I'm terribly sorry to everyone who enjoys this book. While, I have tried several times to start another chapter, I found that this is virtually impossible due to the horrible and cliché way that I wrote and conducted this story. I've decided on not only redo-ing this entire story. Some will be the same. Most will change drastically. I couldn't stomach trying to continue such a pathetic book as the one before this one. So without further ado…the new and improved…
Suna's Fire Fox
"Speaking"
"Thoughts"
Flashbacks
"Demon/Summon speaking"
"Demon/Summon thoughts"
Jutsu name or Jutsu
Disclaimer: I own nothing but a car.
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Naruto glared at the ramen in front of him. He didn't feel like eating much at the moment. Swirling the noodles in a circle, he couldn't help but sigh. Not even ramen could help this 12-year old boy feel any better about today.
Putting the correct amount of money on the counter to the Ichiraku Ramen Stand, he gave another sigh as he waved at Ayame-chan and the Old Man.
Walking in a direction that seemed quite random, but to the contrary Naruto knew exactly where he was going. The only training ground that Naruto preferred to train at. He didn't exactly know why he always went to this training field in particular but he just felt like it was the best one.
Upon arriving at his destination, Naruto scowled darkly at the three training posts across from him. They always seemed to mock him, standing so tall and straight all the time. It reminded him of some of the assholes back at the academy.
Naruto growled at the thought of those….those….those pricks! How could they fail him? Sure he couldn't do a regular bunshin and sure he was really bad at written exams, but how did he fail? He was pretty sure he had a high enough score to pass…
Naruto felt his chest and throat tightening. He knew the answer. He just didn't want to admit it. The teachers hated him, no they loathed him. He had no idea what he had done to upset them so much but he was pretty sure a few pranks here and there wasn't a good enough reason to fail him. It was something else. Something he couldn't think of, nor did he care about at the moment.
He wanted to, with all his might, just blow the entire place to hell. Feeling the anger, sadness, and other negative emotions build to the point where he couldn't take it anymore….Naruto screamed.
The night air was disrupted by his scream. He wanted to kill something, oh how angry he was! He wanted to look the teacher in the eyes and gut him like a pig. Naruto continued screaming, not allowing himself to breath. He felt his voice crack, and then a soreness took its place. He continued screaming, refusing to take a breath of air.
He felt white hot tears run down his face as he grabbed his head and screamed. A strange blurriness entered his vision. Naruto ignored it, and continued screaming. Then that sudden blurriness wavered into a pitch black nothingness. Naruto couldn't feel the impact of the ground.
A black hole. Everywhere there was black. A hole of nothingness.
This is what Naruto decided was the place he was currently in. He did not feel at peace, he still was very pissed. But he could feel a lightness about him. Almost like he was just floating in this sea of darkness.
Slowly Naruto felt his anger seep away, but he could feel the anger of someone else rise. It was foul, but Naruto felt like it was his anger, yet it wasn't his. He couldn't help but feel a slight twinge of fear from the anger that he deduced was in fact from him, but it did not belong to him.
The anger evolved into something much more frightening. Hatred, malice, bloodlust, and the intent to kill was directly focused on Naruto. The blonde haired boy was frozen, fear washing over his body. Freezing him. He couldn't move, nor did he want to. He tried to quiet his breathing, afraid that whatever was producing these emotion would find him. His efforts, he soon discovered, were futile.
Naruto's eyes widened, heart racing, hands sweaty, and his entire being shaking. Fear squeezed Naruto's mind, only allowing his primal instincts to take control over his body. The fight or flight response. Naruto didn't want to fight, he wanted to run. Run forever until this fear that gripped Naruto's heart, however Naruto couldn't bring himself to even move, let alone run.
Abruptly, it ended. Naruto gulped down huge breaths of air as he tried to take as much in as possible, attempting to slow down his heart beat. He looked around him and just then noticed a pair of blood red eyes. They were watching him. Something close to amusement.
He watched as they continued forward until they were very large, and in front of the orange clad boy. Naruto felt something akin to awe, but also felt the fear that he was experiencing earlier.
Those blood red eyes kept watching him as the darkness eased its way backwards, exposing a enormous fox head. It's fur was as red as it's eyes, and the feral grin on this monsters face was terrifying beyond any comprehension.
Naruto stared, unable to make a sound, or even move for that matter. He could feel the blackness heating up, it was almost unbearable. He couldn't take anymore! He shut his eyes, trying to concentrate on anything other than the heat forcing its way through his body.
"Such a pathetic waste of space…"
Naruto blinked and looked at the fox…had it just spoken to him? He couldn't help but feel a tad insulted though, at what the monster had said to him. He was about to say something, when the fox cut him off.
"I advise you talk to your leader, bug. I want him to tell you everything. And I mean everything. You WILL say that to him…"
Naruto nodded dumbly, unable to understand just what was going on. The crimson eyes of the fox narrowed and a claw shot forward and pierced Naruto, right in the chest.
Naruto's eyes widened, feeling the blood pool in his mouth. A mind numbing pain washed over him, as he could feel the fox start to pump its chakra into his system. The pain flared to an impossible level as Naruto released a blood curdling scream.
With a sickening noise, the fox removed it's claw from Naruto's chest. Naruto looked down, expecting a gaping wound, but all he saw was his bare chest. He felt sore, and so very tired. He was in fact so tired that he almost missed what the fox had said after that.
"Use that power that I have given you, bug. And no, this is not a dream, you'll see when you wake up." The fox chuckled quite darkly, "But for now. Tell your leader…."
Naruto felt another ripple of fear shoot threw him as the fox's mouth slowly drew back into a bloodthirsty grin.
"Tell him, that the Kyuubi no Kitsune will be back one day. And I will finish the job next time."
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Naruto sat up right, and immediately regretted it. Groaning, he clutched his head as he forced himself to stand up, despite the unusual soreness in his body and chest.
Whatever he had just experienced…it wasn't a dream, or a nightmare. It was to vivid, to painful, to memorable….to real. Naruto started walking towards the one place he knew he had to go. And by the ramen gods, he was going to get some answers from the old coot.
Naruto ran to the Hokage tower, feeling strangely different. He didn't have to avoid crowded areas this time, due to the fact that it was very late and normal people would be sleeping. Naruto knew that Hokage-oji-san would be still awake at this time of the day.
Back when Naruto was younger, he always would visit Oji-san if he had a nightmare or if he had a feeling that something was wrong with his apartment or to simply just be good company to the man.
Naruto loved the night. He felt so awake, so rejuvenated just by seeing the moon. He knew he wasn't a morning person, but that was probably because Naruto stayed out until 2 or possibly 3 every morning. He just preferred it better.
Running past the hidden ANBU that he knew were guarding the door, he continued his jog up the stairs. He wanted to get to the Hokage as quickly as possible.
Naruto stopped at the door of the office he knew the old man would be in, doing paperwork. Naruto shook his head, regaining his breath. He always felt sorry for Oji-san. He never seemed to ever be rid of that damn paperwork. When he became the Hokage, he was going to make a law that all paperwork for the Hokage, was to be sent to his/her secretary to deal with.
Naruto stood up straight after catching his breath and opened the door to the office he was so familiar too. He knew that probably only him and a handful of other people would be allowed to get away with this.
"Oi! Oji-san! I need to talk to you!"
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Sarutobi Hiruzen was considered a genius among geniuses. He deserved his title of 'The Professor' of Konohagakure and had rightfully earned the title of Sandaime Hokage.
Secrets were never kept from the old, but definitely not fragile, man. However, he had sported a great deal of secrets himself. He had too. To protect the village from vital information that could possibly be the downfall of this village is his job. And he was very good at his job. Thus, the reason why he had kept secrets from people.
However…
There was one secret that would elude his possession until the day he died. He would never find out how to conquer such a foe as the one this secret entailed. He would always be struggling to keep the balance of power between him and his accursed enemy.
He would never be able to put a dent into this paperwork.
He was tempted to just light the whole stack of paperwork on fire and say it was an accident. However, he had tried everything to rid himself of this said paper work. And he occasionally was allowed a break from the clutches of his most hated enemy.
He would always find little ways to entertain himself while he worked. He would also take occasional breaks to have a smoke from his pipe, or to walk the village and be social.
He would most definitely say, however, that his most favorite form of distraction from the accursed paperwork would come from the form of a blonde-haired blue-eyed orange wearing academy student.
Uzumaki Naruto was definitely not like any other person he had met. The boy himself seemed to have attached to his side. Sarutobi didn't mind it of course because he thought of that child like a grandson to him.
Naruto was one of the only people that could barge into his office, call him 'Oji-san' and not face the wrath of 'The Professor'. He loved the boy to death.
Sarutobi chuckled, thinking of the boy. The boy had the most unusual sleeping regime he had ever seen in a young child. Naruto was unaffected by staying up late, though he knew that Naruto hated being woke up when the sun was shining.
Hiruzen would often stay up late with Naruto, not doing any paper work, just to talk with the boy. He usually came into his office at night either when he had a nightmare and he couldn't go back to sleep anymore. Which Hiruzen highly doubted seeing that Naruto would never go to bed before 1 A.M. in the morning. Another reason why Naruto would visit him was because he claimed that the apartment the Sandaime had bought him, quote 'felt different and made me not want to go inside'.
The old Hokage and abruptly sent some ANBU to check out the apartment, and indeed the home had been trapped for when Naruto came home, in an attempt to kill the child.
Hiruzen merely ruffled Naruto's hair and congratulated him on having such a superb instinct. The image of Naruto's bright grin made him chuckle slightly.
Of course, the third and final reason why Naruto would visit him at such a late time of the night, was to just talk to him. He figured Naruto didn't want to come in during the day because of how many people would just tell him to stop wasting the time of the Hokage.
He actually liked Naruto coming in during the night to talk to him better then if he came in during the day. This way, he could truly focus on the child he considered a grandson and would be able to actually talk to him comfortably, without eyes watching his every move. He assumed Naruto felt the exact same way.
Hiruzen could almost sense what day Naruto would come in and have a nice chit chat with him, and he put it to very good use.
But there was a feeling in his stomach that Naruto would come in and talk with him tonight, and he knew it had something to do with the enormous chakra burst that he had felt earlier on.
It surprised him at first and he ordered his ANBU to check it out, wishing desperately that he could go. He sighed, something about today just didn't feel right. And that feeling started right when he woke up this morning.
Sarutobi expected Uzumaki Naruto to come into his office this early morning, and he expected that the discussion that would take place soon after that would be of utmost importance.
Which is why he wasn't surprised to see his door almost fly off it's hinges when Naruto stepped inside his office, knowing it was Naruto who kicked his door in. And he also wasn't surprised when Naruto gave him a frightened glare mixed with a serious look.
"Oi! Oji-san! I need to talk to you!"
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Naruto glared at the old man sitting calmly in front of him. Sandaime stood up and smiled at Naruto.
"Ah, Naruto-kun. I was expecting you. Please have a seat."
Naruto made his way to the sofa at the side of the room. He plopped down in the comfy cushions and watched Sarutobi pull out a chair and place it on the ground opposite of Naruto. He joined Naruto in sitting. The Sandaime smiled at Naruto and took a drag from his pipe.
"So, Naruto-kun. What did you need to talk to me about?"
Naruto sat forward, almost excited to get this information out, but he hesitated. How should he start? Naruto frowned thinking then slowly he started to speak.
"You…you know about me failing the academy exam today….right?"
Sarutobi nodded, a kind look on his face. "Of course."
Naruto waved a hand, "It was a fluke I tell you, those bastards at the academy have something against me and they failed me just becau - well never mind about that. But after the exam I went to a training ground and I was standing there screaming! And all of a sudden-"
The Hokage held up a hand, trying to make sense of blabbing Naruto was saying. "Hold on… you were at a training field…screaming?"
Naruto nodded, annoyed that he was interrupted. "Yeah! I was mad, so I released my anger. But anyway! As I was saying, before I was interrupted-" He sent the Hokage a glare, "All of a sudden, I pass out! I don't know how but I just fell over and I was gone. But then I wake up and I'm floating in a black hole or something. And this huge fox came out of nowhere!"
Sarutobi's eyes darkened, He knew what Naruto was talking about and it seemed that he had contacted the Kyuubi years before the Yondaime expected him too.
"It started talking to me, It told me to ask you to tell me everything. Then, then! It stabbed my chest with it's claw! It hurt so much and then it forced it's chakra into me! After that it looked pulled its huge claw out of my chest and told me to use the power it gave me, whatever that means. And then it said to tell you…."
Naruto hesitated, this next part confused him beyond all of the other things that happened.
"It said," Naruto started, "That the Kyuubi no Kitsune will be back and it will finish the job."
Silence fell over the room as Naruto finished his hurried speech. He waited for the Hokage to speak. Sarutobi took a drag out of his pipe, a worried frown on his face. Finally after a long silence, Hiruzen let out a sigh and leaned backwards.
For the first time ever, Naruto saw the true age of the Sandaime Hokage. The lines in his face from wrinkles seemed to make him look much older than what Naruto ever thought he was.
He sighed, "You've heard the story about that night 12 years ago….correct?"
Naruto nodded. "Yeah, the greatest Hokage ever, the Yondaime, killed Kyuubi no Kitsune. But why then did I have that dream about it?"
Sarutobi gave Naruto a serious look. "It is true that the Yondaime had defeated the Kyuubi. But he did not kill it."
Naruto furrowed his eyebrows, completely lost. "Is there a difference?"
Nodding, Hiruzen took another drag of his pipe. "The Yondaime was the considered the strongest man in the world. But Kyuubi was the strongest demon in the world. Nothing can kill it. And the Yondaime knew that, from the very moment that thing attacked our village. Now, Naruto. How do you get rid of an immortal being that can't be killed?"
Naruto shrugged, "I dunno."
Sarutobi sighed, "You lock it up. Put it in a place that a demon couldn't escape. The easiest answer to this choice of strategy is to seal the Kyuubi away."
"Seal it away? How?"
Waving his hand he dismissed Naruto's question. "Yes, seal it away. And it's a very complicated process that doesn't have any relativity to this topic at the moment. Now, there is a trick to sealing a demon with such power away. It must be sealed away inside a human."
Naruto's eyes widened, "A human?"
"Yes," the Sandaime continued. "A human. However, it had to be a child. No older than a week old."
Naruto shook his head, not understanding anything that was going on. "But why a kid?"
Nodding in approval at the question, Sarutobi replied. "A child between the ages of 1 day old and 1 week old do not have chakra coils developed. They start developing on their own about two to three weeks after birth. Any person that had the Kyuubi placed inside of them after that age would have had their chakra system completely destroyed and in turn would have killed that human. Then the Kyuubi would have been able to break out of its fleshy cage."
Naruto looked worried. He was starting to connect the dots a little bit, but he still needed a couple more answers.
"Then what?"
Hiruzen leaned forward and stared at Naruto with the most intent look he had seen all night.
"Naruto. When were you born?"
Gulping down a lump in his throat, and trying to ignore the feeling of dread in his stomach, Naruto weakly answered. "October 10th."
"Naruto. When did the Kyuubi attack Konoha?"
Naruto knew it. He just didn't want to admit it. He wasn't the most colorful crayon in the box, but sure the hell wasn't the dullest.
"October 10th."
Nodding to the orange clad boy, Sarutobi leaned back once more. "No other children were born that night. And a one day old child was the most preferred child to use for the sealing process."
Naruto felt so many emotions at the moment, he believed that he could explode. He hung his head.
Sarutobi stood up and sat down next to Naruto. He put his arm around the boy, comforting him. Naruto leaned in. He wouldn't cry. He promised himself years ago that he won't cry anymore. But the pain he felt inside was just too much. He had so many more questions, yet he just received so many answers right now also.
He looked up at the man he considered a grandfather. "What am I?"
"Naruto-kun. You are a boy, carrying a terrible burden. Something that should not have to be given to anyone…" He hesitated, "You…you are what they call, a Jinchuriki."
Naruto nodded sadly, accepting the answer. Too emotionally tired to really have any kind of reaction. "What now?"
Sarutobi raised an eyebrow at that question. He thought a little bit. "Well…I suppose now I should assign someone to train you."
Naruto blinked, "Train me?"
"Yes, now that the Kyuubi as been in contact with you and apparently he has given you some sort of 'power' it's only natural that I would have you be trained right away."
He grinned, and gave a fist pump. "Hell yeah! Only one more step closer to my goal!"
He chuckled, and scratched the back of his neck. Sarutobi smiled, wondering just what the power the Kyuubi gave Naruto. Naruto seemed no different than before, other than his hair being even more wild and untamed, but Sarutobi figured that was from the rough day he had.
"Naruto-kun, it's getting late. You should probably go back to your apartment. Tomorrow right when you wake up, gather your belongings and bring them to my office. I know the perfect man to teach you."
He listened to Naruto jump up and down, all the while grinning and laughing. Sarutobi chuckled it was about time Naruto got what he deserved.
He looked over at Naruto, just in time to see him give a big yawn. Sarutobi smiled fondly, the boy did need some rest. After what he's been threw. Naruto looked at the Sandaime and yawned again.
"Hey! Hey, Oji-san. Did you know what yawning is contagious?"
Smiling, "Yes Naruto-kun. I did know."
He held out his hand for Naruto to grab hold off, "Take my hand Naruto-kun and I'll take us to your apartment."
Naruto grabbed on, and in a poof of smoke, the two of them disappeared, only to reappear outside of Naruto's apartment door.
Naruto grinned at him, "Thanks Oji-san!" He took out the key for his lock and unlocked his door. When he turned the knob to enter, he stopped and looked back at the Hokage with a mischievous look on his face.
"Hey, Oji-san…"
"Yes, Naruto-kun?"
Naruto yawned, obviously fake. "Did you know hearing the word yawn and seeing someone yawn makes you want to yawn? Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn."
Naruto entered his apartment with that as his farewell. Sarutobi chuckled and walked down the stairs of the apartment. Thinking about the sensei he wants for Naruto. He already knew who was going to train him. It was just a matter of how assertive he had to be to get him to accept.
He sighed, as he walked back to the Hokage tower, enjoying the stroll. He looked around at the streets and realized that not a single person was out. It must have been later than he thought it was. Yawning, Sarutobi thought about hitting the sack. But then he realized something as he finished his big yawn.
He narrowed his eyes as he felt another yawn rise up inside of him.
Damn that boy.
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Naruto woke up, feeling oddly a little bit sore. He turned over to his belly and thrust his head in the pillow. Attempting to five more minutes of rest, but his body had said to him that he slept long enough and refused to go back to sleep.
Naruto groaned as he sat up, eyes closed. He sleepily hobbled to the bathroom to start his daily routine. He walked inside, not bothering to close the door behind him and walked to the toilet.
After relieving himself, he clumsily walked to the kitchen. He put water in his teapot and set it on his stove. Lighting a match, he allowed the propane gas to catch fire, then he placed the teapot over the flames.
He went to a nearby cupboard, opened it and blindly reached in for the first cup of ramen his hand bumped against. Naruto opened his eyes to see what kind he grabbed today.
Miso ramen, Naruto grinned. "It's going to be a good day if I start off with miso ramen for breakfast."
He opened the package and waited for his water to start screaming. With a little bit of patience, Naruto was rewarded with that sound. He took the pot off the stove and poured himself his ramen, still not quite awake.
Waiting a god awful three minutes for his ramen to cook, he opened the lid, broke apart his chopsticks and with a quick word of 'Itadakimasu!' he almost literally dove into his ramen.
Finishing his breakfast, he threw away the chopsticks and ramen cup and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He walked towards his bedroom and passed the bathroom. He stopped, and looked at the bathroom entrance with squinted eyes.
"To bathe, or not to bathe…" Naruto thought. A few seconds later Naruto sniffed his armpits, blinked and shrugged. "I smell okay. No shower for today!"
Naruto reentered his bedroom and stripped himself of all his clothing and put on an identical orange jumpsuit. He placed his goggles on his head and grabbed his backpack. Stuffing all of his clothes into that back pack, he looked at the rest of his room for any small items that had a great deal of value to him.
Sadly, there wasn't a single thing that he could think of. He was half tempted to bring his ramen, but he decided against it. Grabbing his key, Naruto left his apartment and locked the door behind him. He grinned and adjusted his goggles on his forehead.
He took a deep breath of air. Enjoying the smell, Naruto continued grinning. "What a wonderful day! A perfect day for the future Hokage to take a stroll in! Believe it!"
"Ah, shut up, you little brat!"
Naruto glared and stuck his tongue out at the passerby who had shouted at him. Future Hokage's didn't need that kind of unnecessary back talk from civilians.
With a cheery and bright attitude, Naruto took off towards the Hokage tower.
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Naruto entered Sarutobi's office, not even bothering to glance at the secretary. He knew that the old man would see him no matter what he was doing.
Sandaime looked up from the pile of paperwork he was working on. He smiled warmly at Naruto.
"Ah, Naruto-kun. You arrived."
Naruto grinned. "I wouldn't miss it for the world, Oji-san."
Chuckling the Hokage stood up, "If you would, Naruto-kun, follow me to your new sensei's house. This place is a short walk, but you'll be living there for a while."
Naruto nodded, excitedly. "So, Oji-san! Is this guy, like, super strong? Can he teach me lots of really cool and strong jutsu? What does he look like?"
Chuckling, the Sandaime ruffled Naruto's hair, "You will see soon enough, little one."
Naruto scowled and crossed his arms mumbling something about 'not being little'. Sarutobi smiled fondly.
For a couple minutes there was nothing but silence as Sarutobi walked towards Naruto's future sensei's house. Within minutes they were on the top of the Hokage Monument. With in a few more minutes they were walking in a forest, heading towards the small mountains behind Konoha.
Naruto was extremely bored with the silence and the slow pace of walk that the Sandaime set. He put his hands behind his head, not paying any attention what so ever to where they were going. It wasn't a long time before Naruto blinked as they stopped walking.
"Oi, Oji-san. Why did we stop walk-"
"We're here Naruto-kun."
Naruto blinked in confusion. "Uh, Oji-san. I don't know if your age is catching up to you or anything. But this is a freaking stone wall in the side of the mountain!" Naruto was scowling.
Indeed, just as Naruto said, in front of the two of them was a enormous wall of smooth stone. In the middle of this stone was a very small seal.
Sarutobi chuckled, "Just watch, Naruto-kun. After all, your sensei is a very secretive man."
Doing a set of hand seals, too fast for Naruto to see, the Sandaime finished and gently placed his hand on the stone, pouring chakra into it. Naruto blinked and jumped as a perfect circle came out of the stone wall and extended past the rest of the stone by a little over two inches.
Sarutobi gripped the ball and poured a small amount of chakra into it. Almost in acceptance of the chakra, the circle retreated back into the stone wall and an entrance shimmered to life. It was big enough to allow two people too walk side by side together in. but it wasn't that tall.
Mouth falling down at such a display of awesomeness, he dumbly followed Sarutobi inside. A bright natural light coming from the entrance that was blocked out by the forest a moment ago, where Naruto was standing.
Naruto felt his whole jaw drop at the sight in front of him.
In an almost ring like fashion, the mountains, shielded and protected the hidden valley in the center. A pond and a river flowed through a very small section of the valley, water being supplied by 20 foot waterfalls scattered around the edge of the pond. Giant trees were scarcely scattered around, only a big group of them were focused near the right of this entrance, leaving the rest of the valley an ocean of green grass. Except for two cherry blossom trees that surround a house, which was built into the mountain, at the very far end of the only entrance to the valley.
Naruto watched birds fly around, and couldn't help but feel a peace he's never felt before at such a beautiful area. Sarutobi, himself, smiled at how wonderful this place was. He waved his hand towards Naruto, a gesture for him to follow the old Hokage.
Naruto nodded and trailed Sarutobi like a lost puppy, trying to take in the valley. With in a couple minutes, they were at the entrance of the house. Sarutobi, just to be polite, knocked three times on the door and waited patiently.
Naruto blinked when the door opened and he looked at the man, starting with his feet.
This guy had normal sandals, not shinobi sandals, but civilian sandals on calloused feet. His legs were covered with brown khaki pants. His torso was clothed in a black short sleeved t-shirt, nothing special about it. It hung loosely off of the obviously well built man. He hands and forearms were relaxed and not covered with any sort of item. The mans head, however seemed to be the only interesting thing about him.
Black, short, messy hair was blessed to him. It literally looked like the dude just rolled out of his covers. A tan face. Well shaved, but seemed to have a permanent 7 o'clock shadow. A thin pale scar under his left ear on his jaw line was the only skin flaw he possessed. Finally, curious, soft purple eyes finished off his facial features.
Overall an attractive, if not slightly boring dressed, man was what he was presented with.
Naruto stared at the man, not expecting someone to look like him.
Sarutobi smiled and gave a small bow to the man, which made Naruto's eyes almost pop out of their heads. The Hokage bowing to someone? Who's heard of that? Naruto shook his head.
"Long time, no see. Denkou-kun."
The man, identified as Denkou, blinked and his face split into a huge grin. "Saru-ji-san! Come inside!"
He ushered the two of them inside his beautiful house. Inside was very roomy, and borderline elegant. Walking inside the house, Naruto looked around, enjoying it. The room they first entered in was a simple foyer. Wooden floors, light green painted walls. Over all, warm and comforting. To the left of the room were carpeted stairs, heading up one floor.
To the right of the foyer, with an open arch-way was what seemed to be a room dedicated to the ninja way. Twin swords were hanging on display. A couch and a couple matching chairs were set evenly between what seemed to be a glass coffee table. Book shelves were filled with scrolls, books, and notebooks all around the room. Also hanging on the walls were various shinobi weapons such as shuriken, or kunai, and one fuma shuriken.
Naruto took this all in, in less than 30 seconds, staring in amazement. These rooms were the size of his apartment and they only visited the three rooms at the moment.
Denkou led them into the kitchen, which Naruto studied also. The kitchen broke off into two different areas. One was the actual kitchen area. It was large. Wooden floors and black marble counter tops. Cabinets above the counter tops and with every kitchen appliance also being black. An island was in the middle of the kitchen, creating even more counter top room for the already large space.
The next area of the kitchen was a simple wooden dining table. It fit six people. A ceiling light and ceiling fan was hanging over the kitchen. On the wall was large mirror, and underneath that was a wooden buffet cabinet, with several different items scattered across it. In this area of the kitchen were four doors and one open archway into another room. Both areas of the kitchen were topped off with white walls and a maroon-ish color to the ceiling.
Two of those doors were open and the other two closed. Naruto didn't know what was in those closed doors, but he definitely checked out the other two rooms. One was a small bathroom, but was able to fit a single sink, with a cabinet underneath it, and a mirror above it, a toilette next to that and a bathtub/shower to the other side of the toilette. The empty space in there was covered by a rug and could fit four or five people standing next to each other. A dark yellow almost golden color was what the walls were painted.
The next open room was very simple. A dark green carpet with the same gold/dark yellow color. There was a sliding closet which Naruto saw was open and had a very large variety of shoes inside of it, along with different coats. And an open window.
The room with the open arch way was very cozy seeming. Cream colored carpet, with cream walls and a white ceiling. A sofa, a love seat and a king's chair were backed up into the walls. While the kings chair was in a corner. Side tables were in between the sofas/kings chair/love seat. A fire place was next to the love seat. It was built into the wall and had white brick surrounding it in a fashionable way. On the final wall was a huge cabinet, with a T.V. built into it. It was wooden but one of the side doors to the cabinet had Plexiglas on it. Naruto could see what was inside and he noticed that it was filled with nothing but DVD's.
Naruto shook his head. Holy mother, this place was huge! But he noticed that it was definitely not the same style as it would be for the traditional Japanese folk to have. It was westernized, he could tell by that much.
Naruto was doing this while Denkou and Sarutobi were making small talk. Denkou led them to the his kitchen table, and gestured for them to sit down, smiling the whole time.
Naruto took the seat and put his hands on the table. Sarutobi did the same thing, smiling warmly at Denkou.
Denkou walked to the other part of the kitchen, "Can I get you two anything? Tea? Coffee?"
Naruto looked at Sarutobi, who nodded. "Tea would be fine, Denkou-kun."
Naruto scratched his cheek as the black haired man looked at him questioningly. "Er…what he said."
Nodding Denkou set to work, getting out cups, the tea leaves, and putting water into his teapot. He walked over to the two and sat down at the head of the table, leaning back.
"So, what brings you to my humble abode, Saru-ji-san? You know I don't mind the company, but you usually only come alone and when you bring someone…" He trailed off, looking over to Naruto, studying his features and his eyes. Naruto noticed his eyes were bored looking but alert and a hint of curiosity.
Sarutobi smiled, "Well, Actually, I have a mission for you."
Dropping his care free attitude, Denkou shot Sarutobi a dark stare. "The last mission I got was very difficult. I'm actually surprised I survived… of course that was 5 years ago…why now?"
Sarutobi, feeling Denkou's tension, smiled reassuringly. "It's just as difficult, but not nearly as dangerous…I hope."
Denkou glanced at Naruto again, which Naruto didn't notice. Running his tongue over his teeth without opening his mouth, he gave Sarutobi a stoney stare.
"What do you want?"
"I need you to train this boy here."
No facial expression showed on his face. He looked back at Naruto, who was scowling, then back at Sarutobi. He narrowed his eyes dangerously, and whispered quietly.
"Get out."
Sarutobi saw the delicacy of this situation and leaned forward just as quiet, as if trying to keep Naruto from hearing what he said. "Denkou, you have to train him. You're the only one who can train him, and the only one who can train him correctly."
Standing up, Denkou glared down at the Sandaime. "I said get out."
Standing up to meet his challenge, a hard cold look on his face, Hiruzen meet his eye. "You have no choice in the matter, Denkou. You can either say yes, and willingly train him. Or I'll have to appoint this as one of the 25 missions that we agreed to at the end of your career."
Naruto's eyes widened, he stood up. "Wait a second," he turned towards the Hokage, "You want me to be trained by someone who isn't even a shinobi? What the hell?"
Both of the older men completely ignored Naruto, who bristled. He did not like to be ignored.
A snarl escaped Denkou's mouth, "You dare?"
Sarutobi kept the look, "Yes. I dare."
Silence fell over the room, except for the teapot which was quietly brewing its tea.
Denkou kept his gaze solely on the Sandaime. Skeptical and infuriated, Denkou knew he needed to question what the Sandaime was saying. Though, for as long as he knew the Hokage, the man wasn't going to change his mind.
"Why him? I've heard of much more talented shinobi that you never gave to me to train."
Sighing, the Sandaime looked at Naruto and then back at Denkou.
"Because he's the future Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato. Because he has the blondest hair and the bluest eyes. Because, for Kami's sake, the boy wears orange! Because he has whisker marks. Because he has a determination that I have never seen in anybody before. Because… he has the Kyuubi locked up inside him."
Being called the Professor for almost all of his life, Sarutobi knew that while what he said was just plain confusing for Naruto. However, it would work wonders on Denkou, who was dropped his cold attitude and was sporting one of complete shock.
"The…the Kyuubi?"
He turned towards Naruto for the first time since the beginning of the intense conversation. Violet eyes met blue eyes as Naruto felt the man bore into his soul itself. He squirmed under such a scrutinizing gaze.
Sarutobi put a hand on Denkou's shoulder making, the man tense slightly, but never take his eyes off of Naruto's. "Denkou…The boy is like a grandson to me. And I can vouch for him myself, that he is like no other person you have ever met."
Denkou relaxed and stared at Naruto, sizing him up. Naruto gulped.
"What's your name, boy?"
Brightening, Naruto jerked his thumb at his own chest, grinning. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto!"
Denkou raised an eyebrow. "Naruto…huh? Has anyone ever told you….that you look like the Yondaime?"
Naruto blinked, surprised by the statement. As did the Sandaime. Come to think of it… Naruto grinned, "Well, no. People usually don't even talk to me. But I guess I do, don't I? Hehe, that just proves how awesome I am."
He leaned back on one foot and put his hands behind his head grinning.
Denkou felt his lip twitch upward in amusement. He glanced at Sarutobi. "So…you want me to train him."
"Yes."
"For how long?" Denkou smirked at Sarutobi, knowing the old coot would know that he accepted Naruto as a student. Sarutobi smiled, and visibly let out a breath he was holding.
"Two years."
He raised an eyebrow, "Two years? Why two years?"
Naruto jumped in this time, "So I can be strong enough to become a genin!"
Blinking, surprised was a tad bit of an understatement. "You…aren't a ninja yet?"
Naruto shook his head, but growled slightly at the insult he thought was in that sentence, "Nope! You gotta problem with that?"
Denkou chuckled, "Actually…No. You're a clean slate. That means I can train you to be, well, anything I want you to be."
He glanced at Sarutobi, "Details?"
He waved off Denkou, "I've prepared you a scroll with all the information that you need to train him. I've probably been gone long enough from the office and I need to get back soon."
They all started walking towards the front door, tea pot screaming its head off. Denkou created a clone without the other two noticing and had it attend to the tea. Once outside, Denkou and Sarutobi watched as Naruto took off, running to the middle of the field screaming about how he had a sensei, and how he was going to be so strong. They both smiled fondly at him.
Sarutobi glanced at Denkou, "What are you planning on doing with him?"
Denkou smiled at him, "You said he was the future Hokage?"
Nodding Sarutobi smirked, almost fondly. "That's his dream… Why?"
"Because I'll train this boy to be the best damn Kage anyone's ever seen."
Surprised at the answer, Sarutobi shook Denkou's hand. Which in return, Tenzou gave Sarutobi a huge smile. Naruto ran up to both of them, grinning.
"I can't wait to tell the other kids! I'll brag to that bastard Sasuke about getting so strong and then Sakura-chan will definitely love me!"
The men blinked, Denkou because of what he said, and Sarutobi because he just realized something.
"Naruto…" Sarutobi started, trying to seek the best way of telling him. "You won't be seeing the other kids for a long time…"
Naruto stared, "Huh? What do you mean!"
"Well. You're living here, with Denkou-kun, for the two years that you're training with him."
Denkou expected the fact that Naruto would live with him, but Naruto didn't seem to even have thought of that.
"WHAT?"
Chuckling Sarutobi answered, "That's why I told you to bring all your belongings. Surely you didn't think that you, alone, would be able to walk back and forth every day…"
Naruto bristled, "I could do it."
Chuckling, Denkou added his two cents. "Naruto. With the way I'm going to be training you, walking to this house is going to be impossible for you. You'd never make it back to the village."
Naruto scowled at the thought of not having Ichiraku ramen for two years. Which he voiced his thoughts. They both laughed out loud.
"Just because you're living here Naruto-kun, doesn't mean you won't visit the village." Sarutobi said, chuckling.
"Oh." Naruto could only think of that one sentence to say.
Chuckling, Sarutobi turned towards Denkou, shaking his hand. "I'll be back whenever I can to check up on him."
Nodding, Denkou answered. "Of course, I wouldn't expect anything less than that."
Ruffling Naruto's hair, Sarutobi exited the valley that belonged to Denkou and now, Naruto. Silence filled the air, both unsure of how to interact with each other now that their only link was gone.
Coughing slightly, Denkou handed Naruto a cup of tea, out of nowhere. "Go sit down in the grass over there and we'll begin our first lesson."
Naruto blinked, as he took the tea. "How did you…"
Denkou waved his hand, ignoring Naruto's obvious thoughts. "I said go! Geez, you gotta listen better kid."
Naruto hurried to the grass, and sat down. Not wanting to be kicked out of training on the first day. Denkou appeared in front of him a second later, which made Naruto look at him in awe, then the boy got giddy in excitement about getting trained by him. Denkou smirked.
With his own cup of tea, Denkou took a sip of it, and looked at Naruto.
"Okay…it's been a while since I've trained anyone, so I apologize ahead of time for my rustiness. But first lesson today is to just get to know each other. And maybe later on, I'll give you a real lesson."
Naruto grinned brightly at the thought of talking about himself. He took a sip of his tea, and blinked. The boy wasn't really a big fan of tea but damn! This stuff was really good. He set the cup down on the grass. And leaned back on his hands.
"What'dya mean?"
Denkou took another sip of is tea, before setting it down. He shrugged. "Tell me everything you feel necessary to tell me. Anything and everything."
Naruto thought for a moment, then slowly started talking about himself. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto…I uh, live by myself in the slums of Konoha. I'm an only child I think, and I don't know who my parents are, but Oji-san said they died when the Kyuubi attacked. I am a…." he hesitated, simply because he was beginning to hate this word. "a Jinchuriki. I hate that same word too.
"I live on the money that Oji-san gives me every month. I'm not allowed in any public areas because they all hate me there. Orange is the best color in the world, and ramen in the greatest food in the world. Which is what I live off of." He said that with a grin.
"Miso ramen is the best flavor! Beef ramen is a close second though. Uhhhh, I have a few hobbies. Nothing big, but I love to prank people. It's fun to see their reaction and then everyone knows that it was me who did it! My other hobbies are trying new flavors of ramen and a little bit of training. Although I consider pranking as training because it hones my stealth skills.
"I hate rain, and I mean I absolutely hate it! I don't know why…erm, I hate mornings. And I love staying up late. I love the moon. And the darkness and everything about it! I suck at learning things from a classroom and I feel that I'm more of a physical learner instead.
"I hate Uchiha Sasuke and I think Haruno Sakura is the greatest and the most perfect girl for me! In the entire world!" At this Denkou chuckled, Naruto continued. "My dream….my dream is to be the greatest Hokage the world has ever seen! And make the village respect and acknowledge me!"
Denkou smiled, "A valiant dream for one so young. Is that all?"
Thinking, Naruto nodded, "Yeah!"
He nodded his head, accepting the introduction. "That was good. So I guess it's my turn huh? Um. My name is Murasaki Denkou. I was born and raised in Konoha. I am 36 years old. I graduated the academy when I was 14. I was placed on a team with Hyuga Hiashi and, as you know him by, Kazama Arashi."
Naruto's eyes widened, he pointed at Denkou. "You were on a team with the Yondaime?"
Nodding his head in slight annoyance at being interrupted, he continued talking. "Yes, I was. But his real name wasn't Kazama Arashi. It was Namikaze Minato. The name everyone knows about his a false name. He created it after the 3rd Great Shinobi War to hide his real name from enemies to protect his family and friends.
"Now back to me. My parents died when I was very young. I don't remember them. I too am an only child. I became a chunin when I was still only 14. Then two years later, I became a jonin. Minato was my best friend. We both trained under Jiraiya, the Sannin, and every technique we knew we shared with each other. After I became a Jonin I took on an apprentice. After a while I went to Saru-ji-san and quit being a shinobi.
"I moved out here about 14 years ago and started a new life as a civilian. It wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be due to the fact that I had enough money to last me two lifetimes and I'm alone and secluded. I, unlike you, love the rain and relish in it. I love the color purple. I don't have any pets. And my hobbies used to only be training. But now they are cooking, training, gardening, and inventing new jutsu.
"I never really had a dream. But now I guess my dream is to help you become one of the most powerful ninja in the world." He finished with a smirk at Naruto.
He gulped down the rest of his tea, and looked at Naruto bored. "Any questions?"
Naruto grinned, "Yeah! What kind of name is 'Purple Lightning'?"
Denkou's eye twitched, "What kind of name is 'Swirling Fishcake'?"
Naruto bristled, and got up pointing at Denkou, "The greatest name! That's what!"
Denkou glared at Naruto, "Are you saying your name is better than mine…?"
Naruto stuck his tongue out. "Yours and every other asshole's name!"
Denkou stood up also, "Are you calling me an asshole!"
"Yes!"
"That's a great way to start your first lesson off with your sensei!"
"So!"
Denkou puffed his chest out, "So! You know what that means?"
Naruto puffed his chest out too, "What?"
Suddenly, all of Denkou's anger vanished replaced with a huge grin. "I like you brat."
Blinking Naruto was very confused. Chuckling. Denkou picked up both of the empty tea cups, created a clone, and the clone took the cups inside. Naruto felt his jaw drop at such a cool jutsu. Denkou smirked and grabbed Naruto by the shoulders.
"Naruto. We have a big journey in head of us. And to start off knowing where you're at with your abilities. I want you, right now, to spar with me."
Scratching the back of his head he squinted, "Spar with you?"
Rolling his eyes he straightened himself. "Yes, you know…fight me. Yatta yatta yatta. Try to kill me."
Naruto scowled, "Try to kill you?"
Snorting Denkou crossed his arms. "What are you? A freaking parrot? Yes, do just as I say you little twirp."
Naruto grinned and jumped forward with a war cry, fist back, ready to punch him in the face. Denkou blinked, unexpected of the sudden attack. The obviousness of where Naruto was going to try and hit him was unbelievable. When Naruto threw the punch, Denkou caught his fist and twisted it so his entire right shoulder, neck, arm, and side were wide open to attack.
Instead of attacking Naruto's open spots, he grabbed Naruto by the collar of his orange jacket, lifted him over his head and threw him. He kept hold of Naruto's fist, making the blonde-haired boy slam into the ground.
Naruto hit the ground with a lot of force. Naruto felt his air escape from his lungs and the pain from the landing shot all the way up his body. Oh god, how it hurt. Naruto wasn't sure what even happened, he had a wide open punch on the guys face then all of sudden he's on the ground, trying to catch his breath. This guy was fast.
Naruto slowly got up, coughing, and taking in gulps of air. He shook his head and looked up at Denkou, who was smirking. He got to one knee, and with the use of his hands stood up also. Naruto felt his face heat up from embarrassment at the pathetic display. He didn't look at Denkou.
Denkou chuckled. "Well, I now know where you are with your abilities. You don't know an jutsu, do you?"
Naruto shook his head, "Only kawarimi and henge."
Nodding, Denkou looked at the darkening sky. "Well, I really do have a clean slate to work with."
Naruto looked at him, "Sensei?"
Denkou stared at Naruto, unused to being called that. "Yes?"
Naruto stared at him, "How could you find out from one simple attack where I am with my abilities?"
Denkou smiled at his willingness to learn. "Well, one attack can show almost everything about a person. Unless they're trying to deceive you. I'll teach you how to actually do it at a later time. But you see, I could tell just how fast you were when you ran at me. I could tell how strong you were when I caught your fist. I could tell how good you were with taijutsu based off of where I knew you were going to try to punch me. And I could tell just how pain resistant you were when I threw you to the ground. Quite hard might I add."
Naruto stared, he couldn't believe what his sensei just said. He didn't even know what to say to that! How could anyone? Just off of one attack, the man had broken down all of his physical aspects. Off of one attack!
Denkou, seeing Naruto's look, chuckled. "Of course there are much more determining factors than just that, Naruto. We have chakra reserves, we have chakra control, how many jutsu's you have, if you mastered your jutsu's. Whether or not you use a sword. Genjutsu abilities or not. What your chakra affinity is. How determined you are to win a fight, you see all of those things affect a fight. And many more. It's all a combination."
Naruto blinked, unsure of how to take that information. He grinned though. He could tell that his sensei knew what he was talking about and he was excited to learn whatever he could from the man.
Naruto grinned and put his hands behind his head. "So, what now?"
Denkou sighed, knowing that they would have to start their real training tomorrow. "Well, tomorrow we start the first day of training. So you might want to get to bed, but seeing as you just got here and you have less than an hour before the sun sets, and you are okay in the nighttime. I'll let you wander around the valley. You know, to get used to it. But don't stay out too late."
Naruto was about to grumble about not being able to spend time outside in the dark, but Denkou cut him off.
"Now I'm only suggesting this. But I'm warning you. My training will not be fun, it'll be brutal and you're going to hate me while we are training. Going to bed early is only a suggestion. The consequences are yours to deal with."
With that final word, Denkou left towards the house, somehow carrying Naruto's backpack in his hand. Naruto blinked. He never felt him take it off. It must have been before his little 'fight' because Naruto obviously hadn't felt it when he landed on his back.
Naruto suddenly realized something. "Oi! Denkou!"
He ran after Denkou, who stopped, eyebrow raised. "Hai?"
Naruto caught up to him and grinned, "Where am I sleeping tonight?"
Denkou smiled, "Ah, yes I forgot about that. I might as well show you around the house also, shouldn't I?"
Naruto grinned. He followed the black haired man into the house and Denkou went threw the entire house. The room with shoes apparently went into another room which led to a cave on the inside of the house with a huge metal door, with several seals on it. Which Denkou explained to Naruto that if they were ever to be attacked, They would set up their defenses in front of the house, but escape threw this back area with out them noticing.
Denkou then took Naruto to one of the closed doors that was a kitchen, which he found out led downstairs to an indoor training dojo. Many different weapons hung on the walls and the training dojo itself had many different dummies either built into the floor or hanging from the ceiling. Naruto couldn't help but grin at sheer awesomeness of this house.
After coming back upstairs, Naruto looked at the other closed door and had a spike of curiosity.
"Oi, Denkou?"
Denkou looked at Naruto, "Hai?"
Naruto pointed to the closed door, "What's in that room?"
Denkou blinked and looked over towards the door before chuckling. "Naruto, that is my study. If I have one rule in this household its that I only want you to go in there if you have either my permission too, or if I'm accompanying you. Most of the time, both will occur at the same time."
Naruto waved his hand, "Bah, rules. Only there for me to break 'em."
Denkou looked at Naruto, "If you break the only rule I have for you at the moment, then I will send you back to Konoha and I won't train you."
Naruto paled.
It was true of course.
After that brief moment. Denkou took Naruto upstairs which Naruto found out was a really awesome place to be. When you first come up the stairs, you look straight into a mirror. Which made Naruto blink. To the direct left of the stairs was a guest room. Directly across from the guest bedroom was the master bedroom where Denkou slept. The door was closed. A bathroom was in between the rooms on the wall opposite of the stairway.
Across from the bathroom was an open foyer. The only thing separating the stairs from the foyer was a wooden railing. The foyer itself had nothing but a rug under the wooden floor and two couches directly opposite of each other. Their was a glass door with intricate designs that led outside to a fairly large balcony. There was a round table off to one side with three chairs surrounding that table. It was a beautiful sight.
Naruto really enjoyed the balcony. He had to admit. But he felt the need to sleep at the moment. The day's excitement was wearing off and he could feel exhaustion in his body.
Naruto entered his bedroom, and looked around. His backpack was on his bed already with all the orange jumpsuits being folded and already put in his closet. The first thing Naruto noticed about his bedroom was the size of it.
God damn, this thing was huge. A bed at least the size of a queen size was in the middle of the wall opposite of the door, with the middle of the room being cut into two sections. The upper level and the lower level. The thing the separated the room was a small set of stairs going straight across from wall to wall. It was only an incline of about three or four steps but enough to make the room itself look bigger. In the right corner of the room was I gigantic desk. Several blank scrolls were on it with many pens, pencils, erasers and white out. Naruto smiled.
To his left was a dresser, and next to the dresser was a huge full body mirror. The whole room felt very comfortable. Painted it earthy colors and with two windows to the outdoors, Naruto felt like he could really enjoy this room. The windows themselves were on either side of his bed, right above both of his night stands. On the upper level of his bed room was two doors. He opened one and saw a rather large walk in closet, which was filled with clothes of all styles and colors. And the other one was a small bathroom. A shower was in the corner, a toilette, and a single sink, complete with the mirror above the sink and the cabinet underneath the sink.
On the left side of his upper part of the two level bed room was a medium sized bookshelf, filled with scrolls and books. Naruto felt a smile creep over his face. He couldn't believe just how much his life changed. It was literally a 180 degree change to his life. Naruto took off all his clothes and changed into his sleeping clothes that he found in the dresser next to the mirror. Blinking Naruto looked at the bathroom in his room and grinned.
Why not test out his bathroom the first night here?
Naruto quickly unchanged again and hopped in his shower. Enjoying the freshness of a wash. With out even thinking about how Denkou managed to buy the same shampoo and body wash that Naruto uses, he cleaned himself thoroughly.
Naruto got out and dried his body thoroughly, and enjoying the feeling of walking out of his room naked, he picked up his night clothes and put them on again. He used the towel to dry his hair. Shaking his head to get any extra water droplets off, he jumped in bed.
Literally. The boy took a running start and dived in the covers. Enjoying the freshness of everything. He turned on this back, tucked his hands behind his head and looked up towards the ceiling. Thinking about the day's events.
Naruto couldn't have gotten any luckier, he grinned. A strong sensei to train him hard, a very nice house. A secluded area away from the hateful glares of the villagers.
Yeah, everything was looking to be a lot better.
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***Very important! A.N. Please read!***
Hiya everyone! Yes, this is the very first chapter of the redone version of Suna's Fire Fox. I have a few things to discuss with you all right now so please don't flip out.
1.) The plot will be a tad bit different. Much better, but different. If you liked the old plot line of the whole 'Kyuubi training Naruto' I'm sorry for changing it. But it needed to happen.
2.) This new plot line will loosely follow the manga until his three year training trip that he WILL be having, by the way. Then it'll follow the manga quite closely.
3.) Sasuke's death will NOT be the reason why Naruto leave's Konoha.
4.) Naruto will have Shishiu. He'll just acquire the small fury fox a different way.
5.) He WILL have a sword.
6.) Unlike before I will explain Naruto's training to a great detailed point. But writing two years of nonstop training will be hard to do, so I plan to have some time skips in there. Over all. Naruto's two year training might take about two or three chapters. And then it's the genin exams.
7.) The pairings I'm not so sure about. If there is one thing that I hate the most about almost 100% of Fanfiction writers, it's that Naruto falls in love with the first person he dates and they are inlove and they get married and they have kids and their always in love no matter what!
Well...Real life doesn't happen that way. So Naruto will have a few different girlfriends before he finds the girl he wants to marry. He might even date every single girl on the series before he finds….the one.
So pairings will vary through out the entire story. Get over it. Except there is one kind of pairing that will never happen in any of the books I will be writing. Which is yaoi. Or yuri. Sorry guys….and/or girls.
And finally.
8.) This book is going to be heavily influenced by the writings of Geor-Sama. Which I love his books. If no one here has read Naruto: Altered History. You quit reading my book and go to that one. It's by far, the best book on fan fiction. BY FAR!
So with out further ado. The redone story of Suna's Fire Fox. Hoped you liked this version better. Cuz I did.
Ja'Ne
11-Tailed Demon Wolf