Well hello there people of the Naruto Fanfiction universe! I'm new here and I've finally decided to do my first Naruto Fanfic for you.
I'm sorry if you don't like it but it will be good experience for me in the future and drastically help my writing style and help with the punctuation and grammar.
I think ive said enough so I will give you a little bit of insight to the story. The story starts with Hiruzen explaining what has happened to a certain blond and what happened afterwards. It will be an account of what happened on the fateful day where Naruto 'leaves' the village because of what happened to the only people he really calls family, apart from Hiruzen. At the start Naruto is 9 then he will be back 3 years later when he is 12 for the Chunin exams and that is basically where it will be based loosely on the cannon. You can expect a strong/intelligent/dark Naruto, but don't worry he won't be suicidal dark where he wants to destroy leaf. He still calls it his home and will protect it but I mean his personality to people in the leaf village will be dark but he will eventually snap out of it.
So please enjoy!
It was a dark, gloomy day in Konohagakure. The village was silent, not even a peep could be heard throughout all of the alleys and paths. In the tallest building with the Kanji for 'Fire' you would be able to see a certain man with a grievous face. This man was none other than the Hokage of said Village. The Hokage of Konoha could be described as one of the greatest Shinobi to have walked the earth since the Rikudou Sennin; the 'God of Shinobi' is a light skinned man of below average stature with grey hair. He has had a small goatee and short spiked hair both the colour of grey; he has three vertical lines running away for his eye on both sides of his face and three warts marrying his face and nose. His clothes consisted of a customary hat and haori, along with a red, full-length kimono that was tied using a white sash. This man was called Hiruzen Sarutobi, he was old but still lethal and was a friendly man that would always put his village first.
However, why would such a jolly old man but so….. Upset you might wonder? Well today it was the 10th October. Today was the day the boy he considered to be his grandson went missing without a trace, and today was his birthday. Today of all days was when he was promoted to Genin. The boy was 9 years old and had one of the bubbliest personality's you could think of, even with all the beatings and hurtful glares he got from all the villages. The said boy was considered 'The Next Big Thing' or 'the next Kakashi or Itachi'; he would have been a splendid ninja and with all his claims to strive to Hokage gave him the perfect motivation to train harder and longer. The boy was one of the smartest to have been produced from the village, easily dwarfing that of a Nara's brain capability's and deduction skills. But, this wasn't the case this time. He the 'God of Shinobi' was not quick enough to stop his own Ninja try and kill his surrogate Grandson, well that would be the case if they were actually successful. No, the Ninja that attacked him didn't even get a chance to kill him; instead all they did was kill the closest people the blond. After that event Hiruzen stormed across the Roof tops and all the way to the Ichiraku's.
"I'm so sorry Naruto, If only I had defended you more and over ruled the council. I've failed you Minato, Kushina, now he has been gone for a year because of my idiocy." Hiruzen said to no one as a single tear fell from his right wrinkled eye. "If only I did something before it happened!"
(Flashback No Jutsu)
"Quick, ANBU head straight for the Ichiraku's; we need to save Naruto!" barked Hiruzen before the ANBU disappeared in smoke and swirling leaves.
'I need to make it in time' was the only though on Hiruzen's head as he quickly followed the act of the ANBU
When the Hokage arrived at the Ichiraku's house, all he was met with has a puddle of blood and what looked like an old man in the middle. This old man was called Teuchi, and was the owner of the Ichiraku Ramen stand that the blond child would always visit. He saw that there was shuriken and Kunai sticking out of his back along with blood splattered along the walls and the stairs. As Hiruzen carried on through the hallway and towards the kitchen he could see that the wall to the garden was destroyed with singe marks around the edge. He quickly deduced this to being paper bombs on kunai. He then travelled to the back garden where he saw his ANBU. They were all stood around the dead bodies of four people. The two on the furthest right were just some genin that were promoted last year; the one in the middle was a man of around 25 years old with shoulder length white hair. He was wearing the standard attire for the Konoha Chunin; under the flak jacket was a navy blue, long sleeved shirt and a demon shuriken on his back, his name was Mizuki. On the left was a young girl around 19 and her name was Ayame. She had a slender figure with long brown hair and eyes; she was wearing a standard blue kimono that reached to the top of her ankle.
However, what shocked Hiruzen the most was that these Ninja's were the ones that were going to kill Naruto. But, something didn't add up, their body's looked like they had been crushed and there was water all over the back garden. It looked like someone had used advanced water Jutsu known as Suiton: Mizurappa (Water Release: Wild Water Wave).
It had flooded the back garden, but what freaked Hiruzen out the most was that there was a centre of the garden what looked like the Rotation that is used by the Hyuga clan. On further inspection a Forehead protector could be found in the middle of the crater, the protector was the usual one given to Ninja to show what town/country they were from. The said Forehead protector was seen face up with a slash going through the symbol in the middle representing 'Nuke-nin'.
To say Hiruzen was shocked would be an insult. No, he was much worse, he was mortified. The person he thought of as a grandson was now missing and had killed three Konoha Ninja. This was all bad news for Hiruzen because the council would twist the Shinobi of the village and use them against Hiruzen to find and execute Naruto.
What effected Hiruzen the most is that Naruto would go so far as to make himself a Nuke-nin and run off from his home and the people that cared for him, even if it was only Hiruzen and Itachi. (His personal ANBU body guard that would usually train Naruto)
Little did he know he was been watched by a shadowed figure with only his eyes visible. His eyes were a dark purple with a centre black dot for the Iris, followed around the iris was four concentric black rings that added a layered look to the eyes. From what you could get from the shadowed figure were his eyes, spiky-shoulder length hair and two distinctive pieces of hair resembling horns. The figure wore what appeared to be a cloak with a high collar, revealing his necklace with six red magatama.
Hiruzen bent down and picked up the head band and just stared at it for a few minutes before dismissing the ANBU to call for a council meeting.
(10 Minutes later)
Hiruzen arrived at the Council meeting to be greeted with irritated looks from all of the members, Shinobi and villagers.
"I'm sure you are all confused on why I called a meeting at 4 o'clock in the morning." Hiruzen said and looked around the room with heads nodding. "Well, one hour ago an unauthorised attack on Naruto Uzumaki occurred from two genin and one Chunin. The leader of the attack was Mizuki and he succeeded in killing the Ichiraku's at their home, but from what I gathered Naruto Uzumaki killed the Genins and Chunin only then to flee the scene leaving behind only his Hitai-ate and declare himself as a Nuke-nin. I do not know where Naruto is, nor do I expect he wants finding. I have to; however, declare him as a Bingo book Ninja at c/b rank ninja with capture alive." Hiruzen finished but the looks on the Villages told him everything. They all looked thankful that he was gone; they all looked like they wanted to jump up and start celebrating.
"A-are you sure Hokage-sama." The response from one Itachi Uchiha who was allowed the day off from watching Naruto but was going to meet him tomorrow, but when Hiruzen shook his head up and down it cut Itachi in two. He thought of Naruto as a brother, not as much as Sasuke but as much as you can for a surrogate brother.
"Why are we sat here then? We should be out celebrating!" said a brown haired Banshee by the name of Mebuki Haruno, she was an official Minato Namikaze (the 4th Hokage) fan girl but never could be with him because of Kushina Uzumaki. When Minato died saving the village from the Kyuubi she despised Naruto for taking away her Minato.
"YEAH!" came from the Civilian side of the council side of the table before they were shot down by the combined KI of Itachi and Hiruzen.
"From now on, no more celebrations will be allowed. The 10th October is no longer a day for celebration, if you celebrate the death of the Kyuubi then you are by default celebrating the disappearance of Naruto and you will be killed! Am I clear?" Responded an angered Hiruzen who only got the answer of nodding heads from the whole of the council
"Hiruzen, we should dispatch hunter ninja to find the boy. He is our ultimate weapon and is responsible for keeping Konoha safe." Danzo said before he got a glare from Hiruzen
"I've already told you, he left on his own accord so I doubt he wants to be found." Hiruzen quickly shot down
"You have grown old Hiruzen, if I must, I will keep Konoha safe myself without authorisation from you!" Danzo said in his monotone voice before getting out if his chair and leaving the meeting.
"So I hear by call this meeting to an end. You may all go now." Hiruzen whispered but was still heard by everyone, they could hear the sorrow in his voice and all left quickly and silently.
(Flashback end No Jutsu)
Hiruzen had just recalled the memory of when Naruto went missing and a few tears were creeping down his face when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." was the only response Hiruzen said
"Hey there Sensei, I've got something you're going to want to hear." Said a white haired man as he entered the room with a sorrowful look on his face
The said White haired man was no other than the gallant toad sage Jiraiya. Jiraiya was a tall man with waist-length, spiky white hair usually tied back into a pony tail, with two shoulder length bangs that framed both sides of his face. He also had red lines that ran down from his eyes and wore a green short shirt kimono and matching pants; under which he wore mesh armour that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his outfit.
"Well what is it Jiraiya?"
"I found out from one of my spies located in Kumogakure a sighting of a boy with 3 whisker marks on both cheeks. This could possibly be Naruto but my spy also informed me that now he had Red hair the same as his Fathers with spiky on the top and two bangs marring his face and stopping just before his chin. He seems to be a lady killer now because he was apparently walking down the street and all the women his age and older was literally drooling over him." Jiraiya finished with a chuckle before continuing "He is now a fairly skinned kid with a dark blue tank top with ANBU black trousers and what appears to be a trench coat like his fathers but a blue cloak and red flames at the bottom with the Kanji for 'The Red Kitsune'. However that was all I got from the spy as he was walking with a blond haired Kunoichi that appeared to be a Genin about the same age. The spy said that her name was Yugito Nii and the Jinchuriki of the Nibi, the two tails. She has long, straight, blonde, hair bound with taut bandages and dark blue eyes, she wore a short-sleeved black and purple blouse and black pants. They were seen and followed into what looked like a sushi shop were they sat, ate and talked before departing half an hour later, when my spy was going to follow what we believe to be Naruto, he said that he just disappeared and couldn't sense his chakra anyway." Jiraiya finished
Hiruzen's moods changed during what Jiraiya had said from sorrowful to happy then to a questing look and finally finished with a hopeful look.
"So you're saying Naruto is alive and is sometimes seen around Kumo."
"Yeah that what I'm saying because it appears he has been to Kumo three or four times just out in the open and two if the said times were with the blond girl. So I think he hasn't gone to Kumo to be a ninja, I think he is somewhere near Kumo and getting things like food and equipment." Jiraiya concluded
"Well we I will not be sending anyone to collect him if he doesn't want to but, I do want you to go and try and persuade him to come back to the Leaf."
"Gotcha Sensei! …. Oh and by the way, here is the new Icha Icha Paradise book." Jiraiya finished with a wink before tossing the book towards Hiruzen and shun shining out of the Office.
Hiruzen just giggled like a school girl before opening the first page and reading thoroughly. As soon as he reached the next page blood shot from his nose and was sent flying out of the window of his Hokage mansion with a perverted look on his face and stars around his head.
He soon regained his Barings before thinking to himself 'It's good to know your OK Naruto. Oh and I'm going to have to see this girl you seem to have taken a liking to.'
He soon got up and walked back into his office ignoring all the laughing faces of men and angry red faces of women shaking their fists towards said Hokage.
(Two years later)
Konohagakure had changed quite a lot, in the streets you could see people walking, buying from stores and just generally enjoying their day. The kids were all running around and you could see all the Genins that graduated earlier this year doing their fair share of D-ranks mission.
Jiraiya returned from his trip to Kumo empty handed and a disheartened look on his face a year ago. It turns out he spent a whole year in Kumo looking for Naruto and where ever he looked he couldn't not find a trace of the boy, however, said boy was now 12 and Hiruzen was betting if he was a Kumo ninja then he would be participating in the Chunin exams if he hadn't already been promoted. Still, Hiruzen had his hopes up for the next upcoming Chunin exams which would be held in Konoha in two months' time.
Currently the Hokage could be found in the mission room with one of the best teams Konoha produced from this year's Genin, the team consisted of a dark haired boy that was ghostly pale and always wore clothes that stopped before they reached the end of his body, and His name was Sai. Next to him was a pink haired Kunoichi in a long red dress and green thigh length trousers, her name was Sakura. Then on her right was what everyone considered to be the 'Next Itachi' bar the Jounin of the village and Hiruzen. The boy had dark black/blue hair that was spiky and his bangs hung above his eyes. He wore a blue, short-sleeved shirt with a high collar and the Uchiha crest on the back and white arm warmers along with white shorts, his name was Sasuke Uchiha. There Jounin was Kakashi Hatake the 'copycat Ninja'. (Kakashi wears what he always wears in the Manga and Anime)
"Hokage can we have a better mission than D-ranks?" Asked Sasuke
"Well your record of D-rank missions completed was higher than all the other Genin teams so far so, yes, I will give you a C-rank mission." Hiruzen said in response to handing a scroll to Kakashi. "In this mission you are required to look after Tazuna so that he can build a bridge from Wave country to the main land."
"Hai Hokage-sama!" was all the team said before leaving the room to get Tazuna
(In wave Country)
Wave country was a severally run down country with no money and no trade, it was the perfect place for a Ninja on the run from Konoha to go and he was welcomed with open arms by a women called Tsunami.
"Well Naruto, it's good to see you again. I guess you want to go and talk to Inari because he is in his room if you need him." She said as she walked back to the kitchen to wash up what wasn't washed.
Said boy called Naruto was none other than 'The Red Kitsune' and feared by Otogakure with a kill on sight in the Bingo books ordered by Orochimaru. The boy had changed quite a lot now, his hair had grown longer but still maintained his spiky top and jaw length bangs. The clothes hadn't changed from two years ago, more like they had just gotten bigger to support his well chiselled chest and his athletic appearance. He was, as women described him as a 'fallen Angel' with his devilishly good looks and well-built form. The only difference with his appearance was that his eyes had changed from the breath taking Blue orbs to ones of metallic purple with a single black iris and four concentric rings to follow around it.
"Thank you for the hospitality again Tsunami, I heard that Konoha would be sending Jiraiya to come look for me again so I came to my second favourite place in the world." Naruto replied with a grin of his own that made Tsunami blush. "Well I will go and see how Inari is doing now." He said before disappearing up the stairs the room on the nearest left.
*Knock**Knock**Knock*
Naruto opened the door to be tackled into a flying hug from Inari and brought to the floor.
"Hey there buddy, who you been?" Naruto asked nonchalantly
"Ive been doing great Naruto-sensei, ive finally managed to be able to hit all the targets you left me with kunai 100% of the time." Said Boy responded with a wide grin
"whoah… looks like Inari is becoming a full-fledged ninja doesn't it." Naruto responded by ruffling Inari's hair (Inari, Tsunami and Tazuna all wear what they wore in the Anime except Inari doesn't have his hat)
"Naruto-sensei can you teach me how to walk up trees please?" Pleaded Inari
"Hmmm… I don't know, do you think you can handle it?" Naruto asked in a mocking voice
Then as he shut his eyes to hear Inari's answer all he felt was something lumped on his feet. As Naruto looked down he saw Inari kissing his feet with comical anime tears streaming down his face before standing up and giving Naruto a puppy eyes face that not even Kami could say no to.
"Ohh… fine, come on then Inari no time better than the present." Said Naruto before Naruto sucked Inari into his eye in what looked like a swirl before he sucked himself in and then milliseconds later they were both stood in Tsunami's kitchen.
"Arhhhh…. Naruto don't scare me like that you know my poor little heart won't take a jump scare from you teleporting anywhere." Said Tsunami as she tried to put on a serious face before she and Naruto burst out laughing
"I'm going to train Inari to help him become a better ninja; we will be back in a bit when he has got it down. Say where Old man Tazuna is?" Naruto asked as he was looking around the room for said man.
"He went to hire some Ninja to help him finish the bridge and stop Gato. He would have asked you but you were gone so long we didn't know when you would be getting back." Replied Tsunami
"Oh.. ok then well send me a message when he gets back by having Inari put a bit of chakra into the seal and I will be here before you can say 'Is Naruto here yet'." He said before he and Inari disappeared in a swirl again from his right eye.
(A week Later with Tazuna)
They had been attacked by two Chunin and Zabuza Momochi who they just about beat, thanks to Kakashi.
Currently they could be found inside Tazuna's house after arriving there a few hours ago, they were now sitting around Tazuna's table eating some fish that was prepared by Tsunami.
"Well now team 7 to get you prepared to fight Zabuza and his associate. So as of tomorrow we will be doing tree climbing exercises." Kakashi said a realization had just hit Tsunami
"That reminds me Father, Inari and Naruto-kun went to do some tree climbing to help Inari." She said and caused everyone in the room apart from Sai and Tazuna to freeze
"Oh.. I didn't realise Naruto was back, well if it is helping Inari we know he is safe with Naruto."
"Excuse me but who is this Naruto and I didn't realise that your son was a Ninja?" asked Kakashi
"Well Naruto came here two Years ago to escape someone called Jiraiya, then he stayed with us for a year before heading back. He came back just a week ago and he went with Inari to help him train and teach him with chakra, however Inari isn't a ninja he is just getting help from Naruto so he can be able to protect us if Gato should ever come after Tazuna." Finished Tsunami with a smile on her face
"Is there any way to contact them?" Tazuna asked while Tsunami nodded
"He left this tag here so that you have to pump some chakra into the seal and then he will come."
Kakashi taking the tag off of Tsunami stared to examine it before he gave up moments later complaining about how intricate the seal was.
Next it was Sasuke's turn to ask a question "How old is your son Inari?"
"Well he is nine at the moment"
'Nine! Were twelve and we are only just beginning to learn tree walking. If my hunch is correct then I will challenge Naruto to a battle and beat him because I'm an Uchiha Elite.' Thought Sasuke before he was brought out of his mind by Kakashi as he put a bit of chakra into the seal
A few milliseconds later a swirl appeared in the kitchen and then out came Inari who ran over and hugged his grandfather.
"Inari you're back, but where is Naruto?" asked Tazuna
"Well Naruto had to go talk to his Sensei about something and dropped me off here. I finally got Tree walking under the belt and can successfully walk up tree's." came Inari's response with a big grin on his face
"Well team let's get some sleep and do the training for the rest of the week. I know Zabuza won't be healed until the week is over." Kakashi said from behind his mask and then they all disappeared up stairs
(A week later)
Team 7 was found on the bridge with what looked like a heavy mist surrounding it; they were currently in a heated battle with Zabuza and his associate Haku.
Currently Sasuke and Sai had forced Haku out of the Ice dome and we about to finish the blow to him when they felt Kakashi sensei his own technique, the Raikiri
Haku body flicked in front of Zabuza and took the blow of Chidori for him, rendering Haku dead and spiralled out on the floor.
"Now Kakashi, I didn't think it was in your interest to kill harmless boys like Haku?" Came a voice from nowhere but you could feel the power leaking from it
"Who are you?" was the response from Zabuza and Kakashi as the mist started clearing to leave a single person at the end of the bridge.
The said person was none other than Naruto Uzumaki "Me, well I'm Naruto Uzumaki, at your service." He said with a comical bow
Kakashi and Team 7 eyes all widened after hearing that it was Naruto; the boy believed to be dead/ missing was stood in front of them
Sasuke could feel the power and KI leaking from Naruto and felt jealous of the boy 'I will beat him, he is nothing compared to an Uchiha elite' he thought before activating his Sharingan and launching himself at Naruto
Naruto stood there as Sasuke was closing the distance between the two rather quickly with an impassive face. As Sasuke was mere inch from Naruto, he went straight through the air where he used to be. After seconds of searching, Sasuke Sharingan caught sight of Naruto on the side of the bridge with his eyes closed like they were when he first arrived.
"Hey Naruto, how about you open your eyes when you're about to get beaten from someone that stronger than you." Said a confident Uchiha before his confidence vanished and was washed over with pure horror.
Naruto opened his eyes and revealed his Rinnegan to team 7 and Zabuza who all paled after hearing that the legendary eyes belonged to the Sage of 6 paths.
"You shouldn't be cocky 'Uchiha' when you don't know what the other person can do."
Naruto vanished from his spot and appeared behind Sasuke a second later and with one clean chop to the back of the neck he was out cold.
Naruto then looked at Kakashi before speaking "Now Kakashi I'm not here to fight, I'm here to give you Gato's head and a message to the Hokage. Tell him that I will be at the Chunin exams." Naruto finished and unsealed Gato's head and threw it to Kakashi then vanished in a swirl back to Kumo
Kakashi stood there speechless, he had just found his sensei's son and he found out that Naruto was able to dispatch of Sasuke without even trying and he would be taking part in the Chunin exams. Kakashi looked like he was about to collapse on the floor from the heart attack.
"That's Naruto for you, always makes a flashy entrance." Mused Tazuna before him and his men carried on finishing the bridge. After Kakashi finished Zabuza with his Raikiri
(At the Hokage Mansion after the mission to wave)
"Are you positive Kakashi? You're sure Naruto has the Rinnegan!" asked the humble god of Shinobi
"I'm positive Hokage-sama, once you see eyes like that you never forget it." Was Kakashi's response
"Well then, we will have to make sure all of our teams are more than ready to deal with Naruto in the Chunin exams then. I trust you will be able to spread the message to the other teams that are participating, to put all their efforts into training. Just don't say why they are doing it." Hiruzen said
He was greeted with a 'Hai' then a swirl of leaves signifying that Kakashi had left his office in a Shunshin
'Well Naruto, I must say it will be good to see how you have come along in these three years. I can't wait so see you again.' Hiruzen thought.
Hiruzen was brought out of his thoughts when he looked back at his desk. He was then shot out of his chair backwards because on the desk in front of him was a pile of papers that looked like it had just grown by three times the amount from when Kakashi had left.
"Damn paperwork! Let's see if you can handle a bit of the old Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique," Hiruzen said while laughing manically
Just after he used the jutsu his room had filled with smoke, not the smartest thing for a Kage to do. However, if it gets you out of paperwork it's a win win situation. What Hiruzen wasn't expecting was the papers to be fire proof and there stood the stacks of paper like it wasn't touched by the fireball jutsu at all.
All the god of Shinobi could do was smash his head of the desk multiple times saying how stupid he could be before he chair broke and he ended up face first on the ground.
After standing up he walked to his window looking over his village and thought to himself 'three years I've had to wait to see you Naruto, so I think I can wait three more months.'
Just after he finished his thought there was another white blur shooting across the sky, but this white blur happened to have Anime tears rolling down his face and was crying about 'always getting caught doing his research' which only brought a chuckle to Hiruzen's lips.
A/N well guys what do you think about it? Its my first attempt so I hope you all like it, I'm thinking Naruto/Yugito for the pairings but I might make an OC or possible a Harem. You guys put which one you would prefer to see but I will label the fic so far a Naruto/Yugito, so whichever one wins I will change if necessary. Remember to R&R and put which one you want; Naruto/Yugito (1) , Naruto/OC and if I can't come up with idea's I'll ask one of you guys to make me an OC (2), Naruto/Harem (3)
Peace y'all!