GSAMT

Big Things Have Small Beginnings

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Toriko.

Our story begins in what is known as Earth, when it was divided into two main regions: The Human World and the Gourmet World. The Human world was where humans have managed to settle in and it had its own set of dangers, animal or plant or nature. The Gourmet World was a different story, for generations it was considered to be a paradise that was filled with wonders and great reassures to be found; it was until one survivor announced to the world that the Gourmet World was actually where no human law of nature or universal logic is ever followed and the beasts there are nothing you can find in the Human World.

Ever since, no one ever ventured to the Gourmet World, only the brave or foolish ever try to enter and never last an hour max in that nightmare. Still, there were some people that settle in the Human World who are so strong and wise that they can survive even the dangerous Gourmet World. They were also fighting over great treasures that have mystic powers, enough to rule the world. Their battles were intense and pretty soon, the side to protect the world was getting the upper hand. As such, the other side became desperate, enough to try and defy the rules of life and tried to achieve the impossible: creating life. They were only successful in creating one life form; that was to be their biggest mistake.

It was called the Ten-Tails as it had ten tails that were powerful enough to cut mountains in half and cause tsunamis while being able to destroy whole continents. The creators thought that as long as they have this secret weapon, there wouldn't be anyone to stop them. It wasn't until they decided to unleash this menace on their enemies that it revolted; it was just too powerful to fight with any other being by its side. After causing great devastation and despair among the humans and other races, the Ten Tails went into a deep slumber in the form of a giant tree with a single fruit on top that will only blossom once every thousand years.

Soon, humans have finally settled now that the two main regions are one and that they can go anywhere in the world now. In this new development, mankind forgot about it all and pretty soon they were living their lives for generations to come. But what they didn't know was that the Ten Tails was still alive.

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After a good amount of time had went and gone, there was room for darkness and it came in nonstop wars that ravaged the land around what was called the 'God Tree'. It was considered by the ancients to be forbidden to consume the fruit at the top. The fighting seemed like that it will never stop. That is until a princess who despised the war had defined the laws and traditions and climbed to the top of the God Tree; there she ate the fruit and gained the power that stopped the wars.

She then claimed to the world that there won't be any more fighting and that peace will rule supreme and for a number of years, it did until the princess became corrupted with power. She started to believe that she was above all mankind and that she didn't belong among them; she also started to act cruel and ruthless to humans and soon was seen as a 'demon' when she used to be called the 'Rabbit Goddess'.

But there was more problems than the change in behavior in the princess; the Ten-Tails, while still in tree form, was angry that a human had defiled its sacred fruit and stolen its power over the elements and nature. It reverted back to beast form and started to ravage against mankind for once in centuries. But there was hope in the darkness.

The princess had given birth to two sons who will become her successors. Instead, they had to fight against their own mother who managed to merge with the Ten-Tails in an attempt to gain more power and become an actual god. They didn't kill her because of their love but they instead sealed her in a chunk of the earth that left for the sky and became the moon.

No one knows what happened to the other brother but one of the sons soon became a Sage and taught the world about the mystic energy he was born with. He hoped that mankind will learn to use this power to create peace and plenty for generations to come; he was wrong. Wars soon arose as soon as Clans were formed to gather warriors and tacticians for the battles to start and end with bloodshed only to start all over again.

The sage soon had two sons, one gained his father's eyes of power and intellect while the other instead gained his father's body and great loving spirit. Their father however, knew that he was dying and revealed a terrible secret to his sons; he had sealed the Ten-Tails inside of him instead of the moon and once he passes away due to his accelerating age, the beast will be able to escape and ravage the land all over again. So, on his death bed, he asked his sons of the way to attain peace; the oldest said that power and control was the answer while the youngest said that love and understanding was the key. The youngest was chosen to be the successor as a result and also supposedly caused the oldest to start a fight to the death between the sons; it ended in a draw with the brothers going their separate ways and forming their own clans.

Generations came and gone with their own legends and leaders until two rival clans managed to settled down and start their own village to take in civilians or anyone else who lost their homes and family to the non-stopping wars. It went on for a century of this own until one disaster happened in the middle of the night, that a demon with the form of a Kitsune had invaded the village to kill everyone. It was stopped by one of the champions and leaders with the cost of his own life; the previous one, who was in retirement, had to take the hat back until another ninja is chose as the successor.

That was thirteen years ago and there was never any problems with the exception of a clan massacre at the hands of one single man, a prodigy among themselves; only one member survived and it happened to be the younger brother of the culprit who fled from the village. But our story isn't on that boy, but another who was born when the demon that called the 'Nine-Tails' attacked the village and for reasons not clear the boy was tormented and neglected by the villagers and to make matters worse, the children of his age group were taught to hate him even though the majority of them had been born sometime after the 'Nine-Tails' attack.

The story of this boy doesn't actually start in the village but in a forest outside his home country. There was this tree with multiple scratch marks of various lengths and directions that seemed to come from a tool of a sharp edge. Then there was the sound a branch cracking and the yelling a young boy falling. And a boy did fall, rather hard on his back as well.

"Darn it! Why can't I get this right!?" The boy, who is wearing a horribly orange jumpsuit over a black t-shirt and blue shorts. "Sensei finally taught us something! Sakura-chan already got it underway on the first try! And I bet that Sasuke-teme had it done too!" The complained as he picked himself up, "I have got to get this done so I can prove I am still part of the team! And maybe actually get some real ninja training." The boy suddenly got quiet and remorseful and who can blame him after seeing how he had to live in his village.

He was Naruto Uzumaki, the 'Demon Brat' in the eyes of the villagers who think they know anything and the 'Dobe' to his peers since he fails in school exams until he finally became a ninja after an incident happened when he failed the exam for the third time. Right now, he is in a neighboring country as part of his first team mission outside the village of Konohagakure no Sato. His teacher and team leader was known as the top ninja to take the Hokage hat but he only proved to Naruto that he is lazy and lately, only focusing on the training of Sasuke and Sasuke only. That infuriate Naruto as his definition of team is to not keep secrets from each other not run ahead or leave anyone behind but that is exactly what is happening Team Seven that Naruto was assigned in hoping to level things out; some plan that is.

On the other hand, he was actually aware that he was terrible; he only knew four jutsu, three were taught in the academy and the fourth one he only learned in the moment that one of his teachers was found a traitor for trying to steal the village secrets and smuggle them out of Konoha for his own power. His Taijutsu was no better than a street brawler, full of holes and poor striking power. And his Genjutsu was nonexistent, he couldn't even preform the easiest one there is. Naruto had hoped that being under the best ninja there is, that he will finally catch up and improve but he was only proven wrong on many accounts.

"Just one more time before I have to try to get advice on what I am doing wrong." Naruto muttered and started to walk on the tree balk with just his feet; it is part of an exercise to better control the output of energy named Chakra. It involved a ninja using his chakra to be used as a suction cups to stick to a vertical surface like a tree bark or a stone wall. Naruto had to do this all the way to the top of the tree and so far, he hadn't gotten even half the way. And just like that, Naruto lost his grip and fell to the ground again, yet he felt something else than bones breaking; it sounded like the ground was cracking. "Huh?" Naruto said quizzically before the ground gave away.

"Arrgh!" Naruto shouted as he fell in a way that felt more like rolling on the dirt until Naruto felt that he hit something soft, like jelly, and fell into it anyways. After Naruto finally stopped rolling, he felt like he was on a grass field which was a nice change from the dirt that smeared his only clothes. "Now what else can go wrong?" Naruto said in a dejected tone, like he though even the gods were against today. Looking around, Naruto caught sight a house that seemed to be carved out of a tree that he never seen before and that there was a lake and a well.

Naruto decided to see if there was any clothes for him to wear inside the house, thankfully there was front door that opened to show a living room with six stairways, one lead upstairs while the other five lead downstairs; except that the five stairs leading downward, only four had labels above the doorways. They were in a prefect Japanese Kanji for 'Toriko', 'Coco', 'Sunny' and 'Zebra' in that order from left to right.

The blonde had a contagious smile that threaten to peel off his own face as he rubbed his hands together in excitement as to what he might find. He had no clue about it or that it will finally bring everything back into piece.

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'I sure hope that Naruto-kun is alright. He hadn't returned at all today.' Now you might not be expecting it but Sakura Haruno, the very girl on Team Seven who is supposedly mad in love with Sasuke and hates Naruto. But it is now clear that is all a little lie as Sakura knows that Sasuke is no interested in her or any other girl for that matter and that she was good friends with the blonde. He was the only one who didn't tease or bully her because of her hair color or her unusually large forehead; he said that her hair is like the flowers petals she was named after and that her forehead had plenty of room to be kissed by her mother.

But speaking of whom, that same witch of a woman tried to destroy all that even if it caused her daughter's heart break and it is all because she was foolish and ignorant enough to pin the blame of everything that she had lost personally on the blonde boy. She lied to Sakura that Naruto was only pretending to be her friend in spite of the other kids in order to gain her loyalty and kill her. But Sakura was smarter than that and decided to check it out; she got more than she can ever want from an answer.

It turned out that Sakura's mother purposely made the other girls bully her and that will explain why the woman never even helped her when she came home crying about her bad day; that woman knew that Naruto will make friends with her by comforting Sakura so she tried to set it up so that will happen to her advantage and instead, Sakura will kill Naruto. That will be in her own eyes, revenge for the Nine Tailed Beast for killing the Fourth Hokage, but truthfully the woman's crush from the academy, and for stealing her prey of the redhead who dated and married the Yondaime instead of her.

Sakura couldn't believe that her own flesh and blood will try to use her like a tool for own desires that made no sense. She hurried to where Naruto said that he stayed at after the Orphanage kicked him out and told the blonde about what had learned. He was outraged and was seconds from leveling that poor excuse for a human being when Sakura stopped him from becoming what the villagers accuse him of being ever since he was born.

They settled to keep their relationship a secret knowing that the villagers will destroy them both because their 'heroic efforts would have been put to waste'. They hanged out in secret until they entered the academy where they finally learned how to mask their activities together without the fear of being found out (it is too complicated and lengthy to explain !). Still, they wished to be on their own so that no one will ever say anything about it; that would be very nice.

Now that was done, Sakura still tried to sleep when she felt a familiar hand and voice gently woke her up. "Arukas (1). I'm home." Sakura knew that it was a name that only she and Naruto will know so she got up silently and hugged Naruto who hugged her back.

"Ikamauzu (2). I am so glad you are safe." Sakura said quietly and Naruto nodded before answering the unasked question.

"I have found what we are looking for. Come on." Naruto said and Sakura put on her night robe; the only good thing from home that she owned for a mission outside the village. Once they got to a good opening outside the cabin, Naruto took out a case that opened to reveal injections shots that were filled with something alive and moving.

"Naruto..." Now that they were far away from anyone, the two addressed each other of their real names. "What is this? You don't even know what is in them..." Sakura said gently but sternly tone that vanished when she caught Naruto staring at her with eyes that seemed to be sharper and that his nose was wiggling, like it was being used.

"Nice touch with blue and black undergarments and with Wood Pine Perfume, you will blend in with the surroundings perfectly." Naruto said which could have gotten him ten bumps on his head for less but for some reason, Sakura blushed like she was being praised; she always wanted to be an actual Kunoichi but even today, woman were still being looked down on as failures for ninjas since they didn't have the large reserves that men have. "Now your turn, place your hand over them from the left to right." Naruto said to direct the clueless and curious Sakura.

Once she did, two of the injection shots glowed when her hand was glancing over them; they had the labels with the Kanji for 'Sunny' and 'Zebra'. Sakura didn't know what to make it out but noticed that two of those shots that were paired together were also only half full. She just saw that Naruto was smiling at what happened.

"See? I always told you that you are special. Only one in a million will have not one but two different strands of Gurume Saibō work best with your DNA structure but we will half to use half the amounts in order to even out the ratio." Naruto said which got Sakura even more confused as she watched Naruto take both of the injectors out of the case. "This will hurt but don't worry, they won't harm the one they choose." Naruto reassure her as the blonde inserted the strange substance that he called 'Gurume Saibō' into Sakura's arm; the first time set something off as the pink haired girl felt a surge of a painful sensation coursing through her body. But Sakura was determined to be a Kunoichi so she tried her best to grin it and endure the pain until she was ready to take the second injection. After a short while, the second injection went underway and soon, Sakura was able to ease off the pain before noticing that she was able to feel everything; the wind on his skin, the dirt under her feet and crouched legs, the leaves that get caught in her long hair and the sleepy dust between her eyes. Then she started to hear, hear what she couldn't before; the animals sleeping soundly in their homes, the sound of water moving in a creek in the distance, and the breathing of Naruto who sat next to her in suspense.

Sakura just nodded that it was good and yawned, "Whatever happened, it is going to make things better for everyone we care for. Now let's get some sleep, Naruto-kun." Naruto nodded as the two friends went back to the cabin, with the thoughts of how their lives are going to change for the better fresh in their minds.

End of Chapter 1

*Hello everyone! This is MircThomas19 here with the twentieth Fanfic on my account! I really have went far since I first joined and I am glad that a lot others enjoyed my work. I try my best to keep you happy so that I be able to make you even happier with more to read and enjoy.

1. It is basically 'Sakura' spelled backwards. It is a code name that six year old kids came up and stuck to.

2. Like you may guess, Naruto's last name spelled backwards. So that the code couldn't be connected from just hearing any of them at once.

Translations:

Konohagakure no Sato – Hidden Leaf Village of Fire Country

Hokage – Fire Shadow

Gurume Saibō – Gourmet Cells