A/N Okay so this was supposed to be my response to Brown Phantoms Bloodline challenge but it didn't turn out that way. This will be one of those stories where Naruto was hiding what he knew, the only difference is that he has studied ninjutsu extensively, but never could get most of them to work right, the reason being to having no one to tell him how to mold the chakra. What happens when he gets a bloodline that turns him into the greatest ninjutsu master since the discovery of chakra, combined with his agility and compact muscles, thanks to the fox, and his genetic predisposition to powerful taijutsu and kenjutsu, along with fuinjutsu? Well lets find out.

Prologue: Anything For Someone Like Me

Kakashi didn't know what was happening, one second he was about to kill Zabuza, the next it was Zabuzas partner, and then it was Naruto. He looked at the spot where Haku was laying, she was on her back wide eyed that someone had moved her out of the way. Kakashi tried to stop but it was to late. Naruto smiled slightly as the Raikiri neared. Kakashi went wide eyed as Naruto closed his eyes, he accepted it, he accepted the fact that he was going to die.

Kakashi struck with his Raikiri his one and only original jutsu, it was ironic that this jutsu would end Narutos life, as it was his father who created the base for this jutsu. "Why?" Kakashi asked as he deactivated his Raikiri, he slowly, and as gently as possible, set Naruto on the ground. He couldn't understand why this was happening, why would Naruto jump in the way like that?

"I would do anything for someone like me," he said smiling that foxy smile of his, the pain in his body increasing as he began to cough blood the height difference between Zabuza, who was hunched over under the weight of the summon dogs, and Naruto had made the lightning blade strike Naruto in his lung, the fox was trying to save Naruto and was pumping enough of its chakra into him to keep him conscious. "Zabuza, I know of the Swordsmens Honor Code, the code to which you are bound. I know that you owe me your life and that I can make any request of you."

"How do you know I didn't turn my back on that when I tried to kill the Mizukage?" asked Zabuza who really didn't want to seem soft for any reason.

Naruto choked out a laugh "lying to a dead man is like lying to yourself, but I know the truth. If you had attempted to kill anyone else then I might believe that, but you tried to kill the Fourth Mizukage, the man responsible for the Bloodline Eradication, that alone isn't proof, but look at who you chose as your apprentice. We both know that you weren't after power for yourself, you wanted to help those like Haku, the bloodline users."

Sakura had gotten close enough to hear what was being said and, for once, she couldn't bring herself to yell at Naruto for being an idiot, not while he was dying. "Very well boy, you are more perceptive than I had thought. Name your request."

Naruto was breathing heavily as Kakashi ran through hand signs and his hands glowed green, Naruto felt the pain growing but fought it back, he needed to concentrate now. "I want you to go and become a shinobi of the Leaf, tell them that you swore your loyalty as a swordsmen to me, along with your owing me a life debt, they wont be able to deny you a place if you do that. Tell the Hokage that 'the Legacy of the Flash makes his final request, in death I am free of my burden but I want my friends to have a safe place to stay. It is the least they can do after all the sacrifices I made for them, I gave them peace and they gave me hell, at least give peace to my friends.' Please do it for me, for yourself but most of all do it for Haku," he said as the pain became to much he screamed and arched his back. Kakashi knew he wasn't a good medic, he had copied this jutsu by accident when Rin was healing a gash on his arm one time after a mission, and knew that it was not for major injuries, let alone fatal wounds.

The last thing Naruto heard was the deep, rough, masculine voice he vaguely recognized as Zabuzas "I will honor your request, and I will become a shinobi you will be proud to say you knew. Rest well in the after life." 'I already am proud to have known you' Naruto thought to himself his teeth gritted to prevent himself from screaming in pain, his back arched, it felt like someone had poured molten metal into his blood. Then the pain subsided as his world faded to darkness and he fell to the ground eyes closed and stopped moving. For the first time in a long time Kakashi Hatake began to weep, he had not cried since he was informed of the death of Rin, the last of the original team Minato. He had killed his senseis son, why did god have to hate him so much? Did he not carry enough pain with the loss of his family, both his blood family and his surrogate family?

End Chapter

So tell me what you thought, did you like it? Did you hate it? Did you notice any spelling and/or grammar and/or punctuation mistakes I made? Did it seem like something that Naruto would do? And just so you know, I wanted to have Naruto as close to Canon as possible, and throwing himself in front of a fatal jutsu is definitely something that Canon Naruto would do. In fact I'm pretty sure he had done it, more than once. Anyway, yes he does know about his family. I don't want Naruto to seem like to much of a tank but in this story Naruto was a person who tried to succeed in his studies, despite that he was constantly seen as nothing but a failure at best and a monster at worse. So he read up on jutsu in the village library, and learned the hand signs and tried a few but never figured out how to mold the chakra so the jutsu never worked right.