said as he threw it. "NARUTO GET DOWN!" Iruka screamed and Naruto covered up. Iruka using what ever energy he had left race infront of the intended target taking the shuriken into the base of his neck. He fell to the ground on top of Naruto, dead within seconds from the fatal wound. "Darn it Iruka...Always getting in the way of what needs to be done!" Mizuki fumed. He hadn't planned on Iruka protecting the boy, or anyone for that matter. He reached for another shuriken while Naruto laid there underneath Iruka shocked. His eye's were widened. "I-Iruka Sensei?" he asked out loud. The man's eyes were blank, pain evident on his face. The shuriken stuck half way into the base of his neck, halted by the rest of his neck. Naruto was in shock. Someone had died for him, had died to protect him.

His eyes went blank and he was enveloped by red chakra. "No..." he said. Mizuki was frozen in place by the chakra's appearance. "I knew it...You ARE the demon fox!" he said. He tried to move his body but the anger and hate rolling off of Naruto was physically restraining him. Such an aura of death around the young boy was shocking. "No...no no no no..." he kept repeating while grabbing his head. Naruto's eyes widened as if something snapped in his mind. He let out a loud roar as his features became more feral. "Noooooooooo!" he roared into the night as he gazed upon Mizuki. Something was off. It was as if he was possessed but he still had that look as if he was there still. "You did this...this is all YOUR fault...Mizuki...I'll NEVER forgive you!" he screamed as he raced foward at the young chuunin. "Crap! I can't move..." Mizuki said. It was as if his body was paraylzed by the foxes chakra himself. Suddenly Naruto was upon him with his hand sharpened with claws. He swiped at Mizuki as he willed his body to raise his arms. The slash tore into his arms and knocked him through the tree he was standing on smashing into the one behind it. As his back hit he coughed up blood from the impact.

"Shit...He's too fast." he said as the boy formed a hand seal. "He couldn't have..." he thought to himself. "Tajuu...Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" he said as multiple shadow clones surrounded Mizuki, each with the same feral look as Naruto himself. "Mizuki...I'm going to inflict on you the pain I've felt for many of years...One thousand times over..." The clones closed in on Mizuki as all he could do was scream into the night.

With the body of Mizuki and Iruka on the ground and the scroll before him. Naruto picked it up. "The village, will never acknowledge me...Not if they all know that I am the Nine Tailed Fox...But I can't be the fox...if I was...then." his thoughts trailed off. He looked at the scroll and noticed a few more jutsu within the scroll. "Shiki Fuujin, Hachimon...These look pretty dangerous." he said as he looked through the scroll. "Edo...Tensei. Maybe...Maybe I should try and learn these...he said as he copied some of the techniques down on a peice of paper. He wrote down some of the information and stuck it in his pocket. But, I should at least return the scroll. After that, then I can train." he said as he continued to copy down techniques. After finishing he rolled the scroll up and made his way back to the Hokage Tower.

Present Time

Naruto finally reached his destination. They'll probably want me dead for taking the scroll. As soon as he stepped down multiple shinobi surrounded him with kunai pointing at all his vital spots as Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared. "Lower your weapons...I've seen everything that has happened and Naruto is innocent." he stated. A few shinobi refused to lower wanting to take the boys life then and there, but another command with a little bit of chakra laced into the air got the point across. Any shinobi who disobeyed this order would not live to tale the tale. Naruto dropped the scroll at the elder Hokage's feet. "I'm...I'm sorry Grandpa...I..." Naruto started choking on his words. "Naruto, It's time that we talked..." Hiruzen said while picking up the scroll. He placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder and they walked into the mansion.

Hiruzen directed Naruto to take a seat and Naruto did so while looking at the floor. "It's time you know why I wanted this seceret to be kept." Hiruzen started. "Twelve years ago, during the Kyuubi Attacked, The fourth Hokage fought the beast, sealing it away. He sealed it inside of you, Naruto. You are not the beast itself, just it's container. Many of the villagers and some of the shinobi can't understand this, so they take their anger out on you. I enacted a law, that you were not to be informed of your burden nor should anyone speak of it out loud. But they have found ways around that law, and abuse it to hurt you. For this, I am truely sorry...But I am going to make a new law." Hiruzen inhaled and exhaled at that. "But...I'm just a kid, how could they treat me like this...Why? Why do they hate me so much?" Naruto thought to himself. He looked at the Hokage. "So, the fourth, he just took me away from my family, he just took me from my home and sealed a demon in me?" Naruto asked. He looked very betrayed. His idol and favorite of the Hokage's sans Sarutobi had given him this burden. "Why!?" Naruto yelled. "Why would he hurt me like this..." he wanted to know...and Sarutobi thought about it for a second. 'There's no other way around this I suppose...' he thought before speaking. "Because, Naruto...Who else would a Hokage trust to handle a burden other than his own son." he finished. Naruto's eyes widened at that statement. The fourth...was his father! "His...son?" Naruto was shocked. The villagers were harming the legacy of the man they praised. Oh the irony. A range of emotions flew through the young shinobi's face. Anger, rage, resentment, hate, sadness, hopelessness, then understanding. And the most shocking to the elder Hokage, finalization. As if Naruto himself had come to terms with the situation. "I see..." Naruto said. "Grandpa...I'm going to go home and sleep now...can we finish talking in the morning?" he asked. The Elder Hokage nodded but asked Naruto before he left. "Do you want that law to disappear Naruto?" He asked. Naruto looked back before exiting and silently spoke. "That law has done nothing but made my life hell. I'll never have a normal life any ways. Do what you will with the law, it won't help me either way." he said. Hiruzen took out a headband and tossed it to Naruto. "You've at least earned this Naruto." Hiruzen sighed as Naruto exited after catching the headband and thanking the elder Hokage. "These people don't know what hell they've unleashed. That boy...when he puts his mind to something he's determined."

At Naruto's Apartment.

He walked into his some what messy home. He took out the paper he wrote the techniques on and began to get to work. He had saw a few things in the scroll that had some details of the techniques and how to use them and what uses they could be used for. He read that the Kage Bunshin could be used to gather intellegence and learn things. He formed a single shadow clone and had it read the paper to test it out, and once the clone dispelled, he memorized everything on the paper. "This will be useful for the time to come. I wonder what else I could do with clones." Naruto thought. He removed the head band from his pocket and began to think. "I once wanted them to respect me...and all they do is hate me. I'll never understand these people." he said out loud. 'Maybe it's time I wisened up...I mean, honestly not even Sakura-chan is interested in me. Every fawns over that Uchiha kid...but I'm the son of the Fourth Hokage...No one even knows...Maybe it's time I stopped messing around and got serious about my life.' He thought to himself. He decided that he would have to become smarter, think things through, keep his emotions in check, and trust no one. Maybe a few Leaf Shinobi he could trust, but not the ones who have been cruel to him before. He formed a few Kage Bunshin. "I want you all to go over to the Library and pick up a few books. Read as many as you can and dispell once you've read as many as you can. If you need to transform into someone else as to not raise suspicion. Maybe a group of Shinobi trying to study up at night or something, what ever works for you. Read up on history, tactics, and manners as well." he ordered the clones before crawling into the bed. The clones left with a nod and did as they were told.

"In the morning, once I've memorized all this information, I should try and get some practical use out of it. But for now..." he thought as tears streamed down his eyes. "I don't even think i want to live any more." he thought. He cried himself to sleep that night as the clones did their job. After the dispelled Naruto passed out from the influx of information into his mind. There he would have a meeting with the most deadliest creature to ever walk the earth.