A/n- New story, hope you all like it. My other story is probably going to either be put up for adoption or rewritten entirely, not quite sure yet what's going to happen with it yet.

I don't own Naruto or anyone in this story.

Our story starts as we find our young hero, the nine year old Naruto Uzumaki. He was running as fast as he could through forest after being beaten up yet again by the villagers. He was bleeding from several wounds all over his body, the worst being the gash across his chest. The blood dripped violently from his wounds, splashing across the ground as he moved. The boy winced as he continued to run, he knew that he couldn't make it too much longer.

"Why do they hate me?" he cried out to no one. The mob that he had been running away from, had stopped chasing him by now. He kept running, however, having no idea where he was going. Tree after tree he passed and soon he found himself on the outskirts of the village. There were trees all around him, the forest having enveloped him long ago.

'Well if they want me gone then I'll leave!' he thought to himself before looking around to find any landmarks telling him where he was. He didn't really see anything but trees at first glance, but then he noticed a kind of shimmering off in the distance. He started to run towards it, hoping to find somewhere to rest. After running for a while he didn't find anything and decided to sit down under a tree. The wind was blowing lightly and he enjoyed the feel of it on his skin. He started to doze off when literally out of nowhere a huge compound appeared not thirty feet from him.

"That wasn't there before, I'm sure of it! What in the world?" he said aloud as he started to apprehensively walk in the direction of the mansion. The compound loomed over him, frightening him slightly. He watched as the gates seemingly opened on their own. 'Well I'm not going to get anywhere by standing here.' he thought, so he decided to walk inside.

The house was two stories tall and not overly huge by normal standards. To Naruto, though it was gigantic! The door was in the center of the outer wall and on either side there was a window. The second story however had three windows. Inside the gates the compound was huge there was easily a half acre of land in the front. Naruto decided that he should knock on the door to see if anyone was home, or if they would even help him. So he did just that, and walked up to the door and knocked three times. After a while no one came to the door so he thought that it was abandoned. He put his hand on the knob and immediately felt the prick of a needle stabbing into his hand.

"Owww!" he exclaimed but then was silenced by the big door in front of him opening slowly. When it was completely open he took a peek inside and saw that it was in fact abandoned. Slowly he walked inside. The furnishings inside the living room were very modest consisting of only a couch, a coffee table, and two end tables, one at each end of the couch. There was also one cabinet that seemed full of pictures. He looked into it and saw two people a man and a woman. The man had long spiky blonde hair that fell to either side of his face. He had blue eyes and to Naruto, it seemed as if he had a kind smile on his face in every picture. The woman was the same in the respect, although she had long fiery red hair that to the young Naruto was beautiful. She had green eyes and in the pictures looked at the blonde man with love.

'I'll explore in the morning, for now I just need a placed to sleep.' Naruto yawned and went searching for a bedroom. He found one right down the hallway. The first door seemed to be locked but the second wasn't, and thankfully it had a bed! Naruto ran to it and plopped down onto it, not caring in the slightest that he still had injuries. The soft bed felt wonderful on his weary body. He fell asleep in minutes.

The hokage of the village hidden in the leaves however, did not have such a peaceful end of the night. "Neko! Bear! Where the hell is Naruto!" he yelled in fury to two of his most trusted anbu. He had heard news of what the villagers had done to the boy and was worried sick about him.

"I'm sorry sir, wave looked all over the village and he is nowhere to be found." Bear said bowing.

Dammit I want him found as soon as possible!" the old Hokage said with authority.

"Yes sir!" the two said and disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Hiruzen sat down in his chair and took a long drag from his pipe.

'Oh I hope you're ok Naruto-kun, I don't know what I'd tell Minato-kun and Kushina-chan if anything happened to their son.' He went to one of the many secret chambers of the hokage tower; this one contained the crystal ball he used to oversee the village from the tower.

He started to comb the streets of the leaf village himself, looking for Naruto. No matter where he looked though, the boy wasn't to be found. He then started looking around the forests on the outskirts of the village and after a few minutes, he saw the compound.

'That wasn't there before; I haven't seen that since Minato-kun asked me to put the invisibility seal he made for it over it when he died. This doesn't make sense, why would it reappear now?' he wondered to himself. He looked around the compound and noticed that there were large amounts of blood leading up to the gate.

'That must be where he is!' the hokage thought. 'I had better go and see for myself, I don't want anyone to know that he's there of all places, if he is though I'll have to tell him the truth about his heritage. He'll find out soon enough if I don't.' with that thought he shunshined to the location of the compound.

When he got there he found that the gate was open and that more blood led up to the door. He walked inside the gate and shut it behind him, before walking to the door. He knew that Minato would have only let his son in. he was the only one given a key to his successors house, other than his student Jiraiya. He took the key out of his pocket and unlocked the door. He turned the knob and slowly walked inside.

The place was just as he remembered it with nothing amiss, except that there were small amounts of blood leading into the hallway. The old man followed the blood to the second doorway and saw Naruto Uzumaki sleeping soundly in the bed. Relieved that the boy was alright he walked inside and quietly as he could, looked over the wounds. Miraculously all but the gash on his chest had finished healing by now. Sarutobi saw the other cut marks in his clothing and wondered to himself where the wounds had gone. He watched as the final injury finished healing on its own.

'What the hell? This boy has some really advanced healing abilities. I wonder if the fox could be doing it' he thought as if it could be impossible that the fox would help him. 'Well at least he's ok, I'll let him sleep tonight and then wake him up in the morning.' The old man silently exited the house and when he got outside the gate he put the invisibility seal back up so that no one would know where Naruto was and that the fourth hokage's house still stood.

'If it gets out that this building is still here people will want to search it and find all the jutsu Minato and Kushina worked on together. I can't let that happen!' he left as quickly as he came, glad that his adoptive grandson was alright. When he got back to the hokage tower he called for bear and Neko.

"I have found Naruto and he is alright. I'm keeping his location a secret for now so as to discourage any more attackers. Thank you Neko, Bear that will be all." The two nodded in unison, and disappeared after he gave them their leave. The old hokage sighed knowing that he would have a very busy day tomorrow.

The next morning Naruto opened his eyes slowly to adjust to the light, he was still in the same bed he remembered falling asleep in. he got out of bed and looked around. The room was kind of plain, having only the bed and two end tables as furniture. He walk out of the room and then down the hallway to the third room. This one was on the right instead of the left. He took a peek inside and it was pretty much the same as the other. So he kept looking around the house. There were three bedrooms on this floor and they all looked almost exactly the same as the first, the other room was a bathroom and it was just as plain as the other. He found the staircase at the end of the hall. He looked at the floor of the landing and noticed what seemed like a trap door.

'I'll explore down there later, I want to see the second floor first.' The staircase switched directions at that point going back towards the living room. He followed it up to the second floor and found that it was just as big as the first. It looked like it had six rooms by how many doors there were. He walked to the end of the hallway and it opened up into a den-type area. There was a couch and loveseat framing the walls and a wooden coffee table in the middle of them. There was a door separating the den from the biggest bedroom of all. Naruto decided to look through all of the rooms starting with the ones at the beginning of the hallway. All in all there were three bedrooms and two bathrooms. They looked almost exactly like the one he slept in. they were very plain and looked as if no one had been inside them in years.

He finally came to the last door and again felt the prick of a needle on his hand as he tried to turn the knob. He opened the door, still wondering about the pain he felt at the front door and this one. He opened the door slowly and noticed immediately that this room was different than all of the others. It was bigger and brighter for one. He saw that there were many pictures of the couple he saw in the cabinet downstairs. They looked very happy together. The bedroom had a king sized bed in the middle of the back wall and a dresser with a vanity mirror on the left wall looking in from the door. There was another cabinet full of different pictures on the right wall and two end tables that surrounded the bed. On one of the end tables there was a picture that he hadn't seen yet. It was one of the couple holding a baby boy. The two adults in the picture looked very tired and weary, and the background was very dark. The two looked absolutely happy, though, looking down at the boy. He had blonde spiky hair and cerulean blue eyes. The boy looked familiar to Naruto but he didn't have any more time to study it as someone else made their presence known in the room.

"Naruto you shouldn't be in here. This house belonged to two very important ninja. They aren't living anymore but it wouldn't do to disrespect the dead." Hiruzen Sarutobi said knowing full well whose house they were standing in.

"I didn't mean to disrespect anyone Jiji, I was only looking for somewhere to sleep last night because the villagers hurt me and kicked me out of the village." The boy said looking at the elder man with sadness in his eyes.

The hokage knew this already, "I know what they did to you Naruto, and they will be severely punished for this despicable crime they've committed against you. I want to ask you, do you know whose house you're standing in right now?" he asked.

"Well the man in the pictures looks like the fourth hokage, we've went over him a little in the academy, so if I had to guess right now it'd be his and his wife's house." The blonde said looking around.

"That's very good, at least you paid attention during some of your classes, but what you don't know is that they had a son. They named him Naruto; the baby in the picture over there is him. This is your house Naruto. I wasn't supposed to tell you about this place until you made chunin, but since you found it on your own I had no other choice. This is an s class village secret so I don't want you to tell anyone about this house until the day that you earn your chunin rank. You are allowed to stay here; it is your house after all." The hokage smiled saying.

Naruto stood there shocked. His eyes were bulging and his mouth fell open. "Wait so you're telling me that t-the fourth hokage was my d-dad?" he could barely get the words out.

The Hokage smiled. "Yes Naruto he was your dad, now sit down we have a lot to talk about today." The blonde sat on what he now knew as his mother and fathers bed. Hiruzen sat beside him. "There is much that you don't know about yourself and your parents Naruto, but I must ask that everything I say to you today stays between us."

"Of course gramps, I may be young, but I know they must have had reasons for keeping this a secret. Didn't dad die fighting the kyuubi?" the boy asked. Hiruzen looked down somberly.

"Tell me what you know about the kyuubi attack nine years ago Naruto" the blonde was puzzled for a moment and then he answered

"Well I know that the fourth fought him and killed him, but died in the process."

"That is what we have told everyone to keep you safe. The truth is that the kyuubi cannot be killed. The fourth did the only thing he could at the time and sealed it into a baby boy. That boy was his only son. It was You, Naruto." Naruto was speechless. He had not only learned about his parents but that his father sealed the beast feared by the entire fire nation inside of him.

"I guess that why all the villagers hate me huh. Why me though jiji, couldn't he have sealed it in another child?" Naruto asked.

"Well the answer to that question is not one that I can give you, but one you must find for yourself. In time it will be clear to you Naruto. Now that you know the full truth to your parentage and what is inside you, you will have to be careful. No one can know who your father is until you can truly protect yourself." Naruto nodded agreeing.

"Will you tell me about them? My parents I mean" Naruto had tears in his eyes thinking about all that he had lost because they were gone. He would never get a chance to meet them, or to have a family. He would never have a normal childhood, and while he had always known this, knowing who they were hurt even more. Hiruzen looked at the boy and knew exactly what he was thinking. It pained him to see the boy who he thought of as his adoptive grandson hurt like this.

"They were amazing people Naruto. Your mother was as fiery as they come; she had this way of making anything into a lighthearted moment. She was a serious prankster when she was young, not unlike yourself." He laughed at this. "She was a very powerful shinobi as well, being known throughout the five great nations as The Red hot habanero. Her use of two red swords helped support the name. She knew many different aspects of the shinobi teachings but she as well as Minato were masters in fuinjutsu, which is the sealing art. I believe she was the one to teach your father all he knew about the art. She particularly loved to use the more explosive seals on your father's master, Jiraiya, who she considered to be a pervert of the highest order. I'm sure you'll meet him soon enough. Your mother's name was Kushina Uzumaki" He smiled remembering how awful Kushina was to Jiraiya when it came to his "research".

Naruto listened raptly taking all of what was being said in. "and what about dad?" he asked.

"Well your dad was amazing as well in his own right. He was loving and cared about everyone in the village more than most people I've ever met. He and Kushina were in love almost from the moment they met, but I believe that it was one time that he saved her from being captured was when they both truly knew how they each felt. Your father was a prodigy among prodigies, he learned everything he put his mind to learning, and it wasn't because he was some genius. He worked hard for everything, and he never gave up. That was something that he got from Jiraiya to an extent. He created the rasengan and many other jutsu including the one that made him famous, the hiraishin. He was known as the yellow flash of Konoha throughout the shinobi world. His name was Minato Namikaze. I loved both of them like they were my own children and they have made me prouder than ever. I still remember the happiness on their faces when you were born. They loved you like nothing else in the world." Naruto was crying now, but they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of joy, he finally knew about his parents and who they were, but most importantly he knew that they loved him. The old hokage took Naruto in an embrace and the two stayed like that for a while.

"Naruto, this house has many secrets for you to uncover, and if you would like I can have someone come by and help you with looking through everything and dealing with it all. Don't worry about him trying to hurt you; he feels the same as I do about you if not even more. He was your father's student. He can help to train you and get you ready for your life as a genin in three years. That's when you'll be taking your graduation exam at the academy. Would that be okay with you?" he asked the young blonde after breaking the embrace they held.

Naruto looked at the man and smile "yeah i would like that. If this man was my father's student I can get to know even more about him. I'd like a few days to have this house to myself before he comes though, if that's alright."

Hiruzen nodded understanding. "Alright I will send him here Monday morning. Be ready to work until you drop on that day Naruto, this man I'm sending to help you is a jounin now and will not take it easy on you just because you're a kid. You need to be ready. Also I would ask that you do not try to contact the fox spirit inside you unit he gets here on Monday. It could be dangerous." The hokage got up. He looked at Naruto and the boy nodded. "Alright ill come by and check on you in a few weeks. The job of hokage can be very busy."

Naruto smiled a foxy smile. "I'll remember that when I take the hat from you old man! I'm going to surpass my dad and become the greatest hokage this world has ever seen!" he exclaimed. The hokage chuckled.

"Big dreams for such a shrimp, I'll be sure to remember this promise when the time comes." Hiruzen said still laughing a little. With that the hokage left the room and Naruto was left alone in his new home. He thought about what to do as he sat on the bed. He decided to look around the room a bit. He searched both end tables and didn't really find much, just a few old books, one of which was written by his father's sensei. He smiled when he saw the name and began to read the book called: Tales of a gutsy ninja.

Outside Hiruzen smiled at how well Naruto had taken everything. He decided it best to undo the seal shielding the house from view, and headed back to his office. He called Neko and bear, along with Kakashi to his office. When they all arrived he took a drag from his pipe and told them all about what had just happened between him and Naruto. They all had looks of concern on their faces except for Kakashi. He told bear and Neko to keep watch over the compound 24/7 and to put a perimeter barrier around it so that if anyone's curiosity got the better of them that he would know about it. This was to be a full time mission and they were told that they would get a double S ranks worth of mission pay once the boy graduated from the academy in three years.

"Yes Hokage-sama!" they said in unison and disappeared in a classic shunshin, the swirling of the leaves. Once they were both gone, the old hokage eyed Kakashi for any tell of how he was feeling about this. Kakashi however was elated about the fast that his sensei's son finally knew the truth.

"I'm glad he found their house, I didn't want to hide it from him in the first place. It is rightfully his after all. I'm guessing that you calling me here and telling me this means that you want me to teach the boy?" Kakashi said and was hoping that this was the case. He had wanted to have more of a part in Naruto's life than staying in the shadows watching over the boy for a long time now.

"Yes, you will go to the compound Monday morning and help him sort through anything he has found by then. Then I want you to be his full time sensei until he graduates from the academy and is put on your team seven. I will give you an academy schedule so that you will know exactly what he is learning and when. I want you to help him grow and mature into the amazing shinobi that I know he can not be lazy about this Kakashi. It is Friday today so you have three days to think about how to go about training him." The hokage said.

"Alright Hokage-sama, thank you for this opportunity to be in Naruto's life, I will not fail you!" Kakashi replied with more vigor in his voice than the hokage had seen in years. They talked a little more about what Hiruzen wanted Kakashi to do and then he gave Kakashi the schedule. Kakashi left to get to planning.

Naruto was in his parents' room reading the book that was left in one of the end tables. He was really enjoying it and thought that it was one of the best books he had ever read, not that he had read many books before this. He was about a quarter of the way through and decided to put it down to explore the house a little more. He stopped at the end of the last chapter he was on and bookmarked his place.

He then got up and exited his parents' old room. Then he remembered the trap door that he saw on the landing of the stairs. And the locked door downstairs. He walked downstairs to the locked door and tried to open it once more. It wouldn't budge so he went to the landing on the stairs and pulled open the trap door. It didn't budge either, until he felt the prick of the needle and then it swung open. Under the door was a hole made of stone that went down about nine feet. He jumped down and found himself in the dark.

'I need a light' he thought to himself before looking for something he could use. He saw the faint outline of an unlit torch and struck a match from his ninja pouch to light it. When it was lit he looked around and found that he was staring at a stone wall. After turning around he saw a long hallway with more unlit torches lining it. He lit four of them other than the one he held/ two at the beginning of the large hall and two at the end. When he reached the end and lit the two torches however, what he saw amazing him! He was looking at a humongous library that seemed like it doubled as a training space as well. There were shelves upon shelves full of scrolls and books in front of him and lining the walls to the right. There must have been thousands of scrolls full of jutsu down there! Passed the three rows of shelves the space opened up and there were training dummies spread out in the remaining space. One thing caught his eye though as he looked around and that was a rather large desk at the far side of the room. On it were two letters. He picked up the one that had his father's name on it. He opened it and read:

Dear Naruto,

By now you've made chunin and the old man has told you about your heritage. I'm so proud of you son! This place was meant to be the first hidden part of our and your house that you discovered. There are many other places that you will find. Just as a hint, most of them will be underground and connected to this one. This is mine and your mother's personal jutsu library. It contains a place for you to train and every jutsu or seal your mother and I have collected over the years. It also keeps all the research we have conducted over the years on chakra and jutsu and seals. In the drawer to your left is a scroll containing my own personal taijutsu style. We both hope that you use this place and the things we have left to you to become as strong as you can. I love you very much Naruto, and I know that you have probably had a pretty hard life so far, and for that I'm sorry. Being a jinchuriki is never easy, your mother and I know all about how hard it is. She was the kyuubi's container before you. Nevertheless you should never have been put through all of that pain and loneliness. I can't express into words how sorry I am. Before I go I have one last hint as to where another hidden place is for you to find. One of the training dummies has a clue as to where you will find all the information we have on mine and Kushina's clan histories. Sadly this all the time I have, so I want to wish you good luck in everything you do. Train hard and do your best, my son.

With love always,

Your father Minato Namikaze.

Naruto read and reread the letter and was in tears by the time he finished the third read. Everything in this house and that his parents left him showed the love they had for him, it made him so happy! He decided to wait to read his mother's letter until the next day so that he could start to look around the library. He wasn't very worried about finding the place that held the secrets of his heritage just yet. He had so much to do here! He pulled open the drawer and found the scroll his father was talking about in the letter. He opened it to see the name of his dads fighting style.

'Roaring dragon strike huh? Even dads style has a cool name! I'll bet it's very good in combat too!' Naruto thought to himself. He looked around the library to see if he could find some jutsu that he thought would be cool. The shelves were organized pretty well. Each row had the kanji for either an element symbolizing that it was ninjutsu for that element, or it had the kanji for taijutsu or genjutsu. There was one other row of scrolls that had the kanji for sealing on it, so he guessed that that was where all his mom and dad's sealing jutsu were.

He started at the end, which was ninjutsu for fire. He found three scrolls that he thought would be useful and they were fire style: fire wave, which was a D rank ninjutsu that you spread a wave of fire around the front of yourself to either protect yourself from an enemy closing the distance on you or you attacked a group of enemies with it. It could be used on the ground or if you were attacking into the air around you. The second fire jutsu he found was fire style: phoenix flower jutsu, in this jutsu you spit small balls of fire at your opponent. It was a decent c rank attack type jutsu. The third jutsu he found was the most interesting to him, it was the A rank jutsu fire style: hellfire whirlwind it was a skill which could be used in order to protect the user. Gathering their chakra into the air and having it spin around them; a flaming whirlwind emerges around the user forming somewhat of a protective barrier. Normally it is used to deter the opponent from continuing their taijutsu attack, but can be used offensively to send an opponent whom prefers close range a good distance away because of its spinning force. It seemed to Naruto that it was a more advanced version of the fire wave jutsu. Having found three good fire type jutsu that his teacher could teach him, he moved on to the next element.

He walked over to the next row. It was earth jutsu. He fairly quickly found three beginner jutsu that he liked. One was earth style: mud wall, a c rank jutsu where you performed the hand seals and slammed your hands into the earth. A wall of earth and mud that could be big or small depending on the chakra used would spring up in front of you. It is a very good defensive jutsu. The second that he found was earth style: stone shuriken jutsu. It was a d rank offensive jutsu that allowed you to turn some of the earth around you into shuriken. It was mostly used when a ninja ran out of his or her shuriken. The third was another c rank offensive jutsu called earth style rising stone spears. In this jutsu the user would slam their hands onto the ground or any earth really, and could when and where hardened spikes of earth would stab out of the ground at an opponent.

The next element down the line was futon, or wind. This element interested him the most so far. It was a mostly offensive element that harnessed the air around the user. He in his young mind thought that it meant that it was possible for him to one day be able to fly. Needless to say he was very excited about learning this element. He looked through the row until he found three good jutsu to learn. They were all offensive of course. The first was futon: drilling air bullet. In this d rank jutsu the user inhaled and compress an amount of air of their choosing before launching it at the enemy at high speeds. The second jutsu he found was wind style: great breakthrough, a crank jutsu where the user created a gust of wind to knock back their opponent. He smiled as he looked at the last one. It was wind style: blade of wind. In this c rank jutsu the user used their hand to launch a blade of wind at the opponent slashing them wherever hit.

He quickly went and set the three jutsu scrolls down with his .other six and went to looking for some water style jutsu. He could only find one that really stuck out to him at the moment and that was water style: water whip jutsu. It was a c rank offensive type jutsu that allowed the user to create a whip of water from a body of water and use it as an extension of his or her index and middle fingers.

The last and final ninjutsu row of the library was the lightning style. He started to walk down it looking for some jutsu that he could learn. He found a very useful looking e rank jutsu called lightning style: static strings jutsu, which allows the user to create strings of electricity that can either act physically as strings, or as a medium that can send small shocks to an opponent. One of this technique's most useful features is its ability to allow the user to detect outsiders. When the strings are placed around an area, they are often fairly difficult to see, and unnoticed by the quick eye. But when the string is used to detect outsiders, they can adapt a quality that is string-like and electrical at the same time. This quality makes the static strings into a string of electricity, but with such a weak current that it is rarely noticed by Shinobi who accidentally walk through the strings. However, when this happens, the user at once will feel a small shock in their fingers, or where ever else they are keeping the strings intact. But unless the opponent felt the weak current as they walked through the strings, the opponent will usually never know the strings were there. But beyond its ability to detect outsiders, this skill can be used as a normal string when it is needed but none is around, or it can be used to create small shocks to other people. However, the shocks are only a little bit stronger than static electricity, and usually do no damage at all. He thought it could be very useful for creating a perimeter around a camp. Or just tying up enemy ninja and interrogating them. He also found a d rank offensive jutsu called lightning style: lightning bolt jutsu in which the user shoots a bold of lightning at their opponent from their hand. It wasn't a continuous stream though, just one bolt. He looked around the row of lightning jutsu once more and found the c rank version of the lightning bolt jutsu, which was lightning style lightning blast. This jutsu worked in exactly the same as its predecessor except that it was a continuous stream of lightning coming from the hand. After he found the last jutsu that he wanted his teacher to teach him he went to where they were all stacked and sat the lightning style jutsu there.

He went to each row again and found a beginners guide to each element. He sat the thirteen jutsu and there corresponding element guides onto his father's desk. He pocketed his mom's letter and went back to exploring the library. In the end he picked up three more books and one more scroll. One book was a beginner's guide to sealing and another was one for genjutsu, although now that he knew he had the kyuubi inside him he doubted that he could even use genjutsu because of his high chakra reserves. The third book was on jutsu theory, and the scroll was on a beginner's taijutsu style. He guessed that there would be certain requirements to learn his dad's style so he decided on learning a beginner style to start with. He put the new books and the scroll onto his dad's desk and then realized that he heard something. It was growling coming from his stomach.

'Whoops, guess I've been down here for a while' he thought and then started back towards the hallway to go back up to the house. When he got out of the trap door and shut it, he walked to the kitchen and realized it was completely empty! 'Damn I forgot to ask jiji to bring me some food. Oh well I guess I'll go out and get some.' He thought and headed outside. He had been down in the basement far longer than he thought and it was already starting to get dark. He exited the gate and as he was walking towards the village he wondered where he could even get food. No one would sell anything to him because of the kyuubi.

'Guess I'll head to jiji's office and ask him.' He thought and started making his way to the hokage tower. It took him about thirty minutes to get there from where he was. During the run he was berated and stared at harshly. None of the villagers would touch him though, because of what happened to the last few that did. Naruto didn't know that was why though. He walked into the hokage tower and asked to see him.

"What business would a demon brat like you have with the hokage?" the receptionist asked, sneering at him hatefully.

"Well I need some food and he always tells me to come to him if I need anything." Naruto said looking down.

"Send the boy in!" the woman heard from the old man's office.

"Go ahead then." She said not at all happy about it. He walked back to the hokage's office. When he walked inside there was a man smoking and another man with glasses and a bandanna on his head already in there with him.

"That will be all Asuma, Ebisu. You are dismissed." The man with the glasses, Ebisu, looked at Naruto with utter contempt as he walked by. Naruto looked down as the other man walked passed him, but not before he saw a completely different look on his face. It was pity. He felt sorry for Naruto because of what he had to go through every day. Asuma even smiled at the boy, for he knew the truth about Naruto's beast. Naruto looked up dumbfounded, but smiled back thinking that maybe not all the people in this village were so bad. Asuma left and the hokage asked Naruto why he had come to see him this evening.

"Well I spent most of the day down in the basement of mom and dad's house, they have an amazing library! It has everything you could ever want to learn about the ninja arts in it. I didn't really open much, but dad left me a letter and his fighting style, the roaring dragon strike style. I went through the library and picked out a few jutsu from each element for the teacher you're sending to me Monday to look at and teach me. I also picked out beginner books in genjutsu taijutsu, sealing and each of the five elements. I feel like I need to be well rounded if I'm going to succeed and be the best ninja I can be!"

"Mom also left me a letter but I'm going to wait until tomorrow to open it. But none of that is why I'm here gramps. I need food! I feel like I'm going to fall over any second!" he said exaggerating a little. The hokage looked at him with a dumb look on his face. 'This is the dead last at the academy? What the hell happened to the boy to make his reasoning skills this sound? Here he is telling me what he needs to be trained in, and listening to him is like listening to a genin. An experienced one at that!'

Aloud he said "alright Naruto lets go and get you some ramen, I could use a break anyway. I'll have food sent over to your new house in the morning." The old man got up and they walked out of the hokage tower towards Ichiraku Ramen, a little ramen shop that Naruto loved.

When they arrived at the shop Teuchi the owner said "welcome to Ichiraku ramen home of the – oh hokage-sama what brings you here? Oh and you've brought our favorite customer with you. How are you Naruto-kun?" Naruto smiled

"I'm fine old man, can I get three bowls of your miso ramen please?"

"Sure coming right up! Hokage-sama, what would you like?" the hokage asked for one bowl of miso ramen and smiled as they started getting their orders ready.

He looked at the young blonde in front of him and saw that not much had changed. 'So why is he so much smarter?' he wondered. "Naruto I have a question. You have always been dead last at the academy, and you've known this. But tonight I noticed reasoning in what you've done that far surpasses your years. It sounded like an experienced genin was talking to me, and not a nine year old academy student! What happened?"

Naruto simply laughed and said "oh come on gramps. You can't tell me that you haven't noticed. The lack of intelligence and overall bad grades at the academy has been a mask from the beginning. I thought that if I seemed dumb and easy to get along with id make friends faster and easier. For a while it worked, but lately no one seems to want to be my friend at the academy. They all steer clear of me for some reason." Naruto said proudly at first and then his voice changed to one of sadness.

Hiruzen was stunned; he couldn't believe that he hadn't seen through Naruto's mask of idiocy from the beginning. "I can't believe I didn't notice. Naruto you are really good at that. Do you think anyone else knows you're faking it?" he asked. The boy thought for a moment and then said, "well Shikamaru probably knows, he's way smarter than me even though he doesn't show it either. He and Choji are two of my only friends at the academy."

The old Hokage seemed deep in thought after this. The food was finally served and they both started enjoying their respective meals. Hiruzen paused and said "I think that starting Monday you should let go of the act. Show them all the real you Naruto-kun!" he said smiling.

Naruto finished his first bowl before saying "why do you think that gramps? If being dumb hasn't helped me make friends, what makes you think taking of the mask and being smart will?"

Hiruzen was eating and as he finished chewing his last bite he said "well Naruto it might not help with that aspect of academy life. However it will show everyone that you had them all fooled and that the Naruto that they know, isn't the real you. It could help in earning some respect. Oh and I wouldn't act like an idiot in front of your teacher either. He wouldn't take it too well." The old man chuckled. The boy listened and after hearing everything he agreed and told his adoptive grandfather that he would do it. He'd show them all the real Naruto Uzumaki! After finishing their ramen the two left the restaurant and walked back to Naruto's house. When they reached the compound the hokage said goodbye to Naruto and headed back to the tower. With his stomach full and a little bit of a weight lifted off his shoulders, Naruto decided that it was time for bed. He took off his jumpsuit and headed to his parents room to sleep. When he was there he felt closer to them than anywhere else. The blonde was sleeping soundly within minutes.

The next morning Naruto woke to his front door being open. Knowing that no one but gramps and a few others even knew about his new house, he went downstairs to investigate. He found a silver haired jounin, by the looks of him, carrying groceries into his kitchen. "So you're who gramps decided to have restock my fridge? My names Naruto who are you?" he said walking into the living room behind the man. This didn't surprise the jounin however as he had heard the boy wake up and come downstairs. He sat the groceries on the kitchen table and turned around to see a young boy wearing a green shirt with the Uzumaki clan symbol, the swirl, in red along with black boxers. The boy was rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as he spoke.

"Well Naruto, you and I weren't supposed to meet until Monday but when the hokage said that you needed groceries for your empty kitchen, I volunteered to bring them here. He also told me that you brought him a few ideas on some jutsu you would like to learn. I'm your new sensei starting Monday. My name is Kakashi Hatake and I was on your father genin team. Why don't we sit down and talk for a while. Ill cook us both some eggs for breakfast." The jounin Naruto now knew as Kakashi said. He had a mask over his face and his left eye was covered by his headband. He dressed like Naruto assumed most jounin did with a green flak jacket and a blue long sleeved ninja shirt. He also had blue ninja pants on as well.

"Sure I'd like to talk to you for a while before we start training on Monday, by now jiji has told you that I've found my parents library and went through it for some jutsu that you could teach me. I got three for each element except for water because I couldn't really find anything that stuck out other than the one I did pick. I also got beginners books for controlling each element and books on sealing, genjutsu, jutsu theory, and a beginner's taijutsu scroll. I doubt the genjutsu book will be of any use to me since I have such high chakra reserves, but I thought I should have a well-rounded background in everything. Wouldn't you agree Kakashi sensei?" he explained what he had been up to and why.

The jounin had to say that he was impressed with the boy so far. His file stated that he was dead last at the academy and didn't have much of a future as a ninja. "Well Naruto you've impressed me with how much you've thought about this. Why don't you go and get everything you've come up with while I cook." Kakashi said and eye smiled at the boy.

"Yes sensei" Naruto said and jumped up from the couch. He first went upstairs and got dressed in his jumpsuit before going down into the library and getting everything he had come up with so far, including his father's scroll. 'Oh that's right I still need to open moms letter today. I'll do it when Kakashi sensei and I get done eating.' He thought to himself as he brought everything to the coffee table in the living room. The food was done by that time, so they both sat at the kitchen table and started eating.

They ate slowly, talking about Minato mostly. Naruto learned that he was a strict but caring sensei. He also learned that Kakashi had become jounin at the age of 13 which was a record only broken by his father and someone named Itachi Uchiha. Kakashi told him many stories about when he was a genin. He never talked about his teammates though. Which Naruto thought was odd but decided to ask another day. Finally they had finished eating and sat down in the living room. When Kakashi saw the jutsu the boy had picked for himself he was impressed yet again!

"This is a very well rounded arsenal of jutsu for a young ninja like you. Some of these I won't be able to teach you until later in your training of course, but I could definitely teach you one from each element in a pretty short time. Let me look at your father's taijutsu style, from what I remember it required speed strength and the accuracy to be able to hit a major or minor vital point with every strike. To get you ready we will have to start you on an everyday exercise routine." Kakashi looked at the style Minato used and he was right. The boy wouldn't be able to learn this style for a while. But it seemed as if Naruto already knew this because he had gotten a very basic taijutsu style to learn first. "Now I want you to know that learning these jutsu from all the different elements will not be easy. Some will come to you easier than others. Do you know why this is Naruto?" he asked.

"Well if I had to guess it would be because our bodies are born with an affinity to certain elements. Like the Uchiha are usually fire style users. Iruka sensei has been teaching us a little about the difference between all the elements in class. Kakashi sensei? I sort of need to do something before we continue. See my mom and dad both left me letter for when I learned about this place. I waited till today to open moms because I had too much to do yesterday. I'd like to open it now." Naruto smiled and pulled out the letter.

"Got it in one Naruto, you're nothing like what people say you are! Hokage –sama did tell me to expect this though so it's not really a surprise. Yes Naruto go ahead and open it. I'm sure she has left something for you if I know Kushina sensei it will help make you a better ninja, just like what your father left." Kakashi said to the boy. Naruto opened the letter and read:

Dear Naruto,

I'm writing this to you in hopes that you'll get it when you earn your chunin rank. I'm so proud of you my son! You're a chunin now so missions will be harder and you will be chosen to lead your comrades on some of them. I wish you luck in all of your training and I hope that you get strong. Now Hiruzen has probably told you a little about me, and I hope that you listened well. I'm your mother and I want to warn you about the three vices of shinobi life. The first is alcohol; you must learn to drink responsibly. The second is money, you must know how to take care of and spend your money from your missions wisely. The third is women. I want you to find a woman that you fall in love with and want to marry! Don't settle for anything less Naruto! I don't have much time left but I wanted to leave you these. I hope they help you to become a stronger shinobi and that you use them well.

With love always,

Your mother Kushina Uzumaki

Naruto read the letter over and over smiling bigger and bigger each time. At the bottom of the letter was a drawing of some sort. He had no idea what it was or wear the gift his mom left him was. "Kakashi sensei what's this?" he asked the jounin about the drawing.

"Oh that is a sealing matrix. Your mother sealed her gift into the letter. You should be able to apply some blood and retrieve whatever she has left for you." Kakashi replied. Naruto did just that and two blood red swords 'poofed' into existence and fell to the floor. Kakashi gaped 'she left him these!' he thought knowing what they were immediately.

"Naruto these were the swords that made your mother known throughout the ninja world as the red hot habanero. They are chakra blades." Kakashi explained and Naruto was ecstatic. He picked them both up and looked them over. Each blade was a little over two and a half feet long. They had a very slight curve upwards on the dull edge and they were wider at the tip than at the base. They looked identical. Each one had four holes in the steel at the base of the blade, about an inch apart, to make for faster swinging. Naruto loved them! He looked at them a little while longer and then set them aside to continue his conversation with his new sensei.

"Ok so if we all have an affinity for an element what's yours? And can we find out what mine is?" the boy asked the jounin, still excited about his gift.

Kakashi smiled, "Well I have a major affinity for lightning and a minor one for earth. Yes, I have brought some chakra paper to test your affinity." He replied. The silver haired jounin pulled out three piece of white paper.

"I want you to touch one of these papers and concentrate. Visualize pouring energy into the slip of paper." Naruto took a piece of paper and did as he was asked. What happened surprised Kakashi, two thirds of the paper was sliced into tiny pieces, but the last part of the paper was crumpled slightly.

"Well Naruto looks like you have two affinities as well. You have a major affinity for wind and a minor one for lightning. This is good. I will be able to help you a lot in strengthening your lightning affinity. Your affinity for wind is another matter however. I know the exercises to help you, but i only know one person in the village with an affinity for wind other than you. Hmmm we will worry about this after you have graduated. You shouldn't be training in elemental manipulation for a while, what we need to do is get you started on the basics. From now on every morning I want you to run five laps around the compound and do 100 sit ups, pushups, punches and kicks. You'll be wearing this beginner set of weights from now on." Kakashi explained and pulled out a set of ten pound weights for the boy to start with.

"Alright Kakashi sensei, If you want to start training today I'm game." Naruto said grinning in his trademark foxy grin. Kakashi laughed at the boy's enthusiasm.

"Alright Naruto go ahead and get started on your workout. When you're finished, come get me and I'll tell you what to do next." Naruto got up enthusiastically and put on his weights before setting off to do the workout Kakashi had set for him. Kakashi looked over the jutsu the boy had picked again and marveled at how well rounded the choices were. This would shape up to be a great partnership between student and sensei, he thought.

A/n- Hope you enjoyed the first chapter.