A/N: Okay, so this is my first actual story that I am publishing. Please leave a review. Thank you. P.S. I do not own Naruto, only my brain.
Chapter 1: Birth of the Spirit Eye
Naruto Uzumaki, the village pariah, the trouble making brat, the demon child. No matter what he was called, he was one thing above all else, a lonely little six year old boy. However, many of the villagers did not see that, no. Instead they saw the young child as the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the vicious demon who had attacked the village on the day that Naruto was born. The reason for their thinking was simple, at least in their minds; Naruto had the destructive Bijuu sealed inside of him by the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze and the greatest Hokage of all time. They believed that a mere child could not hold back the indomitable will of the Kyuubi. Thus, they thought the child to be either the Kyuubi's new body or the great beast's puppet. Of course they were wrong; the Yondaime was a seal master. No matter how strong the Kyuubi was, it could not get past the greatest seal that Minato ever made. None of that mattered to the villagers though, so because of their ignorance, Naruto was alone.
Naruto, however, knew none of this. Well he did not know anything about the Kyuubi. He did know that the villagers at least disliked him, borderline hate. He could see how most of them ignored him and those that did not would send him vicious glares. He was just happy that they had not attacked him, yet. He was not stupid after all, far from it in fact. He spent most of his free time in the library. Most would think that the villagers would not let the great demon into the library; however, they spent so much time trying to ignore him, that they actually did ignore him. This let him come and go as he pleased. His favorite subjects were history and famous ninjas. He loved to learn about ninja. Everything about them was just so amazing, from their history to their famous jutsu. He loved everything about them, which was why he was joining the Ninja Academy this year. He was going to become a ninja and eventually Hokage, just like his greatest hero, Minato Namikaze. That was why he was so excited. He was getting the chance to go where all the great Konoha ninja had gone before him. In the Academy, he could learn all he wanted with the help of the instructors and maybe finally make some friends.
He could not help but daydream about how awesome it was going to be to learn in the Academy. He probably should not have been daydreaming while going to the library though. He was not paying any attention to where he was going, which in all honesty was a normal occurrence for him. This led him to run into someone else while walking, which again was a normal occurrence. What was not normal about this particular run in was the person he ran into. He could tell right away that this person was a ninja from the Konoha hiate that said person wore. And it was not just any ninja, but a jounin at that, which he could tell by the forest green vest the ninja wore. Said ninja wore a mask over his lower face. His hiate was covering his left eye and he had gravity defying silver hair. Naruto could also see why he was able to run into said ninja, he had his face buried into an orange book, something called 'Icha Icha Paradise.' He knew exactly who this was; it was Kakashi Hatake the famous Copy Ninja, prized pupil of Minato Namikaze and elite jounin of Konoha. He was so embarrassed. He finally met one of his idols but in doing so made a complete fool of himself.
"You should really watch where you are going. You might hurt someone if you don't." said Kakashi, without looking down from his book. This made Naruto even more embarrassed.
"I-I'm sorry, Hatake-sama. I-I didn't mean to run into you. I was just so excited about joining the Ninja Academy next week that I wasn't paying attention." Naruto could not stop stuttering. Here he was, in front of his idol, and he was being a complete loser. He bowed his head in shame while speaking. Kakashi on the other hand was curious to see what one of the new prospects for genin would look like. He was slightly impressed that a child, not even in the Academy, would know who he was, and be so respectful. It was actually impressive. Looking over the edge of his book, he first noticed a small tuft of blonde hair. Taking a closer look, he saw that the child was covered in orange, what a horrendous color. It was then that he figured out exactly who he was talking to, Naruto Uzumaki, village pariah.
'So Hokage-sama is letting him join the academy. Well maybe I can do something,' thought Kakashi. "So you're joining the academy, huh Naruto-san?"
Naruto's eyes widened in surprise. One of his idols knew his name. It was almost too good to be true. If he did not know better, he would swear this was a dream. "You know my name?" That was all Naruto could say. He was now even more excited than before.
"Of course I know who you are. You are slightly famous in this village. Hey, Naruto, how would you like me to teach you a ninja technique?"
"Y-you really mean it? That would be soooo cool!" Naruto had stars in his eyes. Now he really thought he was dreaming. He could die happy.
"Sure, just follow me." Kakashi then led an extremely excited Naruto to the training grounds, specifically training ground number seven, right next to the Hero's Monument. "Naruto, do you know what this is?"
"It's the Hero's Monument. This is where those who fall in the defence of the village are immortalized. Many of my idols are on this stone, the strongest of them all, Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage." Naruto explained in an honestly somber tone.
'So he idolizes sensei, huh. This is almost to perfect.' Kakashi had the perfect technique to show Naruto. "Naruto, I'm going to show you the transformation technique. It's an E-Rank jutsu, but it is an essential ninja technique. Now the hand signs are dog, boar, then tiger." Kakashi said really slowly while showing Naruto the hand signs. "Transform," Kakashi shouted. He then turned into an exact replica of the Yondaime. He then walked over to the monument and touched his sensei and teammates' names. "Naruto come over here. What do you see here?"
Naruto came over and looked at the names. "Those are the names of your genin team, right Hatake-sama? Obito Uchiha, he died during the last shinobi war when you and he went to rescue your other teammate Rin Inuzuka after she was captured by a team of Iwa Shinobi. Rin Inuzuka, she was one of the first to die in the Kyuubi attack. Minato Namikaze, he died using a self sacrificing technique to defeat the Kyuubi. They are all heroes." During Naruto's recollection he did not see Kakashi activate a medical jutsu around his hand. He did not see Kakashi come up behind him, still disguised as the Yondaime. He did not see Kakashi reach towards his face with the medical jutsu. He did end up feeling pain, and lots of it. All he knew was an extreme amount of pain. There was so much pain in fact that he blacked out, or so he thought. What actually happened was his eyes had been taken out and the nerves in his sockets had been electrocuted.
"Ahhhh!" Naruto's scream could be heard all over Konoha, or would have been had Kakashi not use a barrier jutsu to stop sound from escaping.
"How does it feel demon? How does it feel to not be able to see anymore? To have your eye sight taken by the one you idolize? To have the last thing that you ever saw be the names of those I will avenge by destroying your eyes?" Naruto turned to where he believed the voice was coming from. He could not see anything. Blood was pooling in his eye sockets and running down his face like tears. He could not believe it. His idol had taken his eyesight from him, something absolutely necessary for a shinobi to have. He felt like he wanted to die.
"Now watch demon, watch as I burn your eyes using the one thing that my father left me, his White Light Chakra Sabre." As he was speaking, Kakashi pulled out a tanto. The tanto, however, seemed to be poorly put together. "It may not be battle worthy anymore, but it is good enough to destroy your eyes." With that Kakashi threw Naruto's eyes into the air and destroyed them with the Chakra Sabre. "Now I will end your life with my father's blade." Kakashi then rushed towards Naruto and shoved the tanto into Naruto's heart.
Kakashi had believed that he had finally killed the demon that left him alone. He was about to remove his tanto when Naruto's chakra flared. Not only did Naruto's chakra flared, but it became visible in a tower of chakra. The chakra spire flung Kakashi across the field and into a large tree, knocking him unconscious.
If Kakashi was still awake, he would be quaking in fear if he could see the chakra obelisk that was coming from the child. It was an awe inspiring sight. The spire was not just made of his normal blue chakra, no. The spire was a plethora of colors; blue, red, green, white, and a small hint of black. It was disturbing yet beautiful. The spire grew higher and higher. Then, all of the sudden, the spire stopped growing and split into two separate towers, each with a complete assortment of different chakras. Each separate spire then began to shrink. They were slowly absorbed into Naruto's eye sockets. His eyes then began to reform, the chakra spires weaving into new eyes for the young blonde. The process must have been painful because Naruto was screaming much louder than before. Once the process was over, Naruto's eyes widened in pain. If someone had been around, they might have been able to see that the pupils of his blue eyes were not normal. In fact, if one had knowledge of the seal used to keep the Kyuubi in the child, they would notice that his pupils were of the same design as the seal. Naruto then passed out, waiting for someone, anyone, to come and find him.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Sandaime Hokage, was sitting in his office working on his paperwork, which he believed was the greatest evil known to man. He could not stop thinking about the little blonde boy he had made so happy earlier. He knew how much Naruto wanted to be a ninja which is why he signed the boy up to join the Ninja Academy. As he was working to defeat his greatest enemy, he could feel a great concentration of chakra coming from the training grounds. He wrote it off believing that it was just one of his many jounin trying to perfect a high level jutsu. When the chakra kept growing he began to get worried. Then he felt it, the one presence that had not been felt in six long years, the one chakra signature that could only come from one person. The demon chakra, that is what he felt, and that could only mean one thing, Naruto was in trouble. "ANBU," the old monkey called out, "follow me." With that the elderly Hokage used the Body Flicker Technique to reach the training grounds. What he saw there, he would never forget.
He saw the boy he thought of as a grandson writhing on the ground in pain, obviously screaming, yet oddly silent. He soon found out why when one of his ANBU tried to get to the boy. A barrier had been put in place to stop sound from reaching the outside. Seeing Kakashi Hatake close by, knocked out cold, he correctly determined that the barrier was his doing. After this was taken care of, Kakashi would be doing nothing but suicide missions until his death, with extremely reduced pay. Sarutobi could to nothing but wait until this was all over now and take the boy to the hospital. As these thoughts were going through the old man's head, the chakra build up was slowly decreasing. As Naruto stopped thrashing on the ground, Sarutobi began to take command.
"Cat, take Naruto to the hospital. Bear, take Kakashi to Torture and Interrogation. Tell Ibiki that he and Anko have no restrictions. Find out everything Kakashi knows about what happened to Naruto." 'Minato, I am so sorry.'
At the hospital, Sarutobi was so worried. According to the staff, Naruto was perfectly healthy. So healthy in fact that they could not even find the normal signs of malnutrition that are usually there when he comes in. They could not figure it out; however, Hiruzen could. It was the Namikaze bloodline awakening. Only a select few knew that Minato had a bloodline, and even fewer people knew what it did. At this point, Sarutobi made a decision. One that would help Naruto become one of the strongest ninja Konoha had ever seen.
White that is all Naruto could see at the moment. Turning his head to the left, he saw the 'Old Man' watching over him. "Hey, Old Man. How are you?"
"I'm fine Naruto-kun. The better question is, how are you," the Sandaime asked? Naruto could see the worry in the old man's eyes. He did not like to make his adopted grandfather worry about him.
"I feel great better than ever actually," Naruto said with false cheerfulness. Naruto could see the worry and fear melt off the old man's face and be replaced by relief and eagerness.
"That's good to hear Naruto-kun." The Old Monkey then became extremely serious. "Naruto-kun, I am going to take you out of the Academy." The Sandaime stopped here and raised his hand to stop Naruto from yelling at him. "Instead, I am going to train you myself and, when the time comes, assign you to a genin team. How does that sound?"
When Naruto had first heard that he was being taken out of the Academy, he was angry. After all the hard work training, after all the blood sweat and tears he spilt, after the old man had promised, it was all going to be taken away. He was so angry he almost tuned out the rest of what the Sandaime had to say, key word being almost. 'How does that sound?' he asked, it sounded great. He was overjoyed. He was going to be learning how to be a ninja from one of the most famous ninja of all time, the Sandaime Hokage. The Professor was going to teach him. The one who was trained by both the Shodai and Nidaime Hokages and the sensei to the Legendary Sanin wanted to train him personally. He could not think of anyone else he would rather train under.
"Wahoo! That's great Jiji! I can't wait to start!" He could not help himself. For all the intelligence he had, for all the pain in his life, for all the seriousness he usually had, he was still just a child that had one of his greatest dreams just come true. Then he remembered what had happened and why he was in the hospital in the first place. That sobered him up extremely fast. "Jiji," the child spoke, "were is Hatake-san?"
The Sandaime flinched. He was hoping to get the child's mind off of the incident that had happened only the day before. He knew what Kakashi had done. It had taken almost twenty hours, but Ibiki and Anko had broken him. The Hokage had a complete report sitting on his desk. Of course he could not just kill Kakashi, as much as he wanted to. No the council would through a fit over that. Kakashi was a needed part of the ninja forces and there were not many others on his level. The Hokage had found a suitable punishment though. Hatake was now on permanent S-Rank duty. Now while S-Rank missions were extremely valuable to the village, they were also all considered suicide missions. The survival rate for S-Ranks averaged out to about forty seven percent. As if that were not bad enough, sixty percent of all earning Kakashi made from now until he died were being docked and given to one Naruto Uzumaki.
"Don't worry about Hatake-san anymore Naruto-kun. You won't see him ever again. And before you ask, he isn't dead. I am just making sure that he will never be able to do anything like that again. Now come on Naruto-kun. You are moving in with me and my family for your training." With that Naruto jumped out of bed and followed the Hokage home to begin his training. No one would realize until much later how this would affect the future.
A/N: Okay, so this is my first story. Please tell me what you think. Just so you all know, I am looking for a beta. Someone with experience please.
This will be a mainly Naruto/Anko with Hana Inuzuka added into the pairing in much later chapters.