A.N. Hiya! I'm back with another story. I have yet to be told my writing sucks, so I'm still at it. This here would be a challenge issued to me by Kagaseo. Well, sorta. I just read it on the profile and liked the idea, so I guess I tried the challenge more than it was issued. That's it…

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 1

The Sandaime, Hiruzen Sarutobi, sighed; tonight was going to be hectic. Not only had he lost his successor to the Kyuubi attack, now he had to try to explain the council what happened and fix their worries. From his predictions, he had a feeling he was going to have to take the hat again.

He watched as the iryonin carried Minato's body away. Today, Konoha experienced a great loss. Not only did they lose their leader, the civilian and shinobi casualties numbered vastly. He looked down at the small blonde boy in the basket in front of him.

How was he going to be able to take care of Minato's son and still run the village? He gently ran his hand over the baby's forehead, eliciting a giggle. Once he made sure that the blankets were safe and the room was clear, he let out another depressed sigh and walked to the next room to deal with the restless council.

As the door closed, the window was slowly lifted and a dark figure crept toward the unguarded baby. The shadows covered most of his face, but the reptilian eyes seemed to cut through the darkness. The baby turned his head to the stranger and cooed cutely.

The figure wasn't impressed, "Kukuku, Naruto-kun, you have your father's looks." He hissed, "You should feel lucky that your uncle Orochimaru decided to visit."

Naruto just looked at him curiously; unaware of the danger he was in.

Orochimaru may have fled the village after being denied the position of Yondaime Hokage, but that didn't mean that he didn't keep up with current events in the village. While the death of the Yondaime did well for his plans, a jinchuriki did not. With time and training, Naruto could become a hindrance to his ambitions.

He would just kill the child, but the villagers would just seal the Kyuubi again, and the problem would just be postponed. (1) No, he decided to stop it here.

He pulled out a kunai and nicked his finger in preparation for a blood seal. As he redied the necessary hand signs, he held his kunai into his left hand. He channeled chakra in his fingers and prepared to seal the baby further, locking off the demon completely.

With a quick movement, he pressed his fingers to the seal causing the infant to scream in pain. Orochimaru did not concern himself with the approaching footsteps; he didn't need much time to finish the sealing. However, he did not foresee the ANBU with the dog mask that jumped through the window and tackled him from behind. As he fell, the kunai grazed the baby's face, causing a light cut on his cheek.

Because his hand was ripped from the baby prematurely, there was no control on the sealing and the mixture of Orochimaru's tainted chakra and the Kyuubi's demonic chakra swirled around the seal in an explosion of power. The ANBU and Orochimaru were blasted back by the aftershock as the broken seal overloaded.

Orochimaru took this opportunity to jump out the window and make his escape. He was unable to see the damage he did, but he had to hope it sufficed. With a hiss of anger, he made his way back to his lab.

Meanwhile, Sandaime looked on in shock as the chakra receded back into the seal of the crying child. He signaled to Hyou check the child's condition. With a hand sign, Hyou activated his byakugan and scanned Naruto over.

Hyou growled inaudibly, "Hokage-sama, it appears that whatever Orochimaru did ruined this boy's chakra system. From the looks of it, his original chakra system has burned out because of the presence of two overpowering sources. It appears that the two combined and forced out, breaking through the filter of the Yondaime' seal and completely overloading it."

Sandaime walked to Naruto and noticed the cut on his cheek. He was about to call for assistance, the cut seemed to close up on its own.

"What happened?" he looked to Hyou.

The panther-masked Anbu looked again to report, "It looks like a small amount of chakra has slipped through Orochimaru's seal and the Yondaime filter and is speeding the healing process."

"Will it affect him in the future?"

Hyou shook his head, "As long as the seal is left alone, he should be fine, but because of the small leak, he won't be able to get his chakra level above that of a civilian."

Sandaime looked down at Naruto and sighed, "It looks like my foolishness has cost us another shinobi." He turned to the window and could only guess where his rouge student went into hiding.

XxOxX

12 years later

"NARUTO!"

Sandaime chuckled as the aforementioned youth ran towards him followed by a group of angry chūnin. It wasn't very difficult to tell why they gave chase due to the fact that the top halves of their bodies were colored in red ink.

"Morning, Jiji!" Naruto yelled as he passed.

Hiruzen chuckled again and waved back, before continuing along the path. Naruto had grown a lot in the twelve years he had been in the village. Due to the seal completely ending the ability for him to become a shinobi, Hiruzen had decided to keep the sealing a secret between a select few. With no access to the Kyuubi's chakra other than the healing, there was no need to alert others to it. Not even Naruto knew about it. That was about to change.

He decided that after all these years; Naruto had matured enough to be told about the Kyuubi, so he was going to call him to his office later.

Naruto had certainly proved his capability when he moved out of the orphanage when he was six. Due to his inability to use chakra, Naruto had taken up to reading and learning. Sure, he didn't learn what he would in the academy, but he started his studies at civilian school and took it further.

As he grew, Naruto began to disprove the idea that being a shinobi was completely out of reach. After he heard of Rock Lee, the boy who was unable to utilize chakra, he set out to find his own way. He turned to others to help him.

He went to Lee himself and asked for advice and the two instantly cliqued. Lee had given a promise and a nice guy pose, saying that he would do all he could to help Naruto become a shinobi. They started by talking to Gai.

After crying, hugging, and utilizing the sunset backdrop genjutsu, Gai agreed to teach the "youthful" blonde what he could. Unfortunately, Naruto was unable to do the same training as Lee. His complete lack of an effective chakra system stopped him; so instead, Gai helped him to get up his speed. Once that was done, the two worked on evasion.

Hiruzen chuckled as he thought to the day when Gai came up, bragging about Naruto, saying that Naruto was able to evade at the level of a low chūnin. He had acted the same way as he had when he first introduced Lee. That man surely like the underdogs.

Once Naruto seemed satisfied with the basics, he and Lee brainstormed for an effective weapon. Lucky for them, Lee's teammate, Tenten overheard them and she agreed to help. She and Naruto trained under Hayate in Kenjutsu. While Naruto wasn't as skilled as Tenten, he could still work a mean sword.

They practice ranged as well. He became skilled with multiple throwing weapons, but his favorite to use was senbon. Because of this, Tenten suggested that they try to learn about poisons. She said that poison and senbon are an effective combination.

Taking her suggestion, they went to Ino's family flower shop to learn about poisons and Ino happily lent them her books on the subject. Naruto took to poison like a fish to water. He learned how to make mixtures ranging from simple sleeping gas to quick deadly poisons. The one he seemed to make the most lately though was his patented "forever-itching powder."

Hiruzen had been unfortunate enough to be hit by one of those bombs. How he was able to make waterproof itching powder, he would never know.

As they hung out at the flower shop and talked to Ino, Shikamaru walked in with Choji and they overheard of Naruto's quest to become a ninja. With some schmoozing, Naruto was able to get Shikamaru to help with his tactics.

With practice, Naruto eventually got to the point where he could play shogi against Shikamaru for three hours before getting stomped. At first, it seemed like an insult when Shikamaru told him that, but it was explained that the best one so far only got to two and a half hours. He begrudgingly accepted the compliment.

Once he had learned these skills, he tried to get into the academy, but even with the recommendation of the third Hokage, the civilian council wouldn't let him in. They talked about how Hiruzen had no authority over the civilian population. It was out of his jurisdiction. When Naruto protested, they ignored him, and that was their terrible, terrible mistake.

He began to act out and prank.

And when he pranked, he didn't hold back. He became a pain in the butt to the council. Whenever they tried to get Sarutobi to stop Naruto, he would use the same excuse and say it was out of his jurisdiction. They were very angry, but they could never catch him.

Sarutobi took a long drag from his pipe and stepped towards the Hokage tower. He would have to send Iruka to fetch Naruto for him later.

XxOxX

Naruto waited until he was out of sight from the chūnin before he stepped off to the side and hid his presence. When they ran past, he put on a hat, changed his jacket and snuck to the park to meet Lee. When he walked into the clearing, he waited for his green spandex clad friend.

"That was most unyouthful," Lee's voice suddenly appeared behind him, making him jump.

He turned to him and crossed his arms, "but…" he trailed off.

Lee rolled his eyes, "but it was funny." He said, defeated.

"Yeah!" Naruto chirped, "That'll be the last time they insult me!"

Lee furrowed his brow, "What did they even do to you?"

Naruto lowered his head, "They caught me watching the spars at the academy and made fun of me for my inability to be a ninja."

Lee scoffed, "And you listened?" he crossed his arms and pointed his head at Naruto, "You know as well as I that you could totally kick their asses."

Naruto let out a laugh, "I remember when you would get mad at me for shouting obscenities, and now I got you joining in the fun."

Lee shook his head, smiling, "You've corrupted me," he said, "More importantly, though, are you ready for our spar?"

"Dattebayo!"

Lee couldn't hold back his smile as he redied himself.

Lee charged at Naruto and threw a punch at his head, which he quickly ducked. He followed up with a kick which was dodged just as easily. They went into a dance of Lee attacking and Naruto dodging until Lee finally had it and he feigned a right hook and threw a quick punch that caught Naruto across the jaw, sending him sliding back.

Naruto wiped the blood from his mouth, smiling as he made his way back into the fray. He ducked underneath a particularly powerful forward thrust before he struck. A sideswipe to the knees hit, but Lee quickly stopped his fall with a back handspring. After he got his footing back, he attacked and Naruto was forced to block a barrage of blows. Reaching for a flash bomb, Naruto threw it down and jumped away for a temporary reprieve.

He retreated a few feet before releasing a barrage of senbon. The green clad boy danced around the sporadic attacks with ease. All the while he closed the gap between the two.

As Lee neared, Naruto quickly pulled a ninja thread nearby and a large volley of senbon flew at him from another part of the training ground.

Lee jumped out of the way, all the while widening the distance between the two. He paused, "When did you wire this place?" he asked.

Naruto smiled, "I have the world wired."

Lee was unbothered by the proclamation and quickly sped his way towards Naruto before tripping on another ninja wire and sliding forward and landing at the other boy's feet.

He smiled down at him, "Give up yet?"

As an answer, Lee quickly swept Naruto's feet before he could react, causing the orange clad boy to fall on his butt. Now both boys were on the ground, but before either could get up, Iruka appeared on the side of the clearing. He didn't look happy.

"NARUTO!" he yelled, causing said boy to scamper up to him while trying best to look innocent.

"Yes, Iruka-nii?" (2) he asked sweetly, looking bashful and rubbing his toe in the ground.

Iruka was not impressed, "What the hell!" he yelled, "I just got finished signing the papers for your last prank! The last thing we needed was more trouble!"

Naruto looked down in shame, "I'm sorry," he said, sniffling, "They wouldn't stop pointing out my failures. They even went as far to say that I would never be a ninja!" he looked up at his adopted brother with glassy eyes, "I am going to be a ninja! They didn't know what they were talking about!"

After that statement, Iruka's anger crumbled and he hugged his otōto, letting him sob into his jacket. He sat there as Naruto whimpered into his chūnin vest until finally, he looked down at Naruto.

"Feel better?" he asked.

"Maybe?" he sniffled back.

"How about some ramen later?"

Naruto immediately brightened up, "Thanks Iruka-nii!"

Iruka just laughed heartfully, "Sure thing, but it will have to wait until after you see the Hokage. He's asking for you."

"Alright," Naruto said, drying his eye, "I'll head right over."

Iruka waved at him, "I'll meet you at Ichiraku's."

Naruto waved back and as soon as Iruka was out of sight he smiled and turned to Lee, "Hook. Line. And Sinker."

"That was most unyouthful!" Lee said.

"But…" he trailed off.

"But it was funny."

"Damn straight!"

"Well, at least you have the deceit part of being a ninja down."

Naruto smiled, "Thanks, man!"

Lee rolled his eyes and motioned toward the Hokage tower.

Naruto waved and ran off to see what his Jiji wanted.

END

There ya go! First chapter of the challenge. Now that I have all that backstory history crap out of the way, now we get to the real stuff! I have a basic idea of what I want to do. BASIC. So that means that I am open to suggestions if anyone has any good plot twists. I mean, I'm already using someone else's story premise, why not throw in some stolen ideas too! As long as they aren't stupid… ಠ_ಠ

1 He doesn't know that the seal is the shiki fujii yet, so he doesn't know that if he kills Naruto, then he kills kyuubi

2 Remember, he's not in school.

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