Disclaimer: I don not own the show or manga "Naruto" in any way shape or form.

AN: This will probably be slash, but that won't happen for a while because I have to build Naruto's character first. This is not AU but there will be small changes, mainly that Naruto discovers the Kyuubi very early in life and that Naruto takes place thousands of years after the apocalypse, and civilization has been slowly building itself up again since then.

The Man in the Golden Suit

For as long as he could remember, Uzumaki Naruto had feared October 31st, for on that day, the village's ignorance of his existence turns into a raging hatred, culminating at sunset when large mobs form of drunken villagers who want to avenge their loved ones who were lost to the Kyuubi. A noble enough cause turned evil by the fact that the only way they could do as such was to try to hurt and kill young Naruto, the unfortunate container of the beast. Luckily for him, he was always kept inside on those days, being watched by the Sandaime himself. Still, listening to the mobs of people on the street trying to find him and kill him was frightening enough to the small child. Listening to them call for 'justice to be served' and for 'retribution' caused the poor jinchuuriki to think that he had done something wrong, some heinous crime that he was unaware of. The Sandaime's refusal to tell him the reason for the village's hatred of him and determination to change the subject whenever it came up only served to cement these thoughts into Naruto's head.

So it came to be that on Uzumaki Naruto's fourth birthday, he ran away from Sarutobi when he wasn't looking and went outside thinking that they would 'enact retribution on him' and leave, and they could all get on with their lives. Never did he consider the fact that this retribution would be deadly…

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'Where am I?' Naruto thought hazily. 'I went outside and then…

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"Hey! I'm over here!" Naruto yelled to the crowd of people. They all turned and upon seeing him, they bolted toward him like wild animals as Naruto began to regret his decision. 30 minutes later, the ANBU decided that Naruto had suffered enough 'justice' so they scattered the mob and one of the more kind hearted of them brought him to a hospital. Throughout this time, Naruto was having an interesting conversation with a certain yokai…

'Where am I? No like wet….' he thought before trying to fall back 'asleep'.

'Come here child, let me see you.' A voice boomed throughout the… sewer? Naruto wasn't sure. 'Come here, inside this cage.' Being a naïve four year old, Naruto did as asked.

When Naruto saw the giant fox inside the cage with him, he asked 'Who are you? Are you Inari? Or a monster? I don't like monsters they're scary.'

'No, don't worry, I am no scary monster, I am merely the Kyuubi.'

'Ahh! What are you doing here? Please don't squash me!!!' Naruto cried.

'Ugh… stop crying…. If you stop crying I won't squish you. I just can't handle crying people, unless by handle you mean devour… right your only four. Devour means to eat, which I'm not planning on doing to you.'

'Then why am I here? Did you eated me? I thought you died.' Then the beast laughed.

'I am not dead I am sealed inside you kit.' 'Why did you call me kit? My name is Uzumaki Naruto! And what do you mean sealed? There's no way you'd fit into me!'

'The Yondaime sealed me into you at your birth, which put simply means the tattoo on your stomach has a whole world inside it with the sole purpose of containing me. It runs off of your charka but converts mine into your body for your use. As to your other question, I call you kit because that is what you call a baby fox which is fitting because you are technically my heir.'

'Whaddya mean heir? I thought that meant son or daughter, and I'm not a fox, and how come you didn't tell me any of this before I almost died?'

'The seal was too stable for me to break out even that small amount it would require for me to talk to you. When your life was in danger it weakened slightly to heal you, allowing me to speak to you. Now that it's happened once, we can speak other times too, not just when you're here. All you have to do is think at me when you're out side here to do it… I'm sorry if that sounds strange but you'll see what I mean. Also, by heir I meant that when I am fully converted into your chakra, you would officially be the new Kyuubi, although you would be a hanyou weaker than the Ichibi. In time, you could grow stronger and gain nine tails, but as you would be a hanyou this would only make you as strong as the five-tailed Gobi. By this I mean that demons get a new tail every time they get stronger, arrive at the next level so to speak. Depending on what type of demon you are, there is a limit to your strength. There are one-tailed foxes and six-tailed cats, all manner of demons down in Makai, the demon world. The Nine-Tails are the strongest of each type of demon, and I am their leader, at least I was until 'The Cataclysm'. The Ichibi, Nibi, Sanbi, Yonbi, Gobi, Rokkui, Siechi, Hachi, and me the Kyuubi were kicked out of Makai and our clans decimated… and with me permanently sealed, you are the last of the Nine-Tailed foxes. Also, while my charka is constantly being converted into your charka, your charka is being converted into demonic charka. This means that while you have more charka, you will be pitiful at the human ninja arts, so don't bother going to the Academy. You will still need to protect yourself, so I suppose I can teach you my various abilities. Since hanyou blood is like a kekkai genkai, you even have my permission to teach your clan if you ever start or join one.'

Naruto didn't understand a word that the Kyuubi said until 'don't bother going to the Academy'.

'What? But I need to join the Academy to become a ninja to become Hokage! No one will accept me otherwise!'

'To become Hokage you need to be liked, and everyone here hates you. Everyone here hates you. Join another village, they'll probably accept you, or even a small town. Hell, become a hermit and live deep in the mountains, I don't care as long as you leave here soon! These people will only try again, and if you die, not only do I die as well, but the entire legacy of the Nine Tail clan dies with you!!! Every single fox, from the wisest elder to the smallest kit will have lived and died in vain if you die! '

Naruto was shocked by the emotion behind that last statement and yelped, causing the fox to calm down a bit.

'What would you be teaching me?' He asked, remembering the fox's earlier statement. Maybe he would learn cool justsus or learn how to cause tsunamis and ravage mountains…

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'Of course, it's going to be forever before I can do any of that cool stuff!' Naruto thought vehemently. For the next five years or so, Kyuubi was focused on teaching him how to act and think in ways befitting the heir to a demon lord.

'I'm not even allowed to say 'Believe It!' anymore, or wear orange, or go to academy, or even stay in the village or anything!'

'Believe it.' The fox said sarcastically. They were able to talk now since that was what they had focused on the whole time they were in Naruto's head. "How long was I sleeping?" Naruto wondered out loud.

"Three days Naruto." The Sandaime said walking into the room. "Why did you walk out there?"

"I thought that they would punish me and then they would leave and then everyone would accept me. Of course, if you had ever told me about the Kyuubi, this could have never happened."

"How…? I'm sorry. You deserved to know, no child, no… nobody period should have to go through what you have. Is there any way to make it up to you?"

"Yes. Everyone hates me so there's no point in trying for Hokage. Since I won't be a ninja, I won't be able to defend myself from the villagers. I want to leave, live a city where I'm not known as the 'Kyuubi brat."

"I suppose… it's for the best. You have to come back here eventually though, you're like a grandson to me, if you just left forever, it would break my heart." He said wearily.

"I can't come back here unless I learn how to defend myself first. The villagers are too strong. But, I can't come back here for good ever. They just hate me so much, all of them…."

"… alright. Please, let me get you something as a going away present, then we can get some ramen. Then I can have some of my men escort you to Tanzaku Gai, it's a city not too far from here. You'll be sent to an orphanage and with any luck adopted by loving parents. Come, let's go now, Nodoka-san was only waiting for you to awaken to release you." Demegawa Nodoka was Naruto's personal nurse. She was there at his birth, and knew of his father the Yondaime, knew of the tragic death of Uzumaki Kushina, and above all knew he was no demon. She was the only nurse that could be trusted to not hurt Naruto in some way, from purposeful misdiagnosis, to refusing treatment, to flat out poison. She was the only nurse/ med-nin allowed near Naruto in the hospital, although emergencies wee an exception.

"Hello Naruto-kun! How's my favorite patient?" " I'm better now Nodoka-san. I'm leaving this village for Tanzaku Gai to get adopted by people who don't hate me."

"What? Sandaime-sama is this true?" "I'm afraid so Nodoka-san, it is too dangerous here for him."

"I can't say that I didn't see this coming. I'll be very sorry to see you go Naruto-kun."

"Well let's go Naruto-kun, Nodoka-san. We still have to get Naruto-kun a gift," Sarutobi chuckled.

They were looking around town when Naruto caught a glare in his eye. He shielded his eyes and saw it was the sun reflecting off the extremely shiny outside of

'The Halcyon Emporium: Catering to All Your Gold-Related Needs Since 461'.

"Let's go there!" Naruto said. "Okay…. I guess you can get something there," the Sandaime said while sweat dropping. When they went inside, they were blinded, there was gold everywhere! But one thing stuck out above everything else. There was a book bound in gold sitting on the counter. Naruto knew he had to have it.

"Excuse me sir, how much for this book?" The man was about to tell Naruto to leave in a very nasty way when he saw the Sandaime glare at him.

"Uh… it's free. It' s written in a lost language, so it's of no use to anyone, only for eccentric collectors."

"I'll take it! Oji-san will pay for it." He said as he walked away with the book.

"Naruto-kun, do you have anything you want to pick up from the orphanage?"

"No… all that's there are my clothes, which Kyuubi says I have to get rid of anyways 'cause they're too orange." The Sandaime just froze. 'The Kyuubi speaks to him…?'

"Naruto, when did the Kyuubi start speaking to you, and what does he tell you?"

"He started speaking to me when I went to sleep for three days after the people attacked me. He tells me about demons and how since I'm technically the only fox left I'm the head of the Nine-Tails clan. Is that bad?" Naruto asked. When he was older he would look back at that and think about how stupid it was to admit talking to the Kyuubi to the Hokage who was sworn to protect Konoha from all threats. Thankfully, the Sandaime dropped the issue, pondering this new development.

They were all ready to go. Naruto would be leaving with Inu, Neko, and Tanebi (Kakashi, Yuugao, and Itachi [this is before the massacre]) escorting him to Tanzaku Gai. Instead of taking him to an orphanage, they left him at the gates at Naruto's request, which had done so at the Kyuubi's request. The Kyuubi realized the mistake his container/heir had made confessing to the Sandaime and wanted no way for Sarutobi to track him/them. He wandered the city until he found an abandoned house and went inside. He took out the book and looked at the title.

'Kit, I can read that.' 'What How?' Naruto asked surprised.

'I've been around a very, very long time. If you want, I can translate it for you, it's in an old language called 'English'. I'll just make it so that you see it as 'Japanese' the old name for 'Kagenese' the language we are currently speaking.'

'Alright! Come on let's do it! Something this shiny has to be good!'

The Kyuubi then sweat dropped before doing as asked. Naruto looked down at the cover. It said:

The Man in the Golden Suit

The Autobiography of Moist van Lipwig:

The Master Manipulator

The King of Cons

The Richest Man to Ever Live

Reading those words awoke something within Naruto. All his life he had wanted to live comfortably, to be accepted. Gold would provide for this. He always held a fascination for brilliant objects, things that would blind a man from the sun's glare. Gold would provide for this. All at once, just from seeing the title of the brilliantly bound book, he had become obsessed with gold.

He had had no goal, no purpose to live for, and now he does. He has gold to live for. He would make gold, become the richest man in the elemental countries, and he knew, deep down, that this book would help him.
Upon opening the book he was surprised. It was an autobiography in that Mr. Van Lipwig had wrote it, but it was more of a how-to book. How to swindle, how to lie, to cheat, to steal, to forge, how to walk into a bank with a piece of paper and a nice suit and walk out with millions with little effort. It said how to become the richest man in the world, how to become 'The Man in the Golden Suit'. But most important of all, it stated how to get started, which was by retrieving van Lipwig's lost fortune. The only problem was that the map was out dated. 'Not to worry,' Naruto thought as he drifted off to sleep. 'I'm sure Kyuubi knows where it is…'

Naruto woke up a minute later inside the cage again. 'Now your first lesson shall begin. You must learn how to talk and walk gracefully and effectively…'

'Wait a second. Do you know where Mr. Van Lipwig's treasure is?'

'No all I know from the map is that it's on an island. Now if you don't shut up and listen to your etiquette lesson I'll eat you consequences be damned! Now, first of all, I want you to conjure up some books for us.'

'What do you mean? Am I a wizard? Do I have magic powers? Can I shoot lightning from a wand and stuff?'

'No you can't! This is your mind so you have absolute control here. I'm going to show you pictures of these books and then you'll conjure them up. While you're at it, make this place more comfortable than a sewer. Maybe a forest or something…'

After Naruto did that he looked at the books and saw that they were blank. 'Uh… I sort of forgot to imagine words…. Wait, how am I supposed to know what they look like on the inside anyway?'

'…Good point. If you give me more freedom then I'll be able to conjure them up for you. All you have to do is rip a part of the seal off the cage.'

'Got it!' he said before ripping the entire thing off. They were flung to opposite sides of the cage and flames and lightning appeared from nowhere while the whole place shook.

'You idiot! I said part of it not all of it! There's no time! Leave now!'

Naruto woke up and was in pain. There were massive cramps in his stomach, and they were quickly spreading all over his body.

'Naruto! Make a ram symbol and say Kage Bunshin!' 'Kage Bunshin!' he screamed, and then all was silent.