Naruto sat on the swing in the academy yard with somber and downcast eyes. He had failed the final exams for a third time now. Thoughts of why he had so much trouble with the bunshin jutsu ran through his mind. So lost in his thoughts he did not notice the three pairs of eyes watching him attentively. That's when his thoughts were broken by a soft voice.

N-naruto-kun, a-are y-y-you okay? A stuttering Hinata asked.

"Yeah Hinata, I am." Naruto lied putting on smile.

That's when he noticed how nervous she was.

"Are you okay Hinata." He asked.

"H-hai Naruto-kun, I-it's just t-that I am w-weak." The timid girl said.

Naruto thought about this. She had always done well in class, not the best, but well. He then realized that it was probably her self confidence that held her down. Little did everyone know, he was not as dense as everyone thought he was, at least not with Hinata's feelings towards him. He just didn't want to hurt the poor girl. Especially, since she was always so nice to him.

"Hinata, you are not weak. You just need to believe in yourself. That's how I get through my life."

"It's J-just t-that m-my father w-wants me to b-be the b-best. B-but I c-can't even b-beat m-my s-seven y-year old s-sister."

"Like I said it's because you don't believe in yourself. If you believe you can and don't hold back I am sure you can win." Naruto said, his blue eyes peering straight into hers.

"Also, try not to stutter so much, you are above it, plus it will help people take you seriously."

"Hai Naruto-kun!"

Hanabi watched her sister interact with what the whispers were saying was the class failure. She easily saw how she felt for the orange clad idiot. She did not understand how a prestigious Hyuuga had fallen as her sister had. She was shy and weak, everything her blood was not supposed to be. She and the branch servant had come to get Hinata after her tests. She came merely to get out of her clan's estate. She knew that her father intended for them to duel, in one last effort to see if Hinata was worthy of being clan heiress. She looked at Naruto again. Even though he had failed his eyes showed nothing but determination. She continues to stare as she listened to the other adults talk about how he was evil. She analyzed him looking for any hint of their assumptions and could find none as his eyes were full of kindness, a kindness that hid a very deep pain and sadness. It was almost as if he was alone his whole life. She was broken out of her thoughts when Hinata came and stood next her. Her eyes were hard with determination. Just what did the blonde say to her.

Mizuki went over to the orange clad boy with a dark smirk on his face. It was time to set his plan in motion.

Naruto sat down on the ground breathing heavy. The jutsu he managed to learn from the scroll was harder than he expected. His clothes were tattered and torn.

The pale emotionless eyes of Hanabi Hyuuga watched the blond train to learn the jutsu. Whatever he had said to Hinata had caused a drastic change and allowed her to beat Hanabi. Her father was so upset that he decided to give his attention to Hinata now. She was angry and confused, but also intrigued. How the supposed dead-last had caused such a change in her sister had her curious with the boy. After watching him try and try again to learn this jutsu she could easily see why Hinata admired him. He had determination like no other person she had seen. From the shadows she watched as more events started to unfold

"Naruto, I have found you. What are you doing out here?" Iruka said as he landed next to him.

"Iruka-sensei you found me. I only managed to learn one jutsu."

"What are you doing with that scroll Naruto."

"Mizuki-sensei told me that if I learned a Justu from this scroll and showed it to you, then you would let me graduate." The blond said to his confused teacher.

It was then that the chuunin heard whistles of steal. He quickly threw Naruto out of the way as the kunai pinned him the shack behind him.

"It is such a shame that you had to interfere, Iruka." Mizuki said with a dark smile.

"NARUTO, TAKE THE SCROLL AND RUN." Iruka yelled to Naruto when he realized what Mizuki was planning.

Thinking fast Mizuki came up with a way to stall Naruto.

"Naruto, don't you want to know why the village hates you. Well I'll tell you. You already know the story of the Yondaime killing the Kyuubi, only he did not kill it. Instead, he sealed in a new born baby. You. Don't you see you are responsible for the death of many in the village, even Iruka's parents. Even he hates you.

Realization hit Naruto in the heart harder than anything he had ever felt. Not knowing what to do, he turned and ran.

Hanabi's eyes were wide with shock. She suddenly understood all of the adults glares and malice towards naruto. She thought back on all the times she had seen him and could not think of one time he didn't have a smile on his face. There were even times he would be bloody and bruised but he still held strong. She gained a new insight on what it meant to be strong. For one of the few times, she felt compassion for him and decided to follow not caring what the two chunnin were doing.

By the time she found him she saw him leaning on a tree listening to a rather touching speech from Iruka. She then saw Mizuki get ready to throw his last large shuriken. Again the blonde surprised her. He appeared seemingly out of thin air and sent a knee to the traitorous chuunin's face. After some words were exchanged Naruto did a hand seal and suddenly the forest was full of thousands of orange clad blondes. He must have had a lot of chakra. She then watched as the clones beat Mizuki to unconsciousness. Iruka stood up and started to head towards his savior. That's when disaster struck. Mizuki grabbed Naruto's leg and with his last bit of strength stabbed a kunai hilt deep into Naruto's stomach right where the seal was.

Naruto could only feel pain. The pain became a burning fire in his stomach as he heard a roaring in his head. Not being able to handle hit he blacked out and fell into his own deepening pool of blood.

With Iruka injured and Naruto dying Hanabi, for the first time ever acted on impulse and dashed towards Mizuki with surprising speed. Activating her Byakugan she simply struck the tenketsu right next to Mizuki's heart, killing him instantly. She then helped Iruka to Naruto's side.

The Third watched all of this from his crytal ball. Beginning to fear for the Kyuubi containers life he called for his ANBU.

"I need you all to come with me now!" He ordered and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Four ANBU followed.

Inside Naruto's mindscape Naruto lay in the fetal position with the Kyuubi roaring in its cage. Mizuki managed to hit part of the seal that connected the two life forces together. There was a bright light that both vessel and container had to shield their eyes from. Once the light subsided, standing in its place was none other than the Yondaime Hokage.

"Kyuubi, I need you to start healing my son before you both die. I will try to fix the seal."

Nodding in agreement the giant fox sent a wave of chakra over the startled boy.

"Naruto, my son, I need you to lay flat on your back." Minato said soothingly. Naruto complied.

The older blonde started flashing through hand seals faster than Naruto could follow. He then slammed his hand down onto his now fully healed stomach. Not even bothering to call out the name of the Jutsu he forced more chakra into it causing another blinding light. Once the light subsided, the famed Hokage helped Naruto to his feet.

"So, you are my father huh?" Naruto asked completely taken aback.

"Yeah, kind of cool huh."

A/N: So this is the first chapter, now to those of that were reading Legacy of a Shinobi, I apologize. It some how got deleted and I no longer have the computer that all my stuff was saved on. Never fear though, because I am rewriting it and plan on having it up soon. It will be a bit different as I have better Ideas now. Any way please Read and Review. – KIT-