Welcome to the first chapter of my first Fan Fiction. Be careful because this first chapter is a dozy. I promise that my future chapters will not be as long as this one. The reason that this one is so long is that i wanted everyone to get into my mindset so that everyone knew where my thoughts were for this story. I know this is a lot of information to take in so take your time reading it. If you happen to find any errors please tell me in a review. Even if you don't find any errors please give a review, just don't be a jerk. I listen to all advice and i take it to heart.

The sun gently rose over the mountains just beyond the borders of Konoha. Birds were waking and beginning their morning routines of chirping and irritating anyone who has yet to wake.

A familiar blonde shinobi began to slowly sit up in his bed. He was tired and sore from the training that Jiraiya had given him the previous day. Naruto was now at sixteen years of age. The legal age of a man in Konoha. This didn't mean much to him. He had been living on his own since he was a mere baby.

The sun showed its face through Narutos window. It glowed bright and hurt his eyes. As Naruto waited for his eyes to adjust to the sunlight he began to reminisce about his life. He began to remember many of the fond times he had shared with his friends so long ago.

It had only been four years since...Sasuke.

After Sasuke had betrayed the village and tried to join Orochimaru Naruto had ensued chase. He had the intentions of bringing Sasuke back to the village as he had promised Sakura.

Before he knew it they had reached The Valley of the End.

Naruto knew that this battle was not going to end well. Sasuke was too strong for Narutos skills.

Naruto had trained hard but he hadn't trained that hard. He was in desperation. With fury in his eyes Naruto summoned the strength of the Kyuubi.

Sasuke was no match for the raw power that Naruto could wield when he worked with the nine tailed fox demon.

With the rasengan in hand, swirling with red chakra Naruto went in for the devastating blow.

A light flashed so bright that it could be seen nearly across the entire land of fire.

When the flash dulled the bodies of both the shinobi were laid across the ground.

Sasuke had been massacred. One entire arm, all the way from his shoulder, had been blown off.

Many of his ribs were now showing and a lung had been torn from his interior.

Most of his body was covered in shreds and cuts all of which were bleeding profusely.

The only part of him that had not been damaged at all was his face. There was not a speck on his face.

Even with these wounds Sasuke began to try and move. He could feel the life slipping away from him.

He tried to raise his head but to no avail. He could sense that Naruto was now sleeping from exhaustion.

"You demon eyed son of a bitch", Saskue groaned as he spat out blood. A smile grew on his face.

"Who would have thought you were that strong. Take care of everyone Naruto. And kill Itachi for me."

With those words Sasuke's eyes faded black, the smile still on his face.

Naruto decided that it was time for him to get out of bed. Naruto slowly began to move to the side of his bed when a sharp pain flew through his leg.

"AH DAMN IT!" yelled Naruto.

He had a cramp in his leg. He had not stretched his muscles after his training the previous day and was now paying the price.

"I swear I am going to kill that perverted sage."

Taking a deep breath Naruto began to limp to his bathroom. As he was walking, from the corner of his eye, he glanced at the picture of Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi, and himself that was on one of his tables.

After the battle with Sasuke, Naruto was placed in the hospital in a comatose state.

His body and mind were utterly exhausted. He couldn't even communicate with Kyuubi.

It had been about two and a half weeks before Naruto finally began to show signs of life.

It was only because of a voice he had heard that he gained the will to try and wake.

"You are such an idiot:" said a teary eyed Sakura. "Why would you do something that would get you like this?

Why would you kill Sasuke? You promised to bring him back to me. You betrayed me Naruto."

"I didn't want to kill him", said Naruto with a raspy voice.

Sakura gasped when she heard him speak. She didn't even know he could hear her.

"I didn't even want to fight him Sakura", Nartuo wheezed out. "He attacked me and just kept on coming at me.

I didn't know what else to do. He was going to kill me."

Naruto had begun to cry. He couldn't stand the feeling of guilt and pain that lay upon his heart.

He began to clench his wrapped fist. He was squeezing so hard he broke through the bandaging and had begun to bleed.

Sakura could feel tears welling in her eyes now. She had not meant for Naruto to hear such things from her.

She was still his friend, regardless of what he had done. She was only meaning to vent. She didn't know what else to do.

"Sakura if there was anything else, anything in the world that I could have done to bring him back", Naruto said with a lump in his throat.

"Know that I would have done it. I would never want to hurt you or Sasuke. I killed my best friend.

I don't know how I am going to live with myself. I can only imagine what Tsunade or Jiraiya or Kakashi or anyone else in the village thinks.

They must all hate me."

Sakura was stunned by what he said. Sure everyone was hurt that Sasuke was now gone but no one hated Naruto. Most of the village may have done something similar had they been in his position.

"Naruto..." said Sakura quietly. " I didn't mean…I mean I just…I was only trying to…I WAS JUST VENTING NARUTO I AM SORRY!"

With that Sakura went running from the room running into the blond hokage herself. Tsunade.

Tsunade was wary about being around Naruto since she knew that whenever he woke up she would have to question him about what had happened with Sasuke. It was a feeling of dread she hadn't felt since she and Jiraiya had faced off against Orochimaru.

Tsunade slowly walked into the room closing the door behind her. She saw Naruto now sitting up in his bed staring out the window.

"Come to banish me from the leaf? Send me to prison? Or are you going to execute me while I can fight back?" Naruto asked coldly.

Tsunade had never heard Naruto talk like this before. He had always been the happy go lucky kid who wanted to become hokage. It was never like him to speak coldly to anyone. Even those that he considered his enemies he couldn't treat them badly. Naruto was to caring for that.

"Why on earth do you think that I would do something like that?" asked Tsunade. "I have no reason to do anything like that. Besides that would put a damper on your plans on becoming hokage now wouldn't it?"

Naruto just sat there quietly. Tsunade's attempt at humor hadn't worked. He was still just as cold as he had been the second she had walked into the room.

Who could blame him? He had just killed the person that he considered to be his best friend. His other closest friend had just said that he had betrayed him and now Tsunade was trying to put humor into the situation.

"If you want to try and make jokes about this Ba-Chan than go do it somewhere where I am not around because you keep this up… I might just kill you too" said Naruto as he turned his head slowly to glare at Tsunade.

Tsunade couldn't believe what she had just heard. Naruto had just threatened her life. She was, to say the very least, pissed off.

"How dare you…" said Tsunade with her head held low as to hide the tears welling in her eyes.

"I am one of the three legendary sannin. I am the hokage of this village. I have even saved your life and you are going to sit there and threaten me! Listen to me Naruto. No on hates you for what you did. It was a choice that had to be made. Yes Sasuke was our ally and our friends but he betrayed us. He was trying to take another ninja away from this village by the means of death. Every ninja in this village would have done the same thing Naruto. They all care about you. Even after everyone discovered what was inside of you they still showed you the compassion of friendship! Think about it Naruto. Are you still alone?"

Naruto couldn't believe what he had heard. He now took a closer look at Tsunade and noticed that she was crying. He had no idea what to say or what to do. He didn't even know what to feel.

Naruto slowly got out of the shower trying to make sure that his leg didn't cramp. He looked like he was trying to walk on glass as he got to his room to put on some clothes.

He could no longer where any of his old orange jumpsuits. Besides the fact that Naruto was now older and had grown, he relieved many of his childhood memories when he wore them.

Naruto was a mentally unstable mess. The only thing that was keeping him sane was the days that he spent training with Jiraiya. Even if those were the days that made him feel like his entire body was just going to shut down.

The training had changed him as well. If not so much mentally they certainly changed him physically.

When once he still had some of his baby fat on him it had now been replaced with lean muscle. He still ate his four to five bowls of ramen a day and was still able to look as though he had no fat on his body what so ever. He had let his hair grow out to about two times its former length. His eyes that were once a radiant blue that showed his childhood innocence now were replaced with a more solid shade of blue that made him look like a hardened soldier.

Naruto now wore a new set of clothes. He had replaced his blue ninja sandals with black boots. He now word black ninja pants that had so many pockets on them that sometimes he forgot what some of them had in them. He wore a jacket that was again for the most part black but it had large orange patches on his shoulder that went down to his forearm and those were trimmed by blue streaks. He still wore is headband on his head. The one thing that would never change.

As Naruto slipped on his last boot he stood up and headed for the door. As he was about to reach for that handle he looked at the key hanger right next to it. He saw there instead of sets of keys, he a single key to his apartment and a specially made blue kunai with a symbol of an orange fox on the handle. He had gotten it from Hinata on his thirteenth birthday. His first year being a teen.

A now thirteen year old Naruto sat on his couch late at night. He had stayed home in hopes of avoiding all of his friends. He didn't feel that his birthday was something to celebrate. He hadn't even bothered to check his mail. Not that he expected any.

It was now almost midnight. Naruto was feeling tired and decided that it was finally time to end the day. Just as he stood up to walk to his bedroom there was a knock at the door. He couldn't believe that anyone would come to see him let alone at this time of night.

"Na…Naruto…Are you still awake?" asked Hinata in her usual shy voice.

Naruto didn't know whether to be upset at her or to run to the door and embrace her tightly for being the one person to come see him.

Against his own will he decided to see what she wanted.

As Naruto opened the door he noticed that Hinata had turned away and was getting ready to leave.

"Wait Hinata I'm still up…" said Naruto in an unusually quite tone. "What are you doing out this late Hinata? Even if you are a ninja it is dangerous for a girl to be out this late. What could you possibly need from me at this time of night?"

Hinata frowned and tilted he head down. She didn't like it when Naruto was upset at her.

"I…I…I…I just wanted to…Oh...never mind!" yelled Hinata as she attempted to run off. Just as she did she felt a hand grab her arm. It was Naruto's. She instantly turned beat read.

"I didn't mean to sound so angry Hinata…I'm sorry" pleaded Naruto still holding onto Hinata's arm. "Please let me walk you home and on the way you can tell me what you needed ok?"

Hinata had no breath to answer him. She could only nod her head in agreement.

Naruto closed the door behind them and began taking the long walk back to the Hyuuga estate.

They were about half way to the estate when Naruto finally spoke up.

"So Hinata, what exactly did you need from me at this time of night?" asked Naruto very curiously.

"Well…I wanted to…I wanted to tell you…"said Hinata shyly. She had begun to push her index fingers together in hopes of trying to force the words out. "I wanted to tell you…Happy Birthday."

Naruto stopped in his tracks.

"My birthday is not something that should be celebrated Hinata" said Naruto coldly. "It is one of the worst days in the history of this village. Not to mention I don't deserve a birthday either. After everything that I have done to people."

Hinata had begun to cry. She cared so much for Naruto that to see him hurt like this hurt her as well. She inched closer to him wanting to hold him and comfort him but he only moved away from her.

"It is something to celebrate…at least it is for me anyway…" said Hinata with a tear rolling down her face. "Take this. I had TenTen's father custom build it for you. I thought that you would like it. I'm sorry for wasting your time."

With that Hinata pushed a small box toward Naruto. Before he could grab it Hinata dropped it and ran off. The night air was filled with the sound of her crying.

Naruto could only look down at the box. It was a white box with a red ribbon wrapped around it. It looked as though it had been wrapped with extreme care. Naruto kneeled down and picked up the box. The box had some weight to it. He slowly untied the ribbon and let it fall of the box. As he lifted the lid his jaw hit the ground. Inside was a stunning blue kunai the shined in the moonlight. He was I shock as he saw the symbol of an orange fox head at the handle.

Hinata…. Naruto thought to himself.

His eyes didn't move from the kunai for a good ten minutes. He had not seen hide nor hair of Hinata since that night. He often wondered how she was doing. He often thought that he had scared of the one person who had still wanted to be close to him.

As he stepped into the sunlight Naruto had to let his eyes adjust. He began to look around again and he couldn't shake the feeling that something eerie was going on. He decided that he should keep his senses heightened until the feeling went away.

After walking for a few minutes Naruto could now see the gate to the village in sight. He couldn't wait to smell the fresh air of the forest.

Just as he was about to ask the guard to open the gate, Kiba came running towards him.

"NARUTO!" yelled Kiba.

Not wanting to be a total jackass Naruto decided to reply. "Ya Kiba what do you need…"

"Naruto come with me quickly we need your help" said Kiba as he grabbed Naruto's arm.

"Who is we Kiba?" asked Naruto

"Tsunade and myself but more importantly Hinata!" replied Kiba.

And thus ends my first chapter. I hope you all really enjoyed it! I can not wait to see where this story goes. I have so many ideas that it is ridiculous. As i said earlier please leave a review. I love hearing feedback and take it all to heart. Til next time folks! Dottebayo!