Hey (to anybody who actually read the first chapter of my other story) I've had a change of heart and a brilliant idea. This story will follow my main plot idea for the other story, but it starts much earlier; during Naruto's first C rank mission.

Uzumaki Reborn

Arc I: Hero of Konoha

I

The Land of Waves.

'Shit, Sasuke!' A young blond, spiky-haired boy with three scars on each cheek was laying on his back, his black-haired friend standing over him protectively. The amount of senbon needles protruding from his body was unfathomable, causing a knot of fear to clench in his stomach.

"Sasuke…why?" The Uchiha gave Naruto a sadistic smile.

"I don't know, my body reacted on its own…I had no time to think." As his lids fluttered closed and Sasuke collapsed, Naruto noticed a flicker of red in his Iris.

'Sharingan'

The young boy in the Ice mirrors smiled sadly as Naruto struggled to stand.

"I'm sorry that I have to kill you, but I need to protect my precious person." Haku prepared his senbon and began to step forward, when the young blond looked up at him. The gaze made him freeze.

'His eyes…they weren't that colour before.'

Naruto stood straight up, stiffer than a statue and breathed in deeply. His eyes were closed and he took a stance the older boy had never seen before. Naruto's left leg was slightly in front of his right leg and his arms were close to his stomach, the right above the left, and about a foot apart.

Naruto's eyes flashed open, and the sight unnerved the otherwise confident boy. A deep blue chakra began to swirl around him wildly, his eyes deepening to match the colour.

"Never, hurt my friends." The tone was so cold and calm, that it made the long-haired boy wonder how he would get out of this alive. He was already low on chakra, and keeping up this kekkei genkai took a lot out of him.

Haku came to his senses, noticing he was wasting time, and began rapidly firing senbon at Naruto, flying between the ice mirrors at high speeds. To his utter astonishment, the needles were burnt to a crisp by the incredible chakra forming around his opponent.

Haku continued to switch between the mirrors, trying to find a weak point in the immense amount of chakra surrounding Naruto.

'What is he?'

Meanwhile

"Summoning Jutsu!" Kakashi summoned his dogs to help him attack Zabuza.

'There' Kakashi blocked an attack from his right side with a kunai, negating Zabuza's attempt to sever his head from his body. The bandage-wrapped man jumped back, preparing another attempt on Kakashi's life, when both of them stopped. The two looked towards Haku's Demon Ice mirrors Jutsu. Kakashi's single eye widened in shock at the scene before him.

"The…the mist is, fading." Sakura's anxious voice floated from somewhere behind the missing Nin and the copy ninja.

Zabuza stared in shock as the ice mirrors were completely obliterated by sheer chakra, shards of ice raining down upon the bridge they fought on. The first thing Zabuza saw scared him unlike anything had before. There was a young boy lying, motionless in between A blond haired kid, who was closer to him, and Haku, but what scared him, was the look of pure, straight out terror on Haku's face.

Kakashi took Zabuza's moment of surprise as an advantage.

"Chidori!" Blue lightning appeared in his palm as he dashed towards the back of the still startled Zabuza, aiming for the heart. In the distance, Haku's eyes widened.

"Zabuza-sama!" The young boy darted forward, his outcry startling Naruto enough for his chakra to recede and his eyes to return to their normal light blue.

A bright flash of light blinded everyone on the bridge as Kakashi's Jutsu pierced the heart of the missing Nin. As he dropped to his knees, Haku caught him, laying him down softly on the ground. Tears cascaded down his face, mixing with the fatal wound in Zabuza's chest. Haku was mumbling incoherently, the pain in his chest becoming unbearable. His mourning wail tore into Naruto as he put a hand on the boys shoulder.

Zabuza looked up to the blond, staring him straight in the eye with a ferocity that made Naruto ponder how he had the resolve to look anything but in pain. His whisper was barely caught on the wind, but Naruto heard him nonetheless. He nodded wordlessly as the dying man closed his eyes.

"Haku…be good, train hard, and live. Let them…give you purpose. Let them…" Zabuza gave a hacking cough, wheezing out his last few words. "Teach you…to love. I'm…sorry…Haku…" Zabuza's hand lifted slightly as Haku reached to squeeze it.

"Zabuza-sama." The hand went slack in Haku's grasp as he took a shuddering breath. He laid the hand down quietly as he stood up, his body wracking with silent sobs. Sakura walked up to them, pulling the broken boy into a comforting hug. He buried his head into her shoulder as he cried his heart out, the last person to care about him leaving the earth for good.

Kakashi looked over to the silent Naruto, watching him closely. The boys eyes were cast down. His back facing the group, he took a few steps forward before collapsing to his knees.

"Sasuke."

His voice was no more than a whisper, but Kakashi caught it. Looking farther a few feet ahead of Naruto, he noticed the still form of his cold student. Naruto crawled his way to the body of his friend, tear marks following his progress on the unfinished bridge. Sakura took notice of the moving from as the sight before her began to sink in.

A mocking laugh came from behind the pink-haired genin as pair of massive arms encircled her small form and dragged her backwards. The cold feeling of steel biting the nape of her neck prevented any thoughts of struggle.

An extremely short man appeared next to her as he continued to laugh menacingly.

"Well isn't this sweet, the amazing demon of the mist downed by a loser and his three little pigs, while his little boy-toy mourns him." His false smile disappeared quickly replaced by a tone of mockery and disgust. "It sickens me how weak you all are. Now I don't even have to kill him and I get the little whore as a bonus." His horrible grin re-appeared on his disturbing features.

Tears cascaded down Sakura's face as she came to terms with the situation they were in. From the look on Kakashi's face, there were quite a few bandits behind her and they had almost zero chance of survival. They were all going to die and she would be used as a sex slave for Gato's henchmen.

Her thoughts were interrupted as Gato took a step back, surprise flickering across his features. She looked to the spot where Gato was staring to make out a blurred form through her tears. A voice that could slice through steel and freeze hell cut into the air around them.

"You will not hurt my friends." His tone began to rise with each word.

"You will not threaten us. You will not continue to suck this town try. You will not continue to ruin lives. All my life, I've been called a demon in my village; I was hated for no reason by everyone around me. It's time I gave a reason for them to hate me, to fear me." By now Naruto was shouting. "It's time I redeemed my title, AS THE DEMON OF KONOHA!" The amount of intense blue chakra that erupted from Naruto's body was frightening even Sakura, as the man who held her took a step back and let her go.

The wind picked up as Naruto's body began to change and lift into the air from the chakra coursing through his body. His hair grew slightly longer and thicker as his Hitai-ate came undone and fell to the ground. The tips of his blond hair became an intense blue and the colour of his eyes deepened to match the chakra ravishing the bridge around him.

A long blue, curved blade grew from the top part of his wrist on each arm. With his fists clenched, the blades extended to about two feet, the tips level with the bottom of his curled fist.

While the group on the bridge watched in fear, Kakashi stared in curiosity. How…this isn't the chakra of the nine tails…what is he? Kakashi watched in pure shock as, even with his activated sharingan, he could not track the speed at which Naruto moved.

To Naruto, everyone was standing still. The whole world was different shades of blue, with his friends' chakra signatures being almost white, and the others being a dark purple. One chakra signature was black.

He lunged forward, piercing the centers of all the evil chakra signatures, obliterating them flawlessly. After was seemed like fighting against people who were trying to fight in syrup for near ten minutes, Naruto began to grow tired, defeating the last few and deactivating the odd blue-world.

However, what seemed like ten minutes to Naruto was ten seconds in real-time. Before him stood a terrified Gato as he panted, his blue chakra was receding and the bloodied arm blades fading from existence. He took the few steps forward as he stood over Gato, who had nothing but a hundred foot drop into the ocean at his back.

"Tell the devil I said hi." A small blue sphere was formed in Naruto's palm as he shoved it into the stomach of the miniscule man, promptly ripping it to shreds as he fell backwards off of the unfinished bridge, his body bouncing off a stray beam and creating a nearly inaudible splash as his body was swept away by the currents of the ocean.

Naruto turned to his friends shocked expressions and gave them a tired smile. As the last remnants of dark blue faded from his eyes, Naruto toppled forward, fainting due to chakra exhaustion.

The last thing he remembered before falling into the welcoming abyss of darkness was the blurred form of Sasuke's twitching fingers.

Authors Notes: So…what do you think? Remember to review, no flames (I get enough of that from my nine year old brother). I had an idea for my other story, but then I realized this would fit much better with the plot I had planned out for that. This will follow the anime up until the chunin exams, and then my story will pan-out from there.