Sight of Life & Death

A NaruHina & SasuSaku & others

"Speech"'thought/flashback''Kyuubi & demons' [author's note

As Naruto Uzumaki, age 6, was running from two angry chunin, the hokage appeared before him and POOF; they were at his office. The hokage asked Naruto what the chunin were chasing him for, and Naruto replied "They were trying to hit me with magic for coloring on a BIG rock!" Sandaime chuckled at this. "Naruto, it is called a jutsu, not magic, and just how big was this rock?" "It was really big and some ninja guys' faces were on it!" Sandaime's eye grew wide. 'He drew on the hokage monument…' "Naruto I never want you to do that ever again, and, speaking of ninja I want you to be a very smart ninja. Do you understand?"

"Okay oji-san!"

And so it began…

7 years later

Naruto was depressed. He got the highest grade on the test and on taijutsu and genjutsu, but he just couldn't get the clones down. When he tried it, all he could do was make two dead-looking clones. He was taking out his frustration on a tree using his most destructive weapons when Mizuki approached him, saying, "I know how to pass even though you failed the actual test…"

Ten Minutes Later

"Are you serious Mizuki-sensei? Iruka-sensei will pass me if I get this scroll from the hokage tower! I'm all for it!" Naruto practically yelled out. Mizuki nodded, "but if anyone catches you before you learn a jutsu, you don't pass." He walked away, evilly smiling to himself. Seeing this, most smart parents steered their children away from him, saying things like, "Now stay away from Mr. Crazy, honey…"

Inside the hokage tower

Naruto smiled. It had been pretty easy to get inside the hokage tower. He's almost always there anyway, so the ANBU just let him pass. Even though the hokage wasn't there at the time, they just assumed he was running an errand for their wise leader. As he walked into the library, he spotted the targeted scroll. The label read 'SCROLL OF SEALING'. Naruto decided that this weird name was just to freak out the other kids who were told to get this and learn a jutsu from it. He took it and put a scroll just like it in its place. Little did Naruto know, but the scroll's tag read 'PROPERTY OF MIZUKI OF KONOHA'. As Naruto walked away, he decided to head to the forest to train. "Hmm. The first two are Shadow Clone and Fire Healing…" WELL, first fanfic ever NO HUGE FLAMES OR THE FLAMES OF YOUTH WILL RAIN UPON YOUR HEAD IN THE FORM OF MY SUPREME TAIJUTSU PROWESS! YOSH!!!!! xan.tanuki