'Have to run, need to run, cannot stop running, they will get me!'

These, and other, similar, thoughts, were the only thoughts running through a 5 year old Naruto's mind. Current the young blonde child known as Naruto was running, or rather being chased, through one of the seedier parts of the Konohagakure no Kuni, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, where murder, theft, and rape was far more common than in the richer districts.

'Useless brat, why was I sealed in such a weak vessel? I swear, even Nibi got a semi-useful bint, but what do I get? A malnourished ramen-addicted freak stuck in a retardedly prejudiced village.' These were the thoughts running through the Kyuubi's mind. 'Fuck this, I need to do something before this dumb-ass gets killed...' "OI GAKI!" That last bit was spoken into the poor child's mind. Naruto, of course, automatically assumed it was some form of Genjutsu and attempted to dispel it.

"KAI!" Obviously, this had no effect, but the Lord of the Demons, the Foxes, and the Demon Foxes did not appreciate being 'KAI'ed so he shouted a bit louder: "OI YOU IDIOT CHILD QUIT FUCKING RUNNING AND HIDE SOMEWHERE!"

Naruto was better than some ANBU at dispelling Genjutsu so he decided that if the Chuunin Kurenai, who was from a long line of Genjutsu users and thus infinitely better at them than he was, was attempting to manipulate him, for good or for bad, he may as well do what she said and made his way to a warehouse he knew was safe.

The warehouse in question was, for all intents and purposes, non-existent. It had so many layers of Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, not to mention some severely potent Fuuinjutsu, he only happened across it by chance when he was cornered in an alley.

"The only reason you know of this place is because I told you, kid. You only got through the protections because of the demon blood in you."

"So I am a demon then?"

"No, the retarded villagers only say that because I'm sealed in you. 5 years ago that idiot Madara cast a Genjutsu on me to try and make me give him all my power but it backfired and I tried to destroy your village. The Yondaime, coincidentally your father, gave his life to seal me in you. He wanted you to be seen as a hero but the villagers needed a scapegoat. Also, you only need to think things for me to hear them"

"Okay--" 'Err, okay then... So why did you bring me here?'

"The reason why I had you come here is... Actually, do me a favour and perform this technique please." With that 7 seals popped into Naruto's mind, the first six of which were normal ninja seals and the final was a strange one he had never seen before, the pinky of the right hand pushed over the pinky of the left hand and held over the bottom knuckle of the index, middle, and ring fingers, the index of the right hand wrapped around the thumb of the left, and the index of the left held between the middle and ring fingers of the right hand, with the pinky of the left hand peering out between the index and thumb of the right hand ([A/N I only described it since it'll be used again. It's the Kyuubi's special seal, if you count the visible digits there are nine of them. All the demon bosses have their own seals]). Performing the seals and shouting, though he didn't know the technique, Onijutsu: Onibunshin. A rather subdued puff of smoke followed, which compressed into a woman, 5 feet 9 inches tall, dressed in a black trench coat that went directly to the floor and a wide-brimmed fedora that shadowed most of her face.

"MUCH better, being stuck in your stomach all the time is annoying." were the first words spoken by the woman. Naruto panicked and moved to cancel the jutsu, but was interrupted. "Gaki, don't worry about it. I can't actually go more than 5 feet away from you in this form without your permission." To demonstrate, she took a few large steps to the left, then dropped dead of a heart attack once she got about 5 and a quarter feet away. Naruto took a step towards her and she came back to life. "See? Now I only brought you here so I could train you a bit, but there really isn't enough space. Do you trust me?"

"Not really," replied Naruto, "Why?"

"That's a good thing to hear. I want to take you on a nice trip around the country, possibly out of the mortal realm, but simply vanishing will put you on the missing-nin list since you have ninja training, so we'll need to go to your Hokage and ask him for leave for the next... Let's say 7 years. Do you want to do it?"

'Hmm, stay in a village where I'm hated and might end up dead in a month or get trained by an insanely powerful, not to mention pretty, demon lord. Hard choice.' "HELL YES I DO!"

"That is a good thing. You don't know any teleportation jutsu so here are the signs for the demon one:" she said, followed by doing two seals Naruto didn't recognize. "It isn't possible for mortals to do it though, so just come here and I'll do it for us."

Naruto, not seeing any harm in doing so, let her take him to the Hokage's office.

The Hokage in question was fairly surprised to see them, especially the Kyuubi. In fact, he was so surprised he dropped the Icha Icha Tactics novel he was reading and hit the Third Division ANBU button so hard it shot through the roof. Naruto, seriously shocked, jumped onto the ceiling which caused the Kyuubi to drop of a heart attack while an entire division of ANBU Shushined into the Hokage's office.

"Naruto, why is the Kyuubi walking around outside of your body?" queried the Sandaime.

"That's a long story, and I will tell it to you when those ANBU quit shooting glares at Kyuubi-san and I get off the ceiling." With that, the Hokage dismissed the ANBU and Naruto, true to his word, dropped off the ceiling, reviving the Kyuubi who was suitably pissed.

"Hokage-san, we need to talk. ALONE." The Hokage was worried but he dismissed Naruto, who gave Kyuubi permission to be a bit away from him.

"Sarutobi, I want to take Naruto on a training trip for the next seven years. He is pitifully weak and I fear for his, and thus my, life. Just half an hour ago he was being chased by nearly 500 villagers, for crying out loud!"

"Yeah, about that..-"

"Don't give me that shit, you know full well you can do something about it. Regardless, do I have your permission to take Naruto out of the country, and possibly even this realm?"

Sarutobi weighed it in his head. 'Kyuubi has a point, even if I start executing everyone who even looks at Naruto funny I'll just end up the Hokage of a dead town, plus if this works out I'll have the most powerful ninja in several centuries as one of my ninja, I might as well let them go.' "Very well, you have my leave."

"Brilliant! We'll be back in 7 years."

A/N so this is my new story. It'll get better I swear.

I'm actually going to cover most, if not all, of the training, unlike SOME people who only cover it through flashbacks "coughcoughkarrafearcoughcough" :D

To all y'all who read my HP story that series is too boring and retarded now that I've read Twilight and have had my Consumer Reading gland forcefully removed, so I abandoned it. If anyone wants to take it up feel free.