During first Naruto´s 6 years, he earned something that noone ever did before. He earned empathy and respect of Kyuubi no Youko.
After last incident, when group of civilians did beat him almost to death, burned his apartment and left him to die there. Howewer, ANBU units, had mission to keep him alive, they were also supposed to protect him but there were a few that hold grudges againts him so they did let him suffer on many occasions., but then they said him eventually every time. This time was no exception. They brought him to hospital, his wounds already healing, but still unconscious.
There could be many reasons for his unconsciousness, he was exhausted, he was badly hurt, he suffered another mental trauma, but the truth reason was, that there was certain someone hidden deep in him, someone that saw every single terror he went throught during whole life. Someone who never cared about anyone but his creator, but had enough of watching.
"Where am I?" Asked young child, in front of great steel bars.
"This is your mind, kit. Your mind and my prison." Deep voice, from behind the cage was heard.
"Prison? Who are you? And why are you closed?" Asked young boy again.
"Me? I am the worst nightmare of many and possible ally of yours." Boomed the voice again, as scary wide grin and vicious red eyes appeared in the dark. "I am almighty Kyuubi no Youko, nine-tailed fox demon, Lord of the demons!" He continued as he went closer to steel bars and showed himself in all his greatness.
"Hah, nightmare you said? I think you actually look cute." Said the boy, as Kyuubis eyes grew wider and his grin dissapeared completely. "Look, with all respect, I mean yeah you are ENORMOUS, but that´s all i guess."
"Hm, you really are something else kit, the strongest of your kinf were many times trembling just after hearing my name, yet you call me "cute"." Stated Kyuubi, with now closed eyes and shaking head. But after a while his eyes opened and his grin appeared again. "Anyway kit, I am here to offer you something I never did to anyone. I will grant you acces to my power from time to time, so you can scare those that hurt you and you can have your vengeance. Kill them, torture them, make them pay… I honestly do not care. So whot do ya say kit?"
"Kill, torture? No! I do not want any of that. No, I will train hard, I will become Hokage, like Jiji, and then I will have their respect! And I will be the greatest shinobi of all the time Dattebayo!" Yelled the boy, on enormous fox, with strong will in his ocean like blue eyes.
"You are interesting kit, I mean for human. Ok, what about other deal. I was here for thousands of years kit, and I saw and fought many of your bests. I have knowledge you can use. I mean it is the least I can do for you. So listen, this is one time offer. Tommorow you will pack your stuff, you will leave this village behind, do what I say, and I will teach you all I can, and when you will be ready, you can do whatever you like, what do ya say kit?"
Hmm, and where is the catch, I mean what do you want from me for your help?" Others could think that Naruto is and will be dumb, but he was genius in his own way. He was not book smart but he was smart anyway.
"Let´s just say, I owe it to you kit. Do not ask me what for, that is the coversation for later. Maybe. So what do ya say kit? We have a deal?"
"Believe it, dattebayo!"
Next day
Sarutobi Hiruzen, The 3rd fire shadow of village hidden in leafs, was sitting in his office, when ANBU with dog mask appeared in his office, telling him that Naruto is nowhere to be found.
Hokage immediately used sunshin to hospital room where Naruto was supposed to be but found just empty bed, then he shunshined into his apartment which was partly burned, which looked empty. Naruto did not have lot of things, not yet anyway but even that little bit he had were now gone. Then he saw a letter on messy bed.
"Jiji, I did not want to leave village without goodbye, but I am sure you would not let me leave. Do not think of it as I abondoned the village, I just went to train with my new sensei somewhere else. I cannot tell you more right now, but be sure I will come back, and I will be much stronger. I am going to take that hat of yours sometime, that is a promise Jiji. So do not worry and please do not send anyone to find me. Please just trust me on that one Jiji.
P.S. Take care of my hat!
Your Naruto, the future Hokage."
All that left to hokage that day were tears as he lost his unofficial grandson.
"I am sorry Naruto I could not hel you more, I hope you will find what you are looking for. The least I can do for you now, is to fullfill your wish and let you be for time being, just please. Come back after you will do so." Muttered old Hokage, and left Narutos room. This village just lost so much, and will not get it back until he is back.
6 years later
Izumo and Kotetsu were just in middle of their gate guard duty when about 5 foot tall was entering the village. He had black trench coat about knee long, unzipped with hood on his head, black shinobi sandals, with sort of black anbu pants. Hands in the pockets. No village signature anywhere visible.
"Hey you, stop right there, who are you and what is your business in our village. Identify yourself." Shouted Izumo from behind the desk, jumped over the desk and ran to foreigner along with Kotetsu with kunais in hands.
"Jeez, guys, chill our ttebayo! Do you not recognize me?" Unknown man in hoodie slowly reaching for hoodie and pulling it down, as he slowly uncovered wild spiky blond hair, looked up, revealing blue eyes and whisker marks on his cheeks with well known grin of his. Now when he was closer, they could guess he is around 5,3 feet tall, and even throught trench coat they could see some muscles on his arms. On the back of Trench coat there was red kanji for "Demon of fire".
"Naruto? I thought you died brat. You should go see Hokage now, but you have to go there with ANBU. You knoe, we have to be carefull." Now Kotetsu was one to speak, and only responsi he got was nod and pulling his hoodie back. Suddenly ANBU appeared and wordeslly left with Naruto few steps in front of him.
"Oh, and guys, please tell noone I am back will ya? Thanks."
In Hokage office.
Someone knocked on the door in the middle of long sunny, shitload of paperwork day.
"Hokage-sama, this is the man we told you about. All due respect but I think we should take him to interrogations first, you should not enfanger yourself for random visitors. I mean we found no symbol of allegiance to any of villages but he was fully armed with katana on his back, he might want to kill you." Reported ANBU kneeling in front of Hokage as massive wawe of Killing intent (from now on just KI) hit him, immediatelly reaching for weapon.
"I would never hurt Konoha´s citizen, especially no my Jiji.!" Said the voice which was young, but also felt dangerous as hell.
"Naruto, is that really you?" Said Sarutobi as his pipe dropped from his mouth. Narutos response was just showing his face with well known grin on it. Sarutobi immediatlly launched himself on Naruto, hugging him, tears in old eyes. "DISMISSED! NOW!" Yelled Sarutobi as ANBU shunshined from office.
"Glad to see you too Jiji but you are crushing me!" Said Naruto under his breath. Sarutobi might be old but he still was one strong man. As he realized what he is doing he let Naruto go.
"You have a lot of explaining Naruto. First of all what the hell was that KI, even I was a bit scared by it." Admitted Hokage, as he sat on his chair motioning to sit hit on chair on other side of table for Naruto. Naruto calmly walked to chair and took his seat.
"Little trick of my sensei, I am kind of using his aura when I do that." Said Naruto grinning from ear to ear scratching back of his head."
"Well ok, step by step. Who was your sensei that you are talking about, where did you train and what are your plans now. Just so you know, I am not letting you go away again, definitelly not now." Said Hiruzen and Naruto could feel that now it is time to get serious.
"First of all I want to ask you to keep it top class secret which means that even ANBU in corners cannot know it." Naruto said, Hiruzens eyes narrowed as he did not expect Naruto to feel their presence but nodded and for shadow like figures left the room. So where did I stop? Oh, I know. My sensei was noone else then Kyuubi himself. as for his reasons to train me, I don´t know myself. We were in some other dimension where he trained me, and hell I must tell you it was torture sometimes, but well it was worthy. And as for my plans, do not worry I do not think about leaving right now, I was more like thinking about staying in village becoming a shinobi of Hidden Leaf´s. Maybe you can sign me to academy for the soonest genin test? Would that be possible?" Asked Naruto with wide opened eyes looking straight on Hiruzen.
"Yeah, I think I can manage. So I guess, welcome home Naruto Uzumaki. Just so you know, your apartment is not yours anymore but you stay at mine estate for time being and then we will see. Yeah and the closest genin test in academy will be in three days from now, so prepere yourself."
"Do not worry Jiji, I am more then prepered thanks to that sadist." Said Naruto, which made someone inside of him grin with eyes closed, looking like he is just dreaming some nice dream.
In academy
"So today, we have our exam, all of you worked hard to get there and I just hope that all of you will pass today." Said Iruka to class almost full of students. Second after that ANBU appeared in room with boy about their age in black trench coat, but with hoodie down this time revealing blond hairs, blue eyes and whisker marks to whole classroom. Boys did not care much, Few of them like apparently young Inuzuka boy muttered "cool" when they saw sword on his back in nice sheat and everything. Girls howewer were interested more in new boy. He just came and looked coolest, or atleast almost as cool as Sasuke Uchiha.
Anbu handed a letter to Iruka who took it, and did read it in a while and spoke again.
It appears we have one more candidate to become a genin, I know you might think it is unfair but apparently he was training and learning somewhere else. So welcome Uzumaki Naruto." After that Anbu left and Naruto took a seat next to Sasuke, and wanted to bump his fist with him but Sasuke jest "hmped" him away. "Okey so lets begin, first knowledge test." Iruka gave everyone sheat of paper with questions on it, gave them one hour limit to fullfill it and then took them back, controled them and said. "Bla, bla, bla . . . Sakura Haruno, 100%, bla, . . .Sasuke Uchiha 95% . . . Naruto Uzumaki 95%. Good job everybody! Congratulation you all passed, now…" Iruka was cut off by Naruto who raised his hand, and after Iruka showing on him to speak he asked.
"Why do I have 95%"
"Well becouse one of your answers were wrong, I can even tell you which one was it, wait a bit. (Searching for the Naruto´s test) There you are. Let´s see. Oh, on question number 17., how fight between Yondaime and Kyuubi ended, you anwered "Defeat for Konoha" which is wrong, that night Konoha defeated Kyuubi no Youko." Said Iruka and everyone laughed except Sasuke who had smirk on face and Naruto who immediately reacted.
"That is not truth, or atleast noone should call it "victory", I mean that night many people were killed along with Yondaime hokage and his wife and Kyuubi was just sealed to newborn child, therefore he still lives. Konoha survived but was one with casualties." Naruto said and everyone stopped laughing, Iruka had thinking pose and then he said.
"You know, you are right. I will guys let you points who answered as I did, because it was my fault but Naruto is right on that. It was not victory, it was horrible night indeed. So, Naruto you have 100%." Said Iruka with smile on his face. No there was no laughing, even smirk from Sasuke´s face dissappeared. "So, let´s move on to ninjutsu, each one of you will come down and make transformation jutsu, substitution jutsu and shadow clone jutsu. Let´s begin, Aburame Shino, come down here."
After few minutes Sasuke was called down, he transformed to Iruka perfectly, then made substitution and at last he made 3 clones. Everyone applaused.
"Allright, as expected, Sasuke 30 from 30 points, congratulation. Now Uzumaki Naruto."
"Show what you got, smartass." Sasuke said as he went around Naruto with smirk on face.
"Bet on it, ttebayo!" Naruto answered and made transformation jutsu to 3rd Hokage, even with pipe in mouth. Then he made perfect substitution with pen and then made cross hand sign and created 30 clones around whole classroom, one picking the pen handing it to Iruka, proving the fact that they were not standart clones. Then he released it.
"Wow, Kage bunshins in your age, impressive, also 30 from 30 congratulation" Said Iruka with smirk on his face, Naruto now had attention of everyone in classroom, even Sasuke´s. "Well, let´s move on last, taijutsu part so we can call it a day, meet me outside in 5 min." Everybody started moving slowly outside.
"Ok, here we are, first part will be throwing weapons on target then simple spars. Shino come here." And so it went, Sasuke did hit every target perfectly in the middle and Naruto did hit just 4 out of 10 perfectly and others really close.
"Ha dobe, you are just nerd, you should learn you place." Said Sasuke victoriously.
"I am more like close range fighter teme, I hope I will get you in taijutsu session so I can show you exactly my place." Said Naruto and leaked a little bit of KI which made Sasuke experience fear second time in his life, not that big as first time, not even close but he felt it.