This idea just randomly popped into my head one day and so I wrote a few chapters. Review please and tell me if I should continue it. I also need new ideas if anyone's got any. Enemies and stuff.

Having said all that, All rights go to Masashi Kishimoto for writing Naruto. It's a wonderful series. I don't own anything. Please review.

Prologue:

Naruto Senju was well known through Konohagakure no Sato as a fearsome warrior. He was the son of Tobirama Senju himself, trained by the Nidaime as his successor along with a ninja by the name of Hiruzen Sarutobi. The reason being that if one of them died, there would be someone else to take the hat.

Naruto was well known to be cold, ruthless, and extremely efficient in killing. No one that went against him made it out alive. In fact there were very few people that could match up to him in a battle and those were Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and Izuna Uchiha. He was actually friends with Izuna. Hiruzen wasn't even equal with him. In fact, he helped train the younger boy when his father was busy.

Currently he was on a solo assassination mission that would help fix ties between Konoha and Iwa. There was apparently a bandit leader that no one from Iwa could kill and he had been sent to take care of it. He was successful of course. He was always successful. He had never failed a mission.

What Naruto didn't know was that one of Sarutobi's family members, a man of the assassination unit, was after him so that Sarutobi could become the Hokage next. The young boy had no idea that his family was taking matters into their own hands. He rather liked Naruto.

Naruto jumped through the trees when he was suddenly encased in ropes that held little hooks that were digging into his skin. His eyes widened and he let out a cry of surprise and pain and the ropes tightened, before he was yanked down to the ground. He slammed into the dirt with a puff of dust and the oxygen was forced from his lungs in a violent gasp.

While he was lying paralyzed from the shock of his oxygen deprivation, a man walked up to him, unsheathing his katana. Naruto slowly focused on him and the man smiled, "Now Hiruzen will get your position, as he deserves, Senju."

Naruto took a gasping, shuddering breath, "Who...are you?!"

"I am named Gryu Sarutobi and I'm a relative of Hiruzen that wants the best for him."

"He...He wouldn't want this!"

"He doesn't need to know. I can just say that I came across your mutilated body and felt the need to bring you back to the village. Now goodbye."

Naruto's eyes widened as the katana rose and then it plunged down. His body jerked and bright red liquid sprayed across the clearing. Gryu straightened and looked down in satisfaction as blood trickled from Naruto's lips, staining his chin and neck red as it dripped to the ground. The katana was buried in his chest and there was a rapidly spreading puddle of blood beneath him.

Naruto coughed and the ropes unraveled from around him, leaving him free, but he was too weak to move anyway. He looked up at the nin with quickly dulling eyes and gave a small laugh, "They'll...catch you. I...put a seal...on my body...that reveals...my killer."

The man's eyes widened and Naruto fell still as the last of the life dulled out of his eyes. His body lost all tension and Gryu saw a glow on Naruto's palm. That would be his death, though he didn't know it. He quickly set to mutilating the body so that it looked like it had been a lucky rage attack and then left the body there.

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Tobirama received the last few minutes of his son's life and his red eyes filled with rage and despair. He let out a scream of anguish at the death of his only son and Hashirama rushed in, "Tobi! What's wrong?!"

Tobirama looked over and Hashirama saw the glowing seal on the white-haired man's hand. His eyes widened, "No. It can't be."

"He's dead! Naruto is dead!"

Hashirama's eyes filled with sadness at the death of his nephew, "Who was it?"

"Someone named Gryu Sarutobi. Apparently, he wanted to give Hiruzen a chance to become Hokage. He did it without Saru's knowledge."

Hashirama bowed his head and then looked up in clear anger, "I will go take care of him, Tobi. You stay here and run the village. Naruto's death won't go unpunished."

Tobi looked at his older brother and then nodded and looked at a picture of his son smiling next to him, "Yeah, go. If you can't find his killer, at least bring him home to be buried here."

Hashirama nodded, "I will." Then he was gone, leaving the albino man to mourn the death of his only son.

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