Time for me to repost an old fanfic of mine. This was stolen from me, but with the help of the wonderful fanfiction support staff I got it back. Enjoy chapter one of Naruto of the Gentle Fist.


Naruto of the Gentle Fist: Chapter 1

"Faster, I have to move faster." Was the only though of the young orphan boy that had blond hair and the most dazzling blue eyes the Village Hidden in the Leaves has seen in quite some time as he was desperately trying to escape the fate that seemed to follow him every time the day of celebration or in his case misery came along. That day is October 10. The same day the Fourth Hokage defeated the Nine Tailed Fox, it was also on this very day that various people seemed to seek him out, all of whom want to hurt him or have some kind of vendetta against the young boy. Most of the people were civilians who where rather intoxicated and avoidable with the given effort, even for a boy as young as the five year old who was currently trying to give them the slip. Unfortunately luck was not on his side at this time as a man cornered him suddenly, a man with strange red eyes that seemed to be, spinning?

"This is the end of the line for you boy" the red eye man sneered at the young boy in disgust

"No….this isn't good I can hear the mob getting closer" where the thoughts of the boy as he made a futile move to try and get around the red eyed man that was blocking his escape route to the Hokage's tower.

"Were do you think you're going, you demonic freak" he taunted the young blond as he threw the boy a round house kick to the chest knocking him on his back and forcing the wind from lungs. Just then the mob of civilians made it to the boy, and they fell on him quite viciously like they had before, beating him while calling him foul and demeaning names. Then when the young man suffering from all this abuse thought that things couldn't get any worse he was proven wrong as several men stood over him all of them had the same unusual red eyes, each of them brandishing a kunai knife. Just then there apparent leader started to address the battered and blooded orphan.

"Listen here you monster, you are getting what's coming to you. Do you understand me, you pathetic demonic bitch? You deserve every bit of this and worse for forcing the Uchiha clan to be cramped in the south district since you tried to destroy our village." the leader spat out then without any more foreplay the three uchiha descended on the boy and struck him with the kunai causing severe damage even going so far as to remove his eyes from his sockets.

"There, that should teach the demon his place." one of the uchiha said.

"Yeah until next year when its time your us to remind him of where that place is exactly again" said another one with slight humor evident in his tone of speaking.

"It was an honor to be chosen to put this….. this…. THING in its place this year," stated the last one. "Come we should be returning now we don't want to keep lord Fugaku waiting now do we?"

With that the three Uchiha and the civilian mob dispersed leaving a beaten and battered Naruto Uzumaki in a blooded heap, without his eyes, in a secluded alleyway slowly bleeding to death after the what was absolutely the worst beating he had ever possibly endured. "So this is how it ends huh, dying in some back alley because the village hates me, never getting to become Hokage and making everyone respect me." where the saddening thoughts of Naruto as he resigned himself to his fate as unconsciousness beckoned to him, but fate, it had other ideas this night. As a shadow crept over young Naruto, another presence made itself know in that alley where the young man had lost his eye earlier that night. Looking down in sadness and pity the figure scooped up young Naruto and rush off into the distance determined not to let the nine tail's jailer die this night.

Unknown location

Slowly, as Naruto began to awaken, he became aware of something very soft beneath him, softer than any bed he has ever been on, not that it really meant anything as his mattress at his apartment was rather worn and lumpy and the only other bed he was ever in was the hospital beds.

"Wait the hospital, that must be where I am, the old man, or his guards with the cool masks must have found me and brought me here to fix me up so I wouldn't die in that alley way." Were the thoughts of the young boy as he began to pounder other things like, "if I really am in the hospital why is this bed so comfy then?" he mused, the memories of the previous night came flooding back to him, the attack on him by the Uchiha, his eyes being cut out, being beaten…..wait his eyes, with that he reached up and touched where his eyes should have been to feel what appeared to have been bandages warped around the upper portion of his head.

"I wouldn't go poking at those wrappings if I were you." said a monotone voice interrupting his current train of thought on the previous night and jumped at the voice he now heard in the room. "Do not be afraid of me little one. I will not hurt you. I brought you back to my house so you could heal after the hospital refused treatment of you, I did my best to fix you up as best I could, but for now you should rest. I will return in a few hours with food and hopefully some very good news for you Naruto" the stoic voice said to Naruto.

"Really, that would be great! I could use some good news after the yesterday." stated an excited Naruto who seemed to have quickly forgotten his injuries or the fact that he was in a strangers company. "Hey who are you, where are you going, what are you gonna be doing, do you know where the old man is I need to see him, hey where am I anyways?" Naruto asked each question in rapid succession of each other.

"It's amazing he can get all of that out in a single breath" thought the caretaker of our hero before turning and exiting, but not before some parting words for our young blond. "All in due time Naruto all in due time" Naruto not being satisfied with that response just sat there and pouted while the stranger exited the room and headed for the village meeting that he was already late for.

Village meeting

It was that time of the year when the village had its yearly progress meeting, where all ninja not on a mission and all prominent civilians were expected to attend this very boring meeting about the current state of the village and what needed to be done to improve the Leaf Village's status so that they stay secure in their place as the prime power in the land of fire and the strongest of the hidden villages. It also was the cause of several headaches for one Hiruzen Sarutobi the Third Hokage also termed the best of shinobi for being an unequaled warrior on the battlefield during the second and third shin obi world war, and here he was listening to flak on how everyone thinks he should run his village, don't they know he can kill them without breaking a sweat, well a few of the elite joinin Anbu and the Clan heads may make him sweat a little but certainly not this civilian and chunnin bunch who seem to think the louder you talk and the more insensitive you are the more people you will sway, after a few hours of talking about the economic state of the village and how it could potentially be improved, also bringing to attention a few laws that have been removed from the books as well as some new ones that have been added, and re-evaluating some of the village's funding, the Third felt that the meeting was running rather smoothly until the dreaded topic came up, when Danzo and elderly man who was once a very successful ninja and founder of a covert anbu program called ROOT created in the interest of protecting The Leaf from the shadows that the Third Hokage disbanded three years back, Danzo was also Sarutobi's friend/rival/nemesis and he just had to open his big mouth.

"I would like to propose the reinstatement of my anbu group ROOT, as you all know our military strength has weakened over the passing years with the Sannin leaving the village, along with the Nine Tailed attack on the village and the death of the Fourth Hokage we need every military advantage we can get" stated Danzo in his monotone voice

Needless to say this started and uproar amongst the civilians who thought they were going to get invaded at any moment, and murmuring among the shin obi after this statement.

"Danzo this isn't the time nor the place military matters are to be handled by the shinobi council not brought up during the state of the village meeting, so quite being so troublesome." Our favorite lazy Nara clan head retorted to Danzo's statement, but the damage had been done.

"What do you mean we are weakened?" one civilian merchant asked.

"Is the Leaf still safe to live in?" another voiced his concerns.

"I agree with Danzo" stated another of the audience members.

"ROOT should be reinstated it protects the village" said another

"This is troublesome" commented Shikaku, "The reinstatement of ROOT is a shinobi military matter and not something villagers need concern themselves with and this topic should not even have been brought up in this sort of meeting but rather a gathering of the council" Stated the rather intelligent strategist.

"Thank you Shikaku, you saved me a headache" the Third stated while glaring at Danzo and the few people who were speaking out of turn and backing his idea." Taking a deep calming breath "I'm getting to old for this" he mused before asking "Is there anything else we need to address before we conclude this meeting?" hoping they would all answer in the negative and he could go home and relax… and maybe read some of his pupil's works. The professor's hopes where quickly crushed when a shinobi, and not just any shinobi but one of the quieter and more stoic of them stood up and marched to the center of the room, earning himself shocked looks from everyone else in the room for the man was known to not bring up matters unless they were of the utmost important. What he said next then caused uproar among both shin obi and civilians alike.

"Hello, people of the leaf village my name is Hiashi Hyuga current head of the Hyuga clan, and I would like to discuss one young man in our village, this young man is Naruto Uzumaki.

This phrase of course caused an uproar within the room, and Sarutobi could already feel the a giant new headache coming along, "ohhh great what did little Naruto do to the Hyuga Clan that is bad enough for Hiashi to bring it up during the state of the village meeting?" those where the worried thoughts of the Third Fire Shadow.

"So you finally agree that the Demon brat needs to be executed, Lord Hiashi?" questioned one man, while the Third scowled at the man's nerve and suggestion to kill an innocent child. Just then the room filled with killing intent, enough to freeze all the civilians and even have some of the newer jonin quaking in there sandals, but it wasn't coming from the Third Hokage like it normally would during these discussions, in fact once everyone came to their sense's they realized it was in fact coming from the Hyuga Clan head.

"No." Stated Hiashi in a firm and commanding voice.

"Then what about Naruto would you like to discuss with us Hiashi?" questioned the Hokage as he breathed a sigh of relief since the Hyuga head and one of the strongest and most influential ninja in the village seemed to be taking up for the young boy he viewed as a grandson. It also severed to bring to mind what Hiashi wanted to talk about since he never seemed to care about Naruto one way or the other.

"I came here to inform everyone that as of today, Naruto is now being adopted into the Hyuga clan and is to be treated as every other member of my clan is to be treated, and that any ill treatment of the boy will be seen by me as an act against the main branch of the Hyuga clan and my clansmen and I will therefore defend the boy in any way we must." Stated Hiashi in a clam tone, but if one was as experienced in reading people as the Third Hokage then it was easy to see what Hiashi just said. Go ahead make my day.

This statement of course brought shellshock to all present in the state of the village address. It's not every day that the strongest clan in the Leaf Village tells the rest of the Village to back off or else. The tension in the room was getting thick epically between the clan heads that is until Danzo spoke up.

"According to law place by the Third no member of the council may adopt the demon boy so it is illegal for you to make this claim Hiashi, for if we were allowed I would have taken the boy in a long time ago." The collected voice of Danzo came out

The Hokage sighed; yes he did put that law in place, but mainly to keep Danzo from turning Naruto into an emotionless weapon for him to use to gain the Hokage seat in the village, if he had know Hiashi was interested he would have found a way to backdoor the law so that the Hyuga head could take the boy. It seemed Naruto's chance of having a family was shot down once again. These where the Thirds thoughts until Hiashi spoke again and restored his hope.

"I am well aware of that law Danzo, but are you aware of a law in the village stating that any person In the Village Hidden in the Leaf to posses the byakugan by law belongs to the Hyuga clan?" Hiashi questioned the old war hawk.

"Yes I know of this law but what does it have to do with the demon child?" Danzo asked no liking where this exchange with the Hyuga head was going as the onlookers stared on in silence.

"I would also like to know what it has to do with young Naruto" was the statement Sarutobi made.

"Well" Hiashi began "as we all know yesterday is the celebration of our village's defeat over the nine tails at the cost of the Fourth Hokage's and several other brave men and women's lives."

"Yea we all know that it was the day the Fourth put the demon in its place" shouted a civilian counselor.

"Will you allow me to finish please?" Hiashi questioned sternly, his face betraying nothing, yet the firmness in his voice suggested it be best if they where to quiet down and list to what he was trying to say. "Thank you, now as I was saying during this celebration young Naruto was attacked and badly beaten, during this attack his eyes were removed." Hiashi explained while the Third Hokage and several other clan heads eyes went wide at this revelation, while several of the civilians cheered about the judgment passed on the demon.

The jeering going on in the room quickly got on the Hokage's nerves and he slammed his hands on the table in front of him with a great deal of force causing the room to be silent. He smirked slightly at the worried looks most of the civilians and ninja in attendances where giving him, the only ones unaffected by his actions where the clan heads who see him use this method to bring silence to a noisy military meeting room on more than one occasion. "Please continue Hiashi" Hiruzen Sarutobi stated.

"Very well, when I arrived on the scene Naruto was beaten rather badly and both his eyes had been cut out by what appeared to be tanto blades. When I found him the perpetrators had already made their escape so I took the boy to the hospital, yet they refused to treat him, stating the, and forgive me for breaking this law Lord Hokage but the hospital staff said to go away and the "demon shit got what he deserved" so when they refused to care for him I took him to the Hyuga compound" this caused a collection of gasps rarely any non Hyuga where allowed to enter the compound let alone an orphan jinchurik why Hiashi would do this was beyond them even more amazed where the Uchiha who long thought they finished the boy off just to find out a rather powerful clan now had the boy under their protection and Hiashi was nothing like Sarutobi, in that Hiashi wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone threatening his people. Hiashi continued with "I brought him back to our clan compound and had my best medics take a look at him." It was no secret the Hyuga where good at medical ninjutsu because of the precise chakra control it takes to utilize the gentle fist, because of this medical jutsu comes rather easy to them. "Once he was stable I had a deceased clan member's byakugan implanted into his eyes to return his vision, and once he gained the byakugan he legally became a Hyuga because of the clan laws stating that anyone with a byakugan that was not obtained through illegal means is considered a member of the Hyuga clan should the clan head agree. And because of this law Naruto Uzumaki is now according to the laws passed by the first and second Hokage's officially a member of the Hyuga clan as I have acknowledged him as one" Finished Hiashi as he allowed a small smirk to form on his face as he finished beating Danzo at his own game of manipulation.

At this the Hokage smiled, it seemed Hiashi had done his research and was prepared to keep the boy, he wondered why but he would figure that out soon enough when he called Hiashi in to finalize Naruto's adoption papers. "It seems Hiashi has a valid point if the boy does posses the byakugan then he falls to Hiashi, there is nothing we can do to dispute it unless Hiashi breaks laws concerning the boy, now this meeting is adjourned, Hiashi I would like a word with you in private." Stated the leader of the village as he finally ended everyone's suffering and got them out of the meeting.

"What would you like to talk to me about Lord Hokage?" questioned Hiashi as he moved to talk to the leader of the village.

"ahh yes Hiashi I was wondering why you suddenly took an interest in taking Naruto into your clan?" Replied Sarutobi.

"I wanted to take him in when I first found out how the village was shunning him, the fourth wanted us to honor the boy for jailing the fox and I will respect his wishes, when you put that law in place prohibiting the council from adopting him to protect him from Danzo there was nothing I could do, but when I found him in the ally it was horrible what the villagers did to him true, but it also gave me a chance to implant the byakugan into him and take him into my clan without opposition from the three village elders." When he said that the Hokage got a suspicious look on his face but before he could open his mouth Hiashi continued "Lord Hokage I did not attack him nor did I remove his eyes, but I did take advantage of the situation and move him out of the village's reach I know how to honor the fourth's wishes and within my clan the boy will be safe and have a home and family." Finished Hiashi.

"So you plan to bring Naruto into the Hyuga clan correct, well what position are you giving him within the clan?"

Hiashi understood immediately what his leader was asking and answered. "No I will not put the cage bird seal on him, there is no need since he isn't a natural born Hyuga and therefore may possess the byakugan but does not possess the kekkei genki of the Hyuga, I also want him to move in with Neji since I believe that the companionship with Naruto will help Neji coup with the loss of his father better, and will also help Naruto if he interacts with someone his own age and makes a friend. He will also be trained in the Hyuga's gentle fist style as well as other uses of the byakugan."

"Very well Hiashi I'm trusting you to look after this boy and I appreciate what you are doing I will not keep you any longer I am sure you would like to get home."

"Yes Lord Hokage thank you I promise to do my best to take care of young Naruto, but I do have one more thing I must ask of you I need will need your permission to tell Naruto of the burden he carries because one he starts to use the byakugan he will quickly learn his chakra coils are different for the normal looking chakra coils anyhow so it will be simpler if I were to go ahead and inform him now."

The Hokage seemed to consider this for a moment before saying, "Okay Hiashi you may tell Naruto, but explain to him it is a secret and is not to be told to anyone else undersootd"

"Yes Lord Hokage, I understand completely, if there is nothing more I shall take my leave now?"

"Yes, you are dismissed." And with that order Hiashi Hyuga had adopted Naruto Uzumaki into the prestigious Hyuga clan.

With that Hiashi returned to the Hyuga compound to tell Naruto that he was being adopted into the Hyuga clan, moving in with his nephew Neji, training in the Hyuga clan techniques and mastery of the byakugan and soon will become a ninja of the Leaf. He would make Naruto into a man to be proud of.


I hope you liked the first chapter!