AN: Well hello! My Name is Tinkerbell or just Tinker if you want to shorten it. This is my first story and to be honest I'm super nervous about it. I have a rough outline for the plot so far and yes there will be quite a few changes from the cannon, but hopefully not enough to make it AU. In this story Naruto, Naru to friends, is a female resembling her mother, with her father's personality. The teams will most likely be different then the cannon teams and I'm not sure if anyone else will be genderbent. I'm open to suggestions and ideas on almost anything. Pairing wise I do have an idea but I'm also willing to hear your recommendations as well because they won't happen until later on anyways.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything from the Naruto series however plot ideas and certain jutsu's may be mine. As well as Watari, Nobu, and Yoshiro –although if you really want you can have them! ;)

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

'Kyuubi Speaking'

Halfpace- n. A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.

A masked figure grabs a baby with a shock of bright red hair, resembling the woman lying on the raised ground in the center of the room, from the medics attending to it. The blonde male who is checking on the woman, turns in surprise upon hearing the attendants of the birth falling to the floor. Pulling out a kunai and pointing it towards the baby the masked male voice speaks, "Fourth Hokage, Minato. Move away from the Jinchuriki. Otherwise, this child's life will end in one minute."

Reaching out his hand the blonde, now known as Minato, can only shout out briefly along with the red-haired woman as the baby is thrown into that air. With incredible speed Minato saves the baby before it hits the floor, however the child's back starts sparking and he must throw away the blanket that it had been residing within. Using this distraction the masked man attacks the woman lying down and releases a huge nine-tailed fox from her body. Somehow the man is able to control the beast, and makes it head towards the village nearby. Quickly, grabbing the woman and baby, Minato teleports them to an entirely different place and lays them down on a bed. Slipping on his white over jacket the Fourth Hokage exits the room, which holds the woman and child.

The red-haired woman who was formally unconscious and writhing in pain snaps awake next to her child. "N-Naru-chan? Minato where are you?" She twists around on the bed now with the child sleeping in her arms looking around in confusion for the man who just left. Seeming to realize what has happened she sits up quickly, and cringes in pain, with the child still cradled to her. Glancing towards the slightly opened door she pushes herself out of bed with effort and leaves the house heading towards the red tails waving in the sky.

Upon arriving at the sight with the Kyuubi attacking the village, the woman uses a special technique to hold the monster down. Minato reappears at her side, notices how pale she is, and takes the baby from her arms. Looking down at the woman he says, "I'm so sorry Kushina, but it looks like we have no other choice." Kushina tilts her head to gaze sadly at him. Tears in the corner of her eyes she smiles, "It's okay, now you better get a move on. I don't know how much longer I can hold him down 'ttebane."

While he prepares to use the forbidden technique Minato's eyes stray to the baby within his arms, "I wish you the best, Uzumaki Naruto."

-Naruto: Age Three-

Now Naru-chan knew she was different. She had red hair and blue eyes; and wore a simple yellow colored dress with green and blue patches. In fact, many of the other little girls at the orphanage wore dresses with patches; though she supposed none had red hair and blue eyes like her. But what really made Naru feel different was the stares she would get from the prospective parents that came or the villagers that she saw on her field trips. Perhaps stares weren't the right word for it. It was more like they looked directly into her soul and despised everything about her because of what they saw there. So yes, Naru-chan knew she was different and knew she was hated.

But it wasn't so bad at the orphanage she supposed. Sure the Matron's never scolded anyone when they pulled her hair, she got ever so slightly less to eat, and during bath time they scrubbed her until her skin hurt to touch; but no one was openly mean to her. When they went on field trips into the village, which Naru suspected the Matron's would rather leave her at the orphanage as much as she would rather stay there, the villagers would spit at her and throw things, make rude gestures and say mean things. Naru cried a lot when they had field trips.

Slowly but surely Naru learned to hide herself better within the corners and closets in the orphanage. She figured out that after about ten minutes of searching for her the Matrons would give up and leave anyways. When the groups returned as punishment for hiding Naru wouldn't get dinner, but it was worth it to avoid the villagers.

One day, after hiding at the bottom of the arts and crafts closet, Naru thought of the great idea to go outside and explore while the others were gone. The orphanage was surrounded on one side by the edge of the forest and that place has always intrigued Naru. So grabbing a small well-worn bag out of the closet with her she packed an apple from the kitchens, a flashlight, and her small tattered orange blanket. She pulled off her shoes and socks after exiting the door which led outside. For some reason when Naru was touching skin to the ground could always sense when someone was nearby, never well enough to tell who they were and never more than say twenty-feet or so at the longest; she didn't question it though because it helped her avoid people.

Starting on her adventure, Naru wander past the tree line after checking to see if anyone was nearby. She kept on walking occasionally stopping to watch some insect or animal along her way and to munch on her apple. Eventually, she noticed that the sun was going down and it was cold and she was sort of frightened of all the noises in the forest. Slowly picking her flashlight and blanket out of her pack, she tried to walk back the way she had come. It didn't take long for her to figure out she was lost. Everything looked the same and she was so cold that her teeth were chattering; she slinked down against one of the tree trunks and could only hope that someone would come and find her.

It had been two days and there was no whisper of anyone nearby. Naru was terrified, and she kept getting sick, and was really very thirsty. Suddenly she felt a person. No three people, right at the edge of her range of feeling! Yelling as loud as she could she felt them turn and start heading towards her at quick speeds.

When the three arrived the seemed concerned, that is until they got close enough to see who she was. Now Naru was a smart three, almost four, year-old but she was also severely dehydrated and helpless in these woods. She saw no other option but to ask these three for help even if they were giving her looks like the villagers, even if they did mumble mean things under their breath, even if their hands went towards the pouches strapped on their legs.

So Naru for the first time in two days spoke, "Pl-Please can you please take me back to the orphanage? I don't feel well and I'm really very tired." The three boys sent each other shifty looks and mumbled some more under breath, and their gaze on her didn't soften, but they hadn't done anything to hurt her yet. "Pl-Please hel-" "Shut up you disgusting demon!" The one to her right cried and finally reached his hand inside of the pouch on his leg.

What he withdrew Naru recognized as a weapon called a kunai, it was sharp and pointed at one end, but had a smooth flat circular hoop attached to the other. The man directly in front of her and the one to her left tensed up and took a step back. "Watari that may not be such a good idea I've heard that, that brat usually has an Anbu guard," the middle one said while looking up toward the trees. The one with the kunai, Watari, Naru reminded herself said, "Geez, are you stupid Yoshiro? Don't you think if this brat had an Anbu guard she would have been taken out of the forest already, right Nobu?" Glancing at the final man all the way to her left, Naru tilted her head. Nobu however, merely kept gazing at her with disgust. "Hmm, unless perhaps they are hoping that she would die or get killed out here? They probably saw it as their duty to the village to let this monster die," he moved forward and also took out a sharp kunai.

Naru was scared, even more so than she had been those past nights with all the creepy sounds, the dark, and the cold. She was however slightly relieved to find out why it was that everyone disapproved of her existence. She was a demon. It all made sense now. After all, there were many different kinds of monsters in her story books. But demons have the ability to take many different forms, and one of them was people; usually adults. But still, it finally made sense why no one liked her much at all. She supposed that if she was them, she wouldn't like her much either. So, pressing herself into the tree as much as she could she closed her eyes and waited for the attack of the men to come, like in her stories. The men always attacked the monsters in her stories, to defeat them; the only thing she wasn't sure of was what happened to said monsters in said stories after said defeat. She supposed it couldn't be too bad though because everyone was happy at the end of her stories.

Suddenly, Naru felt pain. Searing down from her jaw line to her collar bone it has hot and it hurt and it felt wet. She screamed very loudly and then everything went black.

-Naruto: Age Five-

Naru-chan was five now, her hair almost reached her butt, she had a cool scar from her forest encounter where she learned she was a monster, she didn't speak unless directly questioned, and now she owned her first library card. It had taken a bit of guilt inducing puppy dog eyes on the Hokage, who apparently had a vested interest in her safety as she learned from the appearance of the Dog Anbu guard the day she received her scar, but she could now visit the library whenever she wanted. And visit the library she did.

At first it was just more fairy tale books based on monsters and demons trying to find out more about herself, but slowly she started wandering into the section where they kept the low level jutsu scrolls. This is where she met Anko-onesan. Anko is a purple haired, loud mouthed, rude, and vivacious woman. The complete opposite of Naru, she screamed confidence and demanded respect in every line and curve of her body. Naru thought she may be a demon too if the looks that others gave her was anything to go by. So, Naru followed her –Everywhere.

And, well eventually no matter how silent and how much Naru stuck in people's shadows, she is noticed. Anko is a special jonin, there was no way she could have never found out Naru rationalized to herself.

Anko calls Naru gaki for the awhile and every time she catches her they buy dango and split the treat between them. Naru thinks that this may be what it's like to have a mother, or at least to have a friend.

It's Anko who teaches Naru how to find the weak spots on an enemy, how to put chakra into your punches, and helps Naru find the correct scrolls on sealing so Naru can make herself weights to help with her speed training. Sure, it's not normal and it's not conforming to the normal expectations of everyone else for being normal, but Naru can't help but be happy because really, she supposes, demons aren't really normal anyways. Even if she never shows it, because showing it would mean that someone would disapprove and take it away and Naru's not sure she could handle that.

It isn't until Naru gets frightened enough to accidently smash her hand through a table at the orphanage that it actually becomes a problem.

The Matrons fear that Naru is doing something demonic and unnatural; they call the Hokage, for well honestly, not the first time. The Hokage scolds Naru saying that what she was doing was dangerous and could have hurt not only someone else but also herself. Naru doesn't mention the weighted seals on her legs and arms, or the teacher who taught her all those things even when directly asked. This is also the first time Naru hears of the ninja academy, and she can't help but wonder, 'Can demons become ninjas?' then thinks, 'Well they must because Onesan is a ninja.' She tells Hokage-sama that she wants to attend the academy and uses the puppy dog stare she has perfected especially for him until he concedes. She's told he will sign her up for the following year; however the orphanage will not allow her to move back in there.

Naru can't help but be kind of excited, internally of course, to see her new house. She knows it won't be anything super fancy or maybe even normally priced, but it will be hers and no one will be able to come in without her permission, due to the seals she has prepared, and no one can treat her meanly here. She includes Anko within the seal's perimeters first, and then thinks to add the Hokage, and finally the Dog Anbu who saved her two years ago and occasionally still follows her around.

She spends the rest of her free time reading in the library to learn more seals and training her taijutsu with Anko-onesan so she will have a chance at the academy, because she figures that a demon needs to be especially good at being a ninja to succeed. Well that and she still can't form the most basic jutsu that are of the lowest levels taught to the academy students.

AN: So there's my first chapter. Whoo done! Only took like half my lifetime! Anyways I'm trying to make Naruto more thoughtful and less impulsive like her father while still reflecting that childhood innocence that I think she would have had in her younger years. Now, I am going to say she will NOT be all happy and pranky and loud like cannon Naruto. Mainly because I rationalize it as her being a female and thus reacting differently to similar circumstances then cannon Naruto. Alright well, I hope you enjoyed it, especially if you read this far through it, and that you'll tell me how I did and if I should continue. Anyways, looking forward to feedback.