Chapter 1: The Beginning

In the dark a mob is chasing a figure through the village. The Figure runs into an alley and finds himself in a dead end. The figure turns around and sees the mob in the alley blocking his escape. In the torch light of the mob a little boy about 4 years old is revealed. The boy is wearing a white t-shirt and black shorts that resemble rags instead of clothes. He has spiky blonde hair and pale skin. This little boy is none other than Naruto Uzumaki.

One of the mob members yells "You won't get away from us this time demon brat." The mob advances on Naruto and he closes his eyes and waits for the beating to come like always. He hears footsteps approaching and stiffens, but when nothing happens he opens his eyes to see the whole mob dead in front of him. "What happened, why is everyone dead" the confused Naruto says. No answer comes and he faints from the scene in front of him.

Next Day Hospital

Naruto hears voices and quickly wakes up to the familiar sight of the hospital room. The white walls and plain decorations in the room. Naruto has always disliked the hospital since his first visit about 6 months ago. Since then he has been admitted to the hospital a total of 20 times. Always from being beat by the villagers an inch within his life. He does not know why they beat him only that they do.

"I see you're awake. How do you feel" a voice in the room says. Naruto looks to the side of his bed and sees an old man sitting by the bed, Hiruzen Sarutobi the Sandaime Hokage.

"I feel fine. Just scared is all. What happened to those people, they just died and nothing was there." Naruto says to the aged Hokage.

Hiruzen says "We have no clue what happened. I have had my ANBU look into it but they can't find any evidence to what happened."

Naruto sadly says "Oh well I hope you find out what happened to them" Naruto then looks right at Hiruzen and excitedly says "When can I get out of here. I hate the hospital."

Hiruzen just laughs "hahaha you can leave right know. Just let me sign you out and we can go get some ramen. How's that sound."

Naruto jumps out of bed and pulls the startled Hokage out of the chair and out of the room. "Come on lets go I am hungry" Naruto says having completely forgotten the event the night before.

4 Years Later

An 8 year old Naruto wakes up ecstatic that today is the first day of the academy. He quickly gets a shower and brushes his teeth. Grabbing an apple as he heads out the door of his apartment.

"Why are you so excited to go to the academy" a voice says.

Naruto sighs and says "because you told me to wear a mask so, no one would know the real me. Do you not remember our conversation when we first met."

Flashback: 4 Years Ago: Week After The Hospital

Naruto goes to sleep that night and wakes up in a sewer. He starts wandering thinking it's a dream. Unknowingly he is following a set path. After a while he walks into a big room with pipes on the walls and water still on the ground. He looks around and sees a giant gate with a piece of paper with the kanji for seal written on it. Unconsciously Naruto walks up to the gate and suddenly see a giant pair of red eyes. Naruto just stares into the eyes and a body shaped like a fox appears with nine tails and long ears with black tips.

"You're the Kyuubi" Naruto says a little scared.

The kyuubi gives a big toothy grin "Yes, kit I am. I have brought you hear to talk to you about something."

"Where am I and what do you want to talk about" Naruto says still a little scared.

"You're in your mindscape and I want to talk about you and the village."

"Ok what about me and the village."

"First off I am the reason the village hates you and calls you a 'Demon'. I am sorry for that, but it can't be helped. I know you hate the village for what they have done to you and that you hide it well. I want to help you so you can protect yourself from them in the future. I am going to train you so that you become the strongest shinobi ever."

"You want to train me. Wait were you the one that killed the mob that attacked me"

"Yes, I do. I have no idea what happened in the alley. I can't see the outside world. Although if we create a connection I can talk to you and see everything you see with your eyes. "

"Oh I wonder what happened in the alley. How do we create this connection."

"So do I. It is already done. We will start training in private in a few days. Also just because I'm training you does not mean we are friends. I refuse to have a weak container. "

"Ok furball. We will be friends in time just you wait."

"Don't call me that or I will kill you. Also keep up your mask so people don't get suspicious."

"I would like to see you try. How did you know about my mask."

"Whatever. I can sense negative emotions. Just keep it up till I say so. Oh and from this point on call me Sensei."

With that the Kyuubi cut the connection and Naruto fell asleep.

Flashback End

The now named voice, Kyuubi says "Yes, I do. Just don't lose your cool on the first day and screw everything up."

"Don't worry I won't and I hope the academy goes by fast." Naruto says just as he gets to the door to his class.

Naruto looks at the class and notices that he is the first one there so he goes to the back and just goes to sleep, but he is really just talking to his Sensei.

"So what are you teaching me today after class" Naruto says to Kurama.

"Well since the academy won't be teaching you anything you don't already know and will cut our training down for a while. I think I will teach you a new jutsu, since you're about low chunin level know you should learn more jutsu."

"You really think I am chunin rank already. Well I guess all that intense training you put me through wasn't for nothing. Plus the chakra control I needed to do anything, because my reserves are so high."

"Yes I believe you are and are you complaining about my training cause if you are I can make it hell for you." Kurama says evilly.

Naruto starts sweating and says "n... no I'm n not complaining at all. Merely pointing out that you're a good sensei. Ya that's it."

Kurama just sweat drops and says "Nice save kit."

Up to this point the Kyuubi has been teaching Naruto for the last 4 years in chakra control, taijutsu, fuinjutsu, genjutsu, kenjutsu, ninjutsu, his element affinity's, and academics. His main affinity is fuuton and secondary affinity's are katon, raiton, doton and suiton. He found out having the Kyuubi in him gave him control of all elements and near perfect control over them.

Naruto hears the door open and peeks up to see a stream of people come in. Choji, Shikamaru, Ino, Sakura, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, and Sasuke all come in and take their seat. Ino and Sakura Both Fight over who gets to sit by Sasuke until the instructor, Iruka, comes in and yells at them to sit down and shut up. Naruto looks around the room at all the people. Choji is a chubby kid eating a bag of chips, he has brown hair with a green hat on and swirl marks on his cheeks, he is part of the Akimichi clan. Shikamaru has his head down sleeping, he has brown hair up into a spikey pineapple shape and is from the Nara clan. Ino has blonde hair and wears a purple skirt and top, she is from the Yamanaka clan. Sasuke has black hair and wears a blue shirt and white shorts, he is from the Uchiha clan. Sakura has pink hair and wears a red dress, she is a Haruno. Kiba has brown hair and wears a jacket with a puppy on his head named Akamaru, he is from the Inazuka clan. Shino has brown hair and wears a jacket that covers most of his face, he is from the Aburame clan. Last was Hinata who has dark blue hair and wears a puffy coat, she is from the Hyuga clan. Everyone groans when Iruka starts lecturing them on shinobi history.

Time Skip: Academy Graduation Day

Naruto walks into class happy its graduation day and he gets to become a genin today. He sees everyone else has gotten there already and are all shouting about being the best ninja ever. Naruto just takes his seat in the back on the class like always and sits quietly waiting. A few minutes later Iruka walks in yelling for them all to shut up and sit down. Iruka gives his speech to the class before the test. Soon after him and Mizuki hand out the tests and say begin.

Naruto just frowns when he gets his test and sees there is a genjutsu on it and quickly dispels it and takes the test. Mizuki sees this and scowls at Naruto for ruining his plans again, but still wondering how he always manages to see his genjutsu.

A short time later everyone has finished the written test and is ushered out the door to the training ground for their kunai and shuriken throwing test.

Kurama says "Kit show them what you got, don't go overboard. Just show them you are as good as Sasuke and no more."

Naruto just says "Got it don't go overboard, but show enough." and the connection is dropped. Naruto watches everyone do there test until his turn.

Naruto hears "Sasuke Uchiha your next" from Iruka. Sasuke walks up and grabs the kunai and shows its dead center in the target and everyone cheer except Naruto. Sasuke then grabs the shuriken and throws dead center once again and everyone cheers. Iruka turns around and says "Perfect 10 out of 10. Good job Sasuke." Sasuke just walk to the side and ignores the cheering.

"Next up is Naruto Uzumaki"Iruka calls out. Naruto just walks up and grabs the remaining kunai and shuriken, but realizes they are unbalanced and not very sharp. He adds some chakra to make them sharper and throws them and walks away not even waiting to see what happens. Everyone looks to see that the kunai and shuriken Naruto just threw are dead center on the same target. They all look shocked at Naruto who is just leaning against a tree. Iruka shocked at what Naruto just did just stares at him not knowing what to say. Finally he says "A perfect 10. Naruto how did you just do that."

Naruto stays quite for a while everyone stares at him. Finally in a somewhat cold tone he says "Hiding your true skills as a shinobi people underestimate you and can help gain you an upper hand in a fight."

Everyone shocked at what Naruto just said and the tone he said it in scared them. Iruka the first to recover from the shock says "Wow Naruto that is true. Can I ask where did you learn that."

Naruto looks at Iruka and says in his normal happy tone "Thank you and secrecy is yet another of a shinobis tools."

Everyone once again looks shocked at Naruto. The first to say something this time is Sasuke "You think your smart all of a sudden dobe."

Naruto just looks at Sasuke and then looks away ignoring him.

Iruka says "Ok we are moving onto the sparing matches."

Everyone quickly walks to the clearing on the side of the academy.

The first few matches went quickly. Kiba vs Shino with Shino just dodging Kiba and punches him winning the match. Ino vs Sakura ended with Ino getting behind Sakura with a kunai to the neck. Hinata vs an unknown student gets knocked out quickly. Choji vs Shikamaru ended because Choji did not want to fight his friend.

The last match was between Sasuke and Naruto.

They both step up and Iruka says "Start"

Sasuke immediately runs at Naruto and is about to punch him when Naruto just shifts slightly to one side and knees Sasuke in the gut. Naruto jumps back and watches Sasuke get up. Naruto says "Is that all you got Sasuke."

Sasuke ignores him and once again try to punch Naruto, but quickly shift into a kick knowing Naruto would dodge the punch. Naruto quickly sees this and can dodge the kick to the side but instead takes the hit to keep looks up. Naruto skids back a few feet and sees Sasuke want to finish this with the next attack.

They both run at each other with a punch ready. They are both about to hit each other but Naruto shifts slightly and Sasuke misses his punch. Naruto's punch connects with Sasuke's face and he goes flying back a few feet and hits the ground.

Iruka says "Winner Naruto."

Sasuke gets up and glares at Naruto. Everyone else is shocked that Naruto beat Sasuke.

"Everyone back in the class so we can start the next part of the test"

Once everyone is in the class Iruka says "We will be starting the jutsu part of the test." One at a time everyone gets called to go up and do the three jutsu to graduate.

Naruto just waits in the back of the class at his seat. He hears his name called and goes to the front of the class. The people closest to him flinching a little when he walks by. Once at the front Iruka says "Perform the henge jutsu Naruto." Naruto wordlessly and seal less transforms into the Yondaime Hokage. While Kiba speaks up and asks "Who is that." Before Iruka can answer Naruto says "Really. You don't even know one of the villages Hokage's." Then Sakura says "Baka why did you hen..." but she didn't get to finish as a large killing intent (ki) was set on the room from Naruto. Naruto glares at Sakura and just says "Shut up" in a cold tone. Everyone is quite and Naruto stops the ki and looks to Iruka to continue.

Iruka just says "Good now perform the clone jutsu." Naruto just does the familiar cross sign and instantly 10 shadow clones appear. Iruka once again shocked at what Naruto did says "How do you know the shadow clone jutsu Naruto. You do pass this part but I want to know how you did it. Plus how you were able to make so many."

Naruto responds by saying "It is none of your business but if you must know I can't do the normal clone jutsu because my chakra level is too high and that's also why I can make so many. As for how I learned it that's a secret."

"That answers my question. Now perform a substitution jutsu" Iruka says sweating a bit from Naruto's knowledge and what he has hidden.

Naruto turns around and disappears and in his place a scowling Mizuki who has been getting madder and madder at Naruto for ruining his plans once again. Naruto reappears where Mizuki was and has a small smirk on his face. All the while Mizuki none the wiser as to what just happened, having been too deep in thought as to how Naruto was able to do all this. "Congratulations Naruto on becoming a genin" Iruka says happily while handing a headband to him. Naruto just takes it and sits back down.

Iruka starts giving another boring speech. While Sasuke is mad and trying to figure out how Naruto the 'dobe' and dead last is stronger than him. Also wondering how he was able to dodge his attacks just by shifting a bit.

Iruka gets to the team placements and starts calling them out "Team 1 …" Naruto ignores all the teams till he hears his name called " Team 7 Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, and your jounin sensei is Kakashi Hatake." Naruto just slumps and curses that Sakura of all people is on his team. While Sakura is yelling "Take that Ino pig Sasuke is on my team." for Sasuke he just broods in the corner more.

"Please wait here until your jounin sensei come and get you" Iruka says then quickly leaves the class along with Mizuki not wanting to be in there any longer. Few minutes later people start coming in a calling for their teams. All teams are gone but Team 7. Naruto still sitting in the back asleep while Sasuke is brooding in the corner and Sakura tries to talk to Sasuke.

2 Hours Later

The door opens to reveal a man with gravity defying white hair, a mask that cover half his face and his headband covering his left eye, wearing the standard jounin uniform walk in and says "Yo." Sakura Immediately yells "Your Late." Kakashi just eye smiles and says "Meh, meet me on the roof" and shushins away. Sakura and Sasuke get up and head to the door and turn around to see Naruto still sleeping. Sasuke just glares at him and says "Hey dobe you coming." Naruto lifts his head up and glares back at Sasuke and shushins away. Sakura and Sasuke left in the room wonder how Naruto just did that and walk out the door and up the stairs to the roof.

Kakashi was sitting on the roof while reading his Icha Icha when shushin appears and Naruto is seen leaning on the rail. Kakashi to say the least was shocked that Naruto not only shushined but did it with so quickly. He goes back to his reading when a few minutes later Sakura and Sasuke come through the roof door.

Kakashi puts his book away in his kunai holster and looks at his new genin team and says "Why don't we start my telling a little about ourselves. I will go first. My Name is Kakashi Hatake. I like many things. I also dislike many things. My hobbies well that's for me to know. My dreams well that's for me to know also. Your turn pinky." Sakura and Sasuke just sweat drop at what little info they were given, while Naruto just think well at least he knows how to be a shinobi.

"My name is Sakura Haruno. I like (looks at Sasuke). I dislike Naruto. My hobbies are (looks at Sasuke). My dreams are (looks at Sasuke)." Sakura says happily.

Kakashi says "Good. Emo your next"

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I like nothing. I dislike a lot of things. My hobby is training. My dream or rather my ambition is to kill a certain man." Sasuke says with hate at the end.

Kakashi says "Good. Blondie your next."

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. My likes and dislike you don't need to know. I have no dreams because dreams are foolish and never come true. Rather I have an ambition but, I'm not telling you what it is." Naruto says in a cold tone.

Kakashi a little worried about Naruto because in his file it said he was happy, very load, and always yelled that he was going to be Hokage. Kakashi just thinks 'This Naruto is completely different from his file. He is cold and uncaring. Plus from what I seen during the exam he has skill, how much I don't know exactly. Even so his file said he was dead last. I will have to keep an eye on him.'

Kakashi then gets up and says "Good. Know that introductions are over you will meet at training ground 7 tomorrow at 6am. I will be testing you if you are actually ready to become genin or not. Before you say anything yes you did take a test to become genin but this is the real test and it has a 66% failure rate. Oh and one more thing don't eat breakfast or else you will throw it up." Kakashi then disappears in a shushin leaving the 3 on the roof alone.

Naruto turns to leave and says "I would eat something in the morning if I were you. It is a ninja rule to eat a good breakfast whenever you can." he then disappears in a shushin.

Naruto's Apartment

Naruto appears in his apartment and sits down on the old worn couch. "Sensei do you know anything on Kakashi Hatake."

"All I know is that he is known for his sharingan under his covered eye and that he was once in the ANBU" Kyuubi says.

"You don't know anything else that could be of help tomorrow."

"No I do not. Get ready for your training session today and go the hidden training ground in 30 minutes." Kyuubi cut the connection and Naruto changes and heads to the training ground.

After 20 minutes of roof hopping to the hidden training ground undetected Naruto lands in a clearing that seems to have been once a training ground but forgotten about over the years. The training ground is located on the outer most part of the village. Naruto came across the spot when running from a mob chasing him once.

"Naruto I'm going to tech you a new jutsu today. This jutsu is an A rank and consumes a lot of chakra."

"What jutsu is it. Is it a Katon jutsu."

"Katon: Goka Mekkyaku (Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation) is the name of the jutsu."

"Isn't that Madara Uchihas most powerful katon jutsu."

"Yes, it is and before you ask I seen it during the fight between the First Hokage and Madara when I was summoned and Mito Uzumaki sealed me within her. I was able to recreate it since I'm a master at Katon jutsu."

"Awesome I get to learn the most powerful katon jutsu. So how do I learn it."

"First you need to gather a large amount of chakra and then do the horse hand sign. After that you release the gathered chakra out of your mouth and a giant wall of flame comes out. I want you to try it know. It will probably take you a while to get down." Kyuubi drops the connection and goes to sleep.

Naruto goes through the steps in his head multiple times so he has it down. He takes a few steps back to the tree line and puts a barrier up so no one can sense him or the jutsu.

Naruto gathers chakra and says "Katon: Goka Mekkyaku" while holding the horse hand sign. At first nothing happens, but then a medium sized wall of fire pours of Naruto's mouth. Surprised that something happened the first time he jumps in the air and yells "Yeah."

Kyuubi seeing this was surprised to say the least 'I did not think he would get the wall that big in the first try. All he has to do is add more chakra and he already has it down. I guess it should not be much of a surprise since he has near perfect control over the elements.' "Good job kit keep it up and you will have it down a lot faster than I thought. Try it 5 more times and then go back to your apartment."

"Got it Sensei."

"Oh and as I've told you many times before don't use that jutsu till I say you can. I think after you pass this test Kakashi has for your team and become a true genin you should drop your mask. Oh and don't show your true skills just enough to get you through what ahead."

"You think it is time to take the mask off. I have the perfect way to slowly show the real me, so I don't seem suspicious."

"What do you have in mind kit."

"That's a secret furball."

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that." Naruto already cut the connection knowing his Sensei would yell at him and rant about it.

Naruto went on practicing his new katon jutsu and got it down on the 5th try but was exhausted from using so much chakra. He figured with more practice he could use the jutsu about 5 times and still be fine to fight.

Naruto laid on the ground for a while then headed back to his apartment to sleep.

AN

This is my first story so please review. Any helpful criticism would be appreciated. Sorry If it feels rushed but i wanted to get through to when they have Teamwork test with Kakashi. From here on it won't be rushed and I do have a plan for this story. I hope you like it so far.

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