Prologue- Flame haired shinobi

Village of Konoha 17 years ago

It was a sunny Day in Konoha, peaceful like all the other days of the year. Not much was going on at the moment besides the normal life in the village hidden in the leaves. There was one couple who belonged to the Haruno clan that were just minding their own business when out of nowhere they heard what like whistling. They were curious and decided to check it out. What they heard wasn't whistling at all, it was the sound of something approaching their village from the sky and very quickly from the sound of it. The couple approached the source to see what it was. It was actually a small round space pod speeding towards the forest without slowing down. Everyone was concerned that it would hit the village and got ready to intercept it but it just flew over and crashed right outside of the village. The Haruno couple decided to investigate the strange object that had crashed outside of the hidden leaf village. When they got to the landing site, they were floored when they saw how giant of a crater the small spacecraft made when it landed. It was small and round like a ball except it was...metal. The shinobi who arrived with the Haruno couple were going to help transport it to village to determine what it was exactly, that's when the front hatch opened. This alerted all the shinobi as they prepared to confront whatever it was that was in the small spaceship. What came out however was a small flame colored haired baby with….a..tail? The shinobi then instantly let their guard down as the small baby with a tail just looked at them like it was curious. It started to crawl towards them and then sat down again just staring at them as if looking at something foreign for the first time. The Haruno couple approached the baby boy with the furry tail and knelt down to eye level with it. "Hello there little one. You seem to be lost, you have a home?," Mr Haruno asked. The Baby just stared at him as if to say "no, I don't. " The wife then took pity on the small child and told her husband that they could adopt him since he had no place to go and plus she always wanted a little boy of her own...even if he did have a tail. The man couldn't argue with his wife once she set her mind towards something she wanted. "Alright guess that settles it then. Now, what to call you?,"The man said aloud before noticing a name on the child's diaper. He read the name and discussed it with his wife. "What's this? Houjin? Houjin, huh? What do you think dear?," the man asked his wife. "Houjin… Flame in another language, huh? Yes, I think Houjin is a fine name. It fits too.," Mrs Haruno said to her husband. When the young baby heard its name it started to laugh and stretch its arms towards Mr Haruno like it wanted to be picked up. The man lifted up the orange haired baby with a tail and lifted it above his head. "He seems to like that name. Alright then Houjin is what we'll call you.," the man replied. After that the Haruno clan took the strange baby in as one of their own and began to raise him as a proper Leaf village ninja.

A year later, the Haruno family welcomed a little girl into the family. The baby girl that was born they named Sakura. Mr Haruno introduced Houjin to his little adopted sister, but he warned him that because of how he was adopted into the family that he had to remain secret from Sakura until they knew where young Houjin came from.

Time Skip- 12 years into the future

With Houjin while the other kids got ready to graduate the Leaf's ninja Academy

"Haah!" this was the sound of a young flame haired boy training with his father in Taijutsu that he had studied from a scroll his father had been given. Smack! Catch! Thwap! Pow! He was training vigorously in a forest that particular morning and sweating quite a bit from the workout his instructor was putting him through, it eventually caught up with the young 13 year old Saiyan and he was now breathing heavily. "Alright that's good for now son, let's take a break.,"the purple haired man said. The young Saiyan boy agreed without a second thought and took the man up on his offer. The two of them sat down. The man passed a thin towel to the young Saiyan with orange hair, this Saiyan in question is the adopted son of the Haruno household, Houjin Haruno. "Oh thanks Dad.,"Houjin replied as he took the towel to wipe the sweat of his face. For a 13 year old, he was quite toned. For some reason the physical training seemed to double his muscle mass compared to a normal boy, he already had a rock solid 8 pack by age 10 and now it's grown to a 12 pack of muscle for Abdominal muscle. "You seem to be getting better and better at Taijutsu Houjin, there's almost no weaknesses at all in your Taijutsu. Keep it up and it'll be flawless in no time.,"Mr Haruno said with a laugh. Houjin appreciated the vote of confidence from his father, it made him feel like he could keep going. As Houjin was getting ready to get back to training he realized what time it was and alerted his father. "Say Dad, isn't Little sis' Sakura's graduation today?," Houjin reminded his father. "Why yes it is. Thank you for reminding me Houjin. Why don't you work on your Ki manipulation until I get back from your sister's graduation? I promise I won't be too long son.," Mr Haruno replied. "Ah don't worry about it dad. I'll be fine on my own, take as long as you need. Sakura's your only child as far as the general public of the village is concerned.,"Houjin replied. Mr Haruno understood and just smiled at the boy before taking off. He may only be adopted, but as far he was concerned Houjin was as much his own kid as his daughter Sakura was. And he was proud of both of his kids. After his dad disappeared into the distance, Houjin got right back to training. He stood up, tied his belt on his shinobi gi and went back at it. "Right, back to training!," Houjin said to himself. He closed his eyes and listened to his body as he pulled the energy from within out. When he felt a pull, he brought out his energy. Bright emerald colored energy formed into a ball in his palm and slowly increased in size until it hovered above his hand. Houjin then moved on to the other hand and repeated the process. Once he did, he brought the two energies together and focused on a single point in his hands that he wanted to channel his ki towards. When he got his Ki to a certain point in his hands he released the energy into a bright beam after naming the technique. "Sun Style: Shining Execution!" He then fired the Emerald Blue beam as it shook the forest and created a large explosion. Houjin then moved onto channeling his Ki to directly around himself as a defense and offensive booster. A Bluish white Ki surrounded him as he continued to Channel it for practice. Once satisfied with that, Houjin went back to physical training unaware that someone was watching him from nearby.

Back at the Academy, all the kids lined up to receive their headbands for graduating the Academy. All except for one kid, a young blond haired kid named Naruto Uzumaki. He just sat there on a swing outside of the Academy depressed and looking down. All of the adults were criticizing him and saying how it would be a disgrace if he was made a ninja. One little girl noticed this and her heart went out to him. He looked like all he needed was a friend cause no one else would even acknowledge that he was there, this girl was the former Hyuuga heiress, Hinata Hyuuga. She wanted to go over to talk to him but sadly her father wouldn't allow it and she didn't understand why, even though her father already made his reasons clear. She didn't care, she just wanted to befriend the boy who no one wanted to talk to and that needed a friend. Ever since she was 5 years old she had watched this boy from a distance and it inspired her to try harder and become a stronger person. Her sister Hanabi, who was named the new Hyuuga clan heiress after defeating her sister in a practice spar, was next to her also waiting to graduate the leaf ninja academy at her father's suggestion. She had been feeling an immense amount of chakra coming somewhere, but she didn't know where. As soon as graduation was over she would find out where the immense chakra was coming from. She whispered to her father, Hiashi, that she was feeling some very strong chakra like energy coming from somewhere nearby or in the village for a few minutes and she wanted to see where it was coming from. Hiashi was abit hesitant but agreed to let Hanabi investigate as long as she told him about it afterwards.

Naruto P.O.V

I got tired of their constant insulting me, so I decided that I needed a change in scenery. When I walked away and started towards my own apartment I picked up on an enormous chakra and it wasn't my own so I decided to see what it was when lo and behold I saw a well toned orange haired boy with a tail training. He was gathering his chakra around him, it was so thick that I would've sworn that it was visible to the naked eye. Fortunately, he didn't notice me because he was so into his training. Then he did something I thought was incredible. He gathered sparking chakra into his palms and released it like a laser beam, without any hand signs! Whoever this boy was for some reason I got inspired from him cause I felt like he was similar to me in the fact that no one knew he existed, yet he continued to press on like he never even cared what anyone said. I walked away from there feeling inspired that there was someone out there just like me, I'd show everyone that I could be someone. Once I became Hokage, they'd have to acknowledge me as somebody rather than treating me like a nobody and one that shouldn't even exist.

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Back at the academy everyone received their headbands for graduating the leaf's ninja academy. Sakura had just received hers, she was excited about it. But she was more excited for a certain crush of hers for graduating. This certain crush was of course the sole known survivor of the uchiha clan Massacre, Sasuke Uchiha. He was the coolest kid in the academy in her opinion as well as the one she was in love with, everything was perfect about him. To Sakura, there couldn't be a more perfect guy to be in love with. Of course, she wasn't the only girl who felt this way a good portion of the girls in the leaf village felt this way too. Not all of them felt as Sakura and her long time friend turned rival Ino did about Sasuke though. These few included Hinata and Hanabi, Tenten, and surprisingly a sibling of Naruto's named Kasumi. Kasumi wasn't well liked either but not to the extent that her brother was. Kasumi had her eye on another boy (who at the time didn't know that he too was a Saiyan as well) and that boy was Kazuna Inazuka, Kiba's cousin. (Yes in this story Naruto has a sister and Kiba has a cousin. It's not cannon but I thought it'd make things interesting. Kazuna and Houjin become rivals later) Kazuna had the most brilliant black hair and tail, these made him look kinda cute in her opinion. She had secretly been crushing on him for awhile now, ever since she was 8 years old. For 4 years she'd been content to want to watch him from a distance but now she wanted to get to know him better in the hopes that they'd become friends so she could one day confess her feelings to him after they'd been friends with each other for awhile. Kasumi graduated too with the rest of the class, she was angry that they didn't let her brother graduate though. She had part of the Kyuubi inside of her too. So why did they have to be so mean to Naruto? It wasn't fair at all! He hadn't done anything to the villagers, and yet they still treated him like dirt. She was sick of this. Every day she'd have to go home and be the one to cheer her brother up after the villagers outrageous accusations. She'd had enough and had half a mind to teach these villagers a lesson. But she'd remembered the words of iruka sensei everytime she thought this. "These people are just afraid. They're afraid of you two cause they don't understand you siblings yet. Humans judge things harshly that they don't understand. " Those words played in Kasumi's head everytime she thought of giving the villagers a piece of her mind.

Once graduation was over, Hanabi headed towards where she felt the abnormally high chakra earlier. What she found was Houjin training by himself until Mr Haruno showed up. "You wait long, son?," Mr Haruno asked. Houjin shook his head. "Nah I head plenty to do. You could've stayed longer you know. Sakura is your only legitimate kid you know. I'm just adopted because you and mom found me when I was a baby.,"Houjin replied. "That may be true Houjin, but you're as much of my own son as Sakura is my daughter. I don't care if I just took you in, you're still my son and that won't change no matter what happens.," Mr Haruno said. Houjin knew his father was right, so he told him that he wasn't sure what got into him and that Mr Haruno would never hear anything like that come out of his mouth again. "What the-? They're father and son, even though that flame haired boy's just adopted? And what's up with that chakra? I've never seen chakra like that before! He didn't even use any hand signs at all for those jutsu he used! I better report this to father.,"Hanabi thought to herself as she vanished.

Meanwhile Hinata headed home for the day. As she was walking, she bumped into Kasumi. "Ah! Hinata, are you ok?,"Kasumi asked. Hinata nodded. "Y-yes I'm fine. Thank you, Kasumi.,"Hinata replied. "Ah, it's no problem. Afterall, we're friends aren't we?,"Kasumi responded. Hinata nodded in agreement. They were friends, best friends in fact. One way or another, Kasumi had found out that Hinata kinda had a crush on Naruto and offered to give her some advice on how to win him over. After that initial meeting the two of them just really hit off and have now become best friends. Hinata also befriended her crush through Kasumi, seeing as Kasumi was Naruto's sister. " so how's Hanabi doing these days? Haven't seen your sister in awhile outside of the academy.,"Kasumi said trying to casually start up a conversation. "Oh she's been busy training with father, we haven't even been allowed off the estate very much as of late. I feel bad for Hanabi though. Kinda like by me failing as the Heiress that I Kinda pushed it onto her.,"Hinata said sadly. "Ah knock it off will ya Hinata? I'm sure Hanabi doesn't blame you for that. So stop attacking yourself for it, ok?,"Kasumi replied. Hinata reluctantly did as her her friend asked, she knew Kasumi wouldn't give up until you did what she said. Hinata finally arrived at the Hyuuga's estate and said bye to Kasumi. As she entered their estate, she thought about what Kasumi and her talked about. She decided right then and there that she'd talk to Naruto the next time she saw him.

Naruto was still depressed, he'd failed the graduation test for the third time. He desperately wanted to become a ninja, but didn't see how that was possible now. That's when he received a light tap on the shoulder by who else but Iruka Umino, his surrogate big brother. "Hey Naruto, why the long face?," Iruka asked concerned. Naruto turned to him before responding, allowing iruka to see that there was almost no life at all in his eyes. All his hopes of graduating, becoming a ninja, and eventually forcing people to notice him were all but dashed. "Hey Iruka Sensei",Naruto responded almost lifeless. Iruka was really concerned now, he had to get Naruto back to his old self and he knew just what would do it. "Tell you what, why don't I treat you to some Ichiraku? I know it's your favorite.," Iruka replied. As soon as Naruto heard this, the life instantly came back to his eyes and he was himself again as he hurried iruka towards Ichiraku's. Iruka sweat dropped at this wondering how one person can recover that quickly just at the thought of some Ichiraku ramen. "Alright Naruto I'm coming, wait up.,"iruka replied as he let Naruto lead him towards the famous ramen stand.

Houjin and his father were done training for the day and had gotten hungry. So they decided upon a certain ramen stand before supper, not knowing that a certain blond haired jinchuriki was heading there as well. Once they got there, they placed their orders and sat down. Although his father had found out that Houjin was a Saiyan , he still told his son to control that appetite of his. Houjin nodded promising only to eat 10 bowls this time as opposed to his usual 25 to 30 bowls. When the two of them were waiting for their orders, Houjin noticed Naruto and decided to strike a conversation with him. "Hey aren't you that kid everyone's been talking about?," Houjin asked. "Yeah, what about it?,"Naruto asked abit skeptical. "Oh nothing. I just think you're pretty rad for taking all the junk they talk about you, it takes a special kind of strength not to let all that drive you crazy.,"Houjin said back to him. "You really think so?," Naruto asked. "Yeah, in fact I know so. I had to go through the same thing once. Name's Houjin by the way, what's yours?,"replied. "Me? My name's Naruto Uzumaki! Believe it! I'll be Hokage someday and change this village!,"Naruto responded. "I don't doubt that you will. In fact, I'd like to help you achieve your dream, from the shadows of course cause I can't yet reveal myself officially to the village just yet.,"Houjin responded. "Sure, works for me!,"Naruto replied back as the two of them fist bumped to seal their friendship. Both iruka and Mr Haruno smiled at this, they knew these two boys would understand each other and be friends for long time to come. Houjin and Mr Haruno finally got their orders and thanked Mr Teuchi and his Daughter for the food before digging in. Iruka was a tad surprised at how much Houjin could eat as he quickly put away 10 bowls of ramen in the blink of an eye. "This kid could give chouji a run for his money with as much as that kid eats.," iruka said to himself as he sweatdropped at this. Houjin gently set his bowl down and his chopsticks too before clapping his hands together and thanking those in charge of Ichiraku's for the meal. "Well we better go Houjin, don't want to be late.,"Mr Haruno said. "Oh yeah. Coming sensei. See ya round Naruto, nice meeting you!,"Houjin replied before walking off with Mr Haruno. Naruto waved bye to Houjin, then he thought about something he noticed about Houjin. The boy had a tail! No way was that normal. And it looked real, not that he'd ever try to touch it or anything. No wonder he felt so at ease talking to Houjin, people probably thought Houjin was weird for having a tail. He was sure that he'd see Houjin again before too long though.

Hanabi had returned to the estate quickly after what she saw and had immediately requested to see her father. The Elders of the Hyuuga didn't mind since she was the heiress and that they practically had her in their palms. So they could get her to do whatever they wanted and she couldn't argue because word from the council was absolute in the Hyuuga clan that was based on tradition. She quickly approached her father's quarters and was let in by her Father, it was her right as the Hyuuga heiress. "Well Hanabi what do you have to report?," Hiashi asked semi-coldly. This didn't go unnoticed by Hanabi, she didn't like it and would soon tell her father that she was sick of what their clan was becoming, it needed to change. "Well I found that the abnormal chakra I was sensing was coming from spiky flame haired boy with a tail. He used some jutsu that I've never seen before. He didn't even use any hand signs for them. How's that possible?,"Hanabi reported. Hiashi was surprised by this, he never knew of anyone capable of what Hanabi had told him..except maybe one person. And that person was the adopted son of Yakumo and Haruka Haruno (yes I'm just making up names because I don't know what Sakura's parents actual names are.). "Did you catch what the boy's name was by chance?,"Hiashi asked. He had to be sure that it was the same person that he thought it was. "I believe Mr Haruno called him Houjin if I remember right.," Hanabi replied. That confirmed it, Hiashi knew the boy his daughter spoke of was the one the Haruno's were keeping a secret from the elder council of the leaf. If the council knew about Houjin and what he could do, they'd most likely try to weaponize him for their own ambitions. He knew Yakumo would never allow that to happen to his son, even if he was possibly not even human. "That was most likely the boy an old friend of mine has been keeping a secret from the village's hierarchy in the council to protect him from being ostracized by everyone. You see, that boy, Houjin, he isn't exactly normal. I suggest you get to know him, it could prove to be beneficial in undermining this clan's stuck up council of elders. I never liked them you know.," Hiashi told Hanabi. Hanabi nodded, she could understand her father's concerns. The Hyuuga clan needed to change, it couldn't continue the way it was. She decided right then that her actions concerning getting to know Houjin would be so the Hyuuga clan could change for the better. Her father even told Hanabi that should she fall in love with Houjin, he'd give them his approval.

Later that night, Naruto was by himself when he was approached by Mizuki. Mizuki told him that if he wanted to prove himself worthy of graduating the Academy, all he had to do was steal the scroll of sealing and learn the techniques in it. Naruto thought he was an honest guy, so he did as Mizuki instructed him to do. When the Anbu found out about it, they searched high and low for Naruto trying to capture him. The third hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, already knew what was happening and was uncharacteristically calm about it like he knew the whole thing would sort itself out. Naruto found a place to hide with the scroll, he felt betrayed by Mizuki. He didn't know that he wasn't supposed to take the scroll of sealing. Iruka found Naruto and began to talk to him to calm him down. Mizuki came out of hiding and attacked Naruto by trying to kill him with a giant shuriken. Iruka decided to protect Naruto by shielding him from the blow, blood ran down his back where the shuriken stabbed him. Naruto looked terrified and asked why iruka protected him when he was just a monster. Iruka assured him that he was not the Kyuubi like the villagers thought he was, he was just the jailer for part of it.

Houjin sensed that something was wrong and took of to where he thought trouble was. He was angered when he saw one of the Jonin picking on Naruto. Out of nowhere, he warped in front of Mizuki and started beating him to a pulp. Houjin was angry, How dare Mizuki pick on his friend! After he had bruised him up a bit he let Naruto have his way with Mizuki with a new technique he learned. Naruto formed the hand sign for shadow clone jutsu and thousands of narutos appeared all around the rogue Jonin. "Wind Style: storm bullet jutsu!," Naruto shouted. All of his clones fired the same technique at Mizuki brutally battering him. The rogue Jonin was now a beaten up mess as he struggled to stand. He still looked at Naruto with Hate in his eyes and was about to attack Naruto again. Finally, Houjin had enough of Mizuki and stepped in front of Naruto and Iruka. "Let me handle mizuki, he needs to learn his lesson.,"Houjin said as he just glared at Mizuki. He didn't know why, but for some reason this scared him. "What are you gonna do other Demon?,"Mizuki asked hoping to rile Houjin up. Big mistake. Houjin rushed in grabbed Mizuki by the neck and driver punched him into the ground creating a crater from the force of his blow to the rogue Jonin. "Well, I think that should take care of Mizuki.," Houjin said dusting off his hands. Naruto and Iruka just paled at Houjin's monster strength. What they didn't realize was that it was morning by the time they dealt with Mizuki. "Alright Naruto close your eyes.,"iruka said. Naruto just giggled knowing what he was about to get. "Alright open your eyes Naruto.,"Iruka said back to him. Naruto beamed when he felt what was on his head, it was a headband or Hitae ate with the symbol of the leaf on it. "Congratulations Naruto on graduating the leaf village ninja academy. You're a eligible to be a full fledged shinobi now.,"iruka replied. "Yosh! I'm going to become Hokage before long now, believe it!,"Naruto shouted as he pumped his fist into the air excited. Houjin knew Naruto would be ok now, so he took his leave after saying bye. He knew he'd see his blond haired friend soon enough and looked forward to the kind of unpredictable ninja Naruto would become.

End prologue