this is a small one shot about how words could have effected naruto and his early childhood. i know its not long and may be crap but let me know what u think.
disclaimer: i dont own naruto im kinda sad about that
Words they are powerful tools, they can encourage people inspire them to do great things and become great people. Words can raise armies to fight for a cause to protect something or someone. But words can harm to. Take for instance one lonely child at the tender age of six, with blonde hair the color of the sun on a summer day and deep Cerulean eyes the likes of which you can see when your sailing the sea. His skin was a mild bronze tone showing that he spent a fair amount of time outside, he was a little on the short side for his age standing at 3'6 and was looking slightly clothes he wore had tears in them like the dirtied white shirt with a spiral on the front and the khaki shorts that had tears on the front near his knees. The open toed shoes he wore had also seen better days as they where old and falling between his ankle and heel. Now you might be wondering what is this childs name and why his is malnourished, and where his parent are, and how could he help use to understand how words are powerful tools. Naruto Uzumaki is his name and he is the jinchuuriki of the kyuubi no kitsune that was released from its previous container his mother Kushina Uzumaki by a masked going by the alias tobi. It was later resealed by his father the yondaime hokage minato namikaze with the shiki fuujin along with using th Hakke no Fūin Shiki. Unfortunately his mother who had up till that point was alive after survivors the forced removal of the kyuubi was impaled along with his father trying to protect baby naruto from being skewered by the claw of the enraged kitsune. Before Minato passed on he sandaime hokage hiruzen sarutobi was able to haer his last words. "to think of Naruto as a hero and not the container of the monster that caused so much death and destruction."After hearing the last request from his predecessor the sandaime pick baby naruto up in to his arms and ordered the anbu that followed him to collect the bodys of the yondaime and his wife, so the may be fitted with the hozon no skiki fuujin to preserve their bodys for burial. When hiruzen made it to the hokage tower in the center of the partially destroyed village, once he arrived he ordered two of the anbu that carried minato and kushina to take them to the hokage's office and place the hozon no skiki fuujin on the bodys and to guarde them incase any unforeseen forces tried to procure anything form them. He ordered both of the remaining anbu to gather the village for an announcement. When the anbu returned an hour later an informed the sandaime that everyone was gathering out front hiruzen gave a tried sigh raising from the chair he sat in. He strode out of the office and up the last flight of stairs to th top of the roof carrying a sleeping baby naruto with him, as he took the final steps up the stairs and opened the doors to the roof he was greeted by small glimmers of the morning sun raising over the the forest trees and peaking through the last remnants of smoke filtering through the air from the doused fires from a few hours ago. Hiruzen glanced to the railings around the roof and same his old teammates Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane both looking roughed up from having helped push the kyuubi out of the village till minato arrived and used the hiraishin to flash it and him a safe distance away. Standing next to the was his friend and once rival for the hokage position Danzō Shimura who looked slightly disheveled from fighting and keeping an eye on the uchiha. With a nod to them he stepped forward to the railings and gazed out across the village and saw all the surviving civilians and shinobi and kunoichi, and he spoke. Spoke about how the yondaime sacrificed his life to seal the bijuu inside baby naruto and how he wish that naruto would be seen as a hero and the container of the mass of chakra and not the bijuu itself. He used his decades of experience and knowledge in both leadership and politics to assure and convice the people that the baby wasnt the kyuubi, for hiruzen wanted to believe with his predecessor that the words he spoke would be enough to quell the feelings of anger and disdain they would be feeling over their lost loved ones. But his hope was dashed from him when an enraged civilian who was distraught over her lose cried out that they should be rid of the demon. That single sentence, those few words and the feelings and power reveberated thoughtout those around her and thoughtout those around them and and around those till the majority was calling for his death. this is an example of the power of words in a negative way. Hizuren seeing that the yondaime's last wish would not be fulfilled made a law right there to outlaw any mention of the kyuubi no kitsune in an effort to protect Naruto from their misguided hate. While that law my have stopped all those who knew from informing the ones that didnt know. It didnt stop them from using the power of words to warp most of the minds of both old and young that he was 'evil' ' murderer ' 'demon' and other such name they could spew out in to words. and young naruto grew up with the negative side of the power of words being used on him and directed at him from mostly everyone in a village with a population of nearly 65,000 people. While being only six years old young naruto knew that if he played dumb the the villagers wouldn't speak as negatively with there words to him. He unfortunately learned that lesson the hard way shortly after his fifth birthday when he was seen walking through the village with a book he could read provided to him by the hokage that he could have. A villager who was passing by naruto saw him reading a book yanked it from out of his hand and started to use his words to tear down and inflict emotional and psychological wounds and pain to the young boy with other near by villagers joining in to do the same some even bold enoung to hurl thing at him such as stones off the ground rotten food from a merchant and a bottle that broke against his head and brought him to the ground. As he was struggling to raise naruto realized that words had power a greater power than anything he knew at that time. He realized that words could make anything happen they ar what bring forth anything to Existence like what was happening to him right now. Thats when he vowed right there that he do make anything in his power to change his life and be someone that everyone would love and respect like his jiji the sandaime hokage. He vowed he would be someone to aspired to be and someone that would inspire others to be great and to change and inspire others. He would be the domino that would bring forth chage. As a year past between then and now progress was small to most people but to naruto it was a huge leap to what he wanted. in the first couple of months he befriended a ramen chef owner and his daughter. Their name teuchi ichiraku and ayame ichiraku. A couple of weeks later he meet choji akimichi there getting a bite to eat and during a conversation about ramen they be came friends. About a month later he meet another soon to be friend who was with choji, shikamaru nara. Shikamaru was a strange person to naruto in that he had no drive to do anything that was in his words '' troublesome ''. When ever he got the chance you could find him sleeping or gazing lazily at the clouds. Now his final friend he meet after five months when he was passing near the inuzuka compound. Aboy around his age with what looked like upside down red triangles on his face was having to walk some dogs. When one of them manage to get free and take off towards the way naruto was coming, naruto who say he had his hand full was able to grab the leash and reign the dog back to the boy. Naruto offered to help the boy he learned was called kiba inuzuka and while they walked the dos around the compound naruto found out the young inuzuka like to pull pranks, when naruto told him how he was able to prank a villager into getting cover in sap and chicken feathers. A s naruto looked out his bedroom window at the night time sky after thinking back on his first five friends other than the hokage he couldn't wait to see what the next year brought and if he could keep changing peoples opinions about him and making more friends.