The Legend of Time

Prologue

Long ago, in an idyllic land, there was a great and powerful evil that threatened the inhabitants of the land. This evil had in time managed to destroy the world and leave chaos in its wake and ruled the lands. This rule continued for years, until a hero was born. This hero battled the great evil and, while the battle was long, vanquished this evil and sealed it from the world forever with the help of the Seven Sages. The hero with the mighty weapon, The Master Sword, pledged that his descendants shall protect the world from this great evil. Our hero eventually came to be known as, The Hero Of Time. The world for the next millennia was safe from the evil, and in time, the land changed and the story of the Hero Of Time was forgotten. However a new chapter in this story is about to be written, written in a new land, the land of the 5 Elemental plains. Our story begins with a young orphan and ninja in training named Uzumaki Naruto.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or Legend of Zelda, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Nintendo respectively

(Keys)

jutsu/technique being called) "Kage bunshin no jutsu!"

Thoughts) "Hmm...I wonder which ramen I should have?"

(Demon/Summon speaking) "I WILL GET OUT OF THIS SEAL!"

(Demon/Summon thinking) "Hmmm...this kid doesn't give up easily"

(Flashback no jutsu!) well...that's obvious isn't it? ;)

(A/N. HEY! welcome to the first chapter of The Legend of Time! Now this is my first story so some of it might be confusing or it might seem wrong and a lot of stuff is going to be different since this is mostly A.U., but I'm hoping in the next few chapters I clear up a lot of things, anyways enjoy! OH! Also I'll try to keep the rating to a T, sometimes it might go below, other times it might go a little higher, but for the most part it'll be a T.)

Chapter 1.

Legends resurface.

"Good job son!" "That's my daughter! Passing on her first try!", these were the words of the happy parents of the children who had just passed onto being a ninja.

A group of parents looked over at a 12 year old blond haired boy with what seemed to be whiskers sitting on a swing, not too far away from them. "Look at him, the only one who didn't pass." said one parent. "Thank god he didn't, imagine the damage that dem-" "SHH! We aren't supposed to talk about that!" said another in a harsh whisper.

Uzumaki Naruto looked on as the group of children and parents celebrated passing the academy for ninja. He had heard the conversation spoken between parents but chose to ignore it in favor of thinking what could have gone wrong during his testing. Unknown to everyone in Konohagakure no sato, except the Sandaime Hokage and a select few, Naruto wasn't as dumb as people thought he was. No, that was just a mask he had "Acquired" during his life growing up, for he had known ever since he was little, the curse he was burdened with at birth and also, his ancestry, and the destiny that followed it.

(Flashback no jutsu!)

A young boy was running from a very angry mob on this day, October 10th, his birthday.

He did not know why this mob wished to hurt him, along with the rest of the village's civilians, but he did not wish to find out the hard way.

"GET THE DEMON!" "KILL HIM!" "AVENGE OUR FALLEN ONES!" these were just the numerous cries that rang out as the young boy, now recognizable as Naruto, heard while he was running.

"Where the heck is ojii-san? I knew he said today was a bad day to walk around but he said he needed to see me and would meet me at my apartment, and since he never came I figured I should go and find him instead, but after walking I end up with a mob after me...AGAIN!" were the thoughts of young Naruto, as he turned a corner he came upon a dead-end and stopped to look around for a place to hide, and upon seeing none, turned to run back and hopefully lose the crowd in another alley, but instead saw they had already caught up to him.

"FINALLY! We have you now demon!" said a civilian with a rusty pipe and a deranged look in his eyes.

"Yeah we're gonna do to you what you did to us years ago, and finish what the Yondaime never did!"

Cheers rang our through the crowd as this was said, and Naruto fearing for his life, tried to plead with the group.

"Please! What did I do wrong! I haven't done anything!" he yelled to the crowd

"HAH! Fat chance demon! Like we're gonna believe anything you say!" said the same man from before. "EVERYONE GET HIM!" cheers rang once again as everyone ran up to Naruto and began to beat him with anything they could grab from the alley.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" came the cry from a dog masked man in a black and gray suit with what appeared to be 7 more people in the same clothing behind him in numerous masks.

"ANBU...I hope they can...take me to jii-san." came the exhausted thought of Naruto before he passed out from the pain and blood loss.

"Ahh, Anbu-san, we're just finishing up the party, would you care to join us in our demon hunt?" said the man with the pipe, apparently the De-facto leader of this rather violent congregation.

The Anbu at the head of the group, who was apparently the leader, stood there, shaking, until he said in a calm voice laced with malice "Sure...Ill join in. But let me have one of my friends take the first shot, its his first time demon hunting after all." Although you couldn't see it, everyone could feel he was smiling behind that mask of his.

Cheers rang out as the civilian group stepped aside for the ANBU to see the child.

"Hmm...seems you guys did a pretty good job on him this time..." said the dog masked Anbu.

"Alright Weasel, you're up." As this was said a weasel masked Anbu, who looked no older than 13 from his short stature, walked up to the boy and looked at him in interest, before turning to the civilian group and taking off his mask, showing the face of the greatest Uchiha clan prodigy, Uchiha Itachi, with his Sharingan bared and spinning, its blood red glow freezing anyone who saw it, before knocking out the group with a quick genjutsu, except the leader of the crowd.

"Wh-What did you DO?" he cried out in fear, "I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONNA ATTACK THE DEMON!"

Itachi couldn't help but smile as this was said, and in reply, said something that froze the man in his tracks and made his blood run cold, "I am attacking the demon, or, should I say, demon's, for all I see is a group of grown people attacking a young child, and on his birthday no less." Itachi's eyes burned with rage, even though he kept repeating a mantra in his head to not let his emotions take control, he couldn't help but be enraged at this man for attacking who he knew was and respected them as, the Kyuubi vessel.

The man was in fear, and upon noticing the rest of the group of Anbu had unmasked themselves to reveal faces filled with rage at the man, fainted from fear of this group.

The Anbu with the dog mask looked towards the young boy's unconscious body on the ground, looked at the rest of the group and nodded, picking up the boy and sprinting towards the Hokage tower to report this to the Sandaime and hopefully, get the Sandaime's personal doctor to heal the boy. As he was running, he never noticed a symbol on Naruto's left hand glowing dimly and just barely there, but noticeable if you were to look closely.

(Flashback no jutsu end!)

After that Naruto had awoken to see numerous faces circled around him in fear and concern and wondered what had happened when he passed out, and asked just that same question.

(Flashback no jutsu...again!) (A.N. sorry for so many flashbacks and not getting on with the story but this is kinda important, if you want you can skip to the next chapter but I'd advise that if you want to know some of the things that are going to happen then you had best read this)

"Ano...what happened?" was the question of Naruto as he saw the many faces looking upon him in concern.

"Its alright Naruto, your safe now, you just fell asleep." said the one with his face covered in a mask and gray gravity defying hair.

"Oh...well...can I see ojii-san?" said Naruto in hope. "I am already here Naruto-kun." was the voice he heard and turned around from the couch (that he found out was very comfy) and saw an old man sitting behind a desk wearing red and white robes with a red and white hat with the kanji for 'Fire' on the tip of it. This was the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, known and feared as the God of Shinobi to his enemies and allies. However to Naruto he was simply-"OJII-SAN!" was the cry of Naruto as he pounced onto the old man and made him fall backwards off his chair.

The group in the room looked on in concern for the man but hearing his laughter, calmed down a bit.

"Hahaha! Naruto you must be careful with me, as I am nothing but an old man now." said Hiruzen.

"Awww but jii-san, you're the Hokage, if you cant take falling off a chair very well, then you should probably just hand me that hat already!" shouted Naruto. Everyone knows it's been a long standing dream for him to become Hokage one day, and gain the respect of the village so they couldn't hurt him anymore.

Hearing a cough from in front of them, Hiruzen and Naruto both looked on as the group who was still there waited for the Sandaime to say something to them.

"Ah yes Naruto, I forgot I was going to tell you something." said Hiruzen in a cheery voice, and Naruto upon hearing what he was just about to ask listened with rapt attention.

"I have been watching you as you have been living alone and have decided that perhaps to help you in some ways. I will have you trained by everyone you see in this group before you, and if you manage to do well, I will tell you of your Family, and your full heritage."

Naruto hearing about being told about his family and being trained whooped loudly and ran around the room screaming "I'm gonna be trained! I'm gonna be trained! I'm gonna be trained!" over and over.

The Anbu closest to him, a man with large caterpillar like eyebrows and a bowl cut, couldn't help but laugh out loud and say "AHAHAHA! KAKASHI MY RIVAL! LOOK AT HIS EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH! WHY HE IS THE EPITOME OF YOUTHFULNESS!" Kakashi, being the man with gray hair and reading an orange book, merely looked up at the strange man and said "Hm? Did you say something Gai?"

The man identified as Gai cried out, "AHH KAKASHI! You and your COOL, HIP attitude!"

"Cough Hokage-cough-sama shouldn't we-cough-calm down-cough-Naruto here?" asked a man who carried a katana and looked sick enough to not be on active duty at all.

"Ah yes...Naruto would you please come over here and let me introduce you to the people who are going to train you?" Hearing this Naruto stopped his screaming and quickly hopped over to the Sandaime and listened to him as he introduced him to each person and pointed them out.

"Ahem, going from left to right, we have here Maito Gai, who is going to train you in taijutsu." here Gai gave out a mighty "YOSH" and settled down, "Next we have Kakashi, who is going to teach you about ninjutsu and tracking." Kakashi, who didn't even bother to look up from his book, raised his had with a little wave and just said "Yo."

"Next is Yuuhi Kurenai, who is going to be your genjutsu teacher." as he said this Naruto noticed she had a pretty face, long black hair tied up in a ponytail, and ruby red eyes.

"Hello Naruto-kun." she said with an angelic voice he noted.

"Next is your Sensory and trap making teacher, Uchiha Itachi." He pointed to a young boy in the group with raven black hair in a small ponytail in the back, as he said nothing and looked at Naruto with a look of respect and slight confusion, before nodding to him.

"Next is Hayate, who will teach you in kenjutsu, or the way of the sword." Hiruzen said, explaining after noticing the confused look Naruto sent him at first when he said this.

"Cough a pleasure to Cough meet you Naruto Cough Cough" said the sickly man from before who Naruto noticed seemed to have a very bad cough and voiced this to him as politely as he could "Cough-Please don't worry about it, I've had this-cough-for years and I've learned to deal with it."

Shrugging, Naruto looked at the next few people as the Sandaime named them off.

"Next we have your information gathering teacher, Morino Ibiki."

Ibiki was a tall bear of a man of 6 foot 3 inches, with a face that Frankenstein would be wary of, "Naruto," whispered the Sandaime "don't let his looks fool you, he may seems tough as nails but he really has a soft spot for kids so don't let him scare you, alright?" Naruto nodded at this and turned to one of the last people in the room to be introduced.

"Next we have your trap making and poisons teacher, Mitarashi Anko."

Naruto noticed that she had wild purple hair tied up in a pineapple shape and seemed to have a different look for Anbu wear than Kurenai's, which was a skirt and a trench coat that covered her chest armor (A.N. I know Anbu really don't have skirts or trench coats as part of their wear, but hey...this is Anko, you cant really see her in anything else but that can you?)

"Hiya squirt! We're gonna get along just fine if what I'm hearing about your pranks is enough! Hehe." said Anko with a devious smile worthy enough of a fellow prankster, and enough to have Naruto let the squirt comment slide by.

"Next we have your close combat weapons and tactics trainer, Sarutobi Asuma."

Naruto noticed the man had a cigarette in his mouth at first, but hearing the same last name as the Sandaime, asked him "Ano, are you related to ojii-san?" Asuma replied with "Yeah I'm his son, why?" he asked in confusion. "Oh no reason, just wondering if you were gonna end up looking like ojii-san." said Naruto, which brought laughter from the others of the group, and scowls from Asuma and the Sandaime.

"Joking aside, these people here are going to help you train to be the best you can Naruto. As I said, if you manage to complete everything they assign to you before I let you join in the academy in the next 4 years, I will tell you about your family as promised." said Sarutobi with a small smile as Naruto cheered and then yawned. "It seems to be getting quite late, Itachi-kun would you please take young Naruto home, he is not very far off from your clan compound." Itachi nodded and picked up the rather sleepy Naruto and disappeared in a whirl of leaves.

"Hokage-sama, what reason do you have to make Naruto train at such a young age? Would this not be damaging to his childhood at this early stage in his life?" asked Ibiki, who had been quiet the whole time.

*Sigh*"Ibiki, I fear Naruto will have a long road ahead of him, and as such I wish for him to be as prepared as he can be. As much as I trust the academy, I know it alone will not be enough to prepare him for the challenges he will face." said the Sandaime with a grim look on his face, "But no matter, we will discuss this at a later date, preferably when Jiraiya is here. As for now everyone is dismissed. Report here at noon, I will have Naruto informed of a few things before then, afterwards you can all take him for training and work out a schedule between yourselves."

Everyone nodded and left in a whirl of leaves as the Sandaime slumped into his chair and looked over at the picture of the Fourth Hokage. "Minato, I fear your son will have a hard road ahead of him. I have faith he can handle it though, just as you and Kushina did."

With that, the Sandaime left for home for the night.

(Flashback no jutsu end!)

After that, Naruto was never the same, for what he would learn, would change his world and the five elemental nations, forever.

(A/N. Well, whattya think? Good, bad? I know I switched between the present and the past a lot but I kinda felt it would make a point into what is gonna happen later on, well anyways review and flame all you want, it'll help me out a lot!

-Viper)

Chapter 2: We delve into Naruto's past even more, and what's this? Training of doom! I THOUGHT ONLY GAI DID THAT!

Next time on The Legend of Time

"The harsh way of the ninja!"

See ya soon!