Title – Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze; Second coming of Yellow Flash

Chapter – One

Author – xxxiliveforthefuturexxx

Beta – None

Summary – What if Naruto was smarter then in canon? What if he knew of his father way before anything else? What if he knew that he was a Jinchuuriki before Mizuki revealed it to him? What if he had that one or two people in his past who helped him become who he is today?

Disclaimer – I, xxxilivefortehfuturexxx, in no way own Naruto. The lovely manga and anime belong to their respective owners, I am only using their characters and planning on giving them back how they were. Well, most of them anyway.

Main Characters - Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake, Tsunade Senju, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akamichi, Neji Hyuuga, Kiba Inazuka, Akamaru, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuuga, Rock Lee, Tenten, Ino Yamanaka, Mighty Guy, Kurenai Yuuhi, Asuma Sarutobi,

Couples – Either Naruto/Neji or Naruto/Gaara

A person all clad in black was silently running through the streets of Konoha, dodging the ANBU patrols as if it was second nature to them as if they didn't want to be noticed because they knew that the moment someone saw them there would be accusations thrown around about doing something illegal and then they would be dragged in front of the Sandaime Hokage once again and they didn't want that because then they would have to reveal to the old man what they have been doing and while they loved the old man as if he was their grandfather, they did not want him to know anything yet. They would reveal it to him when it was time and not a second earlier.

They continued their run through their home village until they came upon an iron wrought gate. They looked around for a good few seconds before biting their thumb and quickly swiping the thumb down the centre of the gate, letting their blood be absorbed into the hidden seals of the gate. They waited for the gate to open before walking through and towards the house where they did the same.

When the door to the compound clicked softly, they pushed it open before stepping inside and then shutting the door behind themselves. Instantly the lights came on and the person was bathed in a golden glow which now allowed their features to be seen.

The person was no more then one fifty in height, he had light blue eyes that glinted slightly as the light caught them, his hair was a very obvious blond and he had three whisker marks on each cheek. He was wearing black clothes that consisted of a tight black shirt, black trousers that were taped at the ankles and black shinobi sandals. They also had a few pouches on their person that let them store things like scrolls, kunai, shinobi wire, senbon and poisons. And he was also wearing a nondescript black backpack that was bulging slightly.

The person was none other then Naruto Uzumaki, or rather Namikaze. Despite it being a secret from everyone in the Village but the Sandaime Hokage and a few others, Naruto had known for quite a while now that he was the son of the Yondaime Hokage. While his hair and eye color were the same as the Yondaime's the one thing that actually confirmed Naruto's suspicions was the box marked with Minato Namikaze that he had found one day while cleaning out the Hokage's Back Office after he pulled a nasty prank on the civilian council. Inside the box were a few things like his parent's wedding certificate, a few pictures, a few journals and a few scrolls. And with all that was also the thing that nearly made Naruto cry; his birth certificate.

He didn't tell the Sandaime that he knew of Minato being his father because he understood the old man's worry. After all his father was very infamous with many Kiri and Iwa nin's and if it got out that he had a son he would be pretty much toast.

He also found out, due to some drunken ramblings of a few civilians, that he was the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. That was certainly a shock to him but it also made him understand why the villagers hated him though he did not forgive them for their behaviour instead he did the only thing that would genuinely make them fear him.

He talked with the Kyuubi.

At first he had been scared of the fox. After all he was only six years old and the Kyuubi was over a thousand and the fox was very much frightening and hateful but over the first few months they had come to an understanding. On Naruto's part it was to clean up his mindscape, create a nice environment for the fox to live in and start training himself in secret. On the Kyuubi's part it was to watch over Naruto's training, heal him and then teach him to wield the demonic chakra of the Kyuubi along Naruto's own.

Though the fox only went onto the last one only after Naruto turned nine and gained perfect control over his own massive chakra reserves and Naruto understood the fox's worry, he wouldn't want someone untrained to wield his chakra.

He let out a soft sigh and pushed every worry away before he locked the door and walked further into the compound, bypassing the dining and living rooms and moving towards his personal quarters where he proceeded to deposit his pouches and then his backpack before pulling out the scrolls that he had in there and then placing those scrolls on the book case next to the desk.

"Got everything?"

Naruto almost jumped in fright at hearing Kyuubi's voice in his head as he hadn't heard him while he was sneaking around the library and copying down the different jutus that they had there.

"Yeah." Naruto answered silently as he narrowed his eyes and sorted the scrolls by the type of element they were. He wished that he could have gotten some clan scrolls but he would have to leave that for later, when everyone was deep asleep in their beds. "The only things I couldn't go and copy were the clan scrolls. I have all of the library scrolls copied down now and I have half of the Hokage's private library but other then that I only have the Namikaze, Uzumaki, Senju and quite a few Uchiha scrolls that Itachi gave me just before he disappeared from the village and became a Missing nin."

"You never told me why he did that." Kyuubi commented as he laid in the field that Naruto created as his mindscape.

"He trusts me more with his family scrolls then he does Sasuke." Naruto murmured softly as he finished with his collection of jutsu scrolls before moving on to the weapons that he had collected. "We have always been close despite the obvious six year difference between us. He was the first person to treat me like a normal person apart from the Hokage and after Itachi it was Shisui. I miss the both of them."

"You loved them?" Kyuubi questioned softly despite knowing the answer already.

"I still do." Naruto hummed softly as he deposited unsealed the scroll and deposited the weapons in their right places. "They were both brothers I never had and sometimes I wish I could have followed Itachi out of the village to join him. I curse the day I promised Itachi that I would never follow in his footsteps."

"But you're glad he made you promise aren't you?" Kyuubi said softly. "You're glad that you aren't going to go and leave your village behind."

"I am." Naruto admitted grudgingly as he walked away from his scrolls and weapon collection towards the bathroom where he proceeded to get undressed and jump in the shower to quickly wash himself before going to sleep. "Doesn't mean I have to like it. He didn't really give me a choice in that. It was either promise to not become a missing nin or die at his hand. I chose the easiest option and the option that I knew wouldn't hurt him in the long run despite killing all of his family but Sasuke."

"He wasn't that close to the Uchiha's so I doubt it hurt him as much as you think it did. Itachi Uchiha is a man that needs to be praised and not condemned like the village is doing. He helped not only stop a coup d'etat but he also stopped the village from another war so soon after I attacked. It wouldn't have survived and this time I doubt Konoha would have been able to rise from ashes."

"I know." Naruto washed himself with the scentless body wash that he bought at one of the shops which he then followed with a scentless shampoo for his hair as to not overwhelm his senses. "And I am glad that he did what he did but it cost him the bit of innocence that he had towards his family, it cost him his mother who loved him dearly, it cost him his best friend who practically helped him annihilate the Uchiha clan but mostly it cost him loosing his brother to hatred."

"True but you mustn't forget that he did that for Konoha." Kyuubi whispered in the blonds mind. "And I can bet you that if you met him and asked him if it was only for Konoha he would tell you no. He would tell you that it was also for you."

Naruto frowned as he stepped out of the shower, absent-mindedly wrapping a towel around his waist before stepping into the bedroom once again where he proceeded to put on some underwear and then sliding into bed.

"It's the kind of man Itachi was."

With those last words the Kyuubi let himself fall asleep to leave his host ponder on those words.

Naruto was almost ready to demand the fox to elaborate on those words but he didn't. He didn't because he knew perfectly well that it was true. Itachi Uchiha was the kind of man that did something for just one person instead of the whole village. Letting out a soft sigh, Naruto burrowed into the covers on his bed and turned around to look at the few pictures that he had on the night stand.

One was of his parents when Kushina was pregnant with him, one was of his father and his genin team, one was of Itachi and him, one was of Shisui and him, one was of Itachi, Shisui and him and one was of him and then Sandaime. Smiling softly, he let his eyes fall close as the sweet darkness enveloped him.

A/N - This is a story that I actually had sitting in my folder on my laptop, I didn't even know I had it. It's my idea of what Naruto would be like if he was smarter, knew of his father, knew of the Kyuubi and had someone in his past like Itachi and Shisui that helped him.