Naru of the Leaf

Prelude

An elderly man looked out a window from his office overlooking Konoha. He was known as the Sandaime Hokage, the longest reigning leader in Konoha history. Through the years he has seen and done a lot in his time and was entrusted to lead and protect this village before him. He was confident, as well as those who supported him, in his abilities to keep the village safe but even he wasn't perfect.

"Hokage-sama!" reported in an ANBU captain kneeling down in front of the Hokage's desk.

Still gazing out of the window Sandaime responded, "Report?"

"Hai! Mission was successful however we lost Hato sir" answered the captain still kneeling.

"I see... That will be all" There would always be casualties, he knew this, but it always hit home since he was given the task as Hokage to protect all his people. He felt the ANBU captain leave the room. He sighed, he may not be able to protect those who venture out on missions but he would be damned if he didn't protect the people still inside these walls.

He then turned around to take in the appearance of the other person in the room. A child around the age of five sitting on a couch off to the side of the room. A little girl wearing a simple black dress with shoulder length very light blonde hair, sometimes it almost looked white. She had very fair skin molded to an adorable face, however when he set his gaze on her eyes he felt saddened. She had beautiful bright pink eye's and he knew she would be one hell of a looker when she aged but what panged his chest was how the brightness in those beautiful eyes were hampered by her half lidded expression.

Without blinking her unfocused eyes, the little girl asked in a young voice, "Jiji, why do people become shinobi?"

Hiruzen smiled as he walked towards the child and picked her up holding the girl comfortably in his arms. "That's a good question, there's many reasons why people decide to become shinobi but the most common reason is so they can protect the things that are precious to them" the elder Hokage explained.

The girl paused before questioning, "Something precious? What's that?" she asked curiously, eye's still unfocused.

The man smiled, "Something that's precious to someone is a thing that makes them happy and is important to them that they also don't want to ever lose. So, they become shinobi so that they have the means to protect those things" answered the wise leader as he walked back towards the window still holding the girl in his arms.

The girl seemed to process this information for awhile before speaking up once again, "So you have things that are precious to you too?"

He nodded, not that she would notice, "I do, but as Hokage I try to protect the precious things of everyone in the village"

She smiled, "You must make a lot of people here happy jiji"

He too smiled as he looked down to the afternoon roads and saw a few people look up and wave kindly at him, "Indeed, it seems that way" he loved these moments, ever since Jiraiya had found her a few years back it didn't take long for him to realize that she was special. She may have handicaps but was one of the sweetest kids he's ever met and was a gem even when he got depressed. However what she said next almost made him drop her.

"Jiji, I want to become a shinobi, I want to become Hokage" she stated making up her mind.

He wasn't one to underestimate people or shut down their dreams, no he was suppose to do the opposite but could she really do it? "What makes you want that? It's a tough path to take" he questioned, very curious to the girls answer.

"I want to protect everyone's precious things and make people happy, also so when I find something precious I too can protect it" she answered determinedly.

Hiruzen thought for a moment, she gave a very noble reply however he didn't like that she didn't have anything precious of her own. Then again she didn't have much, she was an orphan, blind, had a crippled chakra system not to mention she didn't have any friends her age to play with. He knew it would truly crush her if he pushed the girl away from this, she needed something to work towards to keep her from falling, he knew that. He glanced at her for a moment before he saw it, while her unfocused eye's were clearly nonfunctional, he could still see it, no he could feel her determination. He then took a glance at the couch she was sitting at before and paused on an open scroll, he helped her learn how to read using a seal allowing her to feel what's written. Learning a seal like that at her age took a lot of skill, maybe, just maybe she really could eventually pull becoming a blind shinobi off.

He finally smiled and answered, "I'll support you in anyways I can Naru"

She leaned into him and hugged her jiji, "Thank you! Can you teach me more about those seals?"

"More fuinjutsu huh? Let's see what I can do..."

Disclaimer - I do not, in any way, profit from the story and that all creative rights to the characters and story belong to their original creator(s).

As was titled this is just a prelude to get a very brief general idea of the story. I plan to try and be as original as I can with this, it will start the same day the canon Naruto story starts and continue from there, but I will be changing many things such as who fights who in various situations and the whole outlook on the Naruto universe from different character perspectives. Now saying that some fights will be the same people fighting each other however the way the fights go will definitely be changed. Example of this you can take from this prelude in that Naru is indeed blind, such a handicap will completely change Naru's fighting style in comparison to canon Naruto.

Anyways this will definitely be a unique story and I won't (or at least try not to) go down any sort of traditional route.