Hey everyone this is griff, this sotry has been sitting in my computer for months and i've been working on it so much that i can release the first two chapters, hopefully you people like it cause this will be my last story I post since im going into the military. the failures of my other ones taught me to be prepared so i got ten chapters done so far just going back through and proofing them right now.

Ranger Naruto

Chapter 1

A small child was slowly walking down a deserted road while kicking a slightly crushed soda can; he kept his head down allowing his blond bangs to over shadow his eyes. He barely paid attention to the can as it skipped out of his path as he kept on walking still thinking about his first day in the academy.

His self-proclaimed 'Jiji' had allowed him to join the Ninja Academy today for his birthday present. He was ecstatic at first about going, especially when his Jiji dropped him off at the building himself; But upon entering the building everything started to fall apart real quick. The receptionist for some reason seem to kept staring at him angrily while she handed him the directions to his class before quickly shooing him away, afterwards when he made it to the room he was told to sit at the very back of the classroom in a row of empty seats; he should have known something was wrong when he wasn't told to introduce himself to the class as he heard older student say they had to do as he had eave dropped on them. But as he was walking to his seat he was tripped three times on his way there, once finally making it to his chair he was totally ignored by the teacher.

When the class finally ended he left to school to see all the parents of the children in his class there picking up their children, while they ignored him they still sent angry glares his way. So now he found himself walking down the seemingly empty street; Naruto wasn't stupid neither naïve, surprising for his young age but he knew that many of the adult of the village and some teens seemed to hate him for being born on the day of the Kyuubi attack, while many seemed to think he was the Kyuubi incarnate because of his infamous birth mark like whiskers.

While he vowed to never cry again when he was kicked out of the orphanage last year he sometimes wanted to break down and cry because of all the stares; he knew they needed an outlet for the hate towards the Kyuubi did they really have to use him? He thought as his tiny hands curled into fists. He let out a long sigh as he uncurled his fists; hate breads only more hurt and hate, he would show them he wasn't the Kyuubi. Standing a little bit taller he started to strode forward before blinking while he took in his surroundings; he was in the bad part of Konoha that his Jiji told him to never enter, before he could turn and leave a small stone flew through the air hitting him on the side of the head opening a gash on his head.

Tears barely being kept in check as he cried out in pain he look towards the direction it was thrown from and saw something that made him paralyzed in fear. Not standing more than 15 feet away was a group of drunks who seemed to grin maliciously at his pain, a few of them holding some more stones while one had a club and another with a broken bottle; realizing he needed to get away he turned and took off sprinting as fast as his little legs could carry him while weaving in between streets and alleys as he tried to loose the group.

Finally making it into the small forest in the city that he was sure he could lose them, he looked over his shoulder and silently cursed as they still were following him. As he kept on running he started to lose them in the thick trees before tripping over a root. Cursing his luck as he started to roll towards some thick bushes before crying out as he fell down a hole as he kept on rolling left and right down the blackened tunnel he started to pray to Kami to let him live; but as soon as he was done he rolled to a stopped in what seemed to be a large cave. Wiping away the dried blood from his forehead ignoring the fact he didn't feel a wound he looked around in awe as his eyes adjusted to the low light, when he noticed rays of light seemed to come through from the top of the cave illuminated what seemed to be a small concrete city.

He let out a soft, "wow" as he looked around; slowly he started to walk towards the abandoned city. He slipped through a small opening in the fence with a sign on it in what looked like a different language. He found himself on what looked like a really big road. He saw weird contraptions made of metal that seemed to be broken as they laid in multiple pieces with cobwebs littered on them; there were different sort of contraptions, some looked like they had wings like birds while some had four smaller wings on the top arranged like an X.

There were other without wings but looked like the carriages he saw before but these were made of metal and varied from some with 4 wheels to some with 12, then there were some that were big with tubes sticking out the front top of them. He looked on in awe before arriving at what seem to be the main building judging by the many words on the side; walking through the doors, noting they creaked from many years off disuse. The inside was dark with the only light coming from a small hole in the ceiling before he could get to far inside the building he tripped over something slightly hard that broke as he fell on top of it; raising himself slightly he cursed himself for no looking at the ground before he froze as he saw white bones under him.

"AHHHHHHH!" he screamed as he jumped up and backwards away from the now slightly crushed skeleton before he tripped on something else falling back he felt his hand hit some kind of switch before the thing he heard started to make a loud rumbling noise before the lights flickered on, while some were broken enough lit up the room to show it was some kind of office. Trying to control his ragged breathing he looked around and saw there were a few more skeletons laying around or sitting in chairs; slowly getting to his feet he started to explore around the office being careful to give a small prayer as he stepped around each skeleton he came across.

He found many books, deciding that they might tell him what this place was he was disappointed when he found that they were in the same language as everything else around here. Giving a disappointed sigh he was about to leave and explore some more before he something caught his eye; it was a thick book with words he could understand! Quickly walking towards the book he read the cover which was had writing in both languages on it.

"English/Japanese Dictionary" he read aloud before opening the first page and saw it had each word of his language and what had to be the same word in the other language. Giving a excited yell he gave a small thanks to Kami before pocketing the book; before leaving the building he found the machine he hit earlier and found the switch he thought he hit, flipping it he was rewarded with the lights going off again, giving a small smile he left the building before heading back towards the hole he came through.

"I got my own secret place now!" he thought as he smiled happily as he started to climb back up the hole, many thoughts were racing through his mind at what he found, he knew he couldn't tell his Jiji because he would tell him to never come back here; he also couldn't tell anyone else because they would probably come try and take it for themselves. Exiting the hole through the ground he closed his eyes as they were hit with the blinding light of the setting sun; slowly blinking he looked around for somewhere to hide his book seeing what looked like a hollow tree not to far away he slid the book inside the hollow area before stepping back and letting out another smile.

He turned and started to walk back towards his apartment before he heard something that made his blood run cold, "I found the brat!" he heard a slightly slurred voice yell before other yells broke out turning to his right he saw a slowly gathering of the same group he lost earlier. Turning around he started to run but before he could a stone hit him in the back of the head making him fall forward before he could even get up he felt the first blow hit him in the stomach knocking the wind out of him and cracking a rib; for what felt like hours blow after blow started to rain down on him until he felt the blackness creep into his vision.

When he opened his eyes he was standing in a shallow pool of water barely reaching his ankles, looking around he saw he was in some kind of sewer. He saw pipes running through the corridors, which seemed to be leaking small red droplets where when they hit the water, they hissed before turning into the same blue as the rest of the water. Felling a draw he continued down the darkened paths before coming to a large cage with a piece of paper with a kanji for 'seal' on it; looking on in awe he saw that there was something large behind the cage but couldn't make it out as it hid in the darkness, but before he could do anything a deep rumbling voice echoed throughout the room, "so my jailer finally comes to mock me?" it snarled as it leaned forward smiling slightly as it saw fear and also defiance as he saw who it was.

Naruto almost shit himself when he saw the thing that attacked the village behind the cage before his mind started to run a mile a minute before realizing what he was and why his Jiji told him about Jinchuurikis. He was one, no demon could be killed if the Ichibi couldn't how could the Kyuubi be? Looking at the creature in front of him in defiance he was about to speak before Kyuubi spoke again.

"Ah so you have figured out what you are? So pitiful to be stuck in one so young and weak, what I would do to return to Makai," the Kyuubi growled out as it glared down at his young host.

Naruto blinked before he smiled sadly; confusing the Kyuubi a great deal but before it could make a scathing remark towards the blond, he spoke first, "So you just want to go home eh?" Naruto said as he smiled sadly, receiving a growl and a begrudging nod. Closing his eyes he let out a sigh before giving a small prayer for even thinking of this, looking back at the fox without a hint of fear he said, "would you swear on whatever soul you have and your throne in Makai that you will never return to the Elemental Nations ever again, from now until the end of time" Naruto stated as he looked at the fox.

Kyuubi was taken aback and unconsciously licked its lips seeing a way out of the prison, not even thinking it swore, "I swear on my throne and soul to never return to these damned nations until the end of time," it replied while its tails started to swish back in forth in anticipation.

Naruto looked at the Kyuubi for a minute longer before nodding and started to walk towards the cage, slowly stepping on invisible steps as he made his way towards the tag, as he reached up to tear it off he felt a hand wrap around his waist before he was pulled back from the cage as the Kyuubi roared, "YOU!" it snarled as it tried lunging for the man who put him in the prison.

Naruto looked up to see the disapproving face of the Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze, "Naruto why were you going to release the Kyuubi? You know it would destroy Konoha!" he said as he set Naruto down, Naruto felt something snap inside of him at that look and the way he said it made Naruto mad.

Naruto snapped out, "why would you care? You left me in this hell as you got off scot free! You BASTARD don't you dare tell me what I should or shouldn't do! You don't know who I am or what this village has done to me, and for your information I was getting rid of the problem once in for all."

At this Minato was confused before saying, "wait you don't know who I am? And what do you mean getting rid of the problem?" he asked bewildered.

Naruto this time glared even harder before saying, "you're the Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash, the man who sealed the Kyuubi in a just born orphan with no parents," Naruto had enough and started to think hard.

Minato was confused, how did Naruto not know he was his son, and what happened to Kushina? Did something happen to her? But before he could say something a cage just like the Kyuubi's appeared around him as his son walked around the cage, fearing what he was about to do he said, "no I meant that I'm your Father!" he yelled out.

Naruto stopped at hearing those words, but then it all clicked together, the Hokage could never ask someone else to do what he needed to do, giving a small sob as a few tears before rubbing them away he rose a little higher before turning back towards the late Hokage, "I grew up with no parents, no last name, and I am hated by almost everyone inside this village except for a given few, you have no right to call yourself a father, you lost those rights the second you sealed and left this child to the wolves, and the answer to your earlier question, I made a deal with the Kyuubi, he will never return to these lands for all time, and the price is his freedom, I'll die but I will die showing the village I'm not the Kyuubi."

With that Naruto continued on his path slowly starting to climb towards the seal leaving a silently crying Minato and heading towards a thoughtful Kyuubi. Reaching up he started to grab the seal before looking at the Kyuubi he said, "you are not to harm any citizen of Konoha when you are released, even the ones beating me right now" at this Minato's head snapped up with wide tear streaked eyes, someone from his village was beating his son right now! The Kyuubi growled but nodded its head begrudgingly.

Taking a deep breath he ripped the seal away from the cage only to be blasted back as the Kyuubi let out a mighty roar before everything went black.

The Drunks started to get tired as the Kyuubi brat passed out but wanted one last chance to get a hit in but before they could they were blasted back as red chakra exploded from the bloody and broken body. Across the village civilians soiled themselves as they fell the malevolent chakra that they felt six years ago reappear. Though the Ninja's of the village felt fear as they dropped what they were doing as they rushed towards the source of the chakra explosion.

The Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi feared for Naruto's life as he disappeared from his office leaving an orange book to fall to the ground. Rushing as quick as he could towards the small forest he could see the pillar of orange fiery chakra start to take shape of the Kyuubi no Kitsune; upon landing he noticed all the Chunins and higher arrive with weapons at the ready to fight the beast but he knew that they would lose, he couldn't replicate Minato's seal work. He noticed Kushina Uzumaki standing with the assorted group glaring at the forming chakra, slowly the body formed before the head took shape followed by the tails that was when he noticed that only seven tails formed behind the Kyuubi, and then it let out a mighty roar as the ground shook.

"FREEDOM!" it roared as it looked down to the assorted Ninja's before snorting in disgust. Looking down at the bloody form of Naruto it slowly lowered its snout to the body, Sarutobi feared it was about to eat the body of its old host before it did something that through him for a loop, Kyuubi sniffed at the body before letting out a deep laughter, "so the brat is alive! Like mother like son, eh Kushina?" it asked as it glared at its former host who only glared back much to the confusion of the surrounding ninja.

Before Sarutobi could give the order to attack hoping to drive the beast away from Naruto's apparently still alive body it started speaking again, "I will not go back on my oath to child, you will no longer fear the Kyuubi!" it said before a black portal opened above its head before it leapt through the hole for it to swallow the Kyuubi before disappearing again into nothingness.

All the surrounding ninja looked around in confusion before the cheers started to ring out through many of them. The Sandaime wasn't cheering though he appeared by Naruto before reappearing at the hospital; arriving in the main lobby he turned to the nearest nurse, "get the doctors here, he is extremely injured" he nearly yelled as the nurse scurried off before returning with rushing doctors who were wheeling a stretcher to which Hiruzen laid Naruto down gently before they rushed him towards the emergency room.

Letting out a deep sigh Sarutobi sank into a waiting chair as his thoughts circled around what had happened earlier, 'what did the Kyuubi mean by oath, and why did Naruto release the Kyuubi? ' his thoughts couldn't find an answer and knew he would need to talk to Naruto if he survived this ordeal. He felt a body slide down into the chair next to his, sliding his eyes he was surprised to see it was Kakashi, "what brings you here Kakashi-kun" he asked tiredly.

Kakashi seemed slightly stressed before he bowed his head, "we found 6 drunken civilians where Naruto was," and here Sarutobi's blood ran cold as his mind took in the information, "they confessed to giving chase to Naruto when he seemed to have wandered into district 36, Naruto led them on a chase before finally losing them in the forest for thirty minutes or so before they found him again upon where they started to beat him."

The Sandaime's fears were confirmed before he launched himself from his chair before he felt a hand grab his wrist, looking back to glare at Kakashi, the scarecrow said, "we have them in cells waiting for you but for now wait for Naruto" he said seriously before letting go of the Hokage's wrist as the Sandaime fell back into his chair.

"I really messed up this time Kakashi," the Sandaime let out as silent tears started to run down his cheeks, "I should have assigned a ANBU guard to watch out for Naruto and maybe this wouldn't have happened." He let out sigh before he felt another presence looking up he saw that it was Kushina Uzumaki, slightly growling he said, "What are you doing here Uzumaki-san?"

Kushina looked at the Hokage before saying, "I'm here to see how my son is doing," she said before she felt herself slammed against the wall and was held by the throat looking down the arm she saw it was the Sandaime with an angry fire burning in his eyes.

"you gave up the right to call him son when you signed the papers, you lost all rights when you abandoned him, you will leave this hospital at once and if I even hear you came here again ill have you thrown into a deep dark cell for the rest of your miserable life" Sarutobi ground out as he released her before she shushined away with a look of fear in her eyes.

Turning around Sarutobi growled as he sat down, "I can't believe the nerve of that woman, I still cant believe she threw him away and also having the doctors edit his genes so he couldn't be linked back to her and Minato" his started crushing the armrests before letting out a deep sigh.

Looking to his left he saw Kakashi seemed to be glaring into the distant wall. Sitting back he looked at the ceiling and got ready for a long wait.

While it took nearly 6 hours nearing midnight the Sandaime and Kakashi were still waiting, surprisingly few people showed up to see how Naruto was doing, his son Asuma stopped for a bit before leaving to continue with his mission, the only other to appear were the Ichiraku's; while they tried to stay long Teuchi had to get his sleeping daughter home.

The Hokage was surprised when the ANBU Neko arrived to see how Naruto was doing, while he had her watch Naruto a few times while he had meetings he didn't think they formed any kind of relationship it seemed that the young blond thought she was his Nee-chan which he gave a good laugh much to the embarrassment to Neko, but she still had to continue with her patrol.

Not soon after she left did the light switch from red to green and a worn doctor walked towards the Hokage before giving a tired smile, "we managed to save him but I'm surprised we managed that with all his injuries," he said sadly ask he pulled out a clipboard before motioning Sarutobi and Kakashi to follow him.

Arriving to the intensive care ward he opened a door allowing both of them to enter before shutting it. Walking towards the sleeping blond he started to speak, "he had three broken ribs, a cracked skull, both legs were broken and had multiple gashes across his body," before sighing as he looked at the Hokage he continued, "he had severe chakra poisoning, we lost him two times but we managed to revive him in time."

The Hokage frowned at the information before looking at the sleeping blond, but his eyes widened when he noticed the changes, seeing where the old Hokage was looking the doctor said, "I see you notice the changes, once the Kyuubi left his body his whiskers disappeared but that's not the only thing, he seemed to have aged two years" this both the Hokage and Kakashi turned wide eyed at the doctor before Kakashi managed to ask, "how?"

Here the doctor frowned before looking back towards Naruto, "I can only speculate but I think that the seal attempted to do its job of absorbing the Kyuubi's chakra while it obviously failed but not before stripping the Kyuubi of two of its tails, while his body tried to adjust to the sudden in flux of Yokai it aged to accommodate the excess Chakra, for all purposes Naruto here is a six year old with an eight year old body," he said letting out a long yawn.

Hiruzen saw the yawn and smiled thankfully to the Doctor, "thank you Higurshi-san for saving Naruto, you can go get some rest you deserve it after tonight" he said while taking a seat near Naruto's bed.

The man gave a bow before excusing himself from the room to get some sleep, Kakashi looked at Naruto for a second but before he could take another seat Sarutobi spoke up, "Kakashi go home and get some sleep, I will notify you when he wakes."

Kakashi was about to protest before the stressful day finally caught up to him as he noticed how tired he was before giving a bow to the Hokage before shushining away to his apartment. Sitting back he took deep breath before saying sadly to the sleeping form of Naruto, "I swear Naruto when you wake up, I won't keep no more secrets from you," he closed his eyes getting ready for a long nap before a soft voice made him snap his eyes open.

"Then let start now Jiji," Naruto said as his eyes were open but held pain and tiredness that shouldn't be seen on one so young. Sarutobi let a small tear roll down his cheek before giving a small smile at still being called Jiji be turning serious.

"I guess you realized what you use to be?" getting a confirming nod he sat back and sighed but before he spoke Naruto beat him to it.

Naruto felt sad at see his Jiji cry but stopped him before he could blame himself for all this, "I understand why you hid it from me, wanting me to try and have a normal childhood but that wasn't suppose to be, what I want to know is who was my mother, seeing as how I already met my so called father" Naruto said sadly before looking at the gob smacked Hokage letting out a small giggle at the look on his face.

Sarutobi didn't know how Naruto met his father but decided to ask, "How did you meet him Naruto?"

"he tried stopping me from releasing the Kyuubi," Naruto said as he saw the Hokage flinch seeing as how the Hokage didn't know what had gone on in his head he clarified, "I made a deal with Kyuubi, it will never return to the Elemental Nations, he swore on his throne and soul, am I guessing he left right? Was anyone injured?" Naruto asked fearfully at the thought of another Kyuubi Massacre.

Sarutobi saw the look of fear but quickly washed it away as he said, "No one was injured, the Kyuubi left almost as soon as he left your body, but we have apprehended the villagers who attacked you."

Naruto let out a relieved sigh before looking at the Hokage, "I understand why you lied to me about my father, I know that the Yondaime had many enemies, and if they learned he had a child they would start another war, but what happened to my mother?" he asked sadly.

Hiruzen was at a lost of words at how mature Naruto was acting, before giving a grim frown he said, "I had promised so ill keep it, your mother was Kushina Uzumaki from Whirlpool Country before it was destroyed by Iwa during the Third Great Ninja war, she was the former host of the Kyuubi no Kitsune; when you were born the Kyuubi managed to break free attacking anything in sight."

Here he took a deep breath before dropping the bad news, "after Minato managed to seal the Kyuubi in you, she seemed to have changed, growing hatred at the Kyuubi for taking away her husband," here Naruto began to understand where his Jiji was going, "she destroyed all the birth certificates and had a few shady doctors rearranged your genes so you couldn't be traced back to her and Minato."

Naruto wanted to cry but he couldn't, his Jiji was telling him the truth the entire time, he was an orphan with no last name and no parents, gripping the sheets with his small hands, he let out a long sigh before saying to his Jiji, "I understand that she is feeling pain but still doesn't give her a right to abandon me," here the Hokage was about to interrupt but Naruto held up a hand silencing him.

"I am just another orphan caused by the Kyuubi attack, but I will make a name for myself, I will walk my own path, all I ask is that you start to teach me what you know about seals" here Naruto let out a smile as he grinned at the Hokage.

Hiruzen couldn't be more prouder of Naruto than ever, he had taken all the news but still held a determination to prove everyone wrong, nodding he said, "I will Naruto-kun, but why are you acting so mature?" he asked as he beamed at his grandson in all but blood.

Naruto smiled innocently before saying, "because I want to get some Ichiraku's tomorrow Jiji!" here the old Hokage let out a deep laugh as him and Naruto shared a smile before Naruto let out a yawn. Seeing the yawn Sarutobi said, "go back to sleep Naruto-kun, ill see about getting some for you tomorrow, you need your rest so you can get better," getting a sleepy nod in return as Naruto closed his eyes with a smile on his face as he drifted off into dream land.

Sarutobi sat back in his chair with a grin on his face as he thought as he too rested his eyes, "you're going to change the world some day Naruto, that I can be for sure," he didn't know as he too drifted off to sleep how right he was.