I don't own Naruto…if I did Sasuke would be Naruto's duck-butt Lackey and Sakura would be mute….
"Speech/Speech/SPEECH"
'Thought'
(PoV Change)
This fan fictions' Naruto will be a good bit ooc and because I feel in canon Naruto does not come out on top enough I'm going to be working towards that angle…he will be Super but ill build him up so he wont be instantly invincible…the first few chapters will follow the manga close enough so it wont be AU but I may diverge at some point.
The people of the Konohagakure no Sato was thrown into a panic as the presence of an overwhelming rage and bloodlust settled over the village. Most who weren't privy to this feeling before wouldn't understand much about it other than a powerful instinct to flee overtook their senses. Now you may ask what on Earth could produce such an horrifying affect as to send the entire population of a village of several thousand into a fear born frenzy…it was the Chakra of strongest of the Bijuu, the massive Kyuubi no Yoko; the nine tailed fox.
The defenders of Konoha: the Leaf Shinobi, upon seeing the colossal kitsune bearing down upon them took up arms and proceeded to try and stop the monstrosity before it reached the village. The leaf ninja struck at the beast with everything they had, raining kunai and shuriken and turning the very elements themselves against it but nothing seemed to do any discernable damage…their only hope lay in the Hokage, leader of the village, to come up with a plan to stop the seemingly invincible juggernaught.
(With the Hokage)
"Is there no other way my friend, must you really condemn your only child to such a fate? What of the boys mother who died in childbirth…if you go through with this plan of yours the boy will be all alone" The person speaking was an aged gentlemen, thought he appeared fragile his eyes portrayed a presence of infallible will. This man was the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and the person he was addressing was his successor Namikaze Minato the Yondaime Hokage. "I'm afraid so ji-san, I couldn't just ask someone to give up their child to be a sacrifice to seal Kyuubi….he may be young but I'm confident little Naruto here will be a true hero to the Leaf Village." he took a long look at the bundled child in his arms…even thought the child was only a few hours old he already greatly resembled Minato himself.
"I'm off Ji-san…I know the villagers will probably fear him, and maybe even despise him….but if I could ask a favor of you…make sure he's seen as the hero he truly is Oji-san." With that said…the Yondaime and his son vanished in a flash of yellow light.
(With the Kyuubi)
To say the massive nine-tailed Bijuu was a little upset would be like saying the ocean is kind of big…a huge understatement, no the Kyuubi was beyond upset…he was PISSED!
First had been those accursed eyes waking him from his 50 year rest and warping his mind with those illusions, filling his mind with rage. When he had no means to end his torment the Kyuubi had set his sights upon a village closest to his den…Konohagakure, no doubt his rampage had been the intention of his attacker all along. Then as if that hadn't been bad enough that accursed ningen had arrived on a giant toad of all things and proceeded to use one of those jutsu they tended to be so fond of to summon the Shinigami! Who then proceeded to relieve his own essence, his soul, from him and sealed it into a human infant! As the massive Yoko probed the confines of his new prison he discover that the seal holding him back while appearing incredibly strong at first actually appeared to be missing some components…had the human made a mistake? The Kyuubi prepared to bombard the deceptively weak seal with his chakra he had an epiphany, this might actually work to his advantage…as long as he was behind this seal…his essence trapped within this human, those eyes couldn't reach him! The fox let out a loud and intimidating chuckle which soon descended into insane laughter.
"It seems you've given me the means with which to finally be free…Madara!!"
(12 years later)
The occupants of Konoha's ninja academy class suddenly ceased their chatter as the door to the classroom burst open revealing an young man with hair drawn into a tight ponytail with a scar running across the bridge of his nose dragging a hog tied youth with blond spiky hair who was squinting so hard his eyes appeared to be closed. "Naruto, tomorrow is the shin obi academy's graduation exam and you've failed it the last two times! Now is not the time to be causing trouble! You idiot!" Naruto stuck his tongue out at the dolphin haired teacher "Whatever!" the older man's face grew bright red with anger "Everyone line up for a surprise Henge no Jutsu test!" the class let out a collective groan and most turned to glare at the petulant blonde.
As it got closer to Naruto's attempt the students behind him stated that it was his fault they were in this mess….he of course couldn't care less. "Okay next up is Naruto"
Naruto brought his hands up to a hand seal and began focusing his chakra. "Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique)" As the the smoke from the technique cleared it revealed a very under clothed female version of Naruto and upon seeing the bare female flesh Iruka shot backwards from a geyser of blood from his nostrils. "Heh, I call that my Oiroke no Jutsu!(Ninja Centerfold Technique) " This of course followed Iruka reprimanding Naruto for the millionth time.
(At Hokage Monument)
"I'm not letting you go till you clean off all the paint you hear me Naruto?!" The boy looked up from the scaffolding hanging in front of the monument and stared at Iruka with his perpetually closed eyelids. "Like I care, s'not like I got anyone to go home too!" Iruka frowned his young charge 'Naruto….' the young teacher offered to take him to eat ramen afterwards which managed to motivate Naruto.
(Ichiraku Ramen)
"Naruto why were you defacing the monument…don't you know what the title of Hokage means?"
The boy looked up from his bowl for a moment and adopted an expression of thought "Well Hokage is the title give to the leader of the village right? Also, the past Hokage were all recognized for doing heroic things that really made them out as powerful and well know shin obi…especially the Yondaime." Iruka looked down at his student with no small amount of pride 'Seems he was paying attention after all' "So why would you do that?" The boy got quiet all of the sudden, he seemed to be barely concealing a large amount of emotions ranging from sadness, confusion, and…anger? 'Must be my imagination' "Well you better rest up for the exam tomorrow unless you want to fail a third time"
(Next morning at the Academy)
"I'm sorry Naruto but you fail again" Naruto looked downcast at Iruka's declaration, the sickly malformed clone beside him dispelling with a pop. "Aw c'mon Iruka this is his third time at this test and he DID make a clone…why not just pass him?" Mizuki, Iruka's teaching assistant interjected at which Naruto got a hopeful look on his face but soon became despair as Iruka denied its usefulness in the field.
After all the other students parents came to pick them up and congratulate the ones who passed, Mizuki came up to Naruto and explained that Iruka's parents where killed when he was very young and that he sees a lot of himself in the blond haired boy, thus his reason for being so hard on him. "Y'know Naruto…there is another way you can pass…its sort of like a make up exam" the boy beamed at this.
(With Naruto in forest outside Village)
As the village was in an uproar over Naruto's theft of the Forbidden Scroll, said boy was hard at work in memorizing the scroll and the techniques therein. "I found you Naruto!"
The blond boy looked up from his spot on the forest floor at his out of breath teacher. "Just in time Iruka-sensei, let me show you the skill I learned from the scroll so I can pass the makeup test." The color drained from Iruka's face at the boys question "Who told you that Naruto?" he replied "Mizuki-sensei of course." Iruka dived forward to protect his student from an oversized shuriken that flew from somewhere within the trees and struck him in the back.
In the following scrap between the three, Mizuki revealed to Naruto why everyone in the village hated him and the law concerning it…he told him he was in fact the Kyuubi no Yoko! The traitorous Mizuki laughed at the scarred chunin's plight "How can you protect the monster who killed your parents Iruka?! You should hate him!" the scar faced teen adopted a solemn face "You're right….I do hate the Kyuubi…" 'So he hates me like everyone else….' Naruto thought. "But Naruto is not the Kyuubi! He's one of my precious students!" As Mizuki was about to strike down Iruka Naruto burst from the forest canopy and surprised the traitor with a kick to the teeth and proceeded to attempt the Kage Bushin no Jutsu….only to have it fail miserably. "Why you little demon I'm going to get you for that!" Naruto took off into the forest with Mizuki in hot pursuit. As Naruto entered a clearing Mizuki managed to overtake the blond boy…backing him into a corner. 'Is this the end?! I'm really going to die here like a weakling?! No….No!! I don't want to die!' A look of pure glee in the man's eye he prepared to bring down his weapon and cleave the child in twain…. 'Naruto…I have finished' with those three simple words the boy's entire expression change from one of fearful reproach to a maniacal grin matching Mizuki's own. Noticing the change in the boys demeanor he asked "What's so funny demon?!" A huge torrent of dark blue chakra erupted from the child knocking Mizuki off his feet. As the traitor leveled his gaze at the slowly rising boy he felt a sinking feeling in his stomach and began to sweat profusely as the torrent of chakra changed from blue to a red-orange and a familiar feeling of irrational fear began to overtake his senses. Naruto's hair lengthens and his nails and canines extend into nasty looking claws and fangs, he slowly brings his gaze up to match Mizuki's own; his eyes are blood red and his pupils slit. "You were right about one thing Mizuki-teme. I may not be the Kyuubi, but that doesn't mean I'm not a demon! Naruto's hand shot forward so fast that Mizuki had not the time to blink as the boy's clawed hand pierced straight through his gut and out his back.
(With Sandaime)
Sarutobi, having watched the proceedings from his crystal ball, could barely believe his eyes as Naruto adopted some of the Kyuubi's more prominent features and literally turned the traitor Mizuki inside out in a savage display of brute strength. 'Is the Kyuubi breaking free?!' a shudder went down the aged Shinobi's spine as his next few seconds were filled with fearful thoughts of the havoc that should befall the village should the beast escape before turning back to his crystal ball…..
(With Iruka)
As his student came upon the clearing in which he lie Iruka released the breath he had been holding upon seeing Naruto unharmed and the lack of an 50 story blood red Kitsune staring down upon him. "Naruto what happened? Are you okay and is that BLOOD YOUR COVERED IN?!" the boy winced at his teachers shrill and fearful voice "Its not my blood Iruka-sensei its Mizuki-teme's….I used the Kage Bunshin and beat him up" although something didn't seem to add up Iruka was just glad his sometimes little brother figure was safe. "Naruto close your eyes for a sec" his student complied warily which was understandable with what he went through and upon opening his eyes and noticing the leaf symbol upon his forehead was ecstatic.
(With Naruto)
After Naruto had finished his celebrating ANBU had shown up and taken Iruka to the hospital and escorted him and the Forbidden Scroll to the Hokage Tower. 'Don't you think you might have over done it a little with Mizuki…although it was a highly entertaining end for the worm it might cast you in a bad light and stir up some of your old enemies on the Council' Naruto grinned inwardly at the massive kitsune 'Yea but I just got my chakra under control and wanted show off a little, besides I'm sick of playing the fool…I was thinking from now on I'd show my true self y'know….no more mask.'
The fox regarded his kit's over eagerness with a small amount of humor 'That's all well and good but don't go and dig a hole you can't get yourself out of. Just because you can use my chakra doesn't mean your'e invincible…' Naruto scoffed at this 'Yea I know Tou-san, I'm not as stupid everyone thinks…as you well know.' Kyuubi grunted in agreement and settled back into sleep in its cage. When the ANBU came to stop outside the Hokage's office the wizened leader called for Naruto to enter. As the boy sat down in front of Sarutobi he seemed to regard him with an expression of deep thought…as thought he couldn't make up his mind about him. "Naruto…how are you feeling, I understand you had to take Mizuki's life in order to protect Iruka and prevent him from escaping with the scroll…would you like to talk about it?" Naruto stiffened before slumping and lowering his gaze at his feet. "I-I don't know Oji-san…I know I should feel bad about k-killing him but….I cant help but feel he got what he deserved y'know?"
It wasn't too unexpected of a reaction….and the boy didn't appear to be controlled by the monster fox… "It's quite all right Naruto…as hard as we as Shinobi try to kill our emotions…we're still human at the end of the day. After what Mizuki did it's perfectly reasonable to feel hatred towards him and seek justification in his death…as long as you do not let your hatred control you…you'll be just fine." A look of immense relief passed over the young boy's face. "Arigato…Oji-san" Naruto stood up and left the Hokage's office with a tired expression…all the excitement no doubt taking its toll on the boy.
As Naruto left Sarutobi sighed and relit his pipe, hoping that against everything…the child would not become the monster that everyone made him out to be.