Hello boys, girls and those of us who wish to be androgynous and welcome to the first chapter of Sweet Release: The Tale of Uzumaki N Naruto

Any of you who have had the misfortune of reading my first fic 'Fox's Creed' are aware of my ramblings and failings as an author and I thank you for sticking with me as I improve, those of you who are new here I have only one thing to say to you; "I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry"

Now without further ado lets get this show on the road

This fic is loosely based on 'Sweet Release' a wonderful fic by Xutzy, a story that unfortunately hasn't been updated in something like three years

"Speech"

'thought'

"higher being/summon/Biju/Jinchuuriki speech"

'Higher being/summon/Biju thought'

I own nothing but the plot

In a peaceful village there lived a man, an old and wizened man and his family, the man cared for his family, his clan, and most of all his grandchildren

One of said grandchildren was currently sat upon his knee, the child had lovely red hair, pulled into two long braids and pale blue eyes, she sat upon her grandfather's lap and he should tell her such wonderful stories and parables, this was one such story

" now my dear cub for this story I have to go back to the very start, before even I was born!" the man said in the tone all grandparents use when telling a story earning a cute little giggle for the young girl

"Long ago the clans were at war, two of the children of the sage, betraying his ideals, waged war upon each other and the rest of the continent followed suit, but there was one clan, one clan who refused to join the fighting, one clan who embraced the sage's ideals of peace, that clan was the Uzumaki, a clan of long and lorded traditions, the creators of modern Fuinjutsu, the Hunters, the blood kin of tigers, founders of Uzushiogakure." He said with a wistful smile

"But there was another clan, slowly rising within the feuding age, a clan of simple cane farmers granted a gift by a powerful beast in exchange for safe harbour and treatment of its wounds, This is the tale of the last scion of both clans, the last Uzumaki, the last hunter."

This tale takes place many years after the Waring clans age, after the first, second and third shinobi wars, this tale is that of Naruto N Uzumaki, Hunter of the leaf, the tiger striped stalker, the Orange death and this, young one, is how it begins."

Konohagakure, the day of the Kyuubi attack

Building burned, fires raged, good shinobi died and all of it because of one man and his abominable ambition.

One man, one nameless man, had freed the great and powerful Kyuubi to rain hell upon Konoha and all its able bodied Shinobi jumped into action to protect there home and families knowing they had no hope of stemming the tide of death and destruction loosed upon them by the angry Biju, only one man had any hope of defeating the beast, one man who was surprisingly absent from the battlefield, one man with mastery of Fuinjutsu on par with an Uzumaki

This man was Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage, the Yellow Flash and a dead man walking

Field outside of Konoha

"Hold, hold you fuckers, do not let this beast into the village! Hold until Yondaime-Sama can arrive!" a Ninja shouted to his comrades seconds before he was bifurcated by one of the Biju's claws, not a second later a huge blast of smoke arose before the Kyuubi and a toad the size of a building and then some dove from within it, blade drawn, stopping the Kyuubi's claws form braking through the walls

The great fox roared before bringing its head back and firing a chakra beam at close range, tearing a chunk of flesh from the toad before a bright flash appeared upon said toads head

When the light dulled upon the toads head stood two people, one a blond man with long spiky hair, the other a red head with hair to her rear, seconds later a blinding flash of yellow light covers the battlefield and when it cleared the Kyuubi, the toad and the two Ninja were gone.

Time skip

The peaceful village of Konoha in Hi No Kuni, a village that would almost be picturesque if not for the fact it was a Ninja village, it had been five years since the village had suffered its greatest tragedy, five years since the natural disaster that was the Kyuubi No Yoko had attacked and in those five years the village had rebuilt and restored itself to its place as one of, if not the, strongest hidden villages upon the continent

The five years had not been without incident though, there was the 'Hyuuga incident' two years previous where the 'Head Jonin' of Kumogakure had attempted to kidnap the Hyuuga heir, a kidnapping that was, thankfully, unsuccessful, though it had cost the life of one of the village's finest scouts and the twin brother of the current clan head Hizashi Hyuuga, that incident alone would have caused war with the cloud village had Hiruzen Sarutobi, the reinstated Sandaime Hokage, not given the village an ultimatum

But that is not why we are here is it?, no the reason we are here is a small, malnourished red head currently sat outside of the orphanage, his name?

"Naruto N Uzumaki Why are you sat out here alone?" An older woman in her late thirties asked the young man with a kind smile as she sat next to him

The young man jumped slightly from his thought before rubbing the back of his head "oh hi Kaa-San! I was waiting for you!" Naruto answered with a gigawatt smile as he jumped to his feet and threw himself at the woman who smiled at him before struggling his hair

"How many times have I told you Naruto, call me Matron not Kaa-san? Now it's time Naruto we need to get going" She said to the boy who frowned slightly as she started to walk with him towards the boy's favourite spot in the village

Now I know what your thinking, your thinking that this will be like every other Naruto story and the Matron will be taking him to Ichiraku Ramen... well think again!

The matron lead the small boy towards a small sweet shop just outside of the main market area where the two were greeted by the elderly couple who ran the shop

"Ohayo Namashiro-Ojii! Ohayo Namashiro-Obaa! Can I buy some candy?" Naruto asked with the usual excitement of a five year old in a candy store earning a sad smile from the elderly couple who both knelt down and pulled Naruto into a hug

"Sure you can Naru-Chan! You know what day today is right?" The older woman asked earning a pout form Naruto at being called 'Naru-Chan' before he nodded solemnly at the man

"Hai Namashiro-Obaa, today is the day you have to leave" he said on the verge of tears, the Namashiro family were one of the few people young Naruto had met who treat him like a normal kid, always saying that he reminded them of there son who fell in battle on the day the Kyuubi attacked five years ago

Namashiro-Ojii nodded before reaching behind the counter and placing a bag on it "yes it is Gaki, it's also the anniversary of the day our Ken-Chan passed on and, more importantly, it's your birthday if I recall correctly" he said with a smile before placing the bag into Naruto's hands, Naruto opened the bag to see four hundred gumballs within it and smiled before diving at the older ma. And wrapping his arms around him

"Ill miss you Ojii, you to Obaa, I hope of see you again someday" he said earning a sad smile from the two of them and a pat on the head

"Who knows Gaki, maybe when you become a Shinobi you'll get a mission to Wave" Namashiro-Ojii said earning a smile from our red headed hero who nodded

"I'm sure just will Ojii and even if I don't I'm sure I can take a few days off to visit" he said smiling

Naruto spent a few hours saying goodbye to the Namashiro's before they headed off, having been driven out of Konoha by the greater population due to there friendship with Naruto and so, on the tenth of October in the two hundredth and fifty seventh year of the Shinobi age, Naruto Uzumaki saw the only family he had other than his 'Kaa-San' the Matron, self made though it was, leave him

Time skip: 4 years, 9 years A.K (after Kyuubi)

Naruto ran through the streets of Konoha, tears in His eyes, heading to his apartment

two years ago after the orphanage he had lived in was almost burned down by drunken villagers wanting to 'remove the demon' the Sandaime had given him an apartment to live in and a monthly stipend to pay for food and amenities, a stipend that, unfortunately, barely covered his bills and food leaving him no money for his release, no money for candy

It only took Naruto a few minutes to reach his apartment, kick his door open and lock it behind him, as soon as he had done this he headed straight for his bedroom and reached for the last gift he received from his family only to stop short with his hands around the bag, it was empty. That was when he remembered, he ear the last piece after his first day.. at the academy when the bitch of a teacher had scolded him with boiling water.

Naruto dropped to his knees and slowly rocked back and forth 'it's ok to need candy, even ninja eat candy sometimes, it's ok to need candy, even ninja eat candy sometimes, it's ok to need candy...' he repeated In his mind as he rock himself to a nervous breakdown

Within the confines of Naruto's Mindscape a single blood red eye opened as the water around the eye's owner's feet began to thrash violently ' why is the water reacting like this? This shouldn't happen unless the Kit is in SEVERE emotional distress! But when that happens he just eats one of the pieces of can... oh FUCK he eat the last piece after his first day at the academy, think - THINK!' The being roared to itself, not noticing that it's voice made no sound when it tried to say it's own name, before a thought entered it's mind

'Of course! The Kit's parents! They are the answer, now I need to be careful, if this goes wrong the Kit may explode' it said to itself as sanguine energy flowed through the bars of its cage and into the water

Outside of his Mindscape Naruto didn't notice the red energy flowing over him, to deep into his brake down, his did however notice the burning feeling and the pain that accompanied it into the waking world, grinding his teeth together hard enough for then to brake Naruto was slightly surprised when the flakes of teeth tasted sweet, almost like pure sugar

He stood and ran to the bathroom to check his mirror and was astonished to find that his teeth were now sharp and slightly translucent, he was even more shocked when his teeth dissolved filling his mouth with sugar and calming him entirely

Naruto spent the entire night trying to recreate this phenomenon to great success discovering that he had limited control of what he could do, he experimented with focusing the feeling he got when growing what certain called his 'sweet tooth' ability on other parts of his body and discovered he could make what looked like armour made of boiled candy over his skin though it was thin and useless

Now like any nine year-old who discovered he could do something awesome Naruto decided to talk to the most important person in his life before he thought better of it

"Kaa-San has enough to worry about without me giving her more of a headache ill ask Inu-Nii about it tomorrow when he comes to deliver my monthly money" he said to himself before he got ready for bed and quickly drifted off to sleep

I side his mind the owner of the red eye sighed to itself 'well it will at least be funny to see what the Kit will do with his new found ability' it thought to itself before it to fell asleep.

And that children is the first chapter

Now I know it's been AGES since I updated anything but, well writers block is a bitch and I've had the idea for this floating around in my head since I rediscovered sweet release a few months ago if you fine people haven't read it yet I recommend it as the basic premise of this story is based on the idea of that story

Thank you for reading and please, review would you kindly