Naruto, The Blue Mage

"Talking/Techniques"

"Thinking/Written Words"

"Spirit/Summon"

"Demon/God"

Chapter 1

"Solitude. I don't want to be alone anymore…"

October 10th… he didn't know why he shouldn't have left his house. After all, the old man didn't give him a reason. So he did like every other child would do…

He left.

Naruto Uzumaki was a curious child. Everyone who knew him, knew that. Hyperactive, abnormally cheerful… not many knew that this was just a mask. A mask of what Naruto wanted to be.

However, his curiousness was one thing that wasn't a mask. Having been "raised" in an orphanage that disliked him,(much like everyone else in the village) he hadn't been allowed many things. Nor was he allowed near many things, and so on and so forth…

Thus he had grown up, always wanting to investigate everything around him, whether good, or bad. This had put him in awkward, silly, and painful situations, even if it wasn't for him.( He would wonder for years why all those men glared at him when he was hugged to the chest of the creepy snake lady…)

Now back to Naruto leaving his apartment.

The eight year old child was having a blast, having not been outside his house during the night. So many things were different compared to how they were during the day!

However… one thing was missing. Where were all the villagers?

You should understand right now that Naruto has only been in the academy two years, having not have entered two years earlier, and the class has not yet spoken about recent history, such as the Attack Of The Kyuubi, though clan-raised children have been told.

With that being told, you should have figured that, while Naruto knows that today is his birthday, he doesn't know that today was also the day of the Kyuubi's Fall. With that said and done, Naruto headed to Ichiraku's Ramen for, well, ramen of course.

However, life shines on the right person at the wrong time, every time, no?

As Naruto entered the main plaza(?) of Konoha, or rather the Festival at the time, a man who wasn't drunk just happened to spot Naruto.

"Well what do you know? It's the demon-brat.", the man spoke mockingly with disgust rimming his voice.

Immediately the drunken populace started sneering at the boy, who just flinched in return. As much as they wanted to beat the little demon (You would think they'd notice that the Kyuubi wasn't so little…), they knew that not all the ANBU would allow it. In the end, they just settled on sneering and throwing things at the boy, every now and then.

Naruto, on the other hand, was just very confused. But, after all, who wouldn't be confused.

Stumbling through the crowd, suddenly frightened, Naruto slipped into an alleyway. Trying to decipher what had just happened wasn't easy. After all, most of the times Naruto had been in town had been with old man Hokage. No pedestrian would dare hurt Naruto while in the presence of their leader.

As he thought about, Naruto decided to just ask the old man the next day. But just as Naruto got up to leave…

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!", Naruto screamed as he tumbled down the now opened floor, that had opened from a loose brick.

Nobody looked up as the floor closed up. After all, whoever had caused the demon-brat's scream, should be praised… right?

Author's Note's: Remade. Nothing much to say, really. So, yeah. I got a Final Fantasy XIII addiction and this is what it made itself to be. Anyways, after I finish this story, I'm thinking of doing a Naruto/FFXIII crossover. Naruto in Cocoon, that is. Well anyways, this is going to be the Author's Note for chapter's 1 - 4 due to them all being released on the same day. So, I guess that's it.

See Ya,

S.L.