Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
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Everybody was in a panic in the aftermath of the Kyuubi's attack. Shinobi were running all over the village in an attempt to assess the damages and stabilize the situation. Everyone was so busy, in fact, that they could not be bothered to stop and question one old man walking into the hospital. The old man went directly to the newborn ward which was currently unguarded due to the need for every shinobi on hand elsewhere, especially the medical ninja.
"So the Yondaime sealed you into his own son, Kyuubi?" "How unexpected."
The old man walked over to a young, blonde boy sleeping peacefully in his cradle with what appeared to be some sort of seal on his stomach.
" I had originally intended to find another, but this orphan works as well as any other and it will be useful to have both of my ultimate weapons in one place for me."
With that the old man put the child under a genjutsu to ensure that he would not draw unwanted attention during the procedure and removed the child's eyes, placing them in a jar he had with him. He then removed his own eyes without a single indication that he was in pain and, using only his other senses, implanted them into the child.
As the old man's hands glowed green with chakra he thanked his old friend for becoming so proficient in medical ninjutsu and for leaving his cells so easily accessible.
"Well, I suppose it is time." the old man mused as he went to find a worthy place to die, for now at least.
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Within the child's mindscape, a large orange fox pondered the situation at hand. Its last attempt at escape had come to nothing and he was sealed once again due to that damn Uchiha. It was then that he heard a voice from outside the seal, one he knew very well.
" I had originally intended to find another, but this orphan works as well as any other and it will be useful to have both of my ultimate weapons in one place for me."
"It can't be!" The Kyuubi thought "That man should be long dead!" "I cannot let him accomplish whatever he has planned, I will not fall back under that man's influence, not to mention that other masked Uchiha!"
As the demon fox struggled to find a solution while staring at the sleeping child in the mindscape, he saw it open its eyes to reveal concentric purple rings.
"Father's eyes?!" "But how?"
It was then that he remembered what his father had once told him about what could occur should the descendants of Ashura and Indra ever come together as one.
"He must have stolen the DNA of a Senju to activate his Rinnegan and implanted it in the human. This is what he meant by keeping both of his ultimate weapons in the same place!"
"However, he thought that the child would only be able to use the implanted Rinnegan, as he is not of Uchiha blood, he didn't realize I could integrate the eyes perfectly into his system so he could use them as if he were Uchiha."
In this way, the bijuu protected both his host and himself from the influence of the sharingan as he began to integrate the eyes into the boy's system
"You'd better appreciate this brat."
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Seven years later, Konohagakure no Sato
"Oh come on Jiji, you know I would be a kickass ninja!" A young whiskered blonde boy yelled
"Be that as it may Naruto-kun, I do not believe it would be prudent at this time to enter you into the academy, maybe next year." the Hokage of the leaf said to the sulking child.
"Fine Jiji, but you're getting me ramen later!" Naruto yelled, back in a second to his energetic self.
"Of course Naruto-kun, once I finish up this… paperwork." The old man hissed the name of his life-long nemesis. Ever since the Uchiha massacre a month ago, it had become impossible to keep up with and that Sasuke boy still hadn't said a word.
"When I become Hokage, I will find a way to defeat paperwork." Naruto replied in much the same fashion.
"If you accomplish that, Naruto-kun, you will become a truly great Hokage indeed." chuckled Hiruzen at the naive nature of the blonde.
"But for now, RAMEN!" Naruto yelled as he ran out of the room with an old man behind him, struggling to keep up.
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Naruto entered his apartment after dinner with his Jiji when we felt a tug in his stomach.
"Whoa," he said "maybe I finally ate too much ramen."
After that the boy was pulled into a dark sewer with what appeared to be a giant cage held closed only by a piece of paper reading "Seal".
As he approached the cage, he saw a gargantuan orange fox waiting for him impatiently
"It's about time you got here, Kit. We need to talk." the fox grumbled sounding annoyed.
"Y-You're the Kyuubi that attacked the village!" The blonde boy shouted, "How are you here and why would I want to talk to you?!"
"Just shut up and let me explain brat. On the day of your birth, a man attacked my previous container and released me into the village, someone from the Uchiha clan. Their sharingan was able to control me and force me to attack the village and caused the Yondaime to have to deal with me in the only way he knew how, the Shiki Fuujin. However, we bijuu cannot be held by inanimate objects or animals, our chakra is too powerful, we have to be sealed inside young humans, creating what are called jinchuuriki."
"You are a jinchuuriki."
"However, there is more to the story."
"After I was sealed into you, you were placed in a hospital, but left unguarded as all medical ninja were needed on hand to heal wounded shinobi and civilians after the attack. A man came into the hospital room and removed your eyes."
"Umm…. I still have my eyes. Right here. In my head." the boy said as if the Kyuubi was some kind of stupid toddler.
"Just shut up and let me talk!" yelled the fox, clearly annoyed at the blonde's disrespectful tone.
"He gave you his own eyes to replace the ones that he took. His eyes were one of his two ultimate weapons, the other is me."
"He used both of his weapons to fight by putting me under his control whenever he wanted, it was disgusting!"
"He didn't realize, however, that I could unlock the full potential of his eyes, but it is now time for you to make a choice."
"Choice? What kinda choice?" Asked the blonde (still rather slowly)
"Those eyes, with my help, give you two powerful dojutsu, the eternal mangekyo sharingan and the rinnegan. Both are powerful, but it would be far too suspicious if you were seen to have both, for now at least you have to pick which one you would like."
"Well which one do you think I should pick? Which one will help me kick the most butt and become the Hokage?!" The boy yelled excitedly
"In all honesty, the rinnegan is most likely the more powerful of the two, but I recommend that you pick the sharingan."
"What? Why wouldn't I pick the coolest, strongest, awesomest one?" the boy asked confusedly.
"For many reasons, the first is that the sharingan comes from this village and, as you are an orphan, it will be less suspicious for you to have. It also covers up the weakness in genjutsu you will most likely have due to your vast chakra reserves. Also, the training plan I have for you wouldn't work with the rinnegan."
"What training plan, why wouldn't it work?"
"I plan to have you use something called shadow clones, something the Yondaime used to perfect his Hiraishin in half the time. With your reserves you will become incredibly strong very quickly, but the shared vision of the rinnegan will only confuse you if you attempt to make more than six clones and severely hamper your development."
"Whatever, if you say so I guess." the blonde grumbled, still a little upset that he wasn't using the super strong, rare, dojutsu
"Hey, what should I call you anyways, if we're going to talk often I can't just keep calling you Kyuubi?"
*Sigh* "Call me Kurama, Kit"
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It was the day of the genin graduation exams and the "dead last" Naruto Uzumaki was ready to "awaken" his dojutsu in front of his whole class.
In reality he had been training with his sharingan for years and was far ahead of his other classmates but Kurama thought it would be better to hide his development and not draw too much attention to himself. He bounced on his feet with anticipation as he walked through the academy doors.
"Alright class, the next test is in taijutsu." said Chunin Iruka Umino after the conclusion of the written exam. Iruka looked curiously at Naruto, having expected the blonde (as usual) to have been muttering and pounding his head during the entire written exam, however the blonde had looked perfectly calm and collected and had been, in fact, the first of the students to finish.
What Iruka didn't know is that Naruto had always been hiding his intelligence and abilities in order to be able to train to the fullest of his capabilities without getting watchers sent after him and discovering the secrets of his two dojutsu. He had used his sharingan to memorize all the academy textbooks months ago. However, he was about to become a genin and start going on real missions. If he wanted to live, he couldn't keep both of his ultimate weapons a secret and had decided it was time to reveal them to the world.
"Hey, Sasuke-teme," the blonde boy began.
"What do you want, dobe?" replied a dark-haired emo teenager being fawned upon by the entire female population of the class.
"Dead-last, huh? Nothing new from you I guess. But if I managed to do something before you, something you've been trying your whole life to accomplish, then that would make you the dobe, wouldn't it?" Asked the smirking jinchuuriki.
"Yeah, I guess it would dobe. Too bad that'll never happen." replied the emo boy in the most arrogant way possible.
"Yeah, Naruto-baka, no way you could ever do something that Sasuke-kun couldn't!" shrieked a pink banshee from one side of the room.
"Forehead is right for once, baka, you'll never even compare to Sasuke-kun!" shrieked an equally loud blonde banshee from the other side of the room.
"Yeah… you're probably right…" Naruto muttered dejectedly, bowing his head down.
"But, on the other hand…" The blonde boy smirked as he said this and brought his head back up, only this time his formerly black eyes were now red with three tomoe surrounding the pupils.
The entire class, including Iruka-sensei, was shocked into silence.
"S-S-Sharingan?" thought Iruka
"HOW?!" was all the previously haughty Sasuke could think as he stared at Naruto in shock, anger, and jealousy.
"Yeah, I've been an orphan my whole life… I guess I must have some Uchiha blood in me somewhere, haha…" Naruto and Kurama had decided that this would be the best excuse to use. The Sandaime knew the truth about his parents, but in order to call Naruto out on the cover story, he would first have to reveal that secret he had been keeping all these years.
"Come on Iruka-sensei, I've got a test to ace, dattebayo!" the blonde boy shouted as he ran out of the classroom and headed in the direction of the academy taijutsu sparring grounds.
"Well I can hardly stop the graduation exam in the middle… I guess I'll just have to finish up here and then report to Sandaime-sama later."
"You heard him guys," The instructor said, "Now stop just sitting there and head to the next exam. Unless you want me to fail all of you?"
When he said that the spell was broken and everyone immediately ran down to the training grounds. Half of them because they didn't want to fail and half of them to ask Naruto where the hell he had gotten the sharingan.
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Naruto had been avoiding everyone's questions from the moment that they arrived at the sparring arena and was patiently waiting for his turn to spar.
"Are you deaf dobe?!" exclaimed Sasuke extremely out of his character "Where did you get those eyes?!"
Finally speaking, Naruto replied, "The grocery store… where do you think I got them….dobe." The last part said in an extremely belittling fashion.
Before Sasuke had a chance to respond, Iruka's voice was heard.
"Next match, Naruto Uzumaki vs Sasuke Uchiha"
"Hn." the emo boy started, "I guess we'll get to see who the dobe is after all, eh, Naruto?"
"I guess we will Sasuke." The blonde replied after getting over the fact that Sasuke had just said his real name for the first time that he could remember.
The boys both walked into the arena and got into position, Sasuke in the Interceptor Fist style of his clan and Naruto in one nobody had ever seen before. Nobody except one anyways.
"That stance… It couldn't be," thought Iruka "How could Naruto know the Senko style of the Yondaime?!"
How did Naruto learn the Senko style? After awakening his sharingan Kurama had brought him into the mindscape and showed him every instance Kushina had ever seen of Minato fighting, sparring, and training, all while he had his sharingan activated. Combine those with a few hundred shadow clones training every day, and you pick up a few things.
"Um.. Iruka-sensei…" The blonde boy asked slowly, "aren't you going to begin the match?"
"Oh, right." Iruka said sheepishly having been broken out of his trance.
"Naruto Uzumaki vs Sasuke Uchiha. Hajime!" Iruka yelled jumping out of the arena.
Naruto immediately activated his eyes and saw that Sasuke was coming in for a punch in what for him to be slow motion.
"Too slow Sasuke-teme." thought Naruto as he blurred out of existence faster than anyone could see, appearing directly behind Sasuke who has in the middle of punching the air where Naruto had previously been standing.
"I thought this might at least be a little fun, Kurama.." said the blonde boy to his tenant, "He is supposed to be some kind of genius after all…"
"Hn." replied the fox in a very Uchiha-esque manner, "If any of these academy students could get a hit off on you, Kit, I'd eat one of my own tails."
That image had the blonde chuckling to himself as he knocked Sasuke out from behind with one blow.
The audience, including Iruka, could not believe what they had just witnessed. In one day, the former dead-last of the class had not only awakened what was considered to be their villages most powerful Kekkei Genkai but had also taken down the most promising candidate for Rookie of the Year.
Iruka was the first to pull himself together and he had the class gather back at the academy for the ninjutsu examination
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Iruka decided to start with Naruto first this time rather than last as he had some questions for his favorite student.
"Naruto, the sharingan and that taijutsu style, how long have you had them? You are far too practiced for me to believe that this is a recent development." The chunin instructor said to the blonde in a tone that made it very clear he wanted only the truth.
"Alright, Iruka-sensei. You got me." said the blonde dejectedly, but in a way that made it clear to Iruka that he was excited to show off what he had accomplished.
Naruto then told Iruka the story that he and Kurama had come up with about how one night the villagers were attacking him for some reason that he didn't know (at this point Iruka rubbed his head sheepishly) when he yelled in pain and the world suddenly seemed to slow down. He was able to escape and it wasn't until he got home and looked into a mirror that he realized what had happened to him and how he had been using the sharingan to memorize the academy textbooks when he had found a secret scroll containing the Senko style.
"Obviously I had to keep it to myself, he's my hero after all, dattebayo!" the blonde boy said excitedly. "Besides, I look like him, don't you think?" he said making a heroic, I just saved Konoha, stance.
Now that Iruka thought about it, he did look like the Yondaime. Scarily like the Yondaime.
"Alright Naruto, being that as it may, you still can't graduate unless you can perform the Henge no Jutsu, the Kawarimi no Jutsu, and make at least three bunshin, understand?" asked the instructor who was now looking relieved to have received an explanation about the blondes new abilities.
"Alright Iruka-sensei, no problem!" Naruto yelled as he began making hand-seals.
"Henge no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled as he became a perfect replica of the Yondaime.
"Kawarimi no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled once again as a log appeared in his place.
Naruto ran back to the center of the room and made one hand-seal, causing Iruka to look at him curiously.
"Naruto, that's not the correct hand-seal for the Bunshin no-"
Iruka was cut off as Naruto yelled once more, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" as he filled the room to capacity with shadow clones, what appeared to be around 100 from Iruka's estimate.
"N-N-Naruto.." Iruka stuttered, "That is a B-rank kinjutsu, how on earth did you learn that?!" Iruka yelled loudly, having recovered from the shock of seeing Naruto perform the jutsu.
"Have you forgotten already Iruka-sensei?" Naruto said haughtily, "With my eyes, I can copy any technique that I see someone use."
After accepting how weird the situation was, Iruka smiled hugely as he realized something. "Well then Naruto, I guess that means you pass." Iruka said as he untied his headband and tied it onto the blonde's forehead.
"YATTA" Naruto exclaimed as he ran excitedly out of the room.
On his way out of the academy he ran into Mizuki.
"Mizuki-sensei, look! I graduated, dattebayo!" the blonde boy shouted proudly.
"Th-That's great Naruto!" Mizuki said trying his best to sound happy. "Congratulations!"
As Naruto left the academy Mizuki was angrily trying to figure out his next move.
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Naruto woke up the next day to hear a knock at his door. He walked over in his pajamas and opened it to see a smiling Mizuki.
"Mizuki-sensei?" Naruto yawned, "What are you doing here?"
"Well Naruto, after you got a perfect score on the graduation exam, your genin score shot up. You are, in fact, now tied with Sasuke for rookie of the year."
"Tied?!" Naruto yelled angrily, "I knocked that teme out with one hit!"
"Be that as it may Naruto," Mizuki said sadly, "your grades up until this point just weren't good enough to put you over the edge. There is however, an extra credit opportunity." Mizuki said smirking, knowing the dumb blonde would easily fall for the bait he set.
"I'll do anything Mizuki-sensei, Believe It!" Naruto said, :I've got to beat Sasuke-teme out for rookie of the year and prove once and for all who the dead-last of our grade is!"
"Alright, Naruto, this is the assignment…"
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Naruto sat in the forest, sharingan activated, finishing reading the last technique in the forbidden scroll. He knew it was obviously a trap, but Kurama had recommended that he do this in order to find techniques that would suit him that would normally be unavailable to him.
Having finished reading the scroll, Naruto deactivated his sharingan and got ready for Mizuki to arrive.
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Mizuki arrived in the clearing a few minutes later and saw Naruto proudly holding the forbidden scroll out.
"I got it Mizuki-sensei! You're looking at the rookie of the year of this years graduating class, dattebayo!" Naruto said proudly as Mizuki came up to take the scroll from him.
"That's very impressive Naruto, congratulations!" Mizuki tried to sound excited for him as he slipped a kunai of of his pouch.
Right before he was about to make his move he heard Naruto whisper something.
"What was that, Naruto?" Mizuki asked curiously.
"Boom" Naruto said, more loudly this time and exploded, sending Mizuki back into a tree and knocking him out cold.
"I think exploding shadow clones are the greatest thing ever created by man." The blonde said in a way that made you worry very much for the future of anyone that ever fought against him. Naruto then tied up Mizuki, slung him over his shoulder, and went to go report to the Hokage about what had happened.
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Hokage's Office:
"Is it true what he said, Jiji?" Naruto asked, "Am I a demon?"
Naruto and Kurama had decided that this would be a good way to reveal their knowledge that Naruto had the Kyuubi sealed within him.
"No Naruto-kun" the Hokage said soothingly, "You are a hero of this village that protects us from the Kyuubi every day by being it's jailer."
"Hn. I wish you were my jailer. Jailers are quiet. You're more like someone they send in with prisoners to try and drive me crazy."
"Love you too, Kurama."
"Thanks Jiji," the new leaf genin replied, "I think I'm going to go home now, I've had a long day."
"Of course Naruto-kun, get some rest." the Sarutobi said as the young blonde left his office.
"I'll take him Sandaime-sama." a masculine voice came from a corner where a man walked out with silver hair that defied the laws of physics (and probably hair gel).
"I don't know Kakashi, it would hardly be fair to put the three top genin on your team, it would be unbalanced." replied the Hokage thoughtfully.
"Come on Hokage-sama, you know these teams are designed best for overall chemistry and performance. Team 7 are the heavy hitters, Team 8 are the tracking squad, Team 10 are the next generation Ino-Shika-Cho; you can't remove one of my adorable little genin without throwing off the dynamics of the entire graduating class, besides, Naruto and Sasuke both need someone to train them in using their sharingan." the silver-haired jonin reasoned with his commander.
"Alright Kakashi, on one condition…"
"Yes?"
"Show up on time for once, Naruto doesn't like to be kept waiting."